Mrs Schuyler Hosts Community Bridge Club Luncheon
Society notes Mrs W N Schuyler entertains the Community Bridge club today with a luncheon.
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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1929
Page
6
Society notes Mrs W N Schuyler entertains the Community Bridge club today with a luncheon.
A Las Vegas diary of oblique societal notes lists J. T. McWilliams and Mrs. McWilliams leaving Vancouver for health reasons, other travelers visiting family, and assorted locals moving between Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Beatty. Names include Frank and Leo A. McNamee, Marian McNamee, Samuel S. Riwitz, James G. Scrugham, Lewis A. Hicks, L. Higbee, Cecil B. Creel, Mazie Martin, Margaret Ireland, Frank Gusewelle, Ben Stromer, David Farnsworth, and J. C. Jesse, with dates and destinations scattered through the piece.
Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur secretary of the interior arrived in Coalinga by automobile from Bakersfield in 110 degree heat. He lunched with local businessmen and oil firm officials at the Zenith club and then toured the Kettleman Hills oil field to inspect operations tied to oil conservation policy.
John L. Howard testified in his own defense in the hammer murder trial for Pasadena garageman Victor A. Cooley repudiating the confession obtained by Pasadena police.
Clarence Fraser known in Northwest rings as Eddie Flynn, a College of Puget Sound chemistry student, graduates this month after paying four years of education via boxing. At 22, the junior welterweight stands 140 pounds, a clever fighter who jabs with the left and follows with a sharp right. He fights to earn money but dreams of becoming a chemistry professor and spends study time between bouts.
A high level delegation including Secretary Wilbur Senator Oddie and Governor Balzar toured Moapa Valley to inspect irrigation and dam prospects. They noted 22 truck farms worth 9009 each with 2600 debt and discussed Boulder Dam importance for water storage and flood protection. Local leaders praised infrastructure efforts and pledges for regional prosperity.
Homer Smith a former heavyweight trial horse during Dempsey era joins Kalamazoo police. League of Nations shifts focus to whale protection and privacy lacking goldfish. Springfield Union.
Dr. Mead details Boulder Dam project steps from Las Vegas lab setup to long term town living near the site. He describes four massive tunnels, cofferdams creating a 20 mile upstream lake, and 700 foot high dam with one million horsepower power plant. He says the lake will cover Kentucky a foot deep and boost regional health and industry.
Richmond authorities hunted a bay for a body after an employee at the Richmond Pressed Brick works reported a sighting. The search focused on William Loren Tallman who is wanted in Los Angeles for the murder of Mrs. Virginia Patty and the police proceeded to investigate the possible link to the Bay sighting.
In Los Angeles on June 24 the Bach Aircraft Corporation factory burned down late yesterday. Damages are estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. Three tri motor ten passenger planes were destroyed and twenty employees escaped uninjured. A soldering iron on a work bench started the blaze.
Prison guards led by Warden Harrell of Huntsville rounded up 15 of 44 escapees from Clemens Prison Farm. By afternoon, more than 20 held in a group near Sweeny eight miles southwest of Brazoria were believed recaptured as dawn escapes were pursued.
Secretary Wilbur outlines Boulder Dam concept to link Black Canyon and Las Vegas valleys. He stresses self funding through power, federal role minimal, and broad local control, aiming to spur Southwest development and regional highways to the dam site. The talk underscores confidence in public support and potential multiple similar projects.
Washington June 22 An official notice states a prohibition casualty list is being compiled by the department of justice. It records agents local and national officers killed in enforcing the Volstead act and also violators or suspects killed. The notice follows hints that the state department will study firing on an American customs patrol boat in the Detroit river.
In Los Angeles on June 24 three men were found guilty in government liquor conspiracy cases. Maurice Sugarman George Williams and Claude Davis were convicted while Frank Cornero and Lewis Crank were acquitted. The defendants were alleged as principals in a large illegal operation.
Arizona cattlemen shift herds to other states due to rapidly diminishing water and feed supplies. Some owners reportedly ship water into drought stricken areas including the White River, Holbrook, and Williams districts as conditions worsen.
In Columbia Missouri four hogs died and four steers are not expected to live after entine ment in a pasture holding 128 hogs and 67 cattle. A fragmentary report notes a woman in Russia pronounced dead five times in nine years. The Detroit News quips about an ideal for the course of a grandmother office boy in baseball.
Madrid June 24 The government ordered destroyers airplanes and submarines to scour a wide area for the missing Franco seaplane. Officials noted the three day silence remains disturbing but not hopeless. The aircraft last believed to be near the Azores with four aviators.
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