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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 37 :
German Civilians Say Hitler, Himmler, Goering Hide
By CL INTON B. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent WITH U. 8. 9TH ARMY, Germany,*April 23.—U. S. army officers sald today there Were unveri-
been occupied by the Americans. (The German radio said Hitler was in Berlin, leading the fighting against the Russians), The reporteabout Nazi leaders
ganized resistance in the Harz forests was declared ended Sunday. And the 8th armored division now was policing up what was believed to be a couple of thousand
fied reports. that Adolf Hitler, hiding in caves was credited to stragglers without major opposiHermann Goering and Heinrich German civilians. tion, Himmler were hiding in caves in On the face of it, the report Yet 8th armored division offithe Harz forests. That area has - appeared unreliaple since .or- cers said Jepores from independ.
WALLS NAMED WELFARE HEAD BY GOVERNOR
Ttiree More Board Members Appointed to Complete Reorganization.
BIG 3 ENVOYS ‘CONFER, SEEK UNITED FRONT
Molotov Here, Disedrd San Francisco Awaits! On Poland Primary Principal Actors . | } Kink to Iron Out. In Drama. By ROBERT J. MANNING By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 23 (U. P).| gAN FRANCISCO, April 23
Governor Gates today named rector of the Indiana public welfare department and
members to
appointed three |
new the reorganized state welfare hoard. New members of the five-member
The welfare hoard are Mrs. Thomas D.
=The foreign ministers of the| ynited Nations assembled today on Sheerin of Indianapolis and Leo United States, Great Britain and) {the shore ofthe Pacific. Kinman Of Shelbyville, ‘both ReRussia conferred for an hour and But attention was fixed on Wash. | Publicans; and the Rev. W. Ed.
ward Sweigart of Ft. Three gcrat.”
‘Wayne, Dem8 half again today. !
They. made an 11th-hour attempt! to straighten out. Big Three disagreements befores®the San Franolsco conference, At. tha..conclusion. of the Jess ing, the second since Soviet Foreign | © " Commissar V. M. Molotov's arrival| United Nations Sees will ther Wy by airplane yesterday. Secretary of ‘advisers into the city where the I ; State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. {first peace deliberations since 1919] He has long been active in Amer-| hastened®to the White House. s open Wednesday. ican Legion welfare projects. For| : : h But the principals in the confer-| four vears he .was chairman of the] It was assumed he went there 0 shice still were absent, | Legion's child welfare department. ! report to President ran on Bo In Washington President Truman!As eanized the child as- | day's discussions with Mo oly an and Secretary of State Edward R. sistance program on a state-wide British Foreign Secretary Anthony Stettinius Jr., Foreign Secretary An-| basis. Eden. hony Eden and Soviet Foreign Com-| He is a member and ‘past chairThe foreign ministers, striving to missar V. M. Molotov were deep in! {man of the committee of the Inachieve a united front on the or-| consultations on the thorny Polish! |diana Soldiers and. Sailors Chilganization of the Polish govern-|proplem. |drens' home at Knightstown. He ment and other problems jcteaet) Polish Problem Unsettled also is” a member of the Indiana ey would meet in later toda “ Tore: they Soul age | San Francisco had assumed the State Conference on Sacial Work; The three men expect to leave to- the Indiana Citizens’ committee on {aspect of a stage, partially set, but a night for San Francisco where the! child welfare legislation: the Inworld security conference opens onl With the principal actors still in the rn e op dressing rooms, arguing about the (lana Council of State “organizaWednesday. lines in the first act. {tions and the Indiana Progress Not Reported With only 48 hours to go before COmMittee of the White House conEden talked with Stettinius alone the scheduled opening of the con- {erence before. Molotov's arrival at the ference indications were growing| He served two years on the adsecretary's office: and for five min- that the Washington discussions Visory committee’ on child welfare utes after Molotov left the meeting. | would not produce a settlement of Standards of the state welfare de- | | 2 ~ Stettinius refused to say whether the Polish question before the open- |Partment. the. foreign ministers made any ing conference session, Secretary of Trustees progress in today's discussions.| It was thought likely that the! Prom 1924 ‘to 1942 he was | Throughout the meeting, the cor- United States, Britain and Russia Knightstown towns hip trustee, and |
Big discussions since Yalta weré testing
ington where the first All appointments are effective im- | mediately | Mr. Walls, a Republican, now sec- | retary of the Indiana Township, Trustees association, succeeds Thur- |
the basic fabric of the world peace structure which San Francisco was! expected to produce. Every train crossing
the high
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‘ridors outside the secretary's office would transfer the scene of their for four years was president of the
were phitrolled by both Russian and | Polish deliberations to the confer- Henry county board of education... U. 8S. .secret service men. |ence city... ¥ . * He wags eleated secretary of the In-) consultations weres carried | out with the aM of Engish and | Russian interpreters.®
meeting are to be filled With minor in 1040 : =f matters of . procedure, a breathing |= lifelong resident - of KnightsStettinius talked to Mr. Truman spell of a week or more would be he is married, has two chilabout 15 minutes and. appeared in afforded he foreign secretaries in|dren and is 45. He belongs to the a hurry as he left the President's whith 40. grapple with the problem Masonic lodge, Knights ‘Templar | office. Without pausing, he told | The Polish issue hung over the and Kiwanis. Mr. Walls is a char-
vn — ter member of the Knightstown — Bo (Continued on Pug! 3—Column 8) (Continued on Page 2—Column 3) American” Legion. post, having served in world war 1
Is Red Alliance With Warsaw 5: ce A Bluff by Marshal Stalin:
member of the mayor's advisory | committee on recreation. She also | has
worked with the League of By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Marshal Stalin's decision to ‘Women Voters, - the Indianapolis Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor send Foreign Commissar Molotov Service Men's Centers, the CounBAN FRANCISCO, April 23.— | to the San Francisco conference |Cil of Social Agencies, Red Cross
and Community fund. Shelbyville Editor | Mr. Kinman is president of the Indiana Republican Editorial asso= ciation and publishes the Shelbyville Republican, a daily newspaper. The Rev. Sweigart is director of the Catholic Charities buréau serv-
was taken to mean that he had decided at last to implement the co-operation pledges made at Yalta. : Now there is fear. thet Stalin may have committed himself to such an extent with the Sovietsponsored Poles that he cannot
20-year Soviet-Polish alliance been «signed with the Warsaw- ) Lublin regime fell on United Nations delegates here like a wet blanket. Hopes for an early Big Three | understanding on Poland had been high during the past few | days.
| Moscow's announcement that | {
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Hays Plecidstor World Unity] 12 BEER DEALERS | Peace by Force if Necessary APPROVED BY ABC
A plea for unity within our own|statesman and president of the country.and between nations at the! Motion Picture Producers and DisBan Francisco conference was made |tributors of America, | Wholesale Field. here last night. by Will H. Hays,| The address on “World Peace— |
The San Francisco Conference” was! =~ TIMES INDEX
G. 0. P. Starts Invasion of
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The Republican invasion of the
heard by more than 500 persons in Indiana wholesale beer business be-
the Columbia club and was broad-
Otto Walls of Knightstown as di-|
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MON DAY, APRIL 23, 1945
ent sources gross-checked in their details. Dozens of Germans were reported ‘as having said that high Nazi authorities had been hiding
in the huge chain of caverns near Blankenburg, One: chamber alone was re-'
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persons, ring around the Other, reports had circulated in have a roof of solid rock over Harz pocket the area that Himmler was. in them Capt. Carroll M Wood of the Blankenburg 10 days ago A darkened and heavily guarded 8th armored division said "no- According to .the reports, two train. was sald to have unloaded body positively identified Hitter anti-aircraft cars preceded. the In &he mountains between Rlan- Himmler and Goering, But: the train and a third followed Dikenburg and Elbingerode, prob- Germans in the area were con- ectly behind the train were two ably at Ruebeland, 14 to 18 days+ vinced they were aboard the heavily laden freight trains, 120. That was. before ‘the Ameri- train. which’ were said fo have un-
In Harz Caves
their contents into trucks, Railway men were quoted as saying ‘a special crew handled the trains from their start to destination.” No one was allowed near
loaded
them. Even the railway officials vere reported {ignorant of the contents 7 the cars and. identity
of the passengers
REDS 10 MILES INSIDE BERLIN, ARMOR PROBES HEART OF (ITY
Bavarian Defens YA Smashed In Patton Drive
Objectives of Russians in Their Sweep Wh, Berlin
Tanks Roar Down
To freight yards, munitions works, power plants, docks
2%, — € Ln b= oes} Ministry Hitler's A Chancellory fairy
Unter Den Linden:
Russ, Yank Juncture South of
0 3 YS ‘ » T . 2 O Capital Unconfirmed. @ » 3 BULLETIN LONDON. April 23 (U, P.).—The Moscow radio re-
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Press report from Moscow s
A dispatch from Germany “the battle of Berlin is practically over”
| ported late today that Marshal Stalin had announced an advance of 37 to 62 miles which broke into Berlin and
ion of Frankfurt:
By ROBERT MUSEL
ff Correspondent sian armored spearheads were rt of Berlin from three direcs
Den Linden and other famots -
The German radio said Adolf Hitler was in personal
lin. The Red army had driven capital and held possession of
Ne NT A tion today. Tir ne oH Br FER DEN LINDEN. Pesk Civ | They ‘clanked ine Unter D Inder (SITY he AW «1g sx LE TH [Koiers! w= O Holl] | ‘streets within one to four miles of Potsdamer Platz. L350 ROADWAY __—— EAS Be | Palace |& Joa tip 9 Oo TT x. \ v 7 . ey FJ 2m a command of the defense of Ber SO & Wik 2 No 10 miles deep into the enemy C= a fourth of it.
through Switzerland said and a United aid the plight of Berlin was
| The Luxembourg radio reported without confirmation
orces had met 60 miles south 1, on the Elbe. But dispatches
from the U. 8. 9th and 1st armies said the historic Junction
Neutral correspondents reported from Germany that
g their way down Unter Den
historic street on which in bther days Hitler's
n im ‘becoming graver. by the hour. 2 K) To freight yards » : ’ | "0 o > Al adiLt /2>/ | rail shops, junctions hat Russian and. American f o s/ - (of Berlin in the area of Torgau, o 2 > J To Tempel- =|. [of hof Aifport ‘apparently had not been made pi [S J FLT, JE i of Station : Red army tanks were blastin [® Q X 1/2 Mile | Linden, | [ — ee {
The Red banner was hoisted in Berlin 4aday as Soviet tanks roared along Unter Den Linden in the The principal buildings shown in “the -abqve map. aré; (1) (3) Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Finnish and Porfuguese embassies; §ince the initial days .of the [diana township trustees’ ‘association lig 6) Swedish newspaper building; (6) Potsdamer Patz; (3) Agpmaments ministry building; 87 Uni-
heart of the Nazi capital. (2) French embassy:
versity: 3
9 German foreign office.
vaunted legions paraded.
British embassy;
(4) Goehbel's . A late Nazi broadcast sa
the Mariendorf dis trict,
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TREASON CASE “roe APPEAL WINS oi From
Supreme Bout § Sets Aside Cramer Conviction.
WASHINGTON, April 23 (U. P) —The supreme court, ruling on -a treason case for the first time in its history, today set aside the con=
| viction of Anthony Cramer, Ger-man-born citizen of New York City.
Cramer was charged with giving ald to two of the Nazi saboteurs who landed in this country in the summer of 1942. The court found that the overt acts charged by the government against Cramer were. not sufficient to support a conviction for treason. | The 5-to-4 decision was read by | Justice Robert H. Jackson. Justice | Villlam O. Douglas’ dissent was | signed by Chief Justice Harlan PF Stone and Justices Hugo L. Black and Stanley Reed. Cramer was sentenced to 'a 45vear prison term by the federal district court at New York. He
the second circuit court of appeals affirmed the sentence.
The justice department charged
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Platz, and, Licheter felde, four ‘rossroads in the heart of B Linden 1s a mile or so distant.
3 ARMIES RACE FOR NAZI LAIR
| | i 3d Army Tanks 125 Miles | From Berchtesgaden.
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
Fashion
ans partial anarchy. Prisoners’ Skins
By ANN STRINGER United Press Staff Correspondent BUCHENWALD, Germany, April 21. (Delayed)—The lampshade was made from the skin from a man's chest.
marily.
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PARIS "April 23.—American and sault planes. hz “ op Adi A Si shad “‘pulverizec Alongside were book bid ings; French armies exploded a grand-| . Pi 1 d| markers, and other ornamental '(.1o offensive into Nazidom's last virtually the entire area toee all ‘made from human |,.ciieat in the Bavarian Alps today. ward the center of Berlin.” skin, too. © mmiciigusln : a . 1 saw them today. I could see This developmen: cam amid a Women Join Battle “ hs sistent reports that other Yank and] 4 ay adic 1 : the pores and the tiny unques- Russian eoiun nad. fused: the I'he German radio said Hitler was ssian columns he fus : tionably human skin lines. ust = i 3 : : in the “main fighting line” in emEastern and Western fronts with a
hattled Berlin and had thrown into 9 __Column 1) the capital's defense “all the military power available to German, Even women were fighting in -the
: 830 RADIO MAKES {front line; the broadcast sald Should Berlin and Prague be lost, it RED TANK CONTACT added, all Europe was doomed
2 ” n I TOUCHED the lampshade. It felt smooth, and clung to my touch. The skin was about onesixteenth of ‘an inch thick. The lampshade and other articles had been made from the skigpf prisoners in this notorious Nazi hellhole on the orders of
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The Soviet breakthrough to heart of Berlin was reported bv the
the wife of the camp command- ————— neutral Swiss radio and Swedish ant ‘ orrespondents filing their first “She was a great admirer of No Laison, However, Made ons ed Sispatenss of the war from tattoo work,” said a Dutch en- | With ‘Arm Units ’ the “vazi tapila gineer technician who had served | y . White flags were flying in the
12 months “ here. “She would ARMY “Apri o
WITH-U. 8S, 9TH have prisoners with tatoo work 23 (U. P.) —Troopz of the 83d divion them line up shirtless. Then jon (trained .at Camp Atterbur: 6 op di she would pick a: design or mark |geeking to arrange a meeting wit er an a 10
gan officially today with "approval she particularly liked. That pris- the ‘Russians, established ra ay cast nationally. Mr. Hays was of 12 new heer dealer applications shes Cramer Sommitied vert Se] oner would be executed and his |jjaison with Soviet tanks today. | Leads Troo Amusements.. 13 Ruth Millett . 9 y,,5,0nt here by the Indiana Coun- by the reorganized Alcoholic Bev- y meeting Wi EINEer | <kin made into an ornament.” By late afternoon. however. no or Eddie Ash ... 14 Obituaries . 7, 13). on poreign Relations and the erage commission Thiel and Edward: John Kerling— | ys’ 2 2 Tol NOY . t — t— - —— rl - Business Aran > Fred Perkins . 9 Foreign Policy Association of In-| The commission also renewed twn Noo SE Naas Janisd | THE LAMPSHADE was about (Hoosier Heroes, Page Five) ° 5) > 3 HIGOINEOINAY mics ...... nie Pyle . holesale licenses’ and rejected three y a emt ar . Crossword ... 17 Radio ,.. .. dans, pleading for unity within a J Jected th Islond—accepting money for safe- WD ime on oR he contact with the Red army had been] LONDON April 23.-The German i a ; : {he 9th atm nt radio said today that Adolf Hitler Editorials .... 10 Raton Dates 8lour own country and between na-| It was the first action taken since keeping and concealing their iden- ae made on ine Oth atmy front... |Fadip a Dua Saving IH ST Peter Edson.. 10 Mrs. Roosevelt 8/yi0ns 1 do not mean that discussion appointment of the board last tity from FBI agents. (Continued on Page 3—Column 3) Women 5 voices of ould be -distin- wa it oo n Agaling ime Forum ...... 10 Side Glances 10] should be adjourned,” he em- month following ‘adoption of the Harold R. Medina, New York law eee em guished clearly .in Russian conver- embattled In th Meta Given” . 12 Sports 'phasized. “revised 1945 liquor code. One pro. Professor who served as Cramer's LOCAL TEMPERATURES sations on the tactical radio this| If Berlin and Prague are lost, the Inside Indpls.. 9 Tom Stokes..<10| «rhe Dumbarton Oaks Prods vision’ of the new law, ganceling all ajtorney without ee, contended | 6a. m..... 51 10 a.m .... 59 |afternoon, indicating’: that higher Seren jyoadcass sai, "all Europe Jane Jordan . 17 Up Front .. 9 being presented to the ‘San Fran- ‘wholesale permits as of May 1, is ‘hat “merely drinking a beer” with. 7 a. m . 52 11am echelons rather than mere spear- {1s lost v wate Charles Lucey 10 Joe Williams 10] the men in a New York restaurant, 8a.m..... 53 12 (Noon).. 62 heads were within range of the 9th! Therefore, Hitler has remained Movies ... ... 13 Women's News 12 (Continued on Page 3—Column 1) (Confinued on Page 2—Column 7) was not an act of treason. I 9am .5 1p.m.... 63 ‘army's radios in: Berlin,” ‘it said . cm c— - | “He will stay there despite all fives ys . . Ls r rumors. The. main front line. runs William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor; ©" World Order or World War 111? p Scrip g straight. through Berlin and the ; Ludwell Denny and Peter Edson, Scripps-Howard -authori- newly-established 'Frickeorps — The shape of things to come will be determined at the Adolf Hitler’ is fighting with women
United Nations conference starting Wednesday. And, as usual, The Times will be there. ‘The top-notch writers of the nation will bring to every "Times reader day-to-day new§ and observations of history in the making. : Covering the conference will be: ie Roy Ww. Howard, ‘president a The Times” and world
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in its ranks Hal O'Flaherty, editor of the Chicago Daily News-Times foreign service.
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United Press wire and feature Services, including such nationally- known by-liners as Ralph E. Heinzen, Lyle C.| . EASTERN FRONT Sov let armored . Wilson, Harrison Salisbury, R. H. Shackford, Sandor--8 | forces battle in heart of Berlin. Klein, John L. Cutter, Robert L. Frey and Robert ‘C. Miller. ‘WESTERN FRONT-Third army| -| sweeps NEA fea-| miles Wrom. Bérchtesgaden in| : i on oe drive against Nazidom's Fedoubt, ture services, of Si - er i 3; “in Bavarian Alps. . eid “The. Biggest News—And the
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miles southwest of the fahmous erlin, from which Unter Den
Swedish reports quoted one of the last air passengers out of Berlin as saying the city was in a state of chaos and In many districts, hunting down Gestapo agents and dealing with them sums
he said, civilians were
Russian siege guns lined up tern to the southern fringes
center of “Berlin Swiss reports said.
Radio Luxembourg said the Russians also had ‘captured the big Tempelhof airdrome in southern Berlin. Moscow dispatches said the Red army was pounding along all the {main ‘thoroughfares leading from the northeast, east and southeast toward the Alexanderplatz, less than
a mile from Unter Den Linden, A dispatch from the Soviet news
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BULLETIN WITH U. S. 3D ARMY, April 23 (U. P.).—The American 3d
army crossed the Naab river on
a seven-mile front today and ad’
vanced to within 23 miles of the Danubian city of Regensburg.
Says Hitler ps Inside Berlin
The broadcast was carried by a Hamburg station, one of the few in Germany still broadcasting under Nazi control. “It said Hitler was determined that neither Berlin nor Prague should fall to “Bolshevism." Allied circles doubted that Hitler still was in Berlin despite the propaganda broadcast, but recalled that neutral ysources had reported the fuehrer was ‘contemplating death in battle. at the head of a suicide battalion All other information indicated that Hitler was in Bavaria organiz-
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On the War Cronies
ITALY — British and. American tanks surge north from Bologna toward Po river. PACIFIC—Air forces strike new blows at Japanese over week-end; marines land on’ two islands off Okinawa U.S. troops- sontinyg j
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