Las Vegas Times and Jafsie tale highlight local press
The Las Vegas Times, a weekly run by two 15-year-olds, publishes from 115 South Seventh Street with a May 8 Mother's Day edition and a planned June 1 plant opening. Jafsie refers to Lindbergh kidnap case initials. The piece also notes major highway upgrades along Walker Lake to Hawthorne and Clark County improvements from Bunkerville to Mesquite to support faster traffic.
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Las Vegas
the Times
The
Times
South Seventh Street
William E. Stinson
Charles S. Doherty
Women Form Club in Las Vegas
Business and professional women of Las Vegas met at 7 45 PM on the mezzanine of the Apache hotel to organize a local business and professional women’s club. Over 35 attended and awaited state officers visit on May 20 with Miss Felice Cohn and Mrs Alice Mc Andrews from Reno expected to be elected president and past president respectively.
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Las Vegas
Apache Hotel
Marda Elble
Apache Drug Store
Felice Cohn
Alice McAndrews
Reno
Elko
Ely
Nevada
First Radio Telephone Conversation Between Akron and Plane
The Akron dirigible and a Western Air Express plane conducted the first radio telephone link between air and airship off the California coast near Capistrano Beach. Lt. Com. C. E. Rosendahl spoke with officers aboard the aircraft as fog shrouded the coast after a stormy voyage from Lakehurst. A naval inquiry into mooring deaths at Camp Kearney concluded before the flight.
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San Francisco
Akron
Farallone Islands
Los Angeles
C. E. Rosendahl
Western Air Express
Capistrano
Beach
Navy
California
Sunnyvale
Com
C. E. Rosendall
Lakehurst
N. J
Camp Kearney
Naval Board of Investigation
Washington
Nigel M. Fenton
Fresno
Calif
Robert Edsall
Elkhart
Ind
Charles “Dad” Cowart
Sand Springs
Okla
Legion Delays Poppy Day After Postponement Issued
Mrs. C. L. Hamilton chair of the American Legion and Auxiliary Poppy Day committee announced that the annual poppy day event set for Saturday has been postponed indefinitely.
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C. l. Hamilton
American Legion and Auxiliary
Blond Beauty Kidnapping Return Clears Mystery
Leychester Lane a 24 year old New Yorker and dancer disappeared five days ago from Joliet and reappeared claiming ransom demands. She described being abducted by several men after a ride to Pilcher park stables and later released when the money failed.
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Joliet, II
Leychester Lane
Fifth Avenue
Pilcher Park
Lane
Thomas Ferguson
Friond
Juliet
Leychester
Miss Lane
Engineer D L MacBeath Inspects Federal Aid Roads
Engineer D L MacBeath of the Bureau of Public Roads conducts an inspection tour in Las Vegas and nearby areas to review federal aid road projects. He surveys measurements and evaluates progress on ongoing improvements in the region.
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D. L. MacBeath
Bureau of Public Roads
Las Vegas
Friday the Thirteenth Jinx Affects Local Folklore
The piece notes Friday October 13 1932 superstition and cites Joe Kelly jailed for drunkenness after midnight as a local oddity. It jokes about ladders, black vats, four leaf clovers and mischief on the first jinx Friday of the month.
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Joe Kelly
Columbia
Reichers Starts Newark Flight Toward Paris in Liberty
Lou Reichers departed Newark airport at 11 07 p m aboard the mono plane Liberty a Lockheed Sirius with a 655 horsepower Wright Cyclone engine. The two place craft carries 470 gallons of gasoline and cruises around 200 mph aiming for Harbor Grace in about five and a half hours with an eight hour over water leg.
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Newark
N. J
Lou Reichers
Paris
Liberty
Reichers
Harbor Grace
Massie Party Nears Harbor in San Francisco Arrival
Lieut Thomas H. Massie and Mrs Granville R Fortescue travel with Miss Helene Fortescue aboard the liner Malolo due to dock from Honolulu. They seek normal life after the Isle of Paradise scandal and manslaughter pleas, with no navy removal planned.
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San Francisco
Thomas H. Massie
Granville R. Fortescue
Malolo
Honolulu
Isle of Paradise
United Press
W. C. Cole
12Th Naval District
Navy
Yerba Buena Island
Helene Fortescue
Hawaii
William Leavitt Hurt in Mishap
William Leavitt of Bunkerville, on county road work, was injured yesterday when a cable on road machinery snapped hitting him in the face and chest. He suffered two broken ribs and a lacerated lip and was taken to a Vegas hospital for treatment.
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William Leavitt
Bunkerville
Vegas
William Allen
Wilson
Hoover plan to widen RFC powers for relief relief jobs
President Hoover outlined a relief plan to enlarge the Reconstruction Finance Corp's borrowing to 3 billion dollars for private construction with federal backing. He said 300 million would go to states for relief and 40 million to agricultural export firms, with the rest for self supporting projects. The plan avoids new bond issues and seeks to speed employment without charging taxpayers.
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Washington
Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Finance Corporation
Moapa Still Destroyed as Prohibition Raid Hits Nevada
Raiders led by George W Brady of the Nevada prohibition unit raided a Moapa brewery and destroyed 120 dozen bottles of beer and an unknown amount of brew. Cr A Murphy was arraigned in Las Vegas on $1000 bail. Earlier officers destroyed Nevada’s first wooden whiskey still but found no whiskey. No ownership established due to absence of witnesses.
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George W. Brady
Captain Robert Dollar Still Very Sick in San Rafael
Captain Robert Dollar age 88 founder of the Dollar Steamship line remained very sick this evening in San Rafael California. Dr R G Duffy the physician said he was back from Los Angeles where he and Mrs Terry Drew visited relatives for several days.
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L. A
Terry Drew
Los Angeles
Las Vegas Man Dreamed Lindbergh Baby Found
Alfred Huddy of the Post Office Drug company recounted a morning dream about two men carrying a crushed infant, later recalling the Lindbergh baby discovery as he told wife and city clerk Viola Burns. The tale links dream and real event with a claimed recognition of the infant’s death.
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Alfred Huddy
Post Office Drug Company
Colonel Lindbergh
Viola Burns
Age Extra
Prison Sentences Set For Corbin Brown In Jail Break Case
George Corbin 19 and Fred Brown accused auto thief will begin terms in Carson City state prison after pleading guilty to jail breaking. DA Harley A. Harmon dropped the original bandit and car theft charges. Judge William Orr ordered sentences matching those charges. Herbert Curley Hayes faces trial on the original criminal assault charge with possible 20 years to life if jailed break charges are pursued.
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George Corbin
Fred Brown
Carson City
Harley A. Harmon
William Orr
Herbert “Curley” Hayes
Traffic Climbing on Boulder City Dam Highway
In the 24 hour period from 6 am Wednesday to 6 am Thursday 1 688 motor vehicles used the Boulder City highway. The figure tops Sunday's 1 442 cars. State highway department released the data noting a rising rush on the dam project route.
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Boulder City
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Dam Project
Teacher Opens Class Exhibits
Miss Gwyn Hartman opened an in class exhibit of 2-A1 grammar school work for the year. The display, in the classroom, was open to parents and friends, drawing a large number of visitors yesterday as the school year nears its end.
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Gwyn Hartman
Wound During Fencing Fatal To Eastern Student
In Champaign Illinois Richard A Ruehle a Chicago student at the University of Illinois died after a fencing accident. The foil broke and pierced a chest blood vessel in his lung during a fencing class with S A Glueck also from Chicago. Glueck was absolved of blame. Ruehle studied engineering while Glueck studied liberal arts and sciences.
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Champaign
Ill
Richard A. Ruehle
Chicago
University of Illinois
S. A. Glueck
Ruehle
College of Engineering
Glueck
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Lindbergh Baby Case Deepens as Police Expand Probe
New Jersey state police under Col. H Norman Schwartzkopf increase the search with 20 more troopers. Dr Charles Mitchell reports the body found is the Lindbergh infant with garments identified by nurse Betty Gow. Intermediaries Dr Condon and Curtis summoned for questioning as investigators seek further evidence.
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Allen Smitis
United Press
Hopewell
N. J
U.P
America
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Sourland Mountain
Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
New Jersey
Federal
Secret Service
Immigration Service Police
New York City
Newark
Trenton Patterson
Bayonne
Chicago
Detroit
Boston
Col. Lindbergh
Princeton University
Trenton
H. Norman Schwartzkopf
Charles A. Lindberg Jr
Schwartzkopf
Chas. H. Mitchell
Betty Gow
Dr. Condon
Curtis
Jassie
New York
Charles H. Mitchell
Orville Wilson
Mount Rosehil
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