Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1950 — Page 18

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the way they laid out Democratic! Boss Charlie Binaggio and his pal, Charles Gargotta, at Pete) Lapetina's Funeral Home out on} Campbell St. | Pete's place is small, but he knows about high type stuff, and he did right by the boys. And they ‘were together, just as they had been Wednesday night when they were shot down .by their petulant enemies in the First Dis-

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“Road + Both caskets are of solid copr. burnished to a respectable dullness. They Weigh around 9800 pounds apiece and some of the mob who've inspected similar furnishings. at previous gangland wakes say they cost $2500 to three grand if they cost a nickel. The caskets’ lining is none of that conventional white, frilly satin, but a rich, tufted rose velvet. And to add the last note of gentility, each is topped by a roof of plexiglass—to prevent, as Pete

put it, “ait-that-touching n ; + Services Monday The two men will he buried to gether in St. Mary's Cemetely on

the East Side.

Funeral services for the two, not shared hy the politicians of permitted to do so, lest he talk Pendergast's successor had been Dallas First on List dressed in their best blue-sulls, wan5a5 City and Missouri, and by carelessly in retirement. This, ap-/able the

will be held-Monday in the Holy Rosary Church down the street

Spring is here again and so are the accompanying chuckholes. This picture, taken in the 500 block of Laclede St., illustrates what many irate citizens are complaining about in a deluge of tele- S. Mickley St. is one o phone calls to The Times. =

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les Spur Flood Of Complaints By Motorists

Italian district of the North Side. the nation’s coast-to-coast net- didn't ° deliver what he had

There, for the first time, their work of rackets. The way things promised: to his ‘ga families—described as very nice were shaping up, a’ thorough in- periors. people—will come out of seclu-'vestigation into Binaggio's death

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Binaggio, it seemed, had ac-

sion. might turn up some embarrassing cepted a large sum of money— Binaggio leaves a wife and a evidence.

daughter, Annette, 7. Gargotta leaves his wife and a son, Vin-

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KANSAS CITY, Mo, Apr. 8 (UP)~-Rumbles of a “deal” to return James M. Pendergast to full control of the Democratic Party here grew stronger today.

‘| Meanwhile, police reported no luck

in their search for the missing wire recordings of slain Charles } 's . private conversations. Detective Chief Frank Collins

Binaggio with use of a microphone in his desk drawer and a recorder in a closet, should make “mighty interesting listening.” But in the two clubroom safes police found only club records and office supplies. : There seemingly ‘was no progress in the all-out inquiry into the slayings of Binaggio, the gambling boss who wanted to quit the rackets, and his pal, Hoodlum Charles Gargotta, as the wake for the men went on in a north side chapel. They will be buried Monday. The rumbles of a possible deal

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