Okinawa Front Holds as Japanese Resistance Intensifies
Reports say Japanese forces stiffen to slow American advances toward Naha with renewed artillery and counterattacks. The 24th Corps and Marine artillery reinforce the south while battleships bombard Japanese positions. U S air and sea units continue strikes on Luzon and Ryukyu targets. Jap losses mount as Fifth Fleet dominates surrounding waters.
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Associated
U.S
Naha
Okinawa
Matobu
Peni
Inyuki
Yamashita
Ombat
Cavatry
Luzon
Philippines
Shensi
China
U. S.fifth Fleet
Ryukyu Islands
Agusuku
Proposal rejected on food investigation over Army takeover
Washington reports Sen. Thomas of Oklahoma rejects a House food investigation idea as unnecessary. He doubts the Army would or could take over idle packing plants or improve supplies, calling the proposal a pean attempt and stating no Army action has shown success in taking over any industry.
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Washington
Senkate Food
Thomas
D-Okla
Senate Agriculture Committee
House ‘Food Investigating Committee
Cambridge Water Dept Faces Funds Shortage Findings
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson reports Cambridge Water Department officials liable for funds totaling 1817 dollars not deposited in the city treasury. The examination covers Sept 1, 1943 to Dec 31, 1944, listing Service Director Fred L. Boyd 1386.28, former Director John Tomlinson 385.79, and former Director Arthur Beach 27 as liable.
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Columbus
Joseph —T. Ferguson
Donald Sarchet
City of Cambridge Water Department
City Treasury
Fred L. Boyd
John Tomlinson
Arthur Beach
Homeless in Flood Increasing in South
The Red Cross estimates the Louisiana flood has left about 45,000 people homeless and over a million acres inundated. The disaster worsens as relief efforts mobilize across affected parishes and surrounding areas.
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South
New. Orleans
Red Cross
Meigs County Soldier Receives Purple Heart
Meigs County soldier Pfc. Charles E. Miller of Eden and Pvt. Donald Secrest of Belmont County were awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action in the Pacific theater. The report mentions the ZTE division and reflects wartime casualty recognition.
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Meigs County
Saipan
Charles E. Miller
Edén
Donald Secrest
Rutte
Armstrong] Hills
Belmont County
Seize Struck 3 Mines as Talks Move Toward Pact
AP reports tentative understanding between operators and miners aims to produce a new contract and halt costly walkouts. Mine Workers president said optimism rose as talks centered on valves and eligibility for membership, with one major issue remaining unresolved.
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Washington
United
Wester
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Ezra Van-Hi
Valve
Fori -Lewis
Wall
Plans On Production Revise On Capture Of Vienna Imminent
AP dispatches describe Soviet forces nearing Vienna with talks of link ups near Munich. Moscow reports Tolbukhin’s Third Position advances, Koenigsberg fall, and Danube crossings near Mursdorf and Tulín. Berlin radio denied progress while Moscow claimed central Vienna overrun with infantry and tanks from the west.
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London
Koenigsberg
Moscow
Tolbukhin
Vienna
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaten
Yank Plans To Go Back Sava Polish Girl Saved His Life
Fifteen hundred liberated American soldiers arrive at Boston harbor after months in German camps. Pfc Paul Thompson of Marysville Ohio recalls shedding weight and escaping from a Polish prison camp. a Polish girl nursed him back to health and saved his life. He says he plans to return to Poland to find her.
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Yank
Sava
Boston
Poland
Limburg
First Army
Paul ‘Thompson
Marysville
Ohio
Thompson
Vandenberg Urges Lend-Lease Extension to 1946
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan urged House passage of a bill extending the Lend-Lease program until June 30, 1946. He warned there should be no misunderstanding that lend-lease ends with the war and said the United States cannot sensibly withdraw lend-lease before hostilities conclude.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate
United States
Graduating Class Is Smallest One Girl
Washington headline notes the smallest graduating class at War Production High School plans a May 18 commencement. Miss Sylvia Tay, the sole remaining member of her class, began as a freshman in a class of eight and now is the only student left as her classmate joined the Army last November. Five Hogegatt family members remain hospitalized in Cincinnati or Dayton after a kerosene explosion at their home.
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Washington
Sylvia Tay
Blanchester
Lowell Hogegatt
Cicinnati
Dayton
Miss Taylor
Lass
Rosedale
Brown Is Named Acting Clerk at Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant appoints John E. Brown acting city clerk to fill in for ill Clerk D. Ball. Brown will also serve as acting manager at the city waterworks and report to the city council.
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Brown
Point Pleasant
John E. Brown
D. Ball
Allies Close on Berlin as Hannover Falls and Bremen Besieged
Allied forces drive eastward across northern Germany encircling Hannover and besieging Bremen while advancing within days of Berlin. Canadian units reach Emden’s vicinity as Ninth Army seizes Ruhr pockets and Essen Krupp works. Hamburg lies within 50 miles, lines push toward the Elbe.
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Bremen
Berlin
Paris
Allied Arms
Jies
Wheeling
Ems River
North Sea
Dollart Bay
Emden
Marshal Montgomery
Ninth Army
Brunswick
General Bradley
Steinhager Meer J
Celje
Lehrte
Bradley
Germany
Ruhr
Gelsen- Kirchen
Essen
Hlbe
Elbe
Hamburg
Erfurt
Schweinfurt
Stuttgart
Wehrmacht
Ruhr and
Holland
Fourth Armored
Oldenburg
Luebeck
Dollatt Bay
North
Seca
Reich
Juncture May Decide V E Day In Germany
British American and Russian forces may time the end of organized warfare with Germany. German soldiers face surrender as POWs or continued guerrilla fighting without legal status. morale among troops shows few will die for the Fuehrer. resistance is disorganized except in Ruhr pocket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamelin
Germany
Fuehrer
End of Reich Resistance Likely With Next Front Line
War observers expect a fixed German front line to be declared by the joint chiefs in Washington as Soviet or Western Allied forces approach Berlin. The forthcoming decision could mark the end of organized resistance across the Reich.
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Elbe
Berlin
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Reich
Ohioans Seek Exemption in Food Rulings
In Columbus Ohioans press for an exemption from a federal rule that would require frozen root locker operators to handle only graded meat. Harry Flory president of the Ohio Frozen Food Locker Association says most Ohio operators are unaware of the regulation in effect since August 18 1943. The rule by the Office of Price Administration exempts from grading meat already cut wrapped and ready for storage in lockers and applies to all meat except pork. About 50 operators and OPA officials met. Columbus district price attorney Paul T Rey said the regulation allows OPA to check city buyers who purchase meat in the country without surrendering points and exceeds ceiling prices. Operators say the rule would hurt business.
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Columbus
Harry Flory
J2aton
Ohio
Froz.! Gen. Food Locker Association
Flory
Office of Price Administration
OPA
T- Rey
Columbus c
Tire workers idle again at Goodyear Plant No. 1
Akron dispatch reports about 7 000 Goodyear workers at Plant No 1 facing an on again off again six day stoppage by 300 mixing machine operators. The dispute stems from the discharge of a CIO United Rubber Workers committeeman operator and renewed walkouts during ongoing negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Goodyear ‘Tires and Rubber ‘Co
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Stains of Marrying Teachers To Be Argued
The Ohio Supreme Court will hear whether school boards can legally fire female teachers for marrying. The case focuses on Mrs. Margaret Butler Greco, a 14 year veteran whose contract was terminated after her marriage by Campbell Board of Education. Also noted is Ironton city budget concerns for 1945 with a $25,000 deficit.
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Columbus
Ohio
Supreme
Margaret Butler Greco
Campbell, O., Board of Education
Iran
Congress Asked to Fund Strip Mine Land Reclamation Study
Senator Burton urged a $50,000 appropriations grant for the forest service to study reclamation plans as strip mining damages thousands of acres in Ohio and nearby states. Alan Jordan of the Ohio Valley conservation group testified that sediment from mined areas flows into rivers, harming flood control and power systems. He urged leveling, topsoil preservation, and new tree species, plus soil improvers for restoration.
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Burton
R-O
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Appropriations Committee
Forest ‘Service
Ohio
Alan Jordan
Ohio’ Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress
Jordan
British Eighth Army crosses Senia near Lugo in bold offensive
The British Eighth Army pierced the Senia River front near Lugo breaking a winter lull. Allied air power from the U S 15th and 12th Air Forces and RAF threw a massive aerial assault to crush Nazi defenses on the east bank. On the Fifth Army front, the U S 473rd Infantry with the 92nd Division pushed into the southern outskirts of Massa.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Senia
Lugo
U. S
Massa
Two Men Fall Victims In Accidental Shooting
Miami Florida Chief of Detectives L O Scarboro reports an accidental shooting during mock initiation at the Mahi Shrine Temple. Samuel Avis aged 58 and Raymond Unier Wood aged 56, both of Miami, were struck. Davis sustained a serious abdominal wound. Wood suffered a gunshot to the right hand.
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Miami
Fla
L. O. Scarboro
Samuel Avis
Raymond Unierwood
Oath of Miami
Mahi Shrine
Davis
Army Holds Treasures Until Final Disposition
Secretary of State Stettinius said the Army will retain custody of the gold currency and art treasures captured in a German salt mine until the Allies can decide their disposition. Final disposition will be made by the Allied Control Commission for Germany.
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Washington
UPI
Stetfinius
Allied Control Commission For
Germany
Stettfinius
Report on Starved and Mistreated American POWs Freed
British prisoners freed from two German camps say American soldiers captured in Field Marshal Von Rundstedt's Ardennes offensive were starved and mistreated by the Nazis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goettingen
Germany
Field Marshal von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Study Bill To Create New State Commission
COLUMBUS principal business on the Senate calendar today was a bill to create an 11 member commission to plan the reconstruction of new state hospitals nor the mentally ill. The authors are Senators James Metzenbaum Cleveland Stanley G McKien Cincinnati and Albert L Daniels Greenfield. Governor Lausche has proposed that the Legislature set aside 20 600 000 in another act for welfare building improvements. FOREIGNERS CLEVELAND One hundred Samacian workers will arrive in Cleveland today to fill jobs at Republic Steel Corporation plants.
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Columbus
Senate
James Metzenbaum
Cleveland
Stanley G. McKien
Cincinnati
Albert L. Daniels
Greenfield
Lausche
Republic Steel Corporation
German Murder Factory Uncovered Near Limburg
German and American troops uncover a Nazi "murder factory" at an asylum near Limburg where up to 20,000 deemed undesirables were killed. Investigators describe gas chambers, crematoria, and underground dungeons run by SS officers and a tall scar-faced surgeon. They report mass killings, forced sterilizations, and use of skulls as drinking cups, labeled as mercy killings under Nazi statutes.
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Hal Boyle
Limburg
Germany
jSalito
Calif
Tery
Belrun
Johnson
Hatsl
Hadamar
Berlin
Muenster
Asylum
Crave
Hamilton
London
Bow Street
Alalive
Ploves
Brink
Jley Hamilton
Hamilton Jets
W. R. Johnson
Highway Patrol Station To Close at Hebron
Newark area notice that the State Highway Patrol station at Hebron will close on April 21 due to manpower shortages. It is the seventh patrol station to shut down in the state, with Columbus headquarters informing Officer in Charge Corp. Willard D. Mariner. In other news, Cleveland area War Manpower Commission director Stuart R. Smith says 1,000 workers are needed to fill ice tasks at Fisher Aircraft, a majority women.
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State Highway Patrol
Columbus
Corp
Willard D. Mariner
Hebron
Here
Cleveland
Stuart R. Smith
Area War Manpower Commission
Fisher Aircraft
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