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® Strike lie Blow A! ■Homeland IBe Light American iSface Units Sunk ;|B Japanese Attack ■ -tu.-dreil ;. homeland ' ,las, ‘ s planes and live Atner- - winpaUn\fn. ; Il £IH])S SUfIK i ,,i id i' .day shortly .lap. troops lllil'ilb 1)1011' l-> . - tile .nr .«■ ilia Japan protimes . day, with of - on Kyushu JIB lau carried BK J'.n-iil.i at d K.niyo.i airKyushu some Et’-'.'li* ’ ’" - l!ll ‘ ■M th,- ' atiai ke<l ■ pl.mi. live miles ill.- tiiival base ..nly mornh Taehiarai -His Superfort on all bombed from tides. I idled Press I L. Thomas Ahn. it:, iimom! K. Turf'nasiiip ,itnphibious joined _ fleet and mill the Japonio Hie .c.irlie- p,dr landing 1., fl separate m. yeso id.iy. with aircraft diving from as 25,0 m i feet. nf .o l-o-rs were by ships' guns. I’d) HBntet air ~i,d 12 in crashes. insane the Japanwas such two sniQ b° als .rif-xpii, ably rammed island, Thomas said. The' lu.;id. ()1 > into rocks up harmlessly. - the w j t h )he “ a,, ' e for Moody Nose M C , cn p H-liu. -Marine pilots W ne Ja I’ antiaircraft fire in ifißj leas Was reusing rather j^B* so asserted that ground : K, 1 3 'ittrge-scale offensive" with the suicide : b|[ ~ dtt-n S) Bdavit | s | ssaed B Child Desertion rif f’ion-m,. ()k uly . wisp 0[ ■’? Phlld desertion. YaskUly was a 't'ainged in Hpi'-v 1 ’’;" - " ,;vli: ‘di lie pl aded B t‘; , a ' er an affidavit was K* charge'''' 1 " ,h '' Wo 11 - 61116 five ch| idren. ■ J two months' old ail( i ai . l tIP " ar “ in a local M| u WIT ” the ease etat—o T THEr MOMETER B» eratu «e READING ■ ■ » *«...: JhLi„ weather iißht d \h Oday with scat|Brtion ’ *howers in east ana becOrni ng fair toSunday. ' **"’ a,tern oon

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Submarine Is Reported Lost Washington. May 5 tl’P) The U. S. submarine Swordfish is ov .- due on patrol and presumed lost, the navy has announced. The 1,450-ton Swordfish is the 43rd submarine and 29Tth U. S. naval vessel lost in the war. Skipper of the undersea craft was Cmdr. Keata E. Montross, 33, Saginaw, Mich. Next of kin of offiems and crew, all listed missing, have been informed. 0 German Troops ! Surrender In Denmark Today Danish Police Begin Making Roundup Os Nazi Collaborators Copenhagen. May 5. lITl— Ge man troops surrendered througlion: i Denmark without incident this: morning and Danish police began rounding up Nazi collaborationists. The Danish patriots were figh'-i ing side by side with their swoi't enemies of 24 hours ago. German army troops, to subdue Danish Nazi police entrenched in buildings and street barricades. Twenty-five pet on were or wounded in the first few hours. I Fires broke out in a number of places, especially in the harbor area, as result of the fighting. The Nazi police, known ae Hipomen, disregarded Germany's unconditional stirender of Denmark I’c - haps because they faced later execution as war criminals, they decided to sell their lives as dearly as possible. (A Stockholm dispatch said 3.‘> i; ,i i fully-armed and tiained Danish j military police were <'\pected to| leave from Sweden for Deunmra momentarily, taking with them a li<st of 7,000 Danish collaboratio'o | ists wanted for trial). The fighting, scattered throng'., out Copenhagen, marred joytnl j celebrations of Denmark's liberation. Nazi bullets killed several j civilians among thi 1 tens of thou-, aiids marching through the capital - [ streets, singing and cheering. King Christian, once more in in control of his country, was scheduled to broadcast to his people t,day. after which the new premier. Wilhelm Buehl, will pr-seat 1, new government of nine veteran politicians and nine members of | the resistance movement. (FCC monitors said the Danish home radio reported that Christ inn would speak at Ga. m. E\\ T 1 lie Nazio radio at Kalundborg. Denmark. said Danish forces of the interior took over responsibility lor maintenance of public order in Di".(Turn To Page 3, Column 3) 0 Observe Poppy Day Saturday,. May 26 Legion Auxiliary Conducts Sale Here Once again on Poppy Day May 26, the members of the American Legion auxiliary will dedietce best efforts to the distribution m memorial poppies to the citizens ot Decatur, the poppy chairman announced today. It is one ot tae ways in which they pay tribute io and keep faith with those who died in the nation’s service. “The wearing of the poppy has become a silent pledge, renew'd each yeir, that the people ot Am erica have not forgotten the respon sibiHty they have been given i-.-their fighting men of both wars.' said Mrs. Elmer Darwaehter. “Many of these men have given their lives or their health for us. and it is with deep gratitude to them that '■<' set aside a day on which to honor them and assure them that we t member our promise." On Poppy Day the women of the auxiliary will offer poppies to everyone. There is no fixed pt" for a poppy—whatever is given iwelcome. Every cent that is given tor a poppy gxyes toward the rehabilit ,- tion of disabled fighting men and to the aid of the children of the dead and disabled.

As Liberated Slaves Pay Their Tribute To Yanks I I / * i ' ■■ x ./F a RUSSIAN WOMEN AND A CHILD, liberated flom slave labor camps in Germany by troops of the 13th armored division of the I'. S. First Army, lay flowers at the feet of four dead American soldiers near jllilden, Germany, as a small tribute for their saviors. Three of the soldiers, according to a Russian I i eye witness, were murdered by a Nazi officer after they had surrendered. This is an official I nited | States Army Signal Corps photograph.

British Soldiers Cheer Al Surrender Germans Sign With Marshal Montgomery Marshal Montgomery’s Headquarters. May 5— (UP) —“The war is all over, boys,” was the jubilant Tommy's reaction as ; news spread through the British ranks of the surrender of a mil-1 lion Germans in Holland. Denmark, anil northern Germany. “When do our V«Day leaves I lor old mighty start?” the troops ; wanted to know. They said they knew surrender ! was in the air "after seeing all those masses of Germans passing' I into our lines and surrendering I ■on all sides. We knew it was the I collapse ot' the Wehrmacht. They i couldn't fight on. Now it' a walk-1 I over." ; This indeed was "the moment." i as Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont-i | gomery called it when he signed | the surrender agreement with the Germans here on Luneberg Heath at 11:30 p. m. last night. The formal ceremony was in a tent on the Moorland here, a tent atop which a British flag flew iin the cold breeze blowing in j from the North Sea. But the first act was in Monty's trailer. The chief German deleAdmiral Von Friedelwr.4 commander in chief of the German navy, stepped into the trailer to tell the marshal they had decided to accept the terms. He wore a gray, oilskin coat over his naval uniform and he was white-faced and walked stiffly. The Germans had first come here Thursday to ask the terms. Before the signing. Montgomery outlined them to us — complete and unconditional surrender of all the German land. sea. and air forces facing the British. That meant the Germans in Holland, Sehh-swig Holstein. Denmark, and the Frisian islands including Heligoland. That was what the Germans had come to accept. While Montgomery and Von Friedeberg talked inside, four other German delegates waited under the huge camouflage net overlapping the trailer. They were heavy-jowled. monocled General Kinsel, chief of staff to field marshal Ernst Busch, commander of the northern armies; Rear Admiral Wagner, one of Von Friedeberg’s staff officers; and a Major Friede, an intelligence officer on Von Friedeberg's staff. A Col. Polek represented field marshal Wilhelm Keitel, second only to Fuehrer Doenitz in the command of German forces. Lt. Donald F. Hoile Awarded Air Medal Fifth Air Force. Philippines, May 5- Second Lt. Donald F. Hollo, eon of Mr. and Mrs. .Louis Hoile of Hoagland, ha«t b- en awarded the air medal for meritorious participation . in aerial flight. A pilot. Lt. Hoile flies with the Pirate squadron ot the .Jolly Rog’ rs. oldest B-24 bomb group in the Pacific.

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33 Soft Coal Mines Taken Over By Ickes Washington, May 5 (UP) The government today began operating! 33 more soft coal mines, tak-n over by coal administrator Harold L. Ickes after 10.500 miners failed to - return to work when th‘> n w soft coal wage contract was approved. ; Fifteen of the mines are in Pennsylvania. 13 in Kentucky and! southwestern West Virginia, two in , Ohio, two in Illionis and one in Alabama. They are operated by 25 I companies. !On Thursday Ickea took over! j three other soft coal mines and I all strike-tltound anthracite mines 1 in Pennsylvania. 'There are now 272 soft coal mines in government poeis-ssion. 0 ~ Soviet Union Delays Amendment Position — Delay Announcement Os Big Four Plans San Francisco. May 5 il'l’i A united Big Four front on amend meats to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for a world organization wae d- layed for at least 21 hours today by the Soviet Union. The Russians asked for 24 hours I before committing themeelves on ; am ndments pertaining to revision of treaties and regional arrangements. The other members of th Big Four the United States, Great Britain and China. a.gr ed to submit separate but identical recommendations on those issues. Fifteen minutes before last midnight's deadline the Big Four agreed to make joint recommendations to the United Nations conference on all their joint recommendations to the United Nations confer-j eirce on ail their other amendments j The treaty revision amendment i was sponsored by Sen. Arthur H. Vandeivb' rg. R„ Mich., and would have authorized the proposed general assembly to recommend postwar r- visions of any treaty when it deemed them appropriate. The regional arrangements involve such .bilateral mutual aid treaties as signed by Russia and France and whether they should b .subject to control of the world organization. We*say yes; the Russians no. Secretary of state Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., called a pre&s conference for 9:30 A. M„ I’WT. today at wliich he was expected to (Turn To Page 4, Column .1) o Man Is Fined Here As Reckless Driver On his plea of guilty to reckless driving. Dale Grover of Liberty Center was fined $lO and costs, amounting to $24.10. by Judge J. Fred Fruchte in 'Adams circuit court lute yesterday afternoon. ■Grover was charged with knocking over an ornanv ntal light poet and a fire hydrant at the southwest corner of Jefferson and Third streets on April 22. He was arrested by city police. • 1

* — — I I Two Leading Nazis Fall To Americans ! Claim Hitler Body Perfectly Hidden London, May S—(UP) —Adolf; Hiller's body has been hidden so j Well that it never will be found, Nazi propagandist Hans Fritsch'! i told hi;'. Russian captors today. Radio Moscow said Fritsche, deputy German propaganda minister taken prisoner in Berlin, asserted that* the fuehrer s corpse had been concealed in an "nndiscoverable place." Neither Hitler's body nor tha' jof propaganda minister Paul I Joseph Goebbels has been found in Beilin. Moscow said. Red i army troops who attempted to I search the ruined reichschancel- ! lory in Berlin were bcaten back ■ by raging fires. But two other prize Nazi;- han- [ fallen into American hands Dr. Wilhelm Frick, German I minister without portfolio, reichsprotector of Bohemia and M iravia and Heinrich Himmler's predecessor as interior minister. Max Amann, deputy t,o Himmler, chief of the Nazi party publishing department and publish' r of Mein Kampf. Frick. (IS. probably the highest Nazi party and German government official yet imprisoned by the Allies, was captured Wednesday at his Bavarian country estate by pure luck, a dispatch from the sixth army group revealed. Lt. Col. John N. Hutchison of Long Beach, Calif., of the sixth army group press camp had gone to Frick's luxurious home in . search of a location for a press j camp without realizing Hie iden- | tity of the minister. i Both Frick, dressed as a Bavarian country squire, and his wife received the colonel. "They made no fuss when ’1 told them I was seeking billets and were very calm all the time I talked with them,” Hutchison said. Deciding that the house would not be suitable, Hutchison left in the company of a local hotel keeper. The hotelkeeper, puzzled by Hutchison's failure to arrest Frick, asked him if he knew the identity of his erstwhile host. “Don't you know that was the former minister of interior. Dr. Frick?" the hotelkeeper asked. "I then gathered Frick was a bigshot who had better’be looked after," the colonel said. “I reported him to a nearby military government detachment and later I heard they had picked tip Frick." Amann was captured by the American seventh army not fat from Hitler's home at Berchtesgaden, a BBC broadcast said. The London Daily Express said today that “latest unconfirmed and unofficial reports" were that Hitler, Goebbels. Himmler, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering. Nazi party chief Martin Bormann and other Nazi bigwigs “may be on their way to Japan by U-boat.”

German Norway Forces Expected To Surrender Soon; Million Give Up

Two Soldiers Known Here Are Released I I I . — Confirm Report Os Freedom For Third Two soldiers known here are reported liberated from German prison camps by American troops as they marched through Germany and took the country. Confirmation of tin earlier report of a freed soldier also was received. First Lt. lames K. Glendening. 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Glendening of Hartford township, j who has been a German prisoner i since last July s. when he was | taken captive in Italy, is reported !to have been released by the ; Amerii ;ms. The ins have ! not yet been notified, but friend., have called them that they heard a broadcast of men treed by Americans and that Lt. Glendening’s name was among them. A graduate of West Point. Lt. I Glendening is a brother of I'irst ; Lt. Hubert Glendening who was reported missing following the Pearl Harbor attack and later declared dead. Lt. Glendening is a cousin of Roscoh Glendening. I cashier of the First State bank in this city. Major Harold Stump a squadron'commander of :i P 17 Thinidi erbolt unit «ho was listed as 1 missing over Germany on June . io, and later reported a prisoner lot tlo- German government, has ■ been liberated from the- Yloosberg I prisoner of war camp, according ! to word received by his parents from Lee McCardell, noted war correspondent. Major Stump is 1 the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Slump of Cody. Wyo. He is well known here, having visit' d ft • quontly with his grandfather. George Stump, and aunt. Mrs. William Kohls. Confirmation of the reb a- of Pi. . Douglas Neidigh from a German prison camp was received last night, through the American Red Cross in a telegram received by Earl I’- Ad.'tns, home Service officer of the Adams county chapter of the Red Cross. The 19-year old son of Mr and Mrs. Dewey Neidich of Willshire, 0., formerly of De. 'tilt, w.,.~ taken prisoner in Italy January JO, 1941. A message, wtis received by the parents last week from their son. stating he was w, 11 and safe. This message was radioed to this lottinry. o — — Military Observers See V-E Day Delay Smail Islands Os Resistance Remain WnMimg'on. May ■"> tl'l’l Mili-f3j-y oibs vers tbelieved today that V-E day may m d -laycd d xspite surrnde.r of German foies in Holland. Denmark and northern Germany Barring complex' Ge'inan capitulation of course. Though the surrender about ends Germ an ree’stan:,’ in (!■ rmany itself there are a number of pockets outside the Retch wher the enemy holed up in strong posessions. The larges- pocket is Czechoslovakia. wher there are believed to be som 30 German divisions, still vigorously fighting. Adjoining < /■- choslovakia are small corners of Austria and Germany itself where ther is still firm resistance. Bet'ween Berlin and t.he Elbthre was beli veil to he a smal. pocket remtaining. containing a division or s’o at most. By-Passed many weeks ago. a large force r mtains cornered in Latvia. This force has been estimated up to 15 divisions. .An even larg r force is believed still in Norway. 'Estimates have placed the Get titans there at 150,000 to 300,000 (Turn To Page 4, Column 3)

I Aussie Troops I i Advancing On I i Tarakan Island Allied Bombers And Warships Blasting Path For Soldiers Manila. May I. (I P) AT‘"I I montber< and warships blast'-d patch today f'*i Australian ”■ ■ driving toward the heart ot T., . ’ kan city on Tatal. in island it’ ; east coast of Borneo. Japanese gun einplacomeii:-. .on mnnilion dumps and tmmei u. buildings, were <h-s ,, oy t 'd l*y b< . I dual bombardment a- the Austr o , j ians swept t bronit Hie w, -ic, a ■ • ■ part of t lie ci-y I The milß.'-.ry nar ok- and tie . I important watet supply iiist.c I tions in western Tar.tkan we.e c.'.'-i :I t tired by tin- \ust ralia n 11-" 'P~ w' • Wei e ini ■ iii -a io- p- a' • J~, • j opp.isit urn i rom morin: and i, i • ihine-gun lire. Front , ports said the A a- ! 1 i ' ' di ive on the inland'- airfield, me ■'a , e.isi of the l.ingkns lu achh'-.,d w being hampered by an ■ v>-tt-v- ■<■m ~- .• I.•, t . 111 v »ti ’ .ii ' ,1 s in ml m - Tie ■■■;'- '■" • • ' sei u' ed ail I,mil ground ~ ■ .>•!•. :• I edge of Hie .n- Ii id. ' ! \ 111 H| I .’ill I.' 111 •1.. I1 i I'(>! 11 i H -!in i u p'mtided 11 ■ i' ' Ii II I nc; •:.1 ■: /.i I 101 la I 1.,. i. i end .. ' v, nt in,.- ml crier' m , with ’ln a' l I load iti a 'ip- a I:;, a- hi 1.. a k ■ , ; 1 be. II bin-, i I All!' il .111 PT i'll.l e .1 o !.1 . I ' II t lirollgh :In sc.i la in- - m■! w• | Bi i- tieo aml <'. ’. I. — -ink ■ .lapam-si- ' m-p'irt el I • e;n h. -i.\ freighters, si • u la.;;: s. I w.r I il- ind a um ■■ f I small ci aft. II The Mind i to camp was i ■lid !y apl liach: n-a ■ tun' I' ' - ot Hi. 2t:h d;. :■■■; w ■ • i I a, a, ; Davao city u - ■I a in-.- di si ■ ibed a- "no: i. vli i -I Other American tlooped oast ami north of I lava ■ w i l: i ( one i o';am:. : ■ ie' ::.- S l ' i \ Ij;i -1 a bo\c ■:; >■ • y i; a .■ 1 ■ , . i ;.: \l on a I ' w ' in; io ■ I ■ oil I. iii-y ■ : field :U I divicion advanced an nhei 11 m:J I northward and captu '-,! ’lujune! i"n "f L:l | ;i we in; ie- ~l> >. ■ 1 Kaba kan. Filipino Guerrilla I'm, ■ tm a I j time cb a red the Japa!l,i--' I' -’tn '' I t re Sitriga p’ <TVirr< e ”r' 'rrm Tr-'-'-n—---eas:■ rn tip of .- a number of |.-oo.| harbors tn Al .1 .hipping. The province a< ross Surigao st -a i;-hi f i - n A n erican-heid i.iyio island. Io tm. thi nt Laz.th ion oomph t -d moppii'.:-. tip "I t j (Tut nTo i’-0.-- A f I’m ' <D » Himmler's Family Reported Arrested By ['nited Press The Pari<’ rad: . said la-' nigh | that according to iniormat ion : reaching -he Sv os border th w ile and children of lleinri< h Himmler | : had been arrest-d on orii'-gs of admial Karl Doenitz. The broadcast, reported by CBS. said Doenitz was said to nave 1 thi' atoned their . xei-tiiion if Himmler persists in negotiating with the Allies. County Councilmen In Session Today 'l'he \dams county ceunci', was in session this morning for the purpose of considering the t’rting upon the requests for special appropriations for the payment of increased salari- s to i-outtly deputies and per diem increases to county officials. The reguests total about ' $7,100. Th allowances are payable under a new law passed by the I 1915 legislature.

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Prague Fall Heralds Collapse Os Nazis' Southern Pocket; Report Linz Falls — BULLETIN London. May 5 — (UP) — The remnants of the German army group in Austria and Czechoslovakia surrendered today, leaving Norway the only large pocket of Nazi resistance in Europe. London May J -ill’) —Reliable ('z.eehoslovak -1111: -* — in I..union I said today i liai a patriot itpt ; in ■ i bad libi rat.-d Biagm- and a Nazi report f aid the German force-. |in Norway might -iirr' mb r at I any lioni- ' R- -poll-ibli- qnai ■' r- I|.-I- -aid .- Prague-, main liastinn of G.-i I many's ! had b.'.-n in Hi.- hands <>f patriots I sini-e i ,ir v tiiis aiiernoon and the .('.-i-i-liii4n.il. fl.i. wa< flyin ov. r j th>- capil.al so: i ln first l innTin- Nazi. .) ■ ■.HI.-..! andinavI i.HI ti l. ;; apil 'mr- .111 reported I t*|.ii Ma \ .dkun i»n air. pnpp. ' ;pt emier ii. Norway, hail been i oven hrown ami tna i tim iii rman , garrison . - limited at 2 im n ' might uive up ,a' .my lime, i Th" la- : ".. pocket sofG. 1 Ilian Ii - sistani • in Europe are tn Nor- | w.iy and in and aroin d < '/.••- host .- Ivaki... Th. los- of th. ■ ]a-: ! major citadels would leave ~n l v . . .. : L.iti ;.i t. I t. th. g. .in. : Deiini.il!-. Hoi. .lai .Hid m.rthw. -■ (■■ many v > ■ i r. n- ■ F>. cuts ~. . urred so fast < am. i ft' i tt\. attemion al: - ady Was I n Used - i po- fail i (me y agm . - mmla bout rt - ; 1” I ■■ ' . ' . -a ;I. Aol - ai • :c.-,| w.- !i .im,■ r.-s.-i ve p.-mi-1: I’ra git. indeed had fa I!■ ii. il I of tii.- Gam.;!-' .<out 11. rn pock. '. ; Tia German already mid simw n t'zei hoslovakia. They de. a red j again.-: l!:- Alli. ■ I Other - \ m-i ot Nazi di-.t | had i aptured Linz, Austria's third ! city. Tin report a.- < out; it - d in -_a—■ "I.a.a ;. n.idi i ’ : cm Flensburg on tim Danish bolder wa - inii i ■ 'til inn d immi'dia: ci\ Th. Ili rm.in . ota .die,! i t.d,> I t ..I!■ > a.■ co -■■ .i 1-. \-v ’i ■ h!: ii : tiein An ria. and We<t us S'. Pol• < t•. form s a. a Vi. tna w in 'l'll.- g.-i man < otiim.iml <aid th" Stu ■• ; a to Mo cry was arranged on orders of Admiral Kail Doenitz "after an honor.tide fight hist ini - . ’ . x- years because tin- war aaainsl tile West, ern powurs ii.m lost a meaning and t ■ sin i- oi iy in the in- of prei ions Gi-rn: ai blood." But resistance agains: tho Russians being mu to

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