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April 10, 1945

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SOVIET GAINS SWIFT; Capital's Main Buildings Around 'Ring' Taken-- Nazis Fight Hard KOENIGSBERG FALLS 42,000 Prisoners Taken by Red Army as East Prussia Siege Ends Prisoners Exceed 42,000 RUSSIANS CAPTURE HEART OF VIENNA

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Russians capture heart of Vienna; take landmarks in stiff hand-to-hand fighting; Malinovsky forces narrow northern escape gap to 18 mi; expand Danube and Morava bridgeheads to 24-mi front; Marchfeld Plain bridgehead deepened to 8 mi; Lessee captured; Gers counterattack, this sector; Malinovsky cavalry captures Oberweiden and Schoenau; Tolbukhin forces reptd crossing Danube northwest of Vienna; southwest of city Berndorf falls; Malinovsky troops driving into White Carpathian Mts take Stara Tura; capture Solbanov in drive toward Trencin, and Radimov

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DELEGATES, JURISTS BEGIN PARLEY TASK; Stettinius Says Former Will Set Own Course--Old Court's Statute to Be Basis of New Decisions by Conference DELEGATES, JURISTS BEGIN PARLEY TASK Vandenberg Gives Pledge Basis For Court Statute Confidence in a Compromise

By Lansing Warren Special To the New York Times

US delegates begin policy conf

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War News Summarized

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Soft Coal Pay Contract Is Near As Dispute Narrows to One Point; Soft Coal Pay Contract Is Near As Dispute Narrows to One Point Soft Coal Strike Eases

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Fierce Battle Blazes in South On Okinawa; Marines Gain; FIERCE FIGHT RAGES IN SOUTH OKINAWA Fleet Guns Join in Battle Japanese Claim 102 Tanks

By Bruce Rae By Wireless To the New York Times

marines score wide gains bringing half of Motobu Peninsula under control; army units in south encounter fierce resistance; heaviest artillery duel of Pacific war reptd raging; marines near Kushibaru; Jap version of Okinawa campaign noted; map

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Notable Births

1945Kevin Berry, Australian swimmer (died 2006)^[†]

Kevin John Berry OAM was an Australian butterfly swimmer of the 1960s who won the gold medal in the 200-metre butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He set twelve world records in his career.

Notable Deaths

1945Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer and typographer (born 1882)^[†]

Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman was an experimental Dutch artist, typographer, and printer. He set up a clandestine printing house during the Nazi occupation (1940–1945) and was shot by the Gestapo in the closing days of the war.