Word: gangland
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...beginning of last week there were three live leaders of Chicago gangland -Big Shots, in gangster parlance. They were Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, whose dominion reaches out from the South Side of the city, and his two long standing enemies, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and George ("Bugs") Moran, both of the North Side. For weeks all three had kept public and police (who sought them on vagrancy charges) guessing as to their whereabouts. Suddenly two of them appeared, very much in the public...
Last week portions of two hemispheres were stirred by rumors of a big U. S. gangland war. Prospective war zone: the operative territory of famed Racketeer Jack ("Legs") Diamond. This territory begins in Brooklyn, N. Y., where henchmen of Diamond and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins are blamed for periodic battles with gangs reputed to be led by Angelo ("Little Augie") Pisano, heir to the eminence of the late Frankie Yale (TIME, July 9, 1928). Far out on the westward highways, however, speed Diamond's trucks, delivering beer to roadhouse customers. The leader has many activities, was arrested and released...
...Klein babbled about Fred Witcher, who lived nearby. In Witcher's apartment, the detectives encountered James Dalton, Diamond's chauffeur, come to take Mrs. Witcher to visit in Acra. The visit was postponed .and all present were arrested, because under a Witcher bed was discovered a terrifying gangland armory, including bullet-proof vests, "pineapple" hand-grenades, tear gas bombs, revolver ammunition, several calibres of "fountain-pen" pistols, dynamite...
...Chicago Press Club ''stood ready" to post $10,000 more. By the end of the week there was $55,725 on the killer's head. The newspapers reprinted each other's editorials proclaiming that the shot which killed Reporter Lingle must end forever gangland's power in Chicago...
...even if men were killed (and some were killed). Greatest general of those circulation wars was Max Annenberg, first for Hearst, then for the Tribune (he is now Liberty's circulation generalissimo-TIME, July 29). Many a name then or later famed in Chicago's gangland appeared on the payrolls of the newspapers-Gus Altman, Boston Tommy, the Delehanty brothers. Great wonder it would have been if such under-worldlings had not learned from their smart newspaper employers a lot about organized violence and contempt...