Yanks Crash Into Burning Hannover Stronghold
Allied forces close on Hanover and the Ruhr region as Ninth and First Armies advance toward Berlin and to within reach of the Czechoslovak frontier. German defenses collapse in key Ruhr cities while other armies press toward the North Sea and Elbe corridors. More than 25,000 prisoners taken as Ruhr pocket tightens.
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Paris
Ninth Army
Hannover
Berlin
First Army
Harz
Elbe River
Nordhausen
Third
Erfurt
Leipzig
Coburg
Courtney H. Hodge
Germany
Siere
Haz Mountains
Ruhr
Orth
Skinnover
Hamburg
Lator
Bremen
Ereis
Thuringian Plain
Third Army
Northeim
Courtney H. Hodges
Harz Mountains
Supreme Headquarters
Holland
Montgomery
North Sea
Dollart Bay
Emdem
Netherlands
Gelsenkirchen
Essen
Siegburg
Bonn
Olpe
Robberrode
Liberated POWs Names to be Released to News Media
The War Department announced immediate release of names and serial numbers of American prisoners of war liberated by Allied forces in Germany. Official notification will continue, but families may first hear via newspapers or radio reports based on reliable American sources. The department will coordinate rapid contact between soldiers and families once overseas word arrives.
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Washington
Art
War Department
Germany
Kip
Department
Deartment
Adjutant General's Office
British Start Assault to Crush German Strength in Italy
British Eighth Army leads a major offensive across the Senio River with heavy Allied air support. U.S. 15th and 12th Air Forces and RAF pound German defenses while bridgeheads form near Lugo. MASSA actions include the 442nd Regiment seizing Atangnan as U.S. and British forces press toward northern Italy’s key crossings.
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Italy
Rome
Eighth Army
Senio
Germany
U. S. 15Th Air Force
U.S. 12Th Air Force
R.A.F
Santerne
Lugo
Apennines
Albert Kesselring
Mans
Friedrich von Vietinghoff
Cassino
U. S
15Th
Fifth Army
Massa
Revannea
Marne
Record Air Force Hits German Airfields Near Berlin
U S Eighth Air Force daylight raids hit seven airfields around Berlin including Larz Burg Briest Neuruppin Zerbst and Parchim plus Oranienburg and the Rechlin area. More than 2 150 bombers and fighters struck for a fourth day in a major offensive tied to a Rhine airfield campaign. The raids destroyed at least 245 German planes and claimed 360 enemy aircraft destroyed in four days. Allied pressure also disrupted the German U-boat effort as pilots spotted hidden aircraft along highways near Munich.
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London
Berlin
R.A.F
Germany
Kiel
North Sea
Larz
Burg
Briest
Neuruppin
Zerbst
Parchim
Oranienburge
Rechlin
U. S
Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
Eighth Air Force
Munich
Battle for Okinawa Heaviest Pacific duel unfolds near Naha
On Okinawa southern front Japanese defenders resist with bayonet assaults as U S Maj Gen John R Hodge 24th Army Corps gains small advances near Naha while Maj Gen Roy St Geiger's Third Marine Amphibious Corps advances northward sweeping to cut the Motobu peninsula and overrun Katena Ko. Nimitz reports scattered opposition as artillery duels rage and Marines press a decisive advance with heavy ships supporting. It may take two to three months to capture Okinawa, the last obstacle before Iwo Jima, dating the fierce campaign.
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Guam
Okinawa
John R. Hodge
U. S. Army Corps
Naha
Roy St. Geiger
Third
Marine Amphibious Corps
Motobu Peninsula
Katena Ko
Chester W. Nimitz
Redhill
Associated Press
Robbin Coans
No Jima
Truman casts vote to thwart Taft lend-lease amendment
Washington April 10 Vice President Truman broke a 39 10 39 senate tie to defeat Taft amendment stripping postwar foreign liquidation of American supplies from the lend lease bill. He announced his opposition in a loud voice as the tie decision stood. Topeka April 10 Walter FE Wilson Kansas treasurer 63 took a turn for worse with pneumonia complicating his condition. He remains at Stormont hospital after cerebral thrombosis.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Wilson
Topeka
Walter FE. Wilson
Kansas
C. K. Schaffer
Winn
Stormont Hospital
No War Criminal Sanctuary in Neutral Eire Declared
London April 10 Prime Minister Churchill indicated that no war criminals would find sanctuary in neutral Ireland. The Commons heard that Wales’s Dr James Little asked if Britain would prevent sanctuary in any Commonwealth country. Churchill replied Yes sir. Meanwhile Washington April 10 the American Light and Traction Company sought federal permission to build and run a 1 216 mile natural gas pipeline from Oklahoma to Detroit at an estimated cost of 70 million dollars.
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London
Churehiil
Eire
Commons
James Little
Belfast
Washington
The
American Light and Traction Comany
Federal Power Compiseroy
Oklahoma
Sgievel Troit
Russians Seek to Link With Allies in Vienna Breakthrough
Soviet forces push toward Linz and Munich as Vienna center falls under encirclement. Koenigsberg captured after a 33 hour barrage. Tolbukhin and Malinovsky’s armies drive west of Vienna, breaching Ringstrasse and seizing key buildings while German resistance remains stubborn and scattered. only about 1,000 Nazis surrender.
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London
Vienna
Munich
Prague
Moscow
Baltic
Koenigsberg
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Linz
Tolbukhin
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Danube
Nitrsdorf
Tulln
Berlin
Prater
Danube Canal
Ringtrasse
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Aspern
Malinovsky
Flordisdorf
Jedlersee
Bruenn
Unsettled Kansas Weather Aims For Showers And Winds
Topeka reports unsettled weather with showers and 33 mph winds expected across eastern Kansas. Temperatures ranged from 48 to 70 statewide with highs 68 to 80 and mild overnight lows. In Phillipsburg a high reading of 51 tied the state's record so far this year as jurist Judge Hugh Means and court reporter Mrs. Ethel High plan to travel to Ottawa tomorrow for Franklin County district court cases.
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Topeka
Kansas
Phillipsburg
Flora
Middlewest
Goddland
Ottawa
Hugh Means
Ethel High
Franklin County District Court
Organized war near end in Germany
Hamelin Apr 10 A junction between British American and Russian forces may mark the moment to declare organized warfare with Germany at an end. German troops face surrender or continued fighting as guerrilla resisters, with morale low and organized fronts unlikely on the western front. Front line fighters believe a few armored divisions could reach Germany quickly.
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Hamelin
Germany
France
Fuehrer
Ruhr
Elbe
Berlin
Sunflower Ordnance Works Wins Second Army Navy Award
Sunflower Ordnance Works in Lawrence Kansas has earned a second Army-Navy Production Award adding a white star to its E flag. The plant’s continued high production standard is praised by Under-Secretary of War Robert Patterson and Hercules Powder Company officials. A smaller ceremony is planned within three weeks to mark the renewal.
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Sunflower Ordnance Works
Army
Navy
Robert P. Patterson
Sunflower
Patterson
Charles A. Higgins
Hercules Powder Company
Donald R. Hyde
Harry Chase
Hercules
Clark H. Woodward
Clyde Reed
Errett Scrivner
Lawrence
Douglas County
Kansas
T Ar
Army-Navy
Chase
War Department
Washington, D. C
Emflowers
Hercules Poweer Company
Army- Navy
Gruss H. V. Chase
Nine Men Left Today for Leavenworth for Induction
Nine white men departed Lawrence this morning for Fort Leavenworth to be inducted into the U S armed forces. The group includes James Reynolds Shepard of 433 Ohio Street Harry Lester Christian Route 2 Overbrook George Joseph Eichelmeyer of Eudora Fred Emil Pardee of 13 Rhode Island Street Edgar Maxwell Miner 2171 West Eleventh Street Charles Connelly of Haskell Institute Richard Calvin Miller 602 Elm Street Richard Griffin Sturz of Topeka and Jerry John Everett of Sunflower.
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Lawrence
Fort Leavenworth
United States
James Reynolds Shepard
Ohiotreet
Harry Lester Christian
Route 2
Overbrook
George Joseph Eichelmeyer
Eudora
Fred Emil Pardee
Rhode Island Street
Edgar Maxwell Miner
West Eleventh Street
Charles Connelly
Haskell Institute
Richard Calvin Miller
Elm Street
Richard Griffin Sturz
Topeka
Jerry John Everett
Sunflower
Five escapees terrorize Kansas home in overnight caper
Five escaped U S Disciplinary Barracks prisoners overpowered a guard at Leavenworth and kidnapped a laundry truck driver before fleeing in the Weeks family Ford near Lawrence. They bound Mr and Mrs Lyle Weeks and James McCaffery in their farm home three miles north of the Lawrence airport, cooked a meal, and left with ration books gas coupons and a ring. Suspects identified as Richard R Gontbert Donald Hass Pat L Hardmen Clifford J Meek and Lewis C S
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U. S
Leavenworth
Lyle Weeks
Lawrence
William Wurgler
Ft. Leavenworth
Rody Skinner
Williamstown
Pete Tenpenny
Wurgler
Grand Avenue
James McCaffery
McCaffery
Skinner
Mr. McCaffery
Prionners
Richard R. Gontbert
Virzh
Donald Hass
Ash
Pat L. Hardmen
Aaston
Clifford J. Meek
Atlanta
Lewis C
Lauderdale
Fla
Additional call for 18 white men to report for induction
The Douglas County selective service office received an additional call for two white men for induction on Monday April 23 from state headquarters in Topeka this morning. The local office already listed 11 men for that date, making a total of 18 white men from the county slated for induction on April 23.
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Douglas County
Selective Service Office
Armed Forces
Topeka
Violin Recital by Joseph Knitzer Tonight at Fraser Theater
Violinist Joseph Knitzer performs at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater as part of Kansas University music week for the Young American Artist program. The program features Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin, Ravel Tzigane, and Chopin Nocturne in G sharp minor.
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Joseph Knitzer
Fraser Theater
Knitzer
K. U
Music Week
Debussy
Ravel
Chopin
Togo plans bold wartime diplomacy for Japan
San Francisco dispatch reports Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo will lead Japan's wartime diplomacy boldly and vigorously. He vows to abandon destruction for reconstruction and form a universal alliance based on reciprocity, while criticizing America and Britain as hindrances to humanity. The cabinet return follows tense Soviet-Russian shifts and questions on peace in the east.
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San Francisco
Japan
Shigenori Togo
Domei
Togo
Pearl Harbor
Federal Communications Commission
America
England
Foreign Ministry
Soviet
Russia
The
Asahi
Boxcar Shortage Sparks Midwestern Grain Meeting
Kansas Gov Schoeppel leads a multi state gathering of grain producers and millers in Kansas City urging more boxcars to move wheat and corn. Officials cite rail shortages and urgent military needs while senators and rail executives debate allocations and national impact.
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Kansas City
Andrew Schoepnel
Kansas
Schoeppel
Kansas City Board of Trade
Washington
Walter Scott
Board of Trade
Midwest
West
Scott
Reed
R-Kan
Southwest
Johnson
J. Monroe Johnson
The
ONT
Jess B. Smith
Associated Millers of Kansas Wheat
Andrew Schoeppel
Missouri
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Montana
Minnesota
Towa
Senate
Brian
Schoeppe
Middle West
Topeka
Middle Western
City plans review urged for Lawrence redevelopment
City council discussed updating the 1930 Hare and Hare plan with possible school board participation. Ivan D. Rowe proposed a $1,500 revision including school facilities, noting traffic and aviation changes since 1930. Mayor urged a special meeting to consider the proposal amid Civic Action Council momentum.
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Ivan D. Rowe
City Planning Board
Hare & Hare
Kansas City
Lawrence
C. B. Russell
Rowe
Hara
Douglas County
City of
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
University of Kansas School of Engineering
George ©. Shaad
Charles Louk
Kansas State Planning Board
Civic Action Council
Stock Market Index Edges Higher with 60 Stocks Up
The stock market index for 60 stocks rose to 61.0 from 60.6 yesterday, signaling a modest gain across key shares. Investors watched broad movements and noted limited trading activity as markets awaited further corporate updates.
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Via
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Red Forces
Batile Nazis
East Prussian
Robert F. Patterson
Allison-Thomas Flower Shop
Funks Mortuary
Forlance
Assoc
K. C
Planning Board
Canvass Poll Books
Oak Hill
Maple Grove
Tha
J. C. Harper
Oak Hill Cemetery
Wakarusa
Water Department
Hugh Hines
Harold Hurd
O. J. Lane
Paul Ingels
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