Show 4 p C- C j MISS n. T SLOT MACHINE IS GIVEN PERIOD Of GRACE BY MAYOR Mayor Decides to Permit Operation Till Friday Despite Favorable Decision WOULD HEAR FROM VARIAN 1 i Former City Counsel Said aid to Have Promised Immunity ed Y Until UntilA Supreme Court Acts A A to put the tho slot machines out of ot business In pursuance to the decision of ot tho the district court upholding upholding up up- holding the eft city ordinance and de declaring do- do daring claring their operation to be In violation viola viola- I tion Uon of or Jaw law has been held up until Friday Friday Fri Fri- day as ag a result of or pressure brought to bear yesterday upon city officials by bv slot machine interests D Decision cislon to to postpone procedure against the machines R was reached last night at a conference between the tIme mayor city attorney commissioner of or waterworks and A Attorney Horne Thomas representing the tho slot machine machine machine ma ma- chine people The chief of ot police was advised h by the acting corporation counsel yesterday yester ester day da afternoon that under tho the decision of or the district court lie ho could proceed d at to stop the operation of ot the machines machines' or to arrest and prosecute operators The Time chief however ho would not net act until he received orders from tram the mayor maor who spent most of or yesterday yester yester- da day at his summer home in Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton Cotton- wood can canyon on Last night when the mayor re returned ro- ro turned to the elt city the matter was as taken up and n agreement reached to take no action before FrIda Friday This postponement was vas agreed upon because the slot machine men through h their attorney contend that there Was nas a n verbal erbal a agreement between themselves them them- solves sol and former Corporation Counsel C. C S. S Varian Varlan who lio start started d the campaign cam cain n n against slot shot machines not to Interfere with the machine until the I ordinance had been t tested sted and passed upon b by the supreme court The Thie- present members of ot the tho legal department and members of or tho city commission do not understand that this was the case Mr Varian Varlan informed his successor In the law department that because of ot the tIme d delay la lay In bringing the tho test case to Issue the cl city was not Continued on Pa Page Pago o 8 S Column 6 SlOT MACHINE HAS PERIOD OF GRACE Mayor Decides to Permit Operation Till Friday Despite Favorable Decision Continued From Page One bound to observe the agreement nn any longer However Attorney wen went before the acting corporation counsel yesterday and Insisted that he had sue suean such an agreement with Mr Varlan who 1 is 18 out of or the tho city efto Mr Varian Varlan will b be home Friday so the tho mayor after arter discussing discussing dis- dis cussing the situation decided that n no action would be taken until Friday when Mr r. Varian Varlan will be bo called In t to tell Just what hat the agreement was was The majority of ot the tho commissioners commissioner express ss themselves as believing thaas that tha as the law has been upheld b by the district district dis- dis court the city should enforce It lt |