Golden Rainbow Hint Of New Gold Mine At Quo Vadis Site
The column links a showery morning rainbow near the Quo Vadis mine to a possible new gold source. A bucket of ore once found there contained about half gold, given away to visitors by John Anderson, who leased the property but lacked funds to advance development. Eldorado Canyon is also noted for historic high grade yields and renewed interest with cheap Hoover Dam power on the horizon.
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Quo Vadis
Eldorado Canyon
John Anderson
Eldorado
Hoover Dam
City fines total for liquor violations lead in payments
Law violators paid 2,475 dollars into the city treasury per a report to City Clerk Viola Burns by Municipal Judge W. G. Morse dated June 1. Liquor law violators accounted for more than 60 percent of the total, with drunken drivers petty thieves and those convicted of gross intoxication or related offenses making up the rest.
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Viola Burns
W. G. Morse
Baby Elks Initiate Three Members at Las Vegas Lodge
Las Vegas Lodge No. 1468 of the B P O Elks initiated three new members C OC Hinchberger a contracting civil engineer W J Doyle and William R Depey at their Thursday night meeting A Needles Elks delegation attended and will visit California in return Plans were discussed for stag parties next fall and a wild western campfire event Summer meetings are cut to once a month as in prior years
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B. P. O. Elks
Las Vegas
Hinchberger
W. J. Doyle
William R. Depey
Elks
Needles
Vegas
California
Visit in Boulder City and Home Again
Mrs. Mina Stewart with her nephew Austin Hunt of Bunkerville and daughter Helen visited the dam site in Boulder City yesterday. Jean Horton, a Post Office Drug employee, returned Wednesday from Salt Lake City and Price Utah after a ten day visit with relatives and friends.
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Boulder
Mina Stewart
Austin Hunt
Bunkerville
Helen
Boulder City
Jean Horton
The
Post Office Drug
Salt Lake City
Price Utah
Dietrich extortion letters prompt federal help in case
Five threatening letters to Marlene Dietrich reveal an extortion plot aimed at her six year old daughter Maria Lieber. Investigators traced clues to southern California and sought federal aid as detectives probe suspects while Dietrich returns to work at Paramount.
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Hollywood
U.P
Marlene Dietrich
Josef von Sternberg
Lindbergh
Miss Dietrich
Maria Lieber
California
Fitts
Dietrich
Egan Muller
Muller
Rudolf Sieber
Beverly Hills
Paris
von Sternberg
Idahoans Visit Boise Couple Here For Three Weeks
Mr and Mrs Eugene Griffith and daughters of Boise Idaho arrived in Las Vegas on Thursday and will spend three weeks visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs Guy Whillet and family Miss Virginia Whillet returned with the Griffiths after attending school in Salt Lake City
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Eugene Griffith
Boise
Idaho
Las Vegas
Guy Whillet
Virginia Whillet
Salt Lake City
Eastern tourists witness fatal battle of snakes in desert near Yucca Grove
Mr and Mrs Harry Day of New York describe a dramatic scene fifteen miles east of Yucca Grove where a king snake killed a rattler in a death grip after a half hour struggle. The king snake finished the fight and was shot by Day before they collected the snakes as trophies to be mounted in Salt Lake City.
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Desert
Harry Day
New York City
Las Vegas
Hollywood
Yucca Grove
Day
King Snake
Salt Lake City
New York
Mangin Falls To Cochet In French Championship Quarters
In Auteuil Paris France June 3 Gregory Mangin of Newark N J fell 6 3 7 5 5 7 6 3 to Henri Cochet France in a quar ter final ending Americas bid for a title. Sidney W Smith resigns as Apache hotel manager in Las Vegas resigning at a board meeting. Mrs Matilda Robert Russell succeeds him as director with William A Brown named director as Las Vegas hotel project continues.
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Auteuil
France
America
Gregory Mangin
Newark
N. J
Henri Cochet
Davis
Sidney W. Smith
Matilda Robert Russell
Robert R. Russell
William A. Brown
Brown
Las Vegas
Yuma
Arizona
Russell
Los Angeles
Smith
Faculty of Long Island University forgoes caps and gowns
The 120 member Long Island University faculty will attend commencement without traditional caps or gowns due to unpaid salaries for ten months. At a meeting, hardship was described including pawned items and eviction notices, while the university, founded in 1927, has 1500 students.
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New York
Long Island University
Return Home From Las Vegas Visit
Mrs. Elmer R. Thompson and her daughter Dorothy Ann returned to Chicago after four months in Las Vegas visiting Thompson. He plans mining in this district.
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Elmer R. Thompson
Dorothy Ann
Chicago
Las Vegas
Thompson
Democrats Back Garner Rainey Relief Plan In House Vote
Washington June 3 The two billion dollar Garner Rainey unemployment relief bill won passage in the House by a unit Democratic vote of 123 to 18 after a caucus. The measure funds $100 million for unemployment relief, allows $1 billion in loans for self liquidating construction, and borrows $1.22 billion for public works. Republicans plan a Hawley substitute linking Hoover’s plan.
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Washington
House
Clarence J. Cannon
Missouri
John E. Rankin
Mississippi
Henry T. Rainey
Illinois
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Civic groups plan charges against Mayor Walker
In a New York development the committee of one thousand leads a drive with civic bodies to prepare formal accusations against Mayor James J. Walker. Seabury promises to mail Roosevelt the full transcript and findings upon returning to New York.
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New York
U.P
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Samuel Seabury
James J. Walker
Committee of One Thousand
Pittsburgh
Samuel
Seabury
Washington & Jefferson College
Legislative Committee
Crisp
William Jay Schieffelin
Society For the Prevention of Crime
Roosevelt
City Club
New York Committee of One Thousand
Citizens’ Union
City Affairs Committee
Woman's City Club
Merchants’ Association
Sea
Supreme Court
Ten new members join Las Vegas VFW Post 1753
Las Vegas Post No. 1753 adds ten members at its meeting with four from Boulder City and six Vegans. New Las Vegas members include Williams White Moritz Shoup Guisti Easterling. Boulder City entrants list Eddy Sears Farrell Medert. The post has grown from 86 to over 450 in under a year and discussed attending the American Legion opening in Boulder City and plans for Vallejo convention travel.
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Las Vegas Post
West
Boulder City
New Vegas
Frank Williams
Geo.w. White
Ralph Henry Moritz
Charles A. Shoup
Dominick Guisti
Jesse M. Easterling
Ford O. Eddy
Co. W. Sears
Benjamin B. Farrell
Howard S. Medert
Fred S. Pennington
American Legion
the Legion
Reservation
A. T. McCarter
Vallejo
Men Bid To Recover Bodies From Volcano Pit
Horace Albright of the National Park Service called for bids to descend into the Kilauea volcano fire pit to recover bodies on government land. The hazardous job is estimated to cost at least $1,500 for the contract, with official Marine and Park Service oversight.
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Horace Albright
National Park Service
Homecoming of Mr and Mrs Jack White from Bunkerville
Mr and Mrs Jack White and family with Miss Rowena Waite return Thursday from a ten day visit with relatives in Bunkerville. They spent Thursday in the city at the home of Mrs LaPrese Neagle before driving to their Arden home.
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Bunkerville
Jack White
Rowena Waite
LaPrese Neagle
Arden
Six Die in Oklahoma Floods Struck Central State
Six people died as a flood swept across central Oklahoma with seven missing and three thousand left homeless. Seven inches of rain fell in six hours washing away homes while residents slept. Names include Mrs James Webster and Ellen Webster drowned at a tourist park and Buster Morgan aged five swept from a porch. James Robinson a Black mail carrier drowned at Seminole.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Oklahoma
Fjood
James Webster
Ellen
Massachusetts
Ella Christina Morgan
Buster Morgan
Norg Norris
James Robinson
Seminole
Keyes Hearing Set by Judge for Arraigned Slaying Suspect
Maurice Keyes, alleged slayer of Leighton Ferris, was arraigned before Judge Frank M. Ryan. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday June 8 at 10:00 a.m. on a first degree murder charge.
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Maurice Keyes
Leighton Ferris
Frank M. Ryan
Pole Hausner launches non stop flight toward Warsaw from New York
Stanley Hausner, a 32 year old Polish-born American, flies a Bellanca monoplane from Floyd Bennett Airport aiming to reach Warsaw in about 44 hours. He heads north over the Atlantic with no radio, flanked by a support plane and escorted by ships, as he embarks toward England and onward to Poland.
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Floyd Bennett Airport
N. Y
U.P
Stanley Hausner
New York
Warsaw
Poland
Great Circle
North Atlantic
Hausner
Martha Hausner
Paul Knappock
John Coyne
Rockaways
England
London
Warsa
Croydon
Radio Marine Corporation
Mackay Radio Corporation
Lindbergh and
Chamberlin
Atlantic
Carriel
Tremor Toll May Be High
A series of earthquakes concentrated in central Mexico disrupted communications in Colima and raised fears of many deaths. Reports from Colima estimated 30 dead and injured, with additional casualties in other western states. Fifteen tremors occurred from 4 40 a m to 6 30 p m and the Colima volcano was reported spouting flames. Manzanillo in Colima state appeared most damaged.
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Mexico City
URI
Mexico
Colima
Manzanillo
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Grist
Daily Grind
Co. P. S
Andy Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
Great Britain
Andy
Nat C. Browne
Frank Brooks
Seattle
Puget Sound
Browne
U.S
Sidney Smith
Goodsprings
Peter Rosentower
New York College
St. Paul, Minn
Ian Lydon
Honolulu
Kilaueau
ARMY
A.ade UU
Sylvester Nunes
Margaret Enos
Nunes
Keyes
Hia
S. S. Paris
Stanley F. Hausner
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