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Russian troops have captured
1 the port of Stettin on the Oder
9 estuary, Premier Marshal Stalla
-w * announced tonight.
LONDON, April 26.—(AP)
—Victorious Red army troops,
driving from all sides battled
Germans at the center of
Patton’s Men
Are 41 Miles
Reach Plain;
Cities Seized
From Munich
PARIS, April 26.—(AP)—
The British Second army cap-
tured Bremen today, clearing
all the great port except the
dock area and Burger Park
north of the center of the city.
Far to the south, the American
third army closed within 11 miles
“ Austria and 41 of Munich. Gen
Pattons tanks were within 100
miles of a junction with the Rus-
sians west of Vienna, a union which
would encircle Czechoslovakia and
create a pocket larger than the
@uhr.
The Third army was last report-
ed 72 miles from Hitler’s roost at
Berchtesgaden, but encountering
harder opposition at the fringe of
the Alpine redoubt.
Russian shells fell near Ninth
• army positions on the Elbe
northwest of Berlin, hinting
at imminent junction.
The British Lowland (52nd) and
Iron Thira divisions captured 5.000
Germans since entering Bremen
yesterday.
D German resistance, however, was
stiffening. Pilots saw German
troops and machines massing at
WITH THE U. S. THIRD
ARMY, April 26.— (AP)— The
. 11th armored division drove
• nine miles farther southeast-
ward today to the vicinity of
Furholz, only eight and a half
miles from the Austrian fron-
tier.
ore Conclave
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.—(AP)—Russia’s bid for
three Soviet votes in a world assembly based on “sovereign
equality” among nations today goes before the first business
session of the United Nations conference.
Word of this plan ended hopes of some United States
delegatee that Russia might not raise the troublesome three-
vote issue.
Foreign Commissar Molotov notified the chief delegates of the
45 other United Nations here, after yesterday’s first meeting, that
the proposal would be presented to the organization session of the
steering committee.
The specific proposal is that the Ukrainian and White Russian Soviet
republics should get conference seats and become thereby charter mem-
bers of the assembly of the proposed world organization.
Two other top developments ushered the conference into its second
day after delegates heard President Truman declare that the world’s
future is a choice between chaos and the organized enforcement of peace.
They were:
1. It was reported that Molotov had received a reply from Premier
Marshal Stalin to his report on talks with Secretary* of State Stettinius
and British Foreign Minister Eden
on the big-three deadlock over Po-
land. The reply apparently had not
been communicated to either Stet-
tinius or Eden.
2. The sponsoring powers agreed
on a conference executive commit-
tee of delegates of 11 nations and
there was speculation that these
11 may form the membership of the
proposed organizations all-powerful
security council The 11 are the
councils five permanent members-
United States, Britain, Russia.
China and Prance—and six smaller
nations— Iran. Belgium, Yugoslavia,
Canada, Brazil and Mexico.
Coupled with these developments
the delegations of the war’s 46 vic-
torious nations faced a crowded
Passau on the Austrian border for
* supreme defense of that Danu-
bian road center, 11 miles from
Patton’s tanks
. ". I schedule, beginning, for the Amer-
. The British captured more than | icans, with a delegation caucus and
half of Bremen, Germany’s largest | running through another full-dress
@ibmarine base, and resistance was meeting in the war memorial opera
Collapsing rapidly. The lowland1
(52d) division fought to the 12th
house during the late afternoon.
Judge H. C. Hord
Df S’water Dead
SWEETWATER, April26.—(Spl)
(—Judge H. C. Hord, 89, one of the
few remaining bonafide ‘‘pioneers"
of West Texas, died in the Sweet-
water hospital at 7:30 a. m. today
after a long period of UI health.
Funeral will be at 10:30 a. m
Friday in the Wells funeral chapel
century cathedral In the heart of
Bremen The Iron Third division
took Thirfield and the Focke Wulf
airplane factory and half of the
Girt of Bremen lying below th e
Weser river. The submarine pens
were not yet reached, but 5,000 pris-
oners were taken
Just south of Hamburg, the Ger-
mans counterattacked the Desert
Bats (7th armored) division, but
"were thrown back.
At Tittling, the Thunderbolt
(11th armored) division was within
11 miles of Passau, historic Danu-
bian gateway to Austria
The Third army, like the French
first and American Seventh, had
crossed the Danube on a wide
front
Some of Lt. Gen. George 8. Pat-
ton’s divisions struck east into
Czechoslovakia capturing Eger
(Cheb), where Hitler made his
@st-Munich tirade annexing the
Sudetenlandof Czechoslovakia.
The Third army was in or on the
border of that republic along a
50-mile front jutting, within 35 of
Pilsen and its newly -bombed Skoda
unitions work.
•The French closed on Munich
from the west after destroying the
German 19th army. Numerous
traps still were being reduced.
Testimony Opens
Tn Murder Trial
Testimony opened in 42d district
court here this morning after Wille
Crompton, negro, pleaded not guil-
ty to charge of murder growing out
A the death of Bernice Crumpton.
Wegro, here July 30: 1944.
Witnesses heard were Leroy But-
ler. negro. Elizabeth Crain, negro;
J E. Greeley, chief deputy sheriff;
Sheriff W T McQuary; and Pete
Elliott, undertaker
Stettinius kicked off the oratory
for the delegates of the four spon-
soring powers—the United States.
China, Russia and Britain—at yes-
terday s gala opening in the opera
house, after an address by Presi-
dent Truman and speeches of wel-
come by Governor Earl Warren of
California and Mayor Roger D
Lapham of San Francisco.
Mr. Truman, speaking by ra-
dix from Washington, told the
hushed thousands in the opera
house: “We still have a choice
between x x x the continuation
of international chaos—or the
establishment of a world or-
ganization for the enforcement
of peace.”
flaming Berlin today, Soviet
front dispatches said.
"Men of the Red army today are
fighting in the heart of the German
capital," said a Tasa story date-
lined "Berlin "
The dispatches gave no details,
but probably referred to the vi-
cinity of the Alexanderplatz, the
center of the capital’s business dis-
trict. Earlier Nazi broadcasts said
the Russians were storming the
Alexanderplatz police and gestapo
headquarter*, about a half-mile
from the eastern end of Unter Den
Linden.
Two mighty Soviet armies
had completed the encirclement
of the city and Russian ele-
ments were closing' in from the
west, in the rear of the hard
pressed defenders. Continuing
to promise reinforcements, Nazi
propagandists still had not ad-
mitted ie Berliners that their
city was completely ringed.
Pressing close to walla, some Ger-
man civilians crawled toward the
Russian lines, believing they would
be safer there than in the cauldron
of the encircled area.
• • •
Russian storm units were making
the conquest of the capital the
worlds greatest manhunt, Moscow
dispatches said. Fighting over and
under iha streets the Russians had
been ordered to take Adolf Hitler
alive if he still is in the capital
aa Nazi propagandists have de-
clared.
The Russians were not too
optimistite about finding the
fuehrer In Berlin, however. The
Moocow radio observed that
German reports of Hiller's pres-
ence in Berlin "are Ues and
have been invented to stimulate
a fierce defense of the capital.”
Feasibly 500.000 Germans were
caught in the capital. The Hamburg
radio asserted that Propaganda
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels still
was in Berlin and that Field Mar-
shal Wilhelm Keitel also was in
or near the city.
While the noose around Berlin
was being tightened other Soviet
forces surged across the Elbe river
toward an imminent junction with
the Americans.
Shortage of Trucks,
Men Tangles Drive
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The Weather
U. •. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY Fair this
afternoon and tonight. Partly cloudy
and warmer Friday
EAST TEXAS Generally fair this af-
ternoon tonight and Friday slightly
cooler this afternoon and in south por-
tions tonight
WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy this af-
ternoon, tonight and Friday, cooler ex-
cept In Panhandle thia afternoon
warmer Friday and in Panhandle and
South Plains tonight
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SAVE
A BUNDLE A WEEK
5 Issues Key to
Parley Success
By ROBERT M. JACKSON
Reporter-News Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26—As
the United Nations conference
JUDGE H. C. HORD
with the Rev. L. D Ball, of the
First Baptist church officiating.
Masons will have charge of grave-
side rites.
Inadequate supply of trucks
delaying the pickup of used cloth-
is
Judge Hord, father of Mrs.
Grace Allen of Abilene and of
the late Mrs. Ren L. Cox, also
of Abilene, voted In the election
which organized Nolan county
64 years ago. He was the coun-
tva first tax assessor.
ing in the outlying towns of Tay-
lor county, Yancey McDaniel, mem-
ber of the salvage committee, stated
this morning.
It la hoped, he said, that truck#
will be available by the last of the
week to gather the clothing and add
Born in Kentucky Feb. 17, 1856,
Judge Hord literally grew up with
West Texas Coming to Texas as a
youth "to be a cowboy,” he was on
swung into its first full day of op- a train held up by the notorious
it to the approximately five cars
. of clothing donated in Abilene
Most of the sorting is completed.
McDaniel announced, but men are
still needed to help in packing and
lifting the boxes.
erations, the spirited discussions of Sam Bass gang north of Dallas in
the Polish question and the Rus-1878. He lost nearly all his money in
" on question and ine 2 the hold-up, having only eonugh
slan attitude toward voting in the | left to buy a horse, bridle and saddle
assembly obscured temporarily five in Fort Worth, He rode into West
major questions which are going to Texas in appropriate style on
horseback.
confront the delegates striving to
frame a charter for a world peace
organization
Here are the significant issues
which persons interested in follow-
ing the real progress of the con-
ference should watch Upon their
settlement may depend much of the
success of the meeting Perhaps
some or all of them will not be set-
tled definitely here, but they must
be disposed of ultimately. Here are
the key questions
1. What machinery will be set
up far handling dependent areas
•f enemy countries? This ques-
tion. widely publicized aa that of
trusteeship, concerns primarily
what disposition will be made of
Pacific areas. Involved are not
only the mandated islands, the
Caroline*, the Marshalls and the
Marianas, but also the Islands
now being taken from Japan by
Hee JACKSON, Pg 4. Col. 2
His first job was teaching school
on a ranch When his brother, T
H Hord, who had preceded him to
Texas and already had a cattle
business, moved his herd to the
Runnels- Taylor county line, young
See-JUDGE HORD, pg. 13, Col. 1
“The men are falling doom on us
when we need them most,” he said
The Supper club at Fair park will
be open tonight for volunteer work-
ers. He asked that all men who can
spare a few hours to help in the
packing, come after work.
Slight Mistake
PUEBLO Colo, April 26-
The sheriff’s blotter read "Miss-
ing—one 500-gallon gasoline tank,
one pump and 150 gallons of gaso-
line." Investigation revealed a truck-
ing concern had visited the wrong
filling station to transfer equip-
ment to a new site.
FUEHRER’S ROOST BEFORE WRECKING—This is an airview of Adolf Hitler’s retreat
near Berchtesgaden, Germany, which was the target of RAF Lancasters carrying loads of
the six-ton “earthquake" bombs. Airmen reported the hideout was demolished. (AP Wire-
photo).
Hitler Roost Ruined
Fliers Batter
Redoubt City
LONDON, April 26-P Italy-
based RAF Liberators struck the
German redoubt city of Freilassing
last night in an explosive followup
to the historic bombardment of Hit-
ler’s eagle neat refuge and his
chalet near Berchtesgaden.
American and British, airmen
were jubilant over the coordinat-
ad strike at Hitler a hideout yes-
terday. The sumptuous chalet was
destroyed by a direct hit from a
six-ton bomb. Heavy, deep-pene-
trating explosives were hurled
upon his Kehlstein mountain
fortress with unannounced re-
suits.
It was disclosed today that 350
RAF Lancasters were used in the
strike at Hitler's properties, rather
than 200 as originally reported. They
were escorted by both American and
■ British fighters. Heavy bombers of
the U. S Ninth and 15th air forces
threw Nazi defenses off guard with
attacks upon communications all
around Berchtesgaden
Two RAF planes were lost Six-
teen Eighth air force bombers, in-
cluding several In an attack upon
the Skoda armament works at Fil-
sen. were shot down by antiaircraft
fire. The 15th air force lost 15 heavy
bomber, from all operations yester-
day
Aerial photogaphs show that a
large number of bombs, specially
fused to bore deep underground
before exploding, burst in the area
of the fuehrer’s chalet and near-
by barracks where 10,000 hand-
picked SS bodybuards had been
reported housed.
A London newspaper man who
flew in one of the lead ships said
the force of the explosions made the
planes shudder.
“The ground spewed rocks, earth,
bricks and even trees, uprooted and
thrown like straws into the sky,"
he wrote "All the target area was
soon covered with smoke. You could
smell it inside the plane.”
The whole redoubt area bristled
with antiaircraft guns, fliers said
U. S. Casualties Up
16,895 During W««k
WASHINGTON, April 26-P—
Army and Navy combat casualties
since the beginning of the war now
total 929,373*
Secretary of War Stimson today
placed Army losses at 829,001 on the
basis of names received here
through April 1«. and the latest re-
port from the Navy added 100,372
to the total The aggregate repre-
sented an increase of 16,895 since
lest week s report.
Prisoners Throng Elbe's Banks
Tyler Newspaper
Strike Concludes
TYLER, April 26—UP - The thild
of the morning newspaper bounding
at Tyler doorsteps was heard again
today following settlement of labor
differences between the T. B But-
ler Publishing company and the
International Typographical union.
By WES GALLAGHER
ARNESBURG, Germany, April
26.—()—Red army shells now, are
tailing occasionally a mile or two
east of the Elbe river in the area
of Arneburg, 48 miles northwest of
Berlin, where the west bank is held
by U. S. Ninth army troops await-
ing a juncture.
Red bursts of the Russian shells
are part of a great drama of the
war which can be seen from the
top of a bluff here at Arneburg.
Berlin’s death throes are
speeding a tide of panie-strick-
en humanity to the Elbe in
front of the Russians moving
westward. Except for the oe-
casional Soviet shell, fired from
no one knows where, the river
Is quiet.
The Americans stopped cross-
river shelling when Germans ap-
peered with white flags in this use-
tor and begged to be taken prisoner
On the opposite bank of the Elbe,
are long lines of men and women
as far as I can see.
There are German soldiers who
have thrown away their guns while
fleeing. in the hope of surrendering
to the U. S. Ninth army rather
than fall into the hands of the Red
army troops
There are American soldiers
raptured In Africa and Italy.
There are British soldiers cap-
tured at Dunkerque, Belgians,
French, Russians, Poles, Czechs
representing every phase of the
war. A few hours ago they were
in prison camps. Now their
rapiers are begging them for
help.
Then there Is the debris of Hit-
ler’s empire, rich Nazis, poor farm-
era and officers trying to hide their
shame in civilian clothes.
There is no question of party
rank now There is only one boat
operating on the river below a
fair-sized motor launch run by Lt.
Col Eric E Bischoff of Lockport.
111. of the 102d division, and it is
just nibbling st the mass of hu-
manity now, taking on only Ameri-
can. British, French and Belgian
escaped prisoners of war. Germans
sit by the hundreds, hoping to get
across into the American lines
These refugees tell of German
soldiers fighting civilians for a
place in Berlins subway shelters, of
no heat, lights or water in the city,
of rumors that Propaganda Minis-
ter Paul Joseph Goebbels is dead
and of seeing German soldiers run-
ning away and leaving the BS to
do the fighting.
Disguised Mussolini
Nears Swiss Border
BERN, Switzerland, April 26.—OF
—Benito Mussolini and the former
IIMVANTICCTOAL VAR
town of Como, not far from the
Swiss frontier.
Despite his disguise, Musso-
lini was identified by Como
inhabitants. Both the Fascists
are staying in the bomb-wreck-
M.Cm ALA, Veported
to have fled Milam which was said
to have been taken over by Italian
Partisans.
Retain on Way to
Blood Collection
Schedule Fixed
Schedule for collection of blood
for Abilene’s new free plasma supply
i has been arranged by the Taylor-
Jones Medical society’s women’s
auxiliary, headed by Mrs. C. L.
Prichard.
Insofar as possible the hours list-
ed by volunteers as their choices of
when to appear at Hendrick Mem-
orial hospital during next Sunday
have been assigned. • - -
However, It is found that
there are more people who wish
to appear during the afternoon
than can be cared for while the
morning hours from 9 to 10:30
a. m. will not be filled.
The auxiliary member* appealed
to all those volunteers who can do
so to switch from the afternoon, 2
to 4:30 p m and appear-from 9
to 10:30 a m
This appeal was issued especially
to the approximately50 members of
the Junior chamber of commerce,
who had planned to appear at 3
Pm
Those who have not mailed to
The Reporter-News the blanks pub-
lished each day are urged to do so,
listing the exact time they wish to
appear
Members of the Texas State
Guard company commanded by
Capt. Jew Warren have volunteered
to appear at 7# m, a move which
greatly simplified the work of ar-
rangements to appointments.
Both cash donations and vol-
unteer blood donors will be wel-
comed through Saturday.
The plasma fund this morning
totaled $] 692 50 after receipt of two
more contributions, $6 by J L At-
tebury and $2.50 by Lots Choate.
One more ‘blood donor registered,
Katy Coamber of McMurry college
Rites at Anson for
Mrs. Nancy Johnson
ANSON, April 26.—Jessie Powell
at Arlington was to conduct funeral
tv Mrs Nancy A. Johnson, 79, at 7
p. at today in the Anson Church of
Christ. Burial was to have been In
Mount Hope cemetery under direc-
tion of the Lawrence funeral home
She is survived by nine children.
Mrs. L. E Moore of Winters, Mrs.
Ida Powell of Anson, Mra Marjorie
Johnson of Longview, Mra Burnard
Ball of Anson, E. S and Bennie
Johnson of Anson, J. H of Crowell,
Bryant of Olton and Perry, in the
Army at Camp Maxey.
4 Fliers Killed in
Big Spring Crash
BIO SPRING. April 26-—
Four flier* were killed and another
Injured In the crash of a training
plane from the Big Spring bom-
bardier school Tuesday night. None
of the flier* was from Texas.
| France for Trial
WEESEN, Switzerland, April
26
-VP- Marshal Philippe Petain left
this community in eastern Switzer-
land today on the last lap of his re-
turn trip to France to face charges
of high treason, a crime punishable
bj death.
The 89-year-old Marshal, his wife
and others of his party travelled
in a four-car caravan led by motor-
cycle escort.
Members of his entourage
meanwhile made public a letter
the aged farmer Vichy chief of
state wrote April 5 to Adolf
Hitler announcing his decision to
return voluntarily la France.
The letter, which seems likely to
stand as the theme of his forth-
coming defense, declared
"I am informed that the French
authorities intend to place me on
trial in absentia before the high
court of justice.
“Preliminary discussions begin
April 24 This information imposed
an obligation which 1 consider as
imperative and J address myself
to your excellency to aid me in AC-
complishing my duty.
“x x x As chief of government in
June, 140 at Bordeaux I refused to
leave France As chief of state dur-
ROME. April 26.—(UP)—A
general uprising of Italian pa-
triots was reported unofficial-
ly today to have broken the
German grip on north Italy
and liberated Milan, Genoa,
Turin, Vernoa and scores of
other towns.
Allied military authorities, whose
armies were sweeping deep into
northern Italy on the heels of rout-
ed German forces, withheld imme-
diate confirmation of reports from
the north on the rebellion against
the Nabis and Fascists.
But accounts of the uprisings
were supported by every evidence
that the patriots had seized and
were operating the radios in Milan
and Genoa. Supplementary reports
circulated freely in the Swiss bor-
der areas.
German resista us in northern
Italy appeared to have collapsed.
The U. S. Fifth army erupted
into the ombard plain , over-
whelming Parma and Reggio and
threatening is bett‘, up German
troops fleeing the northwest in-
dustrial cities.
Near the east coast the British
Eighth army poured across the Po
river to strike at the Adige river
line 20 miles from Venice, where
the Germans are digging in for a
last ditch fight before the Dolo-
mite Alps.
The last reported positions of
the American forces, which
burst from the Apennine moun-
tains, were 25 miles from Ve-
rena, in the foothill approaches
to the Brenner pass.
(Radio reports from Switzerland
and London said Verona had fallen,
into Eartisans hands, as well as the
industrial cities nt Turin and Pia-
cenza. A “Free Genos’ radio sta-
tion announced “all resistance ceas-
ed by 9 a m today ’ in the great
Ligurian port Benito Mussolini was
declared to have fled from Milan.)
The enemy hastily evacuated
his last foothold on the south
side of the Po river east of Fer-
rare, "leaving behind him so
much equipment and motor
transport that we are unable to
count it," Allied headquarters
reported.
The Fifth army thrust beyond the
Po was meeting scant opposition,
but headquarters continued a news
blackout on the exact areas reached
by American and South African
spearheads.
There was no immediate con- .
firmation from air force head-
quarters that the Germans had
fled from Genoa, Milan and
Turin toward their homeland,
leaving partisans in full control
of the cities.
There has been evidence for
many weeks, however, that the
Nazis have been prepared for aban-
donment of the three cities.
An official report said the Ger-
mans were making a speedy with-
drawal from their last strongholds
in the western end of the Appen-
ines.
American units heading up the
roast from captured La Spezia were
meeting only "very little artillery
fire," the report added, saying
weak rearguards blew up “a few
britiges -------------
Thousands of prisoners were
ing the grave hours which came
again for my country. I decided to
remain at my post at Vichy. ---------------------------------------
“The Reich government compell- toward Hitler's mountainous "re-"
taken a* the routed Germans reeled
e me to leave April 20 144 It is
not true I sought refuge on foreign
sol’ to evade my responsibilities
x x x. It is in France alone I can
explain my act and I am sole judge
of the risks that attitude implies I
have then the right to demand that
your excellency gives me immed-
iately the facilities "
Truman Endorsed
For Second Term
WASHINGTON, April 26.—0P—A
delegation of Pennsylvania Demo-
crats, headed by Senators Guffey
and Myers, endorsed President
Truman for a second term in a call
at the White House today
David L. Lawrence, national com-
mitteeman for Pennsylvania, re-
ported that the President made no
comment when the subject was
raized. -
In the first open discussion by
political leader* of the possibility
Mr Truman would be asked to run
for another term in 1948, Lawrence
told reporter*
We told him we were solidly in
back of him.”
"Doe* that mean in 1948?" he was
asked.
"Any time,” he said.
Planes Captured
LONDON. April 26 — (UP)— Rus-
alan force* overrunning Tempelhof
doubt "
A special communique last night
said every road is jammed with the
retreating enemy, who is using not
only horses but oxen, cows and hu-
man beings to draw his transport*
airdrome in encircled Berlin today
captured planes with warmed-up .
motors, Moscow reported, appar- a half hours.
ently nipping plans for a last min-
ute flight of Nazi leaders and doom-
B-29s Pay First
Visit to Shikoku
GUAM April 26- (P — Shikoku,
one of the four main Japanese
homeland islands came under Su-
perfortress bombsights for the first
time today in a raid by 200 to 250
B-29s which hit airdromes there
and on neighboring Kyushu.
Maysuyama airfield on the
northwest coast of Shikoku, and
various fields along the south and
east coasts of Kyushu were the tar-
gets in thin eighth bombing of
mainland airfields since March 27.
B-29s are concentrating on
air bases from which the Jap-
anese have staged air attache
on American ground positions
and shipping at Okinawa
The medium altitude strike was
directed at 11 airfields However,
21st bomber command headquarters
here said poor weather made ob-
servation impossible and only eight
airfields were known to have been
hit
A Japanese broadcast said the
raid on Kyushu lasted for two and
ing them to death or capture.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 306, Ed. 2 Thursday, April 26, 1945, newspaper, April 26, 1945; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636436/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.