Banks Extend Service to East Side
East side branches of First Security Bank of Idaho and Idaho State Bank and Trust will open on East Center street as equipment arrives. Ralph J. Comstock of First Security says a Moore Drug store corner location will host a branch, authorized by the Comptroller of Currency. H. E. Hemmeway of Idaho Bank and Trust says temporary quarters will be at Mountain Electric at Third Avenue and East Center. Both banks cite postwar growth and anticipate continued expansion in Pocatello.
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East Side
Pocatello
Idaho State Finance Commission
Boise
First Security Bank
Idaho State Bank and Trust
East Center Street
Ralph J. Comstock
First Security Bank of Idaho
Moore Drug Company
Second and Center
Comptroller of Currency
Washington, D.C
H. E. Hemmeway
Idaho Bank and Trust Company
Mountain Electric Company
Third Avenue
Hemingway
Comstock
Mr. Comstock
Telephone workers split and unite with CIO
The AUTW leadership votes to quit NFTW and affiliate with the CIO, saying the strike showed isolation harms the 340,000 telephone workers. NFTW chief Beirne calls the move foolhardy as the federation contemplates a new central union. Moran cites CIO benefits and AFL as offering limited aid.
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Moran
Lab
AUTW
CIO
Joseph Beirne
NFTW
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Beirne
Telephone Workers
The
Communications Workers of America
AFL
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
French Draft Workers to Check Strike
Paris reports the French government requisitioned all workers in the fuel gas and electric power industry to counter a 24 hour slowdown and 85 000 employees protesting a 15 percent wage demand. Premier Ramadier signed a decree extending state control and weighed using troops to ensure output.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
Ramadier
Government orders labor action over wage dispute in nationalized industry
The decree targets union leaders as the industry remains nationalized. Workers had demanded a wage increase claiming a 50 percent rise in power output since 1938, after which gas and electric services faced a nationwide slowdown ordered by the unions despite government denial of the pay raise.
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Ee Eee Eas
Cap Explosion Fatal to 4 in Sibley Iowa
Four people died in a farm blast near Sibley Iowa when Lee Stevens 37 allegedly dropped a box of dynamite caps or fell with it The victims included Mrs Rose Horky 38 and her two children Ruth 3 and Charles 5 Osceola County Sheriff Lloyd Wilson said Stevens was doing blasting on his farm at the time The explosion shattered windows 160 feet away and killed the occupants.
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Sibley
Iowa
Lee Stevens
Here
Stevens
Rose Horky
Wilson
Wisconsin graduate Joy South visiting family abroad
Joy South daughter of Mr and Mrs E M South of 436 East Whitman visits her parents for a month. A UW graduate last year she has been engaged in magazine editorial work in Madison Chicago and Cleveland.
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Joy South
E. M. South
E. Whitman
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Chicago
Cleveland
Committee Appeals for Protection of Migrant Workers
A federal interagency committee on migrant labor urged new federal state and local laws and greater community understanding for millions of migrants moving seasonally. Marine Major General Graves B. Erskine chaired the effort calling migrants the forgotten people and warning of child labor substandard living and restricted education.
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Washington
America
Federal Interagency Committee On Migrant Labor
Graves
Poison Chlordane Beats Invasion of Mormon Crickets
In eastern Oregon the battle against Mormon Crickets saw a new poison, chlordane, spread by plane and truck. By Saturday half the insects in a trap four miles west died, many others were groggy or dying, and the advancing front was reported under control.
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Oregon
Here
Wheatland
LeRoy Puller
Alr
Umatilla
Two Students Face Trial For Murders
Louise Overell an 18 year old heiress and George Gollum a 21 year old medical student go on trial on murder indictments. They are charged with killing Financier Walter Overell 65 and Beulah Overell 57 aboard their 47 foot cabin cruiser in Newport Harbor on the night of March 15.
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Louise Overell
George Gollum
Walter ©. Overell
Beulah
Fashionable
Flintridge
Pasadena
Overell
Los Angeles
End of Long US Argentina Dispute Expected Soon
Washington expects a final accord to end the prolonged US Argentina dispute within weeks. Ambassadors Messersmith and Braden are seen possibly resigning as relations between Buenos Aires and Washington may shift. Argentina reports deportation of eight Nazi agents, signaling compliance with hemisphere obligations.
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Washington
United States
Argentina
Buenos Aires
George S. Messersmith
Spruile Braden
Juan Bramuglia
Juan D. Peron
Messersmith
State Department
Local Temperature Forecast At Few Cities
The weatherman says today will be mostly fair with little temperature change and a high of 85 to 90 degrees. No major storms or precipitation reported in the region. Saturday temperatures include Pocatello 80 40, Boise 85 51, Burley 39, Butte 70 29, Idaho Falls 77 38, and Salt Lake City 82 46. Sunset 7:56. Sunrise Monday 4:58.
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Arctic Circle
Pocatello
Boise
Burley
Butte
Dubois
Idaho Falls
Salt Lake City
Idaho Jurist Airshie Ill in Boise Residency
James F. Airshie aged 78 and serving his 24th year on the Idaho supreme court is seriously ill in Boise. The veteran jurist’s condition prompted brief hospital notes and concern among state officials.
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Idaho
Boise
James F. Airshie
Idaho Supreme Court
Faithful judge's illness ends long legal career
The attending physician reported that the justice, a prominent leader in the state's legal profession for half a century, was suffering from infirmities marking the end of a storied career.
Raiders Hit Tel Aviv Bridge Clubs in The Stern Gang Raid
Jewish underground fighters believed to be Stern gang members raided two all Jewish Tel Aviv bridge clubs. They robbed one club of 3200 dollars and smashed two slot machines before fleeing. In the second club they were scared off by an alarm. Meanwhile 1457 Jews aboard the Burma were detained on Cyprus after being intercepted by British forces.
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Jerusalem
Stern Gang
Tel Aviv
Palestine
Burma
Cyprus
Runnymede Park
Haifa
Nudist Breaks Out in Philadelphia Child Wanderings
Three year old Gayle Copeland wandered outside in the early morning chill. Meyer Evans, a local food store manager, found the child shivering and attempted to cover her. A street car motorman helped stop and return the girl to her guardians, Mr and Mrs George H Copeland, who installed extra bolts and chains on apartment doors.
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Philadelphia
Gayle Copeland
Meyer Evans
Evans
George H. Copeland
Gayle
Simplot Announces Plans For 5 Million Project
Jackson North Carolina report details a large development plan. The article mentions a major project by Simplot and outlines local economic expectations. It references state and city involvement and potential job impacts.
American Officers Buy German Art Stolen From Dutch
Berlin reports that six paintings stolen from the Netherlands by Nazis were bought in good faith by American military authorities for the offices of Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Gen. Frank A. Keating. The works, from a Berlin German decorating firm, included Van Dyck titled Portrait of a Woman and a Canaletto Grand Canal, with prices totaling 66 400 marks.
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Berlin
Netherlands
Lucidus D. Clay
Frank A Keating
Roemerhbad
Badenweiler
Baden
Vank
Bassano
Salvator Rosa
Canaletto
New clue in Refoule case ties rope to murder
Atlanta police announced a blood stained rope found hanging from a tree matched the clothes line at Mrs. Refoule home. They say she was strangled elsewhere and suspended by the rope in a secluded brush area by Peach Tree Creek, later dumped in the creek.
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Atlanta
Paul R. Refoule
Neil Ellis
Ellis
Pocatello Poppy Sale Collected 713 Dollars for Veterans
J A McQuillan announced the VFW Buddy poppy sale yielded more than five thousand flowers and 713 dollars to support welfare and rehabilitation of veterans. The annual event was held on Pocatello streets all day Saturday.
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VFW
J. A. McQuillan
Pocatello
Labor Party Faces Test at Five Day Mareate Conference
Seaside resort Mareate hosts a five day Labour Party meeting marked by criticisms of Britain's foreign policy and peacetime conscription. Debates center on Britain’s economic limits, borrowing from the United States, and reducing imports to meet dollar needs amid a heavy policy agenda.
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Mareate
Britain
The
New Statesman and Nation
Attlee
United States
Pioneer League Baseball Standings and Player Mentions
In the Pioneer League standings a series of team records and player names are listed, including Pocatello Salt Lake Twin Falls Ogden Boise Idaho Falls and individuals such as Glimpse Carroll Dudrey Henderson Sack Pirack Sevier Dempsey Kohout Brocker Prowse Danielson Taroy Spindel Roberts Bandy Foster Parrish Kelly Gilhousen Henkle Lamay and Tapp. The fragments indicate game scores and team positions with multiple rosters noted.
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Pocatello
Salt Lake
Glimpse
Carroll
Dudrey
Henderson
Sack
Pirack
Sevier
Dempsey
Kohout
Brocker
Boise
Idaho Falls
Roberts
Bandy
Foster, Parrish
Kelly
Gilhousen
Henkle
Lamay
Tapp
Democrats Cancel National Meeting For Western Leaders
The Democratic National Committee said on Saturday that a meeting of party leaders from Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington scheduled for May 29 in Washington was canceled. Executive director Gael Sullivan said attendance could be better arranged at a later date.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Gael Sullivan
National Committee
Indiana teacher acquitted in libel case involving student
An Indianapolis school teacher L Jackson, 32, was acquitted of charges of aiding delinquency of a Liberty High School girl and of fathering her infant. Doris Rawles testified to four intimate acts, but Dr John J Hardy said Jackson was impotent after a February 1946 auto crash that killed his first wife.
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South Bend, Inc
Russell L. Jackson
Indianapolis
Liberty
Ilol
Doris Rawles
Jackson
North Liberty
John J. Hardy
Truman reports mother Martha Truman weakening at 94
GRANDVIEW Mo. President Truman said his mother Martha E Truman, 94, was getting weaker and sleeping most of the time. He noted there was little change in her condition and planned to stay in the Kansas City area indefinitely as his physician advised against an immediate return to Washington.
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Northampton County
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
FBI
Grandview
Truman
Kansas City
Martha E. Truman
Tests Under Way on Indian Lands
Southeastern Idaho’s Simplot announces a 5 million dollar program to produce high concentrate phosphate fertilizer. Pilot operations are under way with full scale electric furnace plant planned if lab tests confirm. Officers appointed include J B Haffner as president and A H Shoemaker as vice president.
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SUN Valley
Idaho
J. R. Simplot
Idaho Mining Association
Simplot
J. B. Haffner
Kellore
Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining Co
John D. Bradley
Bradley Mining Co
San Francisco
A H. Shoemaker
Hailey
Manster
Triumph
Wallace G. Woolf
Kellogg
Henry L. Day
Wallace
Tom C. Russell
Conda
J. E. Berg
H. D. Bailey
Stib
Major Cities Fail in Local Dry Law Petitions in Idaho
petitions by temperance groups to ban liquor by the drink failed in Boise Pocatello and other large Idaho cities while Moscow Twin Falls and several smaller communities will hold June 17 elections. ACF backed filings though some cities lacked 20 percent voter signatures and thus could license drink establishments July 1 under the new law.
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Idaho
Moscow
Twin Falls
Boise
Pocatello
Harry Kessler
Allied Civic Forces
ACF
Kessler
Coeur d'Alene
Nampa
Caldwell
New York Launches Inquiry Into Relief and Airport Abuses
New York City begins a broad probe into municipal issues, likened to the Seabury era, with Monday start of state investigations into relief cases and a stern warning from Mayor William O'Dwyer to any city employee who missteps. The inquiry centers on welfare housing practices during a housing shortage, including 37 families placed in costly hotel suites and one family billed 640.52 monthly for six months amid alleged irregularities.
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New York
New York City
Seabury
Drapper
Jimmy Walker
William O'Dwyer
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