Cavalry Drives 14 Miles Into Hills of Luzon
Manila dispatch reports First Cavalry and Sixth Division push into Antipolo and Montalban areas east of Manila. The 158th Regimental Combat Team advances toward a road network between Lake Taal and Batangas Bay. Kenney’s planes bomb Zamboanga and Mindanao targets while U S forces press nearby Luzon operations and Zamboanga landings are denied by Tokyo.
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Manila
Yank First Cavalry
Antipolo
MacArthur
Montalban
158Th
Lake Taal
Batangas Bay
Tokyo
Zamboanga
Key City
Mindanao
Americans Push Inland as German Defenses Falter near Remagen
Allied dispatches report U S Ninth Army spearhead clearing routes from the Wesel pocket and nearing a railroad bridge blown out near Remagen while Germans struggle with weak communications and morale. Air and artillery duels mark a widening bridgehead as forces mass for a looming Rhine crossing.
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Associated Press
Remagen
U.S
Ninth Army
Wesel
Netherlands
Waal Rhine
Holland
Zuider Zee
Ijssel
Eifels
Rhine
Ruhr
Supreme Headquarters
Saar
Palatinate
Coblenz
Ninth
Duisberg
Duesseldorf
Essen
Berlin
Signs of Decay Mount in Reich as Allies Eye Collapse
Allied reports from inside Germany warn of worsening food shortages due to transport chaos and refugees. Armies face ammo shortages and a “hand to mouth” existence while sabotage in occupied Europe reduces German war output by about 40 percent. Sabotage cuts Swiss coal and power into southern Germany and northern Italy as occupation plans accelerate.
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Germany
Hitler
Europe
France
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Poland
Italy
Bern
London
Berchtesgaden
Marines Press Iwo Jima Breakthrough In Ongoing Fight
U S Pacific Fleet reports the Fourth Marine Division advancing along Iwo Jima’s northeast beaches and Kitano Point as the battle nears a turning point. Marine forces cut Japanese garrisons into pockets, with 564 enemy killed in a Thursday night infiltration repulse.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Kitano Point
Third Marine
Higashi
Clifton B. Cates
Graves B. Erskine
Keller E. Rockey
Iwo
U. S
Fifth Fleet
Iwo Jima
Insular
WLB Officials In Amarillo To Answer Employer Questions
War Labor Board representatives will be in Amarillo and surrounding area until Friday noon to answer specific employer questions. Five inspectors have inspected local compliance with directives, with offices on the Herrine Hotel mezzanine. Corti of the Eighth Regional WLB will meet at the Berger US Employment Service Office to answer questions from that region.
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War Labor Board
Amarillo
Herrine Hotel
FE. B. Corti
Eighth Regional
United States Employment Service
Berger
Tokyo Raid Leaves 15 Square Miles in Ruins
A March 11 raid by 300 plus B-29s caused devastation across 15 square miles of Tokyo including industrial and waterfront zones. Maj. Gen. Curtis Le May described the strike as the most devastating single air blow on any city, with photographs confirming widespread destruction beyond the initial 10 square mile target. Fires raged at seven points hours after the raid, with smoke visible over the riverfront and within the Naka and Sumida river vicinity.
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London
Kuestrin
Oder River
Berlin
Moscow
Stettin
Pomernian
Belin
Warthe River
Danzig
Gdynia
Baltic
Stalin
Lauenburg
Pomeranian
Kartuzy
Karthaus
Pomerania
Moscow News
Nikolai Akimov
Akimov
East Prussia
Altdamm
Dammscher See
Crossen
Oder
Zukov
Zamboanga
Kenney
Far Eastern Command
Cotabato
Mindanao
Moro Gulf
U. S
Borneo
Maggar
Balikpapan
Luzon
Aparri
Zambales
Tokyo
United States
Holland
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Hague
Utrecht
Remagen
Germany
Threshhold
Adolf Hitler
Cologne
Ruhr
Rhine
Supreme Headquarters
Associated Press
Hal Boyle
Ardennes
Karl von Rundstedt
Reich
Judendorff
U.S. First Army
U. S. Third Army
Coblenz
Eifel
First Army
Second Junction
First
Ahr
Ahrweiler
Brueck
U.S
Guam
Curtis le May
21St Bomber Command
le May
Sumida River
Sumida
Naka
Naka River
Imperial Palace
Weather Amarillo and Vicinity Sunday Outlook
The Amarillo area forecast calls for Sunday and Sunday night to be partly cloudy with little temperature change and fresh to strong winds. West Texas regions from Del Rio to Eagle Pass expect partial cloudiness with occasional rain, while Panhandle winds ease with cooler temperatures on Monday.
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Amarillo
Texas
del Rio- Eagle Pass
Panhandle
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Emmet J. Burrows
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Roosevelt
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Amartho Tent & Awn, Co
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Fourth Marine
Tachiwa Point
Eight Square Mile Island
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Iitto
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Russell Stationery Co
21St Bomber Com
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W. J. Morris
Insurance
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