Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 1

Spring Time Spring time visitors are crowd ing into Reno for the weekend or places to go and things to do see the amuse ment section Pages 6 and 7 JSebata journal Largest Morning and Sunday Newspaper ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23 1870 Journal Amusements Pages 6 7 Classifieds Pages 12 13 14 Editorial eatures Page 4 Journal Pages 10 11 Crossword Page 6 SoclalNews Page EIGfiTY SEVENTH NO 138 PHONE A 3 4121 RENO NEVADA SATURDAY MORNING MAY 4 1957 16 PAGES TODAY 10c DAILY 15 SUNDAY ON NEWSSTANDS More irms Study Reno Industrial Plants Show Interest In Western Nevada Locations Several manufacturing firms in addition to North American Aviation Inc are interested in western Nevada as the possible location for new plants it was learned yes terday Director Lee Humphreys of the Western Nevada In dustrial Development Commission said that leather gar ment manufacturing firms cosmetic firms and road con struction machinery manufacturers have expressed terest in this region The industrial develop News Briefs LEET LONDON May 3 A Lon don newspaper reported today that at least five Russian sub marines are the 6th leet in the Mediter ranean A front paged dis patch from Beirut Lebanon said that because of Soviet subs the 6th leet developed a er to keep track of uniden tified SHIPS STEAM OUT BEIRUT Lebanon May 3 (IP) Eight ships of the 6th leet quietly steamed out of Beirut harbor late today for an undis closed destination TO MEET MOLLET PARIS May 3 Secretary of State John os ter Dulles will confer here Mon day with rench Premier Guy Mollet a government spokes man announced today PROPAGANDA DRIVE WASHINGTON May 3 Russia and Communist China have joined in a new propaganda drive aimed at stirring up trou ble between the United States and Panama over the Panama Canal American officials said today RAPS ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON May 3 (IP) ormer President Truman ac cused the Eisenhower adminis tration today of the Hells Canyon Dam site and depriving the public of the of its water potential He said it was for the administration to grant permission to the privately owned Idaho Power Co to build three low dams on the Snake River on the Idaho Oregon bor der He supported pending leg islation to build a high federal dam at Hells Canyon CATTLEMEN WRANGLE WASHINGTON May 3 Cattlemen and independent meat packers wrangled at a senate committee hearing today over a proposed shift of federal super vision of meat packers to the ederal Trade Commission The cattlemen insisted that the De partment of Agriculture should continue in control of trade prac tices in the industry BISHOP SUCCUMBS COLUMBUS Ohio May 3 (UPJ A potential requiem high mass will be sung next Wednesday for the most Rev Michael Ready 64 bishop of the Columbus Ro man Catholic diocese who died last night of a cerebral hemor rhage WEATHER irst figures indicate highest temperature during the last 24 hours second lowest yesterday morning third rain during the last 24 hours: Reno 66 27 Minneapolis St Paul 56 39 Chicago 44 38 Boise 58 42 45 Portland Ore 67 43 03 Los Angeles 76 55 Phoenix 92 57 Salt Lake City 65 45 San rancisco 70 48 Denver 71 44 09 Boston 51 37 New York 55 38 Washington 61 46 New Orleans 83 66 28 Miami 81 70 17 Precipitation Data During the last 24 hours none July 1 to date 4:26 to date last vear 1101 normal July 1 to date 609 ORECAST Reno: air slightly warmer Nevada: Same Sierra Nevada: Same Sunset today 7:55 sunrise to morrow 5:56 ment commission is working with these firms supplying information on the local area and performing local services of other kinds Options Held Earlier this week the commis sion director participated in the announcement that North Ameri can Aviation Inc had acquired options on more than 12000 acres of land on the Pyramid Lake Road The land is being tied up as the possible site of a new avia tion products testing or manufac turing center Executives of North American who were here during the week said that this region appeared to have promising prospects for future industrial development be cause' of the availability of cheap land and because of recreation facilities Detailed Study Mr office is now preparing a detailed study of fac tors relating to the industrial potential of this region The study is to be completed this month and will be printed next month Hum phreys said It will provide basic information that most manufac turers are seeking More spe cialized information is handled separately by the industrial de velopment office One feature of this area which the industrial development office is seeking to publicize is the free port law of Nevada This act per mits the storing processing and assembling of products here with out property tax when the prod ucts are in interstate commerce and destined for eventual sale outside Nevada Since many large Eastern firms have markets in California and the storage of large quan tities of goods is costly in taxes in that state the Nevada free port law has attracted consider able attention in recent years Mr Humphreys said that since the 1957 legislature proposed a constitutional amendment which would place the free port provi sion in the constitution its posi tion is strengthened Although it will be at least three years be fore the proposed amendment will be effective the fact that the amendment has been endorsed by the legislature is encouraging to potential Nevada manufacturers and warehousing operations Humphreys said Nevada Atomic Drill Days Set Marine and Army troops will conduct field maneuvers this summer during two tower shots of Operation Plumbob at the Ne vada atomic test site The Atomic Energy Commis sion and the Department of De fense announced that 2500 irst Division Marines from Camp Pen dleton Calif will conduct a exercise June 25 when the AEC has sched uled a tower shot About 2100 army men from Sill Okla and the Sixth Army Headquarters on the West Coast will take part in a move ment Aug 19 during an tower opera tion Peddlers of ilth Accused by Hoover WASHINGTON May 3 BI Director Edgar Hoover charged today that of obscene literature are contributing to the rising rate of sex crimes would be naive to assume that no relation between the mounting deluge of such filth and the increase in sex Hoover declared He said the rate of persons in volved in sex offenses excluding rape and prostitution rose from 385 per 100000 population in 1S53 to 475 per 100000 in 1956 The BI chief blamed public apathy for the reaped by the ped of movies cards books photographs and other pornographic devices Lower Court Gaining Writs Termed Error Hicks Jones Retain Thunderbird Game Licenses By ROBERT PETRINI United Press Staff Correspondent The Nevada supreme court in Carson City yesterday ruled the state tax 'commission was wrong in suspending the gambling li censes held by Marion Hicks and Clifford Jones in the Thunderbird Hotel on the Las Vegas strip At the same time however the high court held District Judge Merwyn Brown of Winnemuc ca committed error when he granted the Thunderbird licen sees an injunction against the tax commission The injunction permitted the gambling casino to reinain in operation dur ing the long legal maneuvering which followed The tax commission ordered the Thunderbird license suspended on April 25 1955 and Hicks and Jones subsequently obtained the injunction Brown sitting in Las Vegas district court granted the injunction in December 1955 The tax commission appeal to ruling was argued before the su preme court last March 29 Insufficient Evidence 29 page decision noted there was insufficient evidence to support the major charges filed against Hicks and Jones by the tax commission The charges al leged eastern gamblers had been allowed to hold secret interests in the Thunderbird casino In handing down the long awaited decision the supreme court held there shall be no in junction issued against a tax com mission order pending review of the case It also held there shall be no new evidence concerning suitability of licensees submitted during a district court trial of a revocation order The high court held Brown also had committed error in receiving new evidence to that considered by the tax commission during its license revocation hearing Review of Evidence It said the court review of tax commission ruling must confine itself to the record of evidence taken before the commission Both Jones a former Nevada lieutenant governor and Hicks had been charged with concealing a $160000 loan by gambler George Sadlo in which another gambling figure Jake Lansky also had par ticipated The court held the loan did not constitute a participating inter est in the gambling operation but was instead money used in the hotel operation The court said under this arrange ment the loan was not reportable under tax commission rules and regulations The high court added it was not up to the district courts to fix standards of determining suita bility of gambling licenses say ing this was an administrative responsibility of the tax commis sion The decision was written by Justice Charles Merrill and concurred in by Chief Justice Mil ton Badt and Justice Edgar Eather Ex Guatemala Chief Goes to Uruguay MONTEVIDEO Uruguay May 3 (UR) Jacobo Arbenz former pro Communist president of Gua temala has been granted permis sion to come to Uruguay as a po litical refugee it was announced today Arbenz believed to be in Switz erland was overthrown in June 1954 by an anti Communist revo lution led by Lt Col Carlos Cas tillo Armas present chief execu tive of Guatemala Crew of Schooner Rescued in Ordeal MONTREAL May 3 A 19 hour ordeal at sea ended in rescue for nine crew members of a fishing schooner which sank last night off the south coast of ewf oundland The Canadian freighter nagh picked up the crew men from open dories this after noon and later transferred them to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police boat for their return to Newfoundland 2 Masked Gunmen Rob Atlanta Bank ATLANTA May 3 Two masked gunmen drove up to the drive in windows of a branch bank on busy Peachtree St: here today and robbed four tellers of $19253 The men fled in a late model car with an Illinois license but abandoned it a short time after the holdup rightened Hubby Vanishes Wife Sues for Divorce SAN RANCISCO May 3 A blonde night club host ess testified today that on the day she was married her hus band told her and fled That was three years ago she said and her husband lorencio Martinez 24 been back since Superior Judge Ben Curler commented under stand and granted Sherrwin Martinez 21 an annulment GOP Platform ight Asked Western Republican Leaders Meet WASHINGTON May 3 President Eisenhower today urged Western Republicans to re group their forces behind the 1956 GOP platform in their 1958 battle to regain control of Con gress He said in so doing they will be practicing kind of Repub licanism that in this day repre sents the best interest of our party and our The President spoke by tele phone to a regional conference in Salt Lake City of Republican leaders from 10 Western states Eisenhower made these points: The best chance for a party victory in the 1958 congressional elections lies in the of what he has called (In his speech today the Pres ident did not actually use the phrase which has been criticized by some conservative members of the party But he seemed to leave no doubt what he meant when he referred to the 1956 GOP platform as basic state ment of our beliefs in the kind of government we need in this year of 1956 platform consti tuted a solemn pledge to the American people that GOP workers ought to fight for He said the voters expect the plat form to be carried out There is point in try ing to gloss over suf fered in the West in 1956 The time has come to group our forces and make a vigorous start to correct the situation next party member that is giving his full strength to the support of the 1956 Republican platform is in my opinion prac ticing the kind of Republicanism that in this day represents the best interest of our party and of the people of our The President said that in 1956 the Republican percentage of the vote dropped in seven Western states under the 1952 percentage and went up only in Arizona New Mexico and Utah He said the most disturbing factor was the share of the total vote for Congress in the West which dropped from 55 per cent in 1952 to 49 per cent in 1956 Eisenhower said the Western Republicans need to know why their section showed a trend counter to the rest ot the nation and what can be done about it Playwright Trial Scheduled June 3 WASHINGTON May 3 ederal District Judge Bolitha Laws today refused to postpone the contempt trial of Arthur Mil ler author playwright and hus band of Marilyn Monroe The trial is set for June 3 One of attorneys Lloyd Garrison of New York told Laws that a decision in a parallel case involving Illinois labor leader John Watkins is expected from the Supreme Court by June 3 Both Miller and Watkins re fused to identify for the House committee on un American activ ities persons they had known in the past who had been Commu nists Suspect in Slaying Waives Extradition MUSKEGON Mich May 3 (UR) Charles icher 44 the in the slaying of Evanston Ill Boy Scout Peter Gorham 12 has waived extradi tion to Michigan Muskegon county Sheriff Arthur Davis said today Davis said he received a tele gram from Yuma county Ariz Sheriff Newman stating icher had signed extradition pa pers permitting his removal to Muskegon on a warrant charging him with sodomy PRICE UPPED BALTIMORE Md May 3 (UR) The Baltimore News Post and the Baltimore Sun today an nounced a five cent increase in price of their Sunday editions to 20 cents effective this Sunday Ike Suffers Double Blow rom House lood Insurance Bill unds Turned Down By Committee WASHINGTON May" 3 President Eisenhower suffered a double defeat in the House today The appropriations committee voted 19 to 14 to deny his request for 50 million dollars to start a new federal program of flood in surance And the agriculture committee turned down his plea for author ity to barter surplus farm prod ucts to Soviet satellite nations The appropriations group meet ing behind closed doors affirmed findings by a subcommittee that the flood insur ance program was indefinite and It recommended that the flood indemnity agency use $325000 already on hand to develop a plan The action was taken in approv ing a $79840788 supplemental money bill to finance a variety of government agencies and func tions for the rest of the fiscal year ending next June 30 The agriculture committee ap proved a bill to extend until June 30 1958 the $1300000000 program for disposing of surplus foods abroad But it eliminated a provision asked by Eisenhower to authorize barter of some of the foodstuffs behind the Iron Curtain The Senate has passed such a bill Committee Chairman Harold Cooley (D NC) said a com promise might be negotiated to permit bartering with all Com munist countries except Russia Red China Outer Mongolia North Vietnam and North Korea Other congressional Develop ments GOVERNMENT Senate subcommittee investiga ing a Civil Aeronautics Board in formation leak postponed its scheduled hearing out of respect to Sen Joseph McCarthy Mc Carthy who died unexpectedly last night was senior Republican member of the subcommittee The Senate rark ets committee received a tele gram from President David McDonald of the United Steel workers advising that his union would any investiga and cooperate fully His telegrain said is no cor ruption in our and its officers have to POULTRY The House agri culture committee approved a bill making mandatory federal inspec tion of all poultry which is shipped across state lines The controls would be similar to those in ef fect in meat packing for the past 51 years HIGHWAYS Chairman Den nis Chavez (D NM) said his public works committee has re ports on some in the sale of highway rights of way in Indiana and an investiga tion may even more seri ous The group yes terday appointed a subcommittee headed by Sen' Albert Gore (D Tenn) to conduct the inquiry NATO Cautioned On Arms Outlook BONN Germany May 3 Secretary of State John oster Dulles warned the Atlantic Alli ance today against about prospects of a disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union A reliable diplomatic source said Dulles delivered his warning as the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization Council plunged into a secret discussion of the disar mament negotiations now going on in the United Nations subcom mittee in London The sources said he was backed in this warning by Italian oreign Minister Gaetano Martino McCarthy uneral Planned in Senate WASHINGTON May 3 uneral services for Sen Joseph McCarthy will be held at 11 am Monday in the Senate cham ber where he rose to fame and later was condemned by his col leagues The Senate services will be preceded by Catholic mass at 9 am EDT at St Matthew's Ca thedral where McCarthy was married in 1953 The Senate will meet briefly at noon Monday and adjourn out of respect for McCarthy A committee of senators will accompany the body from the Senate chamber to Appleton Wis leaving at 2 pm EDT Mon day Burial will be in Appleton at noon Tuesday Union Chief Posts 5 k000 Hearing Set BRITISH TEST VEHICLE IN ACTION "I 'S I These photos show the launching of the British electric test vehicle a rocket designed for the conduct of practical aerody namic investigation It is accelerated to high speed flight by of the wrap around variety The top picture shows the vehicle in flight over a base in England with the in place around the body The bottom photo shows the falling away after their job is done The sustainer motor is now operating as shown by the tail of the black smoke from the exhaust (International) Border Clash lares Anew Nicaragua Honduras On War ooting MANAGUA Nicaragua May 3 (IP) Nicaragua and Honduras shifted to wartime footings today and rushed troops to key points on their common border There was no formal declara tion of war by either country But the situation was becoming more critical by the moment des pite pleas by the Organization of American States and the government for a cease fire pend ing a peaceful settlement of the centuries old border dispute The OAS was forming a five nation committee to rush to Central America on a fact find ing mission Reports from Tegucigalpa Honduras said the fighting had spread from Mocoron in the dis puted territory near the Carib bean Coast to Las Manos a Western border post about 80 miles from the Pacific Ocean Informed sources here said some 20000 Nicaraguan troops were converging on the border supported by Naval and Air forces (A Tegucigalpa dispatch said large Nicaraguan troop concen trations in the vicinity of El Espino a border settlement about 65 miles from the Pacific Coast indicated fighting might break out there momentarily (The dispatch said Honduran Infantry units were being rushed to the area) Nicaraguan Armed orces chief Gen Anastasio Somoza announced last night that his troops re captured Mocoron yes terday less than 18 hours after Honduran forces took it from a Nicaraguan patrol A civil defense committee for Managua was formed last night to ready the capital for possible air raids 5 HONOR EDITOR COLUMBUS Mo May 3 (UR) Riley Allen editor of the Honolulu Star Bulletin will ac cept the Missouri School of Jour annual honor award for service in journal ism for 75 years of service to the Hawaiian for his news paper Bomber Hits Power Lines Electricity Cut Off In San rancisco SAN RANCISCO May 3 UR) A Navy attack bomber hit two 220000 volt high tension lines 30 miles southeast of here today cutting off most power to the San rancisco bay area for 30 min utes The plane from the Alameda Naval Air Station across the bay from San rancisco landed safe ly The power failure stalled ele vators and trolleys put radio and television stations off the air and cut off traffic signals to create a major noontime traffic jam in downtown San rancisco It also touched off fire alarms up and down the San rancisco peninsula 16 in San rancisco alone In Palo Alto home of Stanford University the sudden power shut down blew up an electrically controlled cleaning plant boiler But there were no injuries and damage was confined to a con crete building housing the boiler The severed lines were San main power artery More Towns Hit By Texas loods DALLAS Tex May 3 New cloudbursts totaling up to six inches of rain in less than six hours sent the water rolling into at least four Texas towns today and raised the immediate threat of another serious flood along the Brazos River The town of Dennis southeast of Mineral Wells was flooded out for the second time since Sunday Water lapped into Iredell 65 miles northwest of Waco where six inches of rain had fallen since 6 a and where it was still raining Mineral Wells west of ort Worth had a local flood ive feet of water cut the highway be tween Mineral Wells and Graford Low sections of Iredell were flood ed and a highway blocked i Beck Retains New Attorney or Next Quiz Conspiracy Charged As 4 Witnesses Disappear WASHINGTON May 3 Teamster President Dave Beck surrendered voluntarily to the marshal today and posted $5000 bond on federal income tax evasion charges Arraignment was set for May 13 Beck was indicted yesterday in Tacoma Wash on charges of evading payment of $56420 due in federal taxes for 1950 In another Teamster case ed eral District Judge John Sirica refused to dismiss a contempt of Congress indictment against rank Brewster of Seattle' union vice president and head of its Western Conference who re fused to answer questions last January before the Senate inves tigating subcommittee trial will begin May 20 and is expected to last two days Beck and his attorney Gerard Treanor of Washington appeared briefly before ederal District Judge Edward Curran here this morning Then they went to the office where Treanor posted a check from the American Security and Trust Co ingerprints Taken The bond is for appear ance either here or in Tacoma Curran set the bond in place of Commissioner James Splain who is ill In answer to ques tions as to what was going on Beck said: say one word about it because I know no more about it than you do Beck was fingerprinted and otherwise processed in the office before his court appearance In the courtroom Beck and his attorney sat in the empty jury box for some time while Curran took care of numerous routine criminal cases of persons who were to be sentenced The portly Teamsters chief wore dark glasses but appeared in fairly good spirits He laughed occasionally in conversation with Treanor while the two were en gaged in the business of posting the bond Double Trouble Beck already is in trouble with the Senate rackets committee and AL CIO officials on charges that he converted Teamster union funds to his own use Teamsters union sources said Beck has retained Edward Ben nett Williams prominent local attorney as his personal lawyer to represent him before the Sen ate committee next Wednesday Williams also is attorney to Teamsters Vice President James Hoffa who has been indicted on charges of bribery in connec tion with the Senate investiga tion 4 WITNESSES STILL SOUGHT WASHINGTON May 3 Rackets committee chairman John McClellan (D Ark) to day charged that a is thwarting his investigators from finding four witnesses to testify against Teamster Presi dent Dave Beck committee a been looking for the witnesses for several weeks to question them about some of finan cial activities Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy has said the committee wants to ask the four including Dave Beck Jr and two relatives of Mrs Beck among other things whether they were fronts for Beck in a plot to take profits from his own union The rackets committee has called Beck for further quizzing next Wednesday on charges he took $320000 in union funds for his own use Beck cited possible income tax troubles last month as reason for refusing to answer committee questions at his 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