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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 46
Has Doenitz
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Editor
THE PROSPECT of a_general German surrender by Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz still exists. But from the way things have been developing, a piecemeal surrender of what remains appears just as likely, Doenitz actually has little leftesof Germany proper to surrender, and not much to be fuehrer of.
Doenitz still has nominal control, out of what was the
greater reich, of east-central Austria, a corner of Bavaria, and a narrowing pocket along the North Sea. The principal areas outside Germany are western Czechoslovakia, Holand, Denmark and Norway,
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When he took over from Adolf Hitler, Doenitz made the perfunctory declaration that he would eontinue to fight “Bolshevism” and the powers allied with it, but his attitude toward surrender has in no way been plain. The capitulation in Italy and western Austria, although announced only yesterday, came on Sunday, before Doénitz proclaimed himself the new fuehrer, so it is not clear whether it was-done with his advance knowledge of consent, ; : - The bloodless surrender of Hamburg, however, presumably was approved by Doenitz, since the radio there was broadcasting on behalf of _his government until, the end.
REPORT BIG 3 IN ACCORD ON POLISH ISSUE
Final Agreement Not Yet Reached but: Molotov Stays On.
By CHARLES B. DEGGES United Press Staff Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3—The
have broken the deadlock in ne-}’ ‘gotiations over the Polish question. The report raised new hopes for settlement of the most explosive issue connected with the United Nations conference. The United Press was informed ‘ that the Polish discussions,” which ( were moving forward again on the basis of a new proposal from the Soviet]: union. The proposal was believed to’ have followed a personal exchange of messages between Premier Josef Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and: President} Harry Truman, A state department official confirmed that Poland was again a “live issue.” The sudden surge of optimism, however, was tempered by the realization that no final agreement has yet been reached and that the negotiations again eould run into a snag. + Discuss Latest Formula The Big ‘Three foreign ministers ~Sécretary of State Edward -R. Stettinius Jr., British Foreign Sec-
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. - * Enemy Fleeing Northward.
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, May 3.—The British 2d army captured Hamburg and a half-million thoroughly beaten Nazi troops today. The remnants of Germany’s northern armies fled for Denmark and Norway by land and sea under a terrible rain of bombs and aerial gunfire. Organized German resistance in the north—and, {the European continent—was meltHere Pachyderm {ing away at an incredible speed in
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retary Anthony Bden and Soviet PF C iss V. M. Molotov | eR al forms oy U. S. Denies Russ terday. With them were W. Averill U. S. ambassador to Charge Pact of Yalta Breached,
oscow, and Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, . British envoy to Moscow, Molotoy. Harriman and Clark Kerr make U. P| up the special commission set up
“WASHINGTON, May 3
al the Yalta conference to solve the —The state department. declared
Polish question. | today that a Russian charge that The Big Three agreed at Yalta the United States had violated the that” the Soviet-sponsored * Polish|yalta agreement concerning reparegime, now centered at Warsaw, triation of Soviet prisoners of war) should. be reorganized ’ to include|js #unfounded.” - represenfatives of all sections of the| The department gave a detailed | Polish people. The Anglo- -Amer- | ariswer designed to disprove an dean’ position is that the agreement | assertion by Col. Gen. I. Golikov,| ha¥--not- been carried out! The president of ‘the Soviet repatriation western allies have rejected Rus- | commission. that Soviet citizens sian demands to seat” the present found by allied troops in Eyrope | Warsaw regime at this conferenc. have been’ removed from the the-| From one diplomatic source here ater without consultation with] came the following appraisal of the | soviet officials.
Polish situation which did not, ‘how- It revealed that “approximately ever, have official confirmation: 4300 German prisoners of war who ' Molotov is remaining ab the San were brought to this country claimed | Francisco conference longer” {nan |Sovief citizenship after their arrival he originally planned .because he|in this country. believes a settlement of ‘the Polish As soon "as their citizenship‘ was question is‘ possible and soon. . Big|established, the department said,
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‘War Fronts Are Way Ahead
Of Big 4 Peace Discussions
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.~The fall of Berlin, the death. of Hitler, | and the imminent end of the war in Europe, may help decide the fate of the conference here. The need of the Occidental Big Four to get together on European peace problems—sidestepped up to now because they were difficult and “we must first win .the war”—has become immediate. Yet it has been officially stated’ that the ““peace- — = = keeping” job here must be finished ferences of policy, or Peich up some before the “peace-making” job is kind of constructive compromise, tackled, | The alternative is something nobody That ‘be true, the major decisions | likes to contemplate, will have to be made without de-| The record shows there are serilay because the Soviet foreign com-|sus differences: missar, Molotov, will shortly i 1. The original leaving for Moscow, Atlantic Charter; It is imperative that the Big| Three qiekly SampOse their - dif-| (Continued " Page 3—Column 7) |
World ‘Blitz Army Urged To Stop Future Aggressors
By RALPH HEINZEN, United Press Staff Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 Western European nations have agreed to seek a speedup in the enforcement machinery of the Dumbarton
agreement, the is already vari-
_ Oaks plan on the theory that “blitz diplomacy”. is needed in thése times _ of blitz warfare, it was revealed today.
_ Foreign ministers of the western countries have consulted on the subject and believe uhanimously that the world security organization
pi as now planned: represents very TIMES INDEX
little real advance over the antiquated diplomatic machinery of the old league of nations. As a solution, it was+said, they will back the . proposed . French amendment stipulating that a standing international army, navy and air- force be “pérmanently available” for ‘use by the world ors
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British troops fanned out north-
| frontier, Swedish reports said they STINSON N SA | crossed the Kiel canal and reached |. Eckernfoerde, 14 miles north of the | from the Danish border.
The disintegration of the German northern armies was emphasized by
Secretary of Wa War Believes | the appearance of numerous Ger-
Hitler Is Dead. lines generals inside the British " WASHINGTON, May 3 (U. P.). lines, all clamoring for an oppor- | —Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- | tunity to surrender their forces son said today that he believes | Separately. | Adolf Hitler is dead .and that ‘the
| war against ‘Germany has not long| - American 7th army troops-in the to run.’ south swept up another President Truman had expressed prisoners along the western flank of | Similar beliefs yesterday, |the Bavarian redoubt. Stimson also told his press con-| They plunged across the Inn river | ference that the De 8. army | in force to. join with Gen. George. S. | has been designated an ocCu-ipatton’s U, S. 3d army in the final { pational force in Europe. + |assault on the Nazi stronghold at He said the 15th was the only ‘Berchtesgaden, |u. S. army so designated to date| Unconfirmed Moscow reports said {and added that -future events ‘will Patton's men were only 10 miles determine whether = there=-will be north of “Berchtesgaden==about 39 others, .imiles closer than the 7th army— In expressing his belief that Hit-"gfter capturing Hitler's native city flex actually is dead, Stimson said | of Braunau on the Inn:
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Patton's men also were closing {ast on the Austrian city of Linz, rther to the east, where they were
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CITY STRIKE LOOMS OVER FIRING THREE, - eady had linked. up with the
‘State Contiisiore. Seek to eral other points northwest of Ber- : lin, severing Denmark and Norway | Avert Crisis,
| from the Reich and trapping countLabor representatives today were |
less thousands of enemy troops. Everywhere German morale apto meet With - agents ‘of the’ state | peared to-have broken on the Nazi | labor commissioner in an 11th hour | spnouticement of Hiders death, | Fighting in the northern Reich attempt to avert a walk-out of more | g55rently was all but ended. 'The than 500 city employees, scheduled 'gritish worked feverishly to disarm for 3 p. m, i lithe hordes ‘of German soldiers The: workers constitute the bulk’ reaming through their lines. | of the city's sanitation; street clean-
ling, collection and asphalt depart- - Prague’s Fall Hinted Hamburg, the second city and
{ment forces. If the strike material- ) [1zes, shut-down of the-vital sanita-| #reatest port of the Reich, was oction plant, where all garbage is dis- cupied by the British without firing | posed, would be imminent, a shot after its Nazi defenders had Members of the local organization declared it an “open city.” of the State, County and Municipal] Even as they marched into the Employees union (A. F..of L,) voted wrecked port, radio Hamburg was to strike last night A against the dismissal of three work- | Fuehrer Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz’ ers and Mayor Tyndall's refusal to recognize the union. :
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Ba of ‘Hamburg within 15 miles of | the Cuxhaven naval base and § siruck north toward the Danish|
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orway For Last-Ditch Stand?
A Doenitz decree declaring Prague a “haspital city” was broadcast from Hamburg, suggesting that BohamiaMoravia will not be defended. : It is recalled that inthe last days of. Berlin, the German radio declared that the fall of Berlin and. Prague would mean the end in Europe. Ein The trend toward separate surrenders thus is clearly discernible. The capitulation of the Germans in Holland and Denmark would come as no great surprise, since the Nazis have given no sign in either country of preparing for.a bitter, final stand. Strong but unconfirmed rumors of their impending surrender are current in London and elsewhere.
Hoosier 'G. i Man ) Year Killed
Sgt. John H. Parks of Mill Creek, whose photograph as a combat“weary soldier in the battle for Germany gained him the title of “G. I. Man of the Year,” never knew that he had won this honor.
the day after his picture appeared in newspapers. His mother, Mrs. Ella Harness, received the war department message of his death today.
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If Denmark and Holland were given up, only Norway would remain for a possible Nazi last stand in the north, since the remaining 1 North Sea ports obviously cannot .
hold ‘out. J It would require an elaborate overseas expedition to overcome determined resistance in Norway. Sweden might take a hand in that in her own interests, however.. Nettrality would nottapply if Sweden did not recognize Doenit, as head of lawful government. : - It seems possikle that Doeénitz is trying to popiitgile the Hitler myth of an anti-Bolshevist crusade by avoiding a general surrender to an allied combination which ine cludes Russia.
HINT PEACE TALKS UNDER WAY: NAZI RESISTANCE IS VANISHING
Hamburg Falls, 500, 000 T aken Prisoner
Churchill Absent ¥ rom Conimbnsss
Capitulation i in Holland. Denmark, Norway Believ ed Near.
By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent
; LONDON, May 3.< Negotiations for the ai ulation of Germany were believed in some quarters to be. under way today. There was widespread speculation in London that Prime Minister Churchill may have gone to Germany on a mission to negotiate for the end of the war in Europe. The speculation embraced the pessibility that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower might be engaged in a similar task together with British and. Russian military ind political leaders. The Press association's parliamentary corrospondEns said members speculated that Churchill might have gone to Germany or to some meeting place with President Truman. There was no confirmation for either of the theories. The uncondftional surrender of all German forces in Holland, Denmark, Norway and Czechoslovakia was repofted in some cases already concluded. : Report Fighting Over in Holland The Brussels radio quoted the French news-agency with. out further confirmation as saying that all resistance had ceased in Holland. Churchill was absent from the house of commons today, Sir John Anderson, speaking for him, told the house that: should the war end on Saturday or Sunday there would be a general holiday Monday. Churchill's absence together with continental reports of surrender negotiations created a feeling in diplomatic
and political quarters here that the hour of Victory prob-
ably was near. Churchill's ldtest public appearance here was Wednesday evening. Then he announced in commons the fall of north Italy. He sent word that he could not attend today: s session; a highly unusual procedure. The last four major pockets of Nazi resistance outside the Reich were reported near collapse. Some sources be-
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lialian Campaign | | Hoosier Heroes— Casualty Total FOUR LOCAL MEN ls 109 Thousand _ IIE] IN ACTION WASHINGTON, May 3 (U., P).| ? “The tonquest of Italy cest the United States more than. 109,000 Hero Who 5 Helped Capture combat casualties, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson discloséd today. Platoon Dies. | Stimson told his press confer- g ence that the U. S. 5th army had| An Indianapolis soldier, Pfc. Carl suffered 109,163 casualties from the E. Gerking, whose tank company start of the Italian campaign to captured an entire Nazi platoon in April 28. | March and took more than 80 By April 28, the Germans in Italy | prisoners has been killed in action fad been sent into the headlong |in Gerifian. also lost their lives in action, and four. are now safe, KILLED® Proper Names— Pfe. Carl E. Gerking, 452 Holt k lrd.,, in Germany. j | Pfc. Roy. S. Baldwin Jr, Hard on Skun 5 | Gade st., in. Germany; i PHILADELPHIA, “May 3 (U. T, Sgt. E. Harpld Thorne, forP.) —What shouldn't happen to |merly of Indianapolis, in Germany. a skunk has happenéd to .twe Maj. Frank C. Sellers, nephew of skunks. : Mrs. Will H. Smith, 5458 N. IlliThe tiny animals, born yester=- |nois st, in Germany. day at the Philadelphia 200, SAFE squirmed today under names as Sgt. Herman A. Kocher, 1305 distinct as the broad white stripes ave, freed from German on their mother’s back. They were—Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini.
Comer prison. _ First Lt. Frederick A. Wiecking, 320 E. Maple road, freed and home. Pfc. Morris E. Butler, 1412 E. Minnesota st. Lt. John (Jack) Winchell, Southport, freed from Stalag 7-A.,
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Meanwhile, members of a C.I1.0. union at the sanitation plant offi--cially . protested the threatened stoppage; but said they would be unable to keep the machinery operating without assistance. Mayor Tyndall,”who has declined to meet with a committee representing the A. F. of L. union, today United Press Staff Correspondent. asked .the public to “be patient” MADRID, May 3.—A tired and during the crisis, He has sid that dejected Pierre Laval waited in a he would try to continue city serv-| Spanish jail ‘today to be turned ices recruiting new laborers, over to the United Nations for trial
——————————————— ~|as a war criminal. GASOLINE DRINK FATAL
: \. By RALPH FORTE
Faced With Death in France,
Laval Prefers Allied Trial i Ges 2 soun send, ma. vas
His only alternative was the grim ROCHESTER, May 3 (U. P.).— [one of returning to France, where he has been sentenced to death in
abflertia for treason.
Two-year-old Rex Shobe Jr. was dead today.. He swallowed gasoline
playing near a gaso- | the kitchen of ie | Put wid the Untied, press
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HOOSIER FLIER KILLED
ABILENE, Tex., May 3 (U, P.).— Abilene army airy base officials .dis-
killed yesterday when his fighter mand Laval's immediate extradition plane crashed and burned during a if Spain does ot surrender him landing’ attempt.
quickly.) Fhe former Vichy Shiet of sor. a pera TORE RANSACKED P). ernment gave up the fight yesterday | _ after his futile flight for freedom ~Thisves ok ai Sil cash Neatoter ended on a Barcelona airfield. The fiom the Gross general store near Spanish government told him 10/cato. yesterday and ransacked the get out of the country, or to remain | omee of the Pike county farm buand be handed over by the United peau in Petersburg but tailed to
Nations, t any loot. Laval, after three hours’ deliber- 5 a Real Estate Taxes are due $30 to at
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Three other Hooslerstand the fall of Berlin and Ham-
lieved ‘the capitulation of sonie or alr of Tham might -be-an= ‘nounced by nightfall. pith Reliable informants said ths capitulation of German forces in Denmark was arranged tentatively many by seizing his neighbor- {some time ago. The country was ing countries was tumbling down. | cut off by the British push to the Already the southern ramparts Baltic. Collapsed Nazi censorship had crumbled with the surrender of |indicated that the Danes controlled
; : their own country again. north Italy and western Austria. Reports from the United States Following hard on the Nazi an-
sald the Germans isolated in north nouncement of Adolf Hitler's death western Holland were ready to give
up. The allies already were moving burg, the new fuehrer, Adm. Karl|g,oqstuffs into Holland.
Doenitz, apparently was wanderifig| he paris radio said that the fore the northland in search of a new eign minister of Maj. Vidkun Quis+ refuge. ling’s puppet government, of NorThe Press association said it was way had arrived in Copénhagen to “fairly certain” that he was in Denmark, or perhaps had even gong on wii to Norway, -| (Continued on Page 3—Column 2) » ” » ue » =" =
Russians Search Berlin for
Bodies of Hitler, Goebbels, -
By ROBERT MUSEL mitted suic ide, were killed by Be United Press Staff Correspondent | shelis or died -of- natuzal’ causes. LONDON, May chad hel Red | The Soviets also may find among
Adolf Hitler built around Ger-
disctiss the surrender of perhaps
army troops searched thefrubble| the dead and 70,000 prisoners in of captured Berlin today’ the! Berlin such personages as Reichs bodies of Adolf Hitler and his crip- {ma rshal Hermann Goering, pled -henchman, Paul Joseph Goeb-|Joachim von Ribbentrop, ousted bels. yesterday as German foreign mins On the success of their hunt, |ister, Martin Bormann, chief of thes hinged the solution to the greatest|Nazi party, and other leading Nazis, mystery of the war—whether Hit- Hans Fritsche, Goebbels’ deputy ler and - Goebbels actually were dead, and if so, whether they com~'{(Continued on “Page $—Column 35) -
On the War Fronts
May 3, Aus ’ ITALY—New "Zealand troops occupy Trieste on Adriatic; peace’ settles ever rest of front.
Ir BURMA-=Allied troops storm into. Rangoon, Japanese « occupied capital, Ba
. WESTERN FRONT — Germans surrénder big port of Hathburg. and flee Schleswig-Holstein by
' sea, presumabig for last stand in -Norway; @enitz’ declares Prague, - in thern redioubt, hospital city. : . “EASTERN FRONT--.Saviet troops
PACIFIC — Australians fan ibs. over Tarakan off east coast of
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