Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 3

Cops Turn Eyes to Other 'Stars' 'India' Flown Back To City With Kuhn ruby either." Drawing the returned jewels one by one from a crumpled white airline bag labeled "For Your Convenience," Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan unwrapped them from tissue paper at a press conference and spread them on a black woolen scarf on his desk. Next to the 563.35-carat Star of India, he set the purple, 116-carat Midnight Star, engraved emeralds of 87, 62 and 32 carats and another the size of a grape and two aquamarines, one green-hued of 400 carats and the other 737 carats of sparkling blue. "That's a lovely one." he commented, picking up the 000 Midnight Star sapphire, but as the press hovered closer, he said, "You'll make us a lot less nervous if you sit down." Most of the other gems still missing are By Maureen O'Neill New York-With the famed $100,000 Star of India sapphire and eight, other gems safely back in New York, authorities today were continuing their search for the $200,000 worth of other jewels still missing in the American Museum of Natural History heist, including the world's most perfect star ruby. Fears were expressed, however, that the $100,000 De Long Ruby, weighing more than 100 carats, may have already been cut into smaller jewels and fenced through the Miami underworld, along with the 12 other gems stolen Oct. 29 from the museum's unprotected Morgan Hall.

"But we never really thought we'd get the Star of India back either," one police source said yesterday, "so we're not giving up on the small-size diamonds set in pins, necklaces and earrings. The most valuable, other than the rubv, is a 15.37-carat diamond valued at $25,000. Later, the Star of India and the other jewels that were brought back to New York after their dramatic recovery in Miami were securely locked in a large safe in the New York City Police Department property clerk's office. They are to be kept there as evidence until charges are disposed of against three burglary suspects, beachboys Allan Dale Kuhn, 26; Jack Roland (Murph the Surf) Murphy. 27, and Roger Clark, 29.

A museum spokesman said the recovered jewels will be back on public display as soon as possible. Appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday afternoon, the trio looked as dapper, but hardly as jaunty, as they were several months ago when they were arrested for the daring museum caper. Only four hours before, Kuhn and Assistant District Attorney Maurice Nadjari, along with three detectives, had landed at Kennedy Airport with the Star of India and the other gems recovered in two and a half days of negotiations, car chases and what was described as "cloak and dagger stuff" in Miami. Court action was adjourned until Tuesday. The three suspects reportedly hope to get off with light sentences for cooperating in finding the gems.

The cooperation started Tuesday Newsday Photo by Nightingale DA Frank Hogan, Seated Foreground, With Aide Maurice Nadjari at Side, Talks to Newsmen Thompson Calls Press, Again Denies Spy Rap UPI Telephoto HIDING PLACE, a bus station locker in Miami, is examined by the station's manager, John Dishong, after the jewels were recovered. By Philip Ross Bay Shore- Thompson called a press conference to again deny being a secret agent for the Soviet Union. Thompson denied being a spy- racially prejudiced as have charged -but neither he nor federal authorities gave any tion on the case's biggest mystery: the nature of the secrets old Bay Shore fuel oil service dealer might have passed Russians. Federal authorities also refused to disclose why he questioned over a period of a year before being arrested allegedly selling U.S. military secrets to the Russians for six the press conference, the stocky Air Force veteran said that been questioned by the FBI 22 times in the past year, but arrest had come as a "complete shock." The FBI declined confirm or deny that it had questioned Thompson previously.

U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Hoey refused to elaborate on indictment, which charged Thompson with accepting payoffs $1,700 in exchange for information "relating to the national the United States of America." Hoey would not say what information Thompson was in a position to have provided discharge from the Air Force in 1958. Thompson, who was in the Air Force from 1952 to alleged to have been recruited by the Russians in June, 1957, was a clerk with a special investigations unit in Berlin, and continued passing on information after he was reassigned Falls, Mont. in June of 1958, and later after he received an discharge and moved to Long Island in 1961.

Named as co-conspirators in the three count-indictment were three Robert Thompson yesterday neighbors informaa 29-yearon to the had been Thursday for years. At he had that his yesterday to the federal totaling defense of kind of after his 1958, is while he to have to Great honorable -Continued on Page 39 -Continued on Page 39 Says He's Loyal Well, It'll Keep the Gallos Off the Streets Rikers Island- -On this sequestered oasis in the teeming city, a rather extended club meeting was begun yesterday by 14 Brooklyn, boys named Nicholas Bianco, Louis Hubela, Anthony Bernardo, John Santiago, Angelo Parfumi, Joseph D'Antunno, Rosario Musico, Peter Morello, John Donnaruma, Frank Illiano, Gennearo Basciano, Salvatore Mangiamelli, Albert Gallo and Larry Gallo. One fellow from Manhattan, John Cutrone, was also allowed to attend. Like the other 14, he is a member of what police call the Gallo gang, an underworld fraternal and antisocial organization that was quartered in the Rikers Island Penitentiary yesterday virtually en toto. They were sent there by Dominic Rinaldi-who is a justice in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

The Gallos were sentenced to the jail for terms ranging from three to six months, fairly modest terms considering -Saturday, January -9, 1965 Robert Thompson that police believe they have been involved in at least nine murders in 1962 and 1963. But after being indicted for conspiracy to commit murder, they were allowed to plead guilty last Sept. 22 to a lesser charge of conspiracy to commit assault. In passing sentence yesterday, Rinaldi noted that the crime to which they had pleaded guilty was "minor in nature," and that evidence to prosecute successfully on more serious charges "so far has eluded our law enforcement officers." Nevertheless, the mass sentencing was hailed by Assistant District Attorney Aaron E. Koota as "a milestone in the history of prosecution in the city." The Gallos were accused by police of trying to restrict the criminal activities, such as bookmaking and loan sharking, of a similar underworld gang, the Profacis.

Police are in sympathy with the ends but they don't care for the means, which include mayhem. In addition to the nine murders, three other gang members disappeared during the period of warfare. But Koota said the war ended, at least temporarily, when the Gallos were indicted. "Following the attempted murder of Larry Gallo in August, 1962," he said, "there were nine murders of Gallo and Profaci mobsters and the disappearance of three others. But after the indictments in December, 1963, these activities stopped, things were quiet in Brooklyn and nothing more was heard of this warfare." Five of the gang members--the two Gallo brothers, Illiano, Basciano and Mangiamelli- -were give six-month terms.

Two other men got off with $150 fines. They were Santo Patane, of Brooklyn, and Joseph Savino, who gave his address as 3189 Monterey Merrick. 3.