02 May 1945
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1945
Page
1
In London May 2 Allied leaders dismissed Hitler’s death as a political issue and ordered continued military operations. They noted Doenitz’s succession and Ribbentrop’s replacement while reporting possible naval surrenders and continued resistance across Europe.
Allied arms achieve a great victory as German troops in Northern Italy lay down arms unconditionally on May 2 after a capitulation signed at Caserta near Naples. Hostilities ceased nationwide in Italy and signs point to further talks as fighting ends.
An official Eisenhower statement reports Heinrich Himmler told Count Folke Bernadotte at Lübeck on April 24 that Germany was finished. Himmler said Hitler was gravely ill and near death, with Hitler's fate and Germany's collapse deemed imminent. The disclosure cites no peace terms and notes radio reports of Hitler's death as of that time.
A heavy killing frost left flowers and vegetation damaged in a PA section while Ronald Gary Gibson welcomed eight grandparents at his April 13 birth. Jameson Memorial hospital reported 64 April births, down from 1944, with 21 girls and 26 boys. New Castle and Lawrence County residents question a German report claiming Hitler died in Berlin.
Weather report for the 24 hours ending at 9 am notes a high of 50 and a low of 27 degrees with heavy frost and river stage at 52 feet. Year ago figures show a high of 78 and a low of 57 with no precipitation.
German prisoner Heinz Golze aged 24, who had escaped twice before, fled the Johnson Bronze company foundry in a ruse of visiting a lavatory. State and City police and the FBI pursued him after midnight as heavy fog aided the escape. He had previously escaped from a Northeast, Pa. camp and Camp Pickett. Golze is described as 5 feet 7 inches, 136 pounds, blue eyes, blonde hair, wearing blue denims with P. W. markings, possibly an olive drab raincoat turned inside out.
Delegates from smaller nations step into the limelight as talks begin. A bold push outlines a new Magna Carta to secure global peace and curb war threats, signaling a shift in international diplomacy.
At the United Nations conference the four commission presidents Paul Henry Spaak Trygve Lie Jan Christian Smuts and Carraciolo Parra Perez meet in secret to assign committees and draft procedures based on the Dumbarton Oaks formula to create a new world security structure aimed at preventing future wars.
American forces on Mindanao push toward Davao city from less than six miles away after overrunning Darong airstrip and reaching Dualiao. The 31st and 24th Infantry Divisions advance along the main highway with dive bombers support as airfields fall and enemy resistance thins.
Allied forces report 1.5 million Germans captured in April as U S Seventh and Third Armies advance through retreating German areas. Field Marshal Von Rundstedt is reported taken into custody as American troops push toward the Brenner Pass near the Italian border.
GEORGE McWILLIAMS reports from Guam that Seventh Infantrymen reach near Yonabaru an airfield advance threatening the Naha line. Small gains widen the breach as American forces push toward Kuhazu Machinato and Kahaza as carrier planes strike outpost targets in the Ryukyu archipelago.
President Truman announced the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Italy. He said Allied armies in Italy won the first European soil surrender from the west and hailed the collapse of military tyranny as a turning point, noting more details continued on Page Two.
Allied forces in Burma landed on both sides of the Rangoon river south of Rangoon early this morning, the Southeast Asia Command communique reported. The broadcast was carried by the New Delhi Telegraph Service and picked up by the PCC.
Maj. Paul C. Kraborg reports Allied troops landed in Borneo in an operation described as a strategic, decisive blow against Japan. dispatches from Canberra indicate forces fought in the Tarakan area, southeast of U.S. bases in the Sulu archipelago, while Japan faces disrupted supplies and mounting Allied pressure.
Hear reports from Copenhagen via telegraph that German naval forces in Denmark began surrendering. Marines dismounted ship guns in Fredericia harbor and surrendered to Danish authorities while the army evacuated towns in Zealand and Jutland, including Hillerod and Praestor. commanders reportedly surrendered to local mayors.
Munich May 2 Observers skeptical about Nazi radio claim Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler died directing Berlin defense. Many doubt the report fearing a staged fading of the leader to fuel a legend and maintain control amid turmoil and propaganda.
President Truman asked Congress to slash the war time shipbuilding program by more than seven billion dollars and cut eighty million from the 1946 budgets of eight war agencies. The move is billed as an economy step following recent developments and progress in the war. Continued on Page two.
Death record lists Frank William Jannetta 79 of 704 South Cedar Street and Amos Snider 74 of 823 Fulkerson Street. Also noted are Agnes Fombertle Wilkinson KS and Mrs Eli Markus 47 of 491 Wampum Avenue Ellwood City and Mrs Frank Colucci 35 Hillsville with references to local roads and addresses.
Allied forces reportedly spearheaded an invasion of Borneo with around five thousand troops and sixteen British warships. The Australian parliament announced the operation, with Dutch East Indies and Japanese positions described as contested, and offshore bombardment led by destroyers and cruisers beginning Friday.
London reports a flood of speculation after the Hitler death announcement. Observers doubt any surrender faction has secured enough power to pursue peace with the Allies. V E Day is viewed as near but the exact timing remains uncertain.
Washington May 2 INS Government seizure of Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines was awarded to GRV as seventy thousand strik ing miners continued to defy a War Labor Board work order John L Lewis attending wage revisions in New York has given no sign he will comply The miners struck under their no contract no work policy when the old agreement expired Secretary Ickes announced he was ready to take over the mines in New York and Lewis continued on Page Two
The readable parts mention weather improvement and bonds in a broader note. Names and places are garbled, but the taste of civic updates and forecasts suggests a brief local item about improving conditions and financial matters.
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