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TWO HERALD AND HEWS Monday. May 7., 1141 Pilsen Taken InMopping-Up; Czechs Ask Aid By EDWARD D. BALL . V. 8. THIRD ARMY, May 7 (5:45 P. M. 8:45 A. M. PWT) ( The German radio announced today the unconditional sur tinder of all German forces, but no official confirmation has been received by the third army. - In the last offensive on the continent of this war. Gen. Pat ton's third army hai captured Pllen and' received a demonstra tion from the Csechs in their greet arsenal and beer producing l"1'' Troopi of the new 16th armored diviilon under Brig. Gen. John L. Pierci of Brownsville. Tex., entered Pilsen Sunday and still were receiving cheere from the Ciecht at mid-afternoon. The absence of famous Pilsen beer for the occasion was caused by a bomb which was aimed at the sprawling Skoda arm ament works ten days aqo but hit the brewery instead. The Skoda works was damaged In the attack, but not affected exten sively. The great plant employed 30,000 workers until January, when German transport was I paralyzed by bombings and raw RED EVIDENCE AGAINST POLE LE ADEH5 ASKED ' By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic ... . News Editor - j ' SAN FRANCISCO. May 7 W) The United States and . Britain were reported by United Na tions conference officials today to have . demanded of Russia; that she supply her evidence against the 16 arrested leaders of the Polish underground. T -The aim is to break the latest Big-3 deadlock over. Poland. It is part of a strategy sidetrack- ing the Polish row from the main line of the conference in order that the Big-Three max try for maximum unity in de signing a world" organisation for future peace. The soal is to shift the dis pute to Washington, London and,. materials could no longer be moved to the plant. Pilscners estimated Skoda damage at 40 per cent. Still there are acres of buildings which are untouched and this correspondent believes it could be producing munitions again within 30 days. Reoorts reaching the third army at noon said German SS troops were trying to sack ana burn Prague in the final act of Hitler hoodlumism. The Prague radio kept repeating calls for patriots for the allies to send reinforcements. ' arrests. President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill are re ported to have intervened-directly with Marshal Stalint " Russian Foreign XoWfrussar. . Molotov is now slated to trait San Francisco, for Mosc;owi; around mid-week. . So lortg.as, By AUSTIN BEALMEAR PARIS, May 7 (P) Ameri can and Russian armies beat through . Czechoslovakia and Austria today in the final mop up of organized German resist ance and embattled patriots in Prague, said U. S. third army tanks were only 15 miles from that city, largest still In Ger man hands. - ' 1 Gen. Patton threw nearly a quarter - million - third , army troops into the closing cam paign. In advances of up to 25 miles, his tanks and infantry advanced within '50 miles southwest and 52 miles south of the Czech capital. Enter Bohemia The ?. German -controlled Moscow getting from the Rus"Prague- radio said Marshal Ivan sians a full explanation of theS; Kpney-s first - Ukrainian armvffrdub had driven' into Bo- hernia -.frbnv. Saxony to a point about 60 or 65 miles north, of Prague. Patriots engaged Ger man seventh army troops in the 'capital, which the Germans de- Siarea . a nospiuu city last yeek. --, . .. i Dalay V-E Day Announcement jf.tl , m jf ; s? FAMILIES DIVE THANKS T DDAY ON SURRENDER Prime' Minister Churchill, President Truman and Premier Stelin were reported today to be delaying official announcement on V-E Day. England will officially celebrate tomorrow, although joyous crowds were reported alreedy gathering. ' ; he is here, speculation vconuesH-;In Germany itself,' only, three that Russia may give - the- con- ference a sensation' by-making known her future plans1 toward Japan. The collapse of Gentian, armies has stimulated this spec-. ulation. For any such- momen tous move, either 4 Stalm. or . Molotov in his present situation nere, mignt serve as an announcer. On the main' line of confer ence developments, word spread today that btalin may nave re plied favorably to Molotov's request for instructions on the review and regional arrange ments amendments to the Dum barton Oaks charter, which were left over from last Friday night's meeting of the Big-Fpur. In California oil heaters "are placed at regular intervals throughout fruit groves to dif fuse heat when frost threatens. Many crops are saved in this 'way. .Classified Ads Bring Results.' cities remained under; the -swastika. These were encircled Bres- lau and the saxony cities of Dresden and Chemnitz, both ripe for capture. . . . v rs Groups '.Surrender "" -Two more German Alpine groups, not previously, surren dered to the sixth army group tin the -south, capitulated effec tive at JO p. m. -. tonight. One was .a corps commanded by Gen. Von Henkle.; TTho other was a division commanded by Col. Buchner. Both command ers said they had just heard of the surrender in the south, so chaotic were German commun ications. The number of troops was not announced. . The seventh and fifth armies made another contact in an Al pine . pass 25 miles south of Landbeck, the 44th and tenth mountain- divisions affecting ,tne tie. : Two Russian army groups were pressing in from the east, fighting into the outskirts of WAR DATES By The Associated Press The European war ended to day after 2076 days. Principal dates in the conflict included: Sept. 1, 1939 Germans in vade Poland. Sept: 3 Britain and 'France declare war. April 9, 1940 Germans in vade Norway. Denmark. May 10 Hitler invades low countries. May 31 British rescued from Dunkerque. June 10 Italy declares war on France. June 22 Petain government signs armistice with Germany. Aug. 8 Luftwaffe begins air "blitz ' on England. June 22. 1941 Germans in vade Russia. Dec. 7 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Dec. 1 1 Germany, Italy, de clare war on United States. Nov. 2, 1942 British shatter German line at El Alamein in Egypt. Nov. 8 Allied armies under Eisenhower landed in North Africa. Feb. 2. 1943 Russians win at Stalingrad, in war turning-point. May 13 Tunisian campaign ends. JulylO Allies invade Sicily. Sept. 3 Italy surrenders un conditionally. Invasion begins. June 6. 1944 Allies land in Normandy. Aug. 15 Allied armies invade southern France. Aug. 25 Paris liberated. Sept. 12 U. S.- 1st- irmv crosses German border. Dec. 16 Germans launch great counter-offensive. March 7, 1945 Rhine crossed at Remagen. M.xch 24 British-American forces drive over Rhine. April - 25-U. S.-Soviet troops link at Torgau. ' May 1 Nazis, announced Hit ler's death. May 7 Germany capitulates unconditionally, after surrenders in nortnern Italy, part of Aus tria, Denmark.' Holland and northwest Germany. Americans Capture, Rescue Notables Held by Germans BIG DOUBlT HORROR! THRILL ?HKJE T EE E CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE DAILY - OPEN 7230 the big rail junction of Olmuetz and the Hnhpnctarit ratting 1 QO and 115 miles. from Prague'. i ne tmn army from Italy fought into southern Austria for the kiU. If ifs a frozen" article vou need, advertise for a used one in the classified. PARIS, May 7 tPj Ameri can, troops In Italy and Austria have captured or rescued a long list of notables of 22 nations in cluding former' Premier Kurt Schuschnlgg of Austria, former German -Finance Minister Hjal mar Schacht and three onetime French premiers. The French leaders are Leon Blum, Edouard Daladicr and Paul Reynaud. Also rescued was Lt.- Gen. Tadeusz Komo rowski, who as "Gen. Bor" led the Warsaw insurrection. The Rev. Martin Niemocller, famous German pastor who commanded a U-boat in : the First World war and was cast into nazi prisons by Hitler for defiance, also was saved. Rescued Gen. Maurice Gamelin and Gen. Maxine Weygand, former French commanders, also have been rescued. The latest batch of 133 polit ical prisoners was taken by American troops in Italy Fri day after narrowly escaping death from Gestapo and SS troops who had been ordered to kill their hostages to prevent their liberation. Among these men many of whom had often been reported dead were: Schuschnlgg, who had been in German prisons since he de fied Hitler's grab of Austria. Leon Blum, former premier of France and an object of nazi scorn because he is a Jew. Chief Of Staff Gen; Frank Haider, former chief of the German general staff. Niemoeller. Dr. Schacht, former finance minister and president of the Reichsbank still dapper de spite nine months imprisonment.- Nicholas Kallay, former pre mier Of Hungary. Schacht said he had not been able to discover why he lost favor with Hitler. All the newly rescued prison ers had been taken to a moun tain fastness in the Italian Alps just below the Austrian border a week ago from the notorious Dachau prison camp near Mu nich. Reynaud and Daladier were rescued by the U. S. seventh army in Austria, A detachment of the 88th di vision under Lt. Melv'iri A. Asche of Omaha, Neb., rescued the last big batch of political prisoners at a spacious resort hotel at the mountain villege of Lago di Braise In the Domonuc Alps 15 miles west of the Aus tria frontier, AP . Correspon dent Sid Fcder reported from Italy. They rounded up a garri son of 1)0 German .soldiers guarding the captives, .'.Some like the Rev. Niemoeller. hhd been shuttled among Ger many's worst, prisons for . eight years. .. ; . . ; ; . I LOCAL; 1 REACTION i , . , . Free Famed Flyer va- 1IT y 4 !UfL . W Ww 1W .f i an . Added Special FURY IN THB PACIFIC! ROBERT HUTTON'JEAN SULLIVAN -ALAN HALE Mayor Ed Ostendorf "Ve in the west are pleased to know the war in Europe, is at an end but the war we are most interested in is the war with Japan,- . The west will now get more support and cooperation in helping bring the war with Japan to a close at an earlier dnto than was an ticipated. We hope that the citi zens of Klamath Falls will cele brate the surrender in Europe in an orderly fashion." Hugh Haddock- business agent for Klamath Besln dis trict council,. LSW-AFL "While V-E Day is a cause for rejoicing, it should be tempered by the fact that the war Is not yet over. We cannot really have peace in our grasp until Japan has been crushed and people of every race and creed have .learned to live together in har-, mony and understanding." ' County Judge V. E. Reeder: "Word of the surrender of Ger many to the allies should mean to all Americans and especially to the residents of Klamath county that we should knuckle down and get on with the big job of whipping the Japs. Let's The hundreds of families of fighting men, whether they are in the European or Pacific the aters, or bajied in Ihc conti nental United States, bowed their heads in prayerful thanks this morning when word of the surrender was flashed to a wait ing world. Parents with sons in France, Germany, England or Haly, breathed a sigh of genuine re lief. None, probably, more than Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Dav , 3023 Shasta way. whose only child. PKC Alvin Davis, IB-year-old infantryman with Patton s 3rd army, is recovering from wounds in an army hospital In England. "We just fell like crying when we heard the news Oils morn ing." Davis said. "H certainly is wonderful. It means every thing In the world to us and we hope lt also means that our boy comes noinc suun. i Young Davis was wounded: while fii combat near Frank-j .,. r:n,-munv b Pntlon's 3rd-' 78th Infantry division, fought near the Rhine. Davis has Ix-en overseas since November, 1044. As yet, his parents have not been advised as to tho severity of-his wounds. , . A family also rejoicing today, and fortunately with one of their sons just back from the South Pacific where ho suffer ed wounds with the marines on Iwo Jlma. Is Mr. and Mrs. Rich- trA MnnHlln !1 1 9.5 RnnrHmJin. Marine Staff Sergeant New-1 ton Mundlin Is here on a 30-dnyl convalescent leave, arriving justi fast week. Toauy ne ana nu, mother, and a brother, Sgt. Rob-I ert Mundlin, home on furlough from the U. S. army air. corps, base at Del Rio, Texas, wpre in church when The Herald and News called. Said Mr. Mundlin, "were: bound to be happy, we have four sons In the service. I got. up rather early this morning, and then went back to bed to catch a few winks when I heard i the word of the surrender. We couldn't sleep any more. We're: sure happy about this." In rlltlnn In Nutnn and -Robert, the Mundllns have two other sons in service, Pvt. Ralph, statioTied" with U. S.-'arrrly air corps at West Palm Beach, Flor ida, and S 1c Jay W. Mundlin, U. S. navy, San Diego. contribute as much to this task as we did to the task of beating Germany." Vernon N. Chase, president of the Klsmath Besln district council, . I W A C 1 0 "Even though the battle is ' over In Europe,- labor solemnly feels that production must be kept up at the same speed until we whip Japan, the third common enemy of the allies. We feel that this day should be dedicated to those boys who gave their lives that democracy might live. BSS 5-30 TONITE V. , - 'Mb . 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