Eighth Drives Enemy From Chiusi Ruins
Allied reports say the Eighth Army retook Chiusi nine miles southwest of Lake Trasimeno and advanced northwest. Castiglione del Lago near Lake Trasimeno fell to the Eighth with 200 prisoners. 55 enemy planes were destroyed in air battles over Vienna. RAF crews hit the Aquila oil refinery at Trieste causing major fires.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Chiusi
Fifth Army
Italy
Piombino
Livorno
Pisa
Lake Trasimeno
Castiglione del Lago
Vitellino
Perugia
Pierce
Méditerranean Army Air Force
Vienna
Aquila
Trieste
Rescue Party Seeks Three In Grand Canyon Drop
A second rescue party prepares to descend by mule into the Grand Canyon to aid three airmen who bailed from a bomber onto Tonto plateau 600 feet above the Colorado. Four rangers and 12 mules move toward the river as a first party aims to establish a base opposite the plateau. Flight Officer Maurice J. Cruickshank Jr, Second Lt Charles Goldblum, and Corp Roy Embanks parachuted at 2 am after engine trouble.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
Tonto Plateau
Colorado River
Flanes
Charles Goldblum
Pittsburgh
Maurice J. Cruickshank, Jr
Lawrence
Massr
Corp
Roy W. Embanks
Kalispell
Mont
Moving NAMPA lettuce and pea shipments rise this week
Cars of lettuce and peas shipped from NAMPA have grown in the past days. Lettuce shipments total 605 cars and peas 118 as harvests from Emmett and Sunny Slope move to industry. The lettuce peak seems near but shipments stay heavy this week.
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Nampa
Emmett
Republicans Reject Willkie Protest on Security Plans
The Republican platform committee approved a foreign policy plank that keeps a world security pledge via an international organization using near for es and rejected Willkie and 15 governors who said the language was unclear. It adds a promise to bring home armed forces at the earliest possible time after hostilities cease and sets the party to seek total victory through international cooperation rather than joining a world state.
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Chicago
Republican Platform Committee
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
United States
World Organization
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Thomas K. Dewey
Edge
Dewey
Davis to Keynote at Idaho Democratic Platform Convention
Pocatello attorney Ben W. Davis will keynote the Idaho Democratic platform convention in Boise. The event will also name a new state chairman and vice chairman amid a growing dispute over leadership. Incumbent chairman Robert Coulter says he will not seek renomination, with several names mentioned as possible successors.
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Boise
Ben W. Davis
Pocatello
Robert Coulter
Pocatellan
Coulter
Dave Bush
Glen Taylor
Wilson
Taylor
George Curtis
Charles C. Gossett
Nampa
Six Get Licenses
Marriage licenses were issued Monday to Roy Dewan Burr 21 Riverton Utah Adele Rindlisbach 18 Emmett Eugene Devout Stowell 26 Rigby and Patricia Rae Alderman 18 Joplin Mo Aaron Lott 3 Idaho Falls and Beth Robison 22 Byron Wyo.
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Salt Lake City
Roy Dewan Burr
Riverton
Utah
Adele Rindlisbach
Emmett
Eugene Devout Stowell
Rigby
Patricia Rae Alderman
Joplin
Aaron Lott
Idaho Palls
Beth Robison
Byron
Wyo
Soviet Points Drive on Polish Center
Soviet forces launch massive air and ground offensives on a 250 mile front. Red air fleets attack German reserves while four armies converge toward Minsk gateway to Warsaw. Orsha Mogilev and Bobruisk bulges threatened as Soviet generals coordinate multiple fronts to encircle key cities.
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Moscow
Germany
Orsha
Mogilev
Bobruisk
Minsk
Warsaw
Hitler
Reich
Great Bulge
Red
Bulge
Japs Increase Resistance To Americans On Saipan
Allied forces report intensified Japanese resistance on Saipan as U S bombers strike targets across Europe and the Soviet front. Air operations include 500 American heavies attacking Budapest and Brod rail yards, plus oil plant bombing in Poland.
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Saipan
London
Budapest
Brod
United States
Russia
Dechovycz
Poland
England
France
Channel
Britain
Idaho primary expense reports filed for 19 of 58 candidates
Idaho secretary of state said only 19 of 58 candidates filed expense statements for the June 13 primary. A July 3 deadline will disqualify those who fail to file from the general ballot. Reported expenditures include D Worth Clark 3176.38 Compton T White 99 Henry C Dworshak 112 and G C Sullivan 185.50.
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Boise
Idaho
George Curtis
D. Worth Clark
Compton T. White
Henry C. Dworshak
G. C. Sullivan
Pocatello Sets July 3 4 Holidays For Stores
Pocatello will observe July 3 and 4 as holidays for retail establishments with pay protections for workers. Governor Bortolfsen officially declared the dates, and the War Labor Board indicated the rule applies to retail, not hinder production or war transport.
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Paul Nash
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
War Labor Board
Bortolfsen
Idaho
Nash
Retail Bureau of the
Pocatello Chamber
WLB
Pocatello
Dewey May Attend Chicago Speech After Rail Crash
A rail collision in North Salt Lake derailed a Denver and Rio Grande Western freight train, injuring fireman W. D. Nelson who leaped from his engine. In Albany, Gov. Dewey may fly or train to Chicago if nominated to deliver his acceptance at the Republican National Convention, as California’s Warren faces pressure over a potential vice presidential bid during the convention opening programs led by Rep. Joseph Martin and including former President Hoover.
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Salt Lake City
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
North Salt Lake
W. D. Nelson
K. L. Moriarty
Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Chicago
John W. Bricker
Dewey
Chicago Stadium
Earl Warren
California
White House
Warren
Ohio
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Dwight Green
Illinois
Joseph W. Martin
Martin
Massachusetts
Herbert Hoover
Connecticut
Clare Boothe Luce
Rabbit Fever Fatal In Southern Idaho
William O'Brien Grimm 25 of Bancroft died in a Soda Springs hospital from tularemia or rabbit fever. The first reported fatality this season in southern Idaho linked to contact with two young wild rabbits Grimm had planned to give his children as pets.
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Soda Springs
William O'Brien Grimm
Bancroft
Idaho
Pete
Elks Plan Rites for Major Ernest Mann
Funeral services for Major Er nest Mann 36 killed in a P 38 training plane crash at Yost Laughlin air field Del Rio Texas will be held at 2 p m Thursday in the Elks temple Chaplain A Grannan of Pocatello army air field will officiate Mann entered service in 1940 and was director of flying at Laughlin field He was the first of 166 members of Pocatello lodge No 675 B P O E to be killed before the service he was a reserve officer and a commercial pilot at the municipal airport He was employed as a sales man for Cavanaugh Wholesale Co Leyte of Pocatello is expected to arrive Wednesday from Del Rio with the body Burial with full military honors will be in Mountainview cemetery under McHan's mortuary direction
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Ernest Mann
Yost Laughlin Air Field
del Rio
Texas
Elks Temple
A .Grannan
Pocatello Army Air Field
Mann
Laughlin Field
Pocatello
B.P.O. Ellis
Cavanaugh Wholesale Co
Leyte
Mountainview Cemetery
McHan
Tokyo Reports Raid on Base at Truk
AP dispatches describe Japanese defenses on Saipan Island tightening along a prepared line from Garapan to Kagman peninsula as American Marines press a large scale assault. Nimitz reports secure control of southern Garapan while Kenney to lead a new far eastern air force amid growing Allied air activity in the Pacific.
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Saipan
Tokyo
Howard Handleman
Garapan
Mt Tanotchau
Kagman Peninsula
Handleman
U. S
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Guam
Marianas
William Worden
Nimitz
Mt. Tapotchau
China
India
Burma
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
George C. Kenney
MacArthur
Netherlands East Indies
Philippines
Kenney
New Guinea
Truk
Palau
Noemfoor
Mogaung
Major Attack Opens on Nazis in Caen
Allied forces press toward Caen as Montgomery's front advances six to seven miles east and southeast of Tilly sur Seulles. Cherbourg falls to the American Seventh Corps with thousands of prisoners and heavy matériel, while NazI casualties exceed 70 000 with many units destroyed.
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France
Cherbourg
St. Vaast
Quettehau
Barfleur
Tilly
Tessel- Bretteville
Caen
Ste. Honorine
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Bernard L. Montgomery
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
Paris
Seventh Corps
Joseph L. Collins
Carl Wilhelm von Schiieben
Adm
Kennecke
Omar N. Bradley
Enellurields
Montgomery
Four Missing After Car Plunge Into Arrowrock Reservoir
Sheriff Bert Bybee reports a car left Cottonwood Canyon road and sank into Arrowrock reservoir with four aboard on Saturday. Driver John Proser, 66, of Twin Springs, was last seen with his 10-year-old granddaughter Betty Lou Burdick and two others, a nine-year-old girl and possibly another man. A search continued despite high winds and deep water, hindering visibility and progress.
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Arrowrock Dam
Boise County
Bert Bybee
Cottonwood Canyon
Arrowrock Reservoir
John Proser
Twin Springs
Betty Lou Burdick
John Card
Bybee
Proser
Edgar Kirk
Boise
Doctors Face Draft in 1A Induction Push
Local draft boards may classify all physicians and dentists under 38 who are certified for military service by the War Manpower Commission and have not applied for or accepted commissions. The Selective Service Director Arthur V. McDermott announced the bulletin issued to boards and an urgent Navy need for medical officers.
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New York
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service
Arthur V. McDermott
MccDermott
Navy
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Chiusi Ruins
Florence
Vauch
Granville
Barfleve
Stebourg
Sein
Davis
CBS
Vitebsk
Vershinin
Sevastopol
Timofey Kruikin
Sergei I. Rudenko
N. P. Papivin
Sturmovik
Ivan Bagramian
Baltic
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
White Russia
G. F. Zakyarov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Drut
Berezina
Zhlobin
Red Star
Pavel Pavelenko
United States Strategic Air Force
Air Power
U.S.S. Quency
H.M.S. Glascow
Clark
Salt Lake
Paul Miller
Washington
Elks
Far Eastern Air Force
The
Associated Press
Cherbourg Harbor
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