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Fog Attends Birth Of 1945 In This Area Nineteen hundred and forty-five arrived amid pea soup fog, con siderable noise and lugubrious weather but quickly burst into a bright, sunny, although a bit blus tery, day such as New Year’s ought to be. • The new year was ushered in amid high hopes for what it holds in store during the unfolding next 12 months. A war-weary world generally wishes peace to attend its course. Watch night services were held by congregations at the First Bap tist, Central Methodist and other churches last night. The audience at First Baptist joined hands in a circle around the large auditorium to launch the JOOth's anniversary and Crusade year of the Southern Baptist denomination, a year in which a million dollars is to be raised for postwar mission work. At Central Methodist a unique young people’s service attended the change in year, while fire crackers broke the silence as some youngsters celebrated more nois ily the birth of 1945. The stork, however, seemed a discouraged old bird for not a youngster had he delivered by early afternoon at Shelby hospi tal—and a nurse said there were no prospects of a youngster’s ap pearing there today to claim the many gifts with which local mer chants plan a princely welcome for the year’s first born. DEATH TOLL Starts On Page One coach ahead of it. Cars of the express section piled up crossways of the tracks behind the engine, some of them sliding down the causeway embankment into water. James McDonald of Ogden, 64 year-old engineer of the second train, was scalded to death over his throttle as his locomotive rip ped into the rear-end sleeper. However, McDonald’s fireman, M. E. Hardman of Ogden, rode out the crash with only slight in juries. His story was expected to throw light on possible causes of the collision. Carl O. Olsen, general agent of the Southern Pacific at Salt Lake City, and other officials declined to discuss this angle, saying ail announcements must come from the railroad’s San Francisco head quarters. TELESCOPED Most of tjie dead were taken from the rear Pullman car and from the telescoped coach. At least 28 were military serv ice men. Railroad officials refused to hazard a guess as to the cause of the accident but ordered an im mediate investigation. Federal bureau of Investigation agents disclosed a preliminary in quiry showed no evidence of sabo tage. U.S. •< Starts On Pmge One partment is studying every prob lem of a territorial nature which later may confront this govern ment in its collaboration with the other Allies. He declined, how ever, to confirm published reports that the United States has work ed out a detailed plan for territor ial changes in eastern Europe. NOT RECOGNIZED Stettinius’ reply to a news con ference question concerning Pol and was taken to mean that at the moment this government is not even considering recognizing the Lublin committee. A Russian announcement of recognition of that regime is fully expected by American officials. Stettinius was asked, "is this government considering recogniz ing the Lublin committee's claim to being the provisional govern ment of liberated Poland?" He replied that this government continues to maintain formal di plomatic relations with the Polish government-in-exile in London. U. 8. coke ovens turn out coal by-products that total more than 150,000 items. You’ll ADORE JENNIFER JONES at |y»Sr* y&Hit ^StftOK * fljBiffc “ David O.tSelznick's lint pictur# »inc«,"Gon« With Ihe Wind" ’ond ,"R«becco" Since You Went Away OPENS SATURDAY ROGERS REGULAR ADMISSION GEN. BYRON TAKES OVER FOR GOVERNMENT AT WARD’S—Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byron (right), di rector of the Army's Special Services division, arrives at the desk of Receptionist Helen Love in a corridor at Montgomery Ward and “Company in Chicago to present President Roosevelt's executive order for the army to take possession and operate the company's stores in Chicago, Detroit, St. Paul, Denver. Jamaica, N. Y„ Portland, Ore., and San Rafael, Calif. The seizure order was issued after union employes of the stores went on strike in protest against the company's refusal to follow a War Labor Board directive for wage increases and maintenance of union membership. Gen. Chiang Promises Chinese Democracy Before End Of War CHUNGKING, Jan. 1. —— Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has promised the Chinese a con stitutional! democracy before the end of the war instead of within one year after the end of hostili ties. The people's sense of civil responsibility had been much heightened through nearly eight years of armed resistance and ‘‘therefore, I do not feel it neces sary to wait until the end of the war to call a people's congress.” He explained that he was ready to propose the convening of a people’s congress to the central executive committee of the Kou mintang ‘‘as soon as the military situation has become so stabilized : as to enable us to launch a coun ! teroffensive with greater assurance of victory.” Hoffler Resigns As Rationing Executive RALEIGH, Jan. 1— (IP) — W. Hance Hoffler of Durham, has re signed as rationing executive for the OPA district, and will return to the- practice of law in his home city. He was the state's first ra tioning officer under the present program. The resignation was announc : ed by OPA Director Director T. ' S. Johnson, who said Hoffler ask i ed to be released from his duties J last September but agreed to con I tinue until Jan. 1. PATTON’S Starts On Pace One hundreds to answer the challenge of allied air forces and 53 German craft were claimed as definitely destroyed in preliminary reports. Of these, 33 were downed in a swirling battle above an American airfield in Belgium. Some 50 Messerchsmitt-109s and Focke Wulfs attacked the field and were met by American fighter defenses which knocked down all but 17 of the attack gfoup. The succession of enemy attacks against the northern flank of the Seventh army, not affected by the 36-hour news blackout on the Luxembourg-Belgian front, started late yesterday afternoon. (The German communique said American positions had been attacked on a wide front on both sides of Bitche on a sector “from which major forces have been withdrawn.” The enemy claimed the destruc tion of 121 tanks yesterday be tween the Meuse and Moselle rivers.) A battalion of Germans hit the Seventh army line at Bannstein, five miles southeast of Bitche. A force of equal strength lashed out south of Dambach, six miles east of Bannstein and three miles short of the German frontier. A third attack was mounted two miles west of Dambach and two others west of Bitche. PATROLS ACTIVE At the same time, enemy patrol activity flared up in the woods near Bundenthal, two miles inside the German Palatinate and north west of Wissembourg. Yet other German forces were j probing the French First army po sitions due west of Colar below Strasbourg. There was little change in gen eral positions in the battle of the Luxembourg-Belgian bulge. Patton's attack with strong force northeast between Bastogne and St. Hubert moved up about two miles along a 11-mile front in Us first 12 hours after the pushoff at midday Saturday. The. advance was continuing, but its extent was not disclosed. The Third army, however, was running into considerably stiffened German defenses as Von Rundstedt shifted his forces to meet the new threat. Severing the waist of. the bulge might trap three to five Ger . man divisions west of Bastogne. FORMER PASTOR BACK FOR VISIT OAK GROVE.—Rev. L. M. Kan ipe. former pastor of Oak Grove, and Mrs. Kanipe of Wake Forest college, visited in the community Sunday. Mrs. Leqjja Camp and children of Waco spent the week-end holi days with Mr. and Mrs. Lem Camp and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Camp. Pvt. Dorse Bell of Camp Bland ing. Fla., spent the week-end with his family. Sunday guests in the home included Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Blanton and sons of Kings Moun tain Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Wat terson of Shelby and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Bell of Beaver Dam. A C Thaniel Bell of Shaw Field. Sumter, S. C., spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Bell. Stokes Wright, S 2 c of Jackson ville, Fla... spent the holidays with, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wiliiam Wright. Pvt. Wilbur Lovelace, who for the past four months has been a patients in an army hospital in Georgia, is spending a 21-day fur i lough with his parents, Mr. and i Mrs. T. C. Lovelace. Edgar Hullender of Danville. Va., and Howard Alberta of Greens boro were holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bell. Miss Rosa Mae Philbeck and a friend of Charlotte spent the Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Philbeck. Miss Bobbie Dell Steele of Char lotte was the week-end guest of her cousin. Miss Helen Thornburg. Miss Ellese Ford of Gastonia spent the holidays with her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ford Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lovelace and children spent a few days this week with Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Bell of Salisbury. Passenger Travel Must Be Reduced WASHINGTON, JAN. I.—, — A hint of early action to reduce passenger travel came today from ODT Director James Monroe Johnson. Johnson said cooperation 6f the public has not been “near ly enough," but he declined to say ; in an interview what specific i steps he has in mind. Because the office of Defense I Transportation regards travel ra tioning as involving complex ad ! ministrative problems, it was be lieved the first move would be di rected against conventions and si J milar gatherings. Planes In Charlotte Area Grounded qHARLOTTE, Jan. 1.—•/?)—A heavy fog blanketed this area all day yesterday, grounding military and commercial planes. No planes left or arrived at the Morris field army air base during the day. Meteorologist J. M. Howe in charge of the weather bureau sta tion, said the fog was general throughout central North Carolina i and South Carolina, extending into Virginia. The state highway patrol in ! Raleigh reported heavy fog in that area, urging extreme caution on the part of motorists. 364th Mustang Group Bags 26 Nazi Planes LONDON, Jan. 1.—IJP)— The U. S. 364th Mustang group pilots, led by Maj. Samuel J. Wicker of San : ford, N. C., and Maj. Robert E. i Lacy of San Diego, Calif., destroy cd 26 enemy planes yesterday in 1 dogfights over the Hamburg-Han over area. Wicker had the day’s top score with four to his credit. More than 10 passes were made at the American formation by the German planes, said Sgt. Sam Sos kee, Lillington, N. C., waist gunner I Allied Command In Italy Believes ROME. Jan. 1. —(JP)— As far as the allied command in Italy is con cerned. Field Marshal Albert Kes serling is still alive. That was a headquarters spokes man's comment today on a Brus sels broadcast quoting a purported order of the day from Adolf Hitler announcing the death of the Ger man ' commander in Italy.. The spokesman said there were rumors a few weeks ago that Kesserling was wounded and it was possible he died, but no information to that effect had beer) received. British Troops Occupy Rathedaung SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy. Cey :n. Jan. 1.—'.T1—British imperial :rodps have occupied Rathedaung key Japanese defense point on the cast side of the Mayo river 25 miles north of Akyab. without meeting opposition. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquarters announced today. C The western army of the piiicSrs thrust on the railroad above Man dalay advanced to within 16 miles of Yeu, 70 miles north of Manda lay. This wing of the pincers was swinging down the Shwegyin road acrosg the Chindwin valley toward the railroad from the west, while other forces pushed down the rail way from the north. Kesselring Earthquake In Baffin Bay Area WESTON, MASS., JAN. 1.—.VP —A “fairly strong'1 earthquake about 2.100 miles from Boston and probably in Baffin Bay, was re corded at 9:27 o'clock last night on the western college seismo graph, the Rev. Edward R. Pow ers. seismologist, reported today The disturbance lasted for one hour. HERNDON Starts On Page One praise for preliminary work accom plished by Mr. Osborne and saic that it was with extreme regret that he accepted Mr. Osborne’: resignation. Headquarters for this distric1 will be maintained in the Agricul tural building at Shelby where Mr Herndon has already taken up of fices. Training schools have beer in progress for the past few weeks This week a training school is be . ing held at Ruth'erfordlon Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday anc on the same days a similar school will be held at Marshal and or Wednesday, Thursday and Fridaj at Asheville. James M. Raby, of Franklin, is assistant supervisor stnd there will be 185 enumerators working ir this district. The information given by farm ers to the enumerators will be helc as strictly confidential. The 194c census of agriculture will include all farms and ranches, ail enter prises or establishments with agri cultural operations. When an ag ricultural enterprise has three oi more acres, it will be included re gardless of \alue of product. The census will include informa tion on the acreage of the farm how this acreage is divided as tc production and cultivation, the number of days worked on the farm, the number of persons, 14 years old and over working on the farm, the unpaid members of the family, hired farm laborers, value of farm equipment., information or livestock operation, dairy opera tion, poultry operation, forestry operation and other informatior which will be of use to the census bureau in compiling statistics val uable to agriculture. in one of the bombers the fighters escorted. R. T. WILSON DEATH VICTIM Robert Thomas Wilson, 41, a life long resident of Lattlmore, died Saturday night at 11 o’clock at his home after an illness of eight years. Funeral services will be held at the Iiattimore Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock conducted by the Rev. C. C. Crowe, pastor of the church, who will be assisted by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First BaDtist church of Shelby. The body will lie in state from 1:30 until 2 o’clock. Surviving Mr. ■'Wilson are his wife, four brothers: Wilbur Wil son of Shelby, Malcolm Wilson of l,attlmore, Charles Wilson of Washington, D. C., and Paul Wil son, who is serving in the navy stationed at Fort Worth, Texas, two sisters, Misses Irene and Ima Jean Wilson of Shelby. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Kaihmie Wilson of Lat timore. He was formerly employ ed by the North Carolina state highway department, prior to his illness. HITLER’S Starts On Page One to the last ditch. • That's the lesson which we should get from Hitler’s speech, and we shall indeed be foolish if we don't ■ take it to heart. The length of this war will depend on the strik ing power we create. That really puts it up to us of the homefront. for our soldiers can be depended to do more than their share—and a luckv New Year to them! ENCOURAGEMENT Hitler (or his ghost) undoubted ly has got encouragement from the workman like manner in which Nazi Field Marshal von Rundstedt knocked that big hole in our bat tle line. Neither the Fuehrer nor any of his captains expect to win the war, but they’ve demonstrated that they may be able to delay the Allied victory, and they hope that something will develop to give them easier peace terms than have been indicated. So far as von Rundstedt’s at tack is concerned, the Allies not onlv have halted it at least tem ■ porarily but have recaptured about ■ a third of the territory which the Germans overran in their first mighty surge into Belgium. A great battle is being waged in the Bas togne area where General Patton s hird army forces are extending the salient they've driven into the Nazi bulge. As Patton drives northward, the American First army is push ing southward towards him from the northern rim of the bulge, and | thus the Germans are threatened ’ with having their salient severed , near the base. This would trap the : j bulk of von Rundstedt s advance forces if closed quickly. , WITHDRAWAL? ‘ | Unless the Nazi commander can contain these twin drives he will be forced to withdraw his forces I from the bulge through the nar rowing gap which at latest reports ; was only about a dozen miles wide. ! I However, he shows no Indications | of being beaten as yet, and may I try to ease his position in the , bulge by launching a fresh coun terthrust at some other point in the Allied front. There are numer ous signs that he's considering this j possibility. TIRE Starts On Pate One ^ Dixon said that he and Dwight Billy Wellmon and Tom Cabi ness, Jr. planned this robbery at Cabiness' home. Dixon testified that he and Wellmon came to Shelbv in Cabiness’ car and that he actually broke the glass on the front door and loaded the tires. He ! said that the reason they did not take more tires was because they had no place to put them. They took these eight tires, Dixon said. 1 to Charlie Williams' home and | stored them there for the night I after Cabiness had told them that it would not do to keep them at ! his house Cabiness is being held under *800 bond; Dixon under $1,400 bond and Wellmon under $800 bond. SECOND THEFT Louis Hamrick, Jr., next took the stand to tell about the second robbery. He said that he had no part in the first theft. He said that he and Dixon had talked things over about getting some tires and he suggested that the best way tc get them was to jack up a car 1 Dixon said that he Knew a bettei way than this. Shull wanted tc ! come along, Hamrick said. Hamrick said that he left hi.' | car over near the hospital anc went to Fallston on a party. He was about half tipsy, he said, when he came back and found Shull and Dixon in his automobile. They drove around through town, h< said, he doing the driving, and didn't see anybody much. He back ed the car up to the Cabiness sta tion and Dixon broke the dooi i open and loaded the tires. Ham ! rick said they took the tires tc Eugene Wilson's house at his sug gestion and he gave Wilson $1 tc i keep them until next morning Hamrick said that was the last time he saw the tires and that he i received nothing from their sale. Dixon testified that they were bought by Ben Dover for $105, a charge which Dover will deny in Superior court. He did not take the stand this morning. Dover furnish ed $1,000 bond. Hamrick was plac ed under $500 bond and Gene Wil son under $300 bond. North of th,e equator, cyclones always have a counterclockwise i —spin, but south of the equator I they revolve dockwise. CONFESSION DOUBTED — John Lehman Sumter (above), 22, form er sailor from Cuthbert, Ga„ walk ed into the FBI office at San Fran cisco, and confessed, officers said, that he killed Georgette Bauerdorf, 33, Hollywood oil heiress, whose body was found in the bathtub of her apartment last October. Offi cers said they regarded his story with skepticism because of discre pancies. Joey Stazenski Goes Out With Old Year —— PRESCOTT, Aril., Jan. 1—UP\ Four-year-old Joey Etazenski. whost tragic plight brought a pre-Christ mas visit from Santa Claus, diet with the old year yesterday. The boy, victim of a malignant throat tumor, met death in th< arms of his father, Stanley F. Sta zenski, in a lonely ranch house II miles northwest of here. Prescott residents staged a Christ mas party Nov. 29 for the lad af ter doctors reported he probabl: would not live until Dec. 25, Lloyd George Is Raised To Earldom LONDON. Jan. 1— —Davh Lloyd George, Britain's foremos elder statesman who held a sea in commons for 5* years, has beet raised to an earldom, receiving thi j highest distinction on King Georg Vi's New Year’s honors list. The award came less than a weel after Lloyd Oeorge had announce! he was retiring from commons fo health reasons, and only 16 day from his 82nd birthday. GERMANY auO »*M «0 _ that never had Germany’s enemie thought “their victory so near a in August last year.'' “Again, as often, we contrived t bend fate to our will,” he said. “Our enemies are setting U ! every new commissions for regu latlng life in Europe after our de feat," he remarked. Then, chal lenglngly: “But our enemies ido not knoi the German people." Attacking democracies and th Jews Hitler said: “Public opinion in the democra tic countries is directed by th Jews. Our enemies arc purposel i misinforming public opinion. Th i peoples on the other side don know the national socialist re gime.” In a New Year's order of th fday to the German army HI tie declared that in the coming yea Germany would break the ante with counter-strokes. He blame his military reverses on the deser j tion of Oermany by her allies. JAP DEAD Starts On Page One and Leyte airfields hit choice tar I gets on Luzon Island and sank 600 - ton freighter - transport 1 Lingayen gulf. A small freighter and three coas tal vessels were sunk as medlur : bombers ranged over Borneo. Pc troleum refineries were set ablaz< You’ll THRILL to i CLAUDETTE COLBERT Of **■**•*■ /4hhc 'Tfdfat David O. Selznick s firif pictur* since "Gon« WUh Th» Wind" ond ,,l(»b«cco" Since You Went Away OPENS SATURDAY ROGERS REGULAR ADMISSION 1 4 Mica Order May Close N. C. Mines WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.— W — A stiffly-contested government or der on mica purchases will go into effect today—a move which may close nearly all NoTth Carolina's mica mines. Rolla P. Stovall, acting chief of war production board’s mica sec tion, told a reporter today that after considering possible changes in the order WPB had decided to enforce it as originally drawn. North Carolina’s Oov. J. M. Broughton at conferences here with congressmen and industry repre sentatives declared recentl. the ac tion would close 90 per cent of the state’s mines and leave 3,000 work ers jobless. HALTS PURCHASES The order "halts purchases of mica, except for ruby grades or better, from domestic mica produc ers as well as those in Canada and Peru,” WPB Chairman J. A. Krug has stated. In November the senate war in vestigating committee requested WPB to suspend the order until it could investigate the situation. Krug promised then to change it if statistics gathered showed the necessity. He contended then, however, that “mica of the ruby grade or better is now available in sufficient quan tity and at a lower price than do mestic mica * * * so there is no j reason for the government to pay i more.” ; INVESTIGATION FORESEEN Meanwhile, a stepped-up invcsti i gation of the industry in 1945 was foreseen today by a department of justice official. More subpoenas similar in nature to those issued against nine com panies to produce records, in U. 3. district court in North Carolina I likely will be issued within a few weeks, said Maj. E. P. Hodges, spe cial assistant to the attorney gen eral. Conferences and hearings al ready are scheduled for next week in regard to the previous subpoe I... Operating Cost Off Hospital Care To[Be $1,422,000 Yearl RALEIGH, Jan. 1.— (JFjl —The total operating coat of the/propos ed statewide program of \ hospital and medical care would! be $1, 422,000 a year, or an average of 30 cents per capita, a commission subcommittee reported kterday. The group was con Based of James A.. Gray of Wlnsffn-Salem. chairman; Dr. Reece Ber#y Hill of Chapel Hill and Dr. Domell Cobb of Goldsboro. Dr. Clarence Poe of Raleigh is commission chairman. Establishment of a *415,000,000 state fund to help finan a long range building and expansion pro gram for 'he state’s pubJlicly-own ed hospitals was recommended by the 50-man commissiojri appointed by Governor Brought Former Ruth ]fianna Is Taken By death CHICAGO, Jan. 1.— (flP) —Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick $lmms» 64, Republican party leader, former congressman at large froim Illinois and publisher of the Rock'ford (111.) Register-Republic and Mcirning Star died yesterday from a / pancreatic ailment. Her husband, Albert> O. Simms of Albuquerque, N. M., i Mrs. Cort land Barnes of New Yo^k City, and Mrs. Peter Miller of Chicago, her daughters, were at her bedside. Family funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon in Albuquer Vje._ 7 . ■ nas, he added. The companies have maintained that to produce their; reoords a*t this time would seriously hamper their participation in the war ef fort. WANT ADS FOR RENT: TWO SIX ROOM houses, painted intitle and out. Ernest Elliott, Lawndale, N. C. j _ at ip i WILL PAY TOP PRICES FOR I shelled popcorn. Carolina Thea | tre Soda Shop. 4t lp HftfSBg? UHV)SVJ^0ffi ! and Dresses REDUCED UP TO THE ORIGINAL PRICE Included in the above offerings— Brand New Coats just received this morning. Off-price all wool Chester fields in black, brown, green and blue, All sizes from 10 to 44.
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