Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 2

THURSDAY OCTOBER 21 1954 NEVADA STATE JOURNAL RENO NEVADA PAGE TWO Democrats Now Criticizing Sample EuXhBl 04 hnnrc Ballots Issued in Douglas County TO ALAN BIBLE in CHlIlfS BUCKET! TONIGHT IN THE BEAUTIUL MAPES SKYROOM HOWDY OLKS YOUR WHO'LL CAPTURE Dean 2ND MYSTERY HIT xNEVADA WORLD NEVADA CLUB 224 North Virginia CREST THE CinemaScopE NEVADA'S LARGEST HOTEL GRANADA MAJESTIC TOWER iTHE SPARKS Joseph COTTEN Jean PETERS Gary MERRILL tr ft Theft Investigators ind Slot Machine Double Trouble At Lake Almanor Russell Vs Pittman Race Is Nip and Tuck MARES SKYROOM At 1:00 3:20 5:45 8:10 10:35 Continental Buffet Luncheon all you wish to eat $175 THE COMEDIAN 1954 STARTS RIDAY Mature Hayward AND THE GLADIATORS" tn th wonder cl 4 TucL HgH idelity DrrectiofljV STEREOPHONIC SOUND COEE SHOP Excellent food and service ijilaidt America's most decorative and fastest rising vocal trio ACE ENTERTAINERS QUITE A JOKER JACK ALL UN? YOU'LL LAUGH RACTURE YOUR LARYNX! STARTS TOMORROW! THE WATERRONT" Starring Marlon Brando CONT ROM 1 PM ENDS TONIGHT Cliff Jones Controversy Is Resulting In Swing Toward Republicans Page rom Record Courier ails to Satisfy temperature during last 21 nours second lowest yesterday morning Lansky notorious underworld fig ures held secret interests in the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas in which Jones holds an 11 per cent interest This action also has become a hot political issue along with the charges and countercharges made by Pittman Russell and others in connection with the Sun allega tions The tax commission will hold the first series of hearings on the Thunderbird charges next Tuesday Jones Weiner and Marion Hicks owner of 51 per cent of the Thun derbird stock have all indicated they will attend the hearings as Russell requested Political observers are in agree ment that developments at the Oct Starling riday NEW SHOW I Ona Our Home Dancing Cocktails DINNERS from $200 Children Welcome (Their Plate $100) BLARNEY CASTLE Virginia Road Ph 3 5097 INE BEVERAGES EXCELLENT OOD and THE CLOCK ENTERTAINMENT CATERING TO PARTICULAR PEOPLE WHO WANT TRADITIONAL CHINESE AT THE MOST REASONABLE PRICES ORDERS TO TAKE HOME OUR SPECIALTY HOURS: 5 PM TO 3 MONDAY 246 LAKE STREET CLOSED EVERY MONDAY A BLUEPRINT TERRACE RESTAURANT and Cocktail Lounge OPEN 24 HOURS LATE DANCING and entertainment rom 11 PM except Tues CIHemaScoP SIMMONS VICTOR MATURE GENE TIERNEY MICHAEL WILDING BELLA DARVI PETER USTINOV and EDMUND PURDOM as The LISTEN TONIGHT Print by TECHNICOLOR nil SCO RADIO PICTURES INC of the Cited Rooster" Cartoon Show at 7:00 PM Campbell featured with the MAPES Double trouble showed up at the Lake Almanor summer home of William A Shaw Oakland resident this week home was burglarized a crime for which a pair of hitch hiking juveniles were arrested and held at Quine Calif Officers investigating the burg lary discovered a slot machine in a bedroom of the Shaw home Shaw himself is accordingly facing charges of illegally' possessing gam ing equipment The youths taken into custody are said to have confessed escaping from a detention home in Salt Ikc City after being detained there for hitch hiking Stealing an automo bile in the Utah city the pair aban doned the vehicle near Elko and went on their hitch hiking way which took them to the Lake Alamanor vicinity Breaking into the Shaw home the pair downed two bottles of cham pagne used motor boat for a pleasure cruise of the lake feast ed on food supply and then battered $835 from the slot ma chine with a hatchet A tree gets 90 per cent of its food from the atmosphere and less than 10 per cent from the soil SPORTSMAN'S BAR DANCING RI and SAT NIGHTS Sportsman's Trio POPULAR 602 SPARKS PHONE 5 9982 0 WEBB PROP 9:35 PM KOLO 9:55 PM KOH IM Pol Ade Gales Open 6:30 Show Time 7 PM Last Times Tonight At Our Regular Prices Due to Length of Show On Screen at 8:34 PM Only RENO'S NEWEST AND INEST CHINESE RESTAURANT wut KELLY SIDNEY BLACKMER Last Times Today Male Screen at 7:19 9:28 Continuous rom 1 PM NOW The Dazzling True Life Story of Our Greatest Living Athlete! BOB MATHIAS STORY" 1:05 4:00 7:10 10:10 PM Robert Stack IRON 2:30 5:30 8:35 PM PLUS Cartoon "Do or Diet" World News SNttn ZMWOri MORE AMAZING THAWSEAL ISIAKO VALLEY Walt Disney presents A TRUE LIE A0VENTU8E Haiti Death Toll Between 150 200 PORT AU PRINCE Oct 20 UPJ An American Red Cross official said today he believes the final death toll from Hurricane Hazel will be between 150 and 200 per sons in Haiti Howard Cross chief of Red Cross operations here said he expects the injured to reach 1200 Humboldt River Plans Approved By UNITED PRESS Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay yesterday approved the form of repayment contract through which the Bureau of Recla mation will loan funds to the Pershing County Water Conserva tion District for rehabilitation work on the Humboldt project The contract is not to exceed $123000 The work includes replacement of the Upper Slavin diversion dam across the Humboldt Paver and channel improvements to carry river water to project lands ine Humboldt irrigable area comprises about 40000 acres the vicinity of Lovelock and Pershing county of which about 30000 acres are irrigated annually The repayment contract still must be approved by chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate and House interior commit tees ENDS TONIGHT Judy Holliday Peter Lawford SHOULD HAPPEN TO At 7:00 and 9:55 PM 2ND EATURE Helen Walker Ross Elliott GIRLS" At 8:40 PM RENO SPARKS ROAD TONIGHT HEVmLMANTS "THE HIGH mighty CIMEmaScoPEI I WARNERCOLOR I I STEREOPHONICSOUNl 2 IT 5 Time TO SAY WHOS GUC2ST THE OAy Pat Brocken A new book by Marquand is always greeted with en thusiasm by the public irst in the Journal his new est novel "Sincerely Willis Read how a mod ern executive climb to suc cess affected his childhood sweetheart his wife and family Begin it in the No vember Home Jour nal Now on all newsstands JONNP MARQUANDS great new novel 1J fWnn font "'laiJten tra on November 2 However the picture changed swiftly following publication by the Las Vegas Sun ten days ago of the first of a series of copy righted articles linking Lt Gov Cliff Jones a Democrat with alleged corruption in southern Ne vada gambling affairs Jones was named Democratic national committeeman only ten days earlier The Sun articles alleged that Jones and his law partner Louis Weiner were involved in a plot to replace present members of the state tax commission with men who would open the doors to any and all gamblers if Pittman were to be elected governor The Sun said however that there was no evidence that Pittman knew of any such agreement Jones Denies Jones immediately denied the Sun charges and Pittman said in a statement issued at Winnemucca that he had made no commitments to anyone concerning the tax com mission membership or anything else involving gambling control Pittman described the al legations as reprehensible and said he felt his record as chairman of the tax commission during the six years he served as governor before Russell defeated him for reelection in 1950 spoke for itself Russell meanwhile asked the tax commission to investigate the Sun charges that Meyer and Jake Bv ROBERT BENNYHO United Press Staff Correspondent The general election contest for governor on Niovembei 2 has turned into a nip and tuck battie Russell the Republican incumbent and Vail Pittman his weeks ago most political observers were agreed that Pittman held a commanding lead jn the lace in what had all the earmarks of a Democratic swing at the polls This time the Douglas county branch of the party found themselves in more political hot water yesterday On Tuesday Ormsby county Republicans found them selves on the political broiler when they announced plans to have Dr rank Berry assistant secretary of defense make a major speech on the capital steps in Carson City during the Admission Day celebration on October 30 They beat a hasty retreat wnen Carson City Democrats made a heated protest i Yesterday two Douglas county Democrats seeking legislative of fice complained the county office in Minden occupied by Re publican Hans Jepson had been handing out as official sample ballots for th? November 2 elec tion pages 5 and (3 of next ri Gardnerville Record Courier The newspaper is edited by John Suverkrup son of Art Suverkrup executive assistant to Gov Charles Russell rank Chase Democratic candi date for Douglas single seat in the assembly said he vent to the county office in NTin den shortly before noon yesterday and requested three sample ballots What Chase said he was handed was this: Page 5 of the Record Courier to be published riday morning Oct 22 bearing a lengthy story sum marizing the forthcoming election headlined electors will cast long ballot heavy vote fore The story was printed on the left side and above a sample Douglas county ballot The election story discussed the various national state and local contests and said in part: the three inter party contests the Republicans are almost shoo ins ew observers give Democrats Henry Byers and rank Chase any chance of upsetting Senator red Settelmcyer and Assemblyman Henry Berrum (both Republi cans) two widely known and high ly respected men who have consid erable seniority in the state legis lature and did outstanding jobs in the 1953 On the opposite side of this page appear the words 6 The Rec ord Courier Gardnerville Nevada riday morning October 22 195 Below this appears 1he list of reg istered voters for the November 2 general election Chase who publishes a weekly newspaper at Lake Tahoe declared care what the newspaper says about me but when it is passed out as election propaganda on a sample ballot I like it I think this is a new low in political con niving between a county clerk and a newspaper Chase said that Section 47 of the general election law reads in part: county clerk shall cause to be printed on plain white paper without water mark or endorse ment except the words at least one half as many copies of the form of ballot provided for use in each precinct as there shall be registered voters in anv election precinct or to any elector calling in his office or to both at liis discretion Chase said he was studying Sec tion 59 of the general election law which reads in part as follows: person who by force threats menaces bribery or any Unxkwz JoHts NOW SHOWING CONT ROM 1:10 5 TIMES DAILY V35 3:45 5:55 8:00 10:10 iarAINE ROBERT! JOHN CLAIRE ATn 1MI IREVOR OAY 5iACK STIRLING HARRIS NEWWN BRIAN CAST IRST STREET PHONE 3 3515 corrupt means either directly or indirectly attempts to influence any elector in giving his vote or to deter him from giving the same or attempts by any means to awe restrain hinder or disturb any elector in the free exercise of the right of suffrage shall be guilty of a felony punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years or by both such fine and imprisonment Byers said he went into the county clerk's office about 2 pm and asked for both a list of regis tered voters and sample ballots He said he was given the same printed sheet Chase received plus plain sample ballots which com plied with the statutes Byers said he did not feel the list of registered voters should be provided in the form of two pages of the Gardnerville newspaper con taining among other things a story about the forthcoming election con taining opinions as to iLs outcome we are interested Byers said in just letting the people know what is going on in Douglas Hit Run Crash Reported Here Report of an early morning hit and run crash was filed with Reno police yesterday by Mrs William Carano of 1264 Virginia St oper ator of the Reno rozen ood Locker According to the report a truck owned by the frozen food firm was struck and damaged by another vehicle before 5:30 a yesterday No description of the other vehicle was available yesterday tktLoJu STARLETS A moso lanois PRODUCTION AHI CLIORD AKO HIS OftCHtSTSA at Dinner I JOYCE from vocalist 53 ou i 2 Show I Nitely 9 4 12 II Late II Show I I Sat I Reno Minneapolis St Paul Chicago Boise Ore Los Angeles Phoenix Salt Lake City San rancisco Denver Boston New York Washington New Orleans Miami 05 inch rain purini tn inn Data During last 24 hours none July 1 to date 08 to date last year normal July 1 to date 101 forecast Reno: air except for occasional high cloudiness little change in temperature Nevada: air little change in temperature Sierra Nevada: Mostly fair lit tle change in temperature Sunset today 5:13 clock sun rise tomorrow 6:16 every six minutes CHICAGO Oct 20 (U The National Safety Council opened its 42nd annual meeting today with the somber warning that accidents killed 95000 persons one every six minutes in 1953 26 hearing may have a direct bear ing upon final outcome of the Pittman Russell race a week later when the voters go to the polls Developments to date tend to in dicate that the gambling furore will have only an indirect effect upon other election contests on the Nov 2 ballot SKY WATER LODGE LAKE TAHOE NEVADA SHORE CAVE ROCK RT 50 wfAn nniiKin CIIPPCIOR ACCOMODATIONS I rnTC nr VACATIONISTS SPORTSMEN NtW a A 1 1 IhJEriDJLAAl CQfV 1 I I 5 jmAALL inrvix SEIZES EXCELLENT MEALS TEL EDGEWOOD 2541 ri rKinnnnX NEVADA RUSSELL IHATtK rroprieror THE BEST AT TAHOE STAYS OPEN 05 ja ir '111 11 I I NUGGET I 7w 1 ft I Sp A A La a kr a a II fl kV I wJT SIiro A ihL 1 tort 3k AJ 1 bRteJ JTMiTir A Jro 'WJ 1 KTOx jjSffiS a HiL Ei fl iJ Am? ft fc i WLj l2L X1 a Xll fl Kf 1 JftVXVSXVAVAWV(VW jm a ilifc I 4 1 I touk host Wud: 74 29 62 32 62 36 62 36 56 45 90 58 93 59 63 55 71 48 72 44 58 47 62 47 56 42 71 54 79 66 MAJESTIC TOWER iTiHE SPARKS Joseph COTTEN Jean PETERS Gary MERRILL.