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union strategy IN event the pres.
ent 30-day extension Of the ole
contract expires before a new
agreement is ordered or approved
by the War Labor Board.
The meeting holds considerable
significance in the face of the ap
parent collapse of negotiations be-
tween the UNIV and operators fol
a new contract.
The operators announced thai
they will not attend joint bargain
ing session scheduled for tomor.
row. They voted first to suspend
negotiations indefinitely but the
United Mine Workers refused.
Neither side would acknowledge
that negotiations had ended, but
their fruitless attempts to reach
agreement seemed unmistakble
evidence that the War Labor
Board must take over the job Of
writing a contract.
The board currently is trying te
stop wildcat strikes which already
have cut production IS per cent
and threaten output of war-vita]
steel. It has warned UNIV Presi-
dent John L. Lewis that unless
the work stoppages are terminal
ed, the Government will have no
alternative but seizure.
The miners are striking in &C.
cordance with their established
policy OF mo contract, no work, -
despite Lewis request that they
continue work for 30 days under
an extension of their old contract
while negotiations for new one
continue.
Edward r. Burke. president OF
the Southern operators, said his
group will tell the WLB tomorrow
that the conference 'has reached
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Lewis Calls Wage Group
Meeting To Map Program

WASHINGTON, April 6-WH-President L. Of
United Mine Workers has called his 200nebe policy
itee to return here Monday receive
soft coal negotiations.
UNIV disclosed tonight that yeser-
day. is believed the meeting will mapping
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Partly cloudy and warmer today.
Temperatures yesterday:
High, 53-Low. -.
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orators agree to the secretary Of la
boris proposals for new con-
tract"
Mrs. Perkins had announced that
the operators rejected proposal
for $3.50 a day travel time for
the miners. She recommended that
the UNIV extend the contract,
pending further negotiations.
Mrs. Perkins at the meeting to-
day proposed as compromises the
payment of time and one-half for
one-hour travel and lunch time
amounting to $3.50 day, reduc-
ton of the original vacation pay
demand from $500 to $75 a year,
and payment of a shift differential.
She discarded the demands of the
miners for a Is per cent general
wage increase and payment OF 10
cents ton royalty to the union.
The premium proposal offers
wage differentials of four and six
cents an hour for second and third
shift workers, contrasted to UNIV
demands for a 10 and Is cents
premium. She also proposed two
minor adjustments.
Her compromise was accepted in
full by the union, she said, but op-
orators disagreed on the travel
time provision which has never
been included in the anthracite
contracts,
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$4,000 INMATES
FREED BY YANKS
Germany's Most Dreaded
determination Camp
Is Captured
BY HOWARD COWAN

DACHAU, Germany, April 3d.
RHDachau pris son, Germany S
most dreaded determination camp,
has been captured and its surviv-
ing $4,000 tortured inmates freed
by outraged American Doughboys
who killed or captured its brutal
garrison in furious battle.
Dashing to the camp atop tanks,
bulldozers, self propelled guns
anything with wheels-the fighting
Yanks of the And and 45th Divi-
sions hit the notorious prison north
west of Munich shortly after the
lunch hour yesterday.
Dozens of Nazi guards fell un-
der whitening blasts of rifle and
carbine fire as the soldiers, catch
ing glimpses of the horrors within
the camp, ragged through its bar
racks for a quick cleanup.
The troops were Joined by trusty
prisoners working outside tn e
barbed wire enclosures. French
men and Russians, grabbing up
weapons dropped by the slain SIS
guards, acted swiftly on their own
to exact full revenge from their
tormentors.
Sorting of the liberated prison
ers was still under way today but
the Americans learned from camp
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U. S. DISPUTES
AUSTRIAN RULE
State Department Says 1t
Does Not Recognize
Government

WASHINGTON, April 30-W.p)-
The United States today emphati-
cally lined up with Britain in re-
fusing to recognize the provisional
Austrian government which has
taken over in Russian-occupied
vienna without hindrance from
Moscow.
The State Department said flat
ly that it does not recognize the
government which is headed by
one-time Austrian Chancellor Karl
Renner. The British earlier had
turned thumbs down.
The State Department admitted
that, except for a brief Russian
note saying the government was
in the making, the United States
was not consulted on the develop
ment. When asked if it doomed as
new sore spot-along with the
Big Three Polish dispute - in
American Pritish Russian rela.
tons, a qualified American Off
cial said it would take few
days to decide.'
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Extension On Contract
Is Refused By Miners

NEW YORK, April 30.-W.D-
John L. Lewis United Mine Work.
ers tonight refused to agree to a
30-day extension of their existing
anthracite contract expiring at
midnight, and the controversy was
almost Immediately referred to the
War Labor Board in an attempt to
prevent a strike in the all-i1npor-
tant hard coal producing field.
The 1900 anthracite miners al
ready had voted to go on strike If
no agreement was reached, and
in effect, Lewis tonight told the
men to stop work at midnight. He
indicated that the strike already
had started.
Within an hour, Secretary of La
Dor Frances Perkins had certified
the controversy to the WLB. In
W S h n ton, WLB Chairman
George w. Taylor said an e1ner-
gency meeting of the board had
been called.
Lewis had called the unions tri-
district scale committee into ses-
sion after a meeting of the negotiat-
ing committee, the operators and
Mrs. Perkins had ended without
agreement.
"The tri-district COMMITTEE he
said, ''by unanimous vote, has
resolved to request the miners to
work in the industry when the op-
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COMMUNISTS LEAD
VOTES IN FRANCE
Political Analysts Caution
On Conceding Com
munist' Trend

PARIS, April 30.-lR-The Com
munist party won a sweeping VIC
tory in yesterdays French munich
pal elections, the tabulation of
more than 100000 votes showed
today, but political analysts were
cautious about conceding that the
nation as whole had "gone Com
munist.''
The trend toward the leftist
movement, however, was undeni-
able.
By ! o'clock tonight returns had
been received from all but the
most remote provincial areas.
A breakdown of the figures in
Dictated the Communists had won
nearly Is per cent of the estimat-
ed total vote of 100000. Less
than one per cent of the electorate
endorsed Communist candidates in
1885 when the last previous
French municipal elections were
held.
Socialists and that group of par
ties Jumped together under the
heading of resistance organiza-
tons" also polled substantial sup
port. The latter blocs sprang from
the erstwhile French underground
movement, and can be classified
&C 1eftictc
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Tor Russia TO study ArgelLlla
case. He questioned whether the
South American country is free
of Fsscism.
And, he said, if Argentina is
to be invited to send statesmen to
San Francisco, so, too, should the
Russian-recognized Polish govern
ment in Moscow.
There was measure Of con-
ISOLATION for the aggressive Rus
sian, however, in the fact that the
conference approved with scarcely
a ripple the admission of the Sow
let White Russian and Ukrainian
republics to the conference.
Belgian's foreign minister, Paul
Henri Spaak, urged delegates to
heed Molotov's bid for delay to
preserve precious unity among
nations sponsoring the conference
Russia, Britain, China and the
United States.
But Secretary of State Stettinius
and a horde of Latin Americans
sprang to the support of Argen-
tina.
And when it came to show
down, there were % votes against
delay, and then only 4 in opposition
to issuing Argentina an invitation
to the conference. Eleven nations
did not vote.
Russia had swung the votes Of
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and
Greece. Not even Belgium went
along. And when the result was
announced, Molotov and his fell
low Russians stalked from the
glittering auditorium of San Fran
cisco's opera house with Czech
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Truman Chooses Friend
As Administrative Aide

WASHINGTON, April 30.-(P-
Big EdMcKim who followed Presi-
dent Truman as a soldier and as a
political campaigner, became his
chief administrative assistant to-
day.
The 49-year old Omaha, Neb.,
insurance executive was sworn
in for the $4,000 job by Justice
William O. Douglas of the Supreme
Court. The oath was administered
at the same time to John w.
Snyder, St. Louis banker, as Fed
eral Loan Administrator and Ed
win w. Pauley of California as
American member of the repair
atoms commission with the rank
of ambassador.
The 1874 pound McKim, six feet
one inch tall, has been serving
President Truman unofficially
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Is Divisions Peace Plans
Defeated By Reported Set
Allied Army Before Nazis
Only Report OF German
Resistance Reported
In Bremen Pass

ROME, April 80 III German
armies in Italy have been ''vir.
tually eliminated as a military
force" by the SCATTERING onslaught
OF the Allies, Gen. Mark W. Clark
announced tonight as American
Fifth Army troops marched int
the great arsenal city of Turin
and found it already in the hands
of Italian patriots.
Gen. Clark, commander Of the
18th Army Group, declared that
the long, bitter campaign which
began on the shell-swept beaches
at Salerno in September, 1913, had
ended except for hopping up scat.
tered Nazi resistance.
More than 10000 German pris
oners and tremendous quantities
of arms and equipment have beer
swept up in the maeIstrom set of
by the British Eighth Army q
days ago and joined by the Amer.
lean Fifth Army a week later.
Twenty-Five Nazi divisions nave
been ripped to shreds.
THE military power of Ger.
many in Italy has practically ceas.
ed, even though scattered fighting
may continue as remnants of the
German armies are mopped up
said General Clark, commander .oi
the 18th Army Group. in a state.
ment to correspondents at his
command post.
Troops Of the 18th Army Group
have SO smashed the German
armies in Italy that they have
been virtually eliminated as a
military force. Twenty-Five Ger
man divisions, some of the best
in the German army, have been
torn to pieces and can no longer
effectively resist our armies"
British Eighth Army forces,
sweeping beyond captured Venice,
drove across the Piave river at a
point only "A miles by highway
from Trieste around the head OF
the Adriatic sea, A Belgrade an
nouncement said Marshal Tito's
Yugoslav partisans were fighting
the Germans through the streets
of Trieste.
Elements of the American 91st
Division and South African armor-
ed forces captured Trevisc, north
of Venice, and British troops seiz-
ed an important bridge across
the Pave near Nervesa. The vet
eran U. S. First Armored Divi-
sion captured more than 10000
prisoners in the past "a hours, in
Guiding four German major gener-
ais.
Units of the American 10th Noun
tain Division, leading the Pur-
suit of enemy remnants through
the Alps toward the Bremen Pass,
crossed Lake Garda in storm boats
and captured Benito Mussoiini's
former Villa on the west short at
Garganano. They then cut one of
the few escape roads left to Bren-
Ter Pass. The only report of Ger
man resistance was in that area.
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since his old battery commander
entered the White House April IL.
He had told reporters he plan
ned to return to Omaha where he
was executive vice president Of
the newspaper division of the MI
tual Benefit Health and Accident
Association.
However, McKim said today, the
President urged him to enter his
official family and he obtained a
leave of absence from the company
for which he has, worked for 10
years.
Truman was commander of
Battery D of the 10th Field Artil-
lery, 35th Division, during the
first world war, and was muster
ed out with the reserve rank of
major.
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LONDON, April 30.-P- The
Free Danish Press service in
Stockholm said that Heinrich
Himmler conferred in Denmark
this morning with Count Folke
Bernadotte, the neutral Swedish
emissary by whom he sent his of.
fer to surrender Germany to Bri.
tain and the United States last
week.
In London British cabinet minis
tiers held a long meeting today
then some of them met with Prime
Minister Churchill Late tonight,
studying the latest reports on the
situation.
A full cabinet meeting is sche
duled for early Tuesday, before
the House of Commons meets, al
which time it likely will be decid
ed whether Churchill. might make
statement in the Commons dur.
ing the afternoon.
The British Press Association
stated that there is no longer any
doubt that armistice moves are in
progress and moving swiftly"
The Himmler-Bernadotte meet.
ing, said to have taken place at
Aabenraa just north of the Ger
man-Danish border, was believed
to be the second conference of the
two men in two days.
Since it had been officially dis.
closed that last weeks surrender
offer by Himmler reached the
western Allies through Bernadotte
reports of new contact gave
rise to speculation that a new
phase in German surrender at
tempts had opened.
The first offer was refused be-
cause it was not addressed to Rus
STA as well as to Britain and the
United States.
There was no Indication wheth-
er Himmler was now ready to
yield ii all three powers.
>Dispatches from Stockholm said
that the Swedish foreign office as
well as American and British sour
ces mininized the. importance OF
the report that talks were in pro-
gress between Bernadotte and
Himmler in Denmark. American
Minister Herschel johnson and Bri-
fish Minister Sir Victor Mallet
made long visits at the foreign
office but American legation sourc-
es insisted that Johnson's visit
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Bv GEORGE BRIA

MILAN, April 30-tR)-The beat
en-, mishapen body of Benito Mus.
solini lay tonight in a rude wooden
coffin in the Milan morgue while
still-vengefu1 Italian partisans.
moving against other former Fas-
cist leaders, were reported al
ready to have tried and executed
Marshal Rodolfo GRAHAM.
Headquarters Of the National
Liberation Committee received an
unofficial report that GRAHAM,
former chief of staff of the Italian
Army and loser of the first Lib
yam campaign, had been sentenced
this morning and the execution
carried out Immediately, but there
was not immediate confirm tion.
Demonstrations continued in Mi
Ian during the day as funerals
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Shooting Of MussoHni
Related By Executioner

were held for patriots who were
killed in the revolt last week.
However, the project of the Mi
Ian region, acting upon instruc-
lions by the Italian government
and Allied military authorities, is
sued a proclamation ordering i'm
mediate cessation of summary
judgments and arbitrary execu-
tons. Violators of the order were
warned that italian and AMC au-
thoritiss will adopt extremely
severe measures"
The bodies Of Mussolini, 61-
year-old former dictator and Fas-
cist leader; his beautiful young
Claretta Petacci; and II
OF his Fascist followers were re-
moved to the morgue today re-
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Last Assault
Is Underway,
Stain Says
Russians Make Bid For En-
tire City On Soviet
May Day

LONDON. Tuesday, May 1.-(P,
Russian troops raised the red
hammer of victory over the Quilted
~bel] of the German Reichstag in
Berlin yesterday and were split
ting the citys last Nazi defenders
TODAY in what Premier Stain de-
scribed as the '1ast assault"
Berlin was not yet finally won,
but Stains special May Day order,
issued during the victorious COM
pletion of the war, left little doubt
that the city's end-and the end OF
The War-were close at hand.
The Russians stepped up their
overwhelming assault for Berlin to
unprecedented proportions in a
possible bid to win the entire city
today while the Soviet union cele-
brates May Day, its traditional holi-
day.
Soviet troops were within a mile
Of tearing the capital into two
isolated pockets each less than
nine square miles. They had won
the ministry of interior near the
Reichstag, were laying siege to
Killers underground fortress in the
Tiergarten, were at Berlin's trium-
phal arch, the Brandenburg gate,
and were across the Spree river
from Berlin's cathedral.
German broadcasts admitted that
the Today battle for the devastated
capital was as good as lost, while
Premier Stain in a May Day
order Of the day, said that the war
was approaching its end and de-
clared: the last assault is on"
Stain said that 1900, 1000 Germans
had been killed or captured during
the last three to four months of
lighting on the eastern front. His
announcement meant that $780,
oOo German casualties had been in
1hcted by the Red Army in less
han four years of war.
AS 5000 more Nazi troops sur
rendered in Berlin, raising to g..
Duo the toll of enemy dead and
captured in four days, north of
me dying capital Red army troops.
Iolllng out 1nile-an-hour gains
across Mecblenburg province, seiz-
cd the Baltic port of Greifswald
and smashed with a miles of
Rostock. The island-bound port of
eWlnemuende was isolated.
Far to the south, Gen. Andrea
J. Yeremenko's Fourth tkrainian
Army captured Moravska-Ostrava.
,,ae Pittsburgh of Czechoslova-
Ma' while cavalrymen of the
second Ukrainian Army plunged
through the Morava river valley
howard junction that would roll
Up a German salient in eastern
Moravia.
Capture Of the famous Reich
gag building. which was wrecked
oy Tire in February, 1888, four
weeks after Hitler assumed pow
.i' ana was used by the Nazis
as pretext for Selling di9ta-
.orlal powers, was announced in
NoScoW's nightly war bulletin.
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
oasSle-grimed Fiixt White Rus
san Army street fighters captur-
ca Germany's legislative cham
oers after they had stormed over
n i' Molke river bridge from Moa-
D,t, ana seized the ministry Of the
sweeping across the barricades
i ~ woe Koenigsplatz, they broke
.lo the Reichstag and "hoisted
..e banner Of victory, Moscow
tSuUtlnupG m Do mn N-1
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% Wounded Are Taken
10 Peace Conference
To See Security Plan

San FRANCISCO, April so-tB
an, ine Navy brought 81 wounded
t sailofs and Marines today to see
W. 4a themselves how the United Ma
n Nons are trying to organize tc
p'eveht another war.
,, AN young men, they were am
iI on cases. Some had lost both
VS. 49, some an arm in the Pacific
boa l' 1hey came from the Navy
away. -"' % aineS
+h "hen asked how much interest
,bs s mao IN this conference.-the
bo es sat in the rear of the opera
yot 1ust before today's session
ill., Under way-they said things
so were interested. We want to
tb;s peace. We had a big stake in
co ,S war; We want to see what
|'''leS out Of this war;"
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Jap Atrocity On Hospital
Ship Talked By Ameri-
can Doughboys
By LEFT ERICKSON

GUAM, Tuesday, May 1. -tR-
Twenty-Seventh Infantry Division
Doughboys captured important
Machinato airfield on Okinawa's
west coast Sunday, Fleet Adm.
Chester w. Nirnitz announced to-
day.
Twenty-Five Japanese aircraft,
attacking American forces off Oki-
nawa, were shot down Tuesday.
Sunday and Monday carriar air
patrols downed another 25-total
of 81 for the two days.
There was no mention of dam
age to fleet units.
Carrier planes raided Tokuno,
Amami and Kikai islands in the
northern Ryukyus Sunday and Mon-
day, attacking landing craft, coas-
tai shipping, fuel dumps, barracks
and airfield installations. Five ia
panese planes were destroyed on
the ground.
Navy search aircraft also struck
the northern Ryukyus, sinking one
cargo ship and leaving another in
a sinking condition.
Another group of Navy search
planes ranged north CT Kyushu,
where they destroyed one small
cargo ship, one coastal vessel, one
patrol craft and number of small
craft.
Capture Of Machinato airfield
placed Maj. Gen. George W. Grin
er's 9th Division Doughboys with
in 2 miles of Okinawa's capital
city, Naha, population $4,000. Naha
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D0UGEiB0YS ARE IL MACHINAT0 TAKEN
MILES FROM DAVA0 BY j. S. FORCES
Guerrillas Advance Along
Talikud Nine Miles
From Port

MANILA, Tuesday, May IT,
Overrunning elaborate gun en-
placements, Path Division Dough
boys swept to within II miles OF
Dvao city Sunday while guerrillas
seized five-mile-long Talikud is
land, nine miles off that big Min
danao port.
Maj. Gen. Roscoe Woodruff S
Yanks drove 10 miles from Digos
up to the western shore of Davao
gulf against disorganized resistance
Gen. Douglas Macarthur reported
today.
The extensive system of antiair-
craft positions and intact coastal
guns seized in the advance indicat-
ed the Japanese expected and had
prepared for an assault on Davao
gulf proper. Instead, the Ameri-
cans came overland from their
landing in Moro gulf.
Lack of opposition on the south
ern approaches nonetheless sur
prised the Americans, who expect
a stiff fight for Davao, one of the
major ports of the Philippines and
a Japanese strongpoint. The roads
were bobby-trapped, but otherwise
there was little to impede the swift
foot soldiers.
PIT boats, darling swiftly into
the bay, again shelled shore posi-
tons.
On northern Luzon, the 9th Di-
vision, which helped take Baguio
Friday, pushed five miles north to
seize La Trinidad, where the Jap.
anese once had large concentra-
ton camp for Americans and other
Nafiooc natiora1c
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Seventh Takes Munich; New functions Made
Red Banner zaised Over Berlin Hinmler'
Peace Offez17 Studied; Italian War Is Our
Argentina Gets Seat
Over Red Objections

SAN FRANCISCO, April objections the
United Nations conference voted 81 to tonight
place Immediately in its peaceshaping councils
Thus the first fcale
a Soviet defeat.
Eloquently van Foreign Conmissar
pleaded that the ballot delayed that hadn't
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Himmler Confers In Den
mark With Bernadotte.
Stockholm SAYS

STOCKHOLM, Tuesday, May
l.-P-The newspaper Dagens
Nyheter said today Count Folke
Bernadotte, Swedish emissary
who repeatedly has been acting
as a go-between for peace be-
tween the Allies and Germany,
had forwarded the German an
sWer to capitulation demands to
an Allied legation in Stockholm
Yesterday,
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FORECAST

Clear and cool.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High. 71-Low, s..
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