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\ WEATHER Fair and colder today and to night, lowest temperatures tonight 16-20 west and central portions, 25-30 extreme east portion. The Hhklhu Bann s Stett - State Theatre Today - “CAN’T HELP SINGING” Starring Deanna DURBIN & Robert PAIGE In Toolini/IAl/VW A Inn XtAHtfl CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII-27 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. G. WEDNESD’Y, JAN. 31, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5c New U. S. Landing On Luzon Will Prevent Jap Retreat To Bataan I it. -U. It- M. JL Jt Ji. n BERLIN REPORT PUTS INVADERS MUCH CLOSER Miuritx, Schwiebus Anc Zullichou Also Token By Soviets NEARING~FRANKFURT LONDON, Jan. 31.—(JP) Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s troops today captured Lands berg 68 miles east of Berlin Marshal Stalin announced to night, and Berlin broadcasts said the Red army had plung ed to towns only 58 and 65 miles from the Reich’s capital Landsberg, great rail anc road hub on the Berlin-Danzfj rail line, was conquered alonj with the strong points of Mes eritz, Schwiebus and Zulli chau to the southeast as Zhu kov’s forces broke througl the German defense guardinj Frankfurt on the Oder rivei 39 miles from Berlin. German broadcasts said So vie columns had speared to Boldin. 51 miles from Berlin,' and to ZMW zlg, 63 miles from Germany's Queer city. These would represent gain: north and south beyond Lands berg by columns 35 miles apart Zlelenilg is only 55 miles fron the suburbs included In great* Vaslln Stalin’* order of the day •hawed that Zhukov «u beat inf Into Germany an the direct rente te Berlin along a 50-mile wide front. Heavy armored battles were reported an the snow-drifted field* near the Oder. Meserltx Is 34 miles southeas of Landsberg. Schwiebus is an' other IS miles farther south, ant ZulUchau 11 miles still fart he south, ZulUchau, only four mile from the Oder river at one of lb great bends, is 69 miles from Ber lin. The Oder, curves within 40 mile of Berlin, and the German ac counts placed Russian tank col umns within 30 miles of the grea river at that bulge near the Nas capital. STBONO POINTS Stalin, describing the four cttie as “large communications center and powerful strongpolnts of Oer man defense covering the ap proaches to Frankfurt on th< Oder," saluted troops commands by 30 generals In Zhukov’s Firs White Russian grouping, and ord ered 30 victory salvoes from 33' of Moscow's guns. Improved weather today ald« Zhukov’s giant strides, with la fan try men closely following tan] See BERLIN Page t Czechoslovakia Recognizes Polish Luhlin Government LONDON. Jan. 31 —(*V- Th. Czechoslovak government in exll * tonight announced formal recog nitlon of the provisional Polls] government at Lublin, and sail diplomatic relations would h started. Czechoslovakia Is the first 6 the Allies, except Russia, to recog nlw the Lublin government. Prospects Improve For National Service Act WASHINGTON, Jan. 31— Chances of passage of limited na tional service legislation bright ened perceptibly today as the house neared a showdown on that dontroversial subject. Two days of general debate in dicated to sponsors that there would be votes to spare when a vote is reached, probably late to morrow, for a ball requiring men' between 18 and 45 to work in es sential Jobe under pain of induc tion, fine or imprisonment. Still to be determined daring ■nnsidemtlOB of amendments today and tomorrow Is the final shape of the legislation. House leaders seem confident they can stave off any substan tial changes, particularly amend ments dealing with the fair em ployment practices committee and the closed shop. CRITICAL ITEMS Their optimism was based large ly on a last-minute War depart ment report of snortages in critical military items and on fears of southern Democrats that Repub See PROSPECTS Page 2 17 Lose Lives In Fire At Home For Children AUBURN, Me., Jan. 31.—(/P)—Sixteen young child ren and a woman, trapped after an exploding stove sent 1 flames racing through a wooden boarding home for war and ■ factory workers’ babies, were suffocated or burned to death Most of the victims ranged in I age from three months to three years. They died in their cribs— ’ their heads thrust through the ' spaces between the slats In their futile struggle to escape. [ Only eight of the 3d occupants ■ of the converted farmhouse were , able to flee the fast-spreading flames that swept the Interior. One of them was Mrs. Eva La coste, operator of the home, who sobbed “we don’t have any more babies,” as she told of trying to flee from the burning building with two cribs, of falling, and los ing the babies in the fire. “I had them in my arms, I lost them when I fell down,” Mrs. La cos te cried after telling Dr. 11 Frederick W. Caron, her physi cian, how a stove had exploded. BADLY BURNED Mrs. Lacoste related that she fell at the front door of the home and stumbled out into the snow filled yard. She was badly burned on both arms. Firemen later found the re mains of the two cribs and the bodies of the babies at the door entrance. The woman, whose identity the police were checking:, was said to have been about 40 years old. The home was operated by a Mrs. Eva Lacosse, the police said. The names of the children were not immediately known. Their bodies were taken to a funeral parlor. A nurse was on duty when the fire broke out, police reported. VICTIMS The victims were children of women employed in war work or shoe factories in Auburn and nearby liewistoto, Fire Chief Ralph Basdto reported, tnd mr home only over week ends. He said It was “a terrific sight” when he and his men finally bat tled their way to where the chil dren had been quartered. See 17 LOSE Page X Hitler Begs Nazis To Continue Resistance ; Declares Germany Will Fight On To The Death, i "Until Victory Crowns Our Efforts" LONDON, Jan. 31.—(/P)—The German nation, beset by ! powerful invading armies, embarked today on the 13th year of the nazi regime, exhorted by Adolf Hitler to accept “bound 1 less misery” as the price of continued resistance. uermany, xuuer proclaimed io ! the world last night, will fight on I to the death—“fight oh no matter where and no matter under what circumstances until final victory crowns our efforts." His speech marking the ltth anniversary of his ascendancy to the chancellorship on Jan. M, 1933, was broadcast from his headquarters amidst news of continuing Russian advances | from the cast—victorious strides that now have carried to with I In 73 -miles of Berlin. "The cruel fate which is over , taking us In the east, 1A village and market places, in the country and In towns, Is exterminating (Ger man) people by the tens of thous ands,” Hitler declared. “But it will be mastered in the end.” GOD’S EMISSARY? Hitler twice asserted that God had given him a mission. “The Al mighty” saved him from assassina tion, he declared, and he saw In this “confirmation of my assigned ! task.” * The man who sent his arm ed legions Into virtually every 1 country of Europe gave the I German people a nebulous promise of victory despite his growing reverses. ' When “this most gigantic of all Bee HITLER Page S APPEAL MET BY STONY MCE Der Bund Says Garmam Have Had Enough, Re volt Possible By THOMAS F. HAWKINS BERN, Switzerland, Jan. 31. - (/P)—An observer lor the Conserva tive Der Bund wrote today thal Adolf Hitler’s appeal for steadfast resistance was answered by th< German people with steadfast si lence—that dangerous weapon 01 the masses who have had enough and who say nothing before the] act. “The people keep silent ant thereby manifest their longing foi peace, no matter what the price,’ this observer said in a leading Dei Bund article on Germany. “They have found their wea pon—silence—in refusing long er to accept official declara tions and ‘pep talks.' "The people thus express theii will, their longing, their goal ant their hope. The people are silent They are keeping closed lips—untl the day when' the last cannon ii mcu, «um nicy ngniu tan uwu their voices heard.” REVOLT POSSIBLE The writer said revolt In Ger many la possible, that weapons art available and that the July 2< abortive revolt against Hitler prov ed this. He said small groups, llttli known Abroad, seek by propagand< and b£ ^sabotage of industry t< overthrow the Hitler regime. But, this observer added, their chances of bringing the masses intw active resistance were dif ficult because of the Gestapo. Their silence Bow is the most important political factor, be wrote, because it is "the high est possible” form of renounc ing Nasi politics. Prom, the Oerman press itsel came an Indication of a Germai See APPEAL Page l , INVASION TOOK PLACE MONDAY, UNOPPOSED Forces From 150 Ships Put Ashore 60 Miles From Manila invaderiTcheered GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 31.—(/P)—Landing unop posed from 150 ships 60 miles northwest of Manila, strong U. S. Eighth Army forces blasted any hopes the Japa nese may have held for a large scale withdrawal to Ba taan by driving swiftly east today toward a juncture with the Sixth Army which would seal off the historic peninsula. This second invasion of Luzon, timed ■with a Sixth Army push now within 30 miles of Manila, was disclosed in today’s communique of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The 38th division and combat team of the 24th, which fought so heroic ally on Leyte in the Central Phil ippines, were put ashore Monday oq Z&mbale? province in thf 10 miles between the Santo Tomas river mouth and San Antonio without loss of a man, plane or ship. Thru* American survivors of the “death march’’ from Bat aan—Capt. George Crane, To peka, Kas., Capt. Richard C. Kadel, Fort Knox, Kj., and Capt. Winston Jones, an Okla homan,—mingled with Filipi no guerrillas wildly greeting the invaders. The Yanks of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger posed an imme diate menace to prized Olongapo naval base in Subic bay by racing 11 miles inland the first day past flag-waving Filipinos, occupying such towns as San Felipe. San Antonio, San Marcelino and Cae tillejos and seizing an airfield— the J8rd air base won on Luzon. WIDE OPEN Suggesting how wide open the sector is to American conquest, Filipinos told Associated Press Correspondent James Hutcheson that no enemy forces have been stationed in the area since 1942 although 300 passed southward two weeks ago, killing a Filipino woman in one town without pro vocation. The beachhead extended above the Santo Tomas river, giving the Yanks control of a long bridge there. Hutcheson disclosed that the in vasion convoy was not attacked by a single enemy plane although it followed the same inland seas See INVASION Page 2 Nazi Planes On Strafing Mission ROME, Jan. 31. —UP)— The Ger mans sent nine planes on strafing and bombing missions on the Amer ican Fifth Army sectors south of Bologna last night in the strongest enemy air action on the Italian front in weeks. Ground operations were limited to patrol contacts on both the Fifth and Eighth army sectors. Allied planes challenging the Nazi aircraft destroyed one and damag ed another, and anti-aircraft fire scored hits on several. WPB Dimout Order Goes Into Effect At Midnight Tonight Beginning at midnight tonight , the War Production Board’s dim* , out order goes Into effect, and no longer will Shelbians walk beneath neon signs and other lighted signs and they will ' have to do their night-time window shopping in darkened windows. The War Pro duction Board has given notice that the order will be rigidly en forced even to the extent of dis continuing electric service If nec essary. > J. H. Weir, superintendent of , water and light departments, In letters to all the city’s electric con sumers directs attention to the rw 1 gulatlons and many Shelby estab lishments have already voluntarll discontinued the prohibited light lng and all others are expected t do so come midnight. The arde affects the general territory, th Duke Power Company, which ge nerates much of Its electricity fror power, feeling no exception appli cation justified. PENALTIES Should a business feel the orde cuts out lights necessary to publi health or safety, that establish ment may present to the neares See DIMOUT Page l DR. GREER PLAN WAR FUND RALLYMONDAY Dr. I. G. Greer Will Ad dress Gathering Of County Workers Dr. I: a,, Greer, of Thomasvttlc one of the state’s' outstanding pub lic speakers, will be featured speak er Monday at a rally of ministers together with some 100 laymen from all the white churches of the county to lay plans for the county wide Red Cross War Fund drive opening March 1. General Chairman Mai Spangler sr., today announced thait Dr. Greei had accepted the invitation to fill the spot which each year past had been served by Senator Clyde R Hoey whose Washington duties hold him at the capitol. “We feel for tunate in securing a speaker of Dr Greer’s fine ability to launch oui rally,” Mr. Spangler said. Some 40 leaders in the county Red Cross organization will mee1 here Thursday evening and b( guests at the Kiwanis club’s meet ing to complete plans fOr Mon day’s general rally of county work ers. Horace Easom is co-chalrmai in charge of the rural areas cam paign and is working closely wit! Mr. Spangler in arranging Mon day’s session. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 6:30 p.m.—Business supper fo Sunday school workers at First Baptist church. 7:30 p.m. — Regular prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 7:30 pun.—Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. 7:45 pun.—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. THURSDAY 7:00 pjn. — Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p.m. — C.A.P. members meet at armory. 7:30 pm.—Regular commu nication Cleveland Lodge 302 A. F. & A. M. Like They Own The Sky By The Associated Press American planes "dominate the skies over Luson as If they owned the sky,” the Japanese Domei news agency complain ed today In a dispatch inter cepted by the federal commun ications ’commission. STETTINIUS AND HOPKINS MEET IN ROME Two Conferred With U. S. Military Leaders In Italy Tuesday LEFT BY PLANE ROME, Jan. 31.—(IP)—Sec retary of State Stettinius and Harry Hopkins, who next to President Roosevelt may have most to do with shaping the United States’ international policy, conferred at allied headquarters in Italy yester day and today with two Am erican military leaders and then departed for undisclosed destinations. Their flying visits were said by Hopkins to be part of the preli minaries leading up to the Roose velt-Stalin-Churchill meeting, an official announcement of the con ferences was issued after Stetti nius and Hopkins, who is the president’s personal representative, boarded planes and left this war theater. 'r— Ropkin* went to hilled head quarter* yesterday from con ferences In Rome In Which he saw Italian Foreign Minister De Gasperi, had an audience with Pope Pius, and conferred with Alexander Kirk, V. S. am bassador to Italy. By his own statement he looked closely in to records relating to Allied po litical affairs in Italy. Stettinius arrived a few hours later by plane and was met by Kirk, Hopkins, Lt. Gen. Joseph T, McNarney, commander of Ameri can Forces in the Mediterranean and Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, Allied air commander in the Mediter ranean. All five conferred at Allied head quarters yesterday. [ The official announcement sale ; that “a large dinner was given foi See STETTINIUS Page 2 1 CLEVELAND HAS 2 CASUALTIES r Seaman Falls Reported Killed; Pfc. Sisk Missing In Belgium Two Cleveland county boys arc listed As casualties in reports re ceived from the war department Seaman 1/c Robert Lee Falls ol Kings Mountain was reported kill ed in action in the South Pacific area December 11, 1944, and Pfc Ben G. Sisk of Shelby is reported missing in Belgium since Decembei 18. Seaman Falls, son of Mr. anc Mrs. Zeb Vance Falls of Nortl Piedmont St., Kings Mountain previously reported missing in ac tion December 11, according to i telegram received by his parenti yesterday from the war department Prior to entering the Navy ir September, 1942, he was a studen in Kings Mountain high school. Hi received his boot training at th< Great Lakes Naval Training Statloi in Great Lakes, 111. Upon comple tion at his Owning he was assign jd aboard a ship and was servini m the South Pacific. His last leavi was in June, 1943, when he visitei his parents in Kings Mountain. Seaman Falla is survived by hi parents, Mr. and Mrs Zeb V. Falk two brothers, Howard and Ray, an< one sister, Ethel, all of King Mountain. . Pfc. Ben G. Sisk, son of Mr. ant f Mrs. Roy L. Sisk of 129 Textile St - Shelby, has been reported misslni 3 in action in Belgium since Decern r ber 18, according to word receive* b by his parents front the war de - partment. 3 Pfc. Sisk was engaged in farmlm - in Cleveland county prior to en taring the Army two years ago. H received his infantry training a r Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and at ai c Army base in Louisiana before be . ing sent overseas in April, 1944. Hi t wife, the former Miss Annie Embrj is making her home with her par ents on route 2, Shelby. First Army Artillery Pouring Shells Into Siegfried Line Forts PARIS, Jan. 31.—(/P)—Whiteclad infantry of the Am* erican First Army stormed across the snowdrifted German border at two new places today and Lt. Gen. Courtney H Hodges’ artillery started pouring shells into the main con crete works of the thinly held Siegfried line. All along a 35-mile assault front from below St. Vith tc the Roer river northeast of Monschau, the First and Third armies had a full scale assault underway with gains which carried the First to the ramparts of the West Wall and broadened the Third Army’s foothold inside Germany to five miles. The next few hours, it was believed at Supreme Head quarters, might begin to show whether even with additional cold and delaying drifts, the Germans would be able to hold their fortifications with the force they left behind in their drainout to bolster the swaying eastern front. (The Germans said Gen. Eisenhower was shifting his troops in preparation for an all-out offensive and had massed 60 divisions, nearly half of them armored, for the attack. They called the Monschau drive “allied preparation to gain i --- Vil vilOi V Vy WWUVvO. J The fighting First division cross ed the border a half mile east of Underbreth, which is in the Sieg fried line,, in the longest First Army gain. The 82nd airborne division mov ed into Germany east of Lanzerath and got within a mile of the Sieg fried barriers, encountering stiff resistance, including tanks. The 78th division with tanks pushed through a shattered gap of the Siegfried line across the headquarters of the Roer river, three miles west of Monschau. To the north, Canadian and British troops wipe/ out the last enemy forces holding out in a maze of more than 1,000 dikes on the Maas island bridgehead of Kappelleschwer, north of the Dutch town of Tilburg, in a three day battle of men, tanks, mortars and artillery. On the opposite end of the stir ring 400 mile front, American and French troops moved within two miles of the Rhine below Strasbourg and tightened encircling arcs grasping for Colmar and Cemay. The 82nd was the Seventh divi See FIRST Page S Bill Would Admit Boys To W.C.U.N.C. Another Would Provide General 10 Per Cent Wage Increase To State Employes RALEIGH, Jan. 31.—(JP)—The legislature received bills today tp authorize the admission of male day students to Woman’s College in Greensboro and to provide for a general 10 per cent wage increase to employes of state departments and agencies. Reps. Hutton and Crissman of Guilford Introduced the measure directing trustees of the greater university to permit male students at Woman’s college at the regular rates for female students. The male students could not be housed on the campus. Senator Corey of Pitt introduced the joint resolution boosting the pay of state employes 10 per cent over their present income from sal aries and the war bonus. It would become effective July 1, beginning of the next fiscal year. Prom Senator Penland of Clay came a memorial to congress ask ing relief to counties whose tax able property is taken over for national forests and parks; and ! Senator Matheny of Rutherford , sent up a bill to place jurisdic ! tion of youthful violators of the , Motor Vehicle laws in the hands l of juvenile and domestic relations ; courts. > Penland’s measure passed under ! suspension of rules, i The house received 22 bills but • no others of major statewide im ■ portance. Rep. McDonald of Polk r See MEASURE Page * ! I 15th Air Force Kits Nazi Oil Supply Area ROME, Jan. 31. — (£>)— Strong Liberator and Fortress squadrons of the U. S. 15th Air Force today bombed German oil targets In the Moosbierbaun area 22 miles north west of Vienna. These bombers had been grounded for 10 days. From 500 to 750 heavy bombers made the attack by instrument through clouds. Lightning fighters provided the escort. Some enemy aircraft were encountered In the raid upon the installations, last hit Dec. 11. Liberators also slashed at the rail facilities of Graz, 90 miles south west of Vienna. Heavy clouds con cealed the results. BAD WEATHER (Foul flying weather again pre vented an attack upon Germany by heavy bombers based in Britain >. See 15TH Page * : Democratic Party Split ' Around Wallace Threatens 1 By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.— (Jf) - > The biggest Democratic party spin J since the 1937 court fight appear 1 ed to be developing today arounc Henry Wallace’s cabinet nomlna* . tion. ; Stripped of Its window dressing \ the battle is fundamentally om l between those who regard them , selves as a liberal element of th< . party headed by Wallace and tlu s old line Democrats represented b> , Senators Byrd (Va). George (Ga) - Bailey (NC) and others. Legislative leaden readied a i compromise they hoped would keep penned-up animosities from spilling out on the senate floor. But there was every in dication both sides intend to have their say before the issue of Wallace’s appointment as secretary of commerce is fully settled. In the absence of any direct 1 word from President Roosevelt, 1 Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, planned to ask ■ that Wallace’s nomination be sent See DEMOCRATIC Page l
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