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Show I Burbank Young Man Killed At Las Vegas Bert Loper, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Loper of Burbank, well-known well-known western Utah ranchers, was killed, supposedly by electrocution, electro-cution, Sunday morning while at work on the Boulder dam project. The young man's station was on the face of the dam and he had been directed to make an electrical connection, according to report, when the current was turned on prematurely and he was either knocked or fell from his support. He fell some 80 feet, striking a timber in the course of his descent. des-cent. Mr. Loper happened to be in Milford at the time wtfrd arrived here and he lost no time leaving with his family for Las Vegas, where burial of the young man was to take place following the holding of an inquest. |