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Suit Charges Pari-Mutuel Laws in Ohio Are Illegal AKRON. Ohio, June 25 UP.— A law suit filed today against the Ascot Park Jockey Club charged that Ohios pari-mutuel laws are illegal and a violation of the United States constitution. Clyde R. Beam, plaintiff in the action who filed the suit in Summit County Common Pleas Court, charged that the race betting law violated a section of the general code which says that "lotteries and sale of lottery tickets . . . shall be prohibited in the state." The suit further contended that the betting law is a violation of the fourteenth amendment, which he quotes as saying that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege or immunity of citizens of the United States." Beam, a former employe of the Baltimore Sc Ohio Railroad, declined to say whether he ever lost any money at the Ascot Park track. Several years ago Beam won a 5,000 judgment against the B. and O. for the loss of both legs in a railroad accident. A 00,-000 suit he brought in 1949 against the brokerage house of Thompson and McKennon for alleged mishandling of his accounts is pending in the Federal Court in Cleveland.
