Insurance Chief Roy Toombs Arrested in Chicago
Roy C. Toombs president of the International Life Insurance Co was arrested by Chicago police on a fugitive warrant from St Louis Mo amid a probe into a reported 83500000 asset shortage. A Monday conference will decide possible criminal action as receiverships clash and state and federal officials weigh actions. The July parcel mail report notes a 30 percent rise from lowered rates.
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Gibson Project Contract for New Irrigation Work Let
Sealed bids opened in Blackfoot for earthwork on the Gibson division irrigation system. Morrison-Knudsen Co. of Boise won the major contract. Finley Briggs of Blackfoot secured Schedule 12 for about 20 000 cubic yards. The Gibson division was tied to Fort Hall project rehabilitation but delayed by other actions.
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Union Pacific Meet Stakes Boise With Big Turnout
Boise to host Union Pacific athletic meet August 26 27 drawing about five thousand employees families and civic groups. One hundred Pullman cars form a temporary town on the sidings as contestants from across seventy divisions compete for cups medals and honors at public school field after a full track schedule.
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Mendey Weather Update Shows Temperature Shift
A Sunday report notes a temperature change with cooler air moving in from the west. Residents are advised to expect variable conditions and prepare for mild to moderate swings in daytime highs.
Smith Listens to Hoover's Address
Governor Smith joins the nation in listening to Herbert Hoover's California acceptance speech on radio from Albany. Reporters invited to the executive mansion heard the address with him but were told he would not comment on Hoover. Smith offered no hint of his own planned remarks.
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Borah Attacks Farm Bill At Meridian Grange Meeting
Senator William E. Borah addressed about 500 farmers in Meridian urging opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill. He urged three relief principles including home market protection, marketing schemes, and business-like surplus handling alongside comments on world peace and the Kellogg treaty.
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Railroad worker dies after alighting accident in Salt Lake City
Fay E. Larson, a beeper for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, died in a Salt Lake City hospital two hours after being severed by a switch engine attempting to save others. The incident occurred Aug. 11 as a switch engine moved, with Larson reportedly trying to intervene to prevent harm.
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Three Killed in Biplane Crash Near Hadley Field
Three men died when a biplane crashed near Hadley Field in South Plainfield New Jersey late tonight The victims were Major Lee Mason Robert Howell and a flier named Mack The plane reportedly crashed while performing an outside loop The machine overturned and landed upside down on a farm owned by Samuel Helpler The incident followed a previous fatal crash at the same field last year Mason a U S Air Service veteran had spent time in Central America developing aviation for Nicaragua
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Five Killed in Roosevelt Field Plane Crashes
Two pilots died when a plane crashed headfirst after a nose dive during stunting at Roosevelt Field. The victims were Jack Bracken and Maurice Sterberger both 25 of Brookings N Y. A camera man narrowly escaped injury as the craft struck the ground.
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Hoover Opens Campaign At Stanford Stadium In Massive Rally
Herbert Hoover addressed more than 75 000 spectators at Stanford University Stadium in California urging a three fold plan for farm relief and religious tolerance while pledging rigid enforcement of the 18th amendment. He accepted the Republican nomination in a high turnout ceremony marked by bands planes and fireworks.
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Morrow Proves Great Diplomat in Mexico City
El Universal editorial praises Ambassador Dwight W Morrow for fostering friendly US Mexican relations for the first time in a century. It contrasts him with Joel R PotemsettI the first US minister to Mexico, who it says sowed seeds of discord and anti Mexican sentiment.
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British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain to tour health trip
London reports Gov Chamberlain, secretary of state for foreign affairs, ordered to take a sea voyage for health. He plans a California route via Panama Canal, then Canada and back to England across the Atlantic. Lady Chamberlain says formal plans not set, but doctors expect enough recovery to begin this month.
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Woman slain. rust stains lessen Burge murder case
Chicago August news reports that rust stains on a coat tied to John Burge were ruled not blood after chemical analysis by Coroner's Chemist W. D. McNally. Burge, an odd jobs laborer, remains a suspect in the slaying of Miss Jennie Constance, English department head at Bradley Institute, as authorities pursue further tests on weapons and other articles.
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Man Denies Gang Membership in Bank Robberies
Shreveport Aug 11 Joe Wales in Caddo parish jail on safekeeping for a Glenmora bank robbery on June 26 denies belonging to any gang that robbed a Lamar Colorado bank months earlier. Officers say he confessed to a fellow prisoner that he is wanted in Lamar for murder and robbery. His photo with Jack Batley, jailed on another Glenmora robbery charge, sent to Colorado authorities for possible ID.
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Mexican Flier Delivers Goodwill Message to Cuba
Major Roberto Fierro, Mexican army aviator, completed a non stop flight from Mexico City to Havana in twelve hours and forty minutes. He landed at Campus Columbia as thousands cheered, delivering a goodwill message amid rough weather and limited witnesses.
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