Red army nears Vienna as forces reach Austrian frontier
Moscow dispatches report Marshal Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian army pushing from Csorna toward Pamhagen and St Johann, 39 miles southeast of Vienna, with tanks and armored cars probing the frontier. Refusals and withdrawals noted as Russians close on Bratislava region while German defenses weaken.
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London
Red Army
Bratislava
Tube
Moscow
Stalin
Feo- Tolbukhin
Pamhagen
Vienna
St. Johann
Heast
Moson
Danube
Fron
Known
A. P
Y Gilmore
Austria
Nitra
N Hrow
Slovakia
Europe
Bratisleva
Moravia
Ivan v
Silesia
Prague
Sch Ostrau
Moravian
Lng
Gdynia
Koenigsberg
Cap
Gyor
Komarom
Ukraine
Malinovsky
Feodor J. Tolbukhin
Hungary
Rada
Csorna
Orleans Keeps River Control
The Mississippi near New Orleans stayed under control as spillway bays opened to divert floodwater into Lake Pontchartrain. Upstream Yazoo and Arkansas basins reported floods and inundations with thousands of acres affected, while a Clark levee breach on the Red River caused area flooding but no losses reported.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Bennett Carre Spillway
Lake Pontchartrain
Upper
Yazoo
Arkabutla Reservoir
Coldwater
Miss
Memphis
Tenn
Vicksburg
Greenwood
Arkansas
Pine Bluff
Ark
Red
Roosevelt Returns to White House Amid Busy Schedule
President Roosevelt, back at the White House from Hyde Park, begins a packed agenda. He plans talks with Secretary Hull and with Lord Halifax and Sir Oliver, plus meetings on world security, San Francisco talks, and labor relations.
Flashes Of Life: Surplus bid and midnight bells
In Raton New Mexico a local businessman won a surplus property bid for wagon wheels but lost a bid for wagons with spare wheels, leaving a $200 cash deposit. In Scobe y Montana city authorities rang the fire bell at midnight to aid curfew, waking volunteers. In Twin Falls Idaho a seed store incident involved a cat causing a police call after a moaning telephone line was found. In Kearns Utah GI officers permit pajamas for Easter chapel but note gardenias are forbidden. In Fort Randall Alaska Sir Hubert Wilkins visited during rescue ops stirring American soldiers.
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Raton
N. M
Kearns
Utah
Overseas Replacement Depot Hospital
P. J
Red Cross War Fund Gains Momentum Across Notices
The Red Cross war fund has raised $75,502.31 by Thursday noon, with $65,030.97 previously acknowledged. Donors include Monroe, Ike Director, Office Equipment Company, Dembenski, C. B. Page, Selman Field and others, plus colored donations totaling $1,055.01.
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Red Cross War Fund
Monroe
Ike
Office
Dembenski
C. B. Pagey Company
Selman Field
Fis
Braden Seen as Next Argentina Envoy Choice
Washington March 29 The State Department plans to recommend Spruille Braden for ambassador to Argentina once the Argentine government is recognized Braden currently serves as ambassador to Cuba He previously led efforts to settle the Chaco war and is familiar with Buenos Aires leaders Recognition of Argentina is expected within a week and may come after a Pan American Union meeting Argentina declared war on the Axis Tuesday.
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Washington
State Department
White House
Spruille Braden
Argentina
Braden
United States
Cuba
Colombia
Buenos Aires
Chaco
Bolivia
Paraguay
Mexico City
Edelmiro Farrell
Medley Indicted in Woman's Death in Pittsburgh Case
Washington March 29 The grand jury indicted Joseph Dunbar Medley for first degree murder of Nancy Boyer in her 16th Street apartment during robbery with premeditation and for robbery of an $800 ring. He fled to Pittsburgh to evade prosecution. Medley, a Michigan convict, had been arrested March 18 in a St Louis hotel and faces further indictments for New Orleans murder and Chicago inquiry.
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Washington
Joseph Dunbar Medley
Nancy Boyer
Michigan
Boyer
16Th Street
Pittsburgh
Medley
St. Louis
New Orleans
Chicago
Deaths and price control debate span two worlds
News item recalls the death of Capt Dan W Moore in a fighter plane crash near Rapid City with Capt James L Dougherty also killed. Family details and burial questions remain. The second item reports the Senate banking committee approving a one year extension of the price control act without change, rejecting Bowles real estate and rental controls and keeping real estate inflation action separate.
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K. L. Moore
Odachita Parish
Sterlington
Louisiana State University
Southwest Pacific
Lois Ellis
Pocatello
Idaho
O. C. Moore
Marines
Pearl Harbor
Culbert Lee
John P. Zoll
Monroe
Moore
Ouachita Parish
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
OPA
Wagner
Democrat
New York
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Starving prisoners freed at German camp in Heppenheim
Eleven hundred emaciated prisoners, including two percent Americans, were liberated by the U S Seventh Army infantry at Heppenheim as Nazis had starved them on a 700 calorie daily diet. A wounded unit doctor cited 3,500 to 4,000 calories for U S hospitals and lamented Nazi refusals to provide more food. A private described meals as one loaf for ten men, ersatz coffee, potato peel soup, and no meat or vegetables, with 19 deaths in two months amid the slow starvation.
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Lewis Hawkins
Ardennes
Invasion Threat Grows as U S Forces Move in Ryukyus
American transport operations expand in the central Ryukyus with large naval forces. Tokyo cites 20 to 30 transports reinforcing U S troops on the Kerama Islands and possible landings near Okino Daito. Allied and enemy reports claim ships sunk and air strikes across Southern Japan.
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Associated Press
Ryukyu Chain
U. S
Tokyo
Okinawa
Japan
Kerama Islands
Okino Daito
Ryukyu Islands
Formosa
Radio Tokyo
Kure Naval Base
Honshu
Kyushu
Cebu
Philippines
Burma
China
Manchuria
Chester W. Nimitz
Nipponeses
F D R Lauds Labor Charter For Postwar Peace
President Roosevelt praised a labor and employer plan for postwar industrial peace and full employment. William Green Eric Johnston and Philip Murray sent a letter proposing a code of principles to sustain labor management cooperation during and after the war.
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Rosevelt
Asure
William Green
American Federation
Eric Johnston
States Chamber of
Washington
Roosevelt
America
American Federation of Labor
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Philip Murray
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Green, Johnston and
Murray
10 Hurt At Odessa As Plaster Falls
Odessa Tex March 29 At least ten persons were injured and hundreds narrowly escaped possible death when the acoustic plaster of an Odessa theater collapsed last night while packed house watched a moving picture. None was seriously injured. The injured were given emergency treatment at local hospitals.
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Odessa
Tex
Allied Forces Break German Lines North of Ruhr Near Hanover
British and American troops push through a major Ruhr break threatening Hannover while First and Third armies advance toward Berlin. Frankfurt, Mannheim, Weisbaden, Hanau and Aschaffenburg fall as IX and Seventh armies press the Neckar and Main fronts. Duisburg, a Ruhr port, is captured with German defenders deserting.
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James M. Long
Paris
Ruhr
Hannover
Berlin
First Army
Duisburg
Frankfurt
Third Army
First
Hamborn
Weisbaden
Hanau
Aschaffenburg
Mannheim
Eisenhower
Germany
Westphalia
A. P
Ned Nordwess
Muenster
Osnabrueck
West Aephalia
Amoeneburg
Rhine
Lahn
Marburg
Kassel
Essen
Heidelberg
Hamm
Mulheim
Gelsenkirchen
Bochum
Oberhausen
Dortmund
Bonn
Manneheim
Volkssturm
Point Values Change Sunday
Washington reports that OPA will raise canned peas and asparagus values while slashing red value costs for sweet cherries plums prunes and tomato juice. The changes align with higher red points for pork products and oils and include specific increases for pork cuts and margarine.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
U.S. Casualty Toll Rises to 872,862 in World War II
Washington report shows total American combat casualties since Pearl Harbor at 872,862, with the Army at 780,043 and the Navy adding 92,819. Stimson notes figures cover through March 21 for the Army and late February to early March frontline developments, with breakdowns by killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners. Japanese losses in the Philippine campaign are estimated at over 300,000, including 172,983 counted killed.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Stimson
Philippine
Tornado Injures Seven Near Terrell Texas
Seven people were injured when a tornado struck the Abner community near Terrell Texas. Five victims were trapped under debris while two others Mrs Raymond Steiffer and her 12 year old son Harold were hurt but sought help after walking to summon aid. They endured the four hour storm exposure before hospitalization as four inches of rain accompanied the twister. Local resident Davidson recalled warning his family as the house was lifted from its foundation and he was later rescued by ambulance workers.
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Terrell
Tex
Abner
Raymond Steiffer
Harold
Davidson
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Phagen
Mason
Orleans
Westbrook Pegler
Scobey
Mont
Twin Falls
Laverne Rawlings
Jess Rinabolt
Fort Randall
Alaska
Sir Hubert Wilkins
al Jolson
Earle Galbraithe
Little Rock
Hollywood
Quartsite
Ariz
Hot Springs
Jolson
Capt. Moore
Senate Committee
Ryukyus
Kerama
LAUDS
Texas
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