The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9943 BERLIN BATTLE BLAZES JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Americans and Russians Nearing BIG DRIVES Tells How Conference BEING MADE | ALL FRONTS v ) Hellcat Division" on Dan- i< v ube - Patfon’s Army inNew Offensive BULLETIN—PARIS, April 23 —Gen. Patton’s Third Army is running wild on a 35-mile front in a southward smash at Hitler's redoubt and has ad- vanced to within 13 miles. of Regensbury. Patton’s infantry has reached the Neeb River, 13 miles north of Regensbury, against only minor opposition, while other troops have burst through the enemy’s Danube River line to within 50 miles of Munich. PARIS, April 23.—General George At San Francisco May Do Irls Scheduled Work ALLIES IN . oo BIGPUSH, PO PLAIN {Fifth ArmyS—p;arheads 351 Miles Beyond Bologna- | | Wreckage Everywhere ROME, April 'ag—U. S. Fifth (Miss Lewis, who helped cover the Mezico City Inter-American conference for The Associated Press, tells in this and a follow- ing cclumn how such a confer- ence works—how, in fact, the San Francisco United Nations conference may work.) WASHINGTON, April 23.—Judg- ing from past conferences, the Uni- ted Nations meeting in San Fran- cisco will be very much like a world-wide political convention. | Just as in conventions, most of jthe work of a conference is done be- {hind the spotlights instead of out ‘Hrunt. The best speeches are often !made in hotel rooms. The last international parley was Army troops, spearing 35 miles be- ‘Lhe Bisatin 4 g of American republics yond Bologna, reached nearly to o " ye ;o0 City. You can expect ALL BASES Yanks Were in - ONPACIFIC TOBEHELD ‘ TrusteeshipP_Ian foBe Re-|Arrival of Molotov Sels,| porfed af Meeting of | Underway Pre-Confer- RESISTAN(E United Natioqs ence Discussions | S Av AGE ON OKINAWA |United States would retain control “Big Three” Foreign Ministers re- |of strategic Pacific bases after the|sumed their momentous discus- Nippon Aircraft Make Af- tacks on Fleet-Many war, under a compromise trustee-'sions prior to the San Francisco | Planes Desfroyed INISTERS 0FBIG 3 IN CONFAB ship plan reported under study for |@onference, this morning. The ses- | presentation at the United Nations!sjons began shortly after 10:30, |Conference. a'clock, when Foreign Commissar | This subject, together with a pro- |Molotov arrived at Secretary of| posal for a “community of the State Edward Stettinius’ office, pre-) |Pacific,” patterned after the Pan-fcedrd a short time before by |American Union, shared pre-Con- British Foreign Secretary Anthony |ference interest with the trouble-Eden. some Polish question, currently the| Also present were Soviet Am-| “Big Three” topic in Washington. bassador Gromyko, Averill Harri-| As the Wednesday opening of the iman, American Ambassador to| 56 nations conference drew near, | Russ Sir Alexander BULLETIN—GUAM, April 23 —Jap troops, infiltrating under cover of darkness early this Cadogan, | Arthur Berlin Suburb but Withdrew On Demands of Stalin ON By Drew Pearson | WASHINGTON, April 23 Here | is the inside story behind Gen. | Omar Bradley's surprise announce- | ment 10 days ago that American | Armies “would pause temporarily” and that “we had advanced to a| |definite line (on the Elbe River) on | |which it is necessary to pause be- imre starting the next operation.” | Though it may get official denial |the real fact is that American ad-| !vance patrols on Friday, April 13, |one day after President Roosevelt's | |death, were in Potsdam, which is| |to Berlin what the Bronx is to| New York City. The dancing mi |the streets of Brussels and the re-| ports in London that something | ‘blg was going to happen were not premature. They were true. | But American troop: next day | | withdrew from the Berlin suburbs| | IN FULL FURY Each Other RED FORCES AREBORING 3 SIDES Russians Capture One-fifth to One-fourth of Capital City BULLETIN—LONDON, April 23—Tonight, Stalin proclaimed the Russian entry into Berlin, announced the fall of Frankfurt on the Oder and also said Red Army troops are within four miles of the heart of the em- battled German Capital City. The Order of the Day was di- rected to 99 Generals and 50 other officers. The Order of the Day said the Red Army troops have smashed Berlin's defenses and captured Pankow, Orami- enberg, Coepenik and Fried Richfield, suburban communi- the Po River, and battled to within | Senator Vandenberg and |British Permanent Undersecretary | |to the River Elbe, about 50 miles iy, S. Patton's Third Army veered sharply southeastward for gains of 28 miles in a new full-blown offen- 220 to 240 miles of the French and f-0ub twice as much of the same Commander Harold Stassen pre- i forces hitting southward' B . will be a few over twice as many|of establishing a world organiza- |thing in San Prancisco because there'gicted it would succeed in its job| of Foreign Affairs; Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to | morning, recaptured Kakazu, a | town on western Okinawa, which had been taken by the | south. | This withdrawal was ordered | In addition, Stalin announces Zhukov's Army has captured in Germany, in a swift lunge| |countries there. across the Po Plain, which is lit-| “Nineteen countries were invited tered with the wreckage of 1700 ¢, wexico, and EI Salvador arriv- . Nazi vehicles, destroyed or dam- oy apoyt half way through. tions area, and Hitler's national re- aged by Allied planes yesterday. | Y gh. | Delegates started trickling doubt in the Bavarian Alps. | The drive carried 35 miles north toun about a week before the open- The Luxembourg radio said the and northwest of fallen Bologna, sive shearing most of the routes be- tween Pilsen and the Prague muni- X @ ing day. The day before the show American First Army had joined the Alltled He‘?dqum”iw'r: Saldvh e‘;‘" ’rdld started it looked as though the con- Russians near Torgau, 31 miles Not specify points reached. ,vention was heing held at the air- Fifth Army spearhead by-passed port and the raflr E northeast of l‘e“::‘:e' fm;ii:s‘;‘:: Modena, 2 2miles northwest of o o the German’s noi ™n T Belogna, and may actually have the mountain festness in the south. charged on to the Po River and the|, Soriorenees imvariabiy begin with Supreme Headquarters gave no con- doubtful line of the new German |y pec ' cirineq pants and gold firmation of this report, but said stand, where the Po curves within |y . .." the junction of Russian and Ameri- 30 miles of Bologna, due north. |“mpen tney settle down to work. can arimies would be jointly an-| A British broadcast, heard by 1, Meyico City—and the same may nounced by Washington, London and CBS, said the Fifth Army is Only‘happen in San Francisco—most Moscow. |five miles from the Po River. delegation chiefs lived in one lux- Last reports were the Allies and Mighty British Eighth AImy yrigus hotel. If you sat in the lobby Russians were 15 to 20 miles apart. |forces besleged Ferrara, three and or the bar, or walked the corridors The “Hellcat Division” of Gen. one-half miles from the Po and‘ long enough, you could button-hole Alexander Patch’s Second Army 30 miles northeast of Bologna, from every important diplomat. reached an unidentified town on the positions as close as one and one-| Most delegations had meetings at Danube, 50 miles from Munich, af- half miles. {9 or 9:30 each morning. The diplo- ter a 14 mile spring. A two-lane| The Fifth Army is now 220 miles“mms from each country would talk bridge was captured intact, and the by airline across the forbidding gyer what they were going to do. Danube was crossed farther to the Alps at the eastern end of Swit- | Then the steering committee met, to into“ kleig | tion -for peace. | Both U. S. Delegates, Vanden- |berg reported, are in line for the ob of representing the United |States on the Conference Com-! |mission, which would write the |regulations for the World Security ’Cauncu. This Commission will | handle the delicate problem of voting procedure within the inner icircle of the peace-keeping or- ganization, | satisfy demands for Pacific island |bases, and at the same time pro-‘ ias benefit Russia and Britain, or any other nation with military base ! |requirements. | The idea behind the compromise plan is to have two kinds of |trusteeship areas; one type to be Isubject to investigation and report by tustee committees of the pro- iposed world organization terri- |Moscow, and U. S. Under-Secretary | United States Twenty-Seventh largely because of a previous agree-| Birkenwerder and Hennigsford, of State, Joseph C. Grew. | No statements were issued prior to today’s meeting as to progrcss} 'miade thus far in the Washington | get-together of Russian, British | and American Foreign Ministers . ' After an hour and a half of con- versations, the Foreign ~Ministers | recessed for lunch, but Stettinlus‘ declared they “were still in con-| férence.” After the leaving conferenwe, ' | Advocates say the International Secretary of State Stettinius. hur- announced Trusteeship compromise as worked ried to the White Housé to confer those killed by Marines on northern out in Washington, is intended to with President Harry S. Truman.'Okinawa. The first session of the Foreign | Ministers began less than four| from Moscow, and broke up at 11:20 o'clock’ last night. | Foreign Commissar stepped fro ma U. S. Army trans- | port plane, which brought him from Moscow, at 5:46 o'clock yes-| terday afternoon. Stettinius was on hand to greet him with a hearty of Okinawa, and seized half of “welcome, welcome!” Division. One officer described the drive south as “damn slow and not cheap.” By Leif Erickson (Associated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, April 23—Doughboys of the Twenty-Fourth Army Corps have killed 11,738 Japanese, and |captured 27 on southern Okinawa alone, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz today. This excludes Nimitz also reported the desperate Japanese defenders held the vide a plan that would work as well 'hours after Molotov arrived by air Twenty - Seventh, Seventy - Seventh and Nineth-Sixth Infantry Divisions to no gains through Sunday, as Molotov heavy artillery and naval air bom-' bardment continued all along the southern front. Marines of the Third Amphibious Corps oceupied Taka Island, east of Sesoko Island, a mile west Motobu Peninsula. ment with the Russians that they | |were to occupy Berlin and because | (of their insistence that the agree- | !ment be kept. | The disagreement with the Rus-‘ sians started about four days be-J fore President Roosevelt died, when Stalin sent him a very sharp note.| But the final decision to withdraw Ifrum the suburbs of Berlin was made after his -death, largely. by Geti, _ Eisenhower, Berlin By May n complicated and date back to the Yalta Conference, where Stalm’" the latter on the west bank ef the Havel River, four miles from Lake Tegel, on the north- west fringe of Berlin, Wadlitz and Karishof have also fallen to the Russians. LONDON, April 23.—Red Army {troops held a tight grip on one-fifth to one-fourth ' of they bored n | ward the heart of the ater ‘as blazing oapital, ow blanketed with shellfire and The facts in the situation are il but swrounded. Moscow dispatches sald Red ban- ers fluttered from battered, smok- said that the “Red Army would be|iNg ruins in the Capital, while So- ready to begin their Oder River of- | Viet Storm units appeared to be only fensive in May. The Russian ad-'® few miles from Wilhelmstrasse and (after the eanly spring thaw, and | IStalin indicated he would take ! Vienna first, then concentrate on Berlin in May. ‘ This met no objection from Churchill and Roosevelt. The Presi- | n way of Spandau. ports said this escape corridor is than five miles. vance had paused on the Oder !h¢ Unter Den Linden Tiergarten, River, just 30 miles from Berlin, the heart of the city. There is only gne way out of Ber- n, and that is to the westward by Unconfirmed re- ow narrowed down to little more To the south of Berlin, Russian west. 'zerland, from French troops at the 'Jook over the proposals submitted l,yjtofles, the other type, which would i dent, however, said that the Am-| {west shore of Lake Constance, and each nation and pass them out to Probably be called security areas, W, THRNOVer, At G the Am Japanese aircraft made s"nng'erlcan Army. - would - drive ahmd;rcrces are within 15 miles or less Assault On Bremen In the north, the British opened thejr final assault on Bremen and Army, which is already across the}speaker and the Rules Committee|trustee power. beseiged Hamburg, Germany's sec- ond and first ports. General Demp- sey’s British Second Army tanks pulled ‘up to the Elbe‘on a 50-mile front northwest of the 150 mile stretch held by the American Ninth and First Armies, while the Canad- jans beseiged Emden but were checked in western Holland on the flooded Breebe-Eem River line. General Devers’ Sixth Army Group, the American Seventh and (Continued on Page Five) 1230 miles from the U. §. Seventh'the commissions—the way the 'Danube and striking toward Mu- jturn bills over to standing commit- :nich. The Brenner Pass lay 140 tees in the U. S. House of Represen- miles ahead of the Fifth Army. |tatives. gued for days to pull different pro- I After a few open sessions, the [ M | commissions broke down into small- More (ab'nei er groups. Some wrangled and ar- Jects into single resolutions. . One economic commission shut it- seif up in a downtown office build- o"l‘ers Ta ke n {ing, took the telephone off the hook jand had meals sent in. It wound up its work in two days. Between meetings, important lead- By U.S.Forces The Washington Merry- Eg—Round By DREW PEARSCN (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.) Collabofalionisls of Pup- pet Jap Government Captured on Luzon By Fred Hampson | i ers such as U. 8. Secretary of State Stettinius and Mexican Foreign, Minister Padilla wandered about | paying calls. | This helped create the friendly at- mosphere that enable the diplomats in more serious discussions, to reach agreement without personal distrac. tions. Ito be assigned exclusively to the sinking one el e {light unit and causing other dam- lage. The light unit sunk may have been either a destroyer or a /smaller ship. Forty-nine of the at- lAT WAR 1 HolD FAST |tacking planes were destroyed in one attack, and four in_another. BULLETINS IN BERLIN Cdrrier gircraft swept Sakishima Island, in the southernmost Ryu- |kyus, Saturday and Sunday, as well ; las Amami and others of the nor- ! 5 LONDON, April 23—Hitler is In thern Ryukyu group from Wednes- | PARIS—The Parls radio asserts| , .. "o ' pac decided to remain day through Friday, destroying 26 French Alpine troops have {nvaded there, radio said in a broadcast dir- j, 1 d I ly dam- Italy, striking against the French! . apanese planes, and heavily dam border into Piedmont from the iwest. i s i ! [ "atlacks on U. S. forces around | Okinawa yesterday, | | | | | ected at Berlin residents in an at-'aging Amami airfleld installations. |tempt to convince them the invaded' Army Mustang fighters from Iwo |capital wouldn't’ fall. {Jima heavily raided Suzuka air- | The tone and wording of the an- field, 32 miles southwest -of Na- LONDON—Stalin announced t0-|p,ouncement, however, made it clear gova on Honshu Island, Sunday, { | h- | i 1Zégh:h?dmfi;m,’;,z;fp:,;‘;;;:fc " |that rumors are sweeping the Reich destroying 26 planes annd damag- that Hitler is in flight. The broad- ing 21. {Dresden, reported unofficially as|castsajq the announcement was | | ‘WASHINGTON—Dapper, debonair Anthony Eden made an excellent impression before the closed-door luncheon of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, except for one thing. He did pot mention the name of Franklin Roosevelt. Some Senators felt that in view of the way Rogsevelt had supported British. poliéy, the British Foreign :might, have paid a tribute to ‘e lnte ) nt. Otherwise, however. Eden did an A-1 job of winning Senate Support for the United Nations treaty, Eden’s most applauded remark in the off-the-record session was when he told Senators that Great Britain would go through the war against Japan “to the very end.” Referring to the importance of the San Francisco Conference, he said: “I repeat what I said in Glasgow, even though I was criti- cized for it, that we cannot survive another war. That is why' this con- ference must succeed.” Eden told how his own son was fighting in Burma and that he had received a letter from him in New York mailed only 11 days before—a tribute to the Air Transport Com- mand. He also paid tribute to (Continued on Page Four) (Associated Press War Correspondent) ROME—Allied troops of the Fif-| Reich Propaganda Minister Goeb- | across the Rhine, though it was| never contemplated at that time | that the road to Berlin would be | speedy or that U. S, troops would ‘get there before May. | It was also agreed at Yalta, that | ithe Russians were to occupy Berlih and an area about '30.1miles west| 'to the Elbe River. The British and / American Armis were to send (Ca;;ti;zy;d “on ;ufe 7!‘&09) MASSACRED . ARE BURIED BY GERMANS S.S. Elite Me—n,—Women Are ———————— The Cabinet Members are Claro 3 Recto, Minister of Foreign Affairs, | jind mataer annan, Misier of Bombers Aid Ground Four members of the Cabinet| Forces on Mindanao— Sinkings Reporfed MANILA, April 23—Two addi- itional Cabinet Members and ac- | cused collaborationists, fallen with the Japanese-dominated thppme[ | puppet Government, have been cap- |tured near Baugio, the besieged | !summer capital in Northern Luzon, Gen. MacArthur says in a com- 'munique. ! were captured last week as the Yanks® Thirty-Third Division closed in on Baguio. The Cabinet members will be teenth Army Group have smashed phels in a capital broadcast, is also| jto the Po River at several undis- saiq to have conceded that the fall| closed locationns. Both the Fifth|of Berlin virtually would mean the and Eighth Armies roared on to end of the war. Goebbels is quoted | the Po, objective for many weary as saying: “There are two bastions the dividing line between the|pgge o stem what it described as| operational areas of the Russians .gantastic rumors by which the en-| and the Allied forces. |emy is attempting to undermine the | months, we cannot and will not cede. If these | 4 i —————— {two bastions fall into enemy nands,| 3eneral Eisenhower Issues "l"HEE"ERS “0]' 'the whole of Europe will perish with | the Protectorate of Europe ceases to ! Prague, the capital of Bohemia and| LONDON, April 23 — First-hand legislative delegations of the hor- WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23— Y eal morale of the German people.” | . | ot | Germany—should - Boishevism “cap-| |pvitation fo Twelve GOING OVERSEAS, - | J | Moravia. |reports to the San Francisco Con- Gen. George Marshall advised Con “|lrors of Nazi concentration camps ~ STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, &pril 23 — Closing{appeared a prospect, 'ture these capitals of the Reich and | Congressmen Goebbels referred ' to Berlin and! SAYS MARSHA[ !ference by British and American confined for the duration as a! matter of military security, then; turned over to the Government of | the Philippinnes for trial. i — e LEE BUTTS RETURNS | | MANILA, April 23—-~Thé Twenty- Fourth Division continued the drive on Mindanao toward Davao along ithe highway and valley of the big ile bombers itions and Mondanao River, . wi swept ‘enemy concel gress, today, that as soon as mili-| tary conditions permit the Army| will adopt the policy of sending over- iseas no soldiers younger than nine- teen. 197, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel | Vi 9 Chief of Staff Marshall made the|tional Harvester 85%, Kennecott quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine Dwight D. Eisenhower stock today is 67%, American Can!invitation to 12 Congressmen to \visit scenes of the Nazi crimes, Interna-| A British delegation has set out |on the same mission. , Curtiss-Wright 5%, | Pallbearers Under | Brilishj:ards By William Frye (Associated Press War Correspondent) BELSEN, Germany, April 23 ;The dead are getting burial today | in this fearsome concentration camp, but it is a ghastly burial—| no coffins, no flowers, no music,| no well-bred sympathy and no! tears. j These naked corpses are hauled |in trucks, and dumped in pits—, :meir pallbearers S. S. Elite men | | | | | | | | disgust and fury, ordering these legions to their horrible task. Countless thousands, some say 30,000, some say more, died hor- ilines of communications. Heavy bombers sank or damaged ‘an 8,000-ton transport and four other vessels off Formosa and |wrecked a 7,000-ton freighter-trans- port near Saigon, French Indo- China. Rail installations in Ifdo-China have also been heavily pounded, Lee Butts returned to Juneau from the States over the weekend and is a guest at the Hotel Juneau. e BURMAN IN JUNEAU Oscar Burman, of Petersburg, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. {39%, New York Central 26%, Nor-| London papers reported movie- statement in a latter to Chairman "y ’ | Thomas, Senate Military Commit-|thern Pgcific 25%, U. 8. Steel 667. |goers were unable to look at pic- I tee. 3 | Dow, Jones averages today are as tures of the camps, and walked out S-emtm' Hill, acting Majority mm.ilollows: Industrials, 163.58; rails,|of theatres where they were being er, read the letter. The Senate, dur- ‘56.0(; utilities, 29.80. |shown. ing debate, asked the legislation to| TP - s TV extend the Selective Service Act an-| SPAETH HERE other year after expiraticn datc| A. M. Spaeth, of Ketchikan, is a stores in the United States which is May 15, guest at the Baranof Hotel, food outlet. L 2 IO One out of every three retail Irible deaths here before the 'British Army reached this camp on the Aller River southeast of |Bremen Sunday. | | “I saw these dead, hundreds and ‘thousands of them, lying in ditches of drab huts.” of a junction with their American Allies. The German Command, declaring the “battle for the Reich Capital has blazed up in full fury,” elaimed the railroad station of Coepnick, one of Berlin’s main southeastern su- ‘burbs, had been recaptured. The German communique said the fighting is raging through Beelitz, Trebbin, Teltow and Dahiwitz, & string of southern suburbs within 10 to 24 miles of the heart of Beriin, while the Hamburg radio said the Russians were approaching Oranien- burg, a big suburb about seven miles north of Greater Berlin. - This sta- tion also sald Hennigsdorg, west of |the Havel River is under assault by |a Russian spearhead. Hennigsdorf {is within Berlin's encircling Auto- {bahn, less than seven miles from \the escape gap of Spandau. | Berlin is being transformed into a ghastly monument to senseless | Nazi resistance, as Soviet shells and |bcmbs tumbled buildings into the streets, heaping new ruin on that accomplished in the past by Allied aerial blows. Says Trade wi Orient Is Necessary - For WeiAfler War RENO, April 23—Western United States, faced with a possibility of a shrinking postwar population, huge power resources and industrial plants left after the war, must as Gen. and women; their litany the hoarse 100k to markets in the Orient to issued an shouts of British soldiers sick with keep itself industrially alive, Gov: Mon Wallgren of Washington, said |marked members of Hitler’s chosen /in a speech at the Governors' Con- |ference here. | Waligren assailed tariff walls which grew up during and between the two wars, saying the “removal of artificial gbstructions is neces- sary if trade is to flow.” e — MR., MRS. THOMPSON HERE Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Thompson, is a or piled in heaps against the wall |of Hoonah, are guests at the Gas tineau Hotel.