FBI to Investigate
Parole of 3 Former
Capone Gang Men
WASHINGTON, (SP) — Atty.
Gen. James P. McGranery said
today he intends to find out if
bribery figured in the new-fa
mous case of three paroled ex
Capone gangsters.
He ordered FBI Director J. Ed
gar Hoover to open a new in
vestigation into all of the cir
cumstances of the paroles, grant
ed in 1947.
McGranery asserted that the
freeing of Paul (the Waiter) Ricea,
Louis (Little New York) Compag
na and Chas. (Cherry Nose) Gioe
one-time members of the late A1
Capone’s Chicago mob, has “been
a matter of various charges, in
cluding rumors of bribery,” dur
ing the last five years.
A House committee investi
gated the paroles in 1948 and de-1
manded that the freed men be
put back in prison.
The committee said it found no
evidence of bribery but expressed
the view that “big money”—from
an unknown source—was spent to
get the men out.
The men were represented in
the parole proceedings by attor
neys Paul Dillon of St. Louis and
Maury Hughes of Dallas, de
scribed in the committee report
as “personal” friends, respective
ly, of President Truman and Tom
C. Clark, then attorney general
and now a Supreme Court justice.
These attorneys, the committee
said, were “in a position to exert
influence with those in authority.”
However, the report said there
was no evidence President Tru
man “had any knowledge of the
matter.”
President Moore of U of A
Believes Interior Secty.
McKay Friend of Alaska
“Our new Secretary of the In
terior, Governor McKay, will be
a good friend of Alaska, I be
lieve,” President Terris Moore of
the University of Alaska declared
at a luncheon recently in Fair
banks. Returning last week from
the convention of the Association
of Land-Grant Universities and
Colleges in Washington, D. C.,
President Moore conferred with
Governor McKay in Salem, Ore.,
in connection with the Univer
sity’s land-endowment program.
“The fact that Governor McKay
is unwilling to make policy de
cisions or statements until after
he has been confirmed by the
Senate in late January is a good
sign, and I believe that he will
move carefully and not act with
regard to Alaska’s complicated
problems until he has had an ade
quate opportunity to become well
acquainted with all the facts.”
President Moore indicated that
the University was inviting Gov
ernor McKay to make his initial
visit to Alaska at the first con
venient opportunity.
Also President Moore revealed
that the University obtained
$2,000 ($1500 in cash and a pledge
of $500 more as needed) for “re
search in the physical sciences at
the discretion of the president”
from a private foundation in
Pasadena, Calif., where he spent
several days enroute.
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The September drive of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau special
rackets squad, which cracked
down on racketeering and crooks
with additional income tax assess
ments of $12,500,000, brought to
more than $160,000,000 the addi
tional taxes and penalties that
have been levied against under
world characters since the spring
of 1951.
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