U S Dairy Subsidy Rates Raised in Wartime Plan
The War Food Administration announced an upward revision in dairy production subsidy rates, promising about 541 million dollars in subsidies to farmers over 12 months ending April 1, 1946. The plan aims to boost milk production for wartime needs without raising consumer dairy prices, with higher butterfat and whole milk payments and rates pegged to regional feed costs.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
WFA Banking Agency
Yanks Reach Swiss Border as Munich Threat Looms
Allied advance tightens around Munich with Seventh Army 25 miles away after Augsburg fell to Patch's troops. Milan radio claims Mussolini arrested near Lake Como with two ministers. Graziani captured by Italian patriots. German defense crumbles as Patton’s Third Army nears Danube corridor.
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Paris
Seventh
Munich
Augsburg
Bavaria
Alexander M. Patch
Fuessen
Brenner Pass
Milan
Voice
Italian National Liberation Committee
Benito Mussolini
Lake Como
Federal Communications Commission
Il Duce
Rodolfo Graziani
Musolini
North
Africa
Guido Buffarini-Guidi
Mussolini
Fortezza
Switzerland
Buffarini-Guidi
Germany
Ben L. Abraham Ends Monroe Route 5 Service
Ben L. Abraham will retire as Monroe route 5 mail carrier after several months of temporary service. John Anderick takes over route 5, and George W. Norton, newly appointed, will work Monroe route 3.
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Ben L. Abraham
Monroe
Mr. Abraham
John Anderick
George W. Norton
WPB Moves to Lift Controls for Civilian Output
The War Production Board plans to revoke about 65 of its 500 industry controls within a week or 10 days to speed civilian production as armament cutbacks proceed ahead of V E day. The move accompanies the restoration of the spot plan for civilian goods production under J A Krug and aims to shift factories to consumer items as materials and labor free up.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
J. A. Krug
Krug
Army
Navy
Silver Star Awarded Lt. Col. Legler for Heroism
Dispatches reveal Lt. Col. Matthew L. Legler earned the Silver Star while with the 99th Infantry in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. He led a battalion for 36 hours against a powerful attack, rescuing a threatened line and coordinating a counterattack despite wounds. His wife resides in Baltimore, near the hospital treating eye and ear injuries from combat.
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Matthew L. Legler
Anna G. Legler
99Th Infantry
Belgium
States
Legier
George Bricer
Jack
Legler
Baltimore
Locker Firms Seek OPA Indictments To Clarify Mess
Wisconsin frozen food officials charged the OPA to indict firms to clear up what they call a mess in the meat black market. L. E. Bothell of Monroe, secretary of the Wisconsin Frozen Food, made the statement today.
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OPA
L. E. Bothell
Monroe
Wisconsin Frozen Food
Food Locker Probe Expands After Chicago Find
AP reports an OPA drive against frozen meat lockers, after investigators estimate 300000 pounds stored at the first Chicago plant were illegally obtained. Marion W. Isbell, Chicago metropolitan director, says inspections will go into high gear amid rationing violations.
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Chicago
Marion W. Isbell
Locker association official refutes OPA charge in Wisconsin case
Bothell argues the OPA campaign is misinformation. He says meat in lockers is under 3 percent of national supply and 85 percent of lockers are farmer owned. He asserts warrants are needed for locker entry and cites wartime storage publicity. He notes 6,000 lockers nationwide with 453 in Wisconsin.
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OPA
Bothell
War Food Administration
Wisconsin
Ward directors reelected as minority loses seat bid
Chicago based Montgomery Ward reelected chairman Sewell L. Avery and 14 other directors while a minority stockholder slate failed to win a director seat at the government seized mail order house.
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Chicago
Sewell L. Avery
Montgomery Ward
East West Junction Forces Idle As Fighting Continues
Berlin is falling on the northern front but several Baltic ports remain to be overrun and two pockets in Bavarian redoubt and Czechoslovakia shape up in the south. The meeting of American and Russian troops in Austria is anticipated, while Nazi comments forecast the war’s end in days once Berlin falls and Hitler is dead.
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Patton
U. S. Third Army
Danube
Austria
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Munich
Landsberg
Walther Funk
Reichsbank
Salzburg
Berchtesgaden
Funk
Berlin
Alexanderplatz
Gestapo
Elbe
Paris
Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Baltic
Norway
Pacific
Kurt Dittmar
U. S. Ninth Army
Hitler
Dittmar
Japs Expect New Yankee Offensive
Japanese propaganda outlets forecast another American invasion from Okinawa as U S forces push toward northern airstrips. Allied advances include a British armored thrust in Burma nearing Rangoon and U S troops moving toward Mindanao Davao Gulf and Okinawa airstrips amid ongoing air and naval actions.
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Associated Press
Okinawa
Burma
Rangoon
Apo
Mindanao
Philippines
Davao Gulf
Tokyo
U. S
Domei
Radio Tokyo
Pacific
Kyushu
Japan
U. S. 7Th Division
Yonabara
Machinato Field
96Th
County Clothing Drive Extended Through May in County
L. A. Koenig of Monroe announces the national clothing collection campaign is extended through May in communities slow to organize. Despite this, Monroe urges finishing by tonight. Village chair H. L. Karlen has been named at Monticello, with the village hall as the Monticello collection center. Rural schools are instructed to collect during May for war refugees.
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L. A. Koenig
Monroe
Koenig
Milwaukee
H. L. Karlen
Monticello
Monroe High School Band to Present May 7 Children’s Concert
The 80 piece Monroe High School band will give its annual children’s concert May 7 at 1 pm in the high school auditorium. Free concert, aligned with national music week, invites about 800 pupils from public, normal and Catholic grade schools. The program features marches, children’s concert music, solos, instrument demonstrations and a host of named performers.
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Monroe
Barnard
Jean Marie Rabehl
Kathryn Janet Krauss
Carla Mueller
Evelyn Welty
Roy Wyss
Ted Olson
Tom Holyoke, Jr
Nathan Thorp
Ada Dobbs
Lois Davis
Lloyd Carter
Paul Ganshert
Jane Calder
Don Ross
Priscilla Kohli
Kenneth Mahlberg
Maxine Crandall
La Crosse Rubber Mills Strike Continues After Board Request
About 800 workers at La Crosse rubber mills stayed off the job after the regional war labor board asked them to return to work. The walkout began April 7 following a union rejection of the board’s appeal.
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la Crosse
Proclamation Seen Near as War Leaders Predict V E Day
AP reports military experts expect General Eisenhower to proclaim V E day once major Nazi forces are eliminated, likely within six weeks. Officials caution that mop up of smaller pockets may not influence the timing, but victory in central Europe is anticipated.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Germany
War Department
Europe
French army blocks Allied push by staying in Stuttgart
A Paris dispatch reports the French First Army refused to abandon Stuttgart amid Allied southeast advances against the Nazi stronghold. The Sixth Army Group urged withdrawal, while Paris argues postwar occupation talks justify maintaining control, a stance seen as timely amid San Francisco world delegates.
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Paris
First Army
Stuttgart
Sixth Army Group
Wuerttemberg
French Council of Ministers
France
Germany
U. S
Jacob L. Devers
Saarland
cross-Rhine
Ruhr
Lake Constance
San Francisco
Supreme Headquarters
German pilot surrenders at RAF base in Germany
An aged FW 190 fighter pilot landed at a British base in Germany and surrendered to RAF guards. He asked to be taken to his wife in a nearby town but the request was denied.
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Germany
RAF
Soviet-Union Presses German Unconditional Surrender Deal
Reports claim Heinrich Himmler offered unconditional surrender to Britain and the United States only. Churchill and Allied officials insist surrender must be to all three major powers including Russia. White House states no conditional surrender to any party and seeks full Allied accord.
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London
Heinrich Himmler
Great Britain
United States
Churchill
Russia
Himmler
Britain
Luxembourg
Germany
Washington
White House
Jonathan Daniels
Daniels
American forces breach north western Italy to Swiss border
Allied troops drive across the Po valley into the Alps reaching the Swiss border and sealing off exits to Germany. Fifth Army advances near Bergamo and Milan with gains at Genoa and the Ghedi airport while British forces mop up pockets south of the Adige. German commanders reportedly seek surrender as partisan reports say roads to Brenner are barred.
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Rome
Alps
Italy
Germany
Milan
Bergamo
Liguarian
Pontremoli
la Spezia
Parma
Fifth Army
Genoa
Free Milan
Eighth Army
Himmler Message Claims Hitler Nearing Death
Reuters dispatch from San Francisco reports Heinrich Himmler sent a message to the United States and Britain stating Hitler was dying and would not live 48 hours after Himmler announced an unconditional surrender.
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London
Reuters
San Francisco
Heinrich Himmler
United States
Britain
Hitler
Himmler
Russians Capture Pasewalk and Goebbels Arrests Reported
London AP states Soviet forces seized Pasewalk 23 miles northwest of Stettin on the road to Stralsund in an order by Marshal Stalin. AP reports U S First Army says Hans Goebbels brother of Joseph Goebbels was detained by infantrymen, and the brother of Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels was arrested at Millrath in the Ruhr.
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Berlin
Soviet Union
Fedor Lipatkin
Lipatkin
Stalingrad
Germany
Moscow
London
Pasewalk
Stettin
Baltic
Stralsund
Stalin
U. S
French forces push into Italian border zone in Alps
The Sixth Army Group reports French troops have advanced to or beyond the Italian border along a 50 mile front and to a depth of 10 miles in the Maritime Alps sector south of Switzerland.
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Sixth Army Group
Italy
Maritime Alps
Switzerland
Third Army advances toward Munich on 85 mile front
The U S Third Army, according to AP reports, moved up to 13 miles along an 85 mile front today and one column pierced to within 27 miles of Munich.
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U. S. Third Army
Third Army
Munich
Hitler Suffering Cerebral Hemorrhage Near Death
Svenska Dagbladet quotes reliable circles that Hitler has a cerebral hemorrhage and is near death inside Berlin. An immediate death announcement is believed to provoke mass capitulation by many troops.
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Stockholm
Svenska Dagbladet
Hitler
Berlin
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Emil F. Reinhardt
Torgau
Col. Legler
Great Holdings
Avery
U. S. First Army
Ivan S. Konev
Reu
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