The Seaforth News, 1945-08-16, Page 6BYRON NELSON WINS SEAGRAM GOLD CUP
This handsome trophy, the Seagram Gold Cup, emblematic of the
Canadian Open Golf Championship, was won on Saturday, August
4th, at Thornhill Golf Club, Toronto, by Byron Nelson of Toledo,
Ohio, with a score of 280, 4 strokes better than the runner-up
Herman Barron, White Plains, New York. Outstanding players
from all parts of Canada and the United States participated in the
Tournament which was one of the most successful in Canadtan
golfing history. With the Seagram Gold Cup, Byron Nelson re-
ceived a cheque from the R.C.G.A. for $2,000.
THEY DEFEND MARSHAL PETAIN
Attorneys for the defense of 89 -year-old Marshal Henri Philips
Petain, on trial for his life on treason charges in Paris, are pic-
tured above. They are M. Lemaire, left, and M. Isorni. The pic-
ture was made during a brief recess in the trial.
WINS VICT
RIA CROSS
Cpl. Frederick George Topham, 27 -year-old Toronto member of
the 1st. Canadian Parachute Battalion, who has been awarded the
Victoria Cross for gallantry while serving as a medical orderly
during the Battle of the Rhine.
Topham, who becomes Canada's
11th Victoria Cross winner of this
war, saw sniper bullets kill two
other medical orderlies, •but this
did not stop him from treating
and carrying an unknown num-
ber of wounded to safety.
The action occurred near Wes-
sel last March 25, when the Bat-
tle of the Rhine was at its height..
Official Citation.
The citation accompanying the
award to Topham read:
"On March 24, 1045, Cpl. Top-
ham, a medical orderly para-
chuted with his battalion on to
a strongly defended area east
of the Rhine. At about 11.00
a.nt., whilst treating casualties
sustained in the drop, a cry for
help carne from a wounded man
in the open. Two medical order-
lies from a field ambulance went
out to this man in succession but
both were killed as they knelt
beside the casualty.
"Without hesitation and on his
own initiative Cpl. Topham went
forward through intense fire to
replace the orderlies who had
been killed before his eyes. As
he worked on the wounded man,
he was himself shot through the
nose. In spite of severe bleeding
and intense pain he never falter-
ed ite his task, Having completed
immediate first aid he carried the
wounded man steadily and slowly
back through continuous fire to
the shelter of the woods.
"During the next two hours
Cpl. Topham refused all offers of
medical help for his own wound.
Ha worked most devotedly
throughout this period to bring
in wounded, showing complete
disregard for the heavy and ac-
curate enemy fire, It was only
when all ' casualties had been
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cleared that he consented to his
own wound being treated.
"His immediate evacuation was
ordered, but he interceded so
earnestly on his own behalf that
he was eventually allowed to re-
turn to duty.
'On his way back to his com-
pany he came across a carrier
which had received a direct hit.
Enemy mortar fire was still drop-
ping around, the carrier itself
was burning fiercely, and its own
mortar ammunition was exploding,
an experienced officer on the
spot had warned all not to ap-
proach the carrier,
"Cpl. Topham, however. im-
mediately went out alone in spite
of the blasting ammunition and
enemy fire, and rescued the three
occjtpants of the carrier. He
brought these Hien back across
the open ground, and although
one died almost immediately at-
erwards, he arranged for the
evacuation of the outer two, who
undoubtedly ,owe their lives to
him. •
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"This non-commissioned officer
showed sustained gallantry of the
highest order, for six hours, most
of the time in great pain. He
performed a series of acts of out-
standing bravery and his magni-
ficent and selfless courage in-
spired all those who witneased it."
'VOICE OF DOOM'
ALLIED MILITARY GOVERNMENT LEADS GERMANS ALONG 'THE ROAD BACK'
Courts meet regularly to try offenders against Military Government
regulations. They have jurisdiction over all persons in the Allied
occupied territory except members of the Allied Forces.
Japanese -speaking Capt. Ellis M.
Zacharias, USN, above, is the
"voice of doom" to Jap radio list-
eners. Through the Office of War
Information, he makes regular
broadcasts to the Japs, stressing
the hopelessness of further resist-
ance and the certain destruction
awaiting Jap cities.
SWEDES' PREMIER
German citizens acceptable to the Military Government are given
arm bands as police officers. Uniforms will come later. They carry
rifles to preserve order and guard valuable property.
Per Albin • Hansson, above, con-
tinues as premier of Sweden, a
position he has held six years, in
tate quiet replacement of the war-
time coalition government by a
Social -Democratic cabinet.
German civilians get copies of a weekly newspaper published
under supervision of Military Government authorities. Besides news,
it carries proclamations, new laws and other regulations..
These photos, taken recently in Bayreuth, Germany, depict ways in which Germans
are being led along the road back to the democratic way of life under Allied military
controls. They are typical of the progress toward governmental, educational and
economic stability being made by the Allied Military Government units which moved
into German communiites immediately behind the combat troops. Upon Germans
like these in the pictures—the children and adults—rests the fate of the new
Reich. They must atone for the crimes of Nazism and make their own future in
accordance with the decrees of the Big Three as announced from Postdam. In court
scene at top, left, two defendants standing at extreme right sold "protection" to
There are on estimated 3,000,000 elementary school children in
the American zone of Germany. Schools are opened under guidance
of teachers approved by Military Government education officer,
German civilians by printing "Of f Limits to Allied Troops.' signs and selling them
to property owners for posting. They pleaded guilty aun were heavily fined. In
photo of auxiliary policemen, the leader, left, served orf Bayreuth's police force
for 40 years, retired during the Nazi administration and was recalled from retirement
by the Military Government. New starved civilians like these in photo at left,
below, wait hours in front of the M. G. building for copies of the Bayrischer Tag,
weekly newspaper. Children in photo at right, below, are kindergarteners, the first
age group to be started back to school. Approximately half a million children
will attend the first four grades of elementary school by fall. Military authorities
are rebuilding schools, many of which were wrecked by warfare,