Good morning.
Midweek in Whitewater will bring rain, with a high of sixty-eight.
On this day in 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. Capone was released in 1939:
Among Capone’s enemies was federal agent Elliot Ness, who led a team of officers known as “The Untouchables” because they couldn’t be corrupted. Ness and his men routinely broke up Capone’s bootlegging businesses, but it was tax-evasion charges that finally stuck and landed Capone in prison in 1931. Capone began serving his time at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, but amid accusations that he was manipulating the system and receiving cushy treatment, he was transferred to the maximum-security lockup at Alcatraz Island, in California’s San Francisco Bay. He got out early in 1939 for good behavior, after spending his final year in prison in a hospital, suffering from syphilis.
Plagued by health problems for the rest of his life, Capone died in 1947 at age 48 at his home in Palm Island, Florida.
Google’s daily puzzle asks about a basis for a declaration of war: “What coded diplomatic proposal was published that, along with the sinking of seven U.S. merchant ships, inspired President Wilson to call for war on Germany?”