Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - December 21, 1938, Reno, Nevada BOX WEATHER FORECAST Reno Vicinity CLOUDY AND COLDER TONIGHT FAIR THURSDAY TEMPERATURE AT 2 P M TODAY Bar 3d U S Bar 20 V I alent New Y export Y E St Loull St Louli duty pd SIXTY-SECOND YEAR EIGHTEEN PAGES RENO NEVADA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21 1938 EIGHTEEN PAGES NO 303 10 DRAFT STATUTES President Adopts Policy Of Suggesting Terms of Proposed Laws Expedition to Lonely Isle In Indian Ocean Calls for Aid After Many Hardships Radio Plea Goes Half Way Round World to American Amateur in Washington State France Plans to Send Assistance PARIS Dec 21 i and close to the northern limit of French battled the Antarctic ocean's dreaded drift i raging storms rats and cold at ice off rocky St Paul Isle of Perdition in the Indian today while much of the Southern Hemisphere tried to get into radio contact with them and with ships I which might go to their aid K I MYSTERY AROUSED strategy on Mystery as to the e Reorganization Up To Congress Leaders exact identity of the forty-eight persons was aroused when friends of members of the expedition said that only one Dec 21 WASHINGTON President Informed quarters today to have forbidden administrative depart The world knew nothing of fate between September 12 when they set out from Madagascar about 1700 miles away and Monday when their SOS call was heard ASK U S AID j The French government appealed j to United State naval authorities to I try to establish wireless contact with them after a day of attempts to reach them from Master of One of Pan-American Delegations Largest Vocabularies Dies Approve Declaration and In New York End Dispute of the original thirty-three who left j French colonial stations and after Saint Malo France last May was sent urgent calls to all aboard the tiny trawler lisle French ships in the vast Indian was reported in feon reached st to rush there Encyclopedist Unexpected Victim of Pleurisy and Pneumonia NEW YORK Dec 21 ffi Dr Consultations Provided in Document to Meet Force And Propaganda LIMA Peru Dec 21 was Louis first engineer All the rest Including six women ADOPTS POLICY disputes and disagreements during Congressional leaders that the stages of the Iong leaders asKing that tn The Paris ministry of colonies confirmed today that the calls for help had been received from the Frank H noted Principal delegations to the Pan- rapher of one of the conference agreed today on a declaration of cooperative world's largest vocabularies died tion ending a unexpectedly about midnight in the ten-day dispute on wording between ern tips of Africa and Australia PICKET LINES 1 their names be withheld said the chief executive had advised them he had adopted a definite policy of leaving the job of drafting up to senate and house committees The president's forthcoming sage to congress they said merely will make affirmative suggestions for legislation Mr Roosevelt's decision ably would prevent future drafting by such government as Thomas Corcoran and jamin Cohen who have been with writing much New Deal legislation This practice has been criticized by j congressmen j There have been other tions that the president Intends to recommend only broad principles at this session and let congress work out the details He told his press conference yesterday that such would be the case with expansion I Medical men indicted by a federal Potential war material bound for of the social security program grand jury on charges of went aboard the Greek It also was understood on Capitol the Sherman act said freighter Spyros and the British ji ftn JJi i cursed because of Fifth Avenue hospital of pleurisy i the United States and Argentina its loneliness rats tiny difficult and pneumonia left to start aim He was ARGENTINA WINS POINT J harbor and the undersea volcanoes four years old i The declaration highly reliable which formed it It is at 38.40 de- j INTERESTED IN WORDS i conference informants said provides Dr Vizetelly was the author of for consultation aggression scores of books on words ranging the menace of force and subversive from S O of Speech to political propaganda One Hundred Simple Words Argentina won her point in that one Should Know He was the son European or other non-American of a printer born in London nations were not named land The United States attained its In his early years he conducted a purpose however delegates said in a lexicographer and encyclopedist His authority on words and his Influence were manifest in his granddaughter Jeanne Vizetelly Cochrane who reached the age of six early in 1935 with the able vocabulary of words Dr Vizetelly was proud of that His interest in languished and he was forever checking newspapers Hill that he would leave i day they hoped for speedy tary strategy on the government re- I ment of the case directly to the organization program to his house I court and senate leaders He discussed it yesterday with Representatives Cochran and Warren MAY BE TRIED SOON The indictment returned by a special grand jury yesterday ship Beckenham today under an agreement whereby Chinese i drew their picket lines in favor of a I national campaign for a Japanese embargo PICKETS LEAVE Two thousand tons of iron will be 7000 who helped handle the loused sixteen Washington physicians lation last spring I five officials of the American i added to the FOUR BILLS Cal Association the District of tons which had been loaded on the Warren said afterward that Medical Society the Harris Spyros before the tie-up last Friday County Texas Medical when longshoremen refused to pass out any disparagement to the a reorganization program would have been enacted last sion if senate sponsors had mitted its division into four bills The senate passed a general ure but it WHS shelved in the Senators Byrnes man of the senate reorganization and the Washington Academy of Surgery with acting in restraint of trade in medical activities The case may be tried next month about the time the president's com- on health and welfare sub- mits to congress recommendations for a national health program committee said recently he ing to a year ably would accept the idea at the next session Cochran and Warren foresaw trouble in the house over a proposal of Senator Wheeler to require affirmative congressional approval before a reorganization proposal of the president could be- come effective The Washington physicians all About 500 tons of iron rails will be placed aboard the Beckenham Possibility of a port shut-down and consequent spread to other coast cities faded yesterday when Chinese leaders ordered of pickets thanked for their cooperation and led a mass demonstration In San staff members of hospitals refused Francisco's Chinatown to comment publicly Several ever said privately that they hoped fcr speedy disposition of the case The protesting group beginning with only a few hundred persons led by officials of the united so that we know where we societies and the united com- Dr Morris Fishbein editor of the j for the boycott of Japanese American Medical Association goods swelled into a throng of Journal and one of the eral thousand yesterday shuffling We will insist on something like named declared the association i between the two piers in a the amendment we had last would defend the case to the Queue more than five blocks long said Warren That proposal by Representative iTurn to page 10 Col 1 limit 1 SnarP rebuke to the idle The grand jury charged the was voiced by Almon E Unsolved Slayings Linked With Activities of Coster Sale of Arms Investigated FAIE OF SNYDER LOS ANGELES The Gimp Paces Corridor Nervously as He Awaits Word of Decision Night and Morning Session Brings No Agreement on Shooting Verdict publishing house in England came to New York in 1891 and His first position was with Funk and Wagnalls and it was with them that obtaining a declaration to which all the American could subscribe Many of the delegates held It he became internationally famous as was fear of propagandist incursion and other publications seeking new U S MAY BE AGGRESSOR and more expressive words and tracing their origin He was the author of more than a score of volumes on the English language and philological DICTIONARY WORK Officials of Funk and Wagnalls said Dr Vizetelly died about mid- night in the Fifth Avenue hospital where he had been confined since Dec 2 suffering from pleurisy and pneumonia He had been associated with Funk and Wagnalls for forty-six years as editor of the reference department Survivors include his widow Bertha and a daughter Mrs Norma Cochrane When he went to work for Funk and Wagnalls that organization was by European totalitarian dictator states which inspired the resolution in the first place that even if It did not specifically contain the phrase aggression from without Its ing was evident A most reliable source said the United States Argentine Brazilian and Peruvian delegation chiefs agreed to a final draft at ences lasting until early morning The Argentine insistence that the declaration be all aggressors w j based on the contention that the United States might one day ter the good neighbor policy and be herself a potential aggressor The resolution now admits the approval of home governments and with the principal dispute settled will be adopted unanimously within a few days delegation spokesmen said It provides for resistance against any aggression or menace of by force against any ican republic Any of the nations may start the procedure of tation There is provision also an informant said for con- DANIELS TO PLAY SANTA CLAIJS AND STORK THIS YEAR Dec 21 dor to Mexico who called on President Roosevelt today talked afterwards to reporters chiefly of Christmas Santa Glaus and storks Daniels said his Christmas present to Mr Roosevelt was beautifully carved Mexican box It is guaranteed to keep state the ambassador i smiled It is no pandora's box There U no evil in it In fact there is nothing it it yet Daniels said he was going to his home in Raleigh N C for the holidays to play Santa Claus He said he also was going to play stork at the ar- rival of a grandson As to He said it is very quiet now The matter of American lands is being adjusted he said and there is nothing new in the oil tion LOS ANGELES Dec 21 W Martin The Gimp Snyder paced a corridor of the Hall of Justice today as a jury debated his guilt or innocence of charges he attempted to kill Myrl Alderman and husband of his former wife Huth Etting SNYDER JITTERY The jury resumed deliberations for three hours today then went to lunch The foreman said it would be several hours before members would be ready to get back to busi- ness Snyder jittery all morning nally gave vent to his pent-up Ings by yanking a wrist watch and thrusting It into the hands of a friend I should have gotten rio of that thing a long time ago he snorted On the back was inscribed To Moe From Ruth It was a gift from Miss Etting his wife for seventeen years The of six men and six TW women deliberated four and one- A SS deSy half hours retiring without indicating the trend of their told a view on the accusations that der kidnaped Alderman from a SELL RIFLES Deal Not Consummated Is Report of Attorney Who Made Investigation Inquiry Being Pressed into Mysterious Death of Two Friends of Drug Man NEW YORK Dec 21 McMahon assistant United States attorney said today F Donald the swindler who be- came president of McKesson bins Incorporated had negotiated for the sale of from one to two lion rifles to Spain SALE NOT MADE McMahon said hp got his tion from Benjamin Simon arrested on a conspiracy charge and one of Coster confidants and business associates The and ammunition were to have come from private sources McMahon said Simon told him The sale however was never mated The assistant United States at- torrey general also said Simon ad- mitted he had drawn up five fake birth certificates for and the three brothers who were in- with him in the financial fairs of the McKesson drug firm as well as for their ter Marie These papers signed by a F workers delegation today that unless elaborate deceits by the brothers to congress appropriated additional tier uj me radio and at the hide identity M the notorious home attempted to murder him hv i Musica family involved in the Miss Etting and his own daughter I s human hair swindle a Edith Snyder Alderman with a let in the abdomen was the only casualty DISMISSALS Outright dismissals he said would begin as January 26 Williams statement came as a as n There was a light of hope in The ise had compiling its Standard Dictionary i by the nations in the event His part of the job embraced the Of undue interference with a view training of in the art of I to substituting its own political in- drafting definitions of words As the work progressed he came to specialize more and more in initions of wines typography and critical reviewing I by unofficial elements having the support of any even if done without the ance of force The state concerned in this case however must take the 10 ENTER and individuals with combination in restraint of trade conspiracy and boycotting in Roth president of the Waterfront Employers Association which ly signed contracts with the CIO un- opposing the activities of physicians ion providing for strict adherence employed by the Group Health to agreements supposedly outlawing sociation a medical care the quickie strikes on individual society organized a year ago by em- I loading jobs and setting up ploy es of the Home Owners Loan ties for violations Corporation i THREATS MADE The principal defense is expected There were conferences and to be the contention that the ings Henry Schmidt member of tice of medicine is a profession labor relations PARK urn dp la and therefore cannot come committee said Roth threatened to Moro chief counsel for the Provisions of the Sherman shut down the port unless loading cmet counsel J was Roth said no such In 1913 Dr Vizetelly was named initiative in applying the principle managing editor of the unabridged j Of solidarity dictionary of the firm succeeding I WEAKNESS POINTED OUT the late Dr Isaac K Funk During his association with this book the number of terms it contained was increased more than fifty per cent and it was necessary for him to become one of One delegate held this to be a main weakness of the declaration since propaganda might be ted to flourish if the state affected saw no reason to ask aid against it The hope for peace and universal the most widely read men in is stated It remains under- country in order to keep abreast of stood that each nation will take its new words and search out old and I own measures of defense the obsolescent ones j equality the Individual NEW ALPHABET j and independence of all the Once in an address before the American republics are recognized Society at Columbia Uni- and the resolution is named The versity Dr Vizetelly urged a new Declaration of Lima Herschel Grynszpan said today he had written to the United States The threat was made and that ment was said by some legal ers merely insisted that the ties to be one of the most unusual ence of a picket line on the docks fense of the young ever Panted here It contained is no for failure to work Ernst vom Rath German embassy not single whereas or ship other legal phrase It included A any Jate Questioned thp nos I essay on I agreed to withdraw and B States cal progress and the development of S Long president of the United Attorney General Homer S practice experiments Societies declared mings the French lawyer declared I can say no more I can give no names In Washington friends of the at- torney general whose resignation from the cabinet becomes effective Jan 1 said yesterday he had under consideration a proposal to join in Informed legal circles meanwhile heard an American lawyer named Guttmann was considered a likely addition to the defense counsel We are j not retreating This is only the be- I ginning of a movement for the em- bargo of war materials HOUGHTON Mich Dec 21 Rescuers worked feverishly today to free two miners who had been trapped on the forty-fourth level of I the Copper Range Consolidated Copper Co mine at Painesdale here MT AIRY N C Dec 21 Three small children of Foy Mid- a filling station employe ished when fire destroyed their eight miles south of here since home near here today All were p m Tuesday under five years of age The miners Tony Paulson of Mrs said she left the Boston Mich and Oliver in the house while she of Atlantic Mich to visit her mother When trapped by a cave-in Rescuers she returned the small building I were able to talk with the trapped was a mass of flames GREENVILLE S C Dec 21 men and reported that they The fire is believed to have Dr Hans Albert Einstein started from an open grate four year old son of the physicist Albert Einstein filed an application for American ship in U S district court here day Dr Einstein gave his nationality as Swiss He came to this country last June and is now employed by the government as a soil tion expert His father now on the faculty of Princeton university applied a yen ago In said for Motorist Proves Too Honest He'll Lose Driving License TOPSFIELD Mass Dec 21 asked as he pulled alongside a The most honest motorist has speeding car Seventy-one miles the see car been found by State Trooper f vf ti 4 Weroski How fast do you I make eighty He'll lose his think you were Weroski j license for a few days Dec 21 ff Rep Compton I White said today he would introduce at the next session of congress a lution to authorize the president to call an international conference to standardize the currency of the countries of the western hemisphere on a basis He said the proposal would vide for unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at a ratio to be agreed upon This would promote trade and international business and make the Americas the most powerful economic and political Influence in the he declared This agreement should provide for the standardization of the age of the nations as to size ness tolerance and value of their monetary units and provide for in- in all the countries of the western hemisphere White a mining man himself long has advocated freer use of ver in the nation's monetary system Slayer Beheaded WEIMAR Germany Dec 21 Peter Forster who escaped from a concentration camp in last May after tilling the Nazi der was this afternoon im- mediately after the death sentence IWM pronounced LONDON Dec 21 charge that 125 from Soviet Russia landed in government Spain during November and De- cember was made in the house of commons today by Sir Henry Page Croft conservative member The allegation was made while Laborites were assailing Richard Austen Butler undersecretary for foreign affairs on the continued presence of Italian troops in In- surgent Spain Butler said the latter was not In itself a breach of the international nonintervention accord but he did not answer Croft's question which said sixty-five Soviet pilots had reached Spain in November and sixty on Dec 3 VATICAN CITY Dec 21 eral windows were shattered in the Vatican palace today by a bolt of lightning which struck at a able distance from the pope's ment The aged pontiff remained quil and suffered no ill effects a Vatican news service reported The panes broken were indoors and the low alight Gimps eyes as the Jury filed out of the courtroom HOPEFUL OF WOMEN I like the looks of a couple of those little ladies on that he remarked I hope they are up there going to bat for me I hope they will speak a piece for me They look WPA funds to last farther into ruary or perhaps until March 1 as requested by President velt In a statement Issued after he hod seen the Pennsylvania group liams Present funds of WPA are in- i ui aic like little ladies wno ear speak fe b d a piece if they want to The case closed with heated ar- by Defense Counsel Jerry 7 1939 Unless additional funds are made available in the meantime it will Giesler and Deputy District ney U U Blalock neither sparing the oratorical lash Blalock called Snyder a quarter century ago INVESTIGATE DEATHS The Coster mystery already In- millions and international publicity took a new and more ter turn today as Brooklyn tives began investigating the possible connection with the unsolved murders of Joseph Cohen wealthy poultry and fish dealer and his brother Barnett Police Inspector Michael 8 Dermott ordered detectives to tion members of the Cohen family as well as three and are on ard gambler libertine kept man and gambler Giesler pictured his client as akin to the hunchback of Victor Hugo's novel with Miss Et- ting as his Esmeralda deserting him for Alderman a young man who was physically whole Alderman married the singer last week teen months after she divorced der Giesler asserted Edith Snyder Miss secretary was a decoy a front of decency for the goings on of her employer and Alderman You have to stop being a glamour as old as she Miss is 10 PAY LEVY he had knowledge of any White House plans to ask congress for a deficiency appropriation but in- formed persons have believed for some time that such a request would be in Mr Roosevelt's first cation to congress Williams declined to give an mate of remaining WPA funds The last congress appropriated for the period July 1 1938 to March 1 1939 As of the week ending December 110 WPA showed an enrollment of persons j The delegation to which Williams spoke was composed of tives from the Workers Alliance and federal art projects in sylvania The delegation had come to protest SAN FRANCISCO Dec 21 WASHINGTON Dec 21 of the United Mine Workers of America headed by John L Lewis CIO president disclosed today a special assessment of had been levied on each member of the un- ion's membership reported to ber The levy it was explained was The state attorney general drafted only for the month of January a title today for a proposed officials said the tive constitutional amendment de- ment was voted by the international signed to prohibit wagering on horse board but they refused to say for races in California what purpose it would be used the levy as a purely internal the officials added that a similar special assessment William H Neblett and Clayton S both of Los Angeles acting lence held in b charges of violating th act of 1934 The investigation started as eral state and city authorities delved deeper into the fantastically involved activities of the who became the re- spected head of McKesson bins Incorporated and the brothers who aided him all working under the elaborate guise of fictitious names and fictitious backgrounds killed himself last Friday after he had been exposed as the in a dollar scandal a quarter of a tury old An investigation was ready under way into the missing assets of the drug con- cern's crude drugs department when he fired a bullet into his head in hta Fairfield Conn home Samuel Reich counsel to Musica today read to Gregory F Noonan acting United States ney several excerpts from the cide statement ed before he ended his life From a source close to Noonan it was learned the statement described the three surviving Musica brothers as docile followers of Philip who had always been regarded as the brains of the family While he did not fully exonerate them it was learned he less pictured the brothers as ever willing to follow his bidding in the note atoo admitted he ran the financial fairs of the corporation insofar u he was able to suit his own on behalf of the California Anti- Racing Association requested the had been made on the Mine bailot title ers In January and February of 19371 Their proposed Initiative would re- and January of 1936 I peal the statute authorizing the Regular monthly dues amount to legislature to regulate horse races per member I and wagering on those races Wrapper Weighing Half a Ton Used for of an Ounce WASHINGTON Dec 21 Bureau of Standards began ing today a ounce cargo received in a wrapper It of worth pi um for the National Cancer tute shipped by truck from New LOST MILLIONS The statement will be made public tomorrow it is expected Brien McMahon assistant United States attorney who came here from Washington to take charge of multiple phases of the said yesterday the apparently frittered away of the corporation's and probably used great sums to blackmailers Inspector theory calling for the M men followed the the radium to tests about dx
