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President Hoover, his voice half muffled in anonymity, gave newsmen at the White House a "background talk" fortnight ago on the Federal Government's plans for a great drive on underworldlings. He mentioned by name Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, No. 1 gangster of the U. S., as the type of criminal the U. S. was trying to "reach." He cited the fact that Capone's brother Ralph was already caught in the net of the income tax law in Chicago. Last week's Capone developments...
...Chicago, Earl Holmes prepared to marry Anne Larsen, sweetheart of Frank Fabarula, gangster. Fabarula, with two cronies, one a twice imprisoned policeman, kidnaped Holmes, tried to hang him to a tree. Three law-abiding policemen stopped them...
...State of Florida last week was acutely conscious of the presence of its most notorious resident, Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone of Chicago, No. 1 gangster of the U. S. Capone had gone to his Palm Island estate at Miami to "rest" (TIME, April 28). Instead, he spent most of his time running back and forth between State and Federal courts to keep himself from being ejected from his home and from Florida...
Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, No. 1 gangster of the U. S. (TIME, March 24), last week entered Florida by train from Chicago, journeyed on to Miami where he took up his residence at his Palm Island estate. Many a good Miamian was dismayed. The Miami Daily News, in front-page editorials by Editor-Owner James M. Cox, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee, had been vigorously campaigning against Capone as a menace to the community's good name. Brother Albert Capone had been arrested for vagrancy. State authorities, however, could not touch Brother Alphonse because, smart, he had secured a Federal injunction...
Capone left Chicago just before a lone gangster in his south side district shot to death-three rival gunsters in a-saloon. Capone also left these rumors behind him: 1). His gang and that of George ("Bugs") Moran, his enemy, had merged for friendly and efficient operation of their common rackets; 2) He had gone into the political patronage racket at City Hall in a big way; 3) He had extended his "protective influence" to the building trades and plumbing unions. Newsmen at police headquarters were advised to "lay off Al," on the theory that so much publicity on Capone...