Vindicator file photo

Vindicator file photo
SIGN OF THINGS TO COME: Youngstown Police Chief Paul Cress questioned whether a powerful bomb that heavily damaged a home being constructed for racketeer S. Joseph "Sandy" Naples on Carlotta Drive in Youngstown on March 16, 1957, was aimed at Naples or at the contractor building the home. Time would make it clear that Naples was a target. He would die in a hail of gunfire four years later. Other mobsters would be shot, blown up in their cars or disappear in a war for mob control of the area that stretched from the '50s into the '60s, bringing the area tons of unfavorable national publicity.