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The Best documents of unconditional targe scale surrender of German forces were for Italy and south
western Austria. Right, Lt. Gen. W. D. Morgan, on behalf of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, signs the
instruments of surrender of the German forces. Left, representative of General von Vietingboff signs sur
render of southwest command, which includes northern Italy and the Austrian provinces of Vorablberg, Tyrol,
Snlaburg and portions of Carinthia and Styria.
Devastation Caused by Ro?ket Bombs on London
This area e( devastation was eaased by a single V-J racket bomb that struck London's Stratford street.
#sa< List, iajared (A3, was the toll reported la England. Allied araiies report that they are equipped
la tarn rocket bombs loose an Takye and other renters el Japanese empire. This phots was Just released,
(Mowing lifliag at cell on the final Grrman desperation campaign. Churchill revealed that l.fiS* of these
missiles had fallen aa England prior to March 27, 1945. |
Krupp Munition Plant Wrecked
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View -showing the rilu of what was the worM'i largest arma
?nt works, the trip) plant in Essen. Germany. It wai nytartt by
American forces. Insert. Alfred Iripy.
Liberated Boy and New Friends
Armless She Drives
Nui Beach. Zl, Baltimore. who
finds the lack of arms no handicap
to normal Iirimf, I* shown as she
operates a motor vehicle by using
her lower Umbs.
Hammering Hammers
Army Medic Is
Made Monarch
King Gives Job to Officer for
His Good Work on Behalf
Of Natives.
GUAM. ? The first American
"kins" this war is Lt. (jg) Mar
shall P. Wees of Saginaw, Mich.
The middle-aged doctor was dele
gated king by the reigning monarch
of the Ulithi atolls after improving
the health and'ecObomic conditions
of the native people. The ceremony
was simple:
"Hill sagala" ? "You understand
everything," said King Ueg, for
mer ruler, in Kanaka, the native lan
guage.
"Nang butch" ? "I don't know,"
he continued.
"Yor Tumul" ? "You are king."
No crown was transferred in the
ritual. The abdicating ruler con
cluded the informal rites by plac
ing his two forefingers in the form
of a 'V," indicating that he was
building a new house and what was
his would be shared with the doctor.
Doctor Gets Busy.
Chief medical officer of a landing
beach unit that made the joint in
vasion of Peleliu and An guar, Lieu
tenant (jg) Wees shared living in
fox holes and dodging sniper's bul
lets with the marine and army
troops. After the islands had been
secured his unit was disbanded. He
then was ordered to his present
post.
Arriving on a small island a mile
long and a stone's throw wide, with
his only companion Chief Pharma
cist's Mate Francis Wilson of San
Francisco, Calif., the doctor found
only the very young and the very
old. The Japs had carried off all
serviceable men and women.
The remaining natives, living in
filth, were suffering from an epi
demic of yaws which covered their
bodies with painful sores. Many
were mat-ridden in their huts be
neath the palms and the papayas,
unable to move their arms and legs.
The doctor explained to the king
the immediate necessity of taking
sanitary measures. With the ruler's
cooperation, working parties col
lected and buried palm fronds and
coconuts. Rain barrels, the only na
tive source of drinking water, were
covered. Every possible breeding
place of flies, spreaders of the dis
ease, was sprayed. The infected
were segregated.
Better Living Conditions.
Successful in checking the epi
demic. the naval officer took steps
to establish a native economy that
would utilize the basket weaving
abilities of the Kanakas, and the
sailor market on the neighboring
atolls. Production was instituted and
a native instructed in the rudiments
of arithmetic and bookkeeping.
With his "crowning," the Michi
gan physician took further steps to
restore health. New brooms were
made of coconut fibers and the
areas and paths about the huts were
swept daily. New sleeping mats
were woven. Screened boxes were
constructed to store the food supply.
The navy man even gave laundry
lessons to the native women. They
used to wash their clothes by dip
ping them in the sea. He taught
scrubbing and the use of salt water
soap donated by the navy supply
department. Nor did he forget the
former king. For the use of Ueg,
an infantile cripple, a Japanese am
munition truck was outfitted as a
carrier.
From $7,200 a Year to
$45 Weekly; Reconversion
ATLANTA.?Area Director S. G.
Springfield of the War Manpower
commission cited this example of
what he said commissioned officers
returning to civilian life may face:
Just out of school, a young man
got $35 a week on the staff of a
newspaper. As an air force lieu
tenant colonel he made, with vari
ous allowances, about $7,200 a year.
Now he's back on his old job?at $45
a week.
The problem of readjustment to
civilian incomes is going to be tough,
he said, adding:
"It's apparent the 'take-home' of
the average civilian is nothing com
pared to that of a commissioned of
ficer."
U. S. Prisoner of Nazis
Repays the Red Cross
FRANKFORT, IND.?Apparently
"sold" on the service the American
Red Cross is rendering to American
war prisoner*. Lt. Robert L. Sulli
van wrote this letter from a Ger
man prison camp to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Heal Sullivan, here:
"I'm well, unwounded, well-treat
ed and receiving my Red Cross
boxes regularly. I want dad to write
a check out of my savings for $100
and give it to the Red Cross in ap
preciation of what they are doing for
me and the rest of the boys."
Tavern Checks Hats
For Owners at War
CHICAGO. ? In a north side
tavern 31$ hats are waiting for
their owners to come home from
war.
The far-the-duration hat check
ing began early in 10C when Sgt.
Reid RatcUffe. now in France,
left his three brothers to manage
the Ranger Inn. He hm? op Ids
hat and nut ea Ida OX headgear.
Dirty Okinawa Is
Key to Many Isles
Various Diseases Take Heavy
Toll of Death.
GUAM. ? When American forces
charged ashore on dirty, snake-in
fested Okinawa they set good old
U. S. shoes on the most important
island in the Nansei Shoto chain,
more commonly known as the Ryu
kus.
Nansei means southwestern and
Shoto means island in Japanese.
The chain runs from the northern
tip of Formosa to the southern end
of the Japanese homeland in a
curving 700-mile arc.
The arc encompasses snakes,
malaria, typhus, heavy rainfall,
typhoons, polluted water, palm
trees, underbrush, cane fields, rice
paddies and sweet potato patches.
Okinawa is the key point of the
700 islands in the chain, none of
which is very large in an area of
936 square miles. There are 840,000
people jammed into the chain, at the
ratio of 900 people per square
mile, and living standards are bad.
Okinawa means "land of extended
rope," and that's what it looks like
on the map. It can be roughly
divided into three parts:
Northern?Lies north of Isthmus
Ishikawa, with 1,000 foothills extend
ing the entire length, dropping into
deep wooded ravines.
Middle southern sections ? Con
sists of two consecutive bulges, ex
tended southward, giving an hour
glass shape, with both sections low
and consisting of rolling hills and
I plateaus.
Southern ? Roughly hall of the
population of 200,000 live at a
density of 25,000 inhabitants per
square mile, or four times the den
sity of Rhode Island, the most
densely populated state in the union.
On these islands diphtheria and
influenza take a heavy toll. Hook
worm, tapeworm, liver ailments are
common. Beri beri, typhus and skin
diseases are very common.
Underwater Exercise Is
Aid to Injured Soldiers
JOHANNESBURG, S. A. - Under
water bicycles, wall bars and tra
pezes are being used in a sub
merged gymnasium for paralysis pa
tients at the Cottesloe military
hospital.
One patient who suffered a back
injury at El Alamein and others suf
fering from poliomyelitis have been
treated with the underwater exer
cise devices with good results, ac
cording to the superintendent.
An underwater boat allows for
observation of the patients without
distortion.
The patient injured at El Alamein,
the bath superintendent said, is
now able to walk some 80 yards.
When he arrived at the hospital for
treatment in the baths last October
he was unable to walk at all. He can
walk along the path, dive into the
pool and swim about 100 yards. Cith
er patients show similar improve
ment.
After some mild exercises with the
aid of floats, patients are often able
to exercise on the bicycle or the
trapeze suspended from the diving
board.
World's Largest Plane,
The B-19, Will Haul Cargo
DAYTON, OHIO. ? The fabulous
B-19, described by the air technical
service command As the world's
largest airplane, is about to retire
from one career and begin another.
Renamed the XB-194, the huge fl^
ing laboratory is quitting its role as
an experimental ship and will haul
cargo. Payloads of possibly 25 tons
can be hauled in the ship, directly
to combat fields, if necessary.
Bum iour years ago by Douglas
Aircraft corporation, the plane has
been used by the ATSC in testing
virtually every type of military air
craft equipment. -
The plane has a wingspread of 212
feet and a fuselage 132 feet long. Its
wheels are eight feet in diameter.
Power comes from four Allison V
3420 in-line engines.
Fire-Year Battle Over
$478,000 Estate Is Ended
ATLANTIC CITY. - After five
years of litigation, the $478,000 es
tate of Joseph Greenstone, Philadel
phia textile manufacturer, reached
final distribution before Judge Rob
ert L. Warke of the Atlantic County
Orphans' court sitting in his cham
bers here.
Mrs. Anna E. Greenstone, who was
left an income from a $100,000 trust
fund, agreed to a financial settle
ment of undetermined amount with
four Philadelphia lodges and chari
ties named in the will.
Mrs. Greenstone, now living at 521
Pacific avenue, contested the will
an the grounds that it was the prod
uct of undue influence and mental
incapacity. Mr. Greenstone died on
April 3, 1940.
Rocky Trail in Burma
Puts Shoes on the Dogs
MY 1 i K YIN A. BURMA.?A num
ber of jungle-trained dogs of the K-9
corps with the United States Mars
Task force are re evacuated by air
because the rocky mountain trails
on the force's long 200-mile march
into northern Burma cut their feet.
Sgt Clifton Holland of Ross, Tex
as, fitted the remaining dogi with
ssft leather shoes which the K-N in
tra wear dutifully hut unrnHairi
asticalty.
Kathleen Norris Says:
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A Felon Father, or No Father?
BeO Syndicate.?WNU Features.
"He ought to get a reprimand, m parole and a jab; she ought to get a gold ring, and
they both ought to get a small apartment
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
THIS is the case of an un
born baby in New York,
whose father is about to
begin a ten-year sentence at
Sing Sing. The baby's mother
and father are not married. The
young mother wants to be mar
ried before her man goes to
prison, because she believes that
a baby has a better chance in
life when born in wedlock, even
under these circumstances.
Teddy, the father, is anxious to
marry, too. But the judge said
"no," and the matter is still in
doubt; the girl has engaged a
lawyer who thinks he can win
his case for her.
My verdict would be with the par
ents, in this case. According to the
newspaper story I saw, the man is
being punished for "snatching a
handbag;" he would hardly be given
a 10-year sentence just for that in
any American court, so there
must be something more to it. If he
only snatched a handbag, reprehen
sible as that is, and if she only
was too generous in love, as so many
girls are in these turbulent times,
then it seems to me he ought to get
a reprimand, a parole, and a job;
she ought to get a gold ring, and
they both ought to get a small apart
ment, and eventually a baby, and
settle down to sensible, self-con
trolled living like grown-up human
beines.
The Lesser Handicap.
To have a felon for a father is
indeed a handicap, but it is not in
any way as serious a handicap as
is illegitimacy. This shouldn't be so,
but it is, unchangeably and ineradi
cably. Part of the reason is given
by the prospective mother herself,
who tells the court she wants her
baby to have a name?yes, even
though it's the name of a convict
father. The very fact that she feels
so, and all her woman friends
feel so, means that while they may
pity her, and deplore the circum
stances of having a husband in Sing
Sing, none of that pity will extend
itself to the baby, or stretch on into
the baby's life. His father will pres
ently be free, and he and the mother
will either get a divorce, or will
go away and begin a new life to
gether. Whichever they do, the baby
doesn't suffer. Neighbors shift and
change, newcomers don't know the
story, nobody is too keenly inter
ested. Nobody is ever going to look
up the City Hall records and as
certain that this baby came a few
months too soon. Even his father's
sin can be l%ed down.
So much for the felon's baby. With
the illegitimate baby it is all differ
ent. Firstly and lastly, and always
his mother feels the blight upon
him, and he feels a reflection of it.
She may marry again, and have
other children, for whom she will
always entertain quite a different
feeling; she will feel respect for
their socially secure status, none
for that of the first child. In many
legal connections the illegitimate son
wiD suffer injustices ? yes, they
are injustices of course, but you
can't change settled laws because
they shame and hurt and cripple
your child.
For example; a baby was born
out of wedlock in my native city
about 30 years ago. The mother was
a girl of a good family, who refused
to marry the father, who was pretty
worthless. She faced the music, had
her child, married again; her hus
band adopted the baby girl and
gave him his name. Three other
?sat
girls were born of this marriage,
the little adopted one sharing their
lives and believing herself one of
them. Presently the man's stern old
father died, leaving a handsome for
tune to each of "my three grand
daughters." Winifred, the adopted
child, was then 18, a joyous, clev
er, popular girl whose life was
stricken down as if by death when
she realized who and what she was.
In that moment of revelation she
seemed to lose not only father, but
mother, and to lose herself, too, her
identity, her place in the sun.
Safer With A Name.
The change in her was so pitiful
that something had to be done about
it, and applications were made to
three fashionable eastern schools
No one of them would accept an il
legitimate person as a student. Wini
fred had to learn this, too. Even
tually she did go to college, then to
ArEona for a year, and then toiler
grave. Old friends said sorrowfully
then that she always had been deli
cate; always had had those heavy
chest colds. But a few of us knew
why she died; it was of shame
and despair.
Any baby is safer with a name,
especially if his mother is desper
ately determined to give him that
name. She feels it will be a real
misfortune to him not to have K,
and if she feels that way it will
be. Her whole attitude toward him
will be saner and more secure when
she is married. '
/uiu wno Knows wnax will happen
then? The man may be paroled.
The anchor that a wife and child
represent may be the thing, he
needs to help him into an honorable
career. In all prisons there are men
? hundreds of them, who have
yielded ? like all the rest of us!
?to a moment of weakness, and,
unlike all the rest of us, have had
to pay a cruel price for it. The
lawyer in this case says in a
memorable phrase that his client is
neither the man nor the woman;
his client is the unborn baby. That
baby already has rights; his moth
er is wise to plead for them.
Cheerful Kitchens
Color can make your kitchen a
bright and cheerful place to work.
Before yon select a color scheme,
remember that light-colored, smooth
surfaces reflect light.
If the kitchen is sunny, use cool
colors such as blue, blue-green,
green, or blue violet If it is dark
and gloomy it needs the warmth of
yellow, yellow-green, orange, yel
low-peach, tan at cream. Limit
brilliant colors to small areas. Use
Ifctm in window curtains, dishes,
kitchen utensils, tobies and chairs.
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LET THEM BE MARRIED
A rare Out extremely poignant
problem is discussed in this is
sue. A man has been sentenced
to a long prison term, and a young
woman is soon to become the
mother of his child. He is will
ing, even anxious to marry her
? before he goes to the peniten
tiary. She, too, wants the social
status that marriage gives, even
at worst. This unhappy mother
to-be is thinking rather of the
child's welfare than her own. She
wants it to "have a name."
The trial judge who has the
convicted father under his con
trol does not approve of a mar
riage, however. He believes that
both the mother and baby would
be more stigmatized by this con
nection with a felon ian they
would be by openly admitting il
legitimacy.
Miss Xorris thinks that the
judge is wrong. Both for the
baby's and the mother's sake,
even perhaps for the father's,
these unfortunate people should
be married, she believes. People
will forget about the father's
penal servitude faster than they
trill about a birth out of wed
lock, says MTss Norris.