~ GOO · V y: Of c o u the mo am o tic a nd po ular part o f t i h o ne r n the Ba le of Berlin. The o iet ar sh 1 i• Zhukov nd one , be n them, a lre d h ve o-t hi d s o the Ger a n in ◄ . I t, Ji issued t o orders o f th , r porti n g that, in the 0 e s, he First ' hi te u si n Army and ~~v the First r my of the O • r &. i n e .a,a.s v an c e d u t o a ,.. hundred mile , and both of them ar fi g htin i si e the . city. ' w-e... • On ' op o a t, the Luxemb ou r r io declared that the u Rian h ve Berlin completely s urrounded. The Nazis them v e r port that one o f the ed a rmies h a s occupied Pot dam , f o rmer re si ence o f the [ a is rs. or in t o dis a t he from O l:' CO ' he p osi io L .. -------- f the Nazi i 0 1 g n orse ve hou r a nd e a e p e e 0 he r 0 the fa 1 of Be r in a an 1 moment. t , r 0 i cert a in th t uch Germ·n fi hte s e le 't ins id he city h a ve no hope of es pin 0 th e B av arian re OU Red rmy columns b e re C the ,.. 1 e ive on thi ty-nine mile fron , an a only 1e nty m i e way from the Americ a n Firs , hich is close to the River ulde. Then m of the stree ts where the ussians re fi htin g indica es how completely the victorious us 1 ns are in he heart of Berlin. The hole area bet een Unter de n Linden and the Alexander ~latz , wh re police h adquarters used to be lo cat ed, is a se u ual , the Red ar tiller is lined up he e 1 to he e 1 . i i . e p 1 an e s are b om b i n t he t rapped Ger mans from almo t housetop height. Big hammer and .Ii Si ~ 1 l a , s are fly in from many of th big buil di s. T Ol are in u sian the c · t, • Ahe n n · of of n · d istricts Further outh, Konev' armor is only eleYen miles away from Dreeden. Acfordin to the Paris radio, the adv nee uard have alrea y broken into the suburbs . . , Th~y have s e ized Yuhlb r on the Elbe 1 er, an the " probabi ity i ... h he u i ~ ns h ve a lr y joined up ith the Uni ed St at e Fif Arm by this time . Di~ patc h a from tockholm b ing t 1 s of r· - l LEA - l .... ---- in Berlin, i h r i n o rke r volti n g , even s o me Berlin civ i lia n . On tor tol d o the ir h av ing st ormed 1 h e ons hey co ul d find, and seizin an ind u ri 1 dis t r ict in he south of Berlin, with the po ic ma in g n o attem p t to keep order. The firemen bave lon ince given u p any effort to check the flames. Three pas en g ers who escaped on the last plane to state Stockholm reported they left behind~••* f complete j chaos, flith mobs bun in down members of · the G stapo: o much for h B at t e of Berlin, but far or imper ,. n fo by eorge Patt o n' a mor in he out h. co■ple ely fooled Lhe Germ nE. He ~ s apparently aiming for Cbemnitz. Bu that as a f/eint. de• suddenly s~nt tanks heeling southeast tow a rd the Bavarian redoub ~ z 1s with i ~ o ~ t distance of e ff eo~ng a " 1 shutting junction with the ussians and ••• ■ si•! off ~ the entire Germ n garri on in Czechoslovakia. The Eleventh No.air armored divi ion of Patton's army forced the 11 • ; Fiver at to places n1 drove on southeast, by-pas ing Regensburg an d R pproaching the Russiana. The S v nth A rmy of General ~at ch is also ~riving towar d the Bav i n redoubt. It advanced·ten miles on a hundred mile front. The se ve nth is only seventeen miles away from the Fr e n c h Firs A my, w h i ch ha s a number of Ge-r11ans sewed U p in a poc t east of Lak Constance. ,,,,,. JESTF _ff_E.fi.Q_I -- T h r f c t a b o ut 11 the e a per i o ns in B avari ~ , is h t t hey ar e d e s roy ing the Germ n hopes of makin a p rolon ed s a n d in th ir much vaunted redoubt. Mean hi l , in h e n o rth a junction between the U.S. Rinth and the ussians is also expected at any moment ■ ay have happened already . - ' News is being made so fast that the s ■ zzaa, ■ni ■■ corre pon d ents are hardly able to keep JP wit~ it. On the North Sea front, British forces are slamming hard at both Hamburg and Bremen. Uontgomer)'S artillery aai and Allied bombers have turned Bremen into a furnace. Evidently the Germans are pre ared to see their second lar e t port completely demolished r a ther than surrender it. The bombin g is literally non-stop, night a nd d ~ y. Hue fires light u p the horizon.British artiller y is shellin g the Germ n sh i p s in he Elbe iver, thi1e Mont ornery, s t a n k Hambur . are comi n closer a nd closer to T he Bat o f Bol la n d h a com t o life a g ain. Briti h f o rce ro t h e U a s iv south of Amsterd a m, ~h• first ac t i vi y 've heard a b o ut that re g ion since November. An d h e is a n item hich indic a tes that what is left of the Nazi o vern m ent be ins to realize its doom. It has offered to le a ve all Allied prisoners of war in prison c a mps as the Allies advance, and n o t drag the ■ along in the retre t.of the Germ n armies. The War Department in a hington announces that the Government of the United States bas accepted the offer. tllied planes tonight dropped leaflets all over Germany, warning Germ a n officer in charge of prisoners that they will be held indivi du lly responsible for any hin that happens to the prisoner. The warning was s·gned Truman, Prime Minister Churchill, and ....., - " arsbal ""tali n • In he m inor ne s from the estero Front today a ppe rs the name of a suburb of Berlin which would be unknown to mot Ameri ns bu for a n amusing adventure that happ en ed there in Nineteen Twelve and 'Thirteen, the town of [oepenick. Th story of "The Captain of Ioepenick" bec a m e a l a sic illustration of one aspect of the German character - • . the hero of the tory was a criminal who in some manner obtained possession of the uniform of a captain of infantry. Arrayed in this uniform, e strutted down the str ets of Koepenick, and a platoon of sol iers led by a non-commie ioned officer, gave the c, sto , ,ary salute: "Eyes ri ht with goose step heels rapping oudly on the p vement." The phoney captain halted the platoon, gave them the order, about turn, and . marched them don to the city~ There he ordered them t fi~ b Y nets, arched them inside in o th e o ffi ce of the city urer, and in the name ot Bis Imperial j e ty , the K aiser, r a bbed every cent that was in t.he city treasury. Neither the non . -commissioned ~ offic r n o r the p rivates ever thought of questionf the orders of the man in the c a tain's uniform. Having acqutred possession of the money, he s~nt ~he •tfta ■ z ••• soldiers back to barracks, and then walked off himself. I've al ys had a sneaking . feeling that the Captain of Ioepenick deserved to escape. But unfortunately he did not. The po~zei caught up with hia, recovered most of the Ioepenick city treasure, and deposited the ad venturous lad in hat we call over here the Big Bouse . llALX Then~ from the Ita ian front tonight gives the 1m- pr sion th at the A lli d Fifth and ighth Armi e s have broken the German dam. After the capture of Bologna, the Fifth advanced from twenty to thirty-five mils north and northwest. They ar now ushing fast toward the Po River, while tbe Germans are falling b ck upon the big industrial cities in northern Italy In the east, the British Eighth Arrr is advancing on Ferrara, and early this afternoon was not much more than a mile nay. Tb r 1s a story curr en t 1n Washington ~day that th n xt e cretary of L a bor ma y b Edward F. KcOrady, who held the Job of Assistant Secretary under lladam Perkins tor four years. A prominent veteran in the American Federation or L ab or, llcGrady at present is 1n charge of labor telations for the Radio Corporation of America, and on the side gives bis services as special Labor Consultant to the Secretary of ar. Be was once President of the Pressmen's Onion. President Truman is believed to be considering him as a successor to lladam Perkins. Whether th a t is true or not, stories accumulate 1n the capital that the •daa will be the first ot tbe Roosevelt Cabinet members to be replaced. I A d 1 r 1 N ·m· z . 11 u o n a r i n rr i er bas e p l anes of he Pac i ic fleet ave e e n a rin ~ J pan e poi ions on O kina cl im for five ys runnin e .. Te Tok o ra d io t t Ja p nese suici e pl nes a inflicted eavy losses on the Pacific Fleet. imitz a mite t ey id some dama g e ands n , one small vessel. Ont e other han , t e ip one e los one ~un ~ an tw nty six mo e oft eir planes. Our 1' ee t1'fl1t~ ates Army ivisions on Okina a are u p again t t es ron g e efens t ey ve yet f ce in the Pacific w r. T . e · J,.{ Americ n rive efinit ly een slowe up . the Yanks recapture the villa g e w ich t ev lost over the weeken wen Japane e tro p ps slip ed t rou g our lines i n t e darkness of s~turday ni t. The S vent, Twen y-Seventh, an inety-Sixt Divisions are till f cin g o e six , t ou n Ja nese tro o ps. Gene r 1 u r re or tk o i that i in n r on in an110 ve cu , e J l ne e forces in t ' O, c ptur an import nt road jun io nd are ell on t e wa to avao, t e p rinci al city o:6 t he island. ,1, n in r, e l n i o n of l'. Nie Q Pres i n of Co u ia ni .. r i is n e en in t e l 0 0 A i c n e r u I} ion. p i ~ e a g e of eig t tree fte r fortv ur ve r of servi c e a re~1· en of olu 1 t e o ~ f ou~ ' -~ ~ livin person in e fiel of e uc ~ion. He is al o an ou stan in g fi g ure in o itics~ ~ in ~••iwgx een can i a e for ce re ..,i ent of e U nitP . States in ine een T ir een and a c ndi a e for e Presidential Nomination in ineteen Twenty. Int e evil ays of pro . ibition Nie ol Murra Butler w s t e only coll g e Pre i nt w o t ~ . l . P a t e ~e oppos':u~ an enoun~ it. i •i~••«J all rea y or t e g reat confer nc . Most of e el gates of he Unit N +ion are lread t ere workin for t~e bi event ob i Pdne~ ay. But up to a late our this evening e Foreig . inisters of the big thre~, United States Gr eat Britain an Russia were still in Washinton. They ares ill tryin 9 to re ch an · agreement about Poland. Both Wasrington and San Francisco are rife with ouestions nd g uesses about the discussions among the Big Three. St~ttinius Anthon E d en and '~ olotov are expected to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow night. A bulletin c a me in ~rom Washington less r1 than an hour ago that the Foreign Ministers of the Big Three had been unable to agree. They broke off their discussi on s for the time being and called in T. V. Soong, t h e Foreign inis er of C ina. !Ila■ By takin in Soong the Big Tree bec3me t e ig Four 8nd set about J.raftin g plans fo bhe ~a inery and PEACE - 2 ----- proc dure of tbe San Francisco Conference. The ite Rouse announces h t the discussion oft e P o l is ouestion will be reeumeo at t e Golden G te. Tat will give Molotov time to get fresh ins ructions from ~h •f••• ... t •• the Kremlin. Here 1s the story of ientist ho believes that one of the approaching menaces to civilization ia ' too much leisure. Dr. Lucas Iyrides of the staff of a large ch mical company says that many people who need the attention of psychiatrists g~t that way because theJ use · their leisure time unwisely. Too man, people talk of retiring at an early age, little realizing that only a healthy mind and a sound body can preserve us from bor~dom. Idleness, he points out, is good for chicken• and many other animals, be~aus~ it improves the flavor of thei~ meat. The same process applied to man brings ,.._ about fatty degeneration of both mind and body. In other words, a good dose of bard work is a human necessity. Now we'll bear from a man who does plenty of hard work, Hugh James 1111 -•z~)Ndlllll! with a message from ., ~ :g / -- COAL -- ~~ Tonight it looks as though o~r worries over coal might be over for the time being at an7 rate. The war Labor Board has approved the contract, wbic~ will increase the pay of the worke~s · about a dollar and thirt1 cents a day. Before Economic Stabilizer lillia ■ e. Da•1• final can make akdecision, be will ha~e to have a report a:- from O.P.A., estimating how •~ch the increase in tages will boost the price of coal. The ongre si o nal · edal of B nor ia shortly to be conferred upon a newspaperman fot the irst time in history, that newspaperman being, of course, the latt Ernie Pyle. The medal will be awarde •••*n•••IJxx posthumously. Billa have been introduced in both the Bouse and the Senate to this end. Republican 11,z■ a■■tal Repre~entative Raymond Springer of Indiana is one of the ~ponsors for the bill in the lower Bouse. Be said today th,t Pyle left a~ ind,lible impresaion on the hearts of t~e Ameican people, and that is one ; atateaent by a Congress ■ an which nobody will dispute. , _. .. -- 0