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Germany Collapsing As H
Commit Suicide—Westei
Italian Annies Surr
LONDON, May 1— </P) — The
f Nazi radio at Hamburg announced
tonight that Hitler died this af
ternoon at his command post in
Berlin. The broadcast implied but
didn’t directly state that Hitler
was slain in battle with the Rus
sians.
The British Broadcasting com
♦ pany reported that Hitler actually
died of a stroke.
Admiral Doenitz, admiral of
the German fleet, immediately
announced over the Hamburg ra
dio that he would succeed Hitler
in command of the Reich, saying
“my first task will be to save
k Germany and the German people
from the advance of the Bolshe
vist enemy, for this is the only
struggle.”
The Hamburg announcement
said “At the Fuehrer’s headquar
ters it is reported our Fuehrer,
Adolph Hitler has fallen this af
* ternoon at his command post at
the Reich’s chancellery, fighting
up to his last breath against Bol
shevism.” Doenitz, following the
announcer said “German men,
women, soldiers of the German
••army, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler
has fallen. With deepest sorrow
and reverence the German people
bow. He ha drecognized the hor
rible dangr of Bolshevism very
early and concentrated his entire
existence to the fight against it.
At the end this was his struggle
and of his straight unerring road.
He dies a hero’s death in the cap
•ital of the German Reich.”
WASHINGTON, May 2—</P)— j
President Truman said he had it
^on the best authority that Hitler
is dead. The President didp’t give
the authority, but said he is con
vinced that Hitler actually was
killed.
LONDON, May 2-^(/P)—Mos
cow radio’s first announcement of
the German report of Hitler’s
death declared “The German ra-1
dio statement evidently represents
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a new Fascist trick.” The radio
Announcement, prefaced by “it’s
asserted that,” indicating the
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itler, Goebbels and Krebs |
*n Austrian And North
ender—Troops Quit
Russians are skeptical of the Ger
man version of Hitler’s fate.
LONDON, May 2— </P) — Adolf
Hitler and Paul Goebbels com
mitted suicide as Berlin fell in
ruins about them, a Soviet com
munique said quoting Doctor Hans
Fritsche, Goebbels’ lieutenant.
Russians said Fritsche was cap
tured as Berlin finally fell to the
Russians. He told his captors that
General Krebs also took his own
life.
German Army In
Northern Italy
Surrenders
ROME, May 2—>(/P)— German
Gen. Jahn, commander of the
Lombardy corps of the Ligurian
Army surrendered with two thou
sand German and many Italian
Fascist troops headquarters of the
United States Fifth Army an
nounced as the Allied campaign
in Italy drew rapidly to an end.
Marshal Graziani, now a pris
oner of the Allies ordered last
night’s unconditional surrender of
his Fascist Ligurian army, telling
his troops in a broadcast “The
time has arrived when further re
sistance will be useless and as far
as I’m concerned, criminal.”
Lt. Gen. Pemsel, German chief
of staff to the Ligurian army then
told the troops they “must obey.”
Grazainis orders it. Lt. Gen. Lu
cien Truscott’s headquarters how
ever announced that Gen. Schlem
mer, commander of the Ligurian
Army’s Seventy-Fifth Corps re
fused to surrender “because of his
oath to Hitler he would not sur
render while Hitler was still
alive.”
There is no indication whether
Schlemmer will give up as a re
sult of German broadcasts an
nouncing the death of Hitler, nor
any indication of where Schlem
mer is holding out as the Allied
drive toward Austria rolled on,
mopping up the last northern Ital
ian resistance.
Some species of the bamboo
plant attain a height of 120 feet.
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Western Austria
Is Unconditionally
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Surrendered
ROME, May 2—<JP)—Col. Gen.
Heinrich Von Veitinghoff Scheel
unconditionally surrendered all
German land, sea and air forces
in southern and western Austria,
under terms that hostilities will
cease at five a.m. P.W.T.
Field Marshal Alexander an
nounced the surrender was signed
at the Allied headquarters in Ca
serta Sunday afternoon.
Scheel’s command includes all
of northern Italy to the Isonzo
river in the northwest; the Aus
trian provinces of Vonalberg, Ty
rol, Salzburg and portions of Cor
inthia.
The enemy’s total forces, includ
ing rear echelon troops surren
dered to the Allies are estimated
to number nearly a million men.
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Justice Jackson On War
Criminal Tribunal
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WASHINGTON, May 2-i&)—
President Truman named Asso
ciate Justice Jackson, Supreme
Court as chief counsel for United
States on the proposed interna
tional tribunal to prosecute the
major war criminals of the Axis
powers.
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Laval Lands At Madrid;
Franco Orders Him Away
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MADRID, May 2—(/p>—Ger
man planes bearing Laval. Mar
cel,Deat and Vichy Education
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Minister Bonnard, landed at Bar- i
celona and were ordered to leave
by Franco personally.
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LADIES AID LUNCHEON
The Ladies Aid of the Feder- j
ated Church will give a Lunch-1
eon, Friday, May 4, at the social
rooms of the Federated Church, j
Lunch will be served from 12
noon to 2 p.m. Please invite your
friends and come. Following the;
lunch there will be a regular |
monthly meeting of the Ladies
Aid at the home of Mrs. Robert K.
Fankhauser, Mrs. Louis Hudgins
will be assistant hostess. Mrs.
John Timmer, the president, will
conduct the business of the meet
ing.
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Nazi Command
Says Berlin Fight
Near End
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LONDON, May 2— (JP) — The1
German garrison in Berlin has
been compressed into the govern
ment quarters and has been chop
ped into “separate groups.” The
Nazi command said it appeared
that the fight in the capital is
near an end and Russian troops
beat in on Hitler’s Reich’s chan
cellery. A Paris broadcast said
without confirmation that the Red
Army flag already flies above the
building.
The Hamburg radio said the
Russians had smashed wedges in
to the last Nazi pocket from the
north, south and east, carrying
them deep into Wilhelmstrasse at
the Friedrichstrasse railway sta
tion in the old town sector.
The German communique said
that other Russians are striking
eastward on an ieghty-five mile
front from Rostock to Neurupping
thirty-five miles northwest of
Berlin nad indicated that the Sov
iets are very near the Baltic port
of Rostock.
Pravda, war correspondent de
clared the trapped Nazis in the
Tiergarten area made another
concentrated effort to break out
through sewers and tunnels but
were repulsed. The Chancellery |
has been under mortar and How- i
itzer fire for three days and four
nights, the Moscow dispatches
said.
A late announcement from Mos
cow announced the complete col
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lapse of fighting in Berlin, saying j
the German soldiers had laid i
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down their arms.
U. S. SUBS SINK 21
MORE JAP VESSELS
WASHINGTON. May 2—(/P)—
United States subs have sunk 21
more enemy vessels, including
two combatant ships in Far East
ern waters the Navy has announ- .
ced. This raises to total Japanese
ships of all types sunk by subs to
eleven hundred nineteen.
Two Loans this year, but need
as much as three last year.
Security Council
In Accord And
Safely On Its Way
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2-H/P)
—The United Nations conference
appears safely past its worst ob
stacles in its success in creating a
world security organization, but
several major arguments still lie
ahead. The Dumbarton Oaks veto
of controls to be placed in the
hands of the great powers on the
inner security council already are
subject to both attack and de
fense. It is announced there are
sixteen United States amendments
to the Dumbarton Oaks plans
which this country, Britain, Rus
sia and China worked out last fall
at Washington as a basis for this
conference due tomorrow or the
next day.
Officials describe these mainly
as technical, but it is expected
they might also cover such points
as guarantees of justice in the en
forcement of the peace provision,
revising the proposed security or
ganization’s charter as future
needs may indicate and a discus
sion allowing the security council
to recommend treaty changes
when the demand is necessary to
help preserve peace.
NOTICE
Directors Meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce at Nome Nugget
Office, Wednesday evening 8:00
P.M.
Chris Roust, President.
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TUESDAY GAMES
National League
All games postponed.
American League
Chicago 5, Detroit 0; Washing
ton 4, Boston 5.
WEDNASDAY GAMES
National League
Boston 3, Brooklyn 1. St. Louis
4, Pitsburgh 2. New York 9, Phil
adelphai 8.
American League
Chicago 1, Detroit 2. Washing
ton 0, Boston 4. Philadelphia 4,
New York 6.