Boulder Dam Wins Approval Of Engineers
A five member board reported to Congress that a gravity dam across Black Canyon on the Colorado River is feasible and safe within Concordant practice. The proposed structure could reach 550 feet above low water, estimated at 176 million dollars, and would flood 26 million acre feet. If failed, Floods would threaten Needles Topock Parker Blythe Yuma and Imperial levees. thus construction should follow conservative design standards.
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Washington
Colorado River
Boulder
Black Canyon
Congress
Interior Department
Senate
Las Vegas
Nev
Boulder Canyon
Needles
Topock
Parker
Blythe
Yuma
Imperial District
Sears to Open Department Store in Bank Building
Times Special reports in Kokomo Indiana that the three story building of the failed American Trust Company has been leased by Sears Roebuck and Co Chicago to house a department store. Opening is set for March 1.
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Times Special
Kokomo
Ind
The
American Trust Company
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Two Wardens Convicted in Extortion Case at Seymour
James Corbin and Otto Kain deputy game wardens were each fined 100 dollars and sentenced to sixty days in a penal farm after extortion convictions. Local Justice C L D Wilson was acquitted. Witnesses testified residents of Jennings county were fined in Seymour city court with acting mayor presiding. Testimony indicated refunds were made when fines were disputed. In Connersville police chief warned against destroying shrubbery and trees with threats of prosecution.
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Seymour
Ind
James Corbin
Otto Kain
C. L. D. Wilson
Charles Burkhart
Jennings County
Corbin and
Kain
Wilson
Delay in coal industry regulation postponed until Hoover era
Senator Watson of Indiana said federal regulation of the coal industry will be postponed until the Hoover administration. The coal investigation sub committee has made no action since adjournment as miners and operators offered no new proposals and both sides remain opposed to federal regulation. The committee will reconvene to consider unfinished work, but Watson expects no action this session. Oldest Muncie club to quit and disband by March 1.
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Times
Washington
Hoover
Watson
Indiana
Congress
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