Show I Mid West MidWest West Crime Crim Carnival Seen I In Jn Newest W Works of Fiction Authors Train Pens on Rackets an and Fan Fantastic Nightmares of pf Windy C City ty By Gene 1 Th Ih The i fantastic a nightmares which which- have shaped d' d th themselves in in Chicago Within the past few rew years years are are so so It seems beyond to me beyond fiction The ThI l e social contortions in which the midwest mid midwest midwest mid mid- west metropolis has b been en writhing provide a constant run of melodramatic matic maU truth truth which is far tai stranger more Incredible than any ny Imaginative imaginative imaginative im im- Im- Im cre creation tIon Wha Whatever ever fictional tic fic events events' are ate cataloged at this close range must In my opinion be he little lIttlemore more than a a. job of ot para para para- phrase W W. H H. Burnett whose Little Caesar Dial Press Iress will will gain gain wide distribution thanks thanks' to the Literary Literary Liter Liter- ary guild is himself so conscious of at tills this that he ho puts put a foreward in his book hook begging readers reader's to believe believe- tb that that- t all ll his characters are i fictional In Inso In hf so sotar far faYas as the names Vo go they probably are but are but Chicago has just about run the gamut of ot possible plots and characters Any invented scene or person would be almost certain to have haYe a counterpart As Asa a a. tense and sordid melodrama of ot gunplay this book rates perhaps 30 a a. abit bit higher than most of ot the fiction which to date has come o tot Chicago Chi Chi- cago S Burne Burnett tt can cah write but he does oes not bite deep His Little Caesar Caesar Caesar Cae Cae- sar is is' just an an another tn other killer kUler who goes through his round of ot rack rack- frame- frame 1 ups ups quick money blond molls and andall 2 all aU the rest Weare We Weare are are all u perhaps too close to the scene to see Itin it itin itin in Ironic relationship relationship rela rela- to to the general social life of ot the times Sullivan A great al and d Important j job a awaits alts some matur ma- ma tur r mind something mind something for tor instance v huh which would catch the satiric qualIty quality quality ity of ot a Scarf Scarface ce Al AI Capone retiring re re- tiring tin In reg regal l luxury in a tashi fashionable fashion able Florida Flodda resort lavishing kindly kindy kind kind- I ly y entertainment upon some of our best jest people who wino chance t to be va- va In his neighborhood who an cain J ride ride- about the streets of ot a summer ummer sort In an armored car his retinue bf t. t gunmen en on either r side and winning the right of wJ A And Ard od so my ow own pr preference is for fr fora fra a piece of ot expert reporting by Edward Ed- Ed ward f P Chicago newspaper m man in Rattling Battling th the Cup Vanguard Vanguard Van Van- guard Sullivan fresh tresh from NewYork NewYork New York is Introduced to Chicago dur during ur- ur ing the negro race riots of a couSie cou cou- pIe file of ot years tears back Ills His first assignment assign assign- I ment Is to go through the tho bla black k belt escorted by a a fearless motor- motor hero There Sullivan is given a test test of ot iro iron nerve for tor for the f fellow who dro drove e him was none other than a. certain O OBanion anlon then a pi blackjack black pick ck- ck jack artist for tora a newspaper circulation circulation lation who department department who lived to be beon one on one of ot the underworlds underworld's s figures and died with his I boots on In An his own floral shop Here we meet Capone Caone and andall all the rest at a first hand watch the ramifications ramifications rami ramI- of ot bribery and political filth filth- see corruption at at first hand And in fl the end Sullivan advises a us that crime per se se is no worse worse In in Chicago than anywhere else else Nor does he forget to remind us of ot the thel l lethargic national attitude which amounts to a shrugging of or the shoulders while shoulders while the test rest of ot the world looks upon this thIs' most prosperous prosperous prosperous pros pros- of ot nations with absolute amazement ment S. S He asks asks' us S to m j that this Is Isa a a. generation g e r. r t ion which sought a presidential cabinet cab cab- inet member in involved involved involved in- in In wholesale whole hole 4 S sale looting and has witnessed witnessed wit wit- national corruption on a ascale c scale so vast that we hav have e grown calloused and actually condone condone con con- done don the getting geeting get gee ting away with murder Idea J Jf if you wish a 8 Lewis Lewi fantastic and better bet- bet ter than ter history from which to check the events as they break this is the into info the newspapers thIs newspapers book S S SC Tet yet this samo sarno Chicago produces a a young man juan such as Lloyd Llod Lewis who for tor years has given each spare moment to the task task- of ot tracking folklore which has hall come down through gh the years In connection with Abraham Lincoln L Lewis applied hl himself to the task not pf of getting biographical data b but t colle collecting ting information on on the tine old- old wives wives' tale that spread in the wake of ot Lincoln Lincol s s death And so in Myths l s After Lincoln Harcourt we ve find a fascinating parade of ot new neW information the information the melodrama which shrouded the fate tate of at John Wilkes Booth the the- first complete te story of ot Lincoln's funeral the almost fictional lie fic story of Louis of ot Anderson Ind md who wino was chief of ol the the- government ov witnesses against the Lincoln conspirators and s sent ent Mrs Mary dary at whose home had gathered Booth and his fellows to the tl the noose noose How life lite was haunted for years ears after atter 11 lived in constant terror terror and died at last broken and harassed r-ls r Is but one of ot the untold tales to tob tobe tobe b be found here Generally speaking it I Is the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of Lewis' Lewis book bool to show how after atter his death Lincoln was built bunt to the almost fabulous fabulous' figure he has become become and and a thorough Job he has done of or it |