Court Reviews Gangster Case
Washington report says two former Chicago gangsters Louis Campagna and Charles Gioe, once linked to Al Capone, had their paroles revoked and were returned to the Atlanta penitentiary to serve 10 year terms for extortion conspiracy. A congressional probe led to the Supreme Court promising to study their freedom pleas.
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Chicago
Supreme Court
Louis Campagna
Charles Gioe
al Capone
Atlanta
Campagna
Gioe
U. S. Parole Board
Parole Board
House Expenditures
Reds In Asia: capital, poverty, and trade in India and Pakistan
The piece surveys industrial hopes in India and Pakistan, noting disease, debt, and crowded factory housing amid calls for foreign capital. It cites Marie Buck’s food-for-workers program, a failing savings base, and wary attitudes toward American investors while China and Japan loom as alternatives. It forecasts potential conflict if development stalls, with a teaser about Malaya ahead.
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Presbyterians
Marie Buck
India
Madras
Calcutta
Karachi
U. S
Wall Street
St. Louis
Peter Grim
Pakistan
Japan
Paka
Merrill Man Sues North Western Railway for 300000
Harold H. Wegner of Merrill Wisconsin filed a 300000 damage suit in federal court claiming injuries when a Chicago North Western passenger train halted at Weenie Wisconsin on April 29 1949. He alleges no portable step was provided and no railway employee assisted passengers, leaving him permanently paralyzed.
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Madison
Wis
Merrill, Wis
Chicago North Western Railway
Harold H. Wegner
Weenie
Wegner
Billion Dollars Spent Monthly On Gambling
A Нью-Yорк survey finds Americans wager nearly 12 billion dollars monthly on bookmakers slots and policy games. About 8 billion goes to bookies one billion to slots and one to three billion to policy or numbers games.
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New York
La Crosse Tribune archival notice as Second Class matter
The La Crosse Tribune records its status as second class matter under the 1879 act, with entry dated June 23, 1904, at the La Crosse Wisconsin post office.
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la Crosse
Wis
Growing TB Germs Weighs On Lab Safety Struggles
Dr A G Wedum at the golden jubilee meeting of the Society of American Cnter iologists warned that new rapid methods to grow tuberculosis germs raise worker infection risks. He cited safer devices developed at Camp Dettrick Md including cabinets hoods syringes and flasks and noted new public health aid aims to bolster lab protections and research under service grants.
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Frank Carey
Baltimore
Public Health Service
A. G. Wedum
Camp Detrick
Wedum
The
Society of American Cnteriologists
Detrick
U. S
Frederick
League of Women Voters Official Speaks at Oshkosh Convention
Mrs. John G. Lee national president of the League of Women Voters will speak at the Wisconsin state convention in Oshkosh on May 23 and 24. She will address the topic What price politics. Mrs. Lee is from Farmington Connecticut.
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Madison
Wis
John G. Lee
League of Women Voters
League of Cousin
Oshkosh
League
Lee
Farmington, Conn
Landing area for sea planes laid out at Brazaville
A second landing area for sea planes has been laid out at Brazaville on the River Congo in French Equatorial Africa, expanding aviation access in the colony.
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River Congo
French Equatorial Africa
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