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THE WEATHER Fair and continued warm today and tonight. Thursday, rather cloudy, Windy and warm. Warren High 85. Low 38. Sunrise 6:28.

Sunset 7:35. WARREN TIMES-MIRROR The Only Paper in Many One Paper in Most Homes GOOD EVENINIG Ho, hum it in the spring that Rip Van Winkle dozed off and slept for twenty years? VOLUME FORTY-FIVE The Associated Press WARREN, PA WEDNESDAY. APRIL II. 1945 NEA and AP Features PRICE FOUR CENTS NINTH ARMY WITHIN 90 MILES OF BERLIN ALLIES PLUNGE AHEAD IN ALL FRONTS IN WHAT EISENHOWER CALLS CRUMBLED RESISTANCE Hobb's 30th Division Fights Into Brunswick After Commander Asks Time to Remove Troops Following Surrender Ultimatum ABORTIVE GERMAN OFFICERS' REVOLT REPORTED Former Slaves Turn on Captors BULLETINS Paris April American Ninth Army advanced to within 90 miles of Berlin today, captured Essen and fought the last Germans in Brunswick in armored ranging up to nearly 30 miles. With the U.

S. Third Army, April famous Fourth Armored (breakthrough) Division attacked heavily again today on the Third Army front in central Germany. By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press War Editor Tanks of Lt. Gen.

William H. U. S. Ninth Army speared to a point less than 100 miles from Berlin today, while behind them Ninth Army infantry broke into Brunswick, aircraft center 105 miles from the capital. Behind the swift advance, Essen, great munitions factory city in the vast Ruhr trap, fell to American airborne troops.

The sixth city, it was the birthplace of Reichmarshal Goering. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. First Army, speeding across the open Thuringian plain south of the Harz mountains, reached an unspecified point 120 miles from Russian lines in the bid to halve the Reich.

'i Unconfirmed reports said Brunswick had fallen to the Americans, as all along the front the Allied armies swept through what Gen. described as collapsed resistance. I Gen- Letend S. Hobbs, whose wW 30 th Division fought into Brunswick from the south, issued an ultimatum for surrender of the city, where pilots already had reported white flags fluttering In abundance. When the German commander ADVANCES ON w.at)e Concessions Won FORCES ITAI1AM FPftMT Miners As Government Takes iIaLIaN rKUNI 235 Strike-Closed Pits Take Part In Massive Raid (Signal Corps-NEA Radio-Telephoto) A flour warehouse proprietor of Lemgo, Germany, is beaten to the ground (center foreground) as he attempts to stop plundering of hordes of hungry slave laborers freed by the U.

S. Ninth Army. Thousands of hien and women, forced to toil for the Nazis, are turning on their captors, pillaging warehouses, trains and quartermaster depots. Way Cleared For Action On Major Administration Bills By HENRY B. JAMESON London, April 2,150 U.

S. bombers and fighters in a massive sweep across southern Germany attack- ed a string of Nazi airfields, rail-; road yards and oil and ammunition depots in the Nuernberg- Harrisburg, April program to asked 24 hours to remove troops, crease unemployment compensation benefits was approved today by utilos from the highway southv the senate labor and industry committee. The committee acted on the measure as senate passage of the highly controversial Brunner stream clean-up bill opened the way for consideration of other major administration omjectives. The legislation, boosting jobless benefits from $18 to $20 weekly, was offered by Martin after labor and industry failed to agree on lib- Hobbs attacked. Tanks of two armored divisions crossed the Oker river north and south of Brunswick.

The river flows through the city. 1116 swift advan.ee placed the Ninth 42 miles from the Elbe river, last water barrier before Berlin, and 156 miles from the Russian Regensburg-Munich area today in a continuation Of the biggest air- field wrecking campaigiT in his, volt was reported reliably. Infor- Fiehters were hieli and low reaching 12tli Army group rigniers weie men ana low headquarters said the Germans ex- con ecuted 102 air force officers on 800 of which have been destroyed March 31 in eftort to jt the last tour days The U. S. First aniiy was 120 Among the taigets the bomb- miles from the Russians at a point n'V i------ -r backed bill to distribute the entire eralization.

Pending measures also provide a similar increase in compensation payments. Another Martin of the one-cent emergency gasoline tax to aid municipalities on road ready for a house vote after the GOP lead: ership changed its committee- ers were large airfields at Ingol- bUl the, stadt north of Munich and Ober- Nordhausen. Two ether American proceeds to local units. traubling near Regensburg, the Third and Ninth roll- i The and means committee Kraiburg explosives plant near td ahead with the First on 150- aIlocatetl onIy $17,000.000 of the Muhldorf, oil storage depots at front against opposition so levT to municipalities and the re- Regensburg, the light that their armored spear- mainder to the state highway depot and heads had gains as much as 40 Pertinent. Acceding to demands of Jolo Island Is Occupied By Doughboys Native of Sugar Grove Is Casualty ARE REPORTED British Eighth Captures Three Towns In Opening Phase cf Offensive Across Senio YANKS PUSH FORWARD Rome, April 11.

British Eighth Army troops, paced by flame-throwing tanks, have captured Lugo, Fusignano and Cotignola in the opening phase of their offensive across the Senio river on the eastern flank of the Italian front, Allied headquarters announced today. Fall of these towns represented advances on a front of at least seven miles in the eastern Po valley astride the highway running from Ravenna to Bologna, Lugo lies a mile west of the Senio on the highway. Bologna is some 30 airline miles ahead. In western Italy, American troops of the Fifth Army cleared the enemy from the road hub of Massa and pushed on in the direction of La Spezia, major Italian naval base a dozen miles away. troops have breached enemy defenses on the river Senio on a broad an Allied com- munique said.

In the early hours of the new attack, Eighth Army infantry, moving up behind a heavy air bombardment, captured more than 1,200 Germans. Veteran New Zealanders took a prominent role in the assault. The Eighth Army also was on the move south of Highway 9, the major communication thoroughfare up the Po valley from Rimini, on the coast, Through Forli, Faenza, and Imola to Bologna. A bridgehead was secured across the upper Senio near Cuffiano, four the highway southv of Faenza. In the major attack in the north the initial crossings were made between Fusignano and San Severo.

South of that sector extensive minefields and tough resistance slowed the attack, but a bridgehead was formed and during Monday night the crossings were linked up and bridges thrown across the stream. Tanks and artillery poured across. In the extreme north, Italian troops hurdled the stream and advanced steadily west of Alfonsine. Washington, April 11 (P) The Issue of unionization of mine foremen, which had stalled soft coal wage contract negotiations, was settled today as the government took over 235 strike-closed pits in seven states. Terms of the new contract, which will give the average inside day worker at the mines an increase variously estimated at from $1 25 to 45 cents a day, were expected to be announced this afternoon.

The foreman issue was settled by reverting to terms of the former agreement, which exempted mine foremen anti associated o1rtcials from classification as mine workers. John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers' had insisted on bringing all but one foreman and the superintendent at each mine into membership in the union. Already, interior Secretary ick- HAVE VIENNA ENCIRCLED Doomed Nazi Garrison Is Compressed Into Eastern One-Tenth of Tottering Capital MANY ARE PRISONERS Hitler Assassination Report Not Confirmed London, April 11 (P) A I report that Adolph Hitler has been assassinated circulated in Britain today, but Foreign Secretary Enthony Eden said he had heard nothing of it. Capt.

John H. McEwen raised the question of the rumor in commons, declaring he hud heard the foreign office was directly for it. and asking for confirmation. Th British Press Associat- i ion reported a grave split de- veloping among the Nazis day and said evidence had i reached official quarters in I London that the Nazi party was Adolf Hitler in favor of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Hlmmler. There was no confirmation from the British foreign office.

op- Infantrymen Overrun Islet Off Okinawa Freiham and Landshut ordnance freight yards northeast of Munich I miles in 24 hours, and their infan- municipalities, the GOP provided and at Neumarket, Ingolstadt, I try units as much as 25 over the that 50 Per cent the tax would Donauwortli and Aniburg. open highroads in the heart of to second class townships on a During the past four days a to- Germany, tal of 63 German airdromes have The final drive to halve the been beaten up and 798 Nazi planes have been destroyed in the air or on the ground. Reich was under way. Hannover, third largest German city yet to fall, was captured by once-feared Luftwaffe appeared the Ninth with spectacular rapi- well on the road to obliteration. dity, and white flags were reported Hopelessly outnumbered for fluttering in Brunswick, 105 miles months bv the Allies and now vir- from ghost-like Berlin, tually grounded for lack of oil, i Germany was being squeezed the enemy air force was given its 1 between the eastern and western worst blow of the war yesterday fronts into the shape of a huge when American fliers destroyed 397 of its planes and damaged countless others.

In the last four days 61 German air fields have been bombed and strafed and at least 765 enemy planes destroyed. (Turn to Page Seven) RELIEF FOR CARRIERS Harrisburg, April bill was signed into law today by Governor Martin permitting payment of 5600 annually to typhoid fever earners unable for that reason to earn a living. The new law will be administered jointly by the health and welfare departments. Another measure signed authorizes third class cities, boroughs, towns and townships to employ planning engineers. hour glass in which the time swiftly was running out.

The Russians, poised east of Berlin for the final march, were mopping up in Vienna, where complete elimination of the Nazis seemed a matter of hours. During the night British heavies hit Leipzig and Plauen railyards in the U. S. Third path and Mosquitoes struck again at Berlin. By last night the First and Ninth armies were 110 miles from The Third was not more than 120 miles from the battered capital.

In the north British tanks and infantry rolled ahead toward Hamburg and other British armor cut west to Bremen to within 30 miles of a cut-off of the Helgoland bight, and infantry slashed east of the Weser down (Turn to Page Seven) mileage and population basis and the other half to cities, boroughs, towns and first class townships. The Brunner bill received approval 44-5 yesterday in a colorless climax to session-long controversy over the mainspring of waterway clearance program. Chief provisions ban dumping of anthracite silt into streas, divert bituminous mine acid drainage to already polluted waters and hike penalties for unlawful discharge of all industrial waste. (Turn to Page Seven) Relatives here have been advised by the War Department that Pfc. Ohrduf Citizens Given Chance To Inspect Atrocity Victims Passage Of Teacher Pay Bill Expected Harrisburg, April Proponents today predicted pas sage of a compromise bill per manently increasing salaries of By ALVIN STEINKOPF Ohrdruf, Germany, April Hayden A.

Searl, whose armored forces discovered the scenes of horror at the Ohrdruf concentration camp, thought it would be a good idea for the German citizens of this town to see what SS (Elite Guard) brutality fjted done in their midst. ld.The Chestnut Hill, officer up 40 leading citizens for a tbiir of the camp, where several hundred bodies of slain foreign workers afE still in evidence. They saw sprawling in the open space between the barracks, piled like timber in one building, and heaped in a tangled mass in a. wide pit in stili er place where apparently some effort had been made to burn them. At first the Germans expressed disbelief, insisting SS like Later they voiced disgust, with one doctor saying the work of The next morning the Nazi mayor of Ohrdruf and his wife were found hanged.

The army said it was suicide. Ohrdruf, said by foreign workers to have the reputation of being a fanatically Nazi community, got a different slant on their former rulers. Allied military government officials who found it difficult to get Ohrdruf citizens to cooperate said that now there are plenty of volunteers. News of the discovery has spread up and down the front, 1 and many hundreds of American i soldiers who can get away from their war chores are visiting it. They leave in a grim mood education subsidies A house vote on the committee- backed plan, however, was put over until next week to give representatives a chance to get reactions.

Faborably reported yesterday, the committee proposal would add $32,000.000 to the share of education costs in 1945- By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Manila, April plete control of the Sulu Archipelago, which stretches between Mindanao and Bdrneo, was proclaimed today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Forty-first Division Doughboys invaded the key island of Jolo on Monday and quickly captured the capital city and its airdromes. MacArthur also announced the liberation of perhaps thousands of ill-fed lepers from the Culion col- only of the west-central Philippines and reported the end of organized resistance on southern Luzon, where thousands of crack enemy troops are trapped.

Maj. Gen. Jens A. veteran 41st Division which captured the big harbor of Tawitawi in the Sulu chain April 2, swept ashore at the Jolo city waterfront, on the 20 -mile-long north coast, i i Another force landed four miles northeast of the capital, Opposition was negligible so the Yanks drove eight miles inland. Another swift landing was made at Culion island, north of Palawan.

I This resulted in the liberation of lepers who had lacked proper food and medicine for three years. Ten years ago the Culion leper colony numbered 7,000, including a few 1 i whites. Although the adjoining anchor- of whom in Coron Bay was used by the Japanese fleet during operations B.y LEIF ERICKSON Guam, April 11. Army infantrymen overran Tsugen islet off big Nakagusu- ku harbor today while Japanese on the main island expended more troops in repeated heavy counterattacks which were costing them heavily. Twenty-fourth Corps Doughboys who landed at Tsugen against only light opposition yesterday killed off the entire garrison of 350 troops.

Pre-invasion naval shelling knocked out most of the artillery, mortars and machine- guns. Tsugen, about 10 miles off east coast, gives the Americans control of Nakagusuku bay, onetime Japanese fleet anchorage. Americans fighting in rain and By KI Cl I KASINCRE London, April 11. Russian forces completed the encirclement of Vienna and with tommy- guns and grenades compressed the doomed Nazi garrison into the eastern one-tenth of tlie tottering Austrian capital, front dispatches to the Moscow press announced today. These accounts also said that the right wing of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army had invaded the central Czechoslovak province of Moravia at points less than 35 miles from the great city of Bruenn (Brno).

Farther north, the Germans said other Soviet forces, in an all-out assault to reduce the Oder river fortress of Breslau, had stormed into Richthofen Square in that Silesian city. Inside Vienna the Nazi force. Including schoolboys, pilots and sailors lighting as infantry, had been pushed back on an island against the Danube by Russian storm units sweeping forward in hand-to-hand lighting. Complete elimination of tins enemy holdout group appeared likely in a matter of hours. Red army storm units now were operating in the three-mile long, half-mile wide crescent of land between the Danube river and the Danube canal an area which includes the old Jewish quarter of Leopoldstdat and the Brigittenau and Prater commercial districts.

Everything west and south of the canal had been mopped up by the Russians. There was no indication that the Germans yet had blown the four bridges over the Danube, one of which probably already is In Russian hands( a Moscow dispatch 60id. Moscow announced last night that on Monday 2,000 Germans fuels administrator, lokes said the vu captured along vtith tanks work stoppages were i ll0hi UlR to be cutting into steel production at. a rate which represents approximately 100,000 weekly. i i i sky army slashed ahead north- ordered the seized mines th Bratisiava.

ThPV to open for work tomorrow mom-1 Tralcin, on the east bank ing, designated exn utne heads i rjver barely 80 miles the mining companies as federal (jen Andrei operating managers and instructed Ukranians driving down es had stepped into his fourth war-time role as mine operator, ordering the American Hag flown over every tipple made idle by a 10 -day series of wildcat strikes that cut deep into steel production. The number seized, however, was fewer than seven per cent of the 3,478 soft coal mines, most of which have continu eeatioiiB. The break in the long-stalemated contract talks came hours alter dark with an announcement from conference Chairman Ezra Van Horn, an operator, that an agreement had been reached. He said only that the miner-operator conferees would meet at p. m.

today to approve the agreement, it then must be reviewed by the War Labor Board and Economic Stabilizer William 11 Davis, Reportedly the $1.50 average daily increase will result from an agreement on a seven-hour day with time and a half for all additional time spent underground except for a 15-minute lunch period. Overtime now starts after tlie eighth productive hour in one day and the 40th productive hour in one week. The miners are working a nine-hour day, 54 hour week during the war. The seized mines, where work stoppages have forced a partial of plants producing war- vital steel, in Pennsylvania and Kentucky where 24,000 miners were idle yesterday Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Indiana and Alabama. In taking over the pits as Solid in one section, 3,000 German dead counted.

In Slovakia, units of Malinov- the managers to raise the American flag over their pits. He called on the mine workers to return to Clayton Lee Reynolds, native of 2,500 yards in the north but were Sugar Grove, was killed in action cn I wfo on February 19. Born January 7, 1919, at Sugar Grove, he attended the high school there and enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps on January 17, 1944.

He trained at San Diego and Oceanside, and went overseas on August 8 1944. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover G. Reynolds, 107 East Main street, Falconer, N.

one brother, Lt. Oliver Grover Reynolds, with the U. S. Army in the Pacific; four sisters, Mrs. Mildred Groves, Binghamton, N.

Mrs. Vivian Barrett, North Warren; Mrs. Kathryn Frantz, Warren; Mrs. Edna Anderson, Tarzana, Calif. mud on Okinawa gained up to tlit if and keep coal oving to virtually stalemated in the rugged southern sector for the sixth straight day amid the fiercest artillery duel of the Pacific; war.

Several Japanese counter-attacks, supported by artillery and mortar barrages, were thrown back on the south. The counterblows were costing heavy casualties and materially increased the Japanese toll of dead since the official count of 5,000, plus 222 prisoners of war taken, up to Sunday midnight. Bitter fighting in the south along a 4 1 2 -mile line was increasing the rate of American casualties, estimated unofficially at the rate of one American killed or wounded for every two Japanese killed. war factories. President Roosevelt directed Ickes to return the mines to private management as soon as he determines that government operation no longer is needed foi successful prosecution of the The wildcat strikes began mediately after the Easter Sunday and eight-hour day holiday, April 1 and 2, despite Lewis's instructions to the miners to' continue at worlc under a 30-day extension ol their expired contract.

from the north. Recapitulating the losses inflicted on the enemy in the capture of the East Prussian capital of Koenigsberg, Moscow announc- (Turn to Page Seven) Pittsburgh, April II (VP) (Turn to Page Seven) An More Criticism is Aimed at O. P. A. Washington, April 11 (JP Wheeler (D-Mont) led a new barrage of criticism against the OPA today at senate food investigation hearings.

Shaking his finger at Thomas 1. I Emerson, deputy OPA administra- i tor in charge of enforcement, Wheeler declared OPA enforcement officers had been called off when a trap was set two years ago Convict Who Fled Prison Gives Self Up Philadelphia, April 11 An BULLETINS London, April 11 Adolf 56th birthday will not be celebrated by Germans in the usual manner this year, Heinrich liiin- Eastern Penitentiary convict who decreed today in his capacity fled from the prison last week with minister. school state in w.aa I have bST up i Army Group 00 if st et.rilrarp„ t0 the front gate today and diable information (Turn to Page Seven) All Fit Soldiers May Go Overseas Washington, April 11 surrendered himself. -reaching the headquarters today am James Grace and I want! 102 members of the German to Guard John Morgan were executed by the Dted Grace as saying when he Germans on March 31 in an effort quoted answ'ered the prison doorbell. Prison officials said the 24-year- old fugitive told them he had spent the entire time since his escape April 3 in concealment in the 4G, bringing the total to Every able-bcdied man In Uncle neighborhood of the penitentiary 000 The legislation represents a compromise between plans backed by the school commission and the Pennsylvania Education Association.

The budget, presented by Governor Martin, provided $103,000,000 for state school subsidies in the next biennium, including a $27,000.000 tem- parary cost-of-living bonus to army is ticketed for a taste of overseas service. War Secretary Stimson says so. He reported in a letter to Rep. Mahon that of 2.900,000 and his old home nearby. Within sight of Grace as he stood at the main gate was the opening on the prison lawn through which he and the other men on duty in this country in i convicts fled after tunneling 97 February some 1.400,000 already have been selected for duty overseas and are being trained for that purpose.

An additional 180,000 are in army hospitals, but of the re- feet from the cell block across the to stop an revolt. Washington, April 11 f.P (Turn to Page Seven) Film Actress Dies In Fire In Home Hollywood, April 11 Blonde Gloria Dickson of the films Munitions Cut- Back Is Planned ut meat Emerson had informed the committee earlier that he wras OPA. He said he was the process of to the Office of Economic Stabilization where he would be general counsel. Sentiment apparently was mounting in the agriculture committee for a formal rebuke to OPA on its handling of the whole meat situation. At the same time, some mem- tion and a stop-eonstruction order i hers talked of the advisability of on 12 new tank plants War Production Board officials feared they might have to overhaul the priority structure to protect the most vital w'ar needs.

Building of the dozen tank factories was halted, the war department said, because they would not enter full production until fall. Production already is at a rate Washington, April 11 LP) tNew munitions cutbacks pegged I on favorable progress of the apparently will rescue priority system from its worst emergency since the months after Pearl Harbor. Until the surge of military optimism of the last two weeks climaxed last night by a 10 per cent cut in planned shell produc recommending a in the agency. TRENCH MOUTH EPIDEMIC Pittsburgh, April 11 Trench mouth is reaching epidemic in Pittsburgh, Howard C. Patton, superintendent of restaurant inspection, said yesterday.

The depart- assuring American soldiers of suf-! ment of public health emphasized ficient armor to the war. to eating anti drinking places the against Germany and provide the necessity for complete steriliza- I output necessary to supply forces tion of utensils used in serving to be used against I food. i teachers. The committee decided mainder now doing essential ad- to make the increase permanent and hike the amount. GRAF SCHEER SUNK London, April shows that the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was sunk in the RAF attack on the Kiel naval base the night of April 9.

the British Air Ministry announced today. ministrative and service jobs: of these soldiers, except those who have already seen overseas service or who are physically disqualified, is ear-marked for foreign service as soon as lie can be replaced by an overseas returnee or a limited service Mahon had. written Stimson suggesting that bottom of the be scraped of soldiers still in the United States before sending combat troops from Europe to prison yard and under a high wall dead today, sufiication victim The capture of Grace left only of a fire which swept her hillside James F. Van Sant. 37, and Fred -1 overlooking the film capital, erick Tenuto, 28, still at large.

Six of the inmates were captured within a few hours of the break, two more were discovered in a nearby Delaware county woods and anoth- The seared, half-clad body of the 27-year-old actress was found in a second-floor bathroom in a position which Fire Capt. Joe Schenk said indicated she had tried to reach a window. Near her 5,000,000 Jews Gassed and Cremated In Murder Factory body lay that of dog, a Boxer. the Pacific police Monday night when he went to visit a girl friend. Yesterday the names of Tenuto and Van Sant were certified to the U.

S. office as draft step preliminary to putting FBI agents on their trail. The men wrere charged with failing to notify their draft boards of changes of address The actress, born Thais Dickerson in Pocatello, Idaho, August 13, 1917, has been in pictures since 1937, when she made her first appearance in Considerably in demand for a she never fulfilled the promise of her early roles. Her most recent pictures were of and By THOBLRN WIANT Near Erfurt, Germany, April 11 Dr. Bela Fabian, president of the dissolved Hungarian Independent Democratic party, said in an interview today that 5 000,000 Jews had been gassed and cremated at a murder factory at AusfCh- witz, in upper Silesia.

Fabian said he was taken to Auschwitz 10 months ago with 5,000,000 other Hungarian Jewrs and that 400,000 were gassed and mated in the first two months anc that only 1,000 remained alive. With Lt. Theodore Gutman Los Angeles, and Sgt. Siegmunt Fuld, New York City, acting as translators, Fabian told a storj so horrible as to be almost unbe lievable. Fabian said he could speak English but that he was so unnervec by the ordeal of his detention that he preferred to give the interview in German..