Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1945, Cairo, Egypt It Ivy m is 8s 1045 United Ray Teyv and tidier week tried r executed body into a to Teeth where 4 mob of add on the remains Axis and h6 of his Roberto Fari fascist party Secre chief and propaganda and a few Days later the mis Shapen bodies of the Duce and his mistress were buried in unmarked Graves in Milans potters the partisans the Northern committee of it Clear had executed Mussolini those closest to him for acts of treason to their theirs has been the Only Legal govern ment in the no liberated Northern areas and has been so recognized by both the italian government in Rome and the As if to underline the purely Legal procedure of their the partisans informed the 15th army group that they had captured mar Shal Graziani were reserving him for the Allied military authorities As to prisoner of War and did not consider him a political a conflicting said Graziani was also partisan or end describing the trial and sunday morning the partisan Leader who had commanded Ita lians South of the to said i had heard Mussolini had been arrested and taken to a Villa near on Lake none of us wanted Mussolini to be freed or to escape to so i sent ten men with an officer to was in a cottage on a Hill outside Dongo with his mis Clara when he saw the italian officers coming to Ward he thought they had come to free him and he threw his arms happily about the when Mussolini iwas informed he was to be he was the partisan our under an gave them both a trial and condemned them to when he heard of the death Mussolini let me save my life and 1 will give an trial committee continued their plans for the exe almost mus Solini and Petacci were shot to Gether at the when the soldiers were about to mus Solini cried nol no those were his last not blindfolded Mussolini was not a Bullet pierced his head through his left Clara Petacci had several Bullet holes in 7her the partisans tried other fascists and shot them in the Dongo town then piled ail the bodies into trucks and took them to i there the bodies were publicly exhibited in Loreto where crowds gathered to kick and pit on a correspondent described Mussolini face As Ashen his dark jowls Hung flab Bily and he wire a nondescript military jacket with Gray Riding breeches of the italian blood stains showed Ontie White Blouse of his whose body had somehow escaped most of the muck and filth which covered the 1 afternoon the mob Strung Mussolini and Petaccio bodies by the legs from the rafters of a burned out Gas monday they were taken Down and All the bodies were removed to a morgue where they were placed on Ordinary Metal Milan had teen Start other fascists executed at Don include Fernando minister of propaganda be High for Home during the nazi occupation Guidi Osvaldo Valenti and Louisa husband wife film stars accused of torturing the Rugero Nicola and journalists and it was in where Musso Lini had formed his Lac shirts and from where the March on Rome started in october Truman picks executive Washington president tru Man appointed Edward d Omaha insurance As his chief administrative As 4 l Field of Long congratulated them selves Over their1 Good Fortune in it Tyirin gift Ceung of bps As mess they Sang praises Long and extolled his meals and As gave the chinese chef a furlough Home with specific instructions to have fun but hurry weeks passed but the mess be gear it failed to As the gis their at Long last they Learned that Katie no was ill in a Hospital where the diagnosis of his malady had been officially proclaimed prolonged h filthy Loore think you could be Blase about a million Bucks in cold Cash at a fighter base on iwo Gam Jigarjian of new York nonchalantly kicked aside one of 13 boxes containing More than in cur albeit that he is a finance his companionship with Large wads of Deloose was not the real reason for his this Money Doest bother me at he we just sort of keep an Eye on it while we Are guarding this he then placed his hand reverently on one of iwo rarest and most of can of not so filthy lingering on the fascinating subject of Money Marine Stanley Bronk recently returned to the states after 33 months in a Jap Pokey and walked out of a finance office fondling of his very having last signed a military payroll on the fore sighted sergeant had Clung tenaciously to his service record Book throughout his he had engaged in a on sided Battle of wits to keep his precious pay record hidden from the his determination to get himself and that pay record Book Back to Uncle sugar has finally paid does Multi Gate stand on the rotation list i am a6ent 777 glad to see Yuh according to the swedish Tho Story making the rounds in Ger Many says Der fuehrer is really a Allied when the allies reach hitlers nest near Berchier the paperhanger himself will meet them at the take off his Mustache and say in eng Lish glad to see Yon i run agent my Mission is Kern my is dangerous journey the Liberty ship was torpedoed at men tumbled into lifeboats and made their escape from the sinking the boat of Anthony moves and his companions was surrounded by giant turtles throughout the night but the thir ties showed no inclination to bother them and the men too exhausted to pay attention to the sea when Dawn the turtles turned out to be float ing the Lifeboat had Bob bed through an entire mine Field during the night its late Tofu 4t of Fiji death grave Only Jelsi reached this desk and gome of then ate so striking wed like to Tell you about As you most of our am Eam Iddle least Camp papers come out at weeks scattered from thursday through some of the weeklies appeared too Early for the news was flashed to the world late thursday night amet with a saturday or sunday press were concerned with the followup tributes or details rather than the Shock of the immediate announce i three papers which come this bore Friday Date lines and to these came their Sor Riest Story of the who Dat and read report All had effective Means of presenting their sad news Bush towns palaver told a striking Story of How its Camp Learned the first it came just 58 minutes after the completion of a transcription of president Roo Severts report to Congress on trip reports Pala sat for a moment in utter dumbfounded then the hubbub of hundreds of lifted in awed murmurs As dazed and americans realized the Groat loss which was remember last weeks yarn in stars and stripes about skiing at Huckstep along comes a piece in wwi19 about some of its members skiing in weather Man Carl mete tells what is evidently a truthful tale about Short slopes he and one be Hyfield taught Fel lows Vetter and a visiting fireman fava some of the explanation of this iranian oddity is that the lads were at its northernmost lightning flashes abject bows accompanied by deep distress and Mitte Oriental dismay at hav ing called dust rag by a wrong name we called it dust bowl and think it must have been the old Sah Jint forgive to life has Koine the West african under old editor Louis transfusion that made it possible was arrival of a production Kevin of Chippewa where he was a in typist on the since Tho production Peter neater is one to easily we know Bonjour Welcome to Case youre bound for prop Avash territory up Libya set those simians out of the Moth balls warns the May 1 is the Day Winters officially Over the Way they print that Nicholas Papayanakos has been awarded the rank of Knight in the order of i Ehm Iftikhar by the French air forces in Tunisia for his design of the major portion of the new terminal building on that read reporter toned above presented its that unhappy Friday the the new mimeographed weekly is issued by the information and education Branch in the Central african division like All other overseas it foresees a problem in getting material from individual units and puts in a plea for Joseph Heads an As yet unidentified staff and we Hope they get the cooperation in ing without which no army paper can cooperation gets to be a pretty trite but its about the Only word that implies the work of covering All the events and people that should be Good reporter from a there victims of a correspondent ate the Boyte of As Cension who Are highly browned off at correspondent Ann who spent five Days on the Rock and went Home to write a rave about the another David did the same for this place in describing this base As a summer Camp and enthusing Over the ice cold Watermelon which we never saw at the we suppose the correspondents idea is to build tip Home the obvious objection is that you correctly Des Cribe strange place after a few Days whirlwind Doest help Soldier morale any where when correspondents rave about a place where youve been sweating out advers climate or other disagreeable conditions for 30 months or state papers please copy 4 Morton Goldberg writes an infectious column in Zero beat about things and people he comes the boy sure seems to get around and we offer you one of his Francis who Learned a lot about East Africa and admittedly likes the of abyssinian Medicine he has Learned that for the treat ment of the fat of an a Monkey or failing a Chicken is Large monkeys Are preferred and the area around the buttocks is supposedly Efrica the natives believe that the skin is softened by this treatment and that the grease goes right through the even softening the and if you think that some listen to this from Nafi a yarn dated Bahrein Island the annual Locust Migra feared because of its crop damaging qualities by1 Egypt and other Middle East is More or less a Welcome event on this the local residents Consi Der the Locust a table about the size of a giant yank the locusts Are roasted and turned a dark piles of attended by Large swarms of can be seen on Sale at the local Niblic an american medical missionary who has eaten them declared they we rent at All Bud if freshly roasted so it who Dat has a understandable beef Hodge tin hats sport new sparklers Washington four stars gleam on the highly polished Hel met of old blood and guts this week in recognition of ration Brilliant Leader ship of the third army Friauf and deep into at the same the Senait confirmed a fourth Star for Courtney who is Lead in the first army to Victory deep the nomination of Patton and 1 was made by president Truman last week As a Reward for they Are out ranked by Only four other men Eisenhower Ano generals of the the Senate also confirmed As lieutenant generals the following Oscar gris Lucius Geoffrey Edmund Walton Levin Wade Haislip and Eugene Rev May 13th is mothers Day
