HUNTINGDON, PA WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1945.
EISENHOWER SAYS
FUEHRER'S
DEATH
DUE
TO APOPLEXY
London, May 2, •— Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said today there was some evidence that Adolf Hitler had
died of a brain hemorrhage instead of a hero's death in battle as the Nazis
claimed.
The statement by Eisenhower was
the first from any Allied official to shed light on the mystery of Hitler's
reported death. .
Eisenhower said the enemy claim
that Hitler died fighting the Russians in Berlin was "in contradiction
of facts" given by Heinrich
Himmler at a conference with Count Folke Bernadotte
of Sweden at Luebeck eight days
ago.
Himmler and a General Schillenbrug,
who accompanied him to the conference, said Hitler had a brain hemorrhage and
might not live 48 hours, Eisenhower said in a statement issued through supreme headquarters
in France.
Even though this version of Hitler's
death was based on Nazi information, it had the merit of coming to
Eisenhower through Bsrnadotte, a neutral. Observers
were inclined to put more
credence in the Himmler version than in the melodramatic account broadcast by
the Hamburg- radio yesterday.
U.S.
FORCES SMASH
JAP
DEFENSE LINE
IN
OKINAWA PUSH
By
FRANK TREMAINE
United
Press Correspondent
Guam, May 2.—American armored
forces pushed through strong Japanese defenders on southern Okinawa today to
within a. mile and & half of Naha,
capital of the island.
The drive southward along the west
coast by the 27th Division paced a general advance of American troops on a
five-mile front across the island.
On the east coast, Seventh Division
troops pushed to the northern end of strategic Yonabaru airfield and other
elements of the same division stormed into Kuhazu village on a hill overlooking
the coastal side of the airfield.
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