Evacuation Efforts Meet Setbacks In Pacific Operations
Allied forces pressed offensives in the Pacific as PT boats and planes hit Japanese shipping and coastal bases. Ground patrols probed Arawe on New Britain while MacArthur's advance neared Akyab in Burma. Tokyo quoted Tojo calling for faster aircraft output amid a fierce war, as raids continued on Nipponese facilities in China.
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Pacific
Tokyo
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Arawe
New Britain
Burma
Akyab
China
Tokyo Radio
Hideki Tojo
Huon Peninsula
Douglas MacArthur
Saidor
Casualty List Totals Soar to 139 800 in War Effort
The United States reports American casualties since the war began reaching 139 800. Army losses are 105 229 and navy marine and coast guard 24 523. Secretary Stimson cites 16 831 killed 38 916 wounded 24 067 missing and 25 415 prisoners of war. Navy marine coast guard totals include 15 186 killed 6 616 wounded 8 429 missing and 4 292 prisoners of war.
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Washington
Navy
Marine and Coast Guard
Stimson
5Th
Italy
Navy-Marine-Coast Guard
Diaper Garment in Claire McCardell Spring Collection
New York editors glimpse Claire McCardell's spring line featuring diaper shorts and romper exercise suits. The designer revisits leotards and popover dresses, presents the MacArthur bush jacket in white cotton twill, and showcase one piece beach dresses with deep pockets and short shorts in black jersey.
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New York
Claire McCardell
K.P
Gandhi
Weather Summary for Pocatello Airport January 14 1944
Weather data from the Weather Bureau at Pocatello Municipal Airport for the 24 hours ending noon January 14 1944 shows high of 26 low of 5 and mean 16. Departure to date 121 has the year to date high 44 and low 26. Precipitation for the 24 hours 0 with month to date 37 against normal 50. Sun sets 6 19 and sun rises 8 59.
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United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
AP Members Meet Monday in Pocatello
Utah and Idaho AP members will hold their annual meeting in Pocatello on Monday January 17 with 9 a.m. sessions at the Hotel Bannock. War correspondent Boots Norgaard will speak on his return from Europe and North Africa where he covered major front page events. The luncheon is hosted by the Pocatello Tribune and over 20 publishers and editors have reserved seats.
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Utah
Idaho
Associated Press
Pocatello
William 8. Cady
Association
Noland
Boots) Norgaard
Norgaard
Londo
North Africa
Jean Darlan
Sicily
Pocatello Tribune
Bannock
Now we know New Deal is dead draft law for private profit
Washington AP reports labor weekly blasts the New Deal as dead with a demand to conscript workers for private gain. A cartoon shows US industry and a War Department official amid draft law threats while Patterson downplays wartime parallels. London AP notes Allied bombing in northern France. Seattle AP confirms death of Elbridge Stuart founder of Carnation Milk at 86. Navy AP cites bombing of Mill Atoll in Marshall Islands.
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Washington
Labor
F.D
Congress
Patterson
F.D.R
Seattle
Elbridge Amos Stuart
The
Carnation Milk Company
Los Angeles
California
Horan Says Eastman Recommends Aluminum Line Closures
Representative Horan states that Joseph B. Eastman director of the Office of Defense Transportation advised the War Production Board to shut 20 of 25 aluminum production lines in the Pacific Northwest.
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Washington
Horan
R.-Wash
Joseph B. Eastman
Office of Defense Transportation
War Production Board
Pacific Northwest
Lemhi Man Wounded in Action Listed by War Department
Washington reports Sgt Cecil W West of Princeton Idaho and G Ren Butterfield of Salmon Idaho wounded in action in Europe and the Mediterranean respectively according to the war department Butterfield’s father Elmer W Butterfield lives in Salmon Idaho.
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Washington
Warren G. Butterfield
Salmon, Ida
Cecil W. West
Princeton
Idaho
War Department
Butterfield
Elmer W Butterfield
Salmon
Roosevelt Seeks Budget Exceeding Predecessors’ Outlays
President Roosevelt's 12 budget messages project 99.8 million for the coming fiscal year, pushing total federal spending to over 378.6 billion. Defense and war costs are slated at about 295 billion with war funding another 105 billion, vastly surpassing all prior administrations since Hoover.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Herbert Hoover
White House
Navy Reports On Losses In War Shifts
London reports declare the destroyer Hurricane lost with no details given. Washington confirms the 2100 ton USS Brownson sunk by Japanese planes at Cape Gloucester New Britain on December 27 with 208 crew survivors. It also notes 30 survivors from the gunboat USS Saint Augustine sunk off Cape May New Jersey on January 6.
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Washington
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
U. S. S. Brownson
Navy
Saint Augustine
Cape May
New Jersey
Young Navy recruit underage sailor returns home
A Chicago boy, 13, who enlisted last October used a casual acquaintance’s name Raymond Brenner instead of his own Ben Holtz. After training at Farragut naval station with a good record, he is sent home following his parents’ letters to Navy authorities.
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Farragut
Ben Holtz
Farragut Naval Training Station
Raymond Brenner
Raymond
Chicago
Navy
Idahoan Dies in Action in Navy Conflict
Washington reports Stanley Sage Smith of Sandpoint Idaho a pharmacist mate third class in the naval reserve killed in action. Smith's mother Mrs Ruby Sage Smith lives in Sandpoint.
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Washington
Stanley Sage Smith
Naval Reserve
Sandpoint
Idaho
Navy Department
Sage
Ruby Sage Smith
French Make Two Mile Gain in Italy
Allied forces pushed through the Apennines for a two mile gain from the east while American units advanced from the south in a circling assault on Cassino and the Gustav line. Bombers hit German airfields near Rome as German resistance around Cassino stiffened with pits trenches and minefields.
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Algiers
Alphonse Juin
Italy
Apennines
Cassino
Gustav Line
Rome
Guidontal
Benito Mussolini
Cervaro
Mt. Trocchio
Rome Road
House Rejects Ballot Form in Uniform Federal Ballot Vote
The House Elections Committee rejected uniform federal ballot proposals for armed forces and favored a state-based approach. Eleven million service members may be unable to vote next election due to 48 state ballot systems, with Worley promising to push the issue to the floor.
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Washington
House ‘Elections Committee
Worley
D.-Tex
House
Army Closing Two Ordnance Plants
The United States Army will close the Pennsylvania Ordnance Works in White Deer valley near Williamsport on Sunday, affecting about 1,300 workers. The move, approved by Maj Gen L H Campbell Jr and citing high efficiency of ordnance plants, follows a similar closure at Weldon Springs with about 2,590 discharged.
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Williamsport Pa
Army
Pennsylvania Ordnance Works
White Deer Valley
H. S. Borman
Borman
L. H. Campbell, Jr
Ordnance
St. Louis
Weldon Springs
Bombless Airplane Drops Fuel On Damaged Ship
Lt. Robert M. Bell of Barrington Michigan piloted a bombless plane with the 15th Air Force in Italy. He flew with bombers attacking Yugoslav shipping and released a belly fuel tank onto a 5,000-ton ship’s deck, aiding a fire as flames spread aboard.
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U. S. 15Th Air Force
Italy
Robert M. Bell
Barrington
Yugoslavia
Individual shares in war budget soar to 1877.59 in per capita outlook
Washington figures show a 1945 war and peace budget totaling 99.8 billion dollars with per person shares near 726.07 if debt rises to 258 million by June 30. The analysis notes a possible 1877.59 per capita burden under continued financing and cites a population base of about 1547 million.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
The
Treasury
Train wreck in snowstorm kills 12 and injures 75
A Santa Fe collision in a snowstorm near Texas reports 12 dead and 75 hurt as a four car extra train crashes into a 12 car California bound train halted to discharge passengers. Trainmaster E. E. Baker cites snowfall and heavy traffic with broken communications. Civilians and soldiers worked in freezing weather to recover victims.
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E. E. Baker
Brownwood
Camp Barkley
Flag Station
Railways Division
Temple
Clothes Sans Cloth Due Next Summer in New York Fashion
New York fashion notes predict a revival of backless sleeveless dresses for summer. Designer Clarepotter presents play clothes emphasizing fabric conservation with resort wear only, including a black jersey swimsuit and two faced dresses. The collection heads the fourth day of New York’s spring openings in Paris style.
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New York
America
Desiger Clarepotter
Clarepotter
Paris
Jury Awards 8750 in Auto Crash Damages
A seven juror panel awarded George C Howell of Nampa 8750 in a wrongful death and injury suit against Carl and Mrs Shuler of Nampa over a summer automobile crash that killed the Howell three year old son and injured family members. The trial before Judge Thomas Buckner opened Tuesday and ended after six hours of deliberation. The Howells claimed the Shulers ran a stop sign two miles east of Nampa on August 17, causing the collision.
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Nampa
Howell
Taber Attacks Roosevelt Wartime Budget as Padding Claim
Washington reports Rep. Taber Republican NY, ranking on the House Appropriations Committee, charges the second $100 billion wartime budget is padded. He calls for 15 to 25 percent cuts in various departments while bipartisan figures urge tighter oversight. Sen White of Maine criticizes the loose spending.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Budert
Rep
Taber
RNY
House Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
Wat
Cannon
D-Mo
Newspapernen
White
Maine
Silent Mustang Stages Aerial Heroics Over Nazi Fighters
The anonymous American pilot in Tuesday’s daylight raid on central Germany plunged alone into a squadron of 30 Nazi fighters. Bomber crews estimate he may have downed up to six, before five American craft failed to return. Maj. Allison Brooks and Maj. Edwin Brown lauded the pilot for extreme courage and skill, while comrades remembered him as unseen but unforgettable.
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London
Germany
Maj
Allison Brooks
Pasadena
Calif
Edwin W Brown
Oakland
Pocatellan Flies Over Himalayas
Sergeant Virgil C. Howard of Pocatello Idaho a charter member of the Hump Happy Recruits club formed by Rosecrans Field personnel in Missouri has flown the India China Hump route. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medal and Good Conduct Medal for service with the Air Transport Command in India and multiple air fields.
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Virgil C. Howard
Ed Johnson
Center Street
Pocatello
Rosecrans Field
St. Joseph
India-China
Air Transport Command
Himalaya
India
China
Chester
Idaho
Howard
Postal Telegraph
Army
Air Corps
Scott Field
Ill
Pope Field
N. C
Morrison Field
Fla
Allies Report Destruction of 152 Planes
London report says RAF Mosquitos bombed western Germany last night and American intelligence counts 152 Nazi fighters destroyed with three factories damaged. A plane failed to return from the raid and new daylight operations resumed across northern France with Typhoons and fighters claiming eight enemy aircraft.
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London
France
Germany
Pas de Calais
Air Ministry
Basic Course Completed Pecos Army Air Field Cadet Nichols
Texas aviation cadet Darwin R. Nichols has completed basic flying training at Pecos Army Air Field and will stay for advanced training. A native of American Falls Idaho he is 25 and previously attended Covina High School in California. Nichols is married to Eileen Bernice Graves of Portland Oregon and is son of Dubois Nichols of Pocatello Idaho.
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Pecos Army Air Field
Texas
Darwin R. Nichols
U. S. Naval Military Academy
Annapolis
American Falls
Ida
Nichols
Covina High School
Covina
Calif
Dubois Nichols
Pocatello
Idaho
Eileen Bernice Graves
Anthony R. Graves
North Chautauqua Blvd
Portland
Ore
Log
Military Academy
Dying veteran weds in hospital at last moment
Jonas Arvid Haggblad 42 and Ida Christina Pace 38 wed in a Salt Lake City hospital at 6 30 p m as Haggblad, who had just been released from Camp Lewis Washington after four months service, died ten minutes later. The couple had planned marriage since leaving the army.
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Salt Lake City
Jonas Arvid Haggblad
Ida Christina Pace
John A. Harter
Haggblad
Rail Veteran Kennedy Found Dead in Colorado Apartment
Mack town reports the death of Frank A. Kennedy aged 76 a pioneer superintendant of the Uintah railroad narrow gauge line spanning western Colorado and eastern Utah. Coroner T W Gardner says suffocation from a nocturnal mattress fire caused the death found in Kennedy s apartment.
Twin Victory Clears Way For Advances
London AP reports the Russian army captured Mozyr and Kalinkovichi, clearing a section of the Zhlobin Berdichev rail line for Red Army communications. Gen Constantine Rokossovsky’s forces seized the towns on day four of the offensive, with Stalin praising a skillful outflanking maneuver. Kalinkovichi connects Moscow Warsaw and Leningrad Odessa lines. Simultaneously Gen Nikolai Vatutin’s first Ukrainian Army stormed Tuta rail station 160 miles southwest of the Pripet marshes.
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London
Mozyr
Kalinkovichi
Zhlobin-Berdichev
Constantine Rokossovsky
Moscow
Warsaw
Leningrad
Odessa
Pripet
Poland
Pinsk
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Severe Cold Grips Intermountain West With Sub Zero Lows
Frigid conditions persist across the intermountain region with no major temperature relief expected tonight and tomorrow. Salt Lake City recorded zero degrees while Coalville and Green River hit 11 below. Provo 3 below and Oxden 2 above. Pocatello rose to five above as Idaho Falls held at zero and Burley at seven above. Western Wyoming reports ice issues as Star Valley power lines stay active after crews clear ice with a log boom on Salt river.
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Intermountain Resgion
Salt Lake City
Utah
Coalvile
Greenriver
Provo
Oxden
Pocatello
Idaho
Idaho Falls
Burley
Lower
Star Valley
Wyoming
Intake
Salt River
Cool Guide Helps Blinded Airman To Land His Plane
Aviation Cadet R. D. Seale a Taft California native aged 23 went blind at the controls of a one man training plane but landed safely yesterday with radio guidance from Lt Col C W Thaxton of the army field control tower The physician at the army hospital said the blindness was temporary Thaxton directed every move of the plane including the final bank to touch down safely
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Thaxton
Seale
the Army Hospital
Visiting With IBM Executives in Pocatello
Mrs. Boyd and sister Dean Boyd of International Business Machines visit Pocatello with Mrs. Gladys Washington assistant secretary of the chamber of commerce. The Boyd couple travel to their home in Butte after Mr Boyd completes an electrical engineering course with his company in New York.
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Dean Boyd
International Business Machines Company
Mrs. Boyd
Pocatello
Mr. Boyd
Gladys Washington
144 North Eleventh
The
Chamber of Commerce
Butte
Mr. Bord
Comepany
New York
Retail Bureau Discusses Fourth War Loan Drive Participation
A Retail Bureau meeting at the chamber of commerce this afternoon explored retailer involvement in the Fourth war loan drive opening January 18.
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Retail Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
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