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WEATHER Mostly cloudy and colder today, snow flurries in mountains. Cloudy and colder tonight. Temperatures 20-24 west and 24-28 east. Tuesday cloudy and cold, snow In mountains. Tshk Hhklhu Dairy Mr - State Theatre Today - “CAN’T HELP SINGING” Starring Deanna DURBIN & Robert PAIGE ¥«. _1_ A 1__ XT_ W K. /IlOU 11CTTO CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—25 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JAN. 29, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES_Be First Army Advances Two Miles, Takes 3 Towns Above St. Vith I Hopkins Visits Paris, London, Rome, Laying Foundation For Talks LONDON, Jan. 29.—(/P)—Harry L. Hopkins has visited London and Paris, meeting Prime Minister Churchill and General De Gaulle, and has gone on to Rome to see Pope Pius XII in an “information tour” for the President before the big-three parley. An American-imposed censorship had banned any men tion of HonUns’ movpmpnts until toHnv Hopkins’ tour of European capi tals underscored the role that dis cussions of the postwar political shape of Europe may play in the impending conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Hopkins spent a week in London, and reach ed Paris last Friday. Diplomats are speculating that an immediate surrender call to Germany might issue from the meeting of Allied leaders. i In Washington, Acting Secre tary of State Grew was asked to fell his news conference what sort of foreign policy outline Hopkins might be developing, but he declin ed to discuss the question on the record.) Pointing to the Russian drive toward Berlin and the possi bility that Gen. Eisenhower may he preparing to launch a big offensive from the west, some diplomatic sources expressed the view that President Roose velt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin would con sider the feasibility of a “sur render now” declaration to the Germans. A British foreign office commen tator disclosed that its propaganda to Europe was plugging Church ill's Jan. 18 speech in commons in which he told the Germans "if you surrender now nothing you will have to endure after the war will be comparable to what you other wise are going to suffer in 1945.” ALSO MOSCOW Hopkins’ Intention of conferring with DeGaulle as soon as he lelt London was known here. Well founded speculation was that he might go to Rome and even to Moscow before President Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet. Hopkins would be able to present first-hand views of problems affect ing France and Italy, as he gener ally is expected to attend the big meeting as a close advisor of Mr. Roosevelt. Hopkins' recent presence in Lon don posed a difficult problem for London correspondents, who wrote numerous stories last week about American advisors being In con ference. They could not name Hop kins. British censors made it clear they had no particular objection to using Hopkins' name, but they stopped all stories mentioning Hop kins at the request of American authorities. At the U. S. embassy, ft was staled that 1. wafc imposed for "security" reaions. Concert Tuesday By 125-P!ece Band Band Clinicians From Doxtn Schools Optn Clouts Htrt For Two-Day Sossion The 125-piece band concert at the armory at 8 p. m. Tuesday will be open to the public and will be staged under auspices of Company 30, N. C. State guard, it was announc ed today by Miss Dorothy Parker, director of the Shelby school band which is host to the visiting band leaders and members representing a dozen schools. ALLIED AIRMEN BATTER REICH Three Raids Made On Ber lin Lost Night By RAF Bombers LONDON, Jan. 29—OPT—Ameri can heavy bomber* with flghtei escort attacked objectives in Oer many today following up thre< raids on refugee-packed Berllr last night by RAP bombers. The daylight attacks came ai the Reich found Itself torn bj probably the greatest traffic tur moil of the war. The RAF mad< three raids before midnight or Berlin, where shelter facilitiei were believed taxed beyond ca pacity by refugees from the east. In addition the RAP plasterer ♦ he largest railroad yards lr Stuttgart with 3,000 tons ol bombs. The Ruhj industrial centers ol Cologne, Duisburg and Dortmunt felt the sting of nearly 2,000 Am erican and British planes yester day. Fuel plants, bridges ant railroad yards were the princlpa targets. The resumption of heavy bom ber blows after a four-day layofi caused by fog and snow came at t critical time for the Oerman hlgl command. During the lull tactical units or the continent waged constant warfare on western front rai lines, highways and blrdges, jam med night and day with east bound columns of enemy traffic. Labor Leader Wins Review Of Case WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. -(JPh Harry Bridges, west coast CIO laboi leader, today won a Supreme courl review of the legal fight he hai made against deportation to hk native Australia. Rehearsals of the sectional groups started at 10:30 this morn ing at the high school auditorium and the band building, continuing this afternoon with a session, two til four, at the armory. A similar schedule will be followed Tuesday, being climaxed with the concert In which the 65 visiting bandsters will play with the local band mem bership. Tonight at 7 o'clock at the high school cafeteria the visiting band members and leaders, the local band members, the faculty and school board members together with a few invited guests will attend the clinic banquet. Jimmy Collins, band captain, will preside, while Jack Cannon will be toastmaster and Rev. Paul Hardin, Jr., will bring the message of the occasion. Later a dance will be held In the high school gym. Tomorrow night’s concert will be under joint direction of Miss Par ker and James C. Pfohl, band di rector at Davidson college. Oliver Cook, of Charlotte’s Hard ing high school, president of the North Carolina Bandmaster’s as sociation, heads a list of a dozen well known band leaders here for the occasion and representing the dozen schools that Include Char lotte’s Central high, Henderson ville, Forest City, Lenoir, Oastonla, Kannapolis, Waynesville and Mar ion. An admission charge of 35 cents : will be made for the concert Tues day to defray expenses. First Allied Truck Convoy Enters China On Ledo Road UHU«UK-mu, jan. m w— The first Allied truck convoy to enter China over the Ledo-Burma road rolled toward Kunming to day on the final lap of a 900-mile journey from India which Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek hailed as "an omen of defeat” for Japan's warlords. The convoy, numbering more than 100 vehicles loaded with supplies for China’s hard pressed armies, crossed the Chinese border near Wanting yesterday after rumbling 470 miles across the mountains ana uroufo me jungles or northern Burma. The histqric event, culminating a three-year campaign to open a new overland supply route to China, was celebrated at Chlnese-Ameri can ceremonies in both Wanting and Chungking, during which Chlang broadcast a special ad dress to the United States pro posing the road be renamed in honor of Oen. Joseph W. Stilwell. His suggestion was endorsed by MaJ. Oen. Patrick J. Hurley, U. S. See FIRST Page t ALLIES DRAWN UP ALL ALONG WEST WALL Main Works Of Siegfried Line Within 6-Mile Ar tillery Range OPPOSITION LIGHT PARIS, JanT 29.—(£>)— First Army divisions advanc ed as much as two miles in deep snow northeast of St. Vith today, capturing three towns and moving within a mile of Germany and the out er works of the Siegfried line. Bullange, Herresbach and Holsheim all toppled. The main works of the West Wall were brought within six mile artillery range. American and French troops ad vanced more than two miles to a point on the Colmar Canal barely more than a half mile from the outskirts of Colmar (46,000), his toric capital of Upper Alsace. Colmar is 38 miles southwest of Strasbourg. The Third Army reached the German-Luxembourg frontier on an eight mile stretch of the Our river. North of the First Army, the U. S. Ninth and British Second were closed up to the Roer and through the Siegfried line in many places, potentially threatening the Ruhr and Rhineland and their great cit !«-. v ■■v - TO the south, the Third Army was either near or across the bor der all the way to Saarbrucken. Thus Gen. Elsenhower’s forces were deployed along or beyond 200 miles Of t!^ Siegfried line all the way from Holland to the south part of the Saarland. The slow reversal of the Ardennes bulge had squeezed perhaps 20 Amerl can divisions irom tne straignten ed salient, allowing: the rest for the next battle. PLANES ACTIVE Prom dusk last night until dawn today Allied planes swept over German areas behind the west wall, disrupting continued Ger man movements from the Arden nes. Mosquitos too* up where 2, 000 bombers left off at nightfall. Opposition to the pre-dawn on ■ See ALLIES Page 2 SUPERFORTS HIT IWOJIMA Daylight Raids Carried Out By U. S. Bombers From Saipan WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.— IP) — Superfortresses again attacked ene my installations today on the Jap anese islands of Iwa Jlma in a daylight raid. The raids were carried out by the 21st bomber command, based at Saipan, under Major Gen. Cur tis E. Le May. Results of the attack were not Immediately determined but will be announced when operational reports are received. General H. H. Arnold, command ing the 20th Air Force, announced the attack at headquarters here. The two Jlma Islands are on the way bo Japan from the American base at Saipan and form the principal point of Interference with flights to the mainland. They have been attacked fre quently in order to keep Japanese air concentration there to a mini mum. V. S. STRAFING ATTACK PILES GERMANS IN SNOW—A strafing attack by American fighter planes left these bodies of German soldiers ptted up in the snow on the U. S. Third Army front in the Belgium Ardennes. Many other Germans met tne same fate as Allied fliers day after day blasted Nazi columns re treating from the Belgium bulge. AIR ACTIVITY OVER ITALY Brenner Pass Area Attack* •d^jth OpodRefulti; Rail Bridges Hit ROME, Jan. 29 —W— Allied bombers smashed again at enemy i communications in northern Italy yesterday as frigid weather con tinued to limit ground action a long the entire Fifth and Eighth Army fronts, headquarters an nounced today. Bombers concentrated on the Brenner Pass area with effective results, headquarters said. Brazil ian fliers bombed the San Michele bridge in the area while American pilots hit the Lavis railbridge. Fighterbombers destroyed other spans north of Trento and near Padua, Berbamo and Milan. A number of German raiding parties were reported along the Senlo and Reno rivers in the Eighth Army sector. They were driven off after one patrol pushed to the south bank of the Senio, two miles west of San Alberto, and another probed Allied positions southwest of Alfonsine. POUODRWE IS CONTINUED Campaign Launched In Business Area With Breakfast Meeting The infantile paralysis fund drive for Cleveland county was carried into the Shelby business area today by a group of represen tative civic leaders who launched their campaign with a breakfast at the Charles hotel this morning The breakfast was presided over by John Anthony, campaign direc cor ror me county, xue principal talk was made by Dr. Ben H. Ken dall, president of the Cleveland county chapter of the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation. He discussed the progress that has been made In raising funds for this purpose since 1934, the first year when an appeal was made. In that year a total of $80.63 was raised compared with more than $3,500 raised last year. Dr. Kendall also told about the ravages of the disease, which he said seemed to be no respecter of persons. DOLLARS Talks were also made this morn ing by Chairman Anthony and Mai Spangler in which they stressed the fact that so far the business district has only been asked for dimes through the chil wen but that if Cleveland’s quota of $12,840 is to be met it must be dollars from now henceforth. Cheerful reports have been re ceived from Horace Origg, who is handling the county campaign outside of Shelby and Kings Moun tain; from Walter Abernethy who is directing the campaign through See POLIO Page 2 Doughboys On Luzon Near San Fernando 33 Air Miles From Manila; Americans Take Rosario On Bitterly-Defended Left Frank GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 29.—P)—Sixth Army spearheads were on the ap proaches to San Fernando, 33 air miles from Manila, head quarters reported today, as embattled American units cap tured Rosario in a maior breakthroueh on the bitterlv-de ASSEMBLY HAS NEW PROBLEMS New Week Of Activity in Legislature Begins To night At Raleigh RALEIGH, Jan. 29—(JP)—Faced with multiple problems dealing with education, insurance, and the state’s mental institutions, mem bers of the general assembly re turned to the capitol today and will begin a new week of activity with a session tonight at 8 o’clock. While the case of teacher sal aries now rests principally with joint appropriations committee, which has no less than four pro posed pay schedules under consid eration. other measures dealing with education probably will share equally in the legislative limelight in a week expected to be one of the busiest of the current session. At least one major education bill was expected to hit*the hoppers tonight. This one, the education omnibus bill, carries the names of county boards of education in all of the 100 counties as certified by county Democratic executive committees. HOSPITAL BILL Also scheduled to appear in the legislature at the night session is the much talked-about hospital See ASSEMBLY Page 2 Japs Report 3 U. S. Transports, Tanker Sunk By Their Subs An unconfirmed Tokyo broad cast said today that Japanese sub marines sank three transports and an oil tanker off the Pacific coast of the United States. The broadcast, recorded by the federal communications commis sion, attributed its information to a Japanese Domei agency wireless dispatch from ‘‘a certain base on the Central Pacific front.” It did not say when the alleged sinkings occurred. “©ur submarine unit penetrated to the western coast of the home land of the United States and is gallantly carrying on operations to disturb the enemy supply line,” the report said. “While they have been active in the eastern Pacific ocean, three transport ships and one tanker of the enemy, who is in desperate need of material re inforcement, were sunk.” fended left flank. Angeles, five miles southeast oi captured Clark Field, was taken Sunday by the 37th division which by-passed stubborn Japanese re sistance in the hills and sent pa trols down the highway toward San Fernando. Angeles has four airdromes. Elements of the 40th division meanwhile reached Arayat, 12 miles east of Angeles, and the road junction of Mexico, only three miles northeast of San Fernando At San Fernando, the "gatewaj to Manila,” the highway forks ofl westward into historic Bataan anc southeastward down the home stretch to the commonwealth capi ta], through a narrow plain be tween two large swamp areas. The shores of-Manila bay are only It miles beyond the road junction. Rosario, contested almost frorc the start of the Luzon campaign was captured by Yanks of the Firsl Army corps, who pressed on to ward juncture with another Am erican force moving northward from Sison. The two columns are heading toward BagUio, summei capital of the Philippines, 15 ail miles' north of the rugged Ben guet mountains. DECIMATED Gen. Douglas MacArthur re ported that one Japanese divisior and one brigade defending Rosa rio had been "practically decimat ed” in the long fight, and “the enemy has been forced to movi his northern reserves from the Baguio sector to supplement the remnants of his forces guardinj the approaches to the north.” Eighteen miles to the southeast American troops were beyond Sai Manuel but stiff fighting still rag ed in the burned and blasted towi Which the Yanks had been tryim to capture for five days. Associated Press Corresponden Dean Schedler, with the 25th di vision at San Manuel, said th See DOUGHBOYS Page 2 U. S. Pacific Fleet Now At New Advanced Headquarters I ADVANCED U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, For ward Area, Jan. 29.—yp)—History’s greatest sea power, the United States Pacific fleet, was operating today from this new advanced headquarters — several thousand miles closer to Japan than Pearl Harbor. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz disclosed the move in issuing the first communiques from the “for ward area” headquarters yesterday. The communiques recapitulated losses inflicted on the enemy by third fleet carrier plane blows against Formosa and the Ryukyu is lands Jan. 20-21. Exact location of the hfeadquar ters for Nimitz, as fleet comman der-in-chief and commander Paci fic ocean areas, was not disclosed. (Such newly established Ameri can bases as Guam and Saipar from which the army’s 21st bomb er command has been sending B 29s against Japan, are in the for ward area. Guam is 3,800 statut miles west of Pearl Harbor am only 1,565 miles .from Tokyo * See U. S. PACIFIC Page 2 Officials Said Moving From Threatened City; Populace Evacuated By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 29.—The Russians have surrounded the Prussian rail center of Schneidemuhl, four miles inside the German border, a German spokesman announced today and Swedish eyewitness reports said flashes from Marshal Stalin’s guns already could be seen from Berlin in the night skies over the eastern battlefront. German officials were moving their offices from the threatened capital and 20 trains evacuated part of the popu lace, said a Swedish national just come from Berlin. Foreign diplomats were making preparations to leave and foreign correspondents were ordered to depart, he said. ---- I Ulnrirrlpmpnt. nf S/»hnpiripmiiV»l a. FDR MAY ACT FOR WALLACE President Has Been Asked To Divorce Lending Agencies By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. —(/P)— President Roosevelt may take a di rect hand in efforts to salvage a cabinet post for Henry Wallace. Senate sources said Mr. Roosevelt has been asked by supporters of the former vice president either to transfer government lending agen cies from the Department of Com merce by executive order or state publicly that he would approve legislation to accomplish this. These same persons said they were informed that when Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt attends a dinner in Wallace’s honor in New York tonight she may take along a message from the President to read. Wallace’s nomination was held up temporarily in the senate commerce committee, which voted 14 to % last week against reporting it fav orably. Chairman Bailey (D-NC) said he had been unable to com plete it in time for submission to day and thht it will have to wait for the next session, probably Thursday. PRESIDENT’S CHOICE Reports circulated, meanwhile, that if the dual powers, formerly wielded by Jesse Jones are separat ed, Stabilization Director Fred Vinson may be the President’s choice for loan administrator. Bailey told reporters he will have formal reports ready later in the week on both the nomination and a bill by Senator George (D-Ga) tc divorce the monetary agencies from the department. As the situation stands, Wallace apparently can have confirmatior for the cabinet post—if he want; to wait long enough to let the di vorcement bill become law and his opponents don’t force a test vote on the nomination in the meantime This would require Presideni Roosevelt’s cooperation in signing the measure or letting it becom< law. But confirmation for the com bined commerce and landing post! seemed definitely headed for defeat An administration survey indicat ed a minimum of 45 adverse votes likely to be a majority because o; absences. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:30 p.m.—Lions club com [ mittees working on Fresh Air Camp meet at Eastside Baptist , church. TUESDAY t 7:15 p.m.—Executive board of Piedmont Boy Scout council „ meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m. — C.A.P. members meet at armory. city of 41,000, cut the main Berlin Danzig railway at a point 135 miles ; northeast of the capital, hut di j rectly east of Berlin German re ports placed the Russians much | closer, about 95 miles. Latest official Russian announce ments said the Russians were 109 miles to the east, but Moscow dis patches said it was believed Mar shal Gregory Zhukov’s tanks had spurted farther ahead and had crossed the frontier of Branden burg, the province of Berlin, at | several points. While Zhukov’s front, by of | ficial Moscow report, was spread j ' on an 80-mile arc within 100 , miles of Stettin on the Baltic and 77 miles from Frankfurt on the .Oder, Russian forces at East Prussia virtually sur rounded Kontgsberg, regal capi tal of the Prussian military Caste. (The Konigsberg radio came on the air six hours late today the FCC reported.) SUICIDE GARRISONS Russian s/e artillery poured in a steady stream of fire into that stronghold, into besieged Breslau, Silesian bastion on the Oder, and into Poznan and Torun in Poland where encircled Nazi suicide gar risons were believed on their last legs. Liquidation of the final fourth of East Prussia still held by the Germans were proceeding in close-in fighting, while the Dabrowa goal fields and most of the industrial cen ters of Silesia had been over run. German broadcasts declared that Zhukov’s frontal drive on Berlin had been temporarily stopped in the last 24 hours but the German communique told of continued fighting along the Obra in the frontier area 95 miles from Ber lin. i Berlin military spokesmen said '“that the Russians were attacking along a line from Kreuz, 103 miles northeast of Berlin, to Zraszyn on the Obra southeast of Berlin and “we cannot yet speak of a coher ent front in the east at all.” ENLARGED BRIDGEHEAD In Silesia, the enemy communi que said, the Russians further enlarged their bridgehead over the Oder at Steinau, 32 miles north west of Breslau. Defenses of Ko nigsberg had been penetrated, the Germans said. Transocean, Nazi news agency, reported the Russians were assault ing Breslau from the rear. The agency said that Marshal Ivan Konev’s first Ukrainian army See OFFICIAL Page Z GW tWKULLMtWl AT RECORD HIGH Second Semester Finds Over 200 Students; Even ing Class Opening Enrollment broke through the 200 mark for an all-time high as the second semester at" Gardner Webb Junior college opened this morning. A dozen new students matricu lated not counting the 26 enrolled for the new evening classes in ‘ homiletics and New Testament in terpretation which Rev. J. L. Jen kins will meet at 7:30 p. m. Tues day in the Bible classroom of the E. B. Hamrick building. Definite figures on the enroll | ment, which includes 18 special | students in music, weren’t com [ plete this morning although the j registrar’s office said the 200 fig ure definitely was exceeded with the largest enrollment in the [ school's history.
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