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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1924
Page
1
In Tokyo on June 2 AP reports growing anti American sentiment tied to Japanese immigration exclusion. Police guard routes for retiring Ambassador Cyrus Woods and Memorial observance after a Japanese man who killed himself near the embassy last September. No clues to the suicide have been found and the body rests in a temporary tomb.
Washington June 2 AP reports the Senate Post Office Committee reversed a subcommittee decision and will hold further hearings on Texas land fraud charges. The subcommittee had planned adjournment to allow a visit to the lower Rio Grande Valley.
Washington June 2 AP news wires report the coast guard headquarters rejected all bids for 25 trol boats intended to chase rum runners on the Pacific coast. New tenders will be accepted through June 12 after bidders were found to misinterpret specifications.
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals reverses a lower court ruling and allows California cooperative canneries to intervene in the Big Five packers consent decree case. The decision sends the case back to federal district court to consider the canneries plea in evaluating the decree’s validity.
An explosion in a South Pacific railroad tunnel under construction near Summit California injures eight people, six seriously. The blast reportedly occurred after dynamite sticks detonated from a prior blast, causing a dangerous buildup and collapse within the tunnel.
Des Moines Iowa voters targeted key races for senator governor and other offices. Sen Smith W Brookhart faced Burton E Sweet with Brookhart’s camp predicting a landslide while Sweet's backers claimed confidence in nomination.
Plans go forward for the national convention of the Farmer Labor Progressive group led by St Paul labor leader William Mahony. The gathering, set for June 17 to discuss a third party for the November elections, faced no action to exclude communists.
Mexico City reports Villa Hermosa the Tabasco state capital and rebel stronghold fell to federal forces yesterday after a campaign led by General Gonzales. The garrison under Fernando Segovia dispersed with heavy casualties.
Dr H G Miller and a Briton Jaffray freed by pirates in Kwangsi province after a week in captivity. They were part of a four man relief party bound for a mission station. Rex Ray and another Briton Carne remain captive in the bandits mountain fortress.
Washington June 2 The Ford Motor company was declared by the supreme court today not to have infringed the Harmatta patent for electric welding of thin shots of iron and gies owned by the Lyot Welder company.
Los Angeles fire at the Hope Development school at Playa Del Rey killed 22 sub normals and 16 others injured. Matron Mrs Thomas died aiding inmates as coroner schedules inquest and officials push for safer quarters despite local protests.
Senate agriculture committee report denounces Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals bid and the administration stance. It criticizes the Gorgas plant sale to Alabama Power for 8,472,482 dollars and outlines the Norris bill's plans to use land, power, and a new steam plant under the Ford corporation. It also accuses propaganda aimed at farmers and real estate interests of backing Ford. In Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb face murder and kidnapping indictments as their case proceeds, with writs of habeas corpus sought and judges ordering custody without bond.
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad posted four month net operating income of 1,251,327 in 1924, up from 890,762 the prior year. Gross revenues were 9,419,051, down 385,691. April net income reached 419,524, with 177,845 in stock 1928 per Wall Street.
The Supreme Court overturned lower court rulings upholding city ordinances that fixed gas prices for San Francisco fiscal years 1914 1915 and 1916 asserting the price controls violated applicable statutes.
Wisconsin senator Robert M. La Follette Jr leads an insurgent push to resume Congress after adjournment. He proposes a July 9 recess and a focused program on agriculture and transportation citing farm and bank distress in foreclosures and the wheat belt. The House approved adjournment at 7 p.m. next Saturday amid partisan lines.
Police search for Miss Helen Cole and Charles Carter, guests at Mrs. James Crowle's home in Mountain Lakes New Jersey, after they disappeared following a weekend discussion about living by their hands alone. A note claimed the demo would be practiced in the woods. Cole, 24, reportedly wore a yellow evening gown. Authorities pursue in surrounding woods.
The Northern Baptist Convention chose Seattle Washington as the 1928 meeting site during its morning session. The body condemned war as a method for settling international disputes and urged Congress to consider a uniform marriage and divorce bill. It also pressed for moral films, child labor amendments, and optional religious education, while criticizing the Japanese exclusion provision of the immigration act.
Washington January 2 AP. President Coolidge signed a tax reduction bill that cuts federal levies for almost all taxpayers. It immediate reduces taxes on last year’s incomes payable this year by 25 percent and repeals many excise taxes within 30 days. The measure aims to ease business uncertainty and boost economic activity.
Deputy Sheriff Neil Simpkins of Bonneville county was shot and killed during a gun fight while serving a liquor warrant on W. C. Wilson. Wilson fled, a shell jammed Simpkins gun, and witnesses say Wilson fired the fatal shot. Simpkins died en route to the hospital. Wilson is sought as an armed taxi driver with a wife and child.
Vienna reports Chancellor Ignaz Seipel in stable condition after a gunman, Karl Jaworek, wounded him with a bullet to the lung in an attempted assassination. Doctors at midnight said the chancellor was fully conscious and not suffering.
Washington June 2. California case on pharmacist alcohol withdrawal for medicinal use dismissed by supreme court on legal technicality. Court ruled prohibition commissioner must be a party to render a decision.
Automobile crashes in and near Chicago on Sunday left seven dead and four injured, authorities said. The incidents occurred along multiple roads and involved several vehicles. Emergency crews transported the injured to area hospitals as investigations continued.
An attempt by 25 transient laborers to overpower the conductor and brake man on an eastbound Union Pacific freight train near Deer Trail was stopped by Sheriff A. G. Loss and a local posse. Nine men were captured and jailed in Hugo after seals were found broken on car doors and agents requested aid.
The basalt monument with a bronze slab at Spalding records Idaho missionary Rev. Henry Spalding and wife Eliza. Dedication yesterday drew about 3,000 people with Idaho State D A R chapters arranging ceremonies led by Governor C C Moore. Indians participated using Nez Perce terms and interpretation.
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