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Publisher Just saw no more of Lawyer Goldstein for a while, and presently he forgot about the visit. Last summer, with his sons, he went off cruising for two months on the Great Lakes. Meanwhile, in Waukegan, a sign went up in a vacant furniture store announcing a new Waukegan daily...
...August day Publisher Just got word in Canada that the Bon Air Country Club was open for business and going full blast. Frank Just's cruiser made the spray fly across Lake Michigan, speeding home to Waukegan. Back at his desk, he sent the News-Sun's star feature writer, a girl reporter named Gladys Priddy, to see what was going on at the Country Club...
...weeks later the new Waukegan Post appeared on the street. Only name on the masthead was Frank T. Fowler, listed as director. A onetime Chicago alderman, onetime manager of Waukegan's chamber of commerce, publisher of another short-lived Waukegan journal, 72-year-old Frank Fowler had been living in Tarpon Springs, Fla. until he came back to take charge of the Post...
While all this was going on in Waukegan, Federal investigators had been making things hot for Billy Skidmore and his Chicago gambling syndicate. Last summer Skidmore was indicted, like Al Capone, for income-tax evasion. In August Publisher Just went before a grand jury with his story. In December a former circulation manager of the Post turned over to the grand jury a list of 391 Chicago hoodlums, bookmakers, politicians who, he said, were subscribers to the Post...
Presumably, Chicago gamblers would have no reason to be curious about local news items in Waukegan. But last winter Publisher Moe Annenberg's Nationwide News Service was forced to cut off its racing information to bookmakers and betters (TIME, Nov. 13). A Waukegan newspaper with press wire service could act as an outpost to give Chicago bookies (by telephone) this vital information...