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i. uv The Boston. Globe Friday, April 20, 1973 JEREMIAH MURPHY be far behind? summer comes, can mos quitos prevent mosquitos from spoiling his 'outdoor activities. And while the first sightings of mosquitos have yet to be made in Massachusetts this year, beware now that the warm weather is here, the mosquitos can't be far behind. Mosquitos have, however, ap By Viola Osgood' Globe Staff Like the swallows at Capistrano, the mosquitos reappear every year.

But, unlike the swallows, the mosquitos return to aggravate and irritate; arid for such small the vampirish vixens of the species can cause ereat discomfort The quality of justice is strained He said black flies are starting out, too. Mason said there might be hope for improvement: "A lot of these things get frozen out- If we get a freeze, its bad news for the insect world." Mosquitos, which breed in swampy areas, would survive a freeze, Mason said, but other flies and insects would not. But just in case the freeze doesn't come, Frank McManmon, of the Middlesex County Extension Service, said a pamphlet has already been prepared for Massachusetts residents controls needed for wet areas, backyards and in confined spaces. He said organized mosquito control varies from place to place. Some states have laws that designate districts for spraying on a countywide basis.

Spraying is then subject to the approval of a majority of residents by petition; or by a demonstrated need through survey of the local mosquito problem. McManmon said if the good weather continues over the next fewJ weeks, the mosquitos soon will ar-j. rive in force. on the various pest controls that can be used against mosquitos and other insects. "We haven't had any calls yet on mosquitos," McManmon said.

"But the warm weather setting in early tends to bring them along rapidly." McManmon said the mosquito crop this year would probably be the same as in other years, with the heaviest concentration being in wet, swampy areas and fewer amounts in inland, dry areas. He said the Extension Service pamphlet deals with the types of Malaria-carrying anopheline 'mosquitos were, according to the ep- idemic theory of history, partly re- sponsible for the downfalls of the Greek and. Roman civilizations; and modern man has yet to find a way to ff4 Medford murder linked by police to Florida killing By Warren H. Talbot Globe Correspondent Medford police are continuing an investigation into the Boston area's latest gangland-style murder, which has been linked to a similar type murder in Florida. Joseph J.

Notarangeli, 35, was shot to death in a Medford square coffee shop Wednesday afternoon. Medford Police Chief John Kir-wan said yesterday that Notarangeli and several persons connected with him have been involved in a gang war over underworld business dealings. Notarangeli was sitting in a Pewter Pot restaurant on High street in Medford square when a man walked up to him and shot two .38 caliber slugs into his chest. Notarangeli lived at 350 Mystic Arlington. Witnesses told police that the assailant was wearing a yellow construction hat and work clothes.

Seven persons were in the coffee shop when the shooting occurred at 3:45 p.m. After the shots were fired, witnesses told police, the "assailant walked slowly out of the coffee shop and jumped into a waiting car, which was driven away by another man. Notarangeli's murder is connected with the murder of a former Medford man in Ft. Lauderdale, on April 3, a Florida detective, Thomas Jason, said yesterday. James (Jake) Leary, an ex-boxer, was gunned down when he answered the doorbell to a beachfront apartment he was occupying.

Jason said the description of the Florida assailant matches that given to Medford police yesterday. Jason said Leary was hiding out in Ft. Lauderdale and that he was a close associate of Notarangeli and his brother, Alfred Angeli, 36, co-owner of "Mother's," a nightclub near North Station in Boston. Angeli, who legally changed his name in the late 1950s from Notarangeli to Angeli, was released recently from a Vermont prison where peared in New Hampshire ''two to three weeks early," according to New Hampshire state entomologist tllur Mason- Mason attributes the early arrival of New Hampshire mosquitos to the unusually warm weather this year. residents.

She said the store had been fined $1000 in Brighton District Court for selling obscene material only three days after it had opened. A group of 20 residents gathered at the store yesterday and then, led by Joe Smith of the Allston Civic went around the corner to 172 Brighton av. to ask the" owner of Bookland to close up. Smith told the owner, Charles I Ferro Jr. of Weston, to clear out within a week.

"If you don't move, we'll move you," he said. "How do you propose to move me?" Ferro asked. "By breaking the law?" "We'll make our own laws if we have to," Smith said. "We can get newspaper. Catholic doctors and nurses face a dilemma in non-Catholic hospitals, since the US Supreme Court has ruled invalid state laws banning abortions where a physician and a woman agree one should be performed.

The committee reportedly said that personnel working in hospitals performing abortions or sterilizations should notify the hospital in writing of their "conscientious refusal" to participate. PLYMOUTH Things were going pretty good for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mallon that Saturday last month until the deputy sheriff knocked on the door to inform them their house would be sold at public auction. "Don't get upset," the sheriff told Mrs.

Mallon, and that must have set a record for understatement. "It happens all the time." But Robert Mallori's financial problems are not caused by high living, a preference for tailor-made suits and expensive Florida trips and all, the rest, Mallon" is a junior high school teacher, a Boston College graduate with a wife and three kids and the traditional heavily mortgaged house in the suburbs. He is a friendly and straightforward young, guy, and there probably are a dozen just like him living in. your neighborhood. But his problems started two years ago when Mallon said he was high-pressured into buying a 1970 Ford LTD Country Squire, for $3000 and his old car, in West Rox-bury.

Mallon realized he couldn't afford the $106 monthly payments to the General Motors Acceptance Corp. (GMAC), so a week later he decided to sell the car and get even again, but he couldn't find a buyer. Then he saw an ad in The Globe and it said Robert Forster Jr. of Somer-ville specialized in selling used cars. Forster is 30 years old, a breezy and" confident type, and he said he could sell Mallon's car for at least $2700 and keep the rest for a commission.

No problem. Bob Mallon signed an agreement to sell the car, and Forster said he would pay the notes until the sale. Beautiful. But Forster didn't "tell Mallon he had a police record, that he sold the car a few days after that first meeting to a Woburn the bargain price of $2450 and kept the money. Now and then Mallon would call and Forster would say: "It's taking a little longer than I had expected but don't worry." Forster apparently continued to make the payments for about six months, but last summer GMAC notified Mallon the payments were overdue.

Then things happened fast. State Police were looking for Forster, because there were 77 other persons who had agreed to have him sell their cars. The cars were sold all right, but the people were not paid. Forster was charged and found guilty of larceny by conversion and ordered to repay $86,000, but he didn't have the money. He, did raise $1100 and it was divided up between his debtors.

Mallon got $34 and no car. Forster's probation was revoked and he was sent to the House of Correction at Billerica. Mallon didn't get his car because it was legally sold to that Woburn party remember this was before the car title law and now GMAC wants its money. So its attorneys got a judgment in Boston Municipal Court and 3jri advertisement of the auction sale will start Saturday. The actual auction is scheduled next month.

Ira Nagel is the attorney for GMAC and he pointed out yesterday that a $2000 settlemerft about $600 Jess than owed was offered Mallon (he doesn't have the money), and that if the auction goes through only Mallon's share of the house will be sold. His wife's share won't be affected and the family won't have to move out. So GMAC will be the only bidder, because nobody wants to own half a house at 63 Esta and then the corporation will give Mallon a year to pay the money, and perhaps other arrangements can be made and. "What should we do?" Nagel asked. "It is not GMAC's fault." Perhaps that is the whole point.

It is not the corporation's fault, because business is business and all that and it is not Robert Mallon's fault, and everything is nice and legal and above board. But sometimes an injustice occurs within the law. The guy who is at fault is sitting in the can today up in Billerica, and name is Robert Forster so somebody else has to pay and you sure as hell know who he will be. Perhaps that deputy sheriff was unintentionally right when he said a month ago: "It happens all the time." he was serving a sentence for the 1969 firebombing of the Highland Meadows Motel in Stowe, Vt. Angeli was one of three men convicted of the firebombing.

One of those men, Frank Capizzi, 38, of Winthrop, was wounded in a March 20 machinegunning near Angeli's nightclub. In that shooting, Albert Plum-mer, 49, of North Andover wqs "When these people get into a dispute they don't go to court to settle it, they murder, and innocent people can be hurt." Asst. Atty. Gen. JOHN J.

IRWIN JR. 1 killed while driving his car by the nightclub. Capizzi, who was a passenger in the car, received minor wounds. On March 24, a 32-year-old South Boston man, William O'Brien was murdered by maehincgun fire as he drove his car along Morrissey blvd. in Dorchester.

In still another shooting on March 8, Michael Milano, 30, of. Brighton was killed when his car was fired upon as he drove along. Market street in Brighton. Boston police said that Milano was an innocent victim in a gangland war that his killers mistook his identity. In an interview with the Medford Mercury yesterday, Asst.

Atty. Gen. John J- Ivwin chief of the attorney general's criminal division, said, that there is an "all-out gang war" in the Boston area. "The public doesn't realize that gambling leads to murder. When these people get into a dispute they don't go to court to settle it, they murder, and innocent people can be hurt.

They will kill innocent people to get the person they are after." in recent years to arouse Boston's black community, which has charged that police insensitivity led to the incidents. Marvin Harrell of the NAACP's Boston chapter said the organization has begun its own investigation. He said a criminal complaint may be sought against Clifford. "Before it's over," he said, "someone is going to have to give us some answers." Members of the state Legislature's Black Caucus also have taken an interest In the case. Many members of the black community have found the police department's explanation of the incident unsatisfactory.

They base their dissatisfaction on eyewitness accounts that Smith never left the back seat of the car and that his chest wound apparently had a downward trajectory. Gordon Martin, the Smith family's attorney, says another point of concern is that the car in which the three youth were riding was eventually stripped of its back seat. Conflicting reports about the knife have also surfaced. The youth's mother, Mrs. Eunice Smith, said she has the -only knife her son ever had his boy scout knife.

His companions said they didn't see Nathaniel with a knife the night he was killed. Departmental investigations are being conducted by the homicide unit and the internal affairs division1 of the Boston Police Dept. Deputy. Supt. John Barry yesterday denied that the issue had been swept aside.

BOSTON IN BLOOM Flowers' of every description market district fill the area as pre-Easter shoppers stroll Boston's Quincy Market FBI joins investigation into patrolman's shooting of Roxbury youth, 15 4A Judeo-Chrislian neighborhood' Residents close Allston book store By Robert L. Turner Globe Staff A group of Allston residents forced a new "pornographic" book store on Harvard avenue put of business yesterday but failed to close another book store around the corner. The group said the action was part of a drive to clean- up the business district. Residents threatened to boycott stores there unless the merchants act to improve the neighborhood. The and Book Store at 128 Harvard av.

opened April 9. 'Gerry Marcinowski, acting manager of the Allston-Brighton Little City Hall, said book store landlord Stephen Theodore agreed to the move yesterday after pressure from between Faneuil Hall (right) and the building. (Globe photo by Joe Runci) 500 men down here and we'll pack the books up if we have to." Ferro said he was doing nothing illegal. Although he had been charged with voilations 13 times over four years, he said, convictions in District Court had been overturned in Superior Court. Ferro said he had "a couple of years" left on a five-year lease and that more people wanted him to stay than leave.

He said he would sell the business for $30,000 if the community wanted to buy it. Smith said local residents are "sick of outsiders" despoiling the area. He said the local police and district courts had tried, but were undercut by higher courts- "This is a Judeo-Christian neighborhood and we intend to enforce our standards," he said. excommunication The Cody committee urged that Catholic medical workers "refrain from judging the motives of their colleagues or patients who do not agree with or will not accept their conscientious convictions." The bishops' committee warned that participants in abortions will be excommunicated. Excommunication is a penalty or censure by which a baptized person is excluded from "the communion of the faithful," according to the Catholic Almanac.

By Arthur Jones Globe Staff An FBI investigation is under way into last month's fatal shooting of 15-year-old Nathaniel Smith by a Boston policeman. The FBI entered the case to probe for a possible violation of Smith's civil rights. The investigation, according to Boston Police, is the result of a complaint by the dead youth's family, which is also seeking a formal inquest into his death. The youth, son of Mrs. Eunice Smith of 181 Woodrow Roxbury, was shot and killed by patrolman Thomas Clifford on March 10 after a police chase- According to his report, Clifford was in pursuit of a car believed stolen and occupied by Smith and three companions.

The youths stopped the car at Callendar and Don streets, Dorchester, and two of them fled on foot leaving Smith at the scene. Clifford reported that, as he was about to apprehend Smith, the youth slashed at him with a 5-inch knife. Clifford fired his revolver, striking Smith in the chest. The youth was dead on arrival at Carney Hospital. The policeman was suspended from duty the same evening pending an investigation.

The family's lawyer, believing that excessive force was used in apprehending Smith, has requested an inquest. No word has been given when or if an inquest will be held. The shooting was one of several Catholics who perform abortions face Catholic medical personnel have, been directed under pain of excommunication not to perform abortions, even where laws might require such procedures. The guidelines have been laid down by the Ad Hoc Committee on Pro-Life Matters of US bishops, headed by John Cody of Chicago. Catholic hospitals enjoined, as well as Catholic physicians, nurses and health care workers, according to The Pilot, Boston's archdiocesan.

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