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Plush New Las Vegas
Hotels Face Inquiry
After Bad Dice Found
Las Vegas, Nev. U.R) Two
new plush hotels faced an inves
tigation of their financial and
administrative structure today
as an outgrowth of four sets
of crooked dice being found in
the possession of a casino gam
bling boss at one of the hotels.
The Clark County licensing
board ordered the probes yes
terday during a hearing to ques
tion Joe Shapiro, a casino shift
boss at the New Frontier hotel,
about his having in his luggage
one set of loaded dice and three
sets of shaved dice.
Such a probe could possibly
result in gaming tables at the
new hotels being closed.
Shapiro, who was suspended
from his job at the hotel, men
tioned in pleading his case be
fore the board that Rich Rich
ardson was the overall head of
the casino at the hotel. Board
Chairman George Albright then
demanded to know why Richard
son's name did not appear as
such on the hotel's gambling
license.
Albright, indicating the li
cense might not be in proper
order, declared "We're fighting
for the life of this town . . . let's
find out who actually owns the
Frontier." He demanded that
Richardson appear before the
board along with Stanley Leeds,
the New Frontier's principal
owner.
To Insist on Probe -
Albright said he would insist
the entire financial and stock
structure of the New Frontier,
and also the New Riviera hotel,
be probed thoroughly by the
board. Albright apparently in
cluded the New Riviera in the
investigation because it also was
recently built.
Shapiro claimed he merely
wanted to use the crooked dice
to show inexperienced crap
dealers at the casino how such
cheating devices work so the
rookie dealers can recognize a
cheater at a table.
Sheriff W. E. Leypoldt said
the crooked dice were found in
Shapiro's luggage after Las
Vegas authorities received a tip
from Los Angeles police.
Harry Bridges Called
To Witness Stand as
Fourth Trial Opens
San Francisco U.R) The
government began its fourth at
tempt to deprive Harry Bridges
of his U. S. citizenship yesterday
by calling the fiery left-wing la
bor leader to the witness stand
in a surprise move that evoked
a flurry of outraged defense ob
jections.
Bridges, head of the Interna
t i o n a 1 Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's Union, was on
the stand for about 15 minutes,
but the only thing that he was
able to remember clearly was
that he was not now and never
had been a member of the Com
munist party.
He will return to the stand
today for more questioning.
The government attorneys got
definite answers to two of their
questions: "Were you a member
of an organization which advo
cated the overthrow of the gov
ernment by means of force and
violence?", and "Were you ever
a member of a faction of the
Communist Party?"
Air of Boredom
Bridges, wearing an air of
boredom as he sat in the witness
chair, answered all three queries
with a definite, "Nope."
But when Assistant U. S. Atty.
Lynn J. Gillard asked a number
of questions regarding meetings
held in the 1930's with known
members of the Communist
Party, Bridges gave answers of,
"I don't know; Not that I know
of; I don't believe so," and "Not
that I remember."
He denied unequivically that
he had ever been issued a card
or ever paid dues or was ever
known by the name, Harry Dor
gan. The government has said
it would prove that Bridges
joined the Communist organiza
tion in late 1933 under the name
of Harry Dorgan, his mother's
maiden name.
The government also said it
would prove the union leader
was a member of the party's
"highest governing body" by
1936."
The government's suit charges
Bridges (1) obtained his citizen
ship through fraud by denying
any connection with the Com
munist Party and (2) was a mem
ber of the party 10 years prior
to his application for citizenship.
He was a native of Australia.
Sam Charges
The charges are the same as
the ones used in his 1950 per
jury trial when a jury found
him guilty and was later over
ruled by the U. S Supreme
Court. The high court ruled that
the statute of limitations had
run out.
Bridges was called to the
stand yesterday near the close
of the first day of his trial. The
move caused defense counsels
Richard Gladstein and Norman
Leonard to leap to their feet
and object strenuously that it
was "unfair" to call the union
leader before . other witnesses
had testified.
However, Federal Judge Louis
E. Goodman ruled that the gov
ernment could call the "ad
verse" witness because "I don't
think it makes any difference
whether a witness is called first
or last."
'Daily Living
Who is Doing
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Staff Writer
New York (U.R) If you stay
up after 11 p.m. you are going
against the grain. Most Ameri
cans 76 per cent are all
tucked in by then.
You are in harmony with the
masses, . however, if you brush
your teeth between 7 and 7:15
a.m.
These and other statistics
drawn from the bedrooms, bath
rooms, kitchens and living rooms
of America have been offered up
by an electronic computer which
digested a mountain of data from
a "daily living habits" survey of
the U.S. populace.
The J. A. Ward Research Co.
of New York conducted the study
for the Mutual Broadcasting Sys
tem, which wanted to find out
more about when Americans are
likely to have their radios turned
on.
The researchers persuaded 12,
000 homebodies to keep a de
tailed diary, or log, of the day's
events. The material then was
fed into a computer to arrive at
a mouse's-eye view of life in the
average household.
Retroactive Entries
The diaries began at 6 a.m. al
though most of the first entries
had to be made retroactively.
The majority of people are still
asleep then.
Habits' Survey Reveals
What and When Across US
A few are up and around but!
their activity is. pretty subdued.
Four-tenths of one per cent are
reading magazines or newspapers
at 6. Two-tenths of one per cent
are. watching television. The sur
vey didn't tell whether they were
getting a fresh start or had been
up watching all night.
The general wake-up period is
between 6:45 and 7:15. After
7:15, only 29 per cent are still in
the sack. By 8:15, all but 9 per
cent are up. The low point for
sleeping is 5-6 p.m., when less
than one per cent are still holding
out.
Bathing, dressing, shaving and
brushing teeth occupies the -7-7:15
segment in the greater num
ber of households, and most peo
ple eat breakfast between 7:15
and 8.
Mother's Chance
After the old man leaves for
work and the kids are off to
school, mother more than likely
begins her housework unless she
sneaks back to bed to become
part of the happy minority.
Housework gets its biggest
play between 8 and 11 a.m. and
between 12:45 and 2 p.m. Lunch
is being prepared or eaten in
most homes between 12 and
12:30. The peak hours for calling
on friends and neighbors are 4-5
p.m. and 8-9 p.m.
The Mutual network naturally
wanted to know about radio and
television habits, and found that
at 7 a.m. or shortly after about
15 per cent of the people 20
million have a radio on. The
figure drops gradually as the
morning wears on. By 11:45, only
seven per cent are tuned in.
Television fares worse than
radio in the morning, according
to the survey. Two per cent are
watching TV at 7 a.m. and about
4 per cent at 11 a.m. '
Americans are not great night
owls, if the survey can be trusted.
It found that 92 per cent of us
are in the house by 11 p.m. and
76 per cent are in bed.
Tuesday, June 21, I95S
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Few Attend Meeting
On Winter Fishing
Gold Hill A "disappointing
ly" small number of men attend
ed a sportsmen's meeting at the
Gold Hill Grange hall last Fri
day night, according to H. D.
Force, Gold Hill.
The meeting was called to
elect a representative to attend
the Oregon Game commission
meeting in Portland and petition
for winter steelhead fishing on
the Rogue River above Grants
Pass.
At the meeting it was decided
that Milton Steinmetz of Ropne
River and E. Strother of Shady'
Progress Reported
On New CP Building
Central Point The founda
tion for the new Central Point
fire station and library on Third
and Pinests. is almost complet
ed, according to Archie L.
Purdy, general contractor.
Costing slightly over $20,000,
the station will be able to house
four trucks, an office, public
rest rooms, showers for the fire
men, a kitchen and dining room,
and a library.
The new station has been
built so that permanent upstairs
quarters could later be built onto
the one-story building, Purdy
said. The present building hous
ing the library has been sold,
and the library will move into
the new building after comple
tion. The present fire station,
built at the turn of the century,
will probably be torn down,
Purdy said.
TRAILER PARKS MILITARY CRAFT
Detroit Number of trailer Washington First military
parks in the U.S. doubled by aircraft for the U.S. was pur
1952 from about 6,000 to 12,000. chased and delivered in 1909.
BORAX SOURCE
Dallas Southwestern U.S.
leads in the world production of
borax but Chile's output .makes
it a contender for second place.
Cove would attend the Game
commission meeting in the near
future. The Gold Hill Rod &
Gun club donated $20 toward
the trip.
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Disease List Drops
To 28 Cases in Week
Only 28 cases of communica
ble disease were reported to the
Jackson county health depart
ment for the week ending June
17, the lowest number in sev
eral months.
Measles was the most preva
lent disease, with a total of 16
cases. Others reported were in
fluenza and pneumonia, four
each, german measles, two, and
chickenpox and tuberculosis,
one each.
Northwest Accountants
End Annual Convention
Portland U.R) Certified
Public accountants of the Pacific
Northwest wound up their 32nd
annual convention here follow
ing a speech in which an FBI
official told them the govern
ment looks to accountants to
help guard against tax evasion
and bank fraud.
Courtney A. Evans, chief of
the accounting and fraud section
of the FBI, urged accountants
to keep up their high standards.
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