Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 2

PAGE TEN NEVADA STATE JOURNAL, RENO, NEVADA SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1948 SHASTA FLOW TO BE REDUCED SACRAMENTO, Jan. 31. (U.P)-- Cut in the flow of water from Shasta dam reservoir, prompted by the winter drought in the Sacramento Valley, will start Sunday, United States bureau of reclamation officials said today. They said the cut will be from 4,000 to 3,000 second feet. E.

L. Christian, bureau of reclamation watermaster, said a further reduction in the Sacramento river stream flow may be made in February. The action will mean a reduction also in the amount of electricity produced at the dam. About 58,000,000 kilowatt hou-s will be produced in February, compared with 90,000,000 in January. The announcement came as the January record of 24 rainless clays would be tied in the next 24 hours.

Weather bureau officials said there was no rain in sight at least until next week. Light rain fell in extreme northern California last night but did not get below Red Bluff, where .01 inch was recorded. Fine Hunters For Warden Threat SACRAMENTO, Jan. 31. (UP)-Federal Judge Dal M.

Lemmon today fined Glendon A Mastelotto, formerly of Delleker, and William Laswell of Chico $300 apiece for threatening to kill a federal game warden in Butte county last July. Martelotto and Laswell were convicted after a Jury trial Nov. 21 of "intimidating, coercing and Interfering with the duties of" U. S. Dpputy Game Warden C.

E. Mercer who was investigating the reported killing of a migratory game bird near Chico. Mercer testified at their trial that they threatened to, kill him although they did not actually assault him. Atom Casualties To Be Surveyed TOKYO, Jan. 31.

(U.R)-- Dr. Philip S. Owen, of Washington, D. executive director of the National Research Council's commission on atomic casualties, arrived here today for a tour of bombed Japanese cities. He was accompanied by Homer Pfieffer, Gila, N.

M. Meanwhile, atom-smashed Hiroshima was opened as a trade port today with formal ceremonies. It was one of the most important Japanese army transport bases until the end of the war. Telegraph Strike Threat Vanishes TELEGRAPH Strike--5 PF WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.

(UP)-Threat of a nationwide telegraph strike this spring was erased today with announcement that a wage dispute between Western Union Telegraph Co. and three AFL unions had been settled for an eight cents hourly pay boost. Nevada, Pioneer in Gas Execution Method Has Sent 18 Convicted Slayers to Death By ROBERT LAXALT (Cnpitnl NPWS Service) One gray December morning in 1924, a condemned murderer walked into the Nevada state prison's little white gas chamber and paid his debt to society. Gee Jon, the quiet little native of a country where old methods are generally held to be the best, thus proved to American society that an innovation, death by lethal gas, was the most humane way to put to death condemned persons. The attention of prison wardens, social followers, and authorities on crime and punishment from all parts of the United States had been turned to the Nevada gas chamber that December morning.

The experiment was a Student Visits Battle Mountain BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Jan. 31. David Kmncberg, sophomore student at Mackay School of Mines, is the inter-semester vacation in Battle Mountain with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andiew Kmncberg.

Mrs. Alice Rose left Thursday morning, January 29, for Sparks, where she will visit for a while with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs E. R. Roscberry.

She will then travel on to Berkeley, to spend the rest of the winter, and Mrs. Arthur Kinneberg and daughter, Joan, are visiting in Battle Mountain with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kinneberg. Ensign Kinncbcrg is on leave from the destroyer USS Arnold J.

Isbell, of which he is chief engineering officer. He has spent the last 11 months in China and Japan. DeVon Goodwin, well-known Battle Mountain resident, is being treated at tho local hospital for injuries received while working in a mine at Copper Canyon Mrs. R. T.

Marvel and Mrs. Thomas Marvel flew to Los Angeles Monday, January 26, to visit Mr. Richard Marvel at the Van Nuys hospital where he is under treatment Mr. Rene Lemaire flew to Reno Tuesday on business. -if.

Wedemeyer Lists Chinese Reforms SHANGHAI, Jan. 31. (UP) -Generalissimo Chiang Kal Shek has received recommendations from Lt Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer outlining proposals regarding currency reform, development of natural resources, improvement of communications and other subjects, the usually reliable Daily Shun Pao reported today.

Tho newspaper did not mention whether the reported Wedemeyer program is a duplicate of his report to President Truman on last year's fact-finding mission or was prepared instead at the request of Chiang. The Wedemeyer report to thp President was suppressed, success, and Gee Jon, the human guinea pig, went down in prison annals as the first man to be executed by lethal gas anywhere in the United States. Nevada immediately discarded its former practice of execution by shooting and hanging, and elsewhere in the nation, social-minded groups urged that other states do likewise. Many of them have done so. The chance for mutilation and injury possible slips was too great, they urged.

The lethal gas chamber was humane and terribly effective. Since than day, 18 convicted murderers have followed the path of Gee Jon into this state's execution chamber. A miss or a near miss has never been recorded, In every instance, the hydro-cyanic gas generated by the cyanide pellets dropping into the vat of-, phuric acid beneath the execution chair has been sufficient to cause immediate unconsciousness. In order to provide a degree of uncertainty as to who dropped the fatal pellets into fhe vat, thres sacks containing marbles, stones, and cyanide pellets are attached to strings that lead outside the gas chamber. The warden and each of two guards lower and cut one string apiece.

By far the greatest number of condemned prisoners has been received from Elko county. First to be sent to his death was Robert H. While on June 2, 1930. Luther Jones was executed in 1937, Dom- inlco Nadal in Wilson Henry Boyd in 1940, Floyd Loveless in 1914, and Albert E. Sala in 1946.

Claik county sent three successive murderers to their death, They were John Hall in 1932, Ray Elmer Miller in 1933, and Joseph Behiter in 1934. White Pine county condemned Stanko Jukich in 1925, John Kramer in 1942, and Raymond Plunkett in 1944 Churchill county sent Burton Franklin Williamson and Floyd McKinney to their deaths in 1939 and 1943, respectively. Mineral county condemned Gee Jon in 1924, Humboldt county condemned L. Ceja in 1931, and Washoe county recorded the most recent when Paul Maynard Saug was executed 1947. Practically every man who has been executed at the state penitentiary has asked for a special dish as a last request.

To substantiate the theory that condemned men really enjoy their last meal, Warden Richard Sheehy reported that he knows of no case where these special dishes were not devoured voiaciously. Food seems to act as a release mechanism upon YOUR RUGS Quickly Easily Thoroughly NEW CARPET SWEEPER IS LIGHTER, FASTER, CLEANER PHONE 7856 SNOW BUNNIES LOVE CH ISM'S yy INTER or Summer, Chism Ice Cream comes first on'the list of good things for small fry and grown-ups, too. It's one of those rare things that are delicious to taste and are good for you, too! You won't find an ice cream with finer quality! Ask for Heart Center Bricks for Valentine's Day--the same price as regular bricks. FAMOUS FOR the itralned nerves of men waiting to die a scheduled death. Prisoners brighten up amazingly during the course of their last earthly repast, he says.

In answer to the oft-heard charge that a drug is inserted in a condemned man's food, Warden Sheeny emphatically denied that lUoh a practice is followed at the Nevada penitentiary. He reported that in every execution he has handled, men have been resigned to their fate and have needed no sedatives whatsoever. To bear out his point, Warden Sheeny told of Elko's gambler, Bob White, a humorist to the moments of his death. When White was asked what he wanted for his last request, he blandly insisted that the phrase" "You can have anything you want," gave him the right to have a gas mask. Engine Strikes 3 Cars in Mishap INDIANAPOLIS, Ind Jan.

31, (U.RJ-- Railroad yard engine jumped the track today and ploughed into three automobiles The driver of one car was killed and six other persons were injured. The three automobiles had been waiting for the engine to clear a city street crossing. The dead man was Robert Leffler, 26, Indianapolis. The injured included two members of the engine crew. Police said the engine had picked up several passenger cars and was on its way to Union Station to make up a westbound Pennsylvania train, PREMIER FLEES BAGHDAD, Jan.

31. (U.P)-- Resigned Premier Saleh Jabr fled Iraq by plane today in the wake of rioting in which official reports listed 14 persons killed and 65 Wounded. 'Space Hoarders' Blamed by Owner WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. (U.P)-- Chicago apartment owner said today that removal of rent controls would solve the housing shortage by displacing "space hoarders" who couldn't afford their present quarters "in a free market." John Usher told a Senate bank- ing subcommittee that "fast orderly removal of rent controls is the only proper cure" for the housing shortage.

Rent controls expire Feb. 29. A speedy end to controls, he said, would force "the space hoarders" to move "back into the comparative housing they had in 1941 --or into what they can afford in a free market." BABE STAMPS STOLEN LOS ANGKLES. Jan. 31.

(U.P)-- Life-long stamp collector, Otto Krumbauch, 72, told police today he was beaten in his downtown hotel room last night and robbed of his i-aro stamp collection valued at $149,000. SEE IT! NEW MINIATURE FOR SALE-MODERN MOTEL GARRETT INS. REALTY CO. 45 W. First Reno Phone 3443 SONOTONE "900" Finest "all-in- one" a i oid ever made.

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Box 18, New York 8, Y. Entries with insufficient postage will not be accepted. 2. The number of different designs you hnvc collected will not be a factor la the awarding of the prizes. However, when you win a monthly prize, you must be able to show your total collection of different designs reported in the winning entry.

Also, it's fun to collect and swap "Tieasure Tops," Do not send youi collection of "Treasure Tops" with your entry. Send in only one top with each entry. 3. You may enter these contests as many times each month as you wish, but no entry postmarked after June 30, 1948 will be accepted. Each time you enter, whether you win a cash prize or not, we will mail you a Treasure Certificate good for 100 points toward the $37,000 Family Sweepstakes Prizes.

If you win any one monthly prizes, you will receive 100 additional Treasure Certificate points. 4. All entries received during each calendar month will be judged in that month's contest. Entnes from each state (and from the District of Columbia) will be judged separately, and will compete for the monthly state prizes only with other entries from that state. 5.

Monthly cash pnzes as listed on this page will twarded on the basis of aptness, originality and interest of thejitatements submitted (see Rule 1.) Each month's national prizes will be awarded to the three best entries of the 49 state first-prize winners in each monthly contest. AH entries will be judged by the impartial judging staff of The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation, an independent, nationally-known contest judging organization. Decisions of the judges will be final. Names of winners will be published.

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Only contestants living within the 48 states or the District of Columbia will be eligible. Anyone may enter these contests except the employees of the Pepsi- Cola Company, Pepsi-Cola bottling companies or their advertising agencies. Members of the families of these employees are also excluded. 8. HUGE NATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED AS FOLLOWS: (a) Each Treasure Certificate received by you or members of your family (see Rule 3) counts 100 Sweepstakes Points for your family.

Save them' (For the purpose of this contest, a "family" shall be considered as only persons related by blood, marriage or adoption living in'the same household under one family head.) (b) The 100 families, plus families tying with any of them, who have received the greatest number of Sweepstakes Points in the competition, qualify for the Sweepstakes Finals Each family thus qualifying must be prepared to show the total number of Treasure Certificates received by the family and also to show the total number of "Treasure Top" designs reported in the family's entries (see Rule 1). Doth the number of Treasure Certificates and the number of "Treasure Top" designs must agree with official contest records of the judging staff and these records will be considered final where any discrepancy occurs. (c) The qualifying families will then be promptly notified and each family will be required to submit one statement of fifty words or less on the subject "How the Sales of Pepsi-Cola Can Be They must get the help of their Pepsi-Cola dealer preparing this statement and must submit that dealer's name and address The Sweepstakes Prizes will then be awarded by the impartial judging staff, mentioned in Rule 5, on the basis of aptness, originality and sincerity of the statements thus submitted. aro tublect tu mnd local Imwt and HERE ARE THE BIG CASH PRIZES FAMILY SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES: 1 it Prize $25,000.00 2nd Prize 5,000.00 SrdPnze 2,000.00 4th Prize. 1,000.00 5th Prize 500.00 35 Pnzes each 100.00 MONTHLY NATIONAL PHIZES I 1st Prize $1,000.00 2nd Prize 500.00 3d Prize 250.09 MONTHLY PRIZES IN EACH STATE: Is! Prize $110.00 JmiPnze 50.00 3rd Prize 25.00 4th to 10th Prizes each 10.00 Noxt 41 Prizes eacb 5.00 Treasure Pouch Treasure Pouch Get Yourself a Treasure Pouch Carry your "Treasure Tops" in this sturdy 6-inch pouch, zipper closing, back loops so you can wear it on your belt.

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