Reds Smash to Frontier in Danube Valley Push
Soviet forces break German defenses in western Hungary and advance toward the Austrian border. Stalin reports captures of Kapuvar Szombathely and Gyor while tanks and armored units press along the Danube toward Bratislava. Troops under Malinovsky move toward Bratslava from Gyor.
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LONDON
Red army
mech
Hungary
Danube
Marshal Stalin
Kruseg
Vienna
Kapuvar
Csorna
Bratislava
Szomi
thely
Koszeg
Graz
Segesizea
Italy
bie Siclin
Feodor Tolbuthin
sra
smasc
Pambazen
St. Johann
Moson
Wieselburg
Moscow
Austria
Gyor
Komarom
Bears and salmon clash in Squamish area report
A 1944 Dominion Fisheries report from British Columbia notes a good year for bears and a hard year for spawning salmon in the Squamish Area. Bears, including Brown and Black bears, prey on salmon as streams run low, leaving banks littered with eggs and carcasses. The inspector cites wolves and local trapping information, warning conditions vary across the province.
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British Columbia
Dominion Department of Fisheries
Squamish
fallovet
Brum
Squamzsn
Fraser
Bridge River
Pemberton
ENGLAND
Time Magazine
Italy
Douglas Hamilton
Britain’s V Day Plans Told in Early Draft Note
Britain outlines tentative V Day plans with a radio announcement by the Prime Minister when hostilities end. A national holiday will be declared the following day for celebratory services and church observances.
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LONDON
Britain
Germany
Kang
Fifty Bills Get Assent in Alberta Legislature
Edmonton March 29 Fifty bills received Royal assent from Lt Gov J C Bowen as the Alberta Assembly adjourned at six and will reconvene Tuesday. Acts include charter amendments for Calgary Medicine Hat and Edmonton the National Housing Loans Act Alberta and a funding agreement with Oil Sands Limited for a 250000 oil extraction pilot plant at Bitumont. The Housing Act aims to ease National Housing Act loans while revising sections of several provincial statutes. A committee of the whole rejected a two weeks holiday for coal miners after one year, with cabinet minister A J Hooke the sole supporter.
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EDMONTON
J. C. Bowen
Alberta
Calgary
Medicine Hat
National Housing Loans Act
CAlberta
Oil Sands, Limited
Bitumont
am northern
Vendors’ and Miorgagees
Gordon E Taylor
SC— Drumheller
A J Hooke
No Herald On Friday
Friday March 30 is Good Friday and a statutory holiday so The Herald will not publish Any important world or local news will be bulletined
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The
Herald
Okinawa Bombarded as U S Forces Land Pursuit in Cebu City
U S naval guns pummeled Okinawa for the sixth day as air raids intensified and Japan claimed U S landings at Kerama with a fleet of transports. Nimitz reported some ships damaged while announcing heavy carrier and battleship losses. In the Philippines U S troops pressed into Cebu city after the fall of Danao Beachhead, fighting amid scorched earth damage but with the harbor area largely intact.
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GUAM
Oknawa
Namitz
ftadio Tokyo
U.S
Kerama
Okinawa
Nimitz
Kyushu
island
Ryukyu
CEBU CITY
Philippines
United States
dgland
Da ama
Mania
Hour of success foreseen in Churchill letter
Prime Minister Churchill declared the hour of success near in a letter endorsing Liberal candidate Ronald M. Munro in a Scottish university seat by election. He urged unity and continued effort to reap rewards of victory for country empire and civilization.
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ONDON
C.P
Churchill
Ronald M. Munro
Farm workers to be moved to boost harvests in Canada
Labor Minister Mitchell said in the commons no stone would be left unturned to supply farm workers this year. Temporary permit holders must return by April 1 or province deadline, and selective service may direct men 16 to 65 to farm work. Workers could shift between farms and provinces, with harvesters and equipment crossing the border from the United States. Some Newfoundland recruits may work in the Maritimes. prisoners of war may be used more in agriculture. Returning men on rotation leave would be eligible to work on farms.
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OTTAWA
Labor
Mitchell
Selective service
United States
Newfoundland
Maritimes
Mine Workers Endorse Lewis and Threaten Strike
Washington March 23 The United Mine Workers voted overwhelmingly to back John L. Lewis and authorize a wartime strike if he deems it necessary. Early tallies from the National Labor Relations Board show 31,287 in favor and 8,943 against among about 400,000 soft coal workers polled. Broadcasters in London March 29 admitted Hitler’s cause seemed lost and shifted to claiming stiffening resistance along the western front.
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WASHINGTON
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
National Labor Relations Board
HITLER
LONDON
War nearly over says Matt Halton
London dispatch cites CBC correspondent Matthew Halton remarking the war may be near end. He states he does not declare victory yet but believes fighting could cease by May 1, noting Germans may still resist.
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MATT HALTON
LONDON
Germany
Matthew Halton
CBC
Hitler to Speak in London Aimed at War Time Shifts
March 29. The Evening Standard Lisbon correspondent reports that Hitler will deliver an important speech in the coming days. Quoting Argentine diplomats aboard the Drottningholm, sources say the speech will be unusual as Germany had hoped Japan would seek peace first. The Wehrmacht believed they had not lost the war, but Allied actions let them down.
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OTTAWA
J H. King
senate
Germany
Journal
LONDON
Reuters
The
Evening Standard
Lisbon
Hitler
Drottmmugholm
Japan
Wehrmacht
Easter holiday closures in Alberta government offices
Alberta government offices will be closed from Friday until Tuesday morning for the Easter weekend. Provincial services will observe the long weekend, while Alberta liquor control board stores remain open Saturday and Monday.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
Alberta hauer control board
Security conference Backing Passes Commons Vote
Canadian Commons approves government aims at San Francisco security conference after seven days of debate. Mackenzie King closes security debate, warning of postwar peace difficulties. Resolution for San Francisco delegation and conference goals passes 202 to 5 with five dissenters from Quebec Independent group.
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PRANE
FLAHERTY
OTTAWA
house of commons
San Francisco
rooney
KING
Mackenzie King
Canada
2round peace organization
Quebec
Biec Populaire
Frederic Dorion
Charlevort-Sag
Quebec Sugar Refinery Embroiled in Pebble Scandal
Hon Paul Beaulieu, Quebec minister of trade and industry, described the St. Hilaire sugar refinery project as a pebble scandal costing the public millions. The refinery was promoted by the former Liberal administration and the assembly adopted a motion to produce orders in council related to the project.
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QUEBEC
C.P
Paul Beaulieu
St. Hilaire, Quebect
St. Hilaire
St Mary And Milk River Plans Top Post War List
EDMONTON March 29 Efficient utilization and development of water resources in Alberta should concern the province in the interests of Albertans and all Canada. The post war reconstruction report tabled in the legislature lists irrigation projects led by St Mary and Milk River development, with others including Canada Land and Irrigation Co and Willow Creek. It warns that future hydro, industrial and municipal demands may limit irrigation water and urges efficient use of scarce water for irrigable lands in Western Canada.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
citiens of
af Canada
St. Mary and Milk River
Extension of
Canada Land and Uerrigation Company
Aetna
Willow Creek
Granum
Lethbridge Northern
Carmangay
Macleod
Buffalo Lake
Red Deer river
Carmaca
Canada
Japanese Expect Hitler Himmler Seek Refuge There
A Romanian diplomat arriving in Moscow says Japanese expect Hitler Himmler and Mussolini to seek refuge in Japan soon as Germany’s defeat appears likely. He notes defeat sentiment runs through Japanese circles and claims evidence of this expectation.
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Hitler
Himmler
MOSCOW
Tokyo
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Benito Mussolini
Japan
Germany
Victor Guixulescu
Guixulescu
Allied Push Races Toward Ruhr In 40 Mile Sprint
United States 1st Army drove north in a 40 mile advance threatening to cut off the Ruhr. The move reached Frankenberg and Langwiesse area while British and American units broke German lines. Frankfurt and surrounding areas fell to the 3rd Army as momentum widened across Westphalia.
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ARIS
United States
1st
Ruhr
Langwiesse
Hamm
Frankenberg
Berlin
Hannover
1st Army
Muenster
Montgomery
Duisburg
Heavy Street Fighting By Canucks In Emmerich
Canadian forces press in Emmerich as Regina rifles lead infantry in stubborn street fighting east of the Rhine. Winniper Rifles move north of the Emmerich Rees highway toward Netterden, three miles northeast of the riverbank stronghold. Emmerich reportedly changes hands amid continuing hard combat on the Allied left flank.
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Canucks
Emmerich
ROSS
RHINE
C.P. Cablt
Regina rifles
Winniper Rifles
Netterden
Rhine bank strongheld
Emmench
perthern
Helland
Luxembourg
Air Power Breaks Down German War Effort Revealed
Air War Analyst Dewitt Machenzie notes Allied air superiority and sustained bombing have fractured Hitler’s war machine. He credits British Canadian and American air forces with widening the collapse as heavy bombers and tactical planes strike strategic centers and supply lines. The blitz of Germany has intensified, signaling near-term peace prospects.
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DEWITT MACHENZIE
Associated Press
Montgomery
Aihca
Hitler
World War II News Bulletins From Europe March 29
U S troops advanced toward Paderborn marching north of Marburg while 3rd Army entered Lauterbach south of Berlin. British troops pushed east of the Rhine clearing Haltern as Soviet and Allied forces report progress and Germany readies civil affairs plans for postwar occupation. The Mannheim offensive marks a major American victory as wheat seeding begins in Diamond City.
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U.S
HANNOVER
A.P
Marburg
Paderborn
LAUTERBACH
PARIS
Berlin
Leipag
Dorsien
Wessl
Rhine
Haltern
Wesel
Maenster
BALTIC
LONDON
Marshal Stalin
Koenigsberg
MANNHEIM
United States
GERMANY
WASHINGTON
Lucius D. Clay
office of
war mobilization
Clay
Dwight DR
Eisenhower
DIAMOND CITY
iFrom
Clyde Shields
dry head
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21st Army Group
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Alta Be
John Diefenbaker
Lake Centre
praire
Price Albert
War Services
LaFleche
commons
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House
World Organization for Peace
Southern Jaw
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Hambern
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Taree
Alps
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