End of European War Declared After Germany Surrenders
A radio broadcast quotes Grand Admiral Doenitz declaring unconditional German surrender. It notes the surrender occurred May 7 or 8 1945 with official end at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday revealing World War II in Europe ended May 8 after five years eight months and six days. World War I began July 28 1914 and ended November 11 1918 with about seven and a half million killed and total casualties over forty million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doenitz
Count Schwerin von Krosigk
Truman Proclaims Victory and Mother's Day Call to Prayer
In a proclamation marking the end of the European War, President Truman announces Germany’s surrender and calls May 13 as Mother’s Day. He urges nationwide prayer for peace, expresses sober rejoicing over the war’s high cost, and honors the sacrifices of American families.
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Truman
Eisenhower
Germany
United Nations
Hitler
War Affects Two Women in Texas Bakery
In a Texas bakery two women debate war impact. One boasts personal gains from the conflict while the other reveals she has lost two sons and a third serving overseas. The second woman smears lemon pie on the blustering neighbor. police are called but depart laughing.
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Texas
Reverend Walter Probst Named Kerrville Church Pastor
Reverend Walter C. Probst, longtime leader in Harper and Kerrville, was named full time pastor of the Kerrville church. He resigned from Harper after six years and chose to remain in Kerrville where he has served about 15 years. A musician and preacher, he is active in schools, civic and service clubs. The hardest job to do is to do a little job well.
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Walter C. Probst
Harper and Kerrvile
Harper Church
Kerville
Austin
Kerrville
Gillespie County Quota Set For Series E Bonds
Gillespie County sets a seventh war loan drive quota of 225000 dollars in Series E bonds with precinct by precinct targets and committee lists. Mary Frances Fletcher graduates from Harper High School as valedictorian with an average of 96.5, delivering commencement at Benn's Hall next Thursday May 17. Fletcher, born Albuquerque November 6 1927, has long tracked top ranks through Mason and Harper schools and served as editor of the Harper High Lights. The drive emphasizes wartime bond purchase to support victory in Europe and the Pacific, with quotes from Chairman Felix Stehling and notes on Admiral Nimitz’s role.
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Mary Frances Fletcher
W. E. Fletcher
Harper High School
Miss Fletcher
Benn's Hall
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Mason
Texas
Harper
Flat Rock
Harper Public Schools
Harper High Lights
The
Herald
Union
Gillespie County
Radio Post
Felix Stehling
Europe
Pacific
Stehling
Gillespie
Admiral Nimitz
Harper Observes V-E Day Quietly and Reverently
V E Day was observed in Harper with a nationwide radio declaration by President Truman at 8 am. Church services were held at the Baptist church with Rev. R A Allen and Rev. Daly leading prayers of thanksgiving. Catholics at St Anthony's held V E Day services in the evening as prayers rose for the Pacific war’s end and for returning service members.
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Harry S. Truman
Harper
Germany
The
Baptist Church
R. A. Allen
St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
James E. Daly
Pacific Theatre
82nd Birthday Celebration At Sun Day Home
Mrs. T. C. McDougall marked her 82nd birthday with a Saturday night gathering at her home. Many relatives and friends joined the family including Sgt. and Mrs. Harold Birt, Mrs. Lydia Bierschwabe, and Pvt. Forrest Green, with a long list of local attendees. Maxie Baumann, MM2c, expects to be home soon after serving with the Seabees in the Pacific. Military notices list precinct officers and wartime loan references.
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T. C. McDougall
C. W. Granville
Hilda Birt
Eddie McDougall
Harold Birt
San Antonio
Ellis Granville
Austin
Walter McDougall
Lydia Bierschwabe
Forrest
Arthur Baumann
Maxie Baumann
M. M
San Francisco
Harper
Maxie
U. S. Seabees
End of War in Europe Marks Victory and Mother's Day Plans
Germany surrendered to the Allies at Reims France ending World War II in Europe after five years eight months and six days of conflict. The articles of capitulation were ratified in Berlin on Wednesday and U S troops will move to the Pacific theater while many return home. May 12 designated Mothers Day with a nationwide call to prayer and church services.
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Germany
Dwight G. Eisenhower
Reims
France
Gustav Jodl
Supreme Allied Command
Walter Bedell Smith
Eisenhower
Ivan Susloparoff
Russia
Francois Sever
Jodl
Poland
Europe
United States
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Jodi
Berlin
Czechosvakia
Restatepe
Tonepe
Danguq
I Francet
Channel Islands
U. S
Pacific
India
China
Suez Canal
Truman
Saluto rian Joyce Whetstone to lead Harper High commencement
Miss Joyce Whetstone daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Whetstone has been named salutatorian for Harper High School commencement to be held Thursday evening March 17 at Beins Hall. She was born in Harper December 8 1928 and attended Harper School except for grades four and five. She served on the staff of the Harper High Lights and the former W A Brown shoe shop building has been sold to Mrs Charles Buchanan of Leaky who plans a cafe opening by month end. Friends and relatives regret Louis Stevens is ill and wish him a speedy recovery.
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Joyce Whetstone
Fred Whetstone
Harper High School
Bein’s Hall
Miss Whetstone
Harper
Harper School
Harper Highlights
Herald
W. A. Brown
Charles Buchanan
Louis Stevens
Installation Last Friday In Harper And Gillespie County
Three Gillespie County boys aged 18 registered with the Selective Service during April per secretary W Jenschke. Elton W. Besier Woodrow Durst and August M Hannemann named. Harper PTA executive committee hosted a dinner May 4 to install new officers with guest speakers and remarks from several members.
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Gillespie County
Selective Service Board
W. Jenschke
Elton W. Besier
Woodrow Durst
August M. Hannemann
Four Enumerators Now Employed By U. S. Farm Census
Four local farm census enumerators in Gillespie County move to complete county listings within 30 days. Lee Feuge covers the Northwest, Robert A. Klett central, Henry Clay Terry Northeast, and Willie Hahn Southeast. Each listing pays one dollar. the Western part may still hire one more. Buck will interview applicants at Hotel Nimtz for the Western part.
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Gillespie County
Walter Buck
Lee Feuge
Robert A. Klett
Henry Clay Terry
Willie Hahn
Buck
Harper and Morris Ranch
United States
Kerr, Kimble
Mason
Fredericksburg
Nim.tz
Subscribe Offer for The Hef at $1.50 Yearly
The notice advertises a subscription option offering The Hef magazine for $1.50 per year. It highlights an affordable annual rate and directs readers to subscribe.
Whitewood Hosts 85th Birthday Picnic
J S Whitewood celebrated his 85th birthday with a family picnic at Oliver Hopf place. Attendees included Fred and John S Whitewood families, Oliver Hopf, A C Wendel, Jack Jones and children, Fred Nabers, Burton Brown and Kerrville relatives, L H Harper of San Antonio, James Hart and daughter, A J Kinsey and two children, Watkins Tarr and sons.
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J. S. Whitewood
Oliver Hopf
Fred
John
S. Whitewood
A. C. Wendel
Jack Jones
Group of Gillespie Selectees Reported for Induction
A group of Gillespie County selectees reported to the Fort Sam Houston Induction center on April 30. Those who passed their physical and were admitted into the army included Egon Jacob Muellendorf Eug M Hartmann Hans P nd Melvin J Anderegg James M Solbrig and Clinton B Solbrig.
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Gillespie County
Fort Sam Houston
Army
Egon Jacob Muellendorf
Eug. M. Hartmann
Hans P. Nd
Melvin J. Anderegg
James M
Clinton B. Solbrig
Fire damages ranch home of Bierschwales last Saturday
The Arthur and Mrs. Bierschwale ranch home caught fire Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Bierschwale alerted neighbors and the fire department. Ruben Bode and the Theo Afpellendorf crew aided before the fire truck arrived. Roof badly damaged but repairable. mattress and a few bedclothes saved. No further blazes since noon in the stove.
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Arthur Bierschwale
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President Truman
Walter Probst
Kerrville Church
Mary Fletcher
Peter's Hall
Eric Juenke
Lawrence Knopp
C. J. Dooley
Honey Creek
Alfred Kelch
Lawrence Hartmann
W. P. Horlen
Gus Basse
Randolph Burrer
Vitetor Weinheimer
Luckenbach
August Hopf
Armin Engel
Lonnie Pahl
Henry Frantzen
Hugo Brehmer
Udo Braeutigam
Chas. Klinksiek
Alfred Jenschke
Wm. Wehmeyer
Marshall Stevens
Victoria
Murray Stevens
J. M. Stevens
Hubert A. Maurer
Felix J. Mauer
Pfc. Maurer
Fourth Medical Laboratory
Maxie” Baumann
Cave Creek
Eddie Ottmers
Thomas Jung
Chas. Wagner
Bernhard Staudt
Ewald Koennecke
Wm. Raute
Milton Taylor
Emil Lange
Archie Gelstweldt
Ben Evers
August Badhge
Paul Sauer
Henry Welge
Alonzo Woerner
Henry Stehling
O. P. Hahn
Bernhard Crenwelge
J. M. Durden
Albert Ellebracht
W. A. Cottle
Henry M. Wendel
Clinton Brown
Alfred Lehne
Chas. Barrett
Dean Hopf
H. B. Roberts
Watkins Tarr
Willie Dittmar
Clarence Ernst
Carl Kroll, Jr
Willie A. Kaiser
Floy Bode
Meusebach
Guido Kuhlmann
Emil Lochte
Edwin A. Gold
Otto Kott
Henry Feller
Fritz Braeutigam
Leo Hartmann
Walter Herbert
Paul Weinheimer
Alvin Hohenberger
Alvin Welgehausen
August Land
Arthur Rabke
Chas. Walter
Felix Haun
Ernst Grosenbacher
Otto W. Hohmann
Ewald Sagebiel
Hilmar Schneider
Adolf A. Land
Pat
Tony
Manhattanville
New York
Jerome Patrick Sullivan
West 134Th Street
Tony Radio
Salutatorian
Miss Joyce Whetstone
PTA
Harper P.T.A. Executive Committee
Harper Organization
D. W. Jordan
Brady
Roy Zesch
Milton Durst
Ernst Lochte
Carl Oehler
A. N. Bierschwabe
A. L. Bierschwale
J. R. Peril
Ernest Lochte
Max Lange
P.T.A
Harper-Teachers Assa
Harper Club
National Congress of Parent-Teachers
Fred Gamenthaler
Congress of Parent-Teachers
C. L. Hudson
Lfe
J. B. Birt
Bob Rogers
Fletcher
U. S. Farm and Ranch Census
Harper, Texas
America
the Beautiful
Mrs. C. Rusky
Forest Bode
Fred Bierschwale
Ray Bierschale
Paul Jones
Vesta B. Parker
James L. Daly
T. M. Trimble
Londonerry Air
Neal B. Fox
Mr. Lee Goft
Thurman
D.ees
Yorest Bede
First Baptist Church
Mrs. Paul Jones
Mr. C. W. Granville
Lord Is
O. Rusky
Ray Buierschale
V. C. Russell Jr
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