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Evening star., 1945-05-15
Boundary Dispute
Settlement Approved
BY House D. T.. Unit
Section Limiting Right
Of Virginia to Levy Taxes
At Airport Omitted
BY DON S. WARREN.

Minus the controversial sec
ton which would have, reserved
to Virginia only limited rights of
taxation on the Federally owned
National Airport. a bill to settle
the old District Virginia bound
ary dispute was ordered favor
ably reported today by the House
District Committee.
The bill would establish the pre-
vailing high-water mark on the Vir-
ginia shore of the Potomac as the
boundary, ceding all of the disputed
mo mans land" including a por-
ton of the airport, to Virginia.
The decision, reached by a 5-4
vote, was victory for Representa-
tive Smith, Democrat, of Virginia
who led fight to prevent the addi-
ton of a new section which would
have reserved to the United States
exclusive jurisdiction over the whole
airport area.
has tlrg1nlas Approval
The bill now is in the same form
in which it was ratified some time
ago by the Virginia Legislature. Mr.
Smith and others put considerable
emphasis on the point that if any
changes were made by Congress the
plan would have to go back to the
Virginia LEGISLATURE. DELAYING final
settlement.
The decision to report the bill
without the extra section was cou-
pied with a pledge by Representa-
tive Smith that he would personally
undertake to negotiate approval by
the Governor and attorney general
of Virginia aided" giving the United
States all it finds necessary for juris-
diction over the airport area.
He promised to report on these
negotiations at an early date-be-
fore the House acts on the bill.
Despite the offer made by the
Virginia representative, however, it
appeared likely a fight will develop
on the House floor Anticipating
this. at any rate, Chairman Ran
dolph OF the District Committee
said he would call up the measure
within the next several weeks, only
on District day"
Airlines Want Change.
The purpose of this would be to
prevent the bill from being elimi-
mated from consideration by objec-
ton by one member, which would
(See BOUNDARY, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Conference Awaits
Replies From Soviet
On Two Big Issues
Key to Decisions on
Trustee and RegionoI
Disputes Held by StoIin
BY JOHN nj. HIGHTOWER,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.-
United Nations officials looked to
Moscow today for word that may
hasten final agreement among
the Big Five powers on two of
the most critical issues thus far
met in charting world secu-
rity organization.
Russia, it developed, holds the key
to settlement of both the interna-
tional trusteeship and the regional
defense system questions.
Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, who
succeeded Foreign Commissar v. M.
Molotov as chief Russian delegate to
the United Nations Conference, has
referred proposals on both of these
to the Kremlin.
Hope for Replies Soon.
Officials hope that replies will be
received in a day or so. They figure
that the speed with which Moscow
acts will show whether Mr.. Gromyko
can get the same sort of quick &C
ton that Mr.. Molotov was able to
obtain before he returned home.
The United States and Britain
have ironed out virtually all of their
differences on both issues and
France and China are reported in
substantial agreement with them.
A Russian proposal for dealing
the Big Five in as group on future
United Nations handling of former
enemy lands under international
trusteeships has met American op-
position, however. There were some
indications that if this point cannot
be settled quickly the whole trus-
teeship problem may be postponed
for negotiation after this conference.
France Near Big Five Status.
Meanwhile Frances position as
one of the Big Five moved nearer
formal recognition last night when
Conference Committee on the struc-
ture of the Security Council voted
that France be permanent men,
ber of that powerful world organi-
zation agency.
The Dumbarton Oaks plan drawn
up at Washington last fall provided
that France should have a perm
anent council seat "in due course"
The committee voted that the words
''in due course" should be stricken
out.
The committees are working on a
day and night schedule, their closed
door sessions involving considerable
argument. This is notably so in
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Churchill Refuses
To Commit Himself
On Death of Hitler
By the Associated Press,

D. tue ASSOCldlGO PfeSS.
LONDON, May Is. Prime
Minister Churchill, in reply to
a query in Commons today, re-
fused to commit himself on the
question of whether Hitler is
dead.
When one member inquired
whether Hitler's death had been
established beyond all shadow
of doubt" Mr.. Churchill replied
that he knew no more than
any other member who reads
the newspaper"
The Prime Minister further
said Britain would not hold
formal victory parades and
celebrations until Japan is de-
feated.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
New Overseas Edition
Will Be Out Tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars busi-
ness counter and the Victory
Bond booth in LanSburgh's
Department Store.
The edition is strictly linn
tied. Please do not waste a
single copy.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Sx-Inch Snow in Colorado

DENVER, Colo, May IS P).--A
6-inch snowfall was reported last
night at Cripple Greek, and the
Weather Bureau said snow or light
rain was falling over a general area
from the Rocky Mountains eastward
to the Plains States.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Churchill to Get Medal

LONDON, May Is R.--Prime
Minister Churchill will receive the
Albert Gold Medal, highest annual
award Of the British Royal Society
of Arts, it was announced today.
President Roosevelt received the
aWardein 1912.
Evening star., 1945-05-15

FiUe additional men from
the District area haze been re-
ported killed in this 1Uar. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page Az.
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(See TRIESTE, Page AID
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(See SECURITY, Page A-4.)
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(See WARREN, Page AL
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(See BIG THREE, Page A-4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-13
Steel Prices were frozen by 0PA at Pre-War level Costs have Scared Many steel products now sell at Answer to present wage demands depends
 on steel price policy of 0PA.

TODAY, Because of governnnent-contro)ed prices and high costs many steel products are being sold ot oss Thot is why the steel industry cannot pay higher wages.
 A den1ond for general wage increase of $Z day has beer made by the United Stockholders of America ClO. In presenting this demond, Philip Murray served notice thot this deond was subject to dickerng or compromise" To enforce this demand, strike votes are being taken this month in the steel industry Any general stoppoge of steel production would be colo- itous blow to reconversion.
 Increased wages eonnot be paid out of thin cir Proceeds from sales of steel provide the only fund out of which wages be paid. Today the ceiling prices imposed by OPA do not provide sufficient return to pay current costs of steel operations, let alone any n- crease in Woees.
 Present oPA ceiling prices for steel products ore generally less thon steel prices in l237 However obor and other costs in the steel industry hove gone up te mendousIy These ever-nountine costs have squeezed out virtually all of the profit originally contoined in pre- wor steel L,sices.
 Accordingly todoy steel producers are entitled 10 substantial increases in these ceiling prices. Mony months ago they osked OPA for such price relief OPA hos not acted
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
COUNTY TO STUDY
|BUTANE TAX ISSUE

The County Board of Commits.
sloners. yesterday referred for
study to County Attorney Marsden
Bellamy the matter of the South
ern Butane Gas Co., which, it was
stated, has not listed its taxes for
1914 and 1945.
The matter of the 1915 taxes
was not brought out in detail, pend
ing the report of the county at
torney, but the company claimed
that it was not responsible for
the 1914 taxes since it bought its
property, at 220 Market street from
the Eastern Butane Gas Co. after
the first of the year. The sale was
reported to have been made Jan
uary %, 1914. ...
The opinion was advanced at the
meeting yesterday that the COM
pany would not be liable for the
1914 taxes if its fuel. tanks were
considered personal property and
not real estate. In order to de-
eide this, the matter was referred
to Bellamy.
A lawyer representing the COM
pany offered to list the 1945 taxes
yesterday. The county, which
claims that it had asked the COM
pany since the first of the year to
list the taxes, had previously re-
ferred the case to the solicitor
for indictment.
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CHARLESTON CHIEF
PLACED OVER PORT

n;strict Coast Guard headquar-
-. Sixth Naval District, in Char
,os+on announced Sunday, that the
cn+sin of the Port Of Charleston,
1:.,+enant Commander c. ]. Sulli-
on has received orders from
co.st Guard headquarters in
Washington, D. C., extending his
authority and duties to include
s,,nervision of all navigable wa
.ors within the jurisdiction Of North
md South Carolina.
The announcement stated that
.,a exnansion of Commander Sulli-
uni. '.r responsibilities to include
s'lnervision of captain of the port
ssaarations in the Wilmington reg
o ;an was in accordance with the
w, Dolcy recently announced by U. S
C PO Guard headquarters in
U,asbin9ton of reverting on the
wet coast to the plan of organiza-
Inn Eo which was in effect prior to
+ t intensification Of the emerg-
e e along the coast and in the
waterways early in 1912.
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RUSSIANS RAISE
VICTORY BANNER
Continued from Page One)

Heinrich Hinmler's ministry of
the interior lies north Of the fam
Gus Knoll opera house, used by the
German parliament after the
burning of the Reichstag. Here,
little more than month before
his attack on the Soviet Union,
Hitler told the Nazi assembly
Germany can no longer be sub
jected. She is so strong that no
combination of powers could ever
successfully prevail against her
But as the Russians raised their
flag over the Reichstag Stain
said that the days Of Hitler's Ger
many were numbered.
The Russians, standing at the
Brandenburg gate and across the
street from the American en-
bassy, We're battling into the east
Tern end of the Tiergarten, where
Hitler and Propaganda Minister
Goebbels have been reported dl-
recting Berlin's defenses from
fortified, underground headquar-
tiers.
Along with the Reichstag and
the ministry of the interior, Zhu-
kov's troops captured 200 city
blocks in the heart of the capital.
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PLANS FOR PEACE
STUDIED BY NAILS
Continued from Page One)

mad nothing to do with any pros
pective German surrender.
In London, British cabinet min
listers held long meeting today
and were ordered to stand by. It
was said that Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill might make state
ment in Commons ,tomorrow-on
undlsclosed subject matter.
The Danish reports of the Him.
mler-Bernadotte meeting came as
two Swedish foreign office Off
Gals and military traffic expert
made roundtrip flight from NAL
mo, Sweden, to Denmark, but the
Foreign Office said these men were
engaged in humanitarian work
and the official Swedish news agen-
cy said the mission was connected
with the Red Cross.
Meantime. the Hamburg radio
declared that everybody knows
that this war is drawing to an end
with giant strides and added:
The drone of battle might last
some weeks longer. But it may
end tomorrow"
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MACHINAT0 TAKEN
BY U. S. FORCES
Continued from Page One)
also has an important airfield, jus
south of the CITY itself.

also has an important airfield, just
south Of the city itself.
In the center of the southern
Okinawa line, 96th Division troops
advanced southwark over hilly ter
rain. On the eastern coast, the
7th Division. moving steadily but
slowly toward Yonabaru airfleld,
captured important ridges near
KOCH village.
A Japanese suicide pilots at
tack on the Navy hospital ship,
U. S. S. Comfort, Saturday night
still was the big topic of CONVEX
sation throughout the American
force in the western Pacific. The
Comfort was heavily damaged and
20 of her personnel and patients
were killed when japanese pilot
crashed his plane on the after
part of the lighted and plainly
marked ship so miles south OF
Okinawa, Saturday night.
Those killed included five U. S.
Army medical officers and six
Army nurses. In addition to the
dead one of the ships personnel
was reported missing and 80 were
wounded.
The communique announced that
the Tenth Army had lost 1,52T
soldiers and 800 Marines killed in
action on Okinawa and nearby
islands up to April %. This was
an increase of 638 soldiers and
So Marines-a total of 701-since
the previous report of casualties
through April %.
Japanese killed for the entire
campaign totaled 21,269 as OF
Anri1 d
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in the conference executive COM
mittee.
Repeating arguments he had en-
ployed in a mid-afternoon press
conference, the foreign commits
sar cited statements of Former
Secretary Of State Cordel Hull and
the late President Roosevelt that
Argentina was headquarters OF
Fascism in the western hemis-
phere.
And, he said, a question of pres
tige is involved in determining
whether to admit the Moscow
recognized Polish government in
Warsaw.
mo one can deny" he asserted,
that the provisional Polish gov.
eminent functioning now in War.
saw, and the whole territory OF
liberated Poland, is a democratic
government"
Lleras Camargo said the Argen-
tina case presented a question OF
principle. Past criticisms of the
Argentina government, he said,
were directed at past acts.
The United States and Britain
have taken the stand that the War.
saw government is not broadly
representative of enough Poles
that it should be broadened in ac-
cordance with a Roosevelt-C Church
ill-Stalin agreement at Yalta.
Mexico's foreign minister Eze
quiel Padilla, paid tribute to Pc
lands war effort, but said the
conference couldn't give Poland q
voice here until the Yalta agree
ment is fulfilled.
The Argentine, he said, 'is {
nation of long-standing democra
tic traditions" and her people
shouldn't be punished because hel
government accidentally separat
ed ITSELF from sentiments of the
people.
The Argentine issue reached the
conference floor because all &C
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ARGENTINA GETS
SEAT AT FARLEY
Continued from Pare One)

Foreign Minister Masaryk and
Yugoslavia's Subasic.
Listed on the earlier vote in
favor of postponing action on Ar
gentina were seven countries: Rus
STA, Norway, New Zealand, Bel
GUM, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
and Greece.
Stettinius aligne himself
squarely against Molotov, declar-
ing Argentina had complied with
conditions laid down at an inter-
American conference at Mexico
City for joining the family of ma
tons
"The American representatives"
he said, feel that Argentina has
complied with this requirement
and desire that Argentina be rep
resented"
Applause sputtered through the
hall when Stettinius said his gov
eminent "concurs in the desires
of her sister American republics. :"
The four nations which opposed
immediate seating of Argentina
were noted by reporters as Rus
STA, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
and Greece.
After Alger Hiss, secretary gen.
eral of the conference, had de-
clined to furnish an official list
of the opposing votes, Michael Nc
Dermott, State Department public
relations officer, obtained the
names Of the four countries. There
was only a standing vote, not a
roll call vote.
The world can't forget, the Rus.
sian declared, that Argentina has
''helped the enemy throughout the
war;" but tie Poles fought from
the, first for the Allies and thus
are entitled to a part in the de-
alterations here.
Colombia's foreign minister, Al
berto Lleras Camargo, climbed the
steps of the platform to assert that
no one should forget, either, thai
Argentina declared war on the Axis
in hostilities not yet ended.
The conference steering commit
tee had voted earlier to extene
an invitation to Argentina, as vel
as to the Soviet Ukrainian ane
White Russian republics. Molotov
rather than risk a second defeat
declined to ask for a vote on the
Warsaw Poles. He had lost on tina
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
Red Gross To Present
Program Of Veterans

The Wilmington chapter OF the
American Red Cross yesterday an
nounced that radio program
series presented by the Army, Navy
and Red Cross to promote a better
understanding between hespitalized
veterans and the civilian popula-
ton, will begin at 9 pm, Eastern
War Time Wednesday.
The series, which will be pre-
sented over the Wilmington sta
ton, is called Road Ahead. In
order to avoid tying war casual
ties with commercial products, sew
eral selected firms from Ameri-
can industry have been asked to
participate as business hosts" it
was said. These sponsors will. not
have the usual commercials, nor
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i. 5, DISPUTES
AUSTRIAN RULE
Continued from Page One)

Acting Secretary OF State Joseph
r Crew said that, lacking Off
ria, notification, the United States
was taking up the entire question
with the Russian government.
He said the Russians had mott
fled this government Friday that
Penner, one of Austria's leading
statesmen before the Hitler-order-
cd Anschluss, proposed to estab-
1isb government in liberated
Vienna. The Russians added that
thew did not intend to hinder Rem
ner's action.
This was followed by a Tass
Soviet official news agency dis
patch which said that Renner had
formed provisional government
embracing three social democrats,
four Christian socialists and three
communists.
Renners reputation as an ar
dent opponent Of Communism and
Fascism in pre-war Austria tenn
pered the reaction OF American
officials. A U. S. expert said he
had no reason to believe that Rem
ner's politics had changed during
Nazi occupation but, he added,
that remains to be seen.
Renner is a social-democrat. He
headed the Austrian delegation to
Versailles in 1918 and was lead
ing Austrian statesman until 1888
when all political parties were sup
pressed.
The development in Austria does
not seem to parallel the events
that followed Poland's liberation
by the Red Army. In that coun-
try, Moscow fostered provisional
government now functioning in
Warsaw and by that action touch
ed off Big Three dispute which
has seriously Scared British
American-Russian unity at the
San Francisco security confer
ence.
-V-
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$4,000 INMATES
FREED BY YANKS
CONTINUED from Page One'

officials that some of the more
important captives had b e n
transferred recently to a new
hideout, probably in the Iyrol.
These were said to have included
Marshal Stalin's son, Jacob, who
was captured in 1871; former Aus
trian Chancellor Kurt Schuschngg
and his wife; Prince Frederick
Leopold of Prussia; Prince XAVIER
Bourbon De Parme a n d Pastor
Martin Niemoller, the German
Lutheran who was arrested when
he defied Nazi attempts to control
his preaching. -,
prisoners at another camp hb-
Grated by the Americans recent
ly reported Schuschnigg had been
executed by his guards earlier this
month";
One of the prisoners remaining
here told officers he was the son
of Leon Blum, former French pre-
mier.
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MUNICH CAPTURED
by SEVENTH ARMY
CONTINUED from Page One)

fought into the heart Of Munich
from the north after capturing
ober Wiesenfeld airport, Germany's
second largest before the war.
The Third Infantry Division still
was engaged in furious fighting in
the western suburbs.
In the center Of the city, the
Germans depressed their SO MILL
meter antiaircraft guns and fought
against the charging columns.
The firing fell off, however, as
countery battery fire knocked out
many of the guns and infantry
edged in and captured others.
Gen. Eisenhower armies in the
last "a hours reported the liberia
ton of 1T, 500 prisoners of war and
political prisoners.
It was revealed that the U. S.
Third Army had freed 10000 Al
lied prisoners of war, including H.
600 Americans, at the biggest Ger
man prison camp at Moosburg, IN
stead of $1,000 as previously re-
ported.
The Canadians west Of Bremen
freed camps at Strucklngen and
Saldbostel where $4,000 political
and war prisoners had been Gagged.
The Seventh Army liberated g.
500 British and French prisoners at
Murnau, 80 miles southwest OF
Munich, along with the Polish gov
ernor Of Warsaw ard several Pol
ish generals. Four thousand wo-
men were freed from camp at
Aichach, north of Munich.
In the bay of Biscay, French
Marines stormed. the shores Of he
D'Oleron, north Of the Gironde
river estuary, bent on knocking out
German gun batteries holding up
the opening of the port Of Bordeaux.
American medium bombers and
French naval units backed the At
tack.
The new functions Of the Rus
SLAMS and the Americans on the
Elbe trapped undetermined num-
bers OF Germans to the south, and
all but surrounded all enemy
troops between Berlin and the
Elbe. ..u. ....-,..;. WA.
1t. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges U.
S. First Army thrust IA miles
across the Nude river and joined
the Russians at Wittenberg, 4S
miles southwest of Berlin and Is
miles northwest of the first meet
ing place of the two Allies at Tor
gau.
Four miles west Of Wittenberg,
mechanical cavalry units Of the
U. S. Ninth Army's 83rd Division
met the Russians at Apollensdorf
after a 20-mile advance.
Eighty five miles farther north
the Russians were but 10 miles
from another junction with the
Ninth Army at Wittenberge (not
to be confused with Wittenbe-g)
which would trap strong German
forces which are fighting the Red
Army west Of Berlin.
The Ninth Army junction was
preceded by one last terrified lush
of German soldiers into the Ameri-
can lines to escape the Russians
The Germans appeared bent on
Bringing this cradle of the Nazi
movement down with them, and
American assault teams were ac-
cepting the challenge, battering
down streets hallowed to Hitlerisnd.