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...dashing half-caste officer who is a friend of her husband and in love with her. Enraged by the major, the half-caste strikes him, thereby making himself eligible for the death penalty-under military law. During a thunderstorm just prior to this occurrence the swart lieutenant had announced ominously: "The gods are angry tonight; they demand a sacrifice. . . . My native blood is strong within me?something is threatening." From the standpoint of audience-intelligence, the play is neatly titled...
When he was alive, swart Gangster Jack Zuta told suspicious Chicago police nothing enlightening about the Lingle murder (TIME, June 23, et seq.). But Jack Zuta dead on a Wisconsin dance floor (TIME, Aug. 11) became an eloquent police informant on many subjects. He left careful records of his business transactions in numerous safe-deposit boxes at various banks. Four of these boxes were unearthed during the past fortnight by Special (Lingle-case) Investigator Pat Roche of the State Attorney's office. Puzzled were police and investigators at finding little Zuta money other than...
...Swart Jack Zuta, business manager of Chicago's North Side (anti-Capone) crime gang was suspected by police of having planned the murder of Capone's friend, Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle of the Chicago Tribune (TIME, June 23). He narrowly escaped death last month when foes opened fire on an automobile of which he was an occupant in South State Street. Last week swart Jack Zuta strolled across the dance floor of a roadhouse at Delafield, Wis. He had just telephoned a girl in Chicago. He had a dime in his hand which he dropped into the mechanical...
Just then eight men filed in, lined up, produced a submachine gun, an automatic pistol and two "belly guns" (sawed off shotguns). They blew all the life out of swart Jack Zuta...
Forty miles away in Cicero, Ill. that evening, swart Alfonse ("Scarface") Capone and 100 friends staged a homecoming party for Capone, who had arrived that day by plane from Florida...