France outlines three point domestic program in cabinet meeting
Premier Reynaud announced a three point plan including nationwide food and fuel rationing, subsidies to boost birth rates, and incentives to employ women in war industries. The plan aims to raise 1,000,000 women in munitions work and use higher taxes on bachelors to fund family aid. The senate will debate war policy on April 9 as Ambassador Francois-Poncet visits Rome and allied talks continue.
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Paris
Apri 1
Paul Reynaud
Balkan
Tras
Whe
Senate
Rome
Andre Francois-Poncet
Allie
Germany
Turkey
Black Sea
Dardanelles
England
Albert Lebrun
Labor Ministry
Nampa Market Burglary Ties Weekend Safe Thefts
In Nampa Idaho over the weekend a market safe was cracked and about 3000 to 4000 dollars in Saturday receipts stolen. Owner B G Hanstead reports the break in may be linked to a second burglary earlier in the week at a cigar store. Police Chief J L Balderston and Sheriff H Meyer investigated the entry through a rear window with records taken but no merchandise.
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Nampa
Idaho
8. G. Hanstead
J L. Balderston
Harold Meyer
Balderston
April Fool Ban Sought by Prevention Group Leader
Washington report shows Fred Orsinger, chair of the Association for the Prevention of April Fool Jokes, warning people to beware April Fool tricks. He cites "the telephone joker" as the common gag and urges scrutiny of sidewalk pocketbooks for potential theft.
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Washington
Fred Orsinger
The
Association For the Prevention of
A.f.p.o.af.j
Idahoans Suffer Injuries in Highway Accident
A freak highway crash four miles west of Fort Hall at 9 30 am left Mr and Mrs J Arthur Ricks of Ketchum with severe shock and bruises after the car struck a guard rail and spun into an eight foot ditch. State Officer J H Bown investigated the scene estimating vehicle damage at 150 dollars. The couple were not seriously injured.
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Fort Hall
J. H. Bown
Bowns
J. Arthur Ricks
Ketchum
Ricks
Robbery Hit Three East Texas Offices on April Fools Day
A robber struck the sheriff's, district attorney's and district clerk's offices in Edinburg Texas on April 1 stealing small items. No injuries reported. The motive and suspect details were not disclosed. Local investigators pursued leads.
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Edinburg, Tex
Library officials attend Idaho Falls library opening
Mrs Finis Bentley library board member Audrey Smith cataloguer and Annette Cragster librarian left Monday for Idaho Falls to attend the formal opening of the new Idaho Falls library.
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Finis Bentley
Audrey Smith
Annette Cragster
Idaho Falls
Mrs. Leland 8 Woolley Returns Home From Colorado Springs
Mrs. Leland 8 Woolley arrived Friday after traveling from Colorado Springs where she was summoned by the death of her father Henry A. Dunbar on March 17.
Shamber Launches Drive for 1940 Activities Fund
The chamber aims to raise 5250 for a 1940 activities fund to support four committees including the four year university setup with 2500 and the advertising and publicity arm at 1500. Don Beier leads the campaign to promote Pocatello as a tourist and vacation center with 25000 booklets planned. Francis MacKenzie chairs inter community relations with goodwill visits in southern Idaho. The safety budget blends with Bannock County Safety Council contributions. F M Bistline heads the reclamation program backing the South Fork dam fight.
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Don Beier
Pocatello
Beier
Gate City
Francis MacKenzie
Idaho
F. D. Hilliard
Idaho Summer Temperatures Soar Amid Clear Skies
April sun brings near record highs as Idaho records 101 to 103 degree daytime heat and 87 degree nights. A cloudless sky carried the scent of millions of flowers while a warm breeze moved through the city.
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Idaho
Anoy
War News In Brief
Air force over Germany reports all RAF planes returned safely. Columbus crew recount benzine flooding and two deaths among torchmen who failed to reach lifeboats. U S refusal to recognize Wang Ching Wei regime strains Tokyo Washington ties. Sweden’s Gunther says Daladier asked to move allied troops via Sweden. Sweden stayed neutral and did not mediate Helsinki war talks.
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London
Air Ministry Today
Royal Air Force
Germany
San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle
Angel Island
Tokyo
United States
Wang Ching- Wei
China
Washington
Yukichiro Suma
Foreign Office
Cordell Hull
Stockholm
Christian Gunther
Riksdag
Daladier
France
Gustaf
Sweden
Finland
Gunther
Thieves Value Gems Stolen From Downtown Jewelry Store
Police estimated the loot at 200000 to 500000 dollars in loose precious stones plus about 5000 dollars in cash after four men and a woman used blow torches drills and crowbars to force entry. The robbery was discovered yesterday by officers responding to an alarm.
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Los Angeles
Homer Cross
Four Hikers Spot Bear Near Kinport Peak
Four Pocatello hikers Paul Brown Bill Brothers Frank Morris and Orvil Overton report sighting a large brown animal near Kinport peak Sunday. At about 300 yards they confirmed it was a bear. They believed a bear cub was present but the cub’s quills ruled it out as a pet.
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Thar
Pocatello
Paul Brown
Bill Brothers
Frank Morris
Orvil Overton
Kinport Peak
Park lights prepped for season opener at Halliwell
With the baseball season opening in just over three weeks, reflectors and globes are being returned to the tall poles at Halliwell Park. City engineer R. F. Hamilton and city electrician Elmer Smith supervise the work.
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Halliwell Park
R. F. Hamilton
Elmer Smith
City Electrician
Twenty Five Years Ago Today
The Associated Press notes minor engagements reported in all theaters of war. Utah forecast calls for showers or snow flurries tonight with colder conditions in the far east. Tuesday expected partly cloudy.
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Associated Press
Utah
Weekend crashes on Yellowstone highway south of Blackfoot
Four people injured in three separate weekend crashes on the Yellowstone highway death stretch near Blackfoot Idaho. Patrick O Hagan and Frances O Hagan suffered minor injuries in the first wreck on the south edge of town. Elmo Clark and Mrs. Frances O Hagan were passengers. I H Meyer and Richard Taylor were hurt in the second crash into a utility pole. Everett Jorgenson escaped with minor injuries after his truck hit a pole on the road to town. Officer I W Cox cited a broken tie rod as a factor in the third crash.
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Blackfoot
Yellowstone Highway
I. W. Cox
Here
Patrick O'Hagan
Elmo Clark
Frances O'Hagan
O'Hagan
I. H. Meyer
Rigby
Cox
Everett Jorgenson
Jorgenson
Clark Scouts Forest Move Debated in Congress
Senator D Worth Clark announced there is no truth to rumors that Congress will shift forest service functions from agriculture to interior department. Idaho officials, including L F Parsons, say they are watching the situation closely as Rep Dworshak notes Roosevelt would not confirm or deny the rumor.
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Boise
D. Worth Clark
Washington
Congress
National Forest Service
Agriculture
Interior Department
Idaho Democrat
L. F. Parsons
State Chamber of Commerce
Judge Opens Court Calendar Under District Judge Downing
District Judge Jay L Downing began calling his court calendar at 10 a m and had not finished by late afternoon. Several persons were expected to be arraigned on criminal charges after the calendar was called.
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Jay L. Downing
Grangers Offer Trade on Idaho Sales Tax Plan
Valley View grange proposes a swap with the Idaho Education association over a 2 percent sales tax. In a resolution the grange says it will back the SE.A. measure in exchange for a levy on teachers salaries to fund pensions for incapacitated aged indigent grangers.
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Boise
Valley View Grange
Idaho Education Association
Grange
Se.a
Floods Claim Ten Lives and Widespread Damage Across Regions
Floods across Pennsylvania New York and California caused ten fatalities and extensive property damage. Susquehanna and Monongahela rivers surged while California levees broke inundating 22 000 acres and forcing hundreds to flee. The storms followed heavy rains and snowmelt with cooler weather forecast to curb river rises.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna
Allegheney
Monongahela
New York State
Chenango
California
Sacramento River
New York
Wilkes-Barre
Binghampton
N. Y
Johnson City
San Francisco
Glenn
Colusa
Afton
Butte City
Churchman Dr. Charles A. Cook Dies at 83
Funeral services will be held in Seattle for the Rev. Dr. Charles A. Cook 83 retired Baptist minister who served Kingston Ontario Butte Montana and Seattle over 61 years. He died Saturday and was Christian stewardship superintendent for the Northern Baptist convention 1903 to 1909 and district secretary 1908 to 1915. Survivors include brother Judson W. Cook of Coeur d'Alene Idaho.
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Seattle
Charles A. Cook
Kingston
Ont
Butte
Mont
Cook
Northern Baptist Convention
Judson W. Cook
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Library board questions $1200 spending
The library board is puzzled over spending 1200 by May 1 or the funds revert to the city general fund. The city council approved the money last year to pay architect fees for enlarging the overcrowded library, but the architect has not earned the money in the past 11 months. Mayor Terrell favors including a similar sum in the 1940 library budget.
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Finance
A. G. Zvereff
Finland
Soviet Union
Karelo- Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
Andre Zhdanoff
Politbureau
Foreign Affairs Commission
Leningrad
Artic
Murmansk
Robert M. Terrell
Testimony Read In Johnston Olson Murder Trial
Defense objected to reading the late Art C Parker testimony as best evidence. Judge Porter overruled. Craig T Bracken also testified. both men are deceased. Olson’s body found May 24, 1938 with a bullet wound. Defense sought alibi while Kenneth Barclay identified cash books and tape from Johnston store.
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Art C. Parker
Twin Falls County
Johnston
George L. Olson
Salt Lake City
James Porter
Twin Falls
Craig T. Bracken
Bracken
Parker
E. L. Rayborn
Rayborn
Kenneth Barclay
Barclay
Wayne Decker
Olson
Max Williams
W. L. Dunn
County transfers burglary case to district court
Carl Ernst charged with burglary of the Frazier Grocery on 100 McKinley Avenue on February 18 is moved from justice to district court by County Attorney C. M. Jeffery. The case notes a possible habitual criminal upgrade if conviction occurs. Ernst allegedly entered the store at night, owner fired a shotgun as he fled, and Ernst was later arrested near the Fifth and Gould gas station with buckshot wounds claimed to be from an Indian.
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Carl Ernst
Frazier
McKinley Avenue
C. M. Jeffery
Ernst
Jeffery
Fifth and
Gould
Sheriff's
Wheat field sows hope as 1940 harvest looms over Fults
Farmer Lindsay O. Fults sowed a 1937 wheat field after a hail storm and saw it ruined before the 1938 harvest. Volunteer seed did come up and hinted at a fair crop last year but a creek overflow delayed it again. Now the field greens and Fults eyes 1940 with caution.
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Beaver City
Nabr
Lindsay O. Fults
Fults
Flames Kill 3 In Northwest Washington Fire
Flames swept an old three story apartment building in northwest Washington early today killing three people and injuring at least five. Spectators said the fire spread within 10 minutes forcing residents to jump from 41 apartments. Some escaped by improvised rope rescues and bedsheets. Police estimate loss about 100000 dollars.
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Washington
Whit tler Jefferson PTA final meeting rescheduled
The study groups of the Whit tler and Jefferson PTA will meet at the public library tonight at 8 o'clock instead of 7 30 as announced.
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Whittler and Jefferson Parent-Teacher Association
PTA Central Council Meeting Tonight at High School
The central council of the Parent Teacher Association will meet tonight at 7 30 in the high school to discuss upcoming events and activities.
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Central Council of the P.-T.a
Bottolfsen Plans Week of Speaking Engagements
Governor Bottolfsen is set for a busy week with events in Marsing Emmett Meridian and Boise. He will address the Marsing Parent Teachers Association the Emmett chamber of commerce a Meridian Republican meeting and a Boise Red Cross district conference.
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Boise
C. A. Bottolfsen
Marsing Parent-Teachers Association
Emmett Chamber of Commerce
Meridian
Red Cross
Plane crash kills Seattle five during family flight
A Sunday pleasure flight near Boeing Field ended in death for four Seattle children and a woman pilot. Cora Sterling, 25, an experienced flyer and Washington's first transport license woman, and children Janet 8 Charleen 4, James 10 and Allen 14, were all killed when the single engine cabin plane crashed at 180 miles an hour into a sawdust pile a half mile from the field.
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Seattle
Apri
Cora Sterling
Washington
Janet
Charleen
Jack Taylor
James
Allen
Charles Taylor
Boeing Field
Idaho Weather: Partly Cloudy Tonight and Tuesday
Partly cloudy skies prevail in Idaho as temperatures hold steady with little change tonight and into Tuesday. Forecasters expect light winds and modest cooling at night across central and northern regions.
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Idaho
Forces Clash On Front Ends After Heavy Artillery Duel
French forces on the western front said a heavy artillery duel lasting several days with nomad German batteries along a 30 mile front had subsided. A quiet night on the Siegfried and Maginot lines followed. Aerial activity was noted but no encounters between air forces occurred.
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Paris
High Command
G Man Takes Charge of Salt Lake Police Department
Salt Lake City galvanized as federal investigator Charle H. Olson is sworn in to direct Salt Lake City police, succeeding William C. Webb. Olson planned to become police chief by nightfall. other new officers include Dr. Louis R. Curtis as chief sanitarian and Max Banks as traffic safety supervisor.
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G-Man
Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Charle H. Olson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Olson
Frank A. Skigo
Ogden
William C. Webb
Louis R. Curtis
Max Banks
Auto Owners Jam License Office Busy Sale Day
A record 660 license plate sets were sold in one day at the Pocatello office as residents swarmed the courthouse to purchase 1939 plates. Revenue reached 4200 dollars, with 4827 plates sold in the county so far. Police warned that Tuesday arrests would ensue for 1939 plates.
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Pocatellans
Pocatello
Mark Manley
Detroit Auto Plants Fill First Quarter Output High
Ward's Automotive Reports shows 1,309,134 passenger cars and trucks produced in Q1 1940, up from 1,063,977 in the same period last year. The year’s total output reached 3,732,374 units.
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Detroit
Ward’s
Automotive Reports
ICC Approves Abandonment of Salmon City Railroad
The ICC authorized Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad to abandon its Armstead Montana to Salmon Idaho line and a Leadore to Gilmore Idaho branch. The 118 mile system serves 15 stations including Salmon population 3000. The order becomes effective in 40 days amid continued highway and bus service in the territory.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad Company
Armstead
Mont
Salmon
Idaho
Leadore
Gilmore
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Lewis
Vito Petrone
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Clark Scouts
Annie Beatrice Henry
Lake Charles
Joseph P. Calloway
Moscow
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U. S
Red Army
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P.-T.a. Council Meets
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Auto Owners Jam License Office
ICC
Salmon City Railroad
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