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METALS ifftle Bw Bllrer London 17 Xew "York 'ie lower at 27ic. UNSETTLED WEATHER not much chance In temperatnra TONIGHT, SATURDAY Quicksilver New York Copper Electrolytic spot aYid future Lead N. Tork 3.00; E. St. Louia 3.87.

Zinc E. St. Loula 3.07 FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR PAGES RENO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1933 SIXTEEN PAGES NO. 71 POSmON LABOR RUSHING eras Meteor's Fall Described by Plane Pilots Appropriation Bill Action Due Today as Deadlock In Legislature Is Broken Takes Own Life ASSEMBLY PASSES FOURTEEN STATES READY TO START 18TIIAMENDMENT BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fourteen states already haTe arranged conventions to act on the question of repeal of the eighteenth amendment and legislation for such conventions Is pending In twenty-four states. Thirty-six of the forty-eight states must ratify the twenty-first amendment providing for repeal of the eighteenth before liquor may be sold legally In this country.

The fourteen state with conventions already provided for are: Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Itah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Six of these already have set convention dates, Wisconsin April 23; Wyoming May 25; Michigan April JO; Washington October New Mexico November 3: Ohio December 5. The states In which legislation Is pending are: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont. A bill providing for a convention died In the Georgia legislature. The other states as yet have taken no action.

MORTGAGE SALES IN IDAHO ARE HALTED FOR TO SUPPLY BEER BY SEVENTH OF APRIL Advertisements Anticipate Sale of Brew and Are Not Illegal Says Attorney Wine Advocates Begin Fight To Legalize Ten Per Cent Liquor Instead of 3.2 BY. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In more than a dozen states vats were bubbling today In preparation for putting legal 3.2 beer on sale April 7. MANY ORDER Breweries reported they were deluged with orders In New York the suggestion being made that It might be necessary to ration beer among those who had ordered until supply could catch tip with demand. Beer advertisements appeared In newspapers for the first time In thirteen years, heralding the date on which sale will be permitted. An Informal ruling by Attorney General Cummtngs held anticipatory advertisements were not Infractions of the law.

FIXES TIME Another decision by Cummlngs fixed the time at which sale could begin at midnight In each locality, regardless of time rones. Legislators In Washington called the beer bill passed by the house yesterday to legalize sale In the District of Columbia a model for state legislators. L. Seth Echnltman, chief statlstl-clan for the F. W.

Dodge Corporation, estimated 865,000,000 would be spent In the next few months for new breweries and alterations to old ones. ALASKA LAW REPEALED Kentucky" state officials decided there was no state law to prevent the sale of beer there and unearthed an old statute to tax the beverage ten cents a barrel. A bill passed by the Alaskan house of representatives and opposed by only one vot In the ter ritorial senate was signed by Governor Parks repealing the territorial bone dry law. WINE IS WANTED WASHINGTON, March 24. Wine Be It ever so humble was never "3.2." This was the substance of remarks heard from representatives of grape producing districts today, as they gathered up loose legislative ends preparatory to launching a fight for legalized wine of more than 3.2 per cent alcoholic content.

"Worse than nothing." observed Representative William J. Fleslnger Ohio), who comes from a northern Ohio district which Is one of the largest grape1 producing districts on Lake Erie. CALUORNIAN COMMENTS "It's rather a use of wine than wine lteelf," was the comment of Representative Clarence P. Lea (D leader in the house of the wine forces. With half the objective of "light wines and beers" already reached, the second offensive this one aimed at legalization of naturally fermented wines Is due to get under way In a day or two.

A wine bill has already been prepared and hearings will be requested (Turn to Page Three) MANILA. P. March 24. (Jp) Theodore Roosevelt, formally ceased to be governor general of the Philippines when he telegraphed that the cutter Arsyat, on which he was traveling, had reached Sandakan, Borneo. Vice Gov.

John Holllday took over the executive duties when Roosevelt began his return to the United States March 18. Holllday was confined to a hospital today, suffering a slight Indisposition. LL ACT MODIFIED ISLAND GOVERNOR I MA IU0R MEASURE FOR DRY LAW REPEAL One Senator and Several Assembly Members Go To Their Homes Adjournment, Now Week Overdue Expected Tonight or Tomorrow CARSON, March 24 (Special) The knot that appeared to have the Nevada legislature tied up last night and which prompted Governor Balzar to issue a statement that he would "adjourn the legislature himself If action was not forthcoming and the deadlock broken, was seemingly partially untied today and at three o'clock this afternoon members of both houses were hopeful that the sixty-sixth session would end some time late tonight or early tomorrow. BREAKS DEADLOCK The assembly broke the deadlock this morning when it passed the senate bill providing for holding a state convention to consider repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The only hitch In the program is the appropriation bill, which was still in the hands of the ways and means committee of the senate throughout the forenoon, but it was expected to be reported out late today.

It was decided by the senate that It would act on the bill Just as soon as It is presented. Then it goes back to the assembly for concurrence or rejection of the numerous changes which the senate is expected to make. If the assembly is able to agree on the figures without too much controversy the legislature can get through tonight. But lengthy debate over the provisions or disagreement with any of them that will result in conference committees being appointed will throw the session into tomorrow. The substitute measure which, it is understood follows closely the figures contained In the original appropriation bill submitted with the governor's budget, was completed this afternoon and may be up for consideration about four o'clock.

OTHER BILLS DIE Other senate bills, said to be in volved in the so-called deadlock which has had the two houses at grips during the last few days, did not fare so well last night. The senate substitute measure which was drawn to replace two other bills pro- vldlne for the protection of public funds In banks was indefinitely postponed last night. The same action was taken on two industrial Insurance commission bills, one of which was designed to direct the handling of the deposit of the commission a funds in banks. A senate bill, considered by soma senators as highly Important, that m-ovided for the creation of a board of compromise to handle state bank and tax claims, "was killed by the in- definite postponement method lntho house. All of this activity last nightj caused Tandy of Lander to call it! 'disgraceful." Tandy said the as sembly was "playing horse" and was disregarding all of its rules of pro cedure.

CAUCUS HELD The assembly action on these bills followed a lengthy caucus of Demo cratic assemblymen. After it was over, Moore of Clark produced a list; of bills and from the floor of the assembly, made the motions that TE OF FARM SILL AT Sen. Smith Would Reduce Amount of Processing Tax to Lowest Amount Wallace Says Changes Will Be Gone over at Cabinet Meeting Later WASHINGTON, March 24. (TP) The senate drive for drastic rewriting of the administration farm bill was launched today at a closed meeting of the senate agriculture committee but Secretary Wallace said he had not yet given approval to any substitutes for the original, sweeping measure. SI DSTI11TE BILL Senator Smith South Carolina), chairman of the committee, presented a substitute bill, making material modifications which earlier he had predicted would prove acceptable to the administration.

Wallace, however, said the proposed changes would be gone over later In the day at a session of the cabinet with President Roosevelt. He will appear before the committee tomorrow. The Smith plan, on which the committee took no Immediate action, would reduce the amount of the pro cessing tax to be levied to the bare amount needed to lease lands to take them out of production. The allotment and licensing features of the administration bill would be struck out entirely, but the cotton option plan would stay intact. CFRTAIL WHEAT PRODUCTION Whije Wallace was reserving opinion on these changes, he undertook In conferences with other officials to set In motion President Roosevelt's plan for a world-wide agreement to curtail wheat production, to bring it In line with consumption.

After receiving the Smith plan the senate committee called In for brief hearings John A. Simpson, president of the Farmers' Union and George Peck of Mollne, 111. After hearing Wallace tomorrow, committee members hope to be able to set about full discussion of the program and the Smith substitute. Senator Kendrick Wyoming), Indicated the attitude of most, saying: LIMIT COMMODITIES "In my opinion, we will not know definitely what form the bill will take until after 'we have heard Secretary Wallace tomorrow." Smith told newspapermen that If the committee should decide to limit the commodities to which the bill would apply, "there would be no need for extended hearings." Both the administration bill and his substitute provide that the relief should apply to wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, cattle, sheep, rice, tobacco, milk and dairy products. MORTGAGE RELIEF Meanwhile, the administration was urged by farmers In many states to hurry along President Roosevelt's plans for refinancing farm mortgages which Is to be attached to the farm relief bill.

The tentative draft of the mortgage plan calls for refinancing present debts with new government bonds up to a limit of two billion dollars. It would provide machinery to faclll-tatae a voluntary scaling down of the heavy farm debt structure. Secretary Woodin of the treasury now la considering It. OFFICERS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH MIAMI, March 24. (JP) Second Lieutenant Charles W.

Stouff, twenty-four years old, of Thorndale, and Staff Sergeant Gale M. Lester, thirty years old, of Mitchell field, both members of the fifth observation mp of the army air corps, were killed today as their plane crashed in an attempted landing at Chapman field here. The accident occurred as the observation plane, which had taken off for the return night to Mitchell field, was obliged to turn back to the training field here because of bad weather. Lieutenant Stouff, piloting the plane, was circling the field waiting for ships to land, when, his machine went into a spin about three hundred feet above the ground and crashed. Says Reports Exaggerated SEATTLE, March 24.

(JP) A cablegram received today by Vernon McKenzle, professor of Journalism at the University of Washington, from Premier von Thaer, of Silesia, declared reports of ill treatment of Jews under the Hitler regime are grossly exaggerated. Microbe Migrations Told DALLAS, Tex, March 24. (JP) Dr. Fred Valles of Tucson, Ariz, described possibilities of interplanetary migrations by microbes at a meeting of the tropical medicine, parasitology and pathology section of the Pan-American medical congress today. SENA REWRITING STARTED HEARING TO FOREST PLAN ISJOLD Green Asserts It's Similar To Fascists, Soviets and Hitler System Senate Committee to Begin Redraft of Relief Bill On Unemployment WASHINGTON.

March 24. (JP) In bristling language, the opposition of the Federation of Labor to President Roosevelt's reforestation program was put before a congressional committee today and Immediately afterward In dications were given that the measure would be re-drafted. GREEN' DENOUNCES Chairman Walsh of the senate labor committee called a meeting of the committee to begin redrafting the bill tomorrow, but said it probably i would be two or three days before the measure would be ready for consideration by the senate. Hearings, held Jointly with the house labor committee were concluded today, at a session In which William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, denounced It as a proposal for "regimentation of labor in peace times." IIOI'SK MEETING MONDAY "They regiment labor In Fascist Italy, in Hitler Germany, and Soviet Russia, but It seems to me the spirit of America is not in favor of the regimentation of labor here," he told the committee. Chairman Connery of the house labor committee called a meeting for Monday to begin consideration of the bill.

Both houses are ready to con sider It when committee action Is completed. SAYS IT IS DRAFT ACT Walsh said he thought the bill would have to be revised to make selection and dismissal of members of the proposed civilian conservation corps more voluntary. During the hearings today Connery suggested the the measure proposed a "draft act" under which men would be picked off the streets and told to go to camp for a year. Objection also was made by Green that the one dollar a day wage provided In the bill would have a bad effect on general wage standards. GEN.

MacAKTIIl It TALKS Earlier, General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the army had denied the bill was a "draft act" by which men would be picked up on the streets and forced to go to camp whether they wanted to or not. Lewis Douglas, the budget director, testified that all new public works contracts had been subjected to a "temporary stop order" by the administration to save funds to finance the proposal. KENTlKUAX FRANKFORT, March 24. UP) Kentucky has a statute which levies a ta of ten cents a barrel on beer, enacted long before prohibition. This was the discovery of state officials who began searching the law books after Attorney General Bailey P.

Whotton ruled there Is nothing In the state constitution or laws to prevent manufacture or sale of 3.2 per cent beer In Kentucky after April 6. Other old Kentucky revenue laws, as yet unrepealed, levy a $200 license tax oh brewers or their agents, a $75 license tax on retailers of beer and a (150 license tax on retailers of wine. These laws are expected to provide a new source of revenue for the state treasury after April 6. The beer taxes have not been collected on near beer during the prohibition era. LEON SEE ILL PARIS.

March 24. (JP) Leon See, who "discovered" Prlmo Camera, giant Italian boxer, and took him to the United States, Is seriously 111 in his suburban home In St. Germaln-enLaye as a result of taking an overdose of sleeping powders. See has been in a serious condition for a week. Relatives have been called to his bedside.

him fifty cents for a haircut he slammed the glass door so hard it broke. His wife, on the other hand, said he was a violent man and asked he be Judged insane. But the Judge said it would be all right for Joseph to remain free. BEER READY FROM MED Spectacular Sight Is Seen From Air Early This Morning By GEORGE W. SMITrf Associated Press Staff Writer KANSAS CITY.

March 24 (JP) The flash of a brilliant meteor across the Texas-New Mexico skies this morning was described today by Bill Coyle, air mail pilot, as It appeared to him from what he termed "a ringside seat 9500 feet above the earth." EXTREMELY" BRILLIANT "It was the most spectacular sight I ever have witnessed," he said on his arrival here. "I find It difficult to translate Into words. The meteor appeared out of the northeast traveling west by southwest. It was 5:15 a. mountain time and I was over Adrian, Texas, forty-five miles west of Ama-rillo.

"The meteor first gave the appearance of a large flood light being turned on in the sky. It increased In brilliance with extreme rapidity. In a second or so It grew too bright to look at. AT SAME ALTITIDE "At first I thought It was coming straight for me. We were at about the same altitude.

In a moment I caught sight of Its tail and could tell that It was going north of me. "Its line of flight was probably forty or fifty miles distant. At any rate It was so close. I could see fiery fragments of the meteor whirling away from It and dropping back Into the tall. "Before It struck or disintegrated, the meteor had lost altitude and I was looking down on Its long, hori-zonial flight.

SIZE OF HANGAR "It appeared to be about the size of our Wichita hangar and shaped (Turn to Page Three) TCHELL PLEADS NOT GUILTY OF EVADING TAX NEW YORK. March 24. (JP) A plea of not guilty was entered today by Charles E. Mitchell, former chairman of the National City Bank, tc an Indictment returned earlier In the day by a federal grand Jury charging him with evasion of Income taxes of for the year 1929. SET TRIAL APRIL 3 April was fixed as the time limit for making motions and on that day the date for trial will be fixed.

United States Attorney George Z. Medalle said that there would be no delay In pressing the vse to a conclusion. Mitchell, dressed In a gray suit and topcoat, arrived in the courtroom with Max D. Steuer, his trial counsel, and Robert M. Thayer, the attorney who represented him at the arraignment Tuesday night.

REPORTED LOSS Mitchell resigned the chairmanship of the board of the National City Bank and also of the National City Company and other affiliates of the bank during the period In which he was a witness before the senate banking committee In Its Investigation of the stock exchange. The Indictment returned today charged that his Income tax for 1929 (Turn to Page Three) WASHINGTON, March 24. (JP) Frank Evans of Salt Lake City resigned today as a member of the federal farm board, effective April 1. The resignation has been accepted by President Roosevelt. Evans began duty with the board September 1, 1931, for a term which was to have expired in June, 1936.

He specialized in the development of a farmer-owned system of cooperative marketing. DLLSTEIN DEATH DUE TO ILLNESS BERLIN, March 24. (JP) Reports In the Warsaw newspaper, "Our Revue," that Louis Ullsteln, Berlin publisher, was mistreated by Nazis before his death are absolutely without foundation, persona close to the Ullsteln family said. Herr Ullsteln died here several days ago after a long illness of gallstone trouble and was buried yesterday in the presence of many prominent per ON 11 EVANS RESIGNS OM FARM BOARD -STATF RANK I fiANll Wllllha VI II II I BILL IS TODAY Non-Member Banks Will Be Able to Borrow Money From Federal Reserve Same Conditions to Prevail As Those Applying to Member Banks WASHINGTON, March 24. (JP) President Roosevelt today signed the bill making the federal reserve system available to non-member banks during the emergency.

WASHINGTON. March 24. (JP) President Roosevelt's signature was all that was needed today to make law a bill giving state non-member banks the right to borrow from federal reserve Banks during the banking emergency. ACT BEFORE MONDAY Congressional action was completed yesterday and Vice President Garner and Speaker Raincy were authorized to sign the measure while congress Is In recess so that Mr. Roosevelt may act before Monday.

The non-members must comply with the same conditions as member banks. They must post adequate security, be certified by state banking officials as sound, maintain reserves the same as member banks, and undergo a thorough examination by the reserve banks. GOLD POIRS IN' Securities given for loans would be eligible for new currency Issues by the reserve banks. The federal reserve board's weekly statement yesterday showed that gold continues to pour Into the reserve banks as a result of the president's proclamation against hoarding. The gold reserves mounted to the highest point since February 15.

This was an increase of 545,000 in one week and was added an Increase of $327,000,000 noted the preceding week. STOPPED PRINTING CURRENCY The report also disclosed that de positors have returned $885,000,000 to the banks and that only $9,269,000 of the new currency was in circulation. The return of money to banks has been so rapid that the bureau of engraving and printing has stopped printing the new currency. It had received orders to print $2,000,000,000. GAS IS FATAL TO DISTILLERS CHEYENNE.

March 24. (JP) Satisfied the results of a post mor tem examination made here last night showed death as the result of carbon monoxide gas, Coroner B. H. Fink- binder today said he would not ask for an Inquest into the death of two Denver men in an underground dis tillery northeast of town. The two victims, discovered yester day by George Perrse, owner of the ranch on which the cave was located, were identified as John Cantos and George Sarangelis.

Flnkblnder said the men. apparent ly died some time after Sunday night and that fumes from a small cooker attached to the distillery caused their death. Sheriff George J. Carroll arrested Perrse after he Informed the officer he knew of the distilling operations. S.

P. Reports Loss SAN FRANCISCO, March 24. JP) Southern Pacific Company reports net railway operating loss of $1,226,345 in February, bringing the 1933 net loss for two months up to $2,342,619. The figures are after deductions for oper ating expenses, tax accruals and rents. Police Find Grenades DRESDEN, Germany, March 24.

(JP) Police today discovered forty- eight hand grenad and a quantity of fuses which they said had been buried by communists in the near-by town of Radeberg. Golf and Tennis By Checks and SAN FRANCISCO. March. 24. (JP) San Franciscans, during the bank holidays, gave the park commission $3238 In small checks for golf course and tennis court fee.

SIGNED BY PRES DENT RAYMOND W. STEVEN'S SHOOTS SELF. CHICAGO, March 241. Closing acts in the drama of the rise and fall of the once powerful Stevens family were being enacted today as Raymond W. Stevens, fifty-nine years old, lay dead from what police said was a selt-lnflicted bullet wound while his eighty-year-old father was believed to be on his death bed following a stroke of apoplexy.

BOTH INDICTED Both had been indicted some time ago with another eon and brother, Ernest J. Stevens, on charges of embezzlement in connection with the failure of the $150,000,000 Illinois Life Insurance Company of which they were former officials. The death of Raymond occurred yesterday afternoon In the sun room of his brick colonial mansion in suburban Highland Park. As told to police by a son, Raj'mond, a shot was heard as he and his mother and his sister, Mrs. Webster Neeland Stafford, were leaving the house.

LEFT XO WORD Rushing back he said they found his father unconscious in an easy chair. There was a bullet wound In his head behind the right ear. On the floor lay a .38 calibre revolver and on a nearb? table was an encyclopedia open at a chapter on birds. That was all no notes no last word. Stevens died less than an hour later on the operating table of a hospital.

He did not regain consciousness. However, the son told police his father had been morose of late due to worries of the indictment hanging over him and the critical illness of his father. News of hla son's death was kept from the sick room of the elder man, James W. Stevens. ROSE TO POWER The rise of the Stevens family began forty years at the time of (Turn to Page Three) REPEAL VOTE DATE IS SET OLYMPIA, Mnrch 24.

(JP) August 29 voters of the state will register their approval or disapproval of the proposed repeal of the eighteenth amendment. At that time, a proclamation Issued by Gov. Clarence Martin last night declared delegates will be elected to a state constitutional convention, to assemble at the state capltol on October 3. The convention will vote on the proposed federal amendment to repeal national prohibition. Each candidate must state whether he is for or against the proposed amendment.

Votes Repeal DES MOINES, March 24. (JP) The general assembly voted to call a constitutional convention to vote on the proposed twenty-first amendment today. The Iowa house voted seventy-eight to twenty-seven to call the convention. Fees Were Paid Not One Bounced "We have expected a percentage of these checks would bounce" said Capt.B. P.

Lamb, secretary of the park commission, "but we Just com pieted clearance of them, and not a one has come back." RAYMOND STEVENS FATHER MAY NOT I 60 DAYS BOISE. Idaho. March 24. (JP) Gov. C.

Ben Ross today Issued a proclamation suspending mortgage foreclosures for sixty days. FOLLOWS RECENT LAW Declaring "there have been numerous and continuing mortgage foreclosures upon real estate throughout the state," and adding that "many other such mortgages are about to be foreclosed." the governor In his proclamation Invoked the authority of the banking and mortgage holiday law-enacted by the last session of the legislature to block all further evictions. The law limited the holiday periods to alxty days each, but gave the governor authority to renew them at his discretion until the act expires two years hence. Verbally, he told newspapermen that extension of the holiday would depend upon the attitude of holders of mortgages at the expiration of the present holiday. DECLARES HOLIDAY "In view of such extraordinary conditions now existing within the state of Idaho," the governor said In the proclamation, "I do hereby declare and proclaim a holiday within the state of Idaho commencing upon the execution of this proclamation and continuing for a period of sixty days unless sooner revoked.

"It Is accordingly hereby provided that during the period of this holiday all real estate mortgage foreclosure proceedings within the state of Idaho shall be, and they are hereby suspended and that during such time no order of sale, writ of execution, writ of attachment, writ of restitution, sheriffs certificate of sale, or any other process shah be Issued In such (Turn to Page Three) TO DNITED STATES NEW YORK, March 24. (JP) Andrew Mellon, retiring United States ambassador to the Court of St. James, returned on the Leviathan today, celebrating his seventy-eighth birthday. He declined to discuss "any lm-portaat question" because, he said, "I am out of responsibility of It." The former ambassador, who was one-time secretary of the treasury, said that he probably would stay over night In New York and then go to his home In Pittsburgh for the week-end, proceeding on to Washington Monday. He said President Roosevelt was "favorably regarded" In Europe.

MELLON RETURNS lifted the bills from the table ana then resulted in their Indefinite postponement. Indefinite postponement, according to the assembly rule book, means "perpetual" postponement, and only on rare occasions has the assembly, in past sessions, revoked all its rules to enable it to revive an indefinitely postponed bill. The financial situation among tha legislators became more acute today and numerous telegrams went oufl this morning to the home folks appealing for funds. It has been over" a week since any of the legislators! received any pay, and their expenses, admittedly high, have been continuing. POSTAGE MONEY A move was scheduled to be In itiated again this afternoon to provide forty dollars for postage, a pro posal that has been beaten on several Tills time, a bill repealing the present limitation ofi twenty dollars for postage is to bai offered and the legislators hops thereby to secure the sum of sixty; dollars as provided by the constitution.

They have already, received twenty dollars, given them early (Turn to Page Two) Wife Accuses Man of Insanity Because He Talked Back to Her WASHINGTON. March 24. The senate Judiciary committee today unanimously approved the Cope-land bill removing the statutory limitations on the amount of liquor physicians may prescribe. A similar bill has been reported to i the house by Its Judiciary eommlt-Xtee. The house passed one last session but It died In the senate.

The senate measure, offered by Copeland N. amends the national prohibition act to read as follows: "No more liquor shall be prescribed to any person than Is necessary to upply his medicinal needs, and no prescrlpoa shall be i CHICAGO, March 24. (JP) Joseph dl Leila told a court he dldnt object when his wife collected his pay check and allowed him only thirty cents a day for carfare, lunches and cigarettes. but that when aha refused to give sona,.