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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1925
Page
1
Murphysboro Illinois endures a ruinous tornado with 187 dead and 208 identified bodies. Officials weigh rebuilding shops owned by Mobile and Ohio railroad and plan memorials as residents face wide desolation and potential relocation. Tent cities form amid wreckage while search teams continue.
Rescue workers press on amid heavy casualties with over 800 dead and 3,000 injured. Funeral rites are sparse as communities stage brief ceremonies and focus on rehabilitation and aid distribution in the wake of widespread destruction.
A foundation report from 90 cities finds children under 18 obtaining marriage licenses with little trouble. Investigators note falsified ages and affidavits, and say some license offices and parents cooperate to evade cross checks, moving applicants to different offices to dodge age verification.
Ambassadress Jane Gregory chosen as Tam-Bico's pret American girl. She wore a dress at the dance held by the women's clubs and rode on a specially decorated float.
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, retired, told Columbia University Politics Club that a foreign war is likely within twenty years and the United States must maintain reasonable preparedness. He cited rising international trade and naval competition with Japan and Britain as seeds of conflict, and questioned pacifist influence on U S policy. He criticized Wilson era decisions and recounted Roosevelt as a counterpoint to presidential cowardice he attributed to Wilson.
Guatemalan soldiers shot Jose Antonio Aldana as they closed in to arrest him for the January murder of F. E. Wiggins, an English United Fruit inspector. Aldana fired on the troops, wounding a soldier, and was killed while fleeing.
Government argues Teapot Dome lease to Mammoth Oil lacked authority and violates naval appropriation power. Oral arguments begin Monday before Judge T Blake Kennedy with Atlee Pomerene opening for the government and defense team led by Martin Littleton Hoover and J W Lacey. The proceedings follow a weekend military review at Fort D A Russell by Brigadier John M Jenk ins and the Black Horse cavalry unit.
Rumors spread in Pocatello about progress on the new American Falls dam. A. E. Paddock of Utah Construction reports 125 workers, shops under construction, and 200 idle men in town. The project is in early stages with material shortages and moves include six house moving firms relocating structures to a mapped new town.
Casualty figures from a tornado rise overnight with 23 new injuries added for a Tennessee tally reaching 5 509 hurt and 3 747 total casualties. Deaths listed separately follow in the report.
Palo Alto California March 21 Dr Niles Powell of the administrative staff at the United States base hospitals here submitted his resignation to Dr Parger G Borden medical officer. Powell said he would not admit the published reports but admitted some conduct may have been scree t. The resignation will be sent to the veterans bureau in Washington. The hospital said the planned investigation will not be carried out.
Henry aa 75 treasurer of the Canadian Pacific railroad died at the Seaside hotel Atlantic City after pneumonia contracted two days earlier His death was announced today by U P officials and hospital authorities.
A Pocatello man reunites with his son after a three decade search. The article notes a personal discovery amid a long wait and reflects the community impact of such a reunion.
Emil Larsen the local furniture dealer will hear his son Victor, a noted baritone, sing over a radio program next Tuesday evening in Pocatello Idaho. The reunion follows decades of separation after Victor, raised on a cattle ranch in Kansas, pursued a career in San Francisco and New York.
In Jasper Alabama on March 21 citizens condemned acts of violence by people in disguise. George Tallant, abducted and flogged last week by masked hooded men, attended. The resolution urged government by law and noted no private punishment since the Ku Klux Klan was disbanded by General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The Idaho forecast calls for continued cloudy skies with minimal temperature variation. Expect little wind and dry air across the region, with no significant precipitation expected in the near term. Local highs remain in the mid 40s to low 50s, and overnight lows drop to the upper 20s to mid 30s.
Boise March 21 AP Expenditures certified to the auditor show total appropriations of 5 368 526 74 with education receiving the largest share. Gov Moore vetoed 209 759 50 and cut 39 410 more from others. Education funded partly by taxes and a 265 000 bond issue, plus 95 000 tax levy, with university receiving 249 250 of the 360 000 improvements fund.
Berlin reports the death of Fried rich Harnish, Germanys renowned elderly school head, who died yesterday at age 102 after a 46 year teaching career. His favorite saying was I dont smoke.
March 21 AP reports sedition charges against student leaders after a noon protest in front of Havana's presidential palace. Five students and three policemen were treated for injuries as police dispersed the crowd and arrested ring leaders including Julio Antonio Mella Amelio Alvares Recio and Leonardo Fernandes Lanchez. The demonstrators marched from the correctional court to Central Park where Mella spoke by Jose Marti's statue before heading to the palace and clashing with police resulting in injuries and stone-throwing.
Elisabeth New Jersey March 21 Vitelo Baginolo aged 79 earned his release by court order after 2149 days in jail for refusing to support his wife. He was first jailed in 1919 for six months, then returned to custody multiple times until authorities deemed it too costly. He left prison to live with his wife declaring I won’t support her.
Paris March 21 Havas News learns the league of nations will admit without reservations. If confirmed it will hasten negotiations already opened to solve security problems.
Fairmont West Virginia editors report removal of four more bodies from Bethlehem Mines Barrackville mine increasing the death toll to eleven. Fifteen or more miners were believed entombed after the explosion last Tuesday night, with rescue crews continuing to search the left headway as hopes dim for any survivors. One rescue worker recalls finding his brother’s body during a later expedition.
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