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The Canton Repository

Location

Canton, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 22, 1949

Page

3

Nationwide drive targets organized vice and gambling

Police from coast to coast launch campaigns against organized vice and gambling as part of broader efforts to curb juvenile delinquency. Across cities from Chicago to Portland to New Orleans, officials push enforcement of pinball, slot machine laws, curb prostitution, and combat narcotics while launching youth programs and crime commissions to deter wrongdoing.

Chicago Sun-Times F.B.I Portland Dorothy McCullough Lee Oregon Midwest Ohio Frank J. Lausche Gary Ind City Hall New Orleans New York City Police Athletic League Pittsburgh Little Rock Ark

Giant London Bomb Defused

Suburban London residents were evacuated from 60 homes as the army defused a 2500 pound German bomb buried 10 feet deep in a Dagenham garden. Despite precautions, Mr and Mrs William Luke refused to leave, saying they had stayed with the bomb through eight years of London blitz.

London Greater London Dagenham William Luke

Pigeons Thefts Baffle Cambridge Police In Loft Incident

Frederick O'Connor reported 45 homing pigeons stolen from a loft above his Cambridge home. Detectives awaited a return as the birds are known to be homing and likely to find their way home.

National Sheriffs’ Association Cambridge Mass Frederick O’connor

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