Final seal set on German defeat at Zhukov HQ
Field Marshal Keitel signed the unconditional surrender at Zhukov’s headquarters in Berlin’s Karlshorst. The document mirrors the Reims signing with Russians adding details. Allied signatories included Zhukov, Tedder, Spaatz, and De Lattre De Tassigny. Keitel signed for Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Reims
France
SHAEF
Hans G. von Friedeburg
Gustaf Jodl
Wilhelm Oxenius
Jodl
United Press War
Marshal Zhukov
Berlin
Wehrmacht
Marshal Keitel
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
Army Technical
Karlshorst
Zhukov
Tedder
Eisenhower
Spaatz
de Lattre de Tassigny
Keitel
Weather Delays Crop Planting Across Wide Region
The Weather bureau reports unfavorable conditions delaying full planting of staple crops from the Great Plains to the Atlantic coast. Frosts affect northern states, moisture shortages hit Florida citrus and western ranges, and winter wheat rye are damaged by cold wet weather while seeds rot in the ground in many areas.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Great Plains
Atlantic Coast
Nebraska
Dakotas
New England
Florida
Texas
New Mexico
Idaho
Bureau
Midwest
Rocky Mountains
Western
Ickes Sees Progress in Coal Contract Talks
Interior Secretary Ickes said progress toward a hard coal contract was made at a May meeting with John L. Lewis and anthracite operators. He noted that he and mine workers officials and producers were recalled from New York to discuss obstacles and that more would be known Thursday about settlement prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
John L. Lewis
New York
Conference committee backs amendment to empower world assembly
The United Nations conference committee approved a first major amendment sponsored by the Big Four to empower the assembly to recommend peaceful adjustments for any situations endangering peace. The vote 23 to 3 with two abstentions moves the proposal toward the general assembly for final approval and inclusion in the world organization charter.
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San Francisco
U.P
United Nations Conference
Conference
General Assembly
Arthur Vandenburg
R-Mich
World Organization
Vandenburg
World of Tomorrow
China
Britain
Russia
United States
Commission
Japan braces for a stricter wartime mobilization after Axis partner collapse
Tokyo radio broadcasts cited by the FCC show Japan’s cabinet and Emperor Hirohito pledging no change to war aims while calls grow to declare a state of emergency and transform the nation into a single large war camp. Journalist Iichiro Tokutomi warns Germany’s defeat increases pressure on Japan.
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San Francisco
Japan
Germany
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Kantaro Suzuki
End of World War II Celebrated Across Moscow
Thousands of Russians filled flag lined streets in Moscow after Germany's surrender. Stalin announced victory as guns thundered. Americans and Russians joined in a spontaneous tribute with flags, embraces, and chants of long live America and Truman.
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Moscow
Europe
United Nations
Stalin
Germany
United States
America
Truman
Roosevelt
State Department
George Kennan
Kremlin Square
G.I
Yankees Gain Slowly on Okinawa
U S 10th Army troops on southern Okinawa pushed forward with heavy naval and land bombardment. Casualties reached 16 425 killed wounded and missing. Third Marine amphibious corps and 24th Army corps pressed toward the southern defense line as air forces forecast heavier bombing of Japan with new planes and bases to support the climactic assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Tremaine
Guam
U.P
U. S. 10Th Army
Okinawa
Fleet Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Third Marine Amphibious Corps
24Th Army Corps
Japan
Barney M. Giles
Army Air Forces
Pacific
Giles
Reich
Europe
Troops to Leave Europe Rapidly
The Army announced that about 2,837,000 troops will be moved out of Europe within nine months and 3,100,000 within a year. By then an occupation force of roughly 400,000 will remain. Most veterans return to the United States for redeployment to the Pacific or discharge. About 45,000 soldiers will go directly to the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Europe
United States
Pacific
British Say Doenitz Likely to Be Treated as Criminal
The British Press association stated on May 9 that Adm Karl Doenitz, Hitler’s successor, although hinting at a future German government role, would not be recognized as anything more than a war criminal. It urged the root of German militarism be traced to the General Staff, deemed beyond further influence.
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London
British Press Association
Adm
Karl Doenitz
Hitler
Germany
Pearl Harbor
United Press Office
Unter den Linden
Unter den Lin
Curfew and racing ban lifted after victory in Europe
Victory in Europe ends the midnight curfew and racing ban immediately. War Mobilization Director Vinson says rationing taxes and wage ceilings stay in place until Japan surrenders. He warns a tough reconversion ahead with millions of war workers affected and a gradual Army drawdown.
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Washington
Europe
Fred M. Vinson
Japan
Vinson
Russian forces flood Prague as Germans retreat across Czechoslovakia
Soviet tanks swept into Prague and shattered German outlaw bands while remaining German units fled along a pincer toward surrender to the Allies. Stalin hailed victory and ordered a 1 000 gun salute as Konev and Malinovsky’s armies advanced, with Germans avoiding direct combat and retreating southwest toward surrender.
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London
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Melnik
Nymburk
Josef Stalin
Moscow
Ivan S. Konev
Czechoslo
Vakia
Stalin
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Brno
Benesov
Prague-Benesov
U. S
Third Army
Red Army
Prague- Benesov
Butte Forecast Tracks Clouds and Showers Thursday
The outlook for Butte calls for a partly cloudy Thursday forenoon, then increasing clouds with afternoon and early evening showers and a cooler night. Maximum near 65, with Wednesday at 67 and a low around 29. East of divide remains partly cloudy and warmer. West of divide expect more cloudiness and light showers with highs 60 to 70.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Divide
U S Forces Land on Samal Island
U S troops from Maj Gen Roscoe Woodruff s 24th division executed a shore to shore move from Davao to Samal Island in Davao gulf and are pressing Japanese positions. The 24th also pushes inland near Davao city while the 31st division advances in Mindanao toward Maramag airfield and Lio in central Luzon.
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Manila
U.S
Davao
Mindanao
Samal Island
Davao Gulf
Douglas MacArthur
Roscoe B. Woodruff
Samar
Pakiputan Strait
Gulf
Davao City
Talomo River
Mintal
Maramag
Kibawe
Lio
Luzon
Harsh Peace for Germany Urged by visiting congressmen
A 12 man congressional delegation returning from Germany urged harsh peace terms and punishment for Gestapo and storm troopers after touring concentration camps and battle areas. Rep Izac a POW spoke of brutality while Rep Mott warned that Germans, including youths, show no remorse as war nears end.
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Washington
Germany
Eisenhower
Stimson
Marshall
Sen. Barkley
D-Ky
War Department
Congress
Rep. Izac
D-Calif
Rep. Mott
Mrs Lulu Simonsen Dies at 65 in Billings Hotel Lessee Family
Lulu Simonsen 65 longtime Montana resident and wife of Northern hotel lessee Lee Simonsen died Wednesday in a local hospital after a four year illness and a paralytic stroke. She entered the hospital Monday night.
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Billings
Lulu Simonsen
Montana
Lee Simonsen
Northern
Tarakan Oil May Aid Final Japan Drive
Oil from Tarakan Island in Borneo may bolster the Allied push toward Japan. Maj. Gen. Hugh Casey said Tarakan oil equipment taken by Japanese has not suffered permanent damage and that new wells can be sunk easily on the old sites with American help.
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San Francisco
Tarakan Island
Netherlands Borneo
Japan
Aneta
Manila
Hugh Casey
United States Army Engineers
Southwest Pacific
Tarakan
Casey
Nazi leaders Goering and Kesselring Surrender to U.S. Army
In Austria, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering and Field Marshal Albert Kesselring surrendered to Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army. Goering, declaring Hitler’s punishment ousted, was flown to headquarters with his wife and six year old daughter. Details on Kesselring’s capture were not immediately released.
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Goering
Hitler
Reich
Berchtesgaden
Fleet of 400 B-29s Hit Nip Homeland
More than 400 American Superforts struck Japan in daylight raids on Honshu Kyushu and Shikoku. The mission targeted airfields and fuel facilities including Tokuyama Otake and Oshima, with bombers flying from Guam Tinian and Saipan to neutralize Kyushu airfields and Japan’s fuel supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Tremaine
Guam
U.P
Japan
Honshu
Kyushu
Shikoku
21St Bomber Command
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Europe
Tokuyama
Oshima
Otake
Tinian
Saipan
Kure
Barney Giles
Pacific Ocean Area
Tokyo
USA
Plans for River Basin Authorities Discussed in Montana Counties
MISSOULA May 9. A sequence of meetings continues among 12 western Montana counties to discuss valley authority plans for the Columbia and Missouri basins. Opposing groups back in Hamilton Polson Missoula and Anaconda with nextweek sessions set for Grantsdale Missoula Hall Kalispell Superior and Sula. Officers include J L Richards Polson president L A Colby Missoula vice president and A L Riefflin Missoula secretary.
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Missoula
Montana
Valley Authority
Columbia
Missouri
Hamilton
Polson
Anaconda
Grantsdale
Hall
Kalispell
Superior
Sula
J. L. Richards
L. A. Colby
Miss
Boehme Convicted of Murder by Arson in Fire Toll
Charles Boehme 44 and crippled, accused of starting multiple fires including a deadly blaze that killed seven, was found guilty of murder by arson in Chicago on Wednesday and sentenced to 199 years in prison.
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Chicago
Charles Boehme
Berlin Is Dead as Historic Capital Is Wiped From Map
Report from Berlin describes the city reduced to ruins after Allied air raids and street fighting. The writer recalls departing Berlin in 1941 and returning to a landscape of devastation marked by the Luftwaffe and Allied bombardment. The account notes destruction from Kurfürstendamm to Alexanderplatz and the city’s near total ruin.
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Berlin
U.P
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Stalingrad
Coventry
Cologne
Aachen
Den
Royal Air Force
United States Air Forces
Kurfuerstendamm
Alexanderplatz
Frankfurther Allee
US Vessel Sunk by U-Boat Off New England Coast
The death toll from three ship sinkings near New England rose to 61 as Navy reports confirm a German submarine attack likely caused the bulk carrier Black Point with 12 lives lost. The patrol boat PE-56 went down April 23 near Cape Elizabeth with 49 dead, under investigation for cause. The tanker Atlantic States was shattered April 6 near Cape Cod. all 57 crewmen survived.
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Boston
New England
Navy
S. S. Black Point
Rhode Island
Washington
Porteland
Evening Express
Black Point
First Naval District
Cape Elizabeth
Cape Cod
United States
Atlantic States
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Big Four
By Harrison Salisbury
By Sterling F. Green
South Pacific
Don Caswell
Battlefront
Kesselring
Luftwaffe
By A. J. Goldberg
Reichmarshal Goering
United Press War Correspondent
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