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U. S. PAT. OFFICE. COPVH1UHT 1V4 BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE I WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 191534 PAGES TK13 PAPER CONSISTS OP TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE THREE CENTS PAY" NO MORE mm I I Ll ouuuu top fsi? SIM HE SIGNS THE REGISTER AMERl OA'S I MORTAL COM MAN DERS RUSH TO GRAB GERMAN LANDS IS ON AT FRISCO PERSHING SHAFTER GRANT SCOTT HARRISON) WASHINGTON FIELD MARSHAL KEITEL ACCEPTS TERMS IN PRESENCE OF ZHUKOV GIVE FAREWELL COCKTAIL FETE FOR MOLOTOV irAr- At ftf 'Festival of Victory' Red Army Seizes San Francisco, May 8 JP) Germany's unconditional surrender opened the floodgates tonight for territorial claims against the third reich which eventually may divide more than one-third of her pre-war land holdings among the allies.

Altho the carve-up of Germany has no place in the allied conference here, some European delega d. 4f -n as vv ALLIED CONTROL BOARD REACHES OSLO BY PLANE Declared Today in Moscow Russian Happy at Frisco Victory Dresden; Pushes On as War Ends tions have taken the opportunity to BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING imake known their claims. rARIS. May 9 Wednesdayl-iT) (Map on pag 2) LONDON, May 9 IWednesday Germany bowed today to the most crushing defeat ever Inflicted upon a nation, her abject surrender (A1) The Russians, fighting thru the last day of the war, yesterday captured the Saxon capital of Dresden Long Occupation Due The spheres of allied military occupation, which are expected to be taken over shortly, have been agreed upon for several months, proclaimed to the world by the I tbtcac Inbanc Preu Service 1 San Francisco, Cal May 8 Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov as preparing today to take plane for Moscow with unconcealed satisfaction in the success he has achieved here in protecting and United States, Britain, and Russia. The Moscow radio In behalf of OLSO, Norway.

May 8 WV-An allied control commission for Norway arrived in Oslo in British flying boats shortly before nightfall tonight in the midst of Norway's celebration of her liberation. After five years of German occupation, Norway's reception of freedom was fervent but peaceful, altho there were unofficial reports that Vidkun Quisling, premier of the Nazi puppet government, and Josef and won final hour victories in southern Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, while Czechoslovak and many here believe the big al Premier Marshal Stalin, whose Red armies broke the armed might of Partisans hoisted the free flag of lied powers will occupy Germany for at least six years, possibly longer. Others have contended the A. the republic over liberated Prague. Hitler's reich on the eastern front, announced the unconditional surrender to the Russian people at 1:10 a.

m. today. 10 hours and 13 The Red army's battle against the occupation must endure for at least a quarter of a century to teach the Germans that war does not pay. Germans apparently went on until the official deadline for the end of minutes after President Truman Tcrboven, German commissioner for Several European countries have and Prime Minister Churchill pro Norway, had been seized by the all hostilities 12:01 a. m.

London time 15:01 p. m. Chicago time J. claimed V-E day. home front.

let it be known that they. actually want German territory. The announcement said the final Huge crowds Jammed Oslo's main Surrender In Dodecanese Meanwhile one of the Germans' Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco van articles of capitulation were signed squares hoping to see the mem Kleffens announced here several yesterday In Berlin, the ruined cap. bers of the control commission most far flung resistance points dis days ago that his government had reserved the right to claim the whose chief has not yet been identi Ital symbolic of the fall of the third reich. appeared yesterday when the German commander of the Dodecanese fied.

The people also were excited German province of Frisia. by rumors that Crown Prince Olaf Islands In the Aegean sea. Gen. Keitcl SIrnr for Germane Field Marshal Wilhelm KelteL The Belgians are interested In a urthering the interests of the soviet union. During the fortnight he has been here Molotov has been the towering figure of the conference to abolish war.

His yea or nay has shaped the structure of the new league ol nations to enforce peace in the form desired by Moscow to aggrandize Russia and spread the gospel of communism thruout the world. Litvinovs Triumph Recalled Not a few of those delegates of the big powers whom he has bested in the negotiations behind doors ruefully concede that he wields a subtle diplomacy. He goes home almost as triumphant as Maxim Lit-vinov, who left the White House in 1933 after getting Mr. Roosevelt's recognition of the soviet union and burst into a Russian embassy cocktail party with the exclamation: "They gave me everything I asked for. Thruout his stay the crowds have followed the short, stocky Russian with the round head, broad face.

also might arrive by plane. Wegener, surrendered. About 10.000 small strip of land along their bor Twenty-four hours after the news troops under his command gave up chief of the German high command, signed the articles ia the presence der. of unconditional German surrender their arms. There was no word The Moscow declaration of Brit of Marshal Gregory K.

Zhukov. assistant commander of the Red ish-United States-soviet foreign min had reached the populace there was no report of any shooting either from Crete the only remaining Nazi outpost in the Mediterranean. isters said Austria should be inde armies; Air Chief Marshal Tedder In the capital or elsewhere. Another last minute victory was pendent in the post-war world. THE WEATHER Day of Celebration won by jsiarsnai inos xugosiav British, deputy supreme commander In the west: Gen.

Spaatt, It seems safe to assume that Czechoslovakia's pre-war frontiers army of national liberation which Oslo's inhabitants, however, par The Girl with 2 Husbands WEDNESDAY. MAT 194 liberated the Croatian city of Za ticipated in daylong demonstra chief of the United States strategic air forces in Europe, and Lt, Gen. will be restored. Cries of Dying Spoil V-E Day for Okinawa greb, last of the puppet capitals tions, marching and cheering. Poland has put in a claim for East De Tassigny, commander of the SunrUc.

8:37. Sunset. 7:58. Moonrlsc. 5:13 a.

m. tomorrow. Morning atari. Vtnos and Man; evenlnc stars, Jupiter and Saturn. CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Clear today: once forming part of Hitler's fallen Norwegian flags, never displayed Prussia, and the Warsaw olish gov during the occupation, were flying European, empire.

IThe Paris radio broadcast an un cloudy tomorrow, with rain btclnnlnx In ernment has raised the question of extending Poland's western frontier everywhere. forenoon; continued cool: moderate wlndi: high today. 55; low tonlfht, 38; tiljb to Jubilant crowds greeted allied confirmed report today that German to the river Oder to include Stettin. morrow. 58.

scragsly mustache and happy, in (PicturtM on page 9) holdout garrisons in the French and neutral correspondents who ILLINOIS: Partly cloudy today: cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with rain beginning In The Big Three have decided that Russia's own western frontier shall Long Beach, Cal May 8 Special channel ports of Lorient and La Ro south tonight and In north tomorrow loie- scrutable smile, and choked the corridors of the St Francis hotel for a mere glimpse of the mysterious che lie had surrendered and that First love triumphed today in the be extended to the Curzon line. traveled to the capital by train from the Swedish frontier. Many of the people lined along the railway were crying openly. At every crossing, French 1st army. For Germany it was crowning Ignominy KelteL whose armies all but mastered Europe, forced to sign in the ashes of Germany's first city surrender articles which stripped the reich of its last vestige of mUi-tary strength.

The guns of Europe, which thru five years, eight months, and seven days of unexampled war inflicted possibly 40 million casualties, fell silent at one minute past midnight French troops have entered both modern Enoch Arden problem of The French have demanded all of noan; continued cool. TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO Far 24 hoars ended 2 a. May 9: BY GORDON COBBLEDICK OKINAWA, May 8 We stood in the rain this morning and heard the voice from San Francisco, only half believing. Confirmed by Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters," the voice was saying.

celebrity, while other bigwigs passed Mrs. Helen Goad MacDowell, 23, cities. Fanatics Fire rrague Germany west of ie Rhine. Danes May Get Some 3 a. who suddenly discovered she has 4 a.

.44 every farmhouse, and every village and town the joyous people sang unnoticed and unknown. Farewell Cocktail Party While the Russian delegation two service men husbands. "Cease fire" was ordered in Diplomatic quarters in London 7 p. .50 6 p. 9 p.

m. .48 10 p. lip. 1 Hldn't 40 1 a. 2 a.

After wrestling with her domestic over and over again their national 1 p. .49 2 p. m. .52 3 p. 4 p.

.51 4:13. 8 5 p. .51 6 p. .51 have heard that Prime Minister Prague, in flames from wanton Nazi destruction, at 7:25 p. m.

London 5 a. 6 a. .40 a. 8 a. 9 a.

.43 10 a. 11 a. .46 tangle for three days, she decided anthem, "Yes, We Love Our Coun threw a cocktail party in honor of Molotov and his departure, these she wants the man I've always timel. altho a few Nazi fanatics try." Churchill has proposed a four power rule over the Rhineland and Ruhr as a separate political and economic loved," her first husband, Lt. Har Quisling, whose name became continued to loot and fire the today 5:01 p.

m. Tuesday, eastern war time. controversial issues faced the conference's commissions and commit High. tLow. Far 24 haara ended 7:30 p.

May 8: old W. Goad, 27, an army pilot offi Czechoslovak capital. Late broad entity. Mean temperature. 48; normal, 65; excess lees as they completed organization casts from the city said that some There also was the belief that since Jan.

1, 603 degrees. and got down to business: PreclpltaUon, none; excess since Jan. 1, 1.79 German troops who now become Inches. 1. Whether the enforcement of outlaws outside the scope of inter southern Schleswig and north Frisia might be awarded to Denmark as a move to internationalize the Kiel Highest wind velocity.

28 miles an bour. Relative humidity, 7:30 a. S3 per cent; the Monroe Doctrine is to be ex "Prime Minister Churchill proclaimed May 8 as V-E day." Artillery thundered and the planes roared low overhead and we couldn't hear all that the voice was saying. President Truman Marshal Stalin announced the Canadian gov-ernment at Ottawa unauthorized an nouncement American News agency Different In Okinawa So this was V-E day. It was V-E day in the United States and Great Britain and Russia but on Okinawa the ambulances skidded thru the 1:30 p.

7:30 p. 36. 'Official weather report an page 191 national law were shelling Prague's hospitals and had set fire to historic Hradcany castle, for centuries canaL empted from the provision requiring previous permission of the security part of the English language as a synonym for treason, was reported at patriot headquarters to have been surprised on his estate near Oslo at 3 a. m. and interned by home iront guards.

The same report said Terboven was taken at the same time. Neither report was official. Start Quisling Bound up The home front, which carried on an underground battle thruout the occupation, was known to have Many allied sources believe Ger the symbol of Czechoslovak national many will lose the naval strong- cially declared dead but recently found very much alive in a Rangoon hospital. She will obtain an annulment of her second marriage to Ensign Robert MacDowell of Saugerties, N. whom she wed four months ago after being informed Goad was dead.

Hopes He Wants Her To Lt. Goad, who had termed his wife's remarriage his "roughest deal," she already had sent a cablegram saying: "Darling, am so glad life. point of Helgoland. In successive orders of the day. followed by four, five, and seven hours, the victory proclamations ol Actually, guns on the western front were stilled yesterday to prevent further bloodshed as the allied world celebrated V-E day 11 months and two days after Gen.

Eisenhowers armies stormed Into France. -Festival of Victory The Moscow radio -said that in honor of the victorious conclusion of the great patriotic war cf the soviet people against the German fascist invaders and the historic Red army victory that has been gained and that has been ended by the complete defeat of the German army which declared unconditional capitulation. May 9 will be a festival of victory" Announcement of the capitulation ended the Russian warfare on the Tribune Features RAISE RIVER'S LEVEL TO LET SHIP PASS THRU Diversion of Lake Michigan water thru the Chicago river was increased to more than 5,000 cubic President Truman and Prime Min Crossword Puzzle Page 7 ister Churchill, Marshal Stalin an nounced the capture of Dresden, the sticky mud and bounced over rutted fall of the Czechoslovak city of Ol- started a full-scale roundup of quislings, but apparently there was no hurry about this procedure. It seemed to be taken for granted that there was no place for the Nazis to Dick Tracy Page 26 Editorials Page 16 Farm and Garden Page 18 Friend of the Yanks Page 10 Gasoline Alley Page 20 rocky coral roads. Some of the men who rode them muetz OlomoucJ, and the seizure of council to take regional action against an aggressor.

Z. Whether any one of the big five powers the United States, Great Eritain, Russia, China, and France is to have power to veto use of force to curb aggression and even to prevent arbitration or investigation of an international dispute in behalf of a nation it favors. 3. Whether the league is to have power to attack treaties or prior international decisions, like the partition of Poland, that threaten the preservation of peace. 4.

Whether there is to be a system of trusteeship of conquered territory under which the United States could have exclusive control cf the Pacific islands, taken from Japan, for naval bases. to hear you are alive. Will see you soon. 1 love you with all my heart." "1 hope he feels the same way about me," the perplexed young wife said today. "But I know he must, and that everything will be four strongholds in Czechoslovakia and Austria between Prague and gritted their teeth behind bloodless flee.

lips and let no cry escape them. Vienna. Dresden fell to the 1st second feet for three hours after 3 p. m. yesterday to raise the river level and provide sufficient water for the lake steamer, O.

S. McFar-land, heavily loaded with sulphur, to pass thru the river. The Chicago river channel is 22 or more feet deep, but at some Rumors spread thru Oslo's streets that British warships were anchored Some stared into space thru eyes Ukrainian army. The soviet operational war bulle in the Oslo fjord and the people that were dull with the look of men to whom nothing mattered greatly. all right." The petite blonde and the young army olllcer were sweethearts In expected that a British force would tinprobably Moscow's last also announced that soviet forces had Some screamed with pain that the surged into the Czechoslovak prov Gumps Page 19 Harold Teen rage 29 Inquiring Camera Girl Page 23 Moon Mullins rage 25 Neighbors Page 17 Obi luai ies Page 20 Orphan Annie Page 22 Radio Programs Page 18 Smilin Jack Page 2C Smitly Page 29 Terry rage 18 White Collar Girl Page 21 Winnie Winkle Page 29 morphine couldn't still.

And some lay very quiet under ponchos that ince of Bohemia from Saxony and land and march Into the capital. I A correspondent of the Swedish newspajter Aftonbladct reported that a British fleet teas at anchor JO miles from Oslo. places the river has filled to a depth slightly less. The McFarland was drawing 21 feet under its heavy load, so the river level had to be raised approximately six inches to insure clearance for the east front where the conflict with, German forces In Czechoslovakia, in Austria, and In the resistance pockets ot Courland Latvia and the Vistula estuary continued up to the last minute. Moscow had ignored the V-E day observed by Britain.

America, and the other allied nations. With the signing of the capitula covered their faces. had captured Most IBruexJ, 43 Portsmouth, their home town. They were married In April, 1912. Then he went away to war, to pilot a bomber In the Pacific theater.

Goad's plane exploded over Japanese held Burma on Oct. 14. 1943. It was V-E day at home but on miles northwest of Prague. Okinawa men.

shivered in foxholes half filled with water and waited The steering committee decided today that procedure in the com- Continued on page 14, column 2 ifthu- flvura caM Clnnti mac hlnwn Hitler Body Found, Says Red Officer thru the roof and couldn't have lived. When he had been missing for the command to move forward across the little green valley that was raked from both ends by machine gun fire. LONDON, May 8 (T) Dispatches ship. Normal diversion for May Is about 2,000 cubic second feet, slightly more than the yearly average of 1,500 cubic second feet. Recent rains had caused such an increased flow in the lower parts of the drainage canal that the Chicago river diversion had been re a year the war department reported Renew Pearl Harbor Quiz It was V-E day, but on Okinawa from the British 2d army front said today a Russian general had dis found the bullet torn and battered body of a man identified as Hitler.

All except one of Hitler's servants were said to have identified the dead man as Hitler. The one said that the Accordingly," the announcement closed that a body purporting to be a very young marine cried like a frightened child and his voice rose tion. Russia became the only one of the big four among the allied nations at peace with the world. The United States, Britain, and China still had the war with Japan. With them In this war were 31 other nations while five more had broken diplomatic relations with the Japanese.

Order Issued In Prague The last shot on the western added, "he Ithe secretary has de that of Adolf Hitler had been found cided that his own investigation body was that of one of Hitler's shrilly, "I can't stand it any more. God, I can't stand it." duced to prevent backing of river water into the lake from the Calu by Red army troops in the ruins of Berlin. should be further continued. cooks. The servant said he believed him dead.

The young "widow" met, Ensign MacDowell in Florida last summer. She said she remembered Goad's wish that "if anything ever happened to him to go ahead and remarry some good man." She and the ensign were married last December in Long Beach. Goad Gets "Worst" News When the British took Rangoon met Sag canal. This lowered the Forrestal noted "errors of judg the "cook double." whom he knew intimately, had been assassinated Chicago river level. No Good Up There A grizzled sergeant watched him for a minute, half in compassion.

ment on the part of certain officers There was no confirmation from the soviet capital. Moscow dispatches said Russian troops still were searching for Hitler's body. in the naval service, both at Pearl while Hitler escaped. Harbor and at Washington." The general was reported to have half in contempt, and then called. Washington.

D. May 8 CP) Adm. Henry K. Hewitt has been assigned by Navy Secretary For-restal to conduct the secretary's continuing investigation of the Pearl Harbor catastrophe, it was learned today. Hewitt, whose home is in Hacken-cack, K.

until recently was commander of the 8th fleet and United States naval forces in Northwest African waters. He has been relieved to take his new post. Forrestal announced last Dec 1 that the navy's formal court of inquiry into the Pearl Harbor disas front was fired in Czechoslovakia by the 80th infantry division ot told Pilugin that bodies supposedly The Germans said Hitler died May 1 in his vast underground headquar Decorated for Service Prior to his North African assign of Propaganda Minister Goebbels Gen. Patton's 3d army, the last to ters. ment in the spring of 1943 Hewitt and his wife and children also had been discovered, but Goebbels was Corpsman, take him back.

He's no good up here." On Okinawa a flame throwing tank lumbered across a narrow plain toward an enemy pillbox. From a cave a gun spat viciously, and the tank stopped and' burst commanded amphibious forces of remain in action. Patton Issued his cease fire order at 8 a. m. yesterday 1 a.

Chicago war time J. The Nazis la Czechoslovakia- Tokyo Radio Tells Japs of Germany's Surrender San Francisco, May 8 W) The Japanese people were told today of the unconditional surrender of their last axis partner, Germany. The usually voluble Tokyo radio was tight-lipped as to the reaction in a home broadcast, but announced a "now or never" appeal by Adm. Teijiro Toyoda, munitions minister, for increased aircraft production. so badly burned it was not recog the Atlantic fleet.

As commander of naval forces in the landings at agreed to the terms ot unconditional French Morocco he won the navy's into fire. recently they liberated Lt. Goad, who had lived thru the explosion and been held 18 months in Japanese captivity. But his return from an official grave plunged him into a situation he said was worse than "anything I have been thru." He may think my feeling is only sympathy but I mean it with all my heart," his wife said as she prepared to leave for the home of her parents in Portsmouth to await a telephone call from Lt. Goad.

nizable. Aftserts Ilimmler In Denmark Gen. Adm. Friedeburg. in chief of the German navy, told allied officers after Germany's sur During a meeting two days ago between Field Marshal Montgomery and Marshal Rokossovsky, dispatches said, Russian officers asked Col.

Anotoly Pilugin, Tass agency war correspondent attached to the British 2d army, whether the British believed Hitler was dead or alive. Servants View Body distinguished service medal and the army's distinguished service medal. ter had developed no evidence to When the crewmen clambered out machine guns chattered and they He received the gold star in lieu fell face forward in the mud and render in Reims that there was no of a second such medal as command warrant trial by general court martial of "any person or persons in the naval service. Forrestal Not Satisfied doubt about Hitler's death." were still. er of the 8th fleet in the Sicilian and Italian landings.

The army surrender, and a cease fire order was Issued In Prague at 12:55 p. ra. I Chicago war time. The allied final terms were signed at 2:41 a. Monday British double summer time.

7:41 p. m. Sunday. Chicago war timel in a red brick schoolhouse in Reims, which for months had been Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters.

The fact of this historic He said Gestapo Chief Himmler awarag net pmij circwlafia a APRIL. 1945 It was V-E day everywhere, but The secretary said, however, he awarded an oak leaf cluster in lieu on Okinawa the forests of white had fled for Denmark and was very probably near Grand Adm. Doenitz Pilugin was said to have replied that there was mixed opinion and then a Russian general, whose identity Pilugin did not disclose. She said she still felt that her second husband is a grand 1 per 985,000 SAILt in excess was not satisfied that the investiga of a second such medal for his serv command post in Flensburg, near the ices in the invasion of southern crosses grew, and boys who had hardly begun to live died miserably in the red clay of this hostile land. son," adding, I'm sure he'll Danish frontier.

Goering also has tion had gone "to the point of exhaustion of all possible evidence." THE CHICAQO TRIBUNE France. stated flatly that the Russians had been reported with Doenitz..