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...brothel keeper, which started his police record with a $50 fine. In 1923 Colosimo was murdered. Torrio took command of the liquor and vice gang, Capone becoming his No. 1 assistant. Fierce was the hostility between the South Side gang under Torrio and the North Side gang under Dion O'Banion. In 1924 O'Banion was shot down in his florist shop. A few months later Torrio was mangled with slugs, fled to Europe. It was then that Capone took charge, pushed his program of expansion; and then that "Bugs" Moran, supposed successor to O'Banion, became his bitterest gangland...
Last week at Corinto, Nicaragua, Rear-Admiral Edward Hale Campbell, commander of the Special Service Squadron, debarked from his flagship, the U, S. S. Rochester to make a periodical inspection of U. S. forces in Nicaragua. He was met by Brigadier-General Dion Williams who commands 1,600 U. S. Marines still scattered over the little republic. Last week President Hoover informed Congress: "We are anxious to withdraw these forces as the situation warrants...
...Died. Dion Boucicault, 70, of Hurley, Buckinghamshire, England, actor, producer; at Hurley...
...Bugs" Moran, the proprietor of the garage, was not among the dead. He was spending St. Valentine's Day in Detroit. Moran inherited the North Side mob from "Schemer" Drucci, who inherited it from "Hymie" Weiss, who inherited it from the late great Dion O'Bannion. The perforated bodies were those of Moran's brother-in-law and co-leader, James Clark; No. 1 Gunman Peter Gusenberg, Con-Man John Snyder, Gorilla Al Weinshank, John May, the man in overalls, and Reinhart Schwimmer. Frank Gusenberg, Pete's "Kid" brother, carrying 20 bullets, lived for three hours...
...summary follows: HARVARD 1931 ST. JOHN'S Johnson, r. f. l. g., Harigan Dutton, Farrell, l. f. r. g., Capozzi, Deverice Mcshady, Rule, c. c., Driscoll, Beattie Foshay, r. g. l. f., Dion, Szeszjowski Rex, Berkley, l. g. r. f., Machler...