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WAR BULLETIN BUENOS AIRES, April 4 U.R Seven hundred Germans, Germanophiles and olher axis sympathliers and saboteurs have been arrested throughout Argentina In the past 48 hours. FINAL CITY EDITION A Regional Newspaper Serving Nine Irrigated Idaho Counties VOL. 27, NO. S00 Official City and County Newspaper TWIN IDAHO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945 Membar of Audit Bureau of Circulation! Aaaociatad Vxn and United Frraa PRICE 5 CENTS EZ7 F-1 i To) jo) A -o) i n) I 111 11 UJLrUZZl Checrf ullv Checking Election Returns Yank Pilots Report Jb.oe Abaxid onm Babcock, 2nd to Sweet, Drops out But Runoff Stays Edward Babcock, who ran second to Mayor Bert A. Sweet in Tuesday's primary that saw three incumbent councilmen reelected, announced Wednesday that he would not be a runoff candidate, thus conceding the mayoralty to Sweet but 2.

Germany PARIS, April 4 (U.R) American third army troops burst Concedes It through the German center little more than 130 miles from Berlin today and air pilots reported the nazis may be abandoning northwest' Germany and falling back for a death stand on the Elbe river, 43 miles from Berlin. YANKEES NEARING OKINAWA CAPITAL The forces of miles from Russian front lines, as the scissor-soueeze on Germany tightens. British troops- reached the 4 i i North sea today in a drive to trap 90,000 Germans in Holland, and ninth army tanks pulled up to the Weser, next to the last important stream on the high road to Berlin. VV llliam Simpson's fifth armored division reached the Weser at Bad Oeynhausen, 183 miles from Berlin. 11.

1- rn .1 a oi souin oi tsremen ana lus soutnwest ot Hamburg. A battalion of engineers rode along to bridge the stream. Fifty votes short of a majority over his two opponents, Mayor Bert A. Sweet scans the returns at his home with councilmen who were reelected. Left to right, Kenneth D.

Shook, Orville H. Coleman, Sweet, Truman T. Greenhalgh and W. W. Thomas, who Is a holdover councilman.

Later Edward Babcock, second man in the mayor's race, telephoned Sweet congratulations and said he was withdrawing from the run-off contest. (Staff photo-engraving) if? Liberated Slave Laborers Take on Nazi Task Masters 7 Guam Hello Girls Make Talk Polite GUAM, April 4 (U.R) A correspondent picked up the phone at press and then exclaimed: "Holy suliie a woman telephone operator." A check revealed the signal corps had hired-U-Guam girls. as hello girls. Most of them are juef learning switchboard routine, taut -one of them, Angelina Atoigue, worked on telephones for the navy as far back as 1929. Said one of the communications officers: "There'll be a marked increase In polite phrases while using the phone around here from now on." WASHINGTON, April 4 UP) Meat shortage may force an official decision soon whether Americans are to have more pork now and less next year or less now and more in 1946.

Possibility this country may have to slaughter breeding hogs to meet current needs was disclosed today as: 1. A senator investigating food shortages expressed concern that any further cut in civilian supplies might spur black market operations, 2, The army said it needs 20 per cent more food this year than last and that it will take 12 per cent of the available supply, estimated at 280,000,000,000 pounds, and 3. United Nations representatives discussed ways of better sharing of their food. Some officials" in WFA are urg ing a fall pig production goal of 37,000,000 head, a 20 per cent in crease over last falls small' crop, These pigs, however, would not be ready for market before the spring of 1946. Another question debated in WFA Is whether the government price support -under hogs should be in creased.

The support price now is $12 50 a hundred pounds, Chicago basis, compared, with $13.75 a year ago. WE OWE SOME MORE WASHINGTON, April 4 (IP) President Roosevelt has approved legislation increasing the public debt limit from $260,000,000,000 to 000,000,000. He signed the measure yesterday. BIG-SCALE KILLING OF HOGS DEBATED the law says a run-on must h( held nevertheless. City voters cast 2,520 ballots in the three wards.

State statute showed it will be necessary to hold an election April 24 for voters to elect Sweet to his second term as mayor, inasmuch as he failed by a scant 50 votes to win a majority over Babcock and O. J. Bothne, who ran third. Unless the run-off were held, the The Vole 1 i Sweet 64T S2J 141 Bibcock ...304 JSO ill Bothna 227 217 88 Colemaa 7 59J 194 Total 1.211 777 5.12 1,465 981 1,036 1,400 1.S75 1,083 Dean 39 232 Elcock Greenhalgh Shook Tlmmoni .427 277 232 .640 587 173 624 S7 172 ,419 418 24 mayor's office would be declared vacant as no one candidate won the office in Tuesday's primary. Sweet polled UU, Babcock 777 and Bothne 532.

Sweet needed 1,261 votes for outright election, 4 Returned to council seats without necessity of a runoff were Orville H. Coleman, Truman T. Greenhalgh and Kenneth D. Shook. They ran on the Citizens' Good Government ticket along with Sweet.

Coleman received 1,465 votes, Greenhalgh 400 and Shook 1,375. 5 The Incumbent councilmen defeated a bid by Babcock's People's Progressive party candidates A. H. Timmons, who received 1,063 votes, Mrs. -Hair -A, Elcock, who had: 036, arerice JbV Dean, Alio polled 981 votes.

Babcock telephoned his congratulations to Mayor Sweet Wednesday and informed him he would not be a candidate against him in the runoff. This apparently left the way open for assurance that the present city administration will continue in office. But legal complications promptly arose that caused City Attorney Joseph H. Blandford to announce a run-off would have to be held to fill the mayor's office. Babcock was expected to file formal announcement of his withdrawal from the race with City Clerk Charles P.

Larsen shortly. Even so, his name will still appear on the ballot as he will have to be certified as one of the two high candidates in Tuesday's vote. Sweet lost outright election in ward three In which a number of opponents of the city's annexation of outside areas have been active in seeking anti-administration votes. Ward three polled 442 votes. Of this number Sweet received 131, Babcock 213 and Bothne 88.

It was the only ward in which Sweet failed to come out ahead. In ward two, where 1,000 votes were cast, the mayor polled 523 votes as compared with 260 received by Babcock and 217 by Bothne. Ward one cast the heaviest ballot 1,078 votes and In that sector Sweet received 547 votes as against 304 polled by Babcock and 227 by Bothne. WALKER REELECTED BOISE, April 4 (P)-Austin A. Walker was elected to his third term of office as mayor of Boise with 1,899 votes in the city election Tuesday, unofficial returns of all precincts from the office of city clerk Fred Bagley revealed.

The mayor was un- (Continued on Pact Column S) FLASHES of LIFE By Associated Press GIRL HAMILTON, N. April 4 She was something to write home about. "I saw my first white girl In six months today," a Hamilton serviceman wrote from the Pacific. "She was a nurse pacing the deck of a hospital ship and I could see her through binoculars." SMOKELESS BENOIT, April 4 The robber or robbers who broke into the Bank of Benolt apparently didnt smoke. W.

W. Rothchild, cashier, disclosed 42 pennies were taken but a carton of cigarettes was ignored. BEES CANTON, N. April 4 Bres, out before the blossoms in a spring heat wave, pursued shoppers earning fruits and vegetables home. FISH JAMESTOWN, N.

April 4 Chautauqua lake shore residents picked fish off their lawns after a windstorm' that sent waves over a breakwater. Georze S. Patton are onlv 160 Ems river 48 miles from tha The Luxembourg radio asserted that German divisions were being shifted from the Russian to the disintegrating western front. The French first army entered Karlsruhe, capital of Baden and an important communications and industrial center of 189,000 near the upper Rhine. The Canadian first army, forglnn a trap within a trap on the Germans In Holland, advanced to within less than 20 miles of the Zulder Zee and cut more communications to the rocket coast of the Netherlands from which the nazis have bombarded House Fighting House fighting continued In Kas-sel, 165 miles southwest of Berlin, where masses of German planes and tanks and locomotives have been built to help power German armies.

The encircled Germans in the Ruhr are estimated at between 18 to 21 divisions, some in fairly good strength but with few tanks. Th Germans still have not concentrated anywhere on the rim of the trap for a major breakthrough attempt, Yarborough said. The increased estimate showed that a great number of the trapped men were the Ill-trained volksturm. Ease Supply Problem Fleets of C-47 transport planes were easing the third army's supply problem, now that the third is 215 miles inside Germany. Yesterday, for instance, the transports brought in all Patton's gasoline requirements and rations for on meal for his whole army.

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring Is believed trapped in the Ruhr pocket between the American first and ninth armies. He became supreme commander in the west late last month, succeeding the deposed Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, IN REICH ALLEGED LONDON. April 4 (U.R) A stock-holm dispatch says the gestapo has discovered plans for a new anti-Hitler coup in Germany. The Tidningen said Marshal von Rundstedt, deposed German commander on the western front, was executed by a firing squad following exposure of the plot. Other arrests were made throughout Germany and guards were doubled, then tripled at Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden.

The plot, reminiscent of the attempt in which Hitler was wounded last June, is said to have called for coordinated attacks on the fuehrer's headquarters at Berchtesgaden. Parachutists were to have carried out the attack on Berchtesgaden, the dispatch said. Killer Keeps Head Of Woman Victim PARIS, April 4 (U.R) The headless, nude body of a young woman and a cryptic note giving Instructions for the body disposal were found today in a wooded thicket near Paris. The note readr "Do not waste any pity on this woman who, during the five years I spent in a concentration camp, behaved herself badly and was gratl-fylngly kindly to the Germans. I tried In vain to lead her in the right way I am not a criminal but a dispenser oi justice, her.

"You bury the body, the head." I am rid of I'm keeping Road to Berlin By Associated Tress Eastern front: 32 miles (from Zcl-lin. Western front: 233 miles (froiA east of Gotha). Italian frout: 544 miles U'rdui Reno river). ANTI-HITLER GUAM, April 4 (IP) Twin Amer ican drives moved swiftly south toward Naha, capital of Okinawa, to day and possibly to meet the first major resistance by the Japanese defenders since the Yanks landed four days ago. Naha, largest city in the Ryukyu chain and with a population of 000, is only six miles from forward elements of the 77th infantry divi sion moving down the west coast.

Naha airdrome is the best In the archipelago. Marines drove another wedge across the island, 325 miles south of Japan, by reaching the east coast at the Katchin peninsula, which was cut off. Seventh division doughboys, who first bisected the island on Monday, moved eight miles down the shores of Nakagusuku bay, former Japanese fleet anchorage, to the town of Kuba. Refugee centers have been established and Japanese civilians are pouring in by the hundreds. Fright vanishes when they receive food and treatment, they say, Is much kinder than that they received from Jap.

anese rulers. Tokyo and surrounding areas were hammered atvr 300 Superfortresses today in thfv three-way demolition raid on" the island of Honshu, Shlzuoka, 85 miles south of the capital, Tachlkawa, 20 miles west and KoiaSBni, 20 miles norfti, -vere'also hit. -i Borneo and Its great petroleum and rubber resources lay only 30 miles south of Jungle-wise veterans of the American eighth army today. They won strategic control of the Japanese naval base of Tawitawi at the southern tip of the Sum archi pelago with hardly a fight Monday. AS RE LONDON, April 4 lP) Soviet forces, surging through the adminis trative district of greater Vienna, smashed today to within six miles of the city proper.

The Stockholm newspaper Mor gontidningen said today that civil war was reported to have broken out in Vienna. "Native workers, together with foreign workers and deserters, have started action and fights are taking place both in central Vienna and in the outer fortifications on which the Russians are advancing," said the dispatch. Barricades are being hurriedly built by the Germans in the city's streets, it added, but they are proh ably too late. Wlener-Neustadt, one of the big' gest aircraft production centers of all Europe, fell to the third Ukrainian army which drove on 16 miles to the southwest, capturing Neunklrchen and Gloggnlts. The Russians cut the main Vienna Venice railroad and a trans-Alpine highway connecting the war arsenals of Austria and Czechoslovakia with German troops in Italy.

At Gloggnltz the Russians were within seven miles of the Semmerlng pass and 137 miles east of Adolf Hitler's Berchtesgaden re treat. In the drive on Vienna another wing of Tolbukhln's army capitalized on a crossing of the Leitha river and dashed 17 miles through a web of highways and railroads, each an enemy defense line. The Russians by-passed the sulphur spa of Baden and captured Velm, within the boun darles of Vienna set by the nazi party and only six miles south of the metropolitan limits. Retreat stedt as German western front com mander. The rooms and their three-mile long connecting corridors were hewn from solid rock near the top of mountain, on which rests the re mains of the ancient Siegenhain castle.

Huge power-operated steel doors In Innocent looking log cabins barred the entrance to the retreat. Hitler's quarters and those of other nazi leaders were built around the rim of the underground city, giving them outside exposures and rustic terraces invisible from the air or the countryside below. VIENNA IN REVOLT DS ATTACK Reported Killed LIEUT. GEORGE WviSON who was reported killed In action March 18 In the European theater while serving with the seventh army. (Staff engraving) Three more Magic Valley young men were reported" Wednesday as killed in They were Lieut.

George Davison, Twin Falls; Lieut. Hans Niichel, Buhl, and Pfc. Howard D. Kldd, Mil-ner. KILLED IN EUROPE Second Lieut.

George Davison, serving with General Patch's seventh army in the European theater, was reported killed In action March 18, according to word received Wednesday morning from the war department. The message was sent to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Davison, 352 Seventh avenue north.

Lieutenant Davison joined the infantry in June, 1943, receiving training at Camp Roberts, and Fort Bennlng, before arriving overseas last 2. He graduated from the Twin Falls high school, where he was prominent in basketball, track and baseball activities, and attended Washington State college, Pullman, for three years before entering the (ConHnnd on Paga 1, Colama I) ON FORCED LABOR WASHINGTON, April 4 (U.R) The major question on capitol hill today Is what. If anything, would take the place of the defeated compromise manpower bill. The senate rejected the controversial job-freeze measure 46 to 2, and many senators believe it means there is no hope for any new manpower legislation at this stage of the war. Some, however, felt there still is a chance for the senate's original bill, which would give legal force to labor ceilings and other directives of the war manpower commission.

On one thing both sides agreed, the principle of compulsory labor will not he adopted. The bill which squeezed through the house by a 167 to 160 vote, would have given the mobilization director unlimited power to fix labor ceilings, freeze war workers on their jobs and regulate hiring. I i GEORGE DAVISON REPORTED KILLED SOLONSPLAC BAN Revenge 4 BURLEY, April 4 Four persons were ill of exhaust ga fumes when tney arrived here Tuesday morniiig' aboard a Greyhound Uhion PacJic stage from Salt Lake City. J. L.

Drlskell, co-owner of an electric refrigeration service firm here, collapsed as he stepped off the bus and was taken to Cottage hospital where today he was under an oxygen tent. His condition was not regarded as critical. Mrs. Owen L. Brough, Tremonton, Utah, was taken to the hospital and remained overnight for treatment before being discharged today.

Mrs. Viola Grow, Burley, was-re-covering from effects of the fumes at her home here. Larry Miller, 11, Salt Lake City, was also stricken, but recovered after a rest and fresh air. All four were passengers who sat in the rear of the bus. In some unexplained manner a leak In the exhaust pipe caused the fumes to be directed inside the rear of the bus.

A physician who examined the quartet that had the bus traveled several more; miles the results might have been fatal because carbon monoxide has no odor and claims its victims before they are aware of their illness. J. H. Whitsell, Pocatello, representative of the stage line, came here to conduct an investigation. WITH U.

S. FIRST ARMY, April 4 WV-Valuable art treasures, from Germany and France have been found In a dank tunnel used by German civilians near the front as an air raid shelter: Works of Rembrandt, Reubens, Van Gogh and Van' Dyke; the famous jewelled and gold sarcophagus from the cathedral of Cologne, sculptures and other treasures from museums, cathedrals and private collections were found. They, had been moved from one hiding place to another by the Germans until American soldiers in the Siegen area overran an enemy position and discovered the cache. In the fetid air of the cavern civilians slept next to a painting by the great Rembrandt, or curled up beside a magnificent carved door from the Cologne cathedral. Russian and French slave laborers made their homes hard by the bones of Charlemagne, brought to the cave from their resting place in Aachen's cathedral.

There were 500 original scores In the handwriting of the composer Beethoven, taken from his birthplace at Bonn. Frontier Closed LONDON, April 4 (P) The Swiss-Italian frontier will be closed beginning today because of anticipated "important events," the Paris and Brussels, radios reported in almost simultaneous broadcasts. The Brussels radio further explained that "very important events are taking shape in northern Italy and new developments must be expected iri the very near future." RIDERS ILL OF BUS GAS IES YANKS IN TUNNEL FIND TREASURES EDWARD BABCOCK who won a run-off place for mayor in Tuesday's primary election, announced today that he would concede nomination to Bert Sweet, the incumbent chief ecutlv. (Staff, jhot? engraving1) FANATIC GENERAL ASCHAFFENBURG, Germany, April 4 (U.P,) American power shattered even the nerves oi one ol Germany's most fanatics! commanders. a friend of Hitler, and today the last resistance cease- haffenburg, After six relentless at tach fror ground, the monocled nazi comii.ander, a Major Lambert, broke and sent word to the Americans he had enough.

He sent an American private, captured four days and a German captain to the A' erican lines with an offer of surre" ier. Col. Walter Brien sent word back by the cap that white flags were to be flov profusely from the turrets of the command post. The castle i ns opened. Lambert, Immaculate! uressed in gray-green wehrmacht c.

neatly pressed trous ers and ridLig boots, stepped to- getner wun nis stan oi selected om-cers. Many of them carried white flags. When the nazi commander sur rendered his pride was completely drained ana his spirit broken. "You Americans don't fully appreciate the real power that's in you," Lambert said. "We do now, at long last." Alaskans Perk up; SPARS Coming KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 4 (IP) Boots are being shined and Christens neckties dug out of the closets anticipation of the arrival of a ntihgent of SPARS and the local per is fighting a losing battle trying to convince the bachelors reabouts that all SPAR officers should be addressed as "sir." The had no answer for tae subscriber who asked: "How would I feel callln" up one of them girls and saying 'can I have a date, Burglars Take 13 Cigarette Cartons Thieves burglarized the Fruit Basket, 227 Main avenue east, late Tuesday night and took 13 cartons of popular brand cigarettes, Police Chief Howard Gillette reported.

Police in a radio patrol car discovered the break-in at 1:20 a. m. Wednesday and Kenneth Chllds, operator of the store, said the theft happened after 11 p. m. Tuesday.

Entrance was gained by smashing a rear window of the establishment and removing a wood bar across a door. SENATE O. It's VINSON WASHINGTON, April 4 (U.R) The senat today unanimously approved the nomination of Fred M. Vinson to be director of war mobilization and reconversion. FLIES WHITEFLAG WITH BRITISH SECOND ARMY, GERMANY, April 4 0J.R) Hordes of liberated slave laborers trekking across Germany are taking, revenge on their former task masters and terrifying the German lTrce to "roafirmoiig the people who made them suffer for years, some liberated laborers are turning to violence while others are more prac tical in their vengeance.

They need food for the long trail back to their homes, so they, help themselves. They take bedding and blankets for sleeping in the fields. If they can find horses and wagons which the wehrmacht did not requisition, they harness them and set off. "Come Help Us" It is a common sight to see frantic Germans rushing across fields screaming: "Come help us. The robbers have taken our food.

The slaves are burning our homes." The British do what they can but the problem is far too vast for them. The Germans do not seem to see anything incongruous in appeals to their conquerors for help. Last night a group of German farmers came to eur billet and said: "Please come. The slaves drank all our Schnapps and they are attacking our families." Themselves to Blame Troops intervened and restored order, but explained to the Germans: "You brought these people here as slaves. You have only yourselves to blame." Already there are hundreds of thousands of liberated laborers roaming the ruined countryside.

Soon there will be millions, for the Germans shipped in 15,000,000 slav.es from every corner of Europe. NABBED BY FBI HOLLYWOOD. Aprft 4 U.R The kind of lewd films that delight stag party audiences was in possession today of police who claim they have crushed one of the largest lewd picture syndicates in the country. Deputy District Attorney Alexander directed police and FBI agents in the score of raids that netted 30 reels of film, thousands of still pictures, several truck loads of film making equipment and projection machines. The officers described the confiscated pictures as portraying a saturnalia of sex.

Twenty personsj including, according to police, "stars" of the pictures, the casting director and the producers, were arrested for questioning. Raiders claimed the syndicate not only made the movies and still pictures, but had a regular releasing organization to show the films in stag shows and sell the still pictures through stores. Songa "Sunny" Andre, 21-year-old model, one of those held, "starred" in some of the lewd screen romances, officers claimed. Aleen Storkweather, 16, said to have posed In the altogether, was arrested 10 days ago and gave officers informa tion that aided in the raids. LEI FILM RING Hitler's Falls Into 'Americans', Hands U.

S. 80TH DIVISION, Germany, April 4 (IP) A mountain hideout of 1,000 air-conditioned rooms, where Hitler master-minded the conquest of France and von Rund-stedt plotted his Ardennes offensive, has been captured by the Americans. In a class with. Berchtesgaden, the rock-hewn retreat, called the Alderhorst, is at Zandenhim, west of the famed resort center of Bad Nauheim. Hitler spent much of his time there in 1940, accompanied by other nazi bigwigs.

Latest high ranking occupant was Marshal Kes-selring, who succeeded von Rund- i.