Show Crime e ro er s su u ens ensa I N N. J. J a n om v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Sept 22 UP Senate crime investigators have I many New Jersey racketeers racketeers racketeers rack rack- and gamblers for question question- questioning tag ing it was teas announced Friday The senate crime committee did not name them It said however that Joe Adonis and Jerry Catena apparently had been avoiding avoiding- servers Adonis has been named as ns head of the New Nev J Jersey Jersey- ersey- ersey New York fork rackets and Catena is isan isan an ex I A 1 preliminary investigation has shown that northern New Jersey is riddled Addled with nth a substantially substantially large gambling racket rackel with Interstate connections the committee said The announcement was made a aan atan at atan an open hearing at which Harry Russell member of the Miami Miam Beach Fla S SG S G syndicate refused re refused refused re- re fused to answer a number of ques ques- He claimed his answers answer might tend to incriminate him Committee Chairman Estes Kefauver Kefauver Kefauver Ke Ke- fauver threatened to cite him fo for contempt of congress but Russell Russel continued to refuse to answer In the questioning of Russell Sen Alexander Wiley Viley R. R Wis VIS asked him jf f he was afraid o of being rubbed out if he answered the committees committee's Quest the S 8 G syndicate and about Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago cago Russell denied that he was frightened He said Eaid c answer because it was ryas his sincere sincere sincere sin cere feeling that flint th t he might incriminate in incriminate tn- tn criminate himself He said that no one had threatened his life I dont don't think I have committed a crime Russell said I think I have some rights Wiley Viley told him that his answers could be valuable to the committee commit commit- tee because they could be used to stop infiltration by the who undermine the citadel of the country Russell refused to tell ten what business he was wa's was in on the grounds that it might incriminate him He also refused to say whether he knew or had been in business with Tony Acardo or Charles f Cherry Nose Gioe mobsters ex-mobsters of the Al Scarface Capone gang Russell refused also to say whether he knew Frank Erickson i New York fork bookmaker who was recently 1 sent to jail He refused I 1 to say whether he had handled I 2 in off lay bets for Erick Erick- son He also refused to answer whether he had taken off lay-off bets in St. St Louis Mo Aio and Kansas i 1 City Mo |