Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

regular cut Of about five cent from honest game is
not enough
has been a part Of my Within the past two
years have personally investigated twenty-eieht big
establishments TwcHty-six crooked
This doesn't that almost All house games dis
honest am after all seldom called IN unless someone has
cause 10 be suspicious.
Following on a suspected establishment walked
the dice table. Tho detective stationed there
handed bowl OF s. rod transparent dice The house
employees and about forty players crowded around
These dice arc crooked l announced. They arc
When YOU first look at these dice they appear to be
cubes But they're not absolutely square
Those dice have four curved sides and two fat sides
The curved sides just convex enough 20 give the house
great advantage without being noticeable
How do they work '' OF tho players interrupted
THE four round sides the three four and hvc
The fat sides are the and the You needn't be
<pcrt In physics 20 understand that when you throw
49, dice the fat sides up much more often than
the sides These cubes favor six and So the
odds are against the player who against
What happened several players bet with the house ??
In that Of the dice would be changed"
said The die would look exactly the same but would
be fourrey fat four-trey Fat. in conjunction with
any flat that the shooter would make
passes normally. Players betting with the house
go Then the flats would bc put back
We walked over to the card tables accepted tho
deck Of cards by detective and tipped the
cards rapidly. meanwhile watching tho backs
"'This paper" / noticed puzzlcment the Chiefs
face and added; Paper is heeru for marked cards.
When l Zip the cards rapidly you can small dots
dumping about on the back II tho design hadn't boon
again But when change has been made matter
how minute you get "A sort Of moving picture effect"
Next came the roulette wheel The the dctec-
tive handed me ball 7 that the wheel
troled II what is called clay bal.
borrowed "A uiehtsCk from of the cops and broke
open tho ball The made OF metal
This metallic center means that the BAN be cleo
trical maenchcaly controlled. I explained
Il thought electricity couldn't pass through porcelain
detective said.
ELECTRICITY can't" answered "Floctrical magnetism
can and docs An expert roulette operator attract
this bah into any number he wishes"
II looked for minute though there might be riot
CNotc the Not every wheel using ivory
Many honest roulette wheels use composition balls
II ONE largo defense city asked TO investigate
i establishment by man I'll call Gazette place
frcqucnted mostly by defense workers and soldiers
had lost $4,000 the place and his lawyer
fgsred that If could get sufficient evidence It
might be able TO Gazette into returning
4 tfT money
Gavette's joint, I that az The OPP
orators looked like Bowery thugs There about forty
players around pool table which the dice game
held Most Of them defense workers six Of them
working for the house. two openly and the others
"undcr cover"
The house man bacK the table colored
chips i'm front Of him The stick opposite
When player the dice out the stick rakcd them
with little curved stick, picked them UP and threw