British War Fight at Sea Against Superior Odds
A British light squadron charged a far larger Italian fleet in the central Mediterranean to protect a Malta convoy. The action, witnessed by AP reporters, saw multiple British ships survive a prolonged battle with heavy enemy fire and dive-bomber attacks. The Italian fleet withdrew after dark.
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Preston Grover
Idaho AP
Alexandria
Egypt
Mediterranean
Malta
Richard Mowrer
Chicago Daily News
Soviet Envoy Urges 1942 Offensive Urgency
Soviet ambassador to Britain Ivan Maisky declared 1942 the decisive moment for victory and urged the United Nations to take immediate offensive. He stressed the USSR front as the decisive place and called for all allied resources to be mobilized for battle. He added that the form and timing should come from allied general staffs.
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London
Ivan Maisky
Britain
United Nations
Ussr
Maisky
General Staffs
War Production Board limits on razors and blades
The WPB ordered curbs on safety razors straight razors and razor blades to 70 percent of 1940 monthly output for 90 days. Production of electric razors not restricted. The rule aims to give each shaver about one blade per week with ample supplies expected.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
WPA
Bombers and fighters hit French shipyards and Soviet advance
London AP reports RAF bombers and fighters attacked ship yards at Le Trait on the Seine in northern France. The Moscow radio claimed a red army ski unit advanced 30 miles across Lake Ilmen south of Leningrad, breaking the outskirts of Staraya Russa and freeing several hundred from a prison camp. The Vichy radio cited Madrid that 31 people accused of communist activity were executed in Spain with new arrests by Portuguese police.
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London
le Trait
Seine
France
Moscow Radio
Lake Ilmen
Leningrad
Staraya Russa
Vichy Radio
Madrid
Spain
Government grants free licensing for Standard Oil patents
The justice department announced a wartime decree authorizing free public licensing of Standard Oil patents used to produce synthetic rubber and gasoline. The action aims to support war needs by removing patent barriers and accelerating production.
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Washington
Standard Oil Company
Justice Department
Navy approves radio operator school at University of Idaho
Senator Thomas said the Navy Department authorized a training school for naval radio operators at the University of Idaho in Moscow. He was told the maximum enrollment would be 600, the course would last four months, and the school would operate year round.
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Washington
Thomas
Germany Pressed by Russian Fronts as 600000 Reserves Deployed
Soviet dispatches report Adolf Hitler reinforcing with 600000 troops while German casualties reach about 140000 since February 6. Frontline updates cite heavy losses near Kalinin and Moscow regions, with fighting across Ukraine and the Crimea.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Kalinin Front
Invasion of Australia Difficult Task
Official dispatches from the southwest Pacific indicate any Japanese invasion of northeast Australia could face strong air and naval resistance. Nine P-40 fighters supported raids on Law New Guinea while American bombers destroyed several enemy aircraft. Two American fighters were lost. Additionally two US destroyers Pillsbury and Edsall are missing and presumed lost with about 145 men aboard.
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Washington
Southwest Pacific
Australia
Britain
Torres Strait
New Guinea
Strait of Dover
Strait
War Department
Law
Navy
South Pacific
United States
Pillsbury
Edsall
Bali Strait
Java
Court orders tax refund on agricultural labor ruling
The Idaho Supreme Court ordered the state Industrial Accident Board to refund $1,719 paid under protest by Carstens Packing Co. in unemployment tax. The court held labor attendant to cattle feeding shipped into Idaho qualifies as agricultural labor and is not subject to unemployment compensation tax.
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Boise
Idaho Supreme Court
State Industrial Accident Board
Carstens Packing Company
Idaho
Porter’s Death Not Inquested After Canal Find
Idaho Falls coroner Fred Porter ruled no inquest for William Watson a 60 year old Black porter found deceased in a canal Tuesday. Watson had been missing since December.
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Idaho Falls
Fred Porter
William Watson
Idaho
New Black Rock Bridge Opens Over Portneuf River
The twin arch Portneuf bridge near the checking station opened to travel this week though not fully finished per county surveyor W P Havener. It replaces the condemned pile bridge built on the old Utah Northern railway foundation. Jewel S Horton oversees construction and it enables crossing Portneuf for the riverfront country road.
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Black Rock
Portneuf
W P. Havener
Utah-Northern Railway
Jewel S. Horton
Carnes Reports on Chicago Conference Key Points
W C Carnes, Pocatello delegate to the small business men's conference in Chicago, reported at a chamber luncheon that merchants discussed cooperating with the government in the war effort. He said the group opposed a proposed social security tax increase and endorsed a 48 hour week in essential industries.
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W. C. Carnes
Pocatello
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce
Army Adds three Infantry Divisions for Conversion in 1943
The army created three new divisions as the first step in expanding to 3.6 million men for 1943. Units, streamlined from 1918 France models, recruit at southern camps with officers and NCOs on hand. The 32 new infantry divisions will be triangular, about 15 000 men each, with roughly 13 000 drafted, and most units fully motorized.
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France
War Department
Heroic Work Rescues 32 Sailors From Capsized Oklahoma
The navy released citations for heroic conduct detailing an all night rescue of 32 sailors trapped in the capsized USS Oklahoma on December 7. Yard workers and a naval officer were honored for efficient work cutting through the ship’s sides with pneumatic tools as Japanese attack raged and the burning USS Arizona provided light. Julio Decastro, a Honolulu-born yard worker, led the crew as tapping sounds from the Oklahoma guided the operation.
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Pearl Harbor
U. S. S. Oklahoma
Navy
Oklahoma
U. S. S. Arizona
Julio Decastro
Caribou Forest to Absorb Malad District April 1
Forest Supervisor James O. Stewart announces the Malad ranger district will move from Cache to Caribou National Forest on April 1. The transfer adds about 128000 acres to Caribou, bringing total area to 1008534 acres with headquarters in Pocatello and Malad district headquarters remaining in Malad. The Malad district covers the range from near Plymouth, Utah to Downey.
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James O. Stewart
Cache National Forest
Logan
Caribou National Forest
Pocatello National Forest
Caribou Nation Forest
Pocatello
I. M. Warner
Ranger District
Malad
Plymouth
Utah
Downey
Cold Weather Persists in Pocatello
Pocatellans button their overcoats as a chilly spell continues with a delayed spring. The day’s high reached 41 degrees, low 24, mean 33, seven below the normal 40. Sunrise is 7 22 and sunset 7 49 on Thursday.
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Pocatellans
Idaho Man Held on Charge After Fatal Accident
Logan Del Walton 40 of Cleveland Idaho was ordered held for district court on a charge of failing to stop at a fatal accident scene. City Judge Jesse P Rich set bond at 2000 dollars. Walton identified as the driver of a car that struck and killed Nathaniel Chugg 53 in nearby Nibley on March 14.
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Logan
del Walton
Cleveland
Idaho
Jesse P. Rich
Walton
Nathaniel Chugg
Nibley
Japs Occupy Islands South of Calcutta Threaten India
Boise workers strike closes Idaho papers. Capital News and Idaho Daily Statesman suspend with 78 years of continuity breached. Union wage dispute spurs walkouts delaying local editions and leaving Idaho’s capital without a daily paper.
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Calcutta
India
Boise
Idaho
Capital News
Idaho Daily Statesman
Statesman
Firm Cuts War Profits to Six Per Cent
Jack & Heintz Inc, an aircraft parts maker facing a congressional probe into excess war profits, cut its profits to six per cent and pledged further price reductions while maintaining worker bonuses and free lunches. President William S. Jack outlined future policy after a naval affairs committee hearing.
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Cleveland
Jack & Heintz, Inc
William S. Jack
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Vessel Folds In Center Near Norfolk
Axis submarines sank a medium sized American vessel off the Atlantic coast early Saturday. Captain E V Peters of New York is believed dead while 36 crewmen survived in four lifeboats. Eight men in two boats were rescued after nine hours at sea and landed at Norfolk. Another ship saved 29 crew and brought them to Southport North Carolina. First Mate Christian A Hansen of Wilmington said Peters is lost. Two torpedoes hit starboard one minute apart. the second caused a midship explosion buckling the ship into a V shape.
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Norfolk
Atlantic
E. V. Peters
New York
Southport
N. C
Fifth Naval District
Christian A. Hansen
Wilmington
Peters
Hansen
Government Probes Excess War Profits by Firms with Navy Contracts
The House Naval Committee learned that officials of 15 companies with navy contracts saw compensation rise dramatically from 22 to 1331 percent between 1934 and 1941. Edmund Toland, counsel, said he would prove a shared belief that the government would pay any cost. Rep. Gore warned that labor and industry chiefs risk public wrath as scrutiny increases.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Edmund Toland
Rep. Gore
D-Tenn
Japan Seizes Andaman Islands in Bay of Bengal
Imperial reports say Japanese forces occupy the Andaman group 350 miles from Rangoon in the western theatre, while U S Navy and bombers strike Japanese outposts in the Pacific. Allied actions include key attacks on Marcus and Wake Islands and air assaults along Burma's front.
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Associated Press
India
Andaman Islands
Bay of Bengal
Calcutta
Ledger
Navy
United States
Pacific
Andaman
Andamans
Japan
Tokyo
Navy Gy
Pearl Harbor
Wake
Marcus
Dutch Indies
Australia
Borneo
Sumatra
Celebes Island
Burma
Toungoo
Toun
Mandalay
Imperial Tokyo
Wake Islands
May Gamble on Channel Raid Ignored by War Cabinet
The House of Commons warning from Sir John iderson notes the German risk of invasion this spring as a possible desperate move. He argues Hitler would use a lightning strike to disable England and focus on the Soviet Union if Russia worsens.
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House of Commons
John Iderson
War Cabe
England
English Channel
Hitler
Caucasus
Middle East
Dust Impedes Desert War Front in Libyan Campaign
British headquarters report swirling dust storms slow operations along the Libyan desert front. German high command lists 10 British planes destroyed in operations over German held territory Tuesday. Increasing German air naval and undersea pressure on Britain's Russia supply lines is forecast as longer days arrive. U boat attacks intensify in the Caribbean and off the U S east coast. Britain pledges full assistance to the United States against the submarine menace while acknowledging German gains in the western Atlantic.
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Leningrad
Hitler
Stroig
Kere
Crimea
Donets River
Ukraine
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Sea of Azov
Orel
Mussolini
Athens
Greece
Portland
Weymouth
Murmansk
North Africa
Britain
Russia
Caribbean
United States
Postal Group To Meet Southern Idaho Delegation
Dan Sullivan of San Francisco secretary of the national association of letter carriers and John Mitchem of Spokane vice president of the national federation of postal clerks will address southern Idaho letter carriers and postal clerks at a district convention in Idaho Falls Saturday. Other speakers include O E Bates state president of the postal clerks and James A Fanning Idaho Falls state president of the letter carriers. One hundred delegates from Pocatello Swan Falls Idaho Falls Burley American Falls St Anthony Rexburg and Rigby are proclaimed.
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Idaho Falls
Dan Sullivan
San Francisco
National Association of Letter Carriers
John Mitchem
Spokane
National Federation of Postal Clerks
Idaho
O. E. Bates
James A. Fanning
Pocatello
Swin Falls
Burley
American Falls
St. Anthony
Rexburg
Rigby
Crepoclad
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