Russia Denounces Japan Pact Lost Meaning in Note
London April 5 Soviets denounce the 1941 Soviet Japan neutrality pact saying it has lost its meaning as Germany fights the U S and Britain. Molotov handed Tokyo’s ambassador a note pledging Russia’s stance and signaling no clear future policy. Disputes over borders and fishing rights accompanied the move and San Francisco conference looms.
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Vyacheslav Molotov
Russia
San Francisco
Soviet Union
Japan
Germany
U. S
Moscow “Radio
Rusti
United States
Great Britain
U.S. A
Moscow
Naotake Sato
Marshal Stalin
Stalin
Tehrah
Churchill
Roosevelt
Okinawa Island Defenses Tense As U S Forces Push Naha Coast
Marine and army units on Okinawa pressed toward Naha and Machinato airstrip amid stiff Japanese resistance. The 24th and 34th corps made limited gains as artillery and air power concentrated on southern defenses. Geiger warned of tougher fighting when southern troops meet Japanese forces near the airfield, while Sherman’s task force bombed the Amani islands to disrupt home-front attacks.
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Okinawa
Naha
Tth
24Th Corps
Machinato
Nakagusuku
Marine Third Amphibious Corps
Roy S. Geiger
Ryukyu
Pacific
Associated Press
Robbin Coons
Archibald V. Arnold
Seventh
Geiger
Katchin
Nakagusuku Harbor
Frederick C. Sherman
Amani
Ryukyu Islands
Coal rationing urges immediate coal orders amid war casualties
Washington reports total army and navy casualties since the war began at 892,909 with a 20,047 rise from last week. Navy losses total 94,526 and army losses 798,383. Japanese casualties in the Philippines exceed 311,000 while U.S. deaths reach 36,981. Eastern states begin coal rationing April 1. consumers must file declarations and limit purchases to 80 percent of prior year usage. Citizens in the Midwest urged to stockpile to avoid shortages and maintain steady mine operation through spring and summer.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Stimson
Philippines
U. S
United States
Middle-West
Mississippi River
Lawrence
Black market meat talks at Senate hearings prompt warning
Senator Wheeler warns of widespread meat black market as OPA plans on scene checks. He cites reports of red ration points sold in New York at six dollars per thousand. Chairman Thomas notes 90 percent of meat sold there may be black market amid shortage. House investigators prepare on site probe while experts question cattle figures and beef supply. A San Francisco broadcast warns of an imminent allied invasion of Japan as Okinawa operations loom.
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New York City
Senate
Wheeler
House
Senator Wheely
Neb
OPA
Bushfield
R-S-D
Montanan
Carl H. Wilken
Sioux City
United States
War Food Administration
Wilken
Grain Men Called to Discuss Box Car Situation
Kansas City April 5 GPA meeting of farmers grain men and milling representatives from the middle west is set for 10 o clock next Tuesday morning in Kansas Citys municipal auditorium to address grain transportation. Walter R Scott secretary of the Kansas City board of trade said Gov Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas will invite governors of Missouri Colorado Oklahoma Texas Nebraska Iowa Minnesota South Dakota North Dakota and Montana to the session. Presidents of railroads serving the area are also being invited. The gathering follows J Monroe Johnsons remarks calling the board re commendations for more freight cars to move midwestern grain presumptive. E R Jessen president of the board said he was surprised by Johnsons reply. You probably have several pieces of unused furniture and many good items of discarded wearing apparel which someone would like to have. Why not sell them thru classified Phone 22
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Kansas City
Middle West
Walter R. Scott
Kansas City Board of Trade
Andrew Schoeppel
Kansas
Missouri
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Kansas City Board
E. R. Jessen
Johnson
Nazis In Retreat From North Front Seizes Near Nuernberg Drive
Allied forces continue a sweeping advance across Germany as Seventh Army closes within 34 miles of Nuernberg while Third Army presses toward Leipzig and Nordhausen. Patton’s Sixth Armored moves into Muelhausen. Weser fronts widen as Ruhr offensives push Germans eastward. Heavy prisoner captures climb past 29,000 with multiple towns falling.
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Third
Berlin
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Weser
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Elbe
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Third Army
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Nordhausen
Muehlberg
Gotha
Czecho-Slovakia
Germany
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Ruhr
North Sea
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Thuringian
Jena
Napoleon
Middle Europe
Seventh
Nuernberg
Reich
Stuttgart
Black Forest
Siegfried Line
Brunswick
Thuringia
Rhine
Ninth Army
Muenster
Osnabrueck
Outright surrender by Nazis unlikely
Washington April 5 General Dwight D Eisenhower informed President Roosevelt that a clean cut military surrender of the Nazi forces is unlikely. He warned the Western Front would face extensive guerrilla warfare as fragments fight on until surrounded possibly across areas where paratrooper panzer and SS units remain, necessitating large troop deployments to suppress.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Roosevelt
White House
Europe
Eisenhower
Jap cabinet resigns as war crisis deepens in Tokyo
Tokyo reports General Koiso’s cabinet resigns with Emperor Hirohito selecting Admiral Kantaro Suzuki to form a new government. Suzuki, age 75, previous privy council head and former moderate statesman, is tasked to lead a more powerful administration amid Okinawa invasion and mounting Allied advances.
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LMI
Kuniaki Koiso
Hirohito
Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Privy Council
Tokyo
Jesso
Okinawa
Domei Agency
Suzuki
Japan
United States
Board of Information Announcement
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Domei
Imperial Palace
The
Tiger
Gen
Hideki Tojo
Kwantung
Tojo
Kwantung Army
Manchuria
League of Nations
South Seas
Britain
Korea
Nippon
Noise
Jiro Minami
Minami
Reds Battle to Surround Vienna in Danube Push
Russian forces fight into greater Vienna as they pour over the Danube between Bratislava and the Austrian capital. Two secondary airfields east of Baden and near Schwechat are captured, with Zwoelfaxing under fire. Germans defend key lines along the Lissing and Morava valleys as tank battles erupt in Vienna’s suburbs.
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Vienna
Moscow
Danube
Bratislava
Austria
Hitler
Germany
Baden
Schwechat
One
Budapest
Wierbach
Rodion Malinovsky
Feodor Totbukhin
Lissing
Deer Park
Zwoelfaxing
St. Poelten
Linz
Paris
Vienna-Linz
Berlin
Bruck
Slovakia
Winter Storm Hits Midwest Widespread Frosts Hurt Crops
A Midwest winter storm brings snow from the upper Mississippi valley to the Great Lakes, with 4 to 12 inch depths and unofficial totals up to 17 inches in southern Minnesota. Temperatures range from the single digits to the 20s, with freezing in Illinois and Indiana, and above freezing in Michigan. Orchardists face bud damage in Kansas and Missouri as the cold spreads to Texas and New Mexico. a medical notice fragment about Dr Lindenberger appears among the weather text.
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Chicago Weather Bureau
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Minnesota
Mason City
Rochester
Minn
Weather Bureau
Dakotas
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Iilionis
Indiana
Texas
New Mexico
Panhandle
Missouri
Ohio Valley
Kansas
Midwest
Russia expected to fight Japan as war nears entry
Washington reports Russia denounces its neutrality treaty with Japan, signaling possible Soviet entry into the Pacific war. Officials say formal notice to the United States was not given, though the move aligns with the view that Japan is no longer neutral. Senators Taft and committee chairman view the move as indicating hostilities may follow.
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Washington
Russia
Japan
United States
State Department
Moscow
Thomas
Utah
Senate Military Committee
Taft
Ohio
Manchuria
Seven new Cham ber of Commerce directors named
Ballots counted by a committee of seven retiring directors elected seven new members for a three year term. Recipients are The Rev Alfred J. Beil Wilmer G Beougher Lisle Eby Phil Ernst Jr Dean J O Jones Joseph G Quigley and Joseph Wilson. They meet at a noon luncheon April 11 at the Eldridge Hotel with 14 continuing directors for officer elections.
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Chamber of Commerce
Fred J. Beil
Wilmer G. Beougher
Lisle Eby
Phil Ernst
Dean J. O. Jones
Joseph G. Quigley
Joseph Wilson
Eldridge
Roger Allen
Solon G. Ayers
C. B. Case
Harold Chamney
R. S. Fox
Edwin A. Fritz
M. J. Getto
Kelvin Hoover
George J. Kirchhoff, Jr
Chris Kraft
C. W. Pollom
Deal Six
Prof
J. W. Twente
M. S. Winter
Walter Keeler
I. J. Meade
J. H. Parsons
A, Eb, Woestemeyer
Kares Walter Anderson
Ediam
Massive RAF Assault Hits German Depots and Rail Hubs
Attacks on April 1 target Ingolstadt and Grafenwohr depots in southern Germany, plus rail hubs at Nuremberg Bayreuth and Plauen. Bombers with 600 Mustang and Thunderbolt escorts strike Unter-Schlaudersbach airfield as Mosquitoes hit Berlin. RAF raids, aimed at reducing gasoline and synthetic oil outputs, press on with heavy losses to German supply lines.
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London
Munich
Nuernberg
Germany
Ingolstadt
Graferwohr
Bayreuth
Plauen
Leipzig
Hamburg
Air Ministry
Walter Houk Killed in Action in World War II
Walter Houk age 27, son of Charles and Mrs Houk of Stull, was killed in action February 8. He enlisted March 4, 1944, served overseas since September, and had been missing in action for about two months before his death. He graduated from Lawrence Memorial High School in 1935. His wife and two children reside in Stull, with two sisters living in Lawrence.
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Pfo
Walter Houk
Charles Houk
Stull
Evelyn Confer
Richard Schellhorn
Lawrence
Hook
Lawrence Memorial High School
Frost damages guessed as growers await fruit loss totals
Frost blanketed Kansas with temperatures of 29 and 25 degrees, sparking a guessing contest among apple growers, gardeners, and orchardists on possible damage. Experts cite moonlight and uncertain outcomes, with apples likely little harmed and peaches, pears, plums, and cherries potentially more affected. full assessment awaits later reports.
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Lawrence
State of
Kansas
Severe Kansas freeze injures early crops across state
A killing frost swept Kansas last night damaging early vegetation and fruit crops. Weatherman S. D. Flora warned several days are needed to confirm the extent. Lowest readings ranged from Goodland 18 to Coffeyville, Wichita, Kansas City 20, Topeka 29 with predictions of 32 to 35 in the southeast tonight. Wyandotte fruit crop escaped major damage while Johnson County saw frost on water but hardy blooms recovered. many plants may recover, though tender ones remain uncertain.
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Kansas
S. D. Flora
Kansas City
Fort Worth
Tex
Ozark Fruit Belt
Missouri
Mercury
Dodge City
Wyandotte
Fred West
Johnson County
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