Japs to Follow Fresh Victory With New Drive
Allied bombers struck near Bougainville and Japanese warships threatened maneuvers north of Australia. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reported a successful attack on the enemy fleet with few details. Experts in Washington foresee possible Japanese moves toward China, Russia, Australia, and Alaska or Hawaii as the conflict widens.
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Associated Press
Australia
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Burma
Philippines
Washington
China
United Nations
Pacific
Russia
Hawaii
Alaska
India
Red Army Breaks Through Near Leningrad In Heavy Fight
Soviet forces claim a major breakthrough west of Leningrad at a junction point disrupting the enemy’s northern and southern wings. Red Star says the advance, despite floods and poor roads, inflicted heavy losses on German troops. Finnish high command reports annihilation of the Soviet 238th Infantry Regiment with over 1500 Soviet dead in the Louhi sector. Hitler’s HQ notes heavy casualties for the Russians and a lull elsewhere.
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Red Army
Leningrad
Red Star
Krasnogvardeisk
Estonia
Pskov
Warsaw
Louhi
Lake Onegs
Hitler
British Gain On Desert Aims East Of El Mechili
In North Africa a Italian communique reports British armor reached east of El Mechili, deep thrust west since February retreat, and faced heavy artillery resistance. Stuttgart produced by RAF raids, as did Dover coast targets, with unclear results due to clouds.
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Associated Press
el Mechili
Tobruk
Stuttgart
Britain
High Command
Dover
RAF
Stittgart
Germany
Church Graduates 5 000 Students This Month
The Latter-day Saints church department of education announced 500 college students will graduate from church institutes and about 5,000 students in five states will graduate this month from church seminaries.
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Salt Lake City
Latter-day Saints Church Department of Education
Plane Crashes Into Great Salt Lake Near Antelope Island
A two seat open cockpit training plane carrying Second Lieuts Irvin C Eels of Los Angeles and Robert E Fabian of Kansas City, MO, crashed into a shoal in the Great Salt Lake about 20 miles west of Ogden and 3 miles northeast of Antelope Island. Both occupants stood by the wreckage awaiting rescue as officials investigated cause. The plane had been missing since 4 pm Wednesday after flying south and hitting the water, overturning twice before coming to rest.
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Ogden
Great Salt Lake
Antelope Island
Irving C. Eels
Los Angeles
Robert E. Fabian
Kansas City
Hillfield
Utahn Receives Heroic Action War Award
Washington reports 16 Army Air Forces officers and one enlisted man awarded for valor. Captain Fred T. Crimmins of Fort Douglas Utah earned the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery at Clark Field during the December 8 attack, attempting to start a trapped plane under heavy fire before it was destroyed.
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Washington
War Department
Army Air Forces
Clark Field
Philippines
Southwest
Pacific
Fred T. Crimmins
Fort Douglas
Utah
Crimmins
Rubber shortage drives curbs on travel and sports
Washington officials warned the rubber shortage is acute and may force curtailment of sports events and Sunday trips. Undersecretary Patterson said voluntary tire purchases suffice for now but requisitioning private car tires could be considered, with gas rationing easing travel limits. He noted wartime necessity overrides past wasteful driving habits.
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Washington (Ap
Robert P. Patterson
War Department
Joe
Patterson
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Firm to Pay Double Rate
General Motors yielded to the war labor board order for temporary double time payments for Sunday work. GMC president Charles E. Wilson admitted misunderstanding the order and its term ex parte while board chair William H. Davis explained its one sided meaning. Wayne L. Morse accused GMC of a sit down strike and contemptuous defiance.
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Washington
General Motors Corporation
War Labor Board
William H. Davis
Wayne L. Morse
Baseball games shift start times for Pocatello and Ogden series
The Pocatello Cardinals and Ogden Reds now begin at 8 o clock on Thursday and Friday with 8 15 p m Saturday as organizers avoid conflicts with other events including musical programs. The piece also notes that Erne Stites of The Tribune authored a critical piece about Bill McCorry and that McCorry may respond in print on the local diamond if he chooses, though no reply is anticipated.
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Pocatello Cardinals
Ogden Reds
Bill McCorry
Ogden
Erne Stites
The
Tribune
McCorry
Sports Department
Baseball doubleheader postponed by weather switch
In the American League all games were postponed due to weather. The National League first game ended New York 15 runs to Pittsburgh 2 with no-hit scorelines shown. the second game New York 0 0 1 Pittsburgh 0 1 9. Koslo and Danning, Heintzelman and Lopez cited in box.
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R. H. E. New York
Pittsburgh
Koslo
Danning
Heintzelman
Lopez
Blonde Ann Sothern Wins Divorce in Cruelty Claim
Los Angeles reports actress Ann Sothern real name Harriette Lake Pryor won a divorce on Thursday after alleging cruelty due to husband Roger Pryor’s flying habits. They wed September 27, 1936, separated September 1 of last year, no children.
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Los Angeles
Ann Sothern
Roger Pryor
Miss Sothern
Harriette Lake Pryor
Arthur Pryor
Idahoan Raps Senators
Idaho Secretary of State George H. Curtis says he will not seek a congressional seat this fall and blasts Idaho's delegation. He criticizes Senator Clark for opposing Washington cocktail parties and Senator Thomas over public spending and the farmer’s share in the war boom. Curtis had been named as a possible Democratic candidate.
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Boise
Idaho
George H. Curtis
Washington
House
Clark
Thomas
Senator Thomas
Senator Clark
Curtis
Congress
Sun Brings Vitamin D as Spring Arrives
The article marvels at the sun bringing warmth and vitality to spring, noting anemic foliage and cautious outdoor life. It cites a Wednesday high of 65 and low 39, with a mean of 47, and gives sunrise and sunset times of 6 14 and 8 38.
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Canaries
Navy reports eight Japanese ships sunk near Solomon Islands
The navy announced that eight Japanese ships including seven warships were sunk and four more vessels badly damaged in a naval engagement near the Solomon Islands. Ensign John Stander of Blackfoot Idaho was killed in a navy plane crash near Jamul California during a routine training flight. The Madagascar base at Biego Suarez capitulated to the British as Vichy forces vow to continue resistance. Japanese forces allegedly demanded the surrender of scattered American and Filipino troops in the Philippines per unofficial enemy reports.
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Washington
Solomon Islands
Pacific
Vichy
France
Madagascar
Biego Suarez
San Diego
Calif
Navy
John Stander
Blackfoot
Ida
Jamul
Stander
Alva Stander
War Department
Philippines
Corregidor
Berkshire nurse and doctors guard mother of multiple birth
Abingdon reports seven doctors and nurses keeping constant vigil over Mrs. Emily Woodley who is pregnant with a possible quin tuplets in a Berkshire village hospital. Dr. J H Fisher leads the case and says four or five babies could be born any day. Mrs Woodley is a 5 year old wife of a soldier.
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Abingdon
England
Emily Woodley
J. H. Fisher
Berkshire
Prospect of passenger space rationing on rail and bus
Officials from the Office of Defense Transportation said on Thursday that rationing of passenger space on railroads and overland buses is definitely in prospect within the next few months.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Japanese Capture 11 574 With Fall of Corregidor
Washington war department reports about 11 574 U S personnel civilians and Philippine forces were taken prisoner by the Japanese at Corregidor and Manila Bay forts. Included were 2 275 naval personnel 1 570 marines 3 734 American soldiers 1 280 Philippine scouts 1 446 Philippine Commonwealth army troops and 1 269 civilians and others. General Jonathan M Wainwright presumably among those captured. Families will be notified by telegram as information becomes available.
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Washington
War Department
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Philippine Commonwealth Army
Robert P. Pat
Patterson
English Fleet Takes Base on Madagascar
The war production board banned copper brass or bronze after May 31 in over 100 civilian items including pins Christmas bulbs neon signs musical instruments and electric razors. WPB warned the biggest disruption will be pin shortages. About one third of 1940 41 pins were brass with the rest steel and steel pin production remains limited.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Regional music festival fills Po Catello streets with color
Hundreds of high school musicians arrive by bus train and car for a regional music festival. Contingents march in a grand street parade forming at 6 pm and ending at the university stadium with a patriotic concert featuring more than 25 bands and contests at the high school auditorium and churches.
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Pocatello
Uncle Sam
Army
Navy
Mammoth Street
University Stadium
Coast Areas Move Japs Across Northern California and Oregon
The army issued evacuation orders affecting 9 200 Japanese people in California and Oregon, including Sacramento Stockton Merced county and parts of several counties. Moves begin May 11 and finish May 16 with arrivals at Marysville Merced Stockton Sacramento and Pinedale reception centers. The program raises the total moved to 61 658, over half of area one’s 112 000 residents.
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San Francisco
California
Oregon
Sacramento
J. L. DeWitt
Western Defense Command
Fourth Army
Stockton
Merced County
Mariposa County
Pacific Coast
Civilian Control Administration
Pearl Harbor
Canners Get Sugar Allowance From OPA
Five pounds of sugar per person for home canning will be available for the present from the Office of Price Administration. The OPA consumer division announced through the regional office for emergency management that this five pound allotment is in addition to regular rationing.
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Boston
Office of Price Administration
OPA Consumer Division
Office For Emergency Management
British Forces Seize Madagascar Naval Base at Diego Suarez
London reports Britain has captured the Diego Suarez naval base and surrounding territory on Madagascar by 3:30 p m after landings at Courrier Bay and Ambararata bay. Churchill says the operation began three months ago and aimed to prevent axis control, with 23 warships involved and heavy vessels among them. Paris notes French reprisals loom as Laval government watches closely for Axis aid.
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London
Berlin
Vichy
Diego Suarez
Madagascar
Churchill
Indian Ocean
House of Commons
War Office
Admiralty
Ministry of Information
Courrier Bay
Diego
Antsirana
Pierre Laval
Free French
Force Active Near Crete
Italian high command reports repulse of an enemy raid on Kupho island near Crete. The source suggests sea-borne British forces conducted the attack, with UK commandos trained in North Africa cited as possible participants. Kupho sits five miles off Crete’s southeast, far from North Africa.
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Europe
Mediterranean
Kupho
Crete
Greece
North African
Churchill
Randolph
North Africa
British cruiser sunk in Arctic convoy fight. 3 ships lost
Britain announced the loss of the 10,000 ton cruiser Edinburgh and four escorted merchantmen after a sea fight in the Arctic Ocean. The admiralty said two British convoys suffered attacks, with one convoy 90 percent through to Russia and three ships lost. German reports claimed heavier losses on their side.
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Associated Press
Britain
Edinburgh
Arctic Ocean
Russia
Arctic
Soviet
Admiralty
High Command
Idaho Birth Rate Drops Despite National Rise
The census bureau reports Idaho birth rate fell 4.8 percent in January to March compared with a year earlier while the national rate rose 9.3 percent. State figures show Idaho at 19.5 births per 1000 population, with Utah up 19.2 percent and Vermont down 22.5 percent amid wartime population shifts.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Missouri
Rhode Island
California
Maine
Vermont
Nevada
New Hampshire
Georgia
Idaho
Utah
Creamery Butter Production Rises Nationally and Western States
Western State creamery butter production rose five percent last week, while national output jumped eight percent. The federal marketing service report shows an eight percent drop from a year ago both nationwide and in the western states.
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Boise
Federal Marketing Service
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