Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - December 10, 1938, Reno, Nevada We Finally Learn From Experience That Footprints In The Sand Of Time Are Not Made By Sitting Down br Mrs W i Box I IS By GOOD MORNING The Weather Today Will Be Celder High U Low M Full Details on Page t VOL NO 31 M RENO NEVADA SATURDAY DECEMBER 10 1938 MEMBER OP THE PROS ASSOCIATIONS EDEN SEEKS PACT Jewish Persecution Hit By Delegates At Lima GOOD MORNING Christmas Lights On New More Air Moon Helps City Br JACK TONIGHT THE YULE lights go in Reno and trees are being erected along main business streets It should aid m giving all it us more of a Christmas spirit And do you realize that you nave but thirteen more flopping days between now and ber Times THIS WEEK-END MAY show whether Tunisia will become a second Sudetenland Natives oring France and Italy were rumored to be planning either today or Sunday riots that will bring the current crisis to a climax Italy's campaign for taking over Tunisia might well be regarded as rebellion among the natives and the recently signed Franco-Italian pact is already just another scrap of paper Hitler's refusal to be involved in the squabble leave his brother dictator out on a limb and with England backing France chances are the Tunis incident will be dropped for a while erred in picking the time to strike he won't err to the point of declaring an unpopular and less war TWO MORE FLIERS were killed Friday bringing the total killed for the past 30 days to 10 Since the first of the year 53 en- listed men have died in air es some sort of a record During the past 30 days nine first line planes ranging from bombers to fighting planes have been lost This seems a high total but don't forget the number of planes in use by our army and navy and the number of pilots in the air daily You'll find that the accident average is pretty low YESTERDAY A young man in San cisco sent the Western Union fifteen cents because he shot a glass insulator off a telegraph line It was almost a shock to the Western Union because boys with rifles have shot off about twenty millior insulators m the past 60 years and are responsible for about half the one million that have to be replaced I THE MAN who once planned to put drunks in cages and drag them though city streets as a Well he's now enlisted the moon in an attempt to savn the city of Woburn Mass about a night by shutting off street lights when is a full moon He said that the combination of street lights and a full moon caused a glare that was dangerous to motorists And anyway burn could use the a night The first night the plan was supposed to have been it clouded up and rained The lights stayed on CONFERENCE OF AMERICAS OPEN President of Peru First Speaker In Lima LIMA Dec inary conversations designed io effect an accord between the United States Argentina and other principal American ers on a common American de- fense front have advanced to point it was learned Friday night where Secretary of State Cordell Hull already has sub- mitted a project providing for a forceful and binding ment between the American nations LIMA Peru Dec of Jews in Germany was injected into the eighth Pan- American conference Friday night when the parley its sessions ally opened by President Oscar R ol Peru was asked to denounce attacks on racial and religious groups The Cuban delegation headed by Secretary of State John J Re- made condemning persecutions of a collective character because of racial or religious motives which result in depriving the victims of the right to live honorably Germany Not Named Although did not name Germany directly the ence was unmistakable It was understood the resolution would be supported by several tions among them at least one large country The resolution provides that In making this solemn declaration it is implied that the nations of America assume the moral gation to continue to apply as heretofore the principles of ance and respect for human The way was cleared also for world-wide support of the tion in an invitation to all tries not represented at the eighth Pan-American conference to hold these principles of tion and co-operation The resolution was the first of importance presented to the con- ference after President Benavides in a plainly worded address to the delegates of the 21 American re- publics opened the parley on a keynote of inter-American arity and continental strength SCOUT DANCE TODAY The Boy Scout benefit dance expected to be one of the largest affairs of the year will be held Saturday night at El Patio See Lima Page 13 Col 2 FDR Insists He'll Renew Fight to Reorganize WASHINGTON Dec President Roosevelt Friday said he will renew his fight before the new congress for the objectives of his original government program which was axed last session by a coalition of house Republicans and conservative Democrats after a bruising battle The extent to which he is ing to compromise with hostile legislators on the more ing objectives will determine not only the fate of the measure but whether there is to be another free-for-all similar to the house clash which split Democratic ranks and harmed Mr Roosevelt's tige British Use of River Denied by Japanese CANTON Saturday Dec Japanese consulate eral informed the British late general today that Japan cannot open the Pearl River be- tween Canton and Hongkong to general navigation because such action might Japan's position in Central China where she consistently has refused to i open the River to foreign 1 merchant ships Auto Production Still Is Soaring Employment Upswing Also Seen Car ness Beats Record Says Report DETROIT production soared to the highest Friday as the industry's sales executives issued glowing reports of improved retail business The industry weathered a major strike while boosting duction to more than cars and trucks this week Trade publications predicted the upward pace which started with duction of 1939 in September would continue next week In weekly survey Ward's Automotive Reports estimated duction at compared with last week and in the corresponding week of last year Automotive News trade publication mated production for the week at cars and trucks as com- pared with in the week og 1937 A strike at the Fisher Body plant No 1 at Flint caused Buick and Pontiac to lose a day of duction this week but increased 6 NEGROES DIE FOR MURDERS Mass Execution Georgia Seen in REIDSVILLE Ga Dec negro murderers went to their deaths singing The Lord Is Coming and reciting the Lord's Prayer Friday in the biggest mass execution in Georgia's while a white man also convicted a minute reprieve The seventh man scheduled to die in the electric chair was Tom Dickerson a farmer who killed a baby born of incestuous relations with his daughter A stay was granted when a witness at his trial repudiated his testimony The state took the lives of Jim Williamson Charles Rucker and Raymond Carter who killed a Arthur Perry and Arthur Mack also convicted of murdering a policeman and Willie Russell convicted of slaying a er and his daughter Any Wild in Ice Illegal Nevada residents with wild ducks in their ice boxes were liable to arrest and fines after Friday it was announced by H P Brown Washoe county game warden Pheasants and quail may be kept in storage until December 26 Brown said while venison may be kept until January 14 operations at Chrysler and Ford factories more than offset the loss Ward's reports also announced that the employment index of the Detroit board of commerce re- the upswing in automobile building The index of 97.8 was the highest since Dec The Buick division of General Motors announced that Buick car sales in November broke existing records for the month and set a new high for the year W F stader general said November units as in October sales manager deliveries were compared with SNOW OR RAIN Weather Unsettled in Wide Area Democracies If NEW YORK Dec 9 Prieto former Spanish republican minister of war warned on his arrival in the United States Friday night that European democracies will suffer a mortal blow if Spain is lost to democracy bjr an insurgent victory California Heat Wave Breaks Drops to 76 LOS ANGELES Dec The unprecedented Southern heat wave which broke the all-tune record for December with a peak of 32 degrees day broke Friday and the a maximum of 76 degrees Unsettled weather accompanied by cloudy skies and probable rain or snow is expected to prevail over western Nevada Saturday as a low pressure area moved ward Barometers at Reno and ee were low the instrument at Truckee showing a decline of eight degrees Friday afternoon Over- cast skies were general across the state and a brisk wind blew up in the late afternoon Colder temperatures are forecast Despite cloudy skies tures were above normal in Reno Friday the mean of 46 degrees being 12 points above a normal of 34 Maximum temperature was 62 degrees while the minimum was 30 degrees Temperatures generally were mild Minimums reported to the Reno weather bureau were tin 30 Elko 24 Ely 28 thorne 32 Las Vegas airport 36 Susanville 30 Tonopah 42 and Winnemucca 26 PRAY FOR RAIN SATFORD Ariz Dec The Mormon Church in eastern Arizona Friday night called upon its several stakes to observe day December 18 as a day of prayer for rain and snow to fill depleted water reserves DALADIER WINS FULL POWERS FOR REFORMS Italy Stop Rioting For Colonies to PARIS Saturday Dec Edouard Daladier early today a vote of 315 to 241 the backing of the Chamber oi Deputies for his drastic reform de- crees N vote followed a two-day fiery debate on the issue of life or death for his government camp stormy the chamber Fight Only the intervention of neutral deputies a free-for-all fight Nationalists and So- as a result of continual heckling of former leftist premier Leon Blum by the Nationalists Blum's attempts to speak meeting was suspended for because of threatened violence and when debate was re- Blum said it was evident there was a a new line of the Socialists definitely have joined tion Daladier whose reform decrees arid handling of the general strike aroused leftists won out on the vote of confidence due to the support of the conservative wing parties i SUDDEN CHANGE SEEN IN ITALY ATTITUDES ROME Dec and carabinieri charged into crowds of Italian students scuffling with them and administering bloody noses in what appeared to mark a sudden change in official ods of dealing with anti-French demonstrations in the streets of Rome For the first time in more than a week the authorities used stern methods in dispersing the and several were arrested See French Page 18 Col 1 Car Hits Bike Youth Killed by Mrs Stagg OAKLAND Cal Dec An automobile which police said was driven by Mrs Amos Alonzo Stagg wife of the famed football coach struck and killed old George Choy at an Oakland street intersection late Friday The police report said Choy riding a bicycle swerved suddenly into the path of the automobile Police exonerated Mrs Stagg who was accompanied byher band now coach at the College of Pacific Stockton FARM BUREAU MEET Annual meeting of the Washoe County Farm Bureau will get under wey at the Civic building at 10 a m Saturday with Leo F Sauer retiring dent in charge Biggest News Stories Of Past Twelve Months Hitler Dominates 1938 News and Figures in Most of Biggest Stories of the Year Picked by United Press NEW YORK Dec Adolf Hitler of many dominated world news in 1938 according to a list of the twelve big news stories of the year as announced Friday by the United Press The selections were made by the editors of the United Press in New York where dispatches from correspondents around the world pass over the domestic and foreign desks before being dis- to newspapers in the United States and South America Nazi policies were responsible for three of the first four leading stories of the year whereas so-called crime news and domestic politics figured less prominently than in previous years Earl J Johnson U P vice-president and general news ager described 1938 as the biggest news year since the World war The 1938 list 1 Sudeten crisis culminating in Munich pact 2 Germany's union with Austria 3 Republican gains in elections 4 Germany's campaign 5 Douglas Corrigan's wrong way flight to Ireland 6 New England hurricane 7 Orson Welles Martian broadcast 8 John Ward's Gotham Hotel leap 9 Enactment of wages and hours law 10 Development of United States foreign policy 11 Franco-Italian colonies crisis 12 Confession of Richard Whitney Stories which received honorable mention in terms of tance or popular The fall of Hankow Howard Hughes world flight Joe Louis one-round knockout of Max Schmeling Soviet treason trials trial of Mexico's expropriation program United trade treaty and the Arab revolt RUSSO- JAPAN CLASH FEARED Soviets Seek To Oust Japs TOKYO Saturday Dee News Agency said today that army and navy leaders are compiling budget estimates which may total yen about because of the necessity for preparing for war simultaneously with China and Soviet Russia TOKYO Saturday Dee relations ready strained by of the fisheries negotiations in cow were further aggravated day when Soviet authorities at- tempted to expel 67 Japanese oil workers from the fields of Saghalien Island A foreign office spokesman said that the Japanese workers had re- fused to leave the fields and that a clash was feared Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita has telegraphed the Japanese in Moscow to deliver on immediate protest to Soviet government Two Men Deny Using Old Liquor LOS ANGELES Dec John Silberman and Sol pleaded not guilty Friday when charged with possessing counter- feit liquor labels and old liquor bottles when arraigned be- fore Municipal Judge Harold dreth who Jan 6 as date of a jury trial Reno Dresses Up Today In Garb at Decorations Lights On Reno will don its Christmas garb Saturday when lights festooning the Truckee River and strings of lights rating sidewalk Christmas trees in the business district are turned on Workers Friday completed work of arranging the lights along the river from the Lake Street bridge to the east end of ield Park where a tree is located Canopies of lights have also been placed between the Sierra and Virginia and Virginia and Center Street bridges Campaign Originator Diet Friday LAS VEGAS Nev Dec M Owen English-born engineer and newspaperman who claimed he instigated an anti- polygamy campaign that ended with a United States senate in- at Salt Lake City years ago was found dead at his home Friday apparently the tim of heart disease He was 82 Service Station Here Held Up Man Sought Police were seeking a stocky young man suspected of holding up an attendant of the Union Oil Company service station at Fourth street and University Avenue at a m Friday Willam Cook station attendant said the man drove into the tion and ordered the gasoline tank filled He proffered a in payment Cook said that when he opened the cash register the bandit flourished a revolver and took and the Gypsy Rose Lee To Strip More To Annoy Hitler if if Stars to Quit Wearing Silk Stockings Buy German and Japanese Goods in Boycott HOLLYWOOD Dec Gypsy Rose Lee and Luise promised to quit ing silk stockings Friday aa a group of Hollywood notables set to work to enforce boycotts against Japan and Germany Started independently both boycotts were aimed at a protect against pani invasion of China and Germany's treatment of and Jews The campaign voted at a meeting called by Melvyn Douglas wto fifty-six members of the try signed a 1938 declaration of which urges the United States to break off economic relations with the Reich The meeting was held at the home of Edward G inson Coinciding with this drive was the Japanese boycott sponsored by the motion ture committee which includes among its members many of those who attended tite meeting at Robinson's home The appeal for popular support ried si a dodger dis- from door to door Friday The appeal urging cana to quit buying silk was with a public plea to President Roosevelt to enforce an arms embargo against in accordance with the peace pact Among fite signers who wise endorse the were Gypsy Rose Lee Bainer Virginia feme Parker Frances mer Ama Hay Gale ad ney Miss Parker Miss Wong and Miss Sondergaard have worn no silk stockings for months Drafters voted down one proposal that only Gentiles be allowed to sign the document The signers were said to Have included Fred Astaire Miss Sondergaard Joan Bennett Bette Davis Robert ery Claudette Colbert Paul Muni Ginger Rogers Martha Raye Miriam Hopkins Gloria Stuart Groucho Marx Claude Rains and Helen Mrs Hahn Wrote Her Confession Claimed CICINNATI Dec of the lawyers for Anna Marie Hahn Friday night said they be- the convicted poison deress had written a confession of her crimes before she was ex- Wednesday night Actions After War Cause of Hider NEW YORK Dec William E Dodd former sador to Germany Friday night told a citizens against op- pression that the procedure of the United States and the allies after the World War was responsible for Adolf Hitler WARNS AMERICA MUST BEWARE OF DICTATORS Democracies Must Stand Together He Pleads NEW YORK Dec Captain Anthony Eden Great Britain's former foreign secretary Friday night warned the United States that democracies must de- fend themselves against the rise of totalitarianism and implied that Britain would stand with this country in such a defense After repudiating the notion of inevitability of war and out naming either Germany or plainly referring to declared that it was possible for believers in racy to join in common ance to a new form of idolatry and its passionate and ruthless devotees Eden arrived in New York ter a race against time He left the Star liner tania at quarantine sped to shore in a coast guard cutter and was whisked up town to the Astoria hotel to keep a speaking date before of the National Association of and their guests His speech was carefully ed and contained no implication either that Britain was ready to go to war or even feared one but it was regarded as an able assurance of British ity with the democratic bloc and a blanket endorsement of dent Roosevelt's Chapel Hill N C speech on democracies Nor are we calling out for to others nor seeking to lure others to pull our chestnuts from the the debonair young statesman declared We have no such intention But he warned that the testing time of democracies was at hand and that the world was faced with ruthless and challenging policies in which force is for many the only instrument of icy With a veiled bid for a mon front of democratic powers he urged that nations holding to the democratic ideal prepare to defend it Eden came here with the proval of the British ment although he resigned from the cabinet rather than go along with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of dealing with the dictators He avoided in his address any reference to Chamberlain's foreign policy though in England he recently hae criticized it WELL I'll Tell By BOB BURNS There's a lot of talk these days about wives bein more less and extravagant than our mothers were But half the time it's the fault for not ing in his wife like our fathers did I had a sin that went to the city and got married and when he saw that his wife wm jest livin up every cent he could make he sat down and had a heart-to-heart talk with her He told her about how ma use to make his pants out of his pa's old ones and how sne over old hats and tor self And when be got through his wife bunt into tears and Darling you have nude ferent woman of fra gonna show you that I can make too I'm gonna wait until the spring sales before I buy ermine
