31 Jul 1929
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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1929
Page
1
In a large textile strike about 500000 workers walk out while 150000 stay unionized. Unemployment wages range from 1928 dollars weekly for young girls to 7.20 for weavers, with men earning about 11.08 pounds weekly. Both mill owners and workers seek guidance from Labour Minister Margaret Bandfeld for a settlement path.
Albany July 30 AP Officials fault mandatory life terms for fourth felonies amid riots at Clinton and Auburn prisons. Governor Koowret and corrections Commissioner Nar ree Kráoch discuss Baumes law vetoes and note long-term sentences provoke bitterness in prisoners.
Boise July 10 potato dealers will receive a new market report starting August 1 from the department of agriculture. The daily receipts at markets and price quotations will be listed, with initial distribution limited to the southwest area where early movement begins, then expanding to Buhl Twin Falls and up river points as shipments move into markets.
Col and Mrs Charles A narrowly avoid a crash when a tire blows out on their plane during final approach in Columbus. The craft began a ground loop but the colonel regained control with wing on runway. Both occupants escape uninjured and the plane sustains minor damage.
Two deaths end a sixth endurance flight attempt by pilot Owen Haughland and copilot Capt. P L Crichton of Minnesota at Wold Chamberlain airport. Haughland dies in hospital after 154 hours aloft. Crichton dies instantly when the Minnesota crashes after a spin following a fuel request. Both men were married and military funeral plans and tributes follow.
Boundary commission investigates Bechler meadows southwest corner of Yellow Stone park as a potential reservoir. A camp will be established near the dam site with Gov Baldridge Senator Thomas and Rep Smith joining. Officials will tour August 2 3 to assess impact on park recreation. Upper Snake settlers seek water for 200000 acres amid park concerns over commercialization.
North Idaho farmers face a poor spring wheat crop while winter wheat near mid harvest is forecast to yield around 60 bushels per acre. Commissioner E W Porter notes adequate bank funding for the harvest after a two week tour.
Four hundred and fifty acres at Arbroree Park host the world jamboree opening tomorrow with fifty thousand scouts from forty two nations, including thirteen hundred American boys. Despite rain, the camp buzzes with activity in the Mersey area near Liverpool as global contingents trade and shop at the camp market.
Boise forest fire fighters gradually bring the 2000 acre blaze under control according to forest supervisor Guy B Manis. The fire briefly broke away yesterday but backfires and trenches are holding as fifty men press to contain any wind driven flare up tonight or tomorrow.
Scores from four games include Brooklyn vs St Louis, New York against Cincinnati, Philadelphia vs Pittsburgh, and Chicago vs Washington with mixed inning totals and notable pitchers. Notable lineups feature Fitzsimmons Hogan Sukeforth Swetoni Larient Fussell Meine Hill Hargrieves and others.
At Arnolds Park Iowa on Sunday a speedboat crash left three people missing while nine others died aboard Miss Thriller and Zipper. Coroner Grimm said fourteen passengers were aboard. cause under investigation and possible criminal negligence noted with arrests anticipated.
Police and sheriffs seized a car linked to the Murray State Bank robbery as they pursue two bandits who held up the bank yesterday morning and netted more than 62 200. The vehicle 688 in silver and a revolver were found on the southwest edge of Salt Lake City, parked since 11 am.
Passengers rush toward Friedrichshafen to join the airship for its dawn departure from Lakehurst. Dr Eckener says the new motors meet expectations as the voyage proceeds to Tokyo and Los Angeles with four stops. The ship will carry a grand piano and Susi the chimpanzee with a canine champ and 600 canaries for aerial music.
New York July 30 AP Caleb R Stetson charges churches in politics hurt religion. He cites Trinity parish in Manhattan as example and protests churches used for pacifist or pro prohibition propaganda. Old Trinity at Wall Street and Broadway noted as mother church.
Washington July 30 AP Secretary Good followed the suggestion of General Williams superintendent of the United States military academy that large and late portraits of General Z. P. G. Burguarad and Confederate generals should be hung in the cadet rooms. Both generals served as superintendents and life size pictures of each are planned to be displayed with portraits funded by the academy.
New York AP reports a cashier who five times declined promotions was arrested for larceny of 680,000. K. Kelker, 20 years with the International Tutoring Co, confessed to embezzling funds from bets on horse racing and stock market ventures.
The Soviet embassy in Berlin rejects a Washington report that direct talks between the Soviet ambassador and the Chinese minister have not yet begun but will start soon. The embassy calls the report untrue, repeating denials of prior claims.
London July 30 police guarded the Croydon home of Dr Jackson after the coroner and his wife received threatening letters tied to the poisoning death of Vera Sidney. Inquests proceed into the deaths of Mrs Violet Sidney and Edmond Duff, with evidence pointing to poison via soup and beer.
Pittsburgh July 30 AP demonstration flights from Bettis Field show a possible air shuttle between Pittsburgh and Washington. Col Harry Pry sponsors using a six place monoplane with 300 hp. Three round trips daily for six days aim to prove practicability over the Alleghenies known as the graveyard of the air. Best times: 1 hour 15 minutes eastward and 1 hour 40 minutes westward.
St Louis pilots Dale Red Jackson and Forest O Brine battle fuel limits as they extend the St Louis Robin toward a record with reports of fuel exhaustion possible by 4 pm CST. Officials warned of a landing later today while Robertson urges safety and judgment amid the 422 hour milestone race.
President Hoover announced plans to promote child welfare across the nation. He charged a planning committee of experts to prepare groundwork of facts and experience for a White House effort aimed at helping the nation's children.
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