Soviet Army Captures Kingisepp Near Estonian Line
The Red army seized Kingisepp eight miles from Estonia and a key railway hub on the Baltic frontier as Moscow reported continued street fighting and advances toward Narva. Russian forces pressed from the Luga river as soldiers claimed to be taking one house after another.
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London
Red Army
Kingisepp
Moscow
Yamburg
Estonia
Narva
Reval
Baltic
Red
Nikolai Denisov
Red Star
Luga
Miller Okays Building Use For Gooding Tuberculosis Hospital
Attorney General Bert H. Miller issued an opinion allowing the Gooding tuberculosis hospital on the former Gooding College site to house senile patients from state mental hospitals if the governor declares an absolute necessity and funds exist in the Department of Charitable Institutions. Currently the hospital is operational but unused, remodeled under the 1941 tuberculosis hospital fund. No objections are expected from the land grantors. State mental hospitals at Blackfoot Orofino and Nampa would be affected.
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Boise
Gooding
Gooding College
Bert H. Miller
Alvin H.ismae
Miller
Department of Charitable Institutions
Blackfoot
Orofino
Nampa
Flat car crashes into hotel dining room in Weiser lands damage
A switching yard incident sent a flat car rolling into the Washington hotel in Weiser yesterday. Sheriff A. S. Caviness estimated $1,000 in damages with no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weiser
Union Pacific
Washington
A. S. Caviness
Chickens on Atoll Solve Egg Problem
Seventeen chickens owned by a navy chaplain on an atoll yet to be fully defended roam the islet. Thirteen Gilbertese pastors and school teachers gifted the flock to St. Francis T. Cooke of Bristol, Connecticut, who ferried the birds 30 miles by outrigger canoes and plans to share the eggs equitably among the sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Pacific
Navy
Atoll
St. Francis T. Cooke
First Congregational Church
Bristol
Conn
Ballot Battle Flares Over Federal Ballot Machinery
The House refused a roll call on a bill to create uniform federal ballot machinery for the armed services in a 233 to 160 vote. States rights advocates gained ground as four hours of debate began, with a likely decisive vote tomorrow. The Senate has passed a states’ rights approach and may consider new legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Worley
D., Texas
House Elections Committee
Soviet Lashes At Spain Over Neutrality Claims
The Soviet embassy accused Spain of aiding Hitler and maintaining forces on the Russian front. It charged Franco’s government with camouflage and supplying Germany with cannon fodder while professing neutrality, a claim published before oil shipments to Spain were halted by the United States and Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hitler
Embassy Information Bulletin
Germany
United States
Britain
Spain
Generalissimo Franco
First anniversary of Marine Corps Women’s Reserve to be observed
Idaho will observe the first anniversary of the U S marine corps women s reserve during the week starting February 6, Gov Bottolfsen announced in a proclamation. The event marks a milestone in broader wartime service participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
U. S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
Idaho
Bottolfsen
Thousands in Enemy Camps May Get Harsh Treatment
The article reports that despite diplomacy, Americans held by Japan face grim prospects and calls for intensified Pacific war action. Senator Chavez demands immediate escalation with more planes tanks and guns for Gen. MacArthur. The State Department lists 89 protests alleging captives abuses and violations of international law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hightower
Washington
Tokyo
Chavez
D-N.m
Pacific
Senate
Roosevelt
Stimson and
Knox
MacArthur
State Department
Switzerland
Dceacy
Department
Philippine
Writer Tells of Jap Attack on New Georgia Bayonet Victims
AP war correspondent J Norman Lodge recounts a July ambush on New Georgia where Japanese troops bayoneted wounded Americans and slaughtered litter bearers near the Bairoko river. Posters detailing atrocity circulated as details emerged from Lt. Nicholas T. Kliebert's account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Georgia Island
J. Norman Lodge
Associated Press
Lodge
United States
Munda
Bairoko
Nicholas T. Kliebert
Michigan National
Idaho Places Ban on Seed Potatoes
Agriculture Commissioner Harvey Schwendiman issued a quarantine against shipping into Idaho seed potatoes not certified under state laws of origin. The order bans imports of seed potatoes with any bacterial ring rot and notes some states allow minor ring rot. Governor Bortolfsen countersigned the measure to prevent inferior diseased Irish seed from entering Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Harvey Schwendiman
Idaho
Commissioner of Agriculture
Lottery Legislation Gains National Support
Chairman Sabath announces petitions with 50 000 to 1 000 000 signatures circulating nationwide to back lottery bills to finance the war. He has introduced a measure legalizing the method and says it could raise two to three billions for the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sabath
House Rules Committee
Congress
Chicagoan
War casualties total 146 186 in OWI report
The office of war information reports armed forces casualties at 146 186. Dead total 33 153 wounded 49 518 missing 33 617 and prisoners 29 898. The figures exclude victims of Japanese atrocities and are based on war and navy department data.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
War and Navy Department
Weather forecast for Pocatello area tonight and Wednesday
Cloudy with a few snow flurries tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures little changed with high near 36 and low around 10. Mean temperature about 23. 24 hour precipitation set at 0. month to date unchanged. Sunset 6 52, sunrise 8 44.
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Pocatello
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Pvt Monkey Saves Lives of 15 Men in War Tale
Pvt Floyd Steward recalls how a baby monkey saved his life three times and aided fourteen fellow soldiers during World War II in Africa and Sicily. The animal alerted rescuers after a mortar blast and survived underwater shell holes riding in Steward’s jacket.
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San Pedro
Calif
Floyd Steward
Kasserine Pass
Africa
Steward
Airborne Engineers
Sicily
War Hero Returns To Former Home
Captain R. E. Deaton, a former Pocatello resident with 50 missions across North Africa Sicily and Italy, visits town with his wife before heading to Santa Monica California. A high decorated veteran of the first bombardment group he predicts Europe war end soon and notes strong morale among American forces.
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Pocatellan
R. E. Deaton
Mal T. Deaton
505
South Eighth
Santa Monica
California
Deaton
R. C. Deaton
Omaha
Pocatello High School
Pocatello
North Hayes
Italy
England
Hillman Funeral Rites Thursday
The body of Theodore Hillmen 39 a prominent sheep operator who died at Rupert Sunday was brought to Pocatello to the home of W F Kasiska 155 S Garfield. Friends may call there until the services at 10 a m Thursday in St Joseph church with Rev Father E R Cody officiating. Rosary at 8 p m Wednesday in the Kasiska home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Hillmen
Rupert
Pocatello
W. F. Kasiska
S. Garfield
St. Joseph Church
E. R. Cody
Kasiska
Quake Levels Gerede Town in Turkey
A powerful earthquake destroyed the Turkish town of Gerede 180 miles east of Istanbul killing and injuring many of its 25 000 inhabitants. The tremors lasted 50 seconds and were felt throughout Turkey. Gerede in northern Turkey lies about 60 miles from the Black Sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ankara
Turkey
Gerede
Istanbul
Black Sea
Tighter Draft Regulation Now in Effect
Washington reports new draft rules cut deferments and tighten re classifications. About 2.5 million men remain in dependency groups as selective service boards target 600,000 inductions in early 1944. December and January saw 2 million reclassified from 3-A, with 50,000 fathers inducted and 631,000 given occupational deferments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army Navy
Congress
Selective Service
Air Officials Visit City to discuss postwar aviation plans
Aviation-minded residents will meet Western Air Lines officials at a chamber luncheon in the Bannock hotel. Attending are Richard Dick general traffic manager and J W Charleville assistant to the airlines president. O R Baum chairs arrangements. Discussions focus on Pocatello’s postwar aviation role and feeder routes serving southern and southeastern Idaho.
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Pocatellans
Western Air Lines
Chamber of Commerce
Bannock Hotel
Richard Dick
J. W. Charleville
Airlines
O. R. Baum
Chamber Aviation Committee
Pocatello
Idaho
Western Air officials in Pocatello for eastern Idaho aviation meet
J. W. Charleville of Los Angeles and Joe L. O Neal of Western Air visit Pocatello for an eastern Idaho postwar aviation planning meeting at the Bannock hotel. A chamber forum lunch precedes the meeting with regional leaders attending. Western Air outlines postwar expansion from Nome to Buenos Aires and a coast line from Los Angeles to Edmonton via Pocatello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Charleville
Los Angeles
Western Air Lines
Joe L. O'Neal
Blackfoot
Pocatello
Idaho
Bannock Hotel
Chamber of Commerce Forum
Western Air
Nome
Buenos Aires
Edmonton
Skagaway
Aviation Committee of the Chamber of
O. R. Baum
Chaminade Singers to Present Joint Concert in Frazier Hall
The Chaminade Singers of the Pocatello Music Club sponsor a concert featuring the Army air base band and the Navy chorus of Idaho Southern at Frazier Hall Priday. Tickets and bonuses are sold at Nate Morgan's Guaranty Savings and Loan post office or by chorus members. War stamps are sold for admission at the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Base Band
Navy Chorus of
Idaho Southern
Chaminade Singers
Pocatello Music Club
Frazier Hall
Priday
Nate Morgan's
Guaranty Savings and Loan
Post Office
Allied Troops Advance Toward Rome Amid Cassino Push
Allied headquarters report rapid advances from the Anzio beachhead toward Campo Leone and Cisterna as U S troops hammer the Cassino front. German defenses show strain with 500 prisoners taken by American forces and stronger resistance near the Cisterna border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Campoleone
Rome
Cisterna
Appian Way
Anzio
Campoleones
Cassino
Air Offensive Continues on French Coast and Holland Raid
Allied air power presses the invasion coast with the thirtieth assault in a month. American heavy bombers and Thunderbolts hit targets across France and Holland while RAF saturation raids on Berlin continue. Thirteen German planes were destroyed and nine Allied fighters did not return.
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London
Holland
Berlin
U. S
France
French
Pas de Calais
Gilze-Rijen
Court Orders Freightways Inc to Dissolve
Federal Judge Michael J. Roche ordered Freightways, Inc. dissolved amid an antitrust case in which the DOJ charged a conspiracy to monopolize trade and fix rates. The Interstate Commerce Commission had recently denied the carriers’ appeal. Pacific Intermountain Express Co. of Salt Lake City was among the member firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Freightways, Inc
Illinois
Minnesota
Michael J. Roche
Anti-Trust Division
Department of Justice
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pacific Intermountain Express Co
Salt Lake City
Ella Raines Drives War Bond Rally in Ada County
Actress Ella Raines stirred a rally raising Ada county war bond totals to 27 680 dollars. A nylon hose lot outbid by Tommy Russell reached 1500 dollars before being resold to Ned Harlan after a humorous bidding chain.
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Boise
Ella Raines
Garland R. Rea
Ada County
Tommy Russell
Joe Imhoff
Ned Harlan
Chamber of Commerce
Margarine Tax Fight Resumes in Congress
A new drive in Congress to repeal the ten cent per pound oleomargarine tax will be launched soon, says a National Association of Margarine Manufacturers official. The proposal has failed in the House Agriculture Committee and again in the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Association of Margarine Manufacturers
House Agriculture Committee
Ihe
Senate
War on Bottolfsen Falters in Idaho Recall Fight
George Luker, Pocatello Independent Voters League president and GOP senate hopeful, says the Idaho Independent Voters League will not pursue a recall election against Gov Bottolfsen. He notes reduced league activity in southeastern Idaho and abandonment of recall petitions over the pension repeal enacted in 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Luker
Pocatello Independent Voters League
U. S. Senate
Idaho Independent Voters League
Bottolfsen
Luker
Idaho
League
Plague Famine in Kwanteune Province Amid Locust Plague
George Edgar Adams, secretary of the American advisory committee for southeast China, reports that in Kwanteune province a million Chinese have died from famine and cholera. He cites eighty percent depopulation of some villages and widespread orphaned children, migrant beggars, and social collapse. aid is provided by United China Relief and British funds to China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Kwanetune
George Edgar Adams
American Advisory Committee For
Southeast China
Adams
Chuneking
United China Relief
British Cross
British United Aid To
China
Under Cover Suits Filed for Libel in Salt Lake City
Three Salt Lake City men sue in district court for libel over the book Under Cover seeking a total of 300000 dollars. Plaintiffs Ernest Hollings C F Allen and J H McKnight ask 100000 100000 and 50000 respectively with McKnight also claiming an assignment from Jacob Thorkelson a Montana physician. Devonian also known as John Roy Carlson is named as the author. Jeremiah Stokes an attorney filed a similar complaint last week seeking 100000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Ernest Hollings
Utah University
C. F. Allen
J. H. McKnight
McKnight
Jacob Thorkelson
Montana
Hollines
Allen
Hur Devonian
John Roy Carlson
Jeremiah Stokes
Pocatellans' Sister Dies in Salt Lake City Hospital
Two brothers, Clarence Hall and Arthur Hall of Pocatello, survive Mrs May Florence Hall Ross 53 who died Sunday at a Salt Lake City hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Clarence
Arthur Hall
Pocatello
May Florence Hall Ross
Soldiers land beachheads on Marshall Islands in invasion
U S troops reached the Marshall Islands near Kwajalein and established beachheads as Admiral Nimitz reported strong Japanese opposition. The operation involves the fourth division led by Maj Harry Schmidt and the seventh led by Maj Charles H. Corlett, with early American casualties described as moderate. The push aims to secure lightly defended areas as the first invasion of territories formerly held by Japan since Pearl Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
United States
Marshall Islands
Kwajalein
Chester W. Nimitz
Ameri
Nimitz
Harry Schmidt
Charles H. Corlett
Kwajalein Island
Rumors of Himmler Power Shift in Nazi Leadership
A German press report cited Himmler possibly losing influence within the Nazi hierarchy. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung article suggests Himmler centralized power then risked alienating allies including Martin Bormann. It notes tensions with Ribbentrop as an extreme wing faction vies for control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Gestapo
Henrich Himmler
Hitler
Nagf
Deutsche Allgee Ey
Himmler
Himmmle
Martine Bormann
Bormann
Nazi Party
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Educators to Meet Here February 17
Idaho plans a six part series of educational planning conferences to shape a future secondary education program. State Superintendent C E Roberts announced invites to Grange, American Legion, Farm Bureau, women’s clubs, labor, parents and teachers, chamber of commerce and educational reps. Meetings will be in Rexburg Pocatello Twin Falls Coeur d Alene Lewiston Caldwell on February 16 17 18 24 25 and 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise (P
Idaho
C. E. Roberts
State Superiintendent of Public Instruction
State Grange
American Legion
Farm Bureau Federation
Women’s Clubs, Labor, Parents and Teachers
State Chamber of Commerce
Rexburg
Pocatello
Twin Falls
Coeur d’Alene
Lewiston
Caldwell
Idahoan Sees State Versus Federal Ballot for Soldiers
Idaho House Speaker Milton L. Horsley says states should handle voting for service members, with a special call likely for soldier ballots. He and Mrs. Horsley are in Washington to observe, visiting their son Milton Burke Horsley in the V-12 program and their daughter La Venne at Juilliard. He expects Idaho to meet in a special session to clarify laws allowing service members to vote without registration, ensuring full ticket voting for offices like county sheriff and commissioner.
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Washington
Milton L. Horsley
Idaho
House of Representatives
Congress
Horsleys
Farragut
Ida
Horsley
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