Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1945 — Page 2

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers - |

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gation, on majoryworld matters. ho, a Fa Petain Is French Problem PETAIN'S RETURN to France is

believe Germans facilitated his return to stimulate political division

< in France.

Plan had been to try Petain in absentia, pronounce a death sentence. It will be harder to do with the old marshal—long a respected

figure in France—sitting in the court.

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embarrassing De Gaulle; some Four would meet. informally. Bu the plenary conference has voted them legal and official powers to convene at any time as an official | body under the chairmanship of] The trial may be postponed. |g retary of State Edward R. Stet-| When it is held, chances are the death verdict will be pronounced, : then commuted to life imprisonment by De Gaulle.

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may try to find out why atrocities were not known earlier.

Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. reports had been reassuring, never sug-

gested atrocities. Did their rep- ,

resentatives take the word of | Five-year limit on term insurNazis? Where they censored? | ance will be extended: act was Didn't army intelligence know | passed before the war when outabout it? Were the few men who | look was uncertain, escaped via the underground for- | legislation giving veterans special bidden by -someone to tell the | exemption from government retruth about conditions? - Inquiry | strictions unless emergency agenprobably will try to develop an- | cies make broad concessions of |

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. . I On Miss Perkins p SEH (homes) uh Ry Sole THE CABINET; A prominent | jater

out-of-town visitor, after calling on Henry Wallace, told friends |

Sentiment for adjusted compen-

RUMBLINGS IN CQNGRESS

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he was certain the former Vice | niesage an early change in blanket |

_ president had no intention of | authority now held by certain | Rusisa's request that the Lublin being a presidential candidate in | executive agencies to spend mil-

BG FOUR GIVEN |Frene TOP COMMAND Vet, Wants New One Armed

‘Sessions Speeded After Two

Soviet . republics have beén here! amazed gt the President's vigorous, blunt comment, in casual conver- | ynder cover since the arrival of the| plan did not go far enough in pro- | posing merely that natoinal "units of armed forces be held “immedi-|

first Russian group. Creation of the super Big Four

council caused some surprise. It) 0 tely available” for use by the new|

had been assumed that the B |world organization. What is needed, he said, is a permanent international force as suggested in one| |of the proposed French amend-|

tinius Jr. The conference is now over y “ ump of routine organization disCONGRESS, GRIM and shocked at horror stories from Germany, Sup 8

“minimum.”

ask for additional votes :in the in-| - ternational organization assembly.

Days of Stalemate. (Continued From Page One),

Three-Vote Minimum

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Franch Delegate, Old League REVOLT FLAMES

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He felt that the Dumbarton Oaks |

|for delivery weeks hence. \ M1 9 The big powers holding per-|with the. false use of high Nazi| Paul-Boncour, who was premier | 4 as “front” het | of France when HilieF came 1o| RBNENt seats on the security coun-| names as a “front” for their move the | POWer as German chancellor, said | medi | h | Germany's rearmament and Japan's y immediate force if necessary,| Meanwhile Regensburg and Augs | fortification of mandated Pacific {islands could have been avoided if {he real work in committees

¢ ments to the Dumbarton Oaks plan.

| every league ruling.

|the old league had been endowed | — | Conference acceptance of Rus- with strong measures of force, sia's demand that White Russia and the Ukrainian republic be in- one fault vited to the conference turned nations,” he said. There'll be Speculation today to the fact that jn spiritual and moral purpose, but | the Soviet Union regards this re- jn

“Fundamentally,

nion every emergency it lacked alfrom walking out and slamming the | quest fol three votes as merely 8'punch, Unless the league is given door as RE power with which to back its orders, others did at critical hours. Molotoy himself said that three |the new world association would be eir own soon after V-E day. votes was the “minimum” when he| just as helpless as the old, There held his first press‘conference here. is. no doubt however that civilization (bonus) bill hasn't jelled It is not unlikely, therefore, that tion would go backwards i as the United Nations world organ-| abandoned the idea of a federation ization expands, the Russians will of all the nations in the world, just

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SWEEP MUNICH

because the old league failed. “The big powers must take things

was fully convinced that peace Was |i. hand. this time, with a firm de- Rebel Radio Calls for : Hel impossible without a permanent |i, .,isation_ to let all the nations of p

“big stick” which the “Big Five" no world, big and small, talk things must be ready to use at the firs

sign of aggression.

To Americans. out; then enforce with military \ might if necessary any decision of (Continued From Pagé One) that eoncert of nations. Nazis had regained control of the Formula Presented situation. . Paul Bouncour's formula for a! He admitted that some, of the successful world organization fol-|rebels still were at large, although ws: Ihe contended the uprising was 1. Arm the league with a stand-|staged by a “handful” of traitors

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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1945

Fear Viewed as Only Bar © To Speed in Parley's Work

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friendly to 4 sta, but their emphasis on the dangers of socialism are quite obvious in implication and their bold display of the differences between Russia on one side and Britain and the United States on the ‘other, add to the barriers that should be removed. Within the closely guarded meetings of conference leaders another stream of fear has appeared, stemming from the present war in Eu-

ing army, navy and air force ac-|led by an obscure German army

| [tually waiting’ to enter action. im-|captain.

mediately, not merely earmarked| Without naming von Epp, the Nazi spokesman charged the rebels

cil must be able to enforce seriously, ment,

burg, twin outer citadels of Munich

3. Hold oratory to a minimum; do 60 and 30 miles to the north and | northwest, were in American hands.

4. Make every nation in the world German troops” were surrender-

[play some part, commensurate with|jno hy the thousands all around mislye Hire was but its political and military strength | bo. city's approaches. wilh he © d league of land importance; let no state, big or It was perfect |jjttle, play neutral.

| At the same time, American 7th bi _.._|army troops raced down to the | S. Forbid any member nation Austrian border at Fuessen, 55 { miles southwest of Munich. They were making an apparent bid to envelop the former Nazi citadel 6. By a campaign of education of| They were attempting to choke off | nations, create a certain community . ! { t ies any possible reinforcement through of political practices and ideals the Brenner pass from Italy between nations; give every nation , a new notion of responsibility and 38 Miles From Pass At Fuessen the Yanks were only

Poland Rejected

{Polish governmnet be invited to

1048. . This followed closely upon | jjons without congressional ap- |join the conference was rejected by

the statement by Senator Guffey | proval. Recent executive hearings by a

(pro-Wallace at Chicago) that

|the steering committee without a} | vote.

Pennsylvania Democrats would be | senate committee brought dis- | gtettinius, backed by a big ma-

for Truman in '48.

| closures from Defense Plant Corp. Major Washington guessing | officials that their agency has a contest continues to revolve | right, under thé surplus property

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solidarity. - 38 miles from Innsbruck, northern gate to the Brenner pass. i

| Evil Nazi Mind Lives On— Gen. George S. Patton's Ametioan)

3d army was closing on Munich from the north -daftér capturing

A Generation Is Corrupted mgs in

rope. . Russia's enormous armies have

| swept over middle Europe and are | now putting the final touches on

the capital of Germany. An ace

coniplishment of this magnitude | would entitle any nation to pride.

| But what the other powers and | most of the little nations dread is the conversion. of victory in Eu- | rope into a domineering attitude lon the part of Russia in her conduct of international affairs, Nothing that Molotov has - said

{since his arrival in the United

Gave Blood at lwo

His armored task forces ‘also were | 3 We were flown from Paris to| plunging into Austria 60-odd miles

jso' ted wp with falsehoods they | prdiges and the gutted city of Co-{out at Berchtesgaden. The American secretary of state cease to believe anything.

It 15 plenz, then over. the agricultural

Junction With Reds Near

Pe 4 y pl “at } . ‘ . i . around secretary of labor. Presi act, to convert any plant “at subsequently informed a press con- | to offset this that Eisenhower acts. glories of Thuringia, richest of] Patton's troops “were in direct

dent Truman hasn't confirmed | whatever expenditure it may take that there's to be a change and | —$5,000,000, $30,000,000, or $50,000,~ Secretary Perkins continues her | 000—without reference to congress any way, shape, manner Or o.. carried out, Poland would not are getting t come to this conference. Those were President Truman's | ; will be spent for congressional ac- ‘orders and the Russiahs today are | ternational labor affairs, in which pent [reported to consider Mr. Truman a | very firm negotiator.

calm course, with particular at- | in

tention to reorganization of fed- | form.” Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.)

eral labor -agencies, which she has | twice recommended, and to in-

her ability has been generally recognized.

But talk persists ‘about others | 1 ncn

for the post—Edward F. McGrady, | former dynamic assistant secre- * tary and’ now war department | S adviser on labor and a vice presi- |

dent of RCA; Dr. William L. | prehension also is felt at con- | - Letserson, former member of .the | templated expansion of Smaller “NLRB and former chairman of | War Plants Carp. activities. Chairthe national mediation board; | man Maury Maverick says his ofJohn R. Steelman, former direc- | fice intends to play a big part in |

| pointed out that only $30,000,000 |

| tivities next year, that executive | | agencies, exclusive of war agencies, | plan to spend “well over a billion | Great Britain's Anthony Eden {stood firmly with Stettinius in repudiating the present Polish government, which neither Washington : al {nor London recognizes. A SOME CONGRESSIONAL ap- | pu; Molotov had the open support of Czechoslovakia and Yugo-| |slavia—both nations which might be! That threat will not end when considerea well within the orbit of the Nazi armies are crushed. European Russian influence.

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mall War Plants

tor of conciliation and now a | post-war surplus property dis- | private consultant on labor prob- | posal

lems; and Senator Kilgore, whose |

congressional record has ‘been | SWPC to make or guarantee loans to. small business enterprises in connection with the acquisition, conversion and operation of suri plus plants and facilities. 1 Note: Senate debate, 1éd by him to cast the United States vote; in favor of admitting both of those Scviet republics.

pleasing to organized labor. Friends of all four think they are available in varying degrees, that none would refuse if Mr. | + Truman put it on the basis of essential service. Others being discussed include | Dan Tracy, assistant secretary |

of labor, and Dan Tobin, t "| materials by anyone, from anyD, team- | here In the U.S. A.

_, sters’ president. Past or present | union connections of McGrady, |

8. Golden, labdr vice chairman of: |. WPB and WMC, and an official of United Steel workers. : 8 a 2

Veterans

more veterans’ legislation:

Senator Capehart (R. Ind.), may result in changing present rules to permit purchase of surplus war |

: a group of senate observers to the San Francisco conference next | week, let them have a brief look- | see, meet delegates. If the plan Which” the Yalta’ conferees HERE'S THE OUTLOOK" for | proves successful, trips may be continued in an effort to keep the |

And current regulations permit ‘nese, along with practically all : . | other delegationis, however, went fiendish genius.

Present rules permit bids only

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STATE DEPARTMENT may fly

G.I. bill of rights will be | senators advised, sustain their in-

amended to correct inequities in | t educational provisions. Age limit | for those entitled to free school-

ing probably will be raised, sub- | war military training may begin in

sistence allowance for students | t

increased. 4

erest in proceedings.

partial government guarantee be made before the conference |

produces more results, ends.

ico and the United States. It is likely that the council of any all opposition

the proposed permanent organiza- starved or imprisoned. tion also will number 14 instead | |

{sia and the Ukraine.

His letter to Stettinius also contained a blunt reminder to the - Russians. that the United States was AIRY Fra tsi te ments .it made at Yalta, - It was regarded -as a reference

reorganization of the Lublin Pol government—also . 3 matter upon

The United States, all the other | American republics and a substan- » n : 3 : tial bloc of other delegations desire HEARINGS on universal post- |.) to bring Argentina into this conference and the admission of

he house in next two weeks. ; . the two Soviet states is expected to ($50 a month for single, $75 for They were postponed by the spe- lol £ Sep

those with dependents) may be cial post-war military policy com2 mittee until the San Francisco Pressure for direct loans for conference should get under way. homes, farms and business will But American Legion urges that increase unless present system of they get started, that a decision

be the opening wedge.

Supported Molotov

reached agreement.

Argentina Considered

When the executive committee

considers the Ukraine and White Russia, the American bloc is exnected to ipropose Argentina as a member of the United Nations.

The executive committee, orig-

inally to number 11. has been ex- |

of 11.

(Continued From Page One) with a white flag of truce 1:30

of state. Meissner’s whereabouts were not.known. it was said. (Exchange Telegraph also reported eight generals and several high officers had been executed by 8. 8. squads in connection with the “resignation” of Reichsmarshal Goering. They were accused of treason.)

sian advance,

Accompanied by Son

{ Two and a half hours later, Ditt- | h

The Big Four super-council of | T p. m. Wednesday with a major and | foreign ministers was born of the |!0ries two enlisted men, who rowed his|compromise by which Molotov was Quarries. boat.. He tried to arrange for the persuaded to permit Stettinius to |1on8 as they could work. Then they| y (piv that is why Eisenh evacuation of civilians and wound-| conduct the business of the con- od SY ran pod ed soldiers in the path of the Rus- ference as chairman of the steerWhen he was re- ing and executive committees. fused he returned to the river bank. :

Co-Presidents Elected

Dittmar insisted to his captors mar returned to surrender, accom- those chairmanships and the plen- |

Berlin and will die there, “The, war will end in a few days,” |

Bernhardt.

Pittmar said. “Hitler will either be command might learn I had" been |

killed or he will commit suicide.” here and I was worried about re- plan under which

The elegantly uniformed Gen. |prisals,” he explained. The Stockholm newspaper Tid- Soong and British Foreign Secre-

Dittmar outlined the war situation]

for correspondents, just as he used | ningen said today that Hitler had tary Anthony Eden were elected for to do for radio Berlin listeners been inforined of mutiny in. the|co-presidents of the plenary con-.| news

Chinese Foreign Minister T. V.| American nurses

“when the Nazi army was overrun-| German navy, desertions in the air ference. They will preside in rg-

{ing Europe. Asked about the Bavarian re-|

doubt, he said, “There's talk about | Nazi party leaders submitted the|Big Four would delegate to Stetit, and the thap will show you that |reports to Hitler at his headquar- |tinius the permanent chairman. |PSYChiauists trained to dispassion- ton, driver for the Hancock Truck- | two pockets are being formed, one ters and advised him immediately ships of the steering and executive in the gorth including Norway and {to ‘cease completely the “helpless | committees.

Denmafk and one in the south in|

the Alps and Italy. But that is| German.airmen were even flying | plenary ,conference for adoption

{force and revolt in the army,

Ge man generals, admirals and |

struggle,” Tidningen said. {

| tation. The agreement provided ‘that the |®

. In presenting that plan to the

probably less by intention than by | their planes across to the allied yesterday, it was further amplified |

force of circumstances.” Didn't Learn From Past

could not last after the fall of Berlin, which he said was a matter | of hours or at the most days. “I saw the war was lost on July 20,” said ‘Dittmar; referring to the frustrated attempt on Hitler's ‘life. . “Prom then on the highest quar‘ters had learned nothing from the - past, Militarily and politically, the ‘ “situation could still have been

lines, the dispatch said. [to read: “No government authonity exists | At any rate, he thought, the war jars longer,” the dispatch continued, meet from time to time with Mr. |

in the history of the war.”

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party at 8:30 p. m. today at the post | hall. Mrs. Theresa Larkin is chair- |

“The four (the Big Four) may |

the Big Four super councils Soong was to preside at the |

plenary session today at noon. Mol- |

day.

AUXILIARY PLANS TEA |: | The ladies auxiliary of Indiahaps | , olis post 114, Jewish War Veterins, will hold a membership tea at 3

p. m. tomorrow in the J. E. A. build |

ing, 3456 Central ave. Election -and |

installation of officers 1 Sehedied

| truth. I now write not as a member of ‘the reporting -committee but|Seeme give my own personal opinion. | If everybody in America could] ; see what we have seen, there would sional smashed building, the illusweep over the United States a|sion continued. In no American i complete - understanding of what City have I ever seen in wartime a go Brin i 'naziism means as a threat to the 3 people who looked better fed, op P ee rey peace of the world and the hopes more prosperous. :

of m

loveliness.

The Power of an Idea

| The threat is not that of mere physical force. oh : So : ot art - : It is the power of an idea con- Civilian popu ation looks less like a The British, Americans and Chi-| i 4" i "hell and gestated with conquered people than any con-

; I will not dwell long on the sights They are physically conquered, not | along with Molotov on White Rus- we saw at Er x They ip gs mentally, i oe . been accurately reported. Stetunius made publ here: 3 I saw hundreds of creatures that letter from Mr. Truman instructing wo." nce human beings now re- an ill-concealed smugness and conduced to mere skeletons covered tempt for the invaders that is ap- BERLIN BATTLE IS The only happy ones parent if not articulate. One has were piled like cordwood in the but to watch their expressions

Whether for the record or by, rd : : ard waiting their turn at the vast w 7 leoincidénce, Mr. Truman emphat- Ta a 4 when they speak to each other, as

ically placed responsibility for his position on Franklin Delano Roose-

Tracy and Tobin have been: with | from residents of the region velt. the A. F. of L., but C. I. O. prob- = where goods are offered for sale, | ably” wouldn't oppose them. No. | Set-up of 12 regions, efficient for Cr Ae aia Wed wsanbiABAA | assembling stockpiles, is a handionly likely possibility is: Clinton cap to would-be bidders now.

with skin.

I saw the long row of gallows at| Into this beautiful city of - Wei-| whieh»many were hanged to die mar, home of the glorious Goethe! of slow strangulation. I saw. the Clubs with which they man republic, we drove and then were beaten. Tin amir! 1 an hades Sale out; the hunjing estate of Bismarck. OI NUmMan=sSKin vy e. phoSuvavey A Here: "ai ER he &i To a wife of the”Nazi, commandant to Fi He Ty Ia miles west of Berlin. They reached to Russian’ policy on democratic STatify his sadistic desires—{rom a people well fed and cléthed be- can goth army. ‘The Russians were ish Skin torn from the living flesh of cause the food and clothing of the iti Yi 4 , victims when the tattoo markings awaiting an “imminent, junction had pleased the artistic fancy. Not Prisoners of-Wiar I saw more than 3000 children, ed with such a contrast. babies of 4 and 5 up to 16. Some] Not a Question of Food of these in the last 12 years have

of war.

refused philosophy of the Nazi party. They were slave labor. First Jews (o accept totalitarianism are no|ready was under Russian control and anti-Nazi Getmans, then other longer able to work. That is all. | brave souls who refused to conform, they came from all the conqt peoples©of Europe—1000 of them. : ! You have but to look at them to panded to 14 with four AmeM@M derstand why there is no under-

“Hitler and Goebbels Shot, i Brazil, MexX- | ground in Germany. High Diplomat Tells Swiss

the Nazi party became supreme in Ger-

Slaves When 8 Years Old

were allowed to die. The little children were fed and as they {grew older, they could add to the manpower. The Russians stymied progress |japor as soon as they ere yesterday by demanding that | eno !

{ allowed

10 Hitlerian soul of the werewolf will

ugh, some at the age of 8. o [hdewn Through interpreters we talk that Hitler and Goebbels were in panied by his 16-year-old son, ary conference presidency be ro-!|dozens of the er to the oc 42 tated among the chiefs of the Big survivors 0 ;

“It occurred to me the highest | Four delegations strangely flowered under his horrible regime. our delegation: g

children—puzzled, y Molotov agreed yesterday to a even frightened, by the kindness of | 1, he, Stettinius,|G. I. Joes and the tenderness of in the post-war years. Lt. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, spokesman | eV —e——— BE |for the German high command} . surrendered to the American 9th |

animal-minded

This is not really ass T : is not really an wsigrment B\TES AT NASHVILLE

papermen or ministers of God Need Scientists of Mind |

This task should be assigned t0|morrow in the Bond funeral parlor accredited scientists of the mind, /at Nashville for Richard M. Hous-

ate, impersonal study of the. cess-| ing Co, who died yesterday at a' pools of iniquity which lurk in the| hospital in Lima hy ay 2 human mind and whigh flare forth| Mr Houston, whe wa 31, resided |

when that mind becomes distorted |, Nashville, and was a member of | or diseased. I ' {

It is no time for emotionalism.

It is not a study of any one indl-|tuq sons, James Rithard and David;

[Tidus human- being or group "of 3 daughter, Patricia, all at home, “nor any united army. leadership. |Stettinius presiding over these | rama beings,

’ " out | The collapse 1s total as never before | meetings.” ‘Therein ‘was created | 0% = national neuvoets, the mass

production of a . world insanity | _ generated by the power of an evil idea—the elimination of 4ll indi-

vidual rights, the rejection of the [A BABIES

The Ladies’ auxiliary of Burns- otov will preside at the afternoon | ; a: A Y i {human soul, the denial of God himWest, Streibeck post. 2099, Veterans meeting. * Eden will preside Moni- |self, the apothesis of of Sho am Many trained nurses use this every Clean and worthy thing for reliable ald for relieving Mf hich America has ever stood. i :

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ference that unless the Yalta| He wants the American People farming land, with all the spring radio contact with Russian forces in agreement for Democratic reorgani- |to be assured that as far as these eqrty pregnant with food. | Austria. Field dispatches said the

| zation of the Lublin government | prison camps are concerned, they | he plain unvarnished |

First an Illusion [two armies were on the verge of

| No section of the world is more linking up for a joint assault on beautiful, none more bountiful. War | Berchtesgaden.

d far away in the pastoral| Coming onthe heels of the Amer-|ican-Russian juncture in the north that cut Germany in two and split |the enemy's surviving divisions into |isolated islands of resistante, the

At Weimar, except for an occa-

| The women are wearing silk hose; | 55,000 Nazis Quit ‘the children have shoes of a type| On the northern and western | denied our children. {roads to Munich, the American 3d and 7th armies were running

+. The deep-bosomed women and i P roughshod over the wreckage of

girls and the men and boys seem |

overfed if anything. The German! y e ® ~ b tary machine in human history. An estimated 55000 crack Nazi quered people could possibly look. | troops surrendered to the Ameri(cans in the area yesterday, 32,000 {taken by Patton's troops and 23,000 ! by Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch’s Smugness and Contempt 7th army. :

On their faces there seems to be

| American troops pass by. (Continued From Page One)

and the seat of the former Ger-

S$ out six umiles to Buchenwald, once Berlin. ! 5

other peoples of Europe were taken with the 9th army, Moscow said.

| from them, we found this Miltonian| south of Berlin, the Russian army | Hades. Never were men confront- ‘organ Red Star sald, two more | Soviet divisions had linked up with | the Americans following the original These poor creatures did not have | junction at Torgau, 60 miles below grown to adulthood in this camp.!t,. pe starved.’ It has never been | the capital, These people were not prisoners) a question of Germans needing food | because there was not enough to | divisions met the Americans else-| They were thrown into this hell| go around. One look at Weimar | Where than Torgau and added: on earth for just.one reason: They and the surrounding country =| political abundance refuted any such de- | broad front became a fact.” fense. These men who had refused | At least nine-tenths of Berlin al-

They were victims of an ideology. in a handful of ashes at a crema- | Fic Just west of the Tiergalten. tory. That is why I say that Buchen-| wald is but a symbol, a symbol of a concept of life outlined years ago| ' by Adolf Hitler in “Mein Kampf.” |Onter Den Linden, today. Buc¢henwald js the logical, in- Daredevils Spear Attack

exorable result of that philosophy| Soviet “daredevil units” swept hese men worked in the war fac- | of brute force, the repudiation of |into the Tiergarten itself, Berlin's in the Isaiah, the denial of Christ. They were fed only as

A Marked Generation . | sistance,” Moscow said.

has had us here. He knows the military war is won. It is. just a| question of mopping up the rem- |

nants. But he knows that thls} oval sources have reported Adol

the people he has corrupted. | tortress.

It will carry on in the warped |

minds of a whole generation- that | 'P¢ Tiergarten.

This is the st terri ling, rubble-heaped capital ma s is the most terrible problem | *- this week-end.

e human race will have to face"

army at Magdeburg and said Berl

|at most in a few days.

what had been the mightiest mili-|

garten, the state opera house and’ other buildings in the center of

A Moscow dispatch said Soviet Cossack" eynppescs swept: nearly 60

the Elbe river opposite the Ameri-

Red Star said only that the two

“The link-up of-our° armies on a

heavily-fortified central park, against ‘“unrelaxingly bitter re-

These shock forces presumably | by-passed th: German war ministry lon Bendlestrasse, beneath which

| Hitler was directing the defense Were Strong | jive on tn the minds and hearts of |O BeTin from an underground Bendlerstrasse is just south of

Complete occupation of the burn-|

FOR R. M. HOUSTON would fall in°a matter of hours, or

Lt. David N McKinstray (Continued From Page One)

Kinstray, son of Dr. and Mrs. H. R. McKinstray, 923 E. 34th st. The other also is a Hoosier; 1st Sgt. Roger L. Sprunger, Berne. Their blood probably saved others. » » ~ LT. McKINSTRAY still is on the island and in a recent letter home said that it rapidly is being changed into a livable isle. But not all the Japs are gone. Marines still are digging out some who managed to hide away during the main battle and have | been sniping at American occupa- | tion forces.

Lt. McKinstray, whose father is

| a bone surgeon, entered the serve

ice in the summer of 1942. He is

in command of a field hospital

medical unit. Having seen service at Saipan, the officer was sent to Honolulu to rest before going to Iwo Jima. He has been

overseas almost two years..

NEAR ITS CLIMAX A brother, Cpl. James, is sta- | tioned at the Valley Forge gen-

| eral hospital at Philadelphia.

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State has been anything but cor= dial and friendly both to the United States and to the nations attending the security conference. His first speech before the confer= ence was exemplary in its obseryas= tion of the amenities and the needs. of formal intercourse between nae tions. There are, however, little distur pances that are unimportant in themselves but added tqgether have developed whatever exists of friction. The Russians are more secretive than other delegations. They are most closely guarded. And more than anything else, the lane guage barrier is always presenting its aggravations. The net result of the accumulated fear has been a tightening of the security surrounding all of the delegations including the Americans. Individual members of the American delegation have been placed under such rigorous pledges of secrecy that they cannot dise cuss any of the world security probe lems. Too Many Rumors i The result of the secrecy 15 a daily crop of rumors. And when a complicated problem arises such as that surrounding the governe ment of Poland and its recognition, the acceptance of rumor as fact becomes a source of violent {irrita- | tion, | Conferences of this nature here lih San Prancisco cannot be cone

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Public Wants Facts Reviewing the events of the past fortnight anyone can see where a candid revelation of facts by feare ridden officials would have pree vented the misinterpretations, the distortion of minor differences into major disagreements. Growing out of this situation, may come a suspicion on the part of the public that they have not been given the facts; that they must get the real low-down from the press of other countries or from the gossip mongers. So far as can be ascertained by continual probing among the delegations here, there are no problems that cannot be solved in this cone ference and no real reason why, within a month, the charter of the United Nations should not be in ac ceptable form. The bogey of sinister confifcts between the powers, of Russian bullying or the tortuous methods of oriental diplomacy can be laid to rest by removing the barriers of fear.

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