Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - May 30, 1938, Reno, Nevada COUNTY BOX 1 WEATHER For and FAIR TONIGHT AND With Slowly METALS Bar MOi 8 i equivalent Bar It Jit U S lent Other metal holiday j SIXTY-SECOND YEAR TWELVE PAGES RENO NEVADA MONDAY MAY 30 1938 TWELVE PAGES NO 128 Roberts Wins Speedway Classic And Breaks Records for Speed GASOLINE PLAYS MINOR PART AT SPEEDWAY RACES SPEEDWAY Indianapolis May 30 a very minor Ingredient In fuel powering the thirty-three cars In the race at the In- motor speedway day tess than ten per eent was used All fuel restrictions were dropped from this year's event Any fuel and any amount may be used As result the can run on special blends containing ing combinations of benzol grain or wool stances the average motorist baa not suspected would er automotive engines Alcohol Is used because of Its cooling effect and also because U permits a heavier charge of fuel to enter the cylinders which super chargers In- to developing high power ed In racing engines The alcohol Is blended with smaller amounts of and special gasoline to offset In some extent greatest vantage high consumption These blends may cost up to a gallon and yield as tle as three miles per gallon Starting Is difficult with racing blends but this Is unimportant since racing cars usually are started by pushing ADVANTAGE SEEN IN VOTING EOR NAZ LEADER Municipal Election Held In Numerous Cities for Local Offices Progress of Peace Parley E IS HELD OUT SPECTATOR KILLED BY FLYING WHEEL El Wilbur Shaw Runt Second And Chet Miller Third At Indianapolis Average of 117 Miles Per Hour Made by Winner to Surpass Old Mark 8 P K E D WAY INDIANAPOLIS May 30 Floyd Roberts Van I Calif roared to ing victory in the bile race today It was his first major triumph in twenty-two years of racing ONE BRIEF STOP Roberts driving the entire dis- tance without relief and making only one thirty second stop received a tumultuous acclaim of the huge crowd as he piloted his colored car across the finish line The winner finished about five miles ahead of Wilbur Shaw In- winner of the 1931 sic Roberta covered the 600 miles In to establish able average of 117.2 miles an hour and smashing the record of 113.58 hung up by Shaw last year Chet Miller Detroit finished third about seven and a half miles back Miller was close upon Roberts Ir the last twenty-five miles but was forced to stop for gas on his next to the last lap and this cost him second place honors MAINTAINS LEAD Roberts never worse than fourth after the first fifty miles moved up to third at 190 miles and was An the lead at 200 miles He lost it temporarily to Jimmy Snyder miles and Hundreds of uniformed sympathizers what was described as private busi- Leaders Believe Session Can be Concluded Early Next Month Passage of Relief Measure By Middle of Week to be Sought in Senate WASHINGTON May 30 Members of congress want to go Memorial Day Exercises Conducted Throughout United States Senator Vandenberg Sees Danger to any Trade of Liberty for Security We should pass the relief in In traditional fashion Americans the senate by the middle of the devoted much of the seventeenth ob- Barkley told reporters Then servance of Memorial Day to solemn all we will have left are a com- services at the graves of war dead promise on the a deficiency appropriation measure and B few odds and ends that can be sandwiched in at any time NO REORGANIZATION Administration leaders it was learned have decided definitely to abandon the government for this session There had been frequent rumors that the measure shelved in the house after senate passage would be revived be- fore adjournment Several Informed congressmen predicted however that President Roosevelt would renew his request for the legislation next year Both chambers were In recess for Memorial day When the senate re- convenes tomorrow It will start ing on amendments to the relief and public works Although opponents planned a vigorous fight to earmark funds for specific purposes several con- ceded privately that the measure would pass in substantially its ent form Further debate was under an agreement reached Saturday A Joint arranged to meet tomorrow or Wednesday in an effort to reconcile differences be- tween the By the Associated Press The nation muted the clatter of home by June 11 and Senate Leader business and Industry today to T Ounce of Compromise in Dispute I PRAHA May 30 progress of peace parleys this week may de- termine the chances of effective compromise between the German and Czech elements of this post-war 1 republic OBJECTIONS VOICED The second of three Sunday elections yesterday showed as did those last week that 80 to 95 per cent of the vote in German communities solidly behind Konrad the Sudeten German rer Czech communities among the 2140 were held followed a trend to the left It was taken for granted that the third and final election on June 12 i would confirm the results of the first two giving a powerful advantage in his claims to represent the Sudeten German mi- for which he demands sweeping privileges of self ment Nevertheless German Socialists and Communists were protesting in advance against any compromise that might be reached without con- them Premier Milan Hodza will conduct the peace negotiations which ably will continue through the week with Sudeten German party leaders DIFFICULTY SEEN Henlein paid a preliminary visit Shores Hunted for Clues To Kidnapers as Body of Levine Lad Is Recovered Warplanes Cruise in Area For Second Time but no Bombs are Dropped and to parades commemorating deeds of United States armies vies and auxiliary services In cities towns and villages flags rippled small arms cracked salutes prayers were said the notes of taps sounded a requiem President Roosevelt passed a re- day at his Hyde Park N Y home receiving but one scheduled visitor and making two short motor trips He will return to ton tonight At historic Gettysburg Pa site talks were postponed because of SAN FRANCISCO May 30 absence from Praha on to Hodza a week ago but further hour and a labor standards there In the closing mites of the race Roberts realizing victory was within his grasp forced hla four-cylinder motor all possible to assure tri- umph The race was marred by the death of Everett Spence Terre Haute Ind a thirty-three year old tator killed when a wheel flying through the air from a crashing racer struck him while he was standing on a truck parked in the Infield Emll Andres Chicago er of the car suffered a broken nose a brain concussion and crushed chest He rushed to an Indianapolis hospital Ted Horn Los Angeles finished fourth nearly seventeen miles back of Roberts RAIN COMES AT END Just a few seconds after the race finished black clouds swept over the big racing plant cutting with a downpour of rain Shaw's speed for second place was 119.58 miles an hour The rain drenched thousands of making their exits and caused officials to the ing drivers off the track The race was witnessed by a day crowd of less than 180.000 the attendance of a year ago Chet Gardner Long Beach Calir was the last driver to finish Ho came In back of Ted Horn Los An- geles who finished fourth Thirteen of the original starting field of thirty-three finished ty were forced out because of motor trouble or accidents Herb Pittsburgh was Harry MacQuInn Milwaukee seventh Joel Thome Tucson eighth Billy De Vore St John Kas ninth and Frank Wearne Pasadena Calif tenth of Adolf Hitler meeting here for a two-day convention of the Pacific Coast German-American Bund were jeered and hooted by marching demonstrators POLICE ON HAND The demonstration last night of the led by ness The basic difficulty to mise In the eyes of neutral ers here is how to work out a plan whereby a whole section of the population which is frankly Nazi German can be granted the con- cessions of self-government by a measure voted by the senate last summer WAGE STANDARDS The house would Impose uni- form wage and hour standards throughout the country while the senate measure would let a board fix standards by Industries Led by Senator Harrison southern sectional Police Chief William were arrested on peace ance charges Two fist fights were halted As a turbulent crowd milled out- its Independence against the ful state of Chancellor Adolf Hitler Some optimism was apparent however because the Sudeten mans and Premier Hodza were side California hall the bund's to talk things over Ing session was called to order by Henry Lage San Francisco bund president music A band Germany The elections yesterday were quiet with only one serious clash at the border region near A Henlein follower ami senators have demanded differentials They con- of crucial battle of the War Between the States Senator Arthur H denberg was the monial speaker ROSES ON GRAVES School children placed roses at the headstones stippling the burg cemetery Veterans of all wars took part In the at the tional shrine England France and gathered for observances of the day in an phere charged with uncertainty Speakers warned that fears and hatreds of the old world threatened a common civilization so hardly achieved WARNING ISSUED GETTYSBURG Pa May 30 Over the graves of soldiers who fell while the cannon thundered years ago Senator Arthur H Vandenberg of Michigan declared today that those who try to trade liberty for security might lose both Standing beside the marble where Lincoln pledged that government of the people by the people for the people shall not Herman of Los Angeles were hurt and coast bund organizer and arrested seventy-five rioters principal speaker said the I Disorders before the May 22 tion was called to give you an brought German troop of the greatness of our mens toward the devoted most of his ad- maneuvers according to Berlin dress to an attack on Jews and com- Czechoslovakia likewise moved nearly a million soldiers along her He said the bund de- manded an Investigation of Con- frontiers particularly that with gressman Samuel of New Germany York and his Moscow links tend that flat standards for all parts perish from the Vandenberg of the country would penalize ern Industry Senator Ellender a ber of the Joint conference tee predicted that some kind of a differential would be included in the compromise draft He said the committee may be able to work out a plan under which differentials would be fixed by u board or by the secretary of labor Southerners generally agreed that such a system would avert a longed senate fight over final proval of the legislation also proposed that the might invade the country to attempt United States sever diplomatic re- a coup similar to that by which with Soviet Russia disbar Austria was annexed Czechs still Jews from public office and fear such an attempt may one day be made and believe that peace lies Communists for treason CROWD OUTSIDE While the sound of German song deten ami speech echoed through the hall the demonstrators kept up a continuous serpentine In the streets outside said the United States has come to another Gettysburg This time the crisis is civil not military he told the townspeople the nearby farmers whose plows have turned up rusted shells the visitors by the hundred who joined in the procession to the national cemetery along a lane that once separated the cannon of Meade and Lee PROTECT CONSTITUTION Declaring that the constitution must be preserved to safeguard pledge and democracy While leaders rushed debate on denberg said One present breach the few remaining bills many j the dike of the consequential though it may seem at the loose the final flood If the constitution needs he asserted it can properly be changed only by the people selves Any other change is treason to American already were beginning to talk about next session's work One majo for 1939 will be a new tax measure expected to bring a The government Germany of the hot undistributed profits levy TAX PROPOSAL Invaders Battle Furiously In Effort to Reach Side Of Trapped Division TOKYO May 31 Two airplanes believed to be Chinese last night cruised along the entire length of the western coast of ushu and caused declaration of a state of alarm for western Japan which was not ended until this morning a m Monday I E S HO BOMBS All available reports agreed the planes dropped no bombs and they ended their sance of the Kyushu coast without molestation and turned homeward It was the second bloodless air raid on Japan proper in ten days Coming from the south the planes appeared first over Kagoshima at the southern end of Kyushu which is the island of the Japanese homeland They flew as far as Fukuoka and Moji at the island's northwestern tip and then disappeared Western air defense headquarters declared a state of alarm at p m 8.50 a m E S later extending it to include prefecture at the western end of Honshu Japan's main island and part of Korea as well as Kyushu The planes were first reported over Kyushu about 9 p m Japanese authorities fearing such flights might be preliminaries to mass air attacks on the crowded ports and industrial districts of ushu admitted worry and tion BATTLE RAGING SHANGHAI May 30 anese reinforcements battled furi- today in an effort to reach Lieut General Keni trapped division virtually ed by Chinese northwest of Chinese dispatches said the forcements were still five miles east of however and blocked off by masses of Chinese troops The predicament of di- vision seemed likely to become an- other face pidgin incident so no- table from a psychological point in China's war to save self from the Japanese invaders reputation as an standing army leader and the chief Japanese political manipulator which gained him the flowery title of Lawrence of would make his defeat by the Chinese of 1 tremendous importance The loss of face would be akin to that by the Japanese in their re- cent defeat at The Generalissimo BY FAMILY TODAY Scores of Irate Residents Along Long Island Sound Join in Search Headless Remains of Child Are Washed up by Waves Late Sunday PETER LEVINE The battered body of the year-old Levine boy kidnaped last February was washed up by the sea on Long Island Sound yesterday GIRL IS RETURNED AFTER TEN DAYS N T May 30 Mrs Amelia Hobbs wept when she clasped curly-haired Betty Jane four in her arms first time she had seen her daughter since she disappeared ten NEW ROCHELLE N Y May 30 One hundred local police and G-Men searched nearby shores today for remnants of the body of kidnaped twelve-year-old Peter Levine whose headless torso was yielded up last night by the waters of Long Island Sound after three tragic months SCORES JOIN SEARCH Scores of irate residents Joined the search Dozens of small volunteer boats patrolled fhe coast seeking dence that might point somehow to the killer Detective Lieutenant George enberger expressed belief that the boy cruelly cut by the wire that bound the body had been tossed Into the sound whether alive or dead It remains to be determined from a boat perhaps in the vicinity of Rye or Mamaroneck seven miles above New Rochelle Police and federal agents headed by J Edgar Hoover FBI chief and Reed Vetterli veteran head of his staff spent the night movements trying thus to locate the approximate scene of death Any hope that the thin strands of copper wire which bound the only tangible clue to the murder days ago from the Hobbs front yard to a of FOUND SATURDAY i case was Belied by Lieutenant Ellsworth Hobbs Betty s father brought the child by automobile could have bought it at any from Coolville Ohio where Betty ten-cent he said Jane was found Saturday He said Betty was so happy she sang all the way home Charged with kidnaping Betty German demands IN LOST PLANE VANCOUVER B C May 30 and Canadian planes flew low over the waters bordering Vancouver Island today as pilots They carried placards denouncing fascism and hundreds of them Down with the Nazis WANTED IN WEST new rt measure continued the I in amicable of the jn modified form for only two years made it clear Friday that he favored the principle of the tax Chairman Harrison of the finance committee a foe of the levy cold the senate that congress would have to find new taxes next year to replace the one on undivided profits Senator Gerry D-R a ber of Harrison's committee had this to The undistributed profits tax is a tax on thrift which falls especially heavy on the new and small Mr declaring that the treason to to Day Terming this a world in which was Mrs Anna LeGare who told police the child's mother Mrs Amelia Hobbs had given her mission to take the child on a trip Mrs Hobbs denied giving such mission Police Chief Frederick Hoefert said Mrs LeGare admitted taking the child to her sister's home in Coolville Mrs Charles sister believed the child was Mrs daughter I Mrs LeGare will be arraigned 1 morrow Hoefert asserted NO We shouldn't sympathize with Mrs Hobbs declared when asked If she would push the charges She didn't think of us I From her cell Mrs I cannot understand Mrs Hobbs RANSOM DEMANDED Discovery of the body identified by clothing the first ment in the case in several weeks Chiang reported attitude It all seems so wrong ly command operations from field I saw the little girl on the steps headquarters at thrown a mighty barrier of fighting in the hallway leading to my rooms I then went to the Hobbs home and CHICAGO May 30 of Detectives John L Sullivan said day one of two Negroes held in con- with the brick slaying of Mrs Florence Johnson wife of a city fireman had been i definitely linked to two similar in Los Sullivan said he had received word from Police Chief James E Davis of Los Angeles that a comparison of fingerprints made positive It is economic murder Creek reported at flood stage re- cedes Earlier reports said eight members and observers searched for of the Thompson family drowned plane missing since Friday with Thompson and a son were three men and a woman aboard ed to have escaped From three points In Canada and the United States planes took off under clouds to scan the water for the yellow Ginger Coote ship since its motors were heard over land near Zeballos on Vancouver Island's west coast noon Friday Ships In the vicinity of Vancouver Island kept lookouts posted on the chance Pilot Len Waagen formerly of Edmonton might been forced down at tea MANCHESTER Ky May 30 VP cloudburst early today de- the cabin of Robert son Negro miner killing three of his children wife and two other I cation of Robert Nixon alias children were missing Search for Crosby Negro as the them was abandoned until Goose I man wanted for the slaying of Mrs Edna Worden 12 TIA JUANA Mexico May 30 democracy under a flag lies wounded unto Vandenberg sounded an alarm against subversive forces which he said undermine this He I refer not only to those open agitators who would uproot and overthrow the American system but also to those more subtle but no less subversive manipulators and who would chain us to centralized bureaucracy at ton I do not he said that the American system is a static thing I do not mean that we should forbear from useful change But I do most emphatically mean that all change is not progress I do mean that our basic principles of government of by arid for the tional checks and just as sound and Just as precious now as at any other moment in the last century and a half I do mean that those who try to trade liberty for men in front of the Japanese forces said I was going to lake Betty Jane to Ohio with me for a visit Hobbs expressed agreement Mrs and her daughter Me to lose Nixon and Earl Hicks confessed they broke into the Johnson home last Friday but each accused other of the actual slaying the Stork Wins Race With Train Daughter To Be Known As Katy MOHAN Kan May 30 physician boarded the train here Dorothy twenty-six Austin and attended the birth of an Tex speeding toward Kansas City j pound girl Mrs Diffey said she on the a n s a planned to name her Catherine Katy passenger train Blue Elizabeth but probably would call tuU tot a raw with the stark A bur thirty miles east of here today on news that a young soldier had been privately hanged The body of Jesus Mayoral macho about twenty-four years old was found swinging at rope end I from a tree in the courtyard of the zone military cuartel at cate Thu discovery was made about a m and it was believed the soldier had been strung up before midnight Soldiers spread through the town in search of suspects Three men were rounded up and placed in the under heavy guard It was not known whether they were dien or civilians and are fighting desperately to stop the offensive westward along the railway 14th division the ad- vance element of a Japanese army which aimed eventually at reaching the provisional Chinese capital at Hankow was cut off in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war LONDON May 30 will protest strongly to the Spanish in- surgent regime over the sinking of the Britisher off Valencia May 24 Richard ten Butler undersecretary for for- BONNERS FAIRY Idaho May eign affairs told the house of com- 30 acres of Hums today tile farm land was Inundated Butler said the government day by flood waters of the the view that the attack was river when a fifth dike gave way 22 erate and would ask the insurgents miles north of here Eleven to take strong disciplinary action sand acres of land now is under against crews of the attacking water planes About men were tolling with Insurgent planes raiding sandbags and dirt to hold the river cia sank the at the from other farming districts and the harbor entrance Three of her crew CINCINNATI May 30 body of six-year-old Shirley burns missing since Sunday was found covered with weeds In a wooded patch near her home today town of Bonners Ferry were wounded Kansas City Anglers Proud Of Their Piscatorial Skill WARSAW Mo May Francis C Henkel and 30 Elmer C Kuhlman both ef Kansas City are so proud of their piscatorial Police Major Gustav said ess they made a wager nnd held a better fisherman At the end of the day each man came In they swear to three-pound big mouth bass a two-pound crappie and a one-pound big mouth They had been ravished contest to determine was the called U a dead heat and confirmed the growing dread in his family that he would never be returned alive A ransom payment of had been demanded originally by his kidnapers It finally was whittled down to a sum the father Murray Levine a New York City lawyer stood ready to pay as he waited sadly for a contact that never came So much was unknown that the in- seized today upon every meager scrap of a clue As the broken Levine family held brief and private funeral services lice and federal agents meticulously went over geodetic charts of Long Island Sound and studied the record of tides and winds for several days after the date of twelve-year old Peter's 24 They emerged from their charts said Reifenberger with but one agreed conclusion that Peter's body had been dropped at sea either from rowboat or yacht Thus a check of all boathouses In this vicinity was begun at once NO SUSPECTS As to suspects said disconsolately shrugging his ers there was none A painstaking search for the boy's head was made have made out death cate certifying death to tion by a large tion mark after Dr Squire said I have described it as a homicide and checked the time of death also with a large question mark as time in March 1938 I to give the cause oil death so the body could be buried hence the question marks We are examining microscopically the boy's lungs heart kidneys liver spleen and stomach I have also pre- served parts of the skin particularly around the neck for chemical lysis There was a ridge there possibly caused by some constricting band And that constricting band ne said might have meant We are searching diligently for the head because under Instruments it might tell us many things we would like to know In this story Failing to find the head some of our purposes may be defeated BODY CREMATED In more than 1000 drowning cases I have never before known head to be missing He added that from the ning he never had believed the boy would be recovered He was precocious said the
