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Pacific Coin Machine
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PAULW.
BLACKFORD
Editor and
Publisher
Publication
Office:
1113 Venice
Boulevard
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Fitzroy 8269
25 Cents Per Copy
One Year . .. One Dollar
Published at Los Angeles, Califo rnia, during the first week of each month for distribution to operators of coin controlled
eqUipment from coast·to-coast and with a 95% coverage of the eleven states west of the Rocky Mountains
National Ops Invited to Coast Show
Minnesota May
Have Slot Bill
Event Follows
San Diego, Fair
T. PAUL-Passage of a bill introduced
by enator J. L. McLeod to legalize slot
machine in Minnesota was recommended
by the enate committee on legislation af-
ter enator McLeod had told the committee
that it was planned to permit communities
to regulate use of the devices.
The tate tax would be $50 yearly per
machine, with each city empowered to in-
voke its own licen e fees. Some senator
indicated they might include pin tables in
the scope of the bill.
LOS A GELES-Eyes of rue nation's
operators are beginning to focus in the
general direction of this "pin game capital
of the West" as plans go forward for the
second annual Pacific Coast Coin Machine
how to be held here the first week in
September.
Double intere t is offered ruose attending
the coast show this year because the coin
machine display will be on just at the
close of the California Pacific International
Exposition at an Diego and thousands of
operators will gather here to take in both
events. pecial transportation rates will be
in effect.
An iJivitation is being extended to the
National Operators' Association to hold its
annual meeting here during the coast show,
and the committee in charge is arranging
to provide an auditorium free of charge
for the use of the operators. Their meet-
ings and programs will be conducted solely
by opera tors.
According to tentative plans just an-
nounced, the 1935 exposition will be held
in the spacious display hall of the famed
Amba sador Hotel, which offers ample
space for the grouping of exhibits under
one roof. With the placing already of 27
reservations for booths, more than half the
total number taken for the 1934 show, it
is believed that the number of booths for
the eptember show will exceed 125.
Entertainment, one of the drawing cards
of tbe 1934 show that still has the western
coin machine men talking, is being ar-
ranged on an even larger scale this year.
An innovation will be the inauguration
of the annual National Operators Golf
Championship, with one morning devoted
to competition for a huge perpetual trophy
put up by Paul W. Blackford, publisher
of THE REVIEW. Another outdoor event
that promises to attract wide attention will
be the staging of a water carnival in the
large Ambassador pool. Olympic Game
stars will provide exhibition diving and
swimming events.
The affair will be brought to a close at
the annual banquet and entertainment for
which the show committee again will take
over the entire facilitie of the famou
Cafe de Paree night spot. Cream of the
stage and creen talent of Hollywood and
the Pacific Coast will provide the entertain·
ment, augmented by a large dance orches·
tra and pecial floor show acts of the type
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Drollinger l Tax
Fi"ght Appealed Milwaukee Jury
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DALLA
Further appeal of Harry 1.
Drollinger and other Texa
operators
against the state tax on coin machines ha
resulted in a continuance of tlle injunction
they had obtained to prevent the Texas
tax collectors from levying on the ma-
chines.
Although the injunction was dismis ed
by action of the 98th District Court at
Au tin, Drollinger filed further appeal on
the grounds the tax bill di criminated be-
tween coin machines, exempting such types
as pay toilets. Posting of super edeas bond
served in effect to continue the injunction.
ew tax legislation approved by the
operators is now before the state legisla-
ture.
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Alabama Is-Ready
F or State Fight
BIRMI GRAM- Efforts to check some
of the adverse results of the recent tate
upreme Court decision before convening
of the state legislature April 30 are being
made by Alabama operators "through the
formation of a state as ociation.
Max Horwitch, 1902 Eighth Avenue,
orth Birmingham, is secretary of the or-
ganization, which is becoming statewide
in scope following a meeting held Febru-
ary 24th at the Tutweiler Hotel.
Funds are being raised to assi t in the
fight to obtain more progre ive laws gov-
erning kill games .
MIL WA KEE-In an important test
ca e on pinball games before municipal
court here, a jury of seven men and five
women ruled that playing rue game is an
art requiring skill and acquitted Dion
Condo, a cigar store proprietor, of a
charge of pos essing a gambling devise.
Condos previously had been found guilty
and fined 25 by Judge G. E. Page in
di trict court, and the victory in munici-
pal court wa significant becau e the city
offered the same evidence in each instance.
After the verdict the city attorneys, Wil -
liam Quick and Arthur Hellerman, chal·
lenged the defense attorney, J. A. Padway
and Michael Klein, to a game on Condos'
table to prove that luck dominated. Pad·
way and Klein' skillful shots won out for
a second victory in the case.
is the closing date for the
May issue of
The REVIEW
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AU copy and cuts intended
for the I\lay number mu t be
in Lo Angeles by May 5.
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