Court Rules Sugar Ration Formula Invalid
Federal Judge F Dickinson Letts ruled the OPA historical use base for sugar rationing to industrial users invalid under the war mobilization act. The decision opens questions about future rationing and may lead to appeals by OPA officials who warn it could affect the entire program. The ruling concerns Moberly Milk Products of Missouri, challenging favoritism to prewar firms and urging a shift to new allocation standards.
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Washington
F. Dickinson Letts
OPA
Charles W. Quick
Quick
Letts
Moberly Milk Products Company
Moberly
Congress
Lux Rise in Price Targets GM Luxury Models
GM announces price increases on luxury convertibles and station wagons across Cadillac Buick Oldsmobile and Pontiac to align selling prices with higher costs. No hikes on Chevrolet or other volume models. Pontiac streamliner wagons see the largest jump about 193 dollars. smaller rise of 17 dollars on Pontiac sedan coupe.
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Detroit
General Motors
Cadillac
Buick
Oldsmobile
Pontiac
Chevrolet
Henry Ford
M. E. Coyle
Moscow May Hire Cow Psychologist
Idaho cattlemen and the University of Idaho College of Agriculture seek a cow psychologist to study why cattle flee heel flies that lay eggs in spring and early summer. The pest terrorizes stock, driving them into brush and mudholes, causing heavy annual losses.
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Moscow
Idaho
College of Agriculture
University of Idaho
PTA Takes Hand In Idaho Teacher Pay Rise
The Par ent Teacher association of Twin Falls junior and senior high schools approves a petition to raise Idaho teacher wages to match neighboring states and seeks retroactive pay increases for teachers.
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Twin Falls
Parent
Idaho
Railway Men Back Demand For 4-year State College And Higher Teacher Salaries
Idaho railway unions backing the 29th legislature demand higher teachers salaries to meet obligations to children, pari mutuel betting on racing, and higher state income tax exemptions. Resolutions from the Idaho railway labor association urge: boost teacher pay, fund governor housing, merit system for highway patrol personnel, activate the labor commissioner, and privatize liquor sales.
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Boise
Idaho
Sugar rationing and price control urged to continue
August H. Andresen predicts the house food shortage investigating committee will back extending sugar rationing and price ceilings. Agriculture officials and industry seek to keep controls for about a year as supplies improve, with potential 10 pound per person increase and higher industry allotments.
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Washington
August H. Andresen
R-Minn
House
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Agriculture Department
Sugar Industry
Malcomb Baldridge
Cane Sugar Association
James H. Marshall
Thief Takes $28,000 From Los Angeles Bank Vault
Police hunted a gunman today who terrorized a girl bank vault attendant with a note claiming heroes die young. He took her keys and $28,000 from a drawer and left without incident.
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Los Angeles
Plow and Trucks Bring Food to Snowbound Babb Mont
A rotary snowplow rolled into Babb and seven trucks from Browning carried food fuel oil coal mail and hay for 300 residents snowbound since December 30. A Glacier National Park crew led by Gene Sullivan opened the 40 mile Browning Babb road and other equipment plowed toward the Canadian border amid drifting wind and a 6300 foot pass.
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Babb
Mont
Browning
Montana
Glacier National Park Service
Gene Sullivan
Browning-Babb
Glacier Park
Canadian
United States
Viet Nam Offensive Thwarted by French Forces
French authorities announced that Viet Namese forces failed to block Saigon port by cutting roads and railways and blowing bridges across southern Indochina. The Viet Namese offensive covered about 350 miles north and west of Saigon and 150 miles south but was stopped by French, who fought in many small engagements.
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Saigon
Indochina
Book dealer finds $35 in wallet then sells another
Berne Indiana book dealer Fred von Gunten recalls a customer examining his stock of billfolds finding a wallet with 35 dollars. The same customer then selects a different wallet, making the day notably profitable.
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Berne
Ind
Fred von Gunten
von Gunten
Portal Suits May Cost US Billions
Congress members probing back portal pay suits found government would bear most costs if unions win the more than 4 billion dollars. Senate heard Navy witness John Kenney cite 720 million dollars liability for the Navy. Army estimate ranged from 500 million to possibly 1.0009 billion. Treasury Secretary Snyder noted employers must reimburse back wages.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Navy
John Kenney
Army
Snyder
The
Treasury
Durocher and Actress Wed Amid Border Divorce Saga
Leo Durocher and Laraine Day, after Day’s Mexican divorce, wed in a brief Juarez ceremony then returned toward California. A California judge warned against living together until Day’s divorce from Ray Hendricks is finalized.
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Hollywood
Durochers
Lippy
Leo
Laraine
Border Points
Texas
California
Municipal Airport
Brooklyn
Laraine Day
Roosevelt
Utah
Durocher
George A. Dockweiler
Miss Day
Ray Hendricks
Hendricks
el Paso
Juarez
Mex
Justice of the Peace
Charles Windberg, Jr
Bernard M. Silbert
Leo Durocher
Tex
Mexico
J. Ray Hendricks
Santa Monica
Idaho Southern bill on liberal arts college in doubt
Students at Idaho Southern university heard on radio that a four year liberal arts college bill had been tabbed and a fight over provisions was underway. The Tribune reports tabling is unlikely as the bill remains in committee where differences are being argued. indications point to committee ironing out differences and approving the measure.
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Idaho Southern University
The
Tribune
the Tribune
Portland man charged after alleged bite during robbery attempt
Police kept 21 year old David A Crawford on an assault and robbery charge after a man he tried to hold up reported being bitten on the leg and authorities noted teeth marks. Joseph H Mc Cusker was involved in the incident.
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Portland
Joseph H. McCusker
David A. Crawford
Crawford
Idaho Senate Passes Portal Bill Limiting Back Pay
The Idaho Senate approved a portal-to-portal pay restriction by a 35 to 6 vote and sent it to the House. The measure creates a six month limit on back overtime or extra pay and a two year cap on back wages, with existing federal suits by metal miners unaffected. Critics argued it would harm labor rights.
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Boise
Idaho Senate Today
House
Idaho
Fred M. Taylor
R-Ada
Frank W. Harris
Caribou
Republican Controlled
Labor Committee
Hoover Accepts Truman Assignment to Survey Food in Occupied Europe
Former President Herbert Hoover agreed to lead a survey of food problems in the joint U S British zones of occupied Germany and Austria. He plans to travel to Europe late next week to begin inspection tours and aims to develop a two to three year program to ease burdens on American taxpayers. He stressed no political implications in the mission.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Truman
Germany
Austria
Hoover
Europe
Julius Klein
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
White House
Convention System May Replace Idaho's Primaries
Boise Idaho Rep. W D Vincent describes a bill to replace the primary with a convention system to choose two candidatos per party for the ballot. The plan includes simultaneous precinct caucuses followed by county caucuses and a state convention meeting on the same day. Vincent cites business reaction against minority candidates reaching the general election ballot.
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Boise
Idaho
W. D. Vincent
R.ada
Boise Kiwanis Club
Vincent
Girl Escapes From Kidnapper Sought $10000 Ransom
Lodi California 17 year old Alice Dean Devine a popular high school athlete escaped a kidnapper after 26 hours of terror Police traced a ransom demand for 10000 and the kidnapper fled The youth telephoned relatives from a highway motel near Sacramento and authorities issued all points alerts naming Everett Wescott Stiles of Portland Oregon and William Giles as possible aliases.
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Alice Deah Devine
John Edward Devine
Lodi
Calif
Alice Dean Devine
West Coast
Sacramento
Everett Wescott Stiles
Portland
Ore
William
Bill) Giles
Eastern
Alice Dean
German general recounts 40000 losses at Anzio campaign
MARBURG Germany Field Marshal Albert Kesselring in a prison camp interview said he lost about 40000 German troops in the Anzio drive to expel Allied forces. He noted 5000 killed and described Allied casualties as over 50000, with over 6000 buried in U S military cemeteries from 44 states. He defended Italian campaigns and credited Allied sacrifices to Western victory development.
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Marburg
Germany
Albert Kesselring
Anzio
Cassino
Italy
Hertic
Kesselring
Associated Press
Venice
California
New York
Arizona
Iowa
U. S
Nettuno
Mediterranean
Anzio-Nettuno
West
Idaho Eyesight Test Proposal for Drivers Licenses
Rep Russell Everett announces a bill in the 29th legislature to require a physical examination for drivers licenses focused on eyesight. The plan also links license issuance with automobile plate registration to save postage and would require a new exam every two years while keeping the 50 cent operator license fee.
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Boise
Idaho
Russell Everett
R. Bonneville
Everett
Senate Votes to Extend War Investigation Committee
The Senate overridden Democratic objections and voted 49 to 43 to continue its special war investigating committee until January 31, 1948. The United States Conference of Mayors urged Congress to extend rent control and start a new public housing program before the current law expires July 1. Pauli Ramadier formed a broad cabinet with Georges Bidault as foreign minister. Laraine Day and Leo Durocher plan to live apart in California for a year, with intentions to move to New York later if legal there. Day begins a new film tomorrow. Durocher plans to join the Dodgers in Havana. Secretary Anderson asked for immediate legislation to sell government wool below parity to counter imported wool competition. Three Monroe City high school boys were killed in an explosion in the vocational agriculture building. six others and an instructor were injured. Brazil ordered its consuls to stop issuing visas to Americans and others seeking entry.
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Washington
Senate
United States Conference of Mayors
Congress
Los Angeles
Laraine Day
Leo Durocher
el Paso
California
New York
Durocher
Dodgers
Miss Day
Havana
Cuba
Monroe City
Vocational Agriculture
Brisk Winter Weather Across Pocatello Area
Morning described as brisk with clear skies as the mercury rose to 35 by noon and a mean of 22. The weatherman forecasts partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with little temperature change, a high of 35 to 40 today, and lows around 15 to 20. Nearby reports show Boise 36 14, Burley 47 12, Butte 43 26, Dubois 25 5, Idaho Falls 37 9, Salt Lake 44 15.
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Sero Pocatellans
Boise
Burley
Butte
Dubois
Idaho Falls
Salt Lake
Robins Plans Budget Message For Idaho Legislature
Boise reports Governor C A Robins will release his budget and school recommendations. The governor’s second message to the legislature should be ready Thursday. Rep Richard A Ebert announces a new bill to change automobile license fees, superseding his prior graduated-rate proposal.
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Boise
Richard A. Egebert
D.teton
House Revenue and Taxation Committee
Ebert
Capone Slips Toward Death After Stroke At Florida Estate
Miami Beach Florida gang leader Al Capone suffered a stroke at his palm fringed estate around 4 am yesterday and was unconscious. Dr Kenneth Phillips said Capone slept well and was improving though not out of danger. Capone’s wife and son Albert were at his bedside as police and attendants kept watch through the night.
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Miami Beach
Fla
al Capone
Kenneth Phillips
Capone
Hope
Phillips
Forever Gang
Teacher of Crime School Gets Term
Fred Shep, 76, father of 25, labeled by Judge Moylan as operator of a "school of crime," began a two year sentence in Maryland correctional facilities after convicted of contributing to the delinquency of five boys. The youths, all 11 and 12, were found delinquent as his pupils in thefts at Lexington market.
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Baltimore
Fred Sheppard
Charles E. Moylan
Maryland House of Correction
Lexington
Eight Utah traffic deaths tied to Anchorage man's death
Dick E. Wilson of Anchorage was killed near the naval supply depot when struck by a truck driven by Robert Delmar Reed of Clearfield. The accident raised Utah's year total to eight traffic fatalities as officers described Wilson alighting from a bar across the highway before the collision.
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Clearfield
Utah
Dick E. Wilson
Anchorage
Naval Supply Depot
Wilson
Robert Delmar Reed
George Reed
Naval i
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Sen
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D-Banner
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Georges Bidault
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Brazil
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