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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25
Move Shoe Store

Conway's Shoe Store which
has been located on Main street
in Moss Point is now being
moved to the rear OF the old
Fails Building where Grover
Conway will continue to OPP
crate the shoe repair business,
according to an announcement
made.
Water buffalos are homestead
ed as beasts of burden in India
and Malaga.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25

will be Gulfport and Biloxi The
party will be at Gulfport We'd
nesday and at Biloxi Thursday.
Young women 20 to SO years
old who may be interested in
ealisting in the corps are urged
to contact these recruiters in the
cities named as may be most con-
venient.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25
Jackson County
Mill News

Mrs. Gladys Parks has been
out enjoying her annual vacation.
Mrs. Parks, with her husband,
visited relatives in Chunky and
Meridian, Miss.
Miss Addie Yawn, accompan-
led by her niece, Miss Eleanor
Grierson, spent last week in Car
thage, Ark, attending the grad
uation of her sister-in-law, Mrs.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25

The gypsies arc a wandering
folk scattered throughout every
European land, over the greater
part of western Asia and Siberia:
also in Egypt and the northern
coast of Africa.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25
good
reputation
to continue,
must be deserved

Through he program Of self
regulation, sponsored by The
Brewers Fearstaation, this Com
mittee h cooperating with Of
ficials and law-abiding retailers
to make sure that beer is sold
only by those who maintain
high standards. Reports from
Our investigators show concIu-
siyely that the level OF law OBJ
servance in retail beer outlets is
steadily being raised. Beer de-
serves it's reputation as a bever-
age Of moderation.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25

Mrs. Willie Harper was out
last week to be with her son, 1t.
Everette l.. Harper, who has just
returned from the European the
atre of war.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25

Mrs. Louise Morgan with Mr..
Morgan is spending her vacation
n P~onchatoula and Bogalusa,
La.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25

Mrs. Marine Busby. nee Miss
Lorraine Williams. returned to
work Tuesday after visiting her
parents in Jackson, Tenn.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Miles
and Gail visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Buck Wells OF ST. Elmo, Ala, on
Sunday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25

Mrs. K. C. Mcleod Jr., spent
the weekend in Admission. Ala,
visiting her husband, Pfc. K. c.
Mcleod, who is stationed at Fort
Mcclellan.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
President Promises
Philippine Freedom
When Practicable
Truman Hopes to Atttens
Republics Birth; Tydines
Heads Economic Mission
RY ]. A. FOX.

President Truman announced
last night he would proclaim the
independence of the Philippines
"as soon as practicable" ane
added that he hoped to accept
the invitation of President Ser
gio Osmena to visit Manila fol
the Inauguration of the Philip
pine Republic.
At the same time, Mr.. Truman
announced the organization of a
mission headed by Senator Tydings
Democrat, of Maryland, chairman
of the Filipino Rehabilitation Com
mission, to study economic condi-
tions in the islands and make rec
concentrations for establishing the
new republic on stable basis.
The Presidents announcement
followed a series of conferences
with Mr.. Osmena, who soon is re-
turning to the Philippines, and Sen
ator Tydings. Just before his death
President Roosevelt met Mr.. Os-
mena at Warm Springs, Ga, and
told newsmen he hoped to proclaim
the independence of the Philippines
by this fall, at the latest. Under
the law. independence is to be
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Devers Receives Surrender Of Two Nuzi Armies
In Studio Of titIer's Fovorite Sculptor at Munich

Alexander M. Patch, 7th Army
commander; 1t. Gen. Wade Haislip,
18th Corps commander; Brig. Gen.
Edward OFT and Brig. Gen. Pear
son Menohher of the 18th Corps,
and Maj. Gen. John w. (Iron
Mike) ODaniel, 3rd Division COM
mander.
Gen. Foertsch acted for Field
Marshal Albert Kesselring and Gen
Schultz, Army Group G commander
Although the cease firing" order
was timed for noon Sunday, the
American command instructed its
forces to stand fast in place and
cease further combat at once" and
this news was broadcast along with
Gen. Foertsch's surrender in both
English and German "to avoid un-
necessary bloodshed. The line held
by the American 7th and French
list stretches roughly from near
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Missing Gold Mystery Solved;
Lot of 1t Was in Nozi Cache
Millions Unoccounted for After Treasury
Called In Metal Turns Up in SdIt Mine

Itions which later were occupied by
the German Armies. In line with
the well-known Nazi policy Of loot
ing both public and private funds
In the occupied nations, much of
what was in France, Belgium, Nor
way. Denmark, Austria, Yugoslavia,
Greece and Czechoslovakia found
its way eventually to the German
State Bank.
Col. Bernard Bernstein, q former
Treasury Department official who
now is with the Army Finance De-
partment in Europe, has been exam
ining the tremendous treasure cache
recently found in the Merkers salt
mine.
A dispatch to The Star from Paris
quotes Col. Bernstein as explaining:
when the United States Treasury
called in gold coinage a few years
ago, we did not get the quantity
expected from the amount that had
(see GOLD. Page AID
Evening star., 1945-05-06
By JOSEPH Il. BAIRD.

A mystery as to the where
abouts of millions of dollars In
United States gold coinage
which failed to materialize when
the Treasury called in all the
yellow metal in 1884 has been
solved with the discovery of the
tremendous German monetary
cache in a salt mine near Merk-
ers, its was learned authorita-
lively last night.
According to the Treasury De-
partment, when the deadline for the
naturalization Of gold coinage ex-
pired on January 81. 1884. the Bu-
reau of the Mint found that the
amount turned In was $287, ,0o0, ,00o
less than It's estimate Of coins out
standing.
A large part Of this treasure, 1t has
now been established, was In Euro
pean countries-some in the Reich
itself and also Ais A.a.A. - In ma
Evening star., 1945-05-06
BY HOWARD COWAN,


OUTSIDE MUNICH, May s.
War will end for two German
armies at noon tomorrow (6 am.
Eastern War Time) and tired Nazis
will take "the road back" to what is
left of the once-powerful German
Reich.
After nearly six years of fighting
these Teutonic troops have reached
the period of "goetterdammerung.
Sixth Army group headquarters
of Gen. Jacob L. Devers announced
that capitulation of the German
1st and 18th armies was received at
2:30 pm. today. It was signed by
1t. Gen. Foertsch, commander OF
the German 1st Army, for all OF
German Army Group G after a
conference lasting 2 hours and 20
minutes with Gen. Devers and Gen.
Evening star., 1945-05-06

Passau on the Danube in curving
arc through Southern Germany
and Western Austria to Ober Drau-
burg on the Austrian Italian border
Negotiations took place in the art
studio of Prof. Thorak, Hitler's IA
vorite sculptor, on Munich's eastern
outskirts. Preliminaries including
the marking off on maps by the
Germans of the areas they wished
to surrender. After it was over
Gen. Devers turned to Gen. Patch
and exclaimed:
Sandy, this is a joy to me. Con-
|gratulations. You've done a mag
|niicent job-and you too, Mike"
He took two strides to clasp the
hand Of Gen. ODaniel whose vet
eran Sd Division smashed into Salz-
burg and Berchtesgaden yesterday.
Gen. Devers said Gen. Foertsch
(See SURRENDER, Page A-3.5
Evening star., 1945-05-06
| 5 Rottiers Chase
| Express Agent
lFron1 His Car
BY the Associated Press.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, May 5.-Five
rattlesnakes loose in an express car
drove the messenger from the car
and created CONSERVATION in the
Railway Express Agency Office here
today before they were captured.
When the messenger discovered
the snakes loose in his car on
Northern Pacific Train No. 4, he
left in hurry, locked the door and
wired warning ahead to st. Paul.
When the train reached here H. e.
Wendt, express company foreman,
called for volunteers to corral the
reptiles.
Everybody was very busy, so Mr..
Wendt took the job himself, armed
with a broom and a mailsack. As
he located snake he pinned its
head down with a broom then
grabbed it by the body and tossed
it into the sack.
The snakes destination was .
point other than st. Paul. Express
workers didn't even bother to ask
where they were going, so long a.
they went-and quick.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Czech Patriots, Nazis
Battling for Prague,
Broadcasts Indicate
Desperate Call for Aid
From Allied Forces
Heard Early Today
SWINEMUENDE, BALTIC port
taken by Russians. Page A..

SWINEMUENDE, BALTIC port
taken by Russians. Page Al
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Sunday. May g.
Czechoslovak patriots and Ger
man occupation troops appar-
emily were engaged in a sway
ing battle today for control o1
Prague.
At 4:20 AM. speaker on the
Prague radio, identifying himself as
a liberated British prisoner of war
declared. "We are holding Prague;
the whole city is under control, but
you, the Allies, must get help here
today"
Another speaker, identifying him
self as Red Army officer, appealed
for Russian aid for the capital, say
ing, German tanks are surrounding
Prague from all sides"
The patriots announced by radio
from Prague at midnight that
Prague is in Czech hands" Less
than 3 hours later the German
high command for Bohemia and
Moravia broadcast, also from
Prague, and are using the radio
transmitter."
Shortly before the German broad
cast, the patriots made an urgent
radio appeal for the Allies to send
them troops, tanks and planes
quickly.
Nazis Deny "Rumors."
The German broadcast said the
patriots "are spreading rumors
which do not conform with facts
and added "all rumors that an
armistice with the Red Army has
been made are false"
In one broadcast, the patriots
accused the Germans of breaking a
truce and at am. the Czechs said
I'VE are fighting in all districts, the
Germans are heading for the city
from the north, south, east and
west"
just before signing off for the
night, the patriots declared at 3:42
am. that Germans are surrender
ing here by the thousands"
In their first appeal for help
the patriots said street fighting
started in the center of the city.
Despite negotiations for surren.
der, single German troops are at.
tacking the National Bank ir
Prague and the Germans are con-
centrating troops in this area" sale
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Army Will Need YeaI
To Release 7 Million
Due for Discharges
All Able-Bodied Troops
Now in U. S. Will
Be Sent to War Zones
(Tert OF Redeployment Plan on
Page Alb.
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

The Army will reduce it's force
of 100000 men to 6,968,OO0 to
carry on the war against Japan
and altogether about 100000
men now in uniform will be dis
charged within a year, the War
Department disclosed yesterday
in announcing its long-awaited
redeployment program.
Here are the primary points ir
the plan:
l. OF the 100000 men to be re.
turned to civilian life during the
next II months, about 100000 will
be surplus troops and the remainder
discharges for physical and other
reasons.
2. More than half of the / 1882, ,OOC
are now in Europe, about one-third
in the Pacific and the remainder are
returned overseas veterans at sta
tions in United States.
Many to Get Furloughs.
3. More than half of the men who
are to be redeployed from Europe
to fighting in the Pacific will come
through the United States and have
furloughs. Informally it was said
these furloughs would not run more
than 80 days.
4. The larger proportion of service
troops urgently needed in the Pacific
will go there directly.
5. Transportation shortages, even
with the planned use of 300 trans
ort planes, will not get the last OF
the men who are to be discharged
back to the United States before
IL months.
6. All able-bodied men in uni
form who have not had such serv-
ice will be sent overseas as fast as
veteran requirements can be brought
back from any necessary jobs they
are doing at home.
7. Draft calls will stay higher
than combat losses so more vet
Grams can be released. The draft
(See REDEPIJ JOYMENT. Page abb
Evening star., 1945-05-06
DoIodier, Reynoud, Weygond
And GQmeIin Freed in Austria
Jeon Borotru Brings Yonk Troops to Castle;
Schuschnigg and Blum Reported Freed in Italy

that housed Daladier, Gamelin,
Reynaud and Wegland)
The world-famous French leaders
were among number of other
famous persons who were liberated.
Among them were a sister of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, a former head
of the French trade unions, and
Jean Borotra, former tennis cham
pion, who, in a melodramatic fash
ion, got out of the castle at noon
to bring word to American troops
of the plight of those imprisoned.
Elements of the 18th Armored and
103d Cactus" Divisions and the 753d
Tank Battalion figured in the re-
lease of the famous figures.
Tonight they were en- route to an
American generals command post
for a conference and dinner.
Gn Paris, it was announced
that Andre Francois Poncet, for
mer French Ambassador to Ber-
lin and Rome, had been liberated
(See RELEASE, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-05-06

we have no standards of expert
ence by which to measure the
brutality of a place like this con-
centration camp which bore the
reputation of being the best in
Nazi Germany. The camp has
been described already by compe-
tent correspondents, and I have
read most of their accounts, but
the only way to get an apprecia-
ton of the place is to take the
revolving journey that our party
took, spending five or six hours
inspecting it, and talking to its
pitiful inmates.
This is being written after our
return from Dachau in a cold
room in the remaining wing of
the only hotel left standing in
Munich. The effect of the visit
Is to give one a curious sense of
personal satisfaction, the salts
faction Of witnessing just retri-
Evening star., 1945-05-06


MUNICH, May (By Wireless).
The reaction of Americans to
the horrors Of the Dachau con-
centration camp near Munich is
one of incredulity which changes
to cold hate of the Germans.
That undoubtedly is the way the
soldiers, supposedly toughened to
war, feel about it and that has
been the effect on the civilian
newspaper editors and publish
ers who started out on this tour
nursing a professional skepticism
which supposedly would steel
them against propaganda
stories" of Nazi atrocities.
doubt that it is possible to
transmit to Americans at home
the slightest comprehension OF
what Dachau is like. Fortunately,
Evening star., 1945-05-06
103 Million for Tools,
Plant Construction
Approved by WPB
Priority Aid Granted
II Industries Getting
Ready for Reconversion
By the Associated Press.

~ taS nSSOSiatCo tCSs.
The War Production Board last
night approved well over $1O3,-
100000 worth of machine tools
and plant construction for 72
major industries to break any
bottlenecks which would delay
reconversion.
The action grants priority aid for
the re-tooling and re-equipping job
which must be done in advance if
the automobile, refrigerator and
other industries are to swing into
peacetime goods production with
out long shutdowns and idleness
when the reconversion signal finally
is given.
WPB also announced that it has
appointed "reconversion admins
traitors" for each of the u in
dustries, but did not name them.
Their role will be the same as that
of Henry P. Nelson, recently named
co-ordinator of reconversion for the
motor Industry at Detroit.
"Break-Even" Rate Fixed.
The preparedness allotment is
intended to prepare the industries
only for a "break-even" rate of
civilian manufacturing. This is the
minimum amount deemed necessary
for companies to meet operating
expenses. For automobiles it rep
resents more than 100000 cars a
year, as against prewar peak of
better than 100000.
The lions share, or s85, ,000, 900
worth, will go to the automobile in
dustry because of its economic DOM
nance and potentialities of layoffs
and hardship, if retooling is delayed.
The motor industry will get $50,000,-
600 worth of tools and $35, ,000, 900
worth of plant expansion.
The heavy emphasis on automo-
biles does not represent discrimina-
ton against the other industries,
WPB said, asserting that their al
lotments will cover their smaller
needs with equal adequacy.
Major Industries Covered.
Electric and gas refrigerators will
get approval for an outlay Of $6.000,-
600 for construction and $4,000 900
fo- tools; the domestic cooking and
heating industry, $1,675 900 for con-
struction and $2,500,000 for tools;
the laundry industry, 81 100000 for
construction and $49O, 900 for tools;
the cast iron and sanitary equipment
industry 100000 for building and
$500, 900 for tools. Amounts for the
other 81 industries affected were not
announced.
Still more industries may be add
ed to the list of those eligible for
the high civilian priority of AA-3
which has been granted. ''The list
is not frozen," WPB stated. ut will
(see RECONVERsION. Page AID
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Poles Under Arrest
In Moscow 10 Face
Sabotage Inquiry
Illegal Radio Activity
In Reor Of Red Troops
Also Laid to 16
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, May S. Tass, the
official Soviet news agency, an
nounced tonight that 16 repre-
sentatives of the exiled Polish
government in London were
under arrest in Moscow and that
an unspecifled number of them
would be tried on charges of
sabotage behind the Red Army
lines.
In San Francisco. Secretary of
State Stettinius and British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden have de-
manded of the Russians a full ex-
PLANTATION" before discussing any
further the establishment of Polish
government agreeable to all three
powers.
The United States and Britain
recognize the London Polish govern
ment, while Russia recognizes the
Warsaw regime which was estab-
lished under Soviet aegis by a group
with which the London Poles are
hostile.
Written Invitation Reported.
The Polish telegraphic agency of
the exiled government said tonight
that Polish underground leaders on
March 10 had received a written in
vitation from a Col. Pimenow of the
Russian political force to confer
with Col. Gen. P. A. Ivanov of the
Red Army lin order to include them
in the general current of democratic
forces in independent Poland"
Fifteen persons went to this con-
ference on March q and disap-
peared, the Polish agency said, while
former Premier Wincenty Witos was
escorted from his home to an un-
known destination early in April
The missing Poles, about whose
whereabouts the British and Amer
ican Governments said they had
made repeated unanswered inquiries,
were said by the London Poles to
include Jan Jankowski. Under
ground Vice Premier of the Chris
tian Democratic party; Kazimierz
Puzak of the Socialist party and
Stanislaw Janiukowicz of the Ma
tional Democratic party.
The Tass Agency broadcast from
Moscow tonight referred to inquiries
about these Poles in British papers
and in the House of Commons.
It said the British had asked
about only Is Poles, but that actu-
ally there were Is, headed by the
well-known Polish general, Abulicki
(also heard as OkulickD, about
whose disappearance the British re-
ports have purposely kept silent in
Evening star., 1945-05-06
(See WAR IN EUROPE, Page A
WiIheImina Broadcasfs
From Homeland Again
By the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
EINDHOVEN, Holland, May S.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Neither
lands addressed her people by radio
from her own soil for the first time
in five years tonight ~hen she gave
thanks for the liberation of all Hol-
land and reminded the people of the
Netherlands that a great task still
awaits them in the Pacific.
The Queen told her people that
there is no word in our language
good enough to express what goes on
in my heart. We are now masters in
our home again"
She thanked the Allies for liber-
ating the country and paid tribute
to the Dutch forces of the interior
"who are still doing their utmost"
Evening star., 1945-05-06
By A. I. GOLDBERG,

ASSOClaIeQ Press war SOITeSpOHueIt.
ITTER, Austria, May 5.-For.
mer French PremierS Edouarc
Daladier and Paul Reynaud anc
Gems. Maurice Gamelin anc
Maxine Weygand were freee
from months of German politi-
cal imprisonment today wher
two battalions of the 36tt
Texas" Infantry Division fought
their way into liter Castle.
(The British Broadcasting Co.,
in a broadcast heard in New
York by CHS, the Blue Network
and NBC, said Kurt Schuschnigg,
former Premier of Austria; Leon
Blum, former Premier of France,
and Martin Niemoeller, famous
anti-Nazi German pastor, all
were rescued by the Americans
farther to the south near the
Brenner Pass, after having been
removed from the same prison
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Shots Reported Fired
AT Umberto's ViIIu
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
ROME, May 5.-The villa where
Crown Prince Umberto was sched-
uled to stay during visit to Milan
was machine gunned last night, but
the lieutenant general Of Italy was
not there at the time. the Italian
news agency ANSA reported tonight.
The agency quoted Socialist
member of the North Italy council
as saying shots were fired at the
villa. Whether Umberto was stay
ing at the villa could not be learned
IN Rome.
Evening star., 1945-05-06

ROME, Sunday, May 6 (P.-A
Swiss telegraphic agency dispatch
from Bern quoting frontier reports
said today that Vito Mussolini,
nephew of the fallen Duce, had been
arrested by partisans in Northern
Italy, along with several other
Fascists. He was the editor of
Popolo d'Italia of Milan.
Evening star., 1945-05-06

TUo additional men from
the District area haze been re-
| ported killed in this Dar. See
ION the Honor Roll" Page Az.
Evening star., 1945-05-06

Radio Programs, Pg. C-l0
Complete Index, Pg. AZ
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Incredibly Turns to Cold Hate
AS Editors View Duchou Horrors
BY B. M. McKELWAY,

BRUTAL MASTER PLAN governed
camps, editors report. Page AS
Evening star., 1945-05-06

(See POLISH, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1945-05-06

(See INDEPENDENCE, Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1945-05-06

Continued on Page AS, Col. a.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
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Evening star., 1945-05-06
Weather Forecast

Partly cloudy, warmer this afternoon.
Tomorrow fair, rising temperatures.
Temperatures yesterday-High, 81, at
7:l0 pm; low, 43 at am; So at 10 pm.
United States Weather Bureau Report.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Duce's Nephew Seized

(See PRAGUE, Page A-4.)
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DAUGHTER FOR GARRIsONs

DAUGHTER FOR GARRISONS
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. R. E. Garrison this morning
shortly after 6 o'clock at st. AIMS
Hospital. The infant weighs six
pounds, eight ounces.
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TEAMWORK Isl
ASkED;;HALSEY.
PLEA

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. l0.-Urg-
ing teamwork more than ever
now" Admiral William F. Bull
Halsey Jr., says. Many Americans
seem to have forgotten the common
sacrifices of war
Some are now fighting each other.
Is that what the young men died
for?" Admiral Halsey asked at a
dinner last night in his honor after
a Victory Loan drive appearance.
During the war Halsey said, Il
had special Department of Dirty
Tricks thinking up special ways to
tedevil the Japs. Now it behooves
us to get up a good tricks depart
ment. We must chart our course
in peace as well as in war"
Earlier the 63-year-old commander
OF the Third Fleet told a press con-
ference he had applied for retire
msnt and expected to quit sea duty
Nov % He plans to spend IAN in
determinate period in Washington
before his retirement next year, Hal
sey said