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LAS VEGAS AGE Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Afternoons. Entered In the Postoffiee at Las Vegas. Nevada, as Second Class Matter. Charles P. Squires, Editor and Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published therein. All rignts of republication of special dispatcher herein are also reserved. Advertising rates on application, Subscription per year, $5.00; per month, 50 cents; per copy five cents. HOOVER AND THE FARMER THE FACT THAT the two outstanding advocates of farm relief, former Gov. Frank Lowden and Senator Brookhart, have given their unqualified approval to the policy advocated by Herbert Hoover is significant. It is evident that the effort of Gov. Smith and Tam many Hall to rouse the middle west against Hoover has failed. To one on the side lines it is amusing to see the assurance with which the Democratic nominee is making promises about something which, admittedly, he knows nothing. COUNTY BOARD rTHE WRITER NOTICED the other day a cartoon in a i Los Angeles ^aper which likened the county board to the directors of a great corporation. The comparison is a good one. Clark county is the largest business we have to run locally. There is no denying that the present board has been wise in its policies,cautious in its business deals and careful to get value received for money expended. The Clark county highways stand as a high recom mendation to the good sense of the present board. The policy of changing experienced officials for those who . re untried should be carefully considered by the voters. THE BREEZE CASE REFERRING TO THE communciation of Attorneys A. A. Hinman and Chas." Lee Horsey printed in anothe column of this issue, the Age admits it does not know much about the ethics of the legal profession. The reason we referred to the “more less hazy ethics” in our last issue is because, applied to the Breeze case, they seemed hazy to the writer. It just seems to us that Judge Breeze is the unfor tunate victim of good mentions and that his error, made in the desire to be helpful to another, should have been considered by his close friends and associates of yeais in the bar with kindness and consideration. We have read somewhere of “justice tempered with mercy.” It seems to the Age that the circumstances would justify such treatment. ROAD PAVING THERE IS SOMETHING more than a mile of the oil bound gravel type of improvement ready for use on the Arrowhead Highway near Jean. In two months or so there will be forty miles of paved road in Clark county. The beginning of this work brings us appreciably nearer to the realization of our dreams of years—a paved highway from Las Vegas to Los Angels. Only a few years ago it was a hard two day drive from here to the Angel City. When Ralph Thomas in a moment of speed zeal made the trip from here to Los Angeles in 17 hours we thought it a wonderful thing. To day it is frequently done in eight hours. With the completion of the paved highway the run to the coast will be even more safe, quick and easy, and our harvest of tourist travel much greater than it is today. CLARK COUNTY AND HOOVER CLARK COUNTY, normally Democratic, this year has a vital interest in the election of Herbert Hoover, who for years has been forceful and outspoken in his advocacy of the Boulder Dam project. Hoover knows the details of the political, financial, economic and engineering phases of the project with a thoroughness unsurpassed by any. Gov. Smith would enter the White House if elected, with only the most hazy and indefinite ideas upon this great project and it probably would take years to edu cate the official family to the point where it would be willing to give its support. Hoover will be elected President according to all present indications. It would be particularly embarassing should Clark county cast its vote against the best friend its great project has. KIT CARSON AND THE MOVIES I SAW A MOVIE at El Portal the other night that should have roused historic interest in the breasts of all Las Vegas people. It was named “Kit Carson,” and was a romantic story of the days of 1842 when the center of Spanish-American civilization in the west was about Santa Fe, Taos and Tepuqui. The picture itself was the story of one of Kit’s ro mantic love affairs and was entertaining enough as such. But the chief interest of the picture to the writer, aside from the old Indian Pueblos which some of us have visited, was historic and in a way associated with Las Vegas. At that date, 1842, Kit was a scout under General Fremont, the Pathfinder. The next year still with Fre lont, they began one of the most amazing journeys in the history of the continent. They left the Missouri River at “the little town of Kansas,” as Fremont recounts it, near the junction of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, on the morning of May 29, 1843. After incredible hardships, adventures and dangers, the party, coming from Fort Sutter (Sacramento) by way of the San Joaquin Valley, Tehachapi Pass and Mojave Desert, reached Las Vegas on the evening of May 3, 1844. Under this date Fremont’s record says: “After a day’s journey of 18 miles in a northeasterly direction, we encamped in the midst of another very large basin at a camping ground called Las Vegas—a term which the Spaniards use to signify fertile or marshv plains. “Two narrow streams of clear water, four or five feet deep, gush suddenly, with a quick current, from two singularly large springs. These and other waters of the basin, pass out in a gap to the eastward. The taste of the water is good, but rather too warm to be agreeable, the temperature being 71 degrees in the one and 73 de grees in the other. They, however, afforded a delightful bathing place.” PICTORIAL LIFE OF HERBERT HOOVER tu. 3 b, wb, 1.—on Aug. 10, 1874, Herbert Clarke Hoover waa bom In West Branch. Iowa. He had on# brother and a aleter. 2. At a boy, Herbort lovad all tporta and outdoor paitimoa. In wintor ha daliphtad In anow tporta. . i 3. Herbert’* father died when he wa* alx, and unt Agnea took him on a vieit to Oklahoma. 4. The boy's playmates during this visit were little Osage Indian boys, who taught him many Indian sports Arizona’s Political Streams Plugged by Boulder Dam Issues PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug 28 <AP> — 1 The muddy Colorado river rolls lover national and state politics in Arizona and penetrates to the I smallest chink in every public i question here. Across the state boundary in southern California the proposed 1 Boulder Canyon dam on the Colo rado is a hot political topic, but in Arizona—and from an entirely dif ferent angle—it is the very breath of political life. The Colorado riv er question affects, besides these two, five other western states, but it reaches its maximum heat in Arizona. This state, standing alone, de mands recognition of certain rights she feels she has in the river wa ters before a move is made to dam j and distribute them. So far, she | asserts, she has not receiver that i recognition. Arizona separates here state | from her national politics, but she tints both liberally with Colo | rado river brown. She preferred e 1 democratic president in 1916, but elected arepublican majority, but In 1924 her governor was Demo cratic and her presidential choice republican. Her democratic delegation to the Houston convention started with Smith and finished with him Her republican delegation to Kan sas City fought Hoover’s nomi nation and stood by Frank O. Lowden of Illinois until Lowden ' left the race. Republicans from this state , wanted Lowden as G. O. P. can didate for two reasons: First, be cause he has a farm in Arizona, spends several months of the year 1 there and was assumed to know the problems of a state whose farm interests are growing by ! leaps and bounds; second, they favored Lowden over Hoover be cause the latter Is a Californian by residence, and that point drag ged in the Colorado river bogey, because to be a Californian in ! much of Arizona is to be in the | camp of the enemy In the battle I TALKS BOULDER WITH PRESIDENT PRESIDENTS RECOMMEN | DATION TO CONGRESS TO BE INFLUENCED BY ENGINEERING BOARD REPORT ■ SUPERIOR, Wis. Aug. 27 (AP)— i Secretary West of the Interior De partment, arrived today for a call upon President Coolidge at ' Cedar Island. The President is very much in ! teres ted in the pending report of the board of experts appointed un der Act of Congress to look into the technical espects of the Boul der Dam project. ! The appointment of this boatd [ was completed immediately pre , ceding the acceptance of Dr. Work’s resignation from the In terior Department and the ex ■ perts have been studying the Colo , rado project ever since. The President’s recommendat ‘ ion’s to the next congress regard ing Bouder Dam will be largely in cuenced by the report and com ’ pilation, which, and the progress . so far made constituted the great 1, part of the discussion at Cedar I Island Lodge today. of Boulder dam. When Lowden dropped from the race the Arizona G. O. P. delegates at Kansas City turned with as much grace as possible to the support of the secretary of com merce. but frankly said that the same strong campaign could not be waged in their state for the Californian as could have been staged for the former Illinois executive, their farmer-neighbor and clcee friend. In their governor, George W. P. Hunt, seeking renomination, the democrats have a colorful leader in state affairs who is as uncom promising on the Colorado river matter as he is emphatic in voic ing his views. Known as “Hell No” Hunt since a river conference at Denver, where he met virtually every coun ter proposition with those two words, the man who climbed from bus boy in a mining town res taurant to the gubernatorial chair faces the present campaign with the firm conviction that he will win. He has done so before, but in some instances by almost hair line margins. One other democrat, James H. Kerby, secretary of state, seeks the nomination. He is the only one of five candidates for governor who does not profess to have a solution for the Colorado river problem. There are three republican can didates for the nomination, J. C. Phillips, prominent lawyer; Celora M. Stoddard, well known in min ing circles; John H. Udall, attorney and former deputy prohibition en forcement agent for Arizona. Farm interests rank next to the Colorado river question in impor tance from both the national and state viewpoints. With hundreds of thousands of its acres reclaimed from the desert and irrigated. Ari zona, once known mainly for its great mineral deposits, is fast add ing bulk to its permanent agricul tural ' resources. Hence the exist ence here of a farm problem and an irrigation development question, to say nothing of arguments on railroad rates, roads and taxation. Besides these there is the usual discussion of the wet and dry mat ter and a little talk of the religious angle to the presidential campaign but the mud of the Colorado river overlays every other political topic NATIONS SIGN ANTI WAR PACT PARIS, Aug. 27 (AP)—Hie Kel logg-Briand renunciation of war treaty was signed this afternoon by plenlpotentaries of fifteen na tions. Doctor Gustave Streseman, Ger man foreign minister, was the first to sign the historic docu ment and Secretary Kellogg sec ond. By the pact fifteen countries renounced war as an instrument of national policy. With its sign ing all peoples of the world are invited to Join in a great effort to achieve permanent universal peace, Soviet Russia being asked to take part through the French government. GENEVA PLEASED GENEVA, Aug. 27 (AP)—Be cause the Kellogg pact makes for peace and, by increasing the sense of International security, consti tutes a practical incentive to the reduction of armaments, its sig nature today was the cause for rejoicing the the League of Na tiara Although the United States has taken the precaution to point out that its adherence to the pact involves no future commitments concerning conflicts in any part of the world. League officials ex pressed the opinion that the con summation of the agreement cer tainly created moral interest and some moral responsibility for the United States in the maintenar.ee of peace. Automatically, a violator of the Kellogg pact, it was pointed out, would fall into the grip of the punative machinery of the League covenant, this because Kellogg treaty, signatories are members of the League. HELEN RETAINS CHAMPIONSHIP FOREST HILLS, Ang. 27 <AP> Helen Wills retained the National Women’s tennis championship to day, defeating Helen Jacobs 6-2 6-1. It took just 33 1-2 minutes to down her fellow Californian and take the title for the fifth time, adding it to the English and French championships she had al ready won this year. TAX SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That I, the duly elected, qualified and acting Treasurer and Ex-Of ficio Tax Receiver In and for the County of Cark, State of Nevada, in pursuance of an order of the Board of County Commissioners of said County, duly made and entered on the minutes of the Board at the regular meeting held on the 8th day of August 1928 will on the 6th day of September 1928. at 10 o'clock a. m.. of said day. at the Court House in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, .uch right, title and Interest as the County of Clark now has in and to all that real property now held by the undersigned in trust for said Coun ty and heretofore owned and as sessed to Abraham B. Mitchell, and upon which the State and County Taxes for the year 1926 amounting to $53 33 remained un paid and became delinquent on the 6th day or December 1926. and for which said taxes the said pro perty was sold to the Treasurer of said County on the 18th day of July 1927. , Said property Is situated In Clark County, Nevada, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit: The Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section 2, Township 22 South. Range 61 East, Mt Diablo Base and Meri dian. J. M. ULLOM. Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Receiver in and for County of Clark, State of Nevada. Published Aug. 7. 14, 21. 28, Sept ic 1928 | _ -. _ — -- IN THE TENTH JUDICIAL DIS TRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA IN AND FOR THE COUNTV OF CLARK. In the Matter of the Estate of i A. L J. Clark, an incompetent person. i NOTICE OF GUARDIAN S SALE OF REAL ESTATE NOTICE IS HEREBY UIVEN. That in persuance of an order of the Tenth Judicial District Court of the Sate of Nevada in and for the County of Clark, duly given and made on the 17th day of July, 1928, In the above entitled estate, Reese T. Morgan, Guardian of the person and estate of A. L. J. Clark, an incompetent person, will sell, on or after Wednesday the 5th day of September, 1928, at th City of Las Vegas. County of Clark. State of Nevada, to the tighest and best bidder, at private sale, subject to confirmation by i sa.d Tenth Judicial District Court, the following described real proper ty belonging to the estate of said ; incompetent person, A. L. J. i Clark. Lots twenty on (21), twenty two (22) and twenty three (23) Block Four (4). Orlgnal Town site of Las Vegas. Nevada. Bids and offers may be left at the office of Messrs. Dupray and Foley attorneys for said guardian, or may be filed with the Clerk of said Tenth Judicial District Court, at any time after the first publication of this notice and be fore the making of said sale. Dated August 11. 1928. REESE T. MORGAN Guardian of the Person and Estate of A. L. J. Clark, an Incompetent person. DUPRAY and FOLEY. Attorney for Guardian. Pub. Aug. 11. 14. 16. 18 21 23 25 28 30 Sept 1, and 4. 1928. Dse Ice—clean, pure ice— and no matter how hot the sun may beat, your food will not deteriorate. Ihe selection of ice calls for as much discrimination as the selection of food. ff you use inferior lee, your food may be contaminated by it. We supply only tile purest. Ice Just give us a trial. NATIONAL ICE PHONE 75 Title &Trust Company of Nevada (Incorporated) A. A. HINMAN. President Titles Corporations Trusts Certificate* Organized Trust of and and Title Represented Fiscal Service . 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