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Poland Issue
Strains Relations
*At Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30—
(JP)—British, American and Rus
sian relations teetered on the rim
of another crisis with the Polish
issue again building up behind the
Scenes of the United Nations con
ference. The effort of the Uatin
American nations to have an invi
tation issued to Argentina to join
the conference appeared to be
forcing the showdown this time.
Some conference leaders, pri
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vately fearful of a deadlock, Mol
^ otov reported told his big power
colleagues Stettinius, Eden and
Soong he would be willing to have
Argentina invited if the Warsaw
government of Poland ware also
asked to send a delegation here.
British and United States who
headers also assume the support of
China are determined against this
Polish arrangement. One plan
which Latin American strategists
virtually agreed on is either Chile
or Brazil, both of which are exe
t i v e committee members,
should move to add Argentina
pending the proposal to invite
the White Russian Ukrainian rep
resentatives to come here now to
join the conference. Since these
Russian republics already have
been assured of becoming charter
members of the world organiza
! tion.
> The real production machinery
\ of the conference will be thrown
into gear this week with organ
ization meetings designed to put
j the Dumbarton Oaks plan into
-£nal shape. These commissions
#re: one — general provisions
whose main job is to write some
sort of “Atlantic Charter” pream
ble setting forth the human ideal
of the world organization in terms
or justice, rights, etc. Two—the
General Assembly to consider the
Dumbarton Oaks plans for the as
sembly of all nations and amend
, ments suggested: Three—Security
Council, whose assigned task is to
down rules proposed for the
peace-preserving council. Four—
World Court commission which
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Mussolini, Others
Executed In
Milan
ROME, April 30— </P) —Benito
Mussolini was executed yesterday
in northern Italy and his body
with seventeen other executed
Fascist leaders are on exhibition
tonight before a huge crowd in
Milan Square Allied headquarters
announced quoting two British
correspondents who saw the bod
ies.
Reports differed as to the exact
time and place of the execution of
Mussolini and the others. It is not
clear whether all eighteen were
killed at the same time and place,
or Mussolini and his sweetheart
were killed separately. American
columns pushing into Milan came
to “the gruesome horrible sight”.
Eyewitness said “suspended with
heads down were seven bodies in
the center of which was the body
of Mussolini, disfigured by blows
from the crowd which has passed
through the square since early
morning.”
must work out what sort of a body
it is to be and how much power
it is to have.
Jap Suicide Pilot
Crashes Into
Hospital Ship
By LIEF ERICKSON
GUAM, April 29—(>P)—A Jap
anese suicide pilot crashed into
the U.S.S. Comfort, brightly
lighted navy hospital ship south
of Okinawa Saturday night. There
were sixty-three American cas-1
ualties including twenty-nine
killed.
Admiral Nimitz reported the
Japanese plane which made the
attack was still on the Comfort,
although she was procedeing to
port under her own power. The
Comfort was evacuating wounded
and was well lighted and plainly
marked with large red crosses
painted on the white decks.
The superstructure attack oc
curred fifty miles south of Oki
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nawa at 8:58 Okinawa time. Nimitz
also reported that ground action
cost 11,413 American casualties,
including 1,847 killed through Fri
day. The Japanese casualties un
til dawn Wednesday were 21,269
killed, approximately thirteen
times the United States killed. 399
were taken prisoner.
The Doughboys of the-Twenty
Continued on Page Four)
More Than 100
B-29s Blast Jap
Air Arsenal
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
GUAM, April 30— {JP) —More
than a hundred Superfortresses
attacked Tachikawa the Japanese
Army air arsenal twenty-four
miles west of Tokyo while six
small fleets of B-29s showered
bombs on airields on Kyushu, the
southermost of the Japanese Home
islands.
Tachikawa arsenal actually is
the air depot that borders Tachi
kawa airfields and covers about
four hundred sixty acres. It is
near Hitachi aircraft plant which
was blasted by Superfortresses
last Tuesday in a raid which put
Kyushu island under the Super
fortress bombsights for the fifth
consecutive day.
NOEL WIEN MANAGER FOR
ALASKA AIR EQUIPMENT
Noel Wien, one of Nome’s vet
eran pilots has sold out his in
terest in the Wien Airlines to his
brothers and will be manager at
Fairbanks for the Alaska Air
Equipment Service. Joe Crosson,
head of the company, will have
his office in Seattle.
MALMO, Sweden, April 30 —
(/P)—Free Danish press reports
said Count Folke Bernadotte, re
puted peace intermediary, con
ferred with Himmler at Aabenraa
on the German-Danish border.
The report was circulated as two
Swedish foreign office officials of
the Swedish Military Traffic ex
pert boarded a special plane at
Malmo for Denmark shortly after
the arrival by train from Stock
holm. In Stockholm the Foreign
Office said it had no confirmation
of the reports the delegation of
Swedish officials might be en
route to joint Bernadotte in con
nection with a peace mission.
It is reported that Himmler and
Bernadotte conference is said to
have been the second in two days.
Himmler is said by Free Danes to
have talked with Bernadotte for
Three hours Sunday at Aabenraa.
during which time the Swedish
Count is supposed to have turned
over the Allies rejection of Him
mler’s capitulation proposal.
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World Waits
For Collapse
Of Germany
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WASHINGTON, April 29—(;p)
—The Allied world waited with
grim confidence for the Nazi col
lapse under the pressure of arms,
if not wholesale capitulation, such
as President Truman denied oc
curred last night, impelling the
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Germans to make up their minds
was the remorseless military
pressure which was building still
higher upon the dwindling strong
holds.
This much is clear and offici
ally confirmed: Gestapo Chief
J Heinrich Himmler offered to sur
j render to British and Americans,
but has been told the offer will
be given consideration only after
he made it also Russia. It is al
most equally clear though without
official backing was the fact that
officials here were awaiting some
thing important yesterday. The
time the actual report of the sur
render came out of San Francisco
j nobody would say.
There are three species of cul
tivated barley.