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bombs from 1400 feet, but the resulting explosions set his dive bomber afire. “There was a loud explosion under the fuselage,” he said. “Then the cockpit filled with smoke- and fumes. One wing Was on fire. “I was afraid the plane would explode and ordered my crew (gunner and radioman) to jump. They ‘bailed out five miles southwest of the: Jap task ‘forte. I watched their ® parachutes open. Then I jumped.” Delaney said he landed in the water in the middle of the enemy task force and inflated his life raft. Enemy warships circle him wildly. He stayed out of the raft most of the time so it] would be more difficult for the Jap- | anese to detect him. Once a Japanese destroyer approached within 400 yards of the raft, but pulled away when the crew apparently decided the raft was empty. “At first, I was so cold and tired that when the Jap ‘can’ approached, I thought of giving myself up,” Deaney said. “But I decided they ight only shoot me, so I stayed behind the raft. -I'm sure glad now that I did.” 2

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Pilot Who Wrecked Yamato Watches Battle From Ratt

bits of wreckage. They didn't have boats or rafts. ¥

Delaney while I circled the remaining Jap ships to keep their attention.” Simms and Young both returned to their base. The patrol plane sent | out to relieve them could find no| trace of the Yamato, which had| sunk in the meantime. The cruisers and three destroyers also were sunk in the. air-naval battle and two more left burning. 3 It was Young and Simms who | spotted the enemy task force early | Saturday. ‘Their radio message! brought swarms of carrier planes. Delaney said hé took off from his | Independence-class carrier at 10:15 a. m, and sighted the task force at 12:35 p. m. He attacked in the! third assault wave.

BLACK MARKET IS REPORTED RAGING

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been advertising how much money is. made by black marketers.” Deputy Price Chief James Brownlee arranged to appear before the committee today to “clear up some things that were.left in

a cloudy state” after his last ap-

and never did|pearance.

change its position in relation to| Meantime, citizens of McKees-

him, indicating that both he and]

{ port, Pa.—who heard the committee

the battleship were drifting in the {might go to Pittsburgh later this| same direction at the same time. | week to investigate the black mar- |

“1 saw planes of our second main | wave attack the enemy force about 2 p. m.” he said. “At least one more bomb hit was scored on the Yamato, because I saw a huge pillar of black - smoke go up from her. “Over on the horizon, there was a terrific flash and explosion. I guess that was a Japanese destroyer blowing up.” Delaney saw another destroyer

line to the Yamafo, but it pulled away when the second wave of planes appeared. Plane Spots Raft One of the planes spotted Delaney’s raft and dropped dye to mark the position. Young and Lt. Richard L. Simms of Atlanta, Ga., piloting another patrol plane, spotted the marker, “The Yamato was enveloped in clouds of black smoke,” Simms said. “We flew over the area at 100 feet | and saw hundreds of Jap survivors | from the sunken wii St » to

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ket—asked that their city also be i included. They said you can’t “buy” meat | You have to “arrange for it.” And ‘then, it “costs from 40 to 50 per cent above the ceiling price.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) received a letter from a Jersey City, N. J, man who reported that a butcher he knew bought “5000 red ration’ points” from his bank clerk. The informant, whose name Wheeler guarded, said the ration

points were passed across the counter “in a regular OPA envelope.”

Wheeler repeated his assertions | that OPA is to blame somewhere. “OPA has been asleep at the switch, or entirely incompetent,” he said. “In some large cities, as! much as 60 to 80 per cent of the meat is black market. If everybody in the community knows about it, government officials certainly | {ought to.”

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Hodges’ Army: Br Breaks Into Harz Mountains. (Continued From Page One)

| miles northeastward to cut the | super-highway at a point mid-way | between Hannover and Brunswick. British armored forces to the north laid siege to Bremen and | wheeled northeastward within 60 miles or less of Hamburg, Ger{many’s second city. and greatest | port. A third British column cut |the Hamburg-Hannover autobahn {and raced eastward for Brunswick |and Berlin on the 9th | northern flank. The strike across Northern Ger~ {many shot the 9th army out in front of the race for Berlin, only a few hours after Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ American 1st army had | taken the lead with a new advance {into the fringe of the Harz mountains in Central Germany. Drive for Nordhausen Hodges’ men broke loose on an 18-mile sweep beyond their Weser | river bridgeheads yesterday and followed through early today with an ‘| armored and infantry drive on | Nordhausen, 115 miles southwest of | Berlin.

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The Americans knocked . a “30+

| mile-wide hole in the German -de-

fenses. Late field "dispatches said

they were closing fast on Nordhausen against weak oppostion. Lt. Gen. George

move farther south. The 3d’s drive, a Berlin spokesman said, was fanining oui east toward the Czecho-

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centrations of Germans still hold out in strongly fortified 1solated

positions.

"That accounts, for example, for the flerce fighting that is going on today at both. Heilbronn and Crailsheim, on the Tth front, obliging the’ tank columns to slow down or halt while in-

fantry attacks the strongpoints. Pocket Tickets Pay Off

Gen. Omar J.

405,703.

American headquarters spokesmen estimated that 500,000 Germans have heen killed, wounded

or captured in the

In the first week of April alone, the Germans lost 250,000 men to the allied Western armies. . Most

Bradley's: 12th army group, according to its last official report, has bagged 1,006,~ 366 German prisoners on the West front. The 3d army took 418,501 of them, and the 1st army took

last 10 days.

of them were prisoners.

That count does not include more than 20,000 of the estimated 150,000 enemy troops who were

caught in the Ruhr pocket.

The Eisenhower *

‘pocket tactics” havé cost the Germans most of

army's

S. Patton's pe American 3d army also was on the

their -prisoner losses. Aim for Baltic West of the Rhine and south of

25,000 Germans in the Palatinate, Then the Ruhr trap was closed around 150,000. Canadian troops reaching Meppel locked a trap around 80,000 more Germans in’ Holland. Another great pocket appears

{slovak frontier and south into| to be in the making as British Bavaria toward Nuernberg. troops raced today beyond BrePoweriul armored and infantry| men towards Hamburg and Lu-

forces of the- American 1st and 8th armies also were teamed up in converging attacks on an estimated 100,000 or more Germans trapped in the. Ruhr pocket. The enemy | commander, Field Marshal Walther von Model, was believed also to be in the trap. Whole Ruhr Ablaze

The whole Ruhr was ablaze from

| allied bombs and shellfire, and field

dispatches said the Americans advanced as much as six miles into the pocket today against weakeping | | opposition. Berlin spokesmen admitted that! Hannover was rocking under .a Jdrum-fire” artillery barrage, but {they claimed that American attacks lon the city had been repelled.

1st army drive in Central Germany, which appeared to have uncovered a gaping hole in the enemy defenses covering the southwestern flank of Berlin. Head for Nuernberg German spokesmen said - the American 3d and 7th armies on

| the southern flank also had opened

co-ordinated attacks headed -for the Nazi shrine city of Nuernberg.™ "Far behind the allied Berlin and Bavaria . spearheads, two great battleg of annihilation were raging in the Ruhr -and Holland pockets. American, British and Canadian forces have sealed off more than 200,000 German troops there. The Canadians slammed shut all but one of the land escape routes for ‘perhaps 50,000 Germans caught in western. Holland, leaving open only & narrow, bonfbaspattered

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That road, too, was" less than eight miles - from the Canadian front, and af armored column was hooking northward along the Dutch-German border within 25

{miles of the Emden naval base in |a bid to seal the trap permanently [ised to reach that city at night- | from that direction. The American 3d armored divi- |

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beck. If they can reach the Bal tic, they will have cut the retreat of nearly 200,000 enemy forces in northwest Germany and Denmark. The Russians in their present operations. have also cost the enemy, terrific casualties. More than 42,000 German prisoners were counted at Koenigsberg in two days and apparently still more are to be counted. In Vienna, the daily toll of Nazi prisoners alone has averaged more than 2000 for the last week.

Near Point of Collapse

Hitler long ago mobilified every German male, able bodied or not, who can be put into the front

line. He has mobilized boys and old men. There is no ‘trained reserve

left, largely as a consequence of one of the most intelligent restrictions of the Versailles treaty which forbods universal conscription. and military training | until Hitler vjolated that Jrovision in 1936. -With only skeleton divisions, with less than one-fourth of his r former war factories left and with the staggering losses + of manpower, Hitler's army is swiftly dwindling close to the point of collapse and total extinction.

tank fighters "captured Duderstadt, 22 miles west of Nordhausen, last night after a 13-mile advance from Goettingen. They seized 180 -German guns 1and 200 prisoners in thE town- after firing a few shots that brought the Nazi garrison out in a panicky rush to surrender. At daybreak, the 3d. shoved off for Nordhausen and was reported | moving ahead at a pace that prom-

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northwest of ~Duderstadt, captured Northeim and rolled on another three miles last night. There they were only 133 miles from. Berlin,' and the advance was continuing at! top speed. Strong infantry forces were] crowding in close behind the tank spearheads, mopping up by-passed | pockets of resistance between Dingelstadt and Northeim. Late field dispatches said British

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Hundreds of allied fighter-bomb- | machine parts is required, is a sin-| ers swarmed out to join the battle/gle infrared bulb in a reflecting! They raked re- shield, treating enemy all across the north-| reading lamps, mounted by ‘an adern plains and southward in the/justable.arm on a portable stand. path of the American 1st, 3d and| One use is to bake insulation varIth armies.

Main Island. (Continued From Page One)

bay shore on Okinawa advanced more than a mile and a half to Onaha on the edge of the Yonabaru airfield and only a mile and a half north of the port of Yonabaru, an enemy broadcast said. Report Ships in Bay American destroyers and other warcraft already: were reported to have entered Nakagusuku bay.

| landing operation on Tsukata Sun-| {day afternoon, Japanese

ican destroyer and a small craft which entered the bay.

There was no American confirmation of the east coast operations, On the west coast, American troops battled from cave to cave and from pillbox to pillbox against savage. resistance, Advances were limited to yards as they fought to enlarge their wedge in tHe Japanese main defense line four miles north of Naha, the burning capital. Japanese.guns laid down a heavy barrage. Brig. . Gen. O. P. Smith, deputy chief of staff for the 10th army, said the Americahs were |being supported by more battalions {of artillery than ever used before in the Pacific.

Ernie Pyle finds Okinawa looks a little like Indiana in late summer “when things have started to turn dry and brown.” Read his column today, on page 11.

Hundreds of American carrier planes and big guns of the fleet off Okinawa joined in hammering [the Japanese positions. Naha gradually was being. flattened by the bombardment. Seven of 10 Japanese planes which attacked the Okinawa arc last evening were destroyed. American troops in the Philippines steadily compressed three large Japanese pockets on Luzon while airmen bagged 12 more Japanese ships in their blockade of the China sea.

{convoy leaving the Chinese port of | Swatow, sank one destroyer and {an 8000-ton transport and damaged

another destroyer and a cargo ves-

| presumably artillery, sank an Amer- |

Liberators intercepted a 15-ship |

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| sel. Fifth . army bombers accounted {for eight merchant ‘eraft in raids’ {from the Dutch East Indies to | Hong Kong and Formosa. v Two U. 8. divisions were reported closing in on Baguio in Northern Luzon. In Central Luzon the 6th division wag advancing slowly against stiff resistance. i

CENTRAL VIENNA CLEARED BY REDS

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hold in East Prussia, fell after a 70-day siege. Moscow said Col, Gen. Lass. and-his-stafl surrendered at] 9:30 o'clock last night following a terrific two-day assault that breached the -city’s last defenses! and netted 42,000 prisoners. The | victory was expected to free as many as 1,000,000 Russian troops for use on other fronts. The last enemy survivors were pushed into the Samland peninsula west of Koenigsberg for a last stand. Planes of the Baltic fleet air arm sank nine . transports totalling 36,000 tons, ‘a destroyer, two patrol ships and two highspeed landing barges in raids Saturday and Sunday on JRE only port jon the Peninsula, #hd *n the bay { of Danzig. | A German cruiser, a destroyer, a | trawler and two transports of 4000 and 6000 tons were damaged in the | raids.

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Inside Reich

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“Nazi Murders Increasing

Artillery Duel Raging of some cases people managed to |

save themselves with the help of gestapo agents. I.learned of two such cases. One was that of ‘the owner of a

small factory in a southern town | who had always refused to. join | the Nazi party. Another was that |

of a university professor, dis-

missed long ago because of anti- |

Nazi views. .. 2 8 . IN THE first case, the warning was given because the intended victim had long been awaiting arrest and had bribed a gestapo agent for years. In the other case, the- gestapo agent acted as

Tokyo claimed that during the| he did in order to establish an

alibl for himself. The university

forces, | professor had to sign a slip saying

he was thus warned by Herr So-and-So. v I was told, though I have no way of checking up, that many gestapo. agents and S. 8. storm troopers know what's coming and are trying desperately to create such alibis for themselves. Many quarrels have developed among the Nazis, who are . trying to blame each other for certain misdeeds committed in the past. There is no doubt that such quarrels. have ‘also among the more important Nazi It is an open secret in Germany that serious quarrels the Himmler and Bormann mas chines respectively.

Himmler controls the police while Bormann is in charge of the party machine, from Gaul

| eiters on down.

n o " COUNTLESS small-time’ party officials and second-rate functionaries were given definite promises that they would be taken care of if anything happened to the regime. This I know because

had boasted as long as six months ago that nothing could happen to them- even if the enemy would occupy all of Germany. They explained what precise promises were made and probably didn’t know themselves how they would be saved. Now they realize that nothing will be done for them. They feel cheated. If one puts two and two together and sees who is left behind and who is allowed to retire into a zone that is not in immediate danger, one comes to the conclusion that the Himmler ma-

functionaries will be sacrificed.

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THIS SEEMS logical, because tens of thousands of these small | functionaries have only ' local’ value because they knew: their

territories.’ “They could not be used for any underground or | other activities in other terri- | tories. {

In some cases, these party officials didn't take it lying down, | and complained to Bormann. Bormann and Himmler supposedly had a quarrel only two |. weeks ago, in the presence of a few dozen functionaries who spread the story. Himmler told Bormann that he was acting according to orders of the fuehrer. | Whether or not Bormann and his men believed this, there were open revolts of functionaries stationed in some westérn towns. (I | was unable to get precise names.) The gestapo arrested and those who objected. » " » i AS TO the new German “Werewolf” partisan movement, nobody | inside Germany believes Himm- ‘| ler's declaration that this was a spontaneous movement. I have learned from ' three sources which were independent of each other that this movement | was created almost a year ago. | { In any case, it was begun Jefore | “the invasion of France. Obergrup- | penfuehrer Kaltenbrunner, Himm- | | ler's righthand man, supposedly {

staged the affair, * Oértain’ 8. 8. men were trained | especially for the purpose of | | creating a “spontaneous move- | ment.” During the last’ three months, men believed strong enough to endure the hardships of partisan warfare were commandeered from the Volkstrum to Join this outfit. } The radio stations of the werewolfs are not behind the allied front, but are in Thuringia. All this was told me by the wife of a man who ran away from the werewolf organization before it really got started, and is now hid ing out somewhere in Germany:

DAILY V-2 BOMBING | TOLL LESS THAN V-1

LONDON, ‘April 10 (U. P.) ~The} London Evening Standard estimated | jvoday that about 2000 V-2 rockets! were launched against southern England during the robot bombardment that began last summer and ended 11 days ago with the Ger- | {man defeat on the Rhine. The Standard. estimated that the {rockets killed an average of 12 per-| | sons daily, compared with 70 deaths

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