Selective Service
Legislation Is
Extended
WASHINGTON, May 9—</P)—
President Truman signed legisla
tion extending the Selective Serv
ice Act as a “compelling necessity
in continuance of military opera
*’Ans against Japan.”
The President said he signed
the bill extending the military
draft for a year from May 15, or
until the war is ended on all
fronts, with reluctance and he did
not wish the action interpreted as
expressing concurrence with the
section of legislation placing
“added restrictions on the War
and Navy departments in their
management of the fighting
forces.”
Vidkin Quisling
Surrenders
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OSLO, May 9 — </P) — Vidkin
Quisling, whose name became a
synonym of treachery in this war
was taken to the Oslo jail from
his estate outside of Oslo to be
arraigned publicly in court today
or tomorrow under the Norwegian
law.
The Norwegian Nazi chief was
broken by swift events which top
pled his five-year grip on Norway
drove up to the Oslo police sta
tion in a bullet proof car with six
of his cabinet members. Norwe
gian home forces rounded up 400
The measure prohibits the use
j of eighteen year olds in combat
I unless they have at least six
months’ training.
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WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
“PRIORITIES ON j
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JERRY COLONNA
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“DUBARRY WAS A
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other quislings throughout Oslo.
Meanwhile plans to remove the
German troops from the principal
cities to central assembly points
for surrender went forward in
conferences between Brig. Gen.
Hilton and the chief of the Allied
Control Commission.
Maj. Gen. Holte, chief of staff
of the German commander of
Norway quislings was assigned to
a cell in the famed Moellegatan
prison from which hundreds of
his own political prisoners have
been released since the German
capitulation.
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Goering And
Kesselring Taken
Into Custody
PARIS, May 9— (£>) —Goering
and Kesselring have been taken
into custody by the United States
Seventy Army. The Sixth Army
Group announcement quoted
Goering as saying he was sen
tenced to death April 24 for sug
gesting he take over the leader
ship of the Reich from Hitler.
Goering’s wife and child were
taken into custody with him.
Kesselring, the last German
commander in chief on the west
ern front. He has been shifted
from Italy to succeed von Rund
stedt was captured earlier by the
Seventh Army.
The fat Reichsmarshal said he
was seized by the Germans April
twenty-seventh and held at
Berchtesgaden and ordered exe
cuted. He last saw Hitler April
twenty-second in Berlin. He as
serted he believed that Hitler had
died April twenty-seventh or
twenyt-eighth.
Goering surrendered personally
to Brig. Gen. Robert Stack, assist
ant commander of the Thirty
Sixth Texas Division, who also
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Cavey Building in which the
Polar Bar, Cavey Liquor Store
and Polar Curio Store are situ
ated' was also sold to Geo. Mad
sen.
Chas Cavey has been in busi
ness in Nome since the early days.
Fcr many years he was the owner
and operator of the North Pole
I Bakery. Later he opened another
restaurant which was destroyed
j in the fire of 1934. After the fire
he rebuilt on his present location.
Mr. and Mrs. Cavey plan to
leave for the States next week
: and visit with their two sons,
Walter and Charles who were
both born in Nome.
Charles is now working with
Boeings in Seattle. Walter is a
gradcate engineer and plans to re
turn to Alaska some day.
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captured Von Rundstedt May
| first. The surrender occurred on
a road east of Kitzbuhel. Goer
ing’s wife, the former actress
Emmy Sonnemann cried fre
quently.
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