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T HE fact that two Washington, D. C.
clergymen saw no harm in an occasional
game of pin ball was one of the deciding
factors in an opinion handed down by
Judge Steplhen J. Casey, in Providence, R .
1., approving the games and classifying
them as games of skill and Ecience. Deci·
sion, said to be one of the most far·reach·
ing ever given in a Rhode Island court
case came after several games were brought
in to court and demonstrated to the satis·
faction of Judge Casey.
Operators in Erie, Pa., are wearing broad
Emiles this month. Alderman Paul Watson
gave them a clean bill of healoh when he
ruled that pin games are not gambling
devices when they are operated for amuse·
ment onl y.
The membership card plan, talked of by
the New York operator organizations a few
mo nths ago, is now in effect. Showcards
have been hung in all the leading jobbing
qffices announcing that all operators will
be asked to show a membership identifica·
tion card before making purchases. Plan
went into' effect on Feb. 10th.
The police department of Hartford,
Conn., is now censoring all new pin games
entering the city under a co·operative ar·
rangement made with them by the Hart·
ford operators. The operators have prom·
ised the police not to buy and operate any
games that the department believes not to
be games of skill.
The Mardi Gras in New Orleans always
means a spurt in business for coin machine
operators and this year's ;Iffair was no
exception. The operators report exceed·
ingly satisfactory business.
Showing enterprise in being the first op·
erating firm to do so the Seiden Company
has opened purohasing offices at 2753 West
North Ave., in Chicago. Henry W. Seiden
& Co., operate extensively in the east and
the Chicago office will supply the branch
offices with all the latest equipment and
give faster delivery than ever before.
Jack Maloney, bhe hustling head of the
National
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PACE EXEC DUE
- H a rold Ba k er,
v ic e - presi de nt
of th e Pace Mfg.
Co . of Ch ic a go (shown on th e e x t r e m e
righ t) sent t h is photo gra ph to H a n k
Mase r , c oast m a n a g er fo r P a c e, In a d-
v a nce of Ba k er' s f o r th c om ing 't ri p West.
But H a n k w a nts to kn ow w ho is the b r u -
nette a nd how come, J oa n?
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Panther Novelty Co., in Fort Worth, Texas,
is pleased with the general increase in busi-
ness in his two offices. Jack is one of the
big ops in the south and is, constantly
adding new spots through his lavish use of
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new equipment as fast as it makes its ap·
pearance on the market.
So many operators come in from so many
distant points Al Schlesinger has found it
f advisable to put in a luncheonette service
in his jobbing offices in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Al recently opened a department devoted
to club equipment exclusively.
Harry Turner and Abe Kolber have com·
bined together and are now known as the
Consolidated Amusement Co., with offices
at 711 South Ervay street in Dallas.
Operators in Dallas county, Texas, have
paid the state $12,000.00 up to February
first for equipment purchased during Jan-
uary, 1936.
Evidence that things are moving along
nicely in Detroit comes to the front with
the announcement tlhis month that B. J.
Marshall, Detroit jobber, has moved to new
and larger quarters at 3730 Wonrlward
avenue, across from Orchestra Hall. In
the new spot B. 1. will have 12,030 fee t of
space.
The Ideal Novelty Co., of St. Louis, has
taken over the entire operating and job-
bing business of the Veatch Specialty Co.,
of Mt. Vernon, Ill. The Ideal firm in tends
to maintain separate offices for the route of
machines .in Mt. Vernon .
Clarence (Buddy) Drollinger, son of
Harry Drollinger, underwent a major oper-
ation as the last REVIEW was going to
press. Lad is a student at the A. & M.
Military School, College Station, Texas,
and we are pleased to learn that he is on
the road to complete recovery from the
appendicitis operation.
Half of Chicago's coin machine prom i·
nents were in attendance at the big open·
ing of the Sicking-Gerber & Glassiobbing
offices in Cleveland, Ohio, on Feb. 15th.
New $50,000 showrooms are among most
beautiful in the business.
WINS RESTRAINER
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Ro y Peck opposes pin gam e
inte rferen c e in T a com a.
TACOMA, Wash.-Roy D. Peck of the
Peck Amusement Co. was granted an or·
der from Superior Judge Ernest M. Card
on February 16th restraining Public Safety
Commissioner Frank T. Callender and
Police Chief Harold P. Bird from inter-
fering with payout pin games.
Peck based his petition on the contention
that his 38 pin tables are games of skill
and charged that the city officials were
threatening to confiscate them. Hearing
was to ,have been held February 27th.
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