The R ussians r eport an outbreak of undergro N'zi resistance in Berlin. They tell of fanatical Storm Troope~s, now disguised as civilians, who roa~ through the cellars of the shattered Nazi capital and emerge at night to commit acts of terrorism. They've been se~t ing fires - - and fbod ing the Berl in subway. The Russian dispatch emphasizes the flooding of the subways , · r-._- --- --....._ _____ ______ Th8 Ru ian report an utbr k of un erg r o ~nd · re ·. 1 e in lie~ l in. T y t:A · natical Hazi st orm troo e s, no di · ~uise, as civili ns, are s tt 1ng ires S.hd flood in 13 t 1e Berl in tu nnels¼ The- Jiu s s i d ia ate . em h sizes tne flo aing o · tunnel s-, s ayin the Nazi underground had found ways of turning l o ose a deluge ot water in the tubes -- and that hundreds of wounded Rua s ian soldiers aad German ~~ civilians,'.•••~ drowned. The news dispatch adds grimly -- •Re;Ar■y occupation forces are swiftJy dealing with the uprising.• And in C : echoslovakia some fighting still continues -- z•• resistance to the Russians by die-hard ftazis. A Scviet report states, how&ver, that most of the ~ermans who had been continuing the battle aftdr the surrender have withdrawn to the American lines, been made prisoners of war. Nazi sub~arines have been givin 6 themselves up ever since the s u rrend er o~ Germany, • U-boats flying the flag of capitulation have been proce ing to Al l ied ports or have been turning themselves over to ,ati ■ patrols on the ocean. However, there •~ a auPpicion that some German undersea craft may be trying to get to Japan. 1ost 0-boat~ can't go that far, but it is known t lla t the Germans built e number ot long-range subs -- and it is thou&ht possible that some of these might reach the Far Eastern enemy. e e ne tory abou h end of om el , 0 d Fo of th e rt 1ho won h 0 eputa :on a mon m n com n od hi i 0 at e d th· h e th h zi • o o r d r fr om it er , a y hi , v e d an accoun gave 1 t w t ha 1 m e Rommel ' ido .,; ured by he m rica ns, n d a e a h 1 h died f om ck - a e r ove g from in j uri es us i ned hen his milit r automobile w shot u p by n meric n tr afin pl ne. hy doe he no . ch n g the ory - s ubst i tut ing N az i poison for h rt a t ck ? She y the re on i the n s e h a h a bout her son. he h a been informed a ix een ye ar o ld anfred Rommel is no a pr . oner o f ar , r a ur e by the French. H is no saf e from r ris e. l ha h afr i the Nazi s w oul d take a · nst him) A he old he r u th. 0 L - "l --- ------ e , e t a he· rn Fi ld a h 1 h . ee a ly t in ur he m rica n r fin C , ov l nicPl· en 0 e n e er 1 r ol d h im t h mu t a e oison by the or r o f itl r . Thi C u Rommel as im lica ed in e a t y G r 1. n r 1 to k ill Hitler, OV 0 th azi reg , and ake peace. That a th c ons pi ra c y in hich Hitler a injured bomb explosion, h plot for hich som of the most pr o min nt G e rman en als ere ban ed. / ' / / Fra-G omi e 1 ,expr re lly / ne ( / n ot h ing h / e 'J. deq h h tn/ Allies, b out ., / / / , w'/u1.d b the bes ma / to / / , / / d h a d marked him d-own ~ ~r ,, in ; t ho / / gh h kne / no hing b011t it. , Hitl C fou,n{ hi.s name / ,' / , a / he li - e of h~ 01 / F ox of lhe / / / / / / / / r , on 0 f h ar ,, r ~ f t~e w / · d RO L - --- --- i a cc o nt con r · m d omm l ' s son - i h n n an ed Ro m 1 h a old hi F nch ca tors t Bi r im i c a 0 1 1 n p lo o f the en ral s b c aus e th Fi ld h 1 , shortly aft r the n vasi o n of Fr nc, ha w ned Der F uehrer th th a m a s up, further resi nc us le s, an he only thing to do w s to make e ce. And anfred o me l add s that hi father as given a c hoice of taking poison or being hanged - as the Germ a n generals in the conspiracy were hanged. Tod y he ido o { the Ge m n commander who m de the gre& es reputa ion in th w a r, had a thing to s a y tha might w 11 b the whole C rm n nation spe king. ef ring t o Ritl t he muttered: "And to think that for years n d y ars I prayed for the lfare of that Man!• UTC Yl __ __ g ---- 0 a i a e or h , r ' 8 o r · 0 in C' i e r a z o n i e 0 that defe omin g . the oun i r e y the umber ne uisling of Holland, the Dutch Naz· 1 ad er Anton us inte vie a jail - w a ta te d, li a The Numbe r One Dutch azi old of the last time ~ he ~ te::=a:1 ;:v;~ Hit 1 er: --a.:: b--W'fl · "'t-Q-ft--t trh--.s. · i F Qe h ~ , a v-e er, Nine een Forty-Thre - wh n th e British an Am ricans had taken North Afric a , and the Allied inva ion of Italy was on. The Ge rm ns res ill . deep inside ed Russi. The Dutch Quis~ing declare hat he ask ed Hi ler tor ne his promi th t Hol l n ould ha v e lf- ov~ ment in he N a zi ne Euro en rd er. \ 0 C ------ L11~ - 2 "Bi 1 r, ) u "re pli d h could n o lon gu a n h u r o uro e - hin g n o 01n a he ad 1 nn d ." And he uo es the azi Fuehr r ying, "My emainin hope i that En gl and an d th Uni ed a e a tle a ainst Bolsh vim." 11 of h ·cb i hope that the Nazis app ill join r ma ny in the of the fantast up - the hope that e ould change ides and join them • ....., .. There is news bout anothe~ prominent Nazi, PPi me Man ¥etier-Che.mb erla in st a-g-e-d azi Gaulei r of the Germans in ·th , Czechoslovak uded enlan d , c a p ured yes erdJy by m rican troops !ltd-today · tr:at he !Hi:& ommi d ui c i e, sl shing his ri s s - while a priE oner. I LL ' - - -- - h o· lo a l C' y 0 p o- az i ' ca i j u t l e y u i c i e co ~ f , orwa y h re chi f l i ut na n t of t h e a c h z it u i s lin g i a id to h a ve lo n hi 11s elf up i pa l ace t h a t b e lon rs to the o r gi a n ~ro n p i C - H e to u hi h e x lo s i ve , b 0 l hi !lf t o i t .. e .l t h e pa l c e . 0 , I a o t ea li za ti o n of f at co . f o Go e ri ng , he long - time Number T o n ho i risoner of th A m r i c ns. hen th e est e rn Allies ere su r g i ng into er any . Goerin g say s Bitl e r h a d one o f hi intuitions, a nd a s ound intuition it as for once. He had hat Goerin calls -- "a sudden r • al i zation that the ar as lost." And then nd there the az uehrer called off those uc publicized plan s for a last-ditch a zi fight in the mounta ins of southern Germany -- the Redou t a out which we've heard endle stalk. Bitler, sadden that the ar as I as useless to the struggle in be mountain redoubt. 83:t- decided to meet the end in Berlin. Hi 1 <3 Go e ring said he was completely certain that a dea. ) N az i Fuehrer had been sick ith brain or er a d ay have sh ot himself. 0 I -- ------ nen a· o i g h , t.h n, ha Hitler 's ody no een fond? To which t l on e -ti e az i umbe o man r 1· d: "I am convince that Hitler di ed e ar 1 r than annou nc and others found time to e ov th boy rom the each of the Ru s ians." ' ... n n cin r rels amen h ugo 1 vs ar e od y i ·1 o v ic h on i l l be r i a a th Fore ig n in i the r n 1 e ,II 1 h i 1 o-<i c h , ., ~ / / e en d,., Jugo- / ,. / . ✓ - ;,en he and is / / facv.ton of , anti-N a Ju o 1 v n o u c m n tha G e ner al 0 famou er 0 he (, h n r a i o r a n sh o t. i i s a n ounced b o f the g o f a sh a l o f Ju g o .,, Chetni / i e f o- rce o f e s, bee / ,,, -: tan c e o the av r az .1 on ueecr. hetniks ,.. got in-t o a fe1.1d zz with a n ~ ~ . / t"'- ✓ . f T ~ . t A d 'l ' · / s, / 1 - u-,:: part1 ans o / / 1 o. /'. n o ~ ,. / ,,, ,,,--"' / w / p orted by So the one -t ime "' 'b e DO ~ / / ., ,, / OS u, and O ,,, d . t ,,,_, . / :' / t y o 1s 1n on / / /.. - ~ a cuse of having joined for c e wi h the Nazis in his battle a g ains the Tito pnrtis ns. Tod a Tito' Fore· g n ini t e s a ed: f "Uikhailovich ill be ho . The viden e a ainst him lready a h a nd i uf f ici nt for a d b s ntence. him JUGO LAV - -- -- - --- Th r i 1, of cour ea tri na i h doe n't a ll in 0 our n • h 11 d n i x tr ad i t i n." I 0 l d a r a n g ad dr m ~ i c dil mma if the es r n ll i h o uld be c a lled upon to extr a dite ikh ilovich. n d urn him ove r o e ho - th e leader of the Che niks hom the Allied orld at one ime hailed as an an i - N a zi bro. .fQ 1_ r ly g &i nst 1 ad r l in the S o and P r 0 . h 0 from London . h a t a in ha made a r l h an m ic a n o es pro ecting th & 0 i a e of th ix en Polish pa riot Th London e s Chronicl oda d cribe the n r a - "v e outs oken ." e e told t at Pr mi r ha inf o m ed Prime inister Churchill ent Tru man th t there 1 n o us d di c u ss ing the oli h ue i o n a ny f u r t h e ~ i s h - A m e r i c a n demand that h Sovi e sponsored provisional gove r nment be cu a n g ed, i n accord a n c e i t h the Big Three a g reement at Yalta. S lin i r p orted to deny the contention that the i x en Poli h leaders had been i nvi ed by the Soviet to discuss a new Polish c oa lition go vernment. ~ St a lin's expre s s ~ surprise that London and ashington se med to think tha som of the sixteen arr ed mi h hav been suit b l e to take 1 c e n h co lition r im omm nd e d by the POL N - 2 ------ Yalt n c o nf (F 1. n c . s sa id 0 obj C 0 C O "'l C n ex pr ed by i i h For i n C , d n a nd Am ri c n e c r t r o f t a tet i ni u - co C rn for the six en Polish ader arr d y he ovi e t .) (rod the L<lndon Daily / il ta ed: "~here ar e unm i a e bl indic ions tba th attitude of the oviet / / / govern me i tiffening considerably.ff And the Daily Mail a dded , / tha / . ~ Prime Mi ~i ter Churchill is ur 1ng ~ an /4r 1y me ing o f t . h-e Big Three Churchill, Stalin and Tr an - for ~ n --; o iati ons on h subject of Poland. / /"' ,/ B ut , s n s he Londo n newspaper, th re i t.h~talin .. i s will in g to eopen the no indication IJ__,,., ADD OLAND ----------- Fro San Franci co he a r th a t there is likely · - to be a Churchill- talin-Truman ~ eeting s6'on. The t:t. opinion in San Francisco is that ta conferen e of A. the Big Three is essential not only to deal with Poland but with other matters that have arisen in the course of the deliberations of the Onit ed Nat ions. C> ~ • PAvIFIC -- - - -- - On Okina a A e ican forces ha ve launched a n e as ault a ain t the J apanese pos·t·ons -- aft er beating off a er ie s of desperate count r -attacks. /4 ; · • d ~.,, n... .J The ne offensiv e .. t+, _ ; ■ 1 with the sap ort o f ~ / ' -{(,..,,.,~~ - overwhel m ing bo m b ard m entA,S.LW;a rt ill e ry and navft.,(.. guns -- ith bo m bs from the sky adding their own thunder to the pandemonium of ex plosions. A lat e / dispatch from Admiral Nimitz tells of new Jap ai attacks against units of the fleet off Okinawa. J a p suicide planes flew in several waves, and three light Navy ve s sels were d am aged. Forty enemy planes t¥ere shot d o n. JA A ~ BA , A 0 .. -------- ---- J. n fo rce in e any have captured the Japane e A ba sa or, hi s · r 1 . e • an a hun red and thirty "Il e nbe s of th e J a p a n e e iplo a tic st a ff. One onders why they hap ne to fall into the hands of the A ericans in tea of the ov i ets. us ia is to the Japs a neutral county still, an presumably the Soviets have rega de the Japs as neutral diplo ats. But, they were taken by tbeA ericans. ~ILITARY GOVERNMENT --.-.--- . - · ------- Secretary of a r Sti ~ son isclose that the military gov e rn · en t in the part o f Ge rm any occupied by American forces will run t h ings with an iron hand. They will clamp down a st e rn regime, t le ~ajar purpose of which will be to de-Nazify the Germans in the American sector of occupation. Military government officials will exercise jurisdiction over courts and police, and in particular over all forms of public expression -- newspapem, magazines, books, atage plays ~ and motion pictures. They'll make every effort t ~ • ~ out the propaganda dogmas of the N~zis and establish a free system of pre se nting the democratic truth to the Germans. E E LOY'A NT ----- - ----- G ee a l E i se nbo er has ordered that v e terans ho fou g ht in both North Afric a and Eu op e shall not be se nt to th e acific. This as disclosed at hllied Supreme Head q uarte sin P a ris toni g ht, with the publicati o n of a letter that Eisenhower has sent to the senior commanders of the American armies in - urope. Th e l e tter guarantees that veterans who have seen service in both Horth Africa and Europe will not go along in the fast ovement of troops to the Pacific to fight the Jape. That m~vement of troops begins officiallJ ~ , tomorrow -- R-DayA We are told that about four hundred thousan sold iers will be kept in Europe as an armJ for of occupationJf Germany. And that lea es three and a half millions, who alr e ady are on their way to four chief ports of embarkation: LeHavre, Marseilles, Antwerp and Ch e rbourg. The whole thing is the equiv a lent o f movin g the entire populati o of Chicago from West r Europe to anilla, a distance of Fourt een th usand, five hundred mi les. DOOLITTLE --------- I see that General Doolittle has come throujh ith informa ion wldc-b-:::1%:afl ~ kept secret while the war was on✓- told in strict confidence to some of us who saw him over there. On my recent trip abroad, I ran across Jimmy D o o l i t t l ~ c ~ t : : : r ! a "::"-ml~ ~ J t h • last time we had a talk he was enthusiastic about the latest exploit of his Eighth Air Force - an exploit of mercy. fili~ the flying of supplies to the people ot Bolland, who were near starvation. The news at the tiae told how fleets of American bombers had dropped hundreds of tons of food, and Jimmy Do · olittle let me in on at\., ~~ Atremendou• job of engineering. For the food supply job, four hundred flying Fortreseea were swiftly remodeled, their insides torn out, war e q uipment removed - the planes reconverted into food dropping transport r . I feynd General .D.o'O-H DOOLITTL - --------- / / st ill , he I , / ad ~o n / / ( y~ars a~ one of }f grea est e:l- s eed and I I / th av · a ion has ~ , ver kn~wn " / / But , / ~ /s omrt,hing more earnea ( and ser / / ~ . J mmy Doolit le of old ad I a f~olic.-, I , I asked him w ether ~e / tamo night ~). ubs yf Par · ..- s, / I A ' can I I a aa net for I hadn/, t b en und at I e d / t o - 1 b ut tie f Ai /, or;e m / :o {e b I he squadron ost b aultt omm a . e,, Today Jimmy Doolittle disclosed some figures pertaining to the t1ghth Air Force - during its term of . hundred and nin ty-five day , nearly operati n, nine VOOLlTTL. J --------- - three years. In air battle s they lost forty-three th usand, seven hundred a nd forty-two men, bomber crews and fighter ilots.) The maximum strength of the Eighth Air Force was twenty-four hundred heavy bombers, and twelve hundred fighter planes, based on sixty airfieldsr- ( )'-e, ,I ,t:1--r,. ,.._ / / They shot dow fifteen thousand, four hundred and thirty-nine enemy planes - most of these knocked out 1P by the guns of bombers. The nine-hundred-and-ninety-five days of attack produced the following averages - seven hundred and one thousand, three hundred tons ot bombs dropped per day by an average of twelve hundred planes. During the last year of the atupendous air assaults on Naai-Germany, an average of a ton of bombs was dropped every minute. General Doolittle glves the opinion that the Pacific war A ~ be decided along the same lines as in Europe, - t~~ s a me pattern of using a ir power for preparing the way for land invasion. He says that a DOOLITTLE - 4 --- ----- fraction of his Eighth Air Force will rem in in Europe for police work, while the larg~ par t will be transferrec to the Pacific. !ka•xik• There the Flying Fortresses, hailed as g iants of the sky a couple of years ago, will rank as ■ediua b o m b e r s . ~ with the ~ -tt:.e ~ l ~ Superfortresses, giant B-29s,Al:D:d •iH ~au u a:e:r:a:l:r L-0 ~~~~(;,\ , ~ ~ ,...._.~TwYI..IL ,c 'l'vlt.d .. ,u., .-..""4. !' ee ,, 1 u •• 8 e Ii a J Do o 1 it t 1 e ind i cat e d t b a t in the new phase of the air war against Japan, now about to begin, the Far Eastern e e ■y will have to contend with an "'B'- :2.'tAl., American air force headed by two thousand S a p e ~ / .A 8enezal Boo}~ was asked - Wh a t part would he play in the new phase of the Pacific war? "I wish I knew,• he laughed. Well, it certainly would be appropriate for Jimmy Doolit le, who led the first bombing of Tokyo, so early in the w ar , to be sent to the Pacific to carry on. And my guess would be that new reat exploit s a a it the DOOLITTLE - 5 ---~--- commanders of the air forces that were so decisive in the smashing of Nazi Germany - the bi three, Spaatz, Eaker and Doolittle. And one may .cv:r4;a:-i~ surmise that they will be given major roles in duplicating - redoubling - the kind of sky campaign that accomplished so much for the victory in Europe. 0