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...would rejoice most should Gangster Capone get 32 years is U. S. District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson. So far Attorney Johnson has prosecuted eight Chicago racketeers on tax evasion charges, has convicted all of them. Among them are Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, who has appealed his three-year sentence; Sam Guzick, another Capone-man, who started serving his year-and-a-day last week; Frank Nitti, Capone treasurer, who is locked in Leavenworth doing 18 months...
...daily press cannot fail to impress upon the average citizen that his country, a world leader in so many lines of endeavor, must at the same time own to preeminence in the rougher arts of hijacking, racketeering, municipal corruption, and homicide. Headlines keep us in touch with a gangster here entering a hospital to recuperate after a brush with a few other thugs, or with another resisting with lead the intrusion of some scores of New York police into his apartment. And the past year has seen an unusually large number of struggles, like those at Dannemora and Auburn, between...
...note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting at a richly carved desk, presses a pushbutton; Capone's "daughter" stepping into her armored limousine big as a moving van. A similar...
...accomplished in the moderne environment and respectably blase manner which have been mastered by Hollywood producers so recently. The Good Bad Girl (Columbia). The penalties of an antisocial career are here set forth in the case of a well-intentioned country girl (Mae Clarke) who becomes friendly with a gangster, later marries an honest youth of impeccable connections. The scandal of her past associations forces her back into disreputable surroundings but she is last seen reunited with her husband. Marie Prevost, now grown from a svelte ingenue into a buxom comedienne, gives a gay impersonation of a gun-moll...
That Scarface Al Capone was "rubbed out" by gangsters two years ago; that his halfbrother, Giacomo Calabrese, was then scarred by a plastic surgeon to resemble the dead chieftain and that Calabrese has since impersonated Capone as a figurehead for Gangster Johnny Torrio who really rules the underworld; that it was Calabrese who was arrested and jailed in Philadelphia in 1929; that not more than five gangsters were aware of the real Capone's death and the subsequent impersonation...