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...Gangs. Police further identified Zuta as the "thinker" and bookkeeper of the anti-Capone North Side Gang headed by Joe and Dominick Aiello and George ("Bugs") Moran. Police raided the luxurious home shared by the Aiello families, seized a sheaf of papers they hoped would throw light on the Lingle case. Also last week they seized two shipments of whiskey and raided several breweries as incidental results of their Zuta investigation...
...blood between the two Republican factions was brought into sharp focus fortnight ago when the party formally opened its campaign at Fogelsville. Mr. Pinchot flayed the "Philadelphia gang." Declared he: "The vast majority of voters are sick and tired of election corruption in Philadelphia. . . . Certain disgruntled political leaders ... are refusing to abide by the rules of the game and accept the decision of the voters in the Republican primary. . . . They propose to bring about the election of a Wet Democrat instead of the Republican nominee. . . . The defection of these masqueraders is neither respectable nor important." Mr. Brown at the rally...
...Hoover's active approval, Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio was chosen to head the national committee. As not prearranged this was done on a permanent basis, for Mr. Fess refused to take the job temporarily. Ousted Mr. Huston was reported as saying at once: "Enter the Ohio Gang again." If uttered, this bitter remark was aimed at Walter Folger Brown of Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member of the Harding-Daugherty-Jesse Smith inner circle, though party and State loyalty required him to flay the Ohio Gang's critics...
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...
...Examiner. Fortnight ago the Tribune disclosed that City Editor Harry Read of the American had been a Florida guest of Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone. The Tribune was also first to introduce the name of Ted Tod, Herald & Examiner crime reporter, as press-agent for a dog race track controlled by gang interests...