May 11, 1945; DESPARATE GERMANS ESCAPE TO YANKS:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MAY 11, 1945:

Goering May Be First Criminal Tried;

4 Bodies Found Similar to Hitler's

LONDON, May 10 (UP) —

Hermann Goering, whose air force once terrorized Europe, may be the first big nazi to face the international bar of justice, a responsible source close to the war crimes commission said Thursday.

His statement that Goering might be tried soon came as a vast manhunt was pressed for other top-flight members of the nazi gang and a pooled dispatch from Berlin said the Russians held at least four charred bodies, one of which might be that of Adolf Hitler, war criminal No. 1.

The Salt Lake Tribune

Friday Morning, May 11, 1945

Goering Calls Hitler Ignorant,

Ribbentrop A Scoundrel

KITZBUHEL, Austria, May 10

UP — Reichsmarshal Herman  Goering Thursday told Maj. Gen. John E. Dahlquist, commanding the U. S. 36th division, that Adolf Hitler was narrow and ignorant, that former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was a scoundrel, and that Rudolf Hess was eccentric but had tremendous energy.

After these assertions, Goering fell with gusto upon a luncheon plate of chicken, potatoes and peas, Dahlquist said.

Goering, who surrendered to Maj. Gen. Robert Stack night before last, gobbled his meal and talked even more freely than he had Wednesday.

Goering said nothing about Heinrich Himmler during the conversation with Gen. Dahlquist, whose division has been getting more than its ordinary share of axis notables.

3 Red Armies

Pursue

In Czech Area

Defiant Germans Seek

To Escape Trap,

Reach Yanks

SURRENDER DEFIED

Meanwhile In Holland

Invaders Lay Down

Their Arms

By ASSOCIATED PRESS ;

LONDON. May. 11. (U.P.) —

Die-hard ' Nazi fanatics who fought on in Czechoslovakia in defiance of German unconditional surrender were reported in headlong flight toward American' lines today as a vast sneers by three Soviet armies threatened momentarily to envelop

them.

The first, . second, and fourth. Ukrainian armies opened the' assault on broad fronts from the northwest,, east, and southeast when forces under Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoerner, himself wanted as a war criminal, and Col, Gen, Woehler, ignored the surrender.

It was the only reported fighting by German troops in all. Europe.

Elsewhere the Germans were giving up docilely. The-Soviet high command announced capture of 209,060 German officers and men in preliminary checkups along the front.  There were 26 Nazi generals in the bag.

German Ships Surrender

Remnants of the beaten German surface and underwater fleet were in Allied Hands, including the. Cruisers Prinz Eugen and Nuernberg, which had shelled Copenhagen over the week end. These were under the week end.'-These were under the sentinel guns of the "Royal navy in Copenhagen -harbor, along .with

three destroyers, two torpedo-boats, ten minesweepers, 13 flak. ships,.,i? _

armed trawlers,, and two armed merchantmen.

Okinawa Battle Goes

On; U. S. Fleet

Attacked

By FRANK TREMAINE

GUAM, May 11  (U.P)-A fleet of more than 150 Superfortresses hit the Japanese

home islands again today, dropping high -explosives on a - large naval aircraft plants air fields, and two southern Kyushu  cities.

Tokyo radio reported that 10 B-29's later made an afternoon raid on the Kyushu sector from /south of, I he Bungo' channel. The broadcast said some' of the planes'. also. hit 'installations on. the southwestern part of Shikoku island.

.One task force of over100 of the big bombers attacked the Kavvanish, naval plane plant at Fukag. on the inland sea coast of Honshu Between Osaka and Kobe, in excellent weather, Fifty Superforts hit the Miyzaki airfield and targets at Miyakanojo and Nittagahara on Kyushu.

Cross Asa River |

On southern Okinawa, marines  of. the -sixth' division crossed the Asa river estuary, last, natural barrier before" Naha and drove on within 1,000 yards of the ruined capital city.  Through Wednesday 38,856 Japanese 'dead - had - been counted on Okinawa.

Fires still were burning ' nearby i n  Japan's main fuel storage area and synthetic oil. plants -along -the; inland sea from.. yesterday's, record 400-plane Superfortress- raid.

(A Japanese communique said Japanese forces on southern Okinawa killed or wounded about 12,600 American troops, destroyed or set afire 134 tanks and – destroyed and destroyed 39 guns between April 29 and May 7.  The communique also claimed that Japanese planes and submarines had sunk eight Allied/warships

and -heavily – damaged nine others off  Okinawa since May 6.)

May 10, 1945; GOERING SURRENDERS WITH FAMILY

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MAY 10,  1945:

 

Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday Morning, May 10, 1945

Former 'Heir' of Hitler

Says He Fled for Life

Brings Wife, Daughter to Patch's

Headquarters, Surrenders;

General Kilter von Epp Captured

By A. I. Goldberg

KUTZBUEHELv Austria, May 9 (AP) — Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, whose nazi air force once frightened the world, and Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, German commander in chief on the western front, have surrendered to Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's American Seventh army. Goering, a self-professed fugitive from the wrath of Hitler, surrendered near here Tuesday night with his wife and 6-year-old daughter and was flown Wednesday to Gen. Patch's headquarters.

Details of Kesselring's capture were not immediately given. The first of the top nazis to fall into American hands, Goering said he was sentenced to execution by

Hitler on April 2- when he suggested that he, Goering, take over the crumbling reich.

Surrenders With Relief

He declared that his air force followers shot their way through S, S. troops who were guarding him at Berchtesgaden and spirited him away to a hideout in this

area. It was with relief, apparentlythat the nazi leader surrendered, Tuesday. Night to Brig.-Gen. Robert Stack, assistant commander of the U. S. 36th division.

Quisling

Jailed

InNorway

By Associated Press

OSLO, Norway, May 9 — Nazi puppet Premier Vidkun Quisling of Norway, the man whose name has become a synonym for traitor, was locked in the Oslo jail Wednesday and two high German officers were reported to have taken their own lives as a result of Norway's liberation.

Seven Surrender

Quisling and six of his cabinet members surrendered themselves to Oslo police

while members of the Norwegian home forces rounded up 400 of his followers

throughout the city.

Josef Terboven, nazi civil governor for Norway, and S. S. Lt. Gen. Rediesa, chiefof the German police in Oslo, were said to have killed themselves by shooting.

S. F. Parley Okehs Provision

For Peaceful Arbitration

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 (UP)

—A united nations conference committee Wednesday night approved the first of a series of major amendments sponsored by the bigfour powers.

The conference committee on structure of the general assembly voted approval of an amendment which would empower the assembly to recommend measures for the peaceful adjustment of any situations which may endanger the peace.

This action was taken after almost three hours' discussion. It was understood the vote in favor of the amendment, which had been espoused by Sen. Arthur Vandenburg- (R). Michigan, was 23 to 3 with two committee members abstaining

from voting.

Tho committee's action now will be transmitted to the commission of the general assembly for approval. If the commission approves, the amendment will then go

to a plenary session of the conference for final approval and inclusion in the world organization charter.

Molotov Starts Home

Earlier, Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov started for Moscow, taking with him the last glimmering possibility that big three discussions at San Francisco might solve the Polish problem.

May 9, 1945; HISTORY'S WORST DEFEAT:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MAY 9, 1945:

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Yanks at Davao

Run Into Fight

By The Associated Press

Europe was at peace today but war thundered with relentless fury on widely separated Pacific-Asiatic battle fronts.

Yank doughboys in the southwest Philippines ran into a real -fight in the Davao sector while Australian and Dutch forces expanded their gains on Tarakan island just off Borneo.

Bad weather limited ground operations on bloody Okinawa but U.S. battleships and cruisers threw heavy fire ashore to wreck gun emplacements, artillery and mortars.

Reds Take Towns

In Last Minutes

LONDON, May 8—(AP)— Marshal Stalin announced tonight that Russian troops, in last-hour cleanups of German resistance units, had captured the Saxon capital of Dresden and the Czechoslovak "city .of Olmuetz" (Olomouc) .while

Czechoslovak partisans hoisted ,the free flag of the' republic'" over liberated Prague.

Cease  fire was . ordered in Prague, : in .'flames' from wantonNazi destruction, at 7:25 p. n (London time 12:25 p. m. CWT), although a few Nazi fanatics continued 'to loot and fire the Czechoslovak capital.

Germans' Defeat

History's Worst

PARIS, May 8.—(AP)—Germany bowed today to the most overwhelming defeat ever inflicted upon a nation 11 months and two days after General Eisenhower's armies stormed into France to liberates Europe in Nazi chains.

The final articles of capitulation were to be ratified today in shell-shredded Berlin. A ruined capital symbolic of the fall of the third reich, Prime Minister Churchill announced in London.

The guns of Europe, which through five years, eight months and seven days of unexampled war inflicted possibly 40,000,000-casualties-civilian and military—fell silent officially at one minute after midnight Wednesday (5:01 p.m. Central War Time today.)

Japs Receive

Stern Notice

They're Next

WASHINGTON,- May 8 —(AP)—

President Truman, in words of stern triumph and dedication, proclaimed' defeat

of a-crushed" Germany; today and served grim notice on Japan that her doom was sealed.

Stalin Discloses

Agreed Peace

Signed in Berlin

(AP)— The Moscow radio, announcing the. German capitulation, to the

Russian people' 'for the first .lime, said today that unconditional surrender articles had been signed by the Nazi high command at Berlin.

The announcement, made in behalf of Commander in Chief Stalin but not by the premier marshal personally, said the surrender was signed yesterday by field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel for the German high command, in the presence of Air

Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder, American General Carl Spaatz, French General De Lattre Tasslgny and Russlan Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov.

The Moscow radio said that "in honor of the victorious conclusion of the great patriotic war of the Soviet people against the German Fascist invaders and the historic Red Army victory that has been gained and that has been ended bythe complete defeat of the German army which declared unconditional capitulation, May 9 will be a festival of victory."