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wholesale poultry trade three and a half years ago (TIME. Oct. 21;
Dec. 2, 1929). Last week the injunction which had been clapped on the
activities of the 81 defendants was eased by the U. S. Supreme Court.
Racketeer Weiner is said to realize $5,000 a week from the
distribution of New York City's fowl through his tight vertical
industrial combination. Last year he settled his income tax
difficulties for 1929-30-31 by paying on an admitted $80,000, a sum
which Government agents began investigating last week as incomplete.
While Internal Revenue agents were checking up on Racketeer Weiner's
income last week, Agent Hugh McQuillan, who helped put Alphonse
("Scarface Al") Capone in jail, prepared tax evasion
indictments, the Government's tried & true weapon against
gangsters, against 43 Manhattan underworldlings. Among the 43: Johnny
Torrio, who abdicated Chicago to Capone; Ciro Terranova, "The
Artichoke King"; Salvy Spitale and Irving Bitz, who hunted the
underworld for Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Already indicted are
Fugitive Irving ("Waxie Gordon") Wexler (backer of Strike
Me Pink} and Fugitive Arthur ("Dutch Schultz")
Flegenheimer, of the beerage.
