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NEW YORK. The world feather - weight boxing champion. Willie Pep, today filed a $603,000 damages action against the Nationwide Air Transport Service, Inc., on the grounds thajjf he was ently and partially disabled” as a result of a spine injury suffered in a crash exactly a yearago. Three were killed and 20 injured in the crash. Pep has won 10 fights since the crash. His manager, Louis Vixcuxi, who was also injured, has already filed a claim for $200,000 damages.—(ll a.m.)
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Northern Advocate, 6 January 1948, Page 4
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