SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, April 27. 1953
Ikrilon, on Smouldering IKleap
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
United Press Correspondent
Berlin (U.R) Berlin, devas
tated and divided, is rising-
swiftly from its ruins 10 years
after the end of World War II.
A "'little iron curtain" slices
it in two. Its free Western sec
tors are isolated 110 miles deep
in Soviet-occupied territory.
Two city governments, two
economic systems,, two worlds
struggling for mastery in what
was once the proud capital of
the German reich.
Ten years ago the capital of
Hitler's Nazi empire was in its
death throes under Russian at
tack. The United States and Rus
sian armies had met on the Elbe
river on April 25.
Adolph Hitler was four days
from his death.
It was at about 3:30 p.m. on
the afternoon of April 30, 1945,
that Hitler shot himself through
the mouth in the air raid bunker
of his chancellery." His mistress
Eva Braun, whom he had mar
ried the night before, took poi
son. Bodies Burned .
Aides who heard the suicide
shot and hurried into Hitler's
room found him and Eva Braun
lying on a blood-stained sofa.
The bodies were taken out
side, wrapped in blankets, to a
small garden in ' front of an
emergency bunker exit. There
gasoline was poured on them
and they were burned.
I timer S aeain never nas peen uiiuutin wiui retreinpea ixuu
officially .certified. But only ajsers, Keitel picked up his cap,
few weeks ago a dentist, testify
ing in a law suit, said that he
had identified Hitler's and Eva
Braun's false teeth which the
Russians found in the garden
funeral pyre.
This correspondent was one of '
eight who were flown here with
German Field Marshal Wilhelm
Keitel for the final surrender.
Keitel, the German command
er in chief, had surrendered to
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
Western Allied armies at
Rheims, France, on May 7.
The final ceremony took place
at the headquarters here of So
viet Marshal Georgi Zhukov,
now Russian defense minister.
The Surrender
At midnight on May 8, Zhu
kov summoned Gen. Carl Spaatz
of the United States Air Force,
British Air Chief Marshal Sir
Arthur Tedder and French Gen.
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny to
the surrender room. Then Keitel
and his aides were brought in.
Tedder, in behalf of the Al
lies, asked Keitel:
"Have you read this docu
ment of unconditional surren
der? Are you prepared to sign
it?"
Keitel picked up a copy of the
surrender terms from a table in
front of him and said in a rasp
ing voice in German:
"Ja, I am ready." ;
Zhukov motioned him to come
forward. Immaculate in his gray
his marshal's baton and gloves
and walked to another table
nine copies of the surrender doc
ument were laid out.
He screwed his monocle with
studied deliberation into his
right eye. slammed his baton
I 1 -T I-i 1 fY tlVdrt e-if Alim
and signed.
Eighteen months later Keitel
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Meetings in District
State forest patrol meetings
for lumber and logging operators
in Josephine and Jackson coun
ties will be held May 2, 3 and 4,
it was announced today by Ted
Maul, district warden.
The first meeting will be held
at district headquarters in Med
ford. The May 3 meeting will be
at Cave Junction, and the May
4 session at Grants Pass. All
three meetings will start at
7:30 p.m.
Purpose of the meetings is to
acquaint operators with all laws
pertaining to' fire prevestion
and protection. Changes brought
about during the present session
of the state legislature will be
stressed.
Several representatives of the
state forestry department in Sa
lem will attend the meetings.
Hornbrook
Hornbrook, Calif. A potluck
dinner was held April 22 at the
Grange hall commemorating the
34th anniversary of Hornbrook
Grange. A program was pre
sented by Mrs. Lois Justice, Lec
turer of Yreka, of readings and
Mrs. Mollie Cple read the min
utes of the year 1921 when the
Grange was organized and the
minutes of 1940 when Mrs. Cole
was installed as secretary. There
were 43 members present.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watt
had as their guest this week his
brother Charles Watt of Port'
land. Ore. On Saturday the
Watts accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas McHenry and Miss
Dorothy Smith had dinner at
Marvs Casa in Medford.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M
Smith and son of Davis, Calif
are visiting thtis week at -the
home, of Mr. Smith's parents
Mr. and Mrs. Edward C, Smith
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Walsh and
daughter Sherrie drove to Corn
ing, Calif., the last week end oh
a combined business and pleas
ure trip.
Alfred McCann arrived last
week from Germany where he
has been stationed the past year
McCann has completed his two
year term of Army service and
plans to locate nere.
Norman Cummins who is m
the Army, stationed at Fort Ord,
Calif., is home on emergency
furlough having attended the
funeral of his grandfather, Ma
rion Cummins.
With fishing season starting
this week end Camp Lowe re
sort on the Klamath river will
open April 29 for business hav
ing been closed during the win
ter months.
died on the sallowi ai a war
criminal.
Berlin then was still in smok
ing ruins. It was Stalingrad, and
Coventry, Cologne, and Warsaw
all heaped into one a hideous,
nightmarish labyrinth, seeming
ly beyond all hope of repair.
Tortured Cily
The Berlin of-1655 ' is a tor
tured city still tortured by the
"little iron curtain" that cuts
across the front of the Branden
burg Gate and the Potsdamer
Platz and divides the city into
Communist and Western sectors.
But Berlin is pulsating with
life again. In the Western part,
the cafe tables are out again
along the Kurfuerstemdam side
walk in the spring sunshine.
Big 10 and 15 story buildings
are rising. The shops display the
same expensive goods you may
see on Fifth Avenue in New
York. '
At night the neon signs make
the "kudam," as Berliners call
it, a sea of light that conceals
the plaster facades of the shops
and the empty bomb lots. The
little cafes and nightclubs in the
streets are jammed.
Life is slower in the Commu
nist sector. The ruins of Hitler's
chancellery have been carted
away to make the Soviet war
memorial in the . Treptow dis
trict. The shops are less well
stocked than those in the free
West, and the people are poorly
dressed. There are big red Com
munist propaganda slogans eve
rywhere. '
At the city border. Western
and Communist guards glare at
each other. . .
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The executive committee was
in charge of the program which
preceded the Roxy Ann Grange
meeting. A mixed chorus from
Lone Pine school, directed by
Mrs. Hohensee, sang. Iris and R.
J. Ritchey read poems. A safety
first skit was nut on by Ken
Shaw, Nelson Shober, Cecil Hall
and a number of children. Gur-
neth Slater gave a clever tele-
nhone conversation.
1 Master Orie Moore gave third
and fourth degrees to Marion
and James Poole.
H. E. C. chaiman Marguerite
Shaw said there will be a public
card party Friday, April 29,
starling at 8 o'clock. .
Ruby Garrett and Marion
Kasser will be chairman.
Next H.E.C. meeting will be
at the Grange hall on May 4 at
8 o'clock with Caroline Wolfe
and Lillie Meadows as hostesses.
Mr. Ellis was asked to be
chairman of the Mothers day
program and Orie .Moore in
charge of refreshments.
Next Grange meeting will be
May 6. starting at 8:15 p.m.
Let's all be there on time. Men
of the Grange are to serve.
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