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|. VOLUME 56—NUMBER 41 ‘

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By UNITED PRESS . American and Russian armies have joined forces on

the Elbe river below Berlin. ; The historic juncture cut Germany into three broken fragments and sealed the doom of Hitler's Nazi regime. Vanguards of the two armies merged their Eastern and Western fronts yesterday at the river town of Torgau, 75 miles south of the German capital.

It was the crossroads of the long and bloody trails * from’ Stalingrad and the beaches of Normandy.

The juncture split the Reich into three crumbling islands of resistance centering around the North sea ports, Berlin and the Bavarian redoubt in the mountains of southern Germany and Austria.

Still another American-Russian link-up appeared

imminent in the Bavarian

foothills bordering Hitler's

Berchtesgaden retreat, where Gen. George S. Patton's 3d army established radio contact with a Red army force

apparently only 30 to 40 m Doughboys of the U. S.

iles away. 1st army’s 69th infantry divi-

DEADLOCK ON CHAIRMANSHIP

v Molotov 'Is Conceded'Big Four Leaders Victory on 2 Major | Warn Nations They Demands. Must Not Fail.

By LYLE C. WILSON SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 (U. United Press Staff Correspondent P.).—~The leaders of the Big Four SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 (U.|nations warned the delegates of the P.).—The steering committee of the 42 other United Nations at the United Nations world security con-|World organization conference that : they must not fail to agree on a ference met this afternoon in an working plan for permanent peace. effort to break a deadlock forced by

They all paid tribute to the late Russian delegates on the question of | President Roosevelt for his foreconference chairmanships,

sight in recognizing the need for The Russians were concéded to such a world peace force and for i master-minding the plans to that have won already two major demands—for three votes in the as-

end. sembly of the world .organization

Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., British Foreign Secto be created here, and for the right of a major power to veto military

retary Anthony Eden, Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister T. V. Soong action against itself, and Russian Foreign Commissar V. But there was no general willingness to accept Russian objections

M. Molotov addressed a plenary to making Secretary of State Ed-

session of the conference yesterday. Warning Was Not Heard ward R. Stettinius Jr.’ permanent conference chairman,

Molotov pointed out .that the Described as a Mess

Soviets “saved the European civilization in bloody battles with German fascism. With good reason | An American delegate sadly told | now, he added, Russia EE the the United Press that “the whole | oy ernments of their responsibility + chairmanship thing is in a mess.” |, tho future of peace-loving na- | In Washington, President . Tru-y,o.c' otter the termination of this| man in announcing the junction of American and Russian armies In Germany reaffirmed his faith in

war. { “This is all the more necessary the ability of the Big Three powers to work together to maintain

to do since before this war the warning voice of the Soviet re- ; public was not heard with due atpeace. i “Nations which can plan and fight together shoulder to shoulder

tention,” he said. in the face of such obstacles as

“The Soviet government,” Molo--

distances and of language and of| Jo bok communications as we sare over-} - , UNCIO Roundup : come,” he said, “can live together ~~’ ° Es Page and can work together in the com- | Lyle Wilson ..... serieineen Ger 1

mon labor of the organization of | Speeches es the world for peace.” {Hal O'Flaherty ....

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A.B. C. ISSUES J0-DAY BEER

Temporarily in City by _‘Stopgap’ Licenses.

By SHERLEY UHL Indianapolis’ jittery position in the state political war over the wholesale beer business was eased today. The alcoholic beverage commission granted 30-day temporaty permits to four local brew distributors. Remainder of ithe nine beer wholesalers here were expected to be given similar “stopgap” licenses before the May 1 deadline cancelling all outstanding permits. Purpose of the 30-day extensions is to prevent any general drying up of the beer flow in districts where new permanent licenses have not yet been issued. Indianapolis is in that category. Some G. O. P. Permits Granted

All current permits are voided May 1 under the new 1945 liquor code adopted by the recent G. O. P. legislature to enable Republicans to wrest control of the wholesale beer business from the Democrats. In many counties new permits, effective beginning May 1, already have been granted to Republicans. In Marion county, however, G. O. P. Chairman Henry E. Ostrom is trying to subdue turmoil created by both politicians and businessmen who are anxious to break into the beer distributing trade. ; According to administration policy, Republican county chairmen are engineering new wholesale beer enterprises in their respective counties. In at least two counties, G. O. P. chairmen have entered the industry. een ., Chairmen Get Permits At. ‘Shelbyville, Leo = Kinmah, county chairman, a member of the

of the Republican Editorial association, is listed as president of the

PERMITS HERE

Distribution Problem Eased

mvorks at Pilseh, Czechoslovakia,

to make their last stand...

Regensburg Won; Contact Reds By Radio.

BULLETIN WITH U, S. 3D ARMY IN GERMANY, April 27 (U. P.).— German prisoners said today that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Germany's last Western front commander, may have been in the Danubian city of Regensburg when it was captured by the American 3d army today.

WITH U. S. 3D ARMY, Germany, April 27 (U. P.).—~American 3d army troops .today captured the Danubian stronghold of " Regensburg, 60 miles north of Munich,

By BOYD .D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

Yanks And Russ Join Forces 75 Mi. Sou

sion pushed out from the Mulde river 30 miles from the Elbe, to join up with the 173d Russian guards regiment in Torgau, on the west bank of the Elbe.

As they went forward, hundreds of war-wearied German prisoners lined the roadsides to watch the parade of American power that foretold the death of Nazidom and the final destruction of Germany's military might. The electrifying news of the juncture on the Elbe was announced simultaneously in Washington, London and Moscow. Leaders of the Big Three hailed the event

BERLIN BATTLE IN DYING HOURS: AMERICANS SWEEP INTO AUSTRIA

BULLETIN

LONDON, April 27 (U, P.).—A Zurich dispatch of the Exchange Telegraph said today that Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering shot his five daughters and then himself when the Nazis sentenced him to death and ordered him to execute his own death sentence. The Exchange Telegraph dispatch said the commandant of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler’s bodyguard read a Nazi death sentence to Goering, newly replaced as head of the German air force, and ordered him to carry it out. An unidentified Zurich diplomat was quoted by the Exchange Telegraph as giving this melodramatic account of the crackup in the top ranks of the Nazi party.

PARIS,, April 27.—American 3d army troops stormed across the Austrian border

into the Bavarian redoubt today and opened radio con-|

tact with a Russian force ap-| parently only 30 to 40 miles away. | A‘front dispatch said Gen. George S. Patton's 3d army picked up a radio call from the Russians this afternoon and that a junction of the two armies was believed imminent. Closing of the narrow gap between the Americans and Russians would sever the last Nazi escape routes into the Bavarian Alps. It would cut-off the great Skoda arms

from the national redoubt where the Nagis werér reported prepared

The location of the advanced

Figure in One of Last Pyle Columns

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i OF Berlin

as Lhe decisive triumph of the European war, This is not the hour of final victory but the hour draws near , . .” President Truman declared in a brief White House statement. : “The last faint, desperate hope of Hitler and his gangster government has been extinguished.” Patrols from the two armies met for the first time | on the Elbe Wednesday evening at 8:30 p. m. (11:40 p. m, Indianapolis time). But the first junction in force was

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Reds Hold Three-Fourths of Capital; Germans Making Final Stand in Center of Wrecked City.

BULLETIN : LONDON, April 27 (U. P.).—Marshal Stalin ane nounced tonight that the Russians had captured Potsdam, “Spandau and Ratenow.

By ROBERT MUSEL i United Press Staff Correspondent

* LONDON, April 27.—Russian assault troops launched . the final concentric assault on the faltering heart of Berlin today. : The German high command reported that 43 miles te the west American forces had crossed the Elbe river. A Swedish report said the fall of Berlin was “only & matter of hours.” A Nazi communique reported a U. S. 9th army crossing of the Elbe south of Tarigermuende, 15 miles southwest of the Rathenow area where the enemy earlier said the Ruse sians had penetrated. The German high command said that at Berlin “our troops, side by side with all men capable of carrying arms, waged a heroic struggle, defending themselves doggedly against a Soviet mass assault, and by counter-attacks drove the enemy from the inner defense ring.” The communique said the Russians were attacking Rae thenow and Brandenburg in the sector west of Berlin where they had pushed almost to the Elbe. The American cross« ing was reported in that same area. Fanatical Nazi diehards—purportedly led by Adolf Hitler—were reported falling back into the Tiergarten. "There, in the heart of Berlin they were making a last”

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On Lublin Seats to Stalin

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The American delegates

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sage to Marshal Josef,V. Stalin ap-|of the ‘proposed world security orparently stating his objections to|S2ization.

seating the Lublin Poles at the United Nations conference, it was learned today from a responsible American official. The Polish question was the subject of hurried diplomatic éxchanges but some quarters believed a solution unlikely before the end , of the conference here. In Washington, Soviet Minister Counselor Nikolai V. Novikov delivered a communication from the Kremlin to acting secretary of state Joseph C. Grew who subsequently conferred with President Truman. The U. 8. delegation meanwhile

scheduled another meeting today. |

Formalities, Pretty Words And Compliments Are Over

By HAL O'FLAHERTY Times Foreign’ News Analyst SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 27. ~The formalities, complimerits and pretty words used to inaugurate the United Nations conference on ‘world security ceased abruptly in the room where the heads of delegations gathered to select a permanent chairman. It was the firs? real point of conflict sand politeness apparently went by the board when Britain's foreign secretary rose to nominate Secretary of State Stettinius as the permanent chairman.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements . 22) Movies .... ‘Business .... 24| Obituaries .

a C13 ; in Crossword ... 29 Ernie Pyle... 17 .+ 18 Ration Dates. 25 Fashions Forum

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«+++ 20- Mrs, Roosevelt 17"

Top. question for consideration at last night's closed session, ‘the { United Press was informed, was the | machinery for establishing tristee-

{ships over territory seized from the, lice Capt. Audrey Jacobs to police

jeenmy. Army ‘and navy conference {advisers sides met with the American delegates at their Fairmont {hotel headquarters. The army and navy have requested a free hand in taking over certain fortress islands seized from {Japan in the Pacific. The military |do not mind if they take over as trustees as long as they have complete power to govern and are not under ‘any joint international inspection body or other non-Amer-ican group.

This is the customary procedure, the host is given that honor. 3 Russia's Foreign Minister Vyacheslau Molotov, declared that since {the four major nations actually were the hosts at this conference that ‘they sit together with equal powers ‘as joint chairmen. According to_ reports that have

been thorough, . checked, Mexico's foreign’ mi put forward the suggestion that the usual procedure

be followed, courtesy demanding that the inviting nation, the United States, be given the honor. At this juncture, the Russian spoke quickly. He said few people could give him. lessons in diplomacy procedure and because this was not a tea party, he could dispense with courtesy, . - Both Eden and South Africa's elderly Marshal Jan Smuts spoke soothing words and the discussion was put over to today, . Obviously, complete harmony in

have (nearly completed their line-by-line 27.—~| examination of President Truman has sent a mes-| Oaks agreement, which is the basis

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URGE JACOBS BE PROMOTED

G. 0. P. Precinct Men Draw Up List of Names.

| Whys and wherefores of a petition demanding promotion of Po-

Dumbarton

inspector were a mystery today. A group of Republican precinct | committeemen have drawn up the list of names, requesting Capt. Jacobs’ elevation. The move was begun last Saturday at a precinct committeeman’s picnic at Hitzelberger's on the Bluff road, and is continuing at City hall and the courthouse. Several committeemen who signed the petition. later charged they didn't know what is was about when they did so. They said they thought they were appending their signatures to a “registration list” when they entered the picnic grounds last Saturday. Capt. Jacobs recently was appointed as assistant to Inspector Donald Tooley, whom he would replace if petitioners had their way. i Tooley is second in command under [Clef Jesse McMurtry. Capt. Jacobs is closely associated. with City Controller Roy Hickman, who has taken a profound interest in the police department. Meanwhile, G. O. P. precinct committeemen also are reported to have complained bitterly of Mayor Tyndall’s “closed town” policy where gambling is concerned,

NIP ARGENTINE "PLOT

newly-éstablighed Shahnon Bever18 [age Co. Martha Whitehead, Shelby 18| vice chairman, is the secretary. .. 18! Marion County Chairman James ... 18 L. Brown of Shoals likewise has

Russian spearheads was not clear, but-it was indicated they were part of Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin's 2d Ukrainian army, last reported 85 miles southeast of the Americans in the Danube valley west of Vienna. | Final Assault Néar Patton's men were across the apolis Times, Austrian frontier just south of the were to beco Austro-German-Czechoslovak = bor-| h ders little more than 80 miles north-| east of Berchtesgaden, .They were in position to wheel down with the Russians for the last assault on! Hitler's mountain hideaway. Word of the impending junction on the 3d army front came as the [American 7th army crashed into {the Bavarian redoubt from the west {in a spectacular breakthrough that carried within 25 miles of Munich, | birthplace of the Nazi party. Still farther west, the French 1st army ground steadily eastward along the lake-studded GermanSwiss frontier, caving in the western flank of the Bavarian redoubt at a rapid pace. The border city of Konstanz was reported’ in French |

pine ween i 411 EG pEDORTED ENTERING GENOA

British 2d army troops combed through the ruins of Bremen to root out and destroy a few fanatical Nazi units holed up in Burgher ROME, April 27 (U. P.) —American 5th army forces raced 40 miles in 24 hours to capture Piacenza, 35 miles from Milan.

park on the city's northeastern They drove into the Alps foot-

outskirts. Practically all of Bremen was hills ‘within 90 miles of the Austrian frontier today.

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firmly controlled by the British, but the surviving Nazis, led by the port commander, Gen. Becker, were strongly entrenched in the park area behind a ring of 88-millimeter guns, apparently bent on a suicidal stand to delay the opening of the

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Hoosier Heroes: Seven Killed, Two Prisoners and Two Freed

BUENOS AIRES, April 27 (U. P). —A government communique said today that a plot by retired army officers, professional politicians and Fascist extremists to overthrow the Argentine government, unleash a civil war and assassinate all officials not joining the movement had been thwarted. wg a

Seven Indianapolis men Have lost |

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hn eo i one geet °’ 8 § 5 Prize Stories Ernie Wrote . din By VICTOR PETERSON The Hoosier Vagabond today returned to his home state in one of

(The .column appears on Page 17.) Written on Okinawa, Ernie Pyle told of two Indianapolis marines, Cpl. Charles (Brady) Bradshaw and Pfc. Dallas Rhude, me the heroes in his' — Both are youthful fighters of the [1st marine division, and as far as

| their" folks know the two never

Few in Indianapolis realized that the day after Ernie's death, a local

It was one of the few times that Ernie did not identify a man by his |

It was “Brady” Bradshaw and | Janes, 526 S. Holmes ave., felt sure

“Everyone called him ‘Brady, ”|

A broadcast by the self-styled driven’ toward capture, although free Milan radio said allied troops |8llied confirmation of these reports

ie Pyle’s columns years before they

HERD FLEEING NAZI LEADERS

Capture or Death Appears Near for All

| BULLETIN | REGENSBURG, Germany, | April 27 (U. P.).~Townsfolk said today that after a conference | of topflight Nazis here last week, | Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering left for Berlin and Henrich, | Himmler for Munich. This tended to tally with persistent Nazi declarations that Hitler is in Berlin,

By UNITED PRESS Allied armies herding the rem- | nants of Nazi fighting forces into (a dead-end corridor of Germany for the kill, were smoking enemy ringleaders from their hideaways today. According to various European reports the following headliners had been captured or were being

caped from Berlin by plane with a $20,000,000 nest egg.” Earlier, radio Hamburg said Goering had “resigned” his .command of Germany’s beaten air force because of heart trouble. TWO: Lt. Gen. Kurt Dittmar. The spokesman of the German high

tary commentator of radio Berlin

Charlottenburg and linked up with Marshal Ivan S. Konev’s troops battling northward from the Botanical Gardens. :

fourths of the capital was in tussian hands. Red army assault forces plunging

was lacking: ONE: Reichmarshal Hermann | | Goering. Radio Moscow said the|}

| for the-Tiergarten from the north |

| : : . ... | Moabit district, And strangely enough both men at one time carried The Indian- | M abit dishrict

“A circle is drawn around the were reported to have overrun the | Deart of Berlin, with spearheads This is a workers’ | thrusting from the Goerlitzer siae area adjoining the central business | 1 Rorth Nesoward aug the Pan. district reaching within half a mile ow distric soul westward within of the Brandenburg gate. {rifle range of Tiergarten, Shapire The most optimistic of a flood | eROved fet : of reports indicating the Nazis were | Sta ie Ey nawspapet Red beaten in Berlin came from Stocks] r Tepor at the Russiang

holm, the nearest neutral listening | (Continued on Page 3—Column 3

post. A Mutual Broadcasting cor- WAR FRONTS

respondent there reported: April 27, 1945

“It is only a matter of hours before. the Russian high command can announce that Berlin is ours. | EASTERN FRONT—Russ and Yank . + » Eyewitness reporters say that| forces join at Torgau; Germans all resistance outside the fortress| reported preparing death stand im (in the Tiergarten) is unorganized | - center of Berlin against encircling and sporadic, and that by nightfall | Red army columns. Friday, today, Berlin will be con- | WESTERN FRONT—Americans ine vade Austria and smash to weste ern edge of Bavarian redoubty

sidered liquidated.” United Press Correspondent | Regensburg captured. » » »

Henry Shapiro reported from Mos- | = ” n

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“eagle of the luftwaffe,” had es- pay

command “and widely-quoted mili- |}!

Pfc. Edward H. Kiel, 4068 N, Ar-|was reported in allied hands. A|R their lives in action, according to|senal &ve., in Germany. B. B. C. broadcast today reported Hi h A t. , h Pa Ce ag A, BLOT Ske 208 8. 180 outset Tigh cota , |freed froin German prisons by the PRISONER DRAFT BILL PASSES Americans. PIC. Gene P. Deer, 183 Com-| WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P). KILLED - merce st, of Germany, ~The house .today “unanimously Pfc. James E. Keller; 527 8. Arling-| "°° ’ adopted a draft extension bill : .| First Sgt. Glen A. Stephens, 3318 : : i Ton WY, 0 QEITMALY. sokisby. gin Ne CHIE ft. OF Germans tarrying 4 ‘provision banning fu jt T. 5th Gr Eniery Goldsby, 222" FREED " [ture use of 18-year-old draftees in : ‘ Luzon. : - : : ‘combat until they have had six Howell, R. B. 18,| - 8. Sgt. William C. Stevenson, 2222 | months traiging. EH Jima. | Union st., from German prison. The legislation, which now goes| 4 _— cao IA 1 a 0 rtoudent Suma, usenet i Bn |or fo-the end of the war, whichever