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Married. Hyrum, 73, father of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; to his neighbor, Mrs. Hannah Lyle Chapman, 37; by Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Bishop Edward L. Solomon; in Salt Lake City. Father Dempsey divorced Mrs. Cecelia Dempsey, mother of "Jack," in 1919; married Lottie Dexter Blasingame in 1924, was divorced by her five months later. Said Mother Dempsey to inquiring reporters: "None of the public's business when we were divorced, if we ever were divorced. I don't care what he does. That's his business...
What "Big Bill" & friends were celebrating was his fourth Republican nomination to be Chicago's Mayor. Throughout the city, election boards were adding up primary ballots which would show that he had beaten Judge John Homer Lyle by some 67,000 votes...
...Republican campaign between Mayor Thompson and Judge Lyle had been rough and raucous, bombastic and brutal. Yet in the election itself there were no shootings, no sluggings, no kidnappings, no ballot-stealing, only a few bloody noses. Against the Mayor had been arrayed the Tribune, the News, the Snow-Harding organization, the Deneen forces. That he had won the nomination even by a minority vote was due chiefly to the good work of his payroll machine, the Negro vote, the solid support of the "gang wards." Two also-ran Republican candidates took enough anti-Thompson votes away from Judge Lyle...
...Judge Lyle, chastened, went back to his bench. Gangster Capone, happy, went into Federal Court to answer contempt charges (see p. 12). Mayor Thompson, exhausted, went to a Michigan sanatorium to build up strength for the campaign against Nominee Cermak which ends with the election April...
Back to Chicago went Citizen Capone by swift and stealthy air jumps. He arrived in time for this week's bitter mayoral primary election in which he and his activities had become a hot campaign issue between Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and Judge John Homer Lyle, candidates for the Republican nomination. Ducking out of sight into his underworld, he supervised his "political interests" while in the upperworld sheriffs were deputized, American Legionaries recruited to preserve order. Judge Lyle challenged the police to serve his vagrancy warrant on Capone as the city's No. 1 Public Enemy...