MAFIA REVIVAL
MURDER &_VICE IN U.S. EXTENSIVE RACKETS HARLEM HUNTING GROUND (10 a.m.) . NEW YORK, Dec. 20 A reorganised Mafia, or 'Black Hand Society, with extensive political connections, has been spreading murder and vice from coast to coast since the end of the war, according to the Federal Narcotics Bureau district supervisor. Colonel Garland Williams. . He said the Mafia was more dangerous than ever. Controlled by sons of Italian immigrants who operated the original organisation, it was making tremendous sums from every kind oi criminal activity, including . gambling, drug peddling and hijacking. Numerous murders had been traced to the Mafia. Colonel Williams said that Harley was one of its best hunting grount Two of six Harlem residents who had been arrested for operating a drug combine, which was doing business estimated at 2,000,000 dollars yearly, were Mafia leaders.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22210, 21 December 1946, Page 3
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138MAFIA REVIVAL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22210, 21 December 1946, Page 3
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