Reds Tighten Hold on Trapped Nazis
Russian forces push through Pomeranian lines from Stargard to Stettin while closing on a large Nazi pocket east of the city. The offensives threaten Berlin as Rokossovsky and Zhukov coordinate across the Baltic coast with key towns such as Kolberg Schlawe Koeslin and Danzig in their sights. It was unclear if any American troops were freed and officials described the action as an all-out offensive involving large tank forces.
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London
Stettin
Stargard
Pomerania
Stettin Bay
Berlin
Alt-Damm
East Bank
Oder
Fallen Stargard
Wiesenthal
Schlawe
Danzig
Gross-Tychow
Koeslin
Moscow
Baltic
Kolberg
Naugard
Baltic Sea
Red Army
Stalin
Polzin
Pomeranian
Gregory K. Zhukov
Zhukov
K. K. Rokossovsky
U. S
Rokossovsky
Stolo- Gdynia-Danzig
Tokyo Reports Aerial Raids
Tokyo radio reported 10 American B 29s bombed the Japanese homeland in early morning raids. It said Amoy was hit for three hours by bombers and fighters while fires burned south of Tokyo. A southern Kyushu strike followed as Tokyo claimed minimal damage from the raid.
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Washington
Tokyo
Amoy
Japan
Kyushu
Domei Agency
Bids to World Conference Are Sent Out
The United States invited 39 nations to attend the world security conference in San Francisco beginning April 25. Poland was excluded due to the Crimean agreement, while France opted out of sponsorship but will attend. Smaller nations seek to curb big powers, and a Yalta formula outlines veto and enforcement rules for the future world council.
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Washington
United Nations
Poland
San Francisco
State Department
Yalta
World Council
France
Dumbarton Oaks
World Organization
United States
Russia
China
Britain
States
Security Council
Bus marooned in Idaho freed by snowplow
A bus with 26 passengers traveling from Monida Montana to Idaho Falls Idaho reached Idaho Falls after a snowplow briefly cleared the Dubois to Spencer highway. Authorities believed two cars also followed the plow though their drivers could not be found. The highway was closed again by drifting snow and traffic remained halted at noon.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Monida
Mont
Dubois
Spencer
Spencer-Dubois
Highway 91 Open for One Way Traffic Into Idaho
Montana Highway Department announced in Butte on Monday that U S Highway 91 into Idaho is open for one way traffic despite drifting snow near Spencer. Continued on page 2.
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Montana Highway Department
Butte
Idaho
Spencer
Weather Outlook For Butte And Montana West And East
Butte sees clear and warmer conditions Tuesday into Tuesday night with clouds and a high near 18. Monday's highs reached 17 and the low fell to minus 26. West of the continental divide the sky stays cloudy and warmer with scattered snow flurries and highs around 20 to 25 Tuesday. East of the divide cloudiness rises as temperatures rise with highs near 30 in the northwest and 15 to 25 elsewhere. Wednesday remains partly cloudy and warmer.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Divide
British Flyers Hit Chemnitz as Red Armies Get Air Support
R A F bombers in strong force bombed Chemnitz freight yards on Monday night backing the Red army and disrupting German transport to Silesia. Berlin and Chemnitz were targeted. the raid marked the 14th consecutive Ruhr pounding and the first day in 15 with fewer than 1,000 heavy bombers. More than 400 U S Eighth Air Force bombers with 600 fighters attacked Harburg and Chemnitz. Lancasters hit a benzol plant near Gelsenkirchen.
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London
U.P
Chemnitz
Red Army
Silesian
Berlin
Vienna
Lower Austria
U.S. Eighth Air Force
Harburg
Hamburg
R. A. F. Lancasters
Germany
Nazis Urged to Quit by Allied Broadcast
An Eisenhower headquarters appeal via American forces radio urged German officers to consider surrender to the Allies. It stated the war’s turning points with Allied advances to the Rhine and Ruhr, Red Army near Berlin, and Russian control of Upper Silesia and East Prussia, calling on officers to save their men and end bloodshed.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Europe
Germany
West Wall
Rhine
Ruhr
OWI
Red Army
Berlin
Upper Silesia
East Prussia
Pozen
Poznan
Saxony
Brandenburg
Pomerania
American Republics Press Priority in World Peace Talks
The Inter-American conference committee on world security advances Latin American changes to the Dumbarton Oaks plan for a United Nations security council. France seeks equal footing but is not offered sponsor status. invitations to the San Francisco conference have been sent by Britain, Russia, the United States, and China.
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Mexico City
United Nations
Nce
San Francisco
Inter-American Conference Committee On World Security
Latin America
Dumbarton Oaks
Stettinius
Britain
Russia
United
Western Hemisphere
France
Marines Beat Back Japanese on Iwo Jima Front
U S Marines on Iwo Island repelled Japanese counterattacks and infiltration attempts as Lt Gen Holland M Smith kept three divisions in position. By Saturday 12,864 enemy dead and 2,050 American killed were reported with continued supply efforts and air strikes on nearby Bonin Islands.
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Guam
U.P
United States
Iwo Island
Fleet Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Tokyo
Nimitz
Bonin Islands
Chichi Jima
2050 Marines Die in Iwo Jima Battle
Navy Secretary Forrestal announced at a news conference that 2,050 Marines were killed in the Iwo Jima assault. He called the Japanese defense there the most thorough yet faced and said the base would serve as a crucial sea and air gate to Japan, enabling B-29 raids and Liberator reach. He warned Japan still fields about 70 combat divisions and roughly 5 million allied fighting men would be needed to defeat them.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Iwo Jima
Pacific
Iwo
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Japan
United States
Seven Montanans Wounded in Action
War department release lists 1 947 U S soldiers wounded in the European theater. Next of kin notified. Names include Harry R Adams Edith Adams Corvallis Hans F Frey Herman Frey Anaconda Raymond F Higgins Alice C Cassidy Missoula Paul J Jones Marie Jones Copper St Missoula Lawrence C Nave Laurel Mary Jane R Nave Great Falls Wallace E Penn Evelyn Penn 219 12th St N Anaconda Emil O Peterson Nona Peterson Anaconda.
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Washington
Anaconda
Paul J. Jones
Marie Jones
Copper St
Missoula
Tech
Lawrence C. Nave
Mary Jane R. Nave
Laurel
Wallace E. Penn
Evelyn Penn
12Th St
North
Great Falls
Emil O. Peterson
Nona Peterson
Protest Directive Sparks Industry Outcry in Washington
Garment manufacturers and wool growers urged the Smith committee to investigate executive agencies, calling the war production board directive on lower and medium priced clothing arbitrary and capricious and completely unworkable.
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Washington
War Production Board
Smith Committee
Six Divisions of Japs Annihilated
MacArthur reports on Luzon and Leyte battles with heavy Japanese losses. He notes 215000 Japanese killed on Luzon and Leyte, with remaining forces split into divergent groups and under continuous air and ground attack as guerrilla and naval forces harass supply lines.
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Manila
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
MacArthur
Ilocos Norte
Col
R. W. Volckman
Leyte
Cagayan Valley
38Th
43Rd
Zambales
14Th Corps
Villa Verde
Aminyabang
Pangasinan Province
Luzon Plain
Lingayen Bay
Three American Columns Drive Into City in Cologne
On March 6 U P report three American columns led by tanks entered Cologne and seized about one third of the city by Monday night. They pushed a mile into the urban core and stood two miles from the cathedral as German resistance fell to advancing armored infantry.
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Paris
U.P
Cologne
Rhine
Hohenzollern
Germans claim Rhine bridges wrecked and army withdraws
London reports on March 5 that Germany announced it destroyed all Rhine bridges from Cologne to Wesel and that most of its army has pulled back across the Rhine to face a decisive battle. Berlin acknowledges American advances into Cologne and the Rhine front but says large entrapment was avoided.
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London
Rhine
Cologne
Wesel
Berlin
Cologne Bridge Blowup Report and Cathedral Loss
Dispatches say the bridge spanning the Rhine from Cologne to the east bank was blown up by Germans. American officers deem Cologne militarily insignificant though the destruction of the city and its historic cathedral, dating back to 1248, represents a notable cultural loss.
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Cologne
Rhine
Death Sentence Upheld for 1934 Kidnapping Case
The U S Supreme Court, in a 7 to 2 decision, upheld the death sentence of Thomas Henry Robinson Jr for the 1934 kidnapping and assault of Louisville socialite Mrs Alice Speed Ltd. The court rejected that the Lindbergh law requires permanent injury for the death penalty, noting the law limits cannot hinge on case duration.
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Washington
U.P
Supreme Court
Thomas Henry Robinson, Jr
Alice Speed Ltd
Louisville
Robinson
Stoll
Hugo Black
Congress
Wiley B. Rutledge
Frank Murphy
British Armored Units Sever Links Between Mandalay and Rangoon
British armored columns cut across the Irrawaddy valley driving from Pakokku to Meiktila and beyond, severing land air and water links between Mandalay and Rangoon. They seized eight airfields, destroyed 1,600 Japanese soldiers, 40 guns, and supplies for ten days for a Japanese division. Meiktila, 70 miles south of Mandalay, fell after airborne reinforcements.
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Calcutta
Irrawaddy
Mandalay
Rangoon
Burma
Meiktila
Central
Thailand
Siam
Pakokku
Maikila
Cologne People Flee Toward American Lines
American tanks and infantry broke through Cologne’s outer belts and entered the city. About 1,000 German defenders remained as they withdrew into the Alstadt. Only a quarter of the city was in American hands, with heavy equipment moved to the east bank. German forces used mortars, machineguns, rifles, and a few anti aircraft guns to delay the seizure.
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U. S
Cologne
Rhine
Alstadt
Old Town
Old City
Reich
Hohenzollern
Hitler
Probe into Newsprint Use for Census Fertility Publication
A House interstate commerce subcommittee will probe newsprint use in a census bureau 265 page report titled The Fertility of Women. Rep Clarence J. Brown criticized the government waste during wartime paper shortages.
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Washington
House Interstate Commerce
Census Bureau
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
James W. Mott
Ore
House
Naval Affairs
John D. Goodloe
RFC
Senate Banking Committee
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Rhineland
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Monida Pass
Dougald Werner
Flora Lewis
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City
Frank L. Martin
Hal Boyle
Bureau of Census
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