Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he left the "walls," Angel had settled on a guiding principle: the cops can't beat a well-organized gang. He rounded up a tough reform-school graduate named Frank Matyasevic to act as his "enforcer," and then began recruiting young hoodlums for the Green Street Counts-"the most menacing gang of teen-agers," according to Detective Captain James Kelly, "ever to get together in this city...
...golden crowns on their lapels. The loot from a series of petty holdups and strong-arm robberies kept them well supplied with money; the Counts rented a $4O-a-month apartment, stocked it with whisky and used it as a place to bring chosen bobby-soxers. When a neighboring gang, the Brewerytowners, tried to muscle in on them, the Counts took them on in street fights. But Angel Williams, always the organizer, said, "This is a lousy setup. Let's get together." The result was the "Green Street Counts Peace Treaty...
...This is to certify that the Counts and Brewerytown have decided to sign a peace treaty . . . this day of Feb. 8, year of 1953," it read. "So be it known that the offended and defended called it off." It listed the table of organization of the new, bigger gang: "Sec. of War, Chief of War Intel., Chief of Armament, Chief of Territory, Spokesman and Comm. of Tactical Opr." It was signed with such gang names as Mousie, Muscles, Rickets, Hypo, Dippy, Slick, Shamus, Big Nick, and Luke the Spook...
Upcountry in the Kiambu reserve, scene of last month's village massacre, a Mau Mau gang, brandishing keen-edged pangas, set fire to native huts. But instead of panic-stricken people rushing out to be cut to bits by the attackers' arms, an alerted Home Guard opened fire, killed 21 Mau Mau. In the same area, a platoon of 20 Negro soldiers of the King's African Rifles, led by a white officer, saw a Kikuyu woman furtively carrying sacks of food into the forest. Following the woman, the soldiers engaged a gang...
Died. Anthony R. ("Tony") Gizzo, 52 Kansas City underworld bigshot; of a heart attack; in Dallas, where he had gone to visit son Robert Gizzo, jailed on a narcotics robbery charge. A sidekick of Political Mobster Charles Binaggio, who got his in a 1950 gang killing, Gizzo was named by the Senate crime investigators as the Capone mob's Kansas City gambling liaison...