Reds Drive For Vienna Power and Gas Works
Russian forces pressed toward Vienna with a ten mile front as they closed on the southern and southeastern city limits. Violent street fighting was reported in the city as Red Army units advanced toward the gas and power installations. Malinovsky and Tolbukhin’s commands pushed to suburbs along the Danube and toward Schwechat, while other Russian forces moved into the Carpathians and toward Brno. Meanwhile Breslau and Danzig areas saw further mop up against encircled pockets.
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Vienna
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Capia
Moscow
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Denube
Schivechat
Morave
Stoscop
Carpathian
Bruenn
Brno
Breslau
Bjein Mochbern
Klein Ganday
Kosel
Vistula
Danzig
Tojo Named to Japanese Cabinet Berlin Reports
Berlin quoted a Singapore dispatch claiming Premier Kentaro Suzuki formed a new Japanese cabinet including Hideki Tojo. The lineup, if accurate, mixed moderates with extremists and former premiers, with portfolios unspecified.
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London
D. N.B
Singapore
Kentaro Suzuki
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Suzuki
Japan
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Mwag
Kuniaki Koiso
Fumitaka Konoye
Tojo
Keisuke Okada
Aoki Hinuta
Slippery Tactics Send Starlings into Tailspit
Milwaukee courthouse staff faced a bird control ruse as building superintendent used window barriers to thwart starlings. Birds attempting fast landings struck their heads on glass, then departed after repeated missteps to another area.
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Milwaukee UK
Milwaukee Court House
Area Rail Crossings Up For Hearing
Area rail crossings along the Delaware and Hudson system in Watervliet Canoes Green Island Waterford and surrounding Albany district face a state hearing. A petition to the New York State Department of Public Service seeks relief from an order requiring crosswalk protection upgrades including electric lamps on gates and reflector warnings. Provision exists for relief where meeting all requirements is physically impossible. Continued on page thirteen.
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Watervliet
Green Island
Waterford
Cotonie
Dvery
Krall
Yanks Buried in Three Cemeteries in Reich
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Paris notes three American cemeteries east of the Rhine in Germany. Digital plans had called for two American burials on German soil but rapid Allied advance made three gravesites temporarily necessary.
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Supreme Headquarters
Paris
Rhine
Germany
Air Attack On Guam Costs Japs Planes Invasion
A large force of Japanese aircraft attacked American ships off Guam yesterday but sustained only minor damage. U S fighters claimed at least 150 enemy planes shot down. In Okinawa ground fighting Marines advanced up to 5 000 yards against scattered enemy groups while infantry pressed toward Naha. Navy officials reported 53 Japanese killed and 166 captured on the Keramas Islands prior to the main invasion. In another report Associated Press writer Grant MacDonald noted the next days would reveal Japanese air strength as raids intensified against U S invasion forces.
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Okinawa
Noai
Naka
Chester W. Nimitz
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Kerams Islands
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U.S
Grant MacDonald
Associated ‘Press
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Wankeckack
Land Based Army Planes Bomb Tokyo and Nagoya
A large force of B-29s attacked industrial targets in Tokyo and Nagoya today Japanese time. Seventh Air Force fighters joined the daylight raid from Marianas bases led by Major General Curtis E. LeMay. Domei reported P-51 Mustangs strafed the Tokyo Yokohama area while B-29s targeted military objectives.
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War Department
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Curtis E. LeMay
Marianas Islands
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Iwo Jima Island
British Pacific Fleet Damaged by Japanese Air Attack
British force suffered slight damage to major units in a concerted Japanese air assault near Sakishima islands during late March to early April. King George V, a 35,000 ton battleship, was among ships hit. U S Navy press releases confirm minor damage to several vessels.
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Sakishima Islands
Fie
King George
U. S
Chester W. Nimitz
Trapeze Artist Hurt at Shrine Circus Falls Forty Feet
Mary Stevens twenty three from Bloomington fell forty feet into a safety net during a Shrine Circus performance before a crowd of twenty five hundred yesterday afternoon injuring her back.
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Buffalo GP
Mary Stevens
Bloomington, Til
Shrine ‘Circus
Traction Men Withdraw Strike as WLB Sets Hearing Date
A late night conference between United Traction Co. representatives, the Federal Labor Conciliation Service and Army Second Service Command led to a withdrawal of the planned strike set to halt all United Traction Co. lines in Troy, Watervliet, Green Island, Cohoes, Waterford and Van Norden. Union president announced the strike vote is canceled and the National War Labor Board will hear grievances on wages and holidays with April 23 set to begin negotiations on a pension system.
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Army Second Service Command
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Watervliet
Green Island
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Waterford
Athane
In van Norden
Albany
National War Labor Board
Washington
Ast
Leipzig Rail Yards Blasted in Allied Air Strikes
U S Army Air Forces dispatched more than 1950 planes to Leipzig and nearby Helier and Gere as part of a broad raid on main railway hubs feeding Erfurt and the Alpine front. Fortresses Liberators and fighters tackled rail chokepoints amid heavy coverage and minimal flak.
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London
U.S
Eighth Air Force
Leipzig
Helier and
Gere
Germany
Erfurt
Ase
Halle Twenty Annes
Gers
Adolf
Ruhr
Nazi Cruiser Leipzig Struck During Route to Abentade
Swedish radio reported the German cruiser Leipzig carrying 300 troops and refugees was hit by several torpedoes en route from Gdynia to Abentade and had to be towed into a port yesterday.
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London
Leipzig
Torsbedoes
Gdynia
Abentade
OPA Plans A Card Increase After V-E Day
Washington reports that basic A card gasoline could rise after V-E Day if officials' optimistic predictions hold. An assumed 200000 barrels daily increase would allow about six miles of driving daily per civilian, with some supply directed to B drivers. Bowles notes civilian gains depend on Petro Administration estimates. Ickes says any rise may be temporary as postwar shifts occur.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Petroleuan Adeinistration
Harold L. Ickes
Europe
Pacific
Former Envoy To Moscow Heads Czech Cabinet
Eduard Benes named Zdenek Firlinger, former Czechoslovak ambassador to Russia, as premier with Jan Sramek retaining deputy premier, signaling a cabinet aligned with Moscow after Benes’s return from Moscow. The London dispatch cited Tass reporting from Prague.
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London
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Tater Zdenek » Firlinger
Russia
Benes
Czechoslova_kia
Tass
Agence
Haskei
Iaid Jan Srame
Soldier Berates F.D.R. Gets 20 Years at Labor
A U S appellate court ordered Hugh Callan a former Camp Upton draftee to begin a twenty year sentence at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta for making remarks uncomplimentary to President Roosevelt. The court martial sentencing was conducted at Camp Blanding, Fla.
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United States
Hugh Callan
Camp Upton
Atlanta
Roosevelt
Callan
Carp Blanding
3000 Moved From Homes In Louisiana Flood Crisis
Red River flood in central Louisiana inundates 50 000 acres as 25 000 or more families are affected. Relief efforts by Red Cross U S Coast Guard and state agencies expand to shelter up to 150 000 people along the Mississippi and its tributaries. Evacuations move from inundated parishes while Morganza Floodway preparations begin. Agricultural losses include prime cotton land submerged.
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Hedriver
Ppl
Shreveport
Gulf
E Fritz Thompson
Red Srain
Alexandria
Red Rite
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Thompson
Harry T. Wilson
Agriculture
Allies Lash Out in Italy in Surprise Coastal Assault
Allied forces in western Italy launched a two mile coastal attack near Monte Folgorito, advancing on elevated positions along the Ligurian coast. Ground fighting was heavy with stiff German resistance, especially near Highway Number One. General Clark noted a potential major action could unfold sooner or later.
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Arme
Massa
Italy
Monte Folgerito
Stretrola
Mace Jai
Aiso
Porta
Mark W. Clark
15Th Army Group
Yanks out-span Nazis at Rhine bridgehead effort
Allied forces now control more bridges across the Rhine than the German Twelfth Army Group ever did. The exact total is not disclosed, but includes all bridge types from pontoon to permanent structures.
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Twelfth Army Group
Rhine
Canac
Iist
Coevardem
Tete Frem
Amsterdam
Asterdam
Hazne
Utrecht
Germar XN. Stadiey
IRA
Zhrendreitsigin
Fihime
Nazis Report Tanks Flown Into Battle Holland Trap Closes
Allied forces push into Germany driving toward the Elbe and Weser lines. American Ninth and First Armies, Canadian First Army, and British Second Army press through Holland and Saxony toward Bremen, Emden, and Hannover, trapping German troops as they advance on Berlin.
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Tha Weser
Elbe
Berlin
U.S. Ninth Army
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Weser
Second Army
Diepholz
Bremen
Hamm
Germany
Whith
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Wuerzburg
Nuernberg
U. S. Seventh Army
North Sea
Zuiphen
Zuiden Zea
Hannover
Secord
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East
Oy Mies
Han Nover
Sci Setend
Ith
Nazis Split Wehrmacht Into Guerrilla Cells in Decentralized Resistance
Swiss reports claim Germany will divide the Wehrmacht into largely autonomous army groups under SS control for last ditch resistance and guerrilla warfare. The plan, dubbed decentralized resistance, follows Eisenhower’s remarks on possible German guerrilla action as Western Front conditions persist. A Geneva broadcast via Moscow says higher commands will gain operational independence to act when contact with top leadership is severed.
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Wehrmacht
Erie Guard
Adolf Hitler
Eisenhower
Germany
Reinrich Himenner
Heitel
Geneva
Moscow Radio
Gust of Wind Fatal in Langhorne Pa
George Van Zant aged 41 died after a strong gust blew him from the top of a trash-collecting truck in Langhorne Pennsylvania. Police reported a fractured skull as the cause of death in this accident.
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Yeater
George van Zant
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