Russians Close On Stettin As Berlin Drive Expands
Russians 25 miles from Stettin threaten to enclose Breslau area as Konev and Zhukov push toward German strongholds. The Berlin front sees heavy artillery and advancing Soviet infantry while Moscow reports rapid gains and near bridges across the Oder as German defenses shrink.
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James F. King
London
Withn
Stettin
Berlin
Breslau
Gregory Zhukov
Oder
Ivan Konev
Malisch
Archwitz
Liegnitz
Parchwitz
Kurtsch
Moscow
Konev
Saxony
Reetz
Bernstein
Sammenthin
Baltic
Associated Press
Reuters
Zhukov
Joler
Kuestrin
Wriezen
Zzekerick
Zellin
Pport
Cuttween
Pomerania
Danzig
Pyritz
Stargard
Stettin-Stargard- Danzig
Sudetenland
Strehlen
Neisse
Ster
Neisselgthe Grottkau
New Intelligence Service Proposed in Roosevelt Memo
The Chicago Tribune reports Roosevelt received a draft order and a plan to create a central intelligence service to coordinate postwar intelligence. Brig. Gen. Donovan would head the unit, which would supersede FBI, OSS, Navy and other agencies but lack police power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Tribune Today
Roosevelt
Central Intelligence Service
Washington
Walter Trohan
William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
the Tribune
General Intelligence Service
Federal Police
Military Intelligence
Naval Intelligence
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Secret Service
Internal Revenue Agents
Federal Communications Commission
Executive Branch
American Nurses Association
ANA
Katharine J. Densford
House Military Committee
War Manpower Commission
Red Cross Nursing Service
Miss Densford
Cpl Tadewald To Be Repatriated Home From War Camp
Cpl Robert Tadewald of Muscatine is being repatriated from a German prison camp and will be sent to the United States soon. His parents Mr and Mrs Ernest Tadewald of 704 Walnut street and his fiancé Miss Jeannette Esser of Ottumwa have received official word and expect him home after two years as a prisoner of war.
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Cpl
Robert Tadewald
Muscatine
Germany
War Department
Ernest Tadewald
Walnut Street
The
Army
United States
Washington, D. C
Tadewald
Tadewalds
Stalag III
Lawrence Proffitt
Harold Bartelt
Pfc
William O’brien
Tunisia
Bartelt
O’brien
Lyman Saltsman
Charles Sterner
Wilton
Ireland
Camp Claiborne
North Africa
Jeannette Esser
Ottumwa
Giles and Cook Escape Missouri Valley Marshals
Edgar Cook and John Giles, who had escaped Council Bluffs jail weeks earlier, were captured in Missouri Valley and fled again after a gunfight with police. Night Marshal Huff confronted their escape attempt at the Rialto theater safe, a concealed revolver was used, and Huff was threatened during transport to the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Valley
H. W. Conaway
Edgar Cook
John Giles
Council Bluffs
Conaway
Charles Huff
Rialto Theater
Giles
Cook
Huff
Nazis Begin Counter In North Italy
Allied reports say German forces launched a company strength counterattack against positions recaptured by the Fifth Army in the Serchio valley north of Gallicano. Fighting continued near Burca with skirmishes elsewhere. coastal patrols pushed forward with light opposition. Weather was fair with thawed rivers hindering movement and German dyke destruction along the Senio near the Adriatic may slow an Allied pursuit.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Serchio
Gallicano
Burca
Senic River
Adriatic
Alps
Belief 2 Dead In Blast And Fire At Chicago Shop
The Veiling Steel plant in Chicago suffered a fatal blast and fire presumed to kill two men identified as Martin Lightfoot and John Gagajewski. Firefighters faced a 250 foot flame eruption while 15 welders escaped. Damage was placed at 150000 and the plant was described as war work for the army and navy.
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Chicago
Veiling Steel Company
Ray Olsen
Martin Lightfoot
John Gagajewski
Olsen
Michael J. Corrigan
Army
Navy
Japan
Kobe
Tokyo-Yokohama
Stimson
India
Marianas Islands
China
Iwo Island
Volcano
Okimura
Haha Island
Bonins
Tokyo
Mass
Burma
Irrawaddy
Mandalay
Philippines
Luzon
MacArthur
Munoz
Manila
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Changsha
Hankow-Canton
Manila Push Completes Central Luzon Campaign
Allied forces seal central Luzon as the 6th and 25th divisions take Munoz, Rizal and Lupao while 37th division ferries across the Pasig near Malacanan Palace. Manila endures food shortages and looting as air and ground actions press Tokyo’s defenses.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Manila
Luzon
Pasig
Philippines
Malacanan Palace
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
11Th Airborne
6Th
25Th
Munoz
Rizal
Lupao
Sky Armadas Raid Reich in Major Allied Bombing
Approximately 1,300 American heavy bombers escorted by over 850 fighters attacked German oil plants and rail hubs near Leipzig and Magdeburg, with targets at Wei mar, Lutzkendorf, Politz, and Verona railyards. British raids hit Politz refinery near Stette and Berlin, while Allied air forces logged heavy daylight sorties across the front and to Austria and Italy.
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London
Lutzkendorf
Leipzig
Weimar
Germany
Magdeburg
Politz
Stette
Berlin
U. S
9Th Air Force
Reichswald Forest
Verona
Mediterranean
Albert Kesselring
Italy
Rome
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Vienna
Gras
Drake Enrollment Up in Spring Term at Des Moines
Miss Emma J. Scott Drake registrar said on Thursday spring enrollment rose by 126 students from 1944 to 1 021 at Drake University in Des Moines.
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DRAKE
Des Moines
Emma J. Scott
Drake University
Canadians Break Into Siegfried Line At Kleve Front
Paris AP reports the Canadian First Army penetrated deep into Germany near the Siegfried Line advancing four and a half miles and threatening Kleve as part of a northern pincer toward the Ruhr. Five German and two Dutch towns fell with 1,200 German casualties and surrenders.
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James M. Long
Paris
First Army
Germany
Siegfried Line
Ruhr
Kleve
Reichswald
Schwammenauel Dam
Roe River
Cologne
Pruem
Reich
Strasbourg
Upper Rhine
Switzerland
Eisenhower
Berlin
Henry Crerar
Canadian First Army
Rhine
Galgensteen
Zyfflich
Duisburg
Silesia
U. S. Third Army
Saarland
Dewey Urges Unity in International Policy with Roosevelt
Governor Dewey told a banquet crowd that Roosevelt has bipartisan support in his talks with Churchill and Stalin but warned that big three meetings alone won’t suffice. He criticized domestic liberalism and urged immediate U S participation in international decisions while Sen. Tobey and others offered mixed reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Dewey
New York
Europe
Congress
England
Stalin
Russia
Willis
Republican
Indiana
Sen
Tobey
New Hampshire
Austin
Hatch
Vermont
Democrat
New Mexico
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Nations Council
Sen. Ball
Minnesota
Dumbarton Oaks
Train Derailment Near Hawarden Upsets Freight Route
Sioux City officials report 17 cars derailed on a Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific freight train four miles north of Hawarden on Thursday. No injuries were reported.
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Sioux City
Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific
Hawarden
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Adm. Leahy
Gen Marshall
Adm
King
Naval Operations
Stettinius
Navy Forrestal
Donovan
la Roche
Lierneux
Belgium
Eupen
Clerveux
17Th Air
Aachen
Monschau
Malmedy
Stavelot
Echterscheide
Vithe
Neuerberg
Loshemm
Roer R
Gemund
E Schleiden
Udendreth
Kronenberg
Bastogne
Neufchoteau Marlange
Vianden
Luxembourg
Suchet
Tburg
Moses R
Soarburg
Patton
Third Army
Echternach
Missouri Valley Marshall
Central
Sky
RAF
Politz Oil Works
Gop Eyes Dewey
Roer
Second
Ninth Army
Rver
Schmidt
78Th
Olzheim
French First Army
Lower Alsace
Supreme Headquarters
Lower
Alsace
First
Arnhem
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