Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - June 9, 1938, Reno, Nevada Habit Of Keeping Up With The Joneses Is Entirely All Right If The Joneses Are Going Somewhere NEVADA The One Sound State GOOD MORNING The Weather Today Will Be Fair High 84 Low 56 Full Details Page 3 VOL NO 212 ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23 wo RENO NEVADA THURSDAY JUNE 9 1938 OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS 10 PAGES TODAY CASH KIDNAPER ARRESTED IS Japanese Planes Bomb U S College GOOD MORNING G-Men Win Again Reno Is Slandered Bouquets for Biltz Are By JACK RUTLEDGE BY U S ENVOY AGAIN IGNORED 8500 Civilians Killed In New Raids on Canton Area CRIME DOESN'T PAY Not Aith G-Men as CAPTAIN IS BLAMED FOR GROUNDING OF LINER s s HOOVER WASHINGTON June A special marine investigation board report blaming a error by the late Capt George W Yardley for ing of the Dollar Line President Hoover off Formosa last De- cember Wednesday unfolded a tale of drunkenness and elry among members of the crew and a small number of the CANTON Thursday June 9 bombing luck today continued to ram death on passengers hiacK on mis j this at south China commercial the story of a protest of- of ih kidnaper and he J P of t body of tho Kong rf the ampus of the FOR WASHOE COUNTY ARE ELECTED Democrats Hold Mass Meetings in 52 Precincts day we me y FBI predict the kidnaper of sponsored or Ling Nan the Florida baby would be j y tm d soon Wr 11 s ar bomb and dav off tight with an thc total so casualties at more than 8500 They said nearly half the normal RECOGNIZING THAT MANY atlon of more than marital discords originate in hpd into the i r JO t mall things bridge thi Denver Post came out this with the following question plastered eight columns wide on its section page Ib Reno Behind This Budge Won't somebody answer them side or to the British Kowloon leased territory adjacent to Hong Kong City Without Power Tho city was nearly without light and power railway service had been stopped and half oi the government buildings were either NORMAN IS to be totally or partly wrecked praised for his offer to the county j The United Press correspondent to open a public camping ground witnessed the bombing of on Lake Tahoe nam University which has been Lake Tahoe is an ideal summer controlled by the Chinese since it P 1 1 1 A tVl 1 Y1 resort and most of the land privately owned many were 4 ned over the possibility the Com- mon Man like you and me would was seized from American during the revolution 10 years ago Buildings on the campus were flying the Chinese flag when tAe The we believe should accept the offer Practically no an strings arc Biltz merely asks that thc land be kept clean and in good condition that a caretaker be appointed to see this is done and that adjacent highways be properly patrolled I bombers came over al Ic of about feet at 11 a m Wednesday Thc uni- versity now is operated as a vate Chinese school under a lease FALL OF CAPITAL MATTER OF DAYS SHANGHAI Thursday June 9 CONTRARY TO POPULAR Japanese troops fought nH belief college their wav lmo environs of nd wood college A tod and were indents are not sots g of another Princeton University for ex- railway ample voted milk the most Idi beverage An of forty quarts of milk is drunk daily in each of thc inting which feed sixty apiece A thousand quarts daily is drunk by other In addition to this milk is taken around to dormitories for sale in the evening when students are preparing their lessons Incidentally milk has won three years in a row in polls DESTROYER IS SENTTO SPAIN British Will Protect Neutral Ships LONDON Thursday June 9 British destroyer Vanoc has been sent to Alicante on the southeast Spanish coast it was re- today as the government considered means of stopping Spanish Nationalist bombings of neutral ships The Admiralty announced that the Vanoc had been ordered to proceed to Alicante from Palma Island of Majorca The duty commander at the Admiralty office said that it was possible the destroyer already had arrived at Alicante scene of repeated ing attacks on British vessels He would not elaborate on the an- The British government was understood to be considering a plan to call a meeting of tional naval powers similar to the Nyon conference held a year ago in Switzerland to discuss means of curbing the aerial neutral ships of the city The fall of China's provisional capital in Hankow was conceded to be only a matter of weeks and Generalissimo Chiang police there were forcing civilians to evacuate the city following de- termination to leave only an shell for the conquerors Trail Picked Up of Escaping Convicts FLORENCE Ariz June R Prison guards reported day night they had picked up the trail of three fleeing convicts who stabbed a state prison guard and escaped from the tiary farm Tuesday The guards and peace officers using a dozen dogs brought from Phoenix reported to Warden John C Eager they were ing up on two of the trio in the isolated Gila river bed four miles south of Ray Ariz Las Vegas Is Host to Nevada Veterans Annual convention of the vada department of the American Legion will open in Las Vegas Thursday with delegates from all parts of Nevada m attendance The annual meeting of the ican Legion Auxiliary also opens Thursday An extensive three-day gram oi entertainment been arranged for the session with a visit to Boulder dam to be one of the highlights of the convention Other features will include street parades of the Legion and iary banquets a convention ball the annual wreck parade of the 40 8 society Election of department officials for the ensuing year will take place during the convention for the office of com- mander include Archie Pozzi of Carson City T J D Salter of Stuart L Williams of Reno and Edward Krenzer of Virginia City Candidates for the office of auxiliary president are Eleanor Hutches of Caliente and Margaret Adams of Hawthorne Dr J D Smith of Las Vegas is slated for the post of national committeeman while Mrs ces Hawkins of is the office of national committee woman Delegates from 52 precincts were elected to the Washoe County Democratic convention in a series of mass meetings held throughout the county day night Precincts and the delegates nominated No Helen Mack R L Douglas James J M Blakely No returned No Ingram Edward Hamilton Meade No returned No returned No returned No William Manor B A Cohen No 8 Dr John J Sullivan Ann H No Probasco liam Woodburn Jr No J P rita No E Hall A J Swalley No Giraud Mrs George F W D No George P Geyer Art McGuigan No 14 Dons Burns Curtis Farr Patrick Mooney No McCarthy J P Schopper Frank Schweiss Frank J Requa No 16 Harry Bony Laura Burns James Crawford Peter Test No S Baring Geo Southworth Jr No 18 Gene La Tourrette Velma I Parke Frank Nevin No Frances Germain Mrs Barbara King No J Kenney Christ A Kakouris Matched Again Ambers-Arizmendi to Settle Dispute firemen Called to Put Heavy Patient In Bed LONGVIEW Tex June The fire department was called to a Longview hospital day night to assist in putting a patient back to bed after he had fallen out The pital declined to reveal the name LOS ANGELES June World Lightweight Champion Lew Ambers who boxed ten rounds to a disappointing draw with Baby Arizmendi of Tampico Mexico here Tuesday night will be given a chance to redeem self late this month or early in July The management of the pic Auditorium said Wednesday night the boxers had been signed for a to settle all dis- putes about the decision The im- pending bout will be the last for Ambers a Herkimer N Y Italian until he meets Henry Armstrong of Los Angeles in New I York in a title bout July 26 Local boxing fans were far from agreement as to who won the bout night a thrilling en- counter which Referee Jack called a draw Militia Called Out To Battle Grasshopper Invasion In Texas AUSTIN Texas June ordered its national guard into the Panhandle Wednesday for a war against grasshoppers Gov James V Allred directed Adjutant General Carl bitt to furnish 40 trucks manned with drivers to aid the fight against the insect The federal government will furnish poison to be distributed by the trucks TWO FUGITIVES Running Gun Battle Fatal in Arizona FLORENCE Ariz June John C Eager of the Arizona state prison an- Wednesday night a posse of prison guards and captured James Bailey bad who caped from the prison with lour other felons Tuesday See Delegates Page 2 Col 4 Plantations Abandoned As Volcano on Spree MANILA Thursday June of Mount Mayon in Albay province was uing today and scores of tions around the base of the cano had been abandoned Some cocoanut and hemp plantations were destroyed by pumice and lava Ariz June men believed to be escaped from the state prison Wednesday night fought a running gun battle with sheriff's deputies through the main streets of Ray Ariz 15 miles east of here and killed one officer The dead man was Jack who was felled instantly when he challenged one of the two men in front of a grocery store The fugitives were believed to be James Bailey felon and Tony Meyers 23 who escaped with three other men from the prison farm here Oregon Welcome Hotel Men Strike as Festival Opens PORTLAND Ore June of Portland's major hotels went out on strike night on the eve of the city's annual Rose Festival when negotiations for a new contract Soviet Chief Sees Sympathy With U.S MOSCOW June viet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov presiding Wednesday night over a farewell dinner to U S Ambassador Joseph E vies said he was certain of a latent mutual sympathy and re- spect between the people of So- viet Russia and the United States See Rematched Page 4 Col 6 Graduate Insists on Paying More for Work ANNAPOLIS Md June Philip A Myers II Ashland O was graduated from St John's college Wednesday he presented President Stringfellow Barr with a check for I consider my education here was worth more than I paid for he explained Use this money to endow an open scholarship PROBE CORRUPTION SAN FRANCISCO June Attorney Otis D Babcock Wednesday named Geo M Naus San Francisco attorney as his special assistant in the Sacramento county grand jury's investigation of alleged tion in the state legislature Hotel which was filled with tival visitors were the first to walk out Union members at other large hostelries quickly lowed and were posted Two thousand workers bers of five unions were by the strike call and they walked out of eight hotels Chains Wife To Keep Her At Her Job BINGHAM Utah June 8 D Sandstrom year-old mechanic who edly chained up his wife to make her stay home was held for investigation by sheriff's officers here Wednesday night after irate neighbors ened to tar and feather him Deputy Sheriff Jack holder who took Sandstrom into custody said he found Mrs Stella Sandstrom 35 chained up to a heavy piece of railroad rail in home Chained io Sink The chain was wrapped around her neck and allowed her only to move from the stove to the Householder said Authorities quoted Sandstrom as saying he chained his wife up to make her remain at home Deputy Householder said aroused neighbors who re- to Mrs Sandstrom's shouts for help had threatened to tar and feather Sandstrom unless he was arrested What to Puzzled sheriffs officers are attempting to determine what charges can be pressed against the mechanic Canada Housing Act Funds Are Approved OTTAWA Ont June The federal government's new national housing act under which it will lend over to encourage home-building aid un- collapsed employment and stimulate the Workers at the industry throughout f f IP 12 School Children Hurt in Bug Crash WEST ORANGE N June than a dozen school children were injured several seriously when a school bus reened down a hill out of control Wednesday crashed into an and caromed against a tree Ten of the children all pupils at Roosevelt junior high school were taken to Orange Memorial hospital Others who suffered only minor hurts were treated the scene of the accident Canada was tentatively approved by the house of commons Fortune Tetter h Freed From Court Her Average High NEW YORK June Patrolman Frank Greenway hauled Lena Mitchell 20 into court Wednesday on a fortune telling charge said she told him he was big-hearted liked to travel wanted a better job couldn't save money and was disappointed in love Are these things asked Magistrate Frank Oliver Greenway said they all were true except disappointment in love I'm still he explained Well she's still batting the magistrate said Case dismissed Young Vanderbilt In Surprise Marriage To S F Girl Young Jimmy Cash 5 was brutally murdered by his body tossed into a palmetto clump one mile from Princeton Fla Early Thursday his body was found kidnaper arrested See story in ad- joining column SOLONS ASKED Railroad Labor Passes Buck to Congress WASHINGTON June 8 Railway labor Wednesday sought to transfer to Congress its fight against a 15 per cent wage cut July 1 with a proposal for operation of the roads if mediation fails to settle the controversy The Wage fight has thus far blocked legislation to aid the roads in their financial ency although President velt was reported Wednesday to toe bringing pressure to boar for some form of legislative assistance Representatives of the Railway Labor Executives Association composed of the heads of 21 labor unions conferred with Sen ert Wagner D N Y and Rep Robert Grosser D Ohio on a resolution to provide for ment operation of the carriers if the waige dispute can not be tled by mediation The alternative they said is a possible strike involving workers RANSOM NOTE WRITER HELD IN PRINCETON Decomposed Body of Found Near Town MIAMI Fla Thursday June Edgar ver head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation early today announced recovery of the body of kidnaped year-old Jimmy Cash and arrest of a youth allegedly implicated in the kidnaping plot Hoover said that Franklin Pierce McCall of Princeton FHi home of the boy had ui rested and admitted wilting ransom notes and giving the for the payoff which the father made in an effort to his child Hoover said that the body of the child badly decomposed had been found in a palmetto clump m rough one mile west or Princeton in territory which thousands of searchers hail gone over in the days which lowed the disappearance from his home on May 28 Others Implicated The head G-man indicated that there may have been others in- m the kidnaping and that some persons still were being in- by his department Jimmy Cash was the son of James Cash Sr moderately to-do general store and filling station owner of the small town of Princeton On the night of Saturday May 28 his mother put him to bed and left the house about 9 o'clock to go to her nearby store When the parents returned some time later the boy was gone they shortly received com- from the abductor demanding The case did not become public until about 48 hours later after G-men had arrived here in great and had already started work on the case Hansom Was Paid Other notes were received from the kidnaper and a ment was made by the father who tossed out the bundle of currency from his automobile in answer to a light signal But the child not returned within a few hours as had been promised and the entire countryside aroused Thousands of men seal died the rough country around Princeton all last week but apparently no worthwhile duos as to of thu child were The wholesale searching ended this week at order of Hoover but his agents nad ceased their activities Sevc ral persons have been de- for questioning in con- with the case almost from its inception most of them sons living in and around Cash Page 2 Col 3 WELL I'LL TELL SANDS POINT N Y June Gwynne derbilt wealthy young man who has been tabbed best bet on most lists of eligible American bachelors day surprised the horse track and even his own social set by marrying pretty Manuela Molly Hudson of Santa ica Calif The ceremony was performed in the comparative seclusion of the estate of his mother Mrs Margaret Emerson with only members of their families and a half dozen intimate friends attending Miss Hudson dark-eyed niece of Mrs Charles S Howard owner of a California racing stable which includes cuit Handicap champion of 1937 met at Santa Anita race track near Los An- geles last winter Their romance was known only to friends and bers of their families bilt son of the late Alfred G Vanderbilt who went down on Lusitania during the war owns the Sagamore Farm stable one of the largest and finest strings of race horses in the world The ceremony Wednesday was carried out with such crecy that the Rev Vincent A McCarthy of St Mary's church who married them was not informed that the ding was to take place until Wednesday morning The newlyweds caught the Pan-American Airways muda Clipper at Port ington at noon for Hamilton Bermuda where they will spend their honeymoon FCC Is Vindicated By Congress Probe June The Federal Communications Commission appeared to be ing toward congressional cation Wednesday night despite charges that certain of its bers had yielded too greatly to a powerful radio broadcasting lobby SLAYER HELD EUREKA Calif June Charges of first degree murder were formally placed Wednesday against James Morgan old Orleans miner in the fatal By BOB BURNS There's that gets into a blood like Here my wife and I started to fly to some quiet for a rest and wound up flym all over tho country It reminds me of world traveler who has led the globe forty and has visited ery little nook and cranny in the world When I asked him how he happened to become the world's greatest globe trotter he said Well it all started I Charies tried to find a place to park my near Orleans Monday
