Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-05-06
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 JONES TO TUCSON ATTORNEY

for cigars and other merchan- disc also may be banned as gambling by County Attorney |Hilzinger as a result of the investigation which he is now making. He announced yes |terday after correspondence with Attorney General Jones, that punch boards hereafter would be considered as gam bling devices. In accordance with that decision, Sheriff Forbes has published a notice that arrests will follow fur ther use of the boards.
 Punch boards recently [were put out of business ln Phoenix" said MT. Hilzinger. The primary reason for stop ping them here, is that they are gambling devices and con Isequently illegal. Itmay have been at tffe start that they were merely devices to stl1Tl- ulate trade, but the game has grown to such an extent that lit bids fair to swallow trade.
 Tt has been developed to the point of interference with Legitimate trade. There is no limit to the sort of merchan- disc offered as prizes. They dispose of jewelry by this means, yet they pay no jewel CTS license. Candy is so dis posed of, yet they pay no li- cense as confectioners.
 Protests have been made to me about it. 1 am looking Into the matter further"
 Girls Are Lureo
 The punch boards were not in evi- dence at the various tobacco stores up l and down Congress street and Stone avenue this morning. This has be- come one of the most popular pastimes l with those who have a minute, or an hour in which to loaf Even girls have been lured by the spirit of chance.
 A punch board manufacturer former l ly kept an agent in Tucson. Many travelling agents came through the state Many of the boards used in this city are manufactured in Los Angeles. although it is understood that Los An geles has prohibited their use The plan by which the law, is avoided there is to sell post cards at ten cents each and give punch free with each card. Not infrequently the customer does not care to take the post card.
 Frank Howe, of the Howe Bros. news and fruit stand, in the postoffice building said this morning that they would discontinue the use of the board rather than have a fight about it. But they will first confer with the county attorney. They operate big board of the post card variety. ! Howe Brothers also manufactured some boards with candy as prizes and distributed them about the city.
 We are candy wholesalers" said Howe, land took care to put $90 worth of value on every $3O board put out"
 JeweIry to Mackintoshes
 Jewelry is the class of prizes most generally offered, although everything from pipes to mackintoshes has been offered in season. One board on which was offered an automobile went Iso slow that it was recalled. Ten cents per punch is the standard price, but in the automobile instance, the price was blind, being the amount of the number punched, and which as the veriest tyro at punching knows, is concealed be- heath seal. It ran into dollars.
 About year and a half ago there was an effort made by the city to stop the use of dice, but upon the plea that it was stimulus to trade" the prac- tice was allowed to continue.
 It is said that the profits on a board will run 200 per cent or more to the retailer.
 THE CASINO THEATRE