Bar Association backs tougher gambling laws in modern reform
The American Bar Association issued a 318 page report urging modernized gambling statutes and reorganized crime fighting to curb new large scale illegal gambling. It calls for prohibiting gambling information via telephone and broadcast media and notes big time gamblers evade law enforcement with costly lawyers. Prof Paul W. Tappan urges longer sentences for habitual criminals, citing Joe Adonis’s two to three year gambling sentence versus possible 18 year maximum.
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Washington
The
American Bar Association
Association
Commission On Organized Crime
Rufus King
Paul Bauman
New York
Kefauver
Senate Committee
Paul W. Tappan
New York University
Tappan
Joe Adonis
New Jersey
Adonis
Help Asker Sentenced for Nine Stolen Steers
Allan Robertson 30 of Rutland pleaded guilty to malicious mischief and was sentenced to one year at Vandalia State Penal Farm. He fenced pasture, corralled nine steers from two farms, and tried to enlist neighboring farmers to help claim the cattle. A suspicious neighbor reported the scheme to Sheriff George Toler in Woodford County.
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Eureka
Vandalia
Allan Robertson
Rutland
Woodford
George Toler
Robertson
Toler
Prohibition Era Figure Big Bill Duffy Dies
William J. Duffy also known as Big Bill Duffy died at 69 in Lynbrook New York. He was a notorious Prohibition era figure and former manager of Primo Carnera. His name appeared with speakeasies and Broadway nightclubs throughout the 1920s and he had numerous legal brushes.
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Duffy
Lynbrook
N. Y
William J
Big Bill) Duffy
Primo Canera
Carnera
Editor of French Red Newspaper Jailed
Paris May 26 AP reports police jailed chief editor Andre Stil of L humanite for involvement as organizer of Red demonstrations against Gen Ridgway the new supreme Allied commander for Europe in the Atlantic pact setup.
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Paris
France
Andre Stil
L’humanite
Matthew B. Ridgway
Europe
Quints Graduate at 18 in Callander Ontario
The Dionne quintuplets will graduate on the 18th birthday at a home ceremony in Callander with nine other girls. Villa Notre Dame plans to close after the event and the five sisters may attend a girls' college next year per Papa Oliva Dionne.
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Otn
Dionne
Villa Notre Dame
Papa Oliva Dionne
Ag Department Gives Surprisingly Good Advice Occasionally
A Pennsylvania farmer with Chinese chestnut trees asked the Agriculture Department for help after hunters damaged his orchard. He was told to post signs warning that Castanea mollissima Linnaeus abounds in this orchard. Following the notice, hunters now avoid the area.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Agriculture Department
Mortality From Alcohol Declines Yet Alcoholism Persists
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co reports mortality from alcoholism in the industrial population has fallen 85 percent in 40 years but says about four million Americans still face alcohol use as a serious problem. Of these, around 750,000 are true alcoholics who drink to levels harming health.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Illinois Sentiment for McMahon Emerges in Delegation
Springfield May 26 AP A delegate from Illinois says there is well grounded sentiment for Connecticut Senator Brien McMahon as a presidential candidate if neither Adlai Stevenson nor Paul Douglas pursue the nomination. O Neill of Alton cites McMahon's numerous and favorable contracts with Illinois Democratic leaders as the basis for support.
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Brien McMahon
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Schaefer O'Neill
Alton
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