The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 1, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9950 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1945 MhMBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ' ADOLF HITLER IS DEAD IN BERLIN (lTu—Rtmu HINTS THAT PEACENEAR Makes Slaie_m;nt in House of Commans, Reply- ing fo Question LONDON, May 1.—Premier ston Churehill hinted an announce- ment of peace in Europe might come before Saturday, but told a packed House of Commons he had no state- ment to make at this time. He answered questions in the House, as Swedish Count Foke Bernadotte conferred in Stockholm with Erick Boheman, Under Secre- tary of State at the Swedish For- eign Office, after a quick flight from Copenhagen. Replying to a question by a House member, Churchill declared “I have no special statement to make on the war position in Europe, except that it is definitely more satisfactory than at this time five years ago.” He then added he might make a brief announcement later this week, but “only if information of excep- tional importance reaches us.” From Free Danish underground sources at Malmoe, on the southern coast of Sweden, meanwhile, came reports that German forces are al- ready beginning to move out of Copenhagen with the apparent in- tention of abandoning Denmark. ‘The same sources said a conference between Swedes, Danes and Ger- mans was held all throy last night at King Christian’s castle in Copen- hagen, pointing toward possible Ger- man surrender. Stockholm’s Tidningen had pre- viously reported the ,German plan to evacuate Denmaxk tuday permit- (Conlmued on Pflye Tlltee) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 1. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7, American Can 97%, Anaconda 33':, Bethlehem Steel 40%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Interna- tional Harvester 86%, Kennecott 39%, New York Central 26, Northern Pacific 263, U. S. Steel 677, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows! industrials, 165.09; rails, 56.31; utilities, 30.29. SRS The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSCN @, Col. Robert 5, Allen now on sctive service with the Army.' SAN FRANCISCO — San Fran- cisco down by the waterfront where ships sail in from the Pacific, a long line of hospital trains wait in the railroad yards. Large red crosses are painted on the side of each car. Uniformed nurses are inside. Si- lently, carefully, the cars are shunted alongside incoming ships, | ships from Okinawa, Saipan and Guam, bringing the wounded home. Almost every day they come in and are rolled out, noiselessly, ten- derly, boys who will never fight again, some boys who wili never work again, all boys who hope there will be no war again. A mile or so away from the waterfront, sit the representatives of 46 nations trying to make that hope come true. It is a conference which the world has awaited so eagerly; partment has planned so carefully. Fifty officials have been here for a week oiling the diplomatic ma- chinery. An unlimited budget has been at their disposal. The city of san Francisco has thrown all its| hospitable energy into rooting for the Conference. Yet it got off to a discouraging start. There has been something lackings=fio spark, no contagious enthusiasm, no great personality to 1lift things out of the doldrums of diplomatic” routine. Perhaps it was the absence of that magic personality, which even in his old age and ill-health, could inspire an assemblage to the heights of achievement. Perhaps it was the lack of a great dynamic leader. At any rate the early ses- sions featured the .same cut-and- dried formal futility as the frock- —_— e (Continued on Page Four) win- | lmslf‘ad the Americang came ove for which the State De- | Great Britain's Foreign Secretary, Antheny Eden, turns in his (AP “’ir(‘])holol is Clement Attlee, British delegate. DOUGHBOYS {7 MILES OF DAVAO JapsAre Surpnsed by Land Advance - Summer Capital Taken 1 | 1 | | | | SPEEDIER - NEWSNOW By Fred Hampson (Associated Press War Correspondent) | MANILA, May 1 — Overrunning enemy gun emplacements, the Twenty-Fourth Division Doughboys swept to within 17 miles of Davao City Sunday, while guerrillas seized the five-mile-long Talkikud Island, nine miles off the big Min- | danao port. Yank forces drove 10 miles from Digos up the western shore of Davao Gulf against disorganized resistance, as Gen. Douglas Mac: Arthur reported the extensive sys- tem of anti-aircraft positions were type i left intact. an extension o Coastal guns seized in the ad- DeWS trahsmission to the Northbrn i Territory. vance indicated the Japanese had expected and had prepared for an | The Ketchikan Chronicle and the assault on Davao Gulf proper, but Juneau pmpire, both Associated er- | Press members, receive news by th(lean from AP, while radio sta-| tions’ KINY at Juneau and KTKN Empire Receives Associat ed Press Copy by Teletype SEATTLE, May 1—Two Southeast | Alaska newspapers and two radio| stations began direct radio-tele- service from Seattle today in | jland from Moro Gulf, landing witl little opposition which surpriséd the | Americans, who had expected a stiff |3t Ketchikan are served by Press | fight for Davao, one of the major Association, AP's radio subsidiary. ports of the Phil)p[)ines. | The new service mgans a speed- P-T boats, darting swiftly into up in news delivery giving these the bay, again shelled shore posi- ‘Snutlmust Alaska points press ser- tions, while on northern Luzon,''°® compurable to that received| the Twenty-Seventh Division which [PY Dewspapers and radio stations {in the States. It was made possible | helped take Baguio Friday, pushed in {five miles north to seize La Trini-|bY cooperation of the U. S. Army |dad, where the Japanese once hadlS’g"al Corps’ Alaska Communica- | | | | tions System, which is uuhzmg a large concentration camp. * |latest transmission facilities. The Thirty-Third Division, mean- while, drove east and south to se- hi"?;fl":;ft?p:nw:g:i \Zasritnl:‘:g |cure the enemy strongpoint topside | . SN 0 CONEECE Alaska {Loacan airfield. Japanese resistance ties, Anchorage.lan@’ Falibadks: ' in that area has practically ceased, C‘Aet Seattle, I?ews Sk taker 410 m SR MacRtinus reported.- trunk wires which reach across Lhe} i nation, 'No (ElEBRAHON \ln the Alaska circuits. MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Stanley o Atha, | WASHINGTON, May 1—Presi-icn a West Virginia farm, rose to {dent Harry S. Truman said hé'command Nicaragua's presidential | {hopes there will be no celebration |guard, turned to business and mar- | when hostilities end in Europe, but 1ied a cabinet minister’s daughter. |a ‘“national understanding of the| In 1928, the Marines sent Atha |importance of the job which re-'rnd 16 other men to help form mains.” Nicaragua's new combination army It was emphasized this did not snd police force. Promoted to palace necessarily mean the end of hos-|{guard commander, he later led tilities was imminent. troops in the field against Sandino Jonathan Daniels, White House forces, fighting several pitched secretary, called newsmen to his pattles. office where he dictated this scabe-l When the Marines left he was ment: |permmed to remain with his wife. “The President has authorized me | to say in the event of the cessa-|1esents 40 American firms and does| tion of hostilities in Europe he will some importing. He also owns speak to America by radio, and will Managua property. emphasize the necessity of thank- —— )fulness and the continuation by all EDWARDS IN TOWN Americans in the great war job jwhich still lies before us.” a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. Eden Talks fo U.S. Del at at the lrmled \'«Illl‘)flh spcurllv ('onler- ence cpening session in San Francisco to talk to United States delegates (L-R) Rep. Sol Bloom (D-NY), ¢ Rep. C. 8. Eaton (R-NJ), Comndr. Harold Stassen, and Dean Virginia Gildersleeve. Russians (e!ebralmg MayDayasWarEndin & mie e Sight; Stalin Is Cheered T0 ALASKA f high-speed modern | /ARGENTINA ADMITTED, CONFERENCE legates | | | | 'Russian Obfions Turned Down-28 Nations Give Approval Vote I | [ By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.—Work- iug in swift harmony, the mmmmnz | ! steering committee today completed the working organization of this .;ull?\l Nations Conference by plac- | m; Norway, Belgium, South Africa | land Venezuela at the head of key drafting commissions. Coincident with word that the war might force the return to Mos- lcow of Soviet Commissar Molotov, {both the Conference Executive and {S!(-vru\g committees approved a | slate of assignments for doing the | jactual drafting of a charter for a | | world organization. | Norway got leadership of the| | Commission on the Security Coun- icil, the agency in the Dumbarton | | Oaks plan designed to keep peace by | use of force. To South Africa went General| . S B Seated at Eden’s right Assembly Problems; to Belgium, the | i the Commission on the International Court. l Quick approval of these assign-| ments by the full conference was | favecast. G SAN FRANCISCO, May 1—Over stern Russian objections, the United | MOSCOW, May 1-~Premier Josef | | Stalin, dressed in a steel-gray | summer uniform, and standing on | - . . | Nations Conferen: J | Lenin’s shining red marbie tomb in | oGl vaten Pivio. £ H . o last night to give Argentina a.place Kremlin Square, led the Suvmt; : 3 { Union in one of the greatest May ! ISy i i peaostatapting |Day celebrations in the history | ©unCils: b O SenralA. St Govern | Eloquently, but in vain, Russian et Foreign Commissar Molotov had | pleaded that the ballot be de- Stalin was greeted with Lhundm-“dyed that there hadn’t been time | IOHS applause when he appeared | |enough for Russia to study Argen- and again as he left the top of "‘e‘tmus case. He questioned whether | tomb. He joked with his associates |the South American country was |and members of the diplomatic | free of Fascism, corps. And, he said, if Argentina is (o! [ -/ This "May " Day celebration Wasipe invited to send statesmen to| one of the greatest because the|san Francisco, so, too, should the ' ,penple expected the war to end | Rygsian-recognized Polish Govern- |soon. In the words of Stalin, tke| ! ment. Red Army, with its American and | There was a measure of consola- British allies, has smashed the{tjon for the aggressive Russian, ! Wehrmacht and carried the b“melhowever, in the fact that the con- into the heart of Germany, and|ference approved with scarcely a won the respect of xreedom-lovmz!ripple the admission of the Soviet peoples throughout the world. | White Russian and Ukrainian Re- | Gen. Alexei Antonov, Chief of pubhcs to the conference. |Staff, who spoke during the cele-| Belgian’s Foreign Minister, Paul bration, declared, “for the first|Henry Spaak, urged delegates to time in this war our Mothcrland‘heed Molotov's bid for delay to is completely and forever cleared | preserve ‘“precious unity” among lof the enemy.” ]nntlons sponsoring the conference | | Thousands of men, tanks, gUNS| __Russia, Britain, China and the jand military vehicles paraded Red| ynited States. | Square, while overhead Russian planes roared and a 1200-piece | band played. Stalin issued a general order-of- | But Secretary of State Stettinius | and a horde of Latin-Americans sprang to the support of Argen-, !the-day, proclaiming an end to tns, [ | Hitler's Germany is imminent, and | A waen 16 came. to o show- |down, there were 28 votes against | |vowing the destruction of Fascism Y A : ‘by the United Nations. delay, and then only 4 in opposition to issuing Argentina an |mmedlate. | invitation to the conference. ] Eleven nations did not vote. | (A(HE l" sHoE | Russia had swung the votes only | (of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and i i | ,Greece jalong. And when the result was| ' announced, Molotov and his fellow | |Russians stalked from the glitter- | Army’s and is relayed immediately | 1 30-year-old ex-Marine, born | Now a business men here, he rep-| | | | | KETCHIKAN CASE | Attorney Znegler Almos \ Gives Jewelry in Cloth- ing Campaign KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 1-At- torney A. H. Ziegler gave two dia- mond rings and a wristwatch to the United National Clothing Drive —almost. Superintendent of Schools Harold Hoeglund and his assistants ran into the jewelry in sorting 30 tons of clothing at the school house, and advertised the same. Mrs. Ziegler noticed the adver- tisement, whereupon she identified the missing articles, and explained: "‘! had put them in my husband’s shoes for safety around the house. When they asked for clothing for | the needy of Europe I gave them his shoes along with other things.” The rings and watch, worth sev- eral thousand dollars, fell from the chute. Ing auditorium of San Francisco’s | | Opera House with Czech Foreign | Minister Masaryk and Yugoslavia's | Subbasic. | Stettinius aligned himself square- | ly against Molotov, declaring Ar-| | gentina had complied with condi- | | tions laid down at an inter-Ameri- | |can conference at Mexico City for | | joining the family of nations. “The American representatives, he said, “feel that Argentina hn\ complied with this requirement and |desire that Argentina be repre- sented.” Applause sputtered through the‘ ihall when Stettinius said his gov- ernment “concurs in the desires o her sister American Republic. e NOBODY HURT f | | ! SALE, Australia — After a domes-w tic quarrel a woman ran to the' bathroom of her home in this Vic- torfa town. She was found by a re- lative who called police saying that blood pouring from a gash in her throat. Jred beads, ADOLF.HITLER S FUEHRER NORTH ITALY FIGHT NEARS AUSTRIA GATE New Zealanders Dnvmg on Trieste While U. S. Units Near Brenner ROME, May 1 — New Zealand troops, driving toward a junction with Tito's Partisans at Trieste, are reported more than 15 miles beyond the Piave River, as Allied troops {continued their lightning clean-up of Northern Italy. The only fighting reported of- ficially in North Italy yesterday was in the area north of Lake Garda, where Nazis are attempting to hold back the “American drive toward the Brenner Pass, gateway to Aus- tria. An Allied Headquarters spokes- man said the “enemy apparently is attempting to re-assemble his dis- jointed force at a point on this {route in order to attempt the lon tortuous march up into the Alps Units of the U. S. Tenth Mountain Division pressed their drive north- ward in the direction of Trento and the Brenner Pass, after the Eighty-Sixth Mountain Infantry Regiment captured Riva, Torbole and Nago at the northern end of Lake Garda. At the same time, the Eighth Twenty-Seventh Lancers struck north from Mestre, passed through Treviso, crossed the Piave | o )\ ¢her said the Nazis have also | River after seizing a bridge near | Nervesa, direction of Austria. The Eighth Army took about 10,- 000 prisoners yesterday, alone. Not even Belgium WE"‘:Some 12,000 prisoners, among them | four Major Generals, are in the U. S. First Armored Division’s bag in the 24 hours up to last night. LATE WAR BULLETINS ROME New Zealand troops, striking through northeast Italy, |linked today with the Yugoslay \Pamsam at the head of the Ad- nau" Sea. LONDON—Capture of the Baltic port of Stralsund, 40 miles from | Rostock, is announced by Stalin tonight. LONDON—Russian- troops have captured Brandenburg, 22 miles west of Berlin, is the official an- nouncement tonight. ROME—Marshal Roldofo Grazi- woman in the bathroom hadani has ordered his troops holding | the Legurian coast in northwest the towns of | then pushed hard in the 5 SOVIETS OUT TO UNLEASH DEATHBLOW Stalin Announces "Final Assault” as Reds Make SupremeBld forBerlin LONDON, May 1.—Victory-: flushed | Soviet troops made a surprise bid to deal the death blow to flaming Berlin this May Day. In the words of Premier Stalin, it is the “final assault” from the ashes of the| Reichstag fire in 1933, | | » Himmler’s Ministry of the Inter- | jor is in Russian hands, as Red Army troops laid sieze to Hitler's underground fortr in the Tier- garten. Russians are at the Bran- denburg Gate, the Berlin triumphal | arch, and across the Spree River | from Berlin's Cathedral. Diehard German remnants, com- pressed in the center of a burning inferno, stubbornly were keeping street crossings under murderous crossfire, “killing in the process the civilian population of the city.” A supplementary Moscow com- munique said the German Command has declared the Berlin garrison | “rallying around our Fuehrer, com- | pressed in a small space,” fought on “against superior Soviet arms.” Stalin made the triumphant an- | nouncement that the Germans have | lost & million men killed and 800,- | 000 captured, on the Eastern Front during the last three or four months. | lost 6,000 planes, 12000 tanks and | 23,000 cannon. These latest figures raised Ger- man casualties announced by Mos~ cow, in less than four years of war, | when he became Chancellor NAZIRADIO ANNOUNCES HIS DEATH Report Say_s—Der Fuehrer " "Killed" in Chan- cellery LONDON, May 1—The Hamburg radio this afternoon announced the death of Adolf Hitler. The announcement came 11 days |after he had reached his 56th ;blrthday, and only 48 hours after Benito Mussolini, one-time partner in blood, was shot to death in north Ttaly. The Hamburg station is the only radio station in Germany now remaining in Nazi hands. The German broadcaster, Lord Haw Haw, went on the air and told the German people to stand by for a grave and important an- .nouncement. A short time later, the station announced that Adolf Hitler was killed this afternoon in his co mand post at the Reich’s Chan- cellery in Bemin. FORMAL STATEMENT “At the Fuehrer's headquarters it is reported that our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has fallen this afternoon at his command post at the Reich’s - Chancellery, fighting up te his last breath against Bolshevism,” said the amhouncer.’ The broadcast saki Alfllll Karl Doenitz, ‘h Ger- man flegt, has No mention was made of um Himmler, @estapo ghief, who had been dickering in- an attempt to | surrender what remained of Ger- y to Britain and the United States, but was turned down be- cause he did not include Russia in hls offer. The announcement said Hitler had appointed Admiral Doenitz as his successor in the event of his | death yesterday. Doenitz appealed to the German | people: “Give me your confidence. Keep calm and be disciplined.. Only in that way will we be able to stave off defeat.” The death of Hitler ends an in- famous career which began its real ascendancy on January 30, 1933, of Germany. Hitler was born on April 1889, at Breunau, Austria. THREE PHASES OF LIFE Adolf Hitler, a little German house-painter with a tooth-brush mustache, made Germany the master of Continental Europe and taught the Germans to believe themselves the master race—but he built a pyramid of hate and fear that cast its shadow across the { whole world. The superbly terrible ammies {which the Austrian Corporal gave to Germany ripped up the map of Europe made at Versailles like a jigsaw ripping through cardboard. Hitler’s life was divided into fthree phases: The struggle for power:—Putsch, Police found the woman|Italy to lay down their arms. This!| Eddis and Peggy Leet, of Ketchi- J. A. Edwards, of Anchorage, is shoes as they tumbled down the|safe but wearing a necklace of bright | dispels rumors circylated yesterday kan, are guests at the Gastineau l he had been executed. prison, storm troops and anti- semitism. This ended in 1933 when ihe was named chancellor of Ger- | many. The construction of the Third | Reich:—Economic ruin and exile |for Jews; building of the greatest army Europe has ever known; power polities; the watch on the Rhine restored; axis with Italy; anschluss with Austria; Munich; the subjugation of the Czech na- tion; the west wall rése from ‘Swuzerland to the North Sea. This second period ended in the dawn year-old Irma Irene McGough,!of September 1, 1939, when German probably will be arraigned in su-|troops stormed into Poland, across perior court Friday on charges of{me final line of peace or war first degree murder, Prosecutor'drawn by Britain and Prance. Lloyd Shorett said today. Third Period Bill is held on a justice court| war:—The annihilation of Po- murder warrant, under which he' ;land; the quick conquest of Den- was arrested. mark and Norway; the crush of R | The Netherlands and Belgium; the MOSCOW-—“The last s ongholds{compse of France; air blitzkrieg in Berlin are falling,” tonight’s|of England; the sweep of the broadcast said, “as assault crews|Balkans; then, German bayonets with artillery are firing along '-heyahredded the treaty with Russia tunnels of Berlin's subway system,|gnd Hitler began the “crusade” clearing station, after station of | against the Soviets for which he underground re;slsumce 44 “:::um;‘;u;o \:heu?mm 'M\_ : MR. AND MRS, LEET HERE |4 German. prison in 1923. L After the invasion of Russia, to a bot.ll of 11,540,000. > Eskimo Bill fo Be Arraigned Friday, Rape S_I_ayinq (ase SEATTLE, May 1-—Joe Bill of Nome, Alaska, Eskimo accused of the rape slaying last week of five- Hotel. (Continued on Page Two)