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te te MRS. JACK McGURN \ Former “Blond Alibi” Weeps At Death | | Secret's; Mate. Begged Life © CHICAGO, Feb. 16 (NS), " Threats against the life of Mrs. Jack McGurn, widow of the Ca pone gangster who wasalain early | Saturday morning, were reported = to police today. . Steps to protect her were im- mediately taken, particularly be cause authorities are eager to ob- tain the secrets she is supposed to possess which they feared would be sealed with her death. WIDOW GOES IN HIDING Mrs. McGurn’ was in hiding t day with her 12-year-old daugh ter by an earlier marriage, while preparations were being com- pleted for McGurn’s funeral. Meanwhile detectives, seeking through @ record of McGurn’s re- cent movements a clue to his fate, came upon ® curious underworld story concerning a meeting of racketeers in Miam!, Fla, where McGurn is reported to have pleaded—iiterally—for his life, The answer was: Thumbs down. Police learned McGurn went to Miami primarily to see Frank Nitti, formerly known as “the en- forcer” of the laws which Scar- face Al Capone laid down for his followers. PROTECTION REFUSED Instead of seeing Nitt! alon-, however, the story is that McGurn was brought before a “committee” vhich gave him a chilly recep tion—not definitely ordering his death but declining to protect his life. Among the members of the “committee,” it was said, were Jake Guzik, former big shot, just out of prison; Ralph Capone, ~ brother of Al; Willie Heeney, & “utility man” in the Capone om ganization, and Charl Lucky” Luciano, ruler of the “U. 8."— which means “Unione Siciliani.* ‘The business before the cont mittee, police said, was the for mation in Chicago of a branch of the big loan shark racket which already had proved highly profit- le in New York—profitable be- cause & man with a gun makes 8 highly efficient s<coellestos, splendid insurance policy against “pad loans. x, ,