WHITEVILLE MAN
LAUDS RED CROSS
WHITEVILLE, May 6. —Any
thing that you can say about th
Red Cross will not be too good
was the testimony of Lt. Harry .u
(Bob) Jordan, son of M* and Mr .
D. L. Jordan of Clarkton Route
S who arrived home Tuesday fol
lowing liberation from a German
prison camp March 28.
Following a forced march over
many miles to an Air Corps camp
in central Germany, he found Red
Cross packages and GI cl°thin8
awaiting him. To a man who had
been in a cell for three days with
out food and very little water, and
who, still on an empty stomach,
was forced to march with heavy
flying clothes, to a distant prison
camp, those Red Cross packages
were like a gift from the Gods. _
A navigator on a B-17 based m
Italy, Lt. Jordan was forced to
bail' out over Vienna, March 16.
When he landed the Gestapo seiz
ed him and placed him in a ceil
where he was ignored for three
days, during which time he was
given no food and only three glass
es of water.
At the expiration of three flays,
he was turned over to the Luft
waffe, which, after holding him
there one night, placed him and
ethers on a train headed for an
eir corps prisoner of war camp.
Long before the train reached its
destination, he and his companions
were taken off and forced to march
the rest, of the way. With heavy
clothes and thin-soled flying boots,
he was completely exhausted and
footsore when they reached camp.
It was at this camp where the
Red Cross packages and GI cloth
ing were found. Upon arrival he
was taken to the hospital prison
where he was treated.
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CIVILIANS THREATENED
PARANG, Mindanao, April 26.—
(Delayed)—Uft—Arrogant Japanese
militarists treated Their own civi
lians almost as cruelly as the Fili
pinos during their three years’ oc
cupation of this second larges
island in the Philippines.
Yanks Accept Surrender Of Munich From Nazis
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Mai Kenneth A Nozak (center with hands on helmet), of the U. S. Seventh Army’s 3rd Infantry
Division receives the formal surrender of the city of Munich, Germany, from Nazi officers in Mun
ich’s cit’v hall April 30. The Germans stand at the left. The Yank at right is unidentified. Munich was
the birthplace of Adolpf Hitler’s Nazi Party. «A>> Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto).
Today and Tomorrow
By WALTER LPTMANN
SAN FRANCISCO.
In our times we have seen other
great states go down in wrack
and ruin to defeat—Czarist Rus
sia in 1917, Hohenzollern Germany
and the Hapsburg monarchy in
1918, Mussolini’s Italy in this war.
The defeat of Hitler's Reich dif
fers from all of them. The differ
ence is not, as Albert Speer, the
Nazi minister of munitions, ha?
sought to make us believe, in the
enormity of the devastation. Nor
is it in the completeness with
which the army has been defeated
in battle. It is that the German
nation has surrendered without
making an effort of any kind to
redeem its honor.
The end is total defeat in total
disgrace because no Germans have
come forward who might claim bv
their resistance to Nazism, even in
its last hours, to be the represent
atives of a better Germany.
* * *
It will not be easy for the Allies
to deal justly and honorably with
a nation which risked everything
in order to subjugate others, and
then risked everything to avoid
punishment, but which has risked
nothing to save its soul and to
prove that it is capable of taking
an honorable place in the family
of nations. The Italians fought
badly in this war, probably be
cause their hearts were never in
it, but in the end they showed that
they could fight and die to re
store the honor of Italy, and that
Italian Fascism can be exterminat
ed by Italians. It may not have
been a pretty spectacle to assassi
nate Mussolini, and cast him into
the gutter, and hang }um by the
heels in a public square. But it
was rough justice and it goes to
prove that while many Italians
have been brutalized by the long
degradation of Fascist rule, Italy
has not been totally corrupted.
There is a good future for Italy
because the Italians have proved
that they themselves know how to
detest the crimes of Fascism, that
they thhmselves have the will to
judge its crimes and to exact pun
ishment for them.
How are the Allies to make an
honorable peace with the German
nation when there are no Germans
who have come forward to re
deem Germany’s honor? It is non*
sense to plead that the Gestapo
was too powerful. Millions of Ger
mans have been willing to die for
Hitler, but very few indeed to die
in order to lift the curse of Hitler
from Germany and from the
world.
Millions of French, Dutch, Bel
gians, Poles, Czechs, Norwegians,
Danes, Italians, even Austrians,
took the risks of the Gestapo, and
knew how to be tortured and to
die when, they cbuld not outwit
the Gestapo. But in Germany
what resistance there was must
have been feeble and scattered in
deed, or there would 'have been
some sort of German rebellion to
give a little dignity to the final
collapse and surrender.
There would have been Gefl
mans who rose up, not to help the
Allies, but to help Germany, to
seize the criminals, to offer them
selves as the pioneers of a new
Germany. There are none, and
so we are left not with a nation
but with a demoralized and dis
graced inchoate horde, incapable
of accepting moral responsibility
for what has happened or of par
ticipating in what needs to be
done.
* * * \
The problem of Germany be
comes, whether we wish it or not,
the problem of the four Allied
powers. They must now occupy
and govern the wreckage and the
remains of the German national
state. There are no precedents for
solving such a problem. There i»
nothing in the whole political
experience of mankind which
teaches us how four nations as
diverse as the British, the French,
thek Russians, and the Americans
are to govern and administer a
huge population which is in the
material and moral condition of
the Germans.
All that one can say is that un
less these four powers manage to
work together, they will not only
fail to deal with the German prob
lem but their failure will divide
them and separate them cata
strophically. There is no hope
whatever except in their unanimi
ty, which can be maintained only
by a kind of fanatical patience, by
invincible determination to give
and take in order that they can
act together.
The German problem is so diffi
cult, the consequences of failing
to solve it would be so terrible,
that all other issues among the
Allies must be dealt with in rela
tion to it. First of all the Polisl
problem: the Allies cannot afford
not to find a solution, and thai
must mean that all the irreconcil
ables, in Warsaw, ir. London, ii
Moscow, and in San Francisco
will have to be overriden. It is idl
otic for the Allies, who have tc
undertake the awful responsibility
of dealing with Germany, to be
come estranged and embittered
because they haven’t the commor
sense to agree on say two Poles
from the Peasant Party and tw(
Lorn the Socialist Party whc
could become ministerg in th«
Warsaw government.
Never mind who is to blame foi
the failure to agree thus far. Le1
the historians worry about that.
There has to be an agreement
about Poland because, without it,
we shall never get agreement
about Germany. And with the
mighty armies of the Allies in
physical contact, disagreement
about Germany is something- that
simply cannot be allowed to occur.
WITH THE AEF
On That G. L Glory Road
Bi KENNETH L. DIXON
WITH THE AEF IN GERMANY,
May 3 —(Delayed)— (JP)—When we
raced around that bend on the
lonely road we had already decided
we weren’t going to Berlin today.
There had been several vicious
stutters from German machine
pistols as we passed resistance
pockets. Even when we were
among the Russians we got only
cold stares and suggestive gestures
with their rifles.
So when a straggling gang of
guys in various pieces of cast off
G. I. clothes formed a literal road
block in front of us, shouting and
screaming in hysterical excite
ment, it was a relief to have a
good excuse to give up the Berlin
junket for the time and skid to a
halt.
"Hey. They’re G. I.’s! Stop her,
It’s a jeep! hey, you G.I.’s—what’rg
you doing here! jeez! hello! hello!
hello! hello ” their jumbled yells
rambled off into excited nonsense.
A stocky guy with almost flowing
curly beard actually kept stroking
the jeeps radiator as a man would
pet a dog. That was S-Sgt. Floyd
Severson of Fargo, N. D.. who was
captured at Kasserine Pass in Tu
nisia March 17, 1943, when the Ger
mans overran his 776th tank de
stroyer battalion.
"It’s the first jeep I’ve seen in
more than two years,” he grinned
through his beard.’Tt looks wonder
ful. Whoinell are you guys any
way, and how far is it to our lines?”
We didn’t get a chance to answer
him for at least five minutes. The
rest of the gang kept pumping our
hands, shouting more questions,
and telling us not to go ahead be
cause a big scrap was in progress.
They had just made it through be
cause nobody was paying much
attention to escaped prisoners these
days.
"Man but it’s good to see an
armed American GI again,” said
Corp. Paul Christpoulous of Akron,
Ohio, who also was captured in
Tunisia. He fondled the driver’s
carbine.
It’s almost impossible to describe
the confusion as the rest of them
gathered around. They were Corp.
Steve J. Boros, also of Akron; Sgt.
Fred Bayer of Pittsburg, Kans.,
and Cpl. Raymond Roland of Den
ver, Colo., all First Armored Di
vision boys captured in Tunisia.
There was a lone Italian cam
paign representative—Cpl. Joe
Myers of Cohoes. N. Y.t who was
captured at Salerno.
The rest of the gang were more
recent prisoners. S-Sgt. George B.
Spansy of Durham, N. C., was
taken during the Belgian break
through when the 106th Division
positions were overrun. S-Sgt
Marion Jacobs of Commerce Sta
tion, Minn., fell into German hands
in France, and Sgt. Harry Zum
stein of Bradford, Pa., was taker
prisioner while with the 26th Di
vision on the Saar river.
A couple of other guys—S-Sgt.
Ronald F. Glenzer of Curtiss, Wis.,
and Robert L. Griffin of Pana, 111.,
—were captured in the fighting
around Metz.
But they had all been together
in the Luckenwald prison camp,
from whic thhey had just escaped
during a German counterattack,
and now they realized they had a
ride back to the American lines.
Slowly we turned the jeep around,
being careful not to get off on the
mined shoulders of the road. Ther
they piled in. Contrary to all reg
ulations we got about nine men in
side the jeep. More piled on the
radiator, the front bumper, any
where they could hang on. Then
we started the return over some
15 miles of questionable territory
to the last place we had seen Am
erican soldiers..
If it was hard to describe the
confusion during the first meeting
with this gang, it’s completely im
possible to try to explain the terri
fic exhilaration as we started
back. During the next couple oi
hours we made two trips in order
to pick up those we couldn’t get
the first time. And always it was
the same.
As the jeep began to pick up
speed they shouted and swore and
yelled back and forth, and we
joined in the wild, crazy chorus.
We had some K—rations, and they
seized them like kids grabbing
Christmas candy.
“Who would have thought we’d
ever like K—rations? Ain’t this
wonderful? How’s the war going?
Man alive but it’s good to see GI’s
again. Have you seen these blank
etyblank Russkys in action? They
treated us swell, but I’d hate to
be fighting them. Where do we go
from here? How long do you think
the Pacific war will last.”
And so on, and on, just a rattle
of questions and chatter, with no
body answering half of the ques
tions, and nobody expected to. It
was just a hilarious letting off of
steam. And we were as bad as
they.
An hour before, we had gone
along that road with the old fam
iliar queasy quivering in the pit:
of our stomachs, wondering if th<
next corner might bring the stac
cato bark of somebody’s machim
gun.
But now we thought, “the hel
with it.” We were on the glorj
road taking liberated yanks baci
to their people—our people. Not hip {
could happen to us now. And noth
inv did.
NAZI ECONOMIC
PROBLEM CITED
MOSCOW, May 6—<A>>—'“The use
of German labdr for restoring the
countries Germany ruined natur
ally will effectively aid in the
economic disarmament of Ger
many,” the magazine War and the
Working Class said today.
^‘Although the public in Allied
countries upholds the idea of us
ing German labor,” the article
said, ‘‘there are however some
circles which are against this idea.
The opponents of labor repara
tions express the fear the repara
tion will be a loss to world eco
nomy—contribute to the economi
cal starvation of Germany, her
poverty and this in turn will affedt
world trade.
“We must note that this fear is
not new. Such reasoning was ex
pressed after the last world war.
It is well known that the affair
ended by giving the Germans gen
erous loans which helped ‘exhaust
ed’ Germany tb build a gigantic'
military industry and prepare for
a second war.”
Two Sons of Philippine
President To Be Turned
Over To New Government
MANILA, May 6.—Iff)—Two sons
ol Philippine President Sergio Os
mena, held in custody in Manila
by United States Army authori
ties as suspected collaborationist;
with the Japenese, will be turned
over to the Philippine government
after the war, it was disclosed to
day.
One sop, Sergio, Jr., 28, was
captured by the Americans in t
Lingayen gulf town after the
Yanks invaded Luzon through tha
gateway last January. The other
Nicasio, 35, was apprehended it
Manila after American occupa
tion of the city. Details of the col
laboration charges are benig with
held.
Nicasio and Sergio, Jr., are son
of the commonwealth president b;
a former marriage. Their mothe:
is dead.
Riddled Body of Nazi
Field Marshal Fount
WITH THE BRITISH SECONI
ARMY, May 6.—W—The riddle*
body of Fedor Von Bock, who as *
field marshal commanded the Cen
tral Army Group in the Germai
invasion of Russia in June, 1941
was found north of Hamburg to
day by British troops.
He had been dead about a week
and may have been caught in «
strafing raid. Von Bock’s body eith
er had been ignored or not recog
nized by German troops, and wa:
left for a burial squad to pick up.
PLANE CRASHES
HAVANA, May 6.— (U.R)—Batisti
airport officoals announced tonigh
that a plane, believed to be carry
ing American military personne
stationed in this regian, crashed a
the mountain village of Siguane;
near Cienfuegos on the south coas
of Cuba.
First U. S. Infantry
General To Be Killed
Buried With Honors
BOLOGNA, April 23.—(Delayed
by censorship)—(JP)—The body of
Brig Gen. Gustav J. Braun, assis
tant commander of the U. S. 34th
Division, who was shot down in a
small observation plane last March
17, was found in a marked grave
just south of Bologna three days
ago.
Braun, the first infantry general
to be killed In combat during this
campaign, had been interred ap
parently with full military honors
by the Germany in a small valley
just west of Highway 65, near the
hamlet of Colla Selvamaggiore.
Over the grave had been placed
a large wooden cross with the red
bull’s head emblem of his divi
sion burned into the wood. The
grave was marked “Brig. Gen.
Gustav Braun, staff of 34th In
fantry Division, died March 17,
1945.”
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