Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-15
Witness
Links Costello,
0'Dwyer Again
Says He Left Town
On Secondhand
- Orders From Mayor
By Miriam Ottenberq

irving sherman, friend OF both
Ambassador William O'Dwyer and
Racketeer Frank Costello, today
testified that he got out of town
month before the 1945 New
York election on secondhand in
structions from Mr.. O'Dwyer.
Mr.. O'Dwyer, now Ambassador
to Mexico, was then running for
Mayor of New York and won.
Sherman is listed by the Crime
Committee as a known gambler"
Sherman told the Senate Crime
Investigating Committee at the
opening of new hearings on crime
conditions in New York that he
made himself scarce because of an
expected newspaper blast linking
Costello and Sherman with Mr..
'O'Dwyer in the mayoralty cam
Ipaign.
He testified that he was attend
ing clothing manufacturers din
.ner at the Commodore Hotel four
or five weeks before the election
when man he had never seen
before motioned to one of the
guests at his table. Detective Jack
German, now dead. Sherman had
said earlier that it was Detective
German who first introduced him
to Mr.. O'Dwyer in 1941 or 1912.
Got Order from Detective.
After Detective German had
talked with the stranger, he went
on. the detective took Sherman
aside.
Sherman said the detective told
him 1.-The General has just sent
word he would like you to leave
town and like you to leave imme-
diately." The General, he said,
was Mr.. O'Dwyer, who was a
Brigadier General in the Air
Force.
Chairman O'Conor asked him
what reason Detective German
gave for the request.
The only thing he told me was
that this man gave him a mes
sage that there was going to be a
terrible blast in the newspapers
and the general didn't want them
(the newspapers to get ahold of
me-" Sherman replied. He said
he later found out from reading
the newspapers that Jonah
Goldstein, then opposing Mr..
ODwyer for mayor, issued the
blast. He said it concerned &C.
cusations that Costello and Sher-
man as well as others were work.
ing for Mr.. O'Dwyer's election.
Hid Out in Maryland.
Sherman said he left the morn
ing after he got the message, DE
cause the man asked me to and I
thought enough of him to do it,"
He said he stayed out of sight
in Salisbury and Ocean City, Md,
and finally drove to Daytona
Beach. Fla. He stayed away, he
said. until a day or two after the
election.
Earlier the name of Represent
ative Klein, Democrat, of New
York, was injected into the hear
ing and the witness also described
an outing at which Mr.. O'Dwyer
and Vito Marcantonio, former
American Labor Party Represent
alive from New York, took off
their shirts and sang together.
Sherman said that he had
known Representative Klein for
many years and it was possible"
that he had introduced Mr.. Klein
to Costello.
Klein Testimony Recalled.
When Sherman said in answer
to questions that he did not re-
call that Mr.. Klein was in Co.'S
tello's apartment on New Years
Day. 1943, Committee Counsel
Richard G. Moser said Mr.. Klein
had told the committee that Sher-
man introduced him 10 Costello
that New Years Day.
Mr.. Moser asked if Sherman
knew of any dealings between
Representative Klein and Meyer
Lansky, whose name has fire.
Iquently figured in committee testi-
mony and reports as a big shot
gambler. Sherman said he did
not know of any such dealings.
"You don't know that Klein
recommended Lansky's son for
West Point?" Mr.. Moser asked
the witness.
Sherman said he knew nothing
(See CRIME, Page A-3.)