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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1948
Page
4
The Pocatello Post publishes editorials by David A. Robinson editor and Theron C. Liddle managing editor. The paper, issued daily and Sundays from 334 North Main Street Idaho, lists subscriptions at 1.25 monthly by carrier or mail.
A condensed study tracing Marx and Engels to Lenin and Stalin, contrasting utopian aims with real Soviet practice. It notes failed world revolution, the dictatorship of a central clique, and growing inequality under five year plans, questioning whether the century was the hardest yet.
The piece mocks a young man accused of marrying eight women in five years, noting he had 19 cents left when caught and joking that surviving wives and prices make him a financial prodigy. It then quotes several education and political figures on governance, atomics, and wartime roles, reflecting tone of commentary and satire.
Eleanor Roosevelt travels to Kingston to receive a Doctor of Law honorary degree at Queen's University. She attends convocation and a luncheon, meets faculty and Rotary members, and plans a Wiltwyck school drive. She notes cross border friendship between Canada and the United States and praises Quebec's French heritage within a unified nation.
Two federal inmates, Themen and Edson Pratt, 50, and Patrick M. Eddy, 23, who fled a guard on a Union Pacific train, boarded another train to continue to Los Angeles. They robbed a post office substation, overpowered a guard, stole guns, kidnapped a Salt Lake motorist, and eluded posses before a patrolman halted the escape near Morgan, Utah.
Billy Rose recalls Willie the Wailer, a weary reporter whose wife Edna begs for sensational tales. He tells of elopement mishaps, gunshot blood, and the lure of By-Line Billingsly and Front-Page Farrell. Edna’s belief in heroic journalism persists despite truth.
A Democrat writer urges restraint on a White House balcony project while expressing support for Truman. He cites world events and past leaders to warn against temptation, preferring practical spending such as a rumpus room or aviary over a balcony.
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Drew Pearson reports European leaders fear a US Soviet clash more than regional wars. He highlights Italy Greece Palestine as flashpoints and notes Soviet moves in Albania and Greece, warning Washington to watch the Balkans while considering U S troops abroad. Ore shipments from Minnesota in 1947 totaled 62,131,362 tons.
Burglar crew smashed a Griffin Wellpoint safe and stole 300 dollars. They then raided the company kitchen and helped themselves to soup ham eggs coffee and a bottle of Scotch. The incident appears in a New York report from the era.
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