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Evening star., 1945-04-29
Red Conquest
|0f Berlin Is
In Final Stage
Mass Surrenders
Sweep Ranks Of
Battered Defenders
BY EDDY GILMORE,

Associated Press war correspondent.
MOSCOW, April 20 Sunday.
The battle for Berlin is in its
final stage. Mass surrenders are
sweeping the thinning ranks of
weary German troops. short of
food and water in a burning
capital whose defenses appeared
to have cracked wide open.
All reports reaching Moscow this
morning told of the desire of most
Of the once-fanatical garrison to
end the suicidal fight.
In the last hours of Berlin, the
Russians have turned hundreds of
gigantic searchlights-some of them
captured and some of them their
own-on the center of the city.
With the center of the capital
caught in this white glare, the Rus
slams last night poured tons of
projectiles from mortars and ar
tillery and thousands of rockets
from katushas into the mass of
humanity jammed in a Red Army
trap.
The trap was forged when Mar
shall Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st White
Russian Army Pat on tremendous
squirt westward from the Tempelhof
Airdrome sector and joined up with
Marshal Ivan S. Konevs list
Ukrainian Army.
Marshal Zhukov's troops today
were smashing southwest from the
captured Moabit region toward the
Reichstag. They were from l to 2
miles from that building and were
smashing ahead toward Unter den
Linden and the Tiergarten.
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Home Coming Sugar
Moy Be Cut 5 Pounds
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
The OPA is expected shortly to
reduce allowance of sugar for home
canning from q maximum of 20
pounds to Is pounds a person for the
1945 canning season.
This was reported In authoritative
quarters last night, but officials de-
clined to confirm or deny it.
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Truman Says
Ndzis Have NOT
Given Up Yet
ConnoIIy Insists
News May Be Given
Out MomentoriIy
By the Associated Press.

BY tHe ESsocldteQ PIeSS.
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Ges-
tapo chief and German interior
minister, has offered to sur
render Germany Internationally
to Britain and the United States
but was rebuffed because he did
not include surrender to Russia,
Moscow announced officially
early today.
The fact that the offer was made
and spurned was reported by Tass,
official Soviet news agency, in a
Moscow broadcast.
This was the first official word
that Germany, in state of military
collapse, was ready to quit.
Denied by Truman.
Previously reports to the same
effect had circulated around the
world, and from San Francisco,
where the United Nations Confer
ence was in session, came word last
night that surrender already had
occurred and was expected to be
announced at any moment.
President Truman, however, told
White House correspondents that
actual surrender was a rumor with
out foundation.
The San Francisco report that a
surrender had been made with mo
strings attached" originated with
Senator Tom Connal1y, chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee and vice chairman of the
American delegation to the United
Nations Conference.
Telephoned Eisenhower.
This information, given at first
with the stipulation that Senator
Connally not be identified, was car
ried by the Associated Press at 7:55
pm, Eastern War Time.
One hour and 40 minutes later,
President Truman told a special
press conference at the White House
that he had gotten Admiral Leahy
to telephone Gen. Eisenhower in
Paris "and there is no foundation
for the rumor."
The President authorized direct
quotation of his statement-an unu-
sual procedure.
Learning of the presidential state
ment, Senator Connally authorized
Identification of himself as source of
the surrender report and told re-
porter that he still expected the sur
render announcement to be made
"momentarily He said he believed
the official news would be forthcom-
ing in a matter of hours.
White House Puts 'Lid On"
White House Press Secretary
Jonathan Daniels, however, told re-
porters, THE lids on" signifying
that nothing more was expected last
night.
Gen. Eisenhower issued a state
ment in Paris to the Army paper,
Stars and Stripes, that he had no
information at all on any German
surrender.
Senator Connally had said the
announcement might come from
Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters.
The Senator did not give the source
of his information about a surren-
der, but another high official in San
Francisco said that he, too, had re-
cejved the same renort
Secretary of State Stettinius made
no statement and planned none.
This series of developments cli-
NAKED Saturday in which Ger
many's complete military collapse
was so inmirlent that surrender re-
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25-Squore-MiIe Pocket
Left in Center of Berlin

LONDON. Sunday, April 20 tR.-
Soviet Armies, taking a final stran-
glehold on Berlin, hurled its defend
ers back into a shell-raked, 25-
square-mile pocket in the city,s CEN
ter yesterday while thousands of
German troops surrendered to the
Red Army.
German resistance was fanatical,
but almost all the city except the
central pocket, which was forced
by a Red Army inner ring of en-
circlement, was in Russian hands.
The Paris radio said early today
that the Russians had occupied
the Reichstag in the center of Ber-
lin, adding 'it is believed that the
end of German resistance in the
capital Is imminent" BY Moscow's
account, however, the Russians were
from l to 2 miles from the Reich
stag.
Advance on Hamburg.
Soviet forces north of the capt.
tai smashed out across the Neck
lenburg plains on an expanding
81-mile front and gained up to
% miles toward Rostock and Ham
burg in cleanup of the isolated
northern half of Adolf Hitler's now
bisected Third Reich.
These forces captured five major
towns, including Pasewalk, where
Hitler, blinded by gas. in November,
1918, resolved in a military hospital
to become a politician, rebuild Ger
many's military power and avenge
the Versailles Treaty.
Three major Berlin city districts
and parts of three others were cap
tured by the 1st White Russian and
lst Ukrainian Armies as they bat
tied up to 3 miles through blaz-
ISpo RERI,TN PAGE All
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Private Information
Was His Source,
Asserts
Says He's Sorry He
Said Anything
About Surrender
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3D.
After he had authorized the AS
ISOLATED Press tonight to say that
he expected announcement OF
the German surrender "momen-
tarily," Senator Connally OF
Texas, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
and a delegate to the Security
Conference, met with represent
atives of the International News
Service and the United Press as
well as the Associated Press.
The UP representative began by
saying that Senator Connally was
being quoted by the AP. Senator
Connally said he had not intended
that a statement which he had
issued for release after the surrender
announcement should be published
When it was established that this
had not been published, but only the
statement Senator Connally had au-
thorized the AP to carry, the
ms and the UP reporters asked
If Senator Connally had said he ex-
pected an announcement of the sur
render "momentarily."
Authorized Quotation.
Senator Connally said, after being
reminded by the Associated Press
reporter that he had authorized the
quotation. that it was correct.
The United Press reporter then
asked If it was not true that Senator
Connally had made this statement
on the basis Of rumors and informa-
ton which had been current at the
United Nations session today.
The AP newsman objected that
the UP reporter was attempting tc
place words in the Senator's mouth
The AP reporter made severa
such protests to leading question!
and at one point the ms reporter
said, Il don't blame you for trying
to get of the hook"
When the AP reporter replied that
he had written the quotations just
as Senator Connally gave them. the
Senator said:
That is right"
The UP and ms reporters then
framed series of questions. They
suggested that Senator Connally was
(See CONNALLY, Pare A-6.)
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Raj Hits City Blocking
Lond Drive on Emden
- the Associated Press.

LONDON, April 28-Royal Air
Force Spitfires and Typhoons Of the
"a Tactical Air Force bombed the
town Of Leer In Northwestern Ger
many today, where stubborn re-
sistance Of the defenders has been
blocking the Canadian Army's ad-
vance toward Emden.
The attacking force new through
heavy rain TO reach the target. but
bad weather kept Allied planes on
the ground along most Of the front.
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Senate Food Probers
To Map Program 10
Improve Meat Supply
Subcommittee Sees
Action Needed But
Disogrees on Form
~ the Associated Press.


The Senate Agriculture Com
mittee yesterday instructed It's
Food Investigating subcommittee
to draw up recommendations for
improving meat supply and dis
tribution.
A majority of the full commit
tee apparently was convinced some
action is needed, but its form was
not certain. There was subcom-
mittee disagreement on one-man
direction for food management.
The action was taken at closed
meeting during which Senator
Wheeler, Democrat. of Montana is
reported to have declared he feared
|a complete breakdown" in food
supplies unless q new Government
administrative setup is established
soon.
Senator Wheeler was said to have
advocated consolidation of all food
matters under one man. They now
are divided chiefly between the
OPA and the War Food Administra-
ton, with some other agencies also
having a hand in them.
Suggests Price Increase.
The Montanan Is a member of
the food subcommittee which is
headed by Senator Thomas, Demo-
crat, Of Oklahoma, also chairman
of the full committee. Senator
Thomas told reporters he questioned
whether it was advisable at this
stage to create an entire new food
administration.
Senator Butler, Republican, of Ne
braska, another of the food investi-
gators, set out his views in a letter
to Price Administrator Chester
Bowles. He expressed belief that
OPAs new program, adding $34,-
000, 900 to existing subsidies, will not
meet the situation and suggested
an increase in meat prices. .
Contending the first thing which
should be done is to encourage feed
ing Of cattle to heavier weights,
Senator Butler told Mr.. Bowles:
III more subsidies are paid in
stead Of increasing the ceilings, there
is q reasonable doubt who gets
them, and the feeder is not con-
|vinced that any substantial portion
gets through to him.
Retail Effect Small.
I'VE have heard the old argument
repeatedly that the line must. be
held and that any increase In cell
ings Is inflationary. Nay ! call your
attention to the fact that If the
wholesale beef price was increased
g per hundred land believe this
is the minimum that should be add
ed the resultant per capita In
crease In meat costs would be little
more than cent per day.
When you consider the fact thai
the director Of economic stabiliza-
tion has just authorised an increase
Evening star., 1945-04-29
On a B-2o Blasting
Tokyo

The log of the B-29 raid
on Tokyo written by Star
War Correspondent Bill Ship
pen. whose first report of his
fight was presented in The
Sunday Star on April Is. ap-
pears today on Page C-5. It
is one of the outstanding eye
witness accounts of what goes
on in a B-29 during one of
those devastating attacks on
the Jap mainland.
Evening star., 1945-04-29

c o II CentratlOn
camp for ci-
villains ne a r
Weimar, in
Central Ger
many, S e e m
important only
as a symbol.
B ut G e n.
E | S e n h o wer
CQOugnC I II e
evidence a t
B u C h e n Wald
should be seen
at first hand
by American
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CONFIRM GERMAN BID FOR PEACE
But REPORT OF SURRENDER IS DENIED HERE
BuchenwoId Stands as Symbol
To World of Nozi Indecency

M McKellDay, associate editor OF The Star OF
group American editors and publishers inved by
oeek fly to Germany and uiew at first
hand the Na atrocities unued by the aduancng American
troops dispatch toIoUS:
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One additional man from
the District area has been re-
ported killed in this iDdr. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page Az.
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BY B. M. MCKELWAY,

AS9oNAotS @SoaeSi "a AAS SsNA'
PARIS, April 28.-After what
Hitler's Germany has done to
the world, the details of what
they did at the Buchenwald
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Rodio Programs, Pg. Clio
Complete Index. Pg. Az
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tsee WESTERN FRONT, Pass A-2.)
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Weather Forecast

Intermittent rain, temperatures in SOS
today; cloudy, warmer tomorrow
Temperatures Yesterday High, 81 at
4:45 p.m.: low, Al at 6:15 am:
SO at II pm.
United States Weather Bureau Report.
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(See CROWDS, Page A-5.)
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(See PEACE, Page A-5.)
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1See REACTION, Page A-4.)
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1See ITALIAN, Page A-30
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(See CONNALLY, Pare A-6.)
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Continued on page AT, Column 2.
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function of government.
Tho RritiCh T obor nov

function of government.
The British Labor party, now in
control of the British government
would do all these things and any
other deemed necessary for prog
ress such as the operation of mines,
railroad and banks. Prime Minister
Attlee and his associates are inter-
ested primarily in providing maxi
mum service and employment. Prof
its are recognized as being desirable
for British business, but govern
ment policy is not to be carried out
primarily for the purpose of enabl-
ing certain individuals to make
profits.
DR.. w. E. B. Dubois, that sage of
Negro statesmen, writing in his new
book, "Color &Democracy," doubts
if the Labor party would bring
about substantial changes in the
conditions of Negroes and other col
onial peoples. In his usually learned
manner Dubois argues that the
postwar struggle for prestige, pow
er, and profits within England and
other colonial powers is likely to in
tensify colonial exploitation.
If the Dubois analysis is borne
out then the British labor govern
ment will not only have to turn it's
back on the principles on which it
won its victory over the conserva-
tives. It would have to go even fur
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ther and reverse the progress being
made in the West Indies, in British
African colonies. In all of these col
onies, particularly Jamaica, Niger
ia, and the Gold Coast Negroes not
only have won the right to partici-
pate increasingly in responsible self
government, but through recognized
unions are effectively resisting the
exploitation which is the central
theme of DuBos' book.
An example of this progress is
the present strike of some 10000
Negro workers in Nigeria, West At
RIGA, to raise the minimum wage to
at least SO cents per day in addition
to a so percent increase in the cost
of living allowance. Over 21 million
Negroes live in Nigeria and the
wage-earning population is repre-
sented by "a unions, covering deck
and railroad workers, government
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NEGROES & BRITISH POLITICS

AS was pointed out by us early in
July, the defeat of Winston Chur-
chill and the British Conservative
party is vitally important to the
great majority of Negroes in the
world, both in America and in Afri-
ca. Better understanding of British
politics and personalities of the new
dominant British Labor party is a
pressing need. Without this under
standing we cannot help to make
public opinion sensitive to and con-
structively critical of labor and 9TH
er conditions in Africa, the West In
dies and other colonial areas.
The smashing defeat of Winston
Churchill indicates that the social
welfare revolution is far advanced
in Great Britain. 1t has not been
marked by bloody civil strife for the
British are much, too well behaved
for that. The fundamental idea Of
this social welfare government is
that the government itself should
assume direct administrative respon-
sibility for the conduct of business
and industry as means of promot-
ing the general welfare of British
citizens.
In sharp contrast with this is the
idea prevailing in America that the
business activities of government
should be limited to fair taxation,
enforcement of contracts, conserva-
ton of national resources, encour-
agement of free enterprise, the pre-
vention of monopoly, and unfair
competition. Most Americans now
accept the idea that the provision Of
social security is also an acceptable
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employees, miners, printing trades
workers, telephone and telegraph
employees, clerical workers and 9TH
ers.
American Negroes and Progress
sive labor circles in America and in
England are hoping that in settling
the strikes in Nigeria, Prime Mini
ster Attlee and the British Labor
government will reveal that New
Deal is in store for the colonies.
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ELECT
II. JACOB DEUT5(H
JUDGE MUNICIPAL COURT
Non-Purfisun Judicial Ticket
(CiviI Division)
Democrat
THE STARS SAY:"
By TANTSI

OSIUO(IOJ
Attended Emerson Grade School,
stivers High School. University Of
Dayton Law School.
Proetieed law sH years in Dayton.
Member Of Legislature Of ssote Of
Ohio 1o4I-1o43.
Waived exemption TO enlist In army
as buck privote in I942. Grodvosed
from Officers condidofe School with
Commission Of 2nd Lieutenant.
Oversees with 83rd Infonsry Di-
vision which speorheoded 9Th Army
ostoek in Germany. First division 70
reach Rhine River. First division in 9th
Army to eonioet the Russions.
Awarded the Infantry Combat
sodse.
Monisd-Wife and 22-month old
child reside IN Dayton.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-28
Richard POlcerS

ST. CLAIR SHORES Rich
ard Z. Powers, 80, former prom
inent athlete in st. Clair Shores,
died Tuesday night in Toledo,
Ohio, after lingering illness.
Powers, who is a graduate OF
Lake Shore High school was a
star athlete for both the High
school and other sports teams.
He had lived in st. Clair Shores
up to last year when he moved
TO Toledo TO accept a position
there.
He is survived by his wife.
Donna; one daughter, Linda,
his father and step-mother, Mr..
and Mrs. Ray E. Powers of
22829 Garfield, ST. Clair Shores,
and Betty Powers.
Funeral services will take
place this afternoon at two o.
clock at the Roy j. Raul funeral
home, ST. Clair Shores, with
Christian Science services.
Reader w. A. Williams will Of
ficiate. Burial will be in the
family plot in Forest Lawn
cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-28
FOrty-Sixers
Continued from Page l

determination voiced by Ma
comb county Democratic leaders
and said that, with unified
action behind good candidates,
he is confident that full county
and state tickets can be present
ed to the voters with every ex-
pectation that sound, substantial
individuals will be swept into
office.
The Democratic spokesman,
however, warned against over
confidence and stressed the fact
that thorough organizational and
financial groundwork are essen
tial to the attainment Of the
goals, outlined by him. He
pointed out that a 20-man coun-
ty forty sixer" committee will
be named shortly and that each
will be provided with full party
credentials including re e p
forms. in triplicate, prior to the
beginning of the solicitation of
two dollar party contributions.
Averill himself has a splendid
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-28
Neil Warren

VAN DYKE - Funeral serv-
ices for Neil w. Warren of 8488
Cadillac, who died Wednesday,
June 10, after lingering illness
were held Saturday, June 16.
The Rev. Edward Warnke offici-
ated. Interment was in OakvieW
cemetery, Royal Oak.
Warren, who was former
constable in Warren township
for three years and a Hudson
Motor employe died, at the
Howell Sanitorium.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Warren;
three brothers, Albert. George
and Robert all in the Navy and
two sistes. Mrs. Ernest Berry
and Mrs. Conrad Adams.
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background of achievement in
public affairs and thorough
grasp of educational, juvenile
delinquency and recreational
problems, He is former Fern
dale teacher, served once as
publicity director for the Michi-
gan Educational Association, or
gained the first leisure cultural
recreational program in Michi-
gan and developed, throughout
the 13 northern midwest states,
recreational program of such
scope and efficiency that he lat
er was called TO Washington to
deal with similar problems. At
the present time Averill is vice.
president and assistant labora-
tory director of The Rovin Lab
oratories, Detroit, (manufactur-
ers of a variety of serums, peni-
cillin and other similar medicin-
al products.)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-28
Cooperative Farming
Is Seen On Up.Swing

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.-lU.k
The emphasis will be on co.
operative marketing and uni
fol- quality in the postwar
marketing of far mproducts, &C.
cording to Pennsylvania State
College specialist.
Most wholesale buyers of the
future will be looking for con-
tinuous supply in large volume
of products of uniform quality
"a demand which the individ-
ual farmer will be in no posi-
ton TO meet, predicted Dr. Ken
meth Hood, extension agricul-
tural economist.
1t will be only through "co-
operative assembling, grading
and packaging of the output OF
a large number of producers
that the market demand of large
buyers can be met" DR.. Hood
asserted.
AS examples of this method,
he cited the operation in Penn
sylvania of cooperative wool
pools, poultry egg auctions, the
mushroom grower markets, and
the potato marketing co-opera-
tives.
The Penn State expert be-
lieves co-operatives can help
coordinate production with ref
erence to volume, kind, quality
and variety Of product.
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Obituaries
Mrs. III. WiIllllui,

Mrs. Henrietta Whitman, SO,
of 2140 Durham road, Route /,
Mount Clemens, died Wednes-
day night at her home.
Born in Fraser she has been
a resident of Mount Clemens all
of her life.
She is survived by her hus-
band William, a daughter, Mrs.
Ella Dalecke and son, Albert,
both of Mount Clemens and two
grandchildren.
Her remains may be seen at
the d. N. Cooley funeral home
tonight after 1880 from where
funeral services will take place
Saturday afternoon at two o.
clock. Rev. Jacob Whitman
will officiate. Burial will be in
the family plot in Clinton Grove
cemetery.
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Funeral services for 82-year-
old Peter Erickson, who for the
past five years has made his
home with a daughter, Mrs. e.
len Van De Carr, 1880 L'Anse
Grouse avenue. in Harrison
township, were held Wednesday
at ? p. m, from the Swedish
Lutheran church, at Newberry,
Mich, with burial in Newberry
cemetery.
Mr.. Erickson, who died at S..
Joseph's hospital, Mount Glenn
ems, on Monday. is survived by
three daughters, Mrs. Elsie Welt
schat, Mrs. Martha Roberts and
Mrs. Van DeCarr, as well as by
two sons, Algot and Evert, and
by brother, Theodore LaCroix
& Groesbeck handled LOCAL ar.
rangemcnts for burial.