Repeal urged by keynoter at convention
In a keynote speech Senator Alben W Barkley urged the Democratic National Convention to back a vote by the people on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. He called for passage of a congressional resolution to be voted on by state conventions. Barkley attacked Hoover and Republicans over tariff and farm policy.
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Chicago
Alben W. Barkley
Democraic National Convention
Republiclank
Kentuckian
Barkley
Hoover
Hoo
Ie Gonecea
Orange and Green Clash in Belfast Riots
Scores of Irish men and women were injured in clashes as orange and green factions rioted across Northern Ireland. Catholic pilgrims bound for Dublin faced stoning and beatings while trains and steamers carrying them were pelted. Ballymena saw the worst violence with Orangemen in attendance as crowds insulted the Pope.
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Dublin
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Ballymena
Idaho Delegation Sets Plank On Prohibition At Convention
The Idaho delegation arrives at the Democratic national convention aligned with Roosevelt Dern and Walsh, seeking to scrap two thirds rule and push for a prohibition resubmission plank. Boise Mayor James Pope elected delegation chairman. notable participants include 11 year old honorary delegate Compton White Jr. from Clark Fork and five Pacific Northwest state leaders.
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Chicago
Idaho
Roosevelt
Dern
Walsh
Montana
Compton I. White, Jr
Clark Fork
Graham Hailey
Coeur d'Alene
Clarks Fork
James P. Pope
Boise
F. E. Johnesse
George W. Hunt
Focatello
Henry L. Day
Robert Elder
H. H. Rankin
Ashton
T. A. Walters
Caldwell
Reds Try 10 Cause Trouble In Washington Encampments
In Washington six members of the Workers Ex-Service Men's League, a communist group, were arrested at a veterans encampment amid internal disputes. A two page bulletin attacking leaders urged street panhandling and claimed credit for Walter W. Waters resignation as commander in chief. A Senate resolution proposed $100000 to move and care for bonus-seeking soldiers. The July 4 convention will decide Waters fate.
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Workers Ex-Service Men’s League
Walter W. Waters
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Senate
Copeland
N. Yo
Portland
Ore
Bonus Expeditionary Force
Governors invite join Boise celebration for Yellowstone cutoff
Governor C. Ben Ross invites Governor Rolfe of California and Governor Meier of Oregon to attend a Boise ceremony on Sunday July 10 celebrating the Yellowstone cutoff highway linking the park with northern California via Boise and Burns Oregon.
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C. Ben Ross
Rolfe
California
Meier
Oregon
Yellowstone
Park
Bolse and Burns
Ore
Roosevelt Men Abandon Fight On Party Rule
Governor Franklin D Roosevelt telegraphed supporters at the Democratic national convention to cease efforts to abolish the two thirds convention rule. He indicated confidence in nomination without changing the long observed rule. James A Farley accepted the order declaring the move to harmony final.
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Albany
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The
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Chicago
James A Farley
Roosevelt Board of Strategy
Boston and Philadelphia Split Doubleheader in Two Games
First game totals show Boston 8 runs to Philadelphia 15 as pitching by Andrews Moore Lisenbee Tate Earnshaw and Cochrane allows 15. Second game Boston 9 to Philadelphia 11 with Kline Jablonowski Con noy Freitas and Cochrane on the mound. St Louis at Cleveland postponed due to rain. Detroit 9 Chicago 5 in another scheduled game with Golstein Hayworth Frasier Caraway Evans Grube and Grimes.
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Earnshaw
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Detroit
Chicago
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Grube
Pope Blesses 31st Congress Ends in Dublin
Several hundred thousand Catholics from around the world traveled home after the thirty first eucharistic congress closed in Dublin with a blessing from Pope Pius broadcast from Vatican City. A mass and a 17 mile religious procession preceded the benediction as church members heard the pontiff’s words.
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Pope Pius
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Prisoners Aid In Cricket War
Sheriff J. D. Jensen reports prisoners are being used to combat crickets in BLACKFOOT Idaho. Five prisoners were sent out Saturday with a call for at least a dozen men daily to sustain wartime pest control while farm work is scarce.
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Blackfoot
Idaho
The
Pocatello Tribune
J. D. Jensen
Idaho Cherries Moving to Market
Idaho cherries begin rolling to market with Emmett prices around seven cents a pound. W H Wicks director of the bureau of plant industry visited Emmett and said movement would climb quickly to a peak this week.
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Boise
Idaho
Emmett
W. H. Wicks
Bureau of Plant Industry
Two Daughters Born in Blackfoot Families
Blackfoot Idaho welcomes two newborn daughters with announcements from families. Horace Fortner and his wife report a daughter born June 24. Earl Hutchinson and his wife also announce a daughter born June 24 in Blackfoot.
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Blackfoot
Idaho
The
Pocatello Tribune
Horace Fortner
Earl Hutchinson
Arizona Women Place Name in Vice Presidential Talk
Arizona activists consider Isabelle Selmes Greenway as a potential vice presidential candidate. The idea sparked mixed reactions among feminist and conservative groups, with praise for her social welfare work and political emergence in the last five years. Greenway, widow of John H. Greenway, rose from New York beginnings to national committeewoman and public life.
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Chicago
Arizona
Isabelle Greenway
Roosevelt
Franklin
Isabelle Selmes
New York
Robert Ferguson
John H. Greenway
Walsh to Lead Floor Fight for Repeal of Prohibition
Governor Ross urges Idaho delegation to obtain a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for fruit growers after Idaho’s marketing plan was rejected. Senator John Thomas and Rep Addison Smith pledge swift inquiry as protests continue over the funding denial and crop risk.
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Boise
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Idaho
Ross
State of Washington
John Thomas
Addison T. Smith
Thomas
Chicago
Wilson McCarthy
Utah
Heroic Priest Lies In State
Father Francis Patrick Duffy chaplain of the old fighting 69th lies in state at Holy Cross rectory in New York. A World War hero who served in Cuba the Mexican border and France, he died yesterday at 61 or 62. He will be buried in the Bronx after a high mass on Wednesday and received the DSC DSM Legion ribbon and Croix de Guerre with palm.
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France
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Legion
English-born Utah pioneer widow dies at 81
Mrs. Alice A. Evans, born in England and one of Utah’s early settlers, died at her Salt Lake City home at 81. Widowed since 1930 to Morris R. Evans, she came to Utah with her mother in 1857 and is survived by six children and four grandchildren.
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Alice A. Evans
England
Utah
Plains
Opening Session Exhibits Harmony at Chicago Democratic Nominating Convention
The Democrats opened in Chicago with a festive, orderly show, delaying hard decisions on prohibition. Senator Barkley of Kentucky prompted a parade as delegates cheered party leaders and formed working committees while renewed debates loom. Texas briefly disrupted proceedings with a fist fight before backing the sub mission.
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Associated Press
Sam Conner
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Chicago
Byron Price
Chicago Stadium
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Oklahoma
North Carolina
Alabama
Kansas
Texas
Hoaxer Curtis Prepares for Lindbergh Kidnap Trial
A jury was seated in Flemington New Jersey for the trial of John Hughes Curtis the man who faked the Lindbergh kidnapping. Prosecutor Anthony Hauck outlined the state's case while Curtis offered to help locate the kidnapped baby. Colonel Lindbergh listened as authorities pursued a key clue in the Norfolk shipbuilder case.
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WN. J
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Lindbergh
Anthony M. Hauck
Norfolk
Curtis
Hauck
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mixing rate to kill grasshoppers in Aberdeen Springfield area
County Agent M L Miller supervised mixing of 40000 pounds of bait for grasshoppers in the Aberdeen Springfield section over the past week. Upcoming mixing dates span Grandview I N Noyer home June 28 Aberdeen Experiment Station June 29 John Josephson ranch June 30 and July 12 13 14 at the same stations from 10 am to 4 pm with no poison issued outside hours.
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Idaho
M. L. Miller
Aberdeen-Springfield
I. N. Noyer
Grandview
Aberdeen Experiment Station
John Josephson Ranch
Notable deaths and political notes in late wire summaries
General F E Bamford dies at 69 in Charles Town. John Hunter, lone endurance record holder, killed in Rosedale. Congressional conferees fail to agree on unemployment relief but discuss need based aid. Wilson McCarthy details easier federal livestock loans. Senator Pittman proposes silver rehabilitation plank. Lindbergh testifies as first prosecution witness in Flemington Curtis case. Prosecutor asserts kidnapper contact and body location.
Horsemen Lead Vanderbilt Team in Bridge Match
Elberton New Jersey June 27 AP The Four Horsemen led by P Hal Sims widened their edge over Harold S Vanderbilt and Cavendish with a 3445 point gain to a 6260 margin after 120 boards with 40 remaining. Sims Karn duo scored 2875 against Vanderbilt Von Zedtwitz while Burstine Schenken plus 570 topped Mattheus Balfe.
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P. Hal Sims
Four Horsemen
Cavendish Club
Harold S. Vanderbilt
Horsemen
Sims
Willard Karn
Vanderbilt
Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz
David Burstine
Howard Schenken
Jean Mattheus
Raymond Balfe
Oil poured over banker in Utah murder case
Three witnesses testified at Mendon Draper's trial that oil was poured over Ephraim banker Andrew N. Bjerregaard and the body burned to conceal his death on April 12 in Manti Utah. Draper and co defendant Mrs Jensen face murder charges in connection with the case.
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Utah
Mendon Draper
Andrew N. Bjerregaard
Ephraim Banker
Draper
A. J. Andersson
E. B. Sharpe
Joseph Ursenbach
Bjerregaard
Vadell Jensen
Bjjerregaard
Eighteen Die As Flood Swells Rivers In Romania Provinces
Eighteen people including women and children drowned when a cloudburst flooded Bukowina and Moldavia, washing away houses and tearing out railway lines.
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Bucharest
Romania
Bukowina
Moldavia
Will Rogers Wires The Tribune
Chicago dispatch reports Ham Lewis Illinois senator splits 58 delegates from a convention as he warns them to seek better offers.quoting Rogers on buying delegates and seeking favors amid financial pressures.
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Ham” Lewis
Illinois
Bill Murray
Bill
New York
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