Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 12

2 RENO EVENING GAZETTE Dec. 10, 1947 HARTFORD, ConiL. Dec 10. The Connecticut secretary of the state's office approved papers today organizing the American Ant Communist league, whose slogan is a "Free One-Way Ticket to Moscow." Fabulous Texas Millionaire Dies LONOVTEW, TU Dec 10. Rogers E.

Lacy, a fabulous Texan of a rags to riches fable, is dead. The 63-year-old multimillionaire, in failing health, died yesterday. Lacy, who left the life of a small town merchant to "wildcat," founded a fortune in the vast east Texas oil discovery of 1931 and expanded until he was considered one of the richest men in Texas at the time of his death. and navy supply bases In Oakland, the marine corps supply depot in San Francisco, the naval shipyard at Hunters Point and the navy air base at Alameda, the group said: "We believe atomic weapon could destroy them all and fur-thermore, they are so constructed that modern weapons should easily be able to reduce them to rubble." The subcommittee, which Inspected the area last September, said the armed forces should consider relocating the supply centers and eliminate duplicate facilities. Supply Centers On Bay Exposed WASHINGTON, Dec 10.

LTV A house armed services subcommittee said today that one of two atom bombs dropped in the San Francisco bay area probably would be enough to "cripple, and perhaps fatally, all American activities In the Pacific-Referring to the. location "virtually side by side" of the army fell COST OF COLDS HIGH FOR YEAR NEW YORK, Dec 10. LTV Youll probably have two colds before another year rolls around, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company said today la reporting on statistics of the common cold. Colds are a blllion-dollar-a-year pain to the American people, the company said, adding up to the following annual costs: $400,000,000 for medical treatment; $420,000,000 lost wages; 60,000,000 work days lost to industry; 1,500,000 days of discomfort and reduced efficiency. GIVEN MEDALS Army Officers Burned to Death PINE CAMP, N.

Dec. 10. UP) Three army officers assigned to "exercise snowdrop" winter maneuvers were burned to death and six others were injured early today in a fire which destroyed a two-story frame barracks at this northern New York military reservation. One officer was missing. Eight others leaped to safety frome first and second story windows of the flaming barracks.

Cause of the fire was not determined. Army authorities planned to evacuate five of the injured by plane to Murphy General hospital at Waltham, Mass. the sixth was in critical condition at the camp hospital here. Humboldt Asks Relief Division Indigents Must Appear at Meeting WINNEMUCCA, Dec. 10.

Re-Vision of the Humboldt county re-Bef roll was considered by the Co commissioners Friday en the clerk was instructed to have all indigents appear before the board at its first meeting in January. The aoDlication of Dr. G. F. ltr Mara bemm dooMa bomi Mot SM CELL-OSS fcr Add COURT'S FRIEND FACES CONVICTION AS CROWDS GROW DETROIT.

GT The nps and downs of fending families who bring their troubles to the friend of the court caused Wayne county to receive' an eviction notice from the downtown building that houses his office. The friend of the court's headquarters, said Building Manager Louis H. Schostak, is responsible for 20 per cent of the- traffic in overcrowded elevators, although the office occupies only 5 per cent of the building In spare. So the friend of the court will either have to move or work out a new arrangement by next Dec 1, Schostak said. CO fflEI PR WASHINGTON, Dec.

10. WEV-Twelve secret service aeents and Pope as county physician for 1948 at a salary of $150 was approved hr the hoard. 51 members of the Whitt House police force were decorated by President Truman with victory The army withheld identities of the officers killed pending notifica According to information re medals today for thejr service in the armed forces during the last ceived from the Nevada state welfare department, there will be 618 oases for old ase assistance in this tion of next of km. The winter maneuvers, "Exercise Snowdrop," began here Nov, war. 1 participating in the four-month session are men and officers of DOlf the famed 82nd Airborne division.

County with an estimated budget for the first six montHs in 1948. Reinhart's bid of $550 for 25 4-40 watt fluorescent lights for in- eiallarinn in thf court house Of Ninth airforce troops and troop -commana personnel, all compris ing the 505th airborne combat HOTEL SACRAMENTO fices was approved during the ses- TOO MUCH MONEY WftI TOKYO, Dec. 10. UP) Mounting lnnaiion nas so Doosted the issue of Japanese currency that the Bank of Japan is stacking bales Missing Woman Is Found Dead ROSEVILLE, Dec. 10.

UP) Authorities widened a search today' for Kenneth Allen Miller, 30-year-old Stockton bartender, wanted on a charge of slaying Lulu Mae Easley, attractive 31-year-old Stockton waitress. A blood-spattered, bulWt-mark-ed body identified as that of Miss Easley discovered by a ranch employe yesterday beside a pile of brush in a pasture about 300 yards from the heavily-traveled main highway a half mile north of Roseville. Preliminary investigation indicated three bullet wounds, two in her right cheek and one in her neck. How long she had been dead remained to be determined. She left Stockton Nov.

6. sipri. Other bidders were uyer Lumber Nelson Machinery co. and the City Electric. While meeting as a highway board, members agreed to have Commissioner E.

A. Smith and Arthur English, road foreman, inspect the Thacker pass area at the request of Cleto Bengoa. The rancher desires that the road be ohanged so that he may build a reservoir on the present route. of money in its employes' meeting room, the women dmnine room i FC3DTHAT8 I jll UNEXCELLED and hallways. Worried bank officials have ordered a new vault.

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