U S Troops Close on Berlin as Ruhr Enclosed
Allied forces push within less than 160 miles of Berlin and drive toward Muenster and Kassel while sealing off the Ruhr. German surrender swells as 22,000 bagged. 30,000 square miles held. Russians near Vienna and Bratislava threaten to cut behind German lines.
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U.S
Berlin
Germany
Nuermberg
Ninth Armie
Ruhr
Bertin
Muenster
Bielefeld
Bannoever
Haalland
Zuider Zee
U.S. Third Army
Fulda
Kassel
Patton
Eisenach
Frankfurt-Berlin
Neisse
Benin
U. S
Nuernberg
Munich
Reich
Czechoslovakia
Lippstadt
Wesel
Rhine
Paderborn
First
Marshal von Model
Army Group B
Supreme Headquarters
Fifth Panzer Army
15Th Army
First Parachute Army
Eisenhower
Arthur Tedder
Holland
Montgomery
Austria
Seventh
Vienna
Bratislava
Slovakia
Sopron
Wiener Neustadt
Italy
Marshal Stalin
Glogau
Oder
Breslau
Hungary
Stettin
Baltic
East Prussia
Lewis Agrees To Extend Expired Contract To May 1
John L. Lewis ended the coal strike threat by extending the expired bituminous contract to May 1 after the War Labor Board ordered indefinite continuation beyond the Saturday deadline. He limited acceptance to May 1 while negotiations continued, with no retroactive wage increases granted.
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Lewis
Washington
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
State Welfare Men To Visit Roseville Plant
Welfare officials plan a visit to the unused brick plant near Roseville in Muskingum County to assess mobilization and reconversion needs. President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of James F. Byrnes as war mobilization head, with Fred M. Vinson named as successor this week.
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Roseville
Columbus
Frazier Reams
Washington
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Muskingum County
Fred M. Vinson
Jim. Fearbhy
Huber seeks new psychiatric veterans hospital for region
Akron congressman Walter B Huber announced he is seeking a new psychiatric veterans hospital for Northeastern Ohio. He said he wrote to Brig Gen Frank I Hines, administrator of Veterans Affairs, urging establishment of such an institution in the area.
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Akron
Walter B. Huber
Ohio
Frank Ey Hines
Veterans’ Affairs
War Veteran Dies en Route to Mercy Hospital
Emery Minor Jr. 21, a discharged war veteran held for intoxication breach of peace and resisting an officer, died in a police ambulance en route from the county jail to Mercy Hospital. Coroner Edward Cook ruled death due to epilepsy.
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Hamilton
Emery Minor,Jr
Mercy Hospital
Edward Cook
Ohioans Smoke More Cigarettes Despite Shortage
Columbus based UPI reports that Ohioans smoked more cigarettes in the first quarter of 1945 than in the same period of 1940. State Treasurer Don E. Ebright says cigarette taxes brought in 2,055,848 dollars this quarter versus 1,838,748 dollars in 1940, reflecting higher consumption despite shortages.
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Columbus
UPI
Patrol Radio Network Advances In Ohio System Expansion
The Ohio State Highway Patrol reports progress on a high frequency patrol radio network, with over half completed and more installations in 11 posts and Cambridge district headquarters. Thirteen additional installations will connect district headquarters, posts and cars by two way communications, as a 1730 kilocycle general alarm band links Columbus Findlay Massillon Wilmington and Cambridge with teletype printers.
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Columbus
George Mingle
Cambridge
Perrysburg
Warren
Geneva
Mansfield
Bridgeport
Portsmouth
Marion
Athens
Dayton
Bellevue
General
Massion
Wilmington
Findlay
Middletown
Satem
Lorain
Massillion
Eight Die in Week-End Floods and Tornadoes
Chicago reports floods and tornadoes causing at least eight deaths and hundreds homeless. The Mississippi tributaries see rising flood danger as engineers struggle to save levees. A Caney Louisiana tornado killed three, injured three, and destroyed homes. In Many Louisiana a second twister demolished 11 homes and damaged others.
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Chicago
South
Mississippi
Caney
Liberate 5 000 Yanks Taken in Belgian Bulge
Twelve hundred seventy seven American prisoners captured in the Belgian Bulge last winter were among 5 000 freed from a barbed wire enclosure near Siegenhain Germany by the U S Sixth Armored Division after months of mistreatment. The men had lost 25 to 40 pounds each on a semistarvation diet but their morale remained high. They were captured in the Bastogne Clervaux area last December.
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Siegenhain
Germany
U. S. Sixth Armored Division
Bastogne- Clervaux
Bad Orb
Frankfurt
Wuerzburg
Kassel
Hunggary
Germans Taken in March Claim Shows 350000 Captured
A Bradly command dispatch reports 350000 Germans captured on the Western Front in March. About 150000 by the Third Army and 90000 by the First Army. The report notes dire conditions for prisoners and mentions 800 Jewish women rescued from Hungary among other victims of mistreatment.
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Paris
Seventh Army
Court von Griola
13Th Army Corps
Third Army
Omar W. Bradley
12Th Army Group
Inmate Charged With Reformatory Murder
Mansfield Ohio State Reformatory inmate Odies Marshall age 22 was bound over to the grand jury after pleading innocent to first degree murder in the fatal stabbing of fellow inmate Edward Williams 23 of Columbus last Wednesday Marshall said he stabbed Williams in self defense and is from Butler County
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Mansfield
Odies Marshall
Ohio State Reformatory
Grand
Edward Williams
Columbus
Marshall
Butler County
Williams
Artillery and Naval Fire Duel Brightens Italian Front
Artillery exchanges and patrol skirmishes flare along the Italian land front as Allied warships bombard positions along the French Italian border including San Remo Harbor. In Adams County a first Australian war bride arrives, Lorna Cooper of Brisbane wife of M. and Mrs. Robert R. Cooper.
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Rome
San Remo
Winchester
Adams County
Lorna Cooper
Brisbane
Robert R. Cooper
Easter Morning Landings Announced by Nimitz
U S Tenth Army and Marines landed on Okinawa Easter morning in a massive amphibious operation. The assault struck the west coast and seized airfields and villages, carving a beachhead several miles deep. Nimitz announced the invasion amid estimates of 66,000 to 100,000 enemy troops and cautioned Japan remains a threat.
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Guam
U. S
Aremy
Okinawa
Japan
Nakagusuku Bay Fleet
Nimitz
Katena
Owl
Rhine
NEA
Most Valuable Island Invaded as Okinawa Campaign Opens
Vice Admiral Turner and Admiral Nimitz commanded 1,400 ships and 1,500 carrier planes in the Okinawa operation. American forces landed between Katena and Naha, capturing Katena and Yonjo airfields. By afternoon, runways at Yonfan and Katena were undergoing repairs with operations to resume within days.
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Buckner
Richmond Kelly Turner
Associated Press
Vern Hangland
Okinawa
Kyushu
Pacific
Iwo
Nunitz
Admiral Spruance
Fifth Fleet
Vicw
Mitscher
Katena
Naha
Yonjan
Yonfan
Warther Counts 10 971 Dead Japs
General MacArthur reported 407 000 Japanese dead and 10 974 enemy dead in the last five days. Army units in the Philippines and Okinawa operations are noted, with Superforts raids on Tokyo targeting Nakajima engine factories and airfields. Lt General Buckner commands the 20th Army Eis with several divisions.
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Guam
Okinawa
Philippines
MacArthur
S. S
Tokyo
Nakajima
JAP PLAN BLOCKINVASION OFF OKINAWA
The report notes hundreds of demolition boats prepared for use against the invasion fleet off Okinawa. Craft 18 to 20 feet long carried torpedoes and depth charges, meant to ram transports and ships. Three hundred boats were captured intact after Japanese efforts to destroy them.
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Guam
Okinawa
Million to Lose Jobs After V E Day Says
Washington says the postwar shift will cost about one million workers their jobs as war ends. Byrnes forecasts rapid rehiring in civilian work or new war-related roles, with openings outpacing job seekers until Japan falls. A spot reconversion plan will release plants when able, while WPB civilian production limits are lifted soon. Congress may merge the armed services into a single national defense department after Japan s surrender.
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Washington
Germany
James F. Byrnes
Japan
Byrnes
Congress
Army
Navy
Air
Department of National Defense
Alliance Firms Fined For WLB Violations
The War Labor Board in Cleveland fined Alliance Clay Products Co and Tolerton Co for wage and department changes without board approval. Alliance Clay with 60 employees gave raises to five salaried and five hourly workers totaling 2000 dollars. Tolerton with 93 employees created a new department and raised wages in three jobs, totaling 3500 dollars in fines.
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Cleveland
Regional War Labor Board
Alliance
Alliance Clay Products Co
Tolerton Co
Noted Author James Naylor Dies at 94 in McConnelsville
Dr. James Ball Naylor, 94, retired physician, poet, and frontier novelist, died from a heart attack in McConnelsville. His career included editorial work in Marion and Chicago and 16 later books such as Goldenrod and Thistledown and The Kentuckian. Survivors: six children, two half-siblings, and a half-sister in Ohio, California, Illinois, Arizona. Three escapees from Franklin County Jail are reported in Columbus.
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Mcconnellville
James Ball Naylor
Marion G. Starr
Chicago Journal of Commerce
St. Clair
Marjorie
Bryant Irvine
Ocean Park
Calif
Lucille Naylor
McConnelsville
H. RB. Heald
Chicago
John Robison
Zanesville
Bab Naylor
Camp Atterbury
Ind
R.J. Finley
Tucson
Ariz
Frank Henry
Columbus
Warren LI
Henry
Frank Colson
Deserte villages fall to Marines on Central Pacific D-Day
The Marines and Doughboys seized a dozen near empty towns near Okinawa and pressed supplies ashore. Reports from AP correspondents praise minimal American casualties and very light enemy resistance as the huge amphibious operation proceeded unmolested through long seas. Japanese claims challenged by Allied reports noting four Japanese planes attack and that many invasion vessels were sunk or damaged.
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Okinawa
Naha
Central Pacific
Associated Press
James Lintley
Tangland
Radio Tokyo
Robbin Coons
Atrocities Ordered by Japanese Command in Manila
Postwar reports cite captured Japanese documents from Manila and Intramuros, dated December to February, detailing orders to dispose of Filipinos and to kill civilians. Eyewitness accounts describe mass shootings, concentration of bodies, and patrols forcing residents to endure executions.
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Fred Hampson
Manila
14Th Corps
Bonapalm
Intramuros
Fragmented Alpine verse clue from cryptic page
A fragmentary line from an alpine poem hints at a keeper and a girl, with unclear meaning and missing context. The garbled OCR text leaves names, places, and precise action unreadable, offering only a hint of a literary fragment.
Durostal Firm Leases Springfield Building
The Durostal Corp a Shell affiliate announces leasing the five story King Brain Building in downtown Springfield. It will house a branch plant for packaging materials for foreign shipment with small scale production by April 19 and about 300 workers, mostly women, within 66 days.
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Springfield
Iseal Corp
Shellmar Products Co
Mt. Vernon
Pasadena
Calif
King-Brain
Eleven Fugitives From Reformatory Sought
An escape from an Ohio reformatory dormitory at the Soldiers and Sailors Home left eleven inmates at large after a door was broken down around 1 pm. Herman Turner, 20, of Cincinnati, serving a sentence for armed robbery, was recaptured shortly afterward.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Yank Planes Knock Out Austrian Rail Bridge
The OS 15th Air Force attacked Austria and Yugoslavia aiming to disrupt German rail trains to the Russian front. They reportedly struck the Starsber rail bridge, damaging it temporarily and derating enemy air activity.
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Rome
OS 15Th Air Force
Austria
Yugoslavia
OSU Magazine Named Searka Beser in Annual Issue
OSU Magazine is titled Searka Beser in the latest annual release, the feature highlights the publication’s direction and naming tradition. The issue content remains centered on university life, scholarly work, and campus events.
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OSU Magazine
Searka Beser
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