Rail Labor Panel Approves Eight-Cent Raise for Rail Workers
An emergency board of the national railroad labor panel recommended an eight cent an hour pay hike for more than one million railroad employees. The panel said the raise is a minimum, noninflationary adjustment to correct inequities and aid wartime prosecution. The measure becomes effective after 30 days unless Byrnes directs otherwise.
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Rail
Washington
National Railway Labor Panel
War Labor Board
Emergency Board
WLB
James F. Byrnes
Churchill seeks Italian dissension and Soviet patience in war
Prime Minister Churchill invited Italians to reject their leaders and exit the war while signaling possible future allied action. He noted Russia’s restrained entry and said no commander for a new European front had been chosen. He urged Italians to rely on justice and endure aerial pressure as talks with Roosevelt continued.
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Washington
Churchill
Russia
Europe
Roosevelt
Soviet Union
Japan
Britain
Chinese Push Japs Back Near Chungking River Corridor
Chinese Central News Agency reports Chinese troops repelled a Japanese advance toward Chungking from the west of Lake Tungting. Fighting rages south of Yuyangkwan with Japanese efforts to encircle Ichang and Yochow thwarted by stiff Chinese defense and heavy losses on both sides.
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Chungking
China
Lake Tungting
Yuyangkwan
Ichang
University Irrigation Funded by City Water Rentals
The city administration cooperates with the university to provide water for campus lawns and trees. Dean E. J. Baldwin reports irrigation is underway but labor shortages hinder the work. Legislation had cut university funds, removing $300 monthly water rent during summer. the city reportedly reduced irrigation water costs to $75 per month.
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E. J. Baldwin
Thousands Quit As War Labor Gridlock Hits Rubber Plants
About 51,000 Akron rubber workers walk out over eight cents an hour wage demand rejected by the War Labor Board. Losses in war materials reach up to 15 million dollars as the CIO United Rubber Workers convene to decide next moves. Baltimore transit workers vote to strike at 4 am amid dispute with an independent union, with service only lightly reduced. Utica bus drivers vote to return to work pending mediation on discharge disputes.
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Associated Press
Akron, O
Baltimore
Akron Rubber
War Labor Board
WLB
CIO United Rubber Workers
Utica
N. Y
Safety Expert Addresses Safety Training Value at Chamber Luncheon
Commodore W E Longfellow national Red Cross executive in charge of first aid water safety and accident prevention gave an entertaining talk at the chamber of commerce forum luncheon. He was introduced by Earl Gilbert with notable guests including George N. Tucker Lieut H O Fox and Clyde W Lindville. Opal Murray provided a piano solo as the meeting was presided over by President L C Johnson.
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Chamber of Commerce Forum
Commodore W. E. Longfellow
National
Red Cross
Commodore
Earl Gilbert
Bannock County
George N. Tucker
Boise
Idaho
Farm Market Relations, Inc
Lieut
H. O. Fox
U. S. Navy Reserve
Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board
Clyde W. Lindville
Army Air Base
Committee to Meet for Memorial Day Parade Plans
Chairman Ray Brookhart calls a final Memorial Day committee meeting at 8 p m in the Bannock hotel to finalize plans for Sunday's parade and ceremonies.
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Ray Brookhart
General Memorial Day Committee
Bannock Hotel
State May Stock Fishing Streams Near Idaho Falls
Peder Pedersen of the Bonneville county sportsmen association announced bus trips to ease gasoline rationing by stocking streams. Officials plan to stock Beaver Creek in Clark county with several thousand 9 to 12 inch fish. The Snake River forebay near Idaho Falls and a north fork stretch near Rexburg will also be stocked. James O. Beck will discuss stocking nearby streams.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Peder Pedersen
Bonneville County Sportsmen’s Association
Game Department
Beaver Creek
Clark County
Spencer
James O. Beck
State Fish and Game Department
Snake River
Rexburg
Pedersen
Allied Air Raids Hit Sicily Sardinia and Panterleria
Allied air forces in North Africa and the Middle East conducted a daytime assault on Italian positions in Sicily Sardinia and Pantelleria. More than 400 aircraft struck docks rail yards power stations naval facilities and communications. Eleven planes failed to return with 23 Axis planes shot down over Sicily and heavy damage reported to industrial and military targets.
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North Africa
Italy
Sicily
Sardiana
Pantelleria
Northwest African Air Force
Mediterranean
Northwest African Command
Messina
Middle East
Airplane Beats Zero in Navy Corsair Declared Superior
The Corsair, first with a 2000 horsepower engine, is officially described as decisively superior to the Japanese Zero in the south Pacific. Admiral Nimitz reports pilots praise its performance in combat, interception, maneuverability, climb, speed, and armor.
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Washington
South Pacific
Navy
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Corsair
Cans Shipped From Pocatello in Second Tin Carload
The second shipment of tin cans weighing 45 080 pounds left Pocatello this morning per Horace Fereday chairman of Bannock county salvage committee. The factory reports the first car held well prepared cans 80 percent from Bannock county housewives and the rest from surrounding counties including Bingham Caribou Bear Lake and Power. He praises housewives for the cooperation and hopes for a third carload.
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Pocatello
Horace Fereday
Bannock County
Bingham
Caribou
Bear Lake
Power
Fereday
Baseball Scores Update with Postponements
Detroit at New York Cleveland at Boston Chicago at Philadelphia postponed St. Louis at Washington night.
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Detroit
New York
Cleveland
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Washington
Death claims Edsel Ford at age of 49
Edsel Bryant Ford president of Ford Motor Company died at his home in Grosse Pointe Shores after a months long illness that became critical ten days ago. He was 49 and survived by wife Eleanor Lawthian Clay and four children. parents Henry and Clara Ford rushed to the scene. A hospital statement cited a six week illness and a prior stomach ailment with surgery six months earlier as the cause of death.
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Detroit
Edsel Bryant Ford
Ford Motor Company
Grosse Pointe Shores
Eleanor Lawthian Clay
Henry Ford
Henry Ford Hospital
Edsel Ford
Lake Shore Road
Grosse Poifite Shores
Central War Points Aid Aerial Thrust
DeWitt Mackenzie discusses air power against Germany and England in World War II era commentary. He notes Churchill’s cautious stance and anticipates Allied invasions once raids weaken Axis strength, contrasting Allied bombing with German bombing patterns and industry dispersion.
Schools Close Monday Observes Memorial Day Holiday
E. Norman Vaughn, superintendent of schools, announces May 31 will be a holiday in the Pocatello school system. Governor Bottolfsen has officially declared Monday a Memorial Day holiday. Classes will be held at the university Monday as examinations are in progress.
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E. Norman Vaughn
Pocatello
C. A. Bottolfsen
Former Pocatello Pitcher Hal Dobson Dies in Plane Crash
23 year old Second Lt. Harold Dobson killed in a collision of two army training planes near Victorville California. He pitched for Pocatello in the Pioneer Baseball League in 1941 and later for Springfield and Sacramento. Dobson enlisted last summer and was owned by the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Victorville
Calif
Harold Dobson
Army
Pocatello
Dobson
St. Louis Cardinals
Springfield
Sacramento
Air Corps
The
Solons
East Denver High School
Denver
Giant Planes Strike at War Centers
London reports a heavy RAF bombing raid on Duesseldorf following Dortmund. An armada of four engine bombers, potentially 500 aircraft, dropped more than 8000 pound bombs and incendiaries. Fire flared through the overcast as observers noted the attack in very great strength during a continuing offensive on German arms centers.
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London
RAF
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Germany
Air Ministry
Soft coal wage dispute nears settlement with WLB concessions
The War Labor Board ruled for wage relief exceeding one dollar per day, prompting United Mine Workers and operators to reopen bargaining. It rejected a two dollar daily hike but urged improvements in six day week conditions, portal to portal issue funding, raised vacation pay to fifty dollars, and provided safety gear and tools at no cost to miners retroactive to April 1.
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Associated Press
WLB
United Mine Workers
Bombs May Knock Italy Out With Land Fight Unlikely
Washington observers doubt Italy would be invaded this summer though invasion threats linger. They expect the main European push to strike at Berlin with easier routes through France and the Balkans, given Italy’s Alpine geography.
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Italy
Washington
Europe
Berlin
Attu Island Described as God Forsaken by Navy Chaplain
Seattle naval observer Lt. Col. H. D. Neely recalls Attu as the most desolate grim unlovely spot seen during a 12 day Aleutian war zone mission. He notes heavy Japanese fortifications and praises U S engineers for transforming bleak outposts into workable bases.
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Seattle
Attu Island
H. D. Neely
Seattle Air Wing Command
Aleutian
Attu
U. S
Pocatello Sees 82 Degree Day With Open Fishing, Picnics
The town notes its warm Tuesday with a high near 82 and a rare early summer feel. Fishermen plan trips in Idaho streams as the fishing season opens. Vegetables in victory gardens improve daily and students count days to June 3 dismissal as fans chase free passes from handbills dropped today.
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Pocatelo
Pocatello
Idaho
City Creek
Ross Park
Mississippi floods threaten Illinois plants and Missouri towns
Flood waters from the Mississippi and its tributaries imperil major facilities in southern Illinois and eastern Missouri. At Wolf Lake 125 miles south of St Louis six inches of water cover the Atlas Powder plant threatening its land. Nearby Grand Tower's Illinois Central Public Service generating plant, a $9 million project, is in a critical condition as levees fail and rivers rise.
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Illinois
Missouri
Mississippi
Wolf Lake
St. Louis
Atlas Powder
Preston and
Aldridge
Clarence Campbell
OCD
Union County
Grand Tower
Illinois Central Public Service
US troops clear Chichagof valley on Attu island drive advances
United States forces wipe out the Japanese position in Chichagof valley Attu island and press a follow up against Chichagof harbor as heavy bombers fighters and strafing runs continue the assault naval communique notes the valley was cleared Monday with unclear enemy casualties and survivors retreating toward the harbor and ridge positions on the plain.
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Washington
United States
Chichagof Valley
Attu Island
Navy
Chichagof Harbor
Chichagof
North Pacific
South Pacific
Niagra
Cape Surville
San Cristobal Island
U. S
Witness Testifies About Dempsey Parties in Manhattan
In White Plains a former friend testifies in Lt Cmdr Jack Dempsey divorce case that Benny Woodall and Hannah Williams Dempsey were asleep in Mrs Dempsey's Manhattan apartment bedroom. The witness says Woodall slept with trousers on and shoes off while Mrs Dempsey was covered in bed.
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Dempsey
White Plains
N. Y
Benny Woodall
State Supreme Court
Hannah Williams Dempsey
Woodall
Jack Dempsey
Nazi purge talk shocks home front as Germany signals strength
News bulletins describe a Nazi party purge as needed strength on the home front with Germany hinting Finland may face a Russian front later this summer. In Montreal Queen Wilhelmina arrives en route to Ottawa for a visit with Crown Princess Juliana. In Salt Lake City President Heber J Grant and Mrs Grant celebrate their 59th anniversary with a short drive. both are 86.
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Germany
Finland
Montreal
Wilhelmina
Ottawa
Crown Princess
Juliana
Salt Lake City
Heber J. Grant
Latter Day Saints Church
Grant
Mexican Laborers Arrive for Idaho Farms
One hundred Mexican laborers arrived yesterday to work in southern Idaho farm fields. They will be housed in Farm Security Administration camps.
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Burley
Idaho
Farm Security Administration
House Senate Agree on Pay As You Go Tax Plan
Conferees race to enact a pay as you go income tax plan by July 1 to tax 44 million Americans on a current basis. The bill would cancel a year's tax for those owing $50 or less and cancel 75 percent for others with remaining amounts due in two installments in 1944 and 1945.
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Washington (P
House
Senate
Allied Convoy Seen Entering Sea Near Gibraltar
Transocean reported from Algeciras Spain via Berlin that a large allied convoy was seen moving through the Strait of Gibraltar toward the Mediterranean. No independent confirmation was provided. The alleged flotilla included a 50,000-ton Cunard liner, three aircraft carriers, three battleships, 12 destroyers, light corvettes, two U S gunboats, two British submarines, and several transports on the Gibraltar roadsteads.
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Transocean
Algeciras
Spain
Berlin
Strait of Gibraltar
Cunard
Gibraltar
United States
Pool Project Set for Board Approval in Moscow
Q D Garrison travels to Moscow to seek state board of education approval for a campus swimming pool. The pool would serve naval cadets training here starting July 1 and be financed by a local bond issue near the field house site. Executive Dean E J Baldwin misses the Moscow meeting due to the school commencement program.
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Q. D. Garrison
Moscow
State Board of Education
E. J. Baldwin
Actress to Marry in Santa Monica After Studio Breaks
Austrian born actress Hedy Lamarr and actor John Loder announced they will wed when schedules permit. They applied for a marriage license yesterday in Santa Monica. The couple met six months ago.
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Hollywood
Hedy Lamarr
John Loder
Hedy and
Loder
Santa Monica
Calif
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