Reds Stand High Big Three At UN Conference Clash
In San Francisco AP dispatch reports intense United Nations planning amid Cold War style feuds. Molotov asserts Russia’s right to a rotating security role while Stettinius presses American policy for voluntary global cooperation. Attendees fear deeper bloc divisions threaten progress toward a peaceful world order.
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Forn M. Hightower
SAN Francisco
United Nations” Conference
Mototov
Stettinius
Poland
Connally
Dee
Senator Vandenberg
R-Mich
United States
Britain
Eire
Géneral Assembly of the World
Butte
Molotov
Russia
Soviet Union
Stettinus
World Organization
Soong
Eden
Half Holiday Decision by Regional WLB
The War Labor Board says summer half holidays may be granted to mercantile and service workers in Ohio Kentucky West Virginia if such holidays were observed in the past. The ruling applies to employees in those regions for this year.
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Cleveland
War Labor Board
Mercantile and
Ohio- Kentucky-West Virginia
Kesselring's Private Train Captured Near Regensburg
U S Third Army reports Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's private train captured in Cham near the Czechoslovak frontier. Regensburg was nearly surrounded as General Patton's forces advance in South Germany.
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U. S
Austria
Albert
Kesselring
Cham
Czechoslovak
South Germany
Regensburg
Gune
Patton
Philippines and Okinawa advance push U S toward key targets
Allied forces pressed across Okinawa driving toward Nahe as 24th Corps closes on Baguio in Luzon while Mindanao scouts reach 18 miles from Davao. In the Philippines the Sixth Division seeks Mount Pacawagan as Japanese resist and air units support two divisions nearing Cagayan Valley.
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Associated Press
Okinawa
Nahe
Ryukyu Island
Baguio
Philippines
Luzon Island
Cagayan Valley
Manila
Mount
Pacawagan
Goering's Disappearance Reported as War Ends Near
In London a German broadcast says Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering fled to an unknown destination with his wife and valuables worth 20 million dollars. A German general captured by the US Ninth Army hints Goering may have been executed. The dispatch notes speculation that the war could end within days, with Hitler believed to remain in Berlin.
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London
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goéring
Air Force
Moscow
Reichssmarshal
Berlin
Goering
Hitler
Rationing Tightens Oil Stoves For Cooking
Washington OPA directs local rationing boards to issue stove purchase certificates only to households needing to replace oil fired stoves that have been in use for at least six months. Goodyear Rubber strike halts operations in Akron as plant workers walk out over wage demands affecting wartime transportation and rubber production.
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Washington—Cp
OPA
ODT
Goodyear Rubber
Washington
Akron
Frre of Defense
Goodyear Tire
Rubber Co
OPA Limits Slaughter by Non-Federal Packers May and June
The Office of Price Administration announces non federally inspected packers may slaughter up to 75 percent of last year’s base for May and June to spread beef supply. Those failing to fully report face over 25 percent cuts. Non federal packers may slaughter 100 percent of last year’s sheep and lamb base. hog limits remain at 50 percent with subsidy eligibility. Registration deadlines: May 14 for packers, May 13 for farmer-slaughter sellers.
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Washington
Office of
OPA
Congresswoman Bellen Seeks Security at UN Conference
In Washington a mother of two in the armed forces, Mrs Franses Payne Bellen of Ohio, urged the United Nations conference to build either fear or security, stressing each member's responsibility. The House Military Committee backed a Senate ban on sending 18-year-old draftees to combat without six months training.
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Washington
San Francisco
Franses Payne Bellen
Ohio
House Military Committee
Senate
Berlin Inner Defense Core Cracks Under Soviet Squeeze
Berlin faced a heavy Soviet pressure as Zhukov’s forces drove three miles into Moabit and near Tiergarten during the night. Moscow radio dispatches reported the First White Russian Army advancing from Siemensstadt, with further details from the southern theater.
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Berlin
London
Gregory K. Zhukov
Moabit
Tiergarten
Americans and Russians Meet at Elbe River Town
President Truman announced joint Anglo American and Soviet forces met at Torgau on the Elbe, dividing Nazi Germany in two. The union, hailed as a turning point, signaled the diminishing Nazi threat though victory was not yet assured.
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Elbe River Town
Berlin
Washington
Hitler
Reich
Germany
White House
Truman
Moscow
London
Jonathan Daniels
Torgau
Elbe River
Bern
Europe
Eisenhower
Nazi Germany
Pacific
Grim Evidence Seen by Yanks Near Berlin Airfield
In Austria American forces report grim traces of German brutality as troops find emaciated bodies in ditches from a march from Flossenburg toward Munich. Russians push in Berlin area, with fierce street and underground fighting as flares light shattered structures. Berlin held by Germans at a fraction of its former extent as Elbe crosslines advance near Tangermuende.
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Paris
11Th Armored Division
Austria
Nore
Flossenburg
Munich
Berlin
Tempelhof
Moabit
Tiergarten
Reich
Gruenwalde
High Command Sandt
Elbe River
Tangermuende
Rathenau
Grocer to Impersonate Der Fuehrer in Berlin
The Free German Press Service reports a trained former grocer resembling Adolf Hitler sent to Berlin to die on the barricades. He is described as Hitler's trump card, aimed at creating a heroic legend around the Führer’s death while Hitler himself goes underground.
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Stockholm
Free German Press Service
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Hitler
General Vanaman Reported Liberated From German Camp
Maj Gen Arthur W Vanaman USAAF of Millville New Jersey may have been liberated from a German prison camp. A US Army general reportedly entered Switzerland from Germany and Vanaman, former commander at Wright Field Ohio, was the only US general captured by the Germans in June 1940. His wife Blanche has homes at Butler Pennsylvania and Kelly Field Texas.
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Arthur W. Vanaman
USAAF
Millville
N. J
Switzerland
Germany
Vanaman
Wright Field
Ohio
U. S
Blanche
Butler
Kelly Field
Texas
United States Casualty List Tops Nine Hundred Thousand
Secretary of War Stimson announced Army losses at 329,002 through April 14 based on names received, plus 100,372 Navy casualties, bringing total casualties to 929,373. Army breakdown shows 166,104 killed, 507,018 wounded, 82,671 missing, 73,208 prisoners. Navy totals 39,078 killed, 46,631 wounded, 10,405 missing, 4,258 prisoners.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Secretary of War
Stimson
Shoe stamp valid Aug 1 under nine month lapse
Washington reports that a shoe stamp will become valid August 1 after a nine month lapse. Airplane Stamps 1, 2 and 3 remain valid indefinitely while the shoe program pauses. The move lets consumers budget remaining stamps and helps the shoe trade plan merchandising. This is the first time since rationing began that a shoe stamp isn’t validated every six months. The new stamp numbers were not announced.
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Washington
OPA
Race Ruling Appealed By Electric Company
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. appeals a Cleveland Regional War Manpower Commission Labor Management Committee order to hire bus and street car operators as trainees without regard to race creed color or national origin. WMC sanctions stay pending Washington outcome. Paris UPI reports Marshal Petain returned to Paris to stand trial for treason with wife and five nurses.
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Columbus
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Cleveland Regional War Manpower Commission Labor Management Committee
WMC
Washington
Patton's Third Army Over Austrian Border Near Linz Advance
Allied forces push into Austria as Patton's Third Army breaches toward Linz while Americans reach within miles of Munich and Augs burg. British tanks move toward Hamburg as Canadians press on Wilhelmshaven and Emden, with Austrians greeting the advance amid gestures of celebration.
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Patton
Third Army
Austria
Paris
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Munich
Brenner Fass
Maly
F Patch
Seventh
Augsburg
Tiger
10Th Armored
Mein- Mingen
Bremen
Hamburg
Denmark
Schleswig-Holstein
Justin Canal
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
Riviera
Italy
Bordighera
Mediterranean
San Remo
Maritime Alps Department
Berchtesgaden
Red ‘Aubt
Linz
Regensburg
Danube
Texas and Oklahoma
90Th
Furth
Czech
Pilsen
Prague
Germany
1Th Armored
Supreme Headquarters
Tor Tal
Fifth Army
Eighth Army
Adige
Milan
Pachecos Wed After Long Separation in El Paso
WAITED AS STE at All El Paso Tex was thrilled at the recent marriage of Mr and Mrs Albert D Pacheco which marked a happy ending to a long separation Sgt Pacheco escaped from the Japs on Palawan Island and coming home after three years absence found the girl he left behind him. She is the former Catalina Valles.
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Ste
el Paso
Tex
Albert D. Pacheco
Sgt. Pacheco
Palawan Island
Sill
Catalina Valles
WPB considers V E Day as arms cutbacks ordered
The War Production Board says V E Day nears and shifts to one-front warfare prompt cuts in armament output while labor and materials redirect to Japan alone. Total munitions output in March beat goals by six tenths percent as civilian relaxations are hinted but not guaranteed. Major Doolittle is reported missing over Germany while other war production adjustments proceed.
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Washington
War Production Board
Japan
Reich
J. A. Krug
WPB
Doolittle
Akron
Army
Ex-Iton
Jamy Doolittle
Pan
Eighth Airforce
Germany
Cp— Jackson
Rail Retirement Age May Be Dropped to 55
Washington reports Congress weighing optional retirement for railroad workers at age 55. Rep McGowen of Ohio proposed amending the Railroad Retirement Act as the House Interstate Committee reviews the measure. The current retirement age stands at 65.
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Washington
Congress
MecGowen
Ohio
House Interstate Committee
Food stocks dwindling in occupied Germany
Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy said German food stocks used to feed people in captured areas will be exhausted from 30 to 60 days. He noted the shortages threaten civilian sustenance as Allied supply efforts continue.
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Washington
John J. McCloy
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