V E Day Battles Reach Final Stages As Berlin Falls
Allied dispatches report Hamburg Prague and Berlin surrender momentum with German forces in Denmark Norway and Holland ready to quit. Soviet communique notes Hitler and Goebbels died by their own hand as Berlin falls and Russian troops move through ruined streets. New Zealand troops seize Trieste as Western and Soviet forces tighten around remaining pockets.
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Denmark
Norway
Czechoslovakia
Holland
Hitler
Goebbels
Berlin
New Zealand
Trieste
Associated Press
Hamburg
Europe
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Eisenhower
Austria
Berchtesgaden
Innsbruck
Kesselrings
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Elbe
Blohm and Voss
Deutsche Werke
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Denmar
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Nikolai Tikhonov
J. M. Roberts
England
Russia
Stalingrad
el Alamein
Normandy
Prague
Munich
Stettin
Vienna
Bremen
Adolf Hitler
Ss Krebs
Hans Fritsche
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Fuehrer
Allegiance and Uncertain Oaths After Hitler's Death
The piece notes Hitler's death could push the German army toward wide scale surrender. Since 1934 officers swore loyalty to Hitler personally, making a fresh oath to Doenitz feel physically impossible amid chaos. Officers may act by conscience rather than new orders.
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Hitler
von Hindenburg
Newfuehrer
Doenitz
Scandinavian diplomat cites fluid war developments in Denmark Norway
A Stockholm diplomat said German garrisons holding out in Denmark and Norway could capitulate today amid fluid conditions. Swedish officials feared Doenitz's control of a rump German government could affect potential bloodless surrender. Danish underground sources noted Werner Best summoned to a conference with Doenitz in northern Germany.
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Stockholm
Denmark
Norway
Karl Doenitz
Werner Best
Doenitz
Germany
New Zealand Troops Take Trieste in Istria Port Move
After fighting ends in northern Italy, New Zealand forces advance into the disputed Istria region and occupy the port city of Trieste and the Isonzo area as part of European actions.
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Italy
New Zealand
Istria
Trieste
Isonzo See
Europe
Nazi Occupation A Reign of Terror Described by Allies
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Paris states the German occupation of France is a reign of terror marked by brutality and cruelty. The 13 volume study, by psychological warfare officers with French help, catalogs mass executions torture rape and village burnings as a fixed policy.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
France
Psychological Warfare Division
United States
Britain
Pleubian
Brittany
St. Brieuc
Woman applicant demands cuspider for job need
St Louis May 3 US news report says a United Drug Company plant personnel director received an application from a 63 year old woman who insisted she would work only if given a cuspider citing she is a tobacco chewer.
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St. Louis
United Drug Company
State To Vote on Increasing Membership of Supreme Court
In Austin on May 3 the Legislature adopted a conference committee report on SJR 8 proposing an elective nine member Supreme Court. The resolution now goes to the electorate for submission on August 25, 1945.
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Supreme Court
Austin
House
Senate
Free Conference Committee
Evacuation of Allied Prisoners From Stalag 11A Reported
London May report says prisoners of war at Stalag 11A Algengrabow near Magdeburg are being moved by road to American lines. The camp reportedly holds about 20 000 inmates including 1300 Americans.
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London
British War Office
Algengrabow
Magdeburg
77Th
Séth
U.S
Pacific
Mindanao
Davao
Philippines
Honshu
Japan
U. S
Burma fall looms as Rangoon odds shift in war
Allied forces close on Rangoon as British and Australian troops drive from both north and south. Japanese defenders retreat through jungle paths toward Thailand. Air and sea bombardments press in around Rangoon and Port Blair as MacArthur links air bases from Borneo toward Singapore.
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Associated Press
Rangoon
Burma
Singapore
Japan
Okinawa
Borneo
Pacific
Davao
Philippines
Thailand
Pegu
Pyawbwe
Prome
Tential
East Indies
Port Blair
Tarakan
MacArthur
Indescribably Horrible Nazi Atrocities Documented On Screen
A Paramount Theater and State Theater program promises shocking footage of Nazi crimes. Eisenhower and Patton are depicted viewing the liberated Ohrdruf camp and condemning atrocities with gruesome scenes of emaciated survivors and mass murder at Armstadt and Hadamar.
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Paramount
State Theater
General Eisenhower
America
Ohdruff
Third Army
Patton
Armstadt
Hadamer
Sweden Declines to Send Condolences for Hitler’s Death
Stockholm reports Sweden presented no condolences in connection with Adolf Hitler's death, an official statement clarified on May 3. No condolences were issued by the Swedish government or royal family.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Hitler
Weather outlook for Amarillo area and West Texas
The forecast covers Amarillo and vicinity with little temperature change this afternoon, warmer tonight and Friday. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies with cooler air near Pecos Valley to the east, warmer in the South Plains and Panhandle on Friday. New Mexico expects scattered showers and storms in the east and northern mountains this afternoon, with fair, cooler conditions tonight and Friday. Temperatures show a 24 hour high of 74 and a noon of 53.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
Big Bend
South Plains
Panhandle
New Mexico
Memorial Fund Gains Momentum in Amarillo
Labor groups claim the first Roosevelt Memorial fund check totaling 316.50 from Electrical Workers Local 602 on April 28. Donations from Labor and community members aim to fund a polio and crippled children clinic in the Panhandle. A concert at Ellwood Park honors the late president with a parade and public speeches guiding tomorrow’s Roosevelt Memorial Day activities.
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Amarillo
Roosevelt Memorial Fund
Fred J. Carr
Electrical Workers, Local 602
Carr
Roosevelt
Jewel Tea Company
Jaycees
Panhandle
Ellwood Park
530Th Army Air Forces
Dayton W. Palmer
Second
Park
Tenth
Jackson
Joe A. Jenkins
Ted Lakey
R. C. Snodgrass
First Christian Church
Irvin Tolzien
Jenkins
Warsaw Polish government deadlock broken at UN conference
The United Nations confer ence broke a deadlock over reorganization of the Warsaw provisional Polish government with a Soviet backed proposal. Key allies discussed the plan including Edward R. Stettinius Jr Molotov and Anthony Eden as four commissions prepare a charter to secure peace.
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United Press
Warsaw
Soviet Union
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
V. M. Molotov
Anthony Eden
Europe
Molotov
Tole
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