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German guards opened the i doors The United Nations War Crimes I Commission which revealed last Saturday that Hermann Goering had been indicted as a war criminal as early as November said that! his case would be regarded as a test of "speed and applicable to subsequent war crime trials Doenitz Question Debated British military commentators meanwhile sparred cagily with the question of Admiral Karl government while admitting that i British occupation troops had reached Flensburg its seat "In mass surrenders it is necessary to deal with someone who has authority over the surrendering one said adding that in this case it need not necessarily be Doenitz "Something like 6000000 Germans are milling around and the best method of controlling them is to make use of existing authority until their future is He added that this was a partial explanation of the Flensburg broadcast report that Field Marshal Ernst Busch had been named commander of all German armed forces in the north The only ones qualified to make a full explanation are members of supreme headquarters "and they have not done so to Amid the storm over press interviews with Hermann Goering and reported coddling of the German air chief Lord Addison urged in the House of Lords that Goering be placed at once in ordinary detention and brought to Judgment at the earliest moment Exchange Telegraph added fuel to the flames by reporting that two top German commanders Field Marshal Erhard von Milch and General Hasso Eccard von Manteuffel are living in captivity on champagne eggs and custards teated Reich A permanent Allied staff has been established at Flensburg and the radio station taken over to prevent a recurrence of the unauthorized broadcast last Sunday in which the station presented Nazi-slanted news suggesting a conflict between the Russians and the western Allies it was said Fate Not Revealed The fate of Doenitz was not disclosed But the statement that the German officials had been put on a "seize and basis indicated that the successor to Adolf Hitler might now be under arrest Meanwhile it was disclosed that Police Lieutenant-General Ernst Kaltenbrunner the Nazi blamed for the slaughter by gas of 4000 000 Europeans was reported to have been seized by United States troops in Austria His arrest and the Allied action at Flensburg were expected to quiet mounting criticism of the toleration of German war criminals The Reims source said the apparent confusion surrounding the relations between the stop-gap Doenitz regime and Allied military authorities resulted because of the nonmilitary nature of the problems involved Although it has been authoritatively stated that the Docnitz government has no standing the question of what elements will be employed in governing Germany must be made at "high possibly involving more than one Allied nation it was pointed out Reconversion Big Task The American nation should realize that the "task of reconver sion from a military operation to a vast co-ordinated venture in civilian administration cannot be accomplished in a the Reims official said This source also disclosed that high-ranking Allied officials are convinced that Doenitz was selected to succeed Hitler strictly because he was best fitted to bring peace to Germany Multiple indictments for mass murder brought by both the United Nations War Crimes Com mission and the Soviet govern ment face Kaltenbrunner a lit tic-known figure described as fat man with a singularly un pleasant According to a London News Chronicle front correspondent he captured with his adjutant Arthur Scheidler in a fortiflec chalet near Alt Ausse in the Tyrol He had shaved his moustache but Austrian Patriots spotted his scarred thuggish face and led a special agent of the United States Third Eightieth Division to the hideout Frontier Closed As the Allies intensified their search for other prospective war criminals such as Foreign Minis- AP Wireyhof A TOAST T0 ALLIED General Omar Bradley (left) of the United States Twelfth Army Group and Russian Marshal Ivan Konev hail the achievement of their troops at a banquet near Berlin May 5 Officer in center is not identified Army Denies Goering Greeted With Handshakes or Chicken By A I Goldberg WITH THE UNITED STATES SEVENTH ARMY May UP) An official statement was issued by the United States Seventh Army today asserting that "there were no handshakers or chicken dinners at headquarters of the Seventh for captured Reichs-marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering The statement followed a declaration by General Eisenhower at Supreme Headquarters yesterday that he regretted reported instances in which senior officers treated captured Nazi and high German of- flcials on a "friendly enemy basis The reception accorded Goering had been criticized widely in British and American newspapers dispatches from the front at the time of the capture did not say that Goering was given special treatment at Seventh Army headquarters Telling of his surrender to the Thirty-sixth Division a unit of the Seventh Army Goldberg said there was handshake and a brief when he was brought to a hotel at Kitz-buehel and that Goering was flown to Seventh Army headquarters a lunch of chicken and The meal served Goering by the Thirty-sixth Division was the same served every American soldier on duty at division headquarters that day The menu both for the mess and the G1 chowline was chicken peas mashed potatoes fruit salad and coffee Goering surrendered to a Thirty sixth Division detachment on a road near Bruck on May 8 was held under guard in Fischorn Castle that night and brought to Kitz-buehel by automobile the following day After eating lunch he was flown to Seventh Army headquarters The Seventh Army statement today added that for special quarters for Goering upon arrival at the army he was confined at a Seventh Army detention camp Associated Press Correspondent Howard Cowan in a dispatch from Augsburg on May 11 reported an hour-long-interview by correspondents with Goering in the backyard of a two-story house where the Rcichsmarshal was quartered Lawmakers a Tell Congress Of Atrocities WASHINGTON May 15 In shocked silence Congress heard from its own eyewitnesses today the gruesome story of torture camn where thousands of slaves lived like cattle and died like beasts The report of six Senators and six Representatives who visited three notorious concentration camps was read simultaneously in the two chambers by Senator Barklev (D-Ky) and Represen tativc Thomason (D-Texas) It was a bitter denunciation of the German government an in dictment on the high charge of mass murder It did not spare the German public Senator Barkley did not spare the German army either He said it was inconceivable that the general staff would not have known about the savage practices of the SS and Gestapo Funlshment Demanded "It is the opinion of your com mittee that these practices constituted no less than organized crime against civilization and humanity" the report said those who were responsible for them should have meted out to them swift certain and adequate be sent back to their homelands' Now however it is understood that all want to make permanent homes in the United States and Dickstein said is no reason why they should be sent back to He indicated he expects a fight in Congress on the issue clique which is against anything will want them sent back to Europe although many now have no homes he said A source close to the WRB said the agency is being besieged by which want to keep the refugees here Full Probe Expected Dickstein said he would head a subcommittee which will make a full investigation The group will see what can be done "to keep the refugees representatives of minority races in this country where they will become good citizens and a credit to the coun' he said He charged that Nazi prisoners of war in this country are fed per cent better than refugees at and suggested they be returned to Germany "by way of Russia where Geneva Convention rules are The War Refugee Board will meet this month to take action on final disposition of the refugees In the absence of Director William O'Dwyer the board had no comment on Dickstein's program It was said however that the WRB intends to live up to Mr Roosevelt's commitment and return the refugees to Europe as soon as possible Dickstein suggested that the number remaining here be deducted from postwar immigration quotas charge said some of instruction amounted to for the government in Brackx also said on the witness stand that he know Dold was a spy gnd that he drew false gun emplacements and tank mines on the map he gave Dold because "I wanted to scare them (the Germans) Ponzo testifying for the government said Brackx had been introduced to him as a "friend of the German by a Nazi agent and that Brackx had planned to obtain data on radar on a British ship The of this war DDT will be made available to civilians shortly way me! 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Defense Counsel John Dowl- ing taking exception to the Valumr rh sell In a by 10 ilom makes prlrea low Free delivery Dial Mill MAIL ORDERS FILLED FROM CUSTOMERS PAY DELIVERY CHARSE0 Spotless Stores 1010 Cary 1511 Hull 8108 Cary 614 Broad 2726 Broad 2505 Chamberlayne 1810 Brookland Blvd Alas In Feterabiirg Fredericksburg and Charlottesville Reicli to Get News Direct Says Truman President Reverses OWI Statement WASHINGTON May 15 President Truman reversing an Announcement by OWI Director Elmer Davis declared today that he favors a free flow of information in Germany consistent with military security On May 10 Davis said information reaching the German public would be strictly controlled and foreign newspapers and magazines (including American) would be barred for an indefinite period during military occupation lie said "Germany is a sick man" and "can have only what the doctors adding that the policy was arranged by the psychological warfare division of General Dwight Eisenhower's Allied headquarters President Truman at a news conference today however said General Eisenhower had informed him he "had issued no policy or order dealing with the importation of publications into Germany" Mr Truman said in a statement that he and General Eisenhower agree that while Germany cannot have full restoration of a free German press until Nazi and militarist influences have been eliminated it should have freedom of press and Information "consistent with military Davis Misunderstands The President said this position reverses the Davis announcement Davis acted in good faith Mr Truman told reporters but mis-understood the policy agreed upon Davis upon bring informed today of the President's stand said: "I have nothing to The President's statement follow: Eisenhower has advised me that he has issued no policy or ordrr dealing with the importation of publications into Germany The general has expressed the personal opinion that a free press and a free flow of Information and ideas should prevail in Germany in a manner consistent wllh military security "General Eisenhower has emphasized however that there can he no restoration of a free German press In Germany until the elimination of Nazi and militarist influence has been completed We are not going to lose the peace hy giving license to racialists pan-Germans Nazis and militarists so that they can misuse democratic rights in order to attack demoe racy as Hitler did "I agree with General Himmler Family Denies Knowledge Of Whereabouts BOLZANO ITALY May -Hpinrich wife and daughter have not heard from him sinee mid-April and actually have believed him dead for the past few weeks Frau Margaret Roden Himmler told the Associated Press today Wan and sirkly looking the Gestapo chiefs wife added that she felt death would he the best thing for all Nazi leaders now She and her 15-year-old daughter Giidrun said 'they had not seen Himmler since last November have had no word from him since about April 15 and had no idea of his present whereabouts As a result she said she was somewhat surprised to hear rumors that he was a prisoner Frau Ilimmler her daughter and her sister wore found Sunday in a splendidly appointed mountain chalet in the Italian Tyrol some 15 miles north of Bolzano by members of the Eighty-eighth Division One of Himmler's three personal aides Captain Erich Schnitzler who had come down from Munich with them April 24 to see that they were comfortable led Captain Harry Rihack Chicago and Lieutenants Clark Keeler Washington Thilip Rossi Barn and Tom A Lucid Jersey City up a narrow Alpine trail to the chalet after he had been picked up in the Bolzano headquarters of General Karl Wolff chief of the SS forces One German soldier standing guard at the mountain hideaway offered no resistance Like members of the family who was dressed in civilian clothes when said he had no knowledge of whereabouts He also said he had not seen his boss for months Dodecanese Islands Called Part of Greece ATHENS May Arch-bishop Damaskinos has assured Dodecanese they will be forever part of Greece Paying tribute in an address at Rhodes to Greek and British troops who liberated the islands from Italian control the Greek regent said: "You have been given liberty and you will never be deprived of t- My pilgrimage to Rhodes Is official recognition of the spiritual and Intellectual ties uniting the Dodecanese with Greece The message of liberty I am bringing: you Is guaranteed by the Justice of our great friends and PAINTING PAPERING CARPENTRY A Complete Service Immediate Service Terms if You Desire Alvin Leake 2-3232 DAY 5-3172 WIGHT yy mmU) 5 1 The investigations conferred with the War Crimes Commission in London and the French commission praising the steps already taken for prosecution of war criminals in Germany This work is well under way the report said and thus there is no need for the committee to recommend any action The 12 legislators visited Buchenwald Nordhausen and Dachau the most notorious camps for political prisoners They saw the dead they saw the dying Barklev said some helpless captives died while the American investigators were there Dauchau was overrun so fast by the American troops the report said that none of the evidence of the atrocities could be destroyed This was largely true of Buchenwald too At Nordhausen United States forces had had three weeks to put things in shape but the story was the same traced back through witnesses It was a story of planned starvation of use of German criminals to destroy the mentality all those who opposed the master of huge ovens for cremating victims and of torture devices Barkley said the magnitude of he horror could be understood only the of the places and "smell of The report said everywhere there was evidence that the German civilian was fat and well-clothed The 12 concluded that the contrast pointed to "a calculated and diabolical program of planned torture and extermination on the part of those who were in control of the 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