Navy trio charged in Ruth Farnsworth rape murder
Guam dispatch reports three air force enlistees face formal charges for kidnap rape and murder of Ruth Farnsworth a 27 year old Navy civilian employee whose body was found in a jungle clearing. Confessions tied the Dennis brothers and S Sgt Burns to the crime and a smock found in Calvin Dennis car linked to the victim.
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Guam
Air Force
Pretty Ruth Farnsworth
Navy
Navy Headquarters
Calvin Dennis
Frederick
Herman T. Dennis, Jr
Indianapolis
Robert W. Burns
Spokane
Dennis Brothers
San Francisco
Miss Farnsworth
Several Head Of Cattle Are Drowned
Warm bear river flood threats Preston valley farmers as ice jams back up water. Five head of cattle drowned on Melvin Griffiths farm, worst flood in 30 years. Sheriff Hansen warns more flooding possible when power reservoir releases water. bridges at risk and snow complicates roads in Preston.
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Bear River
Preston Valley
Melvin Griffith
Franklin County
Lee Hansen
Jay Wakeman
Preston
Pocatello
Hansen
300 To Be Picked For Jury Duty
Bannock county commissioners reviewed voter lists to select about 300 jurors for 1949. District judges want 300 people chosen from 34 precincts. Those who served in 1948 or did not vote would be ineligible.
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Bannock
Board of
County Commissioners
W. H
Pete” Jensen
Jensen
Weather Summary for Pocatello and Intermountain West
Pocatello partly cloudy to cloudy with occasional snow flurries. High 25, low 15. Yesterday’s high 19, low 0. Southern Idaho fair and cold Thursday, highs 5 to 15, lows 10 to 20. Utah cloudy with little change, snow in southwest, highs 15 to 25, near 40 in far south, lows 15 to 25. Seattle 38, West Yellowstone -10 to -20.
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United Press Pocatello
Idaho
Utah
Seattle
Washim
West Yellowstone
Hale Nearly Struck In Idaho Road Crash
Bannock county commissioner R. T. Hale of McCammon was in a two car crash while returning home. Passenger Le Mond Bunce, 17, was treated for a minor injury and released. Hale swerved to avoid a parked car owned by Ernest Rommell and ended in a snow drift with about $500 in damages. Deputy Fordyce blamed neither driver.
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Bannock
R. T. Hale
McCammon
LeMond Bunce
Pocatello General Hospital
Hale
Ernest Rommell
Rommell
Norman Fordyce
Tobin Urges AFL CIO Merger For Labor Unity
Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin urged uniting the AFL and CIO into a single labor body. He argued one organization would streamline wage rates and strengthen labor and management positioning and defended his department amid charges of employer prejudice. He also backed a 15 cent minimum wage proposal.
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Tobinurges Pi
Boston
Maurice J. Tobin
AFL
CIO
Massachusetts
Tobin
Department
Woman hanged for murder at Strangeways in Britain
Margaret Allen 42, who wished to be a man, was hanged at Strangeways prison for the murder of 70 year old Mrs. Nancy Chadwick during a robbery. She had worn men’s clothes for a decade and smoked a cigarette before death. The execution marked Britain’s first female hanging in 12 years.
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Manchester
England
Margaret Allen
Strangeways
Britain
Miss Allen
Suspect in Black Dahlia case denied by guilds
Jeff Connors alias Arthur Lane is named as latest suspect but Hollywood guilds say he never worked as actor or writer and was not on their rolls. Connors claimed he was on a Hollywood lot the night of the murder as a bit player and stand-in.
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Los Angeles
Jeff Connors
Arthur Lane
Black Dahlia
Hollywood
Movie Studio Guilds
Connors
Screen Actors’ Guild
Screen Extras’ Guild
Fight Planned for Seventy-Group Air Force Chairman Vinson pushes 70 groups
Democratic congressmen led by Rep. Carl Vinson say they will push for a 70-group air force, rejecting Truman's 48-group budget. Senate aid and Air Secretary Symington back the push, while the air service shifts funds from jet fighters to B-36 bombers to sustain the expansion over time.
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Washington
Trum
Carl Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
Truman
Vinson
House
Senate
Armed Services Committee
Air
W. Stuart Symington
Army
Kenneth Royall
Millard F. Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
Tydings
Air Force
Reorganization Proposals Heard by Idaho Legislature
Idaho education groups pressed statutory revisions on the school reorganization program and related issues. Proposals include extending voluntary county district reorganizations to 1941, keeping reorganization local, appointing the state superintendent, accepting federal aids, adding teachers to workers comp, and allowing nonaccredited high schools with board approval. House action included measures for tax refunds and delinquent income tax collection.
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Boise
Idaho
House
Senate
Edwin Schwiebert
Canyon
Idaho Education Association
State Department of Education
State Department
State Board of Education
Board of Education
State Trustees’ Association
Idaho Tax Commissioner
Tax Commission
Attorney General
Man Robbed Three Times In One Day
Washington police helped Richard Baskerville 43-year-old waiter home after a string of robberies. A thief took his $10 bill at the restaurant door. Baskerville reported the losses, then had his hat and later his coat stolen in separate incidents.
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Washington
Richard Baskerville
Baskervile
Baskerville
Fewer Strikes in 1948 Despite Similar Wages Lost
The labor department reported that 700 fewer strikes occurred in 1948 than 1947 while total wage loss from strikes remained about the same.
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Washington
Labor Department
Odom Sets Sights On Hawaii To New York Flight Record
Capt. William Odom, famed round the world record holder, left Hawaii at night aiming for a nonstop Hawaii to New York flight to break four light plane distance records long held by foreign nations. The heavily laden single engine craft departs for a landmark cross country attempt.
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Honolulu
T. H
William
Bill) Odom
Hawaii
New York
Beechcraft Bonanza Prepares for 5300 Mile Pacific Flight
The Beechcraft Bonanza is fueled and ready for a 5300 mile flight from Hawaii to New York. It lifted from Hickam Field at 8 31 p m PST with a 3000 foot takeoff run. Odom plans 14000 foot altitude over water to reach first landfall near Seattle around noon today. The trip targets Teterboro New Jersey or LaGuardia in 32 to 34 hours.
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Pacific Northwest
New York
Hickam Field
Odom
Seattle
Hickam
Teterboro, N. J
LaGuardia Field
Minnesota asks carload of snow from California
Minnesota officials wired the California Centennial commission asking for one carload of snow for Paul Bunyan snow balls and winter carnival promotion. They offered Minnesota snow queens for the events and mentioned the Minnesota Territorial centennial.
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Minnesota
California
St, Paul
PTA Pushes Tough Driver Licensing Reform in Idaho
Pocatello PTA leaders led by C. C. Sailor Evans back a four part bill for Idaho driver licenses. The plan would require written tests, full physicals including vision and hearing, actual driving in traffic, and funding for enforcement. Evans said the measure would be sent to the Idaho Legislature with PTA groups statewide endorsing.
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Pocatello Central Council
Parent Teachers Association
C. C
Sailor’ Evans
Pocatello Police Department
Idaho
State of
President Truman Surprises Ailing George Marshall at Home
President Truman flew from Washington to Pinehurst North Carolina to visit the ailing Secretary of State George C Marshall at his home. Marshall recovering from kidney surgery spoke briefly with the president before dressing gown attire. The personal visit lasted about an hour and was described as purely personal by Mrs. Marshall.
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Pinehurst
N.C
Truman
George C. Marshall
Washington
Marshall
Popefield
Ft. Bragg
Air Force
Army
Marshall Estate
Charles Ross
Robert Landry
State Department
Marshall Carter
Chains Drop Food Prices In Chicago Grocery Chains
Chicago grocers cut prices on eggs with A and P reducing grade A large eggs to 59 cents a dozen from 65 in the prior days. The v4 Bradstreet index shows wholesale food prices at 6.08 for 31 basic foods, down from a July peak of 7.36. National Tea warned of future egg price cuts and other reductions.
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Chicago
Bradstreet
A. & P. Food
National Tea Chain
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National Industrial Conference Board
Herman Dennis and
Burns
12Th Air Ammunition Squadron
Jack Harvey
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Labor
Dahlia
Congress
Martin Heerwas
IEA
Edith Miller
Ada
Bill Odom
Russia
London
Moscow Radio
France
PTA
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