Leipzig Falls as German Resistance Collapses
Allied forces seal Leipzig surrender as 20,000-plus prisoners and heavy booty flood in. US troops from Fighting 69th and Indian Head divisions seize city hall while others close in on Napoleon statue and railroad station, amid electric storm and massed refugees.
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Missouri
Rhine
Leipzig
Napoleon
Germany
Duesseldorf
Big Saxony
Courtney H. Hodges
3Rd
Fuerth
Nuernberg
Luneberg
Lower
Elbe
Harburg
Hamburg
Zwickau
Schwabische Hall
63Rd
7Th Army
Magdeburg
I. G. Farbenindustrie
Halle
Dessau
Berlin
Chemnitz
Saxony
Czechoslovakia
Dresden
George S. Patton
Prague
Pilsen
Skoda
Republic
Stuttgart
Switzerland
North Sea
Emden
Utrecht
Amsterdam
Holland
Zuider Zee
Germans Thinned at Gironde Pocket as Normandy Surrenders Climb
Allied HQ reports 37,427 Germans surrendered Tuesday lifting total since D-day to 2,093,002. Of these 309,484 were from the Ruhr battle. about 50,060 more remained to be captured. The German losses at Stalingrad are cited as the greatest prior catastrophe. Ruhr casualties exclude killed and seriously wounded.
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Amsterdam
Atlantic
Gironde
Pointe de Grave
Bordeaux
Supreme Headquarters
Ruhr
Stalingrad
Reds 18 Miles From Berlin
United States and Soviet fronts report advances near Chemnitz and bridges over the Spree as Russian troops push toward Berlin and join with Allied forces. German broadcasts claim heavy breakthrough tanks with a new 180 mm gun and rapid fire capability.
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Chemnitz
Berlin
Spree
Weisswasser
Finsterwalde
Oder
Neisse
German Transocean
Strike Ends at Detroit Wheel Plant but Unrest Persists
Five thousand striking workers returned to the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. plants in Detroit after management refused a regional board directive to reinstate five discharged union officers. Spokesmen said the five rehired men forced past guards, though they would not be paid, and unrest continued despite the end of the strike.
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Detroit
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co
Regional War Labor Board
Flood Strains Oil Ops Along Mississippi River
Dry weather reduces dike risk as floodwaters rise slowly from Red Black and Ouachita rivers inundating about 409000 acres in Concordia parish Louisiana. Oil operations were seriously hindered while about 40000 people displaced by the Red river begin to return as flood subsides upstream. Memphis lies below flood stage for first time in 39 days.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
Ouachita
Concordia
Catahoula Parishes
Louisiana
Concordia Parish
Red River
Memphis
Mississippi
Dill Heads Junior Order of United American Mechanics
Wilfred T. Dill of Baltimore is elected state councilor of the Maryland council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He succeeds Aaron W. Bean after last night's election at the 75th annual session, with Frederick chosen as the 1945 meeting site.
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Dill Heads JR
D. U. A. M. Baltimore
Wilfred T. Dill
Baltimore
Maryland Council
Order of United American Mechanics
Dill
Aaron W. Bean
Frederick
Berlin at War The Grim Toll and Surprising Laments
Berlin’s residents endure severe scarcity as coffins vanish for burials and dead bodies are moved in paper bags amid bombed streets. The city endures bereavement, power shortages, and rationing while maps and radios become scarce luxuries in a nerve weary population.
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Berlin
Cabinet Changes Now Seen Likely
Washington April 19 Deliberations hint at Roosevelt era cabinet shifts possibly within days Secretary Perkins may depart labor field with Harley Kilgore eyed as successor Kilgore earns CIO AFL support and labor agency trust changes foreseen Agriculture post may shift Wickard out with War Food duties moved Marvin Jones eyes Court of Claims return J B Butson could head enlarged agriculture portfolio Byrnes return likely as Secretary of State after UN Conference Stettinius' future as US representative in new security body under consideration
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Washington
Roosevelt
Truman
Labor Department
Perkins
Harley Kilgore
D-W.va
Kilgore
Court of Claims
Jones
J. B. Butson
War Mobilization Office
Uutson
James F. Byrnes
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
San Francisco
Stettinius
Early Berry Crop Forecast Amid Price Troubles
Berry growers report an unsettled season with 39 years in business owner noting unusual troubles. Last year paid five cents per berry box with pickers averaging 115 boxes daily netting about 7.75. OPA ceilings set on raspberries hold with no price change planned this year amid crate shortages and industry reports.
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Multiendere
Mullendore
OPA
Perry
Ray
Scarcity of Baby Shoes Reported By Retailers
Dealers warn that baby shoes will become scarcer as demand outpaces supply. Some cite more money in cheaper grades driving inventory, while cheaper grades lack leather for better pairs. A department store executive calls the situation pathetic as customers wait for sought after children’s shoes.
Food rationing plans for meat dairy and greens
The notice outlines wartime rationing steps citing red meat dairy stamps lasting to December 1 blue processed food stamps to October 1 and possible interim shifts to green point stamps or spare stamps. Book five has been in planning for about two months.
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Japan
Hungarian General Disarms His Troops
Three U S doughboys drafted a Hungarian general to act as a non com and disarm 789 Hungarians who surrendered and filed into a warehouse camp in Naumburg Germany. Guards Weingast Sellers and Batt supervised the scene in a facility storing Nazi champagne cognac and food. The general led by example directing prisoners to surrender hardware.
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U. S
TN Naumburg
Germany
Jack Weinfast
Brooklyn
Kenneth Sellers
Chicago
Donald Batt
New York City
Weingast
Fire destroys 700 feet of tank car rack at refinery
Fire at Standard Oil refining plant in El Segundo California destroyed 700 feet of a 1 000 foot long tank car loading rack after a three hour blaze. Firemen reported no casualties and no explosions occurred as flames lit the night sky.
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L Segundo
Calif
Standard Oil
el Segundo
Circus License Fee Clarified by State Inspector
Chief inspector Frank P. Bratten advised Clerk Edward Oswald this morning that annual circus licenses cost 50 dollars. He explained that some circus managers had been asking for a 2 dollar per performance fee, but the license is annual regardless of performances.
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Frank P. Bratten
Edward Oswald
Mr. Bratten
Two Being Grilled In Suspected Theft
An 85 year old sailor was detained at police headquarters last night as detectives investigate a found gas drum and motor oil on a North Mulberry Street porch. A warrant was served on Jane Byrd, the tenant, charging her with keeping the property.
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North Mulberry Street
Jane Byrd
Local clubs drive to reach 150 ton clothing goal
Mobley reported 445 pounds from Hagerstown Rotary as Lions Club added 615 pounds. Kiwanis, Sharpsburg, and Williamsport boosts plus a house to house Boy Scout canvass push toward April target of 11 tons daily to hit 150 tons by May 1.
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Europe
Mobley
Hagerstown
Gasoline Theft Probe Tangles Hagerstown Suspect
Detectives and officers investigate a gasoline theft in a frame building within Hagerstown. A woman reported finding gasoline on her porch last Sunday while police pursue leads, including a sailor and a woman tied to a garage on East Franklin Street.
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Hagerstown
Wayne Sellman
Bilenard
Rohrer
Sellman
East Franklin Street
Goebbels Warns Germany Faces Razor Edge Crisis
In a pre broadcast text Goebbels urged Germans to support Hitler and unite for a final effort as the war worsened. He claimed the plutocracy bolshevism coalition was cracking and hinted at Roosevelt’s death without naming him.
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London
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Hitler
Reich
Goebbels
DNB
Roosevelt
Two Women Injured in City Auto Collision
Two ladies were injured in an auto collision at Jonathan and Church streets yesterday afternoon. Catherine Smith and Dolores Murray were riding in a car when the accident occurred.
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Jonathan and
Church Streets
Catherine Smith
Dolores Murray
Crash injures two drivers on Church and Jonathan streets
Junior Buchanan Cear foss was west bound on Church street when his car collided with a north bound vehicle on Jonathan operated by Cleveland Beggerly. Both cars sustained heavy damage and the drivers were taken to Washington County Hospital in the Goodwikt ambulance for treatment of cuts and bruises. Patrolman N. W. Wolfe investigated the crash.
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Junior Buchanan
Cearfoss
Church Street
Washington County Hospital
Goodwikt
Jonathan
Cleveland Beggerly
Mitchell Avenue
N. W. Wolfe
Demand U S Retain Jap Pacific Isles
Washington April 19 Navy bill dominates debate as lawmakers weigh postwar retention of Pacific islands including the Marshall, Caroline, Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Okinawa. Navy officials favor keeping the isles, seen as strategically vital despite limited economic value, with international trusteeship also discussed.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
House
Sas
Marshal
Caroline Islands
Jima
Saipan
Okinawa
League of Nations
Appropriations Committee
Navy
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Hutson
U.S. 9Th Army
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