26 Jul 1930
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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1930
Page
1
Idaho's senior senator is ordered to rest after two years in the Senate. The official directive requests a pause from duties as he returns home to resume campaign activities in the fall.
The AP reports widespread heat across Wisconsin Illinois and Missouri with relief in the northwest from showers. Temperatures ranged from 68 in Milwaukee to 96 in the prior day, while Chicago St Paul and New York edges stayed mostly under 80 as rains arrived. A separate note states Questionnaire won the Empire City Derby at Empire City track with Mack Garner aboard for James Butler, covering 1¼ miles in 2 05 4 5 for a $6,650 purse.
Betty June Perkins, 3, who disappeared last Thursday near Evanston, Wyoming, was found early today in dense timber by a search party of about 500. Her sister Mary, 4, had been found earlier in timber eleven miles from the camp. Betty was weak from exposure but alive, after wandering in a circle and covering several miles.
Washington officials indicate the pulpwood embargo may be applied to other Soviet products. Seymour Lowman, assistant secretary of customs, said the department is pursuing actions on anthracite and manganese. The move targets goods partly produced by convict labor under dumping-conditions rules.
Senator Borah of Idaho will leave Washington early next week to spend at least a month in Maine under doctors orders for a two months rest. He has been examined at Johns Hopkins and reports show no organic trouble though he remains weakened and aims to return to Idaho to campaign for re election and support the Republican Independent farm relief program once his strength returns.
Baseball results show St Louis and Boston in a doubleheader split with early and late innings listed. Pittsburgh defeated New York 10 to 4, May and Gooch contributing. Cincinnati edged Brooklyn 5 to 8. Philadelphia swept Cleveland 14 to 1 in abbreviated play. Chicago beat Washington 46 to 2 with dominant pitching and hitting.
Col Alfredo Lezama commander of the aerial regiment overseeing two squadrons of nine planes each was arrested in Mexico City following a midair collision that killed five people including four aviators and a peon on the ground. Cadets accused him of possible involvement in a bet related to the exercise and demanded investigation. Lezama did not fly during maneuvers and previously served after Col Pablo Sidar perished off Costa Rica in May.
Frank Chock, a bootlegger, claims Police Commissioner Thomas C. Wilcox coerced him into signing an affidavit accusing slain radio announcer Jerry Buckley of an attempted shakedown. Chock says he signed without understanding English, fearing jail, and asserts Buckley and others borrowed from him. The initial affidavit named Buckley, and Wilcox had refused to reveal the signer.
Lincoln. Nebraska Attorney General C A Sorensen ruled chewing gum and matches used as political advertising are forbidden under the corrupt practices law. The decision followed a candidate’s claim of criminal threats over distributing $1000 worth of paper matches to beat campaign data.
Sixty women civil disobedience volunteers sat down on the pavement in Calcutta after being refused permission to parade. They remained seated from 5 p.m. until the following day, adhering to Mahatma Gandhi's non resistance doctrine.
Arizona Attorney General K Berry Peterson filed a brief with the comptroller general claiming the 10 660 000 appropriation for Boulder dam construction is illegal. The brief argues Boulder dam act provisions are unmet and funds unavailable, challenging contracts with Interior Department, Los Angeles, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Secretary Wilbur says the agreements ensure government reimbursement.
In Montevideo on July 26, the United States Soccer team fell to Argentina six goals to one in the world championship tournament. Argentina advances to face the winner of Jugoslavia versus Uruguay in the final next week.
President Hoover enjoys a cooler mountain retreat at Orange Virginia with Mrs Hoover and 17 guests including district Commissioner A S Grant 3rd. He plans little activity over the next day but intends to discuss District of Columbia affairs.
Five climbers including four Boy Scouts and a father reach Grand Teton summit, bringing total ascents to 22. The Rexburg group led by Cornell Christensen signalled from the top to 114 hikers at Table Rock. No descent report by day’s end. severe electrical storm and rain from Table Rock area likely forced hikers down.
In the 2140 Carver Street residence residents report a ghostly presence with strange noises and phantom bottles seen by some. Police deploy a ghost protection squad to investigate and seize any ghosts or believers.
Washington reports the census bureau preliminary population figure for Mississippi at 2,007,743, up 217,125 or 12.1 percent since 1920, reflecting growth since the last census.
Dallas July 26 AP Eleven candidates entered Texas Democratic governor race the longest field ever. A runoff on August 23 seems likely as no one expected a majority. Notables include State Senator Thomas B Love Jim Young Miriam A Ferguson and Mrs Ferguson proxies for ex Governor James E Ferguson. Morris Shepard and other Republicans stayed largely inactive. Ten of seventeen Democratic house seats contested today.
Three persons drowned and four others narrowly escaped when a motorboat capsized on Wilson lake near Florence Alabama. Local authorities launched a search as survivors recounted the accident today.
Rome reports 2142 dead and 4551 injured from Wednesday's earthquake with more casualties expected as debris clearance and identifications proceed. Premier Mussolini’s aide notes uncertainty due to unsearched areas and missing families. Recovery teams reopen bakeries to ease rationing.
London July 26 AP Bernard Shaw age 74 remains Europe’s literary and dramatic emperor. He recalled Vienna’s objections to his dictatorial stage terms and asserted I am the emperor of Europe from the dramatic point of view. Shaw, who has never visited the United States, quipped America has the morals and outlook of an eighteenth century village.
The fourteenth contingent of gold star mothers boarded the S S Repub? lic for France to visit graves and battle sites. Among them is Mrs Lenora Dyer of Fort Worth whose son died of spinal meningitis after the armistice, and Mrs Etta Horton of Irondale Missouri who faced train sickness en route. Mrs T W Couch of Grandview carries mementoes to graves including a bedbulb and soil from her son Lieut Hutt Couch who fell in 1918, with a second mission to visit another Dallas mother unable to travel.
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