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“DESTINY”
Starring
ALAN CURTIS & GLORIA JEAN
NEWS—MUSICAL—CARTOON
CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XLIII-17
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
FRIDAY, JAN. 19, 1945
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CITY IN RUINS
> Population Of Warsaw
Wiped Out Or Exiled
LONDON, Jan. 19.—(JP)—Soviet Russia’s leading, war corre
spondent reported today that the Germans had exiled every
living inhabitant of Warsaw before yielding the Polish capital
to the Red army.
Describing the newly seized city as "one big ruin, smelling
of burning destruction,” M. Makarenko wrote in Pravda:
"No single live human was among this devastation. The
Germans had exiled all the inhabitants.”
The Communist party newspaper story was broadcast by
- the Moscow radio and was recorded in London.
A graphic account of Warsaw’s capture was given.
"Soviet and Polish troops are marching to the west along
wrecked streets,” the correspondent wrote. “The inhabitants
are coming back to a city which has practically ceased to exist.
_____ "During the abortive uprising of last August the Germans
wrought destruction with sadistic brutality, methodically turn
ing street after street to ashes.”
He declared all the most widely known structures in the
city were destroyed. These included the Royal Castle, Belve
dere Castle (presidential palace), the tomb of the unknown sol
dier, and the Chopin Monumen.t
Kirk Says Draft Of
Nurses Imperative
Army's Surgeon General Points Out Increase Of 270
Per Cent In Battle Casualty Patients
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—(/P)—The army’s surgeon
general said today inadequacy of nursing Care, hi the"TS85'
of a 270 per cent increase in battle casualty patients, makes
it imperative that nurses be drafted.
ALL READY FOR
INAUGURATION
Ceremony Will Be Short,
President's Speech About
500 Words
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.—(/TV
Rugs came out of the White House
today, more Roosevelts moved in.
and the president who has served
longest toiled over what may be
history's shortest Inaugural address.
In an ungamished, abbreviated
ceremony at noon tomorrow, Presi
dent Roosevelt will take the oath of
office for an epochal fourth time,
then deliver the speech. He is aim
ing at 500 words.
Thus he may lower the record of
the last wartime chief executive,
Abraham Lincoln, whose second
Inaugural address approximated 600
words.
Hundreds of feet will be tramp
ing White House corridors tomor
row. So hard-to-replace rugs were
rolled up and put in temporary
storage. Some 1,500 guests, the top
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RAF Bombers Attack
Targets In Germany
LONDON. Jan. 19—(/P)— RAP
bombers kept the Allied aerial of
fensive going last night with a
series of attacks on targets in
western Germany despite bad
weather, the air ministry announ
ced today.
The targets were not immedi
ately identified, but the Berlin ra
dio said the raiders ranged as far
as the Hannover and Brunswick
areas.
The air ministry said all planes
returned safely.
Since May. said MaJ. Oen. Nor
man T. Kirk, "our patients have
Increased from 260,000 to 450,000,”
while the number of army nurses
has risen only 2,000.
Appearing before the house mili
tary committee, the surgeon gen
eral gave all-out support to the
nurse draft proposal made by
President Roosevelt two weeks ago
In his "State of the Union” mes
sage to congress.
"We are now receiving In
army hospitals of this country,”
Kirk testified, 30,000 to 32,000
patients each month, as com
pared with 8,500 In the first
half of 1944. This is an increase
of 270 per cent.”
“Approximately 15,000 leave hos
pitals each month. Thus those
received double those released.
“The increased battle casualties,
added to those requiring hospital
ization because of sickness and
disease, has greatly enlarged the
demand for nurses. It Is to meet
this demand that I now favor the
application of selective service to
fill Immediately the shortage in
the supply of nurses.’ ’
SERVICE ACT
Kirk's testimony Interrupted com
mittee work on work-or-be-drafted
legislation for men between 18 and
45. An anti-closed shop amend
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Eighth Army Smashes
Small Nazi Foothold
ROME, Jan. 19—(ff)—Counter
attacking Eighth Army forces have
smashed a small bridgehead which
the Germans established on the
south bank of the Senio river
earlier this week and have driven
the enemy back across the stream,
Allied headquarters announced to
day.
Headquarters disclosed yesterday
that the bridgehead had been es
tablished near Fuslgnano, about
13 miles northeast of Faenza and
14 miles inland from the Adriatic
coast.
Confession Of Martin Read
In Court; Trial Moves Along
BOONVILLE, Mo., Jan. 19.—(JP)
—The trial of Edward Jewett Mar
tin, charged with slaying his rich
grandmother, moved swiftly toward
Its end today after the Introduc
tion of a long statement ascribed
to Martin In which he related the
tortures of carrying the decompos
ing body of Mrs. Edward M. Jew
ett on a 1300-mile ride from here
to Durham, N. C.
Defense attorneys offered no ob
jection to the introduction of the
document by the state at a night
session last night climaxing the
first day of the trial of the 24
year-old Charlotte, N. C. chemist
on a second degree murder charge.
The statement said Mrs. Jew
ett, wealthy Boonrille woman
who had reared Martin since
he was a child, was killed ac
cidentally last May 9 alter
she fell from a par while
struggling to take a bottle of
rum away from her grandson.
In It Martin described his panic
at finding his grandmother was
dead after he backed the car
over her, of alternate periods of
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DEFENDERS OF
BUDAPEST GIVE
UP POSITIONS
Fall Of Krakow Pufs Rus
sians 47 Miles From
Silesian Border
FOURTH”OFFENSIVE
LONDON, Jan. 19.—(&)—
Marshal Stalin’s forces cap
tured the l,20(Ky ear-old city
of Krakow, 47 miles from
German’s Silesian border, to
day and the Germans said the
Red army had battled into
Lodz in a mighty sweep of
western Poland.
The fall of Krakow collaps
ed the strongest German po
sition in southern Poland and
released large Soviet forces
for a descent on German in
dustry. The city was the an
cient capital of Poland and
the capital of the government
general that/Hitler set up in
that country.
Complete liberation of Budapest
was • foreshadowed by the derman
high command, which _ said the
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JftlfA ftEgORDS
TO BE CIVEN
Eugene Munsel and Company,
Inc., of New York, large mica fab
ricators have 60 days in which to
produce a large number of records
and prepare for government in
spection in connection with the in
quiry now being made by the de
partment of justice of the whole
mica industry.
At a hearing held yesterday be
fore Judge Webb, the court grant
ed the bulk of the requests of the
government for documents of this
company which go back to January
1941. The attorneys for Munsel and
company had already agreed to
most of the requests and other
companies Involved in the investi
gation had previously agreed with
government counsel on what papers
should be furnished.
Agreement was also reached be
tween the government and the at
torneys for the companies involved
in the inquiry that Judge Webb
need not call a grind Jury togeth
er until the government is ready to
produce its evidence, If It does pro
duce any.
Eugene Munsel and company was
represented by B. S. Womtoie, of
Winston-Salem, Twomby and Lew
' . of New York. Tile government
was represented by Otto Engle
hardt, a special agent with the de
partment of justice and Worth
McKinney, assistant United States
district attor \ey.
B-29’s From Marianas Batter
Japs' Home Island Of Honshu
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—(/P)—
Superfortresses attacked Indus
trial installations on Japan’s home
island of Honshu today and Tok
yo said Kobe was the target.
General of the Army H. M. Ar
nold, commanding the 20th Air
Force, said the B-29s of Brig. Gen.
Haywood S. Hansell’s 21st bomber
command basdd in the Marianas
struck by daylight.
No additional details were an
nounced. The War department
will release another communique
on the raid when operational re
ports are received.
Tokyo in identifying the target
as Kobe admitted the B-29s caus
ed "some damage.”
Today's strike rounds out 41
major missions since last June
and 10 since January 1 of this
year against industrial and
military targets of the Nippon
ese empire. Small numbers
of Superforts conduct fre
quent harassing' and recon
naisance raids which are not
reported by 20th air force
headquarters.
The Tokyo radio yesterday re
ported reconnoitering B-29s over
Osaka and Kobe. Some 250 miles
southwest of Tokyo, Kobe and
Osaka are among Japan’s prime
industrial centers. Their contig
uous factory areas produce tanks,
planes, guns and explosives and
ships.
A city of 900,000, Kobe has large
railway marshalling yards. No
previous B-29 raids against this
city have been reported by the
20th air force.
Possibly the Superforts were
gunning for Kobe’s plane plants.
Aircraft plants are the highest
priority targets in Japan.
B-29 strikes against aircraft in
stallations in Tokyo, Omura and
Nagoya already have forced the
Japanese to move some plants un
derground and to chart further
large scale removal.
In this offensive to neutralize
Nippon’s air power at its source.
General Hansell’s 21st bomber
command is aided by the 20th
bomber command based in China
and India and commanded by Ma
jor Gen. Curtis E. Lemay.
Today’s radio lent emphasis to
a warning directed to the Japa
nese people by the Formosa radio
that “the Japanese empire is real
ly facing a crisis.”. Earlier the
Tokyo radio said “single enemy B
29s are persistently carrying out
separate raids on Japan.” The
broadcast reported single B-29s
over Tokyo and Korea as well as
the Osaka-Kobe area.
SHUFORD TALKS
TO KIWANIANS
Takes Theme From Prin
ciple Of International
Labor Conference
"Poverty anywhere constitutes
a menace to prosperity every
where” was the theme of an ad
dress by Forrest Shuford, North
' Carolina commissioner , of labor,
to the Shelby IClWanls clunat the
meeting at the Charles hotel last
night. He was presented by Hor
ace Grigg, who was in charge of
the program, and the meeting
was presided over by the new
president, Reid Misenheimer.
Speaker Shuford, a native of
Cleveland county, took his sub
ject from one of the fundamental
principles in the declaration adopt
ed at the conference of the Inter
national Labor office in Philadel
phia in April and May, 1944. The
North Carolina commissioner was
a presidential appointee to this
conference which was attended by
delegations representing 41 na
tions.
"The peoples of other countries
all over the world are looking to
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Labor Urges Congress
To Oust Service Act
DETROIT, Jan, 19 —(^>—
Spokesmen for both management
and labor urged Congress today to
disapprove national service legis
lation, contending that the great
war production centers of Detroit
and Michigan have a labor sur
plus rather than a shortage.
John L. Lovett, general mana
ger of the Michigan Manufactur
ers’ association, asserted the De
troit area’s factories could handle
20 per cent more war contracts
than they now have.
URDANETA TAKEN:
First Bitter Fight
Of Luzon Invasion
24-Hour Tank And Artillery Battle Rages Before
Enemy Force Is Wiped Out
GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon,
Jan. 19.—(JP)—American mobile guns, mortars and armor,
smashing a cleverly concealed concentration of Japanese
-tanka and. artillery in.-v& 24-hour battle»~oapt«red the-high
way Three town of Urdaneta early yesterday in the first
bitter fight of the Luzon invasion.
Seizure of the key town of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s left flank
opened the northern section of
the main Manila-Baguio highway
to the Yanks.
Meantime an American column
20 miles south along the same vi
tal highway Three captured the
road and railroad junction of Pa
niqui in a five-mile gain and
pressed on toward the important
city of Tarlac. 70 road miles from
Manila. Another infantry force
approached Tarlac obliquely down
another road from Camiling.
All advances .were supported
directly by American war
planes operating off the Lin
gayen airdrome. Formosa and
even parts of the China coast
now are within reach of long
range fighters.
(The Formosa domestic radio
warned today that large scale
enemy air raids "will be intensi
fied henceforth.” In a broadcast
picked up by the federal commun
ications commission the Formosa
announcer said “the ferocity of
the war now raging is unprece
dented in war annals of the world,
and the Japanese empire is really
facing a crisis.”
FJRST FIGHT
At Urdaneta, 27 road miles south
east of Lingayen gulf, the Luzon
Japanese made their first determ
ined effort to stand and fight. The
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FBI ALERT;
3 Nazi Agents
Under Orders
To Enter U. S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19— (#)—
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to
day sounded an alert lor three Nazi;
espionage agents who, he said, are
under orders to enter the United
States.
Hoover said the tfiree men have
been trained in espionage and
sabotage and were' associated dur
ing their trainings overseas with
Erich Gimpel and William C. Cole
paugh who were arrested by the
FBI in New York last month after
allegedly landing on the Maine
coast from a submarine in Novem
ber.
Hoover asked the nation to
be on the lookout for the men
and to report any suspicious
persons to the nearest FBI of
fice.
He identified the men as Max
Christian Johannes Scheeman, 44,
a former resident of Pereira, Col
ombia, South America; Hans Ru
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Form Solid Front
Against 7th Army
PARIS, Jan. 19.—(/P)—The Germans burst out of the
northern end of the Rhine bridgehead above Strasbourg to
day and linked up with other forces in northeast Alsace,
forming a solid front against the U. S. 7th army along 40
miles of the Maginot Line as far west as Bitche.
The situation on the southern front was regarded at
supreme headquarters as increasingly grave. Into this po
tential springboard for another big attack, the enemy was
pouring a steady stream of reinforcements over ferries and
pontoon bridges, thrown across the Rhine from Strasbourg
to Karlsruhe.
In northern Luxembourg, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s
Third Army was on the move again under fire of Siegfried
Line big guns after breaking the German Sure river line.
The Americans were pressing the enemy back against the
Oure river boundary within six miles of heavily fortified
Trier. His latest advances ranged to two miles or better.
The Third Army men fought in white camouflage suits,
blending with the deep snow.
BIG VOTE OF
CONFIDENCE
FOR CHURCHILL
LONDON, Jan. 19.—1/PV—An
attempt to express censure of
Prime .Minister Churchill’s in
terventionist policy in liberat
ed lands was beaten 340 to 7
today in the House of Com
mons.
Technically the vote was on
a war appropriations bill. Some
critical Laborites announced
beforehand that although they
opposed British policy in Greece
and Italy, they would not vote
against the bill on the grounds
they might be accused of im
pending the war effort.
Shortly before the vote, Eden
told commons that Britain
would place before the forth
coming “Big Three” confer
ence a demand for creation of
machinery with power to deal
quickly and jointly with inter
national political problems. He
said Britain was ready to go
to almost any length “in order
that the machinery may func
tion.”
lhe British government,
Eden said, was “not fully satis
fied with the existing machin
ery for international coopera
tion on a political plane, “and
had been “rather troubled” for
some time about the setup.
Earlier in the two-day war
debate Laborite Aneurin Sevan
had charged that Prime Min
ister Churchill had distorted
facts and had “the worst rec
ord of intervention in other
people’s affairs of any states
man.”
In one of the most bitter
attacks ever made on the prime
minister in Commons, a speech
which, drew protests from mem
bers, Bevan declared that “there
is no single politician more
capable of distorting the facts
than the prime minister.” He
asserted secret commitments by
Churchill were a factor in "the
Greek tragedy.”
Eden called again for more
frequent meetings of the big
powers—“not necessarily of the
heads of government who have
heavy charges to bear and can
not constantly meet”—but at
least of foreign secretaries.
The British on the north cap
tured Hongen, two miles Inside
Germany in their thrust from the
Dutch Panhandle between the
Maas (Meuse) and Roer.
German stands on the north
side of the bulge solidified within
four miles of St. Vith.
U. S. First Army troops were
blocked four miles north of St.
Vith.
Above Stransbougr, however,
the Germans were able to Hnk
up their cross-Rhine bridge
head with the Karlsburg cor
ner northwest of Haguenan by
capturing Dalhunden, Statt
matten and Dengolsheim, the
U. S. 7th Army announced.
This provided the attacking
foe with a narrow Rhine cor
ridor along which he could
shift and reinforce his divis
ions. It was a sharp setback
for the Americans.
In northern France, the Ameri
can 7th Army lost its toeholds in
Herrlisheim and Sessenheim, but
captured Auenheim and Leuter
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FATS AND OILS
ARE RATIONED
Sales Of Shortening And
Cooking Fats Frozen
Until Monday
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—(^p>—
Housewives trying to stretch food
ration points over a fast-growing
list of commodities requiring
stamps had the added task today
of budgeting for fats and oils.
They have three days to do the
job, for the OPA last night
“freeze” until Monday all retail
sales of lard, other shortening
and salad and cooking oils. When
the ban is lifted at that time each
of these products will be rationed
at two red points a pound.
The sales halt was ordered, OPA
said, to prevent runs on short sup
plies while the trade takes steps
to put rationing into effect.
Under these circumstances, and
since other shortening and oils
are used interchangeably with
lard, return of these commodities
to rationing “is necessary if civil
ians are to be given an opportun
ity to obtain their fair share of
the shortened supply," Price Ad
ministrator Chester Bowles said.
Lard had been point-free since
last March and the other items
See FATS Page 2
Assembly Considers Teacher
Pay, Statutes Commission
RALEIGH, Jan. 19.—(JP)—Bills to:
fix a minimum salary schedule for
public school teachers and to ere-1
ate a general statutes commission
which would advise and cooperate
with the division of legislative
drafting and codification of sta
tutes were introduced today in the
legislature.
The teacher bill, sent up by
Reps. Gass of Forsyth, Bender of
Johnston, Storz of Wilkes, Cover
of Cherokee, Goodman of Mecklen
burg and others, and in the senate
by Matheny of Rutherford, would
pay non-standard teachers a start
ing salary of $75 a month and
holders of masters’ certificates,
with 11 years experience, a top
of $200 a month.
Class “A" certificate holders
would be paid $125 a month to
start, and $175 if they have 11
years experience.
RANGE HIGHER
The range, therefore, is higher I
than the recommendation of the
advisory budget commission, which
embodied the teacher salary sche
dule in the general appropriations
bill for the first time in the state's
history. The recommended top was
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