The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1945, Page 1

1 ] | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9952 3 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —= e ——— | “BERLIN SURRENDERS T0 SOVIET FORCES 3 { QUICK MOVE IS MADE IN PACIFICWAR Mile-DeepWé&ge Driven| on Okinawa - Yanks | Reach Gates of"_Davao | By Leonard Milliman (Associated Press War Correspondent) British soldiers smashed into Rangoon, supposedly defended by 30,000 trapped Japanese, in the climactic fight offthe Burma cam- paign and the outstanding de- | velopment today in theg’aci(ic war. | In other actions, British and French warships bombarded islands lying between Rangoon and Singa- pore for the third successive day; Superforts blasted _ airfields in southern Japan for the thirteenth time in five weeks; tank-led Am- | erican infantrymen drove a mile deep wedge into Okinawa defenses 325 miles south of Japan; pl(‘k{‘d‘ Australians opening the Borneo| campaign pushed from oil-soaked | beaches into dominating jungle-| covered ridges; and the most- decorated Yanks in the Pacific reached the gates of Japanese-held Davao in the southern Philippines without a long-anticipated battle. Double Landing | The breakthrough into Rangoon eame in a quick follow-up of a| double landing by parachute and amphibious troops south of the Burmese capital, while an armored column pushed down from the north. | Fall of Rangoon, which in Bur-| mese means ‘“end of the war” would signify the virtual finish of the Burma campaign. Nipponese to theé north have either been en- circled or are in flight across jungle trails to Thailand. Capture of Pegu, Pyawbwe and entrarice of (Conlmuierriwoni Page Five) - The Washingion% Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.} SAN FRANCISCO—To the aver- age outsider, the most difficult thing to understand about this con- ference is the attitude of the Rus-| sians. Poor press relations, plus a few inept moves have melted down a large mountain of goodwill built up by the yalor of the Red Army.| In a few short days they have! destroyed much of the favorable ’ sentiment jn Latin #America, and | through N fault of ‘ours, won us more friends below the Rio Grande | than we ever had before. | However, one purpose of this conference is to get to understand people and we are going to have to understand a lot about the| Russians in the future. First, let's | look at some of the things hardest | tb understand. | One of the things Molotov did in San Francisco was to invite two prominent Latin-American dele—‘ gates to dinner at the Russian| Consulate, along with a few care- | fully selected: Europeans. Latin | guests were Mexico’s tall, hand-| some Foreign Minister Padilla, and | Chile’s aristocratic Foreign Min- | ister Joaquin Fernandez y Fer- nandez, who is rapidly assuming a new leadership in Latin America. Molotov drank a toast to Chile! and her new establishment of dip- lomatic relations with Russia. “There are so many who want to become Ambassador | to Moscow,” joked Foreign Min- ister Fernandez in return, “that it is one of my greatest problems.” Mexico's Padilla, apparently on/ excellent terms with Molotov, said: | “All Latin America would be| pleased if our sister republic, Ar-| gentina, was admitted to the m"—i ference.” Molotov, in mellow mood, seemed to register no objection. [ [ | MOOD CHANGES But a day later the mood was e e, _~ (Continued on Page Four) ‘New Zealand Troops Oc- | cupy Trieste as Million Nazis Surrender By John M. Hightower SAN FRANCISCO, May 3—The American delegation announced to- ‘(luy it is sponsoring amendments to ithe Dumbarton Oaks charter de- signed to open the way to peaceful | | By Noland Norgard | (Associated Press War Correspondent) ROME, May 5 — With fighting |ended in northern Ttaly, New Zea- |land troops stepped into disputed | Istria today and occupied the port of Trieste and the Isonzo River |town of Gorizia, 20 miles to the | northwest. | #“Pighting has ceased in northern Italy west of the Isonzo River with | the unconditional surrender of all | enemy troops under the command (of German Army Group C,” said |an Allied Headquarters com- | munique. “There remain only the multitudinous administrative de- itails of assembling and disarming scattered and disorganized rem- nants of the once-proud Wehr- jmachgy” Gen. Heinrich von Vietinghoff- Scheel, whose representatives signed |an agreement for the unconditional surrender of almost 1,000,000 troops Sunday, was expected to come out |of the hills to give up personally. | Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans (had been reported fighting Ger- I mans in Trieste earlier and the {Italian Government, through its | press bureau, had voiced uneasiness. the United States Chamber of Commerce, |Italy demanded that the port, | whose possession was disputed after |lh9 Jast World War, be placed junder control of Field Marshal Sir owN lIFE IS iHarolé Alexander’s forces pending {a postwar settlement. | The Allied Command said that MOTHER OF SIX AND GRANDMOTHER OF THIRTEEN, Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester, , pictured on her arrival in San > attend as an observer the United Nations Conference on She came to find herself named “The Her husband is a, former president of (International) Francisco International Organization. American Mather of 1945.” C.OFC.VOTES FOR AMENDED | Chamber Envdorses Reve- BARTLETT BILL REPORTNOW Nazi Chief,'P—ro paganda| more than 230,000 prisoners had been taken prior to the capitula- | tion, and that hostilities had ended in the area of von Vietinghoff's command west of the Isonzo River RS N !to 22 nays, |cent of the taxpaying voters. Chileans |~ Minister Goebbels, Gen. nue Bond Measure with 1 Krebs Are Suicides | i Provision for Vote By a narrow margin, 27 yeas the Juneau Chamber OFFENSIVE BY AIR IS By ROMNEY WHEELER (Associated Press Correspondent) of Commerce today voted condi-, LONDON, May 3.—Adolf Hitler, tional endorsement of Delegate E. who vowed to rule the world, com- | L. Bartlett’s H. R. 2704, the bill miited suicide in the ruins of Ber-| now before Congress to empower 'lin with Propaganda Minister Paul | the Common Councils of Alaska |Joseph Goebbels and the Chief of| cities to issue Revenue Bonds. the German General Staff, Gen.| The vote was taken on the ques- Hans Krebs, a Soviet communique | oY . tion of adopting the recommenda- 'said foday EBrmSh MOSQUI'OS Bfea tion of the C of C Executive| The Russians declared their in-| Long Lull - Attacks Made on Kiel Board, that the Juneau Chamber formant was Hans Fritsche, ‘Goeb-| go on record in favor of the bels’ chief licutenant, who was cap-| measure, provided it is amended jtured as Berlin fell. It was presum- to require the submission of such ed that Russian commanders on the Council action to the taxpayers for would make vigorous inquiry| s . approval, upon petition of 15 per{to obtain indisputable proof. ; squitos broke a six-day lull m‘th(‘ The| Whether Hitler was a Suicide or|Allies’ bombing offensive last night requested amendment would fur- | whether he was the victim of a brain! with four separate attacks on the ther provide for approval by the (hemorrhage, a posssibility reported German naval base at Kiel, where by Supreme Allied Headquarters,| many U-boats are known to be \there was little doubt among Allied il aders that the Fuehrer indeed was aska cities, including the require- dead and that he had met death in ment for consent of 55 per cem;a‘mannor which would thwart any| of the taxpayers voting. ;dxe-hard Nazi attempt to build a % . Wagnerin legend about him. At the request of Unamber Presi- | 1" atoment authorized by the Su- dent W. M. Whitehead, Attorney preme Allied Command told of a Howard D. Stabler outlined the go.yet meeting eight days ago at reasons for the position taken by pjepeck, Germany, befween Ges- the Executive Board: The basic voters under conditions now gen- erally applied by Congress to Gen- eral Obligation bond issues by Al- ;lying. Three of the attacking bombers were lost to anti-aircraft fire. Other night raiders continued destructive blows at enemy trans- port in northern Germany, attacked | several airfields in the Danish | Peninsula and harassed German elements seeking to escape to Den- mark or Norway by sea. tapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and ———————— purpose of these would, he said, ' gwedish Count Folke Bernadotte, re- . . generally result in greater home |puted peace go-between, at which‘,Half, Hair; rule, since it would strike limita- tions' now placed by Congress on the powers of Alaska cities to bond themselves. The principal weakness, he brought out, is the possibility Hitler at that time ‘could not live of Councils' making unprofitable ‘more than two days longer. PHILADELPHIA, May 3 — The investments, which might result! These reports gave th_e lie to 3|Bendix Aviation Corporation is try- > Nun propaganda campaign to CON- ' ing to get women out of its hair. 001 vince the world that Hitler died at| e firm started out toscomb the the head of his troops in a B"h“iiemnle population the other day — e SIOCK ouol‘l"ous | Command Post in the Reichs Chan-lmr 250,000 strands of hair for a | gallery, fighting to the last againstiswl.et weapon. | Bolshevism. | Officials are seeing red, blonde and brunette hair—in the mail and Himmler was reported to have said “Hiler s 50 il be, might alfeady Blonde, Red b dead. E saying | Alld Bllllle"e | Himmler was quoted as “(Continued on Page Eight) NEW YORK, May 3 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine ! RS, e 1\ ) - ) stock today is 6%, American Can (ARElESS on the heads of would-be con- 97%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss-Wright tributors. 5%, International Harvester 87, — ! “W_e have eno_ugh on hand and Kennecott 38%, New York Central, LOS ANGELES—Superior Judge ! promises to give wus 25,000,000 (267:, Northern Pacific 27%, Pack- Emmet H. Wilson levied a $100 fine |strands instead of 250,000,” an of- ard 7, United Airlines 377%, U. S.|with an alternative 50 days in jail | ficial said.. “If there is anythin Steel 68'2, Pound, $4.04. 5upon a Los Angeles woman after | we don't want more of, it's hair. Dow, Jones averages today are as | OPA agents exhibited a brassiere e o follows: Industrials, 165.82; rails,|they testified she had sold behind| The Grand Canal flows through 56.72; utilities, 30.66. Jclosed doors for $20, Venice in the shape of a letter S PEPPED UP LONDON, May 3—British Mo-' revision of world agreements in| he postwar era. ! Commander Harold E. Stassen, acting as spokesman, told reporters the group had agreed upon these ‘nine major objectives, in changes now being considered by the Big Four Foreign Ministers: | 1—Provision for functioning of ‘the entire international organiza- tion “in keeping with the principles of justice.” 2—Clarification of Dumbarton aks language to provide that the organization function within, and assist in developing, international law. 3—The development and BONUS DRIVE OF VETERANS IS STARTED Weekly Péfifiénis of $20 for Year Advocated safe- by Congressman | By William Arbogast erans’ bonus drive, with an esti- mated $11,000,000,000 price tag at- tached, is in full swing on Capitol | It got off to a flying start under the guidance of Representa- Itive Rankin, Democrat, Mississippi, !chajrman of the House Veterans' | Committee and one of the framers jof the G.I. Bill of Rights. i It calls for payment of $20 a |week for a year to any member| 3. f the armed services who served !cided that Argentina should get no | capital. o 90 days or more since September 16, 1940, and was not. dishonor- ably discharged. | The Mississippian declined to es- |timate its cost but said it would be easy for anyone to calculate. | On the basis of $1,040 each for: |the more than 10,000,000 men and| | women eligible, the total would be |in ‘the neighborhood of $11,000,000,- 000. Coundil Big Issueal Nafions' Conference (GREAT PORT OFHAMBURG | - SURRENDERS ® Collapse of German Re- guarding of human rights as basic purpose of the new world or- ganization Burma Campaign Ends; Rangoon Is Smashed " American Mother of 1945 [FIGHTING IN [Powers of Securily " 58 NO. ITALY IS | - NOW ATEND, NAZICAPITAL CITY FALLEN 0 RUSSIANS | Defenders a;é Up Fight- | | sistance in Northern Pocket Announced By Austin Bealmear (Associated Press War Correspondent) 4—Provision for “peaceful change | of conditions in the world so that | the world is not frozen.” 5—Incorporation into the charter of a definite system of trusteeships. ! . Germah Ninth Army | Is Iia_;)_ped | LONDON, May 3.—Berlin, the Nazi Capital, and fourth largest -city of 6—Provision for future review of | the entire charter “in the light of | experience and the developing | PARIS, May 3—Hamburg sur-,the world, surrendered yesterday to rendered to the British Army today | troops of twé Russian armies, and world situation after the war. | 7—Inthoduction of a modernized | version of the World Court as an| integral part of the United Na-| | tions organization. H 8—Incorporation in the charter|d link with the British had been | | of specitic provisions of the At-| lantic Charter. These include the “Four Freedoms.” | 9—The outlining of cultural ob- | jectives discussed in the conversa- | {tions with China at Dumbarton | Oaks, but not included previously | lin the formula. | | SAN FRANCISGO, May 3.—The BIG-FOUR plan for an all-powerful| ‘World Council to guard future peace |today was attacked by several na- tions at the United Nations Confer~ ence. They want to put peace-| keeping on a more regional basis. The issue, growing in importance as the, work of the conference speeds | up, appears certain to impose a |severe test of American leadership. | The United States is seeking both to promote the creation of a world- wide security system and to fit it into such regional organizations as | the Pan-American system without allowing the development of region- | al blocks. ing the Dumbarton Oaks provisions | Moscow the collapse of German resistance in the entire northern German pockef east of Kiel Stalin's Order of the Day said ablished along a 60-mile front from the Baltic to Wittenberge on the Elbe after the overwheiming of the last German resistance on the Mecklenburg Plain. Remnants of one beaten German division after another surrendered as the war in Europe drew toward a close. Denmark and Norway were iso- lated by the British-Russian junc- tion, Rocket-firing RAF Typhoons de- stroyed four vessels and damaged more than 50 when they attacked the German escape armadas, rang- ing from motor torpedo hoats to 10,000-ton cargo liners. The waters around Kiel, Flenshurg and Lubeck were dotted with burning ships, pilots reported. About 900 vehicles were destroyed or damaged. The largest of many German death traps were shrinking in the south, where Gen. Eisenhower’s three-army assault moved close to a junction with the Russians in' As proposals poured in for l.cslmp_;cast&rn Austria. The Third Army be expected at any time. moved to within 39 miles of Ber- |and Marshal Stalin announced from | 70.000 of the city's dgfenders gave up the fight which had raged for 12 |deadly days thyough, the streets and |subways. | The city lull at 3 p. m. to troops of the First White Russian and PFirst Ukrainian Armies, Premier Stalin jannounced in an order of the day. | He disclosed also that Russian forces |had destroyed the German Ninth Army, trapped Southeast of Berlin, killing 60,000 men and capturing 120,000, and had overrun the last of Germany’s big Baltic ports, Ros- tock and Warnemuende. Stalin also announced the capture {of Cleszyn (Teschen) the last town !in pre-war Poland in German hands. ‘l Cieszyn, in a disputed corner of | Stlesia, was a part of Czechoslo- | vakia following the First World War until after the Munich agree- ment of 1938. when Polish troops moved in and occupied the indus- jtrial and mining area, - In Moscow, the fall of Berlin ‘was celebrated with an official salute of |24 salvoes from 324 cannon. = The !long-awaited victory was hailed by Russians in the streets with danc- ing, shouting and general hilarity. Moscow dispatches said the belief |was evident everywhere in the capi- tal that the end of the war could The victorious Russtan armies, WASHINGTON, May 3—A vet-l on the power of the Security Council | chtesgaden and the Seventh closed 'headed by Marshals G. K. Zhukoy to use force, there were these other |t0 Within seven of Innsbruck. {and Ivan S. Konev, entered Ber- developments in this bustling confer-| The Seventh Army got astride |lin on April 21, after jumping across ence city: ’ ia super-highway east of Munich the Oder. They swarmed into the 1. Stettinius started a drive m}and its third division raced to 341-square-mile city, already bat- keep as many foreign ministers as|Within 27 miles of both Berchtes- tered from American and British possible here throughout the Con-|gaden and Salzburg in a drlve“nlr raids, and laid it low in 12 days ference despite the pressure of their |across the Inn River from the west. |of some of the bitterest street fight- war-end problems at home. | Heavy snowdrifts delayed the ad- 2. Molotov, Edens and Stettinius| vance on Innsbruck. Civilian refu- {conferred yesterday on Poland, try-|gees said the garrison there was ing to clear the way for reorganiza- | ready to surrender but that SS tion of the Warsaw government,. troops were preparing to defend The American delegation de-|the western edge of the Tyrol officer position at the Conference. The Third Army, after captur- 4. Foreign Minister Georges Bi-|ing Passau and Hitler's birthplace dault of France told a news con-|of Braunau, stabbed to within 16 ference his Government would ac-|miles of Linz, third city of Austria. cept the principle of international | Moving along a 70-mile front, the military bases but would never sur-!Third Army crossed the Inn River render any territory. at half a dozen places. The Thun- 5. Leaders of several middle and| derbolt (Eleventh Armored) Divi- small power delegations said they|sion, fought through melting snow would be unwilling to turn over toward a junction with, the Rus- complete control of their military’ gians west of Vienna, who were | et at WAR AT A GLANCE (By Associated Press) | THE WESTERN FRONT: British seemeq certain to become the most| land Russians link up near Wismar, 129 miles southwest of captured Ros- ;!ock: Germans proclaim Hamburgy an open city and British enter the |great port; Germans term Prague a | “Hospital City,” indicating that the |Czechoslovak Capital will not be de-| |fended; U. S. Third Army drives to- |ward Pilsen; U. S. Seventh Army ap- proachess Innsbruck. | | THE EASTERN FRONT: Russians {occupy Berlin and with the British split the Nazis in the North into |separate pockets; other Soviet forces race westward through Czechoslo- vakia toward Prague. THE ITALIAN FRONT: Fighting ceases in Northern Italy and Wes- tern Austria, where Germans sur- rendered unconditionally; New Zealand troops occupy Trieste. THE PACIFIC FRONTS: British troops enter Burmese Capital, Ran- goon; American Superfortressess at- tack Japanese home island of Kyu- shu; American on Mindanao Island in the Philippines appear about to enter Davao; Americans gain in Southern Okinawa drive. forces to a Security Council in which 1 fighting in that area. 6. The British completed a plan| for International Trusteeships over wAR (RIMI"A[S | : } {the United State plan for strategic |trusteeships to cover military bases. | |that will have to be settled here were| BE pROSE(UTED | beginning to take definite shape to- | |day. Among these the question of — they had no voice. i ex-enemy territories which opposes | Behind the scenes, the real issues ARE GOI"G lo the powers of the Securitly Council ’T : ruman Says Cohorts of Hitler and Mussolini Must Come to Trial WASHINGTON, May 3.—Robbed by death of his two prize defen- |dants, Robert H. Jackson neverthe- |less set out today to bring to military | Justice the arch war crimes cohorts ‘Jf Hitler and Mussolini. hotly debated. | - | TRUMANHAS | FIRST FIGHT ! WASHINGTON, May 3.—The selection of the Supreme Court Jus- |House, in President Truman's first|tice yesterday as this country’s chief tussle with ‘Congress, today voted (prosecutor of those whose offenses 185 for overriding his veto to broad |in Europe have been so widespread {farm-draft deferment legislation, to!they have “no particular geograph- }117 against. Two-thirds, or 241 ical localization.” |votes were necessary to override. | Mr. Truman criticized the bill as Truman said, means that happily |as discriminatory in putting “the 'the two principal war criminals will | agricultural group on a plane above not have to come to trial. But there both industrial occupation and mui—';arc others, he said, and they must tary service.” Republicans voted al-!be brought to book. Imost to a man to override. H PR A AT ST ————— | PELICAN RESIDENTS HERE JOHNSON IN TOWN Mrs. Jack Bear and Clara van | Victor Johnson, of Port Alexan-|Sant, of Pelican City, have arrived 'der, is a guest at the Baranof in Juneau and are guests at the Hotel, Gastineau Hotel. | | ) Hitler’s and Mussolini’s death, Mr. | ing in history. It was not known how many of the German capital’s | peacetime population of 4,335,000 | persons remained in the city at the time of its fall. The collapse of Berlin, symbol of |German power, came two years and | three months after the tide of battle | was turned at Stalingrad. { —_———— THOUSANDS OF NALIS ~ SURRENDER ( Dirty, Unsha_ven Germans | lay Down Arms in Historic Grounds N H By EDDY GILMORE | (Associated Press War Correspondent) MOSCOW, May 3.—Thousands of \dirty and unshaven Germans shuf- |fled through the Brandenburg Gate |under the Pillars of Victory in fallen Berlin today to lay down their arms where goose-stepping Prussians for- merly paraded their triumphs. The hush of a dead nation lay over |the smoking, broken capital, inter- |rupted only by occasional explosions (in the ruins. | There was no further information on the fate of Hitler or of his Pro- paganda Minister, Paul Joseph | Geebbels, who were said by Goeb- lbels Deputy to have eommitted sui- cide when their dream of Berlin as ‘the Capital of the world collapsed about them. But the Russians were |checking the story. One well-known Soviet commen- |tator, Nikolai Tikhonov, declared in |Pravda that “Hitler is not in Ber- lin” ‘ | The toll of captured Germans in ‘;lhe Nazi Capital, originally an- lnuunced last night as 70,000, grew to 100,000, <C¢mlinum{ on Page l"iue)