Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-18 | Page 2 | 'Carry on,' Say Authorities to Modern 'Carrie Nations'

V r Carry Q i iSay Say Authorities To Mod Modern rn Carrie t Nations Nations' FORT MADISON Iowa Feb 18 UP UP-A UP A railroad machinists machinist's wife and daughter threatened Tuesday to chop down all aU the thedice thedice dice tables in town with witt the expressed permission of legal au Mrs W. W L L. Browning using a hatchet and her daughter Mary with a hammer have wrecked dice tables at two night spots Gamblers fear they haven't ended ended end end- ed ad their efforts Le Lee County Attorney Robert N N. Johnson told the women As long ong as u you attack gambling gambling gambling gam- gam gam gam- bling devices and other illegal equipment destroy no other property and do not threaten or injure anyone such raids are legaL egaL Mrs Browning said she was desperately interested in seeing gambling driven out of town because because because be be- cause of our daughter Mary 20 20 twice married and twice divorced formerly worked as a a. dice girl in one of the clubs The mother said she got her Idea from Carrie Nation the militant n crusader of ot another generation Now I hope I get iet the kind of support she she- shedid did cUd said Mrs Irs Browning Night club proprietors summoned sum- sum police when mother and daughter ter made nade their first appearance ap- ap e and wrecked the city's finest dIce table Police did did nothing the first time but when the women re repeated repeated repeated re- re the raid at an another ther locatIon location location loca loca- tion they took them to Johnson He told them how much they could do and let them go