02 Jul 1944
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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1944
Page
1
London reports Nazi air raids across southern England for 16 nights as Churchill weighs a Commons statement. Berlin describes the weapon as rocket propelled with 375 mph speed and 2240 pounds of explosives. Authorities fret over invasion motives and public fear grows.
In Normandy and Italy critical days loom as allies and Axis forces concentrate in Caen and surrounding western France. Montgomery reinforces the attack to press German reserves and halt expansion of the Caen salient while German efforts aim to blunt the offense and delay a wide breakthrough. In Italy the Pisci rimini defense weighs whether to stand in defensible positions or retreat toward the Alpine gateways amid manpower shortages and mounting defeats.
Treasury experts say postwar tax revenue will fall from wartime levels and caution against simple flat tax plans. They estimate postwar income about 125 billion with taxes near 25 billion after adjustments, noting higher postwar spending and debt costs. They argue strong taxation is less dangerous than weak governance.
U S financial exchanges will close today as markets pause for a holiday. Trading floors will suspend operations and regular sessions will resume on the next business day.
Adolf Hitler spoke at the funeral of Gen Eduard Dietly, the Nazi commander in Finland who died in a plane crash. He praised Dietly’s zeal, urged officers to be ruthless yet fair, and urged faith in victory amid difficult wartime conditions. Dietly, 54, is counted among a growing tally of senior German officers killed since D day, now 16 or 17.
Friday brought a four degree drop in high temperatures as Pocatello reached 90 in the afternoon marking July's start. The low for the day was 56. June's record rainfall ended with 3.36 inches, well above normal 1.09 inches. Thunder showers and cooler weather were forecast for southeast Idaho today.
Twin Falls report says two teenage boys advertised yard work then offered secondhand lawn mowers and garden tools for quick sales. Police Chief Howard Gillette said the boys sought jobs tending lawns then used the equipment for other nearby tasks, aiding a brisk, informal trade.
Norman Boyd Lott seventeen son of Mr and Mrs Charles W Lott of 726 North Twelfth died after a collision on Hoot Owl road Buckskin valley between a 1936 sedan driven by George Baird and a pickup driven by George Katsilometes. Lott suffered a fractured skull and arm, died about forty minutes after admission to a local hospital. He was riding on the fender when the crash occurred and was a Pocatello high school junior and Union Pacific railroad messenger.
Four Idaho servicemen are named among the war department casualties. William R. Ivey of Pocatello is listed as killed in the European theater, alongside Private Emray F. Clark of Reubens and Staff Sergeant Frank Savage, brother of Marion Savage of Aberdeeen, who are noted in Mediterranean and other theater listings.
FBI Miami chief said 23 year old Morris Stanley Neff was secreted by his parents in a bedroom from 1940 to 1944 to evade the draft. Neff was arrested for failing to register under the Selective Service Act and his parents for conspiring to aid the nonregistration. The Neffs had moved from Indianapolis to Miami in January 1940.
Two fighter planes on combat training missions collided at 11 50 a m. and crashed about five miles northeast of Aberdeen. A board of officers investigates the Midwestern incident as the flyers names were not disclosed. The crash site lies in rough semi arid grazing land with lava formations nearby.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey addressed about ten thousand people in Albany as he returned from Chicago with the Republican presidential nomination. He warned that wartime elections threaten freedom, urged unity, and thanked locals including many women and workers for a warm reception under shade trees near the state capitol. The crowd sang along as a guard band played The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
A marriage license was issued to Virgil Glenn Weis 21 of Salt Lake City and Fawn Retta Christiansen 20 of Driggs Idaho.
The Associated Press reports Japan launches a 2000 mile railway conquest from Canton to link east Asia garrisons. The campaign follows Japan's heaviest air losses and heavy ship losses since Pearl Harbor as American Liberators bomb Formosa ports and Nimitz ships push toward Chinese targets.
Marines bury scores on Saipan as a national cemetery is established in the heart of Japan’s island empire. Chaplains from Catholic Protestant and Jewish faiths conduct services amid ongoing combat and artillery fire.
Denver identified five airmen killed and three injured when a Lowry field Liberator bomber crashed and burned thirty miles northwest of Sterling. Second Lt. Daniel J. Jackson, 21, co-pilot from Pingree Idaho, was among the dead.
The United States imposes tighter controls on job seekers and employers to keep war industries fully staffed. The plan channels hiring through the U S Employment Service and aims to add 200000 workers, with mixed reactions from Chicago and Los Angeles.
Sheriff Herbert M. Snyder leads posses in northeastern Utah seeking three men for questioning on draft evasion with help from FBI agents. The hunt resumed after a brief pause by the FBI as ranchers continued searches. He warned the rugged area may shelter others including possible army deserters.
Utah reports the largest count of war emergency workers in federal plants among the intermountain states, with an estimated 28 000 to 35 000 workers. Idaho is listed with about 6 000 workers, while 11 western states rank behind Utah.
Allied reports describe German retreat into Minsk with demoralized remnants hampered by road congestion as Soviet and Western fronts press toward key objectives. American forces furiously assault Cherbourg peninsula, reporting heavy losses for German units and rapid Allied advances across multiple fronts.
Washington reports Ambassador Norman Armour is being recalled from Buenos Aires and offered a top State Department post as director of the office of American republics affairs. The Buenos Aires post will remain vacant, signaling Washington’s disapproval of the militarist regime.
Weber County grand jury returns true bills charging 25 including former Ogden mayors Kent Bramwell and John Arrington. Bramwell, once called boy mayor, is accused of accepting a bribe while he served as mayor. Other defendants cover police and city officials facing gambling, perjury, and civil charges.
Copenhagen faces fierce street fighting as 15,000 Danish patriots clash with a 3,000 strong German garrison. Reports claim 700 killed or wounded, with 400 hospitalized. Swedish observers note smoke over Malmo and ambulances overwhelmed. 100 shops smashed. harbor closed and ferries evacuating to Sweden.
Berlin radio reports Col. Gen. Fried rich Dollmann commander of the German seventh army and defender of the Atlantic wall was killed in France at age 62. He may have died in an RAF rocket and bomb strike on a German corps headquarters. He was famed as a top artillery expert and a crafty leader.
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