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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22
NAZI SPY:
Tipped Off FBI

Asserting that his only intention in
accompanying saboteurs to the U. S.
in 1912 was to get out of Germany,
Nazi spy disclosed the whole en-
envy plot for damaging U. S. plants
and facilities and terrorizing civil
ians to the FBI, leading to the early
roundup of the entire clique landed
by submarine.
Let off with 80 years impris
for his disclosure and testimony at
the trial resulting in the execution
of six Of the saboteurs and a life
sentence for another, the spy, George
Dasch, named the other conspira-
tors and furnished information
| which enabled the Omen to cover
their movements and track them
down in New York and Chicago. Ill.
In detailing the saboteurs' mis-
sion, Dasch told the FBI that the
IVA was marked for destruction
along with important industrial
plants, the Hell Gate bridge in New
York City, Ohio river locks, and i'm
portant railroad trackage. In addi-
ton, the saboteurs planned to ter
rorize civilians by planting time
bombs in depot lockers and crowded
stores.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22
ARMY:
Step Up Discharges

Mostly. European vets originally
marked for redeployment to the Pa
cific. 50-point enlisted men present
ly home on furlough or on temporary
duty in the U. S. have become
eligible for discharge, the army re-
ported.
At the same time, the army an
nounced that no enlisted man with
81 or more months of service since
September 16. 1910, will be sent
overseas for permanent duty except
for language specialists, regular
army pers onnel and volunteers.
Also exempt from overseas as
signment are officers who have 33
or more months of service. or med
ical officers with 80 months. except
for those who have chosen to remain
on active duty. are regular army
men or are classed as scarce spe-
cialists. Nurses who>are 80 years of
age on have u points viii not be sent
overseas.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22

sary of the Red revolution, declar-
ing that in this scientific age no such
discovery as the atomic bomb could
long remain a secret, and that
eventually the soviet would have it
and other beneficial developments as
WELL :
Telling the world that possession
OF the atomic bomb should not be
used as diplomatic weapon in OBJ
tanning advantages, Molotov also
said that its real effectiveness for
preserving peace has yet to be
tested. Having won the war, he
said, it now was up to Russia, Brit
ain and the U. S. to achieve real
security through friendly collabora-
ton.
Indirectly answering Molotov in
Britain's house of commons. the
equally tough Foreign Minister Err
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22
LABOR-INDUSTRY:
Discuss Bargaining

Backed by AFL Chieftain William
Green and representatives of man.
agenent, burly John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers ripped the CLIO
proposal to tie wages into the pres
emit. labor-industry conference in
Washington, D. c., and demanded
that talks be confined to establish
ing machinery for settlement of dis
putes.
In 'spearheading the opposition to
the CLIO proposal based upon Presi-
dent Truman's wage policy. Lewis
asserted that the problem of pay
should. be left to collective bargain
ing and not strait-jacketed by any
formula based on cost of living. In
granting employees increases and
adjusting their price structure, en-
ployers will be governed by conpe
tition to assure. reasonable costs,
Lewis said.
Even as the SO labor and manage
ment representatives pitched into
their task, trouble brewed in the
automobile and steel industries, with
the CLIO asking the government to
intervene following collapse Of nego-
tiations with General Motors and
u. S. Steel corporation over wage in
creases to maintain wartime take
home pay.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22
SUBSIDIES:
Time Removals

Designed to hold down living costs
during wa rtime, government subsi-
dies to food producers and process
sors will be gradually removed to
lessen the impact on the civilian
price structure, Sterilization Direc-
tor John c. Collet revealed. Despite
timing, some prices can be eX-
pected to rise, as in the cases of
butter and peanut butter which al
ready have been taken from the
list.
Tentative plans call for the aboli-
ton of subsidies on vegetable short
ening by december l, 1945; cheese,
not later than February %, 1946,
and the 81 30 rollback per 100 pounds
on pork not later than March 81,
1916, with the remaining pork pay
ment scheduled to go not later than
June 80, 1916. In addition, subsi-
dies on canned and frozen vegeta-
bles, dry edible beans, prunes and
raisins will be terminated at the
close of the 1915 crop year, with
dairy production, fluid milk, feeder
cattle, beef, sheep and lambs and
flour payments expected to be ended
not later than June 80, 1916.
With the department of agricul-
ture estimating the cost of food SUBJ
sides for the fiscal year ending next
June 80 at 81, 1893, 100000, payments
ON slaughter of livestock are ex-
pected to total $535, 4OO,0 600; dairy
production. 1854, OOO 600; flour, $780,
100000, and beef cattle, $40, 900, 0OO
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22
Sets Air Speed Record

Exciting possibilities for speedy post.
,Uar air trauel n0ere opened lOith the rec.
ord-breaking performance of Britain's
jet-powered Closter Meteor piloted by
Capt. II. ]. Wilson.
Smashing the former official mark of
48l.84 miles per hour set by Capt. Fritz
Wendell of the German air force in 1889,
Wilson averaged 900 miles per hour in
four runs ouer l.86-mile course at
Herne Bay, England.
At Wilson's rate OF speed, excited sta
tisticions figured that plane could
traueL nonstop around the World in Al
hours; from Los angeles. Calf, to
NesO York City in 3 hours and SO min.
utes; from, Chicago. ILL.,. to Panama in 3
hours and 49 minutes. and from, Chicago
to Me1ioo Civ in 2 hours and 10 min.
Ayas.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22
FINLAND:
Try Leaders

Charged with refusal to mediate
differences with Russia and prose
cutting war on the side of the Axis
instead, eight prominent Finnish
leaders were arrested by the new
government and scheduled for early
trial in the peoples court.
In the unprecedented movement Of
a country to punish former leaders
for their official acts, Vaino Tanner,
dominant Finnish politico of 1941,
was accused Of failing to take adj
vantage of a U. S.-British offer to
mediate with Russia that year.
Tanner again was named for fail
ure to accept U. S. proposition to
conciliate Finnish-Russian differ
ences in 1943 along with former
President Risto Ryti, Foreign Min
lister Henrik Ramsay, Prime Min
lister Edwin Linkomies, Gen. Rudolf
Walden, and Finance Minister Tyo-
ko Reinikka.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22

y
BY calling for an Allied commits
sion, Byrnes favored revision of the
present Montreux agreement en-
trusting Turkey with control of the
strategic straits, but countering the
Russian demand for military bases
along the vital waterways to assure
free passage. Under the u. S. plan,
however, Russian, Rumanian. Bull
garian, Greek and Yugoslav war
ships would be allowed free passage
at all times, while naval tonnage of
other nations would be limited.
In submitting its territorial views.
Italy agreed to readjustment of its
French and Yugoslavian boundaries
and establishment of Allied bases in
its former North African colonies.
but asked for retention Of certain
Near Eastern possessions of econom-
ic value. sF
All these diplomatic problems.
plus consideration of the question Of
Jewish irlraigr ton in British con-
trolled Palestine were repeatedly
part OF British Prime Minister Att
lees scHedlled discussions with
Preside4t suman.
Released by Western Newspaper Valoa.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22

men and not Sclen-
fists should make the final decision
because of their closer acquaintance
with political conditions.
In addressing commons, Bevin
raped Russia hard, stating that
Britain had met every territorial de-
mand of the Reds only to find them
increasing their claims, particularly
for control of North Africa and Fri
trea on the British lifeline to the east.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State
Byrnes projected the U. S. into the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22

international pic
ture with the reve-
lation of this coun-
try's support of an
Allied commission
to guarantee free
access to the Black
or Mediterranean
seas through the vi
tai Dardanelles and
Bosporus straits,
and the release Of
Italy's territorial
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22

nest Bevin declared
that it was entirely
proper for Britain,
Canada and the u.
S. to proceed slow
ly on the question of
sharing the atomic
bomb in view of its
tremendous poten-
tialities. In finally
determining t h e
bombs disposition,
he asserted, states
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22

diplomatic news as
the u. S., Britain
and Russia contin-
ued their polite tug
of-war for favorable
positions in the con-
struction of the
postwar world.
Russia's tough lit
tie Foreign Minis
ter Vyacheslav Mo-
lotov started the
bali rolling in an
address on the eve
of the 28th anniver-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22
-Weekly News Analy
Plan End of Food Subsidies Atom Bomb in Allies Postwar Moves

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts, and not necessarily of
this neWSDs per.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-11-22
FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
atomic Talk

The red-hot question of sharing the
atomic bomb featured the recent
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
OF
 BERLIN E
 JUNK HEAP
Russian Storm Units Roll Into Capital Under
 Clouds of Smoke

MOSCOW, April 27 Russian storm units, breaking into the center of Berlin under clouds of rolling smoke. found it looking more like a gigantic junk heap than the heart of the Capital of the Reich.
 Izvestia Correspondent Ivanov quoted Red Army officer as say ing:
 You cant recognize Berlin. not that I have been there before, but is this is the center, there should be some buildings"
 Fighting has also broken out in the numerous subways under the city.
 Capt. Gekhmen, correspondent of the Red Army newspaper Red Star. said struggles also ragged high above the ground Fin corridors, on stair cases, even in the attics and on the roofs of the bigger buildings still left standing"
 Gekmen also added: The of- ficial dispatches will be like this the infantry has gained Square No. 28l. The enemy continues to resist on the upper floors of the square, also between Squares Nos. 306 and 274. In one subway tunnel We gained about half kilometer'.H
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
TANKS MAKE LARGE GAINS
 ON 0kINAWA
Wedge Driven Deep Into Secondary Defenses-
 Now Control Ridge

GUAM, April 27.-Infantrymen of Maj Gen. James l.. Bradley's Ninety Sixth Division drove a deer wedge into the Japanese secondary defenses on southern Okinawa yes terday, capturing high ground in the center line of heights just east of Ursaoe Mura village was also won in the attack which was followed by a general Japanese withdrawal un- der heavy artillery and shelling ot the fleet of warships, which also knocked out artillery batteries and defense installations.
 Maj Gen. John R. Hodge, Con- mander of the Twenty-Fourth Army Corps reports that all key features of the Japanese outer defense line is now secured by the Tanks on the eighth day of the grand offensive toward Naha, Capital City, 3l1 miles south.
 Hodge said the Americans now control the skyline ridge" aroSs Ryukyu lSland, 325 miles south Ol Japan itself.
 The Tenth Army spokesI lan said the Seventh, Twenty-Sevei-.n ano Ninety-Sixth Divisions have driven the Japanese from all key position of the first heavily fortified de- fense zone and we now are only a few hundred yards from the next stone wall"
 The Staff spokesman also tolc James Lindsley, Associated Press correspondent, that Hodge says when the second defense ring is broken his troops could smash the inner circle about Naha without toe much trouble. s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
5freamIining House,
 5enaie of Congress
 Is Big Proposed Plan

a complete revision of that great document to take care of all the problems of government today.
 Sen. Fulbright fD-Ark), sugges- tion for an executive-legislative cabinet with authority to dissolve Congress and the President in case of deadlock would require a Constitutional amendment. So also would good many of the other recommendations
 It wouldn't, however, require any thing so drastic to put over the sug- gestion of Sen. Taylor D-Idaho) former radio crooner, who would like to see an improvement in the acoustics of the Senate chamber and master of ceremonies with a loudspeaker to explain to folks there what is going on on the floor.
 There's no doubt that the acous- tics of the high valued Senate chamber could stand improvement, but where the Senate could find a master of ceremonies to explain every minute what is going on on the floor is something several hews- men and senators around here would like to discover
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27

 SLICED IS
 BIG NEWS
Truman TriumphdnfIy Makes Announcement of
 JunCiure Allied Forces

WASHINGTON, April 27 The juncture of Anglo American and Soviet Armies in the heart of Hitler's Reich, cutting Germany in two, is triumphantly announced by the White House.
 President Harry s. Truman gave out the news statement, which was released simultaneously by Wash- ington. Moscow and London at the prearranged hour of o'clock this morning, Pacific War Time.
 The juncture of the armed might of the Big Three occurred at II o'clock yesterday morning at Torgau, town on the EIbe River 75 miles south of Berlin.
 Patrols had made contact day earlier.
 From military sources it was learned the American unit involved in the meeting was the Sixty Ninth Division, under command of Mai. Gen. Emil F. Reinhardt.
 President Truman hailed the event as tribute to the courage and determination of Franklin Roosevelt such as. no words could ever speak s
 The President said as result of the meeting the enemy has been cut in two", adding this is not the hour of final victory in Europe. but the hour draws near, that hour for which all American people. all British people and all Soviet people have toiIed and prayed so long"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
(Second of ta0o articles on streanlining Congress)
 By Jack Stinnett

WASHINGTON, April 27.-The preliminary report of the La Fol- .lette- Monroney committee on ways and means of recognizing Congress has left some of the members gasp ing.
 Easily most suggestions so far have been for: CD reduction of the number of standing committees, (2) employment of experts to assist committees in preparing legislation, 't3) elimination of the detail work members of Congress have to do in answering queries of their consti- tuents, (4) abolishment of numerous special committees. Especial con- mittees are almost invariably set up to investigate some specific situa- ton. The Dies committee, to inves- tigate n-American activities; the Truman committee, to investigate the national defense program; and the Byrd committee, on executive expenditures, are examples)
 However, as a more drastic change Sen. Ball (R-Minn) would like to see 9 new Corstitutionai convention and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
NAzI5 HOLD
 ON EUROPE
 VANISHING
Bavarian Redoubt Attack ed, Capture of Munich
 Near, Pockets Besieged

PARIS, April 27--The American First Army and Russian troops ! joined forces in the heart of Ger many near Leipzig, cutting the Reich in two, while even as the l, troops of Gen. Courtney Hodges and Marshal Konev's Armies estab- lished radio contact, the Russians west of Vienna in swift maneu- yer, virtually encircled Czechoslo- vakia to cut the Germans vanish ing hold on Europe, which is now three great death traps.
 American and Russian forces joined hands yesterday, though pa- trols had met the day before at Torgau, the historic town of 14,000 people. where ancestors of the Rus sians met those of their western Allies nearly two centuries ago in the Seven Years War.
 Maxi Armies Split
 Torgau lies 58 miles southwest of dying Berlin, and 28 miles north east of Leipzig Junction of the two forces hopelessly outflanked the Saxong capital of Dresden. and split the German aanies for re- duction in detail.
 Maj. Gen. Reinhardt's Fighting Sixty Ninth" was the first Ameri- can division to join the Russians. Both the northern and southern pockets of enemy resistance are under violently increasing assault, as three of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower's Armies attacked the Ba- varian redoubt, moving to within 31 miles of Munich, two Allied Armies driving up from Italy are past Verona and the Russians are closing in from the east
 Violent Assaults
 The northern pocket is under violent assault from the Russians on the east and from British, Can- adian and American First and Ninth Armies on the southwest.
 The British have advanced past captured Bremen in a drive to cut off Denmark and Schleswig Hol- stein from besieged Hamburg. Can adian troops broke into the Kusten
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27

 5IGNALED
 BY STALIN
Orders Salute df Meetinq of American and Rus.
 sian Forces

LONDON, April 27.-Stalin, pro- claiming the juncture of the Ameri- cans and Russians on the Elbe. to- night ordered salute of "A salvoes. 324 guns in Moscow, as tribute which is usually reserved for the capture of Capital Cities.
 The salvoes of cannon and the ringing of bells could be heard over Moscow radio during the broadcast of Stalin's Order. in which he said: Long live victory and freedom of loving people over Germany"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
Double for Hitler Now h Berlin

STOCKHOLM, April 27 - Free German Press Services said the carefully coached former grocer, August William BarthOldy, resembl- ing Hitler, was sept to Berlin in the Feuhrer's place to "die on the barricades."
 He is to act as Hitler's trump card, creating hero legend around the Fuehrer's death, while Hitler himself goes underground, the agency said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON fLt. Col Robert S. Allen now On active
 service with the Army

i SAN FRANCISCO-Last fall il leaked out that there was drastic difference of opinion between the State Department and the Treasury over a soft peace for Germany, and after several weeks of discussion, President Roosevelt definitely threw his weight with the Treasury in favor of hard peace.
 Top War Department officials influenced by the atrocities com- mitted against American and Allied prisoners, finally agreed with the President. and even the State De- partment reluctantly swung into line.
 ] For long time it has been no secret that a group inside the State Department favored a soft peace for Germany with a view to making her a bulwark against Russia after the war But as long as Roosevelt was in the White House, the State Department ap- Ipeasers kept quiet
 However, the day after his body was buried, a meeting of the German Preparations Committee was held in the office of Assistant Secretary Will Clayton at which both the State and War Depart ments suddenly reversed Roosevelt s policy of hard peace.
 Specifically, they argued against the removal of Nazi factories, ma- chine tools, plant equipment or goods out of Germany. The Rus sians have proposed the removal of German war plants to help build up the hundreds of Russian fac tories destroyed by Germany. But the State and War Departments maintained that no such German 1 equipment could be removed from Germany without the unanimous consent of the Preparations Com | ission. Naturally this means that either the United States or Great Britain could block such removal since both sit on the Commission. ] At this meeting, Assistant Secre- tary of State Clayton argued that American policy should favor leav- ing factory equipment and ma chinery in Germany so she can get back on sound economic basis. He even mentioned the fact that Germany would need to import cotton to manufacture clothes and should be permitted to have enough exports to pay for the imported cotton. Clayton is the biggest cotton exporter in the world and did heavy business with the Nazis before the war)
 i RUSSIANS REMEMBER ! Unfortunately, the Russians are all to familiar with the attitude of the State and War Departments
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
 DANCING,
 AND HOW
Armies of Hodges and Konev Celebrate Historic
 Junction on EIbe River
By Don Whitehead Associated Press War CorrespondenD

WITH KONEV'S FIRST UK- AMMAN ARMY EAST OF THE ELBE, April 27-There was singing dancing and music on the banks of the Elbe River as Doughboys of Gen. Courtney H. Hodges First Army and jubilant troops of Mar shal Konev's Army celebrated their historic junction, symbolizmg the defeat of Nazi Germany.
 Americans and Russians slapped each other on the back, gave each other bear hugs and sat in the warm sunshine drinking cham pagne out of beer mugs as they toasted the great occasion of the meeting of the two armies yester- day.
 Not in all this long war have there been such scenes as those
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
Draft Law
 Is Passed
 ToTfun,an
Restriction on Combat Use of Eighteen Year -0Id
 lnductees

WASHINGTON. April 27.-Legis- lation extending the draft law went to the White House after the House approved by unanimous voice vote the Senate restriction on combat use of 18-year old inductS,s.
 The restriction written into the legislation Tuesday by the Senate prohibits the use of draftees under l9 in combat until they have had at least six months of training.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-27
FRANCES KULYAs VISITS

Frances Kulyas, registered from St. Paul. Minnesota, is a guest at the Gastineaua Hotel.