Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - July 28, 1938, Reno, Nevada WEATHER FORECAST Reno and Vicinity MIR TONIGHT AND miDAY MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS NO TEMPERATURE CHANGE TEMPERATURE AT I P M TODAY H METALS Hit U S Bar 19 5 ltd V S New York Y wll Y B St Louis 4.73 St Louli 475 SIXTY-SECOND YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES RENO NEVADA THURSDAY JULY 28 1938 SIXTEEN PAGES NO 178 Investigators Are Sent to Nation's Primary Scenes To Gather Evidence Election Contest Declared Certain Whatever Result j In Tennessee WASHINGTON 28 senate expenditures com- dispatched to the nation's political hotbeds today after condemning tactics In Democratic senatorial race STATEMENT ISSUED Evidence In the campaign the committee an- points sharply toward an election contest In the United States senate regardless of which group's candidate wins It added In a formal about the primary battle which will derided next Apparently scheme and questionable dev Ice that can be used In political contest to raise funds to Influence votes and control the election result Is in full swing The committee set us as a ian over the senate's political als also took a hand In the South Dakota senatorial campaign It naked Postmaster General Parley to Investigate use by the farm security administration of Its free mailing privilege to distribute a political circular In that state The FSA the committee out a press release to boost the political stock of former Governor Tom Berry Democrat In his senate race against Chan lican Gurney asked the tee to Investigate the matter ACT ON COMPLAINTS Working at top speed yesterday the committee acted on complaints from several other states It dered Investigators back Into tucky and for mote and decided to send gators to Georgia North Dakota Indiana Illinois and California In response to new complaints After studying Missouri per clippings the members voted not to send an agent Into that state because no charges had been brought directly before it The Tennessee situation aroused so much concern among men that Chairman Sheppard D- Tex said he hoped to send al least six investigators there at once The candidates for the cratic nomination In Tennessee are Senator George L Berry Tom art Representative J Ridley ell Dr John R Neal and C L Powell BOOMTOWN HAPPY OVER NEWS WORK WILL START SOON BOOMTOWN Calif July 28 Hope and excitement reached a high in this newest of California's cities day as word spread that work on huge Shasta dam key structure In the Central Valley begin within a few days Tents and small homes sprang up overnight Real tate men talked Incessantly Lots sold from to at Boom town and nearby Buckeye and City Store fronts reminiscent of the old wild west popped up Soft drinks and beer sales rocketed a merciless sun There was much talk of In- corporation to permit sale of hard liquor Boomtown claimed a lation of 1250 City 300 Buckeye 250 Most of these residents had some means but the economic status of the one to two thousand camped along nearby roads ranged upward from nothing Some had only the trees for shelter Twelve miles away and dreds of feet down near the rail point of Coram nearly one hundred men tolled In temperatures of 120 degrees on the new railroad temporary diversion tunnel PARTY SAFE Y T 28 Canadian message re- here today said Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario and his had landed safely at Y T BROKER WITH HIM Anxiety for the premier and his party which Included Bernard E Sell Em Ben Smith famous New York broker mounted as the hours passed and the party was ed The plane took off from here at p m yesterday for Juneau Alaska about an hour's flight Delay In hearing of the landing was caused by lack of tion facilities in this Far North The party was reported awaiting weather reports at before continuing on to Juneau The plane encountered bad weather near wny Alaska and returned to cross thirty miles south of here Word of the party's arrival halted plans for a widespread search by Canadian government agencies The FOR BLACK Attorneys Decided Not to Ask Court for Opinion on His Eligibility Resolution Which Attacks Germany Also Rejected At Cleveland Meeting The committee said the evidence celling was low when the plane took before It related to assessment of off from here and the terrain be- federal employes by one group here and Is rugged In the primary and of state employes by another group FARLEY CALLED Regardless of action that may be taken In the courts to punish those practicing Illegal election methods and those exercising pressure it said there are Indications that the senate may be called upon to consider the ability of excessive money being used In behalf of the victorious and Isolated SEARCH PLANNED Premier T D of British Columbia said that while he was not very worried over the party's plight he was ready to start an Im- mediate search for the plane With the premier and Smith on an eight thousand-mile flight through Canada's vast northland is J P Toronto financier The twin-motored ship is piloted by Jimmy Towne They left Toronto July 17 arrived In Dawson Y Wednesday and the committee said the press re- lease In question while pretending to be Information with to farm security administration Is In reality a political circular The document was described by Turn to 7 Col 3 I DETROIT July 28 persons were Injured today when a crowded Detroit street railways motor bus snapped off an electric pole and overturned after colliding with an automobile A moment after the last ger was extricated from the over- turned motor bus a fallen electric wire carrying 4 800 volts short and set fire to the bus Among the Injured were John B Huglen forty-four of Miami Pla driver of the automobile and his wife Hilda forty All but six of the Injured were released after receiving hospital treatment Five French Fliers Die in Plane Fire LYON 38 French army fliers were burned to death when their plane trashed into a hill and caught fire laat night weather reports they proceeded to Juneau but made the third Yukon territory landing at CLEVELAND O July 28 assembly of the American Bar i today rejected 67 to 17 f resolution which would have asked the United States supreme court for Information on the eligibility of tice Hugo Black to sit on the court APPROVAL REFUSED The resolution presented by ward T Lee dean of the John shall Law School of Chicago was refused approval by the resolutions committee Dean Lee took the floor In of the resolution saying he did not Introduce It to obtain ity as charged by friends of Justice Black Sense of duty to the dignity of the high profession of which I am an Inconspicuous member Impelled me to offer this Lee said No one spoke against the tion The also rejected a re- solution attacking Germany for dis- crimination against law-abiding citizens solely because of their race religion or political opinions which action has shocked the con- science of The resolutions committee also previously unfavorably reported this resolution The matter is not within the purview of the the committee headed by L B Day of Lincoln Neb said of the German resolution Introduced by C C New York attorney In reporting on the Black tion the committee pointed out the supreme court already had refused to rule on the eligibility In the proceeding brought by Albert Levitt an attorney The resolution was proposed by Dean Edward T Lee of John Marshall Law School Chicago Proponents of these and seven other proposed resolutions still had an opportunity to speak for their measures on the convention floor before a vote could be reached The association's house of gates received a committee report Attacking the national labor tions board procedure under the Wagner act The committee on labor and cial security recommended that I board procedure be amended so as to observe the traditional ments of fair play guarantee an Impartial hearing and give to the employer and the employe alike the right of presenting complaints The report also criticized the cial security act as ineptly drawn and Intentionally framed in Its present form In order to meet con- LABOR ACT The committee said that under the labor act It Is Inevitable that to a large degree the national labor relations board and its subsidiary boards must be regarded as the tisans of one class against the other and the result must be to intensify class antagonism The procedure the report added Is such that it cannot com- mand the confidence of the public The committee said tion of the social security act j seems desirable and proposed elimination of the present so-called old-age reserve account the of a policy and the requirement that sums col- under the act be earmarked and set aside solely for the purpose of the act SACRED BUNDLE OF INDIAN TRIBE WORKS TOO WELL WASHINGTON July 28 AP bird bundle of the Gros Indians of North Dakota has worked so well that one Indian wishes the white man would take it back Foolish Bear and Drags Wolf representing the water buster clan of the Gros Ventres asked Indian Commissioner John Col- lier last January to help them get back the long lost sacred bundle which legend says sures good crops and abundant rains They located it in a New York museum and swapped a Buffalo horn for it Rains followed its return So much Scott H Peters a Chippewa employe of the Indian service at much tion has been He asked Collier today to persuade the water bustera to the bundle to the seum and let the white man control the FARLEY IS IN CHARGES WARSAW July 38 second Polish note protesting against alleged anti-Polish activities of the slovak Communist party was pre- sented today to the Praho ment The note said the Czechoslovak government did not consider seriously enough the warning Included In the Polish note of March 22 and ures taken by Czechoslovak Hies to liquidate activities of the Communist party are held cient It ended with an offer to help Czechoslovak police eliminate the alleged anti-Polish actions MARFA Tex July 28 marooned soldiers survivors of an ill-fated inner tube venture through Santa Helena canyon perched day on a rock ledge just above the flooding 5 DAYS ON LEDGE It was the fifth day on the ledge for the men Sergeant Clyde Ryberg and Private Clarency Hansen who with Private Harry Buckman at- tempted the dangerous nine-mile trip with the aid of automobile In- ner tubes Saturday Supplies were lowered to Wf stranded soldiers by ropes as ers awaited a drop In the river be- fore attempting to remove them by boat Plans were made to use army plans from San Antonio to search for the body of Private Buckman who lost his life in the raging stream Col R H Lewis commander of Fort D A Russell from which the men were on leave of absence went to today to take charge of the rescue MAY LOWER BOAT Plans called for the lowering of a boat by cable so ths soldiers might continue on through the canyon after the ilver recedes to a safe level If however the flood stage is longed an attempt will be made to lift the men from the ledge by ropes This would call tor about a climb Postmaster General Urged Logan for Judgeship Is Claim of Talbott Senatorial Contest Grows Warmer As Primary Day Draws Near LOUISVILLE Ky July 28 The declaration that Postmaster General Farley personally attempted to place United States Senator Logan on a federal bench and thus leave the way open for Gov A B Happy Chandler to run for Logan's seat without major tion was thrown Into Kentucky's red hot senatorial campaign by State Finance Commissioner Dan Talbott today BEGGED FOR JOB Chandler in a campaign speech declared Logan had begged for an appointment to the federal bench last spring and Logan for of ed States Senator Alben W Barkley favored by President Roosevelt promptly told an audience ler's statement was a damned lie Barkley previously had asserted Chandler tried to make a deal to get Logan a federal Judicial ap- pointment Talbott In a statement issued at Chandler headquarters here de- clared he and Chandler and Farley met early this year m Farley's of- fice In Washington and I asked Mr Farley If every position concerning Senator Logan and the had not come from him and the not from Governor Chandler He replied yes Then I asked Mr Farley if the shoe which Senator Barkley had at- tempted to place on Chandler's foot did not belong on his own foot and the foot of the president He said yes Talbott then expressed the ion in his statement that James Farley was Barkley has charged Chandler with attempting to engineer a deal whereby the president would appoint Logan to the federal bench and Chandler would succeed Logan in the senate by appointment Chandler Tuesday asserted gan had begged for a federal Judgeship and read from a letter he said Kentucky's junior senator had written to one of his closest friends regarding a court vacancy Speaking last night at about the time Talbott issued his statement Logan That letter Chandler mentioned has nothing to do with the proposal he Chandler made to the dent Talbott said conferred with the president but not tion a Judgeship for Logan Loyalists Press Advance Into Insurgent Territory In Spanish Civil Conflict FLEEING FROM HANKOW AS JAPANESE JERUSALEM July 38 Arab constables on a patrol were wounded from ambush today near the town of Bethlehem Christ's birthplace They were attacked by a band just west of Bethlehem After a running fight lasting almost an hour the retreated Their casualties were not known The situation in the north was re- ported quiet but tense Outworn Rural Mail Boxes Become Target of Campaign WASHINGTON July 28 Postal officials began a campaign today against unpainted and out- worn rural mall boxes particularly those with hinged tops Said Joseph E Cooper tendent ol rural When the rural null carrier has to leave hla automobile and use both hands on a box to get it open it's tune we did something about it The week of August IT has been set aside by the ment for cleanup rural CHICAGO July 28 man John D M Hamilton of the Republican national committee said today President Roosevelt was about four down and three to go in his preferences in Democratic primaries We are Interested in the out- comes particularly in the Texas he told reporters The defeat of MacFarlane and Maverick for the house is no inducement to the Democrats in that part of the country to seek any further pate on the back from the president Without going down the list the president is about four down and three to go in his preferences hi the Democratic primaries I imagine they will win the tucky primary but it will be like the Dutch taking Holland If the president can't his own majority he will be in bad shape Hamilton predicted the cans would win a minimum of forty-five or fifty new seats in con- gress this fall BECAUSE OF FIRE Pa July 28 northeastern Pennsylvania farmer to police today and told Corporal Charles Knight he shot two brothers found dead near his barn because they set the ing afire Knight said the farmer Domini Russo forty told I caught them setting my barn and i let them have it CHICAGO July 28 five Judges sitting as one convicted a single defendant Bailiff A J Horan of municipal court of con- tempt as the result of an episode in the Democratic primary Horan last spring ousted five of his deputy bailiffs in what he termed an economy measure His opponents members the Mayor Edward J Kelly faction of the party charged the fifty-five were removed because they were aligned against the rival group headed by Governor Henry Homer The judges of the municipal court ordered him to the men Horan declined Now as the result of the verdict reached yesterday by the five he Is faced with the prospect of jail unless an appeal is successful or he puts his former assistants back on the payroll Fears Are Expressed That Present Chinese Capital Will Fall to Invaders Opposition in Area Is Now Shattered Says Report Of Nipponese Command SHANGHAI July 28 kow authorities ordered the quick vacua tion today of all civilians in that populous area as the Japanese war machine moved re- northwestward from kiang RAIDS EXPECTED The command showed the growing Chinese fears for the metropolitan Wuhan Hanyang and Hankow Generalissimo Chiang headquarters and visional authorities de- sires to avoid needless sacrifice of noncombatants In expected Japanese air raids The Japanese offensive today en- tered Hupeh province the of the twenty-four Chinese inces to be involved in the conflict The Wuhan cities are in Hupeh which has square miles and population The entrance to Hupeh was made possible by the Japanese occupation Tuesday of 135 miles down the Yangtze from Hankow and only 00 air miles distant from the ary capital Reports of on the front were conflicting The Chinese admitted loss of the city but maintained their forces re- organized southwest of and launched a while huge fires were raging there OPPOSITION SHATTERED Japanese reports were that nese opposition in the area was MASS WEDDING IDEA FAILS TO 1 ANACORTES Wash July 28 AP Chamber of Com- merce President Paul Luvera I thought it would be a swell Idea to hold a mass and get some publicity for this city's annual eant August So he announced the idea and seven couples volunteered to be wed publicly But Luvera and the seven couples did not reckon with the Ministerial Association nor I with Police Judge Al thin They refused to have i anything to do with it so day Luvera is looking around a pastor or justice of the price who will unite his seven couples in holy matrimony The Ministerial Association This advertising stunt lark of business judgment and bad taste The fact it Is made a public show robs It of all and BITTER DEBATE AT SENATE 38 of the senate civil liberties tee ordered witnesses today to keep near the truth and they replied by calling each other liars WARNS WITNESSES The hearing grew so La Follette warred witnesses in the case Involving labor espionage in steel plants to keep their opinions to themselves TO HAVE BEYOND CITY Bombardment of Valencia Kills Dane and Chinese With British Ship Hit 200 Square Miles Seized From Rebels in Rally by Armies of Madrid HENDAYE Prance At the ish July 28 The Spanish government's South lonia army led by a former mason was reported tonight to nave pushed around and beyond and well along the road to Alcaniz VALENCIA BOMBED The day of war also brought an insurgent aerial bombardment of Valencia in eighteen persons Including a Danish nonintervention observer and p cook aboard the British freighter were killed The Just arrived from Marseille France to discharge a cargo of sugar and coffee was only slightly damaged One hundred and fifteen bombs in all were said to have been unloaded over the Mediterranean port city A similar attack on Tarragona caused widespread damage but the number of casualties was not known The government did not claim actual of opposition In the shattered and that both Japanese i He told Hie crowd of spectators to naval and infantry units were quit laughing vancing westward virtually posed Because of Uie mountainous Earl Butler captain of Republic Steel Corporation's police at Youngstown Ohio was on the stand ture of the terrain and the questioning led him to of lakes and swamps in northern concede that police shadowed union Kiangsi province the Chinese the Japanese would have to pay a heavy price for attempts to fight their way through the ince in which and chang General Chiang's main air base are located Chinese sources said the ders dug into new defense lines twenty miles up the Yangtze from Nevertheless the Japanese were In a position to land troops site for an overland advance on the Hankow railway about fifty miles south of Hankow The railway has been a main route for shipping war supplies northward from Canton CHOLERA REPORTED Cholera was said to have broken out among refugees from Despite reverses on the Yangtze the Chinese said 1500 invaders of a force of 3000 In southern Shansi province were killed and the rest fled Japanese heavily bombed Chinese positions north of this afternoon Japanese said widespread damage was in- and that their troops pied on the north bank of the Yangtze marking the first over- land advance since the occupation of The air raiders also attacked nese troops along the Nanchang railway particularly at Teian and and bombed tracks and warehouses of the ton railway at and organizers under his direction de- spite previous testimony there had been no such orders I want this testimony to stop somewhere near the declared La Follette flushing with anger I am trying to tell the Butler replied with an oath He turned to Robert Burke of Youngstown sitting nearby and that Burke lied if he mated that Republic police were in any way connected with a beating Burke said he received at a lic mill gate while distributing ature WHAT THUGS You know your thugs beat me Burke shouted What Butler roared swearing again I am a citizen of this country I'm no thug and neither are my men La admonition to stick to the case followed The committee desires to get the testimony on these events and not to have them he de- clared beating the desk for order NEWARK Calif July 28 bodies of Edward Neves twenty-six and his estranged wife Carrie twenty-four were found today on the Landing road a mile from Newark They had been shot to death Hugh who investigated expressed the opinion Neves had slain his wife and then shot himself The couple had been separated for some time NeveS living here and his wife in Hay ward Neves car was parked a short dis- tance from where toe bodies were found side by side King Takes Holiday Aboard Royal Yacht LONDON July 28 King George VI abandoned state duties day for a go as you please holiday aboard the royal yacht toria and Albert The Queen and their two daughters accompanied regional headquarters and a between the insurgent and Mediterranean fronts but it lay within the 200 square miles of tory regained from the Insurgents bv the four-day Ebro river sive PRISONERS TAKEN Reports from Barcelona said the had covered 240 square miles but other reaching Hendaye added the gains up to 193 square miles Estimates of the number of taken ranged between 5000 and 6000 So much war material was said M have been abandoned by the prised insurgents that the rout was to the defeat of Franco's talian forces on the lajara front In March 1937 A dispatch from Barcelona said that the people's strong and led by Col Enrique a Galician stonemason when the war broke out two jears leaving only enough infantrymen to clean up the town while the main force pushed ahead on the road west to Alcaniz hirty miles away by air fifty-four by road On the right of the col- umn another forre stormed a sub- ordinate communications center at Villalba de Los five miles northwest of Government sources said Lister's men had advanced on both sides of the highway to a point about halfway to Alcaniz ITALIANS MOVE UP advices reaching the French frontier said 20.000 Italian troops recently concentrated in northwestern Catalonia ably for a drive to cut Catalonia off France had been moved to Ebro front At any race Franco wag known to be rushing heavy reinforcements Turn to T col 1 STOCTON Calif July 34 Senator William a McAdoo said day he had sent a telegram to ator Morris Sheppard denying charges federal office holders were being assessed for McAdoo campaign funds Sheppard Texas Democrat is chairman of the senate campaign expenditures investigating tee James W Wellon Los Angeles senatorial nomination foe of Adoo previously telegraphed the committee asking an investigation of the California campaign Youngster at Age of Two Years Wants to Get Up in the World MADISON S D July 38 an age of twenty-six months erick John Augustad aspires to get up in the world Twice within the past week his parents Mr and Mrs John Augustad have found him climbing the mill tower The first time he was up thirty feet when halted the second time he was within ten feet of the tower's top father hac cut off the lower three feet of the windmill ladder today to put It be- yond the reach I ARE CONVICTED Alaska July 27 JP The largest and speediest trial to Bristol bay history neared an end today as eighty alien fishermen were convicted of fishing without papers Of 135 Indicted eighty men were fined each for a total of 000 and all were given suspended and Attorney Joe Kehoe at of convicted fishermen had a wason stake of between and Some had never applied for citizenship and others had let their first papers expire Those exonerated had cot made cut their papers properly
