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COUNT NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH STOCKHOLM, April 29,— UP) - _ s.r, Folke Bernadotte, vice-presi ?out‘ ti,e Swedish Red Cross, oC": °vly escaped death when Al S planes bombed the Danish rfield from which he was about 3 take off after receiving a mes from Heinrich Himmler for fh7 united States and Britain, the newspaper Aftonbladet said today. r The Swedish foreign office an , need that Bernadotte transmit H an ‘‘oral message" from Himm !e“ t0 the Swedish government, which then turned it over to the American and British ministers in QtocKholm. The foreign office statement add pd nothing more, but it was pre cumed that Himmlers message was the one which offered capitu lation to the western Alhes only. ‘ American and British legation officials were not available for comment immediately. Bernadotte reached Sweden last Tuesday, and since has left the country again, ostensibly on a Red Cross mission to Denmark. Aftonbladet said Bernadotte, his chauffeur, and another companion had to jump into a ditch for safety when Allied planes bombed the Danish airfield. Bernadotte, whose American wife is the former Estelle Man vine, is one of the few men who 1 as negotiated with top leaders of both the Allies and Germany dur ing this war. t He visited Gen. Eisenhower in France last fall. In recent weeks. ],e saw Himmler on several occa sions in connection with a Swedish mercy mission which obtained the release of thousand of Nazi-intern ed Danes and Norwegians. Many of them already have been brought to Sweden. -V SWEDE REPORTED TALKING PEACE (Continued from Page One) possibly today to America, Britain and Russia. Most London newspapers carried sensational headlines on the pros pect of German capitulation, pre dicting the end anywhere from a few hours away to two or three days away. A United Press Stockholm dis patch said that Bernadotte, a nephew of King Gustav V and an official of the International Red Cross, was reportedly at the Dan ish-German border town of Flens burg. site of a big Red Cross camp. Well-informed sources believed it was probable that Bernadotte is in contact with Himmler, although authorities had no definite know ledge, this dispatch said. Official sources in Stockholm said that Bernadotte had return ed on Red Cross errands. But these missions did not ex clude further capitulation discus sions. Stockholm dispatches said, particularly those which might concern Denmark and Norway. Bernadotte and the Swedish gov ernment have prime humanitarian and political interest in these countries. Bernadotte must have Himmler's approval even for humanitarian work in Germany, such as the evacuation of prison ers. and has no difficulty in meet ing him Swedish press reports said to day that Himmler's offer was made last Tuesday and that Bernadotte flew immediately to Stockholm where he contacted the Swedish foreign office. In accord ance with Himmler's wishes, it forwarded the offer to British and American quarters but not to the Soviet legation in Stockholm, t/.e Swedish reports said. Stockholm said it was not re vealed whether Himmler’s asser tion that Hitler is not a well man was part of the original message or was added later. Well-informed London sources believed that Hitler might be dead. They suggested that his death would be concealed from remnants of German forces sc long as they continued their battle in Berlin or until an unconditional surrend er had been made. Prime Minister Churchill will ronbe a statement in commons this week on the state of affairs in Germany, the daily telegraph poli hcal correspondent said, adding 'oat the 'facts relating to a sur render offer and the possibility, of further surrender moves were re ported to the cabinet at a routine meeting Sunday.” This dispatch asserted that it ''as expected generally in White hall tonight that Allied govern moriis would know within 48 hours whether an acceptable surrender a "ou^ h® forthcoming. It add ed that Himmler was believed the . Person with whom dealings could be effected lile authoritative British press association said that London had ®een “buzzing” with rumors of mergency cabinet meetings and ner Preparations, but that today l isters had ‘the usual meeting 1 the usual time.’ That was all j ' ■ J3!'1' despite the outward calm mtehall. it had been anything lT1 3 0'iiet weekend inside No. 10 tipi ':ina street, the official resi "r ,hc Prime minister) and ‘ni eizn office across the road, -easion is similar in Denmark, fa;ft"ltC j 'eSS Stockholm dispatch . and the strong underground Wizatim is awaiting a chance 0 oO into action. --v u ^GI‘ARIN’-RI=VERSE OISTON, Texas, April 29.—(U.R) wear u S’ .owner of a ready-to ln Houst°n, is being On a burglar in reverse. occasions, Adams has rlonr ^V'a Padiocks on the front lacks' ‘!"s establishment. The pad neve,- • C d vvays locked and there e3er is a key. The Americans, Russians Effect Junction At Torgau '■ •”» --- -- ——...—n—lam — Second Lt. William D. Robertson, of the American First Army, embraces Lt. Alexander Sylvashko of the Russian Army before a furled American flag and a crude sign read ing Last Meets West. Lt. Robertson was the first American to meet the Reds, (upper left). In the upper right photo, infantrymen of the First Army extend hands in greeting to Russian troops on a broken bridge over the Elbe. Lower left, Russian and American troops, carrying their respective flags, advance after their juncture. In the lower right picture, little need be said as the Yanks and Russians celebrate their victory in vodka. / WITH THE AEF Yank Simplifies Captures By KENNETH L. DIXON WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN GERMANY, April 27—(Delayed) — (A3)—Capturing Germans has be come so commonplace in these parts that people have practically quit talking about it, except for unusual cases. But this was not true a few days ago. It was then that Capt. Fran cis S. Schommer, Sheboygan, Wis., put his improvised “party line surrender system” into opera tion. Capt. Schommer belongs to the third battalion of the 329th Infan try regiment, which then was making its rush from the Rhine to the Elbe river. In addition to usual methods of capturing pris oners—at gun’s point, for instance —the battalion rigged up a sound truck which warned enemy sol diers they had better call it quits, or else. But one day the sound truck broke down, and the thunderbolt doughboys had no immediate means of inducing the Germans to surrender excepting the old shoot it-out method, at which they do all right, too. But they naturally preferred a less drastic plan. Then Schommer got his idea. “As soon as we captured a town I hotfooted it over to the local Burgomeister,” he explained. “My German isn!t the best in the world, but it was good enough to make him understand I wanted him to call the Burgomeister in the next town just ahead of our advance. “As soon as ho got 'lie next town's Burgomeister on the phone, he would ask him two questions: ‘Are there any troops in your town?’ and 'Do they want to sur-% render’?” • If the answers to .both questions were “yes,” then a three-way con versation ensued. Schommer told his Burgomeister to tell the other town’s Burgomeister that white flags were to be flown from every house—as conspicuously as pos sible. In addition, all soldiers within the city were to lay down their arms and go*lo an open field at the outskirts of the down, and wait till they could be picked up. “I didn’t fail to impress the Bur gomeister making the call with a clear idea of what would happen if we got double crossed,” the captain said. Schommer’s system worked in town after town, fo» amazingly enough the telephone lines remain, ed comparatively intact, at least in the area through which the bat talion made its drive. “However, in Mullingen we ran into trouble,” Schommer said. “After the telephone conversation and after the white flags h?d been raised in the town a German mor» tar crew forced the civilians to remove the flags and help the troops to defend the town. We were forced to pound the place with artillery.” Otherwise his plan worked ef fectively until the sound truck was operating again. Ironically, the war in which Hit ler aimed, among other things, ic “purify” Germany racially, nas brought a melting pot conglomera tion of luckless citizens into tine Reich in tremendous numbers. Typical was the population ol the prison camp near Halberstadt, which was liberated recently by the 19th Corps. It contained citi zens of 20 lands, and of varied col ors, races and creeds. Just to give you an idea of the language difficulties alone encoun tered in such a liberation, the po litical prisoners of this one camp included: 195 Poles, 178 French men, 65 Russians, 28 Czechoslo vaks, 28 Belgians, 2,622 Italians, 21 Germans, 16 Dutchmen, 14 Yugoslavs, 12 Latvians, Eight Spaniards, four Auatrians, three Lithuanians and two Eslhoniaus. In addition there were one each from Persia, Turkey, Algeria,, Lux embourg, Serbia and Romania. Imagine what ensued when all those poor, half-starved,, tortured, miserable people attempted to telJ ■their pent-up stories-^-ail ar price - to army officers arid interviewers. -:-V Spaniards Flay Fascist Salute At Flag Raising MONTSERRAT. Spain. April 20. Ten thousand Spaniards today angrily shouted down a few hun dred others who greeted the rais‘ ing of the Spanish flag with the Fascist salute. Franco police armed with riot guns stood idly by as the angry men hooted at the stiff-arm,-open palm salute which still is the offi cial greeting in Spain. “We have had enough of Fas cism,’’ shouted the crowd which was composed of Carli'sts, reac tionary monarchists. AMBASSADOR DIES MADRID. April 29.—(-ah— The death of Gines Vidalysaura, 53. Spanish ambassador to Berlin, ir Bern, Switzerland, of a cerebral hemorrhage this morning, was an nounced in Madrid. The embassy recently was transferred to Berr„ GI IS 7,000th PATIENT FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 29, —(U.R)—1The 7.000 patient to be ad mitted to Cushing General Hospital herg since its opening 15 months ago was Cpl. Emile Berard oi Woonsocket, R. I.; who was wound ed in Strasbourg, France, Feb. 4. I * Explosion At Foundry Rocks Los Angeles Area LOS ANGELES, April 29—(Ah— Metropolitan Los Angeles was shaken for a 20-mile radius today when an explosion wrecked the modern foundry and pattern com pany in suburban Vernon, damag ed neighboring property for a to tal loss of $250,000, but the blast miraculously killed no one. Force ef the explosion, believed caused by an over heated temper ing vat in the foundry, injured four men painfully but apparent ly not seriously. -V EARTHQUAKE EELT SEATTLE, Wash., April 29—UP) —An earthquake definitely felt throughout all areas of the city and described by University of Washington geologists as prob ably “local” in origin, was re corded here at approximately 1:15 p.m. No damage was reported. Escaped German Prisoner Gives Up To S. C. Police CHARLOTTE, April 29— OP) — Bernd Brinkman, escaped German prisoner of war, surrendered to Camden, S. C., police this after noon, Ed Scheidt, special Federal Bureau of Investigation agent here, announced tonight. Meanwhile, the local FBI office received word of the escape of throe German prisoners of war from Camp Ashby, 12 miles easi of Norfolk, Va., between 10 p.m. Saturday and early this morntngi The three were listed as Arthur Hoelke, Alfred Sutter and Erwin Sevferth. All were wearing brown shirts and fatigue uniforms with the letters “PW” upon them. -V Miss Chic, an elephant in the Jacksonville (Fla.l zee is insur ed for $3,000 by Lloyds of Lon don. American companies refus ed the risk. THREE DEWEY ACCLAIMS COURT OF WORLD NEW YORK. April 29.— <*! — Gov. Thomas E. Dewey last night declared the proposed Court of In ternational Justice to be discuss ed at the San Francisco World Conference was “the heart and soul of all our efforts” for peace. “If we do not lift our eyes and our hopes to the higher level of settlement of disputes by legal process, we have made* little progress away from international rule by force alone,” the 1944 Re publican Presidential nominee said in an address prepared for delivery at the 48th annual ban quet of the American-Irish His torical Society. The work of the conference, Dewey said, will be divided into four main steps. “The first will deal with the preamble and state ment of principles, the second with the assembly and its powers, the third with the council and the fourth with the permanent' court of international justice.” Dewey said the first three had been discussed widely. “I be lieve,” he added, “that the fourth major part of the San Francisco conference, of which we have heard so little, is the part which will finally determine whether we have succeeded in starting down the true road to the final abolition of war. “For the world court is the con science of mankind determining, under principles of justice, the - disputes wdiich otherwise would bring down on us another holo “This will not be achieved to day; not fully, perhaps, for de cades. But only if we work to- t ward the concept of judicial set tlement of all disputes, v.’ill we ever reach the goal.” “The large and powerful na tions,” Dewey said, "must ac knowledge the principle that as all nations are equal before the law of their state, all nations are equal before the law of nations.” * Tlie Governor said the Interna tional Court would not be a sub stitute for the World Security Or ganization but an “integral part of it.” “What we hope for first,” Dewey continued, “is t,he fusing of mankinds aspirations into, an international charter defining principles of conduct as basic to the World organization as our con stitution and the ten command ments are basic to American life. “Then, as the years pass, a body of international law will de velop around that charter. The assembly and security council of the World Organization will ar rive at decisions in conference which will establish patterns of procedure and juristic jusVce which will develop the ’field of operation of the court within the framework of the International charter.” SCREEN STAR DIES HOLLYWOOD, April 29— <A>) — Malcolm McGregor, 53, actor of silent screen days, died today from bums apparently received i when he fell asleep in bed while smoking. -V— ROGERS ENTERS SERVICE SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 29— (.'Pi—James B. 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