Dancer Patricia Schmidt Sentenced 15 Years in Havana Slaying
Patricia Schmidt known as Exotic Satira was found guilty of premeditated homicide for shooting her married American lover John Lester Mee aboard his yacht in Havana harbor last April. The 15 year term includes parole and indemnity to Mee's family. two months off for each year of good conduct.
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Laura Waits
John Lester Mee
Charles Jackson
River Forest
Kathryn Jackson
Havana
Patricia Schmidt
Chicago
Cuba
NEA Telephoto
Patricia
Laura) Schmidt
Mee
Satira
Meyers Released on Bail in Perjury Indictment
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, retired deputy chief of war time procurement, was freed on $2,000 bail in Brooklyn on perjury charges arising from a Washington grand jury indictment. The six counts include three of perjury and three of inducing an associate to commit perjury in Senate testimony. He must appear in Washington federal court on January 1 for arraignment.
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New York
Bennett E. Meyers
Washington
Meyers
Bler* Lamarre
Senate Comitee
Advertising Inquiry From Bagdad Reaches Framington News
A business man in Bagdad, Iraq, asked Framington News to send full advertising details rate cards sample copy and other information indicating international interest in the paper. The note arrived at the Framington News advertising department from far afield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Framington
Mass
Bagdad
Iraq
Framington News
Pocatellan Offers Haven For Family
Fred Dolbeer of Merridell Park offered a vacant one room cabin to the R A L McBride family after a fire destroyed their trailer and possessions Sunday morning. He pledged further help and urged the family to contact him.
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the Post
Fred Dolbeer
Merridell Park
R. A. L. McBride
Dolbeer
The
POST
Formula For School Crossings
CHICAGO UP The International Association of Chiefs of Police offers a traffic formula for school crossings. A police officer should be stationed when vehicles per hour in both directions exceed 30 000 multiplied by the number of children crossing the intersection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
International Association of Chiefs of Police
The
IACP
Pocatello Postings Reveal Holiday Hustle and Pranks
A lively Pocatello item notes a persistent young salesman offering corsages, a buyer declines then previews a croqueted potholder option. A misread classified ad prompts laughs as Santa-like break-ins, music push from Fort Wayne, and a Damon Runyon cancer fund drive with 1500 airline workers contributing a dollar each led by Charles Fisher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Air
Intermountain
Damon Runyon
Research Foundation
Acer
Charles S. Fisher
Pocatello
Supreme Court orders new hearing for Italian immigrant in 1925 murder case
The Supreme Court unanimously denounced Illinois blind justice in the Tony Marino case. It ordered Winnebago County to reopen habeas corpus hearings after finding Marino, a 16 year old immigrant, did not understand the plea and was denied due process. The decision faulted an interpreter for entering the guilty plea and the judge for sentencing him to life without a valid trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Illinois
Supreme Court
Matnadlee Lindi
Aupuriiy Ulu
Tony Marino
Joliet
Winnebago County Il
Marino
Tony
Winnebago Court
Parole Board
Wiley Rutledge
William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy
High Court
Rockford, Ill
Wisconsin
Winnebago County
Flick convicted of war crimes in U S tribunal
Friedrich Flick, once a leading German industrialist, was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a U S tribunal in MERNBERG. He received a prison term of years with credit for time served, leaving four and a half years to serve. His two lieutenants Steinbrink and Weiss also were convicted and sentenced, while three defendants were acquitted.
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Mernberg
Germany
Friedrich Flick
Third Reich
United States
Flick
Otto Steinbrinck
Bernhard Weiss
Steinbrinck
Weiss
Odilo Burkhart
Herman Terberger
Konrad Kaletsch
Navy Planes In Collision Near Newhall California
Two Navy fighter planes crashed in the air near Holland Summit about 40 miles north of Newhall California. One man was killed and another badly hurt. Navy chief Elmer Parker Smith was found semi conscious along Highway 99 and hospitalized. A second man was found dead in another wreck three miles away. Smith was en route from San Diego to San Francisco. Children first reported the crash, and searchers were sent out immediately.
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Newhall
Cal
Holland Summit
Here
H. W. Gresham
Navy
Elmer Parker Smith
Highway 99
Kern County
Smith
San Diego
San Francisco
Graham
Taft to Campaign West as 1948 Bid Becomes Clear
Senator Robert A. Taft plans a westward campaign tour in February to press his high price and rationing agenda opposing President Truman. The stops include Minneapolis Omaha Denver and Colorado Springs with potential talks in Bloomington Indiana and other cities as he runs as an avowed Republican presidential candidate ahead of the June Philadelphia convention.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Truman
Philadelphia
Taft
Ohio
West Co
Minneapolis
Omaha
Denver
Colorado Springs
Colo
Bloomington
Inl
Gas Bids Are Awarded for State Fuel Supply
Four firms won contracts to supply Idaho’s gasoline diesel and store oil for the first half of 1948. Idaho Refining Company of Pocatello will furnish grade A gasoline in Ada county and grade B in Canada and Washington counties. Utah Oil Refining Company of Salt Lake City is low bidder for grade A gasoline in 33 counties grade B in 31 counties and diesel and stove oil in 34 counties, plus 50 000 gallons each of A and G grade gasoline for bulk delivery in Boise.
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Boise
Ida
Idaho Refining Company
Pocatello
Ada
Canada
Washington Conies
Utah Oil Refining Company
Salt Lake City
Accident Proves That He's Tough
Jose Vasquez, 25, escaped injury when his car flew seven feet into the air after leaving a highway and struck a power pole. The car and pole burned but Vasquez was arrested for drunken driving and held in the county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulae
Cal
Jose Vasquez
Vasquez
Murder Probe Tangles Gate City Case In Rawlins
Rawlins Wyoming officers investigated a possible Gate City murder after a Rawlins woman told police three Black men in Rawlins killed a man in Pocatello. One suspect remained wanted for questioning while two were released.
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Rawlins, Wyo
Gate City
Bannock County
Ines Proves Fatal on Student Train
Tremonton Utah youth Wallace Conine 22 died at General Hospital after falling ill on the student special train enroute from the University of Idaho to Tremonton. He had a severe kidney ailment and never regained consciousness after being taken from the train Saturday. His parents Mr and Mrs A C Conine arrived from Tremonton for the death.
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Wallace Conine
Tremonton
Utah
University of Idaho
General Hospital
Conine
Moscow
A. C. Conine
Closed Shop Ban Elimination Seen At Strike Hearing
Chicago news strike hearing raises possibility of legalizing the closed shop as Rep. Kersten and witnesses from publishers and the ITU discuss Taft Hartley law limits. Randolph says a contract with security could be signed if allowed by the law.
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Chicago
Charles J. Kersten
Wis
Kersten
House
Woodruff Randolph
AFL International Typographical Union
ITU
National Labor Relation Board
Washington
District of Columbia
Detroit
Randolph
Committee On
Education and Labor
Krsten
Thomas L. Owens
Fred Bushey
Owens
Congress
NLRB
Robert N. Denham
Owen
Secretaries List Of Traders Published By Anderson
Secretary Anderson released a list naming several hundred top traders in grain and cotton markets as of October 31 this year and last year. Edwin W. Pauley and Ralph K. Davies appear on the sample list, with Pauley holding 300000 bushels of oat futures and 300000 pounds of cottonseed oil.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson
Edwin W. Pauley
California
Secretary of the Army
NEA
Washington
Secretary of Army
Ralph K. Davies
Davies
Pauley
Snowfall Streak Ends as Storm Clears West of Divide
Most snow fell west of the Continental Divide reaching Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, while Tuesday brings no snow. Expect mostly cloudy skies with a high near 38 and a low around 25. Month-to-date precipitation stands at .11 inches versus a normal .77 inches. Sunrise is 7 48 a.m. and sunset 4 59 p.m.
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Continental Divide
Cheyenne
Wyo
Salt Lake City
Water Use Pact Set in Closed Idaho Falls Meeting
Agreements on water control and distribution for American Falls Palisades and Jackson Lake projects were drafted in a closed session between the Regional Bureau of Reclamation and a Snake River Valley committee. Key terms cover lease water sales to lessees new land allocations winter diversions and reservoir storage exchanges among American Falls Palisades and Jackson Lake.
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Idaho Falls
American Falls
Palisades
Jackson Lake
Regional Bureau of Reclamation
Snake River Valley Organization
Michaud Flat
Minidoka North Side
North Side Canal Co
Upper Valley
Palisades Reservoir
Palisades Space
Palisades and
Teachers Shun Small Fry Jobs in Illinois
At Illinois State Normal University the placement director reports a major shortage of elementary teachers. Only 55 of 194 graduates from last year teach in elementary schools and none are in rural schools, as new diploma holders avoid primary postings.
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Normal
Ill
Illinois State Normal University
J. W. Carrington
Vandenberg Signals GOP Europe Aid Plan Options
Senate President Arthur Vandenberg indicated the GOP may propose its own Marshall plan in the next Congress. He backed the general aims of Truman’s four year 17 billion dollar program but urged a full study by the Senate Foreign Relations committee and left open the duration and amount of funding. He spoke as the Euro recovery committee led by Robert Patterson and Dean Acheson urged prompt aid with mutual respect and minimal debt for war‑torn Europe.
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Washington
Senate
Arthur H. Vandenberg
GOP
Congress
Truman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
Citizen’s Committee
Euro Recovery
Committee For
Equipment For Highway Work Bought By Bannock County
Bannock county commissioners authorized a 70000 purchase of new highway equipment. The set includes a power shovel two patrols eight trucks a touring car one roller one tractor and dozer one oil mixer one ripper and a jackhammer. W H Pete Jensen chair said orders are to firms within the county and state with some filled immediately and others during 1948. Proceeds from sale of used equipment will offset the new order price.
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W. H
Pete) Jensen
Jensen
South Second
Car Slips From Highway Near McCammon Injures Driver
Ray Warren, 25, of Portland Oregon, was hurt when his car slid off the icy Glaze to Glory highway near McCammon while attempting to pass a stalled vehicle. His wife, the sole passenger, was uninjured. Authorities urged motorists to avoid the south Bannock county stretch and requested more sand trucks to treat the roadway.
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McCammon
Ray Warren
Portland
Ore
General Hospital
Warren
Bannock County
Pocatello
State Highway Department
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Amletto Battisti
Patsy
Battisti
Sevilla-Biltmore
Rene Castellanos
Guanabacoa
Howard Hughes
Special War Investigation Committee
U.S
Brooklyn
Pocatellan
Rose
Chamber of Commerce
Pocatello Post
Emitt
Idaho
Santa Claus
H. L. Fawson
Fort Wayne
Ind
Pocatellans
Rich Reich Aid
Elmer Wilk
Rawling
Wilk
Rawlins
Hanna
Bannacks County
Ines
Anderson
William F. Knowland
Charles Welteroth
Patrick Perry
North Side
Twin Falls Co
R. G. Newell
Frank Clinton
Ed Neal
Bureau of Reclamation
John E. Kelley
Shelley
John Lee
Rigby
A. E. Stanger
Ival Goslin
Deen
N. V. Sharp
Filer
Cop
Own Aid
Europe
Acheson
Committee of Simple Citizens
Bannock County Highway Department
Board of Commissioners
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