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Big Lottery Revealed by Police RaidClinton, Ind. (/P) A state police raid on a newspaper office here put a harrier today in ‘he way of what Supt, Donald F. Stiver described as a $1,000,000 lottery on the outcome of the 500-rmle auto- , , mobile race at Indianaplt; lis next \ Decoration day.The officers confiscated 50,000 tickets and arrested George L. Carev, editor and publisher, at the Daily Clintonian office yesterday. Stiver said Carey once had asked , him for ’‘co-operation” in enforcing laws against gambling in Vermil-1 lion county.The publisher pledged innocent i to a charge of printing lottery tickets and was freed when he promised to put up $100 bond today. Carey said a man named Meyers had hired him to print the tickets for $38.Stiver said the tickets carried the words “Memorial day grand treasure sweepstakes, Indianapolis motor speedway. May 31. 1939;” promised prizes totaling $500,000, but gave no address and no time nor place for a drawing. He said the plan called for 1,000,000 one-dollar tickets.
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Ottumwa Daily Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 17, 1938
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Pete E.
NA, 19 Aug 2023
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