Pilots’ Strict In France Tests For Private Licenses
In Paris on May 28 pilots seeking private licenses for land planes and seaplanes must pass strict exams. Candidates need physicals, be at least seventeen, and have fifty hours in air with twenty landings in a month. Tests require power off in air, precise landings, and figure eight maneuvers around markers without touching land or water. Seaplane tests include approaching a seaplane from a rowboat.
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Paris
France
Bids Wanted For Clark County Asphalt Project 1931
Bids are invited by S. C. Durkee State Highway Engineer Carson City Nev for furnishing applying and mixing asphaltic fuel oil with roadway surface along 19.68 miles between Went Slope Mormon Mesa and Lower Virgin River Bridge Plans and specifications available June 15 1931 at County Clerk Las Vegas Highway Department Reno Las Vegas District Office and Bureau of Public Roads San Francisco 461 Market Street No charge for plans Bids must use Highway Department proposal form and include a 5 percent certified check Right to reject any or all bids.
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Clark County
Went Slope
Mormon Mesa
Lower
Virgin River Bridge
Las Vegas
Highway Department
Reno
Bureau of Public Roads
Market Street
San Francesc
Highwy Department
Tve
Bids Sought for Nevada State Highway Improvement
Bids are invited by S. C. Durkee at 2 p m on June 3 1931 for 1 32 miles of Nevada State Highway improvement in Clark County between Pith and Fremont streets and southeast Las Vegas city limits. Work includes grading structures surfacing. plans available in Clark County Clerk Office Reno and Las Vegas. San Francisco bureau of public roads. deposit 15 dollars for plans 10 refunded on return. bid on highway department form with 5 percent certified check. right to reject any bid.
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Clark County
Pith
Fremont
Las Vegas
Las
Highway Departmention
Reno
Tas Veuas
Bureau of Public Roads
Market Street
San Francis
Highway Department
Divorce Summons for Louise Moisant Utley Nevada
Louise Moisant Utley is summoned in a Nevada case to appear within ten days if served in county or twenty days out of county, and within forty days in other cases. The action seeks dissolution of marriage on grounds of willful desertion for one year, as stated in the complaint. Dated May 2.
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Louise Moisant Utley
State of
Nevada
Yacket Maker Sees Fast Flights
Berlin reports on Reinhold Tiling and other German rocket enthusiasts aiming for worldwide flight in under ninety minutes. Tales of rocket planes that fly like boats then resemble sailplanes outline stratospheric trials and potential ocean crossing times, with commuter crowds in Paris highlighted as a contrast in transport ambitions.
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Wade Werner
Berlin
Germany
Reinhold Tiling
Denabrueck
Frey
Ocean
Atlantic
Oldfield to Wave Flag at Indianapolis 500
Barney Oldfield, famed pioneer in automobile racing, will start the 500 mile contest at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30. The veteran driver helps mark the event as its early history notes.
Yardstick measures X-ray dose to boost cancer treatment
Washington May 27 A government scientist reports a portable X-ray yardstick that can measure dose more accurately. Lauriston H Taylor of the United States Bureau of Standards describes a compact ionization chamber to prevent overexposure and improve treatment effectiveness for cancer patients.
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F. B. Colton
Associated Press
Washington
Lauriston H. Taylor
United Bureau of Standards
Taylor
Bureau of Standards
Divorce Awarded After Wife Says No at Ceremony
Henry A. Rupert won a divorce from his wife Hattie in Cleveland on May 27. Rupert stated she repudiated her marriage vows at the ceremony, muttering not as the justice of the peace asked her to promise to love, honor and obey.
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Cleveland
Henry A. Rupert
Hattie
Justice of
Rupert
Mess boy to face murder charges after ship quarrel
Will Temmerman a 21 year old mess boy aboard the Dutch steamer Delfshaven be returned to Holland to face murder charges. The fatal wounding of steward Charles Vande Berge followed a quarrel aboard ship thirty miles off the Florida coast.
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Mobile
Ala
William Temmerman
Holland
Charles Vande Berge
Florida
Shriners Invite Temples to Cuba Observance
Havana May 27 A Cuban tourist official invites leaders of eight American Shriner temples to repeat last year’s visit and join a July 4 Independence Day fete with Nobles from southern temples. Mayor Tirso Mesa promotes Cuba’s plans for the celebration.
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Havana
UPR
Tirso Mesa
Cuban National Tourist Commission
Dilemma on a Boy Born Four Thousand Feet Up
A Detroit News item ponders a hypothetical national figure born high above ground. The piece questions the influence of place on destiny and fame, framing it as a speculative and reflective dilemma rather than a report of events.
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Detroi
Exotic flora grown easily in St. Louis gardens
In St. Louis on May 28, a local effort to cultivate exotic flora under embargo led Dr. George T. Moore of Shaw's garden to seed orchids. Despite climate drawbacks, new greenhouses rose to house a growing collection, with staff developing 20 000 Cattleya hybrids from seed.
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ST. Louis
England
United States
George T. Moore
Shaw
Balcom M D Listed at Las Vegas Hospital
R D Balcom M D is associated with Las Vegas Hospital located at 115 No Second Street in the local medical directory. The entry notes his professional title and affiliation with the facility.
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R. D. Balcom
M. D. Las Vegas Hospital
No. Second St
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