State Farmers Expect 1945 Wisconsin Season
Wisconsin farmers anticipate a bigger 1945 crop and livestock output driven by wartime demand and strong prices. A statewide Associated Press survey shows average farmer wealth rising about 17 percent in five years, real estate holdings over 600 million dollars, and mortgage debts around 200 million, the lowest since 1914.
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Wisconsin
State Agricultural Department
Associated Press
Federal Department On Land
Guidance Panels To Study Readjustment
A regional guidance conference in Monroe will address readjustment of servicemen and displaced workers and guidance for youths entering jobs or college. Red Cross volunteer efforts in Green County aim to recruit blood donors for Beloit mobile units, with education leaders stressing community readiness for returning veterans.
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Beloit
Monroe
Red Cross
Jessie Holcomb
Green County
Johnny
Dane
Lafayette
E. O. Evans
Italian political crisis looms as Sforza bids for premiership
Italy faces a political crisis as Count Carlo Sforza seeks the premiership after being vetoed by Britain in a prior government. Carabinieri patrols guard streets and government buildings while Gen. Taddeo Orlando is dismissed as Carabinieri chief amid wartime allied control over war, air, and navy ministries.
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Omi
Carlo Sforza
Sforza
Bonomi
Carabinieri
Pal
Taddeo Orlando
Roatta
Orlando
Yugoslavia
Italy
Air
Navy
Vinson nomination approved by senate banking panel
President Roosevelt's choice Fred M. Vinson as federal loan administrator cleared the Senate Banking Committee without hearings. Chairman Wagner praised the approval as enthusiastic. Bowles may head economic stabilization with Kerr possible tojoin as OPA chief.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Fred M. Vinson
Senate Banking Committee
Wagner
DNY
Bowles
Oklahoma
Robert Kerr
OPA
Vinson
Aubrey Williams
Senate
British Advance In Burma Endangers Japanese Lines
Allied forces push 85 miles into Burma threatening Japanese positions. Eight airfields captured, stores seized or destroyed, and about 1,600 Japanese killed as MacArthur cites Luzon losses and reports 90,000 Japanese killed with 60,000 cut into isolated groups.
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Prses
Burma
Mandalay
Rangoon
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon Island
Philippines
Iwo
Navy
James Forrestal
U. S
It Didn't Go Off Manila
An officer and three enlisted men in the 11th airborne division on Luzon report a near‑fatal incident. Sgt Thomas Thompson of Fort Lauderdale challenged a shadowy figure, his rifle misfired, and two fellow privates also found their rifles failed to fire. A grenade then landed in the foxhole but did not explode.
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Manila
Thomas Thompson
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
1Lth Airborne Division
Luzon Island
Thompson
Donald Otten
Sheboygan
Wis
Eugene Wold
Duluth
Minn
Americans Advance Through Cologne Toward Rhine
American troops pressed through Cologne toward the Rhine as the Third Army surged 25 miles toward the Rhine in the Coblenz region. First Army tanks moved past the Dom Cathedral in Cologne as troops engaged in heavy fighting in the area.
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Paris
Cologne
Rhine
U. S. Third Army
Coblenz
Dom
Germany
Churchill’s Visit to Germany Aims to Boost War Resolve
Prime Minister Churchill toured shattered German strongholds, stating there will be no unemployment after the war. He predicted a decisive push across the Rhine, telling frontline troops that one strong heave will win the war. He addressed the 51st Highland division in a cold drizzle, stressing Allied momentum.
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Juelich
Germany
Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Siegfried Line
Hitler
London
St. Lo
William Simpson
9Th Army
Rhine
Duesseldorf
Europe
51St Highland Division
First Army
Urgent WAC Recruiting Aims for 8000 Medical Units
Recruiter Staff Sgt. Opal Gasser says governors of 48 states back the urgent WAC push to form 103 medical units for army hospitals. By May 1 6170 women are needed plus existing WAC personnel to enable training at Fort Oglethorpe and six weeks later to assignments in general hospital wards.
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Army
WAC
Opal Gasser
Green and Rock Counties
Gasser
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
WACS
Fort Oglethorpe
Georgia
Army Medical Department
Pvt Roy Gessler Reported Prisoner of War in Germany
Pvt Roy Gessler son of Mr and Mrs Henry Gessler New Glarus is a prisoner of war in Germany according to cards received. He was reported missing in action Dec 16 and thought to be in Luxembourg. He enlisted on his eighteenth birthday in September 1942 and arrived in England Oct 3 1944 before transfers to France and Belgium. He has two brothers Sgt Clarence Gessler and Arthur Yoe in the south Pacific.
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Roy Gessler
Henry Gessler
New Glarus
Germany
Gessler
Luxembourg
England
France
Belgium
Sgt
Clarence Gessler
Arthur Y 2E
South Pacific
Explosion at Vancouver docks rocks city near CPR yards
An ammunition ship exploded at the Canadian Pacific Railway docks in downtown Vancouver just before noon. Flames towered several hundred feet high as five or six blasts shook the waterfront, witnessed from seven blocks away.
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Vancouver
Canadian Pacific Railway
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers on Rampage
Floods on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers unleashed widespread damage across Pittsburgh Cincinnati Louisville and towns along the streams. Cities evacuated thousands as war plants and riverfront industries shut down or slowed, with levees and sandbags protecting Louisville and officials warning of further rises.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Mississippi
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Allegheny and Monongahela
The
Manchester
Louisville
Kentucky
West Virginia
Indiana
Aurora
Ind
Soviets Reach Oder Near Greifenhagen in Drive on Stettin
Soviet forces pushed toward Stettin as they reached the Oder near Greifenhagen and captured Cammin. Zhukov’s First White Russian army advanced from Stargard toward Greifenberg, tightening the Baltic flank and threatening Berlin.
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Oder
Greifenhagen
Stettin
London
Stettin Bay
Cammin
Stalin
Gregory Zhukov
Griefenberg
Baltic
Moscow
Swinemuende
Berlin
Stargard
Danzig
Zhukov
Britons and Americans Reported Brutal Treatment in Bulgaria
London notes that British and American prisoners in Bulgaria before its armistice endured brutal treatment at times and some were executed. War Secretary Sir James Grigg told the Commons that the number killed “certainly was below ten” and he did not confirm any American fatalities.
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London
Bulgaria
James Grigg
Commons
Road to Berlin Frontline Distances Reported
The briefing lists distances to Berlin from key fronts: 32 miles from Zellin on the Eastern front, 284 miles from Cologne on the Western front, and 544 miles from the Reno river on the Italian front. The figures reflect Allied progress as the war advances.
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The
Associated Press
Eastern Front
Zellin
Western Front
Cologne
Reno River
Eisenhower Boulevard Replaces Hitler Street in Neuss
A World War II note recalls Neuss, Germany removing Adolf Hitler Strasse after Allied occupation. Soldiers painted a large sign reading Eisenhower Boulevard as the city’s new name.
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Neuss
Germany
Eisenhower Boulevard
Rhine Front Pushes Past Cologne as Allies Break Nazi Pockets
Allied forces crossed into Cologne’s ring area with three divisions driving toward the city center amid light German resistance. The Ninth and First Armies closed on Bonn and Coblenz while Patton’s Third Army breached northeast of Koblenz. Wesel’s Rhine bridges remained impassable as rubble-strewn fronts tightened.
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Bergheim
U. S. First Army
Erft Canal
Cologne
Signal Corps
London
Third Armored
Ringstrasse
Germany
William H. Simpson
Ninth
Rhine
Duesseldorf
Neuss
Wesel
Middle Rhine
Bonn
Patton
Kyll River
Coblenz
George Patton
Kyllburg
Rhineland
First Army
Argyle Man Freed from Japanese Prisoner List
The army's 23rd partial list of civilian personnel liberated in the Philippines includes Argyle residents Harold N. Wilson and two other Wisconsin men. Mrs. Wilson learned by war department message that her husband, an electrical engineer who worked for Allis Chalmers and Honolulu Iron, is freed and in good health. The Wilsons, who once lived in the Philippines, have three sons: Lt. John Wilson, 22, on Luzon. Richard, 19, with a navy engineers unit in Virginia. and Robert, 16, still in Argyle High School.
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Philippines
Wisconsin
Harold N. Wilson
Europe
Pacific
Wilsons
Mr. Wilson
Argyle
Pearl Harbor
Manila
Milwaukee
Allis Chalmers
Philippine
Honolulu
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R-Minn
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Russia
America
China
Britain
Security Council
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Forrestal
Tokyo
Honshu
Japan
Amoy
Suichwan
Bank of Rhine
3Rd Army
Pvt
Ohio River
Lauderdale County
Tenn
Tennessee
Bulletin
Eisenhower
Argyle Man
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