Educators Propose Election of State Board Members
The Idaho Education Association delegates approve sweeping reorganizations for Idaho schools and state education administration. Proposals include nonpartisan four year terms for the state superintendent with advanced degrees and elected state board members, plus endowments and lands moved from the land board under state control. Tuition and fees in higher education and high schools urged for elimination, with a new minimum program and district consolidation to raise standard funding and equalization. War emergency permits would be issued only to those 21 or older.
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Boise
Idaho Education Association
State Department of Education
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Board of Education
State Land Board
University of Idaho
University of Idaho Southern
M. Ray Thomas
St. Anthony
Howard Andrews
Emmett
Marines Repel Nip Battle at Eniwetok and N. Kuriles Raid
Allied forces report marine night fighters repelled a Japanese attack on Eniwetok while Aleutian air units struck the Kurile route to Tokyo for the fourth day. Admiral Nimitz notes bombers were driven off and several Japanese aircraft were shot down as planning shifts hint at renewed fleet pressure. In India, despite gains, Japanese troops hold Imphal Kohima as China moves toward possible coordinated action.
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Associated Press
Japan
Tokyo
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Eniwetok Atoll
Kurile
Central Pacific
Ernest J. King
India
Imphal
Kohima
China
Chungking
Yangtze
Idaho's Grain Crop Large
Idaho's winter wheat crop is expected to rise about 22 percent from 1943 levels, with an April 1 forecast of 14,872,000 bushels versus 12,192,000 bushels the prior year. Despite snow in eastern Idaho delaying growth, growers report fair to good field conditions and anticipate limited winter kill. The larger prospective yield stems from increased acreage, with per planted acre yield only slightly up from 1943, and the gain would exceed the 10-year average by about seven percent.
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Boise
Idaho
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Air Force Transfers Rocky Mountain Region Posts
Denver Fort Logan clerical school becomes a unit of the air service command as a convalescent training center. Col Weldon W Doe will head Kearnsfield in Salt Lake City. Lt Col Clarence C Wison succeeds him at Fort Logan. Kearnsfield is vacated by the Second air force in shifts.
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Denver
Colo
Air Force
Rocky Mountain Region
Mid-West
Army Air Force Western Technical Training Command
John F. Curry
Fort Logan
Kearnsfield
Second Air Force
Officer Assigned to Mountain Home As Liaison Officer
Lt Col James A Moore at San Diego and Gowen Field Boise named liaison between Mountain Home Army Air Field and the Heavy Permanent Group in training. USC graduate entered service in 1918 and recently served at Wendover Field Utah.
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Mountain Home
James A. Moore
San Diego
Calif
Gowen Field
Boise
Mountain Home Army Air Field
University of Southern California
Moore
Wendover Field
Utah
Milton banker keeps coins on dead woman's eyes in joke pact
A 68 year old banker Jo seph M Lank vice president and cashier of the Sussex Trust company publicly placed a coin on each of Lydia Johnson's eyes after her death to honor a promise that if the coins stayed in place for 12 hours he would receive a substantial portion of her estate. He later removed them with witnesses.
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Milton
Joseph M. Lank
Sussex Trust Company
Lank
Robbins
Lydia Johnson
Johnson
Housing shortage leaves 19k war workers in search
About 19 000 eligible war worker families seek housing in California Arizona and Nevada but only 4 400 units are available. The estimate is from Eugene Weston Jr regional representative of the national housing agency.
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San Francico
California
Arizona
Nevada
Eugene Weston, Jr
National
Housng Agency
Idaho Republicans Call to Overthrow New Deal at Moscow Banquet
Idaho GOP leaders endorse a harsh critique of the three term Democratic regime. J L Eberle urges overthrow of the administration and praises opposition for averting one party rule. Gov C A Bortolfsen discusses farm issues and rural policy in the Moscow gathering. A 10 point program then outlines aims to curb censorship and government control while restoring threefold government and sane fiscal policy.
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Moscow
Idaho
Winston Churchill
J. L. Eberle
Boise
Democratic Party
Eberle
Republican Party
Europe
Asia
United States
C. A. Bortolfsen
Chicago
Bortolfsen
Swivelchair
Washington
Republican Party of
C. A. Robins
St. Maries
Benewah
Top WWII ace Bong defies grounding order in New Guinea
Maj. Richard S. Bong, America’s leading air ace, resents an indefinite grounding at a New Guinea base after downing 27 Japanese planes since 1942. He favors flying again, dreaming of a plane bearing his sweetheart Marjorie Vattendahl’s photo, and dismisses newer Japanese pilots as easy targets.
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New Guinea
America
Richard S. Bong
Bong
Marjorie Vattendahl
Superior
Wis
Miss Vattendall
Marge
Hollandia
Snow Flurries Expected in Pocatello Area Sunday
Weather summary for Pocatello and nearby communities shows snow flurries on Sunday with little temperature change. Data from the United States Weather Bureau at Pocatello Municipal Airport notes a 24 hour period ending noon April 16 with a high of 49 and a low of 31, mean 40, and no precipitation.
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Pocatello
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Escessees
Ccce
Auto Makers Debate Plans
Washington reports the auto industry’s first reconversion conference opens Monday with 18 top executives. They largely favor simultaneous passenger car production after the war, while War Production Board Chairman Nelson warns uniform resumption is a physical impossibility due to varying war commitments and contracts. Some leaders anticipate retail prices rising at most 25 percent above prewar levels if sufficient production is authorized.
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Washington
Donald M Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
P T A Plans Idaho State Congress Speaker
The Idaho parent teacher congress sets its two day meeting April 19 and 20 in Idaho Falls. Mrs Harold Affleck of Boise state secretary says Mrs William Kletzer of Portland Ore past national president and National Founders day chairman will be the main speaker. Mrs Howard J Maughan of Preston is state congress president.
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Boise
Idaho
Idaho Falls
Harold Affleck
William Kletzer
Portland
Ore
P.T.A
Howard J. Maughan
Preston
Congress
Massive Allied Air Strike Hits German Romanian Centers
U S and British forces launched a two thousand plane assault from Britain and Italy striking 10 German airfields and targets around Bucharest and Ploesti. American fighters suffered heavy losses with 30 missing, while 17 locomotives and other targets were damaged or destroyed.
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London
Britain
Italy
Bucharest
Ploesti
Red Army
U. S
Eighth
Ninth
Berlin
Truk under Allied air siege expands across Caroline islands
Allied air operations tighten the net around Truk, Japan's main central Pacific base. A Feb 16 17 naval strike jolted Truk, followed by intensified attacks on atolls and island groups from Palau to Ponape, expanding targets outward in all directions.
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Truk
Japan
Central Pacific
Caroline Islands
Philippines
Chester W. Nimitz
Kusaie
Ponape
Carolines
Palau
Yap
Woleai
Puluwat
Ulul
Ulithi
Pulusuk Oroluk
Pingelap
Ant
Pakin Island
Nomoi
Kusaile
Idaho Naval Base Plan Foresees Slowcurtailment
Spokane reports Secretary Knox says Farragut training center curtailment starts after November and population will not drop to 20 000 until fall 1945. Capt Mead testified to the house appropriations committee the average daily population would be about 30 830 for the fiscal year starting July 1 based on 45 000 recruits for five months and 18 555 thereafter.
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Spokane
Farragut
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
W. G. Mead, Jr
House Appropriations Committee
Hershey Urges Farmers to Free Drafted Youths for War
Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey told farmers their first duty is to make available for army or navy service every possible draft-deferred hand under 26. Farm deferments cover 350 000 to 400 000 physically fit youths, the largest group of this type. Deferments should not continue unless young farmers meet the Tydings amendment requirements for essential food production workers.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Army
Navy
Hershey
Tydings
Selective Service Act
Burglary Complaints Filed in Two Jurisdictions
A first degree burglary complaint is filed in Justice of the Peace William J. Ryan's court against Stanley Barksdale 14 held by juvenile authorities in Long Beach. He allegedly entered Reinheimer Confectionery 227 North Main on April 8 stealing 350 dollars and several checks. C C Evans of the police department signs the complaint. Ryan also reports a complaint against W C Long for burglary at the Pocatello naval ordnance plant.
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William J. Ryan
Justice of the Peace
Stanley Barksdale
Long Beach
Reinheimer Confectionery
North Main
C. C. Evans
Police Department
W. C. Long
Pocatello Naval Ordnance Plant
Soviet Captures Tarnopol Important Fortress on Invasion Route to Berlin
Moscow said Soviet forces crushed Tarnopol after a three week siege, seizing a key railway hub 75 miles southeast of Lwow. On three fronts the Red Army reported heavy German losses and mass surrenders as it pressed toward Sevastopol and Berlin.
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Tarnopol
Berlin
London
Sevastopol
Crimean
Old Poland
Moscow
Thee
Red Army
Lyubimovka
Chernaya
Hich
Lwow
Europe
Odessa
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Ukraine
Black Sea
Dnestr
Bessarabia
Star of Axis
Crimea
Adzhi-Bulat
Kacha
Malashai
Belbek
Lyubi
Dworshak Seeks Republican Nomination For Congress
Idaho’s second district representative Dworshak, a Burley publisher, asked the secretary of state for petitions to run again in the Republican primary. He was the first to secure petitions for the second district nomination after being elected to Congress in 1938 and re-elected in 1940 and 1942.
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Boise
Henry Dworshak
Idaho
Secretary of State
Burley
Dworshak
Congress
Ration tokens found in Chicago bus fare boxes
Drivers report token shortages replaced by red ration tokens in Chicago Motor Coach fare registers. A company spokesman notes similar occurrences in other cities using the same registers. The American Transit Association has filed a complaint with the Office of Price Administration.
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Chicago
American Transit Association
Office of Price Administration
County Official Dies in Idaho Aged 62
Mrs. Theresa M. Sullivan Lincoln county clerk auditor recorder died Thursday from a stomach ailment at 62. She was the wife of the late D. E. Sullivan former agent for the Oregon Short Line railroad at Twin Falls. Surviving niece Mrs. Lois Conedun of Boise.
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Theresa M. Sullivan
Lincoln County
Blimp Rescues Pilot After Torpedo Bomber Crash
An hour and 20 minutes after Second Lt. Harvey Metcalf's torpedo bomber crashed into the sea, a Navy blimp hovered overhead, dropped a line, pulled him aboard, and started him off to a hospital.
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Washington
Harvey Metcalf
Navy
Axis Partners Agree to Fight to End
London reports a wartime council at Premier Tojo's Tokyo home where conferees pledged to fight together to the end amid Allied offensives and a looming Western invasion. Statements from Tojo and Heinrich Stahmer stressed Axis unity as Italy’s surrender lingers in memory and European satellites show no wavering in support.
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London
Axis
Tojo
Tokyo
Ivasion
Tolo
Heinrich Stahmer
Italy
Berlin
Arvo
U.e
Shigemitsu
Shimada
Japs Hold Key Northeastern Route As Battle Rages
Allied headquarters reported Japanese forces blocked the Kohima to Dimapur road and held sections of the Bishenpur to Silchar track out of Imphal. The 150 mile Bishenpur Silchar route can be traversed by jeeps. Tokyo radio said heavy fighting continued as Japanese reinforcements were pushed forward despite losses.
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New Delhivu
Dimapur
Kohima
Bishempur- Silchar
Imphal
Assam-Benegal
India
Southwest Asia Command
Bishenpur-Silchar
Silchar
Bengal-Assam
Tokyo
Bishempur
Silehar
Boy Shot by Four Year Old Friend In Washington Terrace
Darwin Harris, three, son of Mr and Mrs Donald J Harris of Victory Road Washington Terrace, was shot in the body with a .22 pistol by a four year old playmate. Doctors report the liver punctured but expect full recovery barring complications. The boy is listed in fair condition.
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Ogden
Darwin Harris
Donald J. Harris
Victory Road
Washington Terrace
Idaho Officers Reported Held as German Prisoners of War
Washington says two Idaho soldiers are prisoners of war in Germany. They are Second Lt. Reid F. Ellsworth of Pocatello and Second Lt. Robert B. Moss of Payettes.
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Washington
Idaho
Germany
War Department
Reid F. Ellsworth
Claude W. Ellsworth
Taft Avenue
Pocatello
Robert B. Moss
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U.S
England
Dover
Paris
France
Norway
Holland
Villeneuve
Goteborg
Denmark
Augsburg
Munich
Sweden
Prague
Schersleben
Sternburg
Baltic Sea
Poznan
East Prussia
Warsaw
Poland
Hungary
Budapest
Austria
U.S. Army Air Forces
R.A.F
Delaware
Joseph D. Robbins
Wilson
Capt
Eddie Rickenbacker
Peiping
By Ralph H. Heppe
Idaho Naval Base
Hershey Appeals
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