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“Fust Like Russie——~ The mystery surronnding. ‘the where abouts ef Al Capone. deepens with each hour that the Federal authorities’ continue blandly to say that they have nothing to say. There seems to be as much difficulty in discovering the whereabouts of this pris oner ag there ix of somebody atrested by the Ogpu or the Gestapo. There may be @ good reason for the De- partment of Jumice and the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation oot giving out infor: mation about Capone, It has been sug> gested that he still owes the government & large mum of money, and that If he ix | knocked off by any of his numerous ene mies the government will never collect; hence the secrecy. But if that i the res: son, why not say so? Moscow and Berlin mask their arrests of political prisoners io add ta the terroriza- tien of the population. But a similar sinis rcsecrecy is Gut of place in & free coun- try, “A democracy cannot be made to work unless al! -pudlic affairs are genuinely pub- lic. And for public servants to refuse information to the public, without adequate Janation or indeed with no explanation jt all, is the same thing ae telling the ic Mt ie none of tte business how pujiiie Siiciale act—a piece of topudence 1 should not be tolersied. : cS © ahut a Le Ste, pele. LOS ANGELES Thas