Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1943 — Page 3

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Hitler in Hiding; Mussolini Captured; Tojo Kills Himself

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How Deeply Do We Mean It— how fervently do we want a message (like this) of VICTORY and PEACE—blazing on the front pages. " We will give the answer right now—in the overwhelming purchase of Bonds— =

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Sign Armistice at 11:01 A.M; P I A C E

American, British, Russian Troops March Into Berlin re THE BIG FOUR OF UNITED NATIONS THERE'S BEDLAM Allied Planes Yiamphanty Patrol Skies Over Goan, id di i BE N INDIANAPOLIS ) and lepers Sarvisg Soy Civilians Clamor Evryiat Dome bowie or Food From Conquerors

We can HASTEN the a Be Wor ur VICTORY, ; n-digoy Et ad TST, a tilicg. Be orm ; : ; : : r. olf Hitler, the lunatic, was in hiding, his capture immiWe can HASTEN the PEACE’ J ; cat unpoli blew its top nent. : pr : : i : ss The war-weary populace 3 exploded in a convulsion of joy that ran ‘the gamut of human emotions

It's in our hands—we have the hearts and minds and the WILLS to do it!

i on the baile irons Benito Mussolini, his lackey, was a prisoner of war. aro. doing: their parts— ited jue. third partner in the terroristic triumvirate, comwith unexampled fostituds i ro i : pond one’ cdlapiee wate ‘Simultaneous armistices in Berlin énd Tokyo at 11:01 a. m., and devotion — prepared 10 ah : GL fo i he can nat Tor the. crestent ume | Indianapolis time, brought to a close the bloodiest struggle in the give their all! ; | rehearsed celebravion n nistory. | history of mankind. " Je Loiay these ey sould Day. 1018, uly In so fu On a three-legged table propped up by an American rifle, in 0 Want : as you _could ud some similarity | bomb-shattered ruins of the German chancellery, fat Hermann ‘boys by withholding the | camivat una Ringing Brotuers a. | Goring, Hitler's “heir,” signed an unconditional surrender in the money that provides planes cus There ha asver been ny- | presence of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, for the United States, : Sing We beter . | Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery, for the British, and Josef Stalin, for

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ships and tanks and guns ore ration “and food— and Victory! Who, at home, wants to put these boys in jeopardy by quibbling—Dby trying to see how little they can get away with! Why! Uncle Samuel doesn't {even ask us to GIVE him “the money! He wants to

BORROW it—he offers you

the best security on earth he is going to use it

“}o bring you VICTORY—and

then he'll return the money to you with interest!

$13,000,000,000

(Thirteen Billion!) is needed—

“And it must—it WILL be + forthcoming—in such a

torrent—and it will be kept

flowing in such volume—

that this publication day

of Victory, of Peace, will be

~ brought nearer!

; Indiana's share is

$I 25,000,000-—Indiana has a

reputation of going over the top first!

‘There are 7 different kinds - of Bonds — every Bond you buy brings the War a bit

closer to conclusion!

War factories closed, except for without pause {/ Whoever turns on

The same thing was true of whoever toots whistles. Schools were dismissed, which was " ary, because there weren't any teachers or pupils there.

Russia.

ly through the skies, smoke-laden from the fires that nad ravaged Berlin and Tokyo. American, British. and Russian troops marched inte Berlin, sidestepping the bodiez of dead Germans who littered every street and sprawled over gun emplacements. Starving civilians, faces pinched and eyes glazed with horror. crept along. the sidewalks. Some cheered weakly. others beggea for food, many were stark, raving _mad. Capitulation came swiftly after a 61day siege of Berlin. Allied aerial assaults had wrought havec. The city’s food supply was gone. the water polluted, the ammuni. tion dwindling. THe scene was one of utter devastation. Meager reports filtering through from the Far East recounted the same story. In the final hours, allied warships closed in on every port of Japan, practically burned out from the fury of the air assault carried on around the clock from fleet carriers and land bases in China. Hitler's fate was a mystery. Fantastic tales of suicide, murder and mob vengeance spread through neutral capitals. His last reported appearance was 10 days ago when in an hysterical order of the day he called upon the German people to fight to the death against the “Bolshevist hordes” that hemmed in the capital on every side. Reports that trickled through from Nazi prisoners at that time described him as emaciated with the haunted air of a madman. Terror had replaced fanatical zeal. He . - was broken and afraid of the terrible vengeance he had wrought upon his people. One dispatch quoted an underground radio report that he had committed suicide. This was discounted. Another said he was

murdered by a wild-eyed assassin, a: mem-

On the other side of the world, in Tokyo, Gen. Douglas Mac- | Arthur and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek looked on while Emperor Hirohito affixed the Son of Heaven's signature to a truce marking cessation of hostilities in the Far East. So today sudden peace cast a blessed silence over a devastated world. The hot barrels of artillery and big siege guns grew cold. Allied planes, their bomb bays empty, patrolled triumphant-

ber of his bodyguard who had cracked under the strain. The most reliable story seemed to come from an unnamed captured general who said that Hitler was in hiding at Berchtesgaden, a prisoner of his own general staff. Mussolini, who deserted Rome when the first allied troops invaded Italy six months ago, was discovered in the garret of an abandoned hovel on the southern shores of France. He was weak from lack of food and desperately. ill, attended by a few loyal household servants who had aided in his flight across the border. An American patrol was reported to have found him and placed him aboard an allied warship in the Mediterranean: . Tojo, after a visit to the royal palace, led & mass hara-kiri of his cabinet last night an hour after MacArthur's ultimatum to surrender. ; Announcement that the war was over was made simultaneously in identical statements by President Roosevelt in Washington and Prime Minister Churchill in London. The announcements read: “The enemy has surrendered unconditionally.” News flashes siaried jamming every cable and radio channel all over the world. In allied countries jubilant throngs virtually rioted in spontaneous outpourings of unrestrained joy. War factories shut down. Army camps

declared unofficial “furloughs.” Busi was at a standstill. \

The only civilian activity was in newspaper offices where extra editions in every language were sold out as fast as they could be printed. . It was the greatest one-word news story

of all time* “Peace.”

. In the last World War—in just the

few hours p “or seriously wounded! :

the Armistice— 1021 American soldiers—were killed