Airdromes on Kyushu Hit By Fleet of Superforts
Allied air action continues over Kyushu with a force of about 150 B-29s striking six targets from Merianni bases. Reports say five buildings wrecked and runways cratered, as earlier waves return. In the Philippines American troops push toward Baguio, meeting heavy Japanese resistance as the 1st Division advances near the city center. Tokyo reports rising totals of urban and industrial devastation from recent raids.
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Superfort- Yeekes
Jipagtes
Kyushu
Merianis
Tokyo
Baguio
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Doughboys
Percy W. Clarkson
Hmit
33Rd
Okinawa
Chioa
Garriison
Menna Islet
Menna
Nimitz
Iwo Jima
Japanese Planes Destroyed In Okinawa Month Toll
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz disclosed that American and British carrier planes and anti aircraft guns eliminated more than 2 290 Japanese planes in the last month. The losses came from air fleets attacking American forces on Okinawa and raids on the Ryukyus and Japanese main islands. B 29 gunners in one Tokyo raid shot down or damaged 136 aircraft plus 37 escort fighters.
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Guam
Upi
Okinawa
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
British Carter
Ryukyus
French Deny Rhine Plans
French foreign minister Georges Bidault will tell the World Security Conference in San Francisco that France has no intention of annexing the Rhineland. He plans to seek collective security, bilateral pacts, and participation in social and economic conferences, with France to accept Allied collective exploitation of the Rhine.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
San Francisco
France
Rhineland
West Bank of the Rhine
Germany
Bidault
United States
Formule
Rwhr
Court Upholds Ruling In Akron Union Case
In Columbus the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed Summit County convictions of three Akron union members who robbed a ballot box during a union election. Each was sentenced to one to 25 years, held that ownership did not grant control or entitlement to possession of the ballot box.
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Columbus
Akron
C.so
Ohio Supreme Court Today
Summit County
Newsprint Controls Tightened Amid War Effort
Clark County farmer James Engle faced wartime draft classification changes after a writ of habeas corpus sought his release. Federal authorities tightened newsprint distribution under the Production Board and a Tydings amendment, moving Engle from 3-C farm deferment toward 1-A as essential agricultural work. The ruling by Judge Underwood aligns with wartime orders affecting printing and publishing.
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Army
Columbus
Federal
Soage
James Engle
Washington
Clark County
Collett Denied Clemency to Die on Friday
James W. Collett, 61, Clinton County man known as a breeder, had his clemency plea denied by Governor Lausche. He was sentenced to die in Ohio’s electric chair for the Thanksgiving Eve 1943 triple murder of Elmer McCoy, his wife, and their daughter Mildred on a Fayette County farm. The Supreme Court upheld the Fayette County death sentence and a 30 day reprieve allowed time for a commutation hearing.
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Columbus
James
Ww. Collett
Clinton County
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Elmer McCoy
Lausche
Elmer MccCoy
Forrest McCoy
Mildred McCoy
Collett
McCoy
Fayette County
Supreme Court
Frost Threat Looms For Ohio Growers This Week
In Columbus the U S weather bureau forecast low temperatures around 34 degrees with heavy frost anticipated across central Ohio. Officials warned frost could threaten peach and fruit crops, though not as severe as the April 6 siege. Meanwhile Jacksonville reported eighteen air crash deaths or missing men across two incidents involving a B 29 and another aircraft.
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Columbus
Ohio
Victory
U.S. Weather Bureau
Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Defenses of Berlin Crack Before Reds Defenses of Berlin Crack Before Reds
Berlin fronts brace as Soviet offensives push toward Berlin from multiple axes. Transocean reports 2.5 million Soviet troops assault toward the capital while Konev's forces widen a bulge southeast of Berlin. German broadcasts claim nine Russian armies advancing and nearing the city, with strikes across the Oder front and toward Stettin to link with Western Allies. Moscow has not confirmed these drives.
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London
Berlin
Stettin
Moscow
Berhain
Oder
Baltic
Ivan Konev
Nesse
Cottbus
Spree
Transocean
Wriezen
Seelow
Greater Berlin
Kuestrin
Muencheberg
Bryenn
Erlaut
St. Poelten
Linz
Vienna
Stalin
Report Cites Jap Atrocities In Manila Defense
Washington 12 The Japanese were accused of barbarous and appalling atrocities during the defense of Manila in a War Department summary based on evidence and sworn testimony. Babies were stabbed and slashed with bayonets, women and girls violated, and victims bound and soaked in gasoline or encircled with flames. Survivors said the Japanese mocked their victims as Brig Gen Romulo testified.
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Washington
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
War Department
Carlos P. Romulo
Philippines
MacArthur
Truman Heads Toward Two Congressional Battles
President Truman faces dual fights in Congress over reciprocal trade authority and Bretton Woods financial plans. House Ways and Means Committee weighs sweeping tariff powers while banking panels advance a world bank and international stabilization fund proposal from a 44-nation accord. Truman pledges to push both measures, citing messages to Congress and Roosevelt era precedents.
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House
Bretton Woods
House Banking Committee
World Bank For Reconstruction and Development
International Stabilization Fund
Truman
Congress
Roosevelt
Hawley-Smoot
U S Bombers and Escorts Hit Rail Links and Airfields
Allied air forces blitzed rail targets in Western Czechoslovakia and southern Germany with over 750 bombers and 600 fighter escorts. Halifax bombers attacked Helgoland as German defenses strained and Berlin endured a second night of combined British and Russian bombing.
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London
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Helgoland
North Sea
Emden
Bremen
Hamburg
Berlin
U. S
Service Wife Sentenced For Abandoning Children
Anna Sommers Bernard, 27, wife of a serviceman overseas, was sentenced to one to three years in the Marysville women’s reformatory after pleading guilty to abandoning two small children. She was taken into custody March 4 in Baltimore after allegedly leaving the children February 9 to accompany another man. The court placed the children in the custody of their grandparents. In Fremont a 79-year-old man, August Plefierte, was killed when a team he was driving bolted and threw him from farm machinery.
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Lisbon
Anna Sommers Bernard
Marysville
Fremont
August Plefferte
Here
Begin Shifting War Materials
Washington reports start of moves to mobilize the United States military for action against Japan. Officials say redeployment will begin only after Allied Europe fighting winds down, with some equipment redirected from Europe to the Pacific. A limited personnel shift of specialists has been implemented.
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Washington
Japan
Europe
Pacific
Bandit robs dry cleaner with kiss after tying owner
In Cincinnati yesterday a bandit with a blue steel revolver forced Miss Blanche Carroll, manager of a dry cleaning office, into a side room. He tied her up and rifled the cash box of $25. He then returned to the side room, kissed Miss Carroll, and departed.
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Cincinnati
Truman Says He Will Run His Own Show From White House
President Truman signals decisive leadership over a busy two days evidencing firmness in naming generals Patton Hodges to four star ranks and selecting John Snyder as Federal Loan Administrator He plans talks with De Gaulle and welcomes Molotov while pushing Bretton Woods and reciprocal trade aims and directing refinery seizure in Lake Charles Louisiana.
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Truman
Washington
George Smith Patton, Jr
Courtney Hicks Hodges
John W. Snyder
St. Louis
Federal Loan
Roosevelt
Harold D. Smith
Molotov
Russia
United States
Bretton Woods
Congress
Charley de Gaulle
France
EEE
de Gaulle
Algiers
Lake Charles
Patton
Hodges
Con
Third Army Halves Germany In Major Allied Push
Allied forces press toward Berlin as Patton's Third Army invades Czechoslovakia and First Army nears Leipzig. Ninth Army seizes Magdeburg, while Nuernberg and Dessau area fighting continues. Prisoner totals soar past 2.05 million since D Day.
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Third Army
Germany
Nuernberg
Leipzig
Paris
Czechoslovakia
George S. Patton
Eisenhower
Ruhr
Stalingrad
Ninth
Magdeburg
Elbe
Berlin
Plauen
Holland
Nelsonville Auditor E F DeVore Dies at 41
Ellsworth F. DeVore Nelsonville City Auditor for 12 years died at University Hospital Columbus after ill health. The report notes wartime captures as Allied forces advance across Germany and Holland, with Duisburg, Duesseldorf, and the Ruhr falling to Allied divisions and refugees flooding back post battle.
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Elbe
Berlin
Ninth Army
Nelsonville
Hague
Holland
Harz
Ninth
Gironde
Bordeaux
Atlantic
Michiaelis
I Royan
Maritime Alps
Molle
Briel
North Sea
Emden
Ems
Stuttgart
Black Forest
War correspondent Ernie Pyle dies near Okinawa
Ernie Pyle, 44, famed Scripps-Howard war reporter, has been killed in the Pacific. President Truman issued a condolence statement confirming his death. Pyle reported from North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Britain, and France, and had covered Okinawa fighting as part of Eisenhower's western Allied forces.
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Willington
Ernie Pyle
Pacific
Truman
Scripps-Howard
Okinawa
Pyle
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Britain
France
Longtime Nelsonville City Auditor DeVore Dies
Mr DeVore born and raised at 205 Adams St Nelsonville served as city auditor since 1933 reelected two years ago to another four-year term and was a founder of the Phi Club. Survived by wife Helen and his mother Effie DeVore. Funeral plans not yet made.
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George C. Marshall
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Patton
Hodges
Tarlingen
Tesak
Jegelses Coleer
Taft
Ohio
San Antonio
GOF
Harlingen Army Air Field
Gor
Cleveland
Clarian
Leme Rich
Forest City
National Association
Civil Air Patrol
Department of Public Chance
DeVore
Adams St
Nelsonville
Elks and Eagles Lodges
Phi Club
Helen DeVore
Effie DeVore
Earl DeVore
Truman Picks Men To Fill Key Positions
President Truman named two young officials to White House posts. Matthew J. Connelly, 37, will be secretary in charge of congressional appointments, and James Leonard Einsch, 36, a radio executive from Atlanta, will run press and radio relations.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Matthew J. Connelly
James Leonard ¥Einsch
Atlanta
Indict Meat Firms for Black Market Deals
Federal indictments accuse a Kansas City packer and a Baltimore wholesaler of a two year meat black market conspiracy. They face price ceiling violations totaling $88,717.03 in four months in three bills naming U S Packing Company, Inc. of Kansas City and T Spevak and Company of Baltimore.
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Kansas City
U.S. Packing Company, Inc
Kans
New Jersey
T. Spevak and Company
Balti
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Southeastern Ohio War Prisoners Arrive Home
Ohio servicemen liberated from prison camps are on a 21 day furlough before reporting to an Army redistribution center at Miami Beach Florida as part of the fifth service command. Included are Pvt James E Batstoweu Crooksville TS Ernest C Nicholson Rutland SSgt George A Simmons Gallipolis.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Fifth Service Command
James E. Batstoweu
Crooksville
Ernest C. Nicholson
Rutland
George A. Simmons
Gallipolis
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