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WEATHER Fair and warmer today, partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Cool again today, warmer Friday. Tslxe Schelbe Bnilg Him« STATE THEATRE TODAY WARNER BAXTER in "SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT" Also Sport, Phantasy, Comedy OJLE V ELAND COUNTY S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII-10 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY. N. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c Jap Targets On Malay Peninsula Hit From Air WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— UP)— Superfortresses thunder ed across the Bay of Bengal today to hammer Japanese military installations on the Malay Peninsula. The India-nested B-29s of Major Gen. Curtis E. Lemay's 20th bomber command struck boldly by daylight Size of the attacking force and its specific targets were not an nounced in a terse 20th air force communique. Singapore, wrested from the British in 1942 and reported ly converted into Japan's ma jor naval stronghold in the Malay-Dutch East Indies area, probably was the target. Some 60 Superfortresses lashed Singapore’s dry docks and repair basins last Novem ber 5, flying what the 20th air force described as the longest daylight mission ever recorded for military planes. A Japa nese ship, the largest dry dock and other vital points were hit. This former bulwark of Brit ish sea power on the tip of the Malay Peninsula is like wise a transit point for Nip ponese reinforcements to the oil-rich Indies. Sumatra with its big, rambling refineries lies directly across the Straits of Malacca. Now operating with clock like precision, the B-29s pos sibly were gunning for Singa pore-based units of the Japa nese grand fleet which could be dispatched to harass Gen eral Douglas McArthur’s Lu zon forces. Lt. Gen. Mashaha ru Homma, former Nipponese commander in the Philippines, suggested the possibility that the Luzon invasion will force the elusive Japanese Navy to come out and fight. Homma was quoted in a Tok yo dispatch broadcast by Ber lin as saying “it may be taken for granted that the Japanese Navy now will go into action and deal blows In this theatre of operations.” Some wounded Japanese warships are believed to have scurried to Singapore for re fitting after the naval battles in the Philippine seas late in 1944. FOURTH MISSION Today’s strike was the fourth major mission by the Asia based 20th bomber command planes since January 2. Bang kok, capital of Thailand, was pummeled January 2 followed by smashes January 6 against Omura in the Japanese home land and January 9 against Formosa. Another Superfortress raid on Tokyo meantime was an nounced by the Japanse radio. The Japanese claimed without American confirmation that three B-29s from Saipan un loaded incendiaries yesterday. See JAP TARGETS Page 2 Budapest F>nal Phase BOYS ARE PUT ON PROBATION Those Charged With Tire Thefts Get Suspend* ed Sentences With the trial of Ben Dover, charged with receiving stolen tires, ending In a mistrial when Cleveland Superior Jury failed to agree after five hours of deliberation, the four boys who Involved Dover as their accomplice, Louis Hamrick, Jr., William Franklin Shull, Ben Dix on, Jr., Billie Dwight Wellmon and Charles Williams, the latter a ne gTo boy, were each given suspend ed terms and put on probation. Ben Dover’s case will be tried again at the March term of court. Judge William H. Bobbitt, presid ing, continuing the case until then with the defendant held under $1,000 bond. Hamrick, Shull, and Wellmon were each given 12-months road sentences suspended upon three years probation and upon the con dition that they frequent no place where beer or wine is sold, that they obtain gainful employment; that they make restitution for the tires they took and that they pay the court costs. 2-YEAR SENTENCE Ben Dixon, Jr., the only one of the defendants who was Involved by his own confession In breaking and entering Wilson and Cabanlss Service station on both occasions when It was robbed, was given two years In the state penitentiary sus pended upon probation and upon the same terms as the other de fendants. Charles Williams, the negro boy, who stored the tires for one night and who, In the opinion of the court, was less Involved than any of the others, was given a four month suspended sentence, and placed upon probation. Judge Bobbitt said that he was See BOYS Page 2 Germans Continue All-Out Efforts To Reach Garrison Within The City MOSCOW, Jan. 11.—(/P)—The battle for Hungary enter ed what appeared to be the final stage today, with the Germans making an all-out effort to reach the collapsing nazi garrison in Budapest before being out-flanked by the WMt.wsrH Russian arivanrp nnrfVi r\f the Dnnuhp From Inside the devastated cap ital, three-fourths of which is now in Russian hands, the Red Star correspondent reported Hungarian soldiers have bolted and surren dered in such great numbers that the Nazis have broken all Hungar ian units and attached them in company numbers to German reg iments. Repeated German counter attacks northwest of Budapest have been smashed and Soviet forces threatening to cut the Nasi left flank have driven to within a mile and ono quar ter of Komarom, the Soviet communique disclosed. Other frontline reports said rail traffic out of Komarom, a com munications hub on the Danube 40 miles northwest of Budapest, had been blocked by Red Army artillery. The eight-day Nazi drive to break the Soviet arc around Buda pest and reach the Nazis Inside See BLOODY Page t Christmas Day Wreck In Sumatra Killed 224, Injured 245 By The Associated Press The Japanese controlled Malayan radio reported today that a train wreck in Padangpandjang on the west coast of Sumatra killed 224 persons and injured 245 Christmas day. The broadcast, recorded by the Federal Communications Commis sion, gave no details about the wreck but reported 28,000 florins had been collected among the peo ple to aid the Injured and rela tives of those killed. Byrnes Warns Nation Must Save Coal, Stockpiles Low By IHHluLAS B. l UKnKLL WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— (fP) — The American people reached lor red flannels and extra blankets to day after James F. Byrnes Issued an appeal that appeared likely to leave the country cold. Without exception, the waT mo blllzer requested last night that temperatures In all homes and public buildings be held to 68 de grees. That was only one of the ways he proposed to save coal, i meet an Impending shortage of the fuel and avoid Its rationing. Me made compliance voluntary. On the mandatory side, he or dered Imposition of a "brownout." The war production board was Instructed to Issue orders banning all lllumnlated outdoor advertising and any ornamental or display lighting which uses coal-generated electricity. TRANSPORTATION And Byrnes told the Office of Defense Transportation to eliminate special and excursion trains and extra passenger schedules to re See BYRNES Page 3 JAYCEES HONOR CIVIC SERVICE Annual Award To Out standing Young Man Of Year Will Be Made Shelby’s Young Man of the year —that man under 35 years of age judged to have rendered the out standing unselfish civil service in the year 1944—will be acclaimed by the Junior Chamber of Commerce at its annual observance of that occasion Monday night in connec tion with its semi-monthly dinner meeting, President Doris Bolt stat ed today. Shem K. Blackley, president of the Rotary club and chairman of the selection committee that in cludes J. O. Lutz, Klwanls president, and R. J. Rucker, Lions president, will make the formal presentation to the winner whose identity will not be divulged until the award is made. The 1943 award went post humously to Pfc. John D. Horner, a marine who was killed in the South Pacific. O. M. Mull, chairman of the Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation, will be principal speak er for the occasion with a discus sion of postwar planning for the community. SHWEBO TAKEN BY ALLIED TROOPS SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, Jan. 11—(AP)—Shwebo, the last large Japanese bastion in upper Burma north of Mandalay, has been com pletely occupied by Allied troops and British 14th army units have advanced south of the town, an allied communique announced to day. Shwebo is 46 miles north of Man dalay. It was entered Sunday by Indian troops, and later the Shwe bo airfield was overrun. Allied troops are investing Bu* dalin on the branch railway to Ye-u, 19 miles north of Monywa, the communique said, against an enemy resisting fropi Bunkers con cealed in thick undergrowth. Troops of the 15th Indian Corps in the Kaladan alley have enter ed Ponnagyun, a steamer station on the west bank of the Kaladan river 14 miles northeast of the captured island port of Akyab. NAZIS QUICKEN WITHDRAWAL; LAROCHETAKEN Western End Of German Breakthrough Salient Collapsing BLIZZARD~~CONTINUES PARIS, Jan. 11.—(^—Al lied troops captured strategic Laroche today and British patrols in a swift ten mile ad vance through the collapsing western end of the Belgiar bulge reached the Champlor area, a mile east of the north south road between Laroche and St. Hubert. The road was cut withoul opposition. The Germans quickened theii skillful, orderly withdrawal in the deep snow as the American First and Third armies drove in frorr north and south and the Britlst Second army pursued through pro fuse minefields from the west. The main British force was foul miles behind the patrols which penetrated the Chanplon area, al most through the difficult Freyi forest. The town is 13 miles west ol Houffalize, which the Germans maj attempt to make the center of i new defensive front shielding the eastern half of the bulge. The Allies captured the stra tegic road center of Laroche (population 1928) on the north side Of the salient at 9:05 a.m. Patrols entered the town, 14 miles northwest of Bastogne, yesterday and found it lightly held. The cruelest enemy for both sides was the continuing blizzard, with temperatures nine above zero fah renheit. Signs today were that the Nads commander hoped to establish a new line 15 miles or so west of the German border between Vielsalm, already entered by the U. S. First Army, Houffalize and the Bastogne sector. TOWNS FALL A dozen or more towns fell. By latest reports, von Rundstedt has pulled out of the toe of the Ardennes sock with all possible speed. But there was no sign of a stampede such as that in whicl Field Marshal von Kluge's Germar 7th army was partly destroyed ir the Falalse massacre in Normandy (The German communique an nounced a withdrawal from the area west of the steep bankec Ourthe river, which flows througl by-passed Laroche ‘‘in order to se cure the deep flanks of the fronl in the Ardennes." The enemj claimed to have ‘‘liberated" severa towns in Alsace-Lorraine, includ ing Rimling. The communique sale encircled troops had been annihi lated south of Erstin, 10 miles be low Strasbourg, and 300 were cap tured.) REPULSED Gen. Eisenhower’s communique said “German attacks were repuls ed in the Alsace plain betweer Strasbourg and Colmar," when reinforced enemy columns have struck to within ten miles of the Rhine city. U. S. Seventh armj troops stormed into Oeting, onlj five miles southwest of Saarbruck See NAZIS Page 2 U. S. PINCERS THREATEN JAPS ON LUZON—The curved arrow on this map shows where American forces under Gen. MacArthur landed on the Lingayen Gulf coast of Luzon island in the Philippines and are now advancing southeastward toward Manila. At the same time, American forces on Mindoro and Marinduque Islands (broken arrows) are threat ening the Japs from the south. Predicts Increase In Textile Wages Emil Rieve Expects Order Soon For 55 Cents An Hour Minimum Wage Scale WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—(SP)—Emil Rieve, president of the Cio-textile workers, said today there is every indica tion that a minimum wage of 55 cents an hour will be order ed for all southern cotton textile workers. He predicted a general increase of five cents an hour. Rieve denied, however, that the north-south wage differential was involved. The union, in demands on which the War Labor board is expected to announce its decision shortly has asked a minimum of 60 cents for both south and north workers. Rieve said he replied to a tele gram sent yesterday to all south ern members of congress by W. H. Hightower of the American Cot ton Manufacturers association to the effect that the traditional wage differential between the north and south is being ^tped out. “Neither the union nor the em ployers know just what the pro posed NWLB order in the cotton textile case will contain, but both See PREDICTS Page 2 WHAT'S DOING TODAY 7:00 pm.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—C. A. P. class meets at armory. FRIDAY 12:30 pm.—Rotary club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:00 pm.—Double header bas ketball game at. Shelby high school gym between Shelby and Lincolnton. THE WAR TODAY: German Counteroffensive May Prove A Boomerang By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer Associated Press War Analyist The battle of the Belgian bulge continues to go so well for the Al lies that, without over-reaching for our conclusions, we can say Nazi Field Marshal von Rund stedt’s counter - offensive not only may profit his masters little but may prove to be a nasty boome rang. The latest high-ranking expon ent of this idea is Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, commander of the U. S. 12th Army group in France, who says the Germans’ drive may ma terially affect their “ability to re sist.” That is, their ability to pro long the war may have been re duced. The general warns, how ever, that this doesn’t mean we can assure the Hitlerites are on the verge of collapse, since there’s much fighting to come — a wise qualification. Rundstedt is falling back from the western tip of that long, nar row bulge which is contracting about him. The way things look he will continue to withdraw until ultimately he again reaches his frontier defenses. Now this doesn’t mean he is running away. He’s See GERMAN Page 3 GREEKS NEAR AGREEMENT ATHENS, Jan. 11—VP)—Lt. Gen Ronald M. Scobie's headquarters announced today that after nin< hours of discussion British author ities and leftwing ELAS leader! have reached “a large measure oi agreement over terms for a cease fire order.” The conferences were opened here yesterday while sporadic fighting continued some miles out side Athens, where British armor ed columns were driving retreat ing ELAS forces deeper in to the hills. Pour ELAS leaders are partici pating in the armistice conferenc es, which are taking place ir British headquarters. GREECE "SAVED” A delegation claiming to repre sent 15 Greek trades unions called upon British Ambassador Reginald Leeper yesterday and thankee British authorities for “saving Greece from communism.” As Leeper received the delegation British headquarters disclosed that British armored forces, pursuing leftwing ELAS militia retreating from Athens, had driven north ward to within 10 miles of Lamia which is about 90 miles from the capital. Other British forces were re ported within five miles of Cor inth, 45 miles west of Athens. Members of the delegation said they would like to send represen tatives to London to talk with of ficials of the British trade union congress—which ahs been critica of the British government’s role in Greece—or have a TUC delega tion visit Athens. Bulletin LONDON, Jan. 11.—(/P)—Jap anese broadcasts today declared American forces had attempted a new landing on Luzon yes terday at La bon, 10 miles north of Fabian, but were beaten off. At the same time, Tokyo said. Japanese ground forces were “engaging a considerable num ber of American tanks in vio lent fighting following the in itial landing.” Americans Drive Inland, Meeting Slight Opposition By C. YATES McDANIEL GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 11.—(A3)—Manila-bound American infantrymen stretch ed their beachhead over 22 miles of Lingayen gulf and drove inland from four key towns today toward impending major battles with Japanese reinforcements struggling north over bomb-cut roads. . Only damaging opposition came at sea where night-at tacking Japanese planes and torpedo boats hit several ships in a convoy bringing up 14th corps reinforcements. On 4and, the Yanks seized 20 towns and villages, cap tured Lingayen airfield and pushed their advanced spear heads to a little more than 100 miles north of Manila. No where was serious resistance reported. Thursday’s communique announced the doughboys over ran the towns of San Fabian, Lingayen, Mangaldan and Gagu pan in the first 24 hours and pressed inland for an average advance of four miles. Patrols were well ahead of this average penetration. A field dispatch from Fred Hampson, Associated Press war correspondent disclosed units of the 14th army corps pushing west along the coast from Lingayen, were within two miles of Port Sual. This broadened the base of the American drive to cover 22 miles of the southern Lingayen coastline. The 7th fleet continued to pour troops, armament and supplies on to the beachhead while Gen. To moyuki Yamashita pulled his scat tered Japanese divisions together. A few-bomb carrying Japanese swam or drifted among American vessels under cover of darkness in futile human-torpedo attacks on the crowded ships.' Associated Press Correspond ent A1 Dopking reported the Japanese approached American vessels “in slow boats, or swim-j ming with their heads hidden under boxes, and pushing before them “hand-made torpedoes, tiny bombs and even hand gre nades.” One hurled himself on the deck ’of a small craft and was blown to bits. Two others tried to blow up a destroyer by tying hand grenades to its fan tail. Unloading operations went ahead without interruption despite these attacks, ineffective night aerial sorties, and fifty-thousand tons oi guns, tanks, munitions, engineering and aviation equipment was un loaded the first day, with four times that amount scheduled tc be laid down by tonight. American artillery-spotting planes began using the 7,000 foot long Lingayen air field yesterday. Only the prompt withdrawal ol the Japanese garrison from Lin gayen Gulf saved it from early destruction, for in no place on the invasion sector did Yamashita have sufficient power to withstand the blow struck by sea, air and land power Jan. 9. Correspondent Hampson reported troops from the Lingayen sectoi pressed about five miles inland, in addition to expanding their holidng on the shore. He said the 14th Corps had over run about 20 towns and villages including Lingayen, capital ol Pangasinan province. Port Sual is a fair ship anchorage. Hampson s»id reconstruction ol See AMERICANS Page 2 GOVERNOR GETS WAR POWERS Emergency Powers Grant ed Broughton, Reinstat ed For Cherry RALEIGH, Jan. 11.— {if) —The senate passed a bill today to rein state the emergency powers of the governor, giving him unusual au thority over "the health, welfare, safety and protection of the civil ian population" during the war. The 1943 legislature accorded the same authority to former Gover nor Broughton, but the measure expired last week. With approval of the council of state, Governor Cherry could for mulate and execute plans for the distribution of food, fuel clothing and other necessities of life and health, and other resources neces sary or useful in the prosecution of the war. He could organize and coordinate civilian defense; order and carry out blackouts, radio si lences, etc.; mobilize and direct the activities of police firefighting, health, street and highway repair, public utility, medical and welfare forces; control traffic; authorize the temporary transfer of personnel of the state for employment by the armed forces; and would have wide authority over other activities. The measure was introduced by See GOVERNOR Page 3 France To Have Army PARIS, Jan. 11. —<7P>— France ! will have an army 1,200,000 strong, 1 equipped and well armed with the ; latest American material, by the I end of spring, War Minister Andre j Diethelm declared today on his return from a tour of the Alsatian battlefront. WAR STRATEGY: Big Three Expected To Meet Around February 1 WASHINGTON, Jan 11—(JP)—A i sweeping review of Allied grand j strategy is expected to be made by military and political chiefs be ginning with the big three con ference around February 1. A whole series of events is fore-j ing this review and probably dras tic revisions of Allied thinking, the latest being the American invas ion of Luzon. The problem is to relate future operations in the Pa cific. where the war is moving at high speed, to coming operations in Europe where the developments are on a badly delayed timetable. Estimates that as a result of the j i German offensive that the Euro pean war might be prolonged three to six months, furnish the key5' to the problem. Over ail strategy has to be plan ned. where possible, years in ad vance. The Allied chiefs of staff began charting a return to Luzon not long after American forces were compelled to evacuate that bastion in early 1942. MAXIMUM FORCE From the first it was assumed that any major operations beyond that point would require maxi See BIG THREE Fate t
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