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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1945)
Tuesday, May 8, 1915 , . Fane Two THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON "tlx!,,--., 7 ii n - -.1 srr. k, p. i ''rK Mt.m -iv a I rt mm mm VmiSM Mf&i n KrW'IEM r3 Pffl!7lsW fell ' -IB ?' Supretae Allied Chief wBig Three" Who Guided Allied Arms To Victory - - virgin rv 1 'j'-'-'-'rVrv; PMihJf1, K'i ''yp -tdrf r " ..Wi.tfv.v'' far THE LATE PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL t tea ' . , MARSHAL JOSEF STALIN Birlli mad Growth of Isizism--Disastrous Poliiical Monster .J :i " 1 m nr.- U " "W iv. GENERAL IKE EISENHOWER . 4 i ENGINEER BIG JOB General Bernard Mo.iigomery, left, and General Dwight Eisenhower, respectively British and allied su I preme commanders of the allied forces on the Western front. GERMANS PROTEST VERSAILLES TREATY REVOLUTION AND UNREST STIR NATION MUNICH: NAJSM IS BORN GERMANS REOCCrUl'Y RUHR MAY DAY COMMUNIST RIOT v'3STg"Ty,w m'l, wiw!i,y'ify!?WCT r ensues.- ..:. llALF-STAUVINC; GERMANS RIOT FOR FOOD FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY RUHR INDUSTRIES 1919-23: World Wnr I nrmlsdce terms were delivered lo n resentful, impoverished, war-wcary, lcaderiess Ciermnny, devoid of notional unity or purpose. The Republic was unable to cope with the political ind social conflicts among Communists, Monarchists, Socialists and Republicans. Bloody riots and revolts rocked the country. Loss of colonics, Lorraine, the Saar and Silesia, left German industry on the verse of collapse. Unemployment was widespread, there was a serious food shortage and cur 'rency was almost worthless. After a succession of chancellors and cabinets, German industry and agri culture were still floundering desperately. Unable lo meet war reparations, the nation considered it Insult added lo injury when, in 192.1, French troops crossed the Rhine and entered tho German coal and iron rcuion of the Ruhr vullcy. German political soil was awaiting seeds of dictatorship. xrjj iR i fgp, RED VOTE BEATS HITLER TROOPS CURB UPRISING INFLATION BREEDS PANIC, DISUNITY 1923-32: Discontent and disunity created those seeds, which sprouted as Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, founded in Munich in 1920. His 1923 Beer Hall Putsch failed and Hnler retired to lick his wounds; Von Hindenburg's presidency started in 1925. Conflicting political groups held armed truce. Strengthened German troops marched back into the Ruhr, and the nation bought Ave years of prosperity with money borrowed from U. S. and Britain. But as depression hit the world, inflation spiraled up ward, soup kitchens appeared and worker-communists broke out Into open bloody rcvort. Elections became open warfare between the increasingly strong Communist and Nazi parties. The Reds had their biggest and last victory when Hitler was defeated in the 1932 elections, while the fearful gov - crnmcnt vainly tried to stop the revolutionary tide with martial law. r-t j I ... W.yK&Yi5k 'JS 1tfer? 4 jJT wr? VV' V3I Poles weep a WHtr ui BHtters Invade in 1939. Hitter ikwa war witfc Bnssia. HITLER IN AS niWl KI I.OK NA.I POMP AM) RITUAL APPKAI.S TO GERMAN PEOPLE v SSS St. M V -X Vi tVirV bA 1 psi js r-' ' i ",; t ra i . . :. wt$ -4L -; ) v. VV 1 4 JEWS PKHSEt'l'TED fOJIMUN,STS HUNTED NAZIS Bl'RN'ANTI-C.rRM AN" ROOKS 1933-35: lllllex foned lh nged Sid sick Von llindenburg to appoint him chancellor. Free elec tions vanished atxfthe Hclch-wit loffiafTlpowcr, hut U'O German people enlranceit by the self-glorification of Nan symbolism and n(u)ilislie splendor irkitely joined the Fuehrer's march towards a "glori fied German empire." Nation-wide persecution of Jews began; Communists were hunted down and ex terminatud by the Gestapo. Nuziftcation workixi on the home, the schiml, the business world, and fall ing to swing the church into line too, gradually exiled it. Wilhdiawing from the League of Nations, Hitler "purged" his own party ranks, and his dream of a completely rationalized and goose-stepping German nation began o come true. Labor codes wen established, wage scules were fixed, uniuns abol ished. With the nation healing Internally, Germans turned towards lost possessions, and in 1933 the Naii-domlnolcd Saar plebiscite brought the toal-nch temtory back Into the Reich. Hitler rescues the ex-Duee in 1943. 1911 army revolts augur civil uprisings as in 1918., WORl.tl WAR II 1 1939-41 1 After signing a non-.-.ggrcion pad wtth Hssu, in 1939 Hitler s troops invaded Poland England and France declared w.o on Gerni.iny. and lliller ijiiswered, them m 1940 with invasions of Denmark. Norway, the Low CoiM'.ric; i;d rran.., Signillcir,! werthc Uliti' meet ings of Hitler and Japan's Kuiuvu, tor a year later the, Pearl Harbor attack came Hitler erred gravely in 1941 when, after swallowmc the B.ilkans. he invaded vast Russia Early successes were followed by increasing retreats here and m North Africa aflet U S entej-ed the war By the end of 1943 Germany had also lost Sicily and pan of luily vjj Allied invasion ol France in June ol 1944 ton ed a three-front war on Germany, already re treating in Italy and Russia Revolt ol his army chejue and ;ttemptcd assassination 'brought' on a "purge" ol Nazi officers, as the Fuehrer dod;ed blame for military disasters Faced nn h.u'Miliating army retreats and continual air bombardment. Hitler crouched in his fvr. ...:.Hff "tV"''fn "H rle-porntelv l.-M 111. r.ol. i.. "V-etorv will one dav romrensali -s H ?v:;.;is3'5:l AIR TEAM OVER RHINE Key figures in the Allied drive across the Rhl ie were Mai, Gen. Maflhow B, Ridawav. legl. 0' te U S army, and British Maj. Gen. Richard M. Galo, his deputy who di rected operations of the airborne army which was landed behind the German lines during the initial biews at the hcarllaid of the Reich. is:-.. ...jt tsvnfyh. i sf i pv v- v--assa TARK BECOMES A TOBT' FOR DOUGHBOYS From ih house in the background of photo above. German sniper wet popping off Yanks of the firs! army s ia.-r.ed lir infanlrr dieiaio.i as 4hrrf fousht throush St. Andreaiburg. Germavy. So up ro ll fink, swiagi btoeJside across the narrow stroet, and nialcas nice UMU' "fort" behind which G. I. s take cover, while the tanks danr.oo blasts away at the siipcr-lnfestcd houses. FLARES FOR FLYERS ' Among the newest recruits for ' the I. S. armed forces are jun- sits talcum powder can and the kitchen paprika can. which h.-ivn been adapted to form the doulilc i sum oi a hand-held distrist sie. havb been or deicd by the ivernmcnt, acc(il ing to R. C. Taylor, vice presl- . ticnt of the American Can Co., which developed the item. A flyer forced into the water can idease a colored smoke signal by pulling a ring jn the top of the
