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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1923
Page
1
Berlin June 7 Germany submits an amendatory reparations note proposing annuities totaling about 1.2 billion marks annually with an international loan not available for immediate capital payments. The plan links annuity size to Germany’s economic recovery and calls for a general conference to resolve the issue.
Juneau Alaska June 7 AP Governor Scott C Bone plans to urge President Harding to declare Tongass Island a national park. He cites a 30 foot totem pole statue of Abraham Lincoln carved by an Indian over 50 years ago from a photograph given by a soldier. The island lies off Alaska's southern mainland.
The body of Henry Simmons, a Black man, was found shot and hanging from a tree on Palm Beach island after being suspected in the killing of Policeman J N Smith. Police launched an inquiry into the lynching and motive surrounding the event.
William Reynolds, 16, son of Armour Grain elevator manager John Reynolds at Steward near Dixon, died after heat suffocation while working in an oats bin. Workers had to chop through the bin wall to remove thousands of bushels and recover the body.
The provisional census for 1922 reports births declining to 22.7 per 1000 from 24.4 in 1921 across 24 states, while deaths rose slightly to 11.9 per 1000 from 11.6 in 1921 across 33 states. The Commerce Department announced the figures today in Washington.
Washington June 7 AP Preliminary organization work for the 1924 American campaign will begin with regional conferences led by Chairman Adams and national committeemen and state chairs. The first meeting is set for Boston next Tuesday with New England leaders. follow-up conferences will span New York Cincinnati Chicago Denver and the Pacific coast as plans to coordinate national and state structures are laid.
In Madison on June 7 the Wisconsin assembly approved 48 to 43 to repeal the Severson state enforcement law, after an earlier defeat of the bill. A separate Tucker bill to repeal must gain senate support and face further political hurdles. Vets express no final hope. the move aligns with New York actions on repeal. An anti prohibition effort sought a referendum on repealing the eighteenth amendment but was ruled non germane.
Lieutenant Russell L. Maugham of McCook Field Dayton Ohio arrived at noon in an army airplane after taking off from Bolling Field Washington at 10 23 am He plans a daylight flight to San Francisco with four stops weather permitting The 97 minute flight averaged about 140 miles per hour involving the same aircraft to be used for the transcontinental attempt
Fair conditions expected across Utah tonight and Friday with mild temperature changes. A possible thunderstorm remains in the northwest portion tonight or Friday, but overall conditions should stay largely unchanged.
In a Chicago case mirroring King Solomon’s tale, two women claim a five year old girl as their child. Mrs. Nicholas Lenz asserts birth in Chicago with proof. Mrs. Julia Warzna claims a Polish birth record and entrusted the child to Lenz. Warzna plans habeas corpus proceedings to secure custody.
President Harding states in a public letter that joining the world court would let the United States contribute to civilization without surrendering independence. He replies to Bishop Gailor and notes that action would advance peace and stability while avoiding entanglement or forfeiture of cherished policy.
A Shelby unrest story from Helena notes Attorney General W. D. Rankin responding to threats to cancel the Rempsey Gibbons fight on July 4 if Shelby’s moral climate does not improve. Rankin seeks a legal path after a Shelby telephone call as sheriff and county attorney report ongoing law enforcement actions amid unrest.
The government plans to send troops to the frontier amid fears revolutionaries may cross the border. Reports describe grave internal disturbances in Honduras with telegraph lines cut.
An AP report notes a man named Joe who paid to obtain gilding of a facility at Ban harbor. The action involved a contract ban and a $1,000 guarantee for the work.
Peking reports Premier Chan Shao Tseng’s cabinet resigned amid clashes over local official appointments and ongoing national finances. The move follows extended government struggles, wage shortages, and resumed hostilities in Canton's southern region. Shiuchow captured as Sun Yat Sen forces advance toward Yengtek.
In Sioux City Iowa on June 7 AP reports printers strike at the Sioux City Journal Tribune and Livestock Record continues. Publishers plan an abbreviated tabloid may list both papers names and operate open shop while wage dispute remains unresolved.
Moscow reports Vassili Komaroff, convicted of killing thirty three people and his wife, sentenced to be shot within 72 hours. He displayed alternating emotion, confessed, and blamed his wife while alienists ruled him sane. Soviet law allows execution for dangerous crimes but excludes robberies with violence.
William Oldham of Rochester abandons flapjacks in a Western style after inheriting $150,000 from an English relative. He plans to travel across the continent to California next week and then sail to London via the Panama Canal to sample English ale.
Extra eastbound freight No. 2033 between Pocatello and Montpelier derailed after hitting a broken rail four miles west of Soda Springs. Fourteen cars left the track carrying oil, peanuts, salmon, lumber and potatoes. crew unharmed, hoboes possible casualties. line expected to reopen by noon after wrecker cleared ten car lengths of damaged track.
Lightning and a preceding heat wave killed four people and possibly a fifth, with two indirect heat-related deaths. In Ohio Nicolas Cavelick and lineman William Maxwell died amid storms in Newton Falls and Coshocton, while farmers near Muskogee Oklahoma and Burlington perished. A Cleveland woman died after fainting from the heat and a heavy Dayton storm caused poles to fall and streets to flood.
Alexander Howat former Kansas United Mine Workers leader was arrested in Pittsburg on a serious charge filed by Chicago resident Mrs. Inga Sorenson for her six year old son. Howat denied the charge.
In Bend Oregon a belt of dead timber encircling Black Butte is visible from forest roads near Sisters. Officials believe bark beetles caused the damage as the first snowmelt reveals the 50 foot strip surrounding the peak. repeated patches have been destroyed by the beetle attack.
Berlin reports seven people killed and over 100 wounded in riots at Leipsic sparked by Ruhr occupation anger and unemployment dole concerns. About 20 000 demonstrators gathered under trade union and socialist auspices. police used force after shots, with mounted units later quelling the disturbance.
Chicago June 7 AP Poliggs squads search for a woman suspect in the killing of Robert C. Tesmer an insured man. Tesmer and his wife were held up by four men and a woman who shot Tesmer as the group robbed them. Mrs Tesmer, prostrate at home, says the killer wore a peculiar smile. Irving Schlig in custody, a woman resembling the slayer identified as closest match by Mrs Tesmer.
Authorities expand the search for King Benjamin Purnell, head of the House of David, after a warrant accuses him of a statutory offense against a 15 year old. Shiloh residence in Benton Harbor is raided, then searched elsewhere as the manhunt continues. Gladys Rubel files the complaint detailing a series of assaults starting when she was thirteen.
Municipal court judge William N Gemmil notes a national survey showing prohibition associated with a ten percent decline in arrests for serious crimes in 1932. The statement references a 1917 baseline for comparison.
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