THE CHINA - MAIL, ` SATURDAY, AUGUST
1956.
ZANIES
C
MUCHON
"He's started reading pocket edistons i "
'I bet you say that to all
the girls."
~~this one's for false
alarms!"
AL CAPONE
The Big Fellow
THIS STUE
"Is it my move, Alice 1**
A ST VALENTINE'S
DAY
com-
MASSACRE
By BILL McGOWRAN
remark
03
1215
HICAGO'S brutal fatroduced the technique of the Muminating
machine-gun, the one-way ride tapped telephone. Two police and bloody gang and the armoured car, busines mes had demanded $300 wars are already no methods which quickly elimin- to prirase a captured truck-loact obelinaur more than a legeml. ated his more
of beer.
When was told this over Yet only a quarter of a cen- petitors and brought round the
less resolute to the Capone point the phone O'Banion replied: "To tury has gone by since the of view.
hell with Die Kuys. I con gal and the tommy-gun, In 1920 District
off Attorney bump 'em
for half that wielded by The Public Edwin A. Olson announced that much. Which suggests that the Enemies
and their Capone was operating on a gross life of a policeman was worth
bags of $70,000,000 20
ne more than $75. hl-jackers, established 11
in illelt liquor alone. On reign of terror in the Windy side he was making huge profits his gambling and highly City without parallel in the from
organised vice enterpriseq, history of crime.
100 Murders for the bootlegger, and the booze racket soon becimo very Big
'On his way up Capone The struggle
was illicit responsible for at least a hun of the
murdere produced
the dred
many of them millionaire gangsters, the Big committed with his own handl.
thu like
only
Prohibition opened
Business Indeed.
for the control drink
Shots
trudo
Then
way
Dion ike Hymie Wass, Schemer Drucci, Bugs Morna and must terrible
ot th: whole crev Alphonse Capone, the hoodlum with the adding-maching brain of a major executive.
OPAL Johant Torrio, Spike
Undisputed King
of
the
the
But
conviction authorities could
Din
on the Big Fellow
at was for evasion income-tax and he died in bed a free man at his 25-room villa near Miami in 1947.
betere
Mest of the elite corps of the gangster armies were hard-eyed Italians and Sicilians
with
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hokes
Line
Up
A
WAS
"BUGS" MORAN
Arrived too late,
Only Frank howling. Gusenberg was sill alive when Before he the police arrived, died in hospital he managed to say "Coppers done it."
Tht skyers were never trucaŤ. A large section of public opinion beloved for a time that they really were policemen, Frederick D, Silloway, administrator of the
force Federal prohibition
viers.
AND MADE TO MEASURE
By Gerald Allen
•OU need a new "A dark sult," he repeated.
"Y
my
suit, dear," Molly Apparently overcome by
rather original request, he stood andd kindly.
for a moment lost in thought. "Have to go on needing Then, collecting himself, ha
nodded, his head as it approvin one, I'm afraid.”
hy-suggestion, '
"Nonsense! You can't go about looking like a tramp, Why don't you order one this week-end?"
1
I cave A smoothly cynical
smile,
"Brepoke, of course," "Yes, in- deed. I fancy we have something that will interest you. Davies,"
MA
A younger spider materialised, clutching some rolls of cloth. his superior gazed at
with delight.
"A beautiful cloth-
hlight
but "There's just one tiny point you've overlooked My last gull durable. Or perhaps something He lowered cost twenty-five guineas, and, at with a pinstripe? the moment, I happen to be la voleo to a confidential note. "Wonderful value, sir," he mur- mured. "Feel that cloth."
broke."
"You deserve to be broke it I felt it, trying to give the I know tho between a difference
three-ply worsted and sailcloth.
you pay such fantastic prices for impression that your clothes. That tailor is crook," Molly said hotly.
"I've seen him in it" I cackled, "and she's dead right. You can't tell whether he's coming towards you or walking away.
3 Well please yourself,"
said
shutting a drawer with o
he shook
to
hig
"That's probably what he's beon calling me. I only Anished paying for the sult last Christ- mas, and I've had it nearly two
"How much would these be?" years," I countered mildly,
"You can get a nice sult at I asked, pointing to two rolla, Wobb's in the High Street for and was immediately conscious only eight pounds. Mra Hackett's of a breach of good taste. Sordid husband bought n sult there, mutters like money seemed and she says he's never had one distress the chlet spider, because he winced. But with impeccable like it" callers had learned what (n's Day, February 14. 1929, The
good maratrs, he pretended not to be horrified at my crudity. when six" of the North Side they wanted to know. Their
"That
make up would
at gong were lined up againsi
victims were on the spot.
twenty-three quinens, şir, and gorge wall in broad daylight by A few minutes later a youth
this at eighteen." វគ gangsters disguised as joltering the alley behind the policemen and slaughtered with graze saw a big Cadillac drive
My heart sank. "It's rather more than i hodi inuchine-guns. In reporting this up to the rear entrance. It
But don't in slam, "Go about looking like a
mind a locul newspaper began
like a pollco-squad our with inoked
rogbog, if you like.
The chief spider sighed. I had foxtriny nad contained three men, two of
think I'm coming out with you." these words: "Chicago
ho Was deeply Of course, Molly was right- the fealing Mierder to them in
carried uniform. They graduated Trata Masacre."
what seemed to be large flat
as usual. I did need a new out- wounded.
e few guitings "We do have In On the following Saturday Wronged in bewapap Chicago, was quoted as saying itsmosa, as I was walking down at lower Agure, Excellent Aller ils previous lenders. Thinking it was a polles raid
O'Banion, Bid Scheme bruce her youth round to the front "The murderers were not gang-the High Street, I had a furtive value, of course, but compared
It is my theory that the look in Webb's window. There with these..." entrance to see the fun, just as romantic names--Louie ("Threadership of the North Side
faborately rubbed out, the st
another car containing four more
Moren
gang threatened to ex-wasn't anything at eight pounds. head sadly.
the Perhaps Hackelt had acquired
1 demanded to I was firm. Alterie, Samoots
uniform,
the policemen and in collee men, vo
pose
suits that the oil the eight-pound
see the cheaper materials. I let Tuna, Bloody Angelo Genna and gang
prevent That was all he aw (Capone's most powerful drove up.
massacre was to
going, or, more likely, the spider see that I was boss. his brother Tough Mike Genna ar
and dangerous rivals) was taken before the chauffeur ordered him exposure." He afterwards said were
Molly had let her imagination The younger spider scuttled of that he had been misquoted. over by George "Bugs" Moran. to clear off. (whose dying act was to kick an
the
The St Valentine's Day tnassBORC
Another theory was that the run away with her and they'd at his master's bidding, carrying ambulance attendant in
never existed. But there were the charcoal-grey worsted and impression was an unsuccessful attempt to
of Delrolt had neve Purple Gang under the mistaken
returning with some interior that be
policeman), kill this fourth successive leader
staged the kliling as the result some quite nice ready-mades ot trigger
Another Machine-gun Jack McGum (an of O'Banion's
- Anger
witness, lorry- of a dispute over the distribu-en sulacas and, after a quick materials, which were placed
look round to make sure no one
before me. the but it misfired. Italian in
ond of Eccret driver, sold that in spite of his Irish nom-
dynasty,
was looking, but with the ten of Canadian whisky.
1 stepped inside men de-guerre), Dingbat O'Berta and spics are believed to have mis- uniformed
the shop. McEriane, a ferocious inke
taken
man for Moran driver and wore horn-rimmed another Fronk
who was the most and to have
the signal glasses with dark lenses. Irishman
given
What happened inside dreaded killer of the decade.
that set the stage for his kill-
matter of con- ing. But Moran did not arrive garage then is at the garage until the slaughter lecture. But it didn't take long.
The chief spider, who had The North Siders were ordered
bit, brightened been sulking
measurements, to line up and face the wall.
an omcial Jack McGurn (real name Angelo maculate type wearing the sort up and took my
calling the figures to his minion Thinking it was
Scaliat
wore of suit I wish I could afford. (who
"Good afternoon, SİT. police
There was something lúc ad- raid, they complied, prob- Demora)
glasses), and Frank
be miration in his ably in the belief that they were dark
cyes #s all suspected day!" he observed.
passed the tape-measure aretind merely to be searched and die McErlane
#Cold wind, but bright, Spring Then the covers were of wearing police uniforms en
chest, armed.
my just around the corner." tom from the machine-guns and St Valentine's Day,
"A very fine chest expansion, the silent garage echoed with McCura and Scallsi were "A little warmer than yester- dir, if I may say so. You have the roar of shots.
arrested and identified by wit-day." I suggested
an unusually good figure--well "Yes, indeed. We must As the guna swung to and fro rests, and of whom said he had
developed on the Indiana State Hoodlum Complex
but compact, No bullets Rereas the Bins pouring
bulkiness." He hesitated. "Very after the McGurn cleared hot summer
severe nice choice of cloth you've made. ready, Mae." They were Frankie and Pete into the six men standing only heced one of the idlers say "Get patient perhaps we'll have Gusenberg, two of Moran's a fow fact away, death was sure himself by the aid of his notor-winter."
but I feel it doem't quite do I sald "Perhape,"
uneasily. toughest Heutenants, both ex- and certain. The vicilms must tous "blonde alibi" Louise Roife,
You justice. It was the charcoal- James Clark
(real have fallen together as though who swore that they had been "Early day's yet. convicts;
Quite sir. Early days. Bui grey you first fchesed I think mame Albert Kashellek) another blasted by lightning, each re- together in an hotel room at the
You were right, of course, it's brainy golbhd
the who was
from 12 to 18 bullets time of the killing. Scalls! was 69 you say, a little warmer."
He closed the door behind Just the cloth for you-pity!! Johans businessinan; geng's
body reached the perubed on ball and was him me, and I had the feeling I was e before his May a stocky safe-blower who
s:lt bumped off before the date
trapped in spider's web. noted as the garage mechanic; ground,
The killers matched quietly set for his trial. ver of
The spider regarded me with Al Weinshank, the owner
cars and drove
But the most important con- the look of an expert swordsman dog, a shady night-club owner back to their
the theories was summing up a mediocre oppon- and trade union rackoteer; and away almost unnoticed, one of tributions to
the cars even stopping to avoid made by Bugs Moran, the victim jent.. Schwimmer, Dr Reinhardt
"And what can I have passing a stationary tramcer on
the respectable apparently
who escaped young
"Only Capone's gang kills like pleasure of showing you?" doctor with a hoodlum complex the wrong side.
The agedy was discovered that was his comment. And I siniled, rubbing his hands who loved to boast of his in In the play the go-between timacy with gangsters-a kink by Mrs Jeannette Landsmar,
think we can regard Mr Moran gether. who had been ironing in ber
"1 want a-er-dark suit, as an expert who knew what defends the husband. He says:- which was to cost him his life.
"Traitor is the popular Con-
Charcoal-grey worsted or some Just before 11 o'clock the kitchen next door to the gurogo,
1 ventured thing of the sort," ception of him. It isn't mine. IphonG
Weinshank on- She had heard nothing unusual, he was talking about,
shyly.
one-
It would need a large volume
Sinister Pair to relate the whole violent story of the Gang War, which raged for practically a decade
Perhaps the most sinister pair was firmly establishes of all were Scalisi and Anseint, Capone
саплоть who Scarface Al Capone, the "Big as the unchallenged monarch of two of Capone's
dreamed of deposing the Big Fellow" who WUS
his vicious kingdom. undispute king
Chicago's organised
Its blood-spattered Fellow. Their plot misfired and Through
for the stalk chapters crime in the roaring nineteen-
the cold-blooded they were taken
killers
ride 10 who way heartless
which they had twenties, started his long and and
Ums. useless career as a gunman with though no mor of taking a life treated to many of their victims.
foundi the notoricus Five Points gang than of lossing back a drink When their bodies were
When Dlun in dirver In New York. He was imported before to Chicago by Johnny Teri Banion, the infamous "Choir- the it was divered that they
In had been tortured before wis as a hired killer in the early boy of Holy Name,"
charge of the North Side terri- were killed days of the booze wars.
He soon shouldered out Turrio lory at the height of the Chicago
detectives overheard his mantle.
He wor and assumedi
ย
car
they
an
The Chicago war reached the peak of savagery on a St Valen
IS THIS A GOOD TIME FOR BUTTERING UP TRAITORS?
The
By ANTHONY HERN
Burgess Maclean Edwards" played by Joyce Red- THE
business, having by man, is mother of one--is port now bitten deep into rayed as an innocent wite horri
fed by the behaviour of her the national conscience, is in traktor husband. She is forn
danger of becoming a
was over.
Six men and an Alsatian dog were idling away the morning in the ordinary-looking
brick garage at 2,122
North Clark Street, which normally housed whisky tricks and was the un- of for pretentious front
on 3 Moran's bootleg depots.
rang.
the
the
kim between his appeals to join him th· He subscribed to doctrines | avered it but could get no roply. but, went to see why the dog'
of national quarry for au-
thors in search of n human situation to exploit.
It
"over there" and her love England.
are contrary to establish- of ed belief.
To which Fay replies heatedly: Let us look at the facts of the "Then why didn't he announce
What here? case as they are, and as they them
more right than his
BOTT of Tue
is 2 dynamite appear through the distorting arrogance made him think dangerous quarry: 1 wonder looking-glass of Lesley Storm's was play,
if Miss Lesley Storm
At the beginning of the play realised that as the curtain Fay, the deserted wife, is trying went up on her new play at to forget her traitorous husband
(his
Д
LA name
country7"
WHAT ARE THE FACTS? Donald Macican kept quiet Bryan) although about his beliefs because, while to he was in the Foreign Office, he was living a Me. That life of lics was shared by his wife,
Again in the play, Bryan final-
go
to
Air Expert
But thote in the know were positive that Capone's was the behind the carefully hand
Machine-gun planned feriches.
were
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I was greeted by an
Very nice."
A WOMAN'S WORK-IS IT JUST
ONE LONG
Brussels.
SIT-DOWN?
From CHAPMAN PINCHER
*
floors
Lovely
be
·
ho 10-
the St James's Theatre in his mother tries constantly London?
ber remind her of him and of Miss Storm's play "The Long duty to him. Says Fay about her
FOUSEWORK is far less
studied
mathers 12 Glasgow
Dr. Durnin found thrt the Echo" is the second literary de- husband:-- face of the Macleans to appear "It isn't a problem child we're by travels secretly to Paris. The wives would like their hus- living in middle-class houses or housewives used only 2,100 calories of energy a day which this
fints with no paid help. year:
book Richard talking about or even a problem go-between begs her to Llewellyn's "Mr Hamish Gleave" adult. Bryan didn't stray like a
him with their child Bryan's bands to believe,
pule housework into the cate=" grown-up daugh-gory of light fanks," The shop intly whitewashed the hus- household cat.
mother Sybil (played by
Each had He walked out
An average housewife with no young children spends beter working in a big store and girls used considerably more Miss Storm's play now because a moment arrived which Marjorie Fielding), joins in: whitewashes the wife.
"Have
MOLL TO
forpotters pour life tween, seven and eight, hours of - living at home, but had no energy, each day. 惊 Granted that in the play Mrs le must have expected, for together
I sdio your her working day sliting down. young children, I rejoiced in it.”" happiness.
These are the main findings fof survay of middle-aged The energy
output of the a mile and a quarter: in her her he went, don't forget. Housewives carried out by De mothers and daughters was wanting round the house, vertitive chce which can
And you think now John Durnin, of Glasgow Unl calimated by timing everything Dr. Durnin, said should go and discuss it with versity. him-try to patch things up-
BACK:
long time and which he Was Maclean appears as
"Fay Ed- well prepared for. The trouble wards, but there can be no
was, I wan't prepared." the minds of the sophisticated audiences at the St James's who "Foy Edwards"
doubt in
really is.
.
THE FACTS
did in the course el a
To be honest, I wan't awfully keen on the lower-priced cloths, but eventually 1 chose the legat offensive of them-an unexciting saxony tweed.
I. have
"I can't afford twenty-three gimens," I said firmly. "NO eighteen, if it comes to that."
Lat me think
now," pondered the spider, just one plece { charcoal-grey, of about the same quality,” Ho disappeared for a moment' into a back room, then emerged carrying what looked like
CHERY Kinen roll to me,
Here you are," "sir seven- teen-and-a-imalt guineas," said the spider,
before I could quire,
My resistance crumbled be fore this generosity.
After I'd committed myself and parted with a deposit, found cut that the suit would bo only a two-piece. It was that the spider struck then
gain, Within five minutes, and-a-half-guinea bunwalet was the proud owner of a three
cost.
time--ábout 10 minutes all told that its tiring effect is small Theasurements showed that mangling, scrubbing an sweeping
ts qualify heavy work! by Industrial with the cult, but I tied to tell. course, I'm quite pleased standards. But modern house Molly was only ten pounds. wives spend such a short time
NOW,
keeps crowing about doing these tasks that they are how much money I saved not exhausted by them.
throughs taking her, advloe De Durnin admitted, however,
Incidentally, itong the kno he has not taken into a ferior eitha I had fotod, at was made of it was one of the fourteen guess ? punge so Hackett must have led to him
Mrs Averago wilks oftly about tha: berédoiti sa toks the awful che Hackett's cult' &
per they
She goes up and downstairs Dr Dumin, who revealed his normal week. The Car Cost Shop and Ex-reporter Miss Storm has WHAT ARE THE FACTS as if it had just been a dome-ndings to the International of different domestic chores was about 10 times a day. This is
knew perfectly ate quarrel": always both professional eyes Mrs Macican
Physiology Congress here measured with a machine, hard work, but, taken so little fixed on the headlines. One of well what her husband was up her better plays, "Great Day," to. His departure: for Bussio was based on Mrs Eleanor may have been sudden; 'It was Roosevelt's visit to an English not unexpected by her.":"\ VAloge.
A HIT
KIDNAPPED Finally, dr the
the › play," Fay and In the play a Communist her child go to Paris and are go-between (played by Denholm there kidnapped by Iron Curtain Ellott) irted to get the wife agents. Just lkd that: innocent Her most successful
play, voluntarily to join herhus to the end "Black. Chiffon," was about the
"She at first, resista. Her Now, no one is going to deny modern social problem of shop husband, she says, now seems to the right of a dramatist to create Biting—14_ran - SOT two years, made, £50,000 in film rights, Evely chose evil: before, good torn wife. Nor
"the
kind of man who instine purely fictional study of idealistic traitor and bewildered, It a prime to became a TV hit, ***
Bo the Maclean Case was a over a long period het puta national traitor in a syth "natural" for
for her. A ..., it added up to one
WAGEN gut, this Ciplay? dong Will WHAT ARE THE FAUTET based on fact, and what
And
has abo done with
man
field, What, but seed case Mrs Maclean not only knew at Storm", la do fogli wheth
She has turned
of capionage and treachery into the time what kind of man har restres it or not to induce
an amazing defence of Melinda Hib-erect
Musclean si id had di, brought to with
The 39 mart End Funder the blea foally decided, tim” toʻ
In For Sl Laurence: OH♥MERAS the other. Foreign:Coffee
*Mfrs - Maclean, inotherk of
inber: audience (for
right time
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JOHNNY HAZARD
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make a woman feel tagged out
a way that cannot be messif
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