CAPONE'S WAY
a Correspondent.)
GANG CHIEF INYADES- HOTEL AT HEAD OF HUNDRED FOLLOWERS.
(From
BENTON HARBOUR, Mich. ' This fashionabls Michigan -summer resort was ahuzz with comment last month over the blustering soeial inclinatidns of AI Capone, scar-faced underworld lord of Chicago, and socalled Puhlic-Enemy No. 1, who somewhat fprcibly broke up a sorority dinner party at the hotel there. Backed hy the power of numbers, Capone,. who is reputed to be "broke" but who is deseribed hy the hotel management a3 a "good spender," marched intp the, dining hall which had been ranted by the Upsilon Signa Alpha sorority. , Terribly Indignaat The 190 men and women companions of the gang chief were attired in formal dress. Capone "muscled in" as the party wag -starting. The gangster took over the banquet hall, the entertainers who had been engag.ed for the sorority affairs and the table decorations for the dinner. The sorority members argued, out they were foreed to give way before the gang chief. The sorority dinner was assigned to a smaller dining room. The sorority members were reported as indignant, but none could be reached for a comment. -
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 September 1931, Page 4
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