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Show NEVADA LAWYERS REPRIMANDED The Bar Association of Nevada se- verely reprimanded ChnH. Rawlings and George Gunzendorfcr, prominent Reno attorneys at their meeting held last week in Rer.o. The two lawyers were charged with unprofessional conduct con-duct in connection with alleged solicitation solici-tation of divorce clients. C. Dean Breeze, Justice of the Peace and City Magistrate of Las Vegas was suspended suspend-ed from practice for a year, following the reading of evidence connecting him with changing the records of his court. Breeze is said to have changed the charge in conjunction with the arresting officer against a Las Vegas railroad man from gross intoxication to disorderly conduct. The change being be-ing made, it wns said, to save the man his job with the railroad companw, which is strict in its rules regarding the use of intoxicants. Evidence in the case of H. Chas. Rawlins and George Gunzendorfer was declared by members of the board to be convincing, and they will be reprimanded rep-rimanded by the board, a statement being issued to the effect that the reprimand was not to be taken as a precedent governing other cases. The board adopted its new by-laws at the last meeting, they following closely the by-laws of the state bar of California. Cali-fornia. Caliente Herald. |