Local Slayer Mum as Court Airs Crime
In Ogden a preliminary hearing for Richard Dikk, 23, of Pocatello Idaho, on first degree murder charges in the death of Shirley B. Scott opened. Exhibits included stained bed sheets and a social security card fragment from Roosevelt hotel belongings. Dr. Ralph Ellis testified death resulted from strangulation. William Masters identified the defendant with a blonde woman at hotel registering as a married couple. The hearing was moved to a district court room due to crowd size.
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Ogden
Richard Dix K
Pocatello
Idaho
Murd Éer
Shirley B. Soott
Toom No. 2
Roosevelt Hotel
Ray M. Clawson
Clawson
J. Quill Nebeker
M. Blaine Peterson
Dan A. Alsup
Wade M. Johnson
Pack
Ralph Ellis
William M. Masters
Beauties vie for Miss America crown in Atlantic City
Atlantic City hosts 52 contestants in the Miss America 1949 pageant with 18 finalists to be named after three judged segments. A four mile parade opened the event drawing an estimated 250000 spectators as 1948 winner Bebe Shopp rode a float toward the boardwalk.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Bebe Shopp
Hopkins
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Canada
June Barlow
Bountiful
Utah
Berlin settlement proposal sparks Cold War chatter
Reports from Berlin and Hamburg based on Dagens Nyheter claim Russia offered a six point Berlin settlement. The plan includes recognition of Bonn and East zone government, Western administration over Soviet Berlin, and a 2.25 East mark to West mark rate. A U.S. official called it another Communist trial balloon.
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Geringiy
Toaay
Russia
Berlin
Germany
London
Britain
Bonn
Ruhr Valley
U. S
Heirs of War Prisoners Freed of Tax
Idaho Attorney General rules money paid under the war claims act to heirs of civilian employees who died as Japanese prisoners on Guam Wake and the Philippines is exempt from inheritance tax. Richard L. Riordan asked if such heirs were subject to tax. Smylie says the award is not property transferred by will or intestate law since the deceased could not have possessed the property when the law was enacted.
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Boise (P
Pacific Islands
Idaho
Atty
Robert E. Smylie
Richard L. Riordan
Guam
Wake
Philippines
Congress
Smylie
School Trustees Elected in District 25 Vote Count
In District 25 ISD trustees election Arthur B. Scott Cece Stephenson and Grant Swell won. Total votes 1121 with Scott defeating William Shields 248 to 128 for Zone 3. Swell led Zone 2 unopposed with 357. Stevenson won Zone 4 with 353 votes. Write-ins received scattered support.
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Arthur B. Scott
Cece Stephenson
Grant Swell
Verne Hurst
Scott
Willian W. Shields
Ling
Shields
Irate crowds boo British at New York dock
About 700 pickets greeted the British delegation led by Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and Chancellor Sir Stafford Cripps as they debarked from the Mauretania in New York. Demonstrators shouted slogans criticizing British policy and empire.
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New York
Wash
Ernest Bevin
Stafford Cripps
Mauretania
City Schools See 6416 Students Attend First Day
Attendance across eleven city schools totals 6416 pupils, up 337 from last year. High school enrolls 1650, Franklin 502, Irving 516, Bonneville 317, Emerson 360, Jefferson 716, Lincoln 292, Roosevelt 508, Tyhee 230, Washington 817, Whitmer 508.
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Irving Junior High School
Franklin
Irving
Bonneville
Emerson
Jefferson
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Tyhee
Washington
Whittier
Two Alleged Auto Thieves Nabbed Here
Russell McGee and Alton Connor were arrested in the 200 block East Lander at 4 30 a m by Officers Phelps and Rountree. They faced charges of auto theft and taking a billfold containing 30 dollars from Idaho Falls man R G Nelson after a drinking party. Also in the car were Alfonzo English Ozie Johnnie McIntosh and Otis Cornet.
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Pocatello City
Idaho Falls
Russell McGee
Alton Connor
East Lander
Phelps and
Rountree
R. G. Nelson
Alfonzo English
Ozie Johnnie McIntosh
Otis Cornet
Pocatello Woman Missing Five Days Found in New York
Mildred Abbotts of 91415 North Main who vanished Friday morning was located Tuesday in Ossining New York. Her husband James F. Abbotts says she contacted him from his son's New York home and suspects she wrote several overdrafted checks. He asks holders of such checks to notify him to cover them.
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Mildred Abbotts
North Main
Ossining
N. Y
James F. Abbotts
the Tribune
New York
Abbotts
Editor Speaks Tune In On Nicholas
The FFT Editor of the Pocatello Tribune invites listeners to tune in each Wednesday at 7 15 p m on KEYY 1240 The Voice of Greater Pocatello for his editorial segment.
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Greater Pocatello
Friends Take Local Man For $64 Ride
A Pocatello man, Arthur Parker, 67, says he was invited to ride by two strangers at the Denver Bar on East Side. They stopped near American Falls on Highway 30 and stole his billfold with $64 and papers. He reported the robbery to Officer Alfred Nogo at 3:30 a.m. near Westvaco.
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Pocatello
Arthur Parker
West
Hayden Street
Denver
Parker
American Falls
Highway 30
Alfred Nogo
Westvaco
Swede Check Artist Warns Idaho Merchants
Police warn Pocatello merchants after Malad Soda Springs and St. Anthony report a phony check artist issuing fictitious checks in three towns. Suspect uses aliases John Pederson John Anderson Henry Gooding George Nelson John Jenson and John Olson claiming varied roles from dude rancher to sheepherder. Chief Nelson urges no checks from strangers.
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Pocatello
Soda Springs
Malad
St. Anthony
John Pederson
John Anderson
Henry R. Gooding
George R. Nelson
John Jenson
John Olson
Guy Nelson
Truman Leaders Demand Quick Trade Agreement
Senator George urged rapid Senate passage of the reciprocal trade agreements bill with no amendments as the administration faces Republican critics. Malone offered a rival flexible import fee, while both noted British dollar crisis talks and the measure’s urgency under President Truman.
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Washington
George
Senate
Sen. Malone
R-Ney
Malone
House
Senate Finance Committee
Two More Polio Victims Hospitalized in Gate City
Polio cases rose at St. Anthony Mercy hospital as two more children joined the ward Tuesday night. Authorities report fourteen patients in the polio ward, including a 15 month old from Moreland and a five year old from Moreland.
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Gate City
St. Anthony Mercy Hospital
Moreland
City Bowling League Opens With High Scores
Halliwell bowlers led the season start on Tuesday night posting a team high of 2,495. Clarence Stephenson had the top series at 576 and Joe Borowy rolled the high game with 229.
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Halliwell
Clarence Stephenson
Joe Borowy
Lodge Meeting Called After Summer Recess
Po catello Lodge of Perfection will meet at 8 pm Thursday in the Masonic temple. First meeting after summer break. Balloting on proposals and petitions to be conducted, per secretary C. D. Clay.
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Pocatello Lodge of Perfection
Masonic Temple
C. D. Clay
New Council Formed to Aid Workers in Pocatello
A placement council to assist employees displaced at the Pocatello naval ordnance plant was formed in Mayor W. W. Halsey’s office. W. B. Cox of the Idaho State Employment office will finish employee classification by week’s end and urged local employers to hire before seeking outside workers. The group follows news that 509 of 589 plant employees face discharge by December 1 under a Defense Department economy move led by Secretary Louis Johnson. Members include Halsey, Cox, Lavern C. Johnson, Vern Hershberger, and Frank Gracey.
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Pocatello Naval Ordnance Plant
W. W. Halsey
W. B. Cox
Idaho State Employment Office
Cox
Naval Plant
Department of Defense
Louis Johnson
Halsey
Lavern C. Johnson
Vern Hershberger
Frank Gracey
Cripps Bevin Seek Speed For Spending
Britain’s Bevin and Cripps arrived in Washington for three power talks with the United States and Canada. They seek to accelerate dollar spending on strategic materials under the Marshall plan and to ease the Anglo American loan terms while defending Britain’s socialist programs.
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Cripps
Bevin
State Department
Britain
Oil Promoter Forfeits Bail In Indecent Exposure Case
Robert R. Sidebotham, 61, Denver and Utah oil promoter, forfeited a $500 cash bond after failing to appear in Justice of the Peace Charles W. Hyde's court. Arrested by police in Pocatello August 26, he faced charges from a Pocatello man and Brigham City Utah authorities and was questioned in the Gretzinger murder case. Bail had been set at $1,000 and reduced to $500 at a habeas corpus hearing before District Judge L. E. Glennon. He was to appear today before a six man jury in Hyde's court.
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Justice of the
Charles W. Hyde
Robert R. Sidebotham
Denver
Utah
Sidebotham
Pocatello
Brigham City
Gretzinger
Orden
War vet kills 13 in River Road massacre
Howard Unruh, 28, a war veteran, killed 13 people on River Road in Camden. Four psychiatrists questioned his sanity as prosecutors prepared for possible immediate indictment and death by electrocution if found sane.
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Howard Unruh
River Road
Unruh
Cohen
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