Deficit in Treasury Seen at 903 Million for 1931
Treasury figures show the federal government ended the 1931 fiscal year about 903 million dollars in deficit, a 184 million dollar surplus in 1930, with a 463 million dollar net debt increase. Acting Secretary Mills cites reduced revenues and higher expenditures driven by relief, veterans benefits, and accelerated public works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Murphy
United Press
Washington
Treasury
Secretary of Treasury
O¢den Mills
Mills
Department of Agriculture
Treasury Department
Navy Department
Shipping Board
Fort Worth Plane Arrives in Seattle for Tokio Flight
The white and yellow monoplane Fort Worth carrying Reginald Robbins and H H Jones arrived at Boeing field Seattle as they pursue a non stop flight to Tokio to win a $25000 prize from a Japanese newspaper. A Seattle chamber delegation welcomed them and they plan several days here before sending a preflight refueling plane to Fairbanks and Nome.
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Seattle
Fort Worth
Reginald Robbins
H. H. Jones
Tokio
Boeing Field
Robbins
Jones
Chamber of Commerce
Fairbanks
Nome
Las Vegas Pledges To Move Redlight District For Federal Building
Las Vegas officials pledged to relocate the redlight district from its current site as a condition for the federal building. Mayor J F Hesse cited city assurances to pave Stewart Street streets and improve the park area while moving the segregated district outside townsite limits. Government demands included street lighting, sidewalks, and neighborhood improvements before approval.
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Samuel S. Arentz
Redlight
Las Vegas Federal
Las Vegas
Park
Stewart Street
Newman
Smith
Stevens
Hesse
Nevada
Secretary of the Treasury
Office of the Supervising Architect
Washington, D. C
United States
Stewart
Clark
Federal
J. F. Hesse
City of
Dinner reservations extended for Chamber of Commerce event
Dinner time was moved to eleven this morning with 144 reservations by eight pm last night and expected to rise to about 200 by day’s end. Governor Balzar cannot attend. State Engineer George Malone will represent him. A 32 member congressional party will be greeted at the 8:30 train by Chamber leaders and officials, including Congressman Frank Murphy, Steubenville native and long time shoe maker turned lawmaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Balzar
Chamber
George Malone
Congressional
Yates
Cragin
W. R. Bracken
Walker R. Young
Louis C. Cramton
C. P. Squires
Nye Wilson
Frank Murphy
House Appropriations Committee
Mr. Murphy
Steubenville
Five Killed In Air Pageant Crash In Hamilton
At a Hamilton air pageant five men died when a monoplane lost control and plunged into the crowd causing a fatal accident. Victims included Harry Raine Toronto general manager of the Canadian press and aviation figures Captain Robert Sterling J H Maher Jr Charles Daly Jr and Alfred Rogers. The tragedy halted a planned trans Canada air tour to promote the Dominion air mind.
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Hamilton
Ont
Harry Raine
Toronto
Canadian Press
Dominion
Robert Sterling
J. H. Maher Jr
Charles Daly Jr
Alfred Rogers
Two Arrested in Rabbits Theft and House Fire Incident
Andrew B Simmons and Charles McNeil were arrested after a neighbor identified them as Wilson’s rabbit and hen thieves. A Vegas Boulder area two story frame house owned by William Bickel and family burned, leaving four people homeless. Fire started at 1:55 and threatened nearby structures before the Las Vegas department contained the blaze and saved an adjacent building.
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Andrew B. Simmons
Charles McNeil
Ott and Noll
C. A. Young
Third
Wilson
Westside
Simmons
McNeil
Vegas Boulder
William Bickel
W. B
M. L. Wiederstran
Marie Buxon
Baby
Las Vegas
Boy Giant Refuses Court Medical Treatment
Adolphe Roome Jr a 14 year old known as a boy giant has refused gland injections to curb growth. The court order gave the father medical supervision over the boy living with his mother who has partial custody. Judge Roth said to leave the arrangement as it stood noting the order did not compel the boy to undergo treatment. Roome stands six feet tall and weighs 225 pounds.
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Los Angeles
Adolphe Roome, Jr
Adolphe Roome
Roome
Lester W. Roth
Roth
Adolphe, Jr
Griffiths return from Riverside to settle here
George Griffith of the Bureau of Reclamation at Boulder City has returned with his family from Riverside California and will locate here. J A Schoonover formerly of Las Vegas and now of San Fernando is visiting in this city.
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George Griffith
Bureau of Reclamation
Boulder City
Riverside
Cal
J. A. Schoonover
Las Vegas
San Fernando
Goals
Albert Cunha
Cunha
California
Waikiki
Honolulu
Hawa
Ian
San Francisco
May
Heat Wave Eases as Cooler Showers Reach Midwest Areas
Government forecasters predicted relief as a cooling plume with rain moved from the mountains eastward, expected to reach the lake region and sweep Ohio by nightfall. Illinois and Indiana reported record July temperatures with dozens dead and livestock losses mounting.
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Chicago
U.A
Rockies
Kansas
Texas
Lake
Ohio
Plains
Atlantic Seaboard
W. P. Day
Relief Society Social at Frank Allen Ranch
The Relief Society of the L D S church held a social at the Frank Allen ranch Tuesday evening. Mrs Reeves hosted her guest daughter and visitor Mr Albert Strasser of St Thomas.
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Relief Society of the
Frank Allen Ranch
East Goes Wild As Fliers Land At New York
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty return to Roosevelt Field after completing the fastest trip around the world in eight days 15 hours 51 minutes aboard Winnie Mae. The pair are welcomed by a cheering crowd of 10 000 as Mrs Post embraces her exhausted husband. Gatty is lifted from the plane and greeted by Mrs Gatty who was delayed reaching the field.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Winnie Mae
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Circle Field
Col. Lindbergh
Paris
Lindbergh
Dar
Mrs. Post
Post
Gatty
New York
Edward H. Connerton
Air Service, Inc
Nassau County Hospital
Wiley
Berlin
Moscow
Siberia
Nome
Behring Sta
Debt talks blocked again in Paris as allies confer
July 1 reports say Franco American talks on Hoover debt plan were delayed to Thursday while Mellon Edze study Hoover memo. Laval Briand Briand and others held afternoon talks with Edge and Mellon about American position and possible 10 year compromise on German credits.
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Ralph Heinzen
United Press
Paris
Hoover
Andrew W. Mellon
Walter E. Edze
Pierre Laval
Aristide Briand
Pierre Etienne Flandin
Laval
Edge
Mellon
United States
Washington
Germany
International
Jugoslavia
France
Electricians Complete Union Organizes Las Vegas Chapter
The Las Vegas local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers held a meeting to formalize officers and form a contractor committee to work with city officials on an ordinance for electrical maintenance. They seek a Washington school for members and protested Six Companies, Inc. wage practices. Local reps from Washington and the Lathers union attended. a plan aimed at timely pay and regional wage fairness was discussed. The International Chamber of Commerce noted the American branch asked the Hoover plan be approved at the July 7 executive committee meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Washington, D. C
Las Vegas
Hoover
Companies, Inc
Co. M. Fielder
Brotherhood
Washington
Cr. Haggerty
The
Lathers Union
International Chamber of Commerce
Silas Strawn
Mrs John Kennedy Judson Drops the Ma Nickname
Seattle dispatch details Minnie Kennedy, widow of William J. Semple McPherson, now Mrs John Kennedy Judson. She announces she dislikes the nickname Ma and presents her new spouse Rev John Hudson. The couple appeared publicly for the first time since their Longview nuptials, with Hudson avoiding questions due to illness.
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John Kennedy Judson
Seattle
Minnie “Ma Kennedy
Aimee Sempi McPherson
John Hudson
New York
Longview
Wash
Judson
John | Kennedy Judson
Rev. Hudson
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Montana
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LaSalle
Ill
Ectricians
Young Plan
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