Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 16

April 2, 1953 16 RENO EVENING GAZETTE Ifinlrlan Ranlr Probe Ordered High Finance Troubles Slow Strip Operation By Commission Reno's Golden-Bank Club will be the subject of the next Nevada tax commission probe of a major casino, it was announced Friday. POM Plans of an organization Purpose of the investigation I i lilitSpte lilt iPl ft fiL i ordered by the commission1 is to determine "who is running the es tablishment" which is owned by ed by three California men to take over the operations of the Last Frontier Hotel on the Las Vegas strip are temporarily aground on the shoals of high finance. The Nevada tax commission meeting in Carson Friday refused to approve the license applications of Irving J. Leff, Maurice H. Friedman, both Los Angeles real William Graham, veteran Nevada gambler, and John Drew, former middle west gaming operator.

Rpbbins E. Cahill, executive secretary of the commission re called that Drew's license was the subject of some dispute before it was issued a year ago. "The commission understood that Drew was to run the establishment," Cahill declared, "if he were granted a license." Since the permit was issued, however, Cahill continued, Drew "has hardly been in the place." The tax commission secretary said Drew's continued absence violates the intent of his agreement with the commission. estate developers and Stanley S. Leeds, Beterly Hills Insurance underwriter, after deciding their new group was under-financed and handicapped by the almost complete absence of hard cash.

INVOLVED PROGRAM I Earlier the commission had spent two days listening to an involved financial program which would have seen the new syndicate buy out Jake Kosloff and Murray Randolph, the present majority stockholders, largely using borrowed capital. Of more than $2,000,000 used to refinance the enterprise, and to pet the old operators out, about $25,000, as far as anyone can figure, represented actual cash put up by the three applicants. The Cahill also noted that he had received information that something was amiss within the opera tion. He did not amplify on this statement. He did request how rest was obtained by pledging Last Frontier assets as security with the entire property ending CHOIR GROUP Shown above is a portion of the Concordia college a cappella choir of Oakland, which will present a concert Monday evening at St.

Luke's Lutheran church, West Second and Bell streets. The concert will begin at 8 p. m. and there is no charge for admission. up heavily mortgaged.

ever, that he be authorized to hold a series of closed investigation sessions to interview a number of people apparently able to cast some light on the management and operations of the Reno nightclub and gambling house. Drew is licensed fO a 25 per cent interest in the operation with Graham listed as owner of the remaining 75 per cent. This situation drew strong pro tests from Beldon Katleman and his attorney, Leo Gold, who said Katleman's investment in the old Last Frontier group was being endangered by what they des Student Choir Will Appear cribed as a "bunch of promoters." Katleman already has filed suit Clover Valley against Kosloff and Randolph, ac cusing them of "misappropriation and mismanagement" of Last Matron Pakh At Reno Church Frontier assets. WATERED DOWN 'I Funeral services were to be.j? nciu ui vcii5 una aiieiuuun lofi Mrs. Ella Bradish, widow of Visiting Reno on annual Spring tour, the a cappella choir of Con James H.

Bradish, well known Katleman indicated Friday he could not foresee getting along with the new bunch any better, as he did not want his name associated with a "watered down" "Clover Valley rancher. Mrs. cordia college, Oakland, will present a concert in St. Luke's Lu-vheran church. West Second and Bradish died Wednesday at Wells.

Born at Nephi, Utah, Jan. 21, proposition. The. commission ruled specific ally that Leff, Leeds, and Fried Bell streets, Monday at 8 p. m.

The choir is under the direction 1890, she had lived in Clover Val-! ley since 1915 and she and Mr. Bradish were married in man would not be licensed until of Prof. Hugo Gehrke, and the program will be made up of music they worked out different finan She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Dav tor the various seasons of the cial arrangements and they have only until April 25 to accomplish Saints and of the Wells Relief Society. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. this.

On that date, the license pres ently held by Randolph and Kos DIRECTOR Prof. Hugo Gehrke, above, will direct the a cappella choir of Concordia college, Oakland, when it appears at St. Luke's Lutheran church here Monday evening. Vernon Dalton of Clover Valley; i two sisters, Mrs. J.

A. Hanson of Wells, and Mrs. Marian Mem-j mott of Nephi five brothers. loff will expire, and a commission church year by such classic masters as Pratorius, Bach and Brahms and contemporary works by Thompson, Wienhorst and Christiansen. The director, a graduate of Concordia Teachers College in Illinois, and Northwestern University, has also done advanced choral conducting under F.

Melius Christiansen, and organ study Obviously in a tough mood, ruled that a new one would not be is sued unless satisfactory financ Harold, William and Alex Pyper of Wells; A. V. Pyper of Salt Ing had been worked out. Lake City, and J. M.

Pyper of order Gamin Portola, and a grandson and num erous nieces and nephews. with Carl Weinrich and E. Power Specifically, members of the commission objected that a stock subscription agreement involving seven other persons who have pledged to buy stock and make loans to the new corporation had The rites were to be held in the Biggs. Until taking over the music de Wells grammar school under the Curbs Retained direction of the Wells LDS ward. Val Galleron, (right) Sales Representative of Moore Equipment Reno, shown delivering the popular Allis Chalmers HD5G Loader to George A.

Probasco, (left), prominent local home builder. This delivery marks the 100th Allis Chalmers HD5G Loader delivered by the local machinery firm in the Nevada territory. Mr. Probasco stated "This makes my fourth Allis Chalmers HD5G Loader, and it is now doing a good job assisting in completion of the Green Brae Subdivision in Sparks. To date I have constructed in excess of 1500 homes in the Reno-Sparks area and I am happy to say that my fleet of Allis Chalmers HD5G Loaders has greatly contributed to faster completion and lower cost of construction7 Earl E.

Games, (center) long established successful Reno excavating contractor, has been busily engaged in construction projects in the Reno area since 1927. Mr. Games purchased the first Allis Chalmers HD5G Loader to be delivered in the Nevada territory from Mr. Galleron He now has a fleet of three Allis Chalmers HD5G Loaders engaged in his construction projects, and he very frank to state "My Allis Chalmers HD5G Loaders really get the job done on any and all kinds of general contract work. They are easy to operate, economical to maintain, and get the job done on time.

Val Galleron, in reviewing the deliveries of the Allis Chalmers HD5G Loaders from, one to one hundred, is reminded of many other satisfied users of one or more, such as: not been satisfactorily explained, partment at Concordia College four years ago, Professor Gehrke was engaged in choral and organ work in Chicago and Milwaukee. Members of the Nevada tax Flier Escapes The feeling was the commission should have reassurance that none of this money would be used in Members of the choir are large ly pre-mmisterial and 'teacher commission Friday reaffirmed a stand taken several months' ago that no gambling licenses would be issued for operators seeking to Crash Landing training students, since these are ihe two main professions taueht at Concordia. SEARCHLIGHT, UP) A locate near the Idaho border Santa Monica, flier reached No charge for admission will north of Wells. be made, but a free-will offering At the same time, they refused this community Friday after a 13-mile hike from the small plane will be taken to help defray the to reconsider any relaxation of a expenses of the choir. curb on the number of gambling which he crashlanded yesterday beside the Colorado river.

houses that will be permitted to Suffering only minor bruises, the operation until all parties advancing it are licensed. Objections also were voiced that the cash position was too weak and that the new organization would, have to raise an unencumbered bank roll to satisfy the gambling control agency. A complicating factor is the existence of an agreement between Randolph, Kosloff and the new organization that the transaction must be closed prior to April 15 or all bets are off. The commission recognized this document as an added puzzle in an already intricately-woven situation, but decided that the parties to it would have to devise some way out. operate in Wells.

The commission received a re Richard D. Griffith, 28, a student Calienfe Mayor pilot, said he brought the Aero- quest from John Di Grazia for a gambling license at a place known Loses License as "Cactus Pete's" Contact. This little settlement is approximately ten miles south of the auenie may nave a new Nevada Idaho boundary. All mayor this year as the result of a anca down near the Searchlight ferry just before dusk and as he ran out of gas. Griffith was taken to Boulder City hospital for a physical examination and treatment of the bruises.

Shortly before he trudged into this town, search planes from March Air Force base reported sighting Griffith's plane. forms of gambling have been out Friday action of the Nevada tax lawed in the neighboring state. commission. When the original commission The gambling control board decision was announced, members ot the gambling control agency voted unanimously to revoke the license of the Shamrock Club in that Lincoln county railroad com said they wanted to prevent the creation of a "strip" gambling Movie Star Denied Permit munity operated by Don Rowen area in the remote northeastern part of the state, where policing and Joe Colombo. Rowan, who has been mavor of would be difficult.

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