Churchill Wins Near Unanimous Confidence Vote in Commons
Prime Minister Churchill secured a 464 to 1 confidence vote as he defended war leadership and outlined plans for US UK cooperation. He noted a British response to the German threat, Singapore reinforcements, and US war production ties while addressing criticism and reaffirming resolve. The debate touched on American troop landings in Northern Ireland and De Valera’s protest.
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London
House of Commons
Churchill
United Nations
James Maxton
Independent
Labor Party
Jock McGovern
Campbell Stephen
AEF
United Kingdom
Northern Ireland
United States
Donald M. Neilson
Singapore
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Johore
Southwest
Pacific
Britain
Russia
Burma
Malaya
Dennis Nowell Pritt
Eire
DeValera
Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Associated Press
Java
Batan
Philippines
War Department
Rangoon
Supreme Command
Axis Staking Much on Shipping War
DeWitt Mackenzie argues that extended U-boat warfare in American waters and the sinking of the Lady Hawkins reveal two core lessons for the Allies. First, Axis barbarism must be opposed to prevent invasions on soil. second, Axis pressure targets war power production and transportation, demanding a sustained production and shipbuilding push as the only path to victory.
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DeWitt Mackenzie
Yugo- Slavia
Poland
China
Axis
Hitler
Atlantic
Ocean
Auto Dealers Meet Here in Bannock Hotel Friday
Idaho Automobile Dealers Association holds its annual convention at the Bannock hotel starting Friday afternoon with President E R Hopper presiding and a luncheon, opening remarks, sales outlook discussion, committee appointments, and a banquet with Wallace F Bennett as speaker.
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Idaho Automobile Dealers Association
Bannock Hotel
William G. Ash
Boise
E. R. Hopper
NADA
E. R. Elliott
Coeur d’Alene
E.R. Hopper
OPM
E. A. Bogert
Pocatello
William S. Hill
Richard H. Wells
Wallace F. Bennett
Mr. Bennett
Bennett Motor Company
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Fire Start at Idaho Tire and Battery Shop
A small blaze broke out at 9 30 a m today in the Idaho Tire and Battery company shop at the Clark and Railroad avenue intersection. The fire began when an employee attempted to clean oil leaking from an oil burner onto the shop floor.
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Idaho Tire and Battery Company
Clark and
Railroad Avenue
Tire Registration Appeal Against Rising Tire Theft
Chief of Police R. J. Roubidoux renewed his appeal to motor vehicle owners to record tire registration numbers as tire thefts threaten to rise with the rubber shortage.
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R. J. Roubidoux
Justice Ryan court hears unfair sales charge against American Food Stores
William J Ryan reports A M Scott filed a complaint in his court accusing American Food Stores Inc and Theo Roberts manager of violating the unfair sales act by offering large cans of condensed milk at eight cents per can on January 14 1942 below cost. Roberts pleads not guilty and the matter is set for 2 p m February 9 in Justice Ryan's court.
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William J Ryan
A. M. Scott
American Food Stores, Inc
Theo. Roberts
Mr. Roberts
Justice Ryan
Married men can enlist in Marine Corps with wife support proof
For the first time in Marine Corps history married men may enlist if they present affidavits to recruiting officers proving their wife is self supporting. Sergeant Frank C. Keenan Jr., in charge at the Pocatello station, notes the barrier has been removed.
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U. S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps
Frank C. Keenan, Jr
Pocatello Station
E L Anderson Dies In Salt Lake City
Rae P Stratford reported E L Anderson former Pocatellan was found dead in bed at his Salt Lake City home after heart trouble. He once managed Anderson Lumber in North Main street and led Pocatello Rotary in 1932 before moving. Survived by widow five brothers and two sisters and two daughters. Stratford will travel to Salt Lake City to be with Mrs Anderson.
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Rae P. Stratford
E. L. Anderson
Pocatellan
Salt Lake City
E. L
Andy) Anderson
Anderson Lumber Company
North Main Street
Pocatello
A. E., Ross and
Ray Anderson
Logan
George Anderson
Brigham City
W. W. Anderson
Ogden
Katherine Wakley
Mamie Woodland
Arimo
Idaho
Stratford
Anderson
Idaho official to confer on office quarters visit
Albert Lee Idaho commissioner of public assistance arrives from Boise to meet the county board about securing new quarters for the food Stamp division now housed in the old Smith Candy building on South First. He also plans talks in Twin Falls Blackfoot Idaho Falls and Rigby.
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Albert Lee
Idaho
Urge Stamp Purchase For Auto Use Stamps Deadline Set
The Internal Revenue Service announces that many motor vehicle owners have not bought auto use stamps. Stamps costing $2.09 must be purchased by February 2 at any post office. Buyers receive a card to fill out and mail to the Boise collector of internal revenue.
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Internal Revenue Service
Treasury Department
Collector of
Internal Revenue
Boise
Police report quiet day with minor court actions
Police announced a rare light day with no accidents or offenses reported. In court Sheri Maynard received a suspended 2.50 dollar fine for passing a laundry truck in Center Street subway, while Carl H. Peters Orville W. Harris and George Cook forfeited dollar bonds on illegal parking charges.
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Sheri Maynard
Center Street
Carl H. Peters
Orville W. Harris
George Cook
Union Offers 8 Millions For War Aid
Dan Tobin authorized to transfer 8 million dollars from the Teamsters International Union to the federal government as an interest free loan. He plans to travel to Washington to meet treasury officials and arrange government use of the funds. Tobin, president of the AFL affiliate, urged more large cash reserves donated to the government without interest. He suggested another organization could contribute 20 million or more.
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Miami
Fin
Dan Tobin
Teamsters' International Union
Federal
Treasury
Tobin
Washington
American Federation of Labor
The
International
United States
Hitler Compromise Signals Shift in German Command
London dispatch says Die Zeitung reports Hitler and high command agreeing to rely on experienced strategists for the eastern campaign. Conservative generals Von Bock, Von Rundstedt, Von Leeb take new armies while Himmler loses some influence but remains a powerful force. Aimed at expanding the SS recruitment drive.
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London
Die Zeitung
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Ministry of Information
von Bock
von Rundstedt
von Leeb
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Reich
Himmler
Germany
Nazi
Wife Seeks Divorce in District Court case
Mary Reddick filed for divorce from Harold Reddick a railroad worker in district court here stating they wed May 15 1941 at Pocatello. She accuses him of neglecting common necessaries of life faulting her about money and meals and asks restoration of her former name Mary Richmond.
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Mary Reddick
Harold Reddick
Pocatello
Mary Richmond
Ball Plans Benefit for Infantile Paralysis Funds
Plans for a president’s birthday ball Saturday at 9 p.m. in the high school auditorium are complete and ticket sales are rising. B. A. Mc Devitt chairs the event aimed at funds to fight infantile paralysis locally and nationwide.
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B. A. McDevitt
Fighting Dollars To Defend Freedom At Home Front
A wartime call urges every American to support the war effort by buying defense stamps and bonds. Citizens are urged to contribute through purchases as soldiers fight with guns planes and ships, stressing individual duty and patriotic sacrifice.
Idaho fair and rodeo directors hold two day meeting in Bannock
The Idaho Fair and Rodeo Association met in the Bannock hotel to decide the fate of Gem State agr icultural and entertainment shows amid wartime curtailments. W L Hendrix urged keep ing fairs and rodeos as planned as they support agriculture and civilian morale.
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Idaho
Bannock
Gem State
W. L. Hendrix
Boise
Idaho Fair and Rodeo Association
Hendrix
Fred H. Kressman
Chicago
Barnes - Carruthers Fair Booking Association
Muriel Rogers
Idaho Southern University
el Rio Club
Gaylord Sanford
Fair
Gem
Police Here Seek Ogden Kidnapers
Southern Idaho peace officers hunted today for two men wanted in a Utah kidnapping who disappeared here after evading police. Gordon Hansen of Syracuse Utah said he was kidnapped in Ogden and his car was stolen. The car was found later in an alley near 1107 South Fourth but the suspects were not yet located.
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Idaho
Utah
Gordon Hansen
Syracuse
Ogden
1107
South Fourth
Hansen
Shorten School Term Gains Does Not Harm Idaho Funds
Boise reports a six day school week is virtually assured after a conference among state officials Governor Clark Attorney General Bert Miller and Superintendent C. E. Roberts. The plan to shorten the year to free students for farm labor was approved by moving Saturday sessions forward to cover extra weeks needed for normal state funds. State money is allocated on five day month bases.
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Boise
Idaho
Clark
Bert H. Miller
C. E. Roberts
Six Day Week Plan Leaves Pocatello Board Unset
Norman Vaughn the superintendent said the six day work week plan had not yet been fully investigated by the Pocatello board of trustees.
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Norman Vaughn
Pocatello Board of Trustees
Rotary Governor Visits Club for Wake Up and Dream Talk
Rotary district governor Frank A. Pat Rhea of Boise addressed the luncheon on Wake Up and Dream and met officers to plan the 110th Rotary district conference in Pocatello May 10-11. Guests included Bill Shumway Ralph A. Baker William G. Ash and Max Cohn. Al Thaxton sang with Rudolph Goransen accompanying.
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Frank A
Pat) Rhea
Boise
Rotary
Idaho
Utah
Pocatello
Bill Shumway
Preston Club
Ralph A. Baker
William G. Ash
Idaho Automobile Dealers Association
Max Cohn
Arimo
al Thaxton
Heyburn
Rudolph Goransen
Don C. Brown
A. H. McGuire
Rhea
America
Interstate bus fares up sixteen percent nationwide
Washington IPC announces an across the board fare hike of 16 percent for passenger buses. Price Administrator Leon Henderson begins a nationwide stock and records inspection of tire and tube dealers to enforce fire rationing laws. Indictments charging 20 U S alcohol control agents with bribe schemes surface in Brooklyn. Sukhinichi rail junction recaptured near Moscow with push toward Lozovaya. Red Army deep advance west of Donets with large German losses and many villages taken. Senate approves naval vessel program 1799 ships plus 750 million for facilities.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Rescue of Entire Norwegian Tanker Crew Reported
The Grand Marshal reports the rescue of the entire crew of a Norwegian tanker torpedoed off Nova Scotia on January 21. The Gloucester schooner arrived from the fishing banks carrying the news today.
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Boston
Nova Scotia
Children Organize Birthday Party to Fight Polio
Joyce Murphy eleven and Lawrence Murphy nine organized a president's birthday party inviting twenty children and asking each guest to bring a penny for each year of age. The siblings know polio all too well as Joyce survived infantile paralysis in 1934 and their father died of polio on Lawrence's birthday.
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Scottsbluff
Neb
Joyce Murphy
Lawrence Murphy
Joyce
Lawrence
Tyhee Red Cross First Aid Class Postponed
The Red Cross first aid class in Tyhee scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed to next Thursday.
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Red Cross
Tyhee
Reds Reclaim 90 Villages On Southwest Front
Soviet reports claim a 93 mile advance under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko on the southwest Ukraine front with the recapture of 90 populated places. Submarine actions near the Arctic disrupted German supply lines, sinking several ships totalling about 200000 tons. Falkenhorst reassigned to Norway as Churchill Roosevelt talks in Washington back Soviet plans to strike Hitler by 1942 end.
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Semeon Timoshenko
Ukraine
Red Fleet
Finland
Norway
Stockholm
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Washington
Kuibyshev
Mihail Gavrilov
Adolf Hitler
British Raid Hits Berlin
A British raid on northwest Germany was acknowledged in Berlin with one raider shot down. Civilian casualties occurred and quarters damaged. Targets named include Maemster Boulogne and Rotterdam with six bombers missing. Major General Grendal, writing in Red Star, notes German air power’s recent heavy losses but warns it is not broken.
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Associated Press
Germany
Berlin
Maemster
Boulogne
France
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Grendal
Red Air Corps
Red Star
Winter
Russia
Crimea
Collision at Kraft plant road injures Brower vehicle
John Evans told the sheriff on Wednesday that a car driven by K. C. Brower on the wrong side of the road struck his vehicle at 7 45 am while he was crossing railroad tracks at the Kraft plant to enter the highway. Evans says his car stopped and sustained about 10 dollars in damage.
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John Evans
K. C. Brower
Kraft
Mr. Evans
Barrett Son Safe From Far Boat Station
Tyhee resident Joe Barrett reports his son in the fifth air corps has sent word he is safe and well, stationed somewhere abroad amid ongoing duties.
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Barrett
Tyhee
Joe
Fifth Air Corps
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