Invasion at Cherbourg Marks Major Allied Assault
Allied forces launched a combined land and air attack on Cherbourg, with 80 minutes of heavy bombing by British and American planes. General Bradley's troops moved to seize Fort du Roule and Fort Octeville, isolating the German garrison as Le Havre and Cherbourg ports are described in detail.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Normandy
Cherbourg
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Omar N. Bradley
Fort du Roule
Fort Octeville
Threadadureels
Bradley
Pierre Eglise
Cape Barfleur
le Havre
Havre
Harbor de Grace
Place de L'Hotel de Ville
Spain Posing New Threat Warns Of World War Risk
Gov. C. A. Bottolfsen told Idaho United Spanish War Veterans that Spain looms as a potential force likely to cause a third world war unless the US builds permanent peace after the current catastrophe. He warned against abandoning democracy for collectivist experiments and spoke at the convention's closing session.
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Boise
C. A. Bottelfgen
Idaho
United
Lemhi Man Advances at Eighth AAF Bomber Station
Promotions at an Eighth Air Force Flying Fortress base in England announce Prank E. Nutt of Salmon Idaho to staff sergeant from sergeant. Nutt, 19, serves as tail gunner on a Fort Fortress. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Nutt of Salmon. He entered the AAF February 9 after farming.
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England
E. Nutt
Salmon
Idaho
Flying Fortress
Fortress
Sgt. Nutt
Clarence Nutt
AAF
Bill Reaches President After Senate War Production Pact
Congress sent to the White House a wartime contract termination bill after the House unanimously accepted a Senate approved compromise aimed at speeding civilian production resume.
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Washington
White House
House
Allied Drive On Ancona Port In Italy Advance Near Adriatic
Allied and Italian forces approach Ancona within 32 miles as eighth army nears Camerino and Nocera Umbra. Western Americans advance 15 airline miles northwest of Grosseto amid improved weather and restricted cross country movement. Casualty estimates put German losses at 80,000 to 100,000 with 27,000 prisoners taken. Mediterranean air forces report 1,100 plane sorties with no losses.
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Rome
Ancona
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Camerino
Perguia
Grosseto
Venice
Fermo
Rimini
Nocero Umbra
Perugia
Lake Trasimeno
Sid Feder
Italy
Mediterranean Air Force
Livorno
Ventimiglia
Riviera
Campaign expense reports filed for Idaho statewide bids
Boise reports list campaign expenditures from multiple candidates including Bert H. Miller Idaho Falls supreme court at 756.81 A H Chatburn state superintendent 35 Hoyt Ray Idaho Falls supreme court 125 Tom Feeney Lewiston attorney general 336.75 Arthur Campbell state mine inspector 55.54 N P Nielson Pocatello state auditor 108.32 W L Hendrix Boise secretary of state 626.55 Lester Albert Boise secretary of state 441.52
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Boise
Bert H. Miller
Idaho Falls
Supreme Court
A. H. Chatburn
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Hoyt Ray
Tom Feeney
Lewiston
Arthur Campbell
N. P. Nielson
Pocatello
W. L Hendrix
Lester Albert
Worms Buy Bonds by NineYearOld in Rome
Nine year old Thomas Sullivan bought war bonds totaling 75 dollars using money earned digging worms in Rome New York. The purchase highlights wartime savings and youth civic participation.
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Rome
N. Y
Thomas Sullivan
Idaho Falls Auxiliary Elects New VFW President
Mrs. Clare Wahl of Boise is named president of the Idaho Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary at the annual convention in Idaho Falls. New officers include Susan Kulhaneck Spokane as senior vice president Edna Meneely Moscow as junior vice president Frances E. Hamilton Coeur d Alene as secretary treasurer Agnes Orr Coeur d Alene as chaplain Olive Mattmiller Wallace as conductress and Grace Sears Twin Falls as guard.
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Idaho Falls
Clare Wahl
Boise
Idaho Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Alta Burdick
Twit’ Fats
Susan Kulhaneck
Spokane
Edna Meneely
Moscow
Frances E. Hamilton
Coeur d'Alene
Agnes Orr
Olive Mattmiller
Wallace
Grace Sears
Twin Falls
Bricker Stays In Race for GOP Nomination
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker declared at a Chicago press conference that he will not withdraw his name from consideration for the Republican presidential nomination. He dismissed the chance of a vice presidential offer and said he intends to keep his name before the convention as delegates remain undecided ahead of the Cleveland meeting.
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Chicago
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Bricker
Ohioan
Thomas OKs Waterway Plan for Great Lakes Seaway
Washington Senator Thomas among 12 Republican senators who signed a petition urging the party platform at Chicago to endorse completing the Great Lakes St. Lawrence seaway. The petition says the project is 90 percent done from the Midwest to the Atlantic and pending legislation remains.
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Washington
Thomas
Idaho
Committee On
Chicago
Republican Platform & Plank
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway
Midwest
Atlantic
Judges Holden Miller Win Idaho Supreme Court Seats
Unofficial results from the June 13 primary show Ed Holden and Bert Miller likely elected to the Idaho Supreme Court, avoiding the November general election. Miller 30,104 votes, Holden 29,206. total 116,019, threshold over a quarter. County canvasses still pending with possible delay.
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Boise
Edwin M. Holden
Bert H. Miller
Supreme Court
Miller
Holden
Idaho
S. Ben Dunlap
Caldwell
Charles F. Koelsch
Hoyt Ray
Idaho Falls
Glen H. Taylor
Pocatello
D. Worth Clark
U.S
Taylor
Clark
George H. Curtis
Northern Precinct Misses Primary
Lakeview precinct at Lake Pend Oreille did not vote in Idaho's June 13 primary. Officials said they were used to August primaries and set election supplies aside, thinking the auditor would act. Only twelve votes were cast in the last general election.
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Sandpoint
Valley County
Lakeview
Lake Pend Oreille
Idaho
Bonner County
Roosevelt Planning Talk Soon on Fourth Term Plans
Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall said President Roosevelt will likely make a public statement after the Republican convention confirming his stance on a fourth term. Arnall, leaving the White House, called the move a peace gesture to southern Democrats and asserted Roosevelt will be the fourth term nominee.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
White House
Congress
Arnall
Mr. Roosevelt
Service Men Offer to Pay Striking Aircraft Workers
A Navy letter from the U S S Coos Bay urged Wright Aircraft workers to end their June strike at the Lockland Ohio plant and accept a $412 cash offer to help fund a wage increase. UAW CIO president R J Thomas blamed armed service propaganda and said the strike had no wage issue and was an anti Negro affair.
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New York
Associated Press
U.S
S. Coos Bay
Fleet Post Office
San Francisco
Wright Aircraft Corporation
Lockland
Ohio
Wright Aeronautical Corporaton
Coos Bay
R. J. Thomas
United Automoble Workers, Cio
Washington
Armed Services
Wright
Yankees Fly Over Berlin Into Ukraine
Allied air actions report a large daylight raid on Berlin by more than 1,000 U S bombers and 1,200 escorts, followed by sustained attacks on Pas de Calais bases. The raid marks the twelfth Berlin assault this year with numerous losses on both sides and significant damage to German factories and rail yards.
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Supeme
Allied Expeditionary Force
Pas-de-Calais
France
Germany
Ruhr
Berlin
Cross Channel
Russia
Poltava
Ukraine
London
Syria
Italy
U. S
Teich
Soviet Union
Britain
Basdorf
Allied Forces Destroy 78 German Tanks Coast Battle
A dispatch from General Eisenhower reports Allied forces have demolished 78 German tanks in the beachhead fighting, including 27 Tigers and 18 Panthers, with many more knocked out of action.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Roosevelt Signs Two Year Sugar Act Extension
President Roosevelt signed a bill extending the sugar act of 1937 for two more years. The measure preserves a quota system governing sugar production and import limits.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Storm Wipes Out Union Seed Crop
An early hailstorm lasting about ten minutes damaged crops around Twin Falls with some farmers reporting heavy losses. John Peters said an eight acre onion seed stand was ruined costing about 25,000 dollars, while Globe Seed and Feed noted a producer losing 16,000 dollars. Overall damage in the area was moderate to light.
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Twin Falls
Filer
Here
John Peters
Globe Seed & Feed Company
Finns Face Crisis as Reds Advance on Finnish Front
London reports Soviet forces launch two new drives on a broad front north of Lake Ladoga aimed at ending the war with Finland. Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus south of Ladoga is within 20 miles of the border as Helsinki’s government crisis deepens amid intensified Soviet pressure.
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London
Red Army
Lake Latga
Efort
Finland
Moscow
Viipuri
Karelian
Lake
Ladoga
Hitler Headquarters Shifts in France After Normandy Landings
AP reports underground lines place Hitler near Le Mans then Troyes and Berchtesgaden as Allied forces land in Normandy. Dax guillotine set up by German and Vichy forces targets French patriots in southwestern France. Aftonbladet says Russia offers to pause war with Finland if borders from 1940 hold and Red Army gains temporary access through Finland.
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London
Germany
Adolf Hitler
le Mans
Normandy
Troyes
Paris
Berchtesgaden
Iran
Spain
Dax
France
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Finland
Red Army
Aland Islands
Thunderbolts hit German troop trains near Barneville
A squadron of P-47 Thunderbolts attacked two German troop trains shortly after a patrol observed enemy reinforcements. The trains, each about 55 cars, were hit with 500 pound bombs and enveloped in smoke as pilots reported the strike. Meanwhile in India, Japanese forces on the Kohima Imphal road are expected to fall within days.
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Wu.s. Ninth Air Force
France
Barneville
Lis
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Kohima-Imphal
Maniper State
India
Enemy Fleet Fleeing After U S Carrier Victory Off Philippines
U S fifth fleet planes crushed a Japanese naval force trapped off the Philippines sinking four ships and damaging at least 10 while Japanese air fighters were shot down in the Saipan battle. American losses stood at 49 planes. the Japanese fleet retreated under cover of night. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance commanded the action.
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U. 8
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States
Fifth Fleet
Philippines
Japan
Saipan Island
Marianas
Suck
Raymond A
Saipan
US Casualties Rise as War Deaths Near Quarter Million
Secretary Stimson reports total American army casualties through June 6 reach 178,677 with 31,289 dead, 71,432 wounded, 39,976 missing and 35,980 prisoners. Navy totals hit 46,705 with 20,044 killed, 12,905 wounded, 9,295 missing and 4,461 prisoners. Italian theater army losses total 64,992 since September landings, including 11,610 dead and 44,426 wounded, plus 8,956 missing. Air forces in Italy and Europe report 9,052 casualties, 1,186 killed, 1,373 wounded, 6,493 missing.
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Washington
Stimson
Navy
Italy
Europe
Utah man acquitted in May stabbing at Helper tavern
A jury acquitted 35 year old Genero Al Cala of second degree murder for the May 1 stabbing of Victor Valdez in a Helper tavern. The trial opened Tuesday and became one of Utah's shortest murder trials.
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Price
Utah
Navy Bomber Wreckage Found Near Lawn Point Vancouver
The wreckage of a navy bomber missing since December 26 with six crew aboard on a flight from Whidby Island air station has been located near Lawn Point Vancouver Island BC. The 13th naval district announced the discovery today.
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Seattle
Whidby Island Air Station
Lawn Point
Vassouverland
13Th Naval District
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