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...year-old lawyer, named Frank J.Loesch, has set out to clean up the crime capital of the U. S. beginning at the top with Chief of Police Michael Hughes. In the old days it was a mark of distinction to be seen at gangster funerals, but during the Loesch prosecutions, probably not even U. S. Senator Deneen of Illinois would care to be seen near the bier of a "racketeer."* Behind the Murphy bier, instead of the United Press's "mile long cortege," were just 20 automobiles, no crowd, no color...
...Pineapples" are convenient, effective and easy to obtain in Chicago, where bomb-making has almost the status of an industry. "Our people are being terrorized," said President Frank Joseph Loesch of the Chicago Crime Commission last week. Police Chief Hughes could only say, "I'm helpless. . . . If I had 3,000 more policemen we could stop those bombers...