Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, No. 1 gangster of the U. S. (TIME, March 24), last week entered Florida by train from Chicago, journeyed on to Miami where he took up his residence at his Palm Island estate. Many a good Miamian was dismayed. The Miami Daily News, in front-page editorials by Editor-Owner James M. Cox, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee, had been vigorously campaigning against Capone as a menace to the community's good name. Brother Albert Capone had been arrested for vagrancy. State authorities, however, could not touch Brother Alphonse because, smart, he...
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