Army Guard Kills Germans at Utah POW Camp
Pvt. Clarence V. Bertucci of New Orleans admitted frequent impulses to fire on German prisoners at Salina Utah camp. He shot from a guard tower with a .30 caliber machine gun, killing or wounding 11 of 43 tents, 8 Germans killed and 20 wounded. Investigation by Col. Ericsson evaluates motive and leadership.
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Fort Douglas
Utah
Clarence V. Bertucci
New Orleans
Arthur J. Ericsson
Salina
Bertucci
Col. C. K
Ninth Service Command
Ericsson
Ogden
Volunteer Aid Seals Bay During Pacific Actions
Allied forces report Dutch volunteers silenced enemy craft at the mouths of the Soember and Wainbesar rivers and occupied Telaktebang peninsulas after cross by Cape Baroe. Australian troops fight Japanese in Balikpapan people refinery district and advance north of Mangaar airfield while probing defenses and destroying a supply dump.
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Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Soember
Wainbesar
Telaktebang
Cape Baroe
Bay
Pandansari
Balikpapan
Mangaar
Balikpapan Bay
Sespempore
Sheriff to File Charge at Buhl
Sheriff Saul Clark announced a resisting an officer charge would be filed against Ernie Collins of Buhl 48 after he wounded himself in a Oakley residence and held four people hostage. Tear gas forced surrender as Collins fired three shots, one hitting the sheriff above the heart. Collins was listed in satisfactory condition at Cottage hospital with bullet removal planned within 48 hours.
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Burley
Saul Clark
Ernie Collins
Buhl
Oakley
Collins
Cottage Hospital
Grew Denounces Japanese Peace Feelers as Attempts to Divide Allies
Acting Secretary of State Grew says Japan is issuing purported peace feelers to sow dissension in the United States and among allies. He states that no peace offers have come through official or unofficial channels and that the U S seeks unconditional surrender with no terms stated.
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Washington
Grew
United States
Warships in Action Despite Repeated Sinkings
GUAM report lists carrier group for a Tokyo strike including Lexington Essex Independence San Jacinto and other vessels. Noting many ships, especially Lexington Essex Independence South Dakota Iowa Chicago and Atlanta, have been sunk by Igaiio Tokys.
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Guam
Tokyo
Lexington
Essex
Independence
San Jacinto
Indiana
Massachusetts
South Dakota
Iowa
Chicago
San Juan
Springfield
Atlanta
Dehaven
Samuel N. Moore
John Rodgers
Schroeder
Cogswell
Heerman
Southerland
Aul
John W. Weeks
Colohan
Wedderburn
Rowe
Caperton
Prank Knox
Igaiio Tokys
Chinese forces seize Tayu near former Kanhsien base
Chinese high command reported Tayu in Kiangsi province captured as spearheads push beyond toward Kanhsien. Chinese units advance from Linchow toward Kweilin while probing around Luichow and Lojung as Japanese defend lines near Kanhsien and Chungtu.
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Chungking
Tayu
Kiangsi
Canton
Kanhsien
High Command
U.S. 14Th Air Force
Kukong
Luchai
Chungtu
Luichow
Japs Retreat From South In Far East Withdrawal Seen
A New Delhi report notes Japanese forces withdraw rapidly from southeast Asia. The Hengyang corridor in China is closed, Burma fighters push east, Borneo is attacked by Allied forces, and Mountbatten leads efforts to reconquer Sumatra Malaya and Singapore. The retreat suggests a shift toward regrouping north of the Shanghai Hankow line.
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Preston Grover
New Delhi
Asia
Hengyang
China
Burma
Thailand
Borneo
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Sumatra
Malaya
Singapore
Shanghai-Hankow Line
Canton-Honshong
Allies Agree To Share Feeding Plan In Berlin
Berlin dispatch reports that Zhukov, Clay, and Weeks agreed to feed 3,000,000 Berlin civilians by contributions from all occupied zones. The leaders, deputy to Eisenhower and Montgomery, returned from western Germany to push a joint Berlin government before the expected arrival of the big three. They also moved to address Berlin’s coal supply in the same manner.
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Berlin
Gregory K. Zhukov
Lucius D. Clay
Ronald Weeks
Germany
Clay
Weeks
Zhukov
Church Urges Beetmen to Increase Beet Production
J Reuben Clark Jr of the Mormon church urged higher beet sugar production at the US Beet Sugar association meeting in Salt Lake City. President Smith urged processors to be sane and persistent to bring better times, noting beet growing's western economic importance and domestic over foreign competition concerns.
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Salt Lake City
America
Latterday Saints ‘Mormon Church
J. Reuben Clark, Jr
Church
George Albert Smith
Clark
United States
Mexico
United States Beet Sugar Association
Smith
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
Frank A. Kamp
Denver
Great Western Sugar Company
Heber J. Grant
L. D. 8. Church
States Need Men Says Boise Selective Service Officer
Lt. Col. Glen P. McAfee Denver field officer for the selective service system planned to leave for Salt Lake City to address manpower shortages for selective service and industrial needs. He praised Idaho for its performance alongside other states in the region.
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Boise
Glen P. McAfee
Denver
Selective Service System
Salt Lake City
Norman B. Adkison
Idaho
Selective Service Executive Officer
Pea Pack Closes As Payette Plant Ends 1945 Run
The Idaho Canning company completed its 1945 pea pack at Payette and will close briefly before starting sweet corn speck. Officials said operations pause is brief and tied to next season work.
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Payette
Idaho Canning Company
U boat Surrenders at Mar Del Plata Base
A 700 ton German U-boat under Otto Vermoutt with 54 crew members surrendered to Argentine naval authorities at Mar Del Plata today. All surrendered and were placed under custody. Allied orders had directed German surface and undersea craft to head for allied ports following Germany’s capitulation two months earlier.
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Mar del Plata
Argentine
Otto Vermoutt
Germany
Atlantic
Immediate Need for Big Three Berlin Conference Rise
Writer argues the Berlin meeting of Truman Stalin and Attlee must address Europe’s postwar chaos. The trio must first stabilize their own policies, harmonize food and fuel plans for Berlin, and craft a political formula for Germany’s future to curb imperial revival.
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Berlin
Truman
Europe
Germany
Jap Landings Test Coast in Chinese Victory
Chinese forces inflicted over 200 casualties in a flanking attack on Japanese troops from Amoy after they captured Chihhu 25 miles southwest of Amoy following landings on Fukien coast. Twenty five Japanese were captured as observers suggested aims to guard the pocket or gauge Chinese strength.
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Amoy
Chihhu
Fukien
Kuo Chi-Chi
Indo-China
Yungning
Nanning
South China
Luichow Peninsula
Italy May Get Bid to Join United Nations
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved inviting Italy into the United Nations. Italy, a former Axis partner, is now treated as a co belligerent and ally status remains unsettled.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Italy
United Nations
Halsey Fleet Casts Massive Raid On Tokyo From Near Coast
Admiral Halsey returned to the western Pacific with the third fleet to launch a thousand-plane assault on Tokyo. The strike came from Vice Admiral McCain's fast carrier task force, using night cover and coordinated air attacks to achieve complete surprise. Nimitz announced the operation in a historic communique naming key admirals and task force ships.
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Lief Erickson
Guam
William F
Bull) Halsey
Western Pacific
Third Fleet
Tokyo
Mikado
Adm
John 8
McCain
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Five Germans Die for Camp Murder
Five German POWs sentenced for the murder of Johannes Kunze were hanged at Fort Leavenworth in a historic U S military act. The executed men, Afrika Korps veterans aged 22 to 32, wore their uniforms as seven newsmen observed. Kunze was killed November 4 1943 after a memorandum accused of treachery was found.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kan
U. S
United States
Camp Gruber
Okla
Johannes Kunze
Tonkawa
Ans
Marshal Rommel
Afrika Korps
Walter Beyer
U. S. Army
Berthold Seidel
Hanse Demme
Hans Schomer
Willi Scholz
Onfour
Col
William
Eley
Kunze
Beyer
Pocatello Weather Summary for July 10
U S weather bureau reports at Po catello municipal airport the 24 hour period ending noon July 10: high 92 low 64 mean 78 normal 1. monthly departure 40. no precipitation. sun set 9 10, sun rise 6 00. Forecast clear to partly cloudy with scattered night showers and warmth. Nearby stations show Idaho Falls 92 55, Dubois 87 52, Butte 83 47, Lakeview 80 62.
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U. S. Weather Bureau Office
Pocatello Municipal Airport
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
Churchill France May Be Waiting
Churchill's vacation at Hendaye prompted diplomatic speculation as reports circulated that Generalissimo Franco crossed from Spain to confer with British officials at Bordaberry. Attaches of the British embassy in Madrid attended the talks. A Downing Street spokesman denied any conference between Churchill and Franco.
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ST. Jean DE Luz
France
Churchill
Hendaye
Francisco
Spain
Bordaberry Chateau
Madrid
Associated Press
Franco
Churchil
No. 10
Downing Street
London
Storm Claims Eight Lives in Lehigh Valley
An electrical storm and swollen waterways battered the Lehigh Valley from Phillipsburg to Northampton causing at least six deaths. Two houses collapsed near Phillipsburg, four occupants killed. one death each in Bethlehem and Allentown. Over 25 Girl Scouts were stranded but rescued near Easton. Bridges, roads, and rail lines disrupted with hundreds of thousands in damage.
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Phillipsburg
N. J
Lehigh Valley
Delaware River
Bethlehem
Allentown
Easton
Safey
Northampton
Pennsylvania
Jersey Central
Weather Bureau
De Gaulle Not Candidate in France 1940s General Election
Paris reports two government officials say Gen Charles De Gaulle will not run for the new national assembly to be chosen in the October 14 election. Analysts doubt his party alignment but expect him to hold a ministerial post if named by the prime minister. The vote may test France’s drift left and the future of the bicameral system.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
National Assembly
de Gaulle
France
Assembly
DeGaulle
Record Blows Center on Tokyo Fields
Allied air forces launch a massive assault on Japan with waves near 2000 planes attacking Tokyo and five industrial centers. B-29s, Superforts, and fighters firebomb Osaka Kobe Sendai Wakayama Gifu and other targets. Several Japanese air bases report heavy damage as Admiral Barbey and Nimitz praise surprise raid and strategic impact.
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Associated Press
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Daniel E. Barbey
U. S
Guam
Carriers
Radio Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Osaka-Kobe
Okinawa
Kyushu
Federal Communications Come
United States
Nippon Sangyo Keiagi
Guadalcanal
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Curt Lemay
O: 20Th Air Force
Wakayama
Gifu
Sakai
Sendai
Atsube
Tokkaichi
Lemay
Osaka
Honshu
Kochi
Shikoku
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Sea of Japan
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Halsey Fleet
Storm
Tokyo Fields
Henry H
Hap) Arnold
Army Air Forces
Roger Ramey
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