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Irene Dunne — Charles'Boyer
“TOGETHER AGAIN”
VOL. XLIII-2
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, JAN. 2, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
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Fall OfBuda Appears
To Be Imminent As
Reds A ttach Furio usly
LONDON, Jan. 2.—(/P)—Fall of Buda, western section
. of Danube-straddling Budapest, appeared to be only a mat
ter of hours today as the doomed nazi garrison crumbled
before attacking Russian forces utilizing virtually every
weapon known in modern warfare.
today from Moscow said the great
ly outnumbered German and Hun
garian defenders had lost more
than 1,000 men killed yesterday
in savage street fighting and had
been compressed into an area
less than four miles wide and a
mile deep.
(A Cairo radio broadcast
last night said all the Ger
mans had been driven from
Buda, but there was no con
firmation from Russian or
German sources.)
The communique also said So
viet forces had occupied 200 addi
tional blocks in Buda yesterday,
bringing to 600 the number now
under Russian domination. The
Russians knocked out 24 German
tanks and 13 armored troop car
riers and took 429 prisoners, the
first big bag of captives since the
Soviet broke through tjie westerq
defenses of the capital several
days ago.
Katushas, giant mortars, were
brought into the capital on fleets
of American made trucks to blast
street fortifications. Desperate
German counterattacks with tank
and self-propelled' guns were
crushed in the overwhelming Red
army assault with flame-throwers
and heavy guns that threatened to
demolish the battle-scarred capi
tal.
Other Russian forces captured
14 more places and drove within
two miles of Losonc (Lucenec),
Slovak communications hub on
the Hungarian frontier above
Budapest.
Moscow reports said a new of
fensive against Austria was ex
pected to get underway as soon as
the conquest of Budapest was
completed. The German high
command was reported to have
included Vienna in the “threat
ened zone” and started partial
evacuation and other emergency
measures in the Austrian capital.
Ward Personnel May
Be Reclassified
Gen. Byron Soys Those Who Refuse To Cooperate In
Army Operations Are Subject/To Draft
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—(/P)—Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byron
reported today that Montgomery Ward and Company per
sonnel who refused to cooperate in army operation of seized
properties in seven cities was being replaced and made sub
ject to selective service reclassification.
Second Mica
Hearing May
Be Held Here
WASHINGTON. JAN. 2.——
Attorneys for nine North Carolina
Mica producer* are seeking to
reach an agreement by tonight
with the department of Justice on
the investigation of the Industry's
operations.
Unless the companies, recently
ordered to show their records, can
effect a satisfactory agreement
with the justice department, a
hearing is scheduled at Shelby, N.
C., on Jan. 5.
E. P. Hodges, special assistant
to the attorney general, said the
department has revised subpoenas
as ordered by Judge Yates Webb
in U. S. District court at Shelby
last month and the nine compan
ies concerned already have viewed
the new summonses.
The companies insist show
of records now will hold up their
war work.
The companies include the Ashe
ville Mica Co., the Mica Fabrica
tion association, the Wet Ground
Mica association, the National
Electrical Manufacturers associa
tion, the Richmond Mica Corp.,
the English Mica Co., the Eugene
Munsell Co., the A. O. Schoon
maker Insulation Co., Inc., and
Mica Insulation Co.
The government has said other
subpoenas of similar nature will
be issued shortly.
Approximately 20 states have
been producing mica during the
war, recent congressional hearings
showed.
Expected soon is a report from
the U. S. Bureau of Mines on oper
ating methods and exploratory in
vestigations conducted for a year
and a half in Alabama.
The office of Senator Mill (D
Ala) said this report may contrib
ute new findings in regard to do
mestic mica.
A member of Senator Hill’s staff
said the bureau of mines plans to
continue activities in the eastern
part ol Alabama where technical
assistance already has been given
to strategic mica producers.
Japs Boast Of Rocket
Radio Tokyo warned today that
a "Japanese-manufactured rocket
bomb will make its appearance in
the Pacific war soon."
The broadcast was intercepted
by the federal communications
commission.
specmcaiiy, me general namea
Sewell Avery, chairman of the
board “and other representativ
es" as having refused to operate
the properties under his direction
since the seizure under presiden
tial order Thursday. Avery refus
ed to recognize the seizure as con
stitutionally valid and said the
company could not accept or obey
it.
Gen. Byron also announced at
10:40 a. m. eastern war time today
the Army seized two warehouses in
Detroit, “necessary for effective
governmental operation of the
four Ward’s stores in the Detroit
area.” This made a total of 16
properties—Iff retail stores, 3 mail
order houses and 3 warehouses —
now under Army control.
Avery was in his office, near
that being used by Gen. Byron
when the military manager’s pre
liminary report to Secretary of
War Stlmson was released.
NO COOPERATION
The general said that at each
property in Chicago, Detroit, St.
Paul, Denver, Portland, Ore., San
Rafael, Calif., and Jamaica, N. Y„
an opportunity was given to rep
resentatives of Ward’s to conduct
the business under my direction,
xxx with the least disturbance
to the normal operations of the
properties and without prejudicing
the legal rights of the company.
“Mr. Sewell Avery, chairman,
and other representatives of the
company refused. I, accordingly,
issued orders to them to do certain
acts which were necessary for me
to carry out my mission. Again
they refused. This will make it
necessary for me to place operat
ing personnel at each of the prop
erties. This personnel will include
officers of long experience in the
merchandising field.”
YANK BOMBERS
ON MINDORO
BATTERLUZON
However, Signs Indicate
Enemy Soon To Attempt
Counterattack
AERIALSCOURGE
GENERAL MacARTHUR’S
! HEADQUARTERS, Philippin
es, Jan. 2.—(/P)—Land-based
American bombers on Min
’oro have opened attacks in
.’orce to the far reaches of in
vasion-menaced Luzon Island,
; bagging three enemy war
ships and five cargo vessels in
one such strike 150 miles
above Manila, but signs also
are accumulating of attempt
ed enemy counteraction
against Mindoro.
Today's communique, which list
ed the sinking or probable sinking
of three destroyers, three 8,000-ton
freighter-transports and two small
er cargo vessels at Lingayen Gulf,
also disclosed intense activity by
Japanese ammunition trains on
southwest Luzon north of Mindoro.
Saturday, the same day that
medium bombers, attack planes
and fighter-bombers flew 150
miles northwest of Manila to
Lingayen, more than 50 marine
Corsairs blew up an entire am
munition train, strafed three
others and attacked Z0 locomo
tives in the Batangas area.
Batangas is 25 overwater miles
north of Mindoro Island and
roughly 10 miles from the New
York Mindoro base at San Jose
whieta sent the strong force of
raiders to Lingayen.
ENEMY ACTIVE
The enemy is continuing to raid
MacArthur’s Mindoro position, es
tablished by an invasion Dec. 15
which cut w*st across the Central
Philippine^ from conquered Leyte.
Today s communique said 15 Nip
ponese aircraft attacked the San
JOse sector Saturday, with three
downed by anti-aircraft guns and
night interceptors.
The Lingayen attack, repre
senting the deepest penetration
in strength of American bomb
See YANK Page 2
DAMASK1N0S
DEMANDS ARMS
BE LAID DOWN
LONDON, JAN. 2.—(**1—In his
first official statement as regent
of Greece, Archbishop Dam ask 1
nos of Athens told the Greek peo
ple yesterday that the Immediate
laying down of arms was "an in
dispensable pre - condition” for
solving the couhtry’s political cri
sis.
"In the name of our suffering
country,” the regent said in a
statement simultaneously here and
in Athens, "we call upon those
bearing arms to agree to lay
them down at once and entrust to
the regency and the government
a correct, just and democratically
obtained solution for disputed
questions.”
His statement was accompanied
by advices from Athens indicating
that Lt. Gen. Ronald M. Scobie,
British commander, would confer
again today with representatives
of the leftwing EL AS group chi
an effort to arrive at a tVuce in
the bloody strife which has been
wracking the capital.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:00 p. m.—City council meets
at city hall.
7:30 p. m.—C. A.„fc. members
meet at armory. ' *
Nimitz Would Welcome Aid
Of Russians Against Japan
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
JAN. 2—OP)—The long untouched
topic of possible Russian partici
pation in the war against Japan
was out in the open today, with
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, a key
figure in the Pacific struggle, per
mitting war correspondents to
quote him as saying he would
welcome such an eventuality.
(This terse but perhaps signifi
cant comment by the five-star
admiral came at a time when the
Soviet press has been dealing
bluntly with the Japanese military
situation. Pravda last week said
“the development of Pacific events
even more unfavorable for Ja
pan.”)
Nimitz, back from a tour of the
forward areas. Including Saipan
which is sending the Superfort
resses to Japan, told a press con
ference yesterday that landings on
the China coast remained high on
the agenda; but he said the ene
my’s tenacity, Illustrated by un
relenting resistance by bypassed
islands, made It necessary to con
Soe NIMITZ Page Z
COLLISION OF TRAINS IN UTAH KILLS FIFTY-At least 50 persons were killed and about 60 were In
jured in this wreckage which piled up on a causeway across the Great Salt Lake near Ogden, Utah, when a
speeding Southern Pacific mail-express train and a slowly moving passenger train collided in a fog. Both
trains were west bound. The mail-express crashed into the passenger from the rear.
Navy Reports Loss Of
Sub And Other Craft
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—(/P)—Loss of p. submarine, a
j medium landing ship and two motor torpedo boats was an
AIRMEN AGAIN
OVER REICH
By HOWARD COWAN
LONDON, Jan. 2. —(/PI— Escort
ed American heavy bombers in
vaded western Germany before
noon today primed to meet any re
petition of the Nazis’ sudden New
Year’s day show of aerial strength.
It was the 11th consecutive day of
heavy bomber activity.
Revised tallies showed at
least 221 German planes wrecked
in Monday's widespread com
bats, while Berlin declared 4v.‘7
Allied planes were destroyed,
most of them on the ground In
morning swoops on fighter
bases behind the western front.
Some 300 German planes darted
In at treetop level over scattered
American and British bases a few
minutes after daylight yesterday,
but some Allied fighters already
were in the air and swirling dog
flghis developed.
IN RAIDERS
At least 188 raiders were knock
ed down, 105 by RAF fighters, 35 by
American Mustangs, and 48 by
British and American ground gun
ners.
Thirty-three Other German
planes were reported destroyed. 17
of them falling to American fight
ers escorting 800 big bombers raid
ing Coblenz and an old plant 20
miles east of Hannover.
The bag of gunners aboard the
heavy bombers was not disclosed
immediately, nor the number of
bombers lost.
LOSSES CONCEDED
Allied headquarters conceded
some aircraft were wrecked
aground on fighter bases, but did
not confirm German claims of 323
British and American ships ruined
aground, 79 in air duels, and 25 by
anti-aircraft fire over Germany—
a grand total of 427.
Allied announcements listed 27
fighter- and two medium bombers
lost during the day, and eight RAF
heavy bombers during night as
saults on a fuel plant near Dort
mund and railyards at Veohwinker
near Dusseldorf.
British Within 86
Miles Of Mandalay
HEADQUARTERS ALLIED
FORCES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, «
JAN. 2.—(IP)—Advancing British 1
troops were within 86 miles of i
Mandalay today and there were 1
indications the Japanese may have
decided to pull out of Bui/na en- 1
tirely.
A British spearhead entered Ka
duma, 16 miles, from Yeu, and the
triple drive from northern Burma ,
has reached the northern and ,
western rim of the Burma rice ]
bowl. The approach toward Yeu, j
only 70 miles northwest of Man- i
dalay, was announced yesterday <
by headquarters of Admiral Lord 11
Louis Mountbatten. jl
iiuunceu tuucty uy tut: navy,
The 1,525-ton submarine Harder
s overdue from patrol and pre
;umed lost, a communique said.
The landing ship LSM 318 and
he PT 300 were lost as a result of
:nemy action in the Philippine
irea, and the PT 311 was lost to
snemy action in the Mediterranean
irea.
The landing ship was sunk dur
ng a Japanese air attack off Ormoc
3ec. 7.
The submarine Harder was of a
,ype which carries a normal com
plement of 65 men. The normal
:rew of a landing ship medium, is
jl and of PT boats from 11 to 15.
The announcement brought to 35
he number of United States sub
marines lost from all causes since
;he start of the war and the total
pf miscellaneous types to 132. The
total of all naval vessels lost was
raised to 243.
SHORT-LIVED
NAZI DRIVE IN
ITALY HALTED
ROME, JAN. 2.—(/P)—Fifth Army
patrols probed enemy positions to
day in the Serchio valley sector
3f the Italian front, where the
short-lived Nazi thrust of last
sveek appears definitely ended.
At the same time, Allied pres
sure was maintained further west
in the Tyrrhenian coastal area
where the Germans were last re
ported massing men and equip
ment.
The greatest activity yesterday
:ame near the Eighth Army right
flank in the Po valley. There a
3erman raiding party supported
ay mortar fire crossed the Senio
river southwest pf Fusignano. Ca
nadian troops broke up the raid,
seized several prisoners and sent
;he rest fleeing back.
Vip Radio Reports
Raid On Mindanao
Island On Dec. 30
By The Associated Press
‘ About 10 B29s" raided Southern
Mindanao island, Philippines, De
ember 30, Japanese time, the To
:yo radio said today in a broadcast
ntercepted by the Federal Com
nunications Commission.
There was no Allied confirma
lon.
J. S. Gets Azores Bases
LONDON, Jan. 2. — (#•)— A Ger
nan dispatch broadcast today un
ler a Barcelona date said Portugal
lad ceded the United States an air
laval base in the Azores, and that
he U. S. fleet air arm in niid-De
lember had tak<m over a field on
Santa Maria Island established by
3an-Amerjcan airways,
MX VICTIMS
UNIDENTIFIED
Search Continues For
Wreck Dead; Number
Injured Now 81
OGDEN, Utah, Jan. 2.^4/P)—
Slowly the task of identifying dead
from 1944's worst railroad accident
dragged into the New Year today
with bodies of six unknown civi
lians—four men and two women—
lying in mortuaries here. Names of
11 military personnel—mostly Navy
men—have not been announced.
They were part of the 28 mili
tary and 19 civilians killed when
the westbound Southern Pacific
Limited mail and express train
drilled at high speed early Sun
day morning into the rear of its
first section, a passenger unit, on
the rock causeway crossing a shal
low arm of Great Salt Lake.
Eighty-one were injured. Many of
these still are under care in hos
pitals.
SEARCH CONTINUES
Railroad officials said the loco
motive would be separated today
from the tailend sleeper into which
it bored and a search would be
made of the sleeper’s rear portion
for additional dead.
Meanwhile, plans were made for
an autoposy on the body of Engi
neer James McDonald, 64, of Og
den, who was found in the cab of
his locomotive. •
His fireman, M. E. Hardman of
Ogden, escaped with minor in
juries. One report said Hardman
observed a warning signal and
shouted a warning to the engineer.
Weber county attorney Blaine
Peterson said his office would re
quest an inquiry probably within
two days.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission also has ordered an investi
gation.
Six members of one family were
wiped out.
P-51's Destroy
25 Jap Planes
CHUNGKING, JAN. 2.—<£»)—U.
S. 14th air force P-51s have de
stroyed 25 Japanese planes, includ
ing fighters, bombers and trans
ports, in a raid on the Yellow riv
er town of Suchow, a communique
announced today.
The Suchow rail yards were
strafed and one locomotive was
destroyed.
| Patton Pushes 2
Miles Farther
Into South Side
! _
PARIS, Jan. 2.—(TP)—The U. S. Third Army advanced
two more miles into the south side of the Belgian bulge in
heavy pressure attacks and there were indications today that
the Germans were extricating what armor they could from
the flaming cauldron.
ijie JNintn Air rorce attacked one German troop column
definitely reported moving east in the St. Vith area near
the base of the German wedge and another column of 100
vehicles including tanks and other armor was bombed and
strafed near Ambleve, five miles to the northeast.
Pilots claimed the destruction or damaging of 69 of
these vehicles.
There was no definite report op which way the second
column was moving but the size of the armored force Field
Marshal Von Rundstedt had in the relatively small salient
mader it seem unreasonable that he was sending in more
tanks and guns.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s main offensive thrust was
north of Bastogne from the Longchamps area where the
waist of the bulge last was reported only 13 miles wide. From
three to five German divisions were reported earlier in the
week to be west of Bastogne.
At Ion ct o Via If Hn7.en tnumc WPTP f -—"""
announced as captured. Five ol
these were on the perimeter of the
American corridor through Bas
togne, which front dispatches said
was widened and strengthened.
These were Hubermont, Houmont,
Chernonge, Remange and Wardin.
Echternach in Luxembourg at the
Germah frontier also was seized.
American infantry, tanks and
planes exacted a great and growing
toll of Field Marshal von Rund
stedt's materiel. The German had
lost fully 110 tanks and armored
vehicles, 208 planes and hundreds
of other implements of war.
Below Bastogne, Lt. Gen. George
S. Patton, Jr„ widened to six miles
the corridor feeding his main of
fensive threat by capturing the
villages of Houmont, five and a
half miles southwest, and Che
nonge, 4 miles southwest of the
road center. At last reports, the
Third army was 13 miles from the
U. S. First army flanking the north
side of the bulge.
COUNTERATTACKS
Supreme headquarters said today
that two German counterattacks
were repulsed in the area of
See PATTON Page Z
Byrnes Asks Drastic
Manpower Revision
Suggestions Must Be Acted On By A Congress Loothe
To Interfere With Man's Freedom
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—(/P)—Drastic manpower propos
als, edging closer to the “work or fight” act which lawmak
ers have long avoided, were thrown today into the battle on
the home front.
Advanced by James F. Byrnes, the program would force
4-F men into war roles and put statutory teeth into man
power rules if present labor controls fail to spur the nation’s
armament output to needed levels.
The suggestions, made by Byrnes |
last night in his first report as di
rector of the Office of War Mobil
ization and Reconversion, are still
merely threats. They are, moreover,
at the mercy of a congress which
has shown reluctance to interfere
with a man’s freedom to choose
his job.
Flatly predicting that larger
draft calls in the next few
months would aggravate the
manpower shortage, Byrnes pro
posed stern measures for 4-Fs
not doing essential work.
He proposed that congress make
it possible to induct them all, then
assign them “to things they can
do” despite their physical impair
ment.
Striking at agricultural defer
ments—which he said cover “the
largest remaining source of young
men for military service”—Byrnes
said it was necessary to reconsider j
the standards by which youthful.
farmers are deferred from military
See BYRNES Page 2
ALWAYS A TAR HEEL:
Reporter Interviews Hoey
On Arrival In Washington
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — (/P)— i Spain, also arrived from Carolina
Whether as senator or governor, today.
L-iyae n.. nuey is u xai xicci iudt—
and is proud of it.
Checking into the Raleigh hotel
today, he remarked:
“'Raleigh is the capitol of North
Carolina, you know. I picked the
hotel deliberately for the name.”
Before he had registered five Tar
Heels from Winston-Salem spied
him in the lobby and rushed to
wish him happiness in Congress.
He doesn’t have an office; yet but
may get the suite usee! by the late
Senater Ellison D. 'Cotton Ed'
Smith tD-SCj. His secretary, Jack
A laded red carnation irom nome
drooped a bit from his frock-coat
button hole as he arrived on ail
over-due train. The flower matched
his tie. His socks of faded blue
denim hue seemed just the right
shade for his oxford gray suit. As a
senator his clothes probably will
be watched but he’ll likely stick to
his high-topped shoes just the
same.
Hocy's speaking fame preceded
him and he has a date to address*
See REPORTER Page
i
2 NAZI SPIES
ARE ARRESTED
Maine Schoolboy Spotted
Saboteurs As They
Came Ashore
NEW YORK, Jan. 2. —(VP)— An
alert 17-year-old Maine schoolboy
was credited today with the spot
ting of two alleged Nazi saboteurs,
ane a native born American, who
the FBI said, landed by U-boat
Nov. 29 near the boy's Hancock
Point home.
The men. FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover said, were arrested several
days ago in the New York area.
They came ashore in a rubber boat
at night after the Nazi submarine
had lain off the Maine coast for a
week, Hoover reported.
Deputy Sheriff Dana Hodgkins,
of Hancock Point, said his son,
Harvard, a higli school senior, was
returning from a dance when he
saw two strangers walking along a
road in snow. He followed the pair
until they disappeared into woods,
then told his parents who notified
the FBI.
U. S. CITIZEN
Hoover identified the men as
William Curtis Colepaugh, 26. U.
S. citizen of Niantic. Conn., and
Erich Gimpel. 35, native of Ger
many who was a radio engineer in
South America. The arrests were
made several days ago in the New
York area.
Hoover said the men supplied a
full story of their activities since
landing at Hancock Point in
Frenchmens Bay, Me. They came
ashore in rubber boats at night.
Hoover said they carried automatic
revolvers, compass, camera, secret
incks, and a variety of draft papers
See 2 NAZI Page >