Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - April 12, 1961, Reno, Nevada GIVE TO YOUR RED CROSS Fund Membership Campaign Is Under Way In Washoe County RENO EVENING GAZETTE A Newspaper for the Home Information and enjoyment for every member of the family WEATHER Scattered Tonight Clearing Thursday Cooler and Windy Minimum 51 Noontime 43 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR NO 14 PHONE FA RENO NEVADA WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 1961 PHONE FA 28 PAGES 10 CENTS Man's Greatest Adventure RUSSIANS PUT MAN IN SPACE NEW ERA Russian Maj Yuri Gagarin left made historical space flight around planet earth yesterday At right in strikingly ilar pose is American Charles A Lindberg whose solo flight across Atlantic occurred 34 years ago Far right is Maj Gagarin his wife Valentina and daughter Lena Gagarin is 27 years old Gagarin radioed to fellow Russians that is fine Shortly after he was returned to earth Television cameras recorded his reactions during flight UPI Telephotos General Motors Charged Illegal Bid for Monopoly FIRST MAM JM SPACE BULLETIN WASHINGTON AP General Motors Corp was charged in a criminal indictment today with using its vast economic power il- legally to monopolize the tion and sale of diesel tives Atty Gen Robert F Kennedy announced the indictment voted by a federal grand jury at New York City after more than two years of investigation of GM the world's largest single industrial enterprise The said that as a result of policies pursued by GM it has captured 84.1 per cent of he railroad locomotive business wo substantial competitors Overhaul Coming Washoe Fair Board Studies Joint Resolution Washoe County Fair and Board members this morning there is little com fort in the solution of their dispute with Washoe Coun ty Commissioners The second thoughts came a week after the fair board and the commissioners adopted a joint resolution which offered a theoretical solution to the long site dispute The resolution was sparked by Gov Grant Sawyer Legal counsel Emile Gezelin told board members today he doubts whether site selection included in the tion could be binding He offered no answer but suggested he be assigned to research the ment The fair board immediately and unanimously ordered Gezelin to make a analysis of the agreement The attorney also received in- formal orders to investigate gal action to resolve ambiguous wording in the fair board utes Board members refused to with a group of local In a suit already pending which would resolve whether the fair Reno Traffic Citations Up Per Cent Conferences are scheduled city hall between Chief of Police Elmer Briscoe Mayor Bud er and City Manager Joseph more over the police ment's stepped up issuance traffic tickets which show an in- crease of 500 per cent since last Feb 25 the day the man pay raise question was de- at the polls Mayor Baker said officials fear a bad situation is developing within the police department City Manager Joseph H said Briscoe's meeting with city officials will touch off a com- plete reorganization of duties within the police department The first step is the immediate re- placement of the traffic division head Lt Francis Rae and the head of the detective division Lt Frank Garske 239 VS 189 lave been driven out of the cet and others have been reduced small percentages of the roads business The violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act charged by the rand jury carries a maximum penalty of a fine However the Justice ment said that a final judgment of conviction would be prima facie evidence against a defendant in any suit for damages by injured Prosecutor Says Eichmann Led Death Plot JERUSALEM AP Israel's attorney general pointed a finger at Adolf Eichmann in court today and vowed that Jewry always will remember him as the man who succeeded in part in carrying out the Nazi plan to exterminate Europe's 11 million Jews There is no pardon and there can be no Atty Gen Gideon Hausner cried out his voice ringing with emotion While Eichmann looked on woodenly from his prisoner's dock Hausner firmly rejected the defense contention The police department's own Israel Blacks the right to try reports for the first quarter of 1961 show that 239 traffic citations were issued during February while police were campaigning Turn to Page 23 Col 1 Tornado Smacks Texas Station Four Injured DALLAS Tex tornado flattened a gas station and in- board has condemnation powers jured four persons the north but they left the way open for edge of Dallas late Tuesday Violent winds caused a big canvas tent to collapse during a thunderstorm in Houston but the 200 persons at a revival service inside escaped with scratches and i bruises I At least Turn to Page 23 Col 3 Jewish Editor Dies NEW YORK Isaac over three other twister Rosengarten 74 author and editor of the monthly Jewish died Monday He had been ciated with the magazine since its founding in 1917 and had been its editor for 40 years Rosengarten was born m Zager Lithuania and came to New York in 1891 in central and south Texas Games Delayed Two major league games Here postponed Cold weather erased the Los Angeles at timore game and it was re- for Thursday night Rain washed out he Chicago It Washington contest the accused architect of nation If we don't try he told the panel it is quite possible that he will not be tried at all and a crime without precedent would not be pun ished Throughout much of the second day of the trial Hausner mered persistently at defense challenges regarding legality of the proceedings If Hausner's impassioned words had any effect upon Eichmann the defendant's expression failed to show it as he stared at the at- torney general ROUTE OF FIRST MAN IN SPACE Russian Suffered No Adenauer Kennedy Talk Of Greater NATO Unity WASHINGTON White House press Kennedy and West Germany's tary Pierre Salinger told goals of leaping to thep moon or Mars or A in the space ocean of many tantalizing mysteries Human exploration of space may well reap untold and prising new benefits for all people Or space could become perhaps just an extended arena for the testings of men since history began The Soviet Union is first as the result of a careful or so calculated to seize this prize It is another triumph in rapid Chancellor Konrad Adenauer day discussed ways of achieving greater unity in the North tic Treaty Organization The President and Adenauer conferred for 90 minutes at the White House Also at the meeting were Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk and West Germany's for- eign minister Heinnch von tano After the session the first of what is to be a series of Polish Writer Given Lecture By Red Paper WARSAW AP The Polish Communist organ Trybuna Ludu recently rebuked a Polish woman j writer for her way of praising Mrs John F Kennedy The newspaper noted that the weekly magazine Swiat predicted the American First Lady will be- come the model pattern and oracle for women of the whole The chancellor and the dent had a personal discussion for about an hour and a duration on the problems of NATO and on ways to achieve greater unity in NATO The talks this morning were m general a continuation of dis- held between the cellor and Dean Acheson in many Acheson who served as tary of state in the Harry S man administration is a Kennedy adviser on NATO problems Salinger said Kennedy and Ad- also reviewed world lems on a generalized basis Eichmann is being tried on world including charge that he committed crimes against the Jewish ple and crimes against humanity as chief of the Jewish affairs tion of the Nazi Gestapo Israel holds him responsible in the death of about six million Jews Paratroopers Find Wreckage Of Navy Plane KING CITY ers dropped into a rugged tain area of Monterey County Tuesday night to reach the age of a Navy training plane Two Navy airmen were reported killed when the San crashed Trybuna Ludu slapped at the day just outside the writer a Mrs and gett Military Reservation Has not The paratroopers were Swiat got confused as regards to clear away so countries systems conditions could remove the ideals and manners of Soviet Feat Opens New Historical NEW YORK AP In an MOSCOW AP The world's first daring and ride a Soviet astronaut orbited the globe for more naut has just turned a momentous page than an hour today reported back that in human history For says Moscow he has realized the ancient human dream of vaulting into he was feeling fine and then returned safely to receive the plaudits of scientists and political leaders alike space and safely back home again J He was in the air an hour and 48 Still ahead but closer now lies the utes including an hour and 29 minutes Teachings which have skimmed much of the glory of firsts in the young space age Portrait Of First LONDON AP Moscow tele- vision presented a picture of the Soviet Union's first space man today describing him as a man This is the first by good honest smile pioneer But space many more Russian doughty beckons American and other space astro- to till a fertile new field which now lies open The world will read with in- terest Maj Yuri Gagarin's witness account of what he felt what he may have seen of the earth rolling beneath him or haps stars in diamond brilliance in the blackness of space Upon his experience depends partly the question how soon other men go up and how far Is space perhaps too Turn to Page 23 Col 4 The portrait of Maj Yuri A Gagarin was shown and then came this broadcast comment re- by Moscow For those who did not see this we should like to give a description of this splendid man On the screen appears the ladies our in orbit A spaceship ried Maj Yuri Gagarin 27 father of two daughters He took off at time and returned Soviet of- j reported The orbit reached z maximum of miles and dipped to a of 110 miles above the earth before descent to a ranged target in the Soviet Union Launching and landing sites were not disclosed in the statement by the Soviet government and the Communist party The route of the spaceship named also was not disclosed but Moscow radio it received messages from Gagarin twice during the morning one sent while he was over rica and the other from over South America The spaceship having rounded the globe safely returned to the image man aged about of our homeland the a kind Russian face eyes set well apart fine bushy and high forehead HONEST SMILE He wears a helmet light overall suit He Annies land of the Soviets the an- good honest smile And is there any need to add that this man said The Soviet victory over the States in the contest to a put man into space was hailed Soviet citizens from Premier Khrushchev to workmen in the Moscow streets who has been the first to dare to A detailed statement was read fly to space to reach for the by Moscow radio's star stars to look down on our earth Levitan He read it three is a man of a very great and times Then the radio broke into very real character This is dent in his smile m the intelligent fine eyes Gagarin was 2 ago Russians Deny Spacemen Die By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Have some Soviet astronauts been killed in space flight ments before Yuri A Gagarin's sensational No officials insist But some Western sources say they believe one or a few burg sians did in unsuccessful have two daughters attempts Brig Gen Don 2 and Galva just a month inger head of the medical tion of me U.S Air Force The cosmonaut has an ideal naut selection and training his father music with songs glorifying viet space achievements The report that he was just a month blared over loudspeakers in 11 he Soviet capital which He is married to Valentina a ganna 26 who also has a background She was ated from medical school at gram says he thinks Utter in the FLED NAZIS viet reply joiner his mother a housewife Newspaper Says U2 Pilot To Be Freed Stay in Russia MILLEDGEVILLE Ga The wife of imprisoned U2 pilot Gary Francis Powers said today that reports of her husband's im- pending release and decision to remain in the Soviet Union were all a I have heard nothing officially I haven't heard one word that would lead me to believe such said Mrs Powers in aj telephone interview from her mother's home here The London Daily Mail said Tuesday that Powers would be freed from a Soviet prison May a year after his re- connaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union Mrs Powers conceded that she had talked with a reporter from the Mail but denied telling him that her husband was to be re- prison to a work she said As you know Gary's original sentence was three years in prison and seven years in a work camp DOESN'T KNOW Neither my husband nor I have ever been notified whether he is in the classification eligible for the work camp And even if I have read that in some in- he were he would still have to stances a prisoner m Russia is serve two more years in prison permitted to have his family I could join him him when he is transferred from Mrs Powers described her band as being as all American as you or I He has no bitterness toward the United States He has resigned himself to the fact that he has 10 years to serve perhaps less with time off for good be- j Bank havior He constantly a desire to return to the United States with me Mrs Powers said her latest i LONDON Cam snowfall Muscovites clustered around the radios to listen to news of the h tone Moscow radio and all other 01 gans Avent into a demonstration of patriotism for the Soviet Union and the Com- munist And in President Kennedy issued a statement the was born March 9 et on an in the Gzhatsk of the area AS a child James E 7 just starting school he and his Turn to Page 23 Col 7 experienced the vasion and fled into the SAX SALVADOR El i INDEX government At the end of the war the Amusements banned sale cf geld and foreign ily returned to Gzhatsk to a col- Ann Landers 12 exchange in an effort to stem a farm Gagarin resumed hip Classified Ads drain on the nation's reserves j school ing and in was Comics 22 The order also specified that ated with distinction from a Crossword 4 El Salvador Bans Gold Sale coffee cotton and shrimp ers must sell the exchange they receive to the Central Reserve Earl Wilson 12 Editorials 4 Commander Dies letter from her husband was dated March 29 She said he was not permitted to say what he was doing in the prison near Moscow on 45 Navy commander who led honors in 1955 school in Lyubertsy out- side Moscow HP qualified as a moulder Jacoby on Bridge 16 he attended Notices 23 mng classes for working Local Regional News 15 and then was sent to an industrial Markets 23 college at Saratov on the Sports Again he was graduated with Porter 14 Television Log a daring midget submarine attack 1 At Saratov Gagarin took The Doctor Says 2 on the German battleship in aviation and after Vital Statistics 23 in October 1943 died Monday attended an air school Weather Tables 24 after brief illness Orenburg j Women's
