Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - April 22, 1945, Ogden, Utah The Weather Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday cooler Sunday and day night Temperatures For 24-hour period at dz p m Saturday Ogden 58 Omaha 80 Phoenix Portland Provo Reno Denver Rock Springs Grand Salt Las San Los San Fran St Sheridan Yellowstone 36 Seventy-fifth 272 The United Press The Associated Press CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 22 1945 NEA Service AP Service 38 SECTIONS PRICE 10 CENTS Reds Battle in Berlin Streets Reported Delegates Truman Given Flock to S F Confab Mrs First Session Set For Wednesday To Hear President By Roger A Johnson United Press Staff SAN FRANCISCO April Trio non- Manchester IN ira 21 united nations j conference on international mate John H Bradley of organization will convene in i Painting of Flag Raising WASHINGTON April 20 UP Truman Saturday re- from Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr an inal painting of the famous graph showing the flag raising on Mt Suribachi The painting will be used as the poster for the Seventh war loan drive With the secretary were two marines and a sailor who were among the group of six in the photograph of the flag going up on the mountain top of Iwo Jima These survivors of the Pfc Rene A Manchester N Pfc Ira its first plenary session afternoon to hear a broadcast welcoming speech bv President Harry S from the White House i it was announced Saturday Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr Governor Earl ren of California and Roger Lapham mayor of San Francisco I will speak on the same program which will be broadcast over all from seven-thirty to eight p.m Smuts Optimistic Michael McDermott state de- Nevadan Attacks Proposed Hike 11 Of Grazing Fees RENO Nev April 21 AP Governors and representatives of 11 western states and Alaska night took a firm stand for the return to states of functions and rights when peace comes To carry this demand to ington John J Dempsey of press director conference parliamentary j Vivian of procedure for the opening Colorado and Mon C Wallgren of beginning April 25 as delegates Washington were selected anri secretariat checked in at in The governors delayed action on f endorsement of Alaskan statehood n Jan Christian j stand on reclamation a joint Smuts 75 prime minister of the lcy on attraction the re- South Africa and one of of banking laws and the ad- tb free world's greatest statesmen justment ot freight rates on arrived aboard an RAF Liberator ern products from New York He was I Cheyenne Wyo was selected as tic about the conference and the host city for the next meeting in prospects for post-war November and Wyoming s This time I believe we will pull Lester C Hunt was named Smuts said chairman one of the founders of the T of Nations Smuts will be RENO Nev April 21 UP one of the few delegates whose active participation in world affairs bridges the gap from Versailles to San Francisco Federal plans to increase grazing fees by 200 per cent were attacked by Nevada's governor E P ville at the conference of western Cl CCt A i di J Brig Gen Carlos Romulo governors here Saturday Carville dent commissioner to the United spoke on plans for States from the Philippines ar- western livestock industry rived late Friday night He the I feel that we will have no stressed the loyalty of the Filipinos to the United States and said his people had a moral right to ex- rehabilitation from the United Nations Other Delegates Other delegates many of them from Latin-America reached San Francisco in advance of the United States contingent headed by of State Edward Stettinius due here before Monday Because there were no United States officials here with whom they can converse off-the-record Continued on Paze Three Column Five other choice than to resist with all of our legal and legitimate means if the government persists in out its ill-advised the governor said Otherwise we shall have to subscribe to a policy giving up one of our basic resource values and depend upon federal aid for our economic existence Western support of low tariff policies with expansion of rocal trade agreements was urged by Governor Mon C Walgren of Washington Conversion of west coast tries to peacetime operation and providing jobs for war workers and returning veterans was cited by Walgren as the best means of ing the present wartime tion in the west after the war They will be our market and our labor Washington's nor said Fighting Buys Gains In Okinawa Drive Stars and Stripes Flung to Breeze On Tiny le Island By Ray Cronin A P War Editor Some of the bitterest ing of the Pacific war marked small American gains through heavily de- fended Jap positions on southern Okinawa Fleet Ad- miral Chester W Nimitz re- ported late Saturday Meanwhile the American flag was flung to the breeze over le island yards off Okinawa's west coast Doughboys planted the stars and stripes atop Mt after overcoming furious resistance The tiny island is being mopped up Hill Changes Hands On southern Okinawa high ground in the hill 178 sector changed hands several times as the fortunes of battle swung from side to side The hard-hitting Yank ground forces were heavily ported by naval guns army and marine artillery and planes Jap night air raiders hit two central airfields on central Okinawa but damage was minor The marines on northern awa cleaned out enemy pockets and brought all of Motobu peninsula under their control Yank again ily hit Jap air fields from which Nippon has mounted aerial smashes in defense of vital Okinawa The rained demolition bombs on Kyushu southernmost of Japan's homeland islands In the southern Philippines Moros joined the Yank doughboys on Mindanao land in the fight against the Japs The Moros 7.000 strong form one of four guerrilla divisions fighting in the wild Mindanao country In Burma British forces were closing in on one of the richest oil regions of the Asiatic continent Airfields Blasted Nine air fields on Kyushu 325 miles north of Okinawa were blasted by a very large perhaps The big bombers winging in from the Marianas for their third shu strike in five days dropped tons of explosives visually and at medium altitude Two of the bases V4 j Weisswasser I CZECHOSLOVAKIA hit Kanoya and Kushira are Continued on Page Three Column Twol IH Decision Will Ogden has a musical genius in the person of Sam who ranks as one of the outstanding accordionists of the United States He is to give a free concert next Friday evening during which will be heard The Poet and Peasant overture and his compositions i Learn to Fly Little Boy and I j Only Know You'll Be Waiting There For His Learn to Fly Little Boy is j popular in this region and s been heard over KLO He came to Utah when a young fellow and was the first to duce the He tells me there are worth of accordions in Ogden and that some of the instruments cost as high as One or two have been purchased at an outlay of Of late years the accordion has become an instrument of much popularity Sam first appeared on the Ogden vaudeville stage a number of years ago and has since been identified with this ity He is a musician of remarkable talent One of his compositions Pinetta appeared in the Accordion i News but his favorite his most Learn to Fly Little Boy which is a patriotic melody There are 150 civil service em- oyes in the Ogden postoffice and about 150 at the railway mail minal who are looking forward to possible legislation according them a higher schedule of pay Test Pres Truman April 21 AP The senate is getting ready to gauge the trend of President man's political thinking by what he does about the reappointment of TVA Chairman David Lilienthal Lilienthal's term expires soon and Mr Truman then will be on the hottest of personal and political spots If the president renominates Lilienthal he will please the ate's so-called left wingers They will feel that he is safely started on the little left of center course which Mr Truman mapped in his campaign for the vice presidency But if he renominates Lilienthal the president probably will lose the support of Sen McKellar the president and acting chairman of the ful appropriations committee 3 Sons Die Couple Asks Other 3 Spared CHICAGO April 21 AP A Chicago couple advised of the death of their third son while in service Friday night appealed to the Red Cross to ask the war de- to assign three surviving sons to duty in the United States Mr and Mrs Martin Mrozek on Thursday said they were notified a son Staff Sgt Stanley Mrozek 28 was killed on March 30 on Luzon He was the second to die Sgt Edward Mrozek 31 having been killed in France last July 15 Lieut Chester W Mrozek 24 who was in Texas after ing 25 bombing missions in Europe obtained an emergency leave to come to Chicago and console his parents Yesterday they were notified that a transport plane crashed near Sweetwater Tex killing him and 24 other officers Two of the surviving sons are in Germany and the third in Hawaii Edwin 19 classified is at home Truman Has a Kiss Coming From His School Teacher Historic Meeting Of Two Armies Expected Hourly U S Ninth May Be Chosen Force For Soviet Junction v-Day is Still Russian Tanks Far It Is Believed WHERE FRONTS NEAR Greatest gain reported on the western front was an American drive southeast of Bayreuth capturing arid reaching Kemnath On the eastern front Moscow reported fighting west of the Oder river beyond and in the south told of taking Forst Weisswasser and hurg Berlin said the red army also was attacking broken arrow across the Oder south of Stettin AP Wirephoto map Captured Documents Will Reveal Fate of Airmen By Eleanor Packard United Press NUREMBERG April 21 fate of thousands of American and British airmen listed as missing will be known soon Documents recording all allied fliers downed in German territory during the war were captured day A master file containing the tories of more than British and American airmen was found in the nearby town of Officers consider it one of the most important finds in Germany to date The last entry dated April 7 was of an American pilot who it said was found dead The records re- that more than in various kinds of currency had been taken from captive airmen Of amount only was re- covered Bushels of rings watches elry flying orders love ters photographs and other items taken from fallen alive or on file Some 400 displaced persons including Russians Dutchmen Yugoslavs Poles Frenchmen and Italians Nazis Dig In for Norway Stand tr LONDON April 21 Germans are digging in out southern Norway for a fight to the end stand Scandinavian re- ports said Saturday night Swedish press dispatches said the remnants of the German air force are being flown to Norway ing high-ranking nazis The Norwegian government in London said trainloads of V-2 weapons are arriving in By James M Long PARIS Sunday April 22 announcement that the Americans and sians have joined in central Germany was expected today in a matter of hours and there were indications that the U S Ninth army might be chosen for the historic meeting with the red army at or near Berlin Associated Press Correspondent Wes Gallagher with the Ninth army at Magdeburg reported that the timing of great Russian now has entered why the Ninth army had been sitting on the Elbe river west of the German capital since April 11 The Ninth army had and still has the power to have marched to Berlin within ten days of its reaching the Elbe Gallagher noted and referred to the expected tion of the Ninth and the Russians in the Berlin area Sights Russian Armor Simultaneously with Gallagher's dispatch U S Twelfth army group headquarters announced cryptically that a reconnaissance plane in contact the Eighty-third di- sion which is a Ninth army di- vision reported having sighted what is believed to be Russian armor somewhere east of the Elbe river this Saturday afternoon The very fact that army group headquarters saw fit to make such an announcement lent it added Reconnaissance planes in contact with frontline divisions do not operate at extreme range ahead of the line Paris radio reported the dramatic unction already had been made and there were reports here that had made preliminary con- Supreme headquarters did not confirm these reports and it was regarded here as certain that actual formal meeting was still to that it would come within hours not days The two allies last were reported 32 miles apart east of Leipzig in an area about 75 miles south of lin and it was in that sector around Dresden that the French said they had come together However the Germans said the Russian forces already were three to four miles inside the Berlin city limits on the northeast and had cut around the city to Beelitz on the southwest while field reports from the American front put those Russians within 35 miles of the Continued on Page Three Column Four PARIS April 21 ant General Walter Bedell Smith General Eisenhower's chief of staff said Saturday he held no hope for an immediate end of the war in j Europe and added that there may be bitter fighting and heavy to come Addressing war correspondents at supreme headquarters Smith said General Eisenhower would try to get the war over as soon as sible but had no intention of throwing away the lives entrusted to him and would fight as ically as he could With the Germans still resisting and apparently determined to stand to the end in a national rebout rooting them out may take erable time Smith added ern Norway near Stavanger The streets of Norwegian coastal towns worked in the center When man authorities fled they many valuables Slave j have been barricaded The men and 50 in the tains in the heart of Norway at same camp Most of the women Lillehammer echo with the sounds either had borne children or were pregnant When Lieutenant Colonel D T Fuller of North Tarrytown N Y heard that women slave workers were wearing American fraternity pins he assigned Captain Carl Luetke of San Antonio Texas to investigate Luetke soon discovered the file and the stored valuables ual cards listed the place where the airman had been brought down whether he had been alive or dead when found Those who died after captured were recorded with the cause of death and the burial site Captain Charles Richard Sattgast president of Minnesota State Teachers college was put in charge of the file He ordered the workers to return all rifled sions They claimed German had invited them to help themselves when American lery began shelling the town Not since 1925 have their salaries increased except by a bonus which soon will expire An effort is being made to in- crease their pay and Ogden should Continued on Page Two Column Two By Sam Smith United Press Staff INDEPENDENCE Mo April 21 Harry S Truman Saturday had a kiss coming from his retired English literature teach- er Miss Matilda D Brown The other night the telephone rang in Miss Brown's modest little I home here When she answered the operator The president of the United States is calling President Truman one of the smartest boys in the class of those are Miss Brown's own words wanted to talk to his old i English teacher Right beside him in Washington was another of Miss Brown's for- mer pupils Charles G Ross ington correspondent of the St Louis I wanted you to be the first to know that I have named Charley as my personal press tive the chief executive said We are just sitting here talking about our high school days and we wanted you to know what an inspiration you have always been to Mr Truman explained Miss Brown who is crowding 80 said she told the president he had a kiss coming from her Back on commencement day as the class of 01 gathered for farewells she had missed Ross She told her pupils she was ing him for the whole class and when any of the others did thing outstanding she'd kiss them too Harry and Charley tne Miss Brown said later and I told Harry he nad one coming Allies Occupy Half of Reich By United Press Allied armies have occupied one- half of the square miles of Adolf Hitler's greater Germany The advances by soviet troops converging onto Berlin brought the total area under allied control to the square miles The calculation is based on a survey of maps of the eastern and western fronts by the United Press Greater Germany includes the reich and Austria and 8721 square miles of the Czechoslovak Sudetenland of work on underground hideouts and factories In the Netherlands Germans were flooding great areas in the path of allied liberating armies The inundations threatened to con- vert Rotterdam and into virtual island cities Dispatches from Paris warned that stiff fighting may lie ahead in Denmark and in Norway before the nazis are crushed About Germans still are believed among way's mountains and along her deep fjords There sea transport has been under constant attack for weeks by R A F bombers and some Norwegians believe the man garrison could not be trans- ferred to the reich even if the man high command wanted to move it Von Papen Has No Peace Proposals PARIS April 21 Franz Von Papen Germany's ter schemer in two wars may have put himself in the way of being captured by the allies but he had no peace proposals in his pocket This was revealed Saturday by Lieut Gen Walter Bedell Smith Gen Dwight D Eisenhower's chief of staff at a press conference He said Russian officers took part in the questioning of Von Papen whose capture was announced a week ago Asked when he made up his mind that the tide had turned against the Germans Von Papen said it was when landec in Normandy It was home to the German people and general staff when they crossed the Rhine Von Papen said Solons Will View Atrocity Scenes WASHINGTON April 21 UP A bipartisan congressional tee is expected to leave this end for Germany to visit scenes of nazi atrocities at request of Gen Dwight D Eisenhower The committee will be composed of six members of the house of representatives and six senators Half the members will be licans and half Democrats It was understood that two bers each from the military affairs and naval affairs committee of each house had been named to the com- plus two members of the senate foreign relations committee and two members of the house foreign affairs group Names of the members were not announced immediately Allies Pursue Fleeing Nazis Over Po Plain By Lynn Heinzerling ROME April 21 U S Fifth and British Eighth armies quickly toppled the great fortress city of Bologna Saturday and swept on 10 miles northwest in pursuit of German troops fleeing for their lives across the Po plain Gen Mark W Clark told his Fifteenth army group that the fall of this ancient city of 270.000 through the bitter fighting stood as a de- fiant German symbol of resistance to us the beginning of final victory in Italy Troops smashing into the fity met only light resistance and by Saturday night the great pursuit of the Germans was well under way San Giovanni 10 miles northwest of Bologna was overrun and ish troops went on to score gains northeast of the city Members of the U S fourth and Ninety-first divisions entering Bologna touched off a great victory celebration among Burst Inside Flaming Capital Terror-Stricken Gty Without Escape Routes Germans Say By Richard Kasischke LONDON April 22 The Germans announced last night that red army tanks had burst three to four miles inside the flaming of Berlin in an over- whelming assault on the three-quarters encircled nazi prize of two world wars Moscow whose official reports were running 24 hours behind man announcements did not confirm the dramatic flash from doomed Berlin But a sian dispatch filed hours before said a red army entry into the nazi capital was imminent The soviet high command said that veteran Russian forces who have marched 1000 miles from the gates of Moscow in one of the greatest military comebacks in tory were engaged in fighting at Berlin's outskirts and had cap- tured Erkner of the city's eastern limits and seven other fortress sub- urbs there to 16 miles from the capital Split Greater Reich Raining blows on a beaten foe the Russians by Berlin's account also irreparably split Adolf Hitler's greater reich into two com- isolated areas in a ment as momentous as the red army's entry into the capital This left the terror-stricken and shell and city out any escape routes to south and presaged an imminent linkup in force with American troops Un- tens of thousands of joyful j reports from Paris said American and soviet patrols At the eastern end of the front the British Eighth army drove three miles beyond giore capturing Marrara and were reported within eight miles of rara important communications center just below the Po river and 30 miles northeast of Bologna These troops were driving to cut off and annihilate segments of the retreating Germans The prize of Bologna described by Gen Joseph T McNarney uty supreme commander in the Mediterranean as the most im- portant northern rail center of the Germans was a victory for all allied arms The Second Polish corps of the army and veteran can infantrymen converged on the city from east and west at almost the same hour Saturday morning ready had joined Berlin caught in a swirling tle which the Germans said never has been surpassed in as well as all the Baltic ports and Continued on Page Column One Government Shakeup Reported in Japan SAN FRANCISCO April 21 government up in Japan was Saturday by Tokyo radio which said a reshuffle of regional officials was the largest ol its kind since the outbreak of the GEA greater east Asia war The broadcast recorded by the federal communications sion said the changes ordered by Home Minister Genki Abe were intended to increase the of local administrative authorities in the event of an American invasion of the homeland Domei news agency said the re- organization moves had extended to Korea Domei also reported the ment of Vice Adm Gisaburo former commander of the Port Arthur naval station to com- mand the Korean naval station succeeding Vice Adm Oka Oka was assigned to the eral staff Hun Brutality Fails to Crack Countess Who Aided Allies LEIPZIG Germany April When first arrested she said Germans Stage Raids WITH THE U S NINTH ARMY April 21 to 50 miles behind the Ninth army's Elbe river front a German general and than 1000 troops are waging a strike and fade away raiding campaign Villagers said the general fied by official army reports as Lieutenant General Unrein times is drunk in his sorties But he apparently stays sober enough to map out efficient and ent strategy for his night raids His entire staff had surrendered but Unrein divided his forces into two combat commands each charged with harassing American rear areas and supply lines Last night a ring of Ninth army guns closed slowly around one group hidden in a dense dark forest Shells started fires which might drive the nazis out The forays began several days ago when German troops struck southward piercing the Ninth army's northern flank and then being swallowed up in the for- ests infantry units by about a score of tanks and perhaps 100 self-propelled guns and other armored I hides hidden in the unpatrolled forests wait until a small can unit such as a truck convoy approaches Then they strike swiftly usually out- numbering the Americans so ly that battle is futile The spoils are carted back to the forest outs American born Countess Henry de Mauduit 45 after 22 months in six jails and camps said Saturday she once had to undress completely while German guards searched her Born Roberta Laurie of ton Mass the blue-eyed turely gray woman said she was seized by the gestapo for Jig allied fliers in a cret double floor of her Brittany chateau She told how she hid in a ward to escape being marched off by the nazis from suburban Schoenefeld barracks with 6000 other wome nand cal prisoners as the Americans Leipzig All the women worked 12 hours daily at the dangerous task of ing artillery shells in the great munitions plant they beat me five times in six months while I was wearing ing but my night clothes Don't ever tell me women she said relating how she had been in the main women's camp north of Berlin with women from all over some of whom were held under water until they drowned during third-degree questioning and I don't remember any woman who talked The slim svelt countess married 17 years ago in Paris to the Count de Mauduit said the gestapo at first fed her on bread and water for 35 days at Rennes prison but she failed to crack It's is okay with me she said she told them I have been trying for years to get thin but I never had the courage to stick to a diet before Panicky Berliners Reported Fleeing STOCKHOLM Sunday April 22 AP The Scandinavian telegraph bureau said today that Berlin residents were fleeing westward by tens of thousands in an effort to escape the heavy Russian artillery rage sweeping the city from the east Transport means are limited and the elevated railway stations are jammed the agency said When a train arrived was it related Berliners fought with one another in order to board the cars headed west In suburban stations eyewitness reports seem almost too terrible It is enough to say that people took no regard even for diers Some even were thrown out of cars by the panic-stricken
