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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1948
Page
1
The piece argues Utah fishermen flood Idaho streams drawing border ire. It laments nonresident fishing, suggests stopping Utah-licensed anglers through permit limits, while warning of potential retaliatory moves and stresses desire for genuine tourists who spend locally.
Washington sources report a bipartisan plan to keep U S policy toward Russia above campaign squabbling. An ironclad agreement would open most foreign policy questions for debate while reserving the gold war from contention.
Hollywood coroner reports Carole Landis drank heavily and killed herself with sleeping pills, the same drug linked to Lupe Velez. Blood alcohol was .12, pills prescribed October 26, 1946, no inquest planned, and friends cite a heartbreak. Rex Harrison denies romantic involvement.
Oklahoma delegates to the Democratic national convention will attend a draft Eisenhower caucus, Governor Roy J. Turner said. He called the action healthy and said they want to know the whole picture at the convention.
Police Chief R. J. Roubidoux and Captain L. Frank McKinnon left Wednesday for Salt Lake City to attend the funeral of Captain McKinnon’s sister Mrs. Naomi Chriswell formerly Naomi McKinnon. Another sister is Mrs. Frank J. Campbell living at 1253 East Lewis, formerly Gladys McKinnon.
Thomas F. Proctor testifies before a House expenditures subcommittee that U S railroads gouged the government out of a billion dollars in wartime freight rates and urges ICC investigation or abolition. James E Kilday recalls government officials were drawn from the railroads, with about a dozen officials to be questioned next month.
National newspaper advertising in May showed a 12 percent rise from May last year and a 4 percent gain over April, per Printers Ink. Magazines and radio tracked weaker gains with magazines up 1 percent from 1947 and 3 percent above April, while radio climbed 8 percent year over year but fell 1 percent from April.
Maj. Gen. Kenneth F. Cramer head of the National Guard bureau inspected Gowen Field facilities in Boise. He called the Idaho National Guard tops in the nation, citing the 190th fighter squadron and the 116th ordnance company maintenance shop. Cramer noted funds could be available for armory construction if Idaho participates, but Brig. Gen. Walsh said state funds are not currently available and legislative action would be needed.
In Phoenix, former White House darling Sistie Dall, 20, wed Van H. Seagraves, 25, of Portland. Eleanor Roosevelt and Curtis Boettiger attended via family ties. The ceremony at the Boettiger home had no witnesses or photographers.
Two Idaho Falls youths, seventeen year olds Richard Spencer and DeWayne Hansen, were charged with burglary of Glenn's Motors in Idaho Falls. They were arrested in Brigham City after escaping on a motorcycle and brought to Bannock county jail. Police listed stolen items and said Spencer worked as a dishwasher while Hansen was a service station attendant.
The government finished a formal inquiry into charges by the ten largest steel companies that John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers are seeking an illegal union shop in the 1948 wage contract. The National Labor Relations Board aide report is said to indicate violations of the Taft-Hartley law.
Three CIO union officials from Local 65 of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union of America refused to answer if they were Communists during a congressional sub committee hearing in New York. The witnesses defied the four member panel despite a warning that contempt proceedings could follow.
Indianapolis report states Daniel J. Tobin, head of the AFL Teamsters Union and Democratic leader for 16 years, refused an invitation to address the party at its national convention in Philadelphia next week.
Actor Clark Gable entered a Fifth Avenue building and wandered into Ruth Merton falsie offices by mistake. Staff prepared to fit him with prosthetic bosom parts before he realized the error and slipped away via a fire escape.
The Pocatello BPOE lodge 674 team won national honors at a Philadelphia convention, scoring 98.42 out of 100. Attending were Robert Gallafant exalted ruler and others, with Hinckley coaching. San Rafael placed second and Danville third. first prize was $500. The team returns to Gate City on Saturday.
Government reports powerful Nationalist armies defeated 14 Communist units totaling about 200000 troops in East Henan Province. The operation is described as smashing the Reds main strength in central China and was announced by the government on Wednesday.
Mark Manley announced in Pocatello he will retire after 16 years as Bannock County Assessor. He praised county staff and urged qualified experience for successors. Two contenders, Republican Charles W. Stoddard and Democrat H. W. Lasley, have filed to replace him.
Pocatello war veterans gathered at Memorial Hall to form a central council uniting all veteran groups regardless of color or creed. They named a temporary chairman and planned a July 22 meeting while outlining a participation plan and a local relief fund to support veterans and fund a club building.
Sen. Patrick McCarren of Nevada issued a strong critique of the administration over the railroad dispute involving carriers and the engineers firemen and switchmen unions. He argued the Washington issued permanent injunctions nullify the labor act and exceed Taft-Hartley emergency provisions. He urged action from Sparks Nevada union officials and pledged to oppose the government’s stance while en route to Reno after Mayo Clinic surgery.
Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath forecast a first ballot nomination for President Truman at next week’s convention in Philadelphia and a November defeat of the Dewey Warren ticket. He said Truman’s cabinet believes the Eisenhower boom is permanently busted. McGrath arrived to finalize convention plans as resolitions committee members work on a party platform agreement.
In Greenville South Carolina two U S Air Force pilots were killed when their C 47 transport crashed and burned during an emergency maneuver at the Greenville air force base. Brig Gen J W Crabb said next of kin notification pending and withheld names.
The aged battleship New York, survivor of two world wars and two atomic bombs, capsized and sank off the Hawaiian Islands today amid rocket and light bomb attack before post war weapons tests could be conducted on the fleet’s “grand old lady.”
In St Ignace Michigan a black bear about 200 pounds seized three year old Carol Ann Pomeranky from her home steps and dragged her into woods while her mother chased with a broom. About 50 farmers forest rangers and state police tracked and shot the bear a quarter mile from the body. the child was found two hours later.
Sympathy strikes continued in Pennsylvania coal mines as 14 500 workers in 42 open market mines refused to work in support of captive miners seeking a union shop contract. Production elsewhere in coal states neared normal.
A small quake struck San Francisco at 7 37 p m Wednesday night with no damage reported. Hundreds felt two light rolling shocks as the temblor touched off by the San Andreas fault rattled windows and chandeliers.
Minnesota Senator Joseph H. Ball filed to seek the Republican nomination for another six-year term defending his eight-year Senate record. He addressed reporters in St Paul noting his support for defense and fiscal policies.
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