Gambling Experts Dominate Private Card Games
A Navy or Army gambling feature notes that professional card sharps use tricks like peeking, second dealing, and topping the deck to control top cards. It warns GI players to beware of marked decks and trained manipulators who can fleece unsuspecting participants in private games or large setups.
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Sergeant Radner
Dai Vernon
Radner
Vernon
Tom
Harry
Card Sharp
Notable marked card sample page from Midwest gambling catalog
A page from a large Midwest gambling supply catalog shows a marked deck sample with codes A through G describing card features. The catalog promotes crooked goods to GIs overseas, claiming gambling is profitable and urging orders with a sly war bonds tip.
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Midwest
Radner
Command changes hands at air field post
Colonel Jewett assumes command at the post after returning from Langley and Boca Raton. He previously led Gulfport Mississippi Truax Field and Boca Raton Army Air Base with earlier service in Hawaii and the Philippines during a long aviation career. His wife Mrs Jewett joined him at Burkburnett after a stay in Boca Raton.
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der of Baer Field
Langley
Sheppard Field
Jewett
Boca Raton
Fla
Army Air
Gulfport Field
Miss
Truax Fie
Madison
Wisconsin
Gulfport
Mississippi
Truax
Signal Corps
Hawaii
Philippines
Panama
Learn and YANK Subscriptions Available This Pay Day
GIs can obtain subscriptions to YANK the Army weekly this payday through the Personnel Services Office. Station information officer distributes notices to unit commanders outlining the plan and methods. Rates are two dollars per year or one dollar for six months. Subscriptions sent via orderly room with names addresses and remittance minus ten percent credited to the unit fund.
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Gis
Army
Personnel Services Office
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Milton Caniff
Terry and the Pirates
Ol’ Ridge
Ridge
A.P.O
New York
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