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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1941
Page
1
Navy divers failed in two attempts to reach the pressure crushed submarine 0-9 and its 33 crew at 440 feet deep in the Atlantic. A second dive to 370 feet marked the deepest north Atlantic dive, but the navy said the pressure caused breathing difficulty and the effort may be abandoned.
Las Vegas police disclosed a fourth slaying in a domestic quadrangle. Galen Gilmore 21 was found shot in his car on a desert road near Las Vegas. Tyler 24 a brakeman shot himself as officers moved in after the killings of Charles Decker 34 and Evelyn Tyler 21 at a bar earlier.
The army treasury and reconstruction finance corporation press for legislation to wipe out import duties on defense articles. Opposition grows as senators demand drastic modifications before enactment. The bill would remove duties and internal taxes on articles certified by a government agency as defense essential.
Stock for a proposed Blackfoot potato starch factory was offered at a mass meeting led by J. H. Andersen. The plan calls for $51,000 total funding from $15,000 stock and $36,000 loans secured by mortgages. Deadline to raise funds is June 25. The plant would run ~210 days yearly, process 18 000 tons of potatoes into 2 100 tons of starch, with projected income gains from a 4 cent market. Growers receive $3 per ton plus a 90 cent bonus if economy allows.
In Las Vegas a 21 year old man, Ericky Tyler, shot and killed Wayne J. Tyler and Charles J. Decker before shooting himself. Mrs Evelyn Tyler was found dead in a car. Police theorize a jealous love triangle involving Mrs Tyler and Decker, with Tyler suspected of the affair. Tyler’s railroad career and family details are noted.
Boise suburb Joplin Corners mourns Mrs. William Joplin age 92 who died in Portland Oregon after moving to Boise with her husband in 1879. Survived by four sons and two daughters in Klamath Falls and Idaho Falls.
Idaho youths from Meridian Blackfoot Twin Falls Sugar City and Arco enlisted in the navy, as district recruiting officers announced. The new sailors are Eugene Arthur Felt 17 Bert Harrison Hansen 17 Rex Dee Jenkins 19 Joseph Willard Haynes 18 and Theodore Carl Miller 21.
Washington intensifies actions against Axis by ordering closure of Italian consulates in the United States and removal of fascist agencies before July 15, while the embassy remains. President Roosevelt additionally instructed the State Department to inform Germany of his congress message denouncing the sinking of the Robin Moor as an international outlaw act.
Washington announces sweeping measures on rubber imports and tire pricing. The Rubber Reserve Company will be sole buyer for Far East crude rubber effective June 23, with a tire price ceiling to follow. Consumers urged not to stockpile while government seeks steady supply and prices.
The first program meeting of the newly organized Pocatello branch of the Idaho Writers League will be held at 8 p m Monday at the Bannock hotel.
Low bids announced for two road projects in Idaho. W. C. Burns of Idaho Falls submits $82,289 to gravel and seal coat 10 198 miles of the Roosevelt highway from Elk Creek to Alpine in Bonneville county. Morrison Knudsen, Inc. of Boise bids $44,074 for bituminous surfacing of 3.777 miles of the Idaho Oregon highway from Succor Creek s to the Oregon border and 5.7 miles of the Nampa Murphy highway from Murphy north.
Boise June 21. Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph will let bids Monday on a 265000 brick two story building to be located at Shoshone and Third streets in Twin Falls. The new exchange aims to relieve growing demand as almost 1600 telephones have been added since January 1934 and construction should start at once with operation set for June 1 1942.
Idaho reports June gasoline tax receipts reach 506 382 dollars, first time in history a month exceeds 500 000. Cumulative collections since January total 2 402 259 dollars, compared with 2 177 567 for the same period in 1940. The intercounty bridge purchase netted 47 002 dollars.
Ten intermoutain area college graduates including Jacob N. Weese of Ogden and Charles L. Beyeler of Fish Haven Idaho enlisted today in the marine corps reserve. They will depart for Quantico Virginia Monday for three months training then be commissioned as second lieutenants in the reserve.
A San Francisco conference of naval officers and an AFL international officer preceded reports that the navy possibly with the army would move Monday to restart Bethlehem shipyard production on 300 million dollars of defense contracts. Harvey W. Brown urged striking Bethlehem workers to return to work. the local executive board debated and rejected the order after hours. Admiral John W. Greensdale led the talks.
Heat swept the nation as summer arrived at 12 34 p m marking 90s across a swelter belt from Nebraska to the Atlantic. Portland Maine hit 95 the hottest June 21 in 70 years while Washington Boston registered 94. Connecticut and New York saw heavy beach crowds. Chicago tied its 1914 high at 95. No relief yet.
In Dallas on June 21, Federal Judge William H. Atwell ruled that a 19 year old Salt Lake City mother and her two month old daughter must stay at the Seacovit federal women's reformatory until she completes a two year theft sentence. Her husband, John King, traveled from Salt Lake City for a habeas corpus hearing to try to free them. The judge rejected her claim of being held hostage by others implicated in the car theft.
Marriage licenses issued to Fred Decoria 19 Arco Idaho and Alberta May McAfee 17 Darlington Idaho. David Clair Stevens 23 Richfield Idaho and Wilma Lucile Hennis 20 Kuna Idaho. Bruno John Maffei 27 Pocatello Idaho and Isa Thelma Zabriskie 21 Milford Utah.
U. S. Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho blasted the administration for not keeping peace pledges at a Hollywood Bowl America First rally with Charles A. Lindbergh. He warned of dangerous echoes from pre entry War era and criticized the lend lease bill as a step toward war.
Special delegates of Rotary International elect Tom J. Davis of Butte Montana as president for 1941 42 succeeding Armando de Arruda Pereira of Sao Paulo Brazil. Davis an eminent Montana lawyer serves as counsel for Safeway Woolworth Soo Line and others. Also named to Rotary's board of directors are six international figures with Toronto named for next year's convention.
The London dispatch reports Hitler declared war on Soviet Russia after accusing Moscow of repeated frontier violations. Goebbels and Ribbentrop announced the war while Italian and British observers noted alignment and troop movements. The proclamation cited Narvik to the Carpathians as the new front and signaled a 1,500 mile German offensive corridor.
The War Department creates the Army Air Forces to centralize aerial power under Major General Henry H. Arnold. It rejects a separate Luftwaffe style air force, arguing the new structure will enable rapid deployment under any theater commander and modernize the air arm within the army. Secretary Stimson notes the move underway since March.
Pacific Northwest troops at Camp Hunter Liggett California prepare for July 1 return to Fort Lewis. Washington Oregon Idaho and Montana service men pack duffle bags and head by train to Fort Lewis for leaves before the final deployment.
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