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from Berlin February II, DR.. Week
said.
A few oavs ago as Gen. Patton S
troops pressed ever nearer the hid
ing place, the Germans started
trantically to move the treasure
from the salt mine, the bank Off
cial said But their efforts were
thWarted by blown-up bridges and
they had TO return it a few days
ago to the 2,l00-footdee mine.
A German lawyer, captured with
Week and who said he was one of
the Reichsbanks counSelS. said the
German Army tried at first to get
everything out but the Americans
We're coming so fast that they just
concentrated on the money In the
end they ha dto leave everything.
Gen. Patton ringed the mine-re-
puted to be one of the worlds largest
with circle of tanks.
AstOunded by Stacks of Money.
The tanks were commanded by
1t. Col. V. B. Kedrovsky of Gary
Ind.
Todays preliminary inspection of
the cache was made by Col Joseph
Tully, of San Antonio, Texas. as
sistant commander of the goth Divi-
sion: Maj. J. Frank Brick of New
York, division Judge advocate: 1t.
Col. William Irvine Russell, 4836
Langdrum lane, Chevy Chase, Md.
All said they were absolutely dumb
founded at the stacked bags of cur
rency they saw
Wolf Won Kurzel. a local lawyer,
acted as interpreter. He said he
had an uncle. DR.. Emil Thorsch,
living in Minneapolis
The German officials said the gold
was in a chamber 400 feet long by
TO feet wide and was stacked three
feet high in bars weighing 35
pounds each. The currency was
carefully done up in bags.
Hundreds of Paintings.
The American officers also ex-
amined many art works which the
Germans insisted were only those
belonging to German museums
none from countries previously oc-
cupied by German troops. The
works included paintings, tapes
triese, statuary, engravings, coats
of mail dating from Roman times
and many Egyptian relics.
These included 400 paintings
from the National Museum, 300
cases of paintings from the Emperor
Frederick Galleries, 300 cases from
the German Museum of Sculpture,
an equal number from the Egyptian
Evening star., 1945-04-08
United Nations to Decide
Fate of German Booty

officials in Washington said the
booty would be impOunded and
later turned over to the United Ma
tions Commission TO decide what
should be done
Identifable loot such as paintings
would come under restitution plans
and be sent back to the country
from which it was stolen, those
sources said.
Handling of the rest of the gold
and money would depend on how
the Germans got it. 1t might come
either under the Allied Control
Commission which is to be set up
to run Germany or the Allied Rep
aratlOnS Commission.
While there are no accurate fig
ureS in Washington on Germany S
exact store of gold now, officials are
willing to believe the $l00000000
probably represented the ma jor part
of Germany's reserves.
Last published holdings were those
of the ReichSbank in 1888, which
were S29.000000. However, since
then Germany has captured con-
siderable gold stocks in Czecho-
slovakia, Poland and other European
countries.
A gold expert at the Foreign Eco
nomic Administration said Germany
had several times s1oOoo0.oOO in gold
in 1912 But the NaZis' stock Of
gold has been steadily declining
from that peak. he said. Germany
has been trading with neutral coun-
tries beyond the barter arrangement
and as Germany began to experience
military distress the neutral coun-
tries got tougher, he said, and in
sisted on gold payments.
Evening star., 1945-04-08
New Orleans Mother
Held in ChiId's Death
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, April 7.-Police
Sergt William M. Dwyer said to-
night that Mrs. Ernestine Bonneval,
g. had been charged with the mur-
der of her daughter Clementine, 7.
He said the woman had admitted
beating the child fatally with "a
homemade CATO -nine-tails fash
ioned from a length of rubber hose y
Mrs. Bonneval also was charged
with aggravated battery on her two
other children. Earl, 6, and Gene
We've, 4, Mr.. Dwyer said. Other
charges included contributing to
the delinquency of juveniles and
cruelty"
Mr.. Dwyer said charges were filed
against Mrs. Bonneval after she
made a statement in which he
quoted her as saying she had been
beating the three children for the
past several days because they had
been stealing money from neigh
Dor. The officer said Clementine
was found dead in the single room
occupied by the Bonnevals at a
dairy on the outskirts of the city
The childrens father is dead.
DR.. C. Grenes Cole, parish coro-
ner, said death was caused by shock
following multiple contusions, lac
cartons and brush burns of the
head. face. body and upper and
lower eXtremitieS and by malnutri-
tion
Mrs. Cora Cost, owner of the
room in which the Bonnevals lived,
told police she picked the child up
from the floor this morning and
placed her on bed. She said she
returned to the room about noon
and found her dead.
Evening star., 1945-04-08
| Hitler Action Enables
Nazi Party Leaders
Ito Abandon Posts.
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, April 7.-Adolph Hitler
decreed the splitting of state and
Nazi Party ofices today in drastic
move enabling topfight Nazi leaders
to abandon their posts in the path
of Allied armies and take up under
ground stations in the werewolf
war"
The action apparently is intended
to leave non-Nazi Party surrender
stooges" In the areas overrun by the
Allies and it was interpreted here
as another indication that the Reich
was in its death throes.
A decree by Hitler and an order by
the party chancellor, Martin Bor-
mann, as quoted by the German
news agency DNB. said the move
was made to facilitate "the freedom
of movement" of functionaries in
these difficult times" There have
been previous reports that Nazi
Party leaders had been executed for
fleeing their posts.
Trend Reversed.
This reversed an opposite trend
during IL years of Nazi history In
which province after province fell
under the rule of Nazi Party gaulei-
ters
The move also occurred amid
mounting reports Of chaos and ter
rorism in crumbling Germany and
reports Of many Germans fleeing to
neutral countries. Only yesterday
German military planes landed at
Lisbon and Barcelona. their crew.
men asking to be interned since they
no longer wanted to fight.
Hitler's order, broadcast shortly
before the Werewolf guerrilla station
boasted Of assassinating another
German mayor who had prepared
to surrender his village. said that
''all party and state functions on the
level of the Kries the administra-
tive subdivision of province, where
they are held by the same person,
shall be separated
Propaganda Angle Seen.
A suggestion that the Nazis might
be setting up basis for new post
war propaganda campaign was not
overlooked in London. The Nazis
contended the German army was
not defeated in the World War. but
was betrayed" by the appeal Of
President Wilson's "A points and a
civilian revolt. This time they might
try to claim the Nazis didn't lose
the war but were betrayed" by nom
party members.
In an order OF the day to the
Storm Troopers. Wilhelm Schepp-
man, chief OF staff. told his Brown
Shirts that the enemy stands far
within the German fatherland." The
Allies, he said. could be beaten IF
we are not despondent but stem him
with fierce determination and su-
preme individual effort"
Earlier the transocean agency had
told Berliners that all coal rations
for domestic heating in Berlin had
been cancelled, following up Fri
days decree which ordered the cut
ting of of gas and further dras-
tic reduction" of electricity.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

fury, jittery German commentators
for the third day predicted that an
all-out Red Army assault on Berlin
was imminent. The Soviet news
paper Red Star added to German
fears. saying.
I'VE are now at Vienna and Ber-
lin will be soon The angry breath
of our guns at the Oder River is
reaching Berlin"
The German TranSocean agency
said that the entire central and
northern fronts from the Carpa-
pected to erupt shortly and said
that Red Army preparations were
entirely complete
Vienna Battle Described.
From inside Vienna, TranSocean'S S
Heinrich Kurschat radioed a graphic
report of the battle
The continuous rumble of guns
is heard in the center of the city
he said. 'as silent columns of men
in working ClotheS-neWly- ly-recruited
VolkssturmerS armed with rifles and
ba azookaS-march TO the front
"PerSpiring soldiers are seen every
where and long columns of Wehr-
maCht trucks roll toward the battle
Men of the SIS Elite Guard are in
the forefront and bear the main
burden Of the fighting.
"A big bomb crater yawns beside
ST. Stephan's Cathedral. The State
Opera House is burned out. Blocks
of apartments are flattened and the
parks are dotted with bomb crateIs
Everyone knows that Vienna's Or
deal has begun"
While the battle for Vienna held
the spotlight, far to the north in
East Prussia. the Germans reported
that the Red Army had launched
an assault to reduce the long en-
battled fortress of KoenigSberg.
The DNB agency said that the
Russians were storming the city
from the south and north with an
estimated IL infantry divisions
some l65, 900 men-and more than
100 tanks and had scored minor
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Norway Urges Sweden.
To Join War and Save.
Remnants Of Nation
Py the Associated Press.

LONDON, April THE Norwe-
gian government. declaring that
Nazi force of approximately 100000
would make a last desperate stand"
In Norway appealed today to Sweden
to drop its neutrality and rescue
what can be saved" or Norway.
The general feeling in Norway"
a statement issued by the Royal
Norwegian government said, seems
to be that the war against the Ger
mans has reached the stage where
neutrality has become a mere. empty
word. that both the Swedish people
and the government are. in fact,
aware of their moral responsibilities
and are prepared to assist in saving
what can be saved"
A Swedish communique issued yes
terdaY said a Swedish Norwegian
volunteer association had been
granted permission to train 200 of
its volunteers at Swedish military
establishments. The communique
gave no further details about the
volunteers for Norway movement.
The statement of the Norwegian
government said the Germans were
bringing heavy guns and other war
material into Norway. sending in
ammunition by air increasing the
number of fortified U-boat pens. i'm
proving their air fields and stocking
up supplies of gasoline
The statement declared that Nor
way with its mountains and fjordS
was easy to defend and fortifica-
tion work is going on today in Nor
way on similar lines to those which
have been reported from the Ba-
varian Alps. 1t is also known that
the Germans all over the country
have planned destruction on the
most extensive scale"
The statement added that Nor
wegian economy already had suf-
fered a hard blow in the loss of the
greater part of its merchant navy
and If the Germans are allowed to
carry out their plans-if electricity
works are blown up, the fishing fleet
stolen. factories destroyed and rail-
way lines put out of service-the
economic destruction of Norway will
be practically irreparable."
The statement, which followed
Foreign Secretary Anthony Edens
message Yesterday to Norway that
their hour of liberation was nearing,
contended that the approach of the
end seems in no way to have weak
ened the Cruelty of the Gestapo."
Evening star., 1945-04-08

the penetration Of foreign countries
by exporting capital and technicians
to areas Of safety so that they could
be used another day by Germany"
Still another case which has come
to Allied attention, Mr.. Holmes re-
vealed, concerns the big German
firm of I. G. Farben. A representa-
tive of that concern. he said, as
sured certain foreign business Of
ficials that whether Germany won
the war or not the Farben position
in a certain market area would not
be impaired-because preWar cartel
agreements with certain firms would
probably be renewed"
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Western Front
Continued From First Page !

last So miles to the border of
CZechOslovakia.
Driving Toward Nuremberg.
The United States 7th Army was
driving toward the NaZi shrine city
of Nuremberg from positions "a miles
TO the northwest amid indications
that the once strong resistance was
sagging on this front.
The French LIST Army was claw
ing along the Siegfried Line south
of Karlsruhe, driving the enemy
from bunker to bunker
The German armies were being
sapped so sWiftly-40,094 more prlS-
oners being counted today-that it
seemed highly unlikely they would
even be able to stand on the broad
Elbe River. so miles west of Berlin.
The pace Of the advance had
stretched communications so badly
that supreme headquarters told cor
respondents that there was con-
siderable time lag between their re-
ports and the actual advance
That meant that nearly every
where along the line, Americans.
British. Canadians and French
might be we'll beyond positions re-
ported here.
Could Bypass Hanover.
Dashing l8 miles beyond the
Weser. the I'd Armored Division of
1t. Gen. William H. Simpson S
United States 9th Army hurdled the
Leine River and was driving east
at a point 10 miles south of Ham
mover after capturing Elze and
Schulenberg
Thus these troops were in a posi-
ton to bypass this city of 472.00o-
twelfth largest in the Relch-or
wheel north and take it from the
rear, since the Leine screens 1t on
the west.
The 9Th Armored Division swung
It's weight into the battle to crush
the Ruhr pocket. driving l3 miles
into the basin from the northeast.
Behind the 2nd Armored Division,
which was striking only spotty re-
sistance. the Germans fought stub
bornly in the tabled city of Hame-
lin and many an ancient building
in, this mecca of slghtseerS was be-
ing pounded into rubble.
The 2nd Armored Division also
overran the castle of Baron Muen-
chausen. originator of the tall tales
that bore his name
Evening star., 1945-04-08
IYanks Find Residents
|0f HameIin Drunk or
'Squea|ing' on Nazis
By YVES GALLAGHER,

hSSOClhteQ fTeSS " df SOl
HAMELIN, Germany. April T.
Yanks Of the 30th Division entered
Hamelin today and found a good
proportion of the population Of the
Pied Piper city were drunk.
Those who were not drunk were
running around squealing on the
local Nazis, looting their neighbors'
shattered homes or fawning on the
Americans.
The only places Of sanity found
in this picturesque town of fairy tale
fame were a dozen hospitals filled
with German soldiers and a handful
of Allied wounded, including an
American aviator.
The city had been by-passed by
the End Armored Hell on Wheels)
Division, which in a week has over
run 26 German army hospitals-the
largest holding 5000 patients at Bad
Prymont-giving a good idea of the
appalling German casualties in the
war. In addition each town has
had its quota of wounded
Most of the big shot Nazis had
departed when the Americans ar
rived in the town, which is pretty
we'll battered by American artillery
/ fire. The residents said the Ger
mans held vote before the Amer
leans attacked and a ma ajority Of
the civilians wanted to give up, but
few diehards kept on fighting.
In the last three days the civilians
had looted practically everything
they could get their hands on.
/ When the Americans showed up,
the civilians Immediately busted
themselves trying to get the Yanks
to arrest their favorite enemies on
charges Of being Nazis.
They were all crying and squeal-
ing on one another said Capt.
William w. Drucker. Oak Harbor,
Ohio whose company was one of
the first to enter the town.
. Peace e. PLENTY co-nwnerS Of
Evening star., 1945-04-08

Hamburg. All are nesting places
for the Jet planes.
Railyard targets were at Luene-
berg, near Hamburg, and Neumuen-
ster. south of Kiel. The bombers
also hit an oil depot at Guestrow
and ammunition plants at Duneber
and Krummel near Hamburg
Swarms of Nazi fighters rose to
the defense of this strategic area
and some broke through the screen
OF guardian fighters to get at the
heavy bombers.
The last major air battle over
Germany was March "a, when SO
Nazis were shot down in scattered
fights over the western front. A
total of 81 Germans were shot down
February 2 when 1900 bombers at
tackled railway centers at Dresden.
ChemnitZ and Magdeburg
Evening star., 1945-04-08

Museum, and 200 cases of etchings
from the Kopperstech Museum.
Paintings were carefully identi-
fed by Autographed copy on each
side of their crates In addition
there were huge stacks of paintings
which had not been packed at all
Over the entrance TO the treasure
vault there still blazed a neon sign:
Hell Hitler"
Evening star., 1945-04-08
GAR Veteran Elects
Himself Unanimously
At One-Mon Meetino

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April
7 - Charles G. Burt. 81, last
Massachusetts Civil War vet
eran, today elected himself
State commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic at a one
man GAR encampment.
Whom going to COM
mand?" the invalid veteran
wisecracked. as he opened the
meeting in his bedroom.
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Naziis

Continued From First Page.)
the proceeds minus his commits
sion, of course at the disposal of
Himmler-all under cover you may
be sure.
another agent. working for Her
mann Goering, is now in possession
Evening star., 1945-04-08

down.
Proposed Motor Plant.
And then, Mr.. Holmes added,
there was the proposal to set up
and equip complete aircraft engine
industry in a neutral country" Mr.
Holmes did not say how that one
turned out.
Mr.. Holmes also reported that in
August, l943. Ambassador Won
Papen, German envoy in Turkey.
told a close friend that Germany
could no longer hope to win the
war and every possible move should
be made to save German industrial
and military power" for the future.
BY the fall of 1914. Mr.. Holmes con-
tinued. German industrial leaders
were putting into effect plans for
Evening star., 1945-04-08

Peace & Plenty, co-owners of
Americas future. Buy that extra
War Bond today.
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Continued From First Page.)
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Proposed Motor Plant.

equipment. That offer was turned
down
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last 58 miles to the border
CzechOslovakia.
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Gold

Continued From First Page !
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BALTIMORE, ND.
KALBES KONG. O'KONSKI
IR ATSTOVAS RASTENIS

Cia rengiamas milziniskas
susirinkimas sekmadieni, Bir-
zelio "a, nuo 1880 val. vakare,
sv. Stanislovo saleje, Ann ir
Aliceanna gatv. Susirinkimas
yra rengiamas mazesniu tau
tu teisiu uztarimui; il rengia
tautines grupes. Kalbes Wis
consin valstijos Kongresmanas
Alvin E. O'Konski, kuris dau-
geliu atveju garsiai prabilo uz
mazesniu tautu teises Kongre-
SO Rumuose ir kitur, ir Mary
land Valstijos atstovas Nadas
Rastenis. To susirinkimo obal-
sis bus Justice for the Small
Nations.
Vietos Lietuviai kvieciami
dalyvauti ir padidinti skaiciu
tn kurie uztaria mazesnes sa-
lis, ju tarpe ir Lietuva. Rep.
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STALINAS NETIKEJO
KAD ROOSEVELT
MIRE

(Pabaiga nuo LIMO pusl.)
liau, Stettinius sutiko pranes-
tt apie tai j Baltuosius Namus.
IS ten atsakyta kad Selma nu-
tarus atlikti laidojima papras-
tu budu ir kad kunas nebus is
statytas zmoniu apziurejimui.
Grabas nebus atidarytas.
"sita zinia pareiskus boise
viku ambasadoriui, Gromyko,
pareikalavo kad Stetinius pa
rasytu special isakyma leisti
Gromykui pamatyti prezidento
kuna, kad Gromyko galetu pa
tiekti savo vyriausybei prane-
sima jog. tai tikrai Roosevelto
kunas grabe. Pc ilgo issisuki-
nejimo Stettinius sutiko pada-
ryti toki rastiska isakyma. So
vietu ambasadorius tada link
teleies isejo tue paciu rimtu
veidu kaip il buvo atejes.
''Tas keistas pareikalavimas
sukele aukstus State Depart
mento virsininku tarpe ivairiu
kalbu bangas, nors tas ivykis
buvo laikomas dideleje5 slapty-
beje.
'Pagaliau, isejo aiksten vie
mas istoriskas faktas Siam ne
paprastam nuotikiui. Vienas is
ankstyvesniu caru, atsioodejes
valdymu, paskelbe kads jis mi
res. Uzdarytame grabe jisai
buvo palaidotas visu puosnu-
mu. Caras pats gi pasidave i
vienuolyna, pavesdamas savo
valstybes bedas savo ipediniui.
"Tokio ivykio delei, nuo to
laiko buvo reikalujama, kad
mires caras prizes laidojant bu-
tu parodytas grabe.
"sitokiu pareikalavimu, Sta
linas norejo persitikrint ar
Roosevelt tikrai mire, ar tik
panaudojo ta sposa pasiskelbti
mires kad galetu isbegti nuo
savo prizadu duotu Stalinui
Jaltos ir Teherano konferenci-
lose"
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KARO DARBAI MAZEJA

Karo kontraktu sulaikymas
pradeda palikti zymes darbi-
ninku skaiciuose darbe Shame
distrikte. Nuo Kovo Xxi Ba-
landzio darbininku ciukuras
dirbtuvese tapo pasiektas il
pradejo kristi zemyn.
Pittsburgho srityje II aps-
kriciu is karo dirbtuviu palei-
sta, kad ir laikinai, $4,000 dar-
bininku. Xiii tuoj gavo kitus
darbus; kitos kompanijos per-
sikeieia civiline gamyba, kit
gi jiesko darbu.
Allegheny apskrityje darby
nukirtimas palette apie 10000
vyru ir moteru.
Nuo Birzelio menesio 1914
metu Allegheny apskrities dir
btuvese dirba $4,000 darbinin-
ku maziau.
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DETROITE TIkIMA
DIDELIU STREIKU

Detroite tikima dideliu dar-
bininku streiku kuriuos ruosia
ir kursto komunistai, kuomet
Shame dideliame karo industri-
jos mieste pradejo apsireiksti
darby sumazejimai sulaikant
karo kontraktus.
Nuo to kai Vokieciai uzata-
kavo Russia, komunistai Ame-
rikoje uzsilaike tvarkiai, kuo-
met Russia turejo ziureti pa
galbos is Amerikos. Nors Xxi
to jie labai smerke Amerika
uz gelbejima Britannica, paskui
nutilo. Jie tapo super-patrio-
tais ir nekele jokiu riausiu ir
nedare kliuciu. Jie dziaugesi
tik kad Amerika ikisus savo
kali turf gelbet ir Russia.
Dabar Americas komunistai
vel keicia savo kali. Pradziai
to, ju organas New Yorke pa
talpino Prancuzijos komunistu
vado isbarima Browder'o uz
kooperavima SUI Amerikos ka-
pitalizmu.
Detroito komunistai dabar
sakoma ruosia streikus priver-
timui Suv. Valstiju susiristi
artimiau su Rusija tarptauti-
niuose santikiuose.
Nors streikai Detroitui ne
naujiena, taciau komunistu SUI
kelti streikai bus sunku sutai-
kyti del ju kilmes ir klastin-
GU tikslu.
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Is Nelietuviu Spaudos

PHILADELPHIA. - Birze-
lilo 13 man pateko j rankas
redakcinis puslapis New York
Journal = American dienrascio,
Birzelio II dienos, kuriame til
po ilgas, platus straipsnis ant
raste: Small Nations and the
World Security Organization.
Tas straipsnis parasytas musu
zinomo veikejo, Amerikos Lie
tuviu Misijos ko-pirmininko
Adv. Antano A. Olio.
Apie to straipsnio turini ir
jo didele verte Lietuvos naudai
nemanau cia kalbeti, nes sa-
vaime suprantama kad toxic
dideli if itakingi laikrasciai
kaip virSuje paminetas mazos
vertes straipsnio kaip editorial
10 netalpintu.
AS tik Saku ia kas man be-
skaitant ia straipsni pasireis-
ke mintyje: Jei Adv. Oils su
savo keliais draugais Lietuvos
labui nuveikia tiesiog milzinis-
kus darbus tai kas gi butu jei
mes visi, taip Salininkai Lietu-
val Vaduoti Sajungos, kaip il
tarybininkai, veiktume isvien,
arba nors tarp saves palaiky-
tune kontakta, sulyg reikalo !!
Tikekit man, nuveiktume tie
siog dabar NUNS neimanomus
vertingus savo tautos gelbeji-
me darbus. X. ".
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Lektuvai Surnazino
Musu Pasauli

Karo Maj. Gen. C. E. LeMay,
is Lakewood, Ohio, pastaru lai-
ku greituoju karo lektuvu par
skrido be sustojimo is Hawaii
salu j Washingtona, 4,64O my
liQ kelio, j 20 valandu laiko.
Karui pasibaigus, greitieji
lektuvai bus panaudojami pa
sazieriu veziojimui ne tik Anne
rikoje bet ir kitus kontinen-
tus. IS New Yorko j Londona
nuskris per apie 9 valandas,
Lietuva galima bus parkeliau-
tt j Is valandu laiko. Pusry-
cius pavalgius Amerikoje, va
karienei paspesime Kaune.