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A.f MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1945 16 PAGES HVUUUVW L3WJ PRICE ON OAnu 7 AIRPLANE DELIVERY ON ISLANDS OTHER THAN OAIIU Hawaiian Star, Volume 11, No. 16413 Evening EuUetin, 1882, No. 12333 ma LONDON, April 23. W) Marshal Stalin announced tonight that the Russians had broken into Berlin from north and south and penetrated to within four miles of the center of the capital. The Luxembourg radio said Berlin had been completely encircled before nightfall.

(13 I LATH MEWS mmm LONDON, April 23. (IP) Marshal Stalin said tonight LONDON, April 23. (fl5) President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin issued a solemn warning tonight to all Germans that any person guilty of malterating any Allied prisoner of war, internee, or de-" ported citizen would "be ruthlessly pursued and brought to the Russians had reached the Elbe at Muelberg, northwest By WILLIAM II. EWING of Dresden, 23 miles east of the last reported positions of the U. S.

1st army. The "A IE Finance PARIS, April 23. UP) Lt. Gen No Overall Europe Command Expected (Note: The Star-Bulletin sent William II. Ewing, radio commentator and editorial writer, to San Francisco especially for the United Nations Conference.

He is sending; through daily dispatches analyzing the conference, supplementing toe 'spot news by Associated Press, United Press and other news agencies. He will also broadcast from San Francisco at his regular evening period via KGMB, 6:15 o'clock. This broadcasting is expected to start Tuesday.) George Patton's 3rd army, running wild on a 35 mile front in a south Elbe was reached, Marshal Stalin said, as the climax of a drive 50 to 100 miles from Ss Increased ward smash toward Adolf Hitler's Alpine redoubt, advanced to with the Neisse river, The Americans were last report Actually the whole business in a nutshell is this: The United States, Great Britain and other United Nations are ready to go to almost any lengths and willing to give almost any concession in order to produce a postwar organization which would have a fair chance of preventing another war. They know that the Russians also want to prevent another war. But how far are the Russians willing to go in compromise in order to reach a compromise acceptable to all? That is the question with the opening of the San Francisco security conference two days away.

in 13 miles of Regensburg today. Infantry reached the Naab river Senators ed at Elinburg, 10 miles northeast of Leipzig and 15 miles west of the Elbe in the area northwest of SAN FRANCISCO, April 23. With the opening of the United Nations gecurity conference two days away, there is a general agreement here that the fate of the conference probably wiE be decided in Washington, D. before those two days have expired. Perhaps the reasoning back of this conclusion is rooted in a number By JAMES LONG SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, PARIS, April 23.

(IP) It is unlikely that there will be a supreme commander of Allied forces when the Russians from the east and the Allies from the west link up in the middle of Germany, it was made clear here tonight General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower is expected to remain supreme commander in the west without a change in his job or his instructions to smash Nazism and destroy the German army and the German ability to wage war. In the east. Marshal Stalin and his commanders will work out their own goaL Details of the correlation ef command will be worked out as they arise. 13 miles north of Regensburg against only minor opposition, while other troops burst through the enemy's Danube river line to within Dresden.

tt tt The senate ways and means com mittee will report Tuesday the larg The marshal's second order of the day announced the capture of Cott- est appropriation bill in the territory's history, representing an increase of about one third in the total of the 1943-45 appropriation bus, 47 miles southeast of Berlin, and said the Russians had broken into Berlin from the south. It should be pointed out, however, ef interlocking aspects of the United Nations organization but perhaps most securely in these two: First, the atti- tude of the So- viet Union, and s' I second, the kind of understanding i which existed be- i I bilL In a third order Of the day Pre that the willingness of the Soviet Figures made public by Senator mier Stalin later announcea tne Senate Defeats Combat Training Plan key to the success or failure of the conference or perhaps it should be stated as the most important of several keys. The Russians are not given to compromise. They have never exhibited the horse trading faculties of the Americans. They submit their maximum offer the first time and they do not expect to budge from there.

tt tt tt 50 miles of Munich. In the north, the British opened the final onslaught against Bremen and the American 1st and 9th armies awaited a junction with the Russians, expected momentarily. The 1st army captured Dessau, 120,000, 52 miles southwest of beleaguered Berlin, along with 21,373 prisoners. The fall of Dessau left only 14 German cities under the Nazi flag. Gen.

Patton imposed a security government to compromise, while probably the important key to the Francis K. Sylva, chairman, the capture of Opava (Troppau), Nazi fortress city guarding the Moravian success of the conference, it is not budget bill, as approved in committee, will total $46,754,473. gate to central Czechoslovakia. the only key. The capture was made by troops Another and vital one is the will WASHINGTON, April 23.

The senate voted down today. 66 to 9, a proposal to require ,12 months of training before combat duty for all draftees under age 20. The action came after Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, had advised the senate that the army will adopt a policy of sending over seas no soldiers under 19 as soon as military conditions permit.

of Marshal Yeremenko. ingness of President Truman to fore his death be- tween President Roosevelt, Prime "'w Minister Church-" ill and Premier tt tt The senate figure is an increase of $4,560323 as compared with the total approved by the house, which is $42,193,950. The budget for the 1943-45 bien- meet the Russians or even the British more than halfway. Marshal Stalin in an order of the This was notably demonstrated in the dealings which President Roosevelt and Prime Minister day predicting the entry of Rus The predilection of President blackout soon after his 3rd army itooseveit lor compromise is no sian troops into Berlin proper, announced the fall today of Pankow, nium totaled $35,412,025. Pyle Leaves Bulk of Estate To Widow secret.

Oranienburg, Coepenik and Fried Churchill had with the Soviet lead ers. Except for the results of the Yal Stalin, an under- standing which, I while never re- duced to writing Mr. Ewing captured two bridges intact across the Naad river, a tributary of the Danube, northwest of Regensburg. Blackouts in the past have cloaked breakthroughs of transcent richsfelde, suburban strongholds on Highlights of the senate action, are: The senate, similar to house action, approved a teaching staff for the department of public instruc Mr. Roosevelt, one of the most farseeing of all Americans, was looking at the end of the road while mose people were peering at the the northwest north, east and and perhaps never to even an exact immediate stretches.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. April 23. (J) Ernie Pyle, columnist and war correspondent killed on Ie Jima last week, leaves the bulk of his estate in trust for his widow under terms of his will filed for probate in district court today. Under terms of the instrument drawn December 19, 1941, Mrs. Pyle receives the family home here and $100 weekly during her life from the trust fund.

No estimate was made as to the value of the estate. Mr. Pyle to bequests to his father and ether relatives and friends. stiffened late in the ta conference it is not of the record that Mr. Stalin had receded from any important point as a result of bargaining.

And as for Yalta, the most publicized of all the compromises arrived at there Mr, Stalin's tion to assure a pupil-teacher ratio southeast of the capital. Marshal Stalin announced the fall of Frankfurt on Oder, German bastion previously bypassed by the Red army in its drive on He was willing to compromise on of 30 to 1. day, however, as 3rd army troops started encountering knots of fana The senate approved a full, list of an immediate and lesser problem in order to hasten progress toward the distant future which so few tical bS troops, possibly garrison adviser councillors for child guid acquiescence to a more represent ance (disallowed by the house). In an order of the day addressed oral status, nevertheless was in being. In other words the three men understood one another quite well and each eould know fairly well before putting any proposition what the reception would be.

The first of these two factors Is the attitude of the Moscow government. It is undeniably the lorces of the redoubt. Gen, Patton's new offensive car ried within 123 miles of Berchtes ative Polish government has been largely frustrated- by first, his insistence on Polish representation at to Marshal Gregory Zhukov, com The senate approved 26 supervisors in line with school depart mander of the 1st White Russian others were able ta see, a tt President Truman, on the basis of his and his own frank statement in this regard, is one of those who see the irame- ment recommendations and recom army. Marshal Stalin said the Rus me conference since denied, and second, by the alliance between gaden and within 25 miles of the Danube iCity of Regensburg. His troops severed many of the routes mendations of the Hayden-Draper sians had advanced from 37 to 62 Moscow and Warsaw as announced Reds Using New Type Artillery LONDON, April "23..

(U.R) Russian armies pounding on Berlin are using a new type of heavy artillery shell of up to one ton in weight, the Daily Herald said today in a dispatch from Moscow. The dispatch said the guns are fired from monster guns and siege pieces maunted on caterpillar tracks, and reported that artillery units specially trained for the Berlin attack, are in action for the first time. miles from their jump off points. on the eve of the conference. between the redoubt and the Pilsen-Prague munitions area, Hitler's last Tern to Page 4.

Column 2 survey at a total cost of (Disallowed by house.) The senate has approved a lump known arsenal of size. LONDON, i- April 23. (U.R) Red army tanks today were reported Americans Lose sum appropriation of $247,610 for 16 kindergartens in addition to the 12 VMM The 3rd army operated on the left of Lt, Gen. Alexander M. Patch's 7th army, which closed up to the Danube to within 50 miles of blasting their way along the Unter Den Linden in the heart of ruined Berlin, hurling back an army of fanatic defenders under Hitler's Okinawa Town II vie 'Joizohkfis Munich and 110 of the Brenner pass personal command.

The French on the right curled maintained at present. The senate is giving blanket authorization to the school department to set up the kindergartens they are most needed," The house placed the kindergartens in specific Radio Luxembourg, known as the mat voice of supreme headquarters, said GUAM, April 23. OS5) Japanese troops, infiltrating heavily under around Lake Constance, western edge of the redoubt, and closed up to the Swiss border behind a 1,000 that the Americans and Russians cover of darkness, this morning re- south of Berlin had joined at Tor- square mile death trap sprung in The senate has approved the full iffl gau on the Elbe, 60 miles below the captured Kakazu town on western Okinawa. It had been taken by the United States 27th division in the $2,235,057 requested by the Univer capital. sity of Hawaii.

(The house allowed Headquarters dispatches from the Black forest. Stuttgart and Freiburg, two of Ilitler's last major cities, fell to Gen. Jacob L. Devers' 6th army a university budget of $1,938,292.) invasion campaign which has cost both Paris and Moscow hinted that Mitlcr Reported In Harz Area Hiding In Cave By WILLIAM H. EWING SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.

(By Wireless-The Netherlands stepped forward as, a vocal and forthright representative of the smaller nations at the world security confer the enemy 11,738 troops since April the report was true. Paris said a The senate has eliminated the appropriation for the high sheriff, l. group. The 7th army was flooding across the Danube on an intact bridge. which was $7,826.

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, This action was taken after the reporting progress up to 5 p. m. yes The new 3rd army offensive was ByLYN CROST Star-Bulletin War Correspondent who is reporting to this newspaper from the battlefront in Europe. PARIS, April 23.

The war has created a completely Cinderella existence for two Honolulans here. President Truman has to run the United States, and congress has lots of trouble concocting the laws for-one country; but Fred Simpich and Marshall Goodsill help run all countries which the Allies have terday, the fifth day of the allout senate requested a high sheriff's report, but was informed by the at estimated to have netted 33,000 pris American push, said no substan- torney general the office "is not tial changes had been made in the lines" despite continued attacks required by law to make such re ence today with a frank statement by Dr. Eelco van Kleffens, minister of foreign affairs. Dr. van Kleffens not only took issue with some of the basic principles of the Yalta port." The senate restored the appro occupiea in turope ana help write their constitutions.

priation of $48,959 for the Hawaii equal rights commission eliminated conference but with thunderous naval, air and artillery support. Admiral Nimitz reported also the marine invasion of two small islets of Okinawa, another heavy Japanese air raid against American ground positions and shipping at Okinawa in which "one light unit" of the fleet was sunk, an effective Iwo Jima based Mustang sweep of the enemy's by the house. Pvt. Richard Howard brought forward some positive ird I Vs' ig- ing to sug Is Wounded In Action gestions including formal announcement probably would be delayed until the forces met in strength. tt The German radio said that Hitler was in the "main fighting line" inside embattled Berlin and had thrown "all the military power available to Germany," into the defense of the capital.

The broadcast said that if Berlin and Prague are lost, "all of Europe is lost." The Swiss radio and uncensored Swedish dispatches reported a 10 mile Russian breakthrough to the Unter Den Linden and said that Red tanks were rolling along the broad tree lined avenue with guns blazing. White flags were reported flying in the center of the city. "A fierce battle is raging, but the battle of Berlin practically is over," Swiss reports said. Luxembourg radio said that the Tempelhof airdrome had been captured. The Russians were officially reported to have captured one fourth of Berlin and placed spearheads within four miles of Unter Den Linden yesterday.

cession of Ger man Private First Class Richard A. They even worry about such things as whether the neutrality of Leichtenstein, an area 65 square miles, can be preserved. tt tt The Honolulans are the Americans in the planning and coordination branch of the Allied military government. And so they and two Englishmen, for all practical purposes, are the new fuehrers of Europe. tt tt it They tackle economic, political legal and other problems of admin- stored to civil authorities at the earliest practical moment Another aftermath of his Hawaiian experience is the trial by civil courts of civil crimes, and the equalization of punishment so that crimes receive standard punishment throughout the court system.

As a result of CoL Simpich's experience as price administrator during martial law in Hawaii, price control in Europe has been given to civilian authorities of each conquered area to carry out. Col. Simpich landed on the con- Holland and the Dr. van Kleffens oners in the first 24 hours. It extended the southern offensive all the way from the Swiss to Czechoslovak frontiers.

The Germans apparently had not expected the outer ramparts of their last fortress to be charged so soon. They were reeling back, offering slight opposition. In the north the American 8th army captured Dannienburg, 45 miles southeast of besieged Hamburg, and won control of all the west bank of the Elbe river from opposite Dannienberg to a point south of Barby, where a bridgehead extended six miles across the river. The British held another 50 miles stretch of the Elbe and captured a blockade within 20 miles of a junction with the 9th army. On Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's extreme left flank, British and other troops of the Canadian 1st army established two bridgeheads over the Maas river due south of Utrecht and west of Hertogenbosch. Howard. USA. son of Mr.

and Mrs. reciprocal use of naval bases in the John A. Howard of 238 Kaiulani Pacific area. With regard to the latter lie pro' posed that the Dutch navy should be able to use Pearl Harbor, for example, ana that such bases as Soerabay a should be open to the mainland island of Honshu and a carrier plane attack on the northern Ryukyus. Okinawa casualties did not include enemy losses on the nine Kerama islands and Ie Shima offshore, captured by the 77th division, or any of the Japanese slain by the 1st and 6th marine divisions which overran northern Okinawa.

On Ie alone, 736 Japanese were killed in the first three days of the five day campaign which ended Friday. istration with vig. was wounded in action in Germany on March 26, his parents were notified today. Private Howard has been with the combat engineers overseas for two years. In Honolulu he attended Roosevelt high school and was graduated from Maui high school in 1939.

Prior to entering the service, Private Howard attended San Jose state college. "1 United States and other nations' LONDON, April 23. (Stockholm dispatches quoting1 the German controlled Swedish telegraph bureau, said Sunday that Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, had fled from Berlin to Mecklenburg after promising the city's panic stricken residents that he would stay in the burning capital. WITH THE 9th ARMY IN GERMANY, April 23. (U.R) American officers today said they had received unverified reports that Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler, Germany's three top Nazis, were hiding in caves in the Harz forest area already occupied by the Americans.

The Sports were credited to German civilians, but appeared unreliable since resistance- in the Harz forest was declared over on Sunday. April 8, and the 8th armored division has been policing up what is believed to be a couple of thousand German stragglers without major opposition. LONDON, April 23. tf)-Adof Hitler is in Berlin and has decided to remain there, the Hamburg radio said today in a broadcast directed at Berlin residents in an attempt to convince them the invaded capital would not fall. Both the tone and wording of the announcement made it clear that rumors were sweeping the reich that the fuehrer was in flight.

Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is also in the capital, the broadcast said. It conceded that the fall of Berlin would virtually mean the end of the war. or enough to satisfy any congress i tinent on Day plus four and fleets. 0 0 0 It should be pointed out that these suggestions were made informally at a press conference.

Nevertheless the fact that Dr. van Kleffens is both foreign minister of his government and chairman of the Dutch delegation, gives his views almost a formal standing. 0 0 tt I man. I They spend! their days andf -nights deciding such things as: i What shall be done with the German gold I hoard recently captured in a salt 1 mine? How can Nazi EMB EMM ma rat One subject which puzzled some of the 50 or more correspondents mmr mmm who interviewed Dr. van Kleffens, wts the Dutch view on trusteeships or international mandates over ter ritory wrested from the enemy.

Dr. van Kleffens introduced the subject himself with the comment that he didn't think the inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies would like to see themselves placed under helped to reestablish the govern-ment at Cherbourg and has hopped between London and Paris more than 20 times. This is his description cf the fantastic job which he and Lt Goodsill have: "It's more than my most incredible experience. It is the job which really runs Europe. We have to worry about all the details of administration.

But unlike President Truman, the one thing we don't have to worry about is the San Francisco conference. It is completely a Cinderella existence." it tt With most of the top problems in the conquered areas now near-ing a solution, the Honolulans are beginning to get swamped with detailed questions, and recently they received a frantic query from the local military governor. An army group directive had specified that capital punishment be administered in a manner customary in an occupied country. In Germany this means hanging. The local military governor was in dire straits.

He ha no rope. He wanted to know if he could have the man shot instead. Most of their experiences can net yet be told lest they create international incidents and political headaches. Their main worry is that when they get back to Hawaii and can tell these stories, the boys at the Pacific club won't believe them. international control.

Thereupon Dr. van Kleffens was asked immediately whether he an Late Sports stamps be printed Miss Crost over so that swastikas won't show? How much shall food rations be? These are minor questions. tt tt When Allied forces are about to invade a new country, top officials order a new constitution and proclamations are written, whereupon the Honolulans dig in with a zeal which would leave the writers of the United States constitution gasping for breath. tt tt I spent the afternoon with Mr. Simpich, who was formerly assistant to the presi-" cent of Castle Cooke, and who 1 is now a lieuten- ant colonel on iGeneralof the Army Dwight D.

jE i w- ticipated any effort to place the Indies, once regained from Japan, under a United Nations trusteeship instead of returning them to The ardent Nazi who denounced his wife as not being enthusiastic enough over the Hitler regime. She and her children lived in a villa in a separate section of the camp, Mr. Ozanne added. She was reported wounded in the shoulder by a bomb splinter in an Allied air raid on the area August 26, 1944. tt a tt Mr.

Ozanne said the princess was carried to the brothel which was in the camp for use of German civil prisoners there. The women of the bordello, who were mainly Russians and Poles, nursed her. She died about three days after being wounded. tt tt Mr, Ozanne said the prisoners were so ill nourished they died like flies. He said it was not uncommon to wake up and find the prisoner next to you dead, or to see prisoners drop dead while standing for roll call or working in factories at Buchenwald and Weimer.

"Death lost its significance." Mr. Ozanne said. "They simply took the clothes off and threw the corpse in the crematorium or ditch. Dying men were often thrown in with the cadavers." foundly shaken by the horrors they had seen at the Germans' infamous Buchenwald prison camp, 10 members of a parliamentary group began today to prepare a report for submission to the house of commons. Returning last night from the hell camp, they disclosed several of them had wept, and one had fainted at the scene of brutality.

it tt One brought back for exhibition to commons as evidence a long strip of human skin bearing a tattooed prison number and which he said had been cut from the back of a living Buchenwald prisoner by his SS jailer. PARIS, April 23. Christian Ozanne, former Haven News Agency correspond At, said today Princess Ma Aid of Hesse, wounded by a bomb splinter eight months ago at the Buchenwald concentration camp, died in a section of the camp which was used as a brothel, and under care of its inmates. The French journalist said the princess, daughter of King Vit-torio Emanuele of Italy, had been interned at request of her husband, Prince Philip of Hesse, an out everything that had been said or written about Nazi brutality. Other members of the group were Henry M.

Jackson N. Earl Wilson Albert Rains Eugene Worley Marion T. Bennet and Francis E. Walter Behind one building the congressmen saw a great heap of wasted human bodies, which the. Nazis had left piled up one atop the other like so many logs.

Nearby was a truck piled high with 60 more bodies, each bearing a tattooed prison number, tt tt it In the adjacent courtroom was a pile of ashes and bits of bone, remains of the dead who had been burned in the 12 furnace crematory, where blackened skulls still could be seen. Below the furnaces the congressmen were shown a room from which the prisoners said none of their number ever had emerged alive. tt tt Alonff the walls were hooks like those in a butcher shop, and survivors said human bodies, some that were still alive, were bung up until the furnaces were ready. By EDWARD J. DEXXEHY LONDON, April 23.

(J) Pro WASHINGTON, April 23. Establishment of a war atrocities commission to catalog Nazi mistreatment of prisoners was demanded in congress today. Three representatives introduced resolutions in the house proposing creation of such an agency. By DON WHITEHEAD BUCHENWALD, Germany, April 23. (JP) Eight American congressmen agreed today after inspecting the horrors of Buchenwald prison camp that the evidence of Nazi atrocities committed there exceed the wildest flights of imagination.

tt tt tt "This is the most horrible thing that anyone could conceive, said Rep. Rep. Carter Manasco (D.Ala.) after he and his companions had been shown around the camp, where emaciated bodies of Nazi victims are still stacked like corkwood, where men were hung on spikes like pieces of beef until they died and where bodies by the hundreds were burned in furnaces. a tt a "This is barbarism at its worst," said Rep. Gordon Canfield He asserted the evidence bore Netherlands.

tt tt Dr. van Kleffens insisted he had no such anticipation and in answer to a question said the subject had never been broached to him by a member of the United Nations government. However he left some of the correspondents won-" dering whether there might be in prospect an effort to apply international control to some of the territory thus regrained. PEEP BASEBALL GAME POSTPONED The scheduled baseball game between Farrington and Mid-Pacific institute for this afternoon at Honolulu stadium has been postponed by Interscholastic league officials because of wet grounds; It will be held later in the sea-ion. The next scheduled contest is between Punahou and St.

Louis college Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 in the stadium. Saturday afternoon Farrington and Kaimuki meet in the opener of a twinbiH. McKinlely and Mid-Pacific clash in the nightcap. ers staff. Mr.

Goodsill is a navy lieutenant. for merly i th the firm of Anderson, Wrenn Jenks. Dr. van Kleffens said the Dutch had no, opinion either way on whether the United States should keep such islands as the Marianas Col. Simpich mm JI DY GARLAND TO WED HOLLYWOOD.

April 23. UB-Sinsinsr sisr Judy Gariand f-rtar disclosed she would marry Filn-Director Vincente Mineiii probeblj in Jurse in New York after her di vorce from Compos-er Dave becomes final Lt Col. Simpich told me Hawaii's experiences with martial law served him as a guinea pig for military government in Europe. The primary lesson he learned from his island experience was that as many functions as possible should be re- and Carolines, taken from Japan. All the Dutch want, he said, is that such islands shall not be returned to Japan any more.

Dr. van Kleffens indicated strong-Turn to Page 4, Column 5 No National or American league fcaseball games are scheduled.