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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1928
Page
1
Philadelphia June 7 A radio amateur Albert L Byler using a railway towerman receiver picked up a message he believed to be from General Umberto Nobile. The SOS asked for immediate help and gave a coordinate reading 84 15 10 north 15 20 40 east signed Nobile.
Lola Wheeler, 24, detained in county jail on a felony charge of issuing checks with no funds after cashing a $35 bad check in Salt Lake City. Authorities say several merchants were paid with fictitious checks drawn on Walker Bros. bank. Bail set at $500. hearing postponed to June 12 with Dupray and Foley as defense.
Las Vegas Kiwanis votes to move weekly luncheon from Wednesday noon to Monday night at the Union Pacific dining room. Change cited warm weather and work duties. effective early July. Dusty Rhoads directs the day’s program featuring musical solos by Larry Simons and comments on automobile evolution.
Will Rogers survives a second airplane mishap as a Western Air Express monoplane crashes after a bumpy landing near Cheyenne. The pilot, Fred Kelly, and Rogers escaped unharmed though the craft sustained wheel and wing damage. Rogers jokes about Death Valley Scotty while rail service shuttled the injured and notes another prior Vegas crash. In Salt Lake City, Ed Wasserbach and Johnny Brookfield plead guilty to fighting in municipal court, with $25 fines paid. several divorces listed.
The city paying program remained undecided at press time. The Board of City Commissioners and 23 taxpayers were present. A motion to appoint an investigation committee was discussed but no plan was reached by 4 30.
Darrell Dayton addressed the Rotary Club as the 20-30 Club guest, praised by Leo McNamee for the group’s enthusiasm and confidence in setting goals. Letters from Mrs. Orrin Adcock and Dr. Walter E. Clark were read, thanking the club for flowers and noting the state university scholarship awarded to Roy Barton.
The screen star Dorothy Dalton wife of Oscar Hammerstein Jr. is reported to seek a Nevada divorce while living in a private cabin at Neil West Dude Ranch thirty miles west of Reno. She arrived at Reno and went to West Ranch at Pyramid Lake with a female companion and gave no confirmation.
Mr and Mrs W O Olive arrived in Las Vegas and moved into a new home at Seventh and Carson streets after marrying in Burbank California Mrs Olive formerly Miss Fern Reynolds a longtime city schools teacher and music art assist ant She directed the M E Choir and led several concerts Her husband works for the Union Pacific and participates in musical circles and the U P Athletic Club
The piece explains oil bound gravel pavement as distinct from older oiled gravel. It details graded gravel rock and sand mixed with 65 percent asphalt oil, coating each particle for a near asphalt concrete surface. It notes wide adoption, cost advantages, and suitability for Las Vegas traffic.
Field engineer C. E. Roberts of All American Non Metallics cataloged four 160 acre Glendale area claims seven miles southwest of Glen dale while exploring cement prospects and mineral deposits. Authorities seek Floyd and Ruth Robinson and four children in an abduction warrant from Salt Lake Sheriff Patten with few details.
Eighty acres north west of the Rockwell airport were bought yesterday from Frank G. Henderson by W. F. McLallen, associate of Leigh Hunt. The purchase was confirmed by authoritative sources.
TREPASSEY New Foundland June 7 The proposed trans Atlantic flight of the monoplane Friendship was postponed after three unsuccessful takeoff attempts. CURTIS FIELD N Y June 7 The trans Atlantic monoplane Columbia with Mabel Bell and two male companions began the first leg to Europe but returned to Curtis Field shortly after noon.
In Suva Fiji on June 7, the Southern Cross waited for the next ebb tide to fuel for a 1,795 mile leg to Brisbane. Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and crew loaded 950 gallons as they prepared to continue the North America to Australia journey, Oakland to Honolulu and Hawaii to Suva, on the 7,800 mile flight.
Judge Wm. E. Orr of the Tenth Judicial District addressed the 20-30 club urging cooperation for the coming summer Scout camp. He spoke on legal procedures in juvenile cases. Jimmy Siles introduced him. Leo McNamee of Rotary and C. C. Boyer attended.
Mr and Mrs Wolfe riding in a Reo coupe on Fifth Street toward Las Vegas yesterday morning nearly collided with a California plated car No 1 469 755 that passed on the right at high speed missing them by a narrow margin The Wolfes are connected with the Rock Springs Land and Cattle Company of Ivanpah California.
Charlie Chaplin and fellow celebrities survived an early blast at the Russian Eagle cafe in Hollywood, a rendezvous for film notables. Ten others, including seven firefighters, were injured as the fire, of undetermined origin, raged following the explosion.
At a city commissioners meeting the paving protest was rejected as insufficient and Robert Griffith secretary of the City Planning Commission sent a letter urging favorable final consideration and immediate initiation of street paving in Las Vegas per the ordinance of intention.
C M McGovern and Mrs. McGovern returned to Las Vegas after attending the national convention of the Order of Railway Conductors in Jacksonville Florida. He described a lively session and a trip south boosting Las Vegas while distributing Chamber of Commerce booklets. Mrs. McGovern will stay in Los Angeles for a few weeks before returning. The Age thanks Mr McGovern for a month’s Jacksonville Journal subscription.
Work on the new Death Valley Las Vegas road is abandoned for now due to dry earth with completion planned in the fall. The existing road will handle traffic meanwhile while crews focus on the Mt. Charleston road and then the new municipal airport site.
George Hooper of Westside produced what is believed to be the earliest corn in Nevada grown for table use with his garden crop on June 3. He also had crooked neck table squash for the table for about a month. A first corn from Imperial Valley arrived here last week.
Postal Inspector Smith is in Las Vegas on a routine visit. He is noted as the officer who brought Roy D Autremont back from the Philippines to face trial for the Oregon mail robbery.
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