Independent Record (Newspaper) - April 4, 1945, Helena, Montana Back the Attack With War Bonds The III Vol. 133 April 4, 1945 Buy Bends Today Five CMH German Civilians Fight for Food 41st Division Takes Jap Naval Base Within 30 Miles of Captured by Yanks April 4. Borneo and its great petroleum and rubber resources lay only 30 miles south of veterans of the American Eighth army They won strategic control of the nese naval base of Tawitawi at the southern tip of the Sulu archipelago with hardly a fight of Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe's 41st division by also captured two airfields on is and took possession o neighboring island with virtually no Gen Douglas reported to Warships of the Seventh fleet boldly coursing through water which once provided the Japanes with a major fleet anchorage an refueling laid down heavy prior to the landing while navy planes vided close support to the ing The daring thrust carried m- doughboys 200 miles southwest of General MacArthur said the strike jeopardizes the enemy's main position in the Sulu archi- pelago at American losses were reported as The 41st which has taken part in more than s fund reported 4- in HP I n n nn Their armies in full flight and the invading Allied nations troops having overrun their false civilians in the of the war fight among Delves over a package of food left U. S. signal corps RedCross Campaign Is Still Below Its Goal in County 48 of 56 Chapters In Montana Have Made Success William A. chairman of county Red invasion operations in the beean its toward the Sulu archipelago it invaded wan Feb. 28. After a quick up on that units of the division landed on near March 10. Zamboanga was captured two days later in a quick campaign that by On March 22, the 41st division completed three years of over- seas Twenty-two months of this was in actual It had seen more service than any Marshal Kesselring Believed Inside American Ruhr Trap 11.323 of the quota remained to be collected In this Collections to date total Brown pointed out that H. F. midwestern area has announced that have equaled or exceeded later in a I their goals in 4S of the 56 caught the enemy completely throughout the is the first time our county has fallen down in ing campaign quotas which aid the war Brown in urging increased contributions other division Luzon Assault On southeastern in the Pacific in- S. April Marshal Albert Kesselring is believed trapped in the Ruhr pocket be- tween the American First and The marshal became supreme commander in the west late last succeeding the deposed Field Marshal Karl von The pocket was ed to contain from to If Kesselring is in the he might flee by This Mould prove because of Allied air and Allied gunpower moving forward along the whole 190-mile perimeter of the Nazis Are Leaving Party Officials In Captured Towns Germans Seek to Have Them Installed By AMG in Key Posts and fulfillment of Those wishing to increase their Vinson Appointment Confirmed Today Without Opposition April at the big port of Legaspi Easter one column of the 14th corps drove 22 miles northwest along the Bicol sula while other columns moving eastward seized San Pablo capital of Laguna MacArthur reported his 40th division troops on Negros land captured and was approaching the southern edge of Silay The American division on Cebu island destroyed 58 enemy pillboxes and em- driving northwest from captured All of Negros MacArthur said the Americans have all of Negros except the northwestern tip from Silay to and the town of guete on the southeast Panay island is now of and Cebu is under Yank control except for I he foothills northwest of Cebu city and the northeast On 14th corps troops cleaning out the southern part ot the island captured San provincial capital of Laguna and rich coconut producing and essing With San Pablo's capture only two large Philippine cities re- main in Japanese on eastern Mindanao and Baguio in north contributions or those not con- M. Vinson was confirmed by who wish to donate to lhe senate today as director of the may call the Red Cross war mobilization and phone 2507, and someone succeeding James F. Opening of Floodway For First Time May Save Disaster New April Army engineers depended today on the opening of the huge gauza floodway to save the lower Mississippi valley from a flood comparable to the disastrous 1927 They planned to open the way for the first time as soon as possible within the next 10 Families must move out of the Railroads and utility com- panies have to make their ar- The floodway covers acres through its 100-mile To open it engineers will blast out a six-mile section of main river levee at the spillway Along the Mississippi's hundreds of families were driven from their homes as the will call for the he whole drive has been a but we feel that residents will not let Lewis and Clark county he to attain our goal by the end of the when the pledges and deductions have been turned In praising progress reflects the wholehearted support and endorsement by the people of Montana of services being rendered in every theater of as well as an intensified domestic Approval came by a roice vote without a The graying elevated swiftly from stabilization to federal loan agent to mobilization had been approved unanimously for the new assignment an hour earlier by the senate finance headed by Senator George Vinson was questioned for nearly an hour by the discussing among other things the report on reconversion activities issued Jast weekend by the retiring James F. Senators George and Lucus quoted Vinson as expressing with the terms of although they said he did not go into onal Jap Casualties April OWI today estimated Japanese navy dead at officers and men since Pearl Helena Cloudy tonight and showers or Slightly Montana Station Billings vicinity Max. Min. 35 24 T 36 10 34 20 32 16 T 37 17 34 17 35 18 T 39 22 official Helena temperature at 2 p. today was Station Max. Min. 33 20 Wyo 39 56 T V Belgrade Butte Colo 20 fi 33 35 Dillon Mo. 31 Los Angeles 68 19 36 Paul 31 26 New La. 83 New 74 45 North 28 Neb 38 Havre 36 22 34 20 With American Troops in March troops fleeing be- fore the American drive are ing behind them some Nazi party officials they can ently in the hope that the Allied military government unknowingly will retain these officials in key The policy had been outlined as long ago as last September in a secret order circulated by the gauleiter of the Simeon wrote the following to i his district officials on policy I to be followed in case of enemy occupation of certain of the secret documents are to be destroyed prior to the arrival of the No material of any value must fall into the hands of e protect the population sub- 3q.uent to suitable are to remain in ons of The directive outlined methods y which Nazi party officers would elect these and and civil servants o have exposed themselves their activities in the arty or in the state are not to e left They are to be primarily by elder of- who have not especially Russians Push Tank Units Into Vienna Wiener Neustadt Falls To Soviet Bratislava Attacked April Powerful Soviet tank and in- fantry surging through the administrative district of Greater smashed day to within six miles of the city now within easy reach of Soviet Two massive Russian armies already had deprived the de- fenders of Vienna of the great bastion of Wiener 22 miles to the and were closely pressing 24 miles east of the Austrian cap- ital's city Wiener one of the biggest aircraft production ters of all fell to shall Feodor I. Third Ukrainian army which drove on 16 miles to the cap- turing Neunkirchen and The Russians cut the main railroad and a highway connecting the war arsenals of Austria and Czechoslovakia with German troops in Pass At the Russians were within seven miles of the 3.215- foot Semmering pass and were 137 miles east of Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat at In the drive on Vienna another wing of army cap- on a crossing of the Allied Bulge Traps Nazis SCHLESWIG r HAMLIN LEIPZIG DRESDEN SWITZERLAND Leitha river and dashed 17 miles through a web of highways and each an enemy defense The Russians the sulphur spa of Baden and cap- tured within the boundaries of Vienna set by the Nazi party and only six miles south of the metropolitan Decision Due The next few hours were ex- to disclose whether shal Feodor I. intends to strike directly into Vienna immediately or first to cut the sprawling city off from cations up the Danube The main armored force of his Third Ukrainian army rolled through Vienna's suburbs German resistance but Soviet tanks and in- fantry fought forward over a flat plain thickly veined with railways and Nazi were reported for a final street fight inside Leaving the Rhine far Allied armies are fighting along the Weser midway between the Rhine and More than crack German troops are surrounded in the dorf left center of this The Duesseldorf trap is 30 to 40 miles wide and about 70 miles long. British troops are within SO to 40 miles of North sea water in their drive along the Ems river which threatens thousands of Nazis in Frontier Is Closed Because Of Impending Events April frontier will bo closed beginning today because of anticipated the Paris and Brussels radios reported in almost The Brussels radio further explained that Important events are taking shape in northern Italy and new must be expected in the very near Navy Has Reduced Its Draft Calls For May and June Requirements Halved For Next Further Cuts Seen The navy has April 4. halved its War Board Says Civilian Goods Due Soon After Peace April The climbed back on the reconversion band wagon the one that stalled in December at Germany's west Within a year after to the front in political re- j the war production board now and who enjoy the trust of civilian goods will be he population necessary for the execution of their same policy is to be followed also in regard to other even though not in leading The order said the system of evacuation and of setting up to be left behind would be arranged by a high party officer and that no case will this change occur prior to the tion of territory by the The order specifically forbade any Germans other than those selected by the parly to hold public coming out of factories at a clip reminiscent of 1939. Every civilian ing washing machines and missing for three be back in production and most will have reached the WPB Chairman J. A. Krug German Spy Station Wiped Out Just Before FDR Passed Spanish April Nazi observation post prepared to relay information to waiting was wiped out hours before President Roosevelt's ship passed through the Strait of Gibraltar homeward bound from it has been learned on good The in a private house in Ceuta perched on a high cliff overlooking the was said to have been operated by Spanish Falangist agents in pay of the It was raided by ican officials with Spanish A powerful radio ter and German code books were draft call and may ask for still fewer men in This will reduce over-all tive service calls 12 per cent or more than the current rate of Allies Reach Ems and Weser Rivers British Second Army Closing Trap on Germans in Holland April armies reached the Weser and Ems rivers pouring through bedraggled German lines within 48 miles of the North sea and 38 of the great Prussian stronghold of In the the Third army burst out into the rolling Thuringian plain in the heart of Germany and the ground of middle 140 miles from Berlin and 58 from The French First army cap- tured capital of Baden and a major industrial and traffic center of six miles east of the It was heavily for- and once a pivot of the Siegfried The American Seventh flanking the Black fought to within 34 miles of Nuernberg and into the heart of Bavarian capital of lower The cities of Siegen and Bruchsal were cap- Engelo and Zutphen were stormed and All North sea ports and naval bases were The British Second strong in was racing ward the North sea so swiftly that Field Marshal Montgomery again imposed a partial security to confuse or less Germans he hopes to trap in The Canadians directly menaced Arnhem and moved within less than 20 miles of the Zuider forming a trap in the larger trap and ing hourly to interdict the bomb coast from which the Nazis bombard The British reached the Ems river 45 miles northwest of city where the main roads to Holland and north from the Ruhr The can Ninth army reached Weser and imposed the threat to tied to all north May many by The Weser and Elbe are the last large streams on the high road to about men a They With the First the Ninth o. t m Late Bulletins Lewistown 35 15 Livingston 40 22 Miles City 32 15 Missoula 39 West Yellowstone 31 Whitehall 37 T T streams headed toward record St. Mo. San Francisco 61 55 34 D.C. 78 31 52 40 42 15 5 7 17 This data 24-hour period ending a. furnished by U. S. weather West of with light snow or rain tonight and Warmer Low 25 to 35. Slightly warmer Bast of in cloudiness tonight with scattered snow flurries western Warmer west Low 20 to 30 Considerable cloudiness Thursday with scattered rain or snow flurries slightly warmer east Airmen Pound German Columns Seeking To Flee Yugoslavia April 4 columns are struggling to escape from northern Yugoslavia before the Russians close the back door into Austria and the Allied air T force in Italy is destroying more enemy transport than it any time since the drive north from Rome a year In the last two days alone i tangs and Thunderbolts have de- 200 motor and 70 horse-drawn vehicles and aged 350 motor vehicles and 53 locomotives serving Nazi units which had held out against shal Tito's Yugoslav A train and most of its load of motor transport were wrecked yesterday a few miles southeast of under bombing and strafing by two formations of Tokyo Area Hit Again by April and surrounding areas were hammered by more than 300 today in the first three-way demolition raid on the island of Specific objectives were not although ters of the 21st bomber command said that in addition to 85 miles south of the capital 20 miles and 20 miles were in target Hamburg Are Bomber Targets April very strong force of American heavy estimated to number spearheaded a assault on Germany today and struck submarine yards at Kiel and Hamburg and a number of airfields over a wide area of the ments will put its May call at roughly Officials who know these things in advance of public an- but who cannot be quoted by name added that this quota may be cut further in June and even more sharply because the navy expects to reach peak strength of about men by July 1. After that calls will be solely on a replacement An official navy statement dis- closed the impending but gave no It navy's calls on selective service have been and are being gradually reduced in order to conform to authorized is ex- by July 1." It was that the first substantial cut Is due next Two reasons are given for the 1. Enlistment of 17-year-olds in the navy has been at a higher rate than 2. Peak strength is being more rapidly than indicating casualties maj ot have been as numerous as Although there has been some on the army to reduce ts calls to salvage more men fo officials of that bus far have stood firm in sum registrants month through Calls hat time have not been an by either Reduction of the navy draft i to be reflected most i in easing of the call for men 3 through 33. Officials cautioned that with enlistment o 17-year-olds apparently on the up fewer 18-year-olds are available for German troops were reported caught in the All German efforts to break the ring were The Third army fought down the last 58 miles toward slovakia and for the city of 140 miles southwest of The Germans said Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's troops had reached 70 miles om Leipzig and 110 from the zech city of where the reat Skoda munitions last major Arnstadt is 13 miles of Transfers for Postwar Purposes Meat Supply to Meet Demand Within Year April estimate that world meat demand and supply may a one year after the European war ends was received today by the senate food investigating Sugar Shortage April Senate food were told today that the sugar supply situation this year will be most difficult ot the with American civilians getting sibly less than the State Treasurer George P. has transferred rom the state general fund to he Montana postwar planning and construction reserve fund un- der terms of a 1945 session thus taking the first step toward financing the state's postwar and employment gram. The special fund will now be under exclusive jurisdiction of an 11-man as provided for by the Gov. Sam C. Ford is chairman of the and he is to appoint four tional Other members are E. F. McQuitty of W. A. D'Ewart of Park and W. B. Keeley of and Ory J. strong of Tom Stout of Fergus and B. A. Blenkner of None of the money can used until after the war and It must be used on building projects and water conservation the law Discretion in those broad is given the administrative A total of is aet aside to provide architectural and neering services and another fw administrative
