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Detroit evening times., 1945-04-15

rom the east.
West OF Berlin, the American
Ninth Army put second task
force across the Elbe onto the
Berlin plain. Joining the Second
Hell on Wheels Armored Divi-
sion which fought toward the
totterlng Nazi capital under d
hlackout extended into its third
day. Radio Luxembourg said the
Second was only l3 miles from the
capitals outskirts and the Ger
mans said il was Il miles away
rs of yesterday.
BERLIN ANY HOUR
The London press said the
American entry into Berlin might
be announced at any hour.
This Is victory week k-end,"
said the Sunday Dispatch, with
a Subheadline saying. Berlin
calls In police reinfOrcements."
The Sunday Times IN "A three
column tophead said Germans
unable 10 save Berlin" The Sun
day Observer said news of first
class importance reached mimi
sters In Downing street yesterday
and high officials who rarely are
10 be found in their offices on
Saturday were on duty all day.
The London News of the World,
quoting an American broadcast.
said ENTRY into Berlin is inn
minent."
1t. Gen. Hodges. First Army
tanks and 1t. Gen. Patton's Third
teamed 10 hammer deep breach
in the Nazi lines south of she
capital from the DeSsau area, 80
miles southwest of Berlin, 10
CONTINUED on Page Seven)
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-15
Pick Mo|otov
For Pdr|ey

WASHINGTON, April IA CINS)
The White House announced to-
night that Foreign Minister V.
Molotov of Russia would attend
the San Francisco United Nations
conference.
Jonathan Daniels. White House
press secretary. called in newsmen
and disclosed TO them that Mar
shall Stain had advised President
Truman of the change in plans
for Soviet representation.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-15
Bare Capture
Of Won Pdpen

WITH THE L. s. NINTH ARMY
IN GERMANY. April IA QNS)-
Col. Baron Franz Won Papen, Ger
many's dean of diplomats who was
forced out of the United States
in 1915 because of sabotage activi-
ties. has been captured with his
son and son-in-law, Max Won
Stockhausen, by American glider
borne troops.
Telling his captors he wished
the war were ended. the 67-year-
old Won Papen. former German
chancellor and architect Of some
Of the most notorious German in
ternational plots. was surprised at
dinner BY party of eight Ameri-
cans in hunting lodge in the
isolated Ruhr
a prisoner OF the British during
most Of the last war after his
expulsion from America. the NaZi
master Schemer was taken with
out struggle last Tuesday by an
American first lieutenant and
seven enlisted men OF the Ninth
Armys Seventeenth Airborne Di-
vision.
WHERE'S HITLER:'
His wife and children had es-
capped capture in the Ruhr trap.
Following his seizure an Ameri-
can soldier asked NaZidom's chief
figure:
where's Hitler?"
Papen shrugged his shoulders
and said:
II don't know"
The trail TO Won Papen's hide
out in the hills was traced through
the prior seizure of his son. a
German army captain, on Monday
night.
The younger Won Papen was
taken prisoner by Sgt. Stephen
Witchko of Mckees Rock. Pa.
at first did not know
he had captured Won ePapen's son.
But he became suspicious Of the
Continued on Page .. Col. ~
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-15

TO BORROW or TO BUY-us f11ustrisi
Narionsi BAHK-PAY-PLAE, Answers every
individual requirsmeut. Ady.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-15
PLANNED DELEGATION

PLANNED DELEGATION
Considerable comment had been
occasioned by the fact that, while
other nations are sending their
foreign ministers, Russia had
planned 10 send delegation
headed by Andrei Gromyko, am
bassador to Washington.
The text of the White House
statement follows;
"The President yesterday di-
rected Ambassador Hartman.
who has been comforting with
Marshal Stain on plans for the
San Francisco conference, to
assure the marshal that the
coming Of Foreign Secretary
MolOtov to the conference at
San Francisco would be well
coined as an expression of ear
nest cooperation In carrying
forward plans for formulating
the new international organiza-
tion as laid down by President
Roosevelt and confirmed by the
Idita foUitTtnfe.
MOLOTOV COMING
"The President stated he
would look forward with pleas
ure 10 a visit by Mr.. Molotov.
To-day the President was ad-
vised by Marshal Stain that
Foreign Secretary Molotov
would attend the conference"
The previous unwillingness OF
Russia to send a delegation TO
San Francisco headed by its for
eign minister was thrown into
sharp relief by the fact that Prime
Minister Churchill of Great
Britain sent British Foreign Min
lister Anthony Eden as Britain's
representative to the funeral of
the late President Roosevelt.
The British Information Service
said that Eden would remain until
after the conference.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-15
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Evening star., 1945-05-20
Wirephoto Map.

for Cologne and Stuttgart but in
formed circles said the government
was pleased with the American de-
cision.
Evening star., 1945-05-20
Sweden Regrets Stain Article
In Magazine Offended Soviet

Ifessional revolutionists which en-
gagged in robbing the mail and bank
transports -,H0.. = ;
Premier's Energy Cited.
The Premier was described as q
man Of great energy, which the
sketch said was exceptional among
the Russians" He worked himself
into the Bolsheyik party machinery
by sheer effort, the magazine con-
tinued.
Unlike Lenin and Trotsky, it said
Stain never emigrated. was unaf-
fected by the vests effeminate in
f1uence," and never became an In
ternational Socialist.
His strength has been that he
has never been an ideologist," the
article said. "He kept belief in the
Communist paradise only because
it was useful for the country.
His foremost idea always has
been one and the same: To be first
in work and power.
"One should not believe that the
Russian masses interpret yesterday s
pact with Berlin and today's al
lance with London and Washington
as any treachery. The Russian
saint shall always exceed in cum
ming when it is a matter of han
ding foreigners"
The article said that Stain has
always been an outstanding Or
ganizer, particularly in army supply
and "it is in this respect that his
contribution to the current wa,
should be judged"
Story Called Provocative.
HE shaped Russian adninistra-
tive apparatus" the sketch added
"He brought order out of the chaos
caused by the civil war"
Stockholm's Social Democratic
n wspaper. .Aftontidningen de-
scribed the article as provocative
but said a person must be very
thin skinned" to interpret it as an
insult.
THE Russians themselves gen.
orally don't show such solicitude in
presenting their views" the paper
said.
The newspaper Tidningen de-
clared that "it is in the country's
Evening star., 1945-05-20
StuIin
Continued From First Page :

and Eduard Osubka- -Morawski
should be the basis for any ex-
panded government.
Premier Stain also denied that
the Is Poles arrested. for alleged
f1fth-column activities had been in.
vited by the Soviets to attend any
negotiations on the question of re.
organizing the Polish government
He branded their leader, Gen. Oku-
licki, as a notorious diversionist anc
called the others law-breakers.
These gentlemen" tha Russian
Premier said, were arrested in &C.
cordance with law similar to the
British Defense of the Realm Act
The arrest was carried out by Soviet
military authorities in accordance
with an agreement concluded be-
tween the Polish provisional gov
ernment and the Soviet military
command.
1T is untrue that the arrested
Poles were invited for negotiations
with Soviet authorities. Soviet au-
thorities do not and will not conduct
negotiations with those who break
the law on the protection of the
Red Army rear"
Expresses Belief in Solution.
While defining officially the terms
on which the Soviet Union will
agree to reorganizing the present
Polish regime until time for a gen.
eral election, Premier Stain, how
ever, expressed belief that the prob
lem could be solved.
At present negotiations are at 6
Evening star., 1945-05-20

"Wishfui thinking won't win the
war-buying bonds will do much
more.
Evening star., 1945-05-20
By the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, May 49, The
Swedish government has informed
Russia. it regrets that the Soviets
considered offensive Swedish
magazine story citing "rumors" that
Premier Stain gave attention tc
"one or another girl and that "aftel
a night of heavy drinking he drove
back to the Kremlin happily shoot
fling his revolver"
The Foreign Office made 1t clear
however, that the magazine would
mot be confiscated as Russia hae
requested.
The Soviet government protested
the article in a note saying 1t was
incompatible with normal relations
between Russia and Sweden"
Sweden's reply said the magazine s
editor, Arvid Fredborg, had assured
the Foreign Office that the publica-
ton, OBS" had no intention OF
abusing or injuring the Soviet Union
or its leaders.
Article Printed in April.
iiO al UiSiC "do ~ AitCu LII ooo
April 20 issue under the title steel
Man." which is the Russian mean
ing of the name Stain" and which
in Sweden is the title of a comic
strip.
The article began with descrip-
ton of what it termed prerevolu-
tionary Russia's love of saints. II
said Stain gave the Russian masses
what they wanted by becoming "a
new little father and the object fol
a religious cult" The Russians
sketch added, always wanted holy
men to be strong eaters, drinkers
and lovers"
Thus Stain was never injured
by rumors that after night OF
heavy feasting and drinking he
drove back to the Kremlin happily
shooting his revolver" the article
said. ~.
"Or twas he injured by rumors)
that he hoped up on a table ano
danced among the glasses, or that
he let his happy feelings be in
creased by one or another girl"
The article also said that during
his early years Stain became "the
leader of a group of Georgian pro-
Evening star., 1945-05-20
Vatican Says Babel
.Grips World Politics
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, May 19.-The
newspaper Osservatore Romano, de-
ploring the use. of force for the
settlement of international differ
ences, declared today that the
present world political situation was
Tower of Babel"
The newspaper said the words
liberty, democracy and liberation
were being deformed. What is lib.
erty" for some is oppression" fol
others and for many liberation
means Occupation" while others
interpret democracy as meaning
''absolutism, it said.
THE world was asked to partlcl-
pate in the immense catastrophe (ol
war; in order that it might be the
last one" the newspaper said. "Ye'
too many already say another war is
necessary in order to put an enc
finally to all wars.
while peaceful guarantees basec
on reciprocal trust and security are
proclaimed there are those who. in
spired by mistrust and greed, strive
to create these guarantees by them
selves, resorting to the old systems
which fatally pave the way once
again for a regime of force ano
create the miasma of internationa
solidarity enslaved to fear"
Evening star., 1945-05-20
15-Minute Earthquake
Recorded at San Jose
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Calf, May 1s.-An
earthquake was recorded today at
Ricard Memorial Observatory, ac-
cording to the Rev. John Anthony
Webber, director, who said the quake
was recorded at 8:08 am. Pacific
War time).
The Maximum intensity lasted
five minutes. but shocks still were
being recorded Is minutes later.
Apparently it centered about $50
miles from here, either in q north
or south direction. -
The quake occurred about An hour
later than fairly severe. shock
recorded at, Fordham University In
New York,
Evening star., 1945-05-20
Tito
Continued From First Page.)

formed, but there was no official
indication whether Russia actively
participated or what her stand
might be.
The headquarters statement said
that when 1t. Gen. w. D. Morgan,
chief of staff at Allied headquar-
ters, went to Belgrade May 8, car
rying a written agreement embody-
ing the terms previously accepted
including the use Of "any Yugoslav
civil administration already set up
and working satisfactorily"-Tito
rejected it.
The plan called for the withdrawal
OF all Yugoslav trops from Trieste
and all other areas that Tito previ-
ously had agreed the Allies would
occupy.
The statement reported that Tito
told Morgan IAN understanding can
not now be reached" and because
of recent events the problem was
now political one and not a mill
tdl UIlc.
Tito Offered Port Facilities.
Tito offered Alexander facilities
in the port of Trieste and on road
and rail lines of communications
into Austria but insisted that the
area must remain under Yugoslay
control.
Tito told Morgan that at the
peace conference he would lay claim
to territory west of the Isonzo River
which empties into the Adriatic west
of Trieste.
Meanwhile responsible sources In
Paris said the United States ano
Britain were exerting pressure on
France to withdraw troops from
forward positions across the Italian
border following the western Allies
demand that the YugosIavs retire
from the Trieste region.
Whether formal Representations
had been conveyed to>Gen. Charles
de Gaulle could not be confirmed.
Developments concerning italy
tempered French satisfaction over
President Truman's announcement
that part Of the American zone of
occupation would be given to- the
French. France still is negotiating
Evening star., 1945-05-20
Gas Compressor Plant
Workers 10 End Strike
By the Associated Press.

CHARLESTON, w. Va. May i9-
Striking employees of the United Fuel
Gas Co., which serves Eastern war
plants, agreed to return to their
jobs tonight after a three-day dis
pute which forced the shutdown Of
two Of the firms big compressor
stations in this area.
State Labor Commissioner Charles
J. F. Sattler, who said he intervened
in the controversy at the request of
Gov. Clarence w. Meadows, reported
the workers would report immedi-
ately at the Cobb and Lewis pump
ing stations. He added that the
problems involved" would be taken
up at conferences Monday and
Tuesday. The CIO Oil Workers
Union had objected to presence Of
nonunion workers.
The two compressor plants, which
boost 142 1000 900 cubic feet of gas
daily into Ohio and Pennsylvania
industrial areas, closed at noon
today.
Evening star., 1945-05-20
London Press Sympathetic
To Stains Formula

LONDON, May 10 (P.-Premier
Stalin's formula for settlement OF
the Polish problem met with q
measure of sympathy from the Lon
don Press today although there
was no official reaction from either
the British government or the Po-
lish government in exile.
Lord Beaverbrooks Sunday Ex-
press said I'VE must realize that
through the war years our views
about Poland have been formed
largely on information and prop
agada disseminated by the refugee
Polish government in Britain"
I'VE only now are beginning to
realize" the editorial continued,
there is another completely diver
gent view about Poland and that
the majority of Poles do not accept
the views of the London Poles at
all.
= Our Moscow correspondent de-
claress that if We took the trouble to
be officially represented in Poland
and teaexamine the situation Ats-
'passiol1ately on the spot, we should
soon be supporting the Poles of Po-
land. That would seem to be sound
democracy. Why don't we try it?'
Press Associations diplomatic cor
respondent said Premier Stains
statement that the 16 Poles who
were arrested were not invited to
take part in the discussions at Mos
COW Cannot be contradicted, al
though it is in direct opposition to
statenaents made by the London
Poles. 80,
, The Poles here declared the ar
rests were breach of faith on the
part of Russia, a charge which Brit
ain and the United States regarded
so seriously that they broke off dis
cussions at San Francisco.
Evening star., 1945-05-20
| Mouse Blamed
lFor WoIkout of
| 200 at Factory
the Associated praxe

br the Associated Press.
MILFORD, N. j., May ia
mouse was blamed for walkout of
200 employees at the Milford plant OF
the Riegel Paper Corp, Plant Super
intendent George L. Bidwell, jr.,
said today.
Mr.. Bidwell said a worker in the
finishing department had been
watching the mouse last Thursday
and neglected his machine, causing
damage to part Of the mechanical
equipment.
A four-day penalty layoff, ending
Monday, was imposed on the mouse
watcher, he said, and 200 employees
in several departments walked out
in sympathy. The workers still are
out.
Evening star., 1945-05-20

complete standstill with Soviet For
eign Commissar Molotov in Russia
and the other two negotiators,
United States Ambassador Harri-
man and British Ambassador Clark
Kerr not yet returned to Moscow
from the San Francisco world Sc
curity conference
Premier Stain in demanding that
the present Polish regime, which is
friendly to Russia. be used as the
nucleus of any new government
pointed to the ease of Yugoslavia
where the National Liberation Com
mittee was recognized as the main
core of the united Yugoslav govern
ment.''
He also said the problem could
be solved "if the question of the
reconstruction of the Polish gov
ernment is resolved together with
the Poles who at present have ties
with the Polish people, and not
without them"
Premier Stain also declared that
any future Polish government must
pursue a policy of friendship, with
the Soviet Union and not a policy
of Gordon sanitaire'
Evening star., 1945-05-20
U-Boai Skipper Uses
EYeglass Fragment
To Commit Suicide
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, May ia German
submarine commander committed
suicide in q Boston prison today
shortly before q Luftwaffe genera
and crewmen of another SURRENDERED
suhmersible, the huge U-234, walked
ashore at Portsmouth, IN. H., Navy
Yard. ~
Capt-Lt. Fritz Steinhoff, COM
mander of the U-783, which was
brought to Portsmouth four days
ago, punctured wrist artery with
part OF an eyeglass he smashed ir
his Charles Street jan cell, the 1st
Service Command said.
Steinhoff and members of his
crew had been lodged Ia the civilian
jail temporarily pending transfer
to a prisoner-of-war' camp.
Jap Bodies Gone.
The 1,600-ton U-234, much the
Largest of U-boats brought to Amer
lean ports and a prize catch in the
roundup Of the German under-sea
feet in the North Atlantic, tied up
at Portsmouth to disgorge Luftwaffe
Gen.-Lt. Ulrich Kessler, several
Luftwaffe lights, three un-
identified men in civilian clothes,
eight submarine officers and crew
of 49 men 49, .-..
The bodies of two Japanese, which
were reported by the Navy aboard
the underseas boat when it radioed
its surrender 500 miles off Green
land while en- route to Japan. were
not aboard. Navy officers said they
apparently had been buried at sea
after committing hari-kari.
Gen. Kessler said nothing as he
reached the dock, but the U-234's
skipper, Johans Heinrich Fehler, de-
clared to Coast Guard officer
Your men treated me like a gang
ster."
Died at Hospital.
That's just what you are" 1t.
Charles Winslow of Portland, Me-,
replied. Get off"
Three other German subs have
been brought to Portsmouth this
week.
The Army disclosed few details of
steinhoff's death. Alderman doc
tor, a member of Steinhoff's crew,
gave flrst-aid treatment immedi-
ately after the commander was dis
covered by a military guard dying
in his blood-spattered CELL A United
States Army physician quickly or
dered his transfer to Massachusetts
General Hospital. He'died soon after
his arrival there.
Ignored Reporters.
The Navy listed Steinhoff's home
as Kullstedt, Germany. When the
burly 6-foot skipper arrived at Ports
mouth he brusquely declared he did
not have to submit to interviews and
went directly from the dock for ex-
animation by naval officers
The U-234 also carried German
aviation plans. The contents of the
bales of records were not disclosed
by naval intelligence officers.
The Nazis were whisked away in
waiting buses, the first batch of cap
tured U-boat crews to come into the
base this week who haven't had a
stop-over at Portsmouth Naval
Prison.
Many of the Germans were in the
"schoolboy" category. One or two
grinned halfheartedly as they
walked slowly to the buses. Most of
them eyed the Marine guards, who
glared back.
A huge suitcase of one of the
civilian passengers was toted by a
sailor.
Gen. Kessler was clad in the most
immaculate uniform of the group.
He saluted Coast Guard officer
and reported his name as he walked
slowly down the gangway.
Seven of the submersible's crew
were left aboard the craft.
Fehler wore shabby blue uniform
and a dirty white-topped hat.
Evening star., 1945-05-20
$500 GIN Workers Strike
Over Firinq Of Blind Man
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. 1i3
DETROIT, May ia walkout
of nearly $500 workers today Vir-
tually closed the Diesel engine di-
vision plant Of General Motors
Corp. ~----.-'-~--------.s-.
About 400 other employees were
made idle by the strike which a
company spokesman said was a
protest against the dismissal of a
blind. temporary employe. The
plant employs about 1900 persons.
Evening star., 1945-05-20

interest that all such utterances
be avoided"
Tidningen observed that the gov
eminent has no precensoring
power, but cited a section of
Sweden's free press laws forbidding
the publication of abusive articles
directed at foreign powers, >~ S..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-23

in Mainz swelling the bag of the two American armies since the start of their joint offensive on March IA to more than 100000 captives. Ludwigshafen, 34 miles to the south, was being cleared rapidly of a few hundred die-hard Nazi troops.
 Official information on the northern end of the Rhine front said only that large-scale skirm- ishing began yesterday in the Nij- megen area where Berlin spokes- men repeatedly have predicted the Allies would make their major bid to cross the Rh:ne and knock Ger many out of the war.
 Hundreds of Allied heavy bomb- CTS and tactica4 warplanes streaked across the battlefront at daybreak to carry the bombardment of Ger many's Rhine defenses into its third straight day. One British striking force dropped 22,000- pound volcano bombs" on a vital railway bridge near Bremen, a major link between Central Ger many and the Western Front.
 London Press reports said the preliminary bombardment of the Rhine-R -Rufr had reached full cres- cendo and that maSSed Allied guns were pouring a drumfire barrage across tEe Rhine all along Mont- gomerys 21st Army group front.
 Berlin flashes urgent warning the Allies will attack at any mo- ment. Hitler orders last stand one London headline said.
 The tension was heightened by reports from captured Germans that Field Marshal Albert Kessel- ring had been transferred from Italy to replace Field Marshal Kari Won Rundstedt as German con- mander-in-chief on the western front.
 There was speculation that Rund- stedt might have been killed or wounded in 8 recent Allied air raid on a German headquarters center, and that the pro-Nazi Kesselring had been called in to lead a stand or die" fight for the Rhine.
 The first laundering blows of the offensive already had been struck by the Allied Air Forces in the west. Hundreds of square miles of the Ruhr and northwest ern Germany were filtered with smoking ruins after the great ob!lt- eration raids of Wednesday and Thursday.
 Upwards of 15,000 Allied war planes raked at the enemys for ward defenses and supporting com munications in the two-day attack, obviously aimed at blinding the German front commanders and choking off their flow of supplies and Endorsements. At least 98 German planes were destroyed aground and aloft yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-23

up by the Germans last night as American armored columns raced in toward the city from points about six miles to the northwest.
 The main enemy escape port at Speyer also was menaced by three tank columns closing in on an arc extending from five miles north west to seven miles southwest of the city.
 Several small German units were isolated in the hills west of Landau and were being mopped up rapidly by supporting armored and infan- try forces of the Third and Seventh armies. The big highway center of Pirmasens, 35 miles west of the Rhine, was captured late yesterday.
 A few thousand Germans still were putting up stubborn battle from their Siegfried line fortifica- tions extending about 13 miles vest ward from the Rhine to the Wis Sembourg gap sector.