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Stassen for
‘One World’
Peace Setup
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12.
—(AP)—The American dele-
Nation came up to one of its
major decisions of the United
Nations conference today with
the echo of Wendell L. Will-
kie’s “One World" slogan
ringing in its ears.
* The apostle of international-
ism in this case is Harold E.
Stassen, commander in the
Navy and former Republican
governor of Minnesota.
6 At issue in a closed meeting of
the group is a decision about what
to do to keep the American repub-
lics Act of Chapultepec alive with-
out turning the proposed world
Qeace-keeping organization into
simply a loosely bound series of
regional alliances.
The issue is one which delegates
consider of paramount importance.
It poses the question: Are American
republics willing, as a long-range
proposition, to place their future
security in the hands, of a world
organization? Or do they want to
retain exclusively the decision on
when and where to use force against
threatened or actual aggression in
the western hemisphere?
• ...
Into these controversial discus-
sions. Stassen has brought again
and again the "One World” slogan
that Willkie used to sum up his
views.
a Stassen has told delegates,
S advisers, counsultants and re-
porters that he will contest any
settlement of the question like- ■
ly to weaken the final authority
of the league in keeping the
peace in any corner of the
Soviets Squeeze SHAEF Likely
DOB 400020 To Call Down
Hold-Out Trooi DS Curtain Soon
■ "A WASHINGTON, May 12.-
(UP)—Military observers here
believed today that the Al-
lied high command in Europe
LONDON, May 12.—(AP)—Soviet armored forces slash-
ed today at Nazi troops offering bitter resistance in Czecho-
Slovakia as they attempted to flee westward through a rapid-
ly narrowing corridor toward the American lines. hower may not be needed
Other Russian troops had forced the surrender of the may 4 90 neeaea
major portion of die-hard enemy units in northern Austria,
under Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
much longer.
. . ... The high command is familiarly
junctures with the Americans known to war correspondents as
SHAEF, which stands for Supreme
Inside Berlin the Russians were meeting the same kind Headquarters Allied Expeditionary
of futile but savage resistance. Scores of fires were being set P ° WAP — — " *
nightly in the shattered capital, as Soviet soldiers extricated
and had effected three new
in the holdout area.
the bodies of hundreds of civilians from subways flooded in
last-act Nazi terrorism.
In Norway, where approximately 400,000 Nazi troops,
the entire German occupation force, were reported com-
pleting their withdrawal and awaiting return to Germany,
Vidkun Quisling’s police chief and police minister were re-
ported to have killed themselves rather than face capture
by patriots. Quisling remained in his Oslo cell.
Gen. Nicholaus von Falkenhorst, who had commanded
Nazi forces in Norway until last December, told his Ameri-
can* Seventh army captors
that his fatherland had fought
“the most insane war in his-
tory.”
The Soviet high command an-
nounced that the Russians had
seized 560,000 prisoners along the
former eastern front Wednesday
through Friday, including 45 Ger-
man generals.
Linkup with the Americans
in Czechoslovakia was accom-
plished by Marshal Ivan S.
Konev's First Ukrainian army
near Rokycany, nine miles east
of Filsen, and by Marshal Rod-
Ion Y. Malinovsky’s Second
Ukrainian army below Prague in
the area northwest of Ceske
Budejovice.
Malinovsky’s troops occupied Ge-
muend and Zwettl in Austria near
D world.
% There are indications his views
are shared to a great extent by his the Austro-Bohemian frontier 45
miles northeast of Linz, and in this
delegation colleagues, but Stassen
has remained the vocal leader in
pressing home this point.
Delegates apparently are near an
agreement on a compromise per-
emitting nations which banded them-
selves together for mutual defense
to act immediately If they were at-
tacked. However, they would be
required to make full reports to the
world organization on the situs-
tion over which the league eventual-
ly would be expected to assume au-
thority.
Coal Shortages
Plague Pit Area
a SCRANTON, Pa. May 12.—(P—
"There’s a coal shortage problem
facing Pennsylvania's chilled an-
thracite area where 72,000 miners
have been idle for 12 days in a
contract dispute.
With temperatures hovering
4e several degrees above the freez-
ing mark, more than 1,000 pu-
pils were dismissed yesterday in
nearby Dunmore borough when
authorities closed four schools
because of lack of fuel.
a Scranton school authorities said
“supplies were ample for the time
being but two city hospitals re-
ported dwindling reserves would
last through only the weekend
Dealers said they were unable to.
make deliveries, pointing to empty
•ins. -
in Luzerne county’s mine-studded th« OWL
Wyoming valley, industrial plants
said they were drawing upon fuel
same area made the third juncture
with the Americans.
Malinovsky forced the major part
of Col. Gen Woehler's Germany
army group to surrender in north-
ern Austria This group was fight-
ing under the overall command of
Field Marshall Ferdinand Schoer-
ner's “middle army group, against
which the Russians threw powerful
armored and storm forces.
The corridor through which
thousands of Nazi troops north and 1
northeast of Prague were trying to
withdraw toward the American lines
was narrowed by Gen. Artdrei I.
Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian
army. His troops closed the corri-
dor to 32 miles with the capture
of Kolin. Kutnahora and Tabor.
Sverre Riisness, Quisling’s minis-
ter of justice, said Jonas Lie and
Henrik Rogstad, police minister and
police chief, respectively for Quisl-
ing. committed suicide in a bunker
outside Oslo where they had bar-
ricaded themselves against patriot
forces since Norway’s liberation
dry. Riisness surrendered to patriot
forces.
Ike Tells Captives
To Stay in Camps
By the Associated Press
Gen. Eisenhower today requested
Allied prisoners of war still in Ger-
many to remain in their camps to
enable authorities to work out co-
ordinated plans for their transfer
back to their homes.
I The message, broadcast- to the
| camps over BBC, was reported by
Captured Nazis
Head for Soviet
MOSCOW, May 12—(PP—Long
lines of German prisoners
moved toward the Soviet union
from every sector of the front
—today, headed for reception cen-
ters where they will be classi-
fied according to occupations.
The total of prisoners taken
between Wednesday and Fri-
day has risen to the neighbor-
hood of 600,000.
Fighting still is sharp in iso-
lated sectors of Czechoslovakia,
but linkups with American
forces and the onrushing tank
groups of four Soviet armies
are hemming in the holdout
Nazis hourly and reducing their
salients materially.
f
Germans Must
Rebuild Soviet'
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12-(UP)
—Kuzma B. Kiselev, foreign com-
missar of Soviet White Russia, said
today that the German people must
be forced to rebuild with their
own hands the towns and cities
destroyed by their armies during
the war.
Just how this is to be done,
Kiselev said in his first inter-
view with any foreign corres-
pondent, is something to be de-
termined by the final European
peace conference which should
be called “as soon as possible”
after the conclusion of the
United Nations assembly here.
"Mind you," he said in his na-
tive tongue, we are not very keen
on German help in rebuilding our
country. They have not proved to
be good workers when used as war
prisoners But we believe this to be
a matter of supreme Justice.”
The foreign commissar, a farmer’s
son who holds degrees as a doc-
tor of medicine, said it would be
difficult for anyone in this country
to imagine the damage and suffer-
Forces. SHAEF was set up in Eng-
land in preparation for the Anglo-
American-Canadian invasion of the
reserves.
"There is practically no coal
available in the valley," said R A:
Davis, large Wilkes-Barre retail
dealer, adding that the situation is
serious.
ing caused in White Russia by the
Eire Lifts Gag
DUBLIN, May 12.—(PP)—Newspa-
pers today hailed the end of Eire’s
press censorship and generally de-
clared it to have had the effect of
putting the neutral Irish people in
the false light of upholding Nazism.
At least 800,000 White Russians-
10 per cent of the pre-war popula-
tion—have been slain, he said:
Minsk, the capital, is 80 percent de-
stroyed: Vitebesk is 90 percent In
ruins; and the town of Orsha is no
more
One U. S. Division to
Get in Berlin Parade
WITH THE NINTH ARMY IN
GERMANY May 12.—(P)—Indica-
tions here today were that at least
one American division will partici-
anks Lunge Ahead
INNER
12 US Lu*
Okinawa righting
low
sin
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Great Wall
Kaifeng
enyun
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C H 1N A Laohet
continent. It was later moved to
Reims, France, where it accepted
Germany’s surrender May 7.
Yesterday the War department
announced its plans for military
government of Germany in con-
junction with Britain, Russia and
France sitting in a joint control
council in Berlin.
It seems reasonable that once
the government of Germany is
organized under the council, the
zones to be governed by the re-
spective Allies are occupied and
the balance of the Allied forces
are withdrawn, SHAEF’s ex-
istence will no longer be re-
quired.
Some suggest SHAEF may con-
tinue until a peace is finally nego-
tiated. There seems less practical
reason for this to be the controll-
ing factor, however, than matters
of supply and transportation.
Announcement of a new Interna-
tional transport organization com-
prised of the U S , Britain, France,
Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and
Norway, showed what considerations |
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mobilized to temporary bases; and I RANGOON. May 12—-Twen-
removal of usable war materiel for ty U. S. Army Air Force peace of-
ficers and 19 enlisted men, aban-
NANKING
Mindanao Landing
Isolates Defenders
CHUNGKING
Burma
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STATuve Mnes
WHERE CHINESE REPORT VICTORY—Arrows locate
drives which the Chinese say have smashed a Japanese push
toward the U .S. airbase at Chihkiang and surrounded enemy
troops west of Paoching. Shaded areas are Japanese-con-
trolled. (AP Wirephoto Map).
PRESIDENT'S MOTHER FLIES TO CAPITAL—President
Truman waves his hat as he aids his mother, Mrs. Martha
Cuman, 92, from Air Transport Command plane upon her
arrival at the national airport in Washington. She said, "Oh
fiddlesticks!" on confronting battery of cameramen at end
of her four-hour, 15-minute plane trip from her Missouri
ane (AP Wirephoto),
redeployment.
Most of these problems hinge
on restoration of transporta-
tion. ft is clear that the easiest
way for American forces to
withdraw is back over the lines
of communication used in ad- *
vancing into Germany. These
lines would carry them back
towards Cherbourg, Brest, Mar-
seilles and Antwerp.
The zones in Germany to be occu-
pied by the respective Allies have
not yet been announced Announce-
ment may be delaved until all enemy
troops are rounded up to prevent
Germans from gravitating to areas
occupied by western Allies and un-
til occupation forces are fully de-
ployed.
doned by the Japanese as unfit to
walk away from the Rangoon cen-
tral prison, were evacuated May 4
by the 15th Indian corps which had
occupied the Burma capital the
6,000 Yank Fliers
Freed From Berth
LUNEBURG. Germany, May 12.-
(PP)—A group of 30 American airmen
arrived here yesterday from Barth
prison, where 6,000 American fliers
have been liberated by the Russians
The men are now on their way to
Britain.
Among them was Lt. C Emory
Jones of Crystal City, Tex.
The fliers told the story of Col.
H R. Piecer of San Antonio,
Tex., who was seized by the SS.
charged with attempting to start
a revolt, and sentenced to death
after giving a rousing pep talk
to the prisoners.
Piecer was waiting for the fir-
ing squad when the camp was lib-
erated and now is helping run the
camp.
Churchill Mum on
Report of Huddle
LONDON, May 12. — (P) — The
press secretary at No 10 Downing
street declared today ’there is noth-
ing definite to say at this moment"
regarding unofficial reports that
President Truman and Prime Min-
Heroic Loraine
Pilot Gets DFC
LONDON, Ma F 12—CPF-Distin-
guished Service Crosses have been
awarded in absentia to three officers
who stayed with their hopelessly
damaged Liberator until it blew up
in an attempt to save three wound-
ed gunners who could not bail
out, the U. S Eighth air force
announced today.
Lts. Raymond E. Price, pilot,
of Loraine, Texas, Edward J,
O’Rourke, co-pilot of New York
City and John R. Tiedmann,
navigator of Burlingame, Calif.,
were the men cited. They are
listed as missing in action, al-
though none was seen to escape
from the craft.
Two engines of their bomber were
knocked out during an enemy fight-
er attack. The controls were dam-
aged and the hydraulic system was
destroyed. Several of the crew
were wounded.
When it became obvious an ex-
plosion was imminent. Price order-
ed the crew to jump Those who
could did, but the others lay un-
conscious at their station.
Price and O'Rourke decided
to crash land the plane. Tied -
mann stayed aboard to put a
parachute on a wounded gun-
mer and push him overboard.
A few seconds later the bomber
exploded.
night before.
With the Americans left be-
hind were 29 British officers.
Seventy five other American
officers and men were among
400 prisoners of war marched
away by the Japanese April 25
in a withdrawal northward to-
ward Insein, where moat If not
all were believed rescued by
troops of the British 14th army.
Sgt. Major John Finnerty, 30, of
Eire, a member of the Royal Innis-
killing fusiliers who had spent
three years and 14 days at the
prison said the Japanese used “re-
fined torture" methods on the pris-
oners.
The Irishman said in three years
1,000 prisoners had died of beri-
beri and dysentery.
On April 29, the prisoners said,
the Japanese guards ordered “lights
out"—although there never had
been any lights. The next morning
the guards were gone and the pris-
oners found a note in which the
guards said they were afraid they
had treated the prisoners very well,
adding “if we meet on another
front we must all fight bravely."
American prisoners rescued from
the Japanese at Rangoon included:
Texas:
Lt. Aaron L Bearteen, Houston.
Lt. S D Garrett, Nacogdoches.
Lt. Clifton Leon Bray, Ban An-
tonio.
Capt Robert 8 Shanks Jr. Grand
Prairie.
T-Sgt Ernest 8 Quick, Houston.
$5,000 Damage in
Haskell Movie Fire
pate in a token occupation of Ber-
lin—probably the crack Second Ar-ing.
mored (Hell on Wheels) division.
veterans of Tunisia, Sicily and the
European campaign.
. A selected squad of war corres-
pondents probably will accompany
the token force.
ister Churchill are planning a meet-
Yesterday a spokesman at the
prime minister’s residence charac-
terized as rumors and speculation"
reports that a meeting was impend-
ing of Truman, Churchill and Pre-
mier Stalin
Stamford B-29 Pilot
Is Missing in Action
STAMFORD, May 12.—Mrs Earl
Russell of Stamford has been no-
tified that her- husband, Captain
Russell, pilot of a B-29 has been
missing in action since April 16
Captain Russell has been station-
ed at Guam since February and is
known to have made a number of
raids over Tokyo The captain is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. E A. Russell
MOTHER'S DAY FOUNDER TOO ENFEEBLED
TO WATCH 31ST OBSERVANCE OF HOLIDAY
PHILADELPHIA, May 12.—(P)—Anna M Jarvis is old, confined to
a wheel chair, blind, and too enfeebled to worry greatly how people are
observing Mother's Day which she founded and incorporated 31 years ago.
* Miss Jarvis, 81, an inmate at the Marshall Square sanatorium In
nearby West Chester, has forgotten much about those long years of
bitter feuds with florists, the greeting card Industry and the randy
makers “who tried to distort the real meaning of Mother’s Day."
She’s become mellow and to happy most of the time in knowing the
Mothers Day Is firmly enough established to go on without her prodding."
Howard 8. J. Sickel, chairman of the Anna M Jarvis committee explained.
“But she was a real scrapper in her younger days,” Sickel said as
he recalled her many fights in court and out against what she called
commercialization of the holiday she began.
An intelligent, attractive woman of deeply sentimental nature. Miss
Jarvis started the Mother's Day movement in 1907 In tribute to her late
mother, Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis, daughter of a Methodist clergyman
at Grafton, W Va., where Anna was born. .
On May 7. 1914, a joint resolution was passed in the U. S. House of
Representatives designating the second Sunday In May in honor of
mothers The Senate concurred, and on May 9, President Wilson pro-
claimed the day for "a public expression of our love and reverence for
mothers."
Liberated Prisoner
Returns to Abilene
Pfc. John E. Bush, liberated Iran
Stalag 9-B in western Germany,
east of Luxembourg and near the
town of Bad Or2, April 1, has re-
turned to Abilene to visit his wife,
who realdea at 525 North 16th, and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E
Bush, 1034 North 10th.
Private Bush, serving with an In-
fantry unit of the 28th division,
wax reported missing in action Dec
30, 1044.
Derby Set June 9
LOUISVILLE, Ky May 12—(UP)
— The war-delayed 71st running of
the Kentucky Derby—America’s pre-
mier horse race— will be held at
Churchill downs June 9 when the
largest field since 1929 will run for
the historic wreath of roses, Col.
Matt Winn announced today.
By the Associated Press
American Marine and infantry troops attacking the Jap. -
anese fortified line on Okinawa island engaged in the biggest
pitched battle of the Pacific war today as new Allied offen-
sives were promised in China and Southeast Asia.
In a move to speed the end of the southern Philippines
campaign the 40th division landed on northern Mindanao
where Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Nipponese garrisons
have already been so badly cut up by two other V. S. di-
visions and guerrillas that they are “incapable of serious re.
sistance." /
The gruelling battle for Okinawa, 325 miles south of
Japan, rose to a new pitch yesterday involving repeated bay-
onet charges by both Americans and Japanese, when four
divisions launched a general
offensive behind heavy naval,
air and land artillery bom-
bardment.
Tank-supported Yanks — perhaps
30,000 of them—killed off Japanese
making night long attacks and in-
filtrations and t hen launched their
own attack along the four mile
front across the Island yesterday
morning They gained from 200 to
800 yards. Behind every advance
flamethrowers and flaming gasoline
burned by-passed Japanese out of
holes.
Sixth division Marines were
less than a mile from Naha, cap-
Ital, port and major objective
on Okinawa. First division Ma-
rines and 77th Infantrymen
gained high ridges looking down
on either side of Shuri fortress
in the center. The 96th, appar-
ently replacing the battle-weary
7th Infantry on the east, kept
pace.
The advance will be slow and un-
spectacular, Mid Lt Gen Simon STRIPPED OF MEDAT s
Bolivar Buckner of the Tenth army. RT NIEDALS
Hermann Goering, number
two Nazi, stands stripped of
his medals as he is processed
as a prisoner of war at the de.
tention camp in Augsburg,
Germany. He holds a hand-
“but you will see many Japanese
killed.”
So far 39,469 have been kill-
ed since the Okinawa was In-
vaded April 1. By comparison
16,730 dead Nipponese have
been counted by the Fourth
British corps in same period in
Burma, where newly won Ran-
goon has already been trans-
formed into a base for an in-
kerchief in his right hand
with which he wiped his brow
frequently while being check-
ed in by Brig. Gen. Robert L.
. vasion of Thailand and Malaya, ed in by Brig Gen. Robert L.
Higher Japanese casualties were Stack, assistant commander
indicated in western China—possi- of the 36th Division. Seventh
bly 25,000 killed—as a Chinese army army (not shown) (AP wire,
spokesman announced smashing of | army (not shown). (AP W ire-
the Japanese drive for the V $ photo).
air base at Chihkiang was merely a . _
HASKELL May 12.—(Spl )—Fire
which started in the projection
room of the Texas theater Friday
night shortly after 10 o'clock caused |
damage to equipment and the
building estimated between $5,000
and $6,000.
Several hundred persons in
the theater at the time the
blase occurred made an orderly
exit and no one was injured
0 D Triplett, manager, said the
theater would be re-opened as
quickly as equipment could be se-
cured and repairs made to the
building
Theater is owned by the H 8
Leon estate. Dallas and the build-
ing by H M Smith of Haskell
The Weather
r s. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY: Partly
cloudy and cooler this afternoon, tonight
and Sunday
EAST TEAS Partly cloudy with scat-
tered thundershowers in extreme north
west portion cooler in north portion this
afternoon partly cloudy tonight and
Sunday cooler in north portion tonight
WEST TEAS Fair this afternoon, to
night and Sunday; cooler this afternoon
and warmer Sunday in Panhandle and
South ohins
Maximum temperature past 24 hours
90 degrees
Minimum temperature past 11 hours.
68 degrees.
SAVE
A BUNDLE A WEEK
Temperatures
Sat-Fri Fri-Thurs
AM Hour PM
77 57 1 76 74
7674
81—76
8677
8977
8978
89 70
87- 74
9
10
Sunrise this morning 6.43.
Sunset tonight: 8:27,
56
prelude "to a general Chinese
counteroffensive."
Mounting U 8 naval casualties |
both at sea and on land were in-
dicated in the Okinawa offensive
Heavy Japanese air attacks, press-
ed despite the loss of 40 planes,
damaged three light U 8 naval
units. Including personnel losses on
these vessels, Adm Chester W
Nimitz announced 6.853 naval cas-
ualties have been suffered In Okin-
awa operations They include 1,-
283 killed, 2,072 missing and 3,498
wounded
In the newest invasion of Mind-
7th Nabs Chie
Of Reichsbank
WITH THE U. 8 SEVENTH
ARMY, May 12.—(P)—Dr Walther
Funk, president of the Reichsbank
and German minister of economics,
with 200 German ministerial per-
sonnel including many top-ranking
Nazis, has been seized by American
. .. Seventh army troops.
anao. the 40th landed in the rear ‘
of the main Japanese forces, al- custody
readv pressed by the 24th and 31st
divisions and several guerrillas
forces operating under U S. offi-
cers.
The same troops also took into
Gen. Hiroshi Oshima,
Japanese ambassador to Germany,
and 130 Japanese diplomatic per-
sonnel, the Army announcement
Mid
Taken with Funk were Dr Hana
Heinrich Lammers, chief of the
reichs chancellery, and Dr William
Ohnesorge, postmaster general,
British Angered by
Goering Reception
LONDON. May 12 — (P) — The
News Chronicle said today that re-
ports of the reception Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering received on his
can ships in Okinawa waters, and surrender to the U. s. Seventh army
of savage spear-wielding Indones-had angered the British people,
ian “volunteer aid on Tarakan is-I The editorial Mid the British par-
ticularly were answered by a report
that Brig Gen. Robert Stack of the
U A 36 th division shook Goering s
hand.
Japcasts—
Nippon Will Pray to
Get Over the Hump
SAN FRANCISCO. May 12.—(P)—
Radio Tokyo after a day of uncon-
firmed claims of damage to Ameri-
land off Borneo gave notice of a
national prayer meeting for “tiding
over the crisis."
Continuing its home-consumption
battle claims, radio Tokyo said in a
broadcast intercepted by the Fed-
(An Associated Press dispatch
from Kutzbuhel, Austria, on May
eral Communications commission, 9 said both Gen. Stack and Maj.
that Japanese sea units yesterday Gen. John K Daiquist, 36th divi-
sank two ships of unidentified cat- sion commander, were present when
egory and damaged an American | Goering was received The dispatch
mentioned a handshaking ceremony,
but the principals were not identi-
carrier. •
While making no comment on
the U. S. invasion of northern
Mindanao, Radio Takyo beat its
chest over a purported “count-
er-landing" on Samal island in
Davao gulf of Mindanao
Another unconfirmed battle claim
stated that Indonesian volunteers
fighting with spears had made at-
tacks on Australian and Dutch
troops on Tarakan Island
Radio Tokyo also Mid 110,000
Japanese shrines will hold special
services this month to ask Jimmu,
the sun god, for "victory and tid-
ing over the crisis."
AUSTIN, May QP La MSN to-
matoes but fewer onions were in
prospective production from Texas
this year, the United States Depart-
ment of agriculture says.
fled )
Ex-Luftwaffe Boss
Open for This One
AUOSBURG, Germany, May 12-
VP)— Riechsmarshal Hermann Goer-
ing left himself open for this one.
The captured former luftwaffe
boss remarked to correspondents
yesterday that American de-
velopment of a fighter-bomber
which could fly round-trip to
Berlin was the biggest surprise
of the war for the Germane.
“What about the reichsmarshal’s
statement that if the Allies never
bomber Berlin my name is Meyer ?”
queried a correspondent.
Goering mopped his brow, blush-
ed and waited for the next ques-
tion.
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