Farmers Hit Dallas With Meat Boycott Movement
A spreading agricultural strike grows from the Petticoat Rebellion as Dallas area farmers and stockmen urge a meat boycott for a week. Dyle Manning leads calls from a committee of farmers and stockmen to boycott Dallas and its products, signaling broader protests against high meat prices.
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Dallas
Tex
San Antonio
Wills Point
Dyle Manning
WFAA
Manning
Vaughn
Pocatello Nurses Granted Licenses
Six Pocatello nurses were licensed after passing state nurse examinations in June. Estella Mulliner, state director of occupational licenses, announced the licenses. Named licensees include Fay Anderson Norma Verla Ashbaker Elsie Katsilometes Beverly La Rue Criss and Colleen L Leigh. Additional southeastern Idaho licenses were Betty Kathryn Butler American Falls Helen Boltz Idaho Falls and Phoebe Elaine Denney Downey.
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Pocatello
Estella S. Mulliner
Fay Anderson
Norma Verla Ashbaker
Elsie Katsilometes
Beverly la Rue Criss
Colleen L. Leigh
Idaho
Betty Kathryn Butler
American Falls
Helen Boltz
Idaho Falls
Phoebe Elaine Denney
Downey
Missouri Governor Nomination Buzz Heats Up
State Auditor Forrest Smith led the Democratic governor race with early returns. The Republican contest remained tight as Murray E. Thompson and Manuel H. Davis vied neck and neck, with Thompson slightly ahead.
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ST. Louis
Forrest Smith
Murray E. Thompson
Missouri House
Manuel H
Cap) Davis
Kansas City
Thompson
Los Angeles Gets New Evening Daily
Norman Chandler of Times Mirror announces an afternoon tabloid named the Los Angeles Mirror to rival the Times. Virgil M. Pinkley will publish the paper, with the first issue slated for October or November and the venture proceeding independently of the Times.
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LOS Angeles
Norman Chandler
Times-Mirror Co
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Mirror
Virgil M. Pinkley
The
Times
Chandler
Kloppenburg Pleads Guilty to Interstate Trade Violations
Lowell W. Kloppenburg pleaded guilty in federal court to ten counts of interstate commerce regulation violations. He paid a $150 fine.
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Boise
Lowell W. Kloppenburg
Tribune editor flies return trip from Azores in bomber
Col. Robert R. McCormick editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune left Lisbon in a converted B 17 bomber for the Azores as the first leg of his return journey to the United States.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Robert R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
Azores Islands
United States
Oregon Trail Memorial Association Meets for Monument Plan
The Oregon Trail Memorial Association will meet Friday at 10 a.m. in the Gem room of the Bannock hotel. Government architect Carl Cedarstrand will discuss plans for a Fort Hall Oregon Trail museum and workshop with a $150000 appropriation backed by Idaho Rep John Sanborn.
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Idaho
Oregon Trail Memorial Association
Gem
Bannock Hotel
Carl Cedarstrand
The
Indian Department
Washington, D. C
Museum Monument
John Sanborn
Fort Hall
Percy Havener
the Bannock
Arab Refugees Become Problem
In Tel Aviv more than 300000 Arab refugees are described as a weapon for Israel. They are camped in olive groves and along roads, hindering Arab economies and military plans and threatening Middle East stability.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Middle East
Change In Labor Laws Urged By AFL Convention
The Idaho AFL convention committee urged delegates to back sweeping changes in state labor laws. Proposals include reactivating the labor commissioner, boosting workers compensation, tightening child labor rules, and repealing certain labor dispute and pay laws. Nominations were made for several union posts across Pocatello Boise and Idaho Falls. Jim Marr of Oregon urged Snake River basin power development to attract industry and jobs.
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AFL
Pocatellans
Boise
State Federation of Labor
Railroad Brotherhoods
State Labor Commissioner's Office
Columbia Valley
A. W. Galipeau
Coeur d'Alene
Jim Marr
Portland
The
Oregon Federation
Snake River Basin
More Sugar Please He Wrecks The Joint In Brooklyn
A lone customer asked for extra sugar at a 24 hour Brooklyn eatery. Alfred Mercuri 40, who had bought the restaurant a month earlier, raged he heard complaints and attacked the interior. he ripped urns opened containers smashed china and hurled items as police arrived to find him outside throwing sugar containers through windows.
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New York
Brooklyn
Alfred Mercuri
Mercuri
Negro School Student Admission Denied in Oklahoma
Norman Oklahoma District Judge Justin Hinshaw ruled that Oklahoma's new Negro law school offers training equal to the University of Oklahoma. He denied Ada Lionel Fisher admission to the whites only school and upheld denials for two other Negro women to graduate programs on the Norman campus. Both rulings may be appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Norman
Okla
Justin Hinshaw
Oklahoma
New Negro Law School
University of Oklahoma
Hinshaw
Ada Lionel Fisher
University Regents
Mauderite Hancock Wilson
Maxine Holmes
Oklahoma Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Amos Hall
Fisher
O. U
District Court
Buyers' Meat Strike Goes Nationwide in Protest
A buyers' strike against high meat prices spreads from Corpus Christi to Long Island as housewives halt purchases for a week. Cattle and hog prices fall in the Midwest while wholesale demand dips at New York markets amid coordinated protests by groups from Dallas to New Orleans and Camden unions urge broader action. Politicians call for hearings on meat rationing.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Long Island
New York
Midwest
Austin
Waco
Orange
Bayshore
New Orleans
Pittsburgh Housewives Protest League
Memphis
CIO Shipbuilders Union
Camden
N. J
Washington
Jacob K. Javits
N.Y
Congress
Four ex New Deal officials named as prewar Red underground
Whittaker Chambers identifies four former New Deal figures as top operatives in a pre-war Soviet spy network. Lee Pressman Nathan Witt Alger Hiss and Donald Hiss were cited before the House Un American Activities Committee, with Chambers claiming death threats from party hatchetmen.
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Washington
New Deal
Russia
House un-American Activities Committee
Lee Pressman
Nathan Witt
Alger
Donald Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Whillock Appointed Assistant Idaho Draft Director
Boise radio station manager and former mayor H Westerman Whillock is named assistant state director of the peacetime draft by John E Walsh. The staff at the state selective records office will transfer automatically to the new draft office as regulations take effect.
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Boise
John E. Walsh
H. Westerman Whillock
Walsh
State Office of Selective Records
Last Hope Fades In Copper Strike
Salt Lake City reports that a final effort to avert the looming strike at Kennecott Copper Corp holdings failed. Seven IUOMMW locals declared Thursday as the strike date to push the company to negotiate a new contract, replacing the expired June 30 agreement.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Nevada
New Mexico
Kennecott Copper Corp
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Cav anagh hopeful on platform convention date
Dan Cavanagh Democratic chairman of Twin Falls Idaho said he hoped to announce soon the date and place for the Democratic platform convention.
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Boise
Dan J. Cavanagh
Twin Falls
CIO Cleans House as It Weighs Truman Endorsement
The CIO moves to purge Wallace supporters ahead of possible Truman endorsement. The union bans use of the CIO name to raise Wallace funds and expels members of local Political Action committees who indicate support for the Wallace-Taylor ticket.
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Washington
CIO
Wallace
Truman
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
Wallace-Taylor
GOP Pushes Anti Inflation Bill Through Congress
Republican leaders plan to push an anti inflation bill restricting installment buying and boosting Fed reserve requirements. Taft forecasts Senate floor by Friday amid opposition while housing measures proceed without public or rural housing provisions from the Taft Ellender Wagner plan.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
GOP
Federal Reserve Board
Jesse P. Wolcott
House Banking Committee
House
Senate
Silence Shrouds Red Negotiations
Urgent talks took place in four capitals on the next move in western Allied Russia negotiations. Rumors spread of possible meetings between President Truman and British Prime Minister Attlee and French Premier Andre Marie to discuss policy. Officials from the U S State Department and British and French foreign offices met and communicated by telephone among capitals.
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London
Russia
Truman
Clement R. Attlee
Andre Marie
U. S. State Department
Eccles Flags Truman Session Political Over Economic Plan
Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Marriner Eccles testified to the House banking committee that President Truman's special session program is more political than economic. He urged strong anti inflation controls while warning Congress that the plan could be inflationary overall.
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Washington
Marriner
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Truman
House Banking Committee
Congress
Rosika Schwimmer Dies in New York Hospital
Rosika Schwimmer, 170, the first woman ambassador in history and a leading Nobel Peace Prize candidate in 1948, died in a New York hospital on Tuesday.
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New York
Rosika Schwimmer
Texas Family Narrowly Escapes Death On Highway 91 191
A Hamlin Texas family of four escaped serious injury when their 1947 Frazier overturned after being forced onto a rough shoulder by a large truck on slick highway pavement near Fort Hall. Claude Lancaster, wife, and two daughters were travelling north at 35 to 40 mph when the car slid and rolled onto a marshy pasture thirty feet off the road. Fifteen minutes after the 3:30 p.m. crash, onlookers gathered as Indian wanes officer Tim Dunn investigated the scene.
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Fort Hall
Claude Lancaster
Yellowstone
Texas
Hamlin
Lancaster
Fort Hall Monument
Frazier
Tim Dunn
U S Wins Five Olympic Golds Including Relay World Record
The United States claimed five gold medals on the fourth Olympiad day, setting a world record in the four man 800 meter relay with 8 minutes 46 seconds. Wally Ris Wally Wolf Jimmy McLane and Bill Smith anchored a victory over Hungary as U S total rose to 14. American divers shot put and sprint strength helped sweep the top three in women’s diving and claim a 1 2 in 200 meter dash and 50 meter small bore rifle.
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London
United States
U. S
Empire Pool
Wally Ris
University of Iowa
Wally Wolf
Beverly Hills
Calif
Jimmy McLane
Akron
Bill Smith
New Packing Plant Contract Signed
The CIO United Packinghouse Workers union says it signed a new labor contract covering 10,000 workers in nine Cudahy Packing Co. plants. It provides a wage increase but allows later wage negotiations. A similar July 21 contract with Swift Packing Co. also takes effect Aug. 11, with old contracts expiring then.
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Chicago
CIO United Packinghouse Workers Union
Cudahy Packing Co
Swift Packing Company
Wine With No Hangover in 15 Flavors Revealed
Emmett Engel a Mount St. Mary seminary student developed a hangoverless wine and plans Cincinnati pilot plant production. Tastings found the laboratory samples superior to regular wine and Engel has patented the discovery and formed Whey Products Corp in Ohio.
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Cincinnati
Emmett Engel
Mount St. Mary Seminary
Engel
Ohio
Whey Products Corp
Trumanite demands action on price rises in Congress
President Truman's price expert Paul A. Porter urged Congress to decide on anti inflation measures, clashing with GOP senators Capehart Cain and McCarthy. House approval of bank credit and installment controls urged as federal reserve chair McCabe presses for action. Spence proposes calling U.S. Steel officials over steel price hikes.
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GOP
Homer E. Capehart
Ind
Harry P. Cain
Wash
Joseph McCarthy
Wis
Thomas B. McCabe
Federal Reserve Board
House Banking Committee
Truman
House
Brent Spence
U. S. Steel Corp
Soldier Murders Ill Relative in Hospital Bed
National City police say T Sgt Andrew J David 33 was charged with murder after confessing to fatally stabbing his legless father-in-law Clyde Weston 63 in a hospital bed. David claimed memory loss, saying he blacked out, and he had flown from March Air Force Base to San Diego before the attack.
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Cal
Andrew J. David
David
C. H. Noble
San Diego
March Air Force Base
Riverside
Clyde Weston
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