Wasted energy on the railroad trip reflects luxuries
On the Union Pacific Pacific Limited journey to Chicago the observer notes vast wasted energy with Pullman cars carrying heavy dead weight per passenger. The piece contrasts Pullman comfort with auto travel, recalls Strawberry Day in Pleasant Grove, Utah, and recounts a Salt Lake City layover including a tip to a local beggar and a critique of travel costs.
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Union Pacific ‘Pacific Limited
Chicago
Observer
Shannon
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Los Angeles
Pleasant Grove
Utah
Dick Miller
Las Vegas
California
Brigham Young
Salt Lake Valley
Promontory Point
West Temple Street
Hotel Utah
Clark County
Tabernacle
Lady Moocher
Moocher
Las Vegas stunting pilots fly over Grand Canyon
Second Lieutenants Murray Morse and Bruger of March Field entertained Las Vegas with daredevil stunts then flew yesterday over the Grand Canyon and returned for another exhibition. Plans to visit with bombers for pleasure flights were dropped after a wire informed locals the ships could not come. Vail M. Pittman, Ely Daily Times publisher, visited Las Vegas to inspect his ranch.
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Murray
Morse
Bruger
March Field
Las Vegas
Grand Canyon
Boulder City
Vail M. Pittman
The
Ely Daily Times
Lost flier is found alive grants and Zeller win posts
Nevada Legion delegates wrap a long business session with praise for Las Vegas and Boulder City hospitality. Francis A. Riordan of Ely is named department commander with Arnold Millard Carson City as first vice commander and Frank M. Zeller Boulder City as finance officer. The Scrugham trophy goes to Boulder City Post 31 for best parade representation as delegates prepare for the 1933 Portland Convention and the national gathering. A resolution supports immediate payment of adjusted compensation certificates and Hoover Dam appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Las Vegas
Boulder City
Francis A. Riordan
Ely
Arnold Millard
Carson
James Ss. Hawthorne
Peck
Frank M. Zeller
Charles Priest
Cargen City
A. c. Grant
EK. Smith
Lovelock
J. G. Serugham
Riordan
Roy Perssons
Perssons
Boulder Wins
J. G. Scrugham
Boulder City Post
Scrugham
Skinner
Portland
E. F. Dunleavy
Austin
D. M. Buckingham
Hawthorne
Archie Pozzi
Carson City
Morley Griswold
Reno
H. T. McSherry
George E. Nye
Yerington
A. E. Cahlan
Vern Bursh
Sparks
A. M. Lamberty
Elko
Harry Somers
R. F. Skinner
Willard Smith
Caliente
Miners Enjoy Home Comfort Await Rescue
Six miners trapped for 30 hours in the Silver King Western mine tunnel endure heat and soggy earth as rescue crews dig through a barrier. Names William O'Neil Gilbert Carter Clair Smith Clark Bennett George Potter Mike Ruby are listed among the trapped workers awaiting help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park City
Cith
Silver King Western
William O'Neil
Gilbert Carter
Clair Smith
Clark Bennett
George Potter
Mike Ruby
Goldrange Gi Plans Shaft as Boom Hopes Rise
Goldrange scene described as a budding mining boom with new homes, water lines, and a shaft sinking underway at the Goldrange Standard Mining Co. site. Charles F. Pugh, L. W. Cramer, and Hugh A. Shamberger spearhead initial sinking with veins converging at depth as a possible ore body is inferred near a trip from Los Angeles appended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Sheridan
Age Goldrange
Goldrange
Goldfeld
Pres. Lous W. Cramer
Hugh A. Shamberger
Goldrange Standard Mining Co
U. S. Standard
Cramer
Nevada
Charges Against Gaston Means to Go to Jury
Charges against Gaston B Means for embezzling 100000 dollars from Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean with a promise to return the Lindbergh baby will be placed before a jury Monday. He faces 10 to 20 years in jail if convicted as attorneys debate technical points.
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Gaston Means
Washington
WUP
Gaston B. Means
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Lindbergh
Department of Justice
Bonus Army ranks swell as march toward DC continues
Washington dispatch reports the bonus expeditionary force expects 15 000 men by Monday when Congress weighs the Patman bill for immediate payment of 2 billion for veterans. Leaders predict 50 000 more will arrive. plan to press for a national convention planks to back pay. Police fear growing unrest may require federal help. rain floods Acostia flats where veterans sleep on the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Patman
Walter W. Waters
Chicago
Anacostia
Sydney J Marks
District of Columbia
Conus Army
Bonus Army
Pehlam Glassford
Hurley
Glassford
Pup
Marks
Acostia
Man Executed For Pie Motive Murder In Oklahoma
Oklahoma City June 11 UPI Ira J Alder receives death by electric chair for the murders of Nora McDonald and her husband Tom McDonald and the attempt on his own wife. He claimed the killings were over insufficient pie. The court denied his sanity plea and set August 19 for execution.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Ira J. Alder
Criminal Court of Appeals
Alder
Nora McDonald
Tom McDonald
Legion Auxiliary elects officers at convention
Mary Reed of Lovelock was chosen department president and Ethel Davis of Elko as vice president. Others elected include Tillie Blood Las Vegas national committeewoman, Effie Deadrich Las Vegas treasurer, Dorothy Deckleman Ely historian, Paula Haas Boulder City sergeant at arms, Marie Gildner Las Vegas district president, Ruth Gallagher Elko district president, and Mrs West Hawthorne district 4 president. Washoe county district 1 had no representation, so no president was chosen there.
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Legion
Legion Auxiliary
Mary Reed
Lovelock
Ethel Davis
Elko
Tillie Blood
Las Vegas
Somuers
Fallon
Effie Deadrich
Dorothy Deckleman
Ely
Paula Haas
Boulder City
Marie Gildner
Ruth Gallagher
West
Hawthorne
Washoe Couny
Blood
Las Vegas Post Names Drum Corps Official Nevada Unit
Las Vegas Post 8 drum and bugle corps under Don Borax was chosen as the official Nevada department drum and bugle corps for the coming year at yesterday’s convention session. The corps has been a feature of every Las Vegas parade in recent times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Don Borax
Nevada Department
185 Ex-Soldiers Sign Here for Capital Bonus March
Las Vegas bonus marchers plan to depart for Washington tonight after a mass sign up of over 185 men. Dr A Corfora will offer medical services, with Kirk Ambrose and John Capp named secretary and recording secretary. Transportation is the main hurdle as more veterans sign up.
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Las Vegas
Washington
A. Corfora
Nevada
Kirk Ambrose
John Capp
Wrong Man Identified in Lindbergh Kidnapping Probe
Alpine New Jersey June 11 The Lindbergh kidnapping inquiry shifted after police found Ernest Miller of Closter NJ with Violet Sharpe on the night of the kidnaping overturning the earlier link to Ernest Brinkert of White Plains. Miller confessed to accompanying Sharpe. Brinkert remains detained despite an unproven link to Sharpe or her sister.
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Alpine
N. J
U.P
Lindbergh
Violet Sharpe
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Jr Brinkert
Ernest Brinkert
White Plains
N. Y
Harry Walsh
Ernest
Ernest Miller
Closter
Miss Sharpe
Walsh
Brinker
Europe
Dwight W. Morrow
Col. Lindbergh
Brinkert
Miller
Septimus Banks
Morrow
Banks
Ernie” Miller
Hopewell
Inspector Walsh
Eda
Emily
New Rochelle
Akron Dirigible Akron Passes Over Phoenix Night Flight
The navy airship Akron sped across the desert night from Yuma to Phoenix in two hours. Crowds lined rooftops as the red and white lights blinked while the craft continued toward Tucson and El Paso en route from Sunnyvale to its Lakehurst home port.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Akron
Yuma
Airways
Tucson
el Paso
Sunnyvale Naval Base
Lakehurst
Republicans Meet Tuesday to Choose County Central Committee
Republican voters convene Tuesday at 11 in the courthouse to select a new county central committee and delegates to the state convention at Carson City. Precinct delegates named include long lists of residents across nine precincts with multiple nominees per precinct.
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Carson City
R. W. Martin
Frank McNamee, Jr
John Beville
David Farnsworth
William Jones
Paul Warner
Earl Rockwell
L. A. Woitishek
E. W. Griffith
Dave Holland
Guy Baker
M. W. F. R. Mild
O. J. Smith
K. O. Knudson
Leo A. McNamee
W. E. Ferron
C. E. Pembroke
Florence S. Boyer
J. W. Wilson
F. A. Stevens
John Cahlan
Frank Wait
Leland Ronnow
C. P. Squires
A. W. Ham
Art Harris
Herb Krouse
Will Beckley
M. E. Ward
Russell Squires
E. A. Stinson
Harold Case
R. B. Griffith
George D. Clark
Tom Sager
I. S. Thompson
C. D. Breeze
Leonard Blood
W. J. Flowers
H. P. Marble
A. S. Henderson
F. M. Ferguson
A. L. Drew
LaMar Foremaster
Harve Perry
Andy Rafael
C. V. Gilbert
H. C. Hansen
Claude Curran
Roy Neagle
J. T. McWilliams
E. Mann
Russell Morgan
Reese Morgan
Mystery man nabbed in downtown Las Vegas search for room 210
Thomas S. Johnson a Colorado stockman traveling with two hog trailers was arrested in a downtown Las Vegas hotel while allegedly seeking a famous room 210 He carried an ice pick a flashlight a key to room 210 and a hat belonging to a Boulder City Legionnaire Insufficient details about charges or motive were provided.
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Thomas S. Johnson
Las Vegas
Boulder City
Lad Posing as Dog Catcher Tries Ocean Visit Ends in Capture
Wayne Bowman a 12 year old claimed to be Shelly Idaho official dog catcher and hitchhiked to Los Angeles to see the Pacific Ocean. He said he earned 50 cents a head for stray dogs and listed an aunt Genevieve Sorenson of Long Beach California as relative.
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Lad
Ocean
Los Angeles
Wayne Bowman
Shelly
Idaho
Pacific Ocean
Bowman
Genevieve Sorenson
Ives
Long Beach
Cal
Polish aviator Hausner picked up at sea after transatlantic flight attempt
Stanislaus F. Hausner, attempting to fly from New York to Warsaw, was rescued by the British tanker Circe Shell after a forced landing about 650 miles from Spain. The Circe Shell, on its maiden voyage, is carrying 100000 barrels of oil and may stop at Azores, Key West, New Orleans, or Houston. Hausner, exhausted but uninjured, was taken aboard and bound for New Orleans.
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Lands End
Eng
Stanislaus F. Hausner
Circe Shell
Hausner
New York
Warsaw
Poland
France
Spanish
London
U.P
Diown
Atlantic
S. S
Clive Shell
Spain
Newfoundland
Wilson
United Press
F. Hausner
Bellanca
Greenwich
New Orleans
Terhune Ave
Jersey City
N. J
America
Dutch Shell Corporation
Azores Islands
Key West
Fla
Houston
Texas
Friends
Newark
Pauls Knappek
St. Casimir’s
United Press Tonight
Stanislaus Hausner
Summer religious vacation school opens in Las Vegas
Two Dominican Sisters arrive to conduct a religious vacation school in the kindergarten building of the grammar school. Classes in religious study art work and handcraft run 9 to 11 30 each weekday morning with no tuition. Applications at St Joan of Arc rectory on South Second Street.
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Las Vegas
St. Joan of Are Catholic Church
South Second Street
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Grist
Daily Grind
HED
Grant
Zeller
Riordan Department
Tage
W. E.ferron
Aualiary
L.V. Drum Corps
Utah State Line
Hausner Oafe
Stanislaus
Knappek
Floyd Bennett Airport
Brooklyn
Vegas
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