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The Daily Time News BURLINGTON Population 2133 Alamance Connly 57,127 VOL. 61 NO. 51 ASSOCIATED FBESS SHRVJCB BURLINGTON MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1945 FULL NEA SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENT! AMERICANS JOIN REDS AT NEW POINT SOVIET TANKS SMASH PARK IN WEATHER Fair U4 Coel TonJfhL Tuesday Fair Warmer. BERLIN Capital Fall New Surrender Is Reported Offorarl Tr i i 1 Position Formed TUT Still In Pocket; ror iNazis British Cabinet StandingBy Hard Infamous Dachau Prison Is jchurchffl Drafting Fighting For Munich ao ACL 11 i ivvu uytnu, tsJin units Small Arms Blaz With 32,000 Men Released On Increasing Scale Today BY AUSTIN' REALM EAR I Paris, April SO (AP) I The American Ninth army el tarnished anotner contal 'ith the Russians three mill svest of Wittenbersr todal creating a smail new untel able Gorman pocket betwssl their diminishing' northetl and southern redoubts. A hard battle was in pro! ress in the south for Mtinicl birthplace of the Nazi pari id larirust German citv entered by the Americans.

I Munich still was holding shortly before noon and arms lire was increasing. ments nf at least four Seven! pressed mto 1 Bavarian capital from the i west and southwest. Other Seventh army trool sirucx ocep into the German dj tional redoubt within 12 mUes I CROWD AT WHITE HOUSE CI EEER.S SURRii MIEJR. REPORT A cloud before a gate I Innsbruck and 20 of the Brenrl nf die White House, in Washington cheers in celebration of the in ender, holding up hlari headlined newspapers. Latei Prcsidei Is Reported ByRussians ymminenl Reds Are Fighting Right In Heart Of Nazi Gity London, April SO (AP) nussian tank's nave smashed into the Tieearten.

Beriin's Central park converted into an underground fortress, the Nazi controlled Oslo radio said today, and Moscow reports said the fait of the capital was imminent. The newspaper Pravda said the Russians were fighting in the ruins of Unter den Linden, the spacious avenue in the' heart of Berlin that at the Tiergarten. Earlier Moscow dispatches said the Russians were apronching the spacious park. Tlie Hamburg radio, chief Naii transmitter still broadcasting in Germany, proclaimed that hard battle far Berlin reached its climax today," Reports. Moscow dispatches said Marshals Gregory K.

Zaukov and Ivan S. Konev, commanding Red armies at Berlin, were tfoina? nut for a May day victOTy and had thrown in maximum artillery and air power to reduce the wans' strongholds 1n the center of. the citv. Soviet dispatches from Berlin said the Nazis hemmed in a very small area marie tip roughly of the Tiergarteri, the Reichstag district just to its north, the Wilhelm strasse administrative quarter and district centered on Unter den most of the crowded commercial Linden running east from the Tiergarten. By districts, this waa the general hattle line, Moscow said: .1, Northwest, there was fighting along the Spree river near tin Leader freiuhl yards iust oppositi the northern edge ol the Tiergar t.en and 700 yards northwest of the Keichstag.

2. In the northern sector, bat tles raged jurt south ol the Stet tiner railway station near the Orauionhurger gate to the inner city, about 1,0110 yards north of tbe Kelgsttag III Eastern Sector. t. About the eastern sector there was not much definite Information. The Russians were said to he near the Alexander sate 4.

Tn the snutheast hitter fight ing was swaying near the wnneim strasse. 5. The southern sector was the scene of hard battles north of An halter station near the Potsdamer Plata and Prinz Albrechtstrasse. 8. Tn the snuthwest there fighting about a mile and a quarter from the ma at the edge of the Tiergarten.

Here the Russians were moving ahead rapidly. 7. The western sector battles had reached almost to the edge of the Tiergarten with very heavy hand CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO KePrt loMouse For Tomorrow London, April 30 (AP) A new surrender offer from Heinrich Himmier, presumably to all three pow ers, was understood to be "on its way" today. British cabinet ministers were ordered to stand by as swiftly moving developments pointed to Germany's collapse. Prime Minister Churchill was reported oreoarlne: a statement for onununs tomorrow May Day but there was no indication of whal he might say.

This capital was outwardly calm, even though A Day announcement was expected at any hour. There was more ministerial activity in Whitehall than there bad been in some time. There were indications tiint only details of Germany's surrender re mained to be worked out. These may concern whether Himmier any other ranking Nazi chief); could give solid evidence that German pockets on the Atlant coast and In Norway would lay down their arms. Uncertainty Prevails It was pussible that uncertainty over the temper of commanders an aareement on details.

The British Press Association said "there is no longer any rtnubt that armistice moves are in pro gress an.1 movii sv.i lv. Speculation centered aruuiid tlie possibility that May Day might be chosen for a victory rent. It was felt here, however, that before this comes Stalhi mav uounce tlie capture of Berlin thai the Russians are determined: to claim this prize befure the Nazis will be allowed to give up. This mav take a few c.ivs. r.ee Moscow Is always cautious in an nouncing the capture of any major place.

May Lift Blackout1 Many people say significance 1n the tWD reports that Churchill may and the Russian merit that the Moscow blackout! will be lifted London newspapers carried headlines saying; "Hitler dying: War may end today. II was ubviuus thai any sur render by Heinrich Himmier, be fore it could be accepted, would have to include solid evidence that he could brine; about the capi tulation of all sizeable German pockets from Italy to Norway. dispatch from Stockholm quotintnthe Newspaper Dagens Nyheter said Count Fnlke Berna dotte, who was desenhed as the (nan who last week relayed Himmler's offer to surrender Ger many to the United States and Britain, had made a new con ct with the Gestapo head. The reonrt said Bernsdotte re turned to Germany Saturday and CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO offtcially announced First In May Yet Be First For Discharge Washington, April 30. W) A "first iu fiisl ouL" furniula far de mobilizing fighling men was pro posed today bv Senator Johnson (D.Colo.l.

Johnson said tlie point system the army announced months aco as Its program for determining dis charge priorities is much too complicated and contains elements of unfairness. "When mass demobilization be gliLi, llle army shuuld turn the men order it inducted them," the Caloradoan asserted. "That's simple enough for every body to understand, there would be a minimum of paper work, and' I believe the G.I.'s themselves will be for it. It's fair." Johnson said he hasn't made any headway trying to persuade the War Department to adopt this FIFO formula. As a result, he added be nrohahly will intromn legislation to accomplish the pur pose.

Under the army's plan, priority for discharge wnuld bo based on four factors: Total time spent in the service; number uf months overseas; credit for combat, including decorations and service stars denoting battle participation; and number of depenednt children (not to exceed three) under 18 years nf age. lounded report of Germany's of which the Tyrolean i is the northern gateway. LL GM Alexander m. fatcn troops vi 3,000 feet or more up into i snow capped Bavarian Alps a had captured the winter resorts I oarmiscn pnncnwrchen. British Take Fort TJie British in the north i tured Lauenhurg and deepen! their Elbe river hridgehead to miles.

The Tommies were with! 19 miles of Hamburg, 28 of. Lnl tieek and B7 of DenmaWr. The new junction was east I Dessau at Apnliendorf, 51 mil northwest of Heisa In the Dresdel Leipiig area the Russia! and American First army first and cut Germany in two, Amel can forces were released for otbl duties by the new meeting. rV'Hth army troops crossed i Mulde river and pushed 14 mlB east to meet the Russians. Thl also burst out ot their Elbe rivl bridgehead and swept 12 east uf captured Zcrbsl to nositirj soulh of Brandenburg, a satclul eily of Berlin.

Reports continued to roach preuie headquarters that tbe G1 mans were attempting to Tiegotisl In Tbe South In the south, the Third drove within three miles of sau, heavily defended Austrfl rity and gateway to Linz, wbM the Germans said was being by both the Third and the Russians from west I Vienna. A junctioi would cut off Czechoslovakia carve the enemy into three pool CONTINUED ON PARK TWfji Br HOWARD COWAN Dachau, Germany. April 30 The TJ. S. 4.2nd and 45th divisions captured the infamous Dachau prison camp today and freed its 32.00D captives.

Two columns of infantry riding tanks, bulldozers and Long Tom rifles anything with wheels lulled down iron) the northwest and surprised the S. S. (Elite rnrp.i) guards We exr tion camp shortly after the lunch hour. Scores of S. S.

men were taken prisoner and dozens slain. The American doughboys quickly joined by "trusties" working outside the sprawling barbed wire enclosure. Poles, Frenchmen and Russian seized S. 3. weapons and turned them against their cap tors.

Infantrymen of the 157th regi ment, 45th division, reached the SandyGraham Chosen Head Highway Bod Raleigh, If. April 80 A. H. (Sandy) Graham of HHIs boro, former Lieutenant Governor, was appointed by Governor Cherry today as the; State Highway and Public Work's; commission for a four year term. Graham will succeed Chan man Charles Ross, for many vtars with the mission as chief counsel.

The last Fulltime Chairman, Ben Prince of Hcmlersonviue. was given leave of absence by former Gov Brounhton more than two yean agD when Prince went into army. u. a. nicurary oi rtsne bora, a retiring commissioner, followed Prince as acting chairman McCrary remained a eommis oner, however.

Graham's salary wtU be fixed i the Governor and the Advisory Budget commission, as authorized by a 1945 statute. The post ci rentlv oavs a year. Grnhi was high on Cherry's advisory staff during the 1844 gubernator ial urinary. Five new commissioners also ere appointed. They ire: Mer rill Evans of Ahoskie, first district; Dr.

Henry W. Jordan of Cedar Falls, sixth district; Ben E. Douglas of Charlotte, seventh district; J. Raymond Smith of Mount Airy, eighth district, and John A. Goode of Asheville, tenth district.

Reappointed were John Clark of Greenville, second district: Guy V. Gooding of Kenansville. third district; John Hackney of Wilson, fourth district; Geortfi Kane of Roxboro. fifth district, and Mai Watson of Forest City, ninth district. Aogry Milan citizens pushed and shuved against the Partisans guard ing the bodies, some succeeded In breaking through and (pitting upon II Duces Body.

One emptied the clip of his automatic pistol into tbe lifeless form. An other punched th? once famed jutting jaw. was shot through me head by the Partisans after he was captured Friday by sergeant ap proaching the Swiss border. He and the other Fascist leaden were fleeing in a truck convoy. He spent Friday night In a tl at San Domingo prison la Como.

He was reported in terrible state of agitation, and made attempts to strike up conversations with Ms guards, "Why oo one hen to defend me?" he was Quoted as savins. He died shouting "Nol Nol" to the firing squad, eye witnesses re i camp's gate about the same time as did Lt. Col. Donald Downard. Olympla, commander of the 2nd battalinn.

222nd regiment, of the 42nd division. Jan Yindrich, British war cor respondent, and I a few minutes later saw tile same thing that greeted the soldiers 39 open type railroad cars standing siding which went through walls of Dachau camp. At Jlfst glance the cars seemed loaded with dirty clothing. Then you saw feel, heads, and bony fingers. More than half the were full nf bodies, hundreds of bodies.

Downard was driving, in a along a string of cars when a sold shouled: Cuiue here, quick, Colonel, here's a live one!" Downard climbed over the pil CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO U. S. Fighters Are Enraged By Jap Raid Guam, April 30. American Doughboys, enraged over a Jap anese pilot's suicidal attack 'helpless navy huspital ship uating their wounded buddies, fuught doggedly toward for two airfields their immediate objec tives on southern Okinawa. The fully.loaded, unarmed, ewnrted II.

s. S. Comfort WE tacked and heavily damaged 50 miles south of Okinawa, weniy killed, 33 wounded and mission. The kiUed eluded six army nurses and five army medical officers. Althouah the 13.000 ton vessel as readily identifiable aa search lights olaved on the giant red crosses pointed on ner gieaminj; white decks and superstructure the Japanese pilot made several runs at her nrellminarv to his kamikaze (suicidal) attack, report ed Associated Press Correspondent Vera Haugland, These other developments weri reported in Fleet Admiral Chestei W.

Ntrolte's communique today: Total American casualties oi Okinawa and nearby islands wen 11,413, including 1.U47 Kllieu, through Friday. The Japanese sent about MO air craft in wave after small against American forces off Oki nawa for 15 hours trom saturaay noon until 2:15 a. m. Sunday. They "caused some damage to light units! of the fleet" at a cost ol iih at tacking planes shot down." Douahhoys of lc 27th infantry division captured the northern half of Machinato airfield, 2 1 2 miles north of naha.

Okinawa i capital on the west coast. The Seventh Infantry division gained heights overlooking Yonahard air drome on the east oonst. Navy planes ranged as far north i Japan Friday through Sunday, scorinc four bomb hits on cargo ships in oonvoy Kyushu; at tacking snipping tne snimo noseki itraiaht western entrance to the Inland sea and destroying small cargo ship, damaging sev others and flrinsr a picket ship in waters around JCytHrw. Honshu and Ryukyus. Haualand seid tht attack Comfort was at least the third in the Okinawa campaign on V.

s. hospital ships. These were the first reported Nipponese assaults on American Ttssels of mercy, although an Australian hospital ship was heavily damaged in the south west Pacific about a Tear ago. Cas ualtles on the Australian vessel murh treeOr than the fcTl'i Ashore, the doughboys advances ere general all along the south Okinawa front. Okinawa has ed Marlhe plane Joined, carrier pilots and ships' guns In bombarding enemy positions ahead of the American casualties were tHvtd ed as follows: Army 1.527 killed, wounded and 41 a missing.

Marines M0 killed, UK Infantrymen Strike Davaoi South, East Manila, April 3(1. (P) U. S. in fantrymen drove on Davan cily from the south and east today, sup ported by planes operating off a freshly captured airfield just 30 miles south of the big Mandatiao port city, one of the last Japanese strong points in the Philippines. Swift American boats ap peared in Davoo gulf for Ihc first lime Saturday and shelled installations at that principal hemp port of the archipelago.

Ynnks of tbe 24th Infantry division were within 25 road miles of Davao on the iouth and the 31st (Dixie) division, nerly committed to the navan campaign in which a fierce fight is expected about 65 miles east ot the city. The 24th captured the Padada airfield, on the shore o( Davao gulf, without a fight. The lielr ittered with wrecked japanc nlanes, quickly put into oper ation. Gen. Douelas MacArthur.

mean time, announced additional B.Sril Japauees dead had been counted and 21B prisoners taken in the Phllinoinas in the nasi week against American casualties of killed and i.Joa wuunaen. Soviet Foreign Commissar Molo was reported to have told his big power colleagues Stettinlusi of the United States, Eden of Brit and Suong of China that he: IS willing to hava Arge vited if tbe Warsaw government! of Poland also is asked to send delegation hers. Britain and the United States, whose leaders ol: the support of China, at determined against this Polish arrangement. There was much talk the iseu mleht oome to a head at today'i steering committee session where measure of big. power unity was irestored only Inst Friday.

However, appeared that it would be ini tiated in trie executive committee meeting earlier. One plan which the Latin American strategists have virtual agreed an is that either Chile Brazil, both of which are exe cutive committee members, should to add Argentina to a pend ing proposal to Invite the White Virtual End Of War Seen Across Italy Home. April 30 tPi Gon. Mark Clark. ISth Army jrnup commander, today announcer! Hie virtual end of the long and bloody campaign in Italy.

Declaring thai the German armies in Tlnly have "been vir tually eliminated as fl military force," lie said that 25 enemy div isions have been lorn to pieces in the 22 day offensive of the U. S. Fifth and British Eighth armies. He said the Gernmns "can no longer effectively resi3t our I hut added that scattered lighting may continue. Clark said over lyij.llliu prisnn ers had been captured and that many more were being taken alonit with tremendous quantities of arms and equipment, "The military power of Germany in Italy has practically ceased even thoueil scallercd fifihilne.

may con tinue as remaints o( the German armies are mopped up," Clark said. In the past three weeks Fiftli army troops have slashed their way lo the Swiss border and the Eighth army has reached. If not already crossed, the Piave river and is approaching a junction with the Yugoslavs, 70 miles away. Three of northern Italy's great est cities, Milan, Venice and Genoa were in Allied hands as the Fifth and Eighth armies smashed ahead on several fronts in a continuing route of the Germans. (sjenera! commanu ol tlie n.aiinn freedom volunteer corps directed a message lo Allied headquarters in Italy over the Milan radio ask ing for the "immediate suspen sion ol air operations over tnc town of Abbialegrasso, six miles south of Milan, "because negotia tions are taking place with the comiiMiia uieie.

(The broadcast, reported by tbi FCC. did not state the ing negotiated nor indicate thai the patriots were dealing with Germans of higher rank Lhan local area commanders). The Sfth siied Milan, where the bodies of the executed Bentio Mussolini and 17 Fascist rades lay, while other American troops dashed to the important port of Genoa, liberated two days earlier by Italian patriots, xnc British captured Venice. (A Belgrade hroadca.it recorded by the FCC said Yugoslav partisan troops had entered tne port CLEAN BURGLAR. Pitlsburah, April 3D.

A burglar ransacked the home of Ed ward Purler and made off will $21', clolluiiE an ln But be left a ring around the tub itter casually taking bath dur War Weary Reich Totteri Union Of Forces In Europe (Toward Her Inevitable End Mussolini's Body Spat On, Cursed In Death At Milan; Eighteen Others Executed Is Considered By Delegates To San Francisca Conclave After False Peace Reportl mcnt hit a peak when Senator Col Milan, AprH Spat upon and cursed, the body of Benito Mussolini was the object today of the vengeful wrath of the Italian people whom he had pruniised a place in the sun, but had led Instead to defeat and misery. The former Italian dictator, his beautiful win mistress. Claretta Petaccl, an 17 Fascist leaders were shot to death bv Italian Patriots at Cuilaoo de Mczzer gere, near Como, Saturday after Taken prisoner was Mussolini's war minister, Hudolfo Graxiani. Mussolini and his followers were attempting to flee to Switzerland. Gratianl declared he sought to give himself up.

There was no formal trial, and after tbe executions at 4:10 p. the bodies were piled into a truck and brought to Milan for public exhibition. Yesterday the corpse of the 81 ycnr old former dictator was hung; Woshmgior AprH War.wearv Germany (ottered lo idav tnward the inevitable end that millions fnr a time thought tuallv had President Truman himself sent the Allied world back lo hopeful waiting by calling a dramatic Saf turday nicht news conference. There was, he said, "no foundation for the rumor" that Germany had surrendered unconditionally to the United States, Great Britain and Russia. Behind his terse announcement lay one fact: Heinrich Himmier had olfered to capitulate.

ditionally, to Anglo American forces hut was told to address his plea to Russia as well. Moscow itself confirmed this. Ahead was the realization that Germany can not fight on Inde finitely that the end will whether by a laying down nf or by the sheer weight of Allied military power. Washington reporters heard Mr. Truman's words at the close of a day of mounting tension and 30.

nally told a reporter at the SI Francisco United Nations coriM enee that he expected "moineil tartly" an announcement of GtJ many's surrender with "ni attached." A member of the Auierii egation to the conference called! charter a world organization Keep the peace when it eon Connally first asked that bis not be used. Liiter, after Mr. 1 man's denial, he permitted identity to be made known reiterated his prediction of a mentarv announcement. Even before Connally'i orlfbfl assertion, White House reporttl here were advised in stay arorrfl iney were not told why. Earlier, In seeking rearttaq I the not then confirmed repfl from San Francisco that Miinmfl had offered to capitulate to American forces they were tolefl Presidential Press Secretary Jot man Daniels that the govern! 'has nothing In aay at thif UNITED NATIONS TODAY By The Associated Press Executive committee meets 1 a.

m. Pacific War Time (12 noon, BWT) to discuss Inviting White Russian and Ukrainian representatives here. Steering aommittee meets at 10:30 a. to set up permanent working oommittees of conference. Plenary aeaaion.

Foreign Secretary Eden presiding, called tor p. Br JOHN M. HIGHTOWER San Franclseo. April 30 Iff) BritM American Russian rela tions teetsrad on the rim of an other irisis today, with the Polish again building up behind the of the united fiatiorm ferenee. Efforts of Latin American itiqns to have an Invitation Issued for Argentina to Join the conference appeared to be forcing the showdown this time.

Some confer leaders were privately fear by the heels IP the Pianza Quin dlcl Martir) in Milan, By his side was tht body of bin mistress, blood "inn.jtd pern bf bre FlnTiV TWfi rrvsTTtvinm.