April 19, 1945

by Repub Sen delegation headed by Sen Taft

cos, unions and regional WLB reprs agree on new wage formula; seek natl bd approval; WLB disputes dir L Berliner and LaGuardia statements; others comment

Brit near Hamburg; enter Kampen; race toward Lueneburg area; take Brinkum and cut Bremen-Soltau rr in Bremen drive; 9th Army takes Magdeburg after bloody battle; expands Barby bridgehead slightly; other units expand Saale River bridgehead, reaching point 3 mi from Dessau; 1/2 of Harz Mts pocket eliminated; 1st Army crashes into Leipzig, nearly completing capture; Halle mopping up continues; 3d Army 90th Div enters Czechoslovakia, reaching Gottmanussgruen vicinity; other forces reach Schwarzenbach and Weissenstadt; advance to Chemnitz-Zwickau line; clear Zwickau, reach Musen and Wildenfeld and take Lengenfeld and Tevon; 7th Army enters Nuremberg at 4 points; takes Furth airfield; fights around Mainhardt; clears Schwabische Hall and Rothenburg; French take Offenkirch and Freundenstadt in Black Forest; surround pocket south of Pforzheim; US planes take heavy toll of Ger mil vehicles and rolling stock along entire front; map

US 24th Div troops land at Parang and Malabang on Mindanao's west coast; push southward; guerrillas secure Malabang airfield; guerrillas 3 yrs fight under 2 US officers against Japanese noted; Amers win 35-mi beachhead; map

With daughter, seized by US troops near Nuremberg