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Big Five Face Hitler's Successor Investigated- .. ~ Marines (ross Major Tesl Papers Report" DoeOltz Arrested Inlo Naha LONDON (AP)-Foreian Sec criminals was just about complete. Max Schmelling, former heavy Surpri.. Night AHack CommiH" to Decide retary Anthony Eden disclosed Eden also told commons that he weight champion, was reported yesterday that Grand Admiral hoped swUt justice would be arrested by the British In Ham Places nth Division On Giving Veto Power Karl Doenll:%-Hltler's succe&SOt meted out to Hermann Goering bur& for his activities as a Nazi. Above I.himml Town To Large Nations branded by Moscow as a war described by a commons ques Hlmmler was known to have criminal-Was "under investlga tioner as "that loathsome crim been at his summer home east ot tlon" and "a~ordln, to news GUA~f, Friday (AP)-M'ak. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The inal." Berchtesaaden as la.t 81 April 27, paper reporters" had been ar He said he had no Information when It would have been unlillely ing a surpri night attack witll· power of big nations to do much as rested. out upport of al·tillery prepar· they please In enforcing peace on the whereabouts of Joachim tor him to escape back north by His statement came in columns von Ribbentrop, Hitler's torel,n plane, said a Berchtes,aden dis alion, element of the 77th moved along last night toward its as both the British and Russian first major test in the United Na minister, but said "every step Is patch by Associated Presl Cor infantry divi ion curtd high press were clamoring for swift beinl taken to arrest Ribbentrop respondent A. I. Goldber,. gr 0 u n d dominllting I himmi tions conference. trial of war criminals and de That test Is comin, up in one and brin, him to justice." xaver Schwarz, treasurer of the town in south central Okinawa , 'l'B1 FAMILIAR AND PATHETIC STORY of ,clvillana lleellll' Uae path vi 'war Is toJd .p.ln In this plc manding that either individually Von Rlbbentrop, Heinrich Him Nazi party, also was found in the of the conference committees or collectively the German general yesterday. r ., II natives of Tar.kan, Island off the cOAIt vi Bomeo, line the roads for miles to evuuate the town which now ore stepping up their mler and lew-baiter J u Ii u I southern mountain territory now tI Tankan In wblch Australian troops are batilJq Its la.. delenden. staft be tried along with Nazi The attack carried forward pace in an attempt to finish dralt Streicher were the objects ot a being searched by the United e1ements of the divi ion to out· gangsters. search In southern Bavvaria and States Seventh army. ing a charter for a new world or skirts of the town. A war crimes commission ot- Austria so intenre that eve n Of the "bl, five" in the old Nazi ganization within another three Ishimmi guards one gateway weeks. (lcial aid a decision on what to American generals of divisions gang designated as war criminals do with the German military were takin, a personal part. by the commission, only Goerlnl to fortr huri, wall d and The question ot great naUon veto moated keystone of the enemy's power and an enUre plan tor vot hierarchy probably would beT h e territory Is considered Is known to be in allled bands. Peace Unofficial reached at the commission's con- promlsln, since it has yielded up Ribbentrop and Hlmmler are southern defense line. Feelers " ing on peace-pr erving steps was under consideration In a commit;.. terence here May 31. such top-rung Nazi. a. Goerin, fu,utives. Hiller and Propalanda CODIIrIDIIlI' fJ'OD!.l1ne dispatches, tee working on the structure of a As history's biggest manhunt for and the notorious Dr. Robert Ley, Minister Goebbels both have been l1eet Adm1ra.l Chester W. Nlmlts .... announced today U1U proposed ecurity council. notorious Nazis was preSJed Irom German labor czar, and organizer reported deaa, but the allies are ele Nips in Neutral Lands Norway to the Bavarian Alps, the of the "Werewolf movement" cautious about pronouncin, the menta 01 Ute SIxUl marine dlvialon I At a Glance- I Americans Tighten The committee baa &0 decide oWelal said the United Nation. whose capture was announced deaths official until more conclu have croeaecI the "-toto river aad whether each 01 the Ble FlYe will blackUst of major German war . only Wetlnesday. sive evidence is assembled. &aIDed • .malI brld,eheadlD Nab&, Urge 'Understanding' Trap on Mindanao have the ri&'bt to block peaee-en rubble-Uttered capital OD OkI forcement 1&epS, ~~ them nawa', weat coeat. Say No Uncqnditional To dC!J y.'s 31.t Division Pushes selvetl or UlY ol.ber countJ'7. Units ot Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. The Big Five are holdilll firm Eden Confident New B·29's Leave Nazi Plot to Kidnap , Shepherd Jr.'s Sixth morine divi Surrender P9ssible; Six Miles North tor that power. Most signs pointed sion in the late afternoon fanned Fail to OHer Term., Iowan To Edge of Valencia to their getting their own way In Eisenhower Revealed out to capture Sugar Loaf hill, 700 retainina authority to veto use of Charier Will Succeed S fh N yards northeast of Takimotoji vil MANILA, Friday (AP)-For sanctions or force to prevent war. lage. This Indicated the leather WASHINGTON (AP)-Individ- Infantl'y aAbl* *gain * dominatina ward eLemen ts of th 40th and 31st But some small nations still are Stre.... U. S.-Briti.h OU agoya Capture of Skorzeny, necks who fought into the very 1111 Japanese in neutral countries position above Ishimml town on divisions narrowed to 45 road chipping away at the veto author Himmler's Hatchetman, heart of Naha had bypassed a ire fishing for signs of peace short Okinawa. mUes Wednesday the jaws on a Ity. Some want to eliminate it en Harmony of Ideas Japanese garrison, leaving fellow of unconditional Rurrender, but trap closing on a sizeable fOrce of tirely so for as It would apply to In Commons Report Smokllng RUlln Di.do.es German Plan marInes to cleat! up behind them. thus far no official peace bid has action eking the peaceful settle Takomotojlls at the northern sub I..,. in ne"tra) countries put JajJanese In central Mindanao, SUPREME HEADQUARTERS been received from, Japan, it was forth uDo1Cicia I peace reeLers. sou the r n Philippin 8. Today's ment or disputes. They may wjn urbs of Naha. !tarned yesterday. LONDoN (AP)-Forei,n Sec ALLIED EXPEDI TIO NARY headquarters commllniq d i s 80m concessions. retary Anthony Eden confidently GUAM, Friday (AP)-FJiers l'e- FORCE, fari,a {M)~The reported On the left nank 01 the Thlrd Particularly since the fall of B~ FIve face tlrst major t I.. closed th gain '. The rnat DOwen have yielded predicted }'ftterctll)' t:h '" San turning from N oya td the capture of a giant protessional po_ raartae IIIIpbjbloQ corps, between Manila, a number of. Japanese have The Yank division squeezed a mesaure 01 control In • plan to Francisco cont.rence would brln, 3,1I00-ton tire bomb raid by more litlcaJ kidnaper by the United NaIla< and Sburl, Nlmlts aid troo. Ul1td neutrals to leatn the "real SUI ibea~ tQ present "Come tighter the trap along lhe Sayre lei .. eelonal defense- System. act forth a charter better than Dum than 500 upertorts after mid- Stales Seventy army released yes 01 I.be Fint. marine d I v I • I 0 .n American attitude" but these Jap Marching Home." highway. The 31st pushed six apwi any urre-or In cue of barton Oaks, but he solemnly ni,ht yesterday left the target terday one of the European thea re.ched Wans town. This advance anese specify only that uncondi I miles north to the edge of Valen utual aUuk, .1tho~h R\I8IIa. lil1l warned that there stili were a arell of the city, third largest in ter's top military secrets-a win by Maj. Gen. Pedro de VaJle'. tional surrender is impossible tor cia, an air center, o[ter putting hasn't a.cceP&ed UtIs formula. "number of serious and disquiet Japan, a hu,e, flam in, smokepot. ter plot to assassinate General troops alJlo h.a.d been ehronleled In Japan and suggest no definite into operation the captul'ed Mara Top state men of the Big Five Ing issues" clouding the Interna "By the t.lme we left Nagoya, Eisenhower. lront line dlspal()hes· by A oclated te rm~ . Pre. Corr~ondent Vern Haue mag airstrip tOI' transport planes. hunted for ways ot speeding up the tional situation. smoke was billowing thousands ot The driving lorce behind this Asked about reports that the Nine Bull Pit Terriers land. The 40th, driving south alter conference, continued a discussion Within a few hours after his teet Into the air," said Lleut. W. plot was Lleut. Col. Olto Skorzeny, office of strategic services had re Maj.