Idaho Democrats Bind Delegation To Roosevelt Dern Ticket
Idaho Democratic state convention instructs its five delegates and four alternates to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt for president and for Governor George H. Dern of Utah for vice president at Chicago. The platform condemns congressional nepotism, calls for remonetization of silver, and supports collective bargaining while outlining state concerns.
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Weiser
Idaho
George H. Dern
Utah
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Far East
Far West
Chicago
Roosevelt
Congress
Roy L. Black
Pocatello
Irving E. Rockwell
Bellevue
Hoover
Larceny Charged In Ogden Auto Theft Case
Elden C. Smith and Theodore C. Carter face grand larceny charges for stealing a car in Ogden Thursday afternoon. They were arrested about midnight west of Ogden with two 17 year old girls who were taken to Ogden for delinquent minors. Smith and Carter had been paroled from the Utah penitentiary last April after 18 months for burglary.
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Ogden
Elden C. Smith
Theodore C. Carter
Utah State Penitentiary
Geo. _eili
Pocatello
Utah
Carter
Smith
Here
Pearl Herzog
Vivian Speires
Blackfoot Levy Fixed at 20 Mills
May or Edward Thoreson presided at the adjourned Blackfoot city council meeting where the 1932 levy was set at 20 mills, two and a half mills lower than the prior budget, the lowest in a decade. Bills for May were approved and City Treasurer Leon J. Chapman’s report accepted. The council approved a State Hospital sewage contract and directed City Clerk R L Osborn to seek state ratification.
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Blackfoot
Pocatello Tribune
Edward Thoreson
Leon J. Chapman
Earl W. Corey
State Hospital For
R. L. Osborn
Means comments on Lindbergh kidnap case trial
Washington June 11 Gaston Means on trial for defrauding Evalyn Walsh McLean said new developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping are shaping up as he expected. He cited the Brinkert arrest and insisted he knows more about the case than anyone and would testify if needed. The case before Justice James M Proctor involved counts of embezzlement and larceny with a directed verdict sought on the fourth count.
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Washington
Gaston B. Means
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr
Ernest Brinkert
New Jersey
Lindbergh
James M. Proctor
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Means
Convention demonstrations stir Chicago as wets and drys clash
In Chicago delegates confront a wet dry protest scene at the Republican convention. Demonstrations unfold for repeal and against Prohibition while talks focus on platform wetness and political leadership. Figures like Curran and McBride comment as crowds gather amid national debates.
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Chicago
O Drus
National Committee
Curtis
Hoover
Crusaders
Republican Citizens’ Committee Against
Henry H. Curran
Association Against
Anti- Saloon League
Illinois Conference of Associations
McBride
Curran
Florida
Indiana
North Carolina
Ida B. Wise Smith
National Women's Christian Temperance Union
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
League
Rockefeller
Widow Wins Insurance Suit in Federal Court
Mrs. Robert Robinson widow of a Union Pacific locomotive engineer was awarded 17039.05 by a federal jury against Connecticut General Life Insurance. The suit claimed accidental death after her husband died in 1927 following tooth extraction. The policy value was 12600 with interest accruing since death.
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Omaha
Robert Robinson
Union Pacific Railroad
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
Robinson
Life Insurance Company
Black Drafts GOP Platform At Convention Boise
Idaho Republicans at the Boise convention adopted a platform calling for remonetization of silver but avoiding prohibition. Delegates head to Chicago to set up headquarters ahead of the national convention and to choose a national committeeman and committeewoman.
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Black
Boise
Jone 11
Idaho
Chicago
Prohibition
Union Pacific Railroad
Ezra R. Whitla
Coeur d'Alene
Whitla
John W. Hart
James Stanley Keel
Twin Falls
H. W. Cloucheck
Keel
Cloucheck
Brinkert tells state police alibi in Lindbergh kidnap probe
Ex convict Ernest Brinkert, arrested in New Rochelle, declares alibi for March 1 and 2 in Bridgeport. Miss Violet Sharpe, housekeeper for Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, dies by suicide after being questioned. autopsy finds no illness or pregnancy. Brinkert says he and wife stayed at a Bridgeport home with a Black man. police pursue alibi verification as Sharpe’s death adds new twists to the Lindbergh case.
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Alpine
N. J
Ernest Brinkert
New Rochelle
N. Y
Violet Sharpe
Englewood
Dwight W. Morrow
Brinkert
Miss Sharpe
Negro
Bridgeport
Conn
Harry Walsh
Jersey City Police
State Highways seeks bids on three Idaho jobs
Boise dispatch reports the State Bureau of Highways advertised for bids on three highway projects two in south Idaho and one in the north. One calls for crushed gravel surfacing on four routes out of Moscow. Another covers 43 miles of the Old Oregon Trail oiling in Caribou county to the Wyoming line. The third is 9.3 miles of crushed gravel surfacing between Pingree and Sterling in Bingham county. Bids open July 21.
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Boise
State Bureau of Highways
Idaho
North
Moscow
Caribou County
Wyoming Line
Pingree
Sterling
Bingham County
Dynamite Found in Veteran Encampment Destroyed by Police
Police destroyed two and a half sticks of dynamite with fuse and six caps found by veterans at an encampment. The discovery was treated as a safety incident and no injuries were reported.
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Washington
Ladder Suspected In Lindbergh Kidnap Case Climb
Mamaroneck Police say Claude W. Moody a Rouken Glen real estate man suspects a ladder used to enter Charles Lindbergh Jr.'s nursery was stolen from his grounds. Ernest Brinkert who quit as Moody's butler on March 1 is latest suspect in the case. The ladder, used to prune fruit trees, matches the ground ladder outside the Lindbergh home with wide bottom and widely spaced rungs.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
Edward Decker
Claude W. Moody
Rouken Glen
Charles A. Lindberch, Jr
Moody
Ernest Brinkert
Decker
Lindbergh Sourland Mountain
Freak Storms Strike Colorado and New Mexico
June reports describe freak storms hitting Colorado and New Mexico. In Colorado Springs a 6 600 volt line killed Chester Glover and damaged 48 homes. a tornado damaged Clovis hotels and gas storage, injuring Ernest Langham and his nephew. Trees uprooted, power lines blown, and utilities interrupted.
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Denver
Colorado
New Mexico
Colorado Springs
Chester Arthur Glover
Ernest Langham
Clovis
N. M
Crescent Hotel
Alibis Fail in Lindbergh Baby Case New Lead
Violet Sharpe died by poison at the Morrow home in Englewood while awaiting questioning about the night of March 1. Ernest Brinkert, a cab driver with a police record, was arrested after Sharpe identified him by photograph. Brinkert waived extradition and was taken to Jersey City for questioning as officials seek indictment and extradition. Mrs Brinkert was questioned but not held. Dr. Condon could not identify Brinkert as the ransom payer. Police said the couple’s alibis for the kidnaping night did not check.
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Lindbergh
Violet Sharpe
Dwight W. Morrow
Englewood
N. J
New Jersey
Brinkert
Arl
Jersey City
John F. Condon
Jassie
Stourbridge
Eng
Emily Sharpe
Violet
Beenham
Emily Sharpe Denies Knowledge of Lindbergh Kidnapping
Emily Sharpe of Stourbridge says she knew nothing about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and believes her sister Violet also did not participate. She notes Violet was questioned relentlessly after the infant's disappearance and mentions past work near the Englewood Morrows.
Starvation Death of Aged Sheep Herder Near Weiser
Sheriff reports a 74 year old sheep herder Tom Cleggitt died by self inflicted starvation in a remote hillside shack about 80 miles northeast of Weiser. Diary notes show food ran short on January 11 and he began wandering until January 17 before taking his life. body found by a range rider and buried at the site.
Will Rogers Wires The Tribune on Drys and Calvin Coolidge
Beverly Hills California June 11. Will Rogers mocks drys diving into water ahead of others. He notes Will H Hayes and Bishop Cannon in lighthearted gibes and praises Calvin Coolidge for saying what should have been said.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Will H. Hayes
Presbyterian
Bishop Cannon
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin
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NAS
Associated Press
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