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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1932
Page
4
A design note warns modern kitchens should be compact eight by twelve feet and centered around essential equipment. It argues single decorative units for windows and cupboards aid space, and excess doors waste wall space, suggesting closing extra doors and using a drop leaf as a breakfast table or work surface.
The Las Vegas mayor and Mrs Cragin were chosen to represent the city at the Honolulu convention as part of a Rotary Club event awarding a purse between 600 and 700 dollars. President Leo McNamee spoke briefly before the group danced the night away in the newly decorated grill room featuring a desert Indian color scheme. Entertainment included Ruth Nagel and Donna LaFrambois dancing specialties the Duffy Brothers quartet and other acts.
Atlanta May 5 Alphonse Capone America's public enemy No 1 was placed in an isolation cell at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. His head shaved and his denim trousers marked with the prison number 40886. The big prison plans to hold him out of crime until sometime in 1939.
Salt Lake City Utah May 5 A youth is shot during an attempted robbery of the Utah Drug Store. Everett Kelley, 20, is named in police reports as a participant or suspect in the incident and may face charges depending on the investigation.
Jerry Hallisey of Chicago used the Eenie meenie minee mo method to win 3132 dollars on a two dollar daily double ticket at the Aurora track. He backed Tufinus in race two and Knockabout, both long shots, becoming the first to yield such a mutuel payoff. Hallisey, age 60, called the system decisive and noted the previous record was about two thousand dollars at Agua Caliente last summer.
Homestake Mining company announced a dividend increase from 7.80 to 9.00 per year effective May 25. The 75 cent per share rise will be paid to stockholders of record as of May 20, with the announcement made at the San Francisco general office.
In Boulder on May 5, Great Western Sugar officials proposed returning about 200 Mexican families to Mexico. The plan, not compulsory, would apply only to families who wish to go back, ending their hopes of settling in the United States after labor in Colorado beet fields.
Anna Shouse aged 90 in critical condition after arrival of her son Jouette Shouse, Democratic national committee head, at her bedside. Doctors expect possible recognition later. source reports her life in doubt while the family endures the medical crisis.
This afternoon at three o'clock at the Methodist church funeral services will be held for the late R. E. Lake, sr, who died Wednesday. Rev. C. S. Reynolds will conduct the service with music by the Hampton brothers. Pallbearers include C. P. Squires, Dick Roschl, Gene Ward, Walter Bracken, Frank Wait and Ed Von Tobel. Las Vegas funeral home arranged the details. Surviving children of Mr and Opts Lake are present for the funeral.
A slender house easily fits on a thin lot or larger land, with a distinctive entrance and low roof lines. Red brick exterior or whitewash, three-sided windows in living and dining rooms, and a large living room opening to a porch. Upstairs has three bedrooms, a dressing room, and two baths, with a 40-foot frontage workable. Estimated cost ranges from $8,000 to $10,000 depending on materials and labor.
Dr. Albert G. McKeown a Seattle dental surgeon was found guilty of second degree murder for killing his aged mother in the basement of his home while claiming temporary insanity. The eight men and four women jury recommended leniency after 21 hours of deliberation. Sentencing could run from 100 years to life. Mrs. Rhoda McKeown aged 1 was beaten to death with a club during a visit to Muscatine Iowa.
In Mexico City on May 5 government officials announced Castula Vega leader of an armed anti-government group and four followers were captured and executed by General Vicente Gonzales head of the Queretaro military operation.
Pine Bluff Ark May 5 Judge Walter B Sorrels and Mrs Sorrels died unexpectedly at their home within minutes of each other They were the parents of John Sorrels executive editor of Scripps Howard newspapers
Chicago May 5 Andrew Matzukewich confessed to trying to extort ten thousand dollars from Rosa Raisa, the Chicago opera star, threatening to kidnap her baby. He was sentenced to two years at Leavenworth and fined two hundred dollars.
Boise Idaho May 5 Patrols led by Emmitt Prost state commissioner of law enforcement joined sheriffs and police in a search for the hit and run driver three weeks after 16 year old Verna Joy Elliott's body was found in an abandoned car. April 18. Wm H Blanc of McKessen S tern Wholesale Drug Co Los Angeles was in Vegas yesterday.
Police hold two suspects in the kidnaping of Gustav Miller son of a Joliet merchant. Their names are withheld but fingerprints sent to Joliet for check. Three ransom demands have been received from Detroit in recent days. A free Airdome theater ticket awaits Mr J S Kelley at The Age office today only.
Ruth Perryman a 22 year old from Kansas City with brown hair announces she will win the American Legion convention title in Las Vegas. She plans Las Vegas as her permanent home and lives with Mr and Mrs Harold Baldwin at 616 South Fourth Street.
The article recounts a $100000 dispute in the Lindy case with Keith Means allegedly taking funds from Mrs. McLean and promising return after being confronted April 17. Means claimed he had the money at his brother’s Concord North Carolina home and described detective like steps including a whispered word “Eleven” while stopped in Alexandria Virginia. J Edgar Hoover ordered his arrest after he failed to repay. Means previously gained fame for a book about President Harding.
In Idaho City on May 5, Albert Duchaynai located the frozen body of 70 year old Henry Lund, a prospector who had been missing for five months since setting out to spend the Christmas holidays in Boise.
Las Vegas and Boulder City American Legion posts organize the fourteenth Nevada department convention set for June 9 to 11. About 350 delegates from 20 posts will attend, with events including a fireworks parade, a beauty queen contest, and the first Ford V-8 giveaway arriving in Las Vegas. The queen will be crowned at Lorenzi's Lake Park with a diamond set to the winner. Boulder City post hosts the convention on June 10, inspecting the dam project before dinner at Anderson's dining hall. Auxiliary members will hold meetings and join the dance at Lorenzi's Jake Park pavilion, aiming for Clark County’s largest dance event.
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