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New Philadelphia, Ohio, Monday, May 7, 1945. 10 Pages. Four Cents. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF GERMANY TO BE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED TOMORROW PATTON TANKS ONLY 15 MILES FROM PRAGUE Overrun of Pilsen City ASK HELP Russians Open New Drive By JAMES L. KILGALLEN I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent Paris, May 7. S. Third Army forces, last of the weatern Allied battle legions still in combat, drove swiftly toward Prague today, reaching to within at least 50 miles of the Czechoslovak capital.

Unconfirmed Prague radio reports said that American tank forces were only 15 miles from Prague. Gen. George S. Patton's troops raced toward Prague after overrunning the city of Pilsen, last major armaments center in the hands of Nazi forces. The Third Army onslaught disorganized the last German army the resistance on the western front.

The eastward drive wan intensified after an appeal for help was I broadcast bv patriot forces which rose up inside the city and then encountered stern opposition from the Nazis in Praue. Reds Open New Drive Radio Prague said that Russian forces, still some 130 miles east of Prague, had loosed a new offensive in an attempt to drive to the relief of the Czech capital. The final drive by Gen Patton which developed into a race even against the end of the war on the was pressed across a 150- mile front from southwest of Carlsbad to south of Linz. Third Army troops were within 15 miles southwest of Carlsbad, on the northern flank. While armored forces seized Pil- another Patton unit advanced six miles to within 23 miles southwest of Pilsen.

Tho 90th Division reached the Otava river, 20 miles northeast of Regen while the Fifth Division advanced within 30 miles east of Regen. The 26th Division smashed ahead to a point 22 miles north of Linz and the 71st Division reached a point west of thp Emms river, 16 miles southeast of Linz. The regular communique from supreme headquarters revealed an order of the day by Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, issued on April 14, declaring that no prisoners In the notorious Dachau concentration camp be allowed to fall Wnto the hands of the enemy He had ordered CHURCHILL WILL PROCLAIM V-E DAY AT EWT II KT IN LONDON, May 7 (I.N.S.)—The British Ministry of Information announced late thin evening that tomorrow will he treated as V-F Day. Prime Minister Winston Churchill will broadcast at A. M.

EWT and King: George at 3 P. the announcement said. The ministry statement said that in accordance with arrangements between the United States, Great Britain and Soviet Russia, Churchill will broadcast an official announcement proclaiming: V-E Day in Europe. GERMAN ARMY OFFICERS are pictured as they arrived at the Hamburg town hall to meet British officers for the formal surrender of the great German port, following unconditional surrender ol enemy iorcrs in northwestern Germany. (NKA Telephoto) NEW YORK, May 7 (l.N.S.) ('IIS today reported announcement In AIISIE, American Broadcasting Station In Europe, operated by (he OWI, that the Germans have surrendered unconditionally.

(The AIISIE statement was recorded Ironi the air almost at (lie same time that Gen. headquarters announced officially that no such announcement had as yet been made and no story to that elflect as yet authorized). According to CBS, AIISIE said: has surrendered unconditionally. American, British and Soviet representatives have accepted I he surrender of the German armed forces) at Gen. headquarters near Reims, in France, where the oilieial announcement was made.

Gen. Gustav Jodi, new German army chief of stalf, signed for Germany. war is over officially in Europe. The world now awaits the official proclamation of V-E day by President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin. surrender took place at 0241 hours, French time.

Gen Waller Redell Smith, Gen. chief of slalf, signed for the supreme allied command. Gen. Ivan Susloparolf signed for the Soviet Union. Gen.

Francois signed for NOW THE NAZIS WHO Field Marshal Montgomery reads over tlx terms oi the unconditional surrender pact of a million Germans in Holland, Denmark, and northern Germany, Nazi envoys look on. Shown above, left to right, are Germans Major Friede, a staff officer to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Rear Adml. Wagner, and Gen. Adml. Von Priedeberg, at Field Headquarters.

(Signal Corps NEA Radio-Telephoto) New York Stages Big Celebration PLANES SINK JAP VESSELS White House IN Refuses Comment ated. The camp was liberated the U. S. Seventh Army. New York, May 7 York City wait for the official confirmation of surrender today.

The biggest city started to celebrate immediately when un official reports circulated that Germany has signed articles of unconditional surrender. The celebration was one of those traditional super duper clambakes 21 done as only New York can do it. Tons upon tons of ticker paper, newspapers and even torn telephone books cascaded down from the mammoth skykscapers. Motorists blew the camp evacu- their horns wildly and normally-staid civilians raced up and down madl Yanks Step Up War Tempo Airfield Falls by ANTHRACITE MINERS BALK Refuse to Enter U. S.

Seized Pits BULLETIN Washington. May 7. Supreme Court today in a 5 to 4 derision held that coal miners are entitled to "portal to pay under the federal wage and hours law. The decision was a signal vie- tory for John L. president of the United Mine Workers of America.

Thousands of persons jammed Times Square immediately, screaming with joy and waving their arms in the air as flashbulbs exploded and news-reel men took pictures of the wild scene. Despite the occasion, how ever, the crowd still was orderly. Grand Central Station, one of the key railroad hubs in the city, reacted in much the same way. In the subway tunnels underneath the terminal, one man ran up and down like a modern Paul Revere shouting that all over has The ticker tape and newspapers floating through the air resembled a Paul Bunyan edition of a blizzard. Everywhere over the city, the air seemed filled with bibs of paper, swirling around in the bright sunlight and descending over the thousands of celebrants.

Times Square Jammed In jammed Times Square as the Poet Fflfh norts rirrnlafprl firrnuns of pxr 11 OIYMMI II SENTENCE 2 IN SUPPORT CASES or Go To Prison Two men, charged in common pleas oourf with non support, were given three days in which to poM bonds of $1,000 each or go to Ohio prisons by Judge J. H. Lamneck to Wilkes Barre, Pa May 7 Pennsylvania's 72,000 anthracite remained adamant in their ho contract, no stand today hd refused to enter the government- bize pits despite a federal order to tpsume production which has it. a standstill since last. Tuesday.

ordered bv Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes to end he strike which has caused the na- the melee war effort an estimated 1 400. DO tons of hard coal, the miners reported to be marking time fcitil they receive a green light United Mine Workers Presi- pr.t John L. Lewis. There was no indication they reports circulated, groups of excited people waved small American flags Confetti streamed from windows in the surrounding skyscrapers.

Roils of ticker tape wended their way down into canyons. Joseph Schneider, a factory worker, said: think it: about Louis Fine, a machine operator, said his mother, father, brother and two sisters have been unheard from in five years in Poland He thought are Charles Fisher, 24 they had died. Thus, he was not formerly of UhrichsvilJe returned patch too hilarious, but was visibly shaky from Dfiyton for violaUng of at the celebration. In the milling crowd, there was a Probation granted him for non a surprising absence of servicemen. of one child, and Henr, Newsmen, seeking to interview Chester Dunn, 32.

of D-xmg'on members of the army, navy and formerly of this city, return'd on marines, had trouble finding them a grand jury indictment charging him with nonsupport of three ml dren. LOCAL WEATHER By GERALD It. UIMMELSBA(H f. N. S.

Foreign Writer airdromes and shipping in waters near the home land a re target for a iwopha 1 air assault which achieved what, to day were described as re suit'. One phase of attacks was a strike by naval planes which trov'd or damaged 20 Japanese urfaee vessels li.sfone '1 hlnci and Korea straps-, a- well a off the west coast of Korea Four of the enemy ship mostly caigo craft were definitely sunk and 16 other: probably nt to the bottom or badly damaged when the (J. men caught them in the separating Korea from Kyushu. Blast Kvushii Airfields The other phase of the assauP was a re- raid by ap proximately 5 29 which roared from Mariana' nd ba ham rrx-r four Jap airdrome', on Kyushu, southernmost of i.e Quickiv up an nnouncement at Washington that a ibstanUal force of the Super carried nip fix- operation. frorn headquarters, of 21 Bomber Command at Guam indieao-d that good" achieved From Gen Arthur headquarteis announce ment Ans.tjahan and Dutch lib1 nation on Tarakan Ju off Borneo') a coast, stormed and captured a key height in the of the Island appal.

operations were ay to re If Fisher is unable to furnish bond, he is sentenced to the field forma tor for a one to three pair Tarakan airdrome Yesterday's maximum temperature vear term: while Dunn is sentenced --was 66 degrees, and the minimum t0 thP u'rm Dayton, May 7 A train nary. Prosecuting Attorney Arthur lng plane crash near Gorham, Kan the night killed Cpi. Carl 'Zug'idcr, 19, oi Dayton. jould resume production until they was 40 degrees, according to Weather lr uh reived his go ahead Observer £. A.

Reiser. In both am represented in both cases. Washington, 7. (INS) The House had a blunt today on a hroadcant from London I hat President Tru man and Prime Minister Chur (hill were prepared to announce surrender at noon but were delayed because Pre mier Stalin was not readv. Asked to confirm or deny or make anv statement at all on the London broadcast White House Secretary Jonathan Daniels said: Daniels declared thal Mr.

Truman was following his daily calendar and (hat lie would meet his callers on schedule, l.aillcr Daniels had an nouuccd that the White House plans remain Ihe same as they have been for the past week and that when hostilities end In Europe the White House will make ihe announcement and the "president ill go on I tie Radio apparatus is ready for Mr. use at a moment's it always Is. LOSES LEG AT REEVES PLANT Arthur Hawk 6b of Union avenue a crane and hook up man the qrmealing department of Reeves A Mfg Co if amputation of his rlgh' leg a low the kner while a woj Htfi day morning Plant officials aid a heavy anneal ii box covei which ha a sharp fell on the leg Hawk is patient at Union hospital DRIVER FINED $10 FOLLOWING CaASH Olr-riwood of 706 Second flux fit.Iff tJO and In Pan! nxirning charge-, of reckless driving filed tv New PhUadejphJa shorHv midnight when Hobart driving north on South Broadway tore down a section viaduct fence and hod Into a telephone ie front end his car damaged in crash. 1 AGREEMENT ON TREATY PLANS Revise Dumbarton Oaks Formula ONE ISSUE LEFT Polish Question settled Un Bv MII.EIAM III l( HINSON I. Staff Correspondent Han FianclMo, May 7 Th' tilg a -olid phalanx to'ay lfi Mipporr UiHr fi-vlM-d Oak plan toi appiovlng amendment, of the other powei V.

Molotov let gave i propov-d Jointly by the United Great. Britain and China These were i The revised i amend mer 1 1 giving in- proposed general a inbiy of l)x new world oider for merit of any sltuatIfoih, regardless n.V HAUI.hS A. SMITH liitcrnalional News Service Staff ('in respondent. I. oim I oii May 7.

(INS) Amidst general expectancy that formal annonnccmcnt of the end of hostilities In Luropc will come at any moment or hour, the Flensburg radio today broadcast disclosure that Admiral Karl Doenitr has ordered the unconditional surrender of all (ierman troops. The announcement was made by Count I.lit/ Schwerin Von Krosigk, Foreign Minister. Shortly after 10 a. in. FWT, however, the trolled Fragile radio said that German troops in Slovakia did not acknowledge Dornitz surrender menl and would continue lo until a free passage out of the country had been obtained.

The radio operates from German sort juat south of the Danish frontier. It has not ye! been clai died whether or not this station is operating in concert witli and approval of Allied military autiioj ll les I heje was no immediate confirmation of the Krosigk announcement from any authoritative source, I military correspondent said order meant tin end the war in Kurope obviously a fact if 'German Imop. stiJI in I lie laid lay down their arms and the Allied command aecejits the Flensburg announce! as definite and final, LONDON KI ADV TO CFLFBItATK The announcement came at a moment when London was on the verge of breaking out in open celebration ol victory. All newspapers featured Admiral earlier order to the German U-boat fleet. Great ribbons of pennants and bunting were being strung across the facades of office and hotel buildings.

In the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, workmen were putting into position battei of electric lamps which wiil floodlight the Of origin which building on night. throuKliout central London, loud- iy nmnnu iiimr In if no- HuUiority Ui i vx itud peakers wcie jilaee to relay public announcements or vi fxiftUng trfXUo whx might victory. Doenitz, who took over leadership of Germany on May 1 after the death or disappearance of Adolf Hitler, has been generally regarded as the man from whom a surrender order would go out to the last remaining German troops under arms It was Doenitz who told the German people tLiat Hitler had died, saying the Fuehrer had appointed him as his sucressoi the previous day Doenitz claimed that Hitler had died of a stroke at his in Berlin. An announcement of the surrender of German forces in Norway was generally expected and it was felt that the capitulation of all German troops still holding out in Europe would be pioclaimed Significantly, at Supreme Allied Military Headquarters in Paris, there was absolutely no army operational news given out at the regular briefing period for correspondents. V.

TROOPS KLATED Troops in Pans were elated at the prospect of a momentous announcement, The U. S. army newspaper Stars and Stripes earned a banner headline saying "total surrender (Continued on Page Un of 2 Anglo an phm for on MERCHANTS HERE TO CLOSE ON V-E DAY Si-w al uJ mf-Hing hflft ilt-t iif ton itr i losing of Uiflr rdc-jsi of an official I Oav pro la mat ion In rvrril Un- news In rr noon, xtor will r'-maln donnl tin- of that rlav only. If offiiial wnrrl of the final lapitulallon of Ihf Y.r-rman* rorm-i after noon hoof, will for thr rr-malnrl rr of ttiat dar anrl all of following ilav Anothrr rfrrlaion rrxchrd by provlilrn ttiat will remain open all day Wed nr da i In rirnt Oiry arr clotted ali day tomorrow..