German Tanks Shifted Toward Berlin Front
American Ninth Army tanks crossed the Elbe advancing across a flat plain toward Berlin, with reports they could reach the Brandenburg Gate by tomorrow night if Germans do not shift forces from the east. The Third and First Armies moved toward Leipzig and Naumburg, while British forces neared Hamburg and Bremen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Ninth Army
Elbe
Berlin
William H. Simpson
Brandenburg Gate
Leipzig
Saxony
Frederick the Reat
Halle
Leinzic
Weimar
Heilbronn
Essen
Coburg
Nordhausen
Schweinfurt
Halberstadt
Emmen
Neustadt
Kochum
Baden Baden
Rastatt
Germany
Patton
Bayreuth
Namburg
Celle
Rethen
Aller
Bremen
Ruhr
Holland
Helion Wheels
Magdeburg
Second Armored
Robert Bunson
Eribe
Nanelown
Third Army
Czechoslovakian
Red Army
Brunswick
Dortmund
Mweilbronn
Erfurt
Leinzie
Dresden
Gorn Ha
Theburn Wiant
Czechoslovakia
Bavarian Alps
Hitler
American Troops Cross Second Barrier at Santerno River
Eighth army troops press across a second German barrier at the Santerno river amid strong opposition. Allied forces also seize Carrara with the 442nd regiment, aided by Italian partisans, while RAF Liberators attack behind lines. Clark calls final battles for liberation of Italy underway and warns coordinated action not yet ready.
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Santerno River
Rome
Eighth Army
Santerno
Carrara
Tres
Senin
Eighth
Massa
Fifth Army
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Federal Communications Commission
Cotignola
Germany
R.A.F. Liberators
Lake Comacchio
Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Brod
Boxcar rush to move grain to midwest belts
Washington reports 1,400 boxcars daily to grain belts with a plan to add 300 more as the Office of Defense Transportation dates increased supply. Johnson tells Topeka representative Mayhew and Senate leaders that 30,000 rail workers serve in the armed forces and freight cars are short compared with World War I.
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Washington
ODT
J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation Today
John H. Mayhew
Topeka
Kan
Senator Capper
Mayhew
Middle Western
Association of American Railroads
Johnson
Kansas City
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Ben C. Larkin
North Dakota
Andrew Schneppel
Kansas
Minneapolis
Wichita
Omaha
St. Louis
Hutchom Enid
Fort Worth
Amarillonlan
Johnsons
Stepl
Slow Return of Miners To Coal Pits Began Today
Pittsburgh reports slow return to work as soft coal miners resume duties after April 1 contract. About 8,000 idle miners, 43 percent of Pennsylvania total, back in pits amid government action. Twenty two leading mines restarted as gradual reentry continues. In New York, two dead and 34 missing after a collision of tankers Nash bulk and St. Michel about 700 miles from New York. St. Michel suffered fire. ships returned to New York with one dead and Nessie Wereerway among St Michel crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
New York
Pothe War Shipping Administration
WSA
Nashbulk
St. Mikel
St. Michel
Josep
Nessie Wereerway
St Michel
Music Festival Draws 600 Students to KU Campus
More than 600 students from 40 high schools will participate in the district music festival on the University of Kansas campus tomorrow. Clifford DB. Dean, superintendent of the city schools, oversees the event for the state high school activities association with judges Qrvitte Barrhers, Orian Dalley, Schnutz, Willgus, Paul Paint of multiple towns.
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University of Kansas
Clifford DB
State High School Activities Association
Qrvitte Barrhers
Orian Dalley
Schnutz
Emport
Ion Willgus
Salina
Paul Paint
Chirago
Tax receipts lag as April deadline nears in Topeka
Kansas income tax officials report about 5,000 returns processed daily. March collections rose 22 percent from 1944, with individuals paying 1,200,745 dollars and corporations 1,740,000. Final payment extended to Monday midnight due to calendar. Cardinal Salotti wounded in Vatican City shooting incident reported briefly.
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Topeka
Kansas
Okinawa Battle Enters Eighth Day Amid Hefty United States Losses
Okinawa’s battle deepened as US casualties reached 2,695 for nine days, with 432 dead and 2,103 wounded. Japanese counterattacks north of Naha and near Motobu Peninsula pressed American lines while navy and air units backed ground operations. A Japanese effort to attack US shipping off Naha with small craft failed. 14 swimmers died. Occupation of Tsuen near Nakagusuku Bay ended with 150 Japanese dead and light American losses in securing the bay entrance.
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Guam
Okinawa
Navy
America
John R. Hodee
24Th Corps
Siegfried
Naha
Rey S. Geiger
Motobu
Associated Press
Vern Haugland
U. S
Nimitz
Iwo Jima
Saipan
Tsuen
Nakagusuku Bay
Fine Fleet
Allied Parachute Drops Reported Near Berlin City
War bulletins say allied parachute ramps were dropped near Tran denburg about 20 miles west of Berlin. Montgomery HQ reports Celle captured, a German gas training center, 20 miles northeast of Hannover, and thrust toward the Elbe. Patton reports close to Czechoslovakian border after crossing the Saale near Jena. SHAEF adjusts battle map to include Berlin and Leipzig. Chinese high command says Japanese seized Laohokaw, 200 miles from Hankow and 350 from Chungking.
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Paris
PKA
Trandenburg
Berlin
Montgomery
Celle
Hannover
Elbe River
Laohokaw
Chungking
U. S. 14Th Air Force Base
Hankow
High Command
U.S. War Casualty Total Near 899,390
Washington reports American combat casualties since Pearl Harbor at 899,390 with Army losses of 502,685 and Navy losses 96,705. Weekly rise was among the smallest in months. Army figures cover through March 31. breakdown shows killed 59,267 wounded 456,471 missing 86,648 prisoners 67,614. Navy: killed 87,402 and 36,649 wounded 44,424 and 42,988 missing 10,65 and 10,023, prisoners 4,254 and 4,266.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Stimson
Navy
Dan
Canning Sugar Applications Open in Douglas County
Douglas county war price and rationing office begins accepting 1945 canning sugar applications from April 15 to October the maximum allotment is 2 pounds per person this year 25 percent of the total allotment issued initially applications available at the county office in the Community building and at Baldwin State Bank Eudora Kmzaier's Globe and Fleming's in Lecompton A special counter will assist applicants and Mrs Nancy Hayes heads the program more details include household definitions and questions about prior sugar use and home canning yields
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Douglas County
George de Wetzel
State Bank
Baldwin
Kazmaier’s
Eudora
BE. A. Turner
Globe, ‘and Fleming's
Lecompton
Wetzel
State Office
Nancy ‘Hayes
Jads
Exploding Air Strikes Make Gains Across Luzon Front
Fifth Air Force Liberators hit a 14 car Japanese troop train near Manila and attacked Hong Kong decks and rail facilities on Hainan. United States forces report progress as MacArthur says organized Japanese resistance on Luzon is broken south of Ta, with Cavalry advancing 14 miles from Lucban to Sampaloc and maneuvers around Mauban and Villa Verde.
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Manila
Fifth Airforce
Philippine
Ind China
Mondas
Douglas MacArthur
Hong Kong
Victoria
Hainannd
Ching’ Sea
United States
14Th Corps
Lurgan
MacArthur
First Cavalry
Lucban
Sampaloc
Mauban
Jong
Villa Verde
Ries
Negros Island
San Isidro
Reds Punch Hole In Nazi Defense Near Vienna
Soviet forces, advancing from the south and east, punched a major hole west of Vienna and neared the Danube bend. Moscow dispatches claim Vienna's fall is imminent as German defenses crumble, with Soviet troops crossing the Danube canal and isolating parts of the capital.
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London
Feodor Tolbukhin
Vienna
Moscow
Berlin
Krems
Meik
Berchtesgaden
Bratislava
Jedst
Vienna-Bruna
Danube
Oder
Goeben
Kuestrin
Lasck
Koenigsberg
Tolbuchin
St. Polten
Melk
Linz
Bavaria
Adolf Hiter
Greater Reich
Lindenburg
Bryenn
Brno
Ivan 8
Malinaysky
Feodorf
Talbukhin
Czechoslovakia
Carpathian Mountains
Poland
Tolokhin
Danube Canal
Prater Park
Perry Carrier Retires After 39 Years Service
Benjamin F. White of Perry Kansas retires from mail duty after thirty nine years. He has traveled about 331695 miles since starting November 15 1905 when transport was by horse and buggy. He later bought a motorcycle in 1913 and a Model T Ford in 1916 and has since owned twenty other vehicles. He and his wife reside at Williamstown and operate a dairy while managing farm interests.
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Perry
Kan
Benjamin F. White
White
Williamstown
Allies Destroying the Luftwaffe in Six Days
London records show German plane losses rising to 989 as 11 American Thunderbolt crews strafed two Leipzig air fields, destroying 74 planes and damaging 18 more. In five days, enemy aircraft knocked out total to 915. RAF Typhoons hit Holland targets, igniting major fires, while British escorts attacked Nuernberg and Bayreuth with U.S. fighters.
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Guam
Tokyo
Kariyama
Honshu Island
Marianas
Nakajima Musashino
Joseph Currier
Lincoln Maine
Musashino
Honshu
Koriyama
Wentieth Airforce
Washington
Iwo Jima
Ito
Macina
London
Thunderbolt
Leipzig
Holland
U. S
First Tactical Air Force
Nuernberg
Hayreuth
Jury Panel Drawn for Douglas County May Term Court
Sheriff Rody Skinner and county officials selected 31 jurors for the May term of Douglas County District Court. The term opens May 7 with jurors reporting May 14. Names include Farr Torneden, David Harrimans, Emil Heck Jr., Walter Stauffer, and many others across Lawrence Baldwin and nearby routes and towns.
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Rody Skinner
T. R. Gerhart
Leroy Harris
C. J. Lane
Douglas County District Court
Farr A. ‘Torneden
Vermont
David Harrimans
Kentucky Street
Orlay Olmeted
Alabama Street
Fred Walker
Overbrook
Emil W. Heck
Lawrence
Escaped Fort Leavenworth prisoners traced east toward Nemaha County
Two of five escapees from Fort Leavenworth were reportedly heading toward the Nemaha county line in a stolen car observed after locals identified them from photos. The men, Clifford Meeks and Pat Hardensen, intoxicated and seeking Georgia, were seen near Zeandale and later Marysville, with authorities tracking a widening manhunt as the others remained at large.
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Manhattan
Clint Bolte
Fort Leavenworth
Nemaha County
Hole
Lester Henton
Zeandale
Bolte
Henton
Clifford
Meeks
Atlanta
Pat L. Hardensen
Thomaston
Georgia
Axtell
Balte
Downs
Kan
Fort Leaverwworth
Mitchell County
Wargoner
Lincoin Park
Quk Creek
Galen. Tenpenny
Williamstown
Douglas county Sets Seventh War Loan Quota at 2 204 000
Douglas county announces a Seventh War Loan quota of 2 204 000 to run May 14 to June 40 with E bonds billed at 1 085 000, E and F bonds at 510 000, and other bonds at 509 600. County leaders note higher individual bond targets, lower corporate totals, and pledge strong local effort to reach the goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
W. Laird Dean
Kansas War Finance Committee
Topeka
Irving Hill
Douglas County War Finance Committee
Genree Hedrick
Bond Drive
Chamber of Commerce
Federal Reserve Bank
Thad
Weather notes from Topeka on unsettled conditions
Topeka reports the Marais des Cranes River receding but still dangerous. A flood crest near 25.3 feet at Quenevin, with no overflow expected down to the Missouri River border. forecaster Flora notes a moderate rise possible and more showers tomorrow. Local rainfall totals include Kansas City 0.28, St. Joseph 0.34, Topeka 0.26, with mild temperatures and no frost expected tonight.
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Topeka
Marais Des Cranes Tiver
Flora
Quenevin
Missouri-Kansas
Colorado
Sterday
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Wamega
Wichita CT
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Leingig
Marianas Base
Vatican City
Carlo Cardinal Salotti
Congrece Ren Fy Tos
Es Expmd
Ohe
George S. Patton
Saale River
Jena
P—Supreme Headquarters
Indo-China
Allison-Thomas Flower Shop
Krems and
Bruenn Highway
Volkssturm
Austria
Perry Carrier
The
H. W. Sherman
One
Walter Stauffer
Reymond McAshe
Johnson Street
Thomas Grossman
Foul Cirith
G. A. Drey
Lerompton
A. E. Hi
Ickers
West Elevenths
Carl Gibson
Mississippi Street
Walter Gehrle
Robert M. Jenkins
Massachusetts Street
F. H Penner
Connecticut Street
Eben H. Ross
L. C. Armstrong
Dave Wray
Baliwin
John W. Daggatt
R.A. Parker
Indiana Street
J. Br.harris
Mississipni
JE. T. Gardner
Massachusetts
A. F. Stanley
Harry Natamore
Charles Elwell
Ohio Street
JM. Stone
K. Davis
Wellsville
Enyart
Baldwin City
Charles Burr
Peckentt Underwood
Joe Brooks
A. Shue
Locust Street
Clarence Pine
Prence
Ioute
Clarkson
Acky Street
Nehema County
Hoise
Dean
Treasury
Maras Des Cygnes
Coffarvill
Tomortory
Phillipsburg
Dodge City
Gore
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