Vireson Outlines One Front War Civilian Gasoline Plan
War Mobilizer Fred M. Vireon unveils a broad 20 point home front program after V E day. Civilian gasoline allocations will rise to 16 percent for A and commercial card users while travel restrictions remain. Selective service inductions stay free with few future dissentments. Production cuts, unemployment, and building limits accompany a shift to moderate consumer item output. New cars will arrive in six to nine months but civilian demand will take years to meet. Meat sugar butter and fats remain scarce. labor, truck, tire shortages persist, with 260 600 homes planned to be built in 13 months.
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Washington
INS
Fred M. Vireon
Wday
Japan
East
Pacific
Bylon
BTAXS
Minson
Tt Wal
Damage estimate puts Britain's war losses over four billion
NonDON May 9 reports Sir John Anderson, chancellor of the exchequer, told the commons that a safe estimate of Britain's war damage would be well over four billion dollars. The figure underscores the substantial costs expected from wartime destruction.
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Nondon
Sir John Anderson
Ex-Chenuer
Commons Today
Britain
War Dog Sacrifices Save Marines on Okinawa
Marine scout remembers a war dog that sacrificed itself to save about 100 men during a Okinawa operation. John J. Wolf, a private, recounted crawling toward a Japanese machine gun nest as explosions rocked the terrain. A snarling dog pinned enemies in place as Wolf fired, ending the threat and saving others before the animal died.
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Marine Third
Okinawa
UNS
Pfe
John J. Wolf
Tailath
Dinn
Invasion Talk Grows As Japan Battles Okinawa
Allied planners discuss a possible invasion of Japan as air battles intensify over Okinawa. U S commanders report heavy Japanese losses, crippled air forces, and continued fighting near the Philippines, Okinawa, and around theChina border, with warnings that victory will not come quickly.
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Associated Press
U. S
Japan
Indo-China
Fieet
Nimitz
Olver
Evlor
The
Mikado
Okinawa
Teijiro Toyoda
Nippon
Korea
U. S. 14Th Air Force
China
Reds Clear Prague of Germans
News from London reports Soviet forces under Marshal Konev liberated Prague at 4 a m after a rapid night advance from the north. German bombers struck Prague and nearby towns as hostilities officially ended. French ports and U boat bases also surrendered with about 72,000 Germans believed defeated at three sites.
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London
Stalin
Prague
Konev
Melnik
Kralupy
Tereza
Alles
Edouard Benes
Benes
Yas
Kosice
Kassa
Slovakia
Condon
Meni
Dresden
Luxembourg Radio
K Micers
Dodecanese
Aegean Sea
Wagener
Mediterranean
Ogee
Ead
Mediterranean Vets Move to Pacific Front Flight
General Joseph McNarkey announced in a V E Day address in Italy that veteran troops from the Mediterranean theater are already on their way to the Pacific to join the battle against Japan. He disclosed the movement during the celebration.
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Washington
Maa
Mediterranean
Pacific
Japan
Joseph T. McNarkey
Date Eventful For Marine Date Eventful For Marine
Trinidad report recalls a Marine timeline from 1832 birth in Trinidad to 1914, joining in 1938, marriage in 1943, Tarawa wounding, and Okinawa death in 1945. Doolittle’s victory note alongside King George reception at Buckingham Palace appears in other line.
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Trinidad
Cow
Ise
Marine Tech
Gilbert
Rubin
Nin
Marines
Tarawa
Okinawa
Jung on German psychology and Nazi complicity
Dr. Carl Jung, in an exclusive interview, states ten percent of Germans are incurably psychopathic and the nation awakens with a hangover. He argues moral instruction must come from within and warns that many Germans, consciously or not, are tied to Nazi violence. He questions the American approach to moralizing and concentration camp lessons.
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Wvavewas
Carl Jung
Suss Weekly
Die Welt-Woche
Dung
Seid Jung
Belind
Moscow crowds hail U S wildly in front of embassy
In Moscow on May 9 crowds gathered before the U S embassy in a spontaneous tribute to the United States. Demonstrators shouted support for American leaders and memory of Roosevelt while Russians and embassy staff exchanged gestures of goodwill. George Keenan waved a Soviet flag beside the U S flag at half staff.
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Moscow
U. S
United States
Vhey
Truman
Roosevelt
George Keenan Hue
Wich
AP Newsmen Suspended for Premature Surrender Report
In Paris on May 9, the AP suspended war correspondents Edward Kennedy Robert Bunnelle and Morton Godebrod for publishing an unauthorized early report of Germany's surrender. Kennedy filed from Reims with 16 others under strict secrecy. Bunnelle heads the London AP bureau and Godebrod oversees AP distribution to French papers.
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Paris
Sipleme
Loft
Atatement
Associated Press
Edward Ken
Hody
Robert Bunnelle
Morton
Gubebrod
Germany
Kennedy
Reims
Bunnelle
London
Solons to Probe Whisky Sugar Use
Lawmakers plan an investigating committee in Washington to examine a alleged large diversion of sugar used for bootleg whisky. They will question Internal Revenue Bureau officials as part of the probe. In Omaha heavy snow fell about an hour this morning with temperatures in the low 30s.
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Birt Shalrman Anderson
D.N. Mi
Saint Lojay Hla Douse Food Investigating Committee
Internal Revenue Bureau
Omana
Omaha
Miny
Feds doubt Hitler body in Berlin chancellery fate
A Reuters dispatch from London May 1 reports German and Soviet authorities disagree over the bodies found in the Berlin chancellery believed to be Adolf Hitler. Some witnesses say the remains resemble Hitler, while one unidentified observer claims they may be Hitler's aide, a body double. The dispute centers on verification by German and Russian investigators after World War II.
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Lonron
Reuter
Germany
Soyer
Miter
Berlin
Jiffer
Hitler
U S to Pay Damages for Egg Injury on Train Car
The House approved a measure to pay Donate $4839.20 in damages for injuries caused when an egg was thrown from a troop train's kitchen car. The incident occurred as the train passed through misty terrain near Tintah.
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Michael
Donatell
Senate
Quisling and Stooges Surrender in Oslo and More
Oslo reports Quisling and several cabinet members surrendered at a police station with Quisling appearing pale and shaken. Oslo clashes between Norwegian resistance and Quisling factions followed, with Dutch and German forces involved and British naval movements noted. An Allied commission negotiated a surrender with German forces at Lillehammer while Britain and Sweden reports filtered in. Denmark’s King Christian reopened parliament as Danish collaborationists faced an end to wartime measures.
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Oslo
Quisliing
Quisling
Charles Hoff
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Navgestapo
Norway
Hid
Amsterdam
R. Wilton
London
Lillehammer
Franz Boehne
Quising
Sweden
Fron
Christian
Denmark
Rikscing
Wihelm Buhl
Forecast for Texas: Clouds and scattered thundershowers
Considerable cloudiness on Wednesday with scattered thundershowers across east and south portions. Wednesday night into Thursday remains unsettled with a high near 90 and a low around 68.
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Texas
War Trials May Be Forced Soon
A clearest draft of the postwar pursuit of Nazi leaders, German field marshal Hermann Goering, once Hitler’s deputy, was captured by the American Seventh Army. He claims Hitler ordered his arrest to push a surrender, and asserts Hitler died around April 27. The report notes other top Nazi figures were also captured and discusses potential early war crimes trials and Allied handling of captives.
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Hitler
Reichsmarshal
Berchtesgaden
Berlin
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Goering
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Texas
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von Papen
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