State's Counties Fail to Meet Local Needs SEE STORY PAGE 21 Cloudy, THEDAILY FINAL Cloudy and cold this after- Red Bank, Freehold noon. Clearing, cold tonight Long Branch EDITION Sunny, milder tomorrow. 7 (See Details, pan ;) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 121 RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1969 40 PAGES 10 CENTS Additional U. S. Indictments By RICHARD L. STERN be runners and lesser functionaries in the NEWARK (AP) - The first of three alleged lottery operation. federal grand juries investigating crime and One count named Joseph Ippolito, 48, corruption has reported, indicting Simone of South Orange, and Anthony DePasque, "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and 54 41, of Clifton, of "soliciting and receiving other persons in an alleged {20 million information of pending raids from certain gambling ring. law enforcement officials," who were not named. Two other grand juries have yet to be DeCavalcante was accused of supervis- heard from, but some reports are expected ing and controlling the acceptance of wagers soon. One is investigating alleged links be- and bets. But all 55 of the defendants were tween organized crime and some segments charged with violating laws against inter- of the Internal Revenue Service, the other state gambb'ng operations. allegations of official corruption. DeCavalcante was released in $75,000 'Two IRS men have already been in- - bail after arraignment before U. S. District dicted, one on charges of conspiring to Court Judge Lawrence Whipple. approve false entries on federal income The judge set much smaller amounts of tax returns and the other with demanding bail for the other defendants, 11 of whom $3,500 in payoffs to ensure that falsified were still being sought. audits of an electronics equipment firm Four of the 55 also were named on an would be approved by the IRS. The third extortion charge growing out of an alleged inquiry has called Newark Mayor Hugh loan-sharking case. Addonizio and other city officials. They are Charles Majuri, 28, of Linden; The indictments of DeCavalcante, a AUesio Barraso, 63, Bloomfield; Joseph reputed Mafia leader, and the 54 others Calabro, 34, Belleville, and Joseph Caruano, yesterday came a week after U. S. Atty. 38, Roselle Park. They are accused of Cjen. John'N. Mitchell said federal agents threatening one Andrew DeLaportilia to col- were about to crack in New Jersey, "the lect loans. largest gambling syndicate ever broken in Majuri was identified as the son of the country." / Frank Majuri, an alleged lieutenant of It was the second multimillion dollar DeCavalcante. gambling case in Newark this year. Rug- DeCavalcante, who lives in a comfort- gerio, "Ritchie tthe Boot" Boiardo and 18 able home in Princeton, also faces a federal other persons were convicted earlier on charge of conspiring with two Brooklyn, INDICTED BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY -.Samuel state charges involving an alleged $12 mil- N. Y., men to extort money from four gam- Rizzo De Cavalcanfe, above, identified by FBI Direc- lion gambling operation. blers. It was that case which led last sum- tor J. Edgar Hoover as a boss of La Cosa Nostra, wai The 58-year-old DeCavalcante, whose mer to the release of 2,300 pages of the nickname comes from a plumbing business transcripts of what the FBI said were con- one of 55 persons indicted fay a federal grand jury he operates, was the only big name listed versations it recorded. These conversations on various criminal charges stemming from interstate on the federal charges. told of gangland killings and involvement Most of those named were believed to with public officials. gambling activities in New Jersey. A "HALLMARK" — U. S. Atty. Frederick B. Lacey meets with newsmen on the iteps of the U. S. Court House in Newark yesterday after indictments were an- Addonizio Ouster Suggested nounced for.55 persons in connection with an alleged $20 million-a - year gam- bling ring. He called the case a "hallmark of the Nixon Administration" which JBy JAMES H.RUBIN eral denied that he urged the Amendment when questioned lic official who is called be- showed "how best to eliminate organized crime through federal-local coopera- TRENTON (AP) - State SIC to take such steps. He about the duties of his office. fore the SIC. tion. Among those indicted was reputed'Mafia leader Simone "Sam the Plumber" Atty. Gen. Arthur J. Sills has said he asked for the meeting However, Sills pointed out William Hyland, commis- opened the door to the pos- with the commission merely the, U.S. Supreme Court has sion chairman, said the SIC Da Cavalfcah+e; ^-' ^ IAP Wirephoto) sibility, that the' State Investi- to put the idea "on the ta- raised questions about the planned to discuss Sills' pro- gation Commission can play ble" for possible considera- constitutionality of such ac- posals before taking any ac- an important role in the ous- tion. tion. tion. ter of Mayor Hugh J. Addon- Addonizio refused last week The attorney general sug- U.S. Atty. Frederick B. La- izio of Newark. to testify before a federal gested that the objections of cey gave Sills a free hand Teachers Say Boards The attorney general called grand jury that is investigat- the Supreme Court could be last week in the Addonizio the SIC to a meeting yester- ing alleged corruption among overcome by calling Addoni- case. Lacey. said any action day to discuss the possibili- Newark city officials. The zio to testify before the State by Sills would not impede the ty. mayor pleaded the Fifth Investigation Commission. federal grand jury probe, Sills suggested that Addoni- Amendment, contending his Cities Difference But- Sills postponed a de- Blocking, Negotiations zio could be subpoenaed by testimony might tend to in- ' Sills said there was a cru- cision' in the matter. He said the comihission in an inves- criminate him. cial difference between a ' there were too many unan- By DORIS KULMAN ' scind gains teachers won in It's widespread ... it comes tigation of alleged corruption Federal Court Judge Rob- grand jury and the SIC. He swered questions that pre- negotiations last year from somewhere... we don't among Newark city officials. ert Shaw has said he would said he considered a grand vented him from acting. :WEST LONG BRANCH - decide on whether Addonizio jury to be a criminal pro- Hayden L. Messner Jr., an know where ..." If the mayor pleaded the The attorney general's There is "a concerted effort" Fifth Amendment and re- is required to talk upon pen- ceeding while the SIC is au- statement Tuesday opened up by some county school boards ' NJEA representative, dis- Spokesmen for both the NJEA and the MCEA were fused to testify he could be alty of contempt charges. thorized only to take civil ac- a new avenue of approach and superintendents to block closed that the Henry Hudson Can Be Ousted tion. teachers today will declare critical of county Superinten- faced with removal from of- that conceivably could lead-to teacher-board contract negoti- Under a state law, a public ations in protest against the negotiations at an impasse dent of Schools Earl B. Gar- fice, Sills suggested. Consequently, Sills said, removal of Addonizio regard- state law mandating the col- and ask the Public Employ- rison. They said that Mr. Gar- Denied Action official can be removed from the Supreme Court's reserva- less of what transpires before lective bargaining, the New ment Relations Commission rison should be neutral in the However, the attorney gen- office for pleading the Fifth tion would not apply to a pub- the grand jury. Jersey and Monmouth Coun- name a mediator. At the same teacher - board negotiations. ty Education associations time, the association will file Instead, they alleged, he has dharged yesterday. three charges of unfair labor publicly attacked the collec- practices against the Henry tive bargaining law and has The teachers will respond allied himself with the boards ;with "concerted action" of Hudson board, he said. Courtroom Was Study in Contrasts Six Impasses and superintendents. their own "if pushed to the Makes Statement .wall," spokesmen for the two Negotiations are at an im- (Editor's Note: The court- as attendants directed them to "Is it Miss or Mrs.?" Whip- ' "Either," she said. "You are here for bail pur- . organizations warned at a passe in six Monmouth Coun- In- a prepared' statement, MCEA president John W. Pat- room was a study in con- the witness' stand. ple asked her. She didn't an- "I'll just call you Shirley," poses only," the judge' began press conference — and they ty school districts "and the trasts as defendants were ar- swer. the judge said with a smile. impasses obviously are se- terson said that he is "dis- One by one, Judge ... but then it was noticed didn't rule out the possibility raigned on federal gambling Lawrence Whipple told them, "Miss or Mrs.?" Whipple An apparently unruffled DeCavalcante's lawyer was ^'of strikes. rious," Mr. Malloy said. The turbed by the number of im- sixth district, Marlboro Town- passes which have occured so charges yesterday. Many as he had the others: persisted. DeCavaleante had come first. not present. i The press conference in the ship, wasn't represented at ' far this year ... some boards were old hands at courtroom "You are here for bail pur- Holiday Inn, here, was called the press conference. •' and superintendents are ap- appearances. There were poses only. I'll have no ob- ,"to keep the public informed" parently showing their dis- those who hadn't been in jections if you post a personal 'John A. Malloy, NJEA field Mr. Malloy cited what he court before.