Third Army advances into central German plains in 1945 drive
Allied forces push through Kassel Suhl Gotha and Karlsruhe as Third Army reaches Thüringen plain 140 miles from Berlin and 88 from Czechoslovakia. British Canadian and American units close on Nijmegen Weser and Hannover with heavy fighting near the Ruhr and Nuernberg.
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Third
Thuringian
Germany
Middle Europe
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Karlsruhe
Baden
Rhine
Seventh Army
Black Forest
Nuernberg
Wuerzburg
Lower Franconio
Muenster
Osnabrueck
Fulda
Aschaffenburg
Sieen
Bruchsal
Isel
Gotha
Hamm
Wuerzbach
Engelo
Zutphen
North Gen
Eighth Army Near Vital Petroleum and Rubber Regions
Manila report says Eighth Army’s veterans close to key petroleum and rubber resources, with Tawitawi base seized and two airfields on Sangasanga captured with minimal opposition. MacArthur notes Seventh Fleet bombardments support a landing 200 miles southwest of Mindanao, threatening Jolo. Luzon gains include San Pablo and Legaspi progress, Cebu pillboxes cleared, and Panay nearing clear of enemy forces.
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Manila
Borneo
Eighth Army
Tawitawi
Sulu
Jena A. Doe
Sangasanga
Bongao Island
Douglas MacArthur
Seventh Fleet
Mindanao
MacArthur
Jolo
Doe
Biak
Wakde
New Guinea
Zamboanga
Sangeasanga
Luzon
14Th Corps
San Pablo
Laguna
Davao
Baguio
158Th
Legaspi
Bicol
Visays
Cebu
Lahog
Cebu City
Negros Island
Silay
Fabrica
Drumanuels
Panay
Okinawa Advance Puts Naha Within Striking Distance
Allied forces pressed south toward Naha Okinawa as American observers noted intermittent Japanese fire and a trench system near Machinato and Tanabaru. Maj. Gen. Geiger said the operation progressed rapidly with fresh map updates and a swift overrun of several towns. Nimitz reported negligible resistance as the campaign expanded along the west coast and into Nakagusuku bay, signaling a major invasion moving ahead with strong Marine involvement.
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Guam
Naha
Okinawa
Vern Haugland
Associated Press
Admiral Turner
Machinato
Tanabaru
James Lindsley
Marine Third Amphibious Corps
Roy
Geiger
Leatherneck
Ryukyu
77Th Infantry
Chester W. Nimitz
Roy S. Geiger
Japan
Wateway Peninsula
Archibald V. Arnold
Seventh Division
Nakagusuku Bay
Kuba
Nimitz
24Th Corps
John R. Hodge
Tald
Robbin Coons
Frontiers tighten as events loom in Italy and Asia
War brief reports from London Paris and Brussels say the Swiss Italian frontier will close today amid anticipated important events in northern Italy. In San Francisco Japan admits Okinawa has been cut in two and troops reach the east coast south of Awashi. Madrid bans German planes effective immediately severing Germany's last transport link with Spain amid nightly German mining.
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London
Paris
Brussels
Italy
San Francisco
Okinawa
Asia
Federal Communications Commission
Awashi
Spain
Madrid
Germany
Berlin
Commutation for Dr James Monroe Smith in Louisiana case
Baton Rouge Apr 4 Gov James H. Davis said the pardoned board recommended commuting the 8 to 24 year term for Dr James Monroe Smith to time served. The former LSU president remains in prison awaiting federal notification after a 1939 embezzlement and subsequent mail fraud and forgery convictions.
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Baton, Rouge
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana
James H. Davis
Smith
Louisiana State University
Canada
Red Army closes on Vienna from Bratislava front
Soviet forces seize Bratislava and press toward Vienna as Tolbukhin and Malinovsky advance from Bratislava and along the Leitha river. Rail and highway links to German lines are cut. Prisoners reach 23,000 with Austrian, Hungarian, and Slovak towns falling under Red control.
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Vienna
Wiener Neustadt
Bratislava
Europe
Feodor I
Tolbukhin
Neunkirchen
Gloggnitz
Vienna-Venice
Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
Italy
Semmering Pass
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Leitha
Baden
Velm
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Puanet
Slovakia
Prijevoz
Danube
Malinovsky
Moscow
Hungary
Neuendorf
Danzig
Vistula
Westerplatte
Krakau and
Heubude
Ees
Eighth Army Joins Landings in Italian Front
Rome reports Eighth army troops linked up after landings on both sides of the narrow strip between the Valli di Comacchio lagoon and the Adriatic. Prisoners exceed 200 with many total captured in the first days. Allied forces cleared south of the canal toward Po di Primare and pushed along the north shore near Lacascina. Much of the area north of the canal has been flooded.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Valli di Comacchio Lagoon
Adriatic Sea
Po di Primare
Lacascina
Argentina Rejoins Pan American Family After Signing
Mexico City April 4 UP Argentina rejoined the Pan American family by signing the Inter American conference acts. Argentine Charge d Affaires Adolf N Calvo signed at 12 20 p m CST in the presence of diplomats from 21 American republics. Ambassadors from Argentina Chile and Venezuela were absent.
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Mexico City
Argentina
Adolf N. Calvo
Calvo
Mexico
Ezequiel Padilla
Argentin
Chile
Venezuela
Hitler Mountain Hideout Captured by American Forces
The U.S. 80th Division seized a mountain retreat near Bad Nauheim known as Alderhorst at Zandenhim, a vast rock-hewn complex with a thousand air conditioned rooms used by Hitler and Nazi leaders for planning conquests. Field Marshal Kesselring was among late occupants. The facility featured three-mile corridors, steel doors, and terraces offering hidden air views.
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U.S
Germany
Hitler
France
Marshal von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Berchtesgaden
Alderhorst
Zandenhim
Bad Nauheim
Kesselring
von Rundstedt
Siegenhain
Hope For Clouds Hangs Over Orchardists And Gardeners
Orchardists flower lovers and gardeners hope tonight avoids a killing frost that could hurt fruit crops and blossoms. Lawrence recorded 30 degrees while Cameron Bluff hit 31. light frost risk remains for peaches pears plums cherries with apples more resilient. Rainfall was .69 inches. clouds and wind helped prevent frost damage though frost could later reveal impact on beets radishes and ferns.
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Lawrence
C. J. Posey
K.E.P
Cameron Bluff
R. H. Rogers
North Lawrence
Frost Will Kill Topeka Apr 4 Forcing Frost Damage
Weatherman S D Flora warned of a killing frost tonight across most of Kansas except the southeast. Apricots pears plums and early cherries face losses with possible wheat damage as temps fall to the low 20s and 30s in various regions. Snow fell in western and north central areas while many towns logged moisture but rivers remain unaffected.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Hutchinson
McPherson
Wamega
Concordia
Phillipsburge
Goodland
Dodge City
Wichita
Oketo
Blue Rapids
Hanover
Garden City
Coffeyville
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Nazis try to escape as allies hit Nazi transport in Yugoslavia
Rome dispatch says German columns struggle to flee northern Yugoslavia before Soviet advance into Austria and allied air forces in Italy destroy more enemy transport than since the Rome drive. In two days Mustang and Thunderbolt aircraft claim 200 motor transports 70 horse drawn vehicles and damage 350 motor vehicles and 53 locomotives aiding Tito's Yugoslav partisans. Flowers of Distinction Cal Allison-Thomas Flower Shop. Ph. 365.-Adv
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Rome
Yugoslavia
Austria
Iraly
Tito
Cal
Allison-Thomas Flower Shop
Lawrence teachers to gain 9 percent pay rise for 1945-46
Lawrence Kansas school board approved a 9 percent salary increase for principals, supervisors, and teachers for the 1945-46 term. The rise raises instructional budget by 31.71 percent since 1939-40, with prior annual increments noted. Supt. Clifford Dean highlighted the rise comes from a lower base than many second-class Kansas cities. The vote covered classroom staff, clerical workers, and a school nurse, with several names elected or re-elected to positions and notes of attendees at last night’s April meeting at Liberty Memorial High School.
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Kansas
Clifford D. Dean
Pup
Lawrence City
Board of Education
Liberty Memorial High School
Clifford Dean
Lawrence
Sue Cox
Hazel Riggs
Vesta White
Electa Kindlesperger
J. I. Perry
Sugar situation dire as war aids grim outlook
Washington reports a war time sugar shortage may be the most difficult of the conflict with Americans possibly receiving less than the British. War Food Administration official Olmstead outlined 1945 sugar needs per capita including 83 pounds for U S civilians and 86 pounds for the United Kingdom, with estimates not firm. He noted Britain could draw on storage to reach prewar stock levels and warned world meat demand and supply may balance a year after Europe ends, amid a 15 percent world deficit in meat.
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Washington
Senate
R. W. Olmstead
War Food Administration
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Olmstead
Midwest rapped for wanting boxcars in grain movement
ODT Director J Monroe Johnson told the Kansas City board of trade it was presumptuous to push for more freight cars for grain movement, noting such requests ignore other transportation needs including military use. A Kansas City meeting of grain interests from eight states urged 2,500 empty cars daily to western connections and a reallocation to address railroad dislocations.
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Washington
ODT
J. Monroe Johnson
Kansas City Board of Trade
Office of Defense Transportation
Board of Trade
Kansas City
Reed
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Iowa
Minnesota
Growers Plan POW Help for Potato Harvest in Lawrence
A meeting of Lawrence area potato growers is set for Friday April 8 at 8 pm in the Chamber of Commerce rooms to decide how many German prisoners of war are needed for the upcoming crop. Emil Heck of Kaw Valley Potato Growers chairs. a representative for the Small Company will attend. Public hearings on wage rates for POW workers will be held April 6 in the same room.
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Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
Emil Heck
Kaw | Valley Potato Growers
W. J. Small Company
Santa Fe
Columbus Foods Corporation
County Farm Ware Board
Frank Blecka
Manhattan
Indian corps advances into Taungup Burma in April update
Fifteenth Indian corps patrols have moved 42 miles south of their Burma landing, entering Taungup 65 miles west of Prome and northwest of Rangoon. Central Burma operations push to clear the Mandalay Meiktila pocket as 14th Army mop ups remaining resistance. Allied air forces damage bypass bridges at Letpadan and near Thanze, with rails and a road bridge also struck or damaged.
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Calcutta
Fifteenth Indian Corps
Burma
Taungup
Irrawaddy River
Prome
Bait
Rangoon
Southeast Asia Command
Mandalay-Meiktila
14Th Army
Letpadan
Thanze
Rangoon-Prome
Taikkyi
Ship Winter Jr Recovers In England From Wounds
Pfc Shipman Winter Jr is hospitalized in England recovering from wounds suffered in Germany on March 23. He was on a reconnaissance bridge patrol when a mortar shell exploded nearby. He was treated at a field hospital before being flown to England. Winter, with a combat engineer battalion in the 99th division, has been overseas since September and in front lines for five months.
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Pfc
Shipman Winter, Jr
England
Germany
Winter
Lawrence
99Th
First Army
School proposal approved by landslide margin
In District 60 a vote of 1069 to 181 authorized an $800,000 building fund mainly for junior high facilities and allowed a 5 mill levy to start a fund to back the total. Ward results listed, with all city and district offices filled without opposition. Mayor Russell re-elected 1070 votes. Council and school board winners totaled large vote counts, with Wagstaff leading school board candid�
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Pitth
C. B. Russell
F.C. Allen
Allen
Harald Emick
Sam Ferguson
Ferguson
W.C. Hunsinger
Hunsinger
Russell
Third
F. A. Russell
H. E. Eustace
A. W. Berger
Ralph Pine
C. J. Lane
E. E. Alexander
Alexander
Lane
Wagstaff
R. H. “Dick
Corlett Cotton
Deal Six
W. H. Quakenbush
W. A. Churchill
Vinson
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Ruhr
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Iims
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Holland
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Elhe
Ninth
Albert Kesselring
George S. Paton
Arnstadt
Leipzig
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William H. Simpson
Fifth
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Arnhem
Zuider Zee
Henry Crerar
Luxembourg
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Upper Rhine
Bielefeld
Detmold
Neumnberg
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Mildred LeSner
Dean
Louisiana University
REDS
Red Army
Stalin
Try
Greater Vienna
Valli di Comacchio
Hitler Mountain
The
Frost
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Air Force
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Achors
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Caris Mallory Shirley Arthur Matel Mallory
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Alildred Mast
Lowell E. Bailey
Bernice Nash
Alice Barnette
Mildred Newman
Dixie Barless
Loretta Norris
Edith Beach
Blanche
Alicea Bernhard Norris
Margaret Black
Helen Norwood
Laverne Tile
R. Cherie Brownlee
Faye Orelup
Lorraine Myrnice
Ott Buehler
Doris Parsons
Edwin_T. Burgess
Cecilia Pearson
Pearl Carpenter
Clea Perry
Perry
Attesa
Banat
Emily Store
Christy
Harold Preston
Gertrude Cooper
Helen Cornyeall
the Rayhill
Frieda Cowles
Lavon
Gertrude Coy
Reynolds
Cora, Davenport
Marel Richardson
Marjorie Hazel Datvson
Jean Rus Hiorence Deaver
Gertrude Ruttan
Irene DeYoung
Edyth
Myrna Dillon Salveseon
Muriel Helen Shaw Dougan
L. H. Emmett
Tyleen Engelson
Jeannette Singleton
Eleta Ernst
Jeanne Scott
William R. Hazel
Helen Gaw
Garvin C. Gillum
Irene Smith
Evelyn Graber
William B. Theodore J. Gray Sommerville
Iva Belle Harper
Mildred
Gertha Harner Stringham
Helen Hedrick
Celia Stuart
Gladys Six
Harriett Thzabeth Vern
Sumner Henderson
Welda Taylor
Lucile Hisey
Daisy
Louise Hough
Thompson
Ethel Hults
Ada Mae Tull
H.W. Jogsselyn
Charlotte
Helen Keene van Bebber
Edwin J. Logsdon
Alice VanBuskirk
Anne Lorimer
Carol Wat
Elizabeth George
Watson Luthi
Louisa Weese Frences
Dorothea McCleery Weingartner
Denis McDermond
Genevieve Weet
Rosemary Dorothy Wilson McDonoush
Nettie M, Wismer
Ruth Wood
Sarepta R. EL Wood
Ostrum Chalmer Woodard Thelma Hayter
Marie Woodruff
Lloyd Purcell
Lloyd Houston
F. C. Whipple
Dick Wagstaff
A. E. Woestemeyer
Churchill
Midwest
Growers’ Meeting
Indian Corps
East
Ship Winter, Jr
Fred M. Vinson
James F. Byrnes
Senate Finance Committee
George
J-Ga
Roosevelt
White House
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