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Annri LifluvJLJ OGImJ LiUlili 0) L-J K-J )2c mtxr lzel FuS U4 TME DAILY JO PACES TODAY CIUCLLATION 11,564 taaf (Itri utio aTiu.e mi io WEATHE F0KECA5T MTir cioior tonight AND Tt HOA Y. tAMx UMrtuucti, NO. 151 CRAND JUNCTION', COLO. FRIDAY EVENING, AJIUL 20, 1915. VO UL Some of the 20,000 German aoldiera taken by allies In a recent advance In Germany ait on tha ground of a 10-acre drill field of a former German military academy awaiting transportation to the rear for clarification.

(AP ssirejJigto.) jWhole Right Flank of Allies Clamping Down On Nazi Mountain Lair TTiirdl Army Clement Inside CxechotTovokia 55 Mile From Bunion; War I Battle of focVeti Along Much of Front; Stuttgart Enclosed on Three Side Py JAMK3 M. LONG rrU, ArrU 20, (Al) Seventh ermjr Amfrifaru captured Nuernberf today, aquelchlng erjinlzed resistance In tht hot-bed of Neziiam, while ISritUh Unk Houghed to within tniie of the auburba of Hamburg, Kurope'e biggest port. The French Firit army stabbed 60 mile outhreut of Straabour; to P-ottweit, 14 milet from the Danube 33 from Lake Constance, weatern limit of the Nazi national redoubt In southern Germany. The ToUm were 25 milea north of Switzerland. The whole allied right flank Including the French and the American Seventh and Third armin waa cUmjw ing down on the mountainou Nazi lair, here Hitler waa believed obnervtnf a gloomy 66th birthday anniversary Stuttgart lika Nuernberg Nazi pilgrimage city waa enclosed on three ide.

a J'x- -Tv" J- i Zn v) Powerful American Drive, Supported by Big on Okinawa Americans Seizt 44th end 45th Islands of Philip pines Invasion; Jap Oil Supply From Borneo Ceases As Landing Is Made 45 Miles to North Gum, April 20. (AP) A powerful American offensive, supported bv terrific nival and artillery shelliny, was under wsy in full fury today aaslnst elaborate Japanese defense acrtxw southern Okinawa. Three U. S. division possibly 45,000 troops were haxnmerinir fiercely-defended enemy position along a four-mile battlefront before the capital city of Naha.

Breaking a 13-day virtual deadlock In the south, Yanks of the 27th and 96th army divisiona launched their all-out push early yesterday and by noon had scored gains of 500 to 800 yard on both flanks. The advance was slowed in the center. The 10th armys big push pitted the great American offensive force ever employed against a single aector in the Pacific war against the best defended Japanese line ever yet encountered. 'I 4 i Greafer Army Of Occupation May Be Needed frobfem Feeing Allies In Germany Mor Difficult Than Anticipated By WES GALLAGHER M( 4bar(, Gereuay Ay 41 2I.U A fir greater arsay ef MspiUts assy be earemr is Cenaaey thaa erlftaatty pile-eed Ie view a Ike prakiema as-prrWaeed te date. Even with tha vast number ef Allied troop now in Germany tha Job of administering the territory already overrun is proving muck more difficult thaa antlrt-pated.

Germany are Is a festering sore In tka keart mt Europe, koeslng a mam mt misery ns-beard mt la modern blotery. No on know this better than Hitler, and he baa the organization ready to help make the trouble the newly-formed werewolves. lOn reason why larger army of occupetion may be needed Is uf(est4 by a statement made resterday by Gen. Amar N. Brad-ey.

12th army group commander (In my Sblnlon." he said, when tthe enemy) did not quit last fall, after had proved to hire that be was licked. It was clear that we would not be thru until had occupied ail of There are net nearly encash military rarernment teams at hand. Civil law krok dawn ta meat town when the Nasi departed. for they held ail key Troops cannot spared for this job. Frw doughboys apeak German, Russian, or Polish virtually a prerequisite If administration problems are to be bandied Intelligently.

The combat troops bar done their best and moved on. Jf A I Truman Moving Cautiously Into Roosevelt's Seat On Council of War Strategy Weight of New President Likely to Be Felt In Pad-i fic Decisions Two School of 'Thought on Jop Where Units on West Front Fighf A Mortal 4 Prs 21st army group: Canadians 10 miles from Utrecht, nearly Hydro and WUhelnuharea; British closed in on Bremen from three ides, battered to outskirts of llarburg. big Hamburg suburb. 12th army army wheeled southeast ol Bayreuth ta advance toward Czechoslovak border; battered to outskirts ef Chemnitz: first army mopped up in Halle after capture of Leipzig; Ninth army massed, at the Elbe. Sixth army group: Americans battled fanatical remnants Nuernberg, drove within 70 miles of Munich: French threatened Stuttgart with encirclement.

The armies In the watt; Canadian First: Drov within 10 milea of Utrecht: edged tow arc Emdett and WUhelmsbaven, British Second: Reached 'out-skirts of llarburg, big Hamburg suburb; closed fn on Bremen from three side. U. S. Ninth: Massed at Elbe. U.

S. First: Mopped up in Halle. U. S. Third: Drove to outskirts of Chemnlta; swerved southeast of Bayreuth.

U. S. Seventh: Battled remnants In Huernberg; advanced to wdthln 70 miles of Munich. French First: Threatened Stuttgart with enctrclemenL U. S.

divisions: Third, 42nd, 45th Infantry: Battled Nazi remnants in Nuernberg. 11th armored, 26th Infantry: Advanced southeast of Bayreuth. Both Infantry: Entered Sleb, 35 miles west of Karlsbad. 5lh Army Makes Gains in Italy Eighth Army Capture! Portomaggior in Three-Mile Advance The Japanese were fighting back vigorously from Interlocking trench and pillbox systems. blockhouse, eaves and other extensive dug-ta position.

Slow, Tooth Job Despite the roncentratlon of American power, field officers acknowledged it would be a tough and alow job to knock out enemy strong point and smash tegmenta of the fortified line. They looked for no Immediate breakthru or swift advance. Manila, April 20. CPI Ameri can doughboys seized the 44th and 49th Islands of their Philippine invasion Wedneiday. Capture tj on.

Balabae. put them only 49 mile north of Borneo. Selrura of the other, tiny Caraho In Manila bay, wiped out I troublesome forte of 300 to 900 Japanese troops. Elsewhere in the Philippines, Gen. Douglas MacArthur aaid In today's communique: Counterattacks Japanese counterattacked fiercely with tanka in the Baguio aector of north Lubon but were repulsed.

Doughboys on Mindanoa- advanced 22 mile from their new beachheads, moving within 92 air miles of Davao, a major port of the Philippines. Aerial units destroyed a troopladen, transport, four freighters, seven coastal vessels and a lugger in sweeps from the Netherlands East Indies to the Turn to page 3, CoL 6. Rome, April 20. UP Elements of two divisions of the U. S.

fifth army smashed into tho Po valley west of Bologna late today and severed Italian highway No. 9 In an advance of about seven miles. Reds 12 Miles East of Berlin Successes Being Scored By Russians Along Other Sectors of Front London. April 20. VP Macow announced tonight tha rapture of Wrlezen, 24 ml lea nortbaut oC Berlin, and German radio commentator said tha Soviets bad rushed on to Hanlgeizberg.

only eeven mile from tho clty'i eastern limit. Tha Luxembourg radio Mid fi-ganlie peace demonatratlona" bad Uken place In Berlin and Munich, and that Red flags were waving In the German capital aa tha roar of Marshal Stalin a cannon grew ever closer to Ahe city. Cerman broadcasts said the Russians were driving relentlessly with increasing masses of men, tanka and guns In the climactic stage of the battle for Berlin and were at tha gates of tho capital. London. April 20.

WV-A Bcr Im military spokesman said today that Russian spearheads penetrat-td Hangelsberg forest between seven and 12 miles east of Berlin. The town of Hangelsber is In the center of the forest. Earlier the German high command announced that the Russians had smashed six mile into Berlins outer defenses to within 13la miles of the citys limits on the northeast and 15 mile on tho east. In a six-mile gain from captured Wriczen, the German war bulletin aaid. the Russians reached the area of Proetzel and Strenebeck on the northeast.

In a similar lunge southwest of Muencheberg the Russian tanks and infantry were reported to By JACK BELL Washington, April 20. VP Prrsl dent Truman la moving cautiously into Franklin D. Roosevelt's teat on the council of highest allied military strategy. His weight la likely to be felt In Pacific decision. Even before V-E day conies, Mr.

Truman may be called upon to review the strategy for defeating Japan that undoubtedly was discussed at Yalta by hit predecessor and Prime Minister Churchill, if not with Premier Stalin. Ns Chanre President Roosevelt arranged Tha seventh army penetrated the wall during the night and closed Into the center o' tha city for the kllL American and French troopa moving ta a wide cirri around Stuttgart, nnothar Nazi rallying point, raptured Reutllngen tSS.OuOi, 16 mile to tha aouth. Nearing Re 4s Third army element Inside Czechoslovakia, within three miles of Aarh. were a bare 63 miles from surging Russian lines and gravely threatening tha last Important German arsenal In tha Iilsen-Prafue region. 63 to B7 milea distant.

The decision is very near," said Hitlers propaganda chief, Paul Joseph Goebbels, declaring that Germany waa on the razors edge of disaster. In happier years. Hitler would have spoken to the Nazi faithful In Nuernberg on this, his SGth birthday anniversary. The Americana, however, had captured hi vast stadium where he uied to rouse listeners, and were beating down south of Nuernberg within 70 milea of Munich and 132 of liitlera mountain home at Berchtesgaden. Major CUea Ablate Moreover, many of the 18 major eltie otjderroany which Hitler stxll rule were ablaze like candles In the grimmest and perhaps last Turn lo paga 3, CoL U.

5. Decree Forces Germans lo Bury Atrocity Victims Gardelegen, April 26. VP By decree of U. 8. military authorities.

tho citizen of Gardelegen were assigned today to the rrne-some Usk of burying 1,100 slave laborers and political prisoners who were burned te death by the Nazis ta a barn here a few nisbts age Just before American troopa entered the town. The decree specified that Individual graves, six feet lonr, six feet deep and three feet wide must be dug for each of the victims, and aaid the work would be done at the poiuta of bayonets If necessary, This method was chosen for Impressing upon the people of Gardelegen the full extent of the atrocity perpetrated' In their midst by the Nazis. 25 Lose Lives When Army Plane Crashes Sweetwater, Texas, April 20, UP -Twenty-five officers and men were killed when an army transport plane, headed from Midland, army airfield to Paterson, N. crashed and burned three miles southeast of Sweetwater today. Eleven officers and 14 enlisted men lost their lives.

Midland army airfield reported at least eight combat officers returned from overseas were among the victims. Names were temporarily withheld. iporaril Revised OPA Meal Price and Subsidy Program Reporfedi Rome. April 20. UP Eighth army troops, in an advance of three miles, have captured Porto-maggiore, 12 miles southeast of the Po valley city of Ferrara, Allied headquarters announced today.

Portoverrara. a small town Just east of Portomaggiore, was also taken aa the British pushed forward after storming the Argents gap Nazi defenses. Fifth army forces were reported advancing slowly along highway 65, between Florence and Bologna and nearing Pianora, just south of Bologna. Rolling along with the momen turn gained in the capture of Argents, the eighth army reached the Canal Bolognese on a wide front. Other eighth army force driving directly along highway 16 reached within 10 miles of Ferrara, which lies only a few thou-rand yards from the Po river.

Fifth army troops captured Mount Sanichele, about 8th miles southwest of Bologna. Ground on both sides of Pianoro was seized and troops were clean-Turn to Page 3, Col. 8 for Nlmlti and MacArthur to share command for the on-to-Tokvo drive. There are no Indications Mr. Truman plans to disturb this setup.

Generally, two schools of thought frequently are heard in Washing ton about the quickest and best way of subduing the lapanese. On of these favor a direct, all out asMult on tha Japanese Islands. The other plan apparently ealla for a landing on tha China coast, starving Japan by blockade and re ducing its cities and plane to shambles by bombing. The high command will have to decide, if it baa not already done so, what method 1 to be used. It Is In such a decision that Mr.

Truman is likely to play a part The chief executive has moved quickly to familiarize himself with the military situation lu all sections of the world. Pacific Mr. Truman is said to recognize that hit chief responsibility in the role of commander In chief lies In the Pacific, since the strategy decisions which have taken allied troops to the doors of Berlin were made long ago. In the Pacific, however. Russlai attitude toward entering the war with Japan remains publicly unknown.

Most persons In official Washington believe that Russia's recent denunciation of her neutrality treaty with Japan la but the forerunner of Soviet entry into the war against the Japanese at a moment Moscow considers opportune. However, there may have been no such understanding. If there la none, then Mr. Truman certainly will want to obtain one if he believes the postwar price of Rus Washington, April 20. UPyK revised office of price administration meat price and subsidy program designed to meet industry complaints of price squeezes" was reported to the aenat food Investigators today.

Informed quarter said the new rl OPA program would continue con- OmadO05 3110 FIOOuS aumer prices at present levels and 1 vumuvvj wiiu i ivvue accomplish the adjustments thru subsidies. It piay bo announced this weekend. A house food Investigating committee asked OPA today to check on the operations of several Independent packers whose business has skyrocketed during the current beef shortage. This is an obvious place for the OPA tf check," Anderson cried. They should find out where the beef comes from and Turn to Page 3, Col.

6 Take 138 Lives, 852 Other. St. Loula, April 20. UP) tornadoes and floods In five state took 138 live Injured 852 persons, 485 of are still hospitalized, the Cross reported yesterday. Flood waters Inundated acres and 902 homes were ed and 4,100 damaged, Whaf American Units Are Doing in Pacific War Theatre Today fold Soldier for Rocky Ford Murder; Confession Signed Rocky Ford, April 20.

UP Army authorities filed a charge of murder today against Pvt Jack-son Hart, 26, of El Dorado, Ark-, who was accused of the knife-slaying of Patrolman Lewis Box, 47, in Rocky Ford Wednesday night Associated Press Philippines: Cotabato, provincial capital on southern Mindanao, cap tured by eighth army elements drive 22 miles inland. Other eighth army units capture Balabae island nave fought to tho area of Temple- 5 mljei north of Borneo, oerg and Bucholz. 13 miles east of Ryukyui: 10th army start big the capital. offensive on 1 southern Okinawa; Injure Persons Recent mid-western and whom Red 1,338.170 destroy -disaster relief Director Robert E. Edaon said.

The report showed 279,170 acres, Including 89,799 In crop land were inundated in the Oklahoma-Kansas flood-tornado area. The death toll waa 111. Over 600 home were listed at destroyed. Eleven persons were killed and 57 Injured in the Arkansas-Texas area where 1.043,000 acres were inundated. Fifteen were killed In 10 Missouri counties.

The report said 36.000 acres were flooded In the area. Japs Push Offensive Chungking, April 20. UP) The Japanese have hurled 60,000 troops, with 40,000 more In reserve, into their new three-pronged offensive in western aimed at the U. S. 14th air force base at Chihkiang, a Chinese army spokesman estimated today Chihkiang is 250 miles from this wartime capital.

is a sian participation if there price is not too high. gains up to 800 yards behind blistering naval and artillery bombard' ment. Tenth continues advance on la Shlma. Army and marine corps and divisions: 38th division takes Carabao island in Manila bay. American -division routes main Japanese force on Cebu island, 24th army takes Cotabato in campaign on Davao, Mindanao.

33rd army division turns back tank-led counterattack on Baguio outskirts, northern Luzon. Seventh, 27th and 96th army divisions launch large offensive on southern Okinawa. 77lh division mops up Ie Shlma. Third marine amphibious corps clears up northern end of Okinawa. Sixth marine division eliminates resistance pockets on Motobu peninsula, Okinawa.

Smaller Nations Seek To Write Guarantees of Boundaries in Peace Washington, April 20. CP) A drive among smaller nations to write boundary guarantees into any a e-keeping organization took form today. It will be tossed into the hopper at San Francisco either by one of the Latin-American nations which secured similar assurances in the recent act of Chapultepec or by a British dominion, probably New Zealand. The demand for territorial guarantees would include a definition of aggression and go hand in hand with the expected United States proposal to empower the assembly of the projected peace agency to review treaties. Adoption of the guarantees would change the proposed leaguei fundamental obligation.

kward forAward Big Jap Airfield Ripped Up by P-51s Guam, April 20 (JP) Japan's big Atsugi airfield 23 miles southwest of Tokyo was ripped up yesterday as' P-51 Mustang figher planes based on Iwo Jima made their first attack on the capital area. Eighty-four Japanese aircraft were destroyed or damaged as the planes, some of them flying under ligh tension wires, carried out a daring strafing attack. Mustang pilots reported they went thru heavy antiaircraft and small arms fire getting to the field where 200 to 300 enemy fighters and bombers were lined up on the apron like a pilot'i dream. War Fronis Today Two towns named Bucholx on the outskirts of Berlin caused temporary confusion in reports of the Russian successes. One is aeven 'miles north-northeast of the capital, but the context of the German communique Indicated the other Bucholz was meant.

Southeast of the capital, Marshal Ivan Konevi first Ukrainian army scored a similar success, pushing forward 16 miles from Cottbus on the Spree, and breaking into Calau, 43 miles from Berlin and 59 miles from American first army siege lines at Wurtzen, Lewis Asks WLB lo Approve All or None Of Hew Coal Contract Washington, April 20. MV-John L. Lewis has asked the war labor board to approve all or nothing In bis new contract with the nations Soft coal operators. Signed April It after 41 day of negotiations, the contract must be passed upon by WLB as a first step It can become effective. United Mine Workers pren-luE mad hi position known to Jne board last week.

He declared, it was learned today, that each of points was argued upon in rela-tle "'hole contract and that ii hoard can not approve It it should reject tha' whole greement Designate Pyle Chicago, April 20. VP Ernie Pyle, the war reporter killed on Ie Jima Tuesday, had been designated for the second successive year to receive the Raymond Clapper memorial award for war correspondents, national headquarters of Sigma Delta Chi, professional oumalistio fraternity, announced today. Rocky Ford, April 20. P) Pvt. Jackson Hart, 26, of El Dorado, was in the stockade of the nearby La Junta army air Date today after Capt, Lawrence D.

Cavanaugh aaid the soldier had signed confession that he had killed Patrolman. Lewis Box, 47, on a downtown street Wednesday night. Boxs body, the throat slashed was found a block from the post office. His revolver was clutched in his hand and betide him lay hla tear-gas pistol. Captain Cavanaugh, provost marshal at the air base, said the confession, given in the presence of Hart's wife, who has been living in Rocky Ford, was obtained after a 15-year-old girl had Identified Hart from among four other negro soldiers yesterday as the man who accosted her Wednesday night.

Hart Is stationed at the La Junta Air base. Hart admitted, the provost marshal related, that be had slashed Box's throat when the patrolman tried to arrest him on the girls complaint. The soldier aaid that he attacked Box when the policeman discharged his tear-gas pistol, Cavanaugh added. Tariff Battle Start Washington, April 20. CP) Republicans and Democrats took history apart, today and put it back together to suit themselves.

The biggest tariff battle in years got going in earnest on Capitol Hill Bitter exchanges occurred as the house ways and meant committee delved deeply into legislation proposing to give the administration broad new power to cut tariffs in reciprocal trade pact with other nations. Consolidate in Burma Calcutta, April 20. UP) British troops fighting southward thru Burma were consolidating their positions today around the captured town of Chauk, and nearby villages on the east side of the Irrawaddy river about 35 miles southwest of Pakokku. Ernie Pyle, Doughboys' Reporter, Laid io Rest in Small Cemetery With Military Riles Sgedto hSnrttoS Queslion of German Barbarilies Is Gelling should be imposed, the organiza-1 '''vi vi vviiiiun auiMumiva vviimjj Holler and More Difficult lo Take Calmly tion would be obligated to use the world's armed might whenever it was decided that aggression WESTERN FRONT Americans of the Seventh army fought for the kill in Nuernberg today and British tanka struck to within itfss'of Hamburg suburbs. French First army stabbed 14 miles from the Danube and 33 from Lake Constance.

The whole allied right flank was clamping down on the mountainoui Nazi lair. ITALIAN Fifth arfny forces were reported advancing between Florence and Bologna as Eighth army troopa captured Portomaggiore. RUSSIAN Red spearhead were reported 12 milea east of Berlin. Other gain on the Soviet front were reported. PACIFIC A powerful American offensive, supported by artillery, was underwir on southern Okinawa.

Americans seised the 44th and 45th Islands of the Philippine Invasion, capturing one only 45 mile north of Borneo. Japan big airfield 25 miles southwest of Tokvo was ripped up by Mustang fighter from Iwo Jims. existed. Hiller Armies Toller By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst This question of German barbarities is getting hotter and hot- On Defeat Says Ike ter, and more difficult to take with lout bmlinff out boiling over and losing ones By GRANT MACDONALD Ie Island, April 20. CP Ma-chlneguns beat a sharp tattoo and mortars barked at the front only short distance ahead today as little Ernie Pyle, the doughboys reporter, was laid to rest with mill' tary honors.

Battle-grimed Yanks stood at attention as services were said for the, columnist who was struck down by Japanese ms-chinegun fire Wednesday. Attending the funeral on this tiny island near Okinawa were Maj. Gen. Andrew D. Bruce, 77th division commander, Lt.

Col. Joseph B. Coolidge of Helena, who was with Pyle when he was killed. Solemn G. 1s.

holding pistols at the ready and retaining their helmets on order of Gen. Bruce who feared possible sniper fire, heard the chaplain recite the funeral prayer. The surroundings seemed fitting for Ernie, who had seen action on so many battlefront. Even the funeral party, on the way to the cemetery, had to duck mortar shells. Pyle's remains are In a wooden casket handmade by Cpl.

Landon Seidler of Richmond, Va. Seidler also fashioned a wooden plaque to be placed at the spot where the columnist was killed. It reads: "At this spot the 77th infantry division lost a buddy Ernie Pyle 18 April. 1945. A white cross was painted on the casket, and near it rested a floral piece made of local greenery and a sheaf of grain which was fashion-Turn to Pag 2, CoL who are already on other grounds war criminals in many cases, but also to the actual people who have done this foul work with their own hands.

Our bitterness, of course, starts with the head man, from whose leadership flows this savagery. Probably some of the barbarian chiefs of the dim past were as evil-minded as Adof Hitler, 'but cet tainly the magnitude of their atrocities never approached his. The creator of Nazism Is the ranking criminal among all conquerors, and this despite the fact that he has been exposed to the ethics and culture of the centuries. Your columnist had a granehtand' Turn to Paga 3, CoL 7 perspective. Its with applause therefore that the allied world receives Prime Minister Churchill announcement that a solemn warning to the Germans, against prison-camp atrocities like the current horrors in the reich, is to be issued over the signatures of himself, President Truman and Marshal Stalin.

Warning To People It is particularly satisfactory that the warning by the big three is to bring home responsibility I not only to the men at the top, I Paris, April 20. UP Hitler's armies in the west are now tottering on 'the threshold of defeat, Gen. Eisenhower declared tonight in an order of the day calling the allied victory in the Ruhr a fitting prelude to the final drive against Germany remnants. The aupreme allied commander disclosed that 21 German divisiona had been eliminated by the allies, who captured more than 317 000 prisoners, including 24 general', in achieving 'complete success" la the Ruhr battla.now at us end. Halsey's Plan for Japs New York.

April 20. CP)-Adm. nilham F. Halsey has called for death of a Japanese ofCcer-J ranks higher" for every one in tiur men W10 WM murdered ,5 Pacific war. This retribution uld i a peace price for In a postwar plan ls impose an without a peace nd hiilitaiy, rather than HU.

control. Hitler Has 56th Birthday London, April 20. UP Adolf Hitler reached his 56th birthday today without the fanfare of past years. Where Hitler was and what he was doing was a mystery..