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SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1945
Few Germans Swallow Hitler Death Story
[ United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, May 5.—I do not know the answer to the mystery of Adolf Hitler, But 1 can tell you what a good proportion. of the German people—from front-line troops to village house wives — think about it. ; They. think he has been dead since July 20; 1944. They think the bomb plot
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United Press War Correspondent Edward W. Beattie Jr., a prisoner of the Germans since he was captured on the Western front on Sept. 12, 1944, spent the last seven months being shuttled from one prison camp to another. He has never missed an opportunity te talk to any
privates, officials, civilians. Beattie
liberated Luckenwald prison camp yesterday after he was located by another U. P. war ‘correspondent, Robert Vermillion, who was relieved f rom his station with the U. §. 9th army in Ger. many and given the assignment "find Ed Beattie and bring him out." Beattie was flown back to Paris. Today he is making a personal fener) to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. on. what he saw
the most recent’ and most reliable report on the dying days of the Reich. =
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16 POLES HALTS bg 3 PLE
Molotov Says : Democratic Leaders Are Held for ‘Diversionist’ Acts.
big BULLETIN LONDON; May 5 (U. P.).—Ra< ‘dio Moscow said today that 16 Poles have been arrested by Red army authorities on -gharges of _operating an illegal radio in the rear of Russian troops. The broadcast said all 18 had been taken to Moscow.
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Corr ndent BAN-FRANCISCO, ag U.P). up today with the “grave” revela-| tion that Soviet authorities have arrested 16 Polish Democratic leaders on a charge of “diversionist | activities against the Red army.” The revelation of the arrests and
their accompanying grave effect upon. the Big Three Polish dis-
ments by Secretary of State Edward
Anthony Eden. Mrs. Jack Ferris, now of Indi The secretaries revealed they had | her birthplace, on the globe. been informed of the arrests by De Soviet - Foreign Commissar V, M.! Molotov. Serious Affects Feared The revelation torpedoed the Polish discussions here which were formally suspended by the British and Americans until Molotov provides them with further information on the incident. It also was feared that it would have serious repercussions upon the work of the whole United Nations conference, The Anglo-Americans had been trying vainly for weeks to pry an answer out of Moscow as to what had happened to the Polish leaders
Girl Who Spas Seven Languages Wants To Cook.
By SHERLEY UHL MRS. JACK FERRIS, now of 5119 Gracelana ave, was “born in Egypt of Russian parents, speaks seven languages and married an American soldier. Despite this cosmopolitan background, her ambition is to become an expert, housewife with ability to cook United States food. Mrs. Ferris formerly was. Miss
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U.S. Likely to Get Mandates On Isles Good Only as Bases
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
anapolis . . . locates Cairo, Egypt,
A ‘picture of her husband is beside her.
GATES NAMES HEALTH BOARD
Membership of Group: Is Increased to Nine.
Governor Gates. today appointed the nine members of the new In-! diana health board, reorganized by the 1945 legislature. Named to four-year terms were Dr. J. T. Oliphant of Farmersburg, former president of the Indiana State Medical association; Dr. James L. Wyatt of Ft." Wayne; Dr, David L. Jones of East Chicago and Howard Johnson, orchardist and businessman, and former state senator from Mooresville, Those assigned to three-year
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5—~When the post-war colonial, mandate or |
i trusteeship picture is completed, it will look approximately this way:
ONE: The United State will Marians, Carolines and Marshalls—with a combined population of about V125,000. , Scattered over an aréa almost as large as the United States, the islands are good only for bases. TWO: The Italian colonies—| Er{trea and Italian Somaliland over Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somali- | to Ethiopia. ‘Tand—wili be turned over fo new, THREE: Russia is likely to de-| mandatories or trusteeships. A new, | | mand the Kufiles, stretching from | democratic = Italy—should . such 8 | Kamchatka to the main islands of | 8 nation emerge, might be permitted | Japan, and now a barrier across to administer Libya as trustee.
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Molofoy Warms to Applause But Still Y exes Delegates
By HAL O'FLAHERTY, Times Foreign News Analyst SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,—As the second week of the world security conference ends Russia's prestige still rides high and Foreign Minister Molotov continues to be the center of attention. Wherever Molotov goes, he is followed by the crowds. The autograph hunters are sneaking into the Fairmount hotel, ready to run forward with their books held out even'though they are pushed around by the Russian bodyguard. As a rule MolTIMES INDEX otov’s five guards walk each side : of him and in 4 line about four ls : Jane Jordan. . 4 Danie] Kidney.
feet to the rear.
has obviously warmed him. At first he ‘marched with almost military bearing along the corridors of the conference hall or across the hotel 8/1obbles. Now, he takes a slower Pace and eqUIIY.
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only foyr members,
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terms are Glenn L. Jenkins, dean of the Purdue university school of |pharmacy, and Dr, R. E. Julian,
Indianapolis. Two year appointments went to
intendent for the James Whitcomb | | Riley. hospital for children here; Dr. W. B. Currie, Indianapolis | dentist, and Prof. Don E. Blood~| good; head of the sanitary Sl ing department of Purdue university, - The outgoing board comprises Expansion of the group is part of sweeping, longrange health improvement machinery set up by legislators and blue printed by Governor Gates. The act especially authorizes the board to spur health research and public education, and to launch a special study of diseases common to mid-dle-aged and elderly persons. Méanwhile Eli Lilly & Co. here is providing $4000 to be added to the $6000 ‘appropriation fixed by statute, with which to boost the salary of the new state health commissioner, yet. to be named.
GETS SHORT: LEAVE TO SET WIFE FREE
CAMP CROWDER, Mo., May. 5 (U. P.).—~Cpl Leland Prince today lays claim to. holding the shortest army emergency ‘eave on ‘record. The soldier was given a leave of 40 minutes to turn his wife loose.
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Suicide Raids Cost Foe Fifteen Vessels, 54 Planes.
. By UNITED PRESS : Some 300 U. S. Superforts today smashed back at the Japanese homeland. « It was a triple attack against bases of ' enemy suicide planes and ships which have sunk}. five American light surface ‘units in the costliest air and sea battle of the Okinawa campaign. The American ships were sunk and several others damaged in a futile but bloody attack yesterday by Jap ships and planes shortly after some 600 Japanese troops at-
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on Okinawa behind U. S. lines. Visual Bombing
The suicide attacks cost the enemy more than 54 planes and 15 suicide boats. More than 175 Jap planes were destroyed or damaged around Okinawa and through the Ryukyus. More than 300 soldiers’ bodies were strewn along the beaches and in the waters off the east and west coasts. For the first time in Superfort history the B-29's hit Japan proper three times in one day, with a total of 17 airfields on Kyushu under attack, The latest strike was carried out late this afternoon against Chiran Ibusuki and Kanoya airfields on
Kyushu by some 50 B-29's, - Earlier between” 150 and 200 of the - - big bombers -attacked the Hiro. aircrift {plant, five miles east of the great
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City Services Still. Halted by Strike!
’ Numerous city services were still at a standstill today, despite Mayor Tyndall's assurance that he would
maintenance workers, Employees of Local 848, of the State; County and Municipal Employees union (A. PF, of L.) remained off their jobs while union officials - renewed their efforts to
get the Jap-mandated islands—the veterinaridn and serum producer of meet with the mayor on Strike is-
sues involving dismissal of three (employees and recognition of the
eee | MASS - Mary Heckard, nurse super-! (organization,
Mayor: Tyndall took the stand |
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WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, May 5. Pacific war?
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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the’ Scripps-Howard Newspapers { La
Answer lies with our air forces, in the opinion of many officials, Their theory: When our European forces are added to the large numbers of bombers we already have operating in the Pacific, Japan will be convinced her position is hopeless, will quit’ to avoid being destroyed,
Our people estimate that Japan's plane production ix now down 40 per cent; that "Tokyo “is 50 .per cent destroyed, other industrial
PLANES, OIL GAS BEAT US’ -RUNDSTEDT
Outsmarted Nazis.
a By JACK BELL Times Foreign Correspondent WITH THE "TH ARMY IN GER‘MANY, May 5—An old man—one
thing they cared rg ‘themselves: ob the mightiest and «one of the ing V-DAY : BETS— “1ntl position “to surrEsCL 1b the J0futhe eldvischool of: German:
roils tarism—sat stiffly and in clear tones explained the strokes that led . to his downfall as Fwell-as that of Eo “8
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Karl Gerd Von Rundstedt —small but every inch a soldier despite his 69 years — talked for two hours. His answers #8 “cleared” himself "—the leader— Mr. Bell from responsibility for defeats afield. Von Rundstedt spoke in military terms . and with a true military sense of values—into which human | beings, as such, do not rate consideration. “We were beaten because America’s superior air power kept us from moving troops and supplies— because we hadn't sufficient gasoline and oil in Germany,” he said. + “We didn’t invade England in 1940 because it had a navy so powerful we couldn’t have ferried armies across the channel in our inadequate naval vessels. “We attacked Russia because it was inevitable. Not Enough Navy “We lost the winter offensive in| the Ardennes because we ran. out) of gasoline.” Although relieved of command in Normandy on July 5, and again insulted by Hitler after the Ardennes campaign failed, he said: “I know Hitler as a man who would fall at the post. It is not his nature to run away. Our chief fight, of course, is with bolshevism. Hitler is a brave man. Naturally he would" stand ‘with his people
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200,000 AUSTRIAN NAZIS GIVE UP: SURRENDER TODAY
GERMANS CONTI FIGHTING RUSSIANS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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Money on. Line: “ay duet!
By HENRY J. TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Special Writer SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, May 4 (Delayed). — | For betting purposes May 3 was V-E day. | Anyway I am paying off that: | way on my betting Poul among the generals of our armies in Europe. Any-=-body who dif= fers with this will simply have to sue me. § I started collecting the bets two months ago with Gen. Joseph T. McNajhey in Mr. Taylor The formula: Predict the date on which organized German resistance ceases, pay $5 into the pool—winner fake all. Difficulties arose at once. This idea. should *have been called “Taylor's Folly.”
» a » FIRST, along the Italian front, I began receiving assortments of Italian lira,. Morroccan francs, Egyptian pounds, Mediterranean invasion currency, American dollar bills, and an. uncertain
They came from the pockets of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Generals McNarney, Mark W. Clark; Joseph Cannon, "Lucien Truscott and other guessers. The date each general guessed
wheré the Russians attacked.” “Did your general staff, in the rearly days, think that the war could | be won before America came in?” I asked. He looked at me for several _sec-| onds, then tersely replied: “If England had not been able to persuade America to aid it economically, as a forerunner to military entry, the war would have ended in 1940.” Time and again, the marshal ispoke of the mighty superiority of
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‘SAYS BODY OF HITLER HIDDEN
Won’t Be Found.
By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff ‘Correspondent LONDON, May 5—Adolf Hitler's
body has. been hidden so‘well that
an Second Mass Capitulation i in
it never “will be found, Nazi Propa-
THREE ARE FREED
Soldier Overseas - " Oniy, Month Among Dead.
A soldier overseas less than a month has lost his life in combat against the Nazis, and two others have. been killed, today's casualty lists reveal. he Also one man, reported missing, | has written his parents from a Ger. | |
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gandist Hans Fritsche told his | Russian captors today. Radio Moscow said Fritsche, dep- | uty German propaganda minister | ‘taken prisoner in ‘Berlin, asserted [that the fuehrer’s corpse had been | concealed in ‘an “undiseoverable | place.” Neither Hitler's hody nor that of | Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph | Goebbels has been found .in Berlin, Moscow said. Red army troops who attempted to search the ruined Reichschancellery in Berlin were {beaten - back by raging fires. But two other prize Nazis have | (fallen into American hands: Dr. Wilhelm Frick, German min- | ister without portfolio, 'Reichs-| protector of Bohemia and Moravia | and Heinrich Himmler's successor as interior minister, Max Amann, deputy to Himmler, chiet Bf the Nazi party publishing department and publisher of Mein Kampf. Frick, 68, probably the Mighest Nazi party and German government official yet imprisoned by the
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GOOFY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN. AS WAR WANES
' ST, LOUIS, May 5 (U. P.) —~Richard Denney, 22, discharged army veteran, settled down in a leafy retreat in a tree today and vowed he would sit there until, V-E day. He started his sit-until-surrender stunt yesterday, but ran intoi difficulties when the limb broke and dumped him to the ground. Today he has company. Miss Dorothy Eaves, 23, is up there with him.™
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a SARE Dia, 9 BUTI ETING a ov— ON WEN ae, LONDON, "May 3 5 (U..P.).—Radio Oslo said today that Maj. Vidkun Quisling, head of the German-controlled Norwegian government, has announced that his regime will carry on fo prevent Norway from becoming a battlefield.
PARIS, May 5 (U.P.).—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said today that the steady demoralization and disintegration of the Germans on the western front continued.
By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, May.5.—An estimated 200,000 to 400,000 troops of the German army group defending Austria surrendered unconditionally to Gen. Jacob L. Devers today. ‘The second mass German surrender i in two days
‘collapsed resistance to the American and British *
forces on the continent except for Norway, Czecho-
slovakia and some coastal pockets. 2 : Germans in Czechoslovakia, Eastern Austria and the Dresden-Chemnitz area of Germany still were fighting the Russians. Inthe last two major islands of Geiiai resistance, Czeelioslovak sources. in London reported that ‘a patriot uprising had liberated Prague, and a Nazi source said the commander of occupation forces in Norway had decided to surrender, with-an announcement of capitulation expected at any time, i First Announcement Corrected Supreme headquarters in Paris announced the unconditional surrender of the German army group “G”—the 1st and 19th armies—to Devers, commander of the U. S, 6th army group. It obliterated Nazi resistance from the Czechoslovak border area north of Linz southwestward to the Swiss frontier. The first announcement at SHAEF said the surrender embraced the .entire front southwestward from the Chemnitz area of Germany, including that before the U. S. 3d army now fighting in Czechoslovakia. Supreme headquarters first announced that German troops in Austria and Czechoslovakia—the 1st, 7th and 19th armies—had surrendered. Then SHAEE *corrected the announcement to eliminate
7th German army—the| sg = = PARIS, May 5 (U. P.).—The French press agency A.F.P. today quoted unidentified “well informed sources” as saying that the United States, Britain, Russia’ and France now. were consulting on final surrender terms for Germany and they were expected to he sigmed by commanders on the front.sThere was no confirmation in allied gquarters,
ithe lone in Czechoslovakia—from the list of those surrendering. United Press War: Correspondent Jack Fleischer reported that the | surrender of the 1st and 19th Ger{man armies was negotiated at a U. 8. 6th army group post outside Munich. A delegation of 14 German officers surrendered on the authority and order of Marshal Albert Kesselring, who took over command of {the Western Front from the now | captured Marshal] Karl von Rund- | stedt. Devers and six other American generals accepted the surrender, It was effective at noon tomorrow but! it was announced by radio that hostilities were t6 - cease immedi- | ately.
patch of the Nazi-controlled Scandinavian Telegraph bureau, quoting ‘most reliable” sources. The Nazi-controlled Scandinavian Telegraph bureau said in an Oslo dispatch that “most reliable” sources reported Gen. Franz Boehme, com mander-of the. Germans in Norway, had decided to capitulate, and an announcement might be expected at any time. A Stockholm dispatch said une confirmed reports were circulating { there that a British military dele gation arrived in Oslo by plahe
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Norway Action Waited The trend on the European front in the last days of collapsing Nazi | resistance has been toward a Ger- | man flight westward to surrender to the Anglo-Americans and get out of the path of the Russians. today. The Nazis themselves reported | 1t added that another report, that the German army commander | “likewise unconfirmed but highly in Norway had decided to surren- | probable,” said a number of Gere der, and capitulation might be an« man faery were on the way to nounced “later today.” The report as, in an Oslo dis- | (Continvied un A 2=Column 9
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