House May Double Navy With 500 Fighting Ships At Cost of 8 Billion Dollars
The House Naval Committee chairs Vinson proposes an 8.3 billion measure to authorize about 500 fighting ships doubling fleet size. Plan includes aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and patrol vessels, with emphasis on carriers and escort ships to counter submarine threats. No battleships included.
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House
Navy
Washington
United States
Vinson
House Naval Committee
Naval Committee
Congress
Atlantic
Allied Ships Strike at Enemy Bases In World War II
Allied forces report momentum across multiple theaters. Madagascar occupation advances as British troops seize Androvorano near Diego Suarez. MacArthur’s air campaign targets Japanese bases north of Australia including Tulagi and Rabaul. The AVG claims 28 to 32 Japanese planes down in May and supports Chinese defenses near Yunnan. British bombers strike Oyster Island off Akyah harbor before returning safely.
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Australia
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Tulagi
Solomon Islands
Rabaul
New Britain
Atamboca
Timor
Burma
AVG
Salween
China
Yunnan Province
Oyster Island
Akyah Harbor
Display for Victory campaign meeting set for Wednesday
Merchants and display men are urged to attend a 6 30 p m meeting at the chamber of commerce to discuss plans for the national Display for Victory campaign opening nationwide on June 14. Secretary Morgenthau has named F E Birrell to chair the new government unit for selling war stamps and bonds in the southeast Idaho district.
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Chamber of Commerce
United States
Treasury Department
Henry Morgenthau
F. E. Birrell
Fargo-Wilson-Wells Company
Idaho
Birrell
Glider Pilot Training Expands for Army Air Corps
Glider pilots will train at several new schools to meet army air corps needs. Civilians qualified by CAA and private training are urged to enroll to fill capacity. Older men who previously could not fly are invited to join this tactical program. information available at the army recruiting station in the federal building, Pocatello.
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Army Air Corps
CAA
Army Recruiting Station
Federal Building
Pocatello
Tax Evader Freed on Health Parole in Large Tax Case
M. L. Annenberg of Philadelphia was released from the Northeastern federal penitentiary on parole Wednesday due to ill health after serving 23 months of a three year sentence in the largest individual income tax case on record.
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Lewisburg
M. L. Annenberg
Philadelphia
Northeastern Federal Penitentiary
Blackfoot Private Praised for Dual Life-Saving Feats
Pvt. William E. Brown of Blackfoot Idaho risked his life twice on high altitude missions. He swapped oxygen masks to save two gunners and later revived another wounded crew member for hours at 20 000 feet. Captain Bleasdale lauded his heroism.
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Australia
William E. Brown
Blackfoot
Idaho
E. W
Jack) Bleasdale
John Potters
Jim Shipley
Brown
Bleasdale
Lowry
Lewiston boy drowns after river incident
Seven year old Duane Moe fell into a deep river hole while playing with two other boys along the Clearwater river. He was taken from the water and died. He is the son of Owen and Mrs. Moe of Lewiston.
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Lewiston
Duane Moe
Clearwater
Owen Moe
Essen Again Target Of Deadly Bombers, House Extends War
Washington reports enthusiastic praise for British American air raids on Essen and Cologne as experts debate air power's ability to force Germany's capitulation without a second front. The House voted war against Bulgaria Hungary and Romania. Canterbury suffered heavy incendiary bombardment over three nights.
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Essen
House
Washington
Britain
Germany
Cologne
House of Representatives
Hitler
Balkan
Bulgaria
Hungary
Rumania
Senate
Rayburn
Jeannette Rankin
Montana
Italy
England
High Command
Canterbury
National League games and scores from Chicago and surrounding cities
In Chicago New York defeated Chicago 4 to 0 on seven hits with Sunkel McGee and Danning for Chicago and Passeau McCullough for New York. Dietrich and Tresh led New York batters while Bonham and Dickey pitched. In Philadelphia Detroit beat Philadelphia 3 to 4 with White Tebbetts Knott Wagner. Cleveland at Boston postponed. St Louis at Washington scheduled night game. Brooklyn at Pittsburgh and Philadelphia at Cincinnati night games also listed.
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New York
R. H. E. Chicago
Dietrich and
Tresh
Bonham and
Dickey
Philadelphia
Detroit
White and Tebbetts
Knott and Wagner
Four Drowned When Boat Sinks Off Bremen Lake
Four youths from the same family drowned when a rowboat carrying eight people sank about 350 feet offshore in Lake of the Woods Tuesday night. State policeman Ralph Ackenhausen rescued four others from the water.
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Bremen
Ind
Ree
Lake of the Woods
Ralph Ackenhausen
ISU Class Graduates 37 In Pharmacy Exercises Thursday
Idaho Southern university grants a bachelor of science in pharmacy to 37 graduates at 9:45 a m Thursday in Frazier auditorium. 127 students receive junior college certificates across university schools. Dr William W Hall Jr presides and Dr Harrison C Dale confers degrees. Program includes organ preludes and a Mendelssohn procession with University Symphony Orchestra, vocal solo and commencement address.
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Idaho Southern University
Frazier
Wiill
William W. Hall Jr
College of Idaho
Harrison C. Dale
University of Idaho
John R. Nichols
T. R. Neil
Committee kills CCC funds over protest of director
Washington AP The House appropriations committee voted 15 to 12 to remove a 75.82 million CCC fund from a 1.058 billion bill for Labor, SSA, and related agencies. CCC director J J McEntee argued the corps remained necessary for army cantonments and forest fire fighting as war needs changed.
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CCC
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Labor Department
Social Security Board
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cannon
D., Mo
Engel
Mich
Hare
D. SC
J. J. McEntee
National Youth Administration
Shipping Toll Rising as Submarines Sink More Vessels
The toll from submarine attacks rose with three more ships sunk, totaling 12 in four days. Forty-one sailors were dead or missing from nine sinkings, while 83 crew and eight passengers escaped. Sixty survivors reached eastern ports after the third torpedo attack, with six confirmed dead.
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Navy
United States
Caribbean Sea
Parmuda
Shot Kills Youth in Pear Harbor era scare tale
A Chicago family had worried over their sailor son John at Pearl Harbor for months until a letter of safety arrived. Meanwhile the youngest brother James, age 4, stepped outside and was shot by a neighbor boy playing with a rifle, dying two hours later in a hospital.
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Chicago
John Nuter
John
Pearl Harbor
James
Mrs Howard Ba visiting Camp Roberts during vacation
Mrs Howard Ba of the city water department leaves tonight for vacation and plans to visit Camp Roberts California where her husband is serving in the army.
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Howard Ba
City Water Department of
Camp Roberts
California
Rotary luncheon speaker Dr Earle G Lier to address crowd
Dr Earle G Lier vicar of Trinity Episcopal Church will speak at the Rotary luncheon Thursday. T. R. Nielsen will handle music duties for the event.
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Earle G. Lier
Trinity Episcopal Church
Rotary
T. R. Nielson
Navy Reports Few Details Of North Pacific Raid
The navy announced four Japanese bombers and about 15 fighters attacked Dutch Harbor Alaska at 6 a m local time for about 15 minutes. Official communique said limited details are available and no reports from other areas.
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Navy
North Pacific
Washington
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
M.W.T
Old Sol Leads One Man Raid Against Dictator Snow
Old Sol conducts a lone operation against the retreating dictator Snow in the hills as the Green Grass army advances on all fronts. The forecast calls scattered showers with little temperature change and a high of 80, low of 44, mean 62 degrees. Sunrise at 5 02 and sunset at 9 04.
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Sol
Green Grass Army
Idaho DAV Convention Set for Boise June 6-7
The Idaho Department Disabled American Veterans will hold its annual convention in Boise June 6-7 with about 100 members expected. Officers will be elected on June 7.
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Boise
Idaho Department
Disabled American Veterans
British Rommel front pressed as Auchinleck drives west
British forces under Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck push deep into the desert near Knightsbridge and Rotunda Segnali as Rommel’s forward line weakens. Axis losses mount with more than 3,000 British prisoners reported and air superiority claimed over the front.
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Sir Claude Auchinleck
Rotunda Segnali
Knightsbridge
Britain
Mediterranean Sea
Bir Fl
Rommel
Mussolini
Tobruk
Noted Franklin Linked Speaker Trio For Knife & Fork Dinners
Noted speaker Benjamin Franklin of New York City, ex Topeka resident and president of International Knife & Fork, visited Pocatello Wednesday to meet with Hugh MacCosham, S. E. Brady and club directors. Four of seven fall and next year dinners were confirmed: Strickland Gillilan in September, H R Bankhage in October, Col M Tchou in November, Count Byron de Prorok in January. The Pocatello Knife & Fork club reports 125 members with about ten vacancies.
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Benjamin Franklin
New York City
Topeka
Kansas
International Knife & Fork and Associated Executives Club
Pocatello
Hugh MacCosham
Pocatello Knife & Fork Club
S. E. Brady
Knife & Fork
Strickland Gillilan
H. R. Bankhage
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Diego Suarez
Blackfoot Private
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ST. Nazaire
Reims
Helgoland
Amsterdam
Paris
Bessen
Switz
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Berlin
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Libya
English Channel
Russia
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Red Star
Moscow
Churchill
British Air Ministry
Henry H Arnold
Red Air Force
Soviet Information Bureau
Sunkel
McGee and Danning
Passeau and McCullough
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Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Boston
St. Louis
ISU
Mendelssohn
University Symphony Orchestra
Donald Kissane
E. T. Ferry
Dio Possente
Gounod
Alfred Thaxton
Rudolph Goranson
NYA
Tokyo
Stimson
Dimond
Unalaska Island
Aleutian Chain
Norfolk
Bay of Benga
Rayner Eklund
Sunnyside
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Bay
Bay of Bengal
Eklund
By W. E. M
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Suez Canal
Bir el Hacheim
Wisdom
Pocatello Club
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