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. ,
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The full length Soviet-made
documentary film, "Russian
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Mayflower Theatre Tuesday at
7 and 8:30 p.m.
The showing will be spon
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School gymnastic team and Phi
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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'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.
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Deep Snows Plug
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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.
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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.
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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.
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