France Wins Occupation Rights Across Saar Baden Front
Paris reports that France gains rights to occupy the southern half of the Saar basin and nearly all of Baden, extending along about 200 miles of the Saar Palatinate and Rhine frontier. Allied zones split Germany with Moscow, London, and Washington detailing boundaries among Soviet, British, American, and French sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Rhine
Ministry of Information
Saar Basin
Baden
Saar Palatinate
Luxembourg
Switzerland
de Gaulle
Reich
Moscow
Gulf of Luebeck
Schleswig-Holstein
Mecklenberg
Thuringia
Bavaria
Weimar
Coblenz
Pronunciation notes and language quirks explained
A reader column corrects common mispronunciations such as auspices and recognize, explains recoup versus recover, and questions French menu terms. It includes a note on Mississippi voter literacy requirements and a pitch for a French menu pamphlet by Frank Colby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Blank Hospital
Dayton
Frank Colby
New 60 Foot Cast Iron Flag Pole Erected in Court House Yard
Paint man Thomas J Calligan worked Saturday on the new 60 foot cast iron flag pole placed in the southwest corner of the court house grounds. County commissioners ordered the replacement after problems with flag raising on the old pole atop the county building cupola. Sheriff Alma Marley said pole stability is in doubt and climbing to fix the issue is risky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Calligan
Board of County Commissioners
Court House
Alma Marley
Army to Examine 36 Men From Pocatello
Thirty six men will depart for Salt Lake City Tuesday to take induction exams at Fort Douglas. Nineteen are called by Pocatello city board No. 2, thirteen by Bannock county board No. 1, and four transfers. Names include Ralph Smith, William Moon, David Gumpert, and others from Pocatello, Bannock, Lava Hot Springs, Inkom, and surrounding areas. Transfers involve Felix Gonzalez Allen McNally Cecil Douglass. Joe Williams transferred to Bannock county from Las Vegas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Fort Douglas
Pocatello
Robin
Idaho
Joe
Grace
Donald Eugene Lockyer
Lava Hot Springs
Roy Morimoto
Leonard Taylor Perkins
Carl Sterline Palmer
Harry Lavemme Pierce
Lava Fot Springs
Fiorentino Murillo
Douglas Oleon Hall
Inkom
Felix Gonzalez
Allen C. McNally
Cecil R. Douglass
Joe Bruce Williams
Bannock County Board
Las Vegas
Nev
Pocatellan Serves In North Africa
Private First Class Lloyd A Norris son of Mr and Mrs Ruben Norris 816 South Third Pocatello Idaho is assigned as a military policeman at a North African air transport command base commanded by Colonel Rollen H Anthis This base is part of NAFD which ships troops and aircraft from Europe to the United States The division operates the Sky rocket fleet carrying passengers to India within 46 hours of New York Norris has served since 1942 was with the 15th air force before May this year overseas since March 1944 and earned campaign stars for Italy He attended Montpelier Idaho schools and worked for Morris and Knudsen Construction Co Boise Idaho
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ATC
Narrakech
F.M
Lloyd A. Norris
Ruben Norris
South Third
Pocatello
Idaho
Rollen H. Anthis
Air Transport Command
Nafd
United States
India
New York
Pfc
Nerris
15Th Air Force
Italy
Montpelier
Morris and Knudsen Construction Co
Boise
Four-legged chick feeds future in Breckenridge farm
In Breckenridge Minnesota Lloyd Opperud tends a six weeks old chicken with four legs weighing about a pound. The unusual bird is being nurtured and fed carefully as it grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breckenridge, Minn
Lloyd Opperud
Pocatello Sailor Serves Aboard U S S Pittsburgh
Ralph J. Lish of 157 Park Street serves as AM1/c aboard the U S S Pittsburgh, a 1500 crewed cruiser praised as the newest of three Pittsburghs. He notes towing the carrier Franklin from Japan after the Tokyo raid and describes gunfire during a plane attack while on duty aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph J. Lish
Marion M. Lish
Park
U.ss. Pittsburgh
U.S.S
Ralph
Japan
Tokyo
Veteran Arrives in Charleston for 30 Day Home Leave
Technical Sergeant H N Beesley 27 of Pocatello Idaho arrives in Charleston S C by transport plane on 18 June for a 30 day home leave from the 15th army air force in Italy where he served as radio operator on a B 24 Liberator crew. He and fellow air force members were processed and treated to a luncheon with filet mignon and offered first calls home before they depart again for overseas duty in the Pacific. Beesley was inducted in March 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S. C
H. N. Beesley
Pocatello
Idaho
15Th Army Air Force
Italy
Air Forces
Pacific
Beesley
Army
Soldier Returns From Overseas in 1944 Italy Visit
The subject went overseas to a base in Italy in October 1944 and later resided in Pocatello with his parents Mr and Mrs William H Beesley at 567 Richland Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Pocatello
Wiliam H. Beesley
Richland Avenue
Dutch resistance leader named premier of New Netherlands cabinet
Dr Willem Schermerhorn aged 50, a resistance figure during the German occupation, was named premier of a New Netherlands cabinet formed Saturday. The 14 member cabinet includes 11 men prominent in the resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Willem Schermerhorn
Netherlands
Resistance Movement
Busbys on furlough from European theater duty
Sgt. Jay B. Busby son of Mr and Mrs B A Busby arrives on furlough after 18 months in Europe. He plans to stay until July 1 then report to Fort Douglas and Wilmington Delaware for further assignment. His brother Sgt Reed B Busby is expected to arrive soon on furlough from Fort MacArthur California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay B. Busby
B. A. Busby
East Center
England
Fort Douglas
Wilmington
Del
Reed B. Busby
Fort MacArthur
Calif
Governor to Open Pocatello Rodeo
Gov Charles C Gossett will officiate at the Victory rodeo opening night in Pocatello July 13 14 and 15 The naval ordnance plant has offered barracks and meals for convalescent servicemen from Sun Valley Prizes total 1875 with 50 first money in multiple events Tickets go on sale June 27 at Ford Halliwell and Pocatello Drug stores plus chamber of commerce junior chamber of commerce and rodeo committee members Regular tickets will also be sold in surrounding towns later
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Gossett
Rodeo Committee
Sun Valley
Naval Ordnance Plant
Walter E. Brown
T. B. LeBailly
Mahlon Rupp
Ford Drug
Halliwell Drug
Pocatello Drug
Chamber of Commerce
John Ashton Stops Charging Jap On Okinawa
Pfc. John J. Ashton of Pocatello Idaho and Smithfield wife Cleo Ashton saved his life during a night battle on Okinawa when a lone Japanese soldier charged his foxhole with grenades. He counted three, threw his own grenades and stopped the threat eight feet away. Ashton has served with the 77th division since Guam and fought as a scout in Leyte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Ashton
John Ashton
Pocatello
Cleo Ashton
Smithfield
Sawtooth Ridge
Okinawa
Ashton
Pfc
Guam
Leyte
Utahns Win Silver Stars in Mindanao Battle
Two infantrymen Pfc George W Dunkin and Pfc Harold W Glore earned silver stars for valor in a whirlwind Mindanao battle. Dunkin from Windyville Missouri and Glore from Hurricane Utah were part of the 31st Division in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mindanao
Philippines
S George W. Dunkin
Harold W. Glore
Windyville
Hurricane
Utah
Freight rates spark Idaho chamber plea for study
The North Idaho chamber of commerce urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to study high freight charges on manufactured goods shippable east, saying the Pacific Northwest cannot compete. Resolutions also backed highway projects Lewis and Clark from Lewiston to Missoula and Salmon river link, state control of employment services, and local nuisance abatement powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Pacific Northwest
North Idaho Chamber of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Idaho State Grange
Northwest
NICC
Missoula
Salmon River
Wyoming
Idaho
Employment Service
Columbia Valley Authority
Kellogg
Floyd Jones Promoted to Staff Sergeant in Army
Floyd L. Jones son of Mr and Mrs Earl E Jones and husband of Mrs Doris Jones of 354 Monroe has been promoted to staff sergeant in the office of the chief surgeon headquarters U S army services of supply. Entering the army in 1943 he trained at Camp Barkley and served in Sydney Brisbane Dutch New Guinea and the Philippine Islands earning Asiatic Pacific theater and Philippine liberation ribbons. He was a pipefitter helper for Union Pacific before the war and graduated from Pocatello High School in 1941. His brother Ernest J. Jones serves as a sergeant in the Army Air Force in Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd L. Jones
Earl E. Jones
Doris Jones
Monroe
Headquarters
U. S. Army Services of Supply
Southwest Pacific
Jones
Camp Barkley
Tex
Sydney
New South Wales
Brisbane
Queensland
Dutch New Guinea
Philippine Islands
Union Pacific Railroad
Pocatello High School
Ernc J. Jones
Army Air Force
Italy
Belgians to Receive 18000 Tons Potatoes Under Lend Lease
The War Food Administration announced plans to ship about 18 000 tons of potatoes to Belgium over the next three weeks under a lend lease agreement. The fare will offset supplies Belgium troops used during the winter fighting. Potatoes come from early North Carolina and Virginia crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Food Administration
Belgium
North Carolina
Virginia
Pocatellan Soldiers in Lion Division Fight Outside Medell
The 424th Infantry Regiment mortar crew of Company H as part of the 106th Lion Division fought near Medell Belgium, contributing to the German army's final flight and collapse. Captured Germans noted their respect for the unit in a hard-won battle memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifteenth
United State Army
Germany
424Th Infantry
106Th (Lion) Division
Medell
Belgium
Mortar Crew Behind Meedell Breakthrough In WWII Action
General Leonard T. Gerow unit used a trick mortar deployment to support an infantry push into Meedell. For 21 hours they fired 1538 shells and damaged three firing pins and a mortar tube, aiding a Nazi retreat as guards watched. One noted mortar man was Staff Sergeant George Murray Jr. of Portneuf Park Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard T. Gerow
Fifeteenth
United States Army
Meedell
George Murray, Jr
Portneuf Park
Pocatello
Idaho
Elks Lodge 674 Installs Officers at Preston Opening
Pocatello lodge 674 of the B P O Elks will institute and install officers at the newly created Elks lodge in Preston on Tuesday July 10 Harold Hinckley secretary says the new lodge opens under auspicious circumstances with Pocatello lodge sponsoring the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello Lodge
B.P.O. Elks
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Jay Busby
Pocatello Rodeo
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