Champagne or coffee and a Luger find amid Leipzig push
U S Army medical corps men share a champagne chow line in Naumburg as supply dumps at Bis marck Caserne yield champagne food and cog nac for the first units. A fishing party along a stream nets two rain bow trout and a captured Luger pistol with shells. Tank riders seize a German delaying action and capture prisoners in a village near Leipzig while one crew humorously detains a shaved German.
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Soviets Claim Progress Around Berlin Amid Siege Push
German high command reported 1 500 000 Russian troops pressing toward Berlin with shelling of Potsdamer Platz and five suburbs. Russians reached Bernau Strausberg Fuerstenwalde Koenigs Wusterhausen and Zossen while strikes neared Beelitz and Treuenbrietzen, with a 35 mile breakthrough toward Seebad no. 10. The fighting continued as both sides blamed each other for brutal combat and casualties.
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Broughton Named General Counsel for Tobacco Warehousemen
RALEIGH April 21 Former Gov M Broughton is hired as general counsel for the Bright Belt Tobacco Ware housemen's Association which covers 343 warehouses in Florida Georgia North and South Carolina and Virginia Board of governors backs farm groups price proposals 39 to 41 cent per pound on Georgia Florida belt and 13 to 45 percent on other belts Royster says price differences due to ungraded untied tobacco in Georgia and Florida and tied graded tobacco elsewhere A plan to ask commodity credit stabilization to steady the market was adopted pending price trends.
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Terrific Fighting Rages On Southern Okinawa Campaign Nears End
Terrific fighting raged on southern Okinawa as American divisions pressed toward Naha amid heavy enemy artillery. Losses mounted on both sides with Adm. Nimitz reporting 15 American ships and 2,569 Japanese planes lost in the wider Okinawa operations from March 18 to April 18.
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Taft Backs Ending Ceiling Prices On Meat
Senator Taft argues that removing retail price ceilings could increase meat supply if rationing remains, though he stops short of proposing formal legislation. He suggests subsidies as an alternative and notes a planned revision of the meat price and subsidy program awaiting approval.
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War Today Reports Two German Fronts Split By Allies
The piece notes a still distant path to victory despite rapid Allied advances. It discusses Hitler’s possible surrender, the lack of a clear German leadership for surrender, and ongoing Allied actions to apply pressure as the war remains unresolved.
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Road to Berlin Front Notes Distances Reported
Associated Press dispatch reports Eastern Front seven miles at Hangelsberg, Western Front forty five miles from Tangermuende, Italian Front five hundred twenty two miles from near Porte Maggiore.
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No clear V E Day date yet says wartime forecast
The text notes that despite German setbacks the front remains with isolated pockets to clear. It says no one can predict the calendar date for V E Day, aligning with Eisenhower’s cautious outlook.
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No Hope For Early End Of War In Europe
Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith told war correspondents at supreme headquarters that he held no hope for an immediate end to the war in Europe. He warned there may be bitter fighting and heavy casualties to come as Eisenhower continued efforts to bring the conflict to a swift close.
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RAF Mosquitos Hit Berlin Six Times In One Night Blitz
RAF Mosquitos bombed Berlin six times in a day long raid on German railways, climaxing with record night raids. No RAF losses were reported, bringing the total number of raids to 76 as 3,000 planes pummeled Reich capital.
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Bretton Woods Pact Praised At Chapel Hill
At Chapel Hill on April 21 Amos E. Taylor of the U S department of commerce said formal fulfillment of the Bretton Woods agreement would curb postwar unemployment. He spoke at a regionalism conference noting the international monetary fund and bank for reconstruction and development aim to put people to work through freer trade. UNC President Frank P. Graham welcomed the group and urged balanced economic and cultural adjustments for the South with Howard Odum of UNC sociology stressing a balanced approach.
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Bologna Falls To Troops Of 5th And 8th Armies
Bologna, a major objective of the northern Italian offensive, fell to Fifth and Eighth Army troops. Polish units with the British Eighth Army and U S divisions entered the fortress city at the Po valley foot of the Apennines. Allied leaders hailed the breakthrough as the gateway to the Po plain. Truscott’s forces pushed from the mountains, sealing the highway and pressing toward Bologna-Modena.
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Churchill urges world open to all nations for lasting peace
Prime Minister Churchill told an audience at the University of Bristol that a world organization free and open to all nations must be built to secure peace and justice. He warned the aim requires restraint of aggression and spoke of liberating Europe from German rule while continuing to finish the war with the United States.
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Mrs. Roosevelt Retires To Her Apartment
Secluded in her Washington Square apartment Mrs Frances Cleveland Roosevelt plans a six week Hyde Park stay as 20 truckloads of White House belongings are moved. She arrived from Washington and declined further comment saying the story is over.
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Berlin Fears Hunger as Russian shelling intensifies
London reports Germans fear famine as Berlin is shelled with Russian shells hitting Potsdamer Platz. Field kitchens are set up and citizens are urged to fight on. Walter Felchner notes Berlin braces for mass flight if surrounded and communications are cut.
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Truman To Broadcast From White House Wednesday Night
President Truman will speak for about 10 minutes on a 7:30 to 8:00 p m. EWT program from the White House announcing the world security conference in San Francisco. Also on the program are Secretary of State Stettinius Mayor Roger D Lapham San Francisco and Governor Earl Warren. The speech was not yet prepared.
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Allied Forces Close In On Berlin as Junction Feared
U S and Soviet troops advanced toward a junction south of Berlin while patrols near the Elbe reportedly met. Allied forces pressed depths in Bavaria Austria redoubt with Asch fallen, Patton’s and Seventh Army pushing toward Pilsen Prague. Russians and Americans remained about 25 miles apart near Berlin as planning ensured a coordinated hookup.
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Shakeup in Tokyo Local Setup War Production Boost
P Radio Tokyo aired a three cornered shakeup of Japan's local administration to centralize power for invasion readiness and speed war output. Emperor Hirohito inaugurated new governors as 125 posts were affected including 21 regional admins and 15 bureau directors with 13 promoted to regional governments and 21 to prefectural governorships.
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