Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29

ne0lIallOn. L nat N a ply from
the social standpoint He was a
high roller when he had il and
generous to a criminal extent
until the law chopped him
down for stealing from his local
of the laborers' union on the
Aqueduct job at Newburgh,
n. Y.
WHEN brother Nuzzo took
w off for Florida and Cuba.
eclat was something that he had
nothing else but He took along
not only his love interest whom
D he sprinkled all over with inn
ported and strictly high class
perfume and draped in silver
fox, but also his bodyguard. one
Andy Wallace. punchy ex-
fighter from the Frank Hague
and Joe Fay country on tho
Jersey side.
Eventually, his love interest
told all in court and brother
Wallace. at last reports, had
found the heat too oppressiveS
around Newburgh and was
active on a big army job at
Orangeburg. n. Y.
When on kis trial, brother
Nuzzo insisted that brother
Wallace was not his own phe-
nomenon and said the punchy
one had been dropped in on him
by brother James Bove. one OF
the international vice pEesi-
dents. TO keep watch over coll
lection and distribution.
CERTAINLY Punehy Wallace
" was not there by Nuzzo's
invitation. for brother Sam had
never heard OF him until brother
BoVe gave him the precious
jurisdiction over the west shore
of the Hudson. and moreover.
Wallace was so expensive that
his presence became a burden.
Although he was supposed TO
be brother Nuzzo's bodyguard he
required six OF eight gorillas
himself for protection from his
foes when he took 10 the road
on union business and even so
was slit at a formal banquet for
one OF the higher dignitaries
Of brother Will Green's cabinet
and required n vacation and a
gift of $500 10 recuperate in that
beautiful Miami at $50 a day
per gorilla plus expenses.
The services OF brother Wal
lace and his guards became n
luxury that kept the kitty wan
and puny.
DROTHER BOVE, of course.
- was in no way embarrassed
by the testimony and he was one
Of the mob. in fact the traffic
manager Of the mob. which
showed off south in three Pull
man carloads on January 10 to
legislate and cerebrate for labor(
He is an international man WILLY
Nuzzo was local man. There
is class distinction between the
two comparable 10 that between
a state senator and a member
OF the august Senate OF the
United States of America. -
No orthodox AFT official
would think of taking a locals
word against an international
man and if brother Bove cares
10 say he never saw or heard OF
Punchy Wallace his colleagues
in the hierarchy will take his
word. A skeptical district at
torney might want a little more
convincing. In fact he does.
A Ii happy days that eventu-
"A ally come 10 dusk and high
noon came that week in 1888
when Georgia Scalise. OF the
building service racket, ran a
party for his mob from Miami
to Havana and back by clipper
There were present among his
guests little Augie Carfano, alias
Pisano, a New York gunman,
Charlie Faschetti OF Chicago, a
cousin OF the illustrious Capone
boys, and brother Tom Burke, a
vice president for Georgia and
president of the Chicago The
atrical Business and Amusement
Building Janitors Union.
It included a lot of elevator
operators employed in public
buildings in Chicago and sub
ject to persuasion from the Chi
cago chapter of the party OF
humanity.
The boys came back laden with
souvenirs and hangovers seven
layers deep. But the sun was
well over the yardarm for