Eden accuses Japan of wholesale Hong Kong atrocities
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the Japanese army in Hong Kong carried out mass atrocities against military prisoners and civilians. He cited bayoneting of 50 men, mass rapes and murders, and a district turned into a brothel, with refugees and internees deprived of basic sustenance and medical care. He linked these acts to the Nanking horror and criticized lack of access for Red Cross observers.
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London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Hong Kong
Crown Colony
Eden
Nanking
Red Cross
Judge Denounces Pocatello Liquor Dens in Indian Case
U S district judge C C Cavanah denounced Pocatello palaces of iniquity after reviewing Percy Franklin's liquor to Indians case. Franklin fined 50 dollars and jailed three months. co defendants faced various liquor and record falsification charges with hearings and indictments proceeding.
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C. C. Cavanah
U. S. District Court
Pocatello
Percy Franklin
Milton Zener
Franklin
Owen Hunsaker
Husky Refining Company
Wilson Meadows Lloyd
Michele Pistoresi
Irving Slaughter
William Anderson Spruce
Charles Henry Joy
Charles Clark
K. W. Hamilton
Downey Bank
William Warren Smith
Glen E. Tarbet
Thomas L. Turner
Harold Glenn Griffin
Raiders Bomb Krupp Works In Essen And More World War II Attacks
R A F bombers hit the German industrial city of Essen home to the Krupp works setting fires of great size. British torpedo bombers set fire to an Italian cruiser a merchant vessel and a destroyer in the central Mediterranean. The Soviet Information Bureau reported 358 German planes destroyed in the week ending March 17 with Soviet losses of 65. German high command claimed U boats off America sank four more enemy ships totaling 27000 tons. Italian high command said British planes struck Athens and shelled Rhodes and Samos.
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R.A.F
Essen
Krupp
Mediterranean
R.A.P
Soviet Information Bureau
High Command
America
Athens
Greece
Rhodes
Samos
Five Portland Juveniles Captured After 48-Hour Auto Theft Flight
Officers detained five youths from Portland Oregon on Monday night in Council. Sheriffs Wade said the group, fugitives from Frasier detention home, had stolen six automobiles during a two day escape.
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Council
Wade
Portland
Ore
Vichy Denies Nazi Aid Warship Transfer Claim
Vichy authorities in unoccupied France rejected a Tass dispatch from Cairo alleging 40 French warships including the battleship Clemenceau and an 8,000-ton cruiser had been offered to Germany under a gradual transfer agreement.
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Vichy
France
Tass
Cairo
Clemenceau
British Navy Observers Link Stark London Assignment to Atlantic Expansion
British naval circles speculate that Admiral Harold R. Stark's posting to London signals expanding U S naval strength across the Atlantic. Some believe Stark's rank implies a new naval development and possible deployment of powerful units to counter any shift in European naval balance.
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Harold R. Stark
London
United States
Atlantic
Stark
America
Germany
Russia
PFE Plans Big Car Purchase and Repairs in 1942
Pacific Fruit Express authorized to spend over 21 million dollars for new and rebuilt freight cars and heavy equipment repairs in 1942. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, joint owners, announce orders for 2,000 new cars to be placed soon with deliveries aimed before year end or early 1943. PFE will rebuild 2,500 cars with new bodies and make extensive repairs on 3,000 others in the same period.
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Omaha
Pacific Fruit Express
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific Railroads
PPE
Frederickson Plans Joining Air Corps
Frederickson Frederickson, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Frederickson of 518 South Arthur, left Monday for Portland Oregon to await a call into the air corps
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Air Corps
Arnold Frederickson
Frank Frederickson
South Arthur
Portland
Ore
Japanese Campaign Claims Far-reaching Military Triumphs
Japanese headquarters brag of brilliant results across Malays, Philippines, Burma and East Indies. They report 1,161 airplanes destroyed or shot down, 767 enemy vessels sunk or damaged, 134 captured, 592 tanks seized, 16,054 automobiles captured, 3,110 railway cars seized, 4,633 machine guns, 87,707 rifles and 119,028 prisoners of war. Tojo to address parliament as Singapore falls.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Singapore
Hideki Tojo
Tohore
Five Newspapers Stop Operation
The Editor and Publisher magazine reports multiple newspapers suspending operations since January. Names listed include the Yoakum Daily Herald, Mt. Clemens Leader, Sebring American, Vineland Evening Journal, and Drumright Daily Derrick as many papers shift to weekly or bi weekly issues due to ad revenue losses and higher taxes.
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New York
Yoakum
Texas
Daily Herald
Mt. Clemens
Michigan
Sebring
Florida
American
Vineland
N. J
Evening Journal
Drumright
Oklahoma
Traffic Toll Drops in Idaho Early 1942
Idaho reports six lives saved in January and February 1942 versus 1941. Law Enforcement Commissioner J. L. Balderston urged motorists to curb accidents to aid the war effort as eleven counties recorded 15 fatal crashes compared with 21 a year earlier.
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Boise
Idaho
J. L. Balderston
County Receipts From Forest Service Announced
I N Warner supervisor of Caribou national forest announced Bannock county received 1 722 80 in receipts from the forest service 1 050 73 from Caribou forest and 672 07 from Cache national Each year the forest service pays 25 percent of its receipts to the counties with sums listed for Bonneville Power and Power counties
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I. N. Warner
Caribou National Forest
Bannock County
Forest Service
Caribou Forest
Cache National
Bonneville
Order Fixes Pork Prices
Washington government freezes wholesale prices on 90 percent of pork products including ham and bacon at the March 3 to 7 peak levels. Effective March 23 the ceiling covers dressed hogs and wholesale pork cuts. OPA head Leon Henderson says the move helps curb living costs though farmers and retailers feel effects later. Prices in Chicago top 13.75 per hundred pounds, with farmers receiving over 110 percent of parity under the emergency act.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
OPA
Chicago
Granger Opposes Labor Unions in Idaho Potato Industry
Luke Williams of Boise, deputy state grand master, said he opposes the formation of unions for potato handlers. He questioned why organizing efforts were not attempted when best grade potatoes sold at 35 cents per hundredweight. A union for potato sorters was discussed at a meeting of shippers, growers, and labor representatives. Williams noted Idaho pay rates for sorters at 54 cents per hour, the highest in any state.
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Idaho Falls
Luke Wiliams
Boise
Grante
Wiliams
Idaho
Farm repair clinics scheduled in Bing ham and Aber deen counties
Board plans meetings with county USDA war board implement dealers and farmers participating. Clinics will be held in Aber deen Friday and Blackfoot Saturday starting at 10 30 a m.
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Blackfoot
Bingham County
Usda War Board
Aberdeen
Millions of Women May Move Into Munition Factories
Washington reports a census bureau survey urging large scale shifts of women from housework to munitions work as part of wartime labor expansion. It notes the male labor pool can grow only to a limit and highlights 15.6 million housewives aged 18 to 44 as the principal reserve for added war labor.
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Washington
Bureau of Census
England
Threat Rises In India Threat Rises In India
The article discusses rising threats to India after Japanese successes in Java and Burma. It notes potential moves on Hindustan, worries over national unity, and reports Britain’s indecision on concessions as Cripps pushes for immediate Indian independence.
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Java
Burma
Hve
India
Hindustan
England
London
Delhi
Britain
Sir Stafford Cripps
Clark Gets Crutch For Old Age
Weiser citizens sent a symbolic crutch to Senator D Worth Clark. The crutch carried a note saying it would support him in old age now that his pension is cut. Clark voted against repeal of a pension law for congress.
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Weiser
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Clark Hamilton
Clark
Congress
False alarm summons Poca Tello fire units at Hallidey and Eighth
A fire crew from Poca Tello responded after a false alarm at 9 50 p m on Monday. The call came from the Hallidey and Eighth area.
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Pocatello Fire Department
Hallidey
Eighth
Kve Moving Ahead On Three Fronts U S Plans Strategy
World war updates cover Soviet offensives around Leningrad and Kharkov, Japanese advances in Burma Java and New Guinea, and U S naval strategy. Roosevelt convenes a new naval board as King is named supreme commander. Churchill expected to speak amid India tensions.
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Kve
U.S
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Naval Board
Washington
E. J. King
U. S
Burma
Java
New Guinea
Australia
RAF
Ate
Tokyo
Berlin
Tharrawaddy
Irrawaddy
Rangoon
India
Pacific
Bandoeng
Soerabaja
NEI
Japan
Indies
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Malaya
Singapore
Masaharu Homma
MacArthur
Cebu
Manila
Port Moresby
New Delhi
Churchill
Devel
Submarine Attack Near Barnegat Marks Close Coastal Raids
AP reports an axis submarine torpedoed the Gulf Oil tanker Gulftrade just off Barnegat New Jersey in the nearest raid to the eastern coast yet. Also, Maurice Zuckerman, 63, convicted of manslaughter, receives a stay of execution in California. Ankara radio says six French light naval units moved from Dakar to Madagascar.
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New York
Barnegat
N. J
Sacramento
Calif
Third District Court of Appeals
Maurice Zuckerman
Idaho
London
Ankara
Turkey
Dakar
French West Africa
Madagascar
American group claims air victory over Burma
AP dispatches report that an American volunteer group destroyed 43 Japanese planes in Burma last week. In Idaho, assurances were given that potato growers will get enough bags to pack this year’s crop, after talks with Agriculture Commissioner Newport and Charles L. Sheldon of the War Production Board.
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New Delhi
India
Burma
Boise (Ap
Idaho
Agriculture
J. B. Newport
Charles L. Sheldon
Containers
War Production Board
Wherry Named Western Director for Republican National Committee
Republican National Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr. announced Kenneth S. Wherry of Pawnee Nebraska as western director for the national committee. Wherry, Nebraska state GOP chair, will liaison between Martin and western state chairmen.
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Washington
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Kenneth S. Wherry
Pawnee
Neb
National Committee
Wherry
Nebraska
Republican Committee
Martin
Herder Missing in Utah Mountains Searches Expanded
Sheriff M J Dankowski widens the hunt for Dewey Cook a 28 year old sheep herder from Logan Utah missing since March 2. He vanished from the J F Livingston sheep camp southwest of Bitter Creek in southern Sweetwater county.
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Green River
M J. Dankowski
Dewey Cook
Logan
Utah
Sweetwater County
Cook
J. F. Livingston
Bitter Creek
Hitler Recasts Reserves for Eastern Spring Offensive
London reports Adolf Hitler is mobilizing deep reserves for a large spring drive from Leningrad to Rostov aimed at crushing Russia. Informants say plans shifted from defense in the north to a general attack due to Soviet gains and Finnish pressure.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Leningrad
Rostov
Russia
Germany
Baltic States
Hitler
Red Army
Staraya Russa
Bulldozer operator Epracher to enlist in air service
Emmett Henry Epracher a county bulldozer operator who has lived with W H Jensen the county board chairman for six years departed Monday for Salt Lake City to enlist as a flying cadet in the army air service.
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Emmett Henry Epracher
W. H. Jensen
Board of County Commissioners
Salt Lake City
Army Air Service
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