A shooting war that was waged fitfully among South, Brooklyn mob members come to an end, according to throughout the summer has taw enforcement officials in Federal, state and city agencies.

Although the shootings claimed the life of only one man, they wounded seven othens and caused at least 22 defactions from the Gallo gang, a rebellious faction of the crime “family” of Joseph A. Colombo Sr.

The fighting so curtailed the movements of the Gallo loyalfists that at one point they had to depend on hot‐dogs for food and fell into debt to a local hot‐dog dealer, according to a plainclothesman in the 76th Precinct.

“The reason for the sit‐down [truce] is that nobody could move,” said a detective from the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, “and the name of
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The Gallo mob, whose rival factions were carrying on the war, is said to maintain numhers banks and illegal bookmaking operations in Brooklyn.

Authorities said they believed the peace negotiations began last Aug. 26, when two detectives from the Brooklyn District Attorney's office saw a leader from the Joseph Colombo Mafia family enter the Gallo mob's clubhouse at 74 President Street for a conference with Albert Gallo, youngest of the three Gallo brothers and the last of them ???

But it was not until mid‐October, when gangsters who had been in hiding reappeared on South Brooklyn streets, that the police felt certain a peace had been worked out.

A few days after the atmosphere on the streets changed, the police of the 76th Precinct began hearing from informants that some kind of formal truce had been arranged at a leaders' meeting held Oct. 14 or 16.

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It was Joseph Schipani, a re‐puted “soldier” of some standing in the Colombo family, who was observed going into the Gallo clubhouse in August to talk with Albert Gallo. His efforts had been aimed at negotiating a peace between Mr. Gallo and John Cutrone, leader of the breakaway faction, lawenforcement officials said they had concluded.
Investigators In the District Attorney's office said that Mr. Schipani had been seen attend ing weekly meetings with other leaders of the private carting industry in Brooklyn at the Granada Hotel on Lafayette Avenue for several months before the indictments were handed up. Also attending the meetings, according to the investigators, was Joseph Dantuano, who was reputed to be Albert Gallo's money man.

“When it comes to money, the mob will sit down and deal,” said an Investigator in the rackets bureau of the District Attorney's office. He implied that Colombo and Gallo men had been able to work with each other for mutual benefit and profit in the carting industry.

Early in the summer, law enforcement officials were saying that the mob war involved a dispute between the Gallos and Colombos. But yesterday they said they had concluded that the dispute involved only two factions of the Gallo mob, one of which had the backing of the Colombo family and other Mafia family leaders.

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The breakaway Gallo faction, led by John Cutrone, who is re putedly the only fully inducted —or as mobsters phrase it, “made”—member of the Mafia lin the Gallo family, has grown to include at least 22 men, most of them middle ‐ aged. This group is said to have had outside backing.

The loyal faction, still cautiously based in the 74 President Street clubhouse, is thought to have about 15 members left, a number of them in their 20's, the police said.

The shootings began last July. 1, when Mr. Cutrone, Gennaro Basciano and Sam Zahralban were fired at by someone with a shotgun outside the Henryville Social. Cub, in the Fort Hamilton section. Mr. Cutrone was not hit, but the other two men were hit in the feet.

On July, 7, James Giliberti. another member of the breakaway faction, was wounded outside his home at 1185 Prospect Avenue. About a month later Steve Cirillo, a member of the loyal Gallo group, was killed by a shot in the hack of the head during a “Las Vegas Night” at the B'nai Israel synagogue.
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In August and early in Sep Lember, four more loyal Gallo men were shot, none fatally.

According to Robert McDevitt, an anticrime plainclothes man from the 76th Precinct station in Red Hook, the loyalists were so badly pinned down to their headquarters at one point during, the summer that they were feeding themselves on credit on hot‐dogs from a vender who worked on the corner where the two men were shot.

“They ran up a bill of $50 or $60, and he had to go to them to ask for the money,” Officer McDevitt said.