Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 1

It's True That the Man Who Halts on Third Base to Congratulate Himself Rarely Makes; a Home Run GOOD MORNING The Weather Today Will Ftlr Yetierday: High 91 Lew il Full Details cm Page 7. SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR NO. 225. ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23, 1870 RENO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939 MEMBER OP THE UNITED PRE88 ASSOCIATIONS 12 Pagei Today McCARRAN HALTS RELIEF ACT Townsend Club Sues Founder Kentucky Unit Says $3,000,000 Collected; Sheridan Downey Lauds Movement INDIANAPOLIS, June Francis E. Townsend, head of the pension movement bearing his name, late Thursday was served with a summons ordering him to appear in circuit court here Sept.

5 in connection with an injunction suit filed by the Covington, Townsend Club. Sheriffs deputies served the summons Townsend appeared at the Cadle Tabernacle for national convention of the pension movement. Others named i-n the injunction suit are Townsend's 4-son Robert; Paul S. Chase, an or- GOOD MORNING Lock Your Car, Folks Car Active Local Hole-in-One? Rock Street Bridge By JACK RUTLEDGE CAR PROWLERS ARE active in Reno these days, and police urge auto owners to please keep i machines locked while parked down town. It's not a crime wave or a i like that, hut officers are on the lookout for persons who burglarized at least two cars Wednesday night.

Miss Betty Potts. 1045 Riverside Drive, lost an ermine coat valued at a SI.000 when a i was broken to gain entrance into her car parked on Island Avenue. And James Doud lost a camera from his car, which was sitting a at 539 a i i a Avenue. The a i to IOCK cars may seem a i when you remember a the prowler broke the window of Miss Potts' car to get the ermine coat, but in i cases out of ten a locked car i discourage the would-be thief, especially if the car "Wi on a well- a street. A twist of the wrist may save you a lot of trouble, so when you a your car.

lock 11. THAT hole-in- one a a It had an amusing local a a A gentleman was a i his young son play with a set of toy in i front yard directly across from Reno's i i a golf course. Two friends drove up. and the conversation turned to hole-in-one a a I a cinch." belittled the first- i a "I've never had a golf club in my a but I bet I could make a hole-in-one if I i long enough." One of his friends, who hap- pened to be a golf fiend, came i back i the retort a the party-of-the-first-part couldn't even stand in his front yard and place a golf ball on the green 8 yards a a He gave terrific odds, about 5.000 to I. or something i a He was immediately called-three times.

So the gentlemen ganization manager, and L. W. Jeffrey, national vice president of the Townsend plan movement. The suit charges that the Townsend plan has collected nearly $3,000,000 from supporters during the past five years and a Dr. Townsend and his son own all the stock in the nat-onal organization.

It alleges that Townsend and his son have collected as much as $3250 a share in dividends on the $100 par value stock Adoption of the Townsend old age pension plan would reduce "excess profits." i a stag- a money and restore prosperity, Senator Sheridan Downey, told 12,000 Townsendites Thursday. Downey predicted a congress soon would adopt pension plan. Opposition to it, he said, "is crumbling before the forward march of this organization." Dr. Frances E. Townsend.

founder and leader of the plan, predicted that the United States some day will be governed by people over 60 who receive the $200-s- month pension he advocates. He told the convention he "despised partyism" and attacked both Republicans and Democrats for their failure to support the Townsend movement. 150 Russ Planes Clash With Japs ARE REPULSED IN MONGOLIA, SAYSREPORT U. British Double Naval Forces In Swatow LOS ANGELES, June The Japanese i a Thursday i received a Domei News Agency dispatch Tsingking, a stating that 150 i a i Russian army planes had been repulsed by Japanese squadrons in a mass air duel in Outer Mongolia. Forty of the Russian planes were shot down and five of the 18 Japanese planes which met them were lost, the dispatch said.

QUENTIN FELONS EUDINGPOLICE Trail of Violence Left WIRE CLAIMS VICTIM TIENTSIN, Friday, June 23. (U.R)--The electrified wire barricade set up by the Japanese around the British concession today had claimed its first victim--a Chinese. The man, dressed as a coolie, apparently received a deadly jolt of electricity sometime during the night while attempting leave the concession. Aged Gunman Holds Up Bank Near Reno With $5000 in Plumas; Reno Cops on Lookout A sharp lookout was being kept in Reno Thursday nighl by police officers for the elderly man who held up and robbed a bank at Greenville, Thursday at noon. Officers believed the man might have headed for the Nevada line, inasmuch as Greenville is only about 80 miles northwest of Reno.

Behind Good Morning--P. 8. Col. 3) Secret Meet Windsor and a i Dine Thursday The encounter occurred Thursday near the town of KanjVirubeigo, objective of the Soviet force, the dispatch stated. According to the communication, the mass duel followed a raid Monday by 40 Russian planes on four othertowns in the same area.

Domei credited a a army report as the source of its information. 'The report stated a the commander of the Japanese squadrons, Captain Morinto, failed to return from the air battle and apparently was killed. border earlier bombed by Soviet flyers were said to be Halonarushan, Kan- gura, Kyoanukuro and Haruha. GREENVILLE, Plumas County, June (U.R)-- The search for an elderly a who obtained $5000 in a a i a here Thursday shifted Thursday i to the i country after he a a escaped from a willow grove in which he had been Sheriff's deputies blocked the only three a i roads by i escape was possible after a posse of "nearly the whole town" of several hundred people had held a ring around the grove since the robbery at noon. Gunman Escapes The grove was searched just before i a and officers admitted the a "had given the slip." However, they found about $900 of the $5000 he had taken scattered through the trees.

Armed i a frontier-type "six-shooter," the robber i the i I i a Valley Bank at noon Thursday and forced the cashier, Mrs. Cecelia a a i and two other employes into the a Then he scooped up $5000 in currency and silver and fled into a i patch on the i of this little Sierra Nevada town. Mrs. Chamberlain sounded an alarm from the a prison. i i the general store of the holdup.

Deputy Sheriff Del Herring then rounded up a posse and trailed the robber i the thicketed area. 100-TON 16-INCH GUN LATEST COAST DEFENSE UNIT Coast defenses in the region of San Francisco Bay were strengthened recently with the arrival of one of the world's largest and most modern weapons, a 100-ton, 16-inch long gun. It has an accurate firing range of 28 miles, will fire a 2,000 pound projectile. One of the twin weapons a king up the Townsey Battery at Fort Cronkhite, guardian of the Golden Gate's north shore, it is shown being unloaded from flat cars which transported it from the Waterville Arsenal in Maryland. New Coaching Staff for Nevada University Named JAMES AIKEN HEAD COACH Schuhardt Appointed Grid Assistant PARIS.

Duke and June (U.Pi-- The Duchess of Windsor dined Thursday night at the German embassy in sach secrecy that German Amassador Count Johannes von Welczeck refused even to publish the usual list of guests. It was Windsor's first direct contact with high Nazi leaders since his reported intervention with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler a year ago on behalf of Baron Louis de Rothschild, then a prisoner of the German secret police in Vienna. Despite the unusual secrecy attacked to Thursday night's dinner, Cameramen lurked outside the embassy gates and set off their flash bulbs as the Duchess entered, wearing a gown of white and rubies, emeralds and diamonds i i and wristf. her throat Ephriam Richards OAKLAND, OJ.RJ The trail of two fugitive convicts who escaped Tuesday from a Trinity county twistai through prison the San camp Francisco Bay area Thursday, leaving a wake of robberies and sluggings. While more than 100 police worked methodically through a section of West Oakland where they believed the men might have "holed up," reports from other areas indicated the desperadoes, James O'Connell, 33, and E.

W. Richards, 24, might be elsewhere. Both serving terms in San Quentin for burglary in Los Angeles, escaped from the prison road camp in Trinity county, seizing a guard at a gunpoint. Since then they have stolen five cars, staged at least two holdups, kid- naped two men and threatened another in a flight that already has covered half the state. He's a Stranger The a i was described as a "stranger in town," of medium OTHER WARSHIPS TO GO TO SWATOW SHANGHAI, Friday, (U.R)--The United States and Great i Britain today doubled their a a height, red-faced and a i forces in the Japanese-conquered a brown suit and black cap.

He port of Sw.atow in defiance i had no automobile and presumably planned to make his getaway in the i wilds. Greenville is in the high Sierra, approximately 80 miles' northwest of Reno. Greenville was preparing for a celebration Friday, "Gold Diggers Festival," and the a employes were not surprised when the bandit entered the bank, i i he was one of the townsmen togged out in "gun-toting western style." (See U. S. Ignores--Page 8, Col.

1) Rotary Elects Walter D. Head New National Chief CLEVELAND. June Walter D. Head, headmaster of Montclair, N. Academy, Thursday night was elected president of Rotary International to succeed George C.

Hager, Chicago lawyer and builder. Head received 1837 votes to 1221 for Dr. Amos O. Squire of Ossining. N.

Y. The election followed an earlier contest in which Head received 1887 votes, Squire 1307 and Richard C. Hedke, Detroit manufacturer, 765. Delegates decided on a second ballot because Head lacked the required majority. Hedke was dropped from the second race.

S. F. Strike Plan Refused Thursday SAN FRANCISCO, June (U.R)--A new peace plan was turned down Thursday night in the deadlock between waterfront employers and dock clerks which has closed the ports of San Francisco and Oakland to general cargo movements for seven days. The proposal was rejected by the San Francisco Waterfront Employers after it had been accepted by the Ship Clerks Association, a i of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. A new era in i i of a a a i history--one in which the local state i i i may regain former sports glory-was begun a i the a i of a complete new a of coaches.

James A i 39, of A i i Ohio, is the new director of a i i more personal power and less chance of i a a Nevada leader has had in a a year. His assistants i be Charles Schur- a of Ohio Northern, head basketball coach and a helper in football, and James Bailey of Fallon. new freshman for Nevada U. Named Thursday The appointments were made Thursday, the created board of a i control at University of Nevada simmered huge field of 85 candidates down to their three choices at 2 a. a meeting almost nightly for several weeks.

i a i of the trio of appointments was received Thursday afternoon and then made public by the board. Creation of the new coaching staff completes a revolutionary i i the sports set-up at University of Nevada promises a smooth-working a i which may put the Wolf Pack up on the athletic map. New Setup Following several startling developments which broke after a revolt of the U. N. gridders last fall, the board of regents an- 5o You Think WPA Men Don't Work? Well, Here Is Proof They're Good NEW YORK, June Listen, you who get a belly laugh out of such wheezes as "That a i no statue, that's a WPA Leo Man Civic Ehrenreich his buddies are i a party Friday for more a 100 WPA workers who are a i i i their job of i i the a i street of Forest Hills.

"They arc just a best workers we a ever seen," said i "They stop work a woman a down the street. of these cracks. whisles. 1 a seen a man lean on a shovel since the whole i started." Soap Box Derby for Reno Boys Is Planned; July Date Will Be Set Promising a load of fun for Reno youngsters, and an opportunity to enter the Pacific coast run-off later in the month, a Soap Box Derby will be held in Reno during July. The derby will be conducted under the joint sponsorship of the Durham Chevrolet Company and The Nevada State Journal, and a definite date for the event wil' be announced soon.

Complete plans for the event are now being drawn up. All Reno boys interested in entering are asked to register at the Durham Chevrolet Company. Complete instructions as to type of racers and other qualifications will be given at the company office. The winner of the local contest will receive a trip to San Francisco and a chance to enter in the Pacific coast run-off, according to the present plans. ROYAL PARTY RETURNS HOME London Crowd Hails Pair Thursday (See Aiken--Page 6, Col.

1) Soviets Again Reject British Compromise MOSCOW, June viet Premier and Foreign Com- misar Viacheslav M. Molotov Thursday night was understood to have rejected Great Britain's latest compromise formula for a united "peace front." Molotov conferred at the Kremlin for 25 minutes with British Ambassador Sir William Seeds, French Ambassador Paul Emile Naggier and William Strang, special emissary of the British foreign office. SUICIDE VERDICT WINNEMUCCA, June coroner's jury found late Thursday that Jack Beigerren, Imlay barber, died from a bullet wound, self-inflicted wim suicidal intent," Officers believed that ill-health caused the action. LONDON. i and queen came home a from the biggest selling job in history, i and a bit tired, to receive a welcome from proud Britons i "well done, king" Along the royal routes in a and in London there were almost as a A i a a as British packs.

From the poor of Lambeth to the peers in Westminster Palace the subjects of George VI and Queen Elizabeth welcomed their sovereigns home both because of i affection and because they were convinced the couple had clinched the i i of America. The Archbishop of Canterbury put into succinct words the general feeling when he said in the house of lords: "Their visit to the United States gave warmth and reality to latent friendship at the most critical moment in the history of the two peoples." The first thing the i did after receiving the welcoming cheers of London was to receive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Buckinham Palace to report on his tour and to get late information on the European and Far Eastern situations. FILIBUSTER TO CONTINUE, HE TELLS SENATE Leader of Silver Bloc Warns He Will Stay Firm --Senate passage of the $1.735.000.000 relief i before 30. end of i a year, was im- perilled a a when Sena Pata McCan-an. Nev leader of the silver bloc i i i a i i a measure, a he would block a to lay aside a i a i McC'arran stated i i a Hie senate to rhr mone- a i i a shunted asirir for several to passage of new tax i Tile relief measure, approved by house, vs before a a appro- i a i i a a ers had hoped to i it up i week.

To Be i Funds F'ailui'p to pass the-' moasurr before mean a I Works Progress A i i a i a i hp i to a I a i 1. i of the HMO fiscal a At a press conference i a Secretary ot the Treasury i expressed concern over thp a of a a a a a i are a i a meet I emc-rcency a 'would Hi'isf if it is not en- LOR ANGELES, --A a a operator, a a also a ping i i a misrophonr prov(t-d by the house, strapped across her chest, i cn President Roosevelt's a I described to a "shock proof" of six men and six women Thursday two sex orgies she said the Rev. Joe Jeffers and his i Zella. staged i a a a i at i home. i A loud speaker system carried a i a i a to every corner of the a I room where the pastor of the i Church" and his i are on i a charged i morals a read his Bible and Mrs.

wept as Miss Morgan told of acc i i i a i i me, and being greeted the first, i by Mrs. Jeffers in the Unspeakable Acts Thp witness described a series a a acts she said Hie couple indulged in i she look- ed on. Miss Morgan said when she to the Jeffprs' home, she was introduced to a "Mr. Casey, a prominent Hollywood a i SEX TRIAL IS 'BROADCAST Witnesses Speak Into Microphones a a i powers I snd i 82.0(10.0(1(1.0(1(1 gold a i i a i i trie samr a period. The present law i 1 lie-so powers is scheduled to expire 1 'M.

The i blue, composed of western senators, it- i i i the a a a i a 'legis- a i a in an to raise a prices pf i a i silver frun present 6 4 i 4 a i level to 77.3 cents and $5.27. The a reportedly is i i to i the price. One Vote Enougft Since a i is for i a i i can lv set a i to a a for (See i R. Col. 2.) Nazi Accused 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 1 vi i I I rt i i I 1 writer," who a out to Hlllld Leader HI I By Fraud.

be i i i an i i at tor for district office who was assigned to i i gate preacher's asserted a i semetism and a reputed arson plot. A a i were i and again a i red book" was passed she said. The a adjourned to bedroom, where she took off only her shoes "because my feet hurt," Higgins remained clad except for his coat and vest, and the Jefferses stripped down to the skin, Miss Morgan i She alelged the orgy of i i ionism th. followed between the couple was suddenly ended by Higgins i "Mahatina Ghandi." a prearranged signal that brought other investigators storming into the a a Bund, was deprived of his can i i i a Thursd War Department Funds Approved WASHINGTON, June --The house Thursday approved and sent to the senate President Roosevelt's request for $292,000,000 in supplemental war department funds to purchase 2290 new combat planes in 1940, reversing Wednesday's action which had cut by more than half the proposed number fighting craft. California Convict Nabbed by Civilians FOLSOM PRISON, June Bills, 23-year- old Los Angeles convict who fled from a Folsom prison farm work gang Thursday morning, was captured Thursday night by two civilians, The civilians, Claude Nettles and Donald Johnson, both of the town of Folsom, were a i near the prison when they saw a man in convict clothes hiding in a ditch.

They were carrying a shotgun and onu of them covered Bills i the other telephoned for guards. LOS A I 2 2 Hernia Max i west coast i of the a A i a A i day fol- i a federal a i at which he was accused of a i i a a i a i papers by a U. S. District Ralph Jenney revoked dapper Bund leader's i i i at the request of the. U.

S. i i i Specific a a a i i falsely i i as to of a i i a residence when he was a a i on 22, 1332. Schwinn has in which to appeal, i i i he cannot he deported. If his appeal a i he i be asked to return to his a i Germany. Girl Admits Using Funds of Lover NEW YORK, June (U.R'-- i i a Schrein, charged with using for her own purposes $60.000 to S200.000 which belonged to a i Beck, theatrical producer, testified in tears Thursday that for seven years she had been his mistress.

She had repulsed his attentions, she said, before her marriage to Beck's nephew, Bertram Schrein, but after she had been married about a year she yielcsed..