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j. ). Losses in ItaIy
Placed al 109,163
By the Associated Press.


The conquest of Italy from the
time of the Allied landing. in Sep
TENDER, 1943, until April % cost the
American 5th Army 109,163 cas-
ualties.
Secretary of War Stimson, report
ing this today, said the total in
Guided 21,577 killed, 77,248 wounded
and 1888 missing.
At the same time, Mr.. Stimson
disclosed Army casualties in all
theaters since the beginning of the
war had reached $4,000 on through
April 81. With Navy losses of 102,-
1888, this pushed the losses for both
services since the Pearl Harbor at
tack to CSC, 472-an increase of
21,099 since last weeks report.
Mr.. >Stimson gave the following
breakdown on total Army casualties,
comparing them with figures for the
precedingg week:
Killed, 170,407 and 166, 104; wound
ed, 520,2O8 and 507O18; missing,
80,364 and 82,671; prisoners, TITO
and 73,2O8.
Mr.. Stimson said 275 ,467 of the
wounded have returned to duty and
1874 of the prisoners have been off,
cially listed as having been ex-
changed or returned to military
control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Louisiana Firm
Gives Truman
; Summer Suits

President Truman was presented
with three summer suits from a
New Orleans manufacturer this
morning, but Senator Ellender,
Democrat, of Louisiana, who brought
the gift, had to establish it's char
acter to the satisfaction of Secret
Service men before it could be pre-
sented to the President.
The manufacturer has for the
past 10 years been sending three
suits yearly to the White House,
and as was customary asked Sen
ator Ellender to take care of the
presentation. The Louisianan had
not opened the box containing the
garments, and when presidential
guards at the White House gate
were so advised they called for an
examination. It was duly made and
the gift went to the President.
The New Orleans firm was able
to fit Mr.. Truman by getting his
measurements from a firm which
he patronizes, Senator Ellender was
told.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Stimson, HoiIingWork
OF Generals, Reveals
Sd Are Casualties

Commencing the leadership
Of general officers in this war,
Secretary Stimson disclosed to-
day that "a American generals
to date have been listed as cas-
ualties.
Thirteen have been killed in
action, two have died of wounds,
five are listed as missing in &C
ton, one died of exposure in
action, one died in a prisoner of
war camp and nine have died in
airplane crashes.
Fourteen were wounded. he
disclosed, and 10 are being held
prisoner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Truman Vetoes Bill
Giving Farm Workers
Blanket Deferment
No Group Should Have
Special Privileges, He
Declares in Message

BY the Associated Press.
President Truman today We
toed legislation to provide viz
tually blanket draft deferment
for farm workers.
In time of war it is the para
mount obligation of every citizen to
serve his country to the best of his
ability" the President said in mes
sage to the House.
Mr.. Truman said he did not be-
lieve that Congress really intended,
in passing the Selective Service Act,
that agricultural workers should be
given blanket deferment as group
Service More Essential.
He added he thought Congress had
not intended it to be the national
policy that agricultural employment
was more essential than any other
type of employment, including serv-
ice in the armed forces of the United
States in the protection of our
country
III NSGSSo Hotld lloNC
frightened up the original Tydings
amendment to fix procedure for
deferment of agricultural and kin
dred occupations according to work
actually performed.
Asserting that in his opinion mo
group should have any special privi-
leges, the President declared:
Would Be Injustice.
Enactment of such a law would
not only be an injustice to the mil
lions already indicted into our
armed forces and those yet to be in
Quoted. 1t would do violence to the
basic principle embodied in section
5 CD Cd of the Selective Training
and Service Act which prohibits de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Bonus Of $40 a Week
For Year Proposed fol
Veterans by Rankin
Cost Is Estimated at
II Billion; Approval
Likely, Leaders Say
By the Associate Press.

- NttS ~1SsOS4a tCo EiceS
A veterans bonus drive, with
an estimated $1,000, 100000 price
tag attached, is in full swing on
Capitol Hill.
1t got off to flying start under
the guidance of Representative
Rankin, Democrat, of Mississippi
chairman of the House Veterans
Committee and one of the trainers
of the CT Bill of Rights.
1t calls for payment OF $40 a
week for year to any member of
the armed services who served go
days or more since September L.
1910, and was not dishonorably dis
charged
Early Approval Predicted.
Stoutly insisting that it is an
adjusted compensation proposal
rather than a bonus bill, Mr.. Ran
kin predicted the measure he intro
duced yesterday as an amendment
to the CT Bill of Rights would win
early and overwhelming approval.
While describing it as his own
idea. Mr.. Rankin said it expresses
the ideas of good many of U.s."
On the basis of ST ,04O each for the
more than 100000 men and wom-
en- eligible, the total would be in
the neighborhood of s11,000,0 100000
Mr., Rankin said the existing pro-
vision in the CT bill for $20-a-week
payments to unemployed veterans
only puts a premium on idleness.
The new proposal, he added
would wipe out this discrimination
and treat them all alike
The adjusted compensation would
be in addition to mastering out pay
already provided by law. This
ranges from 500 to $500, depending
on the length and place of service.
Many Bonus Proposals.
There was no mustering-out pay
for veterans of the last war, but
they were given adjusted compen.
sation, or a bonus, that averaged
from 5000 to $700 each. 1t was com.
puted at the rate of 81 for each
day of service in the United State:
and SIPS for each day of foreign
service.
Numerous bonus proposals were
introduced earlier for veterans o.
the present war, but they were
tossed aside when the CT Bill Of
Rights was enacted.
Today, congressional leaders pre-.
dicted privately that Mr.. Rankin's
plan might be difficult to head off
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03

Ply the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 3.-Adolf Hit
Ter, who vowed to rule the world,
committed suicide in the ruins
of Berlin with Propaganda Min
lister Paul Joseph Goebbels and
the chief of the German general
staff, Gen. Hans Krebs, a Soviet
communique said today.
The Russians declared their in
formant was DR.. Hans Fritsche.
Goebbels' chief lieutenant, who was
captured as Berlin fell 1t was
presumed Russian commanders on
the scene would make vigorous in
quiry to- obtain indisputable proof.
Whether Hitler was a suicide or
whether he was the victim of a
brain hemorrhage, a possibility re-
ported by supreme Allied head
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Bill Asks $500
Yearly Expenses
legislators
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A tax-free $4,000 annual incidental
expense allowance for each member
of the House was recommended to-
day by its Appropriations Commit
tee.
The committee made its suggestion
in a $50, 722, LAT appropriation bill to
finance operations of the legislative
establishment for the fiscal year
starting July /.
For many years, the committee
report said, members of the Con-
gress have been subjected to a
myriad of expenses incidental to
the efficient conduct of their respec-
tive offices" and the result has been
a neavy drain on their finances "for
matters not personal, but directly
incidental to public Office"
The legislation contained no SINH
lar provision for Senators, but they
are expected to make their own pro-
visions when the bill reaches them
probably next week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
First 5000 Two lima
Pictures Sold

The Stars first consignment
of 5000 colored reproductions
of APP Photographer Rosen-
that's picture of the Two Jima
flag raising has been exhaust
ed. An additional shipment
is on the. way and will be
placed on sale within a day or
so. The pictures are being
sold for 10 cents each, the en-
tire proceeds going to the
Navy Relief Society. No mail
orders can be accepted, be-
cause of the lack of mailing
tubes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Berlin S Fall Yields
10000 Prisoners 10
Two Russian Armies
Maj Capital Captured
After Il Days Of Bitter
Subway, Street Fighting
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 3.-Berlin, the
Nazi capital and fourth largest
city of the world, surrendered
yesterday to troops of two Rus
sian armies, and 10000 defend
ers gave up the fight which had
ragged for IL days through streets
and subwayS.
The city fell at pm. to troops
Of the LIST White Russian and LIST
Ukrainian Armies, Premier Stain
announced in an order Of the day.
He disclosed also that Russian
forces had destroyed the German
9th Army, trapped southeast of
Berlin, killing $4,000 men and cap
turing 10000, and had overrun
the last of Germany's big Baltic
ports, Rostock and Warnemuende
In Moscow, the fall of Berlin was
celebrated with an official salute of
"a salvos from 324 cannon. The
long awaited victory was hailed by
Russians in the streets with dane
ing. shouting and general hilarity.
Moscow dispatches said belief was
evident everywhere in the capital
that the end of the war could be
expected at any time.
Reds Entered April Fl.
The victorious Russian Armies,
headed by Marshal G. K. Zhukov
and Ivan S. Konev, entered Berlin
on April 81. after crossing the Oder.
They swarmed into the 341-square-
mile city, already battered from
American and British air raids,
and laid it low in IL days. 1t was
not known how many of the Ger
man capitals peacetime population
of 4,335 900 persons remained in the
city at the time of its fall.
The collapse of Berlin, symbol
of German power, came two years
and three months after the tide of
battle was turned at Stalingrad.
And Russian troops who swarmed
over the German capital found that
most of the city's monumental
buildings were largely destroyed
from 1900 tons of bombs rained
on it in 301 American and British
air assaults.
1t was not the first time Berlin
had fallen to a foe. It was plum
dered in 1757 by 1000 cavalrymen
and in 1850 the Russians took the
city from Frederick the Great after
a stiff battle and occupied it for
three days. In 1906 it was occupied
by the French after Napoleon de-
feated the Germans at Jena
The fall of Berlin came as other
Soviet armies to the south were
swinging westward through Czecho-
slovakia toward Prague and the
western Allies in a drive to shred
another developing pocket of Nazi
resistance.
The I'd White Russian push along
the Baltic coast placed Soviet forces
% miles from the British, who cap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
MAP on Page Az

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 3.-Denmark and
Norway were isolated today by a
junction of British and Russian
forces on the Baltic east of fallen
Lubbock. 1t was more of a mop
up than a campaign; what Ger
mans remained were beaten, and
many had fled to the doubtful
refuge of Denmark.
The Northern German holdings
were split into several untenable
pockets and the southern section
was shrunk by the surrender in Italy
of nearly 100000 German combat
and service troops. The Alpine re-
doubt was virtually wiped out under
terms of the surrender. The Ger
mans still held Bohemia and Mo-
ravia, Eastern Austria and the
mountainous region of Northwest
Yugoslavia
Even this southern section was
about to be split by junction of
Gen. George S. Patton's Sd Army
and the Russians aroura the Aus
TRAN city of Linz.
British 80 Miles From KieI.
With the loss of Berlin, Hamburg,
Lubbock and Rostock, the only large
German cities remaining under the
SWastika were Breslau, Dresden.
Chemnitz and Kiel At Lubbock, the
British were 80 miles from Kiel and
IS from the Danish frontier. Schwer-
in (45,000), Wismar and Witten-
berge (both $4,000 toppled in the
north.
The Danubian fortress of Passau
(25,000), guardian city to Linz, fell
to Gen. Patton's troops in the
south.
Under terms Of the Italian sur
render. the Austrian provinces of
the Tyrcl, Vorarlberg and Salzburg
all were surrendered. Included in
these regions were the cities of
Innsbruck and Salzburg. The sur
rendered region stretches to within
artillery range of Berchtesgaden.
The Blue Ridge (80th) Division OF
the Sd Army pushed Is miles south
of the area of Holzfelder, 80 miles
from Berchtesgaden and a mile from
Austria.
Close on Innsbruck.
Shortly after noon, the cactus
G03d) Division of 1t. Gen. Alexan-
der NJ Fatch's 7th Army closed to
within 7 miles of Innsbruck, capital
of Tyrol. The terrain was more diff
ficult than the Germans. The infan-
try was puzzled by the official an
nouncements that the Western Aus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Truman Names Successor
To Penderqast Prosecutor

President Truman today nominat-
ed Sam NJ Wear, a Springfield
(MoD lawyer. to be United States
attorney for the western district of
Missouri, succeeding Maurice NJ
Milligan, the Federal prosecutor
who put the late Tom Pendergast,
Missouri political boss, in the
penitentiary.
Mr.. Milligan's term expired last
September, but he has remained in
office. He was first appointed in
1884.
While he was Vice President, Mr..
Truman expressed his opposition to
the Kansas City prosecutor and said
that he had opposed his reappoint-
ment by President Roosevelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Laval, jailed in Fortress, Denied
Access toSuiteReserved utHoteI

tightly over his creased forehead.
He fingered and smoothed the white
tie which for years was his political
trademark. He surveyed impas-
sively the massive walls of the
prison where he was brought at
American demand to await DISPOSE
ton by the Allies.
The car, belonging to Barcelona's
civil governor, took him into the
citadel. There the manager of Bar
celona's Ritz Hotel inspected the
beds and furniture and prepared
food, all brought to the prison from
(See LAVAL, Page A-14.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Hitler and GoebbeIs Suicides
In Berlin Ruins, Reds Declare
Information Obtained From Dr. Fritsche,
Chief Aide of Propaganda Minister

quarters, there was little doubt
among Allied leaders that the
Fuehrer indeed was dead and that
he had met death in a manner
which would thwart any dieharo
Nazi attempt to build a Wagneriar
legend about him.
CA casual remark by President
Truman at his news conference
in Washington late yesterday
gave the country official con-
frmation of Hitler's death.
asked if he had any comment
on Mussolini's execution and the
reported death of Hitler, the
President replied that meant that
the two principal war criminals
would not have to be brought to
trial.
c'Does that mean we know Of
mn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
ABA Head Says Changes
Will Rectify Breton Defects

NEW YORK, May CIV. Ran
dolph Burgess, president of the
American Bankers Association, said
today he believed reasonable amend
ments the association and others
had suggested would correct the
most serious defects" of the Breton
Woods plan now before Congress.
Addressing the Chamber of Com
merce of New York State, he said
the United States faces interna-
tional financial problems similar in
many respects to those after the last
war, but that, despite this, Breton
Woods was designed to deal with the
depression characteristics Of the soc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Late News
Bulletins
30, 900 Germans Surrender

ROME P.-Gen Schlemmer,
commander of the German
18th Army Corps of the Lii
gurian Army, surrendered to-
night after having refused for
two days to- obey the orders of
Gen. Won Vietinghoff- Scheel
to yield to the Allies. He said
he had made a personal pledge
to Hitler not to surrender. and
that Hitler's death had re-
moved the obligation. The
corps comprised 10000 men.
Earlier Story on Page A-4.)
Russian Charge Denied
Russian assertions that So
Wet citizens liberated by Brit
ish american armies are not
being treated properly by the
Western Allies were called un-
founded today by the State
Department. Specifically, the
department disputed a recent
Moscow broadcast saying that
800 Red Army officers had
been transferred to the United
States and their whereabouts
concealed from Russian au-
thOrities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
BY CHARLES S. FOLTZ,

MONTJUICH CITADEL, Spain,
May 3.-Pierre Laval, Vichy's for
fer chief of government who sought
refuge in Spain, listened to the
Voice of America" broadcast in
French today for outside news in
this stone military prison 900 feet
above Barcelona Harbor.
I saw him enter the fortress in an
American automobile which brought
him from the airport where he land
ed in German bomber at noon
yesterday. A felt hat was pulled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
MacLeish Is DIRECTING
Drive 10 Influence
Congress, TaffCharges
'Superpropoeondo' Aimed
Adjusting Oaks, Monetary
And Trade Plans, He Says
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

Senator TAFT, Republican, OF
Ohio charged today that a super
propaganda campaign" is being
conducted under the direction OF
Assistant Secretary of State
Archibald MacLeish to influence
Congress on the Dumbartor
Oaks peace plan, the Breton
Woods monetary agreement ano
the new reciprocal trade bill.
The Ohio Senator protested par
ticularly against what he called a
deliberate attempt" by the State
and Treasury Departments to tie
Breton Woods and the trade bills
into the success or failure of the
peace organization being planned
at San Francisco.
The Treasury, in effect, takes
the position that any one who is
opposed to its particular and pc
culiar economic nostrurns is sabo-
tagging the peace plans of San
Francisco" Senator Taft told the
Senate.
Questions Immediate Application.
1T has gone SO far as to state
that the meeting at San Francisco
will be a failure unless we extend
the Reciprocal Trade Act and adopt
the Breton Woods agreements. ]
do not wish to deprecate the i'm
portance of economic policy in the
promotion of peace, but I do Sc
riously question whether all these
economic measures have any i'm
mediate relation to the political Or
ganization now being discussed at
San Francisco"
Senator Taft cited 1919 Law
forbidding Federal agency tc
spend funds for printed matter OF
personal services to influence Con-
gress, and said the law provides a
$500 fine and one year in prison.
1T is high time that the Gov
eminent departments were told that
they must conflne themselves to
presenting their cases on legislative
matters to Congress and not turn
the Government into vast public
pressure group to destroy our con-
stitutional processes" Senator Taft
declared. "It is my present inten-
ton to support the Dumbarton Oaks
proposals, but certainly they are fal
from perfect and many criticisms
have properly been made of them
which are not even suggested
in these supposedly informative
pamphlets"
To Limit Witnesses.
Meanwhile, in an effort to COM
plete hearings on the trade bill II
two weeks, the House Ways anc
Means Committee today began linn
iting the time of witnesses.
There were indications that when
the testimony is all in, move prob
ably will be made in the committee
to extend the present act for one OF
two more years without the addition
al authority asked for by the admin
istration to cut tariffs lower than SO
per cent of the 1880 rates. The
present trade agreement law ex-
pires June IL.
One high-ranking Republican
predicted the committee would agree
on such compromise. It will take
at least three Democratic votes to
report out such a compromise, how
ever, since the committee is made ul
of Is Democrats and 10 Republicans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
British Planes BIust
KieI in Four Attacks

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 3.-British Mos
quitos broke six-day lull in the
Allies bombing offensive last night
with four separate attacks on the
German naval base at Kiel. where
many U-boats are known to be
lying.
Three of the attacking bombers
were lost to antiaircraft fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Denmark and Norwa,
Isolated by Junction
OF British and Reds
Joining Of Forces East
Of Lubbock Encounters
Little Resistance

BULLETIN,

PARIS HN.-Premier Stain
today announced the collapse
of German resistance in the
entire Northern German
pocket east of Kiel. His order
of the day said a link with
the British had been estab-
lished along a 60-mile front
from the Baltic to Witten-
berge on the Elbe after the
overwhelming of the last Ger
man resistance on the Neck
lenburg Plain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER,

SAN FRANCISCO. May g.
The Big Four plan for an. all
powerful world council to guard
future peace was attacked today
by several nations at the United
Nations Conference. They want
to put peace-keeping on a more
regional basis.
The issue, growing in importance
as the work of the conference speeds
up, appears certain to impose a Sc
we're test of American leadership.
The United States is seeking both
to promote creation of world wide
security system and to fit into it
such regional organizations as the
inter-American system without al
lowing the development of regional
blocs.
Avoid Showdown in Formula.
So far the American delegation
under Secretary of State Stettinius
has avoided showdown among it's
own members on the sort of formula
it may support. The l6 American
amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks
plan, which are to be announced to-
morrow, do not cover the regional
issue.
AS proposals poured in for re-
shaping the Durnbarton Oaks pro-
posals on the power of the security
council to use force. there were
these other developments in this
busting conference city:
l. Mr. Stettinius started a drive
to keep as many foreign ministers
as possible here throughout the
conference, despite the pressure of
their war-end problems at home.
He told some that he hoped the job
OF blueprinting a world organiza-
ton would be completed within
three weeks and he, himself, intends
to see it through. Russian For
eign Commissar v. M Molotov plans
to leave in a few days; British For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden plans
to stay at least another week.
Decision on Argentina.
2. The American delegation de-
cided that Argentina should get no
officer position at the conference.
Some South American countries
want the Argentine delegate, soon
to take his seat here, to be made
official reporter for the commission
on judicial organization Should
such a proposal be made, Russia is
slated to insist that the position be
held for Poland.
3. Foreign Minister Georges Ri
dault of France told a news confer
ence his government could accept
the principle of international mill
tary bases, but would never surrender
any territory. France has been wor-
ried about retaining French Indo-
China and her Pacific islands.
4 Leaders of several middle and
small power delegations said they
would be unwilling to turn over
complete control of their military
forces to security council in which
they had no voice. They proposed
that any country not on the coun-
Gil should give approval before its
forces could be summoned to action.
Real Issues Taking Shape.
Conference routine today was lin
tied to organization meetings of
commissions and committees. Their
job is to work over the scores Of
amendments that have been pro-
posed to the Dumbarton Oaks plan,
written by the United States, Brit
ain, Russia and China at Washing
ton last fall.
But, behind the scenes, the real
issues that will have to be settled
here were beginning to take def
mite shape. Among these the ques-
ton of the powers of the security
tSee SECURITY, Page A-6J
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TWo additional men from the
District area hare been re-
ported killed In this Wdr. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page Az.