Severe California quake kills woman in Eureka area
A strong earthquake in northern California and southern Oregon killed Mrs. Walter McCutcheon in Eureka when a chimney collapsed on her. Her husband suffered a broken leg and their three year old daughter Louise was hurt. A bakery employee also suffered broken wrists. name not released. The quake rattled Klamath Falls, Oregon, 155 miles northeast of Eureka.
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Winter Snowstorm Brings Record Chill To Pocatello
A Sunday blizzard and high winds pushed Pocatello temperatures down to 37 degrees, tying an 18 year old record, with a noon rise to 43 as rain and fog lingered. Mail planes reported a sow sighting near Idaho Falls and along the Montana Idaho border as conditions improved slightly this afternoon.
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Brooklyn Fans Rally in Home Finale Scored by Shaute
Brooklyn held a 712 15 win over Philadelphia with Shaute Phelps Heimach and Picinich keying the attack. Sukeforth Collins Benge and Davis also contributed as the page shows only games scheduled and no American play today.
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Stanley Cleare Heads Pocatello Lions Club
Stanley Cleare was elected president of the Pocatello Lions Club and installed by retiring president Carol Petersen at the weekly luncheon. Other officers include Jared Anderson, Rus Graves, Gene Kile, E L Dale, William Holder, Harry Bryan, Parry Harrison, Leo Arnold, and Joe Bressee with terms of one or two years. The club pledged aid to the local cricket war if called.
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Carol Petersen
Pullman Reports April Deficit At Chicago Unit
The Pullman transportation subsidiary reported gross income of 3 621 199 for April versus 5 237 556 a year earlier. After expenses and taxes the unit showed a deficit of 386 417 compared with net income of 7 559 last April.
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Plans for 15 Mile Fence to Halt Cricket Invasion
Mayor T C Coffin wired Congressman Addison T Smith requesting 300 per day for workers and supplies to build a fence 15 miles long along the lower Snake River valley to stop Mormon cricket invasion. The plan, backed by Fort Hall officials, cites possible spread via Portneuf and Blackfoot rivers and irrigation canals.
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State Agriculture Department
Plain
Colorado
Ben Ross
Give Up Hope for Safety of Atlantic Flier
The wife of Stanislaus Hausner and his friends faced slim odds for the New York to War saw fliers fate as fuel sufficiency could last only until Sunday noon. If alive, he might have landed or drifted at sea and been found by a vessel with no wireless. Mrs. Martha Hausner stayed near phones awaiting word amid hopeful uncertainty.
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Martha Hausner
Compromise Tax Bill Clears Senate Advances to Hoover
The Senate accepted the conference report on the compromise tax bill worth 1.1185 billion dollars and sent it to President Hoover for signature. The measure raises individual and corporate income taxes near wartime levels and adds numerous two year excise taxes, effective 15 days after signing. Debate followed the roll call vote 46 to 35.
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Mayor Seeks State Aid to Erect 15 Mile Cricket Barrier
Mayor T C Coffin asks Governor C Ben Ross for state help to build a 15 mile fence to stop a cricket invasion. The plan, approved by H E Plain under F A Gross, uses eight inch boards topped with tin and pits to destroy pests. Estimated cost is 100 dollars per mile with 500 dollars available now and more funds later. Weather halted the crickets march in the Lincoln creek sand hills near Blackfoot on Sunday afternoon.
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H. E. Plain
F. A. Gross
Blackfoot
Pocatello Tribune
Lincoln Creek
Republicans Favor Resubmission Policy At Conference
Republican leaders, meeting in Washington, near agreement on a prohibition plank urging prompt congressional action to resubmit the eighteenth amendment to state conventions. Senator Watson said unity exists on a resubmission plan calling for nonpartisan conventions to decide retention modification or repeal. James R. Garfield led the drafting group as postmaster general Brown observed the talks.
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Harry Ertle Dies After Relapse In Jersey City
Harry Ertle longtime Jersey City secretary of the Late Boxing Commission and referee of the Dempsey Carpentier bout at Boyle’s Thirty Acres died at the medical center after a three week hospital stay for chronic stomach ailment. Born in 1884 he refereed major matches including Willard Firpo Stribling McTigue Bass Shea Leonard Dundee Carpentier Velinski and Kilbane Burns.
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Plot Against Mussolini Foiled by Arrest Near Palazzo Venezia
The Italian police captured 25 year old Angelo Sbardellotto outside Mussolini's office with a pistol and two bombs. He confessed the plan was to kill the premier during Garibaldi day celebrations with his wife Anita. The arrest occurred Saturday, and police disclosed the plot yesterday.
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Hoover signs tax bill and Dawes resignation shake Capitol
Washington reports President Hoover signed the tax bill hours after receipt from the Capitol. Charles G. Dawes resigns from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The House prepares to debate a $2 billion relief bill chaired by Speaker Garner amid admin Democratic clash. A deadly confectionery fire in Chicago traps and burns James Mundes and endangers 30 others. Hoover also signs a joint resolution easing mine claimants from annual assessment work through June 30 1932. Congress faces a final week before conventions with July 1 as a possible deadline.
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Bus Hits Bridge on Oregon Trail Cause Detour
A Union Pacific bus knocked a bridge 2 1 2 miles east of Hansen from its moorings on the old Oregon trail canal. The 115 foot long 18 foot wide span buckled and fell into the water over the weekend. No injuries were confirmed and plans were made for a temporary crossing while a steel bridge is designed.
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Will Rogers Wires The Tribune
Santa Monica, June 6 The senate voted a ten percent cut in government civilians wages. The writer quips about congress seeking raises and remarks on Chile Germany and political leaders as examples of instability.
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State to Stop Bootlegging Tax Free Gas
Idaho to set up border patrols at highway entries to curb bootlegging of tax free gasoline. An experimental station is planned on the Ontario Oregon route with three men patrolling eight hours to stop trucks carrying illegal fuel. Exemptions will not be allowed and users must pay the five cent tax or claim refunds under the motor fuels law.
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Ore
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Mrs. H. V. Platt Dies in California
Word arrives of the death in Los Angeles this morning of Mrs. Howard V. Platt wife of the former Short Line general manager. The Platts lived in Pocatello for years and later in Salt Lake City. Survives husband two daughters Mrs. Thomas Riddick White Rochester New York and Mrs. Louis Granger Los Angeles. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Louis Granger
Borah Attacks GOP Prohibition Plank in Senate
In Washington Senator Tydings and Senator Borah blasted the Republican prohibition plank as hypocrisy. Tydings, an anti prohibitionist, read a newspaper report of the platform pledge while Borah, who drafted the 1928 dry plank, called it the rarest hypocrisy and insincerity. He warned of a possible bid to have both parties adopt the same plank as GOP leaders resumed platform talks downstairs.
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Idaho
James R. Garfield
Bride Chosen by Acclamation at California Picnic
Mrs. Jim Dale, 62, selected by 5000 picnic-goers at Bolado park, becomes bride after a public vote among seven candidates. Governor James Rolph Jr. serves as best man, with Justice E A Pearce performing the ceremony, and Emma Strumbo as maid of honor.
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Jim Dale
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James Folph, Jr
Visalia
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