GAMBLING CLUB CLOSED
FAILURE TO PAY OFF FABULOUS WINNINGS NZP A—Copyright Rec. 8 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. The Savoy Club at Las Vegas was closed today for allegedly breaking the “gamblers’ code" fty failing to pay off a gambler who von 67,000 dollars in a fabulous dice game The police said that as far as they could learn the club paid off only 20 000 dollars to the gambler, Jack Durant after a phenomenal streak of play in which he won 67,000 dollars in 15 minutes. Under the Nevada gambling laws no game can be operated without a licence! The State gets 2 per cent, of the gross winnings of the gambling olubs, which is estimated at 41,000,000 dollars this year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27272, 24 December 1949, Page 7
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