Soviet Shelling of Viipuri Port Intensifies
Soviet forces pound the Finnish port of Viipuri as nine miles away ground offensives press the city. Izvestia and Red Star report collapsing coastal defenses, Soviet ships sinking Finnish transports, and Baltic fleet heavy ships moving toward the Gulf of Finland. Rumors of a Finnish cabinet reshuffle surface in Stockholm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Red Army
Viipuri
Izvestia
Ivan Ossipov
Nikolai Shvankov
Red Star
Gulf of
Red
Red Fleet
Gulf of Viipuri
Gulf of Finland
Viipuri Gulf
Stockholm
Svenska Dagbladet
Edwin Linomies
Vaino Tanner
Finland
Taylor Leads Clark Narrowly in Idaho Democratic Senate Nomination
Former cowboy singer Glen Taylor leads incumbent D Worth Clark by 196 votes in the Idaho Democratic senatorial primary with 815 of 845 precincts reporting. Hawley and Cornell follow, while unreported counties include Bonner Bannock Bear Lake Boundary Cassia and Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Glen Taylor
Pocatello
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Taylor
Clark
James H. Hawley
John Cornell
Owyhee County
Bert H. Miller
Supreme Court
Miller
Edwin M. Holden
Ben Dunlap
Caldwell
Holden
Dunlap
Charles Koelsch
Hoyt Ray
Senate
Bonner
Bannock
Bear Lake
Boundary
Cassia
Hitler Faces Resource Strain Amid War Time Pressures
The piece notes Germany’s mounting shortages in fuel and transport as war costs mount. It cites horse drawn transport in France and questions whether German ability to sustain the war is waning, while Churchill projects early victory and observers debate American eagerness to back a winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Churchill
Western Front
France
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Pocatello Woman Asks Court to Quash Family Suit
Mrs Margaret L Spaeth Hagenbuch of Pocatello Idaho asks circuit court to dismiss a suit by relatives of Maj Gen E Hagenbuch Ottawa army flyer to have her marriage invalidated. The suit alleges a prior marriage to Jack Q Robertson and that her marriage to Hagenbuch was bigamous.
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Ottawa
Margaret L. Spaeth Hagenbuch
Pocatello
Idaho
Circuit Court
E. Hagenbuch
Ottawa Army Flyer
Hagenbuch
Charlies G. Hagenbuch
Charles, Jr
Melvin A
Jack Q. Robertson
Idaho City
Robertson
Mas. Hagenbuch
Battle Creek
Mich
Seventeenth annual encampment of United Spanish War Veterans opens
Louis Schnell of Hope Idaho state department commander sounds the gavel to open the seventeenth annual encampment in Boise veterans come from Lewiston Wallace Coeur d Alene Sandpoint Pocatello Twin Falls Idaho Falls Payette and Nampa. Memorial services are planned this evening with Governor Bottolfsen addressing a dinner tomorrow night and Oregon department commander Rasmus Smith scheduled to speak.
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Boise
United Spanish War Veterans
Louis Schnell
Hope
Idaho
State Department
J.C. Armstrong
Vets Discuss Aid Plans at Idaho Falls VFW Encampment
Idaho Falls hosts the third day of the Idaho Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment mixing forums with business. Nelson Bushey of Los Angeles urged expansion of rehabilitation efforts and pressed for full time department service officers to aid veterans widows and orphans in disability claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho Falls
Idaho
National
VFW
Department
Pardon Board Weighs Fleming Embezzlement Case
The Idaho pardon board considered James J. Fleming for pardon. A former penitentiary clerk, he is serving one to 10 years for embezzlement from funds raised on the penitentiary farm. Fleming testified with Mrs. Fleming April 10. case continued. He entered prison last December 7 as a former Blackfoot minister. The board’s summer session opens July 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boige
Idaho Pardon Board
James J. Fleming
Record Force Drops Bombs On Axis Spots
More than 1,500 American heavy bombers attacked Pas-de-Calais rocket launch sites and central Germany targets including oil refineries, a tank depot, and aircraft plants. The operation involved 2,000 planes with strong fighter escort, hitting Hannover to Brunswick areas as German forces claimed heavy air battles. Some bombers forced to land in Malmo amid cloud cover over Pas-de-Calais.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Pas-de-Calais
Germany
Emmerich
Hannover
Hamburg
Madgeburg
Politz
Brunswick
Stockholm
Malmo
Pas-de- Calais
Baltic
Stettin
Europe
Wallace Goes To China CHUNGKING
Vice President Wallace arrived in Chungking from Liberia and was welcomed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. He urged closer China Siberia relations and cited Hu Shih on a boundary like the US Canada frontier. Wallace planned to visit farmers soldiers and discuss mutual interest with Chiang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chiang Kai-Shek
Wallace
China
Siberia
Hu Shih
United States
Canada
Refugees in German Camp Suffer Malnutrition in Rome Area
Allied control commission officers visiting a German camp for Italian refugees from Anzio and Cassino areas reported 6740 residents nearly all malnourished and scabies. Over 500, mainly children, had other ailments. The camp lacked latrines cooking facilities and adequate water, leaving refugees in filth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Allied Control Commission
Anzio-Cassino
Allied Forces Drive North in Italy Reach Perugia and Elba
Allied units push into Perugia after taking Elba as French colonial troops seized Porto Longone. Eighth army advances across the Italian front despite rain, capturing 27,000 prisoners since the Rome offensive began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Perugia
Florence
Elba
Porto Longone
Fifth Army
Grosetto
Orbetelio
Davis on Leave Take Job as Range Examiner
Dr. Ray J. Davis of 456 South Eighth begins a summer leave from Idaho Southern University to work as a range examiner in the Minidoka and Tangee forest areas. His sons Jay and Hal will assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray J. Davis
South Eighth
Idaho Southern University
Minidoka
Tangee Forest
Jay
Hal
Yankees Demand Surrender of Cherbourg Nazi Units
German troops cut off at Cherbourg by the American advance were warned they face certain surrender. A British officer told about 20,000 trapped soldiers that any evacuation would be fatal and that Rommel cannot relieve them. The wedge to the sea grows tighter as Allied planes and naval guns target the pocket.
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Cherbourg
New York
Juergen von Arnim
Cape Bon
Tunisia
Normandy
Rommel
St. Lo-Caen
Congress Retains Guayule Project For Next Year
The house voted 299 to 43 to drop the demand for abandoning rubber production from the guayule shrub in the west and agreed with the senate to fund the project for another year. The move guarantees about $3,020,984 for cultivating 32,000 acres of guayule in the coming fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Guayule
J W Scott Injured on Biak Island
Mrs John Johannsen of 435 South Fourth received word from the war department that her son Pvt James W Scott 24 was seriously injured May 27 on Biak Island northeast of New Guinea Scott a McCammon high school graduate has been overseas since April 18 1942 and has served in Australia and New Guinea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Johannsen
South Fourth
War Department
Pvt
James W. Scott
Biak Island
New Guinea
Scott
McCammon High School
Australia
Noted Flyer O Brine Dies In A 26 Crash At Paso Airport
Capt. Frest O Brine aged 48 died when his two engined A 26 crashed in flames at Paso municipal airport during a delivery flight. He had helped set a world endurance record in August 1930 with Dale Jackson. One engine failed on takeoff from Paso.
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EL Paso
Texas
Forrest FE. O’brine
Dale Jackson
Paso
O’brine
Army
Allen Captured Says Dont Be Silly To Nazis For War Secrets
Associated Press war correspondent Larry Allen, recently repatriated from a German prison camp, recounts 20 months in concentration camps and the mission to report truth from captivity. He describes Tobruk capture, escape prompts, hunger, and his interview request with Rommel.
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Allen
Larry Allen
Associated Press
Tobruk
Mediterranean
Italy
Germany
Marshal Rommel
Sea and Air Battle Rages Over Saipan Islands
The Associated Press reports a major air battle over Saipan with Japan claiming heavy losses to U S forces and a large carrier group off the Marianas. Nimitz’s forces deny confirming losses while ground troops seize Aslito airstrip and surrounding areas.
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Islands
Saipan
Japan
Tokyo
Imperial
U.S
Marianas Islands
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Nimitz
Aslito
Taft Supports Bricker in Republican Rivalry
A Dewey lead in polls is reported by J Russel Sprague of New York as backing Bricker. Taft argues Bricker’s true convention strength is not yet shown and warns polls and delegations are unreliable. Sprague says Bricker should be drafted and nominated, Dewey could win in November.
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Thomas E. Dewey
New Yorker
Taft
Ohio
John W. Bricker
J. Russel Sprague
Bricker
Washington
Sprague
New York Party Organization
Dewey
Allied forces advance toward Cherbourg in heavy fighting
Allied troops press a major offensive around Cherbourg with the Ninth Division capturing St Martin Le Grand four miles from Cherbourg and Valognes ten miles southeast. US forces drive south toward Cherbourg, seize Montebourg, and push toward Quineville as Germans pull back to inner defenses.
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New York
Ninth Division
St. Martin le Grand
Cherbourg
London
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Valognes
Great Harbor
U. S
trans-Atlantic
Montebourg
Associated Press
Roger Greene
Valogne
Bricquebec
Quineville
Navy reports submarine Grayback likely lost in Pacific
The 1 457 ton Grayback with 65 personnel, commanded by Comdr John Anderson Moore, is overdue and presumed lost after operations against Japan in the far Pacific. The loss raises submarines missing since Dec 7 1941 to 24, while subs have sunk or damaged 758 enemy ships, including 607 confirmed at the bottom. Admiral Ernest King credits submarine actions with potentially shaping the Pacific war.
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Washington
Soas
Far Pacific
Navy
John Anderson Moore
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific
Adm
Ernest King
U.S
Laird Receives Yale Fellowship After Idaho Southern Ties
Charlton G. Laird a former English and journalism instructor at Idaho Southern University has been awarded a Yale University fellowship. He has been a professor of English at the University of Nevada Reno and now holds a year’s leave to study at Yale. He is currently in Cleveland Ohio directing the editing of an English dictionary he compiled.
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Charlton G. Laird
Idaho Southern University
Yale University
Pocatello
Laird
University of Nevada
Reno
Yale
Cleveland
Ohio
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Biak
Dutch New Guinea
J. M. Roberts, Jr
DeWitt MacKenzie
Chungking
Liberia
Axis
Elba Island
Davis
J. W. Scott
Bari
Red Cross
Berlin
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