Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - May 3, 1945, Ogden, Utah CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING MAY 3 1945 U S Leadership Faces Test at Peace America Promotes World-Wide Security System SAN FRANCISCO May 3 plan for an all-powerful world cil to guard future peace day was attacked by several nations at the united nations conference They want to put on a more regional basis The issue growing in importance as the work of the conference j speeds up appears certain to im- pose a severe test of American leadership Security System IT S is seeking both to mote the creation of a world-wide security system and to fit into it such regional organizations the Pan-American system without allowing the development of re- So far the American delegation under Secretary Stettinius has avoided a showdown among its own members on the sort of for- mula it may support The 16 American amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks plan which are to be announced tomorrow do not cover the regional issue As proposals poured in for re- shaping the Dumbarton Oaks on power of the security council to jse force there were these other developments in this bustling conference 1 Stettinius started a drive to keep as many foreign ministers as possible here throughout the conference despite the pressure of their problems at home He told some that he hoped the job of blueprinting a world would be completed within three weeks and he self intends to see it through Russian Foreign Commissar tcv plans to leave in a few British Foreign Secretary Eden stay at least another FINAL EDITION First Photo of Nazi Surrender in Ital to plans week Big Three Conference 2 Molotov Eden and Stettinius conferred yesterday on Poland trying to clear the way for re- organization of the Warsaw Last night those three and Foreign Minister Soong of China previewed future ence problems seeking to line before Molotov leaves American delegation de- that Argentina should get no officer position at the ence Some South American tnes want the Argentine delegate his seat here to be made official reporter for the com- on judicial organization Continued on Page Two Column Word from Switzerland indicates Admiral Doenitz is not as crazy as has been reported He gives evidence of a high de- nm by timing away azi regime He is re- ported to have dismissed the entire nazi cabinet in move is interPreted as ing the way for peace overtures Truman Vetoes Farm Draft Act WASHINGTON May 3 UP President Truman today vetoed legislation to defer large numbers lazis Give Up Fear Russians By Richard D McMillan ON THE BRITISH FRONT LINE of agricultural workers He said iIN NORTHWESTERN GERMANY it would be an injustice to those n already inducted or about to be inducted The joint resolution introduced by Rep John A Flannagan chairman of the house cultural committee was designed to halt induction of farm workers who are deemed necessary to agriculture President Truman said this would be marked departure from the sound principles thus far ad- to the original tive service provision barring de- ferments for occupational The sole tne there must be enough of sanity among the high command of many to avoid allowing the conflict to degenerate into guerrilla whether the individual can better we I LCI Ten days ago I commented that or armed C Xi Ji Uca UT In an Gen Eisenhower has such a I'm expecting Germany to yield the ghost within the week as J HIG forces or m an essential activity m support of the war the Present said in his veto message This provision is the foundation si one of our selective service tom under which men have boon selected for the colors to make the greatest on Page Two Seven May 3 of Germans are giving up to the British today crying in Where can we The Russians are coming Tens of thousands of Germans actually are trying to find refuge in the British lines It is a rout of tremendous tions the final disintegration of the Wehrmacht They are coming in aboard all kinds of vehicles with cars and carts jammed three abreast on the highways Men throw their guns and ammunition into the ditches at every opportunity Some cars are packed with high staff officers privates and women nurses All are jammed in in their rush to escape the red army Generals are ing along on foot Civilians ing NAZIS GIVE UP The ments of unconditional surrender or German forces in Italy and western Austria are signed by the German representative of supreme Commander Carl Wolff plenipotentiary of the wehrmacht in Italy The signing took place in the office of tenant General W C Morgan chief of staff Map at side shows where the nazis quit Shaded areas indicate territory held by German and dominated Italian troops before unconditional surrender by the German armies in Italy and southern Austria Arrows locate allied drives with heavy lines in- approximate battle fronts Surrender Ends Hard Fighting In Northern Italy WASHINGTON May 3 UP Surrender of German forces in Italy and western Austria has just about ended the hard fighting for American ground forces in Europe military observers believed today The remaining major task con- fronting the Anglo-American allies is cleaning up the North Sea ports Holland Denmark and Norway surrender in Italy British Smash Into Rangoon In Burma Sector Australians Drive To Air Base In Borneo Assault By Associated Press British soldiers smashed into Rangoon supposedly de- fended by trapped Japs in the climactic fight of the Burma campaign and the outstanding development day in the Pacific war In other actions British and French warships bombarded islands lying between Rangoon and for the third successive day blasted airfields in southern Japan for the thirteenth in five weeks ican infantrymen drove a deep wedge into Okinawa defenses 615 miles south of Japan picked Australians opening the Borneo campaign pushed from oil-soaked beaches into dominating covered ridges and the orated Yanks in the Pacific Beached the gates of held Davao in the southern Philip- Jines without a long anticipated sattle Quick The break-through into Rangoon ame in a quick follow-up of a double landing by parachute and troops south of the Burmese capital while an armored British Seize Hamburg Russ Tommies Unite Surrender Rumors Grow Denmark and Norway Now Isolated By Allied Troops on Baltic Stalin Reports New Allied Junctions NAMED BY NAZIS Count above has been named German foreign minister replacing Joachim von Ribbentrop who has been re- placed according to the burg radio lorth pushed down from the With the eliminating the southern and with burgs capitulation without a fight the British and Canadians ently had only a cleanup job left to do on the North Sea coast Denmark Norway Next Denmark and Norway are ex- to topple when the final collapse in the homeland by defeat or surrender Events of the past few days have circumstantially established the boundary line between Anglo- American and Russian operations and the western allies have ished themselves along virtually ts entire length The line runs southward from Wismar on the Baltic to the Elbe comes Press dispatches from Tarakan island off the ast coast of Borneo reported that he first day of the Australian in- asion insured quick development f an air base there General Jouglas MacArthur said this would the chain of airfields in he southwest Pacific That would ut them within range of Singa- ore heretofore attacked only by Today's raid by 50 to 00 pounded six airdromes n Kyushu island from which the Japs have been sending suicide planes against American forces at Okinawa Simultaneously Tokyo reported suicide submarines had gone info action in the area ing three U S ships On Okinawan Front Two and depleted American divisions were relieved on the Okinawan front while the Seventh burning and crunching its way ahead with flame throwers and tanks cut a hole in the enemy's east coast defenses American bombers wrecked 29 ocean-going vessels including four bombed off the coast of Honshu Japan's main island U S rines which have sunk about half of Japan's merchant marine counted for 21 more running their wartime total to 1.119 j V S Pacific fleet headquarters at Guam disclosed that the British aircraft carriers Indomitable and Victorious as well as Illustrious are operating in the Pacific Hitler Suicides With Goebbels Russians Declare By Romney Wheeler LONDON May 3 Hitler who vowed to rule the world committed suicide in the ruins of Berlin with Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels and the chief of the German eral staff Gen Hans Krebs a Soviet communique said today The Russians declared their in- formant was Dr Hans Goebbels chief lieutenant who was captured as Berlin fell It was presumed Russian commanders on the scene would make vigorous inquiry to obtain indisputable proof No Legend Material Hitler V surrendered to the British today as the war in Europe drew toward its close Remnants division after another Germans Facing British lav e Soon Capitulate LONDON May 3 BBC front reporter broadcasting over the army radio said today that a general surrender of the German forces facing Lieut Gen Sir Miles C Dempsey's British Second army may come at any moment A proclamation from Fuehrer Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz new government declaring Prague a hospital city indicated strongly that the German armies in slovakia might also be preparing to capitulate Persistent but still unconfirmed reports said the three other great pockets of enemy mark Holland and were preparing to quit the less fight Negotiations for their j surrender were said to be in surrendered Denmark and Norway were iso- lated by junctions on the Baltic The western and eastern allies linked up at new points The largest of many German death traps were shrinking in the south where Gen Eisenhower's assault moved close to a junction with the Russians in eastern Austria The Third army moved to within 39 miles of and the Seventh closed to within seven of Innsbruck The Seventh army got astride a east of Munich and its Third division raced within 27 miles of both Berchtesgaden ind Salzburg in a drive across the Inn river from the west Heavy drifts delayed the advance on bruck Civilian refugees said the Aerial Massacre Field Marshal Kesselring's rear had been thrown wide open by the surrender of nearly mans opposing the allies on the Italian front Gains in the south ranged up to 28 miles Devastated Hamburg was the second largest city of Germany and its leading Port The metropolis of Allied fliers pounced on the the lower Elbe had long since ing enemy convoys in what front devastated by American and dispatches described as one of the biggest aerial massacres in history Hundreds of nazi trucks and cars British bombs Its Blohm and Voss shipyards and Deutsche Werke sub works had spawned much of fleet and merchant marine were blasted into blazing Its refinery had produced age and British planes set dozens of up to tons of oil a month One of the last remarks of the Hamburg radio was that Pragu ships aflame in the Baltic north of capital of Czechoslovakia and now Kiel I the largest city remaining in RAF Typhoons de- j an open four vessels and damaged more than 50 when they attacked shortly before the British German escape armadas ranging Second army of Lieut Gen Sir from motor torpedo boats to ton cargo liners along the German coast The waters around Kiel Miles C Dempsey entered It was the first German city so designated Chaos reigned in the north Flensburg and Luebeck were isn and attached American troops wm -j ted with burning ships pilots re- burst defense after defense and i a- or Ported About 900 vehicles were gathered tens of thousands of whether he was the victim of a destroyed or damaged said The P brain hemorrhage a possibility re- ported by supreme allied quarters there was little doubt among allied leaders that the fuehrer indeed was dead and that he had in a manner which would thwart any die-hard nazi attempt to build a Wagnerian legend about him A statement authorized by the supreme allied command told of a secret meeting eight days ago at Luebeck Germany between tapo Chief Heinrich and Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte Continued on Page Two Column Five destroyed or damaged said The Press continues down the Elbe nd Mulde rivers to the mountains kirting Czechoslovakia From there it reaches along Danube probably to Linz and then ward through the mountains to the river and the Adriatic Small Pocket Left The German surrender in Italy me ana southern Austria gave the seventh war loan is so important Of the west side of meeting the quota amounts War Loan Drive Called Crusade Orval W Adams of Salt Lake City told an war bond rally at noon today that the southern end of this line sians are just on our heels All of these Germans say the Continued on Page Two Column Five self to bring about a complete sation of hostilities Many of the schools and Weber county h- to the luncheon musical talent it- Death Hinted Bungling of Truce By Kobert Meyer TWELFTH mer w -u j f u He escribed the new fuehrer HQ Mav 3 as a decent pocket in upper Austri of the Danube from Passai v Linz Apparently the Germar commander in Italy did not hav authority to surrender this corner Probably German forces will sur render locally forces are up to the rivers The British Second army's to Wismar announced apparently completes the conquest of the west side of the Trieste Gorizia Seized May 3 harmony On a short visit Carl formerly m the real estate making his home and politically moderate He command com- seemed surprised that Doenitz had that he be- proclaimed his intention to fight Heinrich on and couldn't understand how Doenitz was going to sue for peace way he i that way But he said emphatically that Germans would not support I since he any fight to the death while they Folke would go all the way on peace I on terms at negotiations Dittmar said that 90 per cent of German officers consider Himmler the grave digger of the German army He described Himmler's handling of the peace negotiations a cavalry charge In the first place he acted on his own I Dittmar said When Hitler was dead or no longer in command of the the gestapo he believed now built -I piace is now built its normal needs place is year-old son i the Continued On Page Two Column Three he believed the rise ig ended in northern Italy New troops stepped into dis- Austria today and occupied rt of Trieste and the Isonzo of 20 miles to the northwest Heinrich von whose representatives an agreement for the un- OOn surrender of almost troops Sunday was ex- Continued on Page Two Column Four The Weather tion Himmler power On the many Dittmar said he believed tried to keep post-war fate of the German officer corps was best fitted for the task of rebuilding the country because it was least undermined by nazism Because there is a great ity between communism and tional socialism I believe com- has a good chance in he said Tern to a crusade Besides the ance of continuing to finance the war the importance of protecting the integrity of the dollar is be- coming more apparent as the sure toward inflation increases he said The representatives of industry and employes were the guests of G L and Albert Becker In coming the guests and turning th luncheon meeting over to Dr T Dixon G L Becker pre sented a subscription for m bonds in behalf of brother associates firm and em ployes Earl T Ross a representative of the treasury department Weber on its past successes g war bond quotas and called for even mightier efforts in the present campaign which he said will require extra effort be- cause while the need for funds is greater the prospects of victory lessen the interest of the as chairman of the Weber campaign said the E bond tne county is but he expressed confidence the an be subscribed He the county organization's aid behind Chairman Blain man s campaign to increase com- pany payroll quotas George vice chairman of the Utah war bond lon also spoke Veteran Bonus Drive Launched By William F Arbogast WASHINGTON May 3 Surrender Rumors LONDON May 3 ters dispatch from Moscow said day that rumors of Germany's im- mediate unconditional surrender were circulating in the Russian capital These cannot be strictly confirmed the dispatch said Marshal Stalin announced night that British and soviet troops had effected a junction on a mile front from the Baltic to tenberge An order of the day addressed to Marshal Konstantin sky's Second White Russian army said the Soviets had overwhelmed the final enemy resistance on the Mecklenburg plain The entire north German pocket up to Schleswig-Holstein was rubbed out Premier Stalin reported the col- lapse of German resistance in the entire northern German pocket east of Kiel He said the towns of Earth site of a prisoner of war British In Control Hamburg fell hardly a surrender terms struggle The veterans bonus drive with an STamP American fliers the north as fast as they could nil mated price tag at- is in full swing on Capitol Hill It got off to a flying start under the guidance of Representative Rankin chairman of the house veterans committee and one of the framers of the G I of i rights It calls for payment of a week for a year to any member of the armed services who served 90 days or more since Sept 16 1940 and was honorably discharged Stoutly insisting that it is an ad- justed compensation proposal Warin and Wittenburg were captured and a link made with British troops on the line called for British occupation mnd control not only of the city itself but also of a ten-mile arc ing it on the north side of the Elbe This placed the British within 37 miles of Kiel the main German naval base and 72 of Denmark Ine commander of occupation troops placed the enure under curfew and ordered all residents except utility plant workers con- fined to their homes after one p m today The British ordered all traffic in Hamburg stopped at noon The commander told the populace by radio that the duration of the few would depend upon their be- havior and declared that troops would intervene by force of arms in case of disobedience The American Eighteenth borne corps including the second and Eighth divisions and the British Eighth corps were mopping up pocketed Germans in I Tank I Says Greta Garbo By Joan Younger NEW YORK May 3 UP Greta Garbo has told friends she will appear in no more motion tures and has purchased a rather than a bonus Rankin i down rooming house in which today iod ending at seven Ogden Albuquerque Atlanta Bismarck Butte Chicago Denver 54 40 58 96 40 78 Or 52 89 46 29 50 37 79 29 64 Reno 42 87 Rock Springs 36 60 42 Grand June Lake 79 San Antonio 8 48 an Antonio 60 55 Ok City 29 HO y- 42 48 61 OPA to Investigate High Cigaret Prices NEW YORK May 3 AP Manufacturers of unfamiliar brands of cigarets today faced an OPA inquiry which will to mine whether these new products are of a quality rating the 21 cents a package charged for them Daniel P Woolley regional OPA administrator said an tion was in progress as a result of complaints by smokers who said they had paid a high price for cigarets they had previously never heard of predicted the measure he yesterday as an amendment to the G I of rights would win early and overwhelming approval The Mississippian declined to timate its cost but said it would be easy for anyone to calculate On the basis of each for the more than men and women eligible the total would be in the neighborhood of 000.000 The adjusted compensation would addition to out pay already provided by law This ranges from to de- pending on the length and place of service ter its remodeling she plans to settle down and joost loaf The eccentric erstwhile queen of the screen refused a recent of- fer from a Swedish film company with the statement she would er lie quiet I tank I will joost she said She bought a four-story dingy brownstone house in the East Forties under the name Frey Brown Hollywood Through her attorney she is dickering with con- strue jn firms on remodeling reputedly millionaire she paid only for the house and immediately began getting a return on her money in rent Nazi Atrocities Unequalled Documented Study Shows SUPREME HEAD QUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Paris May 3 man occupation of France was de- scribed by supreme headquarters oday as a reign of terror filled brutality and cruelty on a scale unequaled in history The indictment was made in a documented study by the psycho- warfare division to con- possible skeptics that man atrocities are not just a lot of propaganda An example of the nazi torture methods was cited in the case of 7 French resistance members aken from a prison at St Brieuc ast August whose bodies were ater found in a Many had their eyes torn out heir tongues cut out their ails missing welts and bruises all ver their bodies and their skulls roken etc At least one man was ound to have some dirt in his sign he had been buried while still alive The study consists of 13 volumes of reports on German crimes throughout France collected by American and British officers with the help of the French intelligence service It will be published soon in the United States and Britain In some cases confessions have already been obtained from mans who were subsequently taken prisoner The conclusion of allied officers who visited scores of French lages interviewed witnesses and collected photographs of atrocities The whole thing was part of a fixed policy of brutal repression if not extermination The study embraced these gories of mass execution of hostages mass execution of ance movement members or mass reprisals nate shooting and sacking of towns routine methods of interrogation by torture rape and miscellaneous move from one trap to another Contact With Russ Contact was made with the sians near Wismar and Grabow The German division a training unit surrendered en masse the British Sixth division at whole division surrendered to the Americans near Hagenow The American Ninth army established three new links with the Russians at a point seven miles southeast of tenberge and at Oldenburg traffic hub of 33.000 and capital of the Duchy of that name surrendered by telephone to the Canadian Second division er Canadians closed on Emden and Wilhelmshaven Without moving except to send patrols to contact the Russians the Ninth army captured 14.621 of them driven into American lines by the Russian ad- vance Join On Baltic The British and Russians joined forces on the Baltic above captured Berlin and east of fallen Luebeck It was more of a than a campaign What Germans re- mained were beaten many had fled to the doubtful refuge of mark With the loss of Berlin burg Luebeck and Rostock the only large German cities ing under the swastika were lau Dresden Chemnitz and Kiel At Luebeck the British were 38 miles from Kiel and 85 from the Danish frontier Schwerin Wismar and toppled in the north The Danubian fortress of Passau guardian city to Linz fell to Patton's troops in the south Bulletins SAN FRANCISCO May X S delegation revealed plans today to seek to write into the Dumbarton Oaks plan cial emphasis on human righto international law and peaceable world changes coincident with reports of new progress toward solution of tbe Polish problem LONDON May 3 Brussels radio quoted the French News agency without farther confirmation today as that all German resistance had ceased in Holland Queen helmina and Princess Juliana of The Netherlands have arrived la liberated Holland
