Allied Breakthrough Crosses Rhine As Seven Armies Drive East
Allied forces push through German lines in a major west front offensive. U S Seventh Army breaches Rhine without prior bombardment while First and Ninth Armies drive toward Berlin, with tanks reaching Heckholzhausen and Limburg and Frankfurt threatened. Reports note high speed, widespread advances, and thousands of prisoners as Hodges and Patton command concurrent thrusts.
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Paris
U.S
Seventh Army
Rhine
U. S
Berlin
Madrid
Europe
Karlsruhe
U. S. First Army
Heckholzhausen
First
First Army
Hodges
Remagen-Erpel
Limburg
Patch
U. S. Third Army
Fourth Amored
Germany
Frankfurt-on-Main
Second
Ninth
Ruhr
Frankfurt
Germ Troon
Sifth
BBC
Cechoslovak
Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
12Th
Courtney H. Hodges
George S. Patton
Reich
Coblenz
Altenkirchen
The
Herpleroth
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Normandy
Hal Boyle
Patton
River Main
Goethe
Third Army
Hitler Calls In Nazi Leaders
United Press reports Adolf Hitler planned a meeting with ministers and district leaders at Berchtesgaden. A War Office spokesman warned to be prepared for unfortunate news. Nazi leaders urged children to never capitulate. Captured prisoners say Nazis chose not to defend Frankfurt under air attack in Berlin.
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Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
War Office
Germany
Hitler
Frankfurt
Berlin
B 29s Strike Kyushu Again In March Bombing
More than 150 B 29 Superfortresses from the 20th Air Force based in the Marianas attacked industrial and military targets on Kyushu, Japan. Washington released the early morning report with plans to publish full operational details later.
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Washington
Japan
Army
20Th Air Force
Kyushu
U. S. Airfleets Punish Japs on South Luzon
Manila reports heavy bombing of Cebu City and Legaspi by strong bomber formations. MacArthur cites 197,024 Japanese casualties in the Philippines and notes 14,853 dead and 171 prisoners since mid March. Formosa attacked. hydroelectric plant hit. power and aluminum works damaged.
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Manila
Cebu Island
Legaspi
Luzon
MacArthur
Philippines
Cebu
Cebu City
San Francisco
General MacArthur
Central Philippines
Tokyo Radio
Philippine
Formosa
Takao
Japan
Nippon
Jiusugsetsu
Fifth Air Force
Phillips Gets Touluene Plant
The War Department announced that Phillips Petroleum Company will operate the federally financed Touluene Plant at Borger. Touluene is a key ingredient in TNT manufacture. The Army Ordnance Division awarded the contract. details were not released.
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Washington
War Department
Phillips Petroleum Company
Borger
Army Ordnance Divison
Amarillo Weather Digest Tuesday Outlook And Wind Notes
The report from the U S Weather Bureau Amarillo and vicinity notes partly cloudy skies Tuesday and cooler Tuesday night with 25 to 35 mph winds. West Texas sees increasing cloudiness Wednesday with little temperature change and fresh to strong winds. Temperatures yesterday ranged from 52 to 78 with a maximum of 80 and a minimum of 34. Sunrise was 7 41 A M and sunset at 6 04 P M.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Nours
Russian advances surge toward Austria across Hungary
Soviet forces push deep into Hungary racing toward Vienna with Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian Army claiming Papa and Devenser while Banska Bystrica falls. Stalin cites new offensives on the Danube as Molinovsky’s Slovakian drive links with Carpathian mess of mounting pressure on Vienna and beyond.
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London
Hungary
Austria
Stalin
Vienna
Banska Bystrica
Tolbukkin
Papa
Devenser
Stam
Bathley
Budapest
Danube
Gyor
Malinovsky
Leva
Red Army
Danube River
Petrov
Carpathian Mountains
Moravska-Ostrava
Adolf Aitler
Czechoslovakia
Sudeten Mountains
Marshal Konev
Upper Silesia
Moravian
Prague
Moscow
Germany
Berlin
Marshal Zhukov
Seelow
Oder
Cattle Boom Drives Panhandle Sales Amid Wheat Runoff
Beef herds flood Panhandle stockyards as farmers move cattle off winter wheat. Prices rise slightly with 3 000 head at Western Yards near Amarillo. Rail lines plan to move 100 000 head in March and April, with cars scarce but restocked through Kansas City and other terminals.
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Panhandle
Eddie Johnson
Johnson
Kansas
California
Florida
Chicago
Colorado
Wyoming
Santa Fe Railway
Amarillo-San Angelo
Kansas City
Cate Tle
WLB Group in Amarillo To Speed Carbon Black
The United States faces tire shortages for mobile units due to a carbon black supply gap. A War Production Board delegation, led by Harold Boeschenstein, met Amarillo black manufacturers to boost production and speed new facilities. Phillips Petroleum’s K S Adams attended in advisory capacity.
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WLB Group
Amarillo
News-Globe Oil
United States
Eisenhower
Panhandle
WLB
Harold Boeschenstein
War Production Board
George L. Noble
WPR
Dallas
C. A Stoldt
Oklahoma City
James Bond
War Man
Phillips Company
Boeschenstein
Ruge
Big Guns Bomb Okinawa Hit by U S Fleet
United States battleships shelled Okinawa and carrier planes bombed airfields and installations in the Ryukyu island chain. Six enemy planes were shot down, and one destroyer escort was damaged as part of the first bombardment reported by the Navy. No landings were confirmed.
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Guam
Okinawa
Japan
Ryukyu Islands
United States
Fifth Fleet
Ryukyus
Navy
Ese
Midway
Formosa
Okino Daito
Tokyo
Iwo
Volcano Group
Pravda Praises Red Army as Savior in Europe
Pravda hailed the Red Army as saviors of world civilization in liberated European countries and said Russia respects the independence of other nations and is ready to live in friendship with neighbors.
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Moscow
Red Army
Europe
Pravda
Russia
New Food Stamps Issued For Meat And Processed Foods
The OPA announced five additional red stamps for meats and fats and five blue stamps for processed foods. Both sets in Book Four will be valid from April 1 through July 6. Red stamps include K2 L2 M2 N2 and P2. Blue stamps are T2 U2 V2 W2 and X2.
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Washington
OPA
World Premiere of Victory Harvest Set for Amarillo
The 20 minute farm feature Victory Harvest will premiere at the Paramount Theater in Amarillo on April 11 with Marvin Jones War Food Administrator invited to speak at the opening meeting. County agents and farm groups met to plan the event and Jones is featured in a two minute epilogue of the film about harvests and manpower. A telegram invited him to officiate at the world premiere.
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Paramount Theater
Marvin Jones
Amarillo
Jones
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U.S Weather Bureau
J Morris
Insurance
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McCormick Co
By Eldon Durrett
Russell Stationery Company
Olver @ Wiggins Lbr Co
By N. D. Bartlett
Omer
Twente
Meee Steele
Nover
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