War Veterans Meet In Vegas Aiming To Host Convention
Eighteen delegates from the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post gathered in Frid Alward's office to plan securing the California Nevada division convention for Las Vegas next year. They discussed a publicity push to storm Long Beach on Sunday and advertise Las Vegas to bring the convention home. The effort, supported by several California and Nevada posts, aims to swing the meeting place in Las Vegas’ favor. The local post was installed in November and has grown steadily since.
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Post of
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Frid Alward
California
Nevada
Las Vegas
Long Beach
Ans
Campaign to Be Waged Declares Cops Overparking Warning
Las Vegas traffic officers issued tags to drivers who violated the law. They focused on cars with one light and defective lights and warned that blocking fire zones would be dealt with. Five tags were handed out after an alarm on North Eighth Street. A crackdown on unlicensed drivers will begin in days.
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Police Department
Las Vegas
North Eighth Street
Nitto girl's character attacked in Pantages trial
In San Diego on June 10, defense attorneys for showman Alexander Pantages and three co defendants argued to dismiss one count at the morals trial. Lydia Nitto described as a girl who came from Hollywood for a party and as delinquent when introduced to Pantages, with her age disputed between seventeen and twenty three.
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San Diego
Lydia Nitto
Hollywood
Alexander Pantages
Pantages
Jesse Shreve
Willam Jobelmann
Olive Clark Day
Turrentine
Miss Nitto
Court Crowd Boo Attorney at Moss Garrison Hearing
In San Diego June 10 spectators booed Deputy District Attorney Sam Bristow as Moss E. Garrison faced cross examination in a preliminary hearing for the murder of Hazel Bradshaw. The court was cleared after crowd hostility and threats followed Garrison’s denial of killing or threatening any male friends. Also noted: Yugoslavia’s population of 13.5 million has about 85 percent supported by agriculture.
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San Diego
Moss E. Garrison
Torney
Garrison
Hazel Bradshaw
Ganey
Sam Bristow
Bristow
Bris
Yugoslavia
Will Remodel Las Vegas Club
James A. Fleming Sr plans addition and remodeling of the Las Vegas club and smokehouse. A 26 by 68 foot reinforced concrete addition will house separate lavatories for men and women with tiled floors and wainscoting. Exterior walls will be removed and second story supported by steel beams. lower floor becomes one large room after completion.
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James A. Fleming, Sr
Las Vegas
Oklahoma officers held for murder in Mexican students’ deaths
In Ardmore Oklahoma two deputy sheriffs Wm Guess and Cecil Crosby were bound over to district court for murder after they shot and killed Emilio Cortez Rubio and Manuel Garcia Gomez. Salvador Cortez also a relative was with the youths when killed. Rubio testified the officers did not display badges before firing as the men fled. The bodies were sent to Mexico City after the preliminary hearing.
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Aardmore
Okla
Oklahoma
Wm. Guess
Cecil Crosby
Emilio Cortez Rubio
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Manuel Garcia Gomez
Mexico City
Salvador Cortez 9
Salvador
Rubio
Hheir
Nevada News Bureau Opened By John B Daniels In Las Vegas
John B Daniels, veteran publisher who has operated in Santa Monica and Hollywood, opens a Nevada news bureau in Las Vegas at 104 South Seven, to provide feature reporting on Hoover Dam era developments for Eastern papers and local outlets. He served as a Royal Air Force scout pilot in World War I.
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Hoover Dam
John B. Daniels
California
Las Vegas
Nevada
G. Sineer
Daniel
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
Paramount Studios
Hollywood
Potion Picture
Daniels
British Columbia
Canadian National Railroad
United States
Western Front
Royal Air Force
South Seven
Boxer Billy Sargent Dies After Fight in Portland
Vancouver Washington middleweight Billy Sargent died from a fractured skull after being knocked out by Pete Meyers of San Francisco in the main event. Meyers and his manager will stay in Portland for a full investigation. no charges filed.
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Portland
Ore
Billy Sargent
Vancouver
Washington
Pete Meyers
San Francisco
Meyers
Matilda Kuntz Survives Heatwave Burglary Loots Cash Drawer
In Chicago on June 10 during a fierce heat wave many sought Lake Michigan relief while Matilda Kuntz, preferring woolens, endured a 30 minute stay in a National Tea ice box as burglars looted the store and escaped with $28.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Matilda Kuntz
National Tea Company
Scout funds rise as donations exceed goal in Las Vegas drive
Local drive in Las Vegas reports 909 dollars raised toward a 1200 dollar Boy Scout budget. Ira Earl announced the totals after a campaign in the business district with many contributions from Veterans groups, clubs, and local businesses. Major donors listed include Veterans of Foreign Wars Rotary Club American Legion Kiwanis Club Southern Nevada Power Co Standard Oil Co and several merchants.
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Ira Earl
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Duffil
A Friend
Rotary Club
Kiwanis Club
American Legion
Elks Club
Southern Nevada Power Co
Standard Oil Co
Planes Stop Vegas to Refuel Primo's Boat Postponed
Eighteen army planes including fifteen Boeing pursuit craft and two single motor plus one Fokker transport arrived at Western Air Express airport yesterday. They refueled with Union Oil and then departed for their home base after maneuvers in the east. BROOKLYN heavy rain postpones Primo Camera Pat Redmond bout at Ebbets Field to Monday June 15.
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Western Air Express
San Dieo
P. A. Simon
Union Oil Company
Brooklyn
N. Y
Primo Camera
Pat Redmond
Ebbetsfield
Roosevelt To Dine With House In Pre Campaign Conference
New York Times reports Franklin Roosevelt governor of New York will luncheon with Colonel E M House in Manchester Massachusetts on Saturday The House statement that Roosevelt is the most available presidential candidate boosts the Roosevelt for presidency movement with new momentum
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Roosevelt
House
New York
The
New York Times
Franklin Roosevelt
E. M. House
Manchester
Mass
Colonel House
Eastern aviator hurt in crash near Los Alamos
Carl Long, 24, of St. Louis, was injured when his plane struck a power line and crashed near Los Alamos, Santa Maria. He was treated at a hospital for two broken vertebrae and was en route from Glendale to San Francisco. Oil consumption figure noted as 415,000,000 gallons annually in the United States.
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Santa Maria
Cal
Carl Long
St. Louis
Los Alamos
Long
Glendale
San Francisco
United States
New Meadows hotel work to start today
Plans by Ernest Gates approved and Findley Construction Company to carry on the work. The dining room will be forty by seventy with an east alcove, lounge forty by seventy, lobby twenty eight feet square, overall length north to south 305 feet with a 250 foot east wing, and a thirty six by sixty enclosed patio. A large tile lined pool will be framed by cloistered walks, forming an extension to the present casino and annex in style. Cornero Bros. pursue a dignified, attractive expansion boosting Las Vegas tourism.
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New Meadows Hotel
Ernest Gates
Findley Construction Company
Tasino
Cornero Bros
Las Vegas
Richfield Deficit Ties to Mismanagement in California
Partial probe of Richfield Oil and its holding company shows an operating deficit of just over 50 million dollars. State officials accuse mismanagement and stock juggling, naming former president Fuller and other executives as linked to unauthorized expenditures. Receivers were appointed for the Richfield entity and its holding company.
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Los Angelos
Richfield Oi Company of
California
Richfield Company
Ion
Richfield Books
California Richfield Concern
Equity
Haight
Co. M. Puller
J. L. Talbot
R. W. McKee
A. M. Kelley
Fuller
Talbot
Rioting Follows German Emergency Tax Decree Protests
In Manheim Germany rioters clashed during communist demonstrations against the emergency tax decree. Streets were barricaded with stones boards and wagons. Street lights were smashed leaving the town dark and traffic halted.
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S— Manheim
Germany
Manheim
Las Vegas girl wins Betsy Ross picture prize
Nancy Jane Thaxton owns a large copy of the famous Betsy Ross and the first flag portrait won through fundraising for the Betsy Ross home restoration. A Texas resident developed apparatus that makes motor fuel from crude oil.
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Nancy Jane Thaxton
Betsy Ross
Nancy
Texas
Sailors Trapped in Poseidon Rescue Efforts Reported
Unconfirmed Shanghai dispatch claims eight men trapped in the derelict British submarine Poseidon have been rescued though Bruce, the British guard ship, had no confirmation. Medway established contact with eight men. six others died after attempting escape using a new Davis apparatus.
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Shanghai
China
Bruce
Weihaiwei
North Yellow Sea
Medway
Themelves
Davis
Rescape
Highway oil gravel surface completed in Clark County
Contractor A D Drum Jr finishes oil bound gravel between the Nevada California line and Jean today. Despite delays from late oil shipments and rain, the Las Vegas to California section is praised as one of the state’s best. The project adds 12.62 miles to Clark County’s high speed road network.
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A. D. Drum, Jr
Nevada-California State Line
Jean
Drumm
Las Vegas
California
Clark County
John Liba Found Guilty in Assault Case in Justice Court
John Liba, charged with assault and battery on complaint of his wife, was found guilty in justice court after self defense plea. Deputy D A George Marshall led the state, with Mrs. Liba and Mary Whisler as witnesses. Sentencing set for 10 a.m. today before Judge Frank M. Ryan.
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John Liba
Justice Court
George Marshall
Liba
Mary Whisler
Frank M. Ryan
Meteor H hits Ohio area causing heavy damage
A June 10 meteor shock near Malinto in northwestern Ohio caused a large ground hole, shattered windows, uprooted trees, and flattened a nearby oat field. Farmers found no meteor material. several witnesses reported a bright flash but no meteor fall. The event damaged farms within miles and disrupted telephone poles.
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Toledo
Ohio
Malinto
Report on bad booze outlines nationwide illness and losses
A report presented to the American Medical Association by Dr. Benjamin Burley of Worcester, Massachusetts, cites poison liquor in 1930 as causing more than fifteen thousand illness cases and over fifty million dollars in monetary damage.
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Philadelphia
American Medical Association
Benjamin Burley
Neurological Hospital
Worcester
Mass
Father slays son in personal crisis at Longreach
Charles Lesage Kirby, 35, unemployed, fatally wounded his seven year old son Dean in their home and then shot himself in the temple. Dean died at Seaside hospital after neighbors found the boy on the front steps. Kirby had been examined twice in the psychopathic ward of the police department in recent weeks.
House Breakers Enter 7th Home in Week
Burglars entered the house at 422 Nith Eighth Street Wednesday morning but were foiled by a snap latch on the kitchen door. This marked the seventh house entered in the seven days preceding, with no loot reported.
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Nith Eighth Street
Drumm Wins Oil Contract for Boulder Dam Highway
Andy Drumm was awarded the contract to oil the ten and a half miles of the Boulder Dam highway extending from the city limits easterly to ward Boulder City. The Drumm organization will begin work as soon as the Jean State Line sector is completed.
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Andy Drumm
Boulder Dam
Boulder City
Drumm
Jean State Line
Ruth Nichols completes tests on trans Atlantic plane
Pioneer aviator Ruth Nichols finishes the first leg of a proposed solo flight, planning an ocean hop from Grace Newfoundland toward Harbor Las Vegas. She travels with Mrs. Fred Fallas and is spending a few days in this city before the ocean leg begins later this week.
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Las Vegas
New York
Ruth
Fred Fallas
Nichols
France
Grace
Newfoundland
MacDonald
Rotary Plans Ladies Night At Meadows Vegas Event
Rotary members plan a dinner dance at the Meadows for ladies night with a new Meadows revue and additional entertainment. Attendees should arrive by 7:30 p m for a prompt start. men are told to leave coats at home under a heavy fine for wearing one.
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Ee Vegas Rotarians
Rotary
Anns
Young Ready for Big Joe at Virgin River Bridge Site
W. A. Young, formerly assistant state highway engineer and now with Dodge Bros. Inc., Fallon Nevada, arrived in Las Vegas yesterday en route to the Virgin River bridge site between Bunkerville and Mesquite. He recently toured coast points to arrange materials and equipment shipments. Headquarters will be at Bunkerville.
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W. A. Young
Dodge Bros. Inc
General Contractors
Fallon
Nevada
Las Vegas
Virgin River
Bunkerville
Mesquite
Young
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