Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - June 11, 1938, Reno, Nevada COUNTY BOX 253 WEATHER FORECAST vicinity CLOUDY TOMOHT AND LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE s- Bar Lond Bar lent y 9.00 N Y E St Louis New York V 1 Nominal YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES RENO NEVADA SATURDAY JUNE 11 1938 SIXTEEN PAGES NO 139 WEST TEXAS Two Score Injured Several Sharp Quakes Are Reported By Five European Nations Damage Heavy in Belgium Chimneys Topple Walls Crack and Windows Break in Many Areas London and Brussels Alarmed at Disturbance r Missing in Small Town or SOME DAMAGE Seven Hundred LONDON June 11 quake born In the North Sea Jolted five nations today rumbling over a front from England to the Area Is Isolated Hours as Communications Are Cut By Force of Wind CLYDE Texas June 11 UfP A tornado killed teen persons in this West Texas village of seven hundred last night left several missing at least forty others and shattered two- score houses WRECKAGE SEARCHED Weary volunteers searched the debris today fearful that more bodies lay In the wreckage Doctors established emergency tions in stores and dressed wounds of the injured some of whom en- tered to find the bodies of dead relatives on the floors Clyde was Isolated several hours when the tornado tore down com- delaying calls for ambulances doctors nurses and from Abilene and other nearby towns The Red Cross mobilized Its and a detachment of the tional guard set up a rolling kitchen Like a huge snake the storm crept upon the town shortly after dusk Many ww It coming and scrambled to safety inside storm cellars Others gambled vainly that their houses would withstand the shock TRAIN SPLIT The wind split a freight train tumbling box cars along the rails At least one transient was killed Some reports stld three were hauled dead from the wreckage Survivors told terrifying tales J B whoso wife was killed When we saw the storm coming we went back In the house 1 wish we hadn't All at once the wind hit The house seemed to fall apart A chimney fell all over me I scratched my way out and began looking for my wife she was under a piece of timber Lord but she was twisted and torn I couldn't get her loose I was holding her head when she died Ralph Short newspaperman saw the cloud while he was about eight miles from town It moved very slowly he said and residents told me It seemed an eternity before It hit It so solid that It looked like a vast column of brown earth sitting In a big brown bowl FOUR DIE IN CARS In the mad dash for safety twenty-five people crowded Into one small cellar and twenty in another The known dead are Mrs garet Ross William James de Spain Mrs J B Mrs J F Bonner J E Graham Mrs J E Graham Jess Mrs Jess Rutledge James Johnson M E Sullivan and two unidentified men Four were killed when the wind struck their cars The two machines were found hundreds of yards from the bodies The storm did not strike the ness district Just past the cemetery about one hundred feet south of the school building which virtually was de- there was no trace of the storm The tornado suddenly lifted and apparently blew Itself out A violent electrical rain and hall storm the wind -11 There was scattered damage prise alarm and even panic among the countryfolk In Belgium and northern France who dropped to their knees In prayer as chimneys toppled walls cracked windows broke and furniture Jumped Three Paris and the shocks which some seismographs recorded as ing A duration of ten minutes don felt the first shock at a m a m E S Brussels a severe tremor at In several continental towns peo- ple were Injured by falling bricks but there were no reports of ties Two children were injured at Hazebrouck in northern France Damage was minor but extensive apparently most serious In Belgium WALLS SPLIT It was estimated the damage there might reach a million dollars The at Ghent split and a of the Liege Citadel barracks shifted four feet Heavy factory motors were moved in some places Germany and the Netherlands felt the shocks along with England France and Belgium The quake was described as the most severe In Belgium's history Brussels boulevards were suddenly thronged with frightened crowds Factories and homes alike were evacuated as roof tiles crashed to earth and windows were shattered Reports from all parts of the try told of a rolling noise accompanying the shocks The shocks were heavy out France's northern section At CZECHS AMERICAN SALES LAST VOTE OF ASSAILED BY HULL Atmosphere of Military State Asserts Preparedness Is Noted Condemnation of Raids Is Today in Country Turning Point in Future Relations with German Minority in Country PRAHA Czechoslovakia June 11 made ready day for the last of three Sunday condemnation of the Directed at Plants Pressure to Be Directed at Builders of Bombers in This Country WASHINGTON June 11 Secretary Hull said today this elections in an Roubaix people were knocked off of military preparedness and r r i rt HA their feet Telephone and telegraph service was Interrupted for an hour IN NORTH SEA Scenes were similar in the undercover diplomatic maneuvers TURNING NEAR There was widespread expectation bombing of civilians was directed at American manufacturers of ing planes as well as foreign powers DISCOURAGE SALES The secretary predicted at his the turning point in the little press conference that state Germany's j war Public's future relations with ment pressure would discourage England felt what was described by J L Shaw seismologist of the West Bromwich observatory as a good big shock for the British her boisterous Germanic minority of planes for use against and neighboring Germany would j defenseless civilians Noting several recent department said to be In the North Sea about come in the next few days A member of the Czechoslovakian Rudolf Broz in a radio broadcast on statements condemning the ing of civilians In Spain and China Mr Hull said the government wall of the palace of JAPANESE FORCES GAIN IS FORECAST SERVE NOTICE defenses yesterday warned i ent attitude was of course to SHANGHAI June 11 ff The WASHINGTON June 11 A Japanese navy served warning confident prediction that day that It planned to blast its way cans would gain at least five up the Yangtze river to Hankow China's provisional capital SHIPPING WARNED All foreign shipping was advised to evacuate a two hundred-mile zone between Wuhu and In an effort to prevent possible in- complications is 120 miles down the from Hankow and Wuhu is 326 miles from the provisional tal The only foreign ships now in the that any invader would face a chain of machine gun nests along our border The broadcast was made as scale preparations were made to maintain order Sunday when more tain that position and to say to everybody the United States con- both the bombing and its material encouragement Hull's prediction that state de- condemnation would dis- than Sudeten Germans will courage sales to those who have the to march to the polls as communities lot About of the communities are predominantly German trends are maintained If recent an over- use bombs Indiscriminately was made in reply to a question on whether the United States would frown on all future sales of ican planes that could be used for bombing purposes whether solidarity will be would be encouraged to by Germans for Konrad party while ate seats this year came today from Leader Charles L McNary of Oregon in a birthday Interview FORECASTS GAIN Let's not tulk about the dapper western senator said with a smile I've had too many of em I feel sure that certain things for which the Republican party has stood will again appeal to the sound proposals for settlement of the common sense of the American peo- Sudeten German issue of minority pick their customers The secretary said his Czechoslovaks will show a rallying be reiterated to the government's policies of in- dependence and reliance on western democracies In foreign relations CONFERENCES HELD Much of the expectation of a new turn in events was attached to the fact both the Czechoslovak ister in Berlin and his colleague in Paris were In Praha conferring with Premier Milan Hodza Foreign ister Krofta and President Eduard Benes Diplomatic quarters heard Great in the future to the American peo- ple and to the manufacturers as well as to foreign governments HEAVY PURCHASES Recent department statements have expressed this government's emphatic reprobation of civilian bombings describing them as A few days ago Hull said in an address at Nashville Tenn that nations should act Jointly to manize warfare He declared the McNary continued by way of Yangtze are British United States j keeping the conversation from his and French gunboats United States sixty-four years gunboats arc at Nanking Ichang and Hankow Both followers and foes credit Nary with being a master strategist About forty Japanese gunboats several this session and transports were reported up the cratic Leader Berkley of Kentucky river from Wuhu taking part In the nas praised his ability to unite Re- new drive publicans on crucial votes while the They were led by the Izumo overwhelming Democratic majority ship of the Japanese fleet In China waters which led the naval attack on Shanghai last year The admiralty announced In Tokyo that a general drive on kow had been launched up the Yangtze and that a marine party had landed and was In action The Many Republicans however have been frankly critical of McNary's failure to speak out as the tion leader Typical of his strategy was his handling of Republicans during the bitter fight over President admiralty did not say where the federal court program Nearly party had With France and Britain again facing a delicate situation in Spain as the result of bombing raids on neutral shipping It was believed Britain was anxious to see the tral European problem disposed of The end of the elections Sunday automatically will give Henlein an opportunity for demanding an end to armed occupation of Sudeten German areas WELL PREPARED Fear of disorder at the elections May 22 and May 29 was given as the reason for the partial tion of Czechoslovak troops May 21 Describing the state of vak fortifications Major Broz de- everyone expected the Republicans machine mn to lead the protest but they kept dee Sto t tater Flexible Wage Hour Won by Southern Senators As Agreement Is Reached GILLETTE INVITED TO WHITE Iowa Senator Who Won in Spite of Opposition Is Extended Olive Branch Voters Resent Influence From Outside Declares Senator in Statement PORTLAND HOTELS DO OWN LAUNDRY AS STRIKE HOLDS PORTLAND Ore June 11 Portland hotels pre- pared to go into the laundry business today as a strike of workers engulfed eleven hostelries and threatened to spread to others The Multnomah and New Heathman hotels said they would handle laundry for the other eight affected Union laundry drivers have been dered to respect picket lines The hotels employed non- union staffs and reported ice went on as usual In at least one residential hotel permanent guests were pressed into service as and elevator tors The Multnomah said more than 1000 applications were filed by persons wanting the 1250 jobs strikers walked off from in the eight larger hotels Wednesday Leaders However Hope to Conclude Sessions During Coming Week Compromise Draft of Plan To Control Labor Given Committee Approval WASHINGTON June 11 President Roosevelt invited Gillette today to the I White House for luncheon morrow OFFERS ADVICE Gillette was the victor last week in Iowa's Democratic senatorial mary over Representative Otha Wearin who had endorsements from Harry L Hopkins the works progress administrator and James Roosevelt the president's tary Wearin in his campaign also claimed active White House support and pointed to Gillette's opposition to Mr Roosevelt's supreme court re- organization plan Before the Sunday White House invitation was announced Gillette advised administration senators facing op- in primary elections to fight their battles without outside sistance The ruddy-faced silver-haired lowan victor this week in a heated Jury was called into primary contest expressed the sion again today to return a Ion that voters resent nny outside verdict in the death of James Bailey MIAMI Pla June 11 WASHINGTON June 11 i legislation bearing j Ible pay differentials above thirty cents an hour received final val of a Joint congressional com- today COMPROMISE APPROVED A compromise draft of the lation over which the committee has struggled for fen days was acceptable to southern con- They had hinted at a buster Thus quick action on the measure appeared assured in both the house and senate spurring leaders in their drive to adjourn congress next week Congress tardiness in completing and other ant caused leaders to abandon hope of adjourning Tuesday night They set a goal of winding up sometime next week Asked whether he thought ad- would be possible day Speaker Bankhead said at his press No I don't NIGHT SESSIONS He added that house members interference cash Jr whose was He was the first of the funy solved yesterday with an- could night sessions for cratic senators who opposed by federal agents of a eral days in order to bring the cooperate Although direct exports ef tary aircraft or other war is embargoed to Spain both Japan and China have been heavy chasers of American planes Licenses were issued last month to export to Japan of war materials of which resented orders for military planes and purchases of aircraft classed as commercial Licenses for export to China taled ot which was for plane engines and equipment Hull declined a direct answer to a press conference question whether the state department's views had been expressed to manufacturers in the last few days dent Roosevelt's court reform gram to face a primary test There have been public offers by other senate opponents of the court measure to form a flying squadron of speakers to aid any of the group in primary elections AID CALLED MISTAKE However Gillette said he believed this would be a mistake I refused offers from people who wanted to come in and the lowan said He added that the only apparent party friction ing from the Iowa contest was ir- against outside ence in Iowa's affairs This was the only reference he made in an interview to the backing given Wearin by Hopkins and James Roosevelt Gillette made it plain that he was meet the opposition near where the Chinese have lent and let Democrats create the opposition Some congressmen said Ing Junks with rock Generalissimo Chiang meanwhile ordered an dented conscription of men for the Chinese army regardless of ily wealth or Influence POLICY BY EDEN I LEAMINGTON Eng June 11 W Former Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden tonight scored the for- elgn policy of Premier Neville government Ing that a clear stand be taken against nations who still believe In power politics 1 Eden made the most forceful ar- of the Chamberlain he has set forth since he quit the cabinet Feb 20 In against the prime minister's policy of dealing with the dictators of Italy and Germany He named no nations or leaders i however In n speech before his Leamington constituents though his implications were apparent t Retreat is not always the path to peace Eden warned M I Indian Print CHICAGO June 11 Harold 8 Jones a Sioux Indian from South Dakota will don the robes of an Episcopal priest Friday He will be the first full blooded Indian ever to complete the full course at Theological Seminary in suburban Evans ton formed a boom in the river by prevented the fight from imes and m the eventual defeat of the measure LONG IN SENATE McNary sponsored old age pension legislation government power and numerous of their other pet projects long before the present administration and pushed the farm through congress twice only to have it meet vetos by President Coolidge He has been in the senate since 1917 and became party chieftain in 1933 after Former Senator Watson of Indiana was defeated for tion YIELD NOT CANDIDATE BOSTON June 11 James Roosevelt's decision not to run for public office in Massachusetts this fall was accepted today with re- gret by a citizens committee which had suggested his candidacy for lieutenant governor The committee headed by Charles of Boston a Democratic state said in a ment It still believed the president's eldest son and secretary possessed the qualifications to serve our state well Roosevelt's decision announced as he arrived by plane from ington was contained in a letter handed at the airport It expressed Roosevelt's desire through study and to develop further my knowledge of mental affairs before considering SACO Me June 11 Sifting of furnace ashes In the home of Frank Bradbury 60 today ered what City Marshal Harry Townsend said he believed were the bones of Bradbury's invalid sister Harriet Townsend said Bradbury told him he had burned his elderly body last night after her death from a fall In accordance with her extended deep into the Interior and were supplemented by natural de- fenses which dictate to the enemy the path he must follow in ing our country It is true that airplanes are a dangerous weapon against our but one must remember that when targets are as small as machine gun nests the danger Is reduced to a minimum W KANSAS CITY June 11 extravagant policies of the New Deal were blamed for an enormous deficit in the federal budget in resolutions adopted by the National Federation of Young Republicans today Another resolution asserted that if the young men and women were freed from the shackles of tation imposed by the present ad- ministration and given the confession from Pierce McCall KILLER UNDER GUARD J Edgar Hoover director of the Franklin slon to a close as soon as possible after Tuesday The compromise as finally proved after today's long session federal bureau of Investigation said provides for a universal forty cent McCall admitted he alone was re- j wage at the end of seven ex- sponsible for abduction of the cept where industries can show that Princeton Fla child Previously unemployment would be caused McCall had told of writing three ransom notes and collecting from the boy's father The old The southern senators won an im- portant victory in this connection 1 however because it was that i living costs taxes freight charges ployed trucK driver was under guard and other factors would be in a cell high in Dade county's scraper Jail The jury ex- I wage ered in determining whether ployment would result from a body Thursday viewed the spot where it was found several hours earlier and adjourned until today Whether the jury actually could determine how the five-year old not seeking reelection as an anti- j nap victim died problematical I the possibility of elective office that she be cremated Chicago Aldermen Take Steps To Reduce Collars on Steins CHICAGO June 11 city council has taken steps to knock down the size of the collars being worn by Chicago beer steins man William Rowan complained fixed for Beer steins these days are wearing a col- lar that comes up to the he said His suggestion that an nance be drafted to take the starch out of these collars to wilt them there was too much foam and too j down was approved enthusiastically i little beer He a standard I by bis colleagues DEATH OF CHILD ALPINE Tex June 11 Attorney Alan Fraser today filed first murder charges against Mr and Mrs Francis Marion Black in connection with the foot death plunge of Marion of San Antonio from a cliff in mountainous country near here Thursday Arrested a few minutes after neral services were held for the frail lad in an Alpine funeral home the couple had been held in county jail while Fraser and iff Elmer Taylor conducted an ex- telephonic investigation Black and his comely wife brought the boy here three days ago from San Antonio on a cation trip Fraser said Fraser said Black early today made a detailed statement ing the boy's tragic drop over the rock-bound precipice but the dis- attorney merely announced of initiative under the true that Black had said the boy's death ideals of the Republican party they could work out their own salvation and the salvation of the country Roosevelt man or a conservative Democrat I've fought too long for sive and liberal he said One of the first calls Gillette made on his return here was at the of- fice of Postmaster General Farley national Democratic party man who had wired congratulations and promised every support in his campaign against Former Senator Lester J Dickinson the nominee President Roosevelt's ment of the tentative itinerary for to McCall yesterday as he was his western trip next month dis- ferred under heavy guard from FBI The body was in an advanced state of decomposition after lying in the open for twelve days PLANNED NO HARM Hoover said McCall insisted he had not planned to harm the boy The signed confession parts of which were made public said Cali entered the child's bedroom the night of May 28 and placed two handkerchiefs over his face one over the eyes and one the mouth No one came forward to offer help Senator Thomas man of the conference group said the committee would meet at 11 a m E S T tomorrow to com- plete the draft of the The committee agreed on a mum of forty-four hours a week for the first year with time and a half overtime ordered for all above that This would decrease to two the year forty the third year PLAN EXEMPTIONS Boards charged with reducing the maximum to forty hours as quickly as possible would be empowered to grant exemptions to the hours standards similar to those granted on pay The conferees agreed to exempt industries where collective ing contracts carry the total closed he would go into four states headquarters to the Jail and booked the general but In where administration in i on an open charge held for the j no case these exceed fifty-six REBEL ARE em OFF MADRID June 11 ment airmen oil patrol over the heavily bombed eastern seaboard re- ported tonight they had beaten off six air raids alternated over cante In 24 hours ending at 6 p m Beaten back from R city already the scene of widespread death and destruction the bombers dumped their explosive cargoes on ing villages was not accidental the senate are facing primary con- tests These senators are Barkley of tucky Thomas of Oklahoma as of Utah and McAdoo of nia Many informed persons pre- Mr Roosevelt would make some gestures in the home states of these senators to show he approved of their records CITY FALLS TO REBELS state attorney RILEY TO SEEK SEAT IN SENATE a week Industries with a teed annual wage would be ex- Conferees said they tentatively had agreed that the administrator of the law would receive a year The industrial boards to be named by him would be appointed on c temporary basis being paid a nominal salary plus per diem while they operated SACRAMENTO June 11 The be an In- L Riley railroad commissioner and j dependent official in the labor de- former state controller for 15 years appointed by the filed his declaration of candidacy dent and confirmed by the for the Republican nomination for have the final decision on the United States senator today wage to be paid in any The 1938 election of industry tives In congress has assumed I FORM BOARDS ing point he said j the law became operative HENDAYE France at the i Stripped of words however the administrator would appoint isn June 11 The ant they sound the hard fact Is j every in- Spanish insurgent command an- that all of us want a chance to I today an army tinder work at decent the dole j boards made up of eral Miguel Aranda had captured Albocacer for two months the chief coastal bulwark I don't think anyone with eyes I of employers employes to see truthfully can say we are j and the public would be charged getting that chance I know of no Castellon de la Plana and other way change It than to Valencia the trend In Washington COLUMBUS Ga June 11 Major John R Brooke jr pleaded innocent and waived preliminary hearing today when he was ar- on a murder charge in the death of his comely brunette wife U S Commissioner N A Brown ordered the Infantry school instructor held without bond in the Muscogee county jail ing action by the federal grand jury Poison Bait for Grasshoppers Used to Take Care of Flies SCOTTS BLUFF Neb June 11 accident was the mother of poison bait to his barn hundreds of flies were found dead beneath it The word got around with fixing the minimum wage and tho maximum hours within certain limitations for industries Bat if the administrator disagreed with the findings of a board he discharge it and name a new one He could not however alter the findings A heavy program still lies ahead of congress A Joint committee has not yet reached agreements on relief legislation la addition final action is scheduled this says County Agent c s and on deficiency bait used to kill barnyard flies A scores of farmers now an using the time aviation food and drug and farmer near here hung up a bag of bait for a dual I bankruptcy
