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1882, No. AIRPLANE DELIVERY ON 9 PRICE ISLANDS OTHER THAN OAHTJ ON OAHU icfcicfc SAN FRANCISCO, April i 19. (IP) A Tokyo radio com WMF mm mentator bluntly admitted today "a portion of the capital has been completely ruined" by American air raids. He said this had given Jap in mm anese war workers wno "stood up again from the midst of the debris," an added in centive to increase aircraft By LISLE SHOEMAKER GUAM. April 19.

(U.R Japanese LONDON, April 19. (V-The Paris radio said today Berlin was under fire of Russian artillery. LONDON, April 19. (U.R) A midnight Russian communique today said the Soviets have begun their drive on Berlin and that the Neisse river had been crossed by Red army troops. This was the first official Soviet announcement of the drive, directed toward the reich capital and to the south, a juncture with the Americans.

broadcasts said today the govern kJMt.J. ment has advised all foreign diplo matic officials to leave Tokyo be FRANZ YON PAPEN (wearing dark glasses), former chancellor of Germany, as He od cause ox continuing air raids. seared when captured in the Ruhr pocket April 10 by troops of an American army. At hut I 11 I Tt II 1 Diplomats accepted the advice and moved to Karuizawa, popular summer resort in the hills 70 miles LONDON. April 19.

(U.R) Nazi broadcasts today said that Russian rignr is nis son in law, mar von anooKmansren. cenina mm is nis son, max von rapen. I he American officer is Lt. Col. H.

J. Hatcher of the military police. Signal corps radio telephoto from Paris. 9th AAF photo and Acme newspicture. forces had scored a deep advance east of Berlin, thrusting an armored spearhead, across the road running southwest into Strausberg, 9 miles if- 4 from the city limits.

A German spokesman said that Marshal Ivan Konev's 1st Ukrainian army had pushed west up to 25 northwest of Tokyo, it was said: another Japanese broadcast said 100 or more Superfortresses bombed Kyushu for the third straight day. Three other Superfortresses and 60 escorting Mustangs hit airfields in the Tokyo area. XI 7 miles beyond Neisse and reached the Spree river on a 42 mile front between Cottbus and Bautzin, 68 4, miles from the American 3rd army at Chemnitz. 9 Domei news agency said the Moscow continued to give only vague hints of the great Russian of LATE FBMA'L Kyushu raid lasted two hours. The Superfortresses were believed to have hit the six bases from which suicide planes take off fensive that has brought the Soviet jo) Id) to attack American warships off If WUUUU.U Bos'n's Mate Volk and Souvenirs (Le5pzog! LONDON, April 19.

JP) A German radio commentator reported today Russian forces had reached Hoyerswerda, 31 miles northeast of Dresden and 55 miles from American lines northeast of Chemnitz. German broadcasts said the massive Russian assault declared mounted on a front of 200 miles from Stettin to Saxony by a force of 2,500,000 men, had cracked the Berlin front at multiple points in an arc 18 to 21 miles from the German capital. One German commentator said Russian parachutists and glider forces were carrying out air borne landings near Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia. Okinawa. Domei said that damage to ground facilities was very light and claimed at least one Super-fort was downed by a suicide plane which crashed into it.

The Superforts and fighters bombed and machine gunned airfields in the Tokyo area for a half hour. The Japanese said their fighters chased the raiders away before much damage was done. 37,427 Nazis Taken In Past 2 Days Falill Wmt Mmnmless WASHINGTON, April 19. (JPh-The battle for the Rhine and crossing of the river in March cost United States army ground forces C23 casualties. Secretary of War Henry I Stimson reported today.

While this total wag larger than in February, when there were losses, Air. Stimson pointed out that it was smaller than for any months since October. The March casualties figure included 6,214 killed, 33,443 wounded and 5,368 missing. Since Day last lane, Mr. Stimson disclosed, American ground casualties on the western front totaled 473,215 wp to the nd of March.

Included are 79,795 killed, 334,. 919 wounded and 58,501 missing. At the same time, Mr. Stimson disclosed that army casualties in all theaters reached 813,870 on the basis of names compiled in Washington through April 7. Added to the navy's losses of this put aggregate casualties since Pearl Harbor at 912,478, an increase of 13,083 since last week's report.

Mr. Stimson said that while current casualties on the western front are not yet available, they are "not high." In contrast, he said more tban 900,000 Germans were captured In April, and the number of enemy killed and wounded has been high. Since the landings in France last June, he added, Allied forces have taken well over 2,100,000 prisoners. A breakdown on army casualties in all theaters and corresponding figures for the preceding week follows: Killed, 162,505 and wounded, 496,803 and missing, and prisoners, 70,636 and Of the wounded, 261,596 have returned to duty. Similar figures of navy losses: Killed.

38,035 and wounded, 45,725 and missing, 10,589 and prisoners, 4,255 and 4,254. Nazli Elopes PARIS, April 19. (U.B Allied forces in the west have captured 37,427 prisoners in the past two armies forward to Berlin and almost By PEdGY E. SCRIPPS to a juncture with the Allied ar mies of the west days, it was disclosed today, bring' PARIS, April 19. (U.R)The German stronghold of Halle, 15 miles northwest of Leipzig, fell to 1st army units today after a week of bloody fighting: and only a short while after Leipzig itself had fallen to advancing Americans.

ing total prisoners taken in the felt as badly about Mr. Pyle's death as I did about the death of the president" said Bos'n's Mate E. B. Volk. "That's the truth; I just cant help it he added, a little fiercely.

By German account the bloodiest fighting ever encountered raged through the maze of defenses strung over and near the approaches to 3" II I iii ti S3 i And then he told how be had met PARIS, April 19. (U.R) The keystone fortress of Leipzig fell today Expediter For oussng Here Bs Requested Ernie Pyle on Guam early in March, and how Ernie had become interested in his souvenirs. to the American 1st army after, a day and night of wild street fighting "I guess I was one of the first that broke the hinge between uer many's northern and southern bat' tie fronts. Berlin. There, according to Walter Plato, German commentator of transocean radio, the hard struggle was becoming more acute and the scene of grim fighting was shifting nearer Berlin.

Red army forces today captured Berlin's east outposts of Seelow and Wriezen, and plunged on within 14 miles of the capital. A Transocean (German) news agency broadcast said that the "superbattle for Berlin is heading h3mm Leipzig, the reich's fifth city and pivot of the entire western battle line, was conquered by two 1st army divisions in one of the bloodiest west since Day to 2,093,705. Late Sports JOHNNY KELLEY WINS BOSTON MARATHON BOSTON, April 19. (IP) Johnny Kelley of West Acton, won his second Boston Athletic association marathon today, coming from behind within the last two miles to cross the tape first. Kel-ley's time was 2 hours 30 minutes 40 15 seconds.

The record of 2 hours, 26 minutes, 51 1-5 seconds was set by Joe Smith of the North Medford club in 1942. Lloyd Bairstow of Lawrence, crossed the line about two minutes behind Kelley, being clocked at 2 hours, 32 minutes, 50 seconds. Don Heinicke of Baltimore was third, in 2 hours, 36 minutes, 28 seconds. Fourth to swing across the line was Robert (Scotty) Rankine, Toronto, In 2 hours, 38 minutes, 3 seconds. closein fights of the war.

All but a handful of Nazi snipers reporting to this news- By LYN CROST Star-Bulletin War Correspondent who is paper from the battlefront in Europe. for its climax," admitting that were killed i or captured by tank "rather deep penetrations" had units this morning and survivors cafe, The 99 Spot on highway 93 where it runs through Bakers-field. He told hinvabout the five years he spent as a driller and reamer in a Long Beach shipyard. "Mr. Pyle was especially interested in one story I told him," Mr.

Volk said. "I once worked on a ship that was christened West Keats, 20 years ago in Long Beach. "She showed up at Guam a short time ago, under a different name, owned by a Filipino outfit returning to Manila after four years out IIer crew and passengers were frantic trying to contact their families, whom they hadn't heard from for months. "She was battered, but she was still rugged." Sadly, the. Seabee added: "Before he went away, Ernie told me he wanted to come back and write that story.

But he never did." No tribute would have warmed the large heart of Ernie Pyle as much as what the Seabee said next: "He was the kindest man I've ever known. "He was so damn willing to talk to everybody, and he never ended a conversation abruptly he finished it first "Then he excused himself and walked away, because he was such a gentleman. "He liked to talk to enlisted men more than to officers, because he was a GI man." been made by the Russians in the were being i hunted down and de stroyed at top speed. With stray shots still flying in last 24 hours. Sixty miles to the south, other Russian forces seized the Neisse river anchor stronghold of Forst HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 19 (By Wireless) Peace with Germany ruled by a feeling of punishment rather than hate is the advice of Dr.

Johannes Hoops, acting president of the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Hawaii. The 79 year oicKnoted philologist who -has taught at leading univer people to talk to him after he landed," he said. Mr. Volk, a Seabee who landed vith the first troops at Eniwetok, and again at Guam on July 21, 1914. is in Honolulu for a rest, slightly grey, and looking a bit tired.

His job on Guam was directing 17 men unloading supplies from merchant ships. While he was there he started making souvenirs from bits of Japanese material, and he has made hundreds. When Ernie saw them he became interested. In one of his columns he called the ingenious Seabee "the most prolific souvenir maker in the Pacific." He had a photographer take a picture of Mr. Volk standing behind a table covered with paper weights, ashtrays and necklaces.

Because Ernie Pyle was interested, the Seabee told him i about his mother, 83 year old Mrs. Cary Volk, who lives in Jacksonville, Fla. And about his Auto club and half a dozen sections about to 5,000 liberated Allied prisoners and some civilians lined the streets to haU the Americans on the part of the bloodiest closein fights of Turn to Page 4, Column 4 sities throughout th-woria, told Basebal ceptance of Germany's defeat German hopes for a prolonged stand in the west virtually eol-Turn to Page 4, Column 4 By RADFORD MOBLEY Star-Bulletin Bureau, Washington, D. April 19 An expediter who is the personal representative of the president should be named now to handle the critical housing job in the Hawaiian islands. This is one of the findings of the house naval affairs subcommittee in its report, made public Wednesday, and which sharply criticized many federal agencies for failure to handle the problem properly.

Chairman Carl Vinson Indicated he will take the matter directly to President Truman. Following is the text of the press release made available Wednesday by the committee: "In releasing the report of the house naval affairs subcommittee on congested areas of its inquiry on living conditions in the Pearl Harbor-Honolulu area, Carl Vinson, chairman of the naval affairs corn-Turn to Page 4, Column 6 Trustee Fee Bill Sent To Committee President Eugene S. Capellas to NATIONAL NEW YORK GIANTS BEAT BRAVES BY 4-3 SCORE BOSTON, April 19. (AV-New York's Giants scored four times after two were out in the eighth Famed LegSess IPoSoS Wasifts S(pofit AS Etas' Bv DON WHITEHEAD inning today to defeat the Boston Braves, 4 to 3, in the morning game i v' fi 1 i I A I "i.tiiii I of a Patriot Day doujleheader Johnny Rucker hit a homer in the big frame. COLDITZ, Germany, April 19.

(JP) Gay, debonair Wing Commander Douelas Bader. famed legless pilot of the RAF who was shot down i New York 4 8 1 Boston 3 7 0 over France three and a half years ago, wants most of all to "get me: s. "I want devote the ttire time and strength remaining to me to bringing- England, the United States and Germany together gain. "All my life that has been my aim and hope." I visited Dr. Hoops and his wife in their home overlooking the city and found them full of memories of the time they spent in Hawaii in 1938.

Like all the people of Germany they are suffering from the rigors ef war. Dr. Hoops, who has known America since 1904, already has been called into conference by the military governor here for his advice on the handling of local affairs. "When the German people are defeated," he said, "they will have to bear their punishment, but in the general interests of world conditions the peace terms must be written in such a way that a permanent peace is possible. The Germans must be made to feel that the peace is a punishment and not a hate.

There must be a chance for future reconciliation. "In that respect the Versailles treaty was unwise and several of its terms became the roots of this war. "Every German will understand 1 another squirt at the bloody hun," now that he is free from German internment "Just give me one more shot at those goons," begged the Hansen, Brewer, Gee and Lorn bardi; Barrett and Mast DODGERS BEAT PHILLIES IN PITCHING DUEL 35 year old fighter, pilot vho be- nQt mhadt to imprisonment i jO elsewhere. These prisoners had with two artificial legs. been classed as special enemies of "I'll never be satisfied until I day assigned to the judiciary committee for additional study SB 383 which would increase fees for trustees of charitable trusts to a maximum of $12,000 a year.

the fatherland, and most attempted BROOKLYN, April 19. (JP) The Dodgers won out in a pitching duel today to beat the National league to escape from time to time, Bader had 25 planes to his credit when his plane was damaged over KNIFE CARRIER JAILED Convicted of being offensively Dr. Hoops do. The laughing, dark haired hero built up during his prison life an abiding- hatred of the Germans and a burning thirst for revenge for indignities heaped on him since he was captured in August, 1941, after his plane collided with another. armed with a carving knife when trying to break down the door to the Nazis Told To Discard All Rules of War LONDON, April 19.

(IP) Paul Joseph Goebbels tonight called on the German people to throw away all the rules of warfare and use every means to defend the fatherland. Hitler's propaganda minister said in his weekly newspaper Das Reich that "the rules of war of the past centuries have become out of date. "In the battle against the terrible enemy all means are proper, right and allowed," said his article, quoted by the Berlin radio. He warned the Germans that the "war has entered a phase In which only the utmost effort of the nation and everyone can save us." Lille. "I had to jettison one of my legs," he said, laughing as if it were a great joke on himself.

I felt like a bloody fool parachuting down with only one leg." S7: that Germany has a hard fate to Philadelphia baseball club, 3 to 1. The two teams collected only seven hits between them. Philadelphia 000 001 0001 2 0 Brooklyn 003 000 OOx 3 1 Sproull, Chetkovics and Mancuso; Gregg and Sukeforth. UNEARNED RUNS HELP CARDS WIN THEIR FIRST CHICAGO, April 19. (JP).

Aided bear after defeat, but it shouldn't room of a man with whom he had been arguing, Nicholas Ayonayon, 34, 58 Maemae lane, was sentenced today by District Judge Harry I be overdone. The peace must be such as to allow Germans to co The Germans found his leg and He was one of a thousand or so operate with the world. Sterner to 100 days in jaiL He liberated Monday from the great gray Colditz prison, where the I found Hoops' cut off from Turn to Page 4, Column 2 by five unearned runs in the fourth pleaded not guilty, claiming the knife was for protection. I Nazis sent Allied captives who inninrs and Larrv Brecheen'a it was fixed so that he couldn wear it None of the Nazis thought the legless flier would try to escape from the French hospital in which he was confined. But one night he tried, sliding down a rope seven hit mound effort the world champion St.

Louis Cardinals trimmed the Chicago Cubs, 8-2, for of tied bedsheets. He was caught. Yanks Told Link-Up With Soviet Near U. S. 7TH ARMY, April 19.

(V American troops on the western front were cautioned today that a linkup with Russians was imminent They were instructed to study in elaborate poster illustrated with silhouettes and photographs of Russian tanks. The poster explained some Russian tanks resembled those of the Germans and advised the soldiers to look twice before they shoot their first 1945 triumph before 5,497 For punishment "those goons" oaying fans at Wrigley Field today. for two weeks Wouldn't give him the new leg the RAF had dropped for him when his colleagues learned The Cards thumped four Cub hurl-ers for 12 hits. St Louis 000 530 0008 12 0 Chicago 010 001 0002 7 2 Marshall Quiet, But Has 'Lots of News' Brecheen and W. Cooper; Prim.

Stewart Camellas, Hennessey and Livingston. WASHINGTON, April 19. CJ.R) President Truman summoned Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, to the White House for a 15 minute conference today, and when he left Gen.

Marshall told reporters he had "lots and lots of news." But he added, with a grin, can't give it to you." of his loss. "It was a magnificent example of how the German mind works," he chuckled. "They wouldn't give me my legs. Two goons carried me while another carried my legs and an officer marched along In front" Four more times Bader tried to escape. He failed.

Annoyed, the Germans sent him to Colditz prison two years ago. shop where she ate her meals, acquaintances went to her house and found her lying on the kitchen floor, her leg mm The house was searched yesterday by police. They found the mahogany coffin mounted on two boxes in a back bedroom. There was no furniture in the room except a mahogany rocking chair. The upper portion of the body, in a good state of preservation, was visible through, a glass top in the coffin.

It was dressed in a gray burial dress, with high neck and long tight Authorities expressed belief the body was that of Mrs. Wood ward's mother, Mrs. James B. Woodward, who was said to have died in St. Louis March 13, 1912.

Police were told the daughter refused to allow her mother to be buried in the family burial plot at Waterbury, causing a family quarrel. A neighbor said Mrs. Woodward told her she had sent the body to Egypt to be preserved by a mummifier whom the daughter met on one of her trips abroad. mm According to this version, the body was sent back from Egypt and buried in Prospect Hill cemetery, near Boston. Twenty four years ago, Mrs.

Woodward moved to Washington and began to worry about her mother's dying wish that she and her only daughter never be separated. Mrs. Woodward then had the body exhumed, spent several thousand dollars for the mahogany casket and installed It in her house along with the rocker which belonged to her mother. Every afternoon she would sit in the rocker and commune with her mother's spirit Said the neighbor, Mrs. Hattie May Quinter, Mrs.

Woodward's attorney said her will directed that she and her mother be buried in the family plot in Vermont WASHINGTON, April 19. (S-A gruesome puzzle confronted authorities today with discovery in the house of a dead woman and a sealed coffin containing the body of another woman believed dead for 33 years. Officials working on the case haven't solved all the mystery yet, but so far they have put together these 'pieces of the eerie story. Mrs. Eva Woodward, 77, ftrominent here for many years the Daughters of the American Revolution, died in a hospital Sunday.

After she had lived alone for many years. After she failed to appear for several days at a tea- U. 5. Rejects Second Red Bid For Poles o. AMERICAN YANKS RALLY IN NINTH TO WIN 4-3 NEW YORK, April 19.

The Yankees matched ninth inning rallies today with the Boston American league team and came out on top 4 to 3. Boston 010 000 1013 1 New York. 000 002 0114 10 21 Dreisewerd, Ryba and Holm, Walters; Dubiel and Garbark. i Even there Bader had a try at WASHINGTON, April 19. (U.R The United States today rejected a second request by Russia that the provisional Polish government ef Warsaw be invited to the world security conference at San Francisco.

The state department reiterated its firm stand that Poland coald not be represented at the conference unless a new "government of national unity" was formed before the meeting begins next escaping. Friends tried to construct a glider to De launched irom the root But the Germans tumbled to it i.