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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1960)
British Gangs Want Control Of One-Arm Bandits By TOM A. Cl'LLEN Newspaper Enterprise Aasn. LONDON (NEA) - When slot machines become legal in Britain on Jan. 1, their control may de pend on an undercover war now . being waged by underworld syn dicates. Jo far there has been no open violence. No machines have been hi-jacked. No one has been beat en, no acid thrown. The syndi cates are too smart for that. But thousands of these "one armed bandits" have been im ported, primarily from West Ger many in preparation for the new , year. Fourteen London clubs have been broken into recently and $15,000 worth of slot ma chines stolen. Nothing else has been touched. Usually a syndicate "salesman" appears the morning following the robbery, offering to install h i s own make of one-armed bandits for a "share" in the profits. Meanwhile, the underground here seethes with rumors that .-, some of Frank Costello's former associates will organize the slot - machine racket along ' American lines. Lending color to these rumors was the FBI seizure of $250,000 ' worth of slot machines in Brook lyn last month. The 420 gambling machines on the Brooklyn docks awaiting shipment to a firm in Birmingham, England, were seized by G-men acting on a tip from Scotland Yard. King of Britain's one armed bandits is Bill Webster, a 231 pound, florid.faced pub owner, who alternately threatens war to his rivals, and pooh-poohs the chance of Americans muscling in " on the trade in "fruit" machines, as they are called here. " "No tuppenny thug is going to muscle in on this territory," shouts Webster, banging his fist on the counter of his pub. Fiery Singer Ends Her Exile MILAN. Italy UPl - Fiery Maria Callas ends 30 months of Milan musical exile tonight when she makes her self-proclaimed comeback at the La Scala Opera House before the upper crust of Europe. Scalpers were getting $84 a ticket; A capacity audience, including Uruguayan President Benito Nar- done, the widowed Begum Aga Khan and Greek millionaire ship owner Aristotle Onassis, was ex pected to attend the opening per formance of Gaetano Donizzetti's "Poliuto," starring Miss Callas as "Paolina." It promised to be a social event almost unprecedented since the Gay '90s for Milanese opera en thusiasts. They have been clam oring for Miss Callas' comeback since she walked out with her chin raised in a defiant gesture after her last performance here May 31, 1958. Big Bill Webster adopts the soft sell when speaking of slot ma chines as "social amenities" (he shudders at the term "one-armed bandit"), This is a legitimate business," he explains, adding, "if Capone and Lucky Luciano were operat today, they would gangsters, but businessmen. Big businessmen, like me." o In Webster's lingo, gangsterism becomes "misdirected energy." He is also a great believer in what he calls "dynamic relaxa tion." "If everyone took it up," he maintains, "there would be no beigangslers." NURSE? MIFFED WASHINGTON (UP1 - Mis. John F. Kennedy's nurse. Miss Luella Hennessey, is miffed tu HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Fall. Oregon Wednesday, December 7, I0 PAGE 7-A Despite this soft patter Britons are not reassured. They view thejsav the least coming of the slot machines onj a weekly magazine and some Jan. 1 with fear and apprehen-news dispatches have described sion, remembering the stories of1 her as a "practical nurse." bribery, protection rackets andl The blue-eyed muse said, some- murder that followed in the wake what perturbed, "I am an RN StatSp Issued To Hontfr Late John F. Dulles WASHINGTON (APl-The Post.cials. Mrs. Dulles, who had Office Department issued a four- planned lo attend, is in the hos cent memorial stamp TucsdavlPi'al suffering from a fractured of the one-armed bandits in Amer- 'registered ica. lit." honoring the lale Secretary of'ankle. State John Foster Dulles who died I Postmaster General Arthur E.1 May 24, 1959. jsummcrficld explained her inabil- A dedication ceremony was at-!ity to be present, and relatives nursel and 1 earned! tended by diplomats of many na-lrcportcd she sutlercd the fracture and fell in her home here. Secretary of Stato Christian A, Hertcr, who was scheduled to speak, was detained by the Eisenhower-Kennedy conference at the White House. Undersecretary of State Living ston T. Merchant read Hcrtcr's 'tions and high government ofli-'threc days ao when she trippedlrcmarks in which the secretary COSTLV BILL KNOXV1LLE, Tonn. UPI -L.C. Paskcll found half a $100 bill Monday night in a radio promotion stunt. En route to the station to collect the other half, he wrecked his borrowed car, causing $500 damage. said a Dulles stamp was most ap propriate because it honored "a statesman who put his own stamp on the diplomatic pages of our time." Ship Rescues 48-Man Crew NEW YORK (AP)-The. mer chant steamer Mary Ellen Con way headed for a South Ameri can port today after rescuing 48 of the 50-man crew of the Liberian tanker Sinclair Petrolore which sank after an explosion and fire in the Atlantic. Two crewmen were reported lost. One of the 48 rescued was injured. Webfoot Aces Get Bowl Bid TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Two Oregon backfield aces will be on the 24-member major school team which will play in the third annual All-American Bowl football game here Dec. 26. Quarterback Dave Grosz and Cleveland Jones, a halfback, were on the squad named Tuesday. The team has stars from Wis consin, Auburn, Air Force, Iowa, Tennessee, Michigan State, UCLA and Purdue. The other quarter back named was Stanford's Dick Norman. Fullbacks are Jim Cun ningham, Pittsburgh; and Art Baker, Syracuse. Former Irish Flash Ailing OAKLAND, Calif, 'AP) - E.P. (Slip) Madigan, 65. former Notre Dame star under Knute Rockne and later a colorful college foot ball coach, was hospitalized Tues day after a heart attack. His con dition was listed as critical. Madigan coached St. Mary's Gaels to national prominence. For the past decade he built homes in the San Francisco area in partnership with his son, Edward. rimv . THE TEXAN LONG BEACH. Calif UPI -A Texan escaped from the city's honor farm Tuesday and nearly got away except for one thing his true-to-Tcxas form of trans portation. Frankie D. Goad, 22. of McAI len. Tex., serving a 52-day sen tence for impersonating a police officer, was easily spotted and corralled as he galloped along a highway on a rented horse. A From unbeam Gr? fit. 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