Evening star., 1951-08-17
.Probers Close
.JerseyCriim
Investigation
Commissioner Tells
Of Seeing Governor
About Lease Deal

Senate investigators today
closed their inquiry into Northern
New Jersey crime conditions after
hearing a Jersey City commits
Sioner admit that he went to Gov.
Driscoll with a business PROPOSE
tion for company which the in
Ivestigators said had racketeer
connections.
The Senate Crime Committee.
headed by Senator O'Conor,
Democrat of Maryland, ended
this phase of its work without
getting a crack at a KEY ma n.
Abner Uongie) zwillman, the
millionaire eX-bootlegger lons-
sought for examination.
Making routine call for Twill
man as todays session opened,
Senator O'Conor commented:
Il fear there will be no re-
sponse to our call until this COM
mittee goes out of existence. No
doubt that he, like others, then
will return"
Sought Terminal Lease.
This is the final day of public
hearings by the committee. which
must file a report by September
II. The Senators this afternoon
turned their attention to the stu
alton in Prince Georges Coun-
ty, Md.
Jersey City Commissioner Don
aid Spence told the committee
that he once talked to Gov. Dris-
coll about leasing the Newark
Truck Terminal to the People S
Express Co.
! Committee Counsel Richard
Moser said Gerald Catena had an
interest in this firm. Catena has
been identified previously before
the committee as gambler and
an associate of Zwillman. He, too,
has failed to answer committee
subpoena.
Commissioner Spence testified
that he knew of no connections
between Catena and Peoples Ex-
press, and that in approaching
Gov. Driscoll he merely sought to
render a public service by max
ing use of a white elephant" ter
minal.
Race Track Applications Cited.
Several other witnesses appeared
today but added little information
pertinent to. the investigation.
Among them were Hugh J. Strong
a member of the New Jersey Rae
ing Commission, and Joseph G.
Bozzo of Paterson, N. j., cloth
ing manufacturer.
The committee questioned Mr..
Strong about conference in the
Club 81 in New York on a New
Jersey race track application men
toned in testimony yesterday. Mr..
Bozzo said he knew Zwillman, Joe
AdoniS and others who have fig
ured in the long probe, but could
tell little about their business or
political activities.
zWillman's name figured fire.
quently in yesterdays testimony
1t was one of the issues in a
sample of domestic strife wit
messed by the committee when a
divorced husband and wife gave
directly contradictory testimony
That wasn't the only dramatic
moment yesterday. The commit
tee saw Mayor John v. Kenny of
Jersey City and his two denoted
commissioners all talking at once.
Each was simultaneously trying to
give his version of a shooting, a
longshoremen's march on city hall
and the destruction of a campaign
poster on the waterfront.
The difference of opinion be-
tween the divorced husband and
wife involved Harold Krieger, as
sistant corporation counsel of Jer-
sey City, labor lawyer and cam
Ipaign stalwart for Mayor Kenny
in ousting Boss" Frank Hague.
Mr.. Krieger testified he knew
zwillman only socially and Wis
tied his home only when he hap
Ipened to be passing by.
Mrs. Muriel Krieger, who &C
knowledged she had tried to avoid
the committee and had been pres
sured not to testify, took the
(See CRIME, Page A-4.)