Inside Germany’s Deathbed Report From POW Beattie
Edward Beattie United Press war correspondent recounts his POW experience Luckenwald and captures German views on Hitler believed dead since July 20 1944 and Nazi control post plot. He details German surrender motives fear of Russians and hope for a western capitulation amid advancing Allied forces.
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Edward W. Beattie, Jr
United Press
Germany
Cietors
Berlin
Luckenwald
Paris
Dwisht D. Eisenhower
The
Reich
Edward Beattie
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Beattie
Epinal
Vosges
Foreign Office
Gestapo
Paul Schmidt
France
England
United States
French Girls Thank Lubbock for War Skirt Donation
Letters from two French girls thanking the Lubbock county Red Cross sewing room for warm skirts sent to evacuees in France. One nine year old refugee at Plouider writes to Allied friends and names Suzanne thanking for shelter loss relief.
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Lubbock
Brest
Suzanne
Elaine
Seventh Army advances into Brenner Pass surprise Germans
U S Seventh Army tanks and jeeps drove eight miles into Italy and linked with the Fifth Army in a ten mile armored column through the Brenner Pass. Maj John Rhea led the advance as German guards watched bridges. Reports say about 5000 Germans were disarmed and moved down the pass.
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Colle Isarco
Italy
U. S. Seventh Army
Fifth Army
Brenner Pass
John Rhea
Corpus Christi
Tex
Brenner
Clarence Allen
Hearne, Tex
Kenneth Aselton
Miles, Mich
Cpl
Orin Wilkins
Terrell
One Person Dies In Rubber Plant Fire
In Goose Creek Norris Hollaway 27 died from burns at a hospital after a laboratory fire at Humble On Baytown rubber plant yesterday morning. Two other Baytown workers Miss Lenna Belle Fore 22 and Miss Margaret Jean Martin 22 were hospitalized with severe burns.
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Goose Creek
U.P
Norris Hollaway
Pelly
Humble On
Baytown
Lenna Belle Fore
Margaret Jean Martin
Marine Gets Notice Of His Own Death
Vicksburg Mississippi May 5 A marine private William D Dennis of Vicksburg returned on furlough and opened an official telegram sent to his mother claiming he was killed in action on Iwo Jima. He had not been to Iwo Jima and his last overseas assignment was in the Philippines. The telegram stirred laughter and tears as mother and son read the shocking message.
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Vicksburg
Miss
William D. Dennis
Pacific
Dennis
John Dennis
Iwo Jima
Iwo
Pvt
Philippines
U S Share of World Commodities Cited in Report
A report notes the United States uses about 63 percent of world petroleum 66.4 percent of rubber 55 percent of coffee and 21 percent of sugar highlighting dominant consumption patterns across major goods.
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United States
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