Fist Fight Fatality Near Twin Falls Claims Life
One man died and another was jailed after a Sunday night brawl about one mile south of Twin Falls. James William Lapsley, 23, of Kimberly, died during the confrontation while James Brigman, 26, of Kimberly, is held as a material witness. Coroner Dr. A A Newberry scheduled a coroner's inquest for Tuesday morning.
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W. W. Lowery
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James William Lapsley
Kimberly
James Brigman
Lapsiey
A. A. Newberry
Twin Falls County
Hitler Presses Breakthrough Effort as Fronts Maintain Pressure
Allied and Axis forces clash across western Europe the Mediterranean and the 2000 mile Russian front. German destroyers fall in action near Russia while Britain presses air and sea campaigns against Libya Norway and Germany. Berlin claims Russian setbacks and losses as Moscow centers face intensified bombing.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Mediterranean
Arctic
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Fuehrer
Russia
Libya
Tmimi-El Mechili
Rome
Tobruk
Malta
Britain
Norwegian
Germany
Baltic
Luebeck
R.A.F
Ruhr
R.A
India's Fight Hinges on Three Things
New Delhi dispatch says India's push for freedom rests on three pillars. The Cripps offer ties self-rule to postwar timing. Acceptance depends on yes from India's war cabinet and agreement among its diverse minorities to form a workable independence.
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New Delhi
Britain
Stafford Cripps
Sir Stafford
Reds Capture More Points
London sources quoted Vichy radio as saying Kharkov in the Donets basin was encircled by the Red Army. Tass reported recapture of a broad district in the Smozensk sector after a two day battle. Twenty communities west of Moscow were wrested from Germans during March 27 28 offensive.
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London
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Kharkov
Donets
Red Army
Smolensk
Tass
Moscow
Kalinin
Norway
Denmark
Ship Sinkings Reach 98
New York reports sea warfare in Atlantic waters claim 22 UN ships in the past week lifting Atlantic sinkings since Pearl Harbor to 98. Eleven American vessels, four Norwegian, four British, one Netherlands, one Honduras, and one unidentified allied merchant ship sunk last week.
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Atlantic
United Nations
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Caribbean
Netherlands
Honduras
Ceylon Air Raid Alert Follows By Nuclear Signal
Ceylon, a British crown colony near India, sounded its first air raid alert Monday afternoon, then switched to a nuclear signal. Trincomalee Naval base is a key asset cited in the alert. Washington ordered a halt to production of many household electrical appliances through May 31 except for high priority military orders. About 50 common items coverd by the decree include toasters griddles irons and shavers.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Trincomalee
Washington
War Production Board
Gulf of Paria to be mined beginning April 1
Venezuela's ministry of war and marine announced that the Gulf of Paria between Trinidad and the mainland will be mined starting April 1. The note mentions a U S defense base at Trinidad leased from Britain in the destroyer trade of 1940.
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Venezuela
Ministry of War and Marine
Gulf of Paria
Trinidad
United States
Britain
legislation boosts monthly pay for army privates
The senate passed a measure raising the monthly pay of army buck privates from 21 to 42 dollars and making adjustments in pay and allowances for other personnel across the army navy marine corps coast guard and related services.
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Washington
Army
Navy, Marine Corpl
Coast Guard, Geodetic Survey and
Public Health Service
Senate
Torpedoed vessels reported off Atlantic coast
The navy announced that a small U.S. merchant vessel and a medium British merchant vessel were torpedoed off the Atlantic coast with no further details disclosed.
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Washington
United States
Atlantic
Supreme Court Upholds Texas Picketing Restriction
The Supreme Court divided 5 to 4 to uphold a Texas law that limits picketing to the area of the industry involved in the labor dispute.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Texas
Project Manager En Route To Launch Construction Of 20 Million Dollar Plant
J W Otter will arrive in Pocatello Tuesday to take over duties as project manager for the new 20 million dollar naval gun refining plant to be constructed there. Morrison Knudsen president Harry W Morrison announced the move. He says construction jobs will be started immediately.
Evacuation Freeze Locks Japanese Americans In Coastal Zone
A military order forces more than 100000 Japanese Americans on the west coast to remain in place in military area 1 from Washington to California and southern Arizona. Violators face severe penalties as curfew rules also ban guns cameras radios and other contraband by all Japanese Americans in seven western states.
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Oregon
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Arizona
Nevada
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Death Notice of Mrs. Shartel Former Mrs. Goldsmith
Word arrived from Finis Bentley of Pocatello that Mrs. Shartel formerly Mrs. Howard Goldsmith of Pocatello and her husband were killed in an auto-train crash at Mentone California. A son Howard Goldsmith is at Mentone on furlough from Camp Lewis.
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Shartel
Howard Goldsmith
Pocatello
Mentone
Calif
Camp Lewis
Bentley
Idahoan Brother of Lena Sorenson Dies in Salt Lake City
Lor enzo Welch 42, brother of Mrs. Lena Sorenson of Brancroft, died Saturday in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Mary Lucretia Crow 73, mother of Howard Van Houten of Nampa and Henry H. Crow of Twin Falls, died Sunday in Idaho Falls.
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Lorenzo Welch
Lena Sorenson
Brancroft
Idaho Falls
Mary Lucretia Crow
Howard van Houten
Nampa
Henry H. Crow
Twin Falls
Rickenbacker and Hunter to Address Gowen Field Officers
Col Eddie Rickenbacker and Col Frank Hunter, WWI aces, will speak Tuesday afternoon at Gowen Field on combat tactics and psychology. Rickenbacker, credited with 25 enemy planes, and Hunter with eight, are slated to share experiences with Boise area officers.
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Boise
Eddie Rickenbacker
Frank Hunter
Gowen
Rickenbacker
United States
Hunter
Union Pacific to Lay Spur Tracks for Idaho Naval Gun Plant
The Union Pacific plans spur tracks this week into a 160 acre site to bring construction materials to a new naval gun plant. Officials say a large craft workforce will be employed as the project progresses with about twenty thousand dollars in expected spending. Idaho’s delegation notes the plant will reline large guns up to 16 inches, requiring heavy cranes and special flat cars for transport and testing.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company
Taber
Range
Pole Line
Idaho
Seaboard
Traffic Death Toll Drops in February 1942
America's February 1942 traffic fatalities totaled 2,386, down 8 percent from 2,590 in February 1941, ending 18 months of increases. The national safety council noted only fragmentary mileage data and could not assess rationing's impact. Among 42 states reporting, 26 showed declines, two were unchanged.
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Chicago
America
National Safety Council
Council
Three Pocatellans Commissioned as Second Lieutenants
Terrell visiting Pocatellans Jack K Davis Ralph W Poster and John R Terrell have been commissioned as second lieutenants in the army medical corps. They graduated from a Carlisle Barracks training course in Pennsylvania. Second Lt Terrell arrived by plane Sunday night to visit his parents.
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Jack K Davis
East Whitman
Ralph W.poster
South First
John R. Terrell
South Hayes
Army Medical Corps
Carlisle Barracks
Penn
Terrell
F. Cc. Terrell
Crash Kills Pilot At Boise Port
A single engine training plane crashed on the Boise air field killing William M. Skinner a 24 year old civilian pilot training instructor from Boise and severely injuring Jack E. Wilson a 19 year old Boise student from Boise Junior College. Skinner had taught at the field about six months and Wilson was preparing for his first solo flight. Skinner’s home was Jordan Valley Oregon.
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William M. Skinner
Jack E. Wilson
Skinner
Jordan Valley
Oregon
Wilson
Boise Junior College
Bataan Defenses Hold Against Japanese Assaults
War department reports Japanese attacks on the Bataan peninsula were repulsed with heavy losses. Corregidor endured day and night air raids with one Japanese plane shot down. Mindanao saw patrol skirmishes as counters regained positions and American Filipino forces reported lighter casualties.
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Washington
War Department
Bataan
Philippines
Corregidor
Mindanao
Manila Bay
Wainwright
Department
Chamber Opposes Time Zone Change in Southern Idaho
The Blackfoot chamber board opposes placing southern Idaho in the Pacific time zone. Pocatello chamber leaders report local consensus mirrors the Blackfoot stance. A mid February Gate City civic group meeting passed a resolution opposing the time change.
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Blackfoot Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Southern
Idaho
Pocatello Chamber
Bingham County
Gate City
Fire Damages Payette Home for Aged Inmates Safe
Fire ate through the roof and top floor of the Payette aged home forcing the removal of residents to safety. Damage estimated at 750 dollars before firefighters subdued the blaze.
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Payette (A
Raid On St Nazaire Seen as Blow Against Axis Navy
British commandos struck St Nazaire in a daring raid Saturday morning damaging the pumping station and the main lock gate. Experts say the attack will immobilize submarines in the basin and likely force German raiders to relocate. Survivors returned to a heroes welcome as officials claim casualties were under 100. German reports of sinking the Buchanon are denied. the vessel supposedly rammed the lock gate’s center.
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London
St. Nazaire
North Atlantic
Cate
R.A.F
Lorient
Bordeaux
Zeebrugeze
Buchanan
Truce Delays Labor War in Wartime Policy
Washington reports a tacit truce on wartime labor demands delaying action for two weeks. House leaders will not push legislation while Senate leaders shelve the labor profits dispute. Public opinion is expected to crystallize, even as the Appropriations Committee moves on the $18.3 billion War appropriations bill and other supply measures.
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Congressional
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Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Langer
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Japan Uses Poison Gas on Burma Front Says Chinese
A Chinese high command communique accuses Japanese forces near Toungoo Burma of using poison gas as they attempt to seize the town. The Chinese report gas masks captured earlier and note that gas use has been charged before. The exchange comes as Allied air forces claim gains in New Guinea and New Britain and describe heavy losses of Japanese shipping at Lae.
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Phoenix
Ariz
United States
Associated Press
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Burma
High Command
Toungoo
China
New Guinea
New Britain
A. S. Drakeford
Melbourne
Fremm Timor
Rabaul
Lae
Palembang
Dutch Sumatra
Mandalay
Burma Front
Nangwun
Kyungon
Nangyun
Pyinmana
Yyinmana
McCall Fire Destroys Yacht Club and Four Businesses
Volunteer firefighters battled a morning blaze in McCall that razed the Yacht club building and four other enterprises. Loss exceeded $20,000 with the owner valuing the structure at $8,000 and no insurance. The fire was reported by Mrs. E. J. Peabody at 5 10 a m.
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Yacht Club
E. J. Peabody
Nations to Join Pacific War Council Draft
White House announces a Pacific war council with Australia and New Zealand included. The first meeting is set for Wednesday with Canada the Netherlands Great Britain China and the United States also represented. Officials mention coordination with a London counterpart and potential joint action in the southwest Pacific theater. Dr Herbert V Evatt is listed among the invitees.
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London
White House
Washington Council
London Council
Herbert V. Evatt
Tax Revision May Come
The Treasury proposed three liberalizations of family expense deductions for individuals. Randolph Paul told the House Ways and Means Committee that increased tax rates justify changes including medical expense deductions above a set percentage of income, revived credits for dependent children aged 18 to 21 in school, and an additional credit when the wife earns income to offset higher household costs.
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Treasury
Randolph Paul
Morgenthau
House
Ways and Means
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