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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1933
Page
1
Senator Borah denounces price increases as excessive and unjust, urging action to curb costs and protect consumers. He argues market pressures and speculation drive inflation, calling for stricter controls and transparency.
Six states vote on repealing the eighteenth amendment as part of a nationwide referendum. The results will determine if prohibition is expunged in time for December action, with totals showing repeal leads and factions urging turnout.
Texas Guinan famed Broadway night club host with a wild persona died after an intestinal illness led to surgery. Born Mary Louise Guin an in Waco she rose to Dubai and New York nightlife in the 1920s, facing liquor law battles before dying in Vancouver after an ulcerated colitis and bowel perforation. She will be buried in New York.
A National Board aircrew flight crashed into a Shrewsbury bungalow killing two airmen and five residents. Lieut George R. Johnson, Sergt Alfred Poole, Mrs Margaret King and three King children perished, while Edward Wilson and Cora Ragland also died in the fire. The plane took off from Red Bank airport for a photographic flight and plunged into the King residence, triggering a blast and burning the structure. Poole was married with an 11 year old daughter.
General Hugh S. Johnson told Chicago manufacturers and business leaders that NRA objections are mainly imitation dead cats and hobgoblins. He predicted early applause would fade and the air would be full of dead cats after he assumed the role and noted NRA has stepped on toes of powerful opponents.
Beverly Hills dispatch notes Will Rogers humorously recounting how Roosevelt and others respond with yeah to plans and pressure. The column portrays political whimsy amid farmer resolutions, Swope’s plan, England’s debt talks, Wall Street stabilization, and Congress. Rogers signs off with playful jab at being a yes man.
The Idaho highway bureau launches its annual drive to keep mountain passes open against snow. Plows operate on Challis Mackay pass with two feet of snow, while Galena summit near Ketchum Stanley is also reported heavily drifted. The agency aims to keep two passes usually closed open, including the Mullan Taft summit and Spencer Monida, with plans to keep Malad McCammon and Strewell Cut passable though Utah-side drift remains a problem.
General Motors executives announced an extra dividend of 25 cents per share on common stock. The decision was disclosed today in New York.
CHETEK Wis Nov Kenneth Gotham of East Chetek was arrested on a charge of stealing 75 gallons of gasoline from a bulk oil station. He asked how officers knew it was him and was shown the imprint of his license number in soft dirt on an embankment where the car allegedly backed.
Washington data show Bingham county Idaho ranked 24th and Bonneville 25th in US potato production. Aroostook County Maine led the nation with 4.5 percent of total acreage and production. Bingham had 1 474 potato farms, 13 377 acres, 2 533 252 bushels, value 2 887 908 dollars, and 189.4 bushels per acre. Bonneville counted 1 017 farms, 12 685 acres, 2 482 979 bushels, value 2 830 596 dollars, and 195.7 bu
Milo Reno president of the Striking National Farmers Holidays association denounces what he calls betrayal by President Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace. He urges farmers to strike with full power as a long battle ahead. Washington reports show NRA administrator Hugh Johnson seeking a peace pause with strikers. Two new processing taxes go into effect to fund payments to farmers who cut crops and hog production. Farmers must cut corn acreage 20 percent and hog marketed tonnage 25 percent to receive funds.
Idaho Governor C Ben Ross, back home from Boise hospital where he had tonsil removal, declines to comment on Warden George Rudd case disclosures. He plans to return to office soon and attend Moscow homecoming with a football game between Idaho and Washington State College. Fair tonight and Tuesday with no temperature change.
Peter Arno, noted New York cartoonist, was knocked out in a dispute with Drexel Biddle Steele at the Embassy club. Actress Sally ONeill and witnesses including Joan Crawford and Clark Gable attended. Steele claimed Arno struck first. ONeill denied involvement while others recalled a rousing scene ending with Arno absent for comment.
A belligerent calf halted a U S mail flight for about 30 minutes at Municipal airport in Minneapolis as attendants tried to corral it. The plane hovered awaiting landing before the calf was driven into an unused hangar and the mail went through.
Washington November 6 The administration raised the RFC price for newly mined gold to 32.84 an ounce and said 2 800 000 has been paid for domestic metal. Jesse H Jones chairman of the reconstruction corporation said substantial amounts have been bought in world markets but did not disclose totals. The government watched the dollar fall to a new low but offered no link between foreign gold purchases and exchange rate moves.
Twelve officials and employees of Lester Rankin & Company indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of mail fraud. Defendants include Lester Rankin and Sherman Sudbury with victims listed from Oregon to Idaho and Utah. Prosecutors say the firm posed as a bona fide brokerage, with ties only to the Salt Lake Exchange.
Lincoln Nebraska November 6 Governor Charles W Bryan endorsed Governor William Langer of North Dakota request for an embargo on importation of foreign foodstuffs. He said the president could and should exercise that power to protect the American farmer.
President Roosevelt and Maxim Litvinoff will discuss Russo American relations on Thursday or Friday. State department schedules show talks with the Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs will be brief.
Fireman John 8. King climbed a tree to rescue a stranded black cat in Pittsburgh. A limb broke and he dislocated his hip when the cat dropped safely to the ground.
Widespread clashes accompany farm strike actions across Nebraska Iowa Wisconsin and Illinois as a Nebraska farmer dies after a vehicle hits pickets near Dakota City. Train raiding and livestock releases occur as governors threaten militia aid to maintain order.
Major Charles A. Shepard army surgeon won a supreme court decision ordering a new trial for the murder conviction of his wife Zenana on the Fort Riley Kansas reserve. The court ruled evidence that Mrs Shepard charged him with poisoning her was improperly admitted and the trial judge should have treated certain statements as not dying declarations.
King Victor Emmanuel assigned Mussolini as minister of both navy and air after Balbo and Sirianni resigned. Balbo becomes Libya governor. Mussolini adds Valle as undersecretary of the air and Cavagnari as undersecretary of the navy. Mussolini now holds six ministries.
In Oil City Pennsylvania on November 6 robbers rifled the Ellis Hall and Sons Torpedo company magazine and stole 10 quarts of nitroglycerine triggering strong police alert and pursuit.
Crown Point scene shows Rev. E. O. Stevens driving with a sign on his car reading You decide what you pay me. No church is needed as he offers wedding services in a roadside campaign style.
Washington Nov. 6 The Mullen Benevolent Corporation of Denver loses in Supreme Court over a $9500 bond claim against the United States for improvements in American Falls Idaho. Bonds were bought by J K Mullen and transferred to the corporation. Assessments funded sewers and sidewalks. later US took the land for the American Falls reservoir. District court awarded $8104, but the Ninth Circuit reversed, ruling Tucker Act suit improper.
Bar silver rose to 41 1 2 cents an ounce in New York trading, up 3 4 cent from Saturday. Futures climbed as the market strengthened, with the day’s low at 24 1 4 cents, a level last seen in 1932.
Hermann Goering arrives in Rome by airplane to confer with Premier Mussolini. He is accompanied by the prince of Hesse, son-in-law of King Victor Emmanuel.
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