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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1948
Page
5
Police tracked a gang after a daylight robbery at a Western Springs cottage. They fired on police, escaped with cash from a poker table and cashiers cage, as a girl friend saw the bandits and a squad car officer was wounded by machine gun fire.
Eighty one amateur boxers from across the United States and world begin Olympic trials at Boston Garden. Notable contenders include AAU champions Johnny Gonsalves Bill Morgan Frankie Sodano Grant Butcher and Coley Wallace along with Army and Navy selections Herb Carlson and Jay Lambert. Trials start at 10 pm EST and run to 32 remaining for Tuesday semis and finals.
Dawn patrols traced the gang’s abandoned car to the Des Plaines river banks near the quarry. Investigators recovered raincoats, rolls of coins, a bank bag with cash, a sawed off shotgun, a carbine, two 45 caliber pistols, and other items from the river.
The schedule lists morning and midday radio programs from 6:40 AM to noon including Musical Reveille, Intermountain Farm Journal, Ozark Valley Folks, Road and Weather Conditions, Farm Tips, Breakfast News, Say It With Music, Passing Parade, U. S. Navy Band, Convention Coverage, Cedric Foster News, Harold Turner, Organist, Bill Harrington and Queen for a Day.
In a flurry of statements and whispers a series of political maneuvers unfolds as McGrath accuses Dewey backers of room deals with Senator Grundy guiding the nomination choice. Grundy avoids comment while Dewey rests at his Pawling New York farm amid convention fallout as Truman poses at church and Warren tours New York with his daughters.
Great Falls Electrics toppled the Pocatello Cardinals 8 to 7 in a tight Pioneer League game Sunday night. Dick Guselman started a three run seventh with a single as Great Falls erased a 7 5 deficit and moved from last place. The loss drops Pocatello further in the standings while Idaho Falls holds the top loop spot.
In the American League New York beat Detroit 9 to 7 in a seven inning game as Byrne and Berra led the offense. Washington split two with Cleveland scoring 5 8 2 across their games while Gordon and Clark homered for Cleveland. In the National League Pittsburgh edged Boston 9 to 8 while Chicago defeated Philadelphia 7 to 3 and Chicago also took a 6 4 win in another matchup. The slate featured rain delays eight innings and various pitching tandems including Haefner Candini Welteroth Blackwell and Williams.
A man entered a Manila actress’s home by cutting a window screen and stabbed her. Witness Vivian, the actress’s maid, said she did not see the reaction of Pacita 17 as the killer fled by taxi. The husband Jose Climaco, a vaudeville actor, returned home as detectives filled the house and he tried to shoot himself but officers seized the gun.
The army announced plans for eight special training centers to train inductees by division. Four centers are already in operation at Camp Dix New Jersey Fort Knox Kentucky Fort Ord California and Fort Jackson South Carolina. The announcement notes expansion as the draft proceeds.
Bulgarian minister said talks with Greece stalled after the first meeting as the two envoys could not agree on topics for future discussions Greek Ambassador Dendramis said Athens would respond fully later and not just on technical resumption Western observers saw the talks as signaling possible shifts in eastern Europe diplomacy in Moscow and beyond.
The Red Cross and the local school board will run a new swim school starting Monday with Miss La Viers Noack as instructor. Classes run 9 to 10, 10 to 11, 11 to 11 30, and 11 30 to noon with weekly attendance urged for children. Assistants Julie Ann Sconniers Evangeline Morris and Earlene Cahoon will help, and some students may be sent to the Red Cross aquatic school.
Hackbarth representing J R Simplot and Ellen Chapman from Pocatello Tribune crowned three attend ant queens for Frontier Days. Each queen will reign one night with attendants, receiving a loving cup from Harry Morgan and a Salt Lake City trip via Western Airlines, hosted by Hotel Utah. Josephine Hutchins played music during the presentation.
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