In New York

There was only one noteworthy murder in Chicago last week. Albert B. Courchene, longtime city plumbing inspector, was shot down by machine gunners as he stood on the sidewalk directing two plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: P:Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago's Unione Siciliano. Gangster Marco was shot seven times, his head hacked with a meat cleaver. His wife Yvonne, once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone of Gangster Marco's demise. P:Three armed robbers entered a 5th Avenue jeweler's office, took $8,000 worth of diamonds, then, frightened, fled precipitately. An alarm brought 100 policemen and detectives to surround the building. Two of the thieves were apprehended. One was Roy H. Sloane, onetime boy prodigy of Carnegie School of Technology and Columbia University, who was sentenced five years ago to serve ten years in Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane studied law in prison, argued his way out, has been at liberty nine weeks. P: In a small East Side hotel, Al Wagner, minor racketeer and dope peddler, was executed. Earlier in the day his brother Abe, head of an alcohol ring, had been fired upon.

P: John ("Aces") Mazza, 20, petty gangster, was murdered in front of an eastside Manhattan cafeteria. In his pocket was found a printed invocation: St. Joseph, Patron Of A Happy Death, Protect Me. P:The body of John Franzione, who with four companions killed a detective last July and later squealed on them, was found on a Bronx refuse heap. P:Two detectives followed two gunmen into a saloon on Lexington Avenue. The gunmen held the place up, shot it out with the detectives. Fatalities: Gunman Albert Checchia and Detective Christopher W. Shueing, whose father received the Congressional Medal of Honor for rescue work when the Steamer General Slocum burned in the East River in 1904 with the loss of 1,021 lives.

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