Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

WEATHER Some Light Rain Diminishing Winds Tonight and Tuesday Temperature at Noon 53 A Newspaper For the Home Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY EVENING Nevada's Greafest Newspaper SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 25 PHONE 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1955 PHONE 3-3161 24 PAGES 10 CENTS fo). D)- RENO A P77 urn Final Touches 'I if litHiiiafiilj Ifj Hi 'm Lit- UOtt i ii Rotary District Annual Session sfM i fi! ff 111 (' Vr-' 'j Are Placed on 'Survival City' Doomsday Drive Homes Readied For Complex Test SURVIVAL CITY, NeT April 25. UP) High winds over the Nevada desert today forced postponement of the big atomic civil defense open shot for at least 24 hours. The announcement was given to observers this morning by Dr.

Alvin C. Graves, scientific chief for the tests. It means the test will not be held before next Wednesday at the earliest. SURVIVAL 'CITY, April 25. UP) Final touches were put today on this tiny town huddling in the shadow of the mighty atom as more than 5,200 persons prepared for history's most complex nuclear test.

Workmen completed furnishings in the four homes on Dooms-' Jay Drive, the avenue only 4,700 feet away six to ten blocks in most towns from tomorrow's atomic blast tower. DEVICE WITH WALLOP One of the biggest detonations unleashed at Yucca Flat a device with the wallop of 40,000 tons of TNT will be used by the federal civil defense administration, the department of defense and the Atomic Energy Commission for a variety of eye-opening- experi day, Pictured are (left to right) District Governor W. E. Jansen, Auburn; W. S.

Eddy, personal representative of the president of Rotary International, and Judge Frank Gregory of Carson district governor nominee. (Christensen). ROTARY OFFICIALS greeted more than 400 delegates from 41 Rotary International Clubs of the Calvada District a "Fellowship Hour" in the Redwood room of the Riverside to mark the opening of the annual conference here Sun Main speaker at a general session tonight at 7:45 p. m. in the auditorium will be Mrs.

T. H. Ludlow, regional vice president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. The public is cordially invited to attend. Theme of the meeting this year is "Program Is the (Christensen photo).

OPENING CEREMONY Some 200 delegates were inattendance this morning at the Sparks Intermediate School auditorium, as the 14th annual convention of the Nevada Congress of Parents and Teachers got underway. Delegates were to hold general sessions, symposiums and workshops during the three-day meet, which opened Sunday and concludes Tuesday night. NEW FRONTIER HOTEL CASE IS BEFORE BOARD Stockholders in Interracial Hotel Project Questioned by Commission Helmeted Housewives Set To Give Big Dare Tuesday In Gigantic Atomic. Blast spiracy to defraud the State of in any way my going up there shows people that they can sur- ments. It is scheduled at 5:20 a.

m. Pacific Daylight Time. Most important, this test will show what the terrible triplets of atomic weapons blast, radiation and fiery heat can do to the kind of home you live in. r' The homes on Doomsday Drive will be hit by all three; some farther back by only one or two, some should escape entirely. The spacing is planned, for in any real atomic attack it represents part of your chance for survival the luck of the draw, or how close you are to the bomb.

Secondly, it's designed to learn now best to protect homes and lives if your luck is bad. TERRIBLE TRIPLETS Dr. Alvin C. Graves, AEC weaponeer, and Harold I. Good- Is Under Way 500 Civic Club Members, Ladies Here for Parley Five hundred Rotarians and their ladies from the 41 Rotary Clubs that make up Calvada Dis trict 164 of Rotary International converged on Reno Sunday evening and this morning for their annual conference.

The first session was opened at 9:30 a. m. today in the auditorium of the State building. Following the singing of the national anthem, and the invocation by the Rev. Blake.

M. Franklin, welcoming speeches were heard, and W. E. (Bill) Jansen, of Auburn, district governor was presented to those present. TALK ON LOBBYING W.

F. Williams, executive secretary of the California Association of Insurance Agents addressed the gathering on "The Pros and Semi-Pros of Lobbying." Past Dis trict Governor Paul Claiborne, of Auburn spoke on "Your District Assembly." Following a brief recess, mem orial services for members of the Calvada district who died during the last year was held. The Rev. John T. Ledger was chairman of these services; Bud Hardesty was the soloist, and Mrs.

Ruby Tellai sha was at the piano. At the noon luncheon, which filled the Redwood room and over flowed into the Riverside theater restaurant. Dr. R. H.

H. (Bob) Amesbury of Susanville, presided. Dain J. Domich of Sacramento, former president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of the United States," delivered the prin cipal address. His subject was "Freedom Through Service." The ladies of Rotary attended a luncheon in the Sky Room of the Mapes after which they were taken on tours to Virginia City and Reno's famous "Ride to the Sky." AFTERNOON MEET This afternoon's session, starting at 2 o'clock, will feature an address, "Fifty Years of Rotary" by William S.

Eddy, personal representative of Rotary International President Herbert J. Taylor. The district dinner will be held this evening at Reno high school, and will be followed -by a full hour of entertainment. Chairman of this evening's meeting will be Jordan J. Crouch, conference chairman.

The governor's demotion breakfast will be held Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock in the Mapes Sky-room, and after a morning session in the State building, the final feature of the conference will be held in the Redwood room of the Riverside. It will be in the form of a luncheon sponsored by the Carson Rotary Club and presenting the new district governor, District Judge Frank B. Gregory of Carson. Chief Justice Charles M. Merrill of the Nevada Supreme Court will be master of ceremonies, and the address will be given by Associate Justice Milton Badt.

The 500 visitors will start for their homes Tuesday afternoon, High Winds Are Forecast Winds of hurricane strength were expected to sweep Rerio today, the U. S. Weather Bureau said this morning. Gales of about 75 miles per hour was expected this afternoon be fore winds started to diminish to night and Tuesday. Sustained wind of 39 miles per hour was reached today at 10:30 a.

with 56 miles per hour gusts at Hubbard field. Sunday mid afternoon gusts reached 59 miles an hour. A little rain sprinkled over Reno Sunday evening, but there was not enough to record, the weatherman reported. More light showers are forecast for tonight and Tuesday, and skies will re main mostly cloudy. Snow was falling today in near by ranges, and chains were re quired on highway 40 from Don- ner Lake gate to the Auburn ski jump.

Controls are also operat ing on highway 50 between the foot of Meyers grade and Twin Bridges. Mt. Rose road is open to the Christmas Tree, the Reno office of the American Automo bile Association said, and chains are advised on Fredonyer summit on highway 36. EX-SENATOR DIES CASPER, April 25. VP) Former U.

S. Sen. Harry H. Schwartz, 86, died yesterday in a Casper hospital. He had been in failing health for several years, Big 3 Meet To Discuss Russ Parley WASHINGTON, April 25.

CS The Western Big Three foreign ministers will meet in Paris May 8 "to discuss concrete plans for holding a four power conference with the Soviet government." The state department in announcing this today said the United States, Britain and France "earnestly hope that a four power conference can meet as soon as possible." VIEWS PRESENTED The brief announcement did not say at what level it hoped the meeting with Russia could be held. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles have said in the past that a four power foreign ministers conference should precede any meetings of heads of state. In preparation for the May 8 Paris meeting, American, British and French technical experts will meet in London Wednesday to make what the state department called "a preliminary study" of the problems to be discussed by the foreign ministers. The state department said that "in accordance, with the usual practice" the three Western governments will discuss the possible Big Four conference with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and representatives of other Atlantic Pact governments. "The governments of France, the United Kingdom and the United States," the announcement said, "have consistently given proof, of their desire to seek by negotiation the just and peaceful settlement of questions which might disturb the maintenance of enduring peace.

CONCRETE PLANS "Moved by the same desire the three foreign ministers will meet in Paris on May 8 in order to discuss concrete plans for holding a four-power, conference with the Soviet government. "In accordance with usual practice they will also discuss this question with the chancellor of the German federal republic and ministers of other NATO gover ments. experts designated by the three governments will meet in London on April 27 to make a preliminary study of these problems in preparation for the ministers' discussions. "The three governments earnestly hope that a four-power conference can meet as soon as possible." Truman Returns To Controversy NASHVILLE, April 25. Former President Harry S.

Truman told newsmen today the Eisenhower administration is trying to sabotage the Tennessee Valley Authority. The fiery Missouri Democrat carefully avoided political talk yesterday while attending the wild ramps festival at Cosby in Republican east Tennessee. But ha spoke out strongly -today in favor of TVA. He explained that yesterday was Sunday and for that reason he wanted to avoid controversial matters. 1955 Congress Of Nevada PTA Opens in 'Sparks A total of 192 delegates had registered today for the 14th annual convention of the Nevada Congress of Parents and Teachers, currently underway at Sparks Intermediate school.

According to registration officials delegate attendance was expected to reach well over 200 when registration officially closes Tuesday morning. More delegates aie expected to register Tuesday for the three day meet which started Sunday. WORDS OF WELOME Mrs. Reese Roberts of Sparks presided at the first general session of the convention this morn ing after which the delegates heard words of welcome from Mayor Seth Burgess of Sparks, Procter Hug, superintendent of Sparks schools, Mrs. W.

H. Kelly, chairman, Sparks P-TA Council and Rulon H. Manning, president of the Nevada Congress of P-TA. "Program is the Key," conven tion theme was the subject of a morning symposium, with Dr. Garold Holstine, dean, school of education, University of Nevada as moderator.

After a noon magazine lunch- on with Mrs. E. R. Bishop, state magazine chairman in charge, delegates held their second gen eral session in the Sparks Inter mediate school auditorium- with Mrs. Walter Wedow, Region I vice president in charge.

"How to Get the Most Out of This Convention," was the after noon theme with Clarence F. Marshall as the speaker. Work shops on a variety of subjects took up the rest of the afternoon period. GENERAL ASSEMBLY Tonight, a general assembly was to be held at .7:45 p. m.

and at 8:15 p. m. delegates were to hear an address "The P-TA Pro gram is Built to Meet Children's Needs," by Mrs. T. H.

Ludlow, regional vice president, National Congress of Parents and Teach ers, who came here from Illinois for the convention. One race developed in elections to state officers' today with Mrs. Clifford Bond and Mrs. George Harmon, contesting for the office of vice president of Region rv at Las Vegas. Delegates are to ballot on this latter Tuesday morning.

Named to state offices with no opposition were Mrs. Halvor Phillips of Winnemucca as sec ond vice president and Mrs. Wil liam Kelly of Sparks as state trea surer. Jazz Trumpeter Henry Busse Dies BEVERLY HILLS, April 25. UP) The body of Henry Busse, whose muted trumpet solos with the original Paul Whiteman band made jazz history, will be cremat ed today.

The 61-year-old musician died Saturday of a heart attack in Memphis, after finishing an engagement with his band. Financial affairs of the parties interested in the New Frontier Hotel, will be aired before the Nevada Tax Commission this afternoon in Carson. The New Frontier group is tiying to take over the Last Frontier Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, but their financial plans did not meet commission approval last month. Interested in the New Frontier are Irving J. Leff, and Maurice H.

Friedman, Los Angeles real estate operators, and Stanley S. Leeds, Beverly Hills insurance man. HEAVY MORTGAGE Assets of the Last Frontier were heavily mortgaged to pro-vice money for the new corpora tion. The commission found in March that the three new parties did no1 have sufficient cash of their own in the operation and gave them until today to come up with a new financial plan. Leff and Friedman are two of the defendants in a $1,246,469 suit filed by Atttorney General Edmund Brown, charging con- Lobby Fighting Trade Say WASHINGTON, April 25.

UP) Gore (D-Tenn) said today a "high tariff lobby which would betray the national interest" is fighting the administration's reciprocal trade bill. He called it "one of the best organized, most insidious lobbies Washington has ever had to con tend with." He mentioned no names. "The lobby is conducting a vicious campaign of spreading un warranted fear among the people of the country in order to pres sure and mislead the judgment of congress," Gore said in a speech prepared for senate de livery. "The goal of this lobby is to get the people of each state so frightened they will write to their senators and urge them to vote against the bill. "I resent this campaign of mis representation which has aroused fears where there is no reason for fear." Gore said he has obtained a copy of the group's plan for spreading propaganda against? the bill, a measure which Gore has vigorously supported.

The plan, he said, outlined "scare-them-to-death tactics." He said its objective is to convince industrialists, including those in textile that the bill will promote foreign competition that would ruin them, and to convince U. S. workers that it could cause widespread uneni' ployment. Gore said neither argument is based on fact. He added that he personally believes enactment of the bill would protect and ex pand U.

S. export markets and provide more jobs. Gore prepared his attack as the senate finance committee met to consider whether to at tach to the house-passed trade bill a provision to cut back oil imports. California. The complaint, filed April 13, in Los Angeles, charged the two men and several associates rea lized a profit of more than $600, 000 from a $7,500 investment by entertaining state officials and employing lobbyists to influence them.

The action involved lease, and subsequent purchase of the San-tee building in Los Angeles by the state department of education. Brown charged Leff and Friedman and four others learned the department was interested in the property and obtained an option on the building for $7,500. PREMISES LEASED They then purchased the biuld- to the education department for 10 years, receiving $1,119,329. They then purchased the build ing for $312,000, Brown com plaint -contends. The state paid $346,469 in rents and then bought the building in 1952 for $900,000, according to the complaint.

He demands re turn of the rental and the pur. chase price. The morning session was taken up largely witn interrogating stockholders in the Moulin Rouge, an interracial hotel now under construction on Bonanza Road, West Las Vegas. Principal witness was Louis Rubin, new hotel restaurant and bar owner, who is investing $324, 000 for 17 per cent of the stock. Owner of Chandler's restaurant in New York, Rubin was question ed at length concerning his association with Barry Gray, a con troversial disc jockey, who stirred up a storm after Josephine Baker, international colored singing star was ejected from New York's Stork Club.

Rubin said Gray broadcast under the sponsorship of Chandler's but his contract was termin ated two years ago because Gray had become too controversial. Also testifying was Daniel Tonis, a New York AFL union of ficial, who has invested $36,000 in the Moulin Rouge. BORROWED CAPITAL Most of his capital was borrow ed, Tonis testified. He formerly was business agent for Local 222, an AFL union eomposed of employes in the jewelry, plastic and metal wear trades. A former business agent was sentenced to jail for perjury in a New York murder trial, but Tonis told the commission that happened after he had left Local 222 and helped form Local 8 of which he is now vice president.

Larry Snofsky, who identified himself as a New York and New Jersey gambler, is seeking a li cense to hold two per cent interest in the' Moulin Rouge. He said he knew no league hoodlums. Snofsky, who will help manage gambling operations, said he had worked for two years in a gambling establishment in New Jersey prior to becoming interested in the Las Vegas venture. This afternoon, he commission also is expected to consider a new rule that will outlaw single gambling applications containing more than 25 names. Members of the commission said gambling license procedures are becoming too complicated and the presence of large numbers of stockholders in one enterprise is making the work too difficult.

SURVIVAL CITY, April; 25. UP) Helmeted housewives will kneel in the gritty sands and stones of a rough trench early tomorrow to give their dare to a giant atomic blast. They will wait only two miles away from the blinding glare and thunder and heat of an explosion twice the power of that which leveled two Japanese cities. HOPE FOR ANSWER From their vigil, they hope for answers to survival in the atom age of home and family. For answers to dozens of homely ques tion is the canned food safe to eat, what happened to that bowl of oranges, are the furniture and drapes hurt, does the telephone work Where to hide if an air raid signal gives early warn ning They will be the first American women ever to witness an atomic blast from so close a distance Only a few soldiers will be closer, another 2800 equally as close, Another 1400 civilians, scientists, newsmen will be four to six miles farther back.

Three to five women volunteers will be among 30 civil defense workers and newsmen in this forward trench. They're happy and maybe a bit scared about it. "A LITTLE Pretty Mrs. Lydia Durst of Silver Spring, mother of a six-year-old daughter, is one volunteer and "emotionally a little afraid, though I know it will be safe enough. "I want to be present for the woman point of view, and 'to convince women of the country that the atomic weapon is not so horrible as it is made out to be that there are ways to protect ourselves against even this thing, she said.

She wonders for one thing about the bowl of oranges on a breakfast table in a brick home standine onTy some seven or eight average city blocks from the heart of to morrow's televised test. Will x- rays shooting unseen from the shot leave the oranges good to Mrs. Durst is assistant to Har old, Goodwin, test director for the federal civil defense administra tion. SHOW SURVIVAL "I expect to be very excited," adds Mrs. Shirley Smith, Oakland, Calif.

"But I feel that if Lad Saves Life Of His Playmate SPARTANBURG, S. April 25. UP) Twelve-year-old Don ald Nelson was credited yesterday with saving the life of his play mate, Tommy Wright, 8. Tommy's clothes caught fire while 1he boys were "camping" in his back yard. Donald rolled him on the ground, smothering the flames.

A doctor said Tommy was expected to recover completely. DEPUTY NAMED WASHINGTON, April 25. UP) The defense department today announced the appointment of R. Karl Honaman to be deputy as sistant secretary for public af fairs, succeeding D. Walter Swan who is returning to his position with the United Airlines.

ive comfortably by taking cer tain precautions, then it is worth it." Both still today had to pass physical exams to be admitted to the trench. Mrs. Jean Fuller of Los Angeles and Battle Creek, is already all set, and one or two other women are expected to be admitted, from a number of eager volunteers. Mrs. Fuller, FCDA director of women's affairs, admits special in terest in what happens to food stocking pantries and shelves and special "grandma's pantry" of a three-day food supply stored in the basement of a home equipped with concrete-walled bomb shel ter.

ROW OF HOMES Just to the left of the 75-foot trench is a row of furnished one-story homes, a yellow one, a green one, a white one, of frame or concrete block, furnished, some with mahogany pieces, and a row of eight trailers forming a little trailer town. Ten seconds after the glaring zero moment, the women can steal a look to see what happened to them. Up forward, 4700 feet from the blast, are the same kind of housesJ pius a two-story brick dwelling, stocked with peas and tomato juice and baby food and beer, radios, TV sets, refrigerators, stoves, cribs, sofas, chairs, picture windows, a steel safe for family valuables, mannequins representing children, wife, husband. What happens to them, this close to an atomic detonation? The women wonder. After ward, they will see and learn; and look for the tips, designed to be learned from this test, to bring more children and parents and homes surviving through any at omic disaster and the days that follow.

Peace Ship Plans Told NEW YORK, April 25. UP) President Eisenhower today un veiled plans to send a new atomic powered merchant ship around the globe in a dramatic demonstration of America's determination to win "a just and lasting peace." The new vessel, the president said, will travel thousands of miles without refueling and "will demonstrate to people every where this peace-time use of atomic energy, harnessed for the improvement of human living." Eisenhower disclosed his intention to ask congress for funds to build the new ship in a speech prepared for delivery at the annual luncheon meeting of the Associated Press at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. About 1300 of the nation's publishers and editors heard the president. The president coupled his sur prise announcement of plans for the atomic-powered ship with a new plea for congressional en actment of the administration program to cut taniis 15 per cent over the next three years win, FCDA test chief, came up with this composite picture of what the terrible triplets may do tomorrow: Homes at 4,700 feet will be subjected to severe damage and a good deal of X-ray radiation. Heat materials, such as drapes, wooden doors, window sashes.

Radio towers, 120 and 150 feet tall, just behind the homes, may sway wildly and snap off. Homes in the second row at two miles might have moderate blast damage. Radiation will have fallen off sharply and the neat wave may have scant effect. Homes farther back should remain relatively intact, for the triplets lose their punch with distance. Two houses are placed oft by themselves, east -of the town, mainly to measure how much radiation might strike them from fallout, rather than direct radiation from the exploding de vice.

Most of the 10 homes under test are more completely furnished. Families of clothed man-neqins are sitting in living rooms, standing near windows or lying in bea. Some are taking refuge in basement shelters. Many homes contain complete food stocks. Everyday groceries line kitchen shelves, refrigerators are filled with meat, butter and semi-perishables, home freezers packed with frozen foods.

All the homes are heavily instrumented with gear to measure blast effects. The military phase will include placement at 3,100 yards of 55 tanks bearing 228 soldiers" and at least 15 newsmen; 2,332 men in trenches at 3,500 yards, and 240 men in armored personnel carriers at 3,900 yards. Thirteen special volunteers will crouch in foxholes at 2,600 yards. Civil defense workers, including three to five women, will take other trench positions at 3,500 yards. Graves says the fireball will be 1,000 feet in diameter, roughly three times as long as a football field.

"It will be he adds in a classic understatement, "a hot object for five seconds or so." The light from the fireball should be visible for more than 15 seconds. Only one test, the final shot of the 1953 series a 50-kiloton whopper is rated larger among continental explosions. And Graves did not rule out the possibility tomorrow's shqt might be as large..