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...news was that Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone had organized the city's saloons into such a perfect chain that he was selling them not only their liquor supplies but everything down to ginger ale and table linen. So Chicagoans were not excited last week when Mayor Anton J. Cermak abruptly ousted Commissioner John Alcock and appointed in his place Captain James P. ("Iron Man" ) Allman. Mayor Cermak called his City Council into special session to whip through the appointment, had the new commissioner sworn in immediately, ordered him to crusade at once against organized crime. The new commissioner laconically remarked...
...Chicagoans were blase about Mayor Cermak's crime drive they at least felt sure they had an honest man at the head of the city's 6,500 policemen. Oldtime newshawks used to say: "If there's an honest cop in this town, it's Allman." Tall, lean, grey, he is 56, has been a policeman 31 years, a captain since 1917. He is called "Iron Man" because of a legend that he never smiles, is an excellent marksman with his pistol. A student of criminology, he is brainier than most policemen. No less honest...
...evicted a colored woman from her flat. Instantly a crowd estimated at 3.000 gathered in the street. Evidently led by Communist agitators, shouting 'Tut that furniture back!" and "We want something to eat!" they rushed the constables. Casualties: three Negroes killed, 20 Negroes and whites injured. Mayor Anton Cermak ordered further evictions to cease. ¶Near Pointe-a-la-Hache, La., occurred Lynching No. 4 for the year. The victim, Oscar Livingston, 23, had been jailed on a charge of attempted rape of a young white woman. Eight days after his incarceration a band of masked white men broke...
Nonetheless, since a big fight is always a social event of sorts, trains, planes, and autos were crowded going into Cleveland last week. A yacht brought Wisconsin's dapper young Senator La Follette; a plane brought Edsel Ford; trains brought Chicago's Mayor Cermak, onetime Heavyweight Champions James J.Corbett (1892-97), James J. Jeffries (1899-1905), James Joseph Tunney (1926-28). Bobby Jones, who had been at Toledo to watch the Open golf championship (see p. 24), came over for the weekend. But trains and autos failed to bring the expected big crowds of noncelebrities...
...found encouragement in the fact that if all the resources of all Chicago banks were placed in $20 gold pieces they would fill a 30-foot street for 3½ miles, that if they were placed in solid silver they would pave a road to Milwaukee. Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak (whose city last week was $5,000,000 in salary arrears) rushed to Lawndale State Bank to assure depositors that their bank was sound. When a run started on Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (in Englewood on the South side), Melvin Alvah Traylor of First National Bank said his institution...