Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - May 25, 1926, Reno, Nevada METAL PRICKS BAR Electrolytic and FULL PRESS SERVICE VOL 52 NO 26 RENO NEVADA KAY 25 1926 JOURNAL THE WEATHER The highest temperature recorded was degrees Tuesday cloudy FIVE CENTS FOUR CONVICTS Kl IN ESCAPE PLOT Senate Renews Attack New Orders HUNDREDS ARE IN VOLCANO SPOUT c I Mellon Takes Responsibility for New Prohibition Movement LEGALITY QUESTIONED IN SENATE OFFENSIVE Treasurer Expresses prise at Adverse cism Received WASHINGTON May W renewed fire today from the the administration to allay apprehension that President Coolidge's executive order is to be used to convert county and municipal lice into a vast army of agents full responsibility for the order Secretary Mellon said there wits no intention to make it generally applicable over the Choppy Sea Delays Hunt For Body of Evangelist Along West Coast Line LOS ANGELES Calif May 24 choppy waters of Santu Monica bay tonight held the of the stage in the search for Aimee Semple ting theories of violence aside for the moment a new and concerted effort was made today to locatt the body of the noted evangelist who disappeared while surf ing at Santa Monica Tuesday Sheriff William 1 Ti of Los Angeles county took personal charge of a new t to locate the body at the end of Lick pier where it known much steel and piling were thrown into the bay after the Ocean Paik two ago K M widely known diver of land was summoned bv the iff to search the bay's at the end of pier The roughest water by searchers during the of the constant watching made the task of boatmen precarious Despite this 12 boats patrolled the in the region of Santa Monica all through the day The city chemist reported this that an analysis of ange juice tor Mrs on the h prior to her disappearance showed a negative result indicating no poisonous con- tent Rumors about the city hall stated that the city council had discussed in secret session an amendment to the cemetery ance which would permit of Mrs body If found ing placed in a crypt beneath a memorial window at Angelus ple founded by the evangelist 3 I H Freight Rates Draw Fire hi Oral Arguments at Day's Meeting TEXAN OPENS PLEA FOR WESTERN MEN Reduction in Short Haul Rate Is Declared ed by Zwemer arrangement already worked out with some deputy irt While Mr Mellon was making his Robinson the leader was denouncing the order on the floor of the ate as a colossal blunder and as the worst blow that has been struck against prohibition Legality Doubted Senator King rnt had offered a tion to direct the senate Judiciary committee to determine whether the legal and republican New York bad issued a formal statement the order would help to inform the public the extent to the federal government mav BO in of power over the states and their subdivisions T 1 e Made on Senate Floor by Norris though References Made During Debate May 24 Concluding the senate investigating committee William S Culbertson minister to Rumania and former tariff com- missioner declared he had been subjected to attack before the com- because he to port charges against President Coolidge made in the senate bv Senator i X He and papers were in the public record because he had de- to subscribe to the Nori contention that the president a Lewis in his official WASHINGTON May was done In a farm relief in tho house still was a live issue members and reference was made to it on the floor Representative Fulmer crat South Carolina told the that the agriculture committee of which he in a member might report the price-fixing ill which was defeated last Friday He said 15 members of the committee were behind the measure while only three favored the Tincher credit and two the well commodity marketing While senators continued their I by asking for an undated he the of the president's action Attorney General Sargent handed an opinion declaring the der to be legal Defines Amendment He tbe eighteenth ment contemplated concurrent tion ho nation and the in prohibition enforcement Mr Sargent's opinion was under date of today and emphasized a statement previously made by treasury officials that the attorney general had not been consulted the order either In advance the signing of it by President lidge n May S or Its by the May 21 Not on Large Scale Secretary Mellon emphasized that enlistment of local police as pr agents would be done at the of state authorities and the consent of individual officers involved He added th it consequently there was no tion of using the authority on a nationwide scale surprise at the out- burst of criticism against the plan the secretary that rather than have a controversy he would not have urged tbe order In the place Mellon Pat tion before appointing him In offering remedial suggestions Mi Culbertson declared the com- mission either be abolished or converted into a court with er to raise or It should be composed of men of he said and should function with the tariff in the same manner that the interstate com- merce commission does with road rates Nature Soon to Balance Between Sexes Is German Prediction with the HaUgen but were withdrawn before a vote was reached It is only for the committee to get he added for the farmers to relief The committee held a meeting but farm relief not mentioned Members said there I was no indication when the subject I would be brought up again though there was no disposition to hold it a dead issue Some held it would be to wait for the senate to act before attempting to get other to the while man Haughen said he had not de- what course he would sue May rates in general and livestock charges in particular drew the fire of those appearing for oral argument today in the interstate commerce sion's western rate inquiry In- in the livestock are petitions by the railroads for a 20 per cent increase in rates and applications by the shippers a blanket reduction ingt he American National stock association opened ments for the shippers in tion to an increase declai ing the livestock industry was overburdened w ith freight tharg and that the should ba made to reduce them R A Zwemer representing the Sioux City livestock exchange and Missouri liter markets declared there should be a reduction of JC per cent in livestock rates and that the fostering of markets late redue tions without cut- ting those for shorter hauls was erroneous J II Henderson commerce sel of Iowa arguing for reduction in the livestock scale pointed out that state had suffered more than any other in the readjust ments made in these and that no Iowa markets except one or two points north of Sioux hid benefited by the reductions of four years ago Mountain Has Been Mined for Sulphur by Japanese FLEE TO NEARBY MOUNTAINS ee Explosions Occur at J r Scene of Latest World Upheaval BERLIN May Men need not be afraid that the fair sex some time hence will take command of the world ply because nt the present time women are in the majority Dame is much wiser than man She restores harmony between the two sexes by some mysterious law regulating the proportion between male and an article in the Hamburger richten discussing the alleged danger of a steadily crowing plus of women over men There is undoubtedly a plus of women over men in all countries of the world but SARGENT TO FILE E By LEO A Washington Correspondent The Nevada State Journal WASHINGTON May report on the it a appropriation He added however that since the i would bo entirely erroneous to for a Walker river survey will be present application of the order is believe that men In future will filed tomorrow by Attorney General doing no he proposed out by women i Sargent with the house pat on it I mav predicted that j tion committee according to within the next twenty years the Congressman Arentz Senator Robinson told the that he could find no authority for president's action either In the constitution or fhe act and he asserted that if the vested by it was carried out confusion would reign in tion enforcement Asserting that congress had con- ferred upon the commissioner of internal revenue and the attorney authority to name en- forcement agents Senator Robinson declared It that at- tempt on of the president to appoint Mich to an usurpation of power BOY KILLS May Anderson four and his batty er today with a shotgun which be was IM play of surplus of women over men will Nevada says the attorney general be balanced out And It seems gave him Arentz agreed to the equally safe to forecast that an equilibrium will te restored by another wave of female births Nature Is harmony East Tennessee Doubles Tobacco Sales This Year KNOXVILLE Tenn May INS Between and pounds of Bright Burley than double last year's be ed in East Tennessee this summer according to Walter Harper ager of East Tennessee Associated The estimated increase in duction will not have the ing effect on market prices that some are he said amendment under which there will be a definite understanding that enough water will be allowed to ii on the Reese In- dian reservation pending the out- come of the survey Assistant Secretary of the Ir- Finney and Indian Burke agreed to report on a authorization but declined to take a stand on the section calling for a dismissal of government suits in the event the project cm the Walker river is ible Congressman Cramton Michigan chairman of the appropriations subcommittee in charge interior department expenditures has agreed to ask for a special rula for are inclined to believe consideration ot the jn the g to best Information ob- of a favorable ln no add com report PHILADELPHIA May 24 President Coolidge tieth President of the United States will worship on ence JDay this year in the same church in this city in which George Washington first dent worshipped in 1776 President Coolidge has ed his acceptance of an invitation to be present in old Christ church on the Fourth of July which falls on at the union patriotic service held annually on this by a group of churches which were Influential during the lution The invitation to the President was sent by a committee the Episcopal Baptist Presbyterian Lutheran dist and Reformed churches and toy Mayor representing the International Exposition which lie held here from June 1 i President Will occupy Washington's pew address the congregation his wards being broadcast by radio over the United States One of features of the program will the un- veiling of a tablet recording the fact that in the church graveyard are buried seven signers of the Declaration of Benjamin Franklin Robert Morris James Wilson Benjamin Bush Francis George Ross and Joseph Hewes Owing to the fact that the an- cient church will seat only the congregation will made of representatives of patriotic ana religious organizations prominent among them being of Sana of the Revolution Daughters of the of Mas A patch from Sapporo Hokkaido to Hichi re- ports that farmers are ing as the result of an eruption of a volcano In the Mountains of province Hokkaido The same dispatch leports farmers were driven to take refuge hi the hills by the overflow of the river owing to jibe eruption Explosions There were three of the volcano yesterday each ing huge quantities of rocks and lava and causing numerous slides One village is reported to been wiped out bv a flood of water and 200 of the inhabitants being burled Verification ot the details of the eruption is extremely difficult ing to trie inaccessibility of the a Mountainous interior of Hokkaido the of the four main islands of Japan Volcano Mined dispatcher to the pi ess had reported 00 sulphur ers missing and the destruction of 60 houses by the eruption Thn volcano had not been In eruption foi manj anil being mined extensively for sulphur province is a region only newly settled and recently by a but although most of It 20 years ago was wilderness it has been idly developed for agriculture ard cattle raising The principal of the region is Asahigawa the government maintains a teoi logical observatory Bath Tub Wine Server To Appear in Court To Tell of Theater Party NEW YORK May 24 Joyce bathtub girl of Earl birthday will take the stand tomorrow at resumption of the theatrical dial for perjury Can oil Is charged with having committed perjury before two grand juries which were ting the party ut his theater at which it had been that men guesti were served liquor bv fell in or was pushed Into bull tub Numerous since the trial started several of new paper men testified Haw lev sat in HIP tub out clothing and served tilings from th liquor In which after himself hid helped her in and announced that the line forms on this Among four witnesses to was Dorothy Gordon a Carroll shou girl and Miss Hawley while she was the first woman witness to Deadly Aim of Arkansas Of- Drops Men in Tracks SICKNESS PRETENDED TO ATTEMPT GETAWAY ting undraped in a bath tub full of wine The producer told the grand jury that no liquor was served at the stand She testified that she loaned her cape to Canoll and saw him shield Miss with il the gill walked tho the party and that no got in and got Into the tub Diplomas Spell Film Parts for These Students re 1 PES Bootleggers Not Forced to of Sales in Business WASHINGTON Mny Prohibition enforcement officials of basing prosecutions on bootleggers of sales to customers were set back two members of the first graduating class of the Paramount Picture School Irii Gray and Mom Palma roles In the Paramount when lite supreme court ruled thut are not required to nish the government with records In deciding two from Pennsylvania the court in a ruling read by eStone held that the whisky sales records required the prohibition enforcement aot rlied tu those persons hiding government permits to sell eating liquors The ruling in the cases of Jacob Katz George S Kim and Herman und U dented the right of tho government to prosecute bootleggers and their customers for failure to provide lists of illegal transactions Actions oft ho trial court In quashing indictments against the men charging conspiracy to viola tt the in the sale of whisky for the Stewart Distilling company w making a permanent ord was sustained In today's de- That the supreme court is ing difficulty in unraveling the many cases coming to It as a result of the prohibition law was ed today when it ordered argued two cases Involving the right of the government to cate automobiles being purchased ont he deferred payment plan am used In the illegal transportation of liquor JUDGE RE TO 1 Ed Four Prisoners Make Twelve Breaks for Liberty in Last Year Shipping Board Sale to Dollar Js by McCoy WASHINGTON May Couit sought to pit vent sale the boird nf five ships of the tnl line operating out of Scuttle lo Ii Stanley Dollar ailed tod iv j when Chief In tin District of Columbia supremo court declined to an Injunction Immediately afterward pmf board met decide whether it will with the ot the senate commerce committee which the wile lo de- lay final net Ion a few the court decision After which developed pressure within tbe board In of immediate acceptance of tho PINE BLUFF Ark May Four prisoners at the state farm in Tucker were shot and killed here late today by two trusty guards in one of the est brosks for liberty ever known at the farm The convicts Allan Jack Two of them ti-imci In l nitton field at thf faini the ml nut to lii In il n ade a bli iK and Ihr eil flu two pistol emptied Hi The men id when 11 i IM it them Superintendent Dee Norton of the farm tonight aid the break for liberty today was the twelfth made by the men within the past year They have made several attempts to escape nt night and always worked gether he I In- tlK v win King tin hml componed of funi Dollar bid the board agreed to tin fer action until tomorrow Some members of the board in- Commissioner English Country Folks Like Shakespeare Better Than Do City Audiences LONDON May Shakespeare's and brow drama in is ing more popular before Englisn rural and audiences than in the first-class theatres of the West End of London The latest Shakespeare play to fall in the West Bnd was Much Ado About Nothing Henry and Madge In the leading parts After several dreary nights ot playing to vacant seats Ainley gave it up and a week later was raking in mopey at the same theatre with Prince a super de luxe sheik drama In which a desert prince captures the heart of a woman after a series Of great love scenes all done In the style to knock em cold throughout the houM and to make the theatrical proposition business a paying ift typical of that of West End producers while at the Old theatre near Waterloo station Mouth of Thames theatres and tba In suburban tion is carried large and appreciative without And not the lo hurried execution of Inp sale to Dollar In declining to the tion Justice McCoy hold that Inr had gained advantage In tho will bin h unK lidding nnd that three the wile to had enual started off on a nin unity with him to learn in of the shipping ml u with bui dm f alw In their i Four Are Shot Mr would 11 M ii of HIP wlin tin shooting mild thin told him while 111 a HIM It tile one nf men in i changes In for the bids By LEO A Washington Correspondent The Nevada State Journal WASHINGTON May to the reclamation reau to purchase of Indian land above n tho 1 I- i fill II IDS al I one a lie 1 All of tbe convict In if the minds ami IM the rein th in Their bodies have been t In Arkansas III be examined Poor Internal Trade Cause of Bankruptcies of Czech Business Men Nov on he Pyramid lake J tion for out the Springs Nevada project con- bankruptcy tn Mny 24 court IH In n S S Arentz con- gressman from Nevada introduced In the house today Another hill permits the interior department 1 It In mom of the The bankruptcies In for March 11 40 for nnd 41 the month lease on land on dlan reservations The Included oil and metal lands In- a1 THE DAY IN WASHINGTON The District of Columbia supremo court declined to enjoin tho Ad- miral Orient ship salo Approval was given tho French debt settlement by the house ways and means committee Bootleggers do not have to nish tho government records of sales the supreme court held The supreme court declined to pass on the question of whether negroes can be barred from areas Attorney General Horrent upheld the legality of the order ing local officials for prohibition tariff commission would be abolished or authorized to adjust William told investigators for wore for February total amounted to ten kronen The reasons fur InffH In were fih poor internal trade uml tho lack of a general complaint Safety Control for Trans Is Being Tested CO'rNCIL la May 24 now automatic control for been by the Chicago Northwestern Railroad and la and If will be extended The device operated by currents in the rails lights a light and blown a tn the engineer's cab if another train IH approaching If u rail la broken or If a switch la open If the engineer fall to heed thr ing and slow down his train the device seta the JEWS PA PER I
