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Show j' -& THE.WEATHEn UTAH: Partly cloudy north per tlon; clearing south portion this afternoon, tonight and Tuesdays scattered showers mountain. north portion this afternoon; eon tinned warm with little dunce-is) temperature Temperatures High 1 Low St i i hi wlsh'' we could n!t flfbtiBS for a little while and be friendly. I'm tired d staring at German soar passes. ! Pfe. Richard Shetronraf of Nev I vTorkt la Gtermany. .- FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 234 DTAH'B ONLY DAILY PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, APRIL 30, v 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS SOUTH OF SALT LAKE If Tlf.! J. -r-i - ii "2 IT' Effect Ryssiaini Tirps i of Spur San Francisco Meg :ates to Speed Up Conference Might Recess Shortly After V - E Day; European Delegates Become Restless as Rumors of Surrender Spread By LYLE C. WILSON , United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, April 30 o United Nations dele-jpates dele-jpates began jaspeed-up program today under the pressure of fear that this conference will begin to disintegrate the moment German resistance ends. Key conference figures are restless. The Europeans Are especially uneasy as events impend back home. The British are. promoting hurry-up procedure. A plan unofficially discussed would be for this confer ence to recess shortly after V-E day. . An Interim commission In Washington could then be authorised au-thorised to continue with international interna-tional organization plans until full delegations-could reassemhL A' preferable alternative more definitely sponsored, however, is . for some fixed time limit witn-in witn-in which delegates would agree to complete their Job here before dispersing. If the Germans should quit today to-day the chances are good that the heads of the British and Russian delegations shortly would .be fly- ins to their capitals. That would leave the conference short of prestige and ' authority.- Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov of the Soviet Union- already had can celled his plans 'to come, here when President Truman made personal request for his presence. He wanted to .be "In Moscow tor the. kilL r , TdreglSeafytBWfti Edenol Great Britain almost Inevitably In-evitably must hurry back to London Lon-don immediately after V-E day. Most of the British delegation, in fact,-would be wanted at home where Prune Minister Winston Churchil plans a quick general election. Set Early Meeting-Advisers Meeting-Advisers to the American delegation dele-gation ' joined the speed-up by scheduling an 8:30 a. m. meeting and the delegation itself called to met at 9:30 this morning. It will review world court proposals to be placed before the conference confer-ence and deal with some still pending details of the trustee system which Is to be established establish-ed over seized enemy territory. The Polish question has been sidetracked but it does not lie quietly. The Polish telegraphic agency circularized the conference confer-ence today with what amounted to a charge that the Russian gov-( gov-( Con tinned on Page Two) Provo Army Pilot Missing In Action In Mindanao Combat MISSING IN ACTION L Kenneth Earl Callahan of Provo. WOUNDED Pfc Leo J. Hancock of Payson. Missing in action over Mindanao, Min-danao, in the PhUippine, since April 14, is Lt Kenneth Earl Callahan, Cal-lahan, according to word received Saturday evening by his wife, Mrs. Mary Robinson Callahan, American Fork, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Callahan, 172 . South Second East, Provo. Lt. Callahan was piloting a B- 25. Mitchell army plane In combat action at the time he was re port -,' ed missing. In service for more than two years, he has been overseas over-seas since Feb. 10, of this year. His training as a pilot was received re-ceived at Sheppard field, Texas, Santa Ana, and LaMore, California; Califor-nia; Phoeniz, Arizona at , the Thunderbird field number two; and LaJunta, Colo., where he was . graduated and received his commission com-mission May 27, 1944. Following , exercises at LaJunta, he was at t home on his first leave for 12 days, before returning to report ' r-'or assignment, kf Lt Callahan Is a graduate of ifhe Provo high school and had at- '4lended the Brignam "Young university uni-versity for almost two years at ; the time he enlisted in. the air corps. While in school, he was m prominent in dramatics, art, '"' music and debate. He won top - honors in both tenor vocal solo (Continued on Page Two) Memorial Rites HId For Pyle . ibNDON, April 30 (U.R Memorial Mem-orial services were hld in Fleet Street ,J5t Dunstant's-in-the-West church at noon today for SfnlsAPyle war correspondent who was killed by Japanese machine ma-chine gvtn fire in the Pacific All American troops and newspapermen news-papermen in London had been invited, I Surrender State Policeman, Bandit Killed In Oregon Gun Battle VALE, Ore., April 30 0J.FD - District Attorney E. Otis Smith of Malheyr county was to request a grand Jury either today or to morrow and ask it to indict on a charge of first degree murder. Kenneth Bailey, 26, a desperado who was wounded in a gun battle yesterday near Wciser, Ida., In which an Oregon state policeman and another bandit were killed. Sgt Ted Clumbers, 49, Ontario, gong-state- police, nffkfr,..ead- William Duffy, 23, a dishonorably discharged marine turned bandit, e killed in an hour-long shooting spree which took place in and at a school house on the Oregon side of the river one mile from Weiser where peace officers and a posse had cornered the bandits. Capt. A. G. Dunn of the Oregon state police said Chambers was kiUed and Weiser Police Chief Clarence Saunders and R. N. O'Brien, Oregon state policeman, were slightly wounded when they entered the school house and were caught in a cross fire from guns of Railpv and Duffv. who hari lft a trail or robberies and holdups behind them in a trip through Oregon and Idaho. Later, Dunn said, the two gunmen gun-men "made a run for it," using Saunders as a shield, and were shot down from fire from guns of the posse and the other peace officers. LT. K. EARL CALLAHAN I L ; ) V Cgp 0 Q Five Utahns Meet Death In Two Automobile Accidents By UNITED PRESS Five Utahns were killed in two week-end automobile accidents, raising" the 1945 fatality toll to 44. The most serious crash was a head-on collision near Farming-ton, Farming-ton, in which four persons were fatally injured and six others seriopsly hurt. The other crash was an automobile-truck accident at La Verkln. Utah.' Killed in the Farmington acci dent were Mrs. Dorothy Sires, 34.1 wue ox a-i. manon tuxes, mm Defenders Of Berlin Fight Death Stand Red Armies Hammer Fanatic Nazis Into 8-Square Mile Pocket By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 30 u Red armies hammered the last fanatic defenders of Ber lin into a flaming, shell-torn eight-square-mile death poc ket around the Tiergarten and Unter Den Linden today. Moscow dispatches said the Russians already had driven across the Landwehr canal into the heavilyfortified Tiergarten Berlin's central park from the southwest. German broadcasts admitted Soviet shock troops also had broken through to the Lustgarten courtyard fronting the old Royal palace, the Berlin cathedral and the old museum at the eastern end of Unter Den Linden. The decimated SS garrison was in its "last throes of resistance," Moscow said. Most of its artillery artil-lery was gone and its hold on the center of the doomed capital was shrinking hourly. William (Lord Haw Haw) Jotce, broadcasting over the north German radio, said Adolf Hitler still was directing the defense of Berlin from an underground citadel. cita-del. But other continental reports said Hitler either was dying or already dead. Front disDatches published in Nazi party ranks as the Red army fousht deeper into the capital. Scores were found dead by their own hand. Tens of thousands of other Ger man troops deserted to the Rus sian lines. The captured com mander of a German police battalion bat-talion estimated that at least 40,000 deserters had thrown away their uniforms and were hiding in Berlin cellars. A total of 177 blocks in the ruined inner city fell to Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian and Marshal Ivan S. Konevs First Ukrainian armies yesterday as the battle of Berlin i entered its final phase The toll of enemy troops killed or captured in the battle for Ber lin rose to 156,000. including 38, 000 persons taken inside the capi tal in the last 48 hours. More than 8.000 Germans were killed by Zhukov's forces alone yes terday. In the north, the First White Russian army captured the Moa bit district with its turreted jail and reached the Spree river with in point-blank range of Hitler's Reichschancellery and the burn ed-out Reichstag. Some 12.000 war, prisoners of assorted nationalities were liberated liber-ated at Moabit. Fourteen factories were captured. Attacking from the east, the Russians seized the Anhalter sta tion only '600 yards south of Pots' darner Platz, geographical center of Berlin. The First Ukrainian army, on the . southwest, overran the Wil-mersdorf Wil-mersdorf district and reached the Landwehr canal opposite Berlin-erstrasse Berlin-erstrasse at the edge of the Tiergarten. Tier-garten. Berlinerstrasse is the western continuation of Unter Den Linden. In by-passed southwest Berlin, other Soviet units seized the Hohenzollern and Hallensee stations sta-tions on the circular railway. A front dispatch to the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said fire and smoke were everywhere every-where inside Berlin. The earth shook as. in an earthquake under the Soviet artillery barrage, the dispatch said. CHILD KILLED PARMA, Ida., April 30 U. Dwight Vance, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vance of PaTrma, was kUled near here when he fell from a car and was crushed beneath the wheels. The child's father is stationed sta-tioned with the army at Tuscon Arizona. Field; M-Sgt. Frank Serilla, Hill Field; Michael Moser, 10-month' old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moser, Ogden, and Mrs. Moser. George T. Atherley, 25, Eureka, was killed in the La Verkm accident, acci-dent, and a companion J. Wilford Farran was seriously injured. Sires, three other soldiers and Patricia 0 1 s e n, five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Moser, are re ported in serious condition from injuries received in the Farm' ingtou crash. Allied Victory In Italy Proclaimed By General Clark 25 German Divisions "Torn to Pieces" By Allied Forces in Italy, Announces Gen. Mark Clark in Triumphant Proclamation ROME, April 30 Allied victory in Italy was an-' nounced today by Gen. Mark W. Clark in a triumphant proclamation that 25 German divisions had been "torn to pieces" and no longer could resist effectively the U, S. Fifth and British Eighth armies. "The military power of Germany. in Italy has practically prac-tically ceased," Clark said. His statement put the official seal on clearcut evidence that Nazi resistance in North Italy was collapsing. The allied commander in Italy issued his victory announcement as his Fifth and Eighth armies were stampeding through north Italy. The British captured Venice. Ven-ice. Jugoslavian forces were re ported fighting in the streets .of Trieste toward which, the British Eighth army was driving only 58 miles, away. The Americans took Alessandria in northwest Italy and .the British, took Chiaggia.in the northeast' on the Adriatic sea. As New Zealanders of the poly glot Eighth reached . the Piave river, 17 miles northeast of Ven ice, Radio Belgrade reported Marshal Tito s forces had entered Trieste. In northern Italy, American Fifth army forces raced north ward 40 miles from Genoa to capture ' Alessandria, halfway along the highway from Genoa to Turin. That put . them within ve mnes or ine rrencn xronuer, where French forces 'had crossed into Italv. -ine-oniy sign ex . termn re- of Lake Garda, where the Nazis were battling to keep open the Brenner Pass, 80 miles to the north. A communique described the resistance as "fairly heavy.' But elsewhere the rout of the beaten Nazi armies in north Italy continued. One entire German division the 148th Infantry di vision s urrendered to the Brazilian groops fighting with the Fifth army. Negotiations continued for the surrender of the Italian Ligurian army of captured Marshal Ro-dolfo Ro-dolfo Graziani, an estimated five divisions numbering perhaps 50,-000 50,-000 troops. In historic, canal-laced Venice the Eighth army joined hands witn Italian partisans and com pleted the mopping-up of the city. Eighth army units already were 17 miles beyond Venice at points within 70 miles or both the Yugo slav ana Austrian borders. The Allied bag of prisoners had soared to the 100,000 mark and more were oourinz into th rdsM Dispatches from the front said it wi obvious tne liermans no longer were putting up an organ ized fight. Italian partisan units continued tneir battles In support of the advancing Allied armies, and street ngnting was reported in me center oi Turin. Nazi 'Annihilation Institute' Killed 110,000 Persons BY JACK FLEISCHER United Press War Corerspondent U. S. 12TH ARMY GROUP nLrtUUUAKitHS. Aoril 24 flJ.B Dr. Gustav Wilhelm Schuehh said today' the Nazi annihilation institute at Kiev killed from 110. uuo to 140,000 persons "unworthy to live' during the nine months he worked here. Schuebbe. a crioDleH drutr ad dict captured by First army troops recenuy. aamiuea ne nad murder. ed about 21,000 persons. He told his story vomntarHv and showed no feeling of guilt but occasionally became evasive when ne appeared to sense that his actions ac-tions might be viewed as crimes. The annihilation institute was established after the Germans captured Kiev in 1942. Schuebbe was there about five months before be-fore he became head of it He remained at the institute until un-til March, 1942. The persons "unworthy to live" included epileptics, schizophrenics, jews, meraoers oz xoreign races and Gypsies, he said- &acn doctor at the institute processed' 'about 100 persons tier day, but Schuebbe said they worked only about two or three uaj o ex nccAx Victims .were killed by ' injections injec-tions of e mm. preparations, Schuebbe said. 'Emm stands for morphium tartrate. tar-trate. In the beginning injection was tried with- five cubic millimeters milli-meters - but ' difficulties ' were ' en-countered en-countered and therefore we ini jected lO emm' He said. the. .victim showed breathing difficulties, a shrink-Continued shrink-Continued m . rage Xwo i llimmler's Reply flow En Route To Stockholm, Report By PHIL.ATJLT United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. April 30 (U.R) The British - cabinet late today re examined the "peace" situation amid reports " that an envoy was on the way to Stockholm with Heinrich Himmler's reaction to an Allied reiteration of the un conditional -surrender policy. Prime Minister Churchill and his colleagues were closeted in a regular meeting of the cabinet, and the authoritative British Press association said the "peace position was fully discussed. Military Mili-tary leaders attended the meeting as usual. neutral intermediary was reported report-ed en route back to Stockholm today ;with -Heinrich Himmler's reply ' to Allied demands that Germany surrender to Russia as well as to the United States and Britain. ' Most sources believed that if Himmler actually has sent a reply, it will be a decision to surrender Germany unconditionally uncondition-ally to all three, countries. They contended that he would not have made the surrender offer to the United States and Britain alone in the first place if he had not been convinced of . the utter hopelessness of Germany's posi tion. The Evening' News political correspondent said Prime Minister Minis-ter Churchill was understood to have returned to London from the country early itoday. The war cabinet will consider Himmler's reply as soon as it is received, the dispatch said. Stockholm dispatches said the intermediary. Count Folke Ber nadotte, director of the Swedish Red Cross, met Himmler Sunday morning somewhere in Denmark. He was expected to leave Copen hagen for Stockholm sometime today, the dispatch said. With Germany tottering on the brinx ox total collapse, rumors of developments within, the shaken country and her still- occupied negihbors came thick and fast from continental sources. All unconfirmed and many of them conflicting, they included: 1. Adolf Hitler is mad, dying or already dead. 2. German anti-Nazi partisans kidnaped Foreign Minister Joa chim von Ribbentrop. 3. German sailors mutinied at the baltic port of Rostock and are engaged in fierce fighting with ss troops... 4. A representative of Dr. Er nst Waltenbrunner. Himmler's deputy for Bavaria and Austria, is meeting with Swizz officials at Vaduz, capital of neutral Liech tenstein. The subject of the nego tiations was not disclosed, but may involve the surrender of further fur-ther portions . of Germany or Austria. 5. German army . and Nazi leaders in Denmark are ready to capitulate and withdraw their troops. 0. The Quisling government in Norway resigned. London newspapers predicted the end of the European war was only, days away. The London Daily Mal said it may end at any Moh. Capital Awaits WASHINGTON. April 30 (U.BJ i The' capital awaited further news on the' reported German surrender surrend-er 4ld today. - Since Saturdays night's prema- tuxe peace celebration, there had been no sign that any big devel opments were imminent. Routine activity was reported Sunday at the state, war and navy departments. There was mild flurry of excitement when Presi dent- Truman visited the White House after attending services at Foundry Methodist cnurcn. However, the President spent oxOy-25-miQatea-at the White Where Allied Armies Severed Rich l 1 7 . iMafcwaatJtiif-!"xiiiiii Here is a pre-war view of the town of Porgau, Germany, now to be . famous in history as the spot where the juncture between the Anglo-American and Russian armies occurred, Body of Mussolini Lies Beside His Mistress, Unclaimed in Milan Morgue BY JAMES E. ROPER ' MllaAN, Aprtr i30 (U.R) lay unclaimed 1eside ' Ws alain mistress in the Milan morgue to- day, dishonored in death by the people he led to empire and ruin-The ruin-The fallen Duce died 'badly in the sight of trie partisan execu tions who killed him and his paramour, Clara Peacci, in their hideout on Lake Como last Sat urday. And -the people - he- ruled - for Prisoners 7ar Ask Germans To Speed Surrender FT. DOUGLAS, Utah, April 30 iu.ru me nundred Germans in terned at the Florence, Ariz., pris oner of war camp have called upon the German people to lay down uielr arms and "put an end to this "sinful war," ' Maj. . Gen. William E. Shedd. commandina general oi tne rvintn service com mand, said here today. The message, signed by the in ternees, stated that continuation of the battle would bring nothing but 'further suffering and an extension ex-tension of pain" to the German fatherland. . ' The group denounced Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Goering, Ley and other Nazi leaders, and called for the complete annihilation of Hitlers revenge organization, the Werewolves, the general said. Signers are veterans of cam paigns in Africa, Sicily, Crete, Italy and France. 'They. urged the war department to broadcast their statement to Germany. "Germans, 'the letter read in part, "tear yourselves, loose from that which is bringing so much suffering, blood and pain over the world. We German prisoners of war from all fronts ask you to end it." The statement also declared that now was the time for the German people to "prepare a path for true democratic-republican Germany of peace, work and bread for all. Shedd said the message would be forwarded immediately-to the war department. FnRltffir.R OTT-TW STAR nnss nv mtrns A HOLLYWOOD, April 30 UR)-I Malcolm McGregor, S3. . tormer star of silent films, died yesterday of burns suffered- when ;he' fell asleep in a chair with a .cigaret in his hand. Funeral services wiUfSgouardo, leader .of the 10-man (be 'held tomorrow morning. More Nlews'On ; House, and it has not been made known whether there was any significance in his -visit. ; ' ; . There has beenno word of any kind : here on Stockholm ' reports that a Swedish Red-Cross official. Count Folke Bernadotte,vwaa in contact with Gestapo chief Heinrich Hein-rich Himmler for thfr.secohd time in connection itritbNazi altmptskAllied - terms, which meant in- w negotiate surrender. - vj Nevertheless the r cafcital was - A. " f t t- jumpy. Reports from inany: including the official Soviet lews agency, TaistUnafcat&t a i two decades said him their last -Theitrftiiit ftv' hanfflnir 'Kin mbmMii head downfrom the rafters of gasoline station in Milan s Lor- eto -Square. There, for a night and day they spat upon their fallen lead er, shot his body in the back and kicked his . face into a toothless, pulpy Mass. For hours after the body of the executed1 dictator was brought to Milan with that of his mistress and 16 other slain Fascist lead ers, Mussolini lay in a filthy pile of dirt in the center of the square. Then the mob tied wire about the ankle of II Duce and Clara Petacci and suspended them up side down from the roof of the gasoline station. Hysterical men and women closed in screaming about the dangling corpses and beat and kicked the dictator's face into an unrecognizable pulp. His . teeth were knocked out and the famed jutting jaw fell over his upper lip. . His mistress skirt was torn off and people spat upon both bodies. When the mob tired of its ghastly sport the bodies were taken down and dumped into an open truck. They were carted to the city morgue and the pair were placed on a metal slab in the morgue courtyard. Someone tilted the death slab upward so the bodies were visible to hundreds of persons still milling mil-ling about the morgue, peering over - the stone and plaster. In contrast to Mussolini's dis figured features, his mistress' face remained youthful yimd beautiful even in death. Hfr even, white teeth, now splote&d with blood, were visible through her parted lips and her dark-brown curly hair still hung in tidy ringlets. Her slim torso was covered with an old pair- of men's trous ers tossed carelessly over her body. A pink silk garter belt and frilly blue underclothes were ex posed By the time Mussolini s body reached the morgue his jacket had "been torn away, revealing his barrel .chest encased in a short-sleeved undershirt. Sharing the morgue with H Duce and Clara -were the bodies of 18 of his henchmen, executed like them by Italian patriots after a "people's trial." .They shared his final disgrace as they had the infamy of his life. Dies "Badly" Mussolini died badly. w .said (Centinned on Page Twe Surrender Bid tia tions were - taking place - between be-tween the- Allies and someone in Germany. It such negotiations - were taking- place their completion and subseduent announcement to a watting ' world ' obviously de-J pended on whether the German negotiators were willing to meet cluding. Russia in the surrender order. and also, on whether tne Allies believed whoever was do- was to a posi tion actually to bring about -an resistance Allied Wedge Broadened To 50-Mile Area New Link-Up Made On The Elbe River Below Berlin by Reds. Yanks PARIS, April 30 ce American ajid Russian troops effected a second juncture on the Elbe river below Berlin today, broadening to 50 miles the Allied wedge between Germany's collapsing northern north-ern and southern fronts. The new link up on the Elba came as the Nazis' vaunted Bavarian Ba-varian redoubt in the south broke wide open under converging blows by five and perhaps six Allied- armies storming in on the mountain stronghold from all sides. American Ninth army dough bovs foined the Russians on ths Elbe bend- near Wittenberg, 40 miles southwest of Berlin, after a fighting, 20-mile advance along the northeast bank of the river from Zerbst. ' First accounts indicated that U. S. First army troops might also have linked up with the Soviets around Wittenberg. . The First army already had joined the Russians Rus-sians farther south at Torgau and .Riesa. The juncture gave the Americans Ameri-cans and Russians solid corridor corri-dor through the heart of the Reich along a 50-mile stretch of the Elbe between Wittenberg fax the north and Riesa in the -south. South of that wedge, the bulk of Germany's surviving armies were primed for the kill after tremendous Allied victory in nor-Ihern nor-Ihern Italy that GenterkrClarlc announced had "torn to pieces" 25 Nazi divisions and ended all effective German resistance there. The victory laid the southern flank of the Bavarian redoubt open to invasion by the American Ameri-can Fifth and British Eighth armies, both of which were driv (Continued .on Page Two) Superfortresses Blast Jap Suicide Bases In Kyushus By FRANK TREMAINE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, April 30 (U.R) Avenging Aveng-ing Supertfortresses today blasted the Kvushu bases of. .Ta nan's suf Icide planes, one of which crash ed into and badly damaged the navy hospital ship Comfort Saturday Sat-urday night Twenty - nine persons were killed, 33 wounded seriously and one was missing after the enemy plane hit the helpless and brilliantly-lighted hospital ship south of Okinawa, a communique announced- A dispatch from Vice Admiral Richmond Kelley Turner's flagship flag-ship off Okinawa said there was no doubt the attack was deliberate. deliber-ate. Some 200 B-29'S participated in today's raids on Japan. Though the majority concentrated on the suicide - Diane bases-on Kyushu for the fifth straight day, some bombed the Tachikawa army arsenal. 24 miles west of Tokyo. Despite the consistent American Amer-ican raids on Kyushu, the Japanese Japa-nese manged to -hurl 200 planes against the U. S. forces around Okinawa Saturday night and Sunday, causing some damage to light fleet units. A total of 104 of the Japanese planes were shot down. United Press War Correspondent Correspond-ent Edward L. Thomas reported from Admiral Turner's flagship that the, enemy plane which hit the Comfort made several "runs" over the white hospital ship in the -moonlight before going into its suicide dive. At th gatriA.tlma the Comfort was about .60 miles, south of Okinawa, Ok-inawa, steaming unescorted toward to-ward the Marianas with? several hundred American troops serious (Continued on rage Two) , War In Brief EASTERN FRONT: Red armies- hammer last defenders of Berlin into eight-square . mile death pocket . western -' fbow t: seventn army troops cut down elite guard in . Munich -.and race into AiDine redoubt, within 27 miles of Brenner Bren-ner Pass, X ,.-"N ; ITALWrfUsn Eighth army drives within v58miJes of Juncture Junc-ture with, Yugoslav, forces re ported "iighting in Rieste. PACIFIC: American Super fortresses attack Japanese homeland home-land gain.' American troops split Mindanao in. two. . BURMA: British drive within 36"miles' of Bamjoon. |