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...defeating his opponent, a plodding, slight little Bohemian named Joseph Z. Klenha, President-elect Cerny's platform was: "Undesirables must go! Jail for the gangsters and payrolls for public employes!" Elected, he declared: "Most of the citizens are of foreign extraction. They are home-loving people and ask only for peace and good government. They'll get it." They will also still be able to get their beer at Cicero's 175 dispensaries...
...nerves of their workers. Two vice presidents of a corporation were despatched to Washington to appeal to the Federal Government. Secret Service agents returned to wander around Cicero's grimy nooks. Suddenly, last week, a Federal grand jury indicted "Scarface Al" Caponi and his brother Ralph; Joseph Z. Klenha, president of the town of Cicero; Ted L. Svoboda, chief of police, and 75 others, for con-spiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Federal agents say they have evidence that the gangsters profited $15,000,000 by their liquor business in three years...
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