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Last week the hunger march took place -but not exactly as scheduled. Only 27 exported ex-hoodlums showed up in Rome, and they never even bothered to demonstrate. But fat Charles Carrolla, former liquor racketeer and boss of Kansas City's North Side, lamented along with other exiles. "I hope President Eisenhower will pardon me and let me back into the U.S.," he cried. "Here, I am always followed around by police agents. Besides, Italy is a poor country...
Meantime, Federal District Judge Albert L. Reeves, a Republican, who beat Judge Southern to the 1936 election prosecutions, beat him again by giving a Federal grand jury evidence of income tax evasion by Kansas City mobsters. Judge Reeves asserted that one "big man" (Charles Carrolla), had charged $30,500 for protecting a "residential resort." Said Judge Reeves: "There is an enormous income from gambling in Kansas City and so far as I know, the Government realizes no income from that gambling...
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