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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1931
Page
2
Idaho Senator William Borah, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, warned that falling silver prices drive a worldwide depression by eroding purchasing power and increasing indebtedness. He urged governments to take decisive action rather than rely on resolutions or citizen-led efforts.
F W Robinson, VP of Union Pacific System, reviews the postwar transport scene. He argues private railroad construction raised efficiency, but earnings remain below a fair return while oil gas pipelines buses trucks and airways take business. He warns stricter rival regulation harms railroads and urges a more liberal policy toward them.
Bull Montana a former wrestler known for film roles was fined two dollars by Judge Albert Teonesa in Los Angeles after the judge admitted fault for a traffic violation. Montana said he missed a traffic light while returning home from a personal meeting about domestic troubles.
Investigations of ultra-short waves will be conducted by WIXG now licensed on the five to ten meter band. Equipment is being installed under the direction of Hollis Baird, chief engineer. A four-room Spanish type home at Fourth and Gass streets for Mrs. Jake Beckley will have a contract awarded soon, per architect Paul Warner.
Amy Earl and Flora Jones visited Wednesday from Moapa Valley, staying briefly in town and sharing local perspectives with residents.
The National Coursing Association has given T. A. Griffin, the local chairman, unofficial assurance that the 1932 spring greyhound races will be held in Merced next April to determine the United States dog racing championships.
The article analyzes shifts in Ohio and Pennsylvania politics as Ohio loses ground in federal representation, dropping from two senators and 19 house members to one senator and 12 Republicans, while Pennsylvania maintains a strong Republican bloc of two senators and 33 house members. It uses comments on Hoover’s prospects and national chairmen predictions to illustrate a volatile political landscape.
In New York Beatrice Lillie hosts lively parties at Sutton Place and nearby, while lallulah Bankhead swirls at Sands Point. A bluecoat joins the revelry after a motorcycle stop, Vincent Youmans plays piano with an Irish tenor, and Prohibition debates echo through social circles. A Scot distiller eyes an American market, loses $80 at racing, and a kind truck driver rescues an elderly woman at Tenth Avenue crossing.
A leather sling similar to the one David used to slay Goliath is among tools and weapons in a Minnesota Historical Society collection from the Pigeon River reserve on the Lake Superior shore. Local farmers in South Mississippi plan to plant only pedigreed seed this year.
Washington reports a new crop rotation system by Agriculture Department experts to expand sugar beet growing in the Rocky Mountain area. The plan alternates beets with nematode control in irrigated western lands and suggests spacing between 10 and 20 inches in 20 inch rows, with tighter spacing where curly top damage is severe in Idaho and Utah.
Fayetteville Arkansas reports that Arkansas cotton yield per acre rose from 174 pounds in the five years before 1920 to 181 pounds in the five years ending 1930. The gain increased the state crop value by about 2.5 million dollars, attributed to county farm agents aiding farmers. The note also mentions over 26 million motor vehicles traveled U.S. highways in 1930.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will travel to Poznan Poland to witness the July 4 unveiling of a $100000 monument to the wartime president donor Ignace Paderewski a famed Polish pianist and former premier The 20 foot high statue bears a covenant scroll linking the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles The event will be hosted by President Ignaz Moscicki at a Poznan castle once Kaiser Wilhelm II’s seat in German territory Planes kill pests Yuma Arizona Sulphur dusting alfalfa fields is done quickly and cheaply by airplanes
Laura May Hilliard, who just graduated from high school here, had perfect attendance for seven years with no absences or tardies.
Greensboro residents paid 14 of a cent per vote in the recent primary and regular municipal election.
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