Pantages Denies Charge Tells of Wild San Diego Party
San Diego trial testimony by Alexander Pantages centers on a party in October at the El Cortez hotel. He denies immorality charges, detailing an arrangement with Jesse Shreve and John Mills to “get rid of” party guests while Mills allegedly urged removal. The case nears completion with further witnesses expected Monday.
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San Diego
Joe
Alexander Pantages
Lydia Nitto
el Cortez
Jerry Grister
Los Angeles
Jesse Shreve
John P. Mills
Mills
Shreve
William Jobelman
Olive Clark Day
Miss Nitto
Alice Blake
Miss Day
Miss Livingstone
Alice
Waldorf Hotel
Miss Nitty
Cannon Sues Hearst for Damages in Libel Suit
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal South filed a $1,500,000 libel and defamation suit in Los Angeles against William Randolph Hearst and the Los Angeles Examiner, naming George Young as a defendant. He alleges Hearst conspired to destroy his influence on prohibition leaders since the 1928 presidential campaign.
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Los Angeles
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church South
William Randolph Hearst
The
Los Angeles Examiner
George Young
Examiner
Cannon
Hearst
Daisy DeVoe Must Go To Prison
Daisy DeVoe former secretary to Clara Bow, retired for health reasons to a Las Vegas ranch must return to the county jail after a district court appeal dissolved her writ of habeas corpus and remanded her to the sheriff. Convicted of grand theft from Bow for stealing a $473 fur coat, she received an eighteen month term as part of a five year probation. Her attorneys argued incarceration unconstitutional while on appeal, with five appeals filed to higher courts.
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Los Angeles
de Voe
Clara Bow
Las Vegas
Nevada
Miss de Voe
Miss Bow
Jean Link Opens To Line On Boulder Highway Project
Surfacing work on a ten mile stretch of Boulder highway from city limits to ten miles southeast is underway by A. D. Drumm. The final link on the Los Angeles highway from Jean to the state line opened to traffic yesterday, providing full pavement from Las Vegas to the California line for motorists.
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A. D. Drumm
Los Angeles Highway
Jean
State Line
Las Vegas
California Line
Hoover heads to Virginia fishing camp weekend
President and Mrs. Hoover depart Washington for a quiet weekend at the Virginia fishing camp. The trip delays his return before a speech tour through Indiana, Ohio and Illinois.
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Hoover
Virginia
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Boulder trip outlined to president by Smith
Washington June 12 A plan for a tour of Interior Department projects in western states and Alaska was outlined to President Hoover by Chairman Smith of the Irrigation Reclamation Committee. He said the Idaho Republican would study national parks irrigation reclamation projects and Indian reservations while seeking to hold 1932 1933 appropriations at the lowest level needed for efficiency. The trip would start from Kernney near June 23 and include the Boulder Dam project.
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Interior Department
Alaska
House
Hover
Smith
Irrigation Reclamation Committee
Idaho Republican
Kearney
Amelia Earhart in Abilene lands to avoid crowd crash
In Abilene Texas on a June 12 flight from California Amelia Earhart Putnam set her plane down in a parking lot to avoid hitting parked autos and spectators. Her mechanic Eddie De Vaught was unhurt. The aircraft grazed three cars causing dents and a broken windshield on an unoccupied vehicle. The craft will be sent to the factory for repairs.
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Abilene
Texas
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Eddie DeVaught
Amelia
Western Air Express reports record passenger growth in 1931
Los Angeles June reports that Western Air Express shows a 448 percent rise in passenger traffic for the first five months of 1931 versus 1930. May passengers totaled 96, up from 55. Monthly gains include 3950, etc. Over San Diego to Los Angeles route five months carried 499 passengers versus 91 in 1930.
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Los Angeles
Western Air Express
Roy H. Comton
San Diego
Salt Lake City
Comton
Pacific
Atlantic
Chicago
New York
Missouri Treasurer Cleared Of Charges By Senate Panel
Jefferson City Mo June 12 Larry Zrunk suspended state treasurer was fully exonerated late today on charges that led to impeachment before the state senate. He was acquitted on all nine counts after an investigating committee probed his first twenty months in office. Acquittal restored him in full standing as state treasurer.
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Missouri
Senate
Jefferson City
Larry Zrunk
State Senate
House of Representatives
Heavy Guards in Strike Area Ends Growing Uncertainty
In St. Clairsville Ohio the strike area is kept tense as deputy sheriffs with machine guns and tear gas bombs monitor Belmont and Jefferson counties. Over 1200 miners press for an eight hour day and end to the average system of reinstatement. Several leaders face arrest and hunger strikes in Belmont county jail.
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ST. Lairsville
Ohio
Jefferson
Belmon
Belmont County
Elven Ot
Girl's Body Found in Stone Quarry Near Lima Ohio
Thelma Woods 17 was tied with rope and weighed down with a 30 pound stone in an old quarry after a Decoration Day disappearance with her escort Earl Truesdale 20. Coroner says murder. officials drain quarry to recover Truesdale’s body as investigators seek a former suitor for questioning. They vanished after attending a dance.
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Ohio
Thelma Woods
Here
Frank Smith
Earl Truesdale
Truesdale
O. J. Roush
Allen County
Misswood
Capone Indicted With 68 Aides Over Beer Ring
Chicago June 12 4% Scarface Al Capone and sixty eight henchmen were indicted by a federal grand jury for violating prohibition laws. Indictments cite manufacturing and transporting beer since 1920, aiming to disrupt Capone’s Chicago beer empire while omitting gambling and labor rackets. The $50 000 bond remains in effect as government cites nineteen overt acts needing proof for conviction.
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Scarface
al Capone
America
Federal Grand
Capone
al Brown
German Chancellor Granted Full Powers As Cabinet Crisis Looms
Berlin reports President von Hindenburg gave Chancellor Bruening authority to dissolve the Reichstag and call new elections if factions press for a special session. Banks showed unease amid withdrawals while disturbances flared in Landberg and Hamburg as communists protest the economy decree. A government spokesman said dissolution threats and credit uncertainty may force rebel factions to yield to avert a crisis.
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U.pi
Heinrich Bruening
von Hindenberg
Neudeck
Bruening
Reichstag
Spkesman
Landberg
Hamberg
Youth saves life of lad at ranch pool near Las Vegas
Sherwin Garside, a Boy Scout trained in first aid, rescued Billy Mitchell when the younger boy could not swim. Found head downward in the pool on the Garside ranch three miles west of Las Vegas, Sherwin revived him after about half an hour using scout methods. Billy is grandson of W. H. Frazier of the city.
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Billy Mitchell
Billy
Garside Ranch
Las Vegas
Sherwin
Young Garside
F. F. Garside
Tonopah
W. H. Frazier
Bank of America and Parent Firm Approve 76 Million Dividend
Directors of Bank of America and the Corporation of America authorized a combined quarterly dividend of about two million dollars today in San Francisco, with specifics and current totals noted in the release.
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Bank of Americ
San Francisco
Bank of Anrica
Corporation of Amica
Two men held after inquest into Boulder crash death
A coroner's jury ruled J A Wilson died from a compound skull fracture after being crushed beneath an overturned car on the Boulder highway near Las Vegas. Testimony described a station break in with Hoffman and Wilson, a struggle at the Boulder service station, and contradictory accounts from Hoffman, Potter, and Schmittou before Wilson's death. The inquest, delayed for autopsy, named Orval Wilson and Charlie Hedley among those associated. five million dollars in dividends were noted for the two corporations in the first half of the year.
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J. A. Wilson
Boulder Highway
Las Vegas
ICEA
Wilson
Boulder
Texas Moon Resort
Frank M. Ryan
Moe Goldie
Foreman
LeRoy Mason
J. H. James
Palm Funeral Home
McDaniel
Dr. B
Orval Wilson
Charlie Hedley
Paul Hoffman
Boulderdam
Wilson, Sr
Hoffman
Potter
Schmittou
Hoffman Escapiwo
Necca Jones to Represent Nevada at Washington Parley
Overton girl Necca (Neca) Jones will leave Las Vegas for Washington D C to attend the national 4 H club camp June 17 to 23. Nevada funds the trip via the state farm bureau recognizing her as the state’s top 4 H club record holder and first Nevada representative at the national convention.
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Neca Jones
Overton
Nevada
Las Vegas
Washington
D. C
Miss Jones
United States Department of Agriculture
Nevada State Farm Bureau
Tasker L. Oddie
Hoover
Louis C. Cramton
Wilbur
Boulder City
Arentz
Clark County
Albert L. Jones
University of Nevada
Office of Cooperative Extension Work
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Rio Grande
Six Companies to relocate offices in Boulder City
Six Companies Inc contractor teams will move from the temporary dormitory location to their own office building at Boulder City today. The firm also aims to hasten completion of permanent quarters in Boulder City after a month in temporary quarters.
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Inc
Hoover ¢Am Contractors
Boulder Cty
Boulder City
Burglaries Hit City Homes on Carson Street
The home of W. L. Olive at 623 Carson Street was robbed of a gold watch and a ladies wrist watch. Entry was gained by cutting a screen at an opened window and the robbers exited through the front door. Police believe the burglary occurred between 8 30 and 11 p m.
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W. L. Olive
Carson Street
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