Prized German Prisoners Freed in Geneva Route Home
Paris dispatch reports several of Core Germany's most prized prisoners are en route to home bases. First Lt. John G. Winant Jr, son of the U S ambassador to Britain, led a group reaching the 108th Division command post after a dash through German cars under Swiss guard. Winant was shot down over Germany on October 10, 1943.
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Coremany
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Britain
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Winant
Germany
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Blonde wife sentenced in federal mail fraud case
Mrs. Wilma Suberly, a 26 year old blonde and undivorced wife of eight servicemen, was sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary after Judge Martin I. Welsh denied probation. She pleaded guilty to collecting allotment checks from four husbands in the armed services and had denied making fraudulent calls following her Eugene, Oregon arrest.
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Wilma Suherly
Martin I. Welsh
Suberly
Armed Services
Eugene
Ore
Ex-French Premier Reynaud Freed by Germans Reports Say
Paris report says former French premier Paul Reynaud, among early prisoners handed to Germany by Vichy, returned to Paris after liberation at Oranienburg. Reynaud described his time as the Germans called him their worst prisoner and held him in solitary confinement.
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Wwen
Paul Reynaud
Oranienburg
Germany
Reynaud
Sudetenland Leader Captured by Yanks
A Luxembourg radio report states American forces captured Konrad Jenlein a Nazi trader and Dr Karl F H Frank Reich minister without portfolio and secretary for the protectorate of Bohemia Moravia.
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London
Luxembourg Radio
Konrad Jenlein
Suedetenland
Karl FH. Frank
Bohemia-Moravia
Fire Drives Families From Chinatown Night Clothes
A three alarm blaze in San Francisco Chinatown drove about four hundred residents from their homes in the early hours. The fire began in the Mandarin theater cellar and spread to four Grant street establishments, causing at least sixteen thousand dollars in damage. No injuries were reported as firefighters contained the flames.
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San Francisco
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Grant Street
Oregon
Welsh
Hayward Seeks Bids for City Hall Brick Annex Construction
The Hayward City Council invites proposals for all labor, materials, and services needed to construct a brick addition adjacent to City Hall, per Resolution No. 571 NS. Plans and specs are on file with the City Clerk. Bids require a 10 percent bid bond and must use official bid forms.
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Alameda Courtly
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Maynard
Bhuik Fortis
Clark
Tlaynard
Alamein County
Our Readers Say May 7 1945 Letter on school board candidate traits
Dear Reiter the intelligent part in the election of members for the school board is one of the fine methods by which parents assure improved education for their children. Qualifications include goals of education, interest in children, cooperation responsibility open mindedness and willingness to study proposals and teacher qualifications. Mrs J S Haines signs as president.
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Marketville
Hayward City Seeks Bids for Brick Office Building
The city invites sealed bids for a brick office building adjacent to Hayward City Hall in Alameda County California. Bids must be filed in the City Clerk's office by May 1945 and opened publicly on the stated day. The City Council reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Dated May 10 1945. Irene Templeton Jamieson City Clerk. May 10 15
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Alamida County
California
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City of
Danish King Ends 61 Month Seclusion in Copenhagen
COPRNELAGEN reports King Ghrisltian of Denmark declared liberation of his country amid still active Nazi snipers in downtown Copenhagen. The royal family appeared after 61 months in seclusion, driving through cheering crowds as 30,000 armed patriots stood by to greet the cortege. The king addressed the Rigsdag in a special session for the first time in five years, urging intensified cooperation to meet reconstruction challenges.
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U.P
Ghrisltian
Denmark
Tony
Copenhagen
Soong Visits Washington During Security Conference
Chinese Foreign Minister I. M. Soong arrived in Washington in a private plane from the San Francisco Security Conference. Attaches said he would return to the security conference, but officials offered no details on the duration of his stay or the reason for his return to the capital.
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Washington
U.P
I. ¥. Soong
San Francisco
Soong
Oakland Voters OK Postwar Bond Plans for City Improvements
Oakland voters approved postwar city improvements totaling 15.754 million dollars. Bonds carrying two thirds votes funded pools worth 600 thousand, playgrounds and centers at 423 thousand, a 382.707 thousand expansion of courts, street work at 4.95 million, sewer system upgrades at 5.311 million, and a new main library with four branches at 2.703 million.
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Oakland
V.P
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