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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

MO ONE said ANYTHING mo-
~ mentous the first few days.
Mr.. Truman specifically avoided
a tone of gravity or welghtlness
IN his message.
He Just went whole-hog, as
they would say in Missouri, for
the Roosevelt program. This
could have been z shock 10 some
people. but not 10 any reader OF
This column (see first two col
umns on Mr.. Truman when he
assumed office, saying ne would
do just this).
THIS session heTaldS the Go
L moving in for the payoff on
the last election, now that
peace has returned.
1t includes the full employ
ment plan, increased unemploy-
ment insurance, increase OF
minimum wage from 40 cents 10
so cents an hour. no unions
busting ng-legiSlation" "-taS Mr..
Truman said, expanded social
security. one-man management
of surplus property Roosevelt
ideal. no tax reduction, con-
tinued spending, fair employ
ment practices, anti-lynching
and anti-poll tax-and nothing
else except Pearl Harbor IN
VeStigatlon.
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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

sailor. Based HpOn n tradition Of his
toricaI trait. as against fanaticism of am
enemy supported only by NEUROLOGICAL
fiction. their spiritual strength and power
has brought us through Ia victory. They
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

cAnd so. my fellow cOuntrymen. to-
daN 1 report Ia NOu that NOur SONS and
daughters have served NOu well and faith
fully with the calm. deliberate. determined
fighting spirit of the American soldier and
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

are hOmeward bOund-take care Of them.''
General Douglas Macarthur. in speech
10 people Of the United States. fOIIOIUing
Japanese surrender aboard the USS Mis-
souri,. SpPfenb Der 2. 1915.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
Peace Farley
In Deadlock,
Row Is Seen
Russian Minister Assures
Public OF Solution On
Polish Problem

SAN FRANCISCO, April 26-tP
Russian Commissar Molotoy
catapulted the World Security Con-
ference into a tight deadlock to-
day b. blocking the election Of
Secretary of State Stettinius to its
Craftsmanship.
The stolid Russian also rejected
British compromise.
What was to have been a rou.
tine, initial business meeting Of
chiefs of delegations broke off
abruptly, it's tasks far from corl-
plete, its participants stunned and
amazed at prospects of another
Big-Three row.
After setting off his explosion,
Molotov proceeded calmly into a
news conference to give public
assurances of an eventual solution
to controversy already flaming
among Russia, Britain and the
United States-over a knotty Po-
lish problem.
And from here, he moved or to
the conferences first plenary ses-
sion to pledge full cooperation,
Russia's 'inhexible" support, in
erecting a new and powerful peace
keeping organization.
According to customary proce.
dure at international gatherings,
this was the session which would
have ratified the Steering Commit
tees selection Of the leader Of
the host nations delegation as per.
manent chairman or president.
That was what Britain's Anthony
Eden had proposed at this morn
ing's Steering Committee meeting
And that was what Molotov block
ed, along with a British compro
mise of four rotating chairmen.
Delegates had no ready reason
for Molotov's action. They thought
perhaps Russia regarded the chair
manship question of such import
ance that the foreign commissa1
was sparring for time in which tt
consult Moscow.
In the light of what happened
at the Steering Committee meet
ing, many in the ,assemblage al
the late afternoon plenary session
waited impatiently for TRANSACTIONS
of Molotov's address. He didn't
mention the morning activities.
Bespectacled, balding, dressed il
blue, Molotov asserted:
IT should like to assure the con
ference our country is devoted tt
the cause of setting up an organi
zation to protect the peace. l wish
you to know that the Soviet Unior
can be relied upon to protect the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
Former French Chief
Surrenders To Await
High Treason Trial

PARIS, April &c. Up Marshal
Philippe Petain surrendered to
French officials at the Swiss Dor.
der today to await trial in France
on charge of high treason, for
which his scheduled prosecutor an
nounced he would ask sentence
of death-with clemency.
The 89-year-old former Vichy
Chief of State was met at the
frontier by 1t. Gen. Joseph Pierre
Koenig, commander of the French
forces of the interior at the time
of the Normandy invasion and be-
fore. Petain extended his hand, but
Koenig did not respond.
The commissar of Dion and a
French guard of 80 men also were
present at the frontier station OF
Valorbe to form an escort for the
aged marshal and his wife, who
proceeded by automobile to Les
observation-disclosures and there board
ed a special train for Paris. He
is expected in Paris before dawn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
OPINION IS VAGUE
ON PEACE FARLEY
Local Citizens Express
Vague View On World
Plan For Security

After many days of extensive
Associated Press and United Press
coverage on the preliminaries and
the opening of the United Nations
Conference at San Francisco, a
Star-News reporter last night at
tempted to gain a cross section
of local opinion on the work now
under way at the Golden Gate.
The results of the survey need no
comment.
A single question, "do you know
the purpose of the San Francisco
Peace Conference, was asked.
1.-THE San Francisco Peace Con-
ference?" asked a somewhat be-
wildered restaurant op r a!tor
"Don't know anything about it,, ne
continued and went on with his
work.
A well-known public official an
swered: "It seems to me that 1t $
a meeting to prevent future wars.
When asked if he though 1t was
a conference to settle the peace
terms of this war, he replied, no,
it seems that the idea is to seek
a solution to preventing future
wars"
A former Newspaper m n S
opinion was sought. He was scan
ming a newspaper and said, y
was lust reading about it here. l
guess it's to settle the peace terms
Of this war but it also seems that
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
0KINAWA HEIGHTS
TAKEN BY YANKS
Infantrymen Drive Deer
Into Japanese Secon-
dairy Defenses

GUAM, Friday, April 27-tA-In-
fantrymen of Maj. Gen. James L.
Bradley's Goth Division drove a
wedge into the deep Japanese Sec
ondary defenses on southern Okina-
wa yesterday by capturing high
ground in the center of the line.
The heights, just east Of Urasoe
Muar village, were won in an
attack which followed a general
Japanese withdrawal under heavy
artillery Smelling.
Fleet warships, meantime, con-
tinued their close fire support,
knocking out numerous enemy ar
tillery batteries, gun emplacements
and defense installations.
Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, COM
mander of the Oath Army Corps
which includes the Seventh, 9th
and Goth Divisions-reported all key
features of the outer Japanese de-
tense line now secured by the
Yanks in the eighth dayo t their
grand offensive toward Naha. the
capital city, about three and one
half miles to the south.
Hodge said the Americans con-
troll skyline ridge" across the
Ryukyu island, 1925 miles south Of
Japan itself.
A Tenth Army spokesman said
the 7th, 9th and 96th Divisions had
driven the Japanese from all key
positions in their first heavily for
titled defense zone.
eve are now only a few hun
dred yards from the next Jap stone
lCOntinued on Page I've: Col. y
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'utbacks In Munitions
IN Home-Stretch Drive
Are Announced By WPB

r0 WASHINGTON, April 2s. -(R,-
no me War Production Board an
cl,thae1 tonight that the "VE-Day"
sts ruscks IN munitions already have
stro4d revealed also that the home.
srha 'Sn armament drive topped its
time. i'ioiith Tor the first
20 O t'l1t in war industry will
y " ' INSERTION from now on, the month Mil-
evea production communique said.
fro WI as the war continues on two
draft 's use. OF the cutbacks, the
inS,,s. drain on essential men in
eva rS'ly will have ended shortly
sai tn without regard to vE-Dav :,
G CO p. !he report prepared by H.
tion n'VcAeller, WFB chief of ooera-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
Is Reported
Captured By Patriots

berto Farinacci, former Fascist
party general secretary, were at
a monastery at Como, east of Lake
Maggiore, where they were recog-
nized by the local population.
(The Office of War Information,
reporting the Swiss agency dis
patch, said it quoted reliable sour
cess on his capture at Pallanza)
Mussolini was said to have fled
northward from Milan, now re-
portedly in the hands of Italian
patriots, the Swiss reports said.
Radio Rome said that he went
from Milan to Conf, where he and
Farinacci sought shelter at mon
astery.
It was assumed that Mussolini
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and 40 guns and destroyed nearly
1000 vehicles as it swept up to the
Adige river in the last "a hours.
GA partisan-controlled radio in
Milan reported tonight that the Ital-
ian liberation committee had taken
over the administration of the
whole Of northern Italy, said
British broadcast recorded by CHS.
(Ihe Swiss Telegraph Agency re-
ceived reports from reliable sour
ces' that Benito Mussolini, who
on Wednesday was reported flee
ing from his villa near Milan, had
been captured by Italian patriots
in the. town of Pallanza on the
western schore of Lake Maggiore.)
Fifth Army forces smashed
through the Nazis' formidable
Adige defense line near Verona,
and a terse Allied communique
said armored units driving up the
western shore of Lake Maggiore. }
ward Genoa" against heavy fire
from mobile and coast defense
guns.
Radio reports indicated that Ita1-
ian patriot forces were Selling con-
troll Of all the major cities of north
ern Italy, including Verona, with
the Nazi garrisons either fleeing
or surrendering. The great centers
of Milan, Turin, Genoa and many
smaller places were reported in
patriot hands or on the point of
succumbing.
The Rome radio declared that
''the insurrection in northern Italy
is sweeping away all German re-
sistance."
A Genoa station describing it.
self as the ''voice of the committee
of national liberation" announced
that the Nazi garrison of the port
laid down it's arms at 9 am. today.
A patriot-controlled Milan station
said partisans were fighting the
Fascist ''black brigade" through
the streets of that city of Ills, 900
population.
An Associated Press Correspon-
dent abroad an American bomber
said he cruised as far north as
Verona without seeing any sign of
fighting and that the Pc valley was
"a scene of utter peace" He saw
American tanks roaring northward
between Namtova and Verona.
Headquarters announced that a
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
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committee. Their JOB was TO SET
up an organization for operating
this conference intended to build
world organization to keep peace.
AS temporary chairman, Stettin-
ius called the meeting to order
as chief delegate of the nation
the United States-which is host
to the conference, it was the Gus
tom of long diplomatic practice
Stettinius Immediately be acclaim
ed permanent chairman.
Britain's Anthony Eden, an old
hand at international conferences,
offered what he thought was a
routine motion. He proposed that
as their first official act, the dele
gates name Stettinius to preside
over this conference in Americas
San Francisco.
Then Molotov spoke up. Less than
two weeks ago he was not even
a conference delegate. Marshal
Continued on Page Nine; Col. s.
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WASHINGTON, April 26. -(R)-
Henry A. Wallace's 1913 presiden-
tial stock slump today as Penn
sylvania's Democratic leadership
hitched up a bandwagon for Presi-
dent Truman's election to a full
term.
The action put into the Truman
1948 camp two Of Wailace's fore
most supporters for the Vice Pres
idential nomination at Chicago last
summer. Senator Joseph F. CUT
fey and his sister, Mrs. Emma
Guffey Miller, Democratic nation
al committeewoman.
News that the Pennsylvanians
had pledged Truman their support
during. a White House call this
morning was revealed under re-
porters' questions,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27

LONDON, April 26.-W.H-Benito
Mussolini, Fascist dictator who led
Italy into a war that brought her
disaster, has fallen into the hands
Of Italian patriots as he attempted
to flee from Allied armies and
anti-Fascist risings in north Italy,
unconfirmed Swiss reports said
tonight.
The Swiss telegraph agency said
patriots found Mussolini in the
town of Pallanza on the west shore
of Lake Maggiore. The lake lies
near the Swiss border north OF
Milan.
The report was not confirmed by
ether sources. No authoritative Al
lied source has announced Musso-
lini in custody. Radio Rome late
this evening said that he and Ro-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
U.S.. Jeeps Run At WILL
Free so, 900 Prisoners

them were 267 Americans. This
camp was built by the Germans in
1941 for French prisoners and
there still are thousands of them
there.
American boys told me they
had been shuttled from place to
place to keep them from falling
into our hands as we advanced,
and that this was the fifth camp
they had been in.
"Their guards pulled out four
nights before, leaving them to
shift for themselves.
We also overran camp which
Allied prisoners themselves said
contained 10000 men, of whom
about 5000 were Americans. We
didn't have time to count them.
''In this camp there were some
5000 ambulance cases, most OF
them suffering from malnutritlon. -
,''In another German hospital we
found 1000 wounded-haf OF whom
were Germans suffering from bull
let wounds" Craig continued
There were only five Americans
here. One was a lieutenant OF the
Second Infantry Division captured
only three nights ago.
1--WE found that almost all doc
tors and nurses in German hos
pitfalls were carrying weapons and
we disarmed all we ran across, -
he said. The German medical per.
sonnet said they were afraid that
the advancing Soviet troops would
massacre them and the Nazi pa
tients.
Continued on Page Nine; Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
United States Lines
To Buy 10 CO Ships
Built By Local Yard

WASHINGTON, April rs IN
The United State Limits Co., has
arranged for the purchase Of 10 CO
cargo ships, the Maritime Commits
sion announced today.
The 459-foot, Is, IL knot, vessels
will be built by the North Carolina
Shipbuilding Co., yard at Whining
ton, N. c. No additional construc-
ton is involved, however. since the
ships already are on order for the
Commission account.
The company will receive a con-
struction parity payment of about
81, 400, 900 for each ship. This is i'll
tended to offset higher United
States labor and material costs.
The 10 vessels will cost in the
neighborhood of $53, $50, 600.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27

WITH THE 69TH INFANTRY d.
VISION BEYOND MULDE RIVER,
April 26-tR-A jeep patrol rum
ming at will through disorganized
German lines overran II Allied
prisoner of war camps and hos
pitfalls today and reported that in
two camps alone were more than
$4,000 freed prisoners, including
5000 Americans.
The U. S. First Army patrol,
disarming whole columns of Ger
mans marching toward the Amer
lean lines, pressed on to town
where they found the bodies of two
Russian Cossacks who had been
killed in a small-scale patrol action
only a few hours before.
The liberated Allied prisoners of
war were so numerous that the
small patrol told them to stay
where they were while plans were
made to bring them out.
Il can't even estimate how
many were in other camps" said
Maj. Fred Craig, Friendship,
Tenn, on his return from pa
troll beyond the Nude toward the
Russian lines along the Elbe.
''But everywhere we went pri-
soners went wild with Joy to see
U.S."
Because of a news blackout on
the positions of American and Rus
sian lines converging in the mar
row corridor between the Nude
and Elbe rivers, it was impossible
to give the exact location of the
camps.
I'm one camp" said Craig, we
found 20,112 prisoners, and among
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
Quaker Democrats Set
For Full Truman Term

It was not made in the fashion
which announcements of that type
usually follow. The group did not
come out of Presidents office. ana
sa,J we're for Truman in 1948."
Instead, S tate Democratic
Chairman David L. Lawrence, ap-
pointed spokesman for the dele
cation, started off with:
1--WE came down here to pledge
our support to the President"
Republicans as well as Demo-
Gratis have pledged their support
to the President" on current pro-
blems of war and peace. The re-
porters pursued the pledge furth-
er.
Continued on Page Nine; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
Soviet Army
Drives Into
Stettin Port
Russian Bridgehead Across
EIbe River Nears
Americans

LONDON, Friday, April 27.-R
Soviet armies conquered almost
two-thirds of Berlin's pulverized
and burning ruins yesterday, seized
4he great German Baltic naval
base of Stettin and extended their
bridgehead across the ,Elbe river
II miles from the American First
Army. As the Russians began to
forge an inner ring of enlightenment
within the smoke blanketed and en-
cjrcled German capital, infantry
and cavalry of a fourth great Rus
sian army toppled the huge arrna-
ment city of Bruenn tBrno), Sec
ond largest city of Czechoslovakia
and one of Hitler's last remaining
war production centers.
Berlin's deadly street battles
paled bitter fighting in another
German fortress city. Far behind
the lines, Soviet troops battled in
to the western streets of the long
besieged Lower Silesian capital of
Breslau, occupying rs blocks and
several factory districts.
As the world waited for a three
power announcement that Red
Army and American forces had
linked up, Moscow and Berlin re-
ports indicated that two historic
meetings were imminent.
West of Berlin, by German &C.
count, Marshal Gregory K. Zhu-
kov's First White Russian Army
yesterday raced % miles west
ward, by-passing the city of Brand
enburg, to reach a point only IA IL
miles from the American Ninth
Army on the middle Elbe.
The enemy high command said
Zhukov's troops had reached the
Rathenow area near Ninth Army
lines on the Elbe and Ninth Army
front reports said Soviet shells
were falling few miles from
Yank lines.
Southwest of Berlin another juno
ton neared--if, in fact it had not al.
ready occurred. Here, Marshal Ivan
S. Konev's First Ukrainian Army
extended bridgeheads on the Elbe' S
west bank and seized Strehla ano
Rlesa only II miles from the
American First Army on the Nude
river. But First Army dispatches
SAID American patrols had struck
oeep INTO the narrow corridor be-
tween the Elbe and the Nude, and
'he Swiss radio said link-up along
many-mile front had taken place
Yesterday afternoon.
The fanatical Nazi defenders,
throwing women and children into
,he death struggle, were stubborn
~ defending the German capital as
street s;l,e battles roared through thei1
SKIN day under relentless Russian
'i1nefy and aerial bombardment
7, nuV assault teams of Marshal
z1iltt army's COMPRISING a
b lnsa' ~ band of steel around per.
n nos ooo'OO0 trapped Nazi soldiers
trip1 the northwestern indus.
slemenstadt. ''-e0 '''o
NOV ' .ne same time, Konev's tank.
str ,m nolled into the desolate rubble
ua osml streets of Dahlem in south.
s sestefh Berlin and as the two
.oI 4LeS drove from the north anc
hvr '~ INTO fashionable Charlotten
mile s. WIN only a four and a hal
waSto gap between them. the grea-
'eiil suburbs of Spandau anc
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GermanRadioAnnounces
Goering Quits As Chief

LONDON, April 90 up The
German Hamburg radio announc-
ed tonight that Reichsmarshall
Hermann Goering had resigned as
head of the dying Nazi air force
because of an "acute" heart illness,
while a high ranking German gen.
eral staff member captured by the
Americans predicted that Adolf Hit
Ter would die with his troops in
encircled Berlin.
The captured German general
unidentified in a U. S. Ninth Army
front dispatch but termed 'inter-
nationally known and one Of the
best informed members of the Ger
man general staff''-predicted the
war would end within a few days
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and said that Goering probably al
ready had been executed.
The Hamburg station said that
portly Goe1ing, whose proud air.
force has been blasted almost to
extinction, had been succeeded by
Gen. Ritter Won Grein who was
made a marshal. The text of the
announcement:
"Reichsmarshal Goering who
has been suffering from heart
trouble for some time and whose
condition has become acute has
asked the Fuehrer to be relieved
OF his command as chief of the
Luftwaffe at a time whe his
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
YANKS NEARING
GULF OF DAVA0
Other Forces Maintain
Pressure On Jap-Held
Baguio

MANILA, Friday, April 27.-R
-Twenty-fourth Division infantry
men under Maj. Gen. Woodruff
gained IL miles across southern
Mindanao Wednesday to approach
within 20 miles of Davao gulf.
When the Yanks reach the gulf
they will be only Is road miles
south of prime target in the
Philippines, the excellent hemp
port of Davao.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique today also reported the
33rd Division maintained its pres
sure on Baguio, the Philippine sum-
mer capital on northern Luzon,
while bombers and fighters drop
Continued on Pare Two; Col. A.
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prisoners were being rounded up
by the thousands. A captured Ger
man corps commander, Gen. Won
Schwerin, who was taken by the
British Eighth Army, said II know
the situation for German soldiers
in north Italy is HOPELESS"
The total of prisoners bagged
by the two Allied armies since
they opened their about offensive
scared well past $4,000. The Eighth
Army alone seized 20 enemy tanks
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
Patton's Tanks Eight Miles From Austria
Reds Conquz Two Thirds OF Nazi Capital
Molotov Blocks Stettinius' Chairmanshir
b. S. Fifth SEXES Verona,
Sealing Off Bremen Pass
Patriots Reported Capturing All Major Cies Armies South
Of Alps Appear Disorganized Mussolini Reported
Fleeing Villa Near Milan

ROME, April 26-RHThe U. S..
Fifth Army captured the railway
center of Verona in lightning 20
mile stab today, virtually sealing
off the Bremen pass escape route
of German troops in Italy, and
Swiss reports said patriots were
Selling control of all major cities
in northern Italy including Milan,
Turin and Genoa.
Nazi armies south of the Alps ap-
peared entirely disorganiZed and
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
Witness Describes Shock
OuerMolotou Objection
BY EWALDO CASTRO
Associated Press World Service Writer

SAN FRANCISCO April 26LIere the inside story of how
United Nations Conference
today by blocking the Secretary State Senus
permanent chairman
I obtained account from who there
delegations of 46 United Nations assembled in the
building They steering
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LONDON, April 26-tP-Ths
Swiss radio said tonight that
= "linkup" between the Amer
leans and Russians in the Elbs
region took place this after
noon on front of many
miles,"
There was no confirms ton
from Allied sources.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
FORECAST

Fair and cooler today.
Yesterdays temperature:
High 81 Low, IS.