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Show hare bean any trouble If Alvln had won. But ho didn't win and consequently conse-quently ba waa one dollar shy when he came up for more allowance htoney the next week and. ISSUED PROCLAMATION. Father Donahey, the rovernor, then heard all about he baseball pool -aksa Hills ksya lues aullarai i course, ha knew there ware auch thlnee. but he had never realised before be-fore that they were "roping- in" ths smsll boys, go the governor leeued a proclamation and It aald In effect that: Thia gambling hal got to atop. The proclamation wsa addressed to all the mayors and aherlffa and countv and city prosecutors all over the state. It told them about the antlgambllng law and aald the law roust be enforced. en-forced. Several of the nuayora and sheriffs around over Ohio had haa soma experience with Alvln'a father and they knew that when he Issued a proclamation he meant bualneaa. It was only a little while than until the baseball pools In billiard halls and other places beirsn closing down. Sometimes the police had to come nd help nut, but eventually they all. tnnnett riinnlnv. BOY IS CAUSE Dollar Cost - in .Baseball Pool CaUt Dad's At- tcntion COLUMBUS. O.. Au. 14 (By V. P.) Thia 1 th story of a araall boy ho urtd somath.iw bfir. Th boy la 11 year old n tils name Alvln Victor Donhy Jr. Ho llvva In tha bl brtck hou on Kattt Broad atrtvt. tha on that la pointed out to vt.tr an tha "mxeix-ttva "mxeix-ttva mannion." Paopla call Tha Houaa. that bcaua Aivan fttthar la governor gov-ernor of Ohio. And tht biff thlnit that Alvln atartad . U tha ft-rra teat antirambllna; cruaada thia atate haa ever known. It mar and In tha calling- of a apa-ia apa-ia aeaston of tha Ohio letlalatura. and of rouraa that would h a blssar - thine; that the cruaada Jtnalf. Tha man who like to arnh!a don't , Mama Alvln for taklne; their apoat away from them, becauae they knoit Alvln aiarted It eiilie tnnorentiy. All hr did waa "Inveat" ona of hia dollars dol-lars in s KiKall ewMvl t'here wouldn't put Ine machines out of bualneaa. Tha other hard blow ta gambling In Ohio was directed at tha parl-mutuels at Mapla Helghta racetrack. Alvin waen't directly, respolatble for thla, but It la plain that the general antlgam-tiling antlgam-tiling campaign which Alvln did atari had a lot to do with tha Mapla Heigh i affair. A writ of mandamus from tha at ate supreme court ordered tha mayor at Maple Heights to knock out betting at the track. He haa recognised the writ and when the next racing meet opens at Maple Heights tha parl-mu-tue) betting machines won't ba present pres-ent ' Then Governor Donahey, his Interest Inter-est flajce whetted, started after tha alot machines, those Innocent looking little contrivances which produce candy mints and chlpa, tha latter of which, not very oftert. but sometime, ar redeemable at a profit. THREATENS LEGISLATION.. Tha Judge of tha municlrUl court In Cleveland heard a caea on tha aubject and ruled that tha alot machine were legal. Thttt was a blow to tha eam-palsjn. eam-palsjn. Donahey came right back with the announcement that ha proposed railing a aneclal aeaalon of the leglala. ture to pass lawa against slot machine ma-chine So one doubta that he 11 do It. too. If ha decldea It s neceaaary to |