Eyewitness Report From Landsberg Camp Number 4
Reporter Louis P. Lochner describes nearly 4 000 Jews killed at Camp Number 4 near Landsberg, with charred bodies, naked inmates, and mass graves. Col Edward Seiller accuses German civilians and guards, detailing horrific conditions, mass executions, and postwar culpability as emaciated survivors recount torture and starvation.
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Louis P. Lochner Landsberg
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Edward F. Seiller
Ouisville
Twalith Armored Division
Erman
Senller
Seiller
Col. Seiller
Gestapo
Enoug
Landsberg
Dachau
Munich
Babies Must Eat Well During National Baby Week
National Baby Week April 28 to May 5 highlights that babies need a balanced daily menu amid shortages. Nutrition consultant Edith Shapcott stresses essential protein fat carbohydrates minerals vitamins and water from milk eggs fruit vegetables cereal foods and sunshine for growth and health.
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Gaynor Maddox
NEA
Night on Okinawa Front Lines Before Push
In moonlit pine cover on Okinawa, American soldiers share thoughts before the next front line mission. T-4 Jacob Klein and T-5 Wallace Hanson discuss furloughs, movies, taxes, and war plans while reflecting on peace and the world.
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Robin Coons
Okinawa
T-4
Jacob Klein
Cozad
Nebr
T-5
Wallace Hanson
Cereseco
Hollywood
War leaders and public figures weigh in on hunger and war
Maj Gen W P Templar laments German civilians near Belson as child soldiers shock the world. A Stockholm paper condemns Berlin fighting as dreadful. Clement Attlee urges nations to unite to end famine from war and avoid food destruction while others starve. debate on national employment goals referenced.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Clement Atlee
French statesman Herriot arrives in Moscow after liberation
Edouard Herriot a three term French premier and former French Chamber of Deputies president arrived in Moscow with his wife today after liberation by the Red Army near Berlin. He was freed April 22 and said he would stay in Moscow a few days as a guest of the French ambassador before returning to France.
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Moscow
Edouard Herriot
France
Chamber of Deputies
Red Army
Berlin
Herriot
Snd
Gestapo
Statesman
Petain
Germany
Thoughtful quotes echo court doors and old walls
A fragmented medley of quotes contrasts biblical imagery with classical wit. It cites Ezekiel about a court door and a hole in the wall, followed by Tacitus noting happiness in liberty to think and speak freely. The mix reads as a literary aside on perception and expression.
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Limes
Tacitus
Government action blamed for wartime losses and mismanagement
A quoted remark from Australian Parliament member Joseph Abbott criticizes government investment as a path to peacetime prosperity and cites wartime missteps. He notes U S troops removing jeep tires and batteries and sinking jeeps, and an Australian burning surplus stores at Aitape, urging accountability.
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U.S
United States
Aitape
Joseph Abbott
Yanks raise flags over Baguio and push toward Trinidad
U S forces observed Emperor Hito's birthday by raising flags in Baguio and launching a new northern offensive from Luzon. The 129th and 148th Regiments of Beightler's 37th Division moved toward Trinidad while the 130th Regiment from Clark's 33rd Division captured high ground for artillery cover. In the mountains, Marines scaled peaks to 5,500 feet amid sharp clashes with retreating Japanese rear guards. Civilians suffered amid looting as Baguio fell and both flags were placed at half staff for Roosevelt.
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Russell Brines
Baguio
Luzon
Emperor — Airohito
Philippines
Tokyo
129Th Regiment
148Th
Robert S. Beightler
37Th
Trinidad
Innis P. Swift
First Corps
Beightler
Clarkson
Juan Arenella
Roosevelt
Questions and Answers Compilation From a Fragment
Q Who originated latitude and longitude The Ancient Greeks Stel th Q Why do mechanics like the Jet propulsion engine of the P 59 Airacomet A There are only I bolts holding it together, and a job that takes five days on a conventional engine can be done in one day on the P 59 Q How fast do our feet grow A A boys double in size between 145 and 18 years Girls feet are nearer maturity between these ages than boys feet xe
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Europe
Okinawa
James Thasher
General Motors
General Electric
U.S. Steel
Rio Grande
Latin America
Foreign Trades Bureau
Budd Roth
Central
South American
Billy Mit
John M. Hightower
San Francisco
United Nations Conference
Dumbarton Oaks
Great Powers
Inner Security Council
United States
Britain
Russia
China
Washington
Security Council
Mexico City
United Nations
World Security Council
Belgium
South Africa
General Assembly
Norway
Venezuela
World Court
Stettinius
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Syria
Yugoslavia
Argentina
Streamlined Similes for Modern Speech by Ruth Millett
Ruth Millett argues for updated speech by replacing old comparisons with fresh phrases. She cites examples like red ration points, cigaret references, V-letter welcomes, tire tread reliability, oleo versus butter, and other vivid images to reflect present-day life. The piece emphasizes sharper, more current metaphors in everyday language.
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Ruth Millett
United Nations
Searce
Barbs on Shoe Ration Stamp Delay in Wartime
In a wartime notice the barbs advise patience as a new shoe ration stamp becomes valid August 1. The message urges readers to wait despite needing footwear, while a satirical line comments on the wolfer and ongoing war with Japan and Germany.
High frequency sound waves test nylon elasticity
Researchers use high frequency sound waves to measure nylon elasticity. The method assesses how nylon fibers respond to rapid acoustic stimuli, helping quantify stiffness and damping properties relevant to material performance.
Deaf school leaders announced for Arkansas and Kentucky
Thulf, superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Deaf, was elected to succeed Nathan Zimble as principal of the Arkansas School for the Deaf. John M. Wallace of the Virginian School for the Deaf will take over the Arkansas superintendent role. B.A. Pfeifer chaired the Kentucky board. Changes take effect July 1.
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Little Rock
Vernon Thulf
Kentucky School For the Deaf
NathanZimble
Arkansas School For the Deaf
B.A. Pfeifer
John M. Wallace
Virginian School For the Deaf
John Caple
Mr Newlywed Quirk Sparks Kitchen Debate
A husband jokes about a steak tasting queer while his wife defends the meal. She explains she overcooked it slightly but rubbed vaseline on it immediately to salvage flavor. The banter reflects domestic humor in a lighthearted household scene.
Dachau Horror Report From Veteran’s Eye Witness
A U S Seventh Army unit recounts Dachau atrocity scenes with 35000 inmates, 1400 living corpses, and a crematory stench. Survivors describe 21 day freight-car transport from Buchenwald, starvation, naked bodies, gas experiments, and brutal SS guards. European fronts update notes Stalin’s announcement of a fall in London.
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Louis P. Lochner
Dachau
Germany
Rainbow
U. S. Seventh Army
Buchenwald
Plenary Session Opens Under Molotov at 10:30 AM PT
Chairman of conference commissions convenes at 10 30 a m Pacific War Time with Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov presiding over the plenary session to hear formal addresses. A 3 30 p m hearing is scheduled.
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Molotov
British Second Army reaches Baltic coast near Wismar
British Second Army thrust to the Baltic side of Germany isolating Hamburg and Kiel and approaching a Russian advance along the coast. The Sixth Airborne Division reached Wismar within hours, about 58 miles northeast of Hamburg and 30 miles from Rostock as German positions near Doenitz and the high command faltered under joint Allied pressure. Patrols and air reconnaissance indicated mass German retreat toward Denmark.
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Hitler
Reichschancellery
Berlin
Paris
Red Army
Pravda
Tiergarten
Moscow
Hamburg
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Reichs Chancellery
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Malmoe
Sweden
Rostock
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Vah
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Olomouc
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Rodion Y. Maulinovsky
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Carpathian
Yeremenko
Dadca
Jablunka
Cieszyn
Poland
Boyd Lewis
Second Army
Wismar
Kiel
Karl Doenitz
Denmark
Schleswig- Holstein
Sixth Airborne
Supreme Headquarters
Philault
Fuehrer
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Radio
Doenitz
Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigk
Kaiser Wilhelm
Adolf Hitler
Schwerin von Krosigk
Nazi Party
von Papen
Schleicher
Ribbentrop
Niehter
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Europe
Clief
Churchill
Stockholm
London Evening News
Copenhagen
Norway
Otto Ciliax
Merly
Fritz Boehme
Ciliax
Bochine
Oslo
Holland
Sergeant Baine Encounters Surrender Mixup at Woods Edge
In a tense moment a German officer steps forward, salutes, and shouts Heil Hitler. Sgt Baine answers with an offhand GI salute. The German declares he is a general and surrenders his pistol and staff as confusion unfolds at the edge of the woods.
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Hal Boyle
U. S. Ninth Infantry
Germany
Virginia
39Th
Henrode
Hubert Baine
Norfolk
Baine
Sgt. Baine
Doenitz profile siege and submarine career described
London May 2 In a profile by W R Higginbotham Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz is depicted as Hitler’s chosen successor and a ruthlessly effective U boat commander. The piece traces his early life in insanity claims to his later role in sinking ships and his promotion under Hitler and his controversial public stance on the July plot.
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W. R
Manchester
Germany
Doenitz
Hitler
al- Nied
Allied Forces Capture Field Marshal Von Rundstedt at Dinner
American tank crew surprised the German commander at Bad Tolz near Munich and captured Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt, a two-time western front commander, while he dined with his wife and son. The capture, at 10 p.m., came as units of the 36th Division detachments, led by Col. Charles Owens, seized him near the hospital where he resided for health treatment.
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Malcolm Muir, JR
Seventh
Germany
Karl von Rundstedt
Normandy
Rhine
von Rundstedt
Bad Tolz
Munich
Hans Gerd
Burke
Adolf Hitler
Pfe
Herman Jobe
Warrensburg
Ind
36Th Diision
141St
Charles Owens
Burma invasion push lands near Rangoon port
British forces struck ashore in southern Burma about 20 miles south of Rangoon in a bold amphibious operation. The landing formed a three way pincer toward Rangoon, threatening the city and its vital supply routes to China. Forces landed at the Rangoon river mouth framing Mataban gulf.
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Hugh Crumpler
Calcutta
Burma
Rangoon
China
Mataban Gulf
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