ARMY POINT PLAN FOR RELEASES SET
Decorations, dependents to count most
But key men in Jap war will be kept
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ARMY POINT PLAN FOR RELEASES SET
Goering unaware he faces trial
WITH 6TH ARMY GROUP (UP) – Reich Marshal Hermann Goering remained under heavy American guard today, boasting only the unhappy distinction of being No. 1 man on Adolf Hitler’s death list and the war criminal roster of the United Nations.
Goering, the highest-ranking Nazi leader to fall into Allied hands thus far, appeared completely unaware that he faces trial as one of the foremost war criminals of the dead Nazi regime.
The paunchy marshal, who surrendered to the U.S. 36th Infantry Division Tuesday after hiding in the mountains near Salzburg for 15 days, apparently hoped to win amnesty on the basis of his claim to have fallen out with Hitler in the last days of the war.
Goering told his captors he had been condemned to death by Hitler on April 24 for suggesting that he take over the Fuehrer’s job.
He spent his first night in captivity in a castle near the skiing resort of Kitzbuhel, under guard by two platoons of Texas Doughboys and a New York city lieutenant, Jerome Shapiro.
AP ‘profoundly regrets’ surrender news violation
McLean, president of press service, apologizes for Kennedy’s ‘scoop’ on peace signing
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Victory cost U.S. 150,000 killed
Casualties at 972,654 – 70,000 Yanks freed
WASHINGTON (UP) – Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that 70,000 to 80,000 U.S. prisoners of war have been liberated from German prison camps. Of these, 8,000 have been returned to this country, he said.
Mr. Stimson estimated that victory in Europe cost the Army around 800,000 casualties, including 150,000 killed.
He warned next of kin that it may still require several weeks to complete casualty notifications for Germany and Italy. He added that there should be only a limited number of additional casualties.
Casualties up 22,182
Total U.S. combat casualties in all theaters reached 972,634, an increase of 22,182 over a week ago. This total includes 867,709 Army and 104,945 Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard casualties.
In April, the last month of heavy fighting in Germany, the Army suffered 34,598 casualties, not counting Air Force losses. The month’s toll included 5,324 killed, 25,407 wounded and 3,867 missing.
From D-Day last June 6 through April, Mr. Stimson said, the Army in Europe, exclusive of the Air Forces, suffered 512,113 casualties. In this total were 88,225 killed, 365,320 wounded, and 58,568 missing and captured.
536,029 recovered
Of the 536,029 soldiers thus far reported wounded, Mr. Stimson said 283,472 have returned to duty.
The table of officially announced casualties:
| Army | Navy | TOTAL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killed | 175,168 | 41,458 | 216,626 |
| Wounded | 536,029 | 48,858 | 584,887 |
| Missing | 74,304 | 10,382 | 84,686 |
| Prisoners | 82,208 | 4,247 | 86,455 |
| TOTAL | 867,709 | 104,945 | 972,654 |
I DARE SAY —
Botched
By Florence Fisher Parry
NEW YORK – Maybe it was the same other places; all I know is what happened here. You may have seen the pictures, but they don’t tell the story. You’d have had to be here to see.
I tried to write, yesterday, how it was here the first delirious hours on Monday. But I got the column off before the celebration had bogged down – that came later, around three o’clock. And it wasn’t pretty to be in on. No.
To see the picture clear, you must remember that it had been raining here steadily for a solid week – and then on Monday the sun broke wide open, like the brass section of a mighty orchestra, and everybody poured out of doors!
The news came, remember, at about 9:35 in the morning? By 10 o’clock the thing had broken loose. It wasn’t pandemonium. It was different, it was deeper, it was a shining, grand thing to see! The faces of the people, the way the people crowded toward Times Square as though moved by some inner compulsion that hadn’t anything to do with celebrating – just a deep fixed habit of years…
To meet there TOGETHER, to gather in a great out-of-door mass-meeting and move and sway there in the wide oblong rendezvous… the way they’d always done here when a tremendous event struck the bell of history…
Gypped again?
Then, after a few hours, the great uneasiness began to set in… You could see it on the faces, you could hear it in the lessening noise of the crowds. Why wasn’t the word said at Washington? Why didn’t anything happen? Where was the guarantee? Were they being gypped again? Again?
A few went on drinking in a dogged, heavy way. But not many. The slow-coming flush in the faces of the throngs was not from drinking this time. It was the flush of resentment. Of being stood up again. The crowds began to disperse. The little flag-and-horn vendors stood numb and bewildered at their corners. The newshawks stacked their papers beside them and stood stonily by.
Presently the sun shrank behind a heavy gray tent-top. By dusk Broadway was a sullen soggy street with stragglers, looking a little foolish, moving sluggishly.
By the time the theaters emptied at 11, the crowds had swollen a little, moving slowly and dispiritedly along the course of what had been meant to be the greatest Mardi Gras of celebration in human history… Empty taxis picked up stragglers. Few bothered to watch the news coursing around the Times Building. For by this time, they knew it by heart.
Peace, they had been told, had come, but its corroboration was still held back; it had not been authentic; the President would not make the formal announcement until next day.
Now we know what happened. We read today the shameful news that a breach of confidence by one correspondent broke the news prematurely – and, on the word of Gen. Eisenhower, imperiled the surrender negotiations between Germans and Russians.
Pledge
Nothing is more sacred to an experienced and qualified newspaperman than respect for off-the-record information. It is given him with the understanding that he will respect it.
This man’s fellow reporters understood their responsibility and lived up to their off-the-record pledges. Even after he disregarded the rules and told the world that capitulation had occurred – as far as the Western Allies and Germany were concerned – they resisted all the terrific pressure from their own employer-newspapers for confirmation.
Taunted by the claim that this correspondent had scored the greatest “scoop” in history, they still respected the agreement.
And so one man botched the great proclamation. And, outside, it was raining on Tuesday; is still raining. The rain falls tiresomely, coldly, all day long. The streets are sodden. Broadway is dull and empty. The little flag-and-horn vendors stand drenched and forlorn, their wares unnoted.
The heart of New York spent itself too soon. The botch of V-E Day is complete and utter.
‘Hold-the-line’ plan rebuffs labor’s attack on pay stabilization
Government expects program to block inflation, speed civilian goods, provide jobs
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Only one violation –
Eisenhower thanks press men who kept their oath
Supreme Headquarters will continue to rely on integrity of war correspondents
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Army’s report on ‘scoop’ submitted to Eisenhower
AP reporter’s breach of confidence called most serious during war
By Helen Kirkpatrick
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Hitler adored by Kesselring
Marshal still uses old propaganda line
By Jack Fleischer, United Press staff writer
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War prisoners’ mail halted
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