Official Views Vary on Probe of GOP Chief SEE STORY BELOW Late Clearing Rainy and chilly today, clear- FINAL ing later. Windy, cool tonight. Sunny, mild tomorrow. Red Bank, Freehold Long Branch EDITION See Details, Pige 2) I 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper tor 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 195 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1970 30 PAGES 10 CENTS aiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiB uiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii SIC Digs Into Apartments Dealings Mr. Occhipinti, the Miami- By AL MORAY after its construction. The his loan, and agreed to pay Then, he said, on Aug. 6, erty prior to the fire, they velt Ave, Deal, which was TRENTON - Three city tales related to SIC probers $120 per week interest on the 1063, the house was gutted declined to file a claim for formerly rented by Gerardo Dade College student' said, officials were questioned yes- told of the loss of the tract loan. by fire. He said Mr. Haipern the fire damage. Catena, listed by the FBI as was apparently the general terday about the Harbour of land the hotel complex William P. Hyland, SIC later purchased the tract at 'Route' Is Paved •• an influential Mafia figure. manager of the apartment Towers apartment complex now occupies to a "loan chairman, noted that • the a foreclosure sale and in The fire investigator also Arrests Recalled complex. Asked how he drew (now the Harbour Mansion), shark" operation, a subse- figure represents about a 31 1967 'sold the property to told the SIC that Sacco, a Miss Simone ana\Sacco, the that conclusion, UT-.> Ander- Ocean 'Ave., Long Branch, quent arson probe at the site ' per cent per year interest William Kraut and Frank reputed New York rackets agent said, were later ar- son said that everyone' in the and a history of the facility and the. sale of the tract to rate, "well over the 6 per Messina, who developed the figure, came to this state rested on a $15,000 fraud establishment deferred to was aired by the State In- the developers of the Harbour cent usury limitation." tract into the Harbour through actions by Anthony charge, in which they re- Occhipinti when he spoke. vestigation Commission dur- Towers. Later, Mr. Wolf said, Mr. Towers complex. "Pussy" Busso, which portedly bilked New York The former doqrman also ing its second session of a Loan Arranged Sacco bilked him out of his Leonard K. Riccio, a spe- "paved the route" for him stores out of that amount of told the panel that >fie irecog- probe of possible organized Samuel Wolf of 109 Bender- deed to, the property and that cial agent of the Fraud and to move to the shore area. merchandise to furnish their nized Louis "Killer" Ferrari, crime influence in that city. mere Ave., Interlaken, the he subsequently lost a suit Arson Bureau, American In- ,He added that he has in- Deal house. Anthony "Tony Dftie" Ag- Questioned by SIC commis- former owner , of the ' prop- to recover the deed. He said surance Association, told the formation from a New York Occupants Identified nellino and Simone DeCaval-* sioners were Samuel DeBar- erty, testified yesterday that he was forced to move out panel that Long Branch Po- law enforcement agent that Paul F. Anderson, of Eaton- cante, all reported njob.sters, tolis, • Long Branch building he needed a $20,000 loan in of the premises and that lice Chief Joseph p. Purcell Russo became angry when town, a doorman and car at- as visitors to the apartment and plumbing inspector; I960. He said that Frank Saceo and Miss Grace Pa- asked him for assistance in he heard of the Long Branch tendant at the Harbour house. '.."•••' ' Charles Polk, chairman of Sacco, Sdarsdale, N.Y., ar- tricia Simone moved into the a probe of the fire. He said fire. Towers last year, told the He said DeCavalcaHt^-iden- the city's Planning Board, ranged to get him the loan house. he determined the fire was Mr. Riccio said Russo re- commission that he recog- tified himself as; ''tlte^tnayor "deliberately set" but was nized Robert "Bobby Basile" of Linden" on one Occasion, • 'and William Stender, the through his business asso- He said the couple occu- portedly said: "I let him : unable to file a charge into the area. Now he causes Occhipinti as a resident of when he asked te,be''an- cqmmunity's. tax assessor. ciate, Ernest Halpern, also pied the house for five or six ; . ; Also brought out during the of New York. weeks, during which time he against the owners. all this trouble." apartment 9 B in the apart- nounced to Anthdnjr. Busso. - .session was testimony reveal- Mr. Wolf said he signed a observed card games being Mr. Eiccio said that, al- Sacco, according to the ment house, and Anthony Questions of possible con- ing the history of the apart- "demand note" for $24,000, held there from a neafby though the owners had upped fire underwriters' agent, then Russo as the occupant of flict of interest were posed apartment 8-B there. (See Apartment,. J*g. ,2) •' > •merit complex, prior to and which was $4,000 more than vantage point. the insurance on the prop- • moved to a house at 68 Roose- Lacey Tells of Gross Prolie By DAVID M. GOLDBERG primarily from last Satur- conference yesterday that a Six hours later Lacey re- Of the 'Wilson* statement TRENTON (AP) - Details day's story in The New York probe of Gross is neither un- plied in a statement called to read by Cahill, LacSy's state- of the reported federal inves- Times that quoted "a high der way nor contemplated. The the news media by his chief "ment said: "If Mr. Wilson tigation of Republican State U.S. official" as- saying that governor said the statement assistant, Herbert Stern. La- has been.' accurately quoted, chairman Nelson Gross are Gross was under investigation was prepared by Asst. U.S. cey said he was. prompted: I must assume that the re-' beginning to emerge, but top- for his alleged links to Team- Atty. Gen. Will Wilson, head "by Gov. Cahill's demand, ports of the Labor Depart- ranking federal officials in- ster's Local Union 97. Two of of the Justice Department's upon this office for a state- ment investigation have not volved can't seem to agree on the union's officers are under criminal division, for whom ment." He said he was limit-' as yet reached Washington." whether . there really is a federal indictment. he was authorized to speak. ing his statement, which ran Stern would not comment probe. Gross, the leading contender At the same time, Cahill almost 400 words, to Cahill's directly when asked if Gross In a series of developments for his party's senatorial called on Lacey to explain request for a statement. ' ' \vas. specifically involved in yesterday that appeared to nomination, said he had writ- more fully his "no comment" Lacey said there is present- the Labor Department investi- heighten the acrjmony be- ten to Deputy Atty Gen. Rich- reply to the original report of ly a U.S. Department, of Ld- gation and insisted)on stick- tween some of New Jersey's ard Kleindienst when the the investigation because, the bor investigating into the ing to'the prepared statement. top Republicans,. Gro^s was union offered the GOP iunds governor said,: such replies union local to determine Charges Smear *• , first exonerated by.Goy. Wil- for last, year's campaign. imply'there is truth'in the re- "whether and to what' ex- . Gross* > ,whpj{Jat*ied .•> the : liam T. Cahill ana the Justice Gross said he received no re- port. There h8ve been pub- tent, there was Local Union first report'p>!Sp:iutteatjga- Department and seemingly in- ply and decided on his own lished reports'.; that Lacey 97 political activity in last tion "a taii^Said'"after volved six hours later by not to accept the money. himself was the "high U.S. year's election by way of fU Lacey's st&teiriebl ,J)R-doesn't U.S. Atty, Frederick B, Lacey, Cahill, reading from a Jus- official" quoted1' in the Times nancial contribution, personal, believe • he-;is; inVoivpfc- Stem From Story . .' tice Department statement, story ^ although^ Lacey vehe- r "All,,I can say vwat it The dS' tit-tif announced at his regular nfcws mently denied therm (See Lacey, Pg. 2) Rutgers Money Bill Vote Near TRENTON (AP) - The New Jersey legislature re- turns today from its Easter recess with the major prob- lem the same one it had when it left — a hassle over the controversial Rutgers University open admissions program. The Assembly, where the revolt over the program be- gan, is expected to vote on a measure that would give the legislature more control over the university's power to trans- fer funds between accounts. DEMAND APPROVAL Assembly leaders insist they want that bill approved in both houses before they will approve a $747,000 appropria- tion to continue the open admissions program through the end of the present school year, - The open admissions program was initiated a year ago CENSUS 1970 — New York City postal employes begin the mammoth task of sort- after student demonstrations on the Rutgers' Newark cam- ing census questionnaires yesterday as the first batch of forms returned by house- pus. Under the program, students from Newark, New Bruns- wick and Camden—the three cities where Rutgers' cam- holders arrives ar the U. S. Post Office, 90 Church Street in downtown New York puses are located—can be admitted even if they dont meet City.