Five Die When Plane Crashes
Alliance, Nebraska,
October 25 --
(AP).- Five persons were killed here late Sunday when a passenger airplane a
member of the all Nebraska air tour crashed after going into a tailspin at
2,000 feet.
The dead are Robert Davee pilot of the plane; William E.
Polly, Alliance; Davies Hollibaugh. Chadron: W. W. Tibbetts and Henry Beem,
Alliance.
The airport was crowded with spectators at the time but most of
the crowd was watching a parachute jumper and few saw the plane fall.
The
ship crashed on an edge of the airport.
Dallas
Morning News - October 26, 1931
Transcribed
and Transmitted by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Second
Plane Crash in Three Years
Alliance, Neb., Oct. 26 UP
For the second time in three
years, tragedy yesterday marked the all Nebraska air tour.
Five men were dead
today as the toil of the second fatal crash of an air tour pilot. Three
years ago, Pilot Frank Cropsey, Lincoln, died at Columbus, Neb., when a wing
of his ship came off as he was attempting a series of power
dives.
Yesterday, Pilot William Davee of Alliance, and four passengers
crashed to their death when a wing of Dovall's plane came off.
The passengers
were William E. Polley. Alliance, ' Neb.; Dawes Hollisbaugh, Chadron, Neb,;
Henry Beem, Ash by, Neb.; and W. W. Tibbetts, Alliance. All died
instantly.
Davee's ship crashed about two miles northwest of Alliance and out
of sight of the airport where thousands were watching a parachute jumper leap
from a plane over the field.
There were only two witnesses, Pilot Art
Peterson, who with Davee was a member of the tour, and Mayor Earl Mallory of
Alliance. Mallory was watching from the ground and Peterson was flying near
Davee.
Peterson said he believed that Davee, an inexperienced flyer, had been
stunting.
Source: The Beatrice Daily Sun 1931-10-26 Page 1
Transcribed
and contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
A Nebraska
County Seat Fight
A Big Petition for a Change in Box Butte County
Hemingford,
Nebraska, January 17. -- The intense excitement that has been
prevailing in this county for the past six weeks because of the county seat
war, which has been anticipated, was today fully launched upon the county when
the Alliance committee, under the leadership of Robertson Noleman, filed its
petition, praying the county commissioners to at once call a special election
for the purpose of moving the county seat.
The petition contained 815 names, purporting to be legal
voters and residents of Box
Butte County.
Five hundred farmers are in the city today and fully 1,000
are expected tomorrow.
The feeling is strong on both sides, though no trouble has
yet broken out. It may now at any minute
and many are apprehensive.
Kansas City Times – January 18, 189
Ship
Range Cattle To Eastern Markets 
Considerable
Feeding to Be Carried On in North Platte Valley During Next Winter
(Special
to the Star.)
Alliance,
Nebraska, October 25—Western Nebraska cattlemen are busy shipping their range
cattle to market. There is some feeding going on in the Platte Valley, the tops
of the sugar beets now being harvested being used as stock feed.
Christopher
J. Abbott of Alliance, has sold a thousand head of his young cattle to W. H.
Ostenberg, of Scotfsbluff, who will operate extensive feeding activities this
winter.
Eugene
Hall and Robert Graham, south of here, have sold 1,300 head of young cattle to
an Indiana man. The cattle were divided into two shipments and Mr. Hall just
made the delivery of the second one.
J.
Guick of Gering bought a thousand head of cattle from Alliance ranchers and
they are being delivered to his feed lots at Scottsbluff for feeding this winter.
The Lincoln Sunday Star – Sunday,
October 26, 1930
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