Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1945 — Page 1

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Victory Half Won,

FORECAST:

Chief Officers of Four Nations at Historic Signing

Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl, German chief of staff, under Doenitz, is shown signing the document.

Acme Telephotos.

At the scene as the surrender was signed; Left to right, Maj. Gen. Ivan Susloparoff of the Red army;

Lt. Gen, Sir F. E. Norgen, deputy chief of staff, SHAEF; Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,

chief of staff,

SHAEF; Capt. Harry C. Butcher, naval aid; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, hold pens with which the surren-

der was signed; Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy supreme commander, and Sir Harold M Burrough, allied navel chief.

ALLIES DISCIPLINE A.P. FOREIGN CHIEF

Colleagues. Chan Charge Most Disgraceful Double-Cross. PARIS, May 8 (U.P.)—Supreme

allied headquarters today enforced

disciplinary action against Edward

Kennedy, chief of Associated Press

correspondents on the Western front, for filing an unauthorized dispatch describing: the German surrender at Reims. Kennedy was one of seven Ameriean correspondents assigned to fly from supreme headquarters to Reims to witness the capitulation. He alone sent out a Reims dispatch yesterday despite a group

pledge on the part of the corre-

spondents. that their copy would not be released for publication until authorized by supreme ‘headquar~ ters. Such authorization did not

come until today,

Although the original action against the AP suspended all its filing privileegs throughout the

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Nazi Signs and Trips on Cable

Here is an eyewitness account of Sunday's surrender at Reims by one of the seven American news and radio reporters who saw it take place. This story was filed at 8 a. m. Monday (1 a. m. Indianapolis time) with censorship at supreme allied headquarters in Paris for transmission as soon as the official embargo was lifted.

By BOYD D, LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent REIMS, France, May 7 (Delayed). — Representatives of our allied powers and vanquished Germany scrawled their names .on a sheet of foolscap in a map-linéd 30 by 30foot room at 2:41 a. m. European time today and ended world war II in Europe. I witnessed this historic scene. In a ceremony exactly 20 minutes long, Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl, chief

of staff. of Adm. Doenitz’s government and long-time close friend of Adolf Hitler, surrendered all Ger-

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Wilson's Dying Words on

League Told

After 21 Years

By PETER EDSON, NEA Staff Correspondent '

BAN FRANCISCO, May 8—Woodrow Wilson died with the undérstanding that it was right for the U. 8. to stay out of the old League of

Nations, in 1920.

And the day before his death he prophesied this country would join

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a new league of nations and that it would succeed, his daughter, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo has just revealed, breaking a family secret held for 21

years. Mrs. McAdoo is in San Franccisco in connection with her war bond work and as a radio correspondent covering the United Nations conference. This story of her father’s death,

long, Col. Gen, Gustav Jodl, chief

REBELLIONS FEARED IN PARTS OF EUROPE

Peace Delegates See Bad Conditions in Future.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 8.-—The end of the war in Europe marks the beginning of what is bound to be one of the most difficult epochs in world history, That is the view of most conference delegates here. For the next five to 10 years, they point out, Europe will face conditions bordering on chaos or worse. Revolt or civil war in certain areas is probable, Millions of uprooted peoples will be on the move. Discontent, fed by

misery, hunger and hate will spread out over the continent like an angry

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FORM PICKET LINE BEFORE CITY HALL

Protest Failure to Meet Union Representatives.

A picket line formed shortly before noon in front of city hall, protesting Mayor Tyndall’s unwilling ness to meet with representatives of Local 846, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, A, F. of L. On strike since last Thursday, city maintenance workers have repeatedly asked the mayor for a conference. He has refused, citing legal opinions that he claims prohibit him from Any recognition of the union. About 75 pickets carried signs

but did not attempt to stop anyone

from entering or leaving the

building.

“How About It, General? This

Is. Not the Army,” one sign read.|

Others were labeled “Isn't This Free America?” “Why Don't You Meet

Our Officers?” "Tired of Being Fired Withour Reason." "We Want to Work, How About It, Mayor." t

TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1945

WARNS JAPAN T0 QUIT NOW OR FACE RUIN

President Proclaims Next| Sunday Day of Prayer; Praises Eisenhower.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent : WASHINGTON, May 8. — President Truman today proclaimed victory in Europe. But he told the nation its fighting job would be finished only “when the last Japanese division has surrendered unconditionally.” He said “our victory is only halfwon.” He gave this counsel for the months to come: “Work, work, work.” He gave this advice to :the Japanese: Surrender.

Surrounded by his government leaders, Truman issued his proclamation of victory and his statement of the work yet to do at a historic news conference in the White House. Then he broadcast them to the nation. Outside, while the President spoke,

a chill rain fell.

Work as Usual at Capitol

‘Government workers and officials took V-E day in stride. Where possible they listened to the President's broadcast and then went back to their jobs, as he previously

WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P.). —“The collapse of Germany

should inspire all America and

give us renewed courage and determination in our fight for total victory,” Ted R. Gamble, national director of the war finance division of the treasury, said today. “Buying and holding all the war bonds we possibly can is the least that we at home can continue to do.”

had asked them to do. The capitol was virtually deserted at that early hour—to the . disappointment of three soldiers, bound for Germany to join occupational forces, who had hoped to see how the house and senate reacted. At the war and navy departments it was a quiet day. The war department had planned a little ceremony outdoors, but it was cancelled. The official reason: “Rain and work.” “This,” the President said, “is a solemn but glorious hour.” He voiced the thought of millions by adding: Sunday Day of Prayer “How I wish Franklin Roosevelt had lived to see this day.” The President reminded the nation in its flush of victory that it had not been fighting alone, and he proclaimed Sunday, May 13, a day of prayer. “I call upon all the’ people of the United States, whatever their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and pray that He will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the way of peace. “I also call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible our victory.” Thanks Eisenhower

The President sent his 'congratulations and thanks to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Premier Josef Stalin, and Gen, Charles de Gaulle. To Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower he said: “All of us owe to you and to your men of many nations a debt beyond appraisal for their high

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Get Ban on Police,

Then Open Club

- The 375 club, 375 8. Illinois st. obtained a restraining order against interference by city police before it was opened for business. A couple of officers dropped by a few days ago and watched the boys rig up their paraphernalia. The club's incorporators thought they detected a threatening glance, and

There on May 5 they obtained the temporary restraining order ‘barring police from the establishment. The organization was chartered only two weeks ago, and operations had

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Fair and cooler with scattered light frost tonight; tomorrow, fair and continued cool.

Surrounded by his government! leaders, Mr.

hastened off to circuit court.

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Text of Truman's

. V-E Proclamation WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P).—Following is the text of President Truman's speech: This is a solemn but a glorious hour. Gen. Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to thé United Nations. The flags of reason fly over all Europe. I only wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day. For this victory we join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity. Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band.

Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow

and heartbreak which today abide in the homes of so

many of our _neighbors—neighbors whose most priceless

possession has been rendered as a sacrifice to redeem our liberty.

We can repay the debt which we owe to our God, to -our- dead and to our children only by work—by ceaseless devotion to the responsibilities which lie ahead of us. If

I could give you a single watchword for the coming months, that word is—work, work, work.

‘We Must Bind Up Wounds’

We must work to finish the war. Our victory is but half-won. The West is free, but the East is still in bondage to the treacherous tyranny of the Japanese. When the last Japanese division has surrendered ‘unconditionally, then only will our fighting job be done. We must work to bind up the wounds of a suffering world—to build an .abiding peace, a peace rooted in justice "and in law." "We can build such a peace only by hard, toilsome, painstaking work—by understanding and working with our allies in peace as we have in war, The job ahead is no less important, no less urgent, no less-difficult than the task which now happily is done. I call upon every American to stick to his post until the last battle is won. Until that day, let no man abandon his post or slacken his efforts. And now, I want to read to you my formal proclamation of this occasion: By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATION The allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and “with God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies” and broken the lives of millions upon millions of freeborn men. They have violated their churches, destroyed their homes, corrupted their children, and murdered their loved ones, Our armies of liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples whose spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave. Much remains to be done. The victory won in the West must now be won in the East. Thé whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. United, the peace-loving nations have demonstrated in the west that their arms are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of military cliques that once called us soft and weak. The power of our peoples to defend themselves against all enemies will be proved in the Pacific war as it has been proved in Europe. For the triumph of spirit and of arms which we have won and for its promise to people everywhere who join us in the love of freedom, it is fitting that we as a nation give thanks to Almighty God, who has strengthened us and given us the victory. Now, therefore, 1, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Sunday, May 18, 1945, to be a day of prayer. I call upon the people of the United States, whatever their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray that he will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the way of peace. I also call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible our victory. In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 8th day of May, In the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and. forty-five, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. HARRY S. TRUMAN. . By the President.

JOSEPH C. GREW, Acting secretary of state.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice

Indianapolis, 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

WAR ENDS IN EUROPE AT 5:01 P.M.

Unite And Work,” Truman Tells Nation

FINAL HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

PEACE TO BE RATIFIED AT BERLIN TODAY

Cease Fire Order Issued All Along Allied Lines but Some Fighting Contnues In Nazi Pockets pf Resistance By Virgil Pinkley United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, May 8 ~The bloodiest war in Europe's history ends officially at 12:01 a. m. tomorrow (5:01 p. m. today Indianapolis time).

The unconditional surrender of Germany is scheduled to be ratified in the ruins of the Reich's capital city of Berlin.

Guns were still blazing and men still dying in some parts of Europe, but the cease fire order has gone down from the high command of the western allies. The end of the war was proclaimed by President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Gen. Charles de Gaulle of France.

Premier Stalin waited -- presumably until Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin, sits down in the Reich capital and exacts reassurance from German leader that their troops will quit fighting the Red army. Such fighting still was going on briskly in central Europe.

250,000 Surrender in Norway British warships steamed toward Oslo to accept the surrender of some 250,000 German troops in Norway. What is left of the German navy received specific orders from the allies on how to surrender. German warships were ordered to remove the breech locks from their guns and unload torpedo tubes. The U-boats, once the terror of the Atlantic, were ordered to surface immediately if they still were at sea, hoist black flags and report their position in plain language to the nearest radio station. Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. 3d

army, the last American force fight-

ing In Europe, was brought to a standstill by a cease fire order at 8 a, m. Last Shot in Austria Front reports indicated the army’s last shot was. fired in the Austrian mountains southwest of Linz. Churchill, in his proclamation from 10 Downing street, revealed that the ratification of Germany's surrender was being made in Berlin today, with Marshal Withelm Keitel, chief of the high command, acknowledging the German defeat. Sitting around the table with Keitel in Berlin will be: For the Western Allies: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder, deputy supreme commander. For Russia: Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, commander of the first White Russian army, For France: Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny, commander of the French 1st army. Still Some Fighting Fanatical Nazis, defying the high command’s unconditional surrender, held out in some parts of Czechoslovakia, in French Atlantic ports the channel islands, and some pinpoints in the Aegean. And on the Russian front resistance continued in some considerable strength. But Prime Minister Churchill warned in London that if the Nazis held out after the deadline, they would become outlaws under the rules of war, and- would be attacked from all sides by the allies,

Taverns Close,

By SHERLEY UHL

The war load was lighter by one whole continent today but Indian apolis’ relaxed very little. Europe was out of the battle. Indianapolis was still very much in it. For the most part the ctiy observed to the letter President Truman’s declaration proclaiming V-E day an occasion for renewed work and prayer. Tonight the first glaring evidence of the European peace will come when downtown bright lights are turned on for the first time since Feb. 1. The brownout is over. Edward Flack, director of the office of war utilities, revoked the order which had darkened shop windows, theater marques and outdoor adver-

tising signs for the past three months. Industrial wheels manufacturing Pacific war materials whirled in almost all factories today. Commerce proceeded normally with

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The German “peace” government of Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz, successor of Adolf Hitler, was on a semblance of official func« tions at Flensburg on the Danish frontier. Doenitz offered today in a Flensburg broadcast to continue the leadership of the German governs ment during the allied occupation of the Reich. Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, ousted in the last days of organized resistance from the command of the German air force, was believed to be with the Doenitz government. So was Heinrich Himmler, gestapo chief and interior minister. The unconditional surrender was signed by Doenitz and Gen. Jodl, representing the German high command. Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff, and Gen, Francois Sevez for ‘the Westerri allies, and Gen. Ivan Susloparov for Russia, Even in the hour of allied triumph in Europe, Churchill turned

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Truman's Birthday Page 2 Local General Présides ... 2 German Surrender Text 4 Truman Message to Allies 4 Views of Hoosier Congressmen 4 Churchill Victory Text 7 ‘To Men in Pacific’ 7 A Year to Beat Japan .... 7 Truman. Text on Pacific .... 9 V. E. Editorial ..... 14

RUSS CAPTURE DRESDEN LONDON. May 8 (U, P.) —Soviet |troops have captured Dresden after a two-day battle, Premier Stalin announced in an order of the day today.

City Takes V-E Day in “Stride:

Brownout Ends

downtown and neighborhood stores remaining open. The alcoholic trade was the lone exception: Bars and taverns were to shut their doors for 24 hours after the President's proclamation in acéorlance with an edict issued by the state alcoholic beverages commission. Nearby military posts were on the job without let-up, processing men and material for continued fighting against the Japs. - Prayers in Churches “. All' public offices, state, county and city, were open. Indianapolis churches prepared to hold special prayer services tonight. Some of them received V-E day worshipers throughout the day. The prevailing spirit was one of sober thanksgiving rather than jubilancy. V-E day dawned bright and sunny following a squally, gusty ----- (Continued on Page 5 --Column 3)