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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1929
Page
1
The Elks plan a brilliant benefit ball tonight, forecast as a standout social event. Meanwhile lawmakers debate Boulder Dam policy with Senator Reed Smoot shifting to support early construction.
The city pound sold two horses that had been roaming inside the city limits. Deputy City Poundmaster Mark Withers supervised the sale after owners failed to bail them out. The sale occurred on Wednesday, and the pair fetched ten dollars in total.
Flames on the Union Pacific eating house roof near the chimney sparked a small blaze shortly after dark yesterday. Firefighters extinguished the fire with slight damage. Police diverted traffic and warned drivers to keep 300 feet from fire trucks under a strict enforcement pledge.
Four dogs believed rabid were killed by the police yesterday and the day before. Police Chief Percy Nash addressed grammar school students about rabies symptoms and detection methods.
San Francisco reports sunshine breaking through after days of rain as a storm ends. Nearly two inches fell in the city since Sunday with higher totals in central California. many areas neared flood stage as the rain ceased.
Arguments in the suit of Waller F McClallen and others against the Bell Telephone company were heard yesterday. District Judge Wm E Orr took the matter under advisement. The case concerns the Bell company's use of certain properties with its new line.
Six schools valued at 210000 and four churches costing about 100000 were burned in Sacramento Valley and Redwood Empire fires. Authorities guarded sites as they investigated possible incendiary causes with no determinations yet.
Las Vegas attorney Fred S. Alward and student Angus Joplin will drive to Indian Springs this afternoon to cheer Howard McMullen who is ill and living with Ira McFarland. The trio plans to bring gifts and invites friends to send tokens of support for the local high school student who has no parents aiding him. They will depart shortly after noon.
Jimmy McLarnin of Vancouver dominates Ruby Goldstein of New York, stopping him at 52 seconds of the second round after dropping him in the first. A capacity crowd witnessed a one sided bout with McLarnin winning by knockout.
A hearing on possible protests of ornamental street light assessments will be held Monday by the board of city commissioners, officials announced yesterday.
The city clerk received a refund of 146 dollars and 73 cents from Consolidated Power and Telephone Company on Thursday.
The town of Logandale witnesses rapid progress as farmers add new tractors and milking machines. A water powered mutual plant will supply about thirty horsepower, lighting the town and supporting a planned ice plant and lumber yard. Lettuce and radish shipments are anticipated with the first car ready to ship.
Gov. Fred Balzar and Nevada officials arrive in San Francisco to press for state highway funding. The delegation includes Attorney General M A Diskin State Engineer S E Durkee and State Controller Ed R Peterson and will attend California Cattlemen’s Association meetings.
Los Angeles Police Chief James Davis will be charged with incompetency and neglect of duty, announced by Police Commission President W G Thorpe. The move ends a deadlock among commissioners over investigating Davis's conduct of the department.
Washington dispatch reports AFL President William Green calling for government led employment agencies to meet urgencies and planning for a five day week as machines replace crafts. He warns of jobless societal complacency and predicts a future job shortage even with a five day week. In distant notes Bradwardine Jackson, famed retired British admiral, dies in Hampshire after a naval career dating to 1868. Major Frederick Bull of New York visits friends in New York for the holidays.
San Francisco dated December 13 reports Harry Hibere a nine year old who ran away to boost his photo presence in the paper. His mother opposed a photographer’s request noting the boy was previously photographed and became proud or conceited, so she kept him at home.
In Los Angeles on December 13, Mrs. Helen Lois Andrade 60 shot five times at her estranged husband A F Andrade multi millionaire son of Gen P Andrade after he won a civil suit over community property. The suit covers Mexicali townsites and a million acres of land in California and Sonora.
Francisco inmates line up in police court on Friday the thirteenth. Judge Lazarus suspended sentence of days for those arrested on Thirth street.
A fourteen year old boy delivered a plaid blazer to The Age office last evening. The paper asks the owner to come in quickly to claim it and settle the matter directly with the office thanks the finder.
Nearly twenty new members will join the local Elks lodge next Thursday announced secretary Willam L Scot. The lodge rejected a $200000 hotel building proposal after discussion led by Judge William E Orr despite word that Harold Hale district deputy exalted ruler would attend the initiation.
Las Vegas Mercantile plans a Monday sale of all stock from Egan's Furniture Incorporated. Manager Egan signed assets to attorney George Marshall who becomes trustee for the firm operating from the Carson Street store. Proprieter Leo Roth says prices will be enticing as Christmas shoppers visit the new post office building location. A separate note from Phoenix reports a burglar stole a child’s bank containing five dollars in pennies, marking a costly pre Christmas theft for a family.
The Community Christos Tree committee with Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Kiwanis reps abandons the Las Vegas Christmas Tree for the benefit of charitable causes. Funds once used for the tree will support charity next year, with Ed Von Tobel as treasurer. A meeting is set for Friday at J R Lewis’s office to refine plans and encourage local donations.
In Los Angeles on December 13, Edward L. Doheny, the oil magnate, may not be called to testify in the lease cancellation suit against Pan American Oil. Norman Sperry, defense counsel, challenged Doheny’s credibility and said he is not prepared to vouch for Doheny’s truthfulness. Sperry noted no link between Doheny’s $100,000 loan to Albert B. Fall and any testimony.
Los Angeles plans to erect and plant for cement brick manufacture in Las Vegas. Officials discuss materials sourcing and a series of tests to support the project, with state testing protocols referenced and a proposal submitted to the governor’s department.
Mesquite Club members gathered at M ard Pridey Alor te i ingetinue intense program with Miss Jeno Abbot performing vocal numbers and Mr Rawe at the piano. Tea was served at a table prepared by Mrs DeVianey and Mrs Leonard Blood. Formation section notes a 40,000 member cotton cooperative to be known as the American Cotton Growers Exchange announced by Alderman Lecce as chair of the federal board.
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