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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1945
Page
1
A cryptic item from the page recalls a gospel eulogy amid stalled talks and fading voices. The fragment hints at a religious observance with whispered tributes, as community leaders weigh next steps and timing.
American forces press the Philippines campaign on a dozen fronts with 10 071 more Japanese dead in five days bringing total to about 307 000. Gen Douglas MacArthur reports 185 Japanese captured while American losses run 340 killed, 8 missing, 919 wounded. Allied troops advance toward Baguio in Benguet while actions continue at Negros Cebu and along the Sulu Archipelago with heavy air and naval strikes against Japanese positions.
Roosevelt names Fred M Vinson as successor after James F Byrnes resigns from War Mobilization and Reconversion. Byrnes will remain temporarily until Vinson’s Senate confirmation. Vinson has held multiple posts including Federal Loan Administrator and head of Economic Stabilization. Treasury reports March 20 balance shows net balance of 15.14 billion with expenditures of 265.99 million and total debt 234.96 billion.
Field reports note Montgomery lifting silence on 21st Army Group advances in the Ruhr and Westphalia with towns like Rheine Enschede and Gronau in sight. A Navy Marine fighter crash in Wales narrows down casualties while Okinawa combat shows early Allied success with western beaches reported secured and sea air blockade underway.
The Corry air mail service could expand to include a Mohroush flight between Pittsburgh and Buffalo under a new All-American Aviation plan seeking Civil Aeronautics Board approval. The company aims to operate 10 air pick-up routes across eight Middle Atlantic states, serving 208 cities and towns in Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Maryland Delaware West Virginia Virginia and Ohio.
New York April 2 American invasion forces began landings on Kume Island about 60 miles west of Okinawa. Tokyo radio via Blue Network reported. Guam April 2 thousands of U S Tenth Army infantrymen and Marines invaded Okinawa Easter morning with light resistance, pushing east toward Nakepasin Bay as they secured West Cogs anchorage from 8 30 a m yesterday.
San Francisco April 2 Japanese radio clung to optimism about Okinawa as a swift path to denying use of fall of our airfields. The FCC captured broadcast warned of tough fighting inland from beachheads and the need to conquer Japanese defenses, with officials predicting decisive victory yet cautioning Japan’s longer war aims remain.
Mild Easter weekend brings four day break in rain as Corry churches report full attendance for special services. City streets see near normal traffic with many visitors in town for the holiday.
The report details Japanese atrocities in Manila with forced labor and mass killings. It cites documents and a February incident, noting civilian and military victims, escape routes, and orders linked to imperial forces. The piece emphasizes official dispatches and wartime fear, drawing on documentary claims and battlefield observations.
Mystery surrounds a Chevrolet coupe smashed at West Wayne crossing 455 by Pennsy Train No 914 en route to the depot. No driver found. car locked with papers identifying Steve Swantel of 71 East Street, Frio. A brother at the Aero plant confirmed ownership. radio and personal papers removed for safekeeping. Beer bottles found. initial search found no one hit. Local police and trainmen conducted a full investigation.
Severe weather sweeps the Deep South with floods and tornadoes causing deaths and displacing hundreds. The U S Weather Bureau warns of possible frost damage to western fruit crops as weekend storms raise Mississippi River flood risks and engineers struggle to defend levees. A tidal wave from the Gulf of Mexico sends water up the Atchafalaya into Morgan City forcing ten families from their homes.
Russians Break Into Bratislava area and advance within 20 miles of Vienna. Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian Army drives from the south toward Wiener Neustadt and Bratislava while Malikovsky’s forces push near Trnava and the Liechtenau region. Germans retaliate along the Danube front as tanks and infantry maneuver westward.
The Zalneck brothers began removing two large storage tanks from the former Atlantic Refining Company property on North Second Avenue. Rain slowed work but both tanks are expected to be gone by week’s end. Tanks, 15 feet diameter and thirty feet high, have been sold to a New Jersey firm. removal and loading costs set. Pennsylania Electric will repurpose site for a new substation and distribution hub, with the office building retained and remodeled.
Stockholm April 2 The Free German Press agency said Hitler plans the mass murder of Allied prisoners of war and hostages from occupied lands and the remaining Jews as his proposed peace measure, but offered no source or verification.
B 29 Superfortresses based at Saipan attacked Tokyo and the Yokohama area in pre-dawn darkness, estimated at about 150 aircraft. The raid lasted about an hour starting around 2 30 a m local time, with fires set by incendiaries and heavy explosives across the northwestern outskirts.
Easter morning raid near New Kensington leads to 120 arrests for gaming and cockfighting. Frank Drake of New Kensington RD 1, proprietor, pleads guilty and pays a fine. A State Police detail confiscates 50 birds. spectators face Forfeit penalties before Alderman Ton Brown.
A one year old sailor and a Pittsburgh girl companion were killed today when their automobile crashed into a parked trailer near the New Stanton interchange on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The dead were identified as Seaman Sammy Jack Self, 17, of Manchester, Tenn., and Bolly Ryan, 23, of Pittsburgh.
Pfc Donald Brigham writes from the western European front about Co A and the 112th Regiment in action. He details duties in the Supply Section, praises the soldiers, notes earning the Combat Infantryman Badge, and lists campaigns from Normandy to Germany before returning to a corner of France.
April 2 dispatches describe German forces in the Ruhr area attempting a breakthrough near Paderborn and Siegen as Allied offensives push from the west. British Second Army advances threaten to trap German army groups in Holland while Patton’s Third Army nears Eisenach and Nuremberg, with Berlin within sight and a widening Allied sweep across central Germany.
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