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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1932
Page
1
Congress wrestles with a $2.3 billion unemployment relief bill as President Hoover accuses it of pork barrelling. Speaker Garner and Senator Wagner defend the measure amid conferees’ slow progress and looming adjournment.
Gene Sarazen won the U S Open at Fresh Meadow Country Club in Flushing New York with a record 66 final round four under par to secure his third major title by three strokes over Thomas Perkins and Bobby Cruickshank. Defending champ Bill Burke finished eleven behind tied for seventh with Harry Cooper and Olin Dutra.
Idaho and Utah delegates to the Democratic national convention in Chicago plan to back Governor George H. Dern of Utah for the presidential nomination. Wyoming delegates join. Idaho pledges support. Dern headquarters at Palmer House. Boise Mayor James P. Pope to help manage on the floor. Delegates favor a repeal plank on the eighteenth amendment.
Dr C F Schiltz 54 of American Falls and former Pocatello Medical Society president died Friday at 5 30 p m in a city hospital from acute appendicitis and peritonitis. He had surgery 15 days earlier and practiced in American Falls for 15 years. Survived by widow two daughters and an eight year old grandson. Funeral Sunday at 2 p m in American Falls under Davis mortuary. Several Pocatello physicians to attend.
M. F. Lence, recently appointed district director of naturalization for the federal government, has reported for duty in Salt Lake City. The district covers Utah, Idaho and Nevada.
Archbishop Michael J. Curley was chosen to celebrate the solemn pontifical high mass at the eucharistic congress. He called the honor moving for the premier see of America. Earlier, Archbishop Kelly of Sydney presided at a children's day mass for about 160,000 attendees in Phoenix park. Cardinal Lauri, papallegate to the congress, blessed the children in the pope's name and urged their prayers for the holy father.
The Democratic platform committee in Chicago reaches a tentative plank proposing the people decide repeal. Roosevelt leaders, dominating the nine member subcommittee, indicate they will resist binding the party to repeal amid a stormy session with cheers and boos for wet and dry causes.
C E Schank of Salt Lake City testified in Pocatello that a broken bottle helped him recover his stolen auto and wallet after being bound and gagged by James Martin and Eugene North near Lava Hot Springs. The pair face possible five years to life for the alleged robbery. The incident began Friday night when North and Martin forced Schank into his car at gunpoint and drove to a secluded spot by the Portneuf river.
Governor William H. Murray declares he will remain in contention for the presidential nomination until a suitable backer emerges. In Washington the Senate votes a 40 percent cut in Farm Board operating funds, prompting moves to reconsider due to potential layoffs and agency harm. In New York Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is cited predicting a prohibition repeal plank would yield six million Republican votes for the Democratic nominee.
On the Champlain's inaugural Havre to New York trip Norma Talmadge and George Jessel denied engaging plans to marry or divorce their current spouses. Separate from the sea tale, Gabby Street agreed to manage the Cardinals again in 1933, per St Louis announcement, and Roswell officers hunted for the vendors of poison alcohol linked to three deaths W A Merrill 75 W M Howell 33 Shanks Will Burn 55 Negro.
President Hoover signed new legislation allowing 97,000 World War I veterans to renew five year government life insurance contracts for an equal period without further medical exams. The measure also permits renewal of expired policies as of expiration date if back premiums are paid within four months.
Boise agents from the department of agriculture and the University of Idaho extension division inspected crickets on the Boise river 18 miles up the canyon and reported they were not dangerous now or likely to become dangerous this year or ever. County agent R H Davidson noted the pests had stopped eating vegetation and were turning on each other before laying eggs and disappearing. He added they were not the Mormon crickets that have invaded parts of the Rocky Mountain country and east Idaho.
L. F. Welch, a Portland automobile salesman, files a $45,000 libel suit in circuit court against Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist temperance board, alleging statements about the February 21 collision and remarks in Sacramento harmed Welch’s reputation and business.
A delegation of Jerome district farmers asked Governor Ross to approve a new routing three miles east of Jerome instead of through the city. The governor was advised the farmers own land along the proposed path and both routes remain under study with no decision by state and federal highway bureaus.
Democratic conventions outline tentative schedule with calls to order by John J. Raskob and Senator Alben W. Barkley as keynotes. Events include elections of officers and committees and speeches from Barkley and other officials across June 27 to 29.
Fifty six years after the Little Big Horn massacre General George A. Custer’s widow, now 90, marked the anniversary in a Park Avenue apartment. She observed in seclusion and said she was not feeling up to an interview.
Prospectors fly into the Finlayson river area and Liard region near Frances Lake in northeast Whitehorse. Mitchell Exploration Company planes have brought five flying boats and a dozen experienced miners into the field with more trips planned this weekend. Prospectors report paying gravel along many creeks and numerous claims staked.
Roosevelt backers claim 25 Illinois votes and push toward 770 to win under old rules while opposition tightens in Chicago. Tammany signals may back any candidate near majority, as platform committee grooms a prohibition repeal plank for state convention and the nomination battle moves toward Thursday.
King Prajadhipok endorsed a shift to a constitutional monarchy after a near bloodless revolt by the army and navy aimed at removing grafting princes. The upheaval followed economic distress, rice and rubber sales issues, and government salary cuts, with leaders claiming a government “of the people for the people.”
Walter W Waters of Portland Ore resigns as commander in chief of the bonus army leaving a surprised staff and grieving rank and file. Waters vows to stay with the movement and press Congress for payment while factions within the encampment clash and police tighten security amid a communist group criticism.
Idaho forecast shows fair conditions for Sunday and Monday with temperatures running somewhat above normal.
Mrs. E. Hyde of Slater Creek Elmore County describes using an automobile exhaust hose to gas rock chucks living in holes near rock ledges. She notes ducks rarely pass twice and seeks poisons as a more humane alternative for protecting alfalfa.
Funeral services for Carl A. Valentine a pioneer Pocatello resident and banker who died Thursday evening will be held at 2 o clock this afternoon. The service will be at 605 South Seventh avenue with Bishop J Golden Jensen of the LDS Sixth ward church in charge. Active pallbearers are W N McCarty O R Baum P M Hill R J Cruse J J Raaf and J C Galbraith. Honorary pallbearers include Walter Cleave A M Petersen W D Service Don Brown George Gasser and C W Pond. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery under the direction of Hall Mortuary.
A Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology bulletin outlines simple gold panning methods by W. W. Staley. It notes a miner can process a ton of earth per day and earn 50 cents to 4 or 5 dollars per ton, with creek beds seen as promising yet largely worked over by old timers.
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