State workers seek civil service via ballot referendum
A preliminary petition filed in Boise aims to place state employees under civil service and create a state personnel board. The measure requires 10 percent of governor votes in signatures, 14,408 names, with a July filing deadline and a November ballot. The proposed board would have three members, one from a labor union, appointed for six year terms by the governor with Senate consent.
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Boise
Idaho
Eny
George Curtis
Earl Akers
Lewiston
Philip Weisberger
Bert H. Miller
Secretary of State
Akers
Civil Service
Idaho Senate
Noted Player Dies in Air-Accident
Lt. Col. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 44, chief of the U.S. Ninth Air Force tactical research section and famed polo star, was killed in a Mustang P-51 crash near Salisbury while on duty. A World War I and polo legend, he served in England since 1942, after a storied career with Harvard education and multiple Westchester Cup appearances for the United States.
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London
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr
U. S
Ninth Air Force Fighter Command
Polo St.r
Salisbury
Hitchcock
Ninth Air Force
Eight
Fighter Command
England
United States
Escadrille
Switzerland
Harvard
Tommy
Argentina
World Labor Groups Meet to Draft Global Charter
The International Labour Organization opened its 25th year meeting in Philadelphia with 40 member nations and two observers. A two government, one labor, and one employer delegation from each country will discuss a world charter linking money flows and postwar economic policy to labor conditions, addressing topics from child labor to international loans.
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Philadelphia
International Labor Organization
Idaho couple obtains Salt Lake marriage license
Merlin Denton Christensen age 38 of Victor Idaho and Lilly Eliza Banks age 26 of Idaho Falls secured a marriage license today in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Merlin Denton Christensen
Victor
Idaho
Lilly Eliza Banks
Idaho Falls
Michigan GOP Delegation Convention Chooses 41 Members
Michigan moves to the political forefront with a 41 member delegation to the GOP national convention. Dewey leads the 1944 race with 168 pledged delegates, Stassen second with 34, and 216 of the 477 Michigan delegates are uninstructed. Delaware also picks uninstructed nine, led by Senator Buck.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Michigan
Harry F. Kelly
Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
GOP
Delaware
Buck
Rdel
Groups Earn Citations for Big Schweinfurt and Brunswick Actions
Washington war department announces presidential citations to two Eighth Air Force bombardment groups. One group fought in the Schweinfurt attack last October and the other took part in the Brunswick raid in January this year.
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Washington
Army
Eighth Air Force
Schweinfurt
Brunswick
War Department
Utah Polygamy Cult Trials Move to District Court
Three women were ready to testify against members of the polygamy cult but the defense waived preliminary hearings. The case was sent to district court where a motion to quash the information was planned. Five more unlawful cohabitation complaints were filed against Salt Lake City residents involved in polygamous practices.
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Salt Lake City
E. G. Foxley
Federal District Court
Utah
Turkey Seizes Two Romanian Passenger Ships
Turkish authorities interned the Romanian passenger ships Bessarabia and Transylvania in the Bosphorus after detecting signals they might flee to axis ports. Ankara stated the move aimed to prevent potential military use if the ships departed.
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Istanbul
Bessarabia
Transylvania
Bosphorus
Ankara
Treasurers Urge Delay in Semiannual Tax Dates
Idaho County Treasurers at their annual convention recommended delaying the December tax collection to April and the June payment to October to allow more time before delinquency. The report led by Gracie Prost of Nampa cited late tax rolls. The group plans to debate a constitutional amendment creating a state tax commission and other measures including extending terms and increasing salaries.
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Boise
Idaho State Association of County Treasurers
Gracie Prost
Nampa
Canyon County
Margaret Gilbert
Ada County
Association
T. J. Jones
Ruby Hess
Custer County
Wedding Report From Salt Lake City Public Notice
Police reporter Jack Jarrard attended his first wedding in Salt Lake City. The groom faced a six month disorderly conduct sentence, and Judge Joseph G. Jeppson pardoned him with mayor Earl J. Glade making it official. L I Acomb, police court clerk, gave the bride away as benedicts wore gray coats and light blue overalls.
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Salt Lake City
Jack Jarrard
The
Salt Lake
Joseph G. Jeppson
Earl J. Glade
Boise native pilot Beeson missing over England air war
Capt Duane W. Beeson 22 of Boise a leading American ace in Europe is missing in action after an April 5 mission over Berlin area air dromes. He held 21 confirmed victories with 16 in the air and five on the ground and reportedly added another air kill and a ground victory before going down. Beeson resided at 7211 Orchard Street Boise and served as an RAF Eagle squadron veteran before transferring to the U S Army Air Forces.
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England
Duane W. Beeson
Boise
America
Berlin
Beeson
Orchard Street
Eagle
U.S. Army Air Forces
Boise Fighter Ace Kenneth G. Smith Reported Missing
Capt. Kenneth G. Smith a Boise fighter ace in the European war area has been missing in action since March 21 his parents disclosed today He served in the same area with Capt. Duane Beeson who is also reported missing and who has five enemy aircraft to his credit.
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Boise
Kenneth G. Smith
Smith
Duane Beeson
Turkey halts chrome exports amid munitions need
Ankara announced a formal stop to chrome shipments that Germany relies on for weapons. The move affects European defense supplies as Turkey curbs strategic metal exports.
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London
Reuters
Ankara
Turkey
Germany
Bombers Raid Plovdiv Rail Center In Allied Offensive
London reports Italy based RAF bombed Plovdiv Bulgaria a key rail hub as part of a 36hour allied air assault that dropped about 9000 tons of explosives on Hitler's Europe. Casualties were described as slight with one Nazi plane shot down.
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London
Plovdiv
Bulgaria
Hitler
Europe
Sofia
Germany
England
Dover Strait
Vichy
Paris
Rouen
Sweden Rejects Allied Ball Bearing Exports to Germany
Sweden refused British and American requests to hal t export of ball bearings to Germany citing national security and potential German reprisals. Dagens Nyheter reported parliament was told at a secret session but Washington and London had not yet been informed.
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Stockholm
Germany
Dagens Nyheter
Washington
London
William T Ennis Rites Set in Ennis Funeral
Funeral services for William T Ennis 63 assistant superintendent of U P R E who died of a heart attack Tuesday evening will be held Friday at 9:30 a m in St Josephs church with Rev Edmund R Cody officiating. Recitation of the rosary will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Down ard chapel burial will be in Mountainview cemetery. Mr Ennis three sons Richard C of Boise William G of Spokane and Lieut Paul B Ennis of Northfield Minn have arrived to attend the service.
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William T Ennis
U.P. R.E
St. Joseph’s Church
Edmund R. Cody
Downard Chapel
Mountainview Cemetery
C. E. Bartlett
Thomas Gleason
Boise
James Sloan
Nam
Young King Peter pledges democracy for Yugoslavia in London speech
Peter II of Yugoslavia pledged a democratic path for his country and a federal state of Serbs Croats and Slovenes as he prepares to return as monarch. The plan was announced in a speech to the Anglo American Press Club of Paris meeting in London.
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London
Peter
Yugoslavia
Anglo-American Press Club of
Paris
OPA Ends Rationing of Used Typewriters Saturday
The Office of Price Administration announced that rationing of all used typewriters will end on Saturday. New machines remain controlled by the War Production Board and are not affected. Rationing began on March 13, 1942.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
Idaho civic group eyed for liquor vote at May meeting
Boise. Harry Kessler, legal adviser to the allied civic forces, predicts a May 4 gathering will seek a local option vote on liquor in Idaho. A. Y. Satterfield of Pocatello, the state organizer, likely to raise the issue. Kessler favors permanent wartime rationing and converting county stores into county decisions.
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Boise
Harry Kessler
Allied Civic Forces
Idaho
A. Y. Satterfield
Pocatello
Civic Forces
Kessler
Curtis First To File For Idaho Gubernatorial Nomination
Secretary of State George H. Curtis became the first to file for the Idaho gubernatorial race as a Democrat. Arnold Williams of Rexburg and C. V. True of the state education department filed for lieutenant governor and state auditor respectively, with Williams already a former Madison County representative and Democratic leader. Several other Democrats and Republicans also filed petitions or announced candidacies for their respective offices.
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Boise
George H. Curtis
Arnold Williams
Rexburg
C. V. True
State Department of Education
Williams
Ira H. Masters
Madison County
House
J. H. Neil
Moscow
J. F. Jenny
Cottonwood
H. G. Peckam
Wilder
John C. Sanborn
Hagerman
Harry R. Harn
Dubois
Ernest Hansen
Australian Brides Arrive in San Francisco for American Homes
Ninety Australian war brides and 14 babies arrived in San Francisco from Australia, curious about their new homeland. Doris Lebash, wife of Marine Corp. Joseph Lebash, said Americans have new clothes and beauty, awaiting guidance as they settle. Red Cross and war housing agency arranged temporary lodgings, with brides soon heading to husbands’ homes across the nation.
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San Francisco
United States
America
Doris Jean Lebash
Marine Corp
Joseph Lee Lebash
Shinnston
W. Va
Barbara Anne
Melbourne
Australia
The
Red Cross
War Housing Agency
Weather Summary for Pocatello Area April 20
Partly cloudy and slightly colder with freezing tonight. Snow flurries in the southeast, fair in the west. High 54, low 32, mean 43. Precipitation 0 for 24 hours, 0.76 inch this month to date, normal 1.04. Sun sets 8:18, rises 6:40.
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Porevast
Pocatello
Wes
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Heavy German Attacks Fail to Break Polish Fronts
Moscow reported heavy German tank and infantry offensives along the southeast edge of old Poland were repelled after fierce fighting. Russian shock troops seized Fedvukhiny heights near Sevastopol while Lwow defense center and Stanislawow region saw combat and territorial changes. Nadworna reportedly fell to Hungarian forces.
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London
Old Poland
Moscow
Fedvukhiny Heights
Sevastopol
Lwow
Stanislawow
Nadworna
Red Army
Grace Plans Black and White Day Fair Officials Named
Grace hosts a two day Black and White Day observance on August 18 and 19 announced by county extension agent William Dean Boyle after a Black and White day committee meeting at Greece Jack Gibbs. Officials elected include J A Toone as vice chairman Milton Hartvigsen as secretary Harris Mickelson dairy committee Brig Young horse show Dick Smith swine Max Rogby junior livestock Milton Hartvigsen advertising H Lloyd parade Clark Mickelson transportation J A Toone grounds and feed E F Ziegler victory gardens.
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Gem Valley
William Dean Boyle
Greece
Jack Gibbs
J. A. Toone
Niter
Milton Hartvigsen
Grace
Harris Mickelson
Lago
Brig Young
Dick Smith
Horsley Plans May Start for Gubernatorial Campaign
Milton Horsley said he will begin his Republican gubernatorial campaign about May 10 after attending the party regional agricultural conference in Salt Lake City next week. He returned to Soda Springs after a brief stay here.
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Boise
Milton Horsley
Salt Lake City
Soda Springs
Allied Bombing and Eastern Front Reports in War Bulletin
London dispatches describe the Red Army beating off a large infantry and tank assault southwest of Narva with over two thousand enemy troops killed. In Britain hundreds of allied bombers attacked the European coast to mark Hitler's birthday, streaming across the channel in a long bombardment behind the Atlantic Wall. American bombers and Thunderbolts were part of the formation observed by English officials.
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London
Red Army
Narva
Hitler
Europe
Atlantic
Johnson to Direct War Loan Drive
Idaho war finance official Theodore Wegener says county committees and chairmen will mirror those from the fourth drive. The fifth drive starts June 12 with LaVerne Johnson named area chairman for southeastern Idaho and Neil Christenson as Caribou county chairman.
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Boise
Theodore Wegener
Idaho
War Finance Committee
LaVerne Johnson
Pocatello
R. H. Wells
Neil Christenson
Caribou
Laval warns French not to aid invaders amid invasion broadcasts
The Vichy leader Pierre Laval urges Frenchmen to avoid aiding Anglo American parachutists expected to land in France. He warns of civil war as loyalists and pro Vichy factions clash, and predicts reprisals by the resisting underground.
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London
France
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Quisling
Laval
Huye
Lever
Germany
Idahoans Die in Mediterranean Action
Washington staff reports two Idahoans killed in action in the Mediterranean area. Jackson W. Park of Boise and Second Lieutenant Wilbur E. Somers of Coeur d Alene are listed as casualties. Park's father, Kegeng S. Park, lives on route 3 in Boise.
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Washington
Jackson W. Park
Boise
Wilbur E. Somers
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Mediterranean
War Department
Park
Kegeng S. Park
Allied planes smash two Jap airfields in Sumatra raid
Allied carrier planes attacked Sabang and Lhonga in northern Sumatra destroying about 22 Japanese aircraft on the ground at Sabang and several at Lhonga. The task force, led by Adm Sir James Somerville, reported no allied losses and saved the lone downed pilot. Sabang lies near the Malacca Straits a critical link in the Japanese supply line to Burma.
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Associated Press
Sumatra
Singapore
Malaya
Sabang
Lhonga
Sabane
Adm
James Somerville
Malacca
Malay
Burma
Shonga
Sue
Gunners Hit Own Planes In Sicilian Air Losses
The War Department reports a second group of American planes lost to friendly fire in Sicily. Ten transport planes were shot down over Catania on July 13 14 with 44 killed. overall friendly fire incidents total 473 men and planes.
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Washington
War Department
Catania
Sicily
Gela
Sicilian
U. S
Goering Appeals On Hitler Birthday Broadcast
Hermann Goering spoke to Germans on the eve of Hitler's 55th birthday urging that an oath not to lay down arms should be Hitler's birthday gift. The Berlin radio broadcast praised the Fuehrer and commander-in-chief as dearly beloved.
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London
Hermann Goering
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Goering
Berlin
Hitler
OPA Warns Black Market Gas Theft Could Shrink Civilian Supplies
Washington OPA official Shad Polier warns the black market for gasoline coupons and counterfeit gas access threatens the war effort. He cites an estimated 2.5 million gallons daily diverted, risking higher A and B ration miles and expanding illegal trade in key regions.
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Washington
Congress
OPA
Shad Polier
Office of Price Administration
House
Polier
California
Pacific Northwest
Gulf Coast
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Mel Ott
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