THE
RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES
RACINE,
WIS., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1945
Gestapo Chief
Named Also on
6 Other Counts
By
EDWARD V. ROBERTS
LONDON—
(U.P.) —The United Nations
war crimes commission has indicted Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler on charges of
mass murder in the notorious massacre of Lidice and the Jewish extermination
program, it was learned today.
At
least five Allied government: have lodged charges of war criminality against
Himmler, the bespectacled former school teacher who became nazidom's chief hangman.
The war
crimes commission has indicted him, it was revealed, on at least seven counts.
It ranked him No. 1 on the list of Nazis charged with the obliteration of Lidice
in an orgy of revenge for the assassination of Reinhard
Heydich,
and with wholesale atrocities in nazi concentration camps.
Plays
Hide and Seek.
The
disclosure of the indictments against Himmler came as he apparently played an
elusive game of hide and seek with Allied authorities in northwestern Europe.
Reports
that he had fallen into Allied hands were denied. One said he had been seen at
the headquarters of the German high command, under the wing of which he
evidently was seeking sanctuary until the status of that body
and
Admiral Karl Doenitz's government is decided.
Austria Free,
Says Regime
Backed by Reds
LONDON— (U.P) —The
soviet supported
government of Austria today
proclaimed the country's independence and restored republican laws in an
apparent bid for Anglo-American recognition.
The proclamation, broadcast by
radio-sender Austria, in effect dissolved the anschluss with Germany and
presumably reinstated Austria's constitution of 1920.
"All nazi laws are abolished
and republican laws restored," the broadcast said. The move further
snarled European affairs for the western Allies.
Both the United States and Britain
have yet to recognize the Austrian government set up by Premier Dr. Karl Renner
with soviet support.
Tangling:
Over Trieste.
The United States and Britain also
were tangling with Marshal Tito's Yugoslav government over control of the
Italian port of Trieste and with Russia over the
arrest of 16 Polish
underground leaders.
5 0 0 Superfortresses
Scorch
Nagoya in Record Fire
Raid
United Press
More
than 500 American Superfortresses seared nine square miles of Nagoya, Japan's
third city, today in the greatest fire raid ever made.
Another
armada of 1,000 carrier planes was reported by Tokyo to be concentrating for
the second straight day on Japanese suicide plane bases and increased blows
were reported against the Japanese on most of the land fronts.
Chinese
troops battled to clear Foochow Chinese east coast port which the Japanese fear
may become an American invasion gateway.
On
Mindanao in the Philippines, two American columns, driving to split the island
lengthwise, were reported within 40 miles of a juncture after capture of the
island's largest airdrome.
Lull on
Tarakan.
The
only lull reported was on Tarakan island off Borneo where activity subsided
into patrolling by Dutch and Australian troops.
The
attack on Nagoya, Japan's main aircraft manufacturing center on the main
homeland island of Honshu, marked a renewal of
the
fire raids which burned out 53.68 square miles of Tokyo, Yokohama,
Nagoya,
Osaka, Kobe and Kawasaki in March and April.
The B-29s poured more than 500,750 fire bombs on
Nagoya at the rate of 40 tons a minute for nearly an hour and a half.
RACINE JOURNAL TIMES
Monday. May 14. INS
Plan Big Cuts
In Lend-Lease
By
ROBERT J. MANNING
WASHINGTON. — (U.P) — More big lend-lease
cuts, including a slash of nearly 50 per cent in U. S. war aid to Britain, were
in prospect today following curtailment of the bulk of this country's $300,000,000
a month shipments to Russia.
At the same time some top U. S. officials
were said on good authority to believe the drastic cut in lend-lease to the
soviet union might figure in relaxing the stalemate of the Polish situation. Though
the Russian curtailment assertedly was based solely on the fact that Russia is
no longer a fighting ally, it was said to demonstrate a willingness on this country's
part to be "tough." This, it was felt, might further convince Soviet
Marshal Josef Stalin that the U. S. will not yield to Russian wishes in regard
to Poland.
War
Operation.
Russia is anxious to win
recognition for the soviet-sponsored Polish government now installed in Warsaw,
while British and the U. S. are insisting that the government must first be
recognized in line with the Yalta agreement. It was pointed out that while lend-lease
is strictly a war operation,
Russia is anxious to receive post-war
credits from this country to enable her to buy American machinery with which to
rebuild Russian industry. This country's readiness to cut lend-lease shipments promptly
and without hesitation was seen as a hint to Russia to meet other Allied
nations halfway or face difficulty with the
post-war financial problem.
Announce
Sharp Cuts.
President Truman is expected to
make an announcement on Russian lend-lease shortly.
Disclosure of the sharp cut in lend-lease
to Russia was made Saturday by foreign economic administrator Leo T. Crowley.
He said "new shipments to Europe"
had
been halted except those designed for countries still fighting Japan or those
where lend-lease would aid redeployment
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