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Show uU "BATTLING" NELSON INVOKES MANN ACT. Chicago, April 17. Prosecution of Joe Howard, actor husband of the late Irma Kllgallen Howard, on a charge of violating the Mann act was demanded demand-ed today by Oscar "Battling" Nelson, the pugilist Nelson made his complaint to Hln-ton Hln-ton G. Clabaugh, divisional chief of tho department of justice investigation investiga-tion bureau, and later said ho had named a former sweetheart of Howard's How-ard's as tho woman in the case. "I am out to get Howard's scalp because be-cause of his attitude and his coln-monts coln-monts since the sulcldo of Irma Kil-gallen," Kil-gallen," said Nelson. "Sho cannot defend de-fend herself, so It is up to hor friends to do something. And sho and I were kids together." Howard has cancelled all his theatrical theatri-cal engagements. |