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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-04-05
First Baptist Choir Gives
Easter Concert at Church

The choir of the First Baptist
church presented an Easter concert
before a very crowded auditorium
last week. 1t featured three So
prano sacred solos by Miss Vir-
ginia Pilz with the choir harmon
izing.
A large double mixed choir sang
two Easter anthems. They were
Resurrection" by R. M. Stalls and
THE Winter Days Are Ger" by
w. r. Waghorns.
Annie Mary Spence was accom-
PIANIST and Elmer Refer was the
choir director.
The Baptist choir gave a concert
at the Masonic Temple in Detroit
on March Is.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-04-05

Plans are set for the June we'd
ding of Irene Nogoski of Grove
street to Stanley Szarnacki of Ma
trona, Pennsylvania. At the present
time Miss Nogosh is being feted
at showers by Dorthea Kraft, who
will be maid-of-honor and Mrs. L.
S. Daniel.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-04-05
Wydndotters Busy
Local Marriages High|ight
After Easter Parade

again busy with plans to social duties this Spring
that somewhat curtaied by the Easter season.
On Saturday morning at 1000 ceremony Lois Irene
Desmara daughter of Mr. and Mrs Arthur Desmarais
1925 Twenythrd street. became the bride of Sergeant
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-04-05

participated in five major inva-
sions in the 20 months that he has
spent overseas. After his leave he
will report to Texas to await fur
ther orders.
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- BUY WAR BONDS
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British Lond
Burma Army
Continued from Page y

bardment Monday. Tokyo broad
casts said the bombardment con-
tinued into a second day yester-
day.
Ten small japanese craft sailing
from Rangoon to Moulmein were
intercepted and destroyed by the
naval forces.
Other British ground troops
plunging down from Northern Bur-
ma were So miles north and AZ
miles northeast of Rangoon. In
the northeast, they were clearing
Pegu.
There were indications that Ran
COON, biggest port in Burma, might
fall without a major battle. Allied
civilians who escaped from jap
anese custody said the enemy APP
parently was preparing to aban-
don the city.
Rangoon was captured by the
Japanese March 8, 1912 only "a
hours after clearing Pegu. 1t was
abandoned by American and Brit
ish forces to escape entrapment.
Reopening OF Rangoon to Allied
ships would speed the shipment OF
war supplies to China for the final
battles of the Pacific war. 1t was
the terminus of the original Bur-
ma road.
The landing south of Rangoon
was the largest amphibious opera
ton yet mounted by Admiral Lord
Louis Mountbatten's Southeast
Asia command.
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Syria.
Washington, May 2 - (U.P) -
President Truman today announced
the unconditional surrender" of
all German forces in Italy.
The President said that ''the COL
lapse of military tyranny in Italy,
however, is no victory in Italy alone
but part of the general triumph
we are expectantly awaiting on the
whole continent OF Europe"
only folly and chaos can now
delay the general capitulation Of
the everywhere defeated German
armies" he said.
The President Immediately sent
messages to Field Marshal Sir Har-
old Alexander and General Mark
Clark, congratulating them for the
complete defeat of the Germans in
Italy"
At the same time he warned
Japan to understand the full mean
ing of these events.
UNLESS they are lost in fanati-
cism or determined upon suicide,
he said of the japanese as well as
the Germans, they must recognize
the meaning of the increasing
swifter- moving power now ready fol
the capitulation or the destruction
of the so-recently arrogant enemies
of mankind"
In breaking the news of the COM
plete victory over German forces ir
Italy, the President said "the Allied
Armies in Italy have won the un-
conditional surrender of German
forces on the first European sal
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of Genoa took Noli and pressed on
within IS miles of French territory
and a junction with the French
army.
In the northwestern corner of
Italy the general mopup continued
with American and Brazilian troops
capturing Novara, % miles west Of
Milan, Santhia, Voghera, and Tor
tona.
Two thousand troops of the Lig-
urian army's Lombardy Corps sur
rendered in response to the capitu-
lation order issued by Marshal Ro-
dolfo GRAHAM. However, the Ger
man commander of the 18th Corps,
a General Schlemmer, refused to
surrender because of his oath to
Hitler to fight while Hitler still was
alive" 1t was thought he might
change his mind when he learned of
the Hamburg announcement of the
Fuehrer's death.
Apparently in revenge for the
killing of Mussolini, German planes
yesterday bombed and strafed the
Lake Como area of Dongo where II
Duce was captured and executed.
Ten or is persons were killed when
a village hotel was hit.
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cage, said. "He seemed ready to
surrender"
The units which took Won Rund-
stedt were attached to the seth
Divisions 141st regiment, command
ed by Col. Charles Owens.
Yesterday the Seventh Army cap
tured two other German field mar
shals, Wilhelm Ritter Van Leeb and
Wilhelm List, as well as the former
regent of Hungary, Admiral Nicho-
las Horthy. They also took two
lieutenant generals and three major
generals.
Won Rundstedt was relieved of his
command for the second time since
the western invasion in March after
the American First Army won the
Remagen bridgehead across the
Rhine. He was replaced by Field
Marshal Albert Kesselring
In December of last year Won
Rundstedt launched the German
counter offensive in the ArdenneS,
which came dangerously near to
taking Liege and cutting across the
Meuse. The attack was the worst
setback the Allied armies suffered
in the entire western European
campaign.
Won Rundstedt commando. the
German armies in the west at the
time of the Normandy invasion, re-
placing Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mel He in turn was relieved by
Field Marshal Ven Klube in July,
after the attempt on Hitlers life.
However, Won Rundstedt again
was given the western command last
fall, squashing rumors that he had
been connected with the plot against
Hitler
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and grenades.
The Soviets cleared the Berlin
city hall, broke into the courtyard
of the former royal palace and the
Friedrichstrasse, and plunged down
through the Brandenburg Gate onto
the lined Inter Den Linden
just north of the chancellery.
At the same time, other Russian
units fought their way up into the
Potsdamerplatz, rolling up the
enemy defenses south and south
east of the chancellery.
The Moscow early morning COM
munique made no reference to the
reports Of Hitlers death broadcast
by the Samburg radio, but there
was every likelihood that the next
few hours would see Red Army
troops inside the Nazi command
post where they might uncover
visual proof that the fuehrer had
fallen.
The assault on the Tiergarten
went ahead with a rush early today
after the Russians cleared the Char
lottenburg district and charged
down the Bismarck Strasse to enter
the sprawling park from the west
Savage hand-to- hand fighting
ragged inside the Tiergarten ZOO area
at the southwestern corner, with
the Germans being squeezed slowly
back against the spree river that
skirts the northern side Of the park.
Other Russian forces, meanwhile
swung out north and northwest OF
Berlin on a 110-mile front in a
new drive to link up with the Brit
(, ish Second Army and finish off the
Nazis' northern redoubt.
Stralsund Captured
They captured the Baltic port OF
Stralsund and took Gnoien and
Warren farther to the south, the lat
ter town only 80 miles east of the
British brsdgehead across the Elbe
river.
The Russians also struck out
westward toward a new link-up
with American Ninth Army troops
along the Elbe, capturing Alt Rup-
pen, q miles northwest OF Berlin
and % miles away from the U. S.
lines, and Brandenburg, capital OF
Brandenburg province. ..
Far to the southeast, the Second
and Fourth Ukrainian Armies finally
joined forces in the disputed Silesian
corridor on the Polish Czechoslovak
border, clearing out practically all
of the enemy-held pocket there.
The Fourth Ukrainians, advancing
south and west along 60-mlle
front, captured the Polish cities OF
Bogumin and Fryszstat and the
Slovak towns of Skoczow, Cadca
and Velka Bytca, virtually encir-
cling the industrial center of Tes-
chen.
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Truman Asks
Budget Cuts
Continued from Page II

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tlVltles and sharp .curtailments in
proposed expenditures for others.
The recommendation followed a
review of the 1916 fiscal situation by
the President and the budget
bureau. The 1916 fiscal year be-
gins on July l this year.
AS the war progresses, the
White House statement said, "the
activities of all agencies will be
continually reviewed to achieve
economies where they will not in
terfere with the prosecution of the
war. 1t is anticipated that in adj
dltion to the cuts in the 1916 budg-
ct, reserves of many millions OF
dollars can be set up for the cur
rent fiscal year ending June 80"
Aside from the maritime COM
mission and the OCD, the eight
agencies affected by Mr.. Trumans
communications to Congress are:
Office of War Information - A
reduction of $12,100,00O from the
proposed 1916 budget of $54 100 900
w oi AONuAIlOll Dual u-h 1c
duction of S8,894,O0 in the 1916
budget of s48,042,OOO, anticipating
the removal of numerous control
orders over material.
Censorship-A cut of $4,000, 1000 n
the 1916 budget of $19,150,000.
Office of Defense Transportation
Because of anticipated improve
ment by Dec. 81 of the transpor-
tation situation a cut of $3,300,0OO
was recommended from the 1916
budget of $ll,00O,0O0.
Petroleum Administration For
War-A reduction of s345, 900 from
the 1916 figure of s4,345,OOO.
Federal Security Agency-A SAB
710,400 cut from the $44,845, 300
proposed in the new budget for the
office of education.
The president, however. recon-
mended an increase of $4,000, 900
in the overall federal security
budget of $416,t 100000 to provide
for aid to older people and moth
ers with dependent children who
have had war jobs bu. are eX-
pected to quit work as conditions
change.
War Manpower Commissioner
cut of $1,598,OOO from the proposed
1916 figure of $15,598,O0O for gen.
eral administrat ton, this involving
the abandonment of labor control
in some areas. Minor reductions
also were recommended for the ap-
premiership training service and
the training within industry serv-
ice. $1,600,000 was recommended to
finance the migration of workers
compared with the original figure
of $9,349 900.
Office of Scientific Research and
Development-A $l3, 100000 reduc-
ton in the 1916 budget of $50, 700,-
900.
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United States.
2. The future security of the world
in general.
3. The needs of dependent peoples
in seized areas.
4. The use of development OF the
natural resources OF seized areas.
The American position in general
is this:
The proposed world charter FORM
ula on international trusteeshipS
should be drawn to permit physical
control by specific nations over
areas in which their strategic (se-
curity) interests were paramount.
Two Jima, for instance, probably
would be such an area of interest
to the United States but it would
not be proper for American dele
gates at this conference to say so.
II, for instance, the United States
considered-and the others agreed
that specific base in the formerly
Jap-controlled Caroline Islands was
necessary to our defense, We would
obtain physical control o. the is
land base. We would also control
the entire area because of strate-
gic considerations. But the Ameri-
can plan would permit an interna-
tional trusteeship to exercise limited
political, economic and social con-
troll as long as it did not encroach
upon our strategic interests. The
Carolines were inundated TO japan
by the League Of Nations. Areas OF
no significance would be wholly
governed by an international trus-
teeship body.
There is a possibility that some Of
the smaller nations will have en-.
tirely different views of trusteeship.
Australia already has announced
that it favors going back to the
mandate system undei which indi-
vidual nations were given unlimited
individual control of areas regard
less of the nature of their import
ance, strategic or otherwise.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-02
TRANSFER MADE
in CIVIL ACTION

A $500 civil action brought by
James Atkins of Waterbury against
Ella Lucian, also of this city, was
transferred yesterday afternoon
from city court to the court of COM
mon pleas.
The plaintiff seeks recovery for
services allegedly rendered at res
taurant at 1913 North Main street.
He claims the defendant promised
to pay him 81 per hour for overtime
work in the business owned by her
husband, the late Thomas Lucian.
The complaint states he rendered
351 hours of service.
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Hemorrhage Evident
In Fuehrer's Death
Continued from Page u

held on the western front between
| top-ranking Allied and German off,
Gals. 1t resulted in an agreement
to ship food by air, sea and high
way into German-occupied Holland
and dispatch from supreme head
quarters added:
THE implications of a face-to-
face meeting of high SHAEF and
German officers at this time are
obvious"
The German announcement OF
Hitler'S death met a mixed recep-
ton in Allied capitals.
A British foreign Office common
tator said there appeared little
doubt that Hitler was dead. Far
from drying a "hero's death how
ever, the spokesman said all relia-
BILE reports indicated the fuehrer
died of stroke.
We know Hitler was in poor
health and in fact had been all
ing since tbs bomb attempt on his
life last summer" the spokesman
said.
Moscow Believers
Moscow, on thee Their hand. in
clined to the belief that the death
report was a blind to enable Hitler
and his henchmen to go under
ground.
Doenitz announced Hitler's death
and his succession as chief of state
and commander of the German
army in a dramatic broadcast over
the Hamburg radio last night.
He ordered the army to con-
tinue the struggle against BolShe-
vism' until final victory, bu MS
words were taken as empty phrases
designed to split the Allies and i'll
crease his supposed bargaining
powers as the war entered jCS final
stages
Allied officials expressed surprise
at Doenitz'S announcement that
Hitler had designated him rath-l
than Gestapo Chief Heinrich Hmm
Ter as his successor.
They theorized, however, that
Himmler must have approved the
appointment since he still lcontrolled
the dreaded. all-poWerful SIS and
Gestapo, without whose support no
German official could remain in
office
Himmler may have decided that
Doen1tz as non-war criminal
might better be able to deal with
the Allies.
Allied authorities were far from
convinced that Hitler actually Was
dead. Even thoes who accepted the
death ridiculed the NaI announce
ment that Hitler died hero yes
terGay at his command post in the
Berlin Reichschancellery fighting
till his last breath against Bolshe-
Vism'
Theories ranged from a sugges-
ton he was killed by anti-Na2i
military elements to one he died of
stroke, POSSIBLY stemming from
the attempt against his life last
July.
But the mere fact that the Ger
mans announced that Hitler was
dead knocked out the main prop
behind which the Germans had raj
lied, first for conquest and finally
for defense of the Reich.
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kozis Open
Up Holland
Continued from Page u

NSOllpl1luSo 11OlIl d6C ~
Russian, British and Netherlands
military officials also attended the
meeting. 1t was the first announced
face-to-face conference between
top-ranking Allied and enemy COM
manders, and its implications at this
stage of the war were obvious.
The Germans agreed to permit
Allied bombing planes to continue
parachuting food into occupied Hol-
land whenever weather conditions
made that method practicable.
V-BOmb Bases Useless
The German forces in Western
Holland have been cut off from all
land escape and even their V-bomb
bases along the coast have been
useless for weeks as result of the
cutting of their supply lines from
Germany.
There was no immediate indica-
ton as to when the food truce"
would expire.
Among the Allied negotiators at
Mondays conference were Prince
Bernard, commander-m chief of the
Netherlands forces, and Maj. Gen.
Suslaparoff. Red Army representa-
tive.
The Germans agreed to the estab-
lishment of 10 drop zones" into
which the Allies could parachute
food supplies between the hours of
seven a. m. and three p. m. daily
with complete immunity from Nazi
planes or anti-aircraft fire.
Rotterdam also was opened to
Allied relief ships, to be conveyed
into the port by German units, and
the Nads agreed to open one main
highway for the truck deliveries.
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5000 Land
On Tarokon
Continued from Page l

area.
Tokyo said the Allied forces on
Tarakan were spearheaded By seven
tanks and that 10 planes wee on
constant patrol covering The land
ing operations. 1t claimed zoe
japanese garrison on the Stand was
"exacting a heavy toll" Of the Al
lied forces.
Allied headquarters here report
ed only that Dutch pilots, flyiile
B-24 Liberator bombers, Joined the
naturalization campaign against
Borneo's airfields in attacks Sat-
urday and Sunday. Among the
targets hit by MacArthur's Allied
aerial forces was the island Of Tara
kan.
On Mindanao, in the southeastern
Philippines, the 14th Division COLI
tinued its rapid drive northward
along Davao gulf and reached With
in six miles of Davao city.
In an 11-mile advance in ore
day, the Americans overrap TIE
Darong airStrip and reached the
Daliao airfeild just south of Da-
vao'S outskirts.
Other units of the Oath Division,
pushing south along the gulf, moved
six miles below Digos and captured
the town of Malalag, south OF Pa
dada airfield.
In northern LuZon, tn. Japa, =
csc were reported withdrawing
major units from the Balete pass
area in the Caraballo mountains
under pressure of the American
troops and aerial forces which sowed
400 tons of bombs through the Sec
tor.
The Japanese. however, left con-
siderably strong forces at the main
points on the approaches to Ba-
lete Pass, gateway to the Cagayan
valley.
Other American troops continued
to fan out from Baguio to TIT
northwest. One column seized Al =
tamok and Balatoe, two miles east
of Baguio. while another force
pushed south to within a mile Of
a junction with American troo-s
on the Kennon road, the main higt-
way to Manila.
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Unconditional Terms
Signed Last Sunday
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to which, from the west, we carried
our arms and our determination"
In his messages to Alexander and
Clark he congratulated them on
their persistent, difficult campaign.
He said no praise was adequate to
tell OF 1.-THE heroic achievements and
magnificent courage of every in
dividual" under their command
during this long and trying CAM
paign."
The President told this country
that the Allied and American Off
GERS who led the victorious forces
in Italy deserve o,lr praise for the
victory-we have the right to be
proud of the success of our armies. "
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British sic
Off
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ported dead and the inner Axis CT
tadels mostly in rubble.
Soviet Foreign Commissar v. M
Molotov was expected to leave Fri
day for Moscow. Key British and
Canadian delegates were confront
ed with imminent general elections
at home. There were rumors at
half hour intervals that Molotov
had left. But he was on hand to-
day to take his turn presiding over
the plenary session.
The question of control of areas
seized by the enemy arose here in
the form of "trusteeship' pro-
posal prepared by the American
delegation. Comdr. Harold E. Stas-
sen, former governor of Minnesota
who is on leave from the navy, is
the American delegate directly in
charge of trusteeship problems.
But American officials emphas-
ize that the delegation is unanim-
Gus on this question and that it's
proposals are backed by the state,
war and navy departments in
Washington. There had been some
apprehension that the American
delegation would not stand firm
enough to satisfy the army and
navy.
The ways of diplomacy being what
they are, there will be no mention
here of specific islands or other
trustee areas. This conference mere
ly will work out the machinery by
which seized areas will be admin
istered. The United Nations will di-
vide the areas amory the trustees
at later conference
But the American delegates know
what we want. The Army and Navy
have their eyes and lot of armed
GI and Marines on most of the is
lands in question.
Trusteeship Plan O. X.
The big four are in general sym
pathetic" with the American trus-
teeship proposals, the United Press
was informed. T. ere are four prin-
cipal factors in the trusteeship plan
which will meet for further discus
sion tomorrow night. The four fac
tors by which the American dele
cation is guided are as follows:
]. The future security Of the
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Nazi Chancellery
Stormed By Reds
Continued from Page ~

cow that the Soviet siege forces cow
were fighting for German strong
points on the Wilhelmstrasse, Unter
Den Linden and AleXanderplatz.
Only small remnants" of the Ber-
lin garrison were defying the
greatest concentration of fire and
metal to which any single objective
has been subjected in this war; he
said.
5000 Killed
About 5000 of the Ragtab band
of mauled SIS troops, women S
death battalions" and Volkssturm-
ers were killed yesterday in hand to
hand fighting grenading and ma
chine cunning in the heart of Ber-
lin, Soviet reports said.
Plunging through a choking pail
of smoke and flame thrown up by
the ceaseless cannonading, the first
Soviet assault waves Stormed in
from three sides to within 200 yards
of the chancellory building against
maniacal enemy resistance.
An equally furious battle sWirled
through Berlin'S famed Tiergarten
a few hundred yards to the west,
where the rest of the Nazi garrison
was being cut to pieces by converg-
ing attacks from all directions.
The trapped Germans, apparently
told by their leaders that Hitler had
fallen at his command post in the
chancellory, showed no signs of
quitting. They fought back with a
hopeless fury behind thick stone
walls and inside deep cellars, TAX
ing bloody toll for every yard of
lost ground.
But Moscow dispatches and somb-
er enemy broadcasts made it clear
that the battle of Berlin was roar
ing into its final hours.
Defenses Collapsing
Soviet front reporters telephoned
word back to Moscow that the last
enemy defenses in the center of
the ruined city were collapsing, lit
orally torn apart by the deluge of
shells pouring in on them hour after
hour throughout the Gay and night.
The Russians captured another
100 city blocks in Berlin yesterday,
took $4,000 prisoners and killed g.
600 enemy troops, swelling the Ger
man losses in the 12-day-old battle
to more than 1913 900 killed, wounded
or captured.
Two stubborn enemy pockets of
resistance in the Charlottenburg and
Schoenberg districts west and south
of the capitals center were wiped
out yesterday. A third Nazi group,
surrounded in small area south
of Berlin, tried to break through the
Russian lines to the west, only to
be turned back with enormous
losses.
The main German force locked
in the chancellery and a cluster of
adjoining streets to the east ap-
peared to be we'll supplied with arms
and ammunition, tanks and self
propelled guns that made the Rus
sian onslaught slow and costly
smuggling match.
Moscow dispatches said crack
Nazi elite guards had been joined
in their death stand by Volksturm
units and even fanatical women
volunteers who sailed out to meet
the Russians with Tommy guns