Mary Agnes to Leave St Clare Hospital for Nicaragua
Sister Mary Agnes departs St Clare Hospital to join a Maryknoll sponsored mission in Nicaragua jungle service. She will be one of four Sisters forming a small medical education team, traveling July 1, with limited transport and basic facilities, to aid native Spanish, Negro and Indian children.
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Mary Agnes
St. Clare Hospital
Nicaragua
Jungle Service
Agnes
Firs
Mary Knoll Sisters
Mary Knoll
New York
Chicago
Ronneid
Seawtaeey
Order of St. Agnes
Sisters of Charity
Order of St ‘Agnes
M. Blandine
M. Bertilla
M. Laura
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Downer College
Mversity
Milwauk
St. Agnes School of Nursing
Fond du Lac
St.Agnes Hospital
Okinawa Fighting Reaches New Climax as U S Push Advances
Forces on southern Okinawa press toward Naha amid heavy artillery and fierce Japanese resistance. Admiral Nimitz reports substantial losses on both sides including Yamato's sinking and large air and sea casualties as US 27th 96th and Seventh divisions push with heavy bombardment and disputed ground gains.
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Guam
Okinawa
Naha
Chester W Nimitz
Kakazu
Machinato
96Th
Yonabaru
Japan
Kyushu
Ryukyus
Eisenhower Aide Sees No Quick End To War in Europe
Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower’s chief of staff, told war correspondents at supreme headquarters that there is no immediate end in sight for the war in Europe. He warned of bitter fighting and heavy casualties to come while noting Eisenhower will strive to finish the war promptly without wasting troops.
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Eisenhower
Europe
Raris
Walter Bedell Smith
Supreme Headquarters
Smith
Berlin Open City Debate Prompted by Radio Report
German radio asked if Berlin could be declared an open city with many residents favoring the idea. The piece notes there is no sign the Russians would approve a unilateral move, even if Berlin sought such status.
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Berlin
New York
Stoldt
Thew
Sink Germans Last Pocket Battleship Reported
A Baltic coast operation claimed the German pocket battleship Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Seydlitz were seized or sunk. The Luftwaffe air wave reportedly put the pocket battleship Lützow out of action, lying on the Baltic Swinemunde shore. Stockholm says only a few remaining ships fled to Copenhagen as Germany's navy dwindles.
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Gneisenau
Air Ministry
Swindemunde
Baltic
Stockholm
Copen
Germany
Prise Eugen
Nuernberg
Bologna Falls to Fifth and Eighth Armies in Northern Italy
Bologna captured by Fifth Army and its allies as they enter the historic fortress south of the Po valley. German defenses south of the Po eliminated, with Allied leaders calling for continued advance toward the Po plain.
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Bologna
Italy
Fifth
Fish
Berlinision
William G. Livesay
Sian
Charles Bolte
Apennines
Harold Alexander
Mark W. Clark
15Th Army
Tinue
Fifth Army
Bologna-Modena
Fiercer Atrocity Report Near Leipzig as Nazis Fall
The German site at Thelka near Leipzig shows 220 political prisoners sprayed with acetone, burned, and shot before American troops seized the area. Of 324 prisoners from Poland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, France, and Italy, only about 80 survived. A Czech guard cut electrical wire to free them from the camp’s deadly perimeter. The atrocity occurred at Erla plant No 3, maker of Messerschmitt aircraft.
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Thelka
Germany
Leipzig
Coal declaration plaguing coal dealers
Dealers face heavy workload from a Department of Interior order requiring consumers to file declarations for coal delivery this seal year. Rules allow 80 percent of normal needs unless using western Kentucky Illinois or Indiana coal for 100 percent. Many use eastern Kentucky and West Virginia fuel, complicating filings and deliveries. Dealers report papers take as long as the actual delivery and many declarations have incorrect addresses and unclear normal consumption. Consumers must declare all coal and coke delivered since April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Interior
Kentucky
Illinois
Indiana
West Virginia
Death Claims Mrs Katherina Klassy 82 of New Glarus
Mrs Katherina Klassy 82 longtime New Glarus resident died at 5 15 am at her home after a 10 day illness. Born Feb 14 1863 in Enneda Switzerland she came to America at 19 and lived in New Glarus. Survived by five sons and four daughters with 27 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Funeral at Zweifel funeral home Monday at 2 pm with Evang Reformed church services.
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New Ularus
James
Katherina Klassy
New Glarus
Enneda
Canton Glarus
Switzerland
Ferdinand
Katherina Oertl
America
John Joachim Klassy
John
Walter
Edwin
Milwau
Kee
Ellen Sprague
Robert Morgan
Fred Zimmerman
Oconomo‘wee
Barbara Louise
Zweifel Funeral Home
Evangelical Reformed Church
W. F. Stuckey
Swiss Cheesemakers Seek 3-Grade 3-Price Plan Unanimous Vote
Wisconsin Swiss and Producers association members in Turner Hall voted unanimously to petition the OPA to amend price structures for Swiss cheese to a 3-grade, 3-price plan from the present 1-grade, 1-price system. About 150 to 175 members attended, hearing officers and leaders warn the industry faces disaster without quality incentives.
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Wisconsin
Swiss and Producers Association
Turner Hall
OPA
Rewis
State College
Rm Bureau
al H. Stoldt
Association
H. E
Imburgert
A. T. Bruhn
State Farm Bureau
Robert E. Davenport
Monroe
R. J. Douglas
Green County Farm Bureau
M. H. ‘Stauffacher
George Mooney
Wisconsin Cheesemakers, Association
H. F. Mulloy
Victory to be decided by Allied commanders say Churchill
Churchill said final victory would be decided by Allied military commanders who will notify governments when their task is done. Allied forces in Europe pressed toward Munich and Lake Constance with Soviet and American patrols within 25 miles of Berlin and German redoubts shrinking.
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Bristol
England
Churchill
Gemany
Pvt Buttke Freed From German Camp
Pvt Floyd Buttke 31, long held as a prisoner in a German camp for about three months, is released and back with the U S Army. A Rockford couple, Elizabeth Hartwig Buttke and her four children, received the news via a letter to his sister and brother in Monroe. He writes he cannot write much from happiness and notes weight loss but good feeding. He served over two years, was wounded in France, sent to a hospital in England, then back to the front. He hopes to be home soon.
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Buttke
Floyd Buttke
United States Army
Elizabeth Hartwig
Rockford
Thomas Mahle
Everette Buttke
Monroe
Nic Schmid
Averse
France
England
Yanks Press Toward Junction With Red Army Near Berlin
Allied forces pushed toward a three way junction with the Red Army near Berlin as patrols along the Elbe reportedly met. American Third Army advanced into Czechoslovakia capturing Asch in a move to block munitions hubs at Pilsen and Prague, with the eastern and western fronts coordinating to avoid confusion.
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Paris
U. S
Elbe
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Asch
Pilsen
Prague
Soviets Press Berlin Siege as 16 Armies Repel Counter
German and Soviet dispatches say 1,500,000 Russian troops have battered into five Berlin suburbs and closed within 32 miles of American lines. Berlin reports claim forests burned, a powder dam blown, and torrents of water as Soviet troops sheltered among trees. German reads note 16 armies with four tank units batter gates in what is called a battlefield of unprecedented ferocity. Moscow says suicide charges with fixed bayonets occur as Soviet forces reach Bernau Strausberg Fuerstenwalde Koenigs Wusterhausen and Zossen in a northern envelopment toward Berlin.
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London
Berlin
Potsdamer Platz
Moscow
Bernau
Strausberg
Fuerstenwalde
Koenigs-Wusterhausen
Zossen
Big Three Meet to Resolve Poland Impasse at San Francisco
V M Molotov is due for a big four foreign ministers conference ahead of the United Nations opening in San Francisco. The main issue is Allied policy on Poland and the Warsaw provisional government. Diplomats expect continued talks on forming a new Polish government while striving for consensus among the United States Britain Soviet Union and China.
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V. M. Molotov
United Nations
San Francisco
Molotov
Stettinius
Eden
Poland
Warsaw
Yalta
Dumbarton Oaks
World Organization
United States
Jan Christian Smuts
Washington
Connady
D-Tex
Vanderberg
R-Mich
Senate
Sterilamps Installed at St. Clare Hospital
Louis E. Buri, electrician, completed installation of several new sterilamps at St. Clare hospital. Two lamps are on each floor and numerous lights added in the nursery ward. Lamps emit a blue light intended to kill air borne bacteria and improve air quality.
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St. Clare Hospital
Louis E. Buri
Sgt Maurer Returns to United States from Overseas Service
Staff Sgt. Ernest Maurer has arrived in the United States and is now in New York after months in an overseas hospital. He was wounded twice in action, according to a phone call to his mother Mrs. Max Faes of New Glarus.
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New Glarus
Ernest Maurer
United States
New York
Max Faes
Fight to Death as Berlin Faces Soviet Shelling
Berliners endure fear of starvation as shells fall on the Reich capital. Nazi propagandists urge all-out resistance. Transocean reports first Russian shells landing at Potsdamer Platz and people taking shelter underground. Russians advance toward Beelitz Treuenbrietzen and Jueterbog, severing key retreat routes from Berlin.
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London
Felchner
Potsdamer Platz
Times Square
Berlin
German Transocean Agency
Beelitz
Treunbrietzen
Potsdam
Treuenbrietzen
Dessau
Jueterbog
Caution Against Elaborate Plans For 1945 Fairs
Washington transpor tation chief warns state regional and county fairs may be banned this year as a travel conservation measure. He cautions fair managers against elaborate summer and fall preparations. Green county fair in August may escape the ban as it’s deemed essential. Wisconsin state fair plans are held in abeyance pending clarification of the possible ban.
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Washington
J. Monroe Johnson
Johnson
W. R. Schuetze
Monroe
Madison
Milton H. Button
State Department of Agriculture
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National Editorial Association
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Ernie Plye
Katherine M. Baltzer
C. B. Baltzer
Ernie Pyle
Anzio
Baltzer
Pyle
Arto
Darlington
Munich
Lake Constance
Third
George S. Patton
Grafenworh
Red Army
Dresden
U. S. First
Third Army
Mulde
Ninth Army
Wittenberge
Hamburg
Gartower Forest
84Th
Prezelle
5Th Armored
Diesdorf
Abbendorf
Trieste
Postumia
State and
Veterans’ Administration
Wisconsin Vocational School ‘Directors Association
State Board of Vocational and Adult Education
Yanks
Elbe River
Big
Sgt. Maurer
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