Okinawa Front Battles Continue As U S Forces Advance
American ground troops push along the Okinawa front despite mud hindering tank support. The Seventh Infantry secures positions south of Yonabaru. Sixth Division Marines enter Naha. 77th and 96th divisions report village captures and repulsed counterattacks as Mindanao mopping up begins in the Philippines.
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Okinawa
Japan
U. S
Chester W. Nimitz
Yonabaru
Sixth Division
Naha
77Th
Shuri
96Th
Douglas MacArthur
Mindanao Island
Phillier
Knights Convene Idaho Knights of Columbus Meet in Moscow
Thirty five state delegates and seven officers attend the Idaho state council Knights of Columbus 38th annual convention in Moscow. Initiation Sunday afternoon precedes three days of sessions with a joint EKOC and Idaho Council of Catholic Women banquet Monday night featuring Bishop Edward J. Kelly and Earl E. Morgan.
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Moscow
Idaho
Idaho State Council
Knights of Columbus
EK. of C
Idaho Council of Catholic Women
Edward J. Kelly
D.D
Earl E. Morgan
Lewiston
Jerome Brink
Pocatello
Council of Catholic Women
J. E. Nicholson
Wallace
Toledo
J. T. Goeckner
Twin Falls
J. E. Harrington
Silver Eagle Mine to Reopen Near Ketchum
Parke of Hailey announced the Silver Eagle mine near Ketchum will reopen this summer after 52 years idle. Repairs and pumping have continued for two years and production starts in about two weeks after snow slides pass.
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Ketchum
Parke
Hailey
Silver Eagle
Soviet Leaders Toast Victory and Faults at Stalin Banquet
In Moscow Premier Stalin and Soviet leaders praised the victory over Germany at a St George’s Hall banquet. Stalin toasted the Russian people as the strongest nation in the Soviet Union and admitted government mistakes in 1941 and 1942 during the retreat of the Red Army across Ukraine and White Russia.
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Moscow
Stalin
Germany
White
St. George
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Asia
Red Army
Ukraine
White Russia
Russian Denies Reuters Korea Manchuria Formosa Talk
Izvestia commentator calls Reuters report of Soviet plans to seize Korea Manchuria and Formosa irresponsible slander. He says such implied intention is absurd and unclean in motive.
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Moscow
Observer
Izvestia
Reuters
Soviet Russia
Korea
Manchuria
Formosa
Russia
Boy Drowns in Utah Irrigation Ditch
Three year old Stanley M Higashi, son of Mr and Mrs Katsu Higashi, drowned last night near his Clearfield home. The body was recovered after a three hour search.
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Clearfield
Utah
Stanley M. Higashi
Katsu Higashi
Secret Hitler notes reveal war plans for Czechoslovakia and Poland
Steno notes found by American officers quote Adolf Hitler as outlining peacetime preparations for a future war. He describes universal military service, Reichsland occupation, and Austria annexation, with crushing of Czechoslovakia and Poland as essential preliminaries. The Ardennes offensive is cited to prove the war could not be won.
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Alvin Steinkop
Berchtesgaden
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hitler
Germany
Berlin
Raineland
Austria
Ardennes
Belgian Bulge
Allies Debate Funeral for Gestapo Chief
British Second Army officials weighed whether to hold a funeral for Heinrich Himmler with German officials as Allied troops held him in custody. Himmler died by poison Wednesday night after capture near Bremervoerde. Ribbentrop rumored in British zone.
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Second Army
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Lueneburg
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Himmier
Bremervoerde
Hamburg
Auto Makers Lay Plans for Gradual Postwar Car Return
Detroit reports the American auto industry moved to resume production after more than three years of wartime efforts. The War Production Board authorized 200000 passenger cars this year but tied supplies to a free market and allowed orders now with deliveries beginning July 1 and likely few cars by October 1. Each firm will receive its own quota.
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Detroit
America
War Production Board
WPB
Winter Kill Hits About Quarter Of Bonneville Wheat
About 25 percent of Bonneville county winter wheat growers have reseeded 2,581 acres this year due to winter kill. County agent T. J. Chester notes cards mailed to growers are returning as reseeding totals rise, with Turkey Red the most affected variety and Ora Tenmarque Black Chaff Kanrad also reported.
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Idaho Falls
Bonneville County
Bonneville
T. J. Chester
Polish Generals in Plot Aimed at Liberation of Europe
Red Star commentator Konstantin Hoff mann accuses exiled Polish generals of planning intervention from bases in northwest Germany under the British occupation to liberate Europe from Bolshevik danger. Named among the group are Gen. Wladyslaw Anders Gen. Kazimierz Sosnowski and Lt. Gen. Taduesz Komorowski.
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Moscow
Red Star
Poland
Soviet Union
Germany
Konstantin Hoffman
Europe
Wladyslaw Anders
London
Kazimierz Sosnowski
Taduesz Komorowski
Bor
Stockmen Protest Boise Hearing on Grazing Fees Increase
Idaho stockmen and woolgrowers plan vigorous protest as a U S Senate subcommittee on public lands holds hearings in Boise May 28 and 29. Mel C. Claar of the Idaho Wool Growers association says witnesses will appear before the committee led by Sen. Glen H. Taylor.
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Boise
Idaho
U. S. Senate
Mel C. Claar
Idaho Wool Growers’ Association
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Glen H. Taylor
Veto Power Clash Over World Peace Machinery
In San Francisco the big five nations hold sway to veto council actions, threatening to block changes as the United Nations conference nears its second month. Britain proposes limits while the United States wavers due to Yalta commitments, and Russia remains firm on the veto rule.
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San Francisco
Stettinius
Washington
Truman
New League
Security Council
United States
Russia
Yalta
Council
Minesweeper YMS 481 Sunk in Philippines Action
The motor minesweeper YMS 481 was lost in the Philippines due to enemy action. About 30 officers and men were moderate casualties. Skipper Lt Theron O Anglin was wounded. Total U S naval losses since the war began reached 309.
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Washington
Philippines
Navy
Theron O. Anglin
Wathey
U. S
Aerial Crews Fly Home From England Bases
The U S Eighth Air Force says 40 000 air and ground crew from 19 English bomber bases will be flown home in 30 to 60 days with about 20 000 remaining by ship. Leaves and furloughs will follow after arrival. Some may go to the Pacific. others return to their original units. Lt Gen James Doolittle notes about 40 bomber and 20 fighter bases in England. few groups expected to stay postwar for occupation duties.
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London
U.S
Eighth Air Force
England
United States
Pacific
James Doolittle
Cas
Flag Veteran to Return to Overseas Duty
An American Indian flag-raiser from Iwo Jima, one of three survivors, requests return to Pacific duty after being brought home for the seventh war loan drive. Hayes, already two overseas tours, preferred to stay with the 28th regiment and resisted acknowledging his role in the flag raising. The treasury reports 2.101 billion dollars raised for the seventh war loan, with 1.366 billion from Series E bonds and 30 percent of the seven-billion-dollar individual quota.
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Washington
Iwo Jima
Hayes
28Th Regiment
Roosevelt
Truman
Senate
Bougainville
Treasury
Idahoan’s Mother Dies in Midvale Obituary Notice
Mrs. Rob ert S Lancaster 65 native of Utah died at home after lengthy illness. She is mother of George R Lancaster Wendell and Mrs Ivy May Bui id of Chesterfield Idaho and sister of George M Webster of Blackfoot.
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Midvale
Utah
Robert S. Lancaster
George R. Lancaster
Wendell
Ivy May Bui Id
Chesterfield
Idaho
Eister
George M. Webster
Blackfoot
French committee urges action against Franco regime
Paris reports state the foreign affairs committee urged De Gaulle to sever relations with Spain and remove Franco. The group likened Franco to Italy’s fascist regime and advocated allied measures to empower Spain for an immediate election. Laval remains in custody in Spain awaiting death sentence as a traitor.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Spain
Pierre Laval
Generalissimo
Franco
Assembly
United States Senate
Charles de Gaulle
Italy
Laval
France
Germany
Old Republic
Utahns Insist On Polygamy Faces Appeal
Attorneys for 31 fundamentalist polygamy defendants argue in a brief to the Utah Supreme Court that suppressing their belief would halt civilization and that no proof of actual cohabitation existed. The group, linked to the Latter Day Saints schism, claims they teach doctrine Mormon church once endorsed before 1890.
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Salt Lake City
State Supreme Court
Utah
Veterans open VA contact offices in four Idaho cities
Washington reports authorization for establishment of contact units at Boise Twin Falls Idaho Falls Coeur d Alene and Lewiston by the veterans administration facility in Boise. Each unit will have a contact representative and a clerk stenographer and will open once space is secured and staff trained.
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Washington
Twin Falls
Idaho Falls
Coeur d'Alene
Lewiston
Veterans’ Administration
Boise
Sen. Thomas
Idaho
Tractor Kills Man in Colfax Embankment Accident
Theodore H. Ackerman, 71, a retired dairy operator of Colfax Washington, was killed Thursday when his tractor toppled onto a small embankment and pinned him.
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Colfax, Wash
Theodore H. Ackerman
Laffey Fights Off Japanese Air Attack Surviving Eight Planes
On the Okinawa front flagship of Vice Admiral Turner the destroyer Laffey endured two hours of air assault from the Japanese April 16. Eight enemy planes were shot down. 31 crewmen killed and 60 wounded, while the ship's guns remained in action until the last foe vanished. Commander Becton pledged to stay afloat as long as a gun fired.
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Adm
Richmond K. Turner
Okinawa
Laffey
Seattle
Frederick Julian Becton
Hot Springs
Ark
Frank Manson
Tahlequah
Okla
Truman to Speak at United Nations Conference
President Truman plans to fly to San Francisco to address the concluding session of the United Nations conference. He may make a brief side trip to the Pacific Northwest for rest before returning to the White House by plane, with an absence likely under a week.
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Washington
Truman
San Francisco
White House
Pacific Northwest
Capital Again Target for 500 Raiders
About 500 B-29 bombers dropped over 4,000 tons of bombs on Tokyo’s Marunouchi district and imperial government center in a second major fire raid in 48 hours. The raid hit south central Tokyo near the imperial palace and Ginza area, with Major General Curtis B. Lemay’s forces causing extensive damage and smoke obscuring assessment.
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Guam
Tokyo
Marunouchi
Imperial Government Center
Shingawa
Pic Tures
Curtis B Lemay
Imperial Palace
Shanagawa
Tokyo Bay
Chicago
State Street
Marunouchi District
Imperial Hotel
Frank Lloyd Wright
Japs Dodging Russ War
A Tokyo broadcast recorded for Americans via FCC said there is no reason for Russia to enter war with Japan and that Japan could seek peace with Britain and the United States through the USSR. The piece, sourced from Comei news and Mainichi Shimbun, notes talk of a Rift in the United Nations.
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San Francisco
Tokyo
Russia
Japan
Britain
United States
Ussr
Federal Communications Commission
America
Comei
FCC
Mainichi Shimbun
United Nations
London
Immediate Problems to Get Attention at Big 3 Session
The AP analysis argues the first postwar Big Three meeting must calm troubled international waters during a hurricane season for the United Nations. It warns cross winds from Yugoslavia and Poland, occupation issues in Germany, and Balkan instability as risks if the allies split.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Big Three
Washington
United Nations
Germany
Balkans
Europe
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