Western Air Express Opens Night Service
The Western Air Express launched night service with a historic overnight airmail pouch from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. The first flight carried 500 plus letters destined for future sale and collection, as pilots like Jimmy James flew routes to bring Pacific Coast mail within one day of New York. The event followed fare cuts boosting travel and raised calls for a modern Las Vegas airfield.
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Las Vegas
Boeing
Jimmy” James
Western Air Express
Vegas
Salt Lake City
Pacific Coast
New York
Kill Threat Is Suit Cause
Samuel A Giebner files for divorce alleging his wife drew a revolver and threatened to kill him in July 1928 California. They married in 1899 in Mercer Pennsylvania. J R Lewis represents the plaintiff. Daisy K Morgan sues R P Morgan for divorce on grounds of cruelty with C D Breeze as attorney they wed in 1922 at Ashville North Carolina.
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Samuel A. Giebner
California
Mercer
Pennsylvania
J. R. Lewis
Daisy K. Morgan
R. P. Morgan
C. D. Breeze
Ashville
North Carolina
Site survey to end Saturday near dam site in Washington
The Reclamation Bureau survey party mapping the country around the dam site will finish this week and depart Sunday for the Kittitas Irrigation project in Washington. Paul Jones heads the party and was in Las Vegas last weekend. They will break camp at the site and drive to Las Vegas Saturday before sailing to Washington Sunday.
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Reclamation Bureau
Kittitas
Washington
Paul Jones
Las Vegas
Prisoners Taken to Reno in Liquor Raid
James Cruise and James Mc Donald, among those rounded up by federal officers in the recent liquor raid, departed for Reno with U S Marshal W L Lewis after failing to furnish the required bond. The Rt Rev Thos Jenkins, Bishop of Nevada, arrived in Las Vegas and will visit the parish until Saturday, conducting confirmation services at Christchurch Thursday evening.
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Reno
James Cruise
James McDonald
U. S
W. L. Lewis
Nevada
Thos. Jenkins
Las Vegas
Christchurch
Yellow Kitten Helps Smash Record For Marriage Licenses
A Utah couple renewed vows with a tiny yellow kitten as best man, as April 1929 neared a county record for marriage licenses. Deputies and applicants crowded the county clerk’s office over Saturday and Sunday, breaking the prior mark. Deputy Clerk Dorothy Keeler called the feat joyous yet joked that out-of-state couples from California helped push the record over the top.
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Utah
Urday
Cupid
Dorothy Keeler
California
Come On Red Firemen Reply To Challenge
Fire Chief Harold Case says the volunteer Fire Department will meet the Eagles in a Sunday fundraiser game at the ball park. The Challenge Team issued a friendly duel for Loyd Ireland and C. R. Miller recovery efforts. Eagles pitcher Red Jackson leads five Eagles against 16 firemen in a to be announced event with possible bronc riding included. The Needles game Saturday may affect scheduling.
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Red
Eagles
Red Jackson
Harold Case
Loyd E. Ireland
C. R. Miller
Ne Challenge
Jackson
Case
Needles
Oil drillers find gas signs near Arden
At 350 feet depth the Charlie R Henderson company of Los Angeles continues oil drilling near Arden with a test, Dr Hatfield reports. A second gas indication at 315 feet renews hope of a substantial gas deposit, and driller Mr Derrick remains confident of oil. More than 300 Ohio settlements may be reached by boat from Cincinnati.
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Arden
Chas. R. Henderson Company
Los Angeles
Hatfield
Ireal
Derrick
Ohio
Cincinnati
Bell Telephone Advance Crew Now at Vegas
The Bell Telephone Company engineering crew of twenty one men led by Walter G. Frazee is stationed at the Vegas ranch for about a month of line construction. A model kitchen dining room storehouse and sleeping quarters illustrate the comfort measures for workers. The camp is served by a small truck powered electricity plant and a 500 pound ice box stocked with vegetables and fresh fruit. The construction train is ten miles east of Yermo and progressing well under transportation chief B. C. Johnson.
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Desert
C. W. Woodson
C. P. Francisco
Bell Telephone Company
Walter G. Frazee
Vegas Ranch
Bell Company
C. Johnson
Yermo
Woodard Finds Fine New Well At Main and Fifth
A strong water flow was brought in yesterday by J Warren Woodard at his property at the junction of Main and Fifth streets. The well reached 150 feet depth and will supply all requirements for the property's development. Woodard plans extensive improvements in the near future.
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J. Warren Woodard
Main
Fifth Streets
Mr. Woodard
Portes Gil says church not to blame for revolt
President Portes Gil stated that the Roman Catholic Church as an institution bore no responsibility for the recent military rebellion that collapsed. He charged that some church servants in Jalisco Michoacan and Guanajuato acted as bandits while claiming to defend church doctrines. He said government policy remains unchanged and priests may return to service when they obey Mexico's laws.
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Mexico City
Portes Gil
Jalisco
Michoacan
Guanajuato
Mexico
May Day mobs wreak havoc worldwide headline blitz
Associated Press reports May Day turmoil across major cities. Berlin sees eight dead and seventy injured with six hundred arrests. Paris records over three thousand arrests while Moscow shows Soviet armed forces parades. Berlin and Paris dominate a day of clashes alongside quieter Brussels and rural France scenes.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Kavno
Mexico City
Hungary
Paris
Moscow
Brussels
France
South
Central America
It Pays to Advertise at Our Community Theater
Choice Entertainment presents It Pays to Advertise reviewed by Dr Wm S Park for The Age. The piece praises William Streett as director and foresees more frequent performances, noting enthusiastic audience support and strong local sponsorship remarks by Dr C D Thomas.
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Wm. S. Park
C. D. Thomas
Boulder Realty Corporation
John P. Mills
First State Bank
H. Blanding, B. B. Tanker Organization
Troy Steam Laundry
Will Beckley
Las Vegas Stock Exchange
Las Vegas Hospital
Gold Ace Mining Company
Las Vegas Journal
A. C. Grant
Las Vegas Pharmacy
R. W. Thomas
T. M. Carroll
James Cashman
W. E. Houck
W. Ham
J. Warren Woodard
C. E. Pembroke
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Watters building adds offices and apartments on North Second
J T Watters reconstruction yields eight new upstairs apartments and nine lower offices. Contractor J C Jessee also enlarges Mayor Hesse’s office across the street from Watters, increasing space from 20 by 40 feet to 25 by 60. Finishing expected about May 4.
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J. T. Watters
North Second Street
J. C. Jessee
J. Fred Hesse
Watters
Jesse
City Budget Proposes 40 Percent Property Evaluation Rise
City Clerk William Scott released the 1929 budget highlighting a forty percent increase in property evaluation in Las Vegas, with a .035 reduction per $100 tax rate. Realty values jump over 76 percent while street assessments rise from .263 to .652. Net totals show higher assessed values and tax projections, with the complete budget to be published soon in Age legal notices.
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Las Vegas
William Scott
Ptt
Aviators Phone From Airplane in New Jersey Circling
A two way conversation with a New York news room was carried on today from an airplane circling over New Jersey at 2500 feet. The experiment, done with Western Electric and Bell Telephone laboratories, was declared a success.
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New York
New Jersey
Western Electric Company
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Edison Seeks Understudy With Four Year Scholarship
Edison announces a college scholarship program to nurture a rising ag genius. Charles Edison says governors and DC commissioners will pick one male high school or prep student from each state for tuition for four years, with a winner receiving a trip to Madison offices and top sci ability valued.
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Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Charles Edison
Electrical Wizard
District of Columbia
Tadison
Judgment on recall postponed to May eighth
Not guilty but W E Moore lost $50 for failure to appear. He was arrested March 27 on Mary Sellers complaint and posted $50 bond for April 2. He forfeited bond, taken into custody, tried yesterday. judge said evidence did not warrant conviction as he only separated two fighting women. Recall attempt for Mayor J Fred Hesse postponed to May 8 due to absence of Judge Edwards. April 26. Mowry Mines company. April 29, Las Vegas Creamery company, Inc.
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Foley
W. E. Moore
Moore
Mary Sellers
Ygoore
J. Fred Hesse
Edwards
Ely
Unusual Las Vegas horse trade ends with missing animal
A quirky local tale describes a trader offering a horse in exchange for perfume. Harry Sherwin of Inca Cosmetics supposedly accepted, but the horse vanished overnight and reportedly returned to its herd the next day. Sherwin vows to try again.
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Las Vegas
Harry Sherwin
Sherwin
Erwin
Hawkins May Not Accept State Tax Job
Las Vegas business man W. E. Hawkins, named by Governor Balzar to succeed Phil Gillson on the state tax commission, said at 9:30 p.m. he had not decided whether to accept. He declined to discuss considerations and said he would know in the morning amid reports that too many Republicans on the panel prompted the change. Hawkins heads Hawkins Land and Water Co and is a bank director, former county assessor, Las Vegas’s second mayor since moving from California in 1905. The commission has eight members with two ex officio officials.
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W. E. Hawkins
Las Vegas
State Tax Commission
Balzar
Hawkins
Phil Gillson
Hawkins’ Land and Water Company
First State Bank
California
Ry Goods
Adcock and
Ronnow
Tax Commission
Public Service Ommission
Stucco Court To Be Built By Local Contractor
Karl Gantner a former Hollywood contractor plans to start a court of twelve modern stucco cottages on his property at Tenth and Bridger next week George Clark formerly of Los Angeles is the designer Gantner will supply water and electricity connections and after completing this court he plans a second similar court on a nearby tract The cottages will have bath and modern conveniences and Gantner notes he built the first stucco apartment house near the Warner Brothers studio in Hollywood
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Karl Gantner
Hollywood
Tenth
Bridger
George Clark
Los Angeles
Gantner
Woodard
Warner Brothers
Diary Reveals Tragedy of Two Airmen in Rescue Crash
Sydney May 1 A diary found on the rudder of the rescue plane Southern Cross details the death of aviators Robert Hitchcock and Keith Andersen. Hitchcock lay beneath a wing as the search party found the craft and Andersen lay about forty yards away. The diary says engine trouble forced the craft down and the crew spent days trying to build a runway. Water shortage made the mission impossible and both men perished after failed water searches.
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Sydney
Australia
Robert Hitchcock
Keith Andersen
Southern Cross
Hitchcock
Anderson
Union Pacific 1929 budget boosts Los Angeles east line
The Union Pacific 1929 plan totals 96,000,000 with most funds for Los Angeles to the east. Major items include widening and tunnel lining near Caliente Nevada, 16 passing tracks, bridge replacements, and a 1,000,000 grade crossing program. Los Angeles shops expansion, new locomotives, new passenger cars, and Nevada payroll growth are also funded.
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Los Angeles
Union Pacific
Carl R. Gray
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Caliente
Nevada
Salt Lake Cid
Lo: Angeles
Las Los Angeles
Ax Division
Las Vega
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Bell Telephone
Gil
Arctic Circle
Midwest
Missouri
Kansas
Bolivar
Kaw
Mencken
Kas
Choice Entertainment
William S. Park
William Streett
Streett
Street
Edison
Mowry Mines Company
Las Vegas Creamery Company, Inc
Nevada Commission
Beneft
U.P
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