Local Utah Idaho freight rate dispute prompts Chamber protest
The Idaho Falls area reports the Focatello chamber of commerce objecting to Utah Citizens Rate Association protests against a California Idaho store door pickup and delivery freight rate cut. Gomph tariff No. 227 D promises a 1.094 freight rate vs current up to 1.45. Paul Nash seeks Utah protest details and urges I C Commission action to implement the new tariff.
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Utah
Idaho
Focatello Chamber of Commerce
William A. Lee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Utah Citizens Rate Association
California
Gomph
I. C. CC
Paul Nash
Chamber of Commerce
Idaho Utilities Commission
I. C. Co
Nash
Lee
Award of Seminole dam contract goes to joint firm
Secretary Ickes awarded the construction of the Seminole dam and power plant for the Casper-Alcora Reclamation project in Wyoming to a coalition of Morrison-Knudsen of Boise Utah Construction of Ogden and Winston Brothers of Minneapolis. The bid totaled 2759804 dollars, the lowest of three bids opened November 26.
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Washington
Seminole
Casper-Alcora
Wyoming
Ickes
Morrison - Knudsen Company Incorporated
Boise
Idaho
Utah Construction Company
Ogden
Utah
Winston Brothers Company
Minneapolis
Icc ratifies railroad trustees for Denver Rio Grande
Washington December 13 interstate commerce commission orders Wilson McCarthy former reconstruction finance corporation director and Henry Swan Denver banker named as trustees in the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad reorganization.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wilson McCarthy
Reconstruction Corporation
Henry Swan
Denver
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Brainy stenographers urged as best by LDS college president
Salt Lake City reports F Y Fox, president of the Latter Day Saints business college, says brains should guide stenographer hiring rather than beauty. He notes only about one in sixty four regularly trained workers fit all desired traits and suggests varying intelligence for different tasks. He also discusses working wives and middle aged clerks and argues for home duties like baking and dressmaking outside the home.
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Salt Lake City
F. Y. Fox
Latter Day Saints Business College
Japs Endorse Soviet Fleet at Naval Conference
London December reports say Japan asked for tonnage equality and a single standard for all nations at the naval conference. Tokyo pushed to include the five powers Japan United States Great Britain France and Italy in a common upper limit. French and Italian officials oppose the broader scope but expect to engage more deeply when sessions resume.
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Lloyd Lehreas
Associated Press Foreign Staff
London
Japan
Soviet
Russia
Tokyo
France
Italy
Asiatic Empire
United States
Great Britain
Van Vlack Plea Delayed in Idaho Mass Murder Case
Douglas Van Vlack of Tacoma Washington appeared before District Judge Adam B Barclay in Twin Falls Idaho to plead to the murder charge of state trooper Fontaine Cooper and was granted a continuance until next Monday morning The defense had planned a not guilty plea but requested the 24 hour delay allowed by Idaho law due to the judge's absence from the city over the weekend.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Douglas van Vlack
Tacoma
Wash
Adam B. Barclay
Fontaine Cooper
E. V. Larson
van Vlack
Death inquiry in Rexburg for Italian shoemaker Frank Romana
Investigation continued after the body of Frank Romana, an Italian shoemaker, was found in bed in Rexburg. An automatic pistol lay in his left hand and a bullet was through his heart, with Sheriff A H Bigher describing the scene this morning.
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Rexburg
Frank Romana
A. H. Bigher
Woman Testifies in Erland's Point Mass Murder Case
Peggy Peterson Paulos testified for two hours detailing the March 1934 trip to the Flieder home near Bremerton. She said Leo Hall killed six people they planned to rob, describing the murder of Pred Bolcom and Hall’s use of a gun as he led Bolcom into the bedroom.
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Port Orchard
Woesh
Peggy Peterson Paulos
Leo Hall
Erland's Point
Hall
Frank Flieder
Bremerton
Pred Bolcom
Mrs. Flieder
President of Cuba Chosen Provisional Leader Named
The Menocalista party accepted the election of Jose A. Barnet as provisional president after Mendieta’s resignation. Barnet, 71, a former secretary of state, was chosen by the cabinet and council of state and will serve until the May 20 inauguration following January 10 elections.
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Havana
Menocalista Party
Carlos Mendieta
Jose A. Barnet
Mario G. Menoca
Barnet
Mendieta
Council of State
World Crisis Warned by Dr Page in 1937 or 38
Dr. Kirby Page warned at a university assembly that a world crisis could erupt in 1937 or 1938. He cited Germany's rearmament, Japan's actions in China, and potential clashes involving Britain, Russia, and the United States. He urged restitution to economically strangled nations and vigilance to avert war.
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Kirby Page
Page
Germany
China
Japan
Great Britain
Russia
United States
France
Italy
Samson
Farmers Seek Federal Funds To Aid Agriculture
Eastern Washington and northern Idaho farmers urged Congress to issue 2.5 billion dollars in currency to loan to farmers at 2 1 2 percent interest. Joseph Plummer of Akron Colorado criticized foreclosures as shifting titles and predicted the agriculture adjustment act would fail.
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Spokane
Wash
Washington
Idaho
Joseph Plummer
Akron
Colo
Farmers’ Union
Plummer
Union
Colorado
G Men Refuse To Enter Case In Murder Of Walter Liggett
Attorney General Cummings rejected Minnesota’s bid for federal takeover of the Walter Liggett murder probe. He offered federal labs and records but said enforcing state crime laws rests with local authorities. Investigations broaden to Rochester and Austin. Isadore Blumenfeld remains a principal suspect per Mrs Liggett.
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Washington
Cummings
Floyd Olson
Minnesota
Justice Department
Walter Liggett
Minneapolis
Isadore
Epidemic Bans Lifted Tonight Amid Public Health Move
Health officials announce the scarlet fever ban is officially lifted at midnight as the vilage lifts restrictions on public child gatherings. Thirty five families remain under treatment as preventive measures wind down.
Farm Belt States Vote 3 to 2 Against the New Deal
The Literary Digest poll shows 642 711 votes from 26 states with 42 76 percent supporting the New Deal and 57 24 percent opposing it. Southern states favor the New Deal by roughly 3 to 2 while 19 other states vote against by margins up to 3 to 1.
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Farm Belt
Literary Digest
South
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Roosevelt
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Iowa
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Michigan
Franco British plan would carve Ethiopia with Italian influence
Rome December 13 report outlines a five point peace proposal giving Italy sovereignty over Tigre except Aksum, plus Ethiopian sovereignty over Danakil is expanded, a Somaliland frontier rectified, a free port at Assab with a corridor, and a Geneva backed zone of Italian influence across Ethiopia guided by an Ethiopian sovereign with an Italian advisor potential.
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Rome
Italy
Ethiopia
Tigre
Aksum
Aussa
Iny a-Somaliland
Gorrahel
Guramdab
Assab
France
Great Britain
Geneva
Emperor Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie
League of Nations’ Commission
Court Upholds Baby Decision in St Louis Case
The St Louis Court of Appeals upheld Special Commissioner Rush H. Limbaugh’s report that Anna Ware’s claim to the “gift of God” baby is valid. The infant remains a court ward until a rehearing deadline, with motions allowed for Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench and others.
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ST. Louis
St. Louis Court of Appeals
Rush H. Limbaugh
Anna Ware
Nellie Tipton Muench
Ludwig O. Muench
Limbaugh
Miss Ware
Muench
Drake pleads guilty to murder seeks life term option
Leroy Drake, 19, abruptly changed his plea in a Los Angeles courtroom to guilty of murdering his great aunt and uncle Henry and Mrs Stenhner. Judge Joseph Vickers will sentence him after more testimony. Prosecutors still seek the death penalty.
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Los Angeles
Leroy Drake
Joseph Vickers
Henry Stenhner
Drake
Vickers
Heavy snows mantle Pocatello city
A 20 mile per hour wind drove the first winter snow storm into Pocatello last night bringing .37 inches of precipitation. Snow coated the area to a two and one half inch depth as power lines broke twice but were repaired quickly. Police urged caution after a misty rain turned to snow with 44 degree high and 25 degree low. Cloudy skies and no temperature change expected tonight and Saturday.
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Pocatello
Warner declines comment on Gooding College resignation
Dr Andrew Warner district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church refused to explain Dr Allen Odgers' resignation as president of Gooding College ahead of Thursday inauguration. He cited a trustees statement given to the Associated Press and said he had no position to disclose reasons.
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Andrew Warner
Methodist Episcopal Church
Allen Odgers
Gooding College
Gooding
Warner
Kirby Page
Tribune
Associated Press
Salt Lake
Board of Trustees
Odgers
Ethiopian note denounces peace plan as danger to league
The Ethiopian government in biting language condemns the France Britain peace plan as a threat to the league of nations and collective security. It accuses the plan of inviting Ethiopia to cede territory to Italy and defer control to Italy, urging an immediate assembly for full public debate.
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Geneva
League of Nations
League
Europe
Ethiopia
Sals
Assembly of the
Legislative leaders reject Hoffmanns special Hauptmann probe call
In Trenton on December 13, legislative leaders refused Governor Harold G Hoffmanns request to convene a special session to probe his conduct in the Hauptmann case. Assemblyman Crawford Jamieson had urged the investigation after criticizing the governors death house visit to Hauptmann.
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Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Crawford Jamieson
Mercer Democrat
Hauptmann
Widow Pleads Guilty in Nelson Harboring Case
San Francisco December 13 22-year-old widow Helen Gillis wife of gangster Baby Face Nelson pleaded guilty in federal court to harboring Nelson and was granted release on one year probation.
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San Francisco
Helen Gillis
Baby Face
Nelson
Roosevelt To Continue Law On Neutrality
President Roosevelt said he would propose continuation of the temporary neutrality law in some form for the next congress as the current act expires next February. He indicated it would take a couple of weeks to finalize the neutrality proposal and discussed naval reserve levels.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
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