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Reno, Nevada BENO, NEVADA, FBIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1934 7Sc a Month by Cairlar (6.00 a Tear by PRICE FIVE CENTS 350 WAR VETS FOOD POISON Long Mobilizes National Guard To Enforce Law NEVADA RAMBLER By NICK BOURNE OARSON CITY, Sept. K. Oolcord, 95, Governor of Nevada from 1891 to '95, wouldn't want to be governor, for next four years. But it's not 'because he couldn't handle the job! The near centennarian opened the door of his house when I rang the 'bell.

I didn't have to raise my voice when I introduced myself to him. He grasped my hand with the vigor of a man of 40 and showed me into the living room. Mr. Colcord produced a box of cigars, gave me one, the end off his and sat back in his chair, without glasses, to talk things over. I don't think I'd enjoy being governor now: there's too much of a mixture of parties these days.

At present there is a great shortage great national leaders and a still greater a of Republican leaders," the patriarch said. He blamed 'the primary election law for what he termed the poor crop of candidates. "I would kill the primary law," he said, taking a long pull at the cigar. "We, old- fashioned cbnVentioh, no commonplace man can be a candidate. We'd get a better crop of candidates that way.

"Conventions are opposed because same claim that only a small group picks the candidates that way. But that's not the Way they work out. In the primary system, anybody can run for office, whether anybody asks him to or not. "We would get men above the ordinary by the convention system." Strike Mediation Refused Governor has been a staunch Republican ever since the National Republican party was organized in 1856. When he was 17 years old, Mr.

Colcord was 200 miles at sea on a ship when General John C. Fremont was the first Republican candidate for president. He voted for Fremont in a straw ballot taken aboard ship. He voted twice for Lincoln and has Republican for every president and governor since he be- ibecame of age. Governor Colcord was born in Searsport, Maine, April 25, 1839.

He was apprenticed the shipbuilding trade when he was 14 and came to California when he was 17. He traveled over the old Emigrant (Continued on Page 10) U. S. Spends Billion In 2-Month Period WASHINGTON, Sept. government has spent (more than $1,000,000,000 July 1.

It took in $553,550,119. Therefore, for the lirst two montns of this fiscal year; the government is $459,422 dn the red. Newspapermen walked into the office of Secretary of Treasury 'Henry Morgenthau, today and asked him what he was going to do about it. said he didn't know. Pelicans Answer Call For Dinner in Big Way CORCORAN, Calit, Sept.

caused streams and lakes to dwindle throughout Tulaa-e lake basin, leaving dead on the mudbanks. Huge flocks of pelicans coid seagulls arriving from the coast, 80 miles distant, perched on power lines, torofces several, suspended electric pumping operations, added to effects of the drouth. DISCUSS REFINANCING WASHINGTON, Sept. 6--(UP) -Plans for $1,724,000,000 of government obligations next week were discussed today at a meeting of federal reserve 'board governors which lasted until early-tonight. Cavalry Is Called Out to Invade New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, Sept.

6-(UP)--National guardsmen began mobilizing all over Louisiana tonight, reportedly to invade New Orleans and enforce martial law for Senator Huey P. Long in his fight with city officials. The 108th cavalry was called out at Jennings, 100 strong. Reliable reports said the detachment would 'board a 1 a. on.

train Friday for New Orleans. Fifty-seven men from company 1, 57th infantry were mobilized at Baton Rouge, awaiting orders to move. At Monroe, 129 men from three national guard units were assembled under arms, -ready to leave town GENERAL DISORDER NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 6-(UP)--Louisiana's political strife reached a climax of general disorder -tonight, with New Orleans battling its existence against the dictatorship of Senator Huey P. Long.

H-uey threatened to abolish municipal government and place the city under -general martial law. Troops already are here, guarding the Kingf-ish's hand-picked committee of legislators who are investigating vice and gambling conditions with a view of ousting city officials. Virtual Dictatorship Gov. O. K.

Allen, -Huey's puppet, rushed here from Baton Rouge. Louisiana becomes a virtual dic- tator.ship at ncen Friday, when 26 new -laws go into effect, throwing election machinery and police au- 1 thority into Huey's hands. The city is preparing for a -battle at the polls during the congressional primary next Tuesday. An army ol i election day officers is allotted the I Kingfish in one -of the new laws. i The city, ruled by Mayor T.

S. -Wamsley's political organization, announced -in its court -petition that it would "defend its rights by force of arms if necessary and imprison any state -police sent here -to interfere with -the election." 10 KILLED IN BLOODY DISORDERS Labor Leaders and Bosses Turn 'Cold Shoulder to F. D. Board Sept. leaders and textile industrialists turned a cold shoulder tonight toward the named by Roosevelt to mediate the strike in which 10 men have been killed and two score wounded.

Francis J. Gorman, national strike leader, announced his group would not act upon any proposals by the board until every textile mill throughout the nation had closed. The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, which represents 9,000,000 of the 11,000,00 spindles in New England, indicated it would battle any attempt by a third party to impose a plan of settlement for the walkout. 10 KILLED ATLANTA, Sept. 6--(UP)-Bloody warfare marked efforts of textile strikers to increase their ranks in the South -today.

Gun battles left a total of ten dead as flying squadrons of strike pickets continued their drive to close every textile mill in Dixie. The death list seven in South Carolina and -three Georgia. National guardsmen were mobilized quickly and dispatched to (Continued on Page 2) Menjous on Honeymoon Textile Mediator May Decline His Services WOMAN IS SENTENCED TO DEATH 'Diamond Lil' Guilty Of Murder Of Cripple For Insurance COOPERSTOWiN, Sept. 6-(UP)--Mrs. Eva Coo, plump and middle-aged proprietor of a country roadhouse, was convicted tonight of a charge of having murdered Harry Wright, who served as handyman at her resort.

She was found guilty of first de murder and must die in the electric chair at Sing Sing. A jury of farmers took less than 50 in Dangerous Condition After Meal at Sawtelle Ex-Soldiers Collapse on Grounds of Southern California Home; Meat Supply Probed SAWTELLE, Sept. by food more than 350 war veterans at the national military home here were placed under hospital care tonight. Physicians said 50 of the veterans were in a dangerous condition Jt'li and that at least 100 more men wore expected to apply for treatment before morning. First victims of the illness were noon-day meal served to 2,000 men' in a dining hall.

Men began collapsing on the grounds of the home and in -barracks. Within a -few hours the government hospital was filled to overflowing and emergency hospitals were established elsewhere on the reservation. Confusion swept reported a few hours after the four hours to find Kfte small town I th grounds as ambulances began ar- JAPAN ALTERS NAVAL SCHEME Changes In Armament To Favor Island Empire, Is Keport TOKYO, Friday, Sept. cabinet today approved a new naval scheme calling for changes armaments assertedly in favor of Japan that will be placed before conferees of major powers at London. of the plan were not announced.

A foreign office spokesman reiterated a previous statement that in event the powers accepted the scheme, "no question of termination of the present Washington treaty will arise." NEW YORK, Sept. 6--(UP)-Raymond V. Ingersoll, borough president of Brooklyn, may decline to serve on President Roosevelt's -board of inquiry, named to investi- -gate the textile strike, it was earned tonight. Ingersoll has not accepted the appointment as yet. Friends pointed out tha he is independently wealthy and that he feels, since the people of Brooklyn elected him jorough president, he should de; vote 'his time to that office.

Adolphe Menjou, famous screen star, and his equally famous bride, Veree Teasdale, blonde actress, are pictured enjoying the last days of their honeymoon in Yos-emite Valley, Cal. They were, married in Los Angeles August-25 at a quiet' ceremony. The couple is pictured on -the Ahwahnee Hotel golf course. The marriage was Menjou's third and Mrs. Menjou's second.

BOSSES RESIST STRIKE PEACE Guard Is Expected to Curb Strike Activities RALEIGH, N. Sept. 6--(UP) --Mobilization of the national guard throughout the state tonight was expected to curb to a great extent" actions of "flying squadron" pickets who have been. harassing workers who wished to continue at their jobs. Adjutant General J.

Van B. Metts continued dispatching guard units to various textile cities in the state. 'Questions Between And Is Edict SHIPBUILDERS' SIDY TOLD War Vessel Concern Put Three Bills Through Congress 'Diamond Lil" guilty. Bets on Verdict The state, in its final plea, had asked that she be either convicted of first degree murder or acquitted. "Little Eva" sat in a room directly beneath that occupied by the jurors while they were deciding she should die.

She chatted amiably with reporters. bet -you $2 I'll be acquitted," she said, and laid the money out on a table. Mrs. Coo had been given the 52 a -few minutes earlier 'by reporters, had bet her that the jury WQJUld. verdict wijhin two hoiuvs.

Insurance Plot Motive After sentence had been passed on MK. Coo, Mrs. Martha Clift, charged jointly with the crime, pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to serve 20 years to life. Mrs. Craft turned state's evidence against Mrs.

Coo. Mrs. Clift worked as a hostess in the Coo road- i house. 1 The state charged that was killed one night last June when Mrs. Coo struck him on the head with a mallet and Mrs.

Clift ran an automobile back and forth, over his body'. motive, it was charged, wan to collect -the crippled derelict's life insurance. riving and nurses rushed to aid the stricken. Food Analyzed. Eight staff doctors were reinforced iby 14 hastily summoned in- ternes and extra nurses answered the call of Col.

James Mattison, chief medical officer. The most serious cases were those of veterans first became ill. Col. John A. Hadley, commandant of the military home, immediately ordered a chemical analysis of the food served to the men.

The menu consisted of (boiled ham, canned corn, fresh tomatoes, turnips and a flavored gelatine-dessert. Ham May Be Clue. Dr. Mattison said a preliminary MAN COMMITS SUICIDE AT RENOOTEL Mystery Shrouds Deed Of Visitor Mystery surrounds the suicide of a man last night in a Virginia street hotel. He checked into the hotel yesterday, giving the name of C.

H. Baker. He evidently spent some time playing solitaire dn his room, then wrote-a-note and fired one shot into his head from a 32-cali- 1J1. IVlaULUJUil OalU I examination showed the corn, to- her gun at 9.20 p.m. matoes, turnips and gelatine were not tainted.

It was determined, he said, that apparently all the stricken men had eaten the ham. Chemists at the government hospital will test the food while other samples will -be sent to the county health department laboratories. The home's meat supply is contracted for by the month, according to Dr. Mattison. Strike Mediator Flies Sept.

John G. Winant of New (Hampshire, chairman of the dent's Aboard for mediating the naV tional textile strike, was tflying to Washington late today to open board -meetings in the capital tomorrow morning. BOSTON, Sept. will resist any attempt on the part of a third party to impose a plan for settlement of he national textile stritf', the Naional Association of Cotton Manufacturers indicated in a statement tonight. Secretary -Russell T.

Fisher disclosed the attitude of the association, which represents 9,000,000 of the 11,000,000 spindles in New England, when he said: "Mill executives make no attempt to conceal their feeling" that any questions of wages and conditions of employment which may arise future are matters to be -handled between employer and. em- ploye." ELECTION MISTAKE Key Pittman Learns of Error After Smoke of Battle Clears LaBatt Kidnap Hideout Is Found in Ontario The big of the primary campaign was discovered yesterday. The error-will not alter the results of the election, but did change the general scenic effect surrounding the head of the senior senator. Key Pittman wore some other person's hat during the campaign. The situation was discovered yesterday when a hat was delivered to the senator.

The hat the Initials, K.P. Pittman examined, then, the hat he has been wearing and discovered that it was not his hat. The presumption is that Senator Pittman and some other person accidentally exchanged hats at one of the many meetings which the former has attended the last month. Pittman did not discover the mistake, but the other person did, and sent the senator's hat back to him. If the other; principal in the swap will communicate" with James White, Pittman's secretary, he will get the hat which the senator wore in his successful campaign.

WASHINGTON, Sept. Washington representative of a war ship concern reported to his superior officers in 1929 that he got three bills through congress and helped elect two members of the house rules committee, the senate munitions investigators revealed today. The concern is the Electric Boat of Ohroton, Conn. S. J.

Joyner, vice-president and Washington representative of the firm, wrote to.Henry R. -Carse, president of the concern, that "it is a pleasure, indeed, to report to you that all our-legislative efforts have borne fruit." He'named Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Massachusetts, assistant republican floor leader, and Former Representative Franklin Fort, republican, New Jersey, as the two men whose campaigns he had conducted. Aluminum Strike Is Brought to Conclusion -PITTSBTJRG, Sept.

6--(UP)--The strike of 8,700 employes of the -Mellon-controlled aluminum company of America was brought to a conclusion today under an agreement signed by company officials and the aluminum workers council. Under che settlement, which was reached after a day an da night of conferences, the workers in the company's six plants will be back at their jobs Friday. They have been on strike nearly a month. plants involved are at New Kensington, Arnold and Logan's Ferry, Alcoa, Massena, N. and -Bast St.

Louis, 111. TORONTO, Sept. 6--(UP) --The hideout where John Labatt, wealthy Ontario brewer, was held toy a kidnap gang. three weeks ago, has been located in the' Muskoka lakes district, it was reported here today, Labatt, who was released by his aibductors after relatives had re- pontedly a was (held -in a small frame cottage ten miles from Bracebridge, it was understood. SENTENCE COMMUTED VIENNA, Austria, Sept.

6--(UP) --A death sentence against Max 'Hoelzel, 28, a policeman, convicted on charges of high treason in connection with the July 25 putsch, GUNMEN KILL NEWSPAPERMAN Mimuiapulis Editor Shot To Death As He Drives Car Sept. -Howard Guili'ord, former editor of the Saturday Press, was killed by gunmen tonight while driving toward his home. He had been editor of a number sensationa weeklies in the Twin Cities during the past 20 years. He had been attacked once befor while publisher of the Twin Citj Reporter, weekly whose suppression under the Minnesota "gag" law carried to the United States su preme court and resulted in th law 'being held unconstitutional. The note, addressed to the po- lics, read, "There isn't anybody that you can notify about my death.

So just put me out in 'the "Potter's field." Hjowever, police today will renew their efforts to identify Bakr. Fingerprints will be taken. The suicide was about 32 years ld, 5 feet inches tall, and weighed between 140 and 150 pounds. He was exceptionally well jressed. In his room Police Chief Kirkley and Coroner August Froh- ich found jewelry, a watch, a picture signed "From Sis" and with an Oakland photographer's seal on and various articles of clothing.

He bad light hair and blue eyes. So money was found. Hotel em- ployes said that Baiter had contacted a man known to them, only as Jim, and police last night were seeking to determine the home and family connections of Baker. 'LIBERTY LEAGUE' CAMPAIGN WASHINGTON, Sept. 6--(UP) -The Liberty League tonight fired iU The Man Pays Twice Much for Speed ENDURANCE FLIGHT FAILS EAST ST.

LOUIS, HI, Sept. fourth attempt of two Texas girls to break the women's endurance flight record ended today when bad weather forced Mary Owens and Jean. La land their "Lone Star" 'after -nearly-33 hours in the air. wTs" life "imprisonment first broadside to swing the nei deal to the right. PALO ALTO, Calif-, Sept.

man pays twice as much as the woman in Palo Alto's traffic count. Jean'Muir, 22, Hollywood actress, mailed in a check for $25 for speeding 74 miles on hour in a 45 mile an hour zone on Uay.sh.ore highway. Charles Crocker, 30, sent in a check for $50 for 78 miles KING GEORGE HAS COLD BRAEMAR, Scotland, -Sept. George, suffering from a slight cold, refrained from attending the famous annual highland games'here-today. TEARS OF BLOOD Young Woman Weeps Red Stream; Medics Puzzled Over Freak Case KANSAS CITY, Sept.

A young woman who weeps tears of real blood baffled a coups of here tonight. -About 10 cubic centimeters of tolood issues from the of Mrs. Eula Santa Maria, '28, once each day, usually in the evening. Ice packs and medicine stop the flow, but it occurs again the next day. Prominent physicians who have' examined the patient admit they know neither the cause nor the cure for the malady.

They said the case was the first in their experience and search of medical revealed no similar Mrs. Santa Maria entered general hospital August 22. She said, the bleeding from the eyes began aibout six months ago. At flrst her eyes bled only every three or four days. Headaches accompany the flow.

Blood and coagulation tests have established that the blood is of a normal constituency. The patient is highly nervous but pulse, respiration and temperature are normal. FIRST ARTESIAN WELL IN FERA Diggers" Tap Good Supply Near Fallen; More Under Way The first artesian well under the FERA drought relief program has been dug in the Stillwatcr -district, near Fallen, Frank Upman, PERA administrator for the state of Nevada, announced yesterday. E. R.

Sheehy.is handling developing in this district, 1 and six other wells are being dug. Out of this number Sheeny anticipates that either two or three will be artesian wells. Upman said that he believed the development of such flowing wells was the basis of' a great potential water supply, and he thought it possible that private, concerns, seeing what was accomplished the would take-iff the project and a lasting benefit would thus toe Wallace White, head of thWork division of the FERA, has left for an inspection trip of the central and southern parts of the state. He confer with those in charge of lief work in the various counties, giving advice and assistance wherever possible and whenever it is requested..