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White House Issues Denial;
V Report Based on State
ment by Sen. Connally.
Washington, April 28 J(U.R)
President Truman tonight per
sonally spiked false German sur
render rumors from San Fran
cisco and Europe.
He announced to newsmen
' aummoned to the White House
- that a telephone check with Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower disclosed
that the rumors were without
foundation. ' .
The president's announcement,
gravely made, dashed hopes that
had been built up all over the
nation by false reports carried
in radio broadcasts and blazoned
in mammoth type on the front
pages of extra editions of some
Hawinarutri
Tha Whifa TfnneA narmited the
president's verbal announcement
. ... TI tt Imt
to De quoiea airecuy. ne ii. i.
"Wall T urn. nvar here as vou
ean see doing" a little work and
this rumor got started.
"i hBrf a mil frnm San Fran
elsco and the State Department
i "I just got in touch with Adm
t a.hu r AHm William D. Leahy
his personal chief of staff), and
had him can our neuMuo.
Commander-in-tniei iuen. jdiscu
hower) in Europe and there is
no foundation for the rumor.
"That is all I have to say."
"A P" Statement.
Ounftna an unnamed Amer
ican official in San Francisco to
the effect that the Nazis had
4 ,a Anrinted Press
Up, " " .
rannrt touched off a series of
reactions that brought President
rr 4 ika White House at
f :35 p. m. EWT prepared to issue
a proclamation.
Later the AP Issued this alate-
tnent:
"The report of the German
surrender transmitted by the AP
i . t . c.n. f ronriRrn and
lomgni irum - -
attributed to a "high government
official" was an
factual account of a statement to
AP staff men by Senator Con
nally, vice chairman of the U. S.
delegation to the United Nations
m ... .nrf chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee. .
i, a IV.n. marnhpr Of the U. 3
jaiaaaiinn supported Senator
Connally'i statement.
"Senator Connally, at the
time, stipulated that his name
not be used. After President
Truman in Washington said the
report was unfounded, the vice
chairman of the U. S. delegation
In San Francisco again said the
announcement of German sur
render was expected momentar
ily, and removed the stipulation
that he not be quoted directly.
Solon In Denial
San Francisco. April 2&MU.B
Scn. Tom Connally, D., Tex.,
denied tonight thrt he had any
official information on the re
ported end of the European war
or that he made any statement
upon which the false war-end re
port was based.
Connally, grave-faced and ob
viously shaken, protested to
newspaper iiien that all the In
formation he had was from vari
ous sources," and that he did ex
pect the war end announcement
momentarily.
BY
ALLIED WRITERS
With U. S. First Army, Ger
many, April 28 (U.R) All
war correspondents have been
ordered to remain west on the
Allied side of the Elbe river
and discontinue visits to the Rus
sian lines.
The order came from army
authorities, but was made at the
request of the Russians, who do
not permit correspondents to
rove about as freely as do the
American armies.
London, April 28 (UP.)
Babies born after today will not
be issued gas masks, the min
istry of home security announced.
Hanged for Surrender Wish"
I...: ill
(Acme RadithTelpphoto)
This German lieutenant was hanged because he wanted to surrender to
units of the American Seventh Army attacking Aschaffenburg. His com
manding officer sentenced him to be hanged in public. American sol
diers, who cut body down, look up at sign from which his body was strung.
The sign reads: "Cowards and traitors are hanged). Yesterday an officer
candidate from Alsace Lorraine died a hero's death while destroying an
enemy tank. He lives on! Today a coward In officer's garb Is hanged
because he betrayed the Fuehrer and the people. 'He Is dead foreverl"
Signal Coma radio-teleDhoto. . '
SUMMER CAPITAL
OF PHILIPPINES
FALLS TO YANKS
Manila, Sunday, April 29
(U.pi A m e r i c a n infantrymen
have captured tne Philippines'
summer capital of Baguio, in
northern Luzon, and have com
pleted the eastward crossing of
Mindanao to Davao gulf, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's commu
nique announced today.
Baguio, in the rugged moun
tain country 12S miles north of
Manila, fell to converging col
umns of the 33d (Illinois) and
37th (Ohio) divisions. They
quickly consolidated their posi
tions and took Camp John Hay,
just east of the city.
The rampaging doughboys
who had eliminated some of the
toughest Japanese opposition of
the Luzon campaign in the hills
around Baguio then dashed
northward toward Trinidad, four
miles distant on highway num
ber 11.
Guam, Sunday, April 29 (U.R)
Amnrican frnnnt moved slnwlv
forward on southern Okinawa
Friday, destroying pillboxes,
caves and strongpoints with
hoavv artillprv ucarl tn hreak no
Japanese troop concentrations in
rear areas.
Navy and marine aircraft gave
constant support ,to the ground
forces. Large groups of Japa
nese planes attacked U. S. ship
ping off Okinawa and caused
some damage, sinking one aux
iliary vessel, it was announced.
ITALYTAlOTS
L
London. April 28 (U.R) Beni
to Mussolini has been captured
and turned over to a people's
tribunal at Milan for summary
Justice, while six of his top
drawer fascist henchmen also
have fallen into the hands of
Italian patriots apparently au
thentic reports from northern
Italy said tonight.
Robert FarinaccI, former
secretary general of the fascist
party and one of the "tough
guys" who surrounded Musso
lini during his heydey. was said
to have been tried and executed
shortly after his capture.
The patriot Milan radio was
chief source of information that
Marrhal Dodolfo Granziani. com
mander in chief of fascist arrred
forces: Achille Starace. another
former party secretary; Guido
Buffarini-Guidi, former secre
tary, and Francesco Mario Bar
raco, a minor official, also have
been captured.
POSTMASTER NOMINATED
Harold M. Laws has been
nominated as postmaster at
Rogue River. Oregon, according
to a Wellington news dispatch.
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FALL OF BREMEN
SETS 4000 YANK
PRISONERS FREE
With the British Second
Army, April 28 (U.R) British
troops advancing east of con
quered Bremen against stubborn
resistance have liberated 4,000
United States merchant marine
seamen and prisoners of war
irom a camp at Westertinke, it
was announced today.
Tank-led British Irnnnf mat
stiff opposition in the direction
or .even. utner units advanced
to within two miles of a camp
north of Zeven. This camp re
portedly holds 14,000 allied pris
oners of war and 8,000 political
prisoners, including 1,500 sick.
The liberated men said con
ditions in the camp had not been
as bad as at most prisons.
General Barker Rroman'.
fanatical commander, blamed
otn columnists among rich
burghers as one reason for the
city's sudden collapse. He said
the burghers had offered Ger
man soldiers Jobs after the war
in order to divert th pir nftanfinn
from the siege and speed the
city s tan.
LONDON EXCITED
London, Sunday, April 29
(U.R) The Associated Press dis
patch about Germany's "surren
der" threw Fleet Street Lon
don's Newspaper Row into a
turmoil today, catching the main
Sunday editions as they went to
press.
Editors hastily made over
their front pages. The News
World's Banner said: "All over.
This is V-day."
The Sunday Dispatch headline
read: "Germany Surrenders. Of
ficial announcement yet to
Come." .
Thousands of copies rolled off
the Dispatch's presses and were
dispatched by trucks to the out
lying districts of London and to
railroad station for delivery to
the provinces.
ONE SHOT
Glendale, Cal., April 28 U.R)
William W. White. 71, Glendae,
purchased a revolver 53 years
ago in Butte, Mont. But he never
fired it until today. The Initial
shot, police said, came when
White ended his own life be
cause he was "dying by degrees
and didn't want to be bed
ridden." Bulletin
Hollvwood 8 13 1
Seattle - 3 3 1
Marshall and Hill: Spcce Mc
Laughlin (8) Johnson (8) and
i'inley.
AND KIEL REVOLT,
Patch and Armies Join
' Drive Into Austria, Near
Italy Border.
Paris, April 28 (U.R) War
weary German soldiers revolted
against nazi masters in Munich
today as the American 7th army
approached that birthplace of
naziism from a distance of only
25 miles and also pushed into
spearheads across the Austrian
border to within 49 miles of
Italy.
Unconfirmed reports said Ger
man sailor? had attacked the
nazis in the Kiel naval base,
scene of the first internal up
rising which brought an end to
the last war, and there were
circumstantial reports that Hein
rich Himmler was about to ac
cept unconditional surrender.
.Beaten German soldiers were
surrendering in droves. More
than 90,000 laid down their
arms to the western allies in
the past 24 hours. Resistance
everywhere in the narrowing
areas of battle was on the wane.
Augsburg Falls
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
7th army drive on Munich top
pled the great aircraft center of
Augsburg and joined with Gen.
George S. Patton's 3rd army to
send five columns hammering
down on Munich from the west,
north and northeast.
The Americans heard ' the
Munich radio broadcast that
German troops led by Gen.
Franz Ritter Von Epp, governor
of Bavaria and Reich minister,
one of the - original organizers
of the nazi party, was leading
the revolt. It announced that
Germans remaining loyal to the
nazig would be treated as War
criminals. The broadcast ap
pealed for allied planes to bomb
the headquarters of Field Mar
shal Albert Kesselring, nazi
commander on the shattered
western front, at Pullach, six
miles south of the city.
Later broadcasts on the Mun
ich wavelength claimed tile re
volt had been quelled, indicat
ing that nazis had recaptured
the station or the revoltionists
were using a different trans
mitter. In the north, a station identi
fying itself as the "German
people's sender" said sailors had
revolted in Kiel, killing those
nazi party members in their
ranks and then wiping out a
nazi detachment sent to quell
the uprising.
French Delay Drive
Patch's sensational drive into
Austria was paced by the 10th
armored division, which lunged
36 miles in 24 hours to capture
the frontier city of Fuessen and
roll on across the border to a
point within 49 miles of Italy
and 38 miles of Innsbruck,
northern gateway to the Bren
ner Pass.
Meanwhile, allied supreme
headquarters issued an official
statement virtually charging
Gen. Jean De Lattre Dc Tassig
ny's French 1st army with de
laying the 7th army's drive into
Austria by refusal to give up
the major German communica
tions city of Stuttgart for a 7th
army operational center.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' U.
S. 1st army carried out only
light patrols as the junction be
tween it and the Russians was
widened to 50 miles from the
Chemnitz area northward to the
Dessau sector as the result of
the complete collapse of resist
ance. SURRENDER OR DIE
Guam, April 28 (U.R) Japan
"must surrender or die", Fleet
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz de
clared today as he presented
more than 500 purple hearts to
wounded veterans of Okinawa
and Iwo Jima.
BOMB KILLS
Washington, April 28 U Ri
Japanese bombs killed 12 per
sons aboard the Liberty ship
William Sharon in an attack off
Mindaoan. the war shipping ad
ministration announced tonight.
But the ship survived, WSA
said, and is now being repaired
in this country.
TO
T OF BERLIN;
CAPITOOOMED
Nazi Paratroopers Dropped
Into City Many Cap
tured, Killed.
London, April 28 U.R)
The Red army, breaking through
Berlin's last defense line to the
Alexander Platz, captured parts
of the three central districts of
the doomed capital today and the
German radio reported Nazi par
achutists were dropping into the
city in a last, desperate reinforce
ment gamble.
The First White Russian and
First Ukrainian armies joined
forces at the western edge of the
Berlin downtown area, a Mos
cow communique announced.
More than 45,000 Germans had
been killed in two days in the
hopeless defense of the city and
14,000 prisoners were taken
from a huge trap southeast of
the city where survivors are be
ing "annihilated."
Forces of three Soviet armies
were storming on beyond the
falling capital and had gained
up to 25 miles in an overwhelm
ing offensive that was ripping
what remains of Germany to
shreds.
A German high command com
munique admitted that Zhu
kov's tireless tank teams had
broken through to the Alexander
Platz, eastern anchor of the Un
ter Den Linden line. They also
penetrated to Berlin's Waterloo
circle to the southwest, only l,
000 yards from the Reich Chan
cellory, the communique said.
German defenders of the erst
while western front were re
ported "turning their backs" on
the Americans in an effort to
fight through to the relief of
Berlin. Parachutist reinforce
ments were dropped to the des
perate garrison as well as food
and supplies, the German radio
said.
The Germans still held 30
square miles of Berlin, based on
the Tiergartcn, Untcr Den Lin
den and the Friedrichs' Potsdam
and Anhalter stations. Heavy
Soviet cannon, In one of the
most terrible barrages of history,
were obliterating everything in
side that pocket.
newsTlowTrks
yank delegation
San Francisco, April 28 (U.R)
Members of the American
delegation to the United Nations'
conference were threatening to
night to rebel against news poli
cies Imposed by the State De
partment. Unrest has been developing
for several days. Some delegates
feel that American newspaper
readers and radio listeners are
NOT getting their fair share of
American angle conference
news.
It is a fact that much of the
Information regarding confer
ence business so far has reached
American newsmen through
foreign sources because of the
silence Imposed upon the Amer
ican delegation.
Washington, April 28 (U.R)
The first member of congress
to return from a visit to Ger
many'. Buchcnwald atrorlty
camp reported today that the
actual horrors he saw were
worse than anything that can
ever be printed in newspapers
about them.
Rep. John C. Kunkcl, R., Ha
who visited the camp five dny
after it was liberated, told re
porters: 'Anything said about the
place will be an understate
ment. If you tried to tell the
actual facts you'd get into a
story of obscenity and filth that
would be unprintable, '
WAR BULLETINS
Guam, Sunday, April 29
(U.R) The Japanese threw
two groups of planet against
Amerirjin shipping oft Okina
wa lay night and tank one
auxiliary vessel and damaged
othert, it wat announced to
day, while army forces on the
itland continued to move slow
ly forward.
London, Sunday, April 29
(U.R) A Finnish communique,
heard by BBC, taid today that
the last German unitt had
been driven from Finnish ter
ritory and lighting has ceased.
F
T
Guam, Sunday, April 29 U.R
A fleet of some 150 Superfort
resses roared over southern
Japan for the fourth consecu
tive day today to continue the
punishing aerial offensivo aimed
at knocking out airfields on,
Kyushu Island.
The 21st bomber command
headquarters announcement al
so reported good to excellent
results" in Saturday's strike
against six Japanese airfields.
The B-29 offensive is the
greatest scries of attacks against
the Japanese empire ever
launched by the giant bombers.
It was the 11th raid on Kyushu
fields since March 27. The
bombers flew at medium alti
tude in good weather and bomb
ed visually.
Targets for today's raids were
Miyazaki, Miynkanojo, Kokubu,
Kushira and Kanyoya east air
fields.
No planes were lost In Satur
day's strike, it was announced.
Crews reported that heavy anti
aircraft fire was met. Fighter
opposition was rated as "nil to
heavy." Heavy but apparently
ineffectual use of phosphorous
bombs against the B-29's was re
ported.
The raids over Japan arc set
tling inte the "milk run" cate
gory, in the opinion of fliers
from Tinian bases.
FRISCO IS CALM
Havana, April 28 (U.R) This
Cuban capital staged a wild
"peace" celebration tonight aft
er a local radio station broad
cast the false report that Gcr
mnay had surrendered.
The station later said the re
port was not confirmed but a
hilarious celebration already
was In full swing with rockets
and pistols being fired, im
promptu parades filling the
streets and pedestrians whist
ling and shouting.
San Francisco, April 28 (U.R)
This conference-conscious city
showed little excitment today
when the false surrender report
was publicized.
Police department officials
reported "nothing to even talk
about" after holding officers on
duty to handle any emergencies
that might have revcloped as
the report spread.
ERI
DISPUTE SETTLED
Paris, April 28 (U.R) The
dispute between France and the
United States over occupation of
Stuttgart has been settled In a
manner "satisfactory to all con
cerned," sources close to the
French government said tonight.
These sources praised Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower's "spirit
of lofty understanding," to
which it was said, tho agree
ment was due.
Details of the agreement were
not disclosed but it was under
stood American troops would oc
cupy Stuttgart as long as it Is
necessary to provide the U. S.
7th army with a supply base but
without prejudice to French
claims of its postwar adminis
tration.
GOV. DEWEY SAYS
WORLD COURT IS
PEACE AIM NEED
U. S. Delegates Bow to At
tain Objectives at San
Francisco Meet.
New York, April 28 U.R)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, titular
leader of the Republican party,
said tonight that creation of a
permanent court of International
Justice "is the heart and soul"
of future peace plans.
Speaking at the 48th annual
American-Irish Historical So
ciety meeting, Dewey said that
thus far "practically nothing"
has been heard from the San
Francisco Security Conference
dn the world court.
"We have heard endless de
bates about procedure, the use of
sanctions and the ultimate em
ployment of armies, navies and
air forces to keep the peace of
the world," he said.
"In my opinion the court, of
which we have heard so little ,is
the heart and soul of all our ef
forts. It represents, in truth, the
ultimate ideal. The other mat
ters are essential. They will be
essential for many years. But if
we do not lift our eyes and our
hopes to the higher levels of set
tlement of disputes by legal proc
ess, we have made little prog
ress away from international rule
by force alone."
San Francisco, April 28 (U.R)
Two- American delegates
promised tonight that the ob
jectives of the United Nations
conference will be accomplished
"irrespective of how long it
takes." .
Assistant Secretary of Slate
Archibald MacLcish at the same
lima warned Americans not to
expect tho creation of "a brave
new world ' at Ban t rancisco.
"We're not going to change
ik. turM hv Tntarnational agree
ment," he said. "Our task at San
Francisco Is simply to bring an
of the United Nations together
in permanent association, not to
create some sort of Utopia."
MacLcish and Rcprs. Sol
Bloom, D., N. Y.. and Charles
Eaton, R., N. J., American dele
gates, spoke on the State Depart
ment's weekly radio program
MacLcish from Washington and
the Congressmen from the con
ference. T
HEADSFOR ALTAR
Hollywood. April 28 (U.R)
Humphrey Bogart, hard-boiled
screen hero, will marry Lauren
Bacall, the "dow.vundcr" girl
of the movies, on Author Louis
Bromficld's Ohio farm as soon
as he is free from his present
picture making and his present
wife. Bogart said today.
His wife. Mayo Mclhot, Is com
pleting her six -weeks residence
In Las Vegas, Ncv., preparatory
to getting a divorce.
FRENMELECTION
FIRST SINCE '36'
Paris, Saturday, April 28
(U.Rl French voters go to the
polls tomorrow to choose more
than 600,000 municipal officials
in the first elections in France
since 1936. Tho total vott Is ex
pected to reach 23.000,000 with
women, representing 60 per cent
of the electorate, voting for the
first time in French history.
Several hundred candidates are
women.
OKAY REA LOAN
Washington, April 28 (U.R)
The senate agricultural com
mittee voted today to divorce
the rural electrification admin
istration from the department
of agriculture and then approv
al hill tn authoriza a three-
year. $590,000,000 loan proaram
tor kla expanaiwn.
EARLY SHOWDOWN
ON SOVIET PACTS,
European Situation Speeds
Security Parley Finish
Formal Speeches.
Municipal Opera House, San
Francisco, April 28 (U.R) Tha
United Nations headed tonight
into two more showdowns be
tween conflicting .American and
Russian viewpoints whether
Argentina will be invited to San
Francisco and whether the new
world security organization shall
have the right to revise or can
cel such wartime treaties as the
soviet have signed with France,
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and
the Warsaw Polish regime.
Weekend battle lines on the Ap
gentine Issue were being drawn
with prospects that the matter
will be raised Monday at the
conference executive committee.
The treaty fight will come
later when the American pro
posal to amend Dumbarton Oaks
to give the security council of
the new world organization tha
right to review treaties and in
ternational agreements which
create "Injustice to the peoples
involved" is raised In commis
sion 111 of the present confer
ence. Public operations of the con
ference today were given over
to formalities for the most part
speeches by the chairman' of
the participating delegations, de
livered in alphabetical order.
Two plenary- sessions wera
scheduled for today to get as
many of the formal speeches out
of the way and clear the decks
for more rapid handling of the
real business of the conference.
With Germany cracking up
and the end of the European war
an early possibility, conference
delegates were displaying eager
ness to dispatch their business
with promptness in order to get
back home to tackle the huge
problems of reconstruction
which most of them face.
Ren. Tom Connally (D., Tex.),
said that if a quick surrender of
Germany should come as was
anticipated in many conference
quarters today the conference
would be likely to hasten ita
work. He noted that It would ba
important in event of conclusion
of the European war for many
of the delegates, such as Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, and
others to return to their cap
itals at the earleist possible mo
ment. HIMMLER'S OFFER
' By United Prett
Moscow radio said Saturday
night that the official Tasi
agency "hag been authorized to
state" that reports of Hcnrich
Himmler's offer to surrender
Germany to the United State.
and Great Britain are "confirm
ed In responsible soviet quar
ters." The Moscow announcement
was reported by the Columbia
Broadcasting system.
San Francisco, April 28 U.R
Diplomatic quarters suggested
tonight that Hoinrich Himmler
has put Adolf Hitler to death as
cynical evidence to the allies of
his "good faith" in a desire to
surrender Germany.
A nigh British source revealed
the first evidence in what was
seen here as a desperate plan by
Himmler to attempt to save his
own skin by negotiating the sur
render of Germany.
BETS IN BELFRY
LondonApril 28 U.R Thd
Salisbury diocesan guild of bell
ringers today voted against a
competition among churcn bell
ringers because, according to Ex
change Telegraph, a contest
might lead to bets in the bel
fries, DELEGATES CHEER
San Francisco, April 28 (U.R)
Security conference delegates in
plenary session at the Civic
Opera House broke into cheers
late today when one of the dele
gates held up a newspaper head
lined "Nazis Quit."