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Life Saved my Nation's 'Suckers' Pour 13 Billion a Year into Gambling Rackets NEW YORK (U.R) Gamblers! THE GAMBLING operator takes I "Even the famed Irish SweeDS- crnfits pn tn th A God-Mix! for GAS HEARTBURN" Wlwn excess stomach acid causes oalnfal. suffica tog as. (our stomach and Heartburn doctor usually prescribe tne iaseet-arina; mruicioea iwwn iuc vmntomafio relief medlctneallkethoselii Bell-aQ Even the famed Irish Sweeps- and baseball profits go to the op ablets. No laxative. Bell-ans brings comfort lo a i llfly or return DouJa to us for double money bark BELL-ANS for Acid Indigestion 251 big-time gambling cannot operate without political or police protec take $13,000,000,000 OUt Of thell'i to 9S ner fPnt nfn, rinllaf i ")n M.

I 6 L.M-" Uu It also contended that "organ dirty business" and cannot De stakes pays only 20 per cent of erators. ized gambling breeds organized kept legitimate even if subjected American pocKeiDooK annuany, ai- watered, the report said the proceeds to the hospitals for whose benefit the lottery is run," the report said. "Slot machines are fixed to take 10 to SO per cent of the proceeds. Eighty to 90 per cent of football In addition to the odds, the gambler bucks manual and mechanical devices that make winning impossible. most as much money as the Nation tion.

"Protection from interference is bought directly from the police or indirectly through the contributions to political leaders it Bingo operators usually pocket crime." But the report opposed legalized gambling. "Legalization will not solve the problems of gambling," they said. They added that gambling is a to licensing control. Finally, the gambling experts said the "compulsive gambler, who must gamble no matter how much he loses, is a mentally sick individual." will spend on national defense this year, the American Academy of rolitieal and Social Science reported. Fifty million Americans gamble regularly and "cannot win," the academy said in a report on its research into gambling habits.

50 to 80 per cent of the profits. Prizes in lotteries represent only 20 to 40 per cent of the gross receipts. The Free Press Easy to read and WORTH KEADLNG. THE PUBLICATION said the said. 1G Monday.

May 15. 1P50 DETROIT FREE PRESS L7TM JLnJL7 GO AMERICANS BET a year with horse-race bookies Parimutuel machines alone account for $1,600,000,000 a year and produce more than $100,000,000 annually in tax revenue. Slot machines "cough up" $1,000,000,000 a year to gambling- operators by conservative estimate. The numbers racket accounts for $1,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 annually. You may think you have a way to win, and may enjoy an occasional winning streak, but you'll finish broke, because you never get a 50-50 proposition, the acad I 1 1 1 emy said.

I I i The report on gambling was con tained in 17 articles edited by Judge Morris Ploscowe of the Magistrate's Court of New York 2J i 1 I and Edwin J. Lukas, former execu I I i i I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I live secretary of the Society for i I lJ I I I I I VJ ULJ I I I I I the Prevention of Crime. Red Purge Indicated in Poland Jbsi 0GD(3Y7 Sjo)(ow7(IY7 57 WARSAW, Poland (JP) A widespread purge of prominent members of the Polish Commun ist Party has begun, diplomatic informants said. They made this report in sum ming up a three-day meeting of the Central Committee of the 1113 I I i i I 1 I I I I I it II I I II II II V. I Communist Polish United Work ers Party which ended Wednes day.

THEIR RESUME of the commit tee's decisions came under these headings: 1 The tightening of links binding individuals to the Party. 2 The speeding of the Com-munization of Poland. 3 An intensification of political attacks upon the Western world. These sources claimed that the election of Zenon Nowak as a member of the party's Politburo and as a joint secretary to the party's Central Committee was a signal that heads would roll. NOWAK'S election to the Politburo, along with that of former Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokos- 11 li 1 I 1 WNX I Wl sovsky, was announced Thursday Ik G7(o nD mMMV I night.

The Politburo's membership was thus increased from 10 to 12. At the time, diplomatic observers speculated that changes in the higher ranks of the Polish Government might be announced soon. (Rumors that the Russians were planning a new purge of Poland's Army and the Polish Communist Party reached American Government officials in Washington nearly two weeks ago. The rumors were linked to Rokossovsky, as head of Poland's military forces, and were said to reflect his desire to tighten up Soviet-Communist control of the party and the army.) Kills Wife, Son and Self GALESBURG, 111. (U.R) A coroner's jury was told that health worries probably caused the shootings of a 41-year-old merchant, his wife and their 11-year-old son.

The bodies of Clayton E. Kenan, Luella Kenan, 39. and their son, Eugene, were found in their home late Saturday. A .32 caliber revolver was in the father's hand. Kenan's father.

Warren Kenan, told the jury that his son had been worrying about his wife's and his own health. The elder Kenan said he had taken another gun away from his son recently. 1 I Clayton Kenan was operator of a fish and poultry market here. The jury ruled "double homicide and suicide." Jfo. lAFL MEMBERS HAVE EXPERIENCED NO MAJOR UNEMPLOYMENT SINCE 1S41 THEY'RE READY, WAITING WITH THE CASH FOR YOUR SALES MESSAGE.

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