Okinawa Victory: Japanese Resistance Crushed on Shuri Line
Allied forces close on Shuri as Okinawa garrison collapses. Sixth Marine Division completes mop up in Naha after Tokyo admits a critical setback. Nimitz reports 61,519 Japanese killed and 1,353 captured, with about 66,000 residents in Naha.
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WEES
Wuwen
Shuri
Sixth Division
Naha
Domei
Tokyo Radio
Sixth Marine Division
Associated Press
al Copking
Uba River
Naha-Yonabaru Road
Ryukyu Island
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Okinawa
Naha-Shuri- Yonabaru
U. S
Navy
Marine Corps
Army
France Replies to American Syria Note
Paris confirms De Gaulle government sticks to handling the Levant by France without external interference. London reports France orders cease fire but refuses to pull troops from Syria, aligning partly with Churchill’s request and signaling a mixed stance.
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Paris
Syria
Washington
de Gaulle
France
Levant
London
Min
Churchill
Japs Pushing For New Defense Line
Chinese high command reports Japanese forces pushing south along the east China sea coast in Chekiang to form a new anti invasion line. Pingyang fell in a 10 mile advance from Julan as Chinese troops pursue retreating units toward Siapu. Inland, Chinese gains were recorded in Hunan and Kwangsi as efforts to secure the sap into Indo China continued.
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Chungking
East China Sea
Chekiang Province
Pingyang
Julan
Wenchow
Shanghai
Foochow
Fukien
Siapu
Hunan
Kwangsi
Shaoyang
Paoching
Chihkiang
Chukowpu
Gossett Reappoints Boise Engineer Examiner Member
Gov. Charles C. Gossett reappoints H. L. Sanger of Boise to the state board of engineering examiners, confirming his continued service in the regulatory panel.
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Boise
H. L. Sanger
Charles C. Gossett
State Board of Engineering Examiners
War Production Board Approves Tape Stock Plans
The War Production Board authorizes new tape stock plans for monthly production. Officials from the agency issue a public statement detailing the rollout and its aims to support wartime manufacturing efforts.
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Washington
Idaho Anti Tuberculosis Association names officers in Boise
The Idaho Anti Tuberculosis Association elected Dr. H. L. Newcombe of Emmett as president for the coming year. Elected officers include Dr. Alvin S. Thurston, Robert B. Eric, Mrs. William H. Sheehan, Mrs. R. B. Stringfellow, and Virgil McGee. Board of directors representatives from multiple counties were named.
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Boise
Idaho Antituberculosis Association
H. L. Newcombe
Emmett
Alvin S. Thurston
Council
Robert
Eric
Lewiston
William H. Sheehan
Idaho Falls
R. 8. Stringfellow
Virgil McGee
Richard Howard
Pocatello
R. A. Weston
Aberdeen
Hazel Ozburn
Soda Springs
David Cutler
Preston
E. E. Jacobs
American Falls
Council Endorses Rink for Pocatello Youth
Pocatello Youth Welfare Council endorses a new roller skating rink at the Deleta ballroom. Paul W. Scott, president, says sessions will run Sunday Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, fulfilling a long standing need in the youth program after more than a year of work.
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Pocatello
Deleta
Paul W. Scott
Group urges cancellation of all World War debts and lend lease
The Committee for Economic Development urged the United States to cancel all World War I debts and World War II lend lease obligations if needed to restore postwar trade. The move, presented to the Senate Finance Committee, backs the administration’s tariff and reciprocal trade authority.
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Washington
United States
Committee For Economic Development
Senate Finance Committee
OPA Cancels Sugar Issue in Idaho
OPA suspends home canning sugar ration coupons in Idaho pending a survey of commitments to check if quotas are exceeded. Dr Camanderson Idaho district office of price administration director says the survey will determine whether ration grants surpass quotas. The move aims to insure equal sugar supply for all homes needing it for canning this year.
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Boise
Idaho
Camanderson
Price Administration
OPA
County Road Work Advances on Sublette Road East of Arimo
County Road Supervisor W. P. Havener reports surfacing two miles east from Arimo along the Sublette road to the divide using pit run gravel. A six man crew with three trucks handles the project, part of the old immigrant trail to California opened in 1849, extending from Alexander to Sublette on Raft River.
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Arimo
W. P. Havener
Sublette
California
Old Fort Hall Post
Alexander
Raft River
Havenor
Riot at Fort Benjamin Harrison Leaves One Dead
at the U S army disciplinary barracks a guard was shot and killed and three prisoners wounded during a riot and fire. Maj. Gen. James L. Collins reported the blaze hit two locations causing about 100000 in damage. about 1900 prisoners, all American soldiers, were involved with many previously courtmartialed for murder and rape.
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Indianapolis
U.S. Army
Fort Benjamin Harrison
James L. Collins
Fifth Service Command
Fort Harrison
War Department
Collins
Idaho Gives Clothing Drives Collect 232000 Pounds
Idaho donations for the United Nations clothing drive totaled 232,106 pounds, reported by M. R. Strawn senior storekeeper for the Office of Surplus Property.
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Boise
Idaho
United Nations Clothing Drive
M. R. Strawn
Office of Surplus Property
American Sub Sinks 14 Japanese Ships In Pacific Waters
United States submarines have sunk 14 more Japanese ships including a destroyer and four combatant vessels. The Salmon earned the presidential unit citation after surfacing to fight a tanker and its escorts, then escaping. Total Japanese ships sunk by US subs since the war began now 1,152. Secretary Forrestal praises the silent service for its role.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Navy
Pointblank
Forrestal
Japan
British Capture High Nazi Leaders Published
The British announced the capture of Col. Gen. Kurt Daluege SS police chief of Bohemia Moravia who ordered Lidice razing. Also named were SS Generals Juttner Lorenz and Von Herff and Himmler's deputy for the home army in a disclosed list of high ranking Nazis.
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Second Army
Kurt Daluege
Bohemia-Moravia
Lidice
Daluege
Hans Juttner
Heinrich Himmler
Home Army
Lorenz
von Herff
Board Sets Tests for Idaho Estate Licenses
Idaho board of pharmacy announces examinations for estate licenses at Idaho Southern University in Pocatello on June 19 and 20. Board president H. B. Craggs releases the schedule.
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Boise
Idaho Board of Pharmacy
Idaho Southern University
Pocatello
H. B. Craggs
OPA Targets Sugar Racket and Home Canning Fraud
The Office of Price Administration announced a drastic four point campaign to end sugar chiseling for canning uses. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said some applicants falsify needs to obtain sugar, promising penalties and mandatory pledges to use sugar only for home canning and report consumption. He warned shortages unless chiseling stops.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Wegins
Home Canning 6
Osaka Fire Attacks Spark Major Japanese City Destruction
Waves of incendiaries from a large B 29 force hit Osaka causing widespread fires in the city’s industrial core. Reports say rising smoke and flames towered as crews left, with extensive damage also noted in Yokohama and broader urban areas.
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Guam
Osaka
Japan
21St Bomber Command
Yokohama
German Civilians Face War Crime Trial Over Beating Death
German wheat farmer Nicholas Nospes testified that two Germans beat an American flyer to death after a parachute drop near Trier on August 15. Defendants Peter Kohn Matthias Gieres and Matthias Krein face trial before an American military commission.
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Ahrweiler
Germany
Trier
Reich
Peter Kohn
Matthias Gieres
Matthias Krein
Nicholas Nospes
Kohn
Gierens
Nospes
Giérens
Weertz Concert Tonight at Fraiser Auditorium
Louis Weertz, a young V-12 pianist, headlines a program at Fraizer auditorium in Pocatello under American Legion post No 4. The set includes classical piano works, an original jazz opera Dont Fence Me In, ragtime jazz swing and boogie woogie examples, plus pieces inspired by local Pocatello color. It marks his farewell appearance in the community.
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Louis Weertz
V-12
Pocatello
University Naval Unit
Frazier Auditorium
Pocatello Post No. 4
American Legion
Louie
Faust
Aerial Attacks Hit Borneo as Allied Forces Advance
The U S 13th Air Force expanded raids on oil rich Borneo with over 100 bombers and fighters daily hitting Brunei Bay Balikpapan and Banjermasin as Australian forces finish Tarakan holdouts. Seventh Fleet Liberators sank a freighter near Banjermasin and Shanghai coast.
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Manila
U. S
13Th Air Force
Borneo
Tarakan
13Th Raiders
Brunei Bay
Balikpapan
Banjermasin
Fifth Air Force
Formosa A
Fifth Air Force Liberators
Shanghai
Seventh Fleet
Hong Kong
Luzon
Philippines
British Form New Army for Southeast Asia
Lord Louis Mountbatten announces a formed 12th Army to operate in southeast Asia. Based in Rangoon, the force will be commanded by Lt Gen Montague Ford, aiming to expand operations against Thailand Malaya and surrounding sea areas as Japan faces reduced Chinese and Indo China pressures.
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Calcutta
Southeast Asia
Louis Mountbatten
12Th Army
Rangoon
Montague Ford
14Th Army
Burma
Saphal
India
Thailand
Malaya
Singapore
China
Indo- China
Netherlands Indies
Search Deepens for Missing Oregon Men in Private Plane
Civil air patrol planes continue the search for two Ontario, Oregon men missing after a private flight from Yellow Pine, Idaho. Local authorities and Army officers coordinate mountain area reconnaissance amid uncertain weather and rugged terrain.
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Cascade
Civil Air Patrol
Ontario, Ore
Yellow Pine
Idaho
Army
Frank
Truman vows Pacific war expansion and war production push
President Truman told Congress the U S Army in the Pacific will grow to twice its present size and exceed Europe’s peak. He urged shipyard workers to meet suicide attacks, asked civilians to avoid travel, and said escort vessels not needed for training will be sent to the Pacific as naval warfare intensifies against Japan. The Japanese surface navy is now a fraction of its former strength while the merchant marine stands at a quarter.
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Washington
U. S. Army
Pacific
Truman
Europe
Congress
War born agencies face cuts in 1946 appropriations
The House Appropriations Committee reduces funding for most wartime agencies for fiscal 1946 by large margins, leaving only a $325,000 allotment for state marine schools intact. The total falls to $769.8 million, down from budget estimates by $111.8 million and from current-year funds by $209.3 million.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
House
War Shipping Administration
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Office of War Information
War Production Board
Office of Strategic Services
Office of Censorship
Office of Defense Transportation
National War Labor Board
Selective Service System
War Relocation Authority
Smaller
War Plants Corporation
Couple Obtains License in Salt Lake City
Hamilet Otto Petereit aged 25 and Mona Pain ter aged 23, both of Montpelier, obtained a marriage license yesterday in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Hamilet Otto Petereit
Mona Painter
Montpelier
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