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» WEATHER North Carolina—Partly cloudy and warmer today and tonight follow ed by showers and colder Thurs day, rain beginning in mountains late tonight. Tshe Hhelby Bnily thr CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 STATE THEATRE TODAY "HERE COMES THE WAVES" Bing Crosby — Betty Hutton Sonny Tufts — Also News VOL. XLIII—33 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c SEPARATE FLEETS: , Superforts From India Bases Rain Bombs On Thailand, Indo-China WASHINGTON' Feb. 7.—(/P)—Separate fleets of Super fortresses lashed at Japanese military installations in Thai land and Indo-China today. Flying from India bases, the B-29s of Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey’s 20th Bomber Command sprang the twin attacks in daylight. A war bulletin from general of the army H. H. Arnold, commanding the 20th Air Force, did not disclose additional details. Results of the missions will be! announced when operational re- i ports are received from the theater. Possible targets were Bangkok, j capital of Thailand; Saigon, chief city of Indo-China, and the fleet base at Camranh Bay, 200 miles northeast of Saigon. Bangkok is the major trans portation center supplying Jap anese forces in southeast Asia. Four times it has felt the sting of Superfortress bombs—last June 6, November 27, December 14 and January 2. In their first strike at Saigon on Jan. 27 the B-29s plummeted multi-ton loads of destruction on ■ this key naval base. Some 3.200 i miles from the B-29’s India nests, Saigon has a dock capable of han dling repairs to medium sized ves sels Other high priority targets are three military airdromes, im portant oil storage tanks and rail road shops. NEW INSTALLATIONS Recent reports Indicated that Japanese skittering from the be sieged Philippines have establish ed new army installations at Sai gon. Some 1,000 miles from Luzon on the Indo-China coast, Camranh Bay is the nearest Asiatic fleet base from which the Japanese can ispatch or receive troops and material from the Philippines. Be fore the war it was Indo-China'S' chief commercial port. 51ST MISSION In today's strikes the B-29s rounded out the 51st major mis sion in their long-range aerial of fensive ^gainst Japan and its em pire strongholds. Since Jan. 1, the Superforts have uncorked 18 at tacks against such targets as Na goya, Omura, Akashi, and Tokyo in the Nipponese homeland, For mosa, Singapore and Iwo Jima in the Volcanos. These latest B-29s operations coincided with widespread air acti vity by plane* of other Pacific air forces. Heavy bombers dumped 91 tons of bomb* on enemy airdromes on northern Borneo yesterday. ENEMY FIRES MANILA: Doughboys Close In On Barricaded Japs Gen. MacArthur Tells His Men Liberation Of Philip pines To Be Completed Soon By The Associated Press MANILA. Feb. 7.—Doughboys closed in on barricaded Japanese flanking in the Pasig river and hunted them down in other sections of smoke-shrouded Manila today after the cornered garrison wantonly dynamited and set the torch to the most modern section of the city. GEN. M’ARTHUR BACK IN MANILA Fulfills Pledge To Return Mode When He Left City In 1942 By RUSSELL BRINES SANTO TOMAS INTERNMENT CAMP. Manila, Feb. 7.—</P>—Gen. Douglas MacArthur who promised when he left the Philippines, "I will return.” came back today to the civilians who long awaited him here, and then departed the camp again to the growl of a Japanese shell which landed 100 feet away on the campus of this historic col lege. Enemy artillery had Intermit tently hit the campus through the night and today, wounding some soldiers, but although the Internees had been ducking shell blasts all morning, they crowded around Mac Arthur when he arrived. The throng cheered lustily as the general and his staff alighted from their cars at the camp’s main building. "There’s MacArthur again. He’s back,” they shouted. It was an historic moment against the backdrop of the still bitter fight for Manila. The honor guard long had been standing on the roadway fronting the main building and the internees had crowded around the entrance awaiting the general. SHELLING Shells had landed throughout the night on the campus near some Internees’ shanties. Several hits were scored on the university build ings. But the internees were remark ably calm because, as one of them said, they had been dodging shrap nel and duds from Japanese anti aircraft guns which had been placed around the university to fire at American planes raiding Manila. The Japanese artillery fire may have been directed toward Ameri cas GEN. MacARTHUR Page 2 Jt IT IIUC AII CO 9vUt 0U1VMUC1CU Ul MIT. blackened, rubble-strewn business area, Oen. Douglas Mac Arthur told his soldiers "You will short ly complete the liberation of the Philippines” climaxing Japan’s “worst military defeat in its his tory.” He requested divine services throughout his command for “our hallowed dead.” Flames appeared to be dying out along Escolta avenue, thoroughfare of theaters, shops and office buildings, where Nipponese demolition squads touched off explosives and drums of gasoline Monday night. Details of destruction were de layed by incredible traffic jams caused by blown bridges along the Pasig river, fire fighters, Filipinos fleeing the fire, the curious and the army moving In for the final clean-up. DESTROYED A mile square area was reported destroyed, including all major buildings along the Escolta, among them same of the Orient's finest theaters. Associated Press Corre spondent Russel Brines reported "a great black gash appeared to have burned in that section of the city north of the Pasig river.” Manila’s water mains were empty, for the enemy had See DOUGHBOYS Page 2 War Prognosticators Think MacArthur May Get Assignment To Invade Japan By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Peb. 7.— <A>) — General Douglas MacArthur’s “On To Tokyo" cry has given rise to speculation among the military people here that he may well get from President Roosevelt the as signment to Invade Japan. Actually the Idea that the lib erator of Manila would probably Want to go beyond the Philippines has hit some of the ranking of ficers here as a surprising but— now that they think of It—entire ly logical motion. Moreover, it fits in with indicated development ol the final stage of the war to crush Japan. The task is three-fold: Te keep command of the seas and ocean supply lines leading to Japan and the China coast, to Invade Japan and to invade China. The odds on favorite for the China Invasion assignment, de spite his recent run-in with Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, is General Joseph W. 8tilwell, the army’s new ground forces com mander. Stilwell knows the Chi nese better than any other top * flight American officer and is considered by most of his asso ciates to be best equipped to plan the future grand scale operations in China. FULL TIME But the China assignment is a full time job that may continue, assuming It starts first, long af ter the invasion of Japan. These will be separate operations, rais ing entirely separate problems of strategy and supply. This is why speculation now centers on Mac See WAR Page NEW FOOTHOLD GAINED SOUTH OF KUESTR1N Berlin-Kuestrin Railroad Under Soviet Artil lery Fire ATTACKING HEAVILY By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 7.—A Ger man military spokesman de clared today the Russians had set up a new bridgehead over the Oder south of Kues trin, and expanded another foothold above Kuestrin and within some 3p miles of Ber lin. The Berlin-Kuestrin rail road is under Soviet artillery fire, enemy broadcasts said. Russian gains in the Trans Oder breach in Silesia were acknowledged, and Berlin said the Red army had won and then lost Pyritz, 24 miles southeast of Stettin, in a push aimed at the Baltic coast. The new bridgehead across the central Oder on the shortest route to Berlin was the seventh reported by the Germans. The broadcast termed it a small one, but said "it enables the Russians to shell the railroad leading from the west to the fortress of Kuestrin with their heavy artillery.” The Germans said 13 Soviet tanks had smashed "temporarily” into the center of Kuestrin Itself, 40 miles from Berlin. The Soviets are assaulting hea vily "along the entire east front from Slovagla to East Prussia,” the Germans said. In an NBC broadcast over Moocew radio, Robert Magi doff was permitted to hint strongly that Zhukov had creased the Oder and was fight See NEW FOOTHOLD Page 2 YANKSLAUNCH DRIVE IN ITALY By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME. Feb. 7. — (IP)— The strong American attack in Italy since October has driven 600 yards into German lines southeast of Bologna and gained its initial ob jectives despite stiff enemy resis tance, headquarters announced to day. U. S. Fifth army troops which launched the attack Monday and broke a long winter stalemate push ed toward German strongholds of the mountainous gothic line guard ing the Po valley road hub in front of Bologna. The strong opposition encounter ed indicated there has been no weakening of German defenses des pite reports the Nazis were shifting some troops from Italy to guard their Russian-menaced home front. LIMITED Front line dispatches said the attack did not constitute a large scale offensive and headquarters described it as aiming at “limited objectives.” However, it was the Allies’ big gest offensive gesture since bad weather settled over the Italian front last October. The heaviest artillery bombardment of months preceded the drive, which was sup ported by tanks. Some 15,000 rounds of ammunition were fired by American guns of all sizes. Numerous casualties were report ed. “Jumping off after a short artil See TANKS Page 2 Reorganization Of Nazi Government Is Rumored; Hitler To Be President STOCKHOLM, Feb. 7.—(/P)—The Stockholm newspa per Aftonbladet said today it believed that a reorganization of the German government under which Hitler would give up the title of fuehrer to become the reich’s president, with Franz von Papen as chancellor was imminent. its lntormation was attnoutea to “rumors in Berlin which reached German circles here.” Von Papen, an ace of the German diplomatic service, was ambassador to Turkey when Ankara broke rela tions with Berlin last Aug. 2. The report had the earmarks of a German trial balloon designed to sound out Allied reaction to wheth-/ er such a revamped government would have any chance of suing for armistice terms. It came while President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin were reportedly in conference with war problems including Germany’s fate. Aftonbladet, which in the early stages of the war had a strongly pro-German attitude, said Hitler’s reason for such a change was that he "is no longer able to manage both the matters of state and war leadership.” BASIS By becoming the president of the Reich—a post he abolished—Hitler would be “laying a favorable basis for taking up international nego tiations,” the paper said. According to the report, Dr. Hj 'VWMrt_1 Britain Endorses French Participation Government Spokesman Advocates Inclusion Of France In "Big Power" Conference LONDON, Feb. 7.—</P)—Inclusion of France in a “big power” conference dedicated to the settlement of “political decisions on the redrawing of European frontiers” was en dorsed today by the British government. LIONS HELP ON YOUTH CENTER High School Students Ap peal For Teen-Age Center Appeal of representatives of the Shelby high school student body for a place to meet, dance and play after school hours, a teen-age cen ter, fell on fertile ground last night as the board of directors of the Shelby Lions club, meeting with the past presidents and chairmen of all Lions committees, voted to work with the school authorities and with the students themselves In getting such a place establish ed. Decision to look into the feasi bility of such a place was reached shortly after appeals had been made by Miss Kitty Beam, editor of the high school paper, Jim Cornwell, Edna Brooks Dennis and Dick Bowling, all high school stu dents. They were introduced by Worth Morris, member of the Lions club, who asserted there is no greater need in the city today than for a meeting place for teen-age boys and girls. HAGAMAN SPEAKS After the appeal had been made by 4he students, J. G. Hagaman, principal of the high school, spoke See LIONS Page 2 almar Schacht, former president oi the Reichsbank. would become economic and finance minister, anc Field Marshal Walther Vor Branchitsch, former commander ir chief of the German army, would become minister of war. Brauchitsch is one of the Ger man generals reported at variouj times to have been executed in thf blood purge following the assassi nation attempt on Hitler last July The newspaper said Schacht wa; released from prison a few days age after being under arrest since Iasi July 24. ARMISTICE “The objective of these measure! would naturally be to set up the first condition for talcing up arm istice negotiations and at the sam< time to pave the way for reconcile otian with inner opposition ele ments,” Aftonbladet said. The newspaper quoted Germar sources in Stockholm as sayinf Germany’s central administratior would be moved to southern Ger many—probably to Dresden—bu that the people would be encour aged to believe their governmen' See REORGANIZATION Page 2 vvioii icaui^ i uimiug uigi, over the apparent exclusion of Gen Charles De Gaulle from the Roose velt-Churchill-Stalin talks, Min ister of State Richard law tolc WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—(&>— Acting: Secretary of State Grew today reaffirmed "our full re alization of France’s vital in terest” in the shaping of a European peace. At the same time, he told a news conference that the Unit ed States hopes to see a Yugo slav government established at Belgrade but is not entering into differences between King Peter and Marshal Tito. Grew made his statement on France shortly after Richard Law, British minister of state, gave his government’s endorse ment to inclusion of France in a big power conference to redraw the map of Europe. the House of Commons that Britaii believed the reshaping of the Eu ropean map "must be decided la' ter by all the powers together.” Law made his statements as i substitute for Foreign Secretary See BRITAIN Page 2 TRUCK DRIVER IS OVERCOME BY FUMES H. L. Miller, 41-year-old trucl driver, of Asheville, is in the Shel by hospital after a narrow escapi from being asphyxiated last night He was driving for the Qrea Southern Trucking company an< his truck suffered a slight mishai near Shelby. It was towed to i local garage and Miller crawled u; in the sleeping compartment anc went to sleep. After the truck had been re paired he was called to sign th< ticket and as he got out of the truck he fell to the ground. He was carried immediately to the hospital where it was said that he was suffering with monoxide pois oning. Fumes from the motor are believed to have collected in hi! sleeping compartment. Miller said that he had beer driving 36 hours without sleeping when his truck broke down. Phy sicians said that if he had not been called when he was the re sults might have been fatal. * FOUND DEAD—Bettie Lou Fra zier (above), 2, was found dead in a Palmetto swamp a mile from her home at Brunswick, Ga„ two days after her mysterious disappear ance. A white man, whose name has been withheld, has confessed slaying the child. MAN CONFESSES SLAYING CHILD Says He Smothered Bettie Lou Frazier, Denies Rape Attempt BRUNSWICK, Ga., Feb. 7.—(£>}— A 25-year-old 4-F shipyard worker has confessed, Maj. C. A. Williams of the State Highway Patrol said, that he suffocated two and a haii year-old Bettie Lou Frazier and threw her body into a muddy swamp stream. Maj. Williams said the man, was identified as Richard M. Bailey, formerly of Pineville, W. Va. “Bailey has been working in the shipyards at Brunswick for about two years,” Williams said. "He lives with his parents about 300 yards from the Frazier home. SMOTHERED ! “He said that he saw the little . girl playing in the woods back of her home Saturday afternoon and went out and started talking to t her. Then, he said, he put her , head under his arm and pressed her nose against his body until she went limp. “He said he didn’t know why he did it. He denied that he had at tempted to rape the child.” When she disappeared the child wore overalls over a yellow polo shirts, and shoes and socks. When found, the body was clad only in the polo shirt. The child lived with her mother, Mrs. Woodrow W. Frazier. Her father, an army sergeant station ed at Alexandria, La., obtained an emergency furlough to come home. I > . Failure To Defend Manila Looks Like Planned Run-Out By HAROLD STREETER Associated Press War Editor Evidence suggesting the Japanese foresaw the loss of Manila and ac tually began plans for retreat from it before the American landings Jan. 9 at Ungayen Gulf is to be found in reports coming from the liberated scene. Such a manifestation of war psychology on the part of the ene my warrants interest because it is so at variance with that which pre viously distated bitter-end stands on Pacific islands of lesser value. Among the more than 1,300 Gen. Patton’s Forces Cross Flooded Rivers, Drive Into Westwall PARIS, Feb. 7.—(/P)—Third Army .shock troops crossed the flooded Sure and Our rivers into Germany on a 22-mile front today and fought a half mile into the Siegfried line in a broad extension of the American drive toward the Rhine. Parts of four divisions stormed across the Luxembourg frontier by boat and bridge at seven places between Echter nach and a point five miles north of Glervaux. Small arms fire but little artillery opposed them. The new attacks put the allied line on or across the Reich frontier all the 160 miles from the Dutch border to near the blackened industrial city of Saarbruecken, now largely a shell from allied bomb and artillery attacks. GOVERNOR'S BILL WOULD STAGGER BOARD TERMS Measure Would Govern Board Of Conservation, Development RALEIGH, Feb. 7—(TP)—A gov ernor’s bill to stagger the terms of members of the board of con servation and development was introduced today by Rep. Stoney of Burke. Five of the 15 members would be appointed for two years, five for four years and five for ,six years. They would be named on their ability to represent the man ifold functions of the department. The board would be directed to meet in Raleigh in January, in Morehead City in July, and to hold two other meetings at times and places designated by the board itself, The board presently is appointed for flat four-year terms, which ex pire in May. Rep. Askew of Pamlico sent up a bill to allocate $30,000,000 for the next biennium for construction, re See WOULD Page 2 Ted Malone To Tell Of Ollie Harris On Broadcast Tonight The Star received a telegram from New York this afternoon say ing that Ted Malone, on his over seas broadcast tonight at 8 o'clock E. W. T. over the Blue network, will tell about Sgt. Ollie Harris, of Shelby, now serving with a hospi tal evacuation unit in Luxembourg. Sgt. Harris, husband of the for mer Miss Abbie Jane Wall, who, with their two children, makes her home with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. Zeno Wall, while her husband is away, was connected with the Lutz-Austell funeral home prior to entering service a little over a year ago. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 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.—Central Method ist fellowship hour. 7:45 p. m.—Prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. THURSDAY 7:00 p m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p. m.—C. A. P. members meet at armory. men, women and children freed this week at ancient, grimy BU_ ibid prison in the heart of Man ila were some British mothers. They and their children had been held at Baguio. That mountain town, summer capital of the Philippines, lies more than 120 miles north of Manila. By blowing up the road approaches, Japanese forces could hole up there amid good, natural defenses with the prospect of holding out for a long time. The bitter defense put See FAILURE Page 3 Lit. vi iimu at my, Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ First army captured Masebenden, a sub urb of Gemuend; besieged Schlei den; and advanced to within 500 yards of the bloody village of Schmidt, north of the five Roer river dams controlling levels on that barrier stream. All three villages were at the eastern extremity of the second fixed Siegfried line belt of forti fications. Beyond, the Germans have dug trenches, thrown up earthworks, fortified villages and converted farmhouses into ersatz forts. The First army made slow, slithering progress to the dams because driving rains were rapidly washing snow from the hilly battle front. Two of the dams have been captured. The 78th Lightning division reached to within 500 yards of Schmidt and also entered Kom merscheidt, 1,000 yards northwest ward. In three days, the 78th alone has seized 159 Siegfried Line pill boxes. The Ninth division entered the Gemuend suburb and the Sec ond division cleaned out Hellen thal, three miles south of Schlei den. The First army was within two miles of two of the German-held Roer headwater dams which con trol the flood level on the whole river, along which the American Ninth and British Second armies were bivouacked in possible jump off positions. For the first time since the Russian winter offensive broke See GEN. PATTON’S Page 2 BEGiNSCOST WEEK THURSDAY I Scouters Will Take Over County And City Offic es On Friday Scout officials in Cleveland county were today working out plans for taking over the admin istration of county and city offices Friday as a furt of the observance of Boy Scout week, which begins tomorrow and continue through Wednesday, February 14. Observance of this week marks the 55th anniversary of the found ing of the movement in America. The birthday will be observed not only in Cleveland county but in every city and town in the coun try where there is a Boy Scout troop. Since February 8, 1910, more than 12,000,000 men and boys have been engaged in scouting. The present-day active enrollment is more than 1,800,000 cubs, scouts, senior scouts and adult volunteer leaders. SERVICES Boy Scouts, Cubs and Senior Scouts have performed many ser vices vital to the war effort in re cent months. In a recent two months drive for sorely needed waste paper the Boy Scouts sal vaged 120.000 tons. Incomplete reports show that 85,968 Scouts and Cubs collected over a half ton each while more than 400.000 boys brought in more than 500 pounds each. Li\te in September and in early October Scouts and Cubs collect ed enough milkweed floss to make one million life jackets for the armed forces for use while afloat. SID WAR EFFORT Last year the Boy Scouts of America distributed more than , 20,000,000 posters for the Office of War Information. In addition members aided rationing boards. Selective Service boards, Ccmmu See BEGIN Page 8 1
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