Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - March 10, 1938, Reno, Nevada WEATHER FORECAST and UNSETTLED TONIGHT AND MODERATE TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE AT t P. M. TODAY 53 METALS Bar 9. Bar silvei 20 8. alent New Tori 10.00; export Y. E. St. St. Louti 4.50 SIXTY-SECOND YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES MARCH 10, 1938 SIXTEEN PAGES NO. 59 House Votes New Liquor Tax To Replace Corporation 10 PLUG GAP IN Discarded Assessment on Family Firms Results in Hunt for New Source Talk Is Heard of Writing Entirely New to Be Used as Substitute March 10 The house decided tentatively today to Increase the tax on liquor from to a gallon as a means of obtaining most of the to which might be lost by the tentative discarding of a posed tax on closely held ACTION APPROVED The standing vote 160 to Representative Robertson who proposed the said it would raise Robertson told the house thp in- crease would not be passed on to the consumer of tive Short remarked that an increase in the con- sumer prices might After putting in the liquor the house accepted tentatively an amendment b y Representative Thompson to place an ex- cise tax of six cents a pound on im- ported pork and three cents on pork The teller vote was 107 to Thompson said American packers needed protection because imports of pork from the free city of 7ig had jumped from pounds In 1934 to in 1937. The levy will yield about 000 Thompson Chairman Doughton gested today that congress might be asked to enact a second revenue to make up the loss in the tax re- vision measure by removal of a levy on closely held TREASURY BUSY He said that was his own idea and did not necessarily represent th e views of his He added that he had not re- from the treasury any YOUNG COMMUNIST REFUSES TO SAY FEDS March 10. t secretary of the Young Communists refused today to tell a senate committee whether he would boar arms against iet Russia in case of Senator Lee asked the twenty-four year old New York youth if he would arms under the flag of the United States against the red flag of the Soviet Boss replied the question was and added that Young Communists with The who said he resented youths from sixteen to thirl y years of favored enactment of the American Youth which would set aside to finance When Senators Lee and deen pressed Boss for a or answer to the question of whether he would bear the youth asserted the query could not be an- come here asking us to you get your bread In this and while ing under patriotic names you go about trying to overthrow the Lee com- Boss but declined a direct TO SELECT NEW Chautemps Resigns After He Is Refused Powers To Rule By Decree Communists Agree to Join New Aid Promised by Socialists March Socialist today accepted President Albert Lebrun's mandate to attempt formation of a new replacing the resigned ment Camile BLUM RIVEN SUPPORT Chautemps resigned because he could not get from parliament powers to reorganize French nances bv head of the first People's Front resigned last June 21 for the same Before he went to the Elysee ace at Lebrun's Blum re- assurance of the support of his Socialist party and conditional promises of Communist Chautemps stepped out after only fifty-one days of power for his ond People's Front Blum declared he would attempt to form stable ing all the forces of That Communists had agreed to enter the cabinet for the first time since the first People's Front and that Blum wanted them there became known this Through Edouard dent of the the obtained a promise entering a cabinet in which ex- were President Lebrun sought a speedy end of the fearing France's March 10 ex- A JV J fights in which at least forty were ta Central Europe injured and many arrested broke P turn of out today In Vienna and Graz as lo ml ht be worsened by it. Austria's political strife reached a political new pitch of bitterness in the for Sunday's NAZIS ANGERED Still unsolved labor conflict and drains on national resources for rearmament contributed to the downfall of for additional angered by Chancellor Kurt STRENGTH had not asked for although ggs sudden ca for Hc his had discussed the revenue situation j with Secretary Morgenthau this Earlier Morgenthau told reporters the treasury was preparing alternate proposals for Doughton's guidance should the ter desire Doughton said if the house in its refusal to approve a tax on closely held corporations the tax might be sent to the senate and another revenue measure brought in he feel we should have a little more time to consider additional It Is not a wise or proper way to legislate by attempting to raise millions of dollars on the floor of the we going to put any more of a tax burden on I think we should give those affected an op- to be to the best means of raising I am CHECKED Morgenthau declined to comment on yesterday's house action except j i vote on his policy of Austrian clashed In both cities with members of the Fatherland the chancellor's In capital of Styria and of Austrian the dread words passed menacingly from mouth to mouth when faced Nazis and Fatherland Front members toured the city in trucks armed with poles and other Seventeen were injured in Graz t twelve more were hurt afternoon strength in a parliamentary but made a final appeal for gency financial powers similar to those Blum and the senate last The gray-mustached Blum accepted the task as chief of the largest party in the chamber of whose refusal to vote full financial and economic powers to Chautemps led to today's What majority Blum counted upon was not apparent late this by clubs of police breaking up Vienna counted at least eleven STREETS THRONGED There were reports in political circles he might attempt to bring center such as Paul into the At dusk five thousand combination he failed to excited men and women thronged when he tried to form a gov. Vienna's main almost j ln tne January ping Reinforced police DROPS squads were unable to cope with the I Blum conferred with Edouard Truckload after defense police were rushed to the ister and president of the In Lmz Nazis hoisted a huge j after routine calls on swastika flag to the top of the city j Edouard president of the I and Jules Nazis in Graz held a mass on s except to say the administration wanted ing More the city yelling any revenue losses in the made A recheck of the as revised up to last he showed more was Morgenthau spent most of the early morning hours in telephonic rid cf Hell until police dispersed Troops moved through the streets of Three companies were seen entering although the president of the The franc hovered between 3i.70 and 31.80 to the dollar in late Bankers recalled that ists had demanded on the occasion of the January downfall of previous cabinet that some communication with pose of their coming could not be j sort Of exchange control be put into leaders of the house and announced his readiness to furnish substitute proposals He indicated the when would be sent in the form of a ter from himself to SAN March 10 An abrupt a Pacific ocean storm California from pre- rains and high winds but left the possibility of tion tonight and T. R. federal said the storm apparently was centered some seven dred miles southwest of San Storm warnings along the coast were ordered are on the very fringe of the depression and there is no diate prospect of anything more serious than moderate to fresh winds aloag tto Graz Nazi leaders said they were the only awaiting orders before starting a campaign such as Austria has never effect to prevent further decline of Capone Is Returned To Yard at Alcatraz SAN March 10 The San Francisco Examiner said today Al one-time Chicago gang who a month ago was placed in Alcatraz prison hospital because he was has been returned to the prison JAPANESE CUT March 10 A Japanese spearhead force that fought its way across the Yellow river at twenty-five miles west of succeeded day In interrupting transportation on the AS SWEEP President Offers Report Of National Committee To Legislators Outlays of More Than Two Billions Recommended By Investigators March 10 Total outlays of on federal and projects were recommended by the national resources committee today in a re- port sent to congress by President STUDY RECOMMENDED The in his letter of described the report as a national plan for the conservation and development of our water The report recommended use of on primarily federal projects and on non- federal developments in which local communities would share in the recommend careful study of these documents by the the president they present a frame of reference lor programs affecting water and because they trate an approach to the systematic husbandry of our natural resources on a regional The report proposed a six year construction and investigation gram for the utilization and vation of the nation's water re- sources and a unified policy of water control and 17 DISTRICTS Proposed expenditures on federal projects over the six year period would be approximately the same as the average annual expenditure for projects of these types during the last six The six year program includes approximately for water supply and for sewerage and pollution The requested by the president and prepared by the water resources subcommittee of the national resources is a revision and extension of the program recommended by the committee in 1937. In the report the country is divided into districts or drainage Legislators Hear Mooney In Preparation for New Pardon Move for Bomber Yellow Chalk Ordered Used On Blackboards of Schools ASBURY N. March 10 the tional white will hereafter dot school blackboards After Superintendent Amos E. Kraybill mentioned In a routine re- nwt to gj tol night that regular physical tions showed ten to thirty-one pupils in one class had defective the board speculated what to do about it. Someone suggested a state law re- quiring school buses be painted because of its so it seventeen The proposed federal program In- Flood control on the Ohio and lower Mississippi river Tennessee Valley Authority gram General flood control Irrigation Water power Rivers and harbors Rural water supply Beach erosion control Recreational waters Wild life conservation Hydrologic data RESPECT STATE RIGHTS The committee said power resources of American rivers should be developed as rapidly as but urged study and planning of transmission and keting of power in advance of in- of A sound federal the com- would be concerned with water by and for but with the promotion of public public the public convenience and the eco- nomic welfare of the the establishment and maintenance of a high of Right of states in intrastate and Interstate should be observed in the federal the committee Social as well as economic fits should be it in the determination of whether projects are In its discussion of Hood the committee report said that the problems presented by the sippi and Ohio rivers ered so in character and so in their ships to various unsolved problems of national it was unwise to go beyond the two-year program proposed in the Attractive Army Is Plan of Britain March 10 The campaign to make army life more attractive to the British Tommy is to be Leslie secretary for announced in the house of commons today that pounds would be spent during the next fiscal year to improve including for Over 100 Handicapped Persons Are Believed to Have Made Escape One Man Is Injured When He Bounces Out of Net Held by Firemen March 10 least four persons were injured today when flames swept a six-story downtown building where upwards of one hundred crippled or capped persons employed by will were SEVERAL HURT Two employes burned as they fled down fire escapes said they believed most of the workers In their ments reached The entire Interior of the building was afire for nearly three Not until p. m. were fire rescue crews able to make an entry into the structure to search for sons who may have failed to A majority of the women em- ployed by the Goodwill a charitable organization providing work for handicapped were in a basement cafeteria and marched to the street without Charles Copenhouer was injured in a leap from the floor when he bounced out of a 150 IN BUILDING Skorupski and Chester liss were burned on hands and face as they fled down fire Frank was slightly hurt in a fall from a fire Bayliss and Skorupski expressed belief their despite the rapid spread of the Mrs. Blanche men discovered the blaze on the second estimated 150 sons were in the located at 1453 Brush building was stocked with highly inflammable Mrs. Merriam told the men were on the fourth A number of persons who were in a basement cafeteria when the fire broke marched safely from the Occupants of a building across the they saw a crippled woman crawl from the entrance on her hands and The heavy black smoke hid the George proprietor of a nearby said he saw descend from upper stories on a fire GIRL AIDED Bayliss said he was on the second floor when the fire had to escape by means of the fire escape on the outside of the way was blocked by Another man and I carried out an year-old crippled The Goodwill Industries collects materials and discarded articles for fabrication and repair by persons who otherwise vould be unable to provide selves with a Ofi of France in Drive in Effort to Decisive Victory New Win FAMOUS BANNER WHICH INSPIRED SONG COST Important Gains Reported As Rebels Smash Lines Of Defense of Madrid At The ish March 10 insurgent armies slashed through the eastern and central defense lines j of the Barcelona government for im- portant gains today in the greatest offensive of the j civil DRIVE TO SEA The Guadarrama Madrid's natural defenses in central rumbled to artillery fire with which the government sought to repel insurgents who already had thrust through Reventon some thirty miles northwest of the be- Gen. Francisco Franco's cavalry and aviation were hammering a seventy-mile eastern apparently to split the eastern seaboard between Valencia and The drive toward the sea from Aragon was three-pronged and in- surgent reports told of widespread An insurgent dispatch said teen villages fell to the push in the northern Aragon with more than one thousand government diers killed or wounded and dreds The insurgent surprise thrust through Reventon pass put Franco's men on the Madrid side of the mountains for the first time since the war They also relieved artillery pressure on La MADRID SEES NO PERIL Government forces fell back and immediately put their former tions under a rain of shells while reinforcements moved The Guadarrama offensive placed insurgents in the center of a shaped sector northwest of the cap- ital bordered by the roads to Burgos and Segovia which had been blocked by the government since last Since 1936, siega lines have run along Madrid's western Insurgent sources said the Guadarrama drive was of tactical but ment sources insisted it did not yet constitute Franco's headquarters said his Aragon forces were continuing their advance afler blasting their way through government lines for five miles the first day of the big 10 Independent ground expeditions were planned today to search for airliner with nine persons aboard which vanished in the mountains east of here during a storm March 1. An unsuccessful aerial search and a growing belief that the Western Air liner might not be found until the high Sierra snowpack begins to melt failed to discourage ground parties spurred by TWA's offer of for the finding of the missing Clear weather enabled five planes to hunt extensively yesterday over the rugged area where the craft is believed to have Several were but no trace of the missing transport was March 10 The forty by foot flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Spangled when the British bombarded Baltimore in the war of 1812 brought its maker Mrs. Mary knowledgement of payment for making the flag was dis- the flag house announced in a collection of old papers recently acquired by Perry W. a dealer in old stamps and In addition to the Mrs. Pickersgill the paper for a smaller Her assisted her in making both of them and their home here is now the The two flags were delivered to Fort overlooking the on August when the fort was preparing against an attack from the British which had been harassing smaller towns on Chesapeake A year in 1814, the a Francis Scott a the night's ment from a British In the morning he saw the Spangled waving over the fort and the poem that became thi national Vivid Story His Trial For S. F. Bomb Outrage Told at Hearing for the T. March 10 Liberate forty-three year old Filipino who Police Lieut. John Troche said ran amuck in a downtown restaurant and slashed seven persons with a faced a murder charge One of the Juan died early NEW N. March 10 The disappearance of twelve-year-old Peter Levine en- tered on Its week today with police continuing their off Murray New York lawyer and father of the remained at home in the hope that kidnapers would seek out to collect the ransom he has announced March 10 friendly demonstrations today greeted von Germany's both be- fore and after a conference in which he find foreign secretary canvassed the whole field of Anglo- German CROWD ON HAND A crowd of five hundred tried to break strong police cordons as Von Ribbentrop left the foreign office after more than two hours with Viscount new director of British foreign of and release Niemoeller and were at the German diplo- to the Rev. Martin held in a German con- centration and Ernst German Communist held without trial since 1933. Von Ribbentrop came to London ostensibly to take formal leave of his old post PS ambassador to but lib visit had been ex- to mark opening of Anglo- German conversations in search of European During his talk with Lord Halifax the crowd outside swelled from the thirty who had greeted Von trop on his arrival with clenched fist salutes Communist most under his POLICE ACT But the police Forces were tripled at the horse in Downing street and in the foreign office court foot and plainclothes police mingled with the Both Sir Alexander Cadogan and Sir Robert Van ranking manent officials of the foreign office left Whitehall before the conference Hence it was believed Lord Halifax faced Reichsfuehrer Hitler's envoy Law Sufficient March 10 Senator Borah said today the existing Sherman law would be quite efficient if we could Hoover Will Speak On Foreign Affairs March 10 0P) Former President Herbert Hoover plans a speech on American foreign tions after his present European tour is He disclosed his plan after Issuing a statement yesterday in which he declared his visits with European leaders and ing Chancellor Adolf of had his belief in I find somebody with nerve democratic and courage enough Governor Merriam Is Not Present at Senators Also Absent March 10 Tom convicted of bombing the San Francisco edness Day parade in 191S, the claimed of by be- lievers in his today gava thp legislature a version of his CHARGES FRAUD The famous prisoner unleashed charges of fraud and tion in his trial has been in prison since 1917. The unprecedented in legislative history failed to ai tract the huge crowd To the disappointment of Mooney's the assembly barred the broadcasting of Mooney's arrangements had been A second disappointment to his causi WPS the absence of most of state senators and Governor F. who had been short and plump and in the best of for nearly two pouring forth a story of asserted perjury of cution witnesses and bribery on tbt part of prosecution TO PRINT REMARKS was and the personal audience In connection with two pending resolutions by Assemblyman Paul Richis of fan designed to obtain a part on for His appearance was in the of the whole as is he was not His how were made a matter of with the understanding they would be printed In the At the noon Mooney had not concluded his He went lunch with Warden Court Smith of San Quentin who is hit cust Assemblyman Richie said It would equire about twenty minutes for to finish his when assembly reconvened at 2 p. nd that later Mooney would submit o q R introducing pre- sent him as a victim of un- his Richie the state of California has been on trial and is on trial wish to express my admiration for .i man who has given twenty-two for THANKS LEGISLATORS Mooney hardly be heard M he opened his he give thanks to those responsible for permitting me to appear I nave a deep sense of appreciation lot the opportunity to present my is difficult for one who been stored away for twenty-two Bear with me until I get ad- justed to Mooney wore a blue business sutt and a bright In a monotony he without In early a when he WM whipped unjustly for not attending Sunday He couldn't go he because he hai e shoes and think this was the first deuce of the rebel coming out ia Tom Many times he referred to sell in the third Kls first mention of the San Cisco Preparedness Day parade in 1913 was to charge his prosecution not so much because In bad as the of be- ing a Socialist and labor but because was an militant trade Mooney charged that he and that Warren K. his associate in the left wing Giraffe Develops Sore Throat And Gets Himself Long Gargle March 10 A of all developed a sort throat out at the Brookfield zoo The named was placed in an isolated fe after lower their heads into water and shake them back and forth vigorously to rinse their likewise was victim of a He said WM tried in Martinez three Umes San Francisco for illegal possession of then finally brought to Sacramento on another and finally dismissed by the my trial the Pacific Chui Electric Company taok possession of the district attorney's Their attorneys swept tha attorney's men the So they filled basin continually in the euld water and a salt They 10 MM fc M t
