MacArthur to Head Pacific Offensive with Nimitz
The joint chiefs assign General MacArthur to command all U S Army forces in the Pacific and Admiral Nimitz to direct all naval operations as rapid redeployments from Europe push toward Japan. General Arnold retains control of the 20th Air Force and B 29 operations.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Russia
Japan
Europe
Capitol Hill
Moscow
Pacific
Joint Chiefs of Staff
MacArthur
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
George C. Marshall
Army
Senate Military Committee
Hitler
Roosevelt
Stalin
Yalta
San Francisco
War and Navy Departments
United States
Nimitz
China Coast
H. H. Arnold
20Th Air Force
Dog Finds Radium Piece in vacant lot
Mrs. E. H. James and her dog Toby uncovered a jewel box in a vacant lot containing 14 slim platinum tubes. Dr. Wilmot F. Robinson identified the element as radium stolen from his offices, prompting a police inquiry.
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Los Angeles
E. H. James
Toby
Tale of Two Armies on Army Day 1940 War Progress
On Army Day in 1940 the U S army was a broomstick force fighting make-believe wars with make-believe weapons. Five years later its strength and impact are shown by the havoc it has wrought on the formidable Wehrmacht.
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U. S
Wehrmacht
Russians Close In On Vienna As Soviet Army Advances
Russian forces thrust toward Vienna driving into the southern defense belt and reaching four and a half miles from the city center. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian army broke across rivers and rail lines to threaten Danube rail links and supply routes, with Ober Laa and Unter Laa suburbs captured amid German artillery fire.
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London
Vienna
Danube
Tulln
Vienna- Prague
Schwechat
Livsing
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Ober-Laa
Unter-Laa
Russia Renounces Pact With Japan in Major Shift
Moscow announces end of five year non aggression treaty with Japan. Soviet officials say Japan allied with Hitler harms USSR and that the pact has lost its meaning. Tokyo notes rapid change since signing and fears broader breach. Public reaction in Moscow described as electric.
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Moscow
Russia
Japan
Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Ussr
Tokyo
FCC
Hitler
Vyacheslav Molotov
Naotake Sato
Sato
Molotov
United States
Britain
Red Cross Reaches War Fund Goal in Bannock County
Bannock county chapter announces reaching its war fund quota of 49300 with donations continuing to come in. The total reported now stands at 49590.65 as Dr Myron Porges Jr. is credited as campaign chairman and May Kirchner notes the work of the volunteers.
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Red Cross
Bannock County
Bannock
Myron Porges, Jr
May Kirchner
Church removes 492 from relief rolls in 1944
Latter-day Saints report 492 members dropped from government relief in 1944 with 139 rehabilitated and 249 partially supported by church funds. Since 1943, 707 have been removed from relief rolls. Total church expenditures reached 8.27 million dollars with 1.01 million in total relief spending.
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Salt Lake City
Latter-Day Saints Church
Presiding Bishopric
Quarantine Placed at Fort McClelland Over Polio Outbreak
Army authorities imposed a limited quarantine on Fort McClelland Alabama to curb an infantile paralysis outbreak. Sixteen cases, including three deaths, were reported on the reservation after a request from the state health department.
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Fort Mcclelland
Ala
State Health Department
Airmen launch second raid on Hong Kong and Pacific targets
Manila reports nearly 50 Philippines based heavy bombers with escort strike Hong Kong for a second day, delivering 168 tons of bombs on the harbor and waterfront. Nine Japanese ships sunk, a destroyer and two merchants damaged, six freighters sunk in the China sea. MacArthur forces cut escape routes in southern Luzon, Negros pushes to the Imbang river, and Cebu docks see undamaged Liberty ships though nearby warehouses burned.
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Manila
South China Sea
Hong Kong
Brown
China Sea
Fifth Air Force
Formosa
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
Laguna de Bay
Negros
40Th
Imbang
Silay
Cebu City
Jolo
Sulu
Tarakan
Miri
Borneo
Celebes
Idaho Buys Stamps For Cigarette Tax
Idaho tax commission will procure ten million tax stamps to collect the cigarette tax effective May 8 from the 1945 legislature. Chairman E D Baird says the collection machinery is nearly complete as the new commission has met all week. The tax is two cents per pack or 20 percent of retail price for brands over 20 cents. Commission members receive twenty five dollars daily and expect to finish by Saturday.
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Boise
Idaho Tax Commission
E. D. Baird
Commission
Baird
Few Japs Return To Northwest After War Relocation
Port land officials report only 167 of about 4000 Japanese descended Oregonians who lived here before the war have returned to the area while C W Linville says 200 of Washingtons 14565 Japanese and Nisei have returned to that state reflecting limited postwar repatriation.
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Portland
Okinawa Battle Sees Fierce Southern Resistance Near Naha
U S forces push past the Kin area as Maj Gen Hodge’s 24th Corps advances 3,000 yards on Okinawa south end. Nimitz reports low casualties in four days, with 175 killed and 798 wounded as Japanese defenses shift toward Naha and a 60,000-strong garrison concentrates on the southern front. Geiger’s Third Marine Amphibious Corps overrun isthmus and seize Yabuchi, expanding progress to over 100 square miles in five days.
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Guam
Okinawa
Naha
Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
Japan
John R
Hodge
24Th Corps
Ryukyu
Roy S. Geiger
Marine Amphibious
Ishikawa
Town of Kin
Simplot Honored For Third Time
Caldwell firm Simplot Dehydrating Co receives Army-Navy production award for high achievement in war material production for the third time in a presentation by Under-Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson.
Chinese Forces Launch Large Three Pronged Counteroffensive
Chinese forces under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek launched a major three pronged counter-offensive against Japanese troops moving toward Shensi province. The high command announced that units from southwestern Honan annihilated a Japanese battalion and encircled several strongholds west of Neijiang on the Honan Shensi highway.
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Chungking
Shensi
China
High Command
Chiang Kai-Shek
Honan
Neijiang
Honan-Shensi
Japanese raids press invasion fleet with heavy air assault
Japanese planes launched their heaviest air attack on American invasion ships since Okinawa, with raids from heavy to light continuing into the late afternoon. The sustained tempo suggested a major effort to cripple the invasion force and the coming days would reveal enemy strength.
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Okinawa
Anniversary of US entry into World War I
Washington marks the 28th anniversary of the United States entering World War I after Congress approves a war resolution 373 to 50 early April 6 1917 following Germanys submarine warfare and a speech by President Woodrow Wilson urging war. The Senate had backed the measure 82 to 6 the preceding night.
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Washington
United States
House
Senate
Germany
Berlin
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Idaho Board Advances Gasoline Tax Refunds
The Idaho board of examiners votes to start paying about 225000 in delinquent gasoline tax refunds to non highway users from the motor fuels refund fund. Payments will come from other funds with interest, aiming to clear arrears within 18 months. The refund limit was reduced to purchases over 50 gallons.
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Boise-Pi
Idaho Board of Examiners
Charles C. Gossett
Idaho War Casualties and POWs List From Europe
Four Idahoans died in the Army in Europe including Clark and Hengen with ranks Pfc and Sgt from Teton City and Potlatch. Wounded are Bundy Kauer and Shockley from Culdesac Rexburg Post Falls Boise. Prisoners of war include Stanley from Marysville and others across Germany with Lieutenants Tomas and Russell among listed officers and towns such as Nampa Grace Rexburg Star Route.
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Clark
Rulon J
Teton City
Hengen
Henry W
Potlatch
Pacific
Dodge
Raymond N
Priest River
McMurtry
Vernal R
Horace R. McMurtry
Rigby
Bundy
Gordon G
Culdesac
Kauer
Lorin B
Rexburg
Russell, Forrest D
Nampa
Shockley, Barnie L
Post
Falls
Rose
Raymond C
Boise
Tomas
Kenneth T
Howard L. Thomas
Grace
Germany
Stanley
Franklin R
Jackson Stanley
Marysville
OPA Forc es Refunds in Idaho March Totals
Enforcement Attorney Lawrence Quinn said the Office of Price Administration ordered refunds or treasury payments in Idaho amounting to 6999.91 during March. Hotels had 5674.20 in rent settlements, three potato cases settled for 720.37, auto overcharge refund 411.92, and a second hand dealer refunded 24.50 for a washing machine overcharge.
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Boise
Lawrence Quinn
Office of Price Administration
U.S. Treasury
Idaho
Woman Heads Office Inheritance Tax in Idaho
Governor Gossett appoints Mrs. Lavere Swope as state inheritance tax director to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of E G Rosenheim. Swope has spent several years in the inheritance tax division and will lead the office.
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Boise
Charles C. Gossett
Lavere Swope
E. G. Rosenheim
C. A. Bottolfsen
Dirs. Swope
Allied push nears Hannover as war headlines flood fronts
Allied forces press toward Hannover with advances described as within 25 miles of the city and new drives extending toward the Weser river. Reports from multiple Allied commands detail rapid progress across Hamelin Hamm and Bremen areas and a broader push toward Berlin with bridgeheads across the Weser. The German broadcast claims airlifted light tanks probing toward Arnstadt and Muehlhausen, while U S Ninth Army clears Ruhr ro utal corridors and seizes rail hubs.
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DNB
Eisleben
Berlin
Third Army
Schlotheim
Supreme Headquarters
U.S. Ninth Army
Hamelin
Weser
Ruhr
Hamm
First Army
Hessian Gap
Napoleon
P Bassel
Wheeling
Holland
Zwolle-Greeningen
Ninth Army
Elbe
Hannover
United States
Bombs Smash 21 German Ships in Allied Daylight Raids
About 650 American heavy bombers escorted by 600 fighters attacked Halle and Leipzig railway yards and other targets in Germany with prime emphasis on Leipzig station. Northern Italy saw rail targets hit while RAF and American attacks damaged Bremen Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven. Reconnaissance showed damage to submarine yards and naval facilities. over 2,000 Allied planes conducted daylight raids.
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London
Halle
Leipzig
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Reich
Magdeburg
Dessau
Chemnitz
U.S
Italy
Verona
RAF
Bremen
Hambur
Wilhelmshaven
U.S. Strategic Air Force
North Sea
Berlin
China Greets Action CHUNGKING
In Chungking the denouncement of the non aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Japan stirred speculation that Moscow may halt transfers of Japanese troops from Manchuria to China. Observers also ponder if Japan might abandon plans for a Shenji thrust due to recent developments.
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Chungking
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Moscow
Manchuria
China Front
Shenji
Grant Urges Mormons to Observe Commandments at Conference
Salt Lake City report says President Heber J. Grant urged worldwide LDS members to keep the commandments of God at the church’s 115th general conference. He spoke through a prepared address read by Secretary Joseph Anderson, calling on young people to uphold principles and ideals in all conditions. He emphasized prayers for armed forces and urged tithing of 10 percent, illustrating with a parable about returns of 10 apples. The message was delivered as leaders gathered in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Heber J. Grant
Latter-Day Saints Church
Joseph Smith
Fayette
N. Y
Tabernacle Square
Grant
Joseph Anderson
Zion
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OPA
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Arnstadt
Muehlhausen
North Germains
Daemmer Lake
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