Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - April 11, 1945, Miami, Oklahoma MIAMI DAILY 243 APRIL 1945 at A Street Pint Avenue PRICE FIVE CENTS ESSEN CAPTURED BY NINTH Yomoto His Target William De of who scored four direct hits on the Japanese super battleship Yam NBA Telephoto WONT GO TO ALL QUICKLY Soys Pockets of Nazi Resistance Would Delay Overseas Shipments April UNRRA told liberated Europeans today the help they need may be delayed by the necessity of wiping put pockets of Nazi But the people of devastated were assured that assistance will be on the way once the armed forces ease up in their GERMANY TAKES ANOTHER HEAVY AERIAL ATTACK About Rain New Blows On Enemy By HENRY JAMESON April proximately heavy bombers and fighters in a massive sweep across Southern Germany attacked a string of Nazi railroad yards and oil and ammu depots in the Nuernberg area today in a continuation of the biggest air field wrecking campaign in his Fighters were high and low seeking German 800 of which have been destroy ed he last four Among the targets of the bomb ers wore large airfields at Ingol stadt north of Munich and Ober near the explosives plant near depots at and the Landshut ordnance depot and freight yards northeast of Munich and at Donauworth and During he past four days a total of 63 German airdromes have been beaten up and 798 Nazi planes have been destroy ed in the air or on the Luft waffe appears well on the road to Hopelessly outnumbered for months by the Allies and now vir tually grounded for lack of the enemy was given its worst Vienna Completely Encircled Germans In Tenth of City By RICHARD KASISCHKE April forces completed the encirclement of Vienna and with and grenades compressed the doomed Nazi garrison eastern onetenth of the tottering Austrian front dispatches to the Moscow press announced These accounts also said that the right wing of Mar shal Rodion Second Ukrainian army had in the Central Czechoslovak province of Moravia at ALLIES EXTEND GAINS IN ITALY Three Towns Across Senio River Seized in Advances Of 7 Miles April Eighth army paced by have cap tured Fusignano and Cotig nola in the opening phase of their offensive across the Senio river on the eastern flank of the Italian Allied headquarters an Fall of these towns represent ed advances on a front of at least seven miles in the eastern Po valley astride the highway running from Ravenna to Bo Lugo lies a mile west of the Senio on the Bo logna is some 30 airline miles In western American troops of the Fifth army cleared less than 36 miles from American fliers destroyed 403 of its planes and damaged countless the last four days 61 German demands for supplies and airfields have been bombed and blow of the war yesterday when tne from the road hub of In their second quarterly repor its submitted t Congress by President the United Nations Re habilitation administration assert ed Even though the main back K le Naz military power may be broken before it may take some time to clean up pock els of Nazi If this eventually does UNRRA may also be by such military in carrying out fully the tasks for which it was Thus aid to liberated peo pies has been primarily of a emergency type furnished But UNRRA said i has representatives working i most freed ready to hel them liberate themselves fron the hunger and disease that enemy And it is assembling at leas 200 teams of 13 members each t help in the care and repatriation of United Nations na in In a letter to Roosevelt said that as rapidly as possible UNRRA is furnish ing emergency and essential aid to the heroic people who fought the Nazis before the invaders overran their who fought 9 them later during the period of and who are now fighting side by side with the forces of the other United Na He added A We in who have been Continued on Page Two for Agrees To Pay Damages to France April MP United States had an agreement today on the method of settling damages done in France by American The agreement covers claims arising from traffic or other acci dents or losses suffered through the fault of American but does not cover war After acceptance by American authorities the claims will be paid by France and the amounts added to The Weather OKLAHOMA Fair cooler except in lowest temperature 30 tp 85 in to 45 to 50 Thursday cooler extreme warmer In Party cloudy west showers east low est temperature 40 tp 45 north to 55 partly ly cooler east and cooler and lowest twees to 80 to 40 to 45 Thursday warmer ami strafed and at least 798 enemy planes Setting up several new rec the Americans yesterday out 336 German air craft on the ground and shot down 61 in attacks on 26 or more enemy The cost to the Eighth and Ninth air forces was 25 heavy bombers and 15 The air assault raged on late yesterday and last night with un diminished British heavy bombers attacked at Leipzig and at some 90 miles to the Mosquito bombers again hit British losses were 12 bombers and two Thirtyfive of the German planes downed in yesterdays aeri al combat were fight largest bag for a single Bombers dumped tons of explosives on seven bases guarding the Berlin Fighter pilots accounted for the bulk of the enemy bomber gunners knocked down for 102 Of Her Own Fliers 12TH ARMY GROUP HEAD April able information reaching this headquarters today said 102 merri bers of the German airforce were executed by the on March 31 in an effort to stop an officers Among those it was was a general named Massa and pushed on in the tion of La major Italian naval base a dozen miles Our troops have breached ene my defenses on the river Senio on a broad an Allied commu nique In the early hours the new Eighth army infantry moving up captured more than Veteran New landers took a prominent role in the The Eighth army also the move south of highway the major communication thoroughfare up the Po valley from on the through and Imola to A bridge head was secured the upper Senio near four miles from the highway southwest of for Confederate Home Becomes Hospital OKLAHOMA April 11 Robert Kerr has signed into law a legislative act converting the Confederate Veter ons homes at Ardmore into a state under control of the Uni versity of Oklahoma board of re The sponsored by Wilson Wallace and Rhys Evans in the House and Fred Chapman in the nil of designates the institution as the southern Oklahoma hospital and sets up a revolving fund to finance The plugged vigor by the Ardmore was part of Robert Kerrs plans for increased state hospital the great city of Bruenn Farther the Germans said other Soviet in an allout assault to reduce the Oder river fortress of had stormed into Richthofen square in that Si Inside Vienna the ragtag including school pilots and sailors fighting as had been pushed back on an island against the Danube by Russian storm units sweeping forward in handtohand Complete elimination of this enemy holdout group appeared likely in a matter of Red army storm units now were operating in the wide crescent of land between the Danube river and the Danube area which includes the old Jewish and the and Prater commer cial west and south of the canal had been mopped up by the There was no indication that the Germans yet had blown the bridges over the one of which probably is in Russian a Moscow dispatch The Germans still could fight their way eastward across the Danube on Continued on Page Two for 1ST ATE STREAMS RISING STORMS DY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oklahoma creeks were rising to day after rain had fallen over two thirds of the state and the way patrol reported the flooding Kingfisher creek threatened to close highway 81 by the end of the The patrol said 81 was already under water at King fisher and the creek was in Kingfisher coun ty measured inches of the heaviest fall of the A heavy rain was also reported around Antlers in county but the patrol had no earl reports of closed roads in tha Ponca City reported inche of Enid and Oklahom Ardmore had of an inch Tulsa McAlester and El City while only a trace fell in the extreme northwestern area in eluding Waynoka am Guymon had freezing weather during the night with a low of 29 Elk City reported the high of the past 24 hours wall The weatherman promised tin storm was at an end with dimin ishing winds and no precipitation forecast except a showers in the eastern third o the Clear skies and coole weather are expected tonight anc Allies Shatter New Nazi Defense Line closes trap on Nazis in The British fight into Bremen and threaten Jne First jmd Third armies join beyond the Weser river to threaten Hann The French First army nears AMERICANS WIN FOOTHOLD AGAIN ON VITAL RIDGE Infantrymen Take Posi tion on Southern Okinawa For Second Time By LIEF ERICKSON April can infantrymen today gained a foothold for the second time in three days on a ridge near Kakazu on Southern where the Japanese are making their staunch est defense of the Artillery fire on both sides slackened as the weather A heavy rainstorm which had swept the area had not kept the Yanks from seizing islet at the entrance to Nakagusuku corps dough boys who landed at against only light opposition yes killed off the entire gar rison of 150 troops naval shelling knocked out most of the mortars and about 10 miles off Oki east gives the Amer control of Nakagusuku onetime Japanese fleet The excellent harbor now can be used advantageously for unloading supplies and equipment designed to develop Okinawa into an air base only 325 miles south of the Jap anese home Marine fight ers already are based there for air Americans fighting in rain and mud on Okinawa gained up to yards in the north but were virtually stalemated in the rugged southern sector for the sixth straight day amid the fiercest artillery duel for the Pacific Several Japanese supported by artillery and mortal were thrown back on the The counterblows were costing heavy casualties and ma increased the Japanese toll of dead since the official count of plus 222 prisoners of war up to Sunday The enemy in one tack recaptured a ridge near Ka The Japanese struck with great quantities of artillery and large caliber The ter rain there is a maze of used by the enemy to good ad John 24th corps said the Japan Continued on Page Two for Greater Gas Bigger Tag Fees Voted in Senate OKLAHOMA April Senate has voted to af fix the emergency clause to a measure raising the tax on gaso line two cents a gallon and the question now goes back to the which defeated the emer gency last week although it ap proved the The emergency pass ed yesterday in the upper cham would put the into effect immediately upon signature by the governor and prevent opponents from seeking a It passed the Senate only after supporters searched halls and of fices to rally the necessary 30 The passed a meas ure to increase auto license The approved already had passed the House but it was altered somewhat by the Senate revenue and taxation The emergency clause was at the House passed legislation authorizing op of Oklahoma oil fields but the emergency clause failed to gain The lower chain WAR AT A GLANCE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Western armies rolled ahead against what Eisenhower called collapsed toward juncture with Russians Hannover white flags flown in Brunswick Hamburg Essen The Russian Soviet armies tightened siege ring around Nazis in Vienna area Germans driven from most of Aus capital Russians pounded ahead beyond Bratislava Ihe Italian captured other new offensive across Senio river Americans cleared Massn on the road to the La naval The Pacific landed on controlling Sulu chain Marines advanced northward on Okinawa artillery duel raged on southern flank Chinese reported pursuing enemy in northwestern advancing in southwest Honan British in Burma closed in on eight miles from highway to the XRAY DRIVES PLANNED Canvass of Miami Homes Discussed During Meeting Here Tuesday Final plans to conduct a house canvass in support of two important campaigns in Miami this free tuberculosis Quint Xray examination drive and the j have been selected for duty over United National Clothing collec Stimson Asserts Most Army Men To Go Overseas April ablebodied man in Uncle Sams Army is ticketed for a taste of overseas War Secretary Stimson says He reported in a letter to Mahon that of man on duty in this country in February some already tion were virtually completed dur ing a meeting of organization of here Tuesday In regard to this particular phase of each it was decided to dovetail the two vita programs into a single endeavor in order to gain maximum re sponse from all Miami Armed with full block their assistants and members of the citys auxil iary police will begin calling on family heads within the next few days and outlining reasons why every woman and child in Miami should sup port these lifesaving During the probably most attention was given to the antituberculosis campaign as it was contended that most people will unhesitatingly contribute their castoff garments to ease the suf fering and protect the health of foreign speaker who emphasized the importance of all citizens over M years of age the X ray test While thinking of the health of the needy and destitute people in the Miamians must not forget their own phy Continued on Pace Two for War Flashes NEAR April president of the dissolved Hun garian independent Democratic said in an interview today that Jews had been gassed and cremated at a mur der factory at in Up per Fabian said he was taken to Auschwitz 10 months ago with other Hungar ian Jews and that were gassed and cremated in the first two months and that only remained seas and are being trained for that An additional arc in Army but of the re doing essential ad ministrative and service jobs Everyone of these except those who have already seen overseas service or who are physically is earmarked for foreign service as soon as he can be replaced by an overseas returnee or a limited Mahon had written Stimson sug gesting that the bottom of the barrel be scraped of soldiers still in the United States before send ing combat troops from Europe to the for B Seeks Place for Italy at World Security Parley April A concerted campaign to win for Italy the status of a full ally and representation at the San Francis co United Nations conference be gan on Capitol Hill Representatives of Italian fra political and labor organi appeared before the House foreign affairs committee to urge full wartime recognition for the onetime Axis Italy now is recognized by this country diplomatically as a co The witnesses were called to Washington by Marcantonio in support of his res if would ask the United Great Brit ain and Russia to discard the Ital ian recognize that coun try as a full ally and equip its fighting Such recognition would abolish the Allied commis sion now functioning in BERLIN IS LESS THAN 100MILE PUSH FOR UNITS Brunswick Reported Seized by Americans Germans Re fuse Surrender Order By JAMES LONG April 11 UP The Ninth army advanced to a point less than 100 miles from Berlin to captured Essen largest city in the and crashed into the aircraft center of Brunswick of the high road to the German The swift moving First army sped across the Thuringian plain south of the Harz mountains to an unspecified point 120 miles from Ihe Russian lines in a su preme effort to cut Germany in two and bar access to the Alpine redoubts from the a blackened ruin in which persons lived before Hit ler loosed his is the home of the sprawling Krupp 7nunitions and iron It is the birth place of Hermann Goering and was the sixth largest city in BULLETIN April The American Ninth army advanced to within 90 miles of Berlin to The Hell on Wheels 2nd armored division whipped across the north German plain to with in 25 miles of the Elbe river and the large city of 65 miles from the German Unconfirmed reports reached supreme headquarters after 4 that Brunswick had been Airborne captured The 79th Cross of Lorraine divi sion had fought into its debris piled streets two days Essen was built atop one of the largest coal American Britain Hears Rumor That Hitler Has Seen Killed April report that Adolf ler has been assassinated circulated in Britain today a gung of black market meat Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said he had heard noth ing of John McEwen raised the question of the ru mor in declaring he had heard the foreign of fice was directly responsible for it and asking for the city March 10 after the Ninth army reached the The Krupp and other foundries worked day and night unless dis by the bombers which have attacked the ugly city for nearly five The Krupp birthplace of German war materiel since the days of Bis had been rebuilt seven times in this and they em ployed skilled Machine steel Continued on Page Two for Attack Renewed On OPA Handling Of Meat in April Senator Wheeler lev elled a new barrage of criticism against the OPA today at Senate food investigation Shaking his finger at Thomas deputy OPA administra tor in charge of Wheeler declared OPA enforce ment officers had been called off when a trap was set two years ago fice as usual the 1922 committee knows informa tion before the foreign The 1922 of which McEwen is is the ex treme right wing faction of the conservative The British Press association re ported a grave split developing among the Nazis today and said evidence has reached official quar i i MI ui auar system of staggered expirations for textbooks adopted in for Louisiana Stream Near Crest Today NEW April The overlapping and crumbling of levees in spots worsened the flood situation today as the rain aging Red river neared a crest in Central Residents of tho thickly popu ated farm area between the was throwing over Adolf Hitler in favor of Gestapo Chief Hein rich There was no confirmation from the British foreign Without specifying he source of its the news diplomatic correspond ent said he had been informed hut there were good reasons to believe that Hit ler already was being super by Foreigners who have been in the British 14th Army Troops Score Gains April Sweeping beyond captured British 14th army troops were re ported closing in today from the north and west against eight miles from the main high way to the Shan of Eastern lies a dozen miles southeast of important road hub 14 miles east of the British base at A Southeast Asia command com also said that armored columns operating from had inflicted considerable casual ties on Japanese remnants in the closest touch with are I were prepared to leave their homes at the Red Cross esti persons have been in central and western So far seven deaths lave been three in Ar kansas and four in New levee breaks were reported near Natchitoches and at lear The Red river reached Allied aircraft ranged over liur the correspondent ma to the Japa The foreign office said it was operating on the theory that Hit ler still was in with Him mler in command of defense One spokesman said that nothing definite had been receiv ed of a split among Nazi As to Hitlers he ncse concentrations on the road to for NEW JAP SAN April president of the South Manchuria was installed today as minister of a Stage of feet at Alexandria j be but probably most of them all kinds of reports are I transportation and communications that he is insane or even I in Japans new war the dead and any one of them may news agency He where flood stage is 32 succeeds Teijiro mu Describing Emerson as an in experienced the Montanan said If they dont got somebody olse down there in charge of en forcement they might as well close up the Emerson had informed the com earlier that he was leaving He said he was in the pro cess of changing to the Office of Economic Stabilization where he would he general Sentiment a p p a r e n 11 y was mounting in the agriculture com for a formal rebuke to OPA on its of the whole meat for Chinese Forces in Drive Against Nips April Chinese forces were to day in hot pursuit of troops retreating eastward from northwestern province town 70 miles from the Shells border whose capture was announced last night by the Chi high In where another Japanese threat to Shensi province had been the Chinese reported their troops ad from 37 miles from the Shensi against stiffening enemy resist East of the vital ing railway the Chinese said they had fought their way into miles northeast of Fierce street fighting was raging
