Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - May 24, 1938, Reno, Nevada Be Sure And Attend The First Annual Dance Wednesday Night At The El Patio Ballroom NEVADA The One Sound State GOOD MORNING The Weather Today Will Be Fair 80 Low 45 Full Details on Page 6 VOL NO 196 ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23 1870 RENO NEVADA TUESDAY MAY 24 1938 OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS 10 PAGES TODAY CIO STRIKERS B E OFFICERS GOOD MORNING Official Criticism Motorists Warned Firemen Stage Dance Planned By BAILEY IT IS AMAZING to us that somu people expect holders of public offices to bo little tin gods and without choice in own private matters Some people insist upon prying into the private lives of office holders and take great in parading their faults and failings before the he Such a person branded himself a coward by sending us an enve lope filled with tions against a Reno official That person didn't have the nerve to sign his name to his epistle What a man does to himself personally is none of anybody's business If he happens to hold public office his private should be respected the same as any other citizen When there is criticism to be made of how he conducts that public office it should be done openly and above all subterfuge There are Hbel laws to protect the private ters of American citizens and those same libel laws also protect an individual against prosecution for just criticism lic official WITH THE ARRIVAL of ands o tourists from other stf tes Nevada citizens should exercise care on city State ways to prevent traffic accidents Automobile accidents annually take thousands of lives in the United and in a large centage of cases speed and lessness arc to blame It is far better to begin a trip ahead of scheduled time in order to an engagement than to fail to show up at all and finally turn up at the mortuary or in the pital Traffic officers will begin a more intensive campaign to halt accidents within the next few days and motorists are warned that unless they observe the law they will bo brought into the courts THE RENO FIRE department is staging its first annual ball Wednesday night at El Patio room and 01 of the city arc urged to support to provide funds for the association The members of a fire department arc sellom appreciated until they are needed There are so many articles nt sary to the department must be purchased and arc not provided for with city funds The department is also asked to port other civic organizations and events The only way in the firemen may obtain these funds is by the staging of lamment supported by the public If you will not be able to the dance buy a ticket and give it to somebody THE JUNIOR of Commerce here has outlined for itself a wide program of to be completed within the com- ing 12 months Among them k the development of mineral water re- Good 2 Col 5 WELL I'LL TELL By BOB BURNS As usual there will be a lot of weddings this June and I think some of us married men shauld give a word of en t to the young men who are about to take step and might be gettin a little bit shakey In the first place it'll make your job mare I know one man who won't hire unmarried man When I a iked him he am pretty blunt and and I find that married men get when I yeU at Attorney Says Officers To Kill TERROR REIGN USED AGAINST UNION MINERS Deputies Gathered in Whisper Room Says McMahon LONDON Ky May The government has proof that deputy sheriffs went out a whisper room in the Harlan county courthouse under to threaten and kill union men a jury was toid in federal court Monday As the Harlan coal conspiracy case went into its second week Brien McMahon assistant ney general of iie United States made an opening statement for the government that depicted Harlan county as a domain where coal companies frequently closed the borders against persons they considered undesirable Conspiracy Charged 1 He told the jury toe would j prove that a conspiracy existed between coal companies and uty sheriffs to terrorize for the United Mine ers of America The number of defendants dropped to 63 one of on trial de- it would no longer resist the government's indictment The Clover Splint Coal Corp entered a plea of nolo contends effect a plea of guilty By doing so it laid itself open to a maximum fine of Counsel for the tion gave no reason for the tion McMahon reviewed for the jury the long fight between the coal companies and union men who attempted to organize miners in the Kentucky soft coal fields Reign of Terror It was a conspiracy that re- sorted to bombings murders and dynamiting in its campaign of terrorism he said There was a place in the lan county McMahon said It was not a place where court business was transacted but a little place where these de- fendants went to confer It was called the whisper room You heard me mention Ben Unthank Cone of the deputy sheriffs on trial when I read the indictment to you He was the chief deputy and in one month he got from the Harlan County Coal Op- Association We will show that it was his duty to lead deputy sheriffs around the county to threaten to intimidate and in some cases kill any persons en- gaged in union activity Across the street from the courthouse as McMahon paced the Carpet and talked a one- legged parson preached of Hell fire and damnation to 300 sons who could not get into the courtroom Picture Star Attacked By Pet Which Suddenly Mad in Hollywood t HOLLYWOOD May Ian Hunter English screen actor was attacked and bitten by his pet dog which suddenly went mad Monday Warner Brothers studio announced The actor severely bitten on the legs arms and hands The dog was killed Hunter was playing with the dog at his home at Malibu Beach when suddenly turned on him and sank its teeth in his arm He grappled with the dog until help arrived and the dog was shot LEADERS EASE TENSION ALONG CZECH BORDERS Chiefs of Two Blocs Hold Conference On Situation Hitler Czechs In Speech at Munich MUNICH May rer Adolf Hitler Monday in a speech within 100 miles of the closed fortified frontier talked about city ning and failed to mention the crisis over the Sudeten Germans The occasion was the beginning of construction of a subway He advised Munich citizens not to complain about the noise and in- convenience attending the work We are building for the he We anticipate problems and solve them where our predecessors had not the strength to bring plans to SLAVS BUMP BRITISH BELGRADE Jugoslavia May eliminated Great Britain from Davis cup play Monday when its doubles team of Franjo and Drage defeated Donald Butler and Frank K Wilde Jugoslavia will meet Sweden conqueror of Switzerland hi the third round of European zone competition CLERKS FORM REUNION Butchers Return to Work in Organization of a retail clerks union continued in Reno Monday as union butchers resumed tion in 12 grocery stores ing the close of a labor dispute in the city's grocery iness At a meeting of clerks Richard Yates was elected president of the Clerks International Protective Association and affiliated with the American Federation of bor Charles Hoppock was named first vice president Alex Hay second vice-president Elsie Rae secretary treasurer and Frank Rosa Vernon Jeppeson and ton Roueche trustees Contracts between the new union and the owners of the stores involved are now being Little trouble was said being encountered the wage and hour provisions being acceptable to both parties Under the contracts a mini- mum wage of is provided for clerks employed for one year or longer Other provisions call for a nine-hour day and a day week An arbitration board com- posed of two representatives from both the union and the employers is planned to settle disputes and decisions of the board are to be handed down within seven days and accented as binding on both parties In event of a deadlock membership of the board is to be increased to five Sympathy strikes should dis- putes arise between the stores and other unions are forbidden Term of the contracts is 18 months Chiang Infuriated China Head Launches Fierce Offense SHANGHAI Tuesday May 24 by the action of Adolf Hitler in withdrawing all German advisers to the nese army and cutting orf man munitions to China Chiang today threw his personal divisions into a series of smashing counter of- against the Japanese which at dawn had resulted in the recapture of three important cities and a dozen villages by the Chinese A spokesman for the simo in Hankow confirming of all Germany's support for China said Chiang's own troops were in a series of counter- attacks in the area which had resulted in recapture of and key cities in the fied railway line de- fending Hankow the provisional Chinese national capital Electric Firm Plant Big Program NEW YORK May Westinghouse Electric and Company Monday night a building and expansion program based on faith of a revival PRAGUE May mier Milan Hodza and Konrad Henlein militant German ity announced Monday night after a long conference that they had been able to clarify and calm the vak crisis which pushed all Eu- rope perilously close to war The Sudeten German party headed by Henlein and the issued identical com- and government cles said Henlein and Hodza ably would meet again Tuesday Optimism rose on the basis the announcements and tion from Berlin to the effect that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has assured Great Britain that Germany has not the slightest intention of marching her troops into slovakia The CzechosloVak rushing back from Vienna for the meeting was with the premier for three and 45 minutes in a settlement o the man minority's autonomy de- mands The conversation f served to clarify and calm the a Sudeten communique said i Conference Slated Indications that both the and Henlein approached the conflict in a conciliatory tude were seen in an ment that Hodza will follow up his talk with Henlein by con- ferring soon with leaders of the Polish and Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia German accusations of a series of frontier violations involving Czechoslovak soldiers increased tension as Henlein and Hodza met at 6 p.m for their first conference in the crisis The government announced that in the future no civilian nastic organizations many of them are minority be permitted to serve at guard duty which will be carried out exclusively by Czech police and military units Hill Announces Staff For Swimming Season The 1938 summer staff for the Reno municipal swims Ing pool at Idlewild Park was announced Monday night by Charles Hill city engineer and approved by the city council Weather permitting the pool will open June 4 The staff will include James Carter J Don Layson Mrs Irene Cardinal Jeanette Williams Mrs George Green Harry Gosse Gene Wines Gail Moore Dick Roche Galen De Long Bohus to Be Arraigned For Trial at Lovelock LOVELOCK May 23 George Bohus former Reno club employe charged with love triangle slaying of Bob Rogers Willow Creek placer miner will be arraigned in district court Tuesday ing Bohus will be represented at the arraignment by Attorneys Lester and lan Heward of Reno Congratulations To Mr and Mrs John Oxley of New York on the birth of a daughter May 12 1938 Oxley is the son of Mr and Mm James Oxley of Wells To Mr and Mrs Frank Sharp on the birth of a son De- Armond May 15 1938 in Manila Mrs Sharp was the former Agnes Both Mr and Mrs Sharp are of the University of WPA Workers Dig Up 1 Riches Lost SAN FRANCISCO May treasure left by the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was recently discovered by workers of a WPA project it was disclosed Monday More than in gold and silver coins jewelry and other valuables has been taken during the past several months from the municipal aquatic park project by relief workers Supervisors of the project who told the story said they noticed an increased activity among em- few months ago men dug during their lunch hours and stayed overtime to scratch about in buried charred houses dumped on the site after the 1906 disaster Finders keepers was the rule Bits of jewelry gold nuggets and and gold pieces were uncovered One man 4 found a diamond stud eral slugs of melted gold were sold to the U Following the earthquake when the city began rebuilding mounds of plaster bricks lathes cement and junk were dumped on the shore of the bay The city had burned so fast that residents fled from their homes leaving their jewels art treasures and even the money they had been saving in pantry sugar bowls The rubbish settled into the tidal land anej fhe wast of njore than 30 years gathered over it Recently the dumping ground be- came the site of the new park After excavations were made and the dirt had been cleared away a new technique of treasure ing developed tides lapping in and out disclosed tits of gold and for a time the WPA let the waves do their mining for them The value of finds in- and Soon cular digging began NLRB UPHELD BY COURT IN Firms Must Comply With Orders of U S Board Council Votes Aid f Traffic In an attempt to solve the Fourth Street traffic problem the Reno city council Monday night decided to have two more light signals installed on the fare At University Avenue and Lake Street the new signals will be in- stalled and will be synchronized so that traffic can be sent through the two new signals and the ginia Street intersection at once Praising the advantageous to Reno and Nevada in the Nevada State Journal's scenic tion the council voted to purchase for the city's use 2000 copies of the issue The motion was made by cilman Justi who suggested that the city can utilize the pictorial section of the Journal to advertise Reno Chestnut Street which is now blocked by railroad tracks will be soon opened to traffic The council announced that the city is prepared to open the street and will notify the Southern Company to aid in the con- struction The council referred to the sic committee a request by the WPA recreational section to use the city band during a pageant History of Nevada to be pre- sented during the rodeo Profits from the pageant will go to the Salvation Army Franco Seeks Aid Nations Requested to Send Arms Franco-Spanish Frontier May Francisco Franco was re- ported Monday night to have sent urgent appeals to Germany and Italy for more men guns and fighting planes as government dispatches reported important gains in a surprise offensive along a in northern lonia Barcelona government an- that troops Under command of Vicente Rojo had captured fhe San Comelio mountain range east of Tramp 39 miles south of the French tier also a strategic hill to the north of Tremp After N J May 23 first of the famed Seeing Eye dogs which served as eyes for sightless men and women died today on the verge of becoming a victim of the malady her DEMOCRATS BAN REVISION Down WASHINGTON May revision made last week in the sharply curtailing the New Deal power program will be completely or made harmless leaders said Monday as the measure started through the Senate under fierce Republican attacks As written into the measure by the Senate appropriations com- upon suggestion of Phillip Gadsden an executive of a utility investors association and against the wishes of the Public Works Administration the provi s i o n would prevent PWA loans or grants for construction of ects which would compete with established private ties As howls went up from liberals including Sens George W Norris L Nebr ton K Wheeler D Mont and John Rankin D Miss that the proposal was a surrender to the power interests Senate Majority Leader Alben W Barkley D Ky sought to restore peace He emerged from conference with President Roosevelt saying an at- tempt would be made to restrict PWA loans or grants only until genuine attempts had been made to purchase the private utility Sen Alva Adams D Colo who headed the Senate sub-committee which prepared what Sen Carter Glass D Va of the tions committee described as this damn didn't believe the con- would the com- promise stage He said that his group's recommendation will be rejected Report Shows Decline In U S Relief Rolls WASHINGTON May social security board day night made public reports showing a six per cent decrease from March io April in the ber of families receiving direct relief in 33 states and the District of Columbia with a decrease in relief expenditures of 10 per cent The reports covered 101 urban areas Relief cases declined in more than of these while increases were reported in only 16 cities Included in the survey THREE REPORTED KILLED BUENOS AIRES May Reports from on the frontier day night said that three persons were wounded seriously by vian soldiers Villazon who allegedly entered Argentine tory near POLICE SMASH PICKET LINES AT CASE FIRM Union Face Suits Laborers WASHINGTON May National Labor Relations Board Monday won three supreme court victories when the tribunal refused to review circuit court decisions upholding NLRB orders against Inc the Black Diamond Steamship Corp and the Carlisle Lumber Co Musi Comply Refusal to review the lower court decisions meant that the companies involved must comply with the orders which in- of mately 4000 American Federation of Labor strikers to their former jobs in factories of more than 000 in back pay to 147 employes of the Car lisle Lumber Co at On- alaska Wash in addition to re- storing their jobs bargaining by the Black Diamond Company with Beneficial Association CIO affiliate as of to licensed and reinstatement with back pay of 35 employes who went on strike Nov 23 1936 The decision was one of the most critical ever issued by the NLRB It blamed James H Rand company dent for devising the Mohawk Valley formula to break the strike and proudly offering it to his fellow members in the Association of ers Used Strikebreakers The decision said that Rand had employed four well-known strike breaking agencies was ordered to bargain with the Remington Rand Joint protective board of the dis- council of office equipment workers a unit of the metal trades department of the AFOL as ex- bargaining agency at its plants in Tonawanda Ilion and Syracuse N Y Middletown Conn and Norwood and ta O The board originally instructed the company to pay the costs of transporting the reinstated ers to their new jobs but the cuit court struck this provision from the order Identity Sought River Gives Up Body Of Unknown Man Officials Monday night sought to establish the identity of a man whose body was found in the Truckee river in the east part of Reno Monday morning An inquest will be conducted by Coroner Harry Dunseath Tuesday at 4 p m The body was sighted in the river about 30 feet from shore by John Ravello night watchman at a gravel plant nearby and iie notified police who removed the drowned man A superficial scratch on the chin was the only mark on the body but nothing to indicate lence Condition of the body led police to believe it had been in the river only a short time No marks of identification were found in the clothing The mart slightly crippled in the right arm was dressed in brown suede jack- et brown army shirt black overalls and heavy work shoes The body is at O'Brien and gent mortuary Investigators believe the man's age was about 60 He was five feet 10 and one-half inches tall and weighed 170 He had thin gray hair a prominent nose and several gold fillings in his CHICAGO May Pickets affiliated with the Com- for Industrial tion clashed with police and deputies on three midwestern labor fronts Monday while on a fourth three American tion of Labor unions were named in damage suits The suits against the A F of L unions were believed the first of their kind in the country At Duluth Minn where the Lake Superior unit of the ican Newspaper Guild called a strike last April 3 the Evening Herald resumed publication after police smashed a C I O picket line with tear gas and night sticks Break Picket A flying of 40 ford 111 police and sheriffs broke through a picket line estimated at 700 men around the J I Case Company plant and 150 employes entered the plant which had been closed for a month Eleven strikers were ar- rested and several casualties were reported including Chief Deputy Karl Palmgren who suffered a skull fracture Those arrested were charged with violating a cuit court injunction prohibiting plant employes The Walworth Company at wanee 111 manufacturers of pipe fittings was ordered closed ing settlement of a dispute with a C I O unit whose pickets clashed with members of a local union and police injuring a score of men Suits were filed against the plasterers and cement finishers building and common labor and unions affiliates of the A F of L at Peoria 111 by a committee of four employes of the Works Progress tion The Peoria complainants ob- a temporary order in U S district court restraining the -un- ions from interfering with a West Psoria WPA project A hearing was set for Wednesday The WPA Workers charged that approximately 50 representatives of the three unions appeared on a street resurfacing job last Mav 13 and forced them to leave their jobs They claimed a total loss of of the alleged union tactics Police were called into action at Duluth when a picket line of more than 300 men stopped two printers answering a call of lisher J H Jordan to return to work Four pickets were arrested but released later and Managing Editor V E Fairbanks said a full mechanical force and skeleton news and advertising staffs were at work Guild leaders protested to the city council that police had the right to peaceful picketing The strike at Rockford was called union members of the U A W refused to work next to men were delinquent in their Six Hurt Six men were injured severely by bricks end swinging baseball bats at the Walworth plant at wanee where 200 members of the valve and fitting workers local protected by a sheriff and 50 broke the picket line and entered the plant There were approximately 200 men in the picket line The plant later was closed One picket James Stith 20 was arrested for striking and in- juring Deputy Sheriff Fred son about the head The strike was called Saturday by the workers committee C I -O affiliate In protest against an agreement reached by the company and the local union GRANTED TOPEKA Kans May Edward A Towle Tucson Ariz business man who became of a successful utility firm while on a temporary parole from the Kansas state prison Monday received a full pardon from Gov Waiter A
