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Coin Slot Magazine - #056 - 1979 - October [International Arcade Museum]
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Recent laws signed by King include:
- A bill authorizing life insurance companies
to increase by one-third — from 6 percent to 8
percent - the maximum interest charged on loans
to policy-holders.
- A bill providing real estate tax breaks for
new
hydroelectric
alternative
energy
facilities.
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- A bill broadening one defense facet on gam
bling charges involving aged slot machines.
The
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act states it shall be a defense to prosecution if
it is shown that it was an antique slot machine
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not operated for gambling purposes while in the
defendant's possession.
An antique slot machine
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by Stephen P. AS pert
most interesting chapters in the
In 1923 he was wounded by Oscar Jahnsen of the
history of gambling in the United States is the
Treasury Department in a Shootout which took
One of the
story of the fleet if gambling ships anchored in
place at Sunset and Fairfax in Los Angeles.
international waters off the southern California
fond of high stakes gambling, Tony was known
coast, just beyond the three-mile limit.
as the ''Admiral" in gambling circles because of
The most
prominent entrepreneur operating the gambling
Very
his steamship bootlegging operation.
ships was Tony Cornero, a big-time southern Cali
Cornero was dubbed "Rum Krng of Southern
fornia gambler.
California" in 1926 by Winona F. Houston, who
Born
Anthony Cornero Stralla on a farm in
sued him for $150,000 in a breach of projnise
Piedmont Italy in 1900, he came to the United
action.
States at age five.
running days.
Tony had a lifelong affinity
He held this title for the rest of his rum-
A great problem developed later
with ships and the sea, which eventually lead to
that year, when California's assistant attorney gen
his gambling ship ventures.
eral
One of his first jobs
Mabel Walker Williebrandt launched a coast-,
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He circled
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six others.
However the authorities had a
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the globe sixteen times as
a
sailor,
oiler,
difficult
time
finding
Cornero.
For three years
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a
second engineer.
he
moved
around
via
his
steamships,
avoiding the
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law
as
he
continued
smuggling
liquor
into the
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became California's biggest rumrunner. He obtain
declaring "I've turned over a new leaf and I want
was that of a coal passer, carrying coal from the
wide liquor cleanup crusade, and indicted Cornero
bunkers to the furnaces on steamships.
ed several steamships and smuggled liquor into
to be a good boy."
the country from Vancouver, B. C. and Mexico.
conspiracy and income tax evasion, and was con-
Copyright 1979 Stephen P. Alpert
The International
Arcade
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Tony pleaded guilty to liquor
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