Truman Calls Congress to Special Summer Session
President Truman formally calls a special summer session set for July 26, urging lawmakers to act in the public interest. He lists civil rights price controls housing federal aid to schools social security and minimum wage as key agenda items, with a general proclamation and plans for detailed messages to follow.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Mr. Truman
Capitol
Philadelphia
Europe
Drownings at LDS Swim Party in Indian Springs
Nine year old David Jon Winters drowned at an LDS ward intermediate class swimming party held at Indian Springs natatorium near American Falls. He could not swim and was found at the bottom near seven feet deep by A S Russell. Fireman Roland Adams and Deputy Earl Cutler tried two hours to revive him. The incident occurred as group prepared to eat lunch. reports say he may have jumped from the diving board but were unconfirmed. The boy's parents attended the picnic.
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David Jon Winters
Indian Springs
American Falls
Harold Winters
Bannock County
Earl Cutler
David
A. S. Russell
Bannock
Pocatello
Roland Adams
Cutler
Farrell
Florence M. Winters
Bomber Crash Kills Nine in Salina Area
Nine airmen died when an army B 29 bomber of the 301st very heavy bombardment squadron crashed near Smolan Kansas during an approach after a simulated bombing mission over midwestern cities. One crew member injured there were three parachute escapes and a wider wreckage spread.
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Salina
Kas
Leslie G. Mulzer
Smoky Hill
Here
Smol
St. Louis
Kansas Citys
Omaha
Neb
Legion Names 8 Delegates for State Convention
The American Legion post No. 4 named eight delegates for the state convention in Coeur d'Alene on August 16 to 18. Barrage of names included Bill Jex Jack Allred F Coats John R Black Victor B Jones Robert Baum Forest Howard and James C Bangs. Officers election postponed to August 5.
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American Legion
Coeur d'Alene
Memorial Building
Mark Short- Jeff
Bill Jex
Jack Allred
F. Coats
John R. Black
Victor B Jones
Robert Baum
Forest Howard
James C. Bangs
Shurtleff
Hames
Mark Hansen
Veteran's Council
Tsi
Gost
Sixty Five Cowboys Enter Rodeo in Pocatello
Sixty five cowboys enter the three day rodeo at Bannock county fairgrounds with opening events at 8 30 tonight. A 1 30 pm parade begins the big show in Pocatello with more than 25 floats. Parade steps start Third and Center and proceed to Main Fremont Arthur Bonneville and back to Third and Center. Reserved seats sold fast and bleacher tickets go on sale at 6 30 pm at the fair grounds. Dan Kunz and the junior chamber oversee sales at the rodeo HQ Center and Arthur.
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Bannock County Fairgrounds
Pocatello
Ray Swanson
Main
Fremont
Arthur
Bonneville
Third
Center
V. L. Ruggles
Fairgrounds
Dan Kunz
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Israeli Plane Bombs Cairo During Palestine War
Cairo reports an Israeli air raid with bombs dropped on the city. The defense ministry gave a brief communique with no details on location or casualties. Cairo joins Damascus and Amman as Arab capitals hit in the conflict.
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Cairo
Egyptian Defense Ministry
Farouk
Tel Aviv
Damascus
Syria
Amman
Trans-Jordan
United Nations
Japs on Trial for Atrocity Against Allied Survivors
In Yokohama thirty six Japanese submariners faced trial on charges of beating robbing and killing eight hundred Allied survivors of an Indian Ocean torpedoing.
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Yokohama
Indian Ocean
Party Lineup Includes Two Idahoans
The new Democratic national committee announces western state members. Idaho seats include Dan J. Cavanagh of Twin Falls and Mrs Dean J. Seedall of Idaho Falls. Other listed members span Arizona California Colorado Montana Nevada Oregon Utah Washington and Wyoming.
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Philadelphia
New Democratic National Committee
Arizona
Sam A. Morris
Globe
W. P. Stewart
Phoenix
California
James Roosevelt
Los Angeles
Edward Heller
Menlo Park
Colorado
Barney Whatley
Denver
Marguerite Thompson
Salida
Idaho
Dan J. Cavanagh
Twin Falls
Dean J. Seedall
Idaho Falls
Montana
O. S. Warden
Great Falls
W. W. Hamilton
Dodson
Nevada
Albert E. Cahlan
Las Vegas
J. F. McElroy
Elko
Oregon
Monroe Sweetland
Melalia
Nancy Honey
Utah
Calvin Rawlings
Salt Lake City
Roxey S. Romney
St. George
Washington
J. H. Binyon
Seattle
Alice Hogan West
Pasco
Wyoming
Tracy McGrahen
Cheyenne
P. M. Quealy
Kemmerer
Employee of PFE Dies at 46 in Idaho
Leroy J. Sherwood aged 46 a shift engineer at PFE died from a heart ailment shortly after hospital admission. Born in Levan Utah he moved to Idaho as a youth and worked for Union Pacific then PFE about six years. He lived in Pocatello 30 years and belonged to the B of RC No. 900. Survived by son Carl Sherwood of Los Angeles parents and siblings in Lava Hot Springs and an uncle in Pocatello. Funeral arrangements were to be announced.
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Leroy J. Sherwood
PFE
Levan
Utah
James T
Mary Jensen Sherwood
Idaho
Union Pacific Railroad
Pocatello
Carl Sherwood
Los Angeles
Calif
James T. Sherwood
Ruby
Effie
Mary
Reuben
Roulon
Reed
Reece
Eldon
Lava Hot Springs
George Sherwood
Downard Mortuary
Funeral Service Set for Carl J. Ranstrom 64
Funeral services for Carl John Ranstrom aged 64 who died Wednesday will be at 2 p m Saturday in Hall Mortuary chapel. Bishop Henry G West of the Eleventh ward LDS church will officiate. Interment will follow at Mountain View cemetery.
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Carl John Ranstrom
Hall
Henry G. West
Eleventh Ward
LDS Church
Mountain View Cemetery
Arsenic killer arrested in Hamburg ruse
German police report the arrest of 36 year old Irmgard Kuschinsky in Hamm who allegedly poisoned six housewives with cigarettes or tea and robbed the homes. Police say she entered 20 houses using various pretexts and targeted victims with packaged gifts before the women collapsed. Sata ete een.
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Hamburg
Germany
Irmgard Kuschinsky
Hamm
Kuschinsky
McGrath Re elected National Democratic Committee Chair
Sen. J. Howard McGrath was unanimously reelected to a four year term as national party chairman. He pledged a fighting campaign to elect Truman and Barkley, praised the president's courage, and said the party can win this fall despite southern dissent over civil rights.
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Philadelphia
J. Howard McGrath
Truman
Democratic Conveninot
McGrath
National Committee
National Party
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Joe L. Blythe
North Carolina
Blythe
Governor orders flag at half staff for Pershing
Boise Governor C A Robins ordered the state capitol flag flown at half staff on Thursday following the death of World War I commander General John J. Pershing. The announcement attributed the honor to the army leader who served as head of the American Expeditionary Forces.
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Boise
C. A. Robins
State Capitol
John J. Pershing
39 Persons Perish In Kyushu Landslides
Kyodo news reports 39 people killed by heavy rains causing landslides on southern Kyushu island. Hundreds of houses flooded and more than 10 000 acres of farmland inundated across the region.
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Tokyo
Kyodo
Kyushu
Yellowstone Bear Ram Page Threatens Meridian Boy
Ten year old Lyle Petty camping in Yellowstone Park narrowly escaped a grizzly that grabbed his sleeping bag in the Old Faithful campground. Byron L. Smith of Boise scared the bear away and Lyle received stitches for a hand wound. The bear reportedly attacked other people before rangers shot it hours later.
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Meridian
Yellowstone Park
Lyle Petty
Old Faithful
Byron L. Smith
Boise
Lyle
Smith
Third Party Moves to Philadelphia
Wallaceites outline plan for a Philadelphia convention July 23 to 25 to found a new party at the Bellevue Stratford. They aim to nominate Henry A. Wallace for president and Glen H. Taylor for vice president with a 4 243 delegates 531 alternates call.
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Philadelphia
Progressive
New
Third
Bellevue
Stratford
Henry A. Wallace
Idaho
Glen H. Taylor
Wallace
GOP cries cheap politics at Truman special call
Republican leaders denounce President Truman's proposal for a special session as a political ploy. Voices in Congress blame motives, with Sen. Vandenberg calling it a last hysterical gasp of an expiring administration and doubting any real benefit. (Continued on Page Six)
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Gop
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Philadelphia
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
John ¢. Sanborn
Luce Sees Spectre of Late FDR Over Convention
Philadelphia July 14 Clare Boothe Luce reports that Harry Truman will deliver a carefully prepared acceptance for Franklin Delano Roosevelt the unanamously chosen nominee who cannot attend to accept the party draft for a fifth term. The column notes the convention's form resembles a funeral with Roosevelt still dominating American politics despite questions about the party's future.
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Clare Boothe Luce
Philadelphia
Harry Truman
Beaulf
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Plato
Eisenhower
Franklin Roosevelt
UN May Use Force To End Palestine War
The security council ordered Jews and Arabs to halt fighting in Palestine with a three day ceasefire and potential UN force. The 7 to 1 vote, with Syria in opposition and Argentina abstaining, backed an American resolution seeking further mediation and an unconditional cease-fire in Jerusalem within 24 hours amid ongoing bombing in Cairo and Tel Aviv.
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Larry Hauck Lake
Security Council
Palestine
United Nations
Syria
Russia
Ukraine
Argentina
U.N
Soviet Union
Folke Bermadotte
Israel
Jerusalem
Cairo
Tel Aviv
Second Plane Victim Dies in Soda Springs Crash
In Soda Springs Idaho two WWII veterans died from injuries after a three miles northeast crash. Pilot Marion Clark 23 died at the scene. passenger Leon Riggs 23 died next day in Caribou county hospital. Both were Conda residents employed by Anaconda Mining Company.
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Soda Springs
Leon Riggs
Conda
Caribou County
Riggs
John B. Riggs
Marion Clark
Margaret
Valentine Clark
CAA
Clark
Veteras
Anaconda Mining Company
Marilyn
Richard
Idaho Falls
William Clark
Rigby
Irene Barber
Salt Lake City
Oral Clark
Chicago
DeMont Clark
Vinebury
Calif
Ardith Morrison
Dorothy Anderson
Marlene Clark
Lamont Bunn
Frontier Rodeo Queen for a Day Recognized on KEYY
National recognition came Thursday for the Pocatello Frontier rodeo on the Queen for a Day program heard noon on KEYY. A Texas queen was selected to visit Gate City with local queens, but later could not make the trip. The broadcast listed prominent locals including William Shields Roy Lindley Ed Filandro the county commissioners Calvin Hale Harry Morgan and others.
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Pocatello Frontier
William Shields
Bannock
Roy Lindley
Ed Filandro
Chamber of Commerce
The
County Commissioners
Calvin Hale
KEYY
Harry Morgan
Rodeo Committee
Whitman
Western Airlines
Pocatello Tribune
Lion's Club
Gov. C. A. Robins
Red Blockade Intolerable, Officials Say
Berlin officials and Allied authorities condemned the Soviet blockade of Berlin as intolerable. The US military government urged Berliners to demand the blockade's lifting and promised further aid via the British American air fleet with expanded landing fields for B 29s. Group Captain Wright said Britain would maintain three corridor air routes and that no Soviet action would alter that. No immediate US reaction followed the briefing.
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Bradscast
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Britain
H. M. Wright
RAF
Wright
Iif
Auto Workers Authorize Strike Against Ford
Representatives of about 116000 Ford Motor Co. workers voted to authorize a strike after rejecting Ford's 13 cent hourly raise offer. Ken Bannon, Ford director, is to set a walkout date, pending union approval and board meeting. Ford called its offer final with a 13 cent raise and other benefits.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Cio-United Auto Workers
Ford
National Ford Council
Ken Bannon
Bannon
International Union
Tax Unit to Meet as State Board in August
The state tax commission will sit as the state board of equalization during the first week in August. Government officials expect hearings on assessments and property valuations across Boise and surrounding areas with potential changes announced after sessions.
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Boise
State Tax Commission
State Board of Equalization
Council Hears Protests On Sewer Interceptor Bids and District
Pocatello city council opened bids for the interceptor sewer project items one and five through ten and heard protests over a wide district plan for curbs gutters and sidewalks. The district was approved after excluding protests and two North Eleventh parcels owned by Henry McQuade and Cecil Pugmire.
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Povatello
Brennan and Cahoon
Fereday Plumbing and Heating
Mountain States Construction Company
Pocatello
North Eleventh
Henry McQuade
Cecil Pugmire
Broken Glass Fatal to Idaho Falls Child
A two year old, Danny Gene Hag gard, died in Idaho Falls hospital after a broken bottle cut a jugular vein. He reportedly picked up a quart fruit jar to join other children at play and stumbled. His mother is Mrs. Timothy Donley of nearby Iowa. The incident occurred Thursday.
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Idaho Falls
Danny Gene Haggard
Timothy Donley
Iowa
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