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Died. Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, 48, Naples-born, onetime kingpin of Chicago gangdom, longtime U.S. Public Enemy No. 1, for years a mentally incompetent paretic; following a stroke and pneumonia; at his palatial villa near Miami Beach. (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS.)
Al Capone, according to his Miami doctor, was positively not capable of muscling back into Chicago (as rumor had him). In fact, he was not capable of any thing much: paretic Al patted tennis balls into a net, was "probably unaware" of world events. Summarized the doctor brilliantly: "He'...
Al Capone was served with papers in a $119,367 suit against him for unpaid taxes on illegal beer vintages of the '20s. To the marshal who served him at his walled Palm Island, Fla. estate, paretic Al pouted: "This won't make me feel very good."
Out of his golfing, swimming Florida retirement barged paretic Scarface Al Capone, grinning grandly from behind dark cheaters, cheroot and flashy cravat, as he headed for Miami Federal Court to answer questions about a matter of $201,347 in income taxes still unpaid.
Died. Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg, 83, 1927 Nobel Prizewinner who in 1917 inoculated a paretic with the blood of a malaria-poisoned soldier, risking medical censure to establish the fever cure for syphilitic paralysis; after a long illness; in Vienna.