Stimson Reveals War Cabinet Talk Before Pearl Harbor Raid
Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson testified to a Senate committee that Roosevelt’s war cabinet nine days before Pearl Harbor discussed and rejected a warnless American attack on Japan. He recalled choosing to attack with no further warning, while noting a warning earlier by the president.
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Washington
Henry L. Stimson
Roosevelt
War Cabinet
Pearl Harbor
Stimson
Senate House Committee
Japan
Asiatic
White House
Thailand
Philippines
Dutch East Indies
Singapore
Rangoon
Gulf
Siam
Kra
Small Potato Large Beet Crops Forecast by Agriculture Dept
The agriculture department estimated 1946 potato production at 388,705,000 bushels, down from 1945’s 425,131,000 and above the 1934–1943 average. Beet production expected to rise. reports indicate 11,000,000 tons versus 8,638,000 last year. Corn crop forecast at 3,097,000,000 bushels on 92,993,000 acres, near last year’s area and above the ten-year average. Oats and spring wheat figures follow with last year’s compares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Crop Reporting Board
Idaho appoints new control board for state charitable institutions
Newly named members of Idaho's nonpartisan control board for state charitable institutions prepare for a general meeting. Gov. Arnold Williams appointed them under a law from the 1st special session of the 28th Legislature, aiming to depoliticize and improve hospital administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Nonpartisan
Control Board For
Arnold William
Parley Rigby
Idaho Falls
Harold E. Dedman
Robt. D. Werner
Orofino
Sen
O. E. Cannon
Mountain Home
Williams
Idaho
Rigby
Charles C. Gossett
Blackfoot
Gossett
Nampa
Joel Jenifer
Ray Promotes Bottolfsen as Idaho Governor Hope
Hoyt Ray an Idaho Falls lawyer predicts that if former Gov C A Bottolfsen runs for governor he will win in November. Ray told W Kent Naylor chairman of the Bonneville county Republican central committee he plans to urge Bottolfsen to enter the race. Dr C A Robins of St Maries is the only announced GOP candidate so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho Falls
C. A. Bottolfsen
Hoyt Ray
Ray
W. Kent Naylor
Bonneville County
Republican Central Committee
Bottolfsen
C. A. Robins
St. Maries
East Woman Seeks Dirt For U S Map Project
Joan Sawyer of East Bridgewater Massachusetts asked Idaho Extension Service for a spoonful of dirt for a United States soil map. Neta Samson of the Extension mailing service said the dirt will be taken from the Idaho statehouse.
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Boise
Joan Sawyer
East Bridgewater
Mass
University of Idaho Extension Service
United States
Miss Sawyer
Idaho
Neta Samson
Extension Service
Statehouse
Axis Sally Faces U S Treason Trial In Berlin
Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally is arrested in Zehlendorf and to be transported to the United States for treason charges. She claims she acted of her own free will and says her aim was to stop the war amid questions about her Nazi ties and personal life.
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Berlin
Justice Department
United States
Portland
Mildred Gillars
Zehlendorf
Sally
Bally
Germany
Corking Idea Sparks Plow Attachment Hack
Kimberly Idaho farmer Kenneth Jones devised a corking method to plug implement holes when not in use. He reports saving about 20 minutes per attachment though the corks must be removed before work.
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Kimberly
Idaho
Kenneth Jones
Jones
Spring Arrives As Vernal Equinox Brings 12 Hour Day
The Associated Press notes the vernal equinox marks spring with 12 hour days worldwide. In Atlanta the sun’s center crosses the equator at 12 33 a m EST, though local daylight lasts about 12 hours nine minutes due to atmospheric refraction. Temperatures remain normal countrywide with snow in parts of the mountains. The weatherman says it’s a good day for fishing.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
Nevada
Boy's unchaperoned bus trip ends in home return
Bobby, a child left with no adult supervision, rode a Spokane bound bus from Coeur d Alene. He traveled alone after 3:35 PM and was found asleep on a Spokane bus seat. Police and parents conducted a five day search before he was brought home in a police car.
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Wilhever
Bobby
Spokane
Coeur d'Alene
ICC Fixes Blame For U P Wreck
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled excessive speed on a sharp curves contributed to the Union Pacific passenger train derailment near Gibbon January 19, killing engineer Clarence Rizor and fireman Ray Baum. The engine and tender overturned and the first cars derailed.
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LA Grande
Ore
Interstate Commerce Commission
Union Pacific
Gibbon
Washington
Clarence Rizor
Ray Baum
Workers Ask Raise in Potlatch Area Talks
Negotiations opened today between Potlatch Forests Inc and CIO International Woodworkers of America. The union seeks a 20 cent per hour wage boost plus sick leave and other benefits across locals in Potlatch Pierce Coeur d Alene and Lewiston. They press hours, holiday, seniority and equal pay for women questions as the company plans to discuss dispute methods and night differentials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Potlatch Forests, Inc
CIO International Woodworkers of America
Potlatch
Pierce
Coeur d'Alene
Westinghouse Plant Clash and Ohio Steelworker Sit
Picket leaders and deputies broke up a scuffle at the East Pittsburgh Westinghouse plant amid a court order restricting mass picketing. In Bucyrus Ohio, Crawford Steel workers moved into the plant vowing to stay, work, sleep, and eat there until a wage dispute is settled.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Ohio
Westinghouse
Crawford Steel Company
Bucyrus
CIO
United
Steelworkers’ Union
Goering Denies Knowledge of Camp Slaughters at Trial
Hermann Goering told the international war crimes tribunal he knew nothing of concentration camp horrors. He blamed the Gestapo chief Himmler for the crimes and said Hitler kept such orders secret. He denied prior knowledge of the 50 R.A. officers execution order in March 1944.
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Mernberg
Germany
Hermann Goering
Hitler
Gestapo
International Military Tribunal
Goering
Reich
David Maxwell-Fyfe
Himmler
Idaho Man On Trial For Murder
Garland Wilson stands trial in Seattle on a first degree murder charge for the death of J. N. Raybould 70. The victim accused Wilson of theft before the struggle in which Raybould was killed. Witnesses say Wilson claimed self defense after Raybould struck him with a wooden mallet and a knife was used. The case ties to Wilson's alleged flight to Coeur d'Alene Idaho with his wife and child after taking at least 600 dollars.
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Seattle
Garland Wilson
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Wilson
J. N. Raybould
Rayourioon
Raybould
Beverly Wilson
Lloyd Shorett
Ted Russell
Mining firm reports 1945 loss and reduced output
Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mining Co. recorded a net loss of $38,582 in 1945. Manager Henry L. Day cited manpower shortages and lower millfeed, noting tonnage milled dropped about 30 percent and gross production was roughly one third below 1944.
Truman Refuses to Delay Hearing on Iran's Appeal
Lewistown Mont reports a humorous local note about hens laying unusually large eggs and one farmer touting tiny eggs as a novelty beyond standard poultry remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Iran
Plane Strikes Power Line Near Eagle
Robert B. Brandt, 23, son-in-law of Gov and Mrs Arnold Williams, was injured when his light airplane struck a power line and crashed two miles west of Eagle. The World War II pilot with 1500 flight hours had taken off from Floating Feather airport to solo practice en route to flight instructor training. The plane wrecked. Brandt suffered head and leg lacerations and possible internal injuries.
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Boise
Robert B. Brandt
Arnold Williams
Eagle
Brandt
Floating Feather
Bill Woods
Fortunner
Corine Williams
Dworshak to Decide Senate Run After Idaho Visit
Congressman Henry C. Dworshak said he will announce soon if he runs for the Republican Senate nomination. He has a March 28 Washington departure and plans to arrive in Boise at 7:30 a.m. March 29 for a week in Idaho to decide whether to seek the GOP Senate seat or return to his House seat.
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Twin Falls
Henry C. Dworshak
Senate
Times-News
Washington
D. C
Dworshak
Times- News
Boise
Idaho
G.O.P
Wallace CIO Rep Predicts Strike In Coeur d Alene District
Wallace representative of the CIO Mine Mill and Smelter Workers union warned the Secre tary of Labor wage board will not avert a general strike in the Coeur d Alene mining district. In Bismarck Idaho night spot operator A F McFee was fined 10000 dollars in federal court for liquor price conspiracy and given two years suspended sentence.
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Wallace
Harlow Wildman
CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union
Schwellenbach
Coeur d’Alene
Bismarck
N. D
A.F. McFee
Idaho
C. J. Vogel
McFee
Harry Lashkowitz
U. S
Submarine Report Circulates On Java Coast
Circulating reports claim Russian submarines lurked off the south coast of Java. No official comment was issued by the supreme allied command or allied forces in Batavia. Aneta and Reuters carried similar dispatches noting apparently reliable reports.
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Batavia
Java
Allied Command
Netherlands
Aneta
Great Britain
Reuters
Mrs Boyington Weds Seattle Vendor After Elopement
Mrs Helene Boyington and George L. Gilbert were married at the First Presbyterian church in Yakima after a Seattle elopement. Gilbert, a Seattle newspaper vendor, and the former wife of Lt. Col. Gregory Boyington obtained a license in Seattle, then left town with plans undisclosed.
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Yakima
Wash
Helene Boyington
George L. Gilber
Seattle
First Presbyterian Church
Gregory Boyington
Marine Air Hero
Gilbert
MacArthur orders firing squad for Homma over Bataan crimes
General MacArthur affirms Lt. Gen Masaemu Homma’s Manila court martial conviction and orders a firing squad death for the Bataan commander who ordered the death march. He clashes with Supreme Court dissents calling the sentence vengeance while noting execution details to be set in Manila.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
U. S. Supreme Court
Truman
Manila
Homma
MacArthur
Supreme Court
Murphy
Rutledge
DAR to Meet Two Days
Plans for the 34th annual state conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution are underway in Twin Falls. Meetings March 22 and 23 will be at the First Presbyterian church with a Friday banquet at Park Hotel. Mrs. Sturgeon McCoy presides. Mrs. Genevieve Dwight is toastmistress. Mrs. John R. McKinney opens with an invocation. Mrs. John E. Hayes gives the main address. Friday includes officer reports and an hour of remembrance. Saturday covers committee reports and new business.
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Twin Falls
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Sturgeon McCoy
First Presbyterian Church
Park Hotel
Coroner rules against inquest in Spokane double shooting
Spokane coroner C J Abrams announces no inquest is needed in the double shooting at a Spokane home. Victims include Henry A Hopper a 22 year old war veteran from Clark Fork Idaho and his wife Betty. Mrs Hopper granted interlocutory divorce and custody of their three year old son on March 12.
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Spokane
C. J. Abrams
Henry A. Hopper
Clark Fork
Idaho
Betty
Hopper
Marjorie Higgins
Crop Dusters to Meet MOSCOW Idaho
Five day school for Idaho aviators interested in crop dusting will be conducted at the University of Idaho from April 2 to 6. The program brings together pilots, farmers, and aviation instructors to learn crop dusting techniques and safety practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Idaho
University of Idaho
Downey GOP'er Gains ICC Post
President Truman announced Rosel H. Hyde of Downey Idaho as the new member of the Federal Communications Commission. Hyde, 45, has served with the FCC and its predecessor since 1928 and became assistant general counsel in charge of broadcast matters in 1942.
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Downey Gop
ICC
Washington
Truman
Rosel H. Hyde
Downey
Idaho
Federal Communications Commission
Hyde
FCC
Army seeks indefinite draft extension to free fathers by fall
General Eisenhower urged Congress to extend the draft indefinitely and limit inductee service to 18 months. If approved, the army could release all fathers by late August or early September. Patterson warned of a possible shortfall of 165000 men by July 1, 1947 without extension.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
House Military Committee
Eisenhower
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
Army plans dam on Boise river near Arrowrock site
Rep Dworshak was told the army engineers intend a flood control project on the Boise river featuring a 250 foot dam at Lucky Peak twelve miles below Arrowrock dam. The earth filled structure would be 1700 feet wide and create 306000 acre feet of water with power facilities for 13000 kilowatts. The plan also includes flood forecast stations and control operations at Anderson Ranch Lucky Peak and Arrowrock to protect the valley from floods.
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Washington
Dworshak
Anderson Ranch
Lucky Peak
Arrowrock
Boise Valley
Orient Ships Pivot to Wheat Trade Coastwise
Waterfront officials report a rush for Orient bound wheat diverted 13 ships from Europe bound routes. Two ships already sailed to Japan, eight more to load wheat for the western Pacific, and three ships are loading in Puget Sound for the same area.
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Portland
Orient
Europe
Columbia River
Puget Sound
Japan
Western Pacific
Russia urges delay on Iran dispute at UN
Soviet Ambassador Gromyko said delaying UN action would ease nothing and could complicate the Iran case as Iran and Russia pursue diplomatic negotiations. President Truman stated the UN meeting would not be postponed and the United States would push for decisive action despite Moscow's 16 day delay request.
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Washington
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations Security Council
Truman
UNO
United States
Moscow
Gromyko
State Department
Byrnes
New York
Russia
Iran
Security Council
Labor secretary forms wage-fixing board over metal strikes
Secretary Schwellenbach appoints a three member fact finding panel to study a wage dispute affecting about 80,000 workers in nonferrous metals. CIO Mine Mill and Smelter Workers have already led some 12,602 CIO workers in smelters and refineries to strike, halting copper lead and zinc production. The panel led by George E Strong includes Justice James H Wolff and Carl Bergman to prevent spread and to urge CIO to call off threatened strikes through May 15.
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Washington
Secretary of
Schwellenbach
Edgar L. Warren
Federal Conciliation Service
CIQ
Warren
CIO
Labor Department
Union Pacific names Jeffers as board vice president
The Union Pacific railroad board elected William M. Jeffers, a former president who retired after nearly 56 years with the company, as board vice president. Jeffers, now living in Los Angeles, remains a director after retirement.
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New York
Union Pacific Railroad
William M. Jeffers
Railroad
Jeffers
Los Angeles
Rocket sets altitude mark with weather probe rocket
Pasadena report says a Caltech developed ionosphere rocket weighing 1000 pounds and 16 feet long has reached 290000 feet 431 miles in a White Sands test. Directed by Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner the craft will dive via parachute data back to earth.
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Pasadena
Calif
California Institute of Technology
Army Ordnnance Department
Signal Corps
White Sands
Cruces
N. M
Kew
Harold R. Turner
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U.P
Lewistown, Mont
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Bulletins
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Dar
Army
George E. Strong
Washington, D. C
James H. Wolff
Utah Supreme Court
Carl Bergman
Chemical Engineering
University of Colorado
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