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1945-04-04 [P ] FORECAST Served By Leased Wires of the ASSOCIATED PRESS and Partly cloudy warm today. >n(j (),e Yesterday’s temperatures: | UNITED PRESS ) With of High. 86-Low, w. Complete Cover.*, State and National New* _ _ VOL. 78.—NO. 134._ ESTABLISHED 1867 Yank Third Drives Into Suburbs Of Gotha; Canadians Closir^ Trap On 90,000 Nazis; Marines Reach *.4st Shore Of Okinawa Isle _U.-------—-----V_____ Army Forces Senate Overrides Roosevelt Reds Capture Pattons Army Moving Down And Rejects Manpower Draft Noted German I Is 160 Miles Bill To Freeze War Workers To Jobs Loses By Vote Of 46 To 29; East Coast Barkley Calls For Ballot And Helplessly Watches Its De- Aircraft City From Soviets feat; Bailey And Hoey Approve Measure Rapid Gain* On AH Sectors Weiner Neustadt, South Of Other Third Army Units Little WASHINGTON, April 3— (£>)—'The further conference with the House doing something he would deny Vienna, Falls Under Inside Kassel Meeting Jap Senate overrode President Roose- in an effort at a new compromise, workers. Byrnes stayed on the job, Battling Resistance velt today with a crushing 46 to the feeling prevailed that there was Hatch said, “longer perhaps than Soviet Drive Fortress 29 rejection of a bill empowering no prospect of any manpower leg- his health and welfare permitted.’’ the Administration to freeze work- islation at all. Senator Lucas (D-Ill) declared 3— 4— 4.—'ffi GUAM, Wednesday, April ers to war jobs and apply other The last hope of passage of the that senators using Johnson’s ar- LONDON, Wednesday, April PARIS, Wednesday, April _Marines of the Third Amphibious sweeping manpower controls. pending bill faded yesterday when gument were “virtually inviting (if)—Russian storm forces captured —Powerful U. S. Third Army tank one of is to Convinced that further efforts to Senator Johnson (D-Colo), people to quit when Germany the Messerschmitt cen- columns smashed into th* out- Corps, scoring gains of 4,000 6,- great plane win votes for the measure were its original sponsors, joined the defeated. reached the east coast ter of Wiener Neustadt south of skirts of Gotha yesterday in a 19- 000 yards, futile, Majority Leader Barkley lineup against it after James F. However, the majority seemed to while Sev- Vienna and in a mile sweep within 104 miles of of Okinawa yesterday (Ky) called for a vote unexpect- Byrnes, just before quitting as War share the view of Senator Donnell yesterday then, ma- swift 17-mile of Berlin, while Canadian troops enth Division infantrymen who edly this afternoon and sat by help- Mobilization Director, called for its (R-Mo), who, making his first break-through Nazi as the rolled jor speech to the Senate, declar- were only 20 miles from closing bisected the vital island on Mon- lessly margin up passage. fortifications, slashed to within six against it. Johnson said that with Byrnes ed: a on the bulk of 90,000 Nazi southward along the miles of the imperiled Austrian trap day moved Bail- to civil life “it is a “On the face of the record of (.North Carolina’s Senators retiring poor capital. troops in western Holland. shores of huge Nakagusuku Bay, and voted in the affirma- time to freeze other people to their war production and the fact of ey Hoey The powerful Russian surge over Striking across wooded Thurin- both and the Navy announced today. tive.) jobs.” testimony by management the Leitha mountain and river bar- gia province, Lt. Gen. George S. It was understood Senator Hatch (D-NM) to labor that methods will Ths was the first mention of Maj. previously sought voluntary rier south and southeast of Vienna Patton's flying columns drove with a more war I am Sev- that the showdown would be delay- save the measure today produce weapons, within 65 miles of Czechoslovakia Gen. Archibald V. Arnolds carried Marshal Feodoro I. Tol- ed until tomorrow. plea for support of the President compelled to vote againt the pend- and were three-fourths across the 5" action on bukhin’s Third Ukrainian Army enth Infantry Division at the of Sen- and authorities. ing bill, and the vast amount of “waist” of central His While, suggestion military troops inside the limits of greater Germany. is- said he resented the it would on one man.” men within 160 Okinawa, the strategic Ryukyu ator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo), the Sen- He implica- power put Vienna’s administrative district. were reported of ate a motion to seek a tion that by quitting Byrnes was The measure, worked out in a miles of the Russian lines—less land onlv 325 miles southwest approved As the Russians surged toward joint committee, would have placed than the airline distance between mainland. the capital and captured Velm, the Japanese m rr in the Office of War Mobilization New York and Baltimore. Chester W. Nimitz’ within the boundaries of greater Fleet Adm. the power to enforce ceilings on Sixty miles northeast of Gotha, Vienna decreed by Hitler, the Aus- units battled vi- communique reported rapid gains rUK Decides lo the number of workers any plant other Third army torego train capital’s radio went off the * ■ still could employ and compel workers olently deep inside the great ar- on all Okinawa fronts against aii just before midnight last night to in essential jobs. American 10th Army troops have divided the island of Okinawa senal city of Kassel, which one resistanre. stay and did not return. negligible Penalties for violators could have and are entrenched firmly on Nakagusuku Bay (opposite the words German broadcast said had fallen S. Ma- Weiner Neustadt, one of the big- ‘Pacific Ocean’ on the Marines have moved the a mass of ruins. Maj. Gen. Roy Geiger’s Three Votes In been $10,000 fine and a im- map). up slopes in flaming Parley year’s centers gest aircraft production of Yontan slightly south of the center of the island. miles southwest of Gotha. rines at the north end of the line prisonment. The measure also Fifty 22 miles 3—(.T)—President in a in all Europe, is south of Third Army troops captured the east coast and put off WASHINGTON, April Roosevelt, surprise would have given the War Mobili- reached the Vienna. Along with the bomb-torn Catholic shrine of Fulda. turnabout, has decided not to ask for three votes for the United city the Katshin peninsula. (Continued on Page Three; Cel. city, target of scores of American In the south, a monocled Ger- States in the World Assembly to be set up at San Francisco. *) YANKS INVADE WEREWOLF CLAIMS Gen. John R. Hodge’s 24th heavy bomber raids, the Russians man major named von Lambert, Maj. which the President with This reversal of the line agreed upon eantured more than 100 other after Corps Doughboys, who hit the east surrendered Ashaffenburg Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill at Yalta was announc- within Vienna’s two of his offic- coast the day before, drove eight towns and villages publicly hanging the State TAWITAWI ISLE AMG AIDE KILLED ed by Depart- ers who first had that miles southward along the shores today foodUckTrows southern defense system. suggested he when the Americans of Katsuren Bay, a small inlet ment. Tolbukhin’s troops outflanked the give up was of 10 turned their big guns on the blast- within Nakagusuku harbor, one- No official explanation famous sulphur spa Baden. Fail TALKS AS VE-DAY Tra- Latest Landing Puts U. S. Allies To Confirm Re- ed city six days. time anchorage for the Japanese SECURITY forthcoming, but the development NEARS miles south of Vienna, taking iskirchen ~and Moellersdorf, two Lt. Gen. Alexande- M. Patch's fleet. indicated a hope on the Within 30 miles of port On Ambush Of strongly miles and Seventh Army troops also fought These infantrymen reashed Ku- and three northeast, MAY BE DELAYED President’s pare that Stalin like- America Will Have To Eat south of the their way into Wuerzburg, swept ba on the western shore of within nine miles pre- Borneo Yank Troops town, wise would be content with one around that and were less war limits of the capital. city.' Nakagusuku. vote. Less, WFA Official than 40 miles from Nuernberg, “Resistance the day The Soviet communique revealed throughout Prove Barrier In London, a British Foreign MANILA, Wednesday, April 4— LONDON, April 3.— W) —Nazi Nazi convention covering the Admiral Nimitz VE-Day May Declares that Russian armies in Austria, city was negligible,” Office said tonight (01—Veteran infantrymen of Maj.- northern to Munih. spokesman and southern Slovakia “Werewolf” terrorist were declar- approaches reported. To ; British that the United in decid- Hungary Jens A. Doe’s 41st Division Other units their into Parley States, Gen. ed in a broadcast fought way General earlier said the yesterday captured more than 23,- German tonight Hodge ing not to request three votes in WASHINGTON, April 3— OP) invaded Tawitawi at the south end Heibronn, an important commun- invasion far better Alert For Victory 000 enemy troops for a three-day to have kidnapped and slain an was “going the World Security Council to be “Serious shortages” of Allied food of the Sulu archipelago—within 30 ications hub, and also reached than our wildest dreams,” declar- acted total of 75,150. American of- 10 miles from the set up at San Francisco, are growing larger as the victory miles of oil-rich Eorneo—Monday military government Bruchsal, only had made the “Vienna now is in the fighting ing the Japanese 3 —UB— Britain unilaterally and that the decision road to Berlin in a 200-mile southwestward ficial and ambushed and killed Rhine river stronghold of Karls- LONDON, April grows shorter, a Transocean leap Yanks a of south-central to withdrawal of zone,” the Nazi agency present mustered diplomatic representa- was not due any War Food Administration official from captured Zamboanga on Min- American soldiers in Aachen and ruhe.
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