Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1946 — Page 7

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12, 1946

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By ROBERT C. RUARK Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ORLEANS, La. July 12.— Gambling now is outlawed in New Orleans, It Is illegal “all over| Louisiana, but then it has always been against the law, and where! it ‘de- i a]

litical wink. The only differ- & ence since the new mayor, Chep Morrison, came in last May is that

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buck in cab fare to locate a spot where you & can

Mr. Ruark

Mr. Morrison, who licked the old Huey Long satellite( Robert Maestri, for the mayoralty, chased the gamblers out

parish, which may be reached by

New Orleans.

I dropped a fast $50 at the Beverly country club, which is just

ever saw, The cab fare was $1.25 from my hotel. I had tipped a

The cab pulled up and I walked in, with a “good evening, sir,” from the door-

Outsiders Run Clubs As I understand it, gambling in the New Orleans vicinity, especially

oouple of out-of-towners; extralegal gentlemen named Frankie Costello and Phil Kastel. You know Costello in New York; Kastel isn't unknown in Chicago. The accents around the Beverly club are strictly

PRIDSY ULE 7 le hi Reet You Need $1. to Find 'Hidden' | New Orleans Gambling Dens

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| part of New Orleans, as insqparable

played through the first door to your right—is comparable to the best in pre-war Europe. There is an expensive - 30-foot mural, depicting the bibuloUs antics of some pink, overblown women and their escorts, hairy goatish gentlemen who undoubtedly are not members of the local 4-H club. Craps Most Popular One six, the hard way, and then an abortive roll took care of my! 50 bucks, so I watched. A gentle- | man with a cigar welded to his face, using yellow $50 chips, built! two stacks 10 inches high in a few minutes. Hundred dollar bills fluttered around the green baize |

Over at the roulette tables, the usual elderly women with too-young| frocks, raddled cheeks and crepy | necks pushed stacks of chips on| their favorite colors and numbers.? There was no play at the birdcage | table—and no blackjack. at all Craps, the swift separation game,| held the attention of the guests. | There are roughly a dozen such | establishments, I am told—most of | them less gaudy—within a few min- | utes ride.of New Orleans, They are bankrolled and dominated by out-of-town mobs, with local cooperation, of course, from the corrupt political people, Gambling Platform Adopted

Young Morrison, home from the! war and suddenly, surprisingly vic-! torious over Maestri, faced gambling honestly.. The fast turn of a buck has always been an integral as gumbo and the Mardi Gras. | Mayor Morrison ran on a gam-! bling platform. He called for a referendum on the possible legalization of handbooks and craps. The

from Jersey, occasionally from Brooklyn. I never heard a south-! orn drawl. ¥ | The Beverly club has died a score of deaths as a sometime night-spot | venture. As a gambling hell, fit thrives beautifully, Dacita, a nicely stacked rumba singer, leads the! band. The food is fine and reasonable,

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