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- -- VOI- XXVIII LAS VEGAS. CLARK COUNTY. NEVADA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1932 No. 141 -•'
. OBSERVATIONS
Grist from the
Daily Grind |
===== By W. II. B. ^
CITY STOPS FOB
AIR SHOW
Things came to a sudden halt in
Las Vegas yesterday. Cars and
pedestrians stopped, business was
suspended and everyone was gazing
skvward.
It was a free show and a dandy.
Two army planes staged a dog
fight high above the city. Specta
tors were treated to a palaxy of
thrills that would have been worth
going miles to sec.
The two speed pursuit planes
after a clever and clean-cut demon
stration of loops, rolls, spins and
Immlemans. in fact everything in
the book, wont into a nip-and-tuck
dog fight that had spectators gasp
ing.
imagine, u you can rememDer.
the old pusher-type Curtiss by
planes going through the same j
stunts. Half the time the pilot on
these “jobs" didn't know whether
the sickly motor was going to
"conk" or the sprocket chain slip
ofl the propeller teeth. And of
course there was always the chance ;
that the spindly bamboo frame \%is
going in the other direction.
Then one stands on the street
gasping at these present day. steep
climbing. little planes, hears the
drone of a burdened motor, sees
these sky-ships pop out of a bil
lowy cloud and flash straight to
earth in a power dive — and still
these little machines hang togeth
er. We wonder what's coining next,1
in this field of science.
ASSESSMENT WORK—
EXEMPTED THIS YEAR
Now that congress has passed a
resolution exempting claim-hoid
ers from doing assessment work for |
1932, we have been asked many
times what procedure one must go
through to retain possession of the
claims.
The answer is—None.
We are informed by the Califor- !
nia state division of mines and the;
Nevada bureau that the resolution
does not require the filing of any
affidavit of intention to hold one's j
claims, as was the case in the war
time exemptions.
DEATH PENALTY
FOR KIDNAPERS
Following close upon warm de
velopments in the infamous Lind
bergh kidnaping case, the New Jer
sey state senate last night passed
the Sterner bill which provides l he
death penalty for kidnapers. It. is a
good bill and a good name for it.
The one regret is that the measure
is not retroactive.
RADIO SUBJECT TO
LIBEL LAWS
An eastern supreme court judge j
has decided that a radio station is ;
subject to laws of libel, inasmuch
as it disseminates news, the func
tion of a newspaper.
As radio broadcasts have assum- I
ed somewhat the duties of periodi- j
cals, they too should be governed
in the same manner as are the pub- 1
lications. Heretofore radio stations
could conduct lotteries and not in- J
terfere with postal laws; and they ;
could approach the ragged edge of
libel with no chance for recourse
by the injured person. That's i
changed now.
DISARMAMENT !
PLAN OFFERED
, GENEVA, June 10. <U.R> — Prime !
Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald
was reported tonight to be bringing
a definite plan of action to the I
world disarmament conference at}
Geiieva.
Certain delegations at the con
ference were informed that the |
, Eritish prime minister had formu-1
lated a specific "qualitative plan"
—the basis on which the confer
ence has been working in an at- j
tempt to take powerful aggressive
weapons out of the hands of na
tions—and that he hoped to obtain
the approval of French Premier j
Edouard Herriot when he visits
Paris tomorrow, en route to Ge- j
neva.
LAWYER FOR
MEANS RESTS
WASHINGTON, June 10 —(U.R)—
Attorneys for Gaston B. Means to
day rested without calling a witness
in their defense of the charge that
the former department of justice
agent misappropriated $104,000 en
trusted to him by Mrs, Evalyn W.
McLean, society leader, to ransom
Charles A. Lindbergh jr.
Attorney T. Morris Wampler ar
gued at length in an effort to ob
tain a directed verdict of acquittal,
but the judge rejected the motion
after counter arguments by the
United' States attorney.
It is expected that the jury will
get the case Monday. Opposing
counsel will sum up tomorrow
morning.
KUTII OWEN TO RESIGN
MIAMI, Fla., June 10. (U.R)—Ruth
Bryan Owen, daughter of William
Jennings Bryan, congresswoman
from the fourth Florida district
today announced she would resign
next Dec. 1, three months before
the expiration of her term, in keep
ing with her conviction against
lame duck sessions of congress.
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GRANT, RIORDAN, ZELLER FA VORED FOR LEGION HEADS
DISTRICT TUN
TICKET ill
A. C. Grant of I.as Vegas will
oppose Dr. Smith for the office of
National Executive committee
man, F. M. Zcllar of Boulder City
will oppose A. R. Sims of Sparks,
for the office of department fin- :
ance officer, and it was strongly ,
rumored that Dr. George E. Nye
of Yerington will oppose Francis
Rim-dan of Eiy for the office of
department commander in the
election of Legion department
officers this afternoon. This in
formation was obtained by The
Age last night following the meet
ing of the nominations commit- j
tee.
i Lvsr, u/u,r, ,
Conceded to be the closest race!
in the history of the Nevada depart- ]
ment, the election will be a test of
strength between District 2, com
posed of posts from Las Veeas,
Boulder City, Lincoln County, Ely,
and McGill, and the other three
districts, comprising the balance of
the Nevada department. Riordan.
Grant and Zeller are the District 2
candidates.
Under the new system of nomina
tion adopted by the convention yes
terday. nominations may be made
from the floor following the report
of the committee this morning.
With last minute agreements on
the swapping of votes between dele
gates, it was strongly believed that;
the three important posts, those of 1
department commander, national j
committeeman and finance officer j
would all be filled with District 2 ;
candidates. I
SMITH ARRIVES
The election of department offic
ers will climax the Las Vegas busi
ness sessions of the Nevada dele
gates, representing 2062 Legion
naires of the department. The above
number of members of the organ- j
ization is to be compared with the
number of 1710 members last year,
which constituted an all-time rec
ord for membership.
Always active in Legion affairs, j
E. K. Smith of Lovelock arrived in j
Las Vegas last evening to be on the
ground for the last and most im
portant day of business of the con
vention.
Las Vegas' American Legion con
vention activities yesterday were
by no means confined to the regu
lar business sessions of the depart
ment, visiting delegates found,
when more than 500 people visited
the Hoover dam workings yester
day, afternoon, and were conducted
through the tunnels before return
ing to Las Vegas for the parade
and evening's entertainment.
During the morning and after
noon. practically all activity was
suspended in Las Vegas when the
combat planes from the March
field contingent performed in the
clear sky above Las Vegas.
DRAW MURMUR
Their wide-flung sky cavorting
drew audible murmurs from the
crowds assembled in the streets to
see the stunts. Their morning
flight ended in a minor accident
partially disabling one of the planes
as it taxied into position after
landing. The two remaining ships
performed in the afternoon, stag
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HOME BREW’ BRIDE AND BROOM
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Because Mrs. Emma Johnson of Los Angeles knows a swell recipe for
making home brew she’s the bride of Jim Dale, Petaluma, Calif.,
poullryman. She was chosen from among seven women, any one
of whom Dale agreed to wed, sight unseen. The only stipulation
was that the prospective brides specify their wifely qualifications.
Mrs. Johnson won by a wide niirgin with her home brew “propo
sition.” The wedding ceremony was performed at the Elks picnic
at Hollister, C'alif. Above, right to left, are Gov. James Kolpli. Jr.,
who was best man; the bridegroom. Dale: the bride, Mrs. Johnson;
Miss Emma Strumbo, Santa Clara, Calif., “runnerup." who was
maid of honor, and Judge E. A. Pearce, who tied the marital knot.
Claiming that the whole trouble
was caused by another man visit
ing his wife, Samuel Twyman. 26.
colored, was arrested last night
just about an hour after his
wife was taken to the Las Vegas
hospital with her throat cut on the
left side, and a small stab wound
in her shoulder.
The knifing affray took place at
about 10:30 last night, in a cabin
at the rear of the Mecca cafe, on
North Second street. Mrs. Twyman
had been living there with her
father, John Powell, since she had
separated from Twyman more than
two weeks ago.
Twyman was arrested at his place
of residence at 224 North First
street, by Officer Hord, who had
been waiting there for more than
a half hour. Questioned by police
he said he had been having trou
ble with his wife’s family fo: some
time, and that matters wtr<
brought to a head when he went
there last night and found another
nian there. The knife was not
found on his person, and when
Police went to where he said he
had thrown it, it was not to be
found.
Powell, lather of the injured
woman, said that the couple had
been separated because Twymar
would not work, and that hi
daughter had been supporting him
ior some time.
Twyman served 25 days in the
city jail in December last yea:
after being found guilty of assault
and battery on his wife November
50. He is said to have come her:
from the east.
MAY BRING 24 i
PLANES TO U. S.
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ROME. June 10. <U.R>—Minister
of Air Italo Balbo was understood
tonight to be planning to lead 24
hydroplanes on a flight to America j
next May.
The latest developments in plans
for the flight, which has been ten
tatively scheduled for some months,
were disclosed shortly after the de
parture of Amelia Earhart Putnam,
American trans-Atlantic flier.
Miss Earhart intends to fly the
south Atlantic to Rome, perhaps
sometime this year, Italian officials
said. It was said she expected to
fly from New York to South Amer
ica and attempt a non-stop flight
from there.
Pays Alimony Since 1912; Claims
Place On Roster Of Unsung Heroes
LOS ANGELES, June 10. (U.R) —
Add alimony payers to the list of
unsung heroes, pleads 77-year-old
M. T. Hall, who has been paying
since 1912 and can't get anyone to
give him credit.
What with times as they are. Hall
thought it a good idea today to
seek lower alimony payments to
Mrs. Martha A. Hall, 74. who di
vorced him 20 years ago and has
collected $70 a month ever since.
Hall, who was married in Floyd
Hill. Colo., in 1875. figured $60 a
month would be about right. But
Judge Dudley Valentine and Mrs.
Hall didn't agree at all.
Judge Valentine not only refused
the reduction but ordered him to
pay $60 to his ex-wife’s attorneys
for oppossing the move.
UNIONS FLAY !
FREE TALENT!
WASHINGTON, June 10. (UR'—
The sad plight of Piccolo Pete and
Saxnphone Sam diverted the at
tention of the Shannon committee
investigating government competi
tion with private business front
pir.k feminine pajamas today.
Any influential citizen, the com- ]
mittee was told, can stage a horse :
show or a cabaret entertainment •
to i he accompaniment of free mu
sic from army and navy bands.
Meantime, musicians in civilian j
life may be starving for want of i
work, according to Samuel T. An- 1
sell, representing the American I
Federation of Musicians. He testi
fied all efforts to have Secretary of,
Navy Adams act on the question
of tree use of navy bands in com- i
petition with private orchestras, had
been ignored.
U. S. LOANS TO
CITIES OKAYED
WASHINGTON. June 10. iU.P' —
The senate late today approved a
S300.000.000 emergency measure for
federal loans to states and cities
which are in need of funds for un
employment relief work.
LOCAL VETS TO
LEAVE CITY
i
Las Vegas' bonus army marchers
will start their long trek to Wash
ington Sunday morning, according
to plans formulated by a strong nu
cleus already formed.
Already assured of transporta
tion through the fact that many of
the marchers have cars able to
travel, they have been assured of a
truck load of provisions to be do
nated by several merchants of the
city. Medical attention on the long
trip is also assured through the fact
that a veteran of the Italian Army
ambulance corps has volunteered
lii.s services although he has noth
ing to gain by making the trip.
S OCIAL .MEN
Tne 200 men who are expected to
leave the city Sunday will include
two men who enlisted in Las Vegas
to the cheers of their townspeople
fifteen years -ago. Kirk. Ambrose,
a miner, was a machine gunner in
Company B. 346 machine gun ba
talion, in the 91st division, and has
ben unable to obtain work. The
other is John Capp who served in
Company C with the 24th engineers,
and has also been out of work for
some time past.
Another jobless vet to accompany
the group is Earl N. Clayson, a
Congressional Medal of Honor man.
who has been unable to find work
here as a trainman.
To swell the ranks of the march
ers, all prisoners in the city stock
ade who are eligible for bonuses,
will be allowed to make the trip as
long as they agree to abide by the
regulations of the group, and not
to fall by the wayside, said Chief of
Police Williams last night.
Recruiting will be continued to
day at their headquarters, which
have been established on Senator
Key Pittman’s vacant lot at First
and Ogden streets.
TURN TOWARD CHICAGO
WASHINGTON. June 10 (U.R)—A
drive on the political conventions
at Chicago in pursuit of their de
mand for payment of $2,000,000.
900 in world war compensation cer
tificates was under consideration to
day by leaders of the bonus expe
ditionary force.
Both W. W. Waters, commander
in-chief. and Harold B. Foulkrod.
chairman of the legislative com
mittee, have expressed earnest ap
proval of the plan.
The committee would urge on
both Democrats and Republicans
platform planks promising immed
iate payment of the bonus, and
would threaten alternatively that
4.000.000 world war veterans and
their wives would oppose anti-bo
nus candidates for office in Novem
ber elections.
REFUSE TO MOVE
Under the plan only a small select
committee of leaders would go to
the convention city. The army,
now numbering more than 10.000.
would remain here at its mushroom
ing series of barracks and camps.
This was the second day of the
police offer to take the veterans 50
miles toward thier home in trucks.
Not a truck had moved tonight, and
the only men who have left are
‘drifters" who just dropped in at
the camp for a day or two.
HOOVER REFUSES
TO RE-ESTABLISH
WAR-TIME BOARD
WASHINGTON. June 10. (U.R) —
President Hoover tonight flatly re
iterated his opposition to the re
establishment of the war - time
council of national defense urged
him today in a letter signed by 86
nationally known bankers, econo
mists. industrialists and labor lead
ers. They told the Preisdent the
council was essential to cope with
the economic upheaval.
IjTcRASH VICTIM 1
• Lt_it
Lucy Brown, 21, '.ca;;!| Alto. Calif.,
the "flying co-ed" of Stanford
university and daughter of Dr.
Walter 11. Brown, member of the
Stanford physical education fac
ulty, was killed at Alameda. Calif
airport when an airplane, piloted
by Fred Harvey, 28. crashed
while climbing for altitude. Miss
Brown was a senior in economies
at Stanford and was to receive
her degree June 20. Harvey held
a limited pilot's license.
BREST France, June 10 —(U.R)—
Ten years after the steamship Egypt
sank to ocean floor off Brest with
$5,000,000 gold in her treasure cham
bers. divers today neared a cilmax
in a long struggle against storm
and had luck to recover the bullion.
One of the drags on the salvage
ship Artiglio, which has been at
tempting to recover the treasure,
brought up a broken board from
one of the bullion cases.
This was the closest that the sal
vagers had come in three years of
labor, which involved hundreds of
hours of work by divers on the
ocean floor, the destruction of one
ship by an explosion and the loss
of 16 lives.
The bullion box from which the
broken board came contains $45,000
in gold bullion, the directors of sal
vage operations said.
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AKRON SLATED
FOR HOME TRIP
SUNNYVALE, Calif.. June 10 <U.P>
—The naval dirigible Akron tonight
swung at her mooring mast here,
scheduled to start for Lakehurst,
N. J., tomorrow morning.
The start had been scheduled for
today, but was postponed because
of weather. The delay was utilized
to take on additional supplies of
helium gas.
Taxi-Driver Friend Of
Maid Unidentified By
Jafsie; Nab Detroiter
M orrow Maid Drinks Cyanide Potion Just
Before Police Start To Quiz Her
DETROIT, June 10. (UP)—Belief that a valuable link
i:i t* '■ solution or the Lindbergh kidnaping case had been
lotuul here when Robert Burns. 22. was arrested, faded
early this morning when police said Burns had no connec
tion with the case.
READING OF CASE
Arrested in a raid on his room in which New Jersey
officers participated. Burns was at first named as a sweet
heart ot Miss Violet Sharpe, waitress, who ended her life
in the home of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, at Englewood.
X. J.. today. Later police said they were unable to sub
stantiate their theory. Burns, they admitted, did not even
know Miss Sharpe.
Police said they found Burns propped up in bed in an
unlighted room, reading newspaper accounts of Miss Sharpe’s
death by means of a pocket flashlight.
Burns cyme to Detroit from New Jersey three weeks ago.
police Sairh " > s
New Jersey authorities, here to question Harry Fleisher
about the Lindbergh kidnaping case, also were looking for
Burns.when news of Miss Sharpe’s suicide was received.
Detective Louis Borman, of the New Jersey state poiice,
and Detective Coar, of the Jersey City police, aided in the
EGAN REFUSES
S. F. INQUIRY
SAN FRANCISCO. June 10. (l.R> j
—After issuing belligerent state
ments he would contest removal I
from his $8 000 a year office. Public
Defender Frank J. Egan tonight
failed to appear before county su
pervisors who were trying miscon
duct charges against him.
Vincent Hallinan, attorney for
Egan, faced the supervisors alone.,
Legal steps were taken to per- j
mit Egan's removal from the cell
where he awaits trial on an indict
ment charging the murder of his
37-vear-old friend: Mrs. Jessie Scott
Hughes, but Egan would not leave
the cell to go to the supervisors’
room.
YOUNG POET
DENIES TALE
OAKLAND. Cal.. June 10 OJ.R)—
Alfred C. Read, jr., wealthy young
stockbroker, athlete and occasionel
poet, sat on a bench In police court
today and listened to his wife’s
charges that he. bolstered by spir
ited courage and a lofty motive, had
kidnaped her.
The motive, the pretty young- so
ciety matron said, was to get her to
drop her $100,000 alienation of af
fections suit against Claire Winds
or. blonde actress, and return to
Read, whom she is suing for divorce.
The original Lochinvar. who like
wise quaffed down some wine and
abducted his wife from her father's
home, had much better luck than
Read, the testimony indicated.
Lochinvar, however, wasn't ac
companied by a male friend who
waved axe-handles threateningly
and fired pistol shots into the air.
Neither did he confess to his bride
a burning desire "to pop your fat
father in his stomach."
High School Youths Arrested For
Plot To Kidnap Wealthy Debutante
NEW YORK. June 10 (U.R—Twc
high school boys were arrested to
night and charged with blackmai'
for an alleged plot to kidnap a
Park avenue debutante and her
fiance.
Police said William H Duff and
Arthur J. Gaynor. both 18. had sent 1
numerous letters and telegrams to
James A. Moffett, vice president of
'he Standard Oil Co. of New Jer
‘ scy, demanding $30,000. If the
money was not forthcoming, the
communications said. Moffett's
laughter. Peggy, and her fiance.
James Carlisle, grandson of Allen
Pinkerton, founder of the famous
detective agency, would be kid
naped.
Duff is a negro and Gaynor is
white. They are alleged to have
given Moffett five ways in which
the money was to be paid.
>surprise raiu on ourns room.
Burns, nervous and excited, was
taken directly to police headquar
ters.
BRINKERT NOT IDENTIFIED
NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y., Satur
day. June 11. (U.P)—Ernest Brinkert,
a taxi driver, was not the man to
whom he paid a $50,000 ransom for
the kidnaped son of Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh, Dr. John P. (Jafsie)
Condon was said to have announc
ed early today when he viewed
Brinkert in police headquarters
here.
A police officer who witnessed
the meeting of the Lindbergh ne
gotiator and Brinkert reported Con
don's failure to identify the taxi
driver. Brinkert was being closely
questioned by local detectives and
New Jersey authorities after his
arrest late last night following his
connection with the case through
the suicide of Violet Sharpe, a maid
at the Dwight Morrow home in
Englewood.
Previously, it had been reported
at White Plains police headquar
ters that Condon, on viewing an old
rogue's gallery picture of Brinkert,
had noted a resemblance between
him and the man known as “John"
to whom the ransom money was
nairi
MYSTERY WOMAN
A young woman, who appear
ed to have been recently awak
ened from sleep, was taken into
the detective bureau headquar
ters shortly after 2 a. m. She had
dark hair and was pale. Nothing
concerning her connection with
the case could be learned.
TRENTON. N. J.. June 10 (U.R)—
Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf of
the New Jersey State Police tonight
sent two troopers to New Rochelle.
New York, to question Ernest Brink
ert. who was arrested as a suspect
in the Lindbergh kidnaping case.
There was a possibility Brinkert
might be brought here in a few
hours.
Answering several questions per
taining to the latest developments
in the investigation, Col. Schwartz
kopf said that the footprints of
Violet Sharpe, maid at the Morrow
home in Englewood who committed
suicide today, did not correspond
to footprints found under a window
of the Lindbergh home in Hopewell
the night of the kidnaping.
He said that in early questioning
of Violet she said she had no rela
tives. Later it was shown her sis
ter. Edna was in this country
Edna sailed for England April 6.
according to Viotet. the police said
"Sii mi. he added, was not with
Brinkert and Violet on an automo
bile ride the night of the kidnap
ing. There were two couples in the
car.
Col. Schwartzkopf said that sam
ples of Brinkert's handwriting
which we now have will be sub
mitted to a handwriting expert to
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