Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - December 16, 1938, Reno, Nevada RECORDED WEATHER FORECAST Reno and Vicinity CLOUDY TONIGHT AND SATURDAY LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE TEMPERATURE AT 2 P M TODAY SO METALS Bar M U S Bar sliver IS U S equivalent New York Y export 10 Y E St Loute St 4.50 York duty pd I SIXTY-SECOND YEAR TWENTY PAGES RENO NEVADA FRIDAY DECEMBER 16 1938 TWENTY PAGES NO 299 Return of Monarchy in Spain Seen in Move Taken by Franco E Rebels However Are Split Over Return of Alfonso To Former Throne Exiled King Hears Report Of Restoration of His Property While in Rome j HENDAYE Prance At the ish Dec 16 of the Spanish insurgent Francisco Franco to re- store all civil rights and properties to former King Alfonso sharply di- vided insurgent opinion today on the imminence of a return to the monarchy DECREE ADOPTED The decree giving Alfonso all rights that correspond to him as a citizen of Spam was read by co to the insurgent council of at and they adopted it yesterday One group of insurgents at this border zone said it was the first step toward restoring the Bourbon archy in Spain backed by Franco Spanish circles in Rome where fonso is living doubted he would re- turn to Spain as a result of the de- cree Another group however declared that Franco took only a temporary step to still growing fears among Carlists a separate monarchial j group and followers of Alfonso that the insurgent regime had no tion of putting a king back on the throne In any event as soon as the de- was known widespread dence was given here to reports yesterday from Morocco that Franco had sent a mission to Rome WORKING WIVES AROUSES FUROR IN LEGISLATURE BOSTON Dec 16 ers of feminine camps in Massachusetts battle over working wives aimed day for a showdown fight in the coming session of the state lature Victorious in recent ballot box tests the Massachusetts men's Political Club served notice It would drive for ment of a law barring from public service jobs all women whose husbands were able to support them Equally vehement leaders of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters and the Business and Club said they were ready for a finish fight to prevent discrimination based on sex and marriage Women and men were meant to be partners not asserted Miss ham president of the Women's Political Club and leader of the movement to scratch the names of working wives from the payroll Such a said Miss Mary Heard the League of Women Voters executive secretary would prevent marriage and encourage concealment lead to divorces in many instances and might eventually lead to dis- crimination against all women System Somewhat Similar To Federal Road Grants Is Being Considered Coster Accused Drug Firm Head Kills Himself as Officers Come To Arrest Him for Second Time Dissatisfaction Is Being Voiced to Blank Check Method Now Used WASHINGTON Dec 16 gressional circles heard today that the administration may support a proposal for distributing relief funds on a formula somewhat similar to that used for federal road grants BYRNES DISSATISFIED Senator Byrnes pilot of relief appropriation bills in the ate already has made known his dis- satisfaction with the present blank check method of distributing funds The president Harry and WPA Hopkins now have LONDON Dec 16 Great to discuss the monarchy question Britain laid the groundwork today with the infante Jon so's youngest son MAY ACCEPT SON Alfonso left the throne April 14 for a trade against the totalitarian states PLAN APPROVED Backed by Prime Minister 1931 during a bloodless revolt which new forceful attitude brought the Spanish republic now ward Nazi Germany the export represented by the guarantees seen as a possible government against which the aid to British exporters in meeting Franco Insurgents are warring It was reported a year ago Franco might agree to Prince Juan rather himself for a king of insurgent held territory fonso is fifty-two Juan twenty-five Most of the Bourbon and monarchist leaders were said to have agreed early in the war that Juan would be acceptable to them The Falangists an important element of the insurgent political set-up long have been al however On the war front itself two in- surgent attacks in northeastern and southwestern Spain apparently were cut short before the long-awaited general offensive could develop Insurgent dispatches said there were merely local on the Estremadura and Catalan fronts yesterday ALFONSO HEARS NEWS ROME Dec 16 exiled former King Alfonso saw his an Germany's barter trade system was given second reading by the house of commons The measure would increase from to 000 the total export guarantees which the board of trade could grant It also contains a vision whereby material assistance could be sent to China R S Hudson secretary of the overseas trade department described the as one of the methods without precedent in our history which Great Britain might be re- quired to use in fighting unfair foreign competition LINKED WITH ARMS Members of parliament carefully avoided direct reference to many whose political leaders were final determination of allocations Byrnes contends that the WPA has spent more in New York City than in a number of Southern states with greater total population He is under- stood to be working on a plan which will take into account not only but the need for relief and the extent of the area in which aid funds are to be administered This would follow in general the President However Claims He Has Not Made Up His Mind on Commerce Post Senator Holt Asserts That Promotion Would Hurt Relief Investigation WASHINGTON Dec 16 President Roosevelt said today amid talk that Harry Hopkins might be the new secretary of commerce that he had not yet made up his mind on cabinet replacements TWO VACANCIES Resignation of Attorney Cummings and Secretary of Com- merce Roper have left two cies Mr Roosevelt said he could not tell when cabinet appointments or an appointment to the supreme court might be expected Also asked at his press conference whether any more resignations in the cabinet were in prospect Mr Roosevelt said there were none that he knew of Bombarded with inquiries about the filling of a number of vacancies the president said he soon would fill a place on the Home Owners Loan Corporation board He was asked too about reports that Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan would receive some high government position The president responded that there were many such reports Senator Holt said in a statement meanwhile that If kins the WPA administrator were SPELL BY TVA ON IIS Federal Authority Behind Los Angeles Reports Over Since Two Inches During Storm Sales of Electricity Of Last Two Days Bookkeeping System Used Traffic Accidents Result Earlier Is Criticized by Witness at Hearing WASHINGTON DSC 16 In Deaths Toll Grows to Five Persons LOS ANGELES Dec 16 Congressional investigators learned Blinding rain was blamed today for j today that the Tennessee Valley ine deaths three bringing lost on its power op- in the fiscal year ending June 30 1938 DEFICIT A preliminary financial statement of the authority's entire operations submitted to the TVA investigating committee showed a deficit of 664 in the five years the authority the storm was that of Y I Southern California's toll during the storm to five HEAVY HAIN Three men were killed in electric train and traffic accidents last The first death attributed to has been selling electricity was wept off the deck of a The report was part of a mass of purse seiner Another fisherman j principle down by congress to j to the cabinet it govern distribution of road funds Allocations for that purpose are made on the basis of one-third for tion one-third for mileage of post roads and one-third for area USE STATE FUNDS In addition the Byrnes plan would call for greater cooperation between the states and the federal ment in the administration of relief funds It would offer the possibility that states might be asked to con- tribute twenty-five per cent toward their relief outlay or demonstrate that they we unable to do so Because of this latter feature Re- publican senate leaders gave clear indications today that they would await the administration's agreement on a concrete program before re- newing their perennial proposal to turn administration if relief back to the states One Republican leader who de- to be quoted by name predicted that if the Byrnes program were pre- sented substantially as outlined it would receive the support of at least twenty Republican senators WANT RESTRICTIONS Senator Vandenberg said a Republican program would be presented but he made it plain that if this falls to win approval as It has for the last three years he would support any reasonable Democratic proposal placing more restrictions on relief spending The minority party's plan berg said will call 1 Consideration by the states of the relative need of direct and work TVA financing evidence offered the committee by E L Kohler the controller j The statement showed total enue in 1938 of In the was killed when the mast g sardine boat struck him Traffic victims were William Belknap Durate hit by a Pacific electric train George C not be a promotion but a move to prevent congressional investigation of his scandalous handling of re- lief POLITICAL MACHINE Holt said that if Hopkins did not get a new job before the facts are mown about his administration it warned by Chamberlain yesterday to relief beware of Britain's financial power in any war Hudson linked the export drive with rearmament when he declared cient royal Bourbon house nearer to that in the world of power politics 1 regaining the throne of Spain today j undoubtedly the trade of this ts a result of an insurgent Spanish try to a very large extent is decree restoring the civil rights hsi lost under the republic The former monarch awaited of- confirmation of the news and sought a clarification of reports that the insurgents had returned his sonal property in his one-time dom He has lived chiefly in Italy since leaving Spain seven and a half years His acting secretary said fifty-two year old Alfonso had no plans to turn immediately to Spain as a re- sult of insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco's action restoring his civil rights He is known how- ever to maintain his family's claims to the presently non-existent throne ent on the question of whether or not the world believes we are in nest about our schemes of ment The major points of Hudson's 2 Giving the states the final de- on how available relief funds are to be spent 3 Requiring reasonable matching of relief funds by the states to clinch the central authority over their ex- Vandenberg agreed with a previous statement by Byrnes that any new relief will be almost certain to carry a provision prohibiting the ex- of relief money for LIMA Peru Dec 16 W The United States after obtaining ths unanimous consent of the other twenty American republics today presented to the Pan-American con- ference a sweeping resolution ing for reduction of barriers to In- trade The resolution is expected to receive speedy formal conference acceptance The United States obtained this show of unanimity at a time when Argentine suspicion of Washington's future foreign policy appeared likely to become a strong factor in ence speech defending the were cal purposes proved by the government tion especially when he indicated the government was going into the fight on a long-term basis to build lasting goodwill through the sion of credits to those countries which would appreciate assistance most Tex Dec 16 office inspectors were en route here today to investigate the burning of a Railway mall car yesterday after explosion of a age Some seventy sacks of mail were WASHINGTON Dec 16 destroyed Including registered mail Reed terming the social and parcel post curity program a flop thus far i D W McCoy mail clerk said he expressed doubt today that old age found a package addressed to a benefits could be extended Hebbronville address emitting smoke ically to farm and domestic and picked it up It was too hot to ers as has been proposed He de- handle and he put it down The ex- clared the vision entire law needed re- plosion followed and flames spread quickly throughout the car Bargain at School Cafeteria Quickly Taken by These Folk OMAHA Neb Dec 16 bargain didn't go unnoted When Mr and Mrs John Public learned the municipal university cafeteria was serving salads for a nickel and meat courses for eight cents dining out at the cafeteria became a fad School Head Rowland Haynes told the re- gents Today the was closed to the public 1938 fiscal year and of for i sorii willowbrook killed when the five-year period Direct ex- Other electric train hit a car in penses for the 1938 fiscal year were which he was riding and a man which left a net income tentatively identified as Ware of before allocation of mon expense i For the five year period this net was Memphis Tenn struck by a driver The storm which brought great benefits to crops as well as much Kohler said the controller damage in brush fire denuded areas al's office In Washington had sent nas Los Angeles more than Lit O would be too to offer men to check on two inches of rain and larger TVA and WBS one im to five a job on the WPA let alone a cabinet post For some time he has been ing the WPA as a political Holt declared He now sees an inevitable restriction of his huge and wasteful spending therefore he will be removed from the line of fire but that will not protect the people The people know the man whose political philosophy is ing taxing and electing There have been rumors for TVA books and that was one rea up to more than five son why I did not get excited about inches in other areas their reports j Roosevelt highway the coast route Kohler a tall grave-faced north to San Francisco was closed countant who became chief of by landslides near Santa Monica financial accounting in May also creeks draining an area burned in was critical of the way TVA had previously kept its books The witness said he had been a brush fire last month rushed un- hindered toward the ocean carrying boulders and other debris Families eral weeks that still other members Representative Jenkins of the president's official family j interrupted to disagree saying might retire or be shifted to other positions Postmaster General ley Secretary of War Woodring and unable to reconcile TVA financial m cabins not destroyed by the fire statements to congress but added wera reported in no danger when a these were unimportant as mere downpour lasting several hours sub- bookkeeping adjustments Secretary Swanson of the navy have been mentioned in that connection Reports that Hopkins would re- lions of citizens and most sided Rainfall was light in the San nardino mountains swept by fires at the same time and no damage men depended upon these was reported ments as accurate records HOMES ABANDONED by experts I'm inclined to believe these early reports could not have been put out Los Angeles two-day storm total reached 2.34 inches at midnight PST but a four-inch fall WAS re- AND OF COSTER TOLD IN RECORD NEW YORK Dec 18 PHILLIP MUSICA Italy 1877 son of barber Emigrated to America when six Reared on New York's squalid East Side Convicted of fraud in 1905 then pardoned by President Convicted of grand ceny in 1913 and received a pended sentence Charged with subornation of perjury in 1920 but dismissed F DONALD COSTER As it appears in Who's Who Born Washington D C May son of Frank ald and Marie Girard C University of Heidelberg 1909 M D 1911 Married Carol Jenkins Schiefflin of Jamaica L N Y May 1921 j and I Practicing physician New York j City prcs Girard Co J successors to Chemical j pres McKesson J Roboins drug since also pres McKesson Bobbins Ltd dir Bridgeport City Trust Co Conn Trust Co Clubs New York Yacht Bankers Lotus Advertising New University Black j Rock Yacht j Brooklawn Country J Head of McKesson Robbins Proves to Be One-Time Immigrant Convict Police Record Was Hidden So Well He Was Able to Form Huge Corporation AS AID FOR NEW YORK Dec 16 the amazing schemer and ex-convict who changed his name to F Donald Coster and became president of McKesson and Robbins Inc killed himself with a pistol shot in his Conn home day only a few hours after his real identity was disclosed BROTHERS INVOLVED His suicide followed the al revelations that he and at least one other brother under the name of George Vernard had hidden their past police records sufficiently well to become prime moving forces In the corporation which last year had listed assets of and in business The actual identity of a third man George E Dietrich assistant treasurer of the firm was still Irt slight doubt but federal authorities held it likely that he too was a brother of Dietrich and were charged with lation of the securities act of 1934 because they allegedly filed false in- formation on the firm with the New York stock exchange shot himself through the head a short after his and the arrest of rich and Vernard were ordered by the federal authorities here A fourth man Robert Dietrich another employe of the firm was being brought here from cut for questioning He was ed to have told authorities in New Haven that he was the fourth WASHINGTON Dec 16 tall handsome elect Culbert L Olson proposed j sica brother and that George today the adoption of a j was a Musica brother also program of self-help and productive works projects as the only sound approach to the ployment problem place Roper had been current even I by Kohler said unsmiling ported in the San Fernando Valley TVA executive said when while the latter was denying that he would withdraw Hopkins has been attending cabinet meetings in his capacity as relief director and Is one of the most regular White House conferees If he is appointed one Democratic senator who asked anonymity de- clared it would be a build-up for the 1940 Democratic presidential nomination Some who Insist that Hopkins has the inside track claim the position would give him a chance to strate that work as in behalf of business ment as he has In behalf of the people on relief But one of the obstacles he un- doubtedly would have to overcome in winning senate confirmation for a cabinet post would be the tion of various Republican and anti- Democratic senators who have disagreed sharply with his methods of administering the WPA Probably even before the com- merce vacancy is filled the senate will receive a report on the Inquiry by its campaign expenditures committee into com- plaints of politics in relief Some administration critics were quick to relate to that report a possible transfer of Hopkins which they said necessarily would temper the effect of any adverse findings by the committee he first took office he urged a com- jng water in Mint canyon north of plete audit of TVA by an outside nert caused a dozen families to firm of accountants and this would abandon their homes during the day and undermined two miners cabins WOULD CUT COSTS It is more or less he said but I would be surprised if it highways were flooded j didn't reduce relief costs cost half be ready within a week Jenkins asked if Xohler had ferred with representatives of the United States controller about this audit to numerous disputes of past years rain through tomorrow for themselves I he said Here for conferences with Presi- dent Roosevelt Relief tor Harry L Hopkins and other eral officials Olson told reporters Occupants of the threatened he proposed instituting such a dences returned later gram for California after taking ot- hailed the flee in January tation as of inestimable value He described relief as his states After reading the volumes of cor- ruS vegetable crops greatest single problem and said respondence between that office and benefited particularly he believed the only way the tax the TVA I thought it would be commissioner Harold H Ryan said load for relief could be reduced was Kohler replied referring The weather bureau forecast con- by putting the unemployed to work that such a program will have to be developed on a national scale too TO SEE PRESIDENT I have no doubt in the world but what millions of relief clients would welcome this opportunity to get away from the cash dole basis or out of dead works projects and into a program wherein they could work for a decent standard of living SAN FRANCISCO Dec 16 SAN QUENTIN Calif Dec 16 Olson who arrived by train this George Dally twenty-one year old to the last Ed Davis morning held a United States sailor jailed for habitual criminal was ex- his hotel suite before starting a ing his former brother-in-law in a in the state's gas chamber round of con which FICTITIOUS ASSETS suicide climaxed a week of dizzy developments ing when it was discovered that the crude drugs department of son and Robbins under his direct supervision had apparently built up fictitious assets of The man who lived down a inal past of twenty-five years ago to become head of the great drug firm turned a pistol on himself as Chief of Police Arthur Bennett was arriving at the Coster's big country home to take him into custody had lived in field for about ten years but had taken little part in the town's com- munity affairs His life fellow said centered chiefly on his yacht Carolita pleasure At Classed as a palatial craft it a crew of ten ent it is tied up in a Stratford shipyard Friends of the corporation head who apparently had no idea the man who was their host was one of the most amazing schemers the generation has enjoyed his expansive The home was an colonial house finished in brown stucco It LOS ANGELES Dec 16 IP Charles E McDonald was sentenced to San Quentin prison for from one to ten years today for the shooting of Mrs Emita Krueger wife of the noted symphony conductor Karl Krueger The gaunt electrician heard the sentence passed by Superior Judge Frank M Smith without display of emotion New trial was denied By court order McDonald will be allowed to see his twenty-six months old daughter Emita before he goes i to prison hospital here yesterday prayed today for the life of a policeman he wounded Dally faced arraignment on the in LUC today for the murder of a prison ably will last through Monday ir He warden Davis once known as The Fox of banditry in southwestern states charges of murdering Morris was the last of five convicts expected to see Hopkins later in the day and the president tomorrow or Monday Asked about his attitude on a propst and attempting to murder Policeman Walter Salisbury invasion of the hospital yesterday prison break ed for slaying Warden Clarence Tom morning climaxed a family feud marked by knifings and Police Inspector Jerome Smith said Cornpropst was a Dally said I would do it over again I prayed last night for the officer He's a swell fellow and I'd do anything for him If he needs another blood transfusion I want to give him my blood Shortly before being led Into the chamber Davis laboriously scrawled out a note to guards saying No re- kin of Folsom prison in a futile Iterated he would give consideration to an application for one He recalled having introduced a resolution in the state senate In 1937 proposing the legislature don Mooney and added he still be- Mooney innocent 8 Die In Flames ALEXANDRIA Egypt Dec 16 persons were burned to death in Alexandria customs house grets Mr old Bid All considered my conscience is now resting easy Children Rescued NEW YORK Dec 16 carried a score of panic-stricken women and children to safety from women w In another jail cell Sue Dally burning five-story tenement on today when twenty cases of motion headed twenty-two year old sister East street today using film caught fire during of George former wife of gion toms propst and center of family fare I'm proud of my brother It was the bravest thing in the world It was one of the greatest sacrifices a brother could make for his sister Strike Ends ST LOOTS Dec 16 ment of a four-day strike of union operating engineers at St Louis wa- was announced today at the city hall Mice Bring About Own Death When They Bite into Matches FLORENCE N J Dec 16 Inquisitive mice chewed a box of at William home early today with dire results The matches fired hunting coat The flames set off a box of shotgun shells in a pocket and the pellets Turn to page 9 Col 1 SPOKANE Wash Dec U the perennial protest against the toll of Christmas trees taken from western the TJ 8 forest ice replied today that the practice is beneficial rather than tive In a Christmas tree statement the service pointed out that a for- est is a crop and should be vested A tree is a living rowing thing It reaches maturity decays and dies Its use depends only on of the particular need at Proper selection of trees taken by the In Pacific northwest serves the purpose in the forest that scattered through the house does in the orchard or tog and his family from bed garden the On the floor below the burring coat maining trees Ut given they found the 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