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Japs' Attack Blasted
All 3 Surgery Rooms
On U. S. Hospital Ship
By LIEF ERICKSON and AL
DOPKING,
Associated Press War Correspondents.
ABOARD HOSPITAL SHIP COM
FORT AT A WESTERN PACIFIC
BASE (Thursday), May 3.—A Jap,
anese suicide plane explosion which)
wiped out all three surgery rooms
aboard this American hospital ship
threw 2d Lt. Nurse Evelyn C. Bach
eler into the air and onto the stir
rups holding a patient to whom she
was given an anesthetic.
The patient was killed.
Miss Bacheler, who is from Po
catello, Idaho, was one of the two
nurses working in surgery who sur
vived the deliberate kamikaze at
tack, 50 miles south of Okinawa,
Saturday night.
Five operations were in progress
when the single-engined Japanese
plane hit the superstructure deck,
blowing out the bulkheads of the
three operating rooms.
Anesthetic Tanks Explode.
After the explosion of the attack
plane’s bomb and gasoline supply,
tanks containing oxygen and nitrpus
oxide, which were being used for the
anesthetic, also blew up and hurled1
Nurse Bacheler to the deck.
On arrival of the mercy ship here,
the nurse told of the experience.
“All hell broke loose,’’ she said.1
“Bull*heads were flying through the
air. I remember being thrown into
the operating table stirrups and,
then picking myself off the floor.1
Then I started calling the names of,
the people who had been there in
surgery three, trying to find out if
they were all right.”
Most of those in the room were
killed.
One survivor was Maj. Dorsey
Brannan of Morgantown. W. VaJ
who was just finishing an opera
tion. The blast blew him through
a porthole and onto the deck.
Made Second Attempt.
The Comfort’s skipper. Comdr. A.
Tooker of Saybrook. Conn., said the
suicide plane was first seen while
apparently diving for the brightly
lighted. Redd Cross-marked hospital
ship from the starboard quarter.
“Apparerflv.” he said, “the pilot
decided he was going to miss, be
cause he pulled up on the port side
where we could see him against the
moon.
“Then he climbed to about 500
feet, circled around again to star
board and diver again. The plane
hit nearly amidship on the super
structure deck, directly in the sec
tion where the three surgeries were
located. All the operating rooms
were wiped out.”
Engine Goes 1 hrough Decks.
The plane's engine went through
the superstructure deck, the deck,
the main deck and the second deck.
Evidently it carried a small bomb.1
which made a second hole through
only the superstructure deck and the
main deck.
Comdr. Tooker said the casualties,
nearly all of them in the surgery,
rooms, were seven Army wounded
from Okinawa, who were killed: five
Army surgeons killed, one Navy med
ical officer killed, six Army nurses
killed, nine Army corpsmen killed ;
and one Navy cook killed, a total of .
29 fatalities.
One Army corpsman is missing.
Nine Okinawa wounded patients 1
were Injured, as were three Navy 1
officers, three Navy enlisted men.
three Army officers, four Army i
nurses and nine Army enlisted men. i
These 22 wTounded were transferred j i
here from the ship to shore hospitals.j i
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LOST.
BILLFOLD, either on Cheverly bus or on
Bureau of Engraving ear. leaving 13th and ;
D sts. n.e . 6:45 a m contents, money
nas, bond, other Important papers. Call
WA 9.‘5_I_9_ after 6 p.m. Reward_
BLACK SCOTTiE, *2 yrs. old. licence No.
154:4, -Skippy .” MR K. BERGERON.!
411 7 River rd. n.w. Woodley 51*31._
BRACELET, identification, gold, vicinity
F st. and Alexandria Bus Terminal, i*2th
and Pa. ave.; reward. TE. 7491._
DIAMOND RING, lady's solitaire in dia
mond platinum setting; lost in vicinity of
16th st. between 3*2nd and 33rd block, or
between Sheridan and Tuckerman. or
Goldenberg's Dept. Store. Liberal reward.
TA. 6135._
FOUNTAIN PEN, green Schaefer, between
Union Station and 5400 9th st. n.w.: name
on it *‘Mary J. Eliff.” GE. 096*2. Reward.
FRENCH BULLDOG, black. Tuesday p.m..
license No. 35798. Return to MISS LORING.
1754 N st. n.w., phone DI. 1611. Generous
reward._
FUR SCARF, 5 skins; lost in taxi around
midnight. May l, between 14th and Co
lumbia id. and Butterworth pi. n.w..
reward. WO. *281 3._
GLASSES, pair of flesh-color plastic bi
focals with large reading portion, liberal
reward._NA. 0371._
GLASSES, gold plate, bifocal, brown leather
case; vie 14th st.. Wash., or King st..,
Alex.. Va.. Sat. NA. 7460, Ext. 41:. MR.
KOELBECK._*
IDENTIFICATION BRACELET, lady’s, gold,
inscribed 'Robinson.' Reward. Glebe
6417. ____j
KEY, gold, initials "W. H. S.” name
Sonny’’ on back. Please return to S. 1
GREENE. 3130 Wis. ave. n.w.. OR. 3655.!
PACKAGE OF CURRENCY, between 5th
and Kennedy n.w. and Nichols ave. s.e ;
liberal reward. Call MELLON PHARMACY.
TR. 7666._!
PASS FOLDER with building passes, issued
to Marie A. Little. Please return to "iO
Q st n.w. MI. 4055._ __j
POCKETBOOK. black patent leather, in
vicinity of College Park 01 restaurant on
New York ave.. containng ration^ books,
money, keys. etc. Rewa rd. AD. 8700.
POCKETBOOK. black leather, containing
5heck, glasses and cash. Call WO. 6343._
Pl'RSE. black, hand-crocheted, vicinity
31 st and M sts. containing personal papers,
ration books; aIso c a sh. Rewa rd. WI. 8380
PURSE, lady s velvet: lost near Ga. ave.
and Kennedy st.; ration books, personal
papers. Box 331-X. Star._•_ 1
RIDING BOOT. one. with shoetree inside,
between 19th and G sts. n.w. and 23rd
and G sts. n.w.; reward. ME. 2011._j
RING* lady’s, white gold, diamond, taxi 1
10th to Constitution or Pentagon bus.1 i
Rrward. MARION DICK. NO. 9009._ft* ; 1
SWEATER, navy blue, name tape. Lucretia J
Lincoln. Tuesday, vicinity Wis. ave. and M J
M. Re ward .Eve s.._334 8 Prospect, ave. n.w. ■
VICTORY PIN. n.e. vicinity. Reward. TR.
0268._‘
WALLET, brown leather, contained valu- i
able papers, lost near Griffith Stadium;
reward. ROGER WILLIAMS, GL. 2809.
WATCH, lady’s gold, from lapel pin, Tues- j
day eve., vicinity l'Uh and Eye and Statler
Hotel; sentimental value: reward. EX. 4860. ,
9.5: MI. 1378 eves.: MISS DAVISON, ft* ‘
WATCH, lady’s white gold Gruen. initials •
on back “MER’*; reward. Call SH. 2921. <
WHITE SPITZ, brown eyes, name ”Geor- «
gie”; lost in vicinity of northeast. Re
ward. HO. 5721.
WIRE-HAIRED TERRIER, male, answers ]
name ‘ Oscar”: vicinity of Bethesda Re- '
ward. OL. 1164.__
WRIST WATCH, man’s yellow gold, and 1
strap: reward. Call Executive 7030.
Branch 2362.__
WRIST WATCH, lady's, yellow gold. Elgin,
matching bracelet: lost May 1. Reward, i
MRS. MARY M. GRAY. 3 728 L st. n.e. .
WRIST WATCH, man’s. Bulova: on dock at
800 Maine ave.; stainless steel case, gray
Army-Navy-type dial, brown strap. Finder ;
please call TR. 3158. Reward.
WRIST WATCH, lady’s Longines; Monday:
reward. National 2483. • ' i
WRIST WATCH, lady’s Hamilton7~wiTh_6 <
rubies on each side, ft diamonds on each
side: reward. DU. ft987; eves., RE 7500.
Ext. 4467.__ 1
WRIST WATCH, lady’s Bulova. white gold,
with matching bracelet, in downtown sec- .
ticn Tuesday. Call MISS THOMAS. DE.
1910_
WRIST WATCH, small, platinum, with
diamonds around it. Reward. District
4632. .
FOUND. i
DOG, found in Clarendon. Va.: believed
cross between Spitz and Collie; light brown, ,
male, young. CH. 5460._
DOG; believed to be a Shepherd; vicinity l
Cameron Valley. TE. 4483._,
DOG. Toy Collie Spitz, female, white with
brown spots, on Independence ave. two
weeks ago. SH. 3749._ 1
DOG. in Clarendon. Va.. believed crossed i
between spitz and collie, light brown, male,
young. Chestnut 5460. ]
RAILROAD TICKET—Upon identification i
and paying cost this ‘‘ad, ’ will return to i
loser. Box 345-X, Star. 4* '
VON RUNDSTEDT AFTER CAPTURE—American 7th Army MPs guard Field Marshal Karl Gerd
von Rundstedt < left >, former supreme commander on Germany’s western front; his son, Lt. Hans
G. von Rundstedt (center), and a medical attendant, after their capture in Bavaria.
—Signal Corps Photo via AP.
Melancholy Von Rundstedt
Reminisces With U. S. Generals
By HOWARD COWAN,
Associated Press Stall Correspondent.
WITH UNITED STATES 7tl
ARMY IN SOUTHERN BAVARIA
Mav 3.—Thin-lipped Field Marsha
Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rund
stedt, Germany's top military strate
gist, who was taken prisoner b;
American troops south of Munich
told his captors it was senseless fo
the Reich to fight any longer.
The man who directed tne Ger
man armies at the peak of their sue
cess and again just before they san
to the depths of defeat, was cap
tured by a young American lieuten
ant on his first combat assignment
The marshal was surprised at hi
home in the little spa of Bad Toelz
about 5 miles from Munich, jus
after he had finished dining witl
his family Tuesday night.
The capture was made by Lt
Joseph Burke of Jacksonville, Fla.
and a detachment from Company A
141st Regiment. 36th Infantry Divi
sion.
A 7th Army announcement said il
was Lt. Burke's first combat assign
ment since he received a battlefielc
command three weeks ago. Taker
prisoner with the field marshal wen
his son and aide. Lt. Hans Gerd vor
Rundstedt; a driver and a medica
aid man.
He was brought to the command
post of Maj. Gen. John Dahlquist
36th Division commander, at 3 a m
Later he was driven away in a blind
ng snow storm to Lt. Gen. Alexander
M. Patch’s 7th Army headquarters
Gen. Dahlquist told me that he
was in pajamas when Von Rundstedt
was brought in.
"Maybe I should have put on
my dress uniform, but I didn't think
t necessary.” the American officer
said. “I explained that I had been
asleep and he seemed to understand.'
At Gen. Patch's headquarters. Von
Rundstedt said he was relieved of
ms command March 1 because of
[ailing health. The field marshal
ippeared tired and nervous from
.he long trip from Bad Toelz and
leclined to answer questions of
lewsmen. However, he readily ac
cepted an offer of Maj. Gen. Frank
W. Milburn. Lafayette. Ind., com
mander of the 21st Army Corps, to
sit and chat.
For more than an hour the for
mer German commander in chief in
the west sipped coffee and cognac
smoked American cigarettes and
talked—sometimes bitter, sometimes
melancholy and sometimes whim
sical.
inis is a painrui experience lot
an old soldier," he said in a low
voice. "Forty-three years * * • A
very painful experience."
“This is not an interrogation or
anything of that sort," said Gen
Milburn. "I have the utmost re
spect for the field marshal's ability
as a soldier.”
Von Runstedt accepted coffee anc
:ognac and. a bit embarrassed
asked for a cigarette.
“In the German Army we get only
two a day,” he smiled, "and they
are very poor.”
Col. Rinaldo von Brunt, San An
tonio, Tex., pulled a package of a
popular American brand from his
pocket, but Von Rundstedt's phy
sician, who had accompanied him
protested: "His heart!"
“I'd ratner smoke than eat,'' Von
Rundstedt said. “And I like yout
brand best. There are few things
left now—and the doctors try tc
keep me from enjoying them.”
Though Von Rundstedt was im
maculate in a grey-green dress uni
form with thin red piping down the
trouser seam, he apologized for his
appearance.
“My last uniform.” he said.
"Everything I had was destroyed
last March when your air force
jombed my command post in a
schloss at Bad Nauheim.”
Von Rundstedt expressed the
greatest respect for American ait
power and said that the chaotic
:ondition of the heavily bombed
French roads and rail lines around
0 day—particularly in the Paris
>tea—prevented him from bring
ng up troops to counterattack.
“It was amusing when I had my
leadquarters in Paris, at Versailles
rhe French said they did not feai
lir raids because Gen. Eisenhowei
end I had agreed not to bomb each
Hher’s command posts,” he said
grinning broadly.
"This is beautiful country through
lere," Gen. Milburn remarked as
tfon Rundstedt relaxed and forgot
lis nervousness.
“Yes,” said the German com
nander, "and aren’t you surprised
,o see the destruction your bombers
ind artillery have caused?”
"No, sir,” replied Brig. Gen. Ward
rl. Maris, “we saw London first.”
"What do you figure was the
jreatest mistake the German high
;ommand made?" Gen. Maris asked.
Von Runstedt was silent for a
ninute. then replied that he could
lot say because he lacked the per
Dietrich Reported Killed
By Nazi Deserters
Special to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
BERN, May 3.—Dr. Otto Dietrich,
notorious Nazi press chief and prop
agandist, is reported to have been
issassinated on April 26.
Deserters of a Volkssturm bat
;alion who were trying to reach the
Russian lines mistook Dietrich, in
lis Nazi party uniform, for a Waflen
5? officer, and shot him, according
X) the German source here.
ispective to evaluate the campaign
' in its proper light.
! Gen. Maris observed that the
German artillery did not seem up to
[1917 and 1918.
. t "We couldn't concentrate it.'
. Von Runstedt said. "Your Air Force
■ bombing of gun positions, highways
and railroads, and. in Normandy,
■ your naval bombardment was trou
blesome—coming in as far as 25
. miles around Caen.
, l "Mechanized war is not pretty,"
he mused.
Lt. Burke Won Promotion
For Aiding 'Lost Battalion'
’| JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. May 3 ./P>.
—Only Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Jos
eph E. Burke, sr., received a pic
ture from their 28-year-old son in
his new lieutenant's uniform.
Then yesterday—a few hours later
—they read how he had captured
Field Marshal von Runstedt. Ger
many's top-ranking military strate
gist.
“We re too proud for words," said
Mrs. Burke.
At St. Petersburg the wife of Lt.
Joseph E. Burke, jr.. was told the
news by a reporter. She burst into
tears of joy.
Lt. Burke, his parents related, won
his battlefield promotion only three
weeks ago as the result of his part
in the "Lost Battalion" action last
March in the Vosges foothills.
A group of 270 American soldiers
were trapped by Germans and young
Burke, then a private, first class, was
awarded the Bronze Star and later
a commission for his part in its
release.
Lt. Burke was inducted in Colum
bia. S. C.. in December. 1943, while
working there for a retail credit
company.
He and his wife were married in
October, 1939. Mrs. Burke is a na
tive of Pittsburgh.
Lawler Is Nominated
As Post Office Aide
President Truman today nomi
nated Joseph J. Lawler of Pennsyl
vania to be Third Assistant Post
master General and Harold H
: Young of Texas to be solicitor of
the Commerce Department.
Mr. Lawler will succeed Ramsey
S. Black, who is leaving the Post
Office Department on May 6 to be
come State treasurer of Pennsyl
vania.
Mr. Young, who was secretary to
Vice President Wallace, went to the
Commerce Department when Mr.
Wallace was named head of that
agency and has been employed in
an administrative capacity there.
He succeeds South Trimble, jr„
who is becoming chairman of the
Advisory Board of the Inland Wa
terways Corp.
Second Negro-Staffed
Firehouse to Be Installed
The second Negro-staffed fire
house in the District, No. 27 Engine
Company, at Minnesota avenue and
Hunt place N.E., will be officially in
stalled at 6 p.m. tomorrow.
Lt. James F. Mills was named
captain and several other men were
promoted to ranks of lieutenant and
sergeant to staff the new company.
Although in several cases men were
advanced several grades, it was ex
plained that the promotions had the
approval of the Civil Service Com
mission and that Negroes topping
the commission list got the higher
ranks.
Seven firemen, who have been do
ing emergency ambulance service
with the Health Department, have
been transferred to the new com
pany, being relieved of their ambu
lance duties by men specially trained
in first aid and the operation of
tw'o-way radios.
The other all-Negro company is
No. 4 Engine Company at 934 R
street N.W. White firemen now at
No. 27 will be transferred to other
companies. ,
Hitler Dies Just Five Years
After Million Reward Offer
By tbe Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. May 3.—It was
exactly five years to a day from
the time the late Col. Samuel Har
den Church, once president of Car
negie Institute of Technology, of
fered a *1,000,000 bounty for the
capture of Adolf Hitler, that the
death of the German Fuehrer was
announced in Berlin.
Col. Church’s offer, which aroused
i bitter criticism in many quarters,
was made May 1, 1940. and was
j good for one month only. A bond
for *1.000,000, posted by the colonel,
was withdrawn promptly on June 1.
Chamber of Commerce
Re-elects Eric Johnston
! By the Associated Press.
Eric A. Johnston of Spokane,
Wash., today was re-elected for a
fourth term as president of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States.
The board also named these two
new regional vice presidents for the
coming year: Joseph W. Evans,
Houston. Tex., and E. H. Sexawer,
' Brookings, S. Dak.
| Eire and Portugal
Mark Hitler's Death
By ihe Associated Press.
Condolences over the death of
Hitler were expressed last night by
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera
of Eire to Dr. Eduard Hemple, Ger
man Minister at Dublin.
ABSIE, the American broadcasting
station in Europe, said Portugal had
ordered two days of mourning for
the German Fuehrer.
Both countries also expressed sor
row previously at the death of
I President Roosevelt. The Eire
! Parliament adjourned April 13 as
! a mark of respect to the late Presi
dent and in Lisbon Premier Salazar
and other Portuguese officials at
tended special religious services.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 3 ty!P>.—
Tokyo newspapers are treating re
ports of Adolf Hitler's death with
caution, Domei, the Japanese news
agency, reported today.
Domei quoted Asahi, prominent
Tokyo pubycation. as saying edi
torially "it would be advisable for
us to adopt an attitude of watchful
waiting until the European situa
tion has become a bit clearer."
STOCKHOLM May 3 It was
officially stated today that Sweden
had presented no condolences in
connection with Hitler s death.
A dispatch from Bern said Switz
erland had offered no condolences
for the death of Hitler.
Hamburg
iContinued From First Page.)
regulations will be dealt with by
force of arms by the occupation
forces.
! 'For the execution of the an
nounced orders, especially of the
curfew, the government offices and
factories of Hamburg, with the ex
ception of the electricity and water
works. will close down this morning
at 1000 hours (10 a m.)."
•'This announcement is made with
:the authorization of the gauleiter,"
;the broadcast concluded,
i Hamiairg, witn a prewar popula
tion of 1.1*12,220, is the center about
.which German resistance in the
| north ordinarily would be mar
! shaled.
| Its fall deprived the remnants of
the German Army of a northern
|stronghold. The news underscored
.reports that the Germans were about
. to surrender in Denmark.
| It was the first of the Germans'
cities to be declared open and un
defended.
It was considered possible that
, the notorious Lord Haw Haw, the
British traitor, William Joyce, who
became a tool of the Nazis, might
fall into British hands. Only two
days ago he broadcast from Ham
burg.
| Following the official announce
! ment that the city would give up
without a fight, instructions were
given to the populace.
Dairies and milk retail shops
which W'ere closed today were asked
to reopen immediately, so that chil
dren may be fed.
Field Marshal Montgomery's forces
for some time have been massed
along the Elbe River opposite Ham
burg and had made a crossing to
i the east side of the river, in the
Hamburg area.
Hamburg had been reported re
cently in a chaotic condition as Gen.
Dempsey's 2d Army forged a siege
arc. British artillery has been
pounding Hamburg’s defenses.
lT-Boat Yards Battered.
The important U-boat yards at
i Hamburg have been plastered mer
! cilessly by British and American
bombers.
Hamburg is located on the mouth
of the Elbe River, 70 miles from the
: North Sea. Its port city is Cux
! haven, but in peacetime days Ham
burg's great docks could accommo
date even transoceanic liners
As a world harbor in prewar days
Hamburg was considered second only
to London and New York.
Also located at Hamburg is the
famous seewarte, or naval weather
station, which often had given the
German Army vital information on
the weather. It was this station
which provided Field Marshal von
Rundstedt with accurate informa
tion for the launching of his futile
Belgian bulge offensive last Decem
ber.
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Dr. Herbst Is Named
President-Elect of
D. C. Medical Society
Dr. William P. Herbst, jr„ has
been chosen president-elect of the
District Medical Society, to take
office as president July 1, 1946. it
was announced
today.
A native of the
District, who
served in the
Navy during the
last war, Dr.
Herbst is a grad
uate of George
town University
Medical School.
He did post
graduate work
at the Mayo
Clinic at Roch
ester, Minn., for
six years, and
p r a c t i c ed for Dr. H«rb«t.
some time in Minneapolis, before
returning here.
Dr. Herbst was elected at the so
ciety’s annual business meeting last
night. He will succeed Dr. William
Earl Clark, now president-elect, who
was-elevated to that post last year,
and w'ho will become president next
July 1. Dr. Clark, a native of Phila
delphia, also was graduated from
Georgetown Medical School.
Dr. William M. Ballinger, first vice
president of the Medical Society,
who has been acting president while
Lt. Col. James N. Greear, jr., is
serving overseas with the Army, was
elected a member of the executive
board for four years beginning
July 1.
i Other officers named for the com
ing year were: Dr. Fred A. J. Geier,
first vice president; Dr. Dorothy S.
Jaeger, second vice president: Dr.
Harry F. Dowling, member of the
board of censors; Dr. Coursen B.
Conklin, delegate to the American
Medical Association; Dr. Arch L.
Riddick, alternate delegate.
Peace
• Continued From First Page t
I countries. British troops are only
1 35 miles from Kiel,
j There was no clarification last
night of the situation in Denmark,
where since early Tuesday there
had been definite signs that the
Germans were evacuating the Island
of Sjaelland. Against this were
orders of the day from Col. Gen.
George Lindemann. commander of
German military forces in Den
mark, and Gen. Franz Boeme, Nazi
military chief in Norway. Both
had thrown their lot in with
Doenitz.
Still Defiant.
Lindemann had declared bluntly
that he had not carried on any
negotiations, "least of all about
any capitulation." Gen. Boeme had
, issued a defiant order of the day
to his troops that "the fight for
Germany is today as valid as ever."
In London there were varying
opinions on the possibility of peace
ful German capitulation in Scan
dinavia. In some official quarters,
lit was felt that a general debacle
was imminent on the heels of Ger
man surrenders in Berlin and in the
southern part of the Nazi redoubt.
These developments, it was thought,
showed Doenitz had no control over
the German military situation and
thus the commanders might make
their own decisions and end the
hopeless struggle.
j But some Britons expressed the
opinion that the calls for last-ditch
battles in Scandinavia by the Ger
man commanders had dimmed
hopes for a bloodless liberation.
A spokesman for the Norweigan
Embassy in London said a sharp
split had developed among German
leaders in Norway, as indicated by
the ousting of Admiral Otto Ciiiax.
who was known to favor capitula
tion. He said that for the moment
German military leaders appeared
to be following the Doenitz line.
Other radio reports concerning
German activities:
The South German radio broad
cast an order of the day signed by
Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoemer
telling German troops facing the
Russians west of Vienna to fight on.
The Luxembourg radio followed
with a broadcast asserting that
jSchoerner was dead, but giving no
details.
A free Czechoslovak radio station
asserted patriots were rising against
the Germans in that possible hold
out area and sabotage had reached
such proportions that German rule
was approaching the vanishing
point.
Hapsburg Reported in Flight.
From the Swiss border came a
report that Archduke Albrecht von
Hapsburg, Adolf Hitler's choice as
a successor to Admiral Nicholas
Horthy as regent of Hungary, had
I tried to enter Switzerland, accom
■ panied by former Iraq Minister
Rashid All, but that both were
turned back at the border.
In Washington, President Truman
late yesterday replied with a no
when asked if he had any early
plans to address the country. It
had been announced at the White
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House Tuesday that the President
would go on the air when Germany
collapsed.
There was a feeling here, too, that
fanatic Nazi determination to con
tinue fighting Russia until complete
disintegration took place appeared
to have blasted any prospect of a
sudden end to the war in Europe
through wholesale surrender of the
German forces.
Allied acceptance of this view was
indicated by official disclosure that
Himmler, after offering to capitu
late to the Americans and British,
had failed to reply when told that
the only acceptable terms included
unconditional surrender to the Rus
sians as well.
Wanted to Fight On.
Himmler's offer to cease fighting
on the western front was coupled
with a declaration that he ‘'hoped"
to carry on the war against Russia.
This jibed with reports that Doe
nitz had ordere'd Nazi troops facing
the Americans and British to with
draw to the eastern front.
Himmler's exact position was un
clear since Admiral Donetz's acces
sion to power.
In unconclusive peace negotiations
| confirmed by Acting Secretary of
State Grew late yesterday, the
Gestpo chief had claimed to have
•full authority" in Germany as Hit
ler lay dying.
Western Front
• Continued From First Page.)
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trian provinces had been surren
dered. A few Germans were still re
sisting.
Seventh Army columns which ad
vanced along mountain roads ig
nored scores of enemy troops wan
dering about trying to give up.
The Rainbow M2di Division
alone took 50,000 captives yesterday
in mopping up Munich. Many said
they were celebrating the end of
the war.
The general German crackup was
accelerated. Supreme headquarters
listed the capture of Field Marshal
Baron Maximilian Friehen von
Weichs. former German commander
in the Balkans, Field Marshal Hugo
Sperrle. who as commander of the
German air force directed the blitz
on London, plus 18 generals. Some
93.797 Germans surrendered Mon
day, for a total since D day for Gen.
Eisenhower's armies of 2.801.915.
The Germans in the north sur
rendered in wholesale lots.
Dominate Inn River.
In the south, the 3d Army domi
nated the Inn River on a 66-mile
front and had crossed the wide trib
utary of the Danube at least half a
dozen times. Braunau, birthplace
of Hitler, was occupied completely.
Gen. Patton’s Texas and Oklahoma
• 90th i Division crossed into Czecho
slovakia near Starv Pastrekov and
advanced 6 miles to within 29 of
Pilsen and its Skoda munitions
works.
Despite the surrender in Italy,
Gen. Eisenhower kept his three
army offensive rolling in the south.
It apeared that Field Marshal Albert
Kesselring—who has been listed as
a war criminal—intended to main
tain control if he could over the
Germans facing the American 3d
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and 7th Armies and the French 1st
Army.
The loss of Berlin and the death
of Hitler were blows to German
morale. Soldiers and officers now
were released from their personal
oaths of fealty to the man whom
Moscow said is reported by the cap
tive Dr. Hans Fritsche to have com
mitted suicide.
One of the largest potential death
traps for the enemy was in Western
Holland, where the German 25th
Army had opened a corridor for
movement of food to the starving
Dutch.
Gen. Henry Crerar's Canadian
Army moved into Oldenburg (33,
000) and approached the North Sea
submarine bases of Emden and Wil
helmshaven, 4 and 15 miles away,
at midnight.
The British 6th Air-borne Division
formed the latest Junction with the
Russians near Wismar, about mid
way between Luebeck (154,630) and
Rostock (122,399). Late yesterday,
the Russians and American 9th
Army's Rail Splitter (84th) Division
joined south of Wittenberge, form
ing another trap along the Elbe on
its course above Dessau.
In effect, the Red armies and
Gen. Eisenhower's forces were
linked up all the way from the
North German coast to a point
somewhere between the Czechoslo
vak border and the Dresden region.
Some Germans in the north were
attempting to get away by sea.
British fighter-bombers struck at
the routed foe and destroyed more
than 1.500 vehicles yesterday. Pilots
reported small convoys forming off
Luebeck. They scored several hits
on a 1,000-ton troopship. British
bombers attacked Kiel in the night.
Thousands of Prisoners Taken.
Field Marshal Montgomery's
armies were taking prisoners at a
rate that defied tabulation. The
British 5th Infantry Division alone
was estimated to have taken 55,000
prisoners yesterday. The American
82d Air-borne Division, fighting
alongside the British 2d Army, cap
tured even more. The British 11th
Armored Division which captured
Luebeck took 18.000.
Many Allied prisoners of war and
displaced persons were liberated.
The British 11th Armored Division
overran Offlag IOC. freeing more
than 7.000 prisoners. By capturing
Luebeck. this division snapped all
land routes into Schleswig-Holstein
and Denmark.
One af the late reports reaching
supreme headquarters placed the
15th Scottish Division in the edge of
Sachsen Forest east of Hamburg.
The Scots met a few parachute
troops who had been fighting on the
Canadian front.
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