Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

To Attain True Happiness In Life, Make Your Friendships Slowly, Then Make Them Fast Proverb NEVADA, THE One Sound State GOOD MORNING Today Will Unchanged High 88 Low S7 Full Details on 13 VOL. LXVII. NO. 242. ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23.

1870 RENO, NEVADA, SATURDAY, 9,1938 MEMBER OF tWITBD PRESS ASSOCIATIONS 16 Paget Today SAVED STATES-F Wi Man Who Intervened, Slain By Irate Husband SUICIDE TRY FAILS FRIDAY IN VAN NUYS Mate Not Expected To Live; Kidnap Attempt Bared VAN NUYS, July An irate husband late Friday shot and killed his estranged wife and a middle-aged man who attempted to save her, then turned the gun on himself in an unsuccessful attempt. Van Nuys police reported Mrs. 'Peggy Rae Barnes, 23, formerly of Salt Lake City, was killed almost instantly by a bullet which struck her in the forehead. Carl Hawkins, 66, of Arminta, who was working in a berry patch and attempted to break up the domestic quarrel, was taken to Van Nuys emergency hospital with a slug in his chest. He died within 10 minutes.

The husband, Robert Barnes, 31, who police said fired the death gun, also was taken to the hospital, with a self-inflicted wound in the head. Surgeons said he was not expected to live. Police said Barnes fired once at his wife, and when the bullet went wild she grabbed the gun and fled. The young woman stumbled, and Barnes retrieved the weapon and sent a bullet through her head. Hawkins, attracted by the noise, rushed to Mrs.

Barnes' assistance, officers said, and received a bullet in his chest. Kidnaped Her Officers said they learned the couple had been estranged (or several months. Last week Barnes, attempting a reconciliation, forcibly drove his wife to Santa Barbara. After she complained to police there, he was forced to return her to Los vnder threat of arrest. Friday, the officers Mild, Ac husband drove Mrs.

Barnes to a Ventura boulevard liquor store where she was employed. Ho turned his car sharply into an alley at the rear of the shop, and there began a loud argument which reached a climax when he whipped out the pistol. After the young woman and Hawkins fell, Barnes' assertediy placed the muzzle of the gun Bgainst his forehead. Hospital surgeons said "undoubtedly would die." Here's Nevada State Journal 24-Page Goss Press Now In Use Above Is shown iht 94-page Goss rotary preps recently by the Nevada State Journal in' lis new location, -Center Street, and which is capable of turning out 35,000 copies an hour. The press is equipped for color work and uses three rolls of newsprint at ihe same time.

The automatic folder places the Inserted pages with unerring accuracy and works with almost sJrAlghllfiie press-Ir conild- ered one. of the finest in the world foday as it evidenced by'the largest number of sales in the United Slates. The rotary press brings fo newspaper readers a much clearer print and in addition brings out the lines of photographic engraving much better than the old flatbed presses, iiutallalion of the''journal's press alio resulted in the purchase of stereotyping equipment which is used to cast and trim the plates which are attached to the press cylinders. This equipment along with the EIrod and Ludlow machines used in casting column rules and type gives Journal readers the latest in newspaper improvements. 2 Women And 4 Men Safe After River Trip V.

J. Casey Dies Prominent Renoite in Car Crash Skull injuries traffic accident in received in a Washington, D. proved fatal to Vincent J. Casey, 27-year-old Renoite, who died early Friday morning in a Capitol City hospital. The mishap occurred when the machine occupied by Casey, Mrs.

Jean Stoddard Gelder and Miss Day Richardson crashed with another at the intersection of Connecticut and Twenty-first streets as the trio were en route to pick up Mrs. Gelder's husband, also a Kenoite. Mrs. Gelder received cuts and Mmiises and lost four teeth. Miss Richardson'escaped injury.

The deceased is the son of Thoiras R. Casey and son-in-law of William Woodburn prominent Reno attorney. Mrs. Casey and young son are in Reno where they arrived recently for a visit (See Vincent Casey, pg. 16, coL 3) NARROW ESCAPE ISTOLDFRIDAY 18-Day Ride Ends at Lee's Ferry LEE'S FERRY, July i two narrow brushes with death, two women rnd four men of a daring expedition down the Colorado river arrived here late Friday after an 18-day ride through flood-swollen waters and dangerous rapids.

The expedition, making its first contact with civilization since June 20 when the six members pushed three tiny boats into midstream at Green River, Utah, was greeted by two U. S. governmen! men who had kept a day and night watch since last Monday fearing the party had met with some mishap. "Only twice during the dangerous passage through Cataract canyon did we have trouble," Norman D. Nevills, veteran guide, said.

"Both times we feared the boats would be dashed to pieces." The two women, bespectacled Eizada Clover, 40, University of Michigan botany instructor, and freckled Lois Jotter, 25-year-old assistant to Miss Clover, said they had been successful in collecting some "rare botany specimens." It was indicated they would rest Saturday before continuing the second part of their voyage to peaceful Lake Mead, behind Roulder dam. 80-Pound Wife Quits Mate In 1909 Returns Weighing 220 Pounds LOS ANGELES, July day in 1909, John Marion Vienna came home from work and found his 80- pound wife, Delia Du Bois Vienna, had walked out on him, and gone to Fall River, Mass. A month ago she walked into his shop--all 220 pounds of her--and demanded money. Superior Judge Charles S. Burnell agreed that perhaps desertion was the proper charge and gave Vienna a divorce.

OVERDOES IT WHTTEFIELD, N. July duS--Polar Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth who last week began a rigorous schedule of daily hikes to condition himself for a forth- coining Antarctic trip, was recovering Friday night in Morrison hospital from overexertion. Refugee Problem Is Nearing Compromise EVIAN. France, July United States, Great Britain and France, leaders in the inter- government conference here on political and racial refugees, Friday night approached a compromise on the American proposal to establish a permanent organization to help present and future outcasts. CRUISER RUSHED TO HOLY LAND Jewish-Arab Rioting Becomes Serious JERUSALEM, July -The British battle cruiser Repulse, 32,000 tons, arrived at Haifa Friday night with more than 1,200 and marines, to help quell Jewish-Arab rioting which threatens to plunge Palestine into civil war.

A British police and troops manned machine guns and patrolled Haifa streets still having the appearance of a battlefield, with bloodstains and scattered clothing on the sidewalks where more than 20 were killed Wednesday and Friday. Similar dangerous tension existed in Jerusalem, where a rigid curfew was 'ordered from 6 p. fo 5 a. m. after a bomb killed four Arabs and wounded 15 others Friday.

A Jewess was arrested as a suspect after the bomb- which occurred near the American colony stores in the old city. Outbreaks occurred at Jaffa and Tel Aviv. On the trans-Jor- dan frontier British troops and the frontier guard fought a pitched battle with 600 Arab raiders trying to enter the Holy Land. Five Arabs were killed, eight were wounded and one, the leader of the band, was captured. Nules Occupied by Rebels After Fight A YE, Franco-Spanish Frontier, July Spanish insurgent forces Friday night began occupation of the walled city of Nules after a bitter hand-to- hand struggle with loyalists in the orange groves and rice fields surrounding the city, insurgent dispatches said.

A loyalist communique from Barcelona said that General Jose Miaja's troops "had been obliged to evacuate" to the south. KiDs Write Girl Crazed Filipino Then Shoots Self HOLLISTER, July U.R--A crazed 35-year-old Filipino farm worker Friday shot and kilted a white girl, seriously wounded another, then committed suicide at a labor camp three miles north of here. Both girls were from Seattle. The slayer was Henry Medina. He went berserk, entered the room of Mildred Turqueza, 21, and beat her over the head with on iron pipe.

Miss Mary Barton, 20, a roommate of Miss Turaueza, ran from the room but Medina followed ner and shot her the back with a shotgun. Then he returned and shot Miss Turqueza as she lay unconscious from the beating, kiffine her CHINA CRIPPLES JAPANESESHIP Air RaiJ Qff Hukow Succeiss Friday HANKOW, July quarters of the Chinese air force announced Friday night that Chinese bombing planes crippled a large Japanese warship off Hukow and bombed other Japanese var vessels and the big Japanese airport at Anking in five successful raids Friday. No Chinese planes were lost, Ihe statement said. There were three separate raids on Anking, the base in Anhwei province from which the Japanese are driving on Hankow, the statement said. Heavy rain was falling as the Chinese bombers dove from the clouds and "rained bombs on 18 Japanese bombing planes and 12 pursuit ships on the airdrome runways." a other Chinese planes bombed 10 Japanese warships below Matang and then one large Japanese warship below the Hukow barricade across the river.

A direct hit was scored on this ship "which was listing badly." HEW TROOPS JOOT ATTACK ON HANKOW SHANGHAI, Saturday, July 9. Shunroku Hata threw 25,000 fresh Japanese infantry, men into his offensive against Hankow Saturday in an effort to occupy China'! provisional national capital before floods of the Yangtse river reach' their crest rnd swamp his offensive. A United Press correspondent at Chunking, 750 miles west of Hankow reported the Yangtee had been rising there at the rate of a foot an hour for the pact 24 hours and that flood conditions should prevail in Hankow within a fort- Miss Catalina Billie Wallace Billie Wallace, who was recently proclaimed "Miss Catalina" at the 1938 summer bathing beauty contest at Santa Catalina Island, Cal The titian-haired miss won the title from several score beautious contenders at the palm fronted beach in Avalon. Congratulations To Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Wilson of Dayton on the 'birth of a daughter at the Mae Noonan Hospital LOCOMOTIVE IS BLOWNTOBITS Five Killed, 15 Hurt; Probe Opens MISSOULA, July An explanation for the explosion that blasted a giant freight train locomotive to bits, killing five men and injuring 15 others, was sought Friday night by Northern Pacific Railroad Company officials. It was Montana's third train disaster in three weeks. The blast flattened trees for 300 yards on either side of track, hurled heavy steel plates over the tram and onto a highway 100 yards away, and demolished 10 cars. The wreckage of the engine, one of the largest freight locomotives built, was blown into Clark Fork river. The disaster occurred 27 miles east of here.

The train had just left one tunnel and was due to enter another in three minutes. Had the explosion occurred inside either one of the tunnels, the casualty list would have been much higher, railway officials said. The dead were Engineman Ernest Weston, Fireman Elva Dunlap, Brakeman Ernest Bedilion two unidentified The injured men were transients, who were riding inside box cars and reefers. The 100 or more transients riding the tram were shaken off or banged and rolled around inside the cars. With Lawn Mower; He Hit Cartridge MIAMI, July Matthew Vollmer.

68, caretaker at a rifle range, accidentally himsejf with a lawnmower Friday, Vollmer, operating a motor-powered struck a cartridge which had been dropped in the grass. The impact discharged the cartridge and Vollmer was INTWOSPEECHES DEFENDS DEMOS RELIEFPOLICY Barkley and Bulkley Given Support In Talks COVINGTON, July R) --President Roosevelt, in two fighting speeches Friday, defended federal relief spending against the "political ballyhoo" of "those who seek to overthrow this administration" and gave warm endorsement of two New Deal candidates in Democratic primaries. On the first day of his transcontinental trip he stepped into Roosevelt May Make 3 Platform Speeches On His Nevada Swing President Rootevelt a make three platform when hit special train rolls across Nerada next week, it was announced from Washington by Senator Key Plttman Friday. Elko, Sparks and Reno will probably be the scenes of large gatherings Wednesday when Nerada's leading Democrats, including Senator Pat McCarran, Governor Richard Kirman and Albert Hillard, senatorial candidate, greet the chief executive, McCarran said he would board the train at Wells. The president will arrive in Sparks at 6:15 p.

m. Wednesday. Kentucky's hotly-contested primary by endorsing the candidacy of Sen. Alben W. Barkley, the Senate majority leader from Ken- and in an earlier speech in Ohio inferrntially approved the candidacy of Sen.

Robert J. Bulkey of that state, a staunch New Dealer. Aided Solvency In his second speech, before Dackod throng at Latonia race- rack here, he told the voters of Kentucky that the policy of federal spending--putting "a national shoulder under national largely responsible or the solvency of state and municipal governments. "In the six years (since March 4, 3933) many of our states, because of that help of the national government, have got back into he 'black' again," he said. He also lashed out at what he described as "political ballyhoo" of New Deal foes, and answered charges that political influence was being exerted on federal gov- nmcnt employes in Kentucky.

"Let me assure you," the President declared in a ringing voice, 'that it is contrary to direct and 'orceful orders from Washington F. D. Speaks, page 16, col. 1) WELL, I'll Tell You- By BOB BURNS One reason why so many people Set away with speeding in a city is because they have a law hat the motorcycle officer has'tt speeder i his own speedometer. One of those speeders came home town once and when an officer on foot arrested him for speeding man says "How did'ja know I was that ain't got no motorcycle?" The officer says "Well, If you'd ice that yellow dog your car--when that dog can't keep up with a fella, I know he's doing IN SPA PERI.