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Western Front
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TRAN provinces had been surren-
dered. A few Germans were still re-
sisting.
Seventh Army columns which adj
vanced along mountain roads ig-
nored scores of enemy troops wan
dering about trying to give up.
The Rainbow t42d) Division
alone took $4,000 captives yesterday
in hopping up Munich. Many said
they were celebrating the end of
the war.
The general German crackup was
accelerated. Supreme headquarters
listed the capture of Field Marshal
Baron Macmillan Friehen Won
WEIGHS, former German commander
in the Balkans, Field Marshal Hugo
Sperrle, who as commander of the
German air force directed the bGtz
on London. plus Is generals. Some
93797 Germans surrendered Mon
day, for a total since D day for Gen
Eisenhower's armies of 2.80l,9l5.
The Germans in the north sur
rendered in wholesale lots.
Dominate Inn River.
In the south, the Sd Army domi-
mated the Inn River on a 66-mile
front and had crossed the wide trib-
utary Of the Danube at least half a
dozen times. Braunau, birthplace
of Hitler, was occupied completely
Cen Patton's Texas and Oklahoma
goth, Division crossed into Czecho-
slovakia near Starry Pastrekov and
advanced miles to within % of
Pilsen and its Skoda munitions
works.
Despite the surrender in Italy,
Gen. Eisenhower kept his three
army offensive rolling in the south.
1t appeared that Field Marshal Albert
Kesselring-who has been listed as
war criminal-intended to main
tain control if he could over the
Germans facing the American Sd
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LAWYER Is Nominated
As Post Office Aide

President Truman today nomi-
mated Joseph j. Lawler OF Pennsyl-
vania to be Third Assistant Post
master General and Harold H.
Young Of Texas to be solicitor of
the Commerce Department.
Mr. Lawler will succeed Ramsey
5. Black, who is leaving the Post
Office Department on May to be-
come State treasurer of Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr.. Young, who was secretary to
Vice President Wallace. went to the
Commerce Department when Mr..
Wallace was named head of that
agency and has been employed in
an administrative capacity there.
He succeeds South Trimble, jr.,
who is becoming chairman of the
Advisory Board of the Inland Wa
terWavs Corn.
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Fire and Portugal
Mark Killers Death

BY the Associated Press.
Condolences over the death OF
Hitler were expressed last night by
Prime Minister canon de Valera
of Fire to DR.. Eduard Hemple. Ger
man Minister at Dublin.
ABSIE, the American broadcasting
station in Europe, said Portugal had
ordered two days of mourning for
the German Fuehrer.
Both countries also expressed sor-
row previously at the death OF
President Roosevelt. The Fire
Parliament adjourned April l3 as
a mark of respect to the late Presi-
dent and in Lisbon Premier Salazar
and other Portuguese officials at
tended special religious services.
SAN FRANCISCO. May tP,.-
Tokyo newspapers are treating re-
ports of Adolf Hitler's death with
caution, Domei, the Japanese news
agency, reported today.
Domei quoted Asahi, prominent
Tokyo publication, as saying edi-
torially lit would be advisable for
us to adopt an attitude of watchful
waiting until the European situa
ton has become a bit clearer"
STOCKHOLM May 3 DIT was
officially stated today that Sweden
had presented no condolences in
connection with Hitler's death.
A dispatch from Bern said Switz-
erland had offered no condolences
for the death of Hitler.
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and 7th Armies and the French LIST
Army.
The loss of Berlin and the death
of Hitler were blows to German
morale. Soldiers and officers now
were released from their personal
oaths of fealty to the man whom
Moscow said is reported by the cap
tive DR.. Hans Fritsche to have COM
mitted suicide
One of the largest potential death
traps for the enemy was in Western
Holland. where the German 25th
Army had opened a corridor for
movement of food to the starving
Dutch.
Gen. Henry Crerars Canadian
Army moved into Oldenburg t33,-
000) and approached the North Sea
submarine bases of Emden and Will
helmshaven, and Is miles away,
at midnight.
The British 9th Air. borne Division
formed the latest junction with the
Russians near Wismar about mid
way between Lubbock 154,6 500 and
Rostock 122 ,399). Late yesterday,
the Russians and American 9th
Armys Rail Splitter 184th) Division
Joined south of Wittenberge, form
ing another trap along the Elbe on
its course above Dessau.
In effect. the Red armies and
Gen. Eisenhower's forces were
linked up all the way from the
North German coast to point
somewhere between the Czechoslo-
yak border and the Dresden region.
Some Germans in the north were
attempting to get away by sea.
British flghter-bombers struck at
the routed foe and destroyed more
than $500 vehicles yesterday. Pilots
reported small conveys forming off
Lubbock. They scored several hits
on a l000-ton troopship. British
bombers attacked Kiel in the night.
Thousands of Prisoners Taken.
Field Marshal Montgomery S
armies were taking prisoners at a
rate that defied tabulation. The
British 5th Infantry Division alone
was estimated to have taken $4,000
prisoners yesterday The American
82d Air-borne Division. fighting
alongside the British I'd Army, cap
tured even more. The British 18th
Armored Division which captured
Lubbock took 10000
Many Allied prisoners of war and
displaced persons were liberia ted
The British 18th Armored Division
overran Off1ag l0C, freeing more
than 1000 prisoners. BY capturing
Lubbock. this division snapped all
| land routes into Schleswig- Holstein
and Denmark
One at the late reports reaching
supreme headquarters placed the
18th Scottish Division In the edge of
Sachsen Forest east of Hamburg
The Scots met few parachute
troops who had been fighting on the
Canadian front.
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regulations will be dealt with b,
force of arms by the occupation
forces.
For the execution of the an.
nounced orders, especially of the
curfew. the government Offices anc
factories of Hamburg, with the ex-
ception of the electricity and water
works, will close down this morning
at 1000 hours 90 AMI"
This announcement is made with
the authorization of the gauleiter.'
the broadcast concluded.
Hamburg. with prewar popula-
ton of .t,32 ,220, is the center about
which German resistance in the
north ordinarily would be mar
shaled.
It's fall deprived the remnants of
the German Army of northern
stronghold. The news UNDERSIGNED
reports that the Germans were about
to surrender in Denmark.
1t was the first of the Germans
cities to be declared open and I'M
defended.
1t was considered possible that
the notorious Lord Haw Haw, the
British traitor, William Joyce. who
became a tool of the Nazis. might
fall into British hands. Only two
days ago he broadcast from Ham,
burg.
Following the official announce
ment that the city would give up
without a fight. instructions were
given to the populace.
Diaries and milk retail shops
which were closed today were asked
to reopen Immediately, SO that chill
dren may be fed.
Field Marshal Montgomery forces
for some time have been massec
along the Elbe River opposite Ham,
burg and had made a crossing to
the east side of the river, in the
Hamburg area.
Hamburg had been reported re-
Gently in chaotic condition as Gen
Dempsey's I'd Army forged a siege
arc. British artillery has been
pounding Hamburg's defenses.
U-BOat Yards Battered.
The important U-boat yards at
Hamburg have been plastered mer-
cilessly by British and American
bombers.
Hamburg is located on the mouth
of the Elbe River, 10 miles from the
North Sea. Its port city is Cux-
haven, but in peacetime days Ham,
burg's great docks could accommo-
date even tranSoceanic liners
AS world harbor in prewar days
Hamburg was considered second only
to London and New York.
Also located at Hamburg is the
famous seewarte, or naval weather
station, which often had given the
German Army vital information or
the weather. 1t was this station
which provided Field Marshal Won
Rundstedt with accurate informa-
ton for the launching of his futile
Belgian bulge offensive last Deem
Der.
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Dietrich Reported Killed
By Nuzi Deserters

Special to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
BERN, May 3.-Dr. Otto Dietrich,
notorious Nazi press chief and prop
agandist, is reported to have been
assassinated on April Is.
Deserters of a Volkssturm bat
talon who were trying to reach the
Russian lines mistook Dietrich, in
his Nazi party uniform. for a Waffen
So officer, and shot him, according
to the German source here.
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countries. British troops are only
IS miles from kiel
There was no Qualification last
night Of the situa ton in Denmark
where since early Tuesday there
had been definite signs that the
Germans were evacuating the Island
of Sjaelland. Against this were
orders of the day from Col. Gen
George Lindemann, commander OF
German military forces in Den
mark, and Gen. Franz Boeme, Nazi
military chief in Norway. Both
had thrown their lot in with
DoenitZ
Still Defiant.
Lindemann had declared bluntly
that he had not carried on any
negotiations. least of all about
any capitulation" Gen. Boeme had
issued a defiant order of the day
to his troops that the fight for
Germany is today as valid as ever. y
In London there were varying
opinions on the possibility of peace
full German capitalization in Scan
dinavia. In some official quarters
it was felt that a general debacle
was imminent on the heels of Ger
man surrenders in Berlin and in the
southern part of the Nazi redoubt
These developments. it was thought
showed DoenitZ had no control over
the German military situation and
thus the commanders might make
their own decisions and end the
hopeless struggle.
But some Britons expressed the
opinion that the calls for laSt-ditch
battles in Scandinavia by the Ger
man commanders had dimmed
hopes for a bloodless liberation
A spokesman for the Norwegian
Embassy in London said a sharp
split had developed among German
leaders in Norway. as indicated by
the ousting of Admiral Otto Ciliax.
who was known to favor capitula-
ton. He said that for the moment
German military leaders appeared
to be following the Doenitz line.
Other radio reports concerning
German activities:
The South German radio broad
cast an order of the day signed by
Field Marshal Ferdinand Schooner
telling German troops facing the
Russians west of Vienna to fight on.
The Luxembourg radio followed
with broadcast asserting that
Schoerner was dead, but giving no
details.
A free Czechoslovak radio station
asserted patriots were rising against
the Germans in that possible hold
out area and sabotage had reached
such proportions that German rule
was approaching the vanishing
point.
Hapsburg Reported in Flight.
From the Swiss border came a
report that Archduke Albrecht Won
Hapsburg, Adolf Hitler's choice as
successor to Admiral Nicholas
Horthy as regent of Hungary, had
tried to enter Switzerland, accom-
panied by former Iraq Minister
Rashid Ali, but that both were
turned back at the border.
In Washington, President Truman
late yesterday replied with a no
when asked if he had any early
plans to address the country. 1t
had been announced at the White
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Hitler Dies Just Five Years
After Million Reward Offer

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. May Sit was
exactly five years to a day from
the time the late Col. Samuel Har-
den Church, once president of Car
negie Institute of Technology, Of
fered 100000 bounty for the
capture of Adolf Hitler, that the
death Of the German Fuehrer was
announced in Berlin.
Col. Church's offer, which aroused
bitter criticism in many quarters,
was made May l. 1910, and was
good for one month only. A bond
for 81 Zoo, 900, posted by the colonel,
was withdrawn promptly on June l.
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laps Attack Blasted
All ) Surgery Rooms
On u. 5. Hospital Ship
BY LIEF ERICKSON and AL
DOPKING.

Associated Press War Correspondents.
ABOARD HOSPITAL SHIP CON-
FORT AT A WESTERN PACIFIC
BASE (ThursdaV. May "a Jap
anese suicide plane explosion which
wiped out all three surgery rooms
aboard this American hospital ship
threw I'd 1t. Nurse Evelyn c. Bach
eler into the air and onto the STIR
rups holding a patient to whom she
was given an aneSthetic.
The patient was killed.
Miss Bachelor, who is from Po-
catello, Idaho, was one of the two
nurses working in surgery who sur
vived the deliberate kamikaze at
tack. so miles south of Okinawa
Saturday night.
Five operations were in progress
when the single -engined japanese
plane hit the superstructure deck,
blowing out the bulkheads of the
three operating rooms.
Anesthetic Tanks Explode.
After the explosion of the attack
planes bomb and gasoline supply
tanks containing oxygen and NITROUS
oxide, which were being used for the
anesthetic, also blew up and hurled
Nurse Bachelor to the deck
On arrival of the mercy ship here
the nurse told of the experience.
All hell broke loose" she said
"Bulkheads were flying through the
air. remember being thrown into
the operating table stirrups anc
then picking myself off the floor
Then started calling the names OF
the people who had been there in
surgery three, trying to find out il
they were all right"
Most of those in the room were
killed.
One survivor was Maj. Dorsey
Brannan of Morgantown, w. Va
who was just finishing an opera
ton. The blast blew him through
a portfolio and onto the deck.
Made Second Attempt.
The Comforts skipper, Comdr. A.
Tooker of Saybrook, Conn. said the
suicide plane was first seen while
apparently diving for the brightly
lighted, Redd Cross marked hospital
ship from the starboard quarter.
"Apparently." he said, 1.-The pilot
decided he was going to miss. be-
cause he pulled up on the port side
where we could see him against the
moon.
Then he climbed to about 500
feet. circled around again to star
board and diver again The plane
hit nearly amidship on the super
structure deck, directly in the sec
tior where the three surgeries were
located. All the operating rooms
were wiped out"
Engine Goes Through Decks.
The planes engine went through
the SuperStructure deck, the deck
the main deck and the second deck
Evidently it carried a small bomb.
which made a second hole through
only the superstructure deck and the
main deck
Comdr. Tooker said the casualties,
nearly all of them in the surgery
rooms. were seven Army wounded
from Okinawa who were killed: five
Army surgeons killed. one Navy med
ical officer killed. six Army nurses
killed, nine Army corpsmen killed
and one Navy cook killed, total of
% fatalities.
One Army corpsman is missing.
Nine Okinawa wounded patients
were injured, as were three Navy
officers, three Navy enlisted men,
three Army officers, four Army
nurses and nine Army enlisted men.
These % wounded were transferred
here from the ship to shore hospitals.
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W d > dIlAlOullCCu
today.
A native of the
D / S t r i c t. who
S erv d in the
Navy during the
st war, DR..
Herbst is a grad
uate of George
town University
Medical School.
H e did pos t =
graduate W ork
a t t he M a y O
Clinic at Roch-
ester, MINI, for
six years, and
pra C t ic ed for
cnnao TINA In ]
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spective to evaluate the campaign
in its proper light.
Gen. Maris observed that the
German artillery did not seem up to
1917 and 1918.
We couldn't concentrate It,"
Won Runstedt said. Your Air Force
bombing of gun positions. highways
and railroads. and. in Normandy,
blesome-coming in as far as Is
miles around Caen.
Mechanical war is not pretty"
he unused.
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Chamber of Commerce
Reflects Eric Johnston

By the Associated Press.
Eric A. Johnston of Spokane,
Wash. today was reelected for a
fourth term as president of the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United
States.
The board also named these two
new regional vice presidents for the
coming year: Joseph w. Evans,
houston. Tex. and E. H. Sexaier,
Brookings, S. Oak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
DIR. Herbst Is Named
President-EIect Of
D. T.. Medical Society

DR.. William p. Herbst, jr, has
been chosen president-elect of the
District Medical Society, to take
Office as president July l, 1916, it
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A dispatch from Bern said Switz-
erland had offered no condolences
for the death of Hitler.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-01-30

Mrs. Mary Sclosser, returned
missionary from China, was the
speaker at IL a. m. Sunday, in
the Free Methodist Church.
The Lions club held their
regular meeting and dinner
Tuesday night. James Mugan
of Port Huron gave an interest
ing talk on Lincoln. Elmer
Brogan of Port Huron was also a
guest. Local guests were Ray
Deaner, Russell Plagens, Harlow
Scrubner, and William Cotting-
ton.
Miss Ina Kelly Of Port Huron
spent the weekend with Mrs.
E. H. "Opens.
Fireman First Glass Donald
e
The daily monitor leader., 1945-01-30
Leaflets Tell Germans
Of No-Surrender Terms

PARIS, Jan. 80 - up - On
the eve of the widely-heralded
BIZ Three Conference. the Al
lies have begun showering Ger
man lines with leaflets explain
ing the unconditional surren-
der" goal announced at Casa
blanca, it was disclosed today.
Unconditional surrender, the
pamphlets declare. "would not
mean that Germans who sur
render would be at the mercy
of the victorious side" On the
contrary, they would "be un-
der the protection of the Ge-
neva convention and would be
treated with fairness"
The pamphlets, one Of the
first direct attempts by Allied
propagandists in recent months
to drive q wedge between the
German people and their rulers,
also say:
1T is the wish Of the Allies
to give the German people the
possibility for normal peaceful
development as members of the
European family of nations"
The announcement said "in-
dividual Germans who had
nothing to do with the crimes
The daily monitor leader., 1945-01-30

Charles Henderson is visiting
relatives in Port Townsend,
Wash.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-01-30

than that OF the warrior.
In a quiet room in st. Joseph
Hospital, Mount Clemens, lies
Mrs. Amy Conaway, age %
years wife of Philip Coma
way a returned war veteran, and
mother of q six-months-old child.
Mrs. Conaway knows she is
the victim of q dread and usual
ly fatal malady, leukemia Z.
but If the will to live and cheer
full courage will save her, it's
going to be a long time before
leukemia wins the battle.
"I'm just going to fool you
| DOCTORS" she tells the loyal
medical men who are battling
against heavy odds for her life.
''rll be home one Of these
days fit as a fiddle, with my
folks all around me and my
baby too"
Between her and the good
nurses who have made her
happy there's little to choose
in the way of mutual admira-
ton She thinks they're
the grandest people in the
world and they adore
their brave little patient, lying
so still beneath the white COW
ers waiting for the day when
faith may win over science.
The other day q nurse took
off her sorority pin and fastened
it to her favorite patients
nightie:
..Fm going to pin my soror-
ity pin on you, because you
are so brave 1t should be
the Purple Heart" she said.
1t was the young woman's fa-
ther, Louis Jeffries, of 26664
Waldorf avenue, Roseville, who
first called the case to our atten-
ton. MIR. Jeffries came to the Of
flee Friday to ask if the paper
was going to publish pictures of
the nurse graduation class at ST.
Joseph Hospital.
We explained that the pic
lures had been planned for
Friday, but, due to delay at
the engravers, would not be
in the paper until Tuesday.
His countenance fell, and we
asked him why his daughter
couldn't wait until Tuesday to
see the pictures 49,. Then he
explained that her condition was
mighty critical and he'd
give anything to get those pic
lures right away, for Amy.
Well we got the pic
lures out first thing Saturday
morning and Amy en-
jOyed SO much seeing her pals
of the nursing staff in their at
tractive uniforms 1t was
something that added q lot of
cheer to her day.
And speaking of courage :.
Amy Jeffries ConaWay gets a
lot of it from her father, who is
now shouldering as heavy a bur-
den as any dad would care to
carry.
His wife, Amy's mother Is
The daily monitor leader., 1945-01-30

committed by war criminals
will not be taken to account
for those crimes"
That Allied airmen have been
scattering the leaflets in Ger
many was announced shortly
after the disclosure that Harry
l.. Hopkins had visited London
and Paris and gone on to Rome
on q fact-finding mission for
President Roosevelt prepara-
tory to the Big Three Confer
ence.
Use Of the leaflets bolstered
a belief in some quarters that
the President, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Marshal
Stain might produce Joint i'm
mediate surrender call to Ger
many at their meeting.
There was no indication in
Paris, where the Big Three con-
ferees might meet but there was
frequent speculation that the
President might visit Paris.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-01-30
Associates Honor
James Davidson

James Davidson, former own
er Of the Mount Clemens sugar
beet factory, was honored at "a
testimonial dinner given by $50
friends at the Wenonah hotel in
Bay City Thursday.
The widely known Bay City
financier and industrialist was
presented with life-sized por-
trait ard book of letters in
recognition of his long and sue
cessful business career. John
Lungerhausen of Mount Clem-
ems was a guest at the event.