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WEATHER Cloudy, warmer with light rain to day and tonight. Friday, cloudy, light rain in east, cooler in west with little change in temperature in the east. Tshe Hhelby Baily Hielt l t - State Theatre Today - “THE HITLER GANG” See The Shocking Murder Of Hitler's Niece CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VUl* Aiiiu—4 rtUliOS XNtLiWS SjlimjiiX, IN. L. THUKSUAY, JAIN. 4, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES,~~ SINGLE COPIES—6c 9 Cherry Wants Liquor Referendum, Present Tax Structure Retained ^ ^ 4 • 4ft • A & S M M M V M M ... — _ DOUGHBOY SEES PATHETIC PRICE OF WAR—An unidentified Amer ican soldier gazes solemnly at the body of a small Belgian boy killed In the city of Stavelot during the German counter-offensive In the Belglum Luxembourg area. Other civilian dead are In the background. LANDINGS ON MINDORO: Jap Island Bases Battered From Air Meager Details On .Recent Forays Suggests Planned Cover-Up Silence B.v The Associated Press GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Philip pines, Jan. 4.—Coordinated air blows smashed southern Japan, the Ryukus and Formosa along a solid 2,000-mile arc down through Luzon, prized island of the Philippines, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclosed today his troops have giade two new landings on Mindoro, his closest approach to BRITISH GAIN IN NORTH BURMA Tak« Positions North And East Of Kanbalu, Enemy Strongpoint SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, Jan. 4. —(JP)— British 14th army troops have captured positions both north and east of Kanbalu, one of the strongest centers of Japanese resistance remaining In northern Burma, Admiral Lord Louis Mount batten's headquarters announced today. Kanbalu lies In the Irrawaddy valley about 100 miles northwest of Mandalay. Enemy forces remaining In the region already have been Imperilled by British troops advanc ing eastward across the Shwrbo plain toward the Mandalay railv.v. . The latter troops this week reach ed Kabo and Ye-U, 30 and 40 miles southwest of Kanbalu. OPPOSITION Enemy opposition now has stif fened at both Kabo and Ye-U, headquarters said. , British jungle troops made steady progress at Ka bo, the communique reported, but Japanese operating from positions on the east bank of the Mu river apparently have checked the Allied forces for the time being at Ye-U. Eastern air command bombers and fighters ranged widely over Burma yesterday, shooting up and bombing enemy troops, installa tions, and communications, and heavy bombers again flew into Thailand, striking tracks, locomo tives and freight cars on the Bang kok-Moulmein railway. V-BOMB DAMAGE LONDON, Jan. 4.—(£>)—Addition al damage and casualties were in flicted on Southern England last night as the Germans continued their V-weapon attacks, the gov ernment announced today. Manna. Hellcats, Helldlvers and Aveng ers from aircraft carriers opened a battering ram assault Wednes day (Philippines date) which fun nels Japanese men and planes to the Philippines. (A Japanese Imperial communi que said 500 carrier and land-bas ed planes made the- raid. It claimed 17 planes were shot down and eight damaged. (The strategic nature of Formosa as a staging base would require its neutralisa tion to cover any major Yank moves to its south.) Other carrier aircraft ranged into the Ryukus at a point a little over 300 miles from Japan. The same day, the biggest of Saipan-based B-29s yet to fly to Japan started huge fires at Nago ya, Nippon's airplane center on Southern Honshu. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced the Formosa attack in a Pearl Harbor communique whose meager detail suggested a radio silence to protect just such a con tinuing operation as the last pre vious carrier-based pounding of Formosa in October, the prelude See JAP Page 2 URGES DEFINITE POLICY ON ALL FEDERALACTION New Governor Outlines Ideas Qn Many Aspects Of Government INAUGURATED TODAY RALEIGH, Jan. 4.—(/P)— Governor R. Gregg Cherry told the North Carolina legis lature today in his inaugural -address that "the present tax structure should remain as it is,” and called for a state wide referendum on the sale of liquor. “The Iron Major” of Gastonia, who gained distinction in the first World War and came home to pro minency in legal and legislative circles, was the second governor of North Carolina to take the oath during wartime. The other was Ze bulon B. Vance, in 1862. Cherry, returning to the hard hitting tactics of his speakership days in 1937, also ask#dthe ag|em Make a study of current policies, with the view of framing a decla ration of North Carolina policy in respect to all federal matters, for eign and domestic. Keep appropriations in the com ing biennium within the availability of estimated revenues. Make provision for payment of the general fund indebtedness of approximately $82,000,000 out of an anticipated surplus of $70,000,000 and place the balance in a postwar reserve fund. Make provision far a consti tutional amendment granting equal rights to women, Includ ing Jury service. WAR BONUS Continue the war bonus to state employes. Pay beginning teachers with A grade certificates at least $125 a month, with increments for experi ence. Raise thO compulsory school attendance age from 14 to J6. Enact legislation particularly beneficial to war veterans. Study the best way to adequately develop the wild life, Inland game and fish pruservw of North Caro lina. Enact machine*^ for fiscal con trol of the punlic school funds, since the rebent constitutional amendment made no provision for a comptroller. Create a department of state po lice and public Safety, embracing the present department of state police and public safety, the high way patrol, bureau of Investigation, drivers’ license bureau, safety divi sion, fingerprint bureau of state See CHERRY Fage 5 German Air Force Growing Stronger PARIS, Jan. 4.—(A*)—The Ger man air force now la numerically stronger, than on D-day as the re sult of Its policy of conservation and continued production, and shows signs of superior leadership, a senior Allied air force officer said today. 'OH, GIVE ME A HOME - - Senator-elect Glen H. Taylor (left), Democrat of Idaho, sits with his family on the capitol steps in Washing ton Just before the opening of the 79th Congress, strumming his banjo and singing, "Oh, Give me a home near the capitol dome - - - He Is telling the world in song that he is having trouble finding living quart ers in Washington. In the group are Mrs. Taylor (right), a son, Arod, 9 (top center), and another son, Paul, 2. Nagoya Suffers Fourth B-29 Bom bing A ttack By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Bomb-cratered Nagoya, Jap an’s second largest city, was smoldering to4hy from a smash ing daylight assault by mighty Superfortresses. large fires and attained good re sults, the War Department an nounced, when they ripped into Nagoya yesterday for the fourth lime. One Superfortress was lost to enemy action in the target, area, rhe planes of the 21st bomber com mand bagged one enemy inter jeptor, probably brought down nine more and damaged others. A dispatch from Associated Press war correspondent Vern Haugland at Guam said the aerial task force was of sizable strength, indicating that up to 100 planes participated. The War Department announce ment said fighter opposition was moderate. Anti-aircraft fire was iescribed as “meager and inaccur ate.” On their last thundering strike against Nagoya on December 22 the monster bombers encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire and a horde of defending fighter planes. See NAGOYA Page 2 DARING OFFENSIVES' Formosa And Okinawa Isles Hit By U. S. Carrier Planes By the Associated Press Hundreds of American carrier planes supported by China-based B-29s raided Formosa and the Oki nawa islands Wednesday and to day, Japanese broadcasts reported, in preparation for “a succession of daring offensives” to win "a quick decision in the Philippines.” The Japanese Dome! news agency linked the “daring enemy forays” with “an enemy task force escort ing a transport convoy” through Philippine waters “seemingly to ef fect new landings.” Imperial communiques said in broadcasts recorded by the federal communications commission that 600 allied planes raided Formosa and Okinawa WedMgpay and 400 returned to the attaSi today. Both strikes, made large!* by carrier planes, lasted nearbriUeven hours. The Pacific fleet Bid previously announced the first raid. SEVER SUPPLY LIKE Domel, in another FCC recorded broadcast, said the raids were ob viously intended 'to check the Philippines battle add at jthe same time to attempt. 0 sever our air supply route to the Philippines. "The battle for ihe Philippines is now fast becoming ode of ex I tremely delicated developments.” It placed the newest convoy in the Sula sea, south of U. S. advanc ed bases on Mindoro, and Luzon, Oen. Douglas MacArthur’s ulti mate goal. Dome! said "about 40 B-29s bas ed in China” participated in the initial Formosa attack. 17 PLANES Today’s imperial communique broadcast by the Japanese Domei Upws agency and recorded by the federal communications commis sion claimed that, 17 planes were See FORMOSA Page 2 AIR OFFENSIVE IN 13TH DAY Bod Weather Grounds Al lied Planes Based In Britain, France LONDON, Jan. 4.— (JP) —German reports of Allied bombers approach ing from the south, apparently U. S. 15th Air Force Flying Fortresses and Liberators from Italy, herald ed the 13th straight daylight at tack on the Reich today. Up until noon there was no warning of bomber formations in vading Germany from the west— a sign that the weather might be halting the record winter string of 12 consecutive days of raids by the U. S. Eighth Air Force from Bri tain. Snow, rgin and leaden skies pre vented operations yesterday by air craft based in France, Belgium and Holland. Bombers flying from Bri tain had to drop their explosives through a heavy overcast. See AIR Page 2 WHAT’S DOING _____ 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p.m. — C.A.P. members meet at Armory'. FRIDAY 12:30 p.tn?VRotary club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—Call communica tion of Cleveland Lodge 20‘J A. ■ F. & A. M. at blue lodge room in Masonic Temple for Installa tion of officers. REDS FORCED TO FALL BACK BEFORE ATTACK First Counterdrive Since October On Eastern Front IN KOMAROM AREA By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Jan. 4.—(/P)— Mobile warfare raged be tween Budapest and Vienna today as a huge German tank and infantry force, mounting the first German counterof fensive on the eastern front since October, sought to break through Russian lines to the relief of the surrounded gar rison in the Hungarian capi tal. In the last two days the Rus sians had given ground and it was probable that more would have to be yielded, although the Russians appeared to be getting the situa tion in band. The German counterassault was apcHbg-.Saro, of $om«wop», a Danube rim- fwn '45 miles northwest of Budapest. The German. - Hungarian garrison in Budapest, where the Russians have overrun 1, 062 city blocks, was reported making savage attacks in an See BEDS Page 2 U. S. CASUALTY FKURESMOUNT Losses Through Dec. 21 638,139 Outside Count eroffensive WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—(A5)— Exclusive of the bitter Germar counteroffensive^ American combal casualties thro&h $ec. 21 totaled 638,139. This ^Tas an increase o1 9,698 over the total announced lasl week for the period through De cember 14. Secretary of War Stimson tolc a news conference .the War de partment has not yet received ar accurate statement of personnel and materiel losses resulting from the Nazi drive launched December 14 He added it would be some time before a report is available. Army casualties totaled 556,352 through December 21, an increase of 8,529, and the Navy’s total was 81,787, a rise of 1,169. ARMY, NAVY FIGURES The Army’s figure reported to day and those reported last week follow: Killed, 103,991 and 102,961; wounded, 326,127 and 319,935; missing, 66,567 and, 66,762; prison ers of war, 59,667 *|id 9,165. Comparable figures for the Navy: Killed, 31,332 and 31,182; wounded, 36,697 and 35,942; miss ing, 9,277 and 9,010^ prisoners oi war, 4, 481 and 4A&4. The re crease in the prisoner of war cate gory apparently represented shifts to other classifications. Advances Made On 6-Mile Front Near Grandmenil PARIS, Jan. 4.—(/P)—American army infantry and j tanks fought three miles forward in the new offensive ! against the north flank of the Belgium bulge by 8 A. M. and continued the advance today through a blinding snow storm, it was disclosed at supreme headquarters. The gains were along a six mile front on both sides of Grandmenil, 20 miles north of Bastogne. Three tp five miles north and northeast of that bastion town on the south ! ern flank of the German penetration, the U. S. Third Army was halted by violent counterattacks against the heroic 101st airborne division . Half the gains below Grandmenil were made in the first eight hours after Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ resilient army went over the top. Weather worsened. Snowstorms turned into blizzards. Field Marshal Von Rundstedt reacted swiftly with tank-supported counterattacks. (The Germans said British tanks were participating in the new offensive and that the U. S. 9th Army had been rouea up irorn Aacnen.; it ►Some 15 miles or so to the south, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army advance was halted at least temporarily by violent German counter-attack north and north east of Bastogne against the famous 101st airborne division. Field Mar shal von Rundstedt built his south ern flank force to ten divisions. A dispatch from the Seventh army front in northern Lorraine said the threatening German thrust south of Bitche had been blunted and Lt. Gen. Alex ander M. Patch’s men were hammering steadily at flanks of the enemy salient, achieving some advances. Persistent German attacks from the Saar to the Rhine, however had forced the Americans from their holdings in the German Palatinate east Of the Wissembourg gap and from all except the Saarlautern bridgehead in the Saarland. ALLIED LIFELINE German advances of up to four miles in Lorraine reached almost to Reipertswiller, six miles below Bitche and just 13 miles north of Saverne on the Allied lifeline to the Rhine city of Strasbourg. A small See ADVANCES Page t RePreSfn\943 R«'e8 Stick T ^ w— x-e feS The two-thirds rule, sometimes referred to as “the gag rule,” re quires a two-thirds vote of the house to adopt the minority re port of a committee. Two minor amendments trans ferred the cleric of the institutions committee to a committee on vet erans legislation. Umstead, continuing the fight which he started at the oper/ng session yesterday, first moved that report of the rules committee re port go over until tomorrow. He received no second and asked for a division, but that motion lost 62-35. Umstead then presented a motion that the report of the rules committee be recommitted, but the chair ruled the motion out of order since the rules then had See LEGISLATURE Page 2 SECRET WEAPONS: Well-In£prmed Say Nazis Can Fight On For Months BERN, Jan. 4.-4«p)—Informa tion from inside ^Jfmnany. dis counting: Nazi profsfeanda, indi cates that German armies equip ped with a series wt new weapons must be reckoned I fighting force capable of continued effective re sistance — perhap# for many months. % Moerover, the Nads apparently believe they can still win the war by taking advantage o& Allied mis takes and difficulties. R^>orts dealing with the Ger man military situation and use of secret weapons coming from a half-dozen independent sources in the Reich stress these factors: While a fluke might end the war tomorrow, or a new Allied of fensive might quickly smash mass ing Nazi forces, it appears (1) That the Germans have sufficient gasoline to carry out their present battle plan; (2) New secret weap ons are being turned out steadily, and (3) Troop reinforcements are still available in large quantity. It is difficult to determine the degree to which these informants See WELL INFORMED Page 2 CANUCKS TAKE CONVENTELLO Heavy Casualties Inflict ed On Attacking Ger man Forces ROME, Jan. 4.—</P)—Canadian troops have captured the village of Conventello, two miles east of Alfonsine on the Ravenna-Ferrara highway after inflicting heavy ’ casualties on picked German forces, allied headquarters announced to day. Approximately 100 prisoners were taken in the advance, a communi que said. Meanwhile patrolling by both sides was intensified all the way across the front, particularly in the area of highway 65 due south of Bologna. American artillery broke up four sharp enemy raids in the area of San Ansano, just west of highway nine, four miles below Bologna. At the same time the Germans : continued their recently adopted | tactics of trying to -ambush Amer I ican patrols iceltng out enemy posi |. tions. REPULSrti In the right sector of the Ameri can fifth army front, German ar tillery laid down a rocket barrage followed by a series of raids in the vicinity of Monte Dellverro and | Sillare ridge, but were repulsed, i One American patrol attempted See C AN I CES Fage I x I
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