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Show GANG LEADERS ARE SHOT DOWN CHICAGO, Oct. 10 U'.IU A ruthless ruth-less gang czar, .believed to have ordered the slaying of two of his lieutenants he suspected of biving information to federal officers, fought desperately today to thwart the government war against crime. The deaths of Gus Winkler and Edgar Lcbonibarger. known for their gang connections, were order ed, federal officers UMieve, because of fear they might reveal the wide ramifications of a gigantic crime ring. Winkler was killed yesterday by assassins who fired 72 shotgun slugs into his back a few hours before he was to have been questioned again concerning the $250,000 Chicago Chi-cago mail robbery last December. Lebnnsberger was found shot to death in his palatial North shore home last Friday. |