Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - June 21, 1938, Reno, Nevada COUNTY RECORDER BOX 253 WEATHER FORECAST Reno and Vicinity PARTLY CLOUDY WITH LOCAL MOUNTAIN SHOWERS LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE TEMPERATURE AT 1 P M TODAT TO METALS Bar U S Bar M WB New York export 9 is Y 4 001.05 E St Loult St Y SIXTY-SECOND YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES RENO TUESDAY JUNE 21 1938 SIXTEEN PAGES NO 147 TO SHIFT ARMY TO FRONT Floods Prove Costly to Drive for Capture of City of Hankow Gunboats Shelling Way Up Yangtze River Hope Held Stream Will Recede SHANGHAI June 31 campaign for quick conquest of Central China is being reshaped at heavy cost to challenge steadily growing Chinese strength CHANGE BATTLEFIELD Blocked by yellow river tion along the railroad the Japanese army has been forced to put most of Us strength Into a cross country drive against Hankow China's provisional capital Troops and equipment are being shifted at great expense from the zone where only two weeks ugo Japanese were on the verge of capturing Chengchow which they had planned to use as a base for a drive three hundred miles along the Hankow railway against Hankow Chinese reports said four anese divisions were being In the vicinity of Nanking In province for a push due west against the provisional capital An additional men and two hundred tanks wre said to be on their way to from the hai area Hankow reports said Japanese troops had reached a point 130 miles east of Hankow around which sixty new Chinese divisions numbering 600.000 men were reported taking pp positions for the coming battle for the city Chinese also said they were receiving new shipments of planes and Soviet Russian tanks and gas GUNBOATS ACTIVE Japanese gunboats based on An- were shelling their way up the Yangtze river toward Hankow Ninety Japanese vessels were said to be concentrated In the area In the flood area Itself clearing weather conditions brought hope of subsiding waters All foreigners at Chengchow were safe according to a tokgrom re- at Hankow from one of them Friction over use of mission erties In centers increased Thirty American doctors and nurses filed with the United States consul general Frank P Lockhart a petition asking that the American government pretest to Tokyo against continued sary and purposeful Interference with foreign rights and interests in the Central China area Lockhart and his staff have held dally discussions with Japanese in an effort to obtain Japanese from prop erties and to obtain permission for missionaries to return to their posts in the occupied areas About twenty-five such permits have been Issued to missionaries for- merly stationed at Nanking Wuhu and Hangchow since the United States demanded June 1 that anese turn back to American ers properties occupied by Japanese troops SCHENECTADY N Y June 21 After ten days of trying to minister to a hiccoughing robin Mrs J W Hani said today she was more than slightly fed up with the bird and hoped its owner soon would return A friend found the bird about six weeks old abandoned In Its nest Mrs Ham said and turned it over to her to care while the finder was out of the city Then came the hiccoughs nosed by a physician as caused a caterpillar hair In the bird's crop SENATORS LIKE THEIR JOBS THEY SAY AT CAPITAL WASHINGTON June 21 ff It's a grand job being a United States senator take it from trio who will be absent from the 1839 session They are Senators D.-lll Realties and Hitchcock The ter was defeated for tlon but the other two were not candidates completing a year term Indicated that not everything about congress however was entirely pleasant and high for Instance Senator Realties haired lawyer left Washington with a smile of regret at ting his first political office He succeeded Senator resigned I've always been a crat and an active one but this has been my first ing he said I've enjoyed it all but I afford to stay at It Senator Hitchcock who pears far younger than his seventy-one years said he had thoroughly enjoyed every ute of the session He was pointed In 1936 to succeed the late Senator Norbeck I've learned more In the last two years than any time in my he added E IS DENIED TO TALK NEWARK N J June 81 Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City ended his testimony In the federal court free speech trial today with a protest against Judge William Clark's refusal to permit him to make a public statement regarding Morris L Ernst counsel for the plaintiff CIO and American Civil Liberties Union In an injunction tion against Hague and fellow of- TRIES TO TALK When his questioning ended the tali vice chairman of the cratic national committee turned to Judge Clark Your honor I ask permission to make a public statement regarding Mr he said I have The judge shook his head and Hague I have Again Judge Clark shook his head and said any further statement would have to be left the defense In the suit brought Jointly by the CIO and ACLU I feel very disappointed at not being Hague started Interrupted again by opposing counsel and the Judge Hague now on his feet in the witness box and motioning toward Ernst It involves this gentleman it Involves the integrity of this court HALTED AGAIN The mayor was once again halted and a short recess was taken to give him an opportunity to confer with his counsel CIO counsel said they had but one more witness to call before completing their case Many times during the trial now In its fourth week Hague had sailed Ernst as a Communist and charged him with being the master mind in a plot to gain control of labor In this try and of the country itself Close Race Is Staged for Farmer Control In Minnesota Barrows Takes Majority of Votes in Maine in Fight For Place on Ballot MINNEAPOLIS June 21 Oov Elmer A Benson Minnesota pushed ahead of his challenger Hjalmar for the Labor nomination in Monday's mary election as additional returns were compiled today The lead had changed hands frequently PETERSEN LOSES MARGIN Benson had a 5628 lead on the basis of 1689 of 3739 precincts in the state Peterson's margin built up with rural votes was slashed ily when a batch of ballots came in from county Benson stronghold The vote with about half the precincts re- ported Benson sen The two candidates polled votes more than the four Republican aspirants lending credence to the belief that sands of Republican voters had jumped the party fence in a move designed to eliminate Benson from the general election in November The race over- shadowed the Republican and contests Harold Stassen Republican and Thomas Gallagher Democrat both young lawyers were leading their respective fields OTHER PARTIES VOTE In the Republican column where the total vote of the four candidates was In 1249 precincts as com- pared with for the Labor candidates the vote Stassen Martin Nelson 396 Mayor George Leach of neapolis Harson Northrop 1439 The Democratic vote for governor in 1249 precincts has Gallagher 9227 Fred 7757 Michael Murray 6872 Victor Anderson 3465 Charles Lethert 2118 and Joe An- derson 1272 MAINE HOLDS PRIMARY r Me June 21 ff Gov Lewis O Barrows claim that a administration en- titled him to nomination for a ond term was upheld ingly today by usually inant Republicans Governor Barrows endorsed by the Republican state convention IN DEATH CASE CAMBRIDGE Md June 31 W A jury brought in a t diet today that Mrs Elizabeth Brown seventeen-year old ant mother was deliberately and f maliciously strangled to death by her husband Fred Brown before her body weighted with plow points was thrown into the river C June 14 Brown husky farmer of nearby Vienna was composed and showed t little concern when the verdict was returned handed a stunning defeat in day's primary election to youthful insurgent State Senator Roy L Fernald of and won the right to face Former Louis J Brann D In the September state election Barrows majority was more than The state's three Republican U S representatives James C Oliver South Portland first district Clyde H Smith Skowhegan second and Ralph O Brewster third won re- nomination with ease Brewster had no opposition Democrats named to oppose them Harold Emery first district F Harold Dubord of Waterville second P Ro- berts Fort Fairfield third Roberts was unopposed Returns from 608 precincts out of 629 In the state For governor Barrows Fernald FOREST FUMES WEATHER BUREAU USES ROBOTS FOR FORECASTING AID WASHINGTON June 21 W The army navy and weather bureau are getting ready to torn over to aerial robots work which human fliers have been doing or years Beginning July 1 the er bureau will send aloft small balloons at six scattered points to make weather observations at heights up to eleven miles By an ingenious radio reports of temperature and humidity indispensable In weather will be flashed from the balloons to receiving apparatus on the ground The balloons officials said may not save money at the outset but will save lives eral military and commercial pilots have been killed in crashes while making tion flights Furthermore the automatic reporting is more accurate and more extensive since fliers are unable to reach such heights The States drew on the experiences of Soviet sia Germany France and Great Britain in developing the new system AT TRIAL SAN JOSE Calif June 21 Three men burned to death and a fourth was critically injured today when a truck and an automobile col- headon The dead were Edward Harris thirty and Edward Bentley thirty both of San Francisco and Jules Szakall twenty-seven of Oakland They were in the truck Don Fuller San Jose insurance broker driver of the automobile was In- jured so badly physicians said be might dte ALPINE Texas June 21 confession of Francis Marion Black Jr that he wrestled with year-old Marvin Dale atop a four Big Bend cliff before tossing him to death in Rocky canyon to collect Insurance money was admitted into evidence at Black's trial today CONFESSION READ District Judge C R Button over- ruled a defense objection and mitted State's Attorney Roy son to read Black's own story of the mountain death plunge death of a youngster he had taken from his widowed mother only two months ago on a promise to provide him with clothing and a good home Deputy Sheriff Harold Wynne holding Black's confession was sworn in and Defense Attorney A E Owen immediately objected to the statement's admission Into evidence After Wynne's sworn statement Black had made the statement and with out coercion Judge Button told Prosecutor son to read the document Two previous attempts were made to kill the Harlingen Texas lad be- fore he was shoved off the bluff the statement said I first planned to drown the Black's confession read I took him to New Braunfels Texas but there I learned he was a good swimmer TRIED BICYCLE I bought him a bicycle hoping he would get run over by an bile and save me the trouble of doing away with him He next hit idea of bringing the boy to Alpine the ment said SILVER CITY N M June 21 A week old forest fire in the Gila national forest was under temporary control today after for a week through more than four thousand acres of big timber High winds continued to harass eight hundred fire fighters In the Black Range section but Forest Supervisor L R Lessel said the worst of the fight appeared to be past Several small crews of fighters suffering from exhaustion and minor injuries were released from the fire lines and no replacements ordered One new blaze in the Mogollon mountains was quickly extinguished last night by an ency crew Persistent Police Officer Finally Learns What's Wrong BERKELEY Calif June 21 Special Officer Jack Parker is a fellow He walked into a liquor atore last night and asked a man tinkering with the cash register where Jack Rohan the clerk was The man said Rohan was next door getting a sandwich Parker returned minute later and told the man lUll working on the cash register he was wrong The man said maybe he's washing his hands next door Parker departed and returned again shortly to find the man gone Parker found Rohan locked In a closet in the rear of the store The man at the cash register left with its con- 1 Berlin Says Spy Plot Is Case of Imagination on Part of Agents Investigation to Continue With More Indictments to Be Made Says Attorney NEW YORK June 21 IP With eighteen persons already Indicted the federal government stepped back today to await possible international repercussions before proceeding with its exposure of what a special grand jury described as a far-flung plot to steal American defense secrets HULL SILENT Secretary of State Cordell Hull returning to Washington from the Dartmouth College commencement exercises declined to discuss the intrigue which was charged in a series of Indictments returned against two officers of the German war ministry and sixteen other persons He said he would be able to operate with you newspapermen when he reached his desk in ington It was recalled that United States Attorney Lamar Hardy conferred with Secretary Hull shortly before the indictments were returned in- that he desired ton's authority for releasing such sensational charges Of the eighteen indicted only four were in custody The others were in Germany where they are safe from extradition proceedings The German foreign office in lin said it regarded the whole ter as an attempt to create a sation in the United States for ob- vious reasons SPIES IMAGINED It is quite evident that the gations overshoot the a for- eign office spokesman said It Is not so much a case of spies caught as spies imagined Meanwhile Leon G Turrou cial agent of the federal bureau of investigation who was one of the most active men on the case an- his resignation He said he would seek to recover from the rific strain under which had worked United States Attorney Hardy indicated tne investigation was far from finished without saying there would be more indictments The grand jury now in recess was dered to hold itself ready for tional evidence The defendants were charged with conspiring during the last three years to obtain U S defense secrets jand deliver them to the German government or factions In many Two other indictments de- tailed specific acts theft of plans for an army pursuit plane from the Seversky plant at Farmingdale Island and theft of an army and navy code book The Indictments resulted from Move for Peace in Spain Gains Support as Powers Agree Upon First Steps WEARY SEARCHERS E WRECK Thirty-one Known Dead in Train Crash Bodies of Twelve More Hunted Sleeping Car Lifted Creek Bed but It Back Again from Slips CITY Mont June 21 With thirty-one already known dead searchers worked today to lift up again from the oozing bed of Ouster creek a ist sleeper which railroad officials estimated contained twelve more victims of the nation's worst road tragedy in a decade 22 IDENTIFIED Twenty-two of the thirty-one known victims were identified The bodies of two unidentified women were taken last night from the sleeper which plunged with the waukee railroad's crack Olympian train through a trestle early Sunday Twelve other bodies were found earlier yesterday and a woman died in a hospital The sleeper submerged nearly thirty-six hours by the cloudburst flash flood that filled Ouster creek with a torrent twenty feet deep was jacked up on blocks after hours of slow toil last night Suddenly the heavy steel slipped loose and sank again into the sticky silt left in the bed when the Hood subsided Grimly the seventy-five workers and volunteers started their slow job again working without halt through the night Meanwhile railroad and government officials launched an investigation of INJURED ARE RELEASED All save one of the victims met death instantly officials said cille Stumley Volga S D nurse died last night at Holy Rosary pital here One other person a train sorter was still in a serious I smaller than yesterday's although moment when both sides are ALBANY N Y June 21 New York's Democratic nor Herbert H Lehman an- tonight he would cept the nomination to succeed the late senator United States Senator Royal S Copeland if my party desires me to be a candidate The governor's announcement came unexpectedly within a few hours after funeral services for New York's senior senator who died Friday night in ton OF IB FOR DE VALERA DUBLIN June 21 ant Prime Minister Eamon de Valera matched his 1932 record of seventy-seven seats in the Dail house of representatives today on final election figures which gave him an absolute of sixteen Final returns of the June 17 loting gave the following tion of De Valera's Fianna Fail party seventy-seven W T Pine Gael party five Labor nine Independent seven De Valera called the result most heartening and said that with a government majority It now te possible to pursue a steady has not been determined Turn to page S Col 8 NEW YORK June Martin president of the United Automobile Workers of America today declared a strong honest responsible labor movement was America's strongest bulwark against the Insinuations of alien Fascist or Communist Such a movement he said was part and parcel of democracy But we must Insist that It remain a labor he added and not become a tail to the kite of for- eign and hateful political ments Martin boarding an airliner lor predicted a resolution all Communists from the ranks of his union would be Introduced at the next convention ROCHESTER Minn June 21 James Roosevelt son and secretary of President Roosevelt arrived here today by plane for treatment for what Mayo clinic physicians de- scribed as a small gastric ulcer Presence of the ulcer was disclosed when the younger Roosevelt visited here in May Whether an operation would be undertaken Mayo clinic physicians said then would depend upon how the patient responds to an ambulant type of treatment Dr G Eusterman chief clinic consultant said his aides were not very much concerned about the ulcer which is believed to be benign How long Roosevelt would remain CAPITOL IS DARK IN ARIZONA POWER IS NOT PAID PHOENIX Ariz June 21 tff The many residents of zona's state government groped in darkness today or closed en- tirely because the lights had been turned off in the capitol and annex C M Zander secretary of the board of directors of state Institutions said there was a deficit in the light and the departments had re- fused to help meet it He said he ordered the power cut off Zander blamed the deficit on a waste of current and the in- of numerous small cooling units One department even had hooked up a refrigerator to keep its soft drinks he said Governor Stanford whose offices have several outside windows declined comment Some offices burned candles State Treasurer Harry M Moore moved his desk under a skylight in the capitol dome and signed checks to keep the state operating SEEN IN TO PUT END TO RALLY IN STOCKS NEW YORK June 21 The stock market stretched its rebound through the second successive sion today with many issues ad- to a share and a few as much as to TRADING QUICKENS Trading again quickened the day's turnover of shares re- cording the best volume since March 30 The list encountered considerable taking from time to time and on the average gains were Powers End Long Deadlock OR Program for Removal Of Foreign Fighters Britain Asks France Italy To Aid in Bringing Truce To Embattled Country LONDON Jane 21 of curbing or even ending Spain's destructive civil war became more promising tonight than at any time since the first shot was fired on July 18 1936 DEADLOCK ENDS Nine major European powers ending a long deadlock agreed at a nonintervention subcommittee ing on steps to remove foreign ers from the conflict Friday the subcommittee will meet again to discuss the cost of the non- intervention plan and a full session of the twenty-seven nation Is to be held shortly to approve the complete scheme Britain sought the aid of France and Italy whose sympathies are with opposite sides In the conflict to obtain a lull in hostilities while commission could operate In the house of commons British Prime Minister Chamberlain an armistice was the only practical way to end International difficulties which had arisen from the war He declared Britain would try from time to to see whether there were favorable prospects of success and when the time comes we shall be only too glad to offer our services either alone or In con- junction with others in bringing this lamentable conflict to an end FRANCO MAY OBJECT Chamberlain compared with task of mediating in the civil war to of an Industrial dispute by a third party It would be difficult to find a ion in the hospital Of the sixty-five injured who were rushed to the eighty-five bed tal here nearly all were released after minor treatment The crash which occurred shortly after midnight caught most of the passengers of the railroad's pride asleep in sleeper cars Stories of heroism were told and retold as passengers and relatives gathered in groups today Unknown men and unidentified porters and trainmen moved from car to car aiding passengers imprisoned in the overturned cars Accounts of most passengers who escaped serious Injury brought the expression ft happened so fast I didn't realize what happened until water began pouring in on me WATER RECEDES As the runaway creek quieted the volume was somewhat larger Allied Chemical closed higher at Cocoa Cola higher Johns Manville up 25 and issues finished or more higher included U S Steel hem Republic General Motors Chrysler International Harvester Standard of N J Anaconda Santa Fe and others Steels motors retail stores farm implements aircrafts oils utilities rails and metals all joined in the advance which was attributed to better sentiment concerning the business outlook and expectations the government's gram might take hold quicker than had been anticipated and stimulate trade improvement GOLD STOCKS WEAK Gold stocks alone were weak with in the final hour off Dome down and workers were able to off fifty cents Depressing the trat the submerged sleeper B ex- woo trat the submerged sleeper B seven bodies Last night the creek was almost free of water and workers jacked up the car on blocks only to see it slip loose and muddy bottom fall back on the was Secretary Morgenthau's I statement no dollar devaluation was in sight Profit takers cashing In on gains put a restrainer on advancing prices for a time shortly after the opening but shares J R Regan divisional freight and didn't hesitate long Buyers passenger agent of the road said he believed more bodies would be re- covered from the car as soon as workmen could dig through the mud and debris which flowed through the sleeper while it was submerged Louvre Museum Fire Checked PARIS June 21 work by Paris firemen tonight a blaze which threatened to damage priceless art treasures in the world famous Louvre Museum Smoke issuing from the upper stories of the museum brought seven fire companies to the scene It was found a small portion of the roof was ablaze The fire was extinguished with damage limited to the roof bled up offerings sellers vanished and the general market went on Its way toward higher ground for the second day in succession HIE OF HAMMOND La June 21 Mrs Joe Rushing bitten in the arm by a cottonwool moccasin snake during religious rites two weeks ago has recovered and returned to her home at Crystal Springs Miss Mrs Rushing refused medical treatment as members of the sect prayed by her for recovery through faith Friendship of Sacred Bull And Camel Ends in Battle SAN FRANCISCO June 21 The friendship between the sacred bull from India ard the one-humped camel from Siberia at Fleishhacker zoo ended in a furious battle day Zoo attendants who came ning with pitchforks and crowbars the camel looked like a certain winner until they halted proceedings The cause of the dispute after the animals had spent four peaceful years together In the same pen was a mystery Said Fred Chatten head Those animals were like buddies This is a great blow to all of ui ling to listen to reason from one he said particularly if side thought they were in sight of victory and therefore are unwilling to listen to any idea of compromise With the greater part of Spain under his control it is considered unlikely that Insurgent General Franco would agree to any tion of hostilities except on his own terms Thus much depends upon his heaviest backer Premier Mussolini of Italy and bow far 11 duce would be willing to go to obtain a durable friendship with Britain Chamberlain is said to have gested that if Mussolini wants the friendship pact of April to become operative he should persuade Franco to accept a truce France anxious to obtain a lar friendship agreement with Italy decided to send an unofficial sion to Franco thereby tacitly knowledging a belief In ultimate in- surgent victory RUSSIA GIVES IN Apparently France was won over to the British conviction that no matter who wins the civil war the extreme nationalism of Spain will be sufficient to drive out Germans and Italians fighting with Franco Agreement on the posal to send evacuation sions to Spain in on effort to re- move foreign troops came when et Russia which heretofore had op- posed the plan bowed to the will of he other powers Besides agreeing to the dispatch of commissions to arrange for ation the nine-power tee agreed to strengthen land sea control and put observers In certain Spanish ports to keep arms out of the warring peninsula France already has closed der to shipment of to ment Spain a move French Leftists said conceded defeat of the ish government On the basis of the subcommittee agreement the stock exchange re- covered sharply Brokers were ier than for many months trial shares of gold oil and rubber stocks rose Britain eagerly watched for dence of Spanish war TROOPS DEADLOCKED HENDAYE Prance At ish June 21 W ish Insurgent and government fought to a deadlock today In battling under a sun in the vital Castellan sector of Spain Twelve hours of heavy fighting S Cot
