Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1945 — Page 2
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“high command of
been expected to make their final. stand.
“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Sodio Says
"All Forces’ Surrender
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Adm. Karl Doenitz, the broadcast said. 2074th day of the European war. ee . Though the surrender order was not confirmed imme“diately, it presumably covered the almost 1,000,000 German troops still holding out in Norway, Czechoslovakia, Austria, xX ugoslavia, the French coast and the channel islands. ; Norway Capitulates ; Only an ‘hour earlier, the B. B. C. in its Danish service broadcast a report that“the Norwegian garrison had capitulated. Speedy confirmation of the surrender of the other German forces was expected. Capitulation of the German garrison in Nor way knocked out the mountain-locked citadel from which the Nazis had It ‘would have meant one more in the allied list of sea-borne or air-borne |
. invasions.
With Norway gone, all sources agreed that the surrender of the remaining German forces in Furope—in Czechoslovakia,” eastern Austria, Yugoslavia, the French Atlantic ports and the channel jslands—would not be long! delayed. “3 Hour Being Arranged? An -important announcement of an undisclosed nature was expected any minute. The semi-official British press association said the hour! of the V.E announcement was being -arfanged “at this. moment” in telephone conversations between Londen, ! “Washington and Moscow. It was expected before dusk! ‘tonight, Schwerin von Krosigk's ried over the German station| at Flensburg on the German-| fron allied bombs in Norwegian |
Danish, border. Though be- “The rn De: _ The murande ens-rheve. Been: Sng
lied foneer- Lie burg was declared an open| States, Britain and Russia, B. B. C
{said Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont- | city by the Germans earlier gomery rejected a German. offer to!
this week and apparently has. not|swrender to the western allies alone béen occupied by .allied forces. |ang informed the eneniy that any JMGernian . men and wamen!”| offer must be to ‘Russia as well. “Schwerin von Krosigk begdn his| Vidkun Quisling, premier of the ‘dramatic announcement, “The high | Norwegian puppet government, and| command of armed forces has to-|other high Nazi deaders also held day, at the order of Grand Adm. lengthy conferences -at the royal Karl Doenitz, declared the uncon- castle at Oslo over the week- end, ditional surrernder of all fighting | Stockholm said.’
German armed forces had surren“dered unconditionally all “fighting German “troops” today. “The order for surrender was given by Fuehrer Grand It came’ on the.
| ports said “good results" were Ob»
announcement was car- |
1 bombarded air’ fields op Miyako]
=r 1 SSL ra rest of Okinawa, ‘| at” least 18 enemy planes.
“Fying Boxcar Lands Here
WRECK 20 JAP | SUPPLY. SHIPS
‘Navy Planes, es, B-29's Mal, Daring Strikes.
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cargo-traft in low-level sweeps over | «I | Isushima and Korea straits, between Korea and Kyushu; and. in the Yellow sea off western Korea. A fleet of 50 B-29's atgacked four airfields on Kyushu and early re-
Stout field gof its first glimpse of newer and a transport aircraft yesterday when the huge Fairchild C-82 “Packet” landed st the headquarters of the I Troop Carrier Commiafid. Also called the “Flying Boxcar,” the plane is designed exclusively for cargo operations, boom-tailed plane which combines sthe triple threat advantages of a troop carrier, cargo transport and flying Smbulance and is the fastest of its type in=the world. : od
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tained. L On Tarakan island off. Borneo, Australian and: Dutch troops were battling today toward the rich Paomesian oil fields after seizing a key hill position in’ the center of Tarakan city. The oil flelds already were burn ing from Japanese demolitions or shells from allied destroyers” which
France Invited fo Big Foar s Councils First-Time in Parley
(Continued From Page One) Shem now- will be designed to line have been bombayding enemy posi- up the smaller countries behind the tions ceaselessly. experts of the Big Five but Bidault gn, amendments submitted by the Two other Australian columns | has never before sat together with | gig Four jointly and two important captured the island's airfield, threejthe heads of the Big Four dele-|qnes submitted by all of the big miles north of the city. ~~ *lgations, [powers except Russia, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an-| France has made no secret of | Study of the 30-odd amendments (ndunced that heavy Pacific fleetthe fact that she is miffed at not jointly sponsored By the big powers units, with carrier and land-based being included before and at being|showed that they obviously were [planes, were continuing the bom- excluded from the Dumbarton Oaks¢ designed to meet issues raised in pardment of Okinawa but his com- ‘conference where the proposals forthe flood of amendments submitted {munique gave no further report of | a world organization were drawn up. | [by the other ‘nations. the 10th army hve north toward| Conference officials meanwhile] Voting: Procedure | Naha, the capita Iplanned an early plenary session Counter-Attack Repulsed | > seat the fn on the | Roweust: SHE Ej od o the A front dispatch” disclosed thaliykraine ‘and White = Russia who | "Mal hations | te he ed the Americans killed 3000 Japanese arrived by plane yesterday. thelr desire to-limit th Ee powes Thursday night and Priday when| ykrainian Foreign Minister Dimi- | % 128 big natiens in the security | the enemy attempted its first major|tri 2. “Manuilski and White Russian’ |counter-attack since the Okinawa Foreign Minister Kiselev were met| . De big powers did not touch ie landing. The assault was complete- at the airport by Soviet Foreign voting procedure, inaieaung t ly repulsed by massed army, marine Minister V. M. Molotov with whom | ‘€Y Would object strenuously to any and naval guns. they immediately began conferences, | 8itempt by the little nations 10 A British Pacific fleet "task force y tamper with the veto power granted . 14ne Up Smaller Nations the permanent members of the
a ips. After a day of rest, all delegates council, even over arrangements for gn te GLEN Ro hd OSs ot don fay Toth es SEEMS ER a hh SE Rapa hatd task of trying to analyze the| There still 1s no Word whit Molo: tov expects to leave for Moscow. With the Polish issue apparently out of his hands and on the Stalin. Churchill-Truman level, it need not delay his departure.
gest roving BOL
Japanese suicide planes attacked hundreds of amendments submitted | American forces at kiana spam and to begin drafting the final yesterday and damaged one light document for a world organization. | fleet unit, Pour of the enemy planes! Behind, the scenes, the unofficial } were shot down. .{meetings will continte. Most of A Japanese communique claimed its suicide planes sank 15 U. S. war-| ‘ships in the first six days of the month.
Parley Shaken by Russia's
Hit Naval Arsenal | Philjppines - based - bombers - ‘and |
Neigh
,maedchen on her household staff.”
German troops. __ ‘Senseless Bloodshed’ “After a heroic fight of almost &ix years of incomparable hardness, | Germany has succumbed to the] overwhelming power of her enemies. To continue the war would only | mean senseless bloodshed and futile |
| There were some reports that the
Germans were seeking to arrange
td surrender en masse ‘to neutral!
Sweden for intérnment. German! soldiers have been surrendering in large groups to Sweden for a number of months.
-|senal
fighters continued attacks on Bor-| neo's airfields and shipping in support of the Tarakan campaign, Five
| freighters, a river steamer and a and England was doing his best to permanently submerged by harsh
rumber of smaller craft were sunk. | Other planes attacked a naval arand fuel depot at Saigon,
rent phrase—she goes ahead and and a quarter of that sort of thing does the incomprehensible.’
Defiance of Allied Opinion
All history, the. expert pointed
(Continued From Page One) | out, shows that Poland cannot be
‘understand’ Russia—to use the cur- | treatment, She survived a century,
| It will be no different now. Rus- |
BELIEVE HITLER. 5 STILL ALIVE
bors Think He nt “Goering Are Hiding.
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! since the abortive attempt on his! {life last July 20 “if he was here | then.” But she said Goering had |been a very frequent visitor. He 'and his wife stayed in a luxurious villa, one of the guest houses x Hitler's chalet.
“Frau Goering alone had el
Frau Scheffau said. “And Lord knows how many servants there were altogether for the fuehrer's| chalet and all the guest houses, » I got some idea of the size of the! establishment from .a telephone directory I found in one "building. Tt listed about 600 numbers. Their juxtaposition was “interest- | ing. No. 366 was lor Eva Braun's underground room. No. 356 was Hitler's reception room in an une derground bunker. . To get his |
upstairs, Hitler called 417.Nazis’ Private Capital
Deputy Fuehrer Martin Bormann | had a whole building to himself here. Press Chief Dr, Otto Pistsiep and Munitions Minister Albe Speer were others listed in the directory. Everything indicated that Berghof became more and more the Nazi | party's private capital as the war | went on, especially after bombs made Berlin too hot.
as the. Nazis claim Hitler himself to be. Most of the buildings and much | of the hounds are as devastated as
although a task force trom the 3d division took Berghof Friday night, without a fight. Most of the dam- |
tering a fortnight ago. > Hitler House Ruined
’
not receive any direct hits, in spite of the air ministry's claims. Ci-|
vilians said 8, 8. troopers blew it| to pieces last Thursday, just be- | fore the Americans arrived, |
allied | But | | multaneously in the west and in today. the great estate was as kaput the east is to he explained by this order to heal the dreadful wounds We end this gravest war has caused. hour of the German nation and its
age was done hy allied air attacks, | especially the R, A. P.'s”11-ton bat. Wounded and bereived and to all on again this struggle ‘has inflicted
However's Hitler's own house— |, Haus Wachenfeld—apparently dia
a _ MONDAY, MAY 7, 1045 Text of German Surrender
~ As Broadcast at Flensburg
LONDON, May ?(U.
P.).—Tle. text of a speech by
German Foreign Minister Count Ludwig Schwerin Von Krosigk as broadcast by the Flensburg radio’ “and recorded
by the B B. C.:
German men and’ women: The’
front and the mi to help one
[igh command of the armed forces @nother in all distress which has
on orders of Grand Adm. Doenitz| afflicted the homeland,
has today declared the uncondi- |
tional surrender of all Sergpan fighting troops. As leading minister of the Reich government which the admiral "of the fleet has appointed for dealing with war tasks, I turn at this tragic
{moment of our history to the Ger-
man nation, After a heroic fight of alnicit six |years of incomparable hardness, tGermany has succumbed to the | overwhelming power of her enemies. End Senseless Bloodshed To continue the war would only mean senseless bloodshed and futile | | disintegration.
The government, which has a
feeling of responsibility for the fu- |
{ture of its nation, was compelled
land material forces, and to demand |
|of the enemy the cessation of hos- |
| tilities. It was the noblest task of the
admiral of the fleet and of the gov-
ernment supporting him after the |
{terrible sacrifices which the war de- |
{manded to save in. the last phase of | {the war the lives. of a maximum number of fellow countrymen.
Under No Illusions That the war was not ended si-
reason alone.
Reich. | In this gravest hour of the Ger-
iE of this war. the highest obligations on us. It goes out above all to
whom | blows, no one must be under any
ple by our enemies. We must now
| face our fate squarely and unques{tionably,
Must Accept Burden Nobody can be in any doubt, that
Haus Wachenfeld is painted a'the future will be difficult far each
| metalled roof sags crazily. All the
{ hideous, camouflage green like all of us and will exact sacrifices from | the other buildings-here. Today it's us in every sphere of life.
We must accept this burden and
G8 BeTore Lhe" dea OF TReog it Their sacrifices place without which’
the
illusions about the severity of terms ' be imposed on the German peo- |
Respect Law Between Nations Then we may: Hope that the atmosphere of ‘hatred which today surrounds Germany all over the world will give place to a spirit of reconciliation among the mations - without which the ‘world ean not recover, 8hall we retain this unity and not again split up under “stress? : Can we get over the future hard times? We must make right the basis of our nation. In our nation fustice shall be the supreme law and guiding principle, 8hall we retain this unity and fot | again split up under stress? Can {we get over the future hard times? | We must make right the basis of {our nation. In our .nation justice
Mistress, Eva, in her regular room to act on the collapse of all physical | Sh be the supreme law and guid-
{ing principle. We must also recognize law as the basis of. all relations between nations. We must recognize it and respect it frem inner conviction.
Heal Wounds of War Respect. for concluded treaties will be as sacred as the aim of our nation -to belong to the European
__4#Mmily of nations as a member of which we want to mobilize all hu-
an, moral and material forces in
Then - we may hope that the atmosphere of hatred which today puryounds Germany: all over the world will Bive place to a spirit }i smong the nations “ow world, caftnot. recover.
Then -we may hope that we will | without } which no nation can lead a bear- |
receive freedom
able and dignttied existence, Honest Work of Peace
most and best: force of the German spirit which has given the | world lasting: -achievements and values. To our pride in the heroic struggle of our nation let us link with that of Christian western civiliza- § tion to make to the honest work
Let us devote the future of our | nation to meditation of the inner- §
and material forces and to request
Third in Prague? disintegration. » Informed Czechoslovak sources in “The government, which has (London. said it -was “entirely posfeeling of responsibility for the |sible” that tank vanguards of Patfuture of its nation, was compelled | (tom's American 3d -army..already to act on the collapse of all physical | were in Prague this afternoon.
of the enemy. cessation of hos-! linformation tilities.” A transcript of Schwerin von| . Kresigk’s remarks was recorded by |
that Patton's forces | '6 a. m. However, they added that German troops on the west bank of B.B.C. and rushed to 10 Downing |the oP river bisecting we) Bt, where the. cabinet was in|capital were between the Americans “session under Prime Minister | and -Czech patriots in the eastern] Churchill, The greater proportion of German forces already was in allied hands following piecemeal surrenders along the Western front. The German armies in nerthern Italy surrendered last Wednesday, those in Denmark, Holland and north-
The eastern or newer part of Prague was said to be held firmly, by the patriots. Thus the Germans! out on the west bank faced imminent entrapment between patriots and the 3d army.
3 Columns. Closing In
| were only 12%2 miles from Prague at!’
portion of the city.
the |
\F refith-Inde-China. : | sia, therefore, is taking on 100 years | I. Gen, .Douglas MacArthur ~an-| Russia, this expert went on to 8a¥.! o¢ trouble unless’ she changes her:
{pounced that during the past week is hurting herself in more ways| policy. {11.028 Japanese had been killed and than one. She is broadening the {462. captured through the Philip- gap between herself and the Anglo-| padly’ After the war, Russia mus \plnes. American casualties for the Americans just when she could use| 'have billions of dollars worth o
wounded. Most of the Japanese casualties!
were on Luzon where American gianeial and other aid frem the railways, her iron, steel, coal and troops were pushing a three- ~Wa¥ United States during her post-war oil producing wig drive through the last major enemy roeonstruetion, And, finally, she is Needs U. | pocket in the northwestern end of making enemies along her” western! The only country eh can pos- |
the island. {border when she could be making| i Chinese forces in western Hunan friends just as well. 8
province - have shattered the left wing of a Japanese drive toward the] American air base city of Chihkiang, | a communique said today.
‘advantage.
“
| thing like the quantity needed, is Had Moscow been willing t6 make the United States. With its help, even the slightest concession, my Russia could rebuild and show informant continued, she might| | progress in from 12 to 15 years. jave won Poland over to her side. | | Without such aid, it might require Poles know they must -be! from 20 to 25 years. ’. £4 with the Russians, and are, Naturally, the United States. can
windows are blown, and there are stand loyally by obligations we have smoke and soot stains around the undertaken.
(panes. Jagged holes gape in the spair and fall into mute resignation.
But ‘we must not, de-
| Valuables in Tunnels | | were moved into the tunnels which, found their highest expression In 4107 E, Washintgon st.
| lace this mountainside. One en- the spirit of comradeship at the! members will “be special guests.
bly provide these things in any-| panes to the
| devastated, ‘The famous broad window ing one end, where Hitler g at the Alps for inspiration and “in. | tuition,” is a great hole measuring | 30 feet high and 10 feet wide.
vers
us preserve and sav unity of
As for America, Russia needs ner aa and the inside is cmpletely Once again we must set ourselves
of],
The Czechs said they had reliable period were 391 -killed and 1323 their close ¢o- operation to the best | reconstruction materials, She willl
| have to rebuild her towns and cities, | os She is damaging the prospects of hér great electric power plants, hey!
to stride along the path through a dark future. These are factors’ | guaranteeing the best state: Unity, | justice and liberty. { From the. collapse of the past let e one thing,
jdeas of national com-
of peace a contribution which shall
our nation. May God nnt leave us in our efforts. May he bless cur difficult task?
MOTHER'S DAY LUNCHEON
The women's auxiliary of Sahara
Grotto will have its annual Mother's |
{day luncheon at 12:30 p. m. to-
The more valuable furnishings munity which in years of war have morrow in the Grotto clubhouse,
tunnels 1s just behind Hitler's kitchen, another 200 yards behind the low, green 8. 8. bar-
| racks, and a third near the flag- | | pole where the Stars and Stripes
fly today at half-staff in honor of President Roosevelt. | Those tunnels, windigg and car- |
Peace in Europe to Bring
-
No End of
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~ west Germany on Saturday and
CITY CALM OVER: VICTORY R REPORT
[ Official American accounts of the 3d army's progress ran far behind those from patriot sources. A dispatch from the 3d army
those in western Austria Sunday, Indicative of the announcements to come, Radio Paris said a truce had been arranged at La Rochelle,
lode for the chance: not be expected to strain itself, | peted in brown, cover dn estimated! ountry of nearly 200,000,000 even to help a. great ally, unless! three miles. In the center of them no change in sugar is expected for
Biri and powerful in pro-| {that ‘ally shows unmistakable evi-| there is a huge, metal elvator, run- a long time. portion, the Soviet Union has noth- | dences of a peaceful inclination to- {ning up to the famous eagle's nest| ing to fear from her small neigh- wards its- neighbors,
The war food administration says | tea house on the mountain top. The that U. 8. civilians will continue to
German-oecupied French port on front said three columns were con- | the Bay of Biscay. verging on Prague. One was 50 miles southwest of the capital after
British Cabinet Meets | capturing Pilsen, home of the giant | Other developments in what may [Skoda Arms works.
turn out to be the last hours of | Another, from the 4th armored | the Buropean war ineluded: | 1, The press - assoiation said [48 miley. there was a growing expectation | {24 miles southeast of Pilsen. ands that in a “matter of hours” Prime | {a third, also from the 4th armored | Minister Churchill would go before | division, entered Boschowitz, 52
southwest of Prague and |
* a microphone and announce to the {miles southwest of Prague and 41 |
world that the war in Europe was {miles southeast bf Pilsen, 7 over. All three columns were meeting
| division, advanced 25 miles to Brez r ”
News of the arrest of the 16 | Poles also placed Prime Minister Churchill's government on the spot. Already questions were being asked
|bors. 8he could well afférd to be | { generous. Instead, the speaker observed, she has taken the opposite course. The 16 missing "Poles, according to reports, were prepared to co-operate with the Lublin Poles in line with ¢ the Yalta agreement. In fact, that is why, at the suggestion of the British government, they went to confer with: the .Russians who hauled them of io prison ins tead to-forget the "ineident.”
No Celebrations Started Here During Early Hours. (Continued From Page One) considerable irritation over the fact 5 that London could get no word of | them from Moscow. A general election is coming up soon and)
expressed the same sentiment in 'different words: “Nobody is crazy {with glee. I feel solemn, Our boys have to be" brought back now and sent to Japan. We're just in the middle of it.” Drunkenness was conspicuous by
in parliament and press concerning | the missing men, and there was |
British public opinion is unlikely |
elevator did not work today. Opening off one section of the | tunnels ‘are 20 simply-furnished, square bedrooms with two to six beds—all made and ready to sleep in—in each room. The corridors themselves are filled { with old engraved silverware, valu- | lable china, and fine table linen, {all initialed “A. H". " Long Bookcases
{ In some cupboards there are 20- | foot-lonig bookcases packed with the {works of German miiltary writers!
eat well, but that their diet will begin dropping to the prewar level and that a lot of substituting will have to be -done by housewives
Last year food consumption was up
0 per cent per capita over prewar levels.)
Supplies of some types of food
such as fruits and vegetables may
become 80 plentiful they can be removed from rationing but right now
no one will hazard a guess about
what or when. COAL—Some drop is expected in
2. Churchill presided over a ful} little or-no or-ng Tesplance, meeting of the British cabinet at! 10 Downing Street this morning after canceling his usual week-end visit to the country. * 3, King George VI, who will make ® broadeast on the night of V-E|
its absence, Nowhere, not even on the S Iiimols st. “levee,” was there la riotous "alcoholic. Hotel hars| hut said they
Fleces their ‘doors, reopen if President Truman
TRIED BY HINMLE ja confirm the report. Many other taverns remained open |
et Lm from Wit PARIS MAST (0) “Sugrme B coience ie Smpes with ‘Queen Elizabeth and was headquarters announced today that bar the doors until the announecestanding by awaiting developments. (Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler | merit was official. The police deBub Warfare Ends {had ordered that no prisoner at!partment issued a “close up” Hi 4. Fuehrer Grand Adm. Karl | the notorious Dachau concentra- | this morning, but rescinded it pend-|
Déenits ordered all German subma- (tion camp should fall into allied NE confirmation of the V-E report. | Throngs gathered at Pennsyl- |
British Plan fo Observe Tomorrow as V-E Day!
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and books by allied and German, authors about Nazi Germany. In- with no increase in manpower in| cluded are a half-dozen red-jack- the mines, the shortage for civilians eted copes of “Mein Kampf,” auto- | is expected to,continue. graphed by the author. | TIRES—Heavy-duty tires are still There also 1s an elaborate wine one of most critical war items and| | cellar, stocked among other things | the rubber industry still is not| with 1000 bottles of “veuve cliquot” imeeting demands.’ Hence, no relief | French champagne. Another large’ \is in sight for civilians. ¢+storeroom is piled with paintings, and still another with the kind Source Is Distant from the chalet. Because of distance, relief would Amohg the interesting items be long time in coming even if the twned up by G. I's who roamed 'gast Indies were retaken quickly Bergho!f today was the negative of |
the White House had nothing to announce at that time regarding the situation in Europe. He said that President Truman planned-—as was announced a week ago—to speak by radio to the nation “in the event of the cessation of hostilities.” : Concerning new peace reports from abroad, Daniels
industrial consumption of coal but
,vak patriots.
rines to cease hostilities immedi- hands alive.
ately and return to port. |
AB H, A EF. commuhique said
vania and Ohio sts, at 10 a. m., but|
5. Czechoslovak sources in Lon- the allies had captured an order. tg |i Was to watch a fire in a build-|
don said that American 3d arnw that effect from
Himmler dated
forces were only 12% miles from April 14.
Prague at 6 a. m. and since may | have broken into the capital, key to Germany's southeastern redoubt More thanihalt of Prague was reported in the hands of Czechoslo-
6. German broadcasts - admitted | the Russians had burst through the! Nazi lines 130 miles east of Prague, | T. The American 5th army joined |
oners at too {dying daily from hunger, | ment, given to American editors,
Himmler also ordered that the
There still are 32,000 freed prisDachau, many of them | move. About 100 are maltreatOfficial figures touring
ill to
and typhus.
fing there.
Three soldiers in a jeep | ohserved the crowd, One muttered | to the: other.” “They seem to be
camp be evacuated immediately of [more interested in that fire than | its inmates, who numbered around they are in V-E day. 45,000,
They've been | built up to it’ teo much.” Turh to Japan An elderly man bought tra and started whistling the Spangled Banner.’ On the point of the triangle at | Illinois and Washington sts, a griz«
an ex- | “Star |
_ in the final assault on the south-| {German concentration camps, said | zled old newsie yelled to a man in|
eastern redoubt with an invasion of | al over 13.000 prisoners had died overalls:
Austria through the Alpine passes dt Dachau since the beginning of
east of Brenner from northern. Italy | 4 100 miles from the 3d army's south- * em flank. : Reds Clear Baltic 8. The Red army virtually -completed the conquest of Germany's! Baltic “coast with the clearing of | . Ruegen island a milé off the Meck- | lenburg shore and 35 miles southeast of Denmark. “Detalls of the surrender of the| German garrison in. Norway were | -lacking, but Stockholm dispatches sald Hans Thomsén, German am-| + bassador to Sweden, was believed to | have delivered ' the documents of capitulation to allied - legations” in the Swedish capital this morning.’ a was said .to have jour. across the Swedish-Norweg-Lian Border to to Lillehammer last night ‘to confer with Gen. Franz Boehme,
ft in Norway, and r Josef Terboven. .
| that more: than
{the year.
RUSS CHARGE NAZIS MURDERED 4,000,000
MOBCOW, May 7 (U. P The Russian state atrocity commiss sion | charged in an official report today] 4.000.000 allied nationals were murdered by the Nazis iy the ' notorious Oswiecim prison camp in Polish Silesia, The report, covering the findings | of an exhaustive investigation by! the commission, asserted that the | Oswiecim camp Wis “directed pgr~| sonally by Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and described as Nazidom's | largest, “murder plant.” Photographs published in the officlal Communist party organ, | Pravda, today showed heaps of | mutilated bodies found in Qsweicim, | i Nazis were ‘said to have 4 rough! 1,000,000 Vietim, nnudlly since Rosh, » . FIRE KILLS MOBILE, Ala. May 7 (U. P.).— a room-.
“Us all over, every, “damn bit of it. The man in overalls spat, hitched his trousers, and snarled, "“Oh| yeah? What're ya gonna do with Japan,” William Smith, 1741 8. West st, making his way down B. Tinos gt, thought he knew. “It's like you've been fighting two guys. You knock out one guy with your right hand while your holding off another guy with you left hand. Now you turn to him.” The expectancy and tehsion {wrapped up in the unofficial V-E day quietude was put into words [by W. C. Sorenson, Claypool hotel | bellboy, who said: | “I've heard lots of people say they | I | would celebrate if other people] would. But they seem to be waiting for somebody to start it, No-| [body has." Virtually all factory workers Te | mained on the job after confusion | |arose over the surrender report. Camp Atterburd “was said to lie preparing to sénd military police. de~
WAR WORKERS tachments to Indianapolis to quell|ave. She was born_at 1:52 a. m Ebene, Sd
‘but “as
possible V-E dist poss E
wore on it
BIDS FOR TITLE OF
said, “the fact is that there is no official announcement | from the White House at this moment.” In Washington, Democratic Leader John W. MecCormack (Mass,) told the house that “nothing definite can be said now” concerning the surrender situation in | Europe, “although it is hoped some official proclamation be made some time this afternoon.” In a statement to the house, Speaker Sam Rayburn said that although he had been in communication with the White House, he “knows nothing more than any other member of the house,” In event of a presidential proclamation during the day, Rayburn said, the broadcast would be cafried on the | loudspeakers in the house chamber. _ Replying to a question by house Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr, (Mass,), McCormack said the house would not recess for the rest of the day should an official announcement of the end of the European war he made. “It is my viewpoint that .the house should set an example for the rest of the country and carry on with its regular work even if this important AR is made,” McCormack said. v Tons of confetti, ticker tape and wastepupis were thrown from New York skyscrapers. In the busiitess dis: _ tricts the sidewalks were ankle deep in paper in some places. frail ')
i
months. overseas, before giving the child a name with the initials V. E.
STENOTYPISTS 10 MEET “The Indianapolis chapter of the Associated Stenotypists of America will have a dinner meeting at 6 p. m. tomorrow in the ¥. W. €. A,
BEAN. SUPPER
FIRST V-E DAY BABY
Prst to put in her bid for the unofficial title .of the first Indianapolis baby born an unofficial V-E day is the daughter of Cpl. and Mrs. Joe 8. Kehrer, 616 Warren
at St. Vincent's.
'sian conquerors of Berlin still are|
| Adolf Hitler's death, the Commu-
(Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Party Chief
a movie reel, showing two nude
| girls disporting.
Another was a glass sewing case |
| with a sterling silver top, whereon| {was written in an open, feminine
hard:
Reds Still Hunt:
Hitler Evidence . LONDON, May 7
“Eva.”
(U. P.).—Rus-
searching for material evidence to [confirm or disprove Nazi reports of
| nist party organ Pravda sald in| Moscow today. Si I Taclt Soviet admission that the mystery of Hitler had not been solved came as the Nazi radio at Prague said Propaganda Minister
Martni Bormann and other German officials /died in the battle of Berlin, The British Press association's correspondent, E. OC, Stackpoole, said he learned in London that the bodies of Goebbels, his wife and their children had been found in Berlin. He added that they died from poison. WT “No body of Hitler or Goering has yet been recovered” he said, “They may have escaped or have been burnt. beyond recognition.” . “We don't accept anybody's word, and are investigating and demand: ing material evidence that Cpl. ‘Shickelgruber hasn't been turned into a vampire,” Leonid Leonov wrote in Pravda, A Berlin dispatch to the army organ Red Star said the bodies of
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{Civilian allotments are expected, to
{continue ‘at the present rate for {some time, BUILDING-—8hortages of critical
{material will make necessary reten-
tion of most controls until the Jap war is nearly over. However, rules on repairs .and alterations may he relaxed soon, RENT CONTROL-—-OPA has | no intention of relaxing rent controls. CLOTHING—Some improvement is expected as more workers return to textile mills, but not much. Mili. tary demands for wool products are
are that more carpet mills will be converted to blanket manufacture, The military demand / for duck
expected to y dip, but the military is| blankets and prospects | :
Controls Here
material will contimfe just as grea‘, And the military needs more insect [screen cloth. Housewives will continue to find it difficult to buy eotton goods, . No Easing in Cotton SHOES—The leather situation ia the “tightest” since the war started and no improvement is expected as long as the Jap war lasts. : TRAVEL—The shift to the West is expected to make rafl travel the most difficult ever for civilians. ODT, despite rumors, has no inten-
tion of rationing travel but warns 3
civillans to stay off trains if they want thei sons to be able to get {home on furlough. getting adidtional planes and this will help some.
| tions are in prospect before the end | of*the ‘Jap war. However, a joint congressional committee has been
at work for six months drawing |
{up a program for overhauling the | tax structure. And action may be expected this summer, Lower Income Taxes
First will be the raising of the exemption level for individuals. Chief benefits to business will be an incregse in specific excess profits tax exemptions, revision of the excess profits tax exemption, revision
credit provisions and permission for companies to estimate excess profits credits and net operating losses to use. to offset current tax payments. ! The program also calls for granting more liberal allowances (I depreciation on new buildings and equipment. FUEL OIL AND KEROSENE Both will be as tight, if not tighter, than last year because of navy and air force demands. WHISKY AND CIGARETS~For a long time to come, you'll have to know the right person © 1s plain lucky to get the brand you want,
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been a reduction of the latter group due to easualiies and discharges.
who got overseas duridg the first part of 1943 should be in line. It would be a pure guess, but those with considerable combat experience who: were overseas up to the end of the Guadalcanal cams paign in the Pacific and the land. ings on Salerno in Italy would have good prospects if they hadra few points for dependents and honors thrown in. There 1s one detail on which the nt announcement of
8o it wold seem a good many |
Gl's Who Went Over Before '43 May Come Home First
net in a year, but that total discharges, both those for «disability and points and “the ones made possible by new inductions, would be about 2,000,000. During the past 12 ‘months discharges for disability and other | causes, have been about 450,000. Thus it would appear the num bers. discharged under ' the ‘point plan may well exceed 1,300,000, | which would be the case if other discharges did not mount substantially above 450,000, Actually, it .seems reasonable to. expect that other discharges may
nums-
tilities in Europe. This should cut the casualty rate tially v
too | tl such time as
be worthy of the best traditions of
Mothers of
Afriines—are—
TAXES—Only minor tax reduc- |
relief under this program fi
of the excess profits tax post-war |
‘decline with the cessation of hos-
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