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Last September the Governor's Racing Commission cited irregularities at Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett Park race track, ordered Mr. O'Hara removed from control. Mr. O'Hara countered with an amazing denunciation in the Star-Tribune of the Governor and all his works. The Governor swore out a criminal libel warrant against Mr. O'Hara, and later when Mr. O'Hara refused to surrender the management of the track, sent 300 militiamen to close Narragansett Park. In rapid succession Mr. O'Hara was indicted by a Federal grand jury for excessive...
...basis of the pamphlet are Professor Chafce's articles in the CRIMSON last November discussing the legal aspects of the Narragansett Park mix-up. These articles have been expanded considerably, packed between a clarifying introduction and a voluminous set of appendices, and salted down with a fistfulls of apt quotations. As an Added Feature there is a photostat of the famous "Star Tribune" asserting Governor Quinn to be in an insane asylum and (for the kiddies) lots of pictures of soldiers and horses...
Indicted. Walter Edmund O'Hara, slick little boss of the Narragansett Racing Association whose track was recently closed after a political squabble (TIME, Nov. 1), and four cronies including Rhode Island's Democratic State Chairman: by a Federal Grand Jury on charges of having violated the Corrupt Practice Act. contributing almost $100,000 in twelve months "to committees and persons closely identified with political activities"; in Providence...
...same time the chief executive of Massachusetts neighbor state, torn by the Narragansett Track war, declares that Chafee in his CRIMSON articles is "lending himself to defend" O'Hara...
...morning as trainers arrived to exercise 100 horses stabled at the track, they found the surrounding area under martial law, the entrance bristling with machine guns, stands and stalls patrolled by 300 Rhode Island militiamen. Governor Quinn explained that despite the Supreme Court ruling Narragansett was not going to open, since the management had failed to file a list of track officials with the racing division on the specified date. Puzzled horsemen found Walter O'Hara still in his penthouse office, which he had reached by a military pass, were informed that Narragansett was going to open, advised...