Langley Seen at Portland Gambling Hubs in 1955
Portland case cites Dist. Atty. Wiliam Langley observed at Jack and Jill s night club during a private gambling party. Detective Mitola testifies Langley knew gamblers were present and did not intervene citing charitable activity funds to PAL Club and other groups.
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Langley Trial in Oregon Vice Probe Sees Witnesses Testify
Incidental to a conspiracy to open Multnomah County to gambling, Langley faces a major trial. Ruth Hennessey testified she saw Langley at a night club high dice game. Elliott Cummings accuses William B. Nettleton and Jim Elkins of gambling partnership. Langley cites the Fifth Amendment amid charges of malfeasance, perjury, and bribery, with 39 indicted in the probe. courtroom access rules limit photography to natural light.
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Gasoline Prices Cut in Britain Amid Suez Tax Rollback
Britain’s major petroleum distributors lowered gasoline by a penny a gallon as rationing may ease. The cut follows an earlier decline since Tuesday and mirrors the Suez surtax reduction of a shilling a gallon, dropping prices from 6 shillings to 5 shillings 4 pence per imperial gallon. Rationing started December 17, with private motorists allowed 200 miles monthly. a 50 percent increase is planned from April 17.
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Page Myers Win Bridge Match at Winchester Club
Mrs W Nelson Page and Mrs D Myers took first in the weekly Winchester contract bridge at the Golf Club with twenty couples in attendance the largest crowd in months. Runners up were Charles Tiller and Richard Bowers. Third place tied between Mrs Holmes Harper and Mrs W A Carskaden and Mrs Harold G Brown with Mrs Grace Roberts. Fifth went to Mrs Kenneth Norris and Mrs L H Schramm both of Martinsburg. Next meeting set for 8 p m April 17 at the Golf Club with directors arranging partners for anyone without one.
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How the horse chestnut got its name
The term horse chestnut traces to the Latin Aesculus hippocastanum meaning horse hippo with a time when the tree was used as food or medicine for horses. Introduced to Europe from Constantinople in the early 1500s, it later reached the New World. North American relatives are called Buckeyes.
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