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MONDAY. MAY 7. 1945 1 I nf 1 I Excuse Us If amtaaBTiBS 5Bloody European Fix Official End. War Terminates As Germans Quit LONDON. UP) The greatest war in history ended today with the unconditional surrender of Germany.

The surrender of the Reich to the Western Allies and Russia was made at Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims, France, by Col. Gen. Gustaf Jodl, Chief of Staff for the German Of Warfare LONDON. (AP) The British Ministry of Information announced that tomorrow will be treated as V-E Day.

The Ministry said officially that, "in accordance with arrangements between the three great powers, the Prime Minister will make an official announcement at 3 P. British Double Summer Time, (9 A. Eastern War Time), tomorrow, the 8th of May." The announcement said that the Prime Minister "will broadcast at 3 P. M. and his Majesty, the King, will broadcast to the peoples of the British Empire and the Commonwealth tomorrow at 9 P.

British Double Summer Time (3 P. EWT)." "In view of this fjict," the announcement said, "tomor PRICE: FIVE CENTS people that Grand Adm. Karl In I n-x-r-M ft; FZPi vt lfi i I 7 iff'' I row will be a public holiday and the day after, Wednesday, will also be regarded as a hojidav." 4 CITY PROCLAMATION With the official proclamation of V-E Day, a City ordinance ordering the closing of all bars and liquor stores in Ft. Lauderdale for 24 hours will go into effect, City Manager Merrill said today. The cf ficial beginning of the: liquor ban will be announced by the City's "air raid" siren.

FORT Port ater Plea Finds City Silent The City Commission today took no official action on the plea of Port Manager Spangler of Port Everglades that a direct "yes" or "no" answer be given to the question of whether or not the City of Ft. Lauderdale will assume the expense of needed repairs and expansion of the war distribution system at the Port in the interests of fire protection. The Commission, however, expressed "disapproval" of the Port's flat refusal of an offer made by the City to sell its existing facilities to the Port Authority for $4,500. Costs Told City Manager Merrill reported to the Commission that the water distribution system at the Port represents an initial investment by the City of $13,000. The City, Merrill added, had also offered to install a new master meter at the Port, to cost approximately $1,000, and that the City of Hollywood had agreed to pay the expense of.

installing nine new hydrants on the Hollywood side of the Port, to cost about $3,200. Merrill declared that, after recent meetings with Hollywood and Port Authority officials, he believed it was the "consensus of opinion" that the Port should own its water distribution system. The Commission instructed Merrill to contact Hollywood and Port officials once again to attempt agreement, although Commissioner Moe declared he felt the Port had been given its "last chance" to buy. Bids Opened Earlier in the session, the Commission opened three bids from pump manufacturing companies on the installation of eight new centrifugal pumps, part of the water expansion program authorized several weeks ago. The three bids, the only returns to be received although eight companies were contacted, offered estimates of $8,075, $10,958, and $12,023, and were turned over to Merrill and Assistant DPW Superintendent Hinman for study.

A special session of the Commission was announced for 9:15 A. M. Tuesday at which the decision of Merrill and Hinman will be announced. The Commission accepted the bid of Powell for $19,720 to make repairs to a sewer at Colee Hammock. Powell esti mated that the job will take approximately 10 weeks.

Gas Storage The Commission also instructed Acting Attorney Baxter to draw-up a City ordinance prohibiting inside storage of all liquefied and bottled gases, as requested by Fire Chief King last week. King appeared before the Commissioners with, a copy of a similar ordinance now in effect in Miami. The proposed ordinance, to be presented to the Commission next Monday, would also give the Fire Department authority to establish safety zones in which such gases could be stored. Negro's Murderer Sought By Police Law enforcement agencies today sought the murderer of Isaac Higgs, 75, Dania, Negro whose body was found in a vegetable patch near his home Saturday night. Three Negroes.

Will San-dors. 59, and Albert and Sam Bee. both 21, were questioned by Deputy Sheriff Robert Clark and Constable Sol Barfield, following their arrest Sunday in connection with the investigation. Higgs had been beaten about the head and shoulders with a broken hoe handle, following which the assailants cut his throat. LAST MARCH BEGEVS STOCKHOLM.

-P The news-paper Expressens said in a dis- patch from the Norwegian fron- tier today that a German march I across the Swedish border into interment would begin this afternoon under capitulation terms. 3 14 We DonH Join the A Naval Air Station sailor who would not give his name reminded an overexcited civilian companion that "the war's only half over now." County Tax Collector Hansen pointed out the burden assumed by the conqueror in a modern war. "We will have to start thinking about feeding all those people and cleaning up the mess. The Germans have kept them hungry for a long time now." One elderly man who couldn't take his eyes off his paper long enough to cross the street was narrowly missed by an automobile as he crossed Las Olas Blvd at Andrews Ave. Special services commemorating the end of the European conflict will be observed in all churches throughout the City at 8 P.

M. today, it was announced by the Rev. John H. Hanger, President of the Ministerial Association. Originally, services of thanksgiving were scheduled for 7:30 P.

M. but a last-minute change in plans came on the decision of the I Association that the later hour would allow more time for wor- shippers to assemble. I A Tridium of thanksgiving and special prayer will be held at St. Anthony's Catholic Church be-I ginning with a Mass of Thanks-; giving at 8 A. Tuesday, to be followed by Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Adoration during the day, and Holy Hour 'at 7:30 P.

with singing of the Te Deum. At 8 A. M. Wednesday, a Requiem Mass will be offered for all men and women who have i fallen in battle, and at 8 A. M.

Thursday, a Mass for Peace will be offered. Kentucky Solon Blocks i Medal For Mr. Roosevelt WASHINGTON. -B Action on I the posthumous award of the Con-; gressional Medal to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt blocked in the House today on objection cf Rep.

Robsion, i Kentucky Republican. Robsion told the House that for almost 100 years the medal 1 had gene only to those "who go far beyond the line of duy in actual combat." i Fall Of Germans Finds City Ready To Push War On Japs Celebration Slayer Tells About Murder Of Lumberman WEST PALM BEACH. JP Chief of Police Jack Thompson said today Charles Allen, 20. ex-sailor, had admitted In a signed statement that he killed Charles H. Montgomery, 56, millionaire Ft.

Lauderdale and Grove City, lumberman, after picking up a hitch-hike ride from Atlanta. The police official quoted Allen as saying he shot the Pennsylva-nian while their automobile was parked beside the highway between Stark and Palatka, on April 21. Allen was arrested here Saturday, a week after Montgomery's body was found with a bullet hole in the head, bneath a bridge on a seldom used road near St. Augustine. Ride Described In the statement, Thompson said.

Allen described how he hitchhiked a ride south with Montgomery on April 21 and that the Pennsylvanian had bought him his meals enroute. After the shooting, Thompson quoted Allen as saying he put the body in the floor of the car and drove the car four or five miles and stopped. After removing the shoes and pants, a diamond ring and other effects, Allen said he dumped the body under a bridge. The ex-sailor then related how he drove to Jacksonville, spent the night with his wife and the next morning left on a trip to Washington and Philadelphia. Enroute he said he used some of the $700 in traveling cheques he had taken off the slain man.

Allen said he drove bark tn Jacksonville and left the car in front of his apartment for the night. The next morning he said he learned that it had been picked up by police. Boy Scout Paper Drive Nets Total Of 36 Tons Civilian Defence officials were jubilant oday in their announce merit that the April 29 Boy Scout paper collection amounted to nearly 36 tons, the largest quantity of salvaged paper ever col-I lected in the County in one drive. This paper brought the final total of the March and April Scout col-i lections to 125,000 pounds. "Parliament will meet at the usual time tomorrow." The war against Germany, the greatest in history, ended today with the unconditional surrender of the once mighty Wehrmacht.

The surrender to the western Allies and Russia was made at Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims, France, by the German High Command. In Washington microphones were made ready for a broadcast by President Truman. Prime Minister Churchill, after a busy day at 10 Downing went to see King George VI. News of the surrender came in an Associated Press dispatch from Reims, at 9:35 A.

Eastern War Time, and immediately set the church bells tolling in Home and elsewhere. In the hour before the news from Reims. fJermnn Vrmy. This was announced after German broadcasts told the German people that Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz $ad ordered the capitulation of all fighting forces, and called off the U-boat war.

Joy at the news was tempered only by the realization that the war against Japan remains to be Resolved, with many casualties still ahead. Bloodiest War The end of the European warfare, greatest, bloodiest and costliest war in human history it has Claimed at least 40,000,000 casualties on both sides in killed, wounded, and captured came after five years, eight months, and six days of strife that overspread the globe. Hitlers arrogant armies invaded on IT 1939, beginning nhe agony that convulsed world for 2,076 days. Unconditional surrender of the beaten remnants of his legions first was announced by the Germans. The historic news began breaking with a Danish broadcast that Norway had been surrendered unconditionally by its conquerors.

Then the new German Foreign Minister, Ludwig Schwerin von rosigk, announced to the Ger-rnan people, shortly after 2 P. M. 8 A. M. Eastern War Timel, that "after almost six years of struggle we have succumbed." Doenitz' Orders Von Krosigk announced Doenitz iiad "ordered the unconditional surrender of all fighting German troops." The world waited tensely.

Then at 9:35 A. EWT, came the Associated Press flash from Reims, ranee, telling of the signing at Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters of the unconditional surrender at 2:41 A. M. French time 8:41 P.

M. Sunday. EWT. Germany had riven up to the Western Allies Sid to Russia. London went wild at the news.

Crowds jammed Piccadilly Circus. Smiling throngs poured out of subways and lined the streets. I Cheers went up in New York, and papers showered down from skyscrapers. Sour Note A sour note came from the German-controlled radio at Prague. A broadcast monitored the Czechoslovak government offices in London said the German commander in Czechoslovakia did not recognize the surrender of Admiral Doenitz and would fight on until his forces "have secured ffe passage for German troops out of the country'." But the Prague radio earlier announced the capitulation of Breslau, long besieged by Russian forces.

The BBC said telephone conver-Mtions were going on between London, Washington and "Moscow in order to fix the exact hour of the V-E Day announcement by President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. Late in the day. Prime Minis-J' Churchill, emerging from his residence at No. 10 Downing drove to Buckingham Palace. Statement Due It previously had been announced that King George VI broadcast at 9 P.

M. (3 P. Eastern War Time on the day the surrender is announced. Czech patriots were struggling in the streets of Prague in an effort to wrest their capital city f-l3i the Nazis. General Patton tAsw at least 10 U.

S. Third Broadcasts told the German a -m uoenitz naa ordered capitulation of all fighting forces, and called off U-boat warfare. The Associated Press detailed account of the formal signing of Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies came directly from Edward Kennedy, chief of the AP staff on the Western Front. Kennedy's dispatch was transmitted via Paris from Reims, Gen. Eisenhower's advance headquarters, to the London office of the AP, and relayed from there to New York via AP's leased cable facilities.

LT. H. G. STANAGE, 11 SW Fifth was among the first of Broward County's European War casualties. a a reached the North African Theater Feb.

28, 1943, and was reported killed in a plane crash June 7, 1943. Corp. Maxwell Reported Dead Corp. Leslie H. Maxwell, 23, was killed April 23 over the Irish Sea.

his parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Maxwell, 1001 Rio Vista were informed Sunday by the War Department.

A member of the ground Army Air Forces, he went overseas May 28, 1943, and had been stationed in England. He entered the Army in September, 1942. His parents, both of whom served in France in the Medical Corps In the last war, said their son had expected to leave April 24 on furlough to Scotland. Educated Here Moving here from Indianapolis as a child. Corporal Maxwell attended local schools and was graduated by Pine Crest School.

He attended University of Indiana and John B. Stetson University, DeLand, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Other survivors include his aunt, Miss Verne Weddle of the above address, and his brother, Charles Maxwell of Hartford, Conn. Supreme Court Upholds Portal-Tq-Portal Pay For Soft Coal Miners WASHINGTON. CP) The Supreme Court ruled today that bituminous coal miners are entitled to portal-to-portal underground wages.

Justice Murphy delivered the Court's 5-4 decision. Justice Jackson wrote a dissent in which Chief Justice Stone and Justices Roberts and Frankfurter concurred. The Court on March 27, 1944 ruled that iron ore miners must be paid portal-to-portal wages that is pay for the time spent traveling from the mine opening to the actual working place and back again. Burn ell Opens Battle On Senator For County TALLAHASSEE. Cit-The ques tion of Senatorial redis trie ting- President said today he had aprerl with the London and Moscow governments that he would make no announcement on the surrender of enemy forces "until a simultaneous announcement can be made by the three governments." Until a simultaneous statement can be made, he declared, "there is nothing I can or will say to you." The President's statement, released by Press Secretary Jonathan Newsboys and newsstands were swamped today as The Daily News extra edition announced unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe.

All morning long radios blared forth in down-t business establishments, whose owners had brought them along to keep posted when it became apparent from an earlier German report that the war in Europe ended today. Churches prepared special memorial and thanksgiving services while in the downtown area groups of people, some gravely, some excitedly, talked of the news for which the world has waited so long. Two children, a five-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister, marched triumphantly through the crowds on the streets carrying American flags. Their father is a Japanese prisoner. When questioned in Hollywood today, Mrs.

Dwight Eisenhower, wife of the Supreme Allied Commander, told The Daily News that the only statement concerning the war's end she was able to make with War Department approval had been given for use of the National Broadcasting Company. She is vacationing as houseguest of her longtime friend. Mrs. Herbert W. Beyette, wife of Brig.

Gen. Beyette. at their winter home at 1442 Polk Hollywood. Two elderly ladies had taken one look at The Daily News extra they bought from a newsboy on Andrews when one said to the other, with a look of tight-lipped satisfaction, have a drink on the Germans!" They were last seen entering the Over Seas Bar. The general enthusiasm was somswhat dampened by the recent death of Adolf Hitler.

"Id be even more excited if Hitler were still alive to see it." Fred Burnham. of Dooley's Basin and Dry Dock, reported. "It's just too bad he had to miss this!" One little girl asked her mother what the newspaper said. "It says that daddy is ccming home," the mother replied quietly. In many cases the Germans were not the topic cf the discussions of Broward Countians gathered on the City streets.

Thoughts turned quickly to the war with Japan. uanieis, was aaressea to tne press and radio. I When Daniels was asked about British announcements that tomorrow will be observed as V-E Day, he said that he had nothing to add to the President's statement. Broadcasting equipment was readied for use' in the White House Diplomatic Room, usual site of Presidential radio addresses. On Capitol Hill radio receiving equipment was set up In the House of Representatives so that the members could remain in their seats to hear the historic V-E declaration of the President.

House Democratic Leader McCormaek asked and received unanimous consent for the Speaker to declare the House in recess at any time, to hear the proclamation. President Truman was conferring with aides in the Executive Offices today as news was flashed to the world from Reims of the unconditional surrender of Oerman arms. Newsmen surged into the White House in anticipation of an expected V-E announcemrnt. OWI Director Elmer Davis was among those at the Whit IIousp. He told reporters: "When here is any official announcement it will ome from in there." Indicating the President's office.

Mr. Truman arrived at his office at 8:27 A. EWT, accom- panied by his military and naval adies, and went directly to his i office. Newsmen who have been staffing the White House around the clock for a week, jammed the big oval reception room. White House aides said they had nothin? official to announce at once on a cessation of hostilities in Europe.

Daniels told a news conference during the morning he had "nothing to say" on a V-E Day proclamation. "The White House has nothing official to announce here now." he stated in response to questions. don't frnw Fin be an announcement." At that time President Tru.nan was in his private office swapping talk with Sgt. James P. Connor, of Wilmington, who woa the Consressional Medal of Honor on D-Day last June.

Army infantry and armored divi- one of Florida's perennial polit-sions into the battle for Czecho- ical problems was revived in Slovakia, capturing Pilsen, 50 miles the Legislature today, southwest of Prague. Reps. Cobb of Orange and Bur- Russian troops in Czechoslova-! well of Broward were joined by k.i smashed into the outskirts of 43 other House members in in-the war production center of Ol- troducing a bill which would make muetz Olomoucl. 128 1 1 radical alterations in the State's southeast of Prague. I Senatorial apportionment..