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along the Frankfurt-Berlin high-
morning at 5:20 o’clock at her
way. indicating they had severed home, 1220 North Anglin street.
communications after an illness of several months.
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River cities overrun by the present
Japanese drive;
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or Induction on
Frankfurt's main
with the capital.
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firday on
WINEIANZA
OBAMAMIJA
oyd Cochran, Marlon Erwin Cre-
tier. John Wesley Carlock. Marion
today and
parents
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field
River
north, It was announced .today
Fifth Army forces were officially
reported making "spectacular" ad-
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Make New Gains
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grate within a few days
Churchill told the House of Com-
mons that a three-power warning
Texas Power A Light Company,
was elected president of the Rotary
Club Thursday at a regular meet-
ing of the group.
Frederick. Dickson, an associate
of the Dickson Hardware & Fur-
SUPER FRIGHT
PORTLAND. Me
and transport center.
Polish Units Near
Polish units only ten miles east
of Bologna were pouring shells into
the city.
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DEADLY FREIGHT—Trainload of V rockets abandoned by Nazis was found intact when
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5th Army Forces Make “Spectacular”
Advances After Mount Adone Falls
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a "death blow" to Germany.
Broadcasting on the eve ef Mil-
ler's 56th birthday. Goebbels de-
captured some Italian troops, whom
the Germans in Italy have been
Details of the 6th Army’s new
outh of
LONDON, April 19 (U.P — Nazi
Propaganda Minister Goebbels said
today that the Allies have launched
what may be their final offensive
of the war in an attempt to dal
were discumed. County
J. Jackson attended the
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The 8th Army broke into the
plain leading to the river Po after
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Germany, Hitler would find the
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today that the authority of the
German government may disinte-
in the drive to collect used doth- he said, to the “German govern-
ing for destitute war refugees. ment or whatever authority exists"
A large number of boxes of wear- at that time—indicating belief that
MOTOBU £ UN
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SE5OKO~
is 15 miles south of Ferrara, and
18 miles south of the Po
• According to today's communique
Leonard Retsch,wocretary to the Sept. 22,1044. He was a forward 8tem Amhse Torogehedeuwrrrszcohe
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Good Conduct Medal. American De- ’ rison announced today. It has been
Of Cleburne Rotary Club Today
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town near the Irrawaddy
j west of the central plain
ateiy. -■ and political considerations.
Saturday, April 28, Is the last implied that no agreement on
day for turning in clothing as the date has yet been reached
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Transocean saif the
T-Sgt. Masters
Killed in Action
On War Atrocities to Be Issued
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YANKS
Is open from 8:30 g, m. until 5 cried speculation on the date of
p m each day in the week with V-E Day which he said would be
the exception of Sunday and those fixed in consultation with the
who have not turned in their box- "three or four" principal powers,
es are urged to do so immedi- having a mind to both military
a power economy measure.
Graduates, ex-Students and fath- ,
ers of ex-tudents of Texas A. &e4
M College will meet Saturday
night at 8:30 o'clock at the Amer-
E Nelson, died this
Burma; British troops cap-
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few days more remain
capturing Boccaleone, key point in
the Germans’ sp4clled "Genghis
Khan" line of defenses. Boccaleone
Middle Eastern Campaigns He will In Britain
have completed two years overseas Morrison said all restrictions on
April 11, and has been with the home, factory and office blackouts
36th Division since it was activated would be removed but that street
in November, 1940 lighting will not be affected Street
His wife, the former Fvances lighting will ocntinue curtailed as
quarters of the 7th Army on Feb.
12, 1945.
The company moved against ov-
erwhelmingly superior enemy num-
bers and fire to seize and hold
Agent C A. Munsch by Friday
Another key Nazi citadel, Halle,
15 miles to the northwest, also WAS
on the verge of falling to the
rampasing First Army after almost
a week of street lighting almost
as bloody as th? battle for Leip-
bons for European, African and the
SEELOW AND WRIEZEN
ogene Gardner, Willie Joe Allen, WJ. D4"..4,
yd Clarence Williams, William WVdI DcSLILULC
ick Poindexter, Andrew Adolphusi
etty, Daniel O’Brien Campbell. ;
laud Dudley Tomblinson, Tomie '
infantryman, he took part in the
invasion of France
Survivors Include his widow and
little daughter, Mary Ida. of Hous-
ton; his parents, five, sisters, Mrs.
Lloyd G. Ward. Misses Alma Jean
' and Lily Mae Masters of Cleburne.
Miss Loren Masters of Dallas. and
1 Mrs. Billy Fox of Fort Worth, and
■ two brothers. T/Sgt. Hubert E.
Masters of Fort Bragg, N. C . and
Raymond Mamters of Cleburne
Johnson County, attended school
in Cleburne. He enlisted in the U.
8 Army about T% years ago Art
in turn notified his
storming, seising and holding this BATTIE BETWEEN
strategic high point, the company RHINE-RUHR ENDS
contributed substantially to the sue- LONDON, April 19 c ....
cess of the regiment in this ac- German high command said today
tion, according to the citation, that the “battle between the Rhine
LYThe Tollowing men will report
dnesday. May 2, at the Central
Fus Station at 8 a. m and from
there will go to Dallas for induc-
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Aggie Muster
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field; two brothers. John Vedder,
Cleburne, and Jim Vedder, Blum;
- the high ground east of Ember- two grandchildren, and a number
menu, France, during a three-day of nieces and nephews.
period. By its heroic action in
--------bearers will be George Baker, W. ।
T George, T. B Scott, John M.
। Wylie, Oscar Pogue and Will Cow-
an. Burial will be in the Cleburne
tion intc the armed forces:
|Hoke Smith Ward, Jr., Ronald
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TENA 3Ar-NTAKA
W hich Japanese suicide pilots have ,
be t n taking off to attack the Am- j
erican fleet cff Okinawa, 330 miles,
south Tokyo said the raid lasted
two hours. I
Strafe Airfields
Twelve lean Lee Ion Halt for the annual
new superlocomotives on the Bos-|Aoie Mister / 9
ton & Maine Railroad hauled more 1 In order that arrangements may
sfhg"r:r rear-tine jobs — - (freight than old-type engines dur- be completed, all who are planning
Mourn Adone was captured by an Ing one month afa net saving of . to attend are asked to notify ,
American ompny commanded by $80,000
Capt Milton Matar, Summit, N.I------ .
J/- from a battalion led by Maj SANDBURG MEMORIAL
James Patterson. Bloomfield. N. J. GALESBURG, III, (U.P—A civic .
Mediterranean Air Forces yes- group hag started a subscription BILLIONTH LOAF OF BREAD
terday Hew over 2,700 sortlee in fund to buy the cottage in which BOSTON (UJb—Hathaway 'Baker-
continued smashes against Germah poet and biographer Carl Sand- les. Ine., recently baked their .
burg was born here in 1878. 1000,000,000th loaf of bread. 4
Masters, a native • of
Cleburne TIMES REVIEW
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Lt. Monte Lee
Gets Battlefield
Commission
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Lt Monte R Lee, former elec-
trical engineering student at Texas
Tech and son .of Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Lee of 610 North Anglin
street, was the first man of the
131st Field Artillery battalion to
be commissioned in the field.
Lt. Lee, who was a sergeant be-
fore being commissioned, landed,
with the famous 36th Division at
Salerno, Italy. In September, 1943.
and fought through the Italian
campaign, Including the liberation
of Rome. He won the Silver Star
for gallantry in action at the Ra-
pido River near Cassino.
After partial pat ing in the land-
KUNIGAM:7‘ T-
H AWAj
Another broadcast said the Ans
I trican ridere bombed and strafed
Tokyo airfields for half an hour..
I Marines chared three-fourths of
Qkinawa with a drive to the north*.,
cin tin of the island. Other Ma-
rines still were 'embattled on Mo-
toou peninsula jutting from- the
8- 01 |
mansMrs. E. E Nelson
had evacuated their bridgehead on--** ,
the east bank of the Oder directly . ne T J
opposite Frankfurt and withdrawn1 I)IAs I Odav
to the town itself after blowing * •--J
up all bridges across the river.
A German DNB dispatch said
Bologna were not immediately
known But, front dispatches said
the entire position there now was
(Ry United Press)
Superfortresses ralded Ryushu4
for the thirg straight day today. 7
‘Tokyo said and American ground
forces scored new gains in Oki- ; I
nawa and Ie in, the Ryukyus and 3 I
on newly-invaded Mindanao in the •
Philippines
Eremy broadcasts said more than j j
Vances after capturing Mount
Adone, 10 miles south, of Bologna
The 655-meter high peak was con-
sidered the main, bastion of Gpr- ____
man defenses south of Bologna, 4 "spectacular " advances
..00.- . , , and speedier, progress was expected “ ' ‘ *
, out. field _ artillery- is included in a with its capture
1 " t ..... Breaks Into Plain
to Germany on war atrocities,
signed by himself. Marshal Stalin
and President Truman will be is-
sued within a few days.
The warning will be addressed,
I thousands of liberated Allied pris-
open acceptance of Germany’s de-
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German hopes for a prolonged
Britain tomorrow to obtain eye-
Although cloth- witness evidence of Nazi atrocities,
ing need not be in perfect repair.
Duke Aston, manager of the
SCHOOL BOARD
IN JOINT MEETING
KeRAmacmNOMAAVjyK,
_-‛-qAIRFIFLDS],NANAzKA.
Aup—“E-K
• sOmaT ITOMAN
"" TOKASHIKI —
a net saving of , to attend ’ are asked to notify
either Dr. A C. Burns or County
| Funeral services will be conduct-
ed Friday at 4 p.m, at the First
| Presbyterian Church with Rev.
• John Mitchell, assisted by Dr S.
B. Culpepper, officiating, Pall-
LONDON, April 19 (U.P—1Nazi
broadeasts said today that Rus-
■tan forces had scored a deep
adyance east of Berlin and
thrust an armored spearhead
across the road running south-
west of Strausberg, nine miles
from the city limits.
Hem
Nee
LONDON, April 19 (U.W—The
Red Army captured Berlin’s east-
ern outposts of Seelow and Wriee-
en today and plunged on within
14 miles of the capital.
"The super battle fox. Berlin is
heading for its climax," a Nazi
Transocean broadcast said "Rather
. deep penetrations have been made
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Special Delegation
He revealed that a special parli-
amentary delegation is leaving
EAST TiXAS: Partly cloudy tonight and Fri-
day. Not much change in temperature.
avurly 4 | 8 | ’ 8J 10 | 12 | 3
Temperature 62 1 58 | 62 1 73 | 80 | 84
40TH YEAR, NO. 124
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.and made readv for shipment on
Vonday. April 30 . ,
Both winter and summer cloth-
House today for an Unscheduled Due to Arrive at
Marshall atrodo rapidly through Fort Sam Houston
thmwana“gusglobbercaboumma. James of Joshta,
ately into President Truman’s out- com,—VI-----:---. — .
tion, according to the citation. | that the "battle between "the Rhine! er office. His face was set and lstuoLupberated..prisonersaowa
Sgt. Ratliff, who is the son of and Ruhr is ended," apparently I he looked neither to right nor left rtturning.tromthe.European the,
Mr and Mrs. John Ratiirt of meaning the collapse of the last as he moved through the crowded a ter 0n.rotattion furloughr"hoyere
Donnell, has been overseas a year, resistance in the Ruhr pocket. lobbv. ? Fort Houston.
Only a
Barnes E Raney. Charles Edward
Debbins, Patrick Jefferson Nelson,
l"e Allen Hadley. James Camp-
f Buchinan,-Austin Granvme
Raker, Jr , James Melvin Webster,
‘Eivert Hugh Seiber, John Bunk
Hazlett Clifton Burleson, John
Raymond Pannell
British Blackout to
Be Lifted Except
Ings in southern France in August. E NK:
1944, he flew*as artillery observer i D-IVll
in a Cub plane until lit won his j .
commission ’ i LONWON, April 19. (U.P.. The
i - B> sidas LL-Ie+Rritish klakgut. will be lifted Mon.
holds a Division Commendation, Air I day except forAfive-mfecoastar
-- - - - - - . - . "— belt, Home Secretary Herbert Mor-
fl nd all types of cotton garments
should be washed before they are
donated .but they need not be
ironed.
All types of infants garments,
bedding, and shoes of oxford or
high types with durable type of
low or medium heels are desired
in addition to garments.
No women’s hats, eventng dress-
es. tuxedos, dress suits, shoes with
oper toes or backs, evening slip-
pers and novelty sliopers cannot
be used so contributors are asked
not to include these in their
boxes.
. . Churchill revealed that the par-
h mwih he tse It tI trciDenne liamentary body is being -sent at
Thrusting another 10 miles west
of Seelow, Transocean said, the
Russians drove within two and a
half miles northcast of Muen-
cherberg, 10 miles from Berlin, and
two to h point just east of Buc-
kow, 16 miles from the capital.
In Artillery Range
At Muenchenberg. the Russians
were 30 miles beyond the Oder
River and well over half way to
Berlin from the jump-off point
ot their offensive four days ago.
Other German broadcasts said
, Soviet vanguards were 14 miles
east—within artilery range—of
Berlin’s city limits and had snash-
ed into Bliesdorf, a mile and a
half south of Wriezen.
The capture of Seelow after sev-
eral days of fighting ip which po-
sitions -changed hands several
times gave the Russians control of
a series of strategid hills within
sight of Berlin.
Russian forces were said to have
forged a 60 mile siege arc across
the northeastern, eastern and
southeastern approaches to Berlin,
broken only at Frankfurt, Oder
cd vice-president.
Bob Kilpatrick was re-elected
as secretary of the organizatien
and Aubrey Preston was re-elected
Mr and Mrs W C Masters
of 521 West Heard street, were
notified this morning that their
son, T/Sgt. Wayne W Masters whs
killed April 3 in action in Germany.
His wife, Mrs Charlie McPherson
Masters of Houston, received the
message from the War Department
RUSSIANS SEIZE BERLIN’S » hh Kyushu
---— -r-.i Again; Yanks
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stand in .the west were fading
fast and the fall of Leipzig was
expected to speed the final dis-
integration of the Wehrmacht. "
Field dispatches said doughboys
of the U. S First Army’s Second
and 69th Division held almost
complete control of Leipzig, Ger-
many's fifth city and. next to"-
Berlin, the most important com-
Mrs. Mamie Mae Nelson, 67,
still needed here The Legion Hall At the same time Churchill de-
Monroe Cradduck,
damecHemanRosec-r ‛,Ben 1 able garments have been turned in the crumbling Nazi regime may
Ki jakDurward“n-iatthe American Legion Hall, the not be fupetioningas an entity ing""ReiCh.
Aasmnndekrnneth Sw Auk- dents, hut thousands or poundsjare * dispatched.
fest Louis Gaarz, B. D Cryer,
of the capital on the Kuestrin- niture Company and one of the
. Berlin highway, were reported byi club's youngest members, was elect-
the German Transocean Agency
First Sgt. James B. Ratliff, whose cemetery under ths direction of
wife resides at 625 West Chambers Dillon's Funeral Home
street. Is a member of Company, Burvivors Include her husband.
"A," 318th Infantry Regiment, re- E » Nelson. Cleburne; a son.
cently cited for extraordinary gal- Lanier Nelson, Houston; three
lantry and heroism displayed near daughters, Miss Elberta Nelson,
Embermenil, France, The unit ci- Cleburne; Mrs Grace Jones, San
tation was issued from the head- Bernardino, Calif., and Mrs Ed-
wina Jordan, Grand Prairie; two
sisters, Mrs. Frank Stanley, Cle-
burne. and Mrs A. A Rom. Mans-
WASHINGTON, April 19 C.P)—-
Gen George C Marshall, army
Allied Prisoners
Line Streets
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loosening. American forces
. ’ ICO B-298 bombed Kyushu, south-tt I
ernmest ot Japan's home islands, M
J v hile three other B-29s and 60 esj
icorting Mustang fighters attacked,
airfields in th" Tokyo area,
With Tckyo one-tenth destroyed.
D.” Eisenhower who messaged
Churchill today that new discov-
eries of atrocities, particularly those
in the Weimar area, far surpass
anything previously found.
The prime minister's announce-
ment came after he had replied
tartly to a member's question as
to when V-E Day might come.
Sir Alfred Belt, Conservative,
asked him whether Elsenhower’s
statement that V-E Day would not
be proclaimed until all important
resistance centers were cleared
should be interpeted to mean V-E
Day would not arrive until Nor-
way, Denmark, the French ports
and channel isles had been liber-
ated
No Announcement
“I have no announcement to
make about V-E Day at the pres-
ent time," .Churchill said, "except
that I deprecate premature specu-
lation on this subject The matter
is noT’cme "we' cSiK'-Wtl IP By ’ Titir-
selves "
Churchill said the atrocity warn-
ing was addressed not only to the
men at the top but to the actual
persons perpetrating the crimes and
that it would make clear that no
orders from superior authorities
would be any protection from pun-
ishment for their crimes
. "No words can express the hor-
ror which is felt by his majesty's
government and their allies at the
proof of these frightful crimes now
coming daily into view," Churchill
said
He declined to commit himself,
however, on a proposal that the
Buchenwald concentration camp be
retained as reminder of German
atrocities.
Hitler Will Find
i Way Out—Goebbels
CLEBURNE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945,
TAKE HALLE, LEIPZIG
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i iheetnpsdipi matsorhaxeastvaaumted had been made to burn the Main, but it didn’t work. Censorship lifted on this picture
” * a month after it was taken. .
The Kyushu raids j presumably
' were aimed at the six airfields from
1 in
tured
as treasurer.
Directors elected were H. C.
Custard, Hunter Pearson, Walter
Pou. Bill Sheppard, Albert Venting,
Charlie Peyton and the newly elect-
ed officers. ' '■'./j I
The new officers and directors
will take office in July and will
serve for 13 months
For the program, the Junior
High School Blue Bird group of
Camp Fire under the direction of
Mn. Ralph Richardson and Mrs. ~
Walter Grammer as leader, sang
several numbers
Miss data Barricks. associate
field secretary of District Four of
Camp Fire, was the speaker for the
day end made an interesting ad-
dress relative to the needs of the.
Camp Fire organization. She was
introduced by Mrs. Vera Mangum,
local Camp Fire executive.
Visitors ,at the meeting were
King Burney, Ray Vanderpool,
Eddie Craig and R. C. Winburn.
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Blow Up Dike
Still farther west, the Canadians
reached the Zuider Zee only 30
miles east of Amsterdam and un-
offictal reports placed them 19
miles clrser to the big Dutch port,
dosing fast on an estimated 110 000.
trapped Germans in Western Hol-
land
In a last orgy cf destruction, the.
cornered Nazis blew the greet
Zuider Zee dike at Oosterland. 40
miles north of Amsterdam, sending
a hyge wall of water rolling down
across the lowlands. 2-
The Nazis apparentlv were plan-
ning to die in behind the flooded
areas to fight a delaying action-
that promised them no better end
than the bl cody disaster of the t
Ruhr
All organized resistance in then
Ruhr itself ended early today with
the destruction of all but a hanu- "
ful of die-hard Germans in th* —
Duesseldorf sector along the Rhine. .
ROME, April 19 (U.P)— The 8th continued to threaten Bologna by
Army has broken through the Ar- 1 swinging eastward across flooded
genta Gap. smashing the last main fields and forcing a bridgehead
Verman defense line below Ferrara across the Galana Canal. The 8th
and the river Po, 18 miles to the was 13 miles east of the key road
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Advances Made
On Newly-Invaded
Mindanao
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To the north, south and west
other Allied armies were piling uv -
equally spectacular vtetories with
a power and speed that threatened
the imminent collapse of Germany’s
remaining western defenses,
Fertress Falling
For the second time in a gerer-
ct ion Germany’s armed forces were
being beaten to their knees. All
accounts indicated that the de- ’
spairing Nazi lenders already were
on their way to their Gotterdam- 1
merung in the Bavarian redoubt
One bv one the key fortresses of
the Reich were falling into Amer-
lean hands The U $. Seventh
Army surrounded Nuernberg and
battered thiough the ruined streets
of the once-beautiful Nazi shrine
citv. •
’t Gen —George—- Batten n'M
Third Army stormed Chemnitz, v
36 miles southeast of Leipzig, and
rammed through the northwestern
eerner of Czecheslevakia: in a -bid J
to close the Nazis' last remaining
escape road at Prague, 98 miles .
awav.
The German hold on the North
Sea ports also was slipping fast as
Eritish and Canadian armored
forces began to roll through the .1
enemv defense lines at top speed.
British Second Army troops
closed up to the Elbe River on a -.J
broad front less than 120 miles
nortmyyet ■ of • riserhn "6 nd fhtete ।-
within iff n lies or leas of Hamburg.
Germany's seaport and- second
city. . V
nerthwest coast and army troops
, al thezouihendwere.stalledby
stubborn defense lines before
Nii ha, the capital.
A Pacific fleet communique said
that the first 18 days of Okinawa
campaign, with associated oper-
ations in the Ryukyu chain and
air raids on Japan, had cost the
Americans 7.895 killed, wounded or
captured.
Continue Gains
American assault forces on tiny
Ie. three miles west of Motobu,
continued gains,' but were meeting
with stiff resistance from dug-in
l Japanese positions.
American invasion trocps drove
' thia nd today from a 28-aiUs
.beachheed cn Mindanao, southern--
v most of the Philippines. The land-
ing was effepeted on Moro Guif
Tuesday With virtually no opposi-
tion.
t The main Japanese forces, esti-
mated at 50,000, were believed to
have withdrawn to Davao. 95 miles
east
On Luzon. American forces tight-
ened the siege arc on Baguio, for-
mer Japanese headquarte rs in the
Philippines.
Destroy Planes
Philippines-based bombers dump-
ed 360 tons of explosives on For-
mosa. destroying "numerous"
grounded Japaese planes
Other nlanes sank or damaged
18 more Japanese cargo vessels in
- -maintaining the aerial blockade
against shipping through the China
Sea and the Southwest Pacific
Chinese forces recaptured Fan-
cheng in Northwest Hupeh province
tcompleting recovery of ail Han
JAP RESISTANCE on’Okinawa island to the Ryukyu group continucs
to grow as American forces engage, the enemy in terrific artillery
duels. Solidifying the Yank hold was the invasion of Tsuken ill by
Tenth Army troops. Tsuken is about 10 miles of Nakazucuku har-
bor. A southern drive (2) by the 24th Army corps was being re sted
stubbornly by the Japs The northern drive (3) by the Th.rd iacine
mphibioustorps resulted m Tains up to 2,600 yerds.- Hniernalionalia,
WITH U S FIRST ARMY.
j April 19 (JP — American First - -
Army trooos today captured the a.
German stronghold of Hall, 15
miles northest of Leipzig.
PARIS, April 19 (U.P— The key- .2
stone fortress of Leipzig fell to ,
the American First Armv Dday
1 . fter a day and night pt wild street
fighting that broke the JMUt* Wr
I tween the Germans’ northern andi
! southern fronts • •
Leipzig, the fifth city of Hitler's
Reich and the pivot on which
his entire western battle line de- -
pended, was conquered by two first
divisions early today in one of
the bloodiest, close-in fights in
the war • 5. I
All but a handful of Nazi snip-
ers were"killed or captured by tank .1
uni’s earlv Uday and the doomed, ”
suvivors were being hunted down
and destroyed at top speed. • .
Liberated Prisoners . I
With stray shots still flying in
a half dozen sections of the city.
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lobby , * due to arrive at Fort Sam Houston,
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..Shortly, afterMarshall arrived. The names of the men have been
_______ the White House issued a revised released hv toe nth Service Com-
CHUNGKING. April 19 (U.P) — schedule of presidertial appoint- rmsed bY the 8th Service, -0
Allointmeeingpfthe Bono and Chinese troops., have recaptured ments. showing hm as a 10:30 Painter has been a prisoner of
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Sixty miles to the south, other
Russian forces seized the Neisse
| ' River anchor stronghold of Forst
and stormed across the Spree River
almost 15 miles farther west in a
bid to outflank Berlin and link up
with the American First Army 70
miles away, the Germans said.
New offensive
Another new Russian offensive
was underway west of the Austrian
junction town of St. Poelten, on
the south bank of the Danube IM
* , miles east of Adolf Hitler's moun-
tain fortress cf Berchesgaden; en-
emv broadcest said •
Th# fall cf bitterly-contested
* Wriezen. 33 miles northeast of
Berlin, and Seeiow, 26 miles east
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