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VOL. VII. NO. 81
JACKSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY I, 1943 PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR
I DOWN EAST
WITH ,
| BILLY ARTHUR
0This week this community has
had the privilege of hearing two
fine speakers who were just as en
tertaining as was important the
message they were bringing.
One was Lt. John V. Loughlin.
USNR. chaplain at Tent Camp and
a veteran of Tarawa and Tinian;
and the other was Capt. John Pat
rick. a member of the American
Field Service just back from over
seas to do a Broadway success,
"The Hasty Heart," based on peo
ple and inidents he has met in re
cent years overseas.
Lieutenant Loughlin—and this is
on the lighter side of both men's
talks—told about Marines going
into combat, particularly at Tara
wa. when they were informed that
there were no Japs left on the
island.
They went over the side of the
ships in a light spirit, singine "Ta
Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Av". and although
they wondered who in the dickens
were on that island throwing shells
at them, if the Japs were not, the
marines continued to sing all the
way up on the beach.
And. because of that, when ihey
got back to Hawaii, the paper
Chaplain Loughlin edited was
called the "Tarawa-Boom-De-Ay."
It was published daily, and hid
the distinction of having one edi
tion which none of the marines
read.
Because some of the Japs in
Hawaii still were supplying infor
mation to Tokyo about troop move
ments, the marines carried the copy
for a week's edition down to the
printers and left it to be printed
on schedule. The day the edition
came out. the outfit hit Tinian.
catching the Japs completely by
surprise.
The people back in the states, he
said knew more about what was
going on that the fellows in ac
tion. And whenever a plane would
come in with latest editions of
Hawaiian newspapers and Time and
Newsweek, there would be a rush
to the airstrip for copies and in
formation.
"We often had to get hold of
a copy of a newspaper or Time or
Newsweek." he said, "to find out
just what island we were on."
Chaplain Loughlin disclosed that
Japanese prisoners were fairlv
treated and were paid at about
the rate of 60 cents per day for
their flabors. Actually, however,
they were not paid until they had
something to purchase, and when a
PX was set up in their stockade,
they piled in for tbeir allotments
of rationed goods.
"Only three items came in the
first day," he said, "and they were
cigarettes, cloth and shoe polish.
They were allowed one package of
I igarettes. so every one of the Japs
>ought a package. They were per
mitted one yard of cloth, so every
one bought a yard. Why, no one
knew. And. of all things they were
permitted to buy five bottles of
shoe polish, and everyone bought
five bottles. No one knew why
there either, except that they fi
gured probably someday they would
have shoes."
0 Captain Patrick, who has just
returned from the Chinese-Burma
India theater of war. was telling
the Kiwanis club Tuesday how un
selfish were the members of his
corps.
When they were surrounded by
Japs in Burma on one occasion,
the ambulance crew was right next
to the first aid transfusion station,
and the fellows would go over every
now and then and trade a pint of
blood for a swig of "tea".
On one occasion the fellows felt
the need of some "tea" and started
over to donate some blood when
they passed a fellow lying under
his ambulance and working on it.
"Come on." they called, "we're go
ing to trade some blood for some
tea."
"Are you crazy?" the man under
the car demanded. "I've been over
there so much now that everytime
they puncture my veins all they
get is a hiss."
A man with a flair for expressing
things just so. Captain Patrick was
telling about a native drink spelled
"zuu."
"It is pronounced," said he, 'like
that very popular place in Amer
ica where inhibited people go to
look at uninhibited monkeys."
£ A third yarn he related was
one only an Irishman like himself
could get by with, and that con
cerned a fellow finding an Irish
man sitting at a table crying in
his beer.
"What's the matter, old fellow?"
he was asked.
"The world's in an awful state,"
he replied, still weeping. "Every
body's fighting one another—that
is, everybody but the cowardly
Swedes and the peace-loving
Irish."
0 Business was so bad in the bar
ber shops Tuesday morning that
Jim Lynch was having to subsist on
crackers.
9 George Buchanap is a profes
sional drum fisherman if there
ever was one—so I'm told, and the
other morning when he tried his
luck, George took Errett Gardner
along to bait his hoCk. Errett never
was known to be much of a fisher
man, but was pretty good on help
ing out.
Along with them went G. E.
Maultsby, Coleman Bynum, and
Arthur Guy Walton, Jr.
They caught 11 nice drum weigh
ing between eight and 20 pounds,
but George didn't catch a single
one.
In fact, Errett , the hook baiter,
caught lour nice drum and kept
George busy doing you know what.
Hitler Committed Suicide,
Allies Say; Body Is Sought
0 London— (/P) —Adolph Hitler
committed suicide in the ruins of
Berlin with Propanganda Minis
ter Paul Joseph Goebbels and chief
of German General Staff, Gen.
Hans Krcbs, a Soviet communique
said Thursday. The Russians de
clared their informant was Dr.
Hans Fritsche, Goebbels' Chief
Lieutenant, who was captured as
Berlin "ell.
By Associated Press
0 Allied Supreme headquarters in
Paris hurled the lie at the story of
Adolf Hitler's purported heroic
death by disclosing a secret meet
ing eight days ago at which Hein
rich Himmier himself declared
Germany beaten and the dictator
dead or dying of a brain hemorr
hage.
The statement said that at a
meeting at Luebeck. Germany,
April 24. Himmler told Swedish
Count Folke Bernadotte, head of
the Swedish Red Cross and re
puted peace negotiations go-be
tween, that "Hitler is so ill he
might be already dead."
In Washington President Tru
man said he had it on the best
authority that Hitler is no longer
alive. He didn't know how the
death occurred, he said, but was
glad that both Der Fuehrer and
Mussolini were out of the way.
Moscow officially said Hitler
committed suicide.
There was no word of a search
for the bodies, but it was a cer
tainty that the Russians literally
would leave no stone unturned in
all the junk-heap that is the Ger
man capital in an effort to verify
that Hitler actually was dead and,
if so, how he died.
Yanks Move Forward
In Dutch East Indies;
Kyushu Raided Again
0Guam— (VP) —Superfortresses
attacked airfields of the Kyushu
Island of southern Japan for the
13th time in five weeks Thursday.
% Manila—<7P)—Allied troops, op
ening a campaign to recover the
rich Dutch East Indies, swept
quickly toward Tarakan's Airdrome
and Lingkas town Thursday from
beachheads easily established Tues
day on that important oil depot
island just oflf northeastern Borneo.
Americans on Mindanao Island,
in the southern Philippines, mean
while appeared about to take the
hemp port of Davao. without the
fierce fight they had expected.
Markle To Preach
Baccalaureate Here
Sunday at 11 A.M.
0Capt. G. L. Markle, USN. Camp
Lejeune chaplain, will deliver th\?
baccalaureate sermon at Jackson
ville high school auditorium Sun
day morning at 11 a.m., formally
opening the commencement pro
gram.
Captain Markle will preach on
the subject. "The Beginning of
Knowledge."
He will be introduced by Rev.
Carl B. Craig, pastor of First Pres
byterian church. Rev. L. Grady
Burgiss. pastor of First Baptist
church, will read the Scriptures,
and Rev. A. D. Leon Gray, pastor
of Trinity Methodist church, will
pronounce the invocation and bene
diction.
The High School Glee club, un
der the direction of Miss Mary
Herring, will render several selec
tions.
All-Powerful World
Peace Council Plan
Attacked At 'Frisco
0 San Francisco— </P)—A Big
Four plan for All-Powerful World
Council to guard the .future peace
Thursday was attacked by several
nations Jft the United Nations
Conference.
They want to put peace-keeping
on more regional basis.
The United States is seeking
both to promote creation of a
world-wide security system and \o
fit into it such regional organiza
tions as a Pan-American system
without allowing development of
regional blocks.
Twenty-Five Persons
Join Cadet Civil Air
Patrol Unit in Town
0Twenty-five young Jacksonville
people have joined the Cadet Civil
Air Patrol unit here, it was an
nounced yesterday. The first drill
was held Wednesday afternoon,
and a meeting of the unit will be
held at the high school auditorium
tonight at 8:30 o'clock.
The 25 members are Ruby Bar
ber. Margaret Coston, Edna Foy,
Melvalee Foy; Gertrude Gannie.
Myrtle Gurganus. Leonard Hitch,
Anna Hobbs. Aletia Home. Charles
Marshall, Gertrude Newsom, Nellie
Morton. Mell Mizzelle, Linda
Pierce. Bobby Pinkston. James
Pinkston. John Pollard. Lawrence
Puettauving. Buddy Robinson.
Geraldine Smith. Gertrude Stan
ley. Everett Waters. Willie Jacobs.
Charles Henderson and David
Lewis.
Bill Johnson, member of the
CCAP at Beaufort, is organizer of
the unit, and its leaders are James
Odum of Midway Park and R. S.
Pinkston of Jacksonville.
Clothing Donations
Approximate 10,000
Pounds, Stefanou Says
# Approximately 10.000 pounds of
clothes have been collected in the
National Clothing Drive in Ons
low County, it was reported this
week by Steve Stefanou, chairman.
He expected the total amount
to be much larger, however, since
Richlands and Holly Ridge have
not yet reported, and since house
to-house canvasses were to have
been made at Midway Park and
Swansboro on Wednesday after
noon.
The clothing, discarded by do
nors, will be sent to war devastated
areas of the world to clothe adults
and children.
Capt. Richard Durr
Wounded In Action
With Patton's Army
0 Capt. W. J. Durr, of the
Army Medical Corps and hus
band of Mrs. Minnie B. Thomp
son Durr of Jacksonville, has
been awarded the Purple Heart
for wounds sustained in action
with General Frank Patton's
Third Army in Europe.
Mrs. Durr this week received
the medal and word from him
that his wounds were not
serious.
Need For Additional Volunteers
For USO Stressed At Celebration
0 If wo would treat each othor
and be as good to one another at
home as Americans are to Japanese
prisoners, then we would give all
out assistance and volunteer work
to the United Service Organiza
tions, Lt. John Loughlin, USNR,
chaplain at Tent Camp, told a
chaplain at Tent Camp, told guests
attending a Fourth Birthday ob
servance of the National Catholic
Community Service, USO here
Monday night.
The celebration, held at Tall
man Street USO, was also in ob
servance of the Third Anniversary
of dedication of that building.
Volunteer work and assistance
at USOs calls for work and hours
of sacrifice in the face of appar
ently not being appreciated by the
serviceman. Chaplain Loughlin
said. But there is an appreciation
—an appreciation by those mothers,
wives and families at home who
will know that their men are being
offered clean and legitimate recrea
tion.
The growth of USO in the nation
and in Onslow County was traced
by Billy Arthur, who acted as
toastmaster.
Both Arthur and George See.
director of the Tallman Street
club, expressed appreciation for
the loyalty of the Senior and Jun
ior Hostesses who were honored
guests of the evening, and de
clare'd that there can be no slack
ening of volunteer efforts until the
war is over.
It was pointed out that there are
only about 4,000 employees of ap
proximately 2,775 USO clubs in
the world, and that it would be
impossible to make USO "a home
away from home" to the service
man were it not for the volunteers.
Mrs. Ralph Caldwell, chairman
of the senior hostesses, reported
on what had been done to enter
tain service men here in the past
and on duties of hostesses. Miss
Mabel Kennedy, Junior Hostess
chairman, was recognized, and
Mrs. Caldwell recognized Mrs. W.
Y. Richardson and Mrs. C. D
Koonce, former senior hostess
chairmen.
Entertainment during the meal
was offered by Miss Mary Her
ring. violinist, and Phm2c Walter
Kaufman, pianist. Both offered vo
cal selections.
One of the program highlights
was the Rhythm Band of the sec
ond grade of Jacksonville school
under the direction of Mrs. Louise
Andrews, teacher, and Mrs. E. S.
Bush, accompanist.
The children performed ably
with Pat Rochelle, Georgie Potter.
Frankie Bush, Claudette Phillips
and Elvira Morton taking the hon
ors with their announcements and
solo parts.
Pfc. Linwood Wi!!iams
Of Beulaville Back
From European Area
PFC. LINWOOD WILLIAMS
0 Pfc. Lin wood Williams, son of
Mrs. Lester Willinms of Beulaville.
has returned to Fort Bragg after
having been in the European
theater of operations for the past
six months.
Law Enforcement
Officers To Attend
FBI Conference
£ Sheriff B. Frank Morton and
Police Chief W. B. Hurst and oth
er law enforcement officers of the
town and countv. will attend a con
ference with FBI agents at New
Bern Tuesday.
Edward Scheidt. special agent
In charge of the Charlotte FBI
office, has announced that the con
ference will be highlighted by a
colorful exhibition of trick shoot
ing put on by Special Agent Dan
iel A. Hruska, firearms expert and
instructor at the FBI Academy in
Quantico. Virginia.
Included on the program also
will be a demonstrotion by Special
Agent T. D. Easterling of the Char
lotte FBI office concerning the
method of making casts of tire
'tracks, heel prints, and similar
evidence found at the scene of the
crime, as well as a showing of
movie slides concerning wanted
men, and other features.
Livestock Valuation
Decreases Caused
By High Feed Costs
QThe marked decreased in live
stock valuations in Onslow County
this year, compared with 1944. was
attributed this week by Farm
Agent Charles C. Clark, Jr., to
increased costs of feeding.
A total decrease of $51,059 on
livestock valuations was reported
by Auditor J. J. Cole this week,
and the largest decline was noted
in value of hogs.
Clark said that farmers had been
fast shipping hogs because of the
cost of feeding, which ha" been
continually on the upgrade. On the
other hand, a ceiling of $14.75 per
hundred has been placed on them
with a $13.00 floor. Not much mar
gin of profit can be realized.
The farm agent said he was
making an effort to get farmers to
plant more ground crops on which
hogs can be fed more economically.
lie was of the opinion that the
valuation decrease on poultry and
milk cows, which also arc appar
ently fewer in number in the
county this year, was for the same
reason.
FOUNTAIN IN TEXAS
O Cadet Winfred Weston Fountain
of Chinquapin, route one. is receiv
ing pre-flight training at the San
Antonio Aviation Cadet Center in
CAPPS MOVES OFFICES
0 Offices of the T. .T. Capps and
Son company, local wholesale
company, have been moved to the
handsomely renovated upstairs
portion of the Capps building here.
New Gas Rationing
System for "C"
Coupons Effective
A Important change in OPA gas
oline regulations, affecting issu
ance of "C" coupons, become' ef
fective today, the Onslow OPA yes
terday reminded motorists. Some
drivers now holding "C" rations
will be transferred to a new group
falling between the present "B"
and "C" classifications, and others
now in the "E" classification will
he eligible only for "B" ration,
Johnson said. "The new 'semi
preferred" classification, with an
825 mile monthly allowance is in
tended to cover certain motorists
now holding "C" rations, the nature
of whose war work mileage re
quirements does not justify the
higher rating.
NEW RATION STAMPS
0One new sugar stamp, five blue
food stamps and five red food
stamps become valid today. Sugar
Stamp No. 36. blue stamps. Y2, Z2,
Al. Bl, CI for purchase of proc
essed foods, and red stamps Q2.
R2, S2, T2 and U2 for purchase of
meats and fats, each good for ten
points, became valid on that date,
he said.
Sgt. Cecil A. Miller
Wounded in Action
In European Regions
6) Sgt. Cecil A. Miller, son of
iUi-.. Bessie Miller oi' Beula
villr. route 011." has been
wo:.::ded in action in t'ie
European regions, the War
Department announced this
week.
Pre. Theodore Morion
Wounded in Action
In European Theatre
0 Pfc. Theodore T. Morton.
so?i or Thomas B. Morton of
Jacksonville, route one. has
been reported by the War De
partment as having been
wounded in action in Europe.
Haws Run School
Health Program Is
Praised By Stevens
0 Dr. IT. W. Stevens, health of
ficer. said yesterday that his of
fice was in reccipt of a health
manual, prepared by Mrs. Mabel
Bowen, principal of Haws Run
school.
He praised the efforts of the
teachers and parents alike in their
efforts to correct every physical
defect existing among the student
body. Haws Hun school has a total
of approximately seventy students
with two teachers. Throughout the
year a health program has been
carried out with inspections by
teachers; examinations and visits
being made for corrections of de
fects among the students.
The health report reveals twenty
four children found during the
year defective in their health duo
to some cause. Of these twenty
four children, fifteen were treated
for hookworm, two had diseased
tonsils removed, three had abces
sed teeth extracted, five had their
eyes examined and corrected for
glasses, and two were x-rayed that
were found positive to the tuber
culosis skin test.
Dr. Stevens said that for a small
school the health program is being
carried on efficiently and with the
aid of the principal. Mrs. Bowen,
the students graduating will be in
better health than when they en
rolled.
Tliirfy-Five Dixon
Students On Tour
Of North Carolina
0 Thirty-five Dixon high school
students are on an educational tour
of Piedmont and Western North
Carolina, and 30 of them who have
resided all their lives in the fiat
coastal region? are looking for
ward to seeing a mountain.
The party, headed by Principal
C. Bruce Hunter, left here Tues
day morning for Asheville via
Fayetteville, Charlotte and Chim
ney Rock. They will return via
Marion and Cicersboro. In addi
tion to touring points of scenic
interest, the par! will visit the
largest towns of :he slate and in
spect manufactu: ing plants and
coi leges.
MAing the trip are Georgia Hill,
Matilda Padt.-it. Audry Smith,
Ann Dickens. Kkeesa Gurganus.
Mary Allen. StelLi Parde.r, Allene
Davis. Rutl. Rawls, Leula Everett,
Juanita Smithson. Bobnie Ricks.
Delores Bradshaw, Lois King, Sara
Guthrie. Lorene Hines. Kathleen
•lines, Gwendolyn Johnson. Guiula
Rhodes. Dunnie Hollis. Velma Har
dison, Leon Sessoms, Gilmer Se
vvell, Herman Smith, J. Z. Thomp
son. Billy Sandlin. Charles Kirk
man, W. C. Yopp. II. M. Knnett.
.Jr.. Rupert Pierce. Bobby Caldwell,
James Faw, and David Darrah.
They are chaperoned by Princi
pal and Mrs. Hunter and son, and
Mrs. Allen II. Stafford. They will
headquarter at the Langren and
Charmil hotels in Asheville.
FIRE ALARM
§A fire on a shingle roof caused
by a spark from a chimney was
quickly extinguished by firemen at
the Henry Simmons residence on
New Bridge street Wednesday
morning. Damage to the house,
mvned by G. P. Johnson, was very
slight.
Koonce and Murrell
To Receive Honors
Of Kiwanis Club
0 Gene Koone and Stratton
Murrell were announced this
week as having: been selected
for the Honorary Degree of
Junior Kiwanians. and will be
guests of the club at its next
week meeting:.
Young Koonce is the son of
Mrs. Gertrude Koonce and
Murrell is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Z. E. Murrell. Jr.
The awards, announced by
Rev. F. N. Cox. chairman of the
boys and girls committee of
the club, are presented to the
high school students because of
their "excellence in scholar
ship, qualities of leadership,
and ability to cooperate with
others."
Allies Take Hamburg;
Germany Near Collapse
Murrell Requests
All-Out Support
For Scout District
f A meeting of Jacksonville and
Onslow County people interested
in organizing a separate district
of the Boy Scouts of America, a
part of the East Carolina Council,
in this county will be .held next
Wednesday night, it was announced
yesterday.
Z. E. Murrell. Jr.. said the deci
sion to set up a district in this
county followed a session of local,
district and regional Scout execu
tives here Wednesday afternoon.
Boy Scout activity in Onslow
County has so increased in the
past few years that there is now
underway an effort to make a sepa
rate district in this county only,
as a part of the East Carolina
Council, 7.. E. Murrell, Jr.. leading
Scout committeeman, told the Jack
sonville Kiwanis club at its weekly
meeting Tuesday.
He urged members of the club,
which is sponsor of Troop 20 here
in Jacksonville, to lend a hand
when B, B. Owen, scout executive
in this region, who was here last
week, calls for assistance in organ
izing the district.
Murrell reported that where one
troop existed in the county four
years ago there are now seven—
Midway Park, Swansboro, Sneads
Ferry. Holly Ridge. Verona and
Richlands.
His plea for all-out club support
came after Rev. F. N. Cox. chair
man of the boys and girls com
mittee of the Kiwanis club, re
ported that A. T. Griffin. Jr.. had
made available an abandoned
church for a hut for scouts to be
placed on a lot donated by B. J.
Iiolleman. While Cox and his com
mittee were given power to act. it
was pointed out that assistance in
moving the structure would be
needed.
Kiwanian Jack Koonce. who will
become scoutmaster on the depart
ure of Max Hyder. Sr., probably
next week, said that if all the Ki
wanians would devote one day to
the task the structure, he thought,
could be moved.
Mr. and Mrs. Hyder entertained
members of the troop at a dinner
last night.
Three Richlands
Young Men Home
From Combat Zones
0 Three Richlands young men arc
home on leave after combat duty
with the armed forces.
They are:
Albert Baysden. U. S. Army, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Baysden.
is home on leave after three years
in the South Pacific.
William Shaw. U. S. Army, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Will Shaw, ar
rived last week to visit with his
parents after 18 months duty in
the European theater of war. Pvt.
Shaw, who was wounded in action
in January, will report back to a
medical center for treatment of
wounds.
Norwood Whaley, U. S. Navy,
husband of Mrs. Ula Maie Herring
Whaley, is home on leave after
several months duty with the Navy
in the South Pacific.
25 Per Cent Cut
In Sugar Rations Is
Announced By OWI
0 Washington—(/P)—A 25 per cent
cut in sugar has been announced
by the Office of War Information.
The r.ew suga* stamp. No. 36,
good for five pounds and now
valid, must last four months in
stead of three.
Home canning allotments also
were slashed. Only 70 per cent as
much sugar will be available for
rationing as in 1944. and the
maximum 1945 canning allotment
will drop to 15 pounds, compared
with 20 pounds last year. No fam
ily, however large, may receive
more than 120 pounds of canning
sugar, as against the 1944 limit of
160 pounds.
Restaurants, hotels, schools and
other institutional users were also
cut.
Capt. John Patrick
Of American Field
Service Heard Here
CAPT. JACK PATRICK
0 Sidelights, many of them seri
ous in thought if not in word, of
activities of the American Field
Service in Africa and the Chinese
Burma-India theaters of war were
given the Jacksonville Kiwanis
club Tuesday by Capt. John Pat
rick. who has just returned from
those areas.
Captain Patrick, touring North
Carolina under the auspices of the
Salvation Army-USO. said that one
of the morale building factors of
the men overseas is the knowledge
that the people at home are fully
in support of such volunteer
agencies as USO. the American
Field Service and the Red Cross.
He was presented by T. E.
Wright, area director of the United
War Fund, who was a guest of the
club along with Mrs. Billie Wilson
of Midway Park. Mrs. Deane Tay
lor of Jacksonville. E. L. Warren
and Fred Harmon of Jacksonville
and W. C. Howell of Goldsboro.
Rev. F. N. Cox. chairman of the
boys and girls committee, reported
that an abandoned church was now
available from A. T. Griffin. Jr.,
to be put on the lot donated by
B. J. Holleman for a Boy Scout
hut. The committee was given
power to act.
Mrs. J ayior urgea support 01
the Kiwanians in the forthcoming
7th War Loan campaign.
Author of the Broadway success,
"The Hasty Heart." Captain Pat
rick related his first hand knowl
edge of the little known Far East
ern theater fighting against the
Japanese.
The American Field Service, he
said is composed of American men
who are ineligible for active duty
with the military forces. Unwilling
to sit by they began volunteering
in 1940 and 1941 for service with
British forces in evacuating woun
ed men.
Captain Patrick ?xpects to re
turn overseas at the completion of
his speaking tour.
Hall Lingle Takes
Job As Principal Of
Jacksonville Schools
0 Hall Lingle. principal of South
port high school for the past eight
years, has accepted the job as
principal of Jacksonville high
school for the 1944-45 scholastic
year.
Lingle has approximately 15
years experience as a teacher and
principal, and once taught in Jack
sonville schools. He will succeed A.
B. Johnson, who has been princi
pal here for the past two years.
He will meet with the local
school board next Tuesday night to
work out plans for the year and
set a definite date for taking over
the management of the local sys
tem.
In addition to having taught
here, the principal is the husband
of the former Miss Minnette
Thompson, daughter of the late
Dr. Cyrus Thompson of Jackson
ville.
Lingle was elected principal at a
meeting of the local board last Sat
urday morning, and accepted the
job during the week end. His elec
tion came after the post was first
offered to G. W. Harriett, princi
pal of Pendcrlea school, who later
withdrew his application.
Postal Receipts Show Decrease
In April; Still Ahead Of Last Year
0For the first time in throe years,
postal receipts at the Jacksonville
post office showed a decline in
April, compared with the corres
ponding month of 1944.
Last month, according to Assist
ant Postmaster Frank A. Smith,
receipts amounted to $4,287.72,
while in April of 1944 they totaled
$5,027 25. However, the 1944 re
ceipts included $549.45 in revenue
reported by the Midway Park
branch, which is now a separate
post office and not under Jackson
ville. Actually Jacksonville receipts
showed only $190.11, the figures
disclosed.
Even with the decline in receipts
last month, total stamp sales here
for 1945 now are $19,920.69, which
represents an increase of $1,288.78
over the first four months of 1944.
0 P.-ris—(JP)—British troops en
lore. I Hamburg at 1 p.m. Thursday,
the great port's radio announced
shortly after proclaiming the Me
tropolis an open city.
As the war in Europe drew to
ward a close with Denmark and
Norway isolated by a British-Rus
sian junction on the Baltic, the
Hamburg radio said also that Pra
gue—largest German-held center
in the south—had been declared
a "hospital city." That indicated
the Czechoslovak capital would not
be defended.
Northern German holdings were
split into several untenable pockets
and the southern section was
shrunk by the surender in Italy of
nearly 1.000.000 German combat
and service troops.
The Alpine "redoubt" was vir
tually wiped out under terms of
the surrender.
The Germans still held Bohe
mia and Moravia. Eastern Aus
tria and the mountainous region
of northwest Yugoslavia.
Berlin Surrenders
9 London— (TP) —Berlin, Nazi
capital and fourth largest city of
the world, surrendered Wednes
day to troops of two Russian Ar
mies. and 70,000 of the city's de
fenders gave up the fight which
had raged for 12 deadly days.
The city fell at 3 P. M. to troops
of the First White Russian and
First Ukrainian Armies, Marshal
Stalin announced in an order of
day.
He disclosed also that Russian
forces had destroyed the German
Ninth Army, trapped southeast of
Berlin, kiling 60,000 men and cap
turing 120.000. and had overrun
the last of Germany's big Baltic
ports, Rostock and Warnemuende.
Trieste Occupied
0 Rome — (/P) —New Zealand
troops have occupied the Italian
city of Trieste, Allied Headquar
ters announced Thursday as all
fighting in northern Italy and
western Austria ceased under un
conditional surrender agreement
signed by German Gen. Heinrich
Von Vietinghoff-Scheel.
The Allied Command said more
than 230.000 prisoners had been
taken prior to capitulation, and
hostilities had ended in the area
of Von Vietinghoff'is command
west of the Isonzo River.
War In Brief
0 Stalin announces complete eon
quest of Berlin, 12 days after Red
Army troops entered Nazi capital;
Soviet communique reports suicde
of Hitler and Goebbels, quoting
captured German propaganda of
ficial: Russians take Baltic port of
Rostock.
Nearly 1.000.000 troops of Ger
man and Italian Fascist armies in
northern Italy and .vestern Austria
surrender unconditionally to Allies,
ending bloody Italian campaign
and baring southern flank of Nazi
redoub*.
British capture of Luebeck and
American-Russian junction on Elbe
noith of Berlin split northern Ger
many into three pockets, sealing
off German escape gap to Denmark;
Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt,
commander of unsuccessful Ger
man breakthrough last December,
captured by Seventh Army; U. S.
Third and Seventh armies virtually
complete conquest of Bavaria with
drive toward Linz and closing of
Inn River front opposite Braunau.
Americans on southwestern Oki
nawa advance 1,400 yards along
bitterly-held Japanese line; Mac
Arthur confirms Australian land
ing on Tarakan oil Borneo, reports
beachhead established against light
opposition.
American bombers in Europe,
now literally without targets, are
ready to move on to the Pacific for
the war against the Japs.
Pfc. "Duke", War Dog
Donated by Local Man,
Returns to Lejeune
0 Pfc. "Duke", a Doberman Pin
scher donated to the U. S. Marine
War Dog outfit by Coleman By
num of Jacksonville, has returned
to Camp Lejeune where he will be
either rested, reclassified or prob
ably honorably discharged to his
former owner.
• Duke" was one of 22 canine
warriors who recently came back
from some of the fiercest island
fighting against Jap machine gun
ners and snipers. Like the over
seas Marines, they too are subject
to combat fatigue and shell shock.
"Duke" is almost two years of
age. While in the Pacific he saw
duty in the New Hebrides, New
Caledonia and the Palaus.
Pvt. James Henderson
Of Jacksonville, Rt. 3,
Wounded In Action
4 Pvt. James E. Henderson,
son of Mrs. Eula S. HendenOB
of Jacksonville, route three,
was reported yesterday by tfca
War Department to have tM
wounded in action In EurofaM
region*. J