Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 9

RENO EVENING GAZETTE PAGE NINE PHONE 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1952 Elko County Sheriff's Posse Catches Badmen Three Suspected Of Attack on Rancher Taken Know Your Candidates i id St I ilrr in itl in i-T i DRY LAND VOYAGE Clown Harry Dann has a desert ship ride aboard Tiny, one of Jack Joyce's performing camels, to be seen with the fifth annual Kerak Shrine-Polack Bros, circus at Mackay stadium, Reno, August 6-9. 1 Gaming License Application Action Planned Tax Commission Set to Consider David High Plea Action on two applications for gambling licenses, carryovers from the June session, will be considered by the Nevada state tax commission at a regular meeting in the governor's office in Carson Tuesday. The applications are those of David High, who seeks a 25 per cent interest in the New Golden- Bank club of Reno, and Jakie Freedman for a license at the Sands, Las Vegas' newest luxury hotel. Tuesday's meeting will be the first full session under the commission's new policy of holding free and open discussions on license ap plicants and their backgrounds. Discussion of High's application by the commission aroused considerable local interest when testimony was heard at the June meet ing that "the whole city admin istration of Reno is for High." William Graham, owner of a 75 per cent interest in the new Golden-Bank club was questioned at length during last month's commission hearing and High made a special appearance.

Graham said he had been told that various coun-cilmen and city officials "favored High." When the commissioners voted June 19 to defer action of the High application, it was the third time in 22 months that such action had been taken. Governor Charles II. Russell, explaining the deferral vote, said: "Members of the commission are not satisfied in their own minds about High's former connections in New Jersey." Following Graham's assertion that the "city administration favored High," councilmen and other city officials were questioned. There appeared to be a sharp divergence between Graham's testimony and statements obtained from the local officials. Most of them said they had expressed no opinion on the application and would not do so until further information.

Graham told the commission in June that he had offered High a 25 per cent interest for $250,000 because of his "demonstrated managerial talents." He said if the High application is approved. High will continue to manage only the restaurant, shows and coffee shop. In his appearance at the June meeting, High was asked by commission members to explain why he had failed to explain at previous commission meetings that he once operated a restaurant owned by a New Jersey gambling syndicate. He told the commission he never gave the matter much thought. Freedman, former Texas gambler and owner of a New York racing stable, told the commissi.

that he had disposed of his interest in an exclusive country club-type gambling establishment near Dallas about a year ago and seeking an opportunity to invest in the Las Vegas area. Shoots Sagehen; Given Jail Term Charles Paradise of Elko county, arrested last week by officers of the state fish and game commission on a charge of hunting and possessing saghen out of season was fined $100 and sentenced to 25 days in the county jail by George Boucher, Elko justice of the peace. The magistrate also ordered Paradise's gun and the game confiscated. Boucher also warned the defendant that a second offense would be met with a longer term and a heavier fine. Recent game law violations have been punished by heavy fines in widely separated counties, fish and game officials said.

(Editor's note: This is another in a series of articles concerning candidates for the various offices In the 1932 primary election. Candidates for assemblyman and county commissioner will be covered in ensuing articles and they are invited to submit biographical materials and pictures. The series is concerned only with those offices In which there are contests). REPUBLICAN SHERIFF Two candidates will fight it out in the primary race for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Washoe county. They are George E.

Anderson and Charles W. (Bud) Young. George E. Anderson, a retired consulting mining engineer, has devoted much of his life to the mining game but has also had experience in law enforcement work. He was a detective sergeant of the Santa Monica police department for a number of years, and resigned to go into business in Oakland in 1926.

For five years he operated several large garages and was also connected with the sheriff's office of Alameda county for a number of years. Mr. Anderson has lived in Reno for about 16 years. He came here in 1917 as a scout for 'the U. S.

Smelting co. examining mining property. leaving Reno he went to Billings, and entered the army in world war one, being sta tioned at Camp Lewis, and later at Ft. Stevens, in the coast artillery. He joined the Santa Monica police department in 1920.

Returning to Reno in 1910, he operated a mine just west of Carson on Pinto creek being associated with Frank Raffetto. At the start of world war two he left Reno for Oakland. Since his return he has made his home at 860 Monroe ave. Born in Silver City, N. in Octiber, 1892, Anderson makes his home here with his wife.

Charles W. Bud) Young served in the Washoe county sheriff's office from Jan. 1, 1935 until he resigned in June to run for the post, and is a lifetime Nevada resident. Born and reared in Virginia city he worked in the Comstock mines as a youth, and moved to Reno 24 years ago. He was with the Scott Motors co.

where he was a shop foreman for six years, and resigned to join the sheriff's staff when the late Ray J. Root took office Jan. 1, 1935. Young started as a traffic officer, and was later promoted to chief deputy, holding that post more than 15 years. The job includes supervision of traffic men and office workers and in addition he was responsible for making criminal investigations, serving civil processes and licensing and payment of fees for gambling establishments.

Following the death of Mr. Root, Young was appointed undersheriff which position he retained until his resignation, which was brought about by his decision to become a candidate. In all he had years in the office. Active in civic affairs he is a member of the Reno Lions club, Nevada Peace Officers association is a past president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He has served as chairman of the Lions club Boy Scout troop No.

10i and has worked on many fund raising campaigns for the Red Cross, community chest and chamber of commerce. During world war two Young enlisted in the air corps, as an aviation mechanic but was rejected because of an injury deceived in a accident on duty as a deputy sheriff. He then volunteered his services to local defense committees and war effort organizations. Married to the former Genevieve Menante he resides at 279 Ard-more dr. Patrolman Hurt Clarence Wesley, Reno police department motorcycle patrolman, was slightly injured this morning when his motorcycle hit a dog on Wedekind road.

Wesley was taken to Washoe medical center, he was treated for abrasions on his right side, received when he was thrown from the motorcycle. He was released after treatment. GEORGE E. ANDERSON' -sSbj. CHARLES V.

YOUNG Warden Speaker For Young GOP "Within These Walls" will be the subject of a talk byA. E. Bernard, superintendent of the Nevada state prison in Carson, to the Washoe county Young Republicans Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 8 p.m. in rtie chamber of commerce room in the state building.

Mr. Bernard who has been superintendent of the prison since his appointment in 1951 will diruss problems of administration at the state prison and suggestions for its improvement. This presentation is one of a series of such speeches sponsored by the Young Republican group for the purpose of making its members more familiar with state institutions and their problems. At previous meetings the group has heard from Dr. S.

J. Tillim, superintendent of the Nevada state hospital and Van der Smissen who is in charge of the state children's home in Carson. Howard Babcock, president of the Young GOP. in discus-sing the meetings said that "we can't hope to obtain better future government without first obtaining better present knowledge." He specially urged all Young Republicans to attend, but said that the meeting will be open to all persons interested in better state government. Clifton Young, GOP candidate for congress and alternate delegate to the national convention will discuss highlights of rhe convention.

Hot Spell To Continue Fair and warm was the weatherman's forecast for Reno and vicinity tonight and Tuesday. He said temperatures would be about the same as the 94-degree maximum Sunday and the minimum of 50 degrees this morning. Widely scattered thundershowers are still forecast for the mountains and other parts of Nevada, but skies over Reno were expected to remain clear during the next 24 hours. Three of the reporting stations in state recorded small amounts of moisture Sunday. AW mm Washoe County Registration Nears 31,500 Clerk's List Is Swollen By Final Rush Swollen by a last-minute rush Saturday, the Washoe county total registration for.

the Sept. 2 primary election will be approximately voters when the final count is completed, according to Harry K. Brown, Washpe county clerk. It now appears that the Democrats will lead in Washoe county registration and the Republicans in the city of Reno. Brown added that about 1500 registrations have not yet been totalled, nor broken down by party and he expects his office to complete that work early this week.

INCREASE OF 6600 If the latest estimate of registration is accurate, Washoe county will have recorded an increase of around 6000 voters since the 1950 primary election. Another significant factor is the proportionate and numerical increase of Republican registrations for the 1952 primaries. The last count, to which the 1500 last-day registrations from Reno, Sparks, and outlying counties have not been added, showed that Democrats had registered, against 14,050 Republicans and 895 non-partisans. Brown expressed the personal belief, from observation of the reg istration trend, that the Democrats will either maintain this slight edge or perhaps increase it sufficiently to obtain a small majority of the registered voters. DEMOCRATS SPARKED He made this conclusion, he said, from the fact that the Democratic registration has been markedly heavier since the party selected its national ticket in Chicago; and also because Some HX) of the voters still uncounted are expected to come from preponderantly-Democratic Sparks.

In spite of the probable slim Democratic lead in registration, there is no question that the Republican party has been the big gainer since 1950. Already the Republicans have exceeded the 1950 registration fig ures by 3,141 votes, while the Dem ocratic increase is only 850. In addition the Republicans seem likely to carry Reno, with 11,672 registrants against 11,131 Demo crats and 723 non-partisans when the last count again excluding the last 1500 registrants was made. In the 1950 election the Dem ocrats held a commanding margin in the city of Reno, with 10,623 voters as against 9,247 Republicans and 753 non-partisan registrants. The GOP lead in Reno is counter balanced by a Democratic edge in other regions of Washoe county, primarily in Sparks, where the last count gave the Democrats a regis tration total of 2,982, against 1,618 for the Republicans, and 125 nonpartisan voters.

The total primary registration in 1950 was 25,840, including 14,038 Democrats, 10,909 Republicans and 893 non-partisan. Besides the still-uncounted Sparks registrations, mailings from such regions as Empire, Gerlach, Verdi, Red Rock and other Washoe county localities appeared over the weekend, to be added to the final total. BOY ACCUSED OF SETTING FIRE TAUGHT LESSON Two boys, aged 7 and 9, will spend the major portion of the next two weeks learning that playing with matches is a dangerous pastime. They were responsible fire control officers of the forest service said, for a brush fire near the Skyline airport northwest of Reno, Sunday at 12:45 Two acres of brush and pasture were blackened before the fire was controlled by the Washoe county- pumper crew, a forestry service pumper and a truck from the state forester fire warden's department. Actually, the boys began their lesson during the fire as they helped mop-up the burned area, Under an agreement with their parents, the forest service officials said they will be on strict probation for one year and will not carry matches.

For the next two weeks they will work clearing snags and burned brush from the fire also a provision of the informal pact. Nevada Student Taking Course Among the 85 students who are spendine the summer at the Uni versity of Michigan biological sta tion on Douglas Lake, is Robert A. Paterson, 337 Moran Reno. The school said Paterson and other students from Connecticut to California are studvin? the di versified botanical and zoological specimens in the 16 laboratories on the grounds durine the eisrht- week session ending Aug. 15.

ELKO, Aug. 4. Three armed" men who were the object of a search in Elko county for the last three days were captured by an Elko county sheriffs posse at a fishing camp on Taber creek, 28 miles north of Wells this morning. Although they were heavily armed, the men surrendered -without incident to the posse, led by Sheriff J. C.

Harris of Elko. The capture was made when the posse sighted a lone horse man and slopped him for quest- It developed that the horseman was James R. Schwartz, 23, one ef the wanted men, who said he was looking for two hours, which the posse hal found earlier. The horses were taken from thj A. V.

(ioble, ranch, with -two rifles and ammunition several days ago. Schwartz then led the posse to the fishing camp where I'eter T. Ovington, 23, and Richard Hutchinson, 21, were also arrested. The three had joined a ing party of Sparks residents who had given them shelter and food, unaware that they were being sought by Nevada and Idaho law enforcement officers. The names of the Sparks fisher- men were not obtained immediately.

An Elko county sheriff's posse was searching the rugged country north of Wells today for threa armed "badmen" believed to be the ones who beat and robbed a Nye county rancher Wednesday night. Sheriff J. C. (Jess) Harris said the men apparently are heading toward the Idaho border with one horse as their only means of transportation. HORSES FOUND Two of three horses they stole from a Wells rancher Saturday were found by the posse Sunday afternoon 24 miles north of Wells.

Sheriff Harris said the two horses were hobbled, and apparently had wandered away from a night camp. The horseback and motorized pase of ranchers and county officers was able to follow the tracks of the men Saturday, but a rainstorm Sunday afternoon made tracking impossible, Sheriff Harris said. Lack of communications in the area also hampered search, the sheriff said. Telephone lines are still down from a rainstorm last week. The three hunted men answer the description of the trio which robbed Dale Stevens, Cloverdale rancher, of $15 and whipped him with a shotgun late Wednesday night, Sheriff Harris said.

The sheriff said the 1951 Chevrolet sedan which the men abandoned at Wells had the same license number as the car useil by the hold-up men in Nye county. BELIEVED AIRMEN The men are believed to be three airmen who escaped from detention at March air force base near Riverside, July 28. The escapees have been identified as Richard J. Hutchinson, 21, James R. Swartz, 23, and Peter T.

Ovington, 23. Sheriff Harris said the three horses were stolen Saturday from the A. W. Goble ranch one mile north of Wells. A ranch house on the Goble property also was ransacked, and two 30-30 rifles, a quantity of ammunition and an estimated two-day food supply were missing, the sheriff said.

Goble told authorities that the three men had unsuccessfully tried to get haying jobs at his ranch Saturday. The horses were missing a short time later. Sheriff Harris said the federal bureau of investigation had joined in the search. for the three, and that Idaho authorities had formed a posse to hunt for the men along the Idaho-Nevada border. Retired Teacher Summoned In Reno Mrs.

Mamie Hanning Kohler, retired school teacher who had lived in Nevada since she was ten years of age, died at her home at 758 Plumas st. Sunday. She was the widow of Charles Kohler, founder of the Nevada Transfer. She left no survivors. Born in Grass Valley, Mrs.

Kohler moved to Virginia City at the age of ten and, attended the fourth ward school there. After graduation, she taught in the fourth ward for 13 years, and later taught at Wadsworth, Carson, Verdi, Yer-ington and Genoa. She retired from the teaching profession in 1926 and had made her home in Reno since. Private funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m.

at the Ross-Burke chapel. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery'- Friends are asked to omit flowers. Loses Purse at Zoo Thea Lee Jeter, of Concord. reported to police that her purse, containing $22 in cash and a bus ticket to Concord, was stolen Sunday. The purse had been left hanging on the bears' cage in the park zoo.

It was left alone for a few minutes and disappeared. PRECOCIOUS POODLE Kay, here perched atop a tower of baggage, is one of the precocious poodles to be seen with Alma Michaels (left) in "Excess Baggage, a delightful new feature of the fifth annual Kerak Shrine-Po-lack Bros, circus at Mackay stadium, Reno, August 6-9. Attends Parley On Veteran Law Col. Thomas W. Miller, staff representative of the U.

S. veterans employment service, left for Los Angeles this week end to attend a conference of the veterans employment representatives from the western states called by Perry Faulkner, the chief of that service from Washington, D. C. The group will attend the 53rd national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars which commences in Los Angeles on Aug. 4 and runs until Aug.

8. Faulkner and Col. Miller have been invited by Commander-in- Chief Frank C. Hiltort of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars to attend the national encampment and the encampment banquet as guests. Col.

Miller is also a member of the delegation from Reno Post 407 of the V.F.W. and as such will participate in the Sessions of convention. One of the main purposes of the employment service conference will be to discuss steps to be taken to put into operation the provisions of the veterans re-adjustment assistance act of 1952 otherwise known as the Korean G. I. bill.

This act of congress was passed in the closing days of the recent session and signed by the president on July 16. The new law provides more safeguards than contained in the original G. I. bill of 1944. All honorably discharged veterans, who have served in the armed services since June 27, 1950, the starting date of the Korean conflict, are eligible under the law to apply for its benefits.

Reno Resident 23 Years Passes Resident of Reno for 23 years, airs. Betty B. Rudman, 51, died this morning in a local hospital where she had been under treatment for 18 days. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Jan. 19, 1901.

Survivors include her husband, John Rudman of Reno; three daughters, Mrs. Phyllis Andersen of Reno, Mrs. Betty Holt of Portsmouth, and Mrs. Elizabeth Thurston of Reno; and five grandchildren, Betty Rae and Terry Francis Bogart, Mark L. Holt and Dianna and Lawrence Thurston, Funeral services are to be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Ross-Burke chapel with the Rev.

Walter W. Hanne of the Federated church as clergyman. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. -il -5vJ- iHfVJ ill- Animal Acts Circus Feature Give Quick Lesson In Natural History A quick lesson in natural history is afforded by a rundown of animal acts with this year's Kerak Shrine-Polack Bros, circus, which opens at Mackay stadium on Wednesday, Aug. 6, and continues through Saturday, Aug.

9, with afternoon and night performances all four days at 2:15 and 8:15. Jack Joyce's performing camels are dromedaries, the single-hump indigenous to Arabia and north Africa. These particular specimens, however, were captured, by Joyce himself in the desert back country of Australia, where their ancestors had been imported years before for pack duty. In refutation of the popular idea that camels are stupid and stubborn, Joyce has found the dromedary actually smarter than the h-orse and considers it superior for training to the two-hump bac-tarian camel from Asia. The opposite is true of the two main species of elephants.

The fast-moving young Packs elephants with the circus are of the Asiatic type and are specifically from Siam. Their trainer, Mac MacDon-ald, declares the big-eared, lowbrowed African elephant is less intelligent and never used for circus training. Zoologists rate the elephant next to the ape in intelligence, and the ape next to man. The chimpanzee, smartest of the four branches of the ape family, is represented in the circus by the frolicsome performers of Joe Lemke's "College of Chimps." Birds and beasts that; navigate better at sea than in the air or on land appear together in Albert Spiller's offering of penguins and seals. The penguins are birds from the Antarctic that have wings but can't fly.

They also have feet but can't run. On land they waddle. In water they swim like fish. What are called seals in the circus are actually sea lions. They are mammals whose feet turned to flippers to make them good swimmers.

They are born on land and, oddly enough, have to be taught to swim. Man's best friend has ample representation in Chester "Bobo" Bar-riett's assorted pooches, the big shepherds of Karlis Petersons that do tricks on horseback, and the poodles and sheep dog of Harold Gautier in the novelty presentation, ''Excess Baggage." The trainers of these dogs seem agreed on one thing pedigreed or mongrel, it's the dog's own individuality that makes him a good performer. Herlong Man Dies in Crash HERLONG, Aug. 4. An accident on the access road near Sierra Ordnance depot claimed the life of Isaac V.

Edwards and injured his wife Betty Saturday evening. The crash occurred at about 10:30 p. m. The car driven by Edwards left the highway striking the shoulder on the north side of the highway, swerving to the south side where it hit the shoulder and turned over into the ditch. Edwards was thrown from the car and found about 54 feet from the wrecked vehicle.

Sierra ordnance depot ambulance was dispatched to the scene aid took Mr. Edwards, to the hospital where he died shortly after arrival. Mrs. Edwards was taken to the Sierra ordnance depot hospital by passersby. She received only minor injuries and was released this morning.

The body of Mr. Edwards was taken to Susanville by White mortuary. A coroner's inquest will be held. Mr. Edwards was born June 4, 1913 in Franklin, Tex.

He had been employed at the depot since 1947 transferring from Camp Beale, and worked in the maintenance machine sly p. Surviving besides his widow are a daughter, Katherine Ann and a son Alfred by a former marriage. Also surviving are his father, Ben Edwards, five brothers and a sister in Texas and another sister in Oakland. COMPETITOR in Pacific coast logging championships at Quincy fair starting Thursday is Forest Gorbett of Greenville, who is shown above getting in shape for the event. Gorbett held the title two years unseated by Mike Luzzi in 1950 and hopes to break Luzzi's winning streak this time.

Loggers Ready For Quincy Fair Champion Faces Stern Competition QUINCY Can Mike Luzzi, Pacific coast logging champion, make it three in a row? Followers of the Western Woodmen's championship, billed as the highlight of the Plumas county fair Saturday night, Aug. 9, are pondering this question. The Crescent city lumberjack captured the crown in 1950 and repeated the following year. Forrest Gorbett, Greenville, won the diadem in 1948. and 1949.

On his attempt for the triple, he was unseated from the throne by Luzzi. Gorbett and many other top axemen are out to stop Luzzi this year. One of the competitors to watch is Martin Iledrick, Meadow Valley stalwart, who has several out standing, preview performances to his credit. Recently, he captured the Redwood Empire woodsmen's championship. He scored a clean sweep in the band bucking and chopping events and teamed with his brother Harley to win the two-man power saw event.

This year some of the champion loggers from Washington, Oregon, and Canada will invade the local fairgrounds in quest of more than S3.500 purse money that will be at stake. Local favorites for main laurels include: Sam Cookson, and E. A. Moore, Paradise; George McElroy, Twain; Howard Deatherage, Beck-wourth; Jack Ladd, Meadow Valley; Russ Kendrick, John McNa-mara, Quincy; Bernis Howell, Oro-ville. The contestant compiling the most points in the timber decathlon will gain the championship, according to C.

L. "Link" Peckin-pah, show chairman. Events will embrace chopping, bucking, tug o'war, power sawing, axe throw, birling and bull o' the woods. Crash Kills Truck Driver Joseph T. Michaels.

24, of Roselle Park, N. was killed instantly Sunday afternoon in an automobile accident 9 miles east of Truckee on highway 40, the California highway patrol said today. Mr. Michaels was driving an advertising vehicle, owned by the American Can which went off the road about two miles east of Hirshdale, Patrolmen Charles O. Maynard and Roy Stallard reported.

While an investigation of the accident still is in progress, Patrolman Maynard said investigation had determined that the vehicle, apparently heading west toward Truckee. ran off the right side of the road and struck two large rocks. He said the impact tore a wheel off a trailer and the wheel ripped the cab from the truck, pinning the driver inside. Rescuers were forced to tear the cab apart to release the driver, the patrolman reported. The advertising vehicle contained the mechanical robot, "Charley Canco" which has been displayed at various fairs and exhibitions across the nation by the American Can co.

Investigators have not been able to determine the immediate cause of the accident, the highway patrol said. The body was taken to the Colonial mortuary in Truckee, pending notification of relatives in New Jersey. BOARD TO MEET Washoe county's commissioners will meet Tuesday in the courthouse in a regular session. No known major items of business are included in the tentative agenda. I 1 fr rZW' fifT AUTO WRECK IN RENO James Santini, prominent Reno businessman, was driving this 1950 Ford when it knocked down a lamp post and overturned at Stewart and South Virginia streets at about four this morning.

A passenger in the car, Mrs. Ralph M. Jewell, of Berkeley, was slightly injured. She was released from Washoe medical center after treatment. Santini was fined $300 for reckless driving in municipal court, and had his driver's license suspended for ten days.

(Photo by Reno police department).