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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-04
Thousands Of German!
Create
Problem for Allies
British Lack Facilities
For Share Of Coptives,
Seek American Help
BY the Associated Press,

LONDON, May German
soldiers, surrendering to Ameri-
can and British forces by the
thousands in a panicky effort to
avoid falling into the hands OF
the Russians, have created a
serious problem for Allied au-
thorities charged with keeping
them Gagged and fed.
Front dispatches said German
officers and men were virtually rae
ing each other to what they evident
ly consider the safety of American
lines. London papers declared the
British and American armies already
had taken so many German pris.
oners that Britain's facilities fol
feeding and housing them had be.
come inadequate.
Yves Gallagher. Associated Press
war correspondent, reported from
the 9th Army front on the Elbe
River that the Germans were
swarming across the stream, pad.
ding in makeshift RATS or ever
swimming, in order to surrender.
And the Doughboys," Mr.. Gala
CHER wrote, cant do anything but
accept them"
The Daily Express said more than
100000 Germans had been taken
prisoner since D day and that un-
der the original agreement Britain
must look after half of them.regard-
less of whether they were captured
by British or American troops.
The paper said the British gov
eminent had asked the United
States to take a larger proportion
of the captured Germans because all
British prison camps are full and
the food problem is acute.
The Express added that the Unit
ed States Government had not yet
agreed to take a larger number of
prisoners because America is
anxious to get its surplus troops
Sec pp TCONEDC po0o H9I
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Nozis Fail to Broadcast
Important News
81 the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 4.-The London
Daily Mail carried q brief front-page
story today quoting the Wilhelms-
haven (German) radio as broad.
casting that ian important an.
nouncement will be made at l pm.
e am. Eastern war time) over the
stations at Graz and Alpen."
Associated Press listeners shortly
after midnight heard q message
from the Bremen radio which re-
ported it had heard another Ger
man station announce that Gau-
letter Ueberreither would broadcast
to his district at pm. Ueberreither
Is Gauleiter Of Syria, one Of the
Austrian provinces included In the
German surrender In Italy.
The Graz and Alpen stations
were not heard in London ct / pm.
and none Of the other German sta.
tons broadcast any important an.
nouncement at that hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-04
Truman Veto Victory
On Farm Draft Held
Sign. Of Party Unity
l64 Democrats Uphold
President in His First
Major House Test
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

The action of the House in up
holding President Truman's first
important veto, which killed leg
islation to give farm workers
special draft deferment, was
viewed by Democrats today as a
hopeful sign of his ability to
promote unity in party ranks.
Although the farm bloc on both
sides OF the aisle mustered a ma
jority on the l85-to-177 roll-call
vote late yesterday, they were 81
votes short of the two-thirds vote
needed to override.
While 80 Democrats joined 154
Republicans and one Progressive in
favor of overriding, this detection
was partly Offset by II Republicans
and the one American-Laborite who
supported Mr. Truman, along with
1874 Democrats.
Stress Need of Food.
With Germany almost out of the
war, hackers of the farm deferment
bill, led by Representative Flanna-
gan, Democrat, of Virginia, had a
strong argument for overriding by
stressing the importance of food
both here and abroad in the months
to come. They cited Americas desire
to help relieve hunger in war-torn
Europe while pushing the battle
against Japan, and asked how this
could be done if any more farm
workers are taken into the Army.
This argument might have swayed
two-thirds of the House, but admin
istration spokesman, led by Majority
Leader Mccormack and Chairman
May Of the Military Affairs Com
mittee reminded the House that this
was the first test Of Mr.. Humans
leadership as Commander in Chief.
With the entire membership of the
House coming up for election next
year, observers were not surprised
that the farm deferment supporters
obtained a majority. There was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-04
Many Badly Beaten
In Rome Riotinq
By the Associated Press.

ROME, May 4.-Many persons
were badly beaten today in a brief
free-for-all fight between a crowd
singing Communist songs and a
group Of demonstrating Italian SOL
diers and students who demanded
that Italy retain the Province of
Venezia Giulia.
Tension had spread about Rome
over the disposition of the province,
which includes the Adriatic ports
OF Trieste and Fiume and the PENN
sula of Istria, following entry by
Marshal Tito's Yugoslav troops. The
province was transferred from Aus
tria to Italy after the last war.
The Belgrade radio broadcast a
Yugoslav Army headquarters denial
yesterday of an official Allied Med
iterranean announcement that Ger
man garrisons in Gorilla and Trieste
had surrendered to a New Zealand
column Wednesday. The broadcast
said mo German garrison whatever
could have surrendered in these
places since as early as April 80
these towns were completely cleared
Of enemy troops by our own forces"
Rome has demanded that the dis
puted territory be taken under
Allied headquarters control until its
status is settled.
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81 the Associated Presa.

PHILADELPHIA, May 4.-The
mysterious flash Of light reported
seen in the Middle Atlantic States
early today was probably a ''bolide,
the largest kind of meteor" DR.. Roy
K. Marshall, director of the Fels
|Planetarium at Franklin Institute,
said.
Dr.. Marshall based his statement
on reports coming to him from per-
sons in Philadelphia and vicinity
who saw the fash at approximately
3:45 am. and who felt tremors which
shook buildings.
A meteor of this kind travels at
the rate Of S to 20 miles second,
DR.. Marshall said. It may be as large
as 1000 tons and 10 feet In diameter,
he declared.
It pushes the air ahead Of it, pro-
ducing waves Of shocks with result
ing loud explosive noises, he said.
The inside Of the bali Is very cold
and the outside highly heated, he
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Marshal von KIeist, Who Broke
Moginot Line in 1910, Seized
Surrenders to Two
U. S. Privotes, Glad
To Get White Breed
BY EDWARD D. BALL,


WITH THE 26th INFANTRY
DIVISION, May 4.-Field Mar
shall Paul Ludwig Ewald Won
Kleist, the man who engineered
the 1910 break through in
France, has been captured by the
26th Infantry Division of the
American Sd Army, it was an
nounced today.
Won Kleist, commander Of the
Wehrmacht's A Army Group, was
taken April Is at Mitterfels, but an
nouncement Of his surrender was
delayed
CA Paris dispatch said 1t Gen.
Kurt Won Manteuffel, whose
grandfather was occupation gen.
eral in Paris in 1870, surrendered
in the north. His last command
was the Sd Panzer Army. Gen.
Won Tippelskircm, whose 21st
Army was cut to shreds by the
Russians before it reached British
lines in the north, also entered a
prison cageJ
Asked his views on the fate of
Hitler, Won Kleist replied:
Il know only what I read in the
newspapers"
Won Kleist's wife was at his side
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Hard Coal Miners Him
They Will Sit Tight
After U. 5. Seizes Pits
To Turn Down Order Of
lekes to Work Monday
And Wait for Lewis Nod

The Government today was in
possession of the anthracite
mines, but the striking miners,
ordered back to work by Monday,
indicated they would ''sit tight"
until John L. Lewis tells them to
return to the pits.
Secretary of the Interior dckes
seized properties of 1863 companies
last night, acting under direction of
President Truman. All OF the an
thracite mines are located in Penn
sylvania, and it was the first mine
seizure order issued by the new
President.
The wage agreement between hard
coal operators and Mr.. Lewis United
Mine Workers expired April 80, and
they have been unable to agree on
an extension. Operators said they
would go along with a War Labor
Board order to extend, but the
miners failed to assent. Negotia-
tons for a new contract have been
deadlocked for a month.
Silent on Seizure.
Hard coal operations have been
completely shutdown since Monday
Mr.. Ickes said yesterday the Ma
ton was losing production at the
rate of 1.250,000 tons a week, enough
to heat 10000 homes for a year.
Mr.. Lewis and other top officials
of the UNIV refused comment on
the seizure and back-to-work order
but at Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Local
UNIV President John Girlock said
the miners would continue to sit
tight" until Mr. Lewis instructs
them to return to work.
A few hours before Selling all the
anthracite properties, Mr.. Ickes took
over three bituminous mines of the
Carter Coal Co. in West Virginia
The Solid Fuels Administration
which Mr.. Ickes heads, said strikes
at the three mines resulted from
"the company's failure to sign ane
hover, on the other hand, ha.
ICon CNAI DoUo AIN
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Fuehrer committed suicide along
with Propaganda Minister Goebbels,
as the Germans report.
were not found in the building, how
ever, indicated that it had been
searched, and strengthened the the
DRY that if Hitler did kill himself
it was not in the chancellery.
More Nazis Surrendering.
Soviet correspondents reported
how they, with Soviet soldiers, en-
tered the building and found dead
German machine gunners with Iron
Crosses.
"Hitler's chapcellery is hot" said
a Red Star reporter. 1.-THE fire is
getting closer. The floor is burning
and at any moment will fall. In
the smoke and flame it is impossible
to see much"
Meanwhile, unit after unit of the
German Wehrmacht surrendered
today along the still lengthy Rus
sian front as weary Nazi troops
anticipated a general capitulation
and dispatches from Berlin said the
prisoner toll there stood at about
$4,000 this morning with hundreds
of Germans giving up hourly.
Front dispatches said Nazi officers
indicated they had performed their
duty" to Adolf Hitler and that their
fates were now in their own hands
Working to Restore Berlin.
In Berlin, Russian forces were
working day and night to restore
the German capitals gas, water
light and communications systems
to working order.
The Russians were hurrying en-
gineers and technicians OF every
category to the German capital in
an effort to get the German people
to assist in their own rehabilitation
Soviet specialists were being landed
(see RUSSIA, Page A-3J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-04
Reds Appoint German
As Burgomeister of
One Berlin Section
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. May 4.-Dis-
patches from Berlin announced
today that Russian military au-
thorities had named a German
citizen as burgomeister for the
Fredericksburg section of the
capitalize first such appoint
ment reported in any portion
Of Germany occupied by the
Red Army.
The government newspaper
Izvestia identified the appointee
as Paul Leike, who, it said, was
not affiliated with any political
party. He was said to have
served as burgomeister of the
district from 1907 to 1894.
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when he surrendered. Also with
him was his aide, Capt. Won Seydiltz
The German marshal-the equiv
alent in rank of an American five
star general-was found by a couple
of infantry privates with his Is
handbags already packed. At first
he refused to surrender. A gun
pointed at his head changed his
mind
The marshal's hands were shak-
(See. Won KLEIST, Page A-3)
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Kurusu Louds Hitler
For Idea of Peace
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.-Sa-
buro Kurusu, suave Japanese
peace" envoy at the time of the
attack on Pearl Harbor, today
praised Adolf Hitler's Idea of true
peace"
Kurusu, former Japanese Ambas-
sador to Berlin, eulogized the late
Nazi Fuehrer, radio Tokyo said in
a broadcast recorded by the Federal
Communications Commission.
"The late fuehrer's love of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-04
McAuIiffe Forces
Take innsbruck:
SoIzburg Falls
MAP on Page A-3.)

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 4.-The Ameri-
can 7th Army has joined the 5th
Army 10 miles deep in Italy in
the Bremen Pass after capturing
Innsbruck and Salzburg, it was
announced today at supreme Al
lied headquarters.
Meanwhile, the American Sd Army
besieged Linz. Austria, invaded 30.
hemia, outf1anked Pilsen and neareo
junction with the Russians west
of Vienna.
Gen. Alexander Patch's 7th Army
Joined with the 5th at Vipiteno
where the linkup was effected be-
tween the 103d (Cactvs) Division OF
Maj. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe OF
Washington and troops under 1t
Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, command
er of the 5th Army.
Half a million Germans had sur
rendered in 48 hours to the British
I'd Army and at least three attached
American divisions in the north.
Most of Reich Conquered.
Virtually all of Germany was con-
quered. The last Nazi holdings were
shrinking pockets. untenable and be-
yond hope of relief.
Supreme Allied Headquarters &C
knowledged that the British were
advancing so swiftly that it was
completely out of touch with 1t.
Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey's van
guards.
At Salzburg, the It'll Army was a
dozen miles from Berchtesgaden.
The Americans had crashed down
the eastern doors Of the advertised
Alpine redoubt and had raced all
the way through it.
Salzburg, fifth largest Austrian
city of 40,232, had been represented
as the eastern rampant of the en-
emy's dissolved Alpine redoubt in
the south. 1t lies IL miles north
east OF Berchtesgaden. The 106th
Cavalry group took the city's uncon-
ditional surrender after a 27-mile
dash overnight.
Innsbruck, capital Of the Tyrol
and fourth largest city Of Austria
was taken by the 103d Division
which received a tumultuous ova-
ton there last night before rolling
on south through the Bremen Pass
to join the 5th Army in Italy.
Patton Near Russians.
Gen. George S. Patton's Sd Army
invading Austria and Czechoslo-
vakia laid siege to Linz and neared
a junction with the Russians west
of Vienna. Moscow dispatches said
only 10 miles separated the armies
from a meeting that will seal off all
the unconquered part of Czecho-
slovakia.
"Tankmen and Doughboys specu-
lated whether they would be able
to join the Sd Ukrainian Army
group before the war ends" Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Tho
burn Want reported from Austria
last night.
Linz was reported afire and with
in view of the Sd Army, only 5 miles
away.
Seventh Army Completes Cycle.
Gen. McAuliffe,s l03d Division
which linked up with the 5th Army
in the Bremen Pass is now a part of
the 9Th Corps, which Gen. Truscott
commanded before assuming his
larger command in Italy. Gen. Nc
Auliffe is the general who shouted a
defiant Nuts" to surrender demands
of the Germans at Bastogne last
December.
Gen. McAuliffe's troops were
meeting only small groups of
dazed Italian troops who offered
little resistance. To the west of
Innsbruck, the French LIST Army
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Capitu|ation Is Made to British;
9th and 5th Armies Join in |ta|v
Eisenhower Saws
HostiIities Will
End Tomorrow
BULLETIN.

PARIS (P).-Gen. Essen
hover announced today
that all enemy forces in
Holland and Northwestern
Germany and Denmark,
including Helgoland and
the Tristan Islands, have
surrendered effective at 8
am. tomorrow e am.
Eastern War Time).
The surrender was to
M arsh al Montgomery's
21st Army group.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 4.-The Ger
mans continued their chaotic
flight late today from Denmark,
whose capitulation may come at
any hour, according to reports
filtering from Copenhagen and
Scandinavia.
Supreme headquarters in Paris said
the British I'd Army had halted its
swift drive abruptly just short of the
Klel Canal, possibly to await the SUR
render Of Nazis garrisoned in Den
mark. Quite in contrast, the Ger
man radio at Oslo asserted that the
British had captured Flensburg
population, $4,000 without a fight
and swept northward.
The Kiel Canal is 80 miles from
Denmark and Flensburg, north of
that major enemy waterway, is
barely 4 miles from the frontier.
The Germans declared both Flens-
burg and Kiel open cities.
British Halt Is Unexplained.
At pm, supreme headquarters
not only denied reports that Del
mark had been entered, but de-
clared that the Allies had not even
crossed the Kiel Canal. The abrupt
British halt went without official
explanation.
Accounts quite in conflict with
supreme headquarters came in pro-
fusion from Scandinavia, however.
The Germans scotched earlier
Oslo radio reports that hostilities
had ceased in Western Holland
Fighting still continues except in
the truce area of that kingdom
through which the Canadian 1st
Army is feeding Dutch civilians,
German broadcasts said toward
dusk.
The Swedish newspaper Alton
tidningen said in an unconfirmed
report that capitulation negotia-
tons were believed under way near
the Danish border.
The newspaper said it was be-
lieved Grand Admiral Doenitz, new
German fuehrer, and Marshal Mont
gomery, Allied commander of the
21st Army Group, were comforting
at Flensburg.
A dispatch from supreme head
quarters said reports there were
that German capitulation in Den
mark might come "at any hour"
People Urged to Be Calm.
Possibly limiting that some sort of
surrender negotiations were under
way that would apply at least to the
north, the Wilhelmshaven radio,
one of the last continental trans
mitters in Nazi hands, urged the
German people to keep calm lin the
last hours of the war;
Doenitz had conferred with top
Nazi officials in both Norway and
Denmark, the broadcast said, and
given them personal orders for the
future It added: "Our troops have
been compressed into small area
and to spare further bloodshed and
destruction the high command has
taken appropriate measures"
A Swiss report said Gauleiter
Karl Hermann Frank of the pro-
tectorate of Bohemia and MoraMa
had been ordered by the new Ger
(See DENMARK Page An
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Capture Of Rangoon
CIimaxes Defeat Of
Jap Forces in Burma
Lone British Officer
Found Capitol Had Been
Abandoned by Enemy
Ey the Associated Press.

| Ey the Associated PreSe.
| CALCUTTA, India. May A.
Decisive defeat of japanese
forces in Burma, climaxed in the
capture of the capital of Ran
COON. with its big port intact,
was announced by the Southeast
Asia Command today.
Rangoon was found abandoned
by the enemy, but an amphibious
force which had landed Just below
the city to participate in the cap
ture went through with the opera
ton as practice for bigger things
to come-perhaps an attack on
Singapore.
A communique said $1,000 Japa-
nese had been slain in the Burma
campaign in the last Is months.
Port Undamaged.
Seizure of Rangoon was effected
so swiftly that the japanese we're
unable to destroy the ports installa-
tions.
Reports indicate that the inner
harbor will be open to shipping in a
very few days." said the COMMUNE
que.
Fall of Prone, another key city
on the Lower Irrawaddy. $50 miles
northwest of Rangoon, also was an
nounced.
4 Divisions Cut OF.
The remnants of four japanese
divisions. perhaps totaling a little
more than 5000 men in all, were cut
of in Western Burma by the twin
Allied successes. These forces were
not regarded here as a menace in
the military sense.
Rangoon had been the ultimate
objective in bloody jungle fighting
for three years-ever since the Al
lies were pushed over the frontier
into India in 1912 and Gen. Joseph
w. Stilwen made his famous remark
that the Allies had taken a hell of
beating"
But its capture finally was an al
most bloodless show.
With Rangoon captured, the
japanese retain only a narrow strip
Va VA GAd4Ay OoCAOoS d1Ok1k
the Gulf Of Martaban in front of
the Thailand frontier. New objec-
tives to the south and east now hold
the attention of the Southeast Asia
command.
Only moping up remains in
Burma.
Rangoon itself will be valuable
base for these future operations.
It is 780 miles closer to these tar
gets than Calcutta.
The initial British entry into Ran
COON was by a single British air
man on foot.
| Raj Wing Comdr. A. E. Saunders
made a one-man capture of Ming
ladon airdrome and entered Ran
COON by himself Wednesday, report
ing back that the way was clear for
the forces which entered yesterday
and now are hopping up.
Comdr. Saunders was flying over
the area when he noted the lack of
/ any kind Of activity aground and
suddenly decided to land on Ming
iadon airdrome. He learned no jap
anese had been on the field for days.
He camoufiaged his plane there, and
made his way 30 miles to Rangoon,
where he was told that AN but a few
japanese stragglers had fled the
city April Is.
The airman then got into sam
pan and sailed down the Rangoon
River to advise amphibious forces
making their way northward after
] landing at the river mouth.
Allied prisoners liberated by the
combined operations forces said the
Japanese began evacuating Ran
COON three weeks ago by land and
sea.
| To the north, British 18th Army
forces closing ii on Rangoon from
| south Of Pegu were overcoming re-
naming enemy resistance.
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ChanceI|ery Burning
After Russians Fail 10
Find Killers Body
Reds Work Day ond Might
To Restore Utilities
And Communications
Pictures on Page BIZ
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MOSCOW, May 4.-The Chan
celery of the Third Reich in the
Wilhelmstrasse has failed to
yield the body of Hitler, and
now the building is burning, a
Red Star dispatch from the Ger
man capital said today.
The disclosure that the chancel-
lery where Hitler had his offices was
ablaze indicated that it might be
difficult ever to prove that the
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Truman Plans No HOLIDAY
Until War Tension Lessons

By the Associated Press.
President Truman today put aside
all suggestions of a holiday until
after tension on the war and diplo-
matte fronts subsidies.
The Chief Executive told callers he
would spend his 6lst birthday-next
Tuesday-at his desk and that he
has no immediate plans for getting
out of town, even for a week end.
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Meteor Theory Offered as Flash
Lights Middle Atlantic Skies

explained, and this difference in
temperature causes the meteor to
break into fragments.
DR.. Marshall said it may be hours
or even days before it can be deter
mined where the meteor ended its
course. It may never. be traced, he
said, If it plunged into the ocean.
Earlier today Army, Navy and
Federal Bureau of Investigation au-
thorities said they had nothing to
report concerning the phenomenal
light.
Calls swamped newspaper offices
which had checked all possible
sources for information. Several
persons reported they had been
thrown from beds. There were no
authentic reports Of damage in the
city.
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Seven additional men from the
District area haze been re-
ported killed in this ,Dar. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page Az.
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(see WESTERN FRONT, Page A-3)
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(See VETO, Page A-5.)
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(See PRISONERS, Page A-3D
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(See COAL, Page A-4.
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(See DENMARK, Page A-3)
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Weather Forecast

Mostly cloudy, cool today; fair
morrow, warmer In afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-04

1.-THE late fuehrer's love of tt
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(See SECURITY, Page A-5.)
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Guide for Readers

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