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Carson City Is the Gateway to Lake Tahoe
Appeal
Carson City Daily
TO MAKE KNOWN THE RESOURCES OF NEVADA
VOL. LVII
25 cents per week
CARSON CITY. NF.VADA. MONDAY, JULY 26, 1920
Five cents per copy
No. 174
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Visited by Two Temblors, But Little
Damage Follows
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, July 2o. Two more
earthquake shocks, doing little damage
beyond sending frightened residents
scurrying into the streets in scanty at
tire, occurred at dawn today.
Felt In Pasadena
B United Press
FAS ADEN A, July 26. Pasadena's
down town section was harried by a
sharp quake early this morning.
Resembled a Stage Setting
fM United Press
LOS. ANGELES. July 26. The ex
clusive Westlakc Park residential dis
trict, where the shock this morning was
the heaviest, looked like a huge hack
to nature picnic, with many women
scampering around in diaphanous garb.
The first temblor was severe and was
followed by a lighter shake.
No Cause for Alarm
mr United Press
LOS ANGELES, July 26. When
Mayor Snyder was appraised of the
rumors to the effect that he had issued
a proclamation ordering business
houses closed following today's earth
quakes, he declared : "Fools and false
prophets who spread wild reports of
impending earthquake catastrophes
here should be tried before a lunacy
commission. I ask all loyal citizens to
join in denouncing calamity howlers
and idiots seeking to create a sensation."
Cox Will Insist Campaign Expenses
BeMade Known
IHy United Press I to the Kenyon senatorial committee for
DAYTON, July 26. Governor Cox ! investigation. He indicated that he
today declared that the Democratic intended to lay stress on the investi
gation of campaign expenditures and
would demand an inquiry into state as
nominees will demand that a list of all
campaign expenditures and contribu
tions be submitted at least once a week
well as national frauds.
Plane
! it
Carson
Crash
"My Husband's Other Wife"
Carson City Theater Tonight
"When husbands and wives quarrel
then watch the subsequent proceedings
in the divorce courts!
"Ee sure to see "My husband's Other
Wife," which is a clean, powerful film
for fathers, mothers, sweethearts, lov
ers and all those who have, intend or
wish to have a family.
This striking picture was produced
by J. Stuart Elackton, and it features
Silvia Braemer and Robert Gordon and
will be shown at the Carson City thea
ter for the last time tonight.
On the same bill will be shown
"Snub" Pollard in "How Dry I Am."
Also Pathe News.
Two shows, 7:30 and 9:30 o'clock.
Regular prices.
That Med
vmnemuGca
It was not the Skyline plane that vis- When assistance finally reached them
ited this city a week ago that met with : it was found that Rose was unhurt.
an accident at Winnemucca last Friday i Pearce w as perhaps the most seriorrly
evening, as erroneously reported by a injured, having sustained a compound
Humboldt county official who was an j fracture of the left forearm and a flesh
arrival in Carson Saturday morning ,' cut under his knee which necessitated
and whose statement was published in ' Dr. Liggett taking twelve stotches. He
the Appeal of that evening.
The accident, as told in the Saturday
evening issue of the Silver State of
Winnemucca, befell what was known
as the Clevenger plane, traveling be
tween San Francisco and Salt Lake
and which dropped into that town to
take on oil and gas and incidentally to
knock out a few shillings taking pas
sengers on a flight.
The story of the accident, as condens
ed from the account in the Silver State,
is as follows :
Yesterday was a day of thrills and
emotions for Winnemucca people, be-
ginning with the arrival of the Skyline
Hfer Fir Hons
Yachts Just Flounder Around Until
Time Limit Expires
iBv United Press
AEOARD THE U. S. DESTROY
ER GOLDSBOROUGH, via wireless,
July 26. Lack of wind caused another
postponement of the fifth of the series
of international yacht races. Half an
hour before the starting time the re
gatta committee hoisted the flag post
poning the deciding contest until later
in the day.
A Drifting Match
By United Press
SANDY HOOK, July 26. The fifth
race for America's yachting cup devel
oped into a drifting contest. Two
hours after getting under way the Res
olute was leading the Shamrock, but
was still twenty-five miles from the fin
ish and there was practically no breeze.
Resolute Gained Lead
TBt United Press
SANDY HOOK, July 26. The Sham
rock led across the starting line by
fifty-six seconds, after the start of the
contest had been delayed half an hour
in the hope of a stable breeze. The Res
olute with a fair wind forged out ahead
and at one time had a lead of a quarter
of a mile.
Race Called Off
ABOARD THE U. S. DESTROY
ER GOLDSBOROUGH, via wireless
July 26. After four hours and a half,
during which the yachts drifted around
fifteen miles of the course in a wind
ranging from a dead calm to a four
knot breeze it was evident that neither
yacht could finish within the time lim
it, the race was called off for today.
MILLER-LUX HOLDINGS i
MAY BE SUBDIVIDED
Two More Killed
fBv United Press
DUBLIN, July 26. Sinn Feiners
raided a coast guard station and killed
two guard officers early today.
Bound for Antwerp
fRy United lress
HOBOKEN, N. J., July 26. The
United States army transport Princess
Matoika left dock today carrying hun
dreds of American athletes who will
participate in the Olympic games at
Antwerp.
Information current at Elko is to the
effect that the immense land holdings
of Miller & Lux in California, Nevada
and' Oregon are to be subdivided and
sold to settlers in small tracts. It is
stated that in the lower San Joaquin
valley. Miller & Lux, incorporated, have
already placed large blocks of agricul
tural land on the market, says the In
dependent. Coincident with this information is
the announcement that Miller & Lux Concealed Assets; Must Now Pay
havp hrrn authorized to issue $12.000 .- I fBv United Press
om ; ,...VMr cr.1,1 l..n,L and tho is- LOS ANELES. July 26.-George An
sue is rapidlv being marketed. The drews and Andrew Ficca. convicted for
prospectus states that the securities I concealing their assets in bankruptcy
are based upon the ownership of ap. I proceedings, were today sentenced to
proximately 800.000 acres of land j tw o years in prison and fined $2,500
California and 200,000 acres in Nevada, eacn- : i.
i .
. lT,t 1 T J 1.
uregon, uiau anu mano.
According to the rumors in financial
i is a son of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Fearce.
I Young Nelson was jarred somewhat
i and burned fn.m the splashing of gaso-'
i line, which caused painful blisters about
ibis face and neck, has a small cut un
der "his jaw and a possible fractured
I rib. Dr. Giroux says he will be up and
i around w ithin a week. Nelson is also
j a high school student and a son of Mr.
' and Mrs. William Nelson.
Aviator Rose acknowledged that his
experience as a pilot was somewhat
limited and that he was absolutely tm-
, f:miiliar with flying in high altitudes.
! He said that the ship would not rc
i i . - i . i- .j ii..
airplane at 11:15 a. m.. un-s,onu lo mc usudl u,mruls a,m u:at
iun nc lost ins speed ne attempted
! to turn, when the machine wavered and
' sank into the brush.
! The Clevenger plane came from Reno
city, who essayed a flight with the last , and on its arrival bringing as passen
of three planes to arrive, the loner ex-i Ers Walton Clevenger and Mrs. M.
"Fly about
til 7 :30 p. m.. when the day's pleasure
was marred by an accident which oc
curred to young Louis Pearce and Will
Nelson, high school students of this
Woman's Dream of Prolonged Youth
Is Me True by
Gland
Grafting
pected Clevenger airplane, which was j Hagerty was forced to land in one of j
piloted by Franklin Rose. I the meadows southwest of the city, hav- 1
It was the second flight which Rose j complet .y run out of gasoline at
attempted. On his first it was seen that ' so,Tic' fttt altitude. On taking on
he had considerable difficulty both in
taking off and alighting, but he finally
managed to get into the air and gave
a nice ride to his passengers.
But on bis next flight, the wind had
shifted and he took off in the opposite
Winifred Van Duzer in Washington
Herald.
In a remarkable exclusive interview,
Mme. Evelyn Bostwick Voronoff, American-born
wile of the eminent European
surgeon, Dr. Serges Voronoff, today
told me what she and her husband hope
to accomplish through their discover
ies in gland grafting.
So undeveloped that until now no
phase of it ever has been made public,
experimental work among women has
been quietly carried on by the Voron-
otTs in the laboratories. of the College of
ranee in connection with their suc
cessful efforts to restore vouih and
health to aged or ill men.
What it will mean to women, and es
pecially to American women, was pre
dicted by Mme. Voronoff, who for many ; ten
circles at F.lko, a group of New York
Villa May Surrender
TBv United Press
EAGLE PASS. Tex., July 26.-
-It has
capitalists are negotiating for the great 'een learned that Fancho Villa has ar
properties with the plan of presenting)
the most gigantic land sale in history.
The plan includes the development of
water, transforming pasture lands into
fields and orchards and selling to ac
tual farmers on easy payments.
The Miller & Lux properties are es
timated to have a total value of $60,
'000.000. The live stock biddings of the
company include 137,000 head of sheep,
20,000 hogs and 9,500 horses.
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BANDITS' CAPTURE
BELIEVED IMMnrETT?
fBr United Press
PENDLETON, Ore., July 26. Aid
'td by blood hounds a sheriffs posse to
day recaptured Albert Lingren, one of
the six who escaped from the Umatilla
county jail here yesterday.
Sheriff Taylor was shot and killed
by one of the prisoners. Other fugi
tives had been traced to Meacham, forty-eight
miles southeast of here and the
capture of all of them is believed imminent.
rived at Sabinas, Mexico, to discuss
terms of his surrender with government j
representatives. Advices said he is !
holding telegraphic conferences with i
Provisional President De la Huerta. j
oo t
gas it nnaliv arose and new to the inn
nicipal field landing without mishap.
Quite by contrast and as a proof that
Hying is not r.ear the hazardous under
taking which minor accidents might
seem to suggest, was the performance
direction, toward the northwest. His j of the Skyline plane "Flyabout," under
plane was seen to taxi a long distance ! the skillful pilotage of Lieutenant Ira
on the ground, as though he was exper- ! Fuller, which time and again took the
iencing difficulty in getting into the air. j air carrying with it as passengers some
However, he finally left the ground, i of Winnemucca's most prominent citi
but on attaining an altitude of perhaps j ens. F'uller experienced absolutely no
fifteen or twenty feet, he seemed to lose difficulty in either taking off or alight-
his flying speed, whereupon the right j ing, coming out of the air each time as j
. , . . .... j nave no reason to believe it will not be
into a spin ana nosea into tne sage-1 dexterity and attaining altitude in re
brush, i markablv short time.
ated by gland transference.
"We also believe that the operation
will insure the bearing of well-developed,
healthy babies instead of puny, dis
eased and often deformed ones which
often are the result of morbid physical
condition of parents."
After I had marveled with her confi
dent statement that "age is premature,
I gathered ihat besides insuring them a
race of sons and daughters, the new
gland-grafting operation may do some
of these things for women:
It may prolong their lives and youth
ful beauty indefinitely.
It may so develop mental activity as
to create a new type of feminine bril
liancy. It eliminates "sick" slants of charac-
years has been a co-worker with her
husband and who is the only feminine
assistant ever accepted at the College
of France. She said :
"We have been working to perfect
gland transference for women for the !
past three years. More time is requir
ed for this than was necessary to make
more or less practical the operation for
men, because the female organism is
much more delicate.
However, we can now say tliat we
VALUABLE DOG DROWNED
Hal Mighels, it has been reported on
the streets the past couple of days, will
be a candidate on the Democratic pri
mary ticket for nomination for county
commissioner.
"Bubbles." the English bulldog be
longing to George Brodigan, was
drowned in some manner in one of the
baths at Carson hot springs Saturday
night.
Just how the accident happened is
not known. Mr. and Mrs. Brodigan
with a party of friends were at the
springs that evening. The dog was with
them and after a short while his dis
appearance was noted, but a search
failed to reveal his whereabouts. Sun
day morning, his body was found in one
of the big stone tubs.
New
s That's Up to tiic Minute
entirely satisfactory.
"We believe that the 'old' woman,
she who gives evidence of age at 25 or
30, will find it possible to be rejuv en-
woman was shipped to New York.
Tulv 10.
for the decline were the continued fav-I .
men are today clearing the West-
I by the tederal reserve bank indicating
, . . , , that its policy-
canyon, ionowing yesieruay s
fBy United Tress
MARYSY1LLE. Calif..
Work
ern
River canvon, foil
Judge K. J. L. Taber of Iilko presid
ed in the district court at Fallon last
week and came to this city to visit his
mother, Mrs. E. S. Farrington, Satur
day. Yesterday Judge Farrington and
wife took their guest to the Spur and
spent the day. Judge Taber will re
turn to Fallon the latter part of the
week, where he w ill again hold court.
wreck in wuicn the engine on the west j
bound passenger train. No. 5, was de-j
railed and two cars partially wrecked.
The engine in rounding a curve struck
a huge boulder, which had rolled down
from the mountain side. No one was
injured.
i was still
of cutting down
effective.
loans
. Coal Strike Spreading
TEy United Tress
CLINTON, Ind., July 26. The Illi
nois coal strike today spread into Indi
ana when 2,500 mine workers left their
jobs in the Clinton field.
Grain Futures Lowered
TBv United Press
CHICAGO, July 26. Grain futures
today were sharply lowered on the
board of trade. The reasons attributed
Loses First Round
lT!y United Press'i
CHICAGO. July 26. Jack Johnson,
former heavyweight champion, lost the
first round today in his fight for liberty
when an application for hail was re
fused in the Federal court here.
"Tiger" Not 111
IR United Press
PARIS, July 26. Physicians attend
ing tormer i remicr iiemcnccau denied
the "Tiger" was ill. They said Clcm
enceau would return to Paris Friday
from Vichy, where he has been taking
treatment.
Murder Suspect Dismissed
fBy United Press
CHICAGO, July 20. Roy Millen, cx-
flyer, was dismissed today as a possible
suspect in the New York trunk murder
mystery. Policeman Trumbell of De
troit viewed Milieu in jail here and de
clared that he was not Eugene Leroy,
Bandits Get Away With $11,000
CENTRAL FALLS. R. 1., July 26. J system is not
l ive masked automobile bandits today
robbed the Union Credit Francaise
bank and escaped with $11,000.
It may correct prevertcd reproductive
instinct, ever becoming more prevalent
and alarming because of unhealthful
present-day lives.
Relative to the last possibility, Mme.
Voronoff considered the story of a wo
man, denied the happiness of mother
hood, who spent her days in eternal era
bridering. She said that such contin
ued action might be preverted reproduc
tive instinct, declaring that such often
is indicated in a mania for continuous
performing of a certain, usually non
essential, work.
Alout the new operation and its
possible benefit to American women,
Mme. Voronoff had this to say:
"The exaggerated life lived in the
United States cannot help tut set up a
nervousness, even though it be only a
subconscious disturbance, in every wo
man who lives here, no matter how re
moved she may be from participation in
social or industrial activities.
"The life is productive of wonderful
ly developed mentality. And especially
among women taking up work or pro
fessions, the brain is exmal to the pace
they must maintain while the nervous
Farmers Win First Victory
OAKLAND, July 26. Defendant
farmers of the upper Sacramento valley
won a partial victory in the injunction
proceedings brought by the city of An
tioch to restrain them from using Sac
ramento river water for irrigation pur
poses. Judge St. Sure ordered proceed
ings continued until August 9th to per-
ihe former occupant of the Detroit mit them to prepare additional affida
hcuse from which the body of the nude J vits and answers.
"The brain goes ahead but the body
is possessed of insufficient stamina to
support mental fatigue. The discrep
ancy sets up toxins which settle in the
most delicate organs those offering
least resistance in the female system.
The result is a great deal of the nerv
ousness and diseased conditions Ameri
can women are obliged to endure.
"It is one of the tragedies of this big
country that its women, more than those
of any other country, have these
troubles. And it is the reason we be
lieve our discovery will mean much to
them.