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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1948
Page
1
The article describes the Idaho VFW proposing a state funded veteran welfare bonus paid to war and overseas service members, financed by bonds and legalized gambling licenses. They aim to issue bonds to fund the $20 million plan and retire them via gambling revenue with per game license fees. the plan targets voter initiative rather than legislative action.
Rome reports Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza dismissed Italy’s Communist ambassador to Poland Ambrogio Donini for returning to campaign for the Communist party in defiance of orders. Permission requests for ambassadors in London Rio de Janeiro Sofia Bern and Budapest were denied. The action awaits cabinet approval after elections.
Oakland police investigated a streetcar theft in east Oakland. A lone thief took the car and fled 12 blocks before abandoning it as a pursuing crew closed in. Dispatcher R. E. Hawes cited a possible drunken operator or disgruntled motorman as the culprit or combo of both.
The St Joseph Altar Society hosts a 5 p m Thursday all evening dinner at St Joseph's basement to benefit the Altar Society. Tickets sold at the door. Detective Guy Nelson weighs a move to join Los Angeles police but cites skid row as a reason to stay in Pocatello. Local notes recountimes of a journalists odd day and a PTA meeting with minor scuffle at the fire engine scene.
Jaycees lead start of citywide Clean Up Week by sweeping the old subway and washing storefront facades. The street department operates a new $4,800 truck along Main and nearby streets while residents prepare piles of leaves and trash for city pickup. Fire Chief A A Girard warns dirty heating plants and old roofs pose fire risk and urges cleaning furnaces and upgrading roofing with fire retardant materials.
Mrs. May Wallace, 80, mother of Henry A. Wallace, third party presidential candidate, died last night of bron chial pneumonia in Des Moines. Henry Wallace and Mrs. McLay rushed to her bedside after being notified her condition had become critical.
In Grosvenor Square London a bronze statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt was unveiled on the third anniversary of his death. About fifteen thousand attendees including British nobility, commoners, American soldiers, and civilians attended the ceremony. Eleanor Roosevelt pulled the cord to reveal the sculpture as buglers played reveille. The scene included royalty, Prime Minister Attlee, sculptor Sir William Reid Dick, and Churchill, with ponds bearing the four freedoms.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur plans to remain in the Republican presidential contest, an aide cables from Oshkosh after Wisconsin results. William J. Campbell urges him not to quit, noting Nebraska and Wisconsin as minor skirmishes and praising the general’s resolve.
Three men broke into the Topper Supper Club in Idaho Falls before 3 a.m. They knocked out night watchman Frank Zollinger and escaped with about 2300 dollars. Detectives say the trio rifled six slot machines and the club’s cash box after breaking a window. the club had closed at midnight.
Reports from Bogota show sharp censorship during the revolt after the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Interventor Lucia E De Ritter halted all traffic at All-America cables and Marconi Wireless, with ministers of communications enforcing restrictions on what could be sent.
Secretary of State George Marshall blamed international Communism for the Bogota uprising that halted the Pan American conference. He warned the clash could derail the conference and risk broader Cold War consequences as heavy fighting and casualties mounted in downtown Bogota.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey charged in a radio address to Nebraska voters that the Truman administration's failure to retain wartime South American intelligence services endangered American lives in Colombia. He warned the action left the U.S. exposed as a Pan American conference proceeded amid unrest and revolutionary activity in the region.
Reports from Guatemala City say Gen. Jose Figueres forces have landed 400 men and captured Puerto Limón, driving toward San José while government troops retreat and a top Costa Rican airman is killed in a crash. Ed Thomas is urged to leave within 24 hours as tensions rise.
Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko told the UN Security Council that the United States orchestrated events leading to Czechoslovakia's fall and accused Washington of meddling in Prague's internal affairs. He said U S intrigue backfired as Moscow rejected Western calls for inquiry into communist takeover.
The forecast says partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures. Highs expected between 48 and 53 degrees, with overnight lows from 30 to 35 degrees.
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