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Daily News from New York, New York • 99

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99
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3 DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1966 7 to CallaTm Lr have paid for public events in the past without any question being raised. Low cited Pan Am's expiring contract for its heliport, the pending renewal application and its underwriting of "an expensive city dinner dance," and demanded: "I want to "know if there's a conflict of interest here." Urges Council Hearings Low said the Council "should get to the bottom of this and determine whether the public's interest is being adequately protected. Certainly the news today doe3 not inspire confidence that it is. "Today's news it imperative that the Council (Continued on page 10, col. 1) supper dance to be given by Mayor Lindsay Monday evening at the New York State Theatre in Lincoln Center to mark the opening of the 21st session of UN's General Assembly.

Tab Will Be About'loG Commissioner of Public Events Bud Palmer estimated that Pan Am will pick up a tab of about $15,000. Some 850 guests are expected, including members of UN missions and consular- corps, prominent New Yorkers and city, state and federal officials. If there are any indications of a conflict of interest, Palmer said, he will ask Pan Am to withdraw "its gracious gesture" and have the city pay for the fun. However, he reported, about half a dozen corporations By DOMIXICK PELUSO An investigation into a possible conflict of Interest involving Pan American Airway's city contracts and its subsidizing of a party being tossed by Mayor Lindsay was demanded yesterday in the City Council by Councilman Robert A. Low (D-Manhattan).

Pan Am's contract to operate helicopters from the controversial heliport atop the Pan Am Building will expire Oct. 31, and the Department of Marine and Aviation does not plan any public hearings on the contract renewal, according to Low. Then, too, the airline has agreed to underwrite a Ca hv? Tuniiifijgi Add By GERALD KESSLER A mysterious underworld character has been singing his head off a la Joe Valachi for the last two days before a Queens grand jury probing the activities of the Cosa Nostra, THE NEWS learned yesterday. Tha n-tnoos Ti-hrsp ifipnTuv a secret ana who is ue- Washington yesterday, where he conferred with Jerome Adler- A liW ibliViJUy ing kept under heavy police guard, is not Valachi, who gave federal authorities a Denma-tne-scenes nu-m on me nationwide crime syndicate some years back. man, general counsel to the Mc-C 1 1 1 a Rackets Committee.

Parente is staying on there to talk also to Sen. Jacob Javits But he is doing the same? Hentel are interested in hearing about loan sharkng. Tho trrand iurv inauiry has SIC Lends Files (Thipf Assistant Oueens District been spurred by the arrest last Attorney Howard Cerny consulted yesterday with JUyles Lane ana Jacob-Grumet of the State In week in a Forest Hills, Queens, restaurant of 13 biggie Cosa Nostrans from various parts of the country as they engaged in what has been called a little A rnnrlnve. sort of thing Valachi did, with emphasis on the Cosa Nostra's shadowy comings and goings in Queens and elsewhere. What the grand jury, and Queens District Attorney Nat Hentel, are particularly interested in learning are the details of the operations of scores of supposedly legitimate businesses I backed by Cosa Nostra money in While the jurisdiction of Hentel and the grand jury, is limited to Onppns.

some of the data being fed them by the mystery man vestigation Commission. He was given custody of some of their files and promised full cooperation by the commissioners. Seven of the 13 hoodlums arrested Thursday in the La Stella restaurant, 102-11 Queens are scheduled to appear before the grand jury tomorrow. All 13 are free in $100,000 bail each as material witness, for a (Continued on page 10, col. 1) the borough.

ms Hentel aids scurrvins to Washington and to conferences with the State Investigation Lom misison. The Queens Apalachin These include restaurants, catering establishments, unions and laundry syndicates. And on the illicit side, the jurors and Assistant Queens District At torney C. Albert Parente was in I i Family's BeaUli tllunt Clime to Jessica Walter "If it weren't for him, I would not be here." lave Actress in Fire Cincinnati, Sept. 28 (AP) A methodical search for clues in the slaying of a young family of three continued today.

Police reported little progress. The slashed bodies of Jerome Bricca, 28, his wife, Linda Jane, 24, and their daughter, Debbie, 4, From 10-Story Ledge By ARTHUR Actress Jessica Walter, 23, wa3 rescued from a window ledge of her lOth-floor midtown apartment yesterday by a fireman who crawled through smoke and flames to jf 1 VtWy'hi I were found last night in tneir -ro nor i "If it weren't for him," she said of Fireman Robert Post, 34, "I would not be here. He saved my life." Miss Walter, who appeared recently in the movie, "The Group," was awakened by smoke at 4:45 A.M. in her apartment at 180 W. 58th, near Seventh Ave.

Calls Phone Operator A she opened the door to the living room, she was met by a burst of smoke and flame. She phoned the switchboard operator, then retreated to the bathroom and she turned on the shower. the smoke and heat got mre intense she climbed out on a 112-inch ledge, screaming for help. Tost, attached to Ladder 4, at Eifehth Ave. and 48th St.

heard her screams as his truck arrived at: the building. He took the elevator to the 10th floor and broke down the door. Guesses the Location shower and guessed she had taken refuge in the bathroom. He lifted her from the ledge and carried her back through the flames to safety. She wa3 not injured.

Miss Walter said she would join her husband, stage manager Ross Bowman, in Philadelphia this week. She recently returned from filming "Grand Prix" in Europe. She said she would write to Fire Commissioner Robert Low-ery in praise of Post. School Bd. Asks Another $284M The Board of Education passei a resolution yesterday seeking a $284 million capital budget allotment for the fiscal year 1967-68 for the construction of 32 new schools and the modernization of 14.

The resolution will be sub-mitto tA th Citv Plannine Com (Associated Press Wirefoto) Jerome Bricca and his wife Linda Jane on their wedding day. Describing the slaying as the most brutal he has seen in 15 thA force. declined to say whether a murder weapon cently returned home from a trip to San Francisco, where Bricca 's younger sister was married. Police said the three-bedroom house had been ransacked, but it was not determined whether anything had been taken. Mrs.

Bricca, a former airline stewardess, been raped, authorities said. Lt. Herbert Vogel of the 'rTa-miltnn Cnuntv nolice reported had been founa. Found in Their Rooms Debbie's body was on the floor of her bedroom. Bricca and his wife were lying on the floor of their bedroom.

(Associated Press Wirefoto) Debbie Bricca Found in her bedroom suburban Bridgetown home. Police thought the three were slain late Sunday. m.t Neighbors said Brif ca, a chemical engineer, and his faniHy re vogei caui oxiciaiwo? tiu a T-shirt and trousers. His wife tloftei." mission nd 'eventually referred i. AJ J.

1 The said the woman waa no Jonger screaming hot he; heard the water running: in the I no new developnientS in the case. 10 ins ioaru ujl uuwaic..

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