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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-07-20

Margaret Moore HOLSTER have
returned from a visit of a week
in New York where they were
joined by the latter's brother, Lit.
EG.g.) George HOLSTER, for the du-
ration of their visit. From New
York Misses Cole and Hollis
ter went to Baltimore where they
were guests of Miss HOLSTERS
former school teacher, Miss
Maude Alice Murphy. They also
spent two days in Washington.
Friends of Mrs. Billy Marchert
who recently resigned her posi-
ton at the Pascagoula office of
the Southern Bell Telephone
Company, will be interested to
learn that she is now filling a
similar position in Granada, her
former home.
Ashby Mason, the young son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Mason, re-
turned Saturday from a stay of
a week at a Boy Scout camp near
Chronicle, Ala.
Mrs. Floyd Daniel, Sr.. and
daughter, Miss Dottie. have re-
turned from Atlanta, Ga, where
they spent a few days with Cap
tain Floyd Daniel, Jr., who is IN
der treatment at the Lawson
General hospital for wounds e
ceived in the European Theater
of War.
Miss Audrey Smith spent the
weekend with relatives in
Brookhaven.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. p. Emmit
spent Tuesday in Biloxi.
Miss Betty Jane Emmit spent
several days visiting friends in
New Orleans last week.
MI. and Mrs. J. d. Avery have
departed for their home at
Minden, La, after a visit of sew
teral days with their daughter,
Mrs. Bernard Crunk and family.
Mrs. E. A. Parker was a bust
ness visitor to New Orleans last
Friday.
Miss Marian McCool. director
of the Travellers Aid Society of
the USO when its office was
in Pascagoula, has left Camp
Shelby for Sam Houstonvbgkqjg
Shelby for San Francisco. Miss
McCool was head of the Trav-
eler's Aid at Biloxi, when that
office and the one in Pascagoula
merged, and later was at Gulf
port. She resigned her position
to enter the Red Cross where
she has been training for sever
al months for overseas duty as
counsellor to patients in service
mems hospitals. Miss McCool
will probably be sent to the Phil
ippines from San Francisco.
Mrs. Tony Terrific has returned
from a visit with her sister, Mrs,
AL Baker and Mr.. Baker in Los
Angeles, greatly improved after
a serious illness. En- route home,
Mrs. Terrific stopped at Texas
City, Texas, for a visit in the
home of her sister, Mrs. Graham
! McFarlane.
DR.. and Mrs. Mickal of New
Orleans and Miss Dottie Landeche
of Killona. La, spent the past
weekend with MI. and Mrs. An
ton Kihyet. GIT Washington ave-
nue..
Mrs. George HOLSTER returned
to Pascagoula, Tuesday, from a
visit of three months in the home
of her son, George Hollister, in
Jacksonville, Fla. where she had
the pleasure of being with her
nephew, Ensign Ralph HOLSTER,
who was home on leave. Mrs.
HOLSTER joined her son, Graham
HOLSTER and family of Beau
mont, who are visiting in the
home of Mrs. Annie X. Ladnier'
| Beach Boulevard.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-07-20

Staff Sergeant and Mrs. K. w.
Mcleod and daughter, Karen,
spent two weeks as guests of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. E.
Mcleod of Pascagoula, and Mr..
and Mrs. J.. F. Taylor of Moss
Point. They left Thursday for
their home in Tyler, Texas.
Mrs. j. C. Cunningham left
Wednesday for a visit of two
months with her daughter, Mrs.
James McCray.
Mrs. Marion Batiste and sons,
Dennis and Gerald, are spending
two weeks in Mobile with Mr..
Batiste's mother, Mrs. d. I. Ba-
tiste.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Aicklen
and daughter, Jan, of New Or
leans, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. J. c. Cunningham.
Miss Rose Marie Belt of st.
Louis, Mo-, is spending the sum-
mer with MI. and Mrs. Lee Han
son and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Prassenos.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Lunn re-
turned Friday from a vacation
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Day
in Sikeston, Nc.
Garland N. White will visit
soon with his longtime friend,
Major Garland Wilson. at Camp
Shelby, Miss. Major Wilson re-
Gently returned from ten months
European combat service with
the 95th Division.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Rockwell
and son, Charles Wayne OF Mo-
bile, visited Tuesday with Mr..
and Mrs. George Rockwell.
Mr.. Jesse W. and Miss Ina
Thompson were dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Calhoun of Mt.
Olive, Miss, who are va~cationing
at the Edgewater Gulf Hotel on
Friday. Other guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Calhoun Sunday for the
day were Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Graham and Miss Dora Cowan.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Golf re-
turned Saturday from Hatties-
burg where he and Mrs. Golf
have been taking a special course
at the ste. Mrs. Golf with her
little daughter, Peggie. will con-
tinue her studies for another
month.
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Ermise
are enjoying a vacation on Stat
en- Island. N. Y, while the for
mer is on shore leave. Mrs. Err
mise Joined her husband at Port
land. Me. while he was stationed
at that point, and will remain
With him until his ship again
goes to sea. Mrs. Ermise is the
former Margie Dantzler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil B. Davis
have gone for a visit of a week
Nth relatives and friends in New
Orleans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil B. Davis de-
parted Saturday for a visit of a
week with relatives and friends
IN New Orleans.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-07-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil B. Davii
have gone for a visit of a weel
Nth relatives and friends in New
Orleans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
Strange Things Happen
On Tcp$y- 7urpy Front

one-haf years and then all Of .
sudden he saw the light. He went
home and found his wife and three
children huddled in the cellar of a
bombed building while the local
Nazi party leader was living of
thefat of the land. He decided he
had been gypped.
He had been discharged from the
army early this month but had
been picked up when his neigh
bors pointed him out as a soldier.
He said he was ready to fight
with the Americans against the
Russians or with the Americans
against the Germans. 1t didn't
make any difference to him. He
just wanted to fight. Furthermore,
he said, he could convince plenty
Of Germans they should surrender.
So it was decided to send the
German along with the patrol. for
whatever he was worth. The first
thing that happened was that a
German soldier riding a bicycle
down the road failed to halt when
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
EdouQrd Herriot Named
In Paris Municipal Vote

ton of Marshal Henri Phlhppe re.
tain as German collaboratlonlst
had drawn support to the party's
candidates, including many voters
unaffiliated with any party.
Andre Mormet, procurer gener-
al, who will conduct the case
against Petain, was returned TO
office with a heavy plurality.
Edouard Herriot, former presi-
dent of the chamber OF deputies,
who has just reached Switzerland
from a German prison camp, was
elected to the municipal council OF
Lyons by a four to one margin
Six members of Gen. de Gaulle' S
cabinet who ran for city offices
also were elected.
Herriot is expected momentarlly
in the city, which is preparing a
welcome to him. He served as Its
mayor more than 20 years before
the vichy regime deposed him.
Joseph Paul Boncour, a member
of the French delegation to the San
Francisco conference, also was
elected by a big margin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30

lBratya Iur and Lei Snelnln. In
some districts there were great
stacks of these wheels only just
removed.
"A captured quartermaster nam
ed Krone of the second police bat
talon testified his battalion was
sent out to roundup deserters but
the battalion itself deserted"
Krone was quoted as saying that
in the subway tunnels beneath tie
city more than 10000 deserters
were hiding out. These figures,
he said, came from high-ranking
Nazis.
New orders were found posted
on downtown Berlin buildings
threatening immediate reprisals
against the families of all desert
ers. The orders were signed by
Heinrich Himmler.
A Pravda correspondent, Maj.
Sergei Borzenko, wrote:
"All day and night artillery is
pounding the center of the city.
The earth is shaking like an earth
quake. Every wall is pitted with
holes from cannon, machineguns,
mortars or rifles. Your feet
crunch into seas of glass. A doll.
blown from a toy ship, is lying
next to dead soldier. Not a single
bird is left in Berlin.
1.-THE nights are like the days.
The same cannonading. There is
not cloud in the sky. Nobody
notices the moon and hundreds of
searchights are trained on the
Germans in the city"
Two Red Star correspondents
wrote:
'The Germans paid a lot of at
tention to the subways system.
As a means of communication,
however, it is contributing very
fCnx&;ruoI m pat Five. COI IL
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
U. S. :. Forces
Encounter No
Nazii Troops
Patton's Third Drives
South OF Danube For
Second Junction wv

PARIS, Monday, April 3o-WP)--
Three American divisions swept
without resistance into revolt-torn
Munich, birthplace of the Nazi
party, yesterday along streets lin
ed with white flags and it was
indicated that the entire city with
Adolf Hitlers famous beer cellar
might already be theirs.
Unconfirmed Swiss broadcasts
said that as the Yanks entered
the city Paul Geisler, lone man
government of Bavaria" Nazi
leader, premier, interior minister
for finance, economy and educa-
tion-was stabbed by his valet and
was dying in hospital.
The entry to Germany's third
city was made without resistance.
Four of Germany's best SIS COM
bat divisions were supposed to be
ready to make a Eastman stand
in it. But the And Infantry en-
tered from the northwest, the 18th
Armord from the southwest and
the goth Armored from the north.
The 45th Infantry Division was
one mile west of Dachau, site of
one Of the most infamous concen-
tration camps in all Germany,
eight miles northwest OF Munich.
The TIN Army, whose troops en-
tered Munich, had taken $4,000
prisoners in the "a hours ended
Saturday midnight.
AS the Yanks entered Munich
Scots infantrymen and British
commands crossed the lower
Elbe at the northern end of the
dissolving front and established a
firm bridgehead in a threat to
cut off Denmark and join with the
Russian Army driving westward
across the Mecklenburg plain.
An unconfirmed Brussels radio
broadcast reported that American
troops had linked with Soviet
forces in Austria and the Paris
radio, also unconfirmed, said that
the American 9th Army had at
tackled from its Barby bridgehead
on the Elbe southwest of Berlin.
Dispatches describing the Amer
lean drive into Munich said that
no resistance was reported and it
was believed that. the rebellion of
war-weary German troops in that
city last Thursday night had set
the stage for swift conquest Of
the Nazi party's birthplace.
Maj. Gen. Harry J. Collins And
(Rainbow) Divisions, which Gen.
Douglas Macarthur commanded
in World War One, climaxed a
35-mile drive from it's last-report-
ed position at Aindling to enter
the revolt-torn city from the north
west.
The 18th Armored Division.
which crossed the Lech river near
Mulhausen yesterday. raced 70
miles and crashed into Munich
from the southwest. Dispatches
said the two columns were expect
ed to join forces within the city
momentarily.
Munich, the last great city in
southern Germany guarding the
northern wall of the Nazis Bavar-
ian redoubt, has population Of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
CAPITAL AWAITS
NEWS OF VICTORY
War And State Depart.
ments Are Occupied
With Routine Stats

WASHINGTON, April 29.-W.D-
Official Washington tonight was
on the alert for big news from
Europe but there was no unusual
activity indicating that We Day
is at hand.
The War and State Departments
were closed down, except for u.s.
ual routine stats, and President
Truman spent Is minutes in the
executive office at the White House
after attending services at Foun-
dry Methodist church with Lewis
J. Schwellenbach, Federal district
judge and former U. S. Senator
from Washington.
Schwellenbach repeatedly is in
line to succeed Frances Perkins
as Secretary of Labor. He came
to Washington last week and had
and luncheon conference
with the President.
When he walked to the White
House from Blair House, where he
is residing temporarily, Mr.. Tru-
man was accompanied by his mill
tary aide, Col. Harry Vaughan.
It was not revealed whether there
was any significance in the Presi-
dents Midday activity.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30

PARIS, April 29.-(R)-Commu-
INST candidates for municipal Of
ice in Paris held a commanding
ieao on the basis of nearly COM
plele returns from today's first
electlon in France in nine years.
Election returns from other
french metropolitan centers indi-
GATED their voters, too, had sup
F0i'eo candidates of the leftist
palueS IN contests for municipal
Ollces, the only ones at stake in
'oaay's voting.
only few returns had been re.
a sti,.e from traditionally conserv,
I've country districts.
o;+ III FaHs and other principal
s stIies the communists leads seem.
~ 10 De safe, while socialists and
n autcals ran well ahead of center
parties rites. and rightists. '~-
that Pol p5 observers speculatec
No. sr eleventh hour communist de-
"''oS Tor quick trial and convic
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
AMERICANS TAKE
PADADA AIRFlELD
Yanks Drive II Miles
Northward From juno
ton At Kabacan

MANILA. Monday. April 3d.
W.H-American troops advancing
in two directions on Mindanao have
captured the airfield at Padada,
four miles south of Digos on Da-
vac gulf, and driven II miles
northward from the interior road
junction at Kabacan, Gen. Doug
las Macarthur reported today.
Infantrymen of the oath Divi-
sion, who "a hours earlier had
reached the gulf after Today
march clear across southern Min
danao, turned southwark from Di-
COS to take the airdrome. MacAr-
thurs communique announced
that American planes already
were operating from this field.
The 31st Division, pushing north
ward from Kabacan along highway
number 3 which leads to the north
coast of the island, was fighting
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
By IVES GALLAGHER

WITH THE U. S. NINTH ARMY
ON THE ELBE RIVER, April 20.
R)-Strange things happen every
day on this topsy-turvy front-hke
the 5000 Germans who wanted to
surrender to an American first
class private who was riding
around in a German automobile
with a German pa-atrooper.
It all started when the Ameri-
cans decided to send out a patrol
to attempt to contact the Russians.
The patrol was commanded by 1t.
Worth B. Rabbit, 81, a former in
surance salesman of Santa Ana,
Calf.
But just about the time the pa
troll was ready to cross the river
a German paratrooper lieutenant
was brought in for investigation.
The German was Is years old
He had been fighting six years,
had been wounded nine times. and
held the ritter cross, the second
highest decoration in Germany.
He had been a Nazi for five and
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
ROME SATISFIED
AT DUCE'S DEATH
People OF City Take Pride
In Our Disposition OF
War Criminals

ROME, April 29.-(P- Rome
received word of the execution of
Benito Mussolini with grim salts
faction tonight.
A typical reaction was the COM
ment by a taxi driver:
THAT'S the only thing to do with
murderers of thousands. They do
not want any 45-day trials up there
in the north.''
Italians in Rome and elsewhere
have shown increasing pride each
day as word of fresh patriot up
risings reached them. Tonight their
pride swelled over the fact that
patriots had disposed of the top
ranking. Fascist war criminals
without awaiting the arrival of
Allied troops.
Generally there appeared to be
greater interest over the Milan
radio report of the execution OF
fCnnfinued IN Pape Five. Col ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30

invitation to Poland.
The United States and Britain
are understood to oppose firmly
admitting the Polish government
as now constituted.
The United States position is
that the Polish and Argentine
problems are not connected, and
that if a majority of the 46 United
Nations delegations wish to. invite
Argentina, they may do so-with-
out Soviet approval.
The question of inviting Poland
came up again last night when
the Big Four foreign ministers
Stettinius of the United States,
Molotov of Russia, Eden Of Britain
and Soong of China-met to pre-
pare for the next conference ses-
sion.
1t is expected to go to the steer
ing committee of the conference
tomorrow.
Chile or Brazil will propose an
invitation to. Argentina
Continued on Page Five; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
ROMEO OUTLINES
new MERIT PLAN
New System Will Be Pre-.
sented To Next City
+ Council Meeting

Councilman Robert R. Romeo,
who with Councilman R. S. Le-
Gwin was requested by the City
Council to study the City merit
rating system of city employees
last night revealed his proposed
changes in the method of apply
ing the system. LeGwin said he
has not seen the proposed changes,
and as yet has suggested no
changes.
''since the matter was brought
up at the last City Council meet
ing during my absence from the
City, I now feel free to release for
publication the details in coz
nection with a revised rating
method for all city employees and
also suggested scale for recog-
nizing with pay increases the
length of service as well as class
of SERVICE" he said.
This proposal has not been
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
DUKE OF WINDSOR
TO LEAVE NASSAU
Bids Farewell To People
OF Bahamas; To Visit
U. S., Canada

NASSAU, Bahamas, April 90
RAIn a three-minute broadcast
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
today said farewell to the people
of the Bahamas, but assured them
"you have not seen the last OF US"
The Duke, who resigned the
governorship of this island col
ony on March IS, described their
departure as 1.-THE closing of an
interesting and happy chapter Of
our lives"
1t was chapter saddened only,
he said, by the knowledge of the
grim struggle and suffering on the
battlefields of the world.
In her farewell, the Duchess en-
phasized the pleasure she had had
in joining women of the colony in
their contributions to the war ef-
fort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
Three Yank Divisions Sweep Into Munich
Reds Seize Nr7 Blocks Of Ruined Berlin
Mussolini Reported Slain By Milan Patriots
Suede Held Talking
Peace With HimmLer
Hitler Reported Dead; Stockholm Says Bern.
adotte Returns To Germany With
Revised Peace Plan

LONDON, Monday, April 3d.
W.D-SWedish Count Folke Berna-
dotte is in contact with Heinrich
Himmler for the second time in a
Nazi attempt to negotiate peace,
Stockholm reported last night, and
the Swiss radio reported as un-
confirmed that Adolf Hitler died
at noon yesterday in his Berlin un-
foreground shelter.
Confused and conflicting reports
were exchanged over continental
radios on German peace attempts,
Himmler's whereabouts and Hit
ler's fate. But Stockholm reports
persisted that whatever might be
the result Himmler was trying to
negotiate peace.
The Swiss radio quoted Bern dis
patches to Stockholm as relaying
unconfirmed reports from high
military circles in Munich that
Hitler died in his Tiergarten
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
laps Kill 29 Doughboys
On u. S. Hospital Ship

GUAM, Monday, April 30.-(P)--
A Japanese suicide pilot crashed
into the U. S. S. Comfort, a bright
ly-lghted Navy hospital ship, south
of Okinawa Saturday night. There
were So American casualties, in
Guiding 20 killed, Fleet Adm. Ches-
ter W. Nimitz reported today.
The Japanese plane which made
the suicide attack is still on the
Comfort, although she is proceed
ing to port under her own power.
The Comfort, evacuating wound
ed, was well-lighted and plainly
marked with large red crosses
painted on her white decks and
superstructure. The attack occur
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30


MILAN, April 90 U.D italian
patriots executed Benito Mussolini
yesterday, and today bowling
mob is kicking and splitting on his
remains lying in the center of this
city where Italian Fascism was
born.
Mussolinis face wears disdain-
full snarl. He died shouting mo.
Mo-" to a firing squad which took
his life, and that of his mistress,
near the village Of Dongo on Lake
Como at 40 p. m.
The body was taken to Milan
and dumped in the city's square.
The brains which took Fascist
Italy into the war ooze onto the
filth of dirt plot in the center OF
Milan.
Along with Mussolini, the pa
trlots killed his mistress, Clara
Petacci, and 16 other Fascists,
Continued on Page Eight; Col. p
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shelter with Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels beside him.
Stockholm believed that Berna-
dotte, after carrying a verbal mes
sage from Himmler to American
and British representatives, was
in Denmark again, probably in
contact with Himmler.
London morning newspapers put
Himmler variously in Berlin, after
a flight from Prague, and at Lue-
beck on the Baltic where he was
said to be preparing "capitula-
ton orders" British troops who
crossed the Elbe near Hamburg
yesterday are only 80 miles from
Lubbock.
The daily mail quoted Swedish
sources as saying that Bernadotte
and Himmler were working out a
capitulation offer to be presented
t,nnkiuunI ~, D. ~n Tim. (I0Y ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
Moabit Jail
Is Captured.
By Russians
Germans Say Soviet Break
Through To Court
ward OF Palace

LONDON, Monday, April 30-U.R)
The Red Army damned Berlin's
suicide garrison into a 10-square
milo area around the Tiergarten
and Inter Den Linden yesterday
after capturing 1T blocks of the
inner city including the ruined
Anhalter station and the notorious
Moabit jail.
Moscow dispatches said that
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
yeageful veterans of Stalingrad
already had broken across the
Landwehr canal on the southwest
era edge of the Tiergarten and
were fighting their way through a
maze Of sunken forts and case
nsntea hillocks in Berlin's CEN
trsl park.
German broadcasts said the
Russians had broken through to
the Lustgarten courtyard fronting
the royal palace, the Berlin cathe-
dr9l and the old museum at the
eastern end of the broad Inter
Der Linden.
The battle of Berlin entered its
waning hours with approximately
$4,000 Germans killed or captur-
ed in desperate but futile de-
fense Of the city. More than 49,
OOJ were captured Saturday and
yesterday alone in a pocket south
east Of Berlin which was all but
eliminated, and 1000 others gave
up inside the city.
While his First White Russian
Army mopped up Berlin in CO.
ordination with the First Ukrain-
ian Army, Zhukov swung part OF
his forces into a new 85-mile Of
fen i've front north of the crumb-
ling Reich capital with Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovskys Sec
ond White Russian group.
Sweeping as much as 20 miles
through the lake defenses of Ger
many's advertised northern re-
doubt, Rokossovsky's troops in.
vaded Mecklenburg province,
struck within SIS miles of the big
port Of Rostock and within 49,
miles Of the V-bomb's birthplace
at Plenemuende, and virtually cut
off the island port of SWinemuende
commanding Stettin bay.
The nightly Russian communique
mentioned only one other active
sector, Czechoslovakia's Moravia
province where advances were re-
ported on a 40-mile front east of
fallen Brno. A German commu-
nque reported the loss of the
famed Napoleonic battle-ground OF
AuSterlitz (Slavkov), 10 miles east
Of Brno, while the Russians an
nounced the capture of Drnovice,
eight miles north of the historic
spot.
Storming the Berlin redoubt'
IN the heart of the city, Zhukov's
forces occupied the Moabit district
including the grim, turreted jail
and drew up on the banks of the
epree within point-blank range Of
Adolf Hitler's Reich chancelory
and the burned-out Reichstag, the
oovlet communique revealed.
Inc Russians liberated $4,000
prisoners of varied nationality
continued on Page Two; Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
CLOTHING DRIVE
TERMED SUCCESS
Total Not Expected TO Be
Known For Two Weeks,
City Cooperates

Wilbur R. Dosher, Wilmington
chairman of the United Nations
Clothing Collection which ends to-
day, reported, yesterdays house
to house canvass as "most sue
cessful."
The canvass, which was under
the direction of Harlee Kenan OF
the Junior Chamber OF commerce
and Thurston Davis Of the Senior
Fraternity assisted by members
of the Boy Scouts and the Brlgaoe
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