Jury Finds Slayer Dr. James Mullen Guilty of Murder
In Denver a district court jury convicts Ronald F. Smith, 23, ex marine and former Grand Junction policeman, of first degree murder for shooting Dr. James K. Mullen, 26, in the Brown Palace hotel lounge. Smith faces life imprisonment.
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James Mullen
Denver
Ronald F. Smith
Grand Junction
Pocatello
Idaho
Brown Palace
James K. Mullen
Smith
Verdict in Colorado case grants new trial request
Queen and two others were slightly wounded as Judge David M. Ralston of Trinidad gave 20 days to file for a new trial. In Colorado courts the sentence follows the jury’s recommended penalty though Smith pleaded insanity. Smith’s wife Peggy 24 muttered oh no and cried. the defendant’s mother Mrs. George C. Smith of El Monte California stayed calm. The jury required only a partial verdict before further action.
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David M. Ralston
Trinidad
Colorado
Smith
Peggy
George C. Smith
el Monte
Calif
Idaho Board Expands Teacher Training Across State
Idaho state board approves offering teacher training for all grades one through twelve at all higher education institutions. Lewiston Albion college will train for nine through twelve and four main fields English arts social studies sciences and physical education. Moscow and Pocatello previously limited to certain certifications and durations.
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Boise
Idaho
State Board of Education
Alton B. Jones
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Pocatello
Rubber Strike Called Off In Big Four Firms
Robert Cruden of CIO United Rubber Workers said a strike against the Big Four rubber firms led by Goodrich Goodyear Firestone and U S Rubber scheduled for midnight Sunday has been called off after final wage dispute talks. The policy committee will sanction the settlement and terms will be announced later. About 110 000 workers were set to walk out.
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Cleveland
Robert Cruden
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Cruden
Goodrich
Goodyear
Firestone
U. S
International Union
Fake Doctor Under Arrest
Denver police hold Charles Wesley Thomas 44 on impersonating a VA doctor and facing a Colorado con game charge. FBI says Illinois parole and bigamy warrants exist. authorities seek custody and bond set at 2500 dollars after a Denver victim paid 2500 via a marriage in Raton New Mexico. Barbara Alverson, Thomas wife, was arrested as a witness.
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Denver
Charles Wesley Thomas
Veterans Administration
Illinois
Russell P. Kramer
FBI
Kramer
Thomas
U.S
Harold 8. Oakes
Salt Lake City
Ray Humphreys
Humphreys
Raton
N. M
Barbara Alverson
Six Utahns Die in Crash at Union Pacific Crossing
KAYSVILLE Utah A triple investigation followed a fatal Friday night collision when the Union Pacific Los Angeles limited struck a sedan at a grade crossing killing six school children. Front seat occupants survived with injuries while the car’s rear seat held three children from one family. Names include Sterling 14 David 1 and Carol Lee Pres 10 among the victims. The driver Wilford H Webster 56 and two children Dee 12 Dorothy 20 survived with injuries.
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Kaysville
Utah
Union Pacific
Los Angeles
Sterling
David
David Sandall
Carol Lee Pres
Jo Ann Webster
Ghter
Wilford H
British Seize Five Known Terrorists In Jerusalem Raid
Five known terrorists were arrested by British authorities in a combined army and police search in the Syrian orphanage area of Jerusalem. Officials did not identify the detainees and denied reports that Menahem Begin was among them. The raid yielded seven homemade bombs, explosives, detonators, ammunition, and a grenade. An unofficial source claimed Jacob Viniarsky, linked to Stern gang high command, was arrested in a separate raid. Separate violence included a bomb in Tel Aviv and a fatal shooting in Petah Tikva.
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Jerusalem
Menahem Beigin
Irgun Zvei Leum
Jacob Viniarsky
Stern Gang
High Command
Tel Aviv
Petah Tigra
Holy Land
Couple Held For Murder Of Girl's Parents
Beulah Louise Overell, 17, and her fiancé George R. Gollum, 21, were arraigned in Santa Ana on a murder charge in the death of a wealthy couple identified as the girl’s parents. The couple allegedly died aboard their yacht in Newport Harbor last Saturday night.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Beulah Louise Overell
George R. Gollum
Newport Harbor
Coast
Newport Beach
Walter Overell
Beulah
Overell
Beulah Louis
George Gollum
Russia backs Weimar style federal Germany plan
Moscow proposed to the foreign ministers that postwar Germany be based on the Weimar republic. Soviet outline calls for a two parliament system elected by proportional representation. Britain and the United States leaned toward federalization while France favored a loose decentralized regime. Molotov unveiled the plan amid Western reactions and a British economic principle statement.
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Moscow
Russia
Council of Foreign Ministers
Weimar Republic
Adolf Hitler
George O. Marshall
U. S
Britain
France
America
United States
Germany
Molotov
Sts
Lis
Truman Signs OPA Bill and Signals Policy Continuation
President Truman signed the June 30 death warrant for the OPA while urging Congress to extend rent and sugar controls via other agencies. He approved a $179,645,688 deficiency bill liquidating the OTC and merging OPA and CPA into it, with housing controls transferred to Frank Creedon. Congress must return $699 million. GOP leaders prepared two bills to extend rubber controls and centralize selective service records, abolishing local draft boards.
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Washington
Truman
OPA
Congress
Senate
Civilian Production Administration
Mr. Truman
Frank P. Creedon
OTC
CPA
GOP
Forgot Landing Gear at Palo Alto Airport
Two pilots made belly landings at Palo Alto airport when they forgot to lower landing gear. Fred Todd piloted a three ton craft owned by a San Jose meat company, and Ned Topham from San Francisco also belly landed after circling the field. Airport manager Harry White said no injuries and only bent propellers were reported.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Priday
Fred Todd
San Jose
Ned Topham
San Francisco
Indian Boys Arrested on Alcohol Charges
Police report two Indian boys, Junior Pohipe aged 13 and Al McGill aged 15, were arrested Saturday night on charges of intoxication.
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Junior Pohipe
al McGill
Gunmen Kill Communist Official in German Occupation Zone
In Oehringen two masked gunmen entered the home of Rheinold Hub a 41 year old Communist and denazification official and shot him dead. Police see possible robbery motives but friends suspect Nazi underground involvement.Hub was public prosecutor for the denazification board at Oehringen an industrial town in Wuerttemberg. He and his wife Lina said he had received threatening letters recently.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Rheinold Hub
Oehringen
Hub
Lina
Otto Oster
Oster
Denazification Board
Wuerttemberg
Four Die in Mine Explosion Near Fierro New Mexico
An underground explosion at a small Fierro mine near Silver City killed four men early Saturday. Justice of the Peace H O Wor Moreno 28 and his brother Mel Quiades Moreno 24, both of Fierro, were among the victims. authorities said the cause of the blast is not yet known and no other workers were in the mine.
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Silver City
N. Mex
Fierro
Justice of the Peace
H. O. Wor- Moreno
Melquiades Moreno
Worthen
Power crisis in reclamation program study faces bills
Washington AP report notes the house public lands committee grapples with power revenues in federal reclamation projects. Robert W. Sawyer urges clear repayment provisions within a set period, saying current Interior Department rulings leave power cost recovery unresolved. Floyd O. Hargie backs the call for reforms as the committee hears testimony.
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Cleavenrer
AP Special
Washington Service Ngton
House Public Lands Committee
Robert W. Sawyer
The
Association
Interior Department
Sawyer
Rabies Cases Grow in Utah Prompt Quarantine Action
Utah health officials report new rabies cases in Rich county with a dog that bit two Laketown children testing rabid. In Sanpete Moroni three people were bitten. dog not conclusively rabid. Dr. McKay urges Pasteur treatment and continued observation, while Weber and Davis counties enforce dog quarantine.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
William M. McKay
McKay
Rich County
Sanpete County
Weber
Davis County
State Board of Health
Laketown
Montpelier
Idaho
Moroni
Sanpete
Recluse Langley Collier Dies in Hermitage House
New York police report Homer Collyer died of arteriosclerotic heart disease after officers forced entry into the cluttered Fifth Avenue mansion. Langley Collyer, 71, remains missing, with his attorney predicting he may still be in the house where the brothers lived as recluses for 38 years.
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New York
Langley Collyer
Fifth Avenue
John R. McMullen
Langley
128Th Street
B. Morgan Vance
Homer
Floods Sweep Over Fenland in England Drivewide Damage
Flood waters burst sand-bagged dikes and flooded 25 000 acres of fertile Norfolk fenlands. Troops German POWs and farmers battled to plug the break as a mile long barrier threatened. An amphibious tank was swept away amid rising flood, with 10 000 acres already underwater. No deaths reported as evacuations continued.
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London
Norfolk
England
Mostly Cloudy Forecast for Pocatello With Cooler Sunday
The weatherman calls for mostly cloudy and cooler weather in Pocatello on Sunday with a high of 50 to 55. Last week saw springlike warmth with highs near 60 and lows around 35 to 40 as rain moved from Dillon to Boise and beyond. Nearby readings for the 24 hours ending Saturday 6:30 p.m. include Malad 61/29 Boise 58/46 Burley 60/27 Butte 46/36 Dubois 57/33 Idaho Falls 57/40 and Salt Lake 68/40.
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Pocatello
Dillon
Boise
Roseburg
Eugene
Medford
Salem
Baker
Malad
Burley
Butte
Dubois
Idaho Falls
Salt Lake
Reds Retreat To North Yenan Falls as Communists Withdraw
The Kuomintang signaled tentative peace talks with the Communists after Yenan fell and troops pushed seven miles from the capital toward Tsingchien. Government reports put fleeing families reaching Sinhsien, 200 miles northeast, after crossing the Yellow River into Shansi.
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Nanking
Yenan
Wu Te-Chen
Kuomintang
Government Party
Marshall
Tsingchien
Sinhsien
Yellow River
Shansi
Truman orders loyalty purge of federal employees
President Truman directed sweeping loyalty investigations for all job applicants in executive agencies and required agencies to submit current staff lists to the FBI. The attorney general will maintain a central index of subversive organizations and disloyal memberships will trigger investigations. A White House official called it not a witch hunt.
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Washington
Truman
Federal Bureau of Investigation
T& Check
Hhe
White House
United States
Civil Service Commission
Department
FBI
Truman Issues Loyalty Check Order for Federal Employees
President Truman announces an executive order for a broad loyalty screening. The plan requires the attorney general to list groups seen as totalitarian or subversive, tests of loyalty for new and present employees, central indexing, loyalty boards in agencies, a loyalty review court, and secrecy protections for informants while enabling evaluation of testimony. The order takes effect immediately, with funding to come after congressional approval.
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Washington
Truman
The
Civil Service Commission
Reactions Noted to Foreign Policy as to Communism
Americans debate the course of foreign policy as events abroad unfold. A clandestine anti Tito radio operates in Yugoslavia while the Chinese government labels rebels and claims their capital. The Dutch government plans to duplicate a $3,000,000 cargo seizure and cover losses. The Nepal invitation prompts a U S mission to start diplomatic ties.
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Paul Kern Lee
Associated Press
Yugoslavia
Nounces
East Indies
Nepal
U.S
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Berkeley
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J. G. Buehler
Bobbette
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Nev
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Treasury
Harry White
National Reclamation Association
Homer Collyer
McMullen
Fenland
Reds
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