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...henchmen of Diamond and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins are blamed for periodic battles with gangs reputed to be led by Angelo ("Little Augie") Pisano, heir to the eminence of the late Frankie Yale (TIME, July 9, 1928). Far out on the westward highways, however, speed Diamond's trucks, delivering beer to roadhouse customers. The leader has many activities, was arrested and released for a killing last year in the Hotsy-Totsy night club, Manhattan. He is out on bail pending Federal trial for a narcotic law violation. Since his last arrest he has dwelt secluded in a mountain retreat...
...immediately conjectured that Diamond had prepared to contest the alliance by accumulating armament, by leaving the U. S. so as to be away when the shooting began. Among this and other wild, vague reasons given for expecting a Diamond-Capone war the most credible was that the Midwest roadhouse beer trade, lately an unchallenged Capone concession, had been encroached upon by Diamond's trucks, that Capone wanted to force his rival back to Brooklyn, intended no Brooklyn attack. Mrs. Mae Western, worried wife of the missing Chateau proprietor, told police of a new, mysterious Diamond beer-running combination from...
...prisoners being held for trial. Because of justices' vacations in July, Prohibition cases on Federal Court dockets had increased from 22,173 to 22,497. The average Prohibition violator sentenced in July received 152.6 days in gaol, his average fine was $199.59. Precisely 1,339,277 gal. of beer and 111,-672 gal. of "spirits" were confiscated; also 724 automobiles, 11 boats, 1,963 stills, 12,353 fermenters...
...Munich the constabulary forbade serving beer at political rallies because fortnight ago a beer mug barrage broke up a Fascist-Socialist meeting there...
...this picture, but Dempsey acted on the whole more self-consciously than Schmeling. Well-read, interested in painting, the German takes seriously this chance at artistic expression and holds his end up well in a better cast than ever set off Dempsey's productions. Best sequences: introducing the amicable, beer-garden domesticity that is the background of German boxing...