Show Prosecutor Strips Strip Gang Figures of False Editors Editor's note This Is the second lerond of four exclusive he and copyrighted copyrighted copyrighted copy copy- righted stor stories by Robert Talley TaUey staff writer for lor NEA Service and The Telegram on how government officials at nt Chicago finally nailed Al AI Capone who on a plea pIca of guilty faces sentence to a federal penitentiary on June 30 for lor a income tax fraud and aud violations of the prohibition law Yesterdays Yesterday's story revealed that income tax Investigators have ha found that Capone is now Insolvent n as the result of business depression and relentless federal prosecutions By ROBERT TALLEY Copyright 1931 NEA Service Inc CHICAGO June 2 26 You 26 You cant can't get Al AI Capone You cant can't get Al Capone tt For years that challenge rang in the ears cars of federal officials officials dais at Chicago as the nations nation's arrogant with the power that money brings calmly multiplied his profits from liquor gambling and vice without even bothering to file fHe filean an Income tax return much less pay on one At the same time h he was operating all his huge enterprises in braz brazen n de defiance defiance defiance de- de fiance of the law Well they've got him now And the federal prosecutor who has emerged from the situation as the nemesis of at Chicago's desperate gangs and be become become be be- come a national figure thereby is probably Just the opposite of oC what you would expect Instead of b being Ing a eating lire tongs hammer s prosecuting attorney of ot the movie type he is a R mild mUd middle aged aged man manof manof manof of both ministerial mien and appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance who likes amateur theatricals t tends tends' his own garden and parts his hair in the middle He is United States District Attorney Attorney ney fey George GeorgeE E E. Q Johnson By start- start Continued on PalO Face Seven STRIPPED OF f fAlSE I Continued tram from P Pae- Pae E ge One road to Leaven Leaven- r b none on the to ta Join his chief chie E who ho are Ire already there or oi oro lieutenants has destroyed the t ro go o soon he due Immunity that so sc sor ot of st t r flaunted at law and order In Ill long doing r he has practically bankrupt- bankrupt 10 Capones apone's outfit that dealt In miland mU- mU td fellow and reduced the big boos s where he fc L 1 to ta the point r nIng his hL wife's to ro raise j pawning and is 15 heavily In debt to ILLS HAS FINE RECORD Johnson are arc Tic facts about In his his Ih five years cars as federal district attorney stromer at Chicago he ho has baa never ne t a big case j addition to forcing a a. plea of ot from Al Capone on Income tax fraud nun guilty and and prohibition Hw which Capone now for violations M-violations II 11 j Sees sentence on June 30 he rei rel re- re COn lct convicted d Capone of contempt l i of federal court and go got him a sentence sen- sen r See tence of six months In Jail JaU which still on appeal rHe Ie smashed Capones Capone's business or- or by going after its chief lieutenants for Income tax frauds This ibIs record shows RAlph convicted Capone brother L j D el of Al AI end and nd head of the gangs gang's beerI beer I Staff ring sentenced to three years jears ears in penitentiary now at liberty on ap- ap L Jack convicted Guzik head of the tangs tang's gambling Joints and vice Ice retorts re- re torts i sentenced to five fife years now appealed Pleaded Frank guilty gangs gang's treasurer and head of the alcohol racket now serving 18 months In Ir 1 leavenworth pleaded Sam guilty gangs gang's 5 slot ot machine czar CW now serving a a. year yea and a day in In addition to th th gangster cases Johnson Johnron has a number of ot big political graft cases cases' In Chicago I and scored convictions In directing an office that handles prosecutions prosecutions' a year he ho wound v up VP 1929 with only six verdicts of not guilty and 1930 with only five ver yer- verdicts diets of not guilty MENACE TO YOUTH Johnson Is smiling and affable but butI buthe buthe I he prefers not to talk about himself 0 or his record as a prosecutor I would rather fight gangsters with indictments and convictions than with interviews he sa says S If ard could drive the gangsters out of Chicago they would have been sone long ago But he lets you ou know he views s Ills His problem from a philosophical angle Th great menace he sees in men like Al At Capone is not the crimes they themselves but the sinister Influence they exert on the nations nation's S 5 boys There is a charm and an allure he be says as a's about a gangland big shot that makes man many boys want to imitate imitate imi imi- tate them This he says Is breeding disrespect and contempt for the la law lawand lawand and making bad citizens out of oC boys boy w who o might otherwise become good l I ones It Is for the nations nation's youth south he tells you jou that he is really lighting fighting As for tor gangsters he strips them of 01 all aU their colorful In these words They are nothing but murderous mobs and they know they must live by the law of the tooth and fang When robbed or betrayed Ute they iu- iu vO voie e their own 11 tribunal of death I without a qualm They have no re recourse recourse recourse re- re course to any other And yet In yet in L print and out out Is thrown L I o r these thugs by describing them then as M beer barons crime kings alky kings kings' s' s and the like GANG CHIEFS NOT BOLD The most conspicuous and power power- ful to men in are arc not bold Robin Hoods They are cowards And yet tl over ever this coward and this 1 5 I purchaser o of murder ha has been thrown This Is a menace menace Johnson does not agree with shallow shallow shallow low thinkers who see In lii each gang gan murder merely good riddance of ot bad bat rubbish Unpunished gang murder breed con contempt for law and enable a gang cl chief ef offering money to a professional killer for a murder t tsay to say Look how safe fc it is Johnson n has figured in a number o of oC spectacular cases since he became district attorney but one of the mos most aggressive c was in January 1929 when federal agents under his direction invaded in invaded invaded in- in and selz seized d the whole town o of Chicago Heights a riotous suburb Arriving at dawn they took over th the city hall hail the police poUce station Jailed th police force and raided practically practical every house in town They confiscated confiscated guns rifles ammunition smashed liquor stills and breweries and made numerous arrests Chicago Heights was a gang strong strong- hold Prior t to that raid the village had had 62 murders in five years cars Since that raid It hasn't had any murders S 5 l I I L L I QUIT OOOO PRACTICE First a country school teacher and then a lawyer with a n practice consisting con COD slating almost entirely of civil cases he gave up this a a. year jear practice five y years ars ago to become federal district district dis dis- dis attorney at a year ear He got sot his appointment through Senator Deneen of oC Illinois and although Deneen Deneen Deneen De- De neen was no longer in the senate when Johnsons Johnson's year four-year term tenn ex expired ex- ex last year ear President Hoover re renamed renamed re- re named him for another term tern He as born 57 years jears cars ag ago in Webster Webster Webster Web Web- ster county Iowa where his father John Johnson settled after emigrating ing from rom Sweden His father learned to speak English after arriving In Inthis Inthis Inthis this countr country He was gr graduated from Lake Forest In 1900 and the same year he married and came to Chicago to practice law There is a unique story behind George E. E Q Johnsons Johnson's name He was christened Just plain George John John- son Among his Swedish neighbors in Iowa in those days there were a alot alot lot of at George Johnsons so at an early age his father father father-a. a great admirer of oC Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson renamed renamed him George Goorge Emerson Johnson to avoid confusion This got along very sery well weIl until I George E. E Johnson came to Chicago and found the t telephone book and city directory filled with other George eorge E. E Johnsons Something had to be done about that so t to meet this critical situation he gave himself himself him him- self ulf the additional Initial Q and thus became George E E. Q Johnson What does it stand for tor he Is 15 often otten asked Nothing he replies except a n saving E of questions as t to which George E. E Johnson In Chicago you are looking for CAPONE APONE GRIP FAILS Such Is the man who has destroyed Chicago long bo boat boast st of immunity im immunity immunity im- im from the law It Is possible that by doing this lie he has destroyed Capones Capone's power forever for once a supposedly powerful gang leader shows he is no longer able able- to defy the penitentiary his strength among his followers soon fades I If the big bli shot cant can't keep himself out of ot prison pris pris- on what chance have they Already It has been en told how Capone Capone Capone Ca Ca- pone Is now Insolvent according to income tax officials as the result o of the business depression and vigorous prosecution of his lieutenants This too probably means Capone's Capones doom doomas as a a. leader because money money and and money only only keeps keeps a gang chief f In power Such things as loyalty and and friendship are unknown It Is money and and money alone The absorbing story of ot how the Income tax case cac against Capone was Wa worked up by the secret service of the United States internal revenue bureau win will be told tomorrow |