D-Day Opens Fifth War Bonds Sale in Idaho
The fifth war loan drive begins with a Bannock county meeting for retail sellers at the Chief theater in Pocatello at 9 30 a m and Pocatello stores closing to 10 30 a m A program includes Master of Ceremonies John Taylor talks by A L Merrill and Capt Ben Rogers and music by the army air field band Idaho’s total quota is 28 090 000 with bonds to be sold immediately and county workers urged to mobilize Patriotism and enthusiasm run high as bond sales aim to let off steam.
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Fifth War Loan Committee
Bannock County
Pocatello
War Department
John Taylor
A.L. Merrill
Ben Rogers
Army Air Field
Pocatello Army Air Field
Boise
Idaho
John Schoonover
Schoonover
Nazi Counterblows Fail in Attempt To Oust Allied Army
Allied forces report continued heavy fighting across Normandy from Barfleur to Le Havre with 12 C-47s and 12 gliders missing in airborne operations. Berlin claims Rommel rushing reserves as the invasion proceeds with air support and naval bombardment shaping a broad, deep battle front.
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Bayeux
Orne
Carentan
Ninth Air Force
Berlin
Erwin Rommel
Normandy
Axis
Barfleur
Cherbourg
St. Vaast la Hougue
Valognes-Carentan
Orne River
Caen
Villers-Trouville
Seine
le Havre
Honfleur
Point L’eveque
Beuzeville
Pont Audemer
Paris
France
Lisieux
Churchill
U. S
High Command
Dover Strait
Pas-De- Calais
Boulogne
Calais
England
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Supreme Headquarters
Herbert M. Clark
Blue Network
London
Roosevelt
Struggl
Atlantic Wall
Seine Estuary
Channel
Jersey
Guernsey
Commissioners Confer On Road Maintenance
County Commissioners Harry E. Lewis John Aljers Clegg Raymond and surveyor Percy Havener plan to confer with Bear Lake county officials on maintaining four miles of the Strawberry Sharon road between Preston and Montpelier. The road lies in Bannock county but is accessible only via Preston.
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Harry E. Lewis
John Aljers
Clegg Raymond
Percy Havener
Bear Lake
Bannock County
Preston
Montpelier
Pocatello counties require 48 hour work week
The War Manpower Commission orders all employers with eight or more workers in the Pocatello area within a 30 mile radius to enforce a 48 hour week by July 1 1944. Exemptions possible. adjustments to avoid layoffs urged. existing wage contracts not superseded unless total hours change. Local USES and WMC officials note many firms already comply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello
War Manpower Commission
John E. Gross
WMC
Denver
U. S. Employment Service
A. J. Tillman
United States Employment Service
Tillman
John B. Hughes
USES
Bannock County
Alameda
Chubbuck
Tyhee
Inkom
McCammon
Bingham County
Blackfoot
Gibson
Fort Hall
Power County
American Falls
Hughes
Pocatello Social Notes Detail Visits and Meetings
Senator D Worth Clark arrives today in Pocatello staying at Bannock hotel Electa Kensington hosts a dessert luncheon at Masonic temple Thursday Ivy Rebecca lodge 23 meets at Odd Fellows hall Thursday Joint memorials with Odd Fellows planned Nellie Cline Steenson to speak on KSEI Friday 5 05 pm Army air field band to join Elks Play Day Sunday Flyers Eagles game cancelled due to rain Donald Whitehead Republican runs for second district speaks in Pocatello Women of the Moose meet Thursday Group 1 WSCS meets Friday at Mrs E H Allen home Beverly Ashton returns from University of Utah new births reported and USO show Tonight at field theater convalescent room James Marmelstein birth in St Anthony USO performance and camp show notes Classifieds cash only Orders policy Group WSCS events and visiting service members noted.
Local Social Notes Highlight Mrs Glennon Home Event
Devotions led by Mrs Louise Holler at 841 South Ninth. Mrs Warren Vickerey speaks on Post War World. Dorothy Swanson visits in Pocatello. Miss Swan son trains as nurse cadet in Chicago. Dorothy Booth wins faculty women's gift award at Idaho Southern University. ceremony June 19. Joy South returns from Madison Wisconsin after journalism studies. accompanies her father visiting Missouri Illinois Michigan. En route they stop in Omaha with Sally Peake, former Pocatello resident.
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Glennon
South Ninth
Louise Holler
Warren Vickerey
Dorothy Swanson
Ray Swanson
of City
Pocatello
Miss Swanson
Nurse Cadet Corps
Roseland Community Hospital
Chicago
Dorothy Marie Booth
Marie Booth
1003
South Fourth
Idaho Southern University
Miss Booth
Joy South
E. M. South
East Whitman
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Missouri
Ilinois
Michigan
Omaha
Sally Peake
Fifth Army Chases Kesselring Beyond Rome
Fifth Army pursued enemy positions ten miles past Rome in a continuing push. Allied air offensives from the Mediterranean and new shuttle bases in Russia hit Ploesti Brasov Pitesci Turnu Severin and Belgrade targets with 34 enemy planes destroyed while 16 heavy bombers and 17 other aircraft were lost. North of Rome air attacks continued last night as German air fields in Romania faced strikes.
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Ploesti
Brasov
Pitesci
Turnu-Severin
Romania
Belgrade
Yugosslavia
Mediterranean
Russia
Rome
Naval Units Dominate Channel Area in Pearl Harbor Action
Reported action near Pearl Harbor lists the British light cruiser Scylla under Rear Adm. Sir Philip Vian alongside American battleships Texas and Arkansas and British battleships Nelson Reillies Warspite. The carrier group included Glasgow Enterprise Orion and Canadian destroyers Sioux and Algonquin as 600 ships shell Nazi shore defenses with 2000 tons of shells per 10 minutes. A stray line mentions a bird named Theatsucker with goats, unrelated to the event.
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Pearl Harbor
Scylla
Philip Vian
Texas
Arkansas
Nelsom
Reillies
Warspite
Glasgow
Enterprise
Orion
Sioux
Britain
United States
Nine Members of Utah Cult Convicted in Federal Case
U S District Judge T Blake Kennedy in Salt Lake City convicting eight men and a woman of violating federal white slavery and anti kidnapping laws. Defendants include six men for Mann ad violation and two men and a woman for kidnapping a 14 year old girl to become a plural wife. Some defendants previously convicted in state court face stayed sentences pending appeal.
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Salt Lake City
U.S
T. Blake Kennedy
Cheyenne
Wyo
Kennedy
State Supreme Court
Oakland Man Wins Conduct Medal
Corporal Vern B. Goforth 23 of Oakland California received the good conduct medal for faithful and exact duty and exemplary behavior while serving as an airplane welder at an Eighth Air Force base in England. The award was by order of Col. James L. Travis, base commander. He is the brother of Irvan N. Goforth of Oakland and husband of Leona Ada Goforth of Pocatello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vern B. Goforth
Oakland
Calif
Goforth
Eighth Air Force
San Pablo Avenue
Leona Ada Goforth
Park Avenue
Pocatello
Goforth Serves as Bookkeeper at Fort Miley Telegraphic Hospital
In October 1941 Cpl Goforth worked as a bookkeeper at Fort Miley Can teen hospital.
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Cpl. Goforth
Fort Miley Canteen
Don’t Throw Grass In Street Gutters
City Engineer R C Lowrie urges Pocatello property owners to refrain from placing grass clippings in street gutters to comply with the ordinance prohibiting rubbish in streets. He notes recent rains carried grass into sewers and clogged drains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Lowrie
Pocatello
Lowrie
Secretary of State Republican Ticket Leader Profiles
A summary states a candidate for Secretary of State on the Republican ticket, described as a former State Superintendent of Public Instruction with education and training for public office. It notes four years on the State Boards, past department president of the American Legion Auxiliary, and two sons in military service.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction
American Legion Auxiliary
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Stockholm
BBC
Blue
Puerto Rico
D. Worth Clark
Bannock Hotel
Electa Kensington
Masonic Temple
Ivy Rebecca Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
The
Odd Fellows
Nellie Cline Steenson
KSEI
Elks Lodge
Elks Temple
Flyers
Eagles
Jack Halliwell
Donald Whitehead
Women of the Moose
Moose Hall
Women’s Society of Christian Service
E. H. Allen
North Garfield
A. J. Gillespie
R. J. Schumacher
Beverly Ashton
Nema Ashton
South Eighth
University of Utah
H. H. Proctor
West Wyeth
General Hospital
St. Anthony
George Marmelstein
South Third
USO
Dorothy R. Callison
Waves
W. D. Crompton
Lakehurst
N. J
Methodist Wscs
L. E. Glennon
Sam Otto
Orville Grange
Fifth Army
Kesselring
Myrtle R. Davis-Wicks
Secretary of State
Republican
Jesse M. Chase
East Center
Courthouse
South Arthur
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