Attu Island Fight Seen Moving Toward Conclusion
Weather and fog hamper the American assault on Attu as officials expect continued heavy fighting. Axis broadcasts hint Japanese leaders anticipate defeat but vow to persevere. The action is described as costly with cave clearance likely, while a news blackout blankets naval updates from the Pacific.
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Washington
Attu
Aleutians
Knox
High Command
Sadao Araki
Navy
South
North Pacific
Strong Force Hits at Allied Points
Japanese air assault targets New Guinea positions as Allied and Australian forces defend. More than 100 planes attacked five miles south of Salamaua, including 40 dive bombers, striking Bobdubi after dawn to disrupt supply routes to Mubo, twelve miles below Salamaua, with further raids on WAU airbase.
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Haugland
Australia
New Guinea
Salamaua
Bobdubi
Mubo
Wau
Concert Group to Open 43-44 With Record Membership
Pocatello’s Community Concert Association begins its tenth season with the largest membership in history. The opening program features the Columbia All-Star Quartet led by Nino Martini Igor Gorin Josephine Tuminin and Helen Osheim, with arias duets and quartets from operatic repertoire planned for October. Virginia Morley and Livingston Gearhart, a famed duo-piano pair, are slated for November.
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Pocatello
Community Concert Association
Columbia All-Star
Metropolitan Opera
Nino Martini
Igor Gorin
Josephine Tuminin
Helen Osheim
Virginia Morley
Livingston Gearhart
Paris
United States
Miss Morley
Mills College
California
Juillard School of Music
New York
FBI Hunted Draft Law Violators in Nationwide Sweep
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced 638 arrests in a national crackdown on draft law violators spanning 20 cities. The largest haul was New York with 144 arrests, followed by cities including San Francisco Detroit Baltimore and Los Angeles among others.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Justice Department
New York City
San Francisco
Detroit
Baltimore
Los Angeles
Birmingham
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Chicago
Boston
Newark
St. Louis
Clark to Represent Idaho at Meeting
Governor Bottolfsen named Sen. D Worth Clark to represent Idaho at a Bonneville Power Administration meeting in Washington on Monday. Clark will urge the EPA to delay final approval of the Albeni Falls dam project which would flood parts of northern Idaho.
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Boise
Bottolfsen
Sen
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Bonneville Power Administration
Washington
John Thomas
Clark
EPA
Albeni Falls
Prins River
Sandpoint
Miners May Ignore Call in Soft Coal Wage Picked Dispute
Washington sources report President John L. Lewis and UMW officers may ignore a war labor board summons for a Monday meeting to resume bargaining on soft coal wages. Operators plan to attend. production is expected to continue past the 15 day truce deadline.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
WLB
UMW
Allies Bombing Italy By W. E. K.
Allied air forces pound strategic targets across Italy from Civitavecchia to Olbia and Palermo as Tedder touts the Mediterranean open and Rome nears a major raid. Bombers hit arse nals docks fuel storages and ammunition dumps. casualties reported.
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North Africa
Italy
North African
Mussolini
Mediterranean
Sir Arthur William Tedder
United Nations
Civitavecchia
Old City
Olbia
Sardinia
Comiso
Messina
Sicily
Gallipoli
Pantelleria
Cap Bon
Sicilian
Associated Press
Rome
Palermo
Sassari
Civi
Pocatello Plans Levy Reduction and Mills Increase
Pocatello city council discussed lowering the 31.07 million levy for this year while outlining a proposed raise from 10 to 15 mills. A temporary budget sets general, special levy, bond interest and bond principal amounts and a public hearing was scheduled. Mayor Moore to file insurance claim after a fire at Halliwell Park and dog licensing fees adjusted.
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Pocatello
C. D. Moore
Halliwell Park
James Bowns
Workers on Strike Near Potlatch Idaho Sawmill Shutdown
Spokane Chronicle reports the Railway Lumber Mediation Board told 70 workers of the Washington Idaho and Montana Railway no wage increase until they resume work. A Potlatch Idaho sawmill shutdown followed as the railway and Potlatch Forests operations idled. Workers demand a 7 cent hourly raise equal to lumber workers.
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Spokane
the Chronicle
Railway Lumber Mediation Board
Washington,Idaho & Montana Railway
Ema
Potlach Forests, Inc
Potlach
Idaho
Chronicle
Railway
Order Alters Sugar Rule for Home Canning
The OPA will run a home canning sugar plan on an honor system with two coupons in ration book No 1 allowing up to 10 pounds per person. Canners may request an extra 15 pounds per person from local boards, totaling 25 pounds, to simplify distribution and speed handling.
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Washington
OPA
Death claims wife of John Thomas of Idaho
Mrs. Florence Thomas wife of Senator John Thomas of Idaho died after a hemorrhage in Doctors hospital following a sinus operation. She was born December 12 1873 in Jefferson Iowa and married October 25 1906. Funeral plans set for Gooding Idaho with daughter Mrs Arthur J Peavey Jr to join from Twin Falls in Chicago en route home. Survivors include two sisters and two grandchildren.
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Washington
Florence Thomas
John Thomas
Idaho
Doctors Hospital
Thomas
Jefferson
Iowa
Colby
Kans
First National Bank of
Twin Falls
Chicago
Peavey
Senator Thomas
Elpha Hastings
Syracuse
Kas
Emma Guthrie
Long Beach
Calif
John Thomas Peavey
Betty Ann Peavey
Injunction Granted in Porters & Waiters Case
District Judge Guy Stevens issued a temporary injunction in the case prosecuted by C M Jeffery against Joe Hamilton Nettie Hamilton and France Goldwater over the Porters and Waiters club and rooming house at 100 block South First. The order overruled de murrers denied a motion to strike sections of the complaint and gives defendants ten days to answer.
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Guy Stevens
Blackfoot
C. M. Jeffery
Joe Hamilton
Nettie Hamilton
Porters & Waiters Club
France Goldwater
South First
Utah pardon grants parole to Weber farmer killer
The Utah pardon board granted parole to David H. Johnson, a 69 year old Weber County farmer convicted of killing John Rap in a water feud seven years ago, despite the opposition of Rap's widow.
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Salt Lake City
Utah Pardon Board
David H. Johnson
Weber County
John Rap
Johnson
Rap
Collision Kills Four On Slippery Road South of Blackfoot
A deadly crash on a slippery road near Blackfoot killed four people. A complaint charging disturbing the peace was filed in Justice of the Peace Chas. W. Hyde’s court against Walter R. Monroe and William T. Parker. Sheriff’s deputies responded at 2.40 am to 362 Richland Drive. The defendants were released on their own recognizance. The complaint was signed by Myrtle BE, Monroe.
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Court of
Chas
Skip-a-Year Tax Bill Near Passage
Washington Republicans claim enough support to push a skip-a-year tax bill to President Roosevelt by Wednesday. The plan hinges on receding from House opposition to concur with the Senate measure, avoiding a conference committee reconciliation. The Senate approved the Rum plan 49 to 30, with few Democrats supporting amendments, while the House rejected the plan 206 to 204 before a compromise vote. Rep Disney called the action inflation boosting. Rep Carlson indicated potential House concurrence.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Senate
Rep
Disney
D-Okla
Carlson
R-Kas
Missing guard at American Falls dam investigated
Harry Turner, a guard at the American Falls reservoir, was reported missing at 8 15 p m Friday. His cap was found on the dam shore and authorities suspect he fell or jumped into the reservoir. A reservoir section was drained to check for a body, with search continuing Sunday. Turner, in his fifties, lived in American Falls and left a wife and several children. He reportedly carried a revolver and rifle and weighed about 200 pounds.
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Harry Turner
American Falls
Power County Sheriff's Office
Turner
Power Company
Hitler Keeps Job Continues One Man Rule in Germany
London report says Adolf Hitler signed a decree extending his title as one man boss of Germany. The decree, published in the German Legal Gazette, continues powers granted March 24 1933 and set to expire May 10 1943. Reichstag rubber stamp expected after Hitler calls a session.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
DNB
Hitler
Reichstag
Collision on Yellowstone Park highway kills five
A truck crash two miles south of Blackfoot on the Yellowstone Park road at 7 40 p m Saturday killed four men instantly and left another in serious condition. The car carrying two soldiers from the Pocatello air base and three other men from St Anthony suffered mortal injuries. The truck driver Ray Chaffee of Pocatello and passenger Keith Singleton of St Anthony survived with minor injuries. Deputy Sheriff W G Jones said there was no criminal negligence and an act of nature during a storm caused the crash.
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Blackfoot
Yellowstone Park Highway
Pocatello Air Base
Charles H. Park
Morris Angell
St. Anthony
Pocatello
Jones
Russ Raiders Set Fire to Axis Supplies
Soviet air forces struck German rail facilities at Gomel in White Russia causing over 30 fires and explosions and attacked Orel Friday night as part of a widening aerial offensive that reportedly cost the Axis 111 planes.
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London
Gomel
Russia
Orel
Petitioners Move to Oust Bottolfsen and Scott Plan
Idaho turmoil deepens as recall petitioners press Bottolfsen resignation and Independent Voters league rails at Governor Scott. Conventions in Twin Falls and Nampa were indefinitely postponed amid transportation woes and internal dissent, with leaders predicting mass signatures could force removal before elections. Harold Howell labels Scott facing inevitable decline as Townsend faction dissatisfaction grows.
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Boise
Orlando
Scu
Nathons
Owisend
Terest
Tative
Idaho
Independent Voters’ League
League
Bottolfsen
Twin Falls
Nampa
Scott
Harold Howell
Independent Voters’ League of Idaho
Townsend
Orland A. Scott
Howell
Bottolf
Tornado Strikes Fort Riley Injuring Hundreds
A violent tornado hit Fort Riley Kansas Saturday injuring about two hundred men. Five seriously hurt, twenty eight hospitalized, forty seven treated and released. The storm damaged or destroyed twenty barracks five mess halls two latrines four stables eight corrals and two hay sheds, with 41 frame buildings valued at 175000 damaged.
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Fort Riley
Kas
Cavalry
Record Fleet Of Bombers Visits Emden
A massive American heavy bomber force attacked Emden and surrounding harbor facilities in a daylight raid. Aboard the Fortress Mr Five by Five, pilot Col John G Moore and bombardier Lieut Martin Saford described the operation while German defenses failed to halt the air assault. The German radio stations went off air at night, possibly signaling further raids.
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London
Germany
Emden
Martin Saford
Kokomo
Ind
Fortress
Mr. Five
Col
John G. Moore
Las Animas
Colo
Deutschlandsender
Berlin
Wehrmachtsender
Breslau
Federal Communications
Public debt hits new high as war costs soar
The 1942 public debt rose by 45 billion while private debt fell 3 billion, the commerce department reported. Net public debt reached 110 billion, with private debt at 113 billion due to wartime outlays and shifting economic strain. State and local debts declined in 1943 as government spending surged for war.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Department
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Priest River
Alben Pals Dam
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Kamchatka’ Peninsula
Tokyo
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Guam
Caroline IS
Agatta
Aleutian Islands
Kiska
Amchitka
Hawaiian Islands
Marshall
Gilbert IS
Alaska
Honolulu
I Canada
Seattle
U. S
Attu Island
By W. E. K
Ntav JV
Tedder
Mrj
James H. Doolittle
Gooding
Utah
Pocatellan
Blow
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