Observations on V E Day and Nazi Resistance
A newspaper opinion traces how V E Day might arrive, considering Germany's fragmentation and possible piece meal surrender. It warns Nazi leadership plans underground resistance, postwar Nazism revival, and Allied resolve to forearm and forewarn against a lasting threat.
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James L. Mahoney
Manchester
N. H
Charles M. Dale
New Hampshire
Europe
Japan
Germany
Reich
Eisenhower
Herr Hitler
Washington State Department
Aachen
Franz Oppenhof
Veritas
Haegg Aims for Buffalo Race in Rivalry With Rafferty
Gunder Haegg the Swedish sprinter hopes to reach Buffalo in time for the invitation mile at the Armory. He would race four laps and an eight lap distance after arriving from California to see Miss Dorothy Nortler in Oakland. Rafferty and Haegg both target the Armory record of 4 13 set by Paavo Nurmi in 1920. Teams entered include Tuskegee New York German American Chicago Hurricane Philadelphia Turners Philadelphia Moose Harrisburg A A Chicago Forest Oe and Chicago Cops Playground.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Gunder Haegg
Jimmy Rafferty
New York Atheltic Club
Ifed
Haegg
California
Dorothy Nortler
Oakland
Calif
Cleveland Innte West
Rat-ferty
Rafferty
Armory
Paavo Nurmi
Tuskegee
New York
A. C
Hicago Hurricane
Philadelphia
Turners
Moose
Herrisburg
Chicago
Chicago Cops Playground
Public Hearing Set On Teacher Salary Proposals
The House Education Committee will hold a public hearing on Wednesday April 4 to review competing pay and aid plans for teachers in Pennsylvania schools. Proposals from the school commission and the Hare Lee bill aim to raise starting salaries in first class districts and adjust subsidies per teaching unit with formulas tied to district wealth and enrollment.
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Philadelphia
Red Demands For Poland Alter Peace Conference
Russia insists on an early US UK reply to seat the Provisional Polish Government at the UN conference in San Francisco. Moscow argues the Warsaw setup cannot be reorganized in time and seeks three votes for its plan, challenging Dumbarton Oaks one vote per member. Expect clashes between large and small nations over representation as the U.S. delegation debates strategy led by Senator Vandenberg.
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Russia
San Francisco
Moscow
Britain
United States
Clalny
United Nations
Warsaw
London
Yalta
General Assembly
Roosevelt
State Department
Permanent Assembly
White House
Sicttinius
Stalin
Litte Tettow
Vandenberg
2000 American POWs Moved From Odessa Port
The U S military mission said 2000 American former prisoners of war had been moved out of the repatriation port of Odessa thus far. Several hundred more are to be transferred to Odessa from various sectors of Poland. The prisoners, captured by the Germans, were released as the Russian army overran prison camps in its westward advance.
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Moscow
U U. S
Odessa
Poland
State Police Warn Pedestrians on Highway Safety
State Police urge pedestrians to follow rules to avoid serious injuries or death in auto accidents. Key tips include walking single file facing traffic, wearing light clothing after dark, using a light or flashlight, crossing only at intersections, and staying sober.
Mannheim a Rubble Strewn Hulk
Mannheim after heavy fighting with 44th Division troops completing the capture of the northeastern third of the city. Destruction and rubble mark the landscape as German forces withdraw toward Heidelberg. Slave laborers greet advancing Americans amid ruined streets, while slogans vow resistance despite the overwhelming Allied victory.
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Lewis Hawkins
Mannheim
Germany
44Th
Neckar
Europe
Friesenheimer Island
Tist
Heidelberg
Navy
88Rd Infantry Regiment
Otter Street
Stettinius Seeks Frisco Meet Success and Voting Plan
Stettinius pressed for gains from the San Francisco conference on security council matters. He conferred with U S delegates including Senator Vandenberg who warned against proposals harming sovereign equality. Revercomb called the multiple voting idea unacceptable as an inferior U S position. The British Empire acts in unison and should not be granted more voting strength.
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Tively
Barkley
Kentucky
Iald
Security Council
Stettin
San Francisco
Vandenburg
United States
March 31 World War II Briefs From Across the U S and Europe
A roundup of March 31 items reports Nazi shipping losses for March, American soldiers celebrating Passover at a Goebbels castle, potential 50 percent gas price relief after the war, labor leadership talks in Los Angeles, survivors from the Bismarck Sea arriving in Almeda, Kansas City plans a Bronze Memorial statue from Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima photo, Philadelphia Red Cross fund success and GI Bill loan program, plus Pennsylvania’s Cancer Control Month designation with 150000 American deaths last year.
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Muenchen Gladbach
Germany
Joseph Goebbels
Almeda
Calif
Bismarck Sea
Iwo Jima
Kansas City
Joe Rosenthal
Associated Press
Iwo Dimasi Oe
Board of Education
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Martin
American Cancer Society
Water shortages drive Iwo Jima fight force to thirst
Marines report the Japs suffered dehydration while the Fourth Marine Division pressed the assault on Iwo Jima. Distillation units ashore begin to supply water, but the island has no natural source. Japanese water drums turn out to be rain barrels supplying the garrison.
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Jim G. Lucas
Iwo Jima
Fourth Marine Division
Two Jima
Fourth Division
Saipan
Tinian
Iwo Jima'a
Will Run For Judge From Prison Camp Germany
Lt. Col. T Linus Hoban announced his candidacy for a second ten year term as Judge of the Lackawanna County Common Pleas Court while in a German prison camp. He was wounded twice on Dec 19 during the Ardennes drive and is described as nearly recovered. A pending bill would allow him to run without petition signatures making the nomination process smoother. His letter was sent from Offlag 19 near Brunswick, Germany, while he learned of his mother’s death.
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Scranton
Germany
T. Linus Hoban
Lackawanna County Common Pleas Court
Hoban
Ardennes
House
Augustus Davis
Brunswick
Thomas PF. Hoban
Jattey
Canadians Drive On V Bomb Coast 100000 Taken
Allied forces pressed into central Germany with American First Army tanks advancing toward Kassel and Paderborn while Third Army and Sixth Armored moved within 10 to 15 miles of Kassel. The Seventh Army crossed the Fulda near Fritzlar, and Allied air forces attacked German communications as tens of thousands more prisoners were reported captured.
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George S. Patton
Isaac White
Paderborn
Kassel
Berlin
Courtney Hodges
AP Cor- Sans
Don Whitehead
Eder
Fritzlar
Fulda
Hessen-Nassau
Sixth Armored
Canpel
Fourth Armored
Eiles Wortperty
Lauterbach
Herzeles
Herzfels J
U.S. Seventh Army
Heidelberg
River Main
Aschaffenburg
Holland
Emmerich
Third
Second Army
U. S
Negros Island Invaded as U S Forces Strike Philippines
Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush’s 40th Division of the Eighth Army landed on Negros, seizing an airstrip and threatening Bacolod. The assault, aided by naval gunfire and Thirteenth Airforce planes, aimed to collapse Japanese defenses in the Visayas as Panay and Cebu follow.
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Fred Sampson
Manila
Rapp Brush
Eighth Army
Negros
Philippine
Bacolod
Douglas MacArthur
Caballo
Manila Bay
MacArthur
Visayan
Visayas
Masbate
Bohol
Srush
Doughboys
Guimaras Strait
Guimaras Island
Panay
Bago River
Associated Press
Richard Bergholz
Cebu City
Manpower Act Hoped for By Barkley
Washington March 31 Majority Leader Barkley clung to hope for the manpower control bill as many Senate colleagues called it dead The administration pressed absent senators to return for a vote expected Monday or Tuesday Opponents anticipated further opposition from back home The measure would grant War Mobilizer James F Byrnes power to freeze workers, set employment ceilings and regulate hiring amid rapid Allied advances in Germany.
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Washington
Barkley
Senate
Morse
R-Ore
United States
Germany
House
James JF. Bytnes
Obituary of Mrs Mary Armanini Widow of David Armanini
Mrs Mary Armanini widow of David Armanini died at the home of her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs John Dubinsky on Maple Street Indiana She was born in Austria June 20 1877 and came to Indiana in 1922 She is survived by children Private Joseph Richard Armanini Corporal William M Armanini John P Armanini Mrs Inez Dukinsky and Mrs Stanley Bleda Also surviving from a former marriage are Private Henry Berisi and Tresa Berisi One brother Angelo Fina and ten grandchildren Friends may be received at Leydic Funeral Home after seven this evening Services will be at St Bernard Roman Catholic Church Monday morning April and at 9 00 a.m Reverend Father James Brady will officiate Interment at St Bernard Cemetery
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Mary Armanini
David Armanini
John Dubinsky
Maple Street
Indiana
Armanini
Austria
Joseph Richard Armanini
U. S. Medical Corps
France
William M. Arhanini
U.S. Army Air Corps
Greensboro
N. C
John P. Armatini
Beland
Florida
Inez Dukinsky
Stanley Bleda
Livermore
Henry Berisi
West Indies
Tresa Berisi
Italy
Angelo Fina
Leydic
1300 Bombers Hit Railway Targets Again
More than 1,300 Flying Fortresses and Liberators with 850 fighters attacked Brunswick, Bradenburg, and Halle railway yards and a Zeltz oil plant near Berlin, aiming to disrupt German rail hubs and war production. A second force of about 750 Lancasters and Halifaxes targeted Hamburg submarine yards, while Mosquitos bombed Berlin for the 43rd time in 89 nights. Losses included nine American bombers and three fighters as well as at least 46 German planes destroyed on the ground.
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London
Brunswick
Bradenburg
Halle
Zeltz
Brandenburg
Berlin
Blohn-Voss
Hamburg
Zeitz
Leipzig
Germany
Bremen
Wilhelmshavet
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