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Cameron Mvmlb
VOLUME NUMBER 86.
CAMERON, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 3. 1945.
NUMBER 2
HITLER DEAD: BERLIN FALLS
Broiler Program Moves
Swiftly is This Area; Is
To Insure Farm Riches
Killed In Action
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The broiler propram, pronounced
th»- most important poultry develop-
ment of the century in this communi-
ty, was speeding along under most
pre mising circumstances Wednesday
as results of a meeting Monday
night were assessed in the light of
their full value to encourage the in-
dustry.
A. W. McCullin, President of the
Chamber of Commerce, was greatly
pleased over the response here and
the willingness of Fairmont Cream-
ery Co., to undertake the program
in co-operation with producers.
L. Van Perkins, manager of the
Chamber of Commerce, said some 20
poultry producers were present and
about an equal number of produce
men and members of the Board of
Directors of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
J. R. Thompson, manager of the
Fairmount Creamery Company from
Giddings talked business with the
farmers and answered many ques-
tions. The Company is ready to em- i
bark on the program iiere and to
bear a large share of the financial
strength necessary to get started.
Mr. Thompson stressed the rm- |
portanee of good feeding and sanita-
tion in the production of broilers.
Good money can be made, he said pro-
vided the producers will follow a
good feeding program and produce
broilers under a mass production
plan. A single poultry man must
produce not less than 5 thousand a
year.
To institute such a program hatch-
ery facilities must be doubled and
trebbled here. Many of the farm-
ers present asked questions and re-
lated their experiences in producing
chickens. All expressed willingness
to enter the program.
The Chamber of Commerce is spon-
soring the movement and is ready to
render any assistance possible.
On May 9 at 9 a. m, members of
the Chamber of Commerce aceom-
CITY QUOTA $90,000
RFC. GEORGE GOODWIN
panied by as many farmers as pos-
sible will go to Giddings to see th ■
new Fairmont plant and visit broiler
farms where chickens are being
raised on a mass basis.
Mr. Perkins said that plenty of car
space is available and every farmer
who wishes is urged to be here on the
morning of the 9th for the trip down.
The ears will return that afternoon.
At Camp Stoneman
D. B. MCGEE KILLED
RFC. JARO F. MATI’LA
Pfc. Jaro F. Matula. was inducted
into the U. S. Army on November 9,
1942. ami received his basic training
at Camp Robinson. Calif., and at Lit-
tle Rock, Aik. He was then trans-
f: red to Camp Stoneman, Calif.,
where he is in the Tranjxjrtution
Corps of the army. He is attached
to the Headquarters Personnel Of-
fice.
Pfc. Matula is the son of Mr. and I
Mrs. Felix C. Matula in Cameron
and was formerly employed at the
St< wart Grocery in Cameron and the
U. S. Postoffice.
I). B. McGee, former resident here,
was killed .Saturday/-April 28,-4945,
in a cai wreck in Houston.
Funeral services were conducted
here at 2:30 p. m. Monday, April .'10,
1945, from the residence of his mo-
ther, Mrs. Cora McGee. Rev. K. R.
Isbell, Pastor First Methodist
Church, conducted the services, with
the Marek-Burns Funeral Home
directing arrangements. Interment
was made in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr. McGee was born in Brownwood
on February 12, 1891. He made his
home in Cameron for many years but
during recent years had lived in
Houston.
Surviving are his widow, and two
daughters, Miss'Jewel McGee of Cam-
eron and Mrs. J. E. Goodbread. Sur-
Pfe. George Goodwin has been kill-
ed in action, it was announced here
by his mother, Mrs. G. M. Goodwin
who received a telegram from Sec-
retary of War, Harry L. Stimson,
expressing regrets and the gratitude
of the nation for his sacrifice.
Pfc, Goodwin was killed in action
in Luxembourg on Christmas eve,
December 24. 1944. The family had
previously received a message that
he was missing in action.
Pfc. Goodwin was wounded in ac-
tion on September 29, 1944, and flown
to England where he remained in the
hospital for 2 months. For these
wounds he received the Purple Heart
which was awarded posthumously and
received here by his mother.
The last word from her son was re-
ceived in a letter dated December 9.
1944. He stated he had recovered
from his wounds and by the time she
received the letter he would be hack
at the front with his company. Pfc.
Goodwin was horn and reared near
j Cameron and attended school at
' Maysfield. Before entering the ser-
vice he was employed in Cameron at
! the Green & Boedeker stores and at
the Stewart Grocery.
Cameron's initial effort in the 7th
War Loan will get under way at 9:15
a. m. Wednesday with a meeting of
workers at Cato’s Cafe, it was an-
nounced early today by Dan Tyson,
County War Finance Chairman.
The meeting to he held in the morn-
ing was announced in a proclamation
by Mayor Chas. C. Smith two weeks
ago designating May 2nd as the day
on which business would he suspend-
ed between the hours of 9:30 and
10 a. m. in order that stores and
sales organizations might devote 30
minutes to the sale of bonds.
The city’s quota of E bonds is 90
thousand dollars. Greater effort will
have to he made this time than at
any other because of the hike in
quotas.
Some of tile local leaders were op-
timistic while others were expecting'
much more effort than that required
for the rally here tomorrow. If
the city raises its quota Wednesday
it will lie the first time such a stride
has been made. Cameron usually
has a large quota and usually the full
limit of the bond period is required to
get over.
It was said here Tuesday that
around 25 per cent of the quota lias
already been raised. Pay roll con-
tributions began on April 9. Official
ly the last phase of the 7th War
Loan begins in May 14. There has
been some confusion. Milam county
got under way earlier than the re-
mainder of the state.
E. C. Cole and Albert Collins are
co-chairman for Cameron.
Mr. Tyson will meet with workers
at 9:15 Wednesday and from the
meeting a canvas will he mad/.
Primarily the .'10 minute period is for
business men to sell bonds to their
employes.
Soviet Flag Flies Over
The German Capital
Serves With Patton
PFC. 1 I I I \ M All 1. \ JK.
President Harry S. Trurmm at 3 p.
m. said Adolph Hitler is dead. Con-
firmation was broadcast to the world
after proof came that Hitler died in
battle Tuesday in Berlin.
Joseph .Stalin announced at 3 p. m.
today that Berlin had fallen.
In the fall of the German capital
70 thousand German soldiers were
taken. It was said that Adolp Hitler
went down with his capital.
It was the most triumphant order
of the day yet issued by Stalin who
said that the Soviet flag now flies
over all sections of the city.
Berlin fell at 10 a. m. central war
time, within one hour after the Ger-
mans surrendered in Italy and Aus-
tria.
The German capital is no longer a
city hut a heap of blackened ruins.
Pfc. Felix Matula, Jr., has been ir
the European lighting for the pas
8 months with the 3rd Army unde.
General George Patton.
Pfc. Matula entered service March
1<), 194.2, and received his basic train
ing at Camp Bowie, with a Tank
Destroyer unit, the 653rd Company,
one of the units that marched from
Brownwood to Camp Hood. The men
marched more than 1(H) miles in 8
days. In one day the Company
marched 2.3 miles.
He received his Tank Destroyer
training at Camp Hood and later at
Fort Henning, Ga. Later when the
company was broken up he was
fransfered to the Infantry where he
was assigned to a Medical Corps unit.
1 and went overseas where lie was as
; signed to duty with the Third IT. S.
| Army.
Pfc. Matula a graduate of Yoe
I High School and was employed here
by Coca-Cola Company. He is the;
Sgt. John Henry Wilson, United I son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Matula,
States Army Air Corps, has just re | Sr., and wa- horn and reared in Cam
Sj?t. John H. Wilson
Home on Furlough; to
Go Back to Hospital
M rs.
turned to Cameron from California
where he has been under treatment
following an operation in an army
hospital.
Sgt. Wilson, hero of much of the
uir war which reduced the Germans
in Europe, suffered a shoulder injury
Emelre Theresa Kocurek died In a crack up while on combat duty
K
Sgt. Andrew .1. Moore
Wins Bronze Star
Tuesday, May 1, 1945, at th
viving also are his mother, Mrs. Cora j ,,ron Hospital at 2:30
McGee of Cameron and one grand
child.
Pall hearers were: Chas. Swift,
Bob Griffin. W. A. Heath, Paul
Laake, Joe Matula, Manuel Werner,
Frank Torno and Joe Richter.
Cam
STATEMENT TUESDAY
Ff\MI1f\ OUrmmiLLN 10 ternational Red Cross being on his
j way out of the Reich to Switzerland.
Winston Churchill, British Prime
I Minister, will make a statement on
Tuesday.
Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo Chief,
, offered unconditional surrender to
i the United States and England on
j Friday but this was rejected because
i it did not include Russia.
Allied Headquarters in Paris said
| Tuesday the war will end soon.
The 7th U. S. Army is in Munich
and is racing to the Brenner Pass.
All Allied armies were advancing
rapidly as German resistance crum-
bled. The U. S. 9th has joined with
the Reds near Rarlin. The blackout
will end in Mascow Tuesday night.
Berlin w as expected to fall not later
than Tuesday. Russia will celebrate J
V ty Day in Moscow- Tuesday.
London newspapers Monday came
out with big headlines that Hitler is !
dying in Berlin and that the war will j
end very soon
Resistance in Italy is melting away !
• apidiy. The daps have bombed a '
—--- hospital ship, the Comfort and 29
Dorothy Johnson of Houston H American wounded were killed, also I
vts ting friends and relatives in Cam- « army nurses. Over 150 of the B 29
eron- Bombers were tKimbing the Jap main-
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Russell of *****’ __
Tarrelltor trarsar'ed business Hi Mrs Jimmie Curley of Buckh Jts
Can.-, ron Tuesday wa, m Cameron Monday.
Germany is sending another sur-
render hid to the Allies it was said
Monday, a representative of the In- j community when a small child and
was married to John Kocurek in
j>. m.
Funeral services were held Wed-
nesday, May 2, 1945, at 10 a. m. at
SS. Cyril and Methodius Catholic
Church at Marak, with Rev. Geo. il.
Duda, pastor, St. Monica’s church in
Cameron, reading the Mass, assisted
by Rev. Ben Holub, pastor at Marak,
assisting. *
Interment was made in the Catho-
lic cemetery at Marak.
Mrs. Kocurek, the former Miss
Emelie Theresa Gurecky, was horn at
Burlington on June 3, 1888. She mov-
ed with her parents to the Marak
Fiank Scharitzer, 84. died at his
heme in Cameron Saturday, April 28,
IMS. .
Mr. Scharitzer was a native of Aus-
tria. born in 1861. He came to the
United States 28 years ago and for
almost a quarter century was employ-
ed at the F. J. Beckerman shoe shop.
Funeral services were held Sunday
at 9:30 a. m. at St. Menic-a’s Catholx
Church, with Rev. George J. Duda,
Pa«tor. reading the funeral Mass.
Burial was mede in the Catholic cem-
etery with the Green Funreal Home
directing arrangements.
Surviving are his widow, and one
•or,. Frank Scharitzi-r. Jr., of Cam- 1
cron and two daughters who reside in
Houston. Three grand daughters also
survive.
Mr. Scharitzer was a shoe maker
by profes-ion and had mny friends
1913. After their marriage they
moved to Dime Box in Lee county
hut returned to Cameron 1932.
Travis Medders of Dallas, is heie
on a visit with his wife, in the home
of her mother. Mrs. Lula Rogers.
Mrs. Middcrs is the former Miss Lois
Hovis.
Mrs. Ernest Ixirenz of Ben Arnold
shopped in Cameron Tuesday.
(turn to page four)
and will have to go hack to the hos-
pital for another operation -oiin. He
expects to be here 30 days.
Sgt. W’ilson, radar man, flew 17
combat missions on a B-26 Marauder
medium bomber, has been awarded
the Purple Heart and it was aid Wed
nesday by J. M. Boohner who in-
troduced the returning hero at Rota-
ry, that a Bronze star is another
decoration yet to Ik; received.
He was with the 387th Bomber
group. Before entering service he
was with Lone Star Gas Company in
Cameron and plans to return to his
job when the war is over.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Righee and
daughter, Mrs. W. A. Wagner of
Orange, have been visiting his mo-
ther, Mrs. L. Bigliee. Mis. Wagner
is the fortnei Miss Byrl Higher, who>-e
husband is now overseas, and she i*
making her home with her )>arents at
Orange
Geraldine Chambers
visited in Cameron over
end.
of Baylor
the week
S-S-.t Andrew 1. Moore of Cam- :
eron has i-ec ive 1 the Bronze Star 1
from Major General William G. Live, i
say, command ng Genera] of the 01st.
“Power Rivet ” I live inn.
Sgt. Moore "Topkick’ for Company
It .36.3rd Infantry Regiment, was |
awarded the lie dal for heroic achieve-
ment in action on the Fifth Army '
front In taly. Sgt. Mimitc has rcceiv- j
ed the Purple Heart for wounds re- :
<■• ived in action. He is the son of j
Mrs Emma Moore of Cameron.
Rosemary Bennett is
Fleeted to l*hi Beta
Kappa at University
Rosemary Bennett, student at I'm
versity of Texas, has been elected to
Phi Beta Kappa, world’s highest [
scholastic society, liased on her work j
at State.
She is one among 14 to l»e so
recognized for outstanding grades at
the University. Rosemary is the
daughter of Mr and Mrs. R P. Bcn-
J nett of Cameron She will graduate
j from the UmversHy this year.
I In high school here she was an out-
I standing student and has continued
I her high scholastic standings in the
University
CAPTIVE BY TEXANS
German and Kalian armies in Italy
and southern Austria have capitu-
lated unconditionally, it was official-
ly announced by President Harry S.
Truman In Washington Wednesday
morning.
In the surrender are many high
ranking officers and from 600 to 700
thousand men, thus almost a million
enemy troops are out of action. The
surrender was made to a joint staff
of Russian, American and British
commanding officers which included
General Mark Clark of the U. S. Fifth
Army und General Alexander, com-
manding the Italian theatre of war
Shortly before noon it was announc-
ed that General Runsted who scored
the break through in Belgium last
December was made captive by the
36th Division of Texans fighting in
the U. S. 7th Ariny under General
Patch.
Hostilities ended at 8 a. m. Wed-
nesday. The surrender was uncon-
ditional and now the Germans and
Italians must take orders from the
Allies.
President Truman sent message*
of enngi atulation to General Clark
and to General Alexander.
Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo Chief,
who made a peace hid last Saturday,
through.
aid on April 24, that Germany is
The Germans were crumbling
everywhere The end might come at
any moment.
In Berlin trapped Germans are
frantic. The Germans announced
late Tuesday that Adolph Hitler is
dead. The Allies do not believe the
Germans. The Nazi said Hitler died
from u cerebral hemorrhage in one
report and another that he died in
battle.
The Reds were fighting the Ger-
mans around the chancellory built by
Hitler and are blasting them under-
ground.
German sailors were rioting at
Rostov on the Baltic. Admiral Doenels
who was represented as succeeding
to command after Hitler’s alleged
death, has dismissed Von Ribben-
trop, the German foreign minister.
Pfc. Wm. A Hlavacek
At ('amp Davis, N C.
3 Top Nazi are Suicides F
Says Moscow Statement
BEING HURRIED UP
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sincerely grieved at
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LONDON, Thursday, May 3.—Th*
Soviet communique anounced Thurs-
day that Adolf Hitler had committed
suicide.
The communique also said Propa-
ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goehbels
had taken his own life.
The Soviet communique said that
Dr. Hans Fritsebe Goehbels lieu
tenant who was taken prisoner in the
fall of Berlin, said that Hitler. Propo.
can Ida Minister GwHuh and a
General Kerb all had '•"isaittri
suicide
LONDON May 2 Berlin, great «♦
city of the European continent and
capital of Adolf Hitler’s blood-drench
ed empire, fell to the Russian*. Wed-
nesday after 12 days of history’*
deadliest street fighting
Seventy thousand German troops
were captured in the final cleanup and
all the remnants of the shock'd and
riven garrison laid down Ha arms.
Premier Stalin announced in an order
of the day broadcast from Mi
Wednesday nrght
When th
that many
-ompblled
lands
rente was speeded up
mminence of a German
i arreed that the woik
►nee «hould he hurried
need before the end of
ai <nds it was agreed
jresentafive* might he
return to their home
Pfc Glen K*rnon of Topeka. Kans .
has concluded a few days visit here
with his grand mother. Mm V H
Butte
Pfc. William A. Hlavacek. son of
Mrs. Henry Hlavacek, Cameron, has
been assigned to the AAF redistribu-
tion station and convalescent hos-
pital here and will work in the sup-
ply division.
in the service since
rved overseas in the Car-
Before coming to Camp
as stationed at Kelly
astle Field. Fla . and
dd. Ala.
attended High School in
Cameron and before entering the
service worked in the stock record
section at Kelly Field. San Antonio.
Camp Davis is the newest installa-
tion of the AAF Personnel Distribu-
tion Command which handies the re-
distribution of all Air Fortes re-
turnees and controls all convalescent
hospitals and overseas replacement
depots.
He has
1942. and
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Fvld.
Brook
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Joe Kennedy was a Cam emu visiter
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1945, newspaper, May 3, 1945; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth561913/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.