Congress Proposes Major Reforms to WPA Relief Program
The House Appropriations Committee recommended sweeping changes to the relief program. It calls for a three member board to replace the WPA administrator, moving heavy construction projects to the PWA with a 25000 dollar cap, and redistributing funds by population, unemployment, and board discretion. It would end federal theater and arts projects and adopt a monthly earnings schedule for relief workers. The plan requires reviews of WPA rolls every six months and limits relief tenure to 18 months. It also tightens political activity rules for officials and requires supervisory staff to swear allegiance to the constitution.
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Washington
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
WPA
PWA
Roosevelt
House
Appropriations
Dietrich Baggage Seized Over Tax Claim on Sailing
Marlene Dietrich sailed from New York on the Normandie after government agents seized part of her luggage over an alleged tax lien of about 284000 dollars for 1936 and 1937. She said her income tax had been paid and noted she is traveling as an American citizen with husband Rudolf Sieber.
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New York
Marlene Dietrich
Normandie
Sherry-Netherland
J. B. McNamara
Internal Revenue
Miss Dietrich
England
Ile of Man Corporation
Awards Presented at Court of Honor in Pocatello District
The June court of honor for the Pocatello district Boy Scouts will meet Wednesday at 8 P.M. at the fire station on South Arthur. Guest speaker George Walker, back from Scotland and England, will share insights about those countries. Awardees include Lynn Watson Hyrum Ames Arthur Ruditi Gilbert Moyle Earl Hall William H Foster Nephi Lucker Hubert Castile Leo Kane Joseph Lepak Jay Olson and George Worel.
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Boy Scouts of the
Old Fort Hall Project Earns Sponsors and Support
A luncheon in Pocatello gathers Fort Hall sponsors from the Fort Hall Centennial Pocatello chamber of commerce Oregon Trail Memorial association and Southern Idaho Historical Society. Attendees include Dr. W F Howard Rae Stratford and others as a replica plan gains backing and a museum aim.
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Old Fort Hall
Fort Hall Indian Reservation
Fort Hall
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
Oregon Trail Memorial Association
Southern Idaho Historical Society
Frank DeKay
W. F. Howard
Rae Stratford
Minnie Howard
Paul Nash
Myron Porges
Chester Faris
Indian Affairs
Washington, D. C
A. L. Lillibridge
Idaho Southern
Osborne Gross
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Fort Hall Agency
U. S. Highway No. 91
Pocatello
Idaho
U P to Employ 1 500 Extra Men for Paint Up
Four western railroads announce seasonal maintenance drives totaling about 5 500 additional workers. Union Pacific will hire 1 500 for paint up of stations and buildings, Western Pacific about 1 000 for ongoing summer work, Denver and Rio Grande Western about 500 from Salt Lake City to Grand Junction for renovations, and Southern Pacific will repair sections from Mincey to Sparks over the Lucin cutoff.
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Western Railroads
Western
Union Pacific
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Western Pacific
Southern Pacific
Denver and
Rio Grande
Postmasters Hear Borah Praise Roosevelt and Clark
Delegates at the Idaho Postmasters Association convention quote Senator Borah as describing President Roosevelt as the greatest since Lincoln. Willard Adams notes Borah praised Clark D. Ida. for prestige exceeding some 20 year senators. T. A. Smoot reports the national association has grown from 2 000 to 25 000 members since 1895.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho Postmasters’ Association
Borah
Ida
Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Willard Adams
Rigby
Adams
Clark D
T. A. Smoot
Salt Lake City
National Association
New National Association
FCC seeks more control of telephone industry
The Federal Communications Commission asked Congress to grant broader authority over the $6 billion telephone industry while trimming some aggressive proposals. The report, approved by all seven commissioners, drops one advocate’s call for FCC to review all Bell policies from AT&T’s general management, but maintains aims to set basic cost accounting methods for Western Electric.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Paul A. Walker
Walker
FCC
Bell
General Management Group
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Western Electric
Comptroller Act Held Unconstitutional in Idaho ruling
District Judge Charles F. Koelsch ruled a 1939 act creating the office of comptroller unconstitutional. The decision struck down transferring duties from the state auditor to the comptroller and voided the act. The suit, by Attorney General J. W. Taylor for State Auditor Calvin E. Wright, targeted Comptroller Donald A. Callahan, who had begun duties April 1 after Gov. C. A. Bottolfsen appointed him. The case involved Republican legislative sponsors and included comments on political manipulation considerations.
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Boise
Charles F. Kerelech
J. W. Taylor
Calvin E. Wright
Idaho
C. A. Bottolfsen
Koelsch
State Police Enter Strike Zone
Michi gan state police dispatched 12 sergeants and 73 patrolmen in 25 squad cars to aid in maintaining order during a General Motors strike in Flint Michigan after several outbreaks of violence were reported.
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Lansing
Mich
Flint
Michigan State Police
General Motors
Anti Semitic incident at junior high sparks suspensions
A 14 year old Jewish pupil was branded with an H at a Baltimore area junior high, triggering suspensions for four City College high school students. About 40 boys attacked two Gynn's Falls students with swastikas inked on their arms. police set up a two car patrol as officials probe if the incident was a prank or organized anti Semitic outbreak.
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Baltimore
City College
Gynn
Morton Rosen
Harry Everts
Carroll Phillips
Gynn's Falls School
Rosen
Bridge
Albert L. Sklar
House of Delegates
Baseball scores and line scores from multiple parks
Baseball results show Chicago and New York Newark games with varied hits errors. Brooklyn at St Louis Tamulis Todd Weiland Owen. Cincinnati hosts Philadelphia with partial box scores Higbee Schott Harrell Davis Derringer Thompson Hershberger. Feller Hemsley Pearson Murphy Dickey in New York win over Cleveland 2 0 0. First Detroit Boston doubleheader ends 98 11 0. Second Detroit Boston game 1 0 0. Washington game notes Rigney Rensa Ferrell. Night game St Louis Philadelphia. Washington score details incomplete.
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Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Higbee
License Fees Raised for Idaho Engineers
Raymond J. Briggs of Boise, secretary of the Idaho state board of engineering examiners, announced that annual license fees for engineers will double from $2 to $4 and must be paid by June 30.
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Boise
Raymond J. Briggs
Idaho State Board of Engineering Examiners
Baltimore faces probing hunt into school anti Semitism
Congress committee on un American activities plans to send an investigator to Baltimore to join local authorities in probing an attack on a junior high school Jewish student and alleged secret anti Semitic activity in city schools. Rep. Martin Dies said findings would be reported to the committee and could lead to witnesses being called.
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Baltimore
Congressional Committee On un-American Activities
News-Post
Martin J. Dies
Houston
Tex
Dies
un-American Activities Committee
Kansas City Police Put Under State Board
Jefferson City Mo June 14 The Missouri legislature placed the Kansas City police under a four member state board appointed by the governor to end the Pendergast machine control. Gov Lloyd C Stark hailed the vote as Waterloo for the organization and said racketeering gambling and prostitution in Kansas City smelled to the high heavens.
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Jefferson City. Mo
Kansas City
Senate
House
Stark
Pendergast
Waterloo
Baby X in Court As Many Apply For Her Adoption
Boise, June 14. Baby X, born in a department store wastebasket, may find a home this week as Probate Judge John Jackson set Friday for adopters to present applications. More than 60 people from multiple states filed to adopt the three month old, who weighed 10 pounds after gaining seven pounds since premature birth. Weather: generally fair tonight and Thursday with little temperature change.
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Boise
John Jackson
A. J. Coats
South Dakota
Iowa
Ohio
Texas
California
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
King and Queen Leave New Brunswick for Prince Edward Island
Saint John reports the royal party bade farewell at Cape Tormentine as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth sailed to Charlottetown for a four hour Prince Edward Island visit. The tour on the Canadian leg totals 15 000 miles over 28 days of engagements across Canada and a U S stretch. The couple previously paused at Victoria before heading to Nova Scotia.
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Saint John
New Brunswick
King George
Elizabeth
Prince Edward Island
Canada
Cape Tormentine
Northumberland’s Strait
Charlottetown
Nova Scotia
United States
Victoria
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
Baby Stolen And Body Found Near Clyde Farm
Sheriff H Myers announced the body of ten weeks old Haldon Fink, stolen from a Clyde home, was recovered from Green creek near George Thomson farm seven miles west on U S Highway 20. FBI involvement followed as investigators probe a possible kidnapping and motive.
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Clyde,o
H. =. Myers
Haldon Fink
Clyde
Green Creek
Tire George Thomson
U. S. Highway No. 20
Myers
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ted Paul
L. D. Krugh
U. S. Highway 20
Paul
D. W. Philco
Oran Baker
Irvin Fink
Fremont
Spy Guillotined for Treason in Germany
Herbert Israel Michaels of Hamburg was guillotined for preparing for high treason after being accused before the people's court of forming illegal organizations in several north German cities spying on the German army planning attacks on vital war industries and serving the communist international.
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Berlin
Herbert Israel Michaels
Hamburg
People's Court
Communist International
Grave Tension in China Over Tientsin Dispute
Japanese blockade of the British and French concessions in Tientsin cuts off supplies to about 120000 people as Britain and Japan clash over four Chinese detainees. Tokyo protests, Britain weighs retaliation while seeking US and French input. Five Japanese demands cited include curbing anti-Japanese elements and unregistered radio use.
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Associated Press
Prague
Kisdno
Tientsin
United States
House of Commons
R. A Butler
Britain
France
Trent- Sin
Rupert Man Heads Police Group
Minidoka County Sheriff William F Manifold begins duties as president of the Idaho Peace Officers association after being elected at a convention with about 100 delegates. Elected officers include Leslie McCarthy Art Parker Al Josephson Clarence Phillips Austin Utley Don Headrock Howard Gillette and Alton Bunderson Riddick. Memorial services were held for officers who died during the year.
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Nampa
Idaho
Minidoka County
Wiliam F. Manifold
Idaho Peace Officers’ Association
Leslie McCarthy
Bonners Ferry
Art Parker
Twin Falls
al Josephson
Malad
Clarence Phillips
Burley
Austin Utley
Boise
Don Headrock
Ada County
Howard Gillette
Alton Bunderson
Pocatello
George Riddick
Willard Harris
Mike Roche
Coeur d'Alene
Po- Lce
R. M. Pugmire
Private Funeral Held for Czech Policeman Mueller
Johann Mueller a Czech policeman slain Friday by a German police officer was buried in a private ceremony at Porici. German authorities banned a public funeral fearing disorder amid the incident. The district faces a 500000 crown fine split 80 percent on the Jewish community and 20 percent on Believers of the Benes system.
Unionists Clash at Fisher Plant in Flint
Rival United Auto Workers factions clash near Fisher body plant No 1 in Flint Michigan injuring several as 75 police restore order. The ongoing violence marks the third straight day of fighting tied to the General Motors strike led by Homer Martin and FP L.
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Flint
Mich
General Motors
Fisher Body
United Auto Workers
U. A
Homer Martin
Convicts Reveal Sliding Place By Shooting at Calf
In Buena Vista Colorado on June 14 James Williams 17 and Robert Blair 19 last of six youths who kidnapped Warden Walter H Johnson from the Colorado reformatory were captured after hunger drove them to shoot at a calf revealing their hiding place Four guards from the reformatory and the warden led the search along Weston pass road Blair was spotted by guard Lou Randall when Blair ran Randall fired once Blair dropped his rifle and surrendered Williams then surrendered meekly
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Buena Vista
Colo
James Williams
Ropert Blair
Walter H. Johnson
Colorado Reformatory
Reformatory
Weston Pass
Fairplay
Lou Randall
Blair
Randall
R. W. Smith
Williams
Summer Heat Bakes Three Idaho Cities
Pocatello hit 89 degrees by 4:30 p m on Tuesday after an early 88 at 2 p m and a late 89 again. Boise topped Pocatello at 92 as Salt Lake City reached 94. A trend of increasing clouds and light rain was forecast for Thursday in western and northern portions of Idaho.
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Pocatello
Boise
Salt Lake City
Idaho
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Fisher Plant
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