Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - April 26, 1945, Ogden, Utah Yankees Russians Link in Elbe Say Swiss Polish Issue Showdown Near at S F Delegates Tensely Await Latest Word From Moscow By Lyle C Wilson SAN FRANCISCO April 26 growing tension gripped delegates to the united nations conference day as the big three powers moved toward a showdown on the explosive Polish tion Hotel lobbies buzzed with that Soviet Foreign Com- V M Molotov chief sian delegate here may have re- new instructions from Pre- mier Josef Stalin on the Polish issue and that he was ready to meet again with Secretary of State Edward R Stettinius Jr and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Molotov Will Speak Molotov was scheduled to ad- dress a plenary session of the con- ference around five p m MWT The delegates awaited his speech eagerly for some hint on the Kremlin's latest word on Poland and perhaps on Russia's demand for three votes in the assembly of the proposed world organization to be set up here But guesses that Molotov probably would avoid any public discussion of such controversial issues at least for the time being Stettinius Molotov and Eden canvassed the Polish question in Washington last week-end but re- mained deadlocked on Russia's re- quest that the so-called Lublin government be admitted to this conference They agreed to resume their talks here An American official told the United Press that our delegation was standing firm against ting the Lublin Polish government to this ence President Truman was de- scribed as having been adamant in rejecting Russian demands in behalf of the Lublin Poles British May Waver But it was indicated that the British might prove more ing now to compromise with the Russians for the sake of getting the embarrassing Polish dispute out of the way The conference began yesterday in a spirit of determination to protect world peace but with general recognition that there are obstacles to be overcome before a satisfactory basis of world col- laboration can be achieved Mr Truman who is being described by word of mouth hereabouts as a very firm reminded the delegates that their task would not be easy when he opened the conference with an address cast from Washington We who have lived through the torture and the tragedy of two world conflicts he said must realize the magnitude of the lem before us We do not need far-sighted vision to understand Continues on Page Two Column Twoi As Arrive on Conference Scene M Distinguished writers connected the World Peace Foundation are apprehensive over the outcome of the conference now in session in San Francisco They see special groups Ing to create confusion This ment is It would be fatal to the success of this conference to inject or re- open the particular issues which have arisen in the course of the which it has been necessary to find an immediate connected with the settlement of disputed frontiers or the government of liberated tries I quite agree with that ment Above all things there must be a world organization to prevent future wars That is the big thing to be ob- Failing in that the world will be on its way to another man-killing war which may engulf civilization itself We made a tremendous blunder in refusing to play our part after the first world war We cannot afford to repeat that error It is said War can be avoided War is not born in it is built In men Mrs Albert Smith Route 3 Ogden has paused in her duties as chairman of radio special events and publicity for the women's di- vision of war finance of Weber county long enough to sign a con- tract with the Columbia ing System Mrs Smith is under contract to lyrics for Norman Costello Chicago composer of modern songs and is waiting for her collaborator's approval of the contract with this major network Two poems by Mrs Smith and a biography of her work will be in a volume of verse by New York publisher this month Mrs Smith has four small dren and also a son in the service M Smith a veteran who is now stationed at Lowry field Denver after ing 50 missions over Germany 0 Stories continue to come out of on Paze Three Column Two Seventy-fifth 376 OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING APRIL 26 1945 IB SECTIONS HE'LL SPEAK TODAY China's leading delegate to the Foreign Minister T V arrives by plane in San Francisco with Mrs Soong late today After receiving the report of the committee the plenary session will hear addresses by Minister Soong Russian Foreign Commissar V M Molotov and British Foreign Anthony Eden Per Cent of All Meat Placed Under Rationing By Gwen Morgan WASHINGTON April 26 Chief Chester Bowles today brought per cent of all meat under in order to spread more evenly civilian supplies ex- to drop another six million pounds in May Beginning Sunday and ing until the start of the next tion period June 2 all meats ex- cept mutton will require red points including cull and utility grades of veal and lamb and all grades of Truman's Actions Hint Big Things WASHINGTON April 26 AP A presidential call at the Pentagon army nerve center put this capital j on the alert today fcr possible transcendent developments abroad Significant in President man's one hour and visit at the war department ters across the Potomac yesterday were these 1 He met there with the highest military and diplomatic officials in Washington 2 At the Pentagon are all the for the closest possible son with battle fronts in Europe as well as in the Pacific 3 This was the commander in chief's second meeting in three days with virtually the same suggesting the conferences related to a developing situation or situations abroad 4 Those at the latest meeting with the president included Gen George C Marshall army chief of staff Secretary Stimson Adm Er- nest J King chief of naval tions Adm William D Leahy chief of staff to the commander in chief and Undersecretary of State Joseph C Grew ranking state de- official now in ton Nations Ready Economic Union SAN FRANCISCO April 26 Bech foreign ister of Luxembourg revealed day that his country France and Holland already are for an economic union designed to fit into the world curity organization now being planned here He said in an exclusive interview with the United Press that the four-power tended to union would be ex- include any separate Clearfield Depot Attains Growth Will Consolidate N S D Expected to Remain Permanent Part of U S Navy After more than two years of constant growth the naval supply depot at Clearfield is now in a position to date its gains although it will continue to expand from time o time as the needs of the navy direct declared Captain J H Skillman supply officer command at Clearfield yesterday In the stress of war we have placed emphasis on production with the result that welfare and recreation of all personnel has not developed with like Cap- tain Skillman explained We will correct this coming months and while we will continue to work lard we will have opportunities o play equally hard Facilities for Leisure Time In the field of recreation ery effort is being made to vide our personnel with facilities for leisure time stated the supply officer in command We expect to have baseball and less popular cuts of veal and lamb such as breasts shanks necks and flanks Other changes in the meat and fat rationing program for May will be increases of one to two points per pound for most cuts of lamb and veal and one point for most beef steaks decreases of one to two points on beef roasts and other cuts of beef increases of four points for margarine and two points for grade one cheese Butter and hamburger remain unchanged at 24 and 6 points per pound so do ration values of lard shortening cooking and salad oils The expanded program for May puts meat rationing back where it was a year ago before most meats were made point free Since then point values have been gradually restored until in April per cent was back on the ration list Today's action makes it per cent The only meat that remains un- rationed is some pounds of mutton Support Extended In another move yesterday aimed at increasing the supply of lard the war food administration extended hog support prices to in- clude good and choice grade mals weighing up to 300 pounds Heavy hogs provide more lard Bowles said the return of most remaining meats to rationing would keep point increases of more de sirable cuts at a minimum and give every person the best chance possible to get his fair share He estimated that during May there would be a little more lamb ton and pork than in April but that there would be nine million pounds less beef He said increased use of garine necessitated raising its point value from 8 to 12 points a pound in order to keep tion within the limits of civilian supply Butter he added will be slightly more plentiful in May Poison Gas Shells of Nazis Seized WITH U S THIRD ARMY IN GERMANY April 26 UP American Third army troops seized an estimated poison gas shells in a German supply dump 20 miles southeast of Bayreuth today Colonel Raynar E Johnson Columbia S C and Captain George Gorry London Ohio who inspected the gas cache that the dump had been established no more than two weeks ago suggesting that the nazis might have intended to use poison gas against the Third army dump was hidden in a dense pine forest near woehr Gorry said there were signs that the Germans still were rushing in gas shells when the Americans reached the area The shells ranged up to 150 millimeters and many were de- signed for use in new rocket projectors which also were cap- tured at the supply base Soviets Seize Stettin British Take Bremen Patton's Tanks to Join Russ in Czechoslovakia Area Italian Uprising 1 Frees Han Genoa and Turin ROME April 26 April 26 AP The British Second army captured Bremen today clearing all the great port ex- cept the dock area and ger park north of the center eral uprising of patriots was reported unofficially today to of the city Far to the south the American Third army closed within 11 miles of Austria and 41 of Munich Gen George S Patton's tanks were within 100 miles of a with the Russians west of Softball teams of civilian employes entered in every league open to them in the vicinity and we shall see to it that they get all the port they need For the military personnel our welfare ing provides them with a focal point for recreational activities of all kinds including a motion ture theatre pool halls lounges and a library Several new storehouses are nearing completion which were de- signed specifically for the uses to which they will be put thereby enabling us to streamline our op- In the interest of Captain Skillman continued A new building has also just been opened at the main gate to house the security department to dite the functioning of that he pointed out Tremendous Job Done Admiral William J Carter SO U S N chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts while on a visit here last week stated N S D Clearfield has done a mendous job during the war and I expect it to carry on and main- tain its position in the naval ply system in the post-war riod The Clearfield depot represents a investment and adds much to the logistic structure of the U S navy's Pacific fleet The construction of the buildings at the depot all on land is of a type that is as permanent as could be built with the materials available during the war period British Manifest Determination To Succeed at By Arthur Gaeth Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO April day the British spoke to the press and radio This morning 250 of us gathered in the Mark Hopkins hotel headquarters of the British delegation to attend the press con- ference given by Clement R lee deputy prime minister This place is alive with journalists and commentators When they begin to ask questions you can nize voices that you have heard from all over the world Right now before the sessions be- gin there is time for press ences and so men like Close George Fielding Eliot mann Stokes Winchell and all the Continued on Page Two Column Solon Opens Fire on Adolf s Face German Rhineland state that may be set up after the war Bech said prospects for a Rhenish j frith movement appeared j er than in 1919 due chiefly to a general hostility of the Rhineland Catholics and labor toward the nazi regime Under the four-power economic union now under discussion he said all tariff barriers would be torn down and all other tions on a free flow of currencies imports and exports would be re- moved or reduced LONDON April 26 Rep Carter Manasco came face to face with a picture of Hitler he took another chew of tobacco let fly and scored a eye Yep Manasco today I put a little brown mule juice right spang on his whiskers Manasco was touring German concentration camps Yank Risks Death Is Wounded But Saves Little German Girl By Hal Boyle WITH THE U S FIRST TRY DIVISION AP A small pig-tailed German girl stood ened in the middle of a swept street and to a New sey corporal she was just a kid in danger and he risked his life to save her Because he was wounded his name may not yet be used The girl was one of a group playing in a Lichtenberg street just after Sixteenth regiment doughboys had captured the town Heedless that the town was filled with German civilians the nazis pasted it with a savage barrage of mortar and artillery shells From a vantage point just outside a self-propelled gun raked the street with shells and machine gun fire The screaming children ran to cellars All except the little girl who stood helpless with terror A German mortar shell hit a few yards from her Steel ripped through her legs and j the youngster fell to the ground her screams drowned out by the blasts of shells falling nearby The young corporal saw her fall He could hear the deadly machine gun bullets zinging down the street Without hesitation he dashed out to the child As he ran from the shelter of a building another shell burst near the girl and fragments struck the American in the face and chest He fell but slowly regained his feet blood streaming into his eyes and blinding him so he had to grope to reach the child She was unconscious when he reached a combat first aid station carrying her in his arms as he staggered through the bullet plowed street Then he collapsed from shock and loss of blood Those dirty nazis shelling their own exclaimed the medical corps attendant This fellow makes you proud you're an American Ask to See More Atrocity Camps PARIS April 26 American editors and legislators who visited the Buchenwald con- centration camp have asked the army to let them see more dence of nazi atrocities before they report to America The congressional party visited Gen Dwight D Eisenhower at his forward command post and asked to visit more camps so they could get the best possible picture The editors also said they could not form full opinions after the army whisked them through on a tour lasting lesS than an hour and a half Sen Alben W Barkley cratic majority leader from tucky told Eisenhower his group was grateful for the opportunity to see Buchenwald but was anxious to get a more complete report for congress Stars and S t r-i p e s Reporter Charles F Kiley writing for the combined press said Eisenhower told the legislators they would have every opportunity to see for themselves The Weather with scattered light rain this afternoon and over east portion tonight clearing north and west portions tonight with local frost Friday partly cloudy with few showers east portion not much change in temperature Temperatures For period ending at seven a m today Ogden Albuquerque 43 Atlanta 64 Bismarck 26 Boise 32 Butte 29 Chicago 39 Denver 33 Grand June 35 Las Vegas 56 Los Angeles 52 Minneapolis 29 New York Okla City 40 35 511 Omaha 37 54 61 89 23 50 Or 45 65 36 53 36 62 45 j Rock Springs 29 43 Lake 52 San Antonio 59 91 80 j San Fran 44 37 St 44 50 511 Seattle 46 59 611 51 95 11 Yankees Smash Okinawa Line GUAM April 26 UP Front reports said today that U S army troops had smashed the first jor Jap defense line on southern Okinawa All key terrain on which the line was anchored was captured by the Americans as they pushed more than half a mile through the strong Jap defenses to less than three and a half miles from Naha capital of the island The developing Okinawa brought a force of 200 to 250 ranging over pan again today in new tion raids on airfields in Kyushu and Shikoku two of the enemy islands While the Japs staggered under the weight of the American land naval and aerial blows Admiral Chester W Nimitz announced that enemy troops were killed on Okinawa and the surrounding islands up to yesterday Vienna a union which would en- circle Czechoslovakia and create a pocket larger than the Ruhr Patton Nears Austria Patton's Third army was closest Austria and across the Danube at a point 41 miles north of Munich hopelessly outflanked and Regensburg Lt Gen Alexander M Seventh army threatening Augsburg was he same distance to the northwest Hitler's ruined roost at was barely 72 miles from Third army troops in the Danube valley The assault upon the nazis Alpine redoubt in the south was up to or across the Danube on a front The Eleventh armored division drove nine miles farther ward today to the vicinity of holz only eight and a half miles from the Austrian frontier Only nine miles away from one column was the junction of the borders of Austria Czechoslovakia and many Another column of the Eleventh armored after stabbing seven miles southeastward entered 10 miles north of the Austrian frontier British Capture The British Lowland and Iron Third divisions captured Germans since entering Bremen yesterday Rigid opposition gave way suddenly and almost by The worst obstacles in Bremen were debris and swarms of freed foreign laborers who ran pell mell in the streets many fortified with the city's plentiful supply of liquor With peacetime residents Bremen was Germany's eighteenth city her second port and her most important sub base and supply center The of its fall came from Lt Gen Sir Miles C Dempsey's Second army ters even while the docks and the parks remained to be mopped up Largest Shipyards Bremen has two of Germany's largest shipyards which turned out everything from great liners to midget subs A craft factory textile mills grain and lumber houses dotted the city which covered 16 square miles It has been bombed repeatedly and was in ruins when it fell A meeting of the Ninth army and the Russians who encircled Berlin appeared very close for Red army shells were falling near have broken the German grip on north Italy and liberated Milan Genoa Turin Verona and scores of other towns Allied military authorities whose armies were sweeping deep into northern Italy on the heels of routed German forces withheld immediate confirmation of reports from the north of the rebellion against the nazis and fascists But accounts of the uprisings were supported by every evidence that the patriots had seized and were operating the radios in Mi- lan and Genoa Supplementary reports circulated freely in the Swiss border areas Mussolini in Deal Swiss advices quoted an Italian press dispatch as hinting that Be- nito Mussolini was trying to make a deal with the patriots in an fort to save his life He was re- ported to have been set up as a nazi figurehead in north Italy er he was rescued by the mans when his fascist regime cracked up This morning the dispatch was quoted Mussolini sent a man bearing a flag of truce to the head of the Milan Socialist party and offered to permit partisans to take over power on condition that the Germans and new fascists be lowed to leave without hindrance German resistance in northern Italy appeared to have collapsed Fifth army forces were within 75 miles southeast of Milan and less than 45 miles from Genoa last night Today a headquarters spokesman Things are moving so fast we just don't know where they are Continental reports reached London that a widespread ing of Italian patriots also had Turin the westernmost of the big industrial in north Italy Private advices from Switzerland said the patriots opened their attacks in concert with the allied drive in Italy Both the Fifth and Eighth armies were across the Po in strength and advancing northward swiftly against light opposition The Fifth drove to points north of Mantua putting them less than 20 miles from Verona southern gateway to the Brenner pass and a bare 120 miles from the Austrian frontier the Elbe river area 48 miles in the Arneburg northwest of the dying capital of The First army and the Russians were last reported about 14 miles apart in the center Kill Churchill Says LONDON April 26 Minister Winston Churchill told commons today that German V-2 attacks on England ended March 27 and revealed that the giant rockets killed persons and injured Churchill said London bore the brunt of the attacks which began last Sept 8 and ended when Brit- ish soldiers the launching sit The attacks reached their highest point during February mately 1.200 bombs fell on England during the entire campaign Truman Appeals for More WASHINGTON April 26 AP President Truman called on plant more victory gardens to augment the nation's food supplies for hungry peoples in liberated areas In a letter to former Governor Prentice Cooper of Tennessee chairman of the national advisory garden committee Mr Truman said there was a greater need for more and better gardens than at any time since the war started The war food administration with the aid of the advisory den committee is conducting a campaign to exceed last year's gardens a drop from in 1943 Mrs F R Will Never Live in Big House NEW YORK April 26 CAP Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt will never live again in the filled big house of the Hyde Park the president was estate where born Her secretary Malvina Thompson said the former first lady would remain in a modest tage on the Roosevelt Flames Spread Across Berlin LONDON April 26 Downes London Evening News correspondent who flew over lin in a Mosquito bomber said day a huge fire visible at feet spread across the center of the dying reich capital Five or six other great regions of fire from which rise vast plumes of black smoke are ing farther to the west and to the northwest and he said R A F planes encountered many Russian planes over the city he said as the soviet pilots covered operations of their comrades in the streets below The patrols fly in groups of twos and threes some of them at about he said We greet them by ping cur wings German Army Falling Apart Just Like It Did in 1918 German army was disintegrating today amid scenes reminiscent of 1918 Even as in the last days of World war I fully-armed German diers were surrendering in groups as large as 1000 The bag of prisoners grew most rapidly in the narrow corridor be- tween the American and Russian armies on either side of Berlin In Berlin itself the encircled garrison was fighting with the guns of the gestapo and SS at its back but west of the city all who could were marching into the American lines to escape the soviet war machine The traffic was so heavy that American First and Ninth army patrols which headed east in an effort to link up with the sians were forced to give up the task and return to their own lines civilians also were clogging the roads west of Only German soldiers or war criminals were ted to enter the American lines and surrender however Other were turned back and told to go to their homes A BBC broadcast said a former lord mayor of Berlin was captured by the American Second division as he attempted to flee south be- tween the American and Russian lines Lieutenant General Heinrich K Kirchheim captured by an ican tank unit near Magdeburg voluntarily sought to increase the bag of his countrymen with a broadcast over the Luxembourg radio Addressing particularly to Marshal Wilhelm Keitel commander of the German armed forces Kirchheim said ther resistance was hopeless and senseless in that the war already Heart of Berlin Reached By Reds Moscow Announces LONDON April 26 The Swiss radio said tonight that a linkup between the Americans and Russians in the Elbe region took place this afternoon on a front of many miles There was no confirmation from allied sources Marshal K K Rokossovsky ond White Russian army captured the port Stettin today as other viet forces battled in the center of Berlin and by German account drove to within 14 V4 miles of American positions on the west bank of the Elbe Stettin on the Oder tuary 70 miles northeast of Berlin was the main port of the encircled reich capital Moscow said the Russians advanced 19 miles beyond the river Premier Marshal Stalin's order tonight announcing the fall of the port was the first soviet tion of German reports that sovsky had moved his army ward onto the Oder It also the first Moscow disclosure that the Russians had crossed the lower Oder in the Stettin area In addition of S cettin the ms captured Gartz and Schwedt Gartz and Schwedt are 16 and 28 miles south of Stettin and eight to ten miles west of the river between Schwedt and Stettin The suddenness of Stettin's fall suggested that the Russians took the city with an attack from be- hind after the port for weeks from positions in its ern suburbs The power of blow was indicated in Stalin's citation of 43 generals and 84 other officers Russ Seize Bruenn Russian troops captured Bruenn German center in the middle of Czechoslovakia Stalin announced The capture of Bruenn the cap- ital of Moravia represented a deep drive into German defenses The Russians now menaced the vian valley and the Moravian gap from the rear A late Moscow dispatch reported that German resistance in flaming Berlin was weakening The German high command an- that a soviet wing west of Berlin had driven to Rathenow miles from American tions on the west bank of the Elbe The advance to Rathenow an optical instrument manufacturing center on the Havel river sented a gain westward for the Russians from Nauen It widened farther on the west the encircling belt thrown tightly around Berlin The inner edge of this ring ping the capital now extends roughly 15 miles from east to west and from seven to eight miles from north to south Heart of Berlin As Russian artillery a withering fire on the heart of Berlin blasting targets ward from the Tempelhof airport through the famous Tiergarten to the reichstag sector the Hamburg radio said that young German girls had joined fighting Under the soviet Tass news agency dispatch Men of the red army today are fighting in the heart of the German capital The dispatch gave no details but probably referred to the vicinity of the Alexanderplatz the center of the business district The German high command re- ported heavy fighting inside Berlin at the Goerlitzer and railway stations in the southeast the Tempelhof airdrome and lendorf in the south and tenburg in the west Russian eyewitness said the nazis disguised as priests grocers and school teachers were sifting into sections of Berlin held tey the red army in the bitter street dateline Bulletins By United Press The British radio said late day that Rome reported the lies were landing at la the of Genoa Berlin hauling a few precious been irretrievably lost ROME April 26 army troops captured Verona on the approaches to the Brenner pass today April 26 Petain at this Swiss border station p m today to await arrest by French officers on a of high treason a crime pi able by death
