Russians claim advance from Gdynia to Vienna in major east front moves
Soviet forces report capture of Gdynia with 9,000 prisoners and push toward Vienna. Berlin says Russians crossed the last river barriers near the Austrian frontier and moved into Lebus on the Oder. Czechoslovak Moravian gap threatened as Danube and Raba battles widen.
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London
Gdynia
Baltic
Red Army
Berlin
Lebus
Oder
Danzig
Stalin
Danube
Czechoslovakia
Vienna
Rada
Hungary
Moravska- Ostrava
Moravian
Americans Land on Cebu in Bold Luzon-Style Invasion
American assault troops swarmed ashore on Cebu Island amid elaborate defenses and rapid fires as the city burned. Maj. Gen. Arnold said beachheads reached near Cebu City while Japanese demolition crews struck key installations and a bridge on the Mananga river. Farther south, Maj. Gen. Swing's 11th Airborne neared Lipa as MacArthur reported Japanese defenders caught off guard.
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Manila
Cebu
Cebu City
Philippines
William H. Arnold
Mactan
Yalisay
Negros
Leyte
Douglas MacArthur
Mananga River
11Th Airborne Division
Joseph M. Swing
Lipa
Key Road
Batangas
Tydeman Advances to First Lieutenant in Air Corps
Washington reports Second Lt. Stephen F. Tydeman of 1145 East Center Street, Pocatello, has received a temporary promotion to first lieutenant in the Air Corps, the War Department announced.
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Washington
Stephen Frederick Tydeman
East Center Street
Pocatello
War Department
Air Corps
Japan Expects Axis Partners To Become Unwilling Guests
A Romanian diplomat in Moscow says Japan expects Hitler Mussolini and Himmler to seek refuge there soon as Germany falters. Victor Guixulescu reports defeatist mood in Tokyo and explains food shortages and transport concerns amid widespread air raids. He notes prisoners from Allied nations seen in Tokyo and Yokohama.
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Japan
Moscow
Tokyo
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Victor Guixulescu
Guixulesco
Manchuria
Guixulescu
Aoe
Yokohama
First Mayor Of Aachen Bullet Victim
Franz Oppenhof 41 year old burgomeister of Aachen and first mayor under the allied military government was assassinated Sunday night. He was shot on his back porch after a German air force crew claiming to need shelter fled the scene. He had been an attorney for the Archdiocese of Aachen and Duesseldorf prior to Aachen’s capture by the First Army.
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U.S. First Army
Franz Oppenhof
Aachen
Oppenhof
First Army
Archdiocese of
Catholic Church
Duesseldorf
FFA to Meet in Twin Falls for Fourteenth Convention
One delegate from each Idaho FFA chapter will attend the 14th annual convention opening tomorrow. Milan Bush of Malad, president of the Idaho FFA, will preside over sessions through Saturday with officers Harold Rigby Rexburg vice president Hubert Bruins Meridian secretary LeRoy Magoffin Twin Falls treasurer and Evan Stevenson Ucon reporter.
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Twin Falls
Future Farmers Convention
Milan Bush
Malad
Idaho Organization of
FFA
Harold Rigby
Rexburg
Hubert Bruins
Meridian
LeRoy Magoffin
Evan Stevenson
Ucon
Troops Free 290 Allied Prisoners Near Heppenheim
U S Seventh Army infantrymen liberated 290 wounded American prisoners of war at Heppenheim after capturing the town. They found about 800 allied prisoners in a hospital, many weak from starvation with an average weight loss around 36 pounds for those there over several weeks.
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ITH
Heppenheim
U. S. Seventh Army
Garrison sentenced for embezzlement as county treasurer
Lyall L. Garrison, former Clearwater County treasurer, was sentenced to two to ten years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to embezzling 27794.52 dollars from county funds since 1935, per District Judge A L Morgan. He had signed a confession and withdrew before the 1944 general election after being renominated for a fifth time.
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Moscow
Lyall L. Garrison
Clearwater
A. L. Morgan
Frank F. Kimble
Garrison
Clark Forecasts German Retreat in Italy as Patriots Urged to Prepare
General Mark W. Clark said the German withdrawal in Italy is inevitable and ordered patriots to be ready to strike at a moment's notice. He warned against new recruits and urged upgrading existing formations as the Italian front remained quiet with only minor patrol skirmishes during a March drizzle.
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Rome
Mark W. Clark
Italy
Clark
Apennine
Allied Armies Hold 1 219 700 Nazis as War Prisoners
Allied forces report totals of prisoners taken since D-day with the First and Third American armies near the lead. Western front captures exceed 1.2 million, including 311 198 by the First army and 311 301 by the Third, plus additional counts by U.S. Ninth, U.S. Seventh, French First, Canadian First, British Second, and others.
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Associated Press
Third Army
First Army
U.S
the Interior
First Allied Airborne Army
Second Army
Sky Troopers
Assassin Fails in Mussolini Plot in Milan
Rome press quotes a partisan who crossed from north Italy as saying an attempted assassination of Benito Mussolini in Milan was unsuccessful. The report notes the act was described as recent.
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Rome
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Milan
Nimitz Omits Sunday Event In Kyushu Raid Report
Tokyo radio quoted an imperial communique on U.S. carrier raids and landings near Kyushu and Okinawa while Nimitz in his daily communique omitted Sunday actions. He noted March 27 operations against Ryukyus and naval gun fire on coastal targets with planes near Hachijo, and Tokyo claimed Marianas units attacked Kokura.
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Guam
Tokyo
Kyushu
Japan
Ryukyu Islands
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Okinawa
Keramas
U.S
Radio Tokyo
Ryukyus
Nimitz
Avengers
U.S. Pacific
Hachijo Island
Iwo
Kyushu Island
Kokura
21St Bomber Command
Yanks Take Field Near Frankfurt After Capture
American troops of the Sixth Armored Division seized a field near Frankfurt once used as a Zeppelin base. The airfield lies five miles south of the city and is Germanys second largest airport. Troops found the field ringed with burned planes and skeletal remains.
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Third Army
Germany
Veppelin
Frankfurt
Sixth Armored Division
Fiel
War at a Glance on Fronts Across Global Battlelines
Western front reports show British and American forces pushing east toward Berlin with a column 225 miles away, and a southern push to Frankfurt. In German-held areas Third Army engagements near Frankfurt and Hanau, 218 miles from Berlin, while Seventh Army widens the Mannheim bridgehead. Russian advances near the Austrian border accelerate as Danube to Balaton resistance collapses. Danzig cleared. Gdynia captured. Ko marom menaced. Italian front notes quiet with hints of German retreat. Pacific front reports carrier planes sinking or damaging Japanese ships in Ryukyus. Cebu and Luzon advances near Manila. Tokyo raid claimed by enemy.
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Raba
Sarvar
Gyor
Berlin
Lebus
the Oder
Kuestrin
Frankfurt
Oder River
Moscow
Danzig
Gdynia
Danube
Austria
Vienna
Feodor Tolbukhin
Szombathely
Graz
Silesia
Czechoslovakia
Moravian
Prague
Moravska-Ostrava
First
Third
Hanau
Gemuenden
Seventh
Mannheim
Lake Balaton
Hungary
Komarom
Mark Clark
Ryukyus
Cebu
Philippines
Manila
Luzon
Tokyo
Quintuplet birth at Freedman Hospital shocks Turner family
A 36 year old black woman gave birth to five quintuplets at Freedman hospital after a 17 minute delivery starting at 10 40 p m All but one of the babies were live born and weighed one to one and a half pounds Each child was delivered within the same time frame and the father learned of the news from a reporter later Mrs Turner had eight other children and the doctor noted prenatal tests suggested multiple birth though twins were expected
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Freedman Hospital
A. P. Allen
Former Idaho Editor Dies
Milo Milton Thompson, 50, former Idaho Daily Statesman editor in Boise and ex executive assistant to AP head Kent Cooper, died Monday of thrombosis in New Orleans. He led AP European news, Washington bureau, and South America operations, later acting AP bureau chief in New Orleans. Born Joliet, Illinois, burial at Elmhurst Joliet after a brief service in New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Milo Milton Thompson
Idaho Daily Statesman
Boise
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Thompson
London
Washington
la Prensa Asociada
South America
Joliet
Elmhurst
The
Statesman
Bus crash in Mexico City kills 18 with 30 injured
A Cuautitlan-bound bus was hit by a diesel locomotive in western Mexico City causing a blaze. Eighteen people died and 30 were injured, 15 seriously, as witnesses said the bus sped onto active tracks despite signals.
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Mexico City
Cuautitlan
Allied Armies breach deep into Germany as fronts push east
Army columns under Hodges and Montgomery drive rapidly into central Germany with only token resistance. Giessen and Giessen area fall as Wiesbaden is seized. Emmerich also captured while German retreat accelerates along a widening front.
Miners vote on wartime strike under Lewis demands
Miners nationwide balloted today on whether to strike for John L. Lewis contract demands including a 60 million dollar annual union payoff. Government aimed to avert mine shutdown by fast tracking a new contract before Saturday midnight or extending the current deal to May 1.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Reyalty
Lewis
Dust and Stench Mark Route Of Speeded German Retreat
Hal Boyle reports from inner Germany on the rapid German retreat toward the Rhine. American armored columns push forward amid dust and stench, with German prisoners streaming back and the shattered supply system evident. Allied prisoners are freed as German guards desert, and civilians wave from the roadside amid scenes of homecoming symbols and lingering danger.
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Hal Boyle
Inner
Germany
Berlin
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Courtney Hodges
Giessen
Bellnhausen
Rhine
U. S. Third Army
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Montgomery
Emmerich
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Spessart Hills
Altenkirchen
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