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The Weather RAIN; COOLER Sunrise, 5:29 Sunset, 7:55 -i LAST EDITION Copyright, 19U5, by The Indianapolis News Publishing Company Vni I YYVI NUMBER, 138 TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1945 30 PAGES FIVE CENTS uuu NEWS mm o) o) an They Hit the Road to Singapore Hun Butchery Detailed in Congress by Men Who Visited German Camps Russ Hold Key to Two Critical UNCIO Issues Moscow Word Awaited or that it is based on circumstantial evidence which we have con President and Churchill Hope for Peace Talk Truman Says Meeting Will Not Be Before End of Frisco Conference By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 15 President Truman aod Prime Minister Churchill today expressed hope that a Big Three meeting can be arranged soon. It would be Mr. Truman's first get-together with Mr. Churchill and Marshal Stalin since he sue tL, A yJfu were an "accurate cross-section" of the more than 100 such concentration and slave labor camps in Germany. Camps were largely conducted and controlled by SS troops and the Gestapo, either acting under orders from superiors or "given wide discretion in the methods they were to adopt in perpetrating these hideous and inhuman sufferings." He reassured the senate at the outset that American prisoners of war were not incarcerated in any of the concentration camps.

"No prisoners of war are confined in any of these political prisoner camps," he said, "and there is no relationship whatever between a concentration camp for political prisoners and jl camp for prisoners of war." "Those reading the report may be assured that everything therein described was either actually seen by us or reported to us by competent and reliable eyewitnesses, They Looked Perplexed in Zanzibar Wmmm 1 Bodies of Goehbels, Wife and Family Found by Russ Morocco's Road They Gayly Roamed sidered to be as trustworthy as direct evidence itself," he said. Bodily tortures were not described because "eyewitnesses to the proceedings in the torture chambers seem always to have been done away with." He said the committee-" saw with its own eyes: 1. barracks, the vork places, the physical facilities for torture, degradation and execution." 2. "The victims, both dead and alive," of the atrocities practiced at these camps." 3. "The progress of liquidation by starvation which was still going on." 4.

"We saw the indescribable filth and smelled the nauseating stench before it was cleaned up, and we saw a number of victims Continued on Page 8, Col. 3 where they had committed suicide, before a microphone. The story said the underground city, twenty meters below Berlin's surface and safe from the reach of Allied bombs, contained factories, offices and arsenals linked by electric railroads. Two persons w-ho may be the wife and daughter of Heinrich Himmler were captured Monday in the Italian Tyrol. They were found not far from the Brenner pass by the 88th infantry division, according to an Associated Press dispatch.

Luxury "Underground Goebbels, Hermann Goering and other prominent Nazis had, luxurious apartments in the subter ranean Berlin. Entrances and exits to the rooms matched any fortress. The huge walls were made from special reinforced concrete armor plate. Berlin resi dents said Goebbels and Goering had built their shelters there many years before the war. The underground city stretched beneath all the streets, boulevards and alleys converging on the Wil-helm strasse.

In a house at No. 63 Charlotten strasse, a Soviet correspondent rummaging in the debris found a narrow passageway below the surface of the ruins. It led to an enormous underground structure with massive doors and electric installations. The luxurious furniture, clothes and linen littering the floors of the rooms indicated an influential family had lived there. In other subterranean dwellings the correspondent found large families huddled in corners beneath dim kerosene lamps.

They had lived there like moles since 1942. From one such dwelling a narrow corridor led to a steel door, and behind that was a hand grenade factory, where women and children worked, the dispatch said. Hitler Body May Be There Another miniature city lay under the ruins of the main Gestapo building. Innocent-looking sewer covers concealed the entrance to an elaborate transportation system connecting more munitions factories and residential quarters. Steel columns supported a concrete ceiling in a huge depot filled with shells, incendiary explosives, and smoke bombs all neatly stacked and properly labeled.

Other shelves were filled with cases containing machine gun bullets, pistols, and tommy guns. The miniature electric railroad serving these arsenals was found intact. Conveyor belts carried the ammunition close to the surface where the heavy guns were em-placed. The largest number of subterranean passages was found beneath the Wilhelm strasse and Unter den Linden. Many secret places there Continued on Page 8, Col.

5 on Regional Pacts and Trusteeship Question By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 United Nations officials looked to Moscow today for word that may hasten final agreement among the Big Five powers on two of the most critical issues thus far met in charting a world security organization. Russia, it developed, holds the key to settlement of both thp in ternational trusteeship and the regional aeiense system questions. Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, who succeeded Foreign Commissar V. M.

Molotov as chief Russian delegate to the United Nations conference, has referred proposals on both of these to the Kremlin. Officials hope that replies on both of these will be received in a day or so. They figure that the speed with which Mos row arti will show whether Mr. Gromyko can get tne same sort of quick action that Mr. Molotov was able to obtain before he returned home.

The United States and Britain have ironed out virtually all their differences on both issues and France and China were reported in substantial agreement with them. A Russian proposal for dealing the Big Five in as a group on future United Nations handling of former enemy lands under international trusteeships has met American opposition, however. On regional defense pacts, such as the inter-American system, Russia's final attitude is not known, pending word from Moscow. France's Position Improved France's position as one of the Big Five moved nearer formal recognition when a conference committee on the structure of the security council voted that France should be a permanent member of that powerful world organization agency. The Dumbarton Oaks plan for world security drawn up at Washington last fall provided that Continued on Page 8, Col.

6 Strikers Again Refuse to Work City Studies Two Ways to Resume Collections Approximately half the city's garbage and ash collection employes reported today at the Sand ers street barns, storage place for collection equipment, but left! without a back-to-work agreement and their strike went into its thir-: teenth day. i This was a repetition of Mon-' day's situation, when approximately the same number reported, many of them apparently willing to work, only to be dissuaded by union leaders and fellow-employes fighting to gain city recognition of Local 848, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes. Mayor Robert H. Tyndall not only has refused to recognize the union, on the ground that he is prohibited by law from such recognition, but has refused to mscuss the matter with officials of i the union. He reiterated today his! invitation to the workers to' discuss the matter as city but not as union representatives.

Meanwhile, W. H. Frazier, su-j penntendent of the city sanitation! plant, repeated his prediction of; the last several days that the i Continued on Page 8, Col. 7 Report From the Pacific They're Sneaking Up iruman upposes Tax Reductions for Duration Lowering of Levies Called Impossible as Debts Must Be Met -WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP) President Truman declared today that he is opposed to any reduction in taxes until after Japan has been defeated. The President told his news conference there can be no reduction no possible reduction until after the whole war is over.

He said 85,000,000 bond holders had to be protected and that the only protection lay in continued high taxation. The President was asked if he had seen a statement by Chairman Trailer ueorge uaj, or tne senate finance committee suggesting a plan for the gradual reduction of taxes. He replied that there can be no reduction in taxes while the war is on. duce taxes until the war with Japan has been ended, he added, and as long as the nation is obligated to levy taxes to meet its debts. Truman Reverses OWI News Policy Toward Germany By the Associated Press WASHING? May -15 President Iruman said today that he and Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower firt) in 4V.nl "Bni.iin.uv iiiai a lice picSS should prevail in Germany "in manner consistent with security." This le rit'Drol lUr. buv V1MLJ. ecutive told his news conference, of the position taken last week by ijiiuri uavia, cmei oi ine oilice Oi war information, who contended information reaching the Germans should be strictly controlled. Mr, Davis acted in good faith, the President said, but had misunderstood the policy agreed on.

In a statement last Thursday the OWI chief said Allied newspapers and magazines would be barred from circulation in Germany for an indefinite period, asserting: "The reason is very simple Germany is a sick man. He now can have only what the doctors prescribe." loaay, rrestacnt iruman read a statement asserting "Gen. Eisenhower has advised me that he has issued no policy or order dealing with the importation of publications into Germany," and adding "the general has expressed the personal opinion that a free press and a free flow of information and ideas should prevail in Germany in a manner consistent with military security." At the same lime, he added, we are not going to lose the peace by giving license to racialists, to pan-Germans, Nazis and militarists so that they can misuse democratic rights in order to attack democracy as Hitler did." When the time is right, he said, Germany will be given a full free press. Capehart and Other Senators Reach London LONDON, May 15 (AP) A sen-ante interstate commerce subcommittee headed by Chairman Burton K. Wheeler Mont.) reached London today after a transatlantic flight to investigate the Army's vast communications network here and on the continent.

The other senate members included Homer E. Capehart (R Ind.) The group may go to Italy tii a iw mute aiiu vrtri many Amphibious Commander Named for Promotion WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP) President Truman today nominated Vice-Admiral Richmond K. Turner to be a full admiral. Admiral Turner was born in Portland, and now makes his permanent home at Carmel-by-the-Sea Cal. Since August, 1943, he has been commander of an amphibious force of the Pacific fleet.

THE WEATHER IndianapolisRain tonight, cloudy Wednesday; cooler tonight. Indiana Cloudy with rain nd occasional thunderstorms aouth and central portions to-niarht and along the Ohio river early Wednesday, becoming partly cloudy Wednesday afternoon; cooler south and central portions tonight and extreme south portion Wednesday; warmer north Wednesday afternoon. Additional weather details Page 1. Part 2. L-ceeded President Roosevelt in the vvhite House.

The President told his news conference he discussed such a meeting with British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden Monday but said no definite decision was made. At almost the same time Mr. Churchill told a meeting of commons in London that he "devoutly hoped" that a Big Three session could be arranged soon. In expressing hope for a Big Three meeting, at which a peace program could be discussed, Mr. Truman said it would not be immediate nor in the far distance future.

It will not be before the close of the San Francisco conference, he said. When a reporter asked whether Gen. Charles De Gaulle of France would attend if the conference could be arranged, the President said the Big Three will have the meeting. The jeply apparently limited the prospective get-together to the heads of the British, American and Soviet governments. Mr.

Churchill, asked in commons whether a conference was contemplated in "the near future." He-said: "I devoutly hope so. It would, oe very odd if such a long, fierce war ended without any settlement even, among the victors." Mr. Churchill made no reply when one member suggested London as the site for the next-tri-power meeting. In reply to another query, he refused to commit himself on the question of whether Hitler is dead. When one member inquired whether Hitler's death had been established "beyond all shadow of doubt," Mr.

Churchill replied that he knew no more "than any other member who reads the newspaper." He also disclosed that King George VI early during the war had practiced daily with a rifle and tommygun in the Buckingham palace garden, and expressed belief theTCing would have joined the men on the firing line if the war eer had brought a last-ditch stand in-London. The prime minister said Britain would not hold formal victory parades and celebrations until Japan is defeated. Hitler Died in Berlin, Asserts Aid By JACK FLEISCHER United Presi Staff Correspondent OBERSALZBERG, Germany, 15 Gerhardt Herrgeselle, who was a stenographer at Adolf Hitler's headquarters in Berlin sairl tnHnv That tVio TTimViro decided April 22 to meet his end fighting the Russians from an underground fortress behind the reichschancellery. Herrgeselle said that Hitler, his sweetheart, Eva Braun; Martin Bormann, deputy leader of the Nazi party; Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Col. Gen.

Gustav Jodl, who signed the German surrender at Reims, were living at that time' in the underground fortress. "Around 10:30 o'clock on the morning of April 21," Herrgeselle said, "the Russian artillery fire Decame neavier and obviously they were seeking, to concentrate their fire on the government district. "From noon on there were conferences almost without interruption. Paul Joseph Goebbels, as commander of the Berlin defense. By ALLEN DRURY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 15 -Con gress heard at first-hand today ai part of the terrible story of Ger-I man methods of rule by extermination.

A twelve-man committee of both houses, fresh from a tour of German concentration and slave labor camps, verified many of the worst atrocity stories. They told a tragic tale of filth, disease, starvation and murder. Declaring the concentration camp practices to be "no less than organized crime against civilization," they demanded "swift, certain and adequate punishment" for those responsible. The committee, invited by Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower to see the results of German treatment of political prisoners and slave laborers, visited camps at Buchen-wald, Nordhausen and Dachau. Members were Senators Alben Barkley (D. Walter F. George Elbert D. Thomas Utah, C.

Wayland Brooks Kenneth S. Wherry Neb.) and Leverett Saltonstall and Representatives R. Ewing Thomason (D James P. Richards S. C), Ed V.

Izac John M. Vorys James W. Mott Ore.) and Dewey Short Senator Barkley, who read his report to the senate, charged that the camps constituted a "calculated and diabolical program of planned torture and extermination oh the part of those who were in control of the German government." He said the three camps visited Allison Motors Add B-29 Power Tests at Wright Field Show Better Performance Installation of Indianapolis-made Allison 3420 li engines on an experimental basis in the nation's Superfortress, the long-range B-29 which now is attacking Tokyo, was announced today by the air technical service command, Wright field, Day-tion, Ohio. The plane in which the engines have been installed is the "Spirit of Lincoln," the first Superfortress to roll off the production lines of the Boeing Wichita plant, now devoted exclusively to B-29 production. Although this plane now has been designated the XB-39, essentially it is the same as the standard B-29, with the exception of the engine mount modification.

While Army officials would not release details, it was understood the Allison engines improved the performance of the airplane. Some of the improvements would be inevitable, since each one of the Allison engines develops power as against the power rating of the engines that are standard B-29 equipment. Thus, the total engine horse' power of the experimental plane is 10,400 as against the standard 8,800. Installation of the Allison engines was carried out at the Cleveland plant of the Fisher body division of General Motors Corporation. Engineers on the job had vast knowledge of such work, gained by Allison installations in the B-19.

The purpose of the experiments was to obtain additional flight data and experience in the use of inline, liquid-cooled engines in heavy bombardment aircraft. Flight tests were under the direction of Don Berlin, director of engine installation for the Allison division, and Col. Donald L. Putt, formerly of the bombardment branch engineering division of the air technical service command, now on overseas assignment. What has been accomplished here is another tribute to American ingenuity and the will to do what it takes to win a war sweat and work.

Less than four months ago the site of this base was a mass of impenetrable jungle. These hard-working chaps of the air forces moved in with bulldozers and leveled off sites for an air strip and camp. The air strip was opened early in February end five days later the first combat crews were winging their way over the Pacific while the men lived in tents pitched in the ntud. Although there has been a great deal of building since then, living conditions" still are pretty rugged in this camp. I found an Indianapolis man, 1st Lt.

Joseph M. Continued on Page 4, Col. 3 LONDON, May 15 (AP) The war crimes commission today announced Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering's name was placed on the first list of war criminals in November, 1944. The statement by the United Nations commission said simply: "With reference to recent discussions in the press, the United Nations war crimes commission desires to state that Hermann Goering's name wras placed in November, 1944, on the first list of' persons charged with war crimes which was adopted by the commission." By the United Press MOSCOW, May 15 The body of Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels has been found in a vast underground city beneath Berlin, the Red army newspaper Red Star reported today. A Berlin dispatch said that Goebbels's body and those of his wife and children were found Okinawa Airfield Taken by Yanks Philippines Troops Gain Access to Jap Redoubt By the Associated Press American ground forces broke through Balete pass, most stub bornly defended Japanese front in the Philippines, at.

the price of sobering losses and prepared today for crucial drives on Okinawa island after seizing Yonabaru airfield. The air war against the mikado's home islands appeared to take a momentary lull after Monday's successful 500-plane Superfortress rain on industrial Nagoya and a two-day carrier attack on southern airfields involving 1,500 sorties, but movements of air force generals clearly indicated greater aerial assaults were in the making. Contrasting with slight local gains reported on every other bat-tlefiont, the United States 9th division rolled back the Japanese eastern flank on Okinawa for 2,400 yards and the 25th and 37th divisions captured treacherous Balete pass in the northern Philippines to climax a month-long battle. The pass, a seventy-five-foot defile whose walls were laced with Japanese caves, is the key to Cagayan valley, breadbasket of still strong enemy forces on northern Luzon island. The 25th and Continued on Page 8, Col.

7 'St'' tot on Speedway's Par 'nrfiUf'Tiiiiifi- Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, presi dent of the Speedway, telephoned his offer of the golf course. His brother Al said he'd have the Speedway links clear by 1 p. Somebody will swing at the first ball at 2:30 p. m.

Tickets for the match will be $2 (tax included! and will go on sale the latter part of the week on the first floor of The News building. The News decided to bring Crosby and Hope to Indianapolis to assist the Indiana P. G. A. in accumulating funds for golf work being planned now at Wakeman General and Convalescent Hospital, which has approximately 600 wounded men now eager to readjust themselves to civilian life.

Golf is one of the few sports in Continued on Page 8, Col. 5 Action, 3 Liberated Cpl. Mark E. Stark, 22. husband of Mrs.

Mary Stark, 2431 North Delaware. I First Lt, Donald L. 21, husband of Mrs. Mary E. Williamson, 24 North Euclid, and son of Mrs.

C. R. Burres, 430 South Arlington. WOUNDED S-Sgt. Ronald H.

Henry, 24, husband of Mrs. Betty L. Henry. 4168 Vandalia, and son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Henry, 1134 East Ohio. Sgt. Kenneth A. Rietel, 22, husband of Mrs. Lois F.

Rietel, 1140 South West, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rietel, 1137 South i-Senate. Continued on Page 14, Col. 2 Bing Crosby, Bob Hope to Play Golf at Speedway May 30 F.

FOX, Jr. The Indianapolis News is bringing the greatest road show that ever staged a hit parade in golf is coming to Indianapolis May 30 Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. As usual, they are donating their services. Ordinarily, May 30 is the day when the world the sport world, at least is accustomed to thinking of the Indianapolis Speedway's 500-mile race. So Bing and Bob are making it "The 500 Smile Race" at the Speedway golf course with an eighteen-hole exhibition.

The Indianapolis News is bringing this pair of box office blockbusters here for the exhibition, and the entire proceeds will go to the Indiana section, Professional Golfers Association fund for the rehabilitation of convalescent service men. 4 Killed in Wounded, 3 Among the Indiana men killed in action in various theaters, the names of two Indianapolis an infantryman and a Marine were disclosed today. Three other Army men have been wounded in the European theater," and three have been liberated from German camps, the lists reveal. The casualties are: DEAD S-Sgt. A.

Earl Christensen. 24. husband of Mrs. Belva M. Christensen, 2030 East Twelfth street and son of Mrs.

Nettie Christensen, New Albany. Mai. William D. Gaus. 28.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gaus, 5670 Washington boulevard i Big Bomber Bases Are Built in Record-Breaking Time rusnea in ana out of headquarters 500,000 More Tires Go to and Motorists many times. "The first military conference. next day was held between 12:15 and 1:45 p.

m. During this period the first criticism was made of Hitler regarding remaining in Ber- NEWS FEATURES By LEO M. LITZ The News Wr Correspondent A B-29 BASE IN THE MARIANAS They estimate here that it takes around forty men on tho ground to keep a Superfortress in the air. After seeing thA voc amount of planning, skill and downright hard labor required for these long-range combat operations far behind enemy lines, it- is easy to under stand why the men of the Army air forces, on- the ground and in the air, are work MOtr ing seven days a week and putting in a lot of overtime 4f Br the Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 15 WPB Chairman J. A.

Krug reported today that munitions cut-backs "slightly lower than expected" would prevent any mass production of heavy consumer goods until after September. This applies to automobiles and refrigerators, he indicated, but substantial manufacturg! of smaller, appliances, like electric toasters and vacuum cleaners, may be expected starting in July. By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, May .15 The government bulwarked itself today against the chance that a tide of civilian manufacturing might wash out production for the Japanese war. The war production board reportedly has decided to retain its mechanism for allotting metals, the controlled materials plan or "CMP," throughout 1945. In.

addition, WPB planners now tentatively plan to replace the existing "freeze" on civilian production programs with a higher ceiling but not to discard it. These reports came from persons well acquainted with WPB policy plans. WPB and OPA spokesmen said Monday's increase of 500,000 tires Continued on Page 8, CoL 7 Amusements 7, Part 2 Book Reviews .5, Part 2 Dr. Brady 8, Parti Comics 8, 9, Part 2 Crossword 8, Parti Ely Culbertson 3, Part 2 Editorials ...10, Parti Financial 10, Part 2 Gallup 11, Parti Herbert R. Hill .10, Part 1 David Lawrence 7, Part 1 Leonard Lrons 7, Part 1 Obituaries 16, Part 2 Radio Programs.

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