Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — BARS UP TO GAMBLERS AT ARMY CANTONMENTS [ARTICLE]

BARS UP TO GAMBLERS AT ARMY CANTONMENTS

Memphis, Tenn.—‘•Crap shootera, card sharps and other nim-ble-fingered gentry are having a hard time breaking into the dished at United States army. cantonments. In examining apfor jobs pains were taken to look into the character of the men. The examiners in several instances found that the applicant was not a worker, but a gambler. Six professionals frt»m Memphis reached the government cantonment at Little Rock. Within an hour after their arrival they had a game “going.” They were deported. Other cantonments had the same .experience.