Show Rigid Slot Machine Ma hine Ban Put in Effect By Salt Lake Police Contraband Ven Vending Devices Disappear at Midnight Thursday When Operators j Learn of Proposed Raids Salt Lake was free from slot machines Friday as operators operators operators opera opera- tors acting under police orders hastily removed the devices de de' I vices or placed them under unde cover The action unannounced followed a recent executive session of ot the city eity commission according to Public Safety Sate Sate- ty Commissioner John JohnM M M. Knight who outlined the commissions commission's policy in a aletter aletter letter to Chief of at Police William L 1 L. L Payne The letter to Chief Payne pointed out that the commission had voted unanimously to purge the city of ot slot slot machines machIn s and suggested that Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day midnight be fix fixed cd as the deadline for theIr removal OWNERS INFORMED I Although no official announcement was J as made were informed of ot the chiefs chief's orders late Thursday for they were seen in ma many mans places hurriedly gathering up the machines and hauling them away In some pla places eS where the devices had dad not yet been r removed moved they were stored in back rooms with their faces to the wall Commissioner Knight said that as asI asfar asfar I far as he was concerned the order was permanent and that he would propose propose propose pro pro- pose no new vending machine nance Meanwhile police morals squads squads- uninformed unia- unia men although apparently formed of the commissions commission's action edion and the suggested deadline visited six she places Thursday afternoon and seized seven machines Chief Payne said Friday there was no significance to the fact these places were selected for raids when an order had been issued for all establishments establishments to take machines out of operation Captain J. J G. G Smith head of ot the morals squad said Friday he had not been Informed Thursday of the order and that apparently his men conducted conduct conduct- ed the raids because complaints had been received received- ONE MACHINE 1 FOUND Captain Smith however Friday led his men in a survey of the business district and reported finding only one machine in operation That was seized at 73 West S Second nd South street Meanwhile City Attorney Fisher Harris was reported awaiting completion completion com corn of the revised code of city laws before drafting an n amendment to the present ordinance governing vending machines Mr Harris w was s instructed to draft the thc amendment after the city commIsSi com com- mIsSi ri on onA rejected the pro proposed posed vending machine licensing or or- or The amendment would provIde provide provide pro pro- vide for licensing straight vending machines and define slot machines operation of which would be for for- bidden Machines were sei seized ed Thursday at atthe atthe atthe the following places cafe 2 1321 12 West South Temple Temple Tem Tern plc street Regent street SouthWest South SouthWest SouthWest West Temple street West South Temple street Temple View cafe 22 Richards street and the Hazel Drug company South Second West street Two machines were taken at atthe atthe atthe the latter place |