Stalin refuses to yield Polish issue widens rift with Allies
London dispatch reports Premier Stalin stating Russia will not negotiate with 16 arrested Polish leaders and that their cases are separate from reconstructing the Polish provisional government. He urged a settlement among allies with conditions on future unity and friendly policy toward the Soviet Union.
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London
Stalin
Russia
Warsaw
United States
Britain
Nnew
Red
Whitehall
Pasiion
Ralph Parker
Moss
Polish Provisional Government of National Unity
Simlar
Yugoslavia
National Committee of Liberation
Poland
Soviet Union
Stettinius
Eden
Soames
Ons
Parker
Fiery Battle Rages as Okinawa Front Shifts
On Okinawa the clash between Japanese forces and four American divisions raged into day 49. Sugar Loaf hill changed hands repeatedly as Marines of the First and Sixth divisions pressed toward Naha and Shuri. An American airstrip became operational, expanding three fields while two more bases awaited use amid ongoing hand to hand fighting and Japanese countermeasures.
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Guam
Okinawa
Naha
Shuri
Yonabaru
Sugar Loaf Hill
Pacific Fleet
First Marine Division
Wana
Sugar Loaf
Dakeshi
Blodgett Returned To Allied Control
Sgt. David C. Blodgett is returned to Allied military control after being shot down over Hamm Germany and captured April 2 1944. His parents Mr and Mrs J C Blodgett of 70 Sixteenth Street SE were notified by telegram by Adjutant General J A Ulio. He is an aerial gunner.
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Ar Rapids
David C. Blodgett
Hamm
Germany
J. C. Blodgett
Sixteenth Street
J. A. Ulio
Rosenberg Reported Taken by Allies in Germany Edict Case
New York report states Yazi Rosenberg, linked to guiding Nazi education, was arrested by Allied forces and found in a hospital in Germany. The report notes Alfred Rosenberg’s involvement and the capture occurred over the weekend.
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New York
Alfred Rosaberg
Germany
Govt Control of Railroad Voided
Judge Walter J. La Bay ruled the Office of Defense Transportation illegally possessed the Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad. The line had been operated by the government since 1942 after a rail dispute, but wartime seizures were reversed as the judge ordered return to private owners.
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Chicago
United States District
Walter J. la Bay
Office of Defense Transportation
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Roosevelt
la Bay
ODT
Secretary of War
T. P
War Department
Pfc George Telecky Reported Killed in Action
Cedar Rapids and families learn Pfc. George Telecky 31 infantryman killed in action February 28 after being listed missing on Luzon. He trained in California and Alabama and served since 1943. Survived by wife Genevieve son Steven parents, brother Pvt Ernest Telecky in Germany, sister Richard Kolek. Civilian former Wilson and Company employee.
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George Telecky
Infantry
Luzon
War Department
Genevieve
Steven
Rockford Road
Frank Telecky
Javemre NE
Telecky
Camp Roberts
Calif
Ord
Pvt
Ernest Telecky
Ninth Army
Germany
Richard Kolek
Springville
Pfc. Telecky
Wilson and Company
Air Exhibit Draws 25000 to New Municipal Airport
About 25,000 visitors flocked to the new municipal airport to view eight army planes linked to the war loan drive. Crandic lines ferried roughly 3,000 to the site with families arriving by auto, interurban, motorcycle and on foot as crowds queued along a soft field. Lt. Col. Gordon D. Timmons announced hours of inspection, with the planes open until 8 p.m. Friday. The event featured Lt. Joseph F. Fraser Jr., Cedar Rapids native, and a Flying Fortress and B-25 Mitchell bomber making dramatic arrivals amid strong public interest.
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Aeronautic
Germany
Crandic Lines
Gordon D. Timmons
Olney
Texas
Chicago
Bond
Bond Committee
Joseph F. Fraser, Jr
Dar Rapids
Fraser
Flying Fortress
Tokyo
Spangler to Wed Portland Woman
Mrs. Henry P. Buehner of Portland Oregon announces her engagement to Harrison E. Spangler former Republican national committeeman of Cedar Rapids. They met in New York last summer and plan to wed June 12 at the First Presbyterian church Little Chapel in New York City. They will reside in Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Henry P. Buehner
Portland, Ore
Harrison E. Spangler
New York City
Little Chapel
First Presbyterian Church
Buehner
Columbia University
Pacific
Yale University Law School
400 B-29s Strike Tokyo and Hamamatsu Industrial Targets
Guam AP report says more than 400 B-29s bombed Tokyo and Hamamatsu, laying mines in Wakasa Bay and Bungo Strait. About 300 B-29s raided Hamamatsu, dropping over 2,000 tons in the heaviest strike on the city. LeMay cites extensive damage to Nagoya and multiple major cities.
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Guam
Japan
Tokyo
Hamamatsu
21St Bomber Command
20Th Air Force
Washington
Domei
Wakasa Bay
Honshu
Japan Sea
Bungo Strait
Nagoya
Curtis LeMay
LeMay
Captive Nazi Sub Skipper Ends Life
Fritz Steinhof of U 873, one of four German submarines that surrendered to the United States Navy, died in his Boston cell Saturday by slashing his wrist with a jagged lens piece after breaking his spectacles.
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Boston
Fritz Steinhof
United States Navy
Wife Slain by Husband in Apparent Murder Suicide
In a 820 Fourteenth Street NE home, Mrs. Clark Fisher, 29, died from a shotgun wound and her husband, 34, was critically wounded after slashing his throat with a butcher knife. Authorities say murder followed by attempted suicide, with children Bobby and Peggy witnessing the events. A murder charge was filed, and divorce proceedings had been filed the day before.
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Clark Fisher
Fourteenth Street
Bobby
Fisher
Zumsteg
Imama
Peggy
Cedar Rapids Soldier Killed in Action on Negros Island
Pfc. Eugene Ray Jackson, 26, of the parachute infantry, was killed in action on Negros island in the Philippines April 28. A Cedar Rapids native, he had been in service since January 8, 1941, trained at Fort Meade and Fort Benning, and served overseas since October, seeing action in New Guinea before aiding the recapture of Corregidor. Surviving are his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson and a son, Mark Eugene, with two sisters.
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Eugene Ray Jackson
Parachute Infantry
Negros Island
Philippines
Ella S. Jackson
Third Street
War Department
John Jackson
Wood Avenue
Jackson
Cedar Rapids
Fort Meade
S. D
Fort Benning
New Guinea
Corregidor
Mark Eugene
Palo
Esther Glass
Harriett Spencer
Occupation Role Defined for U.S. 15th Army in Germany
The 15th Army will govern 14 000 square miles including the Saar basin Rhine valley and Ruhr. About 300 000 to 400 000 American troops will form the occupying force under Lt Gen Leonard T. Gerow, with major cities Düsseldorf Aachen Cologne Trier and Koblenz. The area housed roughly 11 million civilians prewar and includes thousands of displaced persons. civil population figures are uncertain. Redeployments will replace some units while keeping Gerow’s force as the principal policing entity.
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Supreme Hdq
A.E.F
United States 15Th Army
Saar Basin
Rhine Valley
Ruhr
15Th
United States
Leonard T. Gerow
Duesseldorf
Aachen
Cologne
Trier
Coblenz
15Th Army
Gerow
Pacific
Chinese Capture Port of Foochow Surprises Allies
CHUNGKING AP reports Chinese troops have reoccupied Foochow on the east coast, a key port feared for American landings. Indications point to a Japanese withdrawal from the coastal area as ships slip toward Shanghai, with similar moves possible at Wenchow Amoy and Swatow.
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Amoy
Sweton
Deadlock on Question of Slav Claims
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander said he could not reach a friendly deal with Marshal Tito over Yugoslav and Italian territorial claims around Trieste Gorizia Venezia Giulia and the Austrian border areas near Klagenfurt Villach The Allies await whether Tito will accept a peaceful settlement or seek to seize territory by force The dispute centers on postwar changes to borders and how to negotiate at the peace conference with Rome London and Belgrade.
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Rome
Harold Alexander
Marshal Tito
Italy
Austria
Tito
Mediterranean
Hitler
Japan
Alexander
Trieste
Gorizia
Isonzo
Venezia Giulia
Klagenfurt
Villach
United States
Britain
Venezia
Giulia
Fiume
Belgrade
Philip Walsh Killed Aboard the Franklin
Seaman 1/c Philip Walsh 23, son of E J Walsh Morning Sun, died March 19 aboard the carrier Franklin. Navy since 1942, he was wounded last October off the Philippines. Survived by parents, brothers and four sisters. nephew of L J Marshall and Gertrude Fitz. Previously served on the S/S Africa sinking and later on the Intrepid before Franklin’s commissioning.
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Philip Walsh
Franklin
E. J. Walsh
Morning Sun
Walsh
Navy
L. J. Marshall
Gertrude Fitzservingef H. Bliss
Africa
Intrepid
Philippines
Russian Ultimatum To Japan Rumored
London dispatch says Turkish radio quotes diplomatic sources claiming Russia will issue an ultimatum to Japan demanding return of occupied territories or Russia will join Allies against Japan’s bases near the Soviet Union.
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London
INL
Russia
Tokyo
Japan
Soviet Union
Wife prefers cats leads to divorce in Seattle
A Seattle court granted a divorce to J. B. Bonnar, 70, after he testified his wife preferred the company of her nine cats to him and that she insisted he sleep with two of the cats.
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Seattle
J. B. Bonnar
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Yazi Rosenberg
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