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1945
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The CO IN MACH INE REVIEW for Februar y, 1945. Vol. 12. No . 7. Published monthly at 1115
Venice Blvd ., Los Angeles 15. Calif. Fitzroy 8269. Pau l W . Blackford ed itor and publisher . NEW
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FICE (I); C. J . And e rson, 35 East Wacker Drive, CENtral 111 2. Entered as Second Cla ss Matter
Ju ly 23, 1936, at the Post O ffice a t Los Angeles, Ca lif., under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIP.
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Akron Law Invalid
Howe Buys Freighter
NCMA Has Busy Year
AKRON, Ohio- This city's new, lon g di~.
puted li censin g ordinance on automati C
phonograph was held invalid by Summit
County Common P leas Judge Fra nk H.
H arvey, in an important decision whi ch
call ed th e measure " un ce rta in and vague"
in many of its essential terms. Harvey is·
sued a perman ent injun ction res training
city officials a nd poli ce from a ttemptin g to
e nforce the measu re whi ch was enacted last
summer and pro vided fo r an a nnual li ce nse
fee of $20 a yea r for eac h box. Measure
simila rl y taxed a ll oth er co in·operated me·
chani cal devices.
Test of th e ordinance was brought by
Th omas W. Butcher, automa ti c phon ogra ph
operator. His attorn eys contend ed th e Ii .
ce nse fee was "obviously excessive and a
subterfuge for a confisca tory tax." . This
point was not pa sed u pon. Howeve r, Jud ge
H arvey did say the city's entire in co me
from all kinds of li censes durin g 1943 was
onl y $21,500, wh ereas the e tim ated annual
inco me from the ph ono meas ure was 30,
000, '·far grea ter tha n all th e oth er li ce nses
the city issues."
The judge held th at th ere had been no
evi dence submitted to i nd ica te th a t th e
p honographs a re a nuisa nce. H e said th e
measure was "ambi guous" in th at it fa il ed
to clearly designate who hould pay th e an·
nu al fee-th e own er, J'ente r, or person who
p layed th e box.
S r onso rs of th e orig in al ordinance h ave
ind ica ted th ey will redra ft th e meas ure to
eliminate th e all eged vagueness an d attemp t
to rut it through on ce more.
HO OLULU-Purcha e of the steam·
ship " Ryder Haify" by R. A. Howe & Co.,
a nd its in te ntion to op erate the vessel be·
tween Hawaii a nd Pacific Coast rorts dur·
in g the wartim e emergency, h as been an·
nounced by A. A. Sack, owner of R . A.
Flowe & Co., di stributors and ma nufa c·
turers re prese ntatives and prom inent deal·
ers in all ty pes of coin·o perated equirment.
Th e vessel is of 2,400 ton s dead we ight
a nd is 235 fee t in overall length. She car·
ries a crew of 28 and wi ll be renamed
"R. A. Howe."
"1 wi sh to emph asize tha t we a re n ot
enterin g th e shirpin g bus iness," sa id Sack.
"Th e vesse l will be u ed only as lon g as
the present shirp ing emergency exists. We
will use it to car ry necess iti e such as feed ,
lumb er, a n merchandi se.
"Th e vessel is of a clas not usa ble by
th e go vernment, and in ava ili ng ou rselves
of th e oppo rtunity to purchase it we hope
to olve a po rti on of this co mp a ny's shi p·
pin g pro bl em ."
Sac k pointed out th a t whil e his fi rm is
sellin g a precedent, th e purcha e was ar·
ra nged in acco rda nce with gove rnment
regul atio ns, a nd th e sa me co urse is o pen
to a ny indi vidua l or co mpa ny wh o mi ght
des ire to en ter into a simil a r enterpri se.
Th e sh ip w ill ca rry no r assenge rs, a nd
fr eight shipped on it will , due to regul a·
tions, be exclu ively th a t of R. A. IIowe
& Co.
CHICAGO- Since th e election of new
ofli cers and th e reorga n ization of the War
Act ivi ties Committee of the ational Co in
Mac hin e Association, whi ch took place in
May of last year, mu ch ha been acco m·
plished. Probably for th e first tim e in th e
h istory of the busin ess, th e Industry has
band ed togeth er in on e unit for on e
Work ing
toge th er
cau se - VICTORY.
solid ly, harmoniou sly, unifi ed for on e pur·
pose. Yes, th e " Write a lette r to a soldier"
ampaign h as been ve ry acti ve a nd quite
successfu l.
Like most organ izations, th e h eavy work
is carri ed on by a few a nd , in thi s case,
th e work of J ack Nelson , presid ent, and
Jac k K eln er, secretary, h as r esulted in
most of the accomp lishm ents achi eved .
ot only have thi s "pa ir of j acks" followed
th rou gh to completion , th e cove ra ge of th e
Co in M ac hin ery Indu stry, but also all ied
bra nch es of the Indust ry. Together with
thi s nation-wid e dis tribution of posters and
letters, th ey ha ve gon e a step furth er in
securin g fo], th e Industry favorable pub·
li city in a mann er whi ch h a not b een
don e in the p as t.
Th e mayors of th e la rgest citi es in th e
U nited S tates have rece ived letters soli c it·
inl! their support a nd th ey h ave r e pond ed
to the good ca use by requ esting po ters of
th e Na tional Coin M achin e Associa tion for
di spl ay in th e c ity hal ls a nd oth er Jlubli c
buil din gs in th e var ious cities. Posters
we re also sent to th e gove rnors of every
sta te in the U ni on to ga in th eir s upport
ill th e " Write a lette r" ca mpa ign spon.
sored by the Wa r Activiti es Committee.
A qua rte r of a milli on posters h ave al.
rea dy bee n dL tributed a nd it is pla nn ed
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