Saturday Re Election On School Bond Vote
Saturday is set for re election on the $250000 school fund to build a new high school. Voters will go to the polls from 1 pm to 5 pm to confirm the bond issue replacing a previously voted fund deemed invalid. Polling places stay the same but hours reduced from 9 am to 5 pm. County Clerk Wm Scott notes last registration day was yesterday. Personal notes cover travel to Los Angeles, Reno, and Las Vegas. visits to Charleston Park. Elks convention alumni. and local relocations of residents including Mr and Mrs Ted Morris and J P King returning from Los Angeles.
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ABC
Wm. Scott
Scott
Los Angeles
Forest_R. Mildren
John T. Watters
Las Vegas
Charleston Park
Leo Roth
Henderson
Alice
Frank Butcher
C. D. Breeze
Daisy K. Morgan
Ted Morris
Paul
Stuart Holman
Billie Abernethie
R. H. Willey
Lafrum
al Cahlan
Wm. L Scott
Martha Stewart
Harley A. Harmon
Reno
National Hotel
South Third
J. P. King
Opium Suspect Will Be Sent Back to China
San Francisco dispatch reports three prominent Chinese officials tied to a opium smuggling case will avoid prosecution and be repatriated to China. Ying Kao vice consul his wife Suen Foon chancellor were arrested after customs found opium and contraband worth over 500000 dollars. Recall ordered to avoid tong violence and U.S. embarrassment while punishment for China remains uncertain.
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San Francisco
United States
Ying Kao
Suen Foon
C. C. Wu
Washington
W. G. Anching Kung
China
Ying Gao
Jones- Miller
Ying -Tao
George Hatfield
Chinatown
Republic of China
Wiring caused loss at Brawley City Hall
Fire destroyed Brawley City Hall library and police and fire stations after faulty wiring caused the blaze. Officials estimated the loss at 75000 dollars following a lengthy investigation.
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Brawley City Hall
Brawley
Calif
Texas Teachers Want to Come to Las Vegas Says Newton on Return
Las Vegas teacher Raby J. Newton reports Texans expressed keen interest in moving to Las Vegas to teach but notes positions are filled and he had no role in teacher selection. Newton and his wife just returned from a Texas honeymoon tour including the International Rotarian convention in Dallas with heavy rain during travel. They are staying with Mrs. A. Moffat on North Fourth.
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Texas
Las Vegas
Newton
Raby J. Newton
Carlsbad Caves
Pikes Peak
Brownwood
Dallas
Mrs. Newton
A. Moffat
North Fourth
Tacoma-Tokio Flyer Narrowly Escapes Gas Dump Incident
Lieutenant Harold A. Bromley faced a near disaster while testing the monoplane City of Tacoma planned for a Los Angeles to Tokio non stop flight. After dumping 400 gallons at 5,000 feet, fumes filled the cockpit as gasoline re entered the fuselage, causing unconsciousness before he regained air and landed safely. The mission aims to fly from Los Angeles to Tacoma in a few days.
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Los Angeles
Harold A. Bromley
Tacoma
Washington
Tokio
Muroc
Dry Lake
Mojave
Bromley
Flyer
Anderson Will Open Creamery Near Fremont and Fifth
Harry Anderson, pioneer, announced yesterday that he will open a new creamery in the old Quality Laundry building on Fremont near Fifth. Installation is nearly complete with a milk bottling machine and refrigeration plant added. He will ship milk from Moapa Valley in refrigerated trucks after ranch refrigeration, has sold his dairy herd, and plans an ice cream plant later.
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Harry Anderson
Fremont
Fifth
Anderson
Moapa Valley
Mother Who Burned Baby in Carriage Must Stand Trial
In Los Angeles a nineteen year old mother, Josephine Valenti, admitted to police she set fire to her eight month old son's carriage. Municipal Judge Frederickson ordered she stand trial for murder. A witness testified to screams and cries heard as the fire was found, despite police saying her behavior was unnerving.
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Los Angeles
Frederickson
Josephine Valenti
Buddy Davis Heads Toward Sentencing in Bribery Case
Harold Buddy Davis, former deputy under Asa Keyes, awaits sentencing after a jury found him guilty on charges tied to a $7500 bribe allegedly aimed at easing prosecutions from the Julian Petroleum collapse. His new trial motion hinges on alleged trial errors and misdirections. Davis faces 1 to 14 years in San Quentin.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Harold Buddy
Ict
Asa Keyes
Davis
Julian Petroleum Corporation
San Quentin
Girl Driver Faces Felony Charges in San Jose Court
Jos phone Grant, San Francisco socialite, faced felony charges for driving while intoxicated after appearing in police court for trial on two misdemeanor counts reckless driving and illegal liquor possession. She withdrew a guilty plea and entered a not guilty plea. In Lookout mountain fire coverage, authorities said the forest fire near Auberry was brought under control, having burned over 600 acres and destroyed hundreds of acres of pine and oaks. Miss Irene Klineman was visiting family in To cerville Utah.
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San Jose
U.P
Josphine Grant
San Francisco
Fresno
Lookout Mountain
Grant
Auberry
Sierra
National Forest
Bandits Escape With $15000 From Theater
In Hollywood California July 15 two bandits escaped with fifteen thousand dollars during a bank messenger robbery at the Chinese theater. Messenger M Crowley was forced to give up the bag of receipts while three bandits blocked his path. Crowley fired at a passing car. bystander Frank Thorp, a Mormon missionary, was wounded. The third bandit identified as Lawrence McMullen was separated from his companions and captured nearby.
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Hollywood
Calif
U.P
Stander
M. Crowley
Crowley
Frank Thorps
Lawrence McMullen
Western Union Opens New Office on Fremont Street
Western Union will open a new exclusive branch on Fremont Street West First today from 7 am. Service will not run 24 hours until repeater equipment arrives in one or two months. A. M. Hardie is the branch manager with prior extensive experience in Nogales and Los Angeles. The Morse Building first floor houses the modern office with all-new furnishings. Messages may be filed at the old depot office outside hours as a temporary link.
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Western Union
Fremont Sieet West
TL Pam
A. M. Hardie
Las Vegas
E. C. Vanderbilt
Nogales
Arizona
Los Angeles
Vanderbilt
Palm Springs
California
Morse
Rumors of China Russia War Looms Reach Tokio
Unconfirmed dispatches from Mukden claim the Nan government ordered General Chang Sueh-Liang to mobilize 100 000 troops and move to the Russian border within 48 hours if a conference approves such action. Rumors also say Russian bandits destroyed the Ussuri railway bridge near Pogranitchaya and Soviet aviators began border patrols.
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Tokio
U.P
Mudken
Nan
Chang Sueh-Liang
State Council
Hou
Mukden
Ussuri
Pogranitchaya
Grodey
S P To Install Inter Car Phone System On Train
The Southern Pacific plans the first inter car telephone system on The Cascade to link Pullman diner club and observation cars. F S McGinnis announces passengers will send and receive messages across the train, saving steps during San Francisco to Portland service.
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San Francisco
Cascade
Southern Pacific
Portland
F. S. McGinnis
Man Drowns Saving Wife in Colorado River
In California at NLES Needles July 15 a man named Paul Romero saved his wife from drowning in the Colorado River but was swept away by the current. He died trying to rescue Mrs Romero as onlookers watched. Officials said high water and river sediment made recovery unlikely.
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NLES
Calif
Colorado
Paul Romero
Needles
Kansas Flood Danger Subsiding
TOPESA Ken reports flood danger easing as Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers recede near Halstead Wichita and Salina. Flood impacts include about a dozen homes inundated and Hutchinson damage around 1 million dollars while Salina merchants suffer over 200 thousand in industrial district losses. Smoky Hill may threaten Salina again.
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Topesa
Ken
U.P
Arkansas
Wichita
Halstead
Little Arkansas
Hutchinson
Salina
Selina
Smoky Hill
Wingfield plans reorganization of Washoe Bank at Reno
George Wingfield proposes creating a new bank with 750000 capital in which depositors receive 75 percent of their original balances immediately. Frozen assets will transfer to Realization Corporation to recover the remaining 25 percent with four percent interest, with stockholders receiving the others.
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Realization Company
George Wingfield
Washoe County Bank
Reno
Wingfield
Washoe Bank
Realization Corporation
Bankrup~cy
Laborers' Union Elects Officers
The newly formed International Hed Carriers' Brotherhood and Common Laborers' Union of Am era of Las Vegas Nevada elected officers at a meeting held Saturday evening and sent in the charter application to union headquarters at Quincy Massachusetts. The officers elected are President J. J. Hart, vice-president Jack Dyer, recording secretary Neal Campbell, financial secretary Glen R. Wait, corresponding secretary Tra Liebert, treasurer M. E. Scott, sergeant-at-arms Henry
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International Hed Carriers’ Brotherhood and Common Laborers’ Union of Amera
Las Vegas
Nevada
Quincy
Massachusetts
J. J. Hart
Jack Dyer
Neal Campbell
Glen R. Wait
Tra Liebert
M. E. Scott
Henry
World peace pledge to be proclaimed at White House
Fifty nations will gather at the White House next week to solemnize the Kellogg pact pledge to discard war. President Hoover will read the proclamation in the East Room on July 24, with delegates from about fifty nations in attendance.
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Hoover
Washington
United States
White House
Stmser
Frank B. Kelloge
Stimson
Borah
Swanson
Senate’ Foreign Relations Committee
Japan
Paris
Las
State Department
Tokio
Russia
Paul Claugier
Fifteen Deaths On Pacific Coast
Fifteen more names join Pacific coast death toll from week end tragedies across California Oregon and Washington. California records include two drownings one heat death and autos. Names include Patricia Pierce Betty Jane Martin Walter Dornandt Adolf Graen John Mott William Butulia Roy Messinger George Avila and others.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
United Press
California
Oregon
Washington
Patricia Pierce
Los Angeles
Betty Jane Martin
Dry Creek
Marysville
Walter Dornandt
Sacramento
C. W. Noble
Pasadena
Adolf Graen
Roseville
Red Bluff
Susanville
John Mott
William Butulia
Roy Messinger
George Avila
Patterson Mobile
Pacheco Pass
Gilroy
Mary Stilwell Buol Reports Nevada Farm Club Progress
Mrs. Mary Stilwell Buol of the University of Nevada agricultural extension bureau visits Las Vegas to review Clark and Lincoln county farm bureau home improvement work under Miss Orpha Miller. She notes steady progress and predicts major home changes within a year or two while planning for a Reno club camp August 5 to 10. Additional remarks praise Clark county’s past prize leadership and list charter members seeking inclusion.
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Mary Stilwell Buol
Agricultural Extension Bureau
University of Nevada
Nevada
Las Vegas
Orpha Miller
Farm Bureau
Clark
Lincoln
Miss Miller
Mrs. Buol
French Atlantic Flyers Will Try Once More
French aviators Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Belionte vow to retry a Paris to New York air route after the Mars sudski and the Question Mark failure. The Marshal Pilsudski crash in the Azores killed Polish flyer Major Louis Idzikowski and wounded Casimir Kubala, who survives with injuries. the craft was destroyed. A Polish cadet ship aided the scene.
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Richard D. McMillan
United Press
Paris
Altho
Marssudski
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Belionte
Azores
Marshal Pilsudski
Louis Zdzikowski
Casimir Kubala
New York
Peggy Ward
Corresponden
San Francisco Flyers Aim for World Endurance Record
San Francisco aviators Bartlett Stephens and Fred McKinley attempted sustained flight over Millsfield in a Sierra monoplane. They took off at 10:14 a.m. PST and predicted the 189 horsepower motor would keep them aloft at least 500 minutes.
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San Francisco
Bartlett Stephens
Fred McKinley
Millsfield
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