Pocatello Routs Idaho Falls To Strengthen Big Six Lead
Pocatello high school overwhelmed Idaho Falls 44 to 12 to clinch at least a share of the Big Six title. Skip Wolz sparked the win with three interceptions returning for touchdowns while Gary Pax man added two extra points. Coach Chick Atkinson used mainly sophomores and juniors after halftime as Pocatello moved to 8-1 on the season, 215 points for and 51 against. Idaho Falls had eight completions for 77 yards with Don Duncan leading the air game.
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Pocatello High School
Idaho Falls Tigers
Chick Atkinson
Skip Wolz
Tigers
Don Duncan
Wolz
Tiger
Pocatello
Indians
Doug Collins
Gary Paxman
Dick Pettit
Paxman
Caldwell
Atkinson
Chace Anderson
Irvings Field
Idaho Falls
Duncan
Bruce West
Ralph Hunter
Daho Falls
Ron Edgiey
Lee
Page
Pair held on forged check charges after confession
Police chief statements say a man identified as Andrew S. Hudson with multiple aliases confessed to writing checks without funds and awaits a preliminary hearing. He was arrested after a $195 check at a jewelry store, traveling with a female accomplice posing as his wife.
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Guy Nelson
Andrew S. Hudson
David E. Adams
J. W. Vanderpool
David Day
St. John
Pocatello
Glen Hadley
Cedric Evans
Hudson
David E. Adams, M.D
Bannock County
Hunt Continues For Two Missing Pocatellans
Police in Bannock county pursue two missing men, Joe Ayers Sr. and William Wells, after conflicting reports of a possible caller claiming one was alive in another city. Deputies search the Portneuf River by boat, aided by a local Indian guide, and vow to keep looking until a definitive outcome emerges.
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Joe Ayers Jr
Bannock County
William Wells
Bannock
Alma Marley
Joe Ayers Sr
Portneuf
James Johnson
Johnson
Woman Dies After Walking Into Moving Car in Boise
Boise police report a 65 year old woman, Mrs. Rose Smith, died after stepping from behind a bus into the side of a moving car driven by 18 year old Kenneth P. Pond. The accident occurred last night in Boise.
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BOISE
Rose Smith
Navy ends search for unidentified submarine near Pearl Harbor
The Navy abandoned the hunt for a foreign submarine reported near Pearl Harbor. The search produced no verification of its presence and was ended after air and surface units scouted the area.
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Pearl Harbor
Navy
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Tojo Sentenced to Death by Hanging for War Crimes
Tokyo report states Hideki Tojo, wartime leader who directed Japan's World War II actions including Pearl Harbor, was sentenced Thursday to death by hanging for war crimes.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Armistice Day Remembrance Calls for Peace and Readiness
Nation observes Armistice Day with rites for World War I and II dead as leaders urge unity in peace. Officials from the three services press stronger defense and universal training while President Truman remains at Key West.
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America
Eugles
Rhine
Okinawa
United States
Truman
Key West
Fla
Harry Vaughan
Key -West
American Legion
Legionnaires
Vaughan
Louis H. Renfrow
Arlington National Cemetery
Renfrew
Perry Brown
Arlington
Legion
Congress
Jobs Fall In This Area
Idaho Employment Service reports ongoing job declines as beet and potato harvests finish and cold weather slows construction work. In Blackfoot a labor surplus exists with beets still in ground but few volunteers to harvest. Potato warehouses run larger scale and absorb workers left unemployed after harvest.
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Idaho Employment Service
Blackfoot
ISES
Inquest Set In Brutal Farm Killing
An inquest into the death of a Mexican farm laborer known as Blue Beard and Carlos Peru will be held at the Hall mortuary at 2 p m today. Peru was found slain during a pheasant hunt by a Idaho State college student and his brother. A blood stained beet knife was found near the scene and two suspects are held. FBI blood tests on clothing are awaited.
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Carlos Peru
Hall Mortuary
Peru
Idaho State College
Bannock County
FBI
Washington
Strike Begins in Western German Mines
In Western Germany the postwar strike started on schedule as miners due for the midnight shift failed to appear at Ruhr mines. The industry employs about 471,000 men.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Western
Ruhr
Ravished COED Found Under Bridge Near Boulder Campus
The unclothed body of Theresa Foster an 18 year old University of Colorado freshman in engineering was found beneath a lonely bridge about 15 miles south of Boulder. Police say the slaying appears to be the work of a lone killer with the body dumped from a car into a ravine. Coroner Norman Howe noted she had been ravished and fresh tracks in the snow offered few clues.
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Campus
Colorado
Boulder
Colo
University of Colorado
Miss Foster
Newman Club
M. G. Messenheimer
COED
Sadistic act kills mother cat in Inkom incident
An amateur zoologist poured turpentine on a mother cat to see her reaction, she died and Miss Marjory Cline, a schoolteacher at Inkom High, now cares for three kittens named Macoco Tigress and Chief Red Fox seeking homes.
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Miss Cline
Helena Mail Carrier Hurt in Train Collision
W Rush Burroughs 70. retired Helena mailman was injured when the Northern Pacific Logan Helena passenger train collided with his car at the first crossing east of the NP depot in East Helena. He sustained head and ear lacerations a fractured right collarbone and remained conscious after the crash. He was rushed to a local hospital by ambulance.
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Helena
W. Rush Burroughs
Northern Pacific
Six Die In Mannin Airways Plane Crash Over Mersey
Six people perished when a Mannin Airways plane crashed into the Mersey in heavy fog near Liverpool. One passenger survived. The aircraft was en route from Dublin to the Isle of Man and diverted to Speke airfield due to the weather.
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England
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Mannin Airways, Ltd
Mersey
Dublin
Isle of Man
Speke
Mystery Deaths Puzzle Blackfoot Area In Idaho
A 35 year old beet worker Elias Vigil of Alamosa Colorado was found dead in a cabin on the Harry Katseanes farm near Moreland Bingham County Idaho with the cause undetermined. Coroner H R Boice had not yet ruled on the case as of Thursday night. A separate coroner inquest into the death of Mrs Leslie Teton a 24 year old Fort Hall Indian widow yielded a death by own action verdict after similar circumstances with two gunshots heard around 2 a m in the same cabin where Vigil died. Witnesses Manual Guzman his wife and Ora belle Hart described drinking and cards before the shots. The body was taken to Peck and Patcher mortuary. No relatives located.
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Bingham County
Elias Vigil
Alamosa
Colo
Harry Katseanes
Moreland
H. R. Boice
Leslie Teton
Fort Hall
Vigil
Manual Guzman
Orabelle Hart
Guzman
Peck and Packham Mortuary
Rail unions hold quiet stance on 10 cent wage offer
Officials from the Brotherhoods of Engineers and Firemen and Enginemen and the Switchmen's Union of North America left a wage strategy conference without comment on accepting the 10 cent hourly raise proposed by carriers. The 400 regional officials weighed dropping an 18 percent demand. past threats led to a government negotiated 1542 cent rise.
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Chicago
Brotherhoods of Engineers and Firemen
Switchmen’s Union
North America
Truman
Arthur Glover
Brotherhoods of
Freeman Chums Chinese Restaurant Sips Truman Cocktail
A telegraph to President Truman reports Freeman Chums in New York now advertises a Harry Truman Cocktail. The drink allegedly contains sloe gin scotch creme de menthe and Mui Kwai whiskey with a sign claiming the drink means you take on the whole country.
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Truman
Freeman Chums Chinese
New York
Harry Truman
Freeman Chums
Train Wrecker Faces Death Chair
James M. Johnson 36 of Pocomoke Maryland admitted wrecking a Reading Railroad passenger train to loot victims. He will be arraigned in Norristown on murder. Engineman BucklL Demry 51 and Fireman Howard Jackson of Allentown Pa died in the Valley Forge derailment last May 9.
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Norristown
James M. Johnson
Pocomoke
Reading
Buckll. Demry
Howard Jackson
Allentown
Valley Forge
Police Thwarted by Comedy Of Errors In Idaho Town
Pocatello police spent a hectic half hour sorting a chain of misdirected calls about a stolen Ford in Blackfoot a drunken driver a man lying on the highway and an injured stranger. The stolen car was recovered. an intoxicated Indian was charged with auto theft and reckless driving. The Alameda thief explained the injured man was himself after falling from the car. The case was resolved as a comical mix up.
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State Patrol
Blackfoot
Pocatellan
Alameda
An Dian
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