Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - November 5, 1938, Reno, Nevada FORECAST Reno and Vicinity FAIR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE TEMPERATURE AT 2 P M TODAY 58 METALS Id C a Bar U S lent New 1 Y 11.25 11.15 Y E St Louli 4.95 It Louis sos York duty pd SIXTY-SECOND YEAR TWENTY PAGES RENO NEVADA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 1938 TWENTY PAGES NO 264 Carnegie Tech Defeats Pitt Fordham Wins Over St Mary's Michigan Halts Penn As Syracuse Is Victor Game With Colgate in i Notre Dame Beats Navy by 15 to 0 Purdue Blanks Ohio State Eleven PITTSBURGH Nov 5 In an astounding upset the unpredictable Carnegie Tech Tartans blasted Pittsburgh's power and turned on a lot of their own to accomplish an inspired victory today one thousand Jans viewed the meeting of the neighborhood rivals which snapped the Panthers undefeated record of twenty-two games The Tartans who lost their only game this season to Notre Dame left the crowd stunned with their brilliant performance Pitt's supposedly invincible power attack was stopped cold after Curly Stebbins opened the scoring in ths first period with a ninety-seven yard runback of the kickoff The gallant Techs came back with a touchdown of their own in six minutes of play counting on Condit's bullet pass to Muha over the goal line Both teams ed the extra points but Pitt ed at the end of the period on the strength of field goal The payoff came in the next riod much in the same fashion as Carnegie's first when Carnelly shot a pass that bounced out of hands and into those of Striegel Tech end over the goal line Carnelly kicked the trs point Coach Kern of the Tartans one time assistant to Jock la J at Pitt saw his lads add a period touchdown for good measure ST MARY'S LOSES POLO GROUNDS N Y Nov 5 A placement field goal from the twenty-two yard line by Wilbur Stanton in the second period gave Fordham a 3 to 0 victory over St Mary's before fans here day The Rams had the hand most of the way but could not push over a touchdown SYRACUSE WINS SYRACUSE N Y Nov 5 One bold bid for victory at the start of the fourth period an end around play with Phil Allen carrying the ball gave Syracuse the touchdown POLICE OFFICERS TOO CONFIDENT SANTA ROSA Calif NOT 5 IP Federal department of justice agents were called In today to aid in bunting a tive who tricked and escaped from a good-natured police chief and two California way patrolmen The officers said the hunted man was believed to be man Hulton rado under ment in Grand Rapids Mich as a fugitive from justice in a robbery case Chief of Police Boyd Miller of Sonoma said he and two highway officers went day to a restaurant where the suspected man was working as a dishwasher and waiter under the name of Bob They told him they wanted him to go with them to the police station But I've got a couple of customers inside I've got to serve said All said Chief Miller we'll wait The officers waited outside left by the back door j Chief Miller said he had as Mosteller from an FBI circular I Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Lost in Flames In Sixteen States Hundred Major Blazes in West Virginia Alone Is Report of Forester IN ALCATRAZ IS 10 FEDERAL Two Convicts on Trial in San Francisco on Charge Of Slaying Guard Court Will Take Recess Man Who Blocked Break On Stand SAN FRANCISCO Nov 5 A four-day recess began in the der trial of two Alcatraz prison Proposals for Legislation To Rehabilitate Lines to Be Discussed Monday Union Officials Jubilant Over Withdrawal of Plan For Wage Reductions WASHINGTON Nov 5 road labor and management their wage quarrel composed and a strike after the i threat dispelled will confer here nn for SHIP AFLOAT AT OAKLAND Calif Nov 5 JP Pumps were worked at full capacity today aboard the German steamer Vancouver ripped by a mysterious explosion Thursday but barely kept the water from rising in the ship FIVE INJURED A cofferdam around the jagged hole sprung a new leak and move By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Forest fires consumed timber on additional thousands of acres today but rains checked the spread of flames in many sections of the fire area RAIN BREAKS DROUGHT Drenching rams in the South broke a prolonged drought and helped control hundreds of blazes but permanent relief depended upon continued precipitation The damage to timber stands and farm crops was estimated in the hundreds of thousands The fire area extended from Michigan to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Mississippi watershed H W Berckman district forester estimated the timber loss in one Kentucky county Harlan at 000 Fires swept over eight sand acres in the state and gered five major coal mining erties Harlan and Pike counties in the coal fields still were menaced despite the rains There were a hundred major fires and uncounted small ones raging in West Virginia where State Forester D B Griffin said the flames had the backs against the wall A sixteen hundred-mile area of the in the fire zone Nearly three sand men were on duty TOWNS THREATENED The West Virginia blazes burned a coal tipple at Thurmond causing loss of threatened four soaked grain was delayed Five crew members were injured in the explosion which occurred as the Vancouver was passing through the estuary toward deep water in San Francisco bay Baron Manfred von Killinger Nazi consul m San Francisco ed the blast on saboteurs and other v i official opinion appeared to lean that beat Colgate 7 to 0 today for ward the belief if occurred outside ment to a dock to discharge mining towns and isolated woodland the first time in fourteen years HARVARD WINS CAMBRIDGE Mass Nov 5 Harvard launched its most violent scoring burst in two seasons to over- whelm Chicago's Maroons day before a slim crowd of twenty thousand PENN STOPPED ANN ARBOR Mich Nov 5 Michigan staved off a last period scoring rush by Penn's Quakers day to score an intersectional tory 19 to 13 before fans Michigan put over two touchdowns in the second period and another in the third two of them by Paul Kromer sophomore halfback Penn the ship and was not accidental The explosion took place in the Oakland estuary as the ship a freighter with limited passenger space swung out from its Oakland terminal en route to San Francisco SIX INQUIRIES Six different agencies including the federal bureau of investigation the United States department of commerce and the Alameda county district attorney's office launched homes and advanced to the edge of Charleston the capital Smoke made automobile traffic hazardous and officials said it might be necessary to suspend hunting because of the danger to woodsmen Heavy rains curbed fires In ern Illinois after Gov Henry Horner had declared a state of emergency existed Scattered showers came to the aid of 2500 fighters in Michigan and postponed issuance of a state of emergency order by conservation di- rector P J Hoffmaster Flames crept through an mated twenty thousand acres of timber and brush land in Indiana before light rains checked their ad- vance The rains also halted the first inning which was packed with enough blood and thunder mony to fill a dime novel IN COUNTY JAIL The Interval will be passed In the county change at least from the grim routine of The James C Lucas and congress Monday on proposals for legislation to rehabilitate the carriers SUPPORT PROMISED President Roosevelt gave ance of his support for an effort to put through a constructive program of legislation at the next session of fus Franklin on trial for their lives Executives of the major roads de- for their part in the desperate ded yesterday at Chicago to drop on break attempt of last May 23 their proposal for per cent Prison guard Royal M Cline was cut workers to death Nevada Candidates Ending Campaigns in Preparation For Election Next Tuesday President Voices Plea to Elect Liberals Hoover To Speak Tonight Unusual Heavy Voting Is Forecast for Tuesday by Party Leaders By Associated Press Candidates throughout the nation animation of a death mask of his cept it face dented from one of the blows rained upon his skull and gruesome formed part of the jury's unpleasant duty yesterday while court room thrill seekers era and some stared at the pale set face of Etta Cline the widow in her front row seat Jurors went about their usual business today carrying In mind the warning of Judge Harold back that they must not discuss or permit discussion in their presence of any phase of the case It is not customary to lock up federal Juries even hi murder cases FOUR-DAY RECESS Trial was recessed because day's court routine does not permit of trial sessions On Monday Judge Louderback must sit with a judge federal court in the Pacific Gas Electric Company gas rate case and Tuesday is election day Some of the jurors said they had special election day duties to form Yesterday first-hand account of that escape attempt in which a convict Thomas Limerick lost his life along with the guard Cline and defendant Franklin was wounded in The story was told by Harold B Stites the man who blocked the break Under questioning by United States Attorney Frank Hennessy the Alcatraz guard told how he emptied his 45 caliber revolver and then used a Springfield rifle firing at the three convicts who broke a window in the carpenter shop and climbed J J Pelley president of the sociation of American Railroads no- Mr Roosevelt that the action was taken because rail management officials recognize the gravity of their necks this situation and because they hope that out of it will come through operation of all concerned a er and more equitable policy The roads did not abandon the wage cut Pelley told the president because they agreed with the finding board appointed by Mr Roosevelt After weeks of hearings the board reported that it believed no reduction should be made UNIONS JUBILANT After receiving message Mr Roosevelt declared that body in the nation is happy that the railroads will withdraw the notices of wage reductions Jubilantly George M Harrison chairman of the Railway tives Association told reporters the action cleared the way for ences on a legislative program Recently President Roosevelt pointed an informal committee of six including three representatives of management and three of labor to work out legislation for sion to congress The committee which the dent said might have to be expand- ed is composed of Harrison Carl R Gray vice chairman of the Un- ion Pacific M W Clement dent of the Pennsylvania Ernest E Norris president of the Southern D B Robertson chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and and Bert M ell president or the Railway Em- they listened to the to the roof hurling pieces of iron ployes Department of the American at the guard tower Federation of Labor In vain Defense Attorney Harold PROGRAM Faulkner tried to block this mony on the ground that Guard The railroad association in the past has proposed a Cline already had been killed below gram some of which has already and what happened on the roof has no part in the murder Faulkner has indicated he will make no at- tempt to deny his clients tion in the escape attempt but will contend that neither one killed inquiries into the accident LONDON Nov 5 dental firing of one of Britain's famed 12 shots a minute anti- aircraft guns in which a blank had I been loaded instead of an empty shell case killed one territorial dier today and wounded five others i The crew manning the gun re- to be a deadly menace to any j existing aircraft was cleaning alter a mock air attack when to an estimated ten thousand acres of timberland near McMinnville Tenn Fires were reported still out of control in Hardin county Rains checked some of the larger fires in Alabama North Carolina and Mississippi South Carolina Louisiana and Arkansas had only minor blazes after the downpour Muck fires continued to burn in the Florida everglades The west coast of Florida reported the wettest October in sixteen years It was PINE CITY Minn Nov 5 tne m many years for most of Harlan Hopkins tne Middle West and South youth convicted of first degree der in connection with the death of his mother father and brother day was sentenced to life ment by Judge A P Stolberg in dis- court spread of fires which had laid waste cline and both learned of his death blank shell left in the breech was JEFFERSON Tex Nov 5 fired accidentally hurling a ramrod Donald Covin insane killer once sentenced to the electric chair but into the crew AS PLOTTERS saved by a sanity hearing escaped j from a train here last night Fugitive from the Rusk asylum 1 Covin traced to St Louis by relatives and being brought peacefully back to jumped from the train as it departed after a stop here BERLIN Nov 5 Adolf Hitler's newspaper Beobachter disclosed today that one man is under death sentence and three others face imprisonment after SIMLA India Nov 5 trial before the people's court Kipling notwithstanding the charges of plotting an armed j modern British soldier in India pre- EMDEN Germany Nov 5 Authoritative sources said today a Spanish government freighter had been captured in the North sea by the Spanish insurgent auxiliary cruiser Ciudad de Alicante The crew of the merchant ship Identified as the Rio Miera was said to have been imprisoned and the seized ship brought to port here with an insurgent crew This was the second attack in a week by a Spanish insurgent man-of-war on Spanish government merchant vessel in the North sea Modern Soldier Prefers Milk To Sterner Stuff in India BUDAPEST Nov 5 ian troops crossed the Danube river on a pontoon bridge exactly on the scheduled second today to start occupying another slice of bered Czechoslovakia While the rest of Hungary which was awaited this moment since she lost territory after the world war called the day her national The newspaper said the march was stuff Authorities attribute a sharp twice the ratio for troops serving in the soldiers entered the to occur simultaneously decrease in sunstroke and heat ex- j Britain For the native ceded area totalling some 4875 square with an advance by the Red Army J cases to this preference diers the ratio 390 per 1000 miles north of Altenberg Hungary tarian march on Berlin milk and lemonade to stefner but the number of hospital sions is still high Of the British soldiers in India an- are admitted to hospital after they were back in custody GUARD FIRES Guard Stites told of hearing the sudden smash of the glass as the shop window was broken of seeing three prisoners coming toward his glass tower through a barbed wire barrier hurled an iron bar He said one through the tough glass and that he fired one warning shot The next man Limerick threw a piece of iron through the he said I fired a shot at him and he fell He told of firing twice at Franklin hitting him in each shoulder Franklin was in the prison hospital for some time after the escape at- The witness said Franklin staggered back into the barbed wire and collapsed Stites said he fired twice at Lucas too but missed He said he had tossed away his empty revolver and was using the rifle when other guards swarmed to his aid By that time Limerick was dead Franklin hanging limp on the wire and Lucas cowed and quick to surrender at adjournment Stites was being been the subject of controversy in congress The program includes re- vision of Interstate Commerce Com- mission rate-making procedure low rate government loans abolition of reduced government freight rates repeal of the long and short haul rate law and new regulation ff wa- ter transportation Chairman Wheeler of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee who conducted an ex- tensive investigation of railroad ances has urged that legislation be enacted to speed up reorganization of insolvent roads Other suggestions have included coordination of railroad facilities and consolidation of certain lines climax to the most intense and raising election campaign in national history INTEREST IS KEEN The great popular interest re- in predictions of an ballot total Tuesday red Republican and Democratic leaders in their efforts to turn the tides of victory in scores of ently close races President Roosevelt brought the national campaign of the Democrats to its peak last night by ing an appeal for continued liberal government Former President Hoover and tional Chairman John Hamilton will speak for the Republicans tonight Hoover's address to a Spokane Wash Republican rally will be broadcast from 9 to 10 p.m over the Mutual network Hamilton will speak over the red network of NBC from 10 to p.m Mr Roosevelt spoke from his Hyde Park N Y home and as a citizen of his native state He en- the Democratic candidacies of Governor Herbert H Lehman and Senator Robert F- Wagner both seeking re-election and tive James M Mead the party's nominee for the senate vacancy caused by the death of Senator Royal S Copeland MURPHY PRAISED Only once did he discuss specific candidates outside of New York state Then he spoke warm words of praise for the way Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan handled the Michigan automobile strikes in 1937 Murphy is opposed for tion by Frank D Fitzgerald lican nominee While most of the president's speech was devoted to tha New York contests many of his remarks were addressed to a national audience We have to have reasonable con- in liberal government to get he said adding hat the voters should remember hat need when they cast their lots Tuesday The trend of his speech was taken by many politicians to imply a that his six-year-old ad- ministration is the main issue be- fore the country Throughout he called for strong support of liberal candidates and policies Not once did he mention the Democratic party nor the Republican Turn to page 11 Col 3 SANTA CRUZ Calif Nov S Jean David reported to have disappeared after leaving the public library here last night was located by police early today at the home of her grand- father A Steiner Police Chief Al Huntsman had dered his entire force into the search on the theory the girl might have been kidnaped She is the daughter of L R David quarry of the Santa Cruz ment Company at Davenport NEW YORK Nov 5 still an tion issue in New York state The state liquor authority an- today that forty-six towns in twenty-four counties throughout SPEECH IS SEEN AS PAYING WAY FOR THIRD TERM NEW YORK Nov S Norman Thomas Socialist for governor suggested last night that President velt was paving the way for a j third term by appealing for t support of Governor Lehman j and the New Deal In a radio address over j replying to the dent's fireside broadcast from Hyde Park Thomas The president perhaps sub- consciously was laying the ground work for his own third term in stressing the need for continuity in the liberal policies j Thomas asserted that veil by failing ia speak against j Mayor Hague had made self a silent ally in the sion of free speech and bly When the president remains silent on the situation in sey City he ignores a cancer that knaws at whatever he stands he said Drive For Is Quiet With Personalities Left Out of Talks Washoe Judgeship Race Is Drawing Most Attention In This County BY PRESIDENT NEW YORK Nov 5 New York Herald Tribune replying day to criticism by President velt of an editorial in the asserted on its editorial page that I the executive not only had failed to understand the point made but also had seen fit to discuss it in- temperately EARLY RESPONSE Today's editorial was So what considering the source The president in a- press ence at Hyde Park yesterday as deliberate tion an editorial So ing with his reply to a query last week relating to a Republican state committee poll of 5000 voters in Connecticut Approximately forty-four sand Nevada voters will go to iha polls next bringing to an j end one of the quietest general Ition campaigns in recent years In addition to a senator and a in congress a full set of state officers will be elected and in every county a full set of county and township officials will ba named n PER CENT OF VOTE i Despite the apparent apathy j shown in the campaign it is ed that about seventy-two per cent of the registered voters will go to the polls to cast perhaps the largest total vote ever polled in the state In Washoe county the vota will approximate out of tha registered it is believed Tha estimates are based on the actual vote percentage cast in 1934 and 1936 in the state and county In 1934 74.3 per cent of the registered voters in the state cast their lots in a state wide election while in the presidential election of 1936 73.6 per cent of the voters went to the polls to cast votes Washoe voting to three per cent state average and t is believed here that 76 per cent t registered voters in the county will the polls on day JO FIREWORKS The 1938 campaign marked a parture in many ways from campaigns particularly able being the absence of personal attacks in the few public addresses that were made by the competing candidates Aside from a futile attempt on the part of a third organization the backers of which have not come In- showed 85 per cent of the no as to they were 5000 persons answered whether they believed better off than two years ago The president said his comment was So what considering the source He said the editorial omitted mention of the organization and his words considering the source In its reply the newspaper said in The president was indignant be- cause we omitted the phrase con- the To him the source was apparently more tant than the question and if we understand him correctly the fact that the source was Republican made the question unworthy of his serious attention SOUGHT TO PASS IT In our view the source of the question was utterly irrelevant to sue and to generally the wa- ter there lias been hardly a instance in the campaign that called for harsh words on the part of op- posing candidates Former Senator Tasker L John A Fulton candidate for ernor and Harry E Stewart for representative in con- gress bore the brunt of the lican campaigning and spent several weeks in an intensive personal vass meeting at all times with a generous reception YEAKEY SPEAKS Benton Yeakey candidate for secretary of state on the an ticket demonstrated during the course of the campaign that he Is one of the best speakers in the state and a hard campaigner who knows every inch of Nevada He was used i i i i on numerous occasions to drive What counted was the truth of the home the m reply and the president's obvious de- made an excellent impression Old sire to pass it by without comment Certainly the source of the poll in no way detracts from the pertinence of our editorial It is significant that the dent made no attempt to refute or to answer in any way the points which were made WASHINGTON Nov 5 advisability of having state laws along lines of the Wagner labor act will be discussed the national conference on labor legislation here November 14 15 and 16 Secretary of Labor Perkins told reporters this subject would be one of the chief topics for the ence State labor relations act already are on the statute books of New WASHINGTON Nov 5 of the and Utah Miss Perkins said the conferees also would discuss state cooperation in the enforcement of new federal law The governors of thirty-six states have designated representatives to attend the conference disclosed today that 208 for the thirty-five senate seats to be filled at next week's tions had reported expenditure of In their primary campaigns Sheppard commented that fifty of these candidates had reported ing of the total Story of New York Is Buried In Its Garbage Says Sayant BOSTON Mass Nov 5 thousand years hence the story of New York may be tells j he ex- Institution He opined students would learn more about New York from Its rubbish than from the timers like Andy seeking the office of state controller and Thomas Lotz candidate for or general on the Republican ticket found it easy to greet old friends Frank McNamee Jr who hails from Clark county added able strength to the Republican ticket as candidate for lieutenant governor and Charles Huber of Republican candidate for inspector is another old timer who is veil known throughout the state Lloyd V Smith Republican contender for attorney general did considerable speaking in his and stressed principally tha need for employing Nevada labor on highway projects Mrs Oline C Stewart who is one of the best known women in southern Nevada added a feminine touch to the Re- publican state ticket as candidate for clerk of the supreme court a sition that is also being sought by Mrs George Brodigan Democrat who now holds the office LONE WOLF CAMPAIGNS Both the Democrats and the Re- publican candidates moved out at times from under the wings of the state central committee in lone wolf campaigns adding a touch to Nevada campaigning which may or may not become the general tice henceforth Forrest W Ercles Republican state chairman and George L Democratic state chairman were directing their first campaigns Neither organization the state would the asserted Dr Alfred V It is the happy local 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