Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

METALS Silver 25d, New York. 54c. Copper Electrolytic ....134 13 Lead Spot 7.fc Zinc E. St. Louis G.87G7 FAIR WEATHER There is no storm in sight anywhere along the Coast.

Tonight will be fair and balmy. RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1927 EIGHT PAGES NO. 2 FIFTY-FIRST YEAR EIGHT PAGES BALZM IS INAUGURATED GOVERNOR- OF NEVADA HE'S GOVERNOR NOW MM SIPLE te Poisoned Alcohol Excites House and Senate Speakers AFFISIhamOW CHINESE STORM BRITISH DISTRICT EXCESS DRINKING AMERICAN FREEDOM IS NEAR IN CONGRESS IS I ABROAD ARE NOT CHARGED BY ALTOGETHER DEMOCRAT PEACEFUL TO EIEVATE GUNS OF U. S. NAVY IS INSISTED ON France Is Irritated Owing To Debt Situation; Russ Government Peeved Mexico Continues to Show Unpleasant Attitude and Central America Bothers BY DAVID LAWRENCE fCVrnvrU-ht 1t-'7 1TS Ass'n.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3. Although domestic tranquility is insured, the' I rnUufl States opm ihr- new year under a cloud of doubt 'and uncertainty. Fi ance is irritated over war ueoiH.

cause the United States has with- held recognition of the soviet regime. Mexico continues to defy the department of state warning about confiscation of American oil properties and Latin America looks askance at the policy ot the United States in Nicaragua. Above these specific troubles, the voice of President Coolidge is raised to Europe and the far east in a plea for the use of moral force to prevent another era of armament competition, and a revival of militarism. A troubleous situation on the whole but in not one instance is there likelihood of war. Tangles like these give a secretary of state sleepless nights but they usually are straightened out.

As for Russia, while the cables (Turn to Pace Two) BY BILL Chairman Butler Resolved To Force Measure and Will Vote for It Contention Is That Ships Of Britain Have Larger Range than American WASHINGTON', Jan. 3. A renewal of the old fipht to have guns on American warships elevated to increase their range to "qual that of British ships was" forecast today when it developed t-hat authority for the work probably would be sought in a bill by members of the house naval committee. Butler Is for the Bill Two years ago the house voted an appropriation for such changes, but they were held up on the ground that the agreements reached at the arms conference might be violated. Later the appropriation was withdrawn.

Chairman Butler, who disclosed the plan of committeemen to authorize the gun elevations, said he would vote for the proposed bill. He supported administration's position two years ago, lie said, because of the propspect of world naval disarmament. he said, "they have had their meeting and have walked away with hands in their pockets." British Have Advantage The chairman agreed with other members of Ihe committee, be said. FIRST LINE SHIPS 1 IN GOOD REP AIR "that the British navy, with its first cording to advices from that city, line guns at a higher elevation than Twelve Years in Prison those of the United States navy, Innes has spent twelve years in has a two thousand yard advantage the Atlanta prison for embezzle-and could 'outshoot in ment and using the mails to de- Early action will be sought by Mr. fraud, but it was not this case that Butler on his own bill to authorize i startled the country when he first ten new cruisers for the navy.

He became involved in the disappear-introduced the measure with thc'ance of two young women, known 351 Ships of All Classes Out of Condition Is Told To House Committee by Admiral Halligan; Withdraw Nevada Next Year NATIVE IB HELD BV ENGLISH Fl Thin Line of Marines and Sailors Repulses Vast Mongolian Throng Three Defenders Wounded But Not One Shot Fired By Them During Affray IIAXKOW, Jan. 3. MP) Thousands of Chinese coolies, incited by anti-British speeches, attacked the British concession district here today. They stoned British police and marines and sailors landed to protect British residents. Three of the British defending party were taken to hospitals.

The defenders held the huge Chinese mob in check four hours without firing. Chinese soldiers finally arrived and dispersed the mob. Mob Incited to Fury Agitators addressing thousands of Chinese gathered at the border of the Brkish concessions along the Yang-tze river as part of the New Year holiday celebration, incited them to fury by relating acts of the British which they asserted demonstrated hostility toward the Chinese. They urged them to attack the concession in which the Briti.h lived. The mob rushed upon the concession and began stoning the British police.

These, aided bv twentv sail ors from British warships in the nver, held back the mob without firing. Reinforcements Arrive Reinforcements of marines were hastily landed and special police entered the thin line of British opposing the howling mob of Chinese. One British sailor was bavonctted with the his own rifle when twenty coolies jumped upon him. Two otb-j er sailors were badly beaten with poles, and had to be taken to a hospital. Throughout the afternoon the British wluthout firing a shot held 'their ground against the-thousands of Chinese.

At dusk Cantonese government soldiers arrived Irorn a nearby post, and forced the mob to disperse. The Wanhsieti Affair One of the British acts used by Chinese' anti-foreign agitators to in- cite mob violence was the firing by a British warship upon Chinese sol diers at Wanhsien in September. A British naval party attempting to release two British merchant ships seized by Chinese soldiers of the Northern army was fired upon and half a score of British killed or wounded. The Chinese claimed that the British tire killed two thousand Chinese, while the British asserted approximately three hundred Chi nese were killed or wounded. CALEIOI CA LEX I CO, Jan.

3. (Ay) A heavy earth shock was felt 'here shortly before five o'clock this morning. No damage followed the tremor, which came as two severe jolts. A railroad worker reported shocks occurring at intervals of about one hour with the movement at about five o'clock the most noticeable of shakes during the night and early morning. PAPER CONCERN FAILS IN SUIT WASHINGTON.

Jan. 3. (JP) The federal trade commission won in the supreme court today its case against the Pacific States Paper Trade Association and others charged with conspiracy to shut out competitors and enhance prices on the Pacific Coast. Governor Compromises SANTA FE, Jan. 3.

UP) Governor Dillon wanted to appear at his inaugural ball in a plain busi ness suit. The committee however, insisted that those in authority as properly dressed as possible and the governor wore a tux. MONEY COURIER TAKEN BY BANDIT FOR FOUR HU BY QUAKE AGAIN GIVES TO STATE NEW HEAD TODAY Second Republican to Take Oath as Governor in 32 Years in Nevada Swearing-in of Officials Completed; To Give Out Appointments Shortly Fred B. Balzac, fifteenth governor of. the state and the second native born NevndAn to hold that position, assumed the formal oath of office at ten o'clock this morning.

1 ie is the second Republican to he inaugurated as chief executive of Nevada in thirty-two years, following R. K. Coleord's tenure of the office from 1891 to 1894, and for the first time in the history of the state both the governor and the lieutenant are sons of the commonwealth. Ex-Gov. Colcord Escorts Him The brief ceremony of administering the oath to the new governor took place in the supreme court room of the Capitol at Carson City.

Former Gov. R. K. Colcord, the only former chief executive actually in he state today with the exception of the retiring governor, escorted Mr. Balzar to the bar of the supreme court and presented him to the chief justices who were sitting en banc for the eere-mony.

"Your honors," said Ex-Governor Colcord, "I am happy to present to you Fred B. Balzar who has been chosen governor of all the people of the state of Nevada, and who now declares that he is ready to be sworn." Sanders Administers Oath Chief Justice .1. A. Sanders, who had become chief of the -supreme bench a few moments before in succession to Justice B. W.

Coleman, then administered the oath, pledging the new support of the federal and state constitutions and laws and to defend both the state and. country against their enemies. Ex-Governor Colcord was the first to congratulate Governor Balzar, and formally presented him to those who had gathered for the ceremony. Mrs. Balzar and their daughter were among those witnessing the inauguration, the others being Capitol officials and employes for the most part.

Friends Arrive Late Friends in Carson and from Reno and other points in the state who had planned to attend did not arrive until a half hour after the ceremony had been completed, owing to the public notice which had been broadcast that the inauguration would take place at eleven o'clock. The hour of ten was used instead, to the disappointment of many who had come long distances and had timed their journeys to reach Carson shortly before the later hour. Morley Griswold, the new lieutenant government, was. among (Turn to Page Two) JAPANESE PRINCE IS TO SAIL HOME SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.

(JP) Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, brother of the new emperor of Japan, arrived in San Francisco today preparatory to leaving on the steamer Siberia Maru tomorrow to attend his lather's funeral. The prince was met at Sacramento by T. Ttaketomi, consul general of Japan in San Francisco, and two other members of the consular staff. None but the most formal ceremonies will be performed while the royal party is in the city. The prince will leave on the Siberia Maru at twelve noon tomorrow.

In the effort to return him to his home as speedily as possible the vessel will omit Honolulu. She has also taken on a select cargo of coal to keep her engines working at the maximum speed. Chichibu left London a formght ago. LOANS REFUSED WAR VETERANS ATLANTIC CITY, N. J-, Jan.

3. (A1) Hundreds of former service men were j-efused loans by local banks today when they presented their adjusted service certificates. RECALL MARINES WHEELER'S PLEA WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (JP) Immediate withdrawal of American marines and warships from Nicaragua was asked in a resolution introduced today by Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana.

Planes Safer Than Mules NEW YORK, Jan. 3. (JP) It appears to be much safer to fly in planes of orthodox horsepower than to get a ride in the air from mule power. Eight pilots lost their lives in commercial aviation last year and eighty persons were kicked to death by mules in Missouri, Capt. H.

G. Stevens reports to the American Society for the Promotion of FRED B. BALZAR Governor of Nevada SINCLAIR VICTOR IN APPEAL FOR Federal Supreme Court in Order Refuses to Stop Teapot Dome Trial WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (JP) Harry F.

Sinclair was today granted a review by the supreme court to test out the legality of the Teapot Dome lease. In announcing it would review the case, the court overruled a request by government counsel that the Teapot Dome proceedings be sus pended until the court had decided the pending appeal in the Doheny Elk Hills oil reserve suit. Both Doheny and Sinclair lost in the lower federal courts, which held that the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases were invalid. Both of these are civil suits, having no direct connection with the criminal proceedings against Sinclair, Doheny and former Interior Secretary Fall. Doheny and Fall recently were acquitted on the criminal conspiracy charge lodged against them, and Sinclair and Fall are to be brought to trial on a similar charge February 2.

EIGHT KILLED IY AVALANCHE IMVRP.M'rK Austria Jan. 3. (JP) Eight of a party of ten tourists on a skiing trip in the Alberg region were killed by an avalanche which swept over them yesterday. The two rescued were seriously injured. The party consisted of five Englishmen, two English women, two German brothers and one Tyrolese guide.

Those rescued were one of the women who suffered a concussion of the brain and one of the Germans, Professor Lehr of Alar-burg University. Natives of the region told the authorities that the party, in going on the skiing trip, disregarded the warnings of local weather experts. DEFEATED CLERK ENDS HIS LIFE SACRAMENTO, Jan. 3. (JP) A special dispatch to the Sacramento Bee from Red Bluff states that H.

H. Kuhn, county clerk and recorder for twenty years, at noon today surrendered the keys of his office to his successor, went home and shot and killed himself with a revolver. Friends state that his defeat at the November polls and the prospect of having to start life anew at the half century mark had apparently preyed upon his mind. His wife, who was his deputy, followed him home from the office and found his body. ALAMEDA CITIZEN GETS STATE PLUM SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

Ezra Decoto was named today as president of the state railroad commission to succeed llarley W. Brundige. Previous to his appointment on the commission'Decoto was district attorney of Alameda county REvEw iEVOLT SEETHING Dutch Military Forces in Clashes with Natives of Siloengkang Province Woenroarl Arrets Mads But Rising Covers All Parts of District PADANG, Sumatra. Jan. 3.

UP)- Thirty insurrectionists, described as Communists, have been killed and many arrested in various clashes with Dutch military iotees in the Siloengkang district in the past few nays Insurrection Widespread The island of Sumatra, the largest of the great Sunda islands in the Malay archipelago, is one of the territories included in the Dutch East Indies. Most of the natives live by agriculture, the rest by cattle raising, fishing and lumber working, being little concentrated in towns. The population in 1920 was about six million. The insurrection movement in Java, which also is part of the Dutch East Indies, was widespread in parts of the western section of ''Turn to Paee Two FtS. BUT OTHERS NOT in favor of doing as much repair work at sea.

as possible, not only because of the lower expense m- voIvecl because opportunity thus was afforded to give seamen training which might stand them in good stead in an emergency. Nevada to oe wunarawn He said the navy contemplated withdrawal of the Nevada and Okla- noma from the fleet in the fall of uama, a memuer oi tne committee, as to whether all but a few of the vessels would not require some modernization before 1934. Admiral Halligan replied that they would. The total number of ships of all classes now oul of condition is 351, Admiral Halligan told the com it ee. CLOSED TIGHT WARSAW, Jan.

3. (JP) Poland 1 awoke on the first business day of the new year to una twenty oi us banks closed by government order because they lacked the required paid-in capital of 1,000,000 zlotys or $111,000. Though the banks endeavored frantically to obtain revision or at least postponements of the closing order, they were unable to do busi- ness today. The provision as to the! amount of paid-in capital is part Gf the finance ministry's campaign against "mushroom banks." LEVEY TO BOSS CAL. ASSEMBLY SACRAMENTO, Jan.

3. (JP) asserrioiy vwio i.vintucu tia ui- evitable by Isaac Jones of Ontario, one of the leading contenders for, the pos.t.or. shortly before the con- vening of the forty-seventh session of the California legislature here today. There appeared to no argu- lilt 1 1 il LU 1 1 iv-tictuuu Ul iVl inui A. Ohnimus of San Francisco as chief clerk of the assembly, while iWilliam iicuuuiman or bacramento was slated for sergeant at arms.

In the senate Joseph Beek of Orange county, and Joe Uelan of Los Angeles apparently were unopposed for secretary andsergeant at arms respectively. Each had served the preceding two sessions in the some capacity. IN SUMATRA AND MANY ARE KILLED NAVY POLISH ANKS WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (VP) All of the first line ships in the Amer- ican fleet are in good repair, but the condition of vessels of importance has, in some cases, necessitated a reduction of their sneerl from twentv to as low as twelve knots an hour.

Sea Repair Work Favored Tpstimnnv' to this effect was Edwards of New Jersey Is After Full Information About Denaturants Andrews Thinks Stories of Deaths Are Bugbear That Wets Have Devised WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (JP) Having been furnished over the holidays with the new angle of prohibition discussion, members of the senate and house today plunged into debate on the subject of poison alcohol while treasury chemists, at Secretary Mellon's direction, worked toward preparation of a non-poisotious formula for denaturing the product. Says Congressmen Drink The house received a number of lesolutions to govern the practice and Representative Cellar, Democrat of New York, a charged members of the house and senate with drinking to excess. He urged that poison be eliminated from alcohol on humane grounds.

In the senate the charge on the treasury's policies was led by Senator Edwards, Democrat of New Jersey, who presented a Resolution asking Secretary Mellon for full information and then launched into an extended speech supporting his proposal. The resolution also would asfc under which authority the treasury has required that industrial alcohol be poisoned to render it unfit for bverages purposes. Want Poison 'Removed The treasury would be requested to furnish the senate all data available on the subject, "particularly all corespondence had by the department with the Anti Saloon League of America or with Wayne B. Wheeler bearing on the poisoning of alcohol." While the New Jersey senator was preparing to address the senate in support of his resolution, Assistant Secretary Andrews, in charge of prohibition enforcement, was predicting early elimination of poison as a denaturant. General Andrews (Turn to Paee Two) SACKlS BROKEN; HE STILL LIVES SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

3. (JP) Mrs. Margaret Fox, her son Leonard G. Fox and John Mitchell, all of Modesto, who? were seriously injured in an automobile accident here Saturday, were reported on the way to recovery at the St. Francis hospital today.

Mitchell, the most seriously injured, suffered a broken back and is confined in a plaster cast. Mrs. Margaret Fox, although suffering from a broken jawbone and other severe head injuries, is making a good recovery despite her seventy-eight years. Her son, Leonard G. Fox, is the least injured of the trio.

"MA" FERGUSON TURNS 'EM LOOSE AUSTIN, Jan. 3. (JP) Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson today granted twenty-seven full pardons, commuted the life sentence imposed on Homer Fleming of Kimble county, convicted of slaying his wife to three years and issued jne parole.

JAPAN'S CHIEF SUFFERS COLD TOKYO, Jan. 3. -(iT') Emperor Hirohito has a severe cold and is confined to his bed. The ceremony marking the official beginning of regime, originally planned for tomorrow, has been postponed- The ailment is not believed to be serious. American Dances Forbidden MOSCOW, Jan.

3. (JP) The American foxtrot, shimmy and Charleston were forbidden today by the soviet supreme council for physical education as unfit for soviet Russia's proletariat youth. Dr. Semasko, commissor of health, denounced the dances as "indecent products of-the fat-American bourgeoisie." them they would be held until they or their friends produced $5000. The Americans dickered with their captors and finally bargained the sum down to $350.

Connors, paroled by the bandits Saturday, went to San Francisco del Oro, obtained the money and returned to the bandit camp, whereupon he and his partner were released. Dispatches make no mention of ill treatment by the bandits. given before the house committee 1'J-S to recondition them, considering the naval appropriations A discussion of capital ship con-bill reported out today, disclosing ditions brought a query from Repre-that while in times of peace the im- sentative Oliver, Democrat of Ala- VICTOR E. INN ES i One time an assistant United states attorney in nevaaa, wnose prison term will soon end. Once Assistant Prosecutor In Nevada and Accused Of Slaying of Women Victor E.

Innes, who was the central figure in a mysterious murder case that startled ihe country some fifteen years ago, and who had been assistant United States attorney in Nevada shortly before the sensation became nation wide, is soon to leave the federal prison at Atlanta, ac- as the Nelms sisters It was in 1914 that the Nelms sis ters disappeared from their home in Seattle, and detectives traced their last movements in a trip with Innes. The women were known as Beatrice Nelms and Mrs. Eloise Nelms Dennis. Innes was arrested and charged with their murder, but the prosecution could never find the bodies, and prosecution failed. It was openly charged by the officials at the time that Innes had disposed of the bodies by grinding them up in a- meat chopping machine.

Mrs. Innes also was accused with Innes. She is now said to he fatally ill somewhere in the West with tuberculosis. A Washington Appointment Innes was sent to Nevada to be an assistant to Samfiel Piatt, then United States attorney in this state. He did little law work, principally acting as a stenographer, Mr.

Piatt said today. On a few occasions he handled some minor cases before the federal grand jury for Mr. Piatt and once or twice ap- pea red in court. Mr. Piatt said he I never knew anything of Innes' per- sonal affairs.

TO JAPANESE MANILA, Jan. 3. (JP) The Manila Times says Vincene Masigan, owner of the Fuga islands which lies forty miles north of Luzon and about two hundred miles south of Formosa, will leave here this week with J. Danon, a Manila broker, to close negotiations for the sale of the island to a Japanese firm. Danon was quoted as saying the sale of the island to foreign inter ests had come before Philippine gov ernment officials and that they had considered expropriating it to prevent transfer of title to a foreign firm but nothing was done in that direction.

Danon also said the Japanese firm already had paid a part of the purchase price, 340,000 pesos for an option on the island. Bartenders Hopeful BOSTON, Jan. 3: (Pi A call has been issued for a meeting to rejuvenate Bartenders' Union Local No. 77. The reason is described as PL r.ra.tfst importance." "bandits" were college students out to get first-hand knowledge of the reactions of bandits and victims during a robbery.

In each case the "highwaymen." four in number, demanded their victims' overcoats and nothing else. One of the hold-up youths dis played a small calibre pistol. An-- other jotted down in a notebook what are thought to be his impressions of the proceedings. VICTOR E. INNES SOON TO LEAVE PRISON AN (Turn to Page Two) PHILADELPHIA, Jan.

3. (JP) Some detectives expressed the "belief today that Mrs. Agnes Krajeski and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Passa water, of Camden, N. whose bodies were found here last night in a gas filled room, had gone to their deaths in a suicide pact. They passed this belief on a quo- Ittation from the Bible pinned on a calendar In the room.

The quota tion, written with a lead pencil on a small niece of naner read: "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." Others believed the deaths were accidental, while still others held the theory of murder and suicide. Investigation, the authorities said, revealed that Mrs. Krajeski, who lived apart from her husband, recently "had beei despondent and that Miss Passa water, a daughter by a former-marriage, had been dis- charged from a hospital New Year's Day. Both had been employed as waitresses in this city. BRITISH LABOR LONDON, Jan.

3. (JP) The Daily Express says the most influential of Great Britain's moderate labor leaders have decided to declare open war against the Communists In the trade unions. The reported decision is due to the fact of the extremist minority starting a campaign to undermine the official leaders of the union, the paper adds. The eananaitrn nirainst the Com- munists. it understands, will be ui 111? iieiu January Z't and TWO ARE DEAD; SUICIDE, MAYBE; IRS imnrnvwl rendition of the vessels does not seriously at feet tlieir work, an emergency, such as a war, might; result in a congestion at shipyards when all facilities would be required for converting merchant men.

Rear Admiral John Halligan, head of the bureau of engineering, informed the committee that he was HEAD IAS SACRAMENTO. Jan. 3 (JP) Will C. Wood, state superintendent of public instruction, announced today the resignation of C. L.

McLane- as president of the Fresno State Teacher's college. Wood said McLane had of fered his resignation some time ago and i that he had tried to persuade him to reconsider but that the Fresno man had submitted his formal resig- nation today and nothing remained i but to accept, it with regret. "McLane was the first president of the college," Wood stated, "and I built it up until it ranked in enroll ment with the leading teacher's colleges of the West and in educational standards the best in the country. "I plan to npnoint as his successor F. W.

Thomas, effective June 30, the date McLane leaves the college." FALLS 14 STORIES TO INSTANT DEATH SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. G. H. Election oi ii.ugar oi can launched immediately after a con-Traham, thirty-six, manager of the Francisco as speaker of the state ference of trade union executives, HOLD-UP BY FOUR YOUTHS THOUGHT TO BE 'SCIENTIFIC MEXICANS FREE AMERICANS WHEN THEY'RE PAID $350 Phomhprlain hpr Strin Com- pany, today met death in a fall from one of the top stories of a fourteen story building at Jackson and Sfilr streets Tt is sunnosed he accidentally fell through a window while examining some work that had been done in the building by his firm.

Prefers Cash to Trip NEW YORK. Jan. 3. (Having won a trip to Europe, the prize in contest for selection of the prettiest Hungarian in the U. S.

Miss Juliska Lovas is coming right back home to Flint, where she runs a coal office. Her business sense tells her it would be better to ae cept $500 instead of the trip. I PHILADELPHIA, Jan: 3. (JP) Two hold-ups here last night were staged in the interest of science, in the oninion of the nolice and the victims of the "bandits." Confirmation, however, was lacking, for the "bandits," who drove an expensive ear and wore fur coats, after assuring their victims their property would be returned, disappeared and have not been located. Police said they were convinced the MEXICO CITY-, Jan.

3. (JP) Ransom of $350 effected the release of the two Americans, J. W. Wiley and E. B.

Connors, employes of a British mining company at San Francisco del Oro, Chihuahua state, who were kidnaped by a bandit gang last Tuesday. The bandits after seizing the two men took them to a camp in the nearby mountains and informed i ST. PAUL, Jan. 3. UP) A bandit kidnaped a messenger in the lobby of the American National Bank her today while scores of persons passed within a few feet, forced him to ride in an automobile to an isolated part of the city and robbed him of S5C00..