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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1945
Page
1
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Allied commanders General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz push toward Japan as forces advance beyond the Weser and Elbe corridors. German units retreat toward Czechoslovakia while defenses collapse and refugees flee westward toward safety.
Allied forces press the offensive in Germany with 25,000 prisoners reported captured yesterday as Ninth and First Armies advance toward the Weser and Ruhr regions. British Desert Rats and U.S. divisions push toward Hamelin Bremen and Dortmund while aiming to encircle 150,000 German troops in the Ruhr basin.
Corry residents reported a major fire in the city center that destroyed Kane City Garage and several vehicles. The blaze began around 4 10 pm when a lighted bulb on an extension cord ignited gasoline, spreading through the interior. Firefighters battled the blaze until 7 pm, with a motor hearse and eight autos burned. several firemen suffered minor burns and smoke exposure.
A Pennsylvanian Railroad wreck near Keane derailed twelve cars loaded with grain. Smoke and debris blocked a long stretch of line as crews from Kane and Renovo worked to clear the Erie and Teronto division. No injuries were reported. traffic rerouted with buses between Emporium and Warren as investigators probe the cause, with one report blaming a broken rail and another noting multiple recent wrecks on the same line.
Allied dispatches report the main fighting concentrating on Okinawa southern reaches near Naha with Japanese defenses in fixed positions among hills ridges and caves. U S casualties were reported as 178 killed and 798 wounded in four days of fighting amid lower figures than expected for a battle 325 miles from Japan. The 24th Corps moved about 3000 yards under stiffer resistance while estimates place Japanese strength at over 60 000 troops concentrated around Naha. North of the line Roy S Geiger s Third Marine Amphibious Company advanced four and a half miles seizing the isthmus and Yabuchi Island.
The Camp and Hospital Committee of the Corry Chapter American Red Cross visited Deshon General Hospital at Butler to attend a council meeting serving Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Commander addressed the group as plans to expand veteran aid were discussed. The visitors saw a radio program broadcast by recovering soldiers and plan to meet again Monday at Red Cross headquarters. Attending from Corry were Mr and Mrs Harold Gilbert Rev and Mrs Francis Whiteman Mrs Boughton Mrs Stewart Mrs Moore Mrs Phillips Mrs Ober Mrs Levy Wood Mrs Williams and others.
Allied headquarters said Fifth Army troops moved nearly two miles in a swift mountain advance near the Italian west coast. The push began yesterday with heavy fighting as German mortars answered the assault. American units near Porta were briefly driven back by a counterattack as the German radio claimed a night artillery barrage.
A series of negotiations between Ajax Tron Works management and the Ajax lodge I A of M negotiating committee continues this afternoon to settle differences. Dr. Jacob Blain, chosen as arbitrator, returns tomorrow for further hearings at Hotel Corry. If no mutual agreement is reached, remaining points will go to the arbitrator for decision, with additional sessions likely later in the month.
Three men awaiting grand jury action on federal charges confess to three armed robberies in Pennsylvania. FBI reports list a $400 theft at a State Liquor Store in Greenville on March 12, $300 at a Charleroi liquor store on March 13, and a bus station theft at Monongahela Valley Transportation Company in Wilson on March 14. Suspects are Stanley B. Singer Hammond Indiana Raymond J. Boos Indianapolis Indiana and Charles B. Puts Detroit Michigan.
Associated Press reports two large Soviet formations within 46 miles of Vienna as Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian Army and Malinovsky’s Second Ukrainian Army press toward the Austrian capital. Russians seize towns near the Danube while expanding a wedge through Schwechat and Schwechat area suburbs. Coordination continues as other Soviet forces advance across Slovakia Hungary and into Yugoslavia with thousands of prisoners taken.
Word spread that a plane piloted by Col Charles A Lindberghty made an emergency landing near Fertigs, Pa. Yesterday local schools dismissed to allow children to meet the famed aviator from the 1927 New York-Paris flight before the aircraft refueled and took off again.
Owen M. Burns an Erie attorney and Democratic committee chair will run for judge of the common pleas with the party backing. Gerald Morells who had announced, will withdraw in Burns favor after a meeting of the Erie Democratic committee. The primary is set for June 19 and the report notes the shift in candidate support.
Washington reports increasing deferment requests for workers in key sectors. The War Production Board notes 28,000 workers beyond 80 percent deferment, while the petroleum industry seeks 60,000 deferments. Some industries receive exceptions, yet shortages threaten fuel deliveries and refinery output, with significant potential losses in barrels of oil and transportation impacts.
A North East dentist, Dr R. Serge Scragg, has been missing since he left the Gray Diner two weeks ago after coffee. Investigators doubt recent sightings, as family and police seek clues. His wife reports no sign of foul play or unusual behavior, and funds were carried, with no extra clothing found. He leaves behind two children, Sarah and Sheila, as authorities continue the search.
Captain Robert X. Williams, a Clymer physician, has been assigned to an Army base hospital in England for special surgical training after serving with the Army Medical Corps on the Western Front. He joined the medical service in 1941, served at Camp Blanding and Camp Murphy, went overseas in 1943, and participated in the Normandy invasion with an amphibious force attached to combat engineers.
An Allied airborne landing reported near Gotha between Gotha and Maehihiousen, with German claims of glider troops and heavy fighting. The U S First Army notes delayed censorship and the Third Armored Division capturing a weapon-laden vehicle. Paris radio hints Finland’s government resignation, unconfirmed by Finnish or other sources. Stockholm reports scarce meat rations for heavy labor workers as Germans face shortages.
Fragmented report notes a shocking Russian action affecting the Japan Soviet pact. Observers in Moscow and abroad weigh implications as tensions rise between the two nations and with Allied powers, amid wary forecasts of future shifts and warnings.
London reports eighty air force strikes hitting Bremen Wilhelmshaven and harbor targets. Allied forces claim to have sunk 21 German naval and merchant vessels with many more damaged. details on specific ships were not disclosed.
Philadelphia April 6 two of the six convicts who tunneled from Eastern Penitentiary last Tuesday were recaptured near Nawa in Delaware county. Victor Symanski and David Aiken, both Philadelphia sentenced for armed robbery, were seized as police announced the car linked to the fugitives had been eliminated from the case. The green sedan found abandoned on a Delaware county road was traced to the investigation before authorities dropped leads in this district.
War dispatches reveal a two command structure with General Douglas MacArthur leading all U S Army forces in the Pacific and Admiral Chester W Nimitz directing naval forces as the joint chiefs shift the focus from Europe to Japan The plan also places General H H Arnold in charge of the 20th Air Force while noting unresolved Soviet stance on Japan and the ongoing effort to align strategy with Roosevelt and Stalin through the Yalta framework
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