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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-03
By John M. Hightower

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3-The American delegation announced to- day it is sponsoring amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks charter de- signed to open the way to peaceful revision of world agreements in the postwar era.
 Commander Harold E. Stassen, acting as spokesman, told reporters the group had agreed upon these nine major objectives, in changes now being considered by the Big Four Foreign Ministers.
 1-Provision for functioning of the entire international organiza- tion ''in keeping with the principles of justice"
 2-Clarification of Dumbarton Oaks language to provide that the organization function within, and assist in developing, international law.
 3-The development and safe
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THOUSANDS OF NAzI5
 SURRENDER
Dirty, Unshayen Germans Lay Down Arms in
 Historic Grounds
By EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, May 3.-Thousands of dirty and unshaven Germans shuf- fled through the Brandenburg Gate under the Pillars of Victory in fallen Berlin today to lay down their arms where goose stepping Prussians for merly paraded their tiiumphs.
 The hush of dead nation lay over the smoking, broken capital, inter- rupted only by occasional explosions in the ruins.
 There was no further information on the fate of Hitler or of his Pro- paganda Minister. Paul Joseph Gcebbels, who were said by Goeb- bels Deputy to have committed sui eide when their dream of Berlin as the Capital of the world collapsed about them. But the Russians were checking the story.
 One well-known Soviet commen- tator, Nikolai Tikhonoy, declared in Pravda that Hitler is not in Ber- lin"
 The toll of captured Germans in the Nazi Capital. originally an- nounced last night as 10000, grew to 100000.
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NAzI(ApITAL
 CITY FALLEN TO RUSSIANS
Defenders Give Up Fight German Ninth Army
 Is Trapped

LONDON, May 3.--Berlin, the Nazi Capital, and fourth largest city of the world, surrendered yesterday to troops of two Russian armies, and 10000 of the city's defenders gave up the fight which had ragged for F deadly days through the streets and subways.
 The city fell at p. m. to troops of the First White Russian and First Ukrainian Armies, Premier Stalin announced in an order of the day. He disclosed also that Russian forces had destroyed the German Ninth Army, trapped Southeast of Berlin, killing 60,000 men and capturing l20,000, and had overrun the last of Germany's big Baltic ports, Ros- tock and Warnemuende.
 Stalin also announced the capture of Cieszyn tTeschen) the last town in pre-war Poland in German hands.
 Cieszyn, in disputed corner Of Silesia, was part of Czechoslo- vakia following the First World War until after the Munich agree ment of 1938 when Polish troops moved in and occupied the indus trial and mining area.
 In Moscow, the fall of Berlin was celebrated with an official salute of "A salvoes from 324 cannon. The long-awaited victory was hailed by Russians in the streets with danc- ing, shouting and general hilarity. Moscow dispatches said the belief was evident everywhere in the capi- tai that the end of the war could be expected at any time.
 The victorious Russian armies, headed by Marshals G. K. Zhukoy and Ivan s. Konev. entered Ber- lin on April 21, after jumping across the Oder. They swarmed into the 34l -square-mile city, already bat tered from American and British air raids, and laid it low in l2 days of some of the bitterest street fight ing in history. It was not known how many of the German capitals peacetime population of 4,335 ,o00 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.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, May 3 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 67s, American Can 9734, Anaconda 335s, Curtiss- Wright 54s, International Harvester ST, Kennecott 385s, New York Central 267s, Northern Pacific 27h, Pack ard ', United Airlines 377s, U. s. Steel 681a, Pound, S4.04.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, l65.82; rails, 56.72; utilities, 30.66.
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WAR AT A GLANCE
(By Associated Press)

THE WESTERN FRONT: British and Russians link up near Wismar 29 miles southwest of captured Ros- tock; Germans proclaim Hamburg an open city and British enter the great port; Germans term Prague a Hospital City" indicating that the Czechoslovak Capital will not be de- fended: U. S. Third Army drives to- ward Pilsen; U. s. Seventh Army ap- proachess Innsbruck.
 THE EASTERN FRONT: Russians occupy Berlin and with the British split the Nazis in the North into separate pockets; other Soviet forces race westward through Czechoslo- vakia toward Prague.
 THE ITALIAN FRONT: Fighting ceases in Northern Italy and Wes- tern Austria, where Germans sur rendered internationally; New Zealand troops occupy Trieste.
 THE PACIFIC FRONTS: British troops enter Burmese Capital, Ran- goon; American Superfortressess at tack Japanese home island of Kyu- shu: American on Mindanao Island in the Philippines appear about te enter Davao; Americans gain ir Southern Okinawa drive.
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 BY AIR I5
 pEpPED UP
British Mosquitos Break Long LulI : Attacks
 Made on Kiel

LONDON, May 3-British Mo squitos broke a 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 anti-aircraft fire.
 Other night raiders continued destructive blows at enemy trans port in northern Germany, attacked several airfields in the Danish Peninsula and harassed German elements seeking to escape to Den mark or Norway by sea.
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The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Nt. Col. Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army.N

SAN FRANCISCO-To the aver age outsider, the most difficult thing to understand about this con- ference is the attitude of the Rus siarls. Poor press relations, plus a few inept moves have melted down a large mountain of goodwill built up by the yalor of the Red Army. In a few short days they have destroyed much of the favorable sentiment in Latin @America, and through no fault of ours, won us more friends below the Rio Grande than we ever had before.
 However, one purpose of this conference is to get to understand people and we are going to have to understand a lot about the Russians in the future. First, let's look at some of the things hardest to understand.
 One of the. things Molotov did in San Francisco was to invite two prominent tin-American dele- gates to dinner at the Russian Consulate, along with few care fully selected. Europeans. Latin guests were Mexico's tall, hand some Foreign Minister Padilla, and Chile's aristocratic Foreign Min ister Joaquin Fernandez y Fer nandez, who is rapidly assuming a new leadership in Latin America.
 Molotov drank toast to Chile and her new establishment of dip lomatic relations with Russia.
 There are so many Chileans who want to become Ambassador to Moscow" joked Foreign Min ister Fernandez in return, that it is one of my greatest problems. " Mexico's Padilla, apparently on excellent terms with Molotov, said: "All Latin America would be pleased if our sister republic, Ar gentina, was admitted to the con- ference"
 Molotov, in mellow mood, seemed to register no objection.
 MOOD CHANGES
 But day later the mood was
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Hair, Hair;
 Blonde, Red And Brunette

PHILADELPHIA, May 3 = The Bendix Aviation Corporation is try ing to get women out of its hair.
 The firm started out to'comb the female population the other day for 250,000 strands of hair for a secret weapon.
 Officials are seeing red, blonde and brunette hair-in the mail and on the heads of would-be con- tributors.
 We have enough on hand and promises to give us 25,000,0OO strands instead of 250,000,' an of ficial said, If there is anything we don't want more of, it's hail"
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QUICK MOVE IS MADE IN
 PACIFIC WAR
Mile Deep Wedge Driven on 0kinawa : Tanks
 Reach Gates ofDavao
By Leonard Milliman Associated Press War Correspondenp

British soldiers smashed into Rangoon, supposedly defended by 30,O00 trapped Japanese, in the climactic fight of the Burma cam paign and the outstanding de- velopment today in the Pacific war.
 In other actions, British and French warships bombarded islands lying between Rangoon and Singa- pore for the third successive day; Superforts blasted airfields in southern Japan for the thirteenth time in five weeks tank-led Am- erican infantrymen drove a mile deep wedge into Okinawa defenses 325 miles south of Japan; picked Australians opening the Borneo campaign pushed from oil-soaked beaches into dominating jungle covered ridges; and the most decorated Tanks in the Pacific reached the gates of Japanese-held Davao in the southern Philippines without long-anticipated battle.
 Double Landing
 The breakthrough into Rangoon came in a quick follow-up of a double landing by parachute and amphibious troops south of the Burmese capital, while an armored column pushed down from the north.
 Fall of Rangoon, which in Bur- mese means "end of the war" would signify the virtual finish of the Burma campaign. Nipponese to the north have either been en- circled or are in flight across jungle trails to Thailand. Capture of Pegu, Pyawbwe and entraice of
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TRUMAN HAS
 FIRST FIGHT

WASHINGTON, May 3.-The House. in President Truman's first tussle with Congress, today voted l85 for overriding his veto to broad farm draft deferment legislation, to IT against. Two-thirds, or 241 votes were necessary to override.
 MT. Truman criticized the bill as as discriminatory in putting "the agricultural group on a plane above both industrial occupation and mili- tary service" Republicans voted al- most to a man to override.
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CARELESS

LOS SANGELES-Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson levied $l00 fine with an alternative 50 days in jail upon Los Angeles woman after OPA agents exhibited brassiere they testified she had sold behind closed doors for $20.
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PELICAN RESIDENTS HERE

Mrs. Jack Bear and Clara van Sant, of Pelican City, have arrived in Juneau and are guests at the Gastineau Hotel.
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Powers of Security
 Council Big Issue af
 Nations' Conference

guarding of human rights as a basic purpose of the new world or ganization.
 4-Provision for peaceful change of conditions in the world so that the world is not frozen"
 5-Incorporation into the charter of definite system of trusteeships.
 6-Provision for future review of the entire charter lin the light of experience and the developing world situation after the war
 7-Intoduction of a modernized version of the World Court as an integral part of the United Ma tions organization.
 8-Incorporation in the charter of specific provisions of the At lantic Charter. These include the Four Freedoms
 9-The outlining of cultural ob- jectives discussed in the conversa- tions with China at Dumbarton Oaks, but not included previously in the formula.
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 3-The BIG-FOUR plan for an all-powerful World Council to guard future peace today was attacked by several na- tions at the United Nations Confer ence. They want to put peace keeping on more regional basis.
 The issue, growing in importance as the work of the conference speeds up, appears certain to impose a severe test of American leadership.
 The United States is seeking both to promote the creation of a world wide security system and to fit it into such regional organizations as the Pan- American system without allowing the development of region al blocks.
 As proposals poured in for reshap- ing the Dumbarton Oaks provisions on the power of the Security Council to use force, there were these other developments in this bustling confer ence city:
 l. Stettinius started a drive to keep as many foreign ministers as possible here throughout the Con- ference despite the pressure of their war-end problems at home.
 2. Molotov Edens and Stettinius conferred yesterday on Poland, try ing to clear the way for reorganiza- tion of the Warsaw government.
 3. The American delegation de- cided that Argentina should get no officer position at the Conference.
 4. Foreign Minister Georges Bi- dault of France told a news con- ference his Government would &C., cept the principle of international bases but would never sur render any territory.
 5. 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.
 6. The British completed a plan for International Trusteeships over ex-enemy territories which opposes the United State plan for strategic trusteeships to cover military bases.
 Behind the scenes, the real issues that will have to be settled here were beginning to take definite shape to- day. Among these the question of the powers of the Security Council seemed certain to become the most hotly debated
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JOHNSON IN TOWN

Victor Johnson, of Port Alexan- der, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel
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The Grand Canal flows through Venice in the shape of a letter S
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Evening star., 1945-11-17
0PA EmpIoye Loses
Fight for Rent Ceiling,
lis Ordered 10 Vacate

James L. Ellis, an OPA employe,
has until December 10 to vacate his
apartment for nonpayment Of rent
since January l, 1914, the decision
having been rendered yesterday by
Judge Almond Scott in Landlord
and Tenant Court.
Mr.. Ellis, who lives at the Cava-
naugh Courts, 1925 Seventeenth
street NV, was charged with being
in arrears some s997.50 when the
eviction action was filed in Sep
tember.
Mr.. Ellis testified that when he
took the apartment. he had an oral
agreement with Mrs. Mary Sher-
burne, owner, who died March IS,
that he would live there for the du-
ration of the national emergency.
| The rental was fixed at SOS a month.
! Shortly thereafter, Mr.. Ellis re-
lated, he looked into the matter and
found that the OPA maximum was
$47.50. Thereupon he offered his
landlady checks for the rent on
that rental figure, but it was refused.
he testified. After Mrs. Sherburne's
death, the suit was filed by her sis
ter, Mrs. Katherine Osborne, collec-
tor of her estate.
Mr.. Ellis said he would appeal the
case to the Municipal Court of Ap-
peals. Counsel for Mrs Osborne said
a suit would be filed seeking the
back rent allegedly owed her.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Swiss Battle Smuggling

LOCARNO, Switzerland, Nov II
lP,.-All furloughs of Swiss customs
officials were Cancelled today and the
rehabilitation of military police in
the Swiss Italian border area was
postponed in a further effort to halt
widespread smuggling from Italy
into Switzerland.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Mistreaiment Charged
AT Virginia Prison Farm

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 17.-How-
ard H. Carwile, attorney for prison.
ers and former inmates of the State
prison farm in Goochland County
who complained of mistreatment
and other alleged abuses. yesterday
submitted a list of 81 charges re-
garding conditions at the prison
farm to Clyde H. Ratcliffe, chair
man of the State Board of Correc.
tions.
Main points of the Carwile bill Of
particulars include:
Assertion that five prisoners were
1ogged September 20, and that two
others were "brutally" hogged the
preceding day.
Allegations that the farm is dirty,
lacks toilet facilities. has insanitary
eating conditions, "shamefully in
ferior" food. fails to give sick in
mates proper medical attention.
overWorks prisoners, permits sex
perversions and mixes juveniles with
older men.
The list also maintained that
similar conditions exist at the State
penitentiary and in the prison road
camps.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Navy Air Unit Pledges
Cooperation With Hunters

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 1.-THE game
and Inland Fish Commission has
received assurance from the 5th
Naval District Air Command that
no Navy planes will swoop low over
Maryland marshlands and disturb
bedded wildfowl, Harold S. Kolmer
executive secretary of the commits
sion, announced.
Mr.. Kolmer explained that each
year a number of protests are re-
ceived from hunters. This time,
however, the cooperation of the
Navy and Army Air Forces was
sought prior to the receipt of any
complaints from duck hunters.
Flying low over marsh areas where
wild waterfowl are bedding is vio-
lation of Maryland law, Mr.
Kolmer pointed out.
Mr.. Kolmer said similar assur-
ances are expected from the Potomac
Command and the Army, adding
that the commands had always CO.
operated in the past, after protests
were called to their attention.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Two Suspects Held
BY Fairfax Police
lin Train Robbery

Two men were arrested late yes
terday and charged with grand
larceny in connection with the rob-
berry Of a freight train near Lorton
Va, early in the day, Fairfax County
police reported. Seventeen cases of
liquor which had been taken from a
boxcar were recovered, police added
The men were booked at Fairfax
police station as Rufus Williams
33, Alexandria, taxicab driver, and
James Brown, SO, laborer from
Baltimore Both are colored. Will
liams posted $4,000 bond, but
Brown was held in Jail in default OF
bond. Both will have a preliminary
hearing November 25 before Judge
Robert Stump in Trial Justice Court
Two other men were said by
county police to have been involved
| in the robbery, in which a south
bound Richmond, Fredericksburg &
Potomac train was halted by setting
the air brakes. AS reconstructed by
police, three men boarded the trair
as it left the Alexandria yards a,
l:30 am, and set the brakes or
nearing spot where a getaway
automobile waited. Police said the
train crew, unable to drive off the
bandits, finally started the trair
and pulled away.
H. L. Harris. conductor of tn.
train, said that after the robber!
broke into the boxcar, they trans.
ferred the cases of liquor to ths
taxicab.
j. E. Borkey, chief special ageni
for the railroad, said three case!
OF liquor were recovered at tht
scene and IA more were found ir
the taxicab.
Williams and Brown were arrest.
ed. police said, after Paul Peglow
guard captain at Lorton Reforma.
tory, heard of the robbery and be.
came suspicious of Williams anc
Brown when he saw them sittins
in the cab on the reformatory reser.
vation.
Mr.. Peglow told police that al.
though unarmed. he grabbed botf
men, forced them into his car ane
locked the door before calling
police.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Five Youths Held in Beutinq
OF PooIesvi|Ie Hiqh Principal
From Yesterdays Last Edition.

(From Yesterdays Last Edition.
Five Poolesville (Md.) youths were
released on bond today after being
charged with assault and battery
and disorderly conduct in the beat
ing yesterday of 6-foot Robert
Skaife, 80, principal of the Pooles-
vile High School.
Kenneth Miller of the Montgom-
cry County Police said the. attack
occurred during a fair being held
at the school, The five boys, he
said, had been ordered out of the
fair because they were causing
trouble He said then they went
on the road in front of the school
and started annoying a girl pupil.
The girl. he said, complained tc
Mr.. Skaife. When Mr.. .Skaife tried
to disperse the five boys they
pounced on him, according to Po-
liceman Miller, and one of them hit
him over the head with a bee,
bottle.
Although Mr.. Skaife weighs over
200 pounds. according to Mr.. Miller
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Arlington Churches in
SeoI Services Tomorrow

Arlington County churches will
observe Christmas Seal Sunday al
services tomorrow.
Announcements will be made OF
the opening Monday of the 39th an
nual drive Of the County Tubercu-
losis Association. A number OF
churches will use special programs
Evening star., 1945-11-17

Rev. G. H. Yount. of the financial
committee, announced today. The
drive will continue through Tuesday
night, he said.
A rapid membership expansion
the last two years necessitating
special arrangements for overflow
services has made the erection of a
new church building imperative, the
Rev. George H. Yount, pastor of
the church explained. The new
structure will be erected on the
church property at rGlebe road and
Wilson boulevard, the present edi-
flee being kept if it fits in with
architectural plans.
First Presbyterian Church was or
ganized in the home of the late Mrs.
Malvina A. G. Hayes. Arlington, on
February %, 1872. The congrega-
ton later held services in the old
Mortimer blacksmith shop at Bal
ley's Crossroads. The present church
was built across the street from the
blacksmith shop and dedicated on
April 18, 1873.
The Rev. Mr.. Yount, who served
as assistant to DR.. Albert J. Nc
Cartney, pastor of Covenant-First
Presbyterian Church from 1912 to
1914, came to the church in May,
1914. A graduate of Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary, he succeeded the
Rev. DR.. Linus J. Strock, pastor
emeritus of the Arlington church.
Mrs. Young lives at 4308 North Sec
ond road.
The other church to launch a
campaign for funds is the Claren-
don Presbyterian Church. The con-
gregation of more than 400 men,
bers is planning to raise $4,000 for
an edifice to be erected on a plot
at North Irving and North Jackson
streets. Chairman of the Steering
Committee spearheading the drive
is Paul v. Maris.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
BeIqiuns Honor Roosevelt

BRUSSELS, Nov. IT tP).-Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt will be honored
with posthumous degree from
Brussels University today Ameri-
can Ambassador Charles Sawyer has
been delegated to accept the award
Evening star., 1945-11-17
rs Compocts Seized

The United States marshal's office
at District Court today had on hand
l26 women's metal and plastic
beauty compacts seized by deputies
on information they were to be ex-
ported from this country, contrary
to a law banning shipment from this
country of war materials.
The Government now is seeking
to condemn them, through a libel
action at District Court.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Greenland Sentenced
To Die for Assault
On Woman Passenger

Jack L. Barnes, colored, "a, Nor.
folk, Va, today faced death on the
gallows after ne was convicted last
week in Prince Georges County
Circuit Court at Upper Marlboro o1
criminally attacking a 53-year-olc
Newport News (Va0 woman las,
August on Norfolk to Washington
steamer.
Sentence was imposed yesterday
on Barnes, a crewhand on the
steamer, by Judges Charles G. Mar
bury and John B. Gray, jr., after
he insisted he was innocent. De-
fense Attorneys J. Frank Lillard
and Jerrold Powers said they would
appeal.
Jurisdiction Protest Denied.
Earlier, the court denied a de-
fense motion for a new trial filed
on the ground Prince Georges
County had no Jurisdiction in the
case.
In passing sentence, the jurists
described the offense as "one OF
the most shocking and heinous
criminal actions that have come
before this court"
The woman, mother of five chill.
dren, testified at the trial November
6 that she was attacked in hel
stateroom after her assailant threat.
ened to kill her if she made any
outcry. A woman sharing the room
identified Barnes as the man she
saw leave through a window after
the attack.
Taxi Driver Gets S Years.
In another case, Millard Brown
colored taXicab driver of the 420(
block of Foote street NE. was sen.
fenced to five years in the Mary
land Penitentiary on a charge ol
aSsaulting Francis Adams, Takoms
Park.
George Thomas, colored, 16, Lau.
rel. was sentenced to serve not more
than three years in the State Re-
formatory on charges of breaking
into College Park restaurant ano
receiving stolen goods.
Sentence was suspended in the
cases of two Baltimore boys who
were charged with unauthorized use
of an automobile after they escaped
from the Cheltenham School for
Boys.
In Upper Marlboro Police Court
Joseph A. Mortimer, Hyattsville, was
fined SIPS on charge of driving
while drunk and $25 for reckless
driving.