Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - May 1, 1930, Reno, Nevada METAL PRICES 19 N 14 T 5.50 E St L 5.40 St Established November 23 1870 Member of the Associated Press THE WEATHER The highest temperature re- corded In Keno 39 decrees lowest 37 Uay fair and Volume LV No 362 RENO NEVADA THURSDAY MAY 1 1930 Ten Pages Five Cents Moves Made All Over World to Halt Rioting N Y PREPARED Tokyo Is First to Report Violent Disturbance TOKYO Thursday May policemen were injured in a May day clash at Kawasaki a Tokyo suburb today Police attempted to prevent a group of about 80 workmen Who were carrying bamboo spears from joining a May day In the scuffle several shots were fired allegedly by the workmen and the two policemen wounded Eight arrests were made Tokyo's May day demonstration began this morning with a mass meeting at Shiba park with persons present Ten persons were arrested before noon Early today 200 known radicals were rounded up by the police and held in custody for the day Housemaids Rebel Back Door Is Out DETROIT April tresses all over the country take hired girl is on the warpath Gathered at the industrial group conference of the national Y VY C A convention here day those quiet girls who are known as the the hired girl or just plain came out from behind the of their uniforms and drew up an indictment of mistresses all over the land No longer is the term maid acceptable they say In its place has come the domestic cr Miss or Miss whatever the case may And mistresses who have their em- ployes welfare at heart will act accordingly Their grievances the girls say are They can't get anywhere with the stigma of hired girl at- to them forever Maid isn't a whole lot better and is at the very bottom of the social scale They don't like uniforms be- cause it puts them so far apart from people who employ them They hate eating alone as ing should be a kind of social fair pleasant and jolly They haven't any place to en- the boy friends They haven't any assurance that they can have their regular Thursday evening off and Above all they don't like ing to use the back door Judge Has Request for Rehearing of Matter NEW April What with one celebration and an- other traditional gathering place of York's will be a busy row but Police Grover A Whalen was so sure night that the city's May day will be orderly that lie directed the thousand policemen to the square to go without their sticks The Veterans of Foreign Wars will use the square from noon to 2 a patriotic tion or day following a parade from Madison square Two Parades On An hour after they have left the communists are to take possession of the sum I parading thither from another East Side square for their May day demonstration Meanwhile the socialists will hold a rally of their own at the York coliseum far up in the Bronx which they forecast an orn and a celebration so peaceable than no policeman need come near Five bluecoats will cort the communist parade to square with lo emergency police trucks at close call along the line of march The thousand police will be there on all-day duty and Com- missioner will be at Union square in person with a field tele- phone system to direct operations il any Arms Ban Ordered Marchers in the parade have been ordered by their com- mander not to carry arms and warned that they cannot march if they do 2 o'clock when the veterans leave the square until 3 when the communists arrive the area will be Six men were a today in two sections of York for ing out or communist bills calling workers tj join tomorrow's communistic Spokesmen for the international labor defense said that more than 100 persons had arrested this ivek on similar in the vicinity of Brooklyn factories Paced with a petition by the Water Users association which seeks a modification of the recent order that tight dams on the Humboldt river should not be disturbed Judge George A Bartlett last night in Reno said that he would not order any dams re- moved at this time Judge Bartlett v ho is presiding in the Humboldt adjudication proceedings also said that if as charged by the Winnemucca users there is unlawful diversion of water being made upstream It the duty of the state engineer to call it to the attention of the court Receives Petition The Winnemucca petition filed in the district court in Winnemucca was received by Judge Bartlett afternoon It charges that in the Elko district with later priorities for use of water those in the Winnemucca dis- are diverting water to which they are not entitled by means of dams A rehearing of the tight dam controversy with a view to the order recently made in by Judge Bartlett is asked Judge Bartlett said last night that the recent hearing had convinced him that it would not be wise at Prisoners Dig Tunnel in Attempt to Gain Entrance to Warden's Residence Public Safety Head Is Arrested on Court Order PHILADELPHIA Mav Three hundred or more students of the University o Pennsylvania rested after a fight with the police near the campus were this morning after reprimands They had been taken to a police station in patrol wagons Their release was preceded by the issuance of a warrant for the of Lemuel director of public safety by Magistrate John O'Malley Magistrate O'Malley declared the had obstructed justice by refusing to lease 2D students on copies of the charges Requires Bail O'Malley told that un- less bail was furnished he would be committed to prison Responding to riot calls police charged into crowds of students for an ivy week bration forced their way into houses and arrested the as well as those found in adjacent stores and lunch rooms Two Wardens Killed Trying to Arrest Net Seiner SAN FRANCISCO April Anderson fisherman shot and killed two of- who sought to arrest him for illegal use of nets in the upper bay off early day and despite five bullet wounds in his own body skippered his tiny fishing smack 10 miles to men's wharf here to surrender The Allan G Curry 29 deputy state fish and game warden Jack Burke 48 a former game warden Bodies Brought In First intimation of the tragedy came when Anderson's boat yawled crazily into Fishermen's wharf Ing two small boats behind ed on the cabin roof were the bodies of two officers and huddled over the wheel was Anderson bleeding from wounds Both lungs were punctured by revolver bullets his right arm was shattered and there this time to order out dams which I were wounds in both his left arm and right hand At the harbor emergency hospital Anderson said he had been fishing off Burlingame when Curry Burke came aboard his craft and told him bo was under arrest and his nets confiscated for illegal ing Arrested Six Times I told them I had perfect right Among those arrested the president of the senior class Barnes of Kan Luis Obispo Cal VIOLENCE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT EUROPE LONDON April rations for toning down reds and pinks and other clashing hues which are expected to dominate the May day celebrations throughout Europe tomorrow have been made by police and troops in the various capitals In general the communists ists and laborites will be permitted to march and speak as long as the Continued on Two Sublet Your a responsible party before you leave Reno It will bring you extra pay a part of the expense of your trip Many desirable look for a short term Place a Furnished For Rent Ad in the Journal fied Section and you'll less rent the apartment Ask for an when you call Reno 4121 READ and USE JOURNAL Classified Daily Phone 4121 WASHINGTON April Secretary Wilbur forwarded today to the budget bureau a request for appropriations to begin work on Boulder dam This preliminary step is sary before congress can be asked to enact an appropriation for the project The budget request was accompanied by the signed contracts for the power to be produced at the dam Cor many years have been part of tho system of irrigation on the river Considers Future If in the be added it is deemed advisable to replace the dams with other control devices the change should be made only after careful and intelligent study and not as i sudden emergency measure After a telephone conversation last night with T A Brandon at- torney for the Winnemucca users Judge Barttitt hold decision on the petition pend ing further information He ad- vised Brandon to secure further in- formation from the state engineer's water commissioners on the exact situation Claims Prior The petition charged that the county ranchers have ties for use of water later than The state engineer re- cently directed that only users with rights prior to that year be supplied with water due to the present shortage The amount of water to be unlawfully diverted fixed in excels of 150 second feet Judge Bartlett said last night that he had been advised by John V Mueller special engineer for the court that some of the ranchers mentioned in the petition have dating before 1874 as well as later rights Whether these earlier rights are sufficient to give claim to the amount of water mentioned in the petition is one question that Judge Bartlett said he desired ther information about The petition also states that the recent tight dam order prevents the state engineer from stopping the alleged unlawful diversion by the Elko ranchers Judge Bartlett said last night that there is ing to prevent the state engineer Continued on Two Boys of Wealthy Family in Holdup SEATTLE April Kansas City youths Wallace Posey IS and Stanley Preach 19 whom police said were of well to do lies and had no previous criminal records were arraigned here day on charges of robbery and probably will plead Friday They were accused by police of holding up two stores here more than a week ago shortly after their arrival and robbing them of about Flood Waters Pass Crest No Damage OKLAHOMA CITY Okla April waters from two rivers in northeastern Oklahoma which today threatened Miami and Picher tonight appeared either to have reached or passed the crest of the present high water with no serious damage or loss of life re- ported LOCUSTS ATTACK BUCHAREST April immense swarm of locusts ed upon Rumania today attacking acres of vineyards in the dis- of in the Dobruja region R R ke Step to Counter Claim Set Up by Roads to The Journal CITY April pat itory to countering the of several railroad companies m Nevada that their ope pro tha sta kin Hoi nerty is taxed at a higher rate other classes of property in the Attorney General M A Dis- is sending his deputy to the s of the state to make an Independent investigation of the situation Tile Pacific Western cing Los Angeles Salt Lake and Southern Pacific railroad companies filed protests with the county receivers and state tax mis Per ties n protesting the valuation ed on their lines in Lincoln Shing and other Basia fop Protest basis of their protest is that the property is assessed for tion purposes at a percentage of its taxable valUe greatly in excess of percentage of taxable value systematically used and adopted throughout the state thereby ing a gross and unjustifiable in- equality per unit of value between the taxes imposed upon general property in he that upon the railroad property Suits in the federal courts are ex- to be filed by the railroads within the next few months in an effort to secure refunds from the 1929 taxes paid under protest and to have their valuation lowered As attorney for the state tax commission Attorney General kin is gathering data to disprove fish where I was and I would contentions not give up my new Anderson said We argued Curry pulled a gun and began shooting 1 went into the cabin anl and shotgun I shot back them Then J into Han Fra Cisco Edward L MacAuley in charge of fish patrols said Anderson had been arrested six times for illegal fishing No charges were placed against Anderson today Chief of Police William J Quinn said if it could be determined the shooting took place off Burlingame Anderson would be turned over lo for prosecution San Mateo county CHICAGO April members of one of Chicago's liquor rings credited with the production of gallons of whisky in two and a half years un- der the direction of Al Capone were indicted by the federal grand jury today The indictment charged con- to violate the national act Assistant United States District Daniel Anderson said the center of the Web was thei Italian Importing and ing company which November 1 1927 bv Charles Ar- gento the Capone man Joseph manza and Frank all of whom were indicted ALASKA VOTE FOR DELEGATE Alaska April With 26 precincts reported 23 in southeastern Alaska and three in the Fort Gibbon district John gard was leading Judge James Wickersham by a margin of only 73 votes for the republican nomination for delegate to congress from ka The Vote was 1 443 for gard ana for Wickersham Las Vegas Man Tells of Graft Asked for Jobs OAKLAND Cal April Ernest G Norman former Oakland paving promoter now of Las Vegas Nev testifying for the prosecution in paving graft trial hero today said former city Commissioner William H Parker told him if you want work you will have to pay for it Parker is o with Kay berson Parker's former secretary and John Garbutt former paving promoter on an Alameda county grand jury indictment jointly ing them of bribery and conspiracy on connection with Oakland street paving Norman testified to an alleged conversation in which PParker ed him to get the agency for a ent paving away from Fred G Haase He succeeded and then he testified Parker said he would have to pay for it and that he was not in the business for his health Cross-examination of Norman by row NEW YORK April largest customs fine ever imposed in the history of the port of New York was collected today from Mrs Robert Lv Dodge president of the cosmetics firm of Harriet Ayer Hubbard Inc for bringing clared jewelry and wearing into the United States April 115 The penalties and duties totalled WAGES ARE CUT MIAMI Ariz April Wages of copper miners were today ordered cut effective tomorrow by the Miami Copper company ation consolidated company arid the Smelting company in NTS HOT Eugene L Williams former dis- attorney of Washoe county Reno's first city attorney died last night at 10 o'clock at his home 202 Maple street at the age of 72 years His sudden Ke was a native of Maine and had resided in Reno lor years taking tin active part in municipal and county affairs He was a ber of the Masonic order Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World Surviving relatives include his widow a daughter Mrs Charles D Koeder of Reno and a brother George B Williams of Kalian PORT JEFFERSON N Y April from the U S Texas piloted by Lieut Com- mander Durdan was forced down in Long Island sound five miles west of heer today Commander Durdan was slightly injured but his senger Aviation mate Corking was unhurt The ship which was returning to the Texas in New York the naval base at Newport R I developed engine trouble The wto were picked up by fish- ing boats and taken to the Texas by another plane The plane was in a sinking condition when CHICAGO April Madge Woodhouse 30 shot last night by Vernon Roberts who said she won the title of Miss Chicago In a 1923 beauty pageant died day Mrs Martha Nixon her sister shot at the same time re- mained In a serious Roberts said he became angry Mrs Nixon when ed him tor his attentions to her half-sister Mrs McCormick to Tell of Expenses April The rival republican senatorial In the recent Illinois mary Mrs Ruth Anna McCormick the winner and Senator will face each other tomorrow be- fore the senate campaign funds and formally report their YOUTHFUL FLO Due at El Paso But Fails to Arrive Feared Down Broadway Racketeer Shot Entering Apartment NEW YORK April Against a of silence that hid events behind the scenes an- character was shot by assailants as he entered his early today and died in a with several bullets in his body Balked by the close-lipped land code which reads Tell the cops police could only theorize as to the train of events which sent two young men guns in their hands into an upper West Side apartment lobby in the early hours this morning to empty their pistols into the back of Harry Block night club owner and eteer Two Theories Advanced Even Block's wife witness of the killing and apparently conversant with her husband's activities could not or would not help the police She said she had been married to Block for six years and thought he was a clothing salesman The police were working on two theories One was that Block was the victim of guerillas hired to put him out of the way as a reprisal for the wrecking and enforced closing of the Plantation club a Harlem night club which opened last your in opposition to his own place Cotton club R even go Is Hinted The other was Block was killed as a result of his activities in ho New Jersey beer racket Several racketeers including I Dunn of Hoboken and Big I Mike Redden of name only two or the better ready have ben put out of the way in that bit of gangland activity EL PASO Texas April Prank who left Mid- land at in p iii en route to El Paso on his New Angeles attempt to set u new junior trans- continental record had not arrived in El Paso shortly before in p in Mountain standard lime Midland is about mill from El Part of the territory between Mid- land and El Paso Is considered i treacherous for flying The Sierras lie directly in the path of his posed flight Route Unknown When the Graf Zeppelin made Ms memorable flight across the States it swung southward and made a crossing through a pas Airplanes generally do not do this The exact route w following was not known Aviators usually follow the and Pacific railroad line at night there being no beacons along the route Texas and Pacific tonight checked at Odessa and Sierra and no news of the aviator had been re- in any of the cities The only airport between Midland and El Paso is at Pecos and airport officials there tonight said they had no word of him PENS Cut Through Concrete to Bore Toward Residence KNIVES FOUND Soldiers Give Cells Thorough Frisking for Caches Offered for Sale at Reduced Rate by Court Special to The Journal CARSON CITY April 30 note signed by United States Senator T L many years ago and given as security to the defunct Nye and Ormsby ty Bank has been ordered sold for by Judge George A Ballard fore whom the ancient case of State of Nevada against tho bank is ing The court's order was made last Friday on application of K O Patterson receiver of the bankrupt bank The receiver's petition stated that a note for executed by W J Sinclair and W J Skelton was among the assets of the bunk which held the note as curity for the payment of the other note No payments have ever been made on either note Sinclair and Skelton are without assets and the statute of limitations has run against each note for approximately 15 years according to Patterson The Nye and Ormsby County Bank closed its doors gome 23 years ago the depositors receiving a large portion of their deposits as the assets have been liquidated from time to time WASHINGTON April Another day of brought u vote in the senate today on confirmation of Judge John 1 ker of North Carolina to tin court but leaders of both sides still were doubtful tonight of the final result A vole tomorrow is in prospect Two Democrats joined the sition In the day's round of oratory i Wagner of New York and of Tennesse ing Two Hastings of and Herbert of on the fight for the nominee Again from HIP Republican side came the charge that the campaign against Parker was actually 1 di ive by the socialists and liberals against the independence of the court TOM UP April Whether the Hoover law ment bills to relievo court congestion will discarded for the Bachman plan Ur provide additional federal is to be finally determined Tuesday by the judiciary committee un- der a program outlined today by Chairman Graham Although the committee ered President Hoover's peal to congress for on the legislative gram it declined today to take tion on the bills Instead it re- ported favorably measures to vide an additional judge each for the third and fifth circuit courts of appeal A to two tional judges for the District of lumbia supreme court also proved i LOS ANGELES April Severance of the trials of otto huber and Mrs Walburga reich jointly indicted for the der eight yearn ago of reich wealthy Milwaukee turer was refused by the court today They are to go on trial June 2 Motions for the severance made by attorneys for both the slain man's widow and her confessed at- tic lover were taken under last week The defendants are held in jail without bail huber who pleaded not guilty and also not guilty by reason of ity is under observation to mine his mental condition ALMA WIs April Sheriff Louis and his deputies tonight captured two men and one man tentatively as members of tho bandit quartet that held up and robbed the First National Bank of Nelson of today The sheriff man believed a ber at the The trio was apprehended when their automobile in a ditch near here Daughter of Hughes to Wed Utah Man NEW YORK April Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Mrs Hughes tonight the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth Evans Hughes to William Thomas of York son of Mr and Mrs J T et Salt Lake City Utah COLUMBUS 0 April Ohio national officers in making 3 routine inspection of white in Ohio penitentiary tonight discovered the beginning of a Hole which was being dug i the wall leading to Warden P E Thomas The officers came upon the hole and a three and a half foot bar in tho basement of the prison Diggers in rutting through six inches ot officers reported It is thought ever that would have bad lo a steel 1 in tin r in their work Tho bow- King ago the digging hurl begun Ill cell number the guards also 1 been torn trom tho wall This all opening through they they believed the prisoners hoped lo reach the lower At this juli the it appeared as though had liwn done Tin however not lo lie round Several crowbars found in different parts of white city 400 on Guard C o 1 o M e I Hubert h iii charge ol the lino national men on penitentiary duty into white to inspect the hole men reported lie 400 soldiers would 1 ferent within ol prison il will used to guard wire prison yard 150 would be cd to the walls Ohio idle where turmoil raged since last week's fire was night ind wei e the mutiny Warden Preston i Thomas had born 600 in Stockade A barbed wire si in the i n grounds held the insurgent convicts the auto tag sheltered others Two hundred or more been transferred to other Mate prisons The of transferring lie bad men from their cell blocks to the stockade containing tents for sleeping can led out this before dark Ir striking contrast to yesterday's di order during which two prisoner Continued on Page Two in in the watch house It's Not So Much How to Buy a Car as Where to Buy It IT'S to buy i day's pru es and terms put priceless boon ol tive w i I b i i reach of practically everyone Tho detail that Mends Judgment today is where to buy one The O K Used 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