Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 12

journal ESTABLISHED 1870 RENO NEVADA WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 28 1953 PAGE TWELVE Billion and Half Bet rankie rost Says In State During Year Been Maligned 01800 in Reno at the arrested at one a few hours taken $100 worth of gold sped 1 the MOST RENO STORES it WILL BE YOUR HOUSE A COAT CLOSED OR NEVADA DAY 4 SATURDAY OCT 31 19 ones he ransacked find anything to to is of to a i 123 380 (Plaza) VENETIAN BLINDS TWICE DIVES SAN RANCISCO Oct 27 (UK) A 68 year old San rancisco man who twice on the operating table while in surgery for a gall bladder operation was reported well on his way to complete recov ery at Mt Zion Hospital Ave as failed to liking William Gregory detective ser geant with the Reno police depart ment will attend the fourth annual Western States Conference of Safe Burglary Investigators this week at Sacramento The conference designed to set forth the latest methods of safe burglary detection is sponsored by the California Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification THE INDIANS TELL US IT'S GOING TO Waiting her owner here after an experience that required work of both police and firemenSunday morning is a female golden cocker spaniel The little dog somehow fell into a deep excavation behind the Gold en Nugget on Virginia St Sunday Police discovered the dog and fire men got her out They took her to a veterinarian who is keeping her for several days before turning her over to the city pound The dog is full grown firemeh said and received injuries to orte leg in the 15 foot fall into the hole(l The owner may reclaim his pet by calling Reno fire depart ment DR CARL A WATSON CHIROPRACTOR American Building 2nd St Reno 3 3292 belonging to Mrs Clara Mc Ewen our of five persons charged with vagrancy were given until 4 to leave town or serve jail terms One assault case was dismissed and balance of the offenders including one vagrant and six persons charged with drunkenness paid small fines or began short sen tences 2 3434 DRAPERIES treasure Is Referred To Committee or urther Study YESTERDAY: High 68 Low 25 "TODAY: air little change in temperature the Catherine Emerson Deal With Wealthy Land Owner Is Revealed Commissioner Speaks To Delegates At Carson Meet Reno chapter No 13 Interna tional ootprint Association will meet at 7 :30 tonight to vote on pro posed new members The meeting will be the first con ducted by the peace officers busi nessmen's organization since the election of Lt rancis Quinn as president The group will also discuss dates for the national convention which will be held in Reno in 1954 The I meeting will be at the American Legion Hall Ninth and Ralston Sts L7 All liquor gaming and slot ma chine licenses in Reno were re newed without question Monday night The Reno city council voted the quarterly renewals finding the establishments in good con dition Eight new licenses were granted and three new applications were given first readings Monday Granted were the following: Bar transfer Lido Bar Walter Sander son 222 Lake St bar to cabaret Trade Winds Harry Karn 136 Center St deletion of partner Ottilio Puccinelli Oasis Bar Bill Barger 1295 Second St one rankie rost also known as rank oster yesterday blamed the Nevada tax commission for making it impossible for him to get a job in a gambling club He also said it was his belief two of the four owners of the Palace Club were the cause of most of his present diffi culties oster sought a state gambling license several weeks ago for a ten per cent interest in the Palace Club for which he Reno Bars and Casinos ound All in Good Condition houses however and all multiple residence struc will come under the con Emmons Explains 0 Policies On Endian Controls from Washington state Several marijuana cigarettes were found in his possession police said and Higmon has allegedly ad mitted being a marijuana user Asked why he committed the burglaries Higmon replied got no trade You get broke you do the only thing you know to Bouncer Blamed In Court Action Reno police detectives yesterday evening arrested Gay Higmon 25 of Gulfport Miss and apparently cleared at least five burglaries at the same time Higmon came to police attention through suspicious actions Detectives his hotel room here and walked in on him shortly before 6 pm They said Higmon hurriedly covered a box of rolled coins with a towel Contents of the box were tentatively identified as having been stolen from the Raymond Hays home 4 1001 Keele Drive earlier The Hays loot was esti mated at $115 in cash and a $50 ring Questioned? about his activities here Higmon has admitted com mitting "four or burglaries here in the last two days On pre liminary investigation last night portions of loot found in his room were identified as having come from home 2200 Peavine Road the Hays home and the homq of Steve Murray and A Kendall in Interlaken Park Higmon also identified the Williams home 933 Gear St and the home of Mrs Barengo 138 Bret Harte but his 2 3434 OR WINDOW WARE Ths Best in Reno Since 1931 BE A WINTER and told the latter the casino would lose its license unless rost was fired He claimed also Hewins had dis cussed with tax commission offi cials his proposed employment at the casino shortly after it was opened under management and that after some difficulty this had been approved although with reluctance claim nobody can influ ence rost said referring to the tax commission all this influence I know what He said he had discussed his situation with a member of the I tax commission recently and had complained about being unable to get a job in a gambling club and was told the commission do that to people in this He said he would seek to find out at his riday appearance before the commission "why they stopped me from working at the Palace Club and why they stopped me from making a 1 was willing to go down with all of them when this thing first came he said they call anybody They just listened to these stories they were He'explained the reason he with drew his license application was that it would have cost the casino $43000 to obtain a new federal slot machine license if his name had been added to the club's license "They going to put out thaj kind of money for me and I have rost said He said his attorney told him he would handle the withdrawal of his application for him but that ap parently the lawyer never ex 299 Washington Street HAVE THE BEST SHOP IN RENO' ormerly Ouned By Harold Tarnka plained to the commission the I reason for that action figured he (the lawyer) would take care of rost said guess he He added he felt the tax commis sion be fair about and should call in all the persons in volved for a thorough airing of the situation which led to his dismissal at the club including questioning of the owners he contends gave the commission certain information which led to the summoning of the operators to explain rost's activi ties in the casino like to find out myself what went rost declared He said he did not and could not plan to seek a new gambling license for the Palace Club but? that just like to have this thing set straight irst National Wanting Out Of Hill Agreement No 35 SECOND DEGREES TONIGHT 7:30 Wagon Wheel Operators Named ir Claiming he was severely injured when assaulted by the bouncer Lawrence Kaylor yes terday filed a $10000 damage suit against the operators of the Wagon Wheel Club on Commercial Row Defendants in the case are Leo Garden George Birks Donald Backus John Caruso and Henry Torrence Torrence is the accused bouncer and the other men were said to he his employers The alleged assault occurred Sep tember 5 1953 complaint said he was attacked without provo cation suffering lacerations a frac tured rib and other injuries Defective Gregory Goes to Meeting CouncilmenOet Ordiuam hr Smoke Control cn I I from several burglaries was a compli uUlX I I IN Lvw I cated task for Reno police and sher deputies last night following arrest of Gay Higmon 25 Examin ing the coins jewelry radio and other property found in room are (left to right) Sgt Tony Poloni Sgt Bill Backer Deputy Rudy Hoganson Deputy Bob Washburn Deputy Cliff Smitten and Sgt Angelo Pappas Deputy Smitten holds an antique gold watch believed to have been taken from the Catherine Emerson home in a recent break in (Journal photo) Get the Low Down on CANVAS METAL PLASTIGLASS AWNINGS PROMPT DELIVERY WINDOW SHADES VENETIAN BLINDS There ij NO SUBSTITUTE for EXPERIENCE WEATHER Gamblers Pay Record $1659717 State Tax on $82985850 Gross Take irst National Bank of Nevada is asking in district court to be re lieved of certain responsibilities connected with a trust agreement whifch August Hill wealthy Reno land owner executed four years ago In a suit filed yesterday the bank stated that on September 23 1949 Mr Hill conveyed two pieces of business property to the irst Na tional to be held under terms of a trust agreement The agreement provided that the role in the trust would be inactive during the lifetime of Mr Hill However it also provided that in the event Mr Hill ever was de clared incompetent the bank would manage the properties for him The real estate involved was that occupied by Brown Motors and Hill and Sons Motel Two years ago Mr Hill was de clared incompetent in district court following some widely publicized marital difficulties When the bank stepped in to ad minister the properties under the trust agreement it found that Mr Hill had only a two fifths interest in them One fifth interests were also held by Charles Hill Mr and Mrs William Hill and Mr and Mrs red Hill In the suit filed yesterday the irst National Bank said that the properties were being properly managed by the other owners and that August guardian red erick Hill was keeping all the necessary records for his ward Consequently the bank asked that it be relieved from complying with the terms of the trust'agree ment as they applied to the even tuality of August Hill being de clared incompetent Members of the Hill family were named defendants in the action The firm of McCarran Rice Wedge and Blakey represent the bank lacometti Rosascoand Tax Commission Arouse Ire of Ousted Gambler Loot Listed Stolen from the Murray Kendall home sometime Monday were two watches a man's ring a bag of Carson City dollars other old coins and a portable radio valued at $575 Higmon denied having 131 2BKBQBB9BBBBBBS CARSON CITY Oct 27 Indian Commissioner Glenn Em mons told delegates to the Gover Interstate Indian Council to day that the administration favors increasing transfer of responsibility for Indian affairs to the Indians themselves and to the states The newly appointed commis sioncr a former resident of New Mexico a state with a large In dian population declared: me assure you we have no intention of simply walking out on the Indians of any particular area and dumping our problems in the laps of the Instead the Indian affairs bureau will seek the advice and coopera tion of the various Indian tribes and of the states which have In dian populations he said Emmons foresaw in the period ahead increasing assumption of in itiative and responsibility by In dians for the management of their own personal and tribal affairs This will be accompanied by steadily decreasing federal control and a broadening of the role played by the individual states and their political subdivisions Emmons told approximately 50 delegates from 17 states present for the three day conference Problems Differ He pointed out however that his talks with tribal groups throughout the western half of the nation had convinced him that differences in individual areas were such that In dian problems cannot be ap proached with the same yardstick The problems of each tribal group and of each state must be met in dividually he said He cited California where Indians are widely scattered and intermin gled with non Indian population already enjoying the same educa tion welfare and law enforcement rights as non Indians Yet in such states as Arizona and New Mexico he said Indians comprise a much larger bulk of the total population and are still com paratively isolated from the general populace on large acreages of tax exempt land He cautioned how ever that the Bureau of Indian Affairs has a financial responsi bility not only to the Indians but to the taxpayers as well He did not elaborate The nation he said could look forward to a steady reduction of the acreage of Indian trust land which currently has tax exempt stalus He pledged that all Indian groups will be consulted before we take any action or recommend any action that would alter their pres ent relations with the Indian bu Much of the afternoon session was devoted to hearing of reports from individual states of the fash ion in which Indian problems were being met and of those yet to be mastered The session will continue Wed nesday and Thursday in the assem bly chamber of the state capitol 13 Routine Cases Given Hearings Thirteen routine offenders and one traffic violator were given mu nicipal court hearings yesterday Richard Knopf was fined $100 for failing to grant right of way to I nnzlnct ni mens from the home which were I vMarR rcevai was tinea on charges of destroying a door frame nip vnni mi irl micoinrT deputies said He added that he had used some of the Car son City dollars to pay his room rent here unaware that they were i anything but ordinary coins Police believed nearly all of the loot totalling about $650 would be recovered Higmon isdescribed as a two time loser currently on parole prison injured Spaniel tails' fater proposed to pay $50000 However no sooner had he sub I mitted his application than he withdrew it even before the com mission could begin its routine pro i cessing application Palace Club Investigated action plus various stories which reached tax commission ears led that body to summon the own ers of the Palace Club Bradford Hewins Louis Rosasco Louis lacometti and Jack Duffy before it to explain reports oster held an Undisclosed interest in the club In the meantime Hewins sent the tax commission a letter saying oster was no longer connected with the casino and contending the Only owners of the establishment were himself lacometti Rosasco and Duffy The commission despite protests of Commissioner Paul McDermott of Las Vegas decided not to sum mon the four club owners for ques tioning Early this week oster told Commission Secretary Robbins Ca hill he wanted to appear before the commission to vindicate himself and to find out why he found him self unable to get a job in a Nevada casino Arrests Explained The ex bookmaker said yester 1 day he wanted to "clear up the record" also concerning two ar rests listed on his criminal record One concerned an indictment by New York authorities on March 24 1936 accusing him of stealing a large quantity of jewelry in that state He produced a copy of an official dismissal of those charges dated March 2 1944 He also exhibited a copy of a letter signed by Walter Gibson an employe of a fashionable New York jewelry firm saying he had mistaken rost or oster for someone else and saying also he was very sorry for the mistake rost explained that the letter was brought to him by the late Jack Sullivan former partner in Reno's Bank Club where rost was em ployed for many years rost said Sullivan happened to be in the jewelry store in New York and men tioned he was from Reno This rost asserted led to a dis cussion of the robbery case and to the jewelry clerk giving Sullivan the letter saying rost had been mistakenly identified extradition to New York had been denied in a writ of habeas corpus granted April 23 1936 by the late District Judge Barney Moran after several persons tes tified rost was time the alleged jewelry robbery occurred rost was also time upon a gun carrying charge in Los Angeles but he asserted this conviction had been appealed and later reversed Two Owners Blamed He blamed his troubles with the tax commission in part upon laco metti and Rosasco whom he said he believed had told one or more members of the tax commission and some of its investigative staff stories about his activities in the Palace Club which he denied were true These concerned he said his i assistance in counting the money following each shift at the casino and the fact he had a key to the main safe at the gambling club He said both men had also com plained to him about the fact Hew ins had offered to sell him a 10 per cent interest in the casino for $50 iOOO while they themselves had bought smaller percentages for a I comparatively higher figure rost said was sellingme a piece of his piece wasn't he He could have given it to me for "nothing if he had wanted rost denied he held an undis closed interest in the Palace Club at any time and also denied he wasfronting for anyone including Jo seph (Doc) Stacher with rost has occasionally beenassociated in rumors reaching tax commission officials rost said lacometti and Rosas co complained to him they were not present when the money boxeswere counted at the Palace but declared he told them anyone ever tell you you come in while the money was being He said his primary duty con sisted of counting money at the club and aiding Hewins in ing the money He said he had performed similar duties at the Bank Club for many years Understand Procedure He added he couldn't understand why the tax commission had not compelled lacometti and Rosasco vto tell in front of me what I think they said behind my He said also he couldn't under stand why the commissioners did not question himself Hewins and Duffy at the time the license mat ter was brought up He added Hewins had told himhat a tax rommissinn official bad gone to one of the attorneys Model ordinance to control increasing smoke problem was presented to Reno city coun cil Monday night Councilmen moved to refer the proposed measure to the commit tee of the whole for further study The ordinance has been recom mended by the Regional Planning Commission following a careful study of conditions here It was noted that smog as such is not present in Reno However the smoke haze condition be comes acute every winter when temperature inversions cause the accumulated smoke to lie close to the ground On otherwise clear days airliners have had 1o make instrument landings at Hubbard ield due to the smoke In a letter to the city council the planners noted that the smoke difficulties are becoming progres sively worse and urged that the council take action on smoke con trol before the situation gets com pletely out of hand and a real smog develops The proposed ordinance sets forth smoke densities according the Ringlemann Chart which published by the Bureau Mines It would make it illegal permit emission of smoke of density equal to or greater than Density No 2 on the chart except for certain brief periods of time These briefs periods would permit firing of boilers and the like Homes Not Affected Private homes will not be sub I ject to any smoke control under the proposed ordinance Apart ment other tires trols The measure will prohibit the escape of soot cinders noxious acids fumes and gasses which is declared to be a public nuisance The building inspector will be lhe control superintendent according to the measure His duties range from investigation of complaints to yearly inspections of fuel consuming devices in the city ees of $5 for the intial inspec tion and $2 thereafter are set forth as well as a penalty of $200 for iolation of the terms of measure a Z'Z'I rn of at least five burglaries in Reno and the county Gay Higmon 25 (center) is ques AvrfLrfUjEL tioned by police and deputies following his arrest by detect yester day evening Left to right are Assistant District Attorney William Raggio Deputy Cliff Smitten Detec tive Angelo Pappas (behind Smitten) Higmon Sgt Tony Poloni and Detective Bill Backer Higmon ad mitted the break ins adding that he know a trade and when do what you can ao (Jour nal photo) More than one and one half billion dollars or almost five times the assessed valuation of the entire state was wagered in Nevada casinos during the last year The Nevada State Tax Commission reported yesterday that the two per cent tax on gross gambling revenue yielded $1659717 setting an all time record and topping last collections by 26 per cent Commission Secretary Robbins Cahill explained that the 1953 totals included taxes paid by gambling clubs during the last three months of 1952 and the first nine months of this year Since the casinos paid a two per cent tax of $1659717 it can be as sumed that their gross revenue was 50 times that amount or $82985 850 It has been estimated that the gross revenue of the clubs is not more than five per cent of the total amount bet That being the case at leaat $1660000000 was wagered during the last year The vastness of that total can be appreciated by comparing it with the states assessed valuation ot about $345000000 Cahill said there was no indica tion of any letup in the steadily in creasing grass take by the gambling clubs The state collected $169625 from its table tax a sliding scale levy based upon the number of gambling games operated by a casino and paid in advance annually In 1952 the table Tax yielded $458500 and in 1951 $387000 Race wire service fees for 1953 amounted to $18040 They amount ed to $13440 in 1952 and $71688 in 1951 Penalties collected for various infractions of tax payment regula tions amounted to $8521 in 1953 as against $3244 in 1952 and $3369 in 1951 Liquor Gaming Permits Renewed By City Council Community Chest Support it! 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I try to sell you this policy It speaks for itself Just let me show it to you LINN HALL INSURANCE COUNSEL Phone 2 1710 RYLAND BUILDING RENO I poker game Yukon Club Harry McMahan 136 Commercial Row package beer sales Oliver Ave Market Kenzel Snyder 1390 Oliver Ave additional partner Lonnie Logsdon Merry Go Round Matt Dromiack 26 Second St (three licenses for bar slot ma chines and one 21 game) Given first readings were appli cations of Walter Parman to change Circle Bar 2205 ourth St from a cabaret to a bar of Clarence Horsley to change the Carlton Cocktail Lounge 218 Sierra St from a cabaret to a bar and of Emily Mandafor a bar license atThe Hi Ball 180 irst Street Controversial license application of Robert Douglass for a bar at 743 ourth St to be known as Lounge was withdrawn The application came in for much protest on the part of residents of that neighborhood who objected to having their end of town opened up for liquor sales purposes i OPEN DAILY SIERRA 128 EAST SECOND ST PHONE LcV 2 5 BKY? 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