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The Seaforth News, 1962-06-28, Page 6How Police Forces, Really Work! "Kill a eap, and all cops hate you," This old underworld adage was proved out lasi•,month in one of the finest Hours of New' Yorle's Finest, Five days of painstaking, professional digging wrapped, up the case of two detectives who had been killed while attempting to arrest two holdup men; and unlike the average TV thriller, there was no hero. Some 300 po- licemen, most of them doing dreary routine jobs, won the laurels. It began this way as police rec- onstructed it: To Detectives Luke 3, Fallon, 65, and John P. Finnegan, 29, it was just another Friday. They had been assignedto patrol the grimy streets of Brooklyn in a fake taxi in an effort to catch stickup men who had been prey- ing on cabdrivers. Suddenly, they heard a shot in- side the Boro Park Tobacco Co., Inc., a one-story, brick building with a plate -glass store -front. Entering, they surprised two gunmen holdin,g up the whole- saler of tobacco and candy. (One of the gunmen had fired. the shot out of sheer nervousness.) One gunman, said the police, was pudgy Anthony Portelli, a 26 - year -old thug with the word Mother" garishly tattooed on his upper right arm; close -cropped receding hair that gave him the nickname "Baldy." The other, the police said, was Jerome Ros- enberg, a gangling 25 -year-old, with a record of armed robbery. They had herded seven clerks into a frightened knot and had lifted about $3,000. Fallon moved down on the gunmen, leaving Finnegan at the door, "Don't shoot; don't shoot, I give up," whined Portelli, lower- ing his .38 Colt revolver, As Fallon closed in on him, the holdup man suddenly lifted his gun and shot Fallon through the heart. Then Portelli turned. an Finnegan and felled him with three shots. As Finnegan died, he emptied his gun at the rob- bers. All six shots missed. The sharp cracks of the pistols panicked the driver of the get- away car, Anthony Dellernia, 34, who drove off from his parking space around the corner; Portelli and Rosenberg escaped on foot. Throughout the city of 8 mil- lion, New York's police machin- ery began to turn, spurred on by the hatred of every :non on the 25,000 - man force. Who and where were the killers? The first clue was the way the holdup was committed. Detec- tives recalled that only a weals before. Rosenberg had been sought for questioning about a sim;lar holdup. An alert for Rosenberg and Dellernia, ru- mored to have hen Rosenberg's "wheel man" or other jobs, went out to all New York City's po- lice commands. By late Friday, about 250 detectives and 50 more who volunteered to spend their off-duty time on the case were running down leads. On Saturday came the first indication that Portelli was in- volved. A young patrolman (whose name was kept secret to protect his source of informa- tion) reported that he'd been told that a man named "Baldy" was seen running away from the store, sweaty and out of breath, "This is where the local detec- tives come in," Assistant Chief Inspector Edward V. Martin, who commanded the search, explain- ed later. "They know the 'Baldies•' They know the 'Butch - as.' They know the local char- acters. This is basic detective work." The police also learned from underworld sources that Rosen- berg and Portelli had been part- ners in other crimes. Soon the suspects' pictures and descrip- tions were being transmitted to all city police stations over the city -owned Channel 31 UHF television station, the first time New York police had used TV in this way during a manhunt. It gave police a 24-hour jump over the usual printed circulars. But where was the trio? Still more questions by detectives, ISSUE 24 — 1962 BEAT Bearded young mon is really "beat" after day's walk around New York's Central Park, pushing• baby's car- riage and -walking the family dog. Makes anyone beat. now concentrating an people who knew the three men, And still more legwork, Some checked a tip that Portelli had escaped to Newark, 'N.J. Indeed he had. Portelli had frantically sought aid from hoodlum friends in Brooklyn and was able to bor- row some money (Rosenberg had gotten away with the lost), 'Fi- nally he persuaded Frank Lino, 24, to hide him in Brooklyn and Anthony (Babe) Acarinoe 32, to drive him to Newark en Sunday. The detectives fanned out through Newark. Finally they picked up Portelli's trail in o motel where he spent the night as "Jim Davis." Shown Portelli's picture, .a United Airlines clerk said "Davis" was on Flight 667, due in Chicago at 1;40 p.m. EDT Monday, Chicago police were notifed and New York Detective Lt. Ed- ward J. Shea and Detective Her- man Frigand boarded a jet for Chicago, where local police were watching at the Lido Motel. There, in a gaudy strip of res- taurants, nightclubs, and motels on Mannheim Road, 3 miles south of O'Hare airport, "Tames Davis" had taken room 6. Soon the New York detectives joined the three stake -out Chicago policemen. The capture was almost an anticlimax. Lieutenant ' Shea kicked open the doer, ,"I yelled not to move; he complied," Shea revelled. Portelli was weeping and unarmed. He was in his underwear, - As rewards hit $11,715 on Tuesday, Dellc:nia gave himself up in Norwich, Conn., where he had been living in the fields near his wife's home. Rosenberg ar- ranged his surrender on Wednes- day through The New York Daily News. The three pleaded innocent to homicide charges and Lino and Acarino, who also were rounded up, were charged with being accessories. When Capt. Albert Seedman cooperated with press photographers and used some force to make the suspects pose, the New York, Civil Liber- ties Union charged the suspects had been manhandled and urged disciplinary action against the, officers responsible, The manhunt was over, but every police officer in New York would remember the solemn words of Msgr• Lawrence H. Bracken, senior police chaplain, at Finnegan's funeral Mass: "We have 25,000 potential martyrs in the Police Department , .. May God protect them, for they are in constant danger." From NEWSWEEK WRONG STATION A lady in Detroit heard over the radio that a tornado was on its way. Hurriedly, she herded her family into the cellar, and they huddled for hours, fearful- ly awaiting the catastrophe. All this time the radio was full blast upstairs. It was some five hours later somebody discovered that the station they were tuned in to was in Wichita, Kansas. BRIMMING OVER — Wide -brimmed coolie hat covered with tulle and scattered with chenille loops is shown in London. STRICT ATTENTION — Ca- dets of police school in i3o- guta, Colombia, display strict military discipline as they stand at rigid attention in ankle-deep water when a flash downpour dampened their spit and polish ceremony. Pepper Once Was Precious As Gold Here's something to think about when you use the pepper - pot at dinner time. It's estimated that the world crop of black and white pepper is likely to be much more than the usual 50,- 000 tons this year. Both kinds come from the same plant vine -like shrubs which are cul- tivated in many tropical caun- •tries, but t h e " world's biggest producer of pepper today. is In- dia. The fruits of this plant are about the size of a pea, bright red when ripe. Black pepper consists of the whole dried ber- ry. White pepper is the seed freed from the skin and fleshy part of the fruit. One pepper plant often yields ten pounds of pepper a year, continuing at this rate for at least fifteen years. Taxes and tributes were often paid in pep- per in the old days. Because of its indestructibility, pepper was as precious as gold. It was prized so much that when the Genoese captured Cae- sarea each soldier received 2 pounds of pepper as his share of the spoils. The Greeks had a word for pepper for there are records that it was used liberally as long ago as 400 B.C. in Greece, And when the Goths captur- ed Rome about 800 years after- wards, 200,000 ounces of pepper was one of the principal items of the ransom demanded. Britain uses 3,000 tons of pepper every year• This is the only important country where white pepper is preferred to black pepper and to the red peppers such as cayenne, p.apri- ke and Chile pepper. The largest market for pepper today is the United Status but practically the whole of the American demand is for black pepper, much of which is used by meat preservers and canners, FROM MIS:SOURI! "Yes, sir," boomed the rather of the town's richest. --. and ug- liest girl, "the man who mar- ries my daughter will certainly get a prize." Al cauiioes b"rhelor asked politoly, "May I see it?" TAKING A' POWDER — Although his face is' comical, this young nomad boy willingly submits tothe discomforts of being dusted with DDT and talcum powder at a "de -lousing" station on a highway near Molagan, Pakistan, The United Nations Children's Fund is. helping with typhus control. Ty- phus has long been one of ;lie nomad's •major enemies. TABLE TALKS POT ROAST WITH SPICE 1 cup cider vinegar 2 cups water 6 whole cloves 2 whole allspice berries 2 peppercorns Small piece of bay leaf 134 tsp. salt 2y lb, rump roast of beef 2 tbsp. cooking (salad) oil 1 small onion 3/4 cup cold water 2 tbsp. flour Combine vinegar, 2 cups wa- ter,' cloves, allspice, peppercorns; bay leaf and salt in glass or -pot- tery bowl. Put• roast into mix- ture, cover and put in refrigera- tor. Let stand 6' to 8 hours, turn- ing several times. Drain and save 'h cup of liquid. Dry roast on paper towelling. Heat oil in heavy kettle or Dutch oven, Put in meat and brown quickly but very well on all sides. Turn heat to low. Add the '/a cup of spicy vinegar mixture saved when meat was drained. Add onion. Cover tightly and simmer 2 to 2/ hours or until meat is very 'tender, turning occasionally. Re- move meat' and- measure broth. -Return 1. cup broth to pan and heat. Put Y4 cup water in small jar .witha tight lid, add flour, put on lid and shake vigorously until well blended. Add to hot broth gradually, stirring con- stantly. Taste and add• -salt and pepper if desired. Serve hot with roast. + ' TUNA -CHEESE PANCAKES 2 tbsp. chopped pimiento 4 tbsp. chopped green pepper 2 tbsp. chopped onion 1 1 -oz. can tuna 1 cup small -curd cottage cheese 1 egg, well beaten s/4 cup sour cream with chives 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce I tsp. prepared mustard 1 tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. pepper Combine all ingredients. Place about 2 tablespoons filling in centre of each pancake. Roll up. Put filled pancakes in baking pan, seam side down, and cover with topping. Topping: 1 cup sour cream with chives �/a cup shredded Cheddar cheese Spoon sour cream over pan- cakes. Sprinkle with Cheddar cheese and bake in 350° F. oven 15 minutes, Serves 8. * * SALMON LOAF (Individual Style) 1 can red salmon (7l% ozs.) 1 egg, lightly beaten 2 tbsp, melted butter cup milts 14 cup soft bread crumbs 34 tsp. garlic salt 2 tsp. grated onion Dash of pepper 14,tsp. Worcestershire sauce Egg Sauce (recipe follows) Heat oven to 376 degrees. Drain salmon, turn into a bowl and break up with a fork. Add egg, butter, milk, bread crumbs, garlic salt, onion, pepper and Worcestershire sauce and blend well with fork. Spoon into 2, buttered 6 -oz. custard cups. Put 34 inch hot water in a square' baking pan. Set custard cups' in pan. Put in oven and. bake 30 minutes or until salmon mixture seems firm in centre, Turn out of custard cues on plates and top Lci+h Egg, Sauce, (Serves 2.) Nolo' 11 you want more than one to.'r Pim e .h serving the recipe 'n11 ":1 -'Hy be doubled, EGG SAUCE 1 tbsp. butter 1 tbsp. flour Vs tsp. salt Dash pepper 34 cup milk 1 hard -cooked egg, chopped Melt butter in small sauce- pan over moderate heat, Add flour, salt and pepper and let bubble up together. Remove from heat and add milk all at once. Stir to blend. Return to heat and cook and stir until thickened and smooth. Stir in egg and let heat gently. Serve hot. 0 QUICK BANANA . PIE VA cups fine chocolate -wafer crumbs 3/ cup sugar 34 cup melted butter 1 334 -oz. pkg. vanilla pudding mix (cooked type) 1 tbsp. butter 34 cup whipping cream 0/4 tsp. vanilla 2 medium bananas Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix crumbs, sugar and battier, Meas- ure out '/a cup of mixture and set aside. Press remain i'n g crumbs evenly . and firmly on bottom and up sides of a but- tered 8 -inch pie pan. Bake 5 minutes. Cool, Make pudding according to package directions, using i/z cup less milk than called for. When cooked stir in butter. Cool. Beat. whipping cream until stiff peaks form, Add vanilla and spoon in cooled •pudding. Beat with rotary beat- er until smooth. Slice bananas into cooled pie shell. Spoon in cream mixture. Sprinkle with 1 cup crumbs saved from crust. Chill until filling is firm, at least 30 minutes, Serve same day as made. Shopping Center For Each _Customer? A. kind of grim little joke is making the rounds here these days, It goes like this: "I understand the County Planning Commission . is going to limit the number of shopping centers in the mid -county .. - "That so?" "Yeah. One to a customer," Apparently all the sites desig- nated in the county's master plan for the mid -county for shopping centers have been purchased by developers and construction' is in the offing. In. our opinion, this will hap- pen: Rather than let the land -lie fallow, the developers will . erect shopping centers. - before there is ample population to sup-. port them, all, As a result, com- petition will be fierce for awhile. Among grocery stores, there'll be a squeeze ... Bargain con- scious housewives probably will havea field day — week after week after week. But to enjoy the favors of stiff competition, they'll have to be willing to hop from store to store to avail themselves of the bar- gains. And while this point seems obscure to most women, It costs gasoline to do that, maybe more than they'd save on bargains ,.• As a result of a half dayy hopping around, the shoppers cut their weekly food tab by $2, while the driving around costs them only $2.60. And the grocers, by mov- ing a lot of marked -down mer- chandise do a brisk business but don't make any. money • . . The Report has struggled along for a year and a half with the notion that most of a food store's customers come from a limited radius right around that particular store, It's an absolute- ly valid idea, but not in Santa Cruz, There are just too many bargain hoppers and coupon clip- pers in the county, And while a grocer makes no money from their business, he sure does miss 'em it they don't show up. Groc- ers thrive on hustle and bustle. Money? That's not so important, it seems. Chasing food store ads has caused the Report to circulate thousands of papers from house to house in the mid -county and has given it the appearance of - a shopper, No more. Hereafter, we'll devote our ef- forts to producing as fine a newspaper as we can for .' our subscribers . — Santa Cruz (Calif) Report. What Do You Know About NORTHEAST ASIA? ilii iitiiiiAViir iii ii;; :i lit€ii•,•'"E liilllriiii iai ULAN BATOR, mutA MONGOLIA sAYR USA • MILES :.. 0:.:....300. WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS PICTURE? -- If you notice that the traffic "keeps to the left" you'll have your first clue and you'll be doirig well if you con determine in which part of the world the picture was made. It's part of . the new 28 -mile long limited -access superhighway between Cape Town, South Africa,and the -D F. Malan Airport.