Crime Wave Hits Gate City
A string of burglaries Friday night into Saturday morning disrupted Gate City after a period of low crime. Break-ins hit Finer Cleaners, Glenn's Motors, Modern Shoe and Sporting Goods, and East Idaho Brewing, with losses including firearms, cash from a charity box, hunting knives, ammunition, and other items. Police tie possible break-in at a service station near Tilden Bridge to the same spree. no losses reported at the brewery.
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Pocatello
Finer Cleaners
East Center St
Harrington and Richards
Sports Center
C. T. Carrico
Modern Shoe & Sporting Goods Company
West Center
Seward Dunn
Ben Green
Dunn
G. J. Reichart
East Idaho Brewing Co
Tilden Bridge
Blackfoot
Belnap
Bingham County
E. L. Hopkins
Piner Cleaners
525
East Center
Modern Shoe and Sporting Good Co
West Center Street
and Sporting Goods Co
Ba’ Idaho Brewing Co
Italy tells Soviet to mind their own business on ships
Italy declared it will sign a permanent Italo American treaty of friendship and trade on Monday in response to Soviet protests over American warships in Italian ports. An embassy spokesman noted the pact would be the first Red treaty Italy has signed since Mussolini era. Italy warned Russia sovereign Italy alone can judge objections to U S ships.
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Rome
Italy
United States
Benito Mussolini
Russia
Washington
Moscow
Pocatello Drive Urges Support for St. Anthony’s Mercy Fund
The Pocatello POST urges readers to contribute to the St. Anthony’s Mercy Hospital expansion fund aiming for 300000 dollars. Readers are asked to pledge at the POST offices, St. Anthony’s, or by mail, with recent donors listed including Jane Adams Louise Karstad Lulu McCullough A P Marso and Mr and Mrs George Marman Delavan.
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St. Anthony’s Mercy Hospital
The
POST
St. Anthony’s
Pocatello
St. Anthony's Hospital
Jane Adams
Louise Karstad
Lulu McCullough
A. P. Marso
George Marman and
Delavan
Pocatello Postings Urge Police Gym Proposal
County Surveyor Havenor loses glasses but finds spare through foresight as police station endures entertainment from inmate James Allen. The Post urges building a gym for the Pocatello police, arguing residents rely on the department for protection and space and funding are feasible.
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POST
Pocatello
Old Look Challenges New As Men Refuse To Shave
In Sweet Home Oregon 76 bearded men pledged not to shave until St Patrick Day. The group called mere males imposed a 30 dollar fine for shaving before March 17. wives protested with a housekeeping strike while the beards stayed and men cooked.
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Swhey Home
Obe
Sweet Home
St. Patrick's Day
Oregon
Two Hurt In Antswabne Highway 91 Crash Near Ft Hall
Two injured and three cars damaged in a late Saturday crash on highway 91 near Ft Hall. Lyndall Hoff, 20, suffered a facial laceration. Patrick McCool, 19, was shocked. Hoff was a passenger in the Edmo car which hit Edmo turning into a sideroad, then struck a parked Ashton Farms truck. Rough damage: Edmo $500, McCool $250, Ashton truck $100.
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Highway 91
Ft. Hall
Lyndall Hoff
South Third Ave
Pocatello
Patrick James McCool
Idaho Falls
General Hospital
McCool
Hoff
Eugene Edmo
Edmo
Ashton Farms
Ashtee Tris
United Nations appeals for one day of pay for children
The UN called on people worldwide to donate one day's pay during February to feed starving or undernourished children. Broadcast in 13 languages by Secretariat Trygve Lie, the appeal launched as United Nations appeal for children's day on February 29 1948.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
Trygve Lie
United Nations Appeal For Children
Lie
UN Fund
Arab Declares U S Through In Middle East
Damascus Syria Fawzi El Kawkji commander of the Arab Army of Liberation says U S support of Palestine ends American interests in the Middle East. He questions a pipeline across the region, noting Arabs hostility to U S plans. The project would run 800 miles through Saudi Arabia then across Transjordan into Syria and Lebanon to Sidon.
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Damascus
Syria
Arab Army of Liberation
Fawzi el Kawkji
United States
Palestine
Middle East
Transjordan
Lebanon
Sidon
Mediterranean
Cold Wave Grips East as Temperatures Plunge Across Region
A severe cold wave covers the eastern half of the United States with temperatures from far below zero to above, hitting Maine to the Carolinas hardest. Forecasters predict little relief until mid next week as fuel oil and natural gas shortages strain homeowners and industry, leaving 300,000 workers idled and Detroit’s auto supply sector hard hit.
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Chicago
United States
Maine
Carolinas
Warren
Bennington
Albany
Pennsylvania
Rocky Mountains
Seaboard
Midwest
Detroit
Soviet Military Budget Sees Major Cuts and Research Increase
Russia's 1948 military budget is set at 65.943 billion rubles with a decline from last year. big-scale research funding rises seven percent to an undisclosed total. Finance Minister Arseni Zverev announced. Premier Stalin appeared in uniform as marshal at the Supreme Soviet session.
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Moscow
Russia
Arseni Zverev
Truman
U. S
Zverev
Supreme Soviet
Josef Stalin
Plane Crash Fatal To Ten
Bodies of ten American victims from a dual Alpine air disaster were brought to a chapel in Chateau Garnier for a brief state during flags of France and America before removal to Digne. Nine more Americans who died in the search for the C-47 were at Digne. The sole survivor, T Sergeant Anthony La Salle of Des Moines Iowa, was reported in fair condition at Digne hospital.
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Chateau Garnier
France
U. S
America
Digne
Anthony la Salle
Des Moines
Meat prices seen rising again after 1947 peak
An economist from Swift and Co predicts spring and summer meat prices may exceed the 1947 highs before easing. He warns black markets would revive if rationing returns, as lawmakers consider Flanders proposed legislation.
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Washington
H. B. Arthur
Swift and Co
Chicago
Senate Banking
Ralph Flanders
Congress
Flanders
Nose for News Contest Offers Weekly Five Dollar Prize
Readers are urged to call the Port newspaper with news tips for a weekly $5 prize. Submissions in any legible form may win if editors select the best resulting story from tips received at the editorial office on North Main Street and by phone.
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The
POST
North Main Street
Peace Officers To Meet Tuesday in Idaho Falls
The Southeastern Idaho Peace Officers Association will convene in Idaho Falls Tuesday to discuss policing challenges. Bonnerville County prosecutor John A. Ferebauer cites forgeries, larceny and other crimes as topics with speakers Mayor E W Fanning and attorney Emery A Owen among them.
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Idaho Falls
Southeastern Idaho Peace Officer's Association
John A. Ferebauer
Bonneville County
E. W.fanning
Emery A. Owen
UN mediation on India Pakistan stalled by Gandhi death
United Nations mediation between India and Pakistan faced possible indefinite postponement after the assassination of Mohandas K Gandhi. Indian UN officials said top delegates may be summoned home to handle the crisis, delaying a resumption of the Security Council debate.
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Lake Success
N. J
United Nations
India
Pakistan
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Security Council
Democrats Propose Tax Cut Plan To Rival Republican Bill
House Democrats reach a substitute tax plan to cut individual income taxes and tax corporations, raising exemptions to 700 and extending split income rules, while Republicans push a different path with a 600 exemption and lower rates. Senate action may trim overall cuts. GOP leaders seek 3 billion in spending cuts and 2.6 billion to shrink the debt.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Joint Legislative Budget Committee
Congress
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Pocatello Forecast Sees Little Change In Weather
The weatherman predicts today will be fair with no major temperature change. Expect a high near 40 and a low around 15 to 20. Yesterday's high was 37 and the overnight low was near eight above zero.
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Pocatello
Gandhi Assassination Sparks Nationwide Riots and Stampede
New Delhi mourners witness Gandhi cremation on the Jumna banks as violence erupts in the capital and across Bombay Poona and Kolhapur. Police fire on mobs amid looting and arson as Gandhi’s death upends Indian politics with Nehru and Patel expected to fill the leadership vacuum.
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New Delhi
India
Mohandas Gandhi
Jumna
Gandhi
Bombay
Poona City
Kolahpur
Mahasabha
Ssassin
Narayan Vinayak Gadse
Dadar
Psa Hamim
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Sardar Patel
Mahatma
Patel
Nehru
Inkom Polio Drive Raises 128.24 for March of Dimes
Special to the Post reports the Inkom polio fundraiser netted 128.24. Donations from street boxes contributed 25.45, with Mrs. Louis Hargraves and Mrs. Earl Burrup leading the effort. Pocatello and Inkom merchants aided by donating prizes for the program.
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INKOM
Louis Hargraves
Earl Burrup
Jack D. Kobe
Herman Helmandollar
Pocatello and
Search party continues hunt for missing Utah man
Near 100 men on horseback press a large Utah search in Vernon Creek Canyon 50 miles south of Tooele for I J Ketchum an 80 year old Salt Laker missing since January 20 Sheriff Hymas directs aided by deputies Salt Lake county officers Millard county and relatives of the missing man Ketchum was last seen driving alone through here on an inspection trip between St John and Caliente Nevada Weather hampered earlier searches but has eased some three truckloads of horses were being sent to Vernon as mounts for the effort and volunteers were being recruited to help with the search.
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Tooele
Utah
Here
I. J. Ketchum
Salt Laker
Vernon Creek Canyon
Ketchum
Charles A. Hymas
Toole County
Salt Lake County
Millard County
St. John
Caliente
Nev
Hymas
Cisa
Hynixs
Vernon
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Gate City
Glenn's
John Rumick
Pocatello Police
Glenn’s Motor and Bicycle Repair
North Main St
C. T
W. P. Havenor
James Dominicus Allen
Sioux City
Red River Valley
U.S
Russ
R. J. Eggert
American Meat Institute Marketing Department
Eggert
East
Portneuf
the Post
Demos
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