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Evening star., 1945-04-27
Russian Storm Units
Find Heart Of Berlin
Is Like Junk Heap
BY EDDY GILMORE,
Associated Press War Correspondent,

MOSCOW, April 27.-Russian
storm units, breaking into the
center Of Berlin under clouds of
rolling smoke, found it looking more
like gigantic junk heap today than
the heart OF the capital of the Third
Reich.
Izvestia Correspondent Vsevolod
Ivanov quoted Red Army officer
from Stalingrad as saying: You
can't recognize Berlin. Not that l
was here before, but if this is the
center there should be some build
ings."
Fighting also broke out afresh in
the subways under the city, said
Capt. Edward Gekhman, a corre-
spondent for the Army newspaper
Red Star. He said struggles also
ragged high above the ground lin the
corridors, on the staircases and even
in the attics and on the roofs of
the bigger buildings" and added:
The situation on the Berlin front
appears in ofIicial dispatches like
this-'the infantry has gained
Square No. 281. The enemy con-
tinues to resist in the upper floors of
the square. Between Square 306 and
274 in subway. tunnel we have
gained about half kilometer (one-
third Of a mile).'"
Germans Pale and Silent.
Ivanov said that two great
streams Of people are seen in the
streets Of Berlin. One is going into
Berlin and the other is coming out.
The ones from Berlin are liberated
people. On the other side of the
road are Germans, pale, grim, fright
ened and silent, returning to the
city"
The Izvestia correspondent asked
commander why Soviet forces
penetrated forward without clean
ing all the blocks.
1T is difficult situation" the
commander replied. 1T is not difii-
cult to blow up those upper floors.
I have got the ammunition and
explosives, but have information
that the Germans are holding
hostages there, Ukrainians and
White Russians. We can't destroy
our own people. Another thing.
there are all sorts of German arms
bearers in these houses. There are
policemen, flremen and school
teachers. They don't know how to
fight and often when the front
line has passed them by they put
up white flag"
Evening star., 1945-04-27
Soviet Forces Joined
Another Western Ally
Al Torgau in 1851
B, the Associated Fress.

~ tAe AoSOClAtcu 1IcSS.
Torgau, site of the Russian
American meeting, lies on the west
bank of the Elbe River, 30 miles
northeast of Leipzig and 65 south
west of Berlin. in a fat region
marked by a few low hills.
1t dates from about 973, and has
been important since its early times
as convenient crossing of the Elbe
Its normal population Is $4,000.
There, nearly two centuries ago
In 176l-Russians met another
Western ally, the Austrians. to resist
Frederick the Great of Prussia, in
the Seven Years War. Frederick
had defeated the Austrians at Tor
gau a year earlier.
A castle built in 1888 on an island
In the Elbe at Torgau once was the
residence of the electors of Saxony
At Torgau also is the so-called pal
ace church dedicated by Martin
Luther in 1874 and reportedly the
first Protestant church.
In 1926 group of Protestant
princes at Torgau formed a league
to counteract opposition to the
spread of religious reforms, and
Luther and his associates met in the
town In 1880 and drew up the ar
ticles which formed the basis of the
confession of Augsburg.
A rail and road hub, Torgau also
was a center of barge trafiic and
two bridges spanned the Elbe there.
Torgau has changed hands sew
eral times during its history. 1t was
yielded to the Swedes In 1915.
French troops captured 1t in 1919.
Evening star., 1945-04-27
Rocket Firing Plane,
Blast Nazi EffoIf 10
Reinforce Hamburg
BY the Associa ted press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April T.-An attempt
by the Germans to reinforce their
garrison at Hamburg from the sea
was broken up late yesterday by
rocket firing Typhoons Of the Raj.
Just before dusk, the Nazis sped
several heavily laden barges into the
port and started unloading them. A
reconnaissance pilot reported the ac-
tivity, two attacks were made and 4
number OF barges was sunk. Many
explosions indicated the craft may
have carried ammunition.
/ The Germans were fighting bitter
ly in the defense of Hamburg not
only to hold the port, but to keep
open the escape highways to Dem
mark. Signs of a general movement
north toward the Danish frontier
were reported by Allied flyers. Be-
tween Is and 100 vehicles were de-
stroyed.
The naval base of Kiel was bombed
last night by Mosquitoes for the sew
enth time in six months. Other
Mosquitoes made sweeps over the re-
naming Nazi airfields in Northern
Germany withou: loss.
Three Beaufighters were missing
from series of attacks on enemy
shipping of the coast Of Southern
Norway yesterday afternoon. Two
large merchant ships were set afire.
Three buildings believed to be
headquarters from which the Ger
mans are directing operations against
the Canadian 1st Army south of
Oldenburg were destroyed or badly
damaged by dive-bombing Spitfires.
Twenty-seven direct bomb hits were
scored on one building.
Evening star., 1945-04-27

Army front was generally weak and
disorganized, but the communique
said there still are strong pockets
fighting rearguard actions in isolated
areas"
On the right flank of the 5th's
front, the 91st Infantry Division
captured Legnago on the Adige
River, % miles southeast of Verona
and Cera, AZ miles west OF Legnago,
against some opposition.
Headquarters disclosed that Rang
er Col. Bill Darby of Fort Smith
Ark, led task force of the 10th
Mountain Division which in q
speedy forced march Wednesday
surprised the enemy at Villafranca
and captured an airport before the
Germans were able to destroy it.
The communique limited its report
on 9th Army activities to the dis
closure thaVthese troops had crossed
the Canale Esianco at several points.
capturing many bridges intact. and
had reached the Adige against mod
crate resistance, including tanks.
Planes flew more than 2,200 sorties
in support of the ground offensive
yesterday. destroyed five enemy
planes in combat and five on the
ground.
Evening star., 1945-04-27
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Evening star., 1945-04-27
5fh Army 5mashes
To Within IS Miles
OF Milan in Drive
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ROME, April 27.-Troops of the
United States 5th Army smashed
to within IS miles or less of Mi
Ian today as the entire Italian
front surged toward a Sealoff of
the Nazis' Alpine redoubt on the
south.
tOn the Ligurian coast in the
west, said a Free Milan" radio
report recorded in London, a
swift Allied advance penetrated
Genoa, a big North Italian port
where Partisans previously had
been reported unofficialy in con-
troll after driving out the Ger
man garrisonD
Swiss dispatches cited mounting
indications that the Nazis were
abandoning Benito MusSolinis s
Blackshirt troops to their fate and
withdrawing rapidly toward the
German border to join in the Ba-
varian death stand.
Mussolini was said to have fed
to a monastery in the border town
of Como, where bitter fighting later
was reported between Partisan and
Fascist forces.
Nondon reported Rome broad
casts said there apparently was
no foundation to reports of Mus
solini's arrest)
Adige River Line Broken.
At captured Verona, where the
Americans broke through the Ger
man Adige River line. the Allies
were about 100 miles from the
Brenner Pass to Austria, now vir-
tually blocked off for the Germans
remaining in Northern Italy. The
5th was some 180 miles from the
western Allied vanguards on the
north side of the Alps.
French forces north of the
Alps were but 78 miles from the
Brenner Pass)
While the British 9th Army con-
solidated positions along the south
ern banks of the Adige, where the
Nazis have been expected to make
some semblance of a stand, a new
thrust was launched from the west.
French forces from the Rivera
lunged across the border into Italy
as far east as Bordighera, on the
Mediterranean miles west of San
Reno. This was 100 or more wind
ing coastal miles from Genoa. i'm
mediate objective of 5th Army
troops surging northwestward on
the Ligurian coast.
A task force of the 10th Mountain
Division, under Col William o.
Darby of Ranger r@nown, had cap
tmed the airport at Villafranca in
tact after speedy forced march,
and 5th Army troops lunged on
toward Genoa.
In the center of the American
front PiacenZa has been overrun
and the Americans rolling west of
Lake Garda were about IS miles
from Milan, another major city
unofIicially reported in control of
Partisans.
Swiss advices said the Germans
apparently made little if any effort
to aid Fascist forces defending
Genoa, Turin and Milan against
the attacks of Italian patriots. Be-
tween the Americans at Verona and
the Brenner Pass columns of trucks
were reported spotted moving north.
A conlmunlque disclosed mopping
activities still were in progress in
Verona and said "our troops en-
countered road-blocks and snipers
in the vicinity of Vigasio"-9 miles
southwest OF Verona. The fail of
Verona was announced last night.
Another German division COM
mander, Maj. Gen. Boehlke of the
334th Infantry, was captured as
the 5th continued to bag large
groups Of prisoners.
Enemy resistance along the 5th
Evening star., 1945-04-27
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Evening star., 1945-04-27
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Evening star., 1945-04-27
500 Leading Nozis Reported
Killed at Berchtesooden

NEW YORK, April q (P.-The
Swedish newspaper Stockholms-Tid-
ningen said in dispatch reported
to the owl yesterday that a total
of 500 leading Nazis are said to have
been killed" in Wednesdays Allied
air raid on Berchtesgaden.
Evening star., 1945-04-27

mans marching toward the Amer
lean lines.
Ferried Across Elbe.
From the United States 9th Army
front, where freed prisoners were
being fcrried across the Elbe, a field
dispatch said an investigation had
disclosed that an American Negro
prisoner Of war was killed in the
mass murder OF 1,100 political pris-
oners In a barn near Gardelegen.
Survivors said he was known only
as John" and had been put among
the political prisoners because he
tried to escape too often.
Evening star., 1945-04-27

Start saving now for your Seventh
War Loan. Boost your payroll de-
ductions for April, May and June
50 that you can buy more War Bonds
and spread 1t over more pay checks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Mazuroski Loses Life In Pacific

Stanley Thomas Mazuroski, wa ter-tender 3/c, was killed in action in the Pacific area, according to a telegram received from the Navy Department by his parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank Mazuroski, 59 Fuller street
 The last letter received by his family from the serviceman was a brief V-letter, extending, which arrived yesterday extending greet ing to his mother in commemora- tion of Mothers Day.
 Entering the service September 21, 1942, the 24-year-old youth trained at Newport, R. l. and was assigned to destroyer three months later He participated 1T the invasion of North Africa, Sicily Normandy and Marseilles. He re- turned to this country On furlough last November and was reassigneo to the Pacific area. He is a for mer employe of the ScoVlll Manu- featuring Co.,, and attended Wllby High schol.
 Survivors include besides his parents, three brothers, Sgt. Edward Mazuroski, now stationed at Camp Fucker, Ala, Rudolph and Anthony both of Waterbury; and four sis ters. Mrs. Nicholas DAngelo, Mrs Raymond Kozen and Sophie and Patricia Mazuroski all of Water bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
George Drew Easy Winner

Toronto, June 5-(UP)-Ontario Premier George Drew and his pro- gressive conservative government were solidly entrenched today fol- lowing an overwhelming victory in yesterdays provincial elections.
 The triumph of the progressive conservatives heightened interest in Canada's federal election next Mon- day. Although Ontario is the strong hold of the middle party, its elec- tors soundly defeated both the lib- eral party, which controlled the last National parliament, and the left wing cooperative commonwealth federation.
 The progressive conservatives won at least 66 of the provincial legis- lature's 90 seats to establish a ma- jority government. Drew was the head of a minority" government until yesterdays election, with his party holding only 38 seats in the legislature.
 The worst defeat was handed the CCF, which was sure of only nine seats in the new legislature, com- pared with 34 in the last. The con servative' liberal party also lost seats, winning only II for sure against 16 in the last legislature. Four seats still were in doubt.
 Prime Minister Mackinzie King, national leader of the liberal party, expressed confidence, however, that his government would be returned to power. Provincial elections are one thing, and the federal elections another" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
FINAL 0k|NAwA VICTORY NEAR Big Four Begin Joint Rule Of Germany
PROMISE
 F0RPEACEFOR
 EIGHTY MILLION
BY ROBERT MANNING

Washington, June 5. - (UP) - The United States, Britain, Russia, and France today began their joint rule of defeated Germany.
 They proclaimed the terms of her unconditional sur render and promised to take all steps in the Reich Ire quisite for future peace and security"
 The long-awaited seating of the four-power Allied Con- trol Council in Berlin was announced S m ultaneously here and in London, Moscow and Paris as the body began it's first meeting in the bat tered Reich capital.
 It unveiled the terms-agreed to by the four Allies on May 12 in London-under which they have as- sumed supreme authority over Germany and will rule her 00,000,O00 people for a long time to come.
 It was indicated that the zone Of German to be occupied by France has not been settled finally. Exact boundaries of the occupation zones still were not revealed.
 Divided Into Zones
 But the announcement said Ger many had been. divided into "an eastern zone" for Soviet Russia, "a northwestern zone" for Britain, "a southwestern zone" for the United States and "a western zone' for France.
 The greater Berlin area, the Allies agreed, will be occupied by forces l of each of the four powers. Until now the Red Army has held full | control of the German capital
 (Continued on Page 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
ChurchiII's S
 Hit
By PHIL AULT

London, June 5.-(UP)-Prime Minister Churchills charge that a Labor party victory in the coming election would mean a gestapo-like police for Britain brought a retort af abusive scurrility" from Labor ite Herbert Morrison today.
 Morrison, chairman of the Labor party's election committee, said he fear that Churchill initial cam paign broadcast last night would go down in history as Churchill's crazy broadcast
 Tt does not annoy me-" Morrison said. Tt makes me sad and de- pressed that Winston Churchill should have allowed himself to be used at this tragically low level" Morrison, who was home minister under Churchill in the recently dissolved coalition government, pre- dicted that Labor party leader Clement R. Attlee's broadcast to- night will be one of dignity and req son as compared with this abusive scurrility."
 The Times also criticized Church ills speech. terming it common party polemic" for talking in ex- tremes.
 Just as Socialism theoretically may be carried to totalitarianism so might the sovereign freedom Of the individual" be carried to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Best or Jap
 Pilots Used Against U. s.
By REUEL s. MOORE

Washington, June 5 (U.PO - The Japanese were believed today to be drawing on their last air re- serves to try to halt the unrelenting American attack on their homeland
 That was the interpretation placed by military observers on re- ports that American carrier-based fighters striking at Japanese bases on Kyushu were encountering fast new Japanese planes and apparent ly the cream of enemy pilots.
 The average quality of Japanese pilots encountered by American flyers has been slowly but steadily sagging throughout the Pacific aerial war. Fewer and fewer of Jap ans first team" of fighter pilots were encountered.
 It was generally believed the Jap anese were saving substantial number of first rate personnel for defense of the home islands and the nearby Asiatic mainland. If they are now being thrown into combat it means the unrelenting American attack may now be cutting into the last line of Japans defense in the air.
 In the same way if the Japanese are committing their best new planes, of which they have none too many, in an effort to stop the American inroads on their remain ing air power it suggests they are drawing on their last reserves. Reports from Admiral McCain's $
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

Two of the survivors of the auto mobile accident in Middlebury which claimed two lives early this morn ing, were reported in critical con- dition at local hospitals today. Cor oner Stephen A. Homick began his official inquest today.
 They are Bertha Klein, South bury, who suffered concussion, scalp lacerations, fractured right shoulder and fractured femur; and Byron Austin, GuernseytoWn road, WatertoWn, who suffered de- pressed fracture of the skull, brain concussion, and contusions of the head and body. Both Miss Klein and MT Austin are on the danger list at Waterbury hospital. The condition of each was listed as poor
 The third survivor, Aubrey FL wood, Long Meadow Lake road Middlebury, who police said was the driver of the car which struck a tree near Tranquility Station on the Middlebury- Woodbury road, was re- ported in fair condition at St Mary's hospital. His name is not on the danger list. He sustanied g possible fractured skull, fracture of the right shoulder, arm and leg decorations, and face and chest abraSionS.
 Killed in the accident were Mil. dred Klein, sister of Bertha Klein and Bernard Jordan of Long Mea. dow Lake road, Middlebury.
 The accident happened 500 yard! east of Tranquility Station, State Trooper Edward Rigney and Lieut. Henry Palau reported, when thu car left the road on a curve ane plowed into the same tree whict
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
False Court Testimony
 Sends Blocker To Jail

False testimony given in superior court May 4, 1914, when he obtain ed a divorce netted one year jail sentence for Avery Blocker, 20, Of 51 Pearl street today, when he was brought back to face a perjury charge. The case was among l5 call- ed as the June criminal term was called before Judge John A. Cornell.
 Assistant States Attorney Walter w. Smyth stated the accused was married September 25, 1941 at John ston, s. C., to Anna Mae Walker. When he sought divorce he gave the date of marriage as September 27, 194O and said he had resided continuously in Connecticut for three years. it was disclosed. A charge of desertion was the basis of the decree awarded to Blocker.
 Defense Attorney Michael V. Blansfield pointed out Blocker was IS years old and his bride was 16 when the South Carolina marriage was performed. Blocker took a sec- ond bride, Marie Mott, local girl, last April 26.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Kobe Afire
 End To End
By WILLIAM F. THREE

Guam, June 5-(UP)-Nearly 500 Superfortresses set Kobe, Japan's greatest port, afire fro mend to end today Smoke whirled up almost five miles over the stricken city.
 The B-29S battled through 8 screen of Japanese fighters and accurate anti-aircraft fire to strew $500 tons of fire bombs across the 10 miles of shipyards, war plants and other key targets stretching from eastern to western Kobe.
 One participating flyer said three square miles were blazing midway in the raid. Another said he saw incendiaries rip from the water front through the middle of the cityA third said bombs hit streets, buildings and about everywhere else"
 Smoke billowed up as high as 25 900 feet, the flyers said.
 Capt. Joe Carroll. Jacksonville. and Orlando, Fla, commented:
 By God that was big fire. The smoke was at our level as we left thet target at about 10000 feet. It was still swirling up as we went over the coast = it looked like Yokohama al lover again."
 Carroll on his twentieth mission, saw between 30 and 50 fighters, some of them attacking at close range, but believed they were the strictly class B team
 Bombardir, It. William K. Vans ley, Middletown, Conn.,, said the incendiaries ripped into the build up area from the waterfront straight through the middle of the citV
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

The prosecutor revealed the first Mrs. Blocker did not know her hus- band had divorced her until she learned of his proposed second mar riage. She complained to local au- thorities at that time. It was dis closed Blocker prevailed upon his first wife to sign the divorce con- plaint by telling her he needed her signature in order to obtain employ ment.
 On a recommendation of the prosecutor, Judge Cornell imposed the jail sentence, commenting, however, that it was very light treatment for the particular offense.
 Richard Konesky, 27, of New Ha- ven, an ex-sailor, pleaded not guilty to a charge of using motor vehicle without permission, but entered a plea of guilty on second count of possessing a firearm in motor vehicle. His trial, by court, was set for Friday afternoon and if neces- sary will continue into Saturday. (Continued on Page D