Fresno trio acquitted in GI housing fraud case
A Fresno federal court jury found contractors William C. Albany Wade J. Howells and Richard M. Vail not guilty on 18 counts accusing them of violating housing rules and charging excessive prices for GI veterans homes. A civil suit for 1 million dollars remains unresolved.
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Fresno
Cal
ULP
Pierson M. Hall
Drew Pearson
William C. Albany
Wade J. Howells
Richard M. Vail
Vail
South Pacific
American Legion National Housing Committee
Junior Chamber Picnic Brings Three Clubs Together
Members of the Pocatello Junior Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees-Ettes joined with Blackfoot and Idaho Falls clubs for a joint picnic at Blackfoot City Park. Over a hundred members attended as teams were formed for games after meals.
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Pocatello Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees-Ettes
Blackfoot
Idaho Falls
Veterans Village Housing Scarce
Mrs. Mabel McGee, applications clerk, says housing in ISC Veterans Village is scarcer this year. The 170 dwellings include 18 trailers renting $15 monthly, with others rented by the breadwinner’s earnings. The village lists 91 Idaho veteran students and 42 veterans from other states.
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ISC Veterans Village
Mabel McGee
Idaho
Burglary Charge Filed Against James Bolton
First degree burglary charges were filed Wednesday with Justice of the Peace Charles W. Hyde against James Douglas Bolton 41 in connection with an alleged entry at the Radio Pool room 301 North Third. Arraignment awaits Bolton's release from the General Hospital where he was wounded after failing to halt for police.
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Justice of the Peace
Charles W. Hyde
James Douglas Bolton
Radio Poolroom
North Third
Bolton
General Hospital
Hyde
Montana Senate Race Looms as Davis Leads Rankin
In Montana, Tom J. Davis leads Wellington Rankin for the Republican U S Senate nomination as returns from 630 of 1142 precincts show Davis 23419 to Rankin 16249 while Democrat James E Murray routs Dr Henry J McGregor. Primary action also centers on gubernatorial contests with Sam C Ford favored and Leonard C Young closing in on the Republican side.
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Helena
Mont
ULP
Tom J. Davis
Butte
Rotary International
U. S. Senate
Montana
Davis
Wellington D. Rankin
Rankin
Senate
James E. Murray
Henry J. McGregor
Great Falls
Murray
McGregor
Supreme Court
Albert H. Angstman
Willard E. Fraser
Billings
Mike Mansfield
Wesley O’ewart
Angstman
Ralph Y. McGinnis
Missoula
Pioneer LDS Leader Dies in Idaho Community
Herbert Adams 72 a Blackfoot resident since youth died in a Pocatello hospital after a three month illness and recent operation Born December 4 1875 in Richmond Utah he moved to Idaho married Fannie Allred in Blackfoot 1912 Worked in highway construction and farming He leaves wife son H Doyle Adams two sisters and two brothers Funeral at Riverside LDS church with Bishop H M Wray and burial at Riverside-Thomas cemetery
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Blackfoot
Herbert Adams
Pocatello
Mr. Adams
Richmond
Utah
Samuel F
Sarah Wiggins Adams
Idaho
Fannie Allred
LDS Church
Elks Lodge
Fannie A. Adams
H. Doyle Adams
Salt Lake City
Martha V. Clark
Louis Barnes
Rt. 2
John .Q. Adams
Roy Adams
Yakima
Washington
Riverside Lds Church
H. M. Wray
Sandberg
Riverside-Thomas Cemetery
Firemen Target Absent Minds After False Alarms
Cleveland firemen plan to crack down after answering a fourth false alarm this year triggered by a letter wedged in a firebox handle. The prank delays fire response and endangers residents.
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Cleveland
Auriol Seeks Broad Coalition Cabinet
Paris reports President Vincent Auriol pursuing a wide national coalition to avert a power clash between Communists and De Gaulle factions. He met leaders of all parties as negotiations remain preliminary before naming a new premier to replace the collapsed Schuman government.
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Paris
Vincent Auriol
Charles de Gaulle
Auriol
Robert Schuman
U. S. Attorney Doubts West Coast Dock Slowdown Violates Injunction
U. S. District Attorney Frank J. Hennessy said Tuesday he doubted the West Coast port slowdown by longshoremen violated the 80 day federal injunction against a coast wide dockworker strike. Seattle employers alleged CIO leadership organized the slowdown, but Hennessy said the law as he knows it did not violate the injunction.
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San Francisco
U. S
Frank J. Hennessy
West Coast
Seattle
CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Hennessy
Blackfoot City Council approves five year blanket insurance policy
Blackfoot officials review finances and enforcement for the period. The council merges all city policies into a single blanket policy for five years. City funds total 62 865 41 with a June report showing 106 cases and 924 in fines plus 116 in meter fines. Building permits totalling 11 000 were granted.
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Blackfoot
Douglas Parkinson
Kennedy and Company Insurance
Leon J. Chapman
F. S. Kunz
Claude Lamson
Willard S. Bowen
C. P
Pocatello
Council
Ricca Testifies On Parole Case Before Congress
Paul The Waiter Ricca, ex Capone associate, testifies 65 minutes to a congressional subcommittee but offers little on his parole from federal prison. The probe, led by Rep Clare Hoffman, seeks ties to a $15,000 payment connected to a Dallas lawyer after indictments against four former Capone henchmen were dropped.
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Chicago
Paul
Ricca
Capone
Clare Hoffman
Mich
Prison Farm Superintendent and Family Slain in Ohio
In Mansfield Ohio John Niebel 50 his wife 50 and daughter Phyllis 22 were found slain after being abducted from their home. Niebel was shot multiple times his wife in the head and abdomen and Phyllis beaten to death. Police suspect former inmates of the nearby Ohio State Reformatory farm as the motive and are searching for suspects. An 18 year old camp counselor discovered the bodies in a cornfield seven miles from the Niebel home.
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Phyllis
E. C. Lavender
Niebels
Lavender
Robinson
Niebel
Robert Zoeller
Zoeller
Herbert Veler
War Bride Divorces Book Clerk Peter Salm in L. A.
Bavarian war bride Gisela Salm aged 23 obtained a divorce from Peter Salm 28 in Los Angeles. She had moved to the United States to marry him after meeting him in the army. She claimed he disliked her friends and kept them away. Peter Salm, heir to a Standard Oil fortune from his mother Millicent Rogers, was originally the plaintiff but dropped the action. she filed on a cross-complaint in New York accord.
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Los Angeles
Gisela Salm
Peter Salm
New York
United States
Gisela Vandeneschen
Salm
Standard Oil
Millicent Rogers
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