Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 5

1 EVENING GAZETTE 5 Mission Oil Suit Studied Seek to Halt Merger Meeting lf 7 Police Kill Negro In S. F. Gunfight SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3. UTt A 40-year-old Negro was killed in a gunfight with police early today as they approached the taxicab in which he was a passenger.

Police officer William F. Flynn suffered a superficiol bullet wound in the left arm. The Negro was identified as Edison G. Ellis. Flynn and other officers had answered a call relayed by cab drivers after the driver of Ellis' cab reported seeing a revolver Funeral Held For Elko Resident ELKO, Dec.

3. Funeral services were held here for Enoch H. Sails, well known resident of this section recently. The Rev. Walter Critch-field officiated and burial was in the new city cemetery.

Pallbearers were Charles and Dick Morse, Neil Ouerkirk and Frank Phillips. Sails was born May 1, 1873, in Troy, and came to Elko county in 1903, going into ranching work at Rowland, where he stayed until 1926. He then came to Elko and worked for the city for a number of years. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.

A suit by W. G. Skelly, Tulsa, asking an injunction to prevent merger of the Mission corp. and the Sunray Oil corp. was tak en under advisement luesaay Dy U.

S. Dist wich. Judge Leon Yank Skelly asked the court to restrain Mission stockholders from meetine at Reno, on Dec. 6. He contended that large blocks of-Mission stock is controlled by stockholders of Pacific Western which would enable the lat-j ter concern to swing the merger' without representation of small I common shareholders.

Defendants are trustees of thej Sarah C. Getty trust. J. Paul Get ty and the Pacific Western corp. i City's Budget jFor 1948 Now Being Drawn Department Heads Submit Estimates To City Manager Expenditure of funds accrued in lous departments have submitted their estimated spending schedules for 194S, and serious work on preparing a preliminary budget for the year is now underway, City Manager Emory C.

Branch said today. He and Geoige Southwo'rth, chairman of the council's finance committee, will have the preliminary budget ready for submission to ihe municipal governing group by its first meeting in January, he added. The city will then function under that financial schedule until its final budget for the year is prepared following the final auditor's report. Action on the corrected budget, the city manager said, will be taken by tne council on the first Monday in March, after which it will be submitted to the state tax commission for approval, Even the general outlines of the f-MF National Dollar IKE CITES NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER Some 23 attorneys are involved in nas decorations here have collect-the litigation. ed $1666 to be used in giving the Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, pins the medal of freedom on Andrew Lopez, NEA-Acme staff photographer, for his exceptionally meritorious achievement during the war, at a Washington National Press' club ceremony. Lopez was one of 10 accredited correspondents attached to General Eisenhower's SHAEF headquarters to receive the award. He was especially cited for assisting in the rescue and evacuation or army photographers wounded during the -siege of St. Lo.

CONVICTED FIRES LEGAL PRETTY Beautiful rayon crepe blouses in gay painted de- A AT FEDERAL OFFICIALS Officials of the federal court and the U. S. attorney's office here are wondering if Leavenworth penitentiary supplies its convicts with a full staff of legal secretaries or if they are dealing with a "human cannon that uses legal phraseology for ammunition. For the last several months, they said today, Martin Luthor Marion has been swamping the clerk of the court with a never-ceasing stream of affidavits, writs, petitions for re-trial or appeal and signs and jewelry necklines WC PINEAPPLE "MOSS" Spanish moss is not a moss, but a plant belonging to the pineapple family. It is a plant without root! that grows free from soiL LET US BE YOUR PARTY HELPER HOME -SANDWICHES-all VARIETIES FOR ALL OCCASIONS Ask for them at your local bar.

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Members of thte finance committee for Christ- streets of Elko a holiday atmo- cnhri It is expected that the total funds for the project will increase to $1750. The money has been turned over to Byron Hogge, president of the Elko Retail Merchants' association, and will be carried in a special decoration fund. If any surplus is developed, the additional money will be set aside for the i same purpose next year. Committeemen said they expected a big enough surplus to make collections next year unnecessary, but they pointed out that additional expenses such as storage and breakage may make that impossible. 4BJsE 1 So CHICAGO ilf $575 i (i re PHONE 2-4460 bkelly, former president or Mis sion, is a director and stockholder of the company, he said.

He wis rerjortedlv in TrJsa endeavoring to round up sufficient proxies to de- feat the merger. Judge Yankwich announced he hoped to hand down a ruling before Dec. 6. Humboldt Car. Foreman Killed WINNEMUCCA, Dec.

3. Information was received here Monday of the death of B. F. Coomcs, former Western Pacific car foreman, while working in the Stockton yards Saturday night. The mishap occurred around 5:30 p.

m. but Coomes' body, cut' in half, was not found until about; an hour after his train had pulled out of the yard. Coomes began his career with the Western Pacific on March 1937, as car and wrecking fore-j man at fortoia. in 1942 he assumed the same position in Winnemucca where he remained until December 27, 1946. Later he moved to Oakland as a car man and in September, 1947.

was appointed assistant car forman at Stockton. Funeral services were scheduled from the Wallace undertaking parlors in Stockton Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. He is survived by his widow and a daughter living in Utalr. Pope Sylvester II is credited with the invention of clocks in 996 A.

D. Printed Cotton Bib Aprons rast color 80 sq. percale AUTO THIEF BARRAGE new trial was set for hearing In Reno for Dec. 12 and the court ordered the appointment of counsel for Marion. The attorney's office said today that the above moves in Marion's battle to free himself are only a fraction of the actions Marion has filed with the court.

Commenting on these actions. Judge Foley said Marion is either trying to annoy the court for lack of anything better to do or else he is firing one action or another at the court in the hope that it will make a mistake in procedure, thus giving him a basis for new trial. He said that while most of the documents Marion files are incorrectly put together, they are loaded with complicated legal terms and that at times the court has been baffled as to their meaning. Even the secretaries in the office of the U. S.

attorney are interested. They say that all three of them working on the case could not have ground out as much legal mumbo jumbo as this one man has done. AIR AGREEMENT NANKING, Dec. 3. JP An air agreement between China and the Netherlands will be signed Satur day at the foreign ministry.

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Branch said. In adopting its 1947 budget, the council estimated expenditures' of bonds funds would total $950,000. Actually, however, inability to get work underway on the three projects involved ewer improvements, new city jail and fire department substations because of various complications cut the ex- 4 penditures down to only a fraction of that total. Unless other unforsieen compli- cations again arise, though, the city manager pointed out, bonds funds totaling somewhere in ex- Icess of $1,000,000 will be spent in 1948. Work on the $1,000,000 sewer improvement program, for instance, is scheduled to be wound up by next fall.

And city officials greatly hope that the year will see on the $650,00 jail and on the three fire sub-stations at least begun. Since the 1947 budget, originally based on a tax rate of $1.75 per $100 of assessed valuation, called for a total expenditure of and of that total, slightly less than $1,000,000 was to have been from the bond issues', the 1948 budget, with more than $1,000,000 in bond expenditures virtually assured, may be of a comparable size, other city hall observers said. Mr. Branch and Mr. Southworth will meet with Robbins Cahill, chief statistician of the state tax commission, concerning the preliminary 1948 city budget later this week.

Winnemucco Man Takes Reno Job WINNEMUCCA, Dec. 3. Accepting a position in Reno with Saviers Electrical Dennis Fris-bee assumed his new duties Tuesday as field service representative For the last two years he has been employed as radio technician and salesman for the City Elec tric. While in Winnemucca he has been active in many local groups. He was acting secretary of the 20-30 club and first vice commander of the American Legion at the time of his departure.

Last year he headed the Red Cross drive and managed the 20-30 variety show in connection with the cancer drive. He had also been in charge of the district 20-30 convention that ended here Sunday. 'While a serviceman he saw four years of duty in the Caribbean and Pacific theaters. CHRISTENSEN SCHOOL of Modern Swing Piano Beginers or Advanced Students RENO STUDIO 448 Lake Phone 8208 TUES. THURS.

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requests for re-hearing of motions lost in the welter of his legal bom bast. Marion is a convict in Leavenworth who was convicted by a Carson jury in federal court June 14 on 20 of 21 counts of auto theft. He was ordered by Judge Roger Foley to pay fines totaling $10,000 and to service 16 years in the federal reformatory. According to testimony at the trial in which U. S.

attorney Miles Pike was prosecutor, Marion was engaged until his arrest in Reno in April of this year in the lucrative business of removing serial numbers from wrecked cars and stamping them on the engines of stolen cars which brought him fancy prices. He and Ernest Albert Knapton, tried with him at the same time, were said by officials to be the central figures in a California Nevada auto theft ring that has successfully dumped at least 20 stolen cars on the market. However, conviction in the case was not enough for Marion who from his prison cell in Kansas is proving himself a troublesome if not able lawyer. Here is the record, in brief, of his own efforts to spring himself from the reformatory which far has at least resulted in a court order appointing Kendrick Johnson as co-coursel with Charles Richards and Donnell Richards to advise Marion in the technicalities of his defense. July 23 he filea a motion for a new trial.

August 28 he filed a motion for appointment of counsel to aid him in his efforts to prove his innocence. Sept. 2 he filed a writ of habeas corpus aa testincanaum and a petition for a writ of mandamus. Hearings on the filings was set for Sept. 8.

September 8 the court denied his request for appointment of counsel, his writ for the habeas corpus ad testificandum, his writ of mandamus and a motion on a hearing for a motion for a new trial. Nov. 4 affidavits and a motion to proceed on appeal were ordered by the court to be delayed pending a ruling of the U. S. circuit court of appeals on a motion of the U.

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