Japs Rush To Destroy Chinese Bases Near Foochow
Japanese troops landed near Foochow the major port of Pukien province and fought heavy battles with Chinese forces. The assault used a dozen transports traveling up the Min river toward Foochow, while a land drive pressed in Chekiang province. Chinese claims include recapturing Kanlanchai in Yunnan and stabilization of the Burma road front.
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Chungking
Foochow
Pukien
Min River
Shanghai
Hongkong
China
Chekiang Province
Tokyo
Yunnan
Kanlanchai
Lungkiangkiao-Tengyueh
Burma
Salween River
Associated Press
Chekiang
Japan
Burma Road
Fukien
Reuters
London
Myitkyina
Katha
Mandalay
R.af
Air Route to Cross Arctic and Pre aviation training talk
Dr. Clark M. Frasier of Cheney Washington told a Rotary Club luncheon in Pocatello that the Arctic will become a world transportation hub with future polar air routes. He urged pre aviation pilot training in southeastern Idaho high schools and noted wartime pilot shortages and the need for air support in campaigns.
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Arctic
Polar
Clark M. Frasier
Cheney
Washington
Civic Aeronautics Administration
Pocatello
Idaho
Dr. Frasier
Rotary Club
E. Norman Vaughn
Tom Smith
J. Cecil Sandberg
Blackfoot
Grant Dougal
Boise
Pocatellan
M. O. Barton
Western Union
John W. Condie
Idaho Southern University
C. G. Billmeyer
J. Vernon Otter
Frasier
America
Singapore
Hong Kong
John W. Conde
Clark M. Prasier
Civil Aeronautics Administration
U. S. Office of Education
Lewiston Normal School
Car Collision Kills Three in East of Claude Tex
Three persons died and ten were injured early Thursday when a Bowen bus collided with a stolen car 34 miles east of Claude Texas. Miss Imogene Holbert of Amarillo and an unidentified man burned in the flaming wreckage. The bus driver Homer L. Penrod of Wichita Falls and nine passengers were injured. The car’s driver also unnamed died in the crash.
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Claude, Tex
Bowen
Here
W. G. Abbott
Imogene Holbert
Amarillo
Homer L. Penrod
Wichita Falls
Idaho Utah governor to speak at New York conference
R. H. Wells a former Idaho Utah governor and former Rotary International director will fly to New York City this week to address a district conference of Greater New York City clubs at the Westchester Country Club.
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R. H. Wells
Rotary International
New York City
Westchester Country Club
Monsoons Aid Chinese Defenders Hit by Burma Front
Idaho educators push pre aviation cadet training in high schools and summer college courses at Idaho Southern University and Moscow. Frasier notes aviation’s manpower role while Chinese and Burmese fronts see monsoon aided defense and RAF bombing of Japanese lines.
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Fifth Institute
Idaho
Pocatello High School
Idaho Southern University
University At
Moscow
Early Baseball Scores From Today Across The American League
In Chicago the Yankees lost to the White Sox 1 to 0 as Bonham and Rosar faced Smith and Tresh. Cleveland beat Boston 5 to 1 behind Hughson and Peacock with Harder and Hogan. Detroit defeated Philadelphia 3 to 2 with Marchildon and Wagner working as Trout Fuchs Manders Tebbetts Parsons. St Louis beat Washington 3 to 0 with Hudson and Early and Muncrief Swift. Philadelphia edged Cincinnati 2 to 1 with Nerringer Lamanno and Johnson Livingston.
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Detroit
Philadelphia
Marchildon
Wagner
Trout
Fuchs
Manders
Tebbetts
Parsons
Examiner Resigns to Join Army Medical Corps
Boise physician Harold W. Stone resigns from the state board of medical examiners with governor Clark accepting the action. Stone told the governor he will serve in the army medical corps.
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Boise
Clark
Harold W. Stone
State Board of Medical Examiners
Stone
Army Medical Corps
Cold Weather Delays Idaho Crops and Planting Progress
The weekly weather report from the weather bureau and department of agriculture notes heavy rains delayed seeding of spring grains in Idaho. General field work and vegetation suffered with local rain damage near Grangeville while beets were satisfactory overall despite frost. Pastures and ranges remained in good condition though truck crops gardens and fruits faced delays.
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Idaho
Joint Weather Bureau Department of Agriculture
Grangeville
Utah Losing Navy Base Support Fades on Farm Land Objection
Ogden Logan Brigham City Provo chambers of commerce and the Associated Civic Clubs of Northern Utah urged the navy to place its 35 million dollar supply base in Utah. Farmers near Clearfield favored the site and met with Governor Maw to reconsider objections. The navy had been dropped from Utah consideration by President Roosevelt due to objections to locating the base on fertile farm land at Clearfield. Telegrams urged choosing Utah for the war effort and state economy.
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Ogden
Logan
Brigham City
Provo
Clearfield
Chambers of Commerce
Utah
Malad Hosts Sixth District Legion Officers Election
At the Malad convention Bert Weston presided as district commander. J. Guy Gleed of Malad was elected district commander with Ben Johnson of Aberdeen as vice commander of the second area and W. F. Sullivan of Grace as vice commander of the third area. Ezra Hodge of Paris became sergeant at arms and J. C. Bangs of Poca tello joined the budget and dues committee. Paul de FP Mortimore of Poca tello was reelected district chaplain. New officers assume duties at the department convention in Wallace this August.
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The
American Legion
Malad
Bert Weston
J. Guy Gleed
Ben Johnson
Aberdeen
W. F. Sullivan
Grace
Ezra Hodge
Paris
J. C. Bangs
Pocatello
Paul de FP. Mortimore
Child Drowns Near Boise Irrigation Canal
Services set for two year old Emmett Bichman who drowned in an irrigation canal near his parents ranch five miles from Boise. The family formerly lived in the area.
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Emmett
J. W. Bichman
Boise
Crop progress inches forward as weather warms
Twin Falls County Agent Bert Bolingbroke said crops already in the ground are about 10 days to two weeks behind due to unseasonable weather. Bean planting has not started yet and is expected to begin within a few days if the weather improves.
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Twin Falls
Bert Bolingbroke
Petition to Rename Idaho Southern Pharmacy Building
Idaho Southern University students circulated a petition Thursday to rename the new pharmacy building after Dean Eugene O. Leonard, head of the college. Traditionally living persons are not honored with building names, and the structure is set for dedication on June 8.
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Idaho Southern University
Eugene O. Leonard
Netherlands in Fear as Himmler Reels In Gestapo Fury
The piece reports Heinrich Himmler expanding Gestapo authority in the Netherlands to suppress resistance as Dutch officers, some paroled in 1940, are executed or arrested. It notes Allied invasion plans hinge on a western bridgehead and potential internal Dutch support for liberators. Dutch officers, loyal to an exiled government and British allies, are portrayed as capable of resisting Nazi tactics.
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Hitler
Haneman
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Netherlands
Europe
Himmler
Germany
North Sea
Holland
Teutonic Brotherhood
Election Changer of 1916 Dies in California
Los Angeles County Registrar William M. Kerr who spotted an add ing machine error affecting 1916 results has died at 64. As chief of the division of voting registration he rechecked the tabulation and found a 10 000 vote mistake that altered California and Los Angeles County toward Woodrow Wilson.
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Los Angeles
William M. Kerr
Charles Evans Hughes
Kerr
Los Angeles County
California
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Boise Health Director New Appointment in City Unit
Dr. Paul R. Ensign returned to Boise Thursday to take over as director of the city health unit. He succeeds Dr. G. D. Bock who was called to the armed services. The state department announced Marion C. Bakken will lead crippled children work in counties without health units.
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Boise
Paul R. Ensign
G. D. Bock
Armed Services
State Public Health Department
Marion C. Bakken
Factory Starts Production On Bomber An Hour Basis
Ford announces Willow Run plant has rolled out the first B-24 E bomber built with automotive methods. Edsel Ford says mass production will expand Ford wartime work to 170 contracts and double peacetime output, with a target of one bomber per hour and shifts planned to reach high-speed production.
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Detroit
Willow Run
Ford Motor Company
Edsel Ford
National Association of Manufacturers
Ford
Ford Company
Charles E. Sorensen
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Pratt & Whitney
Sorensen
Reds Break Main Line In Battle of Ukraine Reds Break Main Line In Battle of Ukraine
The report describes a battle scenario with a western theater focus and shifting frontline positions. It notes mild summer conditions and a retreat of a symbolic force, using vivid but nontechnical language. It also lists temperature data and sunrise sunset times for a recent day.
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Ukraine
Income Taxes May Reach Into Payrolls
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced an installment tax plan to ease higher rates. Proposals would deduct up to 10 percent from pay and credit it against next year’s tax, expand exemptions, raise normal tax to 6 percent, and widen surtax brackets for low and middle incomes.
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Washington
The
House Ways and Means
Morgenthau
Treasury Department
Treasury
Japs to Work On Farms
The army approves a program moving Japanese evacuees to farm labor. Volunteers from relocation camps may work outside coastline area No 1 and in zones essential to feeding the nation. A Portland group of 200 heads to eastern Oregon sugar beet fields to thin rows, with negotiations under way for Idaho camps. A second 200 workers to depart Friday. State and local officials oversee the program under War Relocation Authority conditions.
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San Francisco
J. L. DeWitt
Coastline
No. 1
Portland
Oregon
Walter A. Duffy
Farm Security Administration
Idaho
War Relocation Authority
Barrymore Ailing In Hospital With Pneumonia
Hollywood star John Barrymore is very sick from pneumonia, with liver and kidney complications now worsened by hypostatic pneumonia. Dr Hugo Kersten said the condition is abdominal and the actor remains under care at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after a Tuesday admission.
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Hollywood
John Barrymore
Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital
Hugo Kersten
Soviet Breakthrough Near Kharkov Amid Heavy Fighting
Soviet dispatches report a breakthrough at Kharkov breaching main German lines and pushing into open country. Five villages captured with enormous losses to the enemy, as Red Army advances threaten northern routes and deep behind the lines guerrillas recapture a city in white Russia.
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Associated Press
Russia
Kharkov
Ukraine
Red Army
White
Red Star
Avila Camacho to Push War Manifesto Over Tanker Sinking
Mexico City AP reports President Manuel Avila Camacho planned a national manifesto calling for war against the Axis after the sinking of a Mexican tanker off the U S coast and unsatisfactory Berlin reply to Mexico's protest noting 14 lives lost. Washington AP notes defense order may curb minor league baseball travel after June 1 with hardship reviews. Portland AP reports volunteering lag in Japanese removal to sugar beet fields in eastern Oregon and Idaho.
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Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
U. S
Berlin
Mexico
Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Battle for Kharkov developing in favor of Axis forces
Berlin radio quoted official military experts saying the battle for Kharkov is developing more and more in favor of German and Romanian forces.
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Berlin
Kharkov
Five Army Planes Missing In Alabama Reports
Gunter field reported five training planes missing while Brockley field Mobile said two crashed near Atmore with one pilot killed. The incidents involve United States Army aircraft and raise concerns for air safety investigations.
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Montgomery, Ala
Gunter Field
Brockley Field
Mobile
Atmore
Ala
Heaviest man in the world dies in South Africa
Johanne sburg native Smith Poti aged 42 died of pneumonia. Weighed 756 pounds and stood five feet six inches tall. He earned fame as the world’s heaviest man with a waistline of six feet eight inches.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Smith Poti
Hoover Urges Roosevelt Powers To Win War
In a New York address Herbert Hoover argues for presidential control of economic powers to speed total war. He says the President should receive decisive authority with no hesitation and warns of a gradual reduction in economic freedom as the conflict continues.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt
Idaho seeks relief from building ban
Washington reports efforts by Representative White to obtain exemptions for Idaho firms from a WPB order freezing lumber and building materials. He cites Hecla Mining and Morrell Construction seeking removals or suspensions to continue grain elevator work and logging, noting mills under 5,000 feet daily may be exempt and stressing tight lumber supply for war needs.
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Washington
Idaho
WPB
White
D. Ida
Hecla Mining Company
Springston
Morrell Construction Company
Lewiston
Arthur Upson
Weiser Hosts Four Day Masonic Convention Leaders Elected
A four day gathering of three Masonic bodies drew over 100 Idahoans to Weiser. The Royal Arch Masons elected officers ending its 34th annual session while the Royal and Select Masters held its ninth annual assembly. Knights Templar, led by Boise mayor Austin A. Walker, will elect Friday in their 39th convention.
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Weiser
Grand Commandery
Knights Templar
Stage Center
Grand Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters
Austin A. Walker
Boise
J. G. Eldridge
University of Idaho
Royal Arch
D. O. Bellamy
Pocatello
W. H. Bristol
Lewiston
Alonzo Cone
Blackfoot
John Johnson
Twin Falls
Harley Matheson
Nampa
James Ashley
Salmon
Hiram Smith
Wallace
Robert Summerville
Ray Parrott
Charles Hartung
Payette
Mrs McAdoo to Visit Boise for War Savings Drive
Mrs Eleanor Wilson McAdoo daughter of Woodrow Wilson will visit Boise for two days starting Monday to promote Idaho’s war savings campaign. She led the Liberty Loan drive during the first World War.
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Boise
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
Woodrow Wilson
Idaho
McAdoo
Liberty Loan
Council Meeting Postponed After Clerk Reports Delay
City clerk W. E. Gee announced that the council meeting scheduled for Thursday night was postponed. The postponement was reported late Thursday afternoon, delaying official business and communications to residents.
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W. E. Gee
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Flying Tiger
Susan Elizabeth Jones
Thomas Arnold Jones
Walla Walla, Wash
American Volunteer Group
Flying Tigers
Kired
Chicago
Bonham and
Rosar
Smith and Tresh
Cleveland
Boston
Hughson and Peacock
Harder
Hogan
St. Louis
R. H. E. Washington
Hudson and Early
Muncrief and
Swift
R. H. E. Cincinnati
Nerringer
Lamanno
Johnson and Livingston
Examiner
Navy
Leonard Hall
Hangman
By Fred Vanderschmidt
By W. E. M
United States
Mia
Duluth
Barrymore
Kerch
Bulletins
Portland, Ore
Hoover
Mrs. McAdoo
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