Clemency Plea Sought for Idaho Death Row Inmate
Governor Bottolfsen weighed a clemency request from Adjt. Ross Hickman of the Boise Salvation Army for William Behler who faces a July 2 hanging for first degree murder. An appeal was to be pursued with an attorney. Behler claimed insanity but was found sane at trial.
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Boise
William Behler
Idaho Penitentiary
Bottolfsen
Adjt
Ross Hickman
Boise Salvation Army
Adit. Hickman
Behler
Hickman
Gilzertz
Joe
My Friend Flicka at Chief Theatre in Technicolor Debut
The Mary O Hara story My Friend Flicka is set to open at the Chief Theatre next Saturday in Technicolor. Roddy McDougall Preston Foster and Rita Johnson star alongside Desert Victory, the wartime feature about the British Eighth Army’s rout of Rommel.
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Mary O’hara
Roddy McDougall
Preston Foster
Rita Johnson
Flicka
Rommel
Eighth Army
RAF
Moon and Sixpence at the Chief theater this week
The Chief presents The Moon and Sixpence starring George Sanders Herbert Marshall Doris Dudley Albert Basserman and Eric Blore tracing a banker turned artist from London to the South Seas where leprosy halts his romance with a Tahitian girl. Also showing Three Hearts for Julia with Ann Sothern Melvyn Douglas in a breezy comedy. Bear a hand signals hurry in Navy slang.
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George Sanders
Herbert Marshall
Doris Dudley
Albert Basserman
Eric Blore
London
Marseilles
South Seas
Paradise
Ann Sothern
Melvyn Douglas
Julia
Paper leads to identity of Pocatella
A photo published in a Butte newspaper helped identify Guy O Dallan court 44 of 835 North Eleventh Pocatello missing since May 26 from his mother Libby McGee in Mackay. The WWI veteran with amnesia held no papers. FBI involvement followed his failure to show a selective service card. Deputy Ammon Hatch and H Earl Lewis prepared to return him to Pocatello from Butte.
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Butte
Guy O. Dallancourt
North Eleventh
Pocatello
Libby McGee
Mackay
Dallancourt
Kraft Cheese Company
FBI
Garrett Truck Lines
Charles Lewis
Union Pacific
Theatres Schedule and Movietone News Lineup
Theatres present weeklong lineups featuring The Moon Is Down with Hardwicke Travers Cobb and Bowden on CHIEF. Dixie Dugan stars Andrews Ellison Gygenwood Ruggles. Moon and Sixpence with Sanders Marshall Dudley Basserman Blore. Three Hearts for Julia with An and Douglas. My Friend Flicka and Desert Victory head Saturday shows. ORPHEUM hosts Pittsburgh No Place for a Lady Forest Rangers Great American Broadcast. Queen of Broadway Lone Prairie American Empire Shanty Town. News briefings, Movietone updates and cash club events listed.
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John Steinbeck
Cedric Hardwicke
Henry Travers
Lee Cobb
Doris Bowden
Dixie Dugan
Lois Andrews
James Ellison
Charlotte Gygenwood
Charlie Ruggles
Movietone
George Sanders
Herbert Marshall
Doris Dudley
Albert Basserman
Eric Blore
Ann Sothern
Melvyn Douglas
Julia
Lee Bowman
March of Time
the New Canada
Cash Club
Flicka
Roddy McDowall
Preston Foster
Rita Johnson
Rommel
R.A.F
Movietone News
Orpheum
Marlene Dietrich
Randolph Scott
John Wayne
Pittsburgh
William Gargan
Margaret Lindsay
Fred MacMurray
Paulette Goddard
Susan Hayward
Forest Rangers
Alice Faye
John Payne
Jack Oakie
Rochelle Hudson
Buster Crabbe
Russell Hayden
Bob Wills
Boisean Gets Prison Term for Statutory Rape Case
William Bishop 49 of Boise was convicted of statutory rape involving a 12-year-old girl and sentenced to 74 to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Ada County Prosecuting Attorney James Blaine cited juvenile delinquency and warned parents of punitive action if they neglect supervision. District Judge Charles F. Koelsch called the case filthy and brazen and urged parental responsibility even amid war work.
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Boise
William Bishop
Ada County
James Blaine
Bishop
Blaine
State Penitentiary
Charles F. Koelsch
Koelsch
Ada County Juvenile Board
Moon Is Down opens at Chief theater with star cast
John Steinbeck's drama The Moon Is Down heads the Chief program starring Sir Cedrick Hardwicke Henry Travers Lee Cobb and Doris Bowden. The film portrays a freedom loving people resisting Nazi conquerors and refusing to be beaten. Dixie Dugan film adaptation features Lois Andrews James Ellison Charlotte Greenwood and Charlie Ruggles.
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Hollywood
John Steinbeck
Sir Cedrick Hardwicke
Henry Travers
Lee Cobb
Doris Bowden
Dixie Dugan
Lois Andrews
James Ellison
Charlotte Greenwood
Charlie Ruggles
The Moon and Sixpence Characters Dost Thou Quote
A line from Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence reflects a harsh view of women as unpredictable beings. The quoted passage presents a cynical philosophy attributed to the novel’s dominant figure.
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Somerset Maugham
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Dietrich
Killer
Grangeville
John P. Gilbertz
Ferdinand
Idaho
Merchant
Miles S. Johnson
U.S
By Fred Neher
Germany
Ies
Gargan Margaret Linds
Pocatella
Ammon Hatch
H. Earl Lewis
Board of County Commissioners
Peete
Sik Ceome
Cee Wardw
Dime Dugan
Babe Ruth
Boisean
Aberdeen Coal
Aberdeen Coal Dealers
Aberdeen
Idaho Lumber & Hardware Co
Tri-State Lumber Co
Western Coal Co
Chas. E. Fuller
KSEI
Bennett
Idaho Glass & Paint Co
Clark
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