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MOLOTOV SEEN ASKEY MAN IN PEACE ISSUES
“Major Negotiations Centering Around Soviet Envoy To San Francisco.
WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P)). «~The capital waited somewhat impatiently today for Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M, Molotov and the Big Three, Big Four and possibly Big Five talks which will begin with his arrival.
The latest information available
' indicated he would reach here late
tonight, giving American, British, Russian, Chinese — and possibly French—diplomats just three days for discussions relating to the San Francisco security conference opening next Wednesday. Molotov's visit will make ‘possible these negotiations: ONE: A new attempt by Britain, Russia and the U. 8. to agree on a broadened Polish government in “time to seat.Poles for at least the last stages of the United Nations conference. TWO: A meeting of the foreign ministers of the Big Four sponsors— Britain, Russia, China and the U. S. —1tb “discuss final preparations for the West coast parley. Consider Trusteeship THREE: A Big Five meeting—ineluding -‘Francé—to agree on the framework of splans to place dependent territories and mandates under international trusteeship through the United Nations organigation. 1t was expected ilo that Molos tov's arrival might result in is« suance of a new -Big Three warning to the Germans regarding the mounting discoveries of allied troops that the Nazis have waged an inhuman atrocity campaign against the prisoners and slaves they have brought into Germany. Prime Minister Winston Church11} indicated in commons Thursday that such a Big Three pronouncement might be issued after the ‘British, American and Russia foreign ministers conferred here. Meanwhile most of the U. S..delegation prepared %0 leave for San Francisco after serving notice they would not be bound by.every provision of the Dumbarton Oaks | agreement, which is the basis of | the projected world organization chiarter. Changes May Be Made
Chairman Tom Connally Tex.) of the senate foreign relations committee’ and his commit~tee colleague, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) left the senAa ater, agsurin ha, oi ‘that AG rin gL. y.
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plan if they seemed necessary. Connally said the eight-man dele- |
gation had reached “harmony unity” on most security issues, while Vandenberg warned - “that “San Francisco can't chart the millenijum.”
Kowever, that they would do’ their best to help charter a working peace organization at San Fran-
cisco. Their colleagues cheered their
#4 a { CONTROVERSY OVER the
speeches. . Trade Relations The subject of Russian-Ameri-ean trade relations has popped up
meanwhile with the announcement! that Britain, Canada and the U. 8.| have signed the long-awaited fourth |
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Canada Backs Roosevelt
Ideals for World Peace
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Both senatorial delegates promised;
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know they dare not fail now,
say Roosevelt” might have saved the situation,
That's the view of smart politicians at. the capitol. Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin, both politicians, If they were to fall,
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WASHINGTON, April 21.—The San Francisco conferAnd the peace treaty, We will get well started on the road toward perma-
later, will be Their rea-
the world would might have succeeded,
Neither Churchili nor Stalin wants this verdict in history.
un un u
Polish government and its partici-
pation in the united nations conference probably will be settled here over this weék-end when foreign ministers of the three great powers
meet. This, at least, delegates to San Francisco. They believe that when
A this controversy Francisco meeting will develop only minor
is the expectation ‘of some leading American
is settled, the San differences of opinion,
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By HAL O'FLAHERTY, Times Foreign News Analyst VANCOUVER, B. C. April 21. —Across the mountains and prairies | of western Canada and the United States a great determination has
come “to life, The people have heen deeply
affected by the
death of President
WORKERS SOUGHT
FOR ‘PEACE JOBS’
225,000 Needed for Lumber and Textile Industries
WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. PJ).
Roosevelt and they have turned from mourning his loss to the forward- |—Production Chief J. A. Krug’s plea
ing of his unfinished work. The press of the western Canadian cities reflects a strongly re- | ligious attitude lowsry ie ap _proaching conference security at San So a wide-| spread prayerful hope for diving) guidance during the gathering of free nations.
DANA PLANS PYLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
for an extra 225,000 workers in the — [textile and lumber industries was viewed today as the ‘first concrete step on the rocky road back to a full civilian economy. These workers—100,000 in textiles nd 125,000 in lumber—were lost to |the respective industries because of 'the lure of more lucrative war jobs,
Joined to the appeals of the press Funds Will Be Be Raised to rug said.
for an understanding of the Dum barton Oaks proposals is a power. ful effort from the pulpit' to educate the public and to bring to the study of world security a spiritual urge now reinforced by the desire to complete the plans laid by a departed leader. Along with this religious fervor for world security has come a new attitude toward Soviet Russia. The decision to send Foreign Commissar Molotov to the conference is accepted as a final demonstration of Russia's sincerity of purpose both
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TIMES INDEX
Khvisements 4/84 Meeman , 6 Eddie Ash . ion Millett .. 7
Churches Movies... 4 |. Comics {Ernie Pyle .... 7 | Editorials 6 | Radio 2 niseivas 9 Reter Edson .. 6 Mrs. Roosevelt 7 , Forum ide Glances . 6 ‘Freckles. ,... +3 Wii. Simms... 17 “Ingide Indpls. 7|Douglas Smith 6 , BISports ........ 8 6, Women’s News §
Construct Building.
(Other-Pyle Stories, Page Seven)
Plans for an “Ernie Pyle Memorial Library” at Dana, home town of the famed war correspondent killed this weéek in "the Pacific, were announced today . ‘by a committee of Dana citizens. The library would be constructed at Dana and would be financed through ‘voluntary contributions to the fund, said Luther Mathes, editor of the Dana News and president. of the Dana Lions club, which is sponsering the project. In addition to Mr, Mathes, the committee includes John Bussing, Dana lumber dealer; John Allison, owner" of the Dana theater; Edrick Corden,- oil - dealer, and Franklin Southard. ' Yesterday Indigna, University announced plans for an Ernie Pyle ‘memorial fund to be used in the proposed financing _ a. schogl of in honor of the war cor-
ent. who attended 1 u.
An increase in the output of lumper and textiles is vital to “the prompt return” to civilian production, he told his press conference. As an example he cited passenger cars which could not be produced without textiles.
Many civilian items need lumber |
for packaging, he said. “I don't think most of us realize how distorted our economy has been
"| during the war,” the WPB head de-
clared. Even as Krug was discussing this
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FLYING FORTRESSES BLAST MUNICH AREA
"LONDON; April 21 (U.P.g#z-Over 300 Flying Fortresses smashed* rail and airfield targets in the Munich area today following a night-long R.A: F It on besieged Berlin. |The Fortresses were esgorted by "400 fighter planes. British Mosquitos raided Berlin six ‘times during the night, dropping block busters and other bombs
into the res raging HE: the, di Nua capital, . .
U. 8S. 3d army.
mo — ———
MOST GERMAN’
- Pallid Natives, Bour Out of:
At the End of the Day—Battle Fatigue
The brain and muscle-numbing weariness of battle is evident in every line of this soldier’s body as he { plumps in a _chair at the field hospital of the 80th division,
He is Pte. Joseph F, leradi of
CITY DESTROYED
a Mima ons Lallars
By ELEANOR PACKARD A United Press Staff Correspondent NUERNBERG, Germany, Apel
basement to age.
long they had a greenish pallor. These thousands of civilians and slave laborers had huddled in the cellars during the | fierce, five-day fight for the Nazi | shrine city. They began to stumble into the] daylight with uncertain steps and | blinking eyes after .3d division doughboys made their final heroic assault on the thick-walled, moated Nuernberg fortress. Live in Three Layers What to do with them, where to house them, and how to feed them was the chief problem facing the
yesterday,
American military, government
|team which today controlled what | Hitler once called
“the most German_of ‘all cities.” In the great fight which ended life “here was lived in layers. In the ground floors of the tumbling buildings were the Nazi soldiers, still fighting with machineguns and rifles, : Next, in the cellars, were’ the
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COMMANDER RELIEVED WITH U. S. THIRD ARMY IN| GERMANY, April 21 (U. P.).—Malj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy, Chicago, IN., has been relieved as commanding general of the 12th army corps becauseg of ill health.
“LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.....58 10am
eh gies Vous Raises.
IN NEW STAB AT ELBE LINE
May-Be Major Bid to Join Russians in Assault On Berlin.
PARIS, April 21 (U. allied Western armies captured 913,237 German prisoners in the first 20 days of April, headquarters announced today.
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
can troops were reported storming the Elbe river line
Berlin today. If true it was a -major bid to break through and join the Red | army in the final assault on the| German capital.
on the U. S. 9th army front before
D. N. B. news agency as three other |
last redoubt in the Bavarian Alps.| D, N. B. said the Americans a2 tacked in the Wittenberge area,
miles north 6f the 9th army's other bridgehead across the Elbe i Barby. The enemy agency added ervpilc)
the crossing attempts had failed.
Report Unconfirmed There was no confirmation at al-
report. But a crossing at Witten- | zerg would put the Americans on the Hamburg-Berlin railway only| 79 miles from a juncture with Russian troops in the northeastern outskirts of Berlin and 70 miles from Soviet units at the capital's south- | ern’ gates.
Americans were 40 miles west of| the Red army vanguards and meet{ing stiff opposition. As the battle for Berlin thundered {into its final hours, the American {3d and 7th and the French 1st armies in the south opened their assault on-Nazidom’s last strong- | holds in Bavaria.
THE rolling with increasing {against the outer ramparts of the Bavarian redoubt on a front loop-
21 —The people of Nuernberg came |ing northeastward from the Swiss out of the cellars today, their faces] the ,color of cheese buried in the
border to northwestern Czechoslovakia. The fiercest enemy
{was reported concentrated against
They had lived underground sO the U.S. 7th army striking straight
{down from Nuernberg toward
| matical teen-aged Nazis fought a |
{savage and partly successful delay- |
{ing action on the road to Munich. | "Patton’s forces were*98 miles or {less west of Prague in the last main | escape corridor between northern] and southern Germany. The U. 8. 7th army struck south |
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End May Not Be Far Off—Churchill
P.) —Prime Minister Churchill said today that he did not think an official proclamation of the end of the war in Europe “need be long delayed.” Churchill spoke briefly twice during a visit to Bristol to accept the | freedom of the city. He said: “For my part I have deprecated (any attempt on the part of individuals in this country to forecast the {period when official festivities and rejoicings should be embarked upon, as it is in the main for the generals in the field, the great commanders of the United States and the great men our Russian allies have produced to inform the governments when their task is done. “I do -not think it need be long delayed.”
Earlier Churchill hinted that he might retire—or be retired—after
the defeat of Germany.
Half-Way Mark Is Reached In Playing Card Campaign
The halfway mark in The TimesVeterans of Foreign Wars playing
card collection was passed today,
just one week before the drive ends. A total of 2500 decks of cards has been donated for the. G. I's at Billings and Wakeman hospitals. Just that many more, however, are needed to reach the 5000 mark by next Saturday. © ° The drive was 288 decks richer after employees of the Indianapolis plant. of Armour & Co. decided to do something. for the hospitalised,
through the card campaign. They turned their $80 collection into 282 decks. Meanwhile the Heyl Study club of the Rauh Memorial library has turned its attention to the drive and are participating actively.
mark at that time. And over the city generous eiti-] zens, are turning in their extra decks at the public libraries.
P.).—The |
PARIS, April 21.—Ameri-|
at a new point northwest of |
Berlin was flashed by the German
miles northwest of Berlin and 4
cally that “as far as is known” all
lied headquarters of the enemy |
+ sag arpoRIRg. Sige Spy ONL three- -army StensIve™ "Was — weight
resistance |W
BRISTOL, England, April 21 (U.|
5 n ¥ | April 21, 1945 {EASTERN FRONT — Red armies | storming Berlin; Moscow says entry into capital expected over week-end. { WESTERN FRONT — Three allied armies strike for Nazis’ last redoubt in Bavarian Alps; British envelop Bremen and storm into outskirts of Hamburg.
AIR WAR-—R. A. F. Mosquitoes
bomb Berlin six times in support |
of advancing Russian armies.
ITALY — South African troops smash into Casalecchio, { miles southwest of Bologna.
drives 70 miles south of Meiktila, |
emy Svigiong;
ALLIED ARMIES ° TAKE : BOLOGNA
Center of Gn Line in | Italy Broken.
|
allied armies in the south struck | along a 200-mile front for Hitler's |
|
ROME, April 21 (U. P).—Ameri-|
{ to the German-controlled Po plain.
Troops of the American 5th and
British 8th armies smashed into the great Italian stronghold from three | sides.
The city’s capture wil] enable the| | allies to use their great superiority! In the Barby Qridgehead, the in armored forces in the batile for|
northern Italy.
the 5th army, said that “Bologna
final victory in Italy.”
escape road northwést* of Bologna | and hundreds of allied tanks and | to. the fio “Hor 0 Sn dash Wh
tinued their attack across -the Bologna-Modenan highway into the Po valley, cutting off any German escape from Bologna to the northwest. The 5th and 8th armies’ advance was aided by South African troops who smashed “into - .Casalecchio,
German |pyunich. There thousands of fa- [three miles southwest of Bologna.
Hoosier Heroes—
3 LOCAL MEN KILLED
‘ON WESTERN FRONT
and southeastward from eaptur ed |
‘Bourne, Chandler, Rybolt | On Casualty. List.
Two local men fighting with ar{mored units have lost their lives infantryman
the Western
in Germany and an has been killed front, according to’ official casualty lists for today, A captain is missing over the Pacific area and a 7th army infantryman is missing in Germany. In| addition a lieutenant has safely escaped,from a German prison. KILLED Pvt. Eugene Bourne,'R. R. 3, 406-B, in Germany. 8. Sgt. James R. Chandler N. Jefferson ave. in Germany. Pfc. Robert R. Rybolt, 2430 Howard st, in Germany. MISSING Capt. M. Eugene Lawlis, . 2021 Laurel st., over Southwest Pacific. Pf¢. John M. Jones, 423 S. Park ave, in Germany SAFE Charles R. Haddock, 146 escaped ' from German
on
box
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LR First Lt. Caven st. prison.
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EISENHOWER TALKS WITH MONTGOMERY |
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery | conferred for nearly an hour yes-
field a few niles from the front.
lanes. b Eisenhower later American, British ‘soldiers liberated this week from a
talked
If you haven't turned in yours, | German concentration camp south.
n yet, do so at Sie SC oppareiity
of Bab,
three |
by-passing remnants of four en- |
can and British troops today cap- | tured Bologna, big Italian gateway!
represents to us the beginning of}
The conference was held in Eisen- | Yesterday P. R. Mallary & Co. hower’s private plane. whi le alin Stalag Luff VII in"East Prussia, [They slashed our backs, ‘shoulders contributed ‘140 decks.” Their dona- [squadron of Spitfires ‘erdised. overs] [Bit because ofthe Russian advance and groins. If a man stumbled and tion boosted the total to the 1000, head on the lookout for any enemy they were sent by train ta-Memel, | tell, he would get the bayonet and
and Canadian giving’ the trip the title,
Start Storming Berlin, May Enter Over Week-End aTHREPORTED BATTLE RAGING 3 MILES AWAY, GERMANS SAY; CAPITAL OUTFLANKED
lank and Infantry Forces Attacking From
Three Sides;
Germans Admit
Defenses Pierced. By ROBERT MUSEL
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, April ‘acknowledged today that Rus ing Berlin. A Red army lightning thas outflanked the doomed ca the Germans said. :
A Moscow dispatch said
Gloomy Nazi broadcasts
21.—The German ‘high command
sian siege armies were storm-
thrust of more than 50 miles
pital completely on the south,
the: final breakthrough on the
Word of the new crossing attempt BURMA—British armored column | Berlin. front was expected this week-end.
said converging Soviet armies
{ad clamped a blazing siege arc against the eastern, southeastern and northeastern suburbs of Berlin, and that Red
&
LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).—Radio Berlin announced
today that Propaganda Mini
ster Joseph Goebbels, gaulei-
ter of the Nazi capital, would make a special broadcast to
Berliners this afternoon.
‘army artillery had begun pumping shells into“the heart of
the city.
A German communique reported that a Soviet column
‘had raced up the Spree valley,
city and 40 miles from the across the Elbe. City’s Supplementary
| Treuenbrietzen,
beyond Berlin indicated that
by-passed Berlin on the south,
and reached the area of Justin 26 miles southwest of the
U. S. 9th army’s bridgehead
Backdoor Left Unbolted broadcasts reported Russian ranging the region southwest of Berlin in the areas of 23 miles from the capital, Gen. Mark Clark, commander of | Beelitz, 13 miles southwest of Berlin. The speed with which the Red army mobile units raced
forces
and south of -
the Nazis had mustered every
Doughboys of the 5th army al-|)agt ounce of their strength for the defense of the capital ready were astride the Nazis’ main |
|itself and on the Elbe line to the west, leaving the citys.
| backdoor unbolted.
‘hausen, three miles from the |at Bernau, four miles from number of other points at B said - Russian shells hit the central district today,. such at Potsdamer Platz. { One Russian army, by Nazi | account, broke through Berlin's southeastern defenses in the Cottbus area and wheeled northwest against the capital. It nlunged a spearhead into Zossen, 11 miles dye south of the city. London ‘newspapers - quoted a Nazi broadcast as saying the Russians had battered within two miles f Berlin- at the Ring motor road wound the city. The ~German |gloomily conceded {great battle between ‘goon and |the Russians had “torn open the front line at several points” and “in the depth of the battlefield” the Germans were struggling to stem powerful Soviet onslaughts.
high conmand that “ir the Stettin la-
Fierce Battle at Goerlitz
“In the area east of Berlin. bitter | Bernau-
the the German This constitutof
| fighting rages along | Puerstenwalde line,” command reported ed an official acknowledgment the Soviet progress to the the city and the closing of moon assault arc on ern side of the city { Fuerstenwalde lies 14 miles southjoes ou Hie cl city. on the Frankfurt
gates of a halfthe entire
fast-
the: Sudeten mountains” |
ag cgpoadaasts said Redy army assqult, forces, had reached tne SDI Hedi; “PRE Blu SE BE :
American 5th army troops con- metropolitan area, violent fighting’ raged at HoetiBuwustere
southeastern edge of the city, the northeastern edge, and a erlin’s gates. The Nazis also
highway east of Hangelsberg, where the Soviets were seven miles or less away from Berlin. The Nazi communique said the Germans were locked in fierce defensive fighting northwest of Goerlitz, where the Russians had smashed within less than 20 miles of Dresden The communique acknowledged {that the Russians drove tank spear- | heads to the area of Kamenz; 19 miles northeast of Dresden. Between Spremberg and Cottbus, powerful Soviet armored forces raced northwestward to outflank Berlin from the south in & Tightning thrust to the area of Juetebog, {30 miles southwest of the city. - The attack extended to the lower
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On to Berlin
The nearest distances to Ber. lin from advanced allied lines today: EASTERN FRONTS even miles, possibly three or less (from eastern approaches to'capital), WESTERN FRONT—43 Miles (from south of Tangermuende). ITALIAN FRONT — 518 Miles (from near Comacchio).
1800 Allied Airmen ‘Beaten, Bayanelgd on 'Stettin Jaunt'
By RONALD CLARK United Press Staff Correspondent 21ST ARMY GROUP HDQ., April 21.—Eighteen hundred allied aire | men were beaten and bayonetted by Nazi guards on.a torture march
they dubbed “The Stettin Jaunt,’
a Canadian survivor said today.’
The Canadian—Warrant Officer Armand Joseph Pambrun,. Boni-
| fice, Manitoba—an airforce | thousand Americans.
Pambrun said that during the|
Havigs
last July, German matines clubbed and jabbed the fliers to tempt them Ito escape. If they tried, they were
[other marines. The prisoners originally were held |
thence by boat .to Swinemunde. En/
wit hi route they passed through Stettin, |
“The Stet- { tn. Jaunt.” trouble began when we left | bout seit Pambrun.,
“~
‘the
“The!
ator, said the victims included =
guards wére husky German mae
PARIS April 21 (U. P),. "= Gen.| [two- mile march, which" took place|rines, young: fellows about 18. Our lads were half-starved and soft .
from years in prison camp. | “The guards fixed bayonets and
terday on a captured German air- mowed down with machineguns by!an officer yelled -ih German ‘Quick.
{march. As we started. running and | tumblirig - the marines closed in.
be clubbed with rifle butts. “German civilians stood along the road and laughed at us, ~ “The marines “had police dogs ‘which would rush in on the fallem men, Mug their ams and ga