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Show 1 THE Bl LI I TIN. BINGHAM C INYON, IT Ml paring Million Nazis to Allied Officers LE, .documents of unconditional large scale surrender of German forces were E Blfht, L1. CC W. I. Morgan, on behalf of Held Marsha. Sir Harold SrZ of surrender of the German forces. Left, representative of General von Vietinghoff sienYsur southwest command, which includes northern Italy and the Austrian provinces of Yorablberg Tyrol aid portions of Carinthia and Styna. 'Might Not Have Died in Vain' Gen. Dwtght D. Elsenhower, supereme Allied commander, Inspects one of the many German horror concentration camps at Gothis, Germany. Congressmen and press were shown prison conditions. Exit Silver Lining Capt. Walter Sanford of Nashville turns anxious eyes to the pouring heavens, hoping for either the Japs 'or the rain to stop as he sweats out a Nip air raid In water-fille- d bomb shelter in the Philippines. He is a member of the air force. 'gig iVofes o an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: Radio's coverage of the San Francisconfab Is all aces. The news analysts Rre turning the pockets of their minds inside out and presenting perplexing peace prob-lems with admirable clarity. They are driving home the issues which will atlect every American home. . . . Nothing more soothing than the Nazi shortwavers' blah-by-bla- h de-scription of Verminy's dying gasps. . . . Commentator Baukhagc's adroit delivery packs a wallop. His recent radio report of FDR's interment landed in the Congressional Record. . . . Rita Hayworth's g with Cholly McCarthy kept the chuck-les rolling at a swift pace. . . . Talk about crimson faces. A current best-seller moans that America is skid-ding into "collectivism." The tome's author appeared on the Chi. Round Table end was asked to give a clear definition of "collectivism." He flunked the query. Memos for a Serapbook: In a lit-erary weekly John Mason Brown has embroidered a delightful bit of literary lace: "Praise has never made cnyone unhappy. We like it even when we do not believe it. We tire of it only when it is bestowed too long on other people. It is mu-sic we do not object to having played ofTstage. Although It may shame our consciences and Insult our minds, it does no damage to our ears." Between the Book Ends: Top flight reporter Ira Wolfert has captured the sordid tragedy, flaming courage and shining hopes of the current struggle via "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" (Simon & Schuster). This slam-ban- g chronicle of Lt. I. D. Richardson's exploits creates a spir-itual glow. . . . Most timely Is A. E. Kahn and Michael Sayers' "The Plot Against the Peace" (Dial Press). Here are the names of the fascist peace-wrecker- s and their battle strategy. . . . Morris L. Ernst's "The Best Is Yet" offers a sizzling series of essays. His most crushing hay-makers land on the few presstitutes In our midst. Such "journalists" can cover their depravity with lofty rhetoric, but they can't hide their shame. Quotation Marksmanship: A. Ward: Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it with. . . . R. C. Sherrif: The telephone be-gan calling out like a spoiled child, and he hurried off to soothe it. . . . Dorothy Parker: She said her words with every courtesy to each of them, as if she respected language. . . . The Jergens Journal: And so I re-main Your New York Correspond-ent who, in this babble of tongues Just found out that Eden means gar-den, Molotov means hammer, Stalin means steel and Truman means business. Stalingrad rocked under a mur-derous barrage. Late one night, a creaking ferryboat, piloted by a wheezened old boatman, was smashed by a shell. The old man and a young lieutenant aboard were thrown Into the river. The heavily-packe- d soldier started to go down. . . . "Here," shouted the old man, "take this life preserver," and looped lt over the officer's shoulder. The lieutenant tried to push It away. . , . "Stop, you fool," screamed the boatman. "I'm old my arm is missing. I'm through. But you're young and can fight. Take the pre-server. Hold Stalingrad!" Just another unsung, unknown hero In the fight for Decency. Counter-Attack- : Little Inna Bentago is a orphan. Her father killed at the front. Her mother by a Nazi bomb. ... On Red Army Day all the other children in her kindergar-ten class were busy writing letters to their fathers or brothers. Inna, came sobbing to Natasha Zemskaya. her teacher. "I have no Daddy and no one to write to." Natasha com-forted the child and told her to write to Lt. Alexander Kuksenok. . . .1 Little Inna laboriously poured her; heart into a scrawling letter. Soon! she received an answer. "Don't you! cry, little Inna " wrote the lieuten-an- t "From now on I'm your broth-er. I am sending you a little gift. Be a good girl. Love, Alex." , , , Each week Alex wrote to his newly adopted sister. . Suddenly the let-ters stopped. After several weeks, Inna received a note. It was signed by a hundred soldiers and said: "Alex has been killed, but do not feel bad. His last wish was for all of us to become your brothers. So now you have a very large family, a hundred brothers. Be a good girl and write to us. Love. . . ." Ilya Ehrenberg, Soviet newspaper man, writes of his talk with a Ger-man sergeant: "He (the sergeant) limped out of the forest leaning on a walking stick. . . . The most ex-pressive thing about him was thai stick. On it were carved the names of the cities he had been in: , Warsaw, Liege, Namur. Rheims, Paris, Smolensk, and Vyaz-ma. "Observing that I was scrutinizing the stick, the Nazi said, 'We've been everywhere. But where have w got to?" fstation Caused by Rocket Bombs on London ' w MMWMTMMMIWBWiiiiiw.i ires of devastation was caused by a single V-- 2 rocket bomb that struck London's Stratford street. 154, injured 6,523, was the toll reported in England. Allied armies report that they arc equipped icket bombs loose on Tokyo and other centers of Japanese empire. This photo was just released, lifting of veil on the final German desperation campaign. Churchill revealed that 1,050 of these kid fallen on England prior to March 27, 1945. First Ladies of the White House Six widows of former Presidents of the United States are still living. Above, Mrs. Truman, present first lady of the White House and her new home. Center: Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Thomas Preston (Grovcr Cleveland), Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Lower: Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National committee who has been named to succeed Frank C. Walker, who resigned as postmaster general effective July 1. Hannegan will remain as chairman of the Democratic national commit-tee. Casualty of War Her fatherland may be torn to shreds by Allied armies, her home may be amongst those leveled by the tide of war, but all that means little to this German child who tries to comfort her scalped doll in a Leip-zig street. Liberated labor slaves are shown in background. bipp Munition Plant Wrecked lowing the ruins of what was the world's largest arma-s- . the Krupp plant In Essen, Germany. It was captured by 'wees. Insert, Alfred Krupp. Armless She Drives Moan Beach, 21, Baltimore, who finds the lack of arms no handicap to normal living, Is shown as she operates a motor vehicle by using her lower limbs. Mussolini and Mistress Slain The body of Benito Mussolini, one time dictator of Italy, and that of his mistress, Clara Petaccl, lie on the sidewalk In Milan, where they were dumped by partisans who executed them. 'American Mother' Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester, V. Y., mother of six children, who is now serving as a consultant at the 5an Francisco conference, has been jelected as "the American Mother f 1945." American and Red Cross Forces Unite Insert shows Lt. W. D. Robertson, U.S.A., and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, U.S.S.R., as they met at Torgau when Yank and Red forces nnited. Maj. Gen. Emil F. Reinhardt, Detroit, Mich., commanded the 69th division of V. S. 1st army, which made the contact with the 1st Ukrainian army on the Elbe river. The meeting occurred on April 26. Hammering Hammer The Hammer brothers. Granville, left, and Garvin, right, pose at Eb-bc- 's field, where they made their debut with the r,,or league U es against the Dodgers. 'berated Boy and New Friends ' ''' ' rf 3, one of the youngest Americans Wjete4 taj gWa- l- a group of i3th air force men base. The born in a Jap Ber youngster was Manila bound with h.s parents. .Mr. Dnhear and Is homeward Tangen of Seattle, Wash. |