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Adm. Karl Doenitz ST : Hence, the manner of his death ., . plus the fndoctzis ‘nation given them in preparation for redoubt fighting

Tr wis VOLUME 56—NUMBER 47

Hitler s oh

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times: Foreign Correspondent

PARIS, May 4.—Unless Hitler's body is found, the circumstances of his death will make the re-education of the Germans an even”more difficult task than it already

FRIDAY, MAY 4 1945

died of a corals] hemorrhage. he died in the battle of Berlin. The young Germans have been instructed for years that Hitler would disappear if necessary and—like ‘the

in their accounts of Hitler’ s death. The truth may never be known, : "The fact that their reports disagree suggests that the belief of the majority of German prisoners with whom I

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appears to be.

Such is the view of those concerned with the future

rule of Germany.

Already there is evidence that a legend is growing up around der fuehrer resulting from the confiicting

stories of his death.

Heinrich Himmler said that Hitler

legend of I'rederick Barbarossa—return to save the Germang from some future tribulation. These young Germans of today are talking already of

Hitler's disappearance-—rath

er than his death.

It is impossible to téll now whether friction between Hiinmler and Doenitz is a full explanation of the difference

Mrs. Shiny Eyes, Mother Hen, Teaches Ist Grade

First graders at school 35, . “in their heir elassviom for social study,

REDS MAY SEE

LONDON POLES!

‘Supposed Change in Stalin

Position Raises Hope.

By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent

BAN FRANCISCO, May 4. — The! Polish question again dominated the

United Nations conference today with reports of a sufficient change in Russia’s attitude to raise AngloAmerican hopes for real progress toward: a solution, Russia apparently had abandoned her position of arguing the inter-

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pretation of the Yalta agreement on Poland and was now discussing who| the Polish commission should consult in its efforts to reorganize the Boviet-backed Warsaw Polish regime. |

Would Admit Other Poles Soviet Premier Josef Stalin re-| portedly agreed to bring Stanislaw

Mikola jczyk, former premier of the!

London exile regime, into the diseussiors, Mikolajczyk has AngloAmerican approval and his presence

in the negotiations would be gounied -& good sign—here;

Stalin also was said to be amen-

. able to admission of two other Lon-| . don Poles in the talks — Tadeusz

Rover, former ambassador to Moscow, and Stanislaw Grabski, fTérmer spokesman for the London government who withdrew from that group after a disagreement. The Russians have not agreed to] take those men into the Warsaw government. The agreement, if any, is that they shall be brought into the talks about reorganizing

_the regime. For that reason, Amet-

ic .n officials qualify their optimism with the awareness that™a deadlock ean again occur,

Deadline on Amendments

The technicians of the 46.nations on world organizations ‘meet today in committees which will study various sections of the Dumbarton “Oaks prdposals and consider amendments. The committees will be the working bodies of the conference. Tonight is the deadline on submission of amendments to the proposals drafted at Dumbarton Oaks. Scores of amendments will be in the hands of the secretary-general by midnight and distributed to the appropriate committees for study, The Big Four held another meeting last night in the penthouse apartment of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., to study their respective amendments and seek, wherever possible, sufficient agreement to sponsor them jointly,

form a human Her life forms the basis for class " ~

‘fence around the mother hen kept

subjects,

‘Hatching of Eggs Interests

Children

By VICTOR

in Social Study

PETERSON

TEACHING surely has changed since I was in the first grade. Fact is, I can't remember too much of what I studied then. But a quarter century ago I know we never had a hen hatching

eggs-in the classroorh. . Now .down at school 35, at different. Monday the first graders will see more than a dozen chicks hatch out. Mrs, Shiny ‘Eyes, the mother hen, has been going to school since she first laid the eggs

and a good deal better, I might | add, than looking at a picture’ | and being told, “This is a hen,” when you know very well the next day youll al it a rooster; » THE HEN in "ihe classroom is part of social study. As Miss Mary M. Hobson, teacher, puts it: “The hen is a perfect example of motherhood and family life. The family-is the hub of social existence and here the children can see home life on a simplified basis, not as a complex structure.” ® =u = . “FROM the study of the hen" evolves almost every other study in class. The gradefs learn arithmetic, counting the days until the eggs hatch, subtraction by the number that don’t, Spelling comes with terms about the hen, grammer with little stories they write about her everyday life, art with drawing they make on ‘her existence. But among the most fportant

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Sectionals Scheduled Week From Tomorrow.

It's afl Part of modern teaching |

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STRIKE CLOSES

‘Street Repair Crews Also

Reported Off Jobs. |

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Municipal services were partially | paralyzed today by a strike of city | maintenance workers. ks The city sanitation plant was shut down and raw sewage was diverted | | into White river. Activities of the, | garbage collection department were |

| suspended. Street repair and flood!

control crews reportedly were off] the job, Street cleaners reported to work | this morning bit were paid and sent {home “to avoid any trouble,’ the {mayor's office said. * At.-noon- today, no negotiation

moves had materialized and Mayor |also was burning so briskly that A mystery flash of light, accom-

Tyndall was standing pat on -his re- | fusal to. arbitrate.

employees by William (Billy) Ham-| ilton, city hall political lieutenant, | reputedly touched off the flare- -up. | But Lee Brown, president of the striking union, said today that | Mayor Tyndall's refusal to meet | with or recognize his organization was-the immediate grievance, Members of Local 848 of the State, County and Municipal Employees union (A, F. of L.) began striking at 3 p. m. yesterday. Numerous workers ‘failed to show up on morning shifts today. Brown |said 611 union membérs were supposed to remain away from their jobs.

The Times-City Recreation Division marble tournament, preyious- | ly scheduled for 9 a. m. tomorrow, has been postponed because of wet founds. Instead, the sectional play will be |

| would

City hall spokesmen said this | assertion was “exaggerated, The mayor's office indicated the city endeavor to continue Vital services by hurriedly recruiting enough help to fill in vacated jobs. Mayor Tyndall said the munici-

held at 16 schools a week from to- | (Continued on Page 9—Column 1; | morrow at 9 ‘a. ‘'m. “Miss Norma | Koster, tournament director, made

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the announcement.

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U.S. Desires Definite System Of Territorial Trusteeship

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,

Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

SAN FRANCISCO, May 4~—Two over-all principles will determine the question of International trusteeships here and at the peace con-

ference. the domestic affairs of others,

- First, “what's mine's mine”; and, second, non- “Interference in

. Prime Minister Churchill made the first dramatically clear when he said he had -not* become his’ majesty’s first minister in order to

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liquidate the British empire. ‘Hongkong, Singapore and the British mandates in various parts of the world are almost certain to remain under the British fag after this war. The French had made their colonial stand equally plain, No

{territory belonging to France be-

fore the war, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said here, is to B% Jade Jubject, so Mumetshi: This includes Frances islands}

set

BEER DROUGHT SEEN FOR 19 COUNTIES

| Secretary of | Wholesalers Issues Warning.”

Beer spigots in 19 Hoosler counties may run dry next week unless distribution knots in their districts are untied, Pleas Greenlee, secretary of the Indiana Licensed Beer Wholesalers association, warned today, ' > Mr. Greenlee said these are counties In which Democratic wholesalers were forced out of business, but newly - licensed : Republican wholesalers “aren't ready to go yet.” By that he means they either have no yet procured delivery

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NAZIS REPORT TO CLARK ROME, May 4 (U.P) ~The German surtender in north “Italy was implemented today when five German officers reported to Gen. Mark Clark for instructions. The Germans wore sidearms, which Clark allowed them to retain as a measure | Guinea.

BERLIN RUINS MAY CONCEAL HITLER'S FATE

‘Reds Searched Burning, Chancellery; Silent on Result.

By. HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, May 4—A Russian war correspondent reported today that after the capture of Berlin he’ found the chancellery—where the Nazis said Adolf Hitler died— engulfed in flames which drove him from Hitler's office after a. quick survey: (If the correspondent’'s reported visit to the chancellery shed any light on Hitler's fate, the ‘Soviet censorship apparently’ was ready to pass it since Moscow has issued no official. report on what was found at the chancellery—if anything—that would bear on the German version of Hitler's death.) Lt. Col. Pavel Troyanovsky, in a dispatch to the Soviet army organ Red Star, described the fire-has=-tened visit to the chancellery soon after the last resistance in Berlin ended. Barricades of Books

“Troyanovsky said the windows of the . burning chancellery = were

Dead | German gunners were everywhere, their breasts decorated with iron

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main entrance lot ve gsc od ‘the dispatch said, “Its: doors were barred by {large boxes. “Our soldiers could penetrate only

tween red boxes filled with crosses and oak leaves, “Hitler's office Was very hot. The | lames - were seeping nearer to .us. The floors were shaking and about to collapse. We donned gas masks and ran to a window, the heat | penetrating the thick soles of our boots. = Nothing is visible through the smoke and heat.” Surrender Offered May 1 Troyanovsky said an old man found sitting on a suitcase in the street conducted his party to Hermann Goering’s dir ministry, which

entry “was impossible, 2 “Such is Berlin immediately after!

Dismissal of three flood board | the occupation—all in smoke and

flames and ruins,” he wrote.

not |

clogged with thick books used byl. {the Nazis to throw up barricades in | the last hours of resistance.

talked—weeks before the announced

correct.

death—may be

Most of them—and our own prisoners as. well—

were convinced that Hitler had been killed in, or had“died shortly after, the bomb explosion of the July 20,1944,

putsch.

Even if the body is found~Which i is believed to be

- British slosh inte Deamark; 100,000 Naxis there ond i i", Holland re

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J GGermens in mass Hight by seq

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tel) oS ur aden wrace through Brenner {Pass near U.S Sth.

OVER WIDE AREA

Planetarium Head Says It Probably Was Meteor,

PHILADELPHIA, May 4 (U.P.).—

| panied by an earth and building {shaking - explosion. that

{thousands of ‘seaboard residents;

| Aussies Gain in

SKY FLASH SEEN

Drive to Take .Qil-Rich Island

By UNITED PRESS Allied troops scored new gains today in the Tarakan, Okinawa and Mindanao campaigns. American Superfortresses blasted again at the Japanese hofneland. Australian invasion forces on the oil-rich—~island of Tarakan off the east coast of: Borneo

city against stiffening resistance {and pushed to the edge of the air-

An Izvestia dispatch said the rem- flared across the eastern sky 10day|gfeiq three miles to the northwest.

nants of the Berlin garrison first offered to negotiate for as urrender Tuesday—May day, the Soviet holi-| day on which many persons here|

expected an announcement of the It came a day|

capture of Berlin. later, The surrender terms were agreed upon the next day, but some groups

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Is Hitler's Eva... .... With Fuehrer, Dead or Alive

By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent | MUNICH, May 4.—Dead or alive Adolf Hitler's sweetheart, Eva Braun, is with him, according to a gray-haired gossip who watched their comings and goings here since their affair began: “They were obviously very much in love,” said Frau Marie Schiffler as she furnished details of the love

{life of Hitler and the blond, brown- | skinned fraulein who persuaded him

to wear striped pajamas and silk underwear’ “Wherever Hitler is—dead or alive ~you can be sure Eva is'at his side,” Frau Schiffler said. She said that

| over a six-state area.

The sky lighted brilliantly for one {to- three seconds; and buildings in

the Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, - Delaware ard --Maryland areas were shaken. The unexplained flash was visible from Brooklyn, N. Y., to Richmond, Va., and westward off the coast upward to 200 miles. Police, plane .pilots, weather observers, military and neval instal.|lations;, and just plain John Citizen were witnesses to the dazzling display in the heavens at 3:35 a. m, Believed to Be Meteor Newspapeis and thé police,were deluged with telephone calls from excited” persons who “wanted to know whether war plants were sabotaged, or whether an earthquake were in progress. The explosion was heard and felt | in various sections. Most of those who felt the jar that caused buildings to tremble did not see the flash. Many saw the flash but -did not hear the explosion. At the Fels Planetarium of the Franklin institute, Director Roy K. Marshall said the mystery flash in all probability was.a bolide, or detonating meteor. Although he did not observe the flash, Dr. Marshall said information given him from the hundreds

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Butler Ath

Three Indianapolis men and a former Butler university basketball star from Jeffersonville have lost their lives in combat, according te today's war department ne i lists. Also two men are missing while two more have been freed from Nazi prisons. KILLED" Second Lt, Morton A. Gellman, 3533 Balsam ave. in Germany, T. 5th Gr. Andrew Abernathy, 1715 ia Alvird Hy on Bus New

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lete Are Killed

Marine 24 Lt. Fred J. Hunckler, Jeffersonville, in the Pacific, MISSING Pfe. Emil Malinovsky,'15 S. Bolton ave., in Italy. 8. Sgt. Max W. Paxton, Koehne ave, over Germany, SAFE - 4 George L. Eschénbrenner,

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The drive was hampered by an elaborate “system of ‘mines and booby traps described as equal: to any yet encountered in the Pacific war, Tokyo reported that 10 allied destroyers and three cruisers were shelling Japanese positions. from Tarakan bay. At the Tarakan airport Japanese were entrenched in caves and tun- { nels which the Australians were attacking with flame-throwers and tanks,

battled |. roused | through the outskirts of Tarakan|

... augmented by German prisoners from American camps

where Nazi gauleiters have doctrination . ... is going to headaches the allies will face

been able to maintain inproduce one of the greatest in the future.,

Our post-war period seems guaranteed to have more headaches than any other period in modern history;

1945, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ins.

NAZI FORCES SURRENDER IN HOLLAND AND DENMARK

‘Cease Firing’ ' Effective Tomorrow

Corman Remnants in Northwest Reich

to Field Marshal Sir Bernard effective at 8 a. m. British nounced tonight. forces in Heligoland and the

hower’s headquarters of the

army appeared irnminent.

German armed forces. The Nazis themselves s sounded: in- Holland and that

But a heavily-censored

more conclusive evidence of northern front.

“r

cabled.’

“So many Germans have

bécome too common.’ : McMillan said high German staff officers, them prisoners, admitted that

Denmark was lost. In Hamburg, McMillan reported,

On southern Okinawa, marines

armed German soldiers were direct-

Also Give: Up to Montgomery

unopposed through Denmark.

most of

After

Troops Throw Away Guns. BULLETIN _ PARIS, May 4 (U. P.).—All German forces in northwestern Germany, Denmark and Holland have surrendered

L. Montgomery's allied army time tomorrow, it was an-

The surrender will apply to German

Frisian islands off the coast

of Holland. Montgomery informed Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-

surrender tonight.

By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 4.—Nazi spokesmen said German resistance had ended in Holland today. The fall of Denmark to the onrushing British 2d

Unconfirmed reports from Paris and Stockholm anid Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and Jeaders-of the Nazi regime were meeting somewhere in Denmark to negotiate the unconditional surrender of what is left of the

aid» the cease fire order had

British troops were sweeping:

front dispatch from United

Press War Correspondent Richard D. McMillan gave even

the German collapse on the

‘Germany Army Out of Control’ : I'he German army facing the British—which ‘includes the German high command-—is out of control,” McMillan. .

“The Germans are throwing away their arms by the hundreds of thousands, refusing to fight, trying to get home, or struggling to give themselves up as prisoners.

given up the fight that they

wander about inside the British lines, driving their own cars and trucks. You see them sitting beside the vehicles on grassy banks, munching anything they can find to eat. “Qur men hardly notice them any more. The sight has

| mites apart in the Linz area of northeastern Austria. The Nazis’ Bavarian redoubt, where German leaders may have (P planned a last stand, collapsed. The {U. S. 7th army captured Salzburg, keystone of the redoubt, and rolled on unopposed toward Berchtesgaden,

cracked through strong defenses on| ing British tanks, armored cars and [1] miles farther south.

the west coast to drive within a! mile of Naha, the capital. : |

supply convoys through the bomb- |

battered streets, indicating their]

Vanguards of the Tih ‘army also rammed south through the tower-

In support of the Okinawa cam-| acceptance of the fact that they are ing Brenner pass, where Hitler and

paign, a sizeable force of B-29's at-|

tacked the Japanese home islands

beaten. ) McMillan reported the entire Ger-

Mussolini once . met to seal their. | axis bargains, and linked. up with

of Kyushy and.Shikoku, The Kyu-| man high command had assembled the U, S. 5th army on Italian soil shu attack was the 12th in 18 days OPPOSite the’ British “forces in the! a few miles below the pass,

and continued the attempts to| knock out the bases from which

north;

| Brenner Captured Swedish reports told of spreading | . P

The juncture was made at mid-

Japanese suicide-planes have been|mutiny in the Germany army bai-|

attacking ‘American forces around

Okinawa.

ANTHRACITE MINES TAKEN OVER BY U, .

racks at Copenhagen.

the “last hour of the war” had arrived. Norway and Czechoslovakia appeared to be the remaining areas of

| Europe where Germany resistance] jsut was possible,

Czechoslovakia was almost surrounded by American and Russian)

The Nazis’ own radio at Wilhelmshaven said.

morning in the little Alpine village of Vipiteno, closing a solid allied battle line across ‘Europe from Denmark to the toe of Italy. | Innsbruck. and the gateway town jof Brenner also were captured by the 7th army veterans who were re« | turning’ to Italy after almost a year of campaigning that carried them from Sicily to the beaches of southe

Truman Orders | Seizure of troops” which | now were only a few (Continued on Page 9—Column 2)

Strike-Bound Industry.

HAZLETON, Pa., May 4 (U. P.) — The American flag. was raised over all Pennsylvania's anthracite mines today as the government took over operations qf the strike-bound industry, o

President Truman, confronted |

with his first big labor problem since he became President April 12, ordered the mine seiziires last night. Acting on the presidential order, Solid Fuels Administrator Harold Ickesitook over control of the properties and ordered the miners to return to work Monday, .It was the second time in two

capture. Sgt. Charles A. Humphros: 450 Arnolds ave, freed rom Stalag

Dota Fags Thro)

1816 Arrow st., freed {from German

years that Ickes seized all of the hard coal properties because of a labor dispute. : y The back-to-work movement: was | too eapecied to get under way Monday i expected

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WITH THE 3D ARMY, May 4 (U, P.).~Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist, commander of German army group A and master-mind of the German invasion of Poland, drove into the American lines and sure rendered to the 26th infantry division today, . ; He was accompanied by. his wife

The 63-year-old marshal was pexeved io be the after-effects “ many rugs. The drawers his Mitterfels ,

filled with morphine. -

Drug- Shaken Von Kleist, Poles’ Conqueror, Gives Up

He drove into the Americanlines in a natty car filled with 25 handebags and plenty of gasoline, The marshal seemed embarrassed when mention was made of his ill= fated Caucasus campaign, was largely responsibile'for his fall. ing from favor with the Nazis. “ But when he was given an ordi« nary plece of G. I. bread, he said,

and aid. 4“You really shouldn't go to all this

trouble “to make white bread for

trembling from what army officers me”

8 Von Kleist at first refused to e of render to_twe 328th regiment.