Federal Building Work To Begin In Las Vegas Soon
Washington announced Treasury will advertise bids within days for a brick two story federal building at Third Street north end on a 29 acre civic center site. The post office, reclamation space, federal court, and commissioners offices will be housed with a terra cotta trim.
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Las Vegas
Federal
Washington
Treasury Department
Nye Wilson
Reclamation Service
Las Vegas Post Office
Federal Court
United States Commissioner's Offices
Tension Service Office
Civic Center
Third Street
Nevada sheriffs seek 6 percent of gambling license fees
A June 4 test case before the Nevada Supreme Court questions whether sheriffs in counties like Washoe are entitled to keep 6 percent of all gambling license fees they collect. Sheriff Russell Trathern seeks mandate against County Treasurer D W Dunkle to remit net funds, arguing the legislature intended county sheriffs to receive extra service compensation for license collection. Dunkle contends no law allows withholding. the state and cities argue over revenue distribution.
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Carson City
Deermine
Nevada
Stat Supreme Court
Sherriff
Russell Trathen
Washoe County
Cownity
D. W. Dunkle
Reno
Sparks
Trathern
Dunkle
DO X Lands Safely At Fernando Noronha After South Atlantic Flight
The German flying boat DO X landed in the water near Fernando Noronha 125 miles off Brazil after a flight from Cape Verde. It left Porto Praia at 12 52 p m Thursday and reached the island at 12 10 a m today 9 10 E S T. The voyage began November 5 at Altenrhein Switzerland and lasted thirteen hours and eighteen minutes.
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Fernando
Porto Praia
Cape Verde
Altrenhein
Switzerland
Fire Destroys Farm Cabin on Heffner Ranch
A small frame cabin on the Heffner ranch west of the county farm burned yesterday. No one was hurt though a renter family, new arrivals seeking work, lost most personal belongings. Mrs. Heffner alerted the fire, which damaged about $40 in losses.
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Heffner
Veto Overrides Shake Up as Man Tied to Girl’s Death Is Held
Florida lawmakers override Governor Carster’s veto on the pari mutuel bill. A man jailed in Searchlight on vagrancy charges is said to match a suspect in the brutal killing of Virginia Brooks, a ten year old San Diego girl, with fingerprints sent to San Diego police.
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Virginia Brooks
San Diego
Tallahassee
Fra
Florida House of Representaon
Senate
Doyle Carsterday
Jon
B. Franklin
Keate
City Zoning Ordinance Amended to Fire District Map
The city council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance to establish the entire incorporated area as a fire district divided into zones two and three. The fire zoning map was adopted, based on the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference code. The meeting also addressed peddler regulation, a bungalow court near the high school, and enforcing building rules. The Oppedyke Dairy announced a herd expansion to sixty-five Jersey cows from Utah.
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Las Vegas
Unifrom
Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference
Cragi
German
Mund
Hansell
Thomas
South Main Street
Fifth Street
Fremont
Fifth
Mine upgrade brings experts to Searchlight area
Jay A. Carpenter of the Mackey School of Mines and Alfred Merritt Smith of the Nevada Bureau of Mines traveled to Las Vegas and Searchlight to oversee an upgrade. W. J. Loring now runs operations at the Duplex mine owned by McCarthy Bros, after moving from Francisco. Loring pushes deep development on an 800 foot level, oversees six sites, and keeps the mill at sixty tons daily. Duplex employs five to forty men. new leasers plan to start on the old Quartette site.
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Jay A. Carpenter
Mackey School of Mines
University, Nevada
Alfred Merritt Smith
Nevada Bureau of Mines
Las Vegas
Eck
Eldorado Canyon
Caliente
Carpenter and Sons
W. J. Loring
Francisco
Duplex
McCarthy Bros
Loring
Dundee Beats Jeby In N Y Ten Round Victory
In Madison Square Garden Dundee, a Baltimore middleweight, defeated Ben Jeby of New York by ten round decision. Jeby led early with a rapid pace but Dundee closed strong. the judges favored Dundee over referee O Sullivan.
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New York
Dundee
Baltimore
Mickey Walker
Ben Jeby
Madison Square Garden
Jeby
O'Sulivan
Jones Case Is Continued In Taxi War Matter
C. M. Jones appeared in municipal court before Judge Morse and pleaded not guilty in the taxi war case involving Oswald Lynch and H. M. Anderson. The case was continued until 9 a m today. Joe Russell's vagrancy sentencing in the same court was deferred.
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C. M. Jones
Oswald “Pinkey" Lynch
Jones
H. M. Anderson
Morse
Joe Russell
Six Firms Interview Industry Board On Dam Claims
Carson City June 4 Representatives of the Six Companies Inc building the Hoover dam conferred with the Nevada Industrial Commission on compensation rates for injured workmen. The federal takeover of Boulder Canyon work raises questions on state liability for injuries in the region.
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Carson City
Companies
Inc
Hoover Dam
Carson
Nevada Industrial Commission
Boulder Canyon
Witnesses Describe Seeing Suspect Near Slain Girl
Testimony at a preliminary hearing places Mors E. Garrison near the Balboa Park scene the night Hazel Bradshaw was murdered. Mrs. Lebsom and policeman Jump corroborate seeing a man like Garrison, while streetcar motorman Hughes says Garrison rode his car at 12 13 wearing a dark suit. The state argues he killed Hazel Bradshaw at 11 55 p.m. while escorting her home.
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San Diego
U.P
Mors E. Garrison
Hazel Bradshaw
Miss Bradshaw
Balboa Park
George Lebsom
Garrison
Robert 3. Jump
John M. Hughes
Hungry Dogs Devour Child in Alaska Tragedy
In Seward Alaska on June 4 A P report details a winter incident where ten malemates and police dogs killed and nearly devoured a three year old boy in a remote Alaskan settlement. Cannery worker Martin Haugen found the dogs fighting over the body as the starving pack was controlled. All dogs except the leader were shot.
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Seward
Alaska
Starr
Bristol Bar
Martin Haugen
Cannery
Charles
City Receives 2637 In May In City Finances
City Clerk Viola Burns reports Las Vegas collected 2637 dollars and 50 cents in May. Municipal court fines totaled 807 dollars. Cemetery lot sales reached 175 dollars. Plumbing inspector fees 239.25 dollars. Electrical permits 157 dollars. Building permits 194 dollars. The remaining balance came from city licenses.
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Viola Burns
Las Vegas
Reno gunfray verdict finds Graham not guilty in self defense
A coroner’s jury in Reno finds that F R McCracken was shot by William Graham in self defense after a fist fight at the Haymarket club in Douglas alley. Witnesses testified McCracken fired first and Graham’s gun jammed McCracken’s shot. Both men lacked weapon permits and McCracken had led a long-running craps game at the Palace club.
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Reno
Haymarket
Douglas Alley
F. R. McCracken
William Graham
McCracken
Graham
Melvin Jepson
Onio Gagliaudo
Gagliaudo
Howard
Palace Club
Fall Too Ill for Journey to Washington Prison
El Paso June 4 former secretary of the interior Albert B Fall is declared too ill to travel to Washington to begin a one year prison term for bribery in oil lease cases. Dr H T Sanford announced after evaluating his condition at the request of attorney Frank J Hogan who hopes for a suspended sentence.
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EL Paso
Tex
A.ri
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
H. T. Sanford
Fall
Frank J. Hogan
Hogan
Pall
Whitney Reelected President Of Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen
A. F. Whitney of Cleveland was reelected to a second three year term as president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at the Houston convention nearing its close. P. W. Anderson of Cleveland was reelected general secretary. About thirty five more officers remain to be elected before the meeting ends, likely Monday.
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Huston
Tex
A. F. Whitney
Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
P. W. Anderson
American Negro Joins French Foreign Legion Jazz Band Leader
Jackie Walker from San Francisco, the only American black man in the French Foreign Legion, leads the legion’s six member jazz band in desertside cafes near Sidi-abbes Morocco. He won the Colonial Croix de Guerre for wartime conduct and plans to reenlist for five more years, with a pension, while saving his wages.
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Desert
Sahara
Jackie Walker
Glasgow
Walker
Jackie
Legion
Paul Rockwell
lel-Abbes
Rockwell
Man Identified in City Car Theft Case After False Booking
John Breeze of Bakersfield was mistaken for John Doe and jailed on a theft complaint by W. H. Patterson. Breeze, later found with a Ford coupe fourteen miles northwest of the city, led officers to the recovered vehicle after being awakened.
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Connecion
John Breeze
Bakersfield
John Doe
W. H. Patterson
Patterson
Breeze
Water spout sighted over Seattle creates strange hum
Observers in Seattle on June 4 reported a cloud forming an aerial waterspout that descended into a darker cloud and drew sustenance from it. The spiral expanded as the cone rose and vanished into a cloud bank while a humming sound ended. Eyewitnesses thought the phenomenon resembled a cyclone.
Lindberghs Plan Pacific Flight to China
Under Secretary Castle announced the Lindberghs will cross the Pacific within a month and tour the Orient by air before returning home to their year old son. They will use a northern route with no water hops and seek landing permission in Japan and China through U S channels.
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Pradl
Pacific
Orient
Ward
Castle
State Department
Lindbergh
Tokio
Legation
Peiping
Japan
China
Garcia Bail Set At 1000 In Alley Slashing Case
Jose Garcia appeared before Judge Frank M. Ryan in justice court for a preliminary examination set for June 6. Bail was set at 1000 but could not be posted, and Garcia was remanded to Sheriff Keate.
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Jose Garcia
C. L. Smith
Airdome Theatre
Frank M. Ryan
Justice Court
Ryan
Garcia
Keate
Man Fined For Driving Over Freshly Paved Road
Emil Pope of Oshkosh pleaded guilty to driving through a highway barricade and over 500 feet of freshly laid concrete near Sherwood Calumet County. He was fined $1 per foot for the damage after his car stalled at a concrete mixer and workers caught him.
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Oshkosh
Wis
NEN
Emil Pope
Burley
Ida
W. O. Pratt
Mills Denies Threats in Pantages Trial
Las Vegas and Los Angeles realtor John P. Mills testified he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor rather than face a felony charge in the girl market case. He and Alexander Pantages, Jesse Shreve, William Jobelmann and Olive Clark Day were tied to a Hollywood party involving Lydia Nitto. Mills denied making threats. cross examination focused on his ties to Pantages as spectators filled the courtroom.
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San Diego
John P. Mills
Las Vegas
Nevada
Los Angeles
Cal
Mills
Alexander Pantages
Jesse Shreve
William Jobelmann
Olive Clark Day
Lydia Nitto
Pantages
Fox May Film Riders of the Purple Sage in Nevada
Rex Bell and Fox officials arrive in the Las Vegas area to scout locations for Zane Grey riders tale with Ben Stoloff and crew. Bell denies Clara Bow joins them while noting her illness may keep her away, with conflicting reports from Hillcrest sanitarium and Glendale.
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Las Vegas
Zane Grey
Rex Bell
Bell
Ben Stoloff
Fox
Charleston
Clara Bow
Searchlight
Miss Bow
Hillcrest
Hollywood
Glendale
Sanitarium
Waesley Home
Paramount Studio
Trojan Gridman Is Good Slugger
Los Angeles June 4. Orv Mohler of the University of Southern California is highlighted for his strong slugging in town chosen endeavors, though he may not excel in four sports.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Orv Mohler
University of Southern California Athletic Star
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Mitzi Green
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