The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-03-03
POKER DICE GO
INTO DISCARD
Police Get Executive Order
to Take Dice Boxes from
All Places.
NOT TO RETURN LATER
New Blow at Incipient Gam
bling Hits at Historic Old
Trade Promotion Scheme.

The historic old dice box with its
"kick back" and its another flop" with
a corresponding trade promotion for
the bar and the cigar and candy coun-
ter, went into the discard in Kenosha
on Tuesday afternoon when an eXecu-
tive order was issued to members of
the police department that shaking
dice was gambling and that trade pro-
motion by shaking dice was against
the law of the state and that it must
CO. Every police officer travelling a
beat was instructed that shaking dice
was "stone age stuff" and that Keno
sha was off Of it and off of it to stay.
The officers were advised to make a
collection of dice boxes and dice.
"Under the counter" orders were not
in the executive order. The provision
and stay out and the keepers of places
where the dice box has been much in
evidence were instructed that the dice
box was to be thrown out and that
any return of it would result in i'm
mediate arrests.
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The order to put the dice box out
of business also contained provision
against a lot of other incipient forms
of gambling and it carried instructions
to seize all such paraphernalia where
it was not promptly discontinued
Several of the punch boards and more
of the dice boxes were gathered up by
the police in the rounds of the city
Scores of saloons, cigar stores, pool
rooms and candy shops were notified
that the gambling of this sort was at
an end in Kenosha and that the shak-
ing of the give dice" was not to come
back into vogue. It was not stated
just why the order related to the GIVE
dice" gambling unless the police want
ed it to be understood that the order
did not apply to parlor "bunco" games
Little Joe" and big Dick" are also
under the ban and AFRICAN Golf" is
mentioned in the order as another
sport that is positively under the ban
in Kenosha no matter where the
"links" on which it is played are
located.
Find Conflicting Emotions.
The police officers who made the
various places found conflicting emo
tions. At many places there was a
resentment against the people being
disturbed in their "inalienable right
to shake the dice box for the drinks
and the cigars, but at some places the
keepers welcomed the order and de-
clared that they were glad that the
police department had ordered the
dice boxes out. 1t is claimed that al
some of the places the dice box had
been used not only to promote trade
but also for games where lot of
money has changed hands without any
merchandise being delivered.
1t was admitted at the police Office
that the new order was just a part oil
the movement to clamp down the lie
on all forms of gambling in the city
and it was said that in the near flu
ture other orders would be issued Il
further curtail the incipient gambling
operations. 1t is just possible that
penochle and smear games will yet be
hit by the order.
At the police Office, where the ordei
was on file, it was declared that the
campaign against gambling would BE-
carried forward to the limit. The or
der bore the signature Of Chief O'Hare
and Secretary Meissner of the depart
ment and it was declared that the
officers had been directed to execute il
without fear or favor.