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FBI Raids Big Gambling Operation $55,000 Seized, Agents Arrest 100 READING, Pa. W Sledgehammer-wielding federal agents smashed into a downtown build ing Saturday and broke up a huge gambling operation. . Armed with automatics, more than 100 FBI agents ripped bars from windows and broke down the front door to surprise ' more than 100 patrons at three dice tables. They seized $55, 000, arrested 100 persons as ma terial witnesses and five on charges of supervising the big games. Four others, one at home in Reading and three at their New Jersey homes were picked up in connection with the games, de scribed by agents as one of the largest operations on the East Coast. Later, the FBI announced the arrest of a man charged with being a supervisor of the games. They picked up James (Lefty) Gatto, 52, of Philadelphia, and took him before a U.S. commis sioner. In Washington, J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, said an Investigation determined the gambling games had been oper ated continuously since mid November, 1961. The raid was rd by J. T. O'Kcefe, a U.S. at torney, and Thomas McBride, special attorney of the organ ized crime and racketeering section of the Justice Depart ment. At a hearing before U.S. Com missioner Fred Steinrock, the material witnesses were re leased on from $25 to $100 bail for an appearance in Philadel phia Monday before a federal grand jury. At least 27 of the 100 were accused of operating the game. , : 'Russian Holiday' To Show Tuesday The full length Soviet-made documentary film, "Russian Holiday," will be shown at the Mayflower Theatre Tuesday at 7 and 8:30 p.m. The showing will be spon sored by the South Eugene High School gymnastic team and Phi Epsilon Kappa. Admission will be $1 for adults, and 50 cents for students. Tickets are avail able at the physical education departments of South Eugene High and the University of Oregon. m MONTGOMERY WARD SALE! deluxe suits tailored of wool worsteds . . . ALTERATIONS INCLUDED PRICED PHENOMENALLY LOW FOR SUITS OF THIS SUPERB QUALITY! Here's one of Wards best suit buys ever at 31.88 , . . specially bought to bring you value big enough to cheer about! Select today's most populor models care fully tailored in deluxe quality wool worsteds usually found in much more ex pensive suits. Many hand-detailed fea tures. Latest patterns and colors in group. Regulars, shorts, and longs. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED or your money bock I or Daytime Svnday ijurw Show Hish Tmpfofwr Weather Outlook Emerald Empire Weather Forecasts Eugene - Springfield fore cast: Partly cloudy Sunday and Sunday night with con tinued cold. High Sunday 30; Low Sunday night 14. West ern Oregon: Same forecast. Statistics (readings at the U. S. Weather Bureau, Mah lon Sweet Airport, Eugene): Highest temperature Satur day, 25; lowest Saturday morning, 12; precipitation in 24 hours ending 4 p.m. .04 of an inch; total for January 1.39 inches; average for January, 5.41 inches; readings at 4 p.m. Saturday; humidity, 56 per cent; wind, N 22. Prevailing wind Friday, N 21.2. Stage of rivers at 7 a.m. Sat urday, Willamette at EWEB Steam Plant, 11.7 feet; Mc Kenzie at Armitage Bridge, 2.7 feet. Sunrise and sunset: Sunday, Udall and Oregon Woodmen to Meet WASHINGTON UPt Rep. Edith Green, D-Ore., said Saturday that Interior Secretary Stewart Udall has agreed to meet with a group of Oregon lumbermen Feb. 1 to discuss the industry's problems. She said other cabinet officers are expected to attend, Expct4 (AP Wlrephoto) Precipitation is expected in the Pacific Plateau as well as the area eastward through the Mississippi Valley and part of the Lakes area. Snow is expected north of the Central Plains and Plateau regions and mid-Mississippi Valley with rain in south ern areas and the southern Pacific coast. 7:41 a.m. and 5:08 p.m.; Mon day, 7:40 a.m. and 5:09 p.m. By ASSOCIATED PRESS Mln. 4 2 34 -24 24 19 3 14 9 Max. Anchonga 14 Albuquerqu 57 Atlanta SI Bismarck -s Boise M Boston 2S Chicago IS Cleveland 20 Denver 25 Detroit 24 Fairbanks -5 Tort Worth 2S Galveston 48 Helena - Honolulu 84 Kansas City 11 Las Vegas M Los Angeles M Miami Beach 80 Mnpls.-St. Paul . -4 New Orleans 51 New York 32 Omaha 0 Phoenix 72 Reno 47 Sacramento 50 Salt Lake City 48 San Diego 57 San Francisco 49 Seattle 28 Washington 40 Prep. 11 M 14 43 -17 74 -5 41 -24 45 28 -14 40 28 33 18 26 She said she arranged the con ference to discuss a sharp reduc tion in the sale of West Coast lumber of the East Coast mark et. Some major lumber concerns have either curtailed production or shut down their mills, result ing in unemployment, she said, i f.: NO MONEY DOWN when V -' n J7 lliw .4 if If W : iv ;'- .'a w Ly. V'ljk teta ffcnSX WtAffilfiSUiAJ Veneta Man Comes Out 60 Ft. Down 'Midst all the reports of serious injuries In weather connected accidents during the past three days, comes a story that's news because there were no serious in juries. Harold Bowman, 40, of Rt. 2, Box 73, Veneta, was headed toward the coast on Route F Friday, driving an empty log truck carrying the truck's trailer. Near the foot of Bad ger Mountain, about a mile east of Walton, the truck sud dently went out of control on the icy road. The truck spun around twice, turned over, and plum meted over the edge of the road into a canyon 50 or 60 feet below. The trailer was thrown through the air and into the canyon, landing up Iside down. The truck cab, with Bow man still inside, finally landed right-side up on top of the overturned trailer at the can yon bottom. Bowman crawled out with only a few bruises from the rough trip down. OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT 'TIL 9 P.M. " .f Vitt.f you buy on credit ol Wards Bitter Cold Grips Deep Snows Plug Western Highways Br ASSOCIATED PRESS A blizzard blasted most of the West Saturday, heavy snows temporarily closing transcontinental U.S. highways 40 and 50 at a number of places from Utah Gradually clearing weather was in prospect for Sunday. Bitter cold gripped the northern half of the nation, night tem peratures dipping to as much Record sub-zero marks were recorded in some cities. Treacherous pavement, gale-force winds and low visibility caused traffic deaths and property damage from Canada to cen tral California. Motorists in some mountain areas were stranded a few hours. A 30-inch snowfall forced postponement of a professional ski meet at the Sugar Bowl near Norden, Calif. Winds there reached 7U miles per hour. The storm began losing its punch by mid-day Saturday but snow flurries persisted in many areas. The storm front, moving rap idly from the northwest, hit Salt Lake City shortly before noon accompanied, oddly, by light ning. Visibility dropped to a half block within minutes. Gale winds smashed British Columbia Friday, ripping roofs from buildings and shattering windows at Victoria, B.C. The storm skirted much of Washington state Saturday, but it was cold and windy. Drifts up to 6 feet deep were being cleared in northwest Washing ton. California, Oregon, Nevada and Utah bore the brunt of the sudden storm. In Northern Cali fornia sections of U.S. 40 were closed a while in the Sierra, with traffic backed up for miles on both sides of Donner Pass. The Utah Highway Patrol halted westbound traffic on U.S. 40 and 50 at Grantsville, some 30 miles west of Salt Lake City. Chains were required in most mountain areas from there west ward. In Las Vegas, in southern Ne vada, high winds kicked up a dust storm, but only minor dam age was reported. anon jaBWBfy CSewie I LAST OUR LOWEST PRICES FOR '" I 1 FINE FURNITURE I II and TOP QUALITY APPLIANCES! I 11 AS Y n OPEM FRIDAY NIGHT TIL 9 I I I I DELVERY I 388 I II I (in this oreo) 1203 -irUCTTE J Northern U.S. to California's Sierra Nevada. as 36 below zero in Minnesota. Thieves Stage Daring Raid VANCOUVER, B.C. W) In one of the most daring day light robberies in Vancouver in recent years three masked gun men looted a downtown whole sale jewelry firm of $30,000 in jewels Saturday and fled into noon shopping crowds. Police later arrested three suspects in an East End apart ment block and seized a quan tity of diamonds and other jew elry, a toy pistol and part of a silk stocking. The gunmen, one carrying a sawed-off shotgun and another a pistol raided Hawken and Company, a jewelry cutting and setting firm. They wore stock ing masks. The firm's owner, Tom Haw ken, told police one of the men leaped the office counter and struck him on the head with the shotgun. He was then tied up and a white sack put over his head. One of the gunmen kept re peating "I need a fix" leading police to suspect narcotic addicts. 1 Tyl ofNDTOI EUGENE REGISTER GUARD, Poets Flunk Frost's Quiz On Poetry NEW YORK ( Robert Frost stumped an international group of distinguished poets Friday night. Frost, the impish 87-year-old poet laureate, shot three select ed poems from memory at more than 400 persons who attended the 52nd annual meeting of the Poetry Society of America. And not a professional or am ateur vcisemaster came close to guessing the authors of the three poems. . Shaking his snow-white hair and creasing his craggy face into smiles, the Vcrmontcr caught his formally dressed audience on their metrical heels. One of the poems was by a late 16th century Englishman, Sir John Davies. The second was by Coventry Patmore, a 19th century English poet. And the third was by Robert Browning, who also wrote in 19th century England. After identifying the three poems, Frost recited some of his own verse to the delighted crowd which gave him a stand ing ovation. During the dinner, thirteen poets received prizes with cash stipends totaling nearly $5,000. Noted . guest poets from six foreign countries also read their works in their native tongues. These included Omar Abou Riche, the Syrian ambassador to the United States who re cited in Arabic, and Itzik Manger, a well known Israeli poet who recited in Yiddish. English translations and recita tions of all the foreign works were also presented. When it's START PACKIN' with McCRACKEN VAN & STORAGE 375 West 4th Free Estimates, Sunday, Jan. 21, 1962 Page 9A ? Mattresses Box Springs t 'Tactury to Custumel Wa Can Saw Voo ul- X Y American Bedding Co. X M 1 1 IS Ava. K. 01 . 111 Your Hear In i DeaerTei Tha Beit! 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