Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 5

Tune in on KRBC Tune in on KRBC PAGE FIVE Friday Morning May 4 1945 The Life of Hitler- Gen Alexander May Return to England Flier Visits Abilene Abilenian Sends Parents Russian 9 Money Red Soldier Gave Him at Elbe LONDON May 3 (£7 Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express said today that Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander may rellrqulsh his command as supreme allied commander In the Mediterranean theater to return to London as head of the British control commission for Germany NAZI PARTY BORN HITLER SELECTED CHANCELLOR WRITERS THINK IT JOKE I Mr and Mrs Leach 302 Graham have the evidence that their son Pfe Leach Jr participated in the famous linkup of the American and Russian armies on the Elbe In a letter postmarked April 24 Private Leach sent his parents a Russian bill which he said a Red Army soldier gave him He also said that he would be In Berlin by the time his parents received the leter night Officer Roy Kemper who has been in Brooke General hospital since January recovering from bronchial pneumonia has been visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Kemper 742 Edwards and other relatives here He wss accompanied by his wife the former Verla Joyce Perkins daughter of Mrs Darby Fox 1902 Swenson and their three-year-old daughter Judla Faye night Officer Kemper a brother of Guy Kemper listed missing In Raboul slijce Dec 19 1943 enter- Coleman County's 7th Loon Drive Set at $875000 COLEMAN May I Mayor Chas Wilson county chairman of the Seventh War Loan drive announced Coleman county's quota has been set at Of this amount $465000 has been assigned to bond sales Junior chamber of commerce will sponsor the campaign In Coleman All community chairmen have been named and plans are In the making for an Intensive county-wide drive Quota In the Sixth War Bond drive was $840000 for the county We Close Saturdays otTp Effective Saturday May 5 and for llie summer months of May June July and August this store will close Saturdays at 7 in instead nf the usual 9 Our cuslomera are asked to he governed accordingly i The POPULAR Former Coleman Resident Dies COLEMAN May (Spl)-Mrs Catherine Bowden 77 resident of Coleman county for 50 years died In Austin April 27 and was burled at Trickham April 29 Funeral was conducted at the Church of Christ In Shields at 2:30 with Salyer minister In charge Mrs Bowden a member of the Church of Christ since early childhood was an active church worker She Is survived by three sons Robbins Escolon Calif Robbins Mission A Robbins Gouldbusk two daughters Mrs Sarah bobbins and Mrs Margie Barrington both of Williamson county one brother Whltely of Weir and 18 grandchildren (Third Article nf Scrip) By LOl'IS LOCHNER ftP Features I1THEN during the first year after Adolf Hitler's assumption to power In 1933 we American correspondents met at each others' homes we would often in mockery give each other the Nasi salute and imitate Der gutteral voice with Jahre der Schmach und der Sehande" (Fourteen years of shame and disgrace) For virtually every public speech Adolf Hitler during that first year either opened with or somewhere contained his reference to the years of shame and disgrace" through which Germany had Just passed and which he Insisted came to an end with the triumph of National Socialism A POLITICIAN IS BORN Having no job to which to turn Immediately Hitler upon return from the war continued to live in a Bavarian military camp and to re-9'dve his pay and his food from the army Frequently he gave vent to hia disappointment at the outcome of the war by hysterical tirades against Jews and his version of the Injustices of the Treaty of Versailles He discovered himself in the process derided to enter he wrote later apparently greatly pleased at noting that he possessed a certain of A small group of unemployed and own-and-outcra who like himself blamed the and the Jews for all of Oermany's woes had formed a Deutsche Arbelter-Partel (German Workers' Party) Hitler Joined up as member No 7 but soon merged as leader of the group His Eloquence made him the best (as he himself called himself) for the young movement His fanatic zeal was contagious He had no difficulty persuading his fellow members to change the name of fheir motley group to Natlonal-ozlallstlsche Deutsche Arbelter-Partel (National Socialist German Workers' Party) By 1920 his movement had grown sufficiently for Adolf Hitler to promulgate a definite program of 25 points which ha proclaimed would constitute the Immutable creed or platform of his movement come what may THE HITLER PLAN The Program called for the exclusion of Jews from citizenship the "breaking of the bondage to (a phrase which has ever remained obscure) the union of all German speaking peoples In a Greater Reich the return of the colonies taken from Germany after World War I the abolition of unearned Incomes the nationalization of cartels and trusts social legislation land reform press control In the Interests of the nation the establishment of a strong national army and a number of minor matters By July 1921 Adolf Hitler succeeded in having himself elected president of his party From then on he assumed dictatorial powers and gradually Introduced a regular cult part of which was the obligation for all members to greet each other with When in 1923 the German currency virtually collapsed Adolf Hitler who was obtaining financial support from sources which much later became revealed as Big Business thought the moment had come for a coup d'etat On November 9 a party of Bavarian high dignitaries In Munich was listening to an anti-Marxist speech by the Commissioner-General for Bavaria Gustav Von Kahr Hysterically brandishing a LEACH JR I Private Leach who is 19 years old Is In the 35th Infantry division of the 9th Army The young Abilenian also sent three more war cap-turned from the two Nazi crosses and a World War 1 medal Private Leach trained at Ft Knox Kentucky In the early part of 1944 and later went to Camp Chaffee Ark for Infantry training until last December He sailed for Europe on Jan 2 1945 and was fighting In the front lines In late January 'it tastes better SUMMER HAT CLEARANCE FO ROY KEMPER ed service May 22 1943 He had been a member of the Flying club at the municipal airport and was manager of dly Bus company He trained first at Keesler field MIss then was sent to Missouri San Antonio Corsicana back to San Angelo and to Moore field Mission where he received his wings June 27 1944 Mrs Kemper and Judla Faye will remain here until the oflcer Is given a new assignment Howard Kemper Abilene Is a brother of the flier STRAWS- FELTS 199 revolver Hitler with a band of his followers entered the beer cellar and proclaimed National Revolu tlon has broken The attend' lng statesmen cowed accepted the situation Hitler stated that the march upon the of Sins" Berlin would begin JAIL But Kahr and the Bavarian government caught their breath the next day dispersed the Hitlerites as they marched toward a famous Munich landmark the Felderrnhalle killed almost 30 of the Nazis when they refused to halt and subsequently arrested Hitler A dramatic trial followed in the course of which Hitler uttered his famous threat will and at the conclusion of which he was condemned In April 1924 to five detention In a fortress After eight months however he was released and during that time he had dictated his famed autobiographical and programmatic work to his secretary and fellow prisoner Rudolf Hess Scarcely out of prison he reorganized his party which now as economy worsened grew by leaps and bounds The first great landslide of the Nazis came In the Reichstag election of 1930 where they polled almost 6500000 out of almost 35000000 votes cast In the elections of 1932 they secured 230 out of 607 seats and thus became dominant party Terrorism played a great put In making people vote the Hitler ticket Fran now on things went easy especially since aged President Paul Von Hindenburg was surrounded by a pro-Hitler camarilla which per-auaded the old gentleman that It was his duty under the constitution to ask the leader of the largest party to form the government On January 30 1933 Adolf Hitler had attained his goal: he was nominated German chancellor The days of the Weimar Republic were over (Next: Age of The Superman) The Rev A Nicholas superintendent of the West Texas Children's Aid and Welfare association left Thursday night for El Paso whore he will spend the week-end visiting friends He Is to be the guest of Mrs Lena Hawkins returning to Abilene Monday Priced for quick selling a selection of approximately 200 Straws and Felt Hots in a complete variety of styles from our regular stock of 395 500 and 695 values Black Brown Navy -Some Whites WADDINGIWS MllllNtRY 250 CYPRESS DEPARTMENT i tGREAT DAY rise to spectacular power actually 1 began when he became German chancellor under the aging 1 President Paul von Hindenburg Here they are on a state i occasion JUtiten'i FAMOUS FOI1 DIAMONDS Since 1910 134 PINE.