Soviet Blames U S and Allies for World War II
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet note blasting United States Great Britain and France for World War II. It accuses American finance and Dawes Plan of arming Hitler, cites Dulles and Forrestal, and promises a second section exposing alleged Western secrets on Hitler Germany relations.
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Moscow
Russia
United States
Great Britain
France
Adolf Hitler
Germany
U.S
Hitler
Great Brittain
DuPont, Morgan
Rockefeller
Lamont
Standard Oil
Imperial Chemical Trust
Hitler II
John Foster Dulles
Allan Welsh Dulles
James V. Forrestal
Idaho Supreme Court Dismisses Slot Machine Appeal
The Idaho Supreme Court dismissed Scott L. Smith of Homedale’s appeal of a slot machine conviction after he paid a fine, ruling he has not shown ongoing or imminent injury from the 1947 slot machine act. The decision notes a statute cannot be challenged unless it affects the defendant.
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Idaho Supreme Court
Scott L. Smith
Homedale
Smith
C. F. Isch
Boise
Owyhee County
High Court
Taft Attack on Grain Prices Prompts Senate Probe
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson denied Taft's charge of political manipulation as Augustus Andresen of Minnesota announced a special House committee on commodity speculation will open a full inquiry into last week's market slump. The panel aims to expose any speculators who profited from advance information linked to the agriculture department's grain buying program.
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Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Augustus H. Andresen
Minn
Agriculture’ Department
House Committee On
Andresen
Snow and ice cause nine accidents with more snow forecast
Nine accidents, all with no injuries, were blamed on the recent snow and ice. The weatherman forecasts today as partly cloudy with snow flurries. Yesterday’s high reached 33, with today’s expected high between 25 and 30.
Board Backs Batise Village Fight Patrols Its Incorporation
AMERICAN FALLS J T Melhaff chairman of the Power city commissioners said the board still supports the recently incorporated village of Batise west of Pocatello despite protests by Allied Civic Forces that only two residents live in the 12 acre village while Idaho law requires 125 residents. The board approved the January budget and purchases of a hospital refrigerator and a gravel truck. Taxpayers protested a 12 percent county salary hike, which was approved.
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American Falls
J. T. Melhaff
Power City Commissioners
Batise
Pocatello
Melhaff
Power County
Idaho
Schlitz Memorial Hospital
Rockland Highway District
Alameda Idaho mail confuses post office lines
Alameda residents face mailing mixups as Alameda Idaho lacks its own post office and letters addressed to Alameda may go to Pocatello. Mayor George R. Phillips reports pool drive receipts totaling thirteen thousand eight hundred fifty nine dollars and sixty cents with 120 dollars in big donations plus ten dollar gifts from Thrift Shop and Santa Ana Auxiliary.
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Clarence H. Duerden
Alameda
Uncle Sam
Pocatello
George R. Phillips
Intermountain Equipment Co
Thrift Shop
Santa Ana
United Spanish War Veterans
Phillips
O’Mahoney Signals VP Run If Bid Offered
U S Senator Joseph C O Mahoney of Wyoming hinted he would accept the Democratic nomination for vice president if it were offered. He spoke Monday amid party chatter in ChicagoView coverage notes his possible role in a national ticket.
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Chicago
U.S
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Wyo
Search for Killer in Badlands After Schoolgirl Slaying
A Riverside County posse hunted foothill badlands near Mt San Gorgonio for a gunman who shot Marjorie Winn 17 in Redlands as she sat with James Sloan Jr 21 in a car. The stolen car contained a .410 shotgun and roadblocks closed highways as deputies tracked tracks in a 150 mile area.
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Redlands High School
James Sloan, Jr
Sloan
Riverside County
Capt. Taylor
Adolph
Eilts
Miss Winn
Daily Donations Boost Fund For Hospital Work
St. Anthony Mercy hospital expansion fund rises toward goal as the VFW Auxiliary boosts totals with a 450 percent contribution from a benefit card party. Citizens urged to donate any amount to push the drive past the near 300000 milestone, pledges accepted at the POST offices or St. Anthony's hospital.
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St. Anthony’s Mercy Hospital
Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
St. Anthony Mercy Hospital
Drive
Yeserday
The
POST
North Main Street
Pocatello
St. Anthony’s Hospital
President Truman Plans Caribbean Tour and Key West Rest
President Truman will depart February 20 for a five day Caribbean air sea tour including Puerto Rico and Cuba, then a ten day vacation at Key West Florida. He may visit Missouri in May for a University of Missouri journalism week event, with the Williamsburgh yacht and Boca Chica base noted in the itinerary.
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Washington
Truman
Caribbean
Key West
Fla
Charles G. Ross
University of Missouri, Columbia
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Cuba
Boca Chica Naval Air Base
White House
Bookmakers Suffer Heavy Loss After Wire Tap Incident
In Las Vegas a bookmaking club reported a loss of at least 11000 when a wire carrying race results was cut. They later learned from another club that the Friday Fairgrounds longshot Atomic City won the seventh race, prompting an apparent attempt to cash in before discovery. Police investigated connections to accomplices and identities of two men detained.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Atomic City
Fairgrounds
Harold M. Chastine
Brooklyn
Charles Robert Davis
Kansas City
Frozen Trenton Pair Die in Severe Cold Trapping
Miss Lorene Protero 21 of Trenton woke near daybreak to find herself locked in the frozen arms of her dead companion T S Lytle 41 of Joplin. The 10 below zero cold froze the truck cab and a long struggle followed before she escaped and was found by two farmers. Lytle lay frozen inside the truck after they left Trenton Sunday afternoon.
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Princeton
Lorene Protero
Trenton
T. S. Lytle
Joplin
Here
Howard Higgins
Harlan Moore
Lytle
Miss Protero
Clay George
Survey on Route Plan Affects Pocatello Property Owners
Property owners along Pocatello will be surveyed over the next two weeks to gauge support for widening the current route. They will vote on allowing an additional five feet to be taken for widening, on top of seven feet for sidewalks and curbs. A nine member committee will conduct the survey from KEYY station.
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Pocatello
KEYY
Nation faces fuel oil shortages amid deep cold snap
Cold enveloped the nation from the Rockies to the Atlantic as Secretary Krug warned shortages could grow more widespread if winter lasts. He touted a planned nine billion dollar synthetic fuel program while forecasts show sub zero readings in northern states and hopes for no near term relief. A Pacific storm brought rain from border to California with at least ten deaths, and an Ohio River ice jam caused heavy damage in Cincinnati harbor with one man missing.
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Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Seaboard
J. A. Krug
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
New England
Krug
House Public Lands Committee
Congress
California
Pacific Northwest
Ohio River
Cincinnat
Chases Top In Local Tax Refund
The largest U S treasury refunds in Pocatello for 1947 went to Edith A Chase and Jesse M Chase each receiving 3213 dollars. Morrison Knudsen Co Boise had the state’s biggest Idaho refund 214966 dollars for excess profits tax. J R Simplot Boise got 49460 dollars and Mrs Simplot 48551 dollars. About 400 Idahoans had refunds over 500 dollars.
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Pocatellans
Edith A. Chase
Jesse M. Chase
United Press
Washington
Idaho
Morrison-Knudsen Co
Boise
J. R. Simplot
Mrs. Simplot
Injury Causes 13-Year-Old to Grow Rapidly in Court
A Los Angeles boy Edward Conradson claims a dairy truck fall caused extreme growth and weight gain. He testified he increased about ten percent in height and nearly 50 pounds since the accident while his parents seek 75,725 dollars for negligence. A doctor cited possible pituitary disturbance linked to the fall.
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Los Angeles
Superior Court
Edward Joseph Conradson
Ed A. Conradson
Roscoe
Silver Shield
Wyndham Pyle
Edward
Mary Conradson
Livestock Prices Fall as Grains Rally Stuns Markets
Chicago reports the sharpest drop in livestock prices in 16 months with beef steers and hogs down several dollars, while grain prices rebound. Retail cuts spread nationwide as Safeway announces wholesale price reductions and egg prices slide from 94 cents to 64 cents a dozen.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Safeway Stores, Inc
West
San Francisco
Board of Trade
Clinton P. Anderson
Washington
Union
Fed
Dun & Bradstreet
Gate City Housewives Save Pennies on Groceries
Gate City housewives began cutting grocery costs as wholesale wheat cattle and hog prices fell nationwide. Grocers reported small local reductions in flour meats vegetables eggs lard and cereals with larger cuts possible later as new wholesale quotations arrive. A market owner called the decline a temporary seasonal adjustment and predicted prices may stabilize in spring when employment and construction recover.
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Pocatello
Gate City
Auto fumes kill New Mexico man and injure Utah woman
A New Mexico man, George M. Burum, 27, died from carbon monoxide fumes after a car skidded into a ditch on a side road near Evanston, Wyoming. Rae Purcell, 17, a former Santaquin resident now in Evanston, was found in a locked car and treated in Evanston before being hospitalized in Salt Lake City in serious condition.
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Salt Lake City
New Mexico
Santaquin
Utah
Evanston
Wyo
George M. Burum
Rae Purcell
Government vows quick action to avert coal strike
Cyrus S. Ching director of the Federal Mediation Service said the government will not tolerate a coal strike. He told a Washington dinner that it would step in immediately if a strike by the United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis appeared imminent.
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Washington
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation Service
Ching
Southern Coal Producers Association
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Truman asks Congress to extend controls on fats oils and more
President Truman urged Congress to extend wartime controls on fats and oils rice tin antimony Cinchona bark quinidine and nitrogen fertilizers beyond February 29 to avoid confusion at home and abroad. He warned that failure to renew could threaten tin supplies and hinder United States foreign policy aims.
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Washington
President Truman
Congress
United States
Palestine Commission seeks armed forces for partition enforcement
The United Nations Palestine commission disclosed that it will ask the United Nations security council to authorize armed forces to enforce the partition of Palestine. In a related note, the Federal Power Commission rejected a Detroit request for emergency natural gas supply.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Palestine Commission
United Nations Security Council
Palestine
Washington
Federal Power Commission
Detroit
Japan Socialist Cabinet Resigns After Emperor Notice
Premier Tetsu Katayama informed Emperor Hirohito at the imperial palace that Japan's socialist dominated cabinet has resigned amid conservative criticism. The move follows mounting political pressure and signals a shift in government leadership during postwar period.
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Tokyo
Tetsu Katayama
Imperial Palace
Hirohito
Japan
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