Truman Tours Flood Area on Route to Berkeley
President Truman visited flood zones along the Columbia River after signing a $10 million emergency housing bill for flood refugees. He spoke in Portland and Eugene praising flood control, viewed Vanport ruins, and urged a nationwide river valley program while en route to Berkeley to address the University of California. He also made a controversial remark about Joe Stalin, calling him a decent man but a prisoner of the politburo.
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Truman
Berkeley
Calif
Joe Stalin
Potsdam
Joe
Politburo
Eugene
Ore
Columbia River
Portland
Oregon
University of California
Civic Auditorium
Vanport
Congress
Daniel Webster
Whisky Missing From Sheriff Custody in Twin Falls Case
Forty two bottles of whisky vanished from Sheriff Broda R. Rayborn’s custody as 762 unclaimed bottles were disposed of on Thursday. Destruction of evidence seized from the Turf club and Canyon lodge completed Thursday. Prosecuting Attorney Everett M. Sweeley said results of the investigation would be disclosed in a few days.
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Twin Falls
Broda R. Rayborn
Turf Club
Canyon Lodge
Everett M. Sweeley
Hungarian prisoner attacks Elko jailer with padlock
Laszlo Varga a Hungarian refugee awaiting trial on first degree murder charges attacked Jailer William Hines in the Elko county jail. He picked a padlock from his cell, hid in the bullpen and struck the jailer twice as he entered the outer room.
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Elko, Nev
Laszlo Varga
William Hines
Elko County
Hines
Varga
Durante nose deforms Lamarr suit over Look article
In Santa Monica a Superior Court judge refused to dismiss Hedy Lamarr’s $200000 suit against Look magazine over an article alleging she altered her nose by plastic surgery. The judge sent the damage question to a jury and gave Look 30 days to answer.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Jimmy Durante
Hedy Lamarr
Durante
Stanley Mosk
Miss Lamarr
Look Magazine
Look
Hedy
Sea Swallows Danish Ship In 10 Minutes
About 200 people are believed drowned after the Danish passenger vessel Kjoebenhavn struck a wartime mine and sank in the Kattegat. Survivors described jammed cabin doors and passengers screaming as the ship went down in ten minutes.
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Aalborg
Denmark
Kjoebenhavn
Kattegat
C. P. C. Kiil
Allborg
Copenhagen
Kiil
Sweden
Liquor Gambling Planks on Idaho Young Republicans Agenda
Idaho Young Republicans plan to vote on a platform endorsing legalized gambling possibly via local options. The resolutions include unifying liquor control under one department and proposing appointment rather than election of top state officials, with other calls to boost highway finances and activate the legislative counsel.
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Boise
Idaho
Perry Swisher
Pocatello
Platform and Resolutions Committee
Resolutions Committee
Commissioner of Law Enforcement
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Commissioner of Labor Office
Pocatellans
Paul Crane
Tom Sahlberg
Idaho Site Gets Approval For World's Largest Dam
Secretary of Interior Krug approves a 443.66 million dollar plan to build Hell's Canyon Dam on the Snake River in Idaho near the Oregon border. The project would create a 93 mile long reservoir and generate about 4 billion kilowatt hours annually to ease regional power shortages and finance irrigation in Idaho Oregon and Washington. The dam would rise above the canyon 6,000 feet deep and lie between Weiser and Lewiston.
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Washington
Secretary of Interior
Krug
Snake River Canyon
Idaho-Oregon
Hoover Dam
Nevada
Hell's Canyon
Idaho
Columbia River Basin
Straus
Snake Valley
Lower Columbia
Grand Coulee
Oregon, Idaho
Snake River
Weiser
Lewiston
Plane Found After Isle of Man Crash Killing Five
Wreckage of a missing charter plane and bodies of five of its eight occupants were found by an RAF mountain crew on the Isle of Man cliff coast. Two survived, the eighth is unaccounted for. The plane overran an island airport and crashed while taking a Birmingham party to motorcycle races.
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London
Royal Air Force
Isle of Man
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Ministry
Birmingham
Idaho Must Grow Better Spuds
W R Smith of the U S Department of Agriculture told about 500 Idaho Potato and Onion Shippers association members that to reverse declining potato consumption the industry must grow better potatoes. He urged eliminating calls from regular trade channels and only top grades reaching the public, noting potatoes are poorly displayed in stores. If yields stay high growers may need to reduce acreage.
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Sun Valley
Ida
Idaho Potato and Onion Shippers Association
W. R. Smith
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Smith
Idaho
Idaho educator cites federal aid for Pocatello schools
From Washington, George N. Green, president elect of the Idaho State Educational Association and Pocatello superintendent, credits progress on a bill to fund next year’s school budgets in 174 federal defense projects across 28 states. Green seeks 68000 for Pocatello schools, saying the aid could save a nine month term for about 700 students, many from Navy Ordnance Plant families and federal housing projects. For two years, school leaders have paused assemblies and supervision to lobby Congress.
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Washington
George N. Green
Idaho State Educational Association
Pocatello
Green
Navy Ordnance Plant
Five Local Candidates File For Offices On First Day
Five candidates filed for county precinct and state congressional posts on the first day petitions were accepted by Bannock County Clerk Anna Keefe. Sheriff Alma Marley led filings for reelection to a fourth term. Other early filers included Probate Judge Willard Lund and state senator contender Nellie Cline Steenggan, with more entries anticipated by July 12.
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Anna Keefe
Bannock County
Alma Marley
Bannock
Marley
Willard Lund
Nellie Cline Steengan
W. P. Havenor
Havenor
Mavener
Bob Carter
Laura Berg
Mark Manley
Scott D. Lowe
Henry McQuade
Pete Jensen
Clegg Raymond
Roy T. Hale
McCammon
Harold Ferguson
J. O. Anderson
Henry C
O'Leary M
Lowe
O'Leary
Priday
Rising Columbia Flood Spurs Alarm as Dikes Fail
The Columbia River flood swamped Portland’s airport and nearby farms, threatening Reynolds aluminum plant as Army engineers warned several dikes may fail. Richland and Wenatchee faced water shortages, while two deaths raised the toll to 37.
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Reynolds Metal Co
Army
Richland
Wash
Wenatchee
Washington
Grand Coulee
Yakima
Oregon
Columbia River
Portland
Lions Hear Report From Sun Valley Convention
A Pocatello Lions club meeting heard the first of three convention reports. William England summarized an address by FBI Agent Paul Shine of Butte. Other reports by J M Holland and F M Bistline were postponed due to time. Bud Fisher of Standard Oil presented a fishing in Alaska picture titled Fish On.
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Sun Valley
Weather forecast for Pocatello area tonight
Partly cloudy with scattered thunder showers in Pocatello and vicinity. The high will reach 75 to 80 degrees and the low 45 to 50 as cooler air moves in after sunset at 8 09 and sunrise at 4 51.
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Pocatello
Billings
Trace Burley
Great Falls
Idaho Falls
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
Trace
New York
Omaha
Salt Lake
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington
West Yellowstone
No $10,000 No Wife in Daytona Beach Tale
New York hatcheck girl Dorothy Lawlor seeks a husband only if he provides $10,000. She plans to return to New York Monday and will not marry Danny Wicker, despite his invitation. He says they are not compatible and they went to the airport to buy her return ticket. She remains in her hotel with an earache.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
New York
Dorothy Lawlor
Danny Wicker
Wicker
Danny
Arabs Jews Violate Palestine Truce In First Day clashes
In Cairo Palestine truce quickly faltered with alleged violations by both sides. Bernadotte ordered UN observers to report swiftly while fighting continued around Isdud south of Tel Aviv and Latrun near the Jerusalem highway. Jewish planes attacked Damascus, and reports said Jewish forces continued actions near Mishmar Hay Yarden as international observers prepared to monitor breaches.
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Solomon David Willingham
Portland
Ore
Navy
Marine
Washington, D. C
Palestine
U. S
Roy D. Miller
Cincinnati
Willingham
Daniel Thomas
Eddy
Honolulu
T. H
Harold D. Huxley
San Francisco
Carson Hawkins
Reno
Nev
Regan Fuller
Washington
Vladimir L. Rychly
Cicero
Til
Cairo
Egypt
Damascus
Folke Bernadotte
Isdud
Tel Aviv
Latrun
Jerusalem
Trans- Jordan
Mishmar Hay Yarden
Lake Hula
Bernadotte
Taft urges immediate adjournment over Truman attacks
Ohio Senator Robert A Taft told a Philadelphia union league audience that President Truman is blackguarding Congress at every whistle stop in the West and urged an immediate adjournment. He warned of increased federal spending and a shift in policy toward communism if Truman remains in session and pushes costly programs.
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Philadelphia
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Truman
Congress
West
GOP
Taft
Magistrate Fines Self In Overtime Parking Case
Boise city magistrate Edith I. Miller presided in traffic court all afternoon and then discovered her own car bore an overtime parking tag. She returned to court and fined the offender the customary $1.
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Boise
Edith I. Miller
Idaho High Court May Test Validity of Four-Year Terms
Idaho Supreme Court was asked to rule on a constitutional amendment extending elective state officer terms from two to four years. The case centers on whether Idaho would have a full 1948 state ticket or wait until 1950, with Keenan seeking to file for governor and others facing filing rejections. The key issue is omitting the state auditor from the question approved in 1943.
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Boise
Idaho
Supreme Court
Frank J. Keenan
Secretary of State
Elizabeth Williams
of Keenan
Secretary of
J. D
Cy) Price
James H. Hawley
R. W. Beckwith
Glen E. Bandelia
Sandpoint
Ruth G. Moon
Pocatello
Keenean
Keenan
U. 8
Congress
State Supreme Court
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Reclamation
Hell’s Canyon
Sarah McClendon
Columbia Batters
Truman Tours
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The
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