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Show APPEAL FOR HELP AGAINST BLACK HAND Pl'EBI-O, Colo., Sept. 2. An appeal for aid in combating black hand blackmailers wss sent to the department depart-ment of justice at Washington by local authorities yesterday, following developments devel-opments showing that many members of the Italian colony here are contributing contrib-uting regular monthly payments of "blood money" extorted by an organized organ-ized gang of unusually daring enmi- "niffieiiltv in prosecuting black banders band-ers under the state laws and the inability in-ability of the local authorities to induce in-duce the persons victimized to give information against thoae who have them terrorized are the principal reasons rea-sons for appealing to the federal government, gov-ernment, the local officials say. |