I got these chips from Weston Charles earlier this year. Several of us had input on them. It is possible the chips were used in either one or all 3 places, The Virginia Bar, New Gladstone Hotel, Virginia Hotel. Information is all over the place. IMO all named in the info were involved at one time or another and all 3 joints were connected.

JEP
Virginia Bar, Casper, WY
1939 – 300 chips
GE's came in same lot.
GE Red diamond is $1.00 on reverse
GE Red lazy diamond- just noticed one of them is $1.00 on reverse, others are same GE both sides.
GE Teal- same GE both sides

From Ed Hertel:

Quick look didn't bring anything concrete. During this time a guy named Glen M. Howell was running the Virginia Bar. In 1943, the Virginia Hotel next door was Gerry Price (Gerry vs Jerry for the JEP?). No mention of gambling infractions

There is also a "JEP" Taylor order to J.E. Price, New Gladstone Hotel, Casper, WY - 1942. I see someone else owning and managing the Gladstone, but John E. Price was in town. At this same time there was a Gerry Price (maybe a brother?) running the Virginia Hotel.

My note: I need the above chip. Cough it up if you have a trader.

From our "Friend."

JEP = John Edward Price
--born Kentucky 1895
--moved to South Dakota with family when a kid
--moved to Casper, WY in 1931
--in 1939 was associated with the Riverside Club in Casper (you had some chips from there in a Wyoming IOTD: RSC hubs)
http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/links/genetrimble/illegaloftheday/VariousWY.pdf

--in April 1940 listed occupation as “manager” of a “hotel game room”; not sure which hotel; Virginia Hotel next to Virginia Bar but had chips sent to New Gladstone Hotel in 1942, where he had been employed in the hotel’s basement billiard room in the mid 1930’s
--in 1955 moved to Las Vegas, NV where he died in 1963 aged 68.

My note: I wish I had kept track of how many operators from the "Era Of The Illegals" we have read about moving to Nevada to finish out their lives. As I've stated in the past, they helped make Las Vegas and all of NV what it is today. They lived and made the history we are searching for.

Price was involved in a shooting in 1943:

these chips sent to Virginia Bar in 1943:

My note: I need the above chips. Cough them up if you have a trader.

This is "Illegal of The Day" number 222. Special thank you to all the club members involved in making the records on Preserving Gaming History available to the chip collectors of the world.
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Can you imagine how many UFC's we would have in our hobby without them?