Sailor Captain Robert Dollar Passes on Last Voyage
Grist from the Daily Grind notes the death of Captain Robert Dollar, a famed maritime figure with seventy ships in the Pacific trade. His testimony on silver price slump and commerce in China is cited, while a tribute via the Akron ship includes flowers in memory. The piece also ponders a lighter sign from a Fremont street store.
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Robert Dollar
Pacific
China
Senator Pittman
Orient
Akron
San Ranael
Dollar
Fremont Street
County Board to Cut Wages Across Nevada Agencies
The Board of County Commissioners votes to cut, effective July 1, all nonstatutory county salaries by ten percent, contingent on Las Vegas city and school districts 1 and 2 making similar cuts. County officers’ pay remains statute-bound. Budget strains include an emergency loan repayment and election costs. Alignment depends on a proposed state tax on personal property within the Boulder Dam reservation.
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Board of County Commissioners
Las Vegas
Clark County
State of
Nevada
Boulder Dam
Bandits Use New Rule In Robbery At Streator Bank
Five bandits abducted the assistant cashier, terrorized his family, and waited for the time lock to open at 8 30 in the morning before escaping with about 50000 from Union National Bank of Streator. They aided their escape by reporting a 'bad accident' six minutes prior to the open counter, tying up police who were absent to investigate the false report.
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Streator
Union National Bank of
Senate beer-relief plan opens new battle in budget fight
In Washington on May 17 Senate debated Sen Millard Tydings Md s beer unemployment relief proposal as part of the revenue bill fight. Tydings urged a $1 5 billion bond issue for public works financed by a three cent a pint beer tax aiming to raise about $500 million annually while warning of 10 million unemployed and possible summer session. Brookhart endorsed stopping booze funding while supporting bread aid.
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Thomas L. Stokes
United Press
Washington
Senate
Millard Tydings
Dem
Congress
Tydings
Maryland
Smith W. Brookhart
Towa
D BARRY CASE TO OPEN ON MAY 23
The spring district court session will open May 23 with one case on the docket State of Nevada versus Thomas DeBarry charged with assault with intent to kill. Police say DeBarry shot Thomas Kidder near Comstock City last March. Jurors have been summoned for next Monday though a postponement is possible. Final decision expected tomorrow. Also three inmates Herbert Hayes George Corbin and Fred Brown began serving sentences for jail breaking in Carson City after transfer from the state prison.
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State of Nevada
Thomas DeBarry
Thomas Kidder
Comstock City
Harley A. Harmon
Herbert “Curley” Hayes
George Corbin
Fred Brown
Black Maria
Carson City
Prohibition debate opens 20th US Chamber meeting
At the Texas Gras San Francisco session business leaders discussed prohibition taxation unemployment and government intrusion. Silas H. Strawn urged slashing 500 million from federal spending and freer anti trust rules to stabilize industries and spur slow recovery. Two crash deaths near Port Neches occurred as six were killed and three injured when a KC Southern train hit a sedan at a grade crossing. A Port Arthur hospital treated three Brown children and Mrs. Brown died later in Beaumont. A motor tour planned by Mr and Mrs Turnbull heads to the Pacific coast and Mexico.
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San Francisco
U.P
America
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Congress
Silas H. Strawn
Chicago
Chamber
Port Neches
Tex
Kansas City Southern
Here
John Clyde Woodward
Woodward
J. C. Woodward, Jr
Juanita Woodward
Mattie Lee Freeman
Woodville
Leon Brown
Kountze
Essie Jewel Brown
Senior Ball to Be Held Friday by Green Jackets
Al Johnson and his Green Jackets will provide music for the senior ball Friday night at the high school gym. The group is featured at Lorenzi Fe sort, ensuring excellent music for the dance. The senior ball closes the semester and caps the school year's social events.
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al Johnson
Green Jackets
Lorenzi Fesort
Assassin Says He Was Under Hypnotic Influence
Paris May 17 Russian émigré Paul Gorgouloff told Magistrate Fougery at Notre Dame he felt hypnotic pressure compelling him to kill Paul Doumer president of France. He apologized for the crime, saying he believed Doumer headed the government and would regret it for life.
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Paris
U.P
Paul Gorgouloff
Notre Dame Cathedral
Paul Doumer
France
Fougery
Assize Court
Seine
Gorgouloff
M. Doumer
Fliers Not Guilty Plea In Death Case At Miami
British flyer Captain William N Lancaster pleads not guilty to first degree murder in the death of Haden Clarke a young Miami writer. Trial delayed to July 5 to allow character witnesses from England and Asia. Police to inspect Lancaster diary letters and other personal effects impounded after his arrest.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
William N. Lancaster
Haden Clarke
H. F. Atkinson
England
Asia
James M. Carson
H.A. Lathero
Lancaster
Clarke
Jessir M. Keith-Miller
Keith-Miller
London
Australia
Keith- Miller
Keith Miller
Vernon Hawthorne
Las Vegas Chamber Pledges Help for State Conventions
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce pledged support to the committees handling entertainment for the Democratic state convention in Las Vegas this weekend and for the American Legion state convention on June 9 to 11. It urged community groups to assist in entertaining delegations as a duty of the chamber and others.
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Las Vegas
Pretty Piute Girl At Beatty Shows Great Artistic Talent
Juanita Strozzi a 17 year old Piute pupil in Beatty Nevada's public school displays remarkable painting, pottery, basket weaving, and clay modeling talents learned without formal lessons. Teacher Georgie Roots plans to advance her art at Haskell Institute or eastern art schools with potential scholarships, aiming to lift her tribal community.
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Juanita Strozzi
Beatty Public
Georgie Musgrave Roots
Haskell Indian Institute
Lawrence
Kansas
Juanita
Beatty High School
Nye
Clark County
Roots
Haskell
Nevada
Akron Vst Coast Sil Akron Vst Coast Sil
UPI reports the dirigible Akron gliding over central California at 6 55 p m departing from its mooring to the Patoka bound for the San Joaquin valley with a Bakersfield stop and Sunnyvale land mooring the flight ordered by Admiral Frank Schofield to allow valley residents to view the silver craft thousands watch from the Embarcadero and a prior flight over Captain Robert Dollar's San Rafael home.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
U. S
Patoka
San Joaquin Valley
Bakersfield
Sunnyvale
Frank Schofield
United States Fleet
Sacramento Valley
Northwest
Embarcadero
San Rafael
Robert Dollar
Vegan Hurt in Accident in Las Vegas
Joe Pizenger of Las Vegas was injured but not seriously when his motorcycle crashed into Mrs. Harry Lillys Judge automobile at Fifth and Fremont streets. He was treated at Las Vegas hospital for head and leg cuts body abrasions and bruises and released home. Earlier, O Nasu a Union Pacific employee collided with a Ford truck driven by W B Pierce of Boulder City causing about 40 dollars damage.
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Joe Pizenger
Las Vegas
Harry Lilly
Fifth
Fremont Streets
Ferguson
O. Nasu
Union Pacific Railroad
W B. Pierce
Boulder City
Nasu
New Suspect Held In Lindbergh Kidnap Hoax Case
Trenton reports detail a bankrupted boat builder Curtis and a new suspect linked to the Lindbergh hoax. Officials discuss possible misdemeanor charges with a potential three year sentence and a $1,000 fine. Coercive interrogation disputed as Curtis signs a rambling confession.
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Will Grill Clergyman
Chat
Confession by John H Curtis for Lindbergh case
John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk Virginia recants earlier statements about the Lindbergh baby case. He says years of financial trouble and a distracted mind led him to fabricate stories about offers of money and newspaper contacts. Curtis appeals for forgiveness for his wife and two children and signs the confession with witnesses present at 4 35 am May 17 1932.
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Trenton
N. J
H. Norman Schwartzkopf
H. Dobson-Peacock
Hopewell
Schwartzkopf
John Hughes Curtis
Curtis
Col
Hyman Schwartzkopf
United Press
UPI
John H. Curtis
Redwood Avenue
Norfolk
Harry W. Walsh
Haskell
Mr. Wilcox
New York Herald- Tribune
Lee
The
News
Morrie Truesdale
Lindbergh
A. J. Keatsi
Cheney Held for L A Cops
Charles Cheney, 38, is held by Las Vegas police for Los Angeles authorities on forgery charges. He allegedly came from the coast, leaving worthless paper behind. He was found in a cabin near Fourth and Lewis streets as Los Angeles officers plan to take him into custody.
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Charles Cheney
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Cheney
Ing
Fourth and
Lewis Streets
Unheralded Browne prepares jet flight to Tokio
Nat C Browne a New York commercial flier arrived in Seattle from Detroit with a large scarlet Fokker monoplane. He plans a non stop flight to Tokio before June 1 seeking a prize now worth 29000 amid little advance publicity. Browne left wife and daughter behind and said he would not discuss takeoff details.
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Seattle
U.P
Nat C. Browne
New York
Browne
Detroit
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Daily Grind
C. P
William A. Clark
Clark
Clarkdale
Arizona
Robert Dillon
Julia Westlake
Jack Albers
Olive Lake
Earl Eglington
Wanda Ball
al Moser
Geneva Laravey
Lloyd Payne
Nellie McWilliams
Theresa Matteucci
Leon Ronnow
Victor Matteucci
Henry Matteucci
John Kramer
Lindy
William Bigarani
Bigarani
D’barry
R. J. Turnbull
South Eleventh Street
Mexico
Flier
Sally Eilers
Hootson
Hollywood
Miss Eilers
C. C
Demo
Piute
Beatty
COAST
Lindberghs
New Jersey
William A. Stevens
State Capitol
L. C. Covell
U. S. Coast Guard
Treasury
A.R
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Parzych
L. A. Cops
Japan
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