Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg to sex press saturday april Clearing fringes is Allied Job now by j. A. M. Cook free press War correspondent Headquarters april 27. By radio and the allies now masters of All Central Germany the fighting develops into the Job of wiping up the fringes with the British about in Possession of Bremen and a Surpris ing thrust by. The canadians Only a dozen Miles to the West near the Little town of Delmenhorst. In quiescent Holland a Canadian Alex Parfenick who was killed in action overseas april 15, according to word received by his Mother. Mrs. 3v Parfenick Gladstone. He enlisted in april 1942, and went overseas in november 1944. Born info and in 1921, he came to Canada in 1929 and was educated at glad Stone. He is survived by his Mother and one brother Colin with the army overseas. Bombing effective in Leuna Oil Plant by Helen Kirkpatrick Luna Germany april 27. of twisted pipes in the vast sprawling i g. Farben Oil Plant Here explain Why we found some 30 junkers and Messerschmidt planes intact on an Airfield 30 Miles West Leipzig. Leuna s synthetic Oil plants one of Germany s three biggest and the nearby Seitz Plant offer pleas ing evidence of the effectiveness of air bombardment. The Oil Short age hampered Field marshal von Hund Studt s Advance in the de Cember ardennes Battle and kept the Luftwaffe activity seriously curtailed. First heavily attacked in May 1944, Leuna was battered 22 times in this War. Production dropped 50 per cent after the last May attack. Five other highly effective at tacks followed. Leuna. As a result. Was producing less than 10 Pel cent of its simplest fuel. Our radio had forced the elimination of High Quality Oil. What value the germans at to need to Leuna could be seen by its ring of vast fortifications and its 200 anti aircraft guns which made Leuna one of the deadliest targets for our air arms. As with the bulk of German Industry both Leuna and the Zeitz Tro Nelitz plants employed consid or Luble numbers of slave labor. Scitz. Which employed work ers had to keep a constant Bri Gade of to Cope with air raid damage. Among foreigners brought there to work were 112 american infantry Man. Captured in ardennes but according to the personnel director they were too weak to be any like the rest of the recently captured americans they had starved them. Eight of those boys were buried in Trie town of Seitz by three Brit ish prisoners. These men. Like the germans in Leuna and Scitz. Testify eloquently to the deadline ass of our air attacks. Germans finding atrocity alibis by Helen Kirkpatrick Leipzig april germans Are already engaged in finding alibis for the atrocities the american armies Are daily uncovering in their sweep across Germany. Leipzig citizens strolling through the compound of foreign slave labor Camps near the1 suburb of Mackau. Looked horrified at the scores of half burned bodies and heaps of blackened Bones inside the electrified barbed wire enclosure. Here the . Docked several c Hundred polish French and russian workers in a Barracks threw Kero Sene on the wooden building and set it on fire As the sound of j american tank guns were heard in the Centre of Leipzig. The bodies of those who Man to escape the living inferno lie in the Fields outside where they were shot. Several Are draped Over the barbed wire where they were electrocuted. Half the body of scholarly looking Man whose spectacles though cracked by the flames Are still intact is lying beside a partially burned. English phrase Book. These men were eagerly await liberation. Among the elderly men and women strolling through were Many who were struck speechless by this particular example of Ger Man barbarity. But one respect Able looking older woman turned to those around her. And said the uncivilized americans did this and Are trying now to blame us. Kidney acids Rob your rest Many people never seem of gel Good night a they turn and awake and count sheep. Often they blame it on Nerres when it my be their kidneys. Healthy kidneys filter poisons from the blood. If they arc faulty and fail Nowom away in the system and sleeplessness head backache often follow. If you Don t sleep Well try Dodd s kidney lot i a Century the favorite remedy. 103 Dodds kidney jail u Lucaj cell. 0. Spearhead pushed East past Olden Burg to give Crerar s army a front stretching Over More than 300 Miles of dutch coastline and German Countryside and collecting prisoners in a Day to make the total score More than a spitfire Pilot who ranged the whole Elbe area of Central Ger Many saw no Road movement no rail movement no planes in the air no planes in the airfields no seaplanes by the lakes not a single German jeep. The whole country Side was As dead As the Naz prospects. No separate fronts there is no longer a Western front and an Eastern front. There Are merely 23 Allied armies going full Pelt against the confusion of the remaining troops dig Ging in in the smoking ruin of Central Germany. But from Wittenberg in the North to Chemnitz on the czech Border there has been Little shooting for a week. You feel the link up could have been made anytime. But the idea apparently is to make it a tremendous enveloping Job not just a pin Point on the but rather a couple of Hundred Miles of Ger Many wiped out at once and Are just about at that stage now. The link up with the russians was not so much a Battle As neat work by the russian and american chiefs of staff. Guys Are still getting killed but i disagree with Ben Malkin that you can any longer Call them big Battles. You can t Call it a big Battle when a division is pitted against a battalion or when 100 tanks smash a whole German town to rout 100 fanatics. Take for instance Bremen where the Progress of our troops is held up More by wreckage of earlier bombardments than by defence troops. Now it in t so much the nazi soldiers so much As the chaos and rubbish that is the problem. Shooting might continue for an other week in Berlin and Ham Burg might hold out for a with Little pockets of resistance scattered across the North. But the most fascinating picture today is made by the thrusts in the South into what has been called the last nazi redoubt. The last slice held by the old Reich there is now reduced to barely 12.000 Square Miles not much More than Ive per cent of the country. Mackenzie will run in Neepawa Neepawa Man., april 28. Spe-1 that f. D. Macken Zie . For the constituency of Neepawa would resign on account of illness were discounted yester Day in a statement of the executive of the Liberal association. The executive said there had never been any doubt of or. Mac Kenzie s candidature in the next Federal election so far As the executive were concerned. Or Mackenzie was the unanimous Choice of the Liberal Conven Tion held nov. 22, 1844, and he re Mains the Liberal for Neepawa. Or. Mackenzie has represented the constituency for the past 10 years. Clieve the itching soreness and Bur Aing of of promote Healing. Sanitary. Inexpensive. Not get prompt Ugenti con is show chalet of Hitler wrecked London april 28. Swiss chalet at Berchtesgaden was blown apart by three hits with six ton earthquake bombs and other High explosives from . Lan cast cts air reconnaissance revealed yesterday. The air ministry said photo graphs show part of the main baud no and Hitler s Home were destroyed and both wings severely damaged. Barracks for his bodyguard of storm troopers also were wrecked. One entire Block of these quarters Vas demolished and another Sec Tion levelled by a direct hit and More than half the top Storey of a third was destroyed. A Large Section of the residence of the head of the Obe Salzburg . Administration was knocked Down. An american communique said yesterday direct hits were made wednesday on at least 22 buildings of the 325-acre Skoda Plant at Pil spitfires of the . 2nd Tacti Cal air Force yesterday destroyed 100 motor vehicles on the Kyritz Perleberg Highway North of Berlin. This brought the spitfire groups total motor vehicles destroyed in a to houses in Tokyo gone London april 27. Japanese Domei Agency said yester Day a not inconsiderable portion of Tokyo has been demolished by the bombing attacks of american planes. The broadcast report added 000 houses were demolished Ana he number of afflicted citizens has Rel spa total of figures of destruction equal one Quarter of households in the capital. Pet. A Tjce Wilson who has been officially reported to have died overseas according to word received by his Mother mrs. R Wilson 204 Rose Berry Street St James. He enlisted in 1940. And went overseas in 1941. He was 25 years of age and served in Italy. Later being transferred to the West Ern front. There Are two Brothers. Pet. Alvin Wilson serving overseas and pet. Norman Wilson in Canada. Change sweeping fiery Balkans by Dewitt Mackenzie associated press War analyst new York april 27. If you la take your War and with a Crayon fill in the area from which the germans have been driven by the towering tidal wave sweeping Westward out of Russia you la see that you have virtually a solid Block which includes All but a tiny Corner of the Balkan Peninsula. That s of the greatest importance. It signifies that the fiery Balkans centuries the cockpit of South Eastern. Europe and the whelping ground of undergoing a mighty change along with the rest of the continent. For we have Theoe not Only a military resurgence which has reclaimed the lands rav aged by the huns but a vast poli tical change. Marshal Tito s forces have All but Flung the germans out of Yugo Slavia strategical Keystone of the whole Balkan Peninsula and have crossed the old yugoslav italian Frontier and thrust towards aus Tria itself. One of the most remarkable aspects of this situation is that the yugoslavs and the bulgarians Are co operating in the military opera Lions. A couple of years ago such a partnership would have been unbelievable for lad of the has been a Lone Wolf on the outs with most of the neighbors. The offensive of the yugoslavs famous As among the Best of the world s fighting frown with Success until it has be come a real menace to Hitler s shaky Back door. Coincident with the arrival of yugoslav troops on the italian Frontier we have re ports of a powerful insurrection of patriots in Northern Italy. The rebellious citizens Are said to have captured the great City of Milan rom which the broken and fright ened Mussolini is rumoured to have fled in disgust and disguise to Como near the Swiss Border. Thus we see that the military perhaps the political this whole vast area of the Balkans and Italy arc tend ing to merge. And of course both Hungary and Austria can be included in this Field. Houde co Leader of bloc Populaire Montreal april 28. Camillien Houdy Veteran of que Bec politics last night accepted the co leadership of the bloc populate in the june 11 Federal election Campaign. His acceptance was contained in a joint announcement signed by mayor Houde Maxime Raymond National Leader of the bloc pop Claire and Andre Laurendeau provincial Leader of the bloc pop Claire. The announcement was is sued a few hours after Hon. P. A. A. Cardin in a radio address con firmed the formation of a new party under the name of National front. Or. Laurendeau said in the announcement that mayor Camillien Houde will be fighting on the front line for the Ideal to which he sacrificed four years of free by Ben Malkin free press War correspondent Cologne Germany april 26. Spe Cial by virtue of the fact that they were married to non jewish women some jews Are today left in Germany out of that country s pre nazi Popula Tion of some this was the estimate Given to this correspondent thursday by Karl Winkler a jew and the new president of the Cologne polish Board. Winkler who is a mild mannered White haired Man of 60, was Assis Tant president of the Cologne police Board before 1933, but was ejected from this Post after Hitler s Rise to Power. However his wife and Many of his friends were not jewish and were Able to assist him to evade the dragnet which the nazis Laid for German jews during the War years. During the past eight months he was hidden by friends in the coun try. A Man without bitterness Aga inst the German nation. Winkler said thursday that the current Atti tude among the Western nations of lumping All nazis and germans to Gether did not quite take cognizance of the whole picture. A he said of Ger Man people could under no circus. Stances be classed As nazis. Admittedly a Small percentage per haps no More than one fifth of the whole nation but even s p. This group is entitled to consideration. A More unpleasant Fate people who hid jews or political offenders for example stood to meet an even More unpleasant Fate than that of the people they sheltered if they were caught Winkler is not the Only jew who has been Given an important Post by the Allied government in col Ogne Frederick Jacoby. A former All Northern Italy seethes with revolt by Paul ghal1 Berne april 27. Can All Northern Italy is in a state of insurrection and German occupants Are laying Down their arms with out a struggle. Italy s population is in the throes of casting off the Yoke of nazi fascist oppression. This uprising commanded by Cadorna. Son of the italian general of world War 1 Fame is unique in a few hours radio Sta Telephone exchanges important strategical Points and Public buildings had been occupied by partisans. German and Neo fascist authorities capitulated without re Sist Fence in most cases although Here were some grim encounters. In Milan now in partisan hands there Are still a few groups of fanatical fascists who knowing hat they Are doomed Are fight ing with the courage of despair. _ so carefully planned was this insurrection that most of the works in Lombardy and Piedmont have been saved despite the fact that heir German occupants had mined hem. To. James v. Ransom who was reported missing last december following air operations Over Germany is now a of War according to word received by his parents or. And mrs. Hugh Ranson 14 Winn Toba apartments. His wife the former Connie Washington of Ninga Man., resides in Vancouver. German children have aug of hate in. Arc arts by b. J. M. Mcquaid occupied Germany april 27. To cite an example of the a Nous tasks ahead in intr the germans fit to live in a world society it will be necessary. O replace All school textbooks Down to the simplest spellers and urinated with nazism. Kindergarten children for in stance do not figure their sums in pears and apples but learn to remember such figures As the Dis Tance Between Memel really a German City and Alsace which was stolen from Germany has. Been decided reopening of the adult German measure to War prisoners and news. The military government is do ing All in its Power the publicity and psychological War fare departments in the. Circulation of a weekly German news paper called Mille Lengen which this week in the will run off copies. 12th army group founded the publication and helped the British its distribution until the latter we re Able to take Over independently . G. W. B. Templer chief British official British zone of occupation already has set up information control Jyrich will exercise censorship Over the German press. Preliminary studies by . Authorities. Indicate that the. Gen eral state health is the civilian population there is none of. The Mal nutrition disease and starvation that has swept the huge concentration and prisoner of War Camps. They evaded dragnet of horror German jews survive Rule of nazis journalist who is also one of German jews who survived Hitler s pogroms is now head of the Cologne e civilian police Force now numbers hundreds Omen to handle a population of which is augmented by a daily influx of some 200 civilians. They have Power to make arrests in All cases of looting infractions of curfew regulations disorderly conduct and so Forth. Sons of Scotland Camp. Marks 12th anniversary celebrating the 12th anniversary of organization the Dame Ishbel Aberdeen Camp. Sons of Scotland. Was visited by members of the past chiefs association and of the District committee Friday at the Royal templars Hall. Tribute was paid the former recording Secretary of the Lodge sister Agnes Bertram by the draping of the charter and the Observance of a two minute silence. She had served As recording Secre tary for 12 years. A programme of music and refreshments concluded the evening. Judges Are appointed for poster Competition judges have been appointed the poster Competition in the beautify Winnipeg contest and it is expected that the prize winners will be on display during the week of the Campaign. May 11 to 19" said a. C. Counsell Secretary of the beautify Winnipeg Bureau of the Winnipeg Board of Trade Friday. The judges Are e. V. Caton a. A. Burns a. J. Mus Grove. E. W. Sellers and Gordon american and British authorities i Are reported to be already in Milan. Upper Western Italy is said to have been left to the partisan army for the moment. The War is cry liberated embracing strangers in the streets. Practically All Flom Bardy is in partisan hands. A series of conditions of Ger Man capitulation were Laid Down by the italian patriots 1. Wehrmacht troops must in Tern themselves in a Neutral coun try. 2. They must be interned by partisans 3. They must not let themselves be evacuated in the direction of the German redoubt. 4. They must join up with the partisans to attack the still re sisting fascists. This seems to have been made with Tongue in Cheek the situation remains too Ciao disclose which of these conditions the germans have accepted. In any Case the decisions prob ably varied according to sectors pet. John Kostiw was wounded in action in Ger Many March 31, according to wore received by his parents or. Anc mrs. Fred Kostiw of Mountain Road Man. Born at Mountain Road 23 years ago pet. Kostiw attended school there and later at Montreal. Prior to enlisting with the . In 1942, he Farmed. He trained at Winnipeg and Niagara Falls going overseas in january of this year. He has three Brothers Bill overseas and Mike and Tony of Brazil s election Battle starts by Ernie Hill Rio de Janeiro april 27. Special can Cable Brazil is in for seven bombastic months of political uproar. With the presidential elec Tion Date set officially for dec. 2 mud slinging and. Character assassination has started. President Getulio Vargas again timed his announcement to reap full International benefits. He said in february during the Mexico City conference that the election would be held at an unspecified time. The Dale was set As the United nations representatives met in san fran Cisco. The main question will concern the possibility of Vargas changing his mind and staying on or becom ing a candidate. On the eve of the formal election Date announcement communist Leader Luiz Carlos Prestes fresh out of prison after eight years held his first press conference. He apparently wished to beat the elec Tion announcement with his state ment that the communist party will be reorganized for the Campaign. Until last week communist activities were banned. Fit. It. Gads urges full loan support the necessity of continued full support of Canada s War Effort support which will take the coun try through the last Moths of the european War the War in the Pacific and through the years of policing enemy countries after Vic tory was urged by fit. Lieut. Leonard Gads who was guest speaker thursday at a luncheon meeting of the cosmopolitan club Iii conjunction with the Eighn Vic tory loan Campaign. Prospects of the russians joining i Allied War against Japan were Uncertain at the moment the speaker said. Fit. Lieut. Gads was Dorn in Russia educated in Siberia and Manchuria and spent six years the far East before coming to report slain London. April 28. Up the czechoslovak press Bureau said yesterday the germans exterminated All 4.000 men. Women and children jewish concentration Camp at Petrzala. Trans danubian suburb of Bratislava just before the rus Bias liberated the slovak capital. At the same time More than 400 slovak and czech political prison ers held at Bratislava were declared killed. Chas. A. Dempsey optometrist of Strain s Ltd. 318 Smith St. Pm. 95 947 a us student where a troubles i s w for Ahur published by Manitoba bar association consult your lawyer Liberal nominating convention Federal constituency of Winnipeg North Centre notice is hereby Given that an open conc Nylon of the electors of the above hotel wit dec Dav of april 1945, at the Maryborough Winnipeg Manitoba a Tho hour of 8.30 . For the purpose of selecting the Liberal candidate at the coming Federal elections. All residents of the above named constituency of the age of Twenty one years Are entitled to be present and vote for the selection of the candidate. Dated at Winnipeg the twentieth Day of april 1945. R. 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