Evening Star, 18 May 1929, page 1: Chicago expects a bloody election of a new gang lord

Front page of the Evening Star, Washington, Saturday, 18 May 1929. The Chicago item is a column headed “Chicago Expects Bloody Election of New Gang Lord,” with the decks “Police Believe Jailing of Capone Will Only Intensify Underworld Strife” and “Little Faith Placed in Reports of Truce.”

The Associated Press story, datelined Chicago, 18 May, says that with Capone “put away” for a year in a Pennsylvania prison it remained to be seen whether the riddle of Chicago gang crime had been solved, and that there were “ominous suggestions” it had only been intensified. It reports police speculation about a rumored “machine gun election” to choose a new leader, reports that rival gangsters were getting ready to seize the “Capone territory,” and says police put little faith in truce reports.

All of this is police opinion and rumor as the wire service reported it, and none of it is adopted here. A different Evening Star page, from the previous day, is filed under its own record. Headline as read from the Library of Congress OCR text of the page.