Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - March 8, 1938, Reno, Nevada WEATHER FORECAST and PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY SLIGHTLY COOLER TONIGHT 1 AT 2 P. M. TODAY 53 METALS Ear 139s 7'4d g. Bar s. York Y. 10.00; export 10.00-10.02 V. 4.504.55; E. St. N. 74.00 SIXTY-SECOND YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES MARCH 8, 1938 SIXTEEN PAGES NO. 57 10 Per Cent Increase Granted Rail Lines in Freight Rates FARM PRIMMED Al FIVE PER CENT Soft Coal Is Exempt from Any Raise Among Heavy Commodities Fifteen Per Cent Asked By Lines Declared too High by I. C. C. Change in Stamp Designs Arouses N. Y. Congressmen March 8 Representative Barton said today revision of postage stamps de- signs and denominations announced by Postmaster General Farley was a to make sure that all Re- publicans are LINCOLN Republican president is pushed into a spot where he will be seen by as few people as Barton the Democratic presidents get the big time served to be But what to His place on the five cent stamp is given to John The people are not going to be encouraged to remember that there was ever more than one If they want to look at Theodore they must now pay not five cents but forty FOR COOLIDGE get the full significance of the scheme look what happens to our last Republican great political offense of opposing There is no Hoover of the Democratic wherefore he punished by Mr. Parley by being stricken off the three cent Thomas Jefferson takes his McKinley has been a since he is still But there is a William Howard Taft You can see it by paying fifty a look at Harding you must pay while Calvin fairly well known adorning I prophet and symbol of thrift and March 3. The interstate commerce sion granted the railroads today ten per cent increase In freight rates but exempted several major com- FARM PRODUCTS The increase on anthracite was limited to ten cents a Bituminous coke and iron ore were exempted from any The commission allowed a f U t per cent increase on most of the com- It exempted from the eral ten per cent The five per cent increase ed agricultural Commission officials did not an- a ruling today on the plea of eastern railroads for a one-half per cent increase in passenger coach They said an announcement would be made The railroads had estimated a general fifteen per cent increase in freight based on 1936 traffic would amount to 000. 10-DAY NOTICE No estimates were Immediately on how much revenue the railroads would receive from today's cue seven ceno insignificant Martin Van who was only a Charlie McCarthy for Andrew is promoted to If the public wants to see McKinley's picture It must buy a thh cent foe of the of great good spots are Three six Mr. Farley is their campaign manager as well as the He Is going to make sure that their memories are kept green that all Republicans are March 8 G. once the most dreaded man in tonight abjectly con- fessed the murder of his predecessor as chief of the Soviet secret police and of two other eminent REVERSES PLEA plea of guilty was a The commission said the railroads i reversal of his avowal o innocence of the killing of laff in 1934. He already had admitted guilt in the deaths of Maxim the in 1936, and Valerian V. hea the first five year in 1935. death in greatest blood purge Yagoda was a gray figure in the to which he had sent so many on their way to But another defendant testified that not could apply the new rates on ten but must put them Into effect by July 1. The found the fifteen per cent Increase asked by the railroads to be far larger amount than is sary to meet the purposes of the in- It said a fifteen per cent increase would be a deterrent to fic to stifle movement Chairman Walter M. W. concurring in said he long ago he aspired to become with the majority of the sia's sion that a general fifteen per cent Increase should be that he did not believe the Increases should be uniformly either five per cent or ten per cent. SUMMARY GIVEN gradation seems required by the Splawn A summary of the decision Granted a general increase of ten per cent with these Agricultural products other than tropical animals and animal products and mules not In- NEW RAIN FALLS LOS March 8 new storm came to Southern fornia bringing as much as of an inch of rain at Santa Unsettled conditions are pre- for LIGHTNING FIRES HOME Showers last night and early today resulted from a shallow barometric depression about two hundred miles west of Point Arguello and moving toward the the weather bureau Lightning bolts set fire to a i dena home during the night and ex- the lights in an Altadena Damage was Heavy hail struck Redondo Beach after an electrical display ated the Rain was reported from Santa Barbara to Newport The weather bureau's forecast of local showers indicated rain today One point of his Yagoda did not con- his part in the called Tennessee Power Dispute Is Aired During Debate In Washington Berry Morgan Case Taken Up During Discussion of Recent Charges March S Roosevelt said today he had summoned the three members of the Tennessee ley authority to the White House for a showdown ence on their personal The meeting will take place Friday Mr. Roosevelt told newsmen he was going to demand from Chairman Arthur E. Morgan and Directors David E. thal and A. Morgan that they produce facts and not opinions in endeavoring to Justify the charges and counter charges hurled among them over the last March 8 Senator Norris told the senate today that TVA attorneys declined to let Chairman A. E. Morgan testify in a recent federal court suit against the power agency because they were that would throw the ATTORNEYS WORRIED who fathered said earlier that Morgan was by intense that beyond in his feud with TVA The court case to which Norris re- ferred involved a plea by eighteen private power companies for an in- junction against the A judge federal court at Chattanooga recently ruled in favor ot the power attorneys were ried more about Dr. Morgan and the possibility that he would throw ths case than anything the refused to let him Mr. Fly said that he might interfere with is nothing in that case to Dr. Morgan's Norris referring to a recent statement by the TVA chairman that he had dered TVA m the NORRIS WAS SHOCKED Taking the floor to comment on the controversy between Chairman Firm Unable to Meet Its Obligations Says Statement Today Brief Stocks Slip Backward for Time After Of Action Scar on Side of Mountain In Bridgeport Area Spurs Search for Missing Plane RESIDENTS REPORT STRANGE SLIDE PUBLICITY PLAN LARGER Salaries of Will be Made Public if Is Finally Passed Action Is Taken Today on Numerous Amendments To Revenue Measure would be of short I Morgan and the other two TVA engineers said flood control i Norris said he had been dams were able to handle an average j beyond when amount of precipitation he began to observe Morgan's to page column March 8 Sheriff C. A. Powell announced today a WFA worker had been arrested and admitted trying to attack a farm girl in the woods northeast of here The hunted all night by and bloodhounds from the state was arrested while working on a relief project not far from the scene of the Powell said the rushed to the county jail signed a written on the stand he recanted his confession concerning Later he asked leave to this murder charge in a cret MORE PLOTS All four deaths previously had been ascribed to natural P. P. once declared Yagoda plotted to kill Nikolai who ed to the post of chief of the secret police when Yagoda fell from power last one of the twenty-one who also testified to goda's ambitions to become a cow said that at tried to poison slowly by spreading a deadly cal around his The he was mixed in which lie Im- plied was maintained for use in the di of Bulanoff said then goda's was to have been removed because he was uncovering the plot to kill Sergei M. the Communist leader in whose assassination in 19..4, was the signal for beginning the great purge still in Bulanoff testified Yagoda ed Adolf Hitler's rise from the ranis and thought the German fuehrer's was a Estimates of damage done to ing jealousy of the other two TVA private and public property by the disastrous floods of last week around the The casualty list Sixty-nine identified seventeen fied eighty-eight persons MONEY RAISED As the rehabilitation work of re- pairing bridges and public property went forward the Red Cross continued efforts to raise money to relieve storm The Red Cross has set as its emphasizing that this money will be the only fund for direct relief of Temporary shelters in Los Angeles A. Morgan E. Lilienthal that green-eyed gets possession of a human it is not long until it lias con- trol of the human Norris Other developments of the day concerning TVA Lilienthal outlined for public utility companies a basis on which he would negotiate for the purchase of properties in ern Representative McLean notified the house he had in- a resolution to remove from office all three TVA Norm in his address to the NEW March 8 The New York Stock Exchange today suspended from membership ard prominent Wall Street leader who as its president piloted the exchange through one of Its most crucial CHARGES PRESENTED A brief announcement from the exchange merely explained that the committee on business conduct had presented and against the firm of Richard Whitney Co. to the governing committee and that day the firm had advised the ex- change it was unable to meet Its Wall Street veterans could not re- member a similar action Involving a former president of the and the announcement from the rostrum over the big trading floor came as a shock to the membership Whitney Is a brother of George partner in J. P. Morgan Co. Trading In the showed no notable effect the Dealings were and while prices dipped a tle at the they held steady until late Whitney declined immediate com- but Sumner ing attorneys for the Whitney be on tnat list m view of issued a brief statement asking Before accepting the Puller March 8 The house tentatively inserted in the tax revision today a vision to require publicity for all corporation salaries of or more after defeating attempts to obtain publicity for salaries ranging upward from and LIMIT IS PLACED Representative Fuller suggested a and it was approved by voice Chairman Doughton of the ways and i means who is in of the said he had no tion to it. During the discussion of Fuller's Representative Rich arose to you think anybody except the president of the United States FIERY VETERAN ASSAILS TALK OF AMERICA March 8, Gen. Smedley former commander of the United States marine remarked an ad- dress here last night American who would fight in but a de- fensive war a damned The fiery soldier are some people who want another war to end the idea is if you shoot the people you don't have to feed American flag home it won't be in- Call back Norman Davis and the roving ambassadors so they won't make secret treaties for Insist that the people have the right to vote on going to don't need a bigger navy and we can lick anyone In the world We don't need for- eign as our biggest amount of it was during the world war and it was only eight per cent of our total interested to reserve opinion until this firm has made its PETITION FILED Whitney was president of the ex- change from 1931 to 1935. Later in the the Whitney firm filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in federal The petition set forth that the firm and the partners were willing to render all their property for the benefit of A statement by the exchange the course of an examination of the affairs of Richard Whitney the committee on business con- duct on March 1, 1938, evidence of conduct apparently con- trary to Just and equitable of and on March 7, at p. presented to a special meeting of the governing committee charges and on the charges was set j for March 1 and David morning the of county have been but are still j said that when Lilienthal's term being maintained in other counties was about to expire in 1936, struck by the Tent colonies man Morgan visited him and sprang up in Ventura ed he would resign if Lilienthal were One family of reported was the senator to page 3, Col. was pression at the violence of Dr. gan's feeling toward his CHARGES PROPAGANDA The veteran Nebraskan also told the senate that critics had taken ad- vantage of the split in the TVA to pace 3, Col. 3) KANSAS March 8 Sylvia sas City gambled with death day on the operating table for two and a haK hours and The crisis on the road to still lies The paralyzed young un- derwent a rare involving surgical handling of the life cords In f the spine in the hope of winning the use of her arms and She was barely breathing after the operation when placed in a But once it was adjusted and Miss chest began moving and her Houses Demolished By Severe Quakes SAN March 8 A hospital and three houses today were reported shaken down by earthquakes which have been con- since Saturday in western No casualties were ed. NEW N. March 8 he has been in con- tact with kidnapers of his twelve year old Murray Levine waited hopefully today for instructions for the payment of whose February 24, declined to comment on conflicting reports that he had made a secret automobile trip Some persons said they saw him leave the house with two other others insisted he had not ventured Rubber Balls Prove Fatal To Sea Lions in Park Zoo NEW March 8. ard Grant pleaded guilty to a dis- orderly conduct charge brought Capt. R. director of and some onions to feed like the he I havent really grown Captain said the sea lions didn't enjoy playing with Central Park who said Grant i the rubber Four of them died threw red rubber balls to the sea I of Magistrate Edward V. a also Bromberger gave Grant a suspended had brought along bag pi sugar March 8 ing began in the legislature today on some of the major measures of the special session gram submitted by Governor Frank F. Senator Culbert L. Olson attacked the oil and minerals leasing and in the lower Assemblyman E. E. terson introduced a rival measure to provide for the state's doing its own in a the oil handed to the lature by the chief executive as one giving the Standard Oil Company exclusive The Fred plan for pledging gasoline taxes guaranteeing San bay bridge enues was assailed by representatives ot ard Whitney Co. advised the ex- change that it was unable to meet it obligations and suspension for insolvency was announced from the rostrum of the exchange shortly ter 10 a. MORGAN PARTNER'S BROTHER the most prominent member of the be pended in many is a brother of Georgs partner in the banking house of J. P. Morgan The suspension came as a com- plete surprise to the financial dis- Whitney wao president of the exchange during the depression years and figured in the internal controversy in the exchange which resulted in the election of Charles Gay in place of Whitney two years At the height of the contest be- to 3. Col. 1) NEW March 8 eral grand Jury today indicted Ellis H. Burlington N. chief of his and three others as under the Lindbergh The indictment concerned the kidnaping of Paul H. former Trenton from New York to the in Mt. N. February 24, 1936. At that the Parkers issued a signed by Wendel that he had kidnaped Charles A. the crime for which Bruno Richard Hauptmann was then under the death The faked confession ob- by torture delayed mann's execution three Negro Wins Fight For Theater Seat March 8 Joe Longview won a damage suit in Washington preme court today against the litz fut eviction amendment the house approved an- other by Representative Buck under which tne salary lists would be made public by the ury department rather than con- After acting on the publicity the house quickly rejected an amendment b y Representative Treadway to impose a flat twelve and one-half per cent tax on capital Treadway said it was that any capital gains tax that pre- vents capital transactions duce less revenue than a reasonable tax that allows such transactions to be BOILEAU PLAN BEATEN The house shouted the ment down after Representative Cooper had said it would virtually destroy the work of the ways and means committee in ing in modifications to the gains In beating down earlier attempts to get a salary publicity provision into the revenue the house turned down first an by Representative Boileau for publication of salaries in excess of Then Representative revived the publicity issue a few months later by proposing that salaries of or more be submitted by the treasury to con- A teller vote disposed of his amendment 104 to 71. ought to have complete in- McFarlane shouted in the midst of the argument over the Representative Buck pointed out that salaries were made public by the securities exchange act. The teller vote on the Boileau amendment to make the salaries FEARED GEAD IN DESTRUCTION OF Searchers Ask Airplanes td Scan Area in Belief May be Liner March 8 ish seamen aboard rescue destroyers told today how the insurgent cruiser torpedoed in a naval tie Sunday off down with her rear admiral's flag I flying when orly two hundred of her crew had been The admiral went down with his to page 3. Col. 4) search was afternoon for SAN March 8 With all commercial and private planes apparently accounted abandoned this flaming that was reported to have crashed into the sea off Navy authorities expressed the theory that the flash of flame and smoke seen over the ocean might have come from a dropped navy smoke 200 RESCUED Members of the crews of the Brit- ish destroyers and Boreas estimated six hundred gent sailors lost when the Baleares went to the bottom of the I The two destroyers returned here yesterday after dis- embarking the two hundred vors at Islands in- surgent Previously the British admiralty in London had reported four dred men saved from the Baleares of the Insurgent blockade Stung by the which ment sources said would impair the efficiency of the Insurgent insurgents repeatedly bombed government naval Sunday and and issued a decree for requisitioning additional ships to strengthen their naval The British stamen related that upon reaching the scene of the destroyers flashed messages urging the Baleares crew to Jump refused to abandon It stayed afloat more than two hours after being hie by the The two hundred saved wore REPORT DENIED PORT March g and crew of the French destroyer La Poursuivante were on their here to find that during which two sailors were In- had led to reports of a sea The captain immediately replied to frantic messages from the French naval ministry that the only battle was with an hypothetical enemy and that no Spanish warships were sighted during the twenty-four hour Reports reaching naval officials here nad said a Spanish warship attacked La Poursuivante off Cape Bear in French waters late wounding two Man and Wife Called on Jury Puzzle This Pittsburgh Judge Floyd a March went to serve on a Jury with his wife and Judge M. A. manno Dismissing the the judge this I am confronted with a double either of which makes an impassible 8. first If the common notion of didn't husband and wife never agreeing represents then we could ja not get a unanimous verdict and It would be useless to try the then the other notion Is that husband and wife are Storm Clouds Hamper Hunt In Fresno District by TVA Officials the missing TWA for a week Jn the high Nevada mountains with may have crashed on side of the Ing Patterson east of wers seen here following receipt of from Bridgeport by Reno officials and by Fred of one of the on the missing SCAR ON MOUNTAIN A scar high up on the peak seen yesterday by Albert P. Mono county game and his wife and they sav it might have been caused by tha plane hitting the it does not have the same ance p.s an ordinary The peat is about ten miles from and fifteen miles from the scar on the looks like 14 could have Seen caused by a Mrs. Crocker cant make anything out even with but it seems M though the slide could have been by a plane crashing M ould guess that the slide is at an elevation of about feet above sea level and tnat it is at least fifteen miles west of the beat way to investigate would be from an Mrs Croker she and her band been notified of the scar on the mountain side by farmer in the and that they had airlines officials of the by telephone to They sakl me residents of the district had never reported similar NOUGHTS SEEN She said residents of Bridgeport had le of the missing plane on the it by radio She said no lights had been on the mountain but that a heavy snow storm in progress on the night the became lost Fied Walts said a man he identified as a had come here today from a id reported a slide had been on the slope of the s man according td the slide might havs been caused by the plane It was in a direct line across the tain from Huntington TO March 8 officials said today they invest gate unusual re- ported observed on the east side of Patterson mountain near the Nevada border but were skeptical it could have caused by the big which vanished during a storm ft weeks HAMPER SEARCH March 8 The hunt for a giant airliner and its nine missing a week In the high was pushed today on two widely separated fronts where dents reported sighting a feted plane last Tuesday Planes here awaited lifting of tha storm clouds to concentrate search activities in the Bass Lake forty-five miles where two residents said they saw a large ship about p. and thirty other persons declared heard it. Ninety to one hundred of Sheriff Joe of county prepared to lead ft searching party In the Blue tain ten miles from San An- where twenty persons have Glared they saw a big plane between i. and 10 p. on Tuesday plunging through the driving There was no immediate way of determining which group of actually saw Transcontinental and Western Air bound from San Francisco and emergency landing field an
