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WEATHER Cloudy and colder today, cold wave tonight, 5-10 degrees, light rain this afternoon, changing to snow flur ries over north and west ending to night. Wednesday, fair and cold. 1 Tshe Hhevlbg Baily Him I STATE THEATRE TODAY JON HALL In "THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE" Also News, 3 Stooges Comedy UL.KiVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 V UJj. AH11— o ASSUU1ATHU PKHiiSS IN Hi Wo ' ' :• 1 .. \ OxlHiijJb 1, IN. Li. 1UEoDAI, JAIN, y, iy4b TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c 23 Believed Killed In Crash Of Clipper HITLER AND GOERING MEET—WITH SMILE8—Marshal Hermann Goerlng (left) and Adolf Hitler share a New Year’s handshake and ex change smiles and greetings, according to the caption of this German photo, supplied by a Swedish agency. The caption did not disclose where the meeting took place. 126 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Luzon Two Raids Inflicted Sunday; 26 Japanese Planes Wiped Out On Ground, 2 In Combat GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Philip pines, Jan. 9.—(A*)—Army bombers and carrier-based air craft swarmed over Luzon with devastating effect Sunday, the day Tokyo said American warships were giving the island’s west coast a second pre-invasion shelling. British Troops OCCUPYTHEBES ELAS Forces Retreating From Athens After Heavy Losses ATHENS, Jan. 9.— m —British troops pursuing ELAS forces re treating from Athens have occupied ^Thebes, forward base of the left wing guerrilla units about 48 road miles northwest of Athens, it teas announced today. The announcement said a British mobile force had entered Thebes against slight opposition after breaking through a roadblock in a narrow defile on the shoulder of Mt. Pateras, where sharp fighting had been reported yesterday. PENINSULA CLEARED With most of the Attica penin sula cleared of ELAS forces, the British said they expected the in surgents to make their next stand in the Pamassus-Hellicon range, south of Lamia. It was estimated that the ELAS suffered as high as 90 per cent in casualties in the Athens fight. The Athens Press announced that warrants had been issued for See BRITISH Page Z WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 pjn.—Directors of Rotary club meet at Hotel Charles. 7:00 p.m.—Lions club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m. — C.A.P. members meet at armory. 7:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Shelby chapter 110 Order of the Eastern Star at the Masonic Temple. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, silent on Japanese claims that Yank in vasion forces had begun landing attempts at Llngayen gulf, 110 miles north of Manila, said today his bombers hit Luzon with 126 tons of bombs. Twenty-six planes were wiped out on the ground artd two others were shot down in combat. Three American land-based aircraft were lost. Carrier-based plane* of the U. 8. third fleet hit Luzon the same day in the second straight day of around-the-clock opera tions, Associated Press Corre spondent Kembert James re ported In a dispatch from Vice Adm. John McCain’s flagship* off the Philippines. James said pilots reported Jap anese ships were fleeing westward from Luzon. They drew the con clusion the enemy clearly was evacuating all its sizable shipping from the island’s harbors. Both Manila and Subic bays were said to bp practically empty of ships. FEW JAP PLANES Japanese aircraft, too, were dif ficult to find. The carrier pilots found only 41 in the air and knocked down 19 of these. Addi tionally they destroyed 74 on the ground, probably wiped out six more and damaged 86 for a total of 179 put out of action, James safd. Clark Field, 75 miles north of Manila, three Manila air fields and the Batangas air domes to the south were the prime targets for MacArthur’s heavy and medium bombers which, flying with attack planes under a fighter cover, destroy ed a number of buildings with resultant fires and explosions. Another flight concentrating on central Luzon destroyed or damag ed rail and highway bridges and considerable rolling stock. Crippling of the Luzon airdrome would facilitate any invasion of the island. The airfields have been drawing increasing attention from See 126 TONS Page 2 SEVEN OF 30 ABOARD KNOWN TO BE SAFE Big Africa-Bound Clipper Crashed As It Came In For Landing BROKE UPLAND SANK MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 9.—(A*)— Pan American Airways re ported today that 23 persons apparently were killed last? night in the crash at Port of Spain, Trinidad, of a huge Africa-bound clipper. W. C. Snyder, Airlines man ager here, said reports from the scene “indicated that 23 of the 30 persons aboard were lost.” Seven of the 30 passengers and crewmen aboard the Miami-to Leopold flying boat are known to be safe. The 26 ton plane, known as the China Clipper during its early service on the airline’s trans-Paci fic routes, apparently crashed in the darkness while coming in to alight in a flaremarked area. Early radio report* to the air line headquarter* here indicated that the ship broke up and sank. Navy diver* went to work long before dawn in an effort to raise the wreckage. A full check of the dead awaited completion of the salvage. Since the clipper usually alights at some considerable distance offshore, there was little hope that any of the 15 persons listed as missing had made his way to safety. The only known survivors were picked up by boat not long after the crash. FAMILY WIPED OUT Among the missing were a mis sionary, Paul J. Whitlock, 36, of New York, his wife and their three young children. There were two known survivors from another family of five on the big plane. Charles Donald Williams, 29, of Rio De Janeiro and his daughter, Nancy Lou, 7, were sav ed. His daughters, Judith Carol, 4, and Patricia Emily, 2, were dead, and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, 28. was missing. The clipper carried a crew of 13 for the 7,000-mile flight to the Bel gian Congo, a route which was op See SEVEN Page 2 OCD On Alert For Buzz Bomb Attacks, ‘Probability’ Denied NEW YORK, Jan. 9. —(JPh Civilian Defense officials along the Atlantic coast were on the alert today for possible Nasi buss bomb attacks, viewed as “probable’ by Admiral Jonas H. Inpram but donbftui by the Navy. Inpram, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, said yes terday ’It is possible and pro bable that the Germans will at tempt to laanch bombs against New York or Washington within the next SO to 60 days.’’ The Navy Department indi cated it did not folly agree with Ingram’s assertion, a spokes man saying: “There is no more reason now to believe that Germany will attack with robot bombs than there was on Nov. 7, 1944,” when a joint Army-Navy state ment said such attacks were “entirely possible” but "it is extremely doubtful that such at tacks could entirely elude Allied sea and air patrols.” Nimitz, McArthur Meet Again U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. 9 —(A*)—A sure sign that something big is brewing in the Pacific war is the just disclosed meeting be tween fleet Adm. Chester W. Ni mitz and Oen. Douglas MacArthur. It was the third get-together of the war between the two. After each previous meeting major blows were struck Japan ese positions by navy-supported amphibious troops. The announcement of the meet ing, issued by Nimitz at his Paci fic fleet headquarters here yester day, merely said that the confer ence in the Philippines the last week of December covered “various matters.” Nimitz and MacArthur and their staffs held the first strategic dis cuslon In New Guinea. Shortly thereafter army troops of the Southwest Pacific command invad ed the Hollandia area of Dutch New Guinea—supported for the first time by naval units of Nimitz’s command. The second meeting, with Presi dent Roosevelt sitting in, was at Honolulu in late July. The Pacific fleet In the next few weeks ex tended its carrier task force strikes to the Philippines as Mac Arthur moved north through the Moluccas. Nlmitz' ship and carrier planes then defeated the Japanese in the second battle of the Philippine Sea while MacArthur’s men were con quering the enemy on Leyte, after landing on that central Philippine Island. Since the belatedly announced third meeting between the two five-star commanders, fleet forces See NIMITZ Page 2 Reds Halt Nazi Counterattack MOSCOW, Jan. 9.—(IP)—Red army troops have halted the big German counterattack northwest of Budapest and considerably slowed the attack beating in on the west of the Hungarian capital, front dispatches said today. wiimn nours, me oovieis may recapture the initiative a gainst the Nazis who have struck to within 15 miles of Budapest on the northwest, reports said. Hand-to-hand fighting mean while was stepped up inside the capital. Soviet forces hitting along the north bank of the Danube ap proached within gun range of Ko maron, a springboard of the Nazi relief drive toward Budapest. A three-mile advance north of the Danube yesterday car ried Marshal Robion Y. Mali novsky’s troops to a point less than seven miles from Koma rom, key communications cen ter for the region northwest of Budapest. There the Rus sians stood less than 50 miles east of the Austrian border and 57 southeast of Bratislava, Slovakian capital. Dispatches said German troops last reported only 15 miles north west of Budapest were shifting the weight of their attack south ward in an apparent effort to cut through to the Hungarian capital from due west. The Germans were said to be using "large” tank forc es. A Russian communique said Bled Army forces disabled or des troyed 90 German tanks in that area in one day’s fighting. VISITS FRONT (A Berlin broadcast today said Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian, Ger man Army chief of staff and Nazi commander-in-chief on the east ern front, had visited the fighting lines "at the western approaches” to Budapest. The FCC recorded the broadcast). There was speculation here that Malinovsky might try to cross the Danube from the north and cut into the German left flank to re lieve the pressure on Budapest. He is reported to be massing heavy See REDS Page 2 IN 1945: C Of C Wants New Houses, Industries President Short Names Committees To Direct Work, Sees Challenging Opportunity A program looking to the addition of much-needed hous ing as well as new industries for Shelby in 1945 was set in motion by directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Mer chants Association Monday night as President Clyde A. Short outlined his plans and named standing committees to carry RUSSIA TALKS LEND-LEASE May Purchase Goods With Long-Range Civilian Uses From U. S. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Jan. 9— (/P) — Russia Is now considering an Amer ican proposal that Soviet acquisi tion of goods with long-range civ ilian as well as immediate war uses be financed through a system of lend-lease credit. The proposition has been in Moscow for several months. It is designed to bridge the gap between shipments of strictly mili tary goods and those which have a partial or mainly civilian use. The amount of goods which might be financed in this way al ready runs into many millions of dollars although officials of the foreign economic administration say it comes to only a small per centage of the amount of muni tions going to Russia under lend lease. Months ago the Russians put in requests for a vast quantity of supplies to be delivered in the year beginning last July 1. American, British and Canadian officials decided the amount of materials they could furnish was smaller than what the Russians ask ed. The differences between the ask ing and the offering were in the main resolved and a protocol was drawn up covering lend-lease to Russia for the year beginning July 1. This protocol has not yet been signed but Secretary of State Stet tinius says signature is expected soon and meanwhile the supplies provided for in it are moving out at maximum speed. These supplies are. said on the highest authority to be munitions, food and such raw materials as the Russians need for munitions. In their original offer the Rus sians asked for a variety of capi tal goods. Some of these goods are considered here to come within the lend-lease definition of contribut ing to the war effort and therefore approved. out tne worK. “Shelby is on the threshold of its greatest growth and develop ment,” President Short told the di rectors, “and now is the time when the groundwork has to be laid to make sounder through planning and diversification that structure. We need a strong and active Chamber of Commerce on the Job every day of the year—and that’s what we propose to do.” HOUSING NEEDED J. Dale Stentz told the directors that individuals are ready to build as many as 200 houses if and when the necessary priorities are granted; he is at work with the War Pro duction Board for permission to proceed, the work to be carried, of course, by individual operators and investors. He does not anticipate any such number of permits, but the need for additional housing is, he said, the most acute in the his tory of the city. Dr. S. S. Royster, re-elected an honorary member of the board of directors, heads the industrial committee as chairman with Thad C. Ford, Max Washburn, Jean Schenck and Tom Moore serving with him. Robert E. Youree heads the mem bership and finance committee which will seek to step up the sub scribing members from the present 180 to 225 to carry the approximate ly $6,000 budget adopted at last night’s meeting—that budget car ries an appropriation of $1,000 for industrial development and adver tising in that, connection; serving with Mr. Youree will be J. Hopson Austell, Thad C. Ford, Lowery Austell, Mason L. Carroll and R. J. Rucker. AGRICULTURE J. Horace Grigg heads the agri See C. OF C. Page 2 r SAVED BY ROPE — Sgt. J. R. Krantz (above) of Route 1, Hick ory Point, Tenn., a Superfortress gunner, dangled by a rope from his plane almost four miles above Jap an before other crew members could pull him back. Krantz was sucked from his gun blister when it was shattered by gun fire. He had tied the rope around his leg to enable him to move about freely. Li FIRST NATIONAI ADVANCES PAIR C. S. Mull Active Vice President, Elliott Cash ier; O. M. Mull To Board Irrespective of whether the war end in 1945, as President Roosevelt said he hopes and trusts it will this is likely to prove a good year for business generally despite more complex conditions and manpower shortages, George Blanton, presi dent, told the annual stockholders meeting of the First National bank this morning. Pointing to the busiest year’s operation in the bank’s history, a year that saw deposits reach an all time high of $9,148,974 while war bonds to the total of $7,560,000 were handled for the account of cus tomers and the bank, Mr. Blanton said the year ahead promises to be even busier with still more of the bank’s work in furtherance of en deavor connected with the war ef fort. REPORT APPROVED The stockholders approved the annual report, re-elected directors with O. M. Mull designated to suc ceed to the vacancy caused by the death of Paul Webb, Sr., adopted resolutions of regret upon the pass ings of Mr. Webb and of C. C. Blan ton, founder of the bank, an oil painting of whom was directed to be placed in the banking room. At the directors’ meeting fol See FIRST Page 2 Nazis Make Stand Along River Reno ROME, Jan. 9.—(IP)—After with drawing five miles from San Al berto in the past two days, Ger man forces have made a stand along the southern bank of the river Reno east of the Valli di Comacchio Lagoon, Allied head quarters announced taday. It was the first time in four days that Field Marshal Albert Kessel rlng’s troops had shown any in clination to fight in that sector. Bitter winter weather and deep snowdrifts limited operations from coast to coast. In some areas be low Bologna the snow fell to a depth of more than 12 inches. White clad reconnaissance parties were active on skis and snow shoes. Big Tank Battle Rages Near Samree, Yanks Seek To Cut Escape Route PARIS, Jan. 9.—(/P)—A big tank battle broke out today in a blinding blizzard three miles northeast of Laroche where the American “hell on wheels” division fought violently for Samree on the severed main road through the Belgian bulge. Other Americans were within a mile north of Laroche. The battle was in drifts four to five feet high and in heavy new snowfalls. All along the 30 mile northern flank of the Ardennes salient, the Germans were declared by one of Field Marshal Montgomery’s staff officers to be on the defensive and fight ing resolutely to bar the allies from the one remaining escape route from the bulge. This was the Houfalize-St. Vith road, and the American First Army was five miles or so from it and cratering it with artillery. I on tne soutnern nanK oi me : virtually winter-bound bulge, Ger man counterattacks drove back Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army a mile on a three mile front west of Bastogne. Field Marshal von Rundstedt appeared to be try ing to blast open communications on the south to compensate for the loss yesterday of the Laroche-St. Vith road. The Germans threw half a doz en attacks against American and French troops in northeast France, including one powerful smash a gainst the French First Army south of Strasbourg. That drive from Colmar, where Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler still was believ ed providing leadership and in spiration, was halted at Rossfeld and Nerbsheim. 16 miles from the big Alsatian city on the Rhine. Despite the paralyzing storm and drifts which impeded equally the attack and the German escape, the U. S. Second armored divis ion struck heavily at Samree a gainst mobile and dug in German tanks. The Second is the hell on wheels division which won fame in North See BIG Page 2 New Education Bill Is Introduced Today Would Allow Eyperte;ice Increments To Pay 0f Edu cators In Armed Services RALEIGH, Jan. 9.—(tf*)—A measure to allow experience increments to the pay of teachers, principals and superin tendents serving in the armed services was introduced in the assembly today by Senator Penland of Clay and re ferred to the committee on education. Salary raises are granted those In public school work according to their experience, and today’s meas ure would make the rule applicable to those who entered the armed services after September, 1940. They must reenter public school work within two years after an honor able discharge, however. In short, the bill would prevent teachers, principals and teachers from be ing penalized from a salary view point for serving with the armed forces. The time they are in serv ice would count as actual school experience. Senator Carlyle of Forsyth introduced a measure to vali date the creation of sanitary districts and to issue bonds for them. The state board of health already has outlined several such districts. Those and others which the board See NEW Page 2 TOKYOHiTBY BIG BOMBERS By VERN HAUGLAND 21ST BOMBER COMMAND HDQTRS, Guam, Jan. 9.—</P>— A substantial force of B-29s bombed Tokyo’s industrial area visually today in good weather. The first bombs were away at 9:15 p.m. Marianas’ time (2:15 p.m. Tokyo time). It was the second Guam-di rected raid for the Saipan-bas ed bombers, the first being the Nagoya raid, Jan. 3. This was the first Tokyo raid since Dec. 27. It is the sixth raid on Tokyo and the 10th on Honshu by Saipan-based Superfortresses. Anti-Nazi Signs In Germany BERN, Jan. 8.—(IP)—New and possibly significant signs of anti Nazi resistance appear to be springing up in Germany. Due allowance must be made for the possibility that reports on con ditions inside the Reich are col ored by German propaganda, but usually trustworthy private chan nels and German newspapers themselves give this picture: The Communists are the best organized and the most persistent element working for the overthrow of the Hitler regime. The need tor food causes another large group to commit regular subversive acts against the Nazis. Fully pro Allied organizations are al most non-existent. The position of the industrial ists who accepted and liked Hit ler In the beginning admittedly is obscure, but some sources say these businessmen now feel that Hitler and the Nazis must go in the interests of shrewd maneuv ering that might bring a peace which would save German Indus-'' trial production. Imported slave labor forms the nearest thing to an underground as seen in other European coun tries. There are rumors that a round 5,000 foreign workers are hiding in one forest district south of Frankfurt Am Main, and that they constantly raid village stores and rob farmers. Food rather than politics is apparently the main objective of these bands. The Communists, although well organized, are few' in number. There are said to be not more than 200 in Berlin They operate in See ANTI-NAZI Page 2 FDR PRESENTS NEW BUDGET WASHINGTON, Jan. #.—<£>)— President Roosevelt sent to Con gress today an 83-billion-dollar budget that might swing more than 10 billion dollars up or down. It ail depends on the war—and the President refused to predict when the shooting will stop in 'Europe or anywhere else. “My only prediction,” he told Congress, “is that our enemies will be totally defeat ed before we lay down our arms.” At a moment when “fighting all over the globe reaches a climax of fury,” Mr. Roosevelt sent up his annual budget message for the fiscal year 1946 which starts next July 1. In it, estimated total govern ment spending at 83 billions. That would be the lowest in three years. It’s nearly 17 billion below the record spending of 100 billion in the fiscal year 1945 which is now half over. He based the 83-billion figure on a guess that the war will require 70 billion dollars. The other 13 billion are for: 1. Ordinary government ex penses. Those would be /’duced from $3,502,000,000 to $3,266,000,000, which he called “rock-bottom.” 2. Three large items which are growing fast—benefits to veter ans, interest on the public debt, and refunds to taxpayers. Mr. Roosevelt said estimat es for 1946 war costs have ranged from less H>an 60 bil lions to more than 80 billions —depending on various war possibilities. He hit upon 70 billions aa a “tentative” figure. But “the rate of actual spending must depend on developments on the battlefronts.” DROP EXPECTED War costs in the present fiscal year are about 89 billion dollars. No matter what happens — even if Germany fights on for another year and a half—war spending is expected to drop in fiscal 1946. This is because "initial equip ment” for the Army and Navy is about complete, the huge war building program is nearly ended, and our long supply lines are filled with moving supplies. Budget Director Harold D. Smith put it this way: We are shifting from a ' building up’ to m ' maintenance" basis. 4
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