Onetime home port for Scarface Al Capone's mob, Cicero, Ill. has become a U. S. household synonym for murder and vice. There fell Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin under gangland bullets. Frank Capone, Al's brother, died violently there. Musicomedienne Rosetta Duncan had her nose smashed there. Last week Cicero turned over a new political leaf.
In the election for village president, State Senator Richey Graham, son-in-law of Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago, saw an opportunity to break the Republicans' 16-year grip on Cicero. Mayor Cermak sent 230 policemen from Chicago to...
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