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Died. Joseph ("Big Joe") Saltis, 62, onetime Chicago beer baron in competition with Al Capone, a way of life that earned him barrels of freely-spent money and two bullets in the neck; of a liver ailment; in the charity ward of a Chicago hospital.
The lineups: BROWN '41 HARVARD '41 Ochiello, l.e. r.e., Koufman Saltis, l.t. r.t., Elser Lubin, l.g. r.g., Lowry Tracy, c. c., Townsend MacEwan, r.g. l.g., Lacey Faylor, r.t. l.t., Tibbetts Marsolini, r.e. l.e., Lovett Duesing, q.b. q.b., James Sheehan, l.h.b. r.h.b., Donahue Detweiler, r.h.b. l.h.b., Gardella Stepczyk, f.b. f.b., Budlong
8Reputed best shot: Joe Saltis (beer).
Many of the old Capone friends and enemies would be absent when "The Big Fellow" returned to town. He might have seen them had he been released from jail a week earlier, for they were on hand (by special permission of the police) for gangland's latest, grandest funeral, that...
Chicago's criminals continued flourishing last week, such criminals as whoever it was that haled Footballer John C. Acher of Northwestern University out of his automobile on Michigan Avenue one night and pumped two slugs into him for scraping a fender as he drove past; and hardbitten Joe Saltis...