European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday february 15, 1969 Ray s trial postponed to april 7 Memphis Tenn. A the James Earl Ray trial scheduled to begin March 3, was continue Friday until april 7. Ray is charged with killing or. Martin Luther King. Judge w. Preston Battle granted the continuance after Ray s attorneys said they could not be ready by the scheduled trial Date. Setting the new Date Battler marked it will go to trial that Day god willing unless there is some Legal reason it can . Atty. Gen. Phil m. Ca Nale said the state has Bee ready since last nov. 12, the Date Ray originally was scheduled to stand trial. Battle granted a continuance at that Tim after Ray fired his attorney a thur j. Hanes of Birmingham,ala., and hired Percy Foreman. King who had come to Mem Phis to Lead a March in support of striking City garbage work ers was felled by a sniper s bul let As he stood on a Motel bal Cony the evening of april 4. Battle said it is incumbent upon him to see that Ray gets a prompt trial. But he added it is also incumbent that Ray have proper counsel and this includes time for his counsel to do All the things that Are necessary to throw up the defense around this Man. I see nothing to doubt reset the a Small town Heads . List of Best Sellers new York up followings the list of this week s Best Sellers As compiled by publish ers weekly fiction 1. A Small town in Germany John Decarre 2. The Salzburg connection Helen a Clennei 3. Airport Arthur Hailey 4. Force 10 from Yavarone Aluta Maclean 5. Preserve and protect Allen Dru Rythe for to Circle Aleksandr sol zheniuyn7. The beastly beatitude of Balthazar . P. Donleavy 8. And other Storie John o Hara 9. A world of profit Loul Auchin clot 10. 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Up photo Cosa Nostra chieftain Vito Genovese Dies at 71 Vito Genovese Washington a Vit Genovese a diminutive italian immigrant who became the nation s most notorious underworld figure of the 1950s, died Friday at the medical Center for Federal prisoners in Springfield Justice department said death resulted from congestive heart failure for which the 71 year old mafia chieftain had been undergoing treatment for More than two months. Genovese was serving a 1,5-year sentence for trafficking in narcotics the Only major charge on which the govern ment was Ever Able to convict him despite numerous arrests. He was indicted 13 even in prison Genovese s Power in la cos Nostra or the mafia was so immense that Federal agents suspected him of continuing to run the far Flung crime Syndicate. Once called King of the racketeers by former new York gov. Thomas e. Dewey he emerged As the mafia s dominant figure in the mid-1950s after reputedly ordering the assassinations of two major rivals Frank costello and Al Bert Anastasia. An attempt on costello s life failed and Genovese s body guard tried for attempted Mur Der was acquitted after costello testified he had never seen the accused assailant before. Anastasia head of Newyork s Dock and numbers rack ets was shot to death m 1957while sitting in a hotel Barber shop. No indictment was re turned in the Case. Three weeks later Genovese called a meeting of 18 top mafia figures in Apalachin n.y., to announce his takeover of la Cosa Nostra. Hoover retirement forecast Jan. 1 Miami a j. Edgar Hoo ver plans to retire As director of the Federal Bureau of investigation next Jan. 1 on his 75th birthday according to report from a Washington meeting of state attorneys Miami Herald reported in Friday s Early editions that unnamed sources among the visit ing state officials said they had been told of Hoover s impending retirement. However an Fri spokesman said or. Hoover has not indicated any plans to retire and Idon t think he has any intention of retiring anytime the Herald said one source reported after conversations with Justice department and White House staffers it s my understanding or. Hoover will voluntarily step Down on Jan. 1 and has said so Nixon s Home off limits key Biscayne Fla. A there s been a distinct absence of door to door peddle sat John Hardy s House since president Nixon moved in across the Street. Since the Winter White House was established on the Palm shrouded Street Bay Lane has been off limits for everybody but residents and their visitors. Secret service agents Man blockade at the head of the Road 24 hours a Day and make cer Tain nobody wanders in. Resi de its must show their identification each time they pass. It can be annoying to die stopped when you re in a hurry says Hardy but the advantages far outweigh the for instance added Hardy a British steamship agent it s fascinating to watch the presi Dent come and go. There Are no itinerant salesmen and the Secu Rity Here is Bay Lane is on key Biscayne an Island on Biscayne Bay about four Miles from downtown Miami. Like Many other upper class residential areas it s habits share of burglaries. But not any More with the Security men on hand. Tha president owns foursomes and leases another on the Bay Side of the Block Long dead end Road. His Complex is Well hidden behind a 15-Foothigh hedge. Nixon s not much of a yardman says Hardy. Whenever he s outside he usually Wal son the Beach or wades in the must stay at least 500 Yards away from the pres Dent s Beach and aircraft Are forbidden to Fly Low Over his part of the Island. The sources told a Herald Washington correspondent that they got the same understand ing from other state and Federal Law enforcement officials during the three Day meeting of the National association of attorney general. Hoover has directed the feb since 1924. J. Edgar hoover., will be 75 new year s Day that convention of the under world was broken up by police and participant were charge with conspiracy to obstruct jus Tice. But their convictions were overturned in Federal court. Born nov. 21, 1897, in re Sigli Ano Italy Genovese finished the sixth Grade and then Emi grated to the United states when he was 16, settling in Newyork s Greenwich Village. Over the next 45 years recompiled a record that included 13 indictments three homicides and a miscellaneous assortment of burglary felonious assault and disorderly person charges. But besides the narcotics charge for which he was finally sent to prison he was convicted Only twice both times for carrying concealed took the Treasury depart ment the same Agency that brought Down Al Capone and Tony Accardo to successfully prosecute Genovese. Became Ciuzio Genovese became a naturalized . Citizen in let by fail ing to report his criminal record an oversight that caused nig citizenship to be lifted in 1955.paradoxically, Genovese was Able to separate his family life from his other activities he and his wife Anna had two children both Given a strict upbringing and educated in Par Ochial schools. His son Philip is now an accountant and once served on the town Council in the new Jersey Shore town where he lives. His daughter Nancy was trained Tode a teacher. She is married and has four children. Thieves on the Job at ant crime talk Augusta a. A the Summerville Exchange club part of a National organization sponsoring National crime prevention week invited Law enforcement officials from the area to lunch after lunch comments were delayed slightly when the club members had to borrow a Leebody had stolen their
