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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1944
Page
10
Favorable May weather boosts winter wheat prospects to 714,148,000 bushels and total wheat to 1,084,785,000. Spring wheat forecast 320,637,000. peaches at 67,427,000. Idaho and Utah provide June condition figures for winter wheat, oats, and barley.
Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney announces T/Sgt. Steven M. Baker of Rigby Route 1 receives the Air Medal for meritorious achievement in the southwest Pacific theater.
Prime Minister Churchill and General Eisenhower led a high level tour of Normandy front lines. Their inspection group included Marshall, King, Arnold, Bradley, Kirk, and Hall with Smuts and Brooke aboard the destroyer Kelvin. Churchill and Smuts joined the voyage by sea to observe German positions ashore.
Robert Fingerlos 26 of 221 Taft avenue suffered a leg fracture and cuts after a car driven by Ted Jenkins 1036 South Main struck the bicycle Fingerlos rode at East Oak and North Eleventh. Fingerlos, an employee of M and M Cyclery, was taken to St Anthony hospital by Jenkins before police arrival. The bicycle was moved before police report preventing at scene measurements.
Ex governor Moore of Idaho, once in critical condition, is reported in fair condition today at Holy Cross hospital in Salt Lake City. He arrived from his home in St Anthony for medical treatment after several weeks of care.
Victor Mouritsen of Montpelier rejoined railroading after a merchant stint due to manpower shortages. He reports to Pocatello to work with Yard Engineer James Kinnersley, who started as engineer and fireman at Kemmerer before transferring to Pocatello in 1904 and serving as yard engineer since November 11.
Officials in Elko Nevada investigated a Southern Pacific rail accident that killed Ogden leader John Jack Stewart division engineer and J M Reddy roadmaster of Montello. Ed Waltermeyer of the Western Flyer said rain and wind hampered visibility as train No 39 struck their motor car. The impact threw the car apart and killed both men.
Keynoter and Idaho Democratic convention speaker William S. Hawkins disclosed he has been commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade in the naval reserve. He remains a candidate for renomination as prosecutor in next Tuesday's election in Coeur d Alene.
The Pocatello Chamber of Commerce will hold a noon forum luncheon in Bannock Hotel Pioneer room. F D Hilliard chairs the military affairs program. An official war action film Baptism of Fire will be shown. Five air force recruiters led by Lieutenant Rita Cohan will attend.
King Peter II of Yugoslavia recalled Constantin Fotich as ambassador to Washington a post he has held since 1935. Fotich, a former soldier aged 53, is linked to Gen. Draja Mihailovic who is accused by Tito’s partisans of collaboration with Germany. Ambassador Fetich in Washington said he had no comment and would issue a statement tomorrow.
In Moscow Premier Stalin paid tribute to the western front and called the undertaking broad in conception and grandiose in scale. The Red Army marshal added that history will note the achievement as Stalin spoke to foreign correspondents at the Soviet press department.
A Tass dispatch from Zurich quotes neutral arrivals saying books, pamphlets, and pictures of the Atlantic wall have vanished from German bookshops and newsstands since the Allied invasion of Normandy. They were reportedly withdrawn from circulation on orders of the propaganda ministry.
Pocatello army airfield has challenged Mountain Home Gowen and Wendover fields to a civilian drive to sell the most bonds by August 4. Capt. Ben Rogers says the per capita contest is part of the fifth war loan drive with progress updates on June 19 and each Monday thereafter.
Birthday on D-Day marked the 19th birthday of Robert Ray, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Kimber, 235 North.
Tenth, now serving in the South Pacific, is identified as Robert a machinist's mate 2/c with one year in service. He joined the navy after graduating from Pocatello high school. Mrs. Kimber presented a birth to cake in his honor to the USO ut.
Rebecca B. Jardine 88, pioneer of Malad valley, died in Martinez California. Funeral services held at Malad LDS stake tabernacle. She was born October 4 1855 at Willard Utah and married William Jardine in 1871 who died in 1912. Survivors include three children.
The document names William M. Jardine of Wichita Kansas a university president and former secretary of agriculture, plus government and civic figures James T. Jardine of Washington, D. C. Dudley Jardine of Grant Idaho, Mary Stuart of Butte Montana, and Alice Turner of Martinez California, among others.
A Molotov Bread Basket refers to a bomb that fragments into smaller bombs before impact, a term used in military ordnance discourse to describe a dispersal weapons effect and its danger to target areas.
Marshal Tito's free Yugoslav radio announced Maj. Randolph Churchill son of the British prime minister has gone to Rome. He previously served as a British liaison officer with the Yugoslav partisans.
Mr and Mrs Byron Hall and Family express heartfelt thanks to those who assisted and offered sympathy after the death of their beloved son and brother.
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