Yanks Land on Cebu amid Pacific Invasion
Allied dispatches report US forces landing near Cebu City after heavy bombardment with the Americal division pushing inland to within 2.5 miles of Cebu. Japanese defenses reportedly blowing up the city as fighting continues around the island’s eastern sector.
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Philippines
Ryukyus
Japan
United States Army and Navy
Douglas MacArthur
Americal
Talisay
Chester W. Nimitz
The
Russian offensives reach toward Breslau and Vienna
Russian forces drive from Danzig and Gdynia along a 350 mile front in coordination with Allied advances from the west. Soviet troops breach Strehlen and Rybnik and push toward Breslau, Moravska Ostrava, and near Vienna, with Berlin reporting large German withdrawals and renewed fronts along the Danube. Seven thousand prisoners taken in Danzig and Gdynia fighting as Stalin announces the fall of key Bastions.
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London
U.P
Baltic
Danzig
Gdynia
Austria
Strehlen
Rybnik
Breslau
Konev
Ukraine
Berlin
Oder
Kuestrin
Reich
Josef Stalin
Poland
Moravska-Ostrava
Czechoslovakia
Moravian Gap
Upper Silesian
Konevy
Sudeten Mountains
Wodzislau
Hungary
Papa
Greater
Vienna
Danube
Moscow
City Is Vanishing From the Earth
Cebu, Philippines braces as wartime destruction escalates with American troops advancing from Talisay. Fire and massive explosions erupt in the center and at the Cocoanut Oil refinery on Mactan Island, signaling severe damage to the city’s infrastructure and utilities.
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Cebu
Philippines
Talisay Town
Mactan Island
Surprise Attack on Iwo Jima Leaves 196 Japanese Killed
In a well organized assault on a bivouac area of Army fighter pilots and aviation service troops on Iwo Jima, 196 Japanese were killed by Marines of the Fifth Division after a surprise attack Monday. Organized resistance ended on March 16, per Fleet Admiral Nimitz.
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Guam
Iwo Jima
Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
No Tax Relief Is in Sight
Washington report shows congressional leaders foresee no general tax reductions in 1945 despite war’s end near. Senate Finance chair George warns of possible 1946 revisions to spur business, while Rep Reed urges deep cuts in corporate and individual taxes as war ends. Democrats and Republicans agree excess profits tax should be repealed.
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Washington
Germany
George
Dga
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Rep. Reed
New York
House
Republican Tax Study Committee
Japan
Reed
Doughton
D-N. C
Tax Drafting House
Ways and Means Committee
Congressional
Treasury
B 29s Return to Batter Jap Capital
Tokyo radio claimed a second raid on southern Japan by 50 to 60 B 29s dropped incendiaries and explosives for two and a half hours around midnight Tokyo time. Kokura and Moji on northern Kyushu were said damaged. Kyushu naval and army centers were targeted amid prior Allied raids.
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San Francisco
Tokyo Radio
Japan
Tokyo
Comei
Federal Communications Commission
21St Bomber Command
Guam
Kyushu
Kokura
Moji
Adm
Marc A. Mitscher
West of divide: partly cloudy with mild temps
The forecast for Montana west of the continental divide calls for a partly cloudy Wednesday with little temperature change and a high around 40 to 50. Thursday turns cloudy with scattered showers and slightly warmer conditions. East of the divide expects similar partly cloudy days and 40 to 50 degree highs.
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Montana
Continental Divide
Red Cross Drive Reaches $34 169 in Butte Chapter
The Butte chapter of the American Red Cross reports total receipts of 34169 at close of Tuesday, with advance gifts and donations at 62 West Broadway. A J Davis, drive chairman, notes reports from Walter Ballard Bert Henson W M Brown John L Boardman Henry B Hirsh Harold McGrath Davis and George Schotte. Donors include the McKinley School Parent Teacher Association St Mark Ladies' Association and the Silver Bow Chapter DAR.
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Butte
The
American Red Cross
West Broadway
A. J. Davis
Walter T. Ballard
Bert Henson
W. M. Brown
John L. Boardman
Henry B. Hirsh
Harold McGrath
Davis
George Schotte
Parent-Teacher Association
McKinley School
St. Mark
Perkins Forecasts Settlement of Wage Contract
Secretary of Labor Perkins said after talks with John L. Lewis and coal operators that a new wage contract should be settled before the current pact expires Saturday night. She noted both sides offered new proposals and she proposed possible terms. A strike vote of about 400,000 soft coal miners is set for Wednesday. Perkins did not discuss extending the contract by 30 days at Interior Secretary Ickes request. She said a variety of approaches were considered and suggested agreement on a general framework.
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Washington
Perkins
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Miss Perkins
Ickes
Argentina Declares War on Axis in World War II
President Edelmiro Farrell announced Argentina's declaration of war against Germany and Japan, aligning with the Americas. Col. Gregorio Tauber described a final decision to join hemispheric security efforts and adhere to Chapultepec. Separate declarations to Germany and Japan to follow.
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Buenos Aires
Edelmiro Farrell
Argentina
Farrell
Gregorio Tauber
Americas
Tauber
Mexico City
Germany
Japan
Eisenhower Says German Army Is Whipped on Western Front
Gen Eisenhower declared the German army on the western front is whipped after the Rhineland victory but warned no surrender is imminent. He cautioned against expecting Berlin, noted supply limits across the Rhine, and said unconditional surrender would be imposed, not negotiated, with future moves dependent on rail and bridge construction.
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Austin Bealmear
Paris
U. S. First Army
Dill River
Berlin
Eisenhower
Rhineland
First Army
Herborn
Dill
Rhine
Wetzlar
Russia
Germany
Hitler's Ride on Mystery Visit
Karl Schnurre a top Nazi trade negotiator arrived quietly in Stockholm on a Berlin plane. He was met by a German legation car at Bromma airport instead of arriving by air lines bus. Swedish officials said he had no negotiations with Sweden.
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Stockholm
Karl Schnurre
Hitler
Berlin
Bromma
Legation
Aire Lines
Schnurre
Senate Confirms R. Lewis Brown for Montana Federal Judge
The Senate confirmed Robert Lewis Brown, chief assistant U.S. district attorney for Montana for 11 years, to be federal district judge for the state. He will take the oath before Judge Charles M. Pray in April, succeeding the late Judge James H. Baldwin, with swearing in expected in Great Falls.
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Robert Lewis Brown
U. S
Montana
Charles M. Pray
James H. Baldwin
Great Paris
United States Senate
Brown
Roosevelt
Baldwin
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senet
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