The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1945, Page 1

wé ) Ay ve! >’ -t P we L HE DAILY ALA “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9947 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS THREE ALLIED ARMIES JOIN IN GERMANY Death Traps Are Laid For Hitler’s Forces MolofovaConference SPLIT OVER ACHESLAV MOLOTOV ARRIVES Minister of the United States of S barked from a plane at San Frincisco Airport. American Ambassader to Russia Harriman, ~ CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN Russian Defermihation fo! i Dominate Influence at Frisco Revealed BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- | CISCO, April 27—The United | Nations Conference has settled its row over a chairman, one delegate said, with the job to | rotate among the four big | sponsoring nations. | He reported Secreiary of State Edward R. Stettinius had | received the chairmanship of the all-important Steering Committee, which shapes the program policies of the Con- ference, after Russia had tossed the Conference into a deadlock yesterday on just such a divi- sion of top positions. It is not immediately eclear what concessions, if any, were | made in reaching an agree- ment on the adjustment of the Chairmanship issue, which opened the way for the Con- ference to organize and get down to work. IN SAN FRANCISCO—Foreign et Russia is pictured as he de- At his right is (International) YANKS MAKE LARGE GAINS ONOKINAWA Wedge Driven Deep Info! Secondary Defenses— Now Control Ridge GUAM, April 27—Infantrymen of Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley's Ninety-Sixth Division drove a decp wedge into the Japanese secondary defenses on southern Okinawa yes- terday, capturing high ground in the | center line of heights just east of Ursace. Mura village was also won in the attack which followed by a general Japanese withdrawal un- der heavy artillery and shelling of the fleet of warships, which also knocked out artillery batteries and defense installations. Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, Com- mander of the Twenty-Fourth Army Corps reports that all key feautres of the Japanese outer defensc line is now secured by the Yanks on the eighth day of the grand offensive toward Naha, Capital City, 312 miles south. Hodge said the Americans now control the “skyline ridge” ar Ryukyu Island, 325 miles south of Japan itself. The Tenth Army spokesjjan said the Seventh, Twenty-Sevér-d and Ninety-Sixth Divisions have driven the Japanese from all key position of the first heavily fortified de- fense zone and “we now are only a few. hundred yards from the next prisoners, . German Reparations Committee was It_was. learned China played an important role in the Steer- ing Commitlee talks, arguing for a compromise on the dead- lock, so the Conference could get down to business, but it is reported.. Molotoy - dramatically agreed to the British-spon- sored compromise on chair- manships only after vigorous ‘The Washmgion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEAR Col. Robert S. Allen now on -run service witn the Army. tinius will preside over both the Steering and Executive Com- mittees, while the chairman- ship of the full dress plenary sessions of the nations will be rotated among the Big Four. T | arguments in fits behalf by ;+| China and New Zealand. SAN FRANCISCO—Last fall it| . leaked out that there was a drastic| UTder.the compromise, Stet- difference of opinion between the State Department and the Treasury over a soft peace for Germany, and after several weeks of discussion, President Roosevelt definitely threw his weight with the Treasury in favor of a hard peace. i Top War Department officials,| SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 — influenced by the atrocities com_‘Russmn determination to wield a mitted against American and All\ed‘“emswc' perhaps dominant mflu- finally agreed with the €€ in the creation of world peucc‘ State De- |machinery threatened the United swung into | Nations Conference, as a series of | Big Power crises, hot tempers, hurt eelings as well as lingering hopes |for a compromise went into today" President, and even the partment reluctantly line. | For a long time it has been n secret that a group inside the State Department favored a soft|Second round of battle over the| peace for Germany with a view to |Selection of a Conference Chnn’- making her a bulwark against|man. Russia after the war. But as long“ Even though this could be settled | as Roosevelt was in the White| Without more dispute, delegates | House, the State Department ap- |generally took a pessimistic view oI’ peasers kept quiet. the fight which broke out in the | However, the day after his body |closed meeting of the Steering was buried, a meeting of the|Committee yesterday, when Foreign Commissar Molotov blocked the held in the office of Assistant |election of Secretary of State Ed- Secretary Will Clayton at which ward Stettinius as Conference both the State and War Depart- |Chairman, and demonstrated anew | ments suddenly reversed Roosevelt’s |the Big Three .disunity which dc'j policy of a hard peace. {veloped in the dispute about Po-| Specifically, they argued against|land. i the removal of Nazi factories, ma-| There is widespread fear the, |chine tools, plant equipment or|[same situation would arise over goods out of Germany. The Rus-|even more critical issues which sians have proposed the removal of |the Conference still has to tackle. German war plants to help build Schedule Off Balance up the hundreds of Russian fac- tories destroyed by Germany. But !tions was thrown off timetable by The whole conference of 46 na- | the State and War Departments|the chairmanship outbreak. This, maintained that no such German’mornmss 10:30 o'clock session was | stone ‘wall.” The Staff spokesman also told Germany without the unanimous James Lindsley, Associated Press consent of the Reparations Com- carrespondent, that Hodge says I lssion. Naturally this means that when the second defense ring is €ither the United States or Great| broken his troops could smash the Britain could block such removal inner circle about Naha without too Since both sit on the Commission. |equipment could be removed Irom\mgmslly scheuled for another | round of speech-making, but in- \stead, the Steering Committee called a second extraordinary secret session to try to break the dead- |lock over the chairmanship and |organize the Conference for work. | | The British and American dele- | much trouble. M At this meeting, Assistant Secre- e it Double for Hitler Now In Berlin STOCKHOLM, Apr“ 21 — Free German Press Servicewsaid the carefully coached former grocer, August William Bartholdy, resembl- ing Hitler, was seyt to Berlin in the Feuhrer's place to “die on the barricades.” He is to act as Hitler's trump card, creating a hero legend around the. Fuehrer's death, while Hitler the himself goes underground, agency said. tary of State Clayton argued that|gates wanted to make Stettinius| |American policy should favor leav- |President of tha Conference and ing factory equipment and ma-|Chairman of the key Steering chinery in Germany so she can!Executive Committees, Jout Molotov |get back on a sound economic basis. |balked at this. ( RUSSIANS ENTERING BERLIN Berlin. It drplcts two Red Army Lzlnk& entering the rains of Berlin. This Radicphoto was relayed from Moscow and is one of the first pictures showing the Soviet smash into (International Radiosoundphoto) Elsenhower (onlemplaies Inhumanity General Eisenhower sadly looks at the charred bedie; of prisoners burned to death by the Nazis in the concentration camp at Gotha, Germany. The Supreme Allicd Commander and his party of high ranking U. S. Army officers made no comment as they gazed upen the remains of the victims, but what they thought could be surmised. In the group are (left to right) General Eisenhower (third from left); General Omar Bradley, Commanding General of the Twelfth Army Georup, and General George 8. Patton, Jr., Com- llmlldmg General of the United Stat Slreamlmmg House, Senate of Congress Third 'Army. Is Big Proposed Plan (Second cf two articles on R a comple‘te revision of that great streamlining Congress) document to take care of all the problems of government today. By Jack Stinnett Sen. Fulbright (D-Ark), sugges- ’lion for an executive-legislative cabinet with authority to dissolve —The Fol- WASHINGTON, April 27. preliminary report of the La lletl.e-Mcm'oney committee on Ways|Congress and the President in case and means of reorganizing Congress| of a deadlock would require a {has left some of the members gasp-| Constitutional amendment. So also mS would a good many of the other Easily most” | recommendations. have been for: number of standing committees, employment - of experts to assist committees in preparing legislation, (3) elimination of the detail work| suggestions so far| (19 reduction of the | 2) | It wouldn't, however, require any- | thing so drastic to put over the sug- gestion of Sen. Taylor (D-Idaho), former radio crooner, (International Radiosoundphoto) - 'SINGING, DANCING, AND HOW Armiesof Hodges an Konev Celebrate Historic INAZIS HOLD . ON EUROPE VANISHING Bavarian R“eaubi Attack- ed, Capture of Munich Near, Pockets Besieged PARIS, April 27—The American First Army and Russian troops joined forces in the heart of Ger- (many near Leipzig, cutting the Reich in two, while even as the !troops of Gen. Courtney Hodges' and Marshal Konev's Armies estab- lished radio contact, the Russians west of Vienna in a swift maneu- i ver, {vakia to cut the German's vanish- I ing hold on Europe, which is now | Ithree great death traps. American and Russian forces| joined hands yesterday, though pa- Itrols had met the day before at Torgau, the historic town of 14,000 people, where ancestors of the Rus- slnns met those of their western Ames nearly two centuries ago in 'the Seven Years War. . | Nazi Armies Split ! Torgau lies 58 miles southwest of jdying Berlin, and 28 miles north- ‘east of Leipzig. Junetion of the two Horces hopelessly outflanked the | Saxong..capital of Dresden, and| "$oitt the' “gelgan simies for re- ! duction in detail. Maj. Gen. Reinhardt’s “Flghtln: Sixty-Ninth” was the first Ameri- ,can division to join the Russians. | Both the northern and southern |pockets of enemy resistance are | under violently increasing assault, !as three of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- | hower's ,varian redoubt, moving to within | 31 miles of Munich, two Allied! | Armies driving up from Italy are! past Verona and the Russians are closing in from the east. | Violent Assaults ’ The northern pocket is under iviolem, assault from the Russians on the east and from British, Can- ladian and American First and INinth Armies on the southwest. | The British have advanced past | captured Bremen in a drive to cut off Denmark and Schleswig Hol- ‘steh\ from besieged Hamburg. Can- ‘admn troops broke into the Kusten 4Cmulnued on Pnge Eight) CENTER OF - BERLIN IS - JUNKHEAP Russian Siorm Units Roll Info Capital Under Clouds of Smoke . MOSCuw, Apru 27 — Russian | ! storm units, breaking into Lhel ‘cemer of Berlin under clouds of | !rolling smoke, found it looking | Imore like a gigantic junk heap| virtually encircled Czechoslo-| Armies attacked the Ba- | ]lhan the heart of the Capital of ' Junction on Elbe River ithe Reich. 1 Izvestia Correspondent Ivanov By Don Whitehead quoted a Red Army officer as say- | (Associated Press War Correspondent) 1 ing: WITH KONEV'S FIRST UK.| “You can’t recognize Berlin, not| REICHLAND SLICED IS BIG NEWS Truman TrTu;nphanHy Makes Announcement of Juncture Allied Forces WASHINGTON, April 27 — The juncture of Anglo-American and Soviet Armies in the heart of Hitler's Reich, cutting Germany in two, is triumphantly announced by the White House. President Harry S. Truman gave out the news statement, which was released simultaneously by Wash- (ington, Moscow and London at the |prearranged hour of 9 o'clock this |morning, Pacific War Time. The juncture of the armed might {of the “Big Three" occurred at. 1l o'clock yesterday morning at Torgau, a town on the Eibe River |75 miles south of Berlin. | Patrols had made contact a day earlier. From military sources it was {learned the American unit involved in the meeting was the Sixty-Ninth Division, under command of Maj. Gen. Emil F. Reinhardt. President Truman hailed the event as a tribute to the “ | determination of such l&, no words' ever speak.” The President sald as & result of the meeting the “enemy has been cut in twe", adding this is not the ‘I\our of final victory in Europe, but |the hour draws near, “that hour for which all American people, all British people and all Soviet people {have tnlled -nd pnyed so long.” JUNCTURE ~ SIGNALED ~ BYSTALIN ‘Orders Salute at Meeting of American and Rus- sian Forces LONDON, April 27.—Stalin, pro- claiming the juncture of the Ameri- cans and Russtans on the Elbe, to- night ordered a salute of 24 salvoes, ]324 guns in Moscow, as a tribute which is usually reserved for the capture of Capital Cities. The salvoes of cannon and the | ringing of bells could be heard over |Moscow radio’ during the broadcast 40( Stalin’s Order, in which he said: |“Long live vietory and freedom of {loving people over Germany"” §Drafl law Is Passed To Truman | Resiriction Hfombat Use and klin Rooseveld. - who would | He even mentioned the fact that| Germany would need to impon}thm proposed that Stettinius be| Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden | members of Congress have to do mi answering queries of their consti- tuents, (4) abolishment of numerous like to see an improvement in the| acoustics of the Senate chamber | and a master of ceremonies with a cotton to manufacture clothes ang /given the committee chairmanships, | should be permitted to have enough |but that the Presidency job o(, exports to pay for the lmported{pres:dmg over the Conference be; cotton. (Clayton is the biggest rotated among the Big Four,! cotten exporter in the world and Stettinius, Molotov, Eden and‘ did a heavy business with the|Foreign Minister T. V. Soong of; Nazis before the war.) China. At 3 Deadlocked { RUSSIANS REMEMBER ' Molotov's rejection of this pro- | Unfortunately, the Russians are posal deadlocked the conference. all to familiar with the attitude of |Shortly before midnight last night, the State and War Dcparlmentslstettimus met with several mem- I (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Eight) J loudspeaker to explain to folks there what is going on on the floor. ‘There's no doubt that the acous- tics of the high valuted Senate special committees. (Special com- mittees are almost invariably set up | to investigate some specific slum-, tion. The Dies committee, to inves- | tigate un-American activities; the|champer could stand improvement, | Truman committee, to investigale pyp where the Senate could find a the ‘national defense program; and!pmaster of ceremonies to explain the Byrd committee, on executive every minute what is going on on expenditures, are examples.) | the floor is something several hews- {men and senators around here would like to discover. However, as a more drastic change Sen. Ball (R-Minn) would like to see RAINIAN ARMY EAST OF THE !hat I have been there before, but | ELBE, April 27--There was singing, dancing and music on the banks of | as Doughboys of | the Elbe River Gen. Courtney H. Hodges Army and jubilant troops of Mar- shal Konev's Army celebrated their | is this is the center, be some buildings.” there should of Eighteen-Year-Old Inductees Fighting has also broken out in' numerous subways under the | | WASHINGTON, April 27.—Legis- |lation extending the draft law went l Cupl Gekhmen, correspondent of |, the White House after the House historic junction, symbolizing the the Red Army newspaper Red Star, | ypproved by unanimous voice vote defeat of Nazi Germany. | Americans and Russians slapped each other on the back, gave each sat in the and drinking other bear hugs |warm sunshine cham- pagne out of beer mugs as they! i toasted the'great occasion of the meeting of the two armies yester- day. Not in all there been such scenes 2 new Constitutional convention and (Contliniied On Puaye Two) this long war have s those (said struggles also raged high above the Senate restriction on combat use 'the ground “in corridors, on stair- | ‘or 18-year old inductd:s. cases, even in the attics and on‘ The restriction written into {he the roofs of the bigger buildings!jegisiation Tuesday by the Senate (still left standing.” prohibits the use of draftees under Gekmen also added: “The of-|19 in combat until they have had icial dispatches will be like this— at least six months of training. |‘the infantry has gained Square e No. 281. The enemy continues to| FRANCES KULYAS VISITS resist on the upper floors of the | FARY square, also between Squares Nos. Prances Kulyas, registered from 306 and 274. In one subway l.unnel?st Paul, Minnesota, is a guest at we galied aboul hail a kilometer'” the Gastineau.Hotel.