Battle Over Road Equipment Sparks Bannock Caribou Clash
In Oneida county district court Bannock and Caribou counties clash over seized road equipment valued around $54 000 as prosecutors seek immediate possession or storage pending action. An injunction blocks removal while Caribou officials oppose Bannock moves citing taxpayer interests in the disputed property.
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Bannock
Caribou
District Court
Oneida County
Henry McQuade
Bannock County
O. R. Baum
McQuade and Baum
Caribou County
Charles McCracken
L. E. Glennon
Boy Killed by Shot Near Oxford
Ray Neal Walton twelve killed when a .22 rifle carried by his brother Garth accidently discharged during a pigeon hunt near Oxford. Ray died from an abdominal wound. Max 8 sought help. Deputies and the coroner investigated. funeral arrangements are by Richards and Sons mortuary in Preston.
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Oxford
Ray Neal Walton
Garth
Ray
Parley Walton
Max
Ray Fackrell
Fackrell
Leo Hawkes
Moses Hancey
Great Falls
Mont
Parley
Verla Hebdon Walton
Lehi
Dean
Joyce
Karma
Lois
Edward Hebdon
Clifton
Chester Walton
Preston
Richards and Sons Mortuary
MacArthur Upholds Jop Sentence
General Douglas MacArthur upholds the death sentences of Hideki Tojo and six other top Japanese war criminals. The executions are to be carried out at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo on a date not disclosed, with Lt. Gen. Walton Walker to set the schedule. MacArthur called the trial a symbol of the futility of war and urged prayers across Japan.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Douglas MacArthur
Sugamo
Eighth Army
Walton H. Waler
MacArthur
Waler
Yokohama
United States
Japan
Dewey Winds Up Arizona Visit
Gov Thomas E Dewey will end a two and a half week Arizona vacation today as he boards an American Airlines plane to New York. He, his wife, and two sons depart on the 10 45 a m flight.
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Tucson
Ariz
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Arizona
American Airlines
Americans Wound German Policemen Crossing Zone
American troops in occupied Germany fired on two Russian employed German policemen who crossed from Thuringia into Hesse. One German sergeant was wounded in both legs after a weapon was pointed at troopers. The incident prompted an investigation ordered by Francis E. Sheehan as details emerged.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States Occupation
Thuringia
Hesse
Huenfeld
Portsmouth
Ohio
Rush Has Top Speech in Pocatello Contest
Bob Rush a Pocatello high school senior won first place in the I Speak for Democracy contest held in Pocatel lo. The event sponsored by the Pocatello Jaycees awarded prizes including a portable radio to Rush and a table model radio to Pat Reilly with Rosalie Hancock receiving $10 in late recordings.
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Bob Rush
Pocatello
The
Pocatello Jaycees
Bill Reed
Clyde Eggleston
Pat Reilly
Rosalie Hancock
Wallace Cory
Blackfoot
Bingham County
Rush
Reilly
Hancock
Crazed mother slashes children and attempts suicide in Ohio
Mrs. Marcella Hudson 25 slashed her daughters Judy 3 and Bonnie Jean 5 months at a neighbor’s home in Wellston Ohio then tried to cut her own wrists and throat with a safety razor. She was committed to Athens state hospital after a brief hearing. Judy may survive, Bonnie Jean has slim chances. The family had lost their home to fire hours earlier.
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Wellston
Athens State Hospital
Marcella B. Hudson
Judy
Bonnie Jean
Dorace Barber
Boeing Guilty In Strike Ends Negotiations
The National Labor Relations Board ruled Boeing Airplane Co. guilty of prolonging a Seattle strike by illegally delaying bargaining on a new labor contract. In a 4 0 decision the board ordered resumption of negotiations with the AFL CIO Machinists and full reinstatement for striking workers. Boeing appealed to the U S court of appeals and the ruling is stayed pending the appeal.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Boeing Airplane Co
Seattle
International Association of Machinists
AFL
NLRB
Boeing
U.S. Court of Appeals
William M Allen
Boise Plans Removal Of Slot Machines
Boise city council prepared to repeal the local ordinance licensing slot machines amid state law doubts. Mayor Potter F. Howard cited fears of license returns if Idaho legislature bans slots, noting the 1949 year license fees and court-action risk. About 452 machines were cited in estimates, though not exact.
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Boise
W&p
Idaho
Potter F. Howard
Howard
Oe City
Fast Talker Swindles Widows In Seven Year $252000 Scheme
Arthur J. Platten, 47, ex University of Wisconsin football player, indicted on 12 counts of mail fraud and securities violations. He allegedly charmed 30 elderly widows into investing savings, used funds for lavish living, paid meagre dividends, and posed as an investment counselor and front for a truck firm. One 87 year old widow lost $27,061 and now works as a charwoman. victims endured poverty while he socialized in Detroit clubs.
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Detroit
Arthur J. Platten
University of Wisconsin
U. S
Joseph C. Murphy
Platten
Murphy
Mt. Clemens
Pany
Second Draft Call Due Today in Idaho
Boise dispatch reports Idaho Selective Service will issue its second peace time induction call. Ida ho’s H. Westerman Whillock, state procurement officer, says about 60 Idaho men will be inducted for December, up from 48 in November. Breakdown by induction area expected today cites 33 from Pocatello, nine from Spokane, 18 from Boise.
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Boise
Idaho
Selective Service Office
H. Westerman Whillock
Whillock
Whitlock
Pocatello
Epokane
Sentence Set For Today In Fisher Voluntary Manslaughter Case
Judge Isaac McDougall will sentence Mrs. Sadie Fisher today at 11 am for voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of Benjamin Fox. After a four day trial the jury found no first degree murder but convicted on the lighter charge amid heated testimony and defense claims of self defense.
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Sadie Fisher
Fifth District
Isaac McDougall
Fifth District Court
Benjamin Fox
Fox
Fisher
Boulder Man Admits Carrying Body From Bridge
Joseph S. Walker 31 a Boulder metalworker confessed in a dictated statement that he transported Theresa Foster 18 in his car trunk and threw her body from a snowy bridge, but he denied rape or murder.
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Boulder
Cole
Joseph S. Walker
Theresa Foster
Coordinated Plan Sought For Congress
President Truman orders agencies to draft a definite anti inflation program for Congress. Dr. Edwin Nourse to supervise coordinating views of treasury commerce labor agriculture interior and the federal reserve. Labor reports a 0.5 percent cost of living drop from mid September to mid October.
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Washington
Truman
New Democratic Congress
Edwin G. Nourse
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Labor Department
Nourse
White House
Treasury, Commerce, Labor, Agriculture and Interior Departments
Federal Reserve Board
United Front
Congress
House
Senate
Indictment Returned On Slaughter Slated for Lobbying Case
A federal grand jury indicted former Representative Roger C. Slaughter of Missouri on charges of illegally lobbying in Congress for the Kansas City and Chicago boards of trade and other grain interests. He allegedly failed to register as a lobbyist while employed by these groups, with fees totaling over 34,000 dollars. The indictment, the third under the lobbying law, notes activity from 1947 to 1948 and ties to the Minneapolis grain exchange and North American Grain Export association.
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Washington
Roger C. Slaughter
Congress
Kansas City
Chicago
Slaughter
Truman
Grand Jury
Boards of Trade
Minneapolis Grain Exchange
North American Grain Export Association of New York
Tobin Promises Labor Fair and Law But Avoids Pledge
In Portland Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin told the CIO convention he would craft a fair and just labor law to replace Taft-Hartley, while stopping short of a pledge to restore the Wagner act. Delegates pushed for repeal and a return to Wagner, with Morse urging revisions beyond simple repeal as factions clashed over left and right positions.
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Portland
Ore
I UP
Maurice Tobin
CIO
Organized Labor
Tobin
Wayne L. Morse
Calendar Is Viewed in Blackfoot by Judge McDougal
Judge Isaac McDougal of Pocatello visited Blackfoot to review the trial calendar for upcoming sessions. Salmon, recently appointed to the Sixth Judicial District, may preside over cases scheduled by McDougal with Thatcher’s absence. A tentative Leppert murder trial date of December 13 was suggested by defense attorney Roy Black, but no firm arraignment or date has been set.
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Blackfoot
Isaac McDougal
Pocatello
McDougal
Preston Thatcher
Salmon
Sixth Judicial District
Guy Stevens
Thatcher
Leppert
Roy Black
Black
Road relocation project halted by heavy snows in Idaho
Public roads administrator says the Warm River Yellowstone roads relocation project is shut down due to heavy snow. About a foot of snow fell between Mack’s Inn and Osburn Springs last week. Sathér and Sons Construction Co. of Spokane will resume next spring.
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Boise
Public Roads Administration
Yellowstone
Mack’s Inn
Osburn Springs
Sathér and Sons Construction Co
Spokane
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Oneida
A. L. Ozburn
R. F. Robinson
Dewey Skinner
D. E. Smith
Clark Mickelson
Louis McLain
Homer Cooper
D. H. Maughan
Ivan Adams
Walter Lenhart
Les Toone
Freeman Rasmussen
Getty Sorensen
Leo Johnson
Dewey Winding Up
Larry Lee
Norman Catanzaro
South
Garfield Ave
Catanzaro
General Hospital
Utah
Wyoming
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Boulder Man
Philip Murray
United Public Workers
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