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The Weather The Stat Journal Rmhtn daily the eo plate sews i. ports of Tin ttiu. Ik Urnittd Prtu mi Tk UtmHasi fftms StrvUt. TH IE STMflTE Partly elowdy ud brat Tharsday assn. fsBawea ay hewers and tiller Thaniay aftar- NINETIETH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945 IS Paget 162 Column PRICE FIVE CENTS eUdDHJIElWAL Ex-Alderman Dies Investigators Seize Illegal Meat iTKree Isles Confiscate Barrels of Ninth Army Captures Essen, Fights Way Into Brunswick; Irivadeid by Fake Meat Americans British Bes ie gihg Bremen Yanks Also Beat Off Series Lansing Grocer, Driver for Ionia Firm, Arrested on Sanitation Charges By LLOYD 3.

MOLES (Journal Staff Writer) Of Counterattacks on Southern Okinawa By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Associated Freas War Editor) British Capture Nazi Resistance' Smashed in West 3 Italian Towns Investigators of the state bureau of foods and standards cracked American troops have beaten, off series of Japanese counter-at tacks on southern Okinawa, invaded down here Wednesday, seizing 27400 pounds of "fake" hamburger and three more islands, and seized two arrested a wholesaler and his sales Tanks Advance 7 Miles in Americans Now Less Hum former Nipponese naval stations. man for selling misbranded, illegal Two of the invaded islands joio The Po Valley and Insanitary meat. and usuanga were in the Philip 0 pines, where Gen. -Douglas MacAr-thur announced "all organized ene 100 Miles from Berlin By JAMES M. LONG PARIS.

April 1 1 (AP) Benny Nasser, proprietor of the A. B. M. Food Market, 3420 South Cedar street, accused by investiga ROME. AprU 1 1 (AP) my resistance in southern Luzon has British Eighth army troops.

tors of having purchased approxi collapsed." HAZEN C. BUTTER paced by tlamethrowing tanks. The third Island, Tsugen, Is ten The American Ninth army ad mately 95 barrels of the alleged hamburger and selling 17 barrels Mr 47 ii2u have captured Lugo, Fusignano miles off the coast of Okinawa, 325 in this area to stores and restau- vanced to within 90 miles of Berlin todav. caDtured Eaaen avenue, former Lansing alderman and Cotignola in the opening miles south of Japan. Twenty-fourth corps troops killed the garrison of rants, demanded an examination when arraigned in municipal court and one time candidate for mayor, phase of their offensive across died unexpectedly at the home Tues-Li i and fought the last Germans ia 150 enemy soldiers as they overran He was released under $2,000 bond w.n ll i v-t -t me uau uc the Islet, controlling the entrance to Brunswick in armored ad' Late War Bulletins Nazi Battleship Admiral Scheer Sunk LONDON, April 11 (INS) The Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was snnk by A.

F. planes during their attack on Kiel the night of April 9-18, the air ministry announced today on the basis of reconnaissance photos made late yesterday. Rainbow Division Captures Schweinfurt WITH UNITED STATES SEVENTH ARMY IN GERMANY, April 11 (UP) The American 42nd "Rainbow" division surrounded the ball-bearing manufacturing center of Schweinfurt today and drove several columns into the city. France Assured Occupati on Zone in Germany LONDON, April 11 (fit France has been allotted part af the tone of occupation of Germany under plans of the four-power European advisory commission which she recently Joined. Nazis Murder German Airmen 12th ARMY GROUP HEADQUARTERS, April 11 iP) Reliable Information reaching this headquarters today said 102 members of the German air force were executed by the Germans on March 31 in an effort to stop an officers' revolt Among those executed, It was said, was a general named Baber.

Junction with Reds Seen by Saturday WITH U. 8. FIRST ARMY, April 11 (UP) First army quarters today believed that Junction of First army forces and Red army troops east of the Elbe would be achieved by Saturday. Cossack Cavalry on Move MOSCOW, April 11 (UP) The government newspaper lives tis reported from Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's front east of Berlin today that big forces of Cossack cavalry are en the move.

Allies Occupy Half of Germany PARIS, AprU 11 (INS) Paris newspapers estimated today that the Allied armies now occupy one-half of Germany. tack. flank of the Italian front. Nakagusuku bay, a former anchor pending a hearing April 19. Salesman Admits flailt age for the imperial fleet vancea ranging up to nearly 30 miles.

A fire department first aid crew Allied headauarters announced Also arrested was Joseph Ooar, Japs Killed worked ever me victim wiin me in- tQ(lav hfllatnr fnr IS mtmitoa hut miilH nnf-. I The swift moving First armv sned zo-year-oid salesman and truck driver for an Ionia meat oackinz Adm. Chester w. Nimitz an revive him. Fall of these towns reprer ted nounced that In the first eight days firm.

Ooar pleaded guilty In circuit Rutter served as alderman of the advances on a front of at least seven of lighting on Okinawa 5,009 Japa court. first ward for four years and ia mnH in (hufni nibn imh across the Thuringian plain south of the Harz mountains to an nn specified point 120 miles from tha Russian lines in a supreme effort to cut Germany in two and bar access to the Alpine redoubts from tht north. Gordon Granger, state Inspector, nese were killed, 222 taken prisoner, and 43,378 civilians Interned. Press 1939 made an unsuccessful bid for th hlffhwav ninnlnff mm said ooar had been selling the cicvuuu ure moj-vi. to Bolocma.

Luzo lies a mile west dispatches indicated American "hamburger" as a "sideline" to his had been an employe recently of the of on the highway. Bo- casualties during the same period regular work for the packing com loena is some 30 airune mues ahead. were roughly 2,900, only a small per pany. The latter firm did not know At nis several prooes tm Ttaiw Amoriran tmnns Essen a Blackened Ruin Essen, a blackened ruin in whicft centage or whom were killed. of this arrangement, he said.

Presumably most Yank losses were Investigators said they discovered were made of municipal department ot pifth army cleared the -nemy operations, which ted to sweeping from road nub of Massa and reforms in the garbage department pushed on in the direction of La in the 24th corps, units of which yes a barrel of the meat mixture at the terday broke up recurrent Nipponese A. B. M. Food Market some tune 659.174 persons Uved before Hitler loosed his armies, is the home of th sprawling Krupp munitions and iron works. It is the birthplace of Relchs-marshal Herman Goering and was counterattacks on the southern end ago and warned Nasser to hold it umcr municipal uBCm.ic wiinc spezia, major Italian naval base discrepancies were discovered.

dozen mae away of the Island. Duels between the until a test could be made and ufT "Our troops have breached enemy if approved permission given to sell sjwiMiiiB. no wit muuw. HafancM on th T71va SantA am largest mass of artillery batteries Japan has put Into action and the SS3 ttoat'" Allied communique tne sixth largest city in Germany. Unconfirmed reports reached su-.

preme headauarters after 4 n. ro fiscated. Each barrel contains 350 pounds of meat, some of it more than a year old. Checking the meat are Clyde Cotton 41eft) and Gordon Granger, investigators for A portion of 27,300 pounds of "fake" hamburger seized by state Investigators of the bureau of foods and standards are shown here in cold storage at a local warehouse where they were con combined might of u. S.

army, ma rine, naval and air artillery accom Rutter: two brothers. Donald A. and hv -t. panied each charge. Neither side Richard and two sisters, Mrs.

W. iriohth infontr mnn. tat Bruncwick had been captured. The Old Hickory (30th division, fought into southern Brunswick. tne state.

Joumal Photo) gained yesterday. The Tanks have broken through au uniuuift. UUCIW Mntl1lw1 mAM than 19m flMmani The Hell on Wheels (2nd) armored Soviet Forces mn. mill k. luM Ih.

IT.t. wwu.uo. the outer barrier of elaborate cave JT i i. i veteran New Zealanders took Leadley Colonial chapel at 3 oWock prominent role in the assault Goal DisDute and pillbox defenses lying between them and Nana, capital and ma tor "ev- v- wafle The Eighth army also was on the objective on Okinawa. This fortified division crossed the Oker river in force south of the aircraft manufacturing center, and the Fifth armored division crossed in strength to the north.

The Oker flows through Brunswick. Mat. Gen. Leland TTnhhx mth uuuawiit, move south or Hiehwsv 0. th motor it to customers.

Bought In 1943 According to Granger, the wholesaler purchased 95 barrels of the questionable meat products from a Detroit packer. Records disclosed that some of the "hamburger" had been in cold storage since November, 1943. Inspectors found at least 18 food stores and restaurants in or near Lansing which had purchased the purported "ground meat" to sell or serve as hamburger. Examinations of several samples of the confiscated meat by the state department of agriculture laboratory revealed that it contained a mixture of muscle tissue, tongue, liver, fat, lips, snouts, salivary glands, line is four miles deep and about communication thoroughfare up the lour and a half miles wide. ro vauey irom Kimini, on tne coast.

Circle Vienna In the north, marines of the Third through Foru. Faenza. and Imola to Chip Income division commander, issued an ulti amphibious corps advanced about a Bologna. A bridgehead was secured Ends in Pact across the upper Senio near Cuf- mile and a half their smallest gain matum for surrender of the city and attacked when the German commander asked 34 hours in which to flano. four miles from the hurhwav in ten days to seize Unten bay and its submarine pens and torpedo boat soutnwest oi faenza.

OfTaxBai remove troops. In the major attack in the north LONDON, April 1 1 (AP) Russian forcea completed the case, the initial crossings were made be A naval anchorage used bv the encirclement of Vienna and with tommy-guns and grenades tween fusignano and San Severn By HAROLD W. WARD Japanese fleet during early stages of the Philippines invasion was seized South of that sector extensive mine- compressed the doomed Nazi garrison into the eastern one-tenth of the tottering Austrian capital, front dispatches to the -i Five miles due south of Brunswick (pop. 201306), the Second ar. mored division encountered heavy opposition in the Hermann Goering steel works, but captured the town of Salzgitter where the plant is located.

WASHINGTON. April 1 1 (AP) Waee negotiators bv anmhihiaus unit which nrru, a t. ieu nn wugn resistance Slowed See MEAT Page oeraiie ftmenu auutngiuie the attack, but a bridgehead was wound up six weeks of contract talks with broad concessions to Pled Coron bay on Busuanea to Moscow press announced today. Measure Before Brinirine and during Monday night bituminous miners today even as the government took over Pg J6. medical and food sup- plies in three to These accounts also aaid that the right wing of Marsh I The National years the Culion 235 strike-closed pits in seven Rodion Malinovsk y'a Second Ukrainian army had invaded the ii imai ure mtruay onages uirown across the stream.

The nearest approach to the Ruv sian was at an uns necified mint IS leper colony. lanxs ana artillery poured across. states. central Czechoslovak province of Moravia at point lesa than P. M.

to Provide Joio Invaded extreme north. Italian in tne miles southeast of the supply base of Nordhausen. 155 miles from Ber Last night's presidential seizure 35 miles from the great city The senate Wednesday afternoon passed the Hlggins intangible tax Near the southern extremity of the troops hurdled the stream and advanced steadily west of Alfonsine. 0b order came hours before announce Streamliners in of Bruenn (Brno) FARM TRAGEDY bill, 19 to 11, after adopting an nmppines tne 4ist division made a two-oroneed invasion of Join. server oniciai accounts disclosed that ment of agreement on a contract to other amendment reducing the Farther north, the Germans said lin.

Alt armies except those on the extreme north and south moved through German resistance officially described as Dotizh- levy on nonproductive securities Pntt.Wnr PrinJ capital city, an airfield and J. Vit'rr Ul A tl HU Livhl rht Ir.l.n,1 supplant the one which expired other Soviet forces, in an all-out ueut. oen. Sir Richard McCreery, commander of the Euthth armv. had from two-tenths to one-tenth of March 31.

Reportedly the operators assault to reduce the Oder river Three Youngsters Perish in Flames; thur said the operation gave his 1 percent of their valuation. A fi opened his -offensive at 7:20 p. Monday, and even before full dark acceded to a basic dally wage of $10 fortress of Breslau. had stormed nal effort of the bill's sponsor to Stream-liner passenger service be- Kf "complete control" of the into Richhofen square in that Si The News Behind The Daft News ness garnered his troops had won a Increase the tax on income-yield' for Inside miners now receiving $8.50 after United Mine Workers President onageneao i.uuu vards deert. Flame lesian city.

Ing stocks from 3 to 4 percent boys were within 57 miles of the great Saxony city of Leipzig, also menaced by the Russians. The British Second army beating toward Hamburg and besieging Bremen was 123 miles from Berlin Six Others Saved throwers rooted the enemy from Inside Vienna the rag-tag Nazi raued, 14 to 15. John L. Lewis abandoned his 10 6 More tribesmen and potential Jump- Rapids is planned oh a three trains- ing off place for an invasion of a-daj--each-way basis in the post- Borneo. war period, it was revealed Wednes- TP 11th airbone division swept 20 force, including schoolboys, pilots wnatever defenses remained after cent-a-ton royalty demand.

and sailors fighting as infantry, line preliminary air pounding. KALAMAZOO, AprU 11 (IP) By HOWARD J. RUGG CONGRESSIONAL mailbags have begun to reflect a deep Already, Interior Secretary Ickes had been pushed back on an island (Journal Staff Writer) against the Danube by Russian had stepped into his fourth war-time day in the Pere Marquette RaUway L-- 0 company's annual report released in Lu.tiJL, il "I intangible Lansing Family on the outskirts of the AUer rirer town of CeUe. "German resistance tn the west has collapsed," General Eisenhower declared. ening and expanding public con cem with the individual's person A senate vote on the storm units sweeping forward in role as mine operator, ordering the Detroit.

I In tha hand-to-hand lighting, complete American flag flown ove. i tip al problems as a result of our tax bill was expected Wednesday Chamber of Commerce officials ni.u i. elimination qf this enemy holdout ple made idle by a 10-day series of Loses Second Son after the upper chamber amended the measure Tuesday, cutting its group appeared uaeiy a maiter wildcat strikes mat cut deep into here said these plan, have been to Buma Tapturel rSSSZ tarn formation fnr nm Mm hut niuiH uuiiuiwui startling series of successes in all war theaters. Despite General George C. Marshall's caution The actions of his nine charging See WEST FRONT Page of hours.

steel production. The number seized, however, was fewer than 7 percent of There was no Indication that the estimated revenue by some fSnT Chungking reported gains on four the nation's 3,478 sort coal mines. 000. Germans yet had blown the four bridges over the Danube, one of Seaman T. J.

Cook Dies in against a spiritual Jetdown, human nature and hope Insist on rebounding from the depths into which they have been sunk for so ovolloKl until tk -n I wvwv.o. AMD, ui lilC xaailB.UW- most of which have continued Fall Death Case 'C wot cuuo. Ir-eiDlnir raUwav rhinoa oeuutur Auuicy xvnwauu xw vi which prooaDiy already is in bus According to plans there will be TT 7iT.J Cass City, succeeded in putting action; marine wounded The break In the long-stalemated sian hands, a Moscow dispatch said. morning, noon and evening train fighting. West of thTraiLd they eacn way operated at least six days recanturMi Hnrh through two amendments raising many years.

The vast bulk of letters now contract talks came hours after dark Ukrainians, Russians and White IsNearingJury with an announcement from con Russians, brought as slave labor to Three small children were burned to death early today when fire destroyed their farm home seven miles west of here, but six other children living in the bouse were rescued. The dead were Kenneth Edward Bylsma, DeliAnn By lama, 2, and John Paul Bylsma, four months old. Their father. Seaman 2-C Robert G. Bylsma, is stationed at Great Lakes.

When the fire broke out about it. m. the Bylsma children were sleeping on the first floor of the house and the six children of Mrs. Corrine Fields, Mrs. Bylsma's sister, were asleep on the second floor.

The Fields children, ranging in age from two to ten years, were rescued first by the two women in the belief that the Bylsma children would be easier to save. Attempts to rescue the Bylsma children were thwarted, however, when the first floor caved in. the exemption from $10 1 to $20 and War had brought tragedy for the lowering the tax on the earnings second tim WfHnri Jlnfil I Pursuing an enemy column that was reaching Capitol Hill asks when sons in the services will be re ference Chairman Ezra Van Hornn Vienna by the Germans, were lib 1 4 I ---j wre Aure oi swua iium oi Mr. and Mrs. Charla T.

erated from the city's cellars. turned home. They summarize the routed as it drove toward Shensl a passenger purchases a Ucket he province, and persistently attackeda wm oe assigned a certain seat, ac- nnrniioi ni limn 1 ntA to 3 percent. He failed, however, i09 Coleman an operator, that an agreement had been reached. He said only that the miner operator conferees would Firing from three directions.

Rus oeiiei or many parents that young Witnesses Voice Belief in an attempt to lower the tax following receipt of official word that sian artillery was raking the Ger sters overseas lor 2 or 3 years Swindlehurts Beat Wife mans compressed within the three- cording to plans revealed locally. TmSTI. JLZ ZZSPJZttt -L ase city of Laohokow. 45 mUes meet at 3:30 p. m.

E. W. today to approve the agreement It then nuu-wwuie piuuuvtuK sww num ia son, i nomas Joseph Cook 20 sea-two-tenths of one percent on the man first class, had hn mw in mile-long, nau-mlie wide crescent of land between the river and canal renort tht iin nrrtw hu hn nl.H must De reviewed by the war labor board and Economic Stabilizer Wil face value to one-tenth of one per- action in the southwest Pacific An-cent as in the present act. other son, Sgt. Robert J.

Cook' was Fate of Gerald Swindlehurst 34- It r-----iwllvCJl on BS lOSC, the old Jewish quarter of Leopold- liam H. Davis. me senate aiso auopteo an killed in action in itaiv Mriv iui i wo uiesei locomouves ana lightweight passenger cars which stadt and tne ungittenau and Prater commercial districts. In addition to the basic daily wage House Cuts Out will be used as two seven-car trains amendment offered by Senator yaar. Wounding of another Lan-Harry F.

Hittle (R )of East Lansing, sing man, Corp. Vernor L. Williams, concession, the new nact. so far as year-old war worker accused of manslaughter in the death of bis wifo last December 31. bung in the balance Wednesday as the case rapidly neared the Jury in circuit court East and north of the Danube, making possible the three proposed couio oe learned, also called for: wiulu wuuiu iuwci vuc hu mi Diuuct 41.

Ull 1 wc Jim, a I En nra Mallnovsky's forces seized a dozen of Vienna's suburbs, from Deutsch round trips dally. of building and loan and savings vealed bv relatives here. institution of this service In the 0CD Financing A $75 vacation payment, representing a comoromlse be Wagram on the Marchfield plain and loan associations by classifying Seaman Cook was serving aboard such shares under bank deposits an aircraft carrier in the southwest Attorneys for the defendant in in tne north, where Napoleon de post-war period will restore railroad service between Lansing and Gear Nash Production tween Lewis' demand of $100 and formed' Judge Charles H. Hayden inner in an uicumc-piuuucing i-acmc at me time of his daath feated Archduke Charles in 1809, to A 1 IM A WMk JuH. L.I i the two other major state cities to a Muehieiten, near the river on the Tuesday afternoon they would rely on a self-defense theory.

8wmdle- Appropriation Eliminated 3UKU. ine uia uii uaiia. uvAaiba lavb uhlc Ui wnicn is $1 a $1,000. was not revealed oasis enjoyed eight to 10 years ago To Make Up for Loss tne present sag. Termination in one year Instead of on 20 davs' notice as south.

In addition to cleaning up the But May Be Restored nurst is accused of inflicting injuries to his wife. Florence, 54, which according to the Chamber of Commerce. Actually the service would py the navy de See TAX Page bartment. Eniut. districts of Vienna lying west and Lewis proposed.

AU production lost during a shut caused her death. snouia De released and their place in the Japanese conflict taken by new wearers of the uniform. Almost every communication suggests that only half of the nine million men in the army should be needed to conquer Tokyo, especially in view of prospective aid in the far east from the Russians, the Chinese and the British. The next largest batch of messages deals with food supplies or the lack of them. Inspired by congressional denunciations, the writers seem to think that this problem, has been botched from the beginning to the present.

Along with these complaints comes a growing conviction that the United States should get some help from other nations in feeding the liberated peoples. Nobody wants the suffering abroad to starve, but there is a warning chorus -whose refrain is that "Charity should begin at home." The third subject most on the domestic mind, so far as these letters indicate is taxes. The folks appear to feel that Individual income and sales levies should be represent a material improvement ing tne navy south oi the canal. Marshal Feodor In an attempt to abolish rh down for inventories last week will Prosecutor Victor C. Anderson pa Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian West Side Seeks Lffl in view or tne prospect of modernized equipment and speedier 4 Bringing into U.

M. W. A. membership all exceDt thr be caught up during the next three army spread out along the Danube office of civilian defense on the grounds it is no longer necessary, the house of renresentatlvps vntjwl raded 13 witnesses to the during Tuesday's and Wednesday's sessions of the trial or four weeks in the Lansing pro to tne nortneast and, by some unofficial accounts, had crossed to the supervisory employes at each mine. Lewis had asked all but two.

peller plants of the Nash-Kelvlna- NeW Paper Mark cember. 1944. after lrcrivinff hl nnnt. 1 Highlighting Wednesday's testi informally Tuesday to eliminate- its tor corporation, Campbell Wood, east Dank. Traffic Burden Grows general manager, revealed Wednes I training at Great mony was that given by Lieut Detective Myron Griffin of the police appropriation.

House minrinrtora nf tha n-n A Second and third shift 'differentials of four and six DETROIT. ADril 11 (UP) The day. Residents oi uinsings wesc siae iaxes, iu. his Studio Worker Is Hero Manufacturing operations were cents an hour, respectively. Lew department and Dr.

Charles Black, local pathologist however, were attempting to gather the necessary 51 votes to have the were seeking a new record in their brother was kUled Anntrlhtttlnn Mia war Wmtnosria I 1944, HOLLYWOOD. AprU 11 (A) department of street railways here has assumed a burden of passenger traffic which is 80 oercent in excess is naa asaeu io and 15 cents. resumed with third shift late Sunday night and aU employes laid off Whan AMvm Tnuft, MViall' whlla KArvlnv ajt appropriation reinstated when it 'Cook Describes Axe Story flimsy gown was ignited by a faulty last week were back on the job Griffin told of Questioning Swin Reportedly the $1.50 average dally Increase will result from an agree comes up for a final vote next week. Representalve Harrv J. Phillin of as they placed waste paper at the an assistant flight engineer and nose curb in front of approximately 75 gunner on a B-24 Liberator on a percent of the homes and commer- mission over northern Italv.

but it of what it was four years ago. Earl J. Hudson, D. S. R.

commissioner, said today. Hudson added that in dlehurst after learning the cause of Monday. The company is building three and four-bladed Hamilton electric switch yesterday on a movie set, a studio worker, Monroe Lieb- Port Huron, and Frank J. Calvert of his wife's death. He said Swindle.

ment on a seven-hour day with time and a half for aU additional time spent underground except for gold, beat out the flames with his Standard propellers for the air cial buildings. I was not until February 7 of this year oroer to place in service an additional 300 to 400 coaches, 400 more ngniand Park, both Republicans and members of the ways and forces of the United States and the hands. He suffered minor burns but 1TUCES. manned uy duv ocouh, i United Nations. started the street-by-street pick-up See XOSES Page 1 Miss Marshall was not injured.

u-uiuiuk iuncn period. anvers will oe needed. hurst claimed his wife struck him on the arm with a hammer during an argument and he took the tool away See DEATH Page 1 means committee, said they would sharply '-educed with the defeat of I at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning mj reinsert tne appropriation. The wavs and means eommlttMt and were to cover all territory west cc-crtm it imnnnn WAR OVER FOR THEM th. r.ranii rlwr dnrinir tha Ii 3W11 11 VXlVfl naa set the aDnrorjriatlon at Many people were still putting out 000 for each year of he next bien.

Showers Forecast possible reductions in production volume and costs after Hitler's crackup nas given Impetus to requests for an immediate start on a tax lowering program for tht little fellows." paper as tne truces movea oy ana nium, half the amount requested. German Citizens See SS Brutality Nab Nazi Foreign Staff this brought a furtner appeal from salvage officials for everyone to iwb years ago the legislature appropriated $503,809 for the OCD. have all bundles at the curb before Committee members said purpose of 8 a. m. on collection day, By Late Thursday Hourly Temperatures a.

m. Mil a. m. TO a. II mm 74 m.

m. Ml 1 a a. By THOBURX WIANT By ALVTN STEINKOPF The east and north sections will uus years appropriation was to keep together a skeleton staff to be ready in case of emergency. tionals with other countries, personnel and press communications. Several had spent many years in be covered Thursday.

This area OTTRnRTTP Rmrunv Anrll 11 Ift MUEHLHAUSEN. Germany, April that" Later they voiced disgust, with one doctor saying "It's the work of beasts." The next morning the Nazi mayor 11 (JPh-The war was over today for 1-CoL Hayden A. Searl, whose ar- ttepresentaave ArneH Engstrom (R) of Traverse Citv asserted that Safeguard 'PHESE unsolicited responses to recent world events, In-Sea EDITORIAL Pag Where to Look a. m. 285 members of the German foreign Cedar rivers.

The balance of thelmored forces discovered the scenes "The war la not over and Amt oi oororui ana nis wile were xound hanged. The army said It was sui The Sixth armored division also seized numerous members of the ministry, whose hones for a haven city, known as the south side, wUl of horror at the Ohrdruf concen- Know what the future will bring." see the unmistakable evidence of Nazi concentration camp management A body of one slain worker, almost like a highway sign, points the way to the main entrance of the camp, which lies at the edge of tola pleasant town. The presumption was he attempted to flee and dldnt make it Most of the bodies lying scattered In the open nave bullet boles in the back of the head. -In one spot the JraJ tniNntm V. S.

WUr Bw tWMtilii Good news for farmers and Vic cide. uerman railroad ministry at Scher- Kepresentauve Elton R. Eaton be covered Friday. tration camp, thought i. would Frank Freeman, secretary of the Ohrdruf.

said by foreign workers ut of Plymouth said he had ore- oa, i-j mnes soutn of Muehlbausen, and the photographic department of to have the reputation of being a fanatipally Nazi community, got a outside bombed Berlin were dashed by the swift advance of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton's United States Third army armored columns. When the sixth armored division rolled into this picturesque citv.

one tory gardeners in the local area who have put in early season plantings. a.t.hihi htens of this town to see what SS pared for Introduction a bill to abolish the OCD. but that he had not the Transocean news agency at "V- hfolll- rfnn. In at his offices In the National Bis- different slant on their former rulers. Allied military government offi filed it because of the American Le was contained in the weather forecast Wednesday, promising showers for Thursday afternoon and cra luieir miosb See PAPER Page I The Chestnut Hill, Mass- officer gion's intercession.

Langensalza, five miles southeast The foreign ministry staff members were placed under house detention until they could be moved. cials who found it difficult to get victims were apparently made to Onrdrui citizens to cooperate said rounded up leading citizens ror Eaton said he objected to continuing '-he appropriation "because oi we oiaesi in Tnunngia it found the foreign ministry staff cowering in apartments, basements, garages and homes of friends. that now mere are plenty ox vol kneel In a 40-foot circle, and were killed by an executioner who walked rr; pr. a tour ox the camp, wnere several Winay rrann nundre1 bodies of slain foreign They said Berlin was at least 75 ning. The official temperature climbed from a low of 53 degrees, early Wednesday morning, to SO degrees unteers.

percent destroyed and most govern See OCD rage News or the camp's discovery has SAN ANTONIO, Tex UP) A I workers are still In evidence. behind them. One survivor said the executioner Foreign Minister Joachim Ribben- spread up and down the rront. and Bedtime Stories 12 Believe It or Not 12 Churches 12 Comics 12 Crossword Puzzle 12 Dorothy Dix Editorials 8 Health Talks 8 Markets 14 New York Day by Day 6 Radio 14 Society 8-9 Sports 11 Theater .......13 Vital Statistics 14 Weather 1 playful spring wind blew a bat They saw bodies sprawling in the through a window into the lan of ooen sbace between the barracks. trop and other top figures in his de by 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.

ment buildings were gone. They believed that the 88 (elite guard) and gestapo still maintain an Iron rule was an 88 medical major. many hundreds of. American soldiers Cherries in Bloom TRAVERSE CITY. Anrfl 11 UP One Russian survivor asserted partment were not here.

Apparently they have fled elsewhere. The forecast also predicted partly cloudy and warm weather until Deputy Fire Chief M. I. Butler. I piled like timber in one building, and With the bat in hand the chief heaped In a tangled mass in.

a wide wno can get away irom tne cnoree are visiting It They leave la a grim over citizens in the ruined city. that 4 700 internees were killed or Several varieties of sweet cherries have burst into bloom in th Grand about noon Thursday, followed by Two department of the foreign Trembling as he spoke, one staff mood. wauceo downstairs wnere ne round I mt in stiu anotner place wnere ap- died of maltreatment in the camp, most of them in recent weeks. Amer member said: "Most of us feel the Colonel Sean says the army la too cooler Thursday afternoon and night The low tonight is expected to Traverse area, fully a month ahead of schedule. Sweet varieties appear war is lost, but until now we did not a bareheaded man searching for his parently some effort bad been made headpiece.

Thanking Butler profuse- to burn them. ly. the man claimed bis hat and left At first the Germans expressed ministry were transferred about a month ro. The officials captured here handled such matters as salaries, exchange of na busy to dean up the meat and that it may serve a rood purpose if as ican officers regarded that figure as high, but estimated that 1,400 to oe near "56 and the high Thursday 70. dare talk about it for fear of what might happen to us." to have from a third to one-half the normal bloom.

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