Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 14

RENO EVENING GAZETTE Gateway to tKe West's (Hreat yacationland Nevada's Greatest Newspaper RENO, NEVADA, SATURDAY. JULY 12. 1947 Demented Man Is Slain After Safe-Breaking Suspects Held Three Arrested In Sacramento Recreation Center Proves Successful Summer program of "Huskies Haven," the city's teen-age recreational club and Reno's answer to juvenile delinquency, swung into high gear today with a tentative announcement of a program of events including at least one dance a week for the teen-agers, several parents' nights and some entertainment programs. Sierra County a Trial of Smith Starts Monday Washoe Deputy's Accused Slayer The organization is sponsored by the Reno Recreation commis- SPARKS WANTS TRAFFIC LIGHTS ON MAIN STREET As an outgrowth of a recent Sparks traffic survey by the safety division of the state highway department and a troublesome summer traffic situation, the Sparks council will consider a request for four control lights along st. Monday night? The "stop and go" lights are recommended for the downtown area only and it is reported that a' pedstrian island and controls will be placed by the highway department at the where the highway forks to the right on the westward approach to the The survey conducted is reported one of the most thorough held in the state at a cost of between $3500 and $4000.

Final report of the department will not be completed for approximately three weeks. sion and is part of its program of planned recreation. Headed for the summer by director Don Phillips, the club provides facilities for Second St. Bridge Beginning to Show Signs of Old Age Vehicles of more than three tons were warned today to stay off the East Second st. bridge.

This announcement came from the office of city engineer E. C. Frisch who said that several stringers in the bridge decking had given way as the result of extreme dry rot and the activities of a Sierra Power co. crew that has been working on the bridge with heavy pipe. He said that the forty-year-old bridge has had only minor repairs since it was built and that all the decking and stringers need replacement.

The sidewalk decking on the west side of the bridge has just been replaced he said, and the east half of the structure has been barricaded against traffic as a result of the damage. Signs warning that the load limit is now three tons and that drivers will use the bridge at their own risk will be posted next week, Mr. Frisch said. Flamingo Sold To Las Vegas Hotel Operator Bugsy Siegel's Gaudy Night Club Has New Owner LAS VEGAS, July 12. UP) Sanford D.

Adler, Las Vegas and Los Angeles business man, announced today he had purchased the gaudy Flamingo night club, hotel and gambling casino here, for which Benjamin (Bugsy) Sie-gel, slain racketeer, was front man and part owner. Adler, who owns the Rosslyn and Normandie hotels in Los Angeles, the Del Mar at Del Mar, and the El Rancho Vegas here, said the purchase price was $3,000,000 and that he would take over the Flamingo's operation next Wednesday. The Flamingo, one of the most ornate of Las Vegas' many casinos and hostel-ries, reportedly cost between and $6,000,000 to build. Adler said he hoped within a few weeks to take a number of Las Vegas casino operators and other businessmen into partnership in the Flamingo enterprise. Dougall, treasurer, and Neil Cline, Joan Wilson and Glen Hadley, members.

Editor of the paper is Bill En-gel; associate editor, Phyllis Coughlin; treasurer Gwenn Ham-lyn, and typist Del Hayes. Joan Wilson heads the canteen committee, Neil Cline is chairman of the membership committee and the eight-ball committee that handles maintenance on the pool tables is headed. by Louise Bittner. Chairman of the house committee is Harriet Parke; program, Norinne Lartey; publicity, Joan Fitzgerald; poster, Nancy Schwartz, and law and order, Charley Welch. LEAKY RADIATOR CAUSES THIEF TO ABANDON CAR Reported stolen In front of the Sparks theater Friday evening, a 1931 De Vaux coupe owned by Anthony Syper was found near the city limits by Sparks police early thifl moraine.

Police said that a leak necessitated refilling of the radiator often and speculated that the car was abandoned to secure a better means of transportation. A complete chest of carpenter tools in the trunk of the car was unmolested. Fallon Station Fund Restored Sen. George W. Malone announced in Washington Friday that the senate appropriations committee had voted to restore a $100,000 item hi 'the agriculture department's budget for the next fiscal year.

The restoration, if approved by the senate and house, will guarantee continued operation through the next fiscal year of the agriculture experiment station at Fallon, Sen. Malone added. The appropriation would be administered by the agriculttire department's bureau of plant, industry, soils and agriculture engineering. tHEFT REPORTED Theft of luggage and personal affects, valued at $85, was reported to Washoe sheriff's deputies Friday afternoon by Roger Hef-fling, Southern Pacific Co. employe.

He said the articles were stolen from the section workers' quarters at Thisbe. dances, meetings, play production and general amusement for off hours of teen agers. At their headquarters at 303 South Center st. there are two well equipped pool tables, a stage, a large hall for dancing, three ping-pong tables, a collection of books loaned by the Washoe library, comfortable chairs and a canteen that is one of the few places left in Reno where one can obtain a full measure of "coke" for a nickel. The members are issued cards upon request and at present the club has about 500 active members from a high school student body of about 1000, Director Phillips said.

The Huskies publish a weekly mimeographed newspaper, they organize their own dances and they make and enforce their own rules. In speaking of the self discipline of the club, Mr. Phillips said that the haven is an experiment in democracy. "It does more than just keep kids off the street. It gives them a chance to take part in constructive activity and gives them the opportuniy for expression of their personalities.

Commenting on rumors that the "rec hall" is a center of wild parties where drinking and necking are tolerated, Mr. Phillips said: "The action of a few rowdies, definitely not members of the club and who have not been allowed in the hall during dances has almost wrecked the chance for healthy good times the rec hall can provide for hundreds of youngsters. "At every dance we have a rules committee working who enforce strictly our bans on smoking, drinking or rowdyism. The police supply an officer who is competent to handle any emergency that might arise and we have several chaperons. "Teachers and recreation people from outside states and other parts of Nevada have all expressed admiration at our set-up here and more than a few have gone back to their home cities with an idea of setting up a similar program," Mr.

Phillips said. The members of the club do all their own work. They have painted the walls and presently are planning to work on the ceiling of the hall. Those who put in 25 hours of work get a silver pin, 50 hours of work merits a gold pin and 100 hours brings a lifetime honorary membership in the club. A council that approves the programs and policies of the club is made up of seven persons, with Don Hilts, president, Phil Lehen-bauer, vice president, Harriet Parke, secretary, Gerry Mac 20 Recover Bodies From Mono Lake Two Men Die In Boat Upset BRIDGEPORT, Calif, "July 12 UP) The bodies of two University of California students were recov ered from Mono lake late yester day, Sheriff Cecil R.

Thorington's office said today. The drowning victims were Allen Nesbit, 26, of Oakland, and Stanley. Wong, 23, of Singapore. Nesbit was an importer of rare oriental fish. Wong was a Chinese sophomore at the university.

They drowned Wednesday while dipping for a rare type of shrimp found in the salt waters of Mono lake, near the Nevada line. This shrimp is used for fish food. A strong wind came up Wednesday and capsized their 12-foot boat. John Holland Services Held Funeral services were held Friday afternoon for John Holland. who died Tuesday at his home after a brief illness.

The rites were conducted bv the Reno bartenders' union at the O'Brien-Rogers chapel, and the Rev. James Asa White was the clergyman. Burial was in the bar tenders plot of Mountain View cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were C. C.

Moore, Frank Baciga- lupi, Chester Mickeljerd, John Martin, Dan Gordon and Frank Wondra. Active pallbearers were John A. Davies, John N. Porter, Mike Hickey. Francis Rudv.

Bud Van Erman and Art Haritos. BURGLARY ATTEMPT Sheriff's deputies were called to the H. V. Smith home on Smith lane late Thursday night to in vestigate a report of an attempt by a prowler to force entry to the residence. Deputies said footprints of a boy or small man had been found under a window on the south side of the building, but that the house had not been entered.

Attack on Priest Elko Jury Finds Slaying of Herder Was Justified ELKO, July 12. Jeronimo Bil bao, 24-year-old sheepherder, was shot and killed by Irvin Ambler, acting police chief, here Friday afternoon and a coroner's jury today ruled that the act was "justi fiable homicide." Bilbao was shot through the chest and died instantly in the parish home of the Rev. Peter Fisher, Catholic priest in Elko. The shooting came as the climax of a terrific struggle between the young man, Father Fisher, Chief Ambler and Officer James Talbot of the Elko police force. Twelve persons testified at this morning's coroner's inquest with all versions of the incident tallying closely, officials announced.

Father Fisher related that Bil bao had come to the parish house Friday afternoon, acted in a "very strange manner" and after arguing with the priest suddenly demanded $3000. Father Fisher said he then endeavored to engage the young man in "quiet conversation," but that Bilbao exclaimed, "it's either you or upon which the priest fled from the house. He called police headquarters by telephone with Chief Ambler and Officer Talbot responding. The priest was found pacing in front of the parish house when the officers arrived. All three then entered the building, whereupon Bilbao leaped from a sofa upon which he had been sitting, wrestled Father Fisher to the floor and began beating him in the face.

The two other men attempted to pull him from the churchman, but he resisted successfully and could not be subdued after being clubbed on the head several times. He was said to have turned his attack on Chief Ambler, started to hurl a chair at the officer and was shot through the Bilbao was said to have "been under treatment recently in Elko general hospital. He was reported to have been suffering from a heart condition when first admitted there, but later had been diagnosed as a victim of cataleptic insanity, authorities stated. He was also said to have been reading considerable "thought control" literature recently. Bilbao arrived in the United States several years ago from his native Spain and had been employed in this region by the Goi-coechea Sheep co.

Bullets Cut Phone Line Forest service communications were disrupted for four hours Wednesday when 42 insulators on the Lassen national forest telephone line from Susanville to the central dispatch office were shot out by bullets from a vandal's gun. Seriousness of offense because of extremely dry conditions favorable to forest fires was pointed out by Arthur W. Greely, forest supervisor. Forest service linesmen devoted several hours to replacing the damaged insulators. FUNERAL HELD Funeral services were held at the Ross-Burke chapel this afternoon for William S.

McDonald, who died Thursday at a local hospital. Officiating was the Rev. Robert W. Caswell of Unity center. The body will be taken to Sacramento Sunday for cremation at East Lawn.

STAUFFER SYSTEM SPOT REDUCING Stimulates Circulation Relaxes Nerves Reduces Muscular Strain Banishes Insomnia Corrects Posture Ultra Violet Lamps PHONE 5797 for FREE TRIAL NOTICE FATHER Le BIHAN Will Say the 9:30 Mass and Preach, Sunday, July 13 at the Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral for the French People. Reno police today had their first lead on the identity of the burglars who punched open the safe of the Washoe supermarket on South Virginia st. July 7 and escaped with $1200 in cash. They were informed by Sacramento police that three men, one of whom was driving a car with; a Nevada license registered to George M. Moan of Reno, were being held on suspicion of glary and holdup when a battery of firearms and safe cracking tools were found in their posses-I sion.

Identified by Sacramento three were George Moan, Rob- ert N. Pryor and Thomas J. Man- gar. Besides tools described by Reno police as the kind of implements used in the Washoe market bur-, glary, the men had in their pos--session when arrested pistols de-' scribed as a Japanese Nambu and a German Walther, as well asr smaller weapons. I Police here said that because the kind of tools found on the men, and the Reno license on the car theyvere driving, the Sacramento, department would be asked to-hold the men for further investi-? gation in connection with the Washoe burglary.

School Lunch Fund Restored Nevada Groups Urge Continuance Restoration of the full appropriation for the school lunch program throughout the nation was recommended Friday by the senate appropriations subcommittee. The subcommittee action was taken after the house of representatives had approved a $30,000,000 slash in the fund for the 1947-48 fiscal year. Numerous Nevada service and civic groups had written this state's congressional delegation, urging restoration of the full amount and thus allowing Nevada schools to continue the hot lunch program which has been provided the last several years. Announcement of the subcommittee's action was made by Sen. P.

A. McCarran, a member of the senate group. He added that Friday's recommendations also urged the upper house to approve provisions for continuation of the same matching of federal and state funds as in effect during the last fiscal period. The appropriation is carried in the agriculture department bill on which full senate action is expected without delay. Phone 5460 SEBvICE To Face Jury Trial of Louis Franklin Smith on charges of murdering Earl Griffith, Washoe deputy sheriff, last April will open in superior court at Downieville, Monday morning before Judge Raymond Mcintosh.

Alfred Lowey, Sierra county dis-rict attorney, will prosecute the case and will be assisted by Harold O. Taber, Washoe district attorney. Mr. Lowey said Friday that all of Monday and probably a good part of Tuesday will be devoted to the selection of a trial jury. Scheduled to go to Downieville from here to testify during the trial are Thomas Lambert, Washoe deputy who was seriously wounded at the time Deputy Griffith was killed; Gene Cowan, Reno police detective sergeant; A'l T.

McCarter, Washoe deputy; Albert Hicks, Sweetwater Indian officer and tracker of Smith across several miles of open country north of Reno after the slaying; Harvey Hansen, Dr. Allan Roche and Richard Heap, superintendent of the Reno police bureau of identification. Smith was arrested by California highway patrolmen near Los Angeles several days after the shooting a few miles north of Reno and just over the Nevada-California boundary in Sierra county. He had evaded searchers here, numbering more than 200 at times, after stealing Mr. Hann's car between Reno and Verdi and driving it into the southern California area.

His companion, Larry Yaney, 17, surrendered to local authorities a short time after the shooting and was subsequently transferred to the Nevada City, jail for action by the juvenile department of the superior court there. mice uiiiuieu Said Abandoned Washoe sheriff's deputies this morning gathered up three small boys, ranging from IV2 to 32 years of age, on South Virginia road after receiving a report from residents there that the trio had been abandoned by their mother two days ago and had not eaten since. The boys, Earl Knapp, IV2, Bil-lie Knapp, 6, and Harold Lee Knapp, 3 Va, were later turned over to the Washoe county welfare department and officials of that agency said today's incident it 1 its aimuier 01 long series involving the family. They stated that the boys' mother, Mrs. Irma Bade, came here from Herlong, several months ago.

She had formerly abandoned her children in Lassen county, welfare workers here said, later went back and got them from the welfare people there and brought them to Reno. Since that time, county agency officials explained, she has been endeavoring to place them in that department's care or in the Nevada orphans home. The local welfare department has asserted that they should be cared for by the California or Lassen county welfare department, but the latter agency has contended Mrs. Bade lost her California residence when she came to Nevada and reportedly married a resident of this state. The Washoe district attorney's office has investigated the case and today announced that the children are legally California wards.

Meanwhile, in order to provide quarters for them over the weekend, the three little boys were turned over to Mrs. Clara McGee, local children's home operator, who will care for and feed them temporarily until the mother can be found and definite arrangements made. Owyhee School Fund Approved President Truman today signed a bill authorizing a federal contribution of $300,000 toward construction of a school at Owyhee, to be used by both Indians and "Whites. The measure was sponsored by Sen. P.

A. McCarran and Hep. Charles Russell of Nevada. Dedicate Grove To War Dead Dedication of a grove of pine trees in memory of servicemen who lost their lives in the last war will be held at the Episcopal Chapel of the Pines near Tahoe City at 11 a. m.

Sunday. The services will be conducted by Bishop Noel Porter of Sacramento. The dedication was requested by some of the donors to the memorial wall. Names of the dead will be placed on trees chosen by the donors. Veterans Job Service Meets Reduced Funds Cut Activity With curtailed appropriations approved by congress this year, representatives of the veterans employment service from four states met this week in Boise, Idaho, to discuss methods of realigning the agency to keep expenditures within budgeted allotments this fiscal year.

Col. Thomas W. Miller of Reno. staff field representative for eleven western states, called the meeting and presided at the busi ness sessions. He said that reduced allotments for the service necessitates personnel assuming additional duties and territorial assignments.

The representatives also conferred with Gov. C. A. Robins of Idaho and were guests at a luncheon sponsored by Col. S.

D. Hays, director of the Idaho state em ployment service. Gov. Robins and Col. Miller renewed an acquaintance formed while they were in the army during world war I.

Both were on the American Leeion's national executive committee 24 years ago. Attending the Boise meetings were Terry Prater and J. B. Cruzen, director and assistant, respectively, of the veterans employment service in Idaho; J. Harry Hickman, director of the service in Utah; R.

B. Downs, Montana director; and several state veterans service officers, including Walter J. Devereaux of Nevada. Youth Is Held As Fugitive Said to have escaped recently trom the Nevada state industrial school near Elko, a youth identified as Arthur Keith O'Neal was arrested here Friday afternoon and is being held in the Washoe county jail pending action by Indian service authorities. His arrest here, Sheriff Ray Root announced, resulted from O'Neal attempting to enlist in the army at the Reno recruiting station.

The recruiters had started processing him but when they attempted to place a routine call to Indian authorities to check facts he had given them, O'Neal fled from the office. He was later seen on a downtown street by the recruiting sergeants who took him into custody and turned him over to sheriff's deputies. Sheriff Root said today that O'Neal was believed to have stolen a car in the Elko area after escaping from the industrial school. Mining Picture For Rotary Club "Bonanza," a colored motion picture covering the mining, milling and smelting of metals in Utah and Colorado, will be shown at the Monday meeting of the Rotary club. The picture will be presented by the Denver and Rio Grande Western The meeting will be held at noon at the Golden hotel with Dr.

Wesley W. Hall presiding. 25 The Flamingo reportedly had been losing money heavily for Siegel and his associates. Adler made his purchase, he announced, from the Nevada Projects in which Siegel held 33 per cent of the stock. Siegel, former public enemy, was killed June 20 by a rifle fusillade through the window of a Beverly Hills residence.

Bond Sales Above Quota Sales of U. S. savings bonds in Nevada during the first six months of the year were 55.1 per cent of the state's 1947 quota, according to Elmer R. Berg, state director of the U. S.

savings bonds division. So far this year, Nevada residents have invested $3,856,334 in bonds, and the state's allotment for the year is $7,000,000. During June, bond purchases totalled $506,467. Washoe county bond purchases accounted for nearly one-half of the six months total. Sales in this county totaled $1,898,562.

In second place was Clark county with sales amounting to $526,415. Lodge to Conduct Funeral for Fay Under direction of the Masonic order, the funeral of Marion Norman Fay will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the Ross-Burke chapel. Conducting the services will be the officers of Washoe lodge No.

35, A M. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Mr. Fay, a retired mail carrier, died Friday at his home on Plumas st. He was a member of the Masonic lodge at Homell, N.

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