Airmen Wipe Out 24 Square Miles Of Industrial Japan
B-29s from Guam bombed Osaka Nagoya and Tokyo in a five day raid arc, burning hundreds of factories and wooden workshops. Reports say 6 000 tons of incendiaries dropped over major targets, with entire districts turned to fire and fires visible from 125 miles away.
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Japan
Bomber Command
Guam
Osaka
Branhattan Island
Tokyo
Thomas
Power
William T. Loesch
Lake Wood
Ohio
Dayton
Jersey City
N. J
Albany
N. Y
Syracuse
Tokyo Radio
Marines and Japs slug in Iwo Jima final days
On Iwo Jima three U S marine divisions fought still resisting Japanese in caves and pillboxes on Kitano Point as Marines seized two rocks Kama and Kangoku and closed 115 caves. No substantial front line change reported as battle nears end on the 24th day. American air forces raided Chichi Jima and bombed installations on Sunday and Monday.
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Vern Haugland
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
U. S. Marine
Iwo Jima
Kitano Point
Fleet Headquarters
Kama
Kangoku
Iwo
Chichi Jima
Pacific
Strategic Air Force
Military Men See Victory
London reports Allied leaders anticipate an end to the war in the early summer with plans to cross the Rhine in force. British officials note past false dawns while American officers expect combat across Germany may continue the full summer and beyond.
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London
House of Commons
Rhine
James Grigg
Ninth Army Front
Associated Press
Wes Gallagher
Germany
Tax Date Near Boise Powers Last-Minute Payers
Tax deadline looms as Boise area offices see a rush on federal and state returns. John Wiley notes a lighter surge due to simpler procedures while the State Tax Commission reports about 30,000 returns received, with totals expected to double.
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Boise
John Wiley
Federal
Internal Revenue
P. G. Neil
Senate panel notes army to close Canoil project by April
Chairman Mead of the senate war investigating committee said the army will shut down its Canoil petroleum project around April 1. Senator Moore criticized the War Department for acting against petroleum experts and for an arbitrary attitude toward the project.
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Washington
Mead
D-N.y
Senate War Investigating Committee
Army
Canada
Senate
Moore
R-Okla
War Department
Japs Seek Protection Amid Air Raids Reported
London reports the Japanese diet is being kept in session to address air raid protection and inland seaway mobilization after American raids. Emperor Hirohito sends a envoy to assess damage and relief plans as Tokyo's stock exchange remains temporarily closed.
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London
Transocean
Berlin
Tokyo
Hirohito
Hokudaiu
Stock Exchange
RAF drops 10 ton bombs on German rail targets
RAF Lancaster bombers strike northwestern Germany dropping 10 ton bombs the largest carried by bombers to date hitting Bochum and Recklinghausen railways and industrial sites after 1250 American bombers attacked rail targets oil refineries armament plants and submarine pens. Australian forces declare Saposa cleared of Japanese on Bougainville after invasion last Thursday. Idaho senator Harry Wall suggests North Idaho secede from South Idaho and join Oregon or Washington.
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London
RAF Lancasters
Germany
Densal
Bochum
Recklingshausen
U.S
Eighth Air Force
Associated Press
Saposa
Bougainville
Melbourne
Lewiston, Idaho
Harry Wall
D.nez Perce
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Idahoan's Sister Dies in Salt Lake City
Mrs. Sarah Ann Dansie Crane 87 of Draper Utah died in Salt Lake City. A native of Barking England she crossed the plains in 1863 to cattle country. Survived by sister Mrs. George Webster of Blackfoot Idaho.
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Salt Lake City
Sarah Ann Dansie Crane
Draper
Utah
Barking
Essex
England
George Webster
Blackfoot
Ida
Allied Air Assault Seeks to Cripple Nazi War Industry
U S Eighth Air Force with 1 250 heavy bombers and 650 fighters backed by Allied escort bombarded rail yards oil refineries armament plants and submarine pens in Germany Austria and the Netherlands. Targets included Misburg Hannover Nienburg Ijmuiden and rail routes from the Ruhr. Bridgehead near Remagen sheltered by hundreds of allied fighters.
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London
Germany
U.S. Eighth Air Force
Remagen
Italy
U.S
Hungary
Austria
Komarom
Danube
Wiener Neustadt
Vienna
Britain
North Sea
Iimuiden
Hannover
Misburg
Nienburg
Hildesheim
Ruhr
Navy Seeks 23.7 Billion Budget for 1945 46
President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate 23,719,153,050 for the Navy for fiscal 1945 46. He sought 3,088,012,624 in additional contracts with 1,513,012,624 new authorizations and 1,575,000,000 continued from the current year. The plan calls for 3,389,000 sailors, 478,000 Marines, and 173,165 Coast Guard personnel, with nearly 24 billion for the year starting July 1, compared with about 28.5 billion in 1945 and 23 billion in 1944.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Detroit Magician Fails Spirit Contact With Darrow Pact
Claude D No ble, a Detroit magician, attempted for the seventh time to reach the spirit of Clarence Darrow Tuesday. On a bridge above a lagoon where Darrow’s ashes are said to rest, he prayed and asked for a manifestation but nothing occurred, despite holding a photo of Ed Sullivan.
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Chicago
Claude D. Noble
Detroit
Clarence Darrow
Darrow
Ed Sullivan
Noble
Reds Take City Zvolen Captured by Uk Army
Marshal Stalin announced the second Ukrainian army has captured Zvolen on the Hron river. Zvolen lies 11 miles south of Banska Bystrica and 75 miles north of Budapest, outlining a strategic position in the region.
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London
Zvolen
Hron River
Stalin
Banska Bystrica
Budapest
Young Galesburg Man Wounded in European Action
David Evans 18 of 1029 North Main was wounded in the European theater by shrapnel in the leg and is confined in a Luxembourg hospital. A graduate of the local high school, he entered service with officers training before transferring to the infantry. His father, Dave Evans, is YMCA general secretary, and his brother Tom serves as a Navy ensign in the Pacific.
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Thomas C. Evans
Evans
North Main
David
Luxembourg
Dave
Infantry
YMCA
Tom
Navy
War front highlights across theaters in brief summary
On the Western front Americans seized Honnef and moved toward the Trans Rhine bridgehead within 14 miles of a major highway while other troops outflanked the Saar area. The Russian front saw the Red Army push on Gdynia and threaten the Oder line for a Berlin push. In Italy Allied patrols increased pressure near Vergato. In the Pacific, US forces pressed Luzon south of Manila and attacked Osaka districts as Japanese resistance persisted. Chinese forces recaptured Suidiwan near a former US air base as battles continued around Mandalay.
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Honnef
Trans-Rhine
Saar
Red Army
Gdynia
Danzig
Oder
Berlin
Vergato
Mindanao
Luzon
Manila
Osaka
Suidiwan
U. S
Mandalay
Idaho Couple Wins License for Rexburg Marriage
An Idaho couple from Rexburg, William Henry Flamm aged 44 and Isabelle Whitney Leatham aged 24, obtained a marriage license in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Idaho
William Henry Flamm
Isabelle Whitney Leatham
Rexburg
Russians Overrun German Lines West of Oder In Berlin Front
Moscow reports Zhukov’s First White Russian Army broke a major German line along an 18 mile segment of the Oder between Kuestrin and Frankfurt threatening the capital. Berlin orders vow to defend to the last bullet as German command reshuffles eastern and western fronts amid a broad Russian offensive.
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London
Oder
Berlin
Reuters
Moscow
Reich
East Prussia
Lebus
Frankfurt
Gregory Zhukov
Kuestrin
Stettin
Guben
Forst
Neisse
Marsah
Ivan Konev
Prankfurt
Germany
Bruno von Hauenschild
Stockholm
Heinz Guderian
Schoerner
von Rundstedt
Walther von Model
Tisard von Rundstedt
Remagen
Zinten
Koenigsberg
Japs Resist Stubbornly On Mindanao
Manila dispatch reports stiffening resistance in Mindanao as the 41st Infantry Division tanks pursue retreating Japanese into hills north of Zamboanga. In Luzon, U S forces advance south of Manila capturing key towns and airfields while the 11th Airborne takes Los Banos and Santo Tomas. Antipolo falls as the Shimbu line weakens. Heavy bombers strike Borneo’s Miri refinery complex.
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Manila
Mindanao
Zamboanga
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
Jens A. Doe
Borneo
11Th Airborne
Los Banos
Laguna de Bay
Santo Tomas
Two Arrested at Pocatello to Get Sentences Friday
Delbert Fussell Clark and Ralph Louis Greer face federal sentencing before Judge Chase A. Clark for theft from interstate shipment of sport jackets at Consolidated Freightways. Clark is an army deserter with prior prison terms. Greer has past arrests for drunkenness and vagrancy in Kansas City and Pocatello.
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Delbert Fussell Clark
Ralph Louis Greer
Chase A. Clark
Consolidated Freightways
Clark
Lincoln
Nebr
Arizona
Greer
Kansas City
Pocatello
S. M. Nixon
George Newby
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Howard Ray Bishop
Payette
Enemy Losses Rise as Ninth Army Drives to Rhine
Two Ninth Army corps in Germany report 715 German artillery pieces captured or destroyed and 109 tanks or self-propelled guns eliminated during a two week advance to the Rhine.
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Ninth Army
Germany
Rhine
Faulty fuse saves bridge and reshapes war plan
American engineers credit a faulty fuse cap for preventing a German TNT blast that failed to destroy the Remagen Rhine bridge. The article recounts 19 pivotal days from February 23 to March 7 as Allied forces under Generals Simpson and Hodges drive toward victory, highlighting the Remagen crossing by Sgt. Alexander Drabik and key gains from Juelich to Dueren.
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Rhine
Remagen
Europe
Alexander Drabik
Holland
Ohio
Ludendorff
Germany
William H. Simpson
Ninth Army
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Field von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Seventh Corps
J. Kawton
Joe Lightning
Collins
New Orleans
Hodges
Juelich
Dueren
Cologne
Rhineland
May
Egg Shortage Deepens as Civilians Face Low Supplies
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange reports a severe egg shortage with production eight percent below last year. High consumer demand, meat shortages, and wartime needs strain stocks. National egg stocks totaled 621000 cases on March 1, down from 2808000 a year earlier when a glut existed and the government urged higher consumption.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Allied Push To Saar River Front Near Remagen and Saarbrucken
First and Seventh armies pressed across eastern Rhine hills toward the Saar district and the Ruhr Frankfurt highway. Patton’s forces extended the Rhine bridgehead with new towns captured and 27,127 prisoners taken in nine days as they battled through Hochwald and Hunsrueck terrain toward Kretzen haus and Kalenborn.
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Paris
First Army
Remagen
Frankfurt-Ruhr
George 8
Patton
Moselle
Coblens
Third Army
Berlin
Ludendorff
Rhine
Germany
Seventh Army
Saar
Saarbruecken
Bruecken
St. Catharinen
Linz
Ruhr- Frankfurt
Kretzenhaus
Kalenborn
Saar District
Saarburg
Siegfried Line
Hochwald
Hunsbrueck
Ruhr
Frankfurt on-the-Main
Honnef
Erpel
Hoenningen
Coblenz
Studio Strike Continues Amid Hollywood Labor Standoff
Hollywood's studio strike presses on with union leader Herbert Sorrell vowing to win, despite instruction from L. P. Lindelhoff to return to work. The dispute risks shuttering thousands of theatres as 17,000 film workers face idleness and production slowdowns across the industry.
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Hollywood
Herbert K. Sorrell
The
Conference of
Studio Workers
L. P. Lindelhoff
International Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America
Sorrell
AFL
Lindelhoff
International
Richard A. Walsh
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Walsh
Raiders Lash At Germany In Intensive Allied Bombing
Allied bombers pressed a long campaign across the Reich with west and south attacks following a five-pronged RAF raid. Mosquito planes dropped two ton blocks on Berlin, Bremen, and Frankfurt while Ruhr targets near Gelsenkirchen and Herne were hit, and Barmen was bombed in daylight.
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London
Germany
West Front
Berlin
Reich
RAF
Gelsenkirchen
Herne
Ruhr
Bremen
Frankfurt
Barmen
Weather summary for Pocatello area March 14
The Weather Bureau reports for Pocatello and nearby airports a 24 hour period ending noon March 14 with a high of 49 and low of 32 at 40 mean. Forecast calls for cloudy tonight and Thursday with light rain and little temperature change. sunset at 6:11 and sunrise at 7:42. Nearby stations show highs from 43 to 47 and lows from 21 to 33 with scattered precipitation.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal Airport
Pocatello
Idaho
Dubois
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