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; III! . 1 I 1 - . - 1 j : . - ITTP (7calhcTi; 5 - lu Fraacisce Eaten . ,. . Mia. Kala trar - -J63 . S3 e 4$ . 57 M A3 v-.--,jS- Psrtlsnd ,., , SeatU ..M VVv KUUaeu rtver S ft. S ta.' Forecast: ty C I. wMtker aarean, MeNarr fiM.- Salni Partly dondy today, wtof cldy later tbis aJ ternon. Maxmom uaiptniart pcte t reach is tra. v NINETY-FIFTH YEAR Salatn.- Oregon, Thursdar Morning, May 3. 1 1945 No. 32 Hi ..1, PricaSc " J : ;'':4--;pKHJNDnD- 1651.1 I j ,'-.-1 "-j !," r :- J ' A few days ago the papers told of the sale of the Davenport hotel at Spokane to William Edris of Seattle, principal 'owner,, of the Olympic hotel, 1 1 This , news stirs memories. amonjj those who have .lived in the "Inland Empire" of which Spokane1 is capital and among those who have visited in Spokane and stopped at, the Dav- , enport. For if Spokane is the "cap ital' of the great intermountain region, Davenport's is its eapi- tol." It is the nieeting-place, the community center for a vast area, a real i oasis for what in a hot midsummer might be called, with some liberty . inj use of language, a desert. The hotel was and .is unique, and Its history is unique. As I recall the story L. M. Dav enport started a lunch counter in booming Spokane, in a tent, just after the big fire of the late 1880s. (Many towns do their dating from "big fires.' Chicago does, so do Seattle and Spokane. Portland seems, to have escaped any general , holocaust also Salem; but not Astoria or Bandon). From such - humble, beginnings later emerged - Davenport's restaurant, which be came one of the famous restaur ants of the country. It gave dis tinction to Spokane as the city struggled to erect ten-story build ings and lay out its streets through and around and over the basaltic . outcrop surrounding Spokane falls. - The wealth of the Coeur d'Alene mines, of the Palouse and Bit Bend wheat fields, of the pine forests of northern , Idaho and northeastern Washington and from uses of the abundant hydro-elec - trie -energy of its streams poured -.-riafo. Spokane, as did (Continued on editorial page) R.E. Hannegan WASHINGTON, , May 2.-(i!p)-In the first shift in the old Roosevelt cabmeisPresident Truman today ; announced-the resignation of Post- '? master General Frank !C. Walker and ' the selection of J Robert , E. Hannegan to succeed him. . -: . . ,.f . Walker, 59-year old New York lawyer and theatre chain operator, - will leave the cabinet-voluntarily June 30 after completing a reor ganization of his department, f Hannegan, 41 year old Missour- Ian who ran Franklin D. Roose velt' fourth term campaign, will take over his new job July 1, if confirmed by the senate. He will retain the ' democratic national - chairmanship. James J. Farley held both posts for eight years un der Roosevelt, but quit over the third term issue. Walker also acted In the dual vcapacities for' a year. ; ' - ! ' - In a second major appointment announced at his news conference the president said he was naming David E. Lilienthal for another nine-year term as chairman of the Tennessee valley authority start ing May 18. In doing so he sided with Alabama and against Tennes see senators. ; I , v ; Truman Urges 10 Slash in War Spending WASHINGTON,': May 2 H&h President Truman today j recom . - mended a 10 per cent slash in war Vaoendine and pledged further econ omies as the' military situation im proves. '.'-.',-r-r'-. : ' 3 The executive proposed a $7,- 255,000,000 cutback in shipbuild ing, and an 180.000.000. reduction In eight war agency budgets. In addition, he abolished the office of " civilian defense. ' Mr. Truman said he was 1m pelled by favorable progress -of the war." He sent his recommen rfation to coneresa with the ad- Tice that all federal activities will be continually reviewed to achieve -economies where they will - not Interfere with the prosecution f the war- Dittmar Sees Nazis' Finish 4U. S. 12TH ARMY GROUP HEADQUARTERS, May --X. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, German mfli 4w mtnmin(itni who surrender ed voluntarily to the Americans a week ago, told reporters today be had no doubt Hitler is dead, and reneated his own prediction that the European war would be oyer in few days. - ! ' i Answering questions freely, pe said it was conceivable that Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, the new fuehrer, had done away with Hein- rich Himmler before announcing himself as Hitlers successor. t Dittmar said Doenitz was a realist" and expressed Surprise that he had asked the German people to fight on. The commen tator predicted they would refuse. Will Succeed Frank Walker died i H-iigoi t i kmiki i . - ' I j' ' 1 - . 1 ' . 'I 1' 1 ! 1 i 11 1 ' 1 i 0 ! i J 1 fl I I ;- ,. ':. I-; 11 I II I ' Hitler's Suicide Italin Announces Conquest After 12-Day, Struggle 4 LONDON. May Hnaiii barg has been declared an epest city, the Hamburg radto an nounced today and B r 1 1 1 s h forces under Lt. Gn." Sir Miles C. Detpsey will enter the port at neoa today. The announcement,' heralding the fall of Germany's second largest 'City, came-less than 12 hours after Premier Marshal Stalin had announced the. cap ture of Berlin by his besieging Russian forces. The broadcast was made . in the . German languare in ; the name of Secretary of State Ahr- endt. d , ; By Somney Wheeler ' LONDON, Thursday, May 3-() Berlin, greatest city of the Euro pean continent, fell yesterday af ternoon to the Russians, who quot ed a high prisoner as declaring that Adolf Hitler had committed suicide along with Propaganda Minister Goebbels as the capital of the- blood-drenched Nazi empire tumbled around ' them. v ta4'. . Also reported dead I by his own hand i was Hitler's new general staffs chief, an infantry general named Krebs, as-70,000 German troops laid down their arms in the surrender which Hitler had said never would come. The Soviet triumph after 12 days of history's ' deadliest street fighting, was announced last night by Premier Stalin in an order of the day and in the Soviet com munique broadcast from Moscow this morning. Build to Climax ' Moscow built up to the Hitler suicide report in a dramatic series of victory announcements. . .First Stalin issued an order of the day announcing destruction of the - German. Ninth army trapped southeast of Berlin, with capture of 120,000 of its men and slaugh ter of at least 60,000. A second Stalin order announc ed capture of Germany's last big Baltic ports, Rostock and Darne- muende, in a 44-mile drive by the Second White Russian army. . Then Stalin proclaimed the fall of Berlin. It capitulated at 3 pjn., Moscow . time, ana by .9 pan- 70,' 000 of its staggering defenders had been rounded up and counted by the Russians. , Suicide Reported tast Then, this .morning, came the communique and the report of Hit ler suicide. k.r ,.4---- ri s. Thus fell the once-mighty cap! tal which Stalin described S3 "the center of German Imperialism and heart ; of German aggression," , and which Hitler - had proclaimed as the seat of his j 'thousand-year reich; empire the empire that in less than six years died as it had been born, in blood and suffering. The greatest city ever to fall In battle in the history, of warfare, Berlin lay a 341-square mile mon ument to the death of millions and to the dfeeaaed ambition of one mani Adolf Hitler. . Reported Hopes for Early Liberation Of Denmark. Nortvay Fading By James F. King - - LONDON, May 2 -Wf Hopes for a bloodless liberation of Nor way and Denmark faded tonight as Germany military commanders in those two Nazi-occupied .coun tries called on their troops for a fight to the end under Admiral Doenitz, self -announced successor to Adolf Hitler. , - While neither mentioned Doenitz by name both denied Stockholm reports that they were ready to discuss capitulation. ; : . 4 A shutdown between . factions led by Admiral Doenitz, ruthless German U-boat leader who pro claimed his ascendency to Hitler's Job yesterday shortly after the German radio told of the fuehrer's death, and Gestapo Chief Hein rich Himmler appeared to be developing. ' I' i i - ' ! rOaons . LONDON, Thursday, .May 3.-(F)-The Soviet official communi que today quoted a high nazi of ficial in conquered' Berlin as stat ing that Adolf Hitler, propaganda minister Joseph-- Goebbels 'and the German generai staff chief, Gen. Krebs, committed suicide' before the capi4ai:fell f. No details whatever were given as the communique, delayed well past . midnight,! recounted the fall of Berlin withjeapture of 70,000 troops, and theri i-ent on: - ... "Also taken prisoner were Hans Fritsche,: first deputy of Goebbels 3 MacArthur Confirms Invasion of Yanks Approach Davao City By Fred MANILAS IThursday, May 3 cific war a drive to erase the Japanese from; the Dutch East In diesopened Tuesday when an Australian force, bolstered by a few liutch units! invaded Tarakan island, just off northeastern Borneo, against negligible opposition. I I ; ';' lhis operation, previously Australians,; wps confirmed today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who said it fvjrtually severs the en emy's holdings In he south. - Meantime, iir; the Philippines, the 24th U.S. infantry division on Mindanao reached the very out skirts of I'avacCity, still finding no serious opposition. .r'-f- FaU of the btg port, one of the last majorities of the archipelago still in enemy hands, appeared im- nfinent and without the fierce fight thaUhad been expected. I U.S. SeientbJ fleet and Austral- Ian cruisers and destroyers and aircraft flown by Americans, Aus sies and. Dutchmen supported the Tarakan fl invaders, who went ashore ori twd beachheads near Lingkasiq : One unit drove north toward the Tarakan airfield, two miles away. The other moved on Ling kas town. - : j :; During the first day neither met more than sporadic smallarms fire. One of? Australia's most famous divisions, veterans of New Guinea and the Middle: East fighting, went ashore on Tarakan beaches which had been blasted by warship guns and aerial bombs. - - The Japanese, again taken by surprise failed! to organize initial resistance and the beachhead was speedily 1 established. The Aussies Immediately struck inland. , IS i! MU Angel oman With Philippine; Evacuees Ryanha Mcdlufe of Mt' Angel was among the Philippine evacu ees who arrived: Wednesday in Los Angeles (see story page 2); Asso ciated Press dispatches ., reveaL Other Oregon persons among the evacueesrr ;' -':-;.";!.- . John Nichols; Portland; Hel en Worrell, Maj-lene Worrell, Rob ert Worrell, rl Dorothy Worrell, Portland; Gus and Frances Walth- er, Portland; Helen M. and Thorn' as H. Worthep! Portland. , ! ' ' ' ' ; H i' ' ' Innsbruck 1 Open Gty v -rEWlTORK.1 May 2. Inns bruck has been; declared an open city by the Germans, the Swiss radio - reported i In . a ' broadcast heard today by NBC " 1 . 1 1 - While Dr. Werner Best, Himm lers man In Dedmark, had been reported openly toying with a plan to evacuate the country, CoL Gen. George I Undemann, com mander of m&iUry forces there, bluntly declared: "I have not car ried out any negotiations at all. least of all about any Capitulation.' Gen. Linderoann's pledge to fight' on came f after Gen. Franz Boeme,? Nazi military leader i in Norway, had. thrown in his lot with Doenitz, 1 1 . v,-i Meanwhile the Allied-controlled Luxembourg radio said German surrender Inj Holland was immi nent' and reported that armistice negotiations had been in progress for znore than ' 24 hours. There was no confirmation of this from any other source. 1 ; s .: '!l 1 1 2 ' ' ' " ' - i .- - , I ! v 1, :: S ; . in propaganda and the press; press chief Flick, and government coun selOT.Heinrich Dorsch. : C il " "During ihterogation Dr. Frit sche stated that Hitler; Goebbels and the newly-appointed chief ot the general staff, infantry: general Krebs, had committed suicide.? ff Presumably a thorough checkup was being made by Russian troops in the ruined buildings of Berlin, but the Soviet communique made no mention of such a search. K -Nor " did it indicate whether the Fritache statement was 'believed in Moscow, although its inclusion in so formal a document as the communique indicated at least Aussie Taraikan Isle; Hampson - PV - A new 'chapter in the Pa reported by the Japanese and the 4171 Oldtimers Fighting With 41st Division HQ. 41St DIVISION, THE PHHJPPINES f- As the famed 41st infantry division commences its 38th month n Pacific combat zones it is noted how surprisingly large a percentage of the person nel . has j served;, with the outfit since it left the.U. S. mainland. Currently, 4171 oldtimers are still in the 41st ranks, still going strong after their years on battle fronts. Few divisions with a com bat record even remotely com parable ; to the; 41st's can boast of such a nucleus of veterans still slugging it out with the enemy. The 41st was1 the. first infantry unit to reach the Southwest Pa cific,! the first 1 division assigned to General MacArthur when .he charted his j "way back" from Australia.' -i I Spain Holds Pierre Laval For French MADRID, iMay 1 -& Former French .Premier) Pierre Laval, un der death sentence in France as a Nazi collaborationist, fled to Spain today and was swiftly interned for disposition by the Allies. 4 - J':;-- j-j The chief of 'the Vichy govern ment during the days of Hitler su premacy and: his minister of edu cation, Abel Bonnard, were order ed -placed in a fortress! near Bar celona Vy Generalissimo Francisco Franco when they refused to leave Spain immediately after landing from Germany in a JU-68. Supreme Headquarters in Paris announcednmmedia tely that France would demand -custody of Laval,-Bonnard and five persons who ; accompanied - them on the flighL . . Representations -. to . the Spanish - government 'already are Under way, It, was reported. - Hottest May 2 Ever " Recorded Here Noted Salem residents w I p e d their brows again Wednesday when the mercury soared to a. new record of 83 degrees registered at 4:30 p. m. Observers at the , weather bureau, McNary field, said itw as the warmest May 2 ever recorded here. v.: -r --;!- DeValera Expresses 1 Sorrow Over Hitler - DUBLIN, May 2.-W)-P r I m e Minister Eamon de Valera in i formal visit j expressed condolen ces tonight oyer the death of Adolf Hitler to Dr.! Eduard Hemple. the Gernian-rninister. The flag of the German legation w-s flown at half staff. . H ' s ' " - i f ' that the Russians placed credence in the report. , - , i Xmly Tuesday 1 night the Nazi Hamburg radio said that Hitler had died "a hero's death' ? in toe reich's chancellery in Berlin, "fighting to the f last ;'breath" against the Russians and , t h a t Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz had beeru appointed by Hitler as the new fuehrer. ;):,. ..u .: The Moscow official radio had scorned -this report. Stating that it was "another fascist trick," de signed to let Hitler escape to the underground. f , : V:, c The new report that Hitler was indeed dead, but by his own hand, Captured . .. . UvdWsaMKMiiaiai IL Gen. Kui Von Rundtdt - Yank Forces I Captine Gen. Von Runldstedt WITH U.' S. SEVENTH ARMY DT SOUTHERN BAVARIA, May 2.HThin-lipped Field jMarshal Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rund- atedt, Grermany' top military stra tegist taken prisoner; by American troops "south of Miinich, jtold bis captors today It was senseless for the reich to fight any longer. - Advised of the reported death of Adolf Hitler, the! cold Prussian aristocrat commented without ela boration: "Admiral ' Doenitz baa been In charge for some time." - Von Rundstedt said that he went to Berlin March 10 to bid Hitler farewell -. and that t h e j fuehrer seemed to be In good health then but was fshaking like be' had the - He said Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was somewhere in Ba varia and Field Marshal IWalther von Model was -either dead or cap tured . . i- . ' f The man wbo directed he Ger man armies at the; peak of their success and again Just before they sank to the depths of defeat, was captured by a. young American lieutenant on his first combat as signment The field marshal was surprised at his home in the little spa of Bad Toelz, about five miles from Munich, Just: after! be had finished dining with bis family last night . J . 300,000 Persons Killed In Raid on Dresden WITH AMERICAN TRO0PS NEAR DRESDEN,! Mayj 2.-iPh British prisoners of waif return ing through the., American. , lines today said Dresden pouce told them : that 300,0041 persons were killed in the historic 14-hour al lied air raid . which " wmed out Dresden February 13 and 14. PFC Artliur ti. Sheler Dies in Pacific War - ; The name of PFC Arthur EL Sheler, son of Eton H. Sheler, route one,1 Albany, appears on to day's official list of army men killed in the Pacific theatre of war. r s Saoiddle came as the grun U-boat Doenitz, issued a "fight-onM battle cry to . thef . dwindling and rent forces still clinging to Hitlers tat tered swastika banner. - Goebbelsi Hitler's shadow and closest advisor since the earliest days of the-nazl party, apparently made : goodpby . the Russian ac count. j si statement In his last radio address that he would rath er commit uicide than "be under the bolshevik terror." The suicides Were in direct con trast to I the heroic - picture . the Hamburg radio presented of the fuehrer falling while directing his depleted j armies! .., u; eterans GUAM, 1 Thursday, May 3-KJP)- Attacking tn darkness with tanks and flamethrowers, U.S. Tenth army troops opened an intensified drive on southern, Okinawa early yesterday. I Maj. Gen. .Archibald V. Arnold! veteran Seventh divi sion on the east coast drove, a sa lient 1400 ards into toutfTJapa- nese. posittons.';,.;,, '-Ar:2::-':, ,' Thus developed the first appar ent breakthrough since the enemy garrison maae-ra "Tmuai -stana along a frent so bitterly defended it has become known as the "little Siegfried line. rrj, Seventh Idivision Yanks have pushed : ' nore than 2400 yards' through that line since the first co ordinated assault began April 19. The division's ! attack in early morning . darkness yesterday was the first major night ground as sault attempted by American for ces in the Pacific ocean areas theatre. I : ; The salient reached within one mile of Yonabaru town and ex tended beyond the southern end of the Yonabaru airfield. A sweep across the Airfield could be expect ed as the next local operation. SubsjSinki V Of Jap Ships WASHINGTON. May J - UPl The navy's commander of subma rines in the Pacific said today that American I undersea boats alone have sunk about one-half of Ja pan's merchant fleet - : As the navy disclosed the sink ing of 21- additional enemy .ves sels, - including 'two " combatant ships, : Vice Admiral - Charles. A. Lockwood; Jr, told a . news : con ference that the VS. submarine fleet hasf fsunk approximately 4,- 000,000 sons of Japanese merchant shipping,' The submarine com- mander said1 this is about one- half of the entire merchant fleet the Japanese owned, built or stole since the; war started. C Coutity School boss, YanKlV Drive Salient Into ;Jap. Lines imn rdvements on lit. Two hundred fifty persons from city, country, river and inountaln school oUstricts of Marion county' in Salem; Chamber of Commerce rooms Wednesday night 'set in motion1, the - county's - first ; long range plans for Us varied educa fional plants.;-1 Those attending were members of schoolboards or district clerks, and every -district was Ibelieved represented. Immediate improvement needs were emphasized as a series of colored slides r; revealed : rotting steps, leaking roofs, peeling paint, an ancient pot-bellied stove, lean ing fChic Sales,! the water buck et with single dipper, poor light-: Ing systems and broken windows all ,7 photographed in ' Marion county ' : school - buildings and grounds.;.-1- 7 v .3 7 ::: Maurine Labor, president of the Oregon State - Teachers' associa tion, Lillian Van Loan, the asso ciation's placement secretary, with Ben Buiiman, editor of the State Grange Bulletin and Ben Newell of the county agent's office accom panied the- slides with a line of cleverly-worded conversation t nd - -J. Eirst Unconditioiial . Capitulation By Nazi General- - .. ..-4 . . w-. s -I ' - i- - - i ' ;J" . J. By NOLAND NORGAARD J ROUE, Jlay 2 (AP) Nearly 1,000,0001 German and Italian fascist troops made the first unconditional surrender of the war in Europe today, yielded without a shot the moun- . tainous heart of the nazis' and. exposed the south flank uen. Heinrich von Vietlnghoil-lcheei planned to com OUt of the Alps tomorrow to trire Cp his Staff to Field Mar shal Sir Harold Alexander, the allied commander, or to Gen. Mark Clark, commander of the 15th army group in Italy, The surrender swept clean of resistance j all northern Italy and western Austria up to ; and. including Sakburr province and its capital of the eastern bastion or the Alpine re- treat . ' - Thus the 1 allied armies of the south were free to march, unop posed to within 10 miles of Berch tesgaden, where Hitler had- his mountain hideout and which be ing in Bavaria is not included in the surrender order; ' j (General - Eisenhower In Paris told his armies to keep on press ing' souths mopping up. all resls tance, although the surrender or der yielded up the chief objectives of his UJ5. Seventh army and part i of those of the UJ5. ' Third, which was closing on Salzburg.) j Terms Signed Sunday . 1 The surrender documents, end- Ing the bloody 20-month Italian campaign, were signed Sunday at the royal palace at Caserta, near Naples, -and .became effective at 12-hoon (8' ajm;, Eastern War Timer'todayT-; J.:v.,f 1 Two German ,; plenipotentiaries signed for Germany in the pres4 ence of American, British and Rus4 sian: of ficers. - Approximately 20,000 iqua re, miles of German-held territ including, all of northern Italy to the Isonzo river in the northeast and the Austrian provinces of Vor-j arlberg, .Tyrol, Salzburg and parts of Carinthia and Styria were sur rendered to the Allies. The action not only uncovers the, southern approaches to Ger- many j but lops off the southwest ern end of the so-called "German national redoubt and turns the right flank of CoL Gen. von Lehrj commanding enemy troops in the Trieste area and northern Yugo-l slavia. New Zealand troops of the British Eighth army and forces of Marshal Tito's army already have joined 14 miles northwest of Tries- te : which has been occupied by the. Yugoslavs. . -i Order. Broadcasted , Even . before the - official an noun cement was made public Ger-f man radios were heard broadcasts ing the surrender order to the few Nazi jtroops still holding out in Italy or fleeing for their lives to-, ward Austria. But even as the sirens screamed and jubilant cele brations were started a grim warn ing of the bitter fighting that still was ahead on the other side of the world was sounded by Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, commander of .American forces in the Medi terranean, who said that not un tH the last foe Japanis crush ed will "freedom loving men and women be able to enjoy lasting peace." ; ' K --: ; Boa presented- the discussion ; accom panying that feature of the ses sion, Indicating that the beginning of any plan lies in the wholeheart ed support, interest "and pride of entire communities." .. v7f ' The summer's grange program includes a schoolhouse beautifies- tion contest to be conducted over the state,; with "before and after" pictures indicating , improvements. A set of standards by which boards may check their schools was pro vided for every person attending. - Donald A; Young of the Salem board, representing the Oregon State Schoolboard association, pre sented that organization's long range program. Lester Wilcox of the state department of education explained new laws dealing with education and new budget require ments. Following the meeting; he assisted boards with budget plans. Agnes C Booth, county school superintendent, was assisted In ar ranging the session by members of the county school office staff and County Treasurer Sam J. Butler. A display of snapshots showing ex teriors of every schoolhouse in the county was a feature. Duiiaing lade iuttional redoubt -r in the Alps of the fragment that remain., same name, which was th Dooms 30,000 CALCUTTA, May 2-(ff-British. seaborne troops poured ashoro from warships at the mouth of th Rangood river 20 miles south of Rangoon early today, cutting oft from the sea and virtually doom-' ing an estimated 30,000 Japanese troops in the Burma capital, Allied headquarters announced. - - .'; - Parachute forces made an initial landing In the area between Ban good and the Bay, of Bengal "yes- ) terday; clearing the wayfoi4a main body of Allied forces which, -landed in strength; on both banks it.- 3 . 'it . . .H .. ui uic liter. .-' . v. f Details of the operation, whicfi promised to crush the last impor tant Japanese resistance in Burma in a matter of days, were hidden by censorship. The Japanese gar rison in Rangoon was hopeless trapped between the seaborne for ces on the south jj and powerful British and Indian armored divi sions driving on the capital from less than 30 miles to the . north. The land forces . were that near to Rangoon three ;days ago. British Attack Nazis Fleeing For Denmark LONDON, May -2 - UPi - British fliers rnade day-long attacks today on the chaotic jumble of German V military . traffic . fleeing ' toward f Denmark, destroying or damaging i at least -1207- vehicles and St - planes in the arei of ; Luebeck, which British ground forces cap- RAF pilots said that British tanks were advancing so fast that one group of fighterbombers, upon reaching Its target, found tho 1 tanks already four miles beyond. J- They said the Bay of Luebeck was CUed with vessels fathered there for loading "I before heading to Denmark and that all " roads were jammed with confused and frantic German transport. "Every body seemed to be racing out, said one pilot " . .'' .. -. v War Costs Could Build Every Family a Home4 4 " , W , iukk,' May 2.-(ff)-Th war has cost the American people enuogh to build an 18000 hbus for every , family In the country, Mordecai Ezekiel.1 economic ad viser to the secretary of agricul ture, said today, j 7 7 Before the women's action com mittee for victory " and lasting PEACE he estimated the cost to date as $272,000,000,000. ; 7..' ".'',- ' "' "- i (''..'' Alexander May Head Commission o Germany 1 LONDON, Thursday, May -jF) -Lord Beaverbrook's London Dai ly Express said today that Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander may relinquish bis command as ' supreme allied commander in tho Mediterranean theater to return to London as' head of the British control commission for Germany. : Tax Revisions Eyed V WASHINGTON, May , 2.-(5V President Truman disclosed today that he is discussing the possibil ity of postwar tax revisions with Treasury i Secretary! Morgenthau. He said he had no information on. what trend taxes! may take after V-E day. ; New Landing Jans m Burma