Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - April 8, 1938, Reno, Nevada B V O BOX 233 BENO NEV A Smile Is Like A Boomerang Toss One In Almost Any Direction And Watch It Bounce Back At You NEVADA The One Sound State at GOOD MORNING The Weather Today Will Be Fair High 58 Low 34 Details Page 3 VOL NO 150 ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23 RENO NEVADA FRIDAY API MEMBER OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS 10 PAGES TODAY BLOODSHED IN STRIKE GOOD MORNING Desert in Bloom Bouquet for Trash in Ditches Times Are By JACK ONE OF THE MOST inter- esting drives one can take these days we're told is to Death Valley The is ideal and wild flowers are blooming on the desert again It's a long hop of about 300 miles but well worth the trip There has been plenty of ture the past few weeks and it has helped spring even pretties than usual A PAT ON THE BACK for one of the Journal's Bailey whose In The Biggest Little City paints a vivid by-day picture of Reno and varied activities In Walter Winchell style it is pithy and packed with punch Sometimes writers rely too much upon the newspaper belief that names make news and pack their columns with names and more names The result too often is pointless and flat fills his with names too but ages to say something ing and new about each person mentioned We think you'll like it DUMPING OF TRASH in the Highland ditch brought from certain citizens a threat from the county to crack down on persons the a word of ex- planation from W A Totman gas and water superintendent of the Sierra Pacific Power Com- pany The dumping undoubtedly a violation of health laws for it contaminates water and forms a splendid breeding place for various and sundry unpleasant germs and insects Mr Totman says his company regularly keeps the ditch cleaned out The main protest he has to make is that it coats his concern a lot of unnecessary money to keep it cleaned He also has asked the county to watch seo who it is dumping rubbish CONDITIONS MUST BE ting better The recession must be about over Because strikes are flaring up again in widely scattered parts of the United States yesterday told of trouble in Crockett California and today we read that in Detroit the street oar and bus drivers are walking out You'll find as a rule that when times are prosperous labor strikes and when conditions aro unfavorable workers are havinK much trouble KEEPING their jobs to think about striking CHINESE RETAKE Fast Soviet Tanks Lead Attack WITH THE CHINESE ARMY outside by couriar to Hankow April Chinese armies led by fast tanks obtained from Soviet Russia have smashed through the Japanese lines in south tung province and have tured key positions dominating three cities a Chinese army spokesman told the United Press Thursday The spokesman said the nese has brought one of the biggest victories of the war to date The Chinese claim rifles 831 machine guns field piece s and 30 armored cart in the sector alone Gen Li Tsung-Jen Chinese commander permitted this cor- respondent and Capt E F son of Plymouth Conn to ceed to a point near the front lines and observe through field glasses the entrance of we anned Chinese infantrymen into the outskirts of where one of the bloodiest tles of the war wu raging Nevada Road Program Given Funds OUT OF TOTAL IS 3 Main Highways Are Held Up Because Of Red Tape CARSON CITY April severe setback to Nevada's road building program became evident today when State way Engineer Robert A Allen disclosed that out of the allocated for highway construction in the 1939 fiscal year is being withheld The was earmarked for the specific purpose of ing roads across unreserved eral lands and national forest areas in Nevada Allen said that notice of the curtailment in the federal gram first came to him two days ago He immediately wired ator Pat McCarran warning that loss of the money would handicap Nevada's road construction plans for the fiscal period starting 1 Must Get Release Unless we get a release of this we can not build the tain City and Searchlight Allen said in the senator Plans for these are ready for submission to the reau of public roads and work could start within three weeks reply explained that an executive order was holding the already appropriated funds The public lands allocation was to have been part of the annual grant for highways made able to 15 western states under the federal highway act This act provides tnat for federal funds to be used in road construction are to be divided in four eral aid highway construction grade crossing elimination er or roads eral land highways and national forest roads Across U S Lands Under the federal lands funds were allocated for construction of roads across open government lands Indian and other federal areas such as the Boulder Dam tional district Allen emphasized however that Nevada has been assured the money for road construction un- der the first three classifications aid feeder roads and grade ings Public lands highway funds for Nevada amount to approximately and tional forest allocations 000 In his telegram to McCarran the state highway engineer I would your help in getting the executive order and bureau of the budget ruling lifted on our 1939 federal land funds We want federal lands and forest highway funds to be released Che same as federal aid See Nevada Losing Pg 2 Col 3 Injured Youth Due For 4th Operation William Newman Reno youth who received serious injuries in an automobile accident last year was to undergo a fourth operation at St Mary's hospital Friday at- tending physicians said Newman a graduate of the Uni- versity of Nevada was caught in the cab of a motor truck when the machine plunged into an ore bin at Virginia City last summer Rescue Squad Sent To Aid Motorists Tex April rescue squads were sent out Thursday night to ists stranded by snowdrifts along the highway between here and Claude Texas Sheriff Adams said 16 were stuck in the drifts piled by high winds America May Abandon Coast Cities In Case Of War Seacoast and Anti-Aircraft Defense Inadequate in Case Of Major Conflict or Invasion Appropriation is Boosted WASHINGTON April for abandonment of all big coastal cities in event of a major war involving the United States have been drawn up by the war department Rep Maury Maverick D Tex member of the house military committee declared Thursday night Maverick charged that ent United States seacoast and anti-aircraft defenses are in- adequate and announced that he will a house bloc to fight to sustain a senate amendment to the ment appropriation ing the 1939 expenditures for this purpose by nearly 000 This amount was lowed by the budget bureau London has 900 craft guns and New York has only Maverick said The war department strategy calls for abandonment of all big coastal cities in emergency and defense from inside the try The United States needs such guns and of coastal defenses I'm j going to fight for house con- currence in the senate meht providing adequate anti- defenses statement i ed testimony before the senate naval affairs committee by Admiral Arthur B Cook chief naval aeronautics who said the United States would have to double its existing ment and private airplane manufacturing facilities in der to provide adequate aerial defense in event of a major war The belligerent Texas con- gressman said he would urge development of the army air corps service to twice the strength of the naval air arm which would have a minimum ECONOMY PASSAGE SEEN Enemies Attempt to Kill Measure Fails WASHINGTON April Administration forces Thursday smashed a bipartisan attempt to kill President Roosevelt's ment reorganization and sped the measure toward a final vote by capitulating to opposition de- mands for compromise Before packed galleries the 191 to 169 a tion Tsy Rep J O'Connor N strike enactment clause and thus kill the measure A shift in 12 votes would have assured victory for the Democrat coalition The vote which came shortly after the House began reading the for amendments signalled administration leaders to offer three compromise amendments in order to swing sufficient votes be- hind the to ensure swift sage The amendments pledged to the opposition during five days of the most turbulent and bitter debate of the session would give Congress veto power over tive reorganization orders and ex- empt veterans administration and Bureau of Education from consolidation or change Fair Weather Temperatures Normal In Reno Again High thin clouds prevailed over Reno Thursday as result of a low pressure area off the Pacific coast but temperatures remained normal and continued fair weather is forecast for Friday and Early morning frosts are predicted Local weather bureau ants declared that the low would probably have little effect on Nevada weather although tions are expected to be unsettled in the high mountain ranges The mercury climbed to a high of 58 degrees Thursday while the low was 34 Mean temperature was 46 degrees one point above the normal of 45 TO AVOID FIGHTING DENVER April for Industrial Organization leaders Thursday promised gates to Colorado's first CIO con- vention that they would strive to avoid fighting in the ranks and to make every effort to facilitate peace in labor's civil war Mexico Is Forced to Buy Gasoline From 5 as Supply Sags MEXICO CITY April nationalized industry blocked by a lack of tankers from ing oil needs of Lower fornia has been forced to seek American gasoline for bution in the northwestern it was announced day Vicente Cortes chairman of the petroleum ad- ministrative council said it had been decided to buy line in the United prevent Lower California Cortes said it would be impossible for Mexican gasoline to reach the isolated long sula until the government ob- tains tankers to transport the fuel from Tampico through the Panama Canal TAX MEASURE TO BE CHANGED Profit Tax Is Killed Revenues Voted WASHINGTON April The undivided profits tax was killed and drastic changes de- manded by business in the cap- ital gains levy were approved by the senate Thursday as an ing burst of speed shot the new revenue to the brink of pass- age Five hours after Harrison D Miss of the senate finance committee opened debate on the measure with arguments that it coincides with tion aims to speed recovery and is needed to melt millions of frozen dollars the senate had disposed of all but three issues They 1 Amendments by Sen Robert M LaFollette P Wis to broaden the tax base by reducing ions of individuals increasing the normal rate on individual incomes from four to six per cent and ing surtaxes OR incomes in the middle brackets 2 A rider by Sen James P Pope D Ida imposing 000 of processing taxes to finance parity payments to farmers under the new farm act 3 A increase of 25 cents per gallon in the federal liquor tax BLUM DEFEAT IS PROTESTED Hang Is v Shout of Crowds PARIS April 7 The menace of machine guns on the roof of the Senate building ned by mobile guard night repulsed several thousand rioting leftists shouting Hang Caillaux and protesting the overthrow of Premier popular front socialists were bashed knives flashed and ambulances clanged through the melee with injured before the demonstrators mated at between and were driven from in front of the building by the sight of the chine guns rifles and bayonets of police and mobile guards The machine-gun cordon was ordered around the senate by ate President Jules Jeanneney under his emergency tional powers after the leftists swarmed about shouting Hang During mid afternoon three hours before the rioting broke out Caillaux veteran cabinet buster and chairman of the ate finance committee had de- livered a death blow in tee to Blum leftist ment The finance group rejected Blum's drastic financial program by a vote of 25 to 6 Boy Who Left Home To Become A Cowboy Returned To Parents The parents of an San Francisco boy were to arrive Friday morning to return the lad home after his to be- tome a cowboy led him to leave the family fireside and seek a life in the saddle Donald Manning son of Mr and Mrs Frank A Manning was found sitting in an automobile on a Reno street late day night after officers of California and Nevada had searched for him for three days On the seat of the auto was a note the lad had written to his parents It Dear Mom and Dad Please don't worry I am all right Some day I'll come home Your loving son Donald According to Chief Deputy Sheriff Ben Parks Donald ar- rived in Reno last week and spent most of the following days at a guest ranch mar here He bad nearly and spent moot of it hiring hones to rMe Quarreling of Wife Leads to Her Death CORDELL Okla April Larner a church leader and business man confessed according to ing Attorney Raymond Plumlee that he killed his wife with a hammer while motoring on their 15th wedding Cause of the slaying was his wife's constant quarrelling ner said in a confession dictated to Plumlee Larner 38 of Dill Okla was arraigned on a murder charge He entered a routine plea of not guilty before Justice of the M B Brown Bonneville Will Follow FD Policy PORTLAND Ore April S Ross Bonneville ad- ministrator said Thursday ville energy will be distributed strictly in accordance with dent Roosevelt's policy of the possible Use Bonneville power will not be sold in the Colombia gorge a rate that will concentrate industry in shadow of the Ross said Brothers Slain and Thrown in Flames OPPORTUNITY Wash April Ralph Buckley of Spokane County today said he was convinced two brothers George and William Hawk were slain before their farm house burned down March 29 The case was baffling The heads and legs were not found attached to the of the tims bodies Coroner I S Col- lins said The lying in the ashes were tered In Oil Deal Bernard E Smith dickers with Mexico A photo of legendary Bernard B Smith New stock broker who with Francis W tried to buy oil has been dickering with the Mexican government for the purchase of oil produced from re- cently expropriated foreign oil properties POWER PLANTS ARE CAPTURED Franco Takes Valley Controls Utility HENDAYE Franco-Spanish Frontier Francisco Franco's gents night captured five big plants in the valley of northeast Spain and cut off 80 per cent of the power serving Loyalist war industries in lonia The Loyalist government at Barcelona admitting the loss of the power plants suffered diate effects Street car service in the be- sieged capital was curtailed and one residential district was thrown into darkness when er auxiliary plants closer to celona in the mountains were unable to carry the load Barcelona officials told the United Press that emergency sources of power had been Famous Basilica in Jerusalem Closed LONDON April Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in believed to mark the spot where Christ was buried will be closed this week because of the danger of Ite imminent col- lapse the Colonial Office an- Thursday night The closing of the church for the first tune in centuries announced in Jerusalem Friday by the British High Commission Congratulations To Mr and Mrs Harold of Reno on the birth of a daughter April 4 1938 To Mr and Mrs H W dows of 900 Ryland Street on the birth of a aoa Michael Henry on 4 of 3000 planes under President Roosevelt's proposed program Testifying at a closed ing on the naval expansion bil Cook stressed the urgent necessity of con- to give large orders to and maintaining the closest possible relationship with vate companies in the interests of a well-balanced national de- fense STORMS VISIT Cold Sweeps From Texas to Canada By United Press Winter winds howled as far south as northern Texas day night as a storm area which laid a crippling glaze of ice and snow across the middlewest wheeled in a great semi-circle for a new onslaught against At- coast states U S Weather Forecaster J R Lloyd said the new path of the storm would lake it from the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley northeastward to New England The storm center was expected to coastal states Friday Snow or freezing rain was pre- for Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Missouri Illinois Ind- iana Ohio Pennsylvania and New York Rain and sharply falling were predicted for all southern states Lloyd said total snowfall in Chicago during the last 48 hours measured 9.1 inches heaviest of the winter Four inches of snow fell in New York City six in ledo O six in Binghamton N Y and six in Scranton Pa Rain falling simultaneously in the south measured 3.76 inches at Macon Ga 2.19 at Atlanta Ga 3.2 at Montgomery Ala and 2.99 at Meridan Miss Tornado Kills 11 Another Twister Hits Alabama Section GORDO Ala April Eleven persons were reported killed late Thursday when a nado struck this section near the Von Wooldredge of Aliceville who came here after the storm hit that town of 1000 population 20 miles to the south said two white women and six negroes were killed there and at least 10 injured An unconfirmed report to the Alabama state highway patrol said two were killed at ton and one at Dillburg near here Spanish Refugees Trail Into France C E R B E R E Franco-Spanish Frontier April ish refugees escaping into France across the Pyrenees mountains Friday night appealed to the French and British governments to prevent the civil war from ing with massacre of thousands of rebel prisoners in Barcelona The refugees staggering down from the mountains to the safety of French soil re- ported that more than 300 sons had been executed in lona in the last few days since revival of the loyalist tribunal of espionage and high treason TRUCKER IS KILLED LAMAR Colo April T R Lawrence 32 Fort Worth Tex truck driver was killed Thursday when his truck loaded with potatoes overturned in a blinding blizzard near Campo Colo DETROIT CAR SYSTEM HELD UP Mayor Threatens to Use Force Today To Get Service DETROIT April 7 Mayor Richard W Reading day night warned striking street car operators who have Detroit's rail transport tem that even bloodshed would not alter Ws resolve to give the people transportation Labor chiefs immediately agreed to return to their followers and try to persuade them to go back to their jobs They were to meet again with the mayor as soon as the strikers give their answer Followers Warned President Edward A Mclnerney of the Amalgamated Association of Electric Street Railway and TO MARCH CROCKETT Cal April 7 Federation of Labor officials announced here Thursday night that an army of 10.000 to union workers had dered to march on ihu small city Friday morning A was de- clared for Friday in Contra Costa and Alameda counties The thousands of men re- their marching orders a few hours after an peace conference was reported to have reached a tentative agreement for no more fighting Further de- tails Page 6 Motor Coach Operators was charged with the duty of warning his followers that they must serve the public or face the wrath of the mayor Take this message back to your Reading told the bor leader Tell them the lic is going to get transportation We're going to protect our drivers and we're going to protect the passengers And don't bring blood back on my hands if it is shed while we're giving this service Wednesday night Mclnerney was booed and shouted into ence when he advised against the strike Thursday at a mass ing in which the union members gave almost unanimous approval to the walkout he reversed his position and advised them to ceed Prepares for Violence Resentment ran high among the street car men against bers of the Independent Motor See Detroit Strike Page 2 Col 2 WELL I'LL TELL If you talk to anybody who has made a success in any line they will tell you that the thing that kept them goin was havin some thing to look forward to When a fella can't look for- ward to thin he might as well quit together know one actor out here who struggled for years in small-time vaudeville and he got to be one of the biggest stars in pictures He told me the other day there wouldn't be any incentive in goin on if he hadn't found something else to look forward to He took me out to his house and showed me the most beautiful bathroom I ever saw and with pride in eyes he says Now you can why I look forward to Saturday night
