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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1938
Page
2
Mrs Ims Crettn of Seattle won the 1000 prize in the Galway contest at the Golden Gate International Exposition. Her slogan The Gayest Time Since Forty is used to supplement the Gayway fun zone title. A runner up was Warden James Johnston of Alcatraz Island in the contest runoff among more than 1700 entrants.
Mrs Greenlang, thrilled by news from the Exposition’s representative, plans to spend the $1,000 on new clothes and a family trip. Her husband runs two fish plants, one in Seattle and one in Alaska, and they have a seven year old son named Herbert. She hopes to visit her aging mother in Indiana and previously looked forward to the 1939 Exposition in San Francisco with her husband and Herbert.
Ex fighter George Raft who starred with Henry Fonda and Dorothy Lamour in Spawn of the North once aimed to be boxing’s world lightweight champion but quit after twenty two professional bouts.
President Roosevelt appoints William S. Boyle of Reno as United States attorney for the district of Nevada, replacing Judge E. P. Carville who was removed. Carville, a four-year incumbent, had backing from Senator Pat McCarran and had opposed by Senator Pittman. McCarran remains on the president’s call list as his special train tour through Nevada proceeds.
J E Jones notes that Swedes settled in Delaware three hundred years ago and that Sweden and the United States jointly marked the event in Wilmington. He praises Scandinavian immigrants for lawful, orderly conduct and urges replacing other aliens with such citizens.
New York model Cynthia arrives in Jollywood for Paramount's Artists and Models Abroad. She is a well known Lester Gaba mannequin made of plastered burlap and has appeared at elite night spots.
The article notes Chicago's yearly dust of 156000 tons from smokestacks streets and prairies, with 780000 tons in past boom days. It argues air purity is largely beyond public control and urges individual action using vacuum cleaners to protect health and property.
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