Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - September 19, 1938, Reno, Nevada Complete Horse Race Entries And Results Carried Daily Ori The Nevada State Journal NEVADA THE One Sound State GOOD MORNING Weather High 77 Low 55 Full Details on Page 6 VOL NO 314 ESTABLISHED 23 NEVADA STATE JOURNAL MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19 1938 MEMBER OF FHB JOTTED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS 8 PAGES TODAY 1 NATIONS DESERT CZECHS Legion Seeks Greater Defense For America SENATOR AIRS PLANS TO ARM AGAINST WAR Nevada Included in Request for Funds Next Year LOS ANGELES Sept next session of Congress will be asked io appropriate 905.000 to strengthen west coast naval defenses Chairman David I Walsh of the Senate naval fairs committee announced here Sunday upon his arrival to at- tend the 20th national convention of the American Legion which opens Monday The Massachusetts senator will be the keynoter of the opening session of the convention which stress two major greater national defense and Americanism Withdraw Withdrawal of three rival left the road open for the election of Stephen F Chadwick Seattle attorney as new national commander of the Legion Milo J Warner of Toledo mond J Kelly of Detroit and Lynn H Stambaugh of Fargo N D withdrew from the running and there were dates in the field to oppose wick who was with the in Siberia and has been chairman of the Legion Americanism Com- mission for the past three years Walsh arrived on a special train one of 72 specials which rolled into the city on street car schedule All told they brought an estimated legionnaires who promptly took over the town and began tearing it apart with their usual gusto Largest item in the naval that will be in- at the next session of Congress will be for a naval air station at Kodiak ka An additional will be sought for a grazing dock to service the fleet at Puget Sound A similar dock costing is proposed for Mare Island naval station near San Francisco Walsh said Facilities Needed At a press conference Walsh said the facilities were greatly needed to keep apace with an ex- panding navy If they are he said the fleet will be vastly ened Other items which were pre- pared by the Navy Department and forwarded to Walsh today New magazine ammunition de- pot at Hawthorne Nev 000 new power plant building and quarters for men of the de- stroyer base San Diego new artillery landing field naval GOOD MORNING Weather Contest Letteri to Editor Two Good The Hospital Case See LEGION 2 Col 1 r i j Convict Killed Guard Shoots Inmate During Struggle SAN QUENTIN PRISON Calif Sept Tucker 34 Sacramento slayer sentenced to die in December was shot and killed in the condemned row block of San Quentin prison guard Sunday in a struggle with a guard Prison officials said that Guard Richard Meredith stationed on a balcony above the block of cells in which the men condemned to die are housed shot Tucker while the prisoner was struggling with Guard William G Lewis in front of Tucker's cell Tae bullet the third shot fired by balcony guard entered lungs and caused his death within fifteen minutes By JACK YOUR GUESS IS as good as anyone's about when Reno will get its first snow this year You don't have to be an expert nor do you have to have at your dis- posal detailed records for the past fifty years to forecast such an uncertain thing as the weather The Journal Contest Editor who had nothing better to do worked out a stunt whereby the person coming closest to the date would receive a prize The next two closest contestants will receive and for their efforts Announced Sunday and today is only Monday several letters a few postcards and a couple of telephone calls already been received It's good clean fun even if it is rather silly There are practically no Just write the date and the hour of the day on a piece of and mail it to The Contest Editor Nevada State Journal Reno The hour was put in just to make it harder Or to tell the truth to break a possible tie These ters will be filed away and when it snows the prize will be awarded It would be nice wouldn't it to send in a guess forget all about the contest for a month or and then wake up one cold white morning and find you had won spending No one is even the weather chief In fact we issue a challenge to the weather chief to with Reno's laymen in the SPEAKING OF THE weather again up in Montreal they take it seriously and have worked out a lottery based on the daily It amounted to a business until the government stepped in and put a stop to it t Police said bettors participating In the lottery placed their bets gio their own guess of the ature of any city they chose for some future date ABOUT THE MOST popular single item on The Journal's daily feature page is the Letters to the Editor section If you have ten in and haven't seen your ter in print this may be the son for are printed in the order in which they are received Incidentally please either sign your name in full or your initials If you do not wish to have your name appear merely say so and we'll substitute initials or any trick name you choose But in the future letters will not be printed unless signed Fair A NEVADA GENTLEMAN writes in two very sensible 1 Organize a mounted troop of Boy Scouts for the state We already have Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts but no Mounted Scouts or Cowboy Scouts or whatever you might want to call them And what would be more appropriate for a western state than some young The writer poses to train the erly by putting an officer in charge to do the master job They could aid nicely in Rodeo work too He says when the hat is passed he'll con- tribute 2 He suggests secondly that Sea Scouts high school and col- lege youths organize rowing crews hold sculling races etc An annual regatta possibly at Lake Tahoe or Pyramid mt- Good 3 Col 1 FDR TO CARRY Fate of O'Connor Will Rest With Vote in New York WASHINGTON Sept first phase of President Roosevelt's drive on conservative Democrats in New York on Tuesday with victory or defeat for Representative John nor but there were Sunday night that the party strife would be carried from the maries into the November tions Week-end developments lent emphasis to this prospect phen T Early White House quoted Mr Roosevelt as believing that James H Fay O'Connor's New Deal primary ri- val would truly represent the voters of his district Early added that of course he the President hopes Mr Fay will win Support Pledged Chairman Prentiss M Brown of the Democratic senatorial committee said his group will support all regular cratic nominees regardless of their liberal or conservative views President Roosevelt made a dio attack on persons sighted in their ger conception of local and tional needs The presidential pat on the back was given to Fay in the face complete failure of the purge in Maryland South Carolina ind Georgia and his action was freely interpreted as another indication that the current drive has ob- far and beyond the mary duelling The scope of the at the polls this November is ex- tremely limited The of two of three senators singled out for New Deal D Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina and Waiter of tantamount to Senator Millard E Maryland the of the has lican he has re- a promise of support from Chairman James A Farley of the Democratic national committee as have all other Democrats who trampled the purge underfoot Farley was in sympathy with the drive to banish Democratic rebels only as it was directed at Yet he revealed last week that in addition to sending congratulations to winning he also sent to losers Also working re- store party harmony is who called for an end to ness immediately Plant Picketed 300 Workers Parade At Auto Building NEWCASTLE Sept 300 bers of the United Automobile Workers of America began eting the Chrysler Motor Com pony plant Sunday night dosing the gates to more than 1800 ers Members of local 371 of the IT A W a C I O affiliate voted Friday night Monday because they said the company refused to cease discrimination union men Union officials said the trouble was centered in the auto- matic department They said older men in point of service had been called back to work at a lower wage than they received when laid off Legion Chief American Legionnaires 000 strong swarmed into Los Angeles recently for the ing sessions of the annual gion convention to start tember 19 The city prepared to give visitors one of the greatest programs of ment in the organization's tory Fifty-three special trains brought delegates from all points of the the jinks Pictured above is Daniel Doherty national commander of the Legion arriving in the con- vention city PROJECT PLANS Tennis Club Asks for New Courts 1 Alternate plans for proposed construction of tennis courts at the Washoe county golf course will presented to the county commissioners at a meeting day morning The plans were completed by federal a survey the experts at the sand pit local golf a committee of the Tennis Club will pre- sent the plans to the ers with a request that the county construct four courts The federal engineers will explain the two sets of plans which include a con- tour map showing elevation drainage position in regards to the sun and other details which must be considered in tion of the project Increased interest in tennis here resulted in a movement by bers of the local club to construct additional to ing facilities large ber of young athletes The state tournament staged recently attracted players and California Cities and was acclaimed the best held in state Insurgents Resume Gaeta Zone Offense BARCELONA Sept Spanish Insurgents Sunday re- in Gaeta zone of the Ebro front after a week of inactivity Assisted ing planes Insurgents attacked south of MusoX but were repulsed with losses to Loyalist official announcements of were re- ported crossed the loyalists counter- attacked the Consulate Damaged In Disorder MEXICO cmr sept American consulate in capital of state was slightly damaged Thursday during a grew out of a demonstration commemorating the anniversary of Mexico's Spain delayed reports said Sunday FRANCE AGREES WITH BRITISH ON WAR STAND Little Nation Laid Out As Sacrifice for Peace LONDON Monday Sept 18 and France racing against time in a struggle keep Europe going to war today apparently consented to little post-war republic of on the chopping block as a sacrifice for peace two ominous cast shadows over the peace efforts of British and French first that Czechoslovakia may not to any agreement which would split iip the country for Germany's benefit preferring to go down fighting second that Adolf ler may not wait for the deliberations of the men Statesmen Weary A few minutes after midnight a dozen tired and worried men trooped out of the prime residence at No 10 ing street after nme hours of grim talk over the big oak con- ference table net chambers Prime Minister Neville berlain of Britain and Premier Edouard Daladier of France had by i their ex- pert statesmen to decide whether their two nations should go to war to from Hitler os the man demands They issued a com- were in complete agreement as to a peaceful solution for the Czech question Europe knew by this time there was only one solution acceptable to result left little doubt among European diplomats as to happened The agreement reached at No 10 Downing street apparently vides be sawed up into parts the predominantly man areas of Sudetenland being ceded outright and the others having an opportunity to vote on the question of their autonomy two dominant members of the allied powers who created Czechoslovakia m the post-war and guarantee the integrity of what is left of the little central pean nation Czechs Disagree iThe possibility that vakia would not to any plan was strongly indicated when Premier Milan Hodza in a radio speech Sunday declared that his government would make no com- promise that involved separation oJE territory from the country This was reinforced by a message from President Eduard Benes de- livered last night to the conferees on Downing street declaring Prague would not recognize any agreement made without her con- sent Shoots Sweetheart Embalmer Fires on Sleeping Girl HOLLYWOOD Sept A lovers quarrel flared into lence early Sunday ing to police a em- balmer broke into the home of Dorothy M Lebonati 19 shot her as she lay asleep and then at- tempted to kill himself Both bullets failed to find a vital spot Mason Potter the accused assailant was reported in a critical condition with a bullet wound in his right chest His sweetheart was shot in the ab- doman and also may die According to Detective George Hill and William dark the shooting followed Miss bonatis sudden decision to break off her engagement to Potter The girl a waitress at a drive-in Stand and Porter were to have been married next Tuesday Where Riots Spread Map shows where rioting spreads in Sudeten German areas of Czechoslovakia as an outgrowth of the serious minority tion north of Eger in the Falkenau district was the scene of a serious clash when 2000 enraged Sudeten Nazis battled hundreds of Czech troops and police flashes From Europe PRAGUE Monday remains firm on the attitude that there can he no cession of territory and no plebiscite affecting her territorial integrity despite reports of such solution worked out in London Government circlet pointed out thai only yesterday Premier Milan turned down these alternatives officially and today government reaffirmed that such would continue to be the guiding policy PARIS Sept Duke of Windsor who ai Prince of Wales saw war in the front line trenches in 1914 hai informed the British government that he ready for any minion or any service for the empire be once ruled hii said day night The Duke who itill holds his commissions in the British armed hopes to be summoned home immediately if war breaks Out and has placed hit unreservedly at the disposal of brother and successor to the throne King George VI it was said LONDON Sept Big Five in Midland Westminster Lloyd's Barclays and National are preparing for the eventuality of war by making copies of all it was understood Sunday copies are being distributed to small branch throughout the country to insure that they will be pre- served in event the main offices are destroyed in bombing Sept throughout land Sunday of them broken up by mounted showed the tense public feeling over the Sudeten question Mounted police rode down a crowd of British Fascists who gathered outside the town hall of a London East End suburb We want The reference was to Sir Oswald Mostly head of the British Fascist Blue Shirts organisation TRIESTE Italy Sept Benito Mussolini Sunday thundered to the world that Italy already has chosen on which side she would fight if a general war breaks out and demanded the virtual dismemberment of all Czechoslovakia Thus Mussolini in effect his military support to Germany under the axis in event of a general war demanded that in addition to the Sudetens Hungarians Poles and other minorities be the right of secession WASHINGTON Sept Roosevelt and his cabinet Sunday night closely watched developments in the European crisis but maintained strict silence Seeking to keep abreast of the gravest European crisis in twenty four years Mr Roosevelt and his cabinet members re- mained in the capital to receive official and news reports from the various European capitals Both Mr Roosevelt and Secretary of War Harry Woodring canceled out-of-town speaking ments Reno Turn On Heat Daring Trip To Meet But Ignited LOS ANGELES Sept Reno's traveling Legionnaires had a hot time on the way to the national convention at Los An- geles and quenched everyone else's spirits when they arrived The drum and bugle corps of Darrell Dunkle Post No 1 ing by special stage got a thrill enroute here when the chartered bus caught fire The blaze was extinguished with no damage to the Legionnaires or equipment re- ported Arriving in Los Angeles the Reno gang joined the convention spirit of gaiety with a unique stunt of turning all the fare rants on the main street open on passing cars HELD IN JAIL Banford C Counts and Orson A Spencer held on liquor to In- dians charges were brought to Reno from Elko by V S Marshal Middleton Sunday and lodged in the Washoe County isil Death Toll Mounts In Holy Land Riots JERUSALEM Sept Three Jewish supernumerary were killed and nine Jews Arabs and British soldiers were wounded Sunday in Holy Land disorders The three Jews were killed and six others badly wounded in a land mine sion An Arab policeman was shot and wounded in the old quarter of Jerusalem and another was shot at Jaffa A British soldier was injured when a land mine derailed a trolley car near Describe Sinking of Schooner HALIFAX N S Sept survivors described day night how the berg schooner Nelson L sank in 10 minutes with a loss of three lives after running aground off Port Bickerton county Saturday night The three victims were Capt Akiah Conrad M Wade Bowers 51 and his brother Carmen ers 58 CZECH VILLAGE ALONG BORDER Outlaw Nazis Use German Guns on Guards PRAGUE Monday Sept speed pointing to im- minent mobilization vakia early today poured troops into frontier fortifications The move was in answer to a Nazi war cry from across the border delivered by Konrad lein fugitive Sudeten German party leader that the hour of Sudeten liberation is 1 More in Formation The Free composed of who fled across the border to Germany is moving back up to the frontier in fighting formation it was an- Henlein proclaimed from lin to his followers remaining on Czech soil that armed men of the Free Corps are ready to die in battle against the Czechs The Henlein fighting corps sent a guerilla band dashing across the frontier early Sunday with blazing German origin machine guns and hand grenades in two raids on the Czech border town of home Two Czech customs guards were wounded before the Free Corps returned to German ground Fear The Prague government feared that invasion might come at any by German troops but by Sudeten fugitives armed and outfitted by the Gorman high command and sent back to tect their comrades The Free Corps manifesto said the force of was ready to repel any Czech invasion of the Sudeten homeland The speed-up of defense ties in what informed quarters said might be the prelude of also was due to reports from London that Britain and France want to carve up Czechoslovakia to satisfy Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Sunday speech at Trieste unmistakably throwing his armed strength on Germany's side The government said that the in the two raids on Asch which juts like a sula into Gorman territory used German machine guns revolvers and grenades Davey Hurls Charge Of Dirty Politics WASHINGTON Sept Martin L Davey day night accused Chairman Ar- thur J of the Social Security Board of playing dirty with the vast federal agency and defied him to rob Ohio's aged by cutting off fit payments now under gation WELL I'll Tell By BOB BURNS Now that school has started it might be a good idea to remind the parents that the children will do a lot bettor work if the parents will take an interest in what they're doing The other day I asked my boy how he was gettin along in school and he says Well my history is pretty bad So I told him to go in and write his history lesson twenty times and when he finished I went in to check upon him and I says Now wait a told you to write your history lesson twenty times and you've only written it the And he says Oh I for- got to tell you my bad too
