Halsey MacArthur Meet to Map South Pacific War Plans
In Australia Admiral Halsey and General MacArthur held their first war talk since the conflict began. They outlined use of all resources to press attacks in the south Pacific and India Burma theater. Roosevelt and Churchill discussed India base for major operations with Wavell Somerville and Peirse guiding routes to embattled China via a reopened Burma road.
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Associated Press
Japan
Southwest Pacific
India-Burma
U. S
South Pacific
Adm
William F. Halsey, Jr
Navy
South Seas
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
MacArthur
Halsey
Washington
India
Roosevelt
Churchill
River Flood Peaks Over Hundred Years In Arkansas
The Arkansas River crest reached 41.7 feet at Fort Smith, 3.7 feet above the record 110 year level, flooding thousands of acres. Six deaths and 22 missing reported. Camp Gruber and Camp Chaffee soldiers aiding rescue. Fort Smith and Camp Chaffee cut off from water supply. Van Buren heavily flooded. 600 blocks across Fort Smith inundated.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Camp Gruber
Okla
U. S
Hope
Here
Little Rock
St. Francis
Camp Chaffee
van Buren
Eisenhower lauds North Africa campaign turnaround
General Eisenhower praises the six month North Africa campaign noting the final victory came from a coordinated move. He credits General Alexander for shifting eighth and first army roles to mislead the German forces and strengthen the western front. He says unified command brings encouragement for Britain, the United States, and local French authorities.
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North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eighth Army
First Army
Harold Alexander
Alexander
Eisenhower
Britain
United States
OPA to Hire 1400 Investigators to Enforce Price Rules
Price Administrator Prentiss M Brown announced plans to add 1,400 investigators to the existing force to educate innocent violators and prosecute willful chiselers. The program aims to cut living costs by up to five percent and align prices to September 15, 1942 levels. subsidies on meat butter and coffee are tested as experimental.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
Brown
Idaho Time Zone Bill Sparks Pocatello Protest
Rep Compton I White introduced a bill to place all Idaho in Pacific time to align with sun time. A protest from the Pocatello Chamber of Commerce has been sent to Washington over the proposed action.
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Boise
Compton I. White
Idaho
Washington
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
Board Averts Revolt by Easing Wages
The War Labor Board, reassessed by Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes, gains judicial discretion to adjust wages to aid the war effort and fix inequities without harming price ceilings or production costs. Chairman William H. Davis welcomes greater discretion within defined limits, signaling a possible easing of tensions over wage disputes.
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Washington
War Labor Board
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
WLB
Little Steel
William H. Davis
Soviet Pushes Nazis Back in Donets Battle Near Lishchansk
Russian troops renewed fighting in the Donets valley around Lishchansk and seized a hill of high tactical importance after repelling a German wedge thrust. Over 1,000 Germans killed and about 1,000 captured with equipment losses reported.
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London
Donets
Lishchansk
Kharkov
Red Army
Novorossisk
Moscow
Red Air Force
Leningrad
Kalinin
Rostov
Smolensk
Churchill to Talk To U S Congress
Prime Minister Winston Churchill will address a joint session of Congress next Wednesday at 10 30 a m mountain war time. Speaker Rayburn invited him and arranged the session to discuss the Tunisian victory and its wartime relevance.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Britain
American Congress
Rayburn
House
Senate-House
Churchill
White House
Allied Leaders Meet in India Threat Focused Conference
Tokyo fears the Roosevelt Churchill talks will reveal Allied strategy in the Indian theater as Field Marshal Wavell, Admiral Somerville, and Air Chief Marshal Peirse join the chiefs in assessing the Japanese threat and potential Balkan or Mid Eastern operations.
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Tojo
Nippon
Roosevelt - Churchill
Archibald Wavell
James Somerville
Richard Peirse
Tokyo
Hitler
Balkans
British Immobilize Scotland's Boats
The admiralty ordered all small craft not officially authorized to be immobilized or removed from the water along the eastern Scottish coast from the Firth of Forth to Plymouth. Pleasure boats unable to be taken ashore must be secured with locking devices and removal of sails oars and rowlocks.
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London
Admiralty
Firth of Forth
Channel
Plymouth
Bristol Channel
Unrest Rises In Europe As Axis Loses
Reports from Europe say revolt rages in occupied Holland and spreads into Belgium with attacks on German troops and facilities. Sabotage and clashes extend to Poland Norway Yugoslavia and Greece as Belgian patriots storm a Ghent military garage and derail trains amid growing Nazi security measures.
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London
Holland
Belgium
Africa
Europe
Poland
Norway
Yugoslavia
Greece
Low Countries
Ghent
Marines - Louvain
Namur - Huy
Navy Reveals Ship Losses and War Actions
The Navy announced Allied air raids on Burma targets including a Mandalay Rangoon bridge and Basin port, with 30 tons of bombs. Attacks on Kiska, Vila, and Munda were reported, and losses included destroyer Aaron Ward, tanker Kanawha, and corvette Moa. Japanese actions included renewed assaults west of Lake Tungting and a Yangtze crossing.
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Associated Press
United States
Burma
Mandalay
Rangoon
Bassein
Kiska
Aleutians
Navy
Vila
Munda
Solomons
Guadalcanal Island
U. S
Aaron Ward
Kanawha
Lake Tungting
Yangtze
Hitler Suffered Warlinked Hysterical Blindness Says Doctor
Dr. Victor A. Gonda of Loyola University Chicago presented to the American Psychiatric Association that Adolf Hitler endured hysterical blindness for six months after World War I. He cited German physician Otfrid Foerster claiming Hitler had hysterical amblyopia, and that sight returned with standard therapy.
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Detroit
Adolf Hitler
American Psychiatric Association
Victor A. Gonda
M. D
Loyola University School of Medicine
Chicago
Hitler
Gonda
Otfrid Foerster
Foerster
War Office
Battle ends in Tunisia as German Italian Africa detachments yield
A German communist bulletin declares the heroic struggle in Africa has ended with Tunisia's battle concluding honorably. Riots in Berlin disrupted access to the Africa corps information office as Germans sought news of relatives.
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Associated Press
Tunisia
London
Reuters
Stockholm
Berlin
Africa Corps
Prisoners in North Africa flood the rolls as Axis forces collapse
Allied command said about 150 000 Axis captives are counted with 16 generals captured and Gen Giovanni Messe among them in Tunisia as the offensive begun May 5 ends organized resistance. Mussolini seeks antiaircraft aid from Hitler prompting astonishment at the Nazi HQ.
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North Africa
Hitler
Tunisia
Harold Alexander
Mediterranean
Montana Firm Wins Low Bid for 60 Housing Units
McLaughlin Construction of Livingston Montana submitted the lowest bid of 128358 for 60 additional housing units on the Brady tract near Pocatello. Bids from Morrison Knudsen Boise 138484 Merrill Ellie Pocatello 132788 Johnny Brennan Pocatello 136000. The bid goes to the Seattle FHA office for approval before contract award. Morrison Knudsen notes their 170 unit Brady tract project is near completion and ready to proceed once awarded.
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McLaughlin Construction Company
Livingston
Montana
Pocatello Housing Authority
Brady Tract
R. L. Anderson
J. A. Webb
MccLaughin Construction Company
Morrison-Knudson Company
Boise
Merrill & Eliie
Pocatello
Johnny Brennan
Seattle
Federal Housing Administration
H. G. Berryman
Pocatello Authority
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Berryman
Spring Frost Threatens Local Orchard Crops
Jack Frost returns as temperatures plunge to 24 degrees endangering neo phyte apples cherries prunes and apricots. Frosts predicted tonight threaten fruit yield while daytime highs and recent lower temps are noted.
Great Inland Port Under Fiery Attack
London reports a major Allied air operation against Duisburg Germany the Ruhr transport hub. RAF raids dropped over 1500 tons of bombs on the inland port and industrial center with 34 bombers lost the night attack marked the first since Dortmund on May 4.
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London
Germany
RAF
Duisburg
The
Reich
Dortmund
English Channel
France
Rhine
Ruhr
Air Ministry
Duce Ends First Italian Army Stand in Tunisia
The Italian communique says the first Italian army ceased fighting in Tunisia by Mussolini's order ending Axis resistance on African soil after 35 months. Marshal Giovanni Messe led the last stand as the surrender to the British Eighth Army was reported.
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Tunisia
Premer Mussolini
Duce
Rome
Associated Press
Africa
Giovanni Messe
North Africa
Eighth Army
Vittorio Amencule
Italy
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Czechoslovakia
Congress
New York
CBS
Erwin Rommel
Salonika
Aegean Sea
Twin Falls
Idaho Educational Council
A. W. Morgan
Morgan
San Diego
Calif
Tijuana
Mexico
George Courier
San Francisco
Pier 48
Goteborg
Handels Tidning Today
Mussolini
Jurgen von Arnim
Rome 2 Din
Messe
Vittorio Emanuele of
R. A. N. Anderson
Tana
Low Montana
Jack Frost
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