THE DAILY ADVANCE, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7. 1945.
PAGE THREE
German Subs Ordered
To Cease Hostilities
By Admiral Doenitz
London, May 7—(AP)-—A broadcast on the Flens- .
burg wavelength today said Germany had capitulated
unconditionally.
Admiral Karl Doenitz has “ordered the uncondition
al surrender of all fighting German troops,” the broad
cast said.
This statement attributed to German Foreign Min ¬
ister Ludwig Schwerin
the German people:
“Our sympathy firstly goes
to our soldiers. Nobody must
Von Krosigk was broadcast to
out
de-
SURRENDER
(Continued From Page I)
ture hard times? We must make
right the basis of our nation. In
our nation justice shall be the su
preme law and the guiding prin
ciple.
“We must also recognize law as
the basis of all relations between
the nations: We must recognize it
and respect it from inner convic
tion.
“Respect for concluded treaties
will be as sacred as the aim of our
nation to belong to the European
family of nations as a member
of which we want to mobilize all
human moral and material forces
in order to heal the dreadful
wounds which the war has caused.
“Then we. may hope that the at
mosphere of hatred which today
surrounds Germany all over the
world will give place to spirit of
reconcilation among the nations,
without which the world cannot
recover.”
Bonner and Barden
Fail Support Veto
All the members of the North
Carolina delegation except Gra-
hant A. Barden .and Herbert C.
Bonner voted to sustain President
Truman’s veto of the amendment
to the Selective Service Act which
reaffirms the original Tydings
amendment classifying agriculture
as an essential industry. The
President’s veto was sustained.
Representative Harold Cooley
caused a spontaneous outburst in
the House when he called on
members to support the President
in this first “test of Congression
al cooperation.” Republicans jeer
ed while Democrats cheered as
Cooley brought out this point.
Cooley also said that agricul
ture had been fully protected by
the Tyding's amendment, which es-
VE-DAY
(Continued From Page 1)
of Wilmington, Del., who won the
Congressional Medal of Honor on
D-Day last June.
Generally, Washington took
the dramatic news from Reims in
stride, indicating that it was pre
pared to heed for the most part
President Truman's recommenda
tion that the end of the long
struggle in Europe be made the
Faculty Personnel
For Next School
Year Announced
United States And
Britain Ask Reason
For Holding Poles
Seventh War Loan
Drive Launched
In Perquimans
The faculty personnel for
occasion for
still difficult
of Japan.
Throughout
dedication to the
task of disposing
the maze of gov-
ernment buildings, there , were
brief time-outs for subdued ex-
changes of gratification, but
the main there was a “business
usual” atmosphere.
A few spectators gathered
in
as
to
press against the White House
iron tense but on adjacent Penn
sylvania Avenue, traffic moved at
normal pace.
Elizabeth
ted at a
Elizabeth
Trustees,
City (Schools
special meeting
City Board of
■ the
elec-
of the
School
was announced today by
ceive himself on the harshness of
the terms which our enemies have
imposed on the German people.
“Nobody must have any doubt
that heavy sacrifices will be de
manded from us in all spheres of
life.
Must Meet Obligations
“We must take them upon us
and stand loyally to our obliga
tions.”
“On the other hand,” the broad-
cast continued, “we must not
spair. From the collapse in
past we must keep in mind
de-
the
one
thing: the idea of our unity, the
idea of front comradship, the idea
of assistance to each other. ■
The Von Krosigk broadcast said
that “leading minister of the
Reich government,” Doenitz had
appoint him for the purpose of
“winding up all military tasks.”
Issues Communiques
The “Flensburg radio” has been
used for several days for the is
suance of German communiques
and official German orders. Flens
burg is just below the German-
Danish border in an area sur
rendered last week to Field Mar
shal Montgomery. London author
ities said it seemed unlikely that
Montgomery had permitted the
Germans to continue broadcasting
from there, but there was no of
ficial explanation. Radio monitors
here said the station, if not act
ually located at Flensburg, was
certainly in that area.
Following is the text of the Von
Krosigk’s broadcast as recorded
by the British Ministry of Infor
mation:
“German men and women. The
high command of the armed for
ced has today at the order of
Grand Admiral Doenitz declared
the unconditional surrender of all
fighting German troops
Winding Up Tasks
minister of the
"As the leading
Reich government
miral of the fleet
appointed for the
all military tasks
which the ad-
(Doenitz) has
winding up of
I turn at this
our history to
tragic moment of
the German nation.
“After a heroic fight of almost
six years of incomparable hard
ness Germany has succumbed to
the overwhelming power ot her
enemies. To continue the war
would onlv mean senseless blood
shed and a futile disintegration.
“A government which has a
feeling of responsibility for the
future of its nation was comuell-
ed to act on the collapse of all
physical and material forces and
to demand of the enemy the ces-
sation of hostilities.
Sober Rejoicing
Requested by War
Mobilizer Vinson
Washington, May, 7—(TP)—Sob
er rejoicing is the government’s
official prescription for V-E Day.
War Mobilizer Fred M. Vin
son wrote it in these words:
“The Federal authorities will
not attempt to prescribe a rigid
rule of conduct, but rather incline
Mrs. Lenora C. Winslow
Dies at Home Here
Mrs. Lenora Carter Winslow, 67,
died Saturday morning at the fam
ily residence, 110 West Burgess
street, after a long illness.
She was a lifelong resident of
Pasquotank County and widow of
F. T. Winslow. She was a mem
ber of the Pocahontas Lodge and
the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include one son, Wil-
to entrust the matter to the
mon sense of the citizenry
their local officials.
“The Federal Government
com-
and
does,
liam,
S. G.;
F. A.
RFD;
B. Winslow, Folly Beach,
three brothers, S. B. and
Carter of Elizabeth City,
W. T. Carter of Norfolk;
tablished its
tial industry
firmation of
unnecessary.
status as an essen-
and that further af-
the amendment was
official cars
came
through the iron gates
cutive mansion
with
routine of any other
and went
of the exe-
the same
day.
however, request that there be
ho interruption of war production,
and no greater interruption of
normal activity than the peoples’
sense of sober rejoicing de
mands.”
The White House issued Vin
son’s statement last night in re
sponse. it said, to numerous in
quiries whether the government
“looks with favor upon such cele
brations which interrupt the nor
mal course of business.”
Canadian Press Expects
Announcement Soon
Ottowa, May 7—(^---The Cana
dian press said there were indi
cations that Prime Minister Chur
chill would broadcast at noon,
Eastern War Time, and that this
might be an official V-E an
nouncement from him.
The Canadian press said prema
ture announcement by the Ger
man radio disrupted allied plans
for the announcement, believed
originally to have been scheduled
for tomorrow.
six half-sisters, Mrs. J. Q. Cart
wright and Mrs. W. A. Bundy,
both of Elizabeth City, Mrs. Sarah
Lewis of Denbigh, Va.,. Mrs. Jessie
Bowles of Virginia Beach, Mrs.
Kate Thomas 1 and Miss Mattie
Carter of Newport News,' Va.:
eight half brothers, G. S. Carter
of Norfolk, J. P. Carter of Eliza
beth City, J. E. Carter of Phila
delphia, N. L., C. D. and Melvin
Carter, all of Newport News, D.
M. Carter of Edenton, and Calvin
Carter, U. S. Navy, stationed in
the Pacific, and two grandchil
dren. Mrs. Lloyd C. Smith and
W. B. Winslow, both of Elizabeth
City.
Funeral services were to be
held Monday afternoon at 3
o’clock at the Twiford Funeral
Chapel with Dr. E. H. Potts, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
assisted by the Rev. F. A. Riven
bark, pastor of the Free Will Bap
tist Church, officiating.
Burial was to be in New Holly
wood Cemetery.
"Agriculture is, of course, an es
sential industry and under the
Tydings amendment every regis
trant engaged in the type of agri
culture which is essential to the
war effort is entitled to deferment.
I know, and I suppose that every
member of this House knows,
that many registrants who were
'definitely entitled to deferment
have been inducted. The discret
ionary power with regard to de
ferment and induction rests with
local boards,” Cooley said. "Cer
tainly General Hershey and his
associates cannot be blamed for
these inductions. I am sure that
it will not be contended that all
registrants engaged in agriculture
are entitled to deferment. Only
those who are engaged in the type
of agriculture that is making an
actual contribution to the war ef
fort are entitled to deferment un
der the Tydings amendment. If
Selective Service has failed to ad
minister properly the selective-ser
vice law, or if we have adminis
trators who are ignoring the law,
then we should proceed against
them
which
Mrs.
Dies
In Okinawa Invasion
Coast Guardsman Chief motor
machinist’s mate Charles H. Hig
gins, of 701 Hunter street, is ser
ving aboard a Coast Guard-man
ned LST in the far Pacific. He
recently participated in the inva
sion of Okinawa, 350 miles from
Kyushu, southern-most of the .lap
home islands.
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Unions; Francois De La Rocque,
head of the extreme right anti
German nationalists, and Michael
Clemenceau, son of the World War
I statesman and nephew of Gen.
Charles DeGaulle.
Existence of the Itter prison
camp was revealed by. the famous
Basque tefinis ace Jean Borotra,
who escaped and made his way to
American lines.
ICELAND
and not against the law
is clear and unambiguous.”
Mary F. Walker
al Daughter’s
Mrs. Mary Frances
died at the home of her
ter, Mrs. D. P. Singleton
o’clock Monday morning.
Walker
daugh-
at
She was a member of
Road Methodist Church.
Price and Askew
Help Land Troops
On a Coast Guard manned tank
landing ship off Okinawa Delay
ed Among the Coast Guardsmen
who landed Marines from LST’S
on the torn and smoking Iwo Jima
beachhead under the menacing
shadow of Mount Suribachi, Jap
volcano-gun mount, were Ensign
Louis E. Price, USCG, of 720
Maple street and Sic George As
kew Jr., of 302 West Cypress
street. Elizabeth City, N. C.
The North Carolinians and their
shipmates on this Coast Guard
manned LST are also veterans of
the more recent invasion of Oki
nawa Shima', Jap Ryukyu island
stronghold some 325 miles from
Kyushu, during which their ship
landed army troops on thunder
ing Hagushu beach on the China
side of the island.
Ensign Price, who enlisted in
the Coast Guard in 1936, is mar
ried to the former Nellie Crank of
Elizabeth City. They have a
daughter, 16 year old Audrey
1 Margarette. Gunnery officer on
his ship, he plans to remain in
the Coast Guard after the war.
Askew, formerly an Elizabeth
City plumber, is married to the
Superintendent of Schools J. G.
McCracken.
Still to be filled are the posi
tions of coach, left vacant by the
resignation of Harvey Johnson; li
brarian to succeed -Miss Nancy
Hinson, resigned; and music since
Mrs. Zelma Parnell Gossard is not
returning.
Mrs. Louise W. Barfield -and
Mrs. Jessie Neville McMillan,
members of the primary faculty,
will not be able to accept positions
for next year due to the uner-
tainty of the location of their hus
bands who are now stationed at
the Naval Air Station. Miss Myr
tle Price, high school teacher, has
resigned. Selected to replace these
three teachers were Miss Annie
Marie Jackson of Hertford, Mrs.
Margarette L. Goodman for third
grade and Miss Louise Sawyer for
first.
All
schools
teachers in the Negro
were re-elected.
The recent adopted allotment
program for teachers does not af
fect any of the city schools since
none of them lost teachers in 1944
-45.
Principles of all the schools
were re-elected at a previous
meeting.
Chowan Property Now
Valued al $7,500.00()
Edenton, May 7 Taxable prop
erty in Chowan Countv is valued
this year at close to $7,500,000
with an increase in population and
other material benefits. Of course,
the Naval Air Base here has tak
en hundreds of acres off of the
tax books. But indirectly, it has
enriched the county by increasing
the population with transient per-
sonnel but always there are
number of servicemen here.
a
1:15
City
former Betty Ruth
Cradock, Va. and is
of young Linda Faye
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Everett of
the father
Askew. The
George As-
In 1943, the taxable value of the
property was $7,716,395. The
white own $7,046,645 and the col
ored valued their taxable proper
ty at $669,750.
Help Wanted
Survivors besides Mrs. Single-
ton, includes one adopted daugh
ter, Mrs. Marie Walker Comman
der, San Diego, Calif.; one son,
Vivian Bernard Walker of Eliza
beth City; two brothers, T. S.
Mann of Elizabeth City and L.
R. Mann of Tarboro; six grand
children and six great grandchil
dren.
The body was removed to Tox-
kew, Sr., of Elizabeth City, he is
the brother of Navy Seaman 1c
William Askew.
Ihe Advance Incorporated
Raleigh, May 7 CP) Four cer
tificates of incorporation were
filed today with the Secretary of
Sta,,^,
The Advance of Elizabeth City,
to own and publish newspapers;
authorized capital stock 1,000
ey, Berry and Lynch Funeral i shares mo par value, subscribed
Home pending completion of ar.-1 stock) S^l^res by Herbert Peele,
fangements for funeral which willi Kate Ford Peele, Guy M. Leedy,
be held sometime Tuesday. 1 all of Elizabth City.
WANTED EXPERIENCED guide
for duck club located in Back
Bay. Must have thorough know
ledge of operation and care of
marine engines. The applicant
selected for this position will be
required to live on premises. The
club will furnish living' quarters
gratis, together with twenty
acres of fertile land for cultiva
tion tractor and equipment. In
addition to above, will pay nom
inal salary. Apply by letter only,
stating experience and references
to W. A. White, 6154 Powhatan
Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia.
7-12p
H AND DECLINE OF HITLER'S EMPIRE
Arctic Ocean
London, May 7—(/P)~The Flens
burg radio broadcast an order ot |
the day by Grand Admiral Karl
Doesnitz today directing the com
manders of all German U-boats
to cease hostilities.
The broadcast followed Stock
holm reports that German forces
in Norway—where most of Ger
many’s submarine bases are loca
ted—are about to” capitulate.
Doenitz’s order of the day em
phasized that “continuation of the
struggle is impossible from the
bases that remain” and told the
U-boat men that they are “laying
down their arms after a heroic
fight.”
Ends After Six Years
The text of the message:
“My U-boat men, six years of
U-boat warfare lies behind us. You
have fought like lions. Crushing
superiority has compressed us in
to a very narrow area. Continu
ation of the struggle is impossible
from the, bases that remain.
“U-boat men, unbroken in your I
warlike courage, you ale laying 1
down your arms after a heroic
fight that, knows no equal. In rev
erent memory we think of our
comrades who have sealed .their
loyalty to the fuehrer and the fa
therland with their death.
“Comrades, maintain in the fu
ture your U-boat spirit with which
you have fought at sea bravely
and unwlinchingly during long
years for the welfare of the fath
erland. Long live Germany.”
Archangel
'Atlantic Ocean
NORWAY
FINLAND
U. $. S. Rn
Bergen
North
EIRE
> GREATS
BRITAIN
LONDON
Brest'
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DENM.
SWEDEN
April 21, '45
Russians
Enter Beriin
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Baltic
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SLAT.
LITH
waMa^
Jan 7, '45
Warsaw Captured
Dolinin
;; Lorient#
St. Naxaire
D-Day
June 6, '44
(Bordeaux*
LUKs
SARIS
Aug. 25, '44
Paris is
Liberated
FRANCE
Black line indicates
area held by Nazis
at peak of conquest 1
^MOSCOW/
Voronezh
("•Vyatka!
/Kazan'
San Francisco, May 7—(TP)—The
United States and Britain were re
ported by United Nations Confer
ence officials today to have de
manded of Russia that she supply
her evidence against the 16_ ar
rested leaders of the Polish un
derground.
The aim is to break the latest
big-three deadlock over Poland. It
is part of a strategy sidetrack
ing the Polish row from the main
line of the conference in order
that the big-three may try for
maximum unity in designing a
world organization for future
peace.
President Truman and Prime
Minister Churchill are reported to
have intervened directly with Mar
shal Stalin.'-
Russian foreign commissar
Molotov is now slated to quit San
Francisco for Mosvow around mid
week. So long' as he is here, specu
lation continues that Russia may
give the conference a sensation
by making known her future plans
toward Japan.
On the 'main line of conference
developments, word spread today
I that Stalin may have replied fa-
I vorably to Molotov’s' request for
instructions on the review and re
gional arrangements amendments
to the Dumbarton Oaks Charter.
Perhaps the greatest developing
issue now is the demands of the
Latin American countries that the
Pan-American Security System be
allowed to be independent of the
proposed world security council in
using force to block agression.
Unsettled Questions
The Latin American nations also
are reported upset by a big-power
amendment which says that in se
lecting the six non-permanent
members of the Security Council,
the world assembly may take into
account their ability as warrior
nations and also their loations.
Britain backed this amendment
and some of the Latin delegations
contend it was designed to give
such commonwealth countries as
Canada and Australia an advan
tage in getting council seats. How
ever, it would also work to the
advantage of the largest and more
powerful Latin American, states
and against the smaller nations.
The Big-Five countries—Russia,
the United States. Britain, China
and France continued in a tangle
over what to do about a plan for
international trusteeships with an
other meeting of their delegates
scheduled today.
Secretary Stettinius announced
Saturday that Molotov had in
formed Stettinius and Eden that
the Polish leaders had been ar
rested on a charge of “diversion-
ist activities against the Red Ar
my.”
Stettinius termed these men
"prominent Polish democratic
leaders” and said Eden and he had
asked Molotov for a complete list
of those arrested and a “full ex
planation of this action.”
Vice Premier Held
In London last night the bitter
ly anti-Soviet Polish government
in exile declared that its vice
premier 'Jan Jankowski was one
of those arrested by the Russians.
The exile goverment also said the
group was in Russia at the invit
ation of a Russian officer for the
purpose of discussing the Polish
question.
It was reported here that pro
tests and demands made by the
United States and Britain were
very strongly worded for diploma
tic statements and that the west
ern Allies are primarily concern
ed with two things:
1. Finding out what evidence
Russia claims to have against the
arrested Poles, and
2. Getting assurance of the right
to have observers present if and
when they are brought to trial.
J'ext of Amendments
Stettinius issued the texts of
the score of amendments on which
the Big-Four had agreed and also
the texts of two amendments
which had British-American-Chin
ese support but on which Molotov
had reserved his opinion for the
time being.
His favorable reaction, however,
Hertford, May 7—Chairman. R.
M. Riddick, and his War Finance
Committee launched the Seventh
War Loan drive in Perquimans
County here today, in an all out
effort to meet the overall quota
of $301,000 given this county. Of
this $301,000, $130,000 must repre-
I sent the purchases of series E
bonds, which is the largest E bond
quota ever given the county.
In every previous war loan, the
nation's Series E quota has been
the same or reduced. But, in the
7th, it has been upped from two
and one-half to four billion dol
lars, a terrific, sixty' percent in
crease.
Chairman Riddick said today
that the War Finance Committee
is asking that a house to house
canvass be made in each town
ship, and that in this way the
county will put the quota over by
May 21.
To stimulate sales of E bonds,
the committee will form an “1800
Club,” any person in the county
who purchases a $100 E bond is
eligible to membership in the
club. It has been figured out that
if 1,800 persons purchase a $100
E bond, the quota can be met.
The school children will put on
a campaign for the sale of E bonds
which will begin May 9 and con
tinue through May 21st. The
schools entered are the New Hope
Winfall Central Grammar School,
Hertford Grammar School, and
the Perquimans County High
School.
Prizes will be awarded the
school children; a $25.00 war bond
to the student selling the largest
amount of E bonds.
To the high school student sell
ing the largest amount in E bonds,
a prize of $6.25 in war stamps.
The Hertford Grammar School
student selling the largest
amount of E bonds, $6.25 in war
savings stamps.
To the Central Grammar School
student at Winfall, the prize of
$6.25 in war savings stamps.
And to the New Hope School
student selling the largest amount,
$6.25 in war stamps.
In this contest, no student may
win more than one prize and
sales must be made between May
7 and May 21.
There will also be a prize of a
$25.00 war bond for the adult in
the county selling the largest
amount of series E bonds, between
May 14 and June .30.
In launching this seventh and
largest war loan campaign in Per
quimans County Chairman Rid
dick said:
“The Government must have
this money in order to furnish the
boys on the fighting front with
proper equipment, food and cloth
ing, and in order to prosecute the
war to a victorious end.
"We urge the people to buy
all the bonds they can during mis
drive. Every dollar Invested now
in war bonds does triple duty for
us all. It's a fighting dollar, need
ed to finance the Pacific war we
still have to win. It’s a dollar tak
en out of competition for scarce
goods, a dollar that won’t feed the
flames of inflation. And it’s a dol
lar stored up to be used when
it will really count, the safest in
terest bearing investment that it
is possible to obtain today.”
Blum, Olliers Located
With the Fifth Army in Italy,
May 6—(Delayed) - A m e r i c a n
troops have captured or rescued
Leon Blum, Kurt Schuschnig, the
Rev. Martin Niemoeller and Dr.
Hjalmar Schacht.
was forecast because of. the na
ture of the Amendments and be
cause he had approved them in
principle. One would authorize the
world assembly of nations to re
view any situation which might
be a cause of war; the other would
allow defense treaties made
against the Axis enemies of this
war to remain in force independ
ently of the world security coun
cil until the governments, concern
ed want to hand that particular
security job over to the council.
March 8, '45
U. S First Army
Crosses Rhine
April 26, 45
U 5 and Russia
Armies Meet
(Kharkov!
Feb 3, '43
Germans lose
Battle of Stalingrad
SWITZ
ITALY
CZECH
AUSTRIA
POLAND
Onepropetrov:
’ Stalini
HUNGARY
’Elista!
Moscow Declares
Millions Killed
In Polish Camp
London, May 7—(717—The Mos
cow radio said today that more
than 4,000,000 persons of various
European nationalities wert> killed
by the Germans in the Qswiecim
concentration camp in Poland.
The broadcast quoted the Soviet
extraordinary state commission
decribing the camp as “far sur
passing all hitherto known Ger
man deathcamps in its elaborate
equipment, technical organization
a nd mass-scale extermination of
People.”
“German professors and. doc
tors conducted here mass experi
ments on perfectly healthy men,
Women and children” the report
said. “They conducted experiments
111 sterilization of women, castra
tion of men, experiments on chil
dren, experiments on artificial in-
■ection of masses of people with
cancer, typhus and malaria and-
they tested poisons on live peo
ple.”
ROMANIA
SPAIN
MOR.
Casablanca
June 4, '44
Rome falls
Tuapse
YUGOSLAVIA
Batum
Grozny
Aug 15 '44
Invasion of
Southern France
CORSIl
Anzii
SARDINIA 1
(Salernol
Mediterranean Seo
0^1 ALGIERS
, , Nov. 8, '42
U. S. Forces
Land in North Africa
MOROCCO
Garman Occupied
' > Territory
1942
1943
1944
IT UNI
BULGARIA
ALGERIA
Miles
0
200 @
Sept 3, '43
Italy Surrenders
GREI
TURKEY
IRAN
Sept 3, '43
British 8th Lands!
July 9, '43
Allies Invade
May 12, '43
1 German Resistance
Ends in North Africa
Nov. 4, '44
Germans
Driven From
Greece
CYPRUS;
SYRIA
cagan
Tobrul
RETE
British Begin
Drive on EI Alamein
LIBYA!
EI Alamei
Alexandra
EGYPT
^ . _^^WW .
SAUDI ARABIA
.Wtwifiiw^^
-Area included within the heavy black outline on the map above, taking in most of Europe and part of northern Africa, is Hitler’s empire of con-
symbolized by the Battle of Stalingrad, whose loss is considered by many to be the turning point -
o - - D5 the Fuehrer’s Jortuncs^’-*~~- ~ ——_ — j
We’re Going on...
To Finish the Fight
America will accept no half way measures!
Even while cheers for this important victory
echo in onr ears, we must move forward to
complete Victory over Japan hy working
harder and buying more War Bonds.
ELIZABETH CITY AUTO SUPPLY
“Formerly T. J. lonex Motor (.0.”
613 E. Fearing St.
Phone 960