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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

With the Allied armies in head
long dash across Germany and the
possibility Of q Nazi collapse be-
coming more imminent each day,
the recent War Department a9r
fs0t1sscsuss<ss< thst NseRo esenka1A
now being used by the LIST and 7th
armies in unsegregated combat
capacity takes on added s,gnid-
canoe.
This added significance is mani
fest in two ways: First, II calls 10
mind the belated use Of Negro
troops in the last war when the old
p3rd Division was assigned 10 the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

NEW YORK-Conmander J B.
Mclean Of the 34th Seabee bat
TALON. whose members staged
hunger strike in California March
2. is described as -the' NO. ,. ! ever
seen" in letter To the N.A.A.C.P,
from a discharged member OF the
outfit. Not only is he the worst,
wrote the seaman. but 1t. Com
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07
GENERAL VOIDS
SENTENCES OF
COURT MARTIAL
All Return To Duty At
Fort Devens After
Gaining Freedom

BOSTON.-Four Negro members
OF the Women's Army Corps. re-
Gently convicted by a court-mar-
tial on charges Of INSTRUMENTATION.
were given their freedom Tuesday.
April 3.
Mai Gen Sherman Miles. COM
handing general Of the Isl service
command. voided the court-martial
proceedings against the four WACs
who were sentenced 10 a year al
hard labor following a sitdown
strike on March 10 The four have
been returned TO duty al Fort
Devens where the strike occurred
at Lowell General hospital, accord
ing 10 army announcement.
THE QUARTET was convicted
March 20 by an army general
court martial of violating the 64ih
article Of war. Al the trial the
girls tPvt. Anna Morrison. Rich
mond. Ky, Pvt. Alice Younc.
Washington: Pvt. Mary Green.
Conroe. Texas. and Pvt Johnnie
Murphy. Rankin. PaD contended
they we're ordered 10 perform
mental hosp ital tasks because Of
their color
Mai. Leon E. Mccarthy. trial
judge advocate. stated after the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07
HELD FOR MURDER

A warrant. charging Edward
Richmond. ~. OF 1908 DeQuindre
street with first degree murder,
was recommended this week by the
prosecutors office. He is accused
Of shooting Mrs. OdeSSie Thomas,
OF the same address. to death, Both
were roomers in the house.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

he had been trained for the Air
borne Division in New Guinea and
tina, be had attended Diesel Engine
schools and. Machine Gun school
Pvt. Morgan is now ON a separa-
ton furlough. His mother, Mrs
Ruth Stevens, lives in San Fran
cisco. Calf.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07
Labor Council
Met Sunday At
YMCA Branch

The NAAc.P. Labor Coun-
Gil. composed Of members Of
various labor unions both Go
and AL will meet Sunday,
April 9, az the ST Antoine
YNCA. az $50 pm. William
Kennedy Jr.. chairman Of the
Labor Committee. announced.
The Council which is being
formed 20 combat postwar prob
lens Of discrimination. is a part
OF the NAAC.P. Labor Com
mittee.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

months g T V
ice in the Pa
cihc war the
hjre.
Morgan. who
has been in
the army two
years. served
IN Biak. Moro
TAI an d the
Philippines as
q member OF
the llth AIT
borne Division.
In an interview
AZ the Chron-
iclc office. Nor
.nn rntI AlnnA
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

received in &C.
ton in France.
the War De-
part ment an
n o u n ced re-
Gently.
p VT Byrd
was servin
with a Quar-
termaster out
at when he was
killed and was
the husband Of
Mrs. J u a nita
Byrd Of 6343
Haxlett street
in Detroit
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

He had been in the army
two years and went overseas in
May. 1914. He was a graduate of
Lincoln high school. Ferndale.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07
Burma Jungle Leaves
Mark On Gallant GIs

burned 10 death attempting 10
rescue q white buddy from .
burning powder truck.
Enemy action ard fever claimed
many more. Heroism is the foun-
dation for roads and road main
DISee BURMA. Page 4
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

Furlough After
Ouerseas Duty

Pvt. Danny Morgan, son of Fred
die Morgan Of 1880 Brush street
has recently returned from Is
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07
Mark Byrd, IL:
Killed On Duty
In French Area

Pvt Mark Byrd Jr.. son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Mark Byrd Of 1921 North
End, Royal Oak, died Of wounds
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

He served several years az the
Abraham Lincoln Social settle
ment for lnter-racisl community
work. He also worked with the
Chicago Housing authority before
coming TO Detroit where he work
ed with the Detroit Housing COM
mission for three and one half
years.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

N-see LEADERS. Page Z
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07
Schern,er Named
As Hter-Racial
Committee Head

George Schermer.S FPHA area
representative. has been appointed
executive director Of the Ma Or'S
Inter- Racial committee as anncun-
ccd in the Michigan Chronicle two
weeks ago.
Schermer, who takes over his
new duties on June I. has been
with the FPHA for the past nine
months. Is a graduate Of the Uni
yerSity of Chicago.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

nw See wACs. Page Z
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

~see TROOPS. Page 4
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-07

~-See sEABEE. Page 4
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
N 0 CUT IN U. S. ARMY
 REDUCTIONS
Marshall Says Eisenhower Has Heavy Demands
 for RepIdtements
By William F. Arbogast

WASHINGTON, May 4-Congres- sional hopes for sharp cut in Army inductions immediately after VIE Day received severe jolt to- day from Gen. George c. Marshall.
 Not only will the Army be un- able to meet replacement demands for May and June under the pres ent program, the Chief of Staff told Chairman May, Democrat, Kentucky, of the House Military Committee, but the current short age is expected to be increased "by some 50,O00 men over the next three months"
 Many Congressman have felt that as soon as Germany falls, Army and Navy manpower needs can be filled by taking only 18-year-olds. This would reduce sharply the current induction rate of around 10000 men a month.
 Within the last week. Marshall wrote May, General Eisenhower has informed me that his losses are currently averaging 2,O00 men daily, and he anticipates no re- duction in his replacement require ments for June."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
U.S.(0MBAT FORCES ARE
 OFF SHIFTS
Three -fifths of American Troops in Europe
 Said to Be Idle

UPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITION LAR Y FORGE, PARIS, May 4-Except for policing duty and general occupa- ton tasks since the American Russian link-ups and the German surrender in Italy, more than three fifths of the American combat troops in Europe are now idle.
 Troops of Gen. Courtney Hodges First Army; It. Gen. Lucian Trus- cott's Fifth Army, and It. Gen. William Simpsons Ninth Army are cleaning their rifles and tuning up their tanks, while forces of Gen. George s. Patton's Third and It. Gen. Alexander M Patch's Seventh Armies bore on through the Nazi southern redoubt and into Czecho- slovakia.
 Since American divisions are never permanently assigned to any one army, it is likely that some combat units will be shifted to more active sectors.
 But for the most part, almost 50 American divisions are. in Army parlance, sweating it out" waiting to see who's going to handle the occupation, who's going to the Pa cific to fight the Japs and who's going home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
SEARCH FAILS
 TO FIND BODY,
 DEAD FUEHRER
No Trace in ChanteIIery, Which Is Afire-F|ames
 Licking Up Berlin
By Eddy Gilmore

MOSCOW, May 1.-The Chan celery of the Third Reich in the Wilhelmstrasse has failed to yield the body of Hitler and now the building is burning, Red Star dis patch from the German capital said today.
 The disclosure that the Chan celery where Hitler had his of fices was ablaze indicated that it might be difficult ever to prove that the Fuehrer committed suicide along with Propaganda Minister Goebbels, as the Germans report.
 The statement that the bodies were not found in the building, however, indicated that it had been searched, and strengthened the theory that if Hitler did kill him. self it was not in the Chancellery.
 Soviet correspondents reported how they, with Soviet soldiers, en- tered the building and found dead German machine-gunners with iron crosses.
 Hermann Goering's Air Ministry likewise was ablaze. The dispatch said it is impossible to get into it, but the gigantic shelter is intact" {"
 Flames still licked at other build ings, and in the Tiergarten trees cracked and swayed in the heat blasts.
 Izvestia's correspondent said: T have been asking the question where is Hitler?' of German pris- oners. They all answer, Hitler and Goebbels committed suicide"
 Red Star Correspondents It. Co.'s. Leonid Vysokostrovsky and Pavel Troyanovsky gave graphic pictures of Berlin after the sur render.
 Ruins, craters, smashed streets, street cars on their sides, fresh graves, German bodies still not buried, white flags, throngs of gloomy, starving inhabitants. Such is Berlin today" they wrote.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
IN
 R0MECAU5E
 OF BIG RIOT
By NoIand Norgaard

thsooCidtCu EIcso Vat AotftSpoheS"F
 ROME, May 4-Many persons were badly beaten today in a free for-all fight between crowd sing ing Communist songs and group of demonstrating Italian soldiers and students, who demanded that Italy retain the Province of Vene- zia Giulia.
 Tension had spread about Rome over the disposition of the province, which includes the Adriatic ports of Trieste and Plume and the Penin- 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 Mediterranean annoucemet that German garrisons in Gorizia and Trieste had surrendered to New Zealand column Wednesday. The broadcast said No German garri- son whatever would have surren- dered in these places since as early as April 30 these towns were com- pletely cleared of enemy troops by our own forces.")
 The students and soldiers, led by two legless war veterans in wheel chairs, marched toward the Royal Palace shouting Viva Istria, Viva Plume"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
Nazi Marshal LaudsA Allied
 Air Strength
Won Rundste dt Admits Complete German Defeat
 -lnvasion Surprise
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER Associated Press War Correspondent)

WITH U. S. SEVENTH ARMY, May 4. - Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt, admitting complete defeat, said today he regarded air power as the most decisive factor in the Reich's military failure.
 The former German Commander in the West received correspondents in chateau where he was held pris- oner.
 Won Rundstedt said these were the other factors in Germans de- feat, in order:
 l.-Lack of fuel, both oil and gasoline
 2.-Destruction of the railway system.
 3.-Germany's loss of raw mater ials areas such as Rumania. 4.-Smashing of the home indus trial sections. such as Silesia and Saxony. by air attacks. He said in his opinion Hitler is dead, but not by suicide. He ex- pressed belief the Fuehrer died in Berlin.
 Nervously puffing at an uniighted cigarette end. in crisp Prussian man. ner, he then added:
 l.-American Generals are surpris- ingly good, as is Marshal Montgom- cry of the British Army. They have learned much since the Firts World War.
 2.-The D-Day invasion came as a surprise, both regarding the exact time and locality, although the To- cality had figured among German calculations.
 3..-The Western Allied Armies made as successful war of move ment on Germany as the Reich made on France in 1940.
 4.-The so-called von Rundstedt offensive in the Ardennes last December was ordered by Hitler with the Field Marshal the scape- goat. It was Germany's last and only chance to avert disaster. It would have succeeded if supplies and reserves could have been brought up as quickly as Gen. Patton could move up from the south.
 5.-Germany fights on solely be- cause all utterances, both in the East and West, indicate that it is a fight for existence.
 6.-Germany would have won in 1940 except for British certainty that the United States would help.
 7.-No serious attempt was made in l940 to invade England since ex- perimental jabs showed the German water transport and fleet protection were inadequate,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
Is
 Discovered AmonQ
 Troops on 0kinawd

OKINAWA, May 4-Discovery of the first known cases of schistoso- miasis among American troops on Okinawa resulted today in general warning to troops to guard against liver fluke.
 Troops were ordered to stay out of fresh water streams, avoid wash ing in creeks, and also to avoid swamps, rice paddles and stagnant pools. They were instructed to drink only purified water or water from approved sources. Laundering of clothing in suspected waters was prohibited.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
E5(ApE5HIp5 OF GERMANS
 ARE BOMBED
Evacuation of Mainland Is Attempted -53 Vessels
 Known Sent Down
By Henry B. Jameson

LONDON, May Allied air forces struck continually at Ger man shipping fleeing today to- ward Denmark and Norway after sinking at least 53 vessels and dam aging scores of others in assaults yesterday and last night.
 Pilots on dawn patrols around the North Sea and Baltic coasts re- ported Germans still were trying frantically to escape the mainland in anything that would float.
 The evacuation attempt was hit yesterday by a seemingly intending stream of planes which dive bombed, rocketed and strafed the ships U. s. Ninth Air Force Thun- derbolts, called in to assist RAF pilots for the first time, accounted for II ships of transport and cargo size sunk or set afire. Several smaller ones were damaged.
 RAF Coastal Command Beau fighters sank close to 40 surface vessels and damaged that many more, while Typhoons and Spitfires sank or damaged 66 others.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
G0VT.TAKE5 OVER
 363 COAL MINES

WASHINGTON, May 1.-The Am erican flag flew over 363 Pennsyl- vania anthracite companies today as the government took over and ordered striking miners to return to work by Monday.
 Acting under Presidential direc- ton, Interior Secretary Ickes seized the operations last night. At the same time he deputized the man. agement of each as federal oper- ators to keep the workings open while negotiations for new con- tract continue in New York.
 John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers have not yet acceded to a War Labor Board directive calling for extension of the old con- tract. Its expiration Monday night precipitated the strike. The operat- ors consented, but asked that the extension be limited to 30 days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04

panitky Nazi Soldiers
 Surrender 10 Americans,
 British, Moi 10 Russians
By Romney Wheeler Associated Press War Correspondent


 LONDON, May 4-German sol diers, surrendering to American and British forces by the thousands in a panicky effort to avoid falling into the hands of the Russians, have created serious problem for Allied authorities charged with keeping them caged and fed.
 Front dispatches said German officers and men were virtually racing each other to what they evidently consider the safety of American lines.
 London papers declared that the British and American Armies all ready had taken so many German prisoners that Britain's facilities for feeding and housing them had become inadequate.
 Associated Press War Corre- spondent Wes Gallagher reported from the Ninth Army front on the Elbe River that the Germans were Swarming across the stream, padding in make-shift rafts or even swimming, in order to surren- der.
 And the Doughboys," Gallagher wrote, cant do anything but accept them"
 The Daily Express said that more ..s4a S,0o0,000 Germans had been taken prisoner since D-Day and that under the original agreement, Britain must look after half of them, regardless of whether they were captured by British or Am erican troops.
 Gallagher reported from the Elbe that the American Ninth Army did not want any German prisoners, but that the fear-crazed Nazis sur render anyway.
 Military men," he said, "are afraid the Russians may feel the Western Allies are giving shelter to the enemy"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
JAp5 IN BURMA
 ARE DEFEATED;
 RANG00N TAKEN

CALCUTTA, India, May 4.-De- cisive defeat of Japanese forces in Burma, climaxed in the capture of the Capital of Rangoon with it's big port intact, was announcel 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 capture went through with the operation as a practice for bigger things to come an attack on Singapore.
 A communique said 97,000 Japan ese had been slain in the Burma campaign in the last 25 months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
CHINESE IN NEW ACTON;
 NIp5 KILLED
Superforts Make Attacks on Bases-Ydnks Enter
 Davao Port
By Leonard Milliman Associated Press War CorrespondenD

A general Chinese counteroffen- sive to rout four -pronged threat to the U. s. Chingkiang airbase threw the Japanese armies into re- verse on every front today
 Japanese reverses were so wide spread that the month-old cabinet of Premier Baron Kantara Suzu- Ri was subjected to the same type of criticism by Tokyo newspapers that preceded the downfall of pre- vious Nipponese War Governments.
 One city was recaptured and 5000 Nipponese killed in the initial thrust by Chinese including American equipped airborne troops. Japan csc had driven to within 10 miles of the U. s. 14th Air Force base, 250 miles Southeast of Chungking
 On Okinawa
 Only minor gains were reported against the heavily fortified Naha Lire in the Okinawa operation which has cost American forces l6,964 casualties, including 2,978 dead. This compares with approsi- mately 2l,000 Japanese killed on Okinawa and U. s. casualties of le,938 on Two lima, including 4,189 dead.
 American losses were boosted by a new announcement of naval cas- ualties for six weeks-5,551, includ- ing 1131 killed, 1,604 missing, 2,816 wounded This does not include casualties on two light naval units sunk and others damaged in a com- bined attack last night by suicide planes and boats and high-flying bombers.
 Japanese broadcasts said cruis- CT, destroyer, and minesweeper were sunk and another cruiser damaged.
 Supers Strike Blows
 Fifty to 100 Superforts struck the second successive neutralizing blow this morning against southern - ------------ ------------
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
 OF NAzIS
 GIVE up
Surrender of Germans in Berlin Mount = Some
 Su|Ien, Some Weary

MOSCOW, May 4-Unit after unit of the German Wehrmacht surrendered today along the still lengthy Russian front as weary Nazi troops anticipated a general equalization, and dispatches from Berlin said the prisoner toll there stood at about 145,O00 this morning with hundreds of Germans giving up hourly.
 Front dispatches said Nazi offi- cers indicated they had performed their duty" to Adolf Hitler and that their fates were now in their own hands.
 From almost every sector of the front German regulars and volk- summers, some sullen and arro- gant, but most tired and depressed, were lined up for the long journey eastward.
 The Germans were being rounded up in such large numbers times in complete units-that it was difficult to get an accurate count and it will probably be several days before complete figures will be issued for current captures.
 In Berlin, Russian forces were working day and night to restore the German capitals gas, water, light and communications systems to working order.
 Large squads of sappers con- tinued working in the ruins of Berlin's buildings and the city's comparative quiet was broken every few moments by exploding mines or delayed shells.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, May Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 2, American Can 971a, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- Wright 5A, International Harvester 89. Kennecott 38A, New York Central 26ss, Northern Pacific 27h, U. S.. Steel 68la, Pound, $4.04.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 16627; rails, 56.82; utilities, 30.90.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
The W ashingto Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON ct. Col. Robert s. Allen now on activ, service with the Army,

SAN FRANCISCO-On April 25 and 26 this column revealed that one day after President Roosevelt was buried, meeting was held in the State Department at which his previous policy of hard peace for Germany was reversed.
 State Department appeasers pro- posed a new line favoring a soft peace.
 On April 27, one day following aforesaid publication, President Truman called an important meet ing in the White House. Attending it were Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Undersecretary 0 State Joe Grew, Undersecretary of the Navy Bard, Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy. and Leo Crowley, Federal Economic Admin istrator.
 At the meeting Truman laid down a flat rule that Roosevelt s previous hard peace policy was not to be changed
 This hard peace policy is basic ally that laid down by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau last autumn, following Roosevelt's dis covery that the Army and State Department had been planning appeasement. The Morgenthau plan calls for the wiping out of all German industry which could con- tribute to war, the taking over of the Nazi educational system, the banishment of Nazi school books, and long occupation.
 President Roosevelt himself con- tributed one pet idea of his own, namely that military music be banned ill Germany for the next decade or so. He believed the playing of military music aroused peoples warlike emotions. Instead he proposed giving the Germans
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