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...Business Transaction." The meaning of these unsolved homicides had begun to sink in last week when Chicago had its first bigtime kidnapping since the days of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy. One Jack Guzik, a sawed-off gangster known in Chicago journalese as the "business manager" of the Syndicate, disappeared. On the day of his disappearance he was wearing a double-breasted suit of the sharpest cut and the newest hue-Australian kangaroo blue-a red tie, striped shirt, a Chesterfield overcoat...
...Chicago Tribune, its conscience recently aroused, has been virtuously bugling the gambling evil for the past month, has "exposed" a group of characters known as the Guzik-Nitti gang, amid waves of public apathy. Last week the routine rigmarole was repeated. Out of a grand jury gambling investigation came tall, wavy-haired Mayor Ed Kelly. The look on his face was familiar to all connoisseurs of "B" movies-the Leading Rancher as he pounds the table and says: "Boys, Rustling Must Stop...
...Jack Guzik, Capone gang treasurer, was sentenced to five years imprisonment, a $17,500 fine, for federal income tax evasion in Chicago last week...
...defense was simple. Mr. Guzik, it argued, was not a "vagrant." He was a gambler. Do not Vice President Curtis and Governor Emmerson both attend race meetings? May it not be presumed that they make wagers at the race tracks? Did not Gambler Guzik own a fine home not a block away from State's Attorney Swanson's? Why, so far from being a reprehensible "vagrant," Mr. Guzik was a "credit" to the community. After brief deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. "That's fine!" cried Mr. Guzik. "I knew you gentlemen would...
...back taxes plus a $10,000 fine (about 2% per annum on the tax money which he has enjoyed for three years). He will also serve 18 months in jail (where he will be temporarily safe from sudden death). Already convicted on similar tax charges are Jack Guzik and Ralph Capone, Al's brother (TIME, May 5). They will probably appeal their cases. Chicago understood that Gangster Nitti was accepting this "rap," instead of fleeing the country as he easily might have done, at the express wish of Alphonse Capone, who felt that public opinion needed a little assuaging...