Governor Halts Oregon Killer's Executions in Colorado Case
Gov. Lee Knous granted a reprieve delaying the execution of Paul Schneider until January 9 after a U S Supreme Court ruling questioned a confession obtained from a prisoner held illegally. Schneider confessed to abducting Denver service station operator Frank J. Ford in 1947 and was convicted of the murder.
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Lee Knous
Woodburn
Ore
U. S. Supreme Court
Schneider
Frank J. Ford
Denver
Roy ‘Best
State Penitentiary
Joe
Best
Supreme Court
Ford
Brush
Colo
Detroit
Idaho Labor Group to Discuss Legislation at Boise Meeting
The Idaho Labor Legislative association's local branch will meet at 2 p m Sunday to shape views for the upcoming session. Delegates from AFL CIO railroad and Farmers Union will attend the Boise gathering December 21. The group plans to push for a labor commission, repeal anti labor bills, and seek laws on child labor minimum wage working conditions hours for women unemployment sick and disability safety codes for miners and woods workers.
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Idaho Labor Legislative Association
Idaho
A. V. Johnson
Johnson
Boise
AFL
CIO
Farmer’s Union
George W. Warren
Montpelier
L. V. Allison
Glenns Ferry
Ben Nokes
Pocatello
Carmen
Bonnie McCullough
Commission On Labor
Washnee
Ciation
Roads Dangerous In All Directions Out Of Pocatello
Idaho state police warn roads are dangerous in all directions from Pocatello as heavy snow concentrates near Preston and light accumulations extend elsewhere, creating hazardous travel conditions.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Preston
Sun Valley Opens Third Postwar Ski Season
Sun Valley starts its 1948-49 season with snow depths of 49 inches on Baldy and 24 inches on the valley floor. The resort is booked solid through the holidays as Union Pacific runs its first Sun Valley special to bring in skiers and celebrities including Dick Powell, Jane Allyson, and Jane Russell. A new 340-passenger hour lift on Dollar Mountain and expanded slopes mark the season, with Emile Allais joining as a top ski instructor.
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Sun Valley
W. P. Rogers
Baldy Mountain
Rogers
Union Pacific
Ketchum Depot
Suoh
Dick Powell
Jane Allyson
Er Hathaway
Jane Powell
Ann Sothern
Jimmy Stewart
Jane Russell
Dollar Mountain
Emile Allais
Compensation Order Upheld By High Court
Idaho Supreme Court affirmed the Industrial Accident Board award granting Mae Warlick $200 burial expenses and $12 weekly compensation for 400 weeks after her husband died at work for Idaho Bean and Elevator Co near Peck. The board linked the death to a heart attack from heavy work. Justice Edwin M. Holde wrote the opinion.
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BOISE
Idaho Supreme Court
Industrial Accident Board
Mae Warlick
Peck
Glider Rescue Attempt In Greenland Fails
The Air Force reports a C 54 failed twice to pick up marooned airmen on a 7700 foot Greenland ice cap as wheels broke through snow and the glider nosed up Ten to eleven men remain stranded with weather delaying a new attempt A doctor is with them and morale is high
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Washington
Air Force
Greenland
45th Birthday of Aviation Observed at Kill Devil Hill
Kitty Hawk North Carolina marked 45 years since the Wright brothers first powered flight. Assistant Navy Secretary Mark Andrews told about 600 attendees that the 1903 event was pivotal in history. A painting of The First Flight was unveiled and later sent to Washington for Smithsonian ceremonies.
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Kitty Hawk
N. C
Kill Devil Hill
Wright Brothers
Navy
Mark Andrews
Alpheus W. Drinkwater
Wrights
Washington
Johnny Moore
Smithsonian Institute
Melbourne Brindle
Andrews
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Russians Fire On Britons Wounding Two In Border Clash
Six British soldiers were released after 48 hours as Russian frontier guards fired on a British party responding to the capture of a corporal who crossed the border to fetch a rabbit. Pvt. Dennis C. Knill was seriously wounded with a chest wound. Pvt. H. Whitehead was lightly wounded.
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Duesseldors
Germany
Dennis C. Kuill
Pvt. H. Whitehead
Knill
Road Clears To Atlanta After Snowbound Five Days
Boise reports Atlanta, a small town about 90 miles up the Boise River, is reachable again by bus and car after five days of being snowbound. A National Guard convoy including a snowplow truck and ambulance broke through to the marooned community.
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Boise
Atlanta
National Guard
Boise River
Train derailed near Lakeside Utah. no injuries reported
The City of San Francisco, westbound, derailed 48 miles west of Ogden Utah with 13 cars off the tracks. All 240 passengers were uninjured as a relief train carried them onward. The wreck happened at 7 50 p m near Lakeside. The locomotive and first two baggage cars remained on tracks. The train is jointly operated by Southern Pacific Chicago and Northwestern and Union Pacific.
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United PR
Southeastern Idaho
Idaho
Passer
Enten
Butte
Chicago
Denver
Detroit
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Miami
Ennines Escovering
New Orleans
New York Ogden
Aha
Phoenix
Rocatello Tester
Portland
Salt Lake “City
Saniego
San Francisco
Seattle Washington
Southern Pacific Railroad
Ogden
Utah
Lakeside
Southern Pacific
Chicago and Northwestern
Union Pacific
Rape Slay Mystery on Guam Narrows Suspect List
Guam police questioned over 500 men in the Ruth Farnsworth case and narrowed suspects. Investigators say she may have known her attacker as she turned on lights then left the jade shop unarmed to meet him before being dragged into nearby jungle and killed. A lone weapon was behind the counter and one man has an alibi inconsistency.
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Agana
Guam
Ruth Farnsworth
Miss Farnsworth
Polio Expenditures Report Highlight Idaho Fight
Boise report shows the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis spent 732863.59 to combat polio in Idaho versus 249448.23 contributed by Idaho over ten years. Kenyon R. Bennett notes 80 percent of Idaho polio funds have been used since June 1947 after a severe epidemic with 350 plus cases that year. Public health records cite 114 cases reported so far this year.
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Boise
National Foundation For
Idaho
Gem
Kenyon R. Bennett
Bennett
Public Health Department
Jury orders film writer reinstated at MGM
A federal court jury ordered screenwriter Lester Cole to return to his $1350 weekly MGM job after he refused to answer a House Un-American Activities Committee inquiry. The verdict requires repayment of $74,250 in back salary and found Cole not to have damaged public or industry standing.
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Los Angeles
Lester Cole
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
Congressional
Cole
Hollywood
House Committee On
Communist Party
Congress
Leon Yankwich
Louis B. Mayer
Two Officials In Alameda Being Sued
A Salt Lake City truck driver sues Alameda Police Judge G. Dillenbach and Police Chief Earl J. Adkins. The case, heard by District Judge Isaac McDougall, alleges a $100 cash bond was forfeited on a plea of innocent to reckless driving and claims denial of a jury trial. Engster was not present. Swanson represented him at the police court hearing.
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Alameda
G. Dillenbach
Earl J. Adkins
Salt Lake City
Isaac McDougall
G. K. Engster
McDougall
Engster
H. J. Swanson
Ship Executive Arrested for Deportation Grzelak Case
Czeslaw Grzelak vice president of the Gdynia American Steamship Line was arrested at his New York office by immigration officers for deportation as an alien communist. District Immigration Director W F Watkins said he is charged with being a member of an organization advocating violent overthrow of the U S government.
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NEW York
Czeslaw Grzelak
Gdynia American Steamship Line
W. F. Watkins
Grzelak
United States
Non-operating railroad unions vow Sunday overtime stand
Representatives of non operating railroad unions in Pocatello asserted on Friday that their members would refuse to give up time and a half pay for Sunday overtime.
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Pocatello
Phatic
D. F. Jones
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Chicago
Washington
W. R. Wade
North 8Th Avenue
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Wade
G. E. Leighty
Leighty
Slaying of Wife’s Lover Shocks St Louis Area
Dr Robert C Rutledge 29, a St Louis Children’s Hospital physician, confessed to stabbing Byron C Hattman 29 in Cedar Rapids Iowa after learning of Hattman’s attentions to Rutledge’s wife Sydney Rutledge 23. Mrs Rutledge disclosed her secret affair and described the couple’s turmoil as the husband attempted suicide with poison.
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ST. Louis
Robert C. Rutledge
Cedar Rapids
Sydney Rutledge
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
West End
Byron C. Hattman
Hattman
Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co
Dr. Rutledge
Mrs. Rutledge
Hartman
Mississippi
Twins Born As Brooklyn Community Rallies For First Aid
Mrs. Florence Santavecchi gave birth to twins at 6 AM in Brooklyn with eight policemen a doctor and a priest aiding. Officers Peters and Casey delivered a baby, an interne delivered the other, Father Murphy baptized them, neighbors helped, then they were rushed to hospital. The father was at camp.
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New York
Florence ,Santavecchi
Brooklyn
Peters
Casey
Jerome Murphy
Martin Hickey
Santaveechi
Student Train From Moscow Due At 5 25 P M
Eager parents gather at Union Pacific depot to greet the student special arriving from Moscow at 5 25 P M. About 175 University of Idaho students travel home for Christmas to Pocatello area. The train includes sleepers for men and separate cars for women and married couples plus a diner.
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Union Pacific
Moscow
University of Idaho
Idaho
Pocatello
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Santavecchi
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