Doolittle outlines expansion of Eighth Air Force in Pacific
Lt. Gen. James Doolittle reports the U S Eighth Air Force in England numbers about 200 000 personnel with another 100 000 serving on rotation He says many bombers will shift to the Pacific to augment Superfortresses and that overall bomber strength exceeds 2 400 Liberators and Fortresses The force drops about a ton of bombs per minute in late war operations and provides extensive combat statistics for 1944 45
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London
James H. Doolittle
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Tokyo
Japan
Doolittle
England
Pacific
United States
Occupation Air Force
Germany
Europe
Japan clings to fight as bombing presses home
Japan faces dwindling arms and strategic pressure as 200 B-29s raid six home islands in a looming 2,000-plane offensive. Five former premiers meet with Prime Minister Suzuki amid reports of political prisoner releases and moves in Sumatra Thailand and Indo China. MacArthur says Allied blockade ships total 1,892,000 tons sunk or damaged in four months.
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Japan
Nippon
Tokyo
China
Kantaro Suzuki
Thailand
Sumatra
Indo- China
Adm
William F. Halsey
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Strike Ends at Rupert German POW Camp
Lt. Col. Dott E. Smith reports the Rupert camp strike ended with 34 holdouts returning to work in Idaho fields. Over 250 prisoners were previously placed on bread and water, confined in a field after refusing to work. Smith notes all prisoners appeared relieved Germany is out of the war and does not expect further trouble.
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Rupert
Dott E. Smith
Smith
Idaho Fields
Germany
Ninth Service Command
Fort Douglas
Utah
War correspondent husband in Guam returns home tale
In Glendale California a Western Union operator asks if Robbin Coons, former movie columnist now with AP as war correspondent, will be home tonight. Mrs Coons replies her husband is in Guam.
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Glendale
Calif
Western Union
Robbin Coons
Associated Press
Yankees Open Hitler's Safe Find Dozen Mein Kampfs
U S 179th infantry finds 12 copies of Mein Kampf in Hitler's Munich home safe behind six inch steel doors and four foot concrete shelter. No documents found. cellar includes electric kitchen and underground living rooms. A niece GeliRaoul is referenced with an alleged death in the dwelling. Two soldiers on scene.
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Munich
U.S
Hitler
Aussere Pring Regenten Strasse
Fuehrer
Germany
Monday Rally Opens Bond Drive in Pocatello
The sev enth war loan drive launches in Pocatello on Monday May 14 with a 9 30 a m employers and employees meeting at the Chief theater led by Capt Walter E Brown commander of the naval ordnance plant. The Pocatello high school band will perform after parades at major intersections while business houses close 9:30 to 11 a m. Local officials and war savings leaders announce bond sales targets and film arrangements for Pacific warfare.
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Pocatello
George Pugmire
Idaho War Savings Field
Walter E. Brown
Pocatello Naval Ordnance Plant
Fifth and Center
Main
Center
Garfield
Center Street
C. D
Dinty) Moore
Lavern C. Johnson
Lloyd Brydon
State Women’s War Savings Division
Jessie Finlayson
Bannock County Women's
F. M. Bistline
Pocatello Area
D. C. Brown
Bannock County
Pugmire
Anderson
Job Controls To Remain At Pocatello
Idaho war manpower officials said planned relaxation of federal controls will have little immediate effect on labor shortages. Pocatello Wallace Kellogg Boise remain in different group classifications with ongoing controls in nonferrous mining and lumbering. Director A. J. Tillman attends a regional meeting in Denver and is to return Monday.
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Boise
Washington
Idaho
War Manpower Commission
Pocatello
WMC
Wallace and
Kellogg
A. J. Tillman
Denver
England Eyes Singapore England Eyes Singapore
In Calcutta the report notes Rangoon’s fall ends Burma operations and Mountbatten’s SE Asia command shifts focus to Singapore. Fresh and seasoned troops ready for a Malay peninsula or Sumatra landing are supported by a growing fleet. Trincomalee in Ceylon is the only suitable eastern Indian harbor for assembling major amphibious forces.
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Calcutta
Rangoon
Burma
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Singapore
Mountbatten
Malay Peninsula
Sumatra
Malacca Strait
Malaya
Pacific
Trincomalee
Ceylon
Bay of Bengal
India
Forts Return To Bomb Japs at Home
US air forces bomb Japan's homeland in a threewave strike hitting Kawanishi seaplane plant on Honshu and Oita and Saiki airfields on Kyushu. Oil storage areas at Tokuyama Otake and Oshima were attacked as B 29 crews reported massive fire and precise bombing results with no losses.
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Guam
Japan
Kawanishi
Honshu
Kobe
Osaka
Oita
Saiki
Kyushu
Miyakanojo
Nitticahara
Miya
Hitler Friend Kills Self In War Prison Camp
Konrad Henlein a key Sudetenland figure died by suicide in a war prison camp after being condemned to death in absentia by a Czechoslovak court in 1938. Allied reports say his actions aided Germany’s quick breach of the French Maginot line. Henlein had helped deliver Sudetenland to Hitler and had ties to German fortification tactics.
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U.S
Czechoslovakia
Konrad Henlein
Sudetenland
Hitler
Henlein
Sudeten Mountains
Colorado Lifts Idaho Fruit Ban Except Canyon Owyhee
Colorado has lifted the fruit ban for all counties except Canyon and Owyhee as of today. Plant Industry Director Wilson Kellogg said other western states expect similar action by June 1. The quarantine began last fall after Oriental fruit moths were found in Nampa Canyon county, leading to restrictions on shipping fruit outside the two counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Colorado
Idaho
Canyon
Owyhee
Wilson Kellogg
Nampa
Canyon County
Boy Dies From Gasoline Burn At Rockville
Nine year old Shirrel Heber Hirschi of Rockville died in St George Utah after gasoline soaked clothing caught fire while he helped his brother siphon fuel from a barrel. He spilled gasoline on his clothes and they ignited near an open flame, leading to fatal burns.
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ST. George
Utah
Shirrel Heber Hirschi
Rockville
Boise Dealers Form Retail Beer Dealers Association
A group of Boise men have filed articles of incorporation for the Retail Beer Dealers Association, an organization to improve relations between the dealers and the public.
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Boise (P
Boise
Retail Beer Dealers’ Association
American Troops Head for Pacific redeployment disclosed today
Allied forces disclose that American units are already moving from Europe to French ports bound for the Pacific war. Initial moves favor service troops to pave the way for combat veterans, with front-line units not expected in the Pacific for at least six months. Brig. Gen. G. S. Eyster confirmed the alert status.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Europe
Pacific Theater
Germany
G. S. Eyster
Forced Labor Plan Sparks Legal Route for War Crimes
An American proposal at the United Nations conference would try individuals and organizations for war crimes and could allow forced labor in rebuilding war torn Europe. Britain Russia and France favored the idea, with Molotov likely to take it to Moscow. The plan envisions an international tribunal to convict Nazis and organize labor penalties.
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San Francisco
Europe
Britain
Russia
France
Moscow
Molotov
State Department
Nazi Party
England
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Yalta
Prisoner labor to aid Idaho Utah Oregon farms this summer
Washington Idaho and adjoining states will receive up to 25 000 prisoners of war for farm work this summer the War Department announced. 17 700 workers will be ready by May 20 with the total rising to 25 000 by June 1 amid housing delays at Fort Douglas Utah and transport issues delaying transfers to sugar beet areas.
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Washington
Idaho
War Department
Dworshak
White
John D. Paine
Agricultural Labor Committee
Marsing
Payne
Fort Douglas
Utah
Oregon
Eugene D. Mullins
Ninth Service Command
Idaho highway plan prioritizes Wallace Kellogg section
Idaho highway chief T Matt Hally told the local chamber that postwar plans give top priority to the Wallace Kellogg stretch of U S Highway 10 in Shoshone county. He said work on the Wallace Mullan and Kellogg Pine Creek sections would follow.
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Kellogg
Wallace-Kellogg
U. S. Highway 10
Idaho
Shoshone
T. Matt Hally
Chamber of Commerce
Wallace-Mullan
Kellogg-Pine Creek
Pocatellans Enlist in Navy Youths Join 1940s Navy Effort
Edward Hall Amundsen and Glen Van Orden Taymond, both of Pocatello, were among 17 year olds who enlisted in the navy yesterday along with 15 other youths from the area.
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Boise
Edward Hall Amundsen
Glen van Orden Taymond
Pocatello
Navy
Sixth Marine Division Breaks Asa River Bridge in Okinawa Fight
The Sixth Marine Division bridged the Asa river estuary near Naha in darkness despite two Japanese suicide blasts. Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr. leads the fresh southern front unit as fighting continues. Casualties: Japanese 38,857 killed. Americans 16,425 with 2,684 dead. Japanese air attacks resume, two fleet auxiliaries damaged, six attackers destroyed.
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Guam
U. S
Naha
Okinawa
Sixth Marine
Asa River
Asato
Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr
Chester W. Nimitz
Iwo Jima
Iwo
America
House Votes Pay Hike for Congress Members
Washington lawmakers approved a 2500 dollar annual tax free expense allowance to top off a 10000 dollar salary as part of a 50 million dollar appropriation. Senate action could reverse or approve the pay and perks with critics decrying inflation and others defending the raise. Representative Ploeser noted personal business interests aid his service.
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Washington
House
Congress
Senate
Ploeser
R-Mo
Local Marine Elsen Kills Eight On Okinawa Hedge Nest
Marine corporal Thomas F. Elsen of Pocatello Idaho killed eight enemy soldiers near the north coast of Okinawa. He and a comrade charged a hedge and sprayed it with automatic fire after enemy shots were fired from the area.
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Okinawa
Thomas F. Elsen
South Second Avenue
Pocatello
Elsen
Idahoan
Bus overturns near Kellogg injures none of Kingston pupils
A Kellogg driven school bus with 25 Kingston children aboard overturned and plunged six feet into river water. A locked wheel caused the accident. Driver was Delbert Mabe of Kellogg. No injuries reported.
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Kellogg
Coeur d'Alene
Kingston
Delbert Mabe
Soldiers to Return Via Fort Douglas
Soldiers who entered through the Fort Douglas reception center will exit the same way. Captain Charles A. Winkler said those brought back from Europe for redeployment in the Pacific or discharge will be processed at Fort Douglas separation center. Soldiers headed for further service will receive 21 to 30 days furlough before reporting to the Santa Barbara personnel center for reassignment.
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Fort Douglas
Utah
Intermountain Region
Charles A. Winkler
Europe
Santa Barbara
Calif
Search Finds 23rd Body In Utah Mine
Bud Walton, 55, is recovered as the last unaccounted for in the Utah Fuel coal mine disaster at Sunnyside. Seven injured workers are reported in good condition at Dragerton hospital. Investigators note matches found near the blast but offer no ignition cause.
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Sunnyside
Utah
Bud Walton
Utah Fuel Company
Dragerton Hospital
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Utah Industry
Claude P. Heiner
Authority Plans to Repair Trailers in Wyton Project
Pocatello housing authority acting with the federal FHA in Seattle signed a contract with Charles R. Schwiedeskamp of Portland for repair and renovation of 100 Wyton trailer units. Total payment set at 14,747.95 dollars, about 150 dollars per trailer. Wyton is the Pocatello FHA trailer project managed by the housing authority.
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Pocatello Housing Authority
Federal Housing Administration
Seattle
Charles R. Schwiedeskamp
Portland
Ore
Wyton
Pocatello
FHA
Nazis In Retreat As Allied Forces Close In On All Fronts
German troops facing a triple Ukrainian assault threatened a final stand in a 4000 square mile pocket in Czechoslovakia while Soviet forces along three fronts closed in. Soviet high command reported 209000 German officers and men captured in preliminary checks.
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London
Czechoslovakia
Ferdinand Schoerner
Woehler
Europe
Prinz Eugen
Nuernberg
Copenhagen
Royal Navy
la H
Atlante
Dunkerque
Channel
Sark
Jersey
Guernsey
France
United Kingdom
Holland
Marshal Stalin
Truman
Churchill
Nazi Germany
Ivan
Konev
Ukraine
Andrei I. Yeremenko
OPA Pledges 1942 Prices For Reconversion Articles
Price Administrator Chester Bowles outlined 1942 retail prices for reconversion goods and warned against inflation by keeping civilian supplies ample. He said price ceilings must reflect raw material and labor costs, ensuring full employment and rapid reconversion without burdens on manufacturers. The War Labor Board announced wage adjustments for the transitional phase.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
OPA
Bowles
War Labor Board
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