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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 21,1946
'Gambling Fool From Kansas' Stirs Reno With A 36-Hour Crap Game
Reno, Nev. (UP)—Reno's mysterious "gambling fool from Kansas" who stirred this blaze gaming community with a 36-hour, $500,000 crap game was identified tentatively today as R. L. Carnahan, a "big time operator" from Wichita and Kansas City.
The mystery man lost $220,000 with a shrug of his shoulders.
Wichita authorities described Carnahan—if it was Carnahan—as a partner of Max Cohen, head of a powerful and lucrative liquor and slot machine syndicate.
Carnahan was the principal figure in a recent federal tax evasion suit on a charge of evading payment of income taxes totaling more than $30,000. He pleaded nolo contendere and was given a two year prison sentence, suspended, and fined $15,- 000, plus back tax claims and court coats.
In Reno gambling haunts he was described as a "gambling fool—a gouttelet, win, lose or draw—who takes it like a man."
Mr. Carnahan—if that's who he really is—appears to be in his early 40's, is of average build, slightly bulding and dresses in quiet taste.
When he gambles, he keeps a poker face—win, lose or draw, and he has done all three in five and six figures here.
The no-limit game which started on Wednesday lasted 36 hours. At the end of that time he was $360,000 in the hole and decided to "go for broke" on a one-dice roll.
His offer was accepted by the club's management. If he lost, he owed the club an even half a million. If he won, he would pay the difference between the $140,000 and the $360,000—or $220,000.
The club owner quietly tossed his die—it was a deuce.
The man from Kansas, amid a
Lattimore to Speak On China. Monday
Owen Lattimore, adviser to Chiang Kai-shek, fellow-traveler of Henry Wallace, and Pacific head of the Office of War Information, will speak at 8:20 p.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium in the final number of the University lecture series.
"What's Happening in China" will be his subject, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today. Lattimore is also expected to comment on Russian aims in the Orient.
Lattimore, who has spent most of his life in Asia, is director of the School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins university. During the war he was called to China as political advisor to Chang Kai-shek. He also traveled through China and Siberia in 1944 with Henry Wallace, then vice-president, and served as Pacific director for the OWI.
Lattimore spent 21 of the first 28 years of his life in China, and has traveled extensively there ever since. From 1920 to 1930, he specialized in the northern border provinces, studying possible points of conflict among China, Russia, and Japan. In his explorations, he has seen Tibet, Outer Mongolia, and the Gobi desert.
March 29 Is Arbor Day
Topeka. (UP)—Gov. Andrew Schoeppel today proclaimed March 20 as Arbor day.
dead hush, rolled. The dice bounced, spun and stopped—with a trey showing.
The "gambling fool" won. . .
but he lost some $220,000.
They shook hands, had a drink together and departed.
Robert Casadesus Presents Concert
Robert Casadesus, pianist, presented a concert in Hoch auditorium last night as a feature of the University Concert course series.
this program consisted of six sonatas (Searlatti), "Studes Symphoniques, Op. 13" (Schumann), "Prelude, Choral and Fugue" (Franck), and "Jeux d'Eau", "Forlane", and "Toccata" (Ravel).
As encores after each group of selections, Mr. Casadesus played "Byldo-Polish Oxcart" from "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Moussorgsky), "Goliwigg's Cake Walk" (Debussy), and "Op. 10, No. 12," commonly known as "Revolutionary Etude" (Chopin).
Smith to KC Conference
Dean George B. Smith of the School of Education will attend the "Know Your Job" conference at Wyandotte High school in Kansas City tomorrow.
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Price Will Speak Tonight
Dr. G. B. Price, of the mathematics department, will describe his work as operations analyst with the Eighth air force in England at a lecture sponsored by Sigma Xi, honorary science fraternity, at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Fraser theater.
Ambergris has been called by the Chinese "dragon saliva."
Dr. R. H. Wheeler, psychology professor, has written two chapters for the Encyclopedia of Psychology to be published soon.
Wheeler Contributes
Mr. Wheeler's chapters are titled "Climate of Human Behavior," and "Gestalt Psychology."
The Louisiana nearly doubled the area of the United States.
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