Idahoan Attacks Basin Authorities as Step Toward Socialism
Washington reports Representative Sanborn of Idaho denounces basin authorities as socialism, citing Tennessee Valley Authority as example and urging Idaho to keep control of its water and power developments. He cites bills for Missouri and Columbia valleys and warns of Northwest domination.
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Tennessee Valley
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Columbia Valley
Taylor
America
Norman Thomas
Tennessee Valley Authority
Northwest
Bricker Backs Taft as 1948 Nomination Push Gathers Steam
Ohio Republicans unite behind Senator Taft on a favorite son path as Bricker withdraws as a candidate and signals support. A Taft rally is planned in Columbus with Taft to speak while Stassen and Dewey campaign westward toward the fall cross country tour.
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Ohio Republican Committee
Columbus
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Taft
Bricker
Senate
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Stassen
Pacific
Dewey
Michigan
The
West
Pepper
Children in Smelterville receive Idaho Blue Cross aid
The Idaho Blue Cross plan provides one year of hospitalization for six Smelterville children orphaned when their parents died in a highway crash June 20. Irene Gabe1 resolves to keep her family together, contributing 31 days of service per child. Fundraising support came from Kellogg Evening News publisher W.R. Brainard and a Kellogg lodge.
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Boise
Blue Cross
W.R. Brainard
Kellogg Evening News
Kellogg Lodge
Henry Gabel
Idaho
Greece charges three Balkan states with aggression
Greece formally charged Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Albania with aggression at the United Nations. Ambassador Vassili Dendramis delivered the complaint to UN Assistant Secretary General Ivan Kerno as the Security Council met on Indonesian and Balkan cases. The move cites Chapter Seven and seeks action against the three nations.
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Greece
Russia
Balkan
United Nations Border Commission
Vassili Dendramis
Ivan Kerno
United Nations Security Council
Dendramis
U.N
Security Council
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Albania
Local Boards To Direct Rent Control
Washington reports the federal rent office will leave 614 areas under control while local advisory boards under the new rent law gain a strong voice. Officials say Creeden may lift ceilings if needed and that fringe sections may be studied for possible decontrol when boards begin their work.
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Federal Rent Office
Frank R. Creedon
Congress
Aged Illinois Man Shoots Daughter on Train Near Carthage
Mrs Elizabeth Grady 46 of Harvey was shot to death last night on a Burlington line train near Carthage. Her 82 year old father James J Stuffelbean of Brookfield Missouri was jailed without charge awaiting coroner's inquest. The shooting occurred about 1135 PM in a dim coach as they traveled after visiting Harvey.
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Elizabeth Grady
Harvey
Burlington Railroad
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Charce
Willard Steinbarger
Grady
James J. Stuffelbean
Brookfield
Kathryn Stuffelbean
Steinbarger
Stuffelbean
River Mayor Drives Clean Up Effort In Porter
River mayor George R. Phillips announces a drive to clean the Porter river after city crews cut brush from Halliday street to the Memorial building. Signs posted warn citizens not to dump ashes and garbage. an ordinance against dumping exists and will be used to prosecute violators if needed.
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Porter River
Halliday Street
Memorial Building
Hughes Plans To Testify In Plane Deal
Howard Hughes and publicity man John Meyer will testify together in the Senate War Investigating Committee probe of wartime plane contracts. Senator Ferguson announced the joint appearance after testimony that top military leaders rejected a massing boat program in July 1942 but contracts for three boats followed with Hughes and Henry J. Kaiser.
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Washington
Howard Hughes
John Meyer
Hughes
Ferguson
RR. Mich
Academy of Idaho Reunion Opens Friday on Campus
Norman B. Adkison former acting president will attend the Academy of Idaho reunion at Idaho State College. Alumni invited include Mark Anderson mayor of Prove Chris Christensen Shelley Wallace Woodall Arco Guy Clendennin
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State College
Norman B. Adkison
Idaho State College
Institution of Learning
The
Idaho Tech
Nical Institute
Mark Anderson
Prove
Chris Christensen
Shelley
Wallace Woodall
Soda Springs
Guy Clendennin
Arco
Walker Rich
Blackfoot
Homer Fackeler
Idaho Falls
Eugene M. Miller
Elsie Hohenstein Kramer
Helena
Mont
Walter H. Cleare
Byron E
Truman Signs Flood Bill Appropriations Record
President Truman signed a 502.1239 million appropriation for flood control navigation and related non military War Department activities. The measure funds flood control construction and maintenance 298.3448 million and navigation improvements 116.7187 million for the year ending June 30. It supports water projects across major river basins including hydroelectric development and reclamation funds for western states.
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Washington
Truman
War Department
Interior Department
Columbia Basin
Anderson Ranch
Idaho
Ponymeter Fails in New York Office
A dial device billed as a Canadian economics professor invention to pick horse winners failed to work for the New York attorney general's staff. After 20 minutes no one could decipher it, despite a booklet claiming it would predict a horse's running time to 1/20 second.
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New York
Attorney Generals Staff
Fatal Car Crash Blamed on Defective Wheel
Deputy Sheriff Paul Haecker cites a defective steering wheel in yesterday’s crash on U S highway 10 that fatally injured 77 year old John Albert Johnson of Austin Minnesota. An investigation continues.
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Sandpoint
Paul Haecker
John Albert Johnson
Austin
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Dutch Capture Malang as Indonesian forces blamed
Dutch forces announced the capture of Malang in central Java after battles that left the once resort city scorched. The town, now a wilderness, saw factories, a convent, and cinemas blown up and burned, with widespread looting and large civilian exodus.
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Billiton
Riouw Archipel
United States of Indonesia
Fire at Paris women’s prison kills 22 inmates
French officials tentatively blamed a lightning flash for a blaze that swept a third story room in a Paris prison last night. The lightning struck a chimney in a former army barracks, igniting celluloid and acetone used in making cheap jewelry. The trapped women were reportedly asphyxiated with only slight burns on their bodies.
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British Serjeants Blown Up by Palestine PLO Gunmen
In Jerusalem the bodies of two British sergeants were found hanged from eucalyptus trees and blasted by a booby trap as troops began to remove them. Irgun Zvai Leumi claimed the executions in reprisal for earlier arrests, while London prepared a tough crackdown plan and France eyed a humane resolution pressure.
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Irgun Zvai Leumi
Palestine Underground Organization
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Arthur Creech Jones
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Germany
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Port de Bouc
Poland
Palestine
Clifford Martin
Coventry
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National Assembly
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Irgun
Zvai Leumi
Attlee
Dull July Ends With Only Small Rain Total
The month closes with no heat records and only 0.09 inches of rain by 1 p.m. lowest since 1935. 24 hour high 93 low 68. tonight near 65 and tomorrow 93 to 98 as thundershowers threaten and skies partly cloudy.
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Mercury
Summer Heat Wave Eases Across Nation With Southern Warmth
The nation's first real heat wave began to break today with expected relief within 24 hours for most areas. Temperatures stayed high near the Ohio River while the Weather Bureau forecast cooler air moving in later today. A warming trend was also reported in the western plains.
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Ohio River
U.S Weather Bureau
Plains States
Governor Commutes Seattle Slayer to Life Prison
Governor Walgren spared Olympia by commuting the death sentence of Garland Wilson, convicted slayer of a Seattle meat market operator, to life in prison. The action follows letters from Judge William Wilkins and Prosecutor Lloyd Shorett citing circumstances justifying commutation. Wilson had failed in a state supreme court appeal.
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Walgren
Garland Wilson
Seattle
Wallgren
William Wilkins
Lloyd Shorett
Wilson
State Supreme Court
Gunfight Tale Ends With Suicide and Nude Discovery
A Nevada coroner planned an inquiry after a four month saga of a wild west style gunfight and a death by own action. The nude woman’s body was found in a house basement identified as Rose Schwartz Harvey, former wife of Tony Harvey, a Nevada nightlife figure. Harvey hanged himself in the same period.
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Virginia City
Matilda Pollard
Otto Tannehill
Rose Schwartz Harvey
Salinas
Calif
Tony Harvey
Harvey
Nevada
FiveYearOld Boy Electrocuted by Electric Fence
A five year old boy, Gary Douglas Reeves, died near Buhl when he became entangled in an electric fence while in mud. He was with his father Edgar Reeves and was found near a gate after leaving the farm house to join his father.
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Gary Douglas Reeves
Edgar Reeves
Duck Bag Limits Set for 1947 Migratory Season
Washington and six other states adopt a four duck and two goose bag limit for the 1947 migratory wildfowl season. The proclamation covers California Hawaii Idaho Montana Nevada Oregon and Washington with specific limits for ducks geese brant and mergansers and sets August 31 1947 as the effective date.
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Hawaii
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
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Beaverhead
Gallatin
Madison
Colorado
Atlantic Ocean
Utah
Shot Injures Utahn in Accidental Gun Incident
Daniel Fu gene Templeman, 37, was accidentally wounded when a companion fired a 410 gauge shotgun at a magpie. He was taken to a Salt Lake City hospital with thigh puncture wounds and is reported in good condition. William Bond, also of Sandy, helped Templeman irrigate a gram when the gun fired.
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Utah
Daniel Fugene Templeman
Elmer Savate
Templeman
Salt Lake City
Savage
William Bond
Detroit at New York Postponed Amid Weather Disruption
Baseball scores show Cleveland 5 4 over Boton 5 4 with late runs. St. Louis and Washington play midweek, Neate and others noted. Philadelphia edges Chicago 3 0 with Lopaz Tresh Dietrich Sav age Guerra delivering decisive plays. Boston at Pittsburgh postponed due to rain and wet grounds.
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Bismarck
Boise
Weehéésages
Chicago
Wee
Denver
New Orleans
New York
Ore
Omaha
Phoenix
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Pocatello
Rock Springs
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Expert Testimony Links Gollum to Dynamite Receipts
In Santa Ana California handwriting expert J Clark Sellers testified in the Overell yacht deaths case that signatures on two dynamite purchase receipts match the person who wrote samples identified as George Gollum. The state argues the explosives were used to blow up the yacht killing financier Walter Overell and his wife, with Louise Overell and Gollum charged with murder.
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Santa Ana
Calif
George Gollum
J. Clark Sellers
R. L. Standish
Robert Comstock
Walter E. Overell
Overells
Gollum
Louise Overell
Tral
Fire Strikes Elevators At Two Idaho Locations
American Falls saw a fire at the Power County Grain Growers elevator causing about 10 000 dollars in damage and 12 to 15 tons of oats burned. The blaze started in the barley steam rolling room likely from an overheated motor. Sheriff's officials warned the fire endangered a nearby gasoline bulk plant and five other elevators. At Fairfield three miles east, a Henry Bauscher ranch grain elevator burned with grain valued at about 23 000 dollars. nearby buildings were saved with efforts.
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Army Air Base
Pocatello
Barley
Bill Hoehnin
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Power County Grain Growers Association
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Henry Bauscher
Fairfield
Sunday Beers Now Legal
Idaho rulings open Sunday beer sales and allow women to work in liquor stores without serving drinks. Assistant Attorney General Robert Holden states mixed drinks remain banned Sundays holidays and election days. local ordinances may further restrict sale.
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Boise
Idaho
Robert Holden
Holden
D. A. Kramer
Weiser
Princess Elizabeth to wed Lt Philip Mountbatten in 1947
Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten will marry at Westminister Abbey at 11 30 a m on Thursday 20th November 1947. The betrothal had prior formal approval by the Privy Council.
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Elizabeth
Philip Mountbatten
Westminister Abbey
Buckingham Palace
Privy Council
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