Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 19

RENO EVENING GAZETTE The Strongest Man in the World Lenten Guidepost PAGE NINETEEN RENO, NEVADA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1957 T7m Its I BATTLING PAGNI CASE SECOND ROUND ENDED IN RENO POLICE COURT PHONE PA 3-3161 fry 7 -5 I i 9 1 i-M-Sfc'-S ST quietly downhill. Then the time for the crisis passed and nothing happened. Mother left to call the churches again. "If Paul can stick it out," she said, "it will be because of our prayers." I was better on the sixth day. I remember waking up and finding Mother at my bedside.

"You're over the worst part. I'm sure of it. Now we can get you on your feet again." It wasn't easy. Bright's disease leaves you weak and thin. Some people never really recover.

MANY PRAYERS "A lot of people prayed for you," my father told me when I returned home. "You can't let them down. You've got to get Lincoln County School Picture Still Confused Pupils Continue To Avoid Classes, Support Principal PANACA Confusion still was apparent in the muddled Lincoln county school situation as students at the high school here continued to remain away from classes in support of their principal, Frank Wilcox, who has resigned in protest over the reappointment by the school board of County Supt. Richard Harmon. IMPASSE REACHED An impasse has been reached despite a meeting of the school board Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Art Hartley, board president.

He said that "absolutely nothing" was decided as a result of the extended discussion which involved board members, students, taxpayers and teachers. Hartley said at this time there appeared "no solution to the problem" although he maintained that the board would continue to encourage the high school students to attend classes so they would not be in violation of school laws. Byron Stetler, state superintendent of public instruction, after making an impassioned plea to the students to return to classes, returned to his Carson offices because of the press of other business brought on by the closing days of the state legislature. FEUD IS OPENED The months-long feud between Wilcox and Harmon broke out into the open a week ago when the principal and three of the high school teachers announced they would not return after the current school year because the board had reemployed Harmon as superintendent. Of the 175 students enrolled in the high school, approximately 130 have refused to attend classes this weelc although they gather each day on the school grounds.

Board members said the youngsters have been orderly and have caused no trouble but flatly refuse to attend classes, demanding that Harmon's contract be abrogated. I i ft iTERN ii ii 1 restaurant of the Hotel Riverside. She will remain here until March 27, leaving to join her-husband, Jose Ferrer in Europe. WILL SING LN RENO Rosemary Clooney, singing star, is shown above waving "hello" at Reno municipal airport on her arrival Wednesday to fill a brief engagement in the theater Control Board Considers Tropicana Hotel License By PAUL ANDERSON 1956 Olympics Champion Weightlifter It seemed strange that Paul Anderson from Toccoa, Georgia, should be lying in a hotel bed in Moscow and looking out the window into a peaceful June sky. Our team of six weighthfters was scheduled to compete with Russia's best athletes the next evening at Gorky Park in Moscow.

I wanted to get to sleep, but it wasn't easy. The ornate design of the wall paper above my head was unreal. So was my being here, thousands of miles from home. I thought of my most enthusiastic root- A'kA I who had been so excited about this trip. Perhaps she was now comparing my present situation to the time year's ago when doctors thought I Was too weak to live.

WAS LOSING WEIGHT That was when I was 7 years old. I would come home from school tired and crosS. I was losing weight. One day when I awoke shivering and feverish, Mother called the doctor. I was taken to the hospital, where there were more doctors, more examniations.

Outside the bedroom, I could hear hushed voices. The words "Bright's disease" and "attacks the kidneys" drifted in to me. When the doctors left, Mother came in. And I sensed from the worried look on her face that I was quite ill. While the doctors were doing all they could, Mother took up her vigil.

Whenever I fell asleep, she went to the phone and called all the clergymen she knew and asked for prayers. She called her friends, too. "Paul is dying," she said. "We need your special help." NEAR DEATH And then she waited. For five days I hovered between life and death.

The doctors expected me to slip Probe Spreads In Check Thefts Reno police have asked all rooming house operators and hotel and motel owners to check their registers for a Howard A. Miller, who, because an alert bank teller called Reno police, is now residing in the city jail. Det. Sgt. William Gregory said Miller told him he had no local He told the detective he had been sleeping in parks and bus stations while in Reno.

But Gregory said he was sure Miller had rented a room in Reno and that he had probably registered under his true name. Miller, Postal Inspector Floyd M. Cozad of San Francisco said today, is a professional mail box thief and forger. "He is also calm, cool and a liar," the inspector added. Originally of Bethlehem, Miller has spent 20 of his 48 years in prison, Cozad said.

If he is convicted of the charges now outstanding against him, he will have been sentenced 15 times. Cozad said his San Francisco office had been looking for Miller 18 months. They trailed him to Sacramento, Milwaukee, Phila delphia and Florida. But they could not catch him in the act of forging a check. Then, Tuesday morning.

Miller walked into the Nevada Bank of Commerce and presented an in come tax refund check to teller Joan Maguire. It had presum ably been endorsed by the payee, Elizabeth Thompson. But Miss Thompson, Miss Maguire knew, had been in the hos- Dital since Feb. 5 when she was critically injured at the scene of thf disastrous First and bierra streets blasts and fires. Miller's face was also familiar-Miss Maguire had seen it on a wanted' poster.

So she called police, who later arrested Miller as he gambled in a downtown casino. But Miller won't cooperate, Cozad said. If his room in Reno Is found, then police have a good chance of finding more evidence. Such as, Cozad said, checks which Miller may well- have stolen from local mail boxes. For this is the man's occupation.

He steals checks, forges the en-drosements and then presents them at banks for cashing. He presumably stole Miss Thompson's check from her mailbox at 104 Maple St. San Francisco and federal authorities want Miller for his handiwork in the Bay Area. He is probably a left-handed forger, Cozad said, for his legal handwriting is different from his forgeries. "But he'll lie 'till the sun goes down," Cozad said.

Ask him to write something with his left hand, and he makes a few scratches. Ask him where he lives, and he won't tell you. Cozad said if he can find Miller's Reno room, he'll have a good stock of evidence to present the judge when the man Roes to court. Miller will probably be returned to San Francisco to face charges, Cozad 'said, "thanks to that bank teller and Reno police." 3 also said he took one of the Pagnis to the station. "The littlest one, I think it was Elko.

I get their names mixed up." Attorney Stewart asked Haskell if he could see the "littlest one" in court. All the Pagnis present, four of them, stood up and stared impassively at Haskell. This move interested Judge Anderson who said "I don't know if they're all here myself." Haskell did not see a familiar face. Stewart then pointed to a slender straight haired Pagni. "This is Elio Pagni," he said.

Officer Clifford Ford jr. also saw Willaman pushed. Ford said he didn't know the Pagnis, but said they were all "screaming and hollering." Stewart asked Ford to demonstrate his idea of a scream. "Right here in court?" "Yes," Stewart said. "I want to hear your definition." Ford got a reprieve when Judge Anderson wouldn't allow the "scream-test" in his courtroom.

SAW PUSHING Officer Donald Carroll said he saw "a Pagni" push Willaman, but admitted he didn't know the Pagnis. Cross-examined by Stew art, Carroll said Willaman told Carroll that a Pagni did the pushing. Juvenile officer Albert Guar-dia came to Jack's to meet another officer on another matter. He said he allowed Mrs. Birch, who seemed "nervous and up set," to sit in his car.

"I didn't know what it was all about," Guardia said. The parade of officers concluded the city's case. For the defense, Stewart began calling members of the Pag-ni's Club Jubilee shuffleboard team and the Jack's Cocktail Lounge shuffleboard team and some shuffleboard match spectators. The first was Relio Pagni, a slim, dark, quiet-spoken man who said the Jack's shuffleboard team won the match the night of January 4. The alleged disturbance followed, shortly after midnight.

TAKEN FROM CAB Relio also testified that he, and not brother Roy, was the man who took Joyce Birch by the arm and removed her from Albert Pagni's car where she was "having words" with Albert's wife, Marge Pagni. Relio said he did this at Mrs. Pagni's request. He said Mrs. Birch "was mad." Relio said he heard officer Ryan tell Albert that he, Ryan, was willing to sign an assault and battery complaint against Albert.

Relio said Albert never left the bar. At the police station, Relio said he and Roy talked to Capt. Ferretto upstairs in "booking." He said Ferretto told him to go downstairs, that someone "wanted to see me." Relio said he found no one downstairs, and was unable to get, back into booking afterward. Relio did not see Mrs. Birch led out of the bar by Roy Pagni.

(Mrs. Birch claims Roy dragged her into the street, knocked her down and choked her) The second defense witness, Mrs. Katie Hines, member of the Jubilee shuffleboard team, said she sat in Jack's all evening with Mrs. Birch. "I would say she was tight," Mrs.

Hines said. She told the court that Mrs. Birch expressed her intention of Albert decide" between Mrs. Birch and his wife. ANOTHER SHOVING The third witness, Mrs.

Pagni, said she came to Jack's after taking her two children, aged four and five, to a birthday movie and to dinner. When she entered Jack's, she said Mrs. Birch shoved her 'and said, "What are you doing here?" Mrs. Pagni said she tried to talk to Albert, who was playing shuffleboard, but that Mrs. Birch "kept butting in." She said Mrs.

Birch told Albert that "she had more to offer him." Then, Mrs. Pagni said, Mrs. Birch threatened to call Capt. Ferretto and have Mrs. Pagni's children picked up if Mrs.

Pagni didn't go home. The two women were seated in the Pagni car, Mrs. Pagni said, when Mrs. Birch used "foul language." Attorney Stewart then called bartender Arthur P. Coture who said he saw no trouble in the bar at all.

Joe Kern an, a member of Jack's shuffleboard team, said he saw "no action." Cocktail waitress Barbara Cur-rie also agreed that there were no fights. Arthur a long-time friend of the Pagnis, said he heard Mrs. Birch tell Albert she had "more to offer." Mabson said Mrs. Birch was "weaving from side to side and threw her arms around me and kissed me." Louis Avansino, member of Jack's shuffleboard team, said he saw "no ruckus." The trial was continued to Friday at 1:30 p. m.

when Stew art said he had from five to seven more witnesses. AT SYMPOSIUM Dr. Frederick L. Coddington will attend a symposium on pulmonary emphysema and open heart aurgery in Oakland, Calif, on March 15 and 16. Second chapter in the case of the "Battling Pagnis versus Fer-retto's Posse" was staged in municipal court Wednesday afternoon with city prosecutors and defense attorneys apparently determined to parade every witness to the alleged assault and battery committed Jan.

5 by one of the Pagnis. Like the trial's first session two weeks ago, the only thing that any of the witnesses seemed to be really sure of is that the whole issue is "confused." It was still confused Wednesday afternoon when the clock ran out on the second chapter, necessitating a third chapter Friday afternoon. ONE IS FREED The confusion has already resulted in the freeing of one of the Pagni brothers, Albert. Judge Harry D. Anderson two weeks ago dismissed a charge of resisting arrest filed against Albert because testimony indicated that Albert was inside Jack's Cocktail Lounge, 325 S.

Virginia when the confusing street scene occurred. Still listed as defendants are Roy Pagni, charged with committing assault and battery on Mrs. Joyce Birch, 615 N. Maddux and Elko Pagni, who is charged with obstructing officers. The second chapter of the series began Wednesday with Assistant City Attorney Roy Torvinen calling a stream of po lice officers to the stand.

The officers testified to variou9 oc currences on Jan. 5, but the only place where they seemed to be in agreement was over the fact that they were all very much confused by the presence of so many Pagnis. This confusion over the brothers (there are six, Roy R'elio, Elko, Albert, Bill and Pete) has" been used to varying degrees of success by defense attorney Royal Stewart. Stewart himself appeared confused by the host of stolid brothers, frequently con sulting his notes to keep matters straight. FIVE TESTIFY Torvinen, acting prosecutor in the absence of City Attorney Samuel B.

Francovich who handled the first chapter but has since departed for Pensacola, for a Navy League trek, sought to elicit testimony from five more police officers Wednesday, that the Pagnis obstructed investigation of the incident. The officers are membero of a six-car mechanized force that de scended on Jack's in response to a call by officer Robert Ryan who said he saw a man struggling with a woman. The battery of cars, since dubbed "Ferretto's Posse" in honor of Capt. Reno Ferretto, even contained one of the police department's juvenile officers who arrived looking for another officer. Two weeks ago, Ryan testified he was confused.

Wednesday, four more officers said the same thing. PUSIDED BY ONE Officer Stanley Willaman, who said he was a long-time friend of the Pagni brothers, said, "It was a vicious circle. I was talking to one or another of them almost continuously. I didn't know what was going on." He said one of the Pagnis pushed him. Officer Ronald Haskell said he saw the pushing incident.

He Gray Reid Store Opening Slated Thirty eight days following Reno's disastrous blast and fire, Gray Reid's department store will open for business rriaay at 9:30 a. m. at its interim location in the Bradlev building on the northwest corner of Plaza and Virginia streets. The firm's president, Al J. Adams, stated today that "it was only through the coopera tion of contractors, workers, store personnel and suppliers that we were able to make the March 15 deadline." The store will feature a number of specials at its reopening sales event, "through the coop eration of suppliers.

DesDite havine less than half the floor space of the First and Sierra street store, the firm has been able to stock practically all of the brand name merchandise carried in the former location. Insofar as it is possible, the new store has been departmentalized for the ease of the shopping pub lic. Store officials termed the customer reaction following the disaster "tremendous" with some customers figuring their own hills and sendinz in payments despite the disrupted service. Charge accounts a the interim location will be carried on nor mally. All of the major records of the old-time Reno department store were recovered irom tne damaged building though many were water-soaked.

All of the goods saved from the fire and water damaged store were disposed of and none will be sold at the new location. Continual shipments of new stocks have been delivered to the firm since the fire. strong again. Slowly my parents coached me along, encouraged me t6 eat and exercise, play rugged sports. Their, campaign was so successful that by the time I got to high school I weighed 185 pounds and played football.

When I entered Furman University on scholarship, I weighed over 200 pounds quite a contrast to the frail 60-pound boy who left the hospital just 10 years earlier. Home for Summer vacation after my first year at college I decided to work with weights to build up my legs for football. I quickly became fascinated with this sport. A HOME GYM My family helped me rig up a home gym. We didn't buy any professional equipment, but used what we could find around town.

I still use homemade equipment. My favorite weight is "The Thing," two thrasher wheels attached to a bar. It weighs over 800 pounds. I use, it for deep knee bends to develop my legs and shoulders. As I became more interested in the ancient sport of weight lifting, I learned more about its terms and contest rules.

In a weightlifting meet you are expected to make three different kinds of lifts. In the clean and jerk the weights are placed on the floor, first lifted shoulder high, and then with a quick stiffening of he legs, jerked above your head. More difficult is the press, where the weights are lifted from the floor to your shoulders, then pushed slowly above your head. MOST DIFFICULT The most difficult is called where the w-eights are lifted above your head in one sweeping motion from the floor. I entered national competition, winning a number of events.

Then in June, 1955, the offer came from the Amateur Athletic Union to take the trip to Russia. Weightlifting is a major sport in Russia, equivalent to baseball in the United States. It arouses a tremendous interest. The night before the meet came, and I couldn't sleep. Too many thoughts.

In Corinthians Paul talks about the different gifts God gave us. With me it is a feeling of gratitude for my gift of strength. So I reminded myself that night in the Moscow hotel that I had a special obligation to use this gift the next day for God and my country. Gorky Park is not a regular stadium. It is an open-air amphitheater.

As we prepared for the competition, the rain outside was coming down hard enough to have driven most audiences home. But that night there were more than 15,000 spectators. Every seat was sold. Crowds were standing around at the back and along the sides. A Russian band played The Star-Spangled Banner.

First there were the lighter class lifts, and in these the Russian and American competitors were pretty evenly matched. Then came the heavyweights. The Russian heavyweight champion, Medrediev, stepped up, dried his hands, reached down to the bar in front of him. The crowd cheered as he snatched 298 pounds, pressed 325 pounds, did 370 pounds in the clean and jerk. Then it was my turn.

In the snatch I handled 316 pounds, in the press 404 pounds, and 426 pounds in the clean and jerk. The Russian announcer spoke: "Paul Anderson totals 1,146 pounds. The American has just set two new world's records. Never have we seen such weights lifted." None of this have been possible, including my victory in the 1956 Olympics, but for the prayers of others. I'm convinced of that.

Nor would I be alive today if I had been born of godless parents. Realizing this after my victory in Moscow made me grateful all over againfor my parents, my country and God. TOMORROW Mrs. Billy Graham, wife ofc. the world famous evangelist, tells a human story of her family's home life, revealing that even ministers have the same problems as the rest of us, problems which can be solved by prayer and faith.

Traffic Troubles It's apparently a family trait with the Luther Macks, 1200 Sutro St. Wednesday afternoon, Luther Mack, 38, was arrested by Court Marshal James Curtis and brought before the court clerk to post $24 bail for failing to pay his overtime parking tickets. On Feb. 27, the junior Luther Mack, 18, was arrested and charged with failing to appear before Acting Municipal Judge Kirby Unsworth to answer a traffic citation for. running a boulevard stop sign.

do business with a new hotel, and so on. The gaming board spent much of the day examining the finances of the Tropicana group, checking on operational plans and asking about particular interest holders. Board members were particularly interested in the four per cent interest held by Jacob Man- Round Is Lost By Publisher Supreme Court To Get Appeal LAS VEGAS Appeals to the Nevada Supreme Court'were being prepared today on behalf of Hank Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, and Wilbur R. McNinch, 32 year old investigator, on a denial of their petition to throw out blackmail charges brought against them. District Judge Ryland" Taylor yesterday ruled against the two men and George Holden, Lander county district attorney, then refused to halt proceedings pending the appeal.

Judge Taylor, however, issued an order halting the proceedings to permit time for the appeal. Judge Taylor announced his decision after several hours of argument between attorneys Morton Galane, representing Greenspun and McNinch and deputy district attorney Gordon Hawkins of Clark county and Holden. Basis of the writ of certiorari to throw out the charges was that there was no enrolled bill on file at the state capitol covering the crime of blackmail. Judge Taylor ruled that the warrant of arrest was valid and that the same bill is found in another section of the Nevada criminal code. The blackmail charges were brought on a complaint signed by Holden as a result of an investigation conducted several months ago in Austin by McNinch.

District Judge John Sexton, the subject of the investigation, charged McNinch with only attempting to uncover information which was uncomplimentary to him. Judge Sexton presided over the libel trial brought by attorney George Franklin against Green spun and the Sun which resulted in a jury awarding the attorney $109,000 damages. LIONS AT SPARKS IN SEARCH OF QUEEN HOPEFULS Young women wishing to enter competition for the title of Miss Nevada in next June's pageant were invited today to apply for the sponsorship of the Sparks Lions club in the contest. Leslie Kofoed, member of the club's Miss Nevada pageant committee said that any girl desiring the Sparks club as sponsor should make-application by March 21 "toy writing to the Sparks Lions club at postoffice Box No. 1, Sparks.

Candidates must be -residents of Nevada, or students of the University of Nevada; unmarried; high school graduates by September, 1957; 18 to 26 years of age; and of good character. They must possess poise, personality, intelligence, charm, beauty of face and figure; and must possess and display a talent in a three-minute routine. A scholarship of $1000 is the prize for the contest FROM CAPITOL BUREAU Reno Newspapers, Inc. Applicants for licenses to op erate the $11,000,000 Tropicana hotel at Las Vegas told the gaming control board and the Clark county licensing board Wednesday that they are shooting at an April 3 opening, but agreed not to advertise it before they are licensed. The Wednesday session at Carson was an exploratory hearing of the gaming control board, preparatory to formal considera tion of the Tropicana application March 20.

If the gaming board recommends the license, the tax commission could grant it March 22, but a county license still would be needed. SPECIAL MEETING Clark Sheriff W. E. Leypoldt, chairman of the Clark licensing board, who attended the state meeting along with some other members of his board, said he had asked members to attend a special March 25 meeting to consider the Tropicana license. The Clark county group ordi narily would not meet until April 11.

But Leypoldt said that while the presence of county board members indicated a willingness to speed action within reason, the county group is under no obligation from Tropicana repre sentatives, who said they simply had to make some advance arrangements to open April 3, license or no, Leypoldt advised against advertising the date and William Sinnott, gaming board member, agreed that this adver tising would embarrass all boards concerned. Bryan Burton of Los Angeles, one of the Tropicana attorneys, said his clients didn want to be presumptuous but that it is no secret in the entertainment world that singer Eddie Fisher is to be the opening star and will start getting paid on April o. Ana ne saia otner promo tional arrangements had to be made and pegged to a definite date. PRESSURE APPLIED Leypoldt noted that advertise ment of a date before licensing places great pressure on his board from people wanting to go to work, suppliers wishing to Brief Storm Expected Here Gusty southerly winds will accompany a brief storm to Reno tonight and colder temperatures are expected Friday, the weather bureau reported. The low this morning of 18 was the lowest in several weeks, a reminder that Winter hasn't given up yet this year.

Increasing cloudiness should preceed the storm tonight, slowly clearing Friday. In the face of warm sunshine and hard working road crews Winter snows which slowed traffic on many of the roads out of Reno Wednesday has all but dis appeared. No chain controls posted anywhere in the vicinity. The slide which caused some de lay and one-way traffic controls on highway 40A, the Feather river highway is reported to have been cleared and the road opend to normal traffic. Weather at Reno's ski resorts-is warm and beautiful," "lots of new snow is awaiting skiers and good crowds are expected there today.

Roads to the area are open and clear. Warm sun may shorten the good skiing which the new snow has provided but tonight's storm should leave more powder on the hill. heimer, a New Jersey commission broker, which turned out to have been purchased with the same $80,000 which bought interests held earlier and successively by Geoige and Paul Sherman, brothers. $80,000 ADVANCE Burton explained that Man-heimer owns part of a factoring and finance company in' the fur industry which is chiefly owned by a third Sherman brother, Ben. Burton said the company advanced the $80,000 in the first place to the other Shermans and that Manheimer decided to take over the obligation.

The Tropicana applicants denied that they had sought Manheimer as an interest holder and in fact said they didn't even know him. However, Louis J. Lederer, a Las Vegas gambler who heads the prospective Tropicana operators, said that buying back Man-heimer's stock not only wouldn't be a burden but would be an attractive deal since it had been bought at half the going rate of $40,000 a point. Earlier Burton had assured the gaming control board that "Dandy" Phil Kastel, a New Orleans gambling figure who originally undertook the 'Tropicana promotion, is completely and permanently out of the picture. However, the operating corporation, Hotel Conquistador, must pay off $320,000 over eight years for Kastel's promotional interest, which wound up at 16 per cent.

SEVENTEEN GA3IES Lederer said his group plans to operate a maximum of 17 games and 101 slot machines; would pursue a moderate for Las Vegas entertainment policy, with a chorus line, one name star and no secondary acts, with Monte Proser of New York in charge of this operation; and had arranged for Alex Perino, Los Angeles restauranteur, to direct all food operations. J. Kell Houssels, a longtime Las Vegas gambling industry figure, will head the casino operation, which will have a starting $450,000 bankroll. Lederer is the top interest holder, at nine per cent, with the rest widely spread. One of the few well-known names on the list is Singer Morton Downey, in for five per cent.

The board listened to attorneys for some contractors who have claims against the landlord com pany, Bond Estates owned by Benjamin Jaffee, and who claimed bad faith on the part of the landlord in the matter. Claims total around $500,000, but Burton claimed 95 per cent of undisputed claims are covered by an agreement under vhich Jaffee will make installment payments out of $100,000 a month rent until they are satisfied. The biggest item, $163,000, is a disputed claim, that of the general contractor, Marion Hansen. Burton said that the fact the Tropicana has an expensive air conditioning system that doesn't work, and which Hansen isn't doing anything about fixing, is one of the reasons for the dispute. Major reason, he said, was a cost plus contract.

Tropicana oper ators are attempting to solve the air conditioning problem them selves before opening time, they said. Hearing Set Hearing on the application of Sun Valley Bus Lines for a' certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate between Reno and Las Vegas and inter mediate points will be held April 8 at the state office building in Carson. Announcement of the session was made by secretary of the Public Service Commission Lee S. Scott. Forgery Case Trial Ordered A 29-year-old Sparks house wife Wednesday was bound over to district court on foreerv charges after a hearing in which her defense counsel attempted to prove that Sparks police elicited admissions from the woman under duress.1 Mrs.

LaVerne Bradford was arraigned before Sparks Justice of the Peace Harry Z. Guerin. She is accused of being a member of a group of bad check artists that operated in the Reno-Sparks area until early January. During Wednesday's hearing. Sparks Police Chief R.

J. Galli said Mrs. Bradford admitted her guilt to him after he hid in a motel room closet and overheard her conversation with another member of the forgery ring. Galli said Miss Virginia Hellen-beck, arrested in San Francisco in January, came to Reno while free on bail and set up the motel room meeting with Mrs. Bradford.

Mrs. Bradford's attorney, John Chrislaw, asked Galli if it had taken "24 hours to take Mrs. Bradford to the sheriff's office" after she was arrested. Galli replied that it "could have." Chrislaw also asked Galli if "you threatened to take her children away from her if she didn't confess." Galli said he told Mrs. Bradford that "if she was convicted the courts might take the children." Previously, Galli testified that Mrs.

Bradford had admitted forging the endorsement "John W. Coleman" on nine checks that bilked local merchants of some $1600. No date has been set for the district court trial. Male Chorus Sings Tonight Annual Sparks program of th Sierra Singers Male Chorus will be presented tonight in the Sparks gymnasium of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located on 1114 Prater Way, at eight o'clock. The program is a church bene fit for the L.D.S.

Wards of Sparks. Featured soprano solo ist will be Glenda Luekenga. A new program will be given consisting of the following num bers: One World, Give Me Your Tired Your Poor, Discovery, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Whispering, Lullaby, The Rangers Song, Wagon Wheels, The Happy Wanderer, The Winter Song, Alexander, Mosquitoes, To Arms, Onward Christian Soldiers, I Need Thee Every Hour, Victor Herberts Favorites, Come, Come Ye Saints, The Lords Prayer. The chorus is under the direction of Ladd R. Cropper and May Cropper accompanist.

The Sierra Singers will travel to Sacramento to present a concert in the governor's hall March 22..