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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1948
Page
2
In a Washington column a wire haired fox terrier Muff supposedly speaks with a human voice about race memories and dog intelligence. The narrator questions the talking dog while Muff warns not to reveal the conversation as no one would believe it.
Revolt interrupts a Bogota parley as miners demand pensions and a bad walkout disrupts talks. GOP aspirants clash in primaries, with editorials noting analysts' opinions.
In Bogota Colombia a peaceful afternoon shattered when gunfire killed Liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. Riots left 300 dead, widespread destruction, and Colombia severed relations with Soviet Russia as the Inter American Conference faced collapse amid Communist allegations. A new coalition cabinet formed with Liberals and Conservatives.
John L. Lewis faced contempt of court as half a million miners return to work after a 28 day strike. A deal shaped by Speaker Joseph Martin and Sen Styles Bridges grants $100 monthly pensions to 62 year olds with 20 years service, ending the dispute and shifting influence away from the White House.
Wisconsin voters granted Harold Stassen 19 of 27 GOP delegates while Douglas MacArthur won eight. Dewey earned no delegates, and Stassen’s victory broadens his national stature as primaries move to Nebraska Ohio and Oregon with California finale in June.
The 10 year treaty binds Finland to fight within its borders if either nation is attacked and commits the two nations to joint action against Germany or allied powers. Stalin hailed the accord as equal and expressed hope for improved relations. Finland gains protection without losing sovereignty while aligning with Russia on its western border.
Secretary Forrestal tells the House Armed Services Committee that Russia has the knowledge to assemble an atomic bomb and may soon gain the industrial capacity to produce it. He cites Dr. Vannevar Bush for the claim that scientific know how exists, though Russia lacks current production. Forrestal says the timing of Soviet industrial capacity remains unknown.
Veterans Administration reports that nearly half of 5,245,000 WWII veterans entering GI bill education programs left their courses. More than 400,000 completed, with 382,000 benefiting the GI bill and others via rehabilitation for the disabled. Many plan to return later.
Dr. R. W. Krebs of Baton Rouge Louisiana predicts gasoline produced from coal will cost 10 to 15 cents more per gallon than present gasoline but will provide a supply lasting about 1,000 years. He notes shortages would not be a concern as coal gasoline enters general use.
The 1948 first quarter report from President Truman’s Council of Economic Advisers urges nationwide discipline to curb inflation as defense outlays rise. It labels the tax cut law inflationary and calls for taxes if defense spending is not offset, while Congress debates price and wage controls and Marshall Plan effects.
In New York City the salvage division sells municipal possessions including 500 grams of radioactive gold and 165 grams of gold, 250 city pigs, a ferry boat, two fire engines, scows, steam rollers, and a large stock of civilian defense items such as gas masks, iron lungs, batteries, helmets, stretchers, and other remnants from city operations.
In Des Moines a 12 year old boy named Walter Davis used a flying tackle to stop a roaming goat that had previously evaded two patrolmen by leaping from a church roof. After a chased across yards and a 4 foot fence, the boy finally grabbed the goat and held on.
In Gaffney South Carolina, Mrs Hester Porter Thompson waited for Marine Pfe Edgar Dean Thompson killed in action on Guadalcanal. His body returned for burial on native soil and a double funeral followed as mother and son lay together at last.
A column bundling rumors claims state policy enabled hundreds of foreign arrivals labeled as Russian commercial attaches. It links the immigration to alleged GPU activity, cites 1933 visa exceptions, and critiques U.S. authorities while touching on Hollywood figures and political figures in a broad, expressive air.
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