R. P. I. Confers First Degrees On Women
The seventh commencement at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute awarded 114 degrees to men and two women. Of the two women, Lois Graham and Mery Hilen Rathbun, were the first graduates from RPI with women earning engineering degrees. 55 cadets from the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps were among the graduates, 52 commissioned as Navy ensigns and three as Marine Corps second lieutenants. Honorary degrees were given to James H. McGraw Jr. and Charles S. Pillsbury.
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Livingston W. Houston
Fiwe
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lois Graham
Troy
Mary Ellen Rathbun
Hoosick Falls
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
New York State
Navy
U.S. Marine Corps
RPL
Paul. S. Graham
Mery Hilen Rathbun
Airs
Oliver NL. Rathbun
Hee
James H. McGraw, Jr
McGraw -Hill Publishing Co
Pillsbury
Calcago Bridge & Tronco
McGraw
Soviets Heard But Not Seen East of the Elbe in Germany
Reports from the Western Front describe Russian troops unseen near the Elbe yet audible through reconnaissance receivers. American forces note Russian officers issuing orders and higher command forwarding signals for contact, while no Russian troops have been sighted by the Sinth Army across the bridgehead.
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Elbe River
Germany
Stalin
Sinth Army
Elbe
Supreme Headquarters
Berlin
Glienicke
Wilhelmshagen
Fredrichshagen
Moscow
Tglegraph
High Command
Potsdam
Luebars
Blankenfelde
Rosenthal
Bernau
STB
Edward Sandeberg
Copenhagen
Government Announces Sweeping New Meat Price Plan
Washington yesterday unveiled a major revision of meat price and distribution aimed at helping housewives secure store meat while ending packers' high profits. The program projects higher slaughterers' gross revenue by about 34.3 million dollars annually through increased subsidies and subsidy shifts, while retail ceilings stay unchanged. It was developed by OPA, Office of Economic Stabilization, War Food Administration, and the War Department.
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Washington
Congress
OPA
Office of Economic Stabilization
The
War Food Administration
War Department
Allies Close In On Hitler Front As Danube Falls
Allied forces slam south toward Lake Constance as U S Seventh Army seizes a Danube bridge less than ten miles from a Munich corridor. Third Army drives toward Czechoslovakia. Stuttgart falls to French First Army as Russians near German lines. News hints at a joint East West UN announcement as Berlin looms. Continued on Page Eleven Western Front.
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Paris
U.S
Berlin
Danube
Lake Constance
Hitler
Alps
Stuttgart
Germany
Black Forest
U.S. Seventh Army
Munich
U.S. Third Army
Czechoslovakia
Austria
U. S. First Army
Mulde
Leipzig
EBC
NBC
Red Army
First Army
Ninth Army
United Nations
Washington
London
Moscow
Bavaria
Stockach
Ludwigshafen
Molotov Sees Truman Eden as Okinawa Casualties Rise
Foreign ministers Molotov Eden and Stettinius meet at the State Department after Molotov's arrival. Nimitz reports 11 738 Japanese killed with 27 prisoners taken on Okinawa as U S forces press south with heavy fires from artillery ships and air power.
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Truman
Eden
Okinawa
Washington P
State Department
Molotov
Moscow
Stettinius
Weo
Anthony Eden
Guam
2Th Army Corps
Fleet
Chester W
Nimitz
Nazi Retreat From Italy Becomes Rout
Allied armor in rapid pursuit of disorganized Nazi forces fleeing toward the Po River from Bologna neared Ferrara and closed on Modena. Ferrara lies 30 miles northeast of Bologna and Modena 22 miles northwest of the edge of the Po plain. A partial blackout kept town names from release while AP war correspondent Maurice Moran reported roads choked with German troops and vehicles.
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Rome
Bologna
Ferrara
Modena
Highth
Associated Press
Maurice Moran
Russians Storm Berlin Center as Nazi Hold Fails
Soviet forces drove into central Berlin in a massive push reported within the heart of the capital. Communiques claim 18 inner districts seized and a widening ten mile advance as Red Army units encircled areas near Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse, with battles raging in Reinickendorf and Wedding amid 3,000,000 civilians sheltering below.
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Berlin
Red Army
Unter den Linden
Friedrichstrasse
Stettiner Station
Tempelhof
Iéndon
Moscow
Scandinavisa
Soviet Conmmunique
Berlin Belt
Adolf Hitler
Third Reich
Stalingrad
Luftwaffe
Orlanenburg Tor
Old City
Weissensee
Giebiswalder Strasse
Alexander Platz
Hohenschoenhausen
Marzahn
Landsberger Chaussee
Biesdorf
Lichtenberg
Erkner
Gross Mueggel See
Friedrichhagen
Schoenicke
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R. P.I
Houston
Tnstitute
Mercy
Pulse of the People Radio
Garde- Jegen
U.S. Ninth Army
Bagdeberg
Vas
San Francisco
United Nations Center
2Th Corps
Binare Island
Okinipawra
Nakagusuka ‘Bay
Sesoko Island
Motobu Peninsula
Italy
Opaper
Reinickendorf and
Wedding
Siettimer Station
Allied
Bieves
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