Soviets Reach Near Gates of Berlin in Allied Drive
Soviet Red Army tanks push toward Berlin from the south and east as Moscow reports advances to within yards of Berlin’s inner defense ring and near Dresden. Russian forces seize major strongholds and clash with German defenses amid heavy bombing and advancing American troops.
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London
Berlin
Moscow
Dresden
Austria
Laa
Czechoslovakia
Opava
Troppau
Moravska- Ostrava
Oder
Kuestrin
Wilhelmstrasse
Perlinen
Gregory K. Zhukov
Bad Frienwalde
Wriezen
Seelow
Frankfurt
Hangelsberg
Werneuchen
Ivan
Neisse River
Muskau
Spree Oere
Hoyerswerda
Senftenberg
Mulde
Konev
Rothena
Niesky Klitten
Kamentz
Delegates Off To Conference On San Francisco Charter
Senator Connally says the Dumbarton Oaks plan for a world organization will likely be liberalized in San Francisco to allow more flexibility in coming years. Senator Vandenberg endorses the plan while warning no perfect instrument is possible, and both leaders pledge steadfast support to the charter of peace and justice.
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Washington
Connally
Tex
Senate
World Organization
San Francisco
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Oe Vandenberg
Texas
Aller River
Bremen
Dena
Byrd Praises Truman Start After White House Visit
Senator Byrd of Virginia told the House that the president is making a great start and that the administration shows imagination and vitality. He recalled a cab driver asking to give love to the president, reflecting positive sentiment toward Truman’s early actions.
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House
Congress
Byrd
Diplomats to brief stop in Huntington on C&O train
A C&O passenger train carrying 200 or more diplomats and delegates from Washington will stop in Huntington at 8:30 a.m. for a crew change before continuing to the United Nations conference in San Francisco opening April 25. Additional brief stop planned at Hinton tomorrow.
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Huntington
W. Va
Hinton
Chesapeake and Ohio
Caryring
Washington
San Francisco
Russians Prepare Entertainment For United Nations Parley
San Francisco reports a Russian entertainment ship loaded with caviar vodka and party supplies arrived ahead of the United Nations conference opening on April 25. Fifty Russian delegates arrived by air as about 5 000 visitors are expected, filling the city with crowds and heavy security.
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San Francisco
Russia
San Franciso
United States
Herald Tribune Wins Newspaper Typography Trophy
The New York Herald-Tribune received the Wayland Ayer cup for excellence in typography makeup presswork and paper saving use of type and format at the 15th annual exhibition by the N W Ayer Sen Inc The Tribune led among over 1000 entries and has now earned the cup for permanent possession with prior wins in 1939 and 1941 The Chicago Sun was last year's recipient.
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Philadelphia
New York Herald-Tribune
Wayland Ayer Cup
N. W. Ayer Sen. Inc
Chicago Sun
Tribune
Woman Drops Lighted Cigarette Into Mailbox
A Huntington woman telephoned the post office and said she dropped a lighted cigarette into a mailbox while talking with a friend. A postal worker found the cigarette burning on a ledge near a pile of letters.
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Huntington
W. Va
Huntington Post Office
Moss Plunkett Enters Gubernatorial Race
Richmond Virginia April 20 Moss A Plunkett Roanoke attorney and president of the Southern Electoral Reform league tonight announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia in the August primary calling for support from liberals whose candidacy was announced weeks ago Plunkett is longtime Roanoke school board chairman for four years and has held posts including chairman of the legislative committee Virginia Education Association and president of the Virginia School Association and chairman of the Virginia Electoral Reform league
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Richmond
Moss A. Plunkett
Roanoke
Southern Electoral Refrom League
Virginia
Plunkett
Roanoke Corn School Board
Aan
Virginia Education Association
Virginia School ‘S Association
Virginia Electoral Reform League
Faces Death In Chair Worries Over Coat
New York April 20 Oliver Little 23 was condemned to die in the electric chair. His primary concern was recovery of his overcoat taken by police worth $43. Judge Jonah J. Goldstein remarked that he would not need an overcoat where he was going as the death sentence for murder was imposed.
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New York
Oliver Little
Jonah J. Goldstein
Imposas
Medal of Honor Proposal for War Correspondent Ernie Pyle
Washington April 20 posthumous Medal of Honor proposed for Ernie Pyle the Scripps-Howard columnist killed on Iwo Jima in a resolution introduced by Senator Willis The senator said Pyle was as much a part of America as Mark Twain or the corner drugstore or the church in every town.
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Te Island
Ernie Pyle
Scripps-Howard
Marines
Okinawa
Washington
Ie Jima
Poet Today
Willis
Pyle
America
Mark Twain
Envoy Gives Truman Line On Russians
President Truman meets with 59 foreign diplomats and receives a direct Russia briefing from Ambassador Harriman. He stresses cordial U.S. relations and notes ongoing talks on Molotov and Poland at the San Francisco UN conference.
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Truman
Washington
W. Averell Harriman
Moscow
Oe Department
Allied forces close Ruhr battle as Hitler’s remnant routs
Paris reports Eisenhower declares enemy lines tottering with 21 German divisions eliminated and over 317000 prisoners taken as Ruhr battle ends in what he calls complete success. A separate SHAEF message to Russian and Polish troops urges them to stay put until allied liberation advances unite from west and east.
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Paris
Hitler
Eisenhower
Ruhr
Germany
Supreme Headquarters
Gloria Vanderbilt Divorces and Roses Spark Attention
Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco received a quick divorce from Judge Edgar Eather granting her maiden name. She also got a rose delivery from an unidentified man in Atlanta with a cryptic note and a Nevada car registration citation placed on her windshield by Thomas Williams of the state police. Leopold Stokowski visited the young heiress during the events.
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Reno
Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco
John
Nevada
Atlanta
Edgar Eather
Thomas Williams
Ada State Police
Vanderbilt
Leopold Stokowski
Big Superforts Bomb Nine Kyushu Airfields
A large force of B 29 Superfortress bombers raided nine Kyushu airfields on Saturday morning in their third strike in five days. The raid aimed to neutralize bases used by Japan against U S forces at Okinawa. The bombing lasted about ninety minutes from altitude.
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Guam
Kyushu
Okinawa
Moviegoers Forced To Watch Atrocity Films
London April 20 The Daily Mirror reports that moviegoers in a Leicester Square theater attempted to leave atrocity newsreels but were detained by British and Allied soldiers who urged them to stay to witness what others endured. The soldiers defend the films as a means to break German sympathy and prove the reality of the war.
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London
The
Daily Mirror
Leichester Square
Big American Bomber To Make Combat Debut
Washington reports plans for the combat debut of a second giant American bomber the B 32 known as the Terminator. War Production Board Chairman J A Krug said at a news conference production is getting going and plans are in place for its use in a tactical operation.
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Washington
J. A Krug
War Production Board
Krug
Conquest Of Area Complete In Philippines War Update
General MacArthur announces the central Philippines have fallen with the extinction of most Japanese on Cebu. He says 5,000 enemy dead on the field and 33,000 square miles liberated, 6,400,000 civilians freed, leaving only Mindanao and northern Luzon resistant.
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Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Cebu
Davao
Mindanao
Baguio
Luzon
Netherlands Indies
China
Formosa
MacArthur
Visayan
Leyte
Samar
Mindoro
Panay
Palawan
Negros
Bohol
Masbate
Bantayan
Biliran
Burias
Guimaras
Homonhon
Lubang
Pero Marinduque
Qiduijor
Tablas
Tibao
Sibuyan
French General Dentz Condemned To Death
Paris reports Gen. Henri Fernand Dentz condemned to death for treason amid 1941 Syria resistance. Former U S ambassador William C. Bullitt offered to testify but Dentz declined the witness.
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Paris
Henri Fernand Dentz
Syria
Williamc. Bullitt
France
Dentz
British Soldiers Force Nazi Elite Guard To Bury Camp Victims
British soldiers compel members of Hitler's Elite Guard to bury victims at Belsen Germany after Allied forces liberated the camp. Descriptions detail mass graves, naked inmates, and the brutal aftermath as guards unload bodies and prisoners endure starvation and disease.
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Belsen
Germany
Hitler
Allied Russian Link Near Berlin Reported by Soldiers
Allied forces pushed toward Hitler’s last Alpine stand as Nuernberg fell and Berlin loomed. Eisenhower said German forces on the western front were near defeat while the ninth, first, and third American armies prepared to strike the Elbe 52 miles from Berlin.
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Austin Bealmear
Paris
Hitler
Bavaria
Nuernberg
Lake Constance
Alps
Hamburg
Germany
Berlin
Munich
Supreme Headquarters
Eisenhower
U. S
Bremen
North Sea
France
Bordeaux
Gironde
Stuttgart
Aich
Seventh Army
Tenth Armored
Reich
Ans
Ninth Army
Elbe River
Navy Reports 15 Ships Lost In Okinawa Month
Fleet headquarters announced 15 naval craft lost between March 18 and April 18 during Okinawa operations. In the same period 100 enemy ships and numerous aircraft were sunk. U S forces pressed gains on southern Okinawa, breaking a 13 day deadlock with advances around Yonabaru air strip and led by the 7th and 96th divisions of the 10th Army.
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Guam
Okinawa
Can
Te Island
Legusugu Peak
Gan
Bush
Calhoun
M. L. Abele
Pringle
Hobbs Victory
Logan Victory
U.S
Halligan
Emmons
I 2
Dickerson
Run
Navy
Marine
Army
Tenth Army
Yonabaru
John R. Hodge
Vern Haugland
Assoc
Motobu Pen
Ohio Slayer Of Three Dies In Electric Chair
James J. Collett, 61, a southern Ohio hog breeder, died in the electric chair at 8 04 a m following his conviction for the Thanksgiving Eve 1943 murders of Elmer McCoy, his wife, and daughter on the McCoy farm near Washington Court House. Collett, whose wife was McCoy's sister, sought clemency from Ohio governors but was denied twice. His execution came after a long legal fight and he delivered a final religious statement before execution.
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Columbus
James J. Collett
Elmer McCoy
Washington Court House
Collett
McCoy
Mildred
Protes
Nce
Frank J. Lausche
Trial of Former Mayor Continues in Welch Court
A witness testified in district federal court that he bought about 185 cartons of cigarettes from John Whitt a Welch rail clerk paid $1 a carton and avoided hot cigarettes Whitt described removing a carton from interstate shipment due to rain Judge Moore recessed court until Monday after Whitt testified in his own defense Johnson Spencer later identified the man as a railroad yard worker.
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Charleston
W. Va
District Federal Court
John Whitt
Norfolk and Western Rail
Welch
Moses T. Greer
Rocky Mount Vs
Whitt
Greer
O. K
Ben Moore
Johnson Spencer
Famed Jones Family Loses Son in World War II
Peterstown West Virginia reports the eldest son of Grover Jones and his wife was killed in action in Germany. Pfc. William P. Jones, about 30, died April 1. His brother Paul was wounded in Europe last year and has since returned to his brig. William P. Jones belonged to the well known Monroe county Jones family famed for their World’s Fair publicity in New York.
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Peterstown
W. Va
Grover Jones
Germany
William P. Jones
Paul
Jones
Monroe County
New York
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