Walters Sees Party Success for Bourbons in Idaho
Weiser Idaho June 10 A keynote at the party platform convention shows Democrat T A Walters predicting party triumph and urging silver use to ease debtors issues and tariff reductions. He lauds Governor C Ben Ross for honesty and calls for consolidating offices and cutting spending. He links Republican policy to business stagnation and unemployment.
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Idaho
T. A. Walters
Hamilton
Blue
McKinley
C. Ben Ross
Budget Bureau
Department of Law Enforcement and Public Welfare
Public Utilities Commission
Lawyers Assist Roosevelt in Walker Evidence Study
Two eminent lawyers will assist Governor Roosevelt in analyzing the Seabury evidence on Mayor James J. Walker. Roosevelt aims for rapid action but did not set a timeline. Reviewing eight volumes could take two to three weeks.
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N. Y
Roosevelt
James J. Walker
New York
Samuel Seabury
Legislative City
Walker
Will Rogers Wires The Tribune Opinion from Beverly Hills
In a June 10 letter from Beverly Hills Will Rogers opines on politics and personalities. He mocks radio announcer nominees, cites McAdoo and Dawes, and quips about political platforms and changing loyalties with his signature sharp humor.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Towa
McAdoo
Charley Dawes
Sultan of
Morocco
Eva
Aimee
Will Rogers
Grasshoppers and Crickets Wage War on Idaho Crops
Entomologist J R Parker reports severe east Idaho Mormon cricket invasion threatening crops. He seeks 15000 dollars with 500 from the Indian Affairs bureau, and Congress member Addison T Smith works to obtain funds from Agriculture. A two to three month control plan uses barrier walls trench pits and poison ordered from New Jersey to reduce five large cricket bands. Volunteers will drive crickets into pits as dusting and trenching continue into next spring.
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J. R. Parker
United States Bureau of Entomology
East Idaho
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Addison T. Smith
Department of Agriculture
Parker
New Jersey
Express
Idaho
Demented Man Taken to State Asylum After Jail Attempt
Charles Kibler, 47, was moved from the county jail to the Blackfoot state asylum after an alleged suicide attempt in his jail cell Wednesday. Officers said he found a razor and cut wrists hands and throat. cuts considered not deep by the attending physician.
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Charles Kibler
Blackfoot
Kibler
Fortune From Sea Crew Reaps Egypt Gold
Divers from the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II recovered 45000 dollars in bullion from the sunken steamer Egypt off Brest France. The gold was part of a five million dollar cargo sunk in 1922. salvage efforts cost 15 lives and two ships, with the Artiglio II continuing the hunt after prior wrecks and legends of crushed treasure. The operation began May 25, 1931.
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Brest
France
Artiglio II
Egypt
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Artiglio
Morrow maid Violet Sharp commits suicide in New Jersey
Violet Sharp, a Morrow maid linked to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping inquiry, was found dead by poison in the Morrow home in Englewood New Jersey. Police say she drank poison after taking a glass from the butler’s pantry and had identified Ernest Brinkert as a companion the night of the crime. Efforts continue to locate Brinkert.
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N. J
Violet Sharp
Lindbergh
Miss Sharp
Morrow
Hopewell
Morrow Home
Nathan Allyn
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office
Colonel Schwarzkopf
Ernest Brinkert
White Plains
N. Y
Brinkert
Schwarzkopf
Englewood, N. J
Dwight W. Morrow
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Republican convention may sell out crowd in Chicago
In Chicago on June 10 officials report a flood of spectator applications as seats go on sale to the general public for the Republican national convention with a expected full house by nightfall.
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Chicago
Washington
Poison Campaign Inaugurated In West Section Of Bingham County
In Blackfoot on June 10 officials launch a grasshopper and cricket control effort in the western part of Bingham County. Farmers are urged to inspect fields and report pests to Agent M L Tillery. Poison bait stations will operate at the I Moyer ranch Aberdeen station and Joan Josephson ranch Pingree. J R Parker and M L Tillery assess damage and urge broad farmer participation. The program, led by Claude Wakeland and J R Parke, enlists about seventy five volunteers to combat pests before they enlarge.
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Blackfoot
the Tribune
Lincoln Creek
Aberdeen
M. L. Tillery
I. Moyer
Aberdeen Experiment Station
Joan Josephson Ranch
Pingree
Bingham County
Claude Wakeland
University of Idaho
J. R. Parke
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Johnson Favors Day Law Repeal
Senator Johnson of California urged Congress to resubmit prohibition for a national referendum. He said the only way to place the issue before the people is a resolution calling for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, with protection for states.
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Washington
Johnson
R. Cal
Congress
Idaho’s Senior Senator Heads List of G. O. P.
Idaho’s state party convention in Boise named Senator William E. Borah to head the Gem state delegation for the Republican convention. John Thomas and nine others were chosen as delegates with Florence Bush named an alternate. Other named delegates include I. E. Rockwell and Mark Means among several, with alternates such as Claude Davis and W. A. Heiss. The convention reelected R. P. Parry as state chairman by unanimous vote, with a smaller gathering and more even county representation than in past years. Delegates cheered Hoover during Judge Hugh A. Baker’s speech.
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Boise
Idaho
William E. Borah
Gem
United States
John Thomas
Florence Bush
I. E. Rockwell
Bellevue
Stanley A. Easton
Kellogg
John W. Hart
Menan
J. F. Airshie
Coeur d'Alene
Mark Means
Lewiston
L. D. McFarland
Sandpoint
L. V. Patch
Payette
Thomas Heath
Preston
A. E. Stanger
Idaho Falls
Claude R. Davis
W. A. Heiss
Jerome
G. Nicholas Ifft
Pocatello
A. Mullenix
Grandview
C. W. Beale
Wallace
M. D. Mikklesen
A. J. Kent
Sam Tuning
Caldwell
Heber Q. Hale
Edward Thorsen
Blackfoot Party
R. P. Parry
Twin Falls
Hoover
Hugh A. Baker
Rupert
Scores and standings from today’s baseball games
National and American league results list scores for teams including Philo Meine Grace Ben ge Davis Cinci New York Brooklyn Grimes Smith Hemsley Thurston Sukeforth St Louis Boston Hallahan Wilson Brandt Spohrer Philgress Cleveland Walberg Cochrane Hudlin Sewell Detroit Pennock Dickey Uhle Herring Wyatt Hayworth Wash Chicago Crowder Spencer Jones Gerry Boston St Louis Michaels Tate Hadley Ferrell Utah forecast notes Fall tonight and Saturday with little temperature change.
Modern Parents Are Radicals Chicago
Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the University of Chicago president, says modern college students are more conservative than their parents. In a letter to the Daily Maroon editor she claims students spend college years procrastinating, with parents’ radical ideas frightening them from clothes to politics. She adds that students rely on their fathers' money while professors treat teaching as occupational therapy.
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Chicago
Robert Maynard Hutchins
University of Chicago
Maxine Creviston
The
Daily Maroon
Pe Oa
Political battles unfold as convention delegates arrive
Washington June 10 AP The coming Democratic and Republican gatherings spark intra party fights over Roosevelt against Roosevelt and chairmanship. Roosevelt supporters oppose Jouett Shouse for permanent chair while considering a challenger to Barkley for temporary chair as factional clashes intensify before the June convention.
Senate debate over $300 million relief bill sparks republic fears
In Washington Senator Reed predicts the Democratic unemployment relief bill will be remembered as "a mile with the disintegration of the American republic." Senator Borah denounces the claim. Also notes on Gaston B. Means defense, women voters in Seattle, stock squeeze in Radio Keith Orpheum, Violet Sharp's suicide in Englewood, and Schwarzkopf comment on Lindbergh kidnapping case.
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Senate
Reed
Pennsylvania
Borah
Idaho
William J. Morgan
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Senate Banking Committee
Keith Orpheum
Hoover praise and call for tax cuts at Idaho GOP convention
District Judge Hugh A. Baker urged Idaho Republicans to cut government expenses and taxes at the state convention in Boise. He praised President Hoover’s wartime leadership, credited the Reconstruction Finance Corporation with fewer bank failures, and lauded Idaho’s congressional delegation and state ticket led by Byron Defenbach.
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Boise
Hoover
Idaho
Hugh A. Baker
Rupert
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Prohibition Focus At Gearing Republican National Meet
In Chicago the Republican National Committee debates prohibition as Louisiana Georgia Mississippi and South Carolina delegations present arguments. Mabel Walker Willebrandt arrives as a California delegate while dry leaders probe plans for wet or damp planks and chairmanship questions loom.
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Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
National Committee
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
California
Edwin C. Dinwiddie
National Prohibition Board of Strategy
Curtis
Congress Hotel
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Gyp joint owner jailed for severe speakeasy fraud
Federal Judge Frank J. Coleman sentenced Louis Greenstein, operator of a Gyp joint, to three years in Atlanta penitentiary. The judge cited the crime's severity as stemming from robbing patrons rather than running a speakeasy, with victims claiming they woke to large bills after being held or driven to the establishment. A business man described a 36 hour confinement until signing a $2000 check.
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New York
Gyp
Frank J. Coleman
Louis Greenstein
Atlanta Penitentia
King Named Utah Delegate to Platform Committee
Senator William H. King will represent Utah on the platform committee at the Democratic national convention in Chicago Orman W. Ewing announced last night King was named to replace state chairman Delbert M. Draper with all state delegates authorized except one not contacted Draper was named to the platform committee at a caucus Wednesday night but the action was later declared void with the permission of the state chairman
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Salt Lake City
William H. King
Utah
Chicago
Orman W. Ewing
King
Delbert M. Draper
Draper
Editorial backs Alfred E. Smith for president across Scripps-Howard papers
Roy W. Howard announces all Scripps-Howard newspapers publish the editorial Give Us Smith praising Alfred E. Smith. It criticizes Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, argues decisiveness is needed, and predicts Hoover's nomination with Roosevelt a possible second choice while highlighting Smith as the ideal fit.
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New York
Roy W. Howard
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Scripps-Howard
Smith
Alfred E. Smith
Goverenor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
New York City
White House
Byrd Plans Second Antarctic Expedition to Marie Byrd Land
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd announces a smaller second Antarctic voyage to study Marie Byrd Land and expand on scientific data from his first trip. The two year mission will depart Boston in fall with about 150 sled dogs two planes tractors and one ship the Bear built in the 1870s to carry equipment arriving in Boston July 1. Lincoln Ellsworth may join in Little America area as Byrd aims to further explore the region named for his wife.
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Richard E. Byrd
Marie Byrd Land
Antarctic
Byrd
Coastguard
Oakland
Cal
Lincoln Ellsworth
Little America
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