Distarce Wins Decisive Bout Over Frisco Linda in Local Show
A crowded hall at Beckley’s saw Dominic Distarce defeat Frisco Linda in ten rounds in the main event. Earlier, Al Arnold knocked out Myers, Tom O’Brien edged Willie O’Brien, and Miller from Las Vegas overwhelmed Emmett Wade in the semi finals.
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Villarde
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al Arnold
Ely
Henry Myers
Butte
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Kid Holguin
Union Pacific
Holguin
Myers
Tom O'Brien
Kansas City
Willie O’brien
Los Angeles
Willie O'Brien
Pacific Coast
Tom
Willie
Miller
Las Vegas
Emmett Wade
Wade
Comments On This And That On The Las Vegas To Union Pacific Run
A reader recalls a winter trip on the Union Pacific from Las Vegas to a snowbound corridor. The Gold Coast Limited carried movie folk and a striking blonde as passengers, with bridge games in the observation car and a contrast between dining car chimes and the Union Pacific last-call horn. The writer muses on dining ambiance and wonders if U P should adopt Southern Pacific chimes to lift service. Continued on page six.
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Highlights of Presidents Message to Congress
The message covers funding for fifteen cruisers and one aircraft carrier. It calls for a federal farm board with a revolving Treasury fund to stabilize crop markets amid weather shifts. It supports railroad consolidation for cheaper public transport and ongoing rivers and harbor projects with flood control. It notes Colorado river irrigation and private electrical projects, Muscle Shoals lease, oil and natural resources conservation, immigration limits, and enforcement of the eighteenth amendment with state cooperation.
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True Vencill KiwAnis elects new officers at Carson
True Vencill Nevada bank examiner and prominent state figure died at the Arlington Hotel Carson City. He was 45, a Missouri native who settled in Fallon and Imperial Valley before his ranching stint on the Newlands project. An election at Kiwanis named Art Harrington president for 1929 with C E Bulette as vice president and Hal Buzick as secretary.
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Ormsby County
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Vere Rabishaw
Pred Allen
Carson City Mint
George Hussman
Douglas County
W. F. Dressler
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Kiwanis Club
Art Harrington
C. E. Bulette
Hal Buzick
Bill Fulton
Otto Kimball
Lisha Conger
Louie Oakes
Waley Rhoads
Steve Whitehead
Bake Baker
Ross Barnum
Las Vegas
J. C. Munch
Baltimore
Barnum
Charleston
King appoints state council for privy business
Premier Baldwin announced a commission to act for King George in summoning and holding privy councils. The Queen, Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Premier are named as Councillors of State. Five doctors were seen at Buckingham Palace. The Enterprise cruiser, with the Prince of Wales aboard, speeds toward Suez at nearly thirty knots.
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Canterbury
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Enterprise
Suez
Soot in chimney triggers hotel fire alarm at Overland
A chimney soot fire at the Overland Hotel set off a fire alarm just before 1 am with no damage reported. Mrs. Frank Newlin is recovering from pneumonia, while Vencill’s death is attributed to heart ailment worsened by exertion after influenza, per Dr. E E Hamer deputy coroner.
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E. E. Hamer
Upper Basin States Stand With Compact On Boulder Dam
Washington reports upper basin leaders including Senators Phipps Kindrick Bratton and Governor Dern join Wilson and Bannister to support the compact despite opposition. Engineers flag higher costs 176 million total with a 35 foot tunnel and more spillway. water allocations under the Black Canyon plan may exceed actual flow prompting talks on possible withdrawal from the compact.
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Smoot
E. Ward Bannister
Colorado
Phipps Draws Bill Changes in Swing-Jol Irrigation Plan
Washington reports amendments to the Swing-Jol bill prepared by Senator Phipps of the Senate Irrigation Committee after a conference with President Coolidge to carry out engineers' report recommendations.
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Senator Phipps
Senate Irrigation Committee
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Arizona Men Are Divided Over Boulder Dam Report
Arizona officials split on the engineers report about Boulder dam. Mulford Winsor says it undermines Arizona’s stance and could sway Congress. Senator Fred Colter warns of dangers to cities along the river if the dam fails. Other officials claim the report is inconsequential or favors California, offering no free canal to the Imperial Valley.
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J. W. Strode
Hunt
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Imperial Valley
Coolidge urges naval strength and farm relief in valedictory
President Coolidge in what appears to be his farewell message to Congress presses for a bigger navy, a federal farm board with a revolving fund, and the fifteen cruiser bill. He favors private power for the Colorado River dam at Black Canyon with state protections and warns against public subsidy or direct government- backed finance.
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France
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