Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - June 16, 1938, Reno, Nevada RECORDER BOX 253 WEATHER FORECAST Reno and Vicinity PARTLY CLOUDY AND FRIDAY LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE TEMPERATURE AT 2 P M TODAY 77 EIGHTEEN PAGES SIXTY-SECOND YEAR RENO NEVADA THURSDAY JUNE 16 1938 EIGHTEEN PAGES METALS Bar ltd: C I Bar V 8 I York I Y M i Y K St Louto I St few NO 143 TO BRITISH Chamberlain Avoids Reply To Quiz If Britain Would Join in Curbing Arms First Reports Were That London Had Heard U S Plans Conference LONDON June 16 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ed a direct reply today when asked In the house of commons If Britain were willing to Join with the ted States government In making definite proposals with a view to curing a halt In the arms race TERSE REPLY To the question put by Arthur Henderson labor member the prime minister replied I am not aware that the States government have made any such suggestion A different version of the prime minister's which quoted him as saying The United States gov have suggested they are going to make an wa furnished to the Associated Press by Renter the British news agency and telegraphed to the United States Reuter tonight Issued the ing Although Reuter has been un- able to find any reporter In the press gallery who disagrees with the Reuter version of the prime answer except with regard to the laai two words which were Indistinct Reuter Is of- Informed that the prime minister's answer should I am not aware that the Uni- ted States government have made any such suggestion DISCUSS HULL SPEECH This will be the official working of the report tomorrow and it is likely to be generally adopted by other gallery reports tonight Chamberlain's statement on dis- armament came In answer to tions by Arthur Henderson and son of the late Arthur son who was president of the dis- armament conference Henderson asked whether the British government agreed with the speech of United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull June 3 in Nashville Tenn In which he laid down a four-point program of American cooperation toward world order based on law Yes Chamberlain replied His majesty's government are In full agreement with the sentiments expressed by Mr Cordell Hull In his recent speech and they are always ready to cooperate with other tions on the subject NO COMMUNICATIONS In Washington the state ment said no communications had passed between the United States and Britain on the question of world disarmament Many observers were openly tical over the possibility of success In any move toward general ament now because of troubled world conditions They believed Washington might be contemplating an attempt to ob- tain a convention regulating the use of military aircraft and banning the bombing of open towns United States Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy Is en route to the Uni- ted States It was expected he would discuss this question fully with President Roosevelt and Hull RAID PRECAUTIONS Indicative of the scale on which Britain is preparing was the an- by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare of formation of a women's organization to operate the air raid precaution ices in time of war Women between the ages of enteen and sixty-five will be ble They will serve as air raid wardens ambulance drivers nurses cooks and typists The government also floated an loan to help finance the rearmament program ARE SENTENCED MANILA P I June 16 W Five head hunters drew minimum sentences today for lopping off the heads of two Christian youths The court was lenient because the head hunters were uneducated lived In wild country and belonged to a non- Christian tribe The ruling of the Philippine court of appeals upheld the trial court Each of the was sentenced to twelve to sixteen years In prison and to indemnify the heirs of their victims DEBUTANTE GIVES UP FORTUNE FOR HAN OF CHOICE ROCHESTER N Y June 16 pretty New York tante daughter of millionaire parents calmly fare up her In- heritance of close to a million dollars today to marry the man of her choice a a week clerk In a county home The ceremony was performed In the home of the groom's mother and brother here as the bride's parents made last-minute efforts to halt the wedding The bride Is Rosemary ster twenty-one years old daughter of Dr David H ster prominent New York and Connecticut physician and Mrs Webster a cousin of the late MaJ Gen Elwell Stephen Otis The room is Paul Gllson twenty-three years old of ton N Y son of Mr and Mrs Jesse Gllson A clerk In the St Lawrence county welfare home he was described by the girl's mother as a poor ignorant boy I will never accept him In my said the mother Mrs David H Webster who spoke by telephone from ford Conn The girl's father who Is a noted surgeon also expressed his disapproval and said In New York trial his daughter stood to lose more than a lion dollars should she marry Gllson FOR YACHT WITH ITS PIRATE JUDGE SENTENCES TO DIE FRENCH DEPUTIES STAGE BATTLE PARIS June 16 alarm signal summoning guards to clear the hall sounded today In the chamber of deputies for the first time In a decade as Communist and rightist deputies fought over Franco's policy toward the Spanish civil war BLOOD FLOWS Craft Missing with Three Boys Aboard on Treasure Hunt Reported Seen Mother of One Youth Mrs W T Grace Is Reported To Be Living in Reno SAN DIEGO Calif June 16 A coast guard plane was ordered aloft today in a renewed hunt for the ketch which a pi- rate crew of three runaway boys was believed to be sailing toward Cocos Island legendary site of ied treasure NEW CLUE FOUND Latest of many clues brought to coast guardsmen since the yacht and the boys disappeared simultaneously from Santa Cruz Calif three weeks ago today led to the new plane search Capt Joe Marina of the tuna per Vigilante reported last night he had spoken to three boys last Thursday on a yacht off San Ge- Island two hundred miles south of San Diego and seven dred miles south of Santa Cruz Coast guardsmen doubted It was the but weren't passing up any bets The yacht Marina saw was white The Tira when It left terey was black San Geronimo is along the 2300 f mile route from Santa Cruz to Cocos Island pirate base of the Spanish days to which year old Lyle Tara supposed leader of the runaway boys was known to have chartered a course HAD NAVIGATION BOOKS Lew K Foote owner of the sing craft said Tara and his James seventeen and Grace sixteen probably would have encountered no trouble except with Tara had a brary book on the subject to guide The Tira was stocked with six weeks provisions 300 gallons of water and enough fuel to run the auxiliary Diesel engine for 300 miles Seas have been calm and the two-foot sailing craft was perfectly RELENTLESS MIAMI Fla June 18 lin Pierce McCall twenty-one was sentenced today to die in the tric chair for the kidnaping of Jimmy Cash jr CALLED TO BENCH Cautioning the crowded courtroom to keep quiet Circuit Judge H F i Atkinson called the minister's son to the bench You plead guilty to the offense as charged of kidnaping arM Ing James Bailey Cash Jr for som What have you to say for he demanded McCall merely his head I find you guilty as In the the Judge ued the same being of- fense under the laws of Florida and I sentence you to be held until such time as you shall be delivered to the superintendent of the state prison at Raiford there to be held safely until a death sentence shall be carried out The Judge said the governor would fix the date for the tion specified the was to be put to death by electricity and concluded the customary may God have mercy on your soul NO COMMENT He made no further comment In court on the ransom tion McCall confessed to having perpetrated at Princeton May 28 but remarked privately that It was the cold-blooded thing I ever heard The two extreme factions mingled In a free-for-all over the ists demands that France end her policy of nonintervention and open the way to aid for the Spanish Two rightist deputies Fernand Claudet and Francois Peugeot were injured and were escorted from the chamber with blood dripping from their faces Edouard president of the chamber had suspended the session seaworthy The boys adventure has caused Mrs William R Tara mother of Lyle sleepless nights They have me she said but if they get on one of those lonely Islands in the South Seas it may be a long time before they find them and I don't think they'll give a clue to their whereabouts by writing home MOTHER IN RENO Mrs Tara blamed her son's there were no mitigating in this case McCall heard his doom without flinching His face was impassive and he looked straight ahead under heavy guard he was taken to an elevator and returned to his cell Jack Kehoe the defense attorney appointed by the court said he thought McCall had received a fair trial yesterday and be no appeal He said he had lowed McCall's instructions In resenting him and that he conferred the defendant this morning declared he had iore to say McCall told the court at hearing esterday how he carried out the ATHER AT WORK The body of the boy found in a thicket about ten ays after the kidnaping McCal ed FBI agents to the spot At his fnr tho H T J on a passionate love of the for the second time during the day isea and a for adventure He S biter hls parents between the right and left sides of and three older brothers but spent the amphitheater I an Ms spare hours m nls rowboat on During the suspension a group of Communist deputies approached the right and clashed and Nationalist members The fighters were ly dispersed Trouble arose after Communist spokesmen protested what they called unilateral application of the European nonintervention accord referred to Italian and German aid to the Insurgents and insisted on Immediate discussion of their de- mands for ending France's ity DEMANDS SHELVED The Communist demands to have been shelved at least temporarily Premier ard Invoked parliamentary rules to delay debate on the issue by having the de- mands referred to the foreign fairs committee This was called to meet row although It has five days to make Its report It was thought possible would send on its vacation before this was done Monterey bay The other two boys came from broken homes Young mother is a divorcee Mr and Mrs William T Grace parents of the third boy are separated and his mother Is in Reno has been living with his grandmother Nobody seemed to know exactly what would happen if the boys were found with the yacht Foote said if the boys had taken the yacht he would not press charges but would let the law take its course earing yesterday he said the child must strangled while he wa him from the Hash home 3 his home He described how he eld two handkerchiefs over tin face and held his mouth hut James Bailey Cash sr at work in jls filling station at re calmly the word that his on's kidnaper had been o death He said the child mother was trying to keep th whole thing off her mind She tries not to think about It she said Cash said he had heard the elec would be set for the wee if June 27 but gave no reason fo hat belief WASHINGTON June 19 Senator Brown became chairman of the Democratic campaign committee today succeeding Senator Guffey Brown was appointed to the post by Senator Barkley the majority leader after Barkley had polled senators who are seeking re- election this year LIVES OF MANY LUCKNOW India June 16 Forty-four out of forty-eight dis- in the United provinces were reported tonight to have been by one of the worst cholera epidemics in recent years Yesterday's estimate of deaths In the out- break was raised to out of cases Entire villages have out as the disease spread through the United provinces The United provinces one of flf teen provincial subdivisions of Brit Ish India cover square mile and have a population of WASHINGTON June 18 President Roosevelt has signed authorizing the modernization of the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga at a cost of not man than Daily Sunday School Services Are Conducted by This Lad YORK Pa June 18 year-old Edward McCoy who spends his summer vacation conducting his own daily Sunday swept out his father's garage for another term Edward an In the neighborhood inviting them tc send children to the first sea sion Monday and said he honed this summer's attendance would be a large as previous ones boys and girls came to his Sunda school last year to hear hur preach dent distributed leaflets to and discuss religious topics Chinese and Japanese Are Forced to Flee Ahead of Torrent Today District 20 Miles Wide 90 Miles Long Engulfed Says Report SHANGHAI June 18 fellow river flood fed by r steady of rain unrolled a ribbon f death and disaster ten to twenty miles wide and ninety miles long cross the flat plains of Honan nce today Chinese and Japanese rmies locked in combat on the front fled before the which Japanese now estimate ill take a toll of fifty thousand lives FARMS INUNDATED Advices from Hankow the onal Chinese capital said the re- flood surging southeastward rom torn dikes had penetrated be- ond seventy miles south of on the railway and linety miles south of the Yellow iver Sweeping over thousands of acres if farmland driving peasants and armies before it flood was declared Japanese war dispatches to have affected two thousand villages with an aggregate population of Japanese bombing planes arily diverted from their ing activities dropped thousands of empty bags ordinarily used for renches and machine-gun nests into the flood area for use by Japan's army engineers in repairing breached dikes Food and tools also were being dropped to isolated Japanese troops fighting the new enemy NEW PERIL While the main course of the was southeastward another peril was reported north of the river where Japanese said Chinese troops fleeing westward from Chengchow had cut new holes in the dikes of the Tsin river about fifty miles west of Chengchow and on the site side of the Yellow river was menaced they said The outskirts cf were under water and the Japanese son was struggling to barricade the center of the town The rolling torrent similarly was reported threatening and both on the north side of the river where tributaries overflowing widely A broad area in northwest Honan province held only by small Japanese garrisons was endangered BLAME JAPANESE MANILA P I June 16 disastrous Yellow river flood in China was blamed upon Japanese armies in a statement issued by the Chinese consulate general here today Flatly denying Japanese charges that Chinese forces had deliberately breached the dykes the statement ACTIVE PART IN ING FALL Way Paved by Congress For Adjournment Tonight Lasf Agreed Upon PUN E NATION'S MAI Addresses Are Scheduled By Former President in State Campaigns Business Upturn Forecast If Voting Goes Right He Says in Interview IS PASSED WASHINGTON June 8 IP group of house members angrily protesting that a to legalize by federal officers had been slipped through the chamber unsuccessfully today to recall the legislation Their request for unanimous con- sent to vocate the proceedings was blocked by Rep Pearson who called the legislation a ary measure Rep Eberharter declared the would deprive citizens of protection from unreasonable searches and seizures and Rep O'Connor predicted dent Roosevelt would veto the ure Before the goes to the White House the senate must act on a minor house amendment The destruction of the dykes of the Yellow river by Japanese forces was one of the greatest crimes com- mitted by them in their present in- vasion The flood waters are Increasing in volume and speed day by day and may soon spread death and tion through an immense area ad- ding the horrors of a disastrous flood to the terrors of brutal war The statement asserted Japanese warplanes continued to bomb a break in the dyke north of Chung Mou and strafed fleeing refugees with chine It termed Japanese allegations Chinese had broken the dykes ly ridiculous The purpose of jihe Japanese troops In bringing on a flood which will drown hundreds of thousands of helpless Chinese people and render millions more the ment continued was no doubt to strike terror into the Chinese people and to cow them into submission to Japanese aggression PITTSBURGH June 18 mer President Herbert Hoover said here during a stopover on an air trip from New York to Chicago that he would take an active part in the fall elections TO MAKE SPEECHES Asked during the Interview last night whether he would make ad- dresses in the coming state for Republican senatorial gubernatorial and congressional he replied I undoubtedly will He declined to expand this ment but answered in reply to another question that he had never met Superior Court Judge Arthur Ht James the Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania Judge James in a primary night victory statement promised to make the New Deal the issue In vania U S Senator Joseph F fey told the Democratic state committee at its tion meeting this week that the state's fall campaign would be the bitterest the dirtiest and the most hi any state In this union NO COMMENT Hoover however refused to com- ment on the Pennsylvania or the issues before the Ing congress I never talk about politics in a few words as you are asking me to do I prefer to make my ments In speeches that will give my thought in the exact words I wish The former president said he would remain In Chicago for two days before continuing the journey to his home In California and I am through with politics for the time being I am on my tion right now I'm going back home to fish for trout That is one field in which men are always op- Asked whether he expected a iness upturn Hoover said conditions may Improve after the the election goes right BUSINESS CONFUSED In reply to a question what he OPPORTUNITY OPEN TO GET AHEAD SAYS FORD INTERVIEW DETROIT June 16 XV Henry Ford observing the thirty-fifth anniversary of the incorporation of the Ford Motor Company said today that the door of opportunity is as wide open as it ever was The same door Isn't he added but there are Just as many chances as there ever were to get ahead Ford who said recently a new era of prosperity was in the offing predicted the turn in business would come soon as the powers that be return to a policy of low prices and high wages Instead of high prices and low wages Young men he said couM speed the improvement of iness by turning their eyes ward the land Eventually he said the Ford Motor Company hopes to make Its automobile bodies out of produced largely from farm crops which already are being used In some automotive parts Ford spent part of the day oil a tour ot the vast Rouge plant which he said had proportions he did not dream of thirty-five years ago He added however there was no thought of making the com- pany entirely independent of outside suppliers President Also Plans to Leave Early to Attend Son's Wedding Deficiency Is Last Of Proposals to Tie Up Closing Ceremony meant by he smiled and said I think that speaks for It- self Business men he said are con- fused IS PINE RIVER Minn June 18 Tired searchers who nearly have given up hope of finding old Richard Harley Ware alive plodded on today through the big swamp Into which the barefoot child Vanished last Saturday As the search entered Its fifth day 1300 volunteers and CCC workers headed by army officers and aided by airplanes and bloodhounds had discovered nothing but faint CHICAGO June 16 Uni- ted States circuit court of appeals affirmed today the death sentence for John Henry Seadlund kidnaper of Charles S Ross wealthy retired greeting card manufacturer A federal court Jury ed the death penalty under the LONDON June 18 mally large purchases of gold were recorded again today in the London market as hoarders hedged against rumors of dollar devaluation or a possible increase in the United States gold price of an ounce DENIALS MADE Repeated official denials of such inflationary steps and lack of any confirmation for reports Involving the homeward trip of United States Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy who sailed yesterday apparently had some effect Purchases of pounds in gold at price fixing time were ably yesterday's high total for the year of pounds But for the second successive day the price was boosted one penny to 140 shillings ten pence an ounce up i pence since Monday's meeting of the four leading bullion brokers of the who set the price dally in the dingy Rothschild banking parlors The week's total sales passed pounds three or four times usual turnovers FUND SUPPLIES METAL The British equalization fund presumably operating for purpose of Lindbergh law pleaded guilty after Seadlund DENVER June 16 ing to determine production costs in eight western states conducted by the national bituminous coal com- mission prepared to adjourn today following testimony which placed production cost of Utah coal at far 1937 Montana New Mexico and Utah witnesses before the com- mission yesterday Tom Hunter commission reported that the cost de- termination by the commission for Utah was per ton for 1936 and for the riod from April to December 1837 The price proposed by the district 30 Utah producers board was about three cents higher than the commission figure out the aims of Anglo- tripartite ment for control of currencies was understood to have supplied most of the gold Because purchases have been eral times higher than normal plies all week the equalization count was believed to have filled the bulk of orders Therefore it would have dictated the price in- WASHINGTON June U i The bouse approved a promise version of the 000 final deficiency tion tonight clearing way for speedy congress It refused to retain two of the sixty senate fax But members of the ations committee indicated tint senate would not Insist on tte amendments House approval of the com- promise left only two major items of business before ad- The compromise still to be acted upon by the senate and the house still had to act on a minor amendment to before sen that to the White House WASHINGTON June If A joint conference agreed today on a ise deficiency appropriations clearing the way for adjournment of congress by tonight COMPROMISE REACHED The conference group worked out the compromise on the in less than four hours shortly after the senate had almost com- action on the administration's gram The latter measure went back to the house for a vote on a minor amendment however Both chambers arranged to con- sider the compromise deficiency measure as soon as copies of it could be compiled by clerks Those were the only two major measures awaiting final action As prospects for a quick ment improved President Roosevelt moved up to about 7 p m the time of his planned departure for New England where he will attend wedding on Saturday of his son John Disagreement over provisions of the deficiency involving only about of appropriations were the chief obstacle to ment TAHOE FUND INCLUDED The as passed by the carried allotments totaling 000.000 The senate added 000 to that Two senate amendments one providing for and another appropriating for the purchase of tional land for the Tahoe Nev tional forest were returned to house for separate votes The conference committee proved a allocation for re- projects in the dust bowl area The committee also approved ft senate allocation for disease work by the public TOPEKA Kas June 16 IPh-A score of persons were injured none seriously when several tiers of seats collapsed today at the auction saie of prize winning horses owned by George Godfrey Moore of Topeka creases Sharps set and by the four firms and Samuel Montagu and and Abell The decline in hoarding was re- in lessening of pressure against the dollar on the London foreign exchange The early Ing was at H to the pound a gain ol a cent under the overnight closing Sterling on the New York market closed yesterday at Seattle Is Scanning Heavens Worrying over the Next Rain SEATTLE June JP Oh you mean up where it rains all the Well odd as it sounds Seattle is actually ing when it is going to rain was the thirty-fifth tive day without fall and the forecast for today was for continued dryness Normal fall from January to June IS Is 16.78 inches which is 4.05 inches i overriding above the 12.73 registered to date veto m The last rain fell here I health service for expenses under the new program for new war department building for a new social security building and for buildings and equipment at the University of Utah mining experiment station Already out of the way were most major pieces of legislation The awaited President Roosevelt's consideration Even the controversial flood control tion over which a filibuster ened yesterday was at the White House AGREE ON Action on the was almost com- when the senate approved ft formula previously passed by house for distribution of 000 of farm benefit payments ried by the Subsequently the senate agreed to a compromise of the electrification authority tive allocation also contained and was sent to for action The senate joined the to President Roosevelt's continuing tower May 31 i
