Naval Chief Quits As Pacific Fleet Faces Assaults
Admiral Shigetaro Shimada resigns as Japan's navy minister amid mounting U S attacks on Guam and Saipan. Nomura named to lead a Tojo cabinet as Nimitz reports continued bombing of Guam and new air strikes on Iwo Jima and surrounding ships and installations.
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Associated Press
Shigetaro Shimada
Japan
Navy
Tokyo
Saipan
Shimada
Pearl Harbor
Naokkuni Nomura
Tojo
U. S
Guam
Rota Island
John Curtin
Australia
Germany
Nimitz
Iwo Jima Island
Liberators
Chinese City Fights Off Jap Pressure in World War II
Japanese troops pressed Hengyang, Yingtak, Tengchung and Tsungling as Chinese forces countered to defend key railway junctions. Stilwell’s forces in North Burma and MacArthur in New Guinea reported combat, while Allied ships and air campaigns targeted supply lines. Japanese losses were tallied broadly as 15,500 killed in India and surrounding fronts.
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Hengyang
Yingtak
Hangyang
Hankow- Canton
Tengchung
Ori
Burma Road
Yunnan
Tsungling
Burma
China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Myitkyina
New Guinea
Driniumor River
Douglas MacArthur
India
Storm Moves Northeast Off Mid-Atlantic Coast
Tropical storm probably hurricane strength, once 250 miles offshore, moves rapidly northeast toward the coast. Warnings lowered as center lies about 225 miles southeast of Hatteras with dangerous gales and strong winds over a wide area.
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Wilmington
N. C
North Carolina
Virginia
Atlantic
Pe Hatteras
Native Idahoan Elizabeth Brown Dies in Salt Lake City
Mrs Elizabeth Jane Brown 65 sister of Mrs Harold Rich of Boise died Saturday in Salt Lake City where she had lived 22 years. She was a native of Semaria Idaho.
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Salt Lake City
Elizabeth Jane Brown
Harold Rich
Boise
Semaria
Idaho
Four Villages In Danger From Paricutin Lava Flow
Refugees fleeing a growing lava threat from Paricutin volcano trek toward safety as four nearby villages Los Reyes Periban Zirosto and Zacan within 25 miles face possible evacuation. Gen Lazaro Cardenas and Gov Felix Ireta toured the danger zone while farmers move with belongings to new homes.
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Uruapan
Mexico
Paricutin
Lazaro Cardenas
National Defense
Felix Ireta
Michoacan
San Juan Parangaricutiro
Los Reyes
Periban
Zirosto
Zacan
Bonneville Bids Sought for 17.3 Mile Reno Park Taylor Road
Idaho state public works requests bids for roadmix bituminous surfacing on 17.305 miles of the Reno Park Taylor road in Bonneville County. Bids open at 2 p.m. July 28 in Boise.
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Boise
State Department of Public Works
Reno park-Taylor Road
Bonneville County
Canning Center Opens in Preston for Food Distribution
The Franklin county canning center operated by the Preston school district and the state board for vocational education as part of the food distribution program will open tomorrow.
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Preston
Franklin County
State Board For Vocational Education
Bear Bites Arm From Girl When Teased in Zoo Cage
Miss Catherine Searles 24 of Rahway New Jersey had her right arm amputated after a polar bear attacked in Central Park Zoo New York City. The incident followed the group teasing the sleeping bears at 2 a m and involved Henry Brady Edward Cheney and William Chick.
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New York
Catherine Searles
Rahway
N. J
New York City
Henry Brady
Edward Cheney
Manchester
Cheney
Sec
Miss ‘Searles
Miss Searls
Weather Forecast for Pocatello and Vicinity
Clear and continued warm tonight and Tuesday. Data from the U S Weather Bureau at Pocatello Municipal Airport for the 24 hour period ending noon July 17 shows high 96 and low 55 with a mean of 76. Precipitation total this month 0.15 inch versus normal 0.44 inch. Sun set at 9 08, sunrise at 6 07.
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Pocatello and
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Race plank at Democratic platform hearings in Chicago
Negro leaders presenting 6 5 million members demand voting rights in all states free of poll taxes white primaries and lily white conventions also seek continued fair employment practices to curb discrimination. Southern delegates plan opposition while farm leaders press for equitable income and postwar farm programs to aid producers.
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Chicago
Democratic Platform Committee
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Platform Committee
E. B. Germany
Dallas
Loop
James G. Patton
National Farmers Union
Roosevelt
Patton
White House
Albert S. Goss
National Grange
Workers Get Overtime for Morrison-Knudsen at Anderson Dam
LeRoy Sproat of Morrison-Knudsen says the War Labor Board and U S Bureau of Reclamation approved a 54 hour work week for employees at Anderson Ranch Dam. Time and a half pay above 40 hours will boost earnings in line with other essential construction jobs. Reservoir storage is planned next spring as work passes the halfway mark.
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Anderson Dam
War Labor Board
United States Bureau of Reclamation
Morrison-Knudsen
Anderson Ranch Dam
LeRoy Sproat
Drys Change Idaho Elector Candidates On Ballot
The prohibition party filed a certificate naming Ethel Strait of Nampa as presidential elector replacing T H Darrow of Caldwell who resigned and declined to run due to federal employment. This marks the second ballot revision since state certification on July 8 following a prior Republican elector shift.
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Boise
Prohibition Party
George Curtis
Ethel Strait
Nampa
T. H. Darrow
Caldwell
Darrow
Idaho
No Game Tonight Postponed for Eagles Community League
Postponement of the scheduled baseball game for the Eagles league was announced tonight. the score was recorded as nine to seven.
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Eagles
Night air offensive hits Belfort and Rheims rail hubs
Allied daylight raids by up to 7580 U S heavy bombers hit river bridges near the Normandy front and railway yards at Belfort in eastern France plus a flying bomb supply dump near Rheims. Up to 500 fighters escorted the four engined aircraft as skies cleared for heavy air power.
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London
Normandy
Belfort
France
Rheims
Berlin
Reich
Switzerland
Paris
Capital
Calais
Homberg
Ruhr
Smederevo
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Vienna
Mediterranean
U. S
Munich
Saarbrucken
Ship Crashes Claim Two Young Army Airmen
Second Lieutenant Robert A. Falk of Cincinnati Ohio was killed when his fighter plane crashed near Aberdeen about 35 miles northwest during a combat training mission. A board of officers is investigating the accident and kin have been notified. Also, Second Lieutenant Phillip V. Leeds of Mt. Carmel Illinois died in a separate crash three miles west of Wendover Army Air Field on a Saturday night.
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Robert A. Falk
Cincinnati
Ohio
John L. Eaton
Pocatello Army Air Field
Lieut. Falk
William A. Falk
Emerson Avenue
Aberdeen
Here
Wendover
Utah
Phillip V. Leeds
Mt. Carmel
A. W. Kelland
Indian Trouble Ends In Escape Attempt Disaster
Susie Greymountain, an Indian woman, leaped from a hotel window during police questioning, fell from a second story, and fractured her pelvis and ankle. A home made rope snapped under her 209 pounds, and firemen took two hours to extricate her. Two weeks earlier she blocked railroad tracks, Lund said.
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Salt Lake City
Susie Greymountain
City
Gene Lund
Miss Greymountain
Lund
Russians push front toward East Prussia after Grodno fall
Moscow reports Red Army advances from the Baltics to the Pripyat marshes after capturing Grodno near the East Prussian border. Russians crossed the Niemen and reached within 50 miles of East Prussia, with a bridgehead established west of the river and new crossings noted.
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Moscow
Red Army
Baltics
Pripyat
Grodno
Stalin
East Prussia
East Prussian
Niemen River
Niemen
Alytus
Wilno
Martin Hallensleben
DNB
Berlin
Baltic
Idaho Officers Reported Prisoners of War
The War Department lists three Idahoans held by Germany as prisoners of war. They are Staff Sgt. Delbert C. Fenton of Rupert son of Carl J. Fenton Second Lt. Daniel B. Harris husband of Mrs. Melva C. Harris Bancroft and Second Lt. David Ririe son of James E. Ririe of Ririe.
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Washington
War Department
Germany
Delbert C. Fenton
Carl J. Fenton
Rupert
Daniel B. Harris
Melva C. Harris
Bancroft
David Ririe
James E. Ririe
Ririe
Bell from Nauvoo church to ring at Utah pageant
A historic bell from a Nauvoo church will ring next Tuesday in the University of Utah stadium as part of a pageant about the Mormon pioneers entering Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1849. The bell has long been exhibited in the LDS temple museum in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Nauvoo
Utah
University of Utah
Salt Lake Valley
Cave of Horrors Saipan Cave Describes Japanese Slaughter
Marines on Saipan named the Cave of Horrors tell of a canyon hideout where women children and elderly Japanese and soldiers were found. Second Lieutenant Cross and 16 men climbed to the cave to offer food water and aid but a child did not emerge continuing the grim scene and the story moves to page two.
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Saipan Cave of Horrors
Saipan
Marianas Islands
Charles T.cross
Minneapolis
Cross
Mizu
Route Miles To Berlin From Allied Fronts
The Associated Press lists the current direct-line mileages to Berlin from major fronts. Russian front 435 miles from Grodno area, Italian front about 607 miles from Ancona, Normandy front 635 miles from Caen.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Grodno
Ancona
Adriatic
Normandy
Caen
Six Die in Denver Old Mill Tunnel Fire
A blast of flames in Elitch's Gardens Old Mill tunnel in Denver killed six people during a holiday outing. Among the dead were two Buckley field soldiers and their wives, plus two park attendants. cause unknown. Corp William Killbourne witnessed the scene as smoke filled the tunnel and flames rose through the shed roof.
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Denver
Elitch’s Gardens
Gas Economy
Buckley Field
Robert MclIlvain
R. L. Jacobberger
George Keithline
Edward Lowery
Jumes. Corp
William Killbourne
Killbourne
Lowery
Keithline
Col Eaton Addresses Boy Scouts at Camp Tenday Court
Lt. Col. John L. Eaton of the Pocatello air field spoke to about 200 scouts at Camp Tenday explaining scout training aids the war effort. Eagle badges were awarded to Wesley Skidmore Charles Cullen Robert Ivey and John Roberts with fifteen Eagles total and sixty other awards handed out.
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John L. Eaton
Pocatello Army Air Field
Camp Tenday Court of Honor
Armed Services
Colonel Eaton
Wesley Skidmore
Charles Cullen
Robert Ivey
John Roberts
Tenday
Eaton
Deaf Mutes Wed in Fire Station Ceremony at Twin Falls
The marriage of Helen Mae Arrington and Henry Mattson took place Saturday in a Twin Falls fire station with 20 minutes of ceremony and firemen as witnesses. Both spouses are deaf mutes and read passages to themselves before nodding to affirm. They met at Gooding school for the deaf and blind and plan to return to Seattle where Mattson works in a flour mill.
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Twin Falls
Helen Mae Arrington
Henry Mattson
Mark C. Cronenberger
Gooding School For the Deaf and Blind
Seattle
Mattson
Allied forces drive into St Lo amid heavy fighting in Normandy
American and British forces push from Caen toward St Lo in a two direction offensive. Omar Bradley's troops reach outskirts of Periers and Les Milleries while Miles Dempsey's men seize Evrecy Noyers and Vendes. German resistance remains ferocious with subterranean forts reported beneath ruined roads. More than 53 French towns liberated between July 6 and July 12.
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Supreme Headquarters
Ery Es Force
Omar N. Bradley
St. Lo
Normandy
Miles C. Dempsey
Caen
Bradley
Periers
Les Milleries
St. Lo- Periers
Charlemagne
Evrecy
Odon
Orne
Noyers
Vendes
Haut Des Forbes
Novers
No. 126
Villers- Bocage
Esquay
No-Man's-Land
Dempsey
Supreme Command
Indian Head
Walter Robertson
Erwin Rommel
Yanks Reach Points Near Livorno Port
American forces advance toward Livorno as Monte Maggiore and Montenero fall, pushing along the Italian west coast. In a broad flank, units near the Arno river and Pisa encounter German defenses while French troops of the fifth army hold positions after recapturing Poggibonsi. Arezzo falls to British advances.
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Rome
Livorno
Leghorn
Monte Maggiore
Montenero
Era Valley
Arno
Pisa
Fifth
Fifth Army
Poggibonsi
Lorenzana
Cristina
Asigliano
Eighth Army
Arezzo
Mercury Sees Season High As Heat Builds
The weather bureau reported a season high of 96 yesterday with records likely to be broken again this afternoon. Yesterday beat the prior June 30 high by one degree. mornings were 55 with a mean of 76. Stores see fans selling briskly as hot weather continues in Pocatello.
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Weather Bureau
Pocatellans
Hotel Operator Emma McKinzie Dies at 73 in Jerome
Emma C McKinzie 73 died Sunday in Jerome after a heart attack. She and husband A A McKinzie ran the Jerome hotel since 1914. Funeral Tuesday at 7 30 p m with burial in the local cemetery. Survived by daughter Mrs Porter Foster of Shelley.
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Jerome
Emma C. McKinzie
A. A. McKinzie
Jerome Hotel
Porter Foster
Shelley
War May Progress Rapidly During Next Three Months
Allied fighting in Europe could intensify as three months of prime weather remain before autumn rains favor Germany. General Montgomery’s Caen attack signals preparations for a decisive, peninsular campaign toward Paris and Berlin, with Normandy weather, Nazi resistance, and Allied caution shaping the timetable.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Germany
Montgomery
Caen
Paris
Berlin
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Associted Press
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Canning Center
Drys
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Hallensleben
Kaunas
Lithuanian Republic
Associated Pross
David Dempsey
Col. Eaton
Lessay
Mercury
United Nations
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