Corps Seeks Trained Men for Army Construction Units
Capt. Albert B. Jones announces voluntary induction into U S Army Corps of Engineers construction units. Nine thousand enlisted specialists monthly are needed for construction regiments to support overseas offensives. Eligible are skilled workers aged 18 to 50 with construction experience, with advancement paths to noncommissioned ranks or officer candidate schools.
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Albert B. Jones
Corps of Engineers
U. S. Army Engineer Office
Pocatello Army Air Field
Joint Army Mavy Personnel Board
Pocatello Anny Air Field
Portland
Oregon
Pacific Division
Armed Forces Induction Center
War Manpower Commission
Cadet Charles M. Smith joins Axis Exterminators club in San Angelo
The San Angelo army air field grants Cadet Charles M. Smith of Idaho Falls a rare initiation into the Society of Axis Exterminators, joining fellow junior class bombardiers. He is the son of Charles M. Smith of Yellowstone hotel Pocatello and has attended Pocatello High School, University of Idaho, and Northwestern.
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San Angelo
Texas
Charles M. Smith
Idaho Falls
San Angelo Army Air Field
Society of Axis Exterminators
Smith
Yellowstone Hotel
Pocatello
Pocatello High School
University of Idaho
Northwestern
Perrin Field
Woodrough W. Willams
Army Air Forces
Frank Williams
Milford
Utah
Williams
Maxwell Field
Ala
Earl Donald Oviatt
Wilford Oviatt
North Tenth Avenue
Idaho
Montgomery
Alabama
Oviatt
Army of the United States
Lubbock
Tex
Lyle Wesley Swisher
South Plains Army Air Field
Swisher
Eagle Pass
Randolph Field
Ardelia Frandsen Promoted at Camp Monticello WAAC
Hazel Ardella Frandsen daughter of Mrs Annie Butterfield of 481 Jefferson Ave Pocatello has been promoted from auxiliary to auxiliary first class at branch B of the Fifth WAAC training center at Camp Monticello Ark AFC Frandsen attended Pocatello High School and previously worked for Boeing Aircraft before joining WAAC training.
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Camp Monticello
Ark
Hazel Ardella Frandsen
Annie Butterfield
Jefferson Ave
Pocatello
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center
Afc Frandsen
Boeing Aircraft
Waae
Group Plans Full Bins At United Nations Food Conference
Leaders at the United Nations food conference call for a permanent world agricultural authority and coordinated long term production plans to ensure stable food supplies and prevent price spikes. Rationing and mutual responsibility among nations are urged to manage postwar shortages and equitable distribution.
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Hot Springs
World Agricultural Authority
French War Leaders Split as Disagreement Rumors Rise
Rumors of discord within the one day old executive committee led by General Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud circulated in Algiers. The body held a day long session with no official statement or definite information on progress.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
North Africa governance dispute over de Gaulle purge plan
Differences surfaced among members on De Gaulle's push to purge unworthy officials in North Africa. Two seats remained to be filled in the new executive committee that would run until homeland liberation, with Giraud and De Gaulle to alternate control once a civilian administration is chosen.
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de Gaulle
North Africa
Hall Giraud
DeGaulle
Asouas
Girls Save Boy In Moscow Park Lake Rescue
Two Moscow high school girls rescued a 12-year-old boy when a small boat capsized at Robinson Park Lake. The boy was alive and happy after crucial respiration and revival by the teens. Afterward he resumed playing away from the lake.
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Moscow
Robinson Park
Grange Chief Backs Access to UN Food Conference Criticism
E. T. Taylor of Coeur d Alene, Idaho, says barring congressmen and press from the Hot Springs Virginia United Nations food conference is a blow to democracy and harms national morale. He notes the gathering decides matters vital to postwar farming and living, while non delegates and press are barred by troops.
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Boise
United Nations Food Conference
Hot Springs
E. T. Taylor
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho State Grange
Taylor
State Grange
Grange
Berlin
Rome
Tokyo in the United States sparks press freedom protests
A fragment describes concern over perceived censorship claiming a blackout of freedom of the press as critics raise alarm about Japan related events in America.
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Tokyo
United States of America
GOP Plans Early 1944 Platform Work With Advisory Council
Washington notes say Republican leaders eye Midwest as the main 1944 campaign battleground with a summer meeting in Chicago or a central city. A postwar advisory council of 49 members including governors senators and representatives will craft a peace time program for the next convention.
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Washington
Midlewest
Chicago
Harrison E. Spangler
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Navy Supply Corps Reserve
South Fifth Avenue
Navy Supply Corps School
Harvard University
General Service
Naval Air Station
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Overon
Wheatley
TB Bo
Main
Corporal Wheatley
42Nd
Air Forces
Charles Knorr
Hobbs Army Air Field
Hobbs
Joseph P. Bailey
Hobbsfield
Knorr
Marfa
Claude Clinton Knorr
N. Garfield
Robert Gordon Jensen
United States Naval Aviation
Bert H. Creighton
Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board
Thirteenth
Naval District
Andrew C. Jensen
Navy
Naval Flight Preparatory
Civil Aeronautics Administration War Training Service School
Pfc
Grant B. Laker
Joseph Laker
St. Charles
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Sioux Falls
Pfc. Laker
Fielding High
Paris
Santa Monica
Calif
Forrest B. Shiflett
Wm. W. Shiflett
Anderson
Los Angeles
College Station
James D. Terrell
F. C. Terrell
South Hayes
Texas A. & M. College
Army Air Force
Burton V. Holcomb
San Francisco
Martha Holcomb
Ross Holcomb
American Falls
Amarillo Army Air Field
Amarillo
Roy 8. Morby
Idaho Morby
North Eleventh
America
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Carol E. Roberts
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center
Waac
Roberts
Selective Service Board No. 5
Ogden
San Antonio
Robert P. Patterson
R. E. Thomason
San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center
Leland G. Hawkley
Taftlevine
Donald E. McCulloch
Randolph
Jay D. Blackhurst
Arimo
Lewis L. Robbins
West Custer
Keesler Field
Franklin M. Welch
John H. Welch
Route 1
Keesler
Liberator Mechanics School
Welch
Army
Technical Training Command
Thomas P. Mayo
Germany
Prudence Ann
Northfield
England
War Department
Friendly
MR. Pocatello Merchant
Newsweek
Raymond Moley
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Eastman Kodak
Wrigley’s
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Coca-Cola
Phoenix Hosiery
Gillette Razors
Whitman
U. S. Rubber Co
Wilson Sporting Goods
California Prune Growers
del Monte Foods
Pepsodent
General Cigar Co
Eversharp
Pen and Pencil
California Walnut Growers Association
Grange Chief
Gop
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