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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1917
Page
1
In New York on June 20 officials broaden investigations into missing girls linked to Ruth Cruger’s case. Grace Humiston, spearheading the probe, reports new disappearances since January and reveals details about the slain graduate found buried in a cellar. The public is urged to aid in locating missing youths amid fears of a broader crime wave.
Officers shut down two gambling dens in Bannock County last night. In the Richelieu club on South Second they detained William Wells Joe Hamilton and proprietor Ben Caruthers after a back door escape attempt ended with a gunshot. At a Chinese place on South First Hong Yee was jailed as banker. A Red Cross drive for 20000 began at Pocatello headquarters with widespread subscriptions.
A historic Red Cross statement elevates its mission to aid suffering worldwide. It praises women's pledge to uphold virtue and support for soldiers, vows to assist all mankind, and urges Americans to answer the urgent wartime appeal amid a long global conflict.
At the University of Wisconsin commencement in Madison on June 20, 150 graduates join an officers training push at Fort Sheridan. Professors and students rally to war work with many in National Guard and defense council service. The Red Cross is urged to expanded support, with President Wilson asking for large cash subscriptions to aid humane war relief.
London reports the weekly British losses from torpedoed ships show a record total in weeks. The tally is nearing the worst week since the submarine campaign began, with submarines operating farthest westward in the renewed onslaught.
The Tucson community led the west by quickly raising its $25 000 share for the Red Cross hundred million war fund, prompting Western officials to praise the effort and challenge other cities to follow the example and push further.
Albert H. Bair, noted painter and decorator, died last night at Holy Cross hospital in Salt Lake City after a long and stubborn illness. He was 32 years old and leaves a widow and...
The federal trade commission urged Congress to create a government guided pool for coal production and distribution and for rail and water transportation to avert a severe winter coal shortage. It proposed paying producers full cost plus a per ton profit and running transport as a unified unit under presidential direction.
Representatives of clergy and laity in Georgia met at St Philips Cathedral in Atlanta to choose a successor to the late Right Rev Cleland K Nelson as bishop of the diocese.
Washington reports Gore, chairman of the agriculture committee, declaring the administration food control program strikes at the farmer. He warns it will cause losses to harvests this year totaling 250 million in wheat and 500 million in corn, and reduce production next year.
Idaho State Chamber of Commerce directors met at the Commercial club to review publicity campaign efforts by the Union Pacific system. President A C Hinckley led sessions with reports from Idaho Falls Pocatello Twin Falls Paris Lava Hot Springs Menan Sugar City and Buhl on affiliation and joint action. An executive board was named to assist in expanding the campaign over the next sixty days.
Campaign manager BE. A. Krossman calls for immediate Red Cross action to assist Russia, noting only 6,009 ambulances there versus 34,000 on the French front, and urging trained volunteers, supplies, and organized hospital and family communication efforts to alleviate refugees and war casualties.
Washington June 20 The senate finance committee reopened taxation of publishers in revising the war revenue bill. The Penrose motion to reconsider a five percent tax on publishers profits was adopted but no decision was reached on substitutes.
Two American destroyers returned with eighty survivors after British ships were sunk far west in the Atlantic. U boats had appeared in the long ruthless campaign, and the SOS led to a search that stretched over 100 miles. The ships were gone when rescue arrived, and Sims praised the perilous operations and rescues.
Boston dispatches report the Warren liner Bay State sunk today by a submarine while bound from Boston to Liverpool with no word on crew fate. The British steamer Eble, likely hit by a German submarine, also sunk after leaving Boston for Manchester with cargo valued near $2,000,000. Officers suggest the crew may be saved.
The National Wholesale Grocers association opened a convention in Chicago to discuss war conditions and the food problem, dated June 20.
Hanover June 20 Dartmouth College held a war time commencement with many khaki graduates present and many seniors absent due to enlistment. Social functions were canceled and the few remaining seniors marched in procession to Webster Hall.
Major General Goethals told a senate military sub committee that aircraft, artillery and ships will be the principal factors in winning the war. He urged bills to create a department of aeronautics and to consolidate navy, army, and air services under one authority.
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