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Long Beach Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Apr 15, 1955

Page

11

Life Pension for Man Imprisoned Wrongly

ST PAUL Minn A man who spent 19 years in Minnesota prisons is to receive 300 monthly pension payments retroactive to Jan 1 after a bipartisan legislative action. Leonard Hawkins of Dawson Springs Ky was pardoned in 1951 and later cleared of involvement in the 1932 Barker Karpis gang bank robbery.

ST. Paul Minn Minnesota Slender Leonard Hawkins Dawson Springs Hawkins Hankins Barker-Karpis Third Northwestern Bank Minneapolis Jesse Doyle Barker Gang Delia Lowery Jack McKay Associated Press Sig Couch Lowery

Knight Warns California Tax Plan Needed to Avert Insolvency

Gov. Knight told Commonwealth Club officials California faces insolvency without tax action. He warned deficits of 100 million dollars in 1955-56, 138 million the next year, and 160 million the following year unless his four luxury tax proposals pass. He urged higher taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products, beer, liquor, and horse racing.

San Francisco Ipl Knight Commonwealth Club California Flo

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