Allied Air Raids Hit Naples and Foggia Bases
More than 150 U S four engined bombers struck Naples and Foggia in daylight from North African and Middle East bases. Naples endured explosions and fires as B 17s battered the city, while 50 B 24 Liberators from the Ninth Air Force targeted Foggia 80 miles northeast. The day featured renewed Allied offensives against Axis bases in southern Italy.
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Italy
Naples
Foggia
North African Command
Ninth U. S. Air Force
Middle East
Germans Set Date for Land Invasion
German radio indicated June 22 as the allied invasion date for Europe citing confidential London sources. Berlin dispatches to Swedish papers claim Roosevelt can direct Stalin and tout three trump cards against Russia while urging unity with Britain and the U.S. Finnish party urges better US relations and looser censorship to support democracy.
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London
Germany
Russia
Britain
United States
Berlin
Hitler
United Nations
Svenska Dagbladet
Roosevelt
Stalin
Reich
Communist International
Europe
U. S
Helsinki
Peoples Party of Finland
Finland
Eighth Grade Diplomas Awarded at St Joseph’s Church
Nineteen graduates in maroon caps and gowns received diplomas at a Sunday evening ceremony in St Joseph’s church. Very Reverend Edmund R. Gody gave the address, and the benediction followed the Blessed Sacrament. A senior choir directed by Mrs Frank Kleffnera and Mrs Clyde Schoonover sang. Recipients include Clarence Seidal Freda Taylor Anita Hurley Bill Schatz Tom Begley Robert Tauscher Patricia Cronin Jo Ann Schlagel Bill Smith Mina Sheldon Viola Latimer James Christensen Gernani Parsons Charles Cullen Sherman Geyer Bob Larkin Kenneth Graveline John Arnold Richard Raymond.
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St. Joseph's School
St. Joseph’s Church
Edmund R. Gody
Frank Kleffnera
Clyde Schoonover
Clarence Seidal
Freda Taylor
Anita Hurley
Bill Schatz
Tom Begley
Robert Tauscher
Patricia Cronin
Jo Ann Schlagel
Bill Smith
Mina Sheldon
Viola Lattimer
James Christensen
Gernani Parsons
Charles Cullen
Sherman Geyer
Bob Larkin
Kenneth Graveline
John Arnold
Richard Raymond
Frank
Francis King
RAF Pounds Germany With 7000 Tons In Weeklong Air Offensive
British flyers dropped more than 7000 tons of high explosives on five German industrial centers Dortmund Duesseldorf Jena Essen and Wuppertal in the week ending with a heavy Wuppertal raid. RAF losses totaled 33 planes in the Wuppertal attack and German raids hit Torquay coastal towns, Caen area steel works at Mandeville, and other targets as retaliation.
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Germany
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Jena
Essen
Wuppertal
Adolf Hitler
Ruhr
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Berlin
Torquay
Focke-Wulf
Mandeville
Caen
France
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Air Ministry
I. G. Farben- Industrie Chemical Works
C. J. Jaeger
Quake in Germany Causes Destruction Across Swabian Region
A series of earthquakes on May 28 damaged stores and factories in southwestern Germany. DNB Berlin reported that in parts of the Swabian Alps the quake was stronger than the 1911 event, with many homes destroyed by fires from upsets and falling smokestacks.
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Germany
DNB
Berlin
Associated Press
Swabian Alps
Idaho Soldier Drowns at Camp Polk Pool
Pvt. James M. McCury 20 of Parma Idaho drowned Saturday while swimming at the Camp Polk Louisiana pool.
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Camp Polk
James M. McCury
Parma
Idaho
Blustery Weather Then School Uniforms Return
A windy day brings light rains forecast with a high near 65 and a low around 46. The piece notes the rain as a factor in city life and mentions school boys in mass dress, predicting a return to winter uniforms in ten days.
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Water Department
Insd
Plane Downs 11 Nazis
Flying Fortress piloted by First Lieut. Robert H. Smith of Lamesa Texas shot down 11 enemy planes over Wilhelmshaven in a record single bomber combat in the European theater. The bomber crashed into the North Sea on return but crew were saved, surpassing the prior ten by Capt. Allen V. Martini over Renault Works near Paris.
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Robert H. Smith
Lamesa
Texas
Wilhelmshaven
Eighth United States Air Force
North Sea
Texan
Allen V. Martini
San Francisco
Renault Works
Paris
Gas Rationing Cuts Memorial Day Toll in War Years
The Associated Press reports stringent gasoline restrictions and many in the armed services reduced fatalities during the second Memorial Day weekend of World War II. Only 43 deaths, 21 from automobile accidents, so far with eastern states showing no fatalities and Tennessee recording a single traffic death. The National Safety Council suggests the three day toll could reach about 250 if curtailment holds and plants run Monday, compared with 350 over the prior three days and a wartime high of 480 in 1941.
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Tennessee
National Safety Council
Council
Air War Intensifies on Soviet Front with Heavy Losses
Soviet front reports describe fierce air battles in the Kuban sector with 456 German planes downed this week and total German losses reaching 2,069 for the month. Leningrad air activity persists, while German infantry press along the front and isolated strikes hit the Baltic city.
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Kuban
Russia
Berlin
Associated Press
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Sea of Azov
Stalin
Soviet Union
Novorossisk
Caucasus
Leningrad
Baltic
Women Call for Women at Peace Conference
Mrs Harriet Tyler of San Francisco told Federated Soroptimist delegates in Salt Lake City that women must form groups to shift a century of thought and demand representation at the peace conference to prevent a third World War. Rocky Mountain delegates attended led by Idaho officials Myrtle P Eaking and Frieda H Wegener.
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Salt Lake City
Harriet Tyler
San Francisco
Senior Class Graduates Group of 285
Milton E. Zener of Pocatello will deliver the commencement address at the high school exercises Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the auditorium. Principal George N. Green presents the class of 285 graduates who will receive diplomas from J. O. Anderson. Rev. Donald S. Campbell delivers the invocation. Valedictory Gordon Jensen and salutatory Evelyn May Jones lead a program including solos by Elmo Smith Elizabeth Swanson and Florence King, a cornet solo by Joe Trujillo, violin solo by Florence King, and a vocal quartet. The high school orchestra will play.
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Pocatello High School
Milton E. Zener
Pocatello
George N. Green
J. O. Anderson
Board of Education
Donald 8. Campbell
First Methodist Church
E. Norman Vaughn
Gordon Jensen
Evelyn May Jones
Elmo Smith
Lowell Farr
Elizabeth Swanson
Joyce Gordon
Joe Trujillo
Florence King
Esther Kissane
Evelyn Miller Jones
Lou Jean Stedfeld
Lorraine Wilson
Connie Almond
Butter Subsidy Plan Sparks Farm Leaders’ Rivalry
The Office of Price Administration plans a five cent per pound butter subsidy starting tomorrow to build surplus stocks for lean periods. Agriculture officials say the program stabilizes supply and military needs, funded by Reconstruction Finance Corporation money under the 1942 price control act. Senator Smith and Representative Fulmer mocked the plan and pledged to seek congressional authority to block subsidies.
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Office of Price Administration
Congressional
Agriculture Department
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Smith
D-Sc
Senate Agriculture
Rep
Fulmer
Dsc
House Agriculture Committee
Sheriffs Authorized as State Agents for Driver Fees
Sheriff officials in Idaho were designated as special agents of the state department of law enforcement to collect drivers and chauffeurs license fees. Commissioner Charles Spoor sent notices to sheriffs clarifying they may turn over collected fees to the state if named as department agents, per a 1943 legislature provision and an attorney general opinion.
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Boise
Charles Spoor
Department of Law Enforcement
Spoor
Italians to Work in Idaho Forest Camps
Bert Fraser of the U S bomber patrol supervising Italian seamen at Fort Missoula Mont said a camp for volunteer Italians to work in forests would open in the Coeur d Alene national forest Idaho this week. The program began two weeks ago in Priest River Kaniksu forest and a second camp has been set up. Two more camps will open this week including the Coeur d Alene site under supervision of the forest service Missoula headquarters.
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Coeur d’ Alene Forest
Forest Service
Missoula
Mont
Nation observes second Memorial Day amid wartime effort
The nation marked its second Memorial Day of the war with munitions and war industries in full operation. Memorial services were held in hundreds of cemeteries, with additional ceremonies planned today. In London, American officials attended services at St. Margaret's Church for US airmen buried in the British Isles.
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Associated Press
America
London
St. Margaret's Church
Westminster
United States
British Isles
United States Army Air Force
Axis Fishing for News on Churchill Movements
Berlin broadcast reports Churchill visited Gibraltar Thursday and Friday to confer with Allied leaders but elicited no allied reaction. Berlin said US forces landed at Cyprus and ships returned to Gibraltar, with unconfirmed reports of more UK carriers and battleships sailing from Gibraltar. Madrid dispatches placed Eisenhower and Allied generals at Gibraltar and hinted Churchill may be in Africa.
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Churchill
Berlin
Gibraltar
Associated Press
United States
Cyprus
Balkans
Mediterranean
Spain
la Linea
Madrid
Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President of China Dies
Melbourne radio quoted a Chinese communique announcing the death at Chungking of Lin Sen 81 year old president of China. Reports varied on confirmation with Associated Press noting Lin remained in improved condition after a May stroke and a week in a coma.
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Office of War Information
Melbourne
Chungking
Lin Sen
China
Associated Press
Lin
Army Awards Job in Idaho Hospital Boiler House Addition
H. J. Mc Neel of Caldwell Idaho receives War Department contract to build an addition to a hospital boiler house in Ada county Idaho at a cost under 50000 dollars.
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Washington
H. J. McNeel
Caldwell
Idaho
War Department
Ada County
Yankees Take Attu Island After 19 Day Battle
American troops conclude a 19 day snowbound struggle on Attu Island securing the Aleutians air base. Navy says main Japanese forces annihilated except for a few snipers and mop up operations may take days. Tokyo broadcasts acknowledge the sweeping victory and the Attu garrison’s likely destruction.
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Kiska
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Navy
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Attu Loss Downplayed In Tokyo Broadcast
Radio Tokyo aired a 500 word program to minimize Attu loss by U S forces. It quoted Italian military leaders in Tokyo claiming Attu has no economic or military value. Tojo and Shimada visited Yasukuni shrine to honor fallen troops and pledge determination for sacred war.
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United States
Aleutians
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
Yasukuni Shrine
U.S
Tokyo
Japanese radio fuels propaganda on heroic island death pledge
An article notes that after the US victory an intense Japanese radio campaign portrayed Nipponese warriors as dying to immortalize the rocky island for the emperor, building fanatical fervor to a new peak.
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Rocky
Little Isle
Radio
Deadline in Coal Fields At Midnight
Washington reports a midnight deadline as soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers resume bargaining over the portal to portal pay issue. The War Labor Board urged production and a June 9 report, with a truce extended to tonight if no breakthrough occurs. Operators propose 48 minutes travel time equating to 80 cents daily, miners claim 90 cents, potentially yielding about $2 extra per man for underground and surface workers.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
UMW
French Fleet Units Join Allied Navies
The French naval squadron at Alexandria has joined the Allies after negotiations with Gen. Henri Giraud. London sources confirm the voluntary switch, denying German claims of submission, and note the unit includes the 20,000-ton battleship Lorraine, heavy cruisers Duquesne Tourville and Souffren, the light cruiser Du Guay-Trouin, three destroyers and a submarine.
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Alexandria
Henri Giraud
Berlin
France
Rene Emil Godfrey
Lorraine
Duquesne
Tourville
Souffren
Dueguay-Trouin
Seven to Assist France formed in Algiers under De Gaulle
A seven man executive committee was set up in Algiers to govern liberated Frenchmen and territory and direct the French war effort until France is freed. Members include De Gaulle, Giraud, Massigli, Philipe, Georges, Monnet, and Catroux with two vacancies expected to be filled later.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Henry Giraud
de Gaulle
Giraud
Rene Massigli
Andre Philipe
Alphonse Georges
Jean Monnet
Georges Catroux
Catroux
Syria
Georges
France
Massigli
Philipe
Monnet
Harmon in Africa fighter pilot arrives for duty
Second Lieut. Thomas Harmon former Michigan All America football star arrived in North Africa for duty as a Lightning fighter pilot. In April he was rescued after four days in a South American jungle following a bailout. two comrades were killed and three others remain missing. Harmon reached a Florida base to recuperate on April 24.
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Allied
North Africa
Thomas Harmon
University of Michigan
Harmon
South Amercan
Floreida
Tax Payments Due In Idaho From Revenue Office
Idaho U collector of internal revenue John R. Wiley warned that the second quarterly income tax payment for 1942 is due and payable by June.
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Boise
John R. Wiley
U Collector of Internal Revenue
Idaho
Federal Today
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