Allied forces link across Germany as resistance collapses
Russian troops breach north central Germany linking with British forces on a 65 mile front south of the Baltic while Zhukov and Montgomery join the advance west of Berlin. The combined army fronts stretch nearly 200 miles from Wismar to the Elbe as Berlin surrenders more troops.
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London
Germany
Baltic
Rostock
Hamburg
Mecklenburg
Red Army
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Wismar
Wittenberge
Elbe River
Berlin
Gregory K. Zhukov
U. S
Ninth
Elbe
Dresden
Moscow
House Sustains Draft Veto
President Truman wins in Congress as the House sustains his veto of a farm deferment bill. The vote to override fell short 185 to 177, with 30 Democrats joining 154 Republicans and one Progressive. The measure would have mandatory farm worker deferments, regardless of other factors, challenging the Tydings amendment.
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Washington
Truman
House
American Labor
Flannagan
D-Va
Tydings
Australian Units Push Toward Tarakan Airfield Edge
Australian Ninth Division tanks led infantry toward Lingkas on Tarakan as they reach the island’s outskirts. In Mindanao, U S forces seize Davao City with light resistance, while another Davao airfield falls. American air and naval support aids the advance.
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Manila
Tarakan
Lingkas Town
Borneo
Philippines
Davao City
Douglas MacArthur
Mindanao
Roscoe Woodruff
U. S
Davao
Davao Gulf
Ninth Division
Lingkas
Singapore
Japs Say Germany Collapse Won’t Stop Nippon
Domei quoted Premier Kantaro Suzuki saying Germany’s fall makes Japan’s position in East Asia more difficult and adds responsibility, but Japan remains determined to continue the war. He urged Nippon’s military to seize a golden chance to defeat America and Great Britain.
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San Francisco
Japan
Germany
Domei
Tokyo
Kantaro Suzuki
East Asia
America
Great Britain
World Security Charter Outline Emerges From Talks
In San Francisco on May 3 a United Nations planning group drafted a rough outline of a world security charter amid signs the Big Four may resolve Poland issues. Stettinius Eden Molotov and Soong reviewed proposed amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks plan and eyed possible presentation of a substantial state.
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San Francisco
U.P
United Nations
Big Four
Dumbarton Oaks
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Anthony Eden
V. M. Molotov
T. V. Soong
Germany's Wehrmacht Dies Shameful Death Along Elbe
Reporter Wes Gallagher describes the Wehrmacht’s collapse along the Elbe as tens of thousands surrender to American and Russian forces. Panzer troops abandon medals, white flags appear, and Allied commanders fear sheltering the enemy as the war nears end.
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Germany
Wehrmacht
Elbe
Wes Gallagher
29Th
82Nd Airborne Division
102Nd Division
American Gains on Okinawa Reported
The U S Tenth army resumed assaults on Okinawa south to repulse strong Japanese positions with only slight gains amid heavy bombardment. Navy casualties in Ryukyus total 5 551 killed wounded or missing as of Friday.
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Guam
U.P
U. S. Tenth Army
Okinawa
Ryukyus
Fleed Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Wounded in Italy Edward Folden Receives Purple Heart
Pfc. Edward C. Folden aged 26 of Butte was wounded in action in Italy on April 15 according to a War department telegram to his wife Mrs. Margaret Folden of 624 Colorado. He earned the Purple Heart after entering service in May 1944 and going overseas last January. Born in Butte, he is a St Patrick school graduate who attended Boys' Central. Grandparents Abe Longpre and wife live at 111 Silver Bow Homes, sister Mrs. Emmett Casey at 624 Colorado.
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Edward C. Folden
Butte
Italy
War Department
Margaret Folden
Colorado
Folden
St. Patrick School
Boys’ Central
Abe Longpre
Silver Bow Homes
Emmett Casey
Generosity Sought by Nazi Minister Speer Hints at Surrender Talks
May 3 London. Albert Speer, German munitions minister, told a Danish radio audience that Allied generosity would determine the fate of a vanquished Germany and that negotiations for surrender could be underway. He urged Germans to prepare for the future by rebuilding railways and housing. Diplomats in London noted Doenitz might be seeking to surrender to the United States and Britain, or at least move west to avoid capture by the Russians. Churchill remained at his Downing Street office.
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London
U.P
Albert Speer
Kalundberg
Speer
Karl Doenitz
Hitler
Germany
Doenitz
United States
Great Britain
Winston Churchill
No. 10
Downing Street
U S Must Aid Europeans, Crowley Warns on Food Relief
In Washington on May 3, Leo T. Crowley, foreign economic administrator, said about 250 million people in Europe will need supplemental food to exist. He asserted the United States must be the main source of supply, with no commitments yet to aid overrun regions. He framed relief as leftovers after US Army needs and domestic civilian diets are met, citing Belgium, Holland, France, Italy and Poland as needing more food despite lend-lease shipments.
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Washington
Leo T. Crowley
Europe
United States
Crowley
FEA
Belgium
Holland
France
Italy
Poland
Ten New Employment Service Offices in Montana Proposed
The War Manpower commission proposed establishing 10 U.S. Employment Service offices in Montana to aid servicemen's readjustment act administration. Senator Burton Wheeler said the sites include Deer Lodge Dillon Libby Baker Chinook Glendive Hardin Harlowton Roundup and Wolf Point.
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Washington
U. S. Employment Service
Montana
War Manpower Commission
Burton K. Wheeler
Dmont
Deer Lodge
Dillon
Libby
Baker
Chinook
Glendive
Hardin
Harlowton
Roundup
Wolf Point
Actress Carole Landis seeks divorce from Maj Thomas Wallace
Hollywood reports that actress Carole Landis announced plans to divorce her third husband Air Force Maj. Thomas Wallace. They met on an overseas entertainment tour and wed in London on January 5, 1943.
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Hollywood
Carole Landis
Air Force
Thomas Wallace
London
Nazis Surrender Hamburg as Northern Front Collapses
Paris bureau reports Hamburg fallen to the British Second Army with 500,000 enemy prisoners taken in a day. Germany declares Hamburg, Kiel, Prague, and Flensburg open cities as Doenitz seeks to evacuate by sea under heavy Allied air and naval fire. Patton’s Third Army breaches Czechoslovakia as U.S. Seventh Army nears Salzburg and Berchtesgaden amid chaotic German withdrawals.
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Paris
U.P
Denmark
Hamburg
Germany
Kiel
Baltic
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Flensburg
Luebeck
Aabenraa
Miles C. Dempsey
Elbe
Adm
Karl Doenitz
George S. Patton
Patton
Danube River
Passau
Linz
Austria
Salzburg
Berchtesgaden
Sjaelland
Pyn
Norway
British Planes Massacre Fleeing Nazis
British air forces struck at the Dun kerque evacuation area on the Schleswig-Holstein coast with American, British and Canadian planes sinking or damaging more than 64 ships. RAF jets destroyed or damaged around 700 vehicles in about 350 sorties as evacuating vessels fled north from Kiel. A 7,000-ton oil tanker was set ablaze in Kiel bay.
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Marshal Montgomery
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Baltic
Second Tactical Air Force
Falaise
Normandy
Kiel
Kiel Bay
British traitor Joyce to face cell at Tower of London
May 3 reports from the Daily Mail say William Joyce the Nazi Haw Haw is captured and will pass the traitor’s gate to a Tower cell. Home office debates if Joyce is military or political prisoner. Other wires note Doenitz in Copenhagen and British landings on Jutland.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Tower of London
William Joyce
Lord Haw Haw
Joyce
Bloody Tower
Home Office
United States Denies Soviet Charge On Prisoner Release
The United States rejected Soviet accusations that Soviet citizens freed from German prisons are held in the United States without notice. The State Department stated there are no German prisoners of war remaining in this country. Congressional protests over Polish policy echoed amid calls for openness in occupied Europe.
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Washington
United States
Russia
State Department
Congress
Poland
Rep. Driegell
D-Mich
House
Harry S. Truman
Stalin
Molotov
Yalta
Warsaw
San Francisco
Senate
Ferguson
Europe
F. I. Golikov
Jap Airfields Are Blasted In Major WWII Raid
About 50 to 100 B 29s bombed airfields on Kyushu and Shikoku in daylight. Major Gen Lemay said Matsuyama airfield on Shikoku was hit visually with good results and noted prior attacks on Sukoma Imbari Omura Seaki Tachiarai Miyazaki Miyakonojo Kanoya and Kokubu. No losses reported.
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Guam
Kyushu
Shikoku
Marianas
2St Bomber Command
Tachiarai
Miyazaki
Miyakanojo
Kanoya
Kanoya East
Kokubu
Weather forecast for Butte and Montana
Increasing cloudiness Friday and Friday night with continued mild temperatures. Friday high around 66, Thursday 76 and 29 for the low. Montana partly cloudy Friday east with scattered showers elsewhere, a few thunderstorms in the west and southwest and Calder in the northwest. Highs from 60s northwest to 65 75 in the south and east.
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Montana
Calder
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