Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - June 2, 1930, Reno, Nevada METAL PRICES 17 York 38 Y 5 50 E St L 5.40 St Established November 23 1870 Member of the Associated Press THE WEATHER The highest temperature om ded in Keno wan degrees 40 day mid i in mil th Volume LVI No 29 RENO NEVADA MONDAY JUNE 2 1930 Five Cents EXECUTED AT CARSON Detroit Patrolmen on Trail of Car Are Taken for Ride DROP IN TRACKS with is Car Had Struck and Injured Woman Seriously June 1 IIP Two T of park killed in a gun ram ili n et Claude a 24 mcl LansU l w 1 1 c pilot j men were in w h the serious Mrs Ina 56 of Highland who a snort time hnd been struck an auto- i tlu scene of thi 1 nt Car Number Reported of the car hart been ted witnesses The officers located the nr near the accident scene which is in a neighborhood v hcif are landed got out ol 11 incl appt to investigate and s ion of r up 1 s in the opened fire and shut through the head firing but slumped the whet 1 of the police car v rth three bullets in his head and t no 1 low t i In n t i n died v a 1 lime Italians on Trail Members of Detroit police Italian w c i e put on the case tnd during the made three ar- 1 1 M The men taken were Frank Me i cut m 24 his father Sam Dp M in and Flank Salanone The i was found pierced sc bullets Point they belie ed the rum was waiting for a cargo of liquor to be landed near th t of Like Ht Clair and nut the men in the car must be v anted on charges since opened frie on the officers so Car Identified The rummers car was identified as belonging to Sam who police s iv IB under bond at i nt charged with automobile theft Police were looking for Ricca tonight said all of the hangouts for Kunmer in Detroit were deserted and that they were able to known gangsters s weie attempting to connect the shootings with Ine si n hit of two Italians d iv but said the only con- ng is the fact that in both shootings were of the Gaspare Scibilia and known to police as mil hoodlums were shot to death la -t night in the Italian district of Detroit S in Nevada Youths Make First Auto Jaunt to Nicaragua Are First to Drive From U S to Central America Cover 4562 Miles in 26 Days Driving Time Two young Nevadans Arthur and Joseph Lyons of ca yesterday completed what is believed to be the first bile trip from New York to Managua Nicaragua using a light roadster to travel the 4562 miles in 26 days of actual driving time Associated Press dispatches from the Central American city carrying the story of the Lyons brothers fete state that they left New York City on March 23 camping out every night ing unarmed and experiencing no trouble on the road through ico Salvador Honduras and Nicaragua The youths carried only the usual tourist papers and ports and commended of officials in the countries through they passed the dispatch continues Their small roadster made the trip on the same set of five tires with only two punctures The car was in good condition when they arrived but they sold it in Managua and will return to the United States by steamer The boys 25 and 21 years of age respectively are the sons of Assemblyman and Mrs J M ons of Winnemucca Arthur who was prominent in Winnemucca club activities is said to have been largely responsible for winnemucca's national publicity its high school ball team to the national ment at Chicago in 1929 garbed in wild west attire Both boys attended the University of da Elmer Lyons student body president at the university in is their brother Swedish Vessel Goes Down in English Channel HAVEN June lives were believed lost early in the sinking of the Swedish sto Inger after collision with the Italian motorship in the English channel near Head Three men were i out ol a of eighteen TWT members of the crew were picked up bv the A lifeboat rescued another sailor from an ned boat and another lifeboat picked up a s body The collision occurred in a dense fog shortly after midnight The Inger was bound from Swansea to Sweden with a cargo of coal The a tankei outward bound from Copenhagen was damaged in the bows but proceeded to without assistance eral ers lifeboats remained on the spot to hunt for the missing men HOSPITAL I BY FUMES Swollen Red River Breaks Its Levee ALEXANDRIA La June swollen Red river broke its levee in the Island dis- in two places between andria and Boyce today and spread cr acres of farm land had moved out several and no loss of human life or livestock wai reported but i ral dairy farms and growing corn and cotton were covered A Truly Unusual Selection OF Above the good USED cars ARE offered FOR your in THE JOURNAL SECTION today VK gut why NOT look THEM over NOW RE AD and USE JOURNAL Classified Daily Phone 4121 SAN FRANCISCO June 1 A blast believed by police to have been caused by dynamite early day tore off part of the roof ot the Royal theater residential district motion picture house of the T D circuit on Polk near California stieet No one was injured The explosion aroused the for blocks and sent fire paratus and police to the theater A hole five feet across was found torn in the roof directly above the projection room said the blast might have resulted from recent labor disputes No Deaths Reported Up to Late Hour 59 Escape N T June I tne broke out this afternoon in a ants at the suite hospital for the insane File apparatus was from a half dozen villages nearby while hospital wor ker s to allay the fears of about inmates in the institution Fif Attendants members of the staff wei e asleep when the flames were discovered of them were reported to have had narrow escapes from death hours after the fire begun 47 of the C9 were accounted for as safe Xo deaths or serious injuries had been at that hour but several persons were overcome bv smoke or Buffered minor hurts Lite thm afternoon the fire was reported under control but the known as the Velio home was badly damaged Police and firemen planned to conduct a ough search in Iho fear some of attendants might have been trapped and killed WILL SIT Cyclone Deaths Are Increased to Two WAGON MOUND N M June 1 Geist of Paterson N J died from injuries in a cyclone which struck this town late yesterday bringing total deaths to two He was crushed in the wreckage of a garage in which Alfred Holbrook 18 was lulled in- stantly Mrs D M Brewer of Los Angeles a tourist who was among the teen injured was in a serious tion and hospital attendants reported that she might not survive Other injured persons were ing Notice to Move Is Cause of Shooting Mich June raged because he had been served with notice to vacate a grain and stock farm a mile west of this village Jacob Till tenant today shot and killed the farm Henry Krug Chicago coal deale Till fled to a wood on the back of the farm where he killed himself when surrounded by officers HANDCAR CAUSES WRECK MONTEREAU France June today said the ing of the Express with death of seven persons last night was caused by a handcar placed across the track here LAKEHURST N J June crowd estimated by naval air station officials at passed through the big hangar of the tion today to see the Graf Zeppelin which arrived here yesterday from South America Berthed on the south side of the dome-shaped building used to house the navy's Los and other airships the Graf was being re- fueled and repaired in preparation for her start on another trans- atl hop to her home port Friedrichshafen Germany at 9 p m S T EXPECTED JUNE 5 Germany June 1 Zeppelin works here is the Graf Zeppelin to arrive from Lakehurst June 5 Honors 365 War Dead BRUSSELS June eral John 1 Pershing today paid tribute in the presence of thirteen gold star mothers to heroes of the Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth divisions of the A E F who lie buried at in the midst of Flanders battlefields The mothers delayed their de- parture for Paris and Cherbourg by General Pershing's request The ceremony was attended by ican Ambassador Hugh Gibson who journeyed to the cemetery from Brussels One of Captured Fliers Escapes MADRID June 1 Com- mandante Ricardo Burguete ish army aviator who was captured by Moorish tribesmen in the state of Rio De Oro last Wednesday after he had landed in the desert reached the Spanish gunboat Canalejas but the government here has no news of his three com- panions Two Mile Police Line Gives Way Before Onslaught BOMBAY June through a two-mile police cordon military aid could be called persons the salt depot at m what the Indian nationalists had widely advertised as their final r aid Twenty-five of the laiders were in a chaise by the police and nine women including Mrs K Munshi wife of a former member ol legislative assembly 11 ir- Crowds Gather A few volunteers straggled afoot to the salt parrs early in the morning soon joined by large crowds which arrived in automobile trucks and cars After breaking the police cordon the grabbed handfuls of salt and covered to the waist with slush and mud to Bombay triumphantly exhibiting the salt tied in handkerchiefs and shouting the usual cry we have broken the salt laws Automobiles bearing additional volunteers and decorated with flays dashed at breakneck spc ed along the highway to other groups of three and four Raids Continue Tho succeeded in all the the police lines breakers along the railway lines which run parallel with the salt pans ln however con- 1 until noon when the leaders sounded bugles to recall their followers By 1 p m only a few spectators remained on the scene The police made only 40 arrests The who were ai rested early in the clay In ought to Bombay in a police van and mated would be released Iv An attempt of 300 volunteers to i ush tho Jurla end of the ment's salt pans was frustrated by police Nationalists leaders announced that they would not the raids immediately but the infantry remained on guard Nancy Carroll In Thriller of Real Sea Tale NANCY CARROLL Oklahoma Begins Negro Death Probe CHICKASHA Okla June by Governor W J loway to prosecute immediately the leaders of a mob which Friday night stormed the Grady county jail here and fatally injured Henry Argo negro accused of attacking a white woman Attorney General J Berry King today started an cial investigation BOSTON June 1 thi iller in real life very ended the career of Nancy star today when the motor Katherine II aboard she was i guest all but foundered in a stiff gale off light Unattended by the machines and the pi ops of I foils wood the movie actress and her husband Jack and thirteen companions weie tossed about by seas and a high wind for hours beloie aid finally enure in the rmer n fishing schooner Miss Carroll III and ill Carroll and the others were landed at T wharf tonight still shaky and frightened The guests of Major and Mrs Peter Bone of Boston for the holi- day the party of fifteen left for the Corinthian Yacht club the Katherine II lato today The yacht owned by Gordon was off light when the gale blew up and the amateur seamen wei e at a loss what to do Seas Flood Deck Heavy waves broke over the deck of the frail craft The anchor was thrown overboard in an effort to Keep from being blown to sea the tenders had ah been swept overboard and the passengers had donned their lifebelts when the one slight hope ot reaching port their small engine was short circuited by a wave that broke through the en- gine hatch Signal Distress The Nereus II of the Eastern Yacht club sighted their flag ing union dowi distress signal of the sea tossed them a line and at- tempted a tow but the line snapped and the II limped into port herself For an hour the Katherine tossed and dipped in the wild seas Carroll later said that she guve up all hope of being saved Journal Help Yourself Club Ends in Big Rush Hundreds Of Added of Winners in Big Contest to Be Made Wednesday All Campaign Records Fall Culminating in a subscription battle that shattered all previous records of the campaign The Journal's Help Yourself club closed at 10 o'clock Saturday night Club members from all sections of the state competed desperately to win a place in the list of Nine big awards which is to be made public as soon as the avalanche of subscription credits can be ed Not until the closing hour did the contestants relax the tension that had kept them at top speed all day Club Headquarters in The Journal was a busy scene from early morning until late into the night and though the doors were closed promptly at 10 o'clock as announced it was not until long after that the club manager and his staff had finished waiting on the long list of club members who crowded in before the bars went up Subscriptions and credits came in large quantities it was by far the biggest lay's business of the entire campaign Checking Starts There is still much work to be done however As all subscriptions must be checked and verified and this work will be carried on without until the winners of all prizes are known The final count and tabulation of credits cast by the many club members will be In charge of the following prominent business men of P L son assistant cashier Reno al Bank R N Gray manager company Geo F Smith postmaster of Reno Club members and their friends will be advised through the columns of The Journal regarding the final outcome and it is hoped that the list of winners will be published in Wednesday's issue All-Round Success The Help Yourself club plan which terminated Saturday night was most successful in all respects It was apparent from the start that it would be for all club members were assured of well repaid for their efforts by way of a antee of a liberal cash commission on all the subscription money they turned in if they failed to qualify for one of the Nine big awards Hundreds of new readers have Continued en Chicago Rocks Again in Rum War Three Are Dead Slayer of Fellow Gambler Pays With Life in Lethal Gas Chamber as Sun Rises Goes to His Death With Smile on His Face as Fifty Witnesses Watch Through Sealed Windows CHICAGO June of extermination between rival organizations was signaled today by the execution of three gangsters and the probable fatal wounding of five other pel sons one u The dead all members of the combine headed by Terry Druggan of the turbulent valley dis- Sam Pellar Michael Quirk 40 and Joe Berlsche Tiro wounded Druggan brother of ry Vivian McGinnis wife of a Chicago at orney and ion of George Tony Joseph Ferrari and Sam Minister the three reputed of the Joe Aeillo gang Seated at Table Pellar Bertsche Druggan Mrs and an unidentified companion were seated at a table in the dining room of the Hotel ning at Fox Lake a summer resort near here when a band of gunmen suddenly appeared ut a front dow With the dispatch of an army ex- squad the killers leveled submachine guns against the glass discharged round after round of slugs into the restaurant And then drove away In the darkness Pellar Quirk and Bertsche whose records as gunmen and racketeers extended back to the period when Dion O'Banion held sway over the Chicago badlands were instantly killed Druggan and Mrs McGinnis were each struck by four while the unidentified diner ently escaped the spray of bullets Carries Out Victims A lone waiter at the restaurant told police the unknown man took Druggan and Mrs McGinnis from the blood bespattered floor and ned them to an automobile Two hours later the pair wan deposited at the emergency entrance of the University hospital in Chicago 40 miles from Fox Lake Attaches of the institution tonight said there was little prospect for their recovery About an hour after the Fox Lake Tornatore Ferrari and were ambushed on a north side street by two gunmen who fled in an automobile The trio was re- putedly identified with the Moran of liquor racketeers though police said that rious changes in gang alignments the three may have switched their allegiance to the gang Police Stumped Chicago and Lake county officials Investigating the advanced a maze of theories including one to the effect that the outbreak may have been connected with the ing yesterday of Philip and the wounding of two companions in the Valley district an Italian colony Gnolfo was a reputed killer for- merly aligned with the old gang enemies of the Druggan clan Tne ranks of the Genna outfit were decimated in a stormy eight months period in 1925 16 LIVES LOST IN SANTA MONICA Cal June groped through the kelp beds of Santa Monica bay today in a fruitless search for bodies of teen persons believed lost when the fishing launch Ameco capsized day Authorities here definitely have fixed the total of lives lost at teen and said they believed the Ameco was overloaded when a great wave capsized the craft Santa Monica police and Los An- geles county deputy sheriffs said they had definite proof that thirteen persons missing from their homes were aboard the Ameco Unclaimed automobiles parked along the wharf reports from friends and relatives and descriptions of the missing by the survivors aided authorities in compiling the list VETS URGE ACTION WASHINGTON June The United Spanish War Veterans called on the senate today to pass the Spanish-American War over the veto ol President ver Jones Is Free ATLANTA June least one Atlanta negro knows the answer to the time honored query what's in a In tow of a policeman he shuffled dejectedly up to the bench in police court yesterday afternoon Is this your right asked Judge A W Callaway consulting the records of the case Yes was the meek re- ply And what is the charge the judge asked Parking over time your honor Case Judge laway announced I can't fine a man with a name like that today of all days The negro's name was Bobby Jones Special to Tho Journal CARSON CITY June h muted and stole quietly into the gas chamber at the sta to penitentiary shortly after sunrise this morning and claimed R H White convicted slayer of a fellow gambler Louis Lavell on the night May 5 1928 At o'clock this morning ten minutes after the first peach blossom fumes had permeated through tho death chamber two physicians with stethoscopes glued to their cars pronounced Bob White dead tho first white man to be executed in Nevada by lethal gas And gamer or braver than 1 lob While tins morning Death in and on tho of a smili Dial flashed tu ill witnesses win dow n at him a- dow us be- into his Died Game Though White for crime no mm of tho witnesses irre but that In- clicel garni At tin began White lire gas chamber in company ol sat down in the chair and helped in of the up after straps hael beem the of the that he saw iwo May K Kmney who Is going on 70 years nf age and Margaret em duty in wr Warden hnd tho cell ho hand ami said good-bye White at tho nurses then at the e i ami he smiled and shook his head us though to saj Well this is the oriel Eggs Drop Then the that were to moll and issue forth rn tiro torm of into the pair belore him drop then n moment later lie tested the air his ils film of leir be bis head tei who as ID circulating smiled He took Ins back Ins body to 1 then i the body fin limp and Hob had paid state in full for he committed incl Thorn who on duty at the that tlie first business throughout drew him and that from time his Just after hci hael lonk d for last upon Ins n en and tho coining knew no more On Ins march to tiro e oil White teilel that be- hold no grievance against tho woi Id 1 am said I'll take my like a man Vover a woul though did White titter that would Indicate his to admit guilt He such at all tunes KILLED BY Riot Follows Shooting of Mother Children Accidentally Indu June 1 persons we're reported killed and nine yesterday when police on a mob that hael formed after accidental ing of a mother and her two dren Disorder ceased after the shooting but the city suspended The shooting of the mother and children was by the dental discharge of a rifle bj a corporal on duty at the gate an official statement said The children were killed instantly while the mother wife of Sardar Ganga Singh supervisor of tho military farm was taken to the hospital An excited crowd assembled im- mediately after the shooting and the police and troops they were compelled to fire in The bodies of those killed in the subsequent clashes were taken to nearby shops INDIANAPOLIS June An Indianapolis woman was the ob- ject of search tonight by police In- the slaying of a man whose charred body was found in a sedan near here the ing following tho 000 mile race The body was identified aa that of Harold Herbert 35 Mobile Ala business man because a billfold containing an insurance receipt and registration under his name was found in a coat near the burned automobile Ernest W Schroeder Jr of cago brother of the Mobile man who arrived heio today said he had learned that his brother had a destine affair at Mobile with tho woman sought Disastrous Blaze Hits Oklahoma City TECUMSEH June Fire of undetermined origin which broke out In a downtown business block shortly before midnight was brought under control about o'clock this morning after property damage estimated at around had been caused The Shawnee fire department assisted In extinguishing the blaze which 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