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...there was small chance of Capone's getting all of the Federal punishment coming to him. Snorkey's attorneys believed that by saving the Government the trouble of a trial they may get their client off with a sentence of three years for both offenses. Still pending is a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9). Capone, now aged 33, hopes that when he leaves prison he will still be a young man, that times will be better, that he can profitably resume business...
Last week the third Federal lash was laid across the porcine back of Chicago's Alphonse Capone. In addition to the six-month sentence he received (and has appealed) for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9), and the indictment for income tax evasion for which he may receive 32 years in prison and a fine of $80.000 (TIME, June 15), he and 68 henchmen were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to violate the national Prohibition laws. The true bill did not mention the various Capone sidelines such as gambling, bordellos, whiskey peddling, specified only the "manufacture...
Last week the relentless forces of the Federal Government were closer than ever before to an inevitable show-down with Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone. Out on appeal from a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9), Capone was arrested for Federal income tax evasion, released on $50,000 bond...
Alicia Patterson, enterprising daughter of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune, returned from a six-month flying tour and big-game hunting junket in the Far East. She was proud to have killed a sladang, fierce Indo-Chinese water buffalo...
...takes a six-week residence in Reno to become a divorcée. It takes a six-month residence to become a voter. Last week while "newcomers" were busy in court getting separated from their spouses, Reno's "oldtimers" went to the polls, re-elected Edwin Ewing Roberts, 61, as their Mayor for a third four-year term. Father-in-law of famed Baseballer Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, and once (1910-19) a Republican Congressman, Mayor Roberts won 3,773 votes by his loud espousal of easy divorce, legalized gambling and free barrels of whiskey. For Howard Doyle...