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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1936
Page
10
Postmaster A H McGuire announces the delivery of bonus bonds to veterans by carriers starting Monday morning on rural routes and after 5 pm in cities and General Delivery. ID will be required and uncollected bonds return to the postmaster. veterans urged to attend a memorial hall meeting Saturday night for essential cashing details.
A morning park arrival sets Idaho Senator Borah in limbo over pledged support and polling outcomes while he defers clarity from Landon camp. Delegates hailed Landon as the nominee after a raucous Kansas-led rally with tributes to Alfred Mossman Landon.
Delegates across Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and the Midwest cheered for Knox as the 21st Republican convention began in Michigan City Indiana with signs of a potential Vandenberg bid amid London telegrams signaling victory in November Knox expressed gratitude upon learning of the nomination amid a nationwide rally and campaign push
Col. C. L. Tinker commander of Hamilton army airfield California flew to Boise in a "Bird o' Prey" bombing plane in 2 hours 50 minutes to establish a speed record. He was joined by Maj. K N Walker as they planned Boise landing field as a base for a bombardment group visiting Idaho this summer.
Paris reports police moved to curb mass demonstrations amid strike turmoil. Interior Minister Salengro said gendarmes controlled crowds as workers resume duties and 687 facilities once held by strikers were evacuated. Prime Minister Blum pushed social reform measures, while debate on the 40 hour week continued.
President Roosevelt denounces monopolies and argues democracy requires a line of defense by business and agricultural yeomanry. He calls for federal intervention to curb economic evils when states fail to act uniformly and effectively confront chiselers.
The navy department reports an officer and an enlisted man died when a plane from the cruiser Memphis crashed into the sea near Guantanamo Bay Cuba early yesterday. The victims were Lieutenant R W Larson 33 of Omasa Nebraska and Sidney L Harris 31 aviation machinist mate first class Brunswick Georgia.
The regional forester's office in Albuquerque reports a blaze raging uncontrolled over 600 acres of the Coronado National Forest straddling Arizona. No injuries or containment details are provided.
Colonel Knox once Rough Rider with T R led Hearst papers in Boston and later ran Hearst empire at a $150000 salary. He helped persuade Theodore Roosevelt to launch the 1912 Bull Moose campaign and chaired the Progressive party western headquarters in Chicago. He married Annie Reid in 1898 and lived in Alma College days.
The article traces Alf Landon’s early career from local precinct roles through party shifts with William Allen White and Victor Murdock backing him. It notes his 1928 campaign management for Clyde Reed, his 1930 marriage to Theo Cobb, and the birth of his daughter Nancy Jo as he secured the gubernatorial nomination.
Following his inauguration Landon announced an economy program to cut state government costs by 25 percent. Supporters say he saved funds and pressured officials to do likewise, claiming a 22 percent reduction, 3 percent short of the target. the text notes a second child, John Cobb, born in 1933.
At a Kansas gathering Mrs. Landon and her mother praise neighbors as Gov. Alf Landon faces nomination night. A late telegram from William Allen White arrives as Landon endures a long 18 hour day drafting convention issues. A family dog incident and Peggy Anne Landon’s silence at Cleveland add color to the scene.
A safety meeting was conducted today by an employee of the Union Pacific Railway company at the scene. The gathering focused on workplace safety procedures and accident prevention measures.
A decision on holding an inquest into Pred Keane’s death was pending at a family meeting with acting county prosecutor B A McDevitt and coroner Arthur W Hall. Keane died yesterday at 11 30 am after contacting a garbage can energized by a shorted wire in an abandoned tin shack at 252 South Main Street. The death is diagnosed as electrocution, not heart failure.
The article recalls the wife of Governor Landon giving her first press interview. They studied at Alma College in Alma Michigan where she was a year behind Colonel Knox. They wed December 29 1898 after Knox returned from the Spanish American War with Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
Senate irrigation and reclamation committee approved a bill directing a preliminary examination and survey of diverting surplus Green River water in Wyoming to the Bear River in Utah to feed the Great Salt Lake.
A man aged 20 to 25 with serious head injuries was found beside the Great Northern tracks near Sandpoint. He apparently jumped from a fast moving freight and now has only a bare chance to live.
An old health note warns constipation can trigger headaches and poor appetite and urges regular bowel habits. It promotes Kellogg All-Bran as an effective natural laxative, describes how it works and provides usage guidance and guarantees from Kellogg Company.
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