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WEATHER North Carolina—Mostly cloudy and cool today and tonight with occasional light rain today. Wed nesday partly cloudy and warmer. The Hhelhy Baily thr I CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 STATE THEATRE TODAY "HERE COMES THE WAVES" Bing Crosby — Betty Hutton Sonny Tufts — Also News VOL. XL1II-32 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, FEB. 6, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6e AMERICAN ARMIES SLASHING INTO SIEGFRIED LINE ,* * * * * * #* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** MacArthur’s New War Cry Is ‘On To Tokyo From Liberated Manila * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * . THREE RUSSIAN BRIDGEHEADS THROWN OVER ODER SOVIETS TAKE STEINAU IN NEW OFFENSIVE Red Army Guns Batter Germans Across River On Long Front CITY IS ABANDONED By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 6.—The Berlin radio declared today Russian troops had thrown three bridgeheads over the Oder river east of Berlin, and the Nazi high command an nounced loss of Steinau, 140 miles southeast of the capi tal, to Soviet troops lashing out in a new offensive in Silesia. . An afternoon broadcast from Berlin said Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s men had established two more bridge heads south of Frankfurt in the frontal assault on Berlin. A crossing 35 miles northeast of Berlin in the area north west of Kustrin was announc ed earlier. Berlin said one of the latest crossings was at Furstenberg. on the Oder's west bank 14 miles southeast of Frankfurt and 47 miles southeast of Berlin. Soviet units won a third bridge head about three miles south of Furstenberg. a transocean broad cast declared. It added that a ‘•temporary" cKissing had been made between Frankfurt and Kustrin on a line from 38 to 40 miles from Berlin, but that this bridgehead had been wiped out. ‘‘Eastern front operations assumed the character of fighting for establishment and smashing of bridgeheads," the See SOVIETS Page 2 N.C. NURSE IS AMONG RESCUED Family Of Evelyn Whitlow Of Leasburg Notified She Is Safe LEASBURG. Feb. 6—(^—Joy ous parents of a 29-year-old army nurse who was captured when the heroic survivors of Coregidor were overwhelmed by the Japanese In June, 1942, today were told that their daughter had been rescued by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthurs vic torious American soldiers. Evelyn Whitlow, who landed in Manila Just 16 days before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, had been a prisoner almost three years when she and 68 other army nurs rs from 31 states were given their precious freedom yesterday. Because there were no phone communications here late last night, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nor wood Whitlow could not be told of Evelyn's rescue. However, two sisters contacted in Danville, Va„ shortly after mid night described the news that Evelyn had been saved as “won derful.” 5 IN SERVICE Evelyn is one of five Whitlow children in the service. Two brothers are in France, a third is in the navy and another sister sailed in January for for eign service as an army nurse. The rescued nurse, described by her sisters as an “athletic type,” went to elementary school here, graduated from the Yanceyville High school and took her nurse’s training at Memorial Hospital at Danville, finishing in August, 1939. She Joined the Army Nurses Corps 10 months later and was .assigned to Fort Oglethorpe, Cta.., where she applied for foreign Service. She sailed for the Philippines in Oc tober, 1941. Shortly after she arrived there she wrote her parents that she Bee N. C. NURSE Page Z CIVILIAN INTERNEES AT SANTO TOMAS PRISON CAMP—U. S. and British civilian internees stand with their baggage on the grounds of the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila, P. I, This photo was taken i by a Jap serviceman and was found in a Jap barracks after the capture of Tacloban on Leyte by American forces, (AP Wirephoto from U. S. Navyi. Leipzig, 85 miles south and west of Berlin, is a possible haven for Nazis fleeing Berlin. Industrial Chemnitz Is 40 miles farther south east. Magdeburg Is 70 miles west and south of Berlin. Several other towns In central Germany also apparently were hit A preliminary announcement said the targets were Industries and communications. About 850 Mustangs and Thun derbolts flew escort. The raid on Chemnitz, 35 miles from Dresden, represented a round trip flight of, 1,300 miles. The day raids followed a night Mosquito attack on Berlin, where | delayed action bombs planted in Saturday’s huge - Flying Fortress raid still were exploding. NEW FIRES SET Fast two- engined British Mos quitos kindled new fires in Berlin last night, and hit other objectives in central and western Germany, One plane was missing. A Stockholm dispatch said the See 2,200 Page 2 $7,619 RAISED IN POUODRWE A total of $7,619.20 has been raised for the infantile paralysis fund in Cleveland county with many reports still incomplete, it was announced this morning by Chairman John Anthony who said that appears now as if the goal of $12,840, more than thlee times the amount raised last ilear, will be reached. The first complete report was turned in by W. E. Abemethy, for the city schools showing that the Shelby schools have collected a grand total of $2,806.83. Of this amount, the elementary schools raised $2,027.21 divided as follows: Graham, $413,56; Jeffer son, $397.10; LaFayette, $146.10; See 7,619 Page 2 MERRY-GO-ROUND: Pearson Addresses Column About Wallace To Gardner (Editor's Note—Drew Pearson’s column today takes the form of a letter to his old friend, ex-Governor O. Max Gardner of North Carolina.) Governor O. Max Gardner Shelby, North Carolina Dear Governor: We were talking last week about Henry Wallace. And since you as an old friend have been so patient and generous in defending me in the past, I thought I owed you a further explanation of my ideas on Henry Wallace. We were remarking that Wallace was politically inept. He has been presiding over the Senate for four long years. Usually when a Senator or anyone close to the Senate comes up for confirmation for an administra tive appointment, he is confirmed by acclamation, regardless of his politi cal views, regardless of committee hearings, and regardless Of research into his past. The Senate would have confirmed Jack Garner for the dual job of Loan Administrator and Secretary of Commerce without any hesitation whatsoever. Also Charlie Curtis—though neither was banker nor business ! man. They were skilled, however, 1 at poker and smoked-filled-room politics, and they would have been confirmed. Henry Wallace, on the other hand, has hardly made more than half a dozen close friends in four years of presiding over the Sen ate. He has no private refrigera tor. He does not even smoke. When Senators dropped in to see him he was timid and shy and talked about foreign affairs and preclusive buy ing or seed corn. He just lacked the aptitude for winning close friends and influencing Senators. WOODROW WILSON AND WALLACE But sometimes I wonder whether in the broader sense Wallace hasn’t been a very smart politician. For See WALLACE Page 4 ... HOUSE GROUP APPROVES BILL nw;. ■■'•»*. ****?•** «,. - i t ferr*~- * “' Battle Over Nomination Of Wallace Thrown To House Floor By FRANCES M. LEMAT WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. —{JP)— The house banking committee ap proved unanimously today the sen ate-passed George bill divorcing the RFC from the commerce de partment. Thus the battle over former vice (President Wallace's nomination as Secretary of Commerce was thrown indirectly onto the house floor. The vote came after committee Democrats beat back 15 to 11 a Republican attempt to repeal some of President Roosevelt's war pow ers, to make sure the President could assign no duties to Wallace except those of a trimmed-down commerce department. Representative Wolcott (R Mich), ranking minority member, announced immediately the Re publicans would take to the house floor the fight for this and other restrictive amendments not in the bill by Senator George (D-Ga). WITHHOLDING VOTE The senate is withholding a vote on confirmation of Wallace’s ap pointment to the commerce post pending completion of legislation taking the RFC and subsidiary lending agencies away from the commerce department. Some house anti-Wallace leaders See HOUSE Page 2 If. Col. Goforth Leading Attack On Pram Today WITH THE U. S. THIRD ARMTi TROOPS BEYOND THE SIEG FRIED LINE, Feb. 6—(/P)—Lt. Col George Goforth of Shelby, N. C. today was leading a group of Am erican forces toward Prum, one ol the fortified cities just beyond th< Siegfried defense line. Another Carolinian, Maj. James C. Kemp, of Clemson, S. C., lec Third Army -forces into Brans cheid, an important German roac center, yesterday. Prum’s network of roads anc railways comprises an importan part of the enemy’s defenses oi this front. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Lions chib direc tors meet at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m. — C.A.P. members meet at armory. WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. — Sunday School officers and teachers of First Baptist church meet at church. 7:30 p.m.—Presbyterian pray er meeting. 7:30 p.m. — Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. 7:45 pm.—Prayer meeting at First Baptist church. KNOCKOUTBLOW DELIVERED BY PARATROOPERS More Thon 5,000 Allied War Prisoners Freed As City Taken caughtTn TRAP MANILA, Feb. 6.—Liber ation of Manila and more than 5,000 prisoners from three years of Japanese subjugation was proclaimed today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who im mediately took up the new war cry, “on to Tokyo!” The knockout blow was deliver ed by paratroopers of the 11th Air borne division, who drove intc Manila from the south in a 35 mile overnight dash as First Cav alry and 37th division Yanks smashed across the Pasig river barrier in the city’s heart. Complete destruction of the Ja panese defenders “is imminent,’1 MacArthur announced. Caught ir a three-way trap, the enemy can only go toward Manila Bay, which is constantly under American bombsights. Corregidor fortress at the hsftior 'entrance and the near- •’ by Bataan peninsula could serve as temporary refuge. Ba taan now is under American control, all its roads sealed off at the north. MacArthur proclaimed “the fat of Manila was the end of one great phase of the Pacific struggle, and set the stage for another.” H< added: “We shall not rest until the enemy is completely overthrown ... We are well on the way, but Japan itself is our final goal . . Our motto becomes ‘On To To kyo!”’ BID FOB COMMAND The wording could be interpret ed as a bid for continuing com mand in the campaign against Jito pan proper and a move to put down rumors that the Philippine! would be the end of the roaTl foi the five-star general. MacArthur made it clear a quid cleanup of Manila’s remaining Ja See KNOCKOUT Page 2 BRITISH T0k& BIG THREE TALKS ARE UNDERWAY LONDON, Feb. 6. —<ff>— Sii Walter Citrine told the opening ses sion of the British trades unlor congress today that Prime Ministei Churchill is attending a confer ence with President Roosevelt anc Premier Stalin. It was the first public pronounce ment hert, indicating that th< “big three" meeting was undei way, although there has been mucl speculation. Cletrine, secretary of the Con gress, said Churchill was to havi spoken at the trades union meetinf but was unable to do so becausi he was attending the conference. He read a message of greeting; from Churchill on behalf of thi British government. Rain, Sleet, Snow Bring Winter With Groundhog Vengeano A cold-hearted weather man pulled all the stops this morn ing to bring rain, sleet and mfim in a symphony of ice that contyuued intermittently into the afternoon with a promise of rising temperatures and more rain tonight. From the mountains west of here came reports of snowfall as much as six inches deep at Lookout point .but buses continued were maintaining schedules with but little lag despite the bad weather. To followers of Mr. Ground hog it was evidence of his ven geance following last Friday’s visit when either his shadow or the inadequate coal pile sent him scurrying back to cover for six more weeks of winter. SHELBY DRIVE LEADERS—W. L. Angel, upper left, and Earl Honey cutt, upper right, are chairmen of solicitation for the outlying business district in the Red Cross War Fund drive, while Mrs. Rush Stroup, lower left, is chairman of the women’s division, and C. Rush Hamrick, sr„ lower right, is co-chairman yith J. D. Lineberger of the special gifts division. Red Cross Seeking $39,825 In Drive f - Off To Flying Start With Strong Organization At Work; Four Churches Oversubscribed Cleveland's ISMS Red Cross War Fund drive for $39,825 was off to a start today as the largest and most ef fective campaign ofeanization ever put together in the county swung into pre-campaign activity under the direction of Rural Chairman Horace Easom. More than 150 Red Cross lead ers, most of them ministers and leading laymen from ft he county’s 11 69 churches, heard a inighty chal lenge flung at a luncheon Monday i when Dr. I. G. Greet;, the Baptist 1 educator, orator and cirphanage di rector, termed the meeting ‘‘the greatest demonstration in Chris tian citizenship I’ve ever seen.” He termed this Red Cross drive "an opportunity to give the best in you that humanity might live, an opportunity to show appreciation for the sacrifices our boys are | making at the fighting fronts and ; an opportunity to break down bar ; riers he sees interfering with uni 1 ty of our peoples.” . WOUNDED VET APPEALS Sgt. Alpin Hendricks, who was one of the first American soldiers to land in'' France on D. Day and who a month later lost a leg in the Cherbourg peninsula fighting, told the group that he was present be See RED CROSS Page 2 Measure Would Raise Salaries Of Barber Board RALEIGH, Feb. 6.— (/P) —Rep Gobble of Forsyth introduced r bill today to increase the salaries of the three-member state boarc of barber examiners from $3,00! to $3,600 a year and to place a $5 a year tax on barber shops now, in operation. The license would be $25 on those shops opening after July 1. Servicemen would be given the right to resume barbering w-ithir one year after discharge and with out examination by the board. Ai additional $25 fee would be placec on barber schools in operation or July 1 and a $50 fee on those See MEASURE Page 2 STRATEGIC ERROR: Nazis’ Winter Offensive Written Off As Total Loss SUPREME HEADQUAR T E R E ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Feb. 6—(PP)—A supreme head quarters war review yrote off the Nazi Ardennes offensive today as a “complete defeat” for an enemy who has suffered 1,310,000 casual ties since D-day, add a strategic error on Hitler’s park upon which the Russians are now-capitalizing. At the same time tie review, is sued yesterday, disclosed that the U. S. first army, which was trans ferred to Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s command at the outset of the offensive, was return ed to Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s 12th army group as soon as tht first linked up with the U. S. thirc army in that battle. No mention was made of the U S. ninth army, which with the firsl and third made up Bradley's group (A dispatch from Associated Pres; Correspondent Wes Gallagher, dat ed Jan. 19 and delayed by the cen sor, said the ninth was left undei Montgomery presumably for fu military operations in which Cana dian, British and American forces See NAZIS’ Page WITHIN YARDS OF EAST EDGE BASTION TOWNS Third Army Takes Hab scheid, Germans Recap ture Brandscheid CLEAR THROUGH LINE PARIS, Feb. 6.—(>P)—In fantry of the American First Army slashed into the second concrete belt of German for tifications today to within 1,500 yards of Gemund and 1,000 yards of Schleiden, last bastion towns of the Siegfried line. Just to the north, the 78th (Lightning) division drove through the west wall forti fications to within 1,500 yards of Schmidt, north of the net work of dams controlling headwaters of the Roer river. Two of the five dams have been captured. The Third army, fighting seven miles deep in Germany, captured the Siegfried Line village of Hab | scheid, six miles southwest of the fortified communication center of Prum. Germans, however, moved back into Brandcsheid. where the Third army had driven clear 1 through the Siegfred Line. The Second (Indian Head) di vision, commanded by Maj. Gen. Walter M. Robinson, and the Ninth division of Maj. Gen. Louis A. Craig carried the assault to Gemund and Schleiden, both towns of about 2,500. On the Third army front to the south, however, 250 reso lute Germans burst back Into the fortified village of Brand cheid where Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's troops had broken clear through the Siegfried Line late yesterday. Heavy fighting ensued and the issue was still in doubt. Elsewhere, foot troops of the Third army advanced a mile and a quarter along an eight-mile front, capturing Habscheid, seven miles southwest of Prum, and Schlausnbach, six northwest. At other points, the Third army was seven miles inside Germany and just over three from Prum, where a spiderweb of rails and roads serves the German front. Supreme headquarters disclosed See WITHIN Page U. S. FORCES GAIN IN ITALY Fifth Army Advances Up Serchio River Valley, 3 Towns Taken ROME, Feb. 6.—(API-Fifth army troops advanced steadily up the Serchio river valley today after virtually wiping out gains made by the Germans last December and taking three towns against light op position. The allied troops occupied Al biano and Castel Vecchio Sunday and recaptured Lama Dt Sotto yes I terday in an advance on a 10.000 I yard front spanning the valley. The gains virtually restored the line 1 held before the enemy drove the : American 92nd division back sev I eral miles in December, -TEMPO INCREASES I The tempo of activity increased I in the fifth army area southeast of i Bologna where an allied combat patrol pierced enemy territory and i engaged German forces. : Patrol brushes which left the 1 lines unchanged were reported on the eighth army front. Fog and ! mist blanketed visibility over much • of the front. ■! Allied planes were active, flying ( over 1.700 sorties yesterday with more than 500 U. S. 15th air force heavy bombers battering oil storage facilities at Regensburg and rail yards in Germany and Austria. Large forces of medium and fight er t rmbers hammered the Bren ner pass rail line. Seven allied ! planes were lost.
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