Berlin Spurs French In Syrian Fight
In Syria the complex alliance war pits former allies against each other as French troops defend their soil against a British advance while German restraint governs the Occupation. A new report suggests Paris fights under German terms, with Vichy stubbornly resisting as Italian power wanes and Corsica Tunisia Savoy become distant memories.
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Syria
Salum
Cambrai
Arras
France
Vichy
Italy
Germany
Corsica
Tunisia
Savoy
Births Rising in Idaho and Utah War Time Boom
Utah reports 4 228 births in first four months of 1941 equal to 24 per thousand population. Idaho records 3 858 births or 23 per thousand, up from 21.8 last year. Nationally about 20 000 more babies born in Jan–Apr 1941 than 1940. Dr Halbert Dunn links rise to war and selective service act.
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Washington
Utah
Idaho
Census Bureau
Bureau
Halbert Dunn
Beery On Vacation In Idaho Falls En Route To Jackson
Wallace Beery, screen star, stopped in Idaho Falls on his way to Jackson Wyoming to rest for a while. He landed his own plane at the municipal airport with friend Elmer Jefferies of Glendale. Beery planned a shopping trip for an electric refrigerator and said he might stay several weeks at his hunting lodge in Jackson.
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Idaho Falls
Wallace Beery
Jackson
Wyo
Beery
Elmer Jefferies
Glendale
Calif
Sons of the American Legion Meeting Tonight at Memorial
The Sons of the American Legion will meet Friday at 8 p m in the Memorial building. Rifle practice is planned and all members and those eligible for membership are urged to attend.
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Sons of the American Legion
Priday
Memorial Building
Bannock County Men Ordered to Duty in June Induction
Bannock county men listed for selective service induction will leave Pocatello early June 25 for Salt Lake City. Leith W. Trenchard Oscar Alwyn Kohler Merel P. Isham Gail Johnson Boyatt John Davis Joseph J. Honas Earl Smithies Byington Gail Burton Lowe Luther Nelson Robinson Ellis Miles Clyde Thomason Vernon Leonard Anderson Terry Richard Marcham are named along with others from Pocatello and nearby towns. The group will be inducted and assigned to military organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bannock County
Pocatello
Salt Lake City
Leith W. Trenchard
Oscar Alwyn Kohler
Merel P. Isham
Gail Johnson Boyatt
John Davis
Joseph J. Honas
Earl Smithies Byington
Lava Hot Springs
Gail Burton Lowe
Grace
Luther Nelson Robinson
Pocatello R. No
Vets to Elect New Staff at Idaho State Encampment
Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary in Boise prepare to elect officers at the state encampment. Cecilia McFall is assured as auxiliary president, succeeding Helen R. Renwick. a new commander will be chosen to replace E. L. Gilbert. Several auxiliary posts are nominated. only senior vice president has a contest. A dinner and address by J A Sullivan of Phoenix will close the event.
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Boise
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Cecilia McFall
Helen R. Renwick
Wallace
Claire Wahl
Harriet Roueche
Lewiston
Naomi Powers
Coeur d'Alene
Frances Hamilton
Coeur d’Alene
Maude Quidici
Marie Roff
Parma
Guard
Elda B. Inithurn
Clark Calls for Broad Defense of Freedom and Democracy
Boise June 18 Governor Clark told Veterans of Foreign Wars in convention that Idaho and the nation must prepare in every way to protect freedom and democracy. He praised ex servicemen for past and present defense efforts and urged readiness for civilian defense and preservation of principles.
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Boise
Idaho
Clark
Bingham Eyes Starch Plant in Blackfoot
Blackfoot civic leaders move to finance immediate construction of a potato starch factory. Plans were presented at a chamber of commerce meeting by C. J. Strike of Idaho Power and Ralph Gale. The plant would be built in a Blackfoot Potato Growers association building and leased for operation. Estimated output 2,100 tons annually using 18,000 tons of call potatoes. Local committees were appointed to handle finances.
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Blackfoot
Blackfoot Civic Leagers
Chamber of Commerce
C. J. Strike
Idaho Power Company
Ralph Gale
Blackfoot Potato Growers Association
West Pocatello residents urged to cut June grass
West Pocatello residents are urged to cut June grass flourishing in the area to reduce a definite fire hazard, according to A. A. Girard fire chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Pocatello
A. A. Girard
Idaho Weather Updates With Cloudy Skies
Partly cloudy tonight with showers expected on Thursday and little change in temperature across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Doctors Open Convention in San Valles Idaho
The 48th annual Idaho State Medical association convention opens in San Valles with golf fishing and bowling contests and instruction sessions. Dr A M Newton of Pocatello presides and Dr William Dock and Dr Morris Taintor are slated as keynote speakers at the banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho State Medical Association
San Valles
A. M. Newton
Pocatello
Stanford University Medical School
William Dock
Morris Taintor
C. W. Pond
Nelson Howard
San Francisco
Pocatellan
B. C. Eisenberg
Dan McDougall
W. L. Olson
D. C. Ray
E. N. Roberts
W. W. Brothers
O. F. Call
Q P M to Buy Much Wool
Salt Lake City June 18 James A Hooper executive secretary of the Utah Wool Growers association said the OPM’s bid call for about 19 million yards of woolen material and 15 million woolen blankets will require roughly 76 211 360 pounds of wool one fifth of the 1941 shorn crop Utah growers expect about 20 million pounds Representatives are in Washington urging a higher price for wool Awards likely around June 26 and government consideration of growers proposals could lift near term demand
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Salt Lake City
James A. Hooper
Utah Wool Growers’ Association
Intermountain
Office of Production Management
OPM
Hooper
Utah
Washington
Burns Kill Worker at Tooele Plant Accident
Richard K. Adamson 62 of Tooele died from burns today after a crane bucket toppled spilling talings and severed a steam line at the International Smelting & Refining plant in Tooele. He was a locomotive crane operator and left a widow and one daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Richard K. Adamson
Tooele
International Smelting & Refining Company
Adamson
Idahoan Couples Secure Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses issued to Wendell Welker Draney of Tyhee Idaho and Joyce Bonita Crapa of Fairview Wyoming John L Dalling of Sugar City Idaho and Mildred Jane Jenkins of Salt Lake City Salt Lake City June 18 7) Idaho license data shows three couples proceeding to marriage in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Wendell Welker Draney
Tyhee
Idaho
Joyce Bonita Crapa
Fairview
Wyo
John L. Dalling
Sugar City
Mildred Jane Jenkins
May Liquor Commission Sales Rise in Utah
Utah liquor commission reports May profits of 103689.03 dollars versus 69115.82 in May 1940. Gross sales total 413575.51 dollars, up 75574.82 from May 1940, reflecting higher overall sales in the month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
State Liquor Commission
Indian Has Quads Near Roxboro
Quadruplet girls born yesterday afternoon to an Indian couple near Roxboro North Carolina were all living this afternoon confirming a rare multiple birth reported from the high plains community about 15 miles north of here.
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Roxboro
N. C
High Plains
Here
West Wind Brings Warmer Weather Across Regions
West wind cools Pocatello with a 72 high and 49 low and a chance of light rain late today into Thursday. The AP notes El Centro California hit 109 degrees yesterday, with west winds around 20 mph signaling when to shed coats for straw hats.
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Pocatello
el Centro
California
Mercury
Kiwanis Plans Youth Aid Programs At Convention
Kiwanis clubs in Utah and Idaho will lead health focused youth programs including clinics hospitalization and preventories with church and school support for food clothing supplies and orthopedic aids. Utah Idaho district committee members named with Jacob Coleman reporting and 1900 communities nationwide to run recreational programs camps forums bands and athletic activities this summer.
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Atlanta
Utah
Idaho
Kiwanis
Kiwanis International
Jacob Coleman
Zed L. Foy
Boise
W. J. Lioyd
Nampa
L. C. Northram
Weiser
James C. Palumbo
Payette
E. H. Petry
Caldwell
Mark A. Smith
Baseball scores from today National and American leagues
National League games include Brooklyn at Chicago with a 58 to 8 score in Chicago and Philadelphia at St Louis 14 to 2. Night games feature New York vs Pittsburgh and Boston vs Cincinnati. American League results show Detroit at Boston 5 to 3, Chicago at New York 5 to 2, Cleveland at Philadelphia 14 to 2, with a St Louis versus Washington night game.
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New York
Pittsburgh
Boston
Cincinnati
R. H. E. Detroit
Rowe
Tebbetts
Harris
Ryba
Pytlak
St. Louis
Washington
Girls Lead Boys as Three Girls and a Boy Born in Pocatello
This morning three girls and one boy were born in Pocatello area hospitals. A Snyder couple from Pocatello R F D No 1 welcomed a son at General hospital at 1 05 am. Horace Price and wife welcomed a daughter at 603 North Grant at 3 18 am. John Watson and wife welcomed a daughter at St Anthony Mercy hospital at 7 11 am. Otto Girard and wife welcomed a daughter in Inkom at 3 am.
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Pocatello Hospitals
Robert Snyder
Pocatello R. F. D
General Hospital
Horace Price
North Grant
St. Anthony Mercy Hospital
John Watson
East Center
Otto Girard
Inkom
Sub Sinking Photo Proof From Cape Town
Sumner Welles said survivors of the Robin Moor reached Capetown South Africa and provided photographs corroborating testimony that the American steamer was sunk by a German submarine. The photos were delivered to the U S consul at Capetown.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Capetown
South Africa
Welles
United States
Helsinki Crowds Report Urgent Finnish Censor Gap
A Swiss telegraph report notes two interrupted Finnish calls hindered details on Soviet evacuation from Hanko base under a 30 year lease. Dispatches describe crowds in Helsinki in uniform and lottas aiding army as censor limits blocked much of the telecommunication.
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Bern
Switzerland
Hanko
Finland
Helsinki
Lottas
Soviet Union
Leningrad
Gooding Man Car Victim Recounted
Shoshone Idaho June 184 Lee Stiffler 33 of Gooding is dead after a 1929 roadster crash at a dead end street Lincoln county jail holds Paul Colan 33 and Roland Ochner 16 for questioning Colan cited as driver Stiffler survived by widow and his parents Emery A Meringer and wife in Gooding
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Shoshone
Lee Stiffler
Gooding
Lincoln County
John Thomas
Stiffler
Paul Colan
Roland Ochner
Thomas
Colgan
Emery A. Meringer
Meringer
Princess Juliana and Bernhard Predict Nazi Defeat
Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard said Germans will be defeated and described occupied Dutch as very full of hate toward invaders. The couple spoke after a White House visit with Mrs. Roosevelt and planned to return to Canada where Juliana and her children have lived for ten months.
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Washington
Juliana
The
Netherlands
Prince Bernhard
White House
Roosevelt
Canada
Boise VFW elects R W Nelson as commander
Boise district voters chose R W Nelson as commander of Idaho Veterans of Foreign Wars succeeding E L Gilbert of Grangeville in a statewide briefing dated June 18. Navy air bases in Bermuda and Newfoundland slated for commissioning within two to four weeks per Secretary Knox. Cairo dispatch reports continued heavy fighting in the Egyptian border triangle near Halfaya and Hellfire pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
R. W. Nelson
Idaho Veterans of Foreign Wars
E. L. Gilbert
Grangeville
Washington
Knox
Naval Air
Bermuda Islands
Newfoundland
London
Reuters
Dispatch
Cairo
Halfaya Hellfire
Chase Reports NYA Meeting and Weiser Visit
Jesse M. Chase returned from Boise where he attended a state advisory committee meeting of the national youth administration. A visit was made to the NYA regional resident project at Weiser. The next state board meeting will be held in August in Pocatello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse M. Chase
Boise
National Youth Administration
NYA
Weiser
Pocatello
Chase
French Claim Victory Over British Troops in Palestine
New York dispatch reports a Berlin radio story claiming French forces defeated British troops on the Palestine frontier. The account notes 15 deaths in a Bucharest to Sofia air crash with no survivors, listing Albert Gorgas German consul in Sofia Werner Voss and M Mossinoff among the victims.
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Palestine
New York
Berlin
Bucharest
Sofia
Albert Gorgas
Werner Voss
M. Mossinoff
Dresden
Nazi Consuls Burn Files as Chicago Consulate Closes
At the German consulate in Chicago officials burned thousands of documents and official reports to the Berlin office as the United States ordered closure. Consul General Dr. E L Baer said the files were political records and occupied a room, with another roomful to be retained for storage under treaty law. Many pertain to about 5 000 German inheritance cases dating back to 1870 and World War I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Berlin
United States
E.L. Baer
Dr. Baer
Board Approves Closed Shop Tieup For Bethlehem Shipyards
The mediation board urged Bethlehem Steel shipbuilding to sign a closed shop with the Bay Area Metal Trades Council and to submit CIO and AFL issues at Marlin Rockwell Plainville Conn to arbitration. The plan mirrors the Pacific coast master agreement and aims to end a nationwide shipyard strike impacting 20,000 workers.
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Defense Mediation Board
Bethlehem Steel Company
Shipbuilding Division
Bay City
Metal Trades Council
A. F. of L
San Francisco Bay Area
Marlin - Rockwell Corporation
Plainville
Conn
Mediation Board
Harvey W. Brown
A. FP
International Machinists’ Union
A. F
L. Machinists
C. O. Dykstra
The
Bethlehem Company
Pacific Coast
Bethlehem
Official Coffey Dies. Idaho Tax Director
R. E. Coffey, about 58, Idaho Kilowatt tax bureau director and Boise resident for 30 years, died today in a Boise hospital. An accountant active in Democratic affairs, he was unmarried. The Elks Lodge will conduct services tomorrow and the body will be taken to Chicago for burial in the family plot.
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Boise
R. E. Coffey
Idaho
Coffey
Clark
The
Elks Lodge
Chicago
Driver dies after head on crash near Natal
Caldwell observer reports Z N. McCall 69 driver of a car killed in a head on collision near Natal Saturday night. He died in a local hospital today.
German Turkish friendship pact signalled amid Middle East war action
Allied and axis fronts push in the Middle East as reports say a German Turkish agreement may redefine borders while Britain fights in Egypt and Syria. Vichy appeals for French troops to switch sides as German US protest and Japanese trade demands unfold.
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Associated Press
Germany
Turkey
Salam
Egypt
Middle East
Palestine
Syria
Vichy
Jean Darlan
Merdjayoun
Russia
London
Great Britain
Engineer Dies In Cab On Santa Fe Train
A. J. Robiford, engineer of the second locomotive on the No. 7 westbound Santa Fe train, saw an arm hanging from a cab window and braked. Fireman James P. Peart stopped the fast mail. Prabk L. Harry, veteran engineer, apparently died of a heart attack. His widow Sr Winslow survives.
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Fplagstafp
Ariz
A. J. Robiford
Santa Fe Railroad
James P. Peart
Prabk L. Harry
Harry
Sr Winslow
Despondent Man Wounds Himself Near City Reservoirs
Ransom Kimpton, 53, a Union Pacific carman and Pocatello pioneer family member, stabbed himself in several places on the left chest while roaming near the west bench reservoirs. He told Deputy Ferguson he was despondent after his wife sued for divorce and financial worries. He was taken to General hospital in “just, fair” condition.
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Ransom Kimpton
Pocatello
General Hospital
Fair
Wallace A. Wilcox
West Bonneville
City
Harold Ferguson
Kimpton
Union Pacific
Meeting in Munich shapes stance on armistice request
One year ago today on June 18 1940 Hitler and Mussolini met in Munich to agree on a common line for France’s armistice request while Petain orders France to keep fighting. Twenty five years earlier on June 18 1916 Italians routed Austro Hungarians on the Sette Comuni plateau and German aviator Lieut Immelman was killed in an air battle.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Munich
Petain
Sette Communi Plateau
Lieut
Immelman
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