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Conference Heads Into Two More Showdowns Invitation of Argentina and Review of War-Time Treaties, Two Issues to Come Up For Action at Monday's Parley Session Br HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent MUNICIPAL OPERA HOUSE, San Francisco, April 28 2 The United Nations headed tonight into two more showdowns between conflicting American ' and Russian viewpoints whether Argentina will be invited to San Francisco and whether the new world security organisation shall have the right to revise or cancel such war-time treaties as the Soviet have signed with France, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Warshaw Polish regime. Week- Genoa Falls To Allies As Nazi Resistance Ends ROME, April 28 (U.R) Racing Allied armies seized Brescia and Bergamo,- on the fringes of the Swiss Alps, ,and liberated the major port of Genoa today as dispatches dis-patches from Switzerland reported report-ed that other U. S. troops had bisected north Italy by reaching the .frontier town of Como. i A special Allied task' force ended all organized resistance in Genoa an official communique announced, and took 6,000 Ger man prisoners. An additional 300 Germans taken captive by Brazil-1 lans at Collecchlo, sw""mlies 1 southwest of Parma, brought the toll of prisoners taken In the Whirlwind offensive that was rapidly tearing apart the remaining remain-ing German army, toward 80.000 (The Swiss radio, heard in London, said Italian partisans had concluded an agreement with the commander of German trops un der which the Germans would Stop- fighting in Piedmont, the province along the upoer Fran' co-Italian frontier, and in Lorn bardy, which extends east of Piedmont and along the Swiss frontier. (The Swiss broadcast quoted the Milan newsoaper Italia Li bera, or free Italy, as its source It said that under the agreement. German units will remain where they are for the present.) Abdication Of Leopold Expected BRUSSELS. April 27 (U.R) The Belgian throne 6tands va- cant in the great palace at Brus sels today, waiting for a king-but king-but that king may not be Leo pold III. Not since Edward VIII abdi rated in favor of the woman he loved has so stormy a monrchial crisis brewed. The Belgian peo ple, who were once so solidly be hind their king, are now divided by his record in war and ro mance. They are divided over the wis' dom of Leopold's cease fire order in May 1940, which the Allies at that time blamed for turning the- Maglnot line and tne eventual event-ual retreat through Dunkirk. And they are divided on the good taste of his war-time marriage to a commoner. Although there are still many who support Leopold, the seg ment of malcontents is so large that the royal family and "the government may seek his volun tary abdication in an effort to reunite re-unite the country behind the throne. War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: Americans close are within 20 miles of Munich as tank spearheads in vade Austria, drive within 49 miles of Italy. EASTERN FRONT: .Soviets drive to Berlin's Alexander Platz, win footholds in three central districts of doomed city. ITALY: Onrnshing Allies seize Brescia and Bergamo on fringes of Alps, liberate Genoa; reportedly reported-ly cut north Italy in two. PACIFIC: Superfortresses hit six major air installations on Kyushu with "good to excellent results;" Americans 1 n c rease pressure on Japanese Naha line on Okinawa. SOUTHEAST ASIA: British plunge 64 miles through southern Burma to within 54 airline miles Of Rangoon. CHINA: Chinese continue of fensive northeast of Laohokow, V.-S. air base in Honan province, lend battle lines -on the Argentine issue were being drawn with pros pects that the matter win be raised Monday at the conference executive committee. . The treaty fighlfc wiA'come Uter when the American proposal to amend Dumbarton Oaks to give the security council of the new world organization the right to review treaties and International agreements which create "injustices "injus-tices to the peoples involved" is raised in commission III of the present conference. Public operations of the con ference today were given over to formalities for the most part speeches by the chairmen of the participating delegations, deliver ed in alphabetical order. Two Sessions Today" Two plenary session wer sche duled for today to get as many of the formal speeches out of the way end clearthe-decka for -more rapia nanaiing ox tne real busi ness of the conference. With Germany cracking up and the end of the European war 'a possibility at almost any moment, conference delegates were dis playing eagerness to dispatch their business with promptness in order to get back home to tackle the huge problems of re construction which most of them face. Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex., said that if a quick surrender of Germany should come as was anicipated in many conference quarters today the conference would be likely to hasten its work. He noted that it would be im portant in event of conclusion of the European war for many of the delegates, such as Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden, and others to return to tneir capitals at tne earliest possible moment. Both the British and the Rus sians were particularly eager to speed up the conference. The British, with the support of some of the Dominions, felt that it would be better to leave some (Continued on Page Four) U. S., France Settle Stuttgart Dispute PARIS, April 28 U.R The dispute dis-pute between France and the United States over occupation of Stuttgart has been setled in a manner "satisfactory to all con cerned." sources close to the French government said tonight. These sources praised Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's "spirit of lofty understanding," to which, it was said, the agreement was due. Details of the agreement were not disclosed but it was understood under-stood American troops would occupy oc-cupy Stuttgart as long as it is necessary to provide the U. S. 7th army with a supply base but without prejudice to French claims of its postwar administration. administra-tion. Earlier, Allied supreme head quarters had denounced the French government for Its refusal to give up the -city Aasserting that the action was detrimental to the American drive into Austria. New World Organization Must Have Army Declares Boncour By RALPH HFJNZEN United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 (U.R) Joseph Paul Boncour, French veteran of the League of Nations, declared today that the pcoposed new world organization must have a standing army, navy and air force to avokt the fatal weakness of the old league 4U "lack of punch. Paul-Boncour. member of the French delegation to the United Nations conference, is one of the small group of veterans of the old league now here to help in the construction of a new peacekeeping peace-keeping organization. He said in an Interview that he was fully convinced that peace Four of Six Berlin Areas Held by Reds Wehrmacht Abandons Western Front; Turns East in Last Attempt By ROBERT MUSEL United Press War Correspondent LONDON, Sunday, April 29 (cw While Soviet shock troops stormed into four of the last six German-held districts dis-tricts of Berlin, Red army columns north of the falling Reich capital advanced 25 miles against vanishing resistance resis-tance yesterday to within 60 miles of a union with the U. S. Ninth army on the lower Elbe In .Berlin's final hours the Wehrmacht abandoned the west ern, front and turned east .in desperate effort to break throueh to relieve tne city, with German parachutists dropping into the ruins in a last reinforcement gamble, the enemy radio said Two Soviet armies joined forces In. the western section of the city ana. constricted the surviving garrison gar-rison in' a cauldron of exploding shells and fire from Russian flame-throwers. In a week of hopeless fighting in Berlin's streets and on its approaches the Germans had lost 119,500 men captured or killed, a review of Soviet communiques showed. The rapid movement of Russian arms already had left Berlin smouldering Island of resistance far back of the front. Cossack columns 90 miles west of the tltylreceiverspeedy- trial and justice, pulled up at the Elbe opposite ! probably anVTllan. Ninth army troops In (the Stendal area. Moscow dispatches said. Premier Joseph Stalin revealed that Marshal Konstantin K. Ro kossovsky's second White Russian army north of Berlin was driving with tremendous power to merge its front with the Ninth" army, Rokossovsky's forces also swept within 100 .miles -of the British Second .army lines below Hamburg Ham-burg and was threatening to cut off Denmark and Schleswighol- stein. With the Germans admitting a Soviet penetration of the inner city to the Alexander Platz, tire less Russian tank teams had reach ed both ends of the last axis of German defense the five miles of the main street of the city from east to west, part of which is the Unter Den Linden. A Soviet communique announc ed that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army had broken into the sprawl ing Charlottenburg district and overrun 'it a star as the Bls- marckstrasse, the western end of the axial soal Outflanking German suicide positions around the Alexander Platz to the east; Zhukov s troops south of Unter Den Linden struck west from fallen Tempelhof and captured the eastern half of the Schoenberg district, the communi que revealed Khukov s forces recaptured tne big electrical works settlement of Siemenstadt in the northwest sec tion, the communique said in re vealing that the town had been temporarily lost after its initial capture three days ago. They also seized the western half of Moabit, just east or cnar lottenburg and site of notorious Moabit Jail More than 45,000 Germans had been killed or captured in two days of the battle of Berlin, 14,-' 000 prisoners being taken from a huge pocket just southeast of the city where the remnants are now being "annihilated,' 'the communi que said. GAS MASKS FOR BABIES DISCONTINUED LONDON. April 28 (U;R Ba bies born after today will not be issued gas masks, the ministry of home security announced. was impossible without a permanent perm-anent "big stick" which the "Big Five" must be ready to use at the first sign of aggression. He felt that the Dumbarton Oaks plan did not go far enough in proposing merely that national units of armed forces be held "immediately "im-mediately available" for use by the new world organization. What is needed, he said, is a permanent international force as suggested in one of the proposed French amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks plan. Paul-Boncour, who was premier of France when Hitler came to power as German chancellor, said Germany's rearmament and Ja-X Ja-X Continued on Page Four) Mu$soini Captured, Turned Over To Peoples Six of His Top Men Have Also Fallen Into Patriot Hands Br ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent : LONDON, April 28 (U.B Benito Mussolini ; has been captured and turned over to a people's tribunal at- Milan - for - summary, justice, while six of his top-drawer Fas cist henchmen- also have fallen into the hands , of Italian patriots, apparently authentic reports from northern Italy said tonight. Roberto Farinacci. former sec retary general of the Fascist party and one of the "tough guys" who surrounded Mussolini during his heyday, was said to have been tried and executed shortly after his capture. The patriot -Milan radio was chief source of information that Marshal -Rodolfo Graziani, com mander In chief of Fascist armed forces; Achille Starace, another former party seretary; Gudo Buf- farini-Guidi, former secretary of state; Alessandro Favolini, former secretary, and Francesco Mario Barraco. a minor official, also have - been captured. The official AUied military communique 'confirmed that Graziani was a prisoner of Italian patriots, but did not comment on the reported capture of the others. A United Press . disoatch from Rome said Italian government officials' of-ficials' believed' the Gadio reports authrnUe and predicted that Mus- wV nr wr Ranchmen would Escape Riuriored A rumor twetot Rome this morning to 'the fect that Farinacci Farin-acci had escaped from his partisan captors and thir rumor grew to include" th cscapa r Mussolini too, but responsible quarters discounted dis-counted all escape rumors. Mario Berlinguer, high com missioner for punishment of Faseist - crirties, told the United Press that "the most likely possibility pos-sibility is that all will be judged immediately by a people's court probably in Milan." The 'Milan correspondent of the Zurieh- newspaper, Tages-An-zeiger, "wrote a detailed account of -Mussolini's arrest. He said a German representative informed II Duce last week-end at Milan that there was no chance of further fur-ther resistance in northern Italv. Mussolini and the others left for the. mountains of Lombardy, according lo this account. However, How-ever, he realized the futility of niamg in Italy and decided his only chance of escaping capture would oe ZUsnt into Switzerland. The story said Mussolini believed Swiss authorities would permit nis entry Decause of services he fancied he had rendered to that government He was prepared to tell the awlSS he had intervened when tne German government planned to invade . Switzerland and he (Continued on Page Four) U. S. Ship Sunk Off Okinawa GUAM. Sunday: Anril 2d (li m ine Japanese threw two groups of planes against American shipping ship-ping off Okinawa. Friday night ana saiuc one auxiliary vessel and damaged others, it was announced an-nounced today, while army forces on the island continued to move slowly forward. Fleet Adm. Chester ,W. Nimitz gave fewdetails of the new Jan- anese air strike against the American fleet forces standing off uxinawa. e aioxnot identify the Vessel sunk nor report the tvoes of ships damaged during the raid. U. S. planes covering the area shot down 25 of the attacking aircraft air-craft Friday night and in sweeps through the Ryukyus chain Saturday Sat-urday destroyed 32 others. - Nimitz announced that Japanese small craft activity also 'increased Friday night around Okinawa and a number of small boats presumably presum-ably some torpedo, boats were destroyed by the U. S.. forces. The offensive on Okinawa progressed pro-gressed slowly-, as infantrymen wiped out pillboxes, caves and strong points fi by one. Heavy artiUery was employed to break up enemy troop concentrations in the enemy's rear areas. Marine and navy , planes " supported the troops land naval gunfire bombarded bom-barded the". Japanese defense line abova Naha for tenth day. ine zttn-arOTyvCorps was steadily stead-ily Dressina" aeainst the strons Japanese fortifications as the Tokyo To-kyo radio Insisted that a large American naval' task .force was gathered off the island in preparation prepara-tion for, new operations. Tribunal Two U. S. Armies Drive, To Within 20 Miles of Munich War Weary German Soldiers Reported to Be In Revolt Against Their Nazi Masters In Munich and Kiel; By BRUCE W MUNN United Press War Correspondent PARIS, Sunday, April 29 The American 3rd and 7th armies, closing a 100-mile siege arc around Munich from three sides yesterday, drove within 20 miles of that third largest city of the Reich where war-weary Germans. Hitler, Goering, Goebbels Killed, Declare Reports. By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM united Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 28 (U.R) American Amer-ican troops captured Hans Goeb bels today and reports from Switzerland Switz-erland said his notorious brother, Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda propa-ganda chief, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Her-mann Goering, all had been kiled. Hans, who held the rank of major ma-jor general in the Nazi party, was taken prisoner by U. S. 1st army troops as he 'was preparing to flee from his home in the military suburb of Duesseldorf. He had packed, his luggage. A high-rankins German diplo mat reaching - the Swiss border was quoted in a British dispatch from St. Margrethen that Hitler and Goebbels were shot last Wed nesday. Another "high German personality" reaching that border post, said Goering had been killed at the same time. The diplomats did not say when or where or by whom the leading Nazis had been exterminated. Bevolution In Munich Another report, from the Ex change Telegraph's Stockholm correspondent, said that accord ing to reliable diplomatic circles there, Hitler was completely help less and probably unconscious be cause of a brain hemorrhage.' Gestapo Chief Henrich Himmler was said to have rushed to Berlin from southern Germany by plane, accompanied by his right hand man, a General Schellenberg. The diplomat also said revolution had broken out in Munich, as reported from other sources. (A high British source said in San Francisco that Himmler had informed the American and British Brit-ish governments through Sweden that Hitler is very ill and may not live another 24 hours.) . The Moscow radio said Hitler had met with his generals and party chiefs at a new headquarters headquar-ters of the high command. It was reportedly decided that since the command has lost control of communications com-munications individual command ers will have to act on their own. Hitler was said to have flown to the meeting from the Tyrol In southern German arid to have returned re-turned there by plane. Moscow radio said Goebbels had left Berlin by plane to join other Nazis in the tyrol. He Was reported re-ported to have left recordings in the capital for broadcast purposes. A radio identified as tne "Ger man peoples station reponea that a group of German sailors had revolted in the Baltic seaport of Keil. killing all the Nazis among them and wiping out the Nazi detachment de-tachment sent to quell them. The rebels were said to have set up machine guns in their barracks yards. Radio Oslo said. Hitler was in Berlin and had decorated several officers and men including CoL (Continued on Page Four) Juliet Reappears In Verona Balcony Scene By JAMES E. ROPER United Press War Correspondent VERONA. Italy, April 28 (U.R) Juliet appeared on the balcony at the Capulets house today and went through her "wherefore art thou?" routine and up poppea a bunch of G. I.'s with cameros. The latter-day Juliet was Fran ca Forti, who'd make anybody want to climb a balcony. Tne Yanks tossed up cigarettes and gum as tokens of their true love, and thn Franca posed prettily while the kodaks clicked. ' Romeo must have been a cool character,, if be made love in such a setting the way he's supposed, for Trial Thousands Surrender .including soldiers, were reported in revolt, against their Nazi masters. mas-ters. Two other 7th army spearheads spear-heads swept down into Austria within 49 miles of northern Italy. r ront dispatches said there was absolutely no resistance on the road to Munich as the two armies threw 11 infantry and three arm ored divisions into the drive to overrun the birthplace of Nazism and king-pin city of the enemy's crumbling southern redoubt. Reports circulated by a free German raldo station said German sailors had attacked the Nazis In the Kiel naval base,' scene of the first internal uprising which brought an end to the- last war, and there were circumstantial re ports that Henrtch Hlramle? was aoout to acceptuneo!dJUpnal sur- Beaten German soldiers Were surrendering in droves. More than 92,000 laid down their arms to the western allies in the past 24 nours more man 37,000 to the srd and 7th armies alone. Rests tance everywhere in the narrow ing areas of battle was on the wane Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's 7th army drive on Munich toppled the great aircraft center of Augs burg and joined with Gen. George S. Patton s 3rd army to send eight columns hammering down on Mu nich from the northeast and southwest. south-west. Some reports said American patrols had reached the doomed city's outskirts. . - The drive on Munich was paced by the 5th division which swept 15 miles to capture Hagg and enter en-ter Tandem, 20 miles northwest of -Munich. Virtually the entire 7tn army was thrown into the attack at-tack as three additional divisions the 3rd and 4jhd infantry and 106th cavalry--joined the Munich- bound columns. The 106th entered Paffenhofen, 25 miles north of the city; the 42nd reached Aindling, 35 miles northwest; and the 3rd after seizing seiz-ing Augsburg drove three miles southwest to Friedberg, 28 miles northwest of Munich. The on rushing Americans heard the Munich radio broadcast that German troops and civilians led by Gen. Bitter Von Epp, one of the original organizers of the Nazi party as well as Bavarian governor gover-nor and minister of colonies in Adolf Hitler's cabinet, had revolted. revolt-ed. . The station apparently had been seized by the dissidents and it announced that Germans 'remaining 're-maining loyal to the Nazis would be treated as war criminals. The broadcast called on Allied planes to bomb the headquarters of Field Marshal -Albert Kessei-ring, Kessei-ring, Nazi commander of the shattered shat-tered western front, at Pullach, six miles south of Munich. ' A later broadcast on theJdunlch wave length claimed .that .revolt had been quelled, indicating the Nazis might have retaken the sta tion, or were broadcasting from another. Quoting the Munich gauliter, Paul Geisler, it said that a dozen officers and an unspecified unspeci-fied number of enlisted men "had tried to seize power and declare our city and province neutral" It said Geisler had escaped a machine-gun a tack. to have. The famous balcony is on a courtyard, and all the neighbors can gawk right out their backi windows while any. swain . so- minded is trying to yell up sweet nothings to bis lady love. It would have been tough on the famous lovers, if they had had to operate during the American air raids on this town. Tnere is bomb wreckage all around the Capulets' place. However, the house itself is not . damaged. 'This is the house of the Cap-J ulets, from whom Juliet came. I for whom so many tender hearts wept and poets sang," says a plaque on the front of the house. Practical-minded people of President Calls In Reporters to Deny Surrender Telephone Check with Gen. Eisenhower In Europe Discloses Rumors Without Foundation, Founda-tion, President Tells Press Conference By MERRIMAN SMITH f United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 28 President Truman tonight to-night personally spiked false German surrender rumors from San Francisco and Europe. He announced to newsmen summoned to the White House that a telephone check with Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower disclosed that the rumors were without foundation. The president's announcement, gravely made, dashed hopes that had been built up all over the nation by false reports carried in radio broadcasts i and blazoned in mammoth type on the front pages of extra editions edi-tions of some newspapers. The White House permitted the president's verbal announcement to be quoted directly. Here lt is: "Well, I was over here as you can see doing a little work and this rumor got started. "1 had a call from San Francisco Fran-cisco and the state department called me. "I just got in touch with Adm. Leahy (Adm. William D. Leahy, his personal chief of staff), and had him call our headquarters commander-in-chief (Gen. Eisenhower) Eisen-hower) in Europe and there is no foundation for the rumor. "That is all I have to say." A split second later reporters U. S., British Scorn Himmler's Reported . Offer of Surrender : By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent . . LONDON, April 28 ue The British government toi day. took offical cognizance of reports that Henrich Himmler Him-mler was qfferingr to surrender German unconditionally tq the United States and Britain and, without denying the report, said&t had no information to give "at this moment." No. 10 Downing street, official residence of Prima Minister Winston Churchill, issued a statement, apparently wrtten by Churchill himself. ment had no information to give out said tne unconditional surrender sur-render of Germany would have to be to all three major allies, Russia included, and not to just two. (At San Francisco, where the United Nations are meeting, a high British source told the United Press that Himmler had sent word through Stockholm to the Ameri can and British governments that Adolf Hitler "may not live another 24, hours." As given by the Brit' ish source, the Himmler message said it was "feared that Hitler is not very well." (There were no details as to how the message reached the Brit ish and American governments or whether it was connected with the surrender report.) The British government state ment was issued after radio Lux embourg, which is allied, control led, broadcast that the Big Three's foreign ministers had been given a message that Himmler had sent an offer-"in which he guarantees the' unconditional surrender of Germany to the United States and Great Britain." "The governments of the United States and Great Britain have recited re-cited that the unconditional sur render will only be accepted If the ouer isaaaressea to .au uie aum, the Luxembourg broadcast said. Shortly afterward, Churchill's residence Issued this statement: "It has ben recorded by Reuter that unconditional surrender is offered by Himmler to Britain and the United States only. Further, that Britain and the United States replied, saying they will not ac cept unconditional surrender ex (Continues on rage ear Vernona turned Julet's legendary tomb into an air-raid shelter. The crypt, under a former Franciscan convent, is braced by timbers taken from a shattered Adige river riv-er bridge. The barracks next door were bombed, but Juliet's resting-place escaped. Soon the love-stricken of the country will be resuming their pilgrimages here to see' the medieval stone .which they like to believe; was Julet's casket The top is gone and there is no body in the casket, but locals lay that never stopped the engaged en-gaged couples who made vows here, or the girls who left notes for dead, lovers. . 1 were rushing to telephones to let the country know it had been duped. At the very moment Mr. Truman Tru-man was making his announcement announce-ment jubilant thousands were thronging the streets and side walks in front of the White House. They were singing "God Bless America." The false report had been flash ed on movie screens, emptying part of their audiences into the brownout. The crowds gathered on street corners to scramble for newspapers newspa-pers hawked by noisy newsmen at as high as 25 cents a copy. Reporters dashing from the White House for . their offices (Continued, on Page Four) It said only that the Govern Associated Press Broadcasts False Surrender Report NEW YORK, April 28 UJ9 A false report that Germany had surrendered was broadcast to newspapers and radio stations throughout the country tonight' by the Associated Press. Quoting an unnamed American official in San Francisco to the effect that the Nazis had given up, the A. P. report touched off a series of reactions that brought President Trumfn to the White House at 7:35 pS m. EWT pre pared to issue a proclamation. The New York headquarters of the A. P. later declined to comment com-ment on its bulletin. "No state ment to make." the A. P. said when asked about the source of its San Francisco announcement. Shortly before 8 o. m. radio networks' across the country had interrupted their program to bring an expectant World the "news' it 'had been waiting for . Not until after 9:30 was the A. P. report labeled by President Tru man as without foundation. Even G I. s in Paris began celebrating in- the night clubs on the basis of "the report wnicn naa been .cabled , across the Atlantic by the A. P. . Shortly after the A. p. Diuieun (Continaed. on Page Four) Whistle Blowing At Laundry Due To False Alarm The Herald office was be sieged with telephone calls Saturday. - afternoon soon r after the ..whistle at the Troy ' Laundry started to blowv 7s-it. tree, Germany ha surrendered," everyone waa asking. . . , m . "There was " disappointment in their. ' voices when they were told that it was a false , alarBtfc?-? The IT emsn'at (he laundry . . explained that someone, called him cp sad said. 'Blow the , whistle. He ld, bnt later en. -discovered that someone had -Jumped. toe gran," |