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
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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
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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.
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Many crops are saved in this
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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.
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the big rail junction of Olmuetz
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and 115 miles. from Prague'.
i ne tmn army from Italy
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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. .. ; . . ; ; .
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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.
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