Soviet Hurls Germans Out of Rzhev
The Soviet forces under Marshal Semeon Timoshenko forced a German withdrawal from the Rzhev fortress 130 miles northwest of Moscow. Berlin confirmed the evacution to shorten the front line, with observers unsure of the new line, possibly Smolensk to Velikie Luki and Bryansk.
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Associated Press
Semeon Timoshenko
Rzhev
Moscow
Berlin
London
Smolensk
Velikie Luki
Bryansk
Upper Volga
Board Orders Refinery to Reinstate 14
The national labor relations board ordered reinstatement of 14 of 19 truck drivers fired November 14 1941 by Idaho Refining Co of Pocatello. Back pay equals normally earned minus net earnings. five drivers remain out for accidents. The board found the firings discriminatory tied to union activity and ordered ceasing of interference with union organizing.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Idaho Refining Company
Pocatello
Bombers Strike Tunis Port in Dual Wave Assault
Two waves of flying fortresses attacked Tunis inner and outer harbors in simultaneous strikes. Crews reported hits on docks, a warehouse, and industrial areas with targets at La Goulette including the yard and drydock. Escorts included Lightnings and Spitfires. three German fighters were destroyed and one Allied plane lost. A British pilot Flying Officer A H Jupp shot down a Messerschmitt 109.
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Tunis
la Goulette
A. H. Jupp
Allies Defeat Italians and Nazis in Air
Axis air forces suffered a heavy loss with 25 planes downed in the Central Mediterranean in one day. Italian reports spoke of lively aerial activity on the Tunisian front and several raids by axis forces on Bone Tripoli Bizerte and Tunis.
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Mediterranean
Rome
Associated Press
Bone
Tripoli
Bizerte
Tunis
Planes Score In North
U S aircraft conducted nine raids in fog and storms in the Aleutians during February, dropping about 500 000 pounds of bombs on Kiska with no losses. An 81st raid on Munda at New Georgia in the south Pacific was carried out by a patrol bomber with no details released. Ten enemy planes were shot down.
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Washington
Aleutians
U. 8
Kiska
Navy
Munda
New Georgia Island
South Pacific
Search Finds 20 Bodies in Smith Coal Mine Disaster
BEARCREEK Montana rescue teams fought deadly fumes as they recovered 20 bodies from the Smith coal mine depths. Officials say the explosion 500 feet underground near the shafts is Montana's worst coal mine disaster with 74 miners trapped since Saturday. Oxygen teams work through tunnels while mine manager William Romek suspects carbon monoxide gas caused most deaths.
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Bearcreek
Mont
Smith
Montana
William Romek
Gandhi ends 21 day fast in Poona with orange juice
Mohandas K. Gandhi, 73, ends a 21 day hunger strike protesting British internment. He drinks orange juice at 9:30 a.m. in Aga Khan Palace Poona as family and close friends participate in prayers and gratitude. Six doctors stay on to monitor his recovery.
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New Delhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
M.W.T
Gandhi
Aga Khan
Poona
Devadar
Ramdas
Gokiben
Rail wage case examined by emergency board in Chicago
Witness George Kucich testifies before an emergency fact finding board about the wage case for 900,000 nonoperating railroad workers. He says when 36 cents an hour became legal minimum in 1941, about 60,000 railroad employees earned less, with many thousands still paid 46 cents hourly. He notes unions seek a 20 cent raise to a 70 cent minimum. He cites years of bargaining and tribunals that left lower paid workers with smaller gains, despite the minimum wage law.
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Chicago
George Kucich
Kucich
A.F.L. Railway Employees Department
Minister Rev. William Paxton dies at 66 in Pocatello
Rev. William Paxton pastor of Bethel Baptist in Pocatello died at his home on East Fremont. Born April 11, 1876 in Texarkana he served in central and western states and came to Idaho a year ago. Survived by Irene Harris widow a daughter Helen Bennett a son Arthur Paxton two brothers and two sisters. Body at McHan Funeral Home with services to be announced.
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William Paxton
Bethel Baptist Church
North Fifth
East
Fremont
Texarkana
Ark
Irene Harris
Marshall, Texas
Paxton
Central
Pocatello
Ogden
Helen Bennett
Arthur H. Paxton
Muskegon
Mich
Daniel
Gary
Ind
Peter Paxton
Mary Davis
Clara Williams
Butter and Cheese Added to Spring Ration Schedule
Washington reports that meats cheese butter and cooking fats will be rationed from April 1 under no 2 ration book. Cheese will join meat while butter margarine and fats are grouped for rationing due to interchangeability. Awaiting authorization from Food Administrator Wickard to OPA.
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Washington
Wickard
OPA
Bombers strike London as raids threaten reprisal
London reports air raid alerts at 8 30 p m as German forces retaliate for RAF Berlin pounding. British guns respond as raids target the capital while warnings of reprisals for Nazi crimes are issued by Eden. Washington imposes an honor system on the driving ban, with lifting possible by March 22.
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London
Berlin
Washington
East
Price
Prentiss Brown
Memorandum Decision in Harris Divorce Fees Case
District Judge I E McDougal issued a memorandum decision urging counsel to prepare an order in the case Maxine Harris versus Nick Harris. The ruling concerns reviving a judgment and permitting execution on a 1931 order by Judge R M Terrell in a divorce action for attorney fees.
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I. E. McDougal
Maxine Harris
Nick Harris
R. M. Terrell
German Italian talks tied to total war aims and bomb hatred
Dr Paul Schmidt of the German foreign office told Berlin radio that Germans and Italians believe war and bombs end only after Bolshevists are slain and Britain begs mercy. He linked Casablanca talks to unconditional surrender and described allied bombing as forging hatred to drive final destruction.
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Paul Schmidt
German Foreign Office
Berlin
Associated Press
Schmidt
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Churchill
Cold Wave Forecast Promises Slight Warm Up
The poem notes warm sunshine with no ice or snow and urges brisk steps in dry air. Temperatures reach a high of 29 and a low of 8 with a mean near 18, below normal 32, while NOAA style forecast calls for slight warming as days progress.
Shaw Re elected to Western Loan Board in Idaho
Dr. L EB Shaw of Pocatello was reelected to the board of directors of the Western Loan and Building Company at the annual shareholders meeting in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
L. EB. Shaw
Pocatello
The
Western Loan and Building Company
Allied forces push in northern Tunisia near Beja and Sedjenane
Allied forces pressed the offensive in northern Tunisia inflicting damage on axis positions north of Beja and east of Sedjenane. Van guards advanced toward Sbeitla, the re captured rail town 125 miles southwest of Tunis, as activity waned in the central area.
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Beja
Medjez el Bab
Tunisia
Sbeitla
Kasserine
Feriana
8Th Army
Mareth
North Africa
Sedjenane
Rommel
Tunis
Navy Plans to Expand Force to 2.25 Million by 1944
Secretary Knox told Congress that the navy aims for 2,250,000 personnel by July 1944 with a 10 percent casualty rate. The House subcommittee approved a 3.816 billion indirect appropriation and 239.74 million contract authorizations for a four billion spending bill, trimming clothing costs to 100 million. It also cited 3,205 ships in Jan 1 1943, rising toward 4,100 by year end.
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Washington
Congress
Knox
Navy
Naval
House
Naval Appropriations
Jacobs
Ceiling to Fix Meat Prices
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown announced uniform community wide ceiling prices for pork and beef will be set soon to curb black markets. He told a Senate subcommittee that current ceilings allow retailers to charge the highest prior prices, creating varied ceilings and enabling black market pork and beef. He said pork ceilings should arrive in days with beef to follow and pledged aggressive public education on uninspected black market meat. If needed, he would push ceilings on live hogs as a first step.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Senate Agriculture
Jap Center Grows as Evacuees Arrive in Idaho
Minidoka relocation center near Hunt Idaho reports a total population of 9393 after 193 Japanese American evacuees arrive from Bainbridge Island Washington.
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Hunt
Idaho
Minidoka Relocation Center
Bainbridge Island
Washington
Japanese convoy crippled in Bismarck Sea pursuit
Allied headquarters report the remnants of a 14 ship Japanese convoy stagger toward Lae New Guinea through fog in the Bismarck Sea after heavy bombardment by Allied bombers fighters. Four transports and ships were sunk or damaged and 13 enemy fighters shot down out of 30 to 40 as Fortresses Liberators and P-38s pressed the attack.
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Allied
Australia
Bismarck Sea
Lae
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
James Lowrie Dies at 73 in Idaho Home
James Monroe Lowrie 73 died at his son Richard C. Lowrie’s home in Idaho Falls after a short heart illness. Born April 1 1869 in Pittsburgh he lived in Idaho 25 years with time in Idaho Falls and Pocatello. Surviving son Chester Sibley Lowrie and daughter Susan Emma Lowrie, funeral Thursday at Downard chapel with Rev. E T Ferry. burial in Longview Wash.
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James Monroe Lowrie
Richard C. Lowrie
South Third
Mr. Lowrie
Idaho
Idaho Falls
Pocatello
Pittsburgh
Oklahoma
Payette
Longview
Wash
Esther Henning Lowrie
Richard C
Povatello
Chester Sibley Lowrie
Susan Emma Lowrie
Newark
N. J
Downard Chapel
E. T. Ferry
Presbyterian Church
Fathers Face Early Draft
Washington officials said some local draft boards would begin inducting fathers of children around May 1 with married men who have children expected to follow in early summer. First to be taken would be those in recently classified non deferable occupations as boards exhaust single men. Some boards already are drafting men with children, but only those who became fathers after Pearl Harbor or when induction was imminent. It was unclear if boards would stage by number of children.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Ships Return To Blast Axis Targets
RAF attacked objectives in western Germany for the seventh straight night, with three Allied aircraft missing. Mines were laid in enemy waters as German and Berlin radio reports confirm raids on western Germany and occupied France amid bad weather and limited German retaliation.
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London
Germany
RAF
Air Ministry
Continental
Ministry
Berlin
Western
France
Leaders May Concede Vital Points in Pakistan Talks
Observers report Mahomed Ali Jinnah may compromise on Pakistan to aid a broader settlement of India's political crisis. Jinnah supports Pakistan as a means to secure Muslim concessions and suggests joining Hindus in a wartime government with Pakistan as a prerequisite.
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Mahomed Ali Jinnah
India
Pakistan
Jinnah
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I Kasserine
Pichon
Marethi
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