Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - May 8, 1945, Ogden, Utah Victory Over Germans in Europe 289 OGDEN CITY UTAH TUESDAY EVENING MAY 8 1945 FINAL EDITION Upsets Japs As Yanks Gain In Pacific Fight Utahns Restrain Celebrations War Plants Hum By United Press observances in Utah today were devoted primarily to giving that the war in Europe was Tokyo Fears Russia Soon Will Enter Conflict With Allies By Associated Press the promise of huge reinforcements in men and material from Europe ground forces reported slow but steady gains on every Pacific front today except on over Celebrations were restrained erratic Cllina battlegrounds and tempered with the knowledge Allied commanders fighting j that another formidable pan generally greeted dav to be whipped before complete victory with quiet satisfaction while was Won Tokyo's warriors over possible en- j Gov Herbert B Maw proclaimed trance of the Soviet Union into the j the day a holiday and most Pacific war were heightened ess and industries with T the exception of war industries General Jiro head of remained closed for the day Japan's totalitarian party told the Activity at war plants Nips that defeat of Germany left i ued to hum Military them nothing to think about but i merits also continued to operate how to Military personnel were confined Tokyo Airfield Raided posts for 12 hours i ing the formal announcement Tokyo reported Iwo Jima based r r-i j Mustang lighters raided the Tokyo i Stores airfield as about 50 con- State liquor stores and beer neutralizing raids on suicide i erns were closed Liquor stores reported brisk buying yesterday but not to the extent to indicate an all-out celebration today Most churches throughout state held or planned to hold lir bases in southern Japan rs ranging down the China coast and up to Tokyo sank five sizable Jap ships and damaged six others U S Tenth army forces made general advances on Okinawa where j cial thanksgiving services they have killed 36.535 enemy out the day diers since they invaded the step- ping stone island 325 rniles south of Japan April 1 Borneo Within Range Several cities celebrated day at least in part yesterday after the premature announcement of the end of hostilities The wide observance however Allsed planes began operating was today from the captured In proclaiming a holiday Maw field on Tarakan bringing every i said it was the purpose of corner of Borneo within ing the people of Utah a respite their range Australian from their business and labors to men and Dutch colonials came I praise and thanks to within a mile and a half of com- mighty God for our glorious their drive across Tarakan cesses at war and in the hours of step in the such meditation and gratitude to quest of Borneo I pray for an early final triumph In the strangest battle in the Tne governor said in a statement the U S Forty-first accompanying the annihilated 800 grounded This milestone in our march airmen trapped on the toward world security should in- peninsula of Mindanao sPire us to greater efforts for we They had fled from New Guinea have discovered what great things Continued on Page Column United ents END HAILED IN N Y Word that the war in Europe was at an end brought this horde of happy humanity to New York's Times Square You're looking north from Forty-fourth street up Broadway upper left and Seventh avenue upper For News Beat PARIS May 8 Supreme allied headquarters today enforced disciplinary action against Edward Kennedy chief of Associated Press correspondents on the western front for filing an unauthorized dispatch describing the German surrender at Reims Kennedy was one of seven American peoples can accomplish Logan observed the day and Mayor William Evans Jr said there would be no further public Continued on Page Thirteen Column Fouri supreme Week to Soon Be Loosened wild alarms and what wilderment must have possessed i people went with week will be suspended WASHINGTON Mav 8 unconditional surrender Up to a few weeks ago they were told that their enemies be mastered and put to would rout Secret weapons were still in the fir to give them victory Then came the dis- closures of a war lost It was as though the bottom had and areas where has loosened up it was learned today from the war manpower commission had vanished The German people today are left wondering whether tney will ever recover from the awful tragedy which has overtaken them At the same time WMC will probably lift controls on workers who to their present jobs Already such controls have been lifted on woman workers in northern Indiana and tered areas throughout the country It -is expected that within the next six months 000 fallen out and even hope itself workers will be forced out of jo Millions of their soldiers are ing despair millions of them do not know if they have a home to go Wives are weeping and dren are on the verge of hysterics The nation is in sackcloth and The offending is being atoned for in endless retribution I am wondering how the lions are to be succored in this hour of No one could wish them more f misery Sunday David S Tracy his birthday war jobs because of irT war production programs During the same time WMC anticipates war veterans will join the labor force To meet this situation U S em- ployment service now operating under WMC is expanding Us ber of from to 2 103 to meet the job needs of ing servicemen and unemployed workers The Weather warm cloudy and this afternoon with thunder ers over southwest and west-central portion tonight day continued warm with afternoon thunder showers Temperatures was He according to his statement the first white child born Within the city limits of Ogden Among the events of his younger days he recalls the surprising visit of a dozen Sioux warriors on a raid when he was a section foreman at Devils Slide in Echo canyon in 1874 Ht had a Chinese crew of ten Continued on Page Thirteen Column Two Ogden m today i 47 Omaha at 40 Albuquerque 78 53 Phoenix 60 Atlanta 77 Bismarck 43 Portland si 48 Boise 76 77 Butte 54 Igs 68 32 76 47 io 69 55 50 74 44 Los Angeles 67 551 St Minneapolis 56 30 Seattle 77 New Orleans New York 64 50 Washington 77 69 headquarters to Reims to witness the capitulation He alone sent out a Reims dispatch yesterday despite a group pledge on the part of the correspondents that their copy would not be released for tion until authorized by supreme j ing from the south utterly defeated headquarters Such authorization the Germans by land sea and air did not come until today j This unconditional surrender Although the original action has been achieved by teamwork not only among all the allies participating but among all the services land sea and air To every subordinate that has been in this command of almost allies I owe a gratitude that can never be repaid The only repayment that can be made to inem is the deep appreciation and lasting gratitude of all free citizens all united nations A supreme headquarters com- possibly the last one of tne war said Eisenhower's forces Plans Fulfilled Says Eisenhower PARIS May 8 headquarters released a statement by General Dwight D Eisenhower after the signing of the surrender document at his headquarters He In January 1943 the late dent Roosevelt and Premier Churchill announced the formula of unconditional surrender of the axis powers In Europe that formula has now force been fulfilled The allied force which invaded Europe on June 6 1944 has with its great Russian allies and with the forces against the AP suspended all its filing privileges throughout the Eu- ropean theatre this order later was amended to apply only to Kennedy Fifty-nine of Kennedy's col- leagues assigned to SHAEF signed a letter to General Dwight D today describing action as the most ful deliberate and unethical double cross in the history of journalism The correspondents asked hower to reinstate his suspension of the facilities of the AP in the Eu- ropean theatre but the general re- this request explaining that any decision to punish an entire American organization would have to come from the war department Churchill Tells World Germans Sign Surrender Nazi Admiral Says Hitlerites Will Lay Down Arms LONDON May 8 The allies proclaimed today the unconditional surrender of Germany Prime Minister Churchill told the world the Germans had signed the un- conditional surrender of all their land sea and air forces in Europe at two forty-one a m Monday Allied radios flashed orders to all German and ships at sea to go to the nearest ports and await further orders Churchill said hostilities would cease at May 9 p.m mountain war time and the unconditional render will be ratified and con- firmed at Grand Doenitz broadcast to the German people previously that all arms would be laid down by eleven p.m German time Britain Is on double summer light time making the time mid- night Gen De Gaulle told the French people the war is won and the victory of the allied nations is the victory of France Moscow Radio Silent Supreme headquarters dispatches made it clear the surrender was to all the allies but the Moscow dio was silent even after Truman and Churchill had spoken There had been general expectation that Stalin would speak simultaneously Churchill officially bearing out yesterday's dispatch of Edward Kennedy of The Associated Press said the German capitulation curred at Gen Eisenhower's quarters at Reims at two forty-one Monday The capitulation was made to the allies and the Soviet high command with Gen Jodl representative of the man high command and of Doenitz signing the pact for Germany Churchill said this agreement will be ratified and con- firmed at Berlin where Air Chief Marshal Tedder deputy supreme commander of the allied will sign on behalf of Gen hower Still Resist Soviets He said the Germans are still in places resisting the but added that if resistance con- tinued after midnight they will of course deprive themselves of the protection of the laws of war and will be attacked from all quarters by the allied troops He said it was not surprising ONLY HALF-WON President Truman today claimed victory in Europe but told the nation its fighting job would be finished only when the last Jap division has surrendered He said Our victory is only half-won He gave this counsel for the months to Work work work He gave this advice to the Surrender the president said is a emn but glorious hour He voiced the thought of millions by How I wish Franklin Roosevelt had lived to see this day The president reminded the nation in its flush victory that it had not been fighting alone And he proclaimed Sunday May 13 a day of prayer End c5 Russ Capture Dresden LONDON May 8 radio an- tonight that a cease fire order had been issued in Prague and its vicinity upon agreement between the that high commands command of the should German not be obeyed immediately because of dis- organization But he added immediately as a result of information furnished by should not pre- vent us from celebrating today Men Involved in War Czech and German commanders Marshal Stalin announced the capture of Dresden capital of Saxony as the dying German grip slowly relaxed on the southern German pocket while allied Europe celebrated day The Czech broadcast said the cease fire order was issued at WASHINGTON May 8 seven twenty-five p m eleven day ends six years of twenty-five a m Mountain war combat involving as many as time men Fall of The war department estimated shortly befOre Marshal Stalin today that the allies at their peak announced the fall of a of supremacy had men rail center 128 rniles east of the under arms including un- fighters They broke it down this Czechoslovak capital The Belgrade that radio also an- Tito's Yugoslav partisans had captured Americans 4000000 Zagreb capital of puppet Croatia Russians and last major Yugoslav city that British including con- had been heid by the Germans air French 500.000 Underground 600.000 of which about were French forces of the In late summer of 1944 many had troops most and tomorrow as victory in Europe of them first class The German war is therefore at an he said He reminded Britain at the same ordered to cease offensive time that We may allow ourselves operations but would maintain a brief Period of rejoicing but let until the surrender Continued on Page Thirteen Column One Also fighting under the German banner were 200.000 Romanians Bulgars 200.000 Finns 000 Czechs and impressed principally Poles Slavs and Russians Only a handful of nazi holdouts were reported still fighting at I noon in Prague largest European i city still in the hands of defiant German forces To Be The Czech broadcast said ever did not obey the order to cease fire would be Czech broadcasts from the em- battled capital said nazis still were shooting burning and looting in Mother's Day Set As Day of Prayer and Thanks I WASHINGTON May 8 Truman claimed today complete and final victory in the Euro- pean theatre of the greatest j war in history He went on a radio hookup at i seven mountain war time to read his formal proclamation which he prefaced with brief re- marks in which he solemnly 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 division has dered unconditionally then only will our fighting job be done Truman's Birthday It was President Truman's birthday his first in the White House and he described it as a solemn but a glorious hour In his proclamation he next day a day of prayer for offering joyful thanks to God for the tory we have won and to that He will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the way of peace For this victory we join in of- fering our thanks to the dence which guided and us through the dark of adversity Our rejoicing is sobered and sub- dued 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 dered as a sacrifice to redeem our liberty We Can Debt We can repay the debt which we owe to our God to our dead and to our children only by ceaseless devotion to he which lie ahead of us If I could give you a single word for the coming months that word 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 anny of the Japanese When the last Japanese division has rendered unconditionally then only will our fighting job be done We must work to bind up the wounds of a suffering build an abiding peace a peace rooted in justice and in law We can build such a peace only by hard toilsome painstaking work understanding and working with our allies in peace as we have in war The job ahead is no less ant no less urgent no less cult than the task which now pily 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 en his efforts And now I want to read to you my formal proclamation of this Proclamation Issued By the President of the United States of America A I The allied armies through rifice and devotion and with God's help have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional der The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have i the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of I men They have violated their churches destroyed their In addition there were the city at noon in defiance of Italians in active combat in 1943 Account of Germany's Surrender at Reims By Boyd D Lewis REIMS France May 7 Delayed last Immediately after signing Eisenhower did not attend more and suffered more of four lied powers and vanquished many scrawled their names on a sheet of foolscap in a room at a m European time today and ended World War II in Europe I witnessed this historic scene In a ceremony exactly 20 utes long Col Gen Gustav Jodl chief of staff of Admiral Doenitz government and long-time close friend of Adolf Hitler surrendered all German armed forces on land sea and in the air The surrender is effective one der as the minute after midnight Wednesday I reached with a bold the nazi arose bowed and in a voice pleaded for generosity actual signing That was perhaps than any other people in out by generals of America Russia the world England and France on his behalf I express hope the victor will After signing the last sheet Jodl treat them with generosity Itf uj XX i tti LUC -I Clot L U lor the German people the arose and Gen Admiral Hans who he said nave achieved and suffered aps than any other ple in the world D- Eisenhower wm and restrained dePuty Britain's Air Sir Arthur Tedder nto T a British double summer time one p m MWT today A high officer said almost all firing had ceased on the remaining fronts The actual signing took five utes There are four copies of the surrender and in tion the naval disarmament order which was signed by Admiral Sir Harold Burroughs allied naval chief t and Germany on France sc which suffered sc ct and whose started on n on started months Georg Friedeburg and Jodl's aide Maj Wilhelm jumped up with him Lt Gen Walter Bedell Smith who signed for Anglo-American forces as SHAEF chief of staff asked Jodl to meet him at ten a m Monday morning to arrange for German liaison officers to carry out the surrender and disarmament orders Jodl stood with eyes half shut leading slightly forward and said in English I want to say a few words Then he spoke rapidly in German in a voice which seemed on the point of cracking once or General with this signature the German people and the German armed forces are for the better or worse delivered into the victors hands In this war which has lasted more than five years both have Ten minutes later he was pre- sented before the supreme com- mander Eisenhower stood very grim at his desk in his cubbyhole office and asked if Jodl understood the terms he would carry out Jodl muttered yes to Maj Gen K W D Strong SHAEF gence officer who was the inter- preter The Germans heels clicked and they strode out Jodl tripping on a camera floodlight cable The war was ended at a topped table feet bathed in floodlights which heated the tiny war room almost insufferably Some 60 spectators including 16 correspondents representing world news agencies radio networks newsreels and still pictures and sound and recording technicians of the signal corps officers charged with recording the scene on film and to record it for posterity gathered shortly before two a m the signing of an unconditional surrender by their commander The patriots now in control of all Prague transmitters broadcast this noon Germans Disobey Some German formations dis- obeying the cease fire order are shelling and setting fire to houses shooting civilians and looting Parts of Prague are in flames and men are prevented by German gunfire from approaching the burning buildings In some places in the center of the city German tank formations are attacking formations German broadcasts said that con- tinued resistance in the southern pocket was designed to permit army remnants to retreat ward Patton Russ Near Goal Gen Patton's U S Third army had driven northeast from cap- tured Pilsen to the outskirts of the capital and three Russian ies were driving toward the same goal from the east northeast north and southeast The patriot broadcast said nazi Gen Ferdinand Von Schoerner commander in Bohemia and via signed unconditional Continued on Thirteen Column homes corrupted their children and murdered their loved ones Our armies of liberation have re- stored freedom to these suffering peoples whose spirit and will the j oppressors could never enslave Much remains to be done The victory won in the west must now be won in the east The whole i world must be cleansed of the evil j from which half the world has l been freed United the i ing nations have demonstrated in i the west that their arms are I stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of tary cliques that once called us I soft and weak j The power of our peoples to de- fend themselves against all mies will be proved in the Pacific war as it has been proved in Eu- rope For the triumph of spirit and of arms which we have won and for its promise to people where 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 I Harry S man 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 the United States whatever their faith to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray He will support us to the end of our ent struggle and guide us into the way of peace I call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have Continued on Page Thirteen Column Four
