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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...
There was a second Bill Boyle banquet in Kansas City. The President, the Vice President, four Cabinet members and most party bigwigs, including Jim Finnegan, were all there too. So was Kansas City Gangster Charlie Binaggio (who was riddled by bullets seven months later in a Kansas City Democratic clubhouse). Another expansive guest was American Lithofold's ubiquitous Robert J. Blauner. He paid for a whole table. It cost him, he told the Senate committee, "a thousand or twelve hundred dollars-I don't remember...
...hand stores had served as Democratic headquarters for Kansas City's Second Ward. The address, after Fifteenth Street was renamed in 1949: 716-718 Truman Road. But things had never been the same since the morning of April 6, 1950, when the bullet-riddled bodies of Gangster Charlie Binaggio, boss of the district, and his chief henchman, Charles Gargotta, were found there. At party meetings, somebody was always pointing out exactly where Binaggio's body was found (facing the big portrait of Native Son Truman), and where Gargotta lay, a few steps away. This had a quieting effect...
...went to prison, Jim did the best he could to keep old Tom's Kansas City machine running. His best wasn't bad enough. The Citizens' Association Reform government won control of city hall. A lot of old Pendergast lieutenants joined up with mobster Charlie Binaggio...
Things began to look up for Jim Pendergast after Binaggio was murdered last April. Abruptly leaderless, the old crowd flocked back to Jim. Last week Pendergast made his biggest bid since 1940 for return to power. He lost. The reform group, pointing at the Kefauver committee's disclosures, re-elected Mayor William E. Kemp, an anti-machine Democrat, for his third term; ten of eleven major city offices went to reform candidates. Big, sad Jim Pendergast no longer cast any shadow...