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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Grand Jury indictment evidence from a 500,000-page "encyclopedia of crime" compiled by the F. B. I. over the past two years. Some illuminating chapters in this opus were supplied by porky, paretic "Scarface Al" Capone, who gets out of the Federal Correctional Institution on Terminal Island (Los Angeles) next November. Mr. Cahill's tactics, under orders from Mr. Murphy, were to go after all relatives, friends and business acquaintances, past & present, of Lepke, the Leopard, to make the U. S. too hot to harbor him. Against the high-geared Federal machinery, Tom Dewey pitted gangland...
...Los Angeles Superior Court last May, a union counsel asked Bioff if the producer was Joe Schenck. "I don't remember," Bioff said...
...time, NBC has okayed only one network recording (the Hindenburg disaster). Last week, however, NBC stepped bravely out. Henceforth Canada Dry's Information Please, staged in Manhattan's Radio City on Tuesdays between 8:30 and 9 p. m. Eastern Daylight Time, will be recorded by Los Angeles' KECA instead of being immediately broadcast when it reaches the West coast at 4:30 Pacific Standard Time. The recording will then be transmitted over a "platter" network of seven NBC-Blue Coast stations at 8:30 p. m., Pacific Time, when most of the potential West Coast Canada...
Died. Daisy Green (real name Mrs. Marie MacGillivray), 57, one of the original six Florodora Girls of 1900; after an 18-months illness, in Los Angeles. Sang the Sextet in ruffled petticoats with parasols...
Tony Stralla said the Rex alone cost him $600,000. Mayor Fletcher Bowron (whose closing of Los Angeles gambling nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...