Soviet Breaks Ring of Axis Defenses in Major Advance
Soviet forces pierced outer fortifications at Novorossisk as fighting raged across the Donets basin, with 930 German planes reportedly destroyed in the week and 235 Soviet losses. Air raids targeted rail hubs and communications centers behind Ukrainian fronts, while clashes continued along the Donets and near Rostov.
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Moscow
Novorossisk
Kuban
Lishchansk
Donets
Red Airforce
Central
Kalinin
Bryansk
Poltava
Belgorod
Smievka
Tivi
Uspensk
Durogobuzh
KaracheVmilsk
Vorozhba
Novosokolniki
Vitebsk
Lisdinlvo
Zhizdra
Spashemyansk
Einya
Chuguev
Balakleya
Rostov
Poland Faces Mass Atrocities In Nazi Occupation
British ambassador Lord Halifax told the Chicago Council that more than eight million Poles and Polish Jews suffered brutal punishment or death under Nazi rule. He cited 150,000 in combat, about 400,000 Polish and 1.5 million Polish Jews killed, two million sent to Germany for work, three million displaced, and one million in camps. He urged Poland would reclaim freedom in time.
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Chicago
United States
Lord Halifax
Germany
Commerce
Chicago Council of Foreign Relations
Poland
Power County seeks base name honoring air hero
At a regular American Falls chamber meeting members voted unanimously to petition the war department to name the army air base in Power County for Louis Dale Hansen, the first flyer to lose his life in the war. Hansen served with the naval air force and was reported missing after the Battle of Midway with over 200 combat hours.
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American Falls
Sugar Limit Set at 25 Pounds per Person for Home Canning
The Office of Price Administration caps home canning sugar at 25 pounds per person for this year's fruit crop. Shedding detail includes one pound per four quarts of finished product, five pounds per person for jams and jellies, and prior year context. Applications begin May 15 with required narration book copies and totals.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Prentiss M. Brown
Spain Calls For Peace
Madrid reports Generalissimo Francisco Franco urged peace in Almeria saying World War II has reached a deadlock with no side able to destroy the other. He warned further victories would demand sacrifices but expected belligerents to heed voices for peace from Spain and the Vatican.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Almeria
Franco
Spain
Vatican
Idahoan's Father Dies in Salt Lake City
William Thomas Brown aged 178 formerly of Logan died Sunday in Salt Lake City. Survivors include sons Dean and Elmo Brown of Ogden and Albert Brown of Tyhee Idaho.
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Salt Lake City
William Thomas Brown
Logan
Dean and
Elmo Brown
Ogden
Albert Brown
Tyhee
Idaho
Mountain Breezes Ruffle Pocatello
Weather notes from Pocatello describe a fair Sunday wind blown by a Mother’s Day crowd with a blue sky and a jaundice moon. Eva Kasiska reports mild winds returning from Chicago and comments on hat movement. Highs reached 66 with a 58 noon temperature and a forecast of light showers and moderate temperatures tonight.
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Eva Kasiska
Chicago
Pocatello
Africa Proves Bitter Loss
London reports Axis losses in Africa exceed 750000 troops including 280000 in East Africa with 200000 Africans among them. North Africa casualty estimates total 426000 with 50000 captured at Bizerte and Tunis. Axis materiel losses include over 2000 tanks and 5000 aircraft, plus thousands of guns.
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London
Axis
Africa
Ethiopia
East Africa
North Africa
Bizerte
Tunis
M Carty Rites Tuesday at 2
Funeral services for William N. McCarty 71 Pocatelan former city councilman and Bannock county GOP leader will be held at the Elks temple at 2 p m Tuesday Gate City Commandery Knights Templar will lead with Rev R P Snider delivering scripture and prayer Walter H Cleave will give the eulogy McHan chapel will host visitors until 11 a m Tuesday and at the Elks club until service time Moriah cemetery is final resting place
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William N. McCarty
Pocatellan
Bannock County Republican Central Committee
N. Arthur
Elks Temple
Gate City Commandery No. 4
Knights Templar
McCarty
Gate City Commandery
R. P. Snider
Congregational Church
Walter H. Cleave
Weriealtlimates Saat
Moriah
McHan Chapel
Elks Club
Four Army fliers die, others survived crash near Burley
Four airmen were killed in an Arizona bomber crash while another crew of four parachuted to safety after a separate crash about 80 miles south of Burley. Two officers and two enlisted men were rescued at Pocatello Army Air Base, with names withheld until next of kin are notified. Fatalities listed include Lieut Luther Ponath Sacramento, Lieut Attilio Dogliogi Santa Cruz, Master Sgt Baumgartner Nashville, Tech Sgt Jack Keller The Bronx.
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Pocatello Army Air Base
Burley
Arizona
Pocatello Air Base
Pocatello
Biggs Field
el Paso
Tex
New Mexico Shiprock Indian Agency
Luther A. Ponath
Sacramento
Calif
Attilio J. Dogliogi
Santa Cruz
M. Baumgartner
Nashville
Kansas
Jack H. Keller
the Bronx
New York
Taxicab Strikes Local Man Injuring Sidney Freeborn
Sidney Freeborn 50 of 228 North Third sustained chest injuries and fractured ribs after being hit by a taxi driven by Thomas Gilbert in the 300 block of East Center at 1 30 a m. He was taken to General hospital in serious condition. Gilbert was arrested for operating a taxicab without a chauffeur's license.
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Sidney Freeborn
North Third
Thomas Gilbert
East Center
Freeborn
K. L. Munro
Nellie Leyder
North Eighth
Margaret Mathews
Warren
General Hospital
Erickson
H. J. Hartvigsen
Gilbert
Pair Delay Suit Postponed Indefinitely in New York
Trial of divorce and separation suits filed by Jack Dempsey and his wife Hannah Williams was postponed indefinitely by consent of both sides. No reason was given for the delay.
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White Plains
N. Y
Jack Dempsey
Hannah Williams
Submarine Bombards Jap Island Amid Burma Front Push
The Tokyo radio said a U S submarine shelled a village on Hokkaido but misses its mark. In Burma Japanese forces advanced near Buthedaung and Maungedaw as Allied lines waver. RAF and American bombers hit Canton and Hainan air bases with heavy losses for Japanese planes.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hokkaido
Burma
Imperial Headquarters
Buthedaung
Akyab
Chittagong
China
Canton
Formosa
Tien Ho
Hainan
Tokyo Radio
Allies Score With Turkey
In Ankara the Allied victory at Bizerte and Tunis boosts Allied prestige while denting German leverage. Turks anticipate an Anglo American invasion via the Mediterranean and weigh whether it will reach Turkey's doorstep or the central Mediterranean. Axis propaganda urges non belligerence, but Turkey maintains opposition to German domination of the Balkans.
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Ankara
Bizerte
Tunis
Turkey
Europe
Mediterranean
Axis
Balkans
Germany
Balkan
Palagi Among Airmen in Canton Raid by 14th Air Force
Gunner Sgt. Roland Palagi of Pocatello was among American fliers of the 14th air force in a successful raid on Canton. The attack shot down thirteen Japanese fighters and possibly five more, devastating the largest Japanese air base south of Formosa.
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China
Roland Palagi
North Sixth Avenue
Pocatello
14Th Air Force
Canton
Formosa
Dance for Cadets at USO Club Tonight
A special dance is arranged for Naval Cadets stationed at the university. Navy Mothers sponsor the event with Mrs. W. H. Cooper as president, promising a splendid party with careful music and refreshments to give the boys a fitting send off.
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USO Club
West Lander
Naval
Navy
W.H. Cooper
Police Relief Group Plans Evening Meeting
F. H. Smullen president of the Pocatello Police Relief Association calls a 7 p m gathering at the police station. It will be the last regular meeting until October.
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F. H. Smullen
The
Pocatello Police Relief Association
Mothers Day Observance at Pocatello Air Base Chapel
Thousands of service members and mothers gathered at the Pocatello air base chapel for a Mother's Day program. Chaplain Harold F. Ott welcomed attendees and gave a benediction while Mrs. Earl Garvin led the Mothers prayer. Performances by the Chaminade singers and local soloists complemented the observance, with special remarks by Gold Star mother Mrs. R. H. Nipper. Transportation was provided through the Service Mothers and base cooperation.
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Pocatello Air Base
Bannock County
Harold F. Ott
Earl Garvin
Pocatello Chaminade Singers
R. H. Nipper
Jean Stedtfeld
Jack Trimming
O. P. McKnelly
J. D. LaRue
Axis massed to repel invasion across Europe
Axis leaders scramble to shield soft invasion routes from the south coast of France to the Black Sea as Allied plans grow, with Holland under martial law and Palermo hit by air raids on the invasion anniversary. German moves south through Hungary echo the pace of prior Greece and Yugoslavia offensives.
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London
Europe
France
Black Sea
Africa
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Holland
English Channel
Aneta
Sicilian
Palermo
Hitler
Balkans
Hungary
Greece
Yugoslavia
Ankara
Stockholm
Germany
New Fighters In Service In European War
Powerful American P-47 Thunderbolt fighters go into action with the Eighth Air Force in Europe. They escort Flying Fortresses, fly up to 40 000 feet, and have a 1000 mile range crossing Greenland Iceland. Four Focke Wulf 190s are credited to Thunderbolts with Lt Col Chesley Peterson among the pilots.
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London
Eighth Air Force Fighter Command
Flying Fortress
Antwerp
Greenland
Iceland
Thunderbolts
Chesley Peterson
Cantarquin
Utah
Allied forces seal Cap Bon as Axis flee Tunisia
In North Africa Allied naval and air forces blockade Cap Bon peninsula and sink many small ships carrying axis troops. The American Second Corps forces accept unconditional surrender of all enemy units southeast of Bizerte, while German resistance stiffens at Cap Bon. Major General Krause asks for armistice, but Bradley demands unconditional surrender and immediate cessation of equipment destruction.
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North Africa
Cap Bon
Second Corps
Bizerte
Tunisia
Africa
Americana
Krause
Africa Corps
Omar N. Bradley
Axis prisoners flow into Tunisia amid Allied attacks
AP and Reuters reports from London and Washington describe southern sector enemy resistance fading after midday while Axis prisoners flood into Tunisia at about 1000 per hour. The Eighth Army advances north of Ensadaville as enemy artillery remains active in nearby sectors. President Roosevelt requests 4.93 billion dollars for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics for 1944 to sustain war efforts. A US Navy Catalina destroys a surfaced German submarine in West Indian waters with depth charges, causing a massive explosion and debris rise.
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London
Algiers
Tunisia
Ensadaville
Eighth Army
Reuters
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics
House
Catalina
West Indian
Hitler Declares Winter Burden on Soldiers in Speech
London reports Adolf Hitler, broadcast by Berlin radio on the fourth anniversary of the winter help campaign, saying the winter brought the heaviest suffering for German soldiers and that home front sacrifices pale beside the eastern front hardships. He praised home front courage and noted war touching towns and villages.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Berlin Radio Today
Berlin
Hitler
Two Nations Try to Close Dispute
The article discusses tensions between Moscow and the Polish government in exile in London as they seek to reduce each other to a size that fits their postwar Eastern Europe vision. It suggests upcoming boundary disputes and more settlements after the conflict.
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Moscow
London
Europe
OPA Reduces Food Prices in Broad Government Effort
The OPA cut profit margins on cabbage onions and some poultry and lowered salt codfish prices. It aims for a June 1 10 percent retail cut in beef veal lamb mutton coffee and butter as part of subsidies. Meany calls the plan peanuts, urges rollback to May 1942 levels.
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Washington
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
George Meany
American Federation of Labor
Meany
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Afrika Korps
U. S. Army Signal Corps
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Bon Peninsula
Bradley
Bulletins
Iia
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