Indiana Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - April 30, 1945, Indiana, Pennsylvania TiX ff 1 V Made to Indiana Eve ning Gazette its news paper boys and sub scribers tot their otie of ths War Savings program Indiana Newspaper Thar Serves Every COVERING THE WORLD PROM THE COMMERCIAL CENTER OP WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA TEDDY Gfs removed the tablet pro claiming Hitler as Greatest Son and one of them J Bernstein wrote Adolf f Am Last laugh VOLUME 217 EIGHT PAGES INDIANA PENNSYLVANIA MONDAY APRIL 30 1945 TELEPHONE 600501 THREE CENTS Slain By Italian Patriots t New Yank Red Contact Wittenburg Nazi Resistance Desperate As Close In V Capture A Matter Hrs LONDON April tanks have smashed into the Tier Bitter Fight For Munich In Progress By AUSTIN BEALMEAR PARIS April Am garten Berlins central park Ninth Army established an verted into an underground fortress other contact with the Russians the Oslo radio said three miles west of Wittenberg to today and Moscow reports said the day creating a small new unten fall of the capital was imminent The newspaper Pravda said the Russians were fighting in the ruins of Unter Den Linden the spacious that able German pocket between their diminishing northern and southern redoubts A hard battle was in progress in the south for Munich birthplace of avenue in the heart of Berlin terminates at the Nazi party and largest German Earlier Moscow dispatches said city yet entered by the Americans the Russians were approaching the The new junction was east of spacious park i Dessau at 51 miles The Hamburg radio chief Nazi north west of in the Dresden still broadcasting in Leipzig area where the Russians Germany proclaimed that the hard i and American First Army met and battle for Berlin reached its climax i cut Germany in two American I forces were released for other Moscow dispatches said Marshals duties by the new meeting Gregory K ZHukov and Ivan S I Five divisions of the American Konev commanding Red armies Army probably men Berlin were going allout for a m all wer engaged in a stiff bat May Day victory and had thrown in maximum artillery and air power to tle in tho fringes of where the beer hall from which Hitler reduce the Nazis strongholds m the started his abortive putsch 1923 center of the city I already had been seized Soviet dispatches from Berlin said The Nazis resisted with a curtain the Nazis hemmed in a very small of steel hurled from batteries of area o as field artil garten the Reichstag just The 42nd 45th Third Fourth its north the Wilhelmstrasse 2oth Armored Divisions bored quarter and most of the crowded commercial district cen into the Bavarian capital from the north and west despite the mur Unter Den Linden running fire east from the Tiergarten The Ninth Army met the Russians i thls General I south of Magdeburg The First battle line Moscow said A previously had linked up with 1 Northwest there was fighting forces at Torgau rf tlt 4 along the Spree River near the and Reisa on the Elbe in the Leip 9 Lehrter freight yards just opposite area to the the northern edge of the Tiergarten and 700 yards northwest of the Reichstag 2 In the northern sector battles just south of the Stettiner railway station near the Oranien burger gate to the inner city about See BERLINS CAPTURE Continued on page two The Germans said another junc tion was imminent between the American Third Army and the Rus sians both of which were advanc ing on Linz in Austria from west and The Seventh Army to the south See Continued on pagi two Fire Early Today ped Out mann s Chief ROME April Italian Government today condoned the summary execution of Benito Mus solini and other topflight Fascists by northern Patriots and the Rome press hailed the deed as paving the way for the establishment of real democracy in Italy Mario Berlinguer High Commissioner for the Pun ishment of Fascists and the newspapers asserted that Mussolini had met the fate he deserved Berlinguer pointed out that the Committee of National Liberation m northern Italy had been given full authority by the Government to exercise full powers in seizing and try ing Fascists W Henderson Killed On Luzon European War Continues As Capitulation Offer Is Rectified LONDON April new surrender offer from Heinrieh Himmler presumably to all three major powers was understood to be on its way today British cabinet ministers were ordered to stand by as swiftly ing developments pointed to collapse Prime Minister Churchill was reported preparing a statement Commons there was no indication of what he might say This capital was outwardly calm even through a VE Day an was expected at any hour There was more ministerial activity in Whitehall than there had been in some time There were indications that only details of surrender re mained to be worked out These i may concern whether Himmler or tny other ranking Nazi chieftain ould give solid evidence that naan pockets on the Atlantic coast and in Norway would lay down their arms It was possible that uncertainty over the temper of commanders such as Col Gen George Lindemann One of the biggest little fires and one of the hardest to fight the Indiana Fire Company has had to control lor years occurred this morning in the Widmann Teah Drug Store which was completely destroyed Dam age is estimated to the store and building at approximately 00 i the night clerk at the M core Hotel smelling smoke sent in an alarm and when the arrived they found smoke pouring from the Widmann Teah drug store No flames were visible ior some time but smoke in the store room so thick no one without a gas masked could enter the building firemen discovered the fire had started under the first floor there being no regular celler under the building For some time the firemen hoping to save as much of the contents as possible fought the blazo bv mg holes in the floor and spraying water into this space under the floor 4 However the flames had gained such headway that they spread over most of the joists under the floor and started to eat up the sidewalls to the roof It was then that the fire company started to flood the fire using three and lour pumpers most of the time with eight and nine lines of hose It was not until oclock this morning that it was brought under control P It is believed the fire started from a compressor under the floor near the soda fountain 4 i wK d walls of the Moore Hotel on the east side and also into the Penney store on the west side Water seeped into the basement of the Penney store also The building was owned by the late Morris Roth stein Both the building and its contents were fully cov ered with insurance By GEORGE PALMER MILAN April upon and cursed the body of Mus solini was the object today of the vengeful wrath of the Italian people whom he had promised a place in the Sun but had led instead to de feat and misery The former Italian dictator hia beautiful young mistress Claretta and 17 Fascist leaders were shot to death by Italian Patriots at Guilano de near Como Saturday afternoon Taken prisoner was Mussolinis war minister Rudolfo Graziani Mussolini and his followers were at tempting to flee to Switzerland Graziani declared he sought to give himself up There was no formal trial and after the executions at 4IO p m the bodies were piled into a truck and brought to Milan for HS Students New To Run City Tomorrow Demobilization Formula Mother of Dr Roy Hughes Passed Away v WASHINGTON April t formula for In observing the men was of Boy and Girl Week tod b Johnson nationwide event to emphasize Colo importance of Youth in the Future pont of America boys and girls have army announced months ago as its been elected by their classmates in program for determining discharge Indiana High School to work is much too complicated the city and county officials on May and contains elements of first Thf nMI i When mass demobilization be Russian Complaint New Crisis on Polish Issue Conference Cpl W Wayne Henderson of Mr and Mrs Wilbur M Henderson R D 1 Born Sept 9 101C Inducted on February 19 1943 Basic train ing at Fort Bragg N C Shipped overseas without furlough in May 1942 In Hawaii until Dec 1942 then saw action In Guad acanal Russell Islands and After a brief rest In New trained In New Caledonia Participated in Inva sion on Luzon Philippines where he was killed in action on April 10 Graduated from In diana High School in 1034 and Indiana Slate Teachers College 1938 He was employed by the Peoples Natural Gas Co at time of Induction His brother Lt Paul L Hen derson completed 30 missions over Germany in November and is now stationed at Calif A sister Lois is serving as Cadet Nurse in Indiana Hos pital and his Jack S is at Sampson N Y Yesterday the corpse ofthe 61 yearold former dictator was hung by the in the Quindici Milan By his side was the body of his mistress blood smeared across her breast Flanking them on both sides were the bodies of five other Fascist leaders j Angry Milan citizens pushed and shoved against the partisans guard ing the bodies Some succeeded in breaking through and spitting upon ill Duces man emptied the clip of his automatic pistol into the lifeless form Another punched the jutting jaw Mussolini was shot through the i head by the partisans alter he was j captured Friday by a sergeant ap i preaching the Swiss border He and ithe other Fascist leaders were flee ing in a truck convoy i Mussolini was garbed in a Ger jman officers coat and was driving north when the sergeant spotted him He died shouting No No to the firing squad eyewitnesses recount ied The bullet that killed him en tered from the back in the manner i prescribed by Italian tradition lor j dishonored persons i Graziani held prisoner by an 1 American captain and a strong See FASCIST CHIEF Continued on page two officers will learn j of locali The young diana died at the home of her son and lhe me and duties of the le l there is no longer any doubt officers who must handle those them the Coloradoan Armistice moves are in progress and moving j Speculation centered around the possibility that May Day might be was i 1864 Catherine i St chosen for a victory announcement nne i Shaffer The deceased was a r WASHINGTON April 30 ident of for 40 President Truman himself sent the Allied world back to hopeful T U Surviving are her husband problems In the local schools all t sory and administrative positions will be occupied by high school 1fi pupils All class room teachers will I U j i i velars be students selected by their class mates on the basis of their qualities headway foundation for the Germany had unconditionally to the United Great Britain and John H Hugh of asserted Thats simple enough for every to understand there would be a minimum of paper work and I believe the G themselves will be for it Its Johnson said he hasnt made any trying to persuade the of Department to adopt his fifo The following persons will oc As a result he added he the important school probably will introduce legislation Superintendent of Schools Chas ito accomplish the purpose Secretary of the Under the sys Mary Jo Beatty Secretary to the men in the foxholes would Superintendent Mary Ann right away their prospects for Principal of the High School going back to civilian life If theyd Zufall Dean of Girls and As been drafted three or four years sistant Principal Shirley Faust ago theyd have assurance theyd C LONDON April Russia asserted today that Soviet citizens liberated by the Brit armies in the west have been held in Allied camps behind barbed wire in abso lutely intolerable conditions and in some cases forced to work 10 or 12 hours daily The was made in a broadcast quoting Col Gen S 1 commissar for the repatriation of Soviet prisoners of war who cited specifically an trolled camp in Britain and a British camp in Egypt The broadcast said Russia had been assured by a representa tive of the American adminis tration that all these violations and disorders would be elimi LU Secretary to the Principal Vivian be among the first out And they New To Be Tested zerne St Westmont A Lewis School Physician Edward wouldnt have to figure out a lot of Borough Council announces that ter Catherine Martz died Abbey School Nurse Patricia factors for which the new fire siren will be tested this Behind his terse announcement 24 1944 in Johnstown Also Closkey and Superintendent of been Johnson evening between and lay one fact Heinrich Himmler had are two Drothers and Richard Stahura said oclock Please renumber that any offered U capitulate Shaffer Duquesne Ralph Student officials in the borough iy to AngloAmerican forces but Shaffer Los Angeles and Mrs Mary government arc Burgas Jams for discharge would be based on be sounded and that it will be for was told to address his plea to Bus Edwards Lorain Ohio Scott Chief of Police Jack Finch four factors Total lime spent in the test purposes and not a call for a sia as well Moscow itself confirmed Funeral services will be held Street Commissioner Walter number of months By JOHN M SAN FRANCISCO April I American Russian on the rim of another today with the Polish issue again building up behind the scenes iof the United Nations conference Efforts of Latin American nations to have an invitation for o join the conference ap e forcing the showdown Some conference leaders i were privately fearful of a dead lock i Soviet Foreign Commissar Molo tov was reported to have told his of the United States Eden of Britain and Soong of he is willi ing to have Argentina invited ifi the Warsaw government of Poland is asked to send a delegation herc Britain and the United States whose leaders also assume the support of China are deter mined against this Polish arrange ment There was mudi talk the issue might come to a head at Steering Committee session f m War a1 nt unity re stored only Friday However it appeared that it would be initiated in the Executive Committee meet Infamous Dachau Prison Camp Captured By yanks Today Liberated DACHAU Germany April U S 42nd Divisions the infamous Dachau pri son camp today and freed its captives Two columns of infantry riding bulldozers and Long Tom with ed down from the northwest and surprised the S S Elite Corps guards in the extermination camp shortly after the lunch hour Scores of S S men were taken prisoner and dozens slain The American doughboys were quickly joined by trustees working outside the sprawling barbed wire enclosure Poles Frenchmen and Russians seized S S weapons and turned them against their captors Officials said the Nazis recently moved several distinguished inmates including Marshal Stalins son captured on the perished during the winter Typhus cases were scattered thru out the camp The water supply oi the city was reported contaminated i from graves on high ground which drains into the Amper River A French general was slain last week as he walked toward a believing he was to be prisoners reported They said SS Elite Guards shot him in the back 1 The G 1s stormed through the camp with tornadic fury Not a stones throw from a load of corpses lay the bleeding bodies of 16 SS men shot down 99 they tied the In the mess hall oi the SS j racks food still was cooking in i kitchen One SS officer was slump ed over ap late of beans a bullet through his head Nearby was telephone with the receives Wednesday at Washington reporters heard Mr of her oclock William in the ton County officials will be seas credit i Judge Edward Pierce District r J i it f V t mtf v fc U words at the close of Street in charge William Hunter Sheriff i noting battle participation and day of tension and activity thj Rev Daniel M Paul pastor Lepley Treasurer Eugene of dependent children inot vs Cooper Avenue Burial Sec US STUDENTS will follow in Grandview on two Under the plan lime during this hour the siren may g earlier 9 1 v One plan winch the Latin Ameri can strategists have virtually agreed on is that either Chile or Brazil both of which are Executive Coni Send the Indiana Evening members should move to Gazette to your boy in the Army or Navy Its like a letter from home every day Kurt Schuschnigg and the German anti stant leader Pastor Martin Three princes also weve reported moved among them Frederick Leopold and Xavier De Bourbon de Panne Ray In Occident 4t for combat including and service stars dei to exceed three under 18 years of See ad on Page 8 add Argentina to a pending proposal to invite the White Russian and Ukrainian u eome See SEW CRISIS Continued on page two ot the prisoners remaining claimed to be the sou of Leon Blum Prisoners whys aid they had had access to the records and inner workings of the camp said in died of huger or disease or shot during the past three months and that more bad While helping to drag hose morning at the fire at the Teah store N DeWitt Ray i ber of the local fire company member of tne editorial of Indiana Evening Gazette broken ankle Mr Ray the fire early this to for tae Baper wbfo cident occurred
