Assistant Attorney General Opens Attack on Liquor Law
In Fifth district court, Assistant Attorney General Ariel Crowley contests Idaho liquor law validity, arguing the control commission has unfettered powers. Miller seeks injunction and declaratory judgment. commission argues lack of jurisdiction and proper venue. Court adjourns after opening remarks with stipulation of fact on unapproved expenditures.
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Idaho
Ariel Crowley
Fifth District
The
Control Commission
Bert H. Miller
Idaho State Liquor Control Commission
Jay L. Downing
Commission
Miller
Robert Coulter
Crowley
United States Supreme Court
MRA
Pocatello
Fifth District Court
Bert Miller
Six Months Seen as Crucial in Work Relief Program
Harry L. Hopkins told state works progress administrators that the next six months are the turning point for the $4 billion relief effort. He noted a small drop in urban relief rolls in April, cited improved conditions and seasonal farm work, and pledged federal supervision and full support while urging states to carry out the program efficiently.
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Washington
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Banks
General Motors
Chief Warns Jay Walkers Over New Traffic Lights
Police chief J L Balderston urges officers to warn pedestrians about jay walking as City installs new traffic signals. Lights operate 7 30 am to 10 pm daily this week with extended hours Saturday. When signals are off, traffic is controlled normally and drivers are cautioned to pass safely.
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J. L. Balderston
Jay
Balderston
Farmers And Stockmen Meet Over Land Disposal
A meeting of farmers and stockmen from specified Portneuf river townships is scheduled for 2 pm Saturday at the Bannock hotel. The aim is to decide the best final disposition of vacant unappropriated land in those townships with a department of interior representative to attend.
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Portneuf
Bannock Hotel
Department of Interior
Road Engineer Arrives Here for Reservation Road Work
Edward R. Cotton arrives with his wife and two children from Florida to lead the engineering phase of the road building on the reservation. A $30,000 budget funds this fiscal year. He meets with W. C. Stewart and Supt. Gross to plan work on roads to Indian day schools and public schools, surfacing existing roads and building new ones as needed for school buses.
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Fort Hall
Edward R. Cotton
Florida
Cotton
W. C. Stewart
Supt. Gross
Chickens come home to roost across nations
Will Rogers notes that nations mirror personal reckonings and cites Italy’s Abyssinia invasion provoking widespread anger. He suggests history teaches that powerful states have seized territory, implying Japan’s ambitions and the Philippines question as a moral check.
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Santa Monica
Cal
England
Italy
Abyssinia
Mussolini
Japan
Philippines
River Floods Worsen Damage Across Nebraska and Texas
The Associated Press reports renewed flooding from the Republican River in south central Nebraska with a mile wide surge at McCook and three quarters of a mile at Trenton. No deaths were recorded but evacuees fled, rails and bridges were washed out, and hundreds remained marooned as rains spread floods into Texas and other areas, with Austin’s damage estimated at 2.5 million dollars and the city grappling with outages and rationed water.
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Associated Press
Nebraska
McCook
Trenton
St. Frances
Kan
Texas
Colorado
Tom Miller
Austin
Idaho Drugists Meet in Boise for 29th Annual Association
About 100 Idaho druggists gathered in Boise for the 29th annual State Pharmaceutical association convention. Charles Carter of Moscow presided as president and four longtime southern Idaho practitioners W. S. Whitehead Boise H. H. Whittlesey Pocatello Roscoe W. Smith Mountain Home Clyde Thurston Payette were honored. The opening session included registration welcome by Mayor Bryan E. Hyatt and a discussion on dispensing aid to the needy under the Idaho Emergency Relief Administration.
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Boise
Idaho
State Pharmaceutical Association
Charles Carter
Moscow
W. 8. Whitehead
H. H. Whittlesey
Pocatello
Roscoe W. Smith
Mountain Home
Clyde Thurston
Payette
Bryan E. Hyatt
Idaho Emergency Relief Administration
Utah Bankers Meet Zion National Park Convention
About 200 bankers from Utah and nearby states gathered for the Utah Bankers' association annual convention at Zion National Park. Charles L. Smith of Salt Lake City delivered the president's address.
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Utah
Zion National Park
Utah Bankers’ Association
Charles L. Smith
Salt Lake City
Official fired by Roosevelt makes charge
Washington reports Ewing Y. Mitchell ousted as assistant secretary of commerce accuses multiple government departments of improper favoritism and graft. He cites the bureau of air commerce and steamboat inspection service as poorly reformed and links faulty leadership to the Morro Castle disaster and a recent airplane crash. Roosevelt seeks justice department inquiry into previous charges.
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Washington
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Roosevelt
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Air Commerce
Steamboat Inspection Service
Morro Castle
Senator Cutting
Roper
Justice Department
Commerce Department
Mitchell
Cummings
Two Canton cruisers flee to sea amid siege and drift
The Canton government battleships Haichi and Haishen deserted for the Canton command in 1933. Stranded for 20 hours below Wham poa, they were fired upon by Bocata gris forts as troops on shore raked them with machine guns. They escaped and entered Hongkong harbor this afternoon.
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Associated Press
Hongkong
Canton
Bocatagris
Haichi
Haishen
Whampoa
Nanking
Canton Command
Father Clears Up Death of Daughter
LA June 17 police released details on Maybelle Fenner 21 who died after a diabetes induced coma Doctors said chauffeur David Mansell held as material witness will be freed He claimed he found her faint after dinner on a Hollywood boulevard and took her to Hollywood Emergency hospital Father Arthur J Fenner said she had diabetes six years with no hope of recovery Mansell worked for soprano Yvonne d Arke.
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Los Angeles
Maybelle Fenner
General Hospital
David Mansell
Hollywood
Boulevard
Arthur J. Fenner
Mansell
Yvonne d'Arke
Peace Officers Meet in Wallace Idaho Convention Opens
Ninety six sheriffs police officers and state highway patrol members gather in Wallace for the Idaho Peace Officers Association annual session. E F Prater of Twin Falls opens the first session at the Elks temple with a welcome from Mayor Herman Rossi. Committees are named for Legislation Constitution Resolutions Publications and more with members from Boise Mountain Home Coeur dAlene Rupert Dubois Blackfoot and others.
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Fred C. May
Wallace
Earl Coleman
Boise
W. F. Manifold
Rupert
H. M. Raynor
Dubois
Ira Corey
Blackfoot
James Brandon
R. M. Pugmire
Pocatello
A. J. McPhail
Mullan
Fred Davis
Coeur d'Alene
George Hendricks
Mountain Home
Resolutions
Boise Riggs
Emmett
Ira Taylor
Harry Clark
Lewiston
Frank Piersall
Caldwell
R. D. Pace
Burley
Fontaine Cooper
Twin Falls
E. T. Fillmore
Rigby
C. V. Clark
St. Anthony
C. H. Phillips
Wayne Slack
Gooding
Harry Meppen
Idaho Falls
Stork Rumor Circles Waleys Amid Kidnapping Case
Tacoma reports swirl as Mrs Margaret Waley, jailed on kidnaping charges over the George Weyerhaeuser case, may become a mother. DOJ agents say the Waleys confessed complicity and implicate another man. $200000 ransom largely recovered. hunt extends to Utah Texas Montana Idaho. suspect William Mahan named.
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Tacoma
Wash
Margaret. Waley
Thurston County
Harmon Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Washington State
Waleys
Department of Justice
Landis Rules Pitts May Play Baseball Under Ban
Judge Kenesaw M Landis, commissioner of baseball, ruled that Alabama Pitts a former Sing Sing inmate may sign with the Albany Senators of the International League this season if his contract includes a clause barring him from exhibition games. Minor league officials had barred Pitts 24 from signing with Albany amid accusations the club sought to exploit the recruit.
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Chicago
Kenesaw M. Landis
Alabama
Pitts
Sing Sing
Albany
N. Y
International League
Albany Senators
Johnston Changes Braddock's Plans
New York June 17 Jimmy Johnston director of boxing at Madison Square Garden says he will open negotiations for a heavyweight title bout between Jimmy Braddock and Max Schmeling this September He plans a title defense earlier than 1936 and will confer with Joe Gould Tomorrow Schmeling cables Joe Jacobs saying he is ready to travel from Germany for a Braddock title shot
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New York
Jimmy Johnston
Madison Square Garden
Jimmy Braddock
Max Schmeling
Braddock
Johnston
Joe Gould
Schmeling
Joe Jacobs
Jacobs
Germany
Williams Cleared in Washington First Degree Murder Verdict
Pasco Washington jurors acquitted William T Williams of Sparta Illinois of first degree murder after a 22 hour deliberation in the strangling death of Mrs Jeasie T Rivard a local housewife on May 8.
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Pasco
Wash
William T. Williams
Sparta
Jeasie T. Rivard
Franklin County
Japs Demanding China Fire Governor in Chahar
Japanese military council in Hsinking plans to force General Sung Cheh Yuan to resign as governor of Chahar province or face removal by Japanese troops. The move follows Sung’s anti-Japanese stance and violations of the February 2 Tatán agreement, signaling a broader push to dictate Chinese provincial leadership and garrisons.
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Glenn Babb
Associated Press
Tokyo
Rengo
Hsinking
Manchoukuo
High Military Council
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Chahar
China
Military Council
Sung
Hopei
Yu Hsueh-Chung
Nanking
Chinese Girls Facing Death in Hui Chang Spy Case
Fifteen young women described as courtesans were rounded up by Chinese military authorities in Hui Chang and court martialled for espionage. All allegedly confessed and face possible execution by firing squad or axe. Reports say the group sought to undermine government troops with communism.
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Foochow
China
Hui Chang
Wood to Probe Break at Dam
R J Wood emergency relief administrator drought engineer from Boise Idaho will leave for Spencer Ida then Camas creek in Clark county to investigate the cause of the break in the Frazier dam. The earthen dam 40 feet high and 300 feet long supplied water to about 800 acres. He is joined by Fred Tolman assistant to state reclamation commissioner who is in Idaho Falls on department business.
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Boise
R. J. Wood
Idaho
Spencer
Ida
Camas Creek
Clark County
Frazier
Fred Tolman
R. W. Faris
Idaho Falls
Wood
Nebraska Governor Orders Street Cars Off Omaha Streets
Governor R L Cochran orders street cars off Omaha as national guard occupies the city amid a three time strike by Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway workers. Two deaths and over 150 injured have occurred as guards assume martial law and a peace plan is discussed with company officials.
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Omaha
Neb
R. L. Cochran
Military Commission Court
Nebraska National Guard
Omaha & Council Bluffa Street Railway Company
Cochran
National
Future of NRA Legislation Still an Open Question
Washington reports James L. ONeill new NRA chief calls future legislation "entirely an open question" and notes uncertainty about proposing new laws this session. He says the agency will study voluntary codes and that salary reductions for top officials are under review. Blackwell Smith to become general counsel.
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Washington
NRA
James L. O'Neill
O'Neill
Blackwell Smith
National League Scores From New York to Cleveland
MLB action shows high totals as St Louis topped New York 14 to 9 in New York. Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia 12 to 5 at Philadelphia. Chicago routed Brooklyn 8 to 3 at Brooklyn. Cincinnati swept Boston 8 to 5 in the first game and 9 to 5 in the second. Boston split with Cleveland with two 1 run efforts. Three games were rained out.
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New York
R. H. E St. Louis
Oix
P. Dean
Harrell
Delancey
Schumacher
Mancuso
Brooklyn
Chicago
French
O'Dea
Earnshaw
Lopez
Cincinnati
Boston
Schott
Hollingsworth
Lombardi
Brandt
Hogan
Derringer
Campbell
MacFayden and Hogan
Cleveland
R. H. EB
Rhodes
Vandenberg
R. Ferrell
Hildebrand
Brenzel
Court Issues Writ for Tom Mooney’s Habeas Corpus
The California Supreme Court issued a writ of habeas corpus for Thomas J. Mooney, the San Francisco Preparedness Day bomber, returning on June 27. The move questions the legality of his 18-year imprisonment and follows a 1918 denial of coram nobis, leaving Mooney with limited state remedies.
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San Francisco
California State Supreme Court
Thomas J. Mooney
Mooney
Supreme Court
Pickets Await Court Decision On Portland Mill Picketing
Portland report on June 17 states lumber pickets and authorities await Circuit Judge James W Crawford ruling on whether crowds may gather at mill gates. Union seeks injunctive relief to stop police interference at Bridal Veil mill where 237 were arrested and 250 dispersed last week. Governor Charles Martin vows state aid to curb mob intimidation amid quiet weekend. Nearby plants plan to reopen as larger northwest mills stay shut.
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Portland
Ore
Multnomah County
James W Crawford
Bridal Veil Mill
Charles Martin
Nichols to Attend Denver Convention
Boise officials will represent Idaho at the National Education Association convention in Denver on June 20. John W. Condie announced the delegation including W. D. Vincent Douglas Tilts Raymond Snyder and Dr John R Nichols all prominent educators from Boise Albion Albion State Normal and the Southern Branch of the University of Idaho will be present.
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Boise
Idaho
Nation Education Association
Denver
Colo
John W. Condie
Condile
W. D. Vincent
Boise Publig
Douglas Tilts
State Departement of Education
Raymond Snyder
Albion State Novenal
John R. Nichols
Southern
The
University of Tolac Ho At
Pocatello
Champ takes lead in Trans-Miss golf tourney rounds
Omaha. The defending champion Hill of Kansas City shot 77 to lead in the Trans Miss golf tourney qualifying round at the Omaha Field Club. Betty Botterill of Salt Lake City finished with 46 42 86.
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Omaha
Neb
Hill
Kansas City
Omaha Field Club
Betty B
Botterill
Salt Lake Ciy
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