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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03
Senate May Give Truman
Trouble On Peace Treaties

mentioned, and whether Russian
troops would be withdrawn from
Poland.
RED INFLUENCE
Observing that the agreements
seemed to formalize a Russian
sphere of influence in Poland
Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Ro-
mania and Eastern Austria, Taft
said the Big Three understand
ings in effect recognize that
the Russians can do as they
please with the puppet Polish
government"
1t appears to him, Taft said,
that Premier Stain "gets every
thing he wishes to obtain and has
not definitely surrendered any
position he has taken in the
past"
"The transfer to Poland OF
nearly fourth of Germany GER
tainly sows the seed of future
war;" Taft asserted. THE trans
fer of millions of Germans into
an already crowded area is at
best a dangerous experiment"
President Truman, the Ohio
Senator said, had assumed to
speak for the United States in
settling many of the most con-
troversial boundaries and the
terms to be imposed upon Ger
many without any consultation
with the Senate or the people OF
the United States"
CAUSTIC REACTION
Taft added that there seemed
little need for a peace confer
ence since apparently all other
questions are to be settled in
secret by the Council of For
eign Ministers" sheduled to
meet in London by September.
This council will draft proposed
peace treaties for Italy, Roman
ia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Fin
land.
Taft described as "vague" the
Big Three statement that their
governments had no doubt that
the Allied press would enjoy
full freedom to report to the
world upon developments in
Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Finland" A similar note was
sounded about Poland.
Connally said he was particu-
larly pleased with the provisions
on the disarmament and demili-
tarization of Germany, and that
"it is also wholesome to root out
the distempered Nazi philoso-
ply"
The Texan termed "most
wise" the provisions for "free
and unfettered" elections in Po-
land.
Senator Thomas (D-Utah) said
he thought the terms dictated for
Germany were in line with AM
erican principles and ought to
encourage the Japanese to sur
render. Senator Pepper (D-Fla)
called them sensible" and add
ed he liked the arrangements for
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-(P)
Vigorous Republican criticism
of the Potsdam agreements gave
President Truman notice today
that there may be Senate trou-
BILE ahead for the peace treaties
that document envisages.
In statement lent added sig
nificance because of his chair
manship Of the minority steer
ing committee, Senator TAFT Or
Ohio contended that the Big
Three's agreement to give Po-
land at least temporary control
of an eastern slice Of Germany
"sows the seeds of future war
In a paragraph by paragraph
analysis with reporters of the
understandings reached by Pres
ident Truman. Prime Minister
Attlee and Generalissimo Stain,
Taft found room to praise only
what he called the "harsh terms
imposed upon Germany.
o. X. SETTLEMENTS
Democrats led by chairman
Connally (D-TeX) of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
generally voiced approval of the
settlements either reached or
proposed for Europe's problems.
But there were some,- like
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) who
wondered why no mention was
made of many continental sore
spots.
Wheeler was sorry, he said,
that nothing was said about
Yugoslavia, adding:
1T is my understanding that
in Yugoslavia they have no free
dom of speech, no freedom OF
press and that the goods we are
sending are used by Marshal Ii
to and his cohorts and not given
to Serbs"
Others wondered why there
was no news of possible Russian
entry into the war against Jap
an, why the disposition of Ger
man prisoners in Allied hand was
not set out. why Greece was un-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03
HitleF's Brother
Now ut Liberty

TWENTY-F IR ST ARMY
G ROUP HEADQUARTERS,
Germany. Aug. g. Up Alois
Hitler, Adolfs half-brother, has
been released by British author
tiles after having been detained
for about six weeks for ques-
tioning, il was announced today.
He had been captured In the
Hamburg area.
ut is clear to u.s." a British
military government statement
said, that he has led perfectly
blameless existence, being abso-
lutely scared stiff of being as
ISOLATED in any way with the
Fuehrer's activities. He was re-
leased yesterday"
Alois was said to have been
the proprietor of a beer tavern
in Berlin during most of the
war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03

WASHINGTON, Aug. s. R
The Administration moved in
two directions today to strength
en- its efforts to bring about rap
id and orderly reconversion of
industry.
Under the leadership of Di-
rector John w. Snyder, the Of
flee of war mobilization and re-
conversion has these irons in
the fire:
/. Extension Of the War Pro-
duction Boards wartime powers
TO cover reconversion. This
would be done by making WPB
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03
He's Through Walking

JAMESPORT. Mo. - W.D "A
secondhand automobile tops the
"things Observation-Disclosures
home" list of S/Sgt. Charles
Scott. The sergeant wrote his
parents that he has vowed never
to walk again when he & e s
home. He had just completed a
prisoners march of "close TO
5000 miles-all walking"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03
AFI1lenianS Seek
Turk.Held Area

MOSCOW, Aug. 3 - (R -
Sveral thousand Armenians des-
cribed as refugees from Turkey
dispatched a resolution to the
Big Three Conference July 81,
declaring "the time has arrived
when Armenian territory un-
justly torn away by Turkey
must be reunited to Soviet Ar
menia," a Tass Bucharest dis
patch said today.
The resolution urged final set
Element of the Armenian prob
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03

lem (which Is tn emost shameful
page in the history Of the inter.
national diplomacy of the past
century,"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03

The news OF the Mount Glenn
ems mans death was confirmed
personally to her by the man
who submitted il to the War De-
partment, Sgt. Howard Morgan,
of Georgetown, H., the only en-
listed man of the First Pursuit
Group to be liberated from the
hellish prison camps, and pos
sibly the only living survivor of
his non-co commissioned rating.
Morgan told Mrs. Geren that
her husband died from malnutri-
ton and malaria. Sgt. Geren,
two days before the surrender
TO the Japs, had been an invalid
in the Mariveles Hospital. De-
spite his i'll health he was forced
into the gruelling march in the
month of May and died the fol-
lowing month.
LONG SILENCE
The period between March,
1912, and August, 1945, when
the government notification ar
rived. has been a cruel void for
Mrs. Geren.
She and her two daughters,
Elizabeth and Sylvia Leach were
themselves evacuated from Mich
Odds Field, P. l., in May, 1941,
when they were about to send
for their furniture to live with
Sgt. Geren.
AS the 18th Pursuit Group,
then commanded by Major Kirt-
ley Gregg (who later died in a
prison camp, was being moved
to Iba Zambales. and to Mari
veles, Sgt. Geren wrote to his
wife regarding the sorely press
ed Selfridge and AAF forces.
He told of working day and
night to keep fighter craft flying,
many times patched up" with
parts which ingenious ground
crewman fashioned themselves.
When others were moved out
for evacuation, Sgt. Geren vol
unteered to remain as long as
plane could fly. In one of his
last letters he told of the inces-
SAINT rains at Iba Zambales which
kept bedding and clothing soak
ed for weeks at a time.
NOTE OF HOPE
In his last letter, received here
early in March, 1912, Geren told
his wife to keep her courage up,
and tell other wives of the 18th
Pursuit Group that their men
would be all right.
The only other indirect word
of Sgt. Geren received by his
wife was a letter from Col. Hen
~ Thorne, son-in-law of Brig.
Gen. Henry B. Clagett, former
S elf fri dge commander. Col.
Thorne said that Sgt. Geren was
recovering from illness in hospit-
al No. /, at Mariveles and that
he tThorne1 had driven-him
back TO safety when the hospital
was about to fall into enemy
hands.
Sgt. Geren was born in Thrall,
Texas, and at the time of his
death was AZ years old. He had
served almost Is years in the
United States Air Forces, and
had been at Selfridge Field since
1880. He joined the AAF at
Kelly Field, Texas, and later
served in Panama. He was mar
ried to Mrs. Geren, widow OF
the late Justice of the Peace Rus
sci Leach, of Roseville, on Sept.
20, 1894. He went overseas from
Selfridge with the First Pursuit
Group in October, 1910, and was
stationed at Nichols Field.
ATHLETIC STAR -.
During his long army life,
Sgt. Geren was noted as a base
ball pitcher, and during champ
ionship army games at Kelly
Field and in Panama, frequently
won headlines in national army
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-03

handling problems step by step
"instead of attempting to settle
everything in one grand peace
conference"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
Lend-Lease
 Bill Signed
 By Truman
Extension of Bill Is for An- other 12 Months or
 UntiI War Won

WASHINGTON, April l7-Presi- dent Truman has signed the Lend- Lease extension bill.
 In a statement, he declared the measure is a mighty instrument for victory and is "one of the grow ing monuments of the boldness, im- agination and effective statesman ship of Franklin Roosevelt, and Lend-Lease will be carried on until unconditional surrender or com- plete defeat of Germany and Japan.
 The bill, extending Lend-lease, aids the United Nations for an- other l2 months from June 30.
 The measure was signed after President Truman conferred briefly with delegates to the forthcoming United Nations Conference in San Francisco.
 It is the first time White House attaches can recall in which a President has signed bill he pre- Iviously signed as Vice. President and presiding officer of the Senate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
JAP TARGETS
 ARE BOMBED,
 WIDE AREA
Hedvies Attack from Luzon 10 New Guined-For-
 mosd Also Rdided
By RICHARD BERGHOLTZ Associated Press War CQrYespondcnt)


 MANILA, April 17-Strongly sup ported by bombers and fighters, the Thirty Third Division Dough- boys drew the moose tighter around the summer capital city of Baguio in Northern Luzon Sunday while Liberators swept choice targets from Formosa south to New Guinea, Gen. Macarthur reports.
 The Tanks around Baguio are within three miles of the important city at one point, overcoming strong Japanese pockets of resist ance.
 Several enemy counter-attacks during the night were repulsed.
 Supporting aircraft raked the entire Luzon area with TOO tons of explosives.
 Heavy bombers. with fighter es- cort. dropped HOO tons of bombs on four airdromes in western For mosa, destroying at least 16-prob- ably 21-parked planes.
 Bombers patrolling the China Sea sank 19 ships, including de- stroyer escort.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
5UpERF0RT5 MAKE RAIDS
 ON kYu5HU
NeutrdIizing of Nip Bases Underway by Large
 ForlCe U. 5. Planes

GUAM, April IT = Six separate groups of Superforts today blasted enemy airfields on the homeland Island of Kyushu with the avowed purpose of neutralizing southern Japanese bases, from which the Nips have been hurling suicide planes against American Naval and land forces around Okinawa for one week.
 It was the third day of American raids on Kyushu Island airdromes, 325 miles north of Okinawa.
 Carrier aircraft destroyed 109 Nip planes and damaged 60 others in sorties over Kyushu Sunday and Monday, contributing total of 1874 Jap aircraft destroyed in a month around the Kyushu and Ryukyu Islands.
 Many of the Nip planes were brought down in suicide attacks by Mustang fighters from Two lima, which also raided Kyushu yester- day.
 Today's blow was struck by a large task force" of Superforts against six airfields, five of them on southern Kyushu. It was the fourth Superfort blow against Japan's southernmost home island in three weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
NEW POLISH
 GOVERNMENT
 NOW LOOMS
Reported Std|in Breaks Big Three StdIemdte by
 Agreement

WASHINGTON.4 April IT The Washington Star says it is reported Stalin has agreed to the establish ment of new Polish Government, thus breaking the Big Three stale mate in Poland. diplomats hear
 The Star adds the agreement was reached 48 hours after Presi- dent Truman entered the White House.
 It is reported the agreement calls for a new government truly repre- sentative of the Polish people and is viewed as making wide conces- sions to the American and British viewpoints.
 The article says officials are un- able to confirm the news.
 (The Moscow radio today said the Soviet Government continues to in- sist on the absolute necessity of participation by the Polish Provi- sional Government at Warsaw in the San Francisco Conference)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
FIT. RICHARDSON MAKES
 BIG RED CROSS GIFT

Red Cross officials congratulated Brigadier General R. E. Mittelstaedt of Fort Richardson on the splendid showing made by civilians and mili- tary personnel of the fort in the re- cent Red Cross drive in which $6,267 was contributed by the Fort. This was an increase of nearly three thousand dollars over the amount raised at the Fort year ago. !.
 This sum, added to the total raised by Anchorage and vicinity brings the total to $25,767 according to Marshall c. Hoppin, chairman of the drive. The total is expected to be even higher when all reports are received
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
ATROCITIES OF
 JApANE5E TOLD
 BY MACARTHUR
Summary Is Released by GenerdI-R0muIa De-
 mdnds Reprisdl

WASHINGTON, April IT The Japs are accused of "barbarous, appalling atrocities" during the de- fense of Manila. in report by Gen. Douglas Macarthur, which was re- leased today by the War Depart ment.
 A summary of the report, which said it is based on documented evidence and sworn testimony. charged the Japs repeatedly stabbed and slashed with bayonets even mothers with babies in their arms, and violated women and young girls"
 The report was issued as Brig. Gen. Carkos Romulo went before the House to recite the grisly ac- count of Jap atrocities in the Philippines.
 Hundreds of persons, MacArthur's statement declared, were bound and soaked in gasoline or "en- circled with blazing fuel"
 Manila is dead" Romulo as serted, adding Tokyo must die. not in reprisal, but as defense mea- sure necessary to insure Pacific peace"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
SOVIET ARMY IS 20 MILES
 FROM BERLIN
German Broadcast Makes Stdtement-No Moscow
 Report, However

LONDON, April IT Russian spearheads have cut the Seelow- Alt Friedland road, less than 20 miles from Berlin and have pene- trated deeply into the staggered defenses beyond, German broad cast said.
 Simultaneously. Marshal Konev's First Ukrainian Army surged across the Neisse River farther south, reaching point only 75 miles from juncture with the American Third Army, knocking it's way toward Dresden.
 Enemy reports said the massive Soviet drive on Berlin has reached points 20 miles northeast and 28 miles southeast of the capital, as well as blowing in from due east, claiming Soviet airborne troops were landed less than g miles from Berlin, and Russian tanks in action least of Eberswalde,' on the main highway and railroad to Stettin
 According to German reports, Konev's forces are attacking along a 33-mile front from Forst to Rothenburge, near the Saxony border.
 Moscow has not yet confirmed the German reports of the Soviet di1ve oal berlin, although reporting the Red Armies drove steadily for ward in Austria and Czechoslovakia, capturing Fuerstenfeld, 29 miles north of Graz.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
GREAT RAIDS !, DESTROYING
 NAzI CRAFT
Over 1 ,000 Planes DemoI ished in One Ddy-Air
 Strength Being Cut

LONDON, April IT = American bombers and fighters ripped south- ern Germany again today as final tabulation showed total of 1,0l3 German planes were destroyed yesterday by Allied pilots during a record assault on Nazi airfileds.
 The new figures boosted the tally of enemy aircraft knocked out on the ground or in the air by Allied pilots in the past 10 days to 2.480 and this represents about half of the estimated reserve strength of the German Luftwaffe at the time of the Rhine crossing.
 In the first IS days of April, at least 3,l2l German planes were de- stroyed.
 Airforce officials worked all night checking and re-checking the record of the smashing claims turned in by fighter pilots, and all claims have been verified by combat films.
 Capt. Robert Ammon, of Reading, Pennsylvania, set the individual scoring record by destroying Il enemy planes on the ground In what field correspondents called the first tactical joining of the East and West air fronts.
 American and Russian fighter planes met and exchanged greet. ings yesterday over the Central German battle zone
 The Eighth Air Force announces eight heavy bombers and 34 fight CTS are missing as the result of yesterdays operations that were carried out by nearly 2,10o planes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
368 NIPPON PLANES ARE
 kN0(kED0UT
FdndtiedI Japanese Aerial Raids Result in Heavy
 losses Says Nimifz
By ELMONT WAITE Associated Press War CorrespondenD

= GUAM. April TIA new series of fanatical Japanese aerial raids on the American forces on Okinawa and United States Carrier-plane strikes on the Japanese homeland island of Kyushu cost the enemy 368 war planes destroyed and 60 damaged in four days, Admiral Chester w. Nimitz announces.
 These losses increased to 1874 the number of Japanese planes destroy ed off Ryukyus and Kyushu since March 18.
 Admiral Nimitz also reports that elements of the Twenty Fourth Army Corps landed on the little isle of Shima. three miles west of Okinawas' Motobu Peninsula yester- day morning against only light in- itial resistance and quickly took over three runways of the airfield. The Tanks have killed 9108 Jap anese and taken only 391 prisoners through midnight last Friday, the first 13 days of the Okinawa cam- paign. In addition 85,000 civilians have been brought under the juris- diction of the American Military Government.
 Land based Army Mustang fight CTS from Two Jima bases attacked ground installations at Kanoya and Kushira on Kyushu yesterday. This is the first reported raid by bomb- CTS smaller than B-29s on any of the Japanese Empires home islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
ALLIES BEAT OFF GERMAN
 ELBE ATTACK
Reich Biselied by Capture of Rail City of PIduen
 Leipzig in Sight

PARIS, April 17.--Germans today launched heavy attack on the U. s. Ninth Armys Elbe River bridgehead. pointing toward Berlin, but the American forces beat off the attack without losing ground.
 To the South, the Third Army has captured the big Saxony rail center of Plauen, in effect bisecting Ger many. More than half Of Germany has been conquered. with 100000 square miles under Allied and Rus sian banners and 84000 remaining to the Germans.
 The First Army has cracked the defenses of Leipzig and fought to within sight of the city. British armor drove to within 30 miles of Hamburg and IS of the Lower Elbc against resistance deteriorating 70 rapidly that "a quick breakthrough to the river on broad front can soon be expected
 The Second Armored and tho 83rd Infantry Division beat back Germans drawn before Berlin from the Eastern Front. inflicting serious losses and destroying five to twenty tanks.
 In the center of the Western Front First Army troops crashed through and crumpled belt of 1000 levcllcd anti-aircraft guns within sight of the ruined towers of Leopzig, Ger manys fifth city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
SUPPLY BILL E
 GIVEN APPROVAL
 BY HOUSE COM.
Over Twenfy-eight Billion Dollars to Be Spent
 for U. 5. Navy

WASHINGTON, April IT The twenty-four billion, eight hundred and seventy-nine dollar Supply Bill, to support the Navy's knockout drive against Japan, today won the approval of the House Appropria- tions Committee, and it will be sent to the floor of the House in hopes "the end may not be far distant" where heavy spending will not be necessary ito crush our 
 The bill includes two billion, eight hundred and seventy million dollars for ship construction to be used for 308 combat vessels, in- cluding two big battleships, two 45,000-ton carriers, and 12 scout carriers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
SNYDER E NAMED ADMINISTRATOR
 OF FEDERAL LOANS

WASHINGTON, April 17-Presi- dent Truman has appointed John w. Snyder of St. Louis, Missouri, to be Federal Loan Administrator. Snyder succeeds Fred Vinson, who has been named Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion after James Byrnes quit.
 Snyder is now Vice. President of the First National Bank of St. Louis and has been a warm per- sonal friend of Truman for more than 25 years. He has been in the banking business since serving in the first World War.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-17
POLICIES OF TRUMAN ARE
 GIVEN OUT
President Gives His Posi-. lion at First Talk
 with Newsmen

WASHINGTON, April 17-Presi- dent Harry S. Truman told news conference he would be very happy to meet the heads of the other Big Five Allied powers as soon as possible
 In his first conference with news men since he succeeded the late President Franklin Roosevelt, Tru- man said he had not initiated any move toward a new meeting of Allied leaders, but in response to a question, he said he would be very happy to meet Prime Minister Churchill, Premier Stalin and Gen. eralissino Chiang Kai-Shek soon. He added he would also be glad to see Gen. DeGaulle if DeGaulle cared to arrange a conference with him.
 Outlines Policies Before rd-breaking crowd Iof newsmen who jammcd the Oval Room and overflowed onto the nearby patio, the new President outlined briefly his major foreign and domestic policies.
 On the foreign front, he said, he is backing to the hilt the American delegation to the San Francisco Conference. He does not expect to attend the conference, but will well come the delegates at the opening session by radio.
 Truman expects to see Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov before the latter goes to the San Fran cisco meeting. he told newsmen.
 On the domestic front, he said, he supports wholeheartedly Roose- velt's program. as well as the inter- national monetary agreements, in cluding the Breton Woods Pact. He has always been for the recipro- cal trade agreements program. and backs it as submitted recently to Congress.
 Rules For News Conferences
 Dressed in a dark blue suit and blue tie, President Truman made his announcements while standing. to the BAT newsmen and women packed tightly around his desk.
 Truman began by reading the rules under which his news con- ferences will operate. They are sub- stantially the same as those under which Roosevelt worked. The basic rule is the President may not be quoted directly without his ex- pressed permission, or when his statements are made in writing
 Then President Truman read a letter from Mrs. Roosevelt, asking him to express for the Roosevelt family their appreciation of the "outpouring of affection" received after her husbands death.