Northwest Arkansas Times (Newspaper) - April 21, 1945, Fayetteville, Arkansas THE WAR TODAY With the mighty Kussian again surging forward the strategy to follow junction of Muscovites western Allies becomes the question of the day The Reich is slashed in two what Well we remain in much the same position forecast by General Eisenhower and his com ma it hi n the last few days That ts to say there still are a lol of isolated pockets of to clear up Tn short no calendar and This is he man can put his finger on the date of Day That's n keen disappointment to a lot of folk who jumped to the conclusion from the speed of the Allied tank columns that the war was over However we shall do well to swallow this strong mustard and make up our minds that there's still some distance t Of course if II i tier should suddenly change his mind and de- cide to surrender as head of that presumably would end all German ance However up to now he every sign fighting to the cml and there is no other body of Germans who could speak for the many pockets of resistance in the matter of surrender So we must continue cleaning house With the enemy divided into two zones the southern theater will comprise Hitler's fortress in the Bavarian Alps near his home and the northern will be made up of large pockets along the coast clear to Norway We must link Hitler's last stand in the Alps with Hint of the man army which is fighting in Northern Italy The Allied forces on the peninsula are now in the full swing of an offensive to annihilate the Hitlerites How- ever the latter have n strong folce some 25 German divisions and about five Italian divisions and the advantage of terrain which is cut by numerous rivers 1 should say we have here the prospects of a tough and bloody battle Now as to the German stand in the far There is no that the Nazis intend to defend the capital so long as sible not an task in view of the way the Allies arc closing in on both sides and are threatening to cut the German corridor previously mentioned When the capital succumbs the defenders will do their best to retreat to one of the pockets on the north coast The measure of success is highly ical because the Russians arc driving hard to cut the German line above Berlin and thus round the forces holding the Organization Open To Nations Promised Bristol England April Prime Minister Churchill ed today a world organization which we must build and shall build will be free and open to all the nations of the world Speaking only a few days be- fore the opening of the world curity conference at San cisco Churchill asserted that tions must live in peace nnd tice with one thus en- the ultimate inclusion of even present enemy nations in a world peace organization There must be always the force to restrain lie said Stale Tribute to Mr Roosevelt I Rock April J kansas paid official tribute to Franklin D Roosevelt yesterday in a ceremony on the steps of the Capitol Governor i Male Supreme Court Chief lire Griffin Smith and ministers if nil faiths eulogized the ed leader Governor said His deeds will always be remembered md his achievements arc a to us to dn our THE INTEREST IS THE FIRST CONCERN OF THIS NEWSPAPER Local and vicinity Cloudy ami tonight and Associated Press Leased Wire Service Associated Press Feature Service 83 NUMBER 230 FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS SATURDAY EVENING 21 PRICE FIVE CENTS U S and Soviet Troops Near Union Prisoners Burned And Killed Before Town Falls German Guards Responsible For Atrocity Bodies Sprayed With Flaming Acetone And Set On Fire By HAI BOYLE Thekla Germany April charred bodies of 220 prisoners who were sprayed with flaming lone and burned and shot to death just before American troops cap- Hired this Leipzig suburb still were sprawled today in postures of agony Some lay in ruins of the camp barracks ers were caught on shan spikes of barbed wire enclosing camp Of 324 Polish Russian Czech Yugoslav French and prisoners in camp only about BO survived A Czech barbe who managed lo short circuit thi electrically charged barbed wir enclosure led them to safety This atrocity took place in plant No 3 of Ihc Erla works which made Messerschmitt airplane parts The camp in middle of factory buildings was a di- vision of the notorious wald murder factory near mar From here the Germans were marching prisoners by the dreds to points farther cast until last Saturday When guards ed the United States Ninth Ar- mored Division had swung around east of Leipzig they decided to 324 left on hands Toms Is Back His Funeral Big Mistake Greensboro N C April f Tom feline te could talk he'd probably pull he Mark Twain gag about news of lis death being exaggerated When he failed to appear and the Benjamin Harrels found a carcass in a storm sewer that coked like Tom he was buried in he garden with floral wreath and all But Tom came back jeen locked in a neighbor's cellar Center of Berlin Under Big Guns of Advancing Russians Capital Being Asch Captured By Forces Of Is Married A former Con- ference football nnd basketball Mar at the University Ensign Howard Hickey and Miss Smina of were ried in Thursday the Associated Press reports was a star end on the 1938 39 and elevens and played on the basketball team the same years THE WEATHER Considerable ness with scattered showers m ex- treme west portion this afternoon and in west and extreme south portions tonight and Sunday not much change in temperatures Showers and tonight and tomorrow Thunderstorms ami rain Some Escape All were scheduled lo be killed that said the Czech barber Carl Tykal But for some reason the guards de- to wait until the next day During the night 30 men managed to climb over the fence Most of them in holes and corners of the factory To get them out of hiding the guards went around the next day carrying big steaming cans ol potato soup and shouting that ail who came out would be fed Most of those hiding were so hungry they fell for this trap There were almost 300 men ii the barracks The guards saw tha soup was served to all and then while they were eating quickly nuns blankets up outside the dows Other SS men ran into two doors threw cans of inflammable acetone over the prisoners and then set the fire Shot As They Leave It went up like a tinder box 1 could hear my friends screaming and praying as the flames seared them and they tried lo run through the doors and climb through the windows The SS guards and one lapo man were ready They fired into both doors and every i I walked over to the ruins of j this 40 by 150 foot building and snw the charred skeletons more than 25 at each door They had burned into a mingled mass of bones Two miles away young German mothers were trundling peacefully along trolled streets The barber So many prisoners managed lo run out of the building with their clothes flaming that the guards i began to throw in hand grenades I Some prisoners managed to craw out on hands and knees and ed lo death blindly on rolls of 1 walked over and found four crisped burned bodies resting on sharp spikes One man had bitten his finger in in his agony Another whose sufferings were erased by a bullet j through his head and stuffed the end of a burning cloth into mouth Blood from his head wound had run down and put out the llames Role Educators To Play After War Stressed Representative Of Speaks At District Session Role In the Future was the theme of a dis- rict conference ot the Arkansas Congress of Parents nnd ers here yesterday There were 11 registered delegates from Washington 10 of the county's units were represented Educators will have more re- sponsibility after the war Carl Parker Little Rock ive of the Arkansas Education Association told the group Many organizations will foe concerned with material things after the war it is up to educators and groups likes the to em- the importance ot ideas and ideals he declared A panel discussion on of the in postwar planning for youth led by K S Root also emphasized the role of the in promoting ideas and ideals Participating on the panel were Mrs Henry Cochran county Council president Mrs Harrison Hale organizer of the first Arkansas J U nan county superintendent and Virgil Blossom superintendent of Fayetteville public schools Appointment Approved Local units of the association from Leverett and Washington schools gave skits meetings including a model meeting with Mrs Roy Guinn president of the High School P presiding A resolution expressing proval of the appointment of Dean Virginia as delegate to the United Nations conference at San Francisco was adopted It vill be sent to President Truman Dean Gildersleeve Sen J W Rep J W Trimble and all delegates to the ence Awards were given to ing units in the county at a luncheon at the Washington el Superior rating awards for during the past year went to Fayetteville High School Jefferson Leverett and Washington schools in ville Washington and the high school in Excellent rating awards were won by school Fayetteville and West Fork Huntsville coln Prairie Grove ami Oak Grove received honorable tion The awards were presented by Mrs R D Stevens Musical numbers were given by the Fayetteville High School trio I sextet anci Glee State officers present for the conference included the president Mrs Elston Leonard Mrs Edgar F tarian Mr Root fifth vice ident and director of education Mr and tiie director of District One Mrs Nolan Train Delayed The Frisco ger train due here at 6 14 this morning has been delayed seven hours officials at the passenger depot here said this morning high water resulting in J the derailing of n freight train Enveloped By Red Forces Suburbs Of City Are Entered As Battle To North Rages London April mans said today that massive sian forces were enveloping lin through suburbs on the east north and southwest and were shelling the Potsdamer Platz in center of the doomed city Soviet forces by enemy count had fought their way into Berlin suburbs at five Bernau walde and The Russian drive to Bernau three miles from the city limits was announced by the German High command This action con- part of the northern en- velopment move against Berlin In a swift penetration of Nazi defenses below the capital other Russian forces advanced to tions southwest of the capital the German Transocean agency an- In this sweep the sians reached the vicinity Beelitz and re- 12 and 22 miles west of Berlin's great western suburb of Potsdam Truman Names Three to Official Posts ird Army President Truman has named these three men to Important posts Matthew J Connelly led ot Truman's secretary when lie was vice president was named presidential secretary in charge of appointments John W center St Louis banker was named head of the Federal Lonn J Leonard of Illinois who handled radio arrangements for the Democratic National Committee fall was named to act as press and radio secretary with the title of assistant to the president The three arc shown leaving the White House International The German command communique announced a break-through by Marshal nev's First Ukrainian Army had reached 27 miles south of Berlin To Ihc north tho First While Russian Army making a frontal assault on Berlin was battling Nazi defenders of the capital along the Fuerstenberg Strausberg Bernau line the German high command said Still farther north other Russian forces were declared lo have forced two bridgeheads over the Oder between Schwedt and tin guarding the northern to Berlin 15 U S Ships Sunk in Month Guam April on Southern Okinawa raged fiercely today as Japanese troops fought HERE AND THERE Btf THE OBSERVER Band Meet Opens With Marching Contest At Harmon Field Parade at Stadium One explanation for the rusty dirty water that comes out of some water pipes in city homes is that there has been so much rain that we are practically using rain water in our city pipes This is much softer water than ordinarily we in have water system and this soft water breaks loose particles of rust in the city mains and in hoi water heaters and so forth Thus when the faucets are turned on and the water starts circulating at a rapid rate it snips off ticles of rust and this muddies the It seems that soft water will do this where a harder water not At any rate ing out the hot water tanks and the mains helps temporarily But un soon along comes some more of a stubborn defense action that very water and more of three American divisions driving the same kind of unpleasant color toward Naha the island's capital Admiral communique yesterday said 15 American ships of all types were lost during nawa operations between March 18 and April 18 The Japanese Sost 100 vessels among them the ton battleship Yamata Added to this total in air warfare were blasted Japanese planes American losses included five destroyers a two mincer a a gunboat four landing craft and two ammunition vessels Fire Damages Home Fire starting from a short cuit in the wiring re- in some damage lo the Roderick home at 231 South cust about 5 o'clock yesterday noon Firemen who ex li ng the blaze thai a hole was burned through the floor and that one wall was damaged becomes evident Since we have bad already much more than half as much rain as we generally get in a whole year and this is still the early part of weather cators of the amateur type are forecasting some very dry hot weather ahead this summer Looks like a bad year for crops fill the way round is the way Victory gardeners hear it Surely they have little or no chance get much out so far Siloam Springs may a new telephone exchange building An independent company the Telephone Company exchange with the System operating distance lines into their switchboards While most of us think of Ihc telephone industry ns one gi actually there irc I independent companies Opening at this ilh a marching hand contest at larmon Field the first annual jand meet of the Northwest Ar- kansas Conference got under way with Jl bands and three ras representing eight high schools on hand In addition to the band meet ho yearly track meet with the as host was to bo off during the afternoon Five ligh schools Fayetteville dale Van Alma and ers were to take part in the track and field events During the morning from R until the band concert con- tests were hold while in another part of the building solos and mixed instruments were ed from until 11 o'clock The track meet this afternoon was to open at 1 o'clock with a parade of all bands in stadium Awards consisting of ribbons for individual winners and cates for bands and orchestr II be given high school said The awards will be excellent and good Welcomers Named A Chamber of Commerce com- to welcome two tives of the National magazine to this part of thi country has been appointed Dr C G is chairman and J K Gregory ami Sam arc members of the committee An associate editor and a rapher of the magazine are ir Arkansas working on materia for a story with pictures Independents in this part of th stale include exchanges at son Green Forrest Berry and big power responsibility which to be written into the world itself the principle Mo caused the I that on legions the major i delay i nations should al all limes concur Changes in Dumbarton Oaks Proposals af Conference Predicted Lt Epperly War iero Dies In Crash L K Epperly 20 war Lero son of Mr and Mrs G W of has been tilled near Texas n the crash of a transport plan took the lives of 11 ind 14 enlisted men His hotly will JR returned to Tor Lieutenant Epperly was hack in he United States from service against tho enemy He flew as Bombardier in a Liberator with a veteran group which took in more than 120 missions combat and won a unit lion He was the holder of an Air Medal awarded for his age He participated in bombing attacks against such key Nazi strongholds as Munich Vienna Linz nnd Budapest He was home recently on leave after his return from the war the Lieutenant had been in the Air Forces since enlistment December 15 1942 He was commissioned at Victor Gal A member or the church lie is survived by his ents bis paternal Silas M maternal grandparents and Mrs George W Stout of one brother Darnel Lee and two sisters ami Mrs Lloyd the 1 alter of Kansas City Funeral arrangements under the direction nf Moore's Funeral Chapel aye incomplete Siin Francisco April Thc nations sponsoring the San Francisco security con- ference expected by diplomats here to keep a firm control over amendments lo the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for But many changes are due to be made the ment of the big four The conference opening next Wednesday will see the first out of he principle of Thus il appears unlikely that the United Slates Soviet or Chinese delegations ill ny critical differences to develop among themselves in their lions they have time reconciling of their First Indications spirit of hope R-r in a security dominates those who arc either already here or ON their Soviet Foreign expected to arrive today for a throe foreign ministers conference to the Units Fight Toward Nazi Redoubt But 70 Miles Munich April 21 United States Army troops ing into Czechoslovakia captured Asch today in a drive toward the munitions cities o Pilsen and Prague Moscow dispatches de- clared Soviet and American riders but 25 miles apark south of Berlin The word at Suprema Headquarters put the two forces within 40 to 45 miles of a linkup Three Allied the French First and the United States Seventh and Third mered southward toward the Nazis Bavarian Austrian re- doubt and fought within 70 miles o Munich and 30 from Lake Constance Asch just inside the old Czech border fell to Third Army ighting cut off the redoubt rom Czechoslovak war factories 60 from Pilsen Gen ral troops farther south n were 58 rom Pilsen nnd 125 from Prague Guns Heard Red army front dispatches laid nnd United States patrols verc as close ns 25 miles south nf Berlin and a junction on the Elbe 75 miles of the man capital was believed Jt was clear that the two forces now meet almost at will perhaps within the next 24 to 48 hours A British correspondent with the United Slates Ninth Army the thunder of Russian gunn could be heard Two Ninth Array divisions opened a flank attack this morn ing west of about midway between Berlin and burg and thrust halfway through the forest The Infantry In a gain cleared 15 miles west of The Fifth Armored Division gained up to three miles Drive on Ports British wore a mile from the suburbs of Hamburg second city oT Germany and now ated 20 miles of the Eibe east of the cily The Canadian First Army a drive on the naval porti of Emden and en against bitter opposition Polish tanks captured on the railway to and patrolled into 20 south of Em- den Germans deepened flood ers along their Grebbe line in Holland guarding the great cities of Utrecht Amsterdam The Hague and Rotterdam but Canadians skirting the flood ed to within a mile north of 12 miles east of Utrecht Other Canadian units were within three miles of Delfzijl port on the Ems estuary opposite Nuernberg was firmly today Sixth Army p headquarters announced the Seventh Army had killed or wounded Germans and cap- tured more in bitter four-day battle for the city I United Nations meeting open in in -San Francisco Wednesday Toughest and gravest the long list of problems to h discussed by Molotov Secretary of and British Foreign Secretary is Allied i policy nn Poland There was some hope thai the Russians would hack down on their demand I the present provisional j in Warsaw be invited to Francisco American diplo- I mats were prepared to stand firm i in their refusal to admit the saw until it is reorganized the lines laid down Yalta Tin Can Pickup lo Move into West Side of Cily The in cnn pickup drive which stnrk'd Monday the cast side ot and moved west toward the railroad will be cast of the tracks Mayor George Saucier th'S morning Starting Monday the crews will move into the western part o the cits The mayor asked that all residents living o Ihc tracks have their cans nn the curb in wooden boxes or Monday Local Sailor Reports Loss Of Savings Kenneth W Harper of Route 5 v ho told police ha a sailor en route home after ii year at reported to officers at Birmingham Ala that he lost his year's savings attending a Birmingham picture He also lost his leave According to an Associated Press the had in- using n part ot the money In a motorcycle on which lo continue his trip to Postmaster Selection At Fort Smith Delayed Washington April of a postmaster lor Fort Smith Ark will he delayed about six as a result of an by one of the uncertified applicants for the position Cravens an- James K Ionian Joseph A and M Lynch were certified to the Post Office Department by the United States Civil Service Commission ai eligible tpr the job The fied applicant claimed he did not receive the Grower
