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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
MINISTER'S
 OF BIG } ! IN (0NFAB
Arrival of MoIotov Sets Underway Pre- Confer
 enCe Discussions

z WASHINGTON, April B The Big Three Foreign Ministers re- sumed their momentous discus sions prior to the San Francisco Conference, this morning. The ses- sions began shortly after l0.30 o'clock, when Foreign Commissar Molotov arrived at Secretary of State Edward Stettinius' office, pre- ceded short time before by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
 Also present were Soviet Am bassador Gromyko, Averill Harri- man, A meri n Ambassador to Russia; Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Permanent Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs; Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Moscow, and U. s. Under-Secretary of State, Joseph c. Grew.
 No statements were issued prior to today's meeting as to progress made thus far in the Washington get-together of Russian, British and American Foreign Ministers
 After an hour and half of con- versations, the Foreign Ministers recessed for lunch, but .Stettinius declared they were still in con- ference"
 After leaving the conference, Secretary of State Stettinius hur- ried to the White House to confer with President Harry s. Truman.
 The first session of the Foreign Ministers began less than four hours after Molotov arrived by air from Moscow, and broke up at 11:20 o'clock last night.
 Foreign Commissa Molotov stepped fro ma U. s. Army trans port plane. which brought him from Moscow, at 5:46 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. Stettinius was on hand to greet him with hearty welcome, welcome!"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
ALL BASES
 ON PACIFIC
 TO BE HELD
1rusteeship Plan to Be Re. ported al Meeting of
 United Nations

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23-Tht United States would retain contro of strategic Pacific bases after the war, under a compromise trustee ship plan reported under study fol presentation at the United Nations Conference.
 This subject, together with a pro- posal for a community of the Pacific" patterned after the Pan- American Union, shared pre-Con- ference interest with the trouble some Polish question, currently the Big Three" topic in Washington
 As the Wednesday opening of the 56 nations conference drew near Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Commander Harold Stassen pre- dicted it would succeed in it's job of establishing a world organiza- tion for peace.
 Both U. s. Delegates, Vanden- berg reported, are in line for the job of representing the United States on the Conference Com mission, which would write the regulations for the World Security Council. This Commission will handle the delicate problem o1 voting procedure within the inner circle of the peace-keeping or ganization.
 Advocates say the International Trusteeship compromise as worked out in Washington, is intended to satisfy demands for Pacific island bases, and at the same time pro- vide plan that would work as well as benefit Russia and Britain, or any other nation with military base requirements.
 The idea behind the compromise plan is to have two kinds of trusteeship areas; one type to be subject to investigation and report by tustee committees of the pro- posed world organization terri tories, the other type, which would probably be called security areas to be assigned exclusively to the trustee power.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
.2MoreCabinei Officers Taken
 yU.5.Foftes
Co|Iaborationists of Pup pet Jap Government
 Captured on Luzon
By Fred ffamps0n

Associated Press War CorrespondenD
 MANILA, April 23-Two addi- tional Cabinet Members and ac- cused collaborationists, fallen with the Japanese-dominated Philippine puppet Government, have been cap- tured near Baugio, the besieged summer capital in Northern Luzon, Gen. Macarthur says in a com- munique.
 The Cabinet Members are Claro Recto, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Rafael Altman, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce.
 Four members of the Cabinet were captured last week as the Tanks Thirty Third Division closed in on Baguio.
 The Cabinet members will be confined for the duration as a matter of military security. then turned over to the Government of the Philippines for trial.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
DRIVE ON
 DANA0 I5
 GOING ON
Bombers Aid Ground Forces on Mindando-
 Sinkings Reported

MANILA, April 23-The Twenty Fourth Division continued the drive on Mindanao toward Davao along the highway and valley of the big Mondanao River, while bombers swept enemy concentrations and lines of communications.
 Heavy bombers sank or damaged an 8,000-ton transport and four other vessels off Formosa and wrecked a 7,000-ton freighter- trans port near Saigon, French Indo- China.
 Rail installations in Indo-C China have also been heavily pounded.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
MA55A(RED
 ARE BURIED
 BY GERMANS
SS. Ellie Men, Women Are PdIIbearers Under
 British Guards
By William Frye Associated Press War Correspondent

BELSEN, Germany, April B = The dead are getting burial today in this fearsome concentration camp, but it is ghastly burial-- no collins, no flowers. no music, no well-bred sympathy and no tears.
 These naked corpses are hauled in trucks, and dumped ill pits their pallbearers s. s. Elite men and women; their litany the hoarse shouts of British soldiers sick with disgust and fury, ordering these marked members of Hitler's chosen legions to their horrible task.
 Countless thousands, some say 10000, some say more. died hor- rible deaths here before the British Army reached this camp on the Aller River southeast of Bremen Sunday.
 T saw these dead, hundreds and thousands of them. lying in ditches or piled in heaps against the wall of drab huts."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
NINETEENER5 NOT GOING OVERSEAS,
 SAYS MARSHALL

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.- Gen. George Marshall advised Con- |gress, today, that as soon as mili- tary conditions permit the Army will adopt the policy of sending over seas no soldiers younger than nine teen.
 Chief of Staff Marshall made the statement in latter to Chairman Thomas, Senate Military Commit tee.
 Senator Hill, acting Majority lead CT, read the letter. The Senate, dur ing debate, asked the legislation to extend the Selective Service Act an- other year after expiration date which is May IS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON fLf. Col. Robert 6. Allen nov on activ' service with the Army.A

WASHINGTON-Dapper, debonair Anthony Eden made an excellent impression before the closed door luncheon of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, except for one thing. He did not mention the name of Franklin Roosevelt.
 Some Senators felt that in view of the way Roosevelt had supported British. policy, the British Foreign Minister might. have paid a tribute to the late President. Otherwise, however. Eden did an Al job of winning Senate Support for the United Nations treaty,
 Eden's most applauded em ark in the offsthe- record session was when he told Senators that Great Britain would go through the war against Japan ito the very end.'
 Referring to the importance of the San Francisco Conference, he said: T repeat what I said in Glasgow, even though I was criti- cized for it, that we cannot survive another war. That is why this con- ference must succeed"
 Eden told how his own son was fighting in Burma and that he had received a letter from him in New York mailed only Il days before-a tribute to the Air Transport Conl- mand He also paid tribute to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
ALLIES IN BIG PUSH,
 p0.pLAIN
Fifth Army Spedrhedds 5 Miles Beyond Bologna
 Wreekage Everywhere

ROME, April 23-U. s. Fifth Army troops, spearing 35 miles be- yond Bologna, reached nearly to the Pc River, and battled to within 220 to 240 miles of the French and American forces hitting southward in Germany, in swift lunge across the Pc Plain, which is lit tered with the wreckage of 1,700 Nazi vehicles, destroyed or dam- aged by Allied planes yesterday.
 The drive carried 35 miles north and northwest of fallen Bologna, Allied Headquarters said, but did not specify points reached. The Fifth Army spearhead by-passed Modena, 2miles west of Bologna, and may actually have charged on to the Pc River and the doubtful line of the new German stand, where the Pc curves within 30 miles of Bologna. due north.
 A British broadcast, heard by CBS, said the Fifth Army is only five miles from the Pc River.
 Mighty British Eighth Army forces besieged Ferrara, three and one-half miles from the Pc and 30 miles northeast of Bologna, from positions as close as one and one half miles.
 The Fifth Army is now 220 miles by airline across the forbidding Alps at the eastern end of Swift zerland, from French troops at the west shore of Lake Constance, and 23O miles from the U. s. Seventh Army, which is already across the Danube and striking toward Mu- mich. The Brenner Pass lay l40 miles ahead of the Fifth Army.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
Tanks Were in Berlin Suburb bui Withdrew
 On Demands of SiaIin
By Drew Pearson

WASHINGTON, April g Here is the inside story behind Gen. Omar Bradley's surprise announce ment 10 days ago that American Armies would pause temporarily and that i've had advanced to a definite line ton the Elbe River) on which it is necessary to pause be- fore starting the next operation. .
 Though it may get official denial the real fact is that American ad- vance patrols on Friday, April 13, one day after President Roosevelt's s death, were in Potsdam, which is to Berlin what the Bronx is to New York City. The dancing in the streets of Brussels and the re- ports in London that something big was going to happen were not premature. They were true.
 But American troops next day withdrew from the Berlin suburbs to the River Elbe, about 50 miles south.
 This withdrawal was ordered largely because of previous agree ment with the Russians that they were to occupy Berlin and because of their insistence that the agree ment be kept.
 The disagreement with the Rus sians started about four days be- fore President Roosevelt died, when Stalin sent him a very sharp note. But the final decision to withdraw from the suburbs of Berlin was made after his death, largely. by Gen. Eisenhower.
 Berlin By May
 The facts in the situation are complicated and date back to the Yalta Conference, where Stalin said that the Red Army would be ready to begin their Oder River of fensiye in May. The Russian ad- vance had paused on the Oder River, just 30 miles from Berlin, after the early spring thaw, and Stalin indicated he would take Vienna first, then concentrate on Berlin in May
 This met no objection from Churchill and Roosevelt. The Presi- dent, however. said that the Am erican Army would drive ahead across the Rhine, though it was never contemplated at that time that the road to Berlin would be speedy or that U. s. troops would get there before May.
 It was also agreed at Yalta, that the Russians were to occupy Berlin and an area about 30 miles west to the Elbe River. The British and American Armies were to send
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
By Jeff Erickson
Associated Press War correspondeni)

Associated Press War CorrespondenD
 GUAM, April 23-Doughboys oi the Twenty Fourth Army Corps have killed 11,738 Japanese, anc captured 27 on southern Okinaws alone. Admiral Chester w. Nimits announced today. This excludes those killed by Marines on northern Okinawa.
 Nimitz also reported the desperate Japanese efenders held the Twenty Seventh, Seventy Seventh and Nineth-Sixth Infantry Divisions to no gains through Sunday, as heavy artillery and naval air bom- bardment continued all along the southern front.
 Marines of the Third Amphibious Corps occupied Taka Island, east of Okinawa, and seized half of Sesoko Island, mile west oi Motobu Peninsula
 Japanese aircraft made strong attacks on U. s. forces around Okinawa yesterday, sinking one light unit and causing other dam age. The light unit sunk may have been either destroyer or a smaller ship. Forty nine of the at- tacking planes were destroyed ir one attack, and four in another.
 Carrier aircraft swept Sakishima Island, in the southernmost Ryu- kyus, Saturday and Sunday, as vel as Amami and others of the nor thern Ryukyu group from Wednes- day through Friday, destroying 2t Japanese planes, and heavily dam- aging Amanli airfield installations
 Army Mustang fighters from Two Jima heavily raided Suzuka air field, 32 miles southwest of Ma goya on Honshu Island, Sunday destroying 26 planes annd damag- ing 21.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
SCENES OF NAzI
 CAMP HORRORS
 BE VISITED NOW
General Eisenhower Issues Invitation 10 Twelve
 Congressmen

LONDON, April B = First-hand reports to the San Francisco Con- ference by British and American legislative delegations of the hor- TOTS of Nazi concentration camps appeared prospect, as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower issued an invitation to 12 Congressmen to visit scenes of the Nazi crimes.
 A British delegation has set out on the same mission.
 London papers reported movie goers were unable to look at pie lures of the camps, and walked out of theatres where they were being shown.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, kpril g - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 6B, American Can 97, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel TT, Curtiss- Wright SIS, Interna- tional Harvester 85ss, Kennecott -39A, New York Central 26A, Nor thern Pacific 25as, U. s. Steel 66B
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, l63.58; rails 5604; utilities, 2980.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
Says Trade with
 Orient Is Necessary
 For West Aiier War

RENO, April g Western United States, faced with possibility of a shrinking postwar population. huge power resources and industrial plants left after the war. must look to markets in the Orient to keep itself industrially alive. Gov. Mon Wallgren of Washington, said in speech at the Governors Con- ference here.
 Wallgren assailed tariff walls which grew up during and between the two wars, saying the removal of artificial Instructions is neceS- sary if trade is to flow"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
RESISTANCE SAVAGE ON
 0k|NAWA
Nippon Aircraft Make Al lacks on FIeef-Many
 Planes Destroyed

BULLETIN-GUAM, April 23 Jap troops, infiltrating under cover of darkness early this morning, recaptured Kakazu, town on western Okinawa, which had been taken by the United States Twenty Seventh Division. One officer described the drive south as damn slow and not cheap"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23


 PARIS, April 23.-General George s. Patton's Third Army veered sharply southeastward for gains of 28 miles in a new full-blown offen- sive shearing most of the routes be- tween Pilsen and the Prague muni- tions area, and Hitler's national re- doubt in the Bavarian Alps.
 The Luxembourg radio said the American First Army had joined the Russians near Torgau, 3l miles northeast of Leipzig. finally splitting the Germans northern redoubt from the mountain fastness in the south Supreme Headquarters gave no con- firmation of this report. but said the junction of Russian and Ameri- can arimies would be jointly an- nounced by Washington, London and Moscow.
 Last reports were the Allies and Russians were Is to 20 miles apart
 The "Hellcat Division" of Gen Alexander Patch's Second Army reached an unidentified town on the Danube, 50 miles from Munich, af- ter a IA mile spring. A two-lane bridge was captured intact. and the Danube was crossed farther to the west.
 Assault On Bremen
 In the north, the British opened their final assault on Bremen and beseiged Hamburg, Germany's sec- ond and first ports. General Demp- sey's British Second Army tanks pulled up to the Elbe on 50-mile front northwest of the 150 mile stretch held by the American Ninth and First Armies, while the Canad- ians beseiged Emden but were checked in western Holland on the flooded Breebe- Fem River line.
 General Devers' Sixth Army Group, the American Seventh and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
LEE BUTTS RETURNS

Lee Butts returned to Juneau
 from the States over the weekend and is guest at the Hotel Juneau
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23

[
 Conferences invariably begin with plenary session-oratory, kleig lights, striped pants and gold braid
 Then they settle down to work In Mexico City-and the same may happen in San Francisco--most delegation chiefs lived in one lux uriouS hotel. If you sat in the lobby or the bar, or walked the corridors long enough, you could button-hole every important diplomat.
 Most delegations had meetings at ,9 or 9:30 each morning. The diplo- mats from each country would talk over what they were going to do i Then the steering committee met. to look over the proposals submitted by each nation and pass them out to the commissions-the way the speaker and the Rules Committee turn bills over to standing commit tees in the U. s. House of Represen- tatives.
 After a few open sessions, the commissions broke down into small fer groups. Some wrangled and ar gued for days to pull different pro- jects into single resolutions.
 One economic commission shut it. self up in downtown office build- ing, took the telephone off the hook and had meals sent in. It wound up its work in two days.
 Between meetings, important lead CTS such as U. s. Secretary of State Stettinius and Mexican Foreign Minister Padilla wandered about paying calls.
 This helped create the friendly at- mosphere that enable the diplomats in more serious discussions, to reach agreement without personal distrac- tionS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23

One out of every three retail stores in the United States is a food outlet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
BURMAN IN JUNEAU

Oscar Burman. of Petersburg, has arrived in Juneau and is guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
BIG DRIVES
 BEING MADE
 ALL FRONTS
'HeIIeat Division on Dan. ube Patton s Army
 jn New Offensive

BULLETIN-PARIS, April B -Gen. Patton's Third Army is running wild on a 35-mile front in a southward smash at Hitler's redoubt and has ad- vanced to within 13 miles of Regensbury. Patton's infantry has reached the Nceb River, Is miles north of Regensbury, against only minor opposition, while other troops have burst through the enemy's Danube River line to within 50 miles of Munich.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23

LONDON, April 23.--Red Army troops held a tight grip on one-fifth to one-fourth of greater Berlin. as they bored in from three sistes to- ward the heart of the blazing capital. now blanketed with sheilfire and all but surrounded.
 Moscow dispatches said Red ban- ners fluttered from battered, smok- ing ruins in the Capital while So- viet Storm units appeared to be only a few miles from Wilhelmstrasse and the Unter Den Linden Tiergarten,. the heart of the city
 There is only one way out of Ber- in, and that is to the westward by way of Spandau. Unconfirmed re- ports said this escape corridor is now narrowed down to little more than five miles.
 To the south of Berlin, Russian fcrces are within Is miles or less of junction with their American Allies.
 The German Command. declaring the battle for the Reich Capital has blazed up in full fury" claimed the railroad station of Coepnick, one of Berlin's main southeastern su- burbs, had been recaptured.
 The German communique said the fighting is raging through Beelitz, Trebbin. Teltow and Dahlwitz. a string of southern suburbs within 10 to 24 miles of the heart of Berlin. while the Hamburg radio said the Russians were approaching Oranien- burg, big suburb about seven miles north of Greater Berlin This sta- tion also said Hennigsdorg, west of the Havel River is under assault by a Russian spearhead. Hennigsdorf is within Berlin's encircling Auto balm, less than seven miles from the escape gap of Spandau.
 Berlin is being transformed into a ghastly monument to senseless Nazi resistance, as Soviet shells and bombs tumbled buildings into the streets, heaping new ruin on that accomplished in the past by Allied aerial blows.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23

MIR, MRS. THOMPSON HERE
 MT. and Mrs. A. s. Thompson. of Hoonah. are guests at the, Cas- tineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
LATE WAR BULLETINS

PARASITIC Paris radio asserts
 French Alpine troops have invaded Italy, striking against the French
 border into Piedmont from the west.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23

LONDON-Stalin announced to- night Red Army troops have reach ed the Elbe River, northwest of Dresden, reported unofficially as the dividing line between the operational areas of the Russians and the Allied forces.
 ROME-Allied troops of the Eff teenth Army Group have smashed ito the Pc River at several undis- closed locationns. Both the Fifth and Eighth Armies roared on to the Pc, objective for many weary months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Judg- ing from past conferences, the Uni ted Nations meeting in San Fran cisco will be very much like a worldwide political convention.
 Just as in conventions, most oi the work of conference is done be- hind the spotlights instead of out front. The best speeches are often made in hotel rooms
 The last international barley was the meeting of American republics in Mexico City You can expect about twice as much of the same thing in San Francisco because there will be a few over twice as many countries there.
 Nineteen countries were invited to Mexico, and Fl Salvador arriv- ed about half way through.
 Delegates started trickling into town about a week before the open- ing day. The day before the show started it looked as though the con- yention was heinz held at the air. port and the railroad station.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23
RED FORCES
 ARE BORING
 ON } SIDES
Russians Capture One -fifth 10 One fourth of
 Capital City

BULLETIN-LONDON, April 23-Tonight, Stalin proclaimed the Russian entry into Berlin, announced the fall of Frankfurt on the Oder and also said Red Army troops are within four miles of the heart of the em- battied German Capital City. The Order of the Day was di- rected to 99 Generals and 30 other officers. The Order of the Day said the Red Army troops have smashed Berlin's defcnses and captured Pankow, Orami- enberg, Coepenik and Fried Richfield, suburban communi- ties.
 In addition, Stalin announces Zhukov's Army has captured Birkenwcrder and Hennigsford, the latter on the west bank of the Hayel River, four miles from Lake Tegei, on the north- west fringe of Berlin. WadIitz and Karlshof have also fallen to the Russians.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-23

Tells How Conference
 Ali San Frantisto May
 Do Ifs Scheduled Work
By Flora Lewis

by FIOfa LeWIS
 Miss LetUis, lDho helped coUer the Merico City Inter -Anlerican conference for The Associated Press, tells in this and tolloao- ing column ho,v such c conter- encs i0orks-hoip, in fact, the San Francisco United Nations conference may a0ork)
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