Three American Divisions Storm Okinawa Defenses
Three American infantry divisions advancing into Naha front on Okinawa faced heavy Japanese defenses in the largest Pacific offensive to date. The 24th Army Corps, comprising the 7th 27th and 96th Divisions, pressed the wall of Naha defenses amid bombardment, while Tokyo Radio reported tanks knocked out and the assault stalling.
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Balabac
Borneo
Associated Press
Okinawa
Philippines
Bornéo
24Th “Army
Naha
Tokyo
Nimitz
Iwo
Phiippines
U S Casualties In Rhine Battle Reach 47 023
Washington reports U S ground forces suffered 47 023 casualties in the Rhine crossing effort in March including 6 214 killed 35 443 wounded and 5 366 missing. Since D Day to end of March total Western Front casualties reached 473 215 with 79 795 killed 334 919 wounded and 58 501 missing. Total U S and Navy losses rise to 912 478 since Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
U.S
Stimson
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Ast
Lweek
Stinson
Front
All or None Demand Shifts in Soft Coal Pact
John L Lewis, president of United Mine Workers, asked the War Labor Board to approve an all or nothing contract with soft coal operators. Signed April 11 after 41 days of talks, it would raise the average miner’s daily pay by $1.07 for a six day week. Officials say tentative approval has been reached on all but one paragraph with no serious objections seen to the remaining point.
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Washington
John ‘J. Lewis
United. Mine
War Labor Board
WLB
Death in Action: Publisher’s Son Killed in German Ambush
First Lt. John Knight Jr., son of Knight Newspapers publisher and American Society of Newspaper Editors leader, died March 29 in a German ambush near Muenster. His wife bore their son John S. Knight III two weeks later. The report notes his wartime service in Germany and also mentions Samuel Macar among 500 Americans liberated from POW camps by the 88th Infantry.
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Akron
John Knight
John 5S
Aires
American ‘Society
Muenster
Germany
Samuel Macarone
Alliance
88Th ‘Infantry
German People Forced To View Nazi Victims
Liberated French observers report Lt Gen George S Patton compelled large parts of Weimar civilians to tour Buchenwald camp to witness the Nazi regime’s horrors. They describe doors of extermination opened revealing bodies of victims.
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Paris
George S. Patton
Weimar
Buchenwald
Heavy Rains Snow Raise Water Table Across Ohio
Columbus reports the water table has risen in 78 Ohio counties since spring due to heavy snows and rains. State water official David H. Harker says the level is climbing gradually, with Champlain County showing the biggest rise at 17 feet while Jefferson County notes a 0.17-foot drop from mining drainage. Canton consumes 40 million gallons daily as its well field shows higher levels than since 1937.
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Columbus
Ohio
David H.harker
State Water Supply
Harker
Chaminpaign
Jefferson County
Canton
Resistance Will Be Fatal in Hitler Case
War Secretary Stimson said American troops would capture Adolf Hitler if found and face action. Eleanor Roosevelt indicated she would not run for public office now and noted she would continue My Day and possible magazine work. A fragment notes a child, Brendon Marholz, near death after a rabid dog bite in Cleveland.
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Washington
Stimson
New York
Elea
Adolf Hitler
Andinor Roosevelt
G. L's
Ln the
Ladies’ Home Journal
Truman Plans To Meet Pacific Chiefs
Washington ponders Truman’s role in Allied strategy as he nears Roosevelt’s wartime seat. Discussion focuses on whether Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur should push for direct invasion or a blockade plus strategic bombing to cripple Japan before V E Day.
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Truman
Washington
Franklin D
Roosevelt
Japan
Yalta
Churchill
Stalin
Nimitz
Macarthur
Ching
High Command
Slayer of Daughter Found Dead in Hospital
Mrs. Nellie Switzer a 52 year old from Huntington was found dead by hanging yesterday in her room at Huntington State Hospital Coroner F Schuller ruled the death a suicide The case stemmed from the hatchet slaying of her daughter Polly Switzer Saunders 24 who was found murdered in January Police quoted Mrs Switzer that grief over her daughter's departure to join her sailor husband prompted the attack.
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Huntington
W Va
Nellie Switzer
Huntington State Hospital
F. &. Schuller
Rubber supply to dip to 65 thousand tons in 1945
James J. Newman of B. F. Goodrich cites Navy rubber conservation talks noting natural rubber stocks will fall from a 100000 ton 1942 level to about 65000 tons by end of 1945 but synthetic rubber now covers about 85 percent of national needs avoiding a disaster level shortfall.
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Norfolk
Baruch Committee
James J. Newman
B. F. Goodrich Co
Booth Succumbs at Granddaughter's Home in Middleport
J. P. Booth, 90, died at the home of his granddaughter Mrs. Karl Owen in Middleport Thursday night. Funeral services are set for Sunday at two o clock at the Owen home. Survived by son Charles H. Booth of El Paso and three daughters Mrs. Hubert Gilmore of Ft. Wayne, Miss Edith Booth of Washington DC and Mrs. William Shell of West Columbia WV. Also three brothers Everett James and Frank and two sisters Mrs. Fantnne Francis and Mrs. Ag Johnson.
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J. P. Booth
Middleport
FB. Booth
Karl Owen
Owen
Charles H. Booth
el Paso
Hubert Gilmore
Ft. Wayne
Indl
Edith Booth
Washington, D. C
William Shell
West Columbia
W. Va
Everett
James
Frank
Fantnne Francis
Ag Johnson
Russians Press On Toward Berlin Amid Eastern Front Breakthroughs
Russian forces push to Buchholz and Calau near Berlin as Konev's First Ukrainian Army advances 16 miles from Cottbus toward the capital. German reports say the main defenses are under heavy strain with Soviet bridgeheads deepening west of the Oder and Neisse.
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London
High Command
Berlin
Buchholz
Greater Berlin
Capital
Ivan Konev
Cottbus
Spree
Calau
First Army
Wurtzen
Konev
Hoyerswerda
Eisenhower
Buchholz Ree
Wriezen
Bernau
Muencherberg
Proetzel
Werneuchen
Strausberg
Berhau
Piinendeberg
Elbe
Marshal Stalin
Oder
Neisse
Werneucher
Muencheberg
Moscow
Brandenburg
Stettin
Morava
Czechoslovakia
Laarall
Prague
Adolf Hitjler
Dresden
Bohemia
Bavaria
Finsterwalde
Raise Wages and Prices Cut for Clothing in Textile Plan
The government approved a 55-cent wage floor and a five-cent-an-hour increase for 50,000 textile workers across 54 mills to boost output. The OPA ordered price cuts to 1943 levels, trimming retail clothing prices about six percent, with some mills eligible for individual adjustments. The War Production Board will allocate most civilian fabric to inexpensive garments to ensure continued low-cost clothing.
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Washington
Coth
Hasna
William H. Davis
OPA
Arvavel
Davis
War Production Board
Ohio Factories Guilty of Child Labor Violations
A U S Department of Labor Wage and Hour survey found that over 44 percent of Ohio factories investigated last year hired child labor improperly. Evelyn Houghes of the Children's Bureau said Alabama Tennessee and North Dakota have higher violation rates.
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Cleveland
Ohio
U. S. Department of Labor
U. S. Children's Bureau
Evelyn Houghes
Washington
Alabama
Tennessee
North Dakota
Name New Commandant For Huntington Center
Huntington induction center appoints Capt Philip K Winslow head quarters Columbus as new commandant. Center processes selectives from West Virginia Eastern Kentucky and Southeastern Ohio. Cecil Cassidy 45 charged with second degree murder in death of his wife four years ago will go on trial May 7.
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Huntington
W. Vai
Philip K. Winslow
Fifth Service Command
Columbus
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Ironton Court Tronton
Cecil Cassidy
Will Goon
Forces of Seventh Army Crush Nazis in Nuernberg
American Seventh Army troops breached Nuernberg's walls and closed on the city center as German resistance collapsed. French and American forces encircled Stuttgart area, capturing Reutlingen, while 18,000 Nazis had been taken and remaining fighters fought to the death. Civilians joined the defense with improvised tools.
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Associated Press
Third Army
Russias
Hamburg
Seventh Army
Nuernberg
Seventh
Stuttgart
Reutlingen
Third
Czechoslovakia
Asch
Pilsen-Prague
Hitler
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Eisenhower
No Fanfare For Hitler Birthday Across Europe
Allied reports note Hitler's 56th birthday passed with little ceremony as Allied forces push through German lines. Bombing raids target rail hubs from Berlin to Prague while Sixth Army Group closes on the Elbe and Allied advances reach Portomaggiore near Ferrara.
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Bavarian Alps
Berlin
Denmark
Bradley
Elbe
Mulde
Sixth
Jacob L. Devers
21St
Marshal Montgomery
North Sea
Bremen
Harburg
Hamburg
Germany
Emden
Chemnitz
Saxony
Des Sau
Ninth Army
Barby
Eisenhower
Holland
Zuider Zee
Prague
Munich
Italy
Portomaggiore
Po Valley
Ferrara
Blast Victims Still Unnamed in Cleveland Disaster
Six months after the Cleveland gas storage tank explosion that killed 140, and left 230 victims, twenty-one bodies remain unidentified and unclaimed. Seventy-eight corpses from wrecked homes and factories were identified, while thirty-one names were listed as missing. The remaining 21 bodies lie buried in Highland Park Cemetery.
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Cleveland
East Ohio Gas Co
James
Highland Park Cemetery
Upside Down Dwellers Face Court Over Boat Incident
William Light and his wife, residents of a house boat turned by the Ohio River flood, appeared in Cincinnati court on a trespassing charge. They were granted until May 3 to remove the overturned vessel from Cincinnati Yacht Club property after the flood last March left their home inverted.
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Cincinnati
William Light
Cincinnati Yacht Club
Yacht Club
Collett to Die in Chair Tonight Amid War News
The report states Collett, 61, from Clinton County, Ohio, is scheduled for execution tonight as part of World War II related death penalties. It notes U S troops near Nuernberg and mentions 200 Ohio inmates on death row, with references to the McCoy family slaying and wartime evacuations.
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Collett
Columbus
James Wil
Nuernberg
Kiam Collett
Germany
Ohio State
Eighth Air Force
McCoy
Reich
Patch
Clinton County
Nuermberg Farmer
Iman
Ohio
Army occupation in Germany may exceed initial plans
In Magdeburg, authorities warn the Allied occupation may need more troops to govern the overrun areas. Nazis’ collapse left towns without police or administration, forcing combat troops to fill gaps. Food shortages, disease, and wandering refugees complicate control as Werewolves and other threats emerge.
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Germany
Hitler
Marriage of Children Regretted by Mother
Plain Dealing Louisiana reports a teenage marriage scene as 15 year old Pegey Kemp Harwell wed Susband L. M. Harwell. The bride’s mother Mrs. W. R. Kemp expresses distress wishing they could have waited a year or two.
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Susband
L. M. Harwell
Pegey Kemp
Harwell
W. R. Kemp
Rent Reward Practice Declared Illegal by OPA Officials
District OPA officials say accepting a reward for rent in a defense rental area violates the maximum rent restrictions. Albert G. Giles, district rent enforcement attorney, notes such rewards constitute a rent increase and violators face criminal prosecution.
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Columbus
OPA
Albert G. Giles
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