Challenge Creamery Acquires Building for Idaho Operations
Union Pacific railroad official announces transfer of interests from Salt Lake Hardware to Challenge Cream and Butter Assn in Pocatello. The six story building will house processing and merchandising with an estimated 50 jobs and about one million pounds of butterfat monthly, linking Idaho and California dairy networks.
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Laverne. Johnson
Union Pacific Railroad Co
Salt Lake Hardware
J. R. Simplot
Cream and Butter Assn
Headanartare
Tac Anawaloe
Los Angeles
Pocatello
Johnson
Challenge Cream & Butter Assn
California Cooperative Marketing Laws
San Joaquin Valley
Idaho
Creamery Association
Challenge
Truman May Sign Post Bill Monday
Congress in final month of the session moves toward completion with most major domestic proposals sidelined. Only a few key measures poised for passage as Republicans push appropriations and funding bills while bureaus wait on new funds. A rent control extension is sent to the president with conditions allowing landlords to raise rents up to 15 percent if tenants consent.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Republican High Command
River Nears 103-Year High As Flood Waters Rise
The Mississippi surged toward a 103 year high threatening rail yards riverfront warehouses and millions in potential damage. Engineers and volunteers fought to hold dikes along the Illinois shore at Venice Granite City Cape Chester as the waterfront district faced engulfment.
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ST Louis
Mississippi
Illinois
Venice
Granite City
Cape
Chester
Harry F. Wahlgren
U. S
Missouri
Red Cross
Party Delays Retirement Ambush Delivers Farewell gifts
Chester PA. On his last day after 31 years as a postal carrier William Barney Stewart 68 was invited into a home for coffee and ambushed by 20 women who presented him with 400 dollars and a leather toilet kit then kissed him all over as he began retirement lipstick on his face.
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Chester
William
Barney) Stewart
Woodrow Wilson
Stewart
Wesley McDowell
Barney
Jap Witness Ends Life During Navy Trial
A key prosecution witness, Lt. Shigioshi Nakamura, killed himself with a razor after testifying for over two days in the U S navy trial of 19 Japanese accused of murdering 10 American POWs in grisly medical experiments. The event followed allegations that the defendants used bacterial injections and other torture methods on Truk in January 1944.
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Guam
U. S. Navy
Shigioshi Nakamura
Naval
Hiroshi Iwanami
Truk
Irgun Leader Says No Illusions On UN Partition Plan
Menachem Begin, Irgun commander, said in a secret interview that the United Nations would not grant their aims in Palestine. He warned of a long fight and predicted many of his generation might not die peacefully, expressing continued demands and rejection of partition.
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Jerusalem
Menachem Beigin
Irgun Zvai Leumi
United Nations
Palestine
Irgun
Taft-Hartley Act Expands Democratic Party Opposition
Washington The Democratic National Committee flags the Taft Hartley Act as a campaign issue. Director Gael Sullivan says the law sharpens the split between Democrats and Republicans. He lauds liberalism shown by the president and cites Truman’s veto battles and a call for mass voter registration.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Gael Sullivan
Sullivan
Capital Comment
Industries Rationing Coal With 31-day Supply as Miners Lay Off
Pittsburgh reports a 10-day paid vacation for about 500 000 miners halting nearly all coal production. With only a 31 day supply left, steelmakers enact conservation and lay off thousands of workers to endure the fuel shortage.
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Pittsburgh
Afl-United
House Group Accuses WAA of Misrepresentation and Deception
A House expenditures subcommittee charged the War Assets Administration with misrepresentation and deception in its reports and urged civilian leadership for the WAA. The panel turned evidence over to the justice and internal revenue bureaus, and recommended notifying President Truman that the disposal program under military control is unsatisfactory.
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Washington
A _ house expenditures
War Assets Administration
WAA
Justice Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
Congress
House
Truman
Robert M. Littlejohn
Bill Walsingham To Take Over In Breadon's Office
St Louis notes say Sam Breadon 71 will keep control of the Cardinals but shift daily duties to William Walsingham Jr Breadon’s nephew and aide. Breadon will stay major decision maker on trades and managerial hires while easing off road duties. Walsingham leads the Pocatello Cardinals as president.
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Bill Walsingham
Breadon
ST. Louis
Sam Breadon
The
St. Louis Cardinals
William Walsingham, Jr
Bill
Walsingham
Pocatello Cardinals
Prohibition Party Nominates Watson for US President
Drys nominate Claude A. Watson a Los Angeles attorney as candidate for president with Dale H Learn of East Stroudsburg Pa as running mate Learn is a real estate man Watson previously ran in 1944 election and is again the party nominee for president of the United States
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Winona Lake
Ind
Prohibition Today
Claude A. Watson
Los Angeles
United States
Watson
Dale H. Learn
East Stroudsburg
Liquor-by-Drink Returns Tuesday After 32 Years
The article reports a dramatic shift as liquor by the drink is set to return in a region after a 32 year ban. It notes political and economic tensions involving the United States Indonesia and Dutch authorities. The piece mentions an American aide memoire urging cooperation and a possible halt to Dutch military plans amid a pending interim government formation.
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Batavia
Java
United States
Indonesia
U. S
Pioneer League Scores See Idaho Teams Contend Across Slate
Boise Idaho Falls Pocatello Salt Lake Twin Falls Ogden clash in a Pioneer League card. Names listed include Ison Bandy Foster Tapp Henderson Griggs Mason Savarese Pirack Luis McCarthy Logue Daniel son Naccarato Sanders Wellman. Final numbers appear in compact line scores.
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Boise
Idaho Falls
Foster and Tapp
Pocatello
Salt Lake
Henderson
Griggs
Mason
Savarese
Pirack
Luis
Twin Falls
Ogden
McCarthy
Coal Miners Seek 13.05 for Eight-Hour Day
Two major soft coal operators U S Steel and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co reportedly back a move to meet John L. Lewis full wage and hour demands to avert a nationwide strike. The AFL United Mine Workers begin a ten day vacation as talks continue with private mine operators who plan to retake pits from the government Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh- Youlehton
Ohio
Geneva Steel
Utah
UMW
John L. Lewis
Steel
United States Steel Corp
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Washington
U. S. Steel and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
AFL United Mine
Benjamin F. Fairless
United States Steel Corporation
George M. Humphrey
Pittsburgh Coal
Russia plays high stakes in Marshall aid debate
Paris dispatch reports Moscow seeks to force a high price on U S funding for European recovery. Soviet leaders aim to test Secretary of State Marshall at the secret three power conference and demand clear billions to be spent, signaling a strategy to curb communist influence.
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Robert Bunson
Pacific Front
Europe
Associated Press
Paris
Soviet
Russia
Moscow
United States
Marshall
Conviction of Broadcaster Chandler for Treason in Nazi Propaganda
Douglas Chandler, a tall gray haired former American writer, was convicted by a federal jury in Boston on ten counts of treason for selling voice to Nazi radio propagandists. The 12 man panel took under six hours to find him guilty on all counts, with sentencing possible from five years to death. The defense claimed insanity and paranoia while the government called him a black traitor for using the alias Paul Revere in recordings aimed at the United States.
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Boston
Douglas Chandler
Francis J. W Ford
Baltimore
Chandler
Paul Revere
Berlin
United States
Roosevelt
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Three Die in Jerusalem After Night of Underground Violence
In Jerusalem and nearby cities three British army personnel were killed and five wounded during a spike of Jewish underground violence. In Tel Aviv two privates died in a crowd strike, and in Haifa a raid on a cafe on Mount Carmel left one lieutenant dead and two officers wounded. Police found a blood-stained taxi with weapons as terrorists reportedly fled.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Haifa
Mount Carmel
Polir
Utah Man Killed in Rock Springs Crash
State Highway Patrolman Lloyd Vorhes said Vernon E. Petersen, 36, of Ogden Utah, died when his car overturned eight miles west of Rock Springs at 1 25 pm Saturday.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
Lloyd Vorhes
Vernon E. Petersen
20Th Street
Ogden
Utah
Atom stockpile capable of razing major cities
Hutchins asserts in Common Cause that Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs are obsolete. He says the United States now has a stockpile of new and improved bombs large enough to destroy every large city on earth, and links this to a call for a world parliament and world disarmament.
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Common Cause
Hutchins
Koreans Fail In Coup Attempt In March
General MacArthur reported that Korean rightists attempted a March coup to declare the exile Chungking provisional government as the De Jure Korea. A council named Syngman Rhee president and Kim Koo vice president, but military authorities called the act illegal and said there was little popular support.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Korea
Chungking
Syngman Rhee
Kim Koo
Ogden Man Placed on Probation for Burglary
Perry S. Murata, 26, of Ogden received probation in third district court after pleading guilty to a second degree burglary. He allegedly burglarized a Salt Lake City room and took a camera and 23 dollars.
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Salt Lake City
Perry S. Murata
Ogden
Third District
Idaho counties set to begin liquor by the drink Tuesday
A record from Civic Forces shows 176 Idaho incorporated towns voting since the liquor by the drink act. Of 69 with results, 51 stayed dry and 18 approved licenses, with 107 communities remaining without elections. The change allows cities and villages to sell mixed drinks where bans were not enacted.
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Idaho
Red Civic Forces
Tt Ney General's
Molotov Could Accept or Reject Marshall Plan Proposal
U S officials say Molotov may decide this weekend in Paris whether to accept or reject Secretary of State Marshall's European plan. They believe he cannot wreck it and that the proposal is flexible enough to fit with or without Soviet cooperation. The plan could forge a unified Europe or a western bloc and may act as a bridge for cooperation or a tool against Moscow.
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Washington
Molotov
Marshall
Paris
Russia
Europe
Britain
France
Congress of the United States
Bees Halt Naval Reserve Plane Warmup in Kansas
In Olathe Kansas naval reserve officers faced a swarm of thousands of bees over five fighters during a mass warmup for the first anniversary of the peacetime reserve. A CO2 attack freed the planes but bees returned after takeoff, and remain on the field.
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Olathe
Kans
Naval Art Reserve
Bullets Worse Than Dollars In Opinion of Chinese Reds
AP analysis questions U S policy toward China. The piece criticizes the lack of a coherent approach and urges public explanation of a strategy. It argues Washington shows a contradictory stance by offering arms but withholding large scale economic aid.
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Bertha Surprise Cote
Plymouth
Mass
Rene Cote
Littlejohn
Department of the Interior
J. G. Taylor Spink
Sporting News
United States of Indonesia
Siem Spoor
Netherlands
Spoor
H. J. van Mook
Netherlands East Indies
Pioneer League
Uncle Sam
Mystery
Laura Lucille Medlin
Yreka
Calif
Miss X
Grants Pass
Ore
Leona
Jimmy
Atom
Chicago
Pba
Utahn
Civic Forces
U Ss
James D. White
China
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