12 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, March 8, 1950
Joe Saves C-Note by Naming
Wrong Nag in Charleston Race
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
(United preu fluff Correspondent)
Washington, March 8 (U.R) This is about a bar-keep named
Joe and a horse called Bee Kee.
Joe loves the horses, risks a bob here and there, but seldom
wins. Bee Kee well, more about the horse later.
Anyhow, the nag, a strapping four-year-old bay gelding, was
due to start on Saturday at
Charlestown, W. Va. In 22 trips
to the post in its racing career,
the score was 22 to nothing. It
hadn't even been in the money
and had finished fourth only
twice. Total winnings for owner
C. Garland, $125.
But word got around to the
tavern owner that Saturday was
the day. Rumor was that Gar
land had been stuffing vitamin
pills down the horse's throat all
winter and that he could win
In a walk. This despite the geld
ing's poor record and fh6 fact
that in his last time trial ne had
run three-eighths of a mile in
30 seconds, which is consider
ably over par for the course.
Our man Joe wet-ragged the
mahogany, served up a couple
and went to the phone. He ask
ed the bookie across the way
to come running.
Joe handed him a $100 bill
along with a note. "On the nose
'Bi KiV
Harry, one of the bartenders,
was wearing rabbit ears.
Harry makes around 50-60
bucks a week. He was going to
catch a bus to the track that
day. He looked in his pocket
and found a stray 10-spot. He
looked up and down the bar and
found a few friends. He bor
rowed another $50. A fin here,
two or three there, a twenty
from a well-heeled patron who
had just drawn his week's
wages.
Came post time. Bee, Kee, ths
gelding, bore the highest price
of any horse in the race. Almost
$80 for two if it won. Joe was
by his radio. Harry was at the
. track, having stuffed his 60 bor
rowed and hard-earned dollars
through the wicket at the "win"
window.
The race was off. Easter Bon
nie broke on top. Bee Kee kick
ed up a slow heel and started
off sixth, from post No. 8. He
remained sixth until the end of
the race, when nosed out by
Cherokee Star.
Our goat didn't get a call all
the way around the oval.
Tavern owner Joe dropped a
couple of tears in his beer,
scrubbed the bar some more
and said:
"There goes another C-notc. '
About this time the doors of
the saloon turned in and the
bookmaker bellied up to the bar.
ordered one and pitched a $100
bill at Joe.
"I looked all through the rac
ing form," he said, "and I
couldn't find a horse named 'Bi
Ki'."
Joe fished his own "form"
from under the bar and looked
again. He had spelled the name
of the horse wrong on his memo.
Joe, being a pretty good Joe,
cracked the C-note, bought the
house a round.
At the track, Harry, the
young bartender, was having a
bad time. The money he had
borrowed was down the drain.
"Vitamin pills for horses and
hot tips on same, fooey," he
said, as he put the arm on a
friend for carfare back to home
base.
Making Coast Visit
Silverton Visiting at the
Fifth street home of Mrs. Oscar
Briten and her daughter, Mrs.
Cora Graden, have been Mr.
Slaying Suspect James
Robert Iannone, 36, covers up
his face as he waits to be
booked at the Los Angeles po
lice station, on suspicion of
murder in connection with the
slaying of Abe Davidian at
Fresno, Calif. Davidian was
scheduled to be a principal
government witness at the tri
al of 14 men indicted by the
federal grand jury on narcot
ics charges. (AP Wirephoto.)
and Mrs. Curtis Weise of Ro
chester, Minn. The guests plan
an extended stay at Tacoma and
a tour of California before re
turning to their home. Mrs. Gra
den entertained for Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Moore in an eve
ning dinner for the pleasure of
the house guests.
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New Orleans, March 8 (U.R)
Four men arrested today with
an arsenal of pistols and rifles
by New Orleans police -confessed
seven robberies and burg
laries but said "the holdup busi
ness hardly pays expenses."
Police said they arrived on
March 1 with 16 rifles and pis
tols and several cases of am
munition, after pooling their
funds to buy a truck.
"We knocked off a store in
San Fernando, Cal., to get the
guns," they said.
Police identified them as
Charles Cannon, 21, of San Fer
nando; Sid Maxcy, of New Bed
ford, Mass.; Fred Bates, ot Oak
land, Cal., and Eugene Bryant,
of Dallas, Tex.
Bates said he had served in
the navy and after the war was
a house painter in Oakland,
Calif.
"Money got scarcer and scarc
er, so I left and looked for
something better," he said.
He met Maxcy and Cannon
in San Fernando, and they
"knocked off," as Bates put it,
a sporting goods store there, get
ting pistols, rifles, ammunition
and holsters.
Then they bought the truck
to carry the guns and ammuni
tion. Daniels said they robbed
three liquor stores in Los An
geles, and headed east three
weeks ago.
They met Bryant in Dallas
and all four drove to New Orleans.
Maxcy and Cannon were ar
rested at 4 a.m. while acting
suspiciously on a dark street.
Cannon had three revolvers on
him and Maxcy had one. Then
police found the truck, with
Bates and Bryant inside.
Demonstration Offered
Ballston Miss Elsie Mareo,
Polk county home extension
agent, gave a "Meal Planning"
demonstration and a luncheon
prepared by Ballston unit mem-
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