All Japanese Forces Now in Reverse
Allied reports say a Chinese counteroffensive pushed Japanese forces back on all fronts around the Chihkiang airbase and Okinawa. Casualties were heavy on both sides as Japanese defenses along the Naha line and other positions faced renewed Allied pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
U. S
Chihkiang
Adm
Kantaro Suzuki
Tokyo
Ao City
U.S. 14Th Force Base
Okinawa
Naha Line
U.S
Iwo Jima
Rangoon
Philippines
Mindanao
Cage
Chancellery Burns as Hitler Body Not Found
The German chancellery on Wilhelmstrasse burns with Hitler's fate unresolved and bodies not located. Red Star report notes Goebbels may have died with him while Soviet forces clear streets, lootings occur, and Berlin population estimates rise toward five million.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Third Reich
Wilheilm- Strasse
Hitler
Red Star
Fuehrer
Goebbels
Und Ee
Izvestia
Berlin
Red Army
Measure to Bar School District Consolidations Debated
Madison lawmakers urged Senate approval of a bill to prohibit consolidating school districts without county consent. McDowell and Assemblymen Nicola Wheelock and Sykes argued the move gives districts a voice. W E Kimball noted the Department of Public Instruction backs correcting inequities and cited 1,060 orders with few errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Senate Committee On Education and Public Welfare
Senate
McDowell Union Grove
Pols
McDowell
Nicola Wheelock
R-Viroqua
Sykes
R-Barron
W. E. Kimball
State Department of Public Instruction
No Holiday for Truman Before End in Europe
President Truman will not take a holiday before the end of his European duties and plans to stay at his desk. He has no immediate plans to travel or visit Missouri for Mother’s Day, despite a suggestion of a brief countryside trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Europe
Missouri
Anthracite Mines Under Ickes Rule
The government seized 363 Pennsylvania anthracite companies and ordered striking miners to return to work by Monday. Wage talks with United Mine Workers remained deadlocked as John L. Lewis and UMWs resisted a war labor board extension of the old contract. Local UMW leader John Girlock said miners would continue to sit tight until Lewis orders a return.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Wilkes Rea Pa
UMW
John Girlock
Lewis
New Haven Native Dies in New York Campaign Notice
A New Haven native died last night in New York amid publicity surrounding the Presidential campaigns of Theodore Roosevelt Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.
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New York
Clarence
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
New Haven
Near Agreement At San Francisco On Dumbarton Oaks Plan
The big four near agreement in San Francisco on changes to the Dumbarton Oaks plan for a world peace organization. Officials of the 46 United Nations see it as a step to prevent deadlocks while Molotov heads to Moscow. Senators Byrd Eastland Tobey and Capehart push a trusteeship idea for Pacific islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Big Four
United Nations
Molotov
Moscow
Stettinius
Dumbarton Oaks
Eden
Britain
Soong
China
Security Council
Council
Senate Naval Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Eastland
D-Miss
Tobey
R-Nh
Capehart
Rep Wasielwski Urges Firm Polish Policy With Russia
Wisconsin Democrat Rep Wasie lewski told the House during Polish Constitution Day observance that cooperation with Russia cannot come at the expense of national honor in settling the Polish dispute. He endorsed this country’s stance against recognizing the Lublin government and expressed confidence in reaching mutual cooperation with Russia.
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Washington
Rep
Wasielewski
D-Wis
Russia
Wisconsin
Lublin
Homemakers Plan County Meeting At Turner Hall
Green county women are invited to a Wednesday afternoon 2 PM meeting at Turner hall. Organizers from the Green county home demonstration council sponsor the event with exhibits and a dress revue featuring wartime clothing trends and test-pattern fittings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green County
Turner Hall
Sam Waelti
Green County Home Demonstration Council
Marius Richert
Ager
Wisconsin
Monroe Victory
Monroe Merry Homemakers
Monroe Happy Hour Groups
Used Car Ads Must List Price Under OPA Rules
The OPA ruled that all used car advertisements must show the price and state that it is within the OPA ceiling. Beginning May 9 ads must include make, model year, and body type, applying to private sellers and dealers. cars 1925 or earlier are exempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
Inductees Report Tomorrow Morning At Draft Board
Green County's quota for inductees will report at the draft board Saturday morning at 5 30. Also to report at that time will be men who will go to Milwaukee for their pre induction exams. Members of the Red Cross teen corps will serve coffee and doughnuts to the draftees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green County
Draft Board
Milwaukee
Red Cross
Hospital Cornerstone Ceremony At Ringling Facility
The cornerstone of the new 760000 addition to St Marys Ringling hospital will be laid Sunday. The original unit is the former home of Mrs Alfred T Ringling wife of the circus founder who donated it to the Sisters of St Mary 23 years ago.
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Baraboo
St. Marwy’s Ringling Hospital
Alfred T. Ringling
Iste Circus
Sisters of St. Mary
Allis-Chalmers Declares Dividend by Directors
Directors of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing announce a regular quarterly dividend of 40 cents a share on common stock and $1 on preferred stock. President Walter Geist announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allis-Chalmers
Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Walter Geist
Retail Sales Rise in New York Amid Weather Lag
Dun and Bradstreet reports retail sales in the vast week stayed moderately higher than a year ago. Consumers trimmed purchases of warm weather merchandise due to unseasonal weather across broad areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dun & Bradstreet
House Upholds Truman Veto On Farm Draft Exemption
Congress refuses to override President Truman’s veto on farm deferment legislation. House backed the veto 242 to 185 with 177 to override, keeping farm workers out of the draft as Allied needs at war’s end loom. General Marshall warns May June induction loads will miss targets, with about 120000 men drafted monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George C. Marshall
Rmpean
Cihattadenal
Chekasa May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marshall
Pacific Theater
Germany
House
Truman
Flannagan
D-Va
Agriculture Committee
Europe
Farm Bureau Backs New Deal Trade Plan
The American Farm Bureau Federation endorsed the administration proposal for broad new power to cut tariffs in reciprocal trade deals. R. E. Short, bureau president, told the Ways and Means Committee that without global trade it is difficult to maintain international relations amid debates over the tariff program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation Today
Farm Organization
Federation
Edward A. O'Neal
San Francisco
R. E. Short Bureau
House
Ways and Means Committee
United Nations Organization
Bretton Woods Monetary Plans
International Food and Agricultural Organization
Sugar Applications Reach Local Board
Numerous applications for canning sugar have already been received by the local war price and rationing board but coupons are not yet available and will be somewhat delayed. Application blanks are available in banks and several other places in the city, where users may obtain them, fill out at home and mail or take to the ration headquarters.
Assembly passes lobbyist bill with daily expense reports
The assembly approved by unanimous vote a measure requiring lobbyists to file daily expense and lobbying activity reports after rejecting an amendment to itemize expenditures and reveal any legislator benefit from lobbying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Madison
Assembly
Argentine Delegation Arrives for United Nations Conference
An Argentine delegation of 20 is expected next week as tensions rise over admission to the UN conference while hotel rooms in the crowded city vanish.
Goldfish Named Hitler Causes Confusion in Maiden Household
In Maiden Massachusetts a goldfish named Hitler led Mr and Mrs Arthur Koniares to fear the dictator was dead after the fish killed two tank mates for lebensraum. The family compared notes when the wife misheard the news and announced Hitler’s death to her husband who confirmed reading the newspaper. They later traced the mix up and felt sorry for the fish.
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Maiden
Mass
Hitler
Arthur Koniares
Fuehrer
Koniares
German Soldiers Rush to Surrender
German soldiers rush to surrender to American and British forces in large numbers to avoid capture by the Russians. Front dispatches note officers and men racing to American lines as Britain and the United States struggle to feed and house the swollen prisoner population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Associated Press
Wes Gallagher
Ninth Army
Elbe River
Gallagher
Daily Express
Storck Dies at 30 in Boscobel After Hemorrhage
Karl W. Storck 30 a former Monroe resident died unexpectedly this morning at his home in Boscobel from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was born in Slinger, grew up in Monroe, and studied at UW Madison. He leaves wife Adele Ludlow two children Peter and Mary, mother Mrs Mathilda Storck, brother Harold Milwaukee and sister Mrs Nell Co. Wauwatosa. Funeral services Monday at 2 at Shriner Neushwander funeral home with Science rites and burial in Greenwood cemetery.
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Or W. Storck
Onroe
Charles D. Storck
Monroe
Boscobel
Storck
Dell Ludlow
Slinger
Wis
Charles D
Mathilda Gensman Storck
Ripon
University of Wisconsin
Delta Sigma Pi
Professional Commerce Fraternity
Storcks
Blumer Brewery
Adele Ludlow
Peter
Mary
Harold
Milwaukee
E. Co. Nell
Wauwatosa
Shriner- Neushwander
Greenwood Cemetery
Allies Accept German Surrender Across Holland Denmark and Northwest Germany
Allied commanders announced the complete surrender of German forces in Holland Denmark and northwest Germany effective 0800 tomorrow. The capitulations followed rapid Dutch Italian and Austrian surrenders and leave Norway and scattered pockets as the remaining resistance. The news notes halting German forces and rapid Allied advances including Innsbruck Salzburg and the Brenner pass with various Allied armies moving toward final victory.
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Paris
Holland
Denmark
Germany
Eisenhower
Marshal Montgomery
Monroe
Italy
Austria
Norway
France
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Montgomery
Helgoland
Frisian Islands
21St Army Group
Brenner Pass
Innsbruck
Salzburg
Linz
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Christian X
Copenhagen
Oslo
Stockholm
Tyrol
Capitulation Rumors Grow as Nazi Fortress Crumbles
Rumors of Germany’s imminent capitulation spread after Albert Speer proclaimed the nation defeated. Nazi remnants hold small pockets in Germany proper while fighting wanes in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Holland. Churchill's whereabouts questioned, with rumors of a surrender ceremony in Berlin denied by No. 10 Downing Street. Doenitz reportedly fled to Kiel as foreign ministers and Nazi officials convened.
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London
Germany
Albert Speer
Pennsylvania
Reich
Normandy
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Holland
Denmark
Churchill
Commons
British Press Association
Truman
Paris
No. 10
Downing Street
Fuehrer
Carl Doenitz
Kiel
Stockholm
Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigk
Werner Best
Josef Terboven
Norway
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Burma
Prome
Irrawaddy
India
Joseph W. Stilwell
Hermann Goering
North Germany
Czech
Ickes
Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gates
Farm Bureau
Karl W. Storck
Fifth Army
Second Army
Hamburg
Doenitz
First
25Th Army
Grebbe
Miles C. Dempsey
Sweden
Kattegat
Skagerrak
Alexander M. Patch
Berchtesgaden
Patton
Third Army
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