Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 18

1 8 RENO EVENING GAZETTE November 26, 1945 El Rancho Case KELLY' KLAUS DIES AFTER LONG CAREER Fall From Car Fata! to Woman No Investigation Police Decide WEATHER OUTLOOK UNSETTLED HERE Cloudy, moderate weather prevailed over most of western Nevada today, and the weatherman foresaw light rains or snows for most of of the region tonight. Storm conditions which have prevailed over the Sierra Ne-vadas for several days will continue, with rain in the lower altitudes and snow above 5000 feet, he predicted. No measurable precipitation was recorded anywhere within the state during the last 24 hours. During that period, Ely continued to strengthen its claim to being Nevada's cold spot this year, reporting a minimum of 17 degrees this morning. Temperatures were moderate in Reno, the temperature rising to 48 and dropping no lower than 25.

I I I II Am, Assort ed Cases For Police Court Taxi Drivers Held After Collision A typical Monday calendar greeted Police Judge Guy Walts in municipal court here this morning. Twenty-three cases came before Walts during the morning session, and two more were continued until 3 p.m. this afternoon. Drunkeness charges against 15 persons accounted for the bulk of the morning's calendar. Two $10 bails were forfeited, one man was given a 30-day jail sentence, three were given their choice of being out of town by 4 p.m.

or facing jail sentences, and the rest were fined a total of $60. Five persons charged with being disorderly were given their choice or jail sentences or leaving Reno, and one woman was sentenced to 10 days on a prostitution charge. Continued until this afternoon was a hearing for Joseph Houston, 27, Reno taxi driver. Houston was arrested late Saturday afternoon after Fred Bennett, county game warden, signed a complaint charging that the taxi driver had been driving at an excessive rate of speed when he struck a car driven by Mrs. Edythe E.

Tubbs Among thor? to be seen tonight is the cast of Blithe opening at the Reno L-ltle Theater, is Glenn Judd. plays the role of Charles in the "oel Coward comedy. Comedy Opens At Playhouse "Blithe Spirit," a gay Noel Cow ard comedy, opens a week's en gagement here on the stage of the Reno Little Theater', Sierra nd Seventh beginning at 8:30 o'clock. A small but excellent cast in cluding such stand-by favorites as Evelyn Brussard, Blythe Bulmer, and Leona Fowler assure a top dramatic evening's entertainment. The play is under the supervision of Rankin Mansfield, Reno Little Theater director.

Blithe Spirit, principally con cerned with the domestic compli cations resulting from the pres ence of an omniscient family ghost, had a tremendous run in both London and New York few seasons back and is currently playing, in movie form, in the latter city. The play, handsomely staged, will be played nightly through Sunday, Dec. 2, with an extra matinee performance Sunday afternoon. The curtain will be rung up promptly-at 8:30 o'clock. Man and Wife Die in Crash Funeral services will be held at Chico, for Mr.

and Mrs. El-don Coon, killed in an automobile accident two miles south of Cedar- ville, Friday. Modoc county authorities reported Coon's car struck another machine parked on the road. The couple was return ing from a dance at Eagleville when the accident occurred. Mr.

and Mrs. Coon had moved from Chico to Alturas only recently. Caffle Rustler SuspectCapfured In Utah County Stock Was Stolen From Eastern Nevada Ranches ELY, Nov. 26. Arrested in Millard county, Utah for alleged rustling of cattle in White Pine and Lincoln counties, Nevada, Arthur F.

Loner was turned over to federal authorities today under charges of violating the federal cattle rustling act. At the time of his arrest by Sheriff Culbert Robison, Loper was said to be in the possession of four calves from the Young Brothers ranch in White Pine county and from the ranches of Joe Hammond, Dave Francis and Mrs. Maggie Warren of Lincoln county. Aiding Robison in the arrest were Sheriff Jack Fo-gliani of Lincoln and Shirley Robison, Nevada state highway patrolmen, both of whom had been deputized by the Utah sheriff. Authorities here said that the apprehension of Loper apparently solves one of four major cattle rustling cases now being investigated in this arsa.

Loper is said to have been convicted of cattle stealing twice before, once in Utah courts and once by federal prosecutors, lie will probobly be tried for this offense in the federal court at Salt Lake City, officials said. Ranchers in Eureka, White Pine and Lincoln counties have reported in recent years that from one to thirty head of cattle were missing every time a count was made. The animals have never reappeared at subsequent counts or on range surveys and are believed to have been stolen, hauled off in trucks and sold to the black market during meat rationing. Authorities are continuing investigation of the cases which they do not think will cease with the termination of rationing. .0.

R. McGinty Dies in Reno For 34 years a painting and re-corating contractor in Reno, Oliver R. McGinty died this morning at a local hospital where he had been a patient for three weeks. He was born in Arkansas 73 years ago, and came to Reno in 1911. For many years he made his home at 311 West Fifth st.

Surviving are two daughters and a son. Mrs. Nina Bennett and Alfred McGinty of Reno, and Mrs. Genevieve Folger of a Francisco; four brothers and two sisters, V. K.

McGinty of Phoenix, E. W. McGinty of Sacramento, Earl McGinty of Juneau, Alaska. Albert L. McGinty of Reno Miss Ruth McGinty and Mrs.

Nina Hally of Los Angeles. He was a member of Reno lodge No. 13, Scottish Rite bodies of Nevada, Kerak temple of the Shrine and Reno lodge No. 14 of Odd Fellows. Masonic funeral services will be held at 2 p.

m. Wednesday at the Ross-Burke chapel under direction of Reno lodge No. 13. Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery. Services Held For Mrs.

Burns Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs. Elizabeth Burns, longtime Reno resident who died Friday evening. Conducting the services at the O'Brien-Rogers chapel was the Rev. Don S. Fleming of the Methodist church.

Music included solos by Mrs. Helen Frohlich and organ numbers by Irving Webb. Pallbearers were Charles Allen, Frank Bunker, Val Stanton, Phil Crowder, Arthur Stoner and Francis Fox. Burial was in Mountain View cemetery. COAT STOLEN Theft of a fur coat, valued at $49, from her room at the Mohawk hotel several days ago was reported to Reno police yesterday by Mamie Dock, Schurz.

GEE Q52E yam imtfm Paroled Aliens Nof Under Check Wartime Rule Is Discontinued Supervision of paroles of enemy aliens in the United States has been ordered discontinued by the attorney general, the U. S. attorney's office in Reno reported today. The order was effective Nov. 15.

Stating that the enemy aliens no longer constituted a menace to the security of the country following the ertd of the war, the attorney general said that further supervision of their paroles was useless. Surveillance will be continued by the U. S. immigration and naturalization service of alien enemies subject to deportation or removal, the order said. Immigration and naturalization authorities here said today that during the war as many as fifteen enemy aliens were under parole in this district.

They included two Japanese and thirteen Germans. Totals in the United States were announced by the attorney general as 2511 Japanese, 2318 Germans, 28 Italians and fifteen other alien enemies. W. E. Best's Funeral Is Held Last rites for William Elden Best, who died in a San Francisco hospital Nov.

21, were held from the Ross-Burke co. chapel Saturday afternoon with burial in the Reno Masonic cemetery. Mr. Best was a member of a prominent Fallon family and had been in failing health for several years. His death was caused by complications resulting from a recent attack of influenza.

Son of E. C. Best, former superintendent of Fallon schools, Mr. Best received his early education in the Churchill schools and was graduated from the University of Nevada in 1934. He worked for the National Geographic society at Los Angeles, and later for the Sierra Pacific Power co.

For the last six years he had been manager of the Churchill County Telephone and Telegraph system. Besides his father he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Sawyer of San Francisco and Mrs. Caroline Kelley of Fallon, and one brother, Robert T. Best, superintendent of schools at Hawthorne.

His mother died in 1928. Visitor to Reno Dies Suddenly John McQuigg, who came to Reno a month ago to visit friends, died this morning following a heart attack. A retired farmer, he was 72 years old and a native of Iowa. A nephew, Clyde Waugh, lives in Redding, Iowa. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the O'Brien-Rogers co.

Mrs. Laura Katherine Rohman, 38-year-old Porland, woman, who was seriously injured in a fall from a moving automobile here ten days ago, died at the Washoe general hospital Saturday night. Since Mrs. Rohman had been under a physician's care since the time of the accident, it was not yet known this afternoon whether a coroner's inquest into her death would be necessary. Jack Rogers, 33, Portland oil company salesman, with whom Mrs.

Rohman was riding at the time of her injury, was questioned by police following the- accident, but was released when a volunteer witness told the law officers that he had seen Mrs. Rohman leap from the car of her own volition. No further questioning of Rogers is planned, police said today. Mrs. Rohman, here for a divorce, fell out of Rogers car on South Virginia st.

early on the morning of Nov. 16. Rogers told police he and the Portland woman had visited several bars before starting to drive north on Virginia st. Mrs. Rohman was the wife of Peter Rohman of Portland and the sister of Mrs.

Helen Cisco, Portland; Mrs. Mrs. Maria Hud-kins, Hollywood; Mrs. Lillian Schnase, Lincoln, and Paul Kear of Chelton, Wash. Arrangements for her funeral in Portland are being made by the Ross-Burke co.

Admit Three To State Bar Authority to practice law in Ne vada was granted three Reno men this morning as they took their oath tor admission ot the state bar before Justice Charles Lee Horsey of the supreme court. taking the oath today were John D. Furrh, Leslie" Leggett and William L. Hughev. One other Reno man, Richard W.

Blakey, and three trom Las Vegas, Calvin M. Cory, George W. Rudiak and Rulon A. Jtarl, have been notified by the supreme court that they successfully completed the bar examinations, but have not taken the oath as yet. The seven new lawyers passed the examinations in Reno, Sept.

10 to 13. Eighteen candidates took the tests. Four Fire Alarms During Weekend Reno firemen were called out four times late Saturday night and Sunday, but the calls produced no blazes of any account and fire fighting equipment was used on only one of the fires. A flooded oil stove at 302 West Fourth st. brought the firemen out Saturday night, and the same type alarm was turned in for the Lewis Dawson home at 735 Aiken st.

at 9:56 p. m. Sunday. Both fires were under control when the department arrived. Called to the Mizpah hotel building at 209 East Second st.

Sunday at 8:22 a. the firemen used the booster tank to extin guish a small blaze in the base ment. Officials reported the dam age as light, confined to the basement floor. Gas, escaping from a pipe, was ignited by a flare pot at the in tersection of Eleventh and Buena Vista sts. Sunday night, but the flame was out when the trucks arrived.

Call Nurses Aides To Attend Meeting Organization of a disaster group will be discussed at a meeting of Red Cross volunteer aides to be held at 8 p. m. Thursday at 139 North Virginia st. All volunteer nurses aides have been asked to attend the meeting. WHY BE EMBARRASSED BY UNWANTED HAIR? LOUIS D.

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JP) Argu ments started before Federal Dis trict Judge Roger T. Foley here today on a motion by Wilbur Clark of Las Vegas to dismiss i suit brought against him by Wal ter and Joseph R. Guzzardi. Motion for dismissal from fed eral court jurisdiction was made on grounds that the Guzzardis are residents of Nevada rather than California as they allege in their complaint. Walter Guzzardi contends he resides at Encino.

and Joseph Guzzardi lists his residence as Bellaire, Calif. Thv are suiner Clark for money allegedly due under a contract by which he is to pay them 10 per cent of the net profits from operation of the El Rancho hotel gambling casino in Las Vegas. Thpv also ask that the court ap point a receiver to be stationed in the casino during operating hours to check receipts. Tn the motion for dismissal, at torneys for Clark allege the Guzzardis are residents of Nevada and the action should be brought in Clark county district court rather than federal court. They submitted as evidence Nevada liquor and cafe license ap-nlicatinns in which Joseph Guz zardi stated persons interested in the El Rancho hotel were residents of Las Vegas.

The Guzzardis' attorney contends, however, the applications were signed by Guzzardi merely as an officer of the hotel corporation, and that corporate officers need not be residents of Nevada to receive the licenses. HUNTER FINED $50 FOR SPIKE BUCK John Mongolo, Sparks resident, was fined $50 in Judge Harry Dunseath's justice court this morning on a charge of having killed a spike muletail deer. The fine was imposed after Frank Richardson, University of Nevada biologist, testified that the abnormally large eye guards on the horns of Mongol's deer did not make It a legal forked horn. Mongolo was arrested in the Red Rock district several weeks ago by Bruce Clogston, county game warden. Cars Sideswipe On Purdy Road Cars driven by George W.

Meeks of 752 University ave. and R. G. Hamilton, were involved in a sideswipe collision on the Purdy highway about five miles north of Reno Sunday evening, the sheriff's office reported today. According to the report of deputies investigating the accident Hamliton's automobile was appar-enly about feet to the left of the double line in the center of the highway at the time of the impact.

The report also said that skid marks showed that Hamilton's car was too near the center of the road. No one was hurt in the crash. TIRE RECAPS EXPERT REPAIR PEARL'S TIRE SHOP 519 East 4th Phone 21158 Phone 4101 Irhilw Active Political Figure in Nevada For Many Years William (Kelly) Klaus, for many years an active figure in business and politics in died Sunday morning. His death followed that of his wife by five days. Mrs.

Clara Le-nora Klaus died Tuesday and her funeral was held Friday afternoon. William Klaus was born Aug. 29, 1874, at Virginia City. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John Randolph Klaus, were natives of Switzerland and came to the United States in 1870, moving to the Cornstock two years later. William Klaus attended school in Virginia City, worked in the mines, and then went to Butte, Mont. When he arrived at the Mon tana camp he found the Irish fac tion in control of the mines, and he went to work as William Kelly. On his return to Nevada two years later, he was "Kelly" Klaus, and that name identified him until his death. When he returned to Nevada he became a baker at Virginia City, and then for nine years was with the California Brewing co.

on the Cornstock. For two years he operated a bakery at Yerington, then turned to mining again. He operated Tonopah, Goldfield, Dia-mondfield, Wonder, Gold Circle and other famous camps of the early 1900s. In 1912, after operating the Sawdust Corner saloon in Virginia City, he came to Reno and took over Kane's cafe, one of Reno's famous restaurants, which he operated until 1919. The Gold Circle mining boom in Elko county attracted him for six months, then he returned to Reno and with William (Billy) Lawson operated the Grand cigar store.

They continued in this business until 1934 when they sold the place, then located at the Wigwam buffet and lunch at Sierra and Second sts. Mr. Klaus later retired from the partnership. He then became head of the state unemployment department, and later was put in charge of the liquor tax division of the state tax commission. Later he was with the state highway department until failing health compelled his retirement two years ago.

A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Klaus was active in political affairs for many years. In 1924 he was elected to the assembly from Washoe county and was the only Democrat elected from the Reno district. The following year he was appointed to the city council by Mayor E. E.

Roberts to succeed George F. Smith, who had become postmaster. In 1928 he was Democratic candidate for county and in the election he and Walter Kline, the Republican candidate, were tied, and after a recount, the vote still was tied. In a special runoff election, Mr. Klaus was elected by a majority of 1000 votes.

In 1930 he sought the office of sheriff of Washoe county, but was defeated in the general election by Russell Trathen, the Republican candidate. He remained on the county commission until his appointment to the state unemployment division. Active in fraternal affairs, he was a charter member of Corn-stock aerie of Eagles, and was a member of the Knights of Pythias at Virginia City, Reno lodge of Elks and Reno lodge No. 13, F. A.

M. He was a member of the Episcopal church. On Sept. 10, 1898 he married Miss Clara Lenora Fezzey of Virginia City. Surviving are two daughters, Miss Mildred Klaus of Reno and Mrs.

Lucile Hancock of Carson; a grandson, William Hancock of Car son, and a sister, Mrs. Bertha Vail-lencour of Yerington. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the Ross- Burke chapel under direction of Reno lodge of Masons, with the Rev.

Garth Sibbald of Trinity Episcopal church as clergyman. Burial will be beside his wife in Mountain View cemetery. "THE STORE FOR ALL YOUR MUSICAL NEEDS" EMPORIUM OF MUSIC 214 Sierra Street Of r- at at Ot at at JEWELRY WILLIAM (KELLY) KLAUS Big Road Fund Is Recommended Legislators Get Oilmen's Report SACRAMENTO, Nov. 26. UP) California should have more than $800,000,000 to spend on its highways during the next ten years, the joint legislative committee on highways and bridges was informed today in a report of the Western oil and gas association, representing the major petroleum companies operating in the state.

John Pierce, research analyst for the association, who presented the report, was the first of several witnesses to testify on proposals previously recommended to the committee for a ten year highway improvement program, which was estimated by the division of highways would cost $634,000,000. At the October meeting of the committee the highways division recommended that the state gasoline tax be increased to provide funds for the major portion of the proposed program. Pierce based his estimate on a study of revenues from existing gas taxes, motor vehicles fees and federal aid over a fifteen year period, and a projection of population trends over the next ten years. SERGEANT'S SHIRT NOTED ON BANDIT Edward V. Dzinidas of Mill City told police yesterday that a man wearing an army master technical Sergeant's shirt held him up with a pistol on the Verdi road early Saturday night and took $191 in cash and luggage valued at $209 from him.

Rotary Hears Army Nurse Support of the Victory bond campaign was urged by Lt. Mary Flynn of the army nurses corps at the Reno Rotary club luncheon Monday noon at the Golden hotel. Thomas C. Wilson was program chairman and President Wayne Hinckley presided. Lt.

Flynn served aboard a hospital ship in the Mediterranean, off the Normandy beachhead and later in the Pacific theater of war. She described the work of the hospital ship, pointing out that complete hospital facilities are provided, with the ship serving as a floating ambulance between the scene of action and the base hospitals. She cited costs of caring for men in hospitals. "In this last Victory bond drive you are asked to provide for healing instead of killing," she said. Two short motion pictures showing the postwar problems of returning veterans from their posts of duty to civilian life and the types of cases which need rehabilitation were shown? WASHOE LODGE NO.

35 FIRST DEGREES TONIGHT, 7:30 NOTICE For Christmas Candy, please bring us your SUGAR STAMPS, and receive full credit. To those who don't need their SUGAR STAMPS, we will appreciate their cooperation, so that Reno will have its share of Christmas Candies. CRYSTAL CONFECTIONERY 215 NORTH VIRGINIA STREET of Stockton at Third and West sts. Bennett, Mrs. Tubbs, Houston, R.

A. Drake, manager of the cab company for which Houston works, and Mrs. Delia Pissacco, who was riding with Mrs. Tubbs, all testified at this morning's hearing. Also continued until this afternoon was a hearing for a Lovelock woman arrested last night for alleged soliciting on Center st.

Joint Meeting For Service Clubs Members of the Reno Optimist club will meet Tuesday in joint session with the Soroptimist club at their weekly luncheon in the El Cortez hotel. Mrs. Etta Smith, president of the Soroptimists, and James San-tini, Optimist's presiding officer, will direct the joint gathering of the affilated service groups. REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT AND REPAIRS York Compressors from Va Horse Power to 3 Horse Power LEMMON Cr TRAVERS 323 Sierra St. Phone 7713 DELIVERY! AB RANGES Apartment Size $99 25 APPLIANCES PHONE 280S IMMEDIATE 3 BURNER ELECTRIC 1 WE HAVE 'EM I NEW ENGINES Factory built and guaranteed for Dodge, Plymouth, DeSoto and Chrysler 6.

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