April 1935
COIN MACHINE REVIEW
Page 73
National News Notes
(Continued from page 13)
games is legal and does not make the
machines gambling devices, according to
a ruling by Municipal Judge Carroll of
Minneapolis.
An intere ting feature of the "Little
World's Fair" at Detroit i a game room
operated on tbe arcade style by Iarshall·
Lemke, Inc.
A branch office at 84 High treet in
Hartford, Conn., ha been opened by the
nited Automatic ale Co., Inc., of ew
York.
Ben D. Palastrant of the upreme Vend·
ing Co. of Boston announces the firm'
appointment as distri butor . for the mer-
chandisers of the orthwestern Corporation
of Morri, Ill., and for products of the
H. C. Evans Co. and Pierce Tool & Mfg.
Co.
at Cohn and Irving Sommer have in-
stalled new furniture in their private office
of the Modern ending Co. of ew York.
Barber shop a location for pin game,
with players competing for fir t chance at
the chair, is a plan ad"ocated by George
Ro en, enterpri ing Detroit op.
An annual fee of $5000 for roulette
wheels and 250 a year for pin games is
sugge ted in a bill introduced in the Wis·
consin a embly by Assemblyman John
O'Malley of Milwaukee to legalize gam-
bling and at the same time include skill
game !
The Pacific Amusement Distributing Co.
has opened an office at 4402 Olive treet
in t. Louis in connection with its ash·
ville bu ine .
uperior Paper Products Company, sales-
board manufacturers of Peoria, nl., ha a
new office at 1603 outh Michigan Boule·
vard in hi cago.
Catchy logans to ell the public on play-
ing pinball are printed on ticket is ued
by Traffic, Bally's new ticket game.
Murray Goldstein, business manager of
the Amusement Men's As ociation,
ew
York organization for sportland owner,
was pre ented with a gold watch at the
AMA annual dinner dance March 12 at th
Ca ino de Paree.
peaking of sportlands, a new idea for
cutting down on the number of people
who crowd uch places yet pend no money
has been put into ucces ful execution by
the JAK firm in its Paris amusement ma-
chine palace. A mall admission fee is as·
se sed, in return for wruch the customer is
given slug which may be played in the
machines.
Here's a truly liberal editor. In his Do-
muuon ews of Morgantown, W. a., he
writes editorially that while he hold no
brief for slot mach ines at lea t th ey are
out in the open and a Ie harmful type
of gambling than other form.
A third branch of the American ending
Co. of Brooklyn and
ewark has been
opened at 208 E sex treet in Hackensack,
N.J.
And now for another good example of
favorable publicity for modern pinball
game . The Chicago Tribune described the
industry in a front page story March 12,
the last of a eries on leading Chicago in·
dusu-ies by Arthur Evans.
The first sportland in Indiana came in
for a good play in the local new paper
wben it wa opened MaJ,"ch 9 at 411 Frank-
lin
treet in Michigan City. Karl A.
Kanney i head of the establishment.
To test public opinion in Wyoming on
gambling. Attorney·General Ray E. Lee ha -
ordered strict observance of anti-gambling
laws, which affect church bazaars, raffies
and other similar chemes along with lot
machine.
Another court verdict favorable to pin
games resulted in the return of a game to
Frank Lafayette of Burlington, Vermont,
and dismissal of bis case after a ruling
the game wa not a gambling device.
A large and enthu iastic meeting of the
Amalgamated Vending Machine Operator '
S ociation of
ew York followed the reo
tum of the ew York op from the Chjcago
show.
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Hermosa Beach Upholds
Ban Against Tango Game
HERMO A BEACH, Calif.-Thi city's
amusement zone will remain gamele s, the
city council voted, in upholding a ban on
tango and similar chip games in keeping
with a long-established ruling.
The council's vote had the effect of turn-
ing down thou and of dollars of income
for the city on an offer of William taley
of Los Angele to erect a large pavilion
to house all the game and to pay a fee of
1000 monthly on each. Th council vote
wa plit three to two.
Pacific Rushes
Output of Time
CHICAGO-Pacific Amusement Manu-
facturing Company has had a full three
week run on its new game, Time, and
is ju t beginning to get caught up with the
rush of advance order, THE REVIEW' rep-
re entative learned on a recent visit to the
P AMCO factory here.
Fred McClellan, president of the firm,
announced tbat the increa ed production
efforts had met with uccess and the com·
pany is now able to fill all orders for the
popular game.
A number of Roto -Lite and the new
Baby Lite-A·Line game were also on dis·
play and the a embly lines were being put
in readiness for peedy production on
these games in the near future.
Popular demand for the 4O·inch Synchro
table game resulted in an increased turnout
on thi model.
The e game now give P AMCO jobber
and di tributor a complete line of ma-
chine in the fuJI price range.