Truman Orders Large Withdrawal Of Federal Funds
President Truman began a federal retrenchment drive in anticipation of V-E day. He urged Congress to cut over 7.0 billion dollars from war programs and shipbuilding contracts, abolish civilian defense, and extend budget reductions across agencies including WPB and censorship while stressing volunteer efforts remain needed.
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Truman
Washington
Congress
Maritime Commission
Office of Civilian Defense
Office of War Information
War Production Board
Office of Censorship
Office of Defense Transportation
Petroleum Administration For War
Federal Security Agency
War Manpower Commission
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Harold D. Smith
Commission
OCD
WPB
Petroleum Administration
Federal Security
Vinson
Monroe to Institute Public Works Director
Monroe city council held its first meeting of the new term with plans to abolish the city engineer role and create a director of public works. They discussed extending the recreation park and purchasing five lots to add parking near the northeast park entrance while accepting a land strip east of the park for more picnic space.
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Monroe City Council
Park Board and Planning Commission
Leland Lamboley
India
China
Monroe Weather Keeps Residents Indoors As Rain Lingers
Monroeites spent the day under umbrellas as rain continues. Farmers report a favorable start with March sowing due to the early spring. Frost damage lingers in orchards, but growers await blooms within 4 to 10 days, hoping for a healthy crop if warmth returns.
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Green Bay
Stedman
Bury Mussolini in Potter's Field After Autopsy
Milan reports Benito Mussolini buried in a potter's field after an autopsy found no ulcers cancer or other ailments claimed recently. Few people knew of the burial and a military chaplain conducted five minutes of rites at the cemetery.
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Milan
Benito Mussolini
Fatal Landslide Buries Worker Digging Ditch
Milwaukee man Hamal Hatter, 58, died when a sandy landslide buried him while he dug a nine foot trench. Rescuers failed to revive him. Authorities investigated the accident and secured the scene.
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Milwaukee
Hamal Hatter
Allied Invasion of Borneo Report Expected Today
Manila confirms American forces advancing toward Davao in the Philippines as Allied troops landing at Linkas Tarakan island face light resistance. Japanese broadcasts claim 5,000 assault troops arrived aboard cruisers and destroyers, with an earlier attempt repulsed.
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Manila
Borneo
U. S
Davao
Linkas
Tarakan
Japan
Buckner says Okinawa garrison halved in action
Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr, commander of the 10th Army, reports from a press conference that about half of the original 60,000 Japanese garrison on Okinawa have been killed wounded or captured. He notes counterresistance has fallen by more than half after 11 months of combat.
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Guam
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
10Th Army
Okinawa
Buckner
Allied warships pour ashore in Burma coast operations
British warships have pushed Allied troops ashore on both sides of Rangoon after initial parachute landings. Southeast Asia command says battleships cruisers and destroyers of the East Indies fleet bombarded Car Nicobar airfields in the Bay of Bengal between the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Monday and Tuesday.
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Rangoon
Calcutta
Burma
Southeast Asia Command
Southeast Asia
East Indies
Car Nicobar
Bay of Bengal
Andaman
Nicobar Islands
Wisconsin WWII Death Toll Reaches 6171
Wisconsin’s unofficial World War II death toll up to April 15 is 6171, per Wisconsin National Guard review. The tally: 4912 killed in action or died of wounds and 1259 dead from other causes, with 1020 deaths in the Feb 16 to April 15 period.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Wisconsin National Guard Review
Von Rundstedt Captured in Hospital by U S Seventh Army
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, 69, former western front commander, was captured at Bad Toelz near Munich by the 36th Infantry Division of the U S Seventh Army. He was with his son and aide when Lt. Joseph Burke of Company A, 141st Regiment, took him prisoner after a late dinner on May 1.
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U. S
Seventh Army
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Bad Toélz
Munich
Albert Kesselring
Gerd von Rundstedt
Charles Owens
von Rundstedt
Hans Gerd von Rundstedt
Bad Toelz
Joseph Burke
141St Regiment
Burke
Wisconsin Health Board seeks tougher TB commitment laws
The state board of health asked for stricter legislation to commit tubercular patients who refuse health rules. At a public welfare committee hearing, Dr. Carl Neupert said 5,462 active Wisconsin TB cases exist, with 3,432 outside curative institutions.
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Madison
State Board of Health
Assembly Public Welfare Committee
Carl N. Neupert
Wisconsin
County Group Forms to Aid Veterans in Green County
Plans for a veterans rehabilitation program were adopted at a high school meeting. Dr. E O Osborne opened the session and Bruce M Blum led the project. Frank L Hoffman was elected chair. several representatives were named to the executive board from Monroe Albany New Glarus Brodhead and Browntown. The Monticello district will appoint a member later. The group aims to help discharged World War II vets learn GI Bill rights and resolve problems.
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Green County
E. O. Osborne
Albany
Bruce M. Blum
Monroe
Frank L. Hoffman
William E. Baumgartner
Robert E. Wittner
New Glarus
Monticello
Governor Signs 20 Minor State Bills
Governor Goodland signed twenty minor state bills. The measures include allowing counties to spend funds for local ration board expenses, disposal of confiscated liquor to state institutions for medical use, appointing historians to compile regional records, tax exemption for Marathon county property owned by the Central Wisconsin Lutheran Bible Camp, and temporary car use for servicemen on leave without a temporary registration permit for thirty days.
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Madison
Goodland
Marathon
Central Wisconsin Lutheran Bible Camp Association
State Motor Vehicle Department
Eisenhower disputes Doenitz on Hitler death claim
General Eisenhower released a statement saying Heinrich Himmler told Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte at Lübeck on April 24 that Germany was finished and Hitler was so ill he might already be dead. Himmler also said Hitler could not live more than two more days. General Schillenberger supported that Hitler suffered a brain hemorrhage, contradicting Doenitz’s claim of a hero's death.
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Paris
Eisenhower
Heinrich Himmler
Folke Bernadotte
Luebeck
Germany
Hitler
Supreme Headquarters
Hamburg
Himmler
Schillenberger
Admiral Doenitz
General Schillenberger
Allied Push Toward Denmark and German Capital Gains Speed
British and American forces press toward Denmark and Schleswig Holstein while closing on Berlin. Patton's Third Army nears Salzburg and Berchtesgaden as Ninth Army links with Russian advances north of Magdeburg. Doenitz allegedly orders eastward withdrawal. Berlin's defense fragments as Soviet troops approach the Reich Chancellery and the Hitler home region.
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Paris
Elbe
Denmark
Schleswig-Holstein
Luebeck
Patton
Third
Salzburg
Berchtesgaden
Braunau
Hitler
Linz
Amstettin
Berlin
Reichs Chancellery
Monroe Doctor Ruehlman Returns to States
Lt. David D. Ruehlman of Monroe, a physician and surgeon with a marine corps amphibious unit, has returned to the United States after overseas duty. He trained on the west coast and sailed from Seattle in December 1943, serving aboard a ship in the South Pacific. His wife learned of his return in a telephone call from an officer.
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David D. Ruehlman
Monroe
Marine Corps
States
West
West Coast
Seattle
South Pacific
Summer a Bit Early on Square This Year
A dapper salesman was seen on the public square yesterday with a new straw hat. The scene suggests an early start to the season as the writer hints at the early bird policy.
German forces in Italy surrender unconditionally to Allies
Von Vietinghoff signs over all land sea and air forces in Italy and southern Austria totaling nearly one million troops. Hostilities cease at 12 noon. Alexander announces complete rout of German armed forces in the Mediterranean as Allied forces move toward Berchtesgaden. Quisling and Holland armistice reports surface. Truman links Germany’s capitulation to Japan.
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Rome
Italy
Austria
Monroe
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Caserta
Heinrich von Vietinghoff—Scheel
Obergruppenfuehrer
Karl Wolff
Police
Luxembourg
Holland
Stockholm
Vidkun Quisling
Norway
Quisling
Islo
Reichscommissar
Truman
Washington
Japan
Germany
Harold L. Alexander
Mediterranean
von Lehr
Trieste
Adriatic
von Vietinghoff
Isonzo River
Vonarlberg
Tyrol
Salzburg
Carinthia
Styria
Alexander
United Nations
War Bulletins From London Madrid And London
Premier Stalin announced the fall of Berlin. A German plane carrying Laval Dent and Bonnard landed at Barcelona and was ordered to depart Spain by Franco. A Reuters dispatch said British troops captured Lubeck sealing off Denmark and splitting the pocket in northern Germany. Stalin announced over 120000 Germans killed or captured after encirclement of the Ninth army southeast of Berlin.
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London
Doenitz
Adm
Otto Ciliax
Norway
Ciliax
Admiral Kranke
Fritz Boehm
General Boehme
Hamburg
Hitler
Berlin
Fuehrer
Madrid
Pierre Laval
Marcel Dent
Vichy
Abel Bonnard
Barcelona
Francisco Franco
Spain
Reuters
21St Army Group Headquarters
Luebeck
Baltic
Denmark
Germany
Marshal Stalin
Ninth Army
Allied claims on German surrender and Rostock fall
Acting Secretary Grew verified reports that Heinrich Himmler offered a German surrender. Stalin announced the Red Army captured Rostock on the Baltic Sea as World War II actions continued.
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Washington
Joseph C. Grew
Heinrich Himmler
Missing Browntown man sought by Green County police
Green county authorities search for William Carl Bittner 23 missing from his Browntown area home for a week. Mrs Bittner and their child have not seen him since he left last Wednesday driving a 1935 Plymouth coupe with red wheels.
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Green County
William Carl Bittner
Browntown
Truman abolishes Office of Civilian Defense
President Truman announced the abolition of the Office of Civilian Defense. The home front organization will be liquidated by June 30 as European war progress and efficient volunteer forces reduce the need for federal civilian defense supervision.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House Probers Call Unified Food Policy to End Shortages
A House investigating committee urges a unified food policy from grower to consumer to curb black markets and ease shortages. It backs prioritizing production, a single food authority, higher hog prices, and incentives to cattle feeders, criticizing the recent 10 point policy revision by OPA and related agencies.
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House
Washington
War Production Board
Truman
OPA
War Food Administration
Office of Economic Stabilization
License Committee Will Meet Friday
The city licensing committee will meet Friday night at the city hall to review liquor license applications in Monroe. A considerable number of applications has already been received and new annual licenses are set to be granted July 1.
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Monroe
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Krarl Doenitz
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Lutz Schwerin-Krosigk
Franz von Papen
von Schleicher
Franz Boehme
Oslo
Foreign Office
Donetz
Schwerin
von Ribbentrop
Schwerin-Krosigk
Ems
Mussolini
Potter's Field
Wilhelm Keitel
Lt. Ruehlman
Hint Holland
Hear Quisling
Stalin
Rostock
Red Army
W. C. Bittner
Feod
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