Denver
The showing of the new Wurlitzer Model
1015, January 7th and 8th, by the Wolf
Sales Co. marked a new high in the interest
of operators. Showings were held in the
Denver headquarters of the company; Phoe·
nix, Ariz., at the Adams Hotel; El Paso,
Texas, at the Cortez Hotel: Salt Lake City,
at the Hotel Utah.
There was a large and enthusiastic turn·
out of operators at each of the cities, and
they were all highly pleased with this new
Wurlitzer Model 1015 and auxiliary equip-
ment.
Buffet lunches were served to the oper-
ators at all of the showings.
The company already has new locations
in El Paso, Phoenix and Salt Lake City,
where offices are being opened. Bl,l ildings
are in process of being remodeled and
will be ready very shortly.
The branch manager at EI Paso, Texas,
is J. E. Briggs; at Salt Lake City, C. K.
Dart; at Phoenix, J. C. Confer. And they
are all on the job awaiting completion of
the offices.
Warren Heberling, Field Service Repre-
sentative and Howard Hold, Service Man-
ager, were sent to the Wurlitzer factory for
schooling on the new Wurlitzer Phonograph
and remote control equipment.
In Denver, the show rooms have been
remodeled, newly painted and fluorescent
lighting installed thruout. The front of the
store building is also to be remodeled as
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MACHINI soon as materials are available.
Robert Talpers, who recently returned
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with the rank of Captain in the Quarter-
masters Corps of the Army, is again in
civilian life, and has been added to the
\ Wolf Reiwitz staff, in the accounting de-
partment.
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Mildred Simon has joined the office
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force of the company in the capacity of
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stenographer, and Harold E. Naeb has been
added to the service department.
Nicely settled in its new quarters on
Welton St., Modern Distributing Co. has
everything ready and waiting to go as soon
as new goods arrive. There is ample space
in the new quarters for all departments of
the business to be conveniently and effi-
ciently handled.
The company is anxiously awaiting the
arrival of the new Rock-Olas, which it de-
clares is one of the BEST-and ALL NEW
-except the name. Many orders are on
file awaiting arrival of the machines and a
big business is expected as soon as they
come in.
E. H. Cahill, formerly with Modern
Distributing, has now returned to Denver
after serving over four years in the Navy.
His associates declare that despite his size
(he is tall and quite sizable) he escaped
without a casualty during the entire time
of his service, with the exception of a
bump on his head occasioned by dodging
during an attack.
Leo Negri said that all told seven men
from the Modern Distributing Co. force
had been in the armed services and that
all of them have returned. Frank Mazzone
recently returned to his post after a vaca-
tion of two weeks spent at his home. Fred
Y oshoioka, head of the service department
is the proud father of a baby girl who
arrived just one day ahead of Christmas.
W. E. Walker of the Walker Music
Company reports that he is now nicely
located in his new quarters, formerly occu-
pied by Modern Distributing, and that he
now has an assistant in the business, Neal
Tait, who has just returned from the Mer-
chant Marine and has made up his mind
that he wants to work for a music com-
pany.
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Walker also reports that he has recently
put up a brand new sign on his store.
Mrs. Nilla King, partner in the Black-
well Distributing Co., reports that the firm
is getting prepared for a big business in
the future, but that up to the present they
are still awaiting new show models of the
Aireon Automatic Phonograph. As soon as
they arrive, invitations will be sent out to
the trade.
Frances Conrey
Gutshall Planes E'a st
LOS ANGELES-Jack Gutshall of the
Gutshall Distributing Co., TWA'd out on
January 9th for a three-week visit to most
of the key cities in the East and Middle
West in behalf of the phonograph records
the Gutshall organization distributes. Jack
expects to appoint several distributorships
and will visit Chicago, Indianapolis, Wash-
ington, Philadelphia, New York, Boston,
Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis, Birming-
ham, Macon, Dallas and Houston and many
others.
He intends to be on hand in Kansas City
January 21st for the Aireon instruction
school and will be joined then by Mrs.
Gutshall who will accompany him on the
balance of his trip. Jack also plans to spend
some time with Senator Capehart in Wash-
ington.
Osborn Turkey Turns
OAKLAND-It was a nice Christmas
for DeLoss Osborn, of Osborn Distributing
Co. Among the many gifts he received
was a beautiful lighter from Bob Walker,
Air.eon president, whose line DeLoss will
distribute in Northern California. But
Aireon went even further. They sent De-
Loss a big Christmas turkey which arrived
at his local address while he was in Los
Angeles for the holidays. Mter four days
the Express delivered a very smelly bird
to a friend of Osborn's who did the kind
thing and buried it.
AMI in Capri
CHICAGO - Doc Eaton, general sales
manager of AMI, recently received a photo-
graph of an automatic AMI musical instru-
ment being serviced on location in an Army
Air Forces Rest Hotel on the Isle of Capri.
Photo arrived from Major Ira T. Byram,
prominent coin machine man of Washing-
ton, D. C., who took it with a captured
German camera. "Just proves AMI skirts
the globe," wrote the Major.
Lesnick Opens Branch
BALTIMORE-Musical Sales Co., See-
burg distributor in Maryland, Washington,
and Virginia, announces the opening of a
branch office at 415 West Broad Street,
Richmond, Virginia. The branch will be
headed by Dick Lawrence, a former Navy
officer. The service department will be
under the direction of Edgar Thorn.
According to Mack Lesnick, head of
Musical, the new building has 35,000 square
feet of space and affords complete service,
showroom, and warehouse facilities.
$7,000 A Drink
LOS ANGELES-Loud has been the com-
plaints about drinks at a buck or a buck-
fifty and two bucks on New Year's Eve but
louder will be the wailing if Jack Gutshall
takes a drink of hard "likker" betwix now
and March 1st, for if he does that single
drink will cost him a cool grand.
Here's the story-and exclusive, too! Bill
Simmons has bet Jack a thousand dollars
he can't last until March 1st. Jack contends
he can and has pledged his thousand. At
this writing he is doing right well on milk
and coffee. Will it last? Watch this column
for late rel?orts.
Washburn With Capehart
LOS ANGELES-Chas. E. Washburn has
been appointed Regional Sales Manager for
the new Capehart phonograph and acces-
sories to be manufactured by the Packard
Manufacturing Corp. Washburn will have
the states of California, Arizona and Ne-
vada.
According to Gladys Washburn,. the new
Pla-Mor boxes will be ready for delivery
immediately and the new phonographs are
expected about the first of April.
The Washburn organization expects to
move to their new building on March Ist_
Carpenters and painters will start remodel-
ing and modernizing work the 1st of Feb-
ruary. New building will be used for show-
rooms, offices and distributing headquarters
for new lines. The present quarters will be
retained and will be used for jobbing mar-
ble tahles, consoles, slots and other coin-
operated devices.
Eaton Has Snake Rings
CHICAGO-Doc Eaton, personable gen-
eral sales manager of AMI, is a collector
of snake rings and is said to have one of
the finest collections in existence.
Almost all of Doc's snake rings are of
solid gold combined with solid platinum.
In seven trips around the world, he was
able to buy specimens for his collection,
which numbers several hundred, in Hono-
lulu, Hongkong, Canton, Cairo, Ceylon, Cal-
cutta, and in fact all the great cities of the
world.
New Instrument Metal
OREGON, m.-The musical instrument
of tomorrow can be pushed around easily
by the frailest of individuals, according to
a claim of John Parnham, of the Schiller-
Cable Piano Co.
Parnham said the post-war instrument
will be made with an aluminum-alloy plate,
instead of the orthodox cast-iron plate, re-
ducing its weight about 75 pounds. New
process, he said, is borrowed from a con-
struction secret of the B·29 bomber in-
dustry.
Sandler Building
DES MOINES-Irving R. Sandler, dis-
tributor for Aireon Manufacturing Corp. in
Iowa, Northern Nebraska, and Northern
Missouri, is having a new building con-
structed at no Eleventh Street, Des Moines.
All of the latest display, shop and testing
equipment will be included. The company
is temporarily located at 317 Eighth Street.
Martin Stanton, a former Mayflower man,
will be in charge of the service depart-
ment. Sandler announces that the firm will
have a veterans' employment program. San-
dler was formerly the sales manager for the
Mayflower Distributing Co. of Des Moines.
New Coin Changer
CHICAGO-The Johnson Ferre Box Co.
is offering manufacturers a new-type coin
changer called the Harris Coin Changer.
The machine, designed to become a part
of a vending machine, will both vend
the product and give the proper change.
Accepting nickels, dimes and quarters,
change is given in the form of nickels
in order to encourage further htsertions
during the day.
Salesmanager Appointed
NEW YORK-Standard Phono Co., man-
ufacturers and sole distributors of the Stan-
dard label records, has appointed J. Cam-
eron Gordon as general sales manager.
Gordon has considerable experience in
the field having been former sales manager
for RCA Victor distributors in Nl'w Eng-
land for a number of years.