Italian King to Abdicate Upon Allied Entry Into Rome
Naples AP reports King Victor Emmanuel III said he will withdraw from public affairs and name his son Umberto lieutenant general of the realm with power transfer on the day allied troops enter Rome. He credited Italy’s eight months of joining the united nations and pledged future national healing and freedom.
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Naples
Vittorio Emanuele
Rome
Umberto
Italy
United Nations
Prince of
Piedmont
Storms Claim 49 Lives In Two Days
Storms across the United States caused 49 deaths over two days with nearly 200 injured. Arkansas suffered 35 fatalities from tornadoes while Indiana Delaware Fort Wayne saw six deaths from a wind blown wall. Snow and rain disrupted roads, floods lingered in Kansas and Oklahoma, and crews reopened routes in Colorado and New Mexico.
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Associated Press
United States
Seaboard
Great Lakes
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Utah
California
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Fort Wayne
Ind
North Carolina
Alabama
South Carolina
Texas
Kentucky
Georgia
Teressee
Colorado Rockies
Berthoud Pass
Colorado-New Mexico
Raton Pass
Michigan
Rockies
Police Shoot 2 Bandits In Fast Streetcar Gunfight
In Chicago on Western avenue officers James L. Woulfe John R. Meyer and Donald Coakley chased two bandits Edward Zinman and Glenn Sperry who had staged holdups and stolen a car. After they abandoned the car the bandits boarded a street car and Zinman drew a revolver triggering a deadly exchange. Woulfe was wounded in the leg while Meyer Coakley fatally shot Sperry and Zinman.
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Chicago
Western Avenue
James L. Woulfe
Woulfe
John R. Meyer
Donald Coakley
Edward Zinman
Glenn H. Sperry
Seattle
Zinman
Meyer
Coakley
Sperry
Americans Destroy 352 Nazi Planes in Four Days
London reports American bombers and fighters in the theater shot down 352 German planes in four days. The total destroyed by Britain-based American airmen reaches 2,611 since January 1. Additional hundreds were destroyed on the ground or in factories before production.
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London
Guns Answer Nazi Attack
Allied headquarters report a German attempt to seize Castle Hill north of Cassino failed, with Allied guns replying strongly. Allies repelled small enemy thrusts near Carroceto and near the Moletta river, while 12 planes raided the Cassino port area and one was downed. American and Allied air forces flew about 1100 sorties over Italy and the Dalmatian coast.
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Naples
Cassino
Castle Hill
Anzio
Carroceto
Moletta
Siena
Ancona
Italy
Dalmatian
Pacific Fleet Announces Bombing Missions Near Tokyo
U S Pacific Fleet reports Liberators bombed Matsuwa and Omekotan in the Kuriles, under 1000 miles from Tokyo, in the second raid on those bases. Additional planes struck Moen and Dublon in Truk Atoll, Ponape, and four Marshall Islands targets in Monday operations.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters
U. S. Army Liberators
Matsuwa
Omekotan
Kurile Islands
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimits
Central Pacific
Moen
Dublon
Truk Atoll
Ponape
Marshall Islands
Boisean Missing in Action in European War Zone
Second Lt. Bernard I. Anderson husband of Mrs. Princes E. Anderson of Boise is reported missing in action in the European theater, according to the War Department.
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Washington
Bernard I. Anderson
Princes E. Anderson
Boise
War Department
Pocatellan Captain Washington Promoted to Captain
John Herman Smith Jr of 618 North Hayes Street Pocatello was promoted from first lieutenant to captain as announced by the War Department.
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Washington
John Herman Smith, Jr
North Hayes Street
Pocatello
War Department
Nazi Report Claims Roosevelt Plans with Churchill
A German radio broadcast, claiming to be from Britain, said Roosevelt traveled to the Caribbean to meet Prime Minister Churchill to discuss Europe operations in the coming weeks. The report cites no allied confirmation and notes Roosevelt had reportedly gone south for a vacation.
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London
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Caribbean
Churchill
Europe
Ministry of Information
Washington
Atlantic
Bombs Smash Axis Plants Near Vienna
Allied air forces from Italy and Britain attacked Vienna area German plants including a Messerschmitt factory at Wiener Neustadt and component works at Bad Voslau and Fischamend. In four days of the campaign 352 German planes were claimed shot down with many more destroyed on the ground. RAF heavy bombers also hit Aachen and Hannover.
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London
Italy
Vienna
Europe
15Th Air Force
Messerschmitt
Wiener Neustadt
Thunderbolt
Zagreb
Croatia
Split
Bad Voslau
Fischamend Market
R.A.F
Aachen
Hannover
Court Orders Ogden Grand Jury Probe Into Mayor Resignation
Judges Charles G. Cowley and Glenn W. Adams ruled to convene a seven member county grand jury on May 2 at 10 a.m. to investigate the resignation of former Ogden mayor Kent S. Bramwell. Charles Meyers has been arrested for allegedly offering a $500 bribe. no further complaints will be filed until the grand jury concludes its investigation.
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Ogden
Second District
Charles G. Cowley
Glenn W. Adams
Kent S. Bramwell
Bramwell
Charles Meyers
Weather Forecast For Pocatello And Vicinity
Light showers are expected tonight in Pocatello and nearby areas with a gradual temperature change Thursday. The forecast from the United States Weather Bureau at Pocatello Municipal Airport covers the 24 hour period ending noon with a high around 59 and a low near 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Pocatello and
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
US Destroyers Hit Hansa Bay and Marshalls Drive
In the southwest Pacific Allied forces bombed and shelled Hansa bay on the New Guinea coast with 227 tons of explosives and naval gunfire. Casualties listed show Allied losses at 442 dead 1062 wounded and 10 missing while six enemy dead per American. In the central Pacific five more Marshall Islands clusters were raised to the American flag as air attacks targeted remaining atolls and Truk was reported bombed by Tokyo radio with disputed confirmation.
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Southwest Pacific
Hansa Bay
Marshalls
Ulul
Ponape
Carolines
Tokyo Radio
Japan
Truk
Partisans Seize Key Gradina Base in Central Yugoslavia
Yugoslav partisans have stormed and occupied Gradina, inflicting heavy casualties on the German garrison. Many Germans drowned in the Una river while fleeing the city. Tito announced the communique reporting renewed German troop movements to eastern Bosnia and Serbia to counter guerrilla thrusts along routes into Dalmatia and the coast.
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London
Gradina
Yugoslavia
Una
Josip (Tito) Broz
Broz
Bosnia
Serbia
Allied Force Advances In Southeast Asia Burm a Stranglehold Grows
Allied reports say the Burma offensive is spreading southward threatening enemy lines as American trained Chinese troops under Lt Gen Stilwell push through Mogaung valley and capture Tinegring. The siege around Imphal tightens with Japanese columns pressuring besieged British forces near Kohima and along the Bengal Assam rail corridor.
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Southeast Asia
India
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mogaung Valley
Tinegring
Assassin Suffered Fatal Injuries After Attempt on President
Lt. Antonio De La Lama Rojas died in an army hospital from peritonitis after being shot while fleeing an assassination attempt on President Manuel Avila Camacho. He had been in grave condition since Monday when wounded hours after the attack.
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Mexico City
Antonio de la Lama Rojas
Manuel Avila Camacho
Interior Ministry
Mexican officer mortally wounded after botched assassination attempt
Lt. Jose Antonio De Lama Rojas, a young Mexican artillery officer, was seriously wounded Monday while fleeing after an unsuccessful plot against President Manuel Avila Camacho. An official bulletin said his kidney wound was mortal.
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Mexico City
Jose Antonio de Lama Rojas
Manual Avila Camacho
Utahns Defending Polygamy Under Treaty With Mexico
Defense lawyers in a polygamy case rely on the 1848 Guadaloupe Hidalgo treaty to argue the United States cannot interfere with religious practices in territory gained by the treaty. They contend the Mormon belief in polygamy was known to Congress and the president when ratified and that federal laws restraining free exercise do not apply. The case involves Mannach and Lindbergh law charges against nine defendants linked to plural marriages.
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Salt Lake City
West
Mexico
United States
Latter-Day Saints
Mymon
Utah
Guadaloupe
Congress
U. S
T. Blake Kennedy
Cheyenne
Wye
Mannach
Lindbergh
J. H. McKnight
Claude T. Barnes
Knox Patterson
Bowles Seeks OPA Extension Against Pro‑Profiteering Fears
Price Administrator Chester Bowles told Congress that OPA has kept living costs in check and warned that proposed law changes would trigger wartime profiteering, black markets, and ruinous inflation. He urged extending OPA beyond June 30. Bowles criticized an amendment to set prices profitable to 3,000,000 firms as inviting the greatest wartime profiteering.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Congress
OPA
House Banking Committee
Bowles
Capitol
Wallace May Take Leave in Fresh VP Speculation
Washington reports surge in Harry Truman as a potential Democratic vice presidential pick amid talk Vice President Wallace might bow out. Wallace issued a cryptic note about a late spring or summer visit to Chungking with secretary Mary Huss saying he would go in an official capacity for Roosevelt. Some senators wonder if Wallace is being asked to step aside to clear a path for Truman at the Chicago convention.
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Washington
Harry Truman
D.-Mo
Wallace
Chungking
Mary Huss
Roosevelt
Senate
Chicago
Truman
Billfold Lost With Checks For 20000 At Pocatello Hotel
Albert C. Soloman of the Bannock hotel reported to police in Pocatello that he lost a billfold containing government checks totaling 20000 a cashier's check for 4000 and 290 in currency. He said the loss occurred around 6 am in or near Fred's cafe along with gas coupons and personal papers.
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Pocatello
Albert C. Soloman
Bannock Hotel
Fred
Doctors Reassess Sulfa Use For Battle Wounds
Col John B. Flick of the Ninth Service Command Surgeon Consultant told a Utah Idaho war conference that the enthusiastic value of sulfonamides for wound infection should be modified. He noted frost wounds are still treated with sulfanilamide but questioned local benefit and stressed relying on the systemic effect to prevent spreading infection.
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Salt Lake City
John B. Flick
Ninth Service Command
Utah
Idaho
American College of Surgeons
Flick
Dewey Sets Early Pace in GOP Nomination Race
The article notes Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York as the pace-setting Republican favorite with 153 pledged and claimed delegates from 351 canvassed, ahead of a MacArthur showing in Illinois and Stassen in Nebraska. Roosevelt gains solid endorsements, including near-total New York delegation support and a push for a Roosevelt candidacy.
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New York
Illinois
Nebrata
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Ilinois
Cmdr
Harold E. Stassen
Nebraska
Dewey
Democratic Committee
Indian Gels Medal for Valor in Italian Campaign
Second Lt. Ernest Childers an American Indian from Broken Arrow Oklahoma received the congressional medal of honor for a gallon single handed fight against German forces last September while he was wounded. Lt General Jacob L. Devers presented the medal at a ceremony near a race track before the troops. Childers is the second Medal of Honor recipient in the Italian campaign following Tech Sgt Charles E. Kelly of Pittsburgh who received his medal on March 11.
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Naples
Ernest Childers
Broken Arrow
Okla
Childers
Jacob L. Devers
Mediterranean
Tech
Set
Charles E. Kelly
Pittsburgh
B-24 Crashes at Casper Air Field Kills Two Crew
A B 24 bomber crash landed two miles east of Casper Army Air Field killing two of its nine crew. The deceased are Staff Sergeant James J. Sublett aerial engineer Snow OK and Staff Sergeant Robert F. Wills aerial gunner Milton ME. Seven crewmen escaped before the plane was destroyed by fire.
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Casper
Wye
James J. Sublett
Snow
Okla
Robert F. Wills
Milton
Maine
Casper Army Air Field
Germans Claim Fresh Retreats and Crimea Battles
The German communique reports new retreats in eastern and northern Crimea as German and Romanian forces disengage after hard fighting toward southward positions. Soviet dispatches say Russian troops entered Dnester Tiraspol and advanced near Skala while Kerch fell to advancing forces. The Moscow bulletin notes near-total Soviets along the front from Crimea to Czechoslovakia with limited German gains and heavy losses in tanks.
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London
Crimea
Dnester Tiraspol
Dnestr
Skala
Andrei Yeremenko
Kerch
Dzhankai
Sevastopol
Ovidiopol
Odessa
Roemagia
Te ‘Trassy
Kowel
Old Poland
Ostrov
Moscow
Buczacz
Buchach
Tarnopol
Plows Clear Berthoud Pass After Two Day Snow Block
Giant snowplows cleared the Berthoud Pass west approach ending a two day struggle that freed 32 travelers stranded at the summit. Muted by snow slides, the group sheltered in a ski lodge until the first cars could start descent toward Denver. Wave Lt. Helen Barr Durfee of Los Angeles was among those injured in the blocking avalanche.
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Berthoud Pass
Colo
Denver
Helen Barr Durfee
Los Angeles
Chambers to Meet Blackfoot Officials at April Banquet
Salt Lake City Mayor Earl J. Glade will speak at an April 28 banquet jointly hosted by the Blackfoot and Eastern Idaho chambers of commerce and the Bingham County farm bureau. Howard Hill, Blackfoot chamber secretary, reported.
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Blackfoot
Earl J. Glade
Salt Lake City
Blackfoot and
Eastern Idaho Chambers of Commerce
Bingham County Farm Bureau
Howard Hill
Blackfoot Chambers
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Imphal
Kohima
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