Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

It Is True That Life May Be Just One Long Song, But Too Many People Sing It Out Of Tune IMbaltUd tor Dlthl. 331 Ex. GOOD MORNING Today Will Cold YMltrdar: High 45 Low 21 FuU on 8 VOL. LXVIII. NO.

13. ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23. U70 RENO, NEVADA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1938 mmnt OP THE DOTTED pane ASSOCIATIONS 14 PACES TODAY ANGLO-NAZI BREAK FEARED Winter Sports Carnival For Reno Slated Rape Victim Breaks Down Mrs. Berry Flees Stand Under Bitter Quiz By Attorneys; Denies Love Affairs OLYMPIA, Nov.

Elizabeth Beny, a wife of a middle-aged Olympia physician charged with torturing the man she had accused of mistreating her, fled in tears from a rigid cross-examination at her husband's trial Monday. Repeating denials she had had illicit relations with other men, Mrs. Berry ran to the arms of her husband, Dr. Kent Berry, 54, who consoled her while the trial came to a temporary halt. Prosecutor Smith Troy had befn questioning her relentlessly NATION-WIDE EVENT SET FOR EARLYWINTER Gigantic Ski Party Is Planned; Queens To Be Elected GOOD MORNING Vacations Reduced Pneumonia Cure Jusi Take a Pill New World Parleys 1 By JACK RUTLEDGE WE FEEL.

SORRY for those school in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A delegation of mothers protested to the school board last that nine days was too long for children to be home just before Christmas and asked that the vacation be shoitened. They said the "mental and physical strain" would be too much. So the school board obligingly reduced the Christmas vacation period But v. hat about the students, looking forward to a happy vaca tion period? It was pretty selfish of the mothers to take that action.

ONE OF THESE days, you may be able to cure pneumonia as simply as you cure a headache by taking an aspirin. In fact, when suffer an attack of pneumonia, you'll take a tablet similar to an aspirin Bellevuo Hospital authorities last night reported to the United Prtas that astounding results in the tieatment of the dread disease haa been obtained from a new drug, related somewhat to the re- cer'h developed sulfamlamide. The drug cures all but one type of pneumonia. The chemical, as "2-sul- faniljl-amidopyridme," was discovered in England by Dr. H.

Whi'by of London. Although not marketed commercially as yet, it has been released to various hospitals, including many in the United States A hospital pathologist said the drug may be administered orally simplv as giving an aspirin And it can be manufactured so cheaply that medication costs for each pneumonia case is estimated at only about S5 There seem to be no a effects from its use. The drug acts directly on the pneumoco' cus germ, cause of pneumonia, by dissolving the sugary capsule which surrounds on her relations with other men when she collapsed. Attack Charged I The cross-examination followed her testimony that Irving Baker, 37-year-old automobile salesman, had raped her in his automobile after a Fourth of July party at the Berry's resort home this year. Berry and three other men were accused of having lured Baker from his home and of having taken him to a gravel pit where he was beaten and tortured with a pair of pliers.

Mrs. Edward Kevin, Mrs. Berry's 64-year-old mother, followed her daughter on the witness stand. Discover Bruises She said that she found her daughter in tears the day after the purported attack and discovered her body was black and blue. RELIEF ROLLS MAYBE CUT WPA to Stay Within Budget for 193 8 WASHINGTON, Nov.

The works progress administration is quietly preparing to drop thousands of persons from its relief rolls so that its funds will not be exhausted before Marchl, the deadline fixed by congress last year when it voted $1,500,000,000 for relief, it was learned Monday night. Administration officials a i that the plan contemplates keeping the "truly needy" on the rolls and dropping those who will experience less hardship or who have prospects of employment in areas there has been a business pickup. They were reluctant to discuss the move but it was said that Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins may issue a formal statement in a few days. The plan is the aftermath of instructions by President Roosevelt last month that the full relief appropriation must suffice until March 1, as specified by congress, regardless of burdens occasioned by the depression.

(See Good Morning, Pge. 9, Col. 2) Schools Open Ohio Teachers Work' On Cash Basis Bette Davis Reports Mate to Get Divorce HOLLYWOOD, NOT. 21. Davis, screen announced in a telegram Monday nighi that her husband, Harmon O.

Nelson, will SUB her for DAYTON, Nov. 34.000 students and 1,300 teachers of Dayton's i schools, forced into a "vacation" I three weeks ago because the school system's money was exhausted, returned to classes Monday under a financial system of pav-as-you-go." The schools, closed in the face of a 561,000 deficit, will operate long as finances permit." ac- rorriuiR to Superintendent Emcr- 3-Room Home Stolen TACOMA, --Police searched Monday for a three-room house owned by George Simpson, who reported it stolen. Simpson found the house had disappeared when he took a prospective tenant to see it He said there was nothing but bare ground where the bungalow had stood. The world-famed winter sport collegiate carnival at Dartmouth will have its counter-part thi year--right here in Nevada. Dr.

Leon Hartman, acting presi dent of University of Nevada placed his stamp of approval on the suggested program Mondaj and machinery to make tiie gigan tic ski party a success got rolling immediately. Ski Teams Slated Preliminary plans call for one of the most gala fetes Reno has ever witnessed. With the best college ski teams on the Pacifi coast, accompanied by hundreds of co-eds and other enthusiasts taking part, the spectacle will se a precedent in Western America. A snow queen will be chosen to reign over the festivities, while open house and decorated fraternity and sorority buildings wit entertain the visitors. The third or fourth weekend in January will be the date for the Snow Carnival.

Wayne Poulsen, coach of the University of Nevada championship ski team, is to be in charge of the carnival, assisted by the varsity team, University Ski Club, Reno Ski Club and various winter sport organizations of the Sierra Nevada region as well as the Reno Junior Chamber of Commerce and other civic groups. at Galena The meet will be held at Galena Creek, on the Washoe county ski courses, if snow is sufficient. Otherwise, the carnival will be taken to the upper slopes of Mt. Rose, where excellent skiing is being enjoyed at the present time. While an intercollegiate tournament will be the nucleus of the carnival, the social side will add color and interest for the hun- (See Sorces, Pge.

11, Col. 5) Inventors Aided Patent Use Control Is Given Holders WASHINGTON, Nov. The supreme court Monday ruled that a patent holder may restrict the licensed use to which his patents may be put, rejecting vehement plea by Justice Hugo L. Black that the decision greatly encourages extension of monopoly. The court's action was by a 5 to 2 vote.

Justice Louis D. Brandeis delivered the majority opinion, which reaffirmed a ruling made last May, when Black entered a lone dissent on which the government based its plea for reconsideration of the issue. This time he was supported by Justice Stanley F. Reed. Justice Owen J.

Roberts did not participate in the decision. Yellow Star Of David Seen Again As Germans Take Over Jew Homes BERLIN, Nov. Yellow Star of David, badge of medieval Ghettos appeared in Berlin Monday night as officials of the Nazi labor front began taking over Jewish homes and house-to-house searches brought more arrests of Jews. The Yellow Star of David, reminiscent of the "Yellow Spot" which Jews were forced to wear whenever they ventured outside Ghetto walls in the middle ages, was posted on the office doors of Jewish doctors. From German concentration camps, where many of 50,000 arrested Jews are held, some as "hostages," it was reported that Jewish prisoners wer forced to pay "hotel bills" of about three dollars a day before their release.

NEGRO LYNCHED AFTERMTACK 74-Year-Old Woman Is Victim WIGGINS, Nov. A mob of 200 men of this rural community Monday lynched Wilder McGowan, 24, negro accused of raping an aged white woman. The 74-year-old mother ofe, a physician reported to officers tfct the negro broke into her home late Sunday night and forced her accompany him down the road where he choked, robbed and al- acked her. The woman's condition was not serious Monday night. Seachers found the negro near us grandmother's home while the sheriff was gone.

When the officer returned, he lound the negro's body hanging by a rope from a ree limb. OPERA SEASON PACKTEM IN 'Otello' as a Now as Ever NEW YORK, Nov. The Metropolitan Opera emerg? its annual cocoon Monday night in i blaze of jewels and silks and ermine, destined to flutter for a six months in the Chooses to Run Jones Announces for U. S. Presidency SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

E. Jones, 52, field deputy in the San Francisco office the Federal Internal Revenue Jepartment, Monday announced is candidacy for President of the United States in 1940. Jones said he would seek the Democratic nomination on a plat- orm calling for destruction of the dictatorship of the New York fi- ancial and industrial octopus." A former Chicagb newspaperman, Jones, in a notarized statement to the press, characterized is candidacy as "a people's movement." Reno Divorcee to Wed LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. Daily Express said to- ay that the former Audry James, econd wife of Marshall Field, rd, who was divorced from the jnerican multi millionaire at eno in 1934, is bethrothed to the Ion. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, 29, oungest brother of the Earl of ladnor.

TROOPS WITHDRAWN DBS MOINES, Nov. Nelson G. Kras- lel Monday night ordered Adju- ant General Charles Grahl to withdraw national guard troops rom the struck Swift Packing ompany plant at Sioux City. Love Flight Ends in Jail MOSCOW, Nov. Grover, a British engineer whose "love flight" into Soviet Russia in search of his Russian-born wife! Mute Mother and Daughter May Be Saved From Loneliness by Doctors resulted in his arrest, was held nils, who said that S4.10,- jail Monday night while the ailable as a result of a British embassy negotiated with Russian officials.

tr -iporarv f'nancial plan. COLUMBUS, Nov. 21-- U.R--Authorities Monday night told story of a young unmarried mother, mute since infancy, and her six-year-old daughter who nave lived all their lives in one room, speaking a strange sign language only they could understand. The 26-year-old mother, Addie Belle Barton, and her daughter. A a 11 c.

had known scarcely anything of the world around them, according to Columbus physicians and Ohio state university psychologists seeking to save both from lives of utter loneliness. The mother's grandparents at first opposed efforts of officials to help the two, but consented finally and turned them over to authorities. Mrs. Barton, the grandmother, explained that 24 years ago Addie Belle was shot in the eye with a B-B gun." "We took her to a doctor and she was terribly frightened by X-ray machine." she said. "Since then, she never has been able to ttlk." synthetic sun light of golden horseshoe.

It was a tradi- i a i night with the usual combination--the glitter of society, the music lovers of lesser circumstances in the upper balconies, and the pushing throng outside, goggling at the arrivals and departures of the elite. The opera was Verdi's masterpiece of his later composing career, "Otello." Giovanni Martin- ejli sang the part of the jealously- smitten Moor; Lawrence Tibbett was the villainous lago and Maria Camglia, Italian dramatic soprano, made her American debut as Desdemona. Ettore Panizza conducted. The enthusiasm of Monday night's proceedings proved that in the 55 years since the first opening night of the Metropolitan, it has not lost its hold on the public. As for "society," such space as might have been available in the boxes--so many of them are-held by the estates of those long dead --was taken up months ago and a box seat could not be bought Monday night.

The lesser public spoke its mind by snapping up all availabls seats in less than an hour after they went on public sale. STRIKE CLOSES NATION'S TOP STOCK MARKET Chicago Livestock Center Paralyzed Early Monday CHICAGO, Nov. Striking livestock a agreed Monday night to ease a paralysis of the world's largest livestock market by allowing commission clear yards of cattle, sheep and hogs Esther Davig second wife of already in the pens or en route ldu died TKe decision was reached aftei U1C de Pltte bu is pictured at Palradale, with a conference of the Livestock one of their two children, Scott, Handlers Union of the Packmp who is very ill. Davis, or MacDon- I House Workers' organizing com aid, was arrested on a forgery mittee, Congress of Industrial Or Hit first alto GERMANY MAY RECALL ENVOY TO ENGLAND Hitler Angered Over Reaction to His Jewish Purge LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. Adolf Hitler was reported early today to be contemplating the recall of his ambassador to London, Herbert Von Dirksen, after a british government proposal to settle thousands of German Jews in the East African colony of Tanganyika.

Prime Minister Neville Cham- berlam's statement in the house jof commons pointing to a mass migration to Tankanyika, which Britain took from Germany after the world war, aroused instant wrath in Berlin. gamzations affiliate, and a com-i mittee of the commission men. The union stipulated that onl commission themselves members of the Chicago Live stock Exchange, would be allow ed to enter the pens and that em ployes would be barred. The Union Stockyards Tran sit Company, against which th strike was directed, that 15,000 head of cattle, 10,00 head of sheep and 25,000 hogs hat arrived in the yards today. The strike, effective at 6 a.

paralyzed the huge yards which sprawl over a square mile of Chi cago's Southside. The handlers, in the employ stockyards company, are key men in the normal movement ivestock from the railroad cars or trucks, through the pens anc finally across the scales and into the hands, of the purchaser. Operations When the CIO men refused to man the scales virtually all op eration ceased. Minor shipments of stock purchased directly be ween farmer or rancher and the great packing companies movec uninterruptedly. The union was named bargain agent for Stockyards Hartd ers several months ago after an election which they won by a narrow majority.

They demanc exclusive bargaining rights, a check-off, vacations and time and a half for overtime. married. Inspector Quits Job; Wasn't Earning Pay CLEVELAND, Nov. Kennedy, 37, government inspector of navy materials here, quit his job Monday because he didn't believe he was earning his annual pay. He said that it was "impossible" for him to inspect about $1,500,000 worth of propellers, airplane engines and submarine parts a year in five factories here, the task to which he was assigned.

Starts Business onWPA Benefits, Cheats U. S. CLEVELAND, Nov. government convicted Hugh Neill Monday of defrauding it through a Business financed by money it gave him. Neill was fined $1,000, sentenced to six months in the Milan, re- TM atory and ordered to pay the he owed the government in internal revenue taxes for earnings of the distillery business' he began with hU WPA benefits.

'Murder on the Rock' Trial Is Continued SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21, UP--Federal Judge Harold Louderback Monday rejected defense motions for a directed verdict of cquittal and ordered the trial of ames Lucas and Rufus Franklin, Alcatraz federal penitentiary convicts- charged with murder, to proceed. The defense moves came after the federal government unexpectedly had rested its case which arose from the slaying of Guard Royal Cline in an escape attempt at the island prison May 23. Lions Club Invited To Thursday Rites "Giving Thanks--Always" will be the theme of the sermon by the Rev. Arthur Keck Thanksgiving Day morning at St.

Luke's Lutheran church. Reno Lions Club is making plans to attend the services, which start at 10:30 a. in a group. JAPS, NAZIS SIGN TflJLTURE PAd Professor Exchange To Beg-in Soon TOKYO, Tuesday, Nov. 22, UP--The privy council today approved a Japanese-Gorman cultural pact providing for an exchange of professors and other cultural activities.

It was understood that one result of the agreement would be that in the future only German instructors approved by the Nazi party would be admitted in Japanese schools, where at present there are many anti-Nazi Germans teaching. The pact was understood to contain an agreement that each nation would respect racial creeds of the other. While political significance of the' agreement has been denied by Japanese, foreign observers see in the pact a strengthening of the German-Italian-Japanese anti-Communist pact. Anti-Nazi Rally in New York Urges Aid NEW YORK, Nov. anti-Nazi rally and demonstration attended by a capacity audience of 22,000 persons in Madison Square Garden Monday night demanded that President Roosevelt use his office to obtain an embargo on trade with Nazi- Germany and that Americans support this demand with a boycott on German goods.

Demands Colony Hitler is demanding the return of Tanganyika, as one of th cardinal points of his colonial demands and the Nazi press assorted that Britain has no right to unload Jewish refugees in such a mandated territory. A ofiorus of ami-German attacks on the floor of the house of commons, including a laboritc demand that both Britain and the United States immediately inform Germany that "cordial relations" will cense until the anti- semitic measures cease, added to the German anger. Chamberlain, in his announcement of efforts to find homo for many of 700,000 publicly asked Hiller to co-operate in the plan of them in the equaloiiH) colony on a possible tract of 50,000 acres of land In addition, he held out of 10.000 square miles of land for Jewish settlement in British Guiana on the northea.st coast of South America "if a survey proves satisfactory Thus, a total of nearly 6,500,000 atrres of land would be thrown open to Germany's Jews in Tanganyika and British Guinia. Hitltr Angtrcd Hitler, at his Alpine retreat at Berchtesgaden, was reported In have received running stenographic accounts of the commons debate and it was indicated that the angry tone might have influenced consideration of Von Dirkscn's recall If the ambassador is called back to Berlin as a protest against Britain's reaction to the anti- scmitic program underway in the Reich it will be a severe and tiaps crushing blow to Chamberlain's hopes of bringing the dictators into a scheme of general European appeasement. Sally Rand Denies She's Fan Dancer HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

Rand corrected a public misunderstanding Monday by denying she is a fan dancer. She is a ballet dancer who only uses a pair of fans in her routine, said the blonde Sally in an adroit egal move to deflate claims of Taith Bacon, former New York showgirl, that she appropriated he dance. F. D. HEADS SOUTH WARM SPRINGS, Nov.

President Roosevelt arrived here by special tram at 3 o'clock (CST) Monday night to two weeks in his "other WAVES DAMAGE NOME Alaska, Nov. luge waves that rolled across the Nome roadstead Sunday night anc Monday did damage estimated at home" during which time he will round out the administration'. 1 new legislative program a make a number of important appointments. WELL, I'll Tell You- Bf BOB BURNS I would get a lot more kick out of the success of a lot of theto i actors out heic if I could forget all tl France Ends Devil's Island; Riots Postpone 'Farewell Voyage' of Ship WHO KHf DIES WILLOWS, Nov. Mrs.

Ella Leonard, last surviv-' ing child of Dr. Hugh Glenn, one of the ffrst western wheat kings, died Monday in San Francuco after a long iUnew. PARIS, Nov. tionwide protests against banishment of more convicts to dread Devil's Island and fears Of a mass suicide attempt or riot brought a government announcement Monday night that the farewell voyage' 'of the priaon ship La Martiniere has been indefinitely postp-jned. The followed a.

bloody mutiny over the weekend at Saint Martin de Re Island off La Rochelle in which 20 of 973 habitual criminals, awaiting embarkation aboard the Martiniere a wore Itnifed. Senpgalew! troops and Cuards, rushed from the mainland to quell the mutiny, taiued ordi-r behind the walls of the mutA prison Monday. JEWS PA PER I li-rful actors barnstorming a 1 1 over the country that can't Ki't a break. a some wondci actors in HJOM- i companies. I rpmfmkxM 1 mv a Peachy Sinims wr-nt IP a IITI Ui Komc-u JuliH folia that Romro a uc a wnn- i jnd pad no woll, i ho i a com- 1 miilcrl f-uu-ido, mv aunt Peachy black tor two i -IWSPAPKR! OIK tiiin-.