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Me, Bese orth Pars 2 OF 7 neat re = be . . es P Sy, [-9hoe oo. + ment of Justice for Right po Dena a fj to Print tt beter _. BY FRANCI® J, CONNOR. Special Disvatch from 9 Btitf Correspondent , Washington, D. C., Nov, 22.—The tirst inkling that the literary public nee soon may be clamoring for-a Copy jone-time | : of “The Life end Letters of Al; chase troprome ee phonse Capone” became : ‘evident to- minf free of cae cntcrmnnmmmnaeenemaner day. 4 7 stice department officials Tre- sity of ceived their first bid for the privi- lege of publishing the autobiography, reportedly being written for futur: “ , rélease by the one-time ‘Nepoleon’ ot few of pak ceria & atraz of Chicago crime as he janguishes ore taking advantage of: extension in exile in the government's escape- pwireag from the “atiiverstty, but proof prison fortress on Alcatraz fi : island. A nationally known weekly mag- azine informed Attorney General Homer Cummings today that Ca- pone is writing his memoirs and ~— eked permission to bé the first tolcubiects for study are let ptreetn-| publish. dividual’s choosing anid. Ro course is Officials to Investigate. compulsory. Officials, while neither confirm-| Correspondence courses, paid for ing nor denying the magazine's as-jby the government unless the con- sertion, explained that they “knew]vict desires to pay for his own, are mothing sbout Capone's lterary|popular throughout the whole fed-] leanings." They indicated an in-j¢ral prison system, he painted out, vestigation would be made imme-|but no classes in i diately. Meanwhile, consideration |conducted in Alcatraz all ey are of the magazine’s request will belin other prisons. . held in abeyance. = — “Those fellows in Alcatraz have a lot of time io themselves,” an official said, “and quite a few of them like to while away the hours putting their thoughts down on paper. It keeps them from doing anything worse, for the timé be- iz. en added that almost all prison- who have served time usually { . try to forget their incarceration, but cr aS ~ Poot tee ~ : ‘few get bitten by the writing bug are amert encugh t> imuaieet ff- 22? —~ a -— ne | er *