Life milestones of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
Chicago report outlines Dewey's life from his 1902 Owosso birth and 1923 Michigan AB to Columbia Law, NY practice, and 1931 ascent as U S attorney's chief assistant. It details prosecutions of Mitchell and Waxey Gordon, 1934 35, and racketeering cases, leading to 1943 inauguration as New York governor at age 40.
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Chicago
Thomas Edmund Dewey
New York
Owosso, Mich
University of Michigan
Columbia Law School
N. Y
Frances E. Hutt
Sapula
Okio
Thomas E
John Martin
U.S
Southern District of
Charles E. Mitchell
Irving Wexler
Waxey Gordon
New York Bar Association
Harold L. Kunstler
Herbert H. Lehmen
New York City
Tammany
James J. Hines
Lehmar
John J. Bennett
Pocatellans Active In Various Training Schools
Pocatello residents pursue military training at three centers. George L. Petty of 917 West Young completes final Flying Fortress crew training at the 236th Combat Training School in Pyote Texas. LeRoy Jones and Franklin W. Roskelley begin recruit indoctrination at Great Lakes Illinois. Thomas Roubidoux graduates from an intensive basic engineering course at the service school in Great Lakes.
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Pyote
Texas
George L. Petty
West Young
Pocatello
236Th Combat Crew
Second Army Air Force
Air Force
Petty
Great Lakes
U. S. Naval Training Station
Illinois
LeRoy ¥. Jones
Adren K. Jones
South Fifth
Franklin W. Roskelley
Jean Roskelley
Thomas Roubidoux
L. M. Roubidoux
South Third Street
Petitions Filed For Idaho Civil Service Plan
A proposed initiative would create an Idaho personnel department to run a civil service system for state workers. Twenty Grangeville voters signed the first petition with a July 6 filing deadline. Earl Akers of Lewiston filed the plan April 20. The Valley Railroad in Westline, McKean County, Pa., is noted as the shortest line-haul railroad in the U.S.
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Boise
Idaho
Grangeville
Secretary of State
Earl Akers
Lewiston
the Valley Railroad
Westline
McKean County
United States
Strike Up the Band GI Show Headed for High School Auditorium
Army musicians arrange a new GI revue titled Strike Up the Band built around a metropolitan broadcast. Leaders include Joe Konkoly and Bobby Cummings with Eddie Menc ken Freddie Elliot and Gil Abcarian. Two new numbers by Gene Castor with Eddie Mencken on violin. Crockett Baxter curated selections for the band and chorus. The show hits the high school auditorium Friday July 7 with band purchases serving as admission.
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Sats
Joe Konkoly
551
RAF Dance Orchestra
Bobby Cummings
Cpls
Eddie Mencken
Freddie Elliot
Gil Abcarian
Cpl
Pfc
Gene Castor
Bombardiers
Pocatello
Wacs Arrive in Mediterranean Operations Theater
The largest shipment of Wacs into the Mediterranean theater arrived overseas, welcomed by reporters and photographers. The group included 357 enlisted women and 32 officers from 42 states and 40 professions, with Idahoans Lt. Juanita Taylor of Meridian and Pvt. Viola J. Smullen of Pocatello.
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Mediterranean
Veteran Under Arrest in Bride Death Mystery
Marines Sgt Robert James Horn 21 a Guadalcanal veteran is charged with bludgeoning to death his 21 year old bride Billie Mae Horn of Minneapolis Assistant Chief Robert Knight cites robbery as motive and arrest follows in Bakersfield California
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Bakersfield
Calif
Robert James Horn
Guadalcanal
Billie Mae Horn
Minneapolis
Robert Knight
Beekeepers May Get Emergency Sugar Under War Board
Beekeepers could receive extra sugar if the agriculture war board certifies emergency feeding is necessary. The sugar would be for bees kept solely for pollination or for home use honey production, per the district OPA.
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Boise
U.S. Department of Agriculture War Board
District Office of Price Administration
Prisoners Flood Cherbourg as U.S. Drive Tops Fortress
German prisoners stream into American cages and vast booty of ammo and supplies is captured in Cherbourg. US doughboys push to clear defenses near Hardinvast as a German artillery colonel surrenders with 300 others. Lt Gen von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Henneck also surrender with 800 men after fortress bombardment.
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Cherbourg
Hardinvast
Carl Wilhelm von Schlieben
Henneck
von Schiieben
Russia
Power County Drownings Reported In Two Incidents
AMERICAN FALLS two year old Eugene Laverne Richard son of Elmer Richardson tumbled into an irrigation ditch Saturday and drowned. KIMBERLY an 11 year old, Glen Owen Smith son of Mr and Mrs Glen G Smith of Kimberly, was tossed from a pickup when it overturned Friday night and fatal injuries occurred as tractor cleats fell on him.
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Eugene Laverne Richardson
Elmer Richardson
Kimberly
Glen Owen Smith
Glen G. Smith
German troops hang 100 in Assel French village
A Paris dispatch said German forces hanged 100 Frenchmen in Assel after routing guerrillas. A Vanguardia report, censored in Germany, said calm returned but the executions were described as random among civilians near the Correre department near the Plateau de Millerache, a maquis stronghold area.
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Port Bou
Spain
Assel
Robot No Secret Plans for Defense Era Sold
Washington reports a dime buys two sets of American drafted plans from World War II at the U.S. Patent Office. The items appear to reveal technical details once thought secret, prompting questions about what constitutes public domain access and potential security risks.
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Washington
U.S. Patent Office
Robot planes not new or secret say U S inventors
The national inventors' council told the Office of War Information that self propelled torpedo like robot planes are not new or secret and have been known in the United States since the last war. Charles F. Kettering of General Motors Research and Lawrence Burt Sperry of the Sperry Gyroscope company are named as leading American inventors.
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National Inventors’ Council
Office of War Information
United States
Charles F. Kettering
General Motors Research Corporation
Detroit
Inventors’ Council
Lawrence Burt Sperry
Sperry Gyroscope Company
New York
Virgil Whitworth Promoted at Eighth AAF Station
Virgil W. Whitworth of Pocatello rises from private first class to corporal at an Eighth AAF composite station in Northern Ireland. Brigadier General Edmund W. Hill announces the promotion as Whitworth serves as a mess hall cook on base duty for arriving combat crews and instructors.
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Northern Ireland
Virgil W. Whitworth
Pocatello
Edmund W. Hill
Eighth Aaf Composite Command
Corporal Whitworth
Military service and prior employment details for corporal
A corporal prepared to enter military service in June 1943. he previously worked for Idaho-Portland Cement Co. at Inkom. His mother, Mrs. Agnes Whitworth, resides in Inkom.
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Idaho-Portland Cement Co
Inkom
Agnes Whitworth
Fredrick Patz Wins Second Promotion at Fort Douglas
In the Ninth service command medical section at Fort Douglas Utah Pfc. Fredrick B Patz son of Mr and Mrs Ed Pats of north Pocatello is promoted to corporal He leads the physio therapy department at the station hospital His brother A C Harold B Patz has passed his classification test and is now in pre flight training at San Antonio Texas preparing to become a pilot.
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Ninth Service Command
Fort Douglas
Utah
Fredrick B. Patz
Ed Pats
North Pocatello
Patz
Harold B. Patz
San Antonio
Texas
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Dewey
Pocatellans
DR. Myron
Is B & G Jewels
Crockett Baxter
Wacs
Fargo-Wilson- Wells
Power County
Hitler
Virgil Whitworth
Fredrick Patz
St. Joseph Oren Ins Mae
United States Navy
Hill Bros. Auto Co
Arthur
Naval Air Station
Seattle
Hannah Barnes
Blackfoot
Lillian Baker
Idaho Power Company
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