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FALS FAILURE ~ OF LAST NAZI PLOT
Writer Says Himmler ant Von -Ribbentrop Sought
Swedish Aid to Interest Allies in Deal Against Russia.
By NAT A. BARROWS United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Sept. 3.—Secrecy covering the hitherto: 1 unpublished story of German’pre-surrender overtures to the American government can now be removed without endangering lives. ; Aside from the part Havel by the Swedish Red Cross official, Count Folke Bernadotte, as intermediary with Heinyich Himmler, the German|™ foreign office tried a clever|
With military restrictions
rafseéd, Nat Barrows, who had ex-
own in that fabulous cauldron of in- | goings-on, now discloses the de« trigue and espionage, Stockholm. ‘tails of the German leaders’ efGestapo Chief Himmler and For-| forts to salvage victory from deeign Minister Joachim von Ribben-| feat by splitting the western altrop got nowhere with their scheme, | lies with Russia. - but their mouthpiece, Dr. Bruno von . Kleist, Nazi foreign office expert for the Baltic states and Russia,jon a joint policy and select able made some revealing commentaries administrators in the lower and midwhich are now worth studying. [dle levels, In April of this year, with the| “Your real test in running GerReich plunging toward the abyss many will not come for maybe. a of defeat, von Kleist tried to estab-|Year or So after you have moved lish what can be called a reserve/in” said the spokesman of the forchannel for surrender. eign office. “By that time; any failj ure to provide decent order and Met U. 8. Official working--conditions for the conThrough a Swedish intermediary,|quered Germans will have resulted he met an American government in a resistance movement of serious official privately in Stockholm, os- proportions.” tensibly to discuss the plight of the! yon Kleist made clear that he Jews inside Germany. was not referring to Himmler's postActually, however, he wanted to|defeat or “nach niederlage” sabolay the ground by which the sur-|tage plans, or to the so-called wererender terms would ihsure post-de-{wolves, This resistance, he sald, feat protection for foreign o Bee would come almost spontaneously from-the-people as-a-natural outlet thorities.” He wanted also to im-|for repression. press British and American authori-| At that time, mid- April, Himmler ties, especially the Americans,” with|was the only, Nazi o official exercising some scheme for lightening “re-|co-ordinated control and his power pressive Soviet measures” in occu-| was growing datly; von Kleist said. pled Germany. Hitler Paralyzed Be ng Io Set awe ml Hitler had been left paralyzed by a a stroke in March, he added. His delivered himself of several insights ; speech was affected and his right into Nazi backstage activities. -He g side was numbed. Von Kleist rehad long been closely in touch with vealed that Hitler's doct ctor said the _both his foreign office boss, Ribben=1{, + a¢ia0k 1d 1 : trop, the dapper champagne sales- 3 3 would be fatal and lit tle, if anything, could be done for
man turned diplomat, and Germany’'s real boss, Himmler the hang- De elie because of wartime
man, and he spoke with some au-
: {attitude of conversational confidence Reds Were Wary land he told how Himmler and RibAs late as February 1945, vonipentrop often had differences on
‘Kleist revealed, the German high issues concerning the Nazi party.
develop a complicated plan foriaged to see eye-to-eye for the simabandoning all of Germany to the|ple reason that Himmler dominated Red army. It -was the old wedge-|the entire scene. : driving device in a new pattern—a| von Kleist thought-that Ribbendesperate hope that the western al-|{rop, all in all, was more of a lialies held at the Rhine would col bility than anything else.
how evolve a situation In which the | Kleist returned to the old theme of conquered. Nazis finally would trying to split the allies—Russia emerge the victors in defeat. vérsus the western democracies. That brainstorm perished when He Got B the emissary sent to Stockholin was . uth . unable to get the slightest nod from| Despite the high command's Mme Alexandra Kollontay, or her! plan to sacrifice all Germany to the Soviet iegation staff, | Russian, Invasion, Nazi officials
Speaking as a diplomat ¢hargea | themselves, were terrified of Soviet with civil administration In three °°CUPAtion, he said. Baltic countries, von Kleist felt thay| Like so many other things the Germany had made a bad mistake | Germans started, the anti-Russian in handling civil affairs in Nagi-oc- | Propaganda campaign had slashed cupied Russia and failed to éorrect|P8Ck upon its instigators. it later in Europe. That was in at- | Von Kleist talked again with the tempting to maintain a government | {American official in Stockholm early composed entirely of Nazi party iD May, just before the surrender. members. He still wanted to reserve a chan“We had only slaves, not work- | Nel for peace terms and still sought ers. We should have developed local | 50Me Way to compromise the Anglogovernments the way the Russians | Americans with the Russians. did” He got what is known in diploPeering into the defeat he knew Matic language as “the brushoff.” was inevitable von Kleist predicted) © Were not playing that kind of trouble ahead for allled occupying 82me
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Colin Kelly No Suicide Pilot,
Surviving Crewman Reveals
Von Kleist had now reached thel
Manila,
Hoosier Stresses Surrender Point at Manila
Maj. Richatd F.
Ind, intelligence officer for the 38th infantry division, po tures with his hand as he stresses a point in surrender negotiations with Japanese emissaries east of |15r college classes will
Jeffers of Terre Haute,
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TURKEYS IN STATE
LAFAYETTE, Sept. 3 (U, P).~ Purdue university reports that Ine diana turkey production has increased 50 per cent over last year. Hoosler turkey growers are expected to produce 918,000 turkeys in 1945, a figure 140 per cent more than the 1037-41 average, according to Purdue statisticians, Last year's turkey production was 612,000. The 1937-41 average was 381,000. . : sl leg a Purdue said the percentage of increase in Indiana was one of the largest in the nation.
CENTRAL COLLEGE STAFF WILL MEET
Indiana Central college administrative officers and faculty will | hold a two-day institute beginning at 10 a. m. Thursday, Dr, I. Lynd Esch, president, announced today. The meeting has been arranged to co-ordinate the academic and extra-curricular program of the college for the coming year. Regustart
Wednesday, Sept, 12.
DELAIR, N. J., Sept. 3 (v. P.)— That American courage and loyalty which fostered victory in war would not become a memory in peace was evidenced here as a North Carolina farm girl and a blind marine veteran prepared for their wedding ate. When Marine Pfc. George McLaughlin, of Delair, and Lillian Langley, Greenville, N. C,, take the final vows next Saturday it will con|summate a union that the husky marine once thought was out ‘of the question. The 22-year-old marine thought
his engagement was off when he was blinded in Saipan last December. For three months he kept the loss to himself. Finally he broke the news and began the unhappy chore of forgetting. But George failed to reckon with a girl who was in love with a man and not his eyes.
MONDA Y, SEPT. : 5 1945
50 PER GENT NORE Farm Girl fo Wed Marine She Loyes Although He's Blind ;
“I was never in Jove with your eyes.” -the comely 20-year-old Lils lian wrote to her flance.
‘¢1f I thought you were in love.
only with my eyes I would surely never have consented to marry you,” she penned. She finally convinced him ‘that to her, he was. still the same boy whom she met-at a roller skating
party two years ago near Camp Le-
jeune, N. C. “I love ‘you dearly and that's
the way it will always be,” Lillian ©
told a red-faced but proud and happy George. Faith restored-in him, MclLaugh= lin is now preparing for a natural American home. “I know my way around here,” he said. “I'll start some kind of & business with the help of the G. I, bill of rights and then well be all right. I only hope we have enough to buy and furnish'a little house,” he said. ;
By ELGAR BROWN
Representing the Combined U. 8. Press ABOARD THE MERCY SHIP REEVES, Off Omori Prison Camp, | Tokyo Bay, Sept, 3.—Additional detalls of how Capt. ‘Colin Kelly, first ‘hero of the Pacific war, actually died in battle were revealed for the first time here by a surviving crewman of his Flying Fortress, whose lips were sealed by nearly four years of confinement in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, The details of Kelly 8 death after heavily damaging the Japanese battleship Haruna off the Philippines Were told by Plc.| Kelly, 26, thumousl 5 Robert Altman, 26, Sanford, Fla, | awarded the a a
just evacuated from the vile Omori honor by the late President Roose-| prison camp. in the suburbs of velt, He was the first American to! Tokyo. be so honored. Mr, Roosevelt also
Altman's eyes were welling with recommended his infant for West tears as he talked to correspondents | Point cadet training in a letter to aboard this auxiliary high speed a future President of the United transport bulging with prisoners, | States, some healthy and others deathly Altman said he was one of five sick. jcrew members who bailed out-of Altman said he was loading 500- |the plane safely and reached Clark pound bombs into Kelly's B-17 at! fleld unhurt, but was later captured. Clark fleld north of ‘Manila Dec.| Prisoners who arrived in the 10, 1941, | Omori prison camp during the past Japs-Open Air Raid je: Je Suid told him K-Janiustie . : ) nd had grown up. elly “Suddenly the Japanese launched was the “first suicide pilot"—that
an air raid, and we had to take off he h fl with only three bombs,” Altman Quen is Bae down the
said. Kelly, Altman emphasized, was a “We crossed Digan in northern superb and heroic combat flier but Luzon and saw a party of Japanese ng suicide pilot. { landing under the protective bom-
bardment of three destroyers sh NAVY ENLISTMENTS one battleship crossing further ou “Gapt. Kelly’ made a run over the ARE REOPENED HERE! battleship expecting to see a carrier| . Voluntary enlistment in the naval | nearby. When none was found he reserve is open to physically qualireturned to attack the battlewagon, | fied men between the ages of 17 and later identified as the Haruna, | 50, and in the regular navy to men “We dropped our three bombs in| | between the ages of 17 and 30,"Lt. train, scoring one direct and’ two | omdr, WwW. W. Chapman Jr, anindirect hits. - The second bomb nounced today. striick the ship's ‘bridge. [ Enlistments had been closed since
“Our navigator ‘Lt. Joseph Bean, | {Dec. 5, 1942, Calling attention to
observed black smoke from the vessel's bridge from 20,000 feet gs|
| the trade schools of the navy, Cmdr. Chapman said that arrangements have been made to facilitate enlist-
mént applications. All “men in- : Jumped by Fighters terested in enlisting should apply at “Two Japanése fighter . pilots | the navy recruiting station in the jumped us when we were five Pederal building, . kilometers from Clark . field and | Peron een gr ' CONFUSE VOTER Kelly had dropped to 10,000 feet.” SUNBURY, Pa., Sept. 3 7 P)—
The B-17 “blew up” in less-than | (The prothonotary race in the June a minute after the Japanese fighters | primary was complicated, Benjamin’
the ship's eight-man crew only Kelly were running against each other, failed to clear the plane, he added. [B..F, the incumbent, won the Re- | 8. Sgt ‘Delehanty, the right tail ‘publican enfription. for the county | also was killed: office. ;
get it afire, “Altman declared, Of (1, Tiley ‘and Benjamin F. Tiley|
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