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ril 21, 1945
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ment is the sub-
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any man be 5
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way; behold, all
new.” (II Corin-
, What Can You Spare
That They Can Wear?
The Abilene Reporter ~32ems SUNDAY
WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES."- Biron_________----------------------------
VOL. LIV, NO. 302 A TEXAS 244 NEWSPAPER
ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1945-THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES IN THREE SECTIONS Associated Press (Art
United Press tVP) PRICE FIVE CENTS
for drunkenne.
orporation court
land $8 was col-
nes.
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[(ST CHURCH
TAM," Pastor
heel with the
arch under the
Holy Spirit.
‘THEY SHOULD BE ALL OF US
AN ABILENE EDITORIAL ..
The man on the street says I hear Lubbock and Odessa and other
towns are getting some nice new payrolls. I wonder whst s the matter
OR
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PTISM IS
■can be seen from
■ The scripture
shires:
ha ny man forbid
should not be bap-
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1 Aenon near to
3:23».
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Philip and the
I baptized him,"
lut of the wate.
he was baptized
ly out of the
ished. " . . , our
ith pure water.”
Lt a man be born
he Spirit, he can-
kingdom of God”.
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with Abilene.
It is pertinent, therefore, to ask who is Abilene?
Everybody has heard many people many times talk about why “they”
don’t do this or that.
Just who are “they"?
If a town is growing- It is steadily becoming a better place in
which to make a living, and to live,—it is a pretty safe bet that tl»ey
refers to just about every citizen. .
Because if a town is going that way just about every citizen la
doing something to help it develop. .
Bitterest FightingHorrorCamps 16-Army Assault Puts
N. . Black Names r
Marks Okinawa Gain Of History Force
Miles in Lity
herefore we are
I by baptism into
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wherein also ye
m." (Col. 2:12).
its and queries to
tend the-
Church of Ch ri-4
Highland
(Adv.)
II a town is not doing any good—if it is settling back into a static
mould there to harden and rot through the years it is a pretty safe bet
that there are really only a few people in that anonymous, intangible
) body referred to as “they." ...
____It the proverbial “they" really includes the entire citiizenshiuip it means
the co-operation necessary to success exists. -
Proof of whether it exists will be established in Abilene pretty quickly
now. ...
Yes, who is Abilene?
We have aU been thinking about what the future holds for Abl-
lene. We ought to. It’s our home. . .
Too often those of us who do the most talking about what ought
to be done think of action as something that is the responsibility only
of a comparatively lew men who give a lot of their time to civic
work—the other fellow.
After many conferences in which several hundred men participated
Abilene, Inc., is asking for $50,000 from the community to finance its
pe its only purpose—the only reason it was formed—is to bring more
payrolls, more jobs, greater volume of business and steady prosperity to
J all of us. - ... * -
Twenty thousand of the $50,000 needed has been given in amounts
from $5 to *2.000 according to the ability of various individuals and firms
to pay.
That is the way it should be.onnon 0
If every Abilenian will invest according to his means the #50.000 will
Q be in hand by Tuesday night when it is hoped to end the fund-raising
campaign • . ,
If not solicited donations should be mailed to Abilene, Inc.
By The Associated Press
Some of the bitterest fighting of the Pacific war marked
small American gains through heavily defended Japanese
positions on southern Okinawa, Fleet Adm. Chester W.1
Nimitz reported late Saturday.
Meanwhile the American flag was flung to the breeze over
Ie island. 4,000 yards off Okinawa’s west coast. Doughboys
planted the Stars and Stripes atop Mt. Iegusugu after over-__a .
coming furious resistance. The tiny island, now under Yank chi * • n
control, is being mopped up. -----------------’
On southern Okinawa, high HI e___IT 1 LI
ground in the hill 178 sector National Redoubt
changed hands several times IVUIIUIIUI AOuVUUT
as the fortunes of battle swung '
Heavily Bombed
LONDON, April 21—(P—Belsen,
Buchenwald, Breedonk and Vaught
are destined to be among the black-
est of names in German history,
for they represent German concen-
HRIST
Contributions
ALH 9 A.
Abilenians Give
National Redoubt
LONDON, April 22—(API—The Germans announced last night
that Red army tanks had burst three to four miles inside the flaming
rubble-strewn streets of barricaded Berlin in an overwhelming 16-
| tration campa where thousands of army assault on the three-quarters encircled Nazi capital—biggest
prize of two world wars. Moscow, whose official reports were running
24 hours behind German announcements, did not immediately con-
firm the dramatic flash from doomed Berlin. But a Moscow dispatch
filed hours before said a Red army entry into the Nazi citadel was
‘‘imminent."
congregation
worship and
C od.”
Total $19,731
Two-fifths of the $30,000 sought
for Abilene, Ine , had been raised
last night.
This was a sum-of $6,330 in one
Four Carloads
I’s Supper)
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MER
riday
d Timothy
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[E Song Director
ton, D. C.
To Clothe Allies
Men, women and children of over-
run European nations will soon be
a little better clothed because the
city of Abilene donated through its
from side to side. The hard- |
hitting Yank ground forces
were heavily supported by
naval guns, Army and Marine
artillery and carrier-based
planes.
Japanese night air raiders hit
two central American-held airfields
on central Okinawa but damage was
minor.
The Marines on northern Okin-
awa cleaned out enemy pockets and
brought all of Motobu peninsula un-
der their control.
Flying in support of furiously
fighting American ground forces on
Okinawa Island, Yank Superfort-
resses have again heavily hit Japa-
nese air fields from which Nippon
has mounted aerial smashes in de-
fense of the vital Ryukyu base
As fighting raged on the south-
ern Okinawa front the B-29s rain-
ed demolition bombs on Kyushu,
southernmost of Japan's homeland
islands.
Bloody battling continued on
other Asiatic fronts. In the
southern Philippines Christian-
hating Moros joined Tank
doughboys on Mindanao island
in the fight against the Japa-
nese. The Moros.. 7,000 strong,
from one of four guerilla divi-
sions fighting in the wild Min-
danao country.
In Burma British forces were
LONDON, April 21 —(P)— At
least 820 American planes attacked
in and around the south German
i Part of their story is becoming
known now as Allied troops from
I the west sift the evidence left-be-
hind by the Germans. And these
were only four of the concentra-
tion camps—as differentiated from
prisoner of war camps. In the con-
centration camps the Germans held
civilians of their own and occupied
countries who were suspected or
convicted of "crimes" ranging from
curfew violations to merely being
•national redoubt” almost unoppos- considered dangerous to the Ger-
man state.
ed today. Dropping bombs in the
area of Munich, Nazi birthplace,
and near Berchtesgaden where Naz-
ism may make its last stand-
More than 300 Eighth air force
Fortresses escorted by 400 Mustangs
and Thunderbolts brought the total
of bombs dropped on Munich to 10,-
500 tons, hammering the already
battered railyards there and at
nearby Ingolstadt and then bomb-
ing and strafing the jet plane base
at Landsberg 30 miles to the west
Breedonk is near Malines in Bel-
gium It is relatively small, yet by
the British army's official account
350 persons were executed there.
and more than 1.000 at the Tir na-
tional camp near Brussels. There
are no figures for the numbers who
died of starvation or passed through
these
closing in on one of the richest oil
regions of the Asiatic continent.
. day but with a Tuesday evening
4 deadline fixed for the general soli-
citation the men who have agreed - 1
to try to raise the money were ex- | people more than four carloads of miles north of Okinawa, were blast-
tremely fearful that this would be new, slightly used, and old cloth- ed by a very large mission — per-
one time when Abilene would fall ing Saturday afternoon when some haps 300 - American Superforts
to meet a goal in a cooperative com-
Nine airfields on Kyushu, 325
) munity effort.
The additional subscriptions to
the fund follow:
Right-Way Laundry $.125.00
Wooten Interests .... 2,000.00
Wagstaff Harwell, Douthis
& Alvis ------
Thornton’s Dept. Store ......
- David S Castle...........
p King Peanut Co. .........
Minter Dry Goods Co. .......
T S Lankford & Sons ......
Bert Chapman ......
Pan Dandy Bakery
Draughon ‘s Business College
Crump’s Cleaners
Jack Yonge Motor Co..........
— RR Leavitt ..........
£ LaMode Shoe Dept..........
" D. G. Bowers ............
E N Kirby ....
Satterwhite Brokerage Co. * *
Star Drug Co. ....
Dr O B Stanley ...*,**
Broadway Theatre ........
Abilene Reporter News .......
Universal Motors ..........
----Dw. J. Fulwiler, Sr.
P Thos E. Roberts .............
60 trucks canvassed the town.
Now, there is urgent need for two
sets of scales to be used in weighing
the boxes before they are to be
See PACIFIC. Page 17, Column 6
France to Demand
Forced Laborers
PARIS, April 21— (PP) — France
will seek to obtain from Germany
manpower equivalent to what she
lost through deportation of forced
laborors and prisoner* of war -a
total of about 3,000,000 — Finance
Minister Rene Pleven declared to-
night in a radio broadcast.
Pleven called It "payment in
kind” and said the French govern-
I ment bad decided to give French
farmers top priority in allocation
of German prison labor.
While he is in San Francisco at-
tending the United Nations confer-
ence. Pleven said, he intends to em-
phasize the necessity of alloting
more shipping for imports to France
especially metals from South Amer-
ica.
The End of the Rainbow-
Grande Lodge ........
C L. Johnson ........
Lloyd Bridges
Milstead Brothers
George Shahan Pharmacy
De Luxe Cleaners
Abilene Bedding Co
Robinson’s Pharmacy ....
West Texas Cleaners ...
Lavendar Foodway .......
100.00
500.00
15.00
100.00
500.00
ioa.oo
15.00
25.00
50.00
15.00
25.00
10.00
25.00
25.00
29 00
25.00
50.00
100.00
1.000.00
250.00
1,000 00
10.00
29 00
30.00
25.00
23.00
25 00
15.00
13.00
10.00
23 00
shipped. E. A. Ungren, chairman of
the drive, yesterday asked that mer-
chants loan the scales for use at
the Supper Club building where the
clothing is to be sorted.
Ungren also asked that merchants
continue to save paper boxes and
other containers to be used in pack-
ing the clothing which is to be taken
from here to a warehouse to await
shipment.
Workers said they thought rain
hindered the drive somewhat, and
have made it possible for Abilenians
ABILENIANS, LIBERATED
FROM NAZIS, COME HOME
The Soviet high command said that veteran Russian forces, who have marched 1,000
miles from the gates of Moscow in one of the greatest military comebacks in history, were
“engaged in fighting at Berlin's outskirts" and had captured Erkner on the city’s eastern
limits and seven other fortress suburbs three to 16 miles from the capital.
Raining w ar-ending blow s on
a beaten foe, the Russians by
Berlin's account also irrepar-
ably split Adolf Hitler's great-
er reich into two completely,
isolated areas in a develop.
FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT
OF JUNCTURE IMMINENT
PARIS, Sunday, April 22.—(AP)—Formal announcement
camps. Therelare only two that the Americans and Russians have joined in central Ger-
many was expected today in a matter of hours, and there were
indications that the U.S. Ninth Army might be the chosen
of 18 prisons or execution depots
in one small country.
• • •
ment as momentous as the Red
army’s entry into the capital.
This left the terror-stricken and
shell and bomb-pocked city without
any escape routes to the south and
presaged an imminent linkup in
force with American troops. Un-
confirmed reports from Paris said
At Vaught, a concentration center force for the historic meeting with the Red army at or near American and Soviet patrols al-
Berlin. 1 ready had joined.
Associated Press Correspondent Wes Gallagher, with the
Ninth Army at Magdeburg, reported that the great Russian
break-through—which now has entered Berlin—explained
why the Ninth Army had been sitting on the Elbe river west
of the German capital since April 11.
The Ninth Army had, and still has, the power to have
marched to Berlin within 10 days of its reaching the Elbe,
Gallagher noted, and referred to the expected junction of the
with and the Russians in the Berlin area.
in Holland, 30.000 persons, at a con*
servative guess, died at German
hands. Some were beaten until their
bones were broken Others were tor-
tured in special chambers and then
shot and then thrown into lime-
pits Vaught housed as many as
35,000 at one time. Many of them
were sent to Germany just before
the camp fell to British troops of
the 1st Canadian iamy.
According to one estimate there
were nearly 40,000 in Belsen near
Bremen, when It was overrun by
the British 2nd army, and 30,000
had died in the last few months
But figures so far are merely baaed
on what prisoners have told corres-
pondents and the published approx-
imations vary widely
This Is understandable because of
conditions described by one observ-
er:
Simultaneously with Galla-
gher's dispatch, U.S. 12th
army group headquarters an-
nounced cryptically that a
reconnaissance plane “in con-
tact with the 83rd division
(which is a Ninth Army divi-
sion) reported having sighted
what is believed to be Russian
"There was a pile 60 to 80 yards armor somewhere east of the
long, 30 yards wide and four feet
high of women’s bodies.”
Residents
Flee Berlin
Berlin, caught in a swirling bat-
the which the Germans said “never
has been surpassed in ferocity,” as
well as all the Baltic ports and
the hold-out areas of Denmark and
Norway, was completely cut off
from the Nazis • ‘national redoubt”
in southern Germany, Austria,
Czechoslovakia and northern Italy.
German resorts indicated that
perhaps 4,000,000 Russian troops
and German soldiers and homa
guards were locked in the death
struggle for Berlin, which Cerman
broadcasts swore to defend to “its
last ruin."
The broadcasts said big Soviet
siege guns were “hailing” shells into
Potzdamer Platz in the heart of
$ 6.330.00
Previously acknowledged $13 401 30
TOTAL ........s19.73t.s0
. Chinese Unified
9 NEW YORK. April 21-()—The
Id-member Chinese delegation to
the Ban Francisco conference will
“act as s unit," its only communist
member, Tung Pi-Wu said today on
his arrival by plane from China.
More June Tires
WASHINGTON, April 21 —() —
Some liberalisation of civilian tire
rations by June was indicated to-
night in a War Production board
e action increasing passenger tire
* manufacturing goals by about 60
per cent.
The Weather
4 V. •. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
V WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY- Sunday
mostly cloudy with showers and then-
derstorms. Monday considerable elesdi-
mess and scattered thunderstorms.
EAST TEXAS— Mostly cleedy with
showers and thunderstorms north and
central portions Sunday. Partly cloudy
south portions. Monday considerable
& cloudiness and widely scattered than-
• dershawers in nerih pertian.
WEST TEXAS— Partly cloudy Sunday,
with thundershowers and cooler in Pan-
handle. Monday partly cloudy with
thunderstorms and ceeler except in
Panhandle. Fresh te strong winds.
TEMPERATURES
Sat. : Fri. Sat, - Fri.
g A.M. HOUR P.M.
V M^M4 .....I ..... 62 - 70
SA - 64
58 - 63
BT - 63
56 - 67
- 68
- M
- 59
semperalires sei si p.
m.: •« and 56.
High and lew same date last year:
95 and 61,
Sunset last tight: 7:01.
Sunrise this morning: 7.08.
Sunset tonight: 8:10.
who missed the Saturday pickup to
take their clothing to the Supper
club building, the Pollock Paper ,
and Box co. 208 Locust, or Zenith
cleaners. 1174 South 2nd. These
places will be open all week to re-
ceive clothing. Ungren sold
Ungren said persons unable to de-
liver the clothing should contact the
committee, which he heads.
He expressed thanks to the hun-
dreds of persons who assisted in the
pickup, including the American
Legion, the Lions club, the Rotary
By REBEL HOPE
The 10:30 a. m train Saturday
brought two men, weary but eager,
to the end of the rainbow, their
goal. Home
Sgt Richard H Adams a prisoner
-of the German government since
last August, and S-Sgt. Jean Hollo-
well. captive since October, were
among the first passengers to step
down from the train. Both were
eagerly searching the crowd for
familiar faces
Sergeant Hollowell was the first
to spot his family, rushing forward
to greet them, but finding no words
to fit the occasion. It was a sol.
emn reunion with his mother, Mrs
L H Hollowell, 1117 Ambler, his
brother, Carl Hollowell, his sister-
club and the Kiwanis club for ob-
taining trucks for the drive, the
State guard for contributing their
trucks, the Boys Scouts for their “ in-law and their three children
help, boys from McMurry college
who worked, and numerous others
Ungren also thanked Yancy Mc-
Daniel for work done by the Pollock
company, where now almost a car of'
clothing is stored.
Some clothing contributed by
merchants was un-used, and there
were new quilts and shoes also in
the huge heaps of clothing at the
Pollock company and scattered over
the Supper club.
A number of the boxes taken to
the Supper club were wet from the
rain, and were to be scattered over
the building on tables to prevent
ruining. 1
This was Abilene’s first, and prob-
ably last, clothing pickup.
Not Iio with Sergeant Adams and
his mother, Mrs. Florence Adams.
1629 North 6th. The two were
searching frantically for each other
at the station but they didn’t meet
until they both reached home. And
then they had to laugh
,“After all the time we waited
for him U get home, then for 1
me to miss him at the train—it
just made me sick,” Mrs. Adams
declared.
Sergeant Adama and Hollowell,
although imprisoned in the same
camp, Stalag III-C, about 50 miles
from Berlin, never met intil they
started home by boat from Italy
Sergeant Adams, with the 142d
Infantry, 36th division had been
fighting 15 days following the in-
vasion of southern France when he
See LIBERATED, Page s. < olumn 1
• • •
At Buchenwald, near Weimar
21.000 were in the camp when it
was overrun by the U 8 3rd army
Five thousand were seriously ill It
is guessed 60,000 to 75.000 persons
may have died there and the rec-
ords show 18.000 died since the
camp was opened.
Thousands, however, were killed
there who never actually were in-
mates of the camp or were record-
ed in its register. They were sim-
ply brought there to be killed.
The latter two camps were peo-
pled mainly by civilian captives
from Erstwhile occupied countries,
and by anti-Nazi Germans.
A sample captive at Belsen was
a German professor who had made
rude remarks about Hitler.
Elbe river this afternoon.
The very fact that army group
headquarters saw fit to make such
By Thousands
Connelly Sworn
WASHINGTON, April 21— (P —
Matthew J Connelly of Clinton,
Mass., was sworn in today aa Pres-
ident Truman’s appointment secre-
tary.
Stephen T Early took the oath
aa special assistant to the Presi-
dent at the same ceremony in the
chief executive’s office. —C_____
Scurry Countian
Killed in Germany
SNYDER. April 21—(Spl)—Pfe.
Delan E Henley, Big Sulphur com-
munity youth, was killed in action
within Germany’s borders April 4.
Private Henley was the non of Mr.
and Mrs. E. P Henley, long-time Big
Sulphur community couple now at
Lubbock. Delan was attached to
Patton’s Third Army, with an ar-
mored division. He entered service
last August and Bailed for overseas |
duties Jan. 20 of this rear Surviv-
ing are his parents, three sisters,
Mrs. Weldon Burlesom, Leeta Pay
and Lemora May (twins) of Lub-
bock. and a brother, Robert in the
U. 5. Navy at San Diego, Calif.
FOLKS, ABILENE INC IS YOU AND ME
AND MEANS SIMPL * THAT IT IS
TIME FOR VS TO AL L GET TO WORK /
TO BUILD A BIGGER BETTER ANLENE/
^^
(Drawn for The Reporter-News by Frank Young blood, Abilene labor leader)
See Page 13 for story on
strategy In Berlin maneuvers.
an announcement lent it added sig-
nificance. Reconnaissance planes in
contact with frontline divisions do
not operate at extreme range ahead
of the line
Paris radio reported the dramatic
junction already had been made
and there .were reports here that
' patrols had made preliminary con-
tacts. Supreme headquarters did not
confirm these reports, and it was
regarded here as certain that the
actual formal meeting was still to
come-but that It would come with-
in Amo a. not clays. -—-—
The two Allies last were reported
32 miles apart east of Leipzig in an
area about 75 miles south of Berlin,
and It was in that sector around
Dresden that the French said they
had come together.
However, the Germans said
the Russian forces already were
three to four miles inside the
Berlin city limits on the north:
east and had cut around the
city to Reelitz, on the south-
west, while field reports from
the American front out those
Russians within 15 miles of the
U. S. Ninth army drawn up on
the Elbe river.
The severed reich was under
slashing attack in the north and
south
French First arms tanks In an
Id-mile dash reached the upper
Danube at a point 10 miles from the
Swiss frontier
i Farther east the U. 8 Seventh
| Army was only 20- miles from the
river as American tanks and troops
swung south on a broad front
perilling the Danubian stronghold
of Ulm sentinel city on the mute
Ifo Munich in Hitler’s redoubt Ulm
i la 72 miles west of Munich
| In between these steel spearheads,
the French and Americans met
| southeast of Stuttgart, completing
the encirclement of that key com-
munications and industrial city with
a population of 459 000.
I French troops were two and a half
I miles west of the city and the
Americans last were reported about
nine miles away on the northeast.
Heaviest Quake
MEXICO CITY April 21 —on-
Mexico city’s heaviest earthquake in
nearly a year swayed houses, jarred
loose a few tiles and made some peo-
ple a triffle dizzy at 11:17 a. m. to-
day.
The observatory said the tremor
reached its peak after 17 seconds, ft
was most intense 100 miles south
of here So far no real damage ha*
been reported.
STOCKHOLM, Sunday, April 22
Berlin as the capital’s surviving
| three million civilians huddled in
cellars or manned street barricades.
Life had moved underground
for the siege, ‘Berlin said, and
the Nazis admited that the
"death battle" which promised
I to leave their capital a waste-
land of rubble and ashes “is on.”
— (PP —The German-controlled •
Scandinavian telegraph bureau
Mid today that Berlin residents
were fleeing westward "by tens of
thousands" in an effort to escape
the heavy Russian artillery barrage
sweeping the city from the eaat
Transport means are limited and
Berlin’s volkstrum had been
thrown into the struggle and
the wounded were pouring into
the city from the wrecked
suburbs.
From the shell-cratered heart or
the city the word came just before
midnight that the Russians had
penerated into the capita] from the
northeast, swarming through the
the elevated railway stations are streets of the left-wing populous
Jammed, me agency said. working class districts of Welssen.
panic," it related. “Berliners fought | * mass of Russian tanks, artillery
with one another in order to board and infantry was about three to
the cars headed west In suburban four miles from the heart of the
stations eyewitness reports seem al-city around Berlin’s famed eathed-
moat too terrible It is enough toral .
say that people took no regard even The Russians apparently swung
for seriously-wounded soldiers Some | across the powerful German de-
even were thrown out of cars by fense line based 00 the circular au-
tobahn around the capital on an 11-
mile front from the captured su-
the panic-stricken."
ee a
LONDON, April 21—P) Three burbs of Bernau and Alt-Lands-
million terror-stricken Berliners berg, both three miles from the city
fearful of hunger as besieging Rus-limits and 13 miles from its core.
Sian armies cut them off from the Bernau, who e fall cut- Berlin’s
rest of the world, huddled in cel-vital rail and road corn municat ions
lars tonight after being exhorted by with the embattled Baltic port of
reich Defense Commissioner. Goeb- Stettin, was seized in a 20-mile
bels to defend the capital to the Russian advance through blazing
death.
forests, to which the Germans had
A late German broadcast declared put the torch in vain hope of halt-
forlornly "The hour lx too serious ing the Soviet onslaught.
to hide anything now." In a 28-mile arc from Bernau,
As shells from Russian artillery Soviet tanks battled through the
smashed Into the bomb-bettered suburbs of Werneuchen, Straus-
city Goebbels In hie second speech berg, Buckow Neuncheberg and
in three days to Berliners declared Fuerstenwalde, and reached the city
"What you have earned with blood limits at Erkner, astride the super-
and tears you must detend with all highway around Berlin. Erkner
the means at your disposal What was taken in a 27-mile Russian
you have earned with sweat and surge from Seelow, whose capture
work you must defend a* only you was announced Friday.
can defend it.”
Later Nazi Propagandist Hans
Fritsche Mid that “during the years
of bitter battle for national social-
ism we have leared to love Berlin
and we will under no circumstances
let the enemy take possession of our
town
Fritsche, vaguely suggesting that
Hitler himself might be conducting
the city’s final defense, said
“The man who at that time
fought for Berlin--the man who
conquered Berlin today leads its
defense
Meanwhile,
the
Germa ns.
whose reports hare been borne
out by Moscow’s conservative
announcements, admitted that
the sprawling city was three-
quarters encircled by a huge 70-
mile arc of steel thrown around
the city in a gigantic placer op-
eration.
This was affected when the
Russians reportedly lunged
south of the capital in a spec-
tacular 65-mile overnight sweep
that drove to Beelitz, 13 miles
southwest of the city’s famed
Potsdam gate.
Power Lacking
Soviets Object
MOSCOW, April 21—tn—The,
magazine War and the Working] LONDON. April 21 - War
Class addressing commentators Crimea Commission Chairman Lord
abroad said today "It would be a Wright said tonight that the com-
completely hopeless business to de- mission had no jurisdiction to con-
mand that demoracy In all Euro-duct actual detective investiga-
pean countries be constructed ex- tions” of German atrocities and that
actly along British or American It acted only on reports sent in by
I lines.” I national governments.
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