BIG SPRING, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL
29, 1945
Himmler Rebuffed
When Reds Left
Out Of His Offer
By The Associated Press
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Gestapo
chief and German interior minister, has offered to surrender Germany
unconditionally to Britain and the United States but was rebuffed because he
did not include surrender to Russia, Moscow announced officially early today
(Sun).
The fact that the offer was made
and spurned was reported by Tass, official Soviet news agency, in a Moscow
broadcast. This was the first official word that Germany, in a states of
military collapse, was ready to quit.
Previously reports to the same
effect had circulated around the world, and from San Francisco, where the
United Nations Conference was in session, came word last night (Sat) that a
surrender had occurred and was expected to be announced at any moment.
President Truman, however, told
White House correspondents that actual surrender was a rumor without
foundation.
The San Francisco report that a
surrender had been made with "no strings attached," originated with
Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and
vice chairman of . the American delegation to the United Nations Conference.
The San Francisco report that a
surrender had been made with "no strings attached," originated with
Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and vice
chairman of . the American delegation to the United Nations Conference.
This information, given at first
with the stipulation that Connally not be identified, was carried by the
Associated press at 6:55 p. m. Central War Time.
One hour and forty minutes later
President Truman told an extraordinary press conference at the White House in
Washington that he had gotten Admiral
Leahy to telephone General Eisenhower
in Paris "and there is no foundation for the rumor."
The president authorized direct quotation
of his statement—an un usual procedure.
Learning of the presidential
statement, Senator Connally au ihorlzed identification of himself as source of
the surrender report and told a reporter that he still expected the surrender
announcement to be made "momentarily.'
He said he believed the official
news would be forthcoming in a matter of hours.
White House Press Secretary
Jonathan Daniels, however) told reporters, "the lid's on,'' signifying:
that nothing more was expected last night.
Armies
Near
Revolt-Torn
Nazi
Cradle
By
JAMES M. LONG
PARIS, Sunday, April 29
(AP)—As American armies pressed
for a quick cleanup of Germany's Alpine fortress,- reports avere received here from
San Francisco quoting, a high United States official, as saying that the German government had
agreed to unconditional surrender.
The U.S. Seventh and Third armies
rolled an unstoppable wall of tanks to within 22 miles of Munich, cradle of
Nazidom that already was reported torn
by revolt.
Supreme headquarters said n
German capitulation offer had been received here but that did not mean none had
been made directly to one or more Allied capitals.
The Allies- were reported have
said Germany must surrender completely to the United States, Russia and Britain
or face intensified destruction of her re maining physical assets and military
forces.
Parley Assumes
New Harmony
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 (AP)—
Hopes of the United Nations Conference for a speedy German
surrender rose and fell like a tide tonight
and through the confusion delegates saw their peace-shaping task
growing more difficult.
They cheered at word that an
American delegate, Senator Tom Connally of Texas, had declared that the Nazis
had surrendered and the announcement would come "momentarily." They
heard with dismay that President Truman, in Washington, had pronounced the
surrender report unfounded.
But most of them felt that a Nazi
collapse, if It does not come now, can't be long delayed. Connally repeated,
after the Washington denial, that he expects the announcement of surrender
"momentarily."
Two different possibilities lay ahead
of the delegates:
1. A shift to high speed to accomplish
as much as possible toward molding the pattern of a peaceful world before top
statesmen have to leave San Francisco
2. A longer and more complicated
job if such men as Eden of Britain, Molotov of Russia and Stettinius of America
have to rush to their capitals in the hour of
victory.
Thus far the major accomplishment
of the conference, which opened last Wednesday, has been the attainment of
harmony on the surface Looking ahead, representatives of 46 nations are focusing
on an old issue now assuming greater prominence — a demand of smaller countries
for a bigger break in' shaping peace.
Summer
Capital
Of
Philippines
Falls
To Yanks
(See THE WEEK, ft. 11,
Col. 4)
By RAY CRONIN
Associated Press War Editor
Baguio, once-beautiful summer capital of the Philippines in the rugged Benguet
mountains of northern Luzon, fell to America
doughboys Friday, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur announced today (Sunday). The lengthy encircling campaign cost
"amazingly light" Amer ican casualties.
Other Yanks, meantime, reache the
shores of Davao' Gulf in ther drive access southern Mindanao Island from Moro
Gulf, and were just 25 road miles south of thebig hemp port of Davao—last major
stronghold in the Philippines
On Okinawa, in the Ryukyus, doughboys
pressed slowly forward through pillboxes, caves and strong points while U. S. artillery
was "employed against
troop concentrations in rear
areas.
Japanese planes raided U. S warships
off Okinawa Friday night sinking an auxiliary craft and causing some other
damage. Twenty-five of the attackers were destroyed and two others probablyshot
down.
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