Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 2

PAGE TWO NEVADA STATE JOURNAL RENO NEVADA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19 1955 Blakey Says 'Evil' Tax Commission Persecuted Hicks and Jones STORIES NOW PLAYING 111 $115 Plus Cinemascope Short and Tom Jerry dr Color by TECHNICOLOR PLUS 2ND CO HIT Hotel MAPES STARTS TONIGHT Every Corner of 24 hflr Coffee Shop Ample ree Parkinfl I THE PLACE TO GO PoVfill and his blue flames ONE HAPPIEST ROWAN and MARTIN Warner 6npsjoo WARNEhCOi Plus 2nd Western Hit II Golden Special No 2 fit 3 1 70 RIED CHICKEN ItHntUL Het Riiiiiifa Henav xi Plus 2 Color Cartoons GRANADA Midway TOWER SPARKS iiii Mrs Boyd Brown Succumbs Here Poached Eggs Vienna ADMIT UAMtt DONNA REED MAY WYNN PHACARYY earn hctwe Wayne crashing out of the bell of a Chinese pnson mro Bleat not oiicuirt ana nonty Crsaiti Whipped Potatoes Coffee At the Gold Bar JOE MAZZEO BB PIERCES WINDOW Mrs John Motley told police yesterday that a BB pellet had been fired through a window of her home at 803 Ralston St The BB police said was apparently fired by juveniles playing in Whitaker Park Between Show Dancing DANTE VARELA TRIO Rhumba King of the West the Mwtiny" men a pMare atMr wl Rode Wiest NEWS CARTOON Show ct 7 pm ar Kesantatioasi EDgetrood 2031 ar Reno 2 0657 By ROBERT BENNYHO United Press Staff Correspondent LAS VEGAS Nev Oct 18 CLP) The Nevada Tax efforts to oust Marion Hicks and former Lt Gov Clifford Jones from the Thunderbird Hotel casino were described today as Show Time 7:00 PM TONIGHT THE NOVELITES uneral services for Mrs Viv ian Ramsey of Susanville Calif were held Tuesday morn ing at 10 in Sierra Chapel of Walton uneral Home with Rev Arthur Thurman of the irst Methodist Church officiat ing Organ selections were played by Melba Manzo Interment fol lowed in Mountain View Ceme tery Mrs Ramsey is survived by her husband Ramsey of Susan ville a son Eugene Mench of Reno and a granddaughter Cyn thia Louise Mench of Reno 'bill CLIORD ANO HIS ORCHtlTRAeatuxinq ELAINE EVANS vocaU TONIGHT onlV A full house of fun! mg of legal gambling industry were essential for its survival but declared the Tax Commission had gone further in the Thunderbird case than the legislature had ever intended a reason for he said by unhealthy drives that I want to de He declared: people have the notion the Tax Commis sion should be given czaristic but that this would be as dangerous as no regulatory powers at all All Be this court stand be tween Hicks and Jones and the wicked arbitrary decision by the Tax Commission all be un Blakey declared 1 Reviewing the voluminous testi many in the case he contended Hicks had shown by his testi mony that upon at least two occa sions he had told Commission Secretary Robbins Cahill whom he described as Tax Commis of the fact Sadlo had loaned him approximately $200 in Nevada gambling arguing no evidence substantiating this had been produced either He noted the commission had found that the Thunderbird casino employed several gamblers who in past years had worked for various gangsters and hoodlums in states where gaming was illegal If this was and he declared a gam bling place in Nevada that is safe You learn to be a box man and a stick man in the base ment of a Sunday He accused the Tax Commis sion of to take a per fectly innocent transaction dress it up and make a sinister situation out of The commission was anxious to find something wrong with Marion Blakey added they like him It jumps out at you from these The side of the 'evil and and as consti tuting and These assertions were made by Reno Attorney Richard Blakey in final arguments on behalf of the pair at a hearing before District Judge Merwyn Brown to deter mine whether a permanent in junction should be granted block ing the proposed gambling license revocation Sadlo and Lansky Hicks and Jones are accused of failing to disclose allegedly secret interests held in the Thunderbird casino by gambler George Sadlo and hoodlum Jake Lansky and with being unsuitable persons to hold gaming permits In a lengthy argument Blakey asserted the Tax Commission had failed to produce any substantial evidence whatever showing either of the two major charges against the pair were justified dispute will be outlined Wednes day morning by randsen Loomis of Reno its legal adviser Brown said he will take the case under study indicating it will probably be at least a month be fore he will announce his decision because of a busy calendar Earlier in the day Hicks testi fied concerning various phases of the controversy He repeated his previous denials that Sadlo or Lansky ever were connected directly or indirectly with opera tion of the Thunderbird casino or received any of its profits Susanville Woman's uneral Conducted MAPES SKYLETS Dorothy Dorben Production ITZPATRICK'S AMOUS MUSIC Mrs Pearl Jessie Brown 46 died yesterday at a local hospital following a lengthy illness A native of Silver City Mrs Brown was the wife of Boyd Brown of Reno Also surviving are a daughter and son Mrs Bet ty Jean Clark and Robert Brown both of Reno two grandchildren Linda Lee and James Edward Clark of Reno two sisters and two brothers Mrs Merle Schottel of Reno Mrs Elsie Bowen of Au burn Calif Ralph Davis of Gilroy and William Davis of Reno and her stepmother Mrs Myra Davis of Pittsburg Calif uneral senices in charge of Ross Burke Co will be heldjater AUTO RECOVERED Reno police have recovered a 1954 ord sedan reported stolen from Pittsburg Calif The ve hicle was towed from a parking space where it was abandoned It will be held here for its owner Two Pictures You Should Not Miss Virginia Mayo Dnnlt Morgan In of the South Screen 7:00 1 Oil 9 PLUS of Marring Anthony Steel Sheila Sim Screen 8:5 1 WILL OSBORNE and HIS ORCHESTRA Century I presented by 1 HKST NATIONAL BANK 0T NEVADA 00 KZTV TV ROYAL WHIRLWINDS SKATERS lame and ury Pours Out of A Living Hell! 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In Cinemascope starring Howard Keel Ann Btyth Scrfttns cut 7:27943 Golden Special No I CHARCOAL (14 Eastern Steer) BROILED STEAK Baked Coff TRIO fri Sat CLARK JANE ROBERT I GABLE RUSSELL RYAN IMILIMEN THE WINE HOUSE RANCOV1CH BROS 18 East Commercial Row Phono 3 5821 He conceded control and polic 000 in 1947 and 1948 when the hotel was under construction and first opened Because of this Blakey said the Sadlo loans could not be con sidered as hidden interests be cause it was presumed Cahill would pass the information on to Hicks that he did not learn until the Tax Commission He cited other testimony by Hicks that he did not learn until January of this year that Sadlo bad given half of a $160000 loan made to Hicks to Lansky And he added there one word of showing either Sadlo or Lansky exercised any control whatever over the Thun derbird or its casino Sadlo he declared made the loans to Hicks as an individual and was eventually repaid as such Blakey said Hicks have to be an to jeopardize his huge investment in the Thunder bird by continuing to pay interest on the $160000 loan to Sadlo if he knew half of it was going to especially after the Ke fauver committee inquired in 1950 into reports Jake and Meyer Lansky were connected avith the hotel 1 He attacked the findings that Hicks and Jones were unsuitable persons to engage MAPES SKYROOM INPERSON! 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