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OFFICE. COPYRIGHT 1945 THB CHICAGO TRIBUNE THE Society Agog; Party Ban at Parley Lifted BY WILLARD EDWARDS tCMtaf Tribune Pros Service San Francisco, April 26 The despair of society leaders over the ban of formal receptions and dinner's for celebrities attending the conference of nations was alleviated today by an inspired ruling from the state department. I Small and informal parties with a top limit of 2b guests will not be considered as conflicting with the mourning period for the late President Roosevelt which expires May 13. While this 20 guest restriction was regarded as a simply horrid obstacle to true hospitality by many Nob Hill hostesses, the majority accepted it in a spirit of sacrifice. Invitations began to flutter upon the assembled delegates and their staffs like the leaves in autumn.

Can't Publish Names The state department remained adamant, however, in regard to another edict: There may be no an nouncements of the presence of an important statesman at a private function until it's all over. Both society matrons and social editors of the local newspapers uttered wails over the harsh dictum which precludes a polite form of bragging in public print. But the Washington experts said solemnly that "security reasons" forbade such proclamations. They whispered darkly of international incidents caused by an attempt upon the life of a national leader. Cold stares greeted an observation that this attitude reflected a lack of faith in the unity of nations.

His royal highness, Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz, yiceroy of the Hejaz and other members of the delegation from Saudi Arabia were easily the most sought after as guests, inquiry revealed. This occasioned some mystery altho it was conceded that the Arabians in their turbans and robes make picturesque figures at any gathering. Pretty Gift Habit Then it was discovered that the Arabs have a pretty habit of pre senting jeweled daggers and other trinkets to their hosts and hostesses. This is the only reverse lend-lease thus far encountered at the parley. In addition to the invitations sent out by hospitable San Franciscans on their own responsibility, entertainment is being offered the delegates thru an official committee which is a beehive of activity in a barracks opposite the opera house.

Here are accepted applications of bay area residents to entertain foreign visitors in their homes at cocktails, dinners, and luncheons. Mrs. SY THE mm On The. record AtvcL 'y Japan 101 RES. U.

8. BY Commissar Talks of Democracy for Poland A Note from Stalin? Washington, D. April 26 UP) The Russian charge d'af-fairs, Nikolai Novikov, called at the state department today, and Immediately afterward Undersecretary of State Grew, acting head of the department, hastened to confer with President Truman. He carried a folded paper to the White House. This raised speculation that important communication had been re ceived from Russia.

"It is a pity; I can say nothing," Novikov told newsmen. Grew likewise declined to discuss the affair. BY WILLIAM MOORE -(Picture on back page) (Chios Tribao Proa Service San Francisco, April 26 Foreign Commissar V. M. Moiotov of Russia emerged from, his mys tery role today to tell reporters he favors a Polish government organized upon a broad democratic basis in accord with the Yalta conference decision on Poland.

He left details to the imagination. The Russian spokesman said he hopes to see White Russia and Ukraine represented at the San Francisco conference before its close. Moiotov had been darting about the city with flying wedge of retainers who gave a determined shoulder to those who got in Molo-tov's path. But the Russians suddenly sent out word today that their foreign chief wished to see reporters. Quickly the latter assembled in St.

Francis hoteL Sorry He Is Late. Smiling instead of shouldering. the Moiotov party swept into the hotel ballroom, where Moiotov spoke a sentence in Russian. An interpreter explained that Moiotov had said he was sorry he was late. Questions as to Russia's attitude on Poland came thick and fast, but the foreign commissar and his interpreter turned them neatly aside.

The Polish question, Moiotov insisted, is not the concern of the pres ent conference, but is something to be settled with the Poles them selves present. He didn't specify whether he meant representatives of the warring Polish factions or only the Lublin Poles whom he tried in vain to have admitted to the conference. Efforts to persuade Moiotov to elaborate brought bursts of Russian which the interpreter said const! tuted advice to study the Polish de cision of the Yalta conference, of which the interpreter said Moiotov commented: "That was an excellent decision. We shall carry it out." Students of international affairs said the Yalta decision merely gave re-organized Polish government in which liberal as well as communist elements would be represented. Basis for Decisions But Moiotov placed great emphasis on the Yalta decision as the framework for final disposition of the Polish question.

The Russian threw considerable light upon his claim of three Russian votes when asked why he had demanded three rather than one for each of the 16 soviet republics, and hinted, some said, at future demands for more. "We asked for a minimum, he replied. "We have 16 republics. Ukraine and White Russia have played a momentous part, and no one can say tna they do not deserve a voice. "At the Crimea conference, the late great American President, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, understood and agreed, as did Mr. ChurchiU." Jl JV 191534 PAGES ArmiesLinked ohWideFront, Swiss Report LONDON, April 26 WV-The Swiss radio said tonight that a "linkup between the Americans and Rus sians in the Elbe region took place this afternoon on a front of many miles." There was no confirmation from allied sources. Expect Announcement Soon SUPREME I1DQ, PARIS, April 26 Reuters A large scale linkup with the Russians along scores of miles of the central 'German front appears to have taken place, and it was believed here tonight that the official announcement is at hand. Allien Line Kibe Hanks New York, April 26 Returning from a flight over the Elbe river, NBC Correspondent Roy Porter said tonight in a Paris broadcast that the Russians and Americans are lined up on opposite sides of the river like two Pacific parties waiting for a ferry to take them across." At one point. Porter said he saw the Russians building two temporary bridges.

One was welH under construction and the other was just being started. Porter did not identify the area over which he flew other than to say "we reached the Elbe at a place north of Leipzig." Robinson said the Russians were "pouring stuff in along the back highways," suggesting they were planning a meeting in strength with the Amer icans. Hang Out Red Blankets WITH THE U. S. 1ST ARMY, April 26 (tP) German housewives have quit hanging out white surrender flags.

They are dangling red bed ticks from windows and stringing up red blankets on clotheslines. Even red stockings, and red unmentionables, are hung out to show the pacific attitude of German house holders as Russian troops sweep on toward the Mulde river. Hear Red Shell Bursts ARNEBURG, Germany, April 26 (F) Red army shells today were falling occasionally a mile or two east of the Elbe river in the area ot Arneburg. 43 miles northwest ot Berlin, where the west bank is held by United States 9th army troops awaiting a juncture with the Rus sians. Bursts of the shells were part ot a great drama of the war which could be seen from a bluff here.

Berlin's death throes were speeding a tide of panic stricken humanity to the Elbe in front of the Russians. Americans Stop Shelling The Americans stopped cross-river; shelling when Germans appeared Continued on page 2, column 2 THREE CENTS LIU Munich Periled on! 3Sides; British Take Bremen (Map en back page) PARIS, April 27 lFrldayl-4VP Gen. Patton's United States 3d army tank columns battled eight miles from Austria yesterday in a bid for swift showdown with last-stand enemy troops massing at the border. In the north the British captured Germany's second greatest port of Bremen and 5,000 prisoners. Bremen fell after a whirlwind as sault of two days, and only snipers remained in the rubble to challenge the British moving thru the dock area of what once was a city of 350.000 population.

To the east other British forces pressed on across the north German plain beyond Zeven. To the west Polish units ot the Canadian 1st army pressing up the Ems river estuary were seven miles southeast of Emden. The British had reached the Elbe river on most of their front and with the American 9th and 1st armies whose fronts were Idle, awaiting tha arrival of the Rus siansshared control of 200 miles of the Elbe's west bank from Ham burg southeastward. Three Columns rerll Munich The 3d army in ground-eating strides was 95 miles from junction with the Red army in Austria that would convert Czechoslovakia into a giant German trap. In close echelon with the United States 7th and French 1st armies, Patton's forces broke across the Danube at three points leaving that river line shredded along a ISO mile front and Munich imperiled by three separate American columns each about 40 miles from the city.

Some 20 divisions In these three armies were pressing steadily southward, bent on engulfing the Nazi alpine redoubt before the SS (elite guard troops could get set for a stand. The 3d army was 70 miles from Hitler's Berchtesgaden. Mass In Mountain Gateway Pilots back from plastering the Alpine redoubt said the Germans were massing at Passau, mountain gateway to Austria, where one 11th armored division column closed on Tittlingen, 11 miles to the north. Other 11th armored forces pressed nine miles farther east to the vicin ity of Fuerholz. eight and a half miles from the Austiian border.

Patton's troops crossed the Dan ube for the first time on an IS mile front and all but encircled the stronghold of Regensburg, which lies about 60 miles west of the ar mored spearheads rammed close to Austria. The 87th infantry division In a 10 mile advance fought into and cap tured one-third of Ingolstadt, 40 miles north of Munich. Patton's forces spreading out on the east flank were up to or across the Czech frontier on a 50 mile front Vanguards were 35 miles west of Pilsen. home of the great Skoda munitions works. Eger Falls to Yanks The 3d army captured Eger, Czech city four miles from the border, where Hitler after Munich (1938 proclaimed the annexation of the Sudetcnland to his greater reich.

LL. Gen. Patch's United States 7th army, seizing 11,335 prisoners, was rampaging thru the mountains more than 30 miles south of the Danube. Its bridgehead at Dillingen now was 21 miles wide. The 10th armored division smashing straight south was only a mile from Mem-mingen.

31 miles south ot the Danube and 35 miles from the Aus trian border. The French drove up to the Swiss frontier all the way from Basel, at the Swiss-French-German border Junction, eastward to Lake Constance. The Swiss said these forces also had captured the city of Constance, where many Nazi higher ups and their families first took refuge. PAY NO MORE Capture Stettin and Bruenn; Drive Into Breslau (Map and? ptctnre 4n back map en pgm 2) LONDON, April 27 IFriday CT) Russian forces conquered almost two-thirds of Berlin's pulverised and burning ruins yesterday, seized the Baltic naval base of Stettin, and smashed nearer to American armies in two areas. As three Russian armies began to forge an inner ring ot encirclement within the smoke blanketed and encircled German capital.

Infantry and cavalry of a fourth army toppled Bruenn Brno, second largest city of Czechoslovakia and one ot lUtr last war production centers. Far behind the lines other forces battled Into the western streets ot the long besieged lower SHesiaa capital ot Breslau. occupying 2S blocks and several factory districts. Smash S3 Miles Toward Tanks West ot Berlin, by German ao count. Marshal Zhukova 1st White Russian army raced 23 miles, by passing the city ot Brandenburg.

reach the Rathcnow area, only 14 miles from a Junction with the American 9th army on the middle Elbe river. Southwest ot Berlin another Junction neared It it had not already occurred. Here Marshal Konev'a 1st Ukrainian army extended bridgeheads across the Elbe, seizing Strehla and Riesa only 17 miles from the American 1st army on the Mulde river. Nazi defenders of Berlin, throw, ing women and children into the death struggle, were stubbornly tat tling in the capital's streets thru the sixth day under Russian artillery and aerial bombardment. Compress Ring Around City But Zhukovs men compressed a band ot steel around perhaps SO0.0CO trapped Nazi soldiers and captured the northwestern Industrial districts of Gartenfeld and Siemenstadt, At the same time.

Konevs tankmen rolled Into the rubble strewn streets of Dahlem. In southwestern Berlin. As these armies drove from the north and south into fashionable Charlottenburg. with only a four and a half mile gap between them. the western suburbs ot Spandau and Potsdam were threatened with iso lation.

These forces had overrun ap proximately 210 square miles of Berlin's 311, Moscow's war bulletins indicated. The Germans admitted the doome-. capital was encircled and conceded that the "front now runs right thru the heart of the city." Pressing In from the east also. Zhukov's troops captured the Goer- litzer rail depot, two and a quarter miles from Unter den Linden and Friedrlchstrasse. Near Cnter den Linden Nazi accounts said that the Soviets already had swept to the edge of Alexander platz.

one of Berlin's main commercial centers. Here, a halt mile from Unter den Linden, a battle raged for the central police and Gestapo headquarters, while a few blocks to the south German reports said Zhukov's troops were fighting for Jannowitx station and Jannowita bridge over the Spree river. Russian tommygunners also were storming the southern edge of Tem-pelhof airdrome, the Nazis said, as Russian fighter planes roared over the city to forestall possible escape ot Nazi big-shots by air. Kocnlgs-Wusterhausen. site ot the big German radio station.

Deutschland-sender, southeast of the city, was captured by the Russians. A shattering artillery barrage, meanwhile, was concentrated on the center of Berlin, a late Moscow dispatch said. The Russians were reported "very close" to the government center at some points. All manner of soldiers and weapons were flung by the Germans into the battle. Even young girls were Delegates Amazed by Implied Slap at American FOUR SPEECHES Descriptive running story of second session of conference, with liberal quotes from addresses by State Secretary Stettinius, British Foreign Secretary Eden, Russian Commissar Moiotov, and Chinese Minister Soong is on page 7.

BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING (Picture on paget 6 and 7) Chicage Tribute Pro Service San Francisco, Cal, April 26 V. M. Moiotov, Russian commissar for foreign affairs, threw the inter-rational conference to abolish war into confusion today by blocking the election of State Secretary Stet-tinius as permanent chairman of the conclave. The steering committee thereupon decided to rotate the chairmanship among the delegation of the Big Tour powers sponsoring the conferencethe United States, Great Britain, Russia, and China. But the Russian at least temporarily upset this plan, too, by then moving for adjournment until tomorrow since, he said, no agreements had been reached.

The belief prevailed among most delegates that during the confusion Elet tinius had been elected chairman ef the steering committee, but even this was uncertain and will not be decided until the committee meets again tomorrow morning. Veiled Threat to Quit At one point during today's stormy committee meeting, according to an Associated Press reporter who said he got his information from one of the delegates, Russia's foreign com missar even delivered a more or less veiled threat to withdraw his country as one of four sponsoring powers. He did not threaten to take Russia completely out of the San Francisco picture but declared that unless his plan was followed the Soviets would sit among the lesser powers in pro-te What drew his greatest ire was the fact that as proposed and voted, the rotating chairmanship would apply only to the plenary sessions with Stettinius still sitting as permanent chairman of the steering committee. Altogether Moiotov, who also served notice of his determination to press for three votes for Russia in the league and in the conference, held the center of the stage in a day cevoted to launching the new peace league ship on a flood of oratory. lias Faith in Efforts Moiotov, after upsetting the cus tomary conference procedure, went into the plenary session late in the afternoon and joined Stettinius, Eritish Foreign Secretary Eden, and Chinese Foreign Minister Soong in speeches expressing faith in a new league of nations to preserve peace by moral suasion if possible, by force if necessary.

The oratory con Air Chief Reported Seriously 111 of Heart Trouble LONDON, April 26 The German Hamburg radio announced to night that Reichs-marshal Goering had resigned as head of the dying Nazi air force be-cause of an "acute" heart illness, while a high ranking German general sral staff captured by the Hanhal Gorrlnt Americans pre dicted that Hitler would die with his troops in encircled Berlin. The captured German general- unidentified in an American 9th army front dispatch but termed internationally known and one of the best Informed members of the German general staff "predicted the war would end within a few days and said that Goering prob ably already had been executed. Calls Redoubt a Myth The general said the Nazi national redoubt In Bavaria, Austria, and Italy, where an extended holdout has been predicted, is mostly a myth and is already incapable of a long defense. The Hamburg station said that the portly No. 2 Nazi, Goering.

52. had been succeeded by Gen. Ritter von Groin, 53, who was made a field marshal. Reichsmarshal Goering, who has been suffering from heart trouble for some time and whose condition has become acute, has asked the Fuehrer to be relieved of his com mand as chief of the luftwaffe at a time when his strength is it said. The Fuehrer has granted his request.

Man Hunt On for Hitler This announcement came amid the developing man hunt for Hitler, Mho soon must decide whether to fall as a martyr in Berlin or seek refuge in Bavaria or some other German held pocket. -Altho many allied quarters believe Hitler already is in the Alpine fortress, the captured German general staff member said he was in Berlin as did all German broadcasts. One of these broadcasts said Propaganda Minister Goebbcls also was in the capital and that he and Hitler were "endeavoring to outdo each other in feats of personal bravery." Report Hitler Double Prepared Another possibility was raised by a Free German press service report in Stockholm that Hitler had sent a long-prepared double, August Bar- tholdy, a former grocer In Plaucn, to be filmed dying on the last Ber lin barricades while the Fuehrer himself disappears underground. Still another possibility is that Hit ler may commit suicide. A Swiss dispatch said French refugees from Germany reported that Hitler and Gestapo Chief Himmler were at Salzburg, near the Fuehrer's hideout at Berchtcsgaden.

Official quarters here cautioned against accepting rumors relating to Hitler or any other top-flight Nazis. They maintain that these Nazis would like nothing better than to be presumed dead. "What could be easier," asked the London Star, than for the Germans to produce an unrecognizable body and say that it was Hitler's while Hitler himself was making his getaway by plane or submarine?" War Summaries LONDON Reds of Berlin. win two-thirds TageL WESTERN FRONT Nazis mass to halt drive on Austria. TageL ROME Yanks seal off Brenner pass; Capture Verona.

Page 3. GCAM-Yanks attack Japs sec ondary Okinawa line. fage 8. i PILE PAPER AT CURBS TODAY TO ADYERTISE TOMORROW'S PICKUP Bundles of waste paper will be piled in front of hotels, apartment buildings, and business structures today to draw attention to the city-wide curb pickup tomorrow, John R. Robinson, chairman of waste paper salvage, said yesterday.

The goal is 5,000 tons for Chicago and a similar quantity for suburban towns in a radius of 75 miles from the loop. Jerd Sullivan chairman, reported an avalanche of bids. Each prospective host is invited to list his preference as to nationality of delegates. 20 Guest Kidiculoui! "Two Egyptians, two Frenchmen, one Turkish, two Soviets, and a Greek," chanted one of Mrs. Sullivan's comely assistants with a sigh, reading from one application.

I've always heard this town is cosmopolitan and now I believe it." The British were most in demand by the society leaders, next to the Arabs. State Secretary Stettinius, as president of the conference, was, of course, the target of hundreds of invitations. The French and the Latin Americans tied for fourth after the American stag department set. "After the period of mouring is lifted May 13," promised a matron in Mrs. Sullivan's headquarters, we will show them real California hospitality.

Only 20 guests! Ridiculous." THE WEATHER FRIDAY. APRIL 27. 1949 Sunrise, 5:53. Sunset, 7:45. Moonrtoe.

8:04 p. m. Morning star. Mars; evening star, Saturn: night luminary. Jupiter.

CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Crnrrall fair and slightly warmer today; occasional light rain tomorrow and mild; gentle to moderate winds; high today. 54; low tonight. 40; high tomorrow, 68. ILLINOIS: Fair with rising temperature today; light rain tomorrow and mild. TEMPEK ATl'BES IN CHICAGO For 24 hours ended 2 a.

m. April 27t 3 a. m. .43, Noon 43 7 p. .41 4 a.

.41 5 a. .40 6 a. 7 a. .39 8 a. .40 9 a.

.40 10 a. ,40 11 a. 1 p. .4 2 p. 2:10.

.4 7 3 p. .46 4 p. .4 5 p. .43 p. .43 8 p.

.40 p. .39 10 p. .34 lip. .38 1 a. 2 a.

.38 High. tLow. For 24 hours ended 7:30 p. April 2 Mean temperature. 43; normal, 51; excess since Jan.

1. 575 degrees. Precipitation, .28 of an inch; deficiency since Jan. 1, .37 ot an Inch. Highest wind velocity, 24 miles an hour.

Relative humidity. 7:30 a. S3 per cent; 1:30 p. 73; 7:30 p. 78.

(Official weather report an page 121 awerag P' cireufofiM MARCH, 1945 955,000 in txcts 1 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE sumed the entire plenary session (the Russians the Polish territory and will be continued in another, they demanded and provided for a plenary session tomorrow. Another development was the Continued on page 6, column 1 Tribune Features Crossword Puzzle 6 Day by Day on the Page 22 Dick Tracy Page 26 Editorials Fagel4 Friend of the Yanks Page 11 Gasoline Alley Page 25 Gumps Page 28 Harold Teen Page 28 Inquiring Camera Page 20 Mary Meade Moon Mullins Page 23 Neighbors 10 Obituaries Pagi 25 Orphan Annie Page 26 Radio Programs 28 Emilin' Jack Page 24 Esiitty Page 28. Terry Page 12, SVimue Winkle Page 28.