Yankees Reach Deep Into Luzon Front Near Manila
Gen. MacArthur announced U S forces have penetrated toward Manila with advance units about 45 highway miles from the gulf and 83 miles from Manila. A Japanese counterattack slowed the left flank as American columns moved toward Moncada and Camiling while artillery hit ridges guarding the sole north–south Luzon road.
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MacArthur
Luzon
Sixth
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Moncada
Lingayen Gulf
Gulf
Tarlac
Camiling
Rosario
Bombing Raids Hit German Oil Plants and Submarine Works
Allied air forces carried a large strike on Hamburg area oil plants and U boat construction sites with U S heavy bombers and RAF fighters joining the attack. Earlier that night, RAF bombed Magdeburg oil refineries and the city railway and industrial center, part of a strategy to cripple Germanys oil supply.
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London
U.S
Hamburg
Magdeburg
Eighth Air Force
Rhenania
Harburg
Paderborn
Germany
RAF
VA to pursue conservative policy on veterans home loans
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines said the veterans administration will apply a conservative approach to approving home purchase loans for veterans. He testified before a Senate subcommittee that the current market is a seller's market and that the G I bill requires loans to reflect a reasonable normal value.
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Washington
Frank T. Hines
Salt Lake City
Veterans’ Administration
Veterans
Senate
G.I
Russia Plans Trials to Punish Nazis
A Soviet pledge signals that war crimes will be punished, targeting individuals who ordered or committed atrocities. The article notes Allied doubts and a Pravda quote by Ilya Ehrenburg asserting Moscow will judge torturers, signaling a forthcoming reckoning beyond wartime rhetoric.
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Germany
Reich
Europe
United Nations
London
Allied
War Crimes Commission
Hitler
War Commission
Moscow
Pravda
Ilya Ehrenburg
Berlin
Public roads office to split into Idaho and Utah branches
Washington considering dividing the U S public roads administration district office at Ogden into two branches for Idaho and Utah. District Engineer L M Huggins reports the Idaho office would likely be located in Boise.
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Ogden
Washington
U. S. Public Roads Administration District
Idaho
Utah
L. M. Huggins
Boise
Ghost Ship Returns After 15 Hours 36 Minutes Mission
B-29 "ghost ship" from Nagoya strike returns to Saipan with one propeller missing and three engines dead from fuel, after an exhausting 15 hour 36 minute flight. Lt. Robert Engle of Price Utah commands the aircraft with navigator Lt. William Shauck of Mansfield Ohio aboard. Crew members praise the pilot despite the perilous fuel situation.
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Vern Haugland
Saipan
Japan
Nagoya
Robert B. Engle
Price
Utah
States
William Albert Shauck
Mansfield
Ohio
Engle
Walter Pudlow
Hamtranck, Mich
British Penetration Deepens Above Aachen as Bulge Shrinks
Paris AP reports Second Army bayonet assaults push into Dieteren near the Maas and Roer rivers advancing up to 1000 yards as Eisenhower resumes winter offensive. First Army drives toward St Vith, capturing Vielsalm. Rundstedt tries to slow retreat. Third Army traps enemy near Butzdorf as Montgomery fire supports break.
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Paris
Second
Dieteren
Maas
Meuse
Roer
Aachen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Roode
Germany
Upper
U.S. Ninth Army
Linnich
Schmidt
U.S. First Army
St. Vith
Salient
Courtney H. Hodges
Vielsalm
von Rundstedt
Bulge
82Nd
Salm
Idaho Farm Bureau Session Opens With Wool Mill Talk
Seven hundred farm bureau members and cattle and sheep raisers plus 30 livestock reps gather at Bannock hotel for two days. Frank W. Hamburger of New York City leads with a plan for a cooperative woolen mill at Pocatello and a Friday discussion session follows.
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Farm Bureau
Idaho Livestock Marketing Associations
Idaho Farm Bureau
Bannock Hotel
Frank W. Hamburger
New York City
Hamburger
Pocatello
Woolen Mills
Idaho
W. C
Bill) Skinner
Chamber of Commerce
Idaho Southern University
Rudolf F. Goranson
Dayley
Corbett
Simplot
Mar. E. R. Prevol
Elmer G. Peterson
Utah State Agricultural College
Logan
Pocatellan Tops Gunnery School Class in Las Vegas
Pfc Roy E Lee formerly of Pocatello Idaho ranked among the 10 top basic reflection men in a class of aerial gunners who received graduation diplomas and silver wings at the A A F flexible gunnery school in Las Vegas Nevada Lee is the son of Mr and Mrs John W Lee of 534 West Young He attended Pocatello high school and worked at the Pocatello army airfield before entering the army July 19 1944 The gunners form a vital part of the United Nations aerial offensive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev
Roy E. Lee
Pocatello
Idaho
A.A.F
Lee
John W. Lee
West Young
Pocatello High School
Pocatello Army Airfield
Army
United Nations
Tax Fight Looms In Washington Legislature Increases
Olympia lawmakers debate ballot instruction changes and a sales tax cut. Rep. Edward F. Riley proposes reducing the rate from three to two percent, noting the 1935 original and 1943 hike to three percent.
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Olympia
Wash
Washington
Edward F. Riley
King
Solons Debate 25 000 Pay Rise and Retirement Plan
Washington lawmakers weighed a proposal from the National Planning Association calling for a 15 000 a year pay raise to 25 000 and a new retirement program for congressmen The plan sparked fears of reviving the 1942 pensions push and met skepticism from members wary of jeopardizing broader modernization efforts following Senator Maloney's death and Monroneys tribute from Vice President Wallace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
National Planning Association
NPA
Maloney
D.-Conn
Rep. Monroney
Oklahoma
Wallace
Maroney
Connecticut
Amalgamated Sugar plane wreckage sighted near Black Pine peak
A wrecked Amalgamated Sugar Company plane carrying three men was sighted at 2 05 p m east of Black Pine peak by Lionel A Dean of the Twin Falls CAP squadron. The aircraft was at about 6000 feet and reportedly in ruined condition with no survivors possible.
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Burley
Amalgamated Sugar Company
Black Pine Peak
Lionel A. Dean
Twin Falls
Dean
Idahoan Receives Legion of Merit for Naval Work
Rear Adm. Albert T. Church, of Idaho City Idaho, awarded the Legion of Merit for his service as director of the Naval Engineering Experiment Station at Annapolis Maryland. The honor was announced by the Navy. Church, a Seattle resident at 6937 Ellis Avenue, directed the station from October 19 1939 to September 19 1944.
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Thomas B. Wood
D-Kootenai
Idaho
Washington
Legion of Merit
Albert T. Church
Naval Engineering Experiment Station
Annapolis
Navy Today
Church
Idaho City
Ellis Avenue
Seattle
Giant Planes Continue To Blast Japs
Waves of China based B twenty nines bombed Formosa as part of a carrier raid lasting three days. Tokyo radio said 80 superfortresses took part and 40 Japanese casualties were reported. B twenty nines night raids hit Nagoya Kyoto and Tokyo area. Shipping losses exceeded 104000 tons with 49 planes seven locomotives and docks destroyed in raids on Hong Kong Canton Swatow Amoy and Formosa Takao. Nimitz listed nine ships sunk and over 50600 tons damaged.
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Associated Press
Formosa
China
Tokyo Radio
Washington
Tokyo
Saipan
Nagoya
Kyoto
Adm
William P. Halsey
Third Fleet
Hong Kong
Canton
Swatow
Amoy
Takao
Church Urges Free Press in World Conference Platform
Editors of two Protestant church publications urged an interdenominational peace conference to back a universal free press. Homer W. King argued for guarantees of press freedom and open information flow as part of the world affairs agenda. Charles C. Morrison supported simplifying world organization rules toward ongoing consultation among nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Interdenominational Peace Conference
Homer W. King
Fort Wayne
Ind
The
Protestant Voice
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
America
King
Charles C. Morrison
Chicago
Christian Century Magazine
Weather summary for Pocatello and vicinity
The Weather Bureau reports in the 24 hours ending noon January 17 a high of 17 and low of 29 with mean 33 degrees. Monthly departure 1.75 inches. total precipitation 0.0. Normal temps 22 for the month. sun sets 6 23, rises 8 57. Partly cloudy tonight with little change in temperature.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal Airport
Cccseee
Pocatello
Betes
Papa Improvises To Feed Triplets In Weymouth
Raymond A. MacLeod builds a wooden base with adjustable brackets and extending arms to hold three milk bottles above his triplets Doreen David and Donna Lee. The device lets the babies reach, swing into place, and start feeding themselves, easing meal time for the busy family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weymouth
Mass
Raymond A. MacLeod
Doreen
David
Donna Lee MacLeod
MacLeod
Jury verdict ties McDonald death to heart failure before crash
A Weber county jury found engineer James McDonald died of sudden shock or heart failure just before the Southern Pacific express collided with a passenger train near Bagley Utah. Autopsy pathologist Lieut. Col. Frank B. Queen testified to the cause while gunfire of train braking and engine actions drew witness questions at the inquest.
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Ogden
James McDonald
Southern Pacific Express
Bagley
Weber County
Frank B. Queen
Bushnell General Hospital
McDonald
M. E. Hardman
Littlemountain and
Warsaw Falls to Soviet Forces Under Zhukov Drive
The Polish capital Warsaw, home to 1,300,000, fell to Russian armies led by Field Marshal Zhukov, advancing from two Vistula river bridges. Stalin announced the victory as Soviet forces also moved toward Krakow and Radom, with German positions in Silesia nearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Warsaw
Gregory K. Zhukov
Vistula
Stalin
Baltic
Balkans
Krakow
Silesia
Ivan Koniev
Radom
Moscow
East Prussia
Berlin
Schlossberg
Zhukov
Lublin
France to Use Allied Ships
London reports the United States and Britain will allocate ships to the French government from now until April 1 to meet France's import needs. French use ends April 1 unless extended, with hope for continued access and similar terms for other liberated countries as circumstances permit.
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London
United States
Britain
France
British Foreign Office
Foreign Office
Slot Machine Bill Appears In Idaho Legislature
Idaho lawmakers debate legalizing slot machines with taxes of 10 percent on skilled games and 20 percent on others while a committee is urged to investigate charitable and penal institutions. Seven bills and four resolutions are introduced, including constitutional amendments on prison reform.
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Boise
Idaho
House
R. L
Anderson
Bingham
Willis C. Moffatt
Galize
Vetter
Kootenai
Gerener
Shoshone
Lundberg
Bonneville
Schultz
Lemhi
Smith
Wood
Vincent
Ry Ada
Board of Correction
Come
We Wood
Kootenal
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Policy Conservative
Russia
DeWitt MacKenzie
Ghost Ship Wings
Butzdorf
Third Army
Montgomery
White Capes
Belgian Bulge
Diete
J. Newell Dayley
R. B. Corbett
National Farm Bureau
Legislative Interim Committee On Public Assistance
Idaho House
George Ambrose
Custer
Ambrose
Pocatellan
Bulletins
Brussels
England
Daily Herald
Melton Mowbray
Glenn Myer
Idahoan
Chester W. Nimitz
Papa
Earl Hunt
Promontory
Hunt
Bineham
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