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LOTTERY PLANiCLINTON, Ind., Dac. 17 (VP)—A state police raid on a newspaper of-• j ftce here put a harrier today in the• ■ way of what Supt. Donad F. Stiver• described as a $1,000,000 lottery on■ the outcome of the 500-mile auto-6 mobiie race at Indianapolis next s Decoration Day, 11 The officers confiscated 50,0w t tickets and arrested George L.B Carey, editor ond publisher, at the j■ Daily Clintonian office yesterday, j Stiver said Carey once had asked 1t him for “co-operatioii” in enforcing | t laws against gambling in Vermillion,■ county.'• The publisher pleaded innocent to: ! a charge of printing lottery tickets■ and was freed when he promised to put up $100 bond today. Carey saidn , a man named Meyers had hired him e j to print the tickets for $38. t j Stiver said the tickets carried tire words, “Memorial Day Grand Treas-■, ure-Sweepstakes, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, May 31, 1939;” prom-s ised puzes totaling $500,000, but gave e no address and no time nor place 8 for a drawing. He said the plan ■.called for 1,000,000 one-dollar tick-■ ets,
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Reno Evening Gazette
Reno, Nevada, US
Sat, Dec 17, 1938
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Pete E.
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