Show E: ii I World News Weather: a Associated Press United Press N T Times Foreign Service t'ver 0 Partly Cloudy 14 0 (befalls on Page 20) Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning April 28 1945 Vol 151 No Price Five Cents A t I --- Mna MK I l emara5 ' L enimsmmo 6‘s onfm42mo mookasimoo M&4don Russia Loses Wins at S F Session Ebersvilà1del t Be-a- u ' andait IrrATORIAL OPERA HOUSE -- Joy Maiks 'à is clm San Francisco April 27 (UP)— Russia Friday lost the first round of her fight to bring Poland into the world secultity conference but won the extra votes for White Russia and the Ukraine which Marshal Stalin requested at Yalta Foreign Commissar V M Molotov raised the Polish issue at a of Tim) Allies ilpleet V pt - Belzi 711313'"941P''''''i andeburq alde ::::: - ' Ld-ekehw- i:: iJii f3 i: 11) Americans Join Ecstatic Reds In Sono Dances BRANDENBURG 1 Juterbog - '''-ek't-"rTsP-2e- pssau Lu 1--- 14- Rt nberg i - JeIr big-thr- ee Cosvvig - TA 1 Ko then I I lit1404 -- A- e V - - !'aittWield I k TdTh ''' l'- -' Vt rzs :'' ' ‘ -- ' 747' 1116 By Don Whitehead and Hal Boyle TORGAIJ Germany April 26 (Delayed) CD—Americans and Russians sat in the warm sunshine on both banks of the 'Co IILTz "1"leat fr '417i11:1:ns i: c'' ralkFithei-0 ms g 'ItElstervv eloz i ‘ e- -- - ‘04 Nic )' 4 ç1r Li 1 blii Elbe Friday drinking champagne from beer mugs mg each other on the back and toasting the historic occasion of the meeting of their two armies There was singing and dancing and the troops of the two nations seeing each other for the first time whooped it up and formed firm friendships despite the It handLcaps of language was enough that they were allies and had whipped the 0 c! tCleS ‘E:Afq S 6L 4 jig Ad - GOSSI7 ItZ Inset upper left shows Lt Gen William Robertson (left) of Los Angeles member of the 69th Infantry division of the II S First army embracing Russian Lt Alexander Sylvashko at historic junction on eastern bank of Elbe (AP Wirephoto) Patriots Nab Capital Hears of Peace Bid Times-- - Exclusive N Y Salt Lake Tribune - - Duce Trio Of Henchmeq Exclusive: N Y Times- WASHINGTON April 27—ReSalt Lake Tribune ti ports current in Washington—rer Daniel T Brigham By ports that are more numerous and more authoritative than have preITALO - SWISS FRONTIER viously been heard in this capital— AT LUGANO April to indicated Friday night that nazi earth after a hectic k)f 48 flight Germany had made known a willhours from Milan first toward ingness to surrender unconditionally to the United States and Chiasso where he apparently Britain- but not to the soviet hoped he might find asylum in union- and that the western allies Switzerland and then to Lake have told the negotiators that they Como Benito Mussolini was will accept "only for all" captured by partisans at Iesso The reports stirred belief here on Lake Como Friday morning forconsideration It was expected th4t the execu- - that a formal admission of defeat as he was stepping int4? his d thve committee would approve from Germany was imminent ear for one last This Information is not made try to get to Germany With seating delegates of the two Ruahim according to the partisans" public officially It is not possislan republics provided they are ble to reveal sources but it may tA liaison service here3 were Pair JE3Cht Column On) be stated that the reports came press Alberto trarmacci and AleNandri from several responsible sources Pavolini the former of whom all of which were in substantial had been waiting for twedays agreement 1 n the general outline for conveyance from the Wehof what purportedly had taken rmacht place Later during the afternoon 44 In outline this Is what is rein the same region Marshal to have taken within ported place Rudolfo Graziani the "butcher the past few days of Abyssinia" was run to earth A group of highly placed nazis 'WASHINGTON April 27 U1— and after a running After approving unanimously' a' acting without the 'authority of fight captured few miles southeast of a Adolf Hitler but with the backing restriction against use of Como During the fight of the German high command has Lake inductees in combat the house is it he was seyerely : reported let Washington and London know wounded sent to Pres Truman Friday leg-isto is accept lation extending the draft law willing thatGermany Copyright by N Y :rime& Without the extension the act t h e "unconditional surrender" by under which the United States terms set has conscripted the biggest army Pres Roosevelt and Prime Minand navy in its history would ister Churchill This step was taken as a result have expired on May 15 The continuance is until May 15 1916 or of a realization by part of the nazi Until the end of the global war hierarchy withqthe exception of Hitler that the reich is beaten whichever comes first The house action was by voice beyond all hope They see their vote on the question of concurring country being ground into dust —LONDON Saturday ApriAg8 (2P) Russian arniles conquering in a senate amendment to an their men—and even their women and children—killed and of dying Beilin and house bill earlier they extending the know that unless they stop the seizing its last airdrome lift the draft law without change The senate's amendment pro- dekruction and the bloodshed by German capital to hibited the use in combat of in- their surrender there can be no storm troops Friday and 13truck for Germany for gerenations west in twin offensives tolvard a ducted men under 19 until they hope have had at least six months of to come second link-u- p with 'American The group that Ilas instigated forces and the isolation of Gertraining to the be peace proposalsis said NVhile the army had opposed the last Baltic ports many's curb when the house first acted capable of acting for Ge'rmany Berlin writhing in it final on the ' bill last month it Was The move means a wholesale split death throes was a wilderness of understood to have withdrawn its in the nazi hierarchyfor's6me of crumbled stone and steel swept by fanatics still follow the flame-tinge- d objection in the light of recent the party lihe winds and though its that utter chaos is defenders resisted developments on the war fronts Hitlerian fanaticially In a than better surrender Hitler The restriction does not prevent Vain struggle its inner and outer no In would any nego- defenses were cracking fast play : part the navy or the coast guard from inductees to tiations that might develop Potsdam on the city's!isouthassigning western limits fell and with it training on combat ships Copyrigiltby N Y Times 27--R- high-powere- Bill Extending e - ' Marshal Konev (inset upper right) led the First Ukrainian S First under IA Gen Hodges atmy Melt joined with (inset lower left) at Torgau as shown by black arrows Lower right inset shows Russ tanks rolling through Berlin U S Third Invades'Atigtria Races to Join Russians ?ARTS Saturday April 28 (A)— American tank columns invaded Austria Fridaysadvanced 26 miles west of the nazfcitadel of Munich and crashed into the western end of Hitler's Alpine redoubt While the U S Third larmy plowing unopposed into Austria made radio contact with Russian southern armies less than 85 miles to the southeast two U S Seventh army armored divisions went on ' a tear farther west sent The lOth armored division one column spearing 28 miles east into Landsberg only 26 miles east of Munich birthplace of nazism and nowconsidered the northern outpost for the final death stand Race 14 Mlles Into Alps Another column raced 14 miles the Bavarian straight south 10into miles or so into Alps driving what is probably Hitler's inner fortress and reached Kempten 11 miles from the Austrian frontier This push threatened to cut in behind any Germans in the redoubt concentrated around the area of Lake Constance some 30 miles to the west The tank crews here Were 65 miles from the northern mountain border of Italy forth'-respectivel- Russ Clear Most of Berlin Strike West forU S Line three-quarte- rs dust-thoke- -- ld - d went the great western suburb of Spandau and the city districts of Schmargendorf Steglitz Tempel-ho- t and Neukoelln The great Tem- pelhof airdrome the last air escape and supply route was overrun Enemy broadcasts admitted that the situation was "critical" as the soviets battered out advances of a mile and more around the blasted inner core of the capital The Germans insisted that Adolf Hitler still was there prepared to die a martyr's death in a battle which Germany's fading radios said would decide the war With Gerrnilny split by a junction of Russian and American First - Vito rage Four Column Ont) away d While these blows made the for- midable and pocket trouble the batt 1e against the northern pocket was rising in fury A field dispatch from the Canadian First army front said waves of young anq fanatic Germans were hurling "themselves at the Canadians in a suicidal version of the Japanese banzai charge and were being mowed down "by the well-defend- ed thousands" Fight for Coast Ports These Germans had no choice but to fight before the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven and Emden for the fall of Bremen had cut them off from the east From the western Holland front came reports that the civilian population had but a three-wee- k supply of food left which put not only the Dutch but the 100000 Germans holed up there in dire straits A report from the TW'rd army front said that a junction with the Russians was expected shortly shearing Czechoslovakia's arsenals off from the German fortressof the south Third Seizes Regensburg The United States Third army while invading Austria likewise completed the destruction of the Danube river line by seizing Regensburg and Ingolstadt twin strongholds 35 miles apart on the stream north of Munich The French First army hammering at the fortress' western battlements stormed through weak defenses and captured Constave on (Zee rage Two Russians Ecstatic The stocky smiling Russians looking very young and very tough were ecstatic They ceremoniously saluted and shook hands with everyone they met They crushed your hand until you wondered how many handshakes you could stand They were filled with spontaneous gaiety Almost every Russian had a tommy gun slung across his shoulder Revolvers were in d boots and their their belts were festooned with grenades and knives Most of them wore medals on 'their thick chests All around there was the sound ofhooting as the Russians workedoff excess energy and excite' ment Don't Need Excuse "These guys don't need any excuse to start shooting" said Capt Ralph Phillips of Union Square N J "they shoot at anything any time" It was a celebration unlike anything seen before in this high-toppe- The 12th armored division likewise was racing east close on the north flank of the division and after hurdling the Wurtach river was about 30 miles west of Munich Expect Munich Battle Both columns with the endless lines of infantry swinging up ponderously from behind expected to meet savage resistance in Hitler's old home town of Munich The Third army crossing the also w a Danube repeatedly marching on Munich from the north and last was reported 38 10th-armore- enemy Column Tv':"te" war—one great party with ' doughboys a n d Russians singing laughing and dancing and trying to talk to each dttler in sign language A few Americans whii) spoke Russian interpreted for their friends A Russian sat on a stone wall playing an accordion (see Page Two Column Five) - cl - Pessimistic SHAEF Declares End May Take Months Chiefs At Front Expect Day in Weeks ' - Ill ( meeting of the conference Steersharply ing committee blit was rebuffed in his effort to gaifi an invitation for the Warsaw 'provisional government The steering committee agreed that Poland was a matter for to decide However the at Fridays plenary session the conference approved a report exevenpressing hope that Poland tiisily could participate in the conference Asks Lublin Entry A member of the steering coramittee said that a resolution pro ding that the Polish Lublin committee be admitted immediately to the conference was introduced by Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk on instructions from his government Molotov and the Yugoslav mem hers supported the resolution but BOlirian and Australian members proposed that the discussion be referred to the executive Committee Stettinius and British Foreign Secy Anthony Eden said they were not' prepared to agree that a matter still under consideration could be put before the executive committee lit this time Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak then proposed that the matter not be brought before the committee but be settled by the big powers He introduced a resolution to that effect which was supported by Gen Jan C Smuts of South Africa It was passed unanimously Molotov not voting Russia Gains Three Votes The three-vote- s for Russia proposal was approved without fuss or fanfare Molotov moved that the two soviet republics be invited as charter members of the conference and the steering committee acquiesed without discussion Friday afternoons plenary sesslon approved the action without debate officially inviting the Ukraine and White Russia to sit in on the sessions Secy of State Edward R Stettimus Jr revealed at a late press conference that while the 'Ukraine and White Russia have been approved as members of the world security organization the question of seating the two countries at the present conference has been referred to the executive committee - 77 t Poland Recognition To White 'r '10 Gains Extra Votes But Fails in Draft Goes Lt11 14i 17-- E - By James M Long - PARIS Saturday April 28 UP) — American and Russian armies from half a world vpart have met in the heart of Hitler's once proud reich leaving Germany crushed and virtually overrun from east and west The meeting of the men of Gen Eisenhower and the men of Marshal Stalin south of Berlin left only pockets of nazis in Hitler's northern and southern redoubts to be stamped out before Europe's war is declared officially at an end Supreme headquarters cificially pessimistic says organized warfare can last for several months Front line commanders believe all will be over in a matter of weeks at themost Great Military Forces at Standstill Along 200 Mlles of Elbe The juncture brought to a comparative standstill two of the greatest military machines of history and Friday they faced each other along 200 miles of the Elbe river where the U S First and Ninth armies drew up to a halt seven days ago The Russians and the Americans met in late Wednesday afternoon on the U S First army front and if other meetings have not already taken place they will in a few days The Americans three enlisted men and a lieutenant of the 273rd regiment of the U S First army's 69th infantry division: met patrols of the 58th soviet guard division of Marshal Ivan S Konev's First Ukrainian army at 10:40 a m E "VT (8:40 group i - Nas-z- General 'Suicide Bombs' Copyright by New York Times GUAM April use of rocket-propelle- d With human "suicide bombs" m Salt Lake time) Wednesday The place was near Torgati en the Elbe river 58 miles south of Surrenders 'Sees War Over - EXclualve N Y Lake Tribune By Frederick Graham MAGDEBURG Germany April Gen Kurt Dittmar best known as the "mouthpiece" of the German army and since the beginning of the war the only German military analyst or commentator on which the world could put the 27---- Lt slightest credence paddled west across the Elbe river Friday afternoon with his son Bernhardt a military cadet an artillery major and three enlisted men and surrendered to an infantry unit of the U S Ninth army The war Dittmar observed is over A thin wiry man of medium height with a big mouth a short upper lip and ears that look like handles of a mug Gen Dittmar bears an amazing resemblance to caricatures of nazi officers Berlin will fall in a couple of days and a few days thereafter the war will end with German army units surrendering where-evthey happen to be when they hear the news of the retch capital Dittmar predicted Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are now in Berlin and will die there while Heinrich Himmler in the national redoubt is awaiting his big exit scene Dittmar asserted Talked Willingly Dressed in an expensive well-cuniform wearing black boots and several decorations including the iron cros Dittmar was extremely willing to talk when he gave himself up His role as radio military commentator had fitted him for the task of talking and his words came in a steady flow He seemed willing to tell us what we wanted to know and at the same time he was eager to get over "for the record" the fact t t he still hoped to be able to io Germany a lot of good Circumstances sur unding the surrender of Dittmar ound honorable and plausible enough but as one listens to him recount them thli feeling is Inescapable that he is a another of the big rats to leave sinking ship Surrender Story Told This is what we know 'from American witnesses of his surrender and what Dittmar says: At about 2 p m today directly across the Elbe river from the city of Magdeburg Dittmar and a German artillery major accompanied by two enlisted in e n started paddling toward the west bank on 'which were American Ninth army units They w ere waving a white flag with a small red cross on it When they beached their boat they were met by Capt Henry Abbes of Glendale N Y Dittmar identified himself and said he would like tosee the commanding general Abbes took the nazi and his party to Lt Co Samuel T er ut ' pilots against the American forces in the Okinawa campaign was revealed Friday by Fleet Adm Nimitz The missiles which are really small single-sea- t airplanes have been nicknamed "baka bombs" by the Yanks — baka being a Japanese word meaning "stupid foolish or silly" acan official press release cordingto The baka bomb said the fleet advanced headquarters release generally Is launched from the underside of the fuselage of a bomber "They are capable of high which reduces their quality sped of maneuverability to a low point" "Conid the announcement structed of light metals and wood these bombs carry a heavy load of McDowell of Rock Hill S C explosives" (See Pads Bola Column Tares) Berlin Historic In two years two allies had traveled 5900 miles to make this his— tonic junction — the Americans 3800 miles from the great ports of America arid 700 miles across Europe the Russians 1400 bloody miles from the ruins of Stalingrad where they broke the German Sixth army and turned the whole tide of the war Now there no longer was art eastern or a western front There were instead north and south fronts—more two pockonce feared armies ets—for Hitler'sproperly were left incapable of fighting as integrated units The allies had fought over the breadth of Europe — 2100 miles to the beaches of from Staling-raNormandy And when they met on the green Elbe plain they shared equally the honor of smashing the most formidable fortress and one of the mightiest fighting forces on earth Yanks Take Less Time The Americans had come of the hard difficult way izt a little less than d of the time At 10 a m EW T (8-rri Salt Lake time) Thursday the Cornmanding generals of the American and Russian divisions met at Torgau to make the junction official to discuss the repatriation of freed prisoners Of war and the problems of tracking down and destroying the nazis in their last retreats While they talked there on the Elbe's west bank their troops met and cemented thewjunction Gen Bradley in an order of the day to his 12th army group embracing the United States First Third Ninth and 15th armies Trek Times-Sa- lt - Jap Fliers Pilot - - one-thi- rd one-thir- a (Bee Page Pour Column Your War Fronts - By United Press WESTERN FRONT—V S and red armies join south of Ber- lin to split Germany In hail - - Patton's tanks break Into Ausbeaded toward junction with Russian troops 85 miles away EASTERN FRONT—Russians make new Junction in heart of Berlin capture Tempeihot Potsdam and drive-west of besieged capital toward Junction with U S 9th army on Elbe ITALY—U S troops enter Genoa force last German tine In Italy AIR WAR—Air ministry says R A F attack destroyed main chalet at part of flitter Berrhtesgaden great Skoda arms works at Pilsen Czechoslovakia severely damaged PACIFIC—Veteran American troops battle to within sight of two airdromes and town of Shar4 on Okinawa against weaketil-1enemy resistance SOUTHEAST ASIA—British forces continue advance south of Toungoo toward Rangoon tria - - |