Free French Islands Defended Along Key Pacific Supply Route
United Nations partial recognition of Free French rule in the Pacific boosts cooperation in defending New Caledonia and Oceania islands. De Gaulle’s London committee gains official status while the United States maintains relations with Vichy authorities and seeks restoration of full French territorial independence. Tahiti and Society islands key to sea lanes to Australia.
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United Nations
Pacific
Charles de Gaulle
New Zealand
Australia
United States
Noumea
New Caledonia
de Gaulle
Marshal Peilain
Vichy
France
Oceania
Tahiti
South Pacific
Society Islands
Marquezas Islands
Leeward Islands
U Boats Strike Convoy Off East Coast In Atlantic Rout
Survivors tell of a night of disaster as a westbound convoy was hit by U boats in mid Atlantic. Seventy eight or more men were saved from four ships, with 38 missing from one vessel. Reports describe multiple torpedo hits over days with five submarines detected in the raid.
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Atlantic
United States
Tossig Atlantic
Norfolk
Majore
Middle Atlantic
Comet Near Moon Spurs Watch For Eclipse Viewers
Observers across much of the United States can glimpse the Whipple comet near the eastern sky before the rising moon is eclipsed. Moonrise is around 6 41 p m mountain war time with the eclipse ending at 7 11 p m mountain time. The comet may appear as a small pear shaped speck with little tail and just under naked eye visibility.
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New York
United States
Earth
Utah Teen Hit By Car After Repeated Advances
Salt Lake City police seek two youths who struck 16 year old Martha Hansen as she alleged they had been trying to pick her up daily for three weeks. She was injured slightly in the Monday accident.
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Salt Lake City
Martha Hansen
Deer danger on Utah highway prompts driver alert
Utah fish and game officials warn motorists on U S highway 91 north of Salt Lake City to watch for deer drawn by dry sunflowers. Five deer were killed by cars in the past three days between Salt Lake City and the Davis county line.
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Salt Lake City
U. S. Highway 91
State Fish and Game Department
Davis County
Blaze Claims Six In Michigan Home Fire
A family of six perished in a blaze that destroyed an unfinished tar paper frame home in Gladwin Michigan. Authorities cited an overheated stove or a defective chimney as the likely cause.
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Gladwin, Mich
D A R To Meet Caldwell for Thirtieth Pocahontas Conference
The thirtieth annual conference of the Pocahontas chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be held Friday and Saturday with Mrs. Henry Ashcroft of Payette as state president opening the meeting.
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Caldwell
Pocahontas
Daughters of the American Revolution
Henry Ashcroft
Payette
Sun Valley Stops Boise Statesman Delivery Over Ski School Story
Sun Valley manager W P Rogers informed the Idaho Statesman that no copies would be accepted for Sun Valley delivery from Monday onward. The action followed a Sunday story about Fried Pfeifer leaving his post as head of the resort’s ski school. Pfeifer, an Austrian alien detained by the FBI at outbreak of the war, later received an unconditional release and moved to Salt Lake City.
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Idaho Statesman
W. P. Rogers
Sun Valley
the Statesman
Rogers
Fried] Pfeifer
Pfeifer
FBI
Salt Lake City
Coppard Jury Views Car in Slaying Trial
In Preston the jury for Mrs Grace Coppard's murder trial visited the car linked to the murder of Paul Tipton Jr a Soda Springs garage owner killed last August. Sheriff McCracken testified and the coat with bullet holes was offered as evidence.
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Preston
Grace Coppard
Paul Tipton, Jr
Soda Springs
Charles J. McCracken
Caribou County
Tipton
Hitler Admits Germans On Defensive
The German high command acknowledged a Russian counter offensive and that German forces are fighting defensively on the Crimea Donets front from Leningrad to Lake Umen. It cited Russian tanks destroyed on the Kerch peninsula and a sunk 1,000 ton transport, plus bombing of a Russian engine factory and airfield.
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Donets
Leningrad
Lake Umen
Red Army
Kerch
Crimean
Kerch Strait
Berlin
Rome
Cairo
Libya
Elechik
Malta
English Channel
Hitler Command
Staraya Russa
Are You With Us or Against Us An Editorial Opinion
The Herald-Advertiser editorial from Huntington West Virginia urges readers to reject defeatist attitudes and embrace sacrifice and change for the war effort. It questions leaders who push business as usual and calls industrialists to shift production to planes tanks and guns. Continued on page 2.
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Herald-Advertiser
Huntington
West Virginia
Walker Long
H. R. Pinkard
Texas
Hatton Summers
France
Mr. Sumners
Governor Clark Denies Campaign For Other Job
Governor Clark declares he will focus on being a good governor and is not running for any other position. Speculation swirls as observers weigh whether he will seek a second term or join the Idaho federal judgeship race amid ongoing inquiries by federal authorities.
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Clark
Idaho
Cone
North Idaho
S. E. Johnson
Wallace
Coeur - Alene
C. C. Cavanah
Cavanah
Circuit Court of Appeals
Washington
C. E. Winstead
Marshall Chapman
Twin Falls
U. S
John Carver
U.S
E. H. Casterlin
U. S. Attorney General's Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Taxis Rally Dutch Defense On Java Front
A taxi army and camouflaged trucks carrying Dutch Malayan troops rushed to counter attack on Java as Japanese forces closed to within 30 miles of the headquarters. Allied reinforcements from the United States Australia and Britain bolster a Dutch defense estimated between 100 000 and 250 000 troops.
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Bandoeng
Java
United Nations
Island of
the Indies
Netherlands
Local Merchant In Poor Condition After Truck Pedestrian Crash
IWAHO PALLS TM E Rowles a local merchant injured in a truck pedestrian accident here last Tuesday remains in poor condition at L D S hospital as of Monday.
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Iwaho Palls
E. W. Rowles
L.D.S. Hospital
New Sub Kingfish Launched At Portsmouth Navy Yard
A new heavy submarine the U S Kingfish was launched Monday at the Portsmouth New Hampshire navy yard before officials officers and yard workers in a small ceremony.
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Portsmouth
N. H
U.S
Pocatello Writers Plan Dinner Event
Members of the Pocatello chapter of the Idaho Writers League met at the Bannock hotel to arrange a dinner in the last week of March. President Mrs Hubert Beasley named Lucile Bailey chair of the program committee and Evelyn Stoddard as reservations chair.
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Pocatello
Idaho Writers League
Bannock Hotel
Hubert Beasley
Lucile Bailey
Dinneyv
Evelyn Stoddard
Boise Club
Pocatello Club
Ernest Stite
Nicholas Ifft
Rate increases set by ICC under wartime policy
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized rail and water carriers to raise freight charges about six percent, with exemptions for basic commodities. Generals MacArthur and war department plan cited high Moros pledge to fight to the death against Japanese invaders.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Douglas MacArthur
War Department
Philippine Islands
Minadnao
Australian general Gordon Bennett survives and escapes Japan
The Australian government declared strong confidence in Major General Gordon Bennett who stayed with the army in Malaya until Singapore fell and then crafted a daring escape from Japanese forces, continuing a noted military career.
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Melbourne
Gordon Bennett
Malaya
Singapore
Opening of Thatcher Cheese Factory in Gem Valley
Thatcher hosts a ceremony for the new cheese factory erected by the Gem Valley Cooperative Dairy men’s association. The plant marks the first such venture financed in the area by the Farm Security Administration with officials from Portland Pocatello Boise and local chamber representatives in attendance.
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Thatcher
W. C. Carnes
J. D. Buehler
W. L. Bruce
T. Leland Newey
Dean Boyle
W. H. Jensen
Claude Johnson
S. E. Brady
Clarence Hart
Sam Dunn
Roy Oliver
Paul Nash
Gem Valley Cooperative Dairymen’s Association
Farm Security Administration
Farm Administration
Joseph King
Portland
Clarence Johnson
Pocatello
Hilda Frederick
Phil Borrup
Boise
Sydney Paper Suggests MacArthur Be Named To Command Pacific Area
The Sydney Telegraph urges General Douglas MacArthur for command of the southwest Pacific as Allied and Dutch forces fight Japanese advances in Java. Reports say Java resistance is strong, with heavy Japanese losses and Allied advances disrupting supply lines near Soebang and Batavia.
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India
Java
Mediterranean
Iran
Japan
Indian Ocean
Middle East
United Nations
Australia
Africa
Sydney
MacArthur
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Reuters
Japs Push On India as Rangoon Battle Looms
Pacific front shifts to Burma where Rangoon nears fall while Java battles fade into background. British lines on the Sittang hold as RAF targets Japanese positions and Australia New Zealand brace for a possible breakdown of the Java barrier.
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Rangoon
Burma
China
India
Indian Ocean
Australia
New Zealand
United Nations
Bataan
MacArthur
Alist
Sittang
Pegu
Burman Town Struck as Japanese Bombers Roar In
Lone Burmese town Tongoo faces fire and terror as 30 Japanese bombers with 15 fighters unleash high explosives. Local accounts report 350 Burmans and 40 Indian civilians killed, with wounded awaiting evacuation. The Rangoon Mandalay road lies quiet, its once busy traffic reduced to stalled carts and ash.
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Toungoo
Burma
Tongoo
Rangoon
Mandalay
Senate approves pension repealer amid pay rider
In Washington the Senate, with a slim attendance, backs a joint conference report repealing pensions for concrete workers. The House bill now goes to the president and preserves continuing pay for troops and civilians missing or in enemy custody, to be paid to dependents. A rider offers 20 percent more in basic pay for enlisted men and 10 percent for officers on foreign duty or in the Philippines Hawaii and Midway. Continent United States personnel are excluded.
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Washington
Senate
House
Philippines
Hawaii
Midway Island
Continental
United States
Former Pocatellan En Route to Seattle to Enter Navy
Leroy Nielson formerly of Pocatello now based in Stamford Conn has returned from Coronado California and is heading to Seattle to enter the navy. He is a former navy commander and among the first Pocatellans to attend the naval academy at Annapolis. His sister Mrs Don Carruthers, also a former Pocatellan, lives in Coronado.
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Leroy Nielson
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