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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1967 4- Section IB Cerone Beats Out Fifi for Gang Reins add a touch of elegance TEEM to your I GOLO GOES 1 LENGTH am -v emi. jst- i i ii nr- YOU! TO PLEASE BY ROBERT WIEDRICH Jackie The Lackey Cerone has been tapped as heir apparent to the crime syndicate's Chicago throne, The Tribune learned yesterday. The 53-year-old, partially balding Cerone is emerging as the underwold's newest operating director under the tutelage of two old line Mafia bosses, Paul The Waiter Ricca and Anthony Big Tuna Accardo. Bypass Fifi Buccieri For Cerone, his elevation means a victory over one of his closest mob contemporaries, Fiore Fifi Buccieri, who at 60 has been found not acceptable to the "various crime syndicate factions. Investigators said it is apparent that Buccieri's bold as a flunky for Accardo.

It is from this career that he derived his nickname The Lackey. A foppishly dressed man who affects such items of dress as a derby and Chesterfield coats, Cerone of late has- been observed using his new influence in many ways. On a recent fall day, William Wee Willie Messino, a loan shark who lives down the street from Cerone, was observed mowing the new gang boss' lawn. But while Cerone is a man to be reckoned with, he is not the dictator that Giancana, Accardo, and Ricca were when they held the post of operating director. He does not have the absolute control his predecessors had, investigators said.

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Maple Lane, Des Plaines, III. 60016 gangsters were aware of the watchful eye of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was apparent the two wanted no part of the fate that had been shared by Giancana and Battaglia. So, investigators said, Ricca and Accardo spent the summer months grooming Cerone for the top post. And slowly but surely the two gangsters, grown conservative in many years of criminal service, moved to quash Buccieri's attempts to gain for himself command of the vast riches of the Chicago crime syndicate.

Troika Meets in Cafe Daily, the three gangsters meet in a corner booth in the main dining room of a restaurant near Lawrence and Harlem avenues, a spot far removed from their usual near north side and Loop haunts. Usually, Cerone picks up Ricca at his River Forest home, then swings down the street a few blocks to pick up Accardo. On other days, Accardo pays homage to Cerone's new position by stopping at Cerone's Elmwood Park home after picking up Ricca. Cerone spent nearly 20 years 1 Jackie Cerone man rule in the mob, investigators said. The last man to rule the mob by the strength of his own iron fists was Salvatore Momo rent ra 'tnftnmnr.

thrust for mob leadership lias been parried successfully by two wiser heads, Ricca, 69, and Accardo, 61, whose power reaches into the ranks of the ruling council of the national brotherhood of crime in New York. In a sense, investigators said, Cozy, plush 1 0SCD YOUR ROME ENTERTAINMENT the mob has borrowed a page CENTER from Russian politics. They de scribe Cerone rule as a troika Giancana, a paunchy mobster who fled to Mexico in voluntary exile last year after spending a year in the county jail. Under FBI Scrutiny His successor as operating boss, Sam Teetz Battaglia, went to federal prison last May 29 for 15 years for extortion. His rule was marked by bickering and an obvious reluctance by Battaglia to take a firm grip on the mob's lucrative and multitudinous reins.

Since Battaglia's departure for prison, Ricca and Accardo have spent their days picking up the pieces of a criminal empire that was in a state of flux. But, it was noted, the two RECORDING TAPE Sale Thru Nov. 20, 1967 Fjrwi 2-SPEED DUAL TRACK fc trVUi TAPE RECORDER linings mated with sleek leathers in boots of several heights, plus Golo's beautiful craftsmanship. Knee high in black calf, 32.00 Abovethe-ankle with stacked heel and side zipper in black or brown calf, 20.00 Dress boot with side zipper with Cerone implementing the policies he sets with Ricca and LIMIT 3 PKGS. AH-FHAM RADIOS Styles May Vary Record I pvp! Accardo.

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