The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-10
Gangdom Again Is Issue As Chicago Gets Ready To Elect Mayor
COPS Green Likened To Tom Dewey
BY BILL BRAUCHER NEA Service Stan Correspondent)


 NEA Service Stan Correspondent)
 Chicago, March 1O-The city that heaved a grateful sigh of relief when AI Capone was broken and put be- hind bars, heads into a municipal election April 4 with the same old problem on its hands.
 Al Capone is not here but his spirit is and Capone-ism with all it's vice and terrorism, is still abroad in the midwest's muscular metropolis. The Capone pattern of mobster rule is being followed to riches and influence by gang rulers in . city governed by an all-pow- erful Democratic machine.
 At the head of the Democratic ticket for the April election is Mayor Edward J. Kelly, who was renominated. Opposing him is young, vigorous Dwight H. Green, district attorney who convicted Capone. Green might be nkened to New York's Tom Dewey, and 1t cannot be said that he lacks a Chicago Jimmy Hines" There is a Hines" in practically every Chicago racket.
 COURT CASES
 PROMISE MUCH
 Some revelations already have been made, and more are in store when the income tax case of the government against Mur- ray Humphreys is decided in court, and when federal action against William R. Skidmore, charg- ing failure to pay $22O,000 income taxes and fraud penalties, gets un- der way.
 Humphreys, once known as the brains of the Capone gang, and more recently rated Chicagos Public Enemy No. 1, served an 18- month sentence and paid a $500O fine following an income tax con- viction in 1884. Now the govern ment is after him again, charging he failed to pay $37,165 in taxes and penalties for the years 1880, ] 1881 and 1892. His trial closed Jan. 25, with instructions to both sides to file briefs within 60 days.
 During Humphreys trial, Will liam c. Sumner, labor leader, identified him as the man to whom 8 $50,000 kidnap ransom was paid In 1881.
 The government is just starting action against Skidmore, junk dealer, horse fancier, and alleged pverlord of Chicago gambling. The Bureau of Internal Revenue will try to collect $220,000 in taxes and penalties, and the first step was the recent filing of a lien against the property of Skidmore and his wife.
 It is not hard to establish that Q reorganized remnant of the Ca- pone gang itself is in the gambling picture in Chicago. The names of Capone's old lieutenants appear in the day-to-day annals of under world activities, and especially dur ing the recent primary campaign were the old familiar names much in evidence.
 Frank Nitti, who was Capone's "enforcer," is reputed one of the leaders of the present streamlined mob. The old henchmen still are functioning, it was brought out dur ing the campaign, such as Humph- reys, Paul Ricca, Louis Campagna, Jack Guzick, Rocco de Grazzia, Dago Mangano, Dutch vogel, and Ralph Capone, As brother,
 USE BUSINESS
 AS A SHIELD
 Green points out that federal in- tervention in Chicagos crime scene, evidenced by the new income tax actions. illustrates the vast opport- unities of the Chicago police depart ment.
 Tt is true that most of the active members of the old Capone gag are active in legitimate busi- ness enterprises, such cleaning and dyeing, charged water, ice.
 The modern mob has become streamlined, using business as a blind for its less innocent activities. And 1t is the police, rather than the mobsters, who wear the handcuffs. Machine influence reaches far in Chicago, as was shown in the re- cent primary when the Kelly-Nash combination showed its full power at the polls.
 Our hope is to awaken. Chicago to the dangers that are growing. We are counting on a reversal of teh primary vote when the 100000 regis tered voters who did not participate in the primary go to the polls in April.
 Green expects some help from Democrats who voted for States Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in the recent primary. Courtney's com- paign, by the way, was directed against the corruption that flourish ed under the Kelly-Nash machine Since the primary, however Court ney has been silent on the subject
 We have a great chance to do some cleaning up in Chicago" says Green, land prove that we do not have to depend upon the federal government to convict our crim- inalS."