Mindanao Landing Shifts Tide in Filipino Campaign
MacArthur reports Japanese garrisons in Mindanao isolated as U S forces land the 40th division at Macajalar on the island’s north coast. In Bukidnon interior pockets resist. Tarakan, Davao and Butuan guerrillas expand American reach while a Japanese invasion threat in Samar claimed.
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Japa
Min
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Macajalar
A. Struble
40Th
MacArthur
Davao
24Th Division
Tarakan
Luzon
1 Fertig
Butuan Bay
Mindanao
Macr
Saran
Zamboanga Ja
Zamboanga
Ilana Bay
Bukidnon
Davao Gulf
Tokyo
Samar Island
Atrocities Of Japanese Are Related
Twenty U S army air force officers and 19 enlisted men abandoned by the Japanese at Rangoon central prison were evacuated May 4 by the 15th Indian corps. British officers, other American prisoners, and harsh torture claims are reported by survivors including Sgt Major John Finnerty and Lt Gus Johnson.
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Rangoon
U. S. Army Air Force
Rangoon Central
15Th Indian Corps
Burma
Ward
Isein
14Th Army
John Finnerty
Eire
L. V. Hudson
Sydney
Australia
Gus E. Johnson
Miami
Fla
Richard Montgomery
Pittsburgh
Montgomery
Eisenhower Urges German Prisoners to Stay Put
President Eisenhower announced that officers would travel to all war camps to plan transfers home and urged prisoners to remain in place to aid the process. The message, broadcast by the BBC, urged inmates to cooperate and stay where they are.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Ger
BBC
En. Eisenhower
French doctor Petiot to be tried on killing charges
French authorities said they have evidence Dr. Henri Petiot was linked to a terror movement and will be tried on charges connected to the killing of lions in his quarters and the disposal of bodies. Petiot claims his victims were collaborators and that he acted as a traitor.
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Henri Petiot
Gist
Taylor
Scotland
Nazis Doomed To Death By Austrians
The provisional Austrian government, backed by the Soviet, enacts a law to suppress the Nazi party and impose death sentences on present members. Nazi property in Austria will pass to the Austrian republic. personal registration of party members from July 1 1983 to April 27 1945 is required.
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Associated Press
Provisional Government
Austria
Moscow Radio
FCC
Austrian
Sugar Rationing Tightens as Midyear Cut Planned
Washington reports tighter sugar controls likely by mid year. Industrial users such as soft drink bottlers candy makers and bakers face reductions to about 45 to 50 percent of 1941 levels due to a growing shortage and a 700000 ton over issuance in 1944.
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Washington
OPA
House Food Investigating Committee
Richard H. Fields
Max McCulough
Reeducation Challenge for Germany After War
The article discusses allied efforts to reform German thought postwar. It stresses careful reeducation to curb Nazism and Prussianism, noting no exact precedent and a multi-year task. A university president建议 using straightforward press and radio coverage to acquaint Germans with other nations, aided by everyday news and even garden-fence chats.
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Germany
Reich
Hitler
Eden Expected To Return To London Soon
The American delegation reports a breakthrough in the regional security plan linked to the United Nations framework. A tentative formula would allow defense treaties among nations while the world security council could intervene in emergencies, easing small nations’ fears and preserving overall UN authority. Secretary Stettinius conferred with Eden to push toward a broader agreement.
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Eden
London
San Francisco
United States
United Nations
World Security Council
Plan
Stettinius
Veterans Of 2 Theaters Not To Fight Japs
Paris May 12 The U S army begins redeployment from Europe to the Pacific Gen Eisenhower says combat troops who served in North Africa and Europe will not be sent to the Japanese theater Some men may lack points for discharge but will remain in Europe for occupation Lt Gen Lucius D Clay notes the aim to apply overwhelming force to end the war with Japan Scores will be reviewed by the War Department to determine releases for about 2 million men while 6 968 000 stay to fight and occupy Germany
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Paris
U. S
Europe
Pacific
Eisenhower
North Africa
Lucius D. Clay
U. S. Group Control Council
Japan
War Department
Germany
House Panel Rejects Congress Run Furlough Plan
The House Military Committee rejected proposals to force Congress to set furlough rules for ante war veterans. Rep Smiths bill would require at least 12 months in European service to return to the US or Hawaii and be furloughed for 30 days plus one extra day per European month up to 15 months.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Congress
D-Ky
Germany
Rep. Smith
R-Wis
Smith
United States
Hawaii
State Plans No Immediate Labor Change
Dr. J. S. Dorton, North Carolina war manpower commissioner, said controls will stay in place with little change until July 1. He noted shortages persist in New Bern while Asheville Charlotte Winston-Salem Greensboro and Elizabeth City are less strained and most areas are balanced or surplus. Washington has shown no orders to relax controls though NC will lift regulations as soon as possible.
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Raleigh
J. S. Dorton
North Carolina
A . Ot
Dr. Dorton
Washington
North Carolina War Manpower Commission
Dorton
New Bern
Asheville
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Elizabeth City
Churchill Truman Meeting Indefinite Shifts in Talks
London dispatch reports no definite word on a Truman Churchill meeting. Officials call rumors and speculation about a three way summit with Stalin as unconfirmed. Foreign Office and American spokesmen declined to comment on Yalta pledge disputes or suggested cooperation issues.
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London
No. 10
Downing Street
Truman
Churchill
Stalin
Foreign Office
Yalta
Russians Join With Yanks In Czechoslovakia Battle
Soviet armored forces pressed Nazi troops in Czechoslovakia as they attempt to flee west toward American lines. Russians also forced surrender of much of enemy forces in northern Austria and reached new junctions with American units. In Berlin fires raged as civilians were pulled from flooded subways after last‑ditch Nazi terror. In Norway Quisling officials reportedly killed themselves to avoid capture as Gen. Falkenhorst stayed in custody.
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London
Czechoslov
Austria
Berlin
Norway
Germany
Vidkun Quisling
Quisling
Oslo
Nicholaus von Falkernhorst
German Notables Seized by American Forces
With the U S Seventh Army on May 12 Dr Walter Funk president of the Reichsbank and German economics minister along with 200 German ministerial personnel including top Nazis were seized by American troops Gen Hiroshi Oshima the Japanese ambassador to Germany and 130 Japanese diplomatic personnel were also taken into custody, the army announced.
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U. S. Seventh Army
Walther Funk
Reichsbank
Seventh Army
Hiroshi Oshima
Germany
War research hints at jet planes and sea fertilizer gains
At the University of North Carolina summit, Undersecretary Patterson outlined jet propelled planes surpassing 700 mph as a wartime advance. Biologist Hardy F Taylor proposed fertilizing coastal waters to double or triple fish yields along U S coasts, with potential boosts for North Carolina and neighboring states. George J Wilds Jr of Coker's pedigreed seed company discussed new cotton uses and harvesting methods to keep the crop strong in the south.
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Chapel Hill
Patterson
University of North Carolina
United States
Britain
America
Harden F. Taylor
New York
Biolo
Taylor
North Carolina
Florida
Louisiana
Chesapeake
South
George J. Wilds, Jr
Coker
Pedigreed Seed Company
Hartsville, &. C
Goering Caught Napping In Talk With News Men
In Augsburg Germany on May 12 AP Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering remarked that American development of a fighter bomber capable of round trip Berlin flight was the war's biggest German surprise. A journalist challenged his quip about bombing Berlin and his retort drew a quick pause.
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Goering
Augsburg
Germany
Reichsmarshal
Herman Goering
Luftwaffe
Berlin
Meyer
Public To Get Close Look At War Weapons
Washington May 12 the public will get a closer look at the nation's war weapons during the seventh war loan drive. Exhibitions will be shown in more than 4 000 cities and towns with jet fighters B 29 bombers and other planes traveling to sell bonds. Infantry demonstrations using flame throwers and other weapons will be expanded and shown in all states with actual combat veterans and trained units from Fort Benning Georgia.
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Washington
Ted R. Gamble
The
Treasury
Fort Benning
Dietrich Reported Taken Near Linz by Third Army
A British broadcast relayed by CBS stated U S Third Army troops near Linz captured Col Gen Sepp Dietrich, commander of the sixth SS Panzer Army. Earlier Moscow reports in April claimed Dietrich had been assassinated in Vienna fighting.
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New York
CBS Today
Linz
Sepp Dietrich
Moscow
Dietrich
Vienna
Thousands Of Troops Take Part In Battle
On Okinawa, thousands of American and Japanese forces clash along a four mile front. U S Marines and Army units press toward Shuri and Naha with tanks flamethrowers and artillery in close combat and heavy casualties mounting on both sides. Naval air battles and the broader Ryukyus campaign are noted with daily reports from the front.
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Guam
Ateet Aerie Savant
Atl
Okinawa
Shuri
Naha
Ryukyus
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Associated Press
Vern Haughland
Army
Chester W. Nimitz
Buckner
Jaspan
Iwo Jima
Sixth Marine Division
Asa River
Scott Plea For Tobacco Plants In Eastern North Carolina
North Carolina agriculture commissioner Kerr Scott urged eastern Tobac co producers to aid growers in the old belt from Durham to North Wilkesboro, where blue mold threatens the 1945 crop. Farmers may contact M. R. Buffkin of the state agriculture department in Raleigh to obtain healthy tobacco plants.
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Raleigh
Kerr Scott
Old Belt
North Carolina
Durham
North Wilkesboro
Missioner
Scott
M. R. Buffkin
State Department of Agriculture
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Roops
Chen
South China
Chihkiang
Paoching
House
U. S. 7Th Army
Richard Jarczyk
36Th Volks Grenadier Division
Czechoslovakia
Korea
Federal Communications Commission
111Th Airborne
Aleutians
Pepe Pered
Kataoka Naval Base
Shuemushu Jima
Russian Kamchatka
Kataoka
Kurile
Russia
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