Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 8

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1948 NEVADA STATE JOURNAL, RENO, NEVADA PAGE THREE PRISON TERMS GIVEN TO FIVE IN U.SJCOURT Reformatory Terms For Three Youths Are Ordered Five of nine federal offenders were sentenced yesterday by Judge Roger Foley, and four other cases were also heard and continued until later dates. Three 'teen-age youths who wore captured in Lovelock after they, a to officers the slip there were each to three I years in a federal i i The indge recommended that the, three be separated trom each other during imprisonment. i They were charged with driving a stolen car from California 1o Nevada Slopped for questioning at Lovelock, the three made a break for freedom all or officers allowed them to cross the street "for coffee." Captured at a Lovelock auto court a few hours later the same night, the three were found to be well armed nnd they aNo admitted to officers that they had burned a shed on a nearby ranch after taking lodging there. Herbert C. Lamer was sentenced to a year and a day in a federal penitentiary a pleading guilty 1o stealing a suitcase Irom a train in i a operation.

Lamer was taken into custody at LacVega.s. For stealing an automobile and driving it across a boundaries, Patrick J. Smith was sentenced to a four-year penitentiary term. Smith was also arrested this month in the southern Nevada town. On a similar charge, William J.

Kelly and John D. Cutler were arraigned yesterday nnd entered pleas of guilty. Time for passing CHILDREN'S CRUSADE now underway throughout Nevada, is explained to Mrs. Norman Applewhite by two Reno Boy Scouts, Leslie Fry, left, and Dennis McNeil, right. Mrs.

Applewhite is now assisting in the drhe here Oliver Thomas', county chairman for the American Overseas Aid-United Appeal for Children, outlined the program at the Methodist Church "Starvation Banquet" Thursday night. sentence was set as March 16 i of manufactn es after a lapse of Las Vegas, and a pro-sentence in- eight years of checking industrial VEGAS HOTEL STOCK HEARING BEFORECOURT Flamingo Corporation Asked to Deliver 7,500 Shares CARSON CITY, Feb. 27. U.P) -Clerk Ned Turner of the Nevada supreme court reported today that Sanford Adler and James West of the Flamingo Hotel Corporation in Las Vegas have been ordered to show cause March 25 why they should not be required to turn over 7,500 shares of slock in the hotel to Morris Rosen of Las Vegas. Rosen filed a i i i the court, through A George Marshall of Las Vegas, a writ of mandamus compelling Adler, as president, and West, as secretary, of Flamingo Hotel Corporation to issue to Rosen 7,500 shares of corporation stock, Rosen alleged a he was en- i to slock under certain conlracts made with him.

He claimed he had paid for tho stock in full and that tho board of directors had ordered il issued. Adler and West, Rosen's petition alleged, refused to deliver the slock i Rosen executed a voting trust agreement a would have given i control of the corporation tor 15 years. Rosen's petition staled a although the stock of corporation, exclusive of his 7,500 shares, consisted of 67,300 shares i a par value of one dollar per share, the actual value of the hotel properly is $3,000,000 This year the bureau of census ol 93 such plants Second was i i referred to several is conducting a nationwide census rrolding of lead in pigs, and third a said by Rosen to icfer Warren Asks Other Towns To Cut Race News Wires; Secret FCC Report Bared SACRAMENTO, Feb. 27. (UP)--Gov.

Earl Warren said today he hopes the action of the city of San Francisco in cutting off communications facilities of racing news organizations serving California bookies "will happen in every part of the state." The governor added: "If it does happen, the bookmaking business will be slowed clown to a walk, and there will be fewer millions for gangsters and hoodlums to fight over." Manufacture Census Again To Be Taken by Government vest igat ion ordered mean-' a i i i in the United States. while. Both Kelly and Cutler were From 1919 through 1939 the cen- arrested in Las Vegas last week. suses were conducted every two Herbert Qmnn, who had years, but were dropped during the viously pleaded innocent to a charge of furnishing liquor to Indians, was scheduled for trial without jury at Carson on April 28. Quinn is free on his own recognizance pending trial.

Bail in the case of Ray L. Mc- Glothhn, arrested at Wmnemucca recently for driving a stolen car to Nevada from Tennessee, was set at $2,000. Time for setting trial in McGlothlin's case was continued until April 5 at Carson City. McGiothlin was taken into custody! 511,727,506. waredrs.

The first national census of manufactures to include Nevada was conducted in 1870. They were started in 1810. Nevada, in 1939, had 105 manufacturing establishments and the statistics for 1937 are expected to reveal a substantial increase in their number. The state's industrial employment at the last census totalled 1,588 workers with wages amounting to 52,484.445 and value added by manufacture of with Walter J. Landreth this month, but entered a plea of innocent to charges against him Landreth, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to a long prison term, Miles N.

Pike, United States district attorney, represented the government during yesterday's hearings. Attorneys for the defendants were Oliver Custer, William Kearney and Leslie Leggctt. Yesterday's court session will be the last one held here until April. Judge Foley will leave for Las Vegas this weekend, and will conduct the regular session of federal court in the southern Nevada city during the month of March. Ice cream was first served In the United States by Dolly Madison, says the World Book Encyclopedia, She offered this strange frozen dessert to guests at a White House dinner in 1809.

was the manufacture of iron castings. The census is concluded by mail though inquiries sent from Washington, D. Penalties for failure to report accurate information are imposed by law. Houghton Heads Drive Advertising Sam Houghton has been appointed to head up the advertising program for the Red Cross drive, Karl Breckcnridgc, drive chairman, announced yester- In terms of the average number of wage earners employed during the census year, Nevada's leading industry group was composed of 51 establishments engaged in processing food and kindred products. These employed 346 wage earners.

Next most important industry group, in terms of average wage earners employment, was that embracing three establishments processing non-ferrous metals and manufacture of their products with 280 wage earners. In the 1870 Nevada census, a total of 330 establishments was reported. However, that census included family home and neighborhood industries regardless of the value of the products The last census omitted all establishments reporting a total of less a $5,000 as the value of goods pro- an advertising committee arc Mes- duced during the year. dames Dixie Hammer, Joseph Nevada's chief industry in 1870 i Moore, E. Ross Whitchead and Joe was quartz milling, with total IM.

Melcher and B. W. Schroeder, day. As chairman in charge of all advertising, Mr. Houghlon will spot effictive advertising in all local papers and periodicals.

Mr. Houghton is well known in civjc circles'. As president of the YMCA, Mr, Houghton has inaugurated progressive programs for the community A volunteer in the Seabees, Mr. Houghton saw action in the Pacific. He is senior vice commander of the VFW.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Washoe County Red Cross and belongs to the Community Concert Association, Western Mining Council, San Francisco Mining Exchange Working i Mr. Houghton as' to Adler and Gus Grcenbaum of Las Vegas as promoters of the Flamingo Hotel Rosen alleged a his 7,500 shares, it voted i the i i stock, would give i i control and was therefore of special significance and value as to i Ihe courl in a i tho extraordinary relief ho a.sked for. Rosen's petition asserted this was necessary because an impending stockholders' meeting this summer will result in election of directors who will control policies and management of the corporation, and a tho right to vote 7,500 shares in question may be the determining factor at this stockholders' meeting. In the absence of Chief Justice Edgar Gather, who is ill, Justices Charles Lee Horsey and Milton Badt issued an alternative writ ordering Adler and West to show cause before the supreme court on March 25 why should not be ordered to deliver the 7,500 shares to Rosen. ATTEND CONFERENCE Two Reno attorneys, William Forman and Charles A.

Cantwell, attended the mid-winter meeting of the house of delegates of the American Bar Association held in Chicago Monday through Wednesday. The conference was held at Ihe Edgcwator Beach Hotel. Of the 6000 children under the age of five who die in home accidents each year, more than 2000, or 23 per die Irom burns and scalds. Warren said he believes his special commission on organized crime "has selected for its first a a a phase of organized crime that is as demoralis- ing to law and order and as corruptive in all of its implications as any phase," The crime commission has been cooperating with the state public i i i commission in an investigation of racing wire service to bookies. In San Francisco Thursday wires over which Pioneer News Service sent out race results were cut off by Western Union and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, on request of District Attorney Edmund G.

Brown. The incoming wire Continental Press Service, the nationwide network of which Pioneer is the northern California outlet, was not shut however. The communications companies'have taken the a i they will not shut clown i service unless the law enforcement agencies say the wire is being used tor illegal puipo.ses. The of the of the outgoing Pioneer wire will be to cut oil' distribution in northern California of data necessary for the bookies' exis'tcnce. The hearing also produced charge a horse race bookie wires got wartime' priority over both United States army and war a supplying materiel for the military.

This charge was contained in a i secret report of a two- year investigation by the federal communications commission, which was produced by Warren Olney III, attorney for the crime commission. This report said: 1 Continental's horserace result circuits tied up 16,000 miles of Western Union wires during the war years of 1943 and 1944. 2. When an airplane crash at Bakersficld tore out all Western Union wires, i a bookie service was restored in 30 i but Fourth Army's main circuit, running all the way to Maz- atlan, Mexico, was not repaired for two and a half hours. 3.

Western Union used a i i of copper wire for Continental alter the government froze copper wire. 4. Telegraph repeaters, another short supply ilem, were tied up by the hundreds' by Continental. 5 Applications for telegraph facilities by war plants were turned down in many towns where the racing service was using its leased wires (rccly. No Company Comment 6 Western Union devoted thousands of man hours daily to Continental.

At the same time, it was asking deferments' from the army because of manpower shoitage. Western Union officials declined lo comment on these charges. The report was prepared by the FCC staff in 1945. Olney said it MEAT PACKING PLANKLOSES Humphrey Concern Out of Business had been classified as "secret" for reasons could not understand. The report staid that Continental's service between Boston and Miami was bettor a the service for usual customers.

When defense industry and th army were scrambling for wire facilities, the report said, Western Union allowed Continental to let ciicuits lie idle (but paid for) for long periods, until Continental asked resumption of service. Application Backlog At the end of January, 1944, the FCC investigators found a the phone companies had a backlog of 803,513 i a a i applications. They estimated a at least phonos were tied up by bookies and bookie wire services. Personnel For Armory Job Are Sought Here Naval Reserve recruiting office in Reno hns received information from commandant of the 12(h naval i i that ex-veterans of World War II are now eligible for extended a i i in Reno. Tliis will be for installation of equipment in the new training center nearing completion here.

Requests fiom men in the following rates, EM, MM, CM, SF, SK, ETM, FC, MoMM, for extended training are being sought This training is also available to ex-army veterans with specific applicable s'kills. While on extended a i i duty, full pay and in men will receive family allowances, Laying off approximately 40 em- ployes, the Humphrey Meat Packing Co, went out of business here yesterday afternoon after operating for more than 40 years. Frank K. Humphrey, manager, announced the shutdown, and said a operators of the company, including himself, Marvin Humphrey and Roy narkofier, plan to sell, rent or lease the plant facilities "We have for a long ime wanted to become more closely i i i i the livestock business and divorce ourselves entirely from the packing business," he said. The company has had an a a payroll of about $250,000.

A few months ago, Nevada Packing the only other major packing plant in this area, ceased operations. Mr Humphrey said a he and his partners would continue to operate the Mt. Rose ranch south of Reno, and other ranching properties in Nevada. Several persons reportedly are interested in the parking plant here, and it is possible a it may be reopened. The Humphrey Meat Packing Co.

was started in 1906 by II G. Humphrey and II. L. Nichols at present site of the Reno rendering works. In 1924 it was moved to i present extensive quarters on East Fourth St Since 1941, the Humphrey packing a has been enlarged and i i i i facilities expanded to serve areas as distant as Los Angeles.

Mr. Humphrey has directed the plant since 1911. The plant's products were sold under name of Taboe brand products. enananann Mr. Humphrey estimated the business value at between $500,000 and $750,000 at present.

Mr and Mrs. Frank Humphrey, recently from a vacation of South America Marvin Humphrey is a member of the a legislature, and Mr. Ranko has long been associated with Intoxicated Man Returned to a i From Police Court In the municipal court hearings of charges of drunkenesg and disorderly conduct yesterday, one man fojnd to still drunk when he appeared Judge Guy W. Walt.s and was ordered returned to jail. The other person charged with drunkencss was found sober enough to be handed a sentence of $10, ten days in iail or until 4 m.

to leave Reno. Six charges of disorderly conduct were heard during the session and were given sentences varying from five to ISO days in i tho same 4 pm. or dollar per day a a Continued i May 27 was I he hearing for Kd Ingalls of Sparks who is charged i having struck a pedestrian i in a crosswalk The pedestrian, Laura a (VI, is i receiving treatment for Iniuries received in accident Ingalls is still frpp on $250 bail bond. Scouts Deliver Children's Drive Pamphlets Here Reno's T3ov Scouts and Cub Scouts will be out In full force today in a house-to-house canvass of the i a a i i people i the Children's Crusade and handing out i a supplied by the sponsors. The hoys will not collect any conlr.butions, according to scout he.idou,triers, but i encourage sending of monev to collection headquarters in Carson City.

The campaign is to raise funds to help feed Stan ing children throughout the world, and is officially i American Oxer.scas Aid -United Nations Appeal for Children. a coordinator for Nevada Is Denver S. Dickerson. rate, plus $105 per month sub- he ranching end of the business. sistence.

Duty will start about March 20 and will last only until June 30. Work will be offered first to local veterans and those in surrounding cities and towns. A recruiting i is now being planned that will visit Portola, Graeagle, Qumcy, West wood and Susanvillc, it was 1 announced. from Reno who are interested are requested to call at i office in the basement of the State Building or write to the office. HEARING AID Nevada Hearing Aid Co.

Suite 222 Byinirton BldR. Phone 2-3369 Tested BaKerlrs for All Aids Mr. Humphrey said a em ployes will be given two weeks pay in lieu of notice, and accumulated vacation pay which will average one month's wages. Civilian employes on the San Francisco airport, in aeronautical and a i i a activities increased to 5700 in 1946. IT'S A LIGHTOLIER A PROUD POSSESSION THE Lightolier amp FLOOR and TABLE MODELS REDUCED TO CLEAR OFF ON ALL MO DELS IN STOCK SEE THESE FINE LAMPS TODAY AT Do Not Trade in your present car on either a New or Used Car until you get our CASH OFFER Tony's Used Cars Phone Reno 5307 450 SOUTH VIRGINIA STREET TRACTORS CATERPILLAR D8 D7 D6 D4 With Dozers also ALLIS CHALMERS INTERNATIONAL Northwest Shovels SOD's Model 25 Diesel Model 6 Diesel All With Very Few Hours IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Phone, Wire or Hyman-Michaels Co.

2200 JERROLD AVE. SAN FRANCISCO 24, CALIF. Telephone Mission 7-3631 9 "PROGRAMS PEOPLE TALK ABOUT" BASKETBALL tonight at 8 p.m. is the broadcast of the Nevada-Hawaii game. This is the final game of the season for the University of Nevada basketball squad.

It's an Associated broadcast with Gene Shumate and Carl Digino at the mike. Basketball will continue on KWRN beyond the university season. Next week will be broadcasts of the Western Zone high school tournament and the following week will see broadcasts of the Nevada State High School Basketball Tournament. Both tournaments will be played at the university gymnasium. GOLDEN REQUEST TIME at 7:45 m.

will feature more smooth music from the Hammond organ, played in the studios of KWRN by Miss Edna Burns, featured organist at the Golden Hotel. A ---CAREERS IN THE MAKING, a new vocational series, will start Tuesday evening at 8:15 p.m. Series is sponsored by John R. Hills Insurance Agency and is presented with the co-operation of "Huskies Haven." Each week, high school students will interview civic and business leaders of Reno concerning a career in various professions and business. The first program will study a Career in Law.

Guest is District Attorney Harold 0. Taber. participating will be Ellis Jack, Bill Caspersion and Leone Hickey. Ajncrican ijrnuclcasring.