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Enemy Swept
Out OF North
Area
Southern Flanks OF Fraq.
ments OF National Re-
doubt Exposed

ROME, May a. R-Nearly /,
00O,0 1000 German and italian Fas.
cist troops made the first uncon.
ditional surrender of the war in
Europe today, yielded without a
shot the mountainous heart of the
Nazis' national redoubt' in the
Alps and exposed the south flank
of the fragments that remain.
Gen. Heinrich Vonv1etinghoff-
Scheel planned to come out OF the
Alps tomorrow to give up with
his staff to Field Marshal Sir Har-
old Alexander, the Allied com
mander, or to Gen. Mark Clark,
commander of the 18th Army
group in Italy.
The surrender swept clean Of
resistance all northern Italy and
western Austria up to and includ-
ing Salzbrrg province and its cap
ital of the same name, which was
the eastern bastion of the Alpine
retreat.
Thus the Allied armies Of the
south were free to march unoppos-
ed to within 10 miles of Berchtes-
gaden, where Hitler had his noun
tain hideout and which being in
Bavaria is not included in the sur
render order.
(Gen. Eisenhower in Paris told
his armies to keep on pressing
south, mopping up all resistance,
although the surrender orr T
yielded up the chief detectives OF
his U. S. Seventh Army and part
of those of the U. S. Third, which
was closing on Salzburg.)
The surrender documents, end
ing the bloody two and one-half-
year Italian campaign, were sign
ed Sunday at the Royal Palace at
Caserta, near Naples, and became
effective at 12-noon e am, East
ern War Time) today.
Two German plenipotentiaries
signed for Germany in the pres
ence Of American, British and Rus
sian officers.
Approximately 10000 squar
miles of German-held territory in
GLIDING all of northern Italy to the
Isonzo river in the northeast AND
the Austrian provinces of Vorarl
berg, Tyrol, Salzburg and parts Of
Carinthia and Syria were surren'
dered to the Allies.
The action not only uncovers the
southern approaches to Germany
but lops off the southwestern enc
of the so-called German "nationa
redoubt" and turns the right flanl
of Col. Gen. Won Lehr, command
ing enemy troops Of the Trieste
area and northern Yugoslavia.
New Zealand troops OF the British
Eighth Army and forces of Mar
shall Tito's Yugoslav army al
ready have joined IA miles north
west of Trieste which has been
occupied by the Yugoslavs.
But even as the sirens screamed
and jubilant celebrations Were
started a grim warning of the bit
ter lighting that still was ahead
on the other side of the world was
sounded by Gen. Joseph T. McNar
ney, commander of American Apr
ces in the Mediterranean, who sale
that not until the last foe-Ja-
pan-is crushed will freedom
loving men and women be able tt
enjoy lasting peace"
1t was rumored in Rome tonight
that Gen. Won Vietinghoff woule
surrender himself and his staff te
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'conIlrmed by the oenate. he Will
retain the democratic national
Craftsmanship. James ]. Farley
held both posts for eight years
under Roosevelt, but quit over the
third term issue. Walker also act
ted in the dual capacity for a
year.
In a second major appointment
announced at his news conference,
the President said he was naming
David E. Lilienthal for another
nine-year term as chairman of the
Tennessee Valley Authority start
ing Nav 10. In doing SO he sided
with Alabama and against Tenn
essee senators.
The flanagan and Lilienthal
nominations were made public in
an unusual manner. The Senate
was not in session at the time,
making it necessary for the Presi
dent 10 send them to Senate Sec
rotary Leslie Biffle for transmits
sion to the Senate when it meets
at noon tomorrow.
Senator Mcclellan (DTenn), long
bitter critic of Lilienthal, had
no Immediate comment on the
Presidents announcement. Prlol
to it, he had indicated to report
ers he was uncertain whether he
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Nazi High
Vet Fired
By Doenitz

AONOON, way Z.-U.H)-Euehrer
Adm. Karl Doenitz fired Nazi vet
eran Joachim Won Ribbentrop as |
German foreign minister today "a
hours after succeeding Adolf Hit
Ter and named british-educated
Finance Minister Count Ludwig
SchWerin Won Krosick to replace
him in apparent preparation for
early peace negotiations with the
Allies.
The whole southern front fell to
pieces before Doenitz' eyes when
the German army in Italy, that
was to be the bulwark of the re-
doubt, surrendered Internationally.
Berlin fell to the Russians-per-
haps with Hitler's dead body in
the ruins Of his Reichschancenery.
The British cut off Denmark by
breaking through to the Baltic.
Germany was in its last throes.
Doenitz, DOMINIC Hitler's man.
tie OF command sought desperately
to prevent utter collapse.
Responding to his appeal for
support, the German commanders
in Denmark and Norway asserted
they would fight on.
Doenitz himself, with Krosigk,
the remnants of the German high
command and other remaining
leaders, was, believed to be in
northwestern Germany preparing
to continue to Denmark or Nor
Way-if he had not already started.
There were totally unconfirmed
reports that Doenitz and possibly
Krosigk might have met Count
Folke Bernadotte. Swedish inter-
mediary, during the abortive at
tempt by Heinrich Himmler to ar
range peace with the United
States and Britain but not Russia.
Zone of the reports, heard by
Blue network from the Swiss ra-
dio, said that Doenitz met Berna.
dotte Monday
Krosigk in a broadcast speech
in what he called Germany S
heaviest hours" gave no hint OF
immediate peace feelers. Instead
he pictured Germany as Europe S
bulwark against disastrous tide
Of Bolshevism-the traditional Nazi
line intended to split the Allies
and said he saw no hope that the
San Francisco conference could
succeed in arranging a new Worlo
order such as Germany also want
ed.
Allied belief that Hitler actually
was dead, as the Nazis had an.
nounced Tuesday, hardened into
near certainty.
Russia alone remained suspicious
Moscow dispatches said that she
most likely would demand proof
that he was dead. Possibly Rec
army soldiers already were search
ing Hitler's "chancellery com
mand post" for his body.
There was no clue to the fate Of
Himmler, Ribbentrop, retired
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering
propaganda minister Paul JOSEPH
Goebbels, Nazi party chancellery
chief Martin Bormann and other
top flight Nazis.
Ribbentrop had flown to north
west Germany, according tt
Stockholm, in an attempt to save
his job. He met Doenitz last Fri
day, it was said, after he learned
Hitler was dying. There was g
heated argument and Ribbentror
lost out-unWanted, as he foresaW
by the military men now in charge.
Goering was believed in south.
ern Germany or Czechoslovakia.
There was strong belief that
Goebbels, the Nazi leader for Der
lin, had died in the capital.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower sale
that Himmler, in attempting to
negotiate peace, told Bernadotte
that Hitler was dying Of brair
hemorrhage and might not live 4a
hours That was on April 2.
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Over | 100000 Nazi
Prisoners Reported
Taken During April
BY The Associated Press

Figures announced today MAY
p show the rapidity with which
the German army has crumbled
in the final stages Of the war.
Nearly 1000, 900 Germans and
Italians in northern Italy and
southern Austria were surrendered
Internationally today to the AL
lies.
Premier Stain said 10000 prison.
ers were taken in the final COL
lapse of Berlin and that 1900
others had been killed or captur-
ed by the Russians since April "a
southeast Of the German capital.
Supreme Allied Headquarters
stated more than 1,5O0, 900 enemy
troops were captured by the west
ern Allies during the month Of
April.
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Berlin Falls To- Reds; Hitler And Goebbel<
Reported T%%Have Committed Suicide
Nazis Quit In Italy; Allies Near Baltic
Frank Walker Quits;
Hannegan Selected

WASHINGTON, May 2-GFa-In the first
today
Postmaster Frank Walker selection
Hannegan o succeed him.
59ear New York
completing
of
Hannegan year old Missourian Franklin
yels fourth term campaign, will
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WEATHER

81. Temperature
,;.o " - sm' IS, 7;so am, 81; $50 pm. q;
Nor u IS; Minimum 70; Mean ~:
yn Humidity
';so pm, 81. '''O A"' Oh l;'o pm' %;
r..., Precipitation
eoo ;n,h lof the "A hours ending 7:so pm.
On a.. since the first Of the month.
Tides For TODAY
U. !. e. nae rabies published by
81" ueodetic Survey
Nlminr,u High Low
------------ LISA 9:23a
Masonbora ~. 1:10p 9:07p
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FORECAST

partly cloudy and warmer.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High, ss-Low. 49,
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Is Wronq
Interchangeable?

the greatest mystic he ever en-
countered during his twenty-one
years in the Far East. He wants
everyone to experience the greater
health and the Power, which there
came to him. ..-..
Within ten years, he was able to
retire to this country with a for
tune. He had been honored. by
fellowships in the Worlds leading
geographical societies, for his work
as a geographer. And today, 80
years later, he is still so athletic,
capable of so much work, SO young
in appearance, it is hard to be-
lieve he has lived so long.
AS first step in their progress
toward the Power that knowledge
gives, Mr.. Dingle wants to send to
readers of this paper a 9,000-Word
treatise. He says the time has
come for it to be released to the
Western World, and offers to send
it, free of cost or obligation, to
sincere readers of this notice. For
your free copy, address The Insti-
tute of metaphysics, 213 South
Hobart Blvd, Dept. S-462, Los
Angeles 4, Calf. Readers are urged
TO write promptly, as only a limit
ed number of the free books have
been printed. ~
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BARGAIN BILLS
NOW ON MARKET
Continued from Page One)

in any denomination, should be
deemed to necessitate the filing
of the transaction with thhe Treas
ury Department.
The Wilmington office of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue was
unable to report any instances in
this area where persons have at
tempted to sell larger bills at a
loss in an attempt to evade in.
come tax assessments. However,
officials pointed out that it has
been reported in other cities.
| The price of grand may be
lowered to as little as $500 if a
prospective buyer can be found.
Thus, if bargain hunters will heed,
the same hot seat may be afforded
at cheaper price.
Financial leaders have pointed
out that as long as there are in.
come tax laws, there will be per.
sons who will contrive by various
ways to evade these assessments
by concealing currency or by othel
means.
1t has been emphasized that per
haps the U. S. should undertake
steps as some European countrie
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BUY WAR BONDS AND. STAMPS

Thirty years ago, in Forbidden
Tibet, behind the highest mountains
in the world, young Englishman
named Edwin J. Dingle found the
answer to this question. A great
mystic opened his eyes. A great
change came over him. He realized
the strange Power that knowledge
gives.
That Power, he says, can trans
form the life of anyone. Questions,
whatever they are, can be answer
ed. The problems of health, death,
poverty and wrong, can be solved.
In his own case, he was brought
back to splendid h e tn. He
acquired wealth, too, as well as
worldwide professional recogni-
ton. Thirty years ago, he was sick
as man could be and live. Once
his coffin was bought. Years of
almost continuous tropical fevers,
broken bones, near blindness,
privation and danger had made a
human wreck of him, physically
and mentally.
He was about to be sent back to
England to die, when a strange
message came They are waiting
for you in Tibet" He wants to
tell the whole world what he learn
ed there, under the guidance Of
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have done. That is, by declaring
all denominations below $500 illegal,
requiring all persons to cash in
notes above this mark for a new
issue Of currency.
. However, such steps would create
nearly impossible situations and a
state of chaos would exist among
the nations business institutions.
The same conditions probably
would exist by the time the public
became accustomed to its new me-
dunn Of exchange.
The Wilmington office OF
the Bureau of Internal Revenue
was unable to say when its force
would be increased, but it was in.
dictated that it would be within the
near future.
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AMERICAN FIND
HUMAN SOAP SHOP
Continued from Page One)

ly crimes ever perpetrated
The ground floor of t h e
laboratory was divided into two
and one-half rooms, each fitted
with pressure boilers. They were
slightly large than standard
electric washing machines. There
were also several smaller pressure
cylinders in which the bones of
victims were thrown.
Documents and the captured
laboratory s S tant Sigmund
Mazur Identified the laboratory
director as a Professor Spanner.
In the basement, we saw tanks fill.
ed with corpses of Poles and
Russians hanged or shot. Their
hodios were used for experiment.
al purposes by German Army
doctors. There were bins full OF
heads of men who had been guillo-
tined.
The half-dcmented Mazur, ques-
toned by correspondents at head
quarters of the State Security In
Danzig, said he began his gruesome
work as an ordinary laboratory as
sistant at 12O marks monthly. Lat
er he was given rise to 10y
= arks. Sapnner arrived al the
laboratory in February, 1914,
announcing that he had a recipe
for soap ard that production would
start Immediately. MaZur said hu-
man fat had been accumulated
since 1910 fer that purpose.
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Norfolk Woman Injured
When Hit By Automobile

Mrs. Margaret Caps, %, OF
Route 4, Norfolk, was reported IN
satisfactory condition late lar.
night by officials of James Walker
hospital after she had walked into
the side of an automobile on high
way 74-76 East one mile west OF
Seagate. according to investigating
officer Sgt. J. L. Flowers.
Mrs. Caps, who is visiting her
mother, Mrs. J. w. Capps, OF Sea-
gate, got off beach bus and pass
ing behind it, walked into the left
front fender of a car which was
operated by Arnie A. Robbins, Rt
3, Wilmington, about two feet q.
Robbins side of the road. Authori-
ties reported that her head struck
the windshield post of the auto
mobile and that Mrs. Capps was
also struck by the rear fender.
No arrests were made.
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PRESIDENT WILL
FLY TO P0TSDAM
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rbe-ations-his biggest test to date
in International affairs
When the Chief Executive
reaches Potsdam-the first time an
American President has gone to
western Europe since President
Wilson went to Paris in 1919 fo-
+he Peace Conference.-The will be
ioined by consultant experts from
tbe State, War and Navy Depart
ments, including the joint chiefs
Of staff. Gen. George C. Marshall,
Admiral Ernest J. King, Gen. H. H.
Arnold and Leahy comprise the
Joint chiefs of Staff
There, the presidential party also
will be joined by Poseph E. Davies
former Ambassador to Moscow who
went TO London recently to do
some preparatory work for the
forthcoming Big Three parley.
Mr.. truman is keeping in con-
slant touch with Washington by
radio and at frequent intervals
he has conferred with Leahy on
last-minute war developments.
The President and mis- party
the smallest to accompany a U. S.
President to such conference
left Washington by train the night
of July 6 and sailed early the
next morning from the Army port
of emba1kation dock, Newport
News Va, for round trip of
better than 10000 miles.
The first day out, Mr.. Truman,
like the rest of the passengers,
was assigned a life boat position
and went through abandon Ship
drill with the crew, DOMINIC
heavy life jacket from which
dangled a whistle and a water
proof flashlight. He appeared on
deck in a sailors white cap, one
he wears when cruising near Wash
ington on the Presidential Yacht
Potomac.
Mr.. Iruman's schedule aboard
ship is essentially the same as
his White House routine-up
little after six each morning,
lap after lunch and to bed well
before midnight.
When not working in the Flag
AdmiraIs suite which he occupies
on the command deck, he spends
much time on deck in shirt sleeves
and tweed cap.
After the Potsdam parley, there
may be some side trips in Europe,
but such plans remain in what
the President S staff called a ten
tattive stage.
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HOUSE ENTERED

Mrs. E. j. Good on, 172
Pinecrest Parkway, reported
to police yesterday that when
she and her husband returned
to their home Monday night,
they discovered that it had
been entered and the rooms
ransacked. A piece of paper
was left in the middle of the
floor of one of the rooms and
a roll of Kodak films was
missing. Police said that
small child, living in the
neighborhood was discovered
with the films and turned over
to Mrs. Layton, juvenile Of
ficer.
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Newspaper AID Gets
Bride For Veteran
Of Many Campaigns
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
A highway patrolman before
the war, Poehl Ing was gum
ner on Psi when his plane
was shot down over Germany.
He holds Sc points under the
Army's. poin= SYSTEM. and
wears the Purple Heart, Good
Conduct ribbon and European
theater of operations ribbon
with one battle star. This will
be his first marriage.
After the war, POehling ex-
poets to open a restaurant.
II have $1,000 in the bank
and another $1,000 coming in
back pay" he said. "Now that
have my little woman, who
could ask for anything more?"
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ordered. He has been working this
deception in Wilmington for about
three months they said, adding
that he was As, about feet 10
inches tall weighing approximate
ly 140 pounds and having red hair.
They urged that anyone who had
been tricked by Manley and had
not yet reported it, to come to the
police office and give officers the
facts.
Manley's alleged loot included
five radios, an electric iron and
over $67, police said.
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Police Hold Coldsboro
Man For Alleged Theft

R. H.. Manley, of Goldsboro, was
brought here yesterday after be-
ing arrested in that city on four
counts of larceny by trick and
six counts. of false pretense, &C.
cording to police reports.
Police said that Manlcy, repre-
senting himself as being radio
Irepairman had received radios
from people and obtained money,
allegedly to pay for COD. radio
parts which he claimed he had
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District WPB Planning
Reconversion Meetings

RALEIGH, July 10 Up The
first of series of meetings to -
quaint industry with plans for re-
conversion TO production OF essen
tial civilian supplies will be held
here Friday, John w. Fitz, district
priorities manager of the Raleigh
War Production Board office, an
nounced today.
The meeting will be attended by
small manufacturers and industry
leaders from CasWell, Person,
Granville. Vance, Warren, Halifax,
Orange, Durham, Wake, Franklin
Nash, Chatham, Lee, Harnett and
Johnston counties.
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DOT TO BE TOPIC

DOT, the wa r-devel0ped
chemical lethal to insects will
be the topic discussed by LIST
1t. John A. Crowley, of the
Bluethenthal Army Air Base
Sanitation Corps, at meeting
of the Wilmington Engineers
club at $3.50 p. m. Wednesday
at the Friendly restaurant.
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IMPROVING

Thomas E. Cooper, former
mayor of Wilmington, was re-
ported convalescing satisfac-
torily in James Walker Mem
orial hospital yesterday after
an operation a week ago. Mr..
Cooper expects to remain in
the institution for several more
weeks but is receiving visi-
tors.
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Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON,
Associated Press News Analys1


A few weeks hence any such con-
centrated air blasting of japan as
that which now headlines the war
news would be an almost certain
sign that American invasion was
close at hand.
Both the scopes of the raids, involv-
ing an estimated 1000 Army and
Navy planes of all types, the tar
gets picked, enemy airfields, and
the sustained fury of the attack
would point that way.
There is every reason to doubt,
however, that American redc-
ployment from Europe has yet
reached a point where major am
phibious operations could be I'M
dertaken or will do so for some
time. Nor are weather conditions
now suitable for attempting any
long overseas jump by ground
forces, and weather probabilities
will be an all-important factor in
tie timing of invasion moves
whether against Japan direct or in
China. The rainy season still domi-
mates the far Western Pacific
China Sea area and will do so for
another two months OF so.
Early reports from the massive
air attack by teamed-up Army
Navy craft indicate it may have
been launched to take advantage
/ of a foreseen weather break. That
it was calculated to knock Japan
csc home air power cut of action
as a cover for some other :mpend-
ing move to intensity the blockade
enlightenment of japan appeared
wholly probable. There was no
hint from either Allied or Japan
est sources of what that other
move might be.
Pending that, it seems possible
that the. great air raid was a pre-
liminary to a further stepping
stone advance on Japan in the
Ryukyus Chain. Recently Tokyo
broadcasts were full Of reports thai
American air and naval forces
were feeling cut defenses IN the
Amami group North of Okinawa.
If they are to be seized to bring
American bases 100 miles or more
nearer air blasted Kyushy, q
knockout attack on airfields in all
Southern Japan would be loglcal
preliminary to minimize losses fol
the amphibious troops assigned tc
the task.
There are other possible obpec
tives. At the moment that attach
was the big news from the PACING
theater. for example, Acting Sec
rotary Grew of the State Depart.
ment was releasing his statement
that "purported Gapanese) peace
feelers'' have been used in an Ell
fort to stir policy dissention IN thli
country and between the Alice
nations.
The statement came as President
Truman, Prime Minister Churchll
and GeneraI1ssimo Stain OF Russia
were about to get together for theli
"Big Three conference.
If the question of Russia ultl
mate role in the war in Asia comes
up there, the fact of that 2, 0oO-plane
preliminary to the utter air blastlns
of japan could be important. Il
would be convincing proof ina
American Air Forces are now IN
nosition to offer the Russians the
same sort of effective cooperatlo.f
ga inst Japan that they dle
AGAINST Germany.
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City Briefs

Members of the Y Juniors
class will camp at Wrights-
vile Beach Thursday night re-
turning to Wilmington Friday
morning. Under the supervls-
ion of Russell H. Caudill, Boys
Work Secretary, the class Will
cook its own meals and camp
In the open.
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NEGRO ARRESTED

Sheriff's officers reported
yesterday that they had ar
rested Lemuel Foy, Negro, of
Scots Hill, and charged him
with assault with deadly
weapon on James Green, also
of Scots Hill, after Foy al
legedly attacked Green with
knife. Foy was lodged in jail
but later released on bond.
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BROTHERS MEET

Pfc. Floyd M. White and
Pvt. Robert White, both of the
U. S. Army, met recently in
France. It was the first time
the brothers, sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. Willie White of Leland,
had seen each other in three
years.