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Onetime home port for Scarface Al Capone's mob, Cicero, Ill. has become a U. S. household synonym for murder and vice. There fell Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin under gangland bullets. Frank Capone, Al's brother, died violently there. Musicomedienne Rosetta Duncan had her nose smashed there. Last week Cicero turned over a new political leaf...
...election for village president, State Senator Richey Graham, son-in-law of Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago, saw an opportunity to break the Republicans' 16-year grip on Cicero. Mayor Cermak sent 230 policemen from Chicago to Cicero on election day to see that the voting took place without irregularities. Fifty Republican partisans were arrested the night before the balloting. Also arrested was Editor Lewis Cowen of the Cicero Tribune. He promptly sued the Chicago chief of detectives...
Wrhen the votes were counted Cicero, with Scarface Al in jail, had gone Democratic. Elected as chief executive of the village (population: 66,602) was Joseph George Cerny, 36, strapping Wartime engineer, job printer, electrical worker. Most of Cicero's home-loving Bohemians work in Western Electric Co.'s nearby Hawthorne plant...
...Blue Valley Farmer, with a claimed circulation of 80.000 and no free list, is owned by Oklahoma's Governor William Henry Murray, his wife Alice, his cousin Cicero. In answer to the widespread charge that Murraymen capitalize on it; owners' official position to solicit advertising and subscriptions, Governor Murray has announced that he would dismiss any employe so doing. Many a Blue Valley Farmer advertiser reports satisfaction with results...
...Citadel. Last Autumn the General had made known that his school was running a deficit. This, he had told the Ways & Means Committee good-naturedly, was an "embarrassing novelty" to him since "in the Army we had no such thing as a deficit." Up rose Senator Wiley Cicero Hamrick of Cherokee County last week to inquire...