Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - August 24, 1938, Reno, Nevada You Never Saw a Man Get Insomnia Hanging Onto a Pair of From Until Dark NEVADA THE One Sound State O GOOD MORNING The feather Today Will Be Cooler High 83 Low Full Details on Page 9 VOL NO 288 ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23 1870 RENO NEVADA WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 1938 OP ASSOCIATIONS 12 PAGES TODAY FRANK HAWKS DIES IN CRASH GOOD MORNING Hospital Suit Reno's Bank Recession Receding Frank Hawks By JACK RUTLEDGE RENO SHOULD WATCH with interest the legal action to be taken today by Dr B H Caples the city's most prominent doctors in forcing the Washoe General Hospital to give medical aid to women patienti suffering from venereal The details of Dr Caples action are carried more fully in a news story on this page and on page 2 in a letter he wrote The Journal Briefly he charges certain with refusing to give aid on the grounds the hospital was crowded He further charges the hospital was NOT overcrowded at the time He says an official gested one woman patient be dered out of Tie Washoe General Hospital is a splendid institution It is well equipped and generally well op- That does not mean tain changes might not be made to improve it corrections made in operation If Dr Caples is cor- rect in his statement the pital refuses medical aid to tain patients that should be cor- immediately The attitude of certain hospital employes in flatly refusing to give tion to newspapers is another thing that might be changed Dr Caples as weve said be- fore should be commended for his for uting his time and efforts in be- half of state venereal control AS WE MENTIONED here a few weeks ago Reno is going to get a new bank Official con- was mads Tuesday There is also a- strong possibility a third bank may be opened Again more complete details Ere carried in a news story on this page The present banking facilities are adequate possibly and there can be no complaint about the strong and popular First National Nevertheless another bank in Reno is welcomed as is any new enterprise The new bank is even more welcome because so many local persons are interested in it are aiding financing WHEN THE LAST depression began to lose its grip on America one of the first indications of re- turning prosperity was the den increase in the number of magazines published try Neve of several new tions including a quality azine devoted to photography is beginning to circulate and leads one to hope cally the present recession is ing its hold on America It's an encouraging sign way Doctor Seeks Legal Action Hospital WOMEN DENIED HOSPITAL HERE Dr Caples Will Seek To Force Help For Patients V NEVADA SHOULD BE in- glad of its sane tax structure of the absence of sance taxes and others more gent Our neighboring state of is less fortunate is one of the most tax-ridden states in the Union Citizens are irked among other things by the sales tax We noticed a sign over a cash register in a cafe the other day a sign which gives an insight into the attitude of the Dont forget the damn tax FRANK HAWKS one of the greatest and most popular plane accident His death is a dis- tinct loss to the United States pilots died yesterday in an He had retired from active in races hi setting new records but was still prominent in flying circles But Frank Hawks died as he wanted to die He predicted his own death in 1930 I expert to die in an he told a friend the night before he took off OP a record-breaking flight io frew York a trip he made in less than 13 hours I feel happy if I don't See Dr Caples Letter Pg 2 Mandamus proceedings com- pelling the Washoe General Hospital to give tions and treatment to persons infested with syphilis will be in- Wednesday by Dr B H Caples state director of the venereal disease control board The physician will ask District Attorney Ernest Brown to begin action following his public ment in which he charged that the hospital refused to admit a negro woman infected with ilis on grounds there was no room Caples said that two others were put out of the hospital de- spite the fact that they were supposedly in quarantine Refuted Admittance Two members of the board Tuesday night denied that John Hickey was acting for the entire group in refusing admittance to the The denials followed issuance of by Caples that refused the to the hospital for ment and suggested that police give her a floater A floater is usually given to transients and vagrants warning them to leave the city and not return Sees Health Menace Caples said that Dr George Cann and Superintendent John had assured him that there was ample space to take care of the women Tho physician said that his own investigate c confirmed this Such action was not only a violation of the woman's legal right to Dr Caples said but created a public health menace Reventlow together MI another Will they make That tion is by friends of Count and Countess Kurt the former Barbara Woolworth couple's surprise meeting at Venice Italy The Woolworth heiress recently obtained s legal separation in toe Danish courts Central Press Aid Demanded G-Men Refuse to Aid Nazi Red Probe WASHINGTON Aug house committee gating un-American activities re- vealing that the justice ment refused assistance of men Tuesday asked dent Roosevelt to direct federal agencies to aid in its inquiry into nazism fascism communism and other movements Because of the justice ment's alleged refusal to assign federal agents and other nel Martin Dies D Tex asked Roosevelt to have that branch and the Works Progress tration add 12 investigators at least one attorney and some stenographers to their payrolls for the committee's uie DUCE SENDING Regular Army Men to Replace Volunteers LONDON Aug 23 Italian government has formally admitted to the British charge d affaires in Rome that it has been sending new reinforcements fascist legionnaires and war terials to the nationalist armies in Spain it was day night Italy said that drafts of of- and soldiers of Hie Italian regular army have been sent to Spain to replace blackshirt killed and wounded hi recent fighting Premier Benito Mussolini's out- right admission of his increased military participation in the Spanish conflict ripped away re- maining shreds of the of and ed the Anglo-Italian pact of friendship Congratulations To Mr and Mrs Henry Carlson Tonopah on the birth of a pound at the Nye County Hospital Girl Regains Memory When She Sees Brother In Films HOLLYWOOD Aug An almost incredible story of a girl regaining her memory at the sight of her twin brother's face on the screen was told Tuesday night by Hally Chester one of the Dead End kids of stage and films The young actor said his twin sister Repatsky from her home for more than two years had been reunited with her sister Mrs G Marcus of 1650 President lyn because she saw him in Little Tough Guy Apparently suffering from amnesia the girl disappeared in April of 1936 home from Lincoln high school in Brooklyn ing on the stage said he spent hundreds of trying to find tier but covered no trace until received a from her in New York In it she told of dropping into the theater in New to see Little Tough she saw his face fluh 09 the screen she said she recalled IMF identity WITNESS HEARD HINES PROMISE AID FOR BRIBE Racket Czar Hurt by Testimony Tuesday In Dewey Probe NEW YORK Aug From the side of George Wein berg's sardonic mouth Tuesday came the most damaging word yet uttered in the trial cf James J Hines Tammany boss describ ed by the racketeer witness as a judge fixer and recipient of or more a week from the 000 policy racket dominated by Dutch Schultz Weinberg who turned state's evidence against the powerful district leader testified that he personally paid the to Hmes and once heard Magistrate Hulon Capshaw tell the Tammany boss I haven't failed you take care of The reference he said was to a very important case in which Schultz henchmen faced Dismissed The case was dismissed five days later when it came to Cap- shaw's wurt Weinberg testified said he was present talked to Capshaw suspended pending outcome oj this along with Former Attorney William C Bodge and the late Magistrate Francis JV Erwin been named by Dewey as having been bribed intimidated or ed by Hines Capshaw ed by Former Mayor James J Walker is listed in the social register Went to The hatchet-faced Weinberg a lieutenant of the since slam Schultz testified that he was one of the 15 men arrested in the fixed case Freed on bail ne went immediately to Hines to whom he explained the case in which police had caught the 15 on Thanksgiving eve in 1932 seated around a table counting policy slips He jaid to see if we could have the case postponed until Capshaw was related I Capshaw was a tough judge Hines if I don't think he was OK I wouldn't tell you that That night he said they found Capshaw at Andrew B Keating's Tammany club in Harlem The fix followed Mad Clues Lead Police to Suspect CLEVELAND Aug Police Tuesday night started a search for a man described to them by a junk dealer as the purchaser of a quilt in which parts of the body of a victim of the mad butcher of Kingsbury Run were found a week ago The 56 year old junk dealer first denied admitted that he knew about the authorities believe is their most tangible to the mad slayer whp had killed 13 men and women in lour years Charles Damyn ft barber who told police that he owned the quilt five weeks ago and filially gave it to a swarthy identified the man ar- rested Tuesday night as the man who took the quilt from him Swing Create Riot 12 Famous Dance Sands Attract Huge Crowd of Jitterbugs CHICAGO Aug special mons to central police headquarters called it a riot The sponsoring Chicago New Century Com- and Chicago Times called it the greatest mass swing show in history with 12 ally famous swing bands sending from a foot platform The jitterbugs knew only the cats were sending and it was time for the gators to shine It attracted swing fans of all ages races and creeds to spacious Soldier Field The riot call to headquarters sent 500 men all available in downtown precincts to the stadium at the edge of Lake Michigan Peace was restored because any jitterbugs will admit that peace it's RENO WILL GET SECOND BANK Third Is Indicated Tobin Files The first of two proposed ing institutions became a reality Tuesday when articles of were filed with tary of State Malcolm McEachin by a group of business men ed by Walter J Tobm The new bank will be known as the Security Bank and Trust will have a capital stock of with a surplus of The firm will open or business about September 15 Silent haye Headed Leo F to some time Schmitt is Several closed banks in Nevada The Security Bank and Company occupy the Stack Building on Second Street and will be managed by Tobin who was receiver for the Reno Bank and formerly con- with banking firms in and Montana Directors will meet this week o elect officers Among the di- rectors are Tobin Lester D merfield R L Douglas N H Getchell and Stuart Williams all of Reno M L Armanko Henry Hennett B M Carlisle and Henry Trevor of San Francisco Other stockholders include man Biltz Charles Browh Charles Bredhoff A M Larsen Pierre Mire Nick M H Wallace Ballon and George Springmeyer The bank will make immediate application for membership in the federal Deposit Insurance Col- The firm will handle eneral banking and trust ness Fatal Prison Cells Are Worse Than Black Hole Philadelphia's Jail by Official 4 Men Die There Monday After Strike PHILADELPHIA Aug Charles M Hersch Tuesday night branded Philadelphia county tiny isolation cells where four mutinous convicts died violent death as worse than the Black Hole of Calcutta The coroner visited the prison for four hours The cells he visited are known in prison parlance as Klondike narrow dark and equipped with only a bowl and a water spigot In two of them four men were found nearly dead early Monday after a five-day hunger strike against the monotony of prison fare Three other investigations were started under the direction of the city homicide squad the district attorney's office and the state de- welfare the cor- oner but that met their deaths Their hands are shriveled indicating immersion in hot water or steam Furthermore I am not satisfied with any of the stories I have read The naked bodies of the four victims were found in the small cells where leaders of 650 inal hunger strikers were con- fined The strike began day night in protest against the monotony of fried eggplant burger and macaroni Frank Son Dies in Hollywood HOLLYWOOD Aug John Capra Km of Frank Capra well known screen died in a private hospital fuesday a earlier in the day The boy underwent the after being ill a ftar i Mrs Krueger Much Better in Hospital Aug Mrs Smita Krueger wife of Karl Krueger Kansas City symphony was reported definitely Tuesday night in Good hospital where she has ain near death from gunshot ounds inflicted by Charles E McDonald estranged husband of ler maid Attaches said she she was er than she has been at any tune she was wounded and riends construed this as a sign hat she may have weathered the crisis physician Dr rence Chaffin was more cautious she was still a very sick although somewhat improved 3 Prominent Doctors in San Jose SAN JOSE Costa Rica Aug 23 socially prominent doctors were murdered Tuesday night apparently by the same person They were Dr Moreno Canat Dr Manuel Echandi and Dr man Meiner One suspect was Held First that the assailant attacked the men in their own No motive was Mother Arrested I Son Died of Rupture Of Appendix LOS ANGELES Aug Sheriffs Tuesday night arrested on manslaughter charges the mother of a boy who died of a ruptured appendix after she refused to approve an operation Rev Wilbur Alvis pastor of the Highland Park Apostolic Church also was taken into tody on a warrant issued after the county named him and Mrs Lillian Volstad in in- late today The boy Francis Warren stad died Aug 8 in General pital where he had been removed on court order after his mother had refused to heed advice of physicians and agree to an tion Hungary Will be Allowed to Rearm BLED Yugoslavia Aug little entente nations of Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia and Rou mania Tuesday tore up the post-war trianon treaty's military and permitted gary to rearm on condition that she will refrain from using her new strength to settle political quarrels HORSE BUCKS Astor popular film star was seriously injured Tuesday when thrown by a horse at Santa Monica MARY ASTOR IS INJURED Film Star Is From Horse SANTA MONICA Cal Aug Astor ed film star was injured day when she was thrown from a horse she had mounted at the Riviera Country club to ride to an MGM movie location at by Uplifters ranch She suffered injuries to her back and hip Miss Aster's husband Manuel del Campo to whom she was married shortly after conclusion of her famous lavender diary child custody case with her er husband Dr Franklin Thorpe took the star to Santa Monica hospital Dr Samuel Hirschfield her later re- ported x-rays showed no broken bones but he ordered the actress to stay in bed for two or three days Witnesses said Miss Astor had just mounted her horse Gray Jack when the animal shied at passing automobile Nazis List Jewish Names Banned Abner Bud Danny Taboo BERLIN interior released a list of names it recanted as typically Jewish Aryans to stop using them 1 The names included Jonathan Abigail Denny Bud Dan and Uriel the 188 male names WWe MM Of legendary Wandering Jew melech Sichem anja and Tewele Female names included bel Chinke and Hitzel There wipe 91 FAMOUS FLIER SHOWING OFF Passenger Also Hawk Wa Noted Speed Pilot N Y Aug Commander Frank Hawks noted speed flier and dent of the Gwinn Com- pany of Buffalo and J Hazard Campbell well-known Buffalo sportsman died in a Buffalo tal Tuesday night from burn received when the plane in which they were taking off a polo field in nearby East Aurora crashed and wag destroyed by The death of the famous flier former holder of the speed record came a little than three hours the plane ha was crashed Campbell two hours later There were no to the tragedy Among the first to scene of the crash was George Schneckenburger of East Aurora Schneckenburger said there was very little of the plane left when he reached it The wheels of the stripped electric and tele- phone wires from poles and tie craft plunged to the round about 50 feet away I guess the whole thing so quickly that neither man had a chance to fight the The flames ate up everything except the bare skeleton of the Schneckenburger said J K treasurer of the Gwinn concern said the small plane which Hawks was flying known as an failed to gain altitude and became en- snared in some electric wires Coming in contact with the wires he said the ship caught fire and hurtled to the ground Hawks gave up his record breaking attempts when he a desk job with Gwinn company about a year ago Warehouse Warfare Is Still Unsettled SAN FRANCISCO Aug San Francisco distributors and the C I O International and men's Union discussed their louse warfare for 45 minutes late Tuesday without reaching a peace agreement WELL I'll Tell By BOB BURNH I never saw a big successful executive that was ed A man in that position hire and fire a lot of people and while body can hire you h a v a have a pretty stoney heart to fire a man I often think that's the son my folks never went in much for big business They're jest naturally too tender hearted I was on Uncle porch one day in August when we saw a man come wearily down a hot dusty road and when he reached the front of the house he stopped wiped the sweat from his i asked how far it was Vj Buren Uncle Sanky said about a half mile After the gone If Uncle Sanky you know titan a half a mile into renl And Uncle Yes but he was fella and he looked so I didn't have the heart It was four miles
