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By CLEMENT RICHARD ATTLEE
Deputy Prime Minister and Lord Presidént of the Council of the United Kingdom
(Written for United Press) SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.— , We of the United Kingdom delegation at San Francisco are of various political opinions. But we all want equally to build up something that will enable us
WORLD PARLEY FACES THREE MAJOR ISSUES
Showdown Near on 3-Vote Request, Polish Issue, Argentina Question.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent S8AN FRANCISCO, April 26 (U. P.) United Nations delegates assembled today for their first working session with prospects of a quick showdown on Russia's request for three votes at the conference, the question of Argentine participation and, possibly, some
new move on the deadlocked Polish
issue. Russia, it appeared, may submit to the initial meeting of the con= ference steering committee her request that the Ukraine and White Russian republics be granted seats in the conference. Whether Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov also will submit for a third time a demand that the Warsaw provisional Polish regime be represented was not yet known.
Polish Issue May Be Delayed
However, it appeared that there had been no actual developments on the Polish matter since the Big Three discussions were suspended in Washington because of the imminent epening of the San Francisco gathering. Some -quarters said the Polish issue would not be brought to a showdown today but would await further consultations. between MoJotov, W. Averell Harriman, U. 8. ambassador to Moscow, and Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British am- | bassador to Moscow. These three comprise the commission set up at Yalta to deal with Poland and there figs been no| change in their authority to handle the issue. The possibility of quick and amicable settlement of the Russian three-vote request and. the Argentine representation issue emerged sharply. i Entertains at Banquet
Molotov made a surprise gesture which raised diplomatic hopes that these hurdles to conference agreement might be cleared more easily
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more securely to go ahead and raise the standard of life of all our people and build up a worthwhile life for all. And we see in this conference the possibility of building up an organization which will have its negative side, the prevention of war, and its positive side, the building up of organizations for
Pray Daily‘fo
THE interdenominational prayer vigil for the United Nations conference which opened . last night in San Francisco will close. at 1 pak. fomorrow in the Second Presbyterian church, The vigil has been kept daily from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. since Tuesday. It is sponsored by the Indianapolis Church Federation in accordance with a nation-wide
than expected.. He tendered a banquet last night | to some 30 persons, including the foreign ministers-of Mexico, Chile,
China, Australia, France, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Innumerable toasts in vodka
were drunk in the Russian fashion. It was learned that Molotov was| told frankly by the Latin American diplomats of their dedire to see Argentina invited to San Francisco. Molotov on his part reiterated the statement made by Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt at Yalta— that Russia desired the Ukraine] and White Russia to be repre-| sented as a tribute to the suffering ¢ they have endured at the hands of the Germans. Cordial Atmosphere So far as was known no commitments were made on either side. | But the prospect emerged that the! Latin Americans might support the three-vote request if Russia agreed to let in Argentina, The Molotov dinner, it was understood, was held in a most cordial atmosphere, Both the United States and Britain are committed to support the Russian request that the conference consider the admission of Ukraine and White Russia delegates. . Britain will support the proposal
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Simms: Key to
For Peace Is Russian Stand
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.—Now that the United Nations conferopened, its-
ence has. been formally on Russia. Without the co-operation of all nations now under construction he structure. not be built at all. It is widely recognized here that both America and Britain are almost as good as in the league already. The American delegation will tel you that President Truman, in his speech of dedication » ¥ » .
Absence of Pomp Stresses Democratic Parley Goals
By HAL O'FLAHERTY, Times Foreign News. Analyist. April 26.—A conference of 46 nations aimed
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., at building a world security organ simplicity and directness.
A desire for decent order in the world was reflected in the earnest welcoming words of four sincere American men, the President of the United States, the secretary of state, the governor of California and
the mayor of San Francisco. Before a word was said, the platform was lined at the back with representatives of the American armed services, ordinary enlisted men and women of the army, navy, air corps and marines, silently
a ahall ask Tn’ toy name ca" waboou Kot prayer vigil for the United Nations conference and Dr. Carleton W. Atwater reads the Scriptures,
But without each and ‘gll of .the Big Three it simply could
home betterment and social progress. . We think there should go out from this great assembly of rep-
resentatives of the nations a statement of the principles on which all the peoples of the world can live together as good neighbors.
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of Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, church federation executive secretary. “But it is the sincerity of prayer that counts and not the size of the crowd. present,” Dr. Baumgartel holds. i Speakers in order scheduled for today are ‘the Rev. George T, King, Dr. F. R. Daries, Dr. R. H, Turley, the Rev. Marshall Talley, the Rev. William Burrows and Dr. Harold T. Hanlin. Those for tomorrow include Dr. Sidney Blair Harry, the Rev. E. E. Wright and the Rev. Herbert Huffman,
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success or failure depends largely
of the Big Five, the new league of re would be an exceedingly shaky
yesterday, was not indulging in fancy talk when he said, “We hold a powerful mandate from our people” to put an end to wars. And, as
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ization has begun with democratic
symbolizing those who are facing the enemy and those of the citizenry who stay at home and work. By their very presence, by their
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'A Peace With Justice’
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 (U. P.).—Here are the highlights of
the addresses by President Truman
Stettinius Jr. to the opening session of the United Nations conference:
PRESIDENT TRUMAN “We must make certain, by your work here, that another war will be impossible.” “We must provide the machinery which will make future peace not only possible but certain.” “We must not continue to sicrifice' the flower of our youth merely” to check madmen, those who in every age plan world domination. The sacr of our youth’ today must lead, through your efforts, to the building ¥or ‘tomorrow of a mighty combinanations founded
and Secretary of State Edward R.
- s SECRETARY STETTINIUS “The vital national interests of each’ of the United Nations re-, quire that all ‘of the United Nations work together to make peace and freedom secure.”
“We have met to carry forward the great purpose for which he (President Roosevelt) spent his —strength—to’ build the structure of a lasting peace after victory in this ‘war.
“We have lost a wise and valSank leader, bat the putjies lives |
THURSDAY, APRIL
We want to build this machinery, and we want to create at the same time the spirit that is going to make the machinery work. «
And I think that we have to have in our minds the people’ who are very, very tired of war,
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GERMAN CRIP IN NORTH ITALY BREAKING FAST
Report Partisans Free Milan And Genoa; Mussolini Said Ready to Flee.
ROME, April 26 (U. P.).— A general uprising of Italian patriots was reported unofficially today to have broken the German grip on north Italy. Milan, Genoa, Turin, Verona and scores, of other towns were reported liberated. Allied military authorities, whose armies were sweeping deep into northern Italy on the heels of routed German forces, withheld immediate confirmation of reports from the north on the rebellion against the Nazis and Fascists. But accounts of the uprising were supported by every evidence that the patriots had seized and were operating the radios in Milan and Genoa. Supplementary reports circulated freely in the Swiss border areas. German resistance in northern Italy .appeared to have collapsed. e _ Mussolini in Deal? Swiss advices quoted an T«dian press dispatch as hinting that Benito Mussolini was trying to make a deal with the patriots in an effort to save his life. He was reported to have been set up as a Nazi figurehead in north Italy after he was “rescued” by the Germans when his Fascist | regime cracked up. “This morning,” the dispatch was quoted, “Mussolini sent a man bearing a flag of truce to the head of the Milan Socialist party and offered to permit partisans to take over power on condition that the Germans and new fascists be allowed to leave without hindrance.” The Times-Chicago Daily News foreign service said Mussolini was reported to have two fast pursuit planes ready for flight on the shores
the question of the day is whether the Germans in northern Italy will
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‘Need 1700 More Decks of Cards
THERE ARE but two more days to get that extra deck of playing cards to your nearest public library, Saturday closes the Veterans of . Foreign Wars and The Indianapolis Times campaign to collect 5000 decks for the G. L's at nearby military hospitals. Right now the drive stands 1700 short of the goal. And there are a lot more than 1700 homes in Indianapolis with an extra deck lying around in desk drawers. So let's dig them out. Give those men who fought for “you a few pleasant hours among the long and weary ones in their fight to health.
4 POWERS DISCUSS ECONOMIC UNION
By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.— Joseph Bech, foreign minister of Luxembourg, revealed today that his country, France, Belgium and Holland already are negotiating for an economic union designed to fit into the world security organization now being planned Here. He said in an exclusive interview that the four-power union would be extended to include any separate German’ Rhineland state that may be set up after the war. Beck sald prospects for a Rhenish separatist movement appeared brighter than fn 19 1619, due. chiefly.
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and particularly all of those, who have been doing the fight~ ing. I remember very well coming
to. the end of the last war, in which I served. I remember the hopes and feelings that we had during the closing stages of that war of 1914-1918.
of Lake Yarda. This dispatch said |
DISINTEGRATION—
Germans Clog Roads, Rushing
To Surrender
" United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 26.—The German army was disintegrating today amid scenes reminiscent of 1518. Even as in the last days of world war I, fully-armed German soldiers were surrendering in groups as large as 1000. Supreme headquarters announced that allied forces in the west took 43,405 prisoners on Tuesday alone. ” » » most rapidly in the narrow cor- . ridor between the American and
Berlin.
In Berlin itself, the encircled |
garrison was fighting fanatically and 8. 8S. at its back. But west of ‘the city all who could were marching into the American lines to escape the
Soviet war machine.
» » » THE TRAFFIC was so heavy that American 1st and 9th army patrols which headed east in an
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Hoosier Heroes—
5 SERVICEMEN DIE, TWO ARE MISSING
One From Stalag 9-B.
fighting in Germany has claimed the lives of four more Indianapolis soldiers and has added two more Hoosiers-to the missing list. Another marine also has been killed on Iwo Jima.
KILLED Marine Pvt. Lowell W. Blount, 1709 Fletcher ave., on Iwo Jima. Pfc. Calvin Lowe, 336 E. Norwood st., in Germany. Pvt. John H. Wright, Hotel Barton, in Germany. Sgt. Prancis Thayer, 1937 Arrow st., in Germany. Pfc. William H, Kincaid, 4251 W. Michigan st., in Germany. ‘MISSING Pvt. Ralph Ham, 1618 W, Morris | in Germany. First Lt. Rex PF. Barwick, Peru, over Germany. LIBERATED Pvt. Ronald C. Sparks, 2221 N. Meridian st, from Stalag $-B.
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HINT KING LEOPOLD MAY BE FREED SOON
BRUSSELS, April 26 (U. P.). — German officials responded favorably three weeks ago to Red Cross negotiations for the release of King
st.,
| Leopold IIT and his family, it was
learned today. There was no official sontirmation that the captive king had been freed.
WASHINGTON, April 26 (U, P.). —Price.Chief Chester Bowles today brought 99% per cent of all mieat under rationing. .This was taken in order to spread more evenly civilian supplies expected to drop- another six million pounds in May. Beginning Sunday and continu‘ing until the start of the next ration period June 2, meats except mutton will require .red points. Points wil be required on cull and utility grades of veal and lamb and all grades of less popular cuts of veal and lamb’ such as breasts, shanks, necks and flanks.
Other. changes fu Joie. okt ind) fat rationing program for May
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Attlee Lists British Aims: Better Living For All, An End
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Russian armies on either sidé of |
1 | | THE BAG of prisoners grew i —with the guns of the Gestapo
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I can remember talking to the leaders in my country, saying: “What kind of a world is going to be built up? Will we have to do this over again?” I have been in parliament since 1922. When I came in, our hopes of building peace oh firm foundations were Sere: And I have
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PATTON WITHIN 67 MI. OF NAZI LAIR IN BAVARIA
‘3d Near Austrian Border; Danube Crossed at 3 More Points.
BULLETIN WITH U. 8S. 3D ARMY, Germany, April 26 (U. P.).—Ameri- | can 3d army troops entered In- | golstadt, on the north bank of the Danube 40 miles north of Munich, today. At the same time units of the 3d closed-a siege arc threequarters of the way around Regensburg; on the south bank of | the river 34 miles farther to the northeast.
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, April 26. — The | British 2d army cleared virtually all of the wrecked North sea port of Bremen today. In the south American 3d army troops closed swiftly on the | Bavarian fortress of Passau, 67 miles from Berchtesgaden.
German resistance in Bremen collapsed suddenly this afternoon
ZURICH, Switzerland, April 26 (U. P.).—The German city of Konstanz on the western shores of Lake Constance surrendered today without a fight to French
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seen the whole course of that inter-war period in which we slipped away from peace —-the building up of great armaments again, and then this war, Therefore, I feel very clearly what I am sure is in the minds
of all the fighting men of the United Nations.
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‘We have come to this confer ence with our ideas. on how those ° things “can best be done. I supe pose=all the delegates ing to
this conference know that ncneof us shall get ‘exactly what we want, We come to discuss, to work out, to get agreement—the best possible agreement.
REDS TRYING TO CORNER HITLER; HEADQUARTERS 400 YARDS AWAY
Russ Capture Stettin; Report Bremen Falls
Nazi Reports That Berlin Gain Plausibility;
Fuehrer Is Still in Fight
Wildly in Center of City.
BULLETINS
LONDON, April 26 (U.
P.).—~The Moscow radio said
today that disturbances had broken out among many
German units. in Copenhagen.
Austrian soldiers fired on
elite guard units, the broadcast said, and seven gestapo
officials were killed.
LONDON,
April 26 (U.
P.).—Marshal Stalin an-
nounced tcnight that the Red army had captured Stettin,
Germany's greatest Baltic
port, which anchored the
northern wing of the now crumpled defenders of Berlin.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, April 26.—Red army shock troops: burst into the heart of Berlin today, both the Ruse
capital.
lin gained plausibility.
awarded iron crosses to men trict of north Berlin.
Soviets as a “mopup.”
1st army troops.
| after more than a week of savage, | close-in fighting. The fold-up came after three|
bardment that‘ reduced the Reich's second port to rubble. Front dispatches said a- few die- | hard Nazis—including the Bremen | commander, Gen. Becker—still were holding out in the ruined port area along the Weser river late today. But tough Scottish riflemen and armored troop carriers were racing through the streets to finish them off and complete capture of the city seemed imminent. (A B. B. C. broadcast recorded by
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ARMY REPLIES TO CODDLING REPORTS
WASHINGTON, April 26 o P). —The war department reported today that it is bound to treat German prisoners according to the terms of the Geneva convention regardless of the treatment accorded American prisoners of war. Brig. Gen. R. W. Berry, deputy assistant chief of staff, told the house military affairs committee
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Bowles Places Point Values
On Virtually All Meat Cuts
points per pound for most cuts of | lamb and veal and one point for | most beef steaks. TWO: Decreases of one to two points on beef roasts and other cuts of beef. THREE: Increases of four points for margarine. FOUR: Two points increase for grade one cheese. Butter and hamburger remain unchanged at 24 and 6 points per pound. 80 do ration values of lard, shortening, ‘cooking and salad oils. ‘The expanded program for May puts meat rationing back where it was ‘a year ago before most meats were made point freé. Since then point” values have been gradually
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'sians and Germans reported. They plunged one spearhead into Potsdamer Platz barricades 400 yards from where Adolf Hitler may be directing the losing defense: of his gutted
Insistent Nazi reports that Hitler was cornered in Bere
A late Nazi-controlled Oslo broadcast said he was “pute ting all of his personality into this task” and that he had
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Moscow dispatches said the Russian siege forces ad been ‘instructed to be on the watch for Nazi leaders in the last phase of the battle for Berlin—now described” by the
Front Lines Fall Apart The front lines had fallen apart, organized fighting had | become a chaotic struggle swirling wildly through the ruins
The end of resistance in the solidly encircled capital
sides.
days of concentrated aerial bom- was nearing, it appeared from the skimpy reports of both
The Hamburg radio—one of the few major stations in
of the Berlin defenders.
city’s defense.
mitted the Russians had broke onto Tempelhof and into Potsdam, the southwestern suburb of Berlin.
Brandenburg, 20 miles west of the 15 miles from the Elbe on whieh the American 9th army was mass Other units had’ reached the area
of Berlin. Faltering Nazi radio reports insisted that Adolf Hitler himself and |a prize lot of his henchmen were in Berlin. A Moscow dispatch said that if Hitler is there, “the ‘Rus-
Cross the Elbe
South of Berlin, ether Russian forces burst across the Elbe river |
the American 1st army by delayed official account.-
Radio Hamburg, one of the tow | | rockets killed 2754 persons and ine '
{remaining Nazi broadcasting out{lets, proclaimed that “every Berliner knows the battle of Berlin will decide the future of We Reich and our people.” The Nazi admission on the break into the Alexander Platz constituted
business district was under siege. The German-controlled Scandina~ vian Telegraph bureau reported that thousands of policemen from - the Alexander Platz headquarters had been thrown into the battle, They were manning the barricades which were crumbling under the Soviet assault.
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of Fehrbellin, 25 miles .northwest |
(slans will have him dead or alive.” |
and were within about 20 miles of |
an acknowledgment that the very nerve center of the capital's historic
Germany still operated by the Nazis—bared the desperation It admitted that the Russians had ‘broken into Potsdamer Platz and were fighting around the very middle of the Tiergarten. Potsdamer Platz is about 400 yards from the Bendlerstrasse—from which Hitler was reported to be directing the
Moscow dispatches said Russian forces overrunning the Tempelhof airdrome in south Berlin found planes with motors warmed up—apparently waiting for a last minute flight of the Nazi bigwigs, The German high command ad
ous casualties.” A fierce tank bat{tle raged on the famous Berlin speedway called Avus in the west | part of the capital. The Russians were reported closing from north and south on the Olympic stadium, and also threatening Charlottene
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'V-2 BOMB ATTACKS CEASED MARCH 27
Rockets Killed 2754, Hurt 6523 in England.
LONDON, April 26 (U. PJ). Prime Minister Winston Churchill told ‘commons today that German V-2 attacks on England , ended | March 27. He also revealed that the giant
Jured: 6523.
brunt of the attacks, which, began last Sept. 8 and ended when Brite ish soldiers overran the Isanching sites. Asked whether he now was able to’ make a statement on the V-3 bomb raids, Churchill said: “Yes, sir, they have ceased.”
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