DROP OAKLAND CASES
SEATTLE TEST CASE
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P ayout games at stake fol-
lowing state ban on s lots.
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Pin game location owners
freed of charges In East Bay
court.
SEATTLE.-Althou/!h straight pin games
without payout mechanism were virtually
unmolested, a test charge was filed Janu-
ary 27th by Deputy Pro~ecutor John G.
Lund in King county court as the latest
move in a campaign that started with a
general order January 24th by Governor
Clarence D. Martin placing a state-wide
ban on slot machines and one-shot pay ta-
bles.
Thus the pin games were drawn into a
situation that was precipitated by news-
paper exploitation of a statement by 19-
year-old Robert M. Burgunder Jr. that he
held up a drug store January 20th to cover
gambling losses. The newspapers played
up the youth's casual reference to slot ma-
chines, dragged them into pathetic ac-
counts of how the Boy Scout turned to
crime, and spread pictures of him and of
a group of confiscated slot machines. Ac-
tually, the boy's father, former prosecuting
attorney of King's coun ty, attributed the
hold-up to the boy's acquaintance with
such methods through hearing criminals
questioned in the prosecutor's office.
OAKLAND, Calif.-The final move in
the recent flurry over skill games in this
city came January 23rd with the dismissal
of four police-court cases by 'Police Judge
E. J .. Tyrrell for lack of evidence.
The cases were defended by the East
Bay Sales Association, local operators'
group, for which Attorney Wilbur Pierce
is counsel. They were among 17 cases
which came up last November.
While state patrolmen were carrying out
th e drive against slot machines, Belling-
ham continued its $100 annual license fee
per machine with no limit on the number
of machines. The town of Sumas adopted
an ordinance January 18th placing a $40
annual fee on slots, with a limit of two
per location.
The pin games were drawn into the pic-
ture because Prosecutor Warren G. Mag-
nuso n claimed the one-shot pay tables
were "camouflaged" slot machines. He in·
stituted a test case on a Ten Grand mach-
ine January 23rd in Justice Gay B. Knott's
court. The press quoted the manufactur-
er's advertising of excessive earning power.
Police said they had not molested the ma-
chin es because they paid out in slugs only.
Th e subsequent test case of the 27th. in-
volved a Whirlpool pin game. Deputy
Prosecutor Lund said the move was direct-
ed only at games on which free game
awards were paid in cash or merchandise.
No wholesale confiscation of pin games was
anticipated. Result of the court tests was
to determine future action.
Up San Francisco way E. B. Rice reads
THE REVIEW.
STRENGTH IN UNITY
• A. H. Bechtol tells of benefits
through co-operation of voters .
CHICAGO.-A. H. Bechtol of Daytona
Beach, Florida, remained for some time
after the Convention period to report on
benefits derived from the organization of
merchants, storekeepers and business men,
who support State Operators' Associations
in behalf of regulations, laws, taxation and
other items favorable to practical, profitable
and constant operation of coin controlled
products.
Every modern industry fe els the neces-
sity of enlisting the moral support and
backing of as many individuals and VOT-
ERS as can possibly be mustered in support
of a reasonable attitude toward their
means of livelihood or substantial portions
of their income. Lawmakers, enforcement
officials or persons in a position to regu-
late the operation of coin controlled equip-
ment, are only human. They usually at-
tempt to satisfy as many persons as pos-
sible. They usually feel that our equip-
ment is not actually favored by any con-
siderable volume of business men, because
practically no effort has ever been made
to assemble the facts and offer them in evi-
dence_
When such organized effort has been
made, it has not failed to produce material
benefits in a single instance. The only
means available to our industry to organize
a large block of sincere business men is
by the operators, and fortunately it is a far
easier job than can be imagined. The
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