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RENO EVENING GAZETTE SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1940 PAGE SIXTEEN CLARK OFFICIAL'S CENTRAL CONTROL Record Class Taking Pharmacy Tests in Reno I 1 1 MAN IS IN JAIL MR BEATING AT CABIN Chess Winners Named After Long Study After more than a month of studying the charts of games played in the Nevada state chess championships held here April 9 to April 13, awards for the best played game and the most brilliant game of the meet were announced today in a letter from the adjudicator, A. J. Fink of the Mechanics Institute Chess Club of San Francisco. Sotero Sarrion of Reno won the best played game prize for his chess tactics in the game during which he drew with Dr. Carl A.

Watson, who later won the title. Watson was judged to have turned in the most brilliant performance in his championship victory over C. H. Stewart of Idaho. Sarrion's award is an imported chess set donated by A.

Carlisle and Company of Nevada, and Watson won a year's subscription to the American Chess Bulletin. The chess club is continuing its weekly meetings Tuesday nights at the YMCA. raiilslELD IN TRUCK CASE Candidates from all over the United States are taking the phar board of pharmacy. The class numbers 182 and is shown here on written and laboratory examinations are being held. macy tests which started yesterday under the direction of the state he steps of the Mackay science hall at the university where the (Roy Curtis Photo) LIS LAS VEGAS, May 25 (Special) Judge Edgar Eather to-! day ruled that the Clark county grand jury had presented insufficient evidence of malfeasance to remoVe Harold H.

Stocker from the office of county commissioner. The grand jury presented evidence alleging that Stocker had used his office to sell supplies toj the county and also to rent equip- ment for road work. Stocker claimed that members of the grand jury were trying to "get even" with him because he had voted to appoint Charles L. Horsey as state senator for Clark county instead of voting for A. C.

Grant. Judge Eather in handing down his decision this morning after a two-day trial, reprimanded both Mr. and Mrs. Stocker for the part Mrs. Stocker took in selling supplies to the county.

childIen'soay The annual children's day program will be given at the First Methodist church tomorrow evening at seven-thirty o'clock. Dr. G. W. Sears, superintendent of the Sunday school, will preside.

The program to be presented is: Song, "Living for unison prayer; clarinet quartet, Helen Park, Fred Wood, Ada May Bach-man and Dorothy Reynolds; exercise by the beginners' department, Mrs. Isabelle Ward, superintendent; recitation, "This Is My Father's offertory by the orchestra, directed by Dr. Loring Williams. Play by the primary department, "The Light of the World," directed by Mrs. H.

B. Saxby; flute solo, Miss Nellie Higgins; vocal selections by Miss Dorothea Shidler's class; selection by the orchestra; hymn, "I Would Be benediction, the Rev. F. Carl Schmidt. youthTniIed AS A collision at the intersection of Mount Rose street and Arlington avenue between cars driven by Solomon Bulasky and G.

Garbarino last evening resulted in John Garbarino, young son of one of the drivers, receiving severe cuts on the face. The youth was thrown from the car from the impact. Another youth, also riding with Garbarino, was thrown from the car but was not injured. HA DEN ED PROGRAM GIVEN CAR Mrs. K.

Nagle is in a local hospital suffering from a fractured facial bone, head and face injuries and cuts on the body and a man giving the name of Joe Ray, sixty years old, is being held in the county jail on open charges pending Mrs. Nagle's recovery, according to a report from the sheriff's office this morning. Ray was arrested several hours after Mrs. Nagle was taken to the hospital last night and deputy sheriffs who made the arrest say he inflicted the injuries on Mrs. Nagle at the Ray cabin on the Truckee river, west of the city limits.

PLANS SERVICES Special services Including a demonstration by the girl guards, corps cadets and songsters of the Reno corps, will be held at the Salvation Army citadel, 315 Sierra street, tonight at 7:45 o'clock. Guests for the weekend will be Lieut. Col. and Mrs. James C.

Bell, divisional commanders for the Northern California and Nevada division of the Salvation Army, and Maj. and Mrs. Norman J. Win-terbottom, divisional young people's secretary. The semi-annual auditing inspection and rededication banquet will be held Monday.

The dinner is set for seven o'clock and will celebrate the recent renovation of the Reno citadel building. Members of the army, advisory board members and wives and special guests will be invited to the dinner, Adjt. George Engel said today. Man Is Convicted In Sparks Court A man giving the name of W. R.

Van Northwick was fined $25 in Sparks justice court yesterday by Justice of Peace Francis Cunningham on assault and battery charges. Northwick is being held in the county jail pending the payment of the fine. 90 A xe NEW SALVATION Al NEVADA REFUSES FOR AIR BASE Because of excessive costs the state of Nevada, through Gov. E. P.

Carville, has declined to make a bid for one of the eight national guard air squadron bases to be established in the nation, according to an announcement made today by Jay White, adjutant-general for Nevada. National guard officials recently sent a letter to Governor Carville asking if the state desired a national guard air base and giving the requirements necessary if such allocation should be desired. Included in the requirements are an airport with hard-surfaced runways of at least four thousand feet in length with lighting facilities and complete hangar and shop accommodations. Sufficient pilots to man the air base are also necessary, some with three hundred hours flying time, of which one hundred hours must be solo and one hundred hours in a plane -of two hundred or more horse power. In his answer Governor Carville stated that the state had no funds available to equip an airport to meet the standards and that he had no power to pledge the credit of the state.

Jobless Fraud Case Heard Here Edward G. Holland, thirty-six years old, this morning pleaded guilty to falsely obtaining unemployment compensation before Justice of Peace Harry Dunseath and was fined $50. Holland was released after he had paid the fine and an additional $71.50 which he received in compensation, plus the costs of returning him from Las Vegas. 0 Hymers Work To Be Shown At Exposition A cartoon drawn by Lewis Hy-mers, well known Nevada artist, will be hung in the press building at the San Francisco exposition on Treasure Island, it was announced here today. Cartoons from outstanding artists in the United States, Great Britain, France, Canada, Mexico and other places are being displayed in this year's exhibit.

The Hymers cartoon which will be displayed in the original drawing of the "Seen About Town" cartoon which appeared in the Reno Evening Gazette on May 18. It contained drawings of Dr. Sidney K. Morrison, James Warner, Herman Wooley, Carrol Carrington, Charles Blumberg, Morrie Wrooble, all of Reno, N. H.

Chapin of Ely and Vern Hursh of Sparks. CHuiiN IN PEACE PLEA The Episcopal churches of Reno will' join others in the United States tomorrow with a day of prayer and intercession for world peace. Designating the day as a special occasion for peace prayers, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in the United States, H. St. George Tucker sent a telegram to Rpnn vestprdav.

BishoD Thomas Jenkins issued the same call to all churches in the missionary district I of Nevada. FUNERAL IN LOS ANGELES Funeral services will be held in Los Angeles Monday for Scott L. Williams, who died here Thursday. The body was accompanied today from the O'Brien-Rogers chapel. A hearing on the application of Ivan M.

Lewis of Fallon to ex-ten the radius of his motor vehicle operations from seventy-five to one hundred fifty miles from Fallon was held at the chamber of commerce rooms yesterday by joint board No. 78, which included Warren K. Brown of California, H. R. Martin of Nevada, and F.

D. Binkle of Washington, who appeared as examiner for the interstate commerce commission. The joint board will file a recommended order with the commission at a later date. Railroads and motor vehicle operators in the area were protes-tants to the application. IN HOSPITAL Hans MacLen, owner of the Washoe Wood and Coal Yard is in the Washoe General hospital for treatment.

All kinds of specials for Memorial Day. See us for lowest prices. Lee Florist, 228 Sierra Street. adv My 25t4 ON OF GAME 10 BE Sportsmen's groups from various sections of Nevada will gather in Winnemucca tomorrow morning to discuss the initiative petition being circulated in an effort to secure central control of fish and game matters in the state. Roger Teglia of Reno, a leader of the "committee of 100," which is obtaining signatures on the petition, will preside at the sessions.

Aubrey Williams of Alturas, member of the California fish and game commission, will speak at the meeting, explaining the system used in California, which is one of state control, Teglia said. Williams is expected also to bring up the matter of interstate cooperation in fish and game matters along the Nevada-California boundary. William A. Powell, of Fallon, member of the Nevada fish and game commission, will speak on the proposed central control plan. Andy Barr, commission member from Ely, is also expected to speak at the meeting.

Teglia will open the meeting at ten o'clock tomorrow morning at the Humboldt hotel with the registration of representatives from the various sportsmen's organizations. First talk of the meeting will be given by Teglia, in which he will present the activities of the National Wildlife Federation, of which he is local representative, of the "committee of 100" and of the various Nevada sports clubs which have lent support in circulating the petition for central control in Nevada. Following luncheon, the meeting will reconvene at one o'clock for a general discussion of the proposed bill. The discussion will be halted for the showing of colored wildlife films at the Winnemucca theater at 1:30 o'clock by H. Bourland of San Francisco.

The remainder of the afternoon will be taken up with consideration of the various amendments and changes proposed for the petition by the clubs represented. The meeting will rejourn at four o'clock. IN II. S. COURT Charged with violation of the federal motor carrier act on forty-five counts, August Manke, operator of the A.

M. Manke Freight Line was arraigned in federal court this morning and given until next Saturday to answer the information filed against him in federal court yesterday. Manke is charged in operating his line between Reno and Oakland, with having given preferential freight rates, lower than the tariffs he had filed with the interstate commission. He is also charged with having operated his line from a point not on his schedule. William Woodburn, appeared as counsel for Manke at today's proceedings.

IS EXPECTED Tonight will be cooler and thunderstorms are expected over and near the mountains tonight, tomorrow, the weather bureau forecast today. Last night was the warmest of the season, with the temperature falling to a low of only fifty-five degrees. The skies will be partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow also, and a reading of seventy-six degrees early this afternoon at the airport was several degrees cooler than readings at the same hour over the past few days. Boy Is Injured In Bike Accident James Cullen, ten-year-old son of Mrs. Raymond illen of No.

10 Visalia street was slightly injured this afternoon when he struck the rear end of a truck while he was riding a bicycle. The driver of the car is not known, Reno police reported. HUTCHISON'S KENNELS Boarding and Training. Every comfort for your dog. Delivery service.

Phone 8262. 2304 Plumas Road. adv. m246 DISCUSSED 0 WEATHER AT The Reno-Sparks Indian council this week sent a letter to Don C. Foster, superintendent of the Carson Indian agency and a copy to Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior, requesting that he be replaced in his position by an Indian.

The letter was in answer to one Foster sent to Mrs. Adelle Mitchell, secretary of the Reno-Sparks Indian council criticizing the Indians for the "petty, childish, personal feelings which enter into the tribal matters" of the Indian colony. In the letter sent to Foster it was stated that the Indians wished the right of self-government and did not wish a representative of the Carson agency present at their tribal meetings. GROUP MEETS Dr. Robert A.

Peers, authority on tuberculosis, was guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Nevada state Tuberculosis Association held at Lawton's Hot Springs Wednesday night. Representatives from most of the counties and organizations of the state attended. Officers elected at the meeting to serve during the coming year are Dr. O. C.

Moulton, president; Mrs. Bea Cole, first vice-president; Dr. George A. Cann, second vice-president; Dr. H.

J. Valenta, secretary; Hugo Quilici, treasurer; Dr. Edward Hamer and Gov. E. P.

Carville, honorary vice-presidents. Funeral of Cowan Will Be in Iowa The body of Lloyd W. Cowan will be taken to Waterloo, Iowa, for funeral services and burial, the O'Brien-Rogers Company announced today. Mr. Cowan died suddenly in Reno two days ago.

He was a commercial flier from Waterloo and had been in Reno for several weeks. His sister, Mrs. Loretta Snyder, and brother, Clarence Cowan, flew to Reno from Los Angeles to make the funeral arrangements. Angelo Caprille Funeral Is Held Funeral services were held at Wadsworth this afternoon for Angelo Caprille, who died in Reno Thursday after a long illness. Father Devlin of Sparks conducted the rites at the Wadsworth community church.

Burial was in the Wadsworth cemetery under the direction of the Ross-Burke Company. Low-cost personal LOANS to salaried employees, $3 to $50. Quick Loan 3 Biltz Bldg. adv al9 t26 Aattress INDIANS OICI WANTS TRIBESMAN STEWAR 0 RO FALSE TAX RETURN IS CHARGED TO Indicted by a federal grand jury in southern California on a charge of falsifying an income tax re turn, Julius Russell of Reno was taken into custody during the week and later released on a $2500 bond. United States District Attorney Miles Pike announced late yesterday.

Prosser is scheduled to appear in court May 28 for a removal hearing, a petition for removal having been filed by federal officials in an effort to return Prosser to Los Angeles for trial. FALLON STREETS TO BE A WPA allotment of $25,042 has been approved to improve Fallon streets, with the work to include the construction of curbs and gutters, drop-in boxes and sewer lines, according to information received this afternoon from Washington. The work also includes removing old tree stumps, improving the municipal electric system by removing electric cable and relaying in conduit, to run leads to lamp standards and replacing the wire, poles, cross arms, pins and insulators. AT Dr. Edward Laird Mills will be the guest speaker tomorrow at eleven o'clock at the Methodist church, the Rev.

F. Carl Schmidt said today. Dr. Mills is editor of the Pacific edition of the Christian Advocate, religious journal. Dr.

Mills will also conduct an informal round table discussion at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow night at the church. Current problems will be dealt with in the talk and discussion period. $400 Is Added To YMCA Fund One of a series of clean-up reports in the YMCA finance drive was held last night and approximately $400 additional funds were reported raised during the the week. The weekly dinners will be held each Friday until the cam paign is concluded. Stolen Copper Wire Causes His Arrest A man giving the name of Fred Herron, twenty-one year old Negro, is being held in the county jail on charges of possessing copper cable which was stolen from the Southern Pacific Company last month.

Officers said that 114 pounds of the cable had been recovered. Hot Weather Special! Dutch Lunch with Beer 45c Or an appetizing Salad Bowl Monarch Cafe adv.myl6tl4 NO MAN IMPROVED IMS SPEAKER RENO OHM (SEW GAS RANGE with Trash Burner THEY'RE REGULAR GUYS 5k 2iJ fj' tm tmh MODEL 4122 IK They Eat Lots of CHISM ICE REAM They play hard every minute of the day I Where do they get their energy? From the foods they eat. Their mothers are careful about that. They see to it that the youngsters have an abundance of foods that provide energy that build strong bones and muscles. Of course, Chism ice cream is one of these.

It tastes delicious, and it provides the essentials to go through an active day without tiring. The youngsters like it, too. The grown-ups, serve it and watch them enjoy it I I 111 NEW BEAUTY NEW FEATURES NEW ECONOMY Formerly $199.00 SAVE $19.90 Now $179.10 (Lcnp and Clock Extra) 11 One ofxhe Greatest Values in TFedgetcood History! Small Down Payment Easy Terms Eat Ice Cream During the Day Serve as a Tasty Dessert There Is a Chism Ice Cream Dealer Near You! LET US CLEAN YOUR RUGS THE SCIENTIFIC WAY Our modern method of professional rug cleaning is the only safe cleaning thai removes all the dirt from yur rugs. Both Orientals and Domestics are cleaned with the same painstaking care. For a COMPLETE RUG SERVICE that will please you call the oldest and largest carpet and rug cleaning plant in Nevada.

We also deal in new carpet and Armstrong Linoleum. C. W. FREEMONT COMPANY LOOK FOR THIS SIGN! It's your Dealer's way of telling You He carries the Best. ENTIRELY RE-BUILT Also New Mattresses at manufacturers' prices.

Our Inner Spring Mattresses sell themselves. Let us put one on your bed. Liberal allowance for your old Mattress. RENO MATTRESS CO. 1112 East Fourth St.

Phone 5791 INCORPORATED PHONE 4193 214 SIERRA STREET PHONE 7241 656 ALAMEDA AVENUE.

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