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Show LAND IS REFUSES TO ENFORCE MANN ACT FREEPOTtT, Ills., March 1. After hearing testimony in the case of George Iteitzell, indicted five years ago for violation vio-lation of the Mann act, Judge K. M. I.an-dis I.an-dis today sentenced him to "sit for five minutes in a chair in this courtroom." At tho end of thirty seconds the judge commuted the sentence and told Reit-zell Reit-zell he was free. The court said the primary ohject of the Mann act was to stop commercialized vice, rather than to punish for persona! indiscretions. |