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i - . poor cepted eft ah H : TH ae pre * Pellet Se le ae gE: A a eee EE i E 8 | B an the re ble brackets suggests that in Capone’ case the United States Governmdéot unable country owed Capone « debt af for his efficient opposition to tha rule of Scott . McBride and Bishop Cannon. bat because he had found it necessary to use firm methods there was also & grest popular impatience. He had be- fome rich, and with wealth came arrogance, and It seriously annoyed honest toilers. including editorial wrifers, to observe their partner in erimes against the zighteenth atendment and the gambling laws so comfortably fixed. He wea guilty of many -in- eidental fractures of the peace. including accord- ing 19 the gossip of his day, eome routine hamicides which removed unimportant and very undesirable * ebtizeru. “But he was tried at last on the charge of evading | his Income tax, and the prosecution was conducted in the waning days of a national Administration which was in a pullen mood foward bilm. Mr. ’ Hoover's reign bad elected to sland of ial] on the dasue of probibition, and Capone had coptribirted . much to the final tion of the elfbtoeenth amendment and Hoover. . Hoover's Administra ton sew this repudistion coming and took it all out on Capone, even though it was necessary to put the United States Government in the posidon ot qept partner in all his vices, see et «| SSH. POST AUG 21 1945