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Show . "CKcken-IIeart ed Cat ' CHESTER, Pa UJO Mickey, tirer-marked est belonging to Ma Berths Bowen, Is probably the-most chicken-hearted feline round here. In addition to her litter of three kittens, Mickey has her paws foil . mothering three baby: chicks. nmirami year, no. Pi flOflfifiiair. Russians Win TvoDsmands, iected Deadlock is Delaying Start of the Real Job; Drafting of Charter. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 6J.R) Russia was reported this sfternoon to have agreed, In ef fect, to the British-' compromise n the security conference chairmanship. chair-manship. There were no Im mediate details on the agreement bat the steering committee session was described as "smooth" In contrast, to yesterday's stormy aaeetlng. By LTLE C. WILSON . United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 U.R The steerine commit tee of the United Nations s&H cunty conference met today in an effort tvs&ettf&a. dead lock, precipitated by the Rus sians, over the conference chairmanship. : Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, whose refusal to agree to designation of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinjus, Jr., as conference chairman, brought about the stalemate arrived, at the Veterans building in this city ornate civic center at 10 a. S..S half hour ahead of the meet-gs meet-gs scheduled time. Other delegation dele-gation chairmen followed him in. Win Three ytes ,m 'The Russians were conceded to ftkve won already two major demands de-mands for three votes in the assembly of the world organization organiza-tion to be created here, and for the right of a major power to Veto military action against itself. But there was no general willingness will-ingness to accept Russian objections objec-tions to making Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinlus, Jr., permanent per-manent conference chairman. An American delegate sadly told the United Press that "the whole chairmanship thing is in a mess." In Washington, President Tru-' Tru-' man in announcing the junction of American and Russian armies in Germany, reaffirmed his faith in "the ability of the big three powers to work together to maintain main-tain peace. Disclosure of the junction 75 ' miles south of Berlin focussed attention at-tention on British efforts to speed up the conference and wind it up In four weeks. The British want to leave detals to a future conference con-ference and close this one down before the European war ends. Delays Parley Start .The chairmanship deadlock, hpwever, was delaying a start on the conference's real job drafting draft-ing the charter of a world security secur-ity organization to maintain a lasting peace. Important American delegates are protesting sharply the conference" confer-ence" management which permitted permit-ted a deadlock to occur on the "relatively unimportant" matter of who shall bang .the gavel and where. 'Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, however, has objected officially to two proposals, the United Press "was informed. The first was that Stettiaius, representing the host nation, be permanent chairman of the con ference itself. Molotov said th thei chairmanship should rotate among China, Great Britain, the (Continued On Page Two) 3nllfe Army Show to Launch Bond Drive on May 16 r "Here's Your Infantry," a realistic U. S. Army ground-forces ground-forces show, staged by 80 combat infantrymen, back from overseas, will be shown in Provo on May 16, to launch the Seventh war loan here, it was announced today from the state war finance committee headquarters, by Charles L. Smith, chairman. sThe place where the show will be staged had not been definitely determined today, .although' negotiations were under way to obtain the Brigham Young university stadium. Admission to the show will be the purchase of a war loan bond. Participating in the show will be troops who served under Gen. "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, who will stage a demonstration,, demon-stration,, simulating actual warfare as near as possible under un-der the conditions, how Japanese pillboxes are wiped out with flame throwers and mortars. The same show Will be staged at Salt Lake City on Slay. 14; at Ogden, May 18, and at Logan, May 19. 233. UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE slnllp Soviet Leader at Conference Opening J vAv 'Ss. A' i r ' ljr-v , Solemnly V. Mal9toVrSoviet-fortlEa commissar, listens to the vole at President Truniaft afthe Uaitfd NtUoni conference openf in the San Francisco' Opotge ' ; , . Gr Spokesman Says Fighters Want a League With Muscles By JAMES C. AUSTIN United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, April .27 (U.R) A little G. I. Joe. worried and ill walked around San Francisco's Union Square at dawn today. He was Pvt. Alfred E. Lilien-thal Lilien-thal of New York, a slight, 30- Sgt. David Asay Killed in Germany; Sailor Is Missing Sgt. David Asay, 20, was killed in action in Germany, April 12, according to word received Thursday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Asay, Orem. ,In service for almost two years, Sgt. David was fighting with the light cannon company of Gen. Patch's Seventh army infantry at the time of his death. Graduate of the Lincoln high school and Sharon Seminary at Orem, he entered the army and received basic training at Camp Roberts, Cal., where he remained as an instructor until transferred to Fort Benning, (Georgia, for overseas over-seas assignment. Arriving in France Feb. 7, of this year, just two days before his 20th birthday, he began participating partici-pating in active combat on American Amer-ican front lines. The last letter received from him was postmarked postmark-ed March 31. Survivors include his parents, five brothers; three brothers now in the armed forces. Staff Sgt LeVan Asay, now in Brazil, South America; CpL Clyde, recently re- turned from 31 months overseas; now in California, awaiting reassignment; re-assignment; and Clifton, a mer-(Continued mer-(Continued on Page Two) I), n f V ...MWftW)Dl.'.'Lt,:. Jfrm year old soldier witn tmnmng hair. He admitted with a worried smile that he hasn't been able to sleep well since he was selec ted by the American veterans committee to be one of three ad visers to the state department on what the fighting man expects from this conference. Although Lilienthal will help portray the average G. I.'s views, he is not here under army sponsorship. spon-sorship. He is on 30 day leave from the convalescent hospital at Camp Pickett, Va., where he has been recovering from malaria and Jaundice. Got a Mandate 'Tve got a kind of mandate from the boys fighting all over the world to tell these people that they must impress on the big boys that they must settle their differences and bring about the machinery for a lasting peace, he said. "These i people are Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, former gov ernor of Minnesota, and Rep. Charles Eaton, R., N. J. With two other AVC officials Charles G. Bolte, of New York, and Arthur Coats of San Francisco Lilienthal will tell the two American Amer-ican delegates tomorrow that "taet, tolerance and trust" are the keystones of lasting peace." Lilienthal arose at 6 a. m. yesterday, yes-terday, left his hotel and paced around the square, and he was at it even earlier today, despite his physician's orders to take it easy. . "I feel that if I can be helpful after my leave expires, I will ask for an extension of my furlough," he said. 'Tart of my determination determin-ation is to stay and see a virile United Nations organization come out of this conference." Everywhere he has been, he said, it is the same story the men on the ships and at the bat-tlefronts bat-tlefronts want this conference to make its plans stick. "Give me a league with muscles," one sergeant told him before he left camp. In Washington, enroute west, he was fortunate to hitch a ride on the president's private airplane, air-plane, the one the late Franklin D. Roosevelt used to go to Yalta. The crew had flown many (Continued On Page Two) NewShoe Ration Stamp Becomes Valid On Aug. 1 WASHINGTON, April 27 (U.F5 Everyone can have a new pair of rationed shoes Aug. I, the office of price administration announced today. OPA said a new shoe ration stamp would become valid at that time for one pair of shoes for each ration bookholder. It did notj stamp. Airplane stamps 1, 2, and 3 are now good for a pair of shoes apiece, and win continue to be valid indefinitely,. OPA said. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, "UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 27. 1945 ock Retain Comes Bach to Paris In Disgrace Hero of Verdun" to Be Tried for His Life As a Collaborationist By CORRINNE HARDESTT United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, April 27 The newspaper Liberation said today to-day that the International Red Cross has negotiated the release of Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum and all other French political prisoners held by the Germans. The report came as Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. the "hero of Verdun," returned to Paris in disgrace and was imprisoned to await trial for his life as a collaborationist col-laborationist and traitor to France. Daladier. thrice premier of France and minister of war in the dark days of May, 1940, and Blum, also a former premier, were arrested by the Petain gov-ernmenf gov-ernmenf for their opposition to tht Vichy -regime. mchy'fhfamous Rlom "war guilt" trlahvLlberation said Leon Jouhaux, veteran French labor leader, also was among the French political prisoners whose release was arranged by the International In-ternational Red Cross. All three were taken to Germany Ger-many when Allied armies overran France last summer. It had been thought the Nazis would hold them as hostages in the southerti redoubt, in an attempt to bargain for their own safety. Liberation did not say what arrangements had been made for the release of the French prisoners, prison-ers, but it was presumed they would cross into Switzerland from southern Germany. Petain was taken to Montrouge fortress immediately after his ar rival. It was at Montrouge that the Germans shot members of the French resistance movement and the French executed convicted collaborationists. He was placed In a plain, -bare-walled room, whose only furnishings furnish-ings were a wooden bed with straw mattress, an unpainted table and two chairs. Adjoining rooms were being readied for his family and friends. About 100 Paris gendarmes guarded the fortress and kept back the curious. U. S. Fifth Army Drives Into Alps As Germans Flee BY HERBERT KING . United Press War Correspondent ROME, April 27 (U.R--American Fifth army forces raced 40 miles in z hours to capture Piacenza, 35 miles from Milan, and drove into the Alps foothills within 90 miles or the Austrian frontier today. With the German defenses col lapsed completely and Italian patriots claiming control of much of northern Italy, the Fifth and Eighth armies were advancing at Will. Today's Allied forces headauar ters communique said Fifth army lorces were opening west of Lake Carda, which runs from 60 to 90 miles south of the Austrian border. This put the American units 25 miles west of their last reported positions in that area of Verona. Further gains also were made toward the great port of Genoa, which like Milan and Turin Italian patriots claimed to have liberated. RUMORS 8AT inMMLER IS DEAD LONDON, April 27 U.E The Evening News said "reports are current in London' today that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler was dead. The newspaper said it was not known how he was supposed to have, met death. It recalled that recently the British shot up a car in northwest Germany and speculation circulated that Jtiimmier was one of the victims. 14-Passenger Plane Crashes WASHINGTON, April 27 (U.R) A 14-pasenger commercial air plane overshot a runway at Washington s national airport to day, crashed into a ravine and burst into flames. Washington police said y 12 bodies were removed from the smoldering wreckage. Two more bodies were believed still in the plane. Jap Resistance Begins to Crack In Okinawa War GUAM. Anril 27 (U.PJ Janan resistance Decan lo cradc on southern Okinawa , today and Tokyo reported a new American landing on the northwest coast of tne strategic Island. American troops assaulting the southern defenses shielding Naha, capuai oi uKinawa, captured bit terly-contested Sawtooth ridge. highest point on the island, and wedged deeply into the enemy line less than a mile (from the town of Shuri. Radio Tokyo said the Americans were landing men and materials from barges in the vleinity .of Minatagawa on th Metebu pen insula, wnicn luts out of north' west Okinawa. The landing put American units in ' thMar 'of Japanese pockets still w. j out on the peninsula and shdura speed' the opening of the Unten harbor navy base to American ships. Capture of bloody Sawtooth ridge was regarded as the turning point of the Okinawa campaign. From here out, it is a downhill battle with the Americans' look ing down the enemy's throat. Two of the last three airfields on the. island were almost within the Americans' grasp. Mai. Gen. John R. Hodge, com' mander of the 24th army corps, told a United Press front reporter that numerous Japanese troops were deserting to the American lines. "Soldiers don't do this until they begin to crack," Hodge said. I think the Jap is pretty well disorganized and in my opinion the time for a possible counter offensive has passed." Some 400 miles to the northeast, a fleet of 150 B-29 Superfortesses today hit seven Japanese suicide- plane bases on Kyushu, soutnern most of the enemy's home islands, for the second time in 24 hours. Early reports indicated good weather favored the raiders In marked contrast to the extremely bad conditions which handicapped yesterday's force of 200 to 250 bombers oves Kyushu and adja cent Shikoku. The targets for today's raiders were Usa, Oita, Saeki, Tomitaka, Nittaeahara. Miyazakt and Ko- kubu airfields. A Tokyo broad. cast said the raid began at 8 a. m and lasted an hour and a half. Only slight damage was caujd, Tokyo said. Three Hits Scored On Hitler's House LONDON, April 27. 0JJ0 The air ministry announced today that three direct hits were scored on Adolf Hitler's house in the air attack Wednesday, when British Lancasters dropped sixton earth quake bombs on tne uercnies eaden area. An air ministry statement said the Elite Guard barracks near the house were largely wrecked. MUSSOLINI, WD7E DAUGHTER, HELD UP LONDON. April 27 (U.R) The Swiss radio said today that Benito Mussolini's wife and her daughter had been refused entry into Switzerland last mgnt. First Yank-Russian Juncture Just Accident BY JOHN B. McDERMOTT WITH THE UNITED STATES FIRST ARMY IN GERMANY, April 27 (U.R) The first juncture between the American and Russian Rus-sian forces actually took place Wednesday and by accident! A 20-man American patrol, which failed to receive orders to halt its advance, walked into the Rusian lines. The formal junc ture did not take place untu later. The surprise meeting occurred at the little town of Riesa on the Elbe river.. A radio . message had NazisAvai. Death Stand In Berlin Embattled Germans Pulling Back For riergarten Stand . LONDON, April 27 Russian forces today captur ed Potsdam, Spandau and Rathenow, crumpling; the western defenses of Berlin and driving; within 13 miles of the Elbe where the Ger man high command reported a u. b. Ninth army crossing. Marshal Stalin issued a special order of the day announcing the seizure of Potsdam and Spandau, southwestern and northwestern suburbs of Berlin, and of Rathenow, Rathe-now, 32 miles northwest, the biggest big-gest transport center between the capital and the Elbe. Meanwhile unofficial reports told of Russian assault forces launching the final concentric assault on the tightly-compressed core of Nazi resistance in the heart of the city. ' Moscow, said the battered, deci-Germans deci-Germans were pulling back Into the Tlergarten in the heart of encircled Berlin for a death stand against Soviet columns closing in from all sides. The first White Russian and Ukrainian armies held three- quarters of Berlin as. their blazing- liege of- the Nalz capita neared the end its first week. . JLliscow said the battered, decimated deci-mated German sarrison tonce es timated at 500;00OnJ. purported- jr unuer mt personal -commana of Adolf Hitler had withdrawn everywhere behind the circular aflwaysringing the inner city, 'German . artillery and troops were massing In the Tlergarten, Berlins famous Central . Park west of Unter Den Linden. Un der a hail of Soviet shells that reduced famous buildings within the redoubt area to heaps of smoking rubble, Moscow said. Penetrate Inner City-German City-German reports relayed by the Hamburg radio said Soviet van guards had penetrated the inner city as far as Grosser Stern, which runs through the Tlergarten. Tler-garten. Another spearhead was said to have reached at least temporarily the Potsdamer Platz, geographical center of the capital. Both Potsdamer Platz and Grosser Stern were less than , a half mile , from Bendlerstrase, where Hitler was said to be directing di-recting the deefnse of Berlin from an underground citadel. Another Hamburg broadcast said "fresh German forces under leading - German generals" were marching toward Berlin to relieve re-lieve the capital, but gave no hint as to what front they were shifting shift-ing from. Some 60 miles south of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian army either already (Continued On Page Two) Draft Extension Bill Approved Yith Restriction WASHINGTON, April 27 &I.FD The house today unanimously adopted a draft extension bill carrying a provision banning future use of 18-year-old draftees in combat until they have had six months training. The legislation, which now goes to 'resident Truman, extends the selective service act to May 15. 1946, or to the end of the warH whichever comes lirst. The ' provision on . training of 18-year-olds was placed in the bill by the senate. The house mill tary affairs committee approved the amendment unanimously in a closed session yesterday and it was- offered to the house under unanimous consent ' The amendment contains no re strictions on the use in combat of 17-year-old navy and marine (Continued on Page Two) been sent to the .little American task force, "ordering; it to halt after if reached five miles . beyond be-yond the Mulde river. But the Americans never sot the message. On -and on they went, mile after. mile, until they--were 23 miles beyond the .point where their orders had told them to halt There they met the Russians. None of the Americans spoke Russian, but it didn't matter. Lieut. Albert. Krevetcrew of the American patrol, his uniform covered cov-ered with dust, walked toward the COMPLETE UNITED PRESS pRTr'F VTTP HTWT1 TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE rXuwtr xi V "wLMM Historic Juncture Cuts Germany Into Three Broken Areas Announcement of Historic Junction Made At the Same Time in Washington, Moscow and London; Splits Germany Into 3 Parts PARIS, April 27 cx American and Russian armies have 'joined forces on the Elbe river below Berlin in a historic juncture that cut Germany into three broken fragments frag-ments and sealed the doom of Hitler's Nazi regime. Vanguards of the two armies merged their eastern and western fronts yesterday at the river town of Torgau, 75 miles south of the German capital, at the crossroads of the long and bloody trails from Stalingrad and the beaches of Normandy, i The juncture split the Reich into in-to three crumbling islands of resistance re-sistance centering around the North Sea ports, Berlin and the Bavarian redoubt in - the moun tains of. southern Germany and Austria. Another Ltnkno Imminent Still another American-Russia: linkup appeared' imminent in the Bavarian foothills bordering Hitler's Berchtesgaden retreat, where Gen. George S. Patton's Third army established radio contact with a Red army force apparently only 30 to 40 miles away. Germans Watch- Doughboys of the U. S. First army's 69th infantry division pushed out from the Mulde rlv er, -30 miles from the Elbe, to join up with the 173rd . Russian guards regiment in Torgau, on the west bank of the Elbe, As they went forward, hundreds hun-dreds of- war-wearied German prisoners lined the roadsides to watch the parade of American power that foretold the death of Nazidom and the final destruc tlon of Germany's military might. ' The electrifying news of the juncture on the Elbe was announced an-nounced simultaneously in Wash ington. London and Moscow. Leaders of the Big Three hailed the event as the decisive triumph of the European war. "This is not the hour of final victory but the hour draws near . "President Truman declared in a brief White House statement. "The last faint desperate hope of Hitler and his gangster gov ernment has been extinguished. Patrols f rem the two armies met for the first time on the Elbe Wednesday evening at 4:40 p.m (10:40 a.m. EWT) but the first junction in force was not effected effect-ed until 8 p.m. (2 p.m. EWT) yes terday when the 69th and the SO' viet guard regiment joined hands in Torgau. Major-Gen. E. F. Bernhardt, commander of the 69th, led his division into the battered river town where almost two centuries ago another Russian army joined its Austrian Allies to fight Fred erick the Great of Prussia, their common enemy In the Seven Years war. Resistance Collapses- German resistance appeared to have collapsed completely in the juncture area. The dusty roads west of Horgau were reported choked with thousands of beaten Naiz - soldiersand German civil ians, all fleeing for the Mulde river in a panicky rush to enter the American lines and escape the . avenging Red army. The remnants of Germany's northern armies were going down in the smoke and flame of en circled Berlin and in the wrecked north sea ports of Hamburg and Bremen, taking with them the Nazi dynasty that Hitler boasted (Continued On Page Two) Dittmar Reported Allied Prisoner BY UNITED PRESS A BBC broadcast said today that Allied armies in the west have captured Lt Gen. Kurt Dittmar, spokesman of the German high command and frequent military commentator over the Berlin radio. Russians and stuck out his hand. A Russian soldier shook hands with him. History may record that the of ficial juncture took place at Torgau, but tne men ox tne inue U. S. patrol who reached . mesa have their own ideas about that The juncture at Torgau oc curred f 430 p. m. Wednesday. (President Truman said the junc ture occurred on Thursday.) Lieut William B. Robertson oi Los Aneeles led the patrol that met the Russians at iorgau. THE WEATHER , UTAH Partly cloudy -today1 sad tonight Increasing cloudiness -with afternoon showers north portion Saturday. - Slowly rising temperature. Temperature- , nirh .' 53 - 1 V - Goering Flees Berlin With INice 'Nest Egg' BULLETIN: ' LONDON, April 27 (U.RV A Zurich dispatch of the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph said today that Relchmarahal Hermann Goering shot Ills five daughters daugh-ters and then himself when the Nads sentenced him to death and ordered him to execute-his own death sentence sen-tence LONDON. 'Atwtt.-.-iiua b.jh.. Moscow today said7 that Relchs-marshal Relchs-marshal Hermann Goering had lel toiABerluvbir plane with a $20,000,080 "nest egg." T The broadcast, heard here by Exchange Telegraph, said Goering departed In art unknown direction; aiter collecting his nest egg' Moscow did not sav whm t alleged flight took place, or from where. Temolehof airdrome. field in the Berlin area held by me inazis, was -overrun by the Red army yesterday. Radio Hamburg said yesterday that Goering had been relieved as commander of -the German air force because of heart trouble. Marshal Ritter von Grein was appointed ap-pointed to succeed him, Hamburg said. Moscow earlier had suggested that the disposal of Goering was engineered to "camouflage his flight into one of the neutral countries or his disappearance into the 'Hitler underground movement.' There was growing suspicion here that other Nazis possibly Hitler himself were using the battle of Berlin to cloak their disappearance dis-appearance into hiding. The usually reliable diplomatta correspondent of Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph reported no definite evidence evi-dence had reached London that Hitler still was in Berlin. The insistence of Nazi radio reports re-ports that the fuehrer still was fighting in the capital's death struggle, was, regarded as suspicious suspici-ous 'in itself. Political and military observers canvassed here believed that, while the world watched the battle bat-tle of- Berlin, the high priests of Nezldom were slipping away into tuning in Germany itself in the hope they would live to fight an-i other day. With Goering sick, dead, or departed, de-parted, the "big three" of Nazidom Nazi-dom now were two Hitler and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. . War In Brief By United Press EASTERN FRONT Germaa reported preparing death stand in center of. Berlin against encircling encircl-ing Red army columns. , WESTERN FRONT Amer . leans fnvade .Austria and smash to western edge of Bavarian redoubt re-doubt - ITALY Fifth army troops capture Piacenza, 35 miles from Milan, and drive into Alps foothills. foot-hills. ' PACOTC Japanese resist ance cracking' on eouthern Ok inawa; B-29's blast Kyushu alr-i fields again; Americans battle toward to-ward center of Bagnio on Luzon2 rand - reach within 20 miles oz Davao gulf on Mindanao. f-f- ' ARGENTINE PLOT T7 IS THWARTED BUENOS AIRES, April 27 CU-TO A government communique said today; that a plot by retired army officers, professional politicians poli-ticians and Fascist extreniists to overthrc the Argentine govern " menti unleashed-, civil- war -and 1 assassinate all officials not joining join-ing the government , had : been; thwarted, f |