Congress Grants Final Army Navy Funds Boost in Postwar Plan
The 8th congress approved a $415,324,712 appropriation bill with total new funds reaching about $68 billion for this year. Navy receives $286,626,582 of the total, while $17,569,000 funds statistics for postwar readjustment. A proposed $75,000,000 budget for $1.5 billion construction plans was struck for future talks with states. Veterans Administration gains $10,571,000 to expand hospital and domiciliary facilities for returning veterans.
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House
Congress
Veterans’ Administration
Sailors Transferred as Cookies Warm Hut Visit
Mr and Mrs Allard of Arbon visited the USC Hut Tuesday as a trainload of sailors was given cookies and chocolate. The sailors head to a coastal aerial gunnery school from Tennessee. The group noted Idaho warmth compared with Tennessee. Rev and Mrs Doyle of Aberdeen brought cookies baked by church ladies. Lieut Col John Borbridge, husband of Anna McLaughlin of Pocatello, writes a vivid French front letters.
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Homer M. Doyle
Aberdeen
Church of God
John Borbridge
Anna McLaughlin
Pocatello
France
Veterans memories echo as families rally at the Hut
World War I battlefields haunt veterans now watching sons follow in their paths. Jack Borbridge a Pocatello graduate headed for Annapolis this year while Pfc Richard W. Best of the 801st Tank Destroyer Battalion in France earns a merit citation. Aberdeen families donate apples and cookies to the Hut as visitors drop in from trains and military circles.
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Germany
Verdun
Jack Borbridge
Jack Borbridge, Son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Borbridge, Lived In Pocatello
Pocatello High School
Annapolis
Borbridges
Richard W. Best
801St Tank Destroyer Battalion
France
Winston E. Best
del Monte
Thyberg Promoted to Infantry Sergeant in Pacific Service
G D Thyberg promoted from private first class to sergeant in the 40th infantry division of the U S Army. He has served since Oct 18 1942 and overseas since Sept 29 1943 including Hawaii and the South Pacific. He helped defend Rabaul and earned Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon and two overseas bars.
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U.S. Army
New Britain
Golden D. Thyberg
Frances E. Thyberg
North Hayes
Pocatello
40Th
Thyberg
Hawaiian Islands
South Pacific
Rabaul
Pacific
Union Pacific Railway Company
Hancock Completes 50th War Mission in Italy
First Lieut. Thomas H. Hancock 22 of Pocatello Idaho flew his 50th combat mission in a B 17 Flying Fortress over Pilzen Czechoslovakia from an Italian bomber base. He joined the RAF in 1942 and earned wings in 1943. He previously served over Hungary where engine trouble forced a split from his crew but he returned safely. He holds the Silver Star Distinguished Flying Cross Purple Heart Air Medal with three clusters and the EAME ribbon. His parents live at 559 Richland Ave.
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Italy
Thomas H. Hancock
Richland Ave
Pocatello
Idaho
Pilzen
Czechoslovakia
Hancock
RAF
Marfa
Texas
Hungary
Idaho Falls Senior High School
T. E. Hancock
Japanese to Hold Flyers Responsible
Sadao Iguchi said Japan replied to the United States and Britain about captured enemy aviators. The official reply stated inquiries were made in September and answered December 3 through the Swiss legation. It asserted aviators would be held responsible if they clearly breached established warfare tactics.
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Associated Press
Sadao Iguchi
Japanese Board of Information
United States
Great Britain
Federal Communications Commission
Tokyo
Legation
Discharged Veterans To Get New Emblem
A new honor discharge emblem has been adopted for all service members honorably discharged. The cloth device, matching the design of the honorable service lapel button, will be worn above the right breast pocket on outer uniforms at discharge. Emblems will be embroidered in gold with background matching the uniform. supplies are not yet available.
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Pocatello Army Air Field
Pan Americanism viewed at chamber luncheon forum
Dr. Boyd Martin of the University of Idaho outlined Pan Americanism factors and hurdles at a Bannock hotel forum luncheon under the Rockefeller foundation. He urged U S good neighbor policy acceptance as genuine American ideal not mere administration policy. Paul Nash announced a Dec 13 luncheon with film Glimpses of Homes of the Future and noted chamber gains of 60 members with new arrivals including Virgil Bennett and Mayor C D Moore.
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Chamber of Commerce Forum
Bannock Hotel
Boyd Martin
Political Science Department
University of Idaho At Moscow
Committee For inter-American Affairs
Rockefeller Foundation
Martin
United States
South American Republics
U. S
Paul Nash
Chamber of Commerce
Pocatello
Chamber
Virgil Bennett
C. D. Moore
L. W. Nye
Neil Jordson
L. D. Perry
Marion Long
Dr. Myron Porges
Gordon Dunlap
Bagwell Destroys Two Enemy Planes in Six Missions
M/Sgt. J. R. Bagwell of Pocatello Idaho received official word from the war department crediting him with downing a German ME-109 during a raid on Brux Czechoslovakia on May 12. This brings his tally to two enemy planes destroyed in six missions.
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J. R. Bagwell
Grace Bagwell
East Center
Pocatello
War Department
Brux
Czechoslovakia
Bagwell
A.A.F. Convo
Sergeant Bagwell Receives Air Medal and Purple Heart
Sgt Bagwell, stationed in the European theater, earns the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart and a unit citation. He is the chief clerk in Maj Samuel B Hill's office. wife Mrs Bagwell and six year old daughter Judy Rae live at 710 East Center.
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Lescent Hospital
Samuel B. Hill
Bagwell
Judy Rae
710 East Center
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