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, ‘ $343149" FITQWN. CANADA. THURSDAY, MAY, a, 194s

lt is a.n awful hour when the fig.‘ necessity of hiding anything C > I-

lidail, $4.00; other Provinces b [Ll-A- “JO. Subscription Delivered. 55.00.

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By III-Kl L. SIMPSON’ , (Amooiated Press War Analyst)

Abieot and unconditional surrender of Nazi-Fascist forces estilnat .1 at 1.000.000 strong has ended the war in Italy.

It has decisively vindicated bold Anglo-American strategy that struck its first offensive blows through the Mediterranean at what Prime Min- ister Churchill than termed the “loft under lolly" of the foe. And it has left Nazi armies elsewhere. from the now meaninlless southern re. B, NOLAN]; NOEGAARD doubt to Norway, with no choice but surrender or death.

Milltariiy the total enemy collapse, in Italy ends the war in Europe ROME, May 2 — (AP) -— The as a matter of high strategy or complicated tactical manoeuvre. From $8121"; ‘all. Iii-UM Fascist a-r- here on lt fa no. more than police work. mopping up, bloody as that

vmmghotxilll- fllrfinrlghrthvon Illilhi. be, for ussslsri and Allied armies. Imy and water“ Ausmm‘) “n21: w Undafended ‘lily amradtrcikgdlfly, the Alpine .. againstwhich bums nearly llooolooo men. e sou crn re on la , utterly . inerable front, rear and German s... nders there, piece-meal or in mass, are to be ex-

rcndereu unconditionally today“; "mk- tlie Alligrgappenlng u“, way {or an pected momentarily. Nazi troops in the only remaining large pocket, unhillde Allied ma

fva Killed, , * trash iiear ollllt

The total in the Eighth Victory Ilosn campaign in this Province reached NJTMBO at the close of

Individuals $1,745,150. while . has been obtained from - the special names section. The results by districts st the close of business yesterday was: Summcrside: Individuals, 3310.800. Special names. $262,000, Prince County Outside: Individuals. $422,960. Special names. $55,000. ' Charlottetown: Individuals. $588,550. Special names, $132,000. Queen's County Outside: urnlnglcfrosn a Individuals. 8010.000.

.. , lais at Special names, 847,000. .. station said. It crashed about Klufs County:

. and a hill: miieg east 0f the Individuals. $106,850.

, in the rural community of Special names. $33,000.

Effective Yesterday.

By ROMNEY WHEELER ; LONDON. May a - (Thursday) - (AP) - Berlin, A u i (greatest cliy of the European continent. fell yesterday n iaficrnoon to the Russians, who quoted a high prisoner as declaring that Adolf liltler had committed suicide along with Propaganda Minister Goebbels as the capital of the blood-drenched Nazi empire tumbled around him. . i Also :‘0}l1i)l‘i‘t:(} ‘dead byf his own hand was Hitler's new m, Waugh h, cuchoflwakrh ‘n h, m, “m, puma,“ “a u“ surrender . . n M 2 (AP) 'genel'a s zl c le , an ill antry general named Krebs, as Nazi has set in. It ia apt to run like wildfire eve through the northern re- PRQQAGIIQEQ, Qiyame. “Duh “Q 70,000 German troops laid down their arms in the surrender- ‘F’ mu” ‘MM when Killer's self-proclaimed suwem . Grand Admiral Doenllr. the Vichy Education Minister Abel, ivhicli Hitler had said never would come.

- alone seems to hold any sway. 3 d 1 d t 13 1 b . . . ‘ , d d‘i°m°“"' em‘ British troops are wlullri a stride of snapping: Ihuipif the have liixiizlariedgirgierid Brefusgdcigncziom): The S°"‘°i "lump" "n" 14 days 0f lllslorfs deadliest

in: the bloody 20 month Italian u“ u "a I L ' t A y P b P _ '1 y remlel.‘

campmn, Wm 5.3mm Sunday a, not ' * done ‘r "ma. ply with a personal order from street fighting. was announced inst night ietalln ln an order of the day and lli the Soviet communique

l” . are llulyeldrglegee at gaserta, rug. grlhliligfltlrllytlngothexaqlllh Peéllialuia. South and east of the kniflng ggggligggimomfxgiglifiveg Flam w, apes,an ameeectveat - r ru ave eower Amri dltl t ' n Y- .. - _- (8 am. E.D.T.-8 can. AD. sqneesln; ch. Bu"; mun, nhnqnfl; u“ m m“ “w” ‘m’ They will be interned at nearbyi broadcblbt from Moscow this m0! lllllg-

Olficisls at t

libs pisne crashed in an en on the fonn . about a half-mile from the

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. l _ ommg Events “Dance-Montague fiddly. T"lllow- Murray Raver Monday. l 5-1-31. "Dance, St. Teresa's Hall. n-i- ‘~ d“! 4th. b-i-fl.

llllllolillns car seed oats Wed- M“ Thursday. McGuigsn

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"North Rustlco 6t l ed “will afternoollsoniiegiillging ‘i 1nd. until Oct. s1: Peters s:

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is eyewitness said bin plane noo -- to wobble for a second or ~ then it nosedived to the ground. - wreckage burned. he airport did not . 1 the number of men aboard .. _plslle but it was reported from _ scene of the crash that there live spoil-d. The planes norm-

'~ carry four.

. t dwelling '

‘ills next of kin of the men have

- notified antd

released shorly

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Ococert in Bradalbene Hal . Mo)’ 8rd.

"Unloading car cement today. ‘ Aubrey Cutcliffe.

"some. rridsiv. National rum , m authorities have‘ informed the pro-

in w tervl-le School . “WM-v 7th. 1i not fine Tues:

: E. ABuclPs stwe. Vii- n will close every Wed

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B-l-li 5-3-11.

5-3-11. Peters

for summer 54-4-21. I

7th, once a . 5-3-21.

at Ai-

-~waa. . Metre of ‘Montague and seconded by David

' will hand over control to

i}. ii. F. Nominate King's ilandidate

Capt. MercereJ. Muilin. nowserv- llll with the Canadian Army over- seas. was unanimously nominated as Federal 0.0.1“. candidate for King's County at the convention held yesterday afternoon in Car- diilan Hall

The nomination of Cont. Mull snowed. 1h! D. d.’ ~ Anderson, St. Peter's Bay.

Mr. D. J. Muilln of St, Peter's Bay, father of Capt. Mullin, pre- sided at the convention.

Following the convention, u pub- lic meetln Clarle Gil is. 0.0.11‘. Federal mem- ber for Cape Breton South.

lin More Transfers 0i War Prisoners

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OTTAWA. May 2 — (OP) —The

External Affairs Dslpagtmmt an- " I

testing power (Bwltaerland) that all transfers of‘ Allied prisoners of war in Germany have ceased. The German government has re- quested tllc International Red Cross and the protecting power to send representatives to large camps where prisoners of war have been collected. the statement said. When the camps are abandoned by the Germans in face of Allied advances, camp colnmandunts and administrative personnel ,will re- main and under the supervision of the Irlterrtationsl Red Cross and protecting power representatives the Al- lied! authorities upon their ar- vii

It ‘is understood that Swiss rep-

resentatives llave already arrived at three of the larger camps.

Familiar iiazi

‘Theme Continues

LONDQI, May 2 —— (C?)

manrs new llbrsign Minister“ Ludwig Schwer‘ von Kfoslck, in his -first radio broadcast today. picked up the familiar Nani theme that the Reich's whole wer aim

t‘ was in prevent Bolehevianfs spread

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over Europe and the world. Painting a picture of a. wrecked and atarvllla Germany. the former Rhodes scholar in a llalnb bsoalioest monitored hers I90" gloom of a tilird great will‘ and one oennsn people floss

um‘ for s true and durable peace

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5-8-31.

Treasures Found

Liberal ester. in the forthcomi Fed i election. the New Brunswick stun since me he was once provincial

FilNFi

secretary- reaaurer.

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was addressed by Mr.. {Priests which has

Rn ‘"' nearby Cdllibifiilfilfi lies been offici-

IN selvalive and st

line m‘ won the rlounnstion over Lieut. "i ‘A. n. cum. both oversees.

T.) today.

Two German plenipotentiarles signed for Germany in the pre- sence of British, American, and. Russian officers.

Approximately 20000 square miles of Gemlan-tield territory ill- cluding all of Northern Italy tu the Iscnzo River in the northeast and the Austrian Provinces of Vcrarl- berg, Tyl-oi. Sslsburg and parts of Corinihia and Styria were surren- dered to the Allies.

The notion not only uncovers the southern approaches to Germany btut flops ofguthe éoutllwesterrhend 0,t B01; e ., erman "no. ona xedoufit" and time the right flank of Col-Gen. von Lrtlr. cocnmand- ing enemy troops in the Trieste area and northern Yugoslavia. New Zealand troops of the British 8th Army and forces of Marshal Tito’: Yugoslav army already have joined l-i miles northwest ofi

been occupied by the Yugoslavs. l

Broadcast Order

radios were heard surrender crcer to troops still twldlng out in Italy or fleeing towel-rd Austria.

was rumored ln night that Gen. Vietinghoff.

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King i Says Good Beginning Made

BM C ll. BLACKBURN

SAN FRANCISCO. May ‘A —(CP) Prime lviinisber Mackenzie King. leader cf the Canadian delegation to the United Nations security conference, today told The ‘Canadian Press that "a good beginning has been mllde toward our objective" us deliberations went into the sw- olld week.

Mr King reviewed activities and slid it was obvious from the start that preliminary talks would take a certain length of time

“But now we are all i102"! t0 work," he said, referring to the 1801i that all commissions and their oom- mlttees have their assignment! i9 work out the various sections of the draft for n complete instrument binding the United Nations in an organization for the maintenance

d peace.

ii. S. Nominations

u-rvrnul. N. s. Mo. 2 -- (J15? _ A. lliiilndre ot

a1 named as Farmer-Labor c - ‘i. " “iilll.°.iibl"ll.“iit“ii.'ii ii ‘s cc - rm- ' election. Mr. Fiilnttre is ellpected to campaign ag t three other andldstea - I’ e Minister J. I... Iisiey. to be n ii. ‘ii.°'..‘.‘..°°“-"“......“°“ Till o . ' " so sat. c. n liansllord. 0.0 . svllmslv. N. s. Mali I — (OP) - Donald J. Buckley. Sydney drug- t, tonight as

is was nominated grogressive-Oolnervetivo candidate for Cape Breton South ‘in

J ll n election. e

Norman Moflitohle and Mai. W.

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boner- war camp use port that Hitler was dead, was one o! the brsndins the news as Allied

Home to- N

with only as such and by usslan or Allied commanders on his front

as was the German

commander in Italy.

Airmen Killed At Peakes Station

Two officials of the RAF. sta-

lrilled when s. Norseman plane, llallrlly used in air-sea rescue work,

Z1 crashed at Peakes Station, Tuesday

afternoon The plane was on s. flirglt from Gander to Moncton,

nqunced the names of those killed as Sqdn. Dd!‘- Frani: L. Ratllffe. R.A.l"., who for s long period had been Silflflia officer at Gander: and John .l Gilmore, civilian pilot of the plane, who had been responsible for aircraft qilntenflnce at Gan- der since Trans-Atlantic ierryirrq began.

Both men made their homes at Gender. where their wives survive.

Navy Discovers Secret For Breed

AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT, May 2-(0?) — Canadian naval bakers, c. oerimentiniz at Halifax with soy been flour the search for an answer to the roblem of bread moulding aft: our or live days at sea, have dis- covered the right m to keep read fresh for longer rlods andatitlle same time add fla- or and nutrional value.

A Navy press release said ton ht that success with the bread had ed in other experiments and the Navy bakers now nrs working on cake mixtures to determine what proportions of soy bean flour would keep cake fresh at sea.

KILLED BY SIIUNQING ENGINE

NORTH SYDNEY, 11.8.. May 2-- (OP) —5lx- e d Blair Ctoilth- ere today wh

were runnin

the tern-lino er tripped and was run over

fore he could move. 8e

was son of . and Mrajimer Gouth-

‘lliiiltail ilaliidt" y‘

tlon at Gander. Nfld., were the men_

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Eisenhower Orders Fight To Continue

By ROBERT EUNSON I . .. . ..- '. . .. .. 2 — (GP) -- Th‘:

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PARIS. May , vaunted Nalli southern redoubt van-l

lstlod today ill a Gennall surren- der to Allied forces in Italy, but Gen. Eisenhower ccmmonded his Western Front armies to fight on south ulicll the inst ember of en- emy resistance is extinguished.

Simulsanec-usly , the northern pocket was split. into three seg- ments by a British drive to me A4 ma: u.c.\i!..‘..‘.lil€.‘(l tile port of Lilebeck — where Himmler tried w sue for peace-and by all American Junction with die Rus- slaps 0n the Elbe 60 miles north- west o_f fallen Berlin.

A field olspalcn declared the will to fight had gone out of the Ger- man armies of the north and that the end of fighting might cOme in hours or at the most in days in the opinion of Allied COIIIXILQIIUETS.

The ablupt capitulailoll by the German command in northern Italy and western Austria wiped out all the so-collad Nazi "national. redoubt" with tile exce ticn cf one corner of Bavaria, an this was

ult by both the United States 3rd and 7th arlnies.

An Allied Headquarters spokes- man said Gen. Eisenhower's forces would keep right on mopping up through Bavaria-which was not included in the German surrender -ghd in; Aualraatlll Provinces oi’ the Tyrol and Selzbur — which were surrendered and w lch formed the mountainous backbone of the

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The 0.5. 8rd and ‘lib Armies nz-ced 20 to 30 miles through crock- ing enemy lines, and virtually com- pleted the subjugation cl Bavaria, with the 3rd Army l6 miles from a Junction with the Russian south- ern army.

Biggest Military Captive

In the final hours of, a dylll! Reich, the Tilh Army flushed the biggest military captive talc-en yet- FLeId Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, most skilled Junkers general of his age and architect of the Ardennes break-through, the last Gena-nu bid for victory in the wcra.

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0 Illllt Field Marshal Schcerrler. t" l ll 001ml"! commsnder-in-chi-cl in the south- 4 u" "M" 0n em section of the Eastern Front. Wlllfl- Th6 Wllllll- pledged allegiance to Grand Ad- lw- miral Karl Doenltz today in a i!!! broadcast order of the day- He call-

ed on German soldiers to "fight on for freedom."

prgpegan .

Olglilllll l t of Bi orb %tuinionptoiie compound Wednesdav morning.

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The omens of German surrender may rub lioenits out for Allied consideration except as a possible local Nazi commander to be dealt

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Montlllllch Fortress pending thc

Span sh Government's decision, Afllled Supreme Headquarters in

Pills announced immediately that

Marshal Stalin's order made no mention of Hitler. who the Nazis ha said died in ills shattered;

reported new Fuelirer. Grand Ad- miral Karl Dcenitc, issued a “ligan-

Fr-znce would demand clisiody of R9 Chcllflllceilcry in the heart of; on" battle cry to tne dwindling and

Laval, Bonnard and five persons who accompanied them 0n the flight Representations to the Spanish Government already are under way, it was reported.

The Spanish Foreign Office an- nouncsd.that thc Fr chmen were being held for disposition by the Allies and Laval tolrl the Spaniards

Moran's nu rollunna m.

that he would surrender only to an Allied Commlss‘ .

Truman Believes Killer ls llead

WASHINGTON, May 2 -(CP\ - uesldent Truman said today that he had it on the best auth- ority that Adolf Hitler is dead.

The President did not say what his authority was but declared he was convinced that the innu- er German Fuehrer had actually been killed.

This was the first official comment from the White House on a German announcement that Hitler had "fallen" in battle.

INTERNATIONAL AT A GLANCE -

(By The Canadian Press) BATTLE 0F GERMANY-Ber- lin falls to Russians; Moscow radio says“ Hitler, Goebbels committed suc c.

NORTH-rblorthern pocket split into three segments by British drive to Baltic that overwhelms port of Luebeck; Canadians gain in Emden -Wllhelmshaven penin- suia fighting; Canadian trucks take food to starving Dutch.

SOUTHERN-diam southern rc- rlloubt venishes in Permian sur- render to Allies in Italy; Eisen- hower commands Western Front armies to tight on.

ITALY-German and Italian Fascist armies numbering nearly 1.090000 men surrender uncondit- ion y to Allies.

BURMA—-Britlsh troops in sea- borue landing 20 miles south of Rangoon cut off Japanese from sea, virtually doom Jap troops in Capital.

Voice Criticism Of Education System

orrAwA. lvlsv l ~- Criticism of the Canadian educa- tion system was expressed today by the Trades and Labor Goodwill in a statement announcing tho appointment of e standing com- mittee on education.

Education was ranked as the moat important of public services and in the education program firs! care should be given to the physi- cal well-helm of children.

A intrnent of an Education o followed a decision reached st the i044 Congress con- vention. The Committee will be under the chairmanship of C

. J Oates of Vancouver and will ir- Goose

elude G. South of Halifax.

CHESTER, PA. May 2 -

— The founder oi Mother's

in Anna M. Jarvis, blind

tient at the Marshall

Square Banaiorium llere, was 8i

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Bcrlill on May 1. 1 The Sovlel. communique, llow- ever stated tllol among illc cap- tives token was Dr. Halls Fritschc. Goebbels’ chief deputy ill the Nazi Ministry of Préss and Proprlganfln. and that Fritschc iolcl ills Russian! interrogators that l-Iitier, Goebbels’ and Gen. Krebs all ilrld committed’ sul .dc. , Moscow built up to tile Hitler silicidsxopill-t. ill u drlzlnsrtlc series‘, of victory alillouilcstllcllrs. I Thus fell the once-mighty Capl-' iill which SJ1lili described p; “lhei centre of Gsrlliall impcrialisml and heart of Gcrllioll aggression," and which Hitler had proclaimed as the scat of his "LOOO-year Reich" empire—the empire that in less than six years riled n: it had been born, in blood and suffering.

Hamburg Denies Capture

Two llou after the broadcast of Marshal Stalin's announcement that Berlin had fallen, the Ham- burg racllo sziiri "the defenders in the Berlin Government quarter still are iloldlllg out."

A wide and solid link-up of the custom and western allies all the way north to the Baltic appeared imminent.

Far to the south, other Soviet nrlnles iverc swinging westward through Czechoslovakia towards Prague in a converging. drive to- ward the Western Allies which would shred yet another develop- ing pocket of Nazi resistance.

The new report that Hitler was indeed dead, but by his own hand, came as the U-boat boss and the

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In Labrador By Helicopter

GOOSE BAY, irAlilRADOR, Mayf 2_-- (CPI - Sevcil nlrmcll, sllr-' vlvors cf two nil" crashes. and a iii-I day snatch in the bushlrlnds of" islillfildiitl‘ have

who were chambers of the crew of. an RC Ali‘ Canso aircraft, wasi announcer! tanslnv bv FASQEPT‘. Airi Command liead uarwws. ‘

There were cght offlcels and one sergeant aboard the Consc when it crushed April 19. Two of the officers. PO B. Lehey, of Fort McNlcoll, Ont... and PD. W R. Bnggett, O1 (ll-ill 92nd Si.) Ed- lnondston were injured.

They were flown out by i1 res- cue Norseman aircraft, but a sec- ond Norseman with tlle remainder of the Canso‘; crew aboard clack-

;ed up when attemping to take off.

The seven who escaped injury in the crashes were:

P0. DL. Munro of (8622 Fbslkirk Ave.) Vancouver; P0. E.W. Lom- hert oi (2! Ehnlly Sm Winnl eg; P0. W. R. Taiiierfer, of Pom r- ion. B.O.; P0 R. Sugden, of (2 Wilson Road) Oshawa; PO. G. R. Joy, of (307 Royce Ave.) Toronto. and Sgt. Gd. ‘hlnneil, of (l0 Lar- kin Ave.)

The seven men were finally taken out of the bushlands after seven rescue flights by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter. The helicopter was placed at the disposal of R..C. A F. autholities by the rescue branch of tile Eastern sell Fron-

- tier at New York. It was flown to

Bay by special US.A.A.F. transport.

Air force officials in Halifax de- clared that had it not been for the helicopter, the merooned men would have been forced io remain in the bushland for n month or more. until the spring break-up permitted the landing of pontoon-