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Director, FBI August 2, 1946 Re: CAPGA te develop information regarding individuale in this town . reputedly to do musole work for the Rival Syndicate, states that he will have further information concerning @ssociation today and as soon as this is received it will be furnished the Chicago Field Division. my + awit Alec, it is ing md this office will be given the benefit of that as soon as it 1s availabie. The attention of the Chicago office is drawn to the magas ine an a Magarine Digest” for the month of August, on Page 21 of which appears the article "Scarface Rules Again” by VICTOR GRANT. This «@tiole in some detail deals with the Capge Case. Also, the attention of the Chicago Office is directed to "Life* Magezine, the issue of May 16, 1944, entitled “Gangland Stirs Again”. This artiole is along parallie) lines as the one referred to in the "Magazine Digest” and the possibility exists that both of them may have as their original informant JAKES RAGEN, Sr. ates el ws le In e@ letter to the Bureau dated July 26, 1946 the Chicago Office asked the Los Angeles Office, among others, to determine whether any individuals had departed from thia area for New York, where an anticipated meeting of various big-time hoodlums was to be held, The informants of tais Field Division have been unable to develop facts indicating that persons tied in with this enterprise left Los angeles for New York at such a time. Reportedly, wa, was in fos Angeles about ee EEmpe: | July 24,1946 for _« day—or—an. according to _tofcrnation deve has been attempting to find out whether was in Los Angeles, but has been unable to develop any positive information to date, to As pointed out in my letter dated August 2, 1346, captioned as above, was in Los Angeles for a day or so and it may be that | he was here to meet with although that, of course, is pure conjecture, 16 a0le to develop further information concerming the activities o, It_is his ides, however, that if Were in vown 1t undoubtedly was in connection with the wire service, ans aince his om infurmants tell him that some of