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Measure Allows Cities to Set Up Self Liquidating Sewage Plants Governor Martin today signed a bill to help municipalities set up self liquidat ing sewage treatment plants a part of the Governors stream cleanup campaign. Harrisburg a week ago re ceived a detailed report on a proposed sewage disposal plant to cost $1,760,000 Coun cil referring the project to the ways and means commit tee of the municipal post war planning committee headed by Commissioner Warren h. Lyme. Lyme's committee will report; imM to GEORGE FRANK MITCHELL City Sailor Killed In Ivvo Invasion, on the advisability of Proceeding, nt Parents mt ormed The site proposed is south of Elliott street between Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad tracks. The engineers were Gannett, Fleming, Corddry and Carpenter.

Senator Clarence D. Becker, Republican, Lebanon, who sponsored the bill, said that it streamlines and broadens the existing municipal authorities' law and provides "additional safeguards for ratepayers and taxpayers." The original act, passed in authorized municipalities to set up authorities to acquire and op erate utilities and other local services. Under the new amendments, local units of government may create a separate authority agency to build and operate sewage disposal plants on a self supporting basis. One provision limits the scope of authorities, providing that the powers of the act "shall not be exercised tne construction, im provement, maintenance, exten sion or operation of any project which in whole or in part shall duplicate or compete with existing enterprises serving substan tially the same purpose. The new law gives common (Continued on Page 6, CoL 5) layor Bans Whistles, Sirens on Day Whistles, sirens and fire bells to announce Day have been banned here by Mayor Howard E.

Milliken who has acted in co op eration with the request of President Truman that work be continued when announcement of Germany's unconditional surrender is made. i No public announcement will be made of the event except information received from newspapers and the radio and Mayor Milliken Jias urged all residents to continue working and maintain full war time production. Action Is Speeded On Bills to Free City Toll Bridges The House of Representatives was prepared today to give the Taylor Wade bills providing for the acquisition of ten toll bridges in Pennsylvania their second reading and the same time prepare them for third reading and final passage tomorrow. They have already been passed in the Senate by a 50 to 0 vote. The bills, sponsored by Senator M.

Harvey Taylor, Dauphin, and Senator George N. Wade, Cumberland, provide for the purchase of the ten spans by direct dealings with the owners or by condemnation. The bridges include the Market street, Walnut street, and fclarks Ferry structures. Today Representative Wray burn Hall, Potter, chairman of I the House Committee on High ji ways, reported to the floor the Taylor Wade bill giving the Sec retary of Highways discretion in the construction of a bridge from Third and Forster streets to Wormleysburg at a cost not to ex ceed $4,000,000. The bill was read for the first time.

The funds for the purchase of the toll bridges and the construction of a new bridge are to be appropriated from the Motor License Fund. The House today was also ready to read tne Taylor bill, providing appropriation for a new Executive Mansion, for a second time. The Capitol Park Extension bill, also sponsored by Senator Taylor, was on the third reading and final passage calendar today. 1 George Frank Mitchell, seaman first class, was killed in action February 19 on Iwo Jima, the Navy Department has informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Mitchell, 1919 Mulberry street. A member of the Seabees, he was at tached to the Fourth Marine Di vision. Seaman Mitchell enlisted in the Seabees on his 18th birthday in July, 1943. He completed basic training at Camp Perry, and underwent advanced instruction at bases in Rhode Island and California. In March, 1944, he went overseas.

Prior to enlistment Seaman Mitchell was a member of the senior class at John Harris High School. He was a Harrisburg Telegraph carrier. Surviving in addition to his parents are brothers, Frank P. Mitchell, yeoman 1c, Newport, R. Michael Mitchell, Philadelphia; one sister, Jean Mitchell, at home.

5th Army Suffers 109,163 Casualties In Italy Campaign Washington, May 3, (JP) The conquest of Italy from the time of the Allied landing in September, 1943, until April 28 cost the American Fifth Army 109,163 casualties. Secretary of War Stimson, re porting this today, said the total included 21,577 killed, 77,248 wounded and HM38 missing. At the same time, Stimson dis closed that army casualties in all theatres since the beginning of the war have reached 848,089 on the basis of names compiled here through April 21. With Navy losses of 102,383, this pushed the losses for both services since Pearl Harbor to 940,472 an increase of 21,099 since last week's report. Stimson said that the uncon Continued on Page 6, Col.

5) Tokio Cautious Over Hitler's Death Reports San Francisco, My 3, (JP) Tokio newspapers are treating reports of Adolf Hitler's death with caution, Domei, the Japanese news agency, reported to day. In a broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commission, Domei quoted Asahi, prominent Tokio publication, as saying editorially "it would be advisable for us to adopt an attitude of watchful waiting until, the European situation has become a bit clearer." Flames Sweep Warehouse in Junk Yard at 7th andjlelker Fire of undetermined origin today raged through the second floor of the Max Cohen Sons junk yard warehouse, Seventh and Kelker streets, causing damage to the build ing and contents estimated at $15,060 to $18,000. The two story concrete block building, owned by Jacob Cohen, 2230 North Third street, is valued at $25,000. Flames were seen shooting from the second story window by J. E.

Schreadley, building contractor, whose office is opposite the structure, when he arrived shortly after 8 a. m. today. He sounded a box alarm. Chief Earl W.

Swartz sounded a general alarm, calling out all available equipment in the city. Five men, Cohen, Lewis Cohen, 2710 Penn street a relative of the owner; Irvin Miller, and James Shelley, 1008 North Sixth street; and Nathan were working on the first floor, bailing paper, when they smelled smoke. Going to the elevator shaft to investigate, they saw flames in the shaft at the second floor. They telephoned City Hall shortly after Schreadley had sounded the box alarm. Cohen, owner of the building, said pounds of rags in bags and bales which arrived from Wil liamsport yesterday in a box car were unloaded and stored on the second floor.

He placed the loss at $1000. Two tons of storage batter ies on the first floor were badly damaged by water, he said. He said he carried only a few thousand dollars insurance on the contents of the building which covers only a small part of the loss. The building, 60x150 feet, was damaged considerably and Mr. Schraedley, contractor, who b't the warehouse for Cohen, said will be unable to make repairs for some time due to a lack of materials.

Firemen were praised by Cohen (Continued on Page 21, CoL 3) Congressmen Return After Visiting Camps New York, May 3, resentatives Leonard W. Hall (R. N.Y.) and Gordon Canfield (R. N.J.) arrived at LaGuardia Airport by plane early, today after viewing the horrors of Nazi prison camps in Germany. They were among a group of congressmen and newspaper executives who visited the atrocity camps at the invitation of Gen.

Eisenhower. At he alighted from his Army transport plane, Hall said he believed all pictures of the Buchen wald camp, "although revolting in every respect," should be shown to the American people. British Planes Stage 4 Attacks on Kiel Base London, May 3, (If) British Mosquitos broke a six day lull in the Allies' bombing offensive last night with four separate attacks on the German naval base at KieL where many boats are known to be lying. Three of the attacking bombers were lost to anti aircraft fire. I Other night raiders continued destructive blows at enemy trans port in Northern Germany at tacked several airfields in the Danish peninsula and harassed German elements seeking to escape to Denmark or Norway by sea.

Nazi Brutality Unequaled in History, Study of German Atrocities Show Supreme Headauarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Paris, May r). The German occupahon of France was described by Supreme Headquarters today as a reign of terror filled with brutality and cruelty "on a scale unequalled in history." The indictment was made in a documented study by the Psycho logical Warfare Division "to convince possible skeptics that German atrocities are not just a lot of prapaganda." The study consists of thirteen volumes of reports on German crimes throughout France, collected by American and British officers with the help of the French Intelligence Service. It will be published soon in the United States and Britain. In some cases confessions have already been obtained from Germans who were subsequently taKen prisoner. The conclusion of Allied officers who visited scores of French villages, interviewed witnesses and collected photographs of atrocities was: "The whole thing was part of a fixed policy of brutal repression if not extermination." The study embraced these categories of crimes: Mass execution of hostages, mass execution of re (Continued on Fare 6, CoL 3) TELEGRAPH RAIN VOL CXV No IDS 22 PAGES Daily Except Sunday.

Entered as Second OisiMR IVWtt Mtter at the Post Office at Harrisburg By AI Dopking Guam, May 3, (JP). Swooping in at medium height in a dayliffht strike, between fifty and 100 Superfortresses attacked airfields on Kyushu Island of Southern Japan for the thirteenth time in five weeks. TheB 29s swept over six air dromes which have been sending suicide planes against the U. naval forces supporting the Okinawa invasion, 325 miles south of Kyushu. Bombardiers dropped their loads visually and reported results were good.

Today's raid was the first major blow for Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay's Marianas based Superforts since Monday when a triple mission was flown against airfields at Kyushu, the industrial city of Hammatasu on Honshu island, and the Tach ikawa air arsenal 24 miles west of Tokio. Airdromes struck today were at Tachiarai, Miyazaki, Miyakanojo, Kanoya, Kanoya East, and Ko kubu. Guam, May 3, (JP) Daring U.

S. 7th Division infantrymen drove a tank lead spearhead 1400 yards into the tough Japanese defenses on southern Okinawa yesterday to (Continued on Page 21, CoL 4) Hamburg Radio Says Farewell to Listeners London, May 3 (JP) The Ham burg radio which, alone among the few remaining German controlled stations, has been heard transmit ting the German communique the last few days, said farewell to its listeners today after announcing that British occupation forces were entering the city. Britain Operating 4 Carriers" in Pacific New York, May 3, (P) Four of Britain's largest and most power lut aircran carriers, a. M. S.

Indomitable, Indefatigable, Victorious and Illustrious, now are operating in the Pacific, the British information services said today. Fmmmdsd 131 HARRISBURG, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 3. 1945 First One well known Soviet com mentator, Nikolai Tikhonov, de clared in Pravda that "Hitler is not in Berlin." "Whether he fled to his devils' nest, to the other world or to the embraces of some Fascist pro tectorate it's all the same. He isn't in Berlin. We'll find out what actually happened to him, and if he has fled we 11 find him (Continued on Page 6, Col.

6) Stimson Believes Hitler Is Dead, War Almost Over Washington, May 3, (if) Sec retary of War Stimson subscribed today to President Truman's be lief that Adolf. Hitler is dead. "It is apparent that the war against Germany has not long to run." He told a news conference he had "no more evidence than has been given in general sources, mostly in the press, but that (be lief that Hitler is dead) is my con clusion. The Secretary asserted that the news of the execution of Mussolini and the reported death of Hitler had a timely Laval Imprisoned In Spanish Fort. Fears French Trial By Charles S.

FolU Montjuich Citadel, Spain, May 3, (JP). Pierre Laval, Vichy's former chief of government who sought refuge in Spain, listened to the "Voice of America" broad cast in French today for outside news in thi3 stone military prison 600 feet above Barcelona harbor. I saw him enter the fortress in an American automobile which brought him from the airport where he landed in a German bomber at noon yesterday. A felt hat was pulled tightly over his creased forehead. He fingered and smoothed the white tie which for years was his political trademark.

He surveyed impassively ip 15 il fx .1 SIGNING SURRENDER DOCUMENT IN ITALY Lt. Gen. W. D. Morgan (seated), of the British Army, signs the instrument of surrender of German forces in Northern Italy and Western Austria April 29 in the royal palace at Caserta, near Naples, Italy.

Standing (left to right) Lt. Col. J. G. Sweetman, deputy secretary to Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander; Rear A dm.

S. S. Lewis, chief of staff to commander of U. S. Naval forces in North African waters; Air Vice Marshal G.

B. A. Baker, chief of staff to deputy air commander in chief, Mediterranean; Maj. Gen. A.

P. Kislenko, Russia; Lt. M. Vraevsky, Russia; Maj. Gen.

L. L. Lemnitzer, deputy chief of staff, Allied force headquarters. (AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps radio.) Thousands of Once Proud Prussians Surrender Arms As Hush of Dead Nation Lies Over Ruins of Berlin By Eddy Gilmore Moscow, May 3, () Thousands of dirty and unshaven Germans shuffled through the Brandenburg Gate under the pillars of victory in fallen Berlin today to' lay down ineir arms wnere goosestepping Prussians lormeny paraded their triumphs. The hush of a dead nation lay over the smoking, broken capital, interrupted onlv by occasional explosions in the ruins.

There was no further information on the fate of Hitler or his nrooaeanda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who were said by Goebbels' deputy to have committed suicide when their dream of Berlin as the capital of the world collapsed about them. But the rtussians were checking the story, 29s Blast Air Bases on Kyushu To Halt Jap Raids 2 Generals Freed By Hitler's Death, Give Up to Allies With the U. S. 42nd Division in Germany, May 3, (JP). Maj.

Gens. Arnold Wilhelm, chief com munications officer, and Rudolf Schrader, signal supply head, of the German Home Area, have surrendered because they consider themselves freed by Hitler's death from their oath to they said today. The two generals and Schra der's assistant, Col. Otto Kollner, gave up voluntarily yesterday. "Now that Hitler's death is announced there is nothing to prevent any officer's surrendering," Wilhelm said.

"The war is over so far as we are concerned." Schrader reported: "I was im plicated in the generals' putsch of Juiy 1944 (when an attempt was made on Hitler's life, but wasn't caught. There have been great divergences of opinion between the Wehrmacht and the Nazi Party for a long time. The continuation of the war is madness." While awaiting transportation to a prisoner of war camp from present Rainbow Division head quarters in a forlorn, rain soaked village, the high ranking German officers gazed wistfully at the endless procession of tanks, heavy guns, bulldozers and jeeps passing aiong me muddy road. Women Supported For Peace Council Feminine experience in keep ing family relations on an even keel could be put to good use in building a better understanding in the family of nations, Pennsylvania's four women Legislators agreed today. The quartet is supporting ap pointment of women delegates to the governing council of any international peace organization.

The members of tne House are: Reps. Anne Brancato, real estate and insurance broker; Mary A. V.rallo, jeweler, and Josephine where he was brought to awaitC cylei Philadelphia Democrats; land Rep. Jeanete M. Dye, Mercer (Continued on Page 6, Col.

3) county Republican and Only Evening Associated Press Newspaper in SINGLE COPIES Harrisburg. News Around the Clock THREE CENTS Mia Norway Isolated By New Junction Of British, Reds Paris, May 3, (AP). Hamburg surrendered to the British today as the war in Europe drew toward its close. Remnants of one beaten German division after another surrendered. Denmark and Norway were isolated by British Russian junctions on the Baltic.

The Western and Eastern Allies linked up at new points during the day. The largest of many German death traps was shrinking in the where Gen. Eisenhower's three army assault moved close to a junction with the Russians in Eastern Austria. The Third Army moved to within 39 miles of Berchtesgaden and the Seventh closed to within seven of Innsbruck. Field Marshal Kesselring's rear had been thrown wide open by the surrender of nearly 1,000,000 Germans opposing the Allies on the Italian front.

Gains in the south ranged up to 28 miles. Hamburg was the second largest city of Germany and its leading port. The metropolis of 1,682,220 on the Lower Elbe had long since been devastated by American and British bombs. Its Blohm and Voss shipyards and Deutsche Werke submarine works had spawned much of Germany's fleet and merchant marine. Its Deutsche refinery had pro duced up to 30,000 tons of oil a month.

I One of the. Inet wmsrVt nt tVio iSeivs bxpected To Clear Up Move Of Nazi Troops In Scandinavia London, May 3, (JP) The Luxembourg radio said today many German commanders in Zeeland and Jutland were surrendering to Danish mayors, and that German rule in Denmark appeared to be nearing its end. By Robert N. Sturdevant Stockholm. May 3, (P).

A re sponsible diplomat who cannot be more closely identified said developments clearing up the sit uation regarding German garri sons holding out in Denmark and Norway might occur today. The diplomat offered no de tails in support of his statement, but emphasized that the situation was so fluid a break might come at any moment. Previously Swedish authorities expressed anxiety concerning the effect Grand Admiral Karl Doe nitz' apparent control of a rump German government might have on the chances for a bloodless capitulation in Norway and Denmark. Danish underground sources said Werner Best, German plenipotentiary in Denmark, had been called to a conference with Doe (Continued on Page 6, Col. 4) 14 Soldiers Hurt In Collision of Bus, Automobile Fourteen soldiers and a motor ist were injured early today when a Capitol Bus en route to In.

diantown Gap turned over on its side after colliding with an auto mobile in the new Jonestown road at the Linglestown intersection, five miles east of the city. Cpl. Frank Russell of the State Police reported. The injured were taken to the Indiantown Gap Hospital, before the arrival of the Harrisburg Hospital ambulance, summoned by State Police. State.

Policeman Charles S. Graci, said the auto, traveling towards Harrisburg, was driven by J. P. Staltzfus, 68, Gap, and the bus by Adolph Burke, 96 North Seventeenth street, this city. Burke escaped uninjured.

Admitted to the hospital were Master Sergeant Malcolm Temple ton, possible fractured right knee; First Lieut. Robert Stewart, possible fractured ribs; Capt Lawrence Russell, possible frac tured ribs, and Stoltfus, possible fractured right leg. Pensions Boosted The House Welfare Committee today released a Senate bill to increase blind pensions from $30 to $40 a month. i Hamburg radio was that Prague capital of Czechoslovakia and now the largest city remaining in German hands had been declared a "hospital city." The radio had proclaimed Hamburg an "open city" shortly before the British Second Army of Lt. Gen.

Sir Miles C. Dempsey entered. It was the first German city so desig ated. Chaos reigned in the north. British and attached American troops burst defense after defense and gathered tens of thou sands of prisoners.

Hamburg fell with hardly a struggle. The surrender terms called for British occupation and control not only of the city itself but also of a ten mile arc sur rounding it on the north side of the Elbe. This placed the British within 37 miles of Kiel, the main German naval base, and 72 of Denmark. The commander of occupation troops placed the entire city under curfew and ordered all residents except utility plant workers confined to their homes after 1 p. m.

today. "Hamburg is an open city," the radio there one of the last in German hands proclaimed. "British occupation troops are now entering the city." The jrthern German holdings were split into several untenable pockets and the southern section was shrunk by the surrender in Italy of nearly 1,000,000 German combat and service troops. The Alpine "redoubt" was virtually wiped out under terms of the sur render. The Germans still held Bohemia and Moravia, Eastern Austria and the mountainous region of Northwest Yugoslavia.

Eventhis southern section was about to be split by a junction of Gen. Patton's Third Army and the Russians around the Austrian city of Linz. The British and Russians join (Continued on Page 21, Col. 2) Swiss to Maintain Armed Vigilance Bern, May 3, (JP) Armed vigil ance on the Swiss frontiers fac ing Germany, Italy and will be maintained to uphold Swiss neutrality and prepare for any attempted German flight to Switzerland after a general capitulation, the government announced today. A strong standing army is con sidered necessary because during the past year 60,000 refugees have approached the Swiss frontiers and since April 20 approximately 4000 refugees have been arriving daily.

The government announcement was made after authorities considered partial demobilization of the Swiss army to meet manpower needs. THE WEATHER V. 8. WMther Bnrea Sunrise, 6.04; sunset, 8.03. Harrisburg and vicinity Cloudy and cool through Friday with rain continuing this afternoon and to night, becoming intermittent on Friday.

Moderate winds. High today, 48; tomorrow, 50; yester day, 60; low tonight, 44; last night. 45; river, 5.3 feet Friday..