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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1948
Page
1
Veterans of Foreign Wars leaders finalize a plan to finance a state veterans bonus and loans through legalized gambling taxes. The proposal would put a statewide ballot initiative in November and target WWI and interwar service veterans.
Fruitland Emmett and Payette recorded temperatures down to 25 to 27 degrees for nine to ten hours damaging fruit crops. C. F. Keller reports the peach crop wiped out, cherry damage around 50 percent, apples and prunes also affected at a critical frost stage.
The weatherman says expect cloudy skies and showers with a cooler high near 50 and a low around 32 tonight. Light frost possible as temperatures dip.
The May 11 rail strike threat loomed as government talks stalled after eight weeks of talks. Labor groups pressed wage demands across industries while CIO packinghouse workers mobilized 1500 pickets in Chicago and unions threatened nationwide action.
A bus and a car collided three miles east of Chandler Arizona killing six people and injuring 23. The car sped through a boulevard stop at 45 mph, smashing into the bus at the driver’s seat. The dead include driver Coleman R Winner 39 Phoenix Helen Carter 45 Coolidge Tives Terry 33 Coolidge and three unidentified girls. a Mesa boy hospitalized is not expected to survive.
A crowd of Missouri students at the Columbia courthouse lawn delayed Henry A. Wallace's speech for 15 minutes before about 3,000 people. After Wallace urged free assembly and free speech, the heckling stopped and he delivered a 35 minute address as a spectator waved a hammer and sickle.
A. E. Willett from Western State College in Colorado was appointed basketball coach at Idaho State College in Pocatello. He succeeds Walt Carte and will report Sept 1 as assistant professor of physical education and head coach. Willett has a Bachelor of Arts in physical education from the College of Wooster and a Master of Science in physical education from Northwestern. He coached Illinois high schools for four years with a 100–19 record, and his Western State team went 8–14 last season. He is 6 feet 6 inches tall, married with a child, and will begin his duties in September.
Moscow asks citizens for a 20 billion ruble loan to support reconstruction and fulfill the first postwar five year plan. Agitators’ notebook urges workers to contribute three to four weeks’ pay, voluntary. Pravda notes spring planting lagging in southeastern Russia and Siberia.
The House committee backed a two year draft for men 19 to 25 to field 2,005,882 troops by 1950, bypassing universal military training. The bill sets 18 to 30 registrants, with exemptions for WW II vets and special regimes for doctors, students, and conscientious objectors.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York denounced Harold Stassen’s plan to outlaw the Communist Party as unconstitutional immoral and totalitarian. He called the proposal an abject surrender to totalitarian methods while campaigning for the Republican nomination at Grant High School in Portland Oregon.
Guy Lombardo’s crew failed to beat the American speedboat record at Desert Beach California and he said no further attempts would be made at this time.
A local reader returns eyeglasses found in the 300 block of North Johnson.inspector Pugmire says no police reports in over 22 hours Saturday. Miss Lettie Rice is nominated for a national teaching award by former pupil Rolla Gay Severson. A Whizzer motor bike was stolen from 239 East Lewis Street.
Britain asks the United Nations to suspend all proposals and establish a neutral authority in Palestine to administer the holy land during Arab Jewish fighting. Arthur Creech Jones says this stop gap would operate until the mandate ends, with the UN later taking over. The Red Cross offered to handle health and welfare services as Jerusalem battles threaten its mixed holy population. The plan prioritizes a short term UN action with possible postponement of longer trusteeship options.
Three American soldiers who disappeared in the Soviet sector of Berlin were turned over to United States military police after 36 hours in Russian custody. They said they were held in a Russian prison in a Berlin suburb, where one had allegedly fired a pistol to impress a German girl. they described decent treatment but complained of a meager diet.
The Supreme Court upheld states' right to tax oleomargarine while a bill to repeal federal oleo taxes stalled in the Senate.
London reports a colonial office spokesman fixed the exact moment the British mandate over Palestine ends at midnight May 14. A foreign office spokesman said troop withdrawal will complete by August 1 despite continued reinforcement in the Holy Land.
Irish war bride Bridget Waters, serving a one to five year term for shooting her American husband in Las Vegas in 1946, was granted parole by the Nevada state parole board. She faces immediate deportation to England and release within days to U. S. immigration authorities, after a surprise, notice-less board action.
Grant L. Stowell reports four precincts backed a 19 mill levy on property valued at 14,872,476 to fund school operations maintenance and a separate 1 mill for playground facilities. The plan allocates eight mills for schools, seven mills for maintenance, two mills emergency, totaling 18 to 19 mills per dollar and an estimated 727,622.47 revenue for 1948 49.
Hollywood report states film actor Richard Quine confirms his separation from paralyzed actress Susan Peters and expects she will file for divorce. Peters is at her brother's ranch near San Luis Obispo after leaving their home. they wed November 7, 1943, and a hunting accident left her paralyzed, yet she continued work in film and radio.
Washington. A NACA spokesman said test pilot Howard Cly was killed when the Douglas Skystreak trans sonic research plane crashed at Muroc Air Base California during a flight near the speed of sound. Pilot Lilly, 30, was testing the navy plane.
Industrialist Howard Hughes says a tentative deal to buy a major stake in RKO Pictures would let him dominate the studio. Floyd Odlum confirms a similar agreement on the Atlas Corp. holdings of RKO stock, aiming to unify management and control.
A tornado carved a 12 mile path through McKinney and nearby Princeton injuring many and killing at least two people. property damage nears two million dollars as rescue crews search wrecked homes and factories. A national guard unit was deployed to guard the damaged area.
A three nation truce commission leaves for Amman to confer with Arab leaders while British forces reinforce Jerusalem. Navy ships and a cruiser join the blockade near Jaffa as 2 000 troops arrive in Haifa and Jaffa raising the garrison to about 5 000.
The Supreme Court ruled that racial covenants barring Negroes and other minorities from white neighborhoods cannot be legally enforced. Chief Justice Vinson issued the decision with no dissents, while Justices Jackson Reed and Rutledge recused themselves. The ruling asserts states denied equal protection of the laws in such covenants.
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