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FAITH XbybuyingX BOMDS LIBERTAS ET NATALE SOLUM VOLUME LXXVII. RAYVILLE, RICHLAND PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 12th, 1945. NUMBER 15. RMAN GE FRATERNITY HEAD Text of Truman s'er Tvif iR. F.

McGuire Lodge M. T. LIPP ELECTED PRESIDENT NORTH LA. PRESS GROUP Capitulation Comes After Over 5 Years of Bloodshed United States and Britain Turn To War In Pacific; All Nazis Continuing Fight Will Be Outlawed V-E Day Observed Quietly In Rayville Rayville did not make any noisy celebration of the victory over Germany, but observed V-E day with the closing of many of the business houses for several hours during the day, and appropriate and solemn religious services at the various churches. Crowds filled the Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, and prayers of thanksgiving were offered, and short addresses were made by the respective ministers.

While there was no noisy outbrusts it could be seen that the people were profoundly moved over the favorable outcome of the bloody war with Germany, and were deeply moved by the fact that the terrible tragedy in Europe was over. The expressions that were heard were regrets that the late President Roosevelt who had dnnp so much to i mm jujnymjmy ywa i ft A i -j "1 At the regular communication of R. F. McGuire Lodge No. 209, Rayville, Wednesday evening of this week, the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Louisiana Masons, Otto E.

Passman, of Monroe, paid an official visit to the Lodge. He was accompanied by Right Worshipful R. D. Farr, Grand Senior Deacon, also of Monroe. The Fellow Craft degree was con-fered on a candidate, and several matters of business were attended to, including balloting on several candidates.

Grand Master Passman and Grand Senior Deacon Farr made two of the most enjoyable addresses local Masons have been privileged to hear for sometime. Bro. Passman outlined the financial status of the Grand Lodge of the state, which Is in excellent condition. Bro. Farr made a masterful ad-cfress, stressing the cardinal principles of the Fraternity.

The Grand Master presented J. B. Sharp, Master of R. F. McGuire Lodge, with the commission of the Qrand Lodge designating him as Deputy Grand Lecturer for the Seventh Masonic District.

J. B. Sharp, who is also Master of the Seventh District Lodge, announced that the next district meeting would be held in Rayville, at R. F. McGuire Lodge, on Sunday, May 27th, at 2:30 o'clock p.

m. He also an nounced that Grand Master Passman and other Grand Lodge officers would be present for this meeting. At the conclusion of the meeting delicious refreshments were served. lOWTl Granted Priority To Purchase Engine For Light Plant The Town of Rayville has been granted priority for the purchase of a Diesel engine for added equipment to the Rayville light plant, by the War Production Board, Washington, D. C.

The municipality has made purchase of the necessary equipment from the Fairbanks-Morse Company, and it is presumed shipment will be made as soon as possible installation made in time to take care of the peak load in the fall. Turner B. Branch, Dies Turner B. Branch, 66, died last Monday afternoon at clock in a ter President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill proclaimed V-E day. The announcement said the final articles of capitulation were signed yesterday in Berlin, the ruined capital symbolic of the fall of the third reich.

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German high command, signed the articles in the presenec of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, assistant commander of the Red armies! Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy supreme commander in the west; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, chief of the U. S.

strategic air forces in Europe, and Lieut. Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tas-signy, commander of the French First Army. For Germany it was a crowning ignominity Von Keitel, whose armies all but mastered Europe, forced to sign in the ashes of Germany's first city the surrender articles which stripped the reich of its last vestige of military strength. The guns of Europe, which through five years, eight months and seven days of unexampled war inflicted possibly 40,000,000 casualties, fell silent at one minute past midnight today (5:01 p.

m. Tuesday, central war time). 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 General Eisenhower's armies stormed into France to liberate a Europe in Nazi chains. The last shot on the western front was fired in Czechoslovakia by the 80th infantry division of General Pat-ton's Third army, the last to remain In action. Patton issued his cease fire order at 8 a.

today (la. m. central war time). The stubborn Nazis in Czechoslovakiathe last to submit agreed to the terms of unconditional surrender, and a "cease fire" order was issued In Prague at 12:25 p. m.

(central war time). The final terms were signed at 2:41 a. Monday (British double summer time, 7:41 p. Sunday, Central War Time) in a red brick school house in Reims, which for months had been General Eisenhower's headquarters. The fact of this historic signing had been first reported to the world 24 hours before by Edward Kennedy, chief of the Associated Press staff on the western front.

In a ringing order of the day, Eisen PARIS, Wednesday, May 9. Germany bowed today to the most crushing defeat ever inflicted upon a nation, her abject surrender proclaimed to the world by the United States, Britain and Russia. The Moscow radio in behalf of Premier Marshal Stalin, whose Red armies broke the armed might of Hitler's Reich on the eastern front, announced the unconditional surrender to the Russian people at 1:10 a. m. today, ten hours and ten minutes af- White Registrants Will Be Examined The following white registrants will be forwarded for preinduction examination on May 15th, 1945, to Fort Humbug, Shreveport, Louisiana, by the Local Board: Troy Adolphus Smith, Rayville.

Mack W. Watts, Delhi. Alton Newton Chisholm, Rayville. Henry Hiram Thornhill, Rayville. William Aubrey Caldwell, Rayville.

Zachery Stanley, Rayville. Jay Marton Gilley, Rayville. Earl Joseph Hardy, Rayville. Thomas Edward Silk, Rayville. Emmltt Tatum, Oak Ridge.

Howard Ernest Caviness, Warden. Herman Woodrow Bacle, Rayville. Johnny Lee Lambert, Rayville. Lionel Eubanks, Rayville. John Thomas Johnson, Rayville.

Jack Ervie Washam, Rayville. Frank Britten, Rayville. Walter Edward Lee, Rayville. Toney James Poole, Rayville. Benjamin Tracy Tanner, Rayville.

William Daytoh Peterson, Rayville. Claude Andrew Greer, Rayville. Willie Edward Laird, Delhi. Martin Theodore Woolsey, Mangham. Henry Coleman Colvin, Start.

Tobe Richardson, Start. Carl Pritchard, Rayville. William Ray Martin, Delhi. Oscar Cook, Mangham. John Henry Barnett, Rayville.

Raymond Ray Roberts, Rayville. James Wilmot Sligh, Rayville. Sidney Marzell Reaves, Rayville. -Alvin Coston, Rayville. Edward Otis Greer, Rayville.

Mir el Huff, Epps. Joseph Delbert Humphries, Rayville. James Washington Roberson, Rayville. Luther Wyte Roberts, Pioneer. Dave Calvin Sikes, Delhi.

Winfred Tarver, Mangham. James Cheslley Jones, Rayville. Osric Homer Armstrong, Delhi. Presbyterian Church Notes REV. R.

CATES, Pastor In the President's peace proclama tion he asked that Sunday, May 13th, be observed, as a day of prayer. This is also Mother's Day. Two excellent reasons for full participation In all the services of the day. We will again receive a free will offering for the Defense Service Council. The quotas for our three churches are the same as last year.

The Holly Ridge Bible Class will meet Thursday afternoon. May 17th, at 3:30. with Mrs. H. M.

Cobb. Services next Sunday: Sunday School at 10 o'clock. Preaching services: Rayville at 11 o'clock. Alto at 8 o'clock. Methodist Church Services JACK H.

MIDYETT, Pastor Services for Mothers' Day, May 13th, are as follows: 9:45 a. m. Church School. 11:00 a. m.

Morning Worship Ser vice, with sermon by Rev. Earl Em- merich. Executive Secretary of the Board of Education of the Louisiana Monroe hospital. Funeral services awarded the Bronze Star medal for were held at the Mulhern Funeral meritorious service on June 27th, 1944, Home in Rayville at 3 p. Tuesday, at Cherbourg, France.

Lieut. Stod-with Dr. John H. Hooks, of the First ghill, accompanied by another officer bpeech WASHINGTON, May 8. Following Is the text of President Truman's radio address and proclamation on the surrender of Germany: This is a glorious hour.

I only wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day. General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The flags of freedom fly over all Europe. For this victory, we join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity.

Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and the heartbreak which today abide in the homes of so many of our neighbors neighbors whose most priceless possession has been rendered as a sacrifice to redeem our liberty. We can repay the debt which we owe to our God, to our dead and to our children only by work by ceaseless devotion to the responsibilities which lie ahead of us. If I could give you a single watchword for the coming months, that word is work, work, work. We must work to finish the war.

Our victory is but half-won. The west is free, but the east Is still in bondage to the treacherous tyranny of the Japanese. When the last Japanese di vision has surrendered unconditional- ly, then only will our fighting job be! done. We must work to bind up the wounds of a suffering world to build an abiding peace, a peace rooted in justice and In law. We can build such a peace only by hard, toilsome, painstaking work by understanding and working with our AJlies in peace as we have in war.

The job ahead is no less important, no less urgent, no less difficult than the task which now happily is done. I call upon every American to stick to his post until the last battle is won. Until that day, let no man abandon his post or slacken his efforts. And now, I want to read to you my formal proclamation of the United States of America. A proclamation: The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have won from Germany a final and unconditional surrender.

The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have Imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of free-born men. They have violated their churches, destroyed their homes, corrupted their children, and murdered their loved ones. Our armies of liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples, whose spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave. Much remains to be done. The victory won in the west must now be won in the east.

The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. United, the peace loving nations have demonstrated In the west that their arms are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of military cliques that once called us soft and weak. The power of our peoples to defend themeslves against all enemies will be proved in the Pacific as it has been proved in Europe. For the triumph of spirit and of arms which we have won, and for its promise to peoples everywhere who join us in the love of freedom, it is fitting that we, as a nation, give thanks to Almighty God, who has strengthened us and given us the victory. Now, therefore, Harry S.

Truman, president of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Sunday, May 13, 1945, to be a day of prayer. I call upon the people of the United States, whatever their faith, to unite in offering- joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray tht he will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the way of peace. I also call upon my countrymen to AAiata this dav of prayer to the memory of those who have given weiri lives to make possible our victory. In witness whereof. have reu, set my hand and caused the seal of the United states oi aiucuui affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of May. in the year of our Lord 1945, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 169th. HARRY S. TRUMAN PRIVATE OLIVER O. WRITES EDITOR OSBON Somewhere in France, April 28th, 1945.

Dear Mr. Mangham: I just received my March 3rd Beacon and although it was old I still enjoyed reading it very much. Those home town papers mean an awful lot to us boys that are so far away. Now I'll get to the point. I saw an article in the paper, where some lad said that the Air Corps got more than their share of the glory in this war.

I too am an old doughboy, but I sorely disagree with that statement. Tve known the Air Corps, lived with them, worked with them, and Publishers Call For Increase In Rates For Legal Advertisements RUSTON, May 5. M. T. Lipp, publisher of the Franklin Sun at Winns-boro, was elected president of the Louisiana Press association's northern division today, as newspapermen closed their annual convention.

Clarence E. Faulk, publisher of the Ruston Daily Leader, was named vice-president, and Ben M. Lee of the Farmerville Gazette was re-elected secretary-treasurer. At the closing session the publishers approved a resolution calling for a boost in legal advertising rates in the state. Horace A.

Mangham of the Richland Beacon-News, Rayville, said that rate had remained for years at $1 a square (100 words) and 50 cents a square for re-runs, adding that the rates have not, been changed "since bacon was 5 cents a pound." A motion by Faulk was adopted, fa voring increased rates, with the pro vision that audits of publishing costs be made "to justify the request" for presentation to the next legislative session. H. R. Long, manager of the Missouri Press association, was the principal speaker today, discussing newspaper leadership in accepting the challenge of returning service men for improvements in community life. Dr.

H. J. Sachs, professor of English at Louisiana Tech, said last night that liberal newspapers must lead the way in solving post-war problems, White Registrants To Be Inducted The following registrants will be forwarded for induction, to Fort Humbug, Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 16th, 1945. by the Local Board: Leland David Posey. George James Burroughs.

Ernest Edward Quimby. Jessie Cecil Smith. Thomas Samuel PrewitL Tom Duncan. Walter Lee Lewis. Harry Lee Freeland.

Roebrt Murry Harville Lt. (jg) Jesse Stodghill Wins Bronze Star Medal Lieut, (jg) Jesse E. Stodghill was and two men, skillfully and efficiently made a preliminary survey of the Petite Rade and other areas within the harbor, the citation accompanying the award reads. The survey proved to be of great value to the salvage party and Royal navy mine-sweepers when they arrived to commence operations. WCIOCtU tA V-7 I e.

"Billy" Stodghill, was killed in ac tion on April 25, 1943, a bombing mission over Sicily. 1 Lt. Stodghill is the sort of Mr. and Mrs. J.

E. Stodghill, of Rayville. First Baptist Church Services DR. JOHN H. HOOKS, Pastor SUNDAY, MAY 13th 9: 55.

a. m. Sunday School. 11:00 a. m.

Morning Worship Service. 7:00 p. m. Training Union. 8:00 p.

m. Evening Worship Service. Mr. Coleman Craig of Dallas, Texas, will be our special guest for both worship services. At the morning hour Mr.

Craig will bring a special Mothers' Day message. At the evening worship hour Mr. Craig will show pictures and give his remarkable lecture on The Holy Land. Mr. Craig has given this lecture-in 153 of our largest churches in the South and this service promises to be a real treat to the Baptists of Rayville and their friends.

You are cordially invited to worship with us in both these services. REPORTER V. F. wTPoppy Sale A Success We wish to take this means to thank the public for patronizing the poppy sale so generously on May 5th. Especial thanks to the Girl Scouts for their service in making the sale possible.

Those participating were: 'Joy Louise Woods, Bobby Jo Antley, Wll- Cloninger, Helen Diamond, Jenny Faye McGee. Others serving were: Misses Betty Lou Himel. Jean Dough-tie, Nancy Cloninger, Frankie Stokes, Masters Henry Frank, Cumptpn and John D. Mclntyre. One thousand poppies were sold, within five hours.

MRS. MAMIE BURK, Auxiliary Chairman, T. HARPER, Post Chairman. Baptist church of Rayville, officiating. Funeral arrangements were in charge of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Rayville.

The interment, with Masonic honors, was in the Rayville Masonic cemetery. Surviving relatives are his wife, Mrs. Leonita Branch; four sons, James Frank Branch, Hiram Alfred Branch, and T. B. Branch, all in the armed services, and Luther Ed- ward Branch, Alexandria; three stodghill entered the navy in 1942 af-j daughters, Mrs.

Ella Mae Pitman and uer his graduation from Louisiana Mrs. Nanny Ruth Norman, Rayville, I Polytechnic institute. A sister, Doro-, and Mrs. Leonita Mills, Holly Ridge; ty Lee Stodghill, is a WAVE re-a brother, Fred N. Branch, Rayville; cruiter and is now stationed in Ala-, and two sisters, Mrs.

Nanny Williams, bama. A brother, First Lt William bring about this successful conclusion of hostilities, had not lived to see the actual end. All voiced determination to keep up the good work until the job was finished and the Japs were forced to unconditional surrender as were the Germans. OIL NEWS Franklin Parish E. C.

Laster's J. H. Baker 1, wildcat in 4-16-9E, drilled below 3,800. Madison Parish Sinclair Prairie i Oil Company's Singer Mfg. Co.

1, wildcat in 14-15-2E, set 9 58-inch casing at 600 and drilled below 2,480. Richland Parish George Schoonmaker et al's Gold Mine 1, wildcat in 10-14-6E, has been temporarily abandoned after drilling to 5,166. R. W. Williams' wildcat, Stone 1, 30-17-7E.

drilled below 8,436. In the Delhi field. Murphy-Sun Oil company has started the J. E. Holt 4, 21-17-9E, J.

S. Holt C-2, same section, and Ina Mae McEacharn 1, 22-17-9E. Same operators Nathan Williams Unit 1, 26-17-9E, is nearing completion. Gulf was rigging up for the M. S.

Baughman 1, 28-17-9E. Richland parish, Delhi field, Murphy-Sun Oil Company's J. E. Holt 3, 21-17-9E, 248 barrels through 316-inch choke, perforations total depth 3,375, gas-oil ratio 649, gravity 41.8. Richland parish Delhi field failure Murphy-Sun Oil company's Ella M.

Barrier 2, 22-17-9E, dry and abandon ed, total depth 5,776. Richland parish Delhi field Gulf Refining company's Ed Hopper, 1, 28- 17-9E, 116 barrels through 18-inch choke, perforations total depth 3,454, gas-oil ratio 379, gravity 41.4. Released From German Prison Camp The following letter from James Bennett has been received by his father, Mr. Yearger Bennett, of Start. The letter, which is self-explanatory, is reproduced below: April 24, 1945.

Dearest Dad, I reckon you have been worried to death about me. Well, I'm o. k. I have been captured by the Germans but I'm back in American' hands now. I'm still in Germany waiting for transportation.

We were liberated by the French Army April 21st. Boy, was that a happy day! Everybody nearly went crazy they were so happy. Hope this finds everyone getting along just fine. I think maybe I'll be home soon. I have quite a few souvenirs collected, if I can make it home with them.

Well, tell everybody hello and that I'm alright and not wounded. Well, I'll close for this time. You can't write me because I havent got a return address. I can't tell you everything I'd like to because there's so much there's not enough paper to write it on. I'm going to be a different boy when I get home again.

I've had too much rambling around. Don't worry, I'll be o. k. and hope to see you soon. Love always, your son, JAMES BENNETT Mrs.

Mittie Boughton Mrs. Mittie Boughton, 65, wife of Joe Boughton, a native of Mangham, but for some years a resident of Bastrop, died in a hospital in Monroe Friday of last week. The funeral was held in the Baptist Church in Mangham, Saturday at 2 p. and the Interment was in the Mangham cemetery. Mrs.

Boughton belonged to a well known family and was highly regarded. Besides her husband she leaves the following daughters and sons: Mrs. A. G. Hicks, West Monroe; Mrs.

Claude Pickett, Bastrop; Mrs. J. H. Banks, Winnsboro; Leon Boughton, Rayville; Philip Boughton, Mer Rouge; Eugene Boughton, Bastrop; Gilbert Boughton, Bastrop; and Cpl. Julius Boughton, now in England; two brothers, George Austin, West Monroe; Ernest Austin, Mangham; and four sisters, Mrs.

Julius Guinn, Monroe; Mrs. E. F. Savage, Shreveport; Mrs. W.

N. McKay, and Mrs. H. Deer, Mangham; 14 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. NOTICE I am applying for executive clemency.

5-5-3L WILLIE LEE NEAL. Simmie Sayre (above) of Rayville has been elected president of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity chapter at Louisiana Tech and also president of the Interfraternity council. the college. He is the nephew oC Dr. T.

M. Sayre, of Rayville. Special Meeting- Called For Masonic Lodge A special meeting of R. F. McGuire Lodge No.

209, F. and A. will be held next Tuesday evening, May 15th, at 8:00 p. for the conferring of degrees. At this time it is not known positively, but we shall confer either the Master Mason or the Entered Apprentice degree.

All members of R. F. McGuire Lodge are urged to be present. Any visiting brethren will be welcomed. Remember the date: TUESDAY, May 15th, at 8 o'clock p.

m. J. B. SHARP, W. M.

H. I. SOREY, Sect. Fellowship Cup Brought To Rayville By Bastrop Kiwanians Last Tuesday was a most pleasant and enjoyable one for the Rayville Kiwanis Club, the occasion being the passing of the Kiwanis Fellowship Cup from that club to Rayville. A large and representative delegation, composed of nineteen members of that club, came for the occasion.

The group was headed by Ray Green, president of the Bastrop club, who was given in charge the program for the day by Jimmie Thompson, chairman of the Committee on Inter-Club Relations for the Rayville club. President Ray Green presented an outstanding member of his club. Rev. Jolly Harper, who made the principal address on the program. This eloquent speaker and beloved pastor of the Methodist church of Bastrop, made an impressive talk on "Fellowship," and what it meant from one club to another, as well as from one individual to another.

He took occasion of the time of declaration of peace to emphasize the need for a world-wide fellowship between men to prevent just such a holocaust we have just seen concluded. The following members of the Bastrop club accompanied the Fellowship Cup, which is passed from one club to another every year, and goes from Rayville to Vicksburg club next Tuesday: Ray Green, Leroy Mattison, Samson Snyder, Riley Arnett, Murray Caldwell, Jack Moten, Rev. Jolly B. Harper, Frank Dunham, B. K.

Conger, Rev. George Smiley, Charles Jacob' W. Ludlum, Tom Milligan, Henry Porter, C. Young, Howard Parker, R. M.

Davis, Dub McGehee, Valery Rains. Capt. W. A. Cooper, military member of the local club, past president and past secretary of the Rayville club, who is at home on leave, was present at the luncheon and received a warm greeting from his fellow-Kiwanians.

President Jake Joseph would like to see a large delegation go with the cup to yicksburg next Tuesday. Mrs. Cora L. Anderson Mrs. Cora L.

Anderson, 78, died late Friday of last week at her home in Baskin, after a long illness. She Is survived by three sons, Bethea Anderson, Fowles, Arthur Anderson, Minden, and Howard Lowe Anderson, Baskin; three daughters, Mrs. Lavada Adams, Baskin, Mrs. Fannie. Boughton, Mangham, and Mrs.

Lonez Shipman, Baskin; two Little, Sicily Island, and James Little, Baskin, and 18 grand-childi'en and wo great-grandchildren. Funeral services, under the direction of the First National Funeral Home of Winnsboro, were held at 11 a. m. Sunday at the Baskin Baptist church. Rev.

L. P. Arender, of Holly Ridge, assisted by Rev. Edwin Jones, pastor of the Baskin church, officiated. Interment was in the Lone Cherry cemetery, near Mangham.

FOR SALE Three good farm mules; one one-row J. I. Case riding planter, and lot of other farm equipment. M. F.

HOLLO WAY, 5-5-3- Route 2, Rayville, La. Rayville, and Mrs. Alice Shannon, Beaumont, Texas. Pallbearers were J. B.

Owens, J. R. Aycock, A. C. Clark, A.

C. Clark, John C. Morris, Richard Downes and H. G. Jarnagin.

Honorary pallbearers were Lee Tillman, Charlie Cupples, George Lan-drum, Horace Cobb, George Greer, M. L. Nichols, George B. Franklin, Otis Viola, C. B.

Griffis. Will Gaines, Nat Phillips, George Bolton and W. A. Johnston. Mr.

Branch was born' in Alabama, September 1, 1878, and removed to Louisiana in 1894 and to Richland parish in 1909, where he has since resided near Rayville. He was engaged in farming and for a number of years in the dairy business. He also was local representative for the Singer Sewing Machine company for many years. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge for the past 35 years. He enjoyed the friendship of a wide circle of citizens of this part of the State, and all of these admirers of his sterling manhood sincerely sympa- family whom he loved so weii I.

Qf husband father He ia a ugefu, citizen who add. B.I1U WUU i. 1C m-4 led a great deal to the welfare of his community. The Beacon-News offers to those of the sorrowing family our sympathy and condolence. there is no finer branch of the service.

What about all the pilots that lost their lives trying to bomb out the enemy while the doughs lay penned in fox holes by small arms fire? Has he ever heard of the glider pilots that become hell raising infantry boys once they was sore land? Evidently this lad, his outfit was hower told his armies that "the crusade on which we embarked in the early summer of 1944 has reached its glorious conclusion. "It is my especial privilege in the name of all nations represented In this theatre of war to commend each of you for valiant performance of duty," he said. "Though these words are feeble, they come from the bottom of a heart overflowing with pride in your loyal service and admiration for you as warriors. Your accomplishments at sea, in the air, on the ground and in the field of supply have astonished the world" In a special message to Allied prisoners of war, Eisenhower said they must remain where they were for the present but "your return home will be organized as speedily as feasible." German forces which once held nearly all Europe In their iron grip thus knuckled to the "unconditional surrender" formula dictated by Churchill and the late President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Under the stern formula Germany's guns are at rest, her air fleets are yielded, and her warships, U-boats and merchant-men at sea are headed toward Allied ports to give up.

Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl, German chief of staff, signed "the surrender document for Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, successor as head of the prostrate Reich to the dead or missing Hitler. With the stroke of a pen which Eisenhower long had saved for the occasion, Jodl surrendered uncondi- tionally to "the supreme commander, who are at this date under German control." The signature of this former Hitler favorite was witnessed for Eisenhower by Lieut. Gen.

Walter Bedell Smith, his chief of staff, Gen. Ivan Suslo-parov for the Soviet high command, and Gen. Francois Sevez for the French. It was this act which Churchill said would be ratified in Berlin by Marshall Gregory K. Zhukov, assistant commander of the Red armies, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder Smith, deputy supreme commander in the west, Lieut.

Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny, commander of the French First army, and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German high command. This act sealed the fate of Japan, which one day will be forced to sign a similarly harsh surrender, for now the full power of the United States and (Continued on page S) Annual Conference of the Metnoaist Allied expeditionary force, and simul-Church. taneously to the Soviet high command 3:00 p. m.

The first sessions of a aU forces on iand, sea and in the air ma Joyce White, Betty jo Jones, tsev-because erly Phillips, Harriet Nan Haley, Faye Leadership Training School. Kev. Emmerich will teach a course for workers with Intermediates and Young People. Mrs. Roy Scales, Conference Director of Children's Work, will teach a course for workers and teachers of children.

Two sessions of the school will be held Sunday afternoon. Further sessions will be held Monday and Tuesday nights from seven until nine o'clock. 7:00 p. m. Methodist Youth Fellowship.

8:00 p. m. Rev. Emmerich will give an illustrated lecture on "The Christian Home." MEET IN GERMANY Pfc. Floyd Battenfield and George Earl Greer met each other in.

Germany first time since they left New York. The latter is with the M. P. force. Pfc.

Battenfield' is with the 9th Armored Division. sharing in the glory. Their time will come if it hasn't. AMERICAN DOUGH POSTED NOTICE Notice is hereby given that my place in Ward Four is posted, and all trespassers are warned to off under penalty of the law. W.

T. SWAYZE, 5-5-3t. Rt 1, Rayville, La..