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ew Peace Message, Swedish Officia
By PHIL AULT : United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON; May 1.—Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish emissary reputed. to be negotiating with Nazi leaders for Germany's surrender, confirmed today that, he had conferred with Heinrich Himmler 10 days ago.
A Swedish foreign office, spokesman insisted,
how-
ever, that Bernadotte had not brought back any new peace message from Himmler to be transmitted. to. the allies through the Stockholni governiitent.
“Prime Minister Churchill,
meanwhile, hinted in com-
NATIONS SEAT ARGENTINA IN
PEACE PARLEY
Russia $ Vigorous “Protest Crushed by Vote. of 31-404... By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 —The’
United Nations conference stymied again today by speeches but it was nearly ready to ‘get -. down to serious business after a vote which crushed the Russianled movement to bar Argentina
from this assembly. The Big Four have ironed out the question of commission and committee assignments and will present them to the executive and
was
: - steering committees today prior to
approval by the plenary this afternoon. Actual work on a world organi“gation charter cannot be started until those groups are set up.
Molotov Voted Down
session
The doors of this conference finally have been opened to Argentina but only after a bitter public battle. Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. M3lotov pleaded with committees,
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mons that an official statement clarifying the entire situa“tion ‘might be expected soon.
Churchill said he would
inform commons immediately
of any major developments and the British home ministry
said the prime minister wou of Germany’s sur render was
1d broadcast as soon as word received.
Bernadotte partially lifted the secrecy cov ering his recent activities during a press conference late today in the Swedish foreign office in Stockholm. He refused to give details of any of fs discussions
Lee Miller Takes on the War's Toughest Assignment
FOR TWENTY YEARS Lee Miller was about the closest personal friend Erfe Pyle had. A couple of green youngsters from Indiana “®-Lee is from Seymour -— they went through the: mill ds cub reporters together, and learned to read copy side by side, and presently : moved into Mr. Miller executive jobs on The Washington Daily News. It was Lee Miller who helped Ernie -gét his first. chance as a - roving columnist, and was the, ‘first managing editor to pub- - lish Ernie's column every day, as it was getting started. It was Lee Miller ‘who took care of “the business details and - protected Ernie's interests when he was abroad,” and had become a work Jaye,
LAST WEEK Lée Miller was asked to carry on the assignment to which Ernie Pyle gave his life—the day-by-day story of America's men at war. From Manila he cabled, modestly: “I'll try—but with no illusion | that I'm another Ernie Pyle.” We have no illusion, either,
RR UNIONS ASK T0 SEE MONON TRAIN RECORD
Say Cut in Service ‘May Have Been Based on _Miscalculation.
By ROGER BUDROW Times Business Editor The four national brotherhoods today asked the office of defense transportation for the right to look ‘at the Monon railroad's records. They want. to know how the Monon arrived at the figures which enabled-ft to drop its sleep® service between Indianapolis and Chicago. The trains were . discontinued March 1 under-a wartime ruling of the ODT that any train not 35 per cent filled during last November could be taken off, . The Monon reported that its Indianapolis to Chicago sleeper was
of seats and ‘space during the No--vembér base period. The -sleeper from Chicago was only 23.2 per dent filled in that period, it said. Ask for Conference
The brotherhoods said they were not charging that the- Monon gave the ODT false figures of its Novem
| per seat and space occupancy on the
railroad |
operated at 29.2 per cent of capacity}
Troops Pourin g Onto Oil-Rich Island.
By UNITED PRESS
s biggest and rich- | est island. conquest in the Pacific, was announced by Australian government officials in Canberra today. A Canberra dispatch relayed: to the United Press in “Manila said Australian Treasurer J. -B. Chifley announced the invasion of Borneo
to the legislature today.
neo, Japan's
commonwealth
ticipated in the landing, indicating that American invasion forces also
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ago in the Paltic port of Luebeck—obv iously to discuss: the,
allied demand that Germany
to the United States, Britain Bernadotte and the forei sized that no new reply from
surrender unconditionally and Russia. ; gn office. spokesman empha-
Himmler had ‘been transmit-
ted to the allies through the Swedish.government today— a statement which did not preclude the possibility of Ber-
nadotte’s communicating dire in Stockholm.
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Nnnounces
Jernadotte had no immediate word on the persistent
reports that the Germans were withdrawing from Copenhagen and possibly all Denmark -as a prelude to their
surrender.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Stockholm said
Bernadotte was expected to unannounced destination. ~Germany’ s few
leave there shortly for an
: remaining radio stations warned the German people that momentous news was expected and
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Jap Envoy Grim And Alone In Box.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW, May 1:— The| Red army celebrated May. das | today with the most impressive display of Soviet power in history. Troops marched 100,000 strong before an imposing array of dignitaries inciuding Japanese Am-!
‘bassador Naotaka Saitg who stood
grim and alone in a. corner of the diplomatic box. { Moscow's first May day military’ parade .of the war brought again to
[the capital the pomp and panoply
of ‘the holiday in peace time. The
IN MOSCOW AS RUSSIA AWAITS BERLIN FAL
Allied Armies Invading
War Bride Ready for Shopping
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Jap-Held ‘Borneo
Flag Already Flies
Over Many Buildings.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
~LONDON, May 1.—A Moscow broadcast said today that the ‘Russians expected the ‘Red ar my to announce tonight
‘| the capture of Berlin.
The Hammer and Sickle already flew triumphantly over the Reichstag and a dozen -cther ade ministrative buildings. Russian and German reports alike indicated an imminent decision amidst “the~blood-soaked rubble of Berlin, where the Red army was greatest symbolic
| celebration was tensed to the verge hewing out its | of exultation by word from Berlin ‘victory of the war. i that the Red.banner fluttered over! A} Moscow broadcasts and dise
| the Reichstas and final victory was: patches reflected confident expectas fat han | tion that Marshal Stalin would cap
rshal Stalin reviewed the paAe Moscow's first glittering May day rade. - He stood practically motion- [celebration of the war with an an»
midnight trains. were involved. “However,” they wrote ODT. “Di-* There was no immediate conrector J. M. Johnson in Washington, | firmagign at Gen. Douglas MacAr-| ‘theif (Monon's) representative |thur’s headquarters, but an earlier | made statements in conference with | Tokyo broadcast said allied troops | us Feb. 26, concerning the handling Were pouring ashore on the east | | |of.deadhead coaches on the passen-|coast of the immensely-rich-oil and ger trains in question which lead us rubber — producing island
on that score. There won't likely be “another Ernie Pyle” in our lifetime, That's why we feel ‘that Lee Miller, brilliant newspapérman that he is, has “the toughest newspaper assignment in this whole war. But we don't khow anyone
with the press and finally the full conference itself to delay an invi‘tation to the Buenos Aires government, He made no progress. In the end he was voted down 31 to 4. Only Czechoslovakia, Y ugoslavia and]
a shopping tour when The Times called. In fact, their 20-months-old son, James, couldn't stand all the fooling around. He had his cap on to go out. When it was taken off he would cry. To keep him happy | the picture was taken with it on. :
“in the | less for two hours, his fingers touch=¥
Gneece supported the Russian, Molotov was begging for time in which to convinee the delegates that if Argentina were invited, the Communist-dominated government of Poland should be invited, too. - Five-Vote Bloc But he won on White 'Bussia and the Ukraine. Those two Soviet re- _ publics were unanimously invited to participate here, If—as most off Ban Francisco believes—the Russians have Ukrainian and White Russian delegates somewhere nearby, they might make their appearance today. When the two Soviet republic delegations are seated, Russia apparently will be the leader of a five-bloc here, including her own yote. Greece may or may not continue to support Russian proposals. But ft appears that Molotov will-be able to depend on Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
World Labor- Conference
The conference secretariat was “tinable to say- offhand whether the two Soviet republics would have to - sign up in Washington as members of the United Nations before taking their seats. Argentina will sign, however, that having. been part of the understanding at the recent Mexico City conference. Molotov also sought yesterday to obtain an invitation to the conference of the world labor conference set up last® ter in Great Britain, He was blocked in the steering committee and did not press the issue, Molotov’s -labor-delegate proposal would have raised an uproar in the United States. ~The world labor organization for which He sought recognition is one to which the Congress of Industrial Organizations belongs but which the American Federation of Labor boycotts. : The A, F. of L, refuses to sit ‘At the same table with Russian trade unionists. The A. F, of L. contends there is no free trade unionism in Russia any more than
‘Two Companions Hurt. as
{head-on into-a huge tractor-trailer |
else we'd rather trust with it than Lee. We hope you'll think s0, too. His first column appears today on
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MARINE KILLED IN CRASH HERE
Car Hits Truck.
A 19-year-old Danville, Ill, marine corporal was instantly killed at 3:45 a. m. today when. the automobile he was driving swerved
loaded with merchandise on Highway 52 near Tist st. Two of his companions were injured, one seriously, - while the driver of the truck escaped injury. The young marine corporal was Charles Elmer Williams, A-marine buddy, Herman K. Markwell, 22, Buechel, Ky, is in Ft. Harrison | (Continued on Page 2—Column 6) |
Ernie Pyle's Dad To Christen Plane
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers NEW YORK, May 1—~Wiliam Pyle, father of the late Ernie Pyle, will christen a new Boeing Superfortress at Wichita, Kas, this afternoon, naming _it the “Ernie
{employee personnel,
to believe that they have made an errory in ‘their caiculations by not properly iden{ifying - the ~ coach
trains.” Representatives of the brotherhoods asked Mr. Johnson for a con-
sentative “should be required to be] present. with company records used in arriving -at the percentages and qualified to explain the method used | in their calculations.”
Little War Business The brotherhoods added that “we have reason to believe that the] carrier was more “interested in| securing-authority for the abandon-
_|ment of the service in question than
in complying with the real intent and purpose” of the ODT order, “We are influenced ‘to this con-| clusion by. the, fact that they have on several occasions since 1942 endeavored to secure permission from the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) and — &tate Railway commission . (Public Service com=~ mission) to eliminate this train service. “Furtherrhore, ” the brotherhoods wrote, “it is known that the Monon Railway is not now nor has it. for
{years operated at full capacity of
locomotives or rolling stock and handles little, if any, of the so-called ‘war Business’ which has taxed the facilities of most carriers for the past two or three years.” Signing he the
letter were
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make-up of the regular passenger
ference at which a Monon repre-|
Dutch East - Indies, S20 Landed on East Coast
{A British broadcast recorded by the PCC satd: “It was announced in the Australian house of representatives today that Australian troops are now in action against the Japanese on Borneo, ‘This is the first allied confirmation of a ; Japanese report that allied forces | landed last night on the east coast
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"PLANES DROP FOOD 'FOR STARVING DUTCH
Fa
British Girl Looks Forward To New Shoes, Nice Clothe
MRS. NELL SIMMONS was ready to go shopping for some clothes
: when we called
| Now most ‘husbands will think:
“That's a habit with women. But not Mrs, Sin mmons.
DUCE BURIED IN | * POTTER'S FIELD
She
| LONDON, May 1 (U. 'P).—Amer-]
ican Flying Fortresses soared over | arvtie Holland on an errand of | mercy today and dropped nearly 800 tons of food to wildly cheering Dutch’ civilians in the Hague and Rotterdam> areas. Approximately 400 Fortresses were dispatched by the U, 8, 8th air forée in fulfillment of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's pledge to the hungry- civilians in occupied Holland.
and amounted to 1,080,000 fully-bal-anced meals, even to cigarets.
BULLETIN
ROME, May 1 (U, P.).—Th& German-controlled Italian Ligurian - army surrendered unconditionally to the allies today.
Named to New J
Pyle.” In the ceremony he will swing a bottle of watar from the | old family well in Indiana. The ' bomber was purchased through sale anmiong Boeing em=ployees of $600,000 in seventh war loan bonds, It is being dedicated to Ernie’s memory at the request of the employees, Mr. Pyle was accompanied by
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his Dana, Ind, pastor, the Rev. H. L. . McBride.
Molofor. Expert Trader, -
Wins While He Is wo i»
By HAL O'FLAHERTY, Times Foreign News Analyst SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.—Russia’s Foreign Minister Molotov put the United Nations eonference on international organization to a test on “the question “of postponing the admission -of the Argentine into. the
assembly of free nations.
® He lost, but at the same: time he won. — registered pdints 6f argument that now are paft of the vetord
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in favor of the re¢ognition of Foland, He drove home to the world that Poland has a *“democra government, He made the conf ence delegates conscious of the ability of Soviet leadership. Last, but not least, he aocepted the jority rile'and submitted gracefully
fil-tempered or 4 belligerent mood. ay 8 Se a of mate
pay wo
democratic principle of ma-| to the decision without holding’ an |
Herbert E,
obs at The Times
The food consisted of so-called 10- | in-1 rations of the American army |
Brain Removed Tor oo By Criminologists.
By JAMES E. ROPER " United Press Staff Correspondent
MILAN, May 1.—Casket No. 167,
patched-up corpse of Benito Mussolini, and casket 165, containing | the body of his mistress; Clara | Petacci, weré buried secretly in the Potters’ field-of the Maggiore cemetery late yesterday, it. was-.learnped today. r In the next grave was buried the body of former Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace, executed with him, The brain had been removed from Mussolini's body, and criminologists were examining it. Undertakers did heir best to repair the damage ‘done Musso lini’s . corpse, which stoned, kicked, spat upon and shot) at by the Milan mob in two. days| of unparalleled crowd hysteria.
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a hey built’ up his face sd that-it| . {had regained some of its old-time]
; | arrogance.
Walker Joseph N. Fritsch
New appointments in the business department of The Indianapolis “Times have heen announced by Henry W, Manz, business manager,
effective today.
—Herbert-E. Walker, who -has -been classified adyertising manhger
of The Times during the past seven years,
manager, Joseph N, Fritsch, formerly. classified advertising- manager of The Houston Press, ' Scripps« Howard newspaper in Houston; Tex,, becomes classified advertis« ing = manager, succeeding Mr, Walker. f Paul W. Miller, wlio has been serving as fetal advertising manager since last September, | becomes sales Promotion maa- | ger. . i+ Mr,
becomes local advertising
“Times, who directs both the local
ments, Hil f XL. Me Young will be able to devote more time to color advertising, on which he is a recognized national authority, Under his direction, The Times has become one of the foremost newspapers in’ the United States in the use of color in daily news. | paper advertising. Mr, Walker Saved his’ news-
Ev no
“fever pitch today.”
{the rank. of captain,
His. mouth was stuffed to hide the loss of his’teeth which! had been kicked out by the mob, Fittingly, the body of the “Saw-
FEUD OVER POLICE RANKS CONTINUES
Captain Quits and Sergeant Opposes Demotion,
Factional feuding in. the Indian< apolis police department. reached "Traffic Captain Thomas Schlottman offered his verbal resignation and Sgt, Jack Small | “Tdémanded & public hearing on reasons. for: his recent demotion from!
Sgt, Small's demand for a public hearing on reduction charges’ was the first filed since installation of the merit system here. The safety board's demotion rulings are usually accepted meekly, and without comment, Both Schlottrian and. Small are close professional’ ‘associates . of Detective Chief Clifford = Beeker,
imand .the newly established overall
hasn't been on .anything like a shopping spree for five years. 3 » » E AND THE reason is thaf only a short time ago her home was in Hampton Court, a suburb of London, England. But how her hone is 1051 E. Raymond st. . . . as of Sunday. Her husband is Sgt. Charles. Sim« mons, a veteran of -30-months overseas duty with the 8th air force, Sgt. Simmons -has been home for .the. past five months. His -wifer and 20-month-old son, James, were ready to sail then,
a plain wooden box containing the (Continued on “Page 2—Colu 2—Column 2)
G. 0. P. DELAYS
BEER CONTROL
ing the visor of his cap, as Red army men and steel streamed across
S [Red square and:hundreds of planes! zoomed overhead in perfect forma-!
isos ‘Reviews Victories
Stalin appeared in the square at 19:50. . He ran briskly up_ the steps lof Lenin's mausoleum, followed by | ranking government. and military {officials, He wore a marshal’s uiitHorm. : Exactly at 10 o'clock, Gen. Alexei { Antonov, army ;.chief . of staff,
| mounted a copper-colored horse
{and galloped across Red square to |the mausoleum, There he mounted | the second tier, on which stool Sta{lin and other high ranking officials,
- fand addressed the massed Soviet
| troops. He reviewed the victorious course of the war as the “Red army's liberation of Europe and the salvation of civilization.” The-German army has been vir- | tually completely destroyed, he said, and Germany isolated from all but | one ally=—Japan, The Japanese ambassador listened to the remark without showing a jrace of emotion, issued earlier, had stressed ‘the same points as Antonov, When the chief of staff finished,
Stalin's order. of . the day, |
nouncement that Berlin had fallen. Expect Fall Tonight Robert Magidoft, ‘broadcasting over the Moscow radio for N. B. C. said the Russian people expected the announcement of Berlin's fall tonight. Reports lagging well behind the course of the struggle in the heart of Berlin said the Russians had baitled onto. Unter Den Linden against faltering resistance. The battle raged within a stone's | throw: of Adolf Hitler's one-time ornate Reichschancellery, and in the Tiergarten, where the Nazis were reported to have established a fort for a last-ditch stand. Victory already was in the air over the Red square in Moscow, where 100,000 Red army men paraded before Marshal Stalin and Russia’s top military and political leaders. Moscow dispatches said Soviet assault units broke through in Berlin to the vicinity of the ‘Brandenburg | gate, and that storm units were {converging on the Wilhelmstrasse, Friedrichstrasse and Unter Den
{Linden from the east, porth and
south. Red Star, the Russian army organ, {said the night sky was as dazzling as the midday sunt over Berlin, with | flames from thousands of Katusha
Democrats Still in Business (Continued on Page F=Colutn 1) (Continued on Page 12—Column 4)
“After Deadline.
Today is the day Hoosier Republi-
cans’ were supposed to take over had’ been the state's profitable wholesale beer
business from the Democrats.
Only it hgsn’t quite worked “But
that way.
The 1945 liquor code, designed to| PARIS, May 1.-—American and
Allies Close on Bavarian
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
Hideout in 3-Way Drive
sea in a blazing bid to isolate Dens - mark from Hitler's dying Reich. = ° Gen. George S. Patton sent his
give the G. O. P. control of the beér French armies drove deep into the | American 8d army storming through distribution trade, became effective Bavarian redoubt from three sides | the northeastern corner of the Baw
at midnight last night.
It canceled all existing permits, | held largely. by Democrats. | hiked excise taxes to a point where (Continued on “Page §—Column 2) Indiana’s anhual’ $3,000,000 income ————————————————— {from the sale of liquor and beer; 71s
expectéd to double.”
Although some 15 new beér-wholé- | saler permits valid after today, have |
been issued by the reorganized Al-| coholic Beverage commission to Re- | publican faithfuls,” many of these] for various reasons “were-unable to | begin_operations today. As a result, the A, B. C, wast obliged to graht about 60 tem
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JAP SEA COMMANDER “GIVEN NEW POWERS
By UNITED PRESS ~Adnt, Suyemu Toyoda, commands der-in-chief of the- Japanese combined fleet, has been named to com-
naval command, the Domel news agency reported today in a wireless dispatch recorded in New York, The dispatch did fot explain the
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| today. It was a general offensive to split {up the Nazi Alpine pocket and cut {off its defenders from their last! {arsenal “in Czechoslovakia. The triple strike into the south{ern bastion came as British 2d army forces in the north broke out of
varian redoubt toward Lins and a | possible junction. with the Red {army on the Danube. At the same time, Patton's (rammed directly southward Ai |the Isar river into the last 60-odd {mile stretch before Berchtesgaden, core of ‘the Bavarian pocket | The 3d army drive for Linz ©
their Elbe ‘river bridgehead, out- | oarried across the Austrian frontier
flanked the great port of Hamburg and raged northward for the Baltic n ‘n "
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‘Hoosier Heroes: First Local
The first Indianapolis man re‘ported Killed pn Okinawa and five
Lother local men who lost their-lives
in agjlon on.other battle fronts are on today's casualty lists, KILLED Pirst Lt, William J, Weyerstrahs, TN, Webster ave, Apt, 2, on Okinawa, 8. Sgt. Lovell G. Driséall” Jr, 40 W. 27th st, in Germany,” Pfc. Carl EK. King, 262 w. Ray st. in Germany, Pvt, James M: Redmond; formerly of 3833 Birchwood ave, in}. Germany! i
Pvt.s Fred ier Keeling. 000] y
Serviceman Dies on Okinawa
MISSING “Pvt. Gene Paul Davis, 3308 MN, ‘Sherman dr, in Germany. Sgt. Herman: A. Kocher, 1308 Cos Germany
Wyoming st, in Germany, LIBERATED “Sgt. re Ri don. ic ji st., Apt. 5, from Bad Orb. Pte. Lloyd C. Moore, “0 Belt