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A A If TEMPEKATURE High Low River (falling) Warmer Wednesday Tennessee: Increasing cloudiness and not quite so cool tonight. Wednesday, considerable cloudiness and warmer. i 1 iii ill -v. i in in i i i-: is- if 3tt 20.6 Tennessee's Oldest Newspaper Established In 1803 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS CLARKSVILLE LEAF-CHRONICLE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 1, 1945 VOL. CXXXVII NO.

215 ho We Of Victory mis II nil i 1 Implies That V- Hi" E- -1 .0 Soviets Stage Great May" Day Celebration, Sense Victory Near Day May Come ihPP 1 efore Recess Prime Minister Says He Would Not Delay Good News, Does Not Mention Himmler Negotiations By LEWIS HAWKINS LONDON, May 1. (AP) -The German radio announced tonight Hitler is dead. The broadcast said Admiral Karl Doenitz, commander of the German fleet, was Hitler's successor. The Hamburg radio said Hitler diecj this afternoon. LONDON, May 1 AP) Prim Minister Churchill hinted toilay that announcement of peace in might come before Saturday, but told a packed house of Commons that he had no statement at this time.

He answered questions in the House as Swedish Count Folke Ber-nadotte conferred in Stockholm with Erik Undersecretary of State in the Swedish Foreign Office, after a quick flight from Copen hagen. Bernadotte refused to tell newsmen whether he had brought a new message from 1 lei rich I limmler. There were no signs that the Swedish Red Cross Official had nude a contact with Allied representatives in which he said, "My first task will be to save Germany from the advancing Bolsheviks. Only for this do we continue the fight." "Give me your confidence," Doenitz appealed to the German people. "Keep calm and be disciplined.

Only in that way will we be able to stave off defeat." The announcement said Hitler had appointed Doenitz April 30 (yesterday) as his successor. The broadcast came approximately an hour after the Hamburg radio had told its listeners that it would shortly have a grave and important announcement. "German men and women, soldiers of the German Army, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has fallen," Doenitz announced dramatically. "With deepest sorrow and reverence the German people bows. "He had recognized the horrible dan- Stockholm, but such contact most likely would be established throng! the Swedish Foreign Office, Replying to a member's question? Churchill declared "I have no spe- lM nMM.nJ, Russians Make Supreme Bid To Take Berlin LONDON, May 1 iP) Victory-finished Soviet troops made a supreme bid to deal the death blow to flaming Berlin on thus May Day.

In the words of Marshal Stalin it was the "final assault." A Red victory banner floated over the smoking ruins of the Rek-h-Ktag, where Hitler rose to power from the ashes of the Reichstag, fire of 1933. Heinrich Himmlcr'n ministry of the interior was in Russian hands. Red Army troops laid siege to the Fuehrer's underground fortress in the Tiergarten. The Russians were at the Branden-hurtf gate, Berlin's triumphal arch, and across the Spree river from Berlin's cathedral. Die-hard German remnants were compressed in the center of the blazing inferno that is Berlin, stubbornly keeping street crossings under a murderous cross fire and "killing In the process the civilian population of the city," a supplementary Moscow communique declared.

As a German broadcast conceded that the 11-day battle for the srutted capital was as good as lost. Marshal Stalin in a special order of the day said the Russian people were celebrating May Day "under condition of the victorious termination of the great patriotic war." His triumphant announcement, declaring that Soviet troops had! "hoistca the hanhef Berlin," said the Germans had lost l.Ono.000 men killed and 8on noo Ky itDDY GILMORK MOSCOW, May 1uV) Premier Marshal Sialin, dressed in a steel-grey summer uniform and standing on Lenin's shining red marble tomb in the Kremlin Square, led the Soviet Union today in one of the greatest May Day celebrations in the history of the 27-year-old Soviet government. Stalin was greeted with thunderous applause when he appeared and again as he left the top of the tomb. He joked with his assoc iates and with members of diplomatic corp. who were out in force to witness the spectacle.

The celebration was one-, of. the greatest because the people expected the war to end In the words of Marshal Stalin the Red Army, with its American and British allies, had smashed the Wehr-macht, carried the battle into the heart of Germany and won the respect of the freedom loving peoples of the World. Gen. Alexei Antonov, chief of staff, who spoke during the celebration declared 1hat, "for Ihe first time in this war, our motherland is completely and forever cleared of the enemy." Thousands of men, tanks, guns and military vehicles paraded down the Red Square. Overhead Russian plants roared.

A band played. Among the foreigners witnessing the celebration was Edouard Her-riott, former president of France, who was recently liberated from a German prison camp by the Russians. Also' viewing the parade was the Japanese ambassador to Moscow and his staff. The May Day celebration started at one minute after midnight, when Moscow's blackout was lifted. Street fights went on and lights in buildings and residences blazed publicly for the first time since the start of the war.

The tremendous Red Stars on top of the Kremlin were lighted. The, spotlights across Red Square from the Kremlin- "At the Fuehrer's headquarters it is reported that our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has fallen this afternoon in his command post at the Reichs Chancellery, fighting up to his last breath against Bolshevism," said the announcement. The radio broadcast a statement from Doe i in IIQliy III LCilllidlil, Be Surrendered I cial statement to make on the war position in Europe except that it is definitely more satisfactory than it was at this time five years ago." Then he added he nifghf make a brief announcement later this week but "only if information of exceptional importance reaches us." WOULD MAKE STATEMENT He continued: By The Associated Press STOCKHOLM, May 1. Coum Folke Bernadotte flew back new "Should Information-of tmtvirl.l"'" ance reach his majesty's govern-; trS, YT Coefn toda. ments during the four days of our tf American' Sais i.

ho i he might be bearing German 1 will ask Mr. Shaker's Dermis. P1 agreement for peaceful sur-l ADOLF HITLER ion to ask the indulgence of the trol5s ln both House to interrupt business and rmarK ana Norway. make a brief I Th Swedish nobleman refused ti The Implication that peace might say uPon arriving here, whether Li get of Bolshevism very early and devoted his existence to the fight against it. At the end of his come owore me iiuuse recesses ior urouijns irom uerwawH a nev struggle and of hi straight st the veninrf(i ronunynlstiu frota Hcinric, 3rd Army Nears: Berchtesgaden, 7th Heads Toward Brenner Pass the hv a rest to' a prediction" lhat Himmler, chief of the German ties-Churchill ever permitted himself.

tapo. He went into conference wit! "Of course," he said, "I shall Erik Boheman, undersecretary make no statement here that is not state ln th Swedi-1-: Foreign Offic Danish underground fusees (Please Turn to Page 4) Swet'en report! 0iiU mops all c.aptvd. on the eastern front in the last three or lour months. Hn said the Nazis also losj 6,000 airplanes, 12,000 tanks and 23,000 ean- By AUSTIN BEALMEAR reaay were moving out SJacllancs the island on which Copenhagen i situated, toward sct'thern Jutland A Danish radio broadcast Iron Malmo recorded ln Stockholm sal, the Germans had evacuated th Pfc. Krantz Gets Bronze Star (Please Turn to Page 5) Allied Troops dark since the first day of the War were turned on, flooding Lenin's tomb.

The entire city is brightly decorated 'with bunting and slogans. Pictures of Stalin and other leaders of the Soviet Union are SJaelland towns of Slagelse, Nast Invade; Borneo, Oil Rich Islands 1 vea ana Hueroed and that Genua: Red Cross workers were en rout to Copenhagen to care for Germa; refugees. It urged Danes to be calm The American informant said tha whether a final agreement on. pro cedure in Norway had been reaehc whs still uncertain, buthe express? United Nations In New Dispute Over Commissions By JOHN M. MGHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 i'l The stiug of a whiplash fight over Argentina and Poland drove the United Nations toward a new controversy today over who should control the critical commissions and committees of the world security conference.

This organizational problem normally mlKht have gone through wilh unity and good feelings on all sides. It appeared likely, how-ever, to intensify the struggle for leadership between the United Minister Says Christ Rules From A Cross belief the Swedes had proposed that the Germans had requeste transportation for their Norwegia erring road he dtes a hero death in the capital of the German Reich. "His life was entirely given to the service of Germany. His struggle against the Bolshevist storm fnon was, furthermore, not only for Europe, but for the entire civiu-tu hiiiiu, i'ne ueiirer has appointed me to be his successor. Fully conscious of the responsibility, I take over the leadership of the German people in the fateful hour." "My first task will be to save the German people from the advance of the Bolshevist enemy," Doenitz.

continued. "For this aim only the military struggle continues. "For as long and as far as 'the reaching of this aim will be impended by the Anglo-Americans, we shall continue to defend ourselves against them and fight them. "The Anglo Americans do not then continue the war for their own people but solely for the spreading of Bolshevism in What the German people has achieved fighting this war and what they have suffered at the home front is a historic unieum." Doenitz also' addressed an order of the day to the German Army. In addressing the people, Doenitz said, "In the coming times of distress I shall aim to give the brave German women, men and children bearable living conditions to the limit of my powers.

For all that I shall need your assistance. "Give me your confidence, because your road is my road too. Maintain order and discipline in town and country. Let everyone do his duty at his post. Only thus shall we be able "to mitigate the suffering which the coming times will bring to each forces to Sweden for disarmamen The American said the Allied rt 1 PARIS.

May 1 (TP) The Third Army crashed southward to within 58 miles of Berchtesgaden today as Lt. Cen. Alexander M. Patch sent his Seventh Army out of captured Munich against Innsbruck and the Brenner Pass. The Third Army entered Gries-baeh In its closest approach to Hitler's roost in the Alpine redoubt.

The town near the Austrian border Is 1G miles, from Hitler's birthplace at Braudau and 47 miles from Salzburg, eastern rampart of the final Nazi hideaway. Allied armies had overrun- all of southern Germany except the (southeast corner of Bavaria and now were sending their tanks and infantry into Austria and Far to the north, American airborne troops and the British Second Army linked up beyond the Elbe in a solid bridgehead 20 miles wide and 12 wiles deep which threatened imminently to cut off Schles-wig-Holstein and Denmark. This coutd -carve the northern redoubt in In the center, the corridor between Germans in the south and north was widened steadily by additional contacts between the Rus- ply to Himmkr's first offer fla Informed the SS chieftain that th only way fot Germany to capitulat would be through the field com manders of her opiwnents -r By The Associated Press Borneo is being hivaded by Allied assault troops bont on reclaiiTi-ing the oil producing islands of tlve Pacific, Tokyo radio reported today as Nipponese troops were beaten back on every lighting Iront. Japanese broadcasts, first to announce, every recent invasion, said assault waves engaged Japanese-troops near the Dutch Borneo port of Tarakan in fierce ffehting last night after making one unsuccessful landing attempt during daylight. Such an assault, perhaps by a combine American and British force under command of General Douglas MaeArthur, would repr-sent a 200 mile jump from the southern Philippines into the northernmost oil islands in the Dutch Indies.

Due west of the reported invasion British naval ta.k forces reportedly shelled Nicobar and Andaman islands in the Indian Ocean while armored columns pouring out a uantsn radio broadcast cau tloned Danes: (Please turn to page 5) "Keep discipline, quiet and ordei Don't be disappointed if it shoul require some hours yet before is announced that Denmark Is free E. C. Smithey's Rites To Be Held On Wednesday Enoch C. Smithey. 53 years old, died at 1:35 o'clock this morning at the home in Soulhside community.

He had been in failing health for som time. Funeral services will be hekl at 10:30 o'clock. "Wednesday-' morning Rye's Chapel and burial will be In Rye's Chapel McRey-nolds will hare charge. Mr. Smithey was bom Juiie 4, 1891, the son of the late Henry an' Mary Rayburn Smithey.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Tennie Kt to whom -he was married-m 1911; three sons. Lee E. C. Smithey, somewhere the Pacific theater; Smithey, with the XJ.

Army, in Europe, and three brothers, Reuben of Knoxville; Aaron of County, and Newt Smithey of Van Ix'er; and a slater. Mrs. Lockey Browning-of this city. Man Is Held On Hit And Run Driving Charge W. R.

Coleman, Cunningham. was held to the state under a bond in General Sessions Court this morniiiR on a charge of failing 'to stop when his car is al-leyed So have ilnh Inint' Hollis of District 14, or, Franklin Street Monday alicinonn. Coleman said he was 'meeting a truck and did not, know his ear struck' Hollis. The injured man suf feied head lacerations whiih re- Semi-Preferred Group Announced Freedom's sun is going up in Den mark a sky." Mr. nnd.

Mrs. J. B. Krantz of The Rev. Vincent C.

Franks, D.D., will -preach the second in the series of preaching -missions' sermon this evening at 7 :45. The Men's Chorus of the Methodist Church will sins a special number at the beginning -of the service, and the offertory will be sung by Mrs, Lander. The -group singing is led by Turner Winn. The Convocation of Middle Tennessee met at-Trinity Church last night. The Rev.

A. Constantine Adams Is dean of the and the Rev. E. Dargan Butt, secretary. clergy were: The Rt.

Rev. 'Edmund P. Dandridge, D.D.. Bishop of the Dioce.se of Tennessee; the Rev. J.

FrancLs St. Andrews, Nashville; the Rev. Peyton Randolph Williams, Christ Church, Nashville; the. Rev. Henry A.

Link. "Trary City; the Rev. Paul D. Burns, St. Paul's.

Mur-freesboro. and the Rev. Prentice A. Pugh, D.D Advent, Nashville. The Convocation' sermon was by Dr.

Vincent Franks, who spoke on the subject, "Whv Preach?" taking as his text, "We- Preach Christ Crucified," SOI MVST BE LED The answer to this question was given: Ve preach because an. immortal soul rather than a nervous system stands at the base of lite. Clarksvllle, Route 2, have received word that their son. Pfc. Junious B.

Krantz, ha3 been awarded the Bronze Star for heroic achievement in action on October 2, 1944, in Germany. Kiwanians Told True Happiness Is Active Force Happiness was the subject of iContinued from Page 2 (Please Turn to Page Seven one of us. Only thus will we be able to avoid the collapse. "If we do what Is in our power to do, the Almighty will not abandon us after so much suffering and after so many sacrifices." taut given- Dy ur. prentice Fugn In Gas Rationing Several Improvements in gasoline rationing, including anew semi-preferred group, falling between the supplementary t'B" and' the preferred ration classification becomes effective today.

W. C. Man-ley, district director in. Memphis, reminded motorists today. The new classifications, wilh an 825-mile monthly allowance to mo torists engaged in work connected with essential war production, is.

designed to provide a more equitable distribution of supplemental gasoline rations, he said. Under the new regulations, some drivers now. holding preferred rations will be placed in the Tiew semi-preferred group- and others Dachau Brutality Burned Into Souls Of 42nd Division rector of the Church of the Advent Nashville, before the Klwanis Clu today, 1 Dr. Pugh quoted Aristotle's defin ition of happiness as "an energ of the soul In accordance with vir tue." Happiness is an active, crea tlve force, not passive feelln; of content that persons get from good ineal or a good night's slee He explained the phrase concern lng virtue by taying that the hap Rescues Rainbow Trout With Shovel PHOENIX, Ariz-Trout fishing with light tackle is considered the acme of sport by followers of Ike During an infantry attack upon the vaunted Siegfried Line, Pfc Krantz distinguished himself by outstanding performance of duty while serving as a member of an engineer squad which was support-tog the leading Infantry assault wave. With the mission of constructing hasty bridges across a river a short distance from heavy enemy fortifications, Pfc.

Krantz and hif comrades in the face of severe enemy fire and despite heavy lasses, courageously stayed at their vulnerable until the tasks were successfully completed. Their heroic actions were a valuable contribution to the success of the important mission. Pfc. Krantz has been in the ser and the soul must be fed as well i Bv LOUS P. LOCIINER DACHAU.

Germany, May 1t'py Every soldier, officer and war correspondent attached to the 42nd (Rainbowi Division of the U. S. Seventh Army today had one word seared into his soul "Dachau." It represents the last' word in savagery, depravity, sadism and inhumanity. Here human beings are experimented on as though, they were guinea pi-s, were eliminated by-slow starvation and their bodies burned wholesale in a gigantic crematory. Thirty-five railway cars the nerves; we preach beeaase Patrol Warns Drivers Of Cars With One Light A campaign against drivers of one-eyed cars and car? without tail lights has been started by the Hign-way Patrol, Cpl.

L. A. Mayfield. anj Bill Thompson of the Patrol said today. The officers are usking county and tit officers to' cooperate' in arreting all drivers-' whose -cars do not have two headlights or a tail lignt.

piness would come with the progu. made from the present to the loca state, the joy in achieving the ul'J mate end. Quirea several s-ucnev 0ur moments vou feel the Hoiks said he was walking along mob of eternitv-in voui; heart and tlie of the road when Cole- rravp a voice that" can bring a Walton, but Millard Allen, Phoenix steam shovel operator, demonstrated that no little skill is required when the tackle used is heavy. In the course of digging additional ponds at the stat rearing ground Allen discovered a 14-inch rainbow stranded by an outmxh of water' from a ditch. Deftly, he swung the boom of his 3.000-pound clamshell shovel, scooped up the fish and transferred it safely to a nearby rearing-pond.

7 will be eligible only for "a' rations: while still others, now holding supplementary rations will be qualified for the semi-preferred classification, he explained. Certain engineers and technicians, whose services are necessary to these war plants, have been ineligible because of their sales activi mans ear uwcipo in inur-h of the Yon-MfU. Ut vnu- hp you; The art of sincerity is one whid Cotman was arrested by aiit.e your spirit pul.ses with ele- Dewey. Boyd and Con: table Davi-npost. land the unseen, and discontent with jourself alone you would know more vice 30 months and has been overseas 14 months, eight of which have been in Germany where he is now serving with the '-Ninth Army.

His address is 34372337, Co. B. lOSth Combat APO 30, care Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Infwifft uith lit 'about the tiod behind the all persons should cultivate, the ar of sincerely trying to accompli: that which is good and of behr hemest in one's appraisal of The art of friendship and of be-i true to acquaintances are ends toward which persons should woii; Dr.

Pugh said, adding that the tru friend ia one who recognizes the virtues and vices of his fricrds and whom a person may carry his Jtrou- Cpl. Sanford Home On Furlough Cpl. V. R. Sar.iord.

son of George Therefore -It L- not just that Wi preach. We preach Christ. Morever, we Negro Nabbed eraliv to skin and bone are lined I ts. Sales work under this section up outside the amp i-s now no bRf to tiieir eligibility. Among Dachau 32.000 inmates "Pned Mr Manley.

"ten. are some 1.400 living corpses. These 'llon cf gasoline user, were the survivors of about 4.000 i cal ed to the regulation rtipu-who had been shipped, according to latm? delivery records be the best information available, i maintained to account for Pope To Make World Addrets After V-E Day VATICAN CITY. May 1. WV-Pope Pius XII probably- will make a world broadcast as soon as the end Isham Williams In Shooting Case Sanford of Cumberland City returned irom 25 months overseas Charged with assault and battery Seaman, First Class duty to spend 4.vday .1 a Vi t-'im intpnf 1,1 from Buchenwald before the Allies Purchase oi noiMiigmij iijivt' uu rici auiinru r.

iir t.t- Lham R. Williams, seaman bies. He quoted Piiuups Broofs a i -ti ti, 1, witn ana raunons. wuicn of the European war is announced. known loneliness? He understands Provideticc.

was the state camp. Rl-so tcomTes on tne sl it was reported unofficially today in lonely soul Has the world ever Monday by General Sessions Court They had been squeezed 1 1 of May. Under this phase of the 1 Vatican circles. was promoted to his present saysng the Ideal state wo-a be rank on March 1. Seaman I having three kinds of acquaint has participated in the battle of i "ances, one better than he frf r.

turned you? Well, it turned Judge W. B. Cirlew. The Negro L-, cattle into freicht cars, where taey remauon. ne whom he could get inspiration, sciinst Him.

What a God is burst of shooting 'Hurley Osbum were kept for 21 days, 80 to a car. That he should dtign to" suffer for in the foot Curing a quarrel in New According- to their testimony they and oViun suffer" with us! What ovidtr.ee Sunday, a wek were left without food for five days a God' That He be by our The orrestinn of Leers. Deputy! and thereafter iriven mere scraps. here; He. has in the campaigns of North Africa.

Sicily and Italy. He uiU return to overseas dutv at the i mi iusiofl of his fur-liuich. His Pie. Geurae Sanford. was-killed in iRrance in July.

1944. and he has another who has been overseas two years. V.nrie at home Cpl. Sauford is vi. itme Ms sisters.

Miss S'el'a Sanford. Mrs. Albert Pattrrson and Masime Sextnn, Cumberland and Mj-s. Pulley, Paducah, Ky. record 1OPA Pomi 585-Revt will be A FOX HOLE FOX Iwo Jirna and Okinawa in the Ryu- issued by the War Price nnd Ra-j ATLANTA, May 1.

u-An Allan- kyu Islands. He was at Ie Island tion Board with "Eand gaao- GI found a fox in his fox bole. i when Ernie Pyle waa kiikd there, lme rations. The coupons that each Lt. Jack Bradford of the Third He is now on a destroyer in the 'consumer re fives will lAnny was GI.

Hesent the Fkin to China Sea. -be noted ori the form by the board his mother here. The has been in the Navy nrf rieliverr cm -IT a lid Mrs. J. A.

Bradford's eoinz to ih'ce March. -1944. and overseas equal whom he could freft. associate and one below; him t-which he could give eomethir.g. Ouesta at the mcetirs? were trt Hamelin, Howard Walker," Wylee and Major Jack Hestle.

pic- It.KKIBLI-. Mt.MII In the crematory there was a fide we walk the hich and'-Drwry and Constabip Joe lonely roads of life. 80. strangest Dr. rt.

s.tid th-at Robitison is story ever A1. "He rules from a unci three other bonds-. tmp far stench that madf the strongest men "ft" coupons will be entered on the have Brer Fox mounted. So her euke.l ast 'November. HU iVt- and ture thow tirfcpli went to earrving a pistol, another lor jj.Xti turn pale, and Uee to the ouC-tde cross; the rrn His throne Wherefore preach Ciiriit crua- 'records of the suosiier.

Mr. MatJey sen can ba-k up hli postwar "tall two children live at 54 Lawn i Wink and John Smith and -f and battery with ir.tent to kul, or.d amp to Bu-nry 1 Street. tales" w.th proof. I said. tPieae Tarn to Page 4)- fied." a thud which a peace bond.

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