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Chief Price Does Nothing
_ About Gaming Accusations |

BY HENRY HORNSBY
Leader Sports Editor

T notice in the morning
paper that Police Chief Austin
B. Price has’ been unable to
find out anything about what
Phog Allen of. Kansas de-
scribes as the nation’s biggest |
college and high school gam-|
bling center located here in
Lexington, ;

Dr, Allen, basketball Bock
at the University of Kansas,
stated in a telephone conver-
sation that the gambling cen-
ter was located over the May-
fair bar, 224 East Main street,
and. that the telephone num-
ber was 3730.

Apparently _ someone else saw
Chief Price’s amusing report on his}

 

ing mail brought a letter from one
who signs himself “Laughing Boy.”
Laughing Boy says: “I see that
Chief. Price is having a lot of dif-
ficulty. No one will co-operate
with him, poor fellow, He says: ‘But
if some of the people who know so
much about these gambling joints
will swear out warrants, I assure
‘them that the places will be raided.’
Since when,” Laughing Boy asks,
“does a policeman have to have a
warrant to enter a gambling joint?”
‘And Laughing Boy followed his
question with “Ha, ha, ha.’ . .
. The writer continued: “The Re-
vised Kentucky: Statutes (436.280)
states that any bank, table, con-
trivance, machine or article uséd
for carrying on a game prohibited
by KRS 436.230 (dealing with
. gambling) ... may be seized by any
justice of ‘the peace, sheriff, con-
stable or police officer of a city |
OR WITHOUT A WAR-|
RANT.” |

And this paragraph also was fol:
lowed by a “Ha, ha, ha.

Laughing Boy went on to say
that if no one else would swear out}
a warrant there is nothing in the
world to prevent the police, from
signing their names to such papers,
provided, of course, they can ‘write.

“T see by the morning paper, too,”
Laughing Boy continued, “that
Chief Price says that his officers,
ordered two weeks ago to clean out
gambling joints in Lexington, have
been unable to find anything sub-
stantiating Phog Allen’s charges,
If Chief Price admits he has been|
unable to find any gambling joints,
then a new police chief should be
found, because such joints do exist
and every man in Lexington—ex-
cept, of course, Chief Price and his
officers—knows these Joints have
been operating. Ha, ha, ha.”