Mountain States Telephone outlines Idaho expansion plans
Boise officials and the Idaho public utilities commission heard a State plan to expand phone service with a 1948 1949 1950 program. O W Welch said Idaho would reach 85 000 company owned phones by 1948 end and 100 000 by 1950 with up to 15 000 more in use by 1950. Additional dial conversions for Boise Nampa and Caldwell were discussed costing about 6 million dollars.
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BOISE
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
Public Utilities Commission
Telephone Company
O. W. Welch
Idaho
R. B. Arnold
Arnold
Nampa
Caldwell
Migst
Welch
E. F. Birdd
Bird
Jap Officer Indicted By U S Tribunal
Lt Gen Yasutsugu Okamura, former Japan commander in China, indicted as a war criminal by the national defense tribunal. He stands accused of condoning atrocities by troops under his command with trial expected in Shanghai before Judge Shih Mei Yu. Atrocities cited include massacres in Kwanksi and Hunan and the burning of Liuchow.
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Nanking
Yasutsugu Okamura
China
National Defense War Crimes Tribunal
Okamura
China Theater
Shanghai
Shih Mei Yu
Kwanksi Province
Hunan
Liuchow
Kwangsi Province
WCTU Blames Army for Food Waste in Germany Crisis
The Women's Christian Temperance Union charges the army in the American zone allows Germans to obtain beer with food ration coupons. It claims barley is diverted to beer production rather than bread, worsening hunger as the "crucial on a beer bottle" situation is highlighted in Evanston.
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Evanston, Ill
National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
WCTU
Chinese Husband Sells Wife for Eight Dollars in Shanghai
A Chinese wife, led to believe she was hired as a servant, reported to police that her husband sold her to a supposed boss for eight dollars. Police said the sale was to save the couple from starvation. The buyer and two middlemen were arrested, and police sought the husband.
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Shanghai
China
Hope Fades For 52 Lost In Sea Plane
Air France grounded all six motor Latecoere 631 flying boats after one vanished in the South Atlantic with 52 aboard. The missing ship, on a Martinique to Port Etienne route, was the third crash in the line, with prior disasters in a Brazilian lake and off Normandy. Search efforts failed. names of passengers and crew withheld.
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Dakar
French West Africa
Air France
South Atlantic
Lionel Demarimer
Normandy
France
Cape Verde Islands
Paris
Fort de France
Martinique
Port Etienne
Soviet Families Leave Berlin Readjustment Initiative
Soviet wives and children are being withdrawn from occupied Berlin to Russia for readjustment. Some 300 to 400 houses have been returned to German owners at Karlshorst. Returning families undergo an acclimatization course to adapt to life in Russia.
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Berlin
DPD
Russia
Marshal
V. D.) Sokolovsky
Karlshorst
Mass Burial for I G Farben Explosions Victims in Ludwigshafen
Thousands of German and French relatives and friends gathered as 50 of 170 victims were buried in heavy rain beside a shallow mass grave near a 25 foot cross. Flowers from German clubs and the French government covered the site. Clergy conducted separate services and choirs sang as known graves extended across Ludwigshafen.
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Ludwigshafen
Germany
I. G. Farben
Preston Readies For Big Night Rodeo
Preston Utah to host a three night rodeo starting Thursday with a horse show, floodlit arena seating for 6 000, a royal parade led by Mary Eleanor Swainston, and prize money totaling 600 across events. Top cowboys from Bozeman and Minidoka County Posse attend with 225 purses in major events.
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Mary Eleanor Swainston
LeRoy Swainston
Winder
Preston
blé@achers
Utah
Idaho
Rupert
Minidoka County
Dan Swainston
R. A. Richter
Bozeman
Mont
Grave of Buffalo Bill Under Guard
Armed guards patrolled the Lookout Mountain tomb as a $10000 bounty for Buffalo Bill Cody’s body sparked a defense by the Cody Wyoming American Legion post and a Denver Legion unit. Guards wore helmets and rifles while caretakers noted prior attempts to claim the grave.
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Lookout Mountain
Colo
Buffalo Bill
American Legion
Cody
Wyo
William F
Buffalo Bill) Cody
Denver
Leyden-Chiles-Wickersham
Colorado
Legion
Filibuster Still Holds in Truman Anti-Inflation Plan Push
Republican leaders in the House and Senate met to press a Truman anti inflation proposal before the special session ends. They drafted a plan to authorize the Federal Reserve Board to raise bank reserve requirements to curb credit expansion driving inflation.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Federal Reserve Board
Slayer of Three Indicted In Ohio
Richland County grand jury in Mansfield indicts Robert Murl Daniels on three counts of first degree murder for the slaying of John Niebel his wife and daughter. He is to enter a plea in common pleas court Wednesday. Daniels admitted involvement in six killings with partner John West but the indictment covers only the Niebel family murders.
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Here
Plan Drive To Slow Up Check Passers In Pocatello
State and local law enforcement leaders meet in Pocatello to launch a program against bad checks. The effort aims to make check passing a felony, with penalties including penitentiary time, and will include identification checks, public notices, and a $50 recovery reward, targeting fewer bad checks and forgers.
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Pocatello
Earl McCallum
Idaho Peace Officers’ Association
Alma Marley
J. F. Bedingfield
Court House
Couer d’Alene
Jarvis Roubidoux
Guy Nelson
Gem State
U S Air Base names missing crew in B 29 crash off Honshu
An air force spokesman announced the names of three Americans missing and believed dead after a B 29 bomber crashed off southern Honshu. Victims include Captain Christopher J. Herman 33 pilot from Jackson Wisconsin Bombardier Donald E. Roberts 28 Denver Cole and Sergeant Edmund Ayklar 22 Detroit gunner.
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U. S
Yakota Air Base
Japan
Air Force
Honshu
Christopher J. Herman
Jackson
Wis
Donald E. Roberts
Denver
Cole
Edmund Ayklar
Detroit
Western diplomats meet Stalin over Berlin crisis at Kremlin
The three western envoys United States ambassador Walter Bedell Smith French ambassador Yves Chataigneau and British ambassador Frank Roberts met Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin for about two hours. The talks focused on Berlin crisis solutions with no public statement issued afterward.
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United Press
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Berlin
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Frank Roberts
Stalin
Ealy
Kremlin
Baron Andre de Fonscolombe
V. M. Molotov
Smith
Molotov
Embassy
U S Reds Open Meet At Madison Square Garden
The U S communist party opened its 14th national convention in Madison Square Garden with 15 000 attendees. Leaders indicted on revolutionary plot charges were greeted with cheers as Foster announced no presidential candidate this year and support for the Wallace Taylor progressive ticket.
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New York
U.S
Communist Party
Madison Square Garden
William Z. Foster
Wallace-Taylor
Foster
Henry Wallace
Josef Stalin
Kennecott Workers Plan Western Strike
The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers calls a 6 am Thursday strike at Kennecott Copper properties in Utah Nevada and New Mexico. The move affects about 4500 workers and could halt roughly a third of U.S. copper output after a contract deadlock since June 30.
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Salt Lake City
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Kennecott Copper Corporation
Western Properties
Utah
Nevada
New Mexico
Truman silent on Moscow diplomacy from Independence home
President Truman, staying at his Independence residence, gave no comment last night on diplomatic developments in Moscow as world tensions remained high.
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Independence
Truman
Moscow
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