Sacramento River aqueduct proposal gains no backing
Los Angeles city officials debate Washington reports that O. T. Johnson Jr urged Sacramento River water, potentially sidelining Boulder Canyon high dam plans. Mayor Porter says city remains committed to Owens Valley and Colorado river developments, with Sacramento river talks not opened. Engineers of Metropolitan Water District outline major scope of the Colorado river aqueduct project and its role in future Southern California water supply.
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O. T. Johnson, Jr
Los Angeles
U.P
Washington, D. C
Metropolitan Water District Board
High Dam
Boulder Canyon
California
Sacramento River
Johnson
Washington
Colorado
Mojave
Water and Power Committee
Williams
Shold
John C. Porter
Owens Valley
Colorado River
Sacrament River
Porter
Qwens River
Colorado River Aqueduct
Engineering Board of Review
Yterday
Exchange Club
Glendale
Glendale Exchange Club
Board of Review
Metropolitan Water District
A. J Wiley
Richardson R. Tyman
Thaddeus Merriman
Frank E. Weymouth
Wyoming lawmakers urge Hoover to rescind mineral lands order
The Wyoming House passed a resolution urging President Hoover to rescind his mineral lands conservation edict. It argues development of Wyoming mineral wealth is essential for the state's industrial progress.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Hoover
Sacramento River Aqueduct Plan Revisited Debate Ends With Colorado River Solution
The editor argues against reviving a Sacramento River to Los Angeles aqueduct, noting 600 mile length, high cost, and no water surplus in Northern California. He cites Northern cities keeping water for themselves and endorses the Colorado River project as the sole feasible solution after ten years of studies and funds spent.
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California
Colorado River
Southern California
Sacramento
Pitt
San Joaquin
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Boulder Dam
Deed of Federal Building Site In Gray's Hands
The Las Vegas Land and Water Company sent the deed for the federal building site to President Carl Gray of the Union Pacific for execution. The city recently deeded the land back to the company to transfer to the government, with Gray expected to present it to Washington soon.
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Las Vegas Federal Building
Carl Gray
Union Pacific Railroad
Las
National Merchant Tailors to Decide Next Year’s Fashions
In Chicago on January 2 the National Merchant Tailors Association opens a four day session to decide men’s wear trends for the coming year. Four thousand merchant tailors expected at the Drake Hotel as models in the court of dress are reviewed with thumbs up or down. A May party on January 28 will showcase garments from formal tropical suits to tennis golf and yachting toys.
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Chicago
America
Supreme Court of Dress
National Merchant Tailors’ Association of America
Drak Hotel
Acording
John Melangton
Rome
Court of Dress
Johnson Buys Lake in Sierras
Photographer N E Johnson of Nevada booms purchased an 81acre California lake tract in Plumas county during last summer. The lake fed by springs and snow water lies near Tahoma lodge at Lake Tahoe with access from a government road five miles away and a ranger station atop a peak 1700 feet above the lake. The lake lies fifteen miles from Taylorville and 21 miles from the Feather River highway, about 150 miles northwest of Lake Tahoe by road.
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N. E
Johnson
Nevada
Tahoma Lodge
Lake Tahoe
Plumas County
California
Taylorville
Feather River
Christmas Tragedy at Old Town Mine Kills Sixty Miners
In McAlester Oklahoma sixty miners died after an explosion buried them in shafts east of town. Officials believe sixty five men worked there Tuesday. last bodies recovered by 3 pm. Five survived but faced poison gas. families suffer amid ruined Christmas plans.
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Mcalester
Okla
U.P
Old Town
Here
Cartier Announces Hollywood Wedding To Jetta Goudal Denied
Hollywood reports Jacques Cartier, Broadway figure, says he will wed film star Jetta Goudal in Nashville. Goudal rejects the claim, stating she is engaged to no one and has never heard of Cartier.
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Hollywood
U.P
Jacques Cartier
Nashville
Tenn
Jetta Goudal
Miss Goudal
Cartier
Worst Blizzard Strikes Middle West With Violent Storm
Chicago reports a blizzard sweeping the Middle West from the north with a 60 mile per hour gale over Lake Michigan. The storm drove ice and snow, froze pavements, damaged shorelines, and caused multiple deaths. Two people died of exposure in Chicago area, three others killed.
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Chicago
North
U.R
Middle West
Lake Michigan
Exposur
Credit Bureau Met Last Night
The Las Vegas Credit Bureau met in the Delkin Building with eight members in attendance. President Ed Von Tobel presided as W. J. Flowers read the secretary’s report on bureau affairs. The group debated whether to keep the bureau as is or transfer it to private profit-minded operators, with another meeting planned in two weeks.
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Las Vegas
Paving Man Expected Soon to Start District Work
C E Hazard of San Diego is expected to announce an intended start date for paving operations in the district. Hazard, head of Hazard Construction, may survey the site on arrival in the city. General Construction, contractor for laying the Durite paving, will remove old curbs, with Hazard sub-contracting part of the work.
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C. E Hazard
San Diego
Short O
Hazard Construction Corporation
General Construction Corporation
Th Hazard Company
Lasky Thanks Las Vegas Buyers After Sale Event
Businessman Mr. Lasky at 105 Fremont Street thanks Las Vegas residents for strong response to his Credito demand sale which ended Tuesday night. He will reopen at 10 a.m. today with the remaining novelty shoes on sale and extended hours through Christmas to new shoppers.
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Mr. Lasky
Fremont Street
L. Vegas
Lasky
Sewer Plans to Be Submitted In Few Days
Las Vegas prepares to submit completed sewer system plans this week for city approval. Field Engineer Hopkins of Koebig and KoBig states details are being drafted. Union Pacific may donate land beyond the disposal site for a new plant, with railway officials to be invited to the commissioners meeting. Finance will await plan submission from the Los Angeles firm. The project aims to reuse the present system where feasible with a new outbound setup.
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Las Vegas
Hopkins
Koebig and Kobig
Los Angeles
Union Pacific
City Light and Power
Lou Hansell
Hansell
California
Koebig
Rum row returns off California coast for holiday trade
Reports say ships laden with contraband liquor anchor offshore from San Francisco and other Pacific ports as federal patrols tighten. The Prince Albert rumored to run wet supplies for Christmas and New Year, with bourbon and other imports seen in large quantities. A Belgian vessel purportedly carries 10 000 cases en route via Panama Canal, as rumors of another long haul liquor run persist.
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San Francisco
Argos
Pacific Coast
California
Golden Gate
Farone Islands
Prince Albert
United States
Uckers
British Columbia
Kentucky
Califonia
Belgium
Panama Canal
Jamaica
Lower
Woman Struck by Car Robbed as She Lays Unconscious
Mrs. Hazel Burden was hit by an automobile on a Los Angeles street corner and robbed of her purse containing 325 dollars while she lay unconscious. The purse was not missed until she was taken from an ambulance.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Hazel Burden
Fort Victoria sinks after collision near Ambrose Channel
The Furness Bermuda liner Fort Victoria, sailing from New York with winter tourists to Bermuda, collided with the Clyde liner Algonquin in heavy fog off Ambrose light. All passengers and crew were saved. no deaths or injuries reported. The ship sank about half a mile from a fairway buoy in Ambrose channel after tug assistance and evacuation.
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New York
U.P
Fort Victoria
Bermuda
Wate
Ambrose Light
Ambrose Channel
Tue Ted
Pasagers
City Corrects Light System Assessments on Hawkins Addition
City officials revise the assessment roll for the new ornamental light system on Fremont Main and Fifth streets. Two exemptions Lov Kate Martin and Colorado River Exploration Company removed. notices to taxpayers to pay within ten days.
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Fremont
Main
Fifth Street
Ullom
DeVinney
Kate Martin
Colorado River Exploration Company
Girl Hurt in Fall at School Yard
Frances Mercier nine suffered a deep gash in the forehead and severe facial scratches after falling and striking a sharp rock in the school yard. Dr N Michelena treated her with one stitch at Las Vegas hospital. Mercier home is 316 Gas.
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Frances Mercier
N. Michelena
Las Vegas’ Hospital
Mercier
Non-Stop Record Hop Ends in Disaster in Desert
A fatal two-ship crash ends a lengthy non-stop flight attempt from London toward Cape Town. Squadron Leader A G Jones-Williams and Lieut N H Jenkins perished as their plane crashed in Cadheuan mountains near Tunis amid a storm.
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London
South Africa
Tunis
U.P
Cadheuan
A. G. Jones-William
N. H. Jenkins
Royal Air Forces
Cranwell Airdrome
Capetown
Carrie Speci
Cranwell
South
India
Cape Town
Governor Phillips Responds to Wilbur on Boulder Dam Allocations
Governor John C. Phillips of Arizona replies to Interior Secretary Wilbur about delaying final Boulder dam allocations. He says tri state talks have not occurred since power hearings and asserts Arizona California and Nevada had not agreed to a further three state negotiation.
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Phoenix
Ariz
John C. Phillips
Interior
Wilbur
Boulder
Arizona
California
Nevada
Phillips
Xerizona
Doctor Grafts Skin On Joe Joules Leg After Accident
Skin was grafted from the uninjured leg to Joe Joules at Las Ve gas hospital Tuesday morning by Dr. N. Michelena. Joules was injured at the Diamond mine when ore car wheels crushed his leg. He has been bedridden five weeks and may stay another five weeks.
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Joe Joules
Las Vegas Hospital
N. Michelena
Joules
Michelena
Hemphill Family Mourns Death of Father in Huxley Iowa
Mrs J R Hemphill reports her father died in the morning at his home in Huxley Iowa after a lingering illness He could not attend the funeral due to distance and illness per family notice
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J. R. Hemphill
Father
Huxley
Iowa
Hemphill
Oklahoma Lawyer Moves to Las Vegas
Jorney, formerly of Pawhuska Oklahoma, has moved to Las Vegas and plans to open law offices there after January 1. He lives with Mrs Gambill at 714 South Fourth.
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Jorney
Pawhuska
Oklahoma
Las Vegas
Gambill
Maiden flight today for new dirigible at Glendale
Glendale California December 18 A P favorable weather favors the first test flight of the all metal dirigible City of Glendale. Captain Thomas Slate the designer and builder declares the ship ready for flight relying on vacuum creation at the nose of its 300000 cubic foot metal bag.
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Glendale
Calif
Thomas’ Slate
McCubrey Recovers Third Alleged Counterfeit Suspect
Undersheriff R G McCubrey returned from St George Utah with a third man in a week. He had journeyed to Salt Lake City and San Bernardino for others. The suspected watchmaker and miner allegedly cashed a store check but fled town before it could be verified. Local authorities held the man as Utah bank confirms the check valid.
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R. G. McCubrey
St. George
Utah
Salt Lake City
San Bernardino
M. E. Ward
St. Georg
McCabrey
George
Utal
Army Off For Stanford Game
Army's varsity grid team boarded its special train for California to play Stanford at Palo Alto on December 21. The departure carried 107 football players and trainers with equipment as the 150 aboard rode into fog and sun.
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West Point
N. Y
Army
California
Palo Alto
Equipme
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Credit Bureau
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By Dan Campbell
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