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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Nozi Factory Living He'll
 Reports HoII
By LOAN &. YOIJNCER.

Mineola, N. Y, May 5-(UP)- Rep. Leonard Hall, R., N. Y, re- turned today from a tour of German prison camps and recommended murder trials for all Germans from top to bottom" responsible for such living hells" as the Buchen- wald death factory.
 'The thing that hit me hardest at Buchenwald were the little chill dren," Hall said. There were 900 of them, all boys from six years old up. They had been there three years and most of them were picked up for playing in the streets after curfew hours. They slept six kids to a five-foot-long wooden shelf with one cotton blanket apiece and no mattress. Their legs were no bigger than chair legs"
 Hall, with Reps. Clare Boothe Luce, R., Conn, and John Kunkel, R., Neb., visited Buchenwald, where German records showed 51,732 po- litical prisoners died or were killed since 1884. The congressional party arrived six days after Buchenwald was captured.
 We must place no credence, Hall said, 'in statements from the Germans that they did not know what was going on under Hitler. We must take the attitude that all Nazi var criminals must be tracked down just as we track down American criminals in this country"
 T still can't get the stench out of my nostrils," he said. "The first thing saw was wagon load of 14O dead bodies piled like firewood. There was the body of a storm trooper guard among them. He had tried to escape the Americans by mingling with the prisoners but the prisoners killed him with pick-axe-I didn't blame them"
 He said the only clean building ill Buchenwald was the brothel where 16 girl prisoners served 400 Nazis. The brothel, he said, was now being
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05

Vandenberg. R., Mich, and would have authorized the proposed gen. eral assembly to recommend post war revisions of any treaty when it deemed them appropriate. The regional arrangements involve such bilateral mutual aid treaties as signed by Russia and France and whether they should be subject to control of the world organization We say yes; the Russians no.
 Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.. called a press con- ference for 9:30 d. m, PVT, today at which he was expected to an- nounce not only the amendments which all the big four will sponsor jointly but those on which the big powers minus Russia will submit separately.
 Secret Big Four consultations reached a climax last night in Stettinius's penthouse apartment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Equalization Of 25O,OOO Nazi Soldiers Expected ''Any Hour"; Patriot Czech Uprising Tinted
BY PHIL AULT

London, 5(UP)-The ondno dCzeeho theoser
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
BY ROMAN KARMEN

Copyright by United Press, 1945)
 Berlin, May 5.-(UP)-The barri- cades of Berlin are being tom down today.
 Quiet reigns in the city The people themselvs ar demolishing the barricades which are present liter ally at every step. At many inter- sections they are dug-in tanks and guns that are silent forever.
 BerinerS. treasured that the war is over. are crawling from cellars and moving their belongings back from the basementS to upper floors.
 Law and order prevail. Only now that the whole city is occupied have l been able to traverse it ftom one end to another to see the terrific scale Of the devastation caused by bombln9S. Entire streets are ob- liberated.
 Bernners tod me that the civ- ilians suffered enormous casualties. In many cases hundreds of inhabit- ants were killed by one bomb.
 Col. Gen. Berzarin, military com- mandant and chief of the Soviet garrison has ordered the popuIa tion to stay put to preserve order. The Nazi party and all subsidiary oI- ganizations have been disbandcd a..d their activity outlawed.
 Within 72 hours of the publica- tlon of the order, all members of the Wehrmacht, the SS, and the SA remaining in Berlin must register. Executives of all enterprises of the party, the Gestapo, the police, se- curity battalions, prisons, and all other state organiza tions must per- sonally appear at regional com- mandantS' offices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
BY R. H. SHACKFORD

San Francisco, May 5-CUP) - A united big four front on amend ments to the Dumbarton Oaks pro- posals for world organization was delayed for at least A hours today by the Soviet Union.
 The Russians asked for "A hours before committing themselves on amendments pertaining to revision of treaties and regional arrange ments. The other members of the big four-the United States, Great Britain and China. agreed to submit separate but identical recommenda- tions on those issues.
 Fifteen minutes before last mid- nights deadline the biz four agreed to make joint recommendations to the United Nations Conference on ali their other amendments.
 The treaty revision amendment was sponsored hu Sen. Arthur H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Adolf s Body May Never Be Found-Nozis
BY W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, May 5-CUP)-AdoIf Hit lers body has been hidden SO well that it never will be found,' Nazi propagandist Hans FTitsche told his Russian captors today.
 Radio Moscow said Fritsche, dep- uty German propaganda Minister taken prisoner in Berlin, asserted that the Fuehrers corpse, had been concealed in an undiscoverable place.
 Neither Hitler's body nor that of propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels has been found in Berlin, Moscow said. Red Army troops who attempted to search the ruined Reichschancellery in Berlin were beaten back by raging fires.
 But two other prize Nazis have fallen into American hands:
 Dr. Wilhelm Prick, German min- ister without portfolio, Reichspro- tector of Bohemia and i,ioravia and Heinrich Himmler's predecessor as interior minister
 Max Amann, deputy to Himmler, chief of Nazi party publishing de- partment and publisher of Msin Kampf.
 Prick, 68, probably the highest Nazi party and German government official yet imprisoned by the Allies, was captured Wednesday at his Ba- varian country estate by pure luck, a dispatch from the Sixth army group revealed.
 It. Col John N. Hutchinson, of Long Beach, Calf, of the Sixth army group press camp had gone to luxurious home in search of a location for press camp without the identity of the minis ter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05

1 V-E Day was at hand, but wlie. ther it was hours, days or weeks away nobody in authority could say Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in formal statement said the Germans | were thoroughly whipped" and at- either their own stupidity or that tributed any further resistance to of the German government"
 A London Daily Mail dispatch said the Allies this weekend may address final demand to the Ger mans to surrender unconditionaly the remainder of their forces.
 Failure of the enemy to accept the ultimatum, the dispatch said would result in final big offensive to envelop the enemy pockets. This in which case VIE Day might not might take several days, he said, come until the middle or end of next week.
 Other unconirmed reports circu- lated in London that President Truman, Premier Stalin, and Prime Minister Churchill may meet soon in Germany.
 Nc Holland and northwest Germany, including the Helgoland fortress and the Frisian islands, at a. m, @ a. m. EWT) today in accordance with the enemy's unconditional sur- render yesterday.
 "A Good Egg"
 Marshal Sir Bernard L. Molt- gomery, commander of the British Fist Army group, said upwards of 100000 troops-"a good egg," he addec-Were included in the sur- render. It ended the war in north west continental Europe just one week short of five years after the Germans invaded the Lowlands.
 Preliminary reports indicated sur- render went into effect everywhere without incident. The G IT an radios at Wilhelmsnaven and 9ram- erhaven, two of the main German ports that fell into Allied hands with the surrender, called on the population to maintain exemplary calm, order and discipline"
 In Denmark, nearly 1,00G Danish Nazl police, many Of them wanted for trial as collabcra tionists or war criminals, oarricaded themselves in buildings and behind walls in Co., penhagen last night. They fired on Danish patriots and pedestrians cel- ebrating the capitals liberation.
 Regular German army unin fought side by side with under ground resistance forces to subdue the Nazis. At 8 a. m., Copenhagen
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Mindunoo  Near End
BY RICHARD q. HARRIS

Manila, May 4-(UP) Allied bombers and warships blasted a path today for Australian troops driving toward the heart of Tara kan City On Tarakan Island off the east coast of Borneo.
 Japanese gun supplements, am- munition dumps and numerous buildings were destroyed by the dual bombardment as the Austral- ians swept through the western part of the city.
 The military barracks and the important water supply installa- tions in Western Tarakan were captured by the Australian troops, who were meeting desperate Jap anese opposition from mortar and machine-gun fire.
 Front reports said the Australian drive on the islands airfield, north east of the Lingkas beachhead, was being hampered by an extensive system of electrically controlled land mines. The troops, however, secured all high ground around the edge of the airfield.
 American PIT boats ranged through the sea lanes between Bor- neo and Celebes sinking two Jap anese transports Of 5000 tons each, six fighters, seven river boats, two tugs and number of small craft.
 The Mindanao campaign was ra- pidly approaching a climax. Troops of the 24th Division were rapidly clearing Davao city against resis- tance described as mot very hea- ""
 Other American troops also push ed east and north of Davao with one column reaching Santa Ana, just above the city, and second at Mintal, two miles from Libby Airfield.
 Filipino Guerrilla forces mean time cleared the Japanese from en- tire Surigao province at the north eastern tip of Mindanao, opening a number of good harbors for Allied shipping. The province is just across Surigao Strait from Amer ican-held TIeyte Island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Tonmies .JubiIont
BY RICHARD D. McMnLAN

Marshal Montgomery's Headquar- ters, May 5.-(UP)-"The war is all over, boys" was the juoilant Tommy'S reaction as news spread through the British ranks Of the surrender of million Germans il. Holland, Denmark, and ncI t'Jcra Germany.
 When do our V-day leaves fo' old blighty start?" the troops want ed to know.
 They said they knew surrender was in the air after seeing all those masses of Germans passing into our lines and surrendering on all sides. We knew it was the col- lapse of the Wehrmacht. They couldn't fight on. Now it's a walkover."
 This indeed was the moment, ss Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mnntgom. cry called it when he signed tnc surrender agreement with the Ger mans here on Luneberg Heath at $50 p. m.
 The formal ceremony was in a tent on the Moorland here. d tent atop which British flag flew n the cold breeze blowing in l,om the North Sea.
 But the first act was in Moaty's trailer. The chief German delegate, Admiral Won Friedeberg, cumman- der in chief of the German Nay, stepped into the trailer to tell the marshal they had decided 10 accept the terms. He wore a gray, oilskin coat over his naval uniform and he was white-faced and wa'i.ad stiffly.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Liberotion Celebrated In Denmark
By KA.J SARJTP

Copenhagen, May 5-CUP)-Ger- man troops surrendered through out Denmark without incident this morning and Danish police began rounding up NaZi collaborationists
 (Raoio Kalundborg, in a broad cast heard in London, reported that Danish police forces had captured the German Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen and run up the Dan- ! ish flag on the buildingJ i Another Kalundborg report said King Christian had broadcast ask ing everyone to remain united in order to build up a new free and secure Denmark.
 Exchange telegraph reported from Copenhagen that the Danish parliament would be convoked as soon as possible. The dispatch said new penal law would reinstate the death penalty for the first time in 50 years to deal with collabora- tionists
 (T'he British radio reported Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower had recog- nized It. Gen. Edward Gortz as commander-in chief of the resist ance movement in Denmark.
 (The Danish Freedom council warned the population to leave the work of arresting collaborationists to members of the Resistance Move ment. It told those who fear the anger of the population to give themselves up for their own safety.
 ,Nray,,ior JIyi11a1,,o Buehn, in another broadcast called for "calm and worthy behaviour to- ward German troops and refugees
 The Danish patriots were fighting side by side with their sworn en- emies of 24 hours ago, German army troops, to subdue Danish Nazi police entrenched in buildings and street barricades.
 Twenty-Five persons were killed or wounded in the first few hours. Fires broke out in number of places. especially in the harbor area, as result of the fighting.
 The Nazi police. known as Hipo- men, disregarded Germany'S uncon- ditional surrender of Denmark. Per- IldpS UcCdISe elICN 4oCCo 1olCA SEh~- cution as war criminals, they de- cided to sell their lives as dearly as possible.
 CA Stockholm dispatch said $500 fully-armed and trained Danish military police were expected to leave from Sweden -or Denmark momentarily, taking with them a list of 1000 Danish collaboration ists wanted for trial)
 The fighting, scattered through out Copenhagen marred joyful celebrations of Denmark's libera- tion. Nazi bullets killed several civilians among the tens of thous- ands marching through the capi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05

The appeal, broadcast over unidentified Naz sta ton possibly in Norway well may have been an 1th houl attempt to create friction between the Western Allies ard Russia.
 London sources had no information on the Prague disturbance but said fighting in progress in certain areas of the Czechosovak redoubt principally Central Moravia.
 Radio Prague appealed three times for Czech soldiers and police to hurry to the radio building at 1245 D. m (6:45 a. EWT)
 We need help! the station cried, hint that patriots might be attempting to seize the buding
 few seconds later the station returned to the air with music Prague already has been declared hospital city by the Germans implied offer surrender to whichever Allied army reaches it first
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Prisoner Kills Fellow Prisoner

Concord, N. H., May 3 - (U.PD - William Delfino, 21, of Roxbury died at Boston hospital today of knife wounds in the head and back in- flicted yesterday when he was at tackled by a fellow prisoner at the Concord Reformatory.
 Authorities said that Arthur c. Curtis, "A, of Worcester would be arraigned in court later as the al- legged aSsailant. An expert wood carver, Curtis was permitted to have knife in his cell. What moti- vated the attack had not been de- termined.
 Delfino, wkho was stabbed six times while standing in a chow line, was serving a three-year sentence on morals charge. Curtis was serv- ing five years for assault and rob- bery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
NORWAY SuRRENDER NEAR
FORTS STRIKE
 FIRST TRIPLE
 BLOW TAT LAPS
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, May 5. - (UP) - American Super fortresse. struck their first triple blow at the Japanese homeland today, concentrating two o. the attacks on the enemy suicide plane bases.
 The three raids, coming within a period of 12 hours were carried out by separate fleets of the huge bombers from Marianas bases of the 2lSt Bomber Command.
 Two of the attacks-one this morning and another late this af- ternoon were against the airfields on kyushu, Soutnernmost of the home islands and key base for Jap anese suicide planes which helped 70 sink five more light U. 5. surface ships at Okinawa.
 Oita and Tachiari airdclds on northern Kyushu were hit in the morning raid by about 25 to 50 Superfortresses, while the targets in the afternoon were Chiran, Ibu- suki and Kanoya airfields in the southern part of the island.
 Another fleet of 150 to 200 B-29s attacked the Hiro aircraft factory live miles east of the great Kure naval base on southern Honshu, shortly before noon. The plant pro- duceS engines and frames for naval aircraft
 The American fleet units were sunk in a joint attack by Japanese suicide planes and boats yesterday. shortly after approximately 600 en- emy troops attempted four amphib- lous landings on Okinawa in a fu- tile effort to cut behind the Amer ioan 10th Army.
 A front dispatch said that more than half of the Japanese landing forces were wiped out while they waded through the shallow water On the east and west coasts.
 Admiral Chester w. Nimitz said the landing attempt on the east coast above Yonabaru was con- pletely repulsed and the Japanese who got shore on the west coast at three poinst north of Mana were immediately pocketed and were be- ing destroyed.
 The futile attempt to turn the tide of battle at OkinaWa was costly to the Japanese. At least 175 enemy planes were destroyed or damaged around Okinawa and through the Ryukyus and 15 suicide boats were sunk.
 In addition more than 300 Jap- anese bodies were counted floating in the water at the four landing points on OkinaWa. Two of the motorized whaleboats, which the Japanese used for landing craft, were sunk of the east coast.
 In the vicious suicide attack at OkinaWa, where number of other American surface ships were dam aged besides those sunk, U. s. de- stroyer shot down one "baka" bomb, rocket-propelled projectile carry ing a pilot. A Japanese Domei dispatch, | broadcast by Tokyo radio, reported | that the suicide forces sank two American battleships, two cruisers and one destroyer and damaged at | least 50 other warships, including aircraft carriers, Thursday and | Friday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Borricodes In Berlin
 Torn Down

Editors Note - The following dispatch from Berlin was written exclusively for United Press by Roman Karmen. noted Russian war reporter. It was Karmen who last week sent the United Press the first Allied dispatch from inside the blazing German capital, which he entered with Red Army spearheads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Nougotuck Worker
 Mayor of Ansonio

Ansonia, Con-, May 5-UP)- The board of aldermen, by a vote of to ', last night elected Thomas J. Nelligan as the successor to the late Mayor Andrew J. Nolan. Nelligan, an alderman and em- ployment manager of the U. s. Rub- Der Co.,, at Naugatuck, defeated Thomas J. Shea. Both are Demo- cratS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
BRITISH CITY SENDS GIFT

New Bedford, Mass. (UP)-A gift o. three volumes describing the his- tory of Bedford, England, and d bound volume of Pilgrims Prog ress" has been forwarded to the mayor of New Bedford by U. s. Ambassador John Winant from the mayor of the English city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Most Germans Think Hitler Dead Since July 20, 1914

since last SeptemDer E0Ward
 w. Beattie, Jr., United Press War
 Correspondent, has been inside
 Germany a prisoner of war. He
 was captured last fall while going
 up to an advanced Allied combat
 position to cover story. Subse-
 quently his captors took him to
 many places in Germany includ-
 ing Berlin. where they tried in
 vain to extract information from
 him. Yesterday he came out of
 Luckenwald Priscn Camp. which
 had been overrun by the Russians,
 and was flown back to Paris. To-
 day he is making personal re-
 port to General Dwight D. Eisen-
 hover on what he saw and heard
 inside Germany. The following
 dispatch is the most recent and
 most reliable report on the dying
 days of the Reich.
 By EDWARD W. BEATTIE, JR. United Press War Correspondent Copyright, 1945, By United Press)
 Paris, May 5 - (U.PJ do not know the answer to the mystery of Adolf Hitler, but I can tell you what good proportion of the Ger man people from front-line troops to village house wives think about it.
 They think he has been dead since July 2O 1914
 They think the bomb plot against Hitler, matched by German army officers, succeeded. They think Heinrich Himmler and small group of his henchmen seized con- trol of Germany after July 20 and kept it in the war.
 Few Germans believe the story their own propagandists put out - that Hitler died in battle as the Russians closed in against the heart Of Berlin. The ones who do believe that are NaZi fanatics who also be- lleVe they can go underground and the fight against the Allies for years.
 For the last few weeks no Ger mans with whom I talked cared where Hitler was. They didn't care whether he was dead or alive. The only thing they cared about was getting themselves into position to surrender to the Americans or the British, At the Luckenwald Camp, where 1 was prisoner, the German guards talked frankly about what hey intended to do when the Rus 'ians came storming up to the gates.
 They said they intended to fire one token volley and then run. Actually, they didn't wait to do hat. They fled before the Russians ever got there and turned the camp over to those of us who were pris- oners. The average German soldier seems o have realized as early as last fall hat he was fighting in a lost cause. say that because there were two weeks after was captured that I | vas forced to live in the battle field | with a unit of the German army.
 We were surrounded by Allied | roopS southwest of Epinal on the | western approaches to the VosgeS. | Tor transportation we had a strange | convoy of French civilian automo- | ,iles and most of daylight hours ve were strafed by Allied planes. I umped into ditches with my cap
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-02-23
st. Paul Recorder
New Office to
Open Murch ]

The St. Paul Recorders new
downtown office at BOIL Newton
Building, 357 Minnesota Street, will
be opened Thursday, March 1, dur
ing the celebration of the 11s years
of the Negro Press existence.
The paper has received many
letters of congratulation upon the
announcement of its expansion.
Present St. Paul Recorder staff
members include Robert Jones, ad-
vertising manager, C. T. R. Nelson,
staff correspondent and Jimmy Lee,
sports editor.
An additional full-time person
will be added as office secretary.
The telephone number of the new
office is Cedar 0922. If that line
is busy, patrons may call Midway
8340.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-02-23
Rev. ID. E. Beasley,
Pioneer Baptist
Minister. Dead

Funeral services for Rev. David
E. Beasley, 905 Marion, resident
of st. Paul for Sc years, were held
at Pilgrim Baptist church, Thurs
day, Feb. %, at two pm. Rev.
Floyd Massey, Jr., officiated. He
died at the age of II, Monday, Feb.
10, at Ancker hospital.
Rev. Beasley was born in Roam
oke, Va. He was a graduate of
the Denison University at Gran
vile, Ohio, and was ordained min
lister in Pilgrim Baptist church, St.
sionary work in Bismarck, Minot
and Devils Lake, N. D., under DIR.
C. Pope of the Second Northern
Baptist Convention. He later held
a charge at Calvary Baptist church,
Duluth, Mimi, for Is years, and
then went to Fergus Falls, Mimi,
where he held his last pastorate.
Rev. Beasley married Susan
Black in st. Paul in 1886.
At the time of his death he was
president of the Boys and Girls
of Yesterday club and member of
the st. Paul Ministers Alliance.
Survivors include his wife, two
sisters, Mrs. Margaret Okey and
Mrs. Sarah Arlington of Chicago,
and a nephew, Cecil Beasley, and
niece, Hulda Garner, st. Paul.
Interment was in Forest cere-
terry.