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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XLIII-19
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
MONDAY, JAN. 22, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
SINGLE COPIES—6c
Invading Annies, Only
* 80 Miles Apart, Threaten
To Split Area In Two
LONDON, Jan 22.—Russian armies captured Inster
burg today in a sweep which rapidly was engulfing East
Prussia and drove past the Vistula bend in Poland to within
182 miles of Berlin.
The second and third White Russian armies, driving into
East Prussia from the southwest and northeast, were only
80 miles from a junction which would slice East Prussia in
two.
. Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s central offensive overran
Labiszyn, 182 miles from Berlin and only 11 miles southwest
of Bydgoszcz at the elbow of the Vistula, where it turns
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norm 10 jjanzig.
Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) is the
seventh city of Poland with a pop
ulation of 141,000.
It is 90 miles southwest of Dan
zig, 190 miles from Berlin and 34
miles from the German border
of Pomerania,
Inowroclaw, Aleksandrow, and
Argenaualso were captured in
Zhukov's drive on the main route
from Warsaw to Berlin. All three
towns are within 32 miles of By
dgoszcz.
Insterburg, a city of 40,000 pop
ulation, is only 50 miles from Ko
nigsberg, capital of East Prussia,
and is 37 miles Inside the prov
ince.
Stalin announced the fall of
the key railway center in his
18th order of the day In six
days, and praised 44 generals
for taking part in the capture.
Moscow dispatches said Cherni
akhovsky's tanks had blazed a
path to within 26 miles of Konlgs
berg on the northeast in a con
quest which was overrunning al
most half the rich old province of
Prussian estates.
Apparently this was the neigh
borhood of the lower end of the
Kurisches Haft, coastal lagoon.
DEFEN8E CALL
Berlin called for a defense of the
Reich by all Germans who can
handle a weapon. Marshal Stalin's
five great armies, smashing along
an 800-mile front from the Baltic
to Budapest, bore down on Berlin
from 195 miles at two places and
rolled over many German towns
and villages in Silesia 28 miles from
Breslau, Adolf Hitler’s ninth city.
Only a square of northwestern "
Polish territory about 100 miles
wide and 160 miles long re
mained as a buffer between
Stalin’s massed forces and the
length of the German frontier.
The German communique lnfer
entially admitted the Soviet cap
ture of Tannenberg, East Prussian
military shrine, by announcing
that Marshal Konstantin Rokos
See INVADING Page 2
Wallace Calls For
Full Employment
Opposition To His Appointment Spreads On Capitol
Hill; Jones Resentful
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—(£>)—Henry A. Wallace call
ed for “full and efficient employment” throughout the na
tion today as opposition to his appointment as secretary of
commerce spread on capitol hill.
SPANGLER WILL
HEAD WAR FUND
Red Cross Campaign Will
Open Nationally
March 1
Mai A. Spangler, sr., will again
direct the Red Cross War Fund
campaign It was announced today
by Dale R. Yates, chapter chair
man, who said the well known
civic leader had agreed to accept
the chairmanship lor his fourth
successive year.
Cleveland county’s quota In the
national campaign, which begins
March 1, will be made known to
chapter officials in the very near
future, Mr. Yates said In reveal
ing that the national asking will
be in the neighborhood of $25,000,
000.
SERVICE UP 12 PER CENT
The Red Cross has expend
ed its service by 12 per cent
nationally and internationally
under war time operations of
the past 12 months in the 3,
757 chapters comprising the
organisation. Work of the lo
cal chapter, particularly in the
field of home service to fami
lies of those in service, has
been expanded far more than
12 per cent, according to Mrs.
W. R. Casstevens, secretary.
The campaign in Cleveland
county will be timed according to
the national drive and Mr. Spang
ler hopes to have his city and
county organizations in shape for
an intensive drive to be launched
on the opening date and be cleaned
up as rapidly as possible.
In announcing the acceptance
by Mr. Spangler of the chairman
ship, Mr. Yates said the Red Cross i
and the public are fortunate to1
have secured so competent a lead
er and added that he is confident
the goal will with whole-hearted
public cooperation, be not only
attained but also exceeded as in
past years under Mr. Spangler’s
direction.
Even before his nomination to
take over the job of protesting
Jesse Jones reached the Senate,
the former vice president Issued
a statement saying:
“I am happy that the Presi
dent has named me to a posi
tion providing for continuous
activity in the public welfare.
“In the highly geared world
of today and tomorrow, there
must be full and efficient em
ployment throughout the na
tion.”
The Senate received Wallace’s
formal nomination from the White
House shortly after It convened
at noon.
In what appeared to be a bid for
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. —
I^V-A move to strip Henry A.
Wallace of control over Federal
loan and financing agencies as
commerce secretary was start
ed in the senate today by Fin
ance Committee Chairman
George (D-Ga).
southern democratic support when
his nomination comes up for con
firmation, Wallace summed up
his new Job as one designed to
See WALLACE Page 2
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U. S. AIRMEN
SHOOT DOWN 16
JAP PLANES
Carrier Aircraft In New
Raids On Formosa And
Ryukyus
AIR REINFORCEMENTS
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl
Harbor, Jan. 22.—(^—Unit
ed States carrier-based air
craft, which Japanese reports
said were again striking at
Formosa and the Ryukyus,
shot down 16 enemy planes
attempting to reach the Phil
ippine battlefront on Luzon.
This Navy interception of air
reinforcements for Gen. Tomoya
ki Yamashita’s hard-pressed Lu
zon force was reported in a Pacific
fleet communique yesterday. It
said the enemy planes, flying from
Formosa, were shot down Friday.
The communique made no
mention of any new attack on
Formosa which Tokyo radio
said was being raided, along
with Okinawa island in the
Ryukyus, by about 450 carrier
based planes. The Tokyo re
port added that “air battles
are now raging” and that 38
raiding planes had been de
stroyed and 21 others damag
ed. It said “several cities and
towns were badly damaged.”
Such eaesqy yepqrfci Owquently
precede official amw(Rfeeftu$nt
from this headquarters of fleet op
erations. Adm. William F. Halsey’s
Third fleet carrier planes last hit
Formosa Jan. 14 and 15 after
raids along the Indo-Chlna and
China coast.
(Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s com
munique, issued at Luzon, said
8m V. S. AIRMEN Page 2
ALLIED AIRMEN
OVER GERMANY
Britain B»«d Bombers At
tack Military Targets
Today
LONDON, Jan. 22. —<AP>— Flying
Fortresses and Liberators from
Britain braved wintry gales over
the continent and bombed targets
inside Germany this afternoon.
Blizzards checked the pace of the
Allied air operations during the
morning.
The day raid followed nn attack
on Kassel, 75 miles south of Han
nover, last night by RAF bomb
ers.
Yesterday American reavy bomb
ers from Britain, flying in tem
peratures as low as 67 degrees be
low zero, plastered rail targets in
southwest Germany while Italy
based bombers attacked objectives
in Austria.
Nine hundred U. S. Eighth air
force Liberators and Fortresses,
with an escort of 500 fighters, hit
Mannheim, Aschaf f enburg and
Hellbronn. A medium force of hea
vy bombers from the U. S. 15th
airforce skirted the Alps ad pene
trated as far north as Vienna.
Continent-based dive bombers of
the U. S. Ninth Air force flew 539
sorties, principally against motor
transport and armored circles on
German roads east of the Arden
nes.
THE WAR TODAY:
Germany In Tight Spot,.
Caught Between Two Fronts
By DeWITT MacKENZIE.Al* Writer
Germany's position in the path
of the Red avalanche hourly be
comes more grim.
Muscovite forces have bludgeon
ed their way well into German in
dustrial Silesia on the road to
Breslau, important railway center
and next to Berlin the greatest
city in Prussia. They’ve stormed in
to East Prussia and captured Tan
neberg, scene of Russia’s greatest
defeat in the last war and Val
halla of the Prussian militarism
which the Allies have vowed to
destroy as the curse of Europe. The
Red war machine is driving the
Hitlerites before it across the
frozen plains of {Roland towards
the borders of the Reich.
How long can the Germans hold
out against this terrific offensive
—an onslaught unprecedented in
history for weight!and intensity?
The Hitlerites are trank to admit
that the European war has en
tered its decisive stage. The only
point in doubt ip How long the
Reich can hold out.
In trying to find an answer we
shouldn’t jump to the conclusion
See GERMANY Page 2
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CROWD ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN FOR INAUGURAL—President Franklin D. Roosevelt takes his fourth
term oath on the rear porch of the White House as diplomats, members of congress, and distinguished
guests look on in foreground, standing in the snow. On the porch are cabinet members, Supreme court jus
tices, and their wives. Roosevelt grandchildren watch from stairs.
DR. BARNHARDT
DEATH YICT1M
Rites This Afternoon For
Well-Known Methodist
Minister
Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon of
Charlotte and District Superinten
dent E. M. Jones of Gastonia head
ed a group of Methodist leaders
gathered In Shelby this afternoon
to pay final tribute with local
friends and associates to the me
mory of Dr. J. H. Barnhardt. 71,
whose 46 years of faithful service
as a minister of the Methodist
church closed with his death here
Sunday morning.
The funeral at 4:30 p.m. in
Central Methodist church is being
conducted by the Rev. Paul Bardin,
Jr., assisted by Rev. J. S. Gibbs and
Rev. R. M. Hauss. Burial will be in
Sunset cemetery here.
Death came to Dr. Barnhardt,
long a leader in the Western North
Carolina Conference, at Shelby
hospital just a week after he had
suffered a stroke at his home here.
Two days prior to that he had
participated in the Crusade for
Christ rally at Central Methodist
church and had been actively
leading the newly-organized Hoyle
Memorial church for whose pas
torate he emerged from a two-year
retirement.
FROM MARION
Dr. Barnhardt came to Shelby to
live from Marion after serving
several of the leading pastorates
of the Western North Carolina
Conference, including Asheville’s
Central church, Greensboro’s West
Market street church, High Point’s
See J. H. BARNHARDT Page 2
ROBBERIES ARE
CLEARED UP
Robbery of the A. J. Putnam
store at Waco, Joe Philbeck’s
station and City Service station in
Shelby, all of which occurred on
the same night, has been cleared
up with the arrest of James Phil
lip Neal and Robert Putnam, both
of Cherryville, it was announced
this morning by Sheriff J. R. Cline
who worked with Highway Patrol
man H. D. Ward and Gaston coun
ty officers on the case. The defen
dants were arrested last night in
Cherryville by Patrolman Ward
and the Gaston officers.
Sheriff Cline said this morning
that both prisoners had admitted
a part in the robberies and that
part of the loot taken from the
Waco store has been recovered.
The prisoners will be given a
preliminary hearing in Gaston
county as well as in Cleveland
county as crimes took place in both
counties.
In all, Sheriff Cline said, there
are a dozen cases of breaking and
entering in which these defen
dants are involved, only three of
which are in Cleveland county.
They are also said to be wanted in
Knoxville, Tenn.
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MANPOWER SET-UP:
Stipulation; No Man Drafted For Job Can Be Required
To Join A Union
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—(/P)—The house military com
mittee wrote an anti closed-shop amendment into manpower
legislation today and refused to specify agriculture as a criti
cal industry.
The amendment, which mem
bers sajd was approved 14 to 10
in a closed session, stipulated that
no man taking an industrial job at
the request or direction of his
draft board should be required to
join a union as a condition of
employment.
Opponents contended the a
mendment, offered by Representa
tive Andrews (R-NY), would vio
late closed or union shop con
tracts between industry and la
bor.
The committee likewise turned
down an amendment by Represen
tative Stewart (D-Okla), to write
into the work-or-be-jailed legisla
tion a directive to selective service
to “consider agriculture as a criti
cal war industry” and to issue at
once a directive to local draft
board ordering them to follow the
letter of the Tydings amendment.
This portion of the selective ser
vice law spells out conditions un
der which farm workers may be
deferred from induction.
COAL, STEEL
Reports of alarming conditions
in coal and steel industries were
added today to the nation’s in
creasing problems over war man
power shortages.
But Congress hopes to have
some of the answers figured out
before this week end as the house
military affairs committee resum
es consideration of work-or-jail
legislation.
The steel industry, in indorsing
such legislation, sees these dan
ger signs ahead:
A reduced coal supply ....
down to a point to seriously
threaten steel mill operations.
Loss of manpower in the
steel mills in the approaching
induction of men aged 26
See ANTI Page 2
DRAFTEES GO
FOR INDUCTION
Henry Lawton Fogle Is
Named Leader Of Group
Off To Fort Bragg
A group of 89 selectees under
the leadership of Henry Lawton
Fogle left here this morning for
Fort Bragg for final induction into
the armed services. Sixty-three of
the group were fathers.
Assistant leaders were James
Buren Wilson and Gordon Lumley
Chambers. Hal Bridges and Joseph
Archie Moore were the only selec
tees who failed to answer to their
names. Their addresses are now
being sought by the draft board.
Those who left ware:
James Blanton Ponder
Bay William Moore
Matthew William Blanton
Carl Lathrage Mullinax
"Paul Clarence Nanney
John Lee Hicks
Thomas Cecil Powell
Roscoe Patterson Wright
Robert Eual Floyd
Alfred Mitchell Wilson
Allen Webb Gardner
Howard Bernard Bettis
James Buren Wilson
John Quentine Bridges
Colon Eli Hamrick
Jack Peterson
Loyd Lamar Cabaniss
Joe Wililamson Bowen
Coell Foster
Ernest Spurgeon Philbeck
John Albert Davidson
Harry Woodrow Fowler
Roy Franklin Sweezy
J. C. Runyan
See DRAF^ES Page 2
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Transport Trucks Caught
By Allied Warplanes In
Attempt At Getaway
PARIS, Jan. 22.—(A5)—Allied warplanes caught 3,000
German vehicles, the bulk of transport of an entire army, in
an attempted sneakaway from the Ardennes salient through
the Siegfried line to the Rhine, and tore them to pieces to
day in a ruinous daylong attack.
The planes attacked with bombs, rockets and machine
guns.
The nazis had waited too long to run the gantlet down
the snow drifted escape roads and were caught on two high
ways in concentrations so thick that the allied pilots said
afterwards “we couldn’t miss.”
There was every indication that the ruin would be the
greatest since the wounded wehrmacht fled for the Seine
through the Falaise Gap. The destruction of equipment
promised virtually to immobilize at least one of Field Mar
shal Von Rundstedt’s two mobile reserve armies.
BUSY WEEK FOR
LEGISLATORS
Spending Agencies Sche
duled For Appropria
tions Hearings
RALEIGH, Jan. 22.—UP)—With
several of the state’s largest spend
ing agencies schedvled for approp
riations hearings and a bill on
medical care and hospitalization
likely to hit the hoppers. North
Carolina’s legislators will begin to
night what promises to be a busy
week.
Slated for hearings before the
big, joint appropriations commit
tee this week are the departments
of public instruction and educa
tion, the highway and public works
commission, and mental institu
tions and sanitoriums.
A bill introduced simultaneously
in both houses last week to up the
l.ay scale of public school teachers
is expected to be discussed by the
committee in connection with the
education hearings and gives prom
ise of being one of the most con
troversial measures of the 1945 ses
sion.
Although the hospital and medi
cal care commission, appointed by
former Governor Broughton, has
scheduled a hearing for Jan. 30, it
is likely a bill, calling for a mini
mum of $5,000,000 for hospitalization
and expanded programs of health
education, may be introduced this
week.
Insurance is also expected to be
in the forefront of legislative pro
cedure during the week. Former
Governor Broughton’s appointed
commission to draw up strong reg
ulatory insurance laws will meet
Wednesday and probably will con
tinue its session for several days.
The legislature climaxed its third
week of activity by ratifying a bill
to restore the emergency war pow
ers of the governor and by receiv
ing the teacher-salary measure. The
finance committee, second largest
in the assembly, got down to work
on the budget revenue bill. Sched
uled for a hearing before the com
mittee this week are spokesmen
who probably will protest the pro
posed levy of a tax on motion pic
ture houses and theaters.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:30 p.m.—County Medical so
ciety meets at hospital.
TUESDAY
7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting
ot Lions club.
7:30 p.m.—C. A. P. meets at
armory.
7:30 p.m.—Cleveland lodge 202
A. F. & A. M. meets. Work in
third degree.
Tarlac Falls To Americans
By ELMONT WAITE
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 22:—yp) -
Tarlac, with its two airfields only
65 air miles from Manila, fell to
the swiftly-advancing Americans,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announc- j
ed today. The once proud city, most;
prosperous in the central Luzon I
plains, was reduced largely to I
smoking rubble by the fleeing Jap-!
anese only a few hours before the
Yanks arrived.
Seizure of the important rail
and highway junction put the
Americans nearly half way to
Manila from th£tr Lingayen gulf
jeachhead and within 22 miles of
Clark airfield, largest of the Phil
ippines. Adjacent to Clark field is
Fort Statsenburg, major military
post.
Tarlac, a city of 55,000 including
I its populous suburbs, was devas
i tated ,by the Japanese, who evi- j
j dently sprayed every building with :
. gasoline and applied torches as the 1
! Americans approached down two
converging highways.
Only bewildered, omeless Fili- j
1 pinos met their liberators.
Associated Press Correspondent j
Fred Hampson said the main body
of American troops entered the city
Sunday neon “too late to catch it
Japanese garrison but not too late
to experience the full extent oi
destruction wrought here by an
enemy which had abandoned it to
flames only a few hours before.” j
Tarlac had six miles of paved!
j streets, three hotels, four large,
j schools, provincial capitol buildings |
a large rice mill and hundreds of
! substantial shops and dwellings.
"We captured Tarlac all right,”
Sec TARLAC Page 3
Allied air cower intervened as
the American Third Army fought
into the strets of Wiltz, souttern
anchor of German defenses in
Luxembougr, and as the U. S.
First Army stormed into the open
from the forest belt protecting St.
Vith, 2 1-2 miles away.
On the north, the British closed
within three miles of the Roer
river near its confluence with the
Maas (Meuse) at the German
stronghold of Roermond in Hol
land. The French First Army
striking up froi» Mulhouse appar
ently was slewed down in deep
snow after gaining up to six
miles in two days. German attacks
north of Strasbourg apparently
were being held.
Two road jams, each con
taining roughly 1,500 vehicles
and each containing some
takns, were spotted by pilots
over the Ardennes at 5:30
a. m. These were kept under
attack for 90 minutes with ev
erything the planes could toss
through the overcast, which
hampered but did not stop the
' slaughter.
One concentration was in the
Prum area, behind the Siegfried
line and east of sharply menaced
St. Vith. The vehicles were head
ed toward Bohn on the Rhine
where heavy troop movements had
been observed earlier.
SECONDARY ROAD
The other was taking a secon
dary road eight miles north of Die
kirch, apparently bypassing Vian
den, a road junction close to the
Luxembourg-German border which
already was under American artil
See TRANSPORT Page 2
POLIO DRIVE
STARTSTODAY
School Children Begin
Campaign With A Solici
tation For Dimes
‘ Got a dime mister?’’
That isn't a panhandler talking
but a Cleveland county school
child who has been commissioned
to raise funds in the annual in
fantile paralysis drive which start
ed here this morning. Much pre
liminary work was done Saturday
by the school children who are
being given first whack at the
folks with their appeal made on
behalf of the less fortunate chil
dren who are afflicted or who may
hereafter be afflicted with polio.
Chairman John Anthony who
is directing the campaign said
this morning that preliminary re
ports from the schools have in
dicated that the work of silicita
tion has started with enthusiasm.
Work in the city schools of Shelby
is under the direction of Walter
Abernethy, superintendent of
schools; in the county schools un
der the direction of Horace Grigg,
:ounty superintendent; and in
ings Mountain by B. N. Barnes,
so superintendent of schools.
CHOOL QUOTA
The county school system has
been assigned $3,000 for its part
of the total Cleveland quota of
$12,800. This has been worked out
on the theory that each white
class room can give approximately
$13.50. This quota was worked
out bv a committee of principals
composed of D. W. Morris, of Beth
ware. W. R. Gary, of Fallston and
H. K. Leonhardt of Dover Mills.
See POLIO Taje S