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Fortieth Year
Nazis in North Italy
ACTION PERMITS
UNHINDERED DRIVE
ON SOUTH REICH
Between 600,000 and 900,
. COO Nazis Put Out of War;
Papers Signed Sunday.
By Herbert G. King
United Press Correspondent
Representing the combined
American Press.
Royal Palace at Caserta, Near
Naples, May 2 (U.R) The Ger
man armies of northern Italy
and western Austria formally
surrendered to the allies today,
effective at 8 a. m., EWT.
The surrender affects between
600,000 and 900,000 men com
manded by Gen. Heinrich Von
Vietinghoff and Gen. Karl Wolff,
chief of police and security for
northern Italy and western Aus
tria. Signed Sunday
Lieut. Gen. W. D. Morgan, of
the British army, who negotiated
in behalf of Field Marshal Sir
Harod R. L. G. Alexander, su
preme commander in the Medt
terranean theater, said the terms
"in effect are complete and un
conditional surrender."
Thedocuments were signed In
the royal palace here on Sunday
bv Morgan and two German off
cers. one of whom represented
Von Veitinghoff and the other
Wolff.
The surrender will permit the
allies to make an unhindered ad
vance to within 10 miles of
Adolf Hitler's former country
home at Berchtesgaden. It also
uncovers the flank of Col. Gen,
Von Lehr, commanding enemy
troops in the Trieste area.
Washington, May 2 (U.R)
President Truman declared to
day that the unconditional sur
render of German forces in
Italy was "but a part of the gen-
eral triumph we are expectantly
waiting on the whole continent
of Europe.
At the same time he called
upon Japan as well as Germany
to "understand the meaning of
these events."
Mr. Truman said "only folly
and chaos can now delay the
general capitulation of the ev
ery where defeated German ar
mies." LAVAL REFUSED
HAVEN IN SPAIN
Madrid, May 2 (U.R)
Pierre Laval flew from Switzer
land to Barcelona today, and the
Spanish government was report
ed to have ordered him out of
the country at once.
Laval, former Vichy Chief of
Government, Marcel Deat, an
other ardent collaborationist, and
four other Frenchmen arrived at
Barcelona aboard a German
Junkers 88.
U. S. Ambassador Norman Ar
mour visited the Spanlsn For
eign Office and was told that
Gen. Francisco Franco had or
dered the Immediate departure
of the plane crew and all male
passengers. One woman, perhaps
Laval's daughter. Countess Jo
sette de Chambrun, was reported
in the party.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Fred Byington merrily pedal
ing to school carrying a huee
bouquet of flowers on his bicycle
and unaware that he was being
closely followed by four femin
ine students.
Fire Chief Roy Elliott finding
Kimself without spare fishing
tackle while angling at Squaw
lake Sunday.
Lavinia Walters pleased with
a May basket from her church
Sunday school class.
MEDFORD
United Press
Adolf Hitler, sickly son of an
postwar failure who drifted uselessly until he was 30, became ruler
of the most ruthless conquerors since Attila the Hun, came nearer to
any other man before him. But his house of cards, built on the blood and misery of the millions he
conquered, including the German people, collapsed about him. Thus he ended his meteoric career as
he started it a failure a victim of the wrath of the world's outraged humanity. As an agitator in
1919, he and six other malcontents formed what was to be the Nasi party in Munich. The abortive
"beer hall putsch" of 1928 failed. He was later arrested and sent to jail, where he wrote "Mein
Kampf," the nasi Bible. By strong-arm methods and political craft he finally won leadership of
Germany, tricking aged Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, the president, into making him reich
chancellor. Once firmly in the saddle, he and his cohorts intensified
Germany.
$7 BILLION CUT
Less For Ships, 0WI, WPB,
0DT, Censorship, Abolition
of Civilian Defense Asked,
Washington, May 2. U.R
President Truman today recom
mended budget reductions of
more than $7,000,000,000 for 10
top war agencies of the govern
ment.
This was part of the prepara
tion for transition from a two-
war to a one-war basis.
In rapid succession today the
president:
1. Recommended that con
gress cut the funds now avail
able to the maritime commission
for ship construction by more
than $7,000,000,000.
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2. Recommended a. reduction
of more than $80,000,000 in the
1948 budget estimates ot eight
agencies. This included propos
als for sharp slashes in the funds
of the office of war information
the war production board, the
office of censorship and the of
fice of defense transportation.
3. Ordered the abolition of
the office of civilian defense by
June 30, withdrawing its pro
posed budget of $369,000 for the
next fiscal year.
The cut recommended in mari
time commission shipbuilding
funds left available to the com
mission $2,242,500,000 for com
pleting the present ship building
nroeram and $600,000,000 for
possible future ship construc
tion, reconversion of vessels and
restoration of shipbuilding facil
ities. More For Aid
The president, however, rec
ommended an increase of $13,
000.000 in the overall federal
security budget of $416,000,000
to provide for aid to older peo
ple and mothers wun aepenaem
children who have had war jobs
but are expected to quit work as
conditions change.
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Truman Confirms
Hitler's Demise:
Silent on VE-Day
. .Washington, May 2 U.P.)
President Truman announced
at a news conference today
that according to the best pos
sible information obtainable
at this time, it Is true that
Adolf Hitler is dead.
The president shied away
from any discussion of V-E
Day. declining to comment on
tne current situation in Ger
many and disclosing nothing
about his V-E-Day plans.
Under questioning he con
firmed that he had been in
communication with Marsnal
Josef Stalin since Soviet For
eign Commissar V. M. Molotov
reached this country, but he
would not give any details.
ON LAST SECTION
Approval for construction of
the last section of the proposed
strategic highway network In
Oregon has been given by the
War Production Board according
to a wire received by the Jack
son County Cnamber of Com
merce today from Senator Guy
Cordon.
This project Involves construc
tion of a new 24-foot highway
ten and three-tenths miles in
length on U. S. 99 between Al
bany and Stclwer Hill which will
save two miles in distance on
the highway, Cordon declared.
It also involves construction of a
bridge across the Santiam river,
and total cost is to be $1,303,000,
he said.
Approval of the WPB covers
the entire construction with the
exception of priorities for steel
superstructure on the Santiam
bridge, the wire said. However,
It will be possible under present
authorization to complete the
bridge to a point where traffic
can move on it using timber
falsework pending release of the
steel at a later date, Cordon con
cluded.
In recent weeks the senator
also secured WPB approval for
construction of a link of the stra
tegic highway system botween
Grave Creek and Wolf Creek.
3200 Liberees On
Way to U.S. Homes
Los Angeles, May 2 (U.P)
More than 3200 former prisoners
of the Japanese, one of the lar
gest contingents ever to leave
the Philippines, arrived here to
day en route to their, former
homes.
The modern kingdom
of
Greece is only US years old.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1945
Sum lider Unconditionally
common soldier In World War I.
of Germany at 44 and, as one
dominating the world than had
the drive for a world-dominating
U. S. ISLAND AIMS
NEXT BIG ISSUE
BEFOREjONFAB
Problem of Handling Terri
tory Taken from Axis Also
Looms For Discussion.
San Francisco, May 2. (U.P.)
American plans to take over
certain Pacific islands as perma
nent defense outposts and the
general problem of handling
territories taken from Axis
countries loomed today as the
next major issue to attract world
attention here.
Some public discussion also
was contemplated on the ques
tion of whether a simple major
ity or a two-thirds vote should
be required, in plenary sessions
of the United Nations conference
for adoption of amendments to
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Is
Credo of Hitler Successor
London, May 2 U.R) Grand
Admiral Karl Doenitz, self-an
nounced successor to Adolf Hit
ter as Nazi overlord of dying
Germany, ended the last war as
an inmate of a British Insane
asylum and emerged in this one
with the fanatical credo "kill!
kill! kill!"
Doenitz scuttled and aban
doned the submarine he com
manded during a battle In the
Mediterranean in October, 1918.
Then he surrendered to the Brit
ish. Taken to England, he was com
mitted to the Manchester Insane
Asylum. Some who knew him
said he feigned Insanity. But he
later was repatriated to Ger
many as Insane.
In this war, Doenitz sent his
U-boat crews into battle with the
cry:
"Kill! Kill! Kill! That Is your
duty to the Fatherland and Dor
Fuehrer. Have no humanity In
your labor. Humanity means
weakness."
His record shows no signs of
humanity and few of weakness.
Most of his 53 years have been
devoted to the art of killing. It
was he who ordered U-boat
crews to strafe the survivors of
torpedoed ships as they tried to
escape in lifeboats.
Doenitz is a navy man who
hates ships. Bnd his whole life
has been centered on means of
sinking them. His ruthlessncss
brought him quick favor from
Hitler, who raised him from
Commodore to Grand Admiral
in four years.
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A master spellbinder, his voice
mocracies into tatuous acceptance
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whole growing generation ot Germans by Jndocttrinattng tne nations eniiaren wiin mil laeougy.
When the fuehrer threatened war, Britain swallowed its pride and permitted its prune minister,
Neville Chamberlain, to fly to Hitler to appease h m. It worked temporarily but when Hitler was
ready, he unleashed the war he had planned all along. He strutted in ravished Poland as the great
war lord. One by one his armies overran weaker nations. France fell quickly, and he danced with
glee when his troops marched under the Arc de Trlomphe. But his days t conqueror were numbered.
He made the fatal mistakes of attacking Russiaand declaring war on the U. S. From then on his
path, though studded with intermittent victories, was jnexoramy
hunted, hated man, his country devastated, his people ruined.
Hannegan Slated
For Postmaster
Washington, May 2 (U.R)
President Truman announced to
day that' he wiU nominate Na
tional Dcrtiocratie ' Chairman
Robert E. Hannegan as postmas
ter general. Hannegan will suc
ceed Frank Walker.
The president said he accepted
Walker's resignation "reluctantly
and grudgingly," effective May
30.
Jle also said that Hannegan
would retain his post as chair
man ot the National Democratic
Committee.
the Dumbarton Oaks plan for a
world security organization.
Russia was said to fear that
with a simple majority vote, the
American republics would be
able to control the conference.
In any event, this issue was re
garded as strictly procedural.
But the trusteeship problem
constitutes a basic issue. British
and Soviet delegates at this con
ference was awaiting further ad
vices from their capitals before
approving the American trustee
ship plan. China was understood
to be ready to go along with the
United States.
KARL DOENITZ
Doenitz Is a small, mean man
with a tight jaw and close-set,
shrewd eyes. He has close-cropped
hair, a severe mouth, long
nose, and overhanging eyebrows.
Although he never was known
particularly as an ardent Nazi,
Doenitz has served their cause
well. His last known public
statement of prominence was on
the occasion of the attempt on
Hitler's life last July. Doenitz
condemned the plotters as "a
small clique of mad generals"
who would ba ruthlessly destroyed.
1RIBUNE
United Press
hypnotised his followers and
or nis promises, uooxuig to in
RIBBENTROP FIRED
BY-NEW FUEHRER;
PEACE SIGNS GROW
London, May 2. (U.R) Grand
Admiral Karl Doenitz, new
fuehrer of Germany, ousted For
eign Minister Joachim von Rlb
bentrop today as signs of an
early European peace multi
plied. Radio Hamburg said Doenitz
had appointed Count Ludwlg
Schwerin von Krosigk, 58-year-old
nephew of the late Kaiser
Wilhelm, to the foreign minis
tership. The move, coming only 24
hours after the same station an
nounced that Adolf Hitler had
been killed at his "command
post in Berlin" yesterday, broke
up the all-Nazi front in the top
German ministries.
Whether it also was the first
step toward setting up a non
Nazi government that would sue
for - peace ' was something no
authoritative source yet could
say.
Belief persisted In London
that Germany's final collapse or
surrender would come this
week.
Prime Minister Churchill con
ferred with his cabinet most of
the night on the swift sequence
of events and was expected to
speak in commons today.
ALLIESlNDi
TOKYO REPORTS
Manila, May 2. (U.R) Tokyo
Radio reported today that about
5,000 allied troops had landed
on Tarakan Island off the east
coast of Borneo In what may be
the second Invasion of that area
The enemy broadcast said the
troops landed at Lingkas on
Tarakan early Tuesday, about
12 hours after allied assault
forces were said to have Invaded
Borneo Itself.
Gen. MacArthur did not con
firm either of the reported land
ings although an official Austra
lian announcement yeiterday
said the Australian troops had
taken part in a landing on the
east coast of Borneo, world's
third largest Island.
Tokyo said the troops went
ashore on Tarakan, an Important
oil center, at 6:30 a.m. yester
day after three cruisers and 13
destroyers had bombarded the
island consistently since last
1 Friday
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lulled the only mildly alarmed de
iuiuii, n pouoneo ins minus oi
oownum,
He ended his life a
HITLER'S DEATH
NOT SO HEROIC
London, May 2. (U.R) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said to
day there was some evidence
that Adolf Hitler had died of a
brain hemorrhage Instead of a
hero's death in battle' as the
Nazis claimed.
The statement by Elsenhower
was the first from any allied
official to shed light on the mys
tery of Hitler's reported death.
Eisenhower said the enemy
claim that Hitler died fighting
the Russians In Berlin was "In
contradiction of facts" given by
Heinrich Himmler at a confer
ence with Count Folke Bcrna
dotte of Sweden at Lucbeck
eight days ago.
Himmler and a General Schll
lenburg, who accompanied him
to the conference, said Hitler
had a brain hemorrhage and
might not live 48 hours, Elsen
hower said In a statement issued
through supreme headquarters
In France. .
Even though this version of
Hitler's death was based on Nazi
information, It had the merit of
coming to Eisenhower through
Bernadotte, a neutral. Observers
were inclined to put more cred
ence In the Himmler version
than In the melodramatic ac
count broadcast by the Hamburg
radio yesterday.
FOURTOCALIN
ARE CASUALTIES
Four additional valley service
men are named on the casualty
list of the Office of War Informa
tion for today.
Staff Sgt. Jack H. Sparlln.
husband of Mrs. Bessie M. Spar
lln, 346 South Holly street, Med
ford, has been wounded while
serving In Europe, the report
states. Pvt. Ray H. Mann, hus
band of Mrs. June Mann, Central
Point, Is listed as having been
wounded while serving In the Pa
cific. Two county men are listed as
missing In action. Pfc. Harold L.
Barr, son of Warren L. Barr,
Prospect, and Sgt. Richard K.
DeMers. son of Mrs. Alma C. De
Mers, 136 Sherman street, Ash
land. : DUNNE GONE
Portland, Me., May 2. (U.R)
Mrs. Eunice Dunn testified that
the last time she saw her hus
band was 29 years ago when he
left 1st on a Halifax, N. S
street alter promising to "sec
you later." She wants a divorce.
STALINITES SCORE
GREATEST VICTORY
IN TAKINGCAPITAL
12-Day Siege One of Bloodi
est Struggles of History;
Many Prisoners Taken.
London, May 2. (U.R) The red
army captured Berlin today.
Marshal Stalin announced the
capture of Berlin, the red army's
greatest victory of the war, In a
triumphant order of the day
broadcast from Moscow.
Berlin fell to the Russians
after 12 days of siege. Two Rus
sian armies smashed into the
city from the east and south and
slugged through its historic
streets in what Nazis and Soviets
alike described as one of the
bloodiest struggles in history.
The fall of Berlin meant that
the Russian siege forces had
overrun Adolf Hitler's reichs-
chancellery, where the Nazis
said he died In battle yesterday.
Remnants of the Berlin garri
son headed by General Wesling
laid down their arms and sur
rendered at 3 p.m., Stalin said.
More than 70,000 prisoners
were taken in the battle of
Berlin, Stalin's order revealed.
London, May 2. (U.R) Mar
shal Stalin announced tonight
that red armies had captured
more than 120,000 German pris
oners in the liquidation of a
pocket southeast of Berlin, cre
ated by the soviet drive into tha
capital from the south.
Inside Berlin, Russian forces
were storming the ramparts of
the reichschancellery, where tha
Nazis said Adolf Hitler died yes
terday.
The German high command
admitted that the handful of sur
vivors in Berlin's garrison had
been broken into isolated frag
ments In the government dis
trict. Special-Order ".
Stalin's announcement of tha
mopup of the pocket southeast
of Berlin was made in a special
Order nf thm rinv hrnnri fact T-nn.
Moscow.
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
first White Russian army and
Marshal Ivan S. Konevs first
Ukrainian army "completed tha
liquidation of the German
grouping southeast of Berlin",
the order said.
"During tha battles from
April 24 to May 2, the armies
captured more than 120,000
Germans," Stalin added.
Konev's army struck from tha
Neisse river line well below Ber
lin and tore into the city from
the south shortly after Zhukov's
forces entered from the east.
RESISTANCE EBBS
ON BOTH SIDES OF
Paris, May 2. (U.R) German
resistance in both the Bavarian
and Baltic pockets on either side
of the bisected relch was report
ed collapsing today.
The surrender of German
forces In western Austria dis
solved the U. S. Seventh army's
front, which already was In the
yielded area. It opened the way
to within 10 miles of Berchtes
gaden, and in effect linked up
western and southern or Italian
fronts.
Plunge To Baltic
Gen. Sir Miles C. Dcmpsey'i
British second army plunged a
spearhead to the Baltic cutting
off all of Denmark and the
northwestern corner of Germany
embracing Hamburg, Kiel and
Wilholmshaven.
The British 11th armored di
vision cracked Into Luebeck,
sealing the fate of all the Ger
mans to the west and north. In
cluding those in Hamburg where
Admiral Karl Doenitz may have
established his new headquar
ters. British sixth airborne forces
reached Wismar, on the Baltic
east of Lucbeck and only 30
miles or so from Marshal Kon
stantin K. Rokoseovsky's second
White Russian army pushing
westward along the coast.
Pattonites Race Far'
In the "national redoubt" sec
tor at the other end of the line,
Gen. George S. Patton's third
army raced forward up to 20
miles against only spotty resist
ance, while to Patton's right the
seventh army suddenly found
Itself without an assignment as
a result of the Halo-Austrian
surrender.