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WEATHER Fair and continued cold today and tonight. Lowest temperatures today 12-16 extreme west, 16-20 central and 2u-24 extreme east portion. Tshe Hhelby Baily Stett CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “CAN’T HELP SINGING” Starring Deanna DURBIN & Robert PAIGE In Technicolor — Also New* VOL. XLIII-28 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, FEB. 1, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c FIRST ARMY BREAKS INTO OUTER EDGES 37 Miles Of Line Captured In Aachen-Roer River Area STRANGELY QUIET PARIS, Feb. 1 .—<£>)—Pa trols of the fighting First Division broke into the first ramparts of the Siegfried line today 11 miles southeast ol Monschau, and found only a flicker qf life in Hitler’s con crete western fortifications. The First Army troops crossed the first row of dragon teeth tank barriers In a section of the Sieg fried line never before breached. Farther north, 37 miles of the line have been conquered by the Americans In the Aachen-Roei river sector. Along a front 40 miles, the American First and Third arm ies struck with a vengeance Into pillboxes fringing the line, which battlefront dispatches described as strangely quiet— Its artillery silent and Its re sMafe mainly from small arms. Orest sections of the fortifications wore under Am erican artillery Tire. Overnight advances general!) reached four miles deeper intc Germany: Village after villagt fell. Patrols entered the fringe! of the Siegfried line in the Mon schau sector, where a whole three mile section was captured earllei In the week. Third Army Infan trymen seized four more German towns. SMALL ARMS An eerie silence covered the big Nazi guns In the lines, but Amer ican artillery of both the First anc Third army laid a barrage on th< fortifications along a 40-mlle sec tor opposite Belgium and Luxem bourg. The heaviest enemy resis tance was limited strictly to small arms and accurate mortar screen ing. Troops frankly were amazec at the complete lack of artillerj and, In most cases, the enemy’: reluctance to stand and fight. The French First army foughl Into Horbourg, eastern suburb o: See FIRST ARMY Page 2 ITALY-BASED AIRMENACTKVE 1.357 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Nazi Oil Stores Near Vienna ROME. Fab. 1. —UP)— Italy based bombers of the U. S. 15tl Airforce struck their heaviest blov yet on a single target in dropplnj 1.357 tons of bombs yesterday oi Nasi oil Installations in an arei 33 miles northwest of Vienna, A1 lied headquarters announced to day. Ground action along the entlri fronts again was confined to pa trol engagements. One Fifth army patrol stabbec deep into German lines east of thi Serchio river and engaged in i bitter five-hour fight before with drawing. The fight occurred east of Mont* Rondlnaio, 6,300-foot peak nln< miles east of Castel Nuovo. Th< American patrol returned with sb German prisoners without losinf a man. REFINERY HIT Surpassing the rain of bomb: poured down on Cassino and Bo logna in previous all-out attacks from 500 to 750 Liberators an< Fortresses hit the Moosblerbaun refinery, northwest of Vienna. A1 though all bombs were aimed b; instrument through clouds, it wa officially announced that "excel lent results" were indicated. In addition to the refinery, Li berators also smashed at rallyard at Graz, Germany, and Maribor Yugoslavia, destroying r o 111 n | stock. Fighters wiped out sevei locomotives. Initial reports salt only four enemy aircraft were en countered. Altogether the 15th air force flev almost 1,300 sorties. Eight heav; bombers, hit in moderate flak, arc PFC. HAMRICK HAMRICK SAD) VAR PRISONER Mrs. Samuel Hamrick Hears Of Husband By Short Ware Radio Mrs. Adelaide Allen Hamrick of Kings Mountain, received a let ter from C. T. Johnson, an attor ney In Raleigh, stating that he heard over abort wave radio that his ton and her husband. Pic. Samuel Hamrick, were prisoners of the Germans. Pfc. Hamrick, serving overseas with the Army, was reported miss ing in action since November 39, 1944, and this was the first news about him since the telegram re ceived from the War department that said he was missing. No con firmation has been received that he is a German prisoner but it is hoped that it will be soon. Pfc. Hamrick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamrick who reside near Kings Mountain. •' PFC. WTMITH SAID MISSING Pfc. William P. Smith, son of W. P. Smith and the late Mrs. Elda Holland Smith of Kings Mountain, is reported missing in action since December 25, 1944, according to a telegram received by his wife from the war department. He was aboard a transport that was sunk by ene my action. Pfc. Smith married Miss Ruby Blanche Plumley of Landrum, S. C., December 15, 1943, and before he entered the Army made, their home with his sister. Mrs. Emmett • Ross of route 2, Bessemer City. He received his training at Port Mc Clellan, Ala., Port Meade, Md„ and Camp Rucker, Ala., before being sent overseas in November, 1944. Mrs. Rose M. Collins of 622 South i DeKalb St., received a telegram ■ from the war department today : stating that her husband, Cpl. i Otha E. Collins, was slightly wound . ed in action in Prance January 16. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Kiwanis club meets 1 at Hotel Charles. 7:30 pm.—C. A. P. members . meet at armory. 7:30 p.m.—Regular communi cation Cleveland Lodge 202 A. . P. and A. M. for work in first degree. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Rotary club. : Bills To Overhaul N. C. ; Insurance Laws Offered xvxuimuni jrev. *.—*i»aw iu ' overhaul North Carolina’s insur * ance laws in conformity with re commendations of a special com mission appointed by former Gov ' ernor Broughton, were introduced ‘ in the legislature today by Rep. I Taylor of Wayne and Senator Pate [ of Scotland. I The measures cover these sub . Jects: Workmen’s compensation and automobile insurance, rates, accl r dent and health insurance, lifein r surance, fire insurance, foreign and alien insurance companies, or ganization and regulation of com -**«*»*«• . ait* (lamcD, gcucttu icsuwviuu w* u*’ surance, embezzlement of agents, organization of insurance depart ments and regulation of agents. APPROVED Covering hundreds of pages and designed to bring up to date and clarify insurance laws, the bills bore the approval of the state in surance department. Among other things, each domes tic insurance company in the state would be restricted by the state commissioner from the payment of !L BILLS rage a ( i 513 Allied War Prisoners Rescued From Luzon Camp GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD QUARTERS, LUZON, Jan. 31— (Delayed)—(JP)—Men of Bataan, Corregldor and Singapore—513 of them—were snatched from under the flaming muzzles of Japanese guns last night in an exploit of unmatched daring. Some 400 picked men of the Sixth Ranger battalion and Fili pino Guerrillas made a commando raid 25 miles behind Japanese lines to empty a prison camp and partially fulfill one of the Philip pines objectives closest to Gen. MacArthur’s heart. They took Japanese guards by surprise and rescued 486 Americans, 23 British, three Netherlanders and one Norwe gian—all that were left in the prison camp in Neuva Ecija province of Eastern Luzon. Many more hundreds of more able-bodied war prisoners had been sent to work camps in Japan. Hundreds of others had died. All but two of the men were brought out alive by the 121 men of the Sixth Ranger battalion who stormed into the prison stockade under command of Lt. Col. Henry Muccl of Bridgeport, Conn. Their enfeebled hearts flickered out when they were in sight of Am erican lines. GUARDS KILLED The Rangers attacked with such merciless precision that not one of the Japanese stockade guards wa% left alive or able to re sist. And they attacked with such care that not one of the prisoners was scratched. Within a matter of minutes all had been released and were on their 25 mile journey to freedom, walking, carried on backs of husky Rangers or riding in Carabao carts. Nearly 100 were so weak from malnutrition, disease and three year-old wounds that they could not walk when they were cut loose from Japanese bondage. The rescue cost the lives of 27 Rangers and Filipinos in a guer rilla unit led by Maj. Robert Lap ham of Davenport, la., who fought off a savage tank-led Japanese 'at tack along the escape corridor. The raiders killed 523 Japanese —more than one for every prison er released—and knocked out 12 enemy tanks. This first mass liberation of Al lied prisoners of war in the west ern Pacific was accomplished by an all-night forced march east of the American lines to Cabu. UNDETECTED The command force, made up of the 121 Rangers and 286 Filipinos in the guerrilla unit, left Ameri can lines under protection of air cover and reached the prison camp without detection. Their swift, fierce attack caught the guards completely by surprise. The Japanese struck back violent ly and persistently as the rescue column headed back toward the Sixth Ranger camp and freedom for the valiant men who had been at the mercy of Japanese guards for nearly three years. The heavy, disproportionate Japanese losses were inflicted in battering down these tank led attacks. The commando raid, order See 513 ALLIED Page 2 Administration Wins Slender Victory In Wallace Case BURNS FATAL TO MRS JOSS Kings Mountain Woman Dios In Shalby Hospital; . Funeral Friday Mrs. John T. Mow, 01, died last night at 8:10 o’clock at the Shelby hospital from burns she sustained yesterday afternoon about 1:30 o’ clock when her clothing caught fire while she was putting coal on the fire at her home in Kings Mountain. After her clothing had caught afire, she ran into the yard. No one was at home with her at the time. Neighbors carried her to the hospital immediately but treatment was unavailing. Mrs. Moss was the wife of J. F. Moss, textile operator and minis ter. She was well known in her community and devoted herseir actively to its welfare. SURVIVORS She is survived by her husband, four sons, Charlie Moss, Broadus Moss, both of Kings Mountain; Ens. Caradine Moss, of Fort Pierce, Fla. Carl Moss who is with the U. S. army overseas, four daugh ters, Mrs. T. L. Hudson, of Char lotte; Mrs. Mabel Foster, of Alta mahaw; Mrs. Leonard Goldham mer, of Washington, D. C., Mrs. Fted Wright, Jr., of Kings Moun tain. lateral will be held Friday af ternoon at 4 o’clock from the Cen tral Methodist church in Kings Mountain. Service will be conduct ed by Rev. J. G. Winkler, pastor of that church, Rev. Mr. Hen dricks, of Gastonia, a former pas tor; Rev. Paul Allred and Rev. P. D. Patrick. Interment will take place in Mountain Rest cemetery. Senate Votes 43 To 41 To Delay Action On Nomina tion; Will Consider George Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—(IP)—The administration won a slender victory in the fight to salvage a cabinet post for Henry Wallace today when the senate voted 43 to 41 to de lay at;turn un Lilt; nuuimauon. The original vote on the Bailey motion was a tie, 42 to 42, but Senator Taft (R-Ohio) changed his vote in order to be able to move reconsideration of the mo tion of Senator Bailey (D-NC) to put the senate in executive ses sion to consider the nomination Immediately. Taft’s motion to reconsider, however, was ruled out and Ma jority Leader Barkley moved con sideration of the George bill. The senate began voting imme diately on taking up the George measure, which would divorce the government lending agency from the commerce department. It was not immediately clear whether Taft later could move for reconsideration of Bailey’s motion to force the senate into immediate consideration of the Wallace no mination. The senate voted 83 to 2 to take up the George bill. The bill, by Senator George (D Ga), would set the RPC and other monetary bureaus up in a separate agency. Previously, Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) told newsmen he and sev eral other senators had stressed in the closed conference that rejec tion of the cabinet nomination would be interpreted abroad as a blow to President Roosevelt’s pres tige. Wallace opponents, however, be lieved they had the votes to block him even before the lending-cur tailment legislation is taken up. They planned to move that the no mination be the first order of bus iness. While Chairman Bailey (D-NC) of the commerce committee, an anti-Wallace leader, argued that a motion to take up the nomination first was a preferential one, Sen ator Pepper (D-Fla) said which comes first might hinge on who it recognized first by the chair. He predicted a majority would oppose taking up the nomination ahead of the measure. As the senate was to open on legislative rather than executive (noinlnation) business, it was Pep per’s contention that Democratic Leader Barkley would be recogniz ed before anyone else. Ramin* some other plan, he said Barklej would propose taking up the George bill first and ask that the nomination go to the calendar tc await disposition of the legisla tion. 8,000 AWOL IN ETO PARIS, Peb. 1.—</P>—Maj. Gen Milton A. Reckord, U. S. provosi marshal, said today that 8,00( American soliders are absent with out leave in the European theatei —not 18,000 as reported last weei in a statement credited to his of Young Army Wife Missing Since Monday COLUMBIA. S. C.. Feb. 1.—C/P) —Chief of Detectives S. S. Shorter said today a $100 reward had been offered for information leading to the return of red-haired, blue-eyed Mary Lee Epes, 26-year-old wife of Lieut. S. C. Epes who disappeared from downtown Columbia last Monday morning: Shorter said Epes, son of T. H. Epes, president of the Epes-Fitz gerald Paper company of Rich mond, Va., told him that his wife disappeared after he had let her out of their car near a downtown restaurant. He said he went to See YOUNG Page * * ; SEVENTEEN DIE IN FIRE SWEEPING HOME FOR BABIES—Sixteen young children and a woman per ished in the fire-gutted ruins of this baby home at Auburn, Me., after an exploding stove sent flames racing through the building. Most of the victims ranged in age from three months to- three years. They perished in their cribs from bums or suffocation. The babies were left in the home by their mothers, who worked in nearby war industries and shoe factories. SINGAPORE BOMBED BY SUPERFORTS Sky Giants From India Bases Strike In Daylight; Third Raid GOOD~RESULTS WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.— (JP)—Superfortresses bombed Japanese military installa tions in the Singapore area today for the third time. A press flash from 20th Air Force headquarters said B-29’s of Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey’s 20th Bomber Com mand struck by daylight from India bases. Details of the mission will be announced when operational reports are received. In their last attack Jan. 11 on this naval bastion at the tip of the Malay peninsula Superforts blasted installations with good results. The first strike was made Nov. 5. Once called Britain’s “Gib raltar of the East”, Singapore was seized by the Japanese in 1942 and converted into their principal naval base in the Malay?Netherlands East Indies area. Its huge naval works can repair the largest vessels. On nearby Penang island the Japanese maintain a big submarine haven. Both Singapore and the Georgetown naval base on Penang are key distribution points for sup plies and merchant shipping plying the Japan-East Indies sea route. The round trip flight—largely over water—encompasses more than 3,500 miles. Since Jan. 1 the 20th Bomber See SINGAPORE Page 2 Many Killed And Injured In Train Wreck In Mexico MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1—UP) —More than 100 persons were reported killed and about 150 wounded in a rear end collis ion of trains at Cazadero, state of Hidalgo, about 100 miles north of here early to day. It was said a freight train crashed into the rear of a pas senger train of Pilgrims pass ing the station of Cazadero and bound for Mexico City. The Pilgrims were returning from a religious festival for the Virgin Mary at San Juan De > Los Lac os, in the state of Jalisco. Soviets Reach Banks Of Oder Above Kastrin LONDON, Feb. 1.—(TP)—The Russians with their fast paced tanks and infantry have smashed to the banks of the Oder northwest of Kustrin at a point about 39 miles or closer, from Berlin, the German high command announced today. It was possible that the Russians were even closer than j 39 miles, for the German communique did not give the exact location of the penetration to the river. The Oder swings to within 28 miles of Berlin northwest of Kustrin. But im mediately northwest of Kustrin it is 39 miles from the capital, and it seemed more likely that a point in the Kus trin vicinity was meant. The eastern edge of Kustrin itself, one of the chief de fenses of the German capital, was reached by the swift Sov iet punches rapidly spreading the fires of war to the heart of the Reich, said German broadcasts. Along a 70-mile front Marshal Gregory Zhukov massed waves of tanks and Infantry for a quick smash at Berlin's greatest defenses. But at the center of his spear head in the 40-mile wide Frank furt salient between the Oder and the Warthe, the German high command said It had hurled in its reserves to halt the invading columns which already had broken through a defense shield 23 miles east of Frankfurt. Red air fleet planes raked the Berlin-Frankfurt highways and Moscow dispatches said Nazi prisoners reported panic In the . German capital because Gcir .... See SOVIETS Page * Subic Bay, Olongapo Naval Base Retaken Lack Of Resistance Puzzling; Spearhead To North 28 Miles From Manila GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. 1.—(A1)—Subic Bay and its naval repair base of Olen gapo, dotted with pillboxes but inexplicably abandoned by the Japanese, were back in American hands today as un blunted Yank spearheads to the east rolled clear of a, danger ous bottleneck passage only 28 road miles from Manila. weil"J,UX WI1CU uriauue joicwiu, | the “Little Corregidor” > guarding | the entrance to Subic Bay, was taken without opposition Tuesday ‘ by Eighth Army troops. Units of the U. S. Seventh fleet then steamed into Subic Bay. Other elements of Lt. Gen. Rob ert Eichelberger’s Eighth Army moved by road along the inner rim of Subic Bay to captuVe the t Olongapo naval base which, before < the war, was an American depot. < Gen. Douglas MacArthur ; said in his communique today ] that "we are now using this ] excellent anchorage, and de- 1 See SUBIC BAY Page 2 HENDRICK WILL BEAD MILLS CLIFFSIDE —Maurice Hendrick oday became president of the lliffside Mills company and the Jliffside Railroad following the .nnual meeting Wednesday when le was named to succeed Charles I. Haynes who asked that he not •e considered for re-election after 4 years of continuous service with he firm. The directors, in con ideration of his long service, lamed Mr. Haynes chairman of he board. Mr. Hendrick had held the office f treasurer and served as gen ral manager of the mills prior to 4r. Haynes’ retirement. He was e-elected to the presidency, while ither officers named were: Her man Cone, vice-president: H. M. )wens, secretary; M. R. Reed, ass istant secretary: M. A. Bearden, ssistant treasurer. Mr. Haynes said that he needs est after long years of service, he last few of which have been trenuous. For 16 years he held arious offices, then for the past 8 years he served as president of he firm. He will continue to nake his home in Cliffside where le has taken an interest in civic natters through the years, but he ilans to spend much of his time n Florida seeking rest and recrea ion Expect Groundhog To See Shadow With fair weather tomorrow, Groundhog day, Winter today was giving some samples of what it can do n case the groundhog is >y sunshine. Lower vere promised tonight. , Groundhog fans are waiting the verdict of weather prophet, who if io not fail will turn tail iace of sunshine tomorrc Durrow up for another 40 winter.
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