WMC Meeting on Truckers Idle Across Idaho and Utah
War manpower officials held a fact finding hearing with operators and AFL truck drivers from four Boise Salt Lake City and Twin Falls lines amid a dispute over certificates of availability to work other jobs. No decision was reached as representatives weigh viewpoints before a regional committee and possible War Labor Board referral. LewisTierney noted the department opposed certificates while the walkouts halted loads from Garrett Orange Arrowhead and Consolidated Freightways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Manpower Commission
Idaho
Utah
Gerald Foster
Denver
Regional Management Labor Committee
Com. M. J. Tierney
Ninth Service Command
Fort Douglas
War Labor Board
Maj
P. S. Irvine
Boise
Salt Lake City
Twin Falls
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
AFL Teamster
Garrett Freightlines
Orange Transportation
Arrowhead Freightlines
Consolidated Freightways
Tierney
War Department
Liabor
Ion
Washington
Woman Wins American Newspaper Publishers Essay Prize
Ruth Williams Ricci of Syracuse University, a Private in the Women's Army Corps, won the American Newspaper Publishers Association third annual journalism award with $500 and a gold medal for her essay Fortresses of Freedom. Ricci, from Hilton New York, wrote the piece before enlisting and has served at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. The contest drew 82 entries from 20 schools, with regional prizes funded by war bonds. Mountain region winners included William J. Harris Boise Idaho Daily Statesman for top and second place entries.
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New York
Ruth Williams Ricci
Syracuse University
Women's Army Corps
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Pvt. Ricci
Hilton
N. Y
Syracuse University School of Journalism
Mountain
William J. Harris
Idaho Daily Statesman
Boise
Yankees Reach Hollandia Amid Light Japanese Resistance
Allied forces near the Hollandia airfield in Dutch New Guinea press the siege with minimal opposition as Japanese troops reportedly withdraw. Central Pacific HQ says Ujelang atoll in the Marshalls falls after a two day campaign, with Taongi hit as well. Reports on Chenghsien and Imphal operations are unconfirmed or disputed.
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Central Pacific
Netherlands East Indies
New Ireland
New Britain
Tojo
Waew Wrap
Wee We Weeews
Allied Headquarters
Associated Press Bureau
C. Yates McDaniel
Hollandia
Japan
New Guinea
Cyclops
Tami
Sixth Army
Tadji
Aitape
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Ujelang Atoll
Marshalls
Truk
Carolines
Ponape
Ujelang
Taongi
Atoll
Wake Island
Manchuria
North China
Chenghsien
Tengfeng
India
Imphal
Burma
Southeast
U. S. Island
Marianas
Woleai
Flyers Reach Home Base After Desert Rescue
Six army flyers marooned since Sunday night on the Oregon Nevada border near Owyhee canyon were brought to safety today by a second ground party led by Lt. Col. Clarence D. Barnhill. They were uninjured and slightly exposed and will be taken to Mountain Home Idaho by ambulance. a prior ground party remains stranded with fuel out.
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M'Dermitt
Nev
Nevada- Oregon
Therm
Clarence D. Barnhill
Newth
Owyhee Canyon
Here
Mountain Home
Idaho
Army Air Field
Sacramento
Stockton
Calif
Barnhill
Civil Air Patrol
Owyhee
Senate panel endorses lend lease extension bill
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in one of its shortest hearings, approved the lend-lease extension bill. Leo T. Crowley urged continued program aid until Allied armies march through Berlin and Tokyo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Leo T. Crowley
United Nations
Berlin
Tokyo
Air Force Losses Hit 2300 Men and 389 Ships in 11 Days
Report details air offensives against Germany with over 50,000 tons of explosives and thousands of incendiaries. About 2,300 airmen lost or captured and 389 aircraft downed, most crew safe as prisoners. Estimated $50 million in aircraft costs and heavy material losses.
Weather Forecast for Pocatello Area
Cloudy today with light rain and warmer tonight. Thursday brings rain or snow and a colder, windy day. Data from the Weather Bureau at Pocatello Municipal Airport shows April 26 at 57 F high, 28 F low, mean 44 F, 0.00 inches precipitation, month to date 0.89 inches, normal 1.20 inches. Sunset 8:25, sunrise 6:29.
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Pocatello
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Watchmaker Loses Time After Restaurant Stop
Stanley R. Goldsmith, watchmaker in Los Angeles, told police he paused in a restaurant to pass time and left a sack of watches worth $1,500 on the counter. When he returned, the timepieces were missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Stanley R. Goldsmith
Goldsmith
Spieces
Former Senator Dies in Preston Hospital
William A. Shulberg aged 70 a prominent agriculturist and former state senator from Franklin county died yesterday in a Preston hospital after major surgery. He led the Franklin county grain growers cooperative and the farmers grain cooperative of Ogden and served as national director of the national grain cooperative. He was a state warehouse inspector and leaves five sons and three daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston
William A. Shulberg
Franklin County
Shuldberg
Musi c Clinic Opens Today in Pocatello
About 2500 southeastern Idaho high school musicians gather in Pocatello for the annual music clinic and contest under Prof A A Beecher and Warrant Officers. Two concerts are planned for Thursday and Friday. solo events begin with brass and woodwinds today and vocals and strings tomorrow with a slate of judges named for each group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Pocatello
A. A. Beecher
Boxer
A. L. Gifford
Gibson Walters
H. L. Fawson
Pocatello High School
Baxter
Charles Ratcliffe
C. Murdock
E. Christiansen
C. Hansent
Conference at Downey church session announced
The quarterly conference of the Portneuf stake will be held in the Downey ward chapel on Sunday. Apostle Spenser Kimball of Salt Lake City will be the speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downey
LDS Church of
Soviet to Enter Germany In Campaign With Allies
In a weekend of heavy air strikes, American bombers hit northern Kuriles and the Marshall Islands while others targeted Ant in the Carolines Nomwin in the Hall Island group and Ponape in the eastern Carolines.
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Germany
Washington
Pacific
Kurnies
South Pacific
Marshall Islands
Navy
Marshalls
Kurile Island
Japan
Russia
Shimushu
Paramushiro
Kamchatka Peninsula
Matsuwa
Ant Island
Carolines
Nomwin
Hall Island
Truk
Ponape
Caroline Islands
Fatal Farm Accident Near Greenleaf Claims Young Farmer
Ernest Floyd Fivecoat, 19, of Canyon County, was killed when his car crashed through a fence and overturned near Greenleaf. Coroner William Talley believes a flat tire caused the crash. Survived by widow Eileen and his parents, Floyd and Mrs. Fivecoat of Greenleaf.
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Nampa
Ernest Floyd Firecoat
Canyon County
Greenleaf
William Talley
Eileen
Floyd Fivecoat
Republican Nominee Dwin Thompson Wins Philadelphia Primary
Former Democratic representative Dwin F Thompson of Philadelphia’s 13th district switched parties this year and won the Republican nomination in yesterday’s primary election.
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Philadelphia
Dwin F Thompson
President Orders Seizure of Montgomery Ward Plant
The White House issued an executive order directing Commerce Secretary Jones to seize and operate the Montgomery Ward plant in Chicago with War Department support if needed. President Roosevelt and Attorney General Biddle defended the authority to take possession, while Montgomery Ward head Sewell Avery refused to accept the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rosevelt
Stimson
Commerce
Jones
Montgomery Ward & Co
Chicago
White House
Biddle
Secretary of Commerce
Montgomery Ward and Company
Wayne Taylor
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward
Avery
Secretary of War
Bombers Strike Brunswick Area In Major Daylight Raid
American heavy bombers hit the Brunswick region in Germany for the third straight day as part of a large daylight offensive. up to 750 fighters escorted the mission, while British planes struck nazi air fields in France and industrial targets. The Luftwaffe reported intense air battles as the raid extended across a 750 mile arc.
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London
Brunswick
Germany
Britain
France
Reich
Europe
Cologne
Air Units to Play Major Role in D Day Invasion
Allied forces move toward the European front as airborne troops prepare to be used extensively. Churchill lauded paratroopers as modern war’s expression, while foes warn of counter paratroop landings. American air borne units train in England with infantry and engineers to form a well rounded offensive force for France.
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Churchill
Quisling
Laval
Vichy
Itler
Marshal Rommel
Atlantic
Hitler
England
France
United States Army
Car Hit By Train In Downey Delays Traffic
Vern Kay of Downey and his wife and daughter Kathleen escaped uninjured after their car stalled on the tracks just above the depot. The freight train struck the vehicle broadside, carrying it about 600 feet along the track.
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Downey
Vern Kay
Secretary to Visit Boise Area County Meetings
Miss Frances M. Goodwin executive secretary of the Idaho Anti Tuberculosis association left today to attend county association meetings at Pocatello Twin Falls Burley Rupert and American Falls.
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Boise
Frances M. Goodwin
Idaho Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Pocatello
Twin Lls
Burley
Rupert
American Falls
Montreal Tenement Crash Kills Fifteen
A Liberator bomber crashed in downtown Montreal destroying a tenement block and killing at least 15 people. Five crew members, a policeman, and nine residents including an 18 month old baby died as the aircraft exploded. Several injured, one missing, smoke rose from the wreckage.
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Montreal
Younger Men To Carry Draft Burden
House draft panel says rest of year will lean on men under 26 for inductions, with few fathers over 26. If needs rise, older men may be called. Costello notes 1 509 000 fathers and 750 000 nonfathers in class 1 A on Apr 1. Inductions average 154 000 monthly to Dec 31, drawn from teens and younger men, plus revoked deferments and few older workers.
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Washington — House Military Committee
Costello
Dcalif
Committee
Selective Service
Armed Services
State Plans Shift on Boise Office Use by Agencies
The state land board directed Land Commissioner Coulter and State Forester Ready to seek Boise City council concurrence to reassign deed terms for use of the state forester’s office by other agencies. If approved, the fish and game department would move the state forester’s office to Coeur d’Alene while the deputy forester’s office stays at the Boise headquarters with the game commission.
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Boise
State Land Board
Robert Coulter
Stanton G
Bortolfsen
State Fish and Game Department
State Forester
Coeur d'Alene
The
Game Commission
Couple Receives Marriage License in Salt Lake City
A marriage license was issued to Glen Harley Arnold age 19 of Thornton Idaho and Ellen Maxine Callaway age 20 of Rexburg Idaho in Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Glen Harley Arnold
Thornton
Idaho
Ellen Maxine Callaway
Rexburg
New Activity Opens on Russian Line
London dispatch reports a broad front Soviet attack from the Carpathians to the Black Sea with heavy artillery and air power. German and Romanian sources claim a “complete defensive victory” and say they repulsed offensives near Iasi and along the Dnestr while Hungarian forces contested Soviet counter thrusts.
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London
Red Army
Russia
Carpathians
Black Sea
Dnestr
Iasi
Carpathian Mountains
Sevastopol
Cult Defends Men With Plural Wives
In Salt Lake City 15 men charged with unlawful cohabitation defend their actions as protected religious worship. Attorneys argue the state statute is unconstitutional and press to delay related polygamy cases as the federal appeal proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
West
Mormon Church
Knox Patterson
Joseph Smith
Latter-Day Saints
Moremon
Smith
United States
Mexico
Utah
United States Supreme Court
Committee Okays 250000 For Palisades Project Work
The appropriations committee approved 250000 for the Palisades project while trimming 9.15 million from the department’s supply bill. The report blasts draft deferment requests for white collar workers and notes 6696 male employees aged 18 to 38 with 2221 occupational deferments. Reclamation projects receive 13.78 million in new funds, expanding the bureau’s activity to about 54 million.
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Washington
Interior Department
Appropriations Committee
House
Johnson
D-Okla
Reclamation Bureau
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vVern Hulbert
Consolidated Freight Ways
AFL
U. S
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Korea
Formosa
Netherlands
Philippines
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Admiralty
Guam
Pacific Ocean
Marcusy
Solomon Islands
Ekusaie
Nauru
Yankees
Associated Press
Dutch New Guinea
Flyers
Bulletins
Ankara
Adolf Hitler
Stuttgart
George S. Patton
Moscow
GOP
Mongomery Ward
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