Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - March 23, 1938, Reno, Nevada NEVADA The One Sound State GOOD MORNING Todar Will Bt High 41 Low 25 Full Details Page 3 VOL NO 134 ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23 RENO NEVADA WEDNESDAY MARCH 23 1938 OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS 14 PAGES TODAY TROTS PREDICTS NEW WAR GOOD MORNING The One Sound Stale Bank Record Is Tops Jack Howell Speaks The Jobless Situation By JACK RUTLEDGE MONEY TALKS AND in this instance it f 1L the Nevada is really One Sound State money we're referring to is thot the First National Bank of and on page one today find a story how this institution led 300 banks over the States in for the year 1937 sident W W Hopper whose picture you see ovtr there or the a ways to be for his efficient of the bank a that undoubtedly placed it in the enviable position it now occupies Incidentally i n addition to leading the entire nation in gains for the it jumped from place to 197 in the country Quite If you're in the mood for facts and figures hero s how the bank has progressed over a period of years December 31 1935 Resources Deposits December 31 1936 05 December 31 87 Is anyone v to argue that Nevada is NOT the One Sound State after looking at those JACK HOWELL OF THE ill Electric Company Reno de- livered a very interesting and timely address over the radio Monday night Mr Howell should get a pat on the bacK for his civic his interest in the local situation and his efforts to better conditions Being a local business man and c workers it is with 1 great deal of interest that I learned of the work the Nevada State Employment is ing in our he said The attitude of the office in giving preference to local fied workers is something which should have the support of every thn king business man We many times expressed the ment that local business houses should have the support of the residents of O-T community It has often been my thought that See Good Morning Pg 2 Col 8 Reno Bank Makes Largest Gain In Nation FIRST NATIONAL LEADS 300 IN RECENT REPORT Leader Jumps from 253rd to in the United States The First National Bank of Nevada operating with in Reno made the est gam of any of the United States 300 largest banks the year 1937 the annual report of the received here Tuesday reveals I The bink was advanced from place on the American Annual Copyright to place During the year the Mason Bank at and the State Bank of Las Vegas were merged with the First tional which now operates 11 branches m adition to its head office throughout the state Total resources increased most 22 per cent during the year while deposits increased 21 per cent Loans and discounts in- creased 57 per cent The First National Bank of vada is a subsidiary company of the Corporation Shattered Dream u s ACTS ON OIL SEIZURES Daniels Confers With Cardenas Tuesday Asks Policies MEXICO CITY March UP On direct instructions from Secretary of State Cordell Hull U S Ambassador Josephus lels Tuesday conferred with Pre- sident Cardenas for the first time on expropriation of the oil industry The ambassador accompanied by Pierre Boal counsellor of the embassy visited the president in the national palace Under- Secretary of State Ramon also was present The conference between the president and the ambassador came shortly alter the chief executive had revealed his first plans for government tion of the vast industry SPECIAL PLANE CARRIES CARDENAS EXPLANATION Cal March U A special plane from Mexico City arrived m Mexicali across the international border late Tuesday with a manifesto from President Lazaro Cardenas ex- plaining his recent oil tion decree The manifesto to be published in English Wednesday lays the blame at the door of the foreign oil companies by accusing them of breaking labor contracts and maintaining workers in misery It declares that the expropriation will be carried out even if it dis- the country's monetary tem and devaluates the peso W W Hopper of The First National Bank of vada whose management of the institution has enabled it to rank first in the United Siales in gains for year 1937 See story at left Austrian Monarchists Herded Into Jail VIENNA March 22 Nine men whose lives have been devoted to a long struggle for re- of the Hapsburg archy were herded into a police cell Tuesday night with pockets and drunks as Austria's masters carried out a tual purge of the old nobility The nine dukes and almost the entire coterie of leaders who sought to place young Archduke Otto on the dream shattered by Fuehrer Adolf ler's bold annexation of Austria as a German province nine days ago Among the prisoners were Duke Maximilian and Duke est of sons of Arch- duke Francis Ferdinand whose assassination at Sarajevo started the World War PETTY THEFT RING BROKEN Las Boys Are Implicated in Evidence LAS VEGAS March Six Civilian Conservation Corps youths from Boulder City were I placed in the Las city jail Tuesday on suspicion of being op- of a widespread petty theft ring preying upon parked automobiles The boys ranging in age from 18 to 20 were Horace Huff Ivan Pruitt Joseph Sholtis Edward Kellams Robert Buhrlage and Earl Pedigo Evidences of thievery were un- covered by E W Bannister CCC official who was tracking down the theft of two CCC trucks one from Boulder City and the other from Overton When he recovered the Boulder City truck al Overton Bannister found a quantity of articles in- side He began questioning the youths and with the aid of Las and Boulder City police disclosed more than worth of goods believed to have been stolen FOR PANAY DAMAGES MAILED ASK WASHINGTON March 22 UP The United States Tuesday assessed the n e s e government 007.36 for deaths personal injuries and property age resulting when Japanese bombing planes attacked and sank the U S Gunboat Panay in the Yangtse river last Dec 12 The was in two parts The government asked for indemnification for the three American men who were personal injuries to 40 others It asked for for property losses sustained in the sinking of the Panay and the destruction of three Standard Oil vessels which the Panay was convoying MORGAN HMD FROM TVA POST BY ROOSEVELT Record of Dispute to Go to Solons for Study WASHINGTON March President Roosevelt day summarily discharged man Arthur E Morgan of the Tennessee Valley Authority who defied his private investigation of TVA internal strife and his power to oust him Mr Roosevelt said the ouster is effective Wednesday when he will transmit the whole record of the dispute to congress in a cial message along with an ion from Attorney General Homer S upholding his tion He said that Morgan would be replaced as chairman by Dr court A Morgan The latter and Director David E Lilienthal con- the majority of the board and have been bitterly opposed by Arthur Morgan who made sensational charges against them The president fired the man in accordance with an matum served Monday At that time he gave Morgan until p m Monday to the charges resign or face sion or ouster Morgan told him he would not resign that he questioned his power to discharge him and he boarded a train for his rural home in Yellow Springs O where he went into seclusion to await the president's decision He intimated he may challenge the ouster in the courts State of Siege Is Imposed in Lithuania KAUNAS Lithuania March 22 military commander of Kaunas Tuesday night imposed a virtual state of siege to cope with a serious situation arising from the government's tion to Poland's warlike matum The seriousness of the tion requires absolute said the military order which imposed a 9 p m curfew for the capital Violators will be fined and im- prisoned and persons showing any resistance will be tried by court martial it was announced CINDERELLA'S HUBBY DIES HANKOW China March UP Jimmy Lin disinherited nephew of President Lin Sen of China who astonished Chinese circles by marrying a dime store salesgirl m Columbus Ohio three years ago was reported Tuesday night to have been lulled in ing in Shansi From Ford to Phaeton Pinky Tomlin Marries Leaves On Honeymoon HOLLYWOOD March Pinky Tomlin who arrived in Hollywood a few years ago in an ancient runabout left with his bride on a honeymoon tonight in a phaeton The composer of Object of My Affections and other popular song hits was married to Joanne Alcorn pretty University of Oklahoma beauty queen at the home of her mother Mrs Myrtle Alcorn Following a reception they left for Santa Barbara Wild West Stories Cause Youth To Set Shotgun Trap Injure Friend HARRISONVILLE Mo March ris youth whose imagination was fired by ing wild west started serving a sentence at Algoa reformatory Tuesday for wounding a neighbor with a shotgun trap The boy admitted setting the trap which exploded and wounded Hugo Theden when he opened a door into the kitchen of his home Morris told authorities he had no personal animosity against Theden but set the trap to live to his role as a bad man which he assumed when playing with his brothers on Sundays Franco Advances Drives Loyalists Back From Huesca WITH THE NATIONALISTS HUESCA March Francisco Franco day night extended the Aragon battlefront across 180 miles of mountains and valleys with a violent attack that drove ists in retreat from positions out- side Huesca which they had held since the start of the civil war The sudden shift of the attack to the Huesca front only 40 miles from the French border caught the troops by surprise forcing them from mountain peaks where their guns had been a constant threat to Franco's base here Nationalist headquarters an- at 10 p m that Huesca was free from enemy threats for the first time since the war broke out 21 months ago New Crisis in Spanish War Alarms France SAYS CONFLICT INEVITABLE TO DRAW AMERICA Will Be Followed by Revolt Against War Leaders Top French troops below map of Spain showing Insurgent moves General Franco Pleas of the Spanish Loyalist government for aid poured In on the new French cabinet as insurgents under Gen Francisco Franco aided by large forces of Italians and smaller forces of Germans ened Barcelona France massed troops guns and war planes along her Pyrenees border as fears were expressed that the Loyalist government might collapse in the face of the insurgent onslaught Adding to the discomfort of France and Great Britain was the expressed fears of a deal between Hitler and Mussolini to let Italy win out In Spain In return for Germany's annexation of Austria WINTER AGAIN No Respite From Snow and Rain Forecast Duce May Withdraw Soldiers From Spain LONDON Wednesday March Daily Mail said today that Premier Benito solini u ready to withdraw his Italian volunteers from Spain to pave the way for a speedy Anglo-Italian peace agreement The newspaper said that in re- turn for Britain's recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia U Duce would forego any territorial advantages or economic sions from Spain Winter struck in western vada again Tuesday as a deep low pressure area swept in from the Pacific causing unsettled weather conditions from the bay region to Salt Lake City and ing to the already deep snow cover of the high Sierras Snow fell at Donner Summit and Soda Springs most of the day and little hope for a was seen Rain or snow is fore- cast for the Sierra Nevada and Thursday un- settled weather with rain or snow in the north portion and local rains in the south is forecast for Nevada Temperatures are ex- to be slightly warmer Wind Is High The storm was heralded by a high wind which caused the snow to drift over the highways in the mountains and removal ment was at work Chains were See Weather Page 2 Column 5 Cooper Holds Own Reno Mayor Seriously 111 in Hospital Seriously ill of pneumonia Reno's John A Cooper was reported to be his own late Tuesday night The mayor is still in a serious condition according to Dr A L attending physician complications suddenly develop he recover Suffering for several days from a bad cold Mayor Cooper was taken to a local hospital Monday developed pneumonia No visitors will be permitted for several days says the mayor's physician Flashes Late Bulletins From United WHAT PRICE TOKYO Wednesday March 23 UP North and Central China will as independent as Manchukuo the foreign office spokesman today QUAKES ROCK CITY QUEEN CHARLOTTE CITY Queen Charlotte March series of rocked this city day rattling dishes in boards and stopping clocks bat causing little other damage The started at a sporadically for more than an hour PARIS March chamber of deputies Tuesday night patted Premier Leon two urgent bills de- signed to finance rearmament and meet current treasury needs The bills now go to the senate whew their fate it doubtful AMERICANS LEAVE MEXICO LAREDO Texas 22 families the ad- vance guard of an exodus of American oil operators from northern Mexico arrived in Laredo Tuesday night 4 OF RENO POOL ARE CONVICTED Witte and Olsen Are Acquitted in San Francisco Court SAN FRANCISCO March 22 of six defendants on trial for conspiracy to commit grand theft in connection with their activities in the Great American Football Pool were found guilty by a superior court jury Tuesday night Those convicted were J nand Van 58 Julian B 54 Eugene 46 and Joseph Snelson Herman Witte and Walter Olsen were found not guilty Judge Frank T Deasy said he would pronounce judgment on Friday collapsed as the verdicts were read and was removed from the courtroom MEXICO CITY D F March present world ation is a prelude to an ing world war Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionist told a delegation of the California Press Association Tuesday when re- them at his suburban home Trotsky said he believed the war would bo followed by a re- volt of tho world's peoples against makers of war I cannot predict the date of this he said but it is in- evitable United States Involved The United States will bo in- in the conflict the sian leader declared The United States cannot keep out the flaming said Trotsky However it will from the war holding economic dominance over the rest of the world provided there is no lution in the United States America can obtain this ex- petition because of its un- paralleled resources It wai belief that tho issue In the forthcoming war would not bo principles but terial and imperialistic issues to repartition the world He emphasized his prediction the war would bo followed bv revolution of tho world's peoples against materialistic which load nations to war x Tho materialistic interests re- alw the coming world war will be followed by universal tion and their fear of this may be a factor which will delay tho war's outbreak But war is in- evitable eventually Trotsky said It was the former expressed hope that tho working classes might bt strong enough to avert such a but he doubted they would be able to accomplish much Ho panted out that the factor which would eventually help to ban war from tho would bo a balanced production and con- sumption ABRAMS RETURNED Deputy Sheriff Benjamin Park returned from Las Vegas day with Sam B Abrams wanted here on alleged charges of ing money by false pretense Complaint was filed by a Reno hotel manager in connection with issuance of a worthless check Long Battle Against Yellow Fever Near End Vaccine Proves Success NEW YORK March A battle which grim men in white have fought against one of most dreaded low night was close to a victorious end The Rockefeller Foundation announced that after six yean of tests with vaccination in which more than persons were treated within the part year alone immunities had been produced ranging up to 99 per cent The Foundation's ment said that the series of tests give every indication that protection of exposed to yellow fever is in sight The development of the cine is regarded as the most im- portant single step in the battle to control yellow fever since Dr Hideo isolated the low fever parasite 20 yean ago Britain to Respect Pledges to Aid Two Of Former Allies LONDON Wednesday March Minister Neville will announce m parliament tomorrow that Great Britain will respect her existing pledges to aid France and in case of invasion but will refuse new entanglements in tral Europe it was understood day WELL I'LL TELL There's an old saying that a tea kettle won't boil while you watch it Opportunity is pretty much the Mime shy away from you if you are too eager to grab it But if you'll turn your back on it it's liable to sneak up on you I knew a fella out here whose only ambition was to see his poems in print Finally he got discouraged and turned to actin in pictures and made a huge success The other day I met him and noticed a proud In his eye when I mentioned it he says I was never so happy III all my He says My girt is me for breach of and the newspaper u the poems I wrote IV
