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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1931
Page
1
Carson City June 2 AP Between forty and fifty secret indictments growing out of recent liquor raids in Las Vegas were returned in Federal Court by the grand jury today All true bills were placed on secret file until arrests can be made and only felony liquor cases were presented, minor sales cases to be handled by informacions
Four night guards in the station recall a colored youth who claimed he had just left jail to see fights. He begged to be jailed again after escaping through a tin roof. The man, Jack Smith, was returned to the city prison. Three more individuals escaped from the city jail during the night, using the same roof hole method as T. F. French. Horton, Clark, and Chesup are missing. Horton and Clark hold fifty day terms for liquor possession, Chesup is in for investigation.
The case arose from a White Spot camp fire that left 18 families homeless. Property owner Saydee Phillipson and tenants Amos Bleck and wife agreed to drop the suit in justice court, each side paying its own costs, with the plaintiff restored to the premises immediately.
Louis G Cramton special attorney to the secretary of the interior praises Mayor Cragin for proposing a memorial cemetery to honor Hoover dam workers who sacrificed their lives. He urges Congress to donate land and create a permanent care organization with a monument listing all the deceased, welcomed by Cragin and veteran groups.
Paris reports the Chamber of Deputies approved Premier Laval’s cabinet plan to suspend war debt payments for one year with a partial reparations reserve, while U S Secretary Mellon negotiates in Paris. The French note pushed by Stimson hinted at further discussion to reach full relief and cooperation. In Atlanta, Jouett Shouse praised Hoover’s debt suspension but blamed tariff policy for conditions necessitating relief. Three brides in three months led to a chain gang sentence for John Huckner of Lafayette.
Jack Riley was captured by Traf fic Officer Campbell and Deputy Sheriff Marteletti after a wild chase behind Ullom's hardware store. Police found a brand new electric fan on him and believe a companion escaped with another fan from a rear room. Riley is held for investigation.
In Los Angeles June 26 Dr Willis A Sutton of Atlanta president of the National Education Association urged faster schooling to meet a machine age. He said the child of the near future will read 150 pages as quickly as 20 and retain more, stating education still is in the alphabet stage and must train minds to work harder and study efficiently.
Thirteen persons were injured today near Colfax when a California Nevada bus left the highway after turning sharply. The driver said the vehicle leaped out of control upon sighting a tree. Injured passengers, mostly bruises and cuts from shattered glass, were taken to a hospital at Auman.
A group of 150 teachers from Illinois and nearby states visited Suárez Mex on the way to the National Education Association convention in Los Angeles. They claimed Juarez orange juice was the only beverage they drank, with one teacher joking about continuing if more juice came.
Work on the Las Vegas to Boulder City highway progresses with the first sector to be opened Sunday by 10. The 22 foot roadway, laid for high speed traffic, features an armour plate asphaltic surface planned for future improvements. Patrick Cline Inc. handles grading and graveling. oiling sublet to Andy Drumm. The Boulder City to dam site segment, and an Arizona side route to Cashman’s Ferry, are under construction.
A powerful northern storm swept through western Lake Erie towns and Cleveland on June 26 causing at least five deaths and over twenty injuries. Communications and transportation were disrupted and broad areas were left in darkness as damage and crop losses mounted into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Midwest sweltered under a record heat wave as temperatures surged for the third day, scorching crops and causing hundreds of prostrations. Two dozen deaths were reported in the heat, with St. Louis and other cities baking under coppery sun as readings neared 102 degrees.
In Novo-Sibirsk Siberia Wiley Post and Harold Gatty landed the Winnie Mae after an 11 hour 30 minute 1709 mile leg from Moscow. They planned to refuel and continue toward Irkutsk but expected to stay till dawn as they near half way in their ten day global flight.
The itinerary for Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur and his party, drafted by Walker R. Young, outlines arrival by Union Pacific Thursday evening July 25, with overnight stay in Boulder City. Deputy Marshal Claude Williams directs arrangements, meals at Six Companies mess hall, bus and auto travel to the dam site, canyon rim walk, and Lookout Point view of the reservoir site and railway work.
Two charges confront John Hall over the slaying of Jack O’Brien in a beer racket feud. Hall is charged with murder and assault with intent to kill Mrs. Theresa O’Brien. Eva May Hall faces a separate assault charge. preliminary hearing set for July 8. Bail set at $5,000.
Beverly Hills June 26. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr reviews his Reno scrape with Peter Arno in Rob Wagner's Script. He claims his wife Mary Weir Vanderbilt stepped from Arno's car and he warned Arno four times to stop, but Arno teased about marriage while the cartoonist denies the incident. He notes Arno’s alleged flamboyance and public flirtation. The piece plays with themed insinuations about marriage and public scandal.
Prominent Southwest figures gather as company officials attend a ceremonial rite marking the completion of an engineering project. The group plans to dedicate a new power transmission line and commemorate the milestone with a formal visit today.
The schedule lists a morning train arrival at 6 52 from Union Pacific with breakfast at the Oasis. They depart at 8 30 by Cashman buses and autos for a city tour ending at the boat landing at 10 30 for a river trip and Six Companies work inspections. They tour a power substation transmission line and progress on government railroad and highway, then visit Boulder City with an evening dinner at The Meadows.
A delegation led by A B West, president of the Nevada California Electric Corp, arrives in Las Vegas to inspect the 225 mile 132000 volt power line and sub station planned to serve Hoover dam. Construction began December 20 1930 with an estimated $1.5 million line enabling power for dam works and later transmission to Southern California.
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