Pocatello Central to CCC Training and War Program
Lieut. Col. Hugh C. Dorrien outlines CCC plans with 350 camps nationwide on a war basis for fiscal year starting July 1 1942 and 35 camps in the ninth corps area May 1 to Sept 30 1942. Pocatello district gains control over 13 Fort Missoula camps effective June 1. War program emphasizes military reservations forest protection and intensified training to aid future service and production. The reorganization will reduce CCC districts to three in the ninth corps area. Sacramento district will operate 30 camps.
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Hugh C. Dorrien
Pocatello District
CCC
Ninth Corps
Dorrien
Pocatello
Fort Miss
Northwest
Sacramento
Calif
Memorial Day Toll Drops Amid War Time Restraints
The Associated Press reports 304 violent deaths nationwide over a two day Memorial Day weekend, well below the 400 average. Idaho saw one fatality from lightning. Utah reported three in a pool hall, a drowning, and a mine accident. Gasoline rationing and wartime factory work kept many at home and at work, reducing highway fatalities to 107. total drownings 108 and 89 miscellaneous accidents.
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Associated Press
United States
Idaho
D. J. Borup
Boise
Utah
C. S. Day
Standardville
Darrel Durrant
Morgan
Bruno da Zanchi
Bingham
Klamath Falls News Suspended for War Emergency
The Klamath Falls News in Oregon suspends publication for wartime economy and consolidates with the Evening Herald. The Morning News will resume after the emergency ends, with all staff absorbed by the combined paper and some layoffs offset by service members.
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Portland
Ore
Klamath Falls
Oregon
Evening Herald
Morning News
Eugene
Daily News
Eugene Register- Guard
Register - Guard
Alton F. Baker
Idaho couple granted marriage license in Salt Lake City
A marriage license was issued Monday to Wayne Watson Keppner aged 19 of Roberts Idaho and Nadine Verna Johnson aged 18 of Idaho Falls.
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Salt Lake City
Wayne Watson Keppner
Roberts
Idaho
Nadine Verna Johnson
Malta Bays Planes Strike Through Axis Defenses
Malta reports heavy air combat over Valetta with 116 raiding axis planes shot down in May by ground and air defenses, as island remains beleaguered under siege.
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Valletta
Malta
Britain Sends Air Might Roaring Over Germany
A Boston report details a teenage girl Fidella Briand 18 of Woburn slain by a knife-wielding pursuer along a parkway by the Charles River basin. The killer, Harry Adams 28 of Somerville, told patrolman James Leonard his name as police captured him.
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Britain
Germany
Boston
Charles River Basin
Back Bay
Boston University
Fidella Briand
Woburn
Fisher Business School
James Leonard
Harry Adams
Somerville
Aerial Allies Prepare Massive Joint Bombardment
London reports near certainty of a US-UK air assault against Germany with over 1 000 planes carrying 6 000 flyers dropping about 3 000 tons of bombs. German retaliation hit Canterbury, but British RAF and USAAF planners promise overwhelming destruction in city by city strikes.
Axis General Cruewell Captured in Libyan Desert
Gen Ludwig Cruewell commander of the German Africa Corps was captured after a reconnaissance plane was shot down by British forces. He was found with a diary showing a Hitler contact a week before Rommel's latest offensive and returned to Allied lines just before the African drive.
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Libyan Desert
Ludwig Cruewell
German African Corps
Erwin Rommel
Adolf Hitler
Rommel
Cruewell
France
Yugoslavia
Desert
Coast Dims Lights From New Orleans To Brownsville
The Eighth Corps area orders a blotting of night lights starting Monday to obscure ships in the Gulf of Mexico from enemy submarine patrols. The blackout spans from New Orleans to Brownsville Texas and aims to reduce silhouette risks.
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San Antonio
Texas
Eight Corps Area Command
Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans
Brownsville
Four Pocatello Men Missing In Action on War Fronts
The navy department issued a list of 16 Idaho men missing in action covering April 16 to May 10. Entries include Downey Ernest Willard of Pocatello and others with next of kin named, listing towns American Falls Rexburg Carmen and Arbon among their addresses. The release marks the navy's fourth casualty list of the war.
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Pocatello
Washington
Idaho
Navy Department
Downey
Ernest Willard
Margaret Jeanne Downey
North Arthur Avenue
Bowler
Samuel Gaston
Mack Bowler
American Falls
Breeze
John Robert
Marine Corps
William H. Breeze
Arbon
Christensen
Sidney M
Mary L. Russell
de Mouth
Lester J
Musa I
Girard
Maurice P
Armand A. Girard
East
Lewis Street
Holcomb
Byron Eugene
WPA to Aid Beet Work in Bannock and Bingham counties
The Works Progress Administration suspends all projects in Bannock and Bingham counties for ten days starting Tuesday June 2 to free labor for beet fields. Only the nursery school project and the national defense training school will operate. Work resumes Wednesday June 10. workers not in beet fields may return. Contact Idaho State Employment Service offices in Pocatello and Blackfoot for details. Similar actions may spread to other southeastern Idaho counties with labor shortages.
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Works Projects Administration
Bannock
Bingham
Earl Burcham
National Defense Training School
Idaho State Employment Service
Pocatello
Blackfoot
Burcham
Idaho
Weather forecast and playful adage notes
Fair and Warmer by W E M Robin suggests worming and rolling guidance while noting temperatures. Pocatello shows 40 degree low with Dallas and Washington high of 92. Sunday high 64, sun rises 5 53, sets 9 03, no blackout after 11 28 as moon rises. Slightly warmer southwest Idaho forecast.
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Robin
Pocatello
United States
Dallas
Washington, D. C
Idaho
Lions Plan Sun Valley Convention In June
Lions Idaho District 39 prepares for its first convention in Sun Valley June 7 8 and 9 sponsored by Twin Falls group with N A Jordan as chairman. Miss Mary Lou Finlayson will sing during the program and many couples including Hiner Grossman Porter Willecke Jordan Harrison Deaton and Benzley plan to attend.
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Lions Club
N. A. Jordan
Sun Valley
The
Lions
Idaho
Twin Falls
Mary Lou Finlayson
Lyle Hiner
Ned Grossman
O Porter
Rudy Willecke
Parry Harrison
M. T. Deaton
Owen Benzley
Allies tap air strength with record bombing of Cologne
DeWitt MacKenzie notes Allied air power as 1250 planes devastate Cologne, with Churchill declaring it a herald of Germany’s fate. Lt Gen Henry Arnold says US and British leaders finalized plans to maximize combined air strength, signaling a powerful Allied capability to press toward victory. The piece also cites a turning moment on the Russian front as the Caucasus gateway struggle reaches a lull, with Allied advantage but no decisive defeat for the Hitlerites yet.
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London
Reich
Cologne
R.A.F
Henry H. Arnold
DeWitt MacKenzie
Hitler
Churchill
Germany
Henry Arnold
Hiead
United States
Golden Caucasus
Loss of British cruiser Trinidad reported
London dispatches say the 8000-ton Fiji class cruiser Trinidad is lost after engaging a German destroyer during a convoy battle to Murmansk. Commissioned in 1938 under Captain L S Saunders the ship carried twelve 6-inch guns and three aircraft. In a separate report Prague radio cites 27 more Czech executions linked to Heydrich’s assassination plot.
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London
Admiralty
Trinidad
Fiji
Murmansk
Russia
L. S. Saunders
Prague Radio Tonight
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Heydrich
Firing Squad Executes General Zainov in Sofia
Berlin radio quoted a Sofia court martial convicting General Vladimir Zainov of espionage and executing him by firing squad. It said he aided Bolshevik agents and failed in a 1935 uprising. Evgeni Tchemirov received life, Theodor Prashov was sentenced to death, three others were acquitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Vladimir Zainovv
Sofia
Boris
Evgeni Tchemirov
Theodor Prashov
Utah Child Drowns In East Canyon Creek Tragedy
Rescue teams and volunteers searched the swollen East Canyon creek for 5 year old Darren Durrant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin H. Durrant of Salt Lake. The boy fell from a bridge Saturday night as spring runoff fed the rapid stream. More than 150 men waded the water Sunday and Monday hoping to recover the body, believed to be buried under overhanging vegetation in waters up to 12 feet deep.
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Morgan
Utah
East Canyon Creek
Darren Durrant
Melvin H. Durrant
Salt Lake
Car thief leaves trail as Brookfield car found intact
Police recovered John Walsh's stolen motor car in Brookfield Missouri. The vehicle was undamaged and full of gasoline with two new tires that were not in the machine when it was stolen, illustrating how unsecured cars tempt thieves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookfield
John Walsh
Hitler Plans Knockout Of Russian Forces With Dramatic Assault
British air forces strike Cologne and raid Axis ports while German Italian units face setbacks in North Africa. General Cruewell is captured as Mediterranean shipping is hit. Russians claim heavy tank tolls and intensified attacks along the southern front amid a quiet Russian front overall.
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Hitler
North
Africa
Dudwig Cruewell
Afrika Korps
Erwin Rommel
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Malta
Russia
Elks to Hold State Event in Idaho
Boise hosts the Idaho Elks three day convention with 400 visitors expected. Events include ritualistic contests among Moscow Caldwell Twin Falls and Idaho Falls teams. Winners go to the Grand Lodge national contest in Omaha. An Americanization oratorical contest Friday. Banquet Saturday night with master of ceremonies Joe Imhoff and grand ball after. Trap shooting and golf tournaments list Lewiston Pocatello Caldwell Nampa Boise teams participating.
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Boise
Idaho
Ed Peasley
Moscow
Caldwell
Twin Falls
Idaho Falls
Grand Lodge
Omaha
Americanization Committee
Raymond Givens
Hotel Boise
Joe Imhoff
M. C Strong
Lewiston
Pocatello
Nampa
Submarine Attack Sinks Brazilian Ship Near Haiti
Survivors of a Brazilian merchant vessel torpedoed near Haiti reach Key West after 29 hours in lifeboats. Six crew members died, two from blasts and four from rough seas, while a goat-headed submarine marked with a red rose drew laughs from its officers. The navy later reported a small British merchant vessel torpedoed in the Atlantic with survivors landed on the U.S. east coast.
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Key West
Fila
Haiti
Haroldo Nascimento
Washington
Navy
Atlantic
Small Shops Close as War Production Shifts
Washington reports government limits on new war plant construction. WPB actions push civilian firms to winding down while concentrating on existing facilities. Over the weekend production of fishing tackle, golf clubs, metal office equipment and other items ended. piano organ makers receive wind-down time to July 31, with craft instrument exports curtailed.
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Washington
New Hope
United Nations
Ar Production Board
WPB
Japanese Sub Force Attacked in Sydney Harbor as Allies Hit Pacific Bases
Allied air actions hit Japanese positions across Timor, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands as Sydney harbor battles reportedly destroyed several of the two man submarines that slipped in from a mothership off southeastern Australia. The raid also sank an old ferry and damaged Lae defenses amid a broader Far East conflict intensity.
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Associated Press
Sydney Harbor
Japan
Australia
Chekiang Province
Pearl Harbor
Australian
Sydney
Timor
New Guinea
General Offensive May Get Under Way in Short Time
Adolf Hitler plans a June to July general offensive on the entire Russian front and a pincer through Turkey and Iran to reach the Caucasus. A Lisbon source cites Berlin’s aims to finish Russia and force terms with the western Allies, with Iran already largely under German influence.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Turkey
Iran
Lisbon
United Nations
Hitler
Russia
Caucasus
England
India
Germany
Wily Ambass
Gas masks and balloons shielding Pacific coast cities
Along the west coast from San Diego to Seattle, gas masks steel helmets and barrage balloons became common sights as officials prepare for possible enemy attack. Balloons aim to lift bombers for easier anti aircraft fire a tactic proven in England. Civil defense measures expand as Stimson and Landis urge readiness police fire and wardens receive protective gear.
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San Francisco
Washington
Pacific Coast
Britain
West Coast
San Diego
Seattle
England
War Stimson
James M. Landis
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Zainov
Elks
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