Desperate Nazis Struggle to Extract Mudbound Army
German forces scramble to airlift supplies and move tanks and guns from a mudbound front in southwestern Ukraine near Proskurov. Soviet reports say heavy resistance and new German troops threaten a strategic rail junction, with Cherni Ostrov and Gruzhevitsa battles shaping the corridor to the Odessa Warsaw line.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Andrei Belaiev
Red Star
Belalev
Marshal Zhukov
Red Army
Proskurov
Odessa
Staro-Konstantinov
Gruzhevitsa
Volosovtsy
Air raids on Berlin show no target safe, Stimson says
Secretary of War Stimson says Allied air raids on Berlin prove Germany can no longer hide from daylight attacks. He notes barriers of natural and man-made defenses have fallen, despite flak and weather, and calls the strikes a sign of German vulnerability. He also cites Allied advances in the southwest Pacific and Burma in amphibious and jungle warfare mastery.
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Washington
Stimson
Berlin
Germany
Netherlands East Indies
Burma
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Teacher Seeks Petitions for State Superintendent Race
G C Sullivan principal of St. Anthony high school wired the secretary of state today asking for nominating petitions for the June 13 primaries for the office of state superintendent of public instruction. Sullivan formerly Blaine county superintendent at Hailey, elected on the Democratic ticket, resigned in 1942 to join St. Anthony.
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Boise
G. C. Sullivan
St. Anthony
Secretary of State
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Sullivan
Blaine County
Hailey
St. Antony
War casualties total 162282 with breakdown by branch
Secretary Stimson announced American war casualties stand at 162 282 with 37 853 dead. Army totals 121 458 casualties including 20 592 killed and 47 318 wounded. 27 222 prisoners. Navy 40 824 with 17 261 killed 9 910 wounded 9 239 missing 4 414 prisoners. Marine corps and coast guard included.
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Washington
Wer Stimson
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Marines
Stimson
Bomber Crashes Near Wendover Kills Lieutenant
A heavy bomber crashed two miles southwest of Wendover Army Air Base killing Second Lieutenant Edward A. Longan of Wilsey Kansas. Co-pilot Longan was son of Mrs. E F Longan of Wilsey. Nine others were treated for shock and minor bruises.
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Wendover
Utah
Wendover Army Air Base
Edward A. Longan
Wilsey
Kas
Longan
E. F. Longan
Safe Cracker Fails Omaha Break In Attempt
A 21 year old safecracker told Detective Captain Harry Green of his failed attempts to pry a safe door with a pick axe and to yank it off with a truck chain. When the chain broke the door stayed put and he toppled back as the safe opened on its own revealing a smaller safe inside before fleeing.
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Omaha
Harry Green
AP to appeal direct to Supreme Court in antitrust suit
The Associated Press won permission to seek direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court from a lower court ruling in the government antitrust case against the nonprofit news cooperative. The move follows the civil action brought by the government to challenge the cooperative's practices.
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New York
Associated Press
United States Supreme Court
News Cooperative
Father Joins Sons in Navy Service at Boise
Boise fireman E. N. Overgard, 43, joins the navy as his twin sons Wilfard and Willard already serve. Wilfard is a Marine who fought in the Marshal Islands, while Willard trains as an army aviation cadet. Overgard becomes a hospital corpsman and plans to wear his old blue sweater to Farragut naval training station for luck.
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Boise
E. N. Overgard
Navy
Wilfard
Marshal Islands
Willard
Overgard
Wilford
Farragut
Fire Destroys Two Plants at Notus Idaho
A major blaze in Notus destroyed the Boise Payette Lumber yard and the Notus Feed and Fuel mill. No injuries were reported. Damage estimated at 30000 dollars by adjacent Pennington Hardware manager. Fire started about 9 30 p m and was controlled by 3 a m by 200 volunteers under Fire Chief T R Healy.
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NOTUS
Boise Payette Lumber Company
Notus Feed & Fuel Company
Howard Pennington
Pennington Hardware Company
Caldwell
T. R. Healy
Pennington Hardware
Moore
Pennington
Stalin says Red army takes Staro-Konstantinov
The Soviet Premier announced that the Red army captured Staro-Konstantinov in southwest Ukraine. In Idaho, Jerome and Buhl won first round games in the class A basketball tournament opening in Twin Falls. Jerome defeated Gooding 27 36 in overtime after Buhl beat Rupert 57 30. In Idaho, service members are to mail war ballots via county auditors. Wendell Willkie urged the US to pursue international cooperation over narrow nationalism.
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London
Joseph Stalin
Red Army
Staro - Konstantinov
Ukraine
Twin Falls
Jerome
Buhl
Gooding
Buhl Indians
Rupert Pirates
Chas Arney Dies at 77 In Los Angeles
Charles E. Arney Sr. 77 from Spokane and Pocatello died in his sleep in Los Angeles. He helped organize the North Idaho Chamber of Commerce and edited the Pocatello Tribune. He served as secretary of the Idaho state land board and was Idaho penitentiary warden. Governor Clark named him coordinator for mining priorities in 1941 and civilian defense in 1942.
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Idaho
Tanker Honors City Idaho Falls at Pacific Launch
The USS Idaho Falls tanker will splash into the Pacific late this month at the Swan Island yards of Kaiser Shipbuilding. J R Gobble secretary of the Idaho Falls chamber of commerce was informed of the selection yesterday. Civic officials plan representation at the launching.
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Idaho Falls
Pacific
Swan Island
Kaiser Shipbuilding Company
J. R. Gobble
Attorney Woolley Joins Defense in Woolley Polygamy Cases
Ogden attorney Arthur Woolley brother of Dr Le Grand Woolley Salt Lake physician named in state and federal polygamy charges has been entered as associate defense counsel in the cases. John S Boyden assistant U S district attorney said today.
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Salt Lake City
Arthur Woolley
Ogden
le Grand Woolley
Salt Lake
John S. Boyden
U. S
Finland Holds Off on Two Soviet Demands in Peace Talks
Finnish negotiators reportedly accept most Russian terms but reject Moscow’s demands to withdraw troops and intern Germans in Finland. Berlin said German forces remain in Finland to defend its territory, while a Russian landing near Rybachi was repulsed.
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London
Finland
Stockholm
Moscow
Berlin
C.B.S
Italy
Daily Mail
Russia
Leningrad
Soviet Union
Petsamo
Rybachi
Fisher) Peninsula
Barents Sea
Chaplin Test Move Fails in Grand Jury Challenge
Charles Chaplin and six co defendants failed to quash federal grand jury indictments charging conspiracy to deprive Joan Berry of civil rights. Judge J F T OConnor denied the motions after Berry’s Beverly Hills court release and city exile proviso. The group included Beverly Hills police judge Charles J Griffin and several officers. pleas delayed by demurrers.
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Los Angeles
Charles Chaplin
Joan Berry
U.S
J. F. T. O’connor
Miss Berry
Beverly Hills
Charles J. Griffin
O’connor
Judge Griffin
Draft Board Alters Order on Simplot
Harold Aird of J. R. Simplot Dehydrating Co. said Cassia county draft board in Booley informed that Simplot has been reclassified from 1-A to 2-A as an essential industry worker. The board had announced a prior reclassification from 3-C to 1-A about two weeks earlier. Simplot, 34, with two sons, runs the Caldwell potato processing plant and plans a phosphate plant at Pocatello.
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Simplot
Caldwell
Pocatello
Senator Attacks TVA Chief Over Rates and Spending
Senate appropriations hearings spotlight TVA governance as Senator McKellar blasts electric rate discrimination and unapproved spending. He seeks tighter congressional oversight while accusing TVA Chairman Lilienthal of using funds for ads and speeches to influence politics. Lilienthal denies the charges.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Tennessee Valley Authority
McKellar
D.-Tenn
Congress
TVA
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
Weather summary for Pocatello area includes light snow flurries
The forecast calls for cloudy conditions tonight and Friday with few snow flurries over mountains. Temperature changes are slight. Data from the United States Weather Bureau at Pocatello Municipal Airport shows high 50 and low 25, mean 38, with a 10 degree departure from normal and 17 hundredths inch month-to-date precipitation. sunrise 7:52, sunset 7:29.
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Pocatello
United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Churchill Defends Warship Transfer Policy in Commons
Prime Minister Churchill said the disposition of enemy fleets could wait until the war’s end and repeated that talks on transferring parts of the Italian fleet to the Soviet Union were under way. He refused to commit to concerted announcements with the United States, stressing close Britain US agreement is vital. He quipped that in a worst case he might take the podium himself.
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London
Churchill
Roosevelt
Washington
House of Commons
Russia
Earl Winterwon
United States
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Churchil
Great Britain
Big Bombers Return to Berlin Attack
London reports the U S Eighth Air Force again attacked Berlin with four engined bombers for the fourth time in six days. Fighters from the Ninth and Eighth Air Forces escorted the raids. Iron out over Berlin shows strong endurance of crews amid a week of heavy Allied bombardment.
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London
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Berlin
Eighth Airforce
Fighth
Ninth Air Forces
Soviet Rejects Pole Offer in Boundary Dispute
London papers report Russia rejected Poland's latest boundary settlement proposal in the Russo Polish dispute. Polish leader Mikolajczyk says his government in exile was not informed. Kremlin pushback demands removal of anti Soviet elements and recognition of Curzon line as Poland's eastern border.
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London
Russia
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolaiczyk
Stalin
Churchill
Kremlin
Curzon Line
Poland
Soviet Open New Offensive Along Ukrainian Front
Premier Stalin announced from Moscow that the Red Army has opened a new drive on the Ukrainian front under General Malinovsky. The offensive crossed the Ingulets river and advanced 19 to 37 miles along a 105 mile front, with Kazanka and Novi Bug towns captured west of Krivoi Rog and German divisions of about 125,000 men routed.
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London
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Rodion Malinovsky
Ingulets
Nikolaev
Kherson
Bug
Dnieper
Kazanka
Novi Bug
Krivoi Rog
Stalin
Four Idaho Girls Enlist in Waves for New York Training
Four southern Idaho girls Betty Eva Quals of Twin Falls Gladene Florence Brown of Nampa Betty Boyer Cannon of Gooding and Aileen Clarke Ebbets of Challis will receive indoctrination training at Hunter college New York City A 11 year old youth LeRoy Glenn Broddard of Rea Fremont county enlisted in the navy as a volunteer and will go to Farragut training station in north Idaho.
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Boise
Nazis Use Tanks Against Strikers in Northern Italy
Italian workers respond to a general strike with reports from Bari that German-ruled Milan and other northern centers faced tanks and violence. The Bari radio said over 200,000 Italians joined the strike as the national committee urged all locals to arm themselves and join the action.
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Naples
Milan
Italy
Bari
National Committee For Italian Affairs
Allied Claims Big Swiss Cassino Losses in Italy
Allied headquarters said Fifth Army inflicted about 9,000 German casualties in and around Cassino since late January, with total Italian theater losses near 40,000. Cassino figures include 1,500 captured and remaining killed or wounded, as two minor German thrusts were repulsed southeast of Carroceto.
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Naples
Fifth Army
Cassino
Italy
Carroceto
Garigliano
Eighth Army
Santo Stefano
Rome
Orte
Idahoan Aids Air Fighters Over Berlin Mission
Lt. Robert L. Goodnight of Twin Falls Idaho led a Ninth Air Force Mustang squadron protecting bombs in the Berlin attack. His group flew there and back with no losses and reported rare Nazi opposition while remaining in tight formation despite cloud cover. Lightnings relieved the Mustangs over the target.
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London
Robert L. Goodnight
Twin Falls
Idaho
Ninth Airforce
Berlin
Goodnight
Idaho Southern University
Socks Get Preference For Second Quarter Production
The War Production Board announced continued preference ratings for scarce garments and hosiery. The Civilian Requirements Office directed continuation of first quarter standards to meet anticipated shortages. The largest planned output is 1,140,000 dozen men’s work socks followed by 1,314,000 dozen infants’ anklets.
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Washington
War Production Board
Office of Civilian Requirements
Supreme Court Opens Session with Two Cases Listed
The Supreme Court opened its session today with two cases scheduled. Owsley Canal Co versus Elvin W. Hinninger appears on the docket as appellant, while Gem State Mutual Life Idaho Mutual Benefit and Beneficial Protective face W. L. Robison et al as respondents, with the Industrial Accident board represented. Chief Justice Edwin Holden presides. justices James F. Alishie Alfred Budge Raymond L. Givens S. Ben Dunlap and Clerk Clay Koelsch attend.
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Supreme Court
Owsley Canal Co
Elvin W. Henninger
Gem State Mutual Life
Idaho Mutual Benefit
Beneficial Protective
W. L. Robison
Industrial Accident Board
Edwin Holden
James F. Alishie
Alfred Budge
Raymond L. Givens
S. Ben Dunlap
Clay Koelsch
Allied Submarines Sink 16 Japanese Ships in Pacific Waters
American submarines have sunk 16 more Japanese ships including a large tanker in enemy waters. The tally raises total sunk or damaged by submarine action to 627, with total Japanese vessels damaged or sunk from all causes reaching 1,989. Submarines operated along coastal Japan and besides the tanker also sank five transports and 10 cargo ships aiding enemy base logistics.
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Washington
Navy
Japan
Pacific
Knox Pleads For Aid Extend Lend Lease to June 30
Washington navy secretary Knox urged Congress to extend the lend lease act for one year, saying it funds decisive battles by supplying 1,400 ships and 4,000 aircraft to allies while the US retains title. He noted Britain hosts a US base operating for a year without cash outlay.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
Congress
United States
House Foreign Committee
Lendlease
U.S
U. S
Britain
Welsh Coal Strike Expands With 90 000 Idle Miners
The Welsh coal strike widens as 90 000 miners walk out, about 90 percent of those in the fields, leaving 165 mines idle and threatening Britain’s war industries and transport. The Swansea anthracite district joins the action with 14 pits closed. A conference led by Full Minister Gwilyn Lloyd George had raised optimism earlier.
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London
Britain
Swansea
Gwilyn Lloyd George
Peace Feelers From White House ToCapitol Hill
President Roosevelt aides sought to mend the rift between Congress and the White House after the tax bill fight. The maneuver appeared aimed at restoring party unity in the Democratic ranks as a prelude to another clash over ongoing wartime price controls.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
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