Loretta Young Surprises Nation With Oscar Win
Loretta Young won best actress at the 20th Academy Awards for The Farmer’s Daughter, stunning Hollywood and fans who expected Rosalind Russell to win. Ronald Colman took best actor for A Double Life and Elia Kazan earned best director for Gentlemen’s Agreement, with Celeste Holm and Edmund Gwenn as supporting winners.
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Wilson
Broadway
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Ingrid Bergman
James Baskette
Uncle Remus
Ken Murray
Bill
Cop
Valentine Davies
Sidney Shelton
MGM
The
Allie Wrubel
Ray
Body and Soul
Pacific Coast Hit By Storms
Gales and 50 mile per hour winds swept the north Pacific coast from British Columbia to Oregon causing damage to harbors and installations. A 52 foot cabin cruiser Enid Tit sank off Cape Disappointment as the coast guard responded. tug Maurine Greer battled waves off Grays Harbor while two barges were abandoned. Coast guard cutters Mallow Bonham and McLane aided operations and a derelict Japanese mine was sighted near Tillamook Bay. The Columbia river bar was closed to sea traffic.
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War Vets Picket Russian Ship at Jersey City Dock
Twenty five Catholic war veterans from Hudson county CWV picketed the 10000 ton Soviet freighter Chukotka at Clairmont terminal Jersey City as machinery bound for Russia was loaded. They aimed to picket every Russian ship at the waterfront and sought AFL union collaboration.
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Boisean Dies in Self-Inflicted Shotgun Wound
Coroner Clyde Summers reported Boise resident George Edgar Faulds aged 39 died Saturday afternoon from a self-inflicted gunshot while cleaning a .12 gauge shotgun at his home. Funeral services are planned this afternoon. survivors include his widow and four children.
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George Edgar Faulds
Summers
Faulds
Minneapolis Teachers End Strike With New Pay Agreement
AFL teachers in Minneapolis voted to accept a settlement ending a 27 day wage strike and reopening 92 public schools. The deal with superintendent Willard E. Goslin and union leaders withheld terms at the members meeting.
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Willard Goslin
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Charles Boyer
Federation of Men Teachers
Pioneer Idaho Resident Ike Thorne Dies at 84 in Rockland
Isaac Ike Thorne 84 a long time Rockland Valley resident died at Schlitz Memorial Hospital American Falls. Born in Montpelier Idaho in 1864 he was the first white child born there. Survived by widow Louise and children John Clifford Lee A J Watts and a stepson Orilla ny. Funeral by L D S church Rockland with burial in Rockland cemetery.
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Idaho
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Omeda County
Alice Mary Davis
Louise Walker
Omieda
Malad
Louise Thorne
L.D.S
J. Lee May
Rockland Cemetery
Prison Escapees Confess Slaying in Hawaii
John Palakiko 19 and James Majors 21 confessed to murder of Therese Adler Wilder 68 whose body was found bound and gagged in her Honolulu home after an attempted robbery. Police said the two escapees from a prison labor program admitted beating and binding the widow of a shipping magnate on March 11.
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Honolulu
Oahu
Therese Adler Wilder
John Palakiko
James Majors
Catholic Rally Set in Boise Promotes Unity
A Catholic communion rally the first of its kind will be held in Boise on April 4. Sponsored by the Idaho state council of the Knights of Columbus, members from across the state and their wives will attend. The event opens with a pontifical high mass at St John’s Cathedral led by Bishop Edward J Kelly, after which the Knights will receive communion as a group. A bench meeting at Hotel Boise will feature E V Molkenbur of San Francisco as speaker.
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Operators Head To Court Over Mine Welfare Fund
Soft coal operators filed in a federal district court to appoint an impartial trustee for the United Mine Workers welfare and retirement fund. The move follows a six day miners strike with national implications. John L Lewis dodged the Monday mediation invite saying no progress would result.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund
Lewis
Cyrus S. Ching
White House
Refugees claim Benes caved to Soviet pressure during Prague crisis
Czechoslovak refugees in exile allege President Eduard Benes yielded to the Kremlin backed by large Russian troop formations near the frontier. They say Benes feared Western aid absence and that Soviet deputy foreign minister Zorin signaled Kremlin approval for the coup.
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Zorin
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United Nations Security Council
Pocatello High School Notes Highlight Assembly and Awards
Poky High opened an assembly with student body president John Roberts welcoming visiting teams for the state basketball tournament. Burley, Madison Rexburg, and Kendrick teams were introduced, Kenrick seniors cheered, Thespians presented, and minor sports like golf tennis archery were announced. The Chieftain newspaper won first prize for schools of 1500 to 2500 in attendance, editor Neva Chapin praised the honor, and adviser is Mrs. Izetta Robertson.
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Burley
Dale Shelby
Pocatello High School
Marvin Miller
Madison High School
Rexburg
Bob Burns
Frank Dammarell
Kendrick
Wayne Whitlow
Thespians
Lee Walton
South 4Th Avenue
Rampton Barlow
West Whitman
Wayne B. Whitlow
Bruce Bowns
Eugene Watson
Phil Jordan
Henry West
Mas McCall
Donald Frugoli
Chieftain
Pocatello
Neva Chapin
Jule Hawkes
Morgan Hawkes
City
Izetta Robertson
Rockland Scouts Receive Awards at Banquet
The Rockland Boy Scouts held their Father and Son banquet in Brick hall on Friday night. Ford Roberts of American Falls presented awards while junior girls served dinner. Leonard Hull and Howard Misenheimer led the event with Mrs. Pansy Walker Melma Southwell and Ramona Spillett as host officers.
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Ford Roberts
American Falls
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Pansy Walker
Melma Southwell
Ramona Spillett
Leonard Hull
Howard Misenhiemer
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