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Capel- the New Jersey Turnpike. lo was exposed," Kelly said DeCarlo Comments yesterday. "I've been living According to the FBI tapes, with this thing all by myself. DeCarlo referred to Kennedy I hope people can see and as someone from whom "we'd understand what happened." .get anything we want." Kelly referred to Dominick Kennedy has denied any R. Capello, his immediate wrongdoing. He retired from predecessor as head of the the State Police last week to State Police. Capello was accept what he said was a mentioned in the FBI tapes lucrative offer that he de- released Tuesday as being "on clined to disclose. He said his the take" from the Mafia. He retirement had nothing to do has denied the charges. with the DeCarlo tapes. The tapes under discussion In Hughes' statement he David B. Kelly Dominick R. Capello were released by U.S. Dist. angrily denounced the tapes Court Judge Robert Shaw at as "the alleged gossip of brag- court to release jhe tapes be- putting "a single hood in the trial of Angelo "Gyp" De- garts" that slandered honest cause of my lifelong and pro- jail." Carlo and three other men oB men and did nothing to fur- fessional respect for judicial The contents of the tran- extortion charges. ther the fight against organ- discretion. Moreover, I in- scripts are not admissible as NEW CALIFORNIA VOTER — President Nixon affirms information he has given William St. John (left), Called Threat ized crime. tended no such criticism.'' evidence in court. "We must think most care- The governor, added: "My Hughes also denied a refer- County Clerk in Santa Ana, Calif., yesterday as the president and his wife and daughter Tricia registered as Gov. Richard J. Hughes said yesterday the disclosure fully about our personal liber- criticism is directed at a ence in the tapes which al- California voters, Nixon hesitated in deciding his occupation, and suggested "government worker." of the tapes was a threat to ties and cherish them most means for gathering informa- leged that the governor met [AP Wirephofo) dearly against the threat of tion that has as one inevitable with Joseph Polverino, a ; basic freedoms, and. he de- small time hood, in 1962. fended Kelly, who was him- innuendo, slander and charac- consequence the indiscrimi- self mentioned in the tran- ter assassination," he said. nate slander and character "Why should I have to dig- scripts. "We must begin to think hard assassination of honest men." nify such suggestion by point- again about what is happen- A host of prominent politi-' ing out that I know no Pol- "Colonel Kelly is one of the ing to, our American way of verino and that no such meet- nation's finest law enforce- cians and public officials were Records Refute Transcript life and to our system of mentioned in the DeCarlo ing ever took place," Hughes ment officials," said Hughes. justice." said. "It is extremely unjust that tapes, But the FBI cautioned any question should be raised Some aides had depict- in footnotes to the 12 volumes "Let there be no mistake as to his probity." ed the governor, who is a containing . more than 2,200 about our determination to Hughes named Kelly, a reg- former judge, of being critical pages that hoodlums may prosecute crime in all its Boasts on Paint Contracts of the decision of Judge Shaw have embellished the truth forms," the governor said. istered Democrat, to head the "But let there be no doubt By DAVID M. GOLDBERG spent on paint. Most of it is used for white State Police in 1965. He is be- to make the FBI tapes pub- and exaggerated their influ- TRENTON (AP) — State records Show lines, other road markings, and luminous lic. However, Hughes in a ence to impress one another. either of the difference be- ing reappointed to his post by statement last night said: tween tough law enforcement that a former Essex County Democratic of- protective gear and devices. Gov.-elect William T. Cahill. Hughes said that the dis- ficial may have been bragging when he BIDS TAKEN "I scrupulously avoided any closures could ruin the repu- and the loose evil of character Welcomes Disclosures assassination." claimed to a reputed ^Cosa Nostra figure Furthermore, turnpike officials claim Kelly said he welcomed the criticism whatsoever of the tations of honest men without that he had the inside track on a million- that all paint purchases, even those for as public revelations and denied dollar paint contract with tiie New -Jersey little as $100, are made through competi- Turnpike. they reflected badly on him. tive bidding. Kelly said that the FBI dis- • The claim, which appeared in FBI "I don't know how anyone could make transcripts released Tuesday, was made by closed the contents of the $250,000 on $300,000 worth, of paint," says transcripts to him when he the late Joseph "Little Joe" DeBenedictls one purchasing officer. in a conversation with Angelo "Gyp" De- took office, enabling him. to More than one-third of the paint comes clean up the State Police in Carlo, an alleged underworld figure now from Con Lux Products of Edison, which on trial in Newark. has done $177,261.90 worth of business with- 1965. DISCUSS PAINT the turnpike since 1963. All but eight, of "The FBI trusted- me then \ In the conversation, which took place the 31 Con Lux contracts, however, are for and they trust me now," he v March 8, 1963, DeBenedictis discussed less than $1,000. said. "Thank God they gave Hudson County Democratic leader John V. In all, the Turnpike Authority pur- me this because I was able Kenny and his relationship to a paint, deal chased paint 60 different times between to reorganize and move peo- with the turnpike. DeBenedictis, a New- 1963 and 1969 with seven different compa- ple around." He said when he ark ward leader, claimed that he and his nies supplying the paint. took over from Capello, "I associates expected a $250,000 profit from The only other paint contracts let by the transaction. the Turnpike Authority involve bridge "If we get this deal — if Kenny okays ' and viaduct painting. They are much larg- this deal with the paint on the New Jersey er and go to firms which supply the paint DeCarlo Turnpike, we're in," the transcripts quote and perform the actual work. DeBenedictis as telling DeCarlo. But in 1963 — the year of the DeBene- "We've got 25 per cent and that's a dictis-DeCarlo conversation — no such big thing. They buy a million dollars contracts were let. In fact, turnpike rec- Trial Is worth of paint." ords show no paint contracts of that type But Turnpike Authority records show, between Oct. 13, 1959 and May 23, 1966, a that since 1963, only $379,409.70 has been period of almost seven years. Still On By MARY V. GORDON NEWARK (AP) — The fed- eral extortion trial of reputed SEN. KENNEDY VISITS BOSTON HOSPITAL — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Mas- Massive Federal Probes Are Mafia mogul Angelo "Gyp" ' • \ • DeCario continued yesterday sachusetts, enroute from his Hyannis Port summer home to Washington, leaves Bos. amid reverberations caused ton City Hospital after a visit last night. Earlier in the day a four-day inquest into by the FBI's release of De- the death of Mary Jo Kopechne ended at Edgartown, Mass. The girl drowned last Planned Into Yablonski Killing Carlo's taped conversations summer when an automobila driven by the senator went off a bridge into a pond with other alleged under- on Martha's Vineyard. Kennedy appeared at the inquest on Monday. The hospital in Workers presidential election, UMW by Sen. Robert P. Grif- world figures. WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP)- the murders and election Boston was stripped of Its accreditation by a national examining board yesterday. Union reformer Joseph A. some claim led to the slaying fin, R-Mich., and a UMW of- were linked came from Yab- Three other defendants are Yablonski, his wife and of (he three. fer of a $50,000 reward for lonski 's two attorney sons, on trial with DeCarlo for daughter are buried today as Coupled with the Labor De- the arrest and conviction of Kenneth and Joseph Yablon- their alleged attempt to ex- the Labor Department pre- partment's announcement the killer or killers. ski, hours after the victims tort money from a reputed pares a full-scale probe of the yesterday were a request for The slain man's lawyer, were discovered Monday in loanshark victim. bitterly fought United Mine a Senate investigation of the their rural Clarksville home News stories about the Testimony on Kennedy Joseph Rauh, said in Wash- ington, D.