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• VOLUME XXXV—No: 109. FINAL EDITION” ELIZABETH "CITY; H^C.? MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1945. \32 PAGES—4 SECTIONS
WAR IN EUROPE ENDED
Allies Received Unconditional Surrender at Reims Sunday
Sizable Forces Be Brought
To Bear Upon Japanese Now
Army Headquarters, Pacific
Ocean Areas, May 7 CT) The
United States will have' “a size-
able force" of Army troops in the
Pacific
months
within three
to four
after V-E day to speed
realization of V-J day,
Gen. Robert G. Richardson,
says
commanding Army forces in
Pacific Ocean areas.
Tu an interview the General
Lt.
Jr.,
the
Allies Plan V-E Day Pr^’amation
Schools, Courts and Stores
Close As European War Ends
! Surrender Story j
clined to sr
many troops
the . Pacific 1
de-
how
SCame Direct To AP
All the schools in Elizabeth Ci
ty observed a period of prayer and
thanksgiving as ,soon as the sig-
i will be shifted into
by next fall for use
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, .chief
of the Army's “on to Tokyo” for-
E,dward Kennedy,
Press correspondent
Press
Associated
who sent
However
mittee rm
have disc
plans are t
troops aga
the tremei
lions to cc
Military Com-
in Washington
that tentative
send 6,000,000 picked
4 Nippon, -indicating
lus scope of opera-
1 War Against Japan Speeded
“It is
the policy of the War
Department," said the General,
“to prosecute the war
Japan with utmost' celerity,
against
im-
ing
be no letdown
, h'-h"?/ver in the Pacific as a con-
sequ^nep of yletpry over Germany.
‘With -flic ond or the war in”
Europe we hope to have enough
shipping, although we will never
have sufficient," the General add
ed. “Our power is growing all the
time while .theirs (Japan) is
weakening. . '
“Japan must see the inevitabil
ity of defeat."
Not So Many Needed
The Allies in the Pacific prob
ably will hot need as many troops
as were thrown against Germany,
Richardson said, and those com
ing over from Europe won’t re
quire any special indoctrination
for fighting the Japanese.
“Japan is like Europe,” Gener-
al Richardson observed, “in
it is civilized and not full of
gles. It has roads, telephones
cities just as Europe has."
that
jun-
and
Hertford Lions
Plan Ladies Night
Hertford, May 7
Lions Club put the
The Hertford
from Reims, France, first word of
Germany’s unconditional surrend
er, has been chief of AP war cov
erage in Europe virtually since the
beginning of American Army en
gagements against the Germans.
A reporter for 20 years, Ken
nedy now is chief of the AP staff
on the Western Front. After two
years with the British in Africa
and Greece, he became head of
the AP North African staff at Al
giers in the spring of 1943 and
directed the coverage of the Si-
cilian
h&s
and Italian invasions. He
nal announcing the surrender of
I Germany was given. Superinten
dent of Cit^ Schools J. G. Mc
Cracken and the principals deci
ded to hold one session and let
students go home with the provis
ion that they go home and attend
church services if their church is
holding one and remain off the
streets in riotious celebration.
Tomorrow also, the schools will
run on one session since teach
ers are helping with hegistration
of canning sugar which will be
held at the S. L. Sheep School for
white residents from 2:30 to 5:30
o’clock and at the same hour in
Negro schools.
Postoffice Closes at Noon
The postoffice closed at 12 noon
PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN
Statement By Nazi Officer
Says Reich Now in Hands of Allies
followed
fortuivs sincethe
NOTth Afftea/
Kennedy, 39, and
Eisenhower's
landings in
a native of
Brooklyn, joined the Associated
press in 1932, and went abroad
after three years on the Washing
ton staff. He reported the Spanish
Civil War, later worked in Rome,
and covered Hitler’s entry into Su-
detenland.
'The Associated Press’ detailed
account of the formal signing of
Germany's unconditional surrend
er to the Allies came directly
from Edward Kennedy, chief of
the AP staff on the western front.
Kennedy’s dispatch was transmit
ted via Paris from Reims, Gen. 1
Eisenhower’s advance headquar
ters, to the London office of the
AP, and relayed from there to
New York via AP’s leased
facilities.
cable
Body of Von Bock
Found Near Roadside
With the British Second Army,
May 7—(TP)—The
body of German.
Fedor Von Bock
by British troops
a roadside north
bullet riddled
Field Marshal
was discovered
yesterday near
of Hamburg,
finishing tou-[ where he apparently was slain in
ches on the program for the sev-; an allied strafing raid,
enth anniversary ladies night at' ; _. _
their meeting Friday night held at|
the Colonial Tourist Home. j
The seventh annual banquet in'
honor of ladies night and night
for the Lion:' to Howl, will be held
Friday evening, May 18 at 7:45. (
Some prominent snealwu • have
been asked to speak At the ban-1
quel. j
The Rev. J. D.Cranford, made
a highly interesting talk on the
Dumbarton Oaks and the San
Francisco Conference at Friday j
nights meet.
Chairman Charlie Skinner and
Charles Williford reported to the
club on the old clothes drive be
ing conducted jointly jvith the
Hertford Rotarians and in connec
tion with the national drive for
old clothing. ,
The Lions soft ball team has
entered the soft bail league with
the Hervey Point Naval Air Sta
tion and the Edenton Naval Air
Station.
A new member was inducted in
ducted into the club, Mr. Ingram.
Guests of the club were the
Rev. Albert Simms of Littleton
who is- holding revival services at
the Hertford Baptist Church and
Dr. J. J. Skinner.
Dare Leads Nation
In Variety of Fish
Manteo, May 7 Darc County
has more kind of fish than any
other of the 3,083 counties in the
United States, according to the I
information released by the U. 1
S. Bureau of Fisheries.
This phenomon is, caused by the I
fact that there are salt, brackish;
and fresh waters in the sounds'
and the ocean that touch this
famous little county in the Al
bemarle section of North Caro
lina.
•Fishing is an important part
of t.he trade in this area. There;
croakers, shad, herring, rock and
all other kinds of fish known are
taken from the deep but pene
trable water that surround Roa
noke Island.
but
ced
the
ing
ed
mail will be worked and pla
in locker boxes arid sent to
military bases. All mail com-
in the office will be dispatch-
as usual. City carriers made
one delivery before the news of
victory was received.
City and county offices were
closed with the exception of the
Rationing Board office where, ac
cording to workers, it looked as
though everyone who had stopped
to observe surrender had come to
get rationing
out.
Shortly after
the long blasts
problems ironed
the sounding of
on the siren, the
stores were emptied and clerks
filed down the street on the way
home.
Court Adjourns
In the courthouse, where Super
ior Court has just convened Judge
Richard Dixon, lawyers and au
dience waited for official confir
mation other than the sirens be
fore adjourning court. Confirma
tion brought the announcement,
from Judge Dixon that “since this
day is bigger than anything we
comprehend and calls for expres
sions of great gratitude and hu
mility in thanks to God” court
would adjourn until 9:30 Tues
day morning. In the courthouse
(See SCHOOLS page 2)
Accents Surrender of Germans
It was General Ike Eisenhower, above, who asked German Gen
eral Jodi, surrendering the armies of «he "letch, if !w.under- toed the
terms of the surrendei and accepted lb. aui icuum when General
Jodi answered "Yes.”
PREMIER STATIN’ PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL
Proclamations from the heads of the Big-Tbree nations were to
formally proclaim the coming of V-E Day. Above President Harry
S. Truman appears in a characteristic broadcast pose. Prime Min
ister Churchill and Premier' Stalin will broadcast to their people and
the world at approximately the same hour.
Jodi Who Surrendered
Germany Was Wounded
In Plot Against Hitler
, By The Associated Press
Col. Gen. Gustav Jodi who
signed the unconditional sur
render for Germany appar
ently is the same as Gen. Al
fred Jodi who was wounded
last July 20 in the attempted
assassination of Adolf Hitler.
The surrender dispatch said
Jodi was the new German
Army Chief of Staff.
Precisely when he became
Chief of Staff was not clear.
Col, Gen. Heinz Guderian had
occupied that position until
the closing days of the siege
of Berlin. llis fate and where
abouts has not been reported
since Berlin fell.
On March 17, Jodi inspected
the Bavarian redoubt where
the Nazis had hoped to make
their last stand. Back in 1942,
Jodi was reported to have
been Hitler’s personal aide.
He attended many of the
Hitler-Mussolini war confer
ences early in the conflict and
was mentioned late in 1942 as
a possible successor to Mar
shal Von Brauchitsch, com
mander of the German arm
ies. He was chief of the Ger
man armed services guid
ance staff early in 1943 and
the following year assigned a
command on the Russian
front.
Commissioners Halt
Session When War
In Europe Ended
V-E Day erupted the ses
sion of the county commis
sioners’ meeting just as the
seven men had congregated
for their deliberative session.
The board immediately ad
journed and deferred action
upon their business until
Tuesday.
Hour of Truman
Announcement V-E
Day Not Decided
By EDWARD KENNEDY
Reims, France, May 7—-(AP)—Germany sin-
rendered unconditionally to the Western Allies
and Russia at 8:41 p.m., Eastern War lime Sun
day.
The surrender took place at alitilc red school
house which is the headquarters of Gen. Eisen
hower.
I he surrender which brought the war in Eu
rope to a formal end after five years, eight months
and six days of bloodshed and destruction was
signed for Germany by Col. Gen. Custav-Jodl.
It was signed for the Supreme Allied Com
mand by Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith,
chief of staff for General Eisenhower.
RUSSIANS AND FRENCH SIGN
It was also signed by General Ivan Suslopa-
roff for Russia and by General Franccois Sei ^
Band Draws 4,000
At Norfolk Park
Norfolk, May 7 -Close to 4,000
p'ersons turned out Sunday at City
Park for the first of the summer
series of Sunday ■ band concerts
begun by the 85-piece Elizabeth
City High School Band, Waldo
R. Hainsworth, director of recre
ation, estimated today.
Band members, resplendent in,
their black and gold uniforms-
paraded in the field bordering
Granby street preceding the con
cert. Program selections included
solos by Miss Jennie Lou New
bold, vocalist. The majorettes,
forming a triangle before the
bandstand, exhibited their skill in
baton twirling while marches were
played.
Following the concert band
members were taken to Ocean
View Park for a treat.
This is the second appearance
of the band at the City Park con
certs.
Revival at Hertford
To Close Wednesday
Hertford. May 7—The series of
revival services being conducted I
st the Hertford 6antist Church
by the Rev. Albert Simms of Lit
tleton. whic hhegan April 29. will
last through Wednesday May 9.
The services are being held
twice daily, the morning service
beginning at eight o’clock, and
the evening worship service at
the same hour.
Two Former French
Premiers Among
Notables Released
Paris, May 7—VP/—Two 1 former
French premiers, Edouard Dala
dier and Paul Reynaud, were en
route back to Paris today with r
group of other notables after lib
eration from a Nazi prison by U
S. Seventh Army forces sweeping
through Austria.
Reynaud was quoted in a dis
patch from Itter as saying he in
tended to write a book to provr
more could have been done tr
stave off the fall of France.
. Among other, prominent figure
freed were Lt. Gen. Tadeusz Ko
I morowski, the famed “Generr
Bor" who led the bloody Polis’
underground uprising in Warsaw
Gen. Maurice G. Gamelin and Ger
Maxime Weygand and Lt. John'C
Winant Jr., son of the U. S. am
bassador to Britain.
Schuschnigg Found
Advices from Rome said Kur'
Schuschnigg, former ' Austria;
j chancellor; former French Pre
mier Leon Blum and German pas
tor Martin Niemoeller had been ir
Allied hands for at least two days
Dispatches from Rome also said
that American poet Ezra Pound
under indictment for treason, had
been captured.
Members of the French group
returning to Faris included I con
Jouhaux. head of French Trade
(See TWO page 2)
London, May 7—zp;—The
British Ministry of Informa
tion announced that tomor
row will be treated as V-E
Day,
Washington, May 7 (AT 1 7-121.1
dent Truman said today he
agreed with the London and DH^.
cow governments that he wolIM
make no announcement on tn^j
surrender of enemy forces “until
a simultaneous announcement can
be made by the three govern
ments.”
Washington, May 7—(TP)—Presi
dent Truman was conferring with
aides in the executive offices to
day as news was flashed to the
world from Reims of the uncon
ditional surrender of German
arms.
Newsmens surged .into the
White House in anticipation of an
expected V-E announcement.
OWI Director Elmer Davis was
among those at the White House.
He told reporters:
“When there is any official an
nouncement it will come from in
there." (Indicating the President’s
office.)
Mr. Truman arrived at his of
fice at 8:27 a.m. EWT, accompan
ied by his military and naval aides,
and went directly to his office.
Newsmen who have been staff
ing the White House around the
clock for a week, jammed the big
oval reception room.
Nothing Official
White House aides said they
had nothing official to announce
at once on a cessation of hostili
ties in Europe.
Press Secretary Jonathan Dan
iels told a news conference dur
ing the morning he had “nothing
to say” on a V-E day proclama
tion.
“The White House has nothing
official to announce here now,” he
stated in response to questions.
“We don’t know when there will
be an announcemet.”
At that time President Truman
was in his private office swapping
talk with Sgt. James P. Connor,
(See V-E DAY page (
for France.
General Eisenhower was not present at, the
signing, but immodiately afterward Jodi and :
fellow delegate, General Admiral Ilans Cr: ’
Friedeburg, were received by the Supreme Cs . - ... buy
of those c. , )
planation of tl. , .,
Vice Prie asked sternly it they maiersL-. 3
, 111 T ;°o d °" j a i’ terms imposed upon Ues many . 1
1.1 exile-vonhl tie carried out by Cermaiiy.
They answered yes.
Germany, which began the war with a ruth
less attack upon Poland followed by successive ag
gressions and brutality in internment camps, sur
rendered with an appeal to the victors for mercy
toward the German people and armed forces.
“In this war which has lasted more than five
years both have achieved and suffered more than
perhaps any other people in the world,”
After signing the full surrender, Jodi said he
wanted to speak and was given leave io do so.
“With this signature,” lie said in soft-spoken
German, “The German people and armed forces
are for better or worse, delivered into the victors’
hands.”
Portal-Jo-Portal Pay
Upheld by High Court
Washington, May 7 ~(7P)—The
Supreme Court ruled today that
bituminous coal miners are entit
led to portal-to-portal under
ground wages.
Justice Murphy delivered the
court’s 5-4 decision. Justice Jack-
son wrote a dissent in which Chief
Justice Stone and Justices Rob
erts and Frankfurter concurred.
The court on March 27, 1944
ruled that iron ore miners must
be paid portal-to-portol wages—
that is pay for the time spent
traveling from the mine opening
to the actual working place and
back again.
HOG MARKETS
Raleigh, May 7 (TP)—(NCDA)
—Hog markets steady with tops
of 14.55 at Clinton and Rocky
Mount and 14.85 at Richmond.
Russian Flyer Salutes Flag
As Siren Sounds Nazi Surrender
While he waited on foot for the
light on Poindexter and Main to
turn from green to red a father
whose -only son is somewhere in
Germany fell, somewhat idly into
conversation with an acquaintance,
"he talk was. of the war and of
he hour when peace would come—
>eace to half the warring world;
nd to the father’s troubled heart,
"he sirens wailed and the father
zas silent. His eyes filled and he
urned and went, without any
zord, away by himself.
A little way down the street
'our young Russian aviators, their
iniforms still a little strange for
ill they or their uniforms have
become a not unusual sight, stop
ped still where they were when
he siren’s blast cut across the
May morning. From a-doorway a
merchant, many merchants,
emerged with flags to be set into
the pavement along the street. Im
pulse blossomed on the somehow
stolid face of a very young Rus
sian flyer. He smiled uncertainly
at the merchant and his hands
moved toward the flag’staff. He
helped to set the flag in its place
and stood back to salute it.,
While the sirens wailed across
the morning people stood still
where the sound of it found them
and their faces were grave. Some
where a church bell pealed and
people turned their faces instinc
tively toward the sound of it, for
getting the screaming of a siren
that was once a warning. From
the City Hall Mayor Jerome B.
Flora emerged and the flags were
set up. The warm breeze shook
the wrinkles out of them and the
Mayor turned back to his desk.
Newspaper in Window
Presently there was flattened
against the window above it a
yellowed newspaper, with its large-
lettered headlines dimmed by the
years—a copy of the Paris edition
of the New York Herald that an
nounced the ending’ of the First
World War, brought home with
him from long months overseas
and preserved through the years.
There was no merriment. People
j walked slowly. And there came an
incongruous sound. Some not id-
I (See RUSSIANS page 2)
“In this gravest hour of the
German nation and its Reich we
bow in deep reverence before the
dead of this war,” Jodi added.
“Their sacrifices place the high
est obligations on us. Our sympa
thy goes first to our soldiers. It
goes, out above all to the wound
ed, tiie bereaved and to all on
whom this struggle has inflicted
blows.
No Illusions About Terms
“No one must be under any illu
sions about the severity of the
terms to be imposed on the Ger
man people by our enemies We
must now face our fate squarely
ahd unquestionably.
“Nobody can be in any doubt
that the future will be difficult
for each one of us and will exact
sacrifices from us in every sphere.
“We must accept this burden
and stand loyally by the obliga
tions vze have 'undertaken. But
we must not despair and fall into
mute resignation. Once again vze
must set ourselves to stride along
the path through, the dark future.
These are the factors guarantee
ing the best state: unity, justice
and .liberty.
Help One Another
“From the collapse of the past,
let us preserve and save one thing
—unity, the ideas of the national
community, which in the years of
war have found their highest ex
pression in the spirit of-comrade
ship at. the front and readiness to
.help one apoUw in all the dis
tress V/hich has inflicted the
homeland.
“Shall vze retain this unity and
not again split up under the
stress? 'C*nr> ^o ow over the fu-
(See SURRENDER page 2)
Laval Says France
Will Thank Him
Barcelona, May 7—(2P)—Pierre
Laval has told his guards at Mon-
tjuich fortress that he is “com
pletely confident’, that he will be
acquitted if tried as a war crim
inal and that. France will give
him “a vote of thanks.”
The former Vichy chief of gov
ernment, chain-smoking cigarets,
worked all yesterday making notes
‘ for his defense if he is tried by
an Allied commission cr the
(French Senate,