Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 10

jXcbab a ffiatc journal Visit 'Your New Washoe County ESTABLISHED 1870 RENO NEVADA RIDAY MORNING JULY 2 1954 AGE TEN Three People Badly SECRETARY ANNOUNCER Hurt in Auto Mishaps 18 per Last Status in Doubt SUNDAY THEATER RESTAURANT RIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS RAUHUT'S Children $100 Adults $200 OR RENT Large Pan 60 15x30 STORE RAU HUT'S Phone 3 6851 i a pile of trash in building at 28 I I i I I I 259 Erring Motorists Cited by Reno Police During Month of June DANISH APPLE COEE CAKE (A Treat for All Meals) WALLET $150 STOLEX Theft of his wallet in a downtown club was reported to police recently by George A Hanson visitor here from Elk Grove Calif Mr Hanson said he was playing slot machines Wednesday when someone took the wallet from his pocket The wallet contained $150 in cash personal papers and a Ha waiian dollar bill signed with 50 names Action Is Deferred On Two Two Are Turned Down force It was believed that at one time in his life Mr Yee had been involved in a narcotics case The scene of the alleged slaying confessed by Bengston was near a small Reno hotel Police noted that Mr Yee had at one time re sided at that particular hotel However Mr Yee did not own an automobile and was not lo cally known as officers said He was killed in March not May Berkeley officers will continue their interrogation of Bengston and Reno police will probably go to Berkeley to look into the in stance personally The Y'ce murder is the only un solved slaying on current Reno police records Traffic violators arrested by Reno police during June numbered 259 Seventeen of that number were taken into custody for drunken driving Eight drunken drivers caused accidents police noted The other arrests included 192 for violation of road and driving laws involving a moving vehicle one for a parking violation and 49 for violations which did not in volve moving cars driver license or registered irregularities for in stance Two suspects in recent theft cases here were being held in Cali fornia yesterday Reno police were notified James Thomas Steele 35 former Long Beach Calif resident is in custody at Glendale He is charged with burglarizing Cafe 703 Virginia St May 15 and taking approximately $100 from slot ma chines Police here sentout a search for Steele after fingerprints found at the burglary scene matched his In custody at San rancisco is Robert Catlin who is believed to have stolen $597 worth of cloth ing from a parked automobile here May 23 Police said that the cloth ing belonging to Mack Aaronson of Los Angeles has been recovered and that Catlin has admitted the theft Both Steele and Catlin are ex pected to be returned here in the near future to face charges Darrell Bell 18 of 1126 ourth St escaped injury Wednesday night when his 1953 Mercuiy sedan collided with a power pole on Hol comb Lane Mr Bell told sheriff's officers that another car forced him off the side of the road as it passed him He estimated the speed of his own vehicle at 40 milcs an hour 30 Boys our Girls Got Into Trouble During June By UNITED PRESS Gambling license applications ap proved by the Nevada tax commis sion yesterday included the follow Nearly all of Reno will observe Monday July 5 as a holiday Nearly all retail stores will be closed according to Tate Williams of the Nevada Retail Merchants As sociation A few neighborhood groceries will remain open during the day All public business and profes sional offices will be closed for the day including city hall Washoe county court house and the post of fice The court hfause will maintain for the marriage license bureau opening briefly in the afternoon and evening to ac commodate prospective brides and bridegrooms Lindsey Dick their Rodeo secretary is Mrs Jean Cline of Lone Pine serving in that capacity for the third con secutive year Mrs Cline will re ceive entries at rodeo headquar ters until 6 this evening (Gross Photo) ON TELEVISION KZTV Announcing the Reno Rodeo this year is rank Bogert of Palm Springs who arrived in Reno yesterday He says that the in terest among the cowboys in the Reno Rodeo is greater than ever in California (Gross Photo) CARSON CITY July 1 (U The state tax commission inquired to day into the financial interests held by various persons in the Hotel Last rontier on the Las Vegas Strip The commission questioned Jake fcozloff Milton Stevens and Mur ray Randolph closely about agree ments they may have had with per sons who had loaned them money for operation of the hotel andits casino or who held options to pur chase interests Kozloff and Randolph both as sured the commission that they had repaid all such loans Kozloff and Randolph said they very anxious that Milton Stevens wealthy Los Angeles water heater manufacturer be granted his long pending applica tion for a gambling license for a 19 per cent interest in the hotel Both explained aid was needed in completing a $1500000 improvement program now under way A new gambling license applica tion was submitted to the com mission listing the following inter ests for the Last rontier Kozloff 23 per cent Beldon Katlman 20 per cent Randolph and Stevens 19 per cent each William Hartmann 9 per cent Robert Kroloff and Ar thur Brick 3 per cent each and Max Wittus 2 per cent The commission took the matter under study elix Sanchez is in trouble with his government because he failed to keep in touch with the Los An geles draft board Sanchez who was arrested by the BI this week is specifically in because he around for an induction call Ar raigned before Justice of the Peace Laurance Layman acting in the absence of Commissioner John McLaughlin the 28 ycar old railroad worker was ordered held in $5000 bail Sanchez who claims American citizenship yet has a difficulttime speaking English conveyed the ex planation that he keep in touch with his draft board because he was the time moving first was discounted investigation was 500 Block of South Virginia Plenty of Parking Area inancial Interests Investigated Two fires one of which did serious damage to a home at 415 Arroyo St occurred here yesterday morning The Oscar Newell home was severely damaged by a blaze which was reported at 8:09 am The flames destroyed a garage attached to the house and a 1950 Mercury sedan inside the garage Both the adjoining kitchen and basement received extensive fire and water damage and the rest of the 4 house was damaged by smoke Warrants Are Issued or Three Who Did Not Appear Dazed Man ound Wandering in Berkeley Tells of Killing Chinese Here Cowboys started bombarding the Reno rodeo headquar ters in person by telegram and by mail yesterday as Mrs Jean Cline of Lone Pine rodeo secretary arrived and opened the entries for the various events that will move the 1954 Reno show at a fast pace Dick Pascoe Glen Hone Dell Haverty Bud Spealman Bill Carr all names well known in rodeo circles have entered the Reno rodeo In team roping one of the top events of the show insofar as excitement is con 4 cerned Vic Castro and Buck Sor rels who are well remembered by those ho saw this event last year have sent in their entries as have Ambro and Lester Rosacchi and Ted Hendricks and Ted Guidotti Others whose entries have been certified for the team roping event are Olan Sims and Bob Jones and Chet Bohn and Harry Rose In the Nevada Brone riding con test which holds great interest throughout the state Rogers Bill Owens and North have already sent in entries In addition to Bud and Duncan from Lovelock Mopping Up Operation Will Continue Today iremen worked three hours controlling the blaze and mopping up afterwards Cause of the fire was not determined and an early theory that 1he automobile had caught fire last night An ordered At 6:23 am side a vacant Commercial Row caught fire The small blaze was Caught before more than smoke damage could be done the front of the structure The building owned by Jack Doug lass is partly taken up with a bar at the rear although the Com mercial Row front of the structureis unoccupied firemen said Cause of this blaze too was not deter mined and an investigation was under way yesterday evening ive automobiles leaking gaso line were given the mop up treat ment by firement yesterday Bige ran Scotty has entered from the Per shing county community and says that several others from that area will arrive in Reno this morning As usual many of the younger Juvenile Crime Decrease Shown In RenoJRecords OR DRY ICE Nevada Gambling Permits Granted 26 Applicants cited for failing to grant right of way Willard Ashley 51 1943 St Sparks was arrested for drunken driving following too closely and failing to have a license Wednesday evening as result of a collision in the 2200 block of ourth St Po lice said the Ashley vehicle collided with the rear of a car driven by John Lee Mcnicucci 21 1934 St Sparks License Suspended Ashley was fined a total of $290 and his license suspended for 60 days following municipal court hearing yesterday Both drivers were cited following a collision at Center and Moran Sts at 7:45 a yesterday Cath erine Shake 463 Quincy St was charged with rolling a boulevard stop Edward Thomas 24 119 1 Elm St was cited for failing to have a driver's license An accident at Moran and Sin clair Sts at 7 Wednesday also resulted in citation of both drivers involved Buddy Willoughby 23 Stead Air Base and Albert Alegre 18 1030 Lander St were both charged with speeding Young Alegre was also charged with fail ure to grant right of way our persons were hurt three seriously in traffic acci dents yesterday Police cited five motorists and arrested a sixth as result of mishaps yesterday and Wednesday after noon Three year old Linda Cavakis 647 Valley Road suffered a fractured leg and lacerated head when she was struck by an automobile yesterday morning near her home The little girl daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Cavakis was admitted to Washoe Medical Center for 4 treatment Witnesses said the youngster and her two brothers had been watch ing a street excavation project near their home and were crossing the street when the accicfcnt occurred An automobile halted for the two boys the driver failing to see Linda who had stayed behind her bro thers The car then drove by ahd Linda apparently ran into lhe path of the vehicle following driven by Mrs Chanslor 825 Valley Road Mrs Chanslor was not cited The accident happened shortly be fore noon Two Go To Hospital Two people were hospitalized and a third less seriously hurt in a colli sion at Stewart and Sinclair Sts at 9:10 a Dorothy Ball 250 Airport Road received a fracture of the collar bone and Ida Mae I ver 601 Walker Ave suffered a broken ankle and bruises Ken 38 755 Aitken St was treated for cuts and bruises Police said the taxicab driven by with Mrs her as passen ger collided with the vehicle driven by Dlrs Ball O'Boyle was 1403 Virginia I 22 Weil fOpen Sunday) Comm Row SOUTH VIRGINIA STORE OPEN SUNDAYS AND JULY 4TH Harold Brewster Jack Pot Club Elko Walter II Bell Jack Pot Club Henderson Carl Ravenscraft Liberty Club Games Ely Bruce Gandy Merry Go Round Bar Reno Herbert and Eunice Kime Pair Dice Inn Nevada Idaho line on US 93 slot machines only Wade Stevens 15 per cent interest Railroad Pass Casino Las Vegas William Miller three per cent Hotel Sahara I as Vegas George II Smith 90 per cent and Bert Cochran ten per cent Sky Harbor Lake Tahoe Romado Benedetti and Ken Cald well 50 per cent each the Stag Reno Bruce Stanfield Airport Lodge Ely Browne Dawkins Brownies Card Room Hawthorne Thorvvald A Jensen Bamboo Hut Gardnerville Giovanni Sciacca Bodie Mike's Branding Iron games Reno Peter Picrsanti Cactus Pete's Inn Contact slot machines only rank Dodge Eagle Club Mina Mona Strauch and Harry Ra mirez 50 per cent each Enrico's games Carson City subject to fingerprint clearance Robert Peccole and Paul Wilson Embassy Club North Las Vegas Harold Mar Mar Yeong and William Kee El Rio Tavern Ias Vegas John Jo'seph Utz John Gut man Martin McClain Joseph William Liska and John Iwvis Waddell Golden Nugget keno Las Vegas Andrew ata Saratoga Race Book Las Vegas Marvin Weiss Sierra Lodge Ca sino Iake Tahoe Paul Gang and Abe Kroloff Shamrock Hotel Las Vegas James Purvis Hammonds Wal dorf Reno John Uriarte White ront Bar Mountain City Applications Deferred Action upon these applications was deferred: Milton Stevens 19 per cent Ho tel Last rontier Las Vegas the commission ordered the present operators to dissolve a voting trust which operates the hotel because it was felt this had been used to conceal undisclosed inter ests although a legal technicality was probably involved Morris Kleinman Ruby Kolod Dalitz Bernie Rothkopf Cor nelius Jones George Rosen Wil liam riday Joseph and Roy Earl Showboat Ias Vegas deferred because applicants failed to appear for a hearing which requested These applications were denied: Belle Nordheim Oasis Club Searchlight Ernest Sandquist Searchlight Casino Searchlight BANANA NUT LAYER CAKES Ac $1 10 Made with resh Bananas PecansOU OZ I Juvenile crime decreased some what last month according to sta tistics compiled by the Reno police juvenile department Thirty boys and four girls got Into trouble during June Of these 28 were first offenders and 28 were charged with minor infractions of the law There 129 cases in volving youngsters reported to po lice last month During June of 1953 the juvenile cases numbered 158 and 54 young sters were taken into custody So far this year 129 cases is the lowest number of juvenile difficulties on record for a single month The number of arrests has varied by month from 33 to 53 Iarge majority of the juveniles were in lheir middle teens police said Only one youngster in trouble was 12 three wore 13 three 14 four 15 twelve 16 ten 17 and one 18 Eighteen of the 31 were from out of town police noted Offenses listed included nine traffic violations four petty lar cenies one malicious mischief 13 runaways one unclassified misde meanor three burglaries and three automobile thefts Three young sters were second offenders two were in custody for a third time and one was arrested for more than the seventh time Twenty five cases were trans ferred to other departments and action was suspended in the other nine instances STARTS TUESDAY JULY 6 8:30 ire at Tahoe Started by Boy Teri Years Old 29 Drivers Pay S224 for Their Various Errors Public Recreation Area In Reno Bowl Served every Sunday from 9 a to 3 pm in the beautiful Top Talent Being Signed Up at Rapid Rate as Big Contest Nears ive Motorists Cited and One Arrested As Result of Accidents 3 5145 1511 4TH ST RENO 24 Hour Service at Plant Bring the family Buffet Style a Wide Variety of ine oods Traffic accidents during June in Reno totalled second from the highest for any month this yeaiv However they were still below the total for June of 1953 and traffic safety record is still better for the first six months of 1954 than it was for the same period last year To date this year there have been '398 accidents 28 injuries and two fatalities In the first six months of 1953 there had been 437 accidents 51 injuries and two deaths Last fatality was a pe destrian The earlier death this year in ebruary resulted from a single car accident a passenger having been fatally injured as the vehicle overturned There were 81 driver violations resulting from the 72 accidents in Reno last month ailure to grant right of way speeding and drunken driving were listed as the most pre valent accident causes Of the 136 drivers involved in crashes 88 were Reno residents The accidents involved 116 passenger cars 12 trucks seven taxicabs and one motorscooter Seventy six of the 136 drivers were doing less than 20 miles an hour when the crash occurred The hours when the largest num ber of accidents happened were those from 2 to 4 pm and the most accidents occurred on Wednesdays Safest hours with no crashes reported at all were from midnight to 1 am and 3 to 4 pm riday was the day on which the least crashes occurred Car Hits Power Pole Driver Is Uninjured WEATHER High 84 low 40 TODAY: air slightly warmer great keyboard virtuoso in a brilliantiy2hour sparkling I over with melody and song Suspect Being Held or Lee Yee Murder Cowboys Bombarding Rodeo Headquarters I I 1 I I I 574 Men and 51 Women Taken Into Custody During June 13 Arrestees Were Under 19 Suspects Held In California Police at Berkeley Calif are holding a suspect in the murder here last March of elderly Lee Yee alias Lee Dodd The suspect is identified as Charles Julius Bengston 21 of Rock Island Ill who was taken into custody at Berkeley when police found him wandering the streets in a dazed con dition Bengston they told Reno officers kept repeating that he had strangled a Chinese named at Reno He is quoted as saying was stran 4 gled while he sat in his automonue a 1949 Buick and that Bengston had done the strangling with his hands Time of the alleged slaying Bengston reportedly confessed was in May and followed an argu ment about narcotics Certain aspects of alleged confession are at variance with the facts pertaining to the Lee Yee case police noted How ever there was sufficient similar ity in statements and the murder here to warrant a thorough investigation they added Strangled With Wire Mr Y'ce 75 was strangled near his home 552 'i University Ave last March 3 A piece of baling wire had been looped around his neck and twisted tight with great TAHOE CITY Calif July 1 UR) A 10 ycar old boy trying to build campfires started the blaze 'that swept across 40 to 60 acres near this Lake Tahoe resort town last night a forest service official said The ranger station at Truckee said the information was relayed to them by radio from the fire scene where mopping up op erations will continue through Sun day The ranger station said no further information was given to them about the boy Henry Toccalini forest service dispatcher said the fire broke out "just barely on the of Tahoe City but 15 mile an hour winds swept it away from the town No structures were burned and no summer homes were threatened Toccalini said crew was cut to 10 to patrol the fire line and put out the patches of fire still burning During the daylight hours today when there was a greater possibility of the fire springing up again some 75 men two bulldozers and two pumper trucks patroled the line if Business Taking Monday Holiday Man Having Trouble With DraftBoard CALL UNION ICE Twenty nine erring motorists contributed a total of $224 to city coffers following muni cipal traffic court session Three others failed to appear for hearing and warrants were issued for their arrests They arc ran cis Snook charged with failing to grant right of way Ernest Boiven charged with driving without a li cense and Richard Meyer charged with having noisy mufflers orfeiting $5 each for ignoring red traffic lights were George Kemp Charlotte Lovedav Robert Parker and Richard rey An tonia Sario paid $5 for failing to heed a traffic sign Speeding brought a $20 forfeit ure from Robert Ryan and a $10 forfeiture from Albert House On similar charges Nelson McCall paid a $10 fine and Adclbert Davis was fined $20 Ivan Young paid a $10 fine for changing lanes without due cau tion and $5 for failure to have proper registration rank Cant Ion forfeited $10 bail bn a lane changing charge ollowing too closely resulted in a $10 forfeiture from William A Lecher and a $10 fine for Ronald Wells Marie II Handzcll paid a $5 fine for improper pulling from the curb Arthur More house paid $10 for failing to grant right of way or rolling boulevard stops $5 was forfeited by Sonny Gaston Louis A Stratton Verner Scott Pastorino Louis Vannucci Primo Bugica Truman Lee Charles Sausser and Vincent Thompson Barbara Patterson paid $5 on a similar charge and $10 for failure to have a driver's license A $2 fine was assessed Leon Cobb for opening a car door into a traffic lane Theodore Shaw paid $10 fine for driving without a li cense Robert Rannaciotti for feited $5 for having noisy mufflers and William Connell paid a $2 fine for having improper vehicle registration if 1 1 Routine Offenders Heard by City Judge Eleven routine offenders were given municipal court hearings yesterday Six were charged with vagrancy four with drunkenness and one with assault Two drunks forfeited $10 bail by failing to appear The other two drunks and two vagrants were given until 4 pm to leave town or serve jail terms Balance of the offenders paid fines or be gan sentences behind bars Traffic Accidents In June Come Near to Setting New Monthly Record for 1954 One of Two ires In Reno Results In Serious Damage To Home at 415 Arroyo St Reno' police had plenty to do last month They arrested 625 574 men and 51 women during June which was about average for this time of year Twenty four of the 625 were taken into custody for seri ous crimesincluding eight burglary cases seven of larceny and nine of automobile theft Among the less serious offenders the drunks and vag rants almost tied for first place the former numbering 246 4 and lhe latter 244 A breakdown of age groups for the June arrestees revealed that 13 of the serious offenders were 18 years of age or younger Three of these youngsters were boys un der 15 two of whom were charged with burglary and one with lar ceny The largest JjnglpJ age gwup among the" men years of age and older There were 139 of them The largest age group of women arrested was from 25 to 40 years The police bureau of identification was kept busy as usual during June ingerprints were taken from 1042 persons in cluding prisoners and applicants ifteen burglary scenes and one car theft were processed for fin gerprints Twenty four traffic ac cidents and one suicide scene were photographed During June 1211 cases were reported to police headquarters an average of approximately 40 day Presented by the IRST NATIONAL BANK i NEVADA cowboys are entering the Brahma bull riding contest which already has a heavy entry list and some of those who will compete in this event have also entered other events at the rodeo rank Bogert who will an nounce the rodeo this year ar rived in Reno from Palm Springs He divides his time between an nouncing rodeos and managing the El Mirador hotel in that des ert community and be said that in rodeo circles in southern Cali fornia where he has been active in the past month the contestants were manifesting more interest than ever before in 1he Reno ro deo and that he felt confident that this entry list will be the largest in the history of the Reno show fb ft 1 i jL jB 11 I 1 1 I A i I brunch i 'fa fa fl MB A AUL I I YOUR HOST MEAT WERTHEIMER I BAKERIES A I I.