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Public Gambling; Wide Open Club Is Sensation In Western N. C. Hint Prominent (?) People Ashe-[ ville Flock To Gambling Tables, j liarjte Sams of Money at Stake. • Asheville Citizen-Times, tieth > Western North Carolina for gen erations noted the world over as a resort and playground, is now mak ing flourishing strides in the attrac tive pastimes that have made Monte Carlo. Reno and Miami famous. The amazing popularity of the new public gambling establishment, the Clairmont Country Club, on the Hendersonville road, indicates a de cided new trend of affairs for this section. me gambling tables, wnere real money changes hands with gav flourish, are proving a great at traction. The crowds at the Clair monl County Club, including many men and women prominent in af fairs in Buncombe and Henderson counties aqd numerous members of the younger social sets, have been growing steadily of late. Visits to this gambling place are becoming a fad with many and the whole sub ject of this new pastime is now the talk of Asheville and .Henderson ville communities. It should be explained at the out set, for the benefit of the uninitiat ed and uninformed, that the Clair mont Country Club is located be tween Asheville and Hendersonville, in Henderson county, two miles north of Hendersonville. It is con veniently located just off the high way, and is well marked so that it is easily found both by day and night. At night a long string of gay colored electric lights marks the location of this popular sport and social establishment. The club of fers an amazing variety of attrac tions—golf, dancing, food and re freshments, and a wide assortment of world-famous gambling games. Draws Patrons From Wide Area. The gambling games, of course flourish mostly in the late eve ning and early morning The crowds and the business reach their peak, as a rule, at about I o'clock in the morning. The patrons gen erally pour in after the shows and baseball games, parties and other attractions in Buncombe and Hen derson counties are over The pop ular resort also draws quite a num ber of patrons from other Western North Carolina counties and even from more distant communities. Many summer tourists are also pat ronizing the place. The gambling games Include the most popular Monte Carlo and Reno devices, such as roulette, craps chuck-a-luek and blackjack. These games are’located on the second floor of the club. In the lobby of the first floor there are seven slot machines, the sizes varying from the small nickel and dime types to elaborate machines for larger coins. Some dozen or more efficient and courteous attendants are on hand to receive the patrons and care for their wants. The place is conducted on a proper social plane and no riotous conduct is permitted. For the most part the games are con ducted in a quiet, businesslike man ner, with ripples of gay laughter and banter that mark other social gath erings. The stakes in the various games run from a nickel in the smallest slot machines to almost any amount the patrons might care to wager. Hundreds of dollars change hands every evening and on a flour ishing mght. the "house ’ probably take in a couple of thousand or so Ne Secrecy Maintained It should be explained also, foi the benefit of the uninitiated and SERVICE AT ZEB’S BARBER SHOP If it’s a good barber you’re looking for — one that makes a trip to 'the barber shop a pleasure — drop by Zeb’s where there are five high-class barbers. Here’s the way they line up on the chairs: HUBERT ADDINGTON— A veteran at Zeb’s shop. TOM CHRISTENBERRY’ —former Central Shop bar ber. HOYT NICHOLS —for mer Palace barber. TOM S. ELLIOTT*—for mer Shelby Cigar aftd Bil liard parlor barber. ZLB E. BEAM—the pro prietor. You’ll get. first-class, sat isfactory service in either chair. Haircuts __25 cents Shaves--15 cents All Tonics-- 20 cents Three Shower Baths Graham Street. Around Corner From Carolina Theatre. uninformed, that absolutely no i secret is made of the business and i purposes of the Clarmont Country 1 Club. The public is cordially in- i vited to come and gamble to their I hearts’ and purses' content. No : questions are asked- visitors have only to walk in and participate or merely look on. as they may desire. The club management serves soft drinks and smokes free to patrons and guests. A visitor does not have to spend a penny if he does not want to. The club does not sell or give away intoxicating drinks. The pa trons, of course, are permitted to bring their "own, and many of them do. Occasionally a patron or guest gets a little too much liquor for the good of either himself or the others present and the management cour teously, but firmly, conducts him to the open air. Causing lot of Talk. The Clairmont Country Club is causing a lot of talk and is draw- j mg crowds unprecedented for an establishment of its size. It is in the building occupied years ago by the Hendersonville Country Club and it’s reached from High way No. 69, by turning east opposite the Stoney Mountain entrance and travelling a hundred yards or so. If you go to the country club in the daytime, you may play golf on a farily decent nine-hole course. Some people do. If you-.go there at night, and that is when most people go, the country club isn't so much concerned with golf. One may dance to a radio on a cool side porch, one may drink cool, soft beverages and partake ol sandwiches. However, that is no: aU. As one enters the main room on the main floor, he sees a lot of queer looking machines, and if he has a memory that goes back a few years, or if he has visited Reno, Miami, or European resorts, he will recog nize them as the old fashioned gambling machine, manufactured in Chicago. There are seven of these in the room. Seven Slot Machines. Closer inspection shows these ma chines are for various sized coins Put a nickel in the slot, pull a lever, turn the crank, and maybe two nickels or eight or none will come out. If playing with nickels isn't diverting, move to the next and try a dime, or go on tha quarter or the half-dollar machine. They all work on the same principle. Pick the slot according to the odds you wish to play and take your chance. Surely, you will think, these ma chines do not account for the 20 or 30 or perhaps 50 automobiles parked outside They don't The visitor hears a noise from I above. He. sees a stairway with a | tow gate across the entrance, but t the gate isn’t locked and he as cends The secret of the popularity of j the place is immediately apparent, j The upstairs is a brightly lighted room, brimming with humanity. In one corner, one sees the backs of 20 or 30 persons crowded about a table. In another, there is a handsome ma chine which is recognized as a rou lette wheel. A croupier stands be hind it, ready to explain the game to all who would learn and play. Along the side of the room, a dealer passes cards to a half dozen or so players. They are playing the game that made the World War famous, "blackiack." Besides the stairway is a revolving wire cage with three large dice. It is a chuck-a-luck j outfit. Across the room there is another deal table that doesn t appear pop ular. It is rarely played. Craps Popular Game. The crowd in the corner, obscur ing the table. Is playing none other than the' old-fashioned game of crap6. They are standing before a crap table. It is a billard table, with a chart laid out on the felt. Behind the chart stands the cashier. He hands out chips for cash, picks up the house winnings, and pays out the chips to winning players. An other attendant is necessary. He stands opposite the cashier, calls the fall of the dice and with a cane sweeps the dice back to the persons holding them. The chan provides a simplified 'method for “fading1’ and allows all at the table to play no matter who i bolds the dice. You can bet the thrower will “pass” or "won’t pass,” j by putting your chip on the places so marked on the diagram. You .can bet he will “come” or he “wont come,” or you can bet fancier odds by putting your money on a place marked “11,” taking a long shot that the 6-5 will roll up. The odds are something like 14 to 1 on this bet. There are various other com binations, but most of the players stick to the “pass” or won’t pass," playing with or against the thrower Play on the crap table is animat ed. All sorts of people are crowd ing about It. A slender, pretty girl In a evening dress, pleads plaintive ly with the dice to “eight.” A young man, who no doubt has handled the cubes before, speaks in a more pro fessional language. The man who sweeps up the dice each time, calls the numbers in a sing-song chanting something about “will-you-won’t-you.” Expensive Pastime. Play at the crao table u Xanli’ xpensive. The chips cost a dollar' ind no smaller amount « played! fftups are not distributed through | i central cashier but are given out >y the attendant at each table ano edeemed by him. The croupier at the roulette tablt vlll tell you that the game is not ,’et very popular here, because tea sersons understand it. However. :here are times when the wheel .pins regularly and the little white Balls rolls and rolls until it finds i resting place spelling success or failure for those who have wagered The cheapest chip is 25 cents at this fable, but there is no limit upward. The roulette wheel is similar to those to be found in Reno, Monte Carlo, or Biarritz or any of the other well known gambling resorts A large board beside the machine displays the numbers and the vari ous combinations that may be play ed You can play "red'' or "black" or odd." or "even," or “upper eigh teen" and "lower eighteen," or num bers In. groups, first, second or third dozen, or single numbers, or columns of numbers. The odds are all figur ed out accordingly to the chance the number will occur. “Ohuck-a-Luck" Is Simple. Chuck-a-luck Isn’t so popular, but perhaps it is the simplest of all to play. It’s a game worked out on a combination of the three* dice. Who runs the house? That ques tion is difficult for one not know ing the inside details to answer. In charge there are Luther J. (Happy) Wilson, of Asheville, who genially greets persons from his home town who appear there, bids them enjoy themselves, and O. K.'s checks for those w'ho need money; and J. K. Livingston, of Hendersonville, who appears to be the manager. Liv ingston Is most affable, and ts will ing to explain all about the Clair mont Country Club. Some believe ihat outside ■ money is behind the I project The system employed 1* this. The place is "wide open " The lights beckon to all who may wish to visit the club. Any one may come and eat and dance. Members may play. It's easy to be recognised as a mem • ber and the formality of signing up Is waived. Yet. it gives the man agers a chance to keep out unde sirables. They boast that no whis key, nor even home brew, Is sold Crowds Well Mixed. What about the crowds'’ It vs well mixed. Well known figures in the social life of Ashe ville and Biltmore Forest and of Greenville and Spartanburg, as well as many visitors to Western North Carolina, may be seen there. Also there are working people from Ashe ville and Hendersonville and a con siderable group of youths who might be seen at nearly any public danoe A glance at automobile licenses on the parking grounds shows that numbers of tourists are frequenting the place. - The crowd is orderly. The man agement says proudly that not a single disturbance has occured there since the place was opened three months ago. There have been other places of the kind In this section, but they have been extremely exclusive Clainnont Club is the opposite. Everything is there for the public at large to see and partake of. Th? management is frank They claim the place is absolutely "on the level. Persons come and lose $1, 110 or $100, or more, or they come and win in such amounts. One day last week, the "house” is said to have lost $500 on the crap table. At any rate, Clalrmont Club i an exceedingly interesting place, and unusual In these parts. Just rv>v. i it may be rated as one of the lead ing attractions for Ashcvilje and Hendersonville people and for tour ists to this section. Senator Claude Swanson of Vir ginia, visited President Paul Von Hindenburg In Berlin on Wednes day. In The Motor And Business World How Car* Stand In Sales In Carolina*. According to official figure;, Ford stands flrat, Chevrolet second and Plymouth third In sales in the two Carolina* during the month of June. All three cars axe low priced which gives them an advantage in sales during the business depression over more expensive cars. Plymouth with its new free-wheeling, leaped Into third place following an exten sive advertising campaign on the free-wheeling device and (he vibra tion! ess motor Commercial Bodies on Fords Arc Shown Here A caravan of commercial truck I bogies passed through Shelby Satur ! day afternoon and Sunday morning. | showing the various types of bodies equipped on the Ford The caravan : made a stop-over at the Rogers Mo I tors garage and salesroom here and many visitors Inspected the units. Some dozen or more different bodies 1 for all commercial purposes were ! shown. The Ford commercial cara van is moving throughout the coun ) try, displaying the bodies wherever j 'here are Ford dealers. Friendly Five Flyer Here On Thursday 30th, Cohen Bros Friendly Five shoe dealers announce a visit bn Thurs day of this week on the "Friendly Five Flyer,1’ an automobile that is literally a broadcasting station. a miniature movie theater, a show room and a movable living room all combined. It is the good will am bassador of Friendly Five shoes. The flyer was built of special aeroplane construction by Glenn Curtis, one of the fathers of aviation. With its full stream line effect, It. is capable] of a road speed of 75 miles an hour The interior is comfortably fitted with wicker chairs. The broadcasting station Is In the rear offset where program may be broadcast or receiv ed, whether the car is moving or standing. A moving picture machine projects the manufacturing process of Friendly Five shoes and will give a demonstration In front of Cohen Bros, store on Thursday. Oldest Resident 9 Cleveland County •Charlotte Observer • A Cleielsnd County woman was la. t week one hundred rears old. but the folks m that region of long lived people did not think much about it. nor did the centennarlan figure largely on Ihe front pages. The lack of notoriety was perhaps because her life was of Ihe humdrum character different from that ol the other women at Jackson, Mir* whose hundredth anniversary win signalised by administration of e spanking at the hands of her 128 vears-old mammy The WO-years old daughter rebelled a! this kind of celebration and had her mother haled to court. There she protested that she had received spankings from the time she was a baby and had become tired of them The mother told the court that her dau ghter had failed to pay a debt of 75 cents owed as money borrowed from the mother, and Insisted that, "law or no law." she intended to spank her children every time they were naughty, Indicating that she has more of them up in the eighties mebbv. The court, turned her loose with Implied permission to go to It The consolation here is that the neighBoring Cleveland County een t.ennarlans are better behaved than that. Material law Is in force in Seville, Spain, because of fatal clashes, be tween strikers and troops. STAR ADVS. PAYS Beams Mill Dots Of Personal Items rtcnle at Battleground Saturday August 1. Teachers Oft to Their Schools •Special to The Star > Beams Mill, July 28 —The Sunday) school contest came to a close Sun-i | day July 26. The blues won The reds j will rntertatn the blues with a plc-| ' tile at the Kings Mountain battle- j j ground, Saturday August 1 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Cletus ! [ Wright July 18, a fine son. Mrs. Carl Gardner and son from j Washington, D. C , are spending! I some time w ith Mr. and Mrs V. A. j Gardner. Mr. Clyde Ledford spent a few days last week with his parents. Mr and Mrs, Perry Costner mo tored to Charlotte Friday. Misses A. V. and Irene Costner visited Misses Euray and Evelyn | Hendrick Sunday. Misses Ethel Williams and Aletha Hoyle motored to Lenoir Friday. The following teachers tr this j community took up their duties on ! Monday in the following schools: Misses Lena Williams and Vevette Elliott teach in the elementary de partment of the Belwood high school Mr. Chlvous Hoyle teaches 7th grade and conches high school athletics In the Sterns high school, Columbus, this state. Mtss Aletha Hoyle Is principal of the elementary school at Alexis, this state. A schedule for conducting a series of prayer meetings the first week In August ts being prepared by the board of deacons and 8unday school superintendent. The prayer meeting wtll be held in the homes of this community and conducted by the of ficers of the churclj and Sunday school. Mrs. Clyde Dalton and two chil dren of Vlrginta are spending awhile here with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hoyle. Mrs. Frank Hoyle and sons Clark and Everette and daughter Mabel [from Chase City, Va., are visiting Nudity Grows In Popularity Claim Gfrmin Node Colts Now Number 150,000 Men and Women In Membership. New York -Over 150,000 men and women members of some 1,000 "na ture culture," clubs have become de votees dt the German nudity move ment, according to survey published here recently by Phlstcal Culture. "Nature culture camps can be round from one end of Oermany to the other," says Gebhard Hlrshfeld, author of the article. "The doors are open to all who heed the two rules governing membership: deoen cy and nudity. The federal associa tion for free development of the body, in Berlin, Is one of the most Important of the organisations fur thering the movement. Tts purpose is to establish tracts of land where men, women and children may fol low their inclinations undisturbed. The membership fee Is 50 cents per month. The practice of nudity has been legalised In Oermany, In places shielded from public view. Regardless of what scandalised derogators may sigv.” the article continues, “ the nudist movement Itself Is pure although the corner vatlve Oerman general public has looked upon It neither with favor nor tolerance. Those who violate the unwritten laws of the movement meet with nummary expulsion from the camps. Its members, with deep and earnest sincerity, endeavor to overcome the shame and fear which naturally poasess newcomers and those who wlah to try the experi ment but lack the courage to take the Initial step." velatlves In this county lot two weeks Mr. Huey William* «r Stage Mountain visited his father Mr. Bil ly Williams Sunday. STAR ADVS. PAY* “It so happens I don’t smoke, BUT IVe noticed recently that more of my girl friends are smok tDg CHESTERFIELD, and 1 asked why. "One of them said that CHESTER FIELDS really are milder and taste better—that there is nothing strong or sharp or bitter about them. "Another one spoke up and said that she too liked the taste of CHESTER FIELDS; but that she was especially pleased with the package — so neat and attractive. Chesterfields—she added—are made right — properly filled — and burn evenly; and she thought possibly they were using a better cigarette paper. Still another one agreed with all we’d 6aid. She’d been smoking CHESTER FIELDS for a long, long time, and had always liked them; but she also liked the way they were advertised. The advertis ing seemed to her to be the truth and the whole truth—it wasn’t always knocking «omebody or something!’’ Lscrrf t Uraxi T-Jtrfo Ox
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