Yankees Fly Over Hungary in Heavy Air Battles
Berlin radio reported violent air battles over Budapest with 14 U S planes downed. German sources claimed American escorted bombers faced destroyers and fighters as raids hit Steyr Austria and Hungarian targets. Berlin said 51 American planes were shot down and heavy anti aircraft fire marked the Steyr mission. The raid involved over 500 Fortresses and Liberators with escort fighters despite fierce opposition.
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London
Hungary
Berlin
Budapest
U. S
DNB
Frankfurt
Calais
Germany
Italy
Steyr
Austria
Hannover
Krefeld
Aachen
Alps
Yanks Strike Across Southwest Pacific in Four Night Attacks
Allied forces report capture of two hills near Bougainville and advance toward Bogadjim in New Guinea as heavy air raids hit Rabaul Ponape Truk and Marshalls. Allied airmen claim multiple ships sunk and fires set with planes returning safely from the missions.
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Associated Press
Rabaul
New Britain
Truk
Ponape
Central Pacific
Dublin
Central Island
Truk Atoll
Caroline
Marshalls
Factories Set New Record In March War Plane Output
Washington report by War Production Board official Charles E. Wilson says March produced 9,118 war planes, surpassing prior records by nine percent. He notes this could signal a peak month for aircraft production. April schedules aim for fewer planes. The March rate implied 109,416 planes annually and surpassed 100 million pounds of airframe weight.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
Wilson
Army
Navy
Aircraft Production Board
Sabath Proposes Army Officers Out in the Field
Rep. Sabath launches a one man inquiry into claims that 30 000 army officers sit idle in cocktail lounges and swivel chairs. He seeks explanations from the secretary of war undersecretary of war Gen George C Marshal and Lt Gen Brehon Somervell about officers not gaining field experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sabath
D.-Ill
Army
George C. Marshal
Brehon B. Somervell
Rotary club past presidents nominate slate for April 27 election
The Pocatello Rotary Club past presidents council met at luncheon and nominated Fergus Briggs for president and three vice presidential candidates William S. Cady E P Calph and I E McDougall. For the board of directors three to be elected are F C Corbett Terrell J B Blackhurst Ed Potter Ray J Davis and John Lund. Finis Bentley was nominated to succeed himself as secretary.
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The
Pocatello Rotary Club
Fergus Briggs
William 5. Cady
E. P. Calph
I. E. McDougall
F. C. (Corbett) Terrell
J. B. Blackhurst
Ed Potter
Ray J. Davis
John Lund
Finis Bentley
Democrats to Meet June 30 for Idaho Platform
State Democratic Chairman Robert Coulter set June 30 as the platform convention date in Boise. The gathering will draft the general election platform and choose a state chairman, with a Lewiston delegate convention on June 5 to pick national committeeman, committeewoman, and Idaho delegates to the national convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Robert Coulter
State Central Committee
Coulter
Lewiston
Idaho
Destroyer Fires on Three US Boats at Eniwetok Atoll
A Pacific fleet report says a U S destroyer shelled three American landing craft at Eniwetok Atoll on February 22 by error. Thirteen sailors were killed and 46 wounded as both ships were out of position and visibility was restricted.
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Washington
U.S
Eniwetok Atoll
Navy
Eisenhower to Kempton Referred as Personal Friend
Mrs. Kempton in Buhl Idaho received a telephone call from Allied Invasion Chief General Dwight D. Eisenhower stating that Lt. Col. Alvin Kempton, stationed abroad, was well. The message came from a reliable source claiming Eisenhower called him a personal friend.
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Buhl
Idaho
Alvin Kempton
Idaho Trails U S Average in Men in Armed Service
Idaho lags the national rate for military age men with 35.3 percent in service against 41.4 percent nationwide. A Washington directive urged local boards to sharply cut deferments for men under 26, with emphasis on farm deferments and 20 Idaho boards flagged for excess agricultural deferments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
M. G. McConnel
Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Harshey
Camas
Lincoln
Twin Falls No. 2
Buhl
Bingham
Butte
Allied Flame Attack Repulsed At Beachhead Near Rome
Allied headquarters report German flame throwers led an assault by about 150 infantry on the left flank of the beachhead below Rome. German tanks advanced four miles west of Cisterna but were driven back by artillery as Italian troops seize a new peak in the center of the front.
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Naples
Rome
Fifth Army
Carroceto
Cisterna
Idaho Sales Rise Utah Sales Drop
February sales of independent retailers rose three percent from a year ago but fell two percent from January. Florida led the 34 states, up 25 percent. Idaho up six. Wyoming up seven. Michigan down thirteen. Utah down seven.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Florida
Idaho
Wyoming
Michigan
Utah
Weather Summary for Pocatello and Vicinity
Partly cloudy today and tonight with warmer conditions in the southeast. The 24 hour period ending noon April 3 at Pocatello Municipal Airport shows a high of 62 and a low of 26 with a mean of 44. Precipitation is 0 for the period and month to date. Sun sets at 7:58 and rises at 7:07.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Scccee
Ogden Officer Dies in Crash Near Midnight
Captain Stuart S. Healy, 37, Q M C, commanding officer of the 247th quartermaster depot company, Utah army service forces, Ogden, was killed in an automobile accident. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Berman was seriously injured. Healy, a graduate of Amherst, served since 1942 and is survived by his widow Martha Mahoney Healy of Casper, a son Patsy, a sister Patricia Irwin, and a brother Lt. Patrick Healy III. An official investigation is underway.
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Ogden
Stuart S. Healy
247Th Quartermaster Depot Company
Utah
Army Service Forces Depot
Elizabeth F. Berman
Healy
Patrick Healy
Amherst College
Northampton
Mass
Army
Wyoming
Casper
Martha Mahoney Healy
Patrick Healy III
Navy
Patricia
Patsy) Healy
Patricia Irwin
A. J. Irwin
Paso Robles
Calif
Secret society of youths alleged to desecrate flag and Bible
Jackson police disclosed an investigation into a boys secret society named The State. A 16 year old pupil claimed leadership and said members aim to take government in 15 or 20 years. The group produced pamphlets attacking minorities and carried blackjacks, knives, badges and symbols.
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Jackson
Mich
Fred Foster
England
Foster
Japanese pressure at Imphal no air drops needed says Mountbatten
Allied headquarters in New Delhi states Imphal garrison will be supplied by land if required and that air drops are unnecessary. Japanese patrols cut roads around Imphal while other units and the Tamu Palel route face artillery fire. Burmese front seen quiet with twelve Japanese planes destroyed.
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Imphal
Manipur
India
New Delhi
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Tiddam
Tamu-Palel
India-Burma
Arakan
Burma
Pocatello Engineer Aids Saidor Base Construction in New Guinea
At Saidor New Guinea American engineers under Lt Col Burton Bruce and Lt Meor Robert Brockman transform jungle into a base 15 miles around with two 6 000 foot runways, revetments, 30 miles of roads, docks, a pipeline jetty, a PT boat base and a 250 bed hospital within three months.
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New Guinea
Pacific
Philippine Islands
Japan
Saidor
Burton B. Bruce
Oak Park
Bruce
Meor
Robert W. Brockman
North Hayes
Avenue
Pocatello
Idaho
Nankina River
Farms May Provide Gasoline Through Waste Conversion
Dr E Berl of the Carnegie Institute describes a lab process to convert farm crop wastes forests and seaweeds into gasoline and coal products. He claims the method is simpler cheaper than current synthetic routes and could fuel 32 million cars from one year of US crop wastes with sugar cane and corn stalks among the best sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
American Chemical Society
E. Berl
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Berl
England
Africa
Tropics
Dr. Berg
United States
US Air Force Hits Again At Truk Atoll
U S air forces conducted fresh raids on Truk atoll and the Marshall Islands on April 1, starting fires and destroying runways with no aircraft losses. Seventh Army air force Liberators and Mitchell bombers supported by Corsair and Hellcat fighters hit multiple atolls and servicing areas, with all planes returning safely.
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Washington
U. S
Truk Atoll
Marshall Islands
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Navy Department
Seventh Army Air Force Liberators
Dublin
Seventh Army Air Force
Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing
Ponape
Marshalls
Dauntless
Fourth Marine Aircraft Wine
Britain Faces Power Cuts as War Factories Hit by Strike
Britain’s war industries face a possible 10 percent cut in electric supply and 25 percent in gas as coal shortages from miners’ strikes drain fuel stocks. The fuel ministry warned that every factory including 10 000 rushing war materiel plants would be affected. Public transport in northwest England will drop 20 percent. The cabinet weighs measures amid the worst labor crisis since 1926. Some Yorkshire locals voted to return to work, offering slight hope.
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London
Fuel Ministry
England
War Cabinet
Britain
Chinese Border Violations Reported By TASS
The Soviet news agency Tass said Chinese troops from Sinkiang violated the Mongolian People's Republic border. It claimed Chinese planes bombed towns and strafed Kazakhs fleeing Sinkiang, with Mongolian leaders ready to seek aid from the Soviet Union to rectify further incidents.
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Moscow
Tass
Sinkiang
Mongolian Peoples Republic
Pocatello Aims as Center for Jewish Military Support
Rabbi Benjamin Friedman of New York said Pocatello should be the headquarters for a program helping men of the Jewish faith in military service in Idaho and Utah. He is a leader of the Jewish Welfare Board tied to the USO. He met local leaders at noon and Passover observances were planned for Friday in several Pocatello homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello
Idaho
Utah
Benjamin Friedman
New York
Jewish Welfare Board
USO
Rabbi Friedman
United States
Girl Rings Parade of Rings Ends in Hospital
Six year old Patricia Means wore four tiny steel rings on one finger and needed ether and an hour to remove them at the hospital.
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Salt Lake City
Patricia Means
Patricia
Russians Not To Annex Foreign Soil
Soviet troops on Romanian soil are described as military necessity not annexation. Moscow aims to dislodge Axis forces, stabilize Romania and Bulgaria, and push toward Berlin, threatening Germany’s hold as Carpathian passes are blocked and the thrust targets Iasi.
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Red Army
Axis
Romania
Germany
Moscow
Berlin
Bulgaria
Hitler
Carpathian
Iasi
Jassy
Planes Attack Nazi Ship Tirpitz Near Altenfjord
British naval planes reported several bomb hits on the German battleship Tirpitz, the largest surviving battleship of Hitler’s fleet, lingering near Altenfjord in Norway. The attack likely involved carrier based planes from the fleet air arm, possibly American built, following prior torpedo damage by British midget submarines.
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London
Admiralty
Norway
Alten Ford
Royal Navy
Hitler
Fleet Air Arm
War Athletic Council Forms In Intermountain Region
The Bannock hotel hosts a meeting at 8 15 p m today as Bar Ney Goldberg leads the War Athletic council. Representatives from men’s clubs lodges unions and other groups gather to organize athletic programs in cooperation with military units across the intermountain area.
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Pocatello War Athletic Council
Bannock Hotel
Barney Goldberg
Intermountain
Natives Join In Fight Against Axis In Romania
Moscow reported 50 Romanian settlements captured and the Iasi Dorohoi railway cut as Red Army crossed the Prut into Romania. Bore is Polevoy telegraphed Pravda that Soviet forces moved in after storming the river and established Romanian headquarters while villagers welcomed the advance. Molotov held a press conference saying the army would pursue the enemy until routed.
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Moscow
Red Army
Romania
Prut
Rumania
Bore
Polevoy
Pravda
Vyacheslav A. Molotov
Red Arm
French Ships Sink Convoy in Adriatic Action
Allied Headquarters announced that light French warships wiped out an enemy convoy and escort in the Adriatic with no French casualties or damage. Time and place were not disclosed, but the strike appears part of a wider Allied effort to cut German Balkan communications. It follows a second report in two weeks of a convoy attack by French forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Adriatic
Balkans
Cobra Airacobras Bomb Train on Italian Coast
Airacobras of the coastal air force bombed near Cecina on the Italian west coast at tree-top level striking a train and a factory. Maj. Francis J. Grable from Montgomery City Missouri led the attack and described the train buckling after the bomb dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobra
Italian
Naples
Francis J. Grable
Montgomery City
Three Sailors Missing in Action Reported
The Navy Department said two Idaho men are missing in action. Arnold Frank Moreton is an electrician's mate first class from Rexburg and Julius Grant Peterson is a radioman second class from Wendell, sons of local residents.
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Washington
Navy Department
Arnold Frank Moreton
Walter Cureton Moreton
Rexburg
Julius Grant Peterson
Carl Julius Peterson
Wendell
Missing soldiers reported in European and Mediterranean theaters
War department reports Sergeant George L. Walker Jr. of Clifton Idaho and Second Lieutenant Richard L. Harbert of Twin Falls as missing in action. Walker's mother lives in Clifton while Harbert's wife resides at 111 Eighth Street Twin Falls.
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Washington
George L. Walker
Clifton
Idaho
War Department
Richard L. Harbert
Twin Falls
Walkers
Harbert
Margaret B. Harbert
Eighth
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Guadalcanal
Palau
Philippines
Catalina
Woleai Island
South Pacific
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Yanks
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Council
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Flag
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Marvin Flack
Iola
Kas
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By DeWitt Mackenzie
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Iasi-Dorohoi
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Jajia River
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