Teresa Names George Kattar to Senate Hearing as Loan Shark
1
TRADE We're losing •• out).'_ in world' markets'.':; Pittsfieid, Massachusetts, Wednesday^ Jiily 28, 1971 .. /.Forecast;-- Berkshire Weather Serrle*"-' Fair, • cool tonight; low in UVe : 50s. Sunny, .increasing cloudiness, warmer, more humid tomorrow, scattered showers' in the after- noon, high in the low 80s. 40 Pages—Ten Cents U.S. Nears Record in Red-Ink Spending THE FIRST AMBASSADOR l ° Canada from Comnuuu-t China, Huang HIM, passes a Royal Canadian mounted policeman on hi AS a) lo pre eul lus ciedeulial 111 .Ottawa. Hua officially took up .his dvities. after meeting with'DeputyGovernor General- Wilfred Judson yesterday. U.S. officials in- Washington, meauwliilc,. said arrangements . for [President Nixoii's visit to Peking are to'Lo handled through Una's .embassy. (UPI) From News Services WASHINGTON — The Nixon administration rolled out final figures today on the na- • lion's second largest budget deficit since World 'War II, a fiscal 1971 red-ink figure be- tween $20 billion and $25. billion. The precise figure, set for an- nouncement by the Treasury Department, is topped only by the 525.2-billion deficit rung up during fiscal 1968 under former President Lyndon .B. Johnson. But the 1971 deficit is not apt to attract, wide criticism from ' Democrats, who have urged President Nixon to spend even more to give the economy more steam. - Surplus Predicted It does reflect a> dramatic • change in Nixon's, economic thinking since he, became .Presi- dent. When the. fiscal 1971 budg- et was submitted to Congress in early 1970; Nixon said it would show a $1.3-billion .surplus. "I have pledged to the Amer- ican people-that I would submit a balanced budget for .1971," Nixon said in that budget mes- sage. "This is particularly necessary because the cost of ' living has been rising~ rapidly for the past five years. "The budget I send to you lo- . day—the first for which I bear full responsibility as President- fulfills that pledge." The projected $1.3-billion sur- plus for the year ended June 30, 1971, quickly faded away. Unforeseen outlays, some un- controllable increases and some unwanted spending voted by . Congress sent the deficit soar- ing. • Nixon, meantime, adopted the policy that the economy should be ' expanded with in- creased federal spending and declared himself a believer in Keynesian economics—the idea budget deficits are .necessary during periods of economic slack. But the economy has failed to pick up as snappily as Nixon wanted, adding to the budget deficit through a shortage in revenues. When Nixon submitted his fis- cal 1972 budget'to Congress, he projected - the 1971 deficit offi- cially at $18.6 billion. The jump past $20 billion is largely traced to failure of the economy to provide expected tax money. Two in-a Row The administration . appears certain to set another mark, tlie largest back-to-back budget deficits sinca World War II. Although the budget deficit for the newly begun fiscal year is officially set at $11.6 billion, the administration said new ex- penditures by Congress and a revenue shortage will add at least another $7 billion to that. A two-year deficit in the neighborhood nf §45 billion is seen likely. ' " . ' - . Secretary of Commerce,Mau- rice II. Sta-ns warned Congress yesterday that the United States might have a negative balance of trade this year for the first time in this century. ' Stans attributed his forecast, which congressmen of both par- ties termed "frightening," to growing deficits in raw mate-, rials and "low-technology"' products that are -brought into the country matched against . static surpluses in agricultural products and .high-technology goods sent abroad. "The United States' over-ail balance of trade in recent years has deteriorated from surpluses of $5 .billion to $7 billion in .the. early '60s. to $1 billion to $2 "bil- lion levels since 19fi7,". he said. "In 1971 the trade surplus may • disappear altogether f or. ' the first time since 1893:" Federal statistics showed that during April and May, the Unit- ed States had a trade deficit. This was the first time in 20 years that imports had succeed- ed exports in two successive 'months. Stans testified: for subcom- mittee on science, research and development of the House Com- mittee on Science and Astronau- tics, which is holding hearings to explore what role' the federal government should play in spur- ring increased research and de- velopment by American indus- try." The subcommittee' holds that the United States has been able to maintain a favorable balance of trade in recent years largely because of tremendous sums spent on research arid develop- ment. These have brought about the technological breakthroughs that have made American indus- try pre-eminent in such high- technology goods as computers. The United States now has a trade surplus of about $10 bil- lion a year in such high-technolo- gy goods, which is offset toy sub- : stantial deficits in raw mate- rials- and such low technology goods as cheap textiles and" • electrical products. - • • ••' Leadership Challenged • Sharp cutbacks in ' recent- 'i-ears in both public and private . support- for basic and applied research have led .some, if not most, American scientific : and business leaders: to forecast that foreign competition in high-tech- nology products would stiffen ' and -that the nation's foreign, trade problems would worsen in future years.. These predictions were echoed in the testimony of the subcom- mittee's other -witness yester- day, Dr. John R. Pierce; an ex : ecutive of Bell Telephone - Labo- ratories and a former member Deficit Tops ?20 Billion Continued, on Page 2 Boston Racketeer" Tells Senators, Bosses Have Set $500,000 Bounty From News Services hind the George Raft.-gambling casino..in London, .and'.Ray- mond Patriarca,,who.he said is .his former, underworld sponsor WASHINGTON — -A 300-pound self - described grandson of a Mafia don told; senators Tuesday an a leader of. organized crime he has. -mfprmatipa;f.mob-.•>.bosses. _;. fa 'N e w f Englan'ff^"'^^ 3 ^ ••'"•''?; ; -' <•£ have : issued contracts''totaling a ' -- • - •-•--.•••-•.--" : ' half million dollars on'his life.'- care of me. '.'They ncA'er -even sent my wife a .Christinas. card when I Iwent.to' jail.-!. 1 / ..''.' Vincent "Big Vmnie" Teresa, 42, who 'said.,his;.'friends call him "The Bear," 'gave a .recital of the dominance^ 6f : organized crime .in the':natio'n;s rackets;.:, . Teresa; who is -exchanging, the criminal code of-silence for a'' .promise of; immunity from prosecution, claimed to 'have once given a Cadillac-to ,the; late -Francois "Papa Doc" Du- valier, president of Haiti.:. Patriarca Named - .' . The names'Teresa .recited-to. the Senate rackets committee included Meyer'Lansfcy, who he said was a silent-partner be- Teresa, who said he was born in Revere, Mass., -is 'currently serving a five-year federal pris- on term .-for .interstate.:trans- portation . of stolen .securities. He : has been granted-immunity frptn- further prosecution _by -a 'federal' court 'and 1 , is under armed guard- while- testifying:- : , • Teresa said he was .testifying because he was convinced' by. FBI agents his • syndicate friends had sold him out. ,-.-' He said the price on his head .probably means . nothing " be- cause some underworld'trigger- man' might kill him "Just for the'reputation.'.'• "I was dumb,", he said. ; "I felt the outfit was going'to take -fitter at He said lie' was'bittefrbecause his former friends look' advan- tage of his imprisonment to freeze him out of two business- es-. and. pick^iin ^$80,000; -he. ;h£id "out in loan .'shark activity. :',^ ; -- In. 28 'years-. of. : criminal 'activi- ty lie- said 'he- made.. between -?6- millibn". and 7 $7 -million,- $3 'mil-' lion • of it in stolen securities. alone., . ; . . •-..••• • ' r-But, he ' added, ; lie never showed more 'than $50,000 in earnings -on his "federal - income' tax. ' "• • • - ' . - . Under • questioning by sena- tors, he said organized ' crime families have 'more than 6,000 "solid members," all of whom are -"well, well paid." Teresa said he committed his. first burglary while in', the sev- enth ;grade, went on; to'rob a Boston -tomato packing plant and graduated to. phony checks, big-league gambling,'loan•'shark- ing, .auto thelt,. stolen and forged credit caixts and finally a. lucr- - ativc business, in counterfeit and : stolen securities. •'-. • . . Teresa said his loan sharking centered for a while around a firm called the Piranha Co., a title : "taken from, the fish of that, name, a maneater." He • said he was associated- with Patriarca, Henry Tameleo •and George Kattar in running Piranha. "We had a live one (piranha) in a fishbowl in the place," he said. "We wanted to be known as a tough outfit. "If anyone was slow, in pay- ing, we told him we'd stick his hand in the fishbowl." Teresa did not accuse any in- dividuals who were not already believed to be involved in or- ganized crime. • '- Senator-! Amused But he amused the-senators time .and .again with anecdotes 'told in "the vernacular and with his saucy responses to ques.- tions. • Asked . at one point whether "the mob" had takeri care of his-family while lie was in pris- on, Teresa replied, "You can't trust them. They're a shady .bunch of characters." The best solution to the crime problem, he told the senators, is to leave the bosses alone and go after "the agents on the street." "What can you do to the big guy?" he asked. "He's got so Teresa Fears Mob Plot Continued on Page 2 TELLING HIS STORY to Senate panel is Boston racketeer Vincent Teresa. (UPI) ' By GERALD B. O'CONNOR The downfall of Vincent C. Teresa, erstwhile' Boston-area mobster who testified'before a Senate committee- yesterday, began in Pittsfieid jn 1907. ••' . .' This is the-recollection of an: Investigator ffdm-th'e district at- torney's "office- ! who helped 'crack a stolen-car racket engineered- by Teresa" and a • former Lanesboro candie shop proprie-' tor, Edmund T. Crown. . ; - Detective Lt. MUo F. Bn»vn 1 Jr. said that "to the best of my • k n o w 1 e'd g e, the indictments against Teresa here 'were'-the Beginning of the End for Teresa first before Vihnie was indicted in Baltimore and Lynn and"a number of other places." ' ^ Although, Rhode" Island state •Atty. ..Gen. Richard J: Israel said today that.Teresa's testimo-. hy -"is telling: us 'nothing new," the - records • indicate that .the first serious charges that stuck ,.-against -Teresa were, those lodged in Pittsfieid. . • - ; :; Teresa.was"arraigned'in Berk- • shire County Superior Court-on- Oct. 14, 1968, on;58. indictments returned secretly by the county, grand, jury - the' .week • before! However, evidence that he was iX^*-involved in the stolen-car racket 0§ — and in international gambling Jjfl" and loan-sharking operations — £•{."'" had been gleaned by state po- :'-', lice and .Registry. of Motor Ve- ,-cies personnel a year earlier, :Brown said. : ! '.. "But the thing was we didn't ' -have enough to naiMnm on until - Crown began to talk." Crown : -" • eventually turned state's evi- dence against Teresa. 'Began in'67 ; Brown and -Sgt. Richard J. Clemens, ..state policemen as- . •• signed to the Berkshire County office of the district attorney, began investigating the {heft and sale of Boston-area cars in the fall of 19S7 after suspicion turned,on Crown. "As I recall," said Brown this morning, "we were in the process of presenting evidence on the in- dictments here when Teresa was arrested in Baltimore." Ac- tually, a bench warrant was is- sued in federal court in Balti- more within a week after Tere- sa'-s indictment in Pittsfieid and the then North Reading resident was formally accused of the Baltimore charges in a U. S. Commissioner's hearing here. Those charges were that Tere- sa had illegally transported sto- len securities valued at $803,000. But lie was a suspect in the securities and the car-theft cases from the time Crown came under investigation, Brown said. Rumor Cheeked "It became known (in 19G7) that Crown was trying to-sell a lot of cars and sell 'them real cheap," said Brown. "We heard that (former Pittsfieid police- man Anthony) Crea had bought one, and we checked it out. We found il was stolen in Boston, and then we found that Crown had been sending money orders to Teresa. At least $35,000 in money orders was sent from here and Albany." Teresa yesterday estimated he cleared $100,000 from the stolen ears, and he also said he had • had a number of hot cars paint- ed in "Western Massachusetts" and shipped to Nevada. Brown said the only stolen cars police could connect to Crown or Teresa were those sold in the Berkshires and in adjacent Eastern New York State. "We suspected there were others sold further west," he said, "but we couldn't trace them.-' Dealer -Disappears As the investigation continued, state police were led to a fran- chised Ford dealer in Lynn named Alvin Grille, who had re- cently bought .the dealership from a'company called.Nel-Nick Motors, Inc. Grillo subsequently disappeai-ed,. and his wherea- bouts is one of the mysteries Local Case Tied to Teresa's Fall Continued on Page 19 oblenis Called Minor Astronauts Overcome Mechanical Bugs en Route to Moon GREAT BARRINGTpN HOlVIE of .)Ir. and it™. . .Joseph Savoy was,threatened i>y,fire which, destroyed ; 'two harhs at rear^atMerrilea.Fanu.yesterday afternoon. . Nick Kino Volunteers aemoved furnishings from-house. However,' volunteer firemen from, four departments managed' lo saveJllieOipme..St6ry'is'on I*g. 1, Sect. 2. .-.-' SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — The Apollo 15 explorers hurtled "right by the book" on course to the moon today, both- ered only by such pesky space- ship gremlins as a broken, piece of glass and a brief voltage drop. . Flight director Glynn Lunney said the problems all were mi- nor and posed no threat to the astronauts or the planned land- ing on the moon Friday. Extra Hour's Sleep David R. Scott, James B. Ir- win and Alfred M. Worden re- tired an hour late Tuesday night after spending extra time helping the ground troubleshoot a rash of nagging electrical and a rash of nagging wielectrical communications difficulties. So . Mission Control Center let them sleep an hour later today. No major activity was sched- uled and officials want the as- tronauts well rested for six busy days ahead in the vicinity of the moon. •'. -.-"" Two were solved .quickly. Ground . experts were trouble- shooting the others today. The new troubles cropped up when Scott and Irwin trans- ferred Tuesday night into the lunar module, called Falcon, to make certain all its systems were in order for_ their descent to the base of the moon's high- est mountains at. 6: 15 p.m. EDT Friday. Apollo 15 is to fire into lunar orbit at 4:05 p.m. Thurs- day. Simultaneously, c o m m u- nicalions from a (racking sta- tion at Goldstone, Calif., was lost for 19 seconds and voltage dropped in an electrical system News Index 'County 2G-2D Editorial Pages 22, 23 .Entertainment . .17 .Foreign '" • -2 Hospital List •( .Local . . 18, 1!), 21 'National ' 3 Obituaries .18 Social . . . If! Sports ... 31-35 Slate : 2 in the command ship Endea- vour. Both problems were brief. The first was traced quickly to a power amplifier at Gold- stone. A series of tests showed the two incidents were not con- nected, and further tests traced the power drop to a tripped cir- cuit breaker. Panel Lights Affected Mission Control said the af- fected circuit controlled a few display panel lights and that engineers were developing al- ternate ways of lighting. Scott and Irwin had difficulty for several minutes making radio • contact from the lunar module to Mission Control, but finally suc- ceeded after pointing antennas properly. This has happened on most Apollo flights. While checking the cabin, they discovered a one-by-four- inch piece of glass covering a meter, had shattered. • The space between the two glass panes normally .contains helium under pressure to • help keep' out contaminants.' Without the-pressure, tho meter.must function in a lesser oxygen pressure or in a vacuum on the moon. It is used to determine distance and' closing rate dur? ing both descent to the moon and the later rendezvous with the command ship. Tests were under way today to determine how effectively the meter would operate in a different environment. Even if it didn't however, the astro- nauts have another device to do the job. The astronauts completed a busy day, during which they and ground controllers worked out a solution to the short cir- cuit which popped up in the command ship after Monday's launch from Cape Kennedy, Fla, -.•'.'.,' The short flashed a warning light indicating that one-of two circuits which control the firing of the main engine.might.have malfunctioned. .-'. The ground instructed ,tha ; spacemen . on a manually '-in-'.-. .jtiated firing -signal, which ; Scott performed by . pulling":.' a • circuit breaker and,thet\ : closing; -it. almost . i ' ' ' ' '/
description
Teresa said his loan sharking centered for a while around a firm called the Piranha Co., a title: "taken from, the fish of that, name, a maneater." He • said he was associated with Patriarca, Henry Tameleo and George Kattar in running Piranha."We had a live one (piranha) in a fishbowl in the place," he said. "We wanted to be knownas a tough outfit. "If anyone was slow, in pay
Transcript of Teresa Names George Kattar to Senate Hearing as Loan Shark
TRADEWe're losing •• out).'_in world' markets'.':;
Pittsfieid, Massachusetts, Wednesday^ Jiily 28, 1971
. . /.Forecast;--Berkshire Weather Serrle*"-'
Fair, • cool tonight; low in UVe:50s.Sunny, .increasing cloudiness,warmer, more humid tomorrow,scattered showers' in the after-noon, high in the low 80s.
40 Pages—Ten Cents
U.S. Nears Record in Red-Ink Spending
THE FIRST AMBASSADOR l° Canada from Comnuuu-t China, Huang HIM,passes a Royal Canadian mounted policeman on hi AS a) lo pre eul lus ciedeulial 111
.Ottawa. Hua officially took up .his dvities. after meeting with'DeputyGovernor General-Wilfred Judson yesterday. U.S. officials in- Washington, meauwliilc,. said arrangements
. for [President Nixoii's visit to Peking are to'Lo handled through Una's .embassy. (UPI)
From News Services
WASHINGTON — TheNixon administration rolled outfinal figures today on the na- •lion's second largest budgetdeficit since World 'War II, afiscal 1971 red-ink figure be-tween $20 billion and $25. billion.
The precise figure, set for an-nouncement by the TreasuryDepartment, is topped only bythe 525.2-billion deficit rung upduring fiscal 1968 under formerPresident Lyndon .B. Johnson.
But the 1971 deficit is not aptto attract, wide criticism from
' Democrats, who have urgedPresident Nixon to spend evenmore to give the economy moresteam. -
Surplus Predicted
It does reflect a > dramatic• change in Nixon's, economic
thinking since he, became .Presi-dent. When the. fiscal 1971 budg-et was submitted to Congress inearly 1970; Nixon said it wouldshow a $1.3-billion .surplus.
"I have pledged to the Amer-ican people-that I would submita balanced budget for .1971,"Nixon said in that budget mes-sage. "This is particularlynecessary because the cost of
' living has been rising~ rapidlyfor the past five years.
"The budget I send to you lo-. day—the first for which I bear
full responsibility as President-fulfills that pledge."
The projected $1.3-billion sur-plus for the year ended June30, 1971, quickly faded away.Unforeseen outlays, some un-controllable increases and someunwanted spending voted by .Congress sent the deficit soar-ing. •
Nixon, meantime, adoptedthe policy that the economyshould be ' expanded with in-creased federal spending anddeclared himself a believer inKeynesian economics—the ideabudget deficits are .necessaryduring periods of economicslack.
But the economy has failed topick up as snappily as Nixonwanted, adding to the budgetdeficit through a shortage inrevenues.
When Nixon submitted his fis-cal 1972 budget'to Congress, heprojected - the 1971 deficit offi-cially at $18.6 billion. The jumppast $20 billion is largely tracedto failure of the economy toprovide expected tax money.
Two in -a RowThe administration . appears
certain to set another mark,tlie largest back-to-back budgetdeficits sinca World War II.
Although the budget deficitfor the newly begun fiscal yearis officially set at $11.6 billion,the administration said new ex-penditures by Congress and arevenue shortage will add atleast another $7 billion to that.
A two-year deficit in theneighborhood nf §45 billion isseen likely. ' " . ' - .
Secretary of Commerce,Mau-rice II. Sta-ns warned Congressyesterday that the United Statesmight have a negative balanceof trade this year for the firsttime in this century. '
Stans attributed his forecast,which congressmen of both par-ties termed "frightening," togrowing deficits in raw mate-,r i a l s and "low-technology"'products that are -brought intothe country matched against .static surpluses in agriculturalproducts and .high-technologygoods sent abroad.
"The United States' over-ailbalance of trade in recent yearshas deteriorated from surplusesof $5 .billion to $7 billion in .the.early '60s. to $1 billion to $2 "bil-lion levels since 19fi7,". he said."In 1971 the trade surplus may
• disappear altogether for. ' thefirst time since 1893:"
Federal statistics showed thatduring April and May, the Unit-ed States had a trade deficit.This was the first time in 20years that imports had succeed-ed exports in two successive
'months.Stans testified: for subcom-
mittee on science, research anddevelopment of the House Com-mittee on Science and Astronau-tics, which is holding hearingsto explore what role' the federalgovernment should play in spur-ring increased research and de-
velopment by American indus-t ry."
The subcommittee' holds thatthe United States has been ableto maintain a favorable balanceof trade in recent years largelybecause of tremendous sumsspent on research arid develop-ment. These have brought aboutthe technological breakthroughsthat have made American indus-try pre-eminent in such high-technology goods as computers.
The United States now has atrade surplus of about $10 bil-lion a year in such high-technolo-gy goods, which is offset toy sub-:stantial deficits in raw mate-rials- and such low technologygoods as cheap textiles and"
• electrical products. - • • ••'Leadership Challenged •
Sharp cutbacks in ' recent-'i-ears in both public and private
. support- for basic and appliedresearch have led .some, if notmost, American scientific : andbusiness leaders: to forecast thatforeign competition in high-tech-nology products would stiffen
' and -that the nation's foreign,trade problems would worsen infuture years..
These predictions were echoedin the testimony of the subcom-mittee's other -witness yester-day, Dr. John R. Pierce; an ex:
ecutive of Bell Telephone - Labo-ratories and a former member
Deficit Tops ?20 BillionContinued, on Page 2
Boston Racketeer" Tells Senators, Bosses Have Set $500,000 BountyFrom News Services hind the George Raft.-gambling
casino..in London, .and'.Ray-mond Patriarca,,who.he said is
.his former, underworld sponsorWASHINGTON — -A 300-pound
self - described grandson of aMafia don told; senators Tuesday ana leader of. organized crimehe has. -mfprmatipa;f.mob-.•>.bosses. _;.fa 'Ne w
f Englan'ff^"'^^3^ ••'"•''?;;-' <•£have :issued contracts''totaling a ' -- • - • - • - - . • • • - • . - - " :'half million dollars on'his life.'-
care of me.'.'They ncA'er -even sent my
wife a .Christinas. card when IIwent.to' jail.-!.1 / . . ' ' . '
Vincent "Big Vmnie" Teresa,42, who 'said.,his;.'friends callhim "The Bear," 'gave a .recitalof the dominance^ 6f: organizedcrime .in the':natio'n;s rackets;.:,
. Teresa; who is -exchanging,the criminal code of-silence fora'' .promise o f ; immunity fromprosecution, claimed to 'haveonce given a Cadillac-to ,the;late -Francois "Papa Doc" Du-valier, president of Haiti.:.Patriarca Named - .'
. The names'Teresa .recited-to.the Senate rackets committeeincluded Meyer'Lansfcy, who hesaid was a silent-partner be-
Teresa, who said he was bornin Revere, Mass., -is 'currentlyserving a five-year federal pris-on term .-for .interstate.:trans-portation . of stolen .securities.He :has been granted-immunityfrptn- further prosecution _by -a'federal' court ' and 1 , is underarmed guard- while- testifying:- :,
• Teresa said he was .testifyingbecause he was convinced' by.FBI agents his • syndicatefriends had sold him out. ,-.- '
He said the price on his head.probably means . nothing " be-cause some underworld'trigger-man' might kill him "Just forthe'reputation.'.'•
"I was dumb,", he said. ; "Ifelt the outfit was going'to take
-fitter atHe said lie' was'bittefrbecause
his former friends look' advan-tage of his imprisonment tofreeze him out of two business-es-. and. pick^iin ^$80,000; -he. ;h£id
"out in loan .'shark activity. :',^ ;-- In. 28 'years-. of.: criminal 'activi-ty lie- said 'he- made.. between -?6-millibn". and 7$7 -million,- $3 'mil-'lion • of it in stolen securities.alone., . ; . . •-..••• • '
r-But, he ' added, ; lie nevershowed more ' than $50,000 inearnings -on his "federal - income'tax. ' "• • • - ' . - .
Under • questioning by sena-tors, he said organized ' crimefamilies have 'more than 6,000"solid members," all of whomare -"well, well paid."
Teresa said he committed his.first burglary while in', the sev-enth ;grade, went on; to'rob aBoston -tomato packing plantand graduated to. phony checks,big-league gambling,'loan•'shark-ing, .auto thelt,. stolen and forgedcredit caixts and finally a. lucr- -ativc business, in counterfeitand: stolen securities. •'-. • . .
Teresa said his loan sharkingcentered for a while around afirm called the Piranha Co., atitle: "taken from, the fish ofthat, name, a maneater."
He • said he was associated-with Patriarca, Henry Tameleo
•and George Kattar in runningPiranha.
"We had a live one (piranha)in a fishbowl in the place," hesaid. "We wanted to be knownas a tough outfit.
"If anyone was slow, in pay-ing, we told him we'd stick hishand in the fishbowl."
Teresa did not accuse any in-dividuals who were not alreadybelieved to be involved in or-ganized crime. • '-Senator-! AmusedBut he amused the-senators
time .and .again with anecdotes'told in "the vernacular and withhis saucy responses to ques.-tions.
• Asked . at one point whether"the mob" had takeri care ofhis-family while lie was in pris-on, Teresa replied, "You can'ttrust them. They're a shady.bunch of characters."
The best solution to the crimeproblem, he told the senators, isto leave the bosses alone and goafter "the agents on the street."
"What can you do to the bigguy?" he asked. "He's got so
Teresa Fears Mob PlotContinued on Page 2 TELLING HIS STORY to Senate panel is Boston racketeer Vincent Teresa. (UPI) '
By GERALD B. O'CONNORThe downfall of Vincent C.
Teresa, erstwhile' Boston-areamobster who testified'before aSenate committee- yesterday,began in Pittsfieid jn 1907. • • ' . . '
This is the-recollection of an:Investigator ffdm-th'e district at-torney's "office-!who helped 'cracka stolen-car racket engineered-by Teresa" and a • formerLanesboro candie shop proprie-'tor, Edmund T. Crown. . ;-
Detective Lt. MUo F. Bn»vn1 Jr. said that "to the best of my •
k n o w 1 e'd g e, the indictmentsagainst Teresa here 'were'-the
Beginning of the End for Teresafirst before Vihnie was indictedin Baltimore and Lynn and"anumber of other places." ' ^
Although, Rhode" Island state•Atty. ..Gen. Richard J: Israelsaid today that.Teresa's testimo-.hy -"is telling: us 'nothing new,"the - records • indicate that .thefirst serious charges that stuck
,.-against -Teresa were, thoselodged in Pittsfieid. . • - ; : ;
Teresa.was"arraigned'in Berk-• shire County Superior Court-on-Oct. 14, 1968, on;58. indictmentsreturned secretly by the county,grand, jury - the' .week • before!However, evidence that he was
iX^*-involved in the stolen-car racket0§ — and in international gamblingJjfl" and loan-sharking operations —£•{."'" had been gleaned by state po-: ' - ' , lice and .Registry. of Motor Ve-
,-cies personnel a year earlier,:Brown said.
: ! ' . . "But the thing was we didn't' -have enough to naiMnm on until
- Crown began to talk." Crown: - " • eventually turned state's evi-
dence against Teresa.'Began in'67
; Brown and -Sgt. Richard J.Clemens, ..state policemen as-
. •• signed to the Berkshire County
office of the district attorney,began investigating the {heftand sale of Boston-area cars inthe fall of 19S7 after suspicionturned,on Crown.
"As I recall," said Brown thismorning, "we were in the processof presenting evidence on the in-dictments here when Teresawas arrested in Baltimore." Ac-tually, a bench warrant was is-sued in federal court in Balti-more within a week after Tere-sa'-s indictment in Pittsfieid andthe then North Reading residentwas formally accused of theBaltimore charges in a U. S.
Commissioner's hearing here.Those charges were that Tere-
sa had illegally transported sto-len securities valued at $803,000.
But lie was a suspect in thesecurities and the car-theftcases from the time Crowncame u n d e r investigation,Brown said.Rumor Cheeked
"It became known (in 19G7)that Crown was trying to-sell alot of cars and sell 'them realcheap," said Brown. "We heardthat (former Pittsfieid police-man Anthony) Crea had bought
one, and we checked it out. Wefound il was stolen in Boston,and then we found that Crownhad been sending money ordersto Teresa. At least $35,000 inmoney orders was sent fromhere and Albany."
Teresa yesterday estimated hecleared $100,000 from the stolenears, and he also said he had
• had a number of hot cars paint-ed in "Western Massachusetts"and shipped to Nevada. Brownsaid the only stolen cars policecould connect to Crown or Teresawere those sold in the Berkshiresand in adjacent Eastern New York
State. "We suspected there wereothers sold further west," he said,"but we couldn't trace them.-'Dealer -Disappears
As the investigation continued,state police were led to a fran-chised Ford dealer in Lynnnamed Alvin Grille, who had re-cently bought .the dealershipfrom a'company called.Nel-NickMotors, Inc. Grillo subsequentlydisappeai-ed,. and his wherea-bouts is one of the mysteries
Local Case Tied to Teresa's FallContinued on Page 19
oblenis Called MinorAstronauts Overcome Mechanical Bugs en Route to Moon
GREAT BARRINGTpN HOlVIE of .)Ir. and it™.. .Joseph Savoy was,threatened i>y,fire which, destroyed; 'two harhs at rear^atMerrilea.Fanu.yesterday afternoon.
. Nick KinoVolunteers aemoved furnishings from-house. However,'volunteer firemen from, four departments managed' losaveJllieOipme..St6ry'is'on I*g. 1, Sect. 2. . - . - '
SPACE CENTER, Houston(AP) — The Apollo 15 explorershurtled "right by the book" oncourse to the moon today, both-ered only by such pesky space-ship gremlins as a broken, pieceof glass and a brief voltagedrop. .
Flight director Glynn Lunneysaid the problems all were mi-nor and posed no threat to theastronauts or the planned land-ing on the moon Friday.
Extra Hour's SleepDavid R. Scott, James B. Ir-
win and Alfred M. Worden re-tired an hour late Tuesdaynight after spending extra timehelping the ground troubleshoota rash of nagging electrical anda rash of nagging wielectricalcommunications difficulties. So
. Mission Control Center let themsleep an hour later today.
No major activity was sched-uled and officials want the as-tronauts well rested for sixbusy days ahead in the vicinityof the moon. • ' . -.-""
Two were solved .quickly.Ground . experts were trouble-shooting the others today.
The new troubles cropped upwhen Scott and Irwin trans-ferred Tuesday night into thelunar module, called Falcon, tomake certain all its systemswere in order for_ their descentto the base of the moon's high-est mountains at. 6: 15 p.m. EDTFriday. Apollo 15 is to fire intolunar orbit at 4:05 p.m. Thurs-day.
Simultaneously, c o m m u-nicalions from a (racking sta-tion at Goldstone, Calif., waslost for 19 seconds and voltagedropped in an electrical system
News Index'County 2G-2DEditorial Pages 22, 23
.Entertainment . .17
.Foreign '" • -2Hospital List •(.Local . . 18, 1!), 21'National ' 3Obituaries .18Social . . . If!Sports . . . 31-35Slate : 2
in the command ship Endea-vour. Both problems werebrief.
The first was traced quicklyto a power amplifier at Gold-stone. A series of tests showedthe two incidents were not con-nected, and further tests tracedthe power drop to a tripped cir-cuit breaker.
Panel Lights Affected
Mission Control said the af-fected circuit controlled a fewdisplay panel lights and thatengineers were developing al-ternate ways of lighting.
Scott and Irwin had difficultyfor several minutes making radio
• contact from the lunar module toMission Control, but finally suc-ceeded after pointing antennasproperly. This has happened onmost Apollo flights.
While checking the cabin,they discovered a one-by-four-inch piece of glass covering ameter, had shattered.
• The space between the twoglass panes normally .containshelium under pressure to • helpkeep' out contaminants.' Withoutthe-pressure, tho meter.must
function in a lesser oxygenpressure or in a vacuum on themoon. It is used to determinedistance and' closing rate dur?ing both descent to the moonand the later rendezvous withthe command ship.
Tests were under way todayto determine how effectivelythe meter would operate in adifferent environment. Even ifit didn't however, the astro-nauts have another device to dothe job.
The astronauts completed abusy day, during which theyand ground controllers workedout a solution to the short cir-cuit which popped up in thecommand ship after Monday'slaunch from Cape Kennedy,Fla, - . • ' . ' . , '
The short flashed a warninglight indicating that one-of twocircuits which control the firingof the main engine.might.havemalfunctioned. .-'.
The ground instructed ,tha ;spacemen . on a manually '-in-'.-..jtiated firing -signal, which ;Scott performed by . pulling":.' a •circuit breaker and,thet\:closing;
-it . almost . i ' ' ' '
' /
