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Show POLICE PUT BAN OK SLOT MACHINES AH money-paying slot machines have been put under the ban by Chief of Police Po-lice Lynch, and he began at noon Friday Fri-day a round of inspection to determine If his orders to remove the machines had been obeyed. The owners of slot machines were notified noti-fied some time ago that only trade-paying machines would be allowed to run, and those maintaining caeh-paylng machines ma-chines were ordered to remove them at once. The police department has no objection to "trade stimulators" in the form of machines ma-chines that take in the money and pay out trade checks, but the cash machines are placed in the same list with roulette wheels and faro devices. Owners of trade machines pay Into the city (3 each month as fines for each machine operated. oper-ated. This "fine" la in the nature of a license. |