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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-27
italian Patriots
Seize Key Points
Milan Rodio Says
People in Power

ROME, April 27- R The
Milan radio said today the Com
mittee for National Liberation
for North Italy had announced
1t '"- assumed all powers of
government In the name OF the
people" and was negotiating
With the German command for
a general surrender" of Nazi
forces.
The committee notified the
Rome government, the broad,
cast said, that problems in the
democratic rebirth of the nation
must be entrusted to the men
who fought Fascism from its
first moments"
The radio also transmitted an
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-27
Patton

Continued from Page I
Germany, with its so-called ma
tional redoubt, and the German
forces in Italy would be trap
ped"
The French First Army dash
ed to positions 81 miles west
southwest of Munich, by reach
ing Landsberg, 20 miles south
of Augsburg. The direction of
the French drive suggested
direct move to encircle Munich.
The American Seventh Army
closed to within 35 miles of
Munich from the northwest.
10 MILE GAIN
1t, Gen. Patch's Seventh
Army made an 18-mile break
through and moved within six
miles of Augsburg. His Tiger
Goth armored) and 44th Divi-
sion captured Memmingen, 81
miles from the Austrian from
tier, and liberated 1000 Allied
prisoners.
British tanks lunged north Of
captured Bremen in a drive on
Hamburg and a maneuver to
seal off Denmark and Schles-
wig -Holstein. The Canadians
broke the enemy's Jstin Canal
line and advanced toward Will
helmshaven and Emden.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-27
Nazis Fight Grirn/y
in Heart of Berlin

Volkspark, which are on the
northwestern corner of the air
port.
The main threat to Tempelhof,
however, came from Russian
forces in the captured Dahlem
region of southwestern Berlin
and which were closing in on the
Steglitz railway station.
These forces had the field un-
der artillery fire and it was diff
ficult TO see how it could be of
any use to Nazi leaders who
might be hoping for a last-min-
ute getaway by plane.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-27

MOSCOW, April 81 - (P -
Hemmed into an area nine miles
long and seven miles wide in
the center of Berlin, trapped
NaZi stormtroopers and SIS units
offered frantic resistance today
as thousands of Russian infan-
trymen closed in from all sides.
Soviet dispatches from the
German capital said Red Army
artillery was blasting path for
waves of Russian troops pouring
down all the main thorough
fares leading to the Wilhelm
strasse, Inter den Linden and
the famous Tiergarten.
The Soviet spearheads were
reported closest to the center of
the city on the southeast, where
they had captured the Goerlitzer
railway station 1.8 miles from
q, the Inter den Linden, and were
pushing northwestward on three
Wiener Strasse, Reich
enberger Strasse and Kottbusser
Strasse.
The column moving along the
Wiener StraSse was reported to
have fourght its way through the
Heinrich Platz and to be engaged
in bitter fighting near the Moritz
Platz and st. Michael's church.
The great Tempelhof airdrome
appeared in imminent danger of
being outflanged by one Soviet
solumn which struck out west
ward from the Goerlitzer station
and battled to the edge of the
Hasenheide Woods and the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-27

VAN DYKE Ms. Kenneth
Zisler, the former Gwendolyn
Charline, received word last
Saturday that her husband IT'S
Cpl. Kenneth Zisler was award
ed the Bronge star for meritori-
Gus service as a recorder of the
big gun during action from June
6, Nov. 30, accurate in every
firing.
Corporal Zisler worked "a
hours at stretch without relief.
Mrs. Zisler makes her home
with her husbands parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Zisler at 11043
Ford avenue, Van Dyke.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-27

.er by General Clark. 18TH
Army group commander, direct
ing the partisans to maintain or
der and "avoid indiscriminate
acts Of violence"
While other broadcasts re.
ported , mounting partisan re-
volt throughout northern Italy,
the "free Genoa radio" said
partisans were wiping out the
last c.nters Of resistance In the
big port.
THE enemy fleet In the har.
Dor surrendered Internationally
to CNL forces" the broadcast
said. Fifteen hundred German
prisoners were marched through
the streets of the city"
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No Press Conferences
Slated by First Lady

WASHINGTON. April 27-(P)
Mrs. Harry S. Truman will not
continue Mrs. Franklin ID.
Roosevelt's custom of meeting
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-27

Q-What Is the population OF
Sarajevo, Bosnia, captured by
Marshal Tito's forces?
100000. World War I was
ignited there with the assasina-
ton of Austrian Archduke Ferd-
inand.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
|WiIIiamH H. Davis
Named Director
|0f Sterilization
CIV. ToyIor Advanced
To Choirmonship Of
War Labor Bourd
BY ]. A. FOX.

William H. Davis, chairman Of
the War Labor Board, will be-
come director of economic sta
bilization. succeeding Fred M.
Vinson, and Or. George w. Tay-
lor, board vice chairman, will
assume the Craftsmanship, it was
announced at the White House
today.
The changes will be effective al
most Immediately, as Mr.. Vinson,
just appointed Federal loan admin
istrator, expects to wind up his
stabilization duties tomorrow, it was
said by Jonathan Daniels, acting
White House press secretary.
The new appointees are not SUBJ
ject to Senate confirmation.
Little SteeI' Formula Author.
DR.. Taylor, a public member of
the War Labor Board, is the author
of the Little Steel pay formula,
which labor has been seeking to
upset.
Mr.. Davis, IS, is a patent lawyer
by profession, and has headed the
War Labor Board since 1t replaced
the old National Defense Mediation
Board in January, 1912. He had
been successfully vice chairman and
chairman of the earlier organiza-
ton, and was appointed as one
of the four public members of the
WLB.
A New Yorker, he formerly head
ed the State Board of Mediation,
and in 1888 was sent by President
Roosevelt to Great Britain and
Evening star., 1945-03-07
British Dancer Gets Reprieve,
Yunk to Die in London ki|lino

any interference with the death
sentence imposed on Hulten, a for
mer paratrooper.
An appeal in Hulten's behalf had
been filed by Massachusetts, at
torney acting for the prisoners wife
and mother.
Mrs. Jones tainted when told she
had been reprieved. Later, shedding
tears of relief, she asked matron
What about Ricky (Hulten) Z?
What's going to happen to Ricky?'
The girls parents, notified at their
home In Heath of Mr.. Morrison s
action, left for London to see their
daughter.
Communication of her sentence to
life Imprisonment probably would
mean parole after she had served
about Is years, if usual procedure is
followed.
Hulten, now prisoner in Worm
wood Scrubs prison, was described
by prison attendants as calm and
spending much of his time reading
adventure stories.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
u. ). Mountain Troops
Gain 5 Miles in Push
Southwest Of Bo|oqna
Town and Several Peaks
Captured in Strongest
Advance in Weeks
By the Associated Press.

ROME, Mar. 7. American
mountain troops have gained
miles in the Apennines southwest
of Bologna in the strongest ad-
vance on the 5th Army front ir
weeks, Allied headquarters an
nounced today.
The action was described officially
as "a most successful limited objec.
tive attack"
Striking northeastward west o1
the Pistoia highway three days ago
the Americans have captured g
number of dominating peaks anc
the town of Castel d'Aiano, 20 miles
from Bologna. More than 1,20(
prisoners have been taken.
The attack began at 7 am. March
3 under Commute artillery bar
rage and air assistance. Headquar-
ters PERMITTED disclosure of the
assault only this morning.
Brazilian troops, advancing simul-
taneousIy with the American 10th
Mountain Division, seized the towr
of Castelnuovo, 3 miles southeast o1
CasteI d'Aiano and a mile west OF
Highway "a, running between Pts
toia and Bologna.
Castel d'Aiano is the closest re.
ported approach to Bologna by the
5th Army west of that highway
To the east of it other 5th Army
forces reached the hamlet oi
Bisopra, 13 miles from Bologna, two
days ago.
The objective of the drive pre-
sumabiy was to gain control of the
Pistoia-Bologna highway, which
the Germans have dominated far
to the south for months through
control Of number of peaks.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
BY MARION WADE DOYLE.

Mrs. Roosevelt now has a crown,
she revealed to her press conference
today. 1t was brought to her by the
President, who received it from an
Arabian potentate'' at the Casa
blanca Conference more than two
years ago.
Mrs. Roosevelt was prompt to say
that she had never worn this at
tribute of monarchy and was sure
that the ruler who sent 1t intended
it as a decoration" rather than for
official functions. It is now in the
library at Hyde Park.
From the Crimea Conference, Mrs.
Roosevelt said, the President brought
her two harem dresses. Their origin
was not revealed, but it was recalled
that Mr.. Roosevelt, after leaving
Russia, entertained the rulers of
Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Egypt
aboard an American cruiser.
The White House family, she re-
lated laughingly. had fashion
show" with the Eastern gowns, bu
Evening star., 1945-03-07
ohio River Continues to Rise
For 900 Miles,; 7 Die in Flood
Thousands Homeless; Cincinnati Expects
Crest Of 70 Feet, Louisville 46-Foot Level

Muddy, swirling waters of the
Ohio River today were rising
along a 1,000-mile section from
it's source at Pittsburgh to its
confluence with the Mississippi,
destroying property, taking seven
lives and closing vital war plants
Gauge watchers predicted the
worst flood since the record high
water of 1887.
Associated Press reports from Gin
cinnati and Louisville as well as
smaller cities along the Ohio told
of constantly rising water and fran
tic efforts to strengthen dikes.
At 6 am. today the river at Louis
vile had risen to AL feet and was
Evening star., 1945-03-07
ty the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 1.-THE life of
Mrs. Elizabeth Marina Jones, 18-
year-old British strip-tease dancer
sentenced to die for the robbery
Staying of London taxicab driver,
was spared today by an eleventh.
hour intervention of Home Secre-
tary Herbert Morrison.
The girls partner in the Staying,
Pvt. Karl Gustav Hulten of Cam
bridge, Mass, will be hanged in the
courtyard of Pentonville prison at
dawn tomorrow, however, barring
some unexpected last-minute de-
velopment.
Mr. Morrison granted Mrs. Jones
reprieve after considering an ap-
peal filed by her attorneys, and
recommended to the King that he
exercise the royal prerogative by
committing her sentence to life i'm
prisonment.
The Home Secretary ruled there
were insufficient grounds to justify
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Eastern Potentutes Send Crown,
Hurem Gowns to Mrs. Roosevelt

she did not wear them. Her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Boettiger, however, held
them for the President to see.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who will celebrate
her 40th wedding anniversary on
March II, also told her press con-
ference she has discovered she does
not know what her husbands pro-
file actually looks like.
She said a colored sculptress, Miss
Selma Burke Of New York City,
asked her to inspect a profile Miss
Burke was making for a plaque of
the President for the Office of Re-
corder of Deeds.
Mouth Not Quite Right.
"The mouth is not quite right, .
Mrs. Roosevelt said she told the
sculptress. But when the artist
asked her what the Presidents
mouth looked like, his wife had to
reply:
II don't know. I viii go back
and look"
This happened about five days ago
;lsee MRS. ROOSEVELT. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Tokyo Reports Eight BIG,
Over Sections Of Japan
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Eight sections of Japan, including
Tokyo, were disturbed during the
night by at least eight Marianas-
based Super Fortresses bn their Sec
ond successive night of widely scat
tered combination marrying and
observation strikes, Japanese broad
casts reported today.
The enemy broadcasts, recorded
by the Federal Communications
Commission, said the B-29s attacked
the Tokyo area Shizuoka, Yama-
nashi, Hiroshima and Okayama pre-
lectures, all on Honshu Island; Kobe
and the nearby island of Avail and
and Kochi prefecture of Shikoku
Island.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Iwo-BasedP Join
About Push 10 Smash
5000 Remaining Japs
Yonks Advance Slightly
With Artillery Support
After Two-Doy LulI
By the Associated Press.

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS. Guam, Mar. 7.-An all
out push against the 5000 or
more japanese still entrenched
on the rocky northern end of Two
Jima was under way today, with
tremendous artillery support and
Army fighters operating off the
southern airfield for the first
time.
The ground drive, breaking a two
day comparative lull in this ferc-
est battle of the Pacific war,
achieved small gains yesterday in
the center and on the left flank of
the Marine line squeezing the bit
terly-resisting enemy against the
northern cliffs.
The Marines moved out behind a
deadly rolling artillery barrage, the
most intense of the campaign But
the japanese fought back so strongly
with a continuous stream of small
arms and mortar fire that the Ma
rines were confined to small, local
gains" in the words of Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz's communique
today.
New Gains Scored.
These gains were scored on the
west side by Maj. Gen. Keller E.
Rockey's 5th Marine Division and
just east of the center by Maj. Gen.
Clifton B. Gates 4th Division. Maj.
Gen. Graves B. Erskine's Sd Division
moved up in the middle.
BY nightfau the Marines were
still 600 yards from the northeast
shoreline opposite a bulge which, if
reached, would cut the remaining
japanese garrison in two.
The 4th Division was about $50
yards from volcanic cliffs which drop
off onto heavily y-defended beach.
By 6 pm. Monday 14,456 japanese
dead had been counted out of an
original Two garrison estimated at
10000. The last figure for Ameri-
can dead was 2,05O, reported Sum-
day by Secretary of the Navy For
restal.
Inc TOLL OF Japanese would 1nd1-
cate only 5000 left on Two, but their
resistance remained strong despite
16 days Of constant blasting.
Jap Resistance Is Stiff.
Admiral Nimitz said the japanese
still were Offering very stiff re-
sistance and subjecting our forces to
a heavy volume of small arms and
mortar fire"
Army fighters were using the cap
tured Motoyama Airfield No. l at
the south end OF Two for the first
time, operating from a base $50
miles south of Tokyo.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Sd. C. Officers in AMG Group
Organizing Control of Cologne
Population Of City
May Have DwindIed
To Only 10000
BY the Associated Press.

6S lEe ASSOCIdleu fTeSS.
COLOGNE, Mar. This great
Rhineland metropolis. which
once numbered almost 100000
inhabitants, woke up today tt
find itself under an American
military government setup head
ed by 1t. Col. John K. Patterson
Riverside, Calf.
Col. Patterson's stan includes
three officers from the Washington
area: 1t. Col. Robbins Crowell, for
mer executive with the A. T. & T
in New York, in charge of communi-
cations; Mai. Edwin C. Tribble, for
merly of The WashinCton Evening
Star, information, and Capt. Mag
nus Thompson, engineer in charge
of displaced persons.
Col. Patterson himself did not yet
know how many cellar dwelling
civilians still remained in the ruins
of the city, utterly devastated by
three years of heavy aerial bonn
bardment. Some estimates ran as
high as 10000 and some as low as
10000.
Yanks Hunt for Quarters.
An advance echelon arrived here
last night seeking quarters for the
military government. Like scores of
other Army outfits, however, they'll
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Rome Disorders Spread
To Regina CoeIi Prison
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
ROME Mar. 7.-Disorders spread
to the Regina Coeli prison today
and sporadic bomb explosions
throughout Rome punctuated Italy's
political crisis.
After yesterdays clash before the
Royal Palace between carabinieri
and a crowd in which Communist
demonstration was killed and several
persons were wounded, convicts and
persons awaiting trial for Fascist
crimes burst out of their antiquated
cells at the brison before dawn.
Police and fremen ouelled the riot
with fire hose streams.
Bombs burst sporadically in vari-
Gus sections of the capital and
crowds were reported to have DEM
onstrated before carabinieri bar
racks in outlying sections.
No further casualties were report
ed, however.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
London Dock Workers
Due to Return Tomorrow
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 7.-Striking Lon
don dock workers decided today to
resume work tomorrow if stevedores
also would agree to do so when they
meet later this afternoon.
Meanwhile, two other labor dis
putes developed. Two thousand
miners at the Mosley Common col
liery struck in sympathy with three
fellow workers summoned by the
company on accusations of coal
thefts, and 100 workers striking in
eight cold storage depots tied up
deliveries of thousands of tons OF
meat.
The dockWorkers had been urged
by their central committee to re-
turn to their jobs tomorrow on
assurances that an inquiry would be
made into their grievances.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Many Civilians Killed
When Bridge Falls
During Nozi Flight
BY the Associated Press.

Sy lne ASSOCldleQ fTeSS.
COLOGNE, Mar. I'm thei,
haste to leave Cologne after the
heavy Allied bombings of last
Friday. Nazi officials of the city
brought about a major tragedy
it was reported here today.
Citizens say that in earlier all
raids three bridges leading across
the Rhine from Cologne already had
been destroyed and two others dam
aged. Only one span of limited
capacity, located near New Market
place, remained open. Orders had
been issued barring heavy vehicles
from the bridge
But the Nazi leaders, fleeing the
doomed city Saturday ordered heavy
trucks, probably bearing official doc
uments, to cross the span. 1t
snapped and sank, carrying many
pedestrians with it-how many no
one will ever know.
(This apparently was the
Haengebruecke Bridge. The
Hohenzollern Bridge is farther
northD
Police Also Left City.
1t Is difficult to check with cer-
tainty story like this one, however,
for nowhere in Cologne is there an
organized German authority to be
found.
Since Saturday there has been no
Evening star., 1945-03-07

expected to reach 46 feet by noon
tomorrow. Flood level is % feet
there. Hundreds of families faced
evacuation. Meteorologists said the
river would start to fall some time
Friday.
Cincinnati reported that the river
was expected to pass the 70-foot
mark-18 feet above flood stage
before the end of the day. At near
by Portsmouth, United States engi-
neers and 300 Ohio State Guards
worked feverishly to bulwark g.
foot flood wall.
Meanwhile, waters of the White
River in Arkansas rose rapidly,
threatening levees. Military forces
(See FLOOD, Page ABB
Evening star., 1945-03-07
|ForrestaI 10 Address
Red Cross Campaign
Workers Tomorrow
Federal Agencies Hold
RoIIies to Speed Up
Drive for Funds

Secretary of the Navy For
restal, recently returned from
Two Jima, will address American
Red Cross campaign workers at
1890 pm. tomorrow at the first
report meeting of all divisions
working for the 1945 Metropoli-
tan Washington goal of $2,70O,-
900. Contributions so far total
$252, ,000-9.3 per cent of the goal.
Samuel H. Kaufman, campaign
chairman, expressed particular
pleasure in the announcement of
Mr. Forrestal's visit-especially in
view of the fine record made by the
Navy Department in this years
drive The Navy, which consistently
oversubscribes its quotas in all war
relief drives, has contributed $60, 1000
thus far. This is so per cent of its
quota and was obtained from only
80 per cent of the prospective givers.
Rallies Scheduled.
Mr.. Forrestal will address the
workers and officials early in the
luncheon in the United States
Chamber of Commerce. A White
House engagement will necessitate
his leaving there by l pm.
Rallies were scheduled in several
Government departments today in
preparation for the first report
meeting.
Agencies holding rallies were the
War Production Board, War Plants
Corp, Office of the Secretary of
War and group of 200 State De-
lpartment employees.
Urges Quick Action.
1.-THE results are beginning to roll
in," Mr.. Kaufman said at a partial
report meeting yesterday. But
let's make this campaign short and
lsnappy. It is easier to do it today
than tomorrow. Let's get all our
work behind us"
He particularly praised the Lii
brary of Congress and National
Gallery Of Art employees, the first to
oversubscribe their quotas.
Miss Mabel Boardman, veteran of
10 years service with the Red Cross
now retired from active duty, said
to solicitors yesterday:
"The Red Cross can never. be an
ICao DEn CD0CC poro Ao0
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Chinese Within 2 Miles
OfLoshio, on Burmo Rood

BY the Associated Press.
HANDY, Ceylon, Mar. 7.-Chinese
1st Army troops and armor have
driven to within 2 miles of th<
Burma road railhead of Lashio, 6
Southeast Asia command headquar.
ters communique said today.
CA Chungking dispatch report
ed the Chinese had captured Old
Lashio, miles north of the main
town, and the fashion airfelds).
Lashio is located at the end o1
the Burma Road and is the ter
minus of the railroad from Man.
dalay, 140 miles southwestward.
Evening star., 1945-03-07

Sweden to make study of indus
trial relations.
During the World War, Mr.. Davis
was head of the contract section Of
the War Department.
Il think, perhaps, it is jumping
out of the frying pan into the fire."
Mr.. Davis said with a smile when
asked to comment on the announce
ment of his new post.
The announcement came as he
was appearing before the Senate
Banking Committee in his capacity
as WLB chairman to support the
Price Control and Stabilization Act.
Quiet, Slow Talking Man.
A quiet, slow-talking man, Mr..
Davis is taking over the arduous
job of holding wages and prices
in line under the administrations
stabilization policy, after seeking
several months ago to retire to
private life. He, along with DR..
Taylor and a third public member,
DR.. Frank c. Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina,
were preparing to step out, but
President Roosevelt prevailed on
them to stay. telling the chairman
ito hang on by your eyelids while
longer"
At the time there were reports
that the WLB was to be reorgan-
lied.
DR.. Taylor, A, is a former General
Motors labor umpire and professor
of economics at the University of
Pennsylvania. He has been active
in the field of industrial relations
for many years and has been vice
chairman of the WLB since its early
days.
The Little Steel formula, which
he authored, was set up by the board
as yardstick for wages, and limits
basic or cost-of-living pay in
Icreases to Is per cent over the jan
uary, 1941, level.
Taylor Won Davis Praise.
At the CIO convention last fall
when DR.. Taylor was criticized by
President Philip Murray, Chairman
Davis responded with warm praise
for the officials work on the board,
declaring that "he has the satisfac-
ton of knowing that this rule of his
has safeguarded the general well
fare of his countrymen through their
hours Of supreme need"
The departure of Mr.. Davis from
the board will necessitate a replace
(See DAVIS, Page A-180 =.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Lotest Overseas Star
Ready for Mailing

The latest issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition is ready for
mailing today. Free copies,
with envelopes, are obtainable
at The Stars business counter
and the Victory Bond booth
in Lansburgh's Department
Store.
The Overseas Star may be
sent by ordinary mail for 3
cents, but it will be delivered
much more quickly and will
be all the more appreciated
If sent by airmail at IL cents.
Evening star., 1945-03-07
Mrs. Macarthur, Son
Arrive in MoniIo
BY the Associated Press.

Fy the ASSOciated Press.
MANILA, Mar. Mrs. Douglas
Macarthur and her 6-year-old son
arrived in Manila today to rejoin
the general. They came from Aus
tralia on the first refrigerator ship
to enter the harbor since liberation
of the city.
A headquarters spokesman said
she returned ito aid and assist in
such way as she can in the care of
internees and rehabilitation of the
city and its inhabitants"