Chinese Offensive Opens With Wide Japanese Reverses
The Associated Press reports a Chinese counteroffensive driving Japanese forces back on all fronts. In initial thrusts Chinese airborne troops helped recapture a city, with 3,000 Japanese killed. U S air bases near Chungking faced pressure as Japanese advances dwindled. British Indian troops liberated Rangoon amid heavy rain, while U S 24th Infantry Division moved into Davao City in the southern Philippines as Australian forces push on Tarakan Island.
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Associated Press
U. S
Chihkiang
Baron Adm
Iantaro Suzuki
Tokyo
U. S. 14Th Air Force Base
Chungking
Naha Jine
Okinawa
U .S
Iwo Jira
Tarakan
Borneo
Davao
Philippines
21 Current Bills Authored by Jenkins in Ohio House
Washington D C report notes Tom Jenking of Ironton has introduced 21 bills among nearly 80 measures offered by Ohio House members this session. Walter Brehm of Logan Ed Mc Cowen of Scioto County Fred Smith of Marion Bil Thom of Canton Mike Kirwan of Youngs town have not offered a bill.
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Washington
Tom Jenking
Ironton
Ohio House
Walter Brehm
Logan
Ed McCowen
Scioto County
Fred Smith
Marion
Bil Thom
Canton
Mike Kirwan
Youngs
Town
Quarters Needed for Tubercular Insane at Athene State Hospital
Columbus Welfare Director Frazier Reams returned from a tour of the Athene State Hospital and said the main need is housing for tubercular insane patients. He noted 45 vacancies in a 260 staff, with 1,790 patients vs a 1,563 capacity. A postwar $630,000 expansion is planned to relieve overcrowding and improve housing.
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Columbus
U —Welfare
Frazier Reams
Athetm State Hospital
Reams
FBI Plans Meeting on Law Enforcement Here
The FBI plans a law enforcement conference in Athens High School on May 17 with Athens Police Department assistance. J. B. Grogan, police chief, announced the event and F. Holiman will lead as special agent in charge of the Cincinnati Field Division.
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FBI
Athens
Athens High School
J. B. Grogan
F. ©. Holiman
Cincinnati
Truman Wins First Battle In Congress
President Truman achieved a 57 vote margin in his first clash with Congress by preserving his veto of a bill to keep more farm workers out of the draft. The House vote 185 to 177 fell 57 short of the two thirds needed to override.
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Washington
Truman
House
Flannagan
D-Va
The
Agriculture Committee
Europe
Fifth Army Casualties In Italy Reach 109,163
Washington report shows American Fifth Army casualties in Italy from the 1943 Allied landing to April 28 totaling 109,163. Secretary of War Stimson lists 21,577 killed, 77,248 wounded, and 10,338 missing.
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Washington
Italy
Fifth Army
Stimson
Urges Official Status For Ohio's State Flag
Funeral services for Horton Ma bill in the House yesterday to give Jone, age 49, who died last night official status to the governor's flag, which has been used for 30 years. Interment will be at Minersville Cemetery. Surviving family includes his mother Mrs. Bessie Stanley.
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Columbus
Craig_ POMEROY
D. Slagle
Gallia
Horton Mabill
Jone
Jacob Boetzel
Katts Run
Finsterwald
Minersville Cemetery
Malone
Bessie Stanley
Capacity Audience Sought For Servicemen's Program
Parents wives employers sweethearts neighbors and friends of Athens County service men are urged to attend an Ohio University Memorial Auditorium program tomorrow. Military officials executives and OU authorities prepared it with national attention as a model for veterans community support. Morning and afternoon sessions feature speakers motion pictures and radio recordings to show local commitment and attract coverage by news services and radio.
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Athens County
Ohio University Memorial
Ohio University
Memorial Auditorium
V E Day Induction Cuts Blocked by Army Chief
General Marshall told House Military Committee Chairman May that the Army cannot meet May and June replacement needs and will be short by about 50 000 men in the next three months. He warned that as Germany falls more manpower will be required for the Pacific, with Eisenhower losses averaging 2000 daily and a need to build a pool of replacements for use after battle weariness and campaigns ease.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army
May
House Military Committee
Germany
Marshall
Eisenhower
Norway
Denmark
Holland
Pacific Ocean
Federal Mine Seizure Holds In East Today
The government seized 868 Pennsylvania anthracite mines and ordered miners to return to work by Monday. Interior Secretary Ickes acting under presidential directive deputized mine management as federal operators to keep the mines open during wage contract talks with United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis. Truman said strikes could impede the war effort.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Ickes
New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Carter Coal Company
West Virginia
Solid Fuels Administration
Ickes Teact
Truman
Million-Foot-Per Hour Gas Well Is Reported
A gas well near Homeworth south of Alliance was blown yesterday morning, estimated to produce about 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas per hour. Owner Edward Overmiller of North Canton has sold gas rights to East Ohio Gas Co., which plans a pipeline to tap this and other future wells.
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Youngstown
Homeworth
Alliance
Edward Overmiller
North Canton
East Ohio Gas Co
Plan Badilleon Plant to Employ 3,000 at Detroit Branch
The Fisher Body Co will start work as materials arrive on a Detroit branch plant expected to eventually employ 3,000 workers. In Middletown, Eva Swink, 77, died in Middletown Hospital from burns after her bed ignited yesterday.
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Plan Badilleon
Hamilton
Fisher Body Co
Detroit
Middletown
J Eva Swink
Nazis Treasure Hoard Now Estimated At 200 Tons Of Gold
Paris reports the Merkers salt mine treasure hoard and suspected caches in Thuringian towns totaling about 200 tons of gold, doubling prior estimates given by Gen. Patton's 190th Division on April 7.
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Paris
Merkers
Thuringian
Patton
Big Four Near Accord on Dumbarton Oaks Plan
The Big Four edging toward changes to the Dumbarton Oaks framework for a world peace body. Officials from the 46 nations see progress toward preventing deadlocks as Molo tov heads to Moscow and Stettinius, Eden, and Soong discuss amending the charter. Regional defense pacts may be allowed to aid attacked nations while longer-term steps are debated. The United States seeks to retain control of Pacific bases gained from Japan.
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San Francisco
Dumbarton Oaks
United Nations
Molotov
Moscow
Stettinius
Molowv
Eden
Tusin
Soong
China
Big Four
Pacific Islands
Japan
Posthumous Medal for Colorado Hero Slain in War
The War Department awarded a Medal of Honor posthumously to Elmer E. Fryar of Denver for singlehandedly destroying 27 Japanese soldiers before he was killed while aiding a wounded comrade from Ohio. His story was recounted by survivor Neal A. Rotherford. Also note Norwalk obituary: Annie Doughty, 79, died and learned her grandson Col. Frank Doughty was safe after being captured in 1943.
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Washington
War Department
Colorado
Elmer E. Fryar
Denver
Colo
T-5
Neal A. Rotherford
Wadsworth
Frank Doughty
Chaotic Conditions May Make Formal Surrender Negotiations Unnecessary
AP reports from Stockholm and London reflect rumors of capitulation talks between Doenitz and Montgomery at Flensburg while Speer declares Germany defeated. Descriptions of a collapsing Reich note chaotic conditions and a possible end to formal surrender negotiations without a negotiated capitulation.
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Stockholm
Aftentidningen
Doenitz
Bernard L. Montgomery
Flensburg
London
Germany
Albert Speer
Hitler body not found as Berlin burns in disorder
A Red Star dispatch from Moscow reports the Reich Chancellery failed to yield Hitler’s body as fires rage in Berlin. Fighting is described across Austria and Czechoslovakia while questions swirl about Churchill’s status and possible surrender talks with Allied leaders.
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Moscow
Lyi
Third Reich
Wilhelmstrasse
Hitler
German Breakthrough Commander Surrenders to U S Third Army
Field Marshal Edward Von Kreist, noted for the 1940 breakthrough in France, surrendered to the U S Third Army’s 26th Infantry Division. The surrender was announced today.
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26Th Infantry Division
Edward von Kreist
France
U. S. Third Army
Butter Not Spoiling Raises OPA Questions in Cleveland
In Cleveland district OPA director Clinton M. Fiske questioned reports of butter piling up and spoiling. He said merchants may reduce point value of rationed foods without agency consultation, and that dealers with rancid butter on hand could sell it for no points if they cut prices by half.
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Cleveland
District Office of Price Administration
Clinton M. Fiske
OPA
Fiske
London Prison Farm Short of Manpower
London prison farm, a 3000 acre state agricultural line, faces a manpower shortage with about 500 inmates fewer than normal, as Supt. W. F Amrine stated, impacting wartime production. A separate Rome dispatch reports a chaotic clash where a crowd singing Communist songs clashed with Italian soldiers and students over Venezia Giulia.
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London
W. F Amrine
Rome
Waly
Venezia Giulia
Rig and Reel Dispute Reaches Federal Grievance Proceedings
A federal conciliator from the U S Department of Labor will visit Pomeroy to hear the parkersburg Rig and Reel workers walkout over draft deferment. Company officials deny claims of no defense work stating the plant is nearly fully engaged in critical defense production and activists claim many workers were retained while deferments were not requested.
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Pomeroy
U. S. Department of Labor
Parkersburg Rig & Reel Company
Big & Reel
Senator Wheeler Blasts Radio Chains For Propaganda
Senator Wheeler of Montana says business radio chains are carrying one sided propaganda on international and national issues. He would introduce legislation mandating balanced coverage if they do not voluntarily provide both sides. Wheeler backs Senator Taft's protest against State Department propaganda aimed at influencing Congress over the Dumbarton Oaks pact.
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Washington
Wheeler
Mont
Biz
Hit
Taft
Ohio
Senate
State Department
Congress
Mental Cases Would Be Given First Call
Columbus officials push a welfare bill to elevate mental health care from the bottom rung to the top, aiming for early Senate approval. Senator James Metzenbaum argues about 8 percent of cases could be cured with prompt treatment. New Otterbein President Named in Westerville Dr J Gordon Howard of Dayton becomes president of Otterbein College.
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Vpi
State Welfare Department
Senate
James Metzenbaum
Cuyahoga
Metzenbaum
NEW Otterbein
Westerville
J. Gordon Howard
Dayton
United Brethren Church
Otteshein College
Doenitz Prominent Nazi Figures Reported Fleeing to Kiel
Stockholm and Paris radio dispatches claim Doenitz, Schwerin Von Krosick, Best, Terboven, and Lindemann gathering in Kiel as German forces retreat. BBC and Reuters note movement to Copenhagen and possible surrender talks. Speer issued a broadcast signaling defeat and potential capitulation, interpreted in Stockholm as imminent German general capitulation.
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Germany
Karl Doenitz
Kiel
Stockholm
Ludwig Schwerin von Krosick
Wernier Best
Denmark
Josef Terhoven
Norway
Doenitz
Marshal Montgomery
Kyel of
Best
Terboven
George Lindemann
Elbe River
Magdeburg
Schleswig Holstein
Tanmont
Reuters
BBC
Copenhagen
Paris
Henrich Himmler
Gestapo
Aga
Britain
Russia
United States
Flensburg
Kiel Canal
Luxembourg
Speer
Russians link with British seal German pocket collapse north of Hamburg
Russians and British forces linked south of the Baltic sealing off a major German pocket between Rostock and Hamburg. Fighting persisted in Brenner Pass as the U.S. Tenth Mountain Division operated. Western Austria neared collapse as Americans closed near Linz and Berchtesgaden. In Bohemia Moravia the strongest holdout remained. Denmark showed signs of surrender, Norway held 150,000 troops, and Berlin battles continued with Goebbels reportedly missing. Soviet troops joined the Ninth Army west of Berlin while cleanup of the Reich capital continued and Nazi leaders faced registration as repairs and services were mobilized.
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Germany
Baltic Sea
Rostock
Hamburg
Brenner Pass
U.S. Tenth Mountain Division
Italy
Austria
Norway
Britain
Berlin
U. S
Ninth Army
Reich
Soaviet
Hitler
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Denmark
Templenof
Meigs Man Nominated for Brigadier General
President Truman nominated seven colonels to brigadier general. The list sent to the Senate includes William L. Roberts of Letart Falls Ohio.
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Meigs Man
Washington
Truman
Senate
William L. Roberts
Letart Falls
Ohio
Mounting Bag of Prisoners Creates Serious Problem for Allied Armies
London reports thousands of German troops surrendering to American and British forces fearing capture by the Russians. Front dispatches describe prisoners crowding American lines as British and American facilities for housing and feeding them approach capacity. The Associated Press notes over 3,000,000 Germans captured since D-Day and UK seeks more US responsibility while the US weighs shipping and troop deployment.
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London
Britain
Associated Press
Wes Gallagher
Ninth Army
Elbe River
Gallagher
Detty Express
Bital
United States
Alrtish
Fapress
America
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