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Presenting Today SI TlitiM S.iujrr. wenl wild Saturday night when the premature announcement was made DcWitt Mackenzie The War Today tjl n.M.1 4 ft-ilirltlit IllWIf IM sbliMWrlM-: I'futit 111 AH- Ii ii-M-trl- lit ftl" St If fi Im 1 wntimif r.u.il of the i tVf. i I diici Mken of thw rtrmv tixlnv IM urmind I-lll III" I' ilv MlUil, i-iu w.n AMI" him i MI leu innl MIX I iniil nllrt K'trthfiT. 'II" 111" ll" 1 ij Illrtl Wflfl i MI Hi" rtomb mi tud allU'rt lIlllMtlltll 1 lllM 'hii liv til" ft' 1 'nnt i MintaiKi 1 i in ill" i.iiw urn--. 111 Mm vi'i a minimi nan llMM 't in hit I' 11 lm- ii.

OIK iitillMM i mil- itiitfi iind IllllPr HIP lil.tll, Sn If llf .1. iltMK Ilii' I'" 1 Clothing Drive Nets 7 Tons; 2 More Days And whnl of Htmmler? Well, for one thlnpr he's like all sadistic mur- cnn dish it out but he cim't. tuke It. He knows that he is clow to the top of the war- il list nnd that his life is in rtnnger. HP'S frightened of i he Rtwlnn.t because of the awful iitrof'Ulfs he committed against i hem while.

Germany was winning, hut snmble.d the western Al- licn rnlKht be soft enough to let him i his life. However, thnt may not be the whole ttnry. rllmmler Is crafty devil nnd In well aware that if rirliftln nntl America ncceptecl Gcr- rn'imy's surrender, while leaving out. of the picture, It mieht mine rupture of the alliance. We enn hank on It that he hasn't overlooked this pohit.

nnd probably has Hoped to ciui.10 nn Allied row while i to save his own hide. Then there's another angle to the Hlmmler "feeler." He probably thnt If his compromise wnnn't accepted, the Allied rejection would Klvo him fresh propaganda with which to spur fanatical Nazis on in efforts. He could tell them the Allies had refused to iK-repl surrender nnd that It must be (i fifth! to the clenth. Moscow Lifts 4-Year Blackout MOHCOW. April 30 (AP-- The children of Moscow, under 4 years of lonlKht will see for the first tlmr In their lives the Illuminated nnd the lighted windows of their native city when the blackout officially ends.

Today t.hr city of Moscow Is'hav- InB Its preparation for May diiv since the bcftlnnlng of the war. The relPbratlon will continue through a two-day holiday com- mencinK tomorrow. A pnrndo will take place In the Red fiqunrr for the first time since the outbreak of the wnr. Adams Supports Bill for Federal Aid for Seawalls Rep. Sherman Adams has added his voice to that of Rep.

Chester E. Merrow in support of two measures now before a committee of the House -which would make funds available for assistance to states under which New Hampshire could qualify for federal aid in shore and beach preservation work. In a letter to Chairman Hugh Peterson of a subcommittee on beach erosion, Representative Adams said last week: "AC the committee hearing Tuesday on HR-2032 and HR-2033 which I attended, my colleague, the Hon. Chester E. Merrow, submitted a statement in favor of the enactment of these two measures.

I should like to amplify somewhat the statement made by Mr. Merrow with respect to the interests which the State of New Hampshire has in these bills. "Due to its more limited financial resources, the burden of protecting its seacoast is proportionately greater than is the case in some other states. New Hampshire has spent on her seacoast over a million dollars for the protection of public property, but two or three -times this amount needs to be expended if publicly owned property is to be properly protected. "Through flood control projects New Hampshire rivers are already being controlled not for the protection of valuable bottom-land' In New Hampshire, but also for the protection of highly populated industrial areas in states between New Hampshire and the sea.

"The federal government should not allow valuable coast property to be destroyed by action of flood, wind, and tides where states are unable to assume the entire burden of such protection any more than valuable property along streams is allowed to be destroyed by action of high water. "New Hampshire favors the passage of both measures, HR-2032 and HR-2033." The VOL. NO. 181 PORTSMOUTH, N. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1945 8 PAGES Parley to Discuss Poland ARMY MEETS RUSSIANS Reefs to Admit Argentina Only If Poles Present Mussolini Is Slain with 17 Fascist Leaders Near Como By Patriots of North Italy iirtJI'tn uinted 111 I K' 1 1 vie 1 rim Mt The Day's Mlliin.

April 30 lAPi--Spat upon mid cur.iocl. the body of Benlto Mu.i.-'iillnl wns the object today ot the veiiKeful wrath of the Italian people whom he hud promised a place In the sun, but had led instead defeat nnd misery. The former Italian dictator, his a i young mistress. Claretta i nittl pettier), nnd 17 Fascist lenders were (II by Itnllnn patriots at iiiul cititliinn tie near Como. i iiii'Milv piu'ked i qiiturclav nftcrnoon.

ili-ineni 1 Tuken prisoner was Mussolini i I i minister, Rudolto Graziani. .11,. (wit Muiwollnl nnct his followers were A Mi'nwn i i to flee to Switzerland. nviv h- cleclnrecl.he sought to give limvneK up. Theer wns no formal trial, and pulrl ii'lliul' 1 i the executions tit 4:10 pm the Ixiclle.t were piled into truck nnd broiisht to Mllnn for public ex- YestiiTilay the corpse of the lll-vear-ntil former dictator was bv Ihe heels In the Plaaia ijiiindld Mnrtirl In Milan.

By his side wns the body of his mistress, blood smeared across her breast. Flanking them on hnth sides were the bodies of five other Fascist leaders. Milan citizens pushed shoved affainst the Parti- Biuirdlnu the bodies. Some In breaking through iinil iplltlnit upon Duces body. man emptied the clip of ills automatic pistol into the lifeless form.

Another punched Ihe oner-famed jutting nf Columbu 1 ittittrrlnl jdrrrtdy II to I'HIII- III 111 I I' i. lh Oi-lnlwr Herald tlftl United Nations Today Executive committee meets 9 am Pacific war time (12 EWT) to discuss inviting White Russian and Ukrainian representatives here. Steering committee meets at 10:30 am, set up permanent working committees of conference. Plenary session, Foreign Secretary Eden presiding, called for 3:30 pm. San Francisco, April 30 (AP)-British-American- Russian relations teetered on the rim of another crisis today, with the Polish issue again' building up behind the scenes of the United Nations conference.

Efforts of Latin American nations to have an invitation issued for Argentina to join the conference appeared to be forcing the showdown this time. Some conference leaders were privately fearful of a deadlock. Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov was reported to have told his big-power colleagues-- Stettinius of. the United States, Eden of Britain and Soong of China--that he im willing to have Argentina invited if the Warsaw government of Poland also is asked to send a delega- tion here. Britain and the United States, whose leaders also assume the support of China, are determined against this Polish arrangement.

There -talk- might come to a head at today's steering committee session (10:30 am Pacific war time)--where a measure of big-power unity was restored only last Friday. However, it appeared that it would be initiated in the Executive committee meeting earlier (9 am PWT). One plan which the Latin American strategists have virtually agreed on is that either Chile or Brazil, both of which are Executive committee members, should move to add Argentina to a pending proposal to invite the White Russian and Ukrainian representatives to come here now and Join the conference since these Russian republics have already been assured of becoming charter members of the World organization. Russia is very anxious to have the two Soviet delegations invited. Foreign Commissar Molotov might be ontmaneurered by the Latin American plan.

However, he might also bring forward a second amendment for tacking the name of Poland onto the invitation. It remained an outside possibility that the Argentine question might be dropped to avert a revival of the argument with Russia. But Latin American delegates came through the weekend determined to get action on Argentina and in case Hie issue is forced and Russia is overruled on Poland and Argentina none except possibly Molotov can predict what her future course here 'addition to the Steering com- rm-ttoe meeting of all 46 delegation chairmen and the 011 ecutive committee, the fifth plenary session of the full conference was MUSSOLINI is dead having been shot by Italian Patriots near Como on Saturday afternoon. There was a time when the Duce's pouting and shouting was feared by the world but by the time he was shot he was looked upon as a sick and tired old mnn. who had done his best to drag Italy down.

Italian tradition for dishonored persons. Graziani, held prisoner by an American captain and a strong Partisan guard in a hotel, was quoted as saying Mussolini and his cabinet left Milan April 25--last Wednesday --for Como. Graziani said he attempted to Ilir i i i Mu.H«illnl wns shot through the heutl "by Partisans after he wns captured 'Friday by sergeant ap- i Graziani said he attempted to uronchlliR the Swiss border. He and make con tact with Milan's Partisan the other Pnsclst leaders were flee- i chief ard offer surre nder, but ins in (ruck convoy. 1 was told to surrender at Como.

Un- Mvis-sollnl wns gnrbcd in a German a communicate with them, he cont nnd wns driving north surren( iered to an American liaison when the serRcnnt spotted him. Klllery Klltrrv l.p«itl NnllfM NVwiimrkrl ll.nlln KHtmiliu Ynrk FIT i ftun DninlnRO prison In Como. He wilt reported In terrible state of iiBliatlon. nnd mndc attempts to strike up conversations with his BUI "Why Is no here to defend me?" he quoted sayinf. I.nler he was reported to have tnld thr men who ordered him "Save my I will nn empire." He died shouting "No! No!" to the squad, eyewitnesses ri.f»unletl.

The bullet that killed him entered from the back In Ihe manner prescribed by The square in which the bodies were dumped was one in which 15 Partisans were executed a year ago. Besides Mussolini and his mistress, the others reported executed included: Allessandro Pavollni, secretary of state in Mussolini's puppet regime: Lt. Gen. Achille Staraci, a former vice president of the Fascist party; Francesco Barracu, vice president of the states council of ministers: Paolo Zerbino, minister of the interior; Fernando Mezza- Conttnuea on Page. Two More Than 6 Tons Of Paper Collected A little more than six tons of waste paper was salvaged in Portsmouth Saturday, Salvage Chairman Ira A.

Brown revealed today but the total for the drive is expected to go beyond that figure. The entire city could not -be covered Saturday and in those sections where paper was not collected Saturday it will be picked up just as early as the weather permits. The next paper collection for Portsmouth has been scheduled for Saturday. June 2. Truman to Announce End of European War When It Is Official Washington, April 30 (AP)--The White House said today-that President Truman will report on any end of European hostilities "whenever anything can be released- officially and with proper authority.

Press Secretary Jonathan Daniels made this comment at a news conference this morning. He said 1 he had nothing to report along that line at present. "There will be all sorts of reports out of all sorts of places," Daniels said. He added also that he. had no information on "any plans for a presidential news conference today.

As war-weary Germany tottered on toward the Inevitable end, millions for a time over the weekend thought it actually had arrived. summoned (3:30 pm PWT) to hear another round of oratory with Britain's Anthony Eden as president under the rotation compromise worked out Friday. Beyond these, the real production machinery of the conference will bs thrown into gear this week with organization meetings of the four big commissions designed to put the Dumbarton Oaks plan into final shape. These are commissions on: General Provisions--The main job is to write a sort of "Atlantic Charter" preamble setting; forth the human ideals of the world organization in terms at justice, rights, and the like. General Assembly--To consider the Dumbarton Oaks plan for an assembly of all nations, and the amendments which have been suggested on its powers and functions Is the job of this commission.

Small nations would like to make the assembly more powerful. Security Council--The assigned task Is to law down the rules for the proposed peaee- preservinr council. Dumbarton Oaks calls for 11 nations in its membership. There is a move underway to expand this to 14, as a means of giving small nations greater voice. World Court--The commission must work out what sort of body it should be and how much power It should have.

The World Court problem was up for discussion by the American The prospect was that the delegation would favor continuing the present International Court of Justice at The Hague and would also favor giving It non-compulsory Jurisdiction. Russia has been reported against compulsory Jurisdiction and here the American- Russian views are said to coincide. The conference has set a deadline of next Friday for getting in proposed changes in the Dumbarton Oaks plan. However, officials said most nations had already submitted their proposals. It seemed likely that the week ahead would bring a clearer perspective than could be had previously on what are the real issues and problems of the conference.

A public airing of the whole Polish government situation has been considered bv (he United States and Britain and It probably will be made if Washington and London decide there Is little chance of winning Russian acceptance of their Interpretation of the Talta agreement on Warsaw reorganization. It is understood that Russia simply adding some outside "democratic elements" to the present regime, while the British and American governments want the government rebuilt with actual political power less concentrated in the hands of the present Russian- sponsored rulers. House Considers Grill Room Bill Heading into the home stretch of its current session, the Legislature faces a busy week this week. Holding the spotlight in the House will be action on the grill room measure, previously passed by the House but amended by the Senate to forbid operation of a grill room by a hotel located in a community which has voted "dry." Also up for House action is the selection of a state motto. The Senate last week agreed on "Strong and Steadfast as the Granite Hills," but a move is afoot in the House to substitute a quotation from Gen.

John Stark, "Live Free, or Die." In the Senate, finance committee action on measures to provide a new wartime cost-of-living salary increase for state workers and to set up a retirement plan for the approximately 2,500 state workers, was the chief item of interest. The state department of agriculture today launched the final phase of an eight-year program to eradicate Bang's disease In New Hampshire. The work is backed by a $800,000 bond issue, voted by the Legislature and approved by Gov. Charles M. Dale over the weekend.

Dr. Robinson Smith of Laconia, state veterinarian, said he expects the drive against the cattle disease to be completed in about 18 months. A majority of the Legislature can call a special session at any time, without action by the governor, under terms of a new law signed by Governor Dale. The measure permits any 10 legislators to file with the secretary of state a reason for a special session and a poll is taken by mail. a majority favor the proposal, a special session mutt be convened within 15 days.

Freed Yanks Will Be Sent Home Quickly Paris. April 30 (AP)--Every American soldier liberated from German prison camps will go home "as fast as the army can get him there," supreme headquarters announced today. "In return for the German promise to leave the prisoners In the camps In the path of the Allied advance, rather than take them along on forced marches. United States authorities agreed that all liberated military personnel would be prohibited from takinr further part'in the war against Germany, either as combat or service troops, and they are sticking by their part of the agreement," supreme headquarters declared. The sick and wounded will be given preference and evacuated home through normal medical channels as soon as their condition permits.

A series of evacuation camps have been prepared for the others. First they will get baths, hot meals, new clothes and medical attention. Then they will received part of their back pay, the final settlement to be made when they return to America. They may file claims for any money or personal property lost at the hands of the Germans. On arrival in America each released soldier will get a 21-day furlough.

After that he must report to a redistribution center where he may be discharged from service, assigned to a post in the United States or shipped to another war theater. None will be sent back to Europe, headquarters said. Baguio Falls To Americans In Luzon Drive By the Associated Press British armored forces set the pace in the Pacific war again today, rolling 26 miles through southern Burma to within 36 miles of Rangoon. infantrymen captured Baguio, strongest Japanese redoubt in the Philippines; began closing in on Davao, most strongly held city remaining to the enemy in the archipelago; and seized the north- em half of the heavily mined Ma- chinato airstrip in a slow but advance on.Okinawa. Tokyo radio reported Japanese suicide planes were attacking American shipping off Okinawa this morning for the fourth successive day as Superforts raided their bases in southern Japan for the fifth straight day.

Suicide plane attacks Friday and Saturday damaged the brightly lighted American hospital ship Comfort, inflicting 63 casualties; sank a naval auxiliary and damaged a number of other U. S. craft. The Nipponese lost 161 aircraft in the two days. Approximately 6,000 American casualties were reported for last week on Okinawa and in the Philippines.

Another 8,561 Japanese dead were counted in the Philippines alone. Most of the enemy losses were in northern Luzon, where the 33rd and 37th U. S. divisions captured Baguio Friday. Gen.

Douglas MacArthur said the enemy garrison of 20,000 was virtually annihilated in the three and a half month long drive for the mile high city. Only a few hundred civilians remained. Thousands of others had been evacuated to American lines by Igorot headhunters. In the southern Philippines the 24th division completed a push across Mindanao from the Moro gulf to Davao gulf in 10 days, capturing Digos and the nearby Padada airfield. The airdrome was cleared of wrecked enemy planes and put into use.

Dlgros is 25 miles south of the Nipponese Davao city stronghold, whose defenses were shelled by PT boats. Dixie's 31st division, joining the Mindanao campaign, drove 17 miles northward from the central Kabacan junction. First division cavalrymen. In a 70 mile amphibious hop on southern Luzon, captured Naga. British tanks resumed their rapid Burmese advance toward Rangoon after a clash with Japanese at Pegu, base of the Nipponese last rail escape route.

The contrastingly slow advance on Okinawa, 325 miles south of Japan, carried the 27th division to within two and a half miles of- the capital city of Naha. They found Machinato airdrome, the west coast alive with mines. Strongly defended ridges were taken by the 96th and 7th divisions. Adm. Chester W.

Nbnttz BMneed U. S. ground casualties im the Okinawa through last Saturday were 11,413, including kilted, 41S missing. Announced Tank casualties in the Philippines last week killed and 1,365 wounded. Nazi Resistance Is Crumbling in Italy and Reich By the Associated Press Ninth army Americans joined the Russians hi a new place west of Berlin today, and the virtual end of the bloody conquest of Italy was proclaimed by Gen, Mark Clark.

Nazi Germany's once-unexcelled military machine was collapsing amid rumors of imminent peace. Russians hammered in on the final, melting Nazi pocket in Berlin. Five Allied armies won or entered the of Munich, Milan, Genoa, and Venice in a swift, powerful squeeze 0n the German's southern redoubt. Americans of the Ninth army met Russians south of Magdeburg on the Elbe, widening the corridor splitting German arms to perhaps 80 miles. German armies in Italy have virtually eliminated as a military force," Clark asserted, with 25 enemy divisions shattered in the 22-day British- American offensive.

The Nazis "can no longer effectively resist armies," the 15th army group commander said. As little as 125 miles separated the Allies in Italy and Americans in the Bavarian alps. The bullet- riddled body of Mussolini, vain glorious modern "Caesar," was cursed and kicked in a square in Milan. A dispatch from Supreme Headquarters said the indications were that hostilities in Europe -would continue only a matter of days. Moscow called on Germans to surrender.

Red army men battled over the burning wreckage of Berlin only a half-mile front the ReJchschahcel lery, and at the northern edge of the Tlergarten, presumed headquarters of the German command and possibly Hitler himself. The Germans held only an 18-square mile ares, of the 431 in Greater Berlin. The Germans' Oslo radio declared Soviet tanks had battered Into the Tlergarten, the Park" converted with an underground fortress. U. S.

Seventh army mopped up in Munich, birthplace of. Nazism, entered Sunday when Americans in Italy pushed Into patriot-liberated Milan, the cradle of Italian Fascism and Italy's largest city (pop. Other units killed or seized the SS guards at Dachau concentration camp, freeing some 32,000 prisoners. Americans of the Third army crossed the Isar river in a new push toward Berchtesgaden, 75 miles or less away. Still other Seventh army men fought south of Fussen on the Austrian border, 135 miles from Americans at Bergano in Italy.

The Fifthy army was in Genoa; British troops seized canal-coursed Venice, and pushed on to within 75 miles of Yugoslav partisans who reportedly Sgt.W.H.Hopley Wounded in Reich Sgt. William H. Hopley. USA, was slightly wounded in action in Germany April 14 according to a telegram from the war department received by his wife, Mrs. Dorothea Hopley of 202 Washington street, Portsmouth, Saturday.

Sergeant Hopley entered the service Feb. 15, 1943, and received his basic training at Camp Wheeler, Ga. He was stationed as an instructor with an infantry unit at Camp Wheeler and Camp Blanding, before being sent to Carnp Butner, N. in October, 1944. He was shipped overseas last January.

Sergeant Hopley was graduated from Portsmouth high school in 1931 and from Plymouth Business school in 1832. He was a local agent for the John Hancock Life Insurance company before entering the service. In nigh school he played first base on the baseball team and was a member of the Sunset league. A member of the local unit of the state guard since Its formation in he held the rank of sergeant in that organization. Goffstown Sailor Dies in Auto Crash Manchester, April 30 CAP)--Everett Klngsley, 22, signalman USN, of GoSstown, was fatally injured and three other persons suffered minor injuries yesterday when their car crashed into a poet in nearby Auburn.

Kingsley died soon after admittance to the base hospital at Grenier field. Daigle, 30, and Flurette Gosselin, 23, both of Manchester, and Raymond Brien. 33, of Auburn, were treated for minor injuries at the Sacred Heart hospital in Manchester. Police said the couples were returning from a Ylslt to the sailor's motber wbse car struck the port. had entered Trieste.

The northern German pocket was crumbling as well. The- British Second army was acrora the Elbe 20 miles east of Hamburg and 36 miles south of Luebeck, whose fall would seal off Denmark. A Russian offensive was cutting west of Strttln toward a British-Soviet linkup. Americans of the Ninth army captured Zerbst beyond the Elbe, 47 miles southwest of Berlin and about 11 miles from Russian units. Canadians in the west broadened a bridgehead over the Ems and Leda rivers and fought In Leer, 14 miles southeast of Emden.

The western Allies bagged 74,988 prisoners Saturday for an April total of 1,291,738, and invasion total of 2,621,433. More than 100,000 of the enemy had been captured in the German collapse in Italy, where the U. 8. Fifth and British Eighth armies pushed on without halt. Enemy lines were disorganized, Allied headquarters said, but Germans fought desperately north of Lake Garda near the Brenner pass.

Surrender of the Fascist LIgurian army of captured Marshal Bodolfo Graziani was being negotiated. Perhaps far irreater surrender dealings were In progress. A Stockholm newspaper uld Count Folke Bcrnadotte, Swedish Red Cross official who reputedly delivered a peace message from the Germans, had made "a new contact" with Hetnrteh Himmler. Nortrrof Berlin and west of tin, the Second White Russian army captured Anklam, Friedland, and Neubrandenburg In a thrust through Mecklenburg province. In Czechoslovakia, the Second Ukrainian army pushed forward west of fallen Brucnn toward a Junction with the First Ukrainian army.

In Austria, two Soviet columns were pushing forward toward a possible Juncture with the American Third army. GEN. Mark W. Clark, 15th army group commander, announced today the virtual end of the Ionic and bloody campaign In Italy. Three of Italy's greatest cities, Genoa, Milan and Venice, are now In Allied hands.

Sentence Dairy Man For Adulterating Milk Pleading not guilty to charges brought against him by the State of having adulterated milk in his possession, John Macewicz, a dairy farmer of Lafayette road, was found guilty after trial in Portsmouth municipal court this morning by Judge Jeremy R. Waldron and given a fine of and costs of $10.62. The State charged that wicz "did have in his possession with Intent to sell, adulterated milk. The same having been adulterated by the addition, of water." Taking the stand against Macewicz were William P. MacLeod, inspector for the state board of health who brought the charges against the Portsmouth farmer; Mrs.

Harriet Albee, state chemist, and Nathan Wells of the Badger Farms. The complaint was dated April 26, 1945. Missing in Action Arthur L. Blake, seaman NB, is reported as missing since March 18 according to a telegram, received yesterday by his mother, Mrs Younger of Chauncey Creek road, Kittery Point. Seaman Blake attended Tralp academy and entered the service May 19, 1943.

He received his boot training at Newport, K. before going on sea duty in October, 1943. He had been stationed in the Pacific area and had participated la ttw Luioo and Leyte.