Safe landings and fast laps spark a busy week
Two long distance hops end safely as Browne and Brooks parachute from a wreck at 2000 feet near Puget Sound. Fred Frame wins the Indianapolis 500 at a 104 mph average in a front wheel drive car, with Los Angeles cars placing high. Deer Creek Canyon near Las Vegas draws visitors amid improving roads and year round snow in the high elevations.
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Deer Creek Country
Deer Creek Canyon
Deer Cres Canyon
Las Vegas
Ines
Lee
Deer Creek
U.S. Forest Service
Balloon crews chase record in wild wind battle over Nebraska
Six gas balloons sailed into fierce 25 mph winds near Ta, Neb seeking the Litchfield trophy and a chance to represent the United States in Switzerland. Crews jettison ballast as one balloon toppled a barbed wire fence during the dangerous flight aimed at breaking the 961 mile free flight record.
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Neb
W.A
North Lance
Honoloon Rice
United States
Switzerland
Irish trip for St Joan of Arc priest to Ireland
Reverend Father James O Grady, pastor of St. Joan of Arc, departs New York June 14 to attend the Eucharistic congress in Ireland as a Nevada Diocese delegate. He will visit his mother in Tipperary during a four month absence, with Father W J Devlin conducting services in Reno in his stead.
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Father James O'Grady
St. Joan of Arc
New York
Ireland
The
Catholic Church
Nevada
Father O'Grady
Tipperary
Castle County
W. J. Devlin
St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral
Reno
St. Joan of Arc Church
Father Deviln
London
Liverpool
Europe
Death Investigator Slain Disaster Strikes Flier
The narrative reports a deadly air disaster in Clark County Nevada and a Pacific crash near Seattle. Nat C Browne and Frank Brooks parachuted from the doomed Lone Star after a refueling accident, Browne injured and Brooks unharmed, while both chutes initially failed to open.
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Arthur Henderson
United Press
Seattle
Nat C. Browne
Texas
Lone Star
Puget Sound
Pacific
Frank Brooks
Browne
Frank Whaley
Crimson Fokker
Ballard General Hospital
Brooks
Whaley
Nat
Boeing Field
Tokio
Texas Plains
Air Corps
Deadly Gas Toad Found In Arizona And Mexico
Smithsonian researchers describe a giant Mexican toad with a possible deadly gas emission. The animal ranges across northern Mexico into Arizona and California and may release toxins when frightened or in pain. A terrier died after biting the toad, and a police dog nearby fell ill, while the observer Musgrave himself grew sick but recovered.
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Arizona
Mexico
Washington
U.P
Smithsonian Institute
California
Remington Kellogg
Smithsonian
M. E. Musgrave
United States Biological Survey
Musgrave
Bromley Flies in After Fuel Leak Halts New York Los Angeles Flight
Amarillo reports Harold Bromley landed his Lockheed Vega monoplane after a rear fuel tank leak left him with little fuel for his nonstop leg from New York to Los Angeles. Also noted is a Las Vegas marriage announcement: Miss Pauline Wren married Lieut Harold Duborg U S N on May 7 in Susanville California.
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Amarillo
Texas
U.P
Harold Bromley
New York
Los Angeles
Pauline Wren
Susanville
Cal
Las Vegas
Harold Duborg
John S. Wren
University of Nevada
Gamma Phi Beta
Duborg
C. Dubore
Reno
Peter Frandsen
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
U. S. S. Lexington
Killer Imported From New York Is Rubbed Out By Chicago Mobsters
Chicago police investigated a slaying in Burnham as they searched for an alleged New York killer imported by mobsters. The victim, described as swarthy and dark haired, was shot four times in the back and once in the head before dawn. A motorist found the body face down hours later as investigators noted the manner of the killing.
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New York
Chicago
U.pi
Burnham
Abe
Fred Frame Wins 500 Mile International Grand Prix
Fred Frame of Los Angeles won the 20th American Grand Prix at the Indianapolis speedway on a record 500 mile run. He finished in 4 hours 48 minutes 13.79 seconds at an average 104.144 mph, beating the previous mark by over eight minutes. Prame edged Howard Wilcox for second as the race narrowed in its final 75 miles.
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Steve Richards
United Press
Indianapolis Speedway
U.P
Fred Frame
Los Angeles
Prame
Howard Wilcox
Indianapolis
Frame
Peter de Paolo
Nelson Cleared on B B Club Holdup Connection
The bartender failed to identify Charles H Nelson in the B B club holdup case, but he must serve the sentence from a prior conviction for carrying a concealed weapon. Police arrested him after finding a loaded 25 calibre pistol and an empty 32 calibre six shooter. He was fined 200 dollars or 100 days in the county stockade.
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Charles H. Nelson
Nelson
Louis Hord
Las Vegas Man Struck by Hit-and-Run Driver on Boulder City Road
Jack Wilson of Las Vegas was injured when struck by a hit-and-run driver on the Boulder City highway Sunday afternoon. He suffered a back head gash and a lacerated ear, with possible internal injuries. He lay on the road six hours before A. Fletcher found him and took him to County Physician H. I. Vander Meulen, who arranged transfer to the county hospital.
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Jack Wilson
Las Vegas
Boulder City
Wilson
A. Fletcher
H. I. Vander Meulen
Civil War Veterans Lead Memorial Day Observance in Las Vegas
In Las Vegas the Memorial Day parade featured about two hundred Legionnaires auxiliary members and veterans groups. Jim Ladd, 93, a Civil War survivor, led the procession as the crowd watched school band youngsters and two colored boys perform. The parade ended at Woodlawn Cemetery with a memorial address by Reverend C. S Reynolds, a plane dropping roses, firing squad salutes and taps. Flags were placed on graves by Ladies of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.
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Las Vegas
Legionnaires
Ladies of the Legion Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Jim Ladd
Ladd
Southwest
Legionnaires, Eagles, Elks
Modern Woodmen of America
Odd Fellows, Rebekahs
Ladies of the Woodcraft
Fifth and
Fremont Street
Woodlawn Cemetery
America
C. S Reynolds
Reynolds
Western Air Express
Jobs for Eight on Sewer System
City Engineer A. R. Thompson says two jackhammer men and about six laborers are needed for sewer construction. Applicants should be Las Vegas residents and property owners and apply this morning to the office of City Engineer A. R. Thompson in the Clark building.
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A. R. Thompson
Las Vegas
Clark Building
Field Of Chinese Opium Poppies Found In South
New Orleans narcotics agents discovered and destroyed a farm of Chinese opium poppies near Effie Avoyelles parish claimed as the first of its kind in the United States The owner was identified as Claude Fuqua a former Texas A and M football star who was arrested by federal agents The plants showed aeratches and cats indicating opium was taken from them
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New Orleans
U.P
Effie
Avoyelles Parish
United States
Claude Fuqua
Texas A
M. Colege
Death of Vittorio Decimo deepens Las Vegas murder saga
Las Vegas police link the Decimo slaying to the Santini case amid rumors of underworld involvement. Vittorio Decimo was found with a gaping head wound in a cabin near Stewart and Second streets. The .38 revolver belongs to Harry Bennett, linked to Santini’s estate, and investigators consider a double murder pattern rather than suicide.
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Las Vegas
Joseph Santini
Vittorio Decimo
Santini
Lincoln County
Stewart
Second Streets
Decimo
Har? Bennett
Las Vist
Decmo
O Santini
Decim
Bennett
Harry Bennett
I Were Tod
Lice
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Boulder Dam
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LAS Veg
Clark County
Clara Johnson
United Air Lines
San Diego
Biological Survey
Bromley
I. V
L. A
Bert Ayers
Coast Drier
Joan Crawford
Hollywood
Catalina Island
Rganizations
L. V
Santini Pal
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