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HIMMLER COMMITS SUICIDE
Ex-Gestapo
Chief
Dies
Of
Poison
LONDON, May 24-(AP)- Heinrich
Himmler killed himself with poison last night three days after his capture by
the Allies, the Exchange Telegraph Agency reported today. Reuters also
announced the suicide.
The Exchange Telegraph Agency, in
a dispatch from Terence Duncan with the British Second Army, said the
44-year-old Gestapo chief had been arrested three days ago Incognito, and was
held captive in a house in Luenebnrg.
The agency^ report said Himmler
took his life by drinking the contents of a hidden viaL
Reuters said the death was announced
officially tonight at British Second Army headquarters
Chief
Nazi Terrorist
Reuters set the time of death at
11:04 p. m. yesterday. The reports took one of the top-ranking names off the
list, of' war criminals subject to trial. Granting the German account of
Hitler's death, Himmler ranked with Hermann Goerlng at the top of the list. For
years Himmler ruled the Reich as Hitter's right-hand terrorist.
He kept millions of Germans and
the residents of occupied countries under the thumb of Nazism. It was Himmler
who ordered the Lidice massacre in Czechoslovakia.
Tokyo Fires Visible 200 Miles
550
Superforts
Blast
Tokyo In
Greatest
Raid
Nine
Million Pounds
Of
Incendiary Bombs
Fall On
Jap Capital
BY
LEIF ERICKSON
GUAM, May 24-(AP)-Nine million
pounds of fire bombs, dropped by more than 550 Superfortresses in the biggest single
air blow of the Pacific war, spread fires in Tokyo today which were visible for
200 miles, smashed waterfront railroad yards and aircraft Parts shops south of
the imperial
palace.
One B-29 pilot, Maj. Luther A. Jones,
of Monroe, La., reporting direct hits on yards which handle one-third of
Japan's rail traffic, said on his return from the pre-dawn strike: "I'm
afraid they're going to do a hell of a lot of walking."
A brilliant moon and a ring of oil
fires set by lead planes illuminated the
target area, the Shinagawa Industrial section, which is populated by
750,000 of Tokyo's
millions and crowded with highly inflamable
shops making, precision instruments for Nippon's air force High Winds Spread
Fire
Pilots saw their Incendiaries spread
huge fires. Flashes indicated the flames had spread to stores of explosive
materials.
Marines
Flank
Okinawa
Japs
Turn
Southern Front;
Enter
Naha, Capital
GUAM, May 24-(AP)-American 10th
Army troops fighting mud as tenacious as the dug-in Japanese, turned the
southern Okinawa front at both flanks today.
Rubble-strewn Naha, Okinawa's
capital, was entered in force yesterday by a regiment of Sixth division Marines
under cover of warships guns and artillery.
With tanks and other mechanize:
equipment mired behind the front toes, the leathernecks hacked out bitterly
contested gains on the west coast.
The entrance to the northeastern
side of Naha was accomplished by the tough veterans of the Fourth Marine
regiment of the Sixth division, made up of former paratroops and Marine
raiders.
Hard
Fighting Ahead
They are likely to encounter
infighting as they move through the bombardment-wrecked suburbs after fording
the muddy Asato river.
With Naha entered in force, both
of Okinawa's main cities and terminals of the Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru defense line
have been penetrates Yonabaru, .on the east, with it's nearby airstrip, fell to
the 96th infantry division Tuesday while the Seventh made a quick encircling movement
by nightfall, isolating from possible Japanese reinforcement.
Counter-attacks
are continuing in other parts of the front lines but are being thrown back.
Just west of Conical Hill, key point on the four-mile east-west Jelense line. Maj. Gen. James L Bradley's
96th infantry division bounded down one counter-attack in which the 382nd
regiment killed 150 enemy troops.
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