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The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-24

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Trial us7rdifor
BY RELMAN MORN

PARIS April "a (AP) - The whole of France elec-
trfed today the that Marshal
erand and intended to return to Paris
ministry of justice official said the proceedings newly set
start May IT, probably would be postponed until
Petan actually planned to return to France.
Only today the Ministry of Justice
tain would be tried by and the date
charge will be high treason.
VOLUMINOUS CHARGES
1t is based probably the largest dossier compiled
against any accused Frenchman Thousands of
official communications letters and
ence with the Germans will be introduced.
See TRAITOR-Page IA
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BULLETIN
FLoSSENBURG coNcEN.

FloSSENBURG CoNCEN-
TRATIoN CAMP, Germony,
April "a - (AP) - Political
prisoners just liberated at this
comp by the goth Division Of
the Americon Third Army as
serted todoy that kurt
'Sehusehniss, former ehoneel-
lor Of Austvio, wes murdered
by IS troops April IS.
The prisoners said thet
HjaImsr Sehoeht, former Ger
mon finonee minister and
head Of the Centred Bank Of
Germany, had been impvison-
ed at FIossenburs but was
token to the notorious 0oehou
concentration comp by the SS
at the time Sehusehmiss wos
reported slain.
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Rubbish Pickup
Starts Monday
in Mf.(Iemens

A full weeks city-sponsored
rubbish pickup will Start in
Mount Clemens next Monday,
Street Commissioner Guy Verk-
Ter announced today, in urging
property owners to clean up
their yards, attics and Easements
during the present week.
Apart from eliminating fire
hazards in homes, the collection
will also serve to aid the ma
tion's stockpile of strategic ma
terials, such as steel, rubber,
aluminium, etc, Verkler points
out, since arrangements are be-
ing made for the sorting of all
material collected and shipment
of valuable materials to process
irg plants.
See CLEANUP-Page 2
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MatabreStenes
Greet Invading
Russian Hordes
Report Exehonse
of Shots Between
Noxi Officers, Men
By EDDY GILMORE

oy eOOI SIIMOke
MOSCOW, April 24-tAP)
-Ponie is speeding in the
center Of Berlin, with fighting
taking pIoee omons the Nezi
defenders, eye witness se-
counts reaching Moscow sold
todoy.
Its hell in there" a German
civilian was quoted by the cor.
respondent for Izvestia. "Shells
are falling all over the place and
there is fighting among the Of.
ficers and men,"
The civilian declared a divis-
ional commander shot his driver
when the latter suggested capitu-
lation.
Red Army and Polish troops
have pushed deep enough and
captured enough streets and ave-
nues to set up a traffic control
system, front advices said.
GIRLS DIRECT TRAFFIC
Red Army girls, in their Gus
tomary role of traffic directors,
were standing at numerous
corners in the suburbs directing
the flow of trucks-some of AM
erican make-moving in and out
of the city.
The correspondent for Red
Star told of battling down the
avenue leading to the Wiiheim-
strasse, and of white flags fut-
tering from windows along tho
Berlinerstrasse.
Fires were reported raging in
the Weissensee district, now be-
hind the Red Army.
Great destruction from bomb.
ing was reported by all CORES
pOndents inside Berlin. Whole
blocks were blasted down, they
said.
German streetcars carried
See BERLlN-Page 3
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Allies Fan OUT
Along The po
Eighth Stobs
into Ferroro

ROME, April "a - R-Tho
Fifth and Eighth armies spread
out in strength along the SOUTH
ern banks of the Po river today
as a partial news blackout Gov.
cred the latest Allied gains in
Northern Italy.
The Eighth Army broke into
the outskirts of Ferrara last
night after plunging through
disorganized and fleeing Ger.
man forces to that road hub city
80 miles north and slightly east
OF Bologna. The Ferrara air.
field was captured.
Official reports said the Nazis
were attempting to escape
across the Pc on riffs, in boats,
and by other means" ,
The exact areas overrun n
the swift rush to the Pc were
withheld from publication %
prevent the enemy from ascer.
tanning where Allied spearheads
had thrust across the escape
routes.
Allied war planes have De-
troyed or damaged at least -,
600 enemy vehicles In the ~
Valley in the past two daya
Two thirds OF this total Woso
credited TO ocket-firing Amegj>
can thunderbolts Of The l3l1s
Air Force.
In the advance 70 ~ H6FEnDu
area, the Eighth Arunv'b tln)nD'
ran wild throoob ~ -
0ermanA III bnun1 ~ I.
many enennv W - 4
day yss1sr64 ri
Bondeno an1 1Ro1o (
proeohes - ~ ~
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been unheard from since by his
wife, Esther and their two-yeaf
old daughter, Janet-Ann, who
reside at 140 Miller street.
Mrs. Kunold today voiced .
fervent appeal to her husband 70
return and Ralph Clark, man.
ager of the Consumers Power
company, who described Kunold
as an excellent employe, stated
without equivocation that the
veterans job awaits him when
See M1SSlNG-Page 10
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Indicate
Adolf Not
in Berlin

PARIS, April "a @ -Des-
pite Hamburg radio broadcasts
boasting that Adolf Hitler was
in Berlin personally command
ing the defense of the topping
capital, it was believed gener-
ally at Supreme Allied Head
quarters today that the Fuehrer
actually has long since fled to
his southern redoubt and prob
ably now is at Berchtesgaden.
German government agencies
and offices a week ago moved to
Thuringia.
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Bernhardt F. Kunold, 39-year
old Mount Clemens veteran OF
savage fighting in Germany,
who disappeared April 5, fol-
lowing his honorable discharge
from the army at Colorado
Springs, Colo, today was the
object of a nationwide search
upon the part of American Red
Cross, civil and military author
tiles.
Kunold, widely know n
throughout the city as the result
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POWER OF RELIGION
Key TO Greatness

That the greatness Of Ameri-
ca has been derived from the
unity and cooperation Of its
three major religious groups,
and that prejudice and dissen-
sion must never rise to destroy
this nation as Germany has been
destroyed, was the theme Of the
Fr. John F. Quinn, s. j., Of the
Detroit Round Table conference
of ehurches held in this city
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Monday evening.

Monday evening.
Three noted speakers, repre-
senting the Catholic, Protestant
and Jewish faiths, joined in the
message of friendship and COOP
GRAFTON before a large audience
composed of church and syna-
gogue members.
The speakers were: Rev. r.
win c. johnson, of st. Johns
See CHURCHES-Page 2
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ALARMED WIFE VOICES PLEA
Hunt Soldier Missing ; Weeks

of his IL years employment by
the Consumers Power company.
had served creditably as q priv
ate in the army for more than
two years and was hospitalized
back to the United States in Feb
ruary of this year after seeing
extensive combat service in
France, Belgium and Germany.
HAS WIFE, TINY DAUGHTER
He was discharged at Color
ado Springs, April 5, and has
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-24
SPEAR FORWARD

WITH THE u. S. THIRD
ARMY, April 24-(R)-Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's Third Army
forces in the Regensburg area
drove today to within eight
miles of that strategic city in one
sector, and reached a point three
miles west of the Danube
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SAN FRANCISCO, April "a

SAN FRANCISCO, April "a
-(PJ-Clement Attlee, depu-
ty prime minister, announced
to more than 400 newsmen to-
day that Britain will support
Russia's demand for hree
votes in the assembly Of the
proposed world organization.
Molotov were broadened last
night to include Chinese Foreign
Minister T. v. Soong.
See CONFERENCE.-THE z
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SanorHos Complaint
He Missed Okinowo!

Navy who made all of the Pacific inyasions
from the Marsha to Two Jima is home his
plant being that he missed the Oknawa drive
THAT really hurts after leading up whole wear
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HOPES of wor/dHdng
on Frisco PdrIey

WASHINGTON. April "a - (AP) - Big Four foreign minis
ters flew west the United Nations Conference today.
Three with them the delicate Polish
after two nights and day of
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-24

sultation here.
The talks among Secretary of
State Stettinius, British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and
Soviet Foreign Commissar v. M.
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Forces 10 Join
Within Hours
Reports Say
Simultaneous
Announcements
Anticipated

AkMI IN SEkMANV, April
"a - tAP) The Russions
may effect juneture todoy
with eoserly voting American
troops, a Soviet tankmon hint
ed in field radio conversations
with doughboys on this front
yesterday.
Supre Headquarters in
Paris has said that first an
nouncement of juncture will
be made by the chiefs of state
in Washington, London and
Moscow.)
Staff Sgt. Alexander J. Batter,
Russian-born American tank
man from Pittsburgh, Pa, who
speaks both Russian and Ger
man, heard the Soviet soldier
saw.
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GAY GREETINGS

Cheerful greetings to our
American comrades. God be
with you. Greetings and health
to our allied friends. Wait where
you are. Hold your patience. We
See JUNCTURE-Page 2
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NJ onitor-l Office
MONlTOR-LEADER ULDN.
CaSo at Walnut
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

BREAD'N BLUE BONNET for
a hungry pair-and watch il
disappear! BLUE BONNET's
fresh, Sweet flavor tastes
mighty good TO youngsters
ere,JbodyiMake this convinc-
ing test. Try BLUE BONNET
on hot foods. Even when half
melted, il still has the same
fine, delicate flavor. And heat,
as you know, is the hardest
test Of any spread for bread.
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Noyes Finds Po Brideeheod
'Swurminq' With MenF FromD.C,

idea. 1t was not so obvious yester-
day. Germans were waiting, and
met the first few waves of our in
fantry with a barrage which was
worse than anything encountered at
Anzio, in the opinion of people who
ought to know. They threw mortar,
artillery and depressed antiaircraft
fire timed to burst few feet off the
ground. A lot of people were hurt.
But the boys went over and took
their initial objectives, and by 6 in
the evening they held larger area.
At that time they met and beat off
the. first and only real German
counterattack to develop so far. BY
noon today, when I got up my nerve
to 60 across they had pushed in fur
ther on a wider front.
I did not see the barrage which
met the original crossing. But GO
ing over today I got a good idea
of what it was like. just, as our
jeep reached the rivers edge, the
(See MOVES, Page, A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Allied Armies
In Great.Driive
To Ring Munich
Devers' Troops May
Have Already Gone
Into Nuzi Redoubt
MAP on Page Az
By the Associated Press.

i1S INC hSSpCldltu
PARIS, April 25.-The Ameri-
can Sd Army today reached the
Danube and moved within 80
miles of Berchtesgaden, while
two other Allied armies, assault
ing Hitler's final Alpine redoubt,
crashed forward in a great ma
neuver to enclrcle Munich, great
est of South German cities.
British in the north stormed
Bremen, while armies in the center
awaited junction with the Rus
slams, possibly today.
The American 7th and French
lst Armies are exploiting their Dan
ube bridgeheads in drives to the
Swiss and Austrian borders with
the encirclement of Munich shap-
ing up steadily an Associated Press
correspondent reported from Gen.
Jacobs l.. Devers' 9th Army Group
headquarters.
The vaguely defined redoubt in
the south perhaps has been invaded
already by Gen. Devers' troops
which have outfanked Lake Con-
stance, its western limit.
Oberbalzheim Captured.
The Tiger doth Armored) Divi-
sion of the 7th Army captured Ober-
balzheim, 81 miles southwest of
Munich and 81 miles from the
Brenner Pass into Italy. Other 7th
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Army Makes Plans to Release
MANY in Service 4 to 5 Years

midyear, even should German re-
sistance persist.
However, military sources for this
forecast added a cautiopary note:
We'll try to declare four and five
year-olds out, but some are bound
to be disappointed.
even a unit as small as a battery
may have men who would be en-
titled to release but could not be
spared. Some of these veterans are
almost certain to be held in service"
The size of draft calls beyond
June has not been disclosed, nor
has the Army revealed whether its
quota will be smaller Immediately
after We day.
In both cases, however, a prin-
cipal determining factor probably
will be the number of long-term
veterans released and the extent
Of discharges for other reasons
under the Army's point system.
Army draft calls now are run
ming at about 100000 men a month
(See DISCHARGES, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1945-04-25

Army troops were only 46 miles from
Munich-capital of the Nazi party
and third largest city in Germany
on the north.
All three armies were rolling with
unchecked power through foothills
of the Alps through terrain 1000 or
more feet high
1t. Gen. George Patton's Sd
Army reached Regen, 80 miles from
Austria and 1913 miles from Russian
lines in the st. Polten area west of
Vienna. Both armies are in the
Danube Valley, good tank country.
A junction of these forces would
encircle all the unconquered Bo-
hemian and Moravian portions of
Czechoslovakia which Bismarck said
was the key to the control of Europe.
In the north, the British, be-
sides storming Bremen, tightened
the siege of Hamburg and bombed
troop trains pulling into Denmark.
Many Germans Surrender.
A headquarters statement said:
"The German Army has ceased to
exist as an integrated fighting
force" Gen. Omar Bradley's 18th
Army Group headquarters said that
in two significant instances Ger
man officers recently told their
troops from now on, it is every
man for himself"
In the narrow corridor east of
Leipzig between the Russians and
Gen. Bradleys troops, many Ger
mans came voluntarily to surrender
to Americans-l,50 500 at one place
alone.
Gen. Patton's Sd Army laid siege
to Regensburg from positions mile
Evening star., 1945-04-25
French Prepare Cell
For Petain in Fort
In Suburbs Of Paris
Agency Reports Marshal
Crossed Frontier From
Switzerland Are Denied
B, the Associated Press.

PARIS, April 25.-A cell in an
unidentified fortress near Paris
was prepared today for Marshal
Petain as a precaution against
disorders when the aged hero of
Verdun and head of the Vichy
government is returned here to
stand trial on charges of high
treason.
Justice Minister Francois de
Mention said Petain had not yet
entered France, denying a French
press agency report that the mar
shall and his party crossed the Swiss
frontier near Geneva this morning
An almost complete news blackout
has been thrown over details of the
marshars return in official French
circles,
On arrival, however, Petain will
be held under heavy guard at the
fortress in the Paris suburbs. Like
any other man accused of major
crime in France, he will be denied
any visitors except defense counsel
There was every indication that
France already had been torn apart
by the dramatic arrival at the Swiss
frontier yesterday of the marshal
In the provinces there are count
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Yank Stab Threatens
Japs' Eastern Flank
In Southern 0kinawa
Seizing Of High Ground
Marks First Change in
Front Since Thursday
y the Associated Press.

IL inc hseOSIdttu FItSS.
GUAM, April Is. - American
7th Division infantrymen, seiz-
ing high ground near the village
of Ishin, today threatened the
eastern flank of the strongly for
titled Japanese defense walk on
Southern Okinawa.
Capture of the elevation was the
first marked change in the fiery
front since the beginning of the all
out attack last Thursday, when
three divisions of Maj. Gen. John r.
Hodges oath Army Corps gained up
to 800 yards.
Since then the fighting has been
a slow, bloody and methodical job
of digging the japanese from caves,
blockhouses and pillboxes in their
elaborate interlocking defense belt
which extends 4 miles south to the
capital city of Naha.
Three More Isles Invaded.
Marines of Maj. Gen. Roy s.
Geiger's Sd Amphibious Corps, who
overran the northern three-fourths
of Okinawa with little opposition,
landed yesterday on three more of. :
shore islands, Yagachi, Heanza and
Kouri. virtually completing the
American cleanup of islets around
Okinawa
Yagachi and Kouri are north Of
the Motobu peninsula, which juts
off the northwestern coast of Oki-
nawa. Heanza is of the Katchin
peninsula, on the west coast. Only
on Yagachi was any opposition en-
countered. This was feeble and
quickly dissipated
Unlike the larger islands of Ie and
the Keramas, these small islands are
worthless as such, but must be occu-
pied to prevent japanese Okinawa
fugitives from reaching them.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz's COM
munique today reported continued
heavy fighting along the entire
front. Big guns of battleships.
cruisers and destroyers poured hun
dreds of tons of shells into the
enemy defenses, sealing off caves
and destroying emplacements.
Nimitz Inspects Island.
Admiral Nimitz, after a personal
inspection of the island, said the
enemy's defenses on Southern
Okinawa, where the bulk of the
Japanese garrison of $4,000 or more
has concentrated, appeared to be
las strong, and perhaps stronger,
than any we have tackled before. F"
Engineers studied Northern and
Central Okinawa in preparation to
starting work which will develop the
Ryukyu Island into a powerful air
base for attacks on the Japanese
homeland, 325 miles to the north.
Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner
aboard his flagship predicted today
that Okinawa- -based planes would be
(See OKINAWA, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Overseas Edition
Strictly Limited

Additional paper is not avail
able to increase the present
edition of $1,000 copies of the
overseas edition of The Star.
It Is probable that the supply
at The Star Office will be ex-
hausted this evening. Copies
will still be available at Victory
Bond booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store.
Evening star., 1945-04-25
More Showers Forecast,
With Mild Temperatures

Occasional showers this afternoon,
tonight and tomorrow are forecast
by the Weather Bureau. Tempera-
lures will continue mild, however,
with high near 10 this afternoon.
The minimum this morning was SO
at o'clock.
Air travel was interrupted for
several hours during the night when
the National Airport was closed in
by fog and rain, but schedules we're
resumed early today.
Rainfall during the "a hours end
ing at $3.50 am. totaled Is inch
Unsettled weather with occasional
showers will continue tonight and
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1945-04-25
BY NEWBOLD MOVES, Jr.,
Star War CORRESPONDENT.

BOLOGNA, April "a Delayed -
I have just come back from an
American bridgehead on the north
bank of the Pc River. Troops over
there say they are not coming back
that they are across to stay. I
have seen enough to convince me
that they are right.
Where I was, substantial, num-
ber of troops were on the bridge
head by noon today. The initial
crossing was made here at noon
yesterday.
The bridgehead was quiet while
I was there. 1t has not, however,
been quiet operation. When the
boys took to their assault boats yes
terday they had no air support.
There was no time to wait for ar
tillery to soften up the Germans.
The idea was to get going before
the enemy got set.
Today it looks as If 1t was good
Evening star., 1945-04-25
SENATE AMENDS DRAFT law to
specify training period for 49,
year-olds. Page AS

By the Associated Press.
The Army this summer plans to
start releasing some men who will
have been in uniform four to five
years.
The release policy, which may
preclude any marked cut in draft
calls after June 80, was disclosed in
official but publicity-shy quarters
today. The Army yesterday formal
ly announced plans to honor dis
charge requests of enlisted men a
and over.
BY next month a considerable
number of Uncle Sans emergency
soldiers" will have spent five years
in the service. Vigorous recruiting
began in May 1910, and Selective
Service began drafting in November
of that year.
The policy of discharging veterans
OF four and five years service is
expected to get underway around
Evening star., 1945-04-25
HimmIer 'Brother-in-Law'
Captured by Yanks
By the Associs ted Press.

bS llft ASSOC1G leu fIeSS.
WITH THE UNITED STATES
9th ARMY, Germany, April "a (De-
layeO "A captured Nazi general
who said he was a brother-in-law
of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler
told his 9th Armored Division cap
tors today that neither the Nazi
party nor the German Army would
make peace and that only an Allied
proclamation could end the war in
Europe.
The captive is Brig. Gen. Heinz
Kokott, commanding the 26th Volks-
grenadier Division. He was taken
three days ago in the Harz Noun
tains. An extreme Nazi type, he
said Himmler himself had been in
the Harz Mountains April 10, but
escaped.
Dispatches from Paris said Ameri-
can and French forces seized II
German generals today. Among
those recently captured were 1t.
Gen. Bernard Won Claer, who COM
manded the Liege garrison In Bel
gium in 1912; 1t. Gen. Oberhausser,
chief signal officer in the west un-
der Marshal Kesselring, and four
star Gen. Helmut Thumm, COM
mander Of Nazi troops in the battle
of the Colmar pocket last fall.
Evening star., 1945-04-25
BuchenwoId Atrocities
Inspected by BorkIey
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TWELFTH ARMY GROUP HEAD
QUARTERS, April 25.-Senate Ma
y1ority Leader Barley, back from
visiting the infamous Buchenwald
concentration camp, joined other
members of a congressional investi-
eating committee today in express
ing a desire to see other camps for
comparison.
Senator Barkley said his congress
sional group had agreed not to COM
ment publicly on the inspection un-
til the return to Washington. He
also expressed desire to fly over
j, Holland and Belgium, if possible
making some stops, to determine
wherever he could the gravity of the
food situation.
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Anocostia Bank Box Is Looted
Of SIS 900; 3 Pin Boys Held
Free Spending by Youths, IS and Is,
Gave Clue; 81 700 and 2 Cors Recovered

A $4,000 burglary at the Ana
costa Bank was revealed today
with the arrest of three colored
pinsetters from a bowling alley
next door. who, police said, had
purchased two automobiles and
distributed money freely to their
friends from the proceeds.
The money was taken Saturday
night from the night deposit box
inside the bank by the trio who had
entered through a skylight in the
roof, police said. Capt. Clyde N.
Strange. assistant chief of detec-
tives, said neither the skylight nor
the inside catch on the deposit box
had been locked.
More than $1,700 of the loot and