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‘Blonde Alibi’ ~Fears Killing Laid Death ‘Mob; to Shylocks CHICAGO, Feb. 16 (US)—As the underworld waited) terjsely today to Jearn if the assassination of ‘‘Maehine Gun’’ Jatk McGurn would touch off another of Chicago’s deadly gany mytteriously conveyed to Mc- ,Gurn’s widow, his “blonde alibi” in the St. Valentine's Day massacre seven years ago. Fearful the threats would be executed, perhaps by one of the same three men who shot McGurn to'death in a bowling alley early yeiterday, Mrs. McGurn went into hiding, taking with her s 12-year- old daughter by an earlier mar- riage. How many secrets of the old Al Capone gang, of which he was “chief executioner,” McGurn con- fided in his wife, authorities do ‘not know. Nor do they know if [his widow, the former Louise Rolfe, lis aware of the identity of enemies ‘who might have put him “on the spot” as he was about to engage fn a bowling game with two “friends” yesterday. Under Police Protection ' But on the possibility she may te able to furnish a Jead to the jassassins, police took immediate steps to protect her. ‘Threats that she might meet the same fate as her killer husband were taken by investigators to in- dicate those responsible for the assassination were considering the same possibility—that the blonde Louise might “talk.” Tonight the police were without a hopeful clue. They were as much in the dark as to the identity of the killers ss they were as to the motive for che crime. ‘ Police tocay sald McGurn had been in frantic fear of death for some weeks. and had been told the protection of the remnants of threats against her life ie the old Capone gang had been withdrawn from himy Pleaded for His Lite Detectives heard in “grapevine” Teports that McGurn literally pleaded for his life at a recent meeting of several of Capone's High-ranking hoodlum-racketeers in Miami, Fla. The answer was: ‘Thumbe down. As the police got the story, Mc- Gurn, who handled a golf stick as adroltly as he did a machine gun, went to Miami not only to indulge in the his favorite game, but to see Frank Nitti, “enforcer” in the Capone mob. Instead of seeing Nitti alone however, McGurn was brought be- fore a “committee” which dis. Played none of the geniai cama-, raderie which had marked their relations in the rum-running pro- hibition days. Al's Brother at Talk From that date McGurn lived in constant fear of death, Among members of the “com- mittee,” it was sald, were Jake Guzik, formerly high in the councils of the Capone syndicate and now just out of prison; Ralph Capone, Al's singing brother; Willie! Heeney, a “utility man” in the syndicate, and Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano, czar of the Unione Siciliant, ~e They were there for business, and McGurn was not welcome. One reason was that among his former friends he was regarded as having lost most of his usefulness —this in spite of the fact that he is credited with machine-gunning the seven “Bugs” Moran gang- sters to death seven years ago and as effectively “rubbing out” many other Capone rivals. Plan Loan Shark Ring The business before the com- ‘mittee, the police say, was for+ {mation of a Chicago branch of the big loan shayk racket which al-, lreaay had prdved highly profitable} | in New York.!