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    "ocrText": "66\nIM\nLincoln, Nebr., Star\nFRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931\nVE\nTorrio On\nThrone Of\nAl Capone\nELL\nCrime Czars Guilty Plea\nAttributed to New\nLarge\n-\nar\nfor\nGang Dynasty.\nHonesty\ndo\nCHICAGO, June 19--(AP) - To-\npecipe\nday's Herald and Examiner said\naro\nJohnny \"The Immune\" Torrio has\nsucceeded Alphonse Capone.\n18.-(AP-\nbelieves\nThe proclamation that Torrio had\n*\nrign against\ninvested himself with the ducal\ndeaders can\nrobes of gangland leadership, the\nnewspaper said, was posted last\nthave honest\nnight in the haunts of the half-\nreal pur-\nworld.\nRumors have been persistent for\nthe Justice\nE\nweeks that the protege of 'Big\nout at\nJim' Colosimo had abandoned his\nwhenever it\nwestern ranch to intervene once\nbut\nis\nin\nde\nmore in underworld activities\nwas\nBullets from George 'Bugs\" Mo-\ndrive\niv\nran gang guns hastened Torrio's\na\nlo\ndecision several years ago to quit\nChicago's gang warfare. Twice be-\nfore Atempts on his life were un-\nagencies\nth\nis\nsuccessful. Thus he gained the\nactivities\nsobriquet of \"The Immune.'\nIt was Torrio who brought Ca-\nYork,\npone west from Brooklyn a decade\naveland and\nago to manage Colosimo's Twenty-\nUn\nsecond street vice district. And when\n'd he was\n11\n-\ncitte\nTorrio abdicated, Capone climbed\nwould be\nonto the throne.\nto New\nThe newspaper said it was Tor-\nwork of\n/\n-\nin\nrio who ordered Capone to \"take\n: ras done\nthe rap\" against him and plead\nguilty to the government's indict-\n10\n(\nments charging liquor law and in-\nà\ncome tax violations.\npleas of\nIl\nOn this plea, Capone will be sen-\nirohibi-\nVI\na\ntenced June 30.\nlund the\nUnited States District Attorney\n:hicago\nGeorge E Q Johnson. the director\nhe At-\nano\n6\nof the drive against Capone, has\nalready made ready to war on Tor-\nimated\nrio.\nforce\nWhile Johnson refused to com-\n15\ne\nment last night on rumors of Tor-\nspe-\nrio's return, the district attorney\nGen-\nsaid yesterday the government has\nor\" in\na\nmade its plan for the offensive\nagainst Capone's successor,\n1-\ne\n-\nGuzik \"Making Hay.\"\nCHICAGO, June 19-(AP)--- The\no\n9dT\nDaily News said today that Jack\n-\nGuzik, No. 2 man in the Capone\nS\nsyndicate, had taken personal\nIsnoa1s\n1,\ncharge of the gambling privileges\naggolivi\nr\nda\nin the suburban areas and was run-\nHOUT an\nd\nning the outlying roadside inns\nanni e\n\"high, wide and handsome.\"\na\n6\nWhereas \"Scarface Al\" Capone\nhas apparently resigned himself to\nof 1198\nhis coming term in a federal peni-\n0\n-ingg\ne\ntentiary and is easing out of con-\n-00\nt\ntrol of the syndicate, The News\nsaid Guzik, who is under five-year\n3\n03\nsentence for income tax evasion, is\nnot fretting, but is \"making hay\nver\nde\nbefore the sun starts shining\ngnimir\n%\nthrough penitentiary bars.\"\nGuzik has sent around word, said\nbisa\nThe News, that he is \"the man to\n6)\nof IIS\nbe seen\" from now on, that the\ngrlt\nroadhouses can \"open up now\" on\nL\ngambling, with the syndicate fur-\nnishing everything but the road-\nhouse and the roadhouse owner get-\n-J99\n40 per cent of the profits."
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