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ACTS TO BLOCK OLD CAPONE GANG Reports Hoodlums Are Invading Town. AcUhg oa reports that members of fhe ones powerful Cstione Bang were inveding Berwyn with their slot: ma- chines, gambling houses. and outlaw Iiquer, Mayor Maurice Sha yesterday ordered Chief of Police John Fegan to make. 2 thorough investigation of every tavern owner, Should ay of| them be folind to have. hoodium. con: nections, the mayor aaid, their Jicenses wit be revoked immediately. For soma tha reports have heen current that the old Capone ayndicate has been gradually shifting its seat from. Cicero. te Berwyn, the suburb: | directly to the west. Concerted action by the state’s atlorney and {edersi agents In seizing slot machines and ralling: WHicit etillx is believed to have ispurred the gangsters to seek a more jauiet territory for weir business, j Taverna Promised Yiumaunity, Tavern owners are said to have been promised immunity fromthe 1 a'cleck closing ordinance if they tock on beer put out by ‘breweries In. which ihe Rangstera have an interest, This pro- teclion Js reported: to: bave been ar: ranged through certain fown officials. Mayor Shay sald yesterday that he had decided to act on Wiese reports. “Tt has: been brought to my atten: tion that. certain polllical appointees and office holders are eneauragmg the migration of the gangsters,” he assert- ed: “While I heve nothing definite-on which to act, I have ordered Ch ia ta investigate the record” of every Yavera owner,” i War on Gambling, wz. The meyor and Chiel Regan consult= ad the state's attorney recently. on. the slteged activities of a slot machine and § gambling syndicate in. the suburb. § After promising his cotiperation, State's Attorney Courtney compliment- ad {he meyer on hig revent.action with regard to the Club. Ritz at Wesley ave f nue and Koosevelt road. 8 The club opened for a few dayr be} fore a Heense had been applied for. fi Mayor Shay sald when. ha Jearned “Machine Gun Jack MoGurn, Ca- pone gunner, and Louis (Doe) Stacey, | angther well known hoadlum, were re- [| ported to. be interested In ft: he closed the club bumediately. Reeantly {¢ was reopened under reputable manage |: roent, he declared, f, Ministers Pledge Ald. When appiized of the inveatigatton the Rev. Warren N. Clerk, président | of the Berwyn Minlaters* association, | bromisend the codpsration of the argan- | ization to keep hoedlums ovt of the suburb, At a recent board meeting another ciligen aross and announced that uniess village offeiaia toot action, ‘he ‘would see ta f§ that a. rvigiance comniltiee Was tormed. to take matters line their own hands, g | Following the board meeting: Tues: day qghe, Mayor Shay revealed he had , asked for the resignations of Frank 1 “Rettig and David Radcliffe, the: two! ,menrbers of the police and fire com-- ;milssion, holdover appointees from the. Brevigus administration. “For the good of the community and the depart ments," was the reason Maynr Shuy' Fieve, for his sction, He ssid they mothe seplaced hy « board of th fee.