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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1949
Page
2
Reports from flood stricken south central China say swirling waters have left millions homeless and facing starvation. Home Minister Gen. Li Han Huen estimated 20 million homeless and 57 thousand drowned as new reports describe villages swept away by sudden cloudbursts.
Wilbur Plougher named best all around cowboy. He won bareback and saddle bronc titles and placed second in bulldogging. Event winners include Wilbur Plaugher in bareback, Wilbur Pier in Idle Bronc, Junior Turner in Calf Roping, and George Mills in Bull Riding among others.
Andre Davis, a Los Angeles policewoman who helped arrest vice queen nda Allen, testified that suspended vice squad Sgt. Charles Stoker burglarized a finance company while she waited in a car. Davis and Stoker, once Hollywood vice squad partners, faced each other in a preliminary hearing where she described their raids and her role in trapping Miss Allen.
U S forces across the Army Navy Air Force and Marines totaled 1 613 400 on June 30 a drop of 5 100 from May 31. The Army shrank by 7 800 largely due to expiring enlistments and officials say the decline is seasonal and no draft is needed now. The Marine Corps stood at 285 900 on June 30, down 1 000 from May 30.
Distributors and dealers of the non existent Tucker automobile formed the National Tucker Distributors and Dealers Assn. as a non profit organization to reorganize the Tucker Corp and produce the Tucker torpedo car. The group includes franchise holders representing about 700 original Tucker dealers.
Chinese Communists claim a new 400 mile offensive sweeping south through nationalist held areas. Three main columns under Gen Lin Po-Cheng press with heavy reinforcements of troops and artillery in what may be their final bid to control all of China.
Eight new polio cases were reported in Idaho on Monday raising the total since January 1 to 86. Seven cases were in Boise with Ada county recording 19 cases this year the highest county total. The Boise patients include girls aged 11 16 and 18 women aged 22 and 29 and boys aged 3 and 11.
A devastating blaze at a Swift and Company glue works building in the Chicago stockyard district caused about 250000 dollars in damage. The old five story structure on the second floor housed around 200 workers and was apparently empty when the fire began. Three firefighters suffered minor injuries while battling the flames.
Washington based U S News reports Russian teachers and parents are told to discard earlier Communist sex theories and adopt a conservative approach. The magazine notes Moscow may reembrace Western moral ideas as Soviet Education outlines a focus on marriage and divorce codes and early school abstinence from explicit sex instruction.
Pocatello firemen fought 45 minutes Sunday evening to extinguish a rear fire at an occupied house owned by John Droden at 1006 E Wyeth. Damage amount and cause were not determined by late Sunday night. the blaze was reported at 5 24 p m.
A convict takes up trombone while serving time and finds pleasure in his jail stretch. The story notes his hobby amid confinement and the positive mood it brings him.
A one-armed high school coach Walius C. McCluskey 47 of West Jefferson County High School was arrested after a Florida trip as police wrapped up a 17 person terrorism roundup in the Birmingham area. The mob violence spread to Fayette County with warrants for three men for farm youth flogging and another flogging reported there.
Government sources say the US aims to renew a five year secret pact that ships all Belgian Congo uranium ore to the United States. The current agreement is due to expire at month end. A second item notes a North Carolina cemetery custom of decorating graves with burned out electric light bulbs.
President Truman will address about 100000 Shrinedom attendees at Soldier's Field Chicago during the Shriners diamond jubilee convention. The event includes a parade and the opening of the shrine session with a 20 minute speech and an evening dinner honoring retiring imperial potentate. Harold Lloyd and Galloway Calhoun travel with the imperial party to attend.
Miss Hinton known as the queen of burlesque in eastern night club circles will bring color to the midway of the carnival on U S Highway 91. Her Gay Girlie Revue marks the first time a real burlesque show is presented under canvas at a carnival, adding spice to the entertainment lineup.
The Idaho department of the American Legion will descend on Weiser July 23 27 for its annual convention and auxiliary gathering. Jack McQuade will direct the convention affairs and Mrs Helen F Jordan auxiliary president Boise will guide the auxiliary group.
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