Ruhr Reconstruction Plan Across Six Nations
The United States and five western European nations agreed Tuesday to create an international authority to govern reconstruction of the German Ruhr. The plan aims to disarm Germany, aid European recovery, and demilitarize while keeping ownership undecided for now, with German managers overseeing initial efforts.
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London
United States
Ruhr
Russia
U. S
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Germany
Europe
Fists Fly In Row Over Taxes In Mesquite
In Mesquite Texas city hall a tax hike clash turned violent at a Monday meeting. Aldermen and citizens fought as three aldermen resigned after a heated session over a proposed 33 1 2 percent tax rate for 1949.
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Mesquite
Tex
Bette Mikel
More
Hugh Lawrence
POST Is Now Qualified to Run Legal Advertisements
The Pocatello POST confirms it is now qualified to publish legal advertisements after a year of continuous seven day publication. For advertising inquiries call 3530 and ask for Advertising.
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Pocatello Post
The
Post Advertising Department
Russians Tighten Blockade of Western Berlin
Russian sector police in Berlin raided subways and elevated trains on Soviet orders to tighten the blockade. 12 truckloads of foodstuffs were seized from Germans moving from eastern to western sectors. Passengers were searched for the first time. those without Russian permits were halted. 5000 pounds potatoes 15000 pounds fuel 500 liquor bottles seized. ADN noted eastern zone economic troubles and mine deaths amid forced labor claims.
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Berlin
ADN
Die Neue Zeitung
Aue
Saxony
Wool Growers Convention Opens in Pocatello January 9
M C Claar secretary of the Idaho Wool Growers association outlined the fifty sixth annual convention set to begin January 9 in Pocatello for a three day run. J H Breckenridge of Twin Falls will preside. Speakers include a Swift and Co representative from Chicago and producers from Colorado Montana and Idaho. More than 300 expected.
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M. C. Claar
Idaho Wool Growers Association
Pocatello
J. H. Breckenridge
Twin Falls
Woolgrowers
Swift and Co
Chicago
Colorado
Montana
Idaho
Roosevelt Calls Pegler a Little Gnat on the Horizon
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in the Ladies' Home Journal describes Westbrook Pegler as a little gnat on the horizon. She notes four strong American sons, questions horsewhipping him, and defends her husband’s memory, but Pegler declines to comment.
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New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Westbrook Pegler
Pegler
Death Claims Mrs Franklin of Blackfoot
Mary Ann Rogerson Franklin 76 widow of Thomas Henry Franklin died Monday at her daughter Mrs. Lewis Peterson home on North Main Street Blackfoot. Born in Richmond Utah to Joseph and Mary Horne Rogerson she married Franklin in Salt Lake City in 1891 and lived there most of her life. Survived by Claire Peterson Blackfoot James Franklin Placerville California Henry Franklin El Monte California. Services will be held in Salt Lake City.
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Blackfoot
Mary Ann Rogerson Franklin
Thomas Henry Franklin
Lewis S. Peterson
Sugar Factory
North Main St
Richmond
Utah
Joseph and
Mary C. Horne Rogerson
Salt Lake City
Blackoot
James M. Franklin
Placerville
Calif
Henry A. Franklin
el Monte
Benefit food show to aid Pocatello welfare agency
The Chief theater in Pocatello hosts a 10 a.m. benefit show for the city’s unemployed, offering a food-for-entry exchange of macaroni, eggs, or other edibles to stock the Good Neighbor house shelves. Sam Hanson leads the event with vaudeville and a showing of Bill and Coo. Linda Gary, a fever victim, attends as honored guest.
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Pocatello
POST
Sam Hanson
Good Neighbor House
Hanson
P. A. Speckart
Linda Gary
Linda
Egyptian premier Nokrashy assassinated in Cairo shooting
Cairo report says Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha, Egypt's strong man, was killed as he entered the interior ministry. A student from the Muslim Brotherhood, disguised as police, fired six shots, five hitting him. The assassin, Abdul Meguid Ahmed Hassan, was arrested after attempted self harm. The Palestine crisis fueled student anger and public dismay over Israeli victories.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
Brotherhood
Nokrashy
Ministry of Interior
Abdul Meguid Ahmed Hassan
Veterinary College
Interior Ministry
Police
Nokrasky
Nampa Council Bans Slot Machines After Midnight Friday
By a narrow margin the Nampa city council voted Monday night to outlaw slot machines after midnight Friday. Nampa becomes the fourth city in the state to outlaw the slots as of the first of next year. The other cities are Boise Rupert and Twin Falls.
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Nampa
Boise
Rupert
Twin Falls
Market Closed During Funeral for Local Resident
The Enterprise Market at 1530 N Main Street will close from 8 a.m. to noon today out of respect for LaVere Anderson who was killed in an accident last week.
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Main Street
LaVere Anderson
Idaho Population Estimated About 530000
Boise at 530000 marks Idaho's 1948 population estimate per L. J. Peterson administrative director of the state public health department. Ada County leads with 58000, followed by Kootenai and Bannock counties, then a full county-by-county breakdown of Idaho totals.
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BOISE
L. J. Peterson
State Public Health Department
Peterson
Ada County
Canyon County
Bannock County
Twin Falls County
Kootenai
Adams
Bear Lake
Benewah
Bingham
Blaine
Bonner
Bonneville
Boundary
Butte
Camas
Caribou
Cassia
Clark
Clearwater
Custer
Elmore
Franklin
Fremont
Gem
Gooding
Idaho
Jefferson
Jerome
Satah
Lemhi
Lewis
Lincoln
Madison
Minidoka
Nez Perce
Oneida
Owyhee
Payette
Power
Shoshone
Teton
Valley
Washington
Weather forecast for Pocatello and surrounding areas
Partly cloudy in Pocatello with light snow flurries then cloudy with scattered snow tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures range from a high near 30 to a low around zero to 15 above. Southwestern Idaho and Utah show cooler to cold with mixed cloud cover and low temperatures.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Utah
Phosphorous Plant to Add Second Furnace at Pocatello Site
The West Coast Division of Food and Chemical announces a second furnace at the phosphorous plant west of Pocatello with total costs reaching 6.5 million dollars. J G Miller, resident manager, says the first furnace should finish by late April or early May, and construction will continue through sub freezing weather as materials and offices are prepared for expansion.
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West Coast
The
Food and Chemical Corporation
Pocatello
J. G. Miller
Miller
U. P
Kraft Cheese Works
Chippewa Indians in North Dakota Face Starvation Crisis
One thousand Chippewa families on Turtle Mountain and Ft Totten reservations are described as ragged and destitute unless food and clothing are provided by Jan 1. Despite 1.5 million bushels of CCC surplus potatoes in North Dakota, legal limits prevent direct aid, prompting Sen. Milton Young to seek legislative changes and secure six carloads via the state welfare agency.
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Washington
North Dakota
Milton R. Young
N.D
Glenn Martz
Young
Turtle Mountain
Ft. Totten
Red River Valley
Martz
Commodity Credit Corp
CCC
North Dakota State Welfare Agency
Storm Deluge Rips Through Midwest With High Winds
A sneak storm from southern California swept into the middle west Tuesday, delivering heavy snow and winds to 63 mph across western Kansas and Nebraska. Telegraph lines failed in Nebraska, Burlington trains halted on the St. Francis-Oberlin route, and glazed highways appeared in Iowa Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan as the storm moved northeast. Ice and freezing rain plagued parts of the region while Garden City Kansas reported a 57 mph dust snow mix and North Platte Nebraska saw 63 mph gusts. The storm originated on the west coast, riding over the Rockies as warm Gulf air collided with a Canadian cold front.
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Chicago
Middle West
California
Kansas
Nebraska
Kansas- Nebraska
Burlington Railroad
St. Francis-Oberlin
Kan
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Rocky Mountains
Gulf of Mexico
Canada
Weather Bureau
Garden City
North Platte
Neb
South Dakota
Colorado
McCook
Holdrege
Akron
Colo
Atom Power Planned For Ships
The Atomic Energy Commission announced a contract with Westinghouse to build an experimental atomic engine for warship propulsion. Project to be conducted by Argonne National Laboratory and Westinghouse aims to produce a nuclear power plant adaptable to naval propulsion quickly. Military experts say atomic engines could allow fleets and submarines to remain at sea indefinitely, despite Navy complaints of slow progress.
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Chicago
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Alfonso Tammaro
AEC
Argonne National Laboratory
Westinghouse Company
Washington
Navy
Naval
Atomic Commission
Inquest Opens Into Death of E. T. Mathews
An inquest into the death of E. T. Mathews 87 of 435 South Fifth street will be held today per County Coroner Arthur W. Hall. Mathews died from a gunshot wound. The body was examined at Downard funeral home before burial in Mountain View cemetery. He lived with his daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Thomas P. West at the South Fifth address where the shooting occurred. Jurymen include Edward Curtis Beulah Dickson Blaine Huntsman Seretta Hart Louis Dunn Jessie Finlayson Ralph Robbins Bessie Atkinson E S Campbell Marcelle Forrey Arthur Judd and Joseph Trujillo.
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E. T. Mathews
South Fifth Street
Arthur W. Hall
Thomas P. West
South Fifth
Edward Curtis
Harrison Ave
Beulah Dickson
South Second Ave
Blaine Huntsman
Stansbury St
Seretta Hart
Louis Dunn
Jessie Finlayson
Lincoln Ave
Ralph Robbins
Arthur Ave
Bessie Atkinson
South Hayes Ave
E. S. Campbell
South Seventh Ave
Marcelle Forrey
Bonneville St
Arthur Judd
South Third Ave
Joseph Trujillo
East Center St
Utahn Yells About Too Much Snow
Gus P. Backman of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce rushed into his office as Salt Lake City received 10 inches of fresh snow and urged his Reno Chamber of Commerce to stop. He said please milk our clouds we ve had enough and noted past threats to sue over cloud seeding for a Nevada ski meet.
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Salt Lake City
Gus P. Backman
American wife guilty in German courtroom murder case
Mrs. Wilma Ybarbo 23 of Malden Massachusetts was found guilty by a three man military court in Marburg Germany of two counts of murder with malice aforethought for killing her GI husband Sgt John Ybarbo. She received 20 years on each count serving concurrently. The judge said fear and past abuse did not justify the act and noted the presence of visiting soldiers and frauleins during the tonight deadly confrontation. The verdict awaits review by the U S Court of Appeals at Nurnberg.
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Marburg
Germany
Wilma Ybarbo
Malden
Mass
John Ybarbo
Dewitt White
Morgantown
Ybarbo
Ybarbos
Boston
Fritzlar
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A. W. Naegle
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Ager
John Denman
Bill Rieske
Bill and Coo
Nampa Outlaws
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Os Angeles Sorreheeee
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Minneapolis
Yeliowain Ssotereaasse Eenesens -l
Atom Power
Mathews
Downard Funeral Home
Mountain View Cemetery
Little Jimmy
Sgt
John Finnston
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