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CONCLUDING VICTOR - HUDSON'S REPORT ON

The Devotees Of Satan

You may find it hard to credit the story of the

former squadron-leader of the Royal Air Force who carries on his leg the brand of a goat's hoof the brand of the Devil - a brand not always visible, and not made by any human agency.

You may believe because you WANT to believe that black magic has no place in twentieth-century civilisation.

If you still think that time, or to get witnesses from way. listen to ex-Detective later. Superintendent Robert Fa- blan, formerly of Scotland Yard.

"Of course black magic parties take place in Lon- don. I could pick up a tele phone now and dial the num- ber of a man who practises the most abominable rituals regularly,

"He would take you down Into the cellar of his apart- ment house and through

the to passage leading cellars of another of his houses in the next street.

"A winding metal stair- way leads up through a disused shaft and hults at a black padded dour which is the entrance to a loathsome temple of evil.

Black Moss obscenities tave been worked out for centuries

to vlade and escape the Law.

"Suppose," says Fabinn, that polleewoman should manage to worm her way into a black mass.

0

"Her hands are tied behind her back in the form of a cross An Inquisitor in a monk's to make her enwi flus ber *confess."

HANDS TIED

confess?

THE CHINA MAIL; MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1959..

The deadliest word

in a nation's vocabulary

•

but there is

Mafia

news that could end its power.

by PETER JOHNSON

AMERICA has launched a nationwide crack- down on the Mafia, powerful organisation that controls the nation's underworld...... Twenty-one loaders are under arrest for criminal conspiracy. More are sought in the biggest drive against tho mobsters over undertaken. Today, many of the gang leaders in New York, Chicago and San Francisco are in hiding and the underworld is One girl, almost naked, was

waiting for the next moves in the fight against the and as the laid on the altar.

Mafia sítendant and her priestess priesla called on Satan to help

of the house appeared dressed as a high priestess.

them, blood was poured everGOOD morning, sir,"

her body."

The girl says this mass look place at on Kensington, must select districts,

years Through years of

was set for the call 'Great-All-American Crime Con-

for Boom" Anastasia,

Incubation in the barbecue pit. Bottles of chief executioner of Murder in the United States, its mem- Scotch, bourbon, and cham Inc, was shot down as he bors have taken control of the pagne, were Rincked by the sprawled in the chair of the nation's underworld. The syndl- score. Park Sheraton Holel

The scene barber's cate runs, early every racket phop.

from refuse collection to Neither dotter WOR ever girls and drugs. ·

vention. closed by the police. True, two

The Mafia was worried. The Largely because of it, say the New York executions had upset bullet-ridden bodies were found in a suburban back street of F.B.7., one dollar in every 10 many of its members. Problems Jerary

after the that an American spends goes arose from them. City soon

Who was tako Anastasia Killing in October of as fribute to the underworld. going to

over Scalise's Anastasia's building empire, drugs racket?

Members were called from

1957-the killers, allonced

in the district: Don Fran- the Maña bosses.

store. cesco, who controlled the gambling and drugs.

said the address in Southkeeper to the very im- one of London's portant customer. "Good morning; it's a wonder- ful day, isn't it?"

"Bu! I don't know London

tell where well and couldn't the flot was, so I didn't go to the police."

Well, there tuld you

19. I

at

A wonderful day it was for Francesco ("Frank") he have Scalise, aged 65, "What is she to

who had called of u man laid

in

Enrico There is a secret pattern down...secret infamies to give tried to give up the devil.

whether Mazarro's fruit and vegeta- doesn' know

ble shop in the Bronx. the devil has given him up.

And I have told you what Fablun of the Yard says,

DWDS

"Immediately, the police- woman's deception would be spotted."

Nor could many of the girls into the vicious circle lured help the pollee, even If they wished to do so.

but

CERCO,

ite tucked a 90-cent bag of

fruit under his arm and paused five-dollar bill. Neither he nor

to count the change from

beaming Enrico, the proprietor, noticed the two young men in shirt sleeves who walked in at that moment.

Bullets

by

Its

Malia hus

front. na members are always careful to conceal all traces of the brother- hood in dealings with the police New York, and public. Its strictest code is Texas, Michigan, Floridu, and that of omerta-glience.

from ·California,

Cuba-even from Italy, to meet at the summer home of Joe

Omerta The police knew this much both Scalise and Annatusta were because they had murdered grown too big for their boots in But Malla came out Into the Barbara, a merchant who con

drink the nationwide crime

huge soft network open after the Anastasia and trolled controlled by the Mafia, Scallae Scalise elling. It

the distribution industry. It was to had bungled a big drug import biggest blunder in

secret meeting. but the Its Jong, be a

reckoned without * deal; Anastasia had tried to vicious history and one that Malla muscle in on romebody else's can prove crippling.

bright young CTD.. sergeant, gambling territory.

Edgar Croswell.

The Mada is not

4 secret society. It has

elected nig officers, no written laws, no headquarters. It is a brother-

по

Meeting

was

д

He noticed the Cadillacs, the the Chrysler Imperials, and Lincolna, purring up to

the

Expertly, cakaly, they put Don four

info 38 bullets

To the 150,000-dollar home of glass-fronted houso in the trees. Francesco's head, pocketed their hood based on family relation- Wealthy Joseph Barbara, in He let them all in then put up

old ships revolvers, climbed into sn

which

63 road blocks all back many Apalachin, New York, came

round the black sedan, and drove away.

well suited, cigar chewing Barbara home. Renerations to its birthplace,

"Business men" in the late wonderful Don Francesco'a

Sicily.*

Sicilian Bartolo Guccia, de- autumn of 1037.

Ilvering fah to the party, burat day was over-by order of the

"We called on Joe because ho in with the startling news: New York police filled in the

had been ill and we wanted to "Policni They're all over the see how he was getting along," place.". they told State Investigators Inter.

Masa.

The good people of Arthur Avenue saluted him. There is only one thing more.

Here he was, Don Fran-

* THE MATIA originated in Sicily. A final warning from Fabian:

the owner of A

It is amid to derive a name from the Initthis of the shrate "Morte alls "Black magic in depravity at prosperous plastering busi- records... "Homicide at 2380

Francia. Halla anela" ("Death to the its worst, and I warn every one

French Italy's cry, shouted by ness in the bustling, thriv- Arthur Avenue

Anti-French mobe in the thirteenth "The the black magic war-

One such girl told me of the of you that at any time

A similar entry was to be century. From the Mictlan under alters move, half-drugged,

ground_movement of those days and contaminate you with upon whose word depended made four months later in that too dazed to feel pain, con- tay kindly, middle-aged man of its disciples sets out to trying Bronx: Don Francesco, elements of a gang killing."

touch, run from it for your life." nearly every building firm year 1957 when Albert ("Boom

science or revulsion,'

It is not only depraved crea tures of the world's capital elties who take part in these evil rites.

Invited her to private party and for rome friendy,

1

"When we went into flat, I felt slek with the strang smell of perfume or Incense, she says. "A lady gave me a * drink, but all that did was to People from sinalier cilles

nake nig feel didn't care come in and pay heavy fees to what happened.

revolting Black Magle ceremonies la temples "In like the

described by girls were one Fabian, temples established by their clothes into long woollen ittle groups of satanie devotees vells 1 was persunded to do who rise, fester, and then dis- the same.

take part

perse.

The pollee face an immense lask in dealing with block ma

bedroom two other changing out ul

"Pretending it was all a

bil

of fun, the Indy led our hands behind our backs.

gic practitioners, Private par- les in houses are almost im possible to "erack" st the in the big main room, the lady

"Later, before a kind of allar

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POWER

MAKES FATAL SLIP

·

NOW CLUTCHES

THE LAST

LAST STRAW

by COLIN LAWSON

Bonn.

But Joe was obviously expect. his sick-vialtors. Filet

ing. mignon and veal cutlots sizzled

THE PRASIDENT-TO-RE

As Vice-Chancellor he wanted who did well for the Fatherland. his old and irted friend, Dr As President all this will ́ ́ greater thon Bismarck's who

parly, With t

THE ruler-straight back of Dr Konrad Adenauer, Krone, naw chairman of the West Germany's Chancellor for 10 years, would be linked the chairman- betrays no sign of the 83 years and four months ship of the National Party, with it bears as up 57 steep steps of his Rhine villa the Adenauer the background old man climbs.

disappear.

Problems

His problems were infinitely

firal united Germany, for Dr Adenauer's Germany, discredited

as a nation masa murderers, barbaric militarists, and des- troyers of European culture, had

Truth

of The moguls

America's

underworld dropped their steaks

and bolted into the woods. Everyone was rounded up. They were held for questioning, then | released. Låter an investīgallon committoo quizzed them on the purpose of the meeting, bút Lorgues were sealed by omerta,

Typical wha beety John Montana, a prominent citizen of Cadillac broko Buffalo. "My down and I called in at Joo's to get it fixed,” he said. "Me, a criminal? Why, I'm a rent friend of Richard Nixon.” (This was immödiately denied by vice- President Nixon.)

Today John Montana and 20 other fraternal delegates

from Apalachin stand Accused of criminal conspiracy. After months of Investigation palice have found a way to crack down on Main-with Indletments for refusing to tell the truth about the crime conference.

Penalty

Six Mafia men are still being sought and the remaining 36 are named as co-conspirators.

Co-conspirators can get special treatment In American courts if

they agree to give evidenca against the other. Investiga- wors hope that some of the weeker Mafta men will crack,

It will not be easy. Police know too well, the meaning of onierta. They know too that

holding the reins.

1 for one, will miss this lonely to be brought back to respec- figure whose rigid mind has tabunty. Already the party has shown never departed from the target

I predict that Erhard, once the Malla's penalty for breaking No cable car, no wheeled not to mention the reactions of it will have none of it, and

of Adenauer's Deutschland Uber he is Chancellor, will speedily the code is death.. Erhard is reported to have Alles: chair for this indomitable the Western democracies.

change Germany's approach to

They remember the testimony But in the past, while Erhard insisted that he will, if elected

Foreign Affairs, The old man for Giocomine, brother of the figure who has led Germany was fooding the market with Chancellor, retain all the reins The man who, when "Brilish will not like it any more than murdered Frank Scalise from utter defeat to near- consumer goods, proclaiming the of office fu his own hands. troops left Cologne in 1920, led he Ukes Erhard's call 10 dia- Giacomind dashed into, the mastery of Europe. Yet continuance of liberal, trade, "I do not want your help or the cheers with "Swear with manilo trade barriers. Adenauer Bronx fruit shop just after, the

schemes even as he

and and enabling industry to cap advice," is his attitude.

unity! Love the Father, scos in this a danger of offand-killing and throw himself, overseas markets, Dr There are some who still land! Shout with me 'Germany Ing the U.S.

weeping, on his brother's body. broods in lofty loneliness fure

„Adenauer was able__to_carry believe Dr Adenouer can beloved Fatherland, Hail.'"*

There aro, too, Erhard's "Death to the murderers," he one thing is slower through the main planks of his intence-oliers-perennarelationship captious-pro-British learning shouted We shall find them." ing from this ramshackle foreign policy.

As Chancellor hé has patron- with foreign statesmen he had Adenauer would infinitely "pré- Hours later, after the hysteria——-1 causalem diadepan kabinokulekarla trampendous au Was. Ar 142498 suretmulded had passed, his attitude changed.

*CUL,” lidna

mhelped by-a-sly-humbur, quiet on his own lines of suspicion of What enemies?" he said to appointmenty United Nations' agencies to un-Germanic accent, deep re- the perilous · Albion - the police, "Frank didn't have no

and the head-pat of glous convictions, and con- Britain not 'to be trusted.

enemies. This was some kind someans fidential manner.

It is a forlorn "hope."

| of mistake."

capital of Bonn.

decade of The end of a authoritarian rule is in sight.

Policy

In logs than six werks Tcy were simple. Rearma- approve. Adenour will be elected Presi- ment, an entente with France public approval for dent of the Republic, non- at all costs (including the Spar, political job which in his mind, if necessary) and the gradual' he had reserved for the man weakening of British Influence likely to succeed him as Chan- end power not only on the cellar, and the man he wants Continent but throughout the least of all to do so-economies world. bass Ludwig Erhard. To be sure he is trying to create a formula

to preserve his power,

He proclaims he will make the

He went all out to convince the United States that Germany would be a loyal partner in the crusade against Communism.

onice of Preskient nore He cultivated Ike and almost Important, mare significant

tung himself the feet of

than it has been under scholarly John Foster Dulles, Professor Heuss,

Inflexion

The Old Fox his admirers call him affectionately. The Old Fox his enemies call him, with

He thought he had everything prepared to lead his party in The 1901 elections indeed, ho raid so.

But more and more the party aucus detected signs of rigid indexibilities in his polley, More. and more they became alarmed

a bitter inflexion of the voice. at his thinly velled hostility

"But already the rats are leav-. to Britain.

ing the sinking ship. Even Indeed, this culminated in a though Adeanter is not alaking sly aside from the Speaker of (without ... # Oght nothing. It the Lower House, Dr Gersten-

stems, cat rescue him.

maler, after one secret session of the party in. Adenauer's office.

MISTAKE NO. 1 war trying to kick Erhard- upstairs. Erhard

was willing but the party was "We have just promised the hot, for he is the front man in old man not to mention that he the miracle of German conemle made in attack på the Brliah,”. recovery, the man responsible he said.

for giving Germans clothes, cars, With his fallure to get rid of foods fridges, radios, and houses. Erhard, and faced with insur- MISTAKE NO: 4 wán, his pro- mountable opposition to rule as elimation to retain, „power as President, DrAdenauer, was i President, NYUMA

busily reappraising¦, his ipelles. This" aroused the mapleton of His latest scheme is to give in Junyential motstiers of his own over the next Chancellor in perty, that he intended to return, for selecting the Vide Lamper with the Constitution, Chancellor, the Minister of the and the memory of Adell'Hiilor: Interior, add js too risky, to 1st, that happen. Minister

ne

JAK GOES ALL-IN WRESTLING