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B AND L NAMES LEGRANDHEAD R. T. LeOrand was re-elected | president at the Shelby and Cleve land county building and loan as sociation whose annual meeting yesterday afternoon was marked by reports of a successful year. A. V. Hamrick was elected vice presi dent and John "V Mull, secretary treasurer. Directors chosen were R. T. Le Orand, E. B. Hamrick, A. V. Ham rick, Charles A. Hoey, L. U. Arro- j wood, C. R. Webb, C. G. Morgan, J. i 8. McKnlght, Max Washburn, B. 1 W. Dickson and John P. Mull. An outlay of approximately $75, 000 was made during the year for j loans for building and buying [ house. Secretary Mull reported. ! This report indicated four new | houses were built and 25 homes were purchased through assistance from loans made by this associa tion. FAILURE Starts On Pare One up by the Nipponese around Ro sario, 15 miles below Baguio, fits Into such a plan. BRITISH WOMEN The British women freed at Bil lbld told war correspondents that * the Japanese, without explanation, took them from Baguio on Dec. 15, 1044, and started them by truck to BUibid. Dec. 15 is a most interest ing date. On that very day, men of Gen. Douglas MacArthur made amphibious landings on Mindoro Island, south of Luzon. That was the signal to Japanese on Luzon that MacArthur was head ing for Manila. That very day the Japanese moved out of Baguio internees who were militarily value less and just so many more mouths to feed in a spot of possible siege. War correspondents at liberated Bilibid also reported finding a strange "proclamation” of the Nip ponese guards. It informed the pris oners "You are at liberty to act i and live as free persons but you must be aware of probable danger if you go out.” BIGNITICANT DATE Originally, it was dated Jan. 7. On that date, Japanese intelligence j knew a huge 800-ship American in vasion convoy was off Manila Bay. j Presumably the Japanese at Bil- j ibid had instructions to be ready j to run. The convoy went on north to | Lingayen—and the Japanese chang ed the proclamation’s date to Feb. 4, the one on which the guards ac tually fled. On Jan. 6, three days prior to ; the Lingayen landings, the Japan- i ese staff at the Santo Tomas in ternment camp in Manila was ord- i ered to leave and spent the night burning papers. Jan. 8, day of the Lingayen invasion, the comman dant changed his mind. About the same time, Yank fliers 1 over French Indo-China reported eigns that the Japanese had moved men and material from the Philip pines to bolster Saipan. Even the firse set in Manila's business district were no haphazard thing but ones long arranged so they could be touched off my re mote control. All in all, it looks like a planned runout. LIONS Starts On Page Cne briefly, emphasizing the need of ■uch a place. As already worked out by the students the meeting place would be equipped with a soda fountain, juke box, ping pong and pool ta bles and comfortable chairs. These student representatives pointed out that such place for the congregation of students would erase Une6 of little cliques and give students no time for thinking up mischief in their off-hours. COMMITTEE NAMED President R. J. Rucker, of the Lions committee, announced last night that he would name a com mittee to investigate the proposition of location and other details in con nection with the establishment of ■uch a high school social center. He declared that the closest con tact must be kept with the par ents and the school authorities and that the young folks must be given adequate supervision which they want themselves. WHY QUINTUPLETS always do this for CHEST COLDS! Ta Promptly Relieve Coughing — Sort Throat and Aching Muscles Whenever the Quintuplets catch cold — ! their chests, throats and backs are rubbed j with Musteroie. Powerfully toothing— | Muaterole not only promptly relieves \ coughs, sore throat, aching cheat muscles iO hel MUSTerolE State Guard To Have Meeting At Lincolnton A conference of staff and offi cers of the First Battalion of the North Carolina State guard will be held Fridav night at Lincoln - ton with Major Clyde T. Wright, of Shelby presiding. Others • to attend from here will be Adj. Max Hamrick, Captain H. S. Plaster, Lt. J. B. Brackett and Lt. Roy W. Morris. Mrs. Gardner, 100, Claimed By Death Mrs. Minervy Gardner, who would this year have attained her 100th birthday, died Tuesday aft ernoon. Funeral services are being con ducted from the Sandy Run Bap tist church by Rev. J. D. Sheppard, pastor of Ascension Lutheran church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. , Surviving Mrs. Gardner is one f06ter son, J. C. Gardner or route 3, Shelby. WAR Starfts On Page One Arthur for this top role in what will be the last act of victory in the Pacific. The third of the leading charac ters is Admiral Chester W. Nim Itz, whose responsibilities are those j of crushing what remains of the Japanese fleet while maintaining control of the seas to support the large land operations in the Phi lippines and elsewhere. The respon sibility for ocean strategy is Nimitz's as is also the delivery of goods when and where invasion commanders need them. The development of the Pacific war from now on must depend to a greater degree than ever before on what happens in Europe. This is particularly true as to timing. ROOM ON LUZON The conquest of all Luzon is land, soon to follow upon the cap ture of Manila, will make avail able o the Pacific command the large mass of land required for concentrating masses of men and supplies for the final move to crush Japan—the move into China to fight the enemy's main armies and the move into the Japanese home islands to destroy the cen ters of existence for those armies. Getting those masses of men to Luzon, however, will be possible only after victory over Germany allows the release of American and Allied forces from Europe The joint chiefs of staff have arranged for the speediest possible redeploy ment but even so it may De months before the forces released from Europe make themselves felt against Japan. BEGIN Starts On Page One nity Chests, War Chests and For eign Relief. They took an active part in the War Loan campaigns, not only in distributing literature and helping at the War Loan headquarters, but also taking or ders for Bonds and Stamps. Spe cial Scouts-at-War Minute Man Flags are being proudly displayed by Troops, Cub Packs and Senior Scout groups, which have 90 per cent of their members buying War Bonds or Stamps regularly in ad dition to each member having someone else of his household making regular purchases. Membership in the forty-eight Boy Scout associations in 70 dif ferent lands around the world at the outbreak of World War II in 1939 was over the three million mark. Mussolini abolished the Boy Scout movement in Italy. There never has been Boy Scouting in Germany. Hitler abolished Scout ing in each country invaded but there is ample evidence that in many war-torn countries Scouting went underground and managed to keep the spirit of Scouting a live. In Japan the movement was militarized. YANKS Starts On Page One lery preparation, we met enemy artillery, machinegun and mortar fire as gains were made up to 500 and 600 yards against stiff opposi tion,” said an official announce ment. The men moved through thaw ing snow over mountainous terrain against strongpoints the Germans have defended through the ice bound winter months. Germans raked American columns with some 1,500 shells. Thick mine fields were encountered. Allied advances also continued in the Serchio valley near the west coast. The villages of Monte Bono and Renaiao, east of the Serchio river, were occupied against only light opposition. Lawn clippings are used by Ca nadians to supplement war-scarce poultry foods. JUST OPENED New Record Shop MEZZANINE FLOOR MAXWELL-MORRIS dc KENNEDY FURNITURE CO. PHONE 788 - SHELBY, N. C. I < T. C. ROBERTS DEATH VICTIM Thomas C. Roberts, 61, died in his home in the Antioch commu nity near Grover sometime during I Monday night being found dead j in bed yesterday morning. He was | a textile worker in Grover, and I had worked until eleven o'clock ! the night before his death. Mr. Roberts was born and rear ed in Earl, but had lived in the Antioch community for the past 23 years. He was a member of the Sulphur Springs Baptist church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary McSwain Roberts; three sons, Perry, who is serving in the army somewhere in Belgium, Eugene and Zoe of Earl; five sisters, Mrs. W. A. Hamrick of Buffalo S. C., Mrs. Jack Gladden of Shelby, Mrs. Claude Nichols, Miss Maggie Rob erts and Miss Nora Roberts of Earl; and three brothers, Jim and Frank of - Earl, and Sippo of In man, S. C. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at four o’clock at the Antioch church conducted by the Rev. Eugene Coker, pastor of the church, and interment will take: place in the church cemetery. BRITAIN Starts On Page One Anthony Eden and Prime Minis ter Churchill. He also represented the government in foreign affairs debates last Wednesday. The question was raised whether the British government endorsed what was quoted as the “official statement made by Gen. De Gaulle in Paris on Jan. 25 that both east and west banks of the Rhine must belong to France.” Law replied that, according to all accounts he had seen of De Gaulle’s press conference of Jan. 25 the French leader did not say both banks must belong to France, but “refer red only to the military occu pation of certain areas by French forces.” Law did not elaborate on his reference to a future big power conference on redrawing frontiers and remained sient when Cmdr. Oliver Locker-Lampson, conserva tive, asked whether there was “any permanent security for France until this traditional fron tier is safe.” FREE ELECTION In a later discussion of the re cognition of governments of newly liberated countries, Law reiterated Britain's stand in favor of free elections as soon as possible. Law said the government's poli cy was based on objectives broad i ly laid down in the Atlantic char i ter, adding: “But the government does not regard any provision of the charter as meaning that in no circumstances could any change of enemy territory take place without the consent of its pre sent inhabitants.” “Does not that interpretation of the Atlantic charter make it sound a complete humbug?’’ asked Lab orite R. Sorenson. “No sir,” Law replied. DOUGHBOYS Starts On Page One blown up the pumping stations several days ago, and the great fire raged unchecked through <he closely-built area, spread ing before a brisk wind toward the east and north. Explosions hurled burning chunks of wood into areas still inhabited by many of the more than 5,000 war prisoners liberated Satur day and Sunday, but were ex tinguished. Many Filipinos undoubtedly were trapped in their homes and burn ed alive. MacArthur said the fire, “wan tonly set” by the "trapped and frustrated” “ enemy garrison, had no relation to Japanese military operations. Liberating Yanks of the first cavalry and 37th infantry divi sions pressed the dirty and danger ous job of digging the enemy from their positions behind barri caded doors and from rooftops, while the eleventh airborne divi sion, which landed the coup de grace in a swift drive from the south, speared along two routes in the southern section. The paratroopers met stiff re sistance around Nichols field, at the extreme southern edge of town. Enemy antiaircraft fire yesterday knocked down one of the very few American planes lost in the Luzon campaign. Corregidor fortress at the mouth of Manila Bay, to which many : Japanese are believed to have re j treated, was bombed with 180 tons of explosives—the heaviest load yet delivered there. REORGANIZATION Starts On Page One was remaining in the capital to the last. The decision to move remaining government departments southward was reported reached Monday night in a meeting headed by Gau leiter Paul Joseph Goebbels. Most members of the foreign office, together with the Gestapo and the general staff, were said to , have fled to Kreummheubel, in Riesen Gebirge, 60 miles west of Breslau and 170 miles southeast of 1 Berlin, More than two billion pounds of aluminum 'were used in U. S. munitions and airplane plants in 1944 f. Furni.Ued by J. Robert Lindsay and Company Webb Building Shelby, N. C. N. Y. COTTON AT 2:00 Today Prev. Day March .21.90 21.86 May.-.21.74 21.72 July .21.36 21.37 October.20.73 20.73 December -_—20.64 20.65 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT May _ _1.637s July . ..l.SS’z September . _1.54% CORN May . ___1.13 ti July . ..__1.11% September _ _1.09% RYE May . _-_1.151s July . ____ «-112 September _ _1.09 1.637 s 1.55% 1.54% 1.12% 1.11% 1.09 s 1.15 1.12 1.09% STOCKS AT 2:00 Amn Rolling Mill _ t17 7-8 American Loco _ _— 31 American Tobacco B _ _ 71 American Tel and Tel — __ 163 Anaconda Copper . .. 31 1-2 ' Assoc Dry Goods _ _ 19 5-8 Beth Steel . . 70 1-4 Boeing Air _ _ 18 3-4 Chrysler . ... 97 1-2 Curtiss-Wright _ _1_ 6 Elec Boat - . 14 3-8 General Motors _ .. 64 5-8 Pepsi Cola . ... 25 1-4 Greyhound Corp . _ 23 5-8 International Paper _ _ 20 5-8 Nash Kelv . ... 18 Glenn L Martin . _ 23 7-8 Newport Ind ..__. 20 3-8 N Y Central... 23 3-4 Penn R R . _._..._ 35 3-4 Radio Corp__ 12 1-2 Reynolds Tob B . .. 33 3-8 Southern Railroad _ _ 37 3-4 Stand Oil N J__ 58 1-2 Sperry Corp _ _ 29 1-4 If S Rubber _ _... 57 U S Steel . 61 7-8 Western Union ...45 1-2 Youngstown S and T __ 42 TRENDS MIXED NEW YORK. .Feb. 7—OP —Stocks moved in a mixed range today with a few leaders and specialties showing the principal gains. Rails, which paced yesterday’s advance, were a bit reactionary and no new leadership developed. Some of the wider swings were in Distillers Corp.. up near 3 points at one time, and Chrysler, down a point. Volume fell off after a fairly lively opening. Bonds were steady and com modities lower. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, Feb. 7——(WFA) —Salable hogs 10,000; total 15,000: active, fully steady; all good and choice barrows and gilts 160 lbs. and up and most 140-160 lbs. 14.75, j ceiling price; odd lots' 140 lb. j weights down to 14.26: few lots ! good and choice 90-100 lb. pigs 13.00; cull light pigs down to 10 - 00; good and choice sows, all . weights 14.00; complete clearance. : Salable cattle 16.000; total 16, , 500; salable calves 800; total 800; fed steers and yearlings steady. ; largely steer run; top 17.00 on weighty steers and long yearlings; best light yearlings 16.75; bulk steers and yearlings 14.25-16.00; , heifers steady, best 16.00; cows and bulls in moderate supply, cows steady, bulls firm; vealers un changed at 15.50 down; eastern shipper demand very broad fol lowing the lifting of railroad em bargo to Atlantic Seaboard. BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO. Feb. 7—(A>.—Butter, firm; receipts 183.611; eggs, re ceipts 9,706; steady, market un j changed. N. C. HOGS RALEIGH, Feb. 7— TP—NCD j Ai—Hog market steady to strong er with tops of 14.45 at Clinton and Rocky Mount. N. C. EGGS, POULTRY RALEIGH, Feb. 7—</P)—NCD A> — Egg and poultry markets : steady. RALEIGH—U. S, grade A large 39; hens, all weights, 25 1-2. . WASHINGTON—Not available. NEW FOOTHOLD i _ Starts On Page One ing the approaches to Berlin, After describing difficulties ! overcome in forcing the Oder in i Silesia, he said “some of these i scenes will come to light as soon as tre story of Zhukov’s crossing of ! the Oder can be told. As it is, all I can say now is to cite the words of Red Star—‘Fighting is ! going on in the fortified forefield i of Berlin.’ ” BERLIN DESOLATE Moscow dispatches said Soviet reconnaissance flights over Berlin disclosed the entire eastern part of the capital appeared to be desert ed and desolated. i In Silesia, the Germans report ; ed new gains by Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Army which had breached the Oder on I a 50-mile front and plunged 12 1-2 miles beyond the stream in a drive 1 menacing Berlin from the flank I - _ I •_ How women and1 girls way get wanted relief [from functional periodic pain Cardui, many women aay. has brought re lief from the cramp-llke agony and nervous atraln of functional periodic distress. Taken like a tonic, it should stimulate appetite, aid digestion,* thus help build reslst ^ anco for the "time” to come. Started 3 day3 before "your time". It should help relieve pain due to purely ^ functional periodic causes. Try It I CARDUI OIWCGTIONS A C Of C Accepts Six New Members Six new members have been ac cepted by the Shelby Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Associa tion it was announced today by J. Dale Stentz, secretary. They are the Bowman Coal com pany, Dr. G. C. Stowe, jr., John McArthur Tin Shop, M. A. Mc Swain Grocery, W. C. Lutz and Hendrick Brokerage company. WOULD Starts On Page One construction and or betterment of county highways. A somewhat similar bill, by Rep. Umstead of Orange, already is before the as sembly. Rep. Gobble of Forsyth intro duced a bill to provide that cos metologists have at least a high school education or its equivalent. A state recreation commission, to be composed of seven members, and an advisory commission to be composed of 30 members, all ap pointed by the governor, would be authorized under a bill by Senators Blythe of Mecklenburg and Penny of Guilford. It could apply for federal funds and would cooperate with federal and local agencies in furtherance of its program. ELECTIONS Senator Penland of Clay intro duced a bill to authorize . elections in Graham, Swain. Cherokee and Clay counties on the question of the sale of wine and beer in those counties. Such elections could be called by the county commission ers, or on petition of 15 per cent of the number of voters who cast ballots in the last gubernatorial election. Senator Ross of Randolph sent up a measure to exempt Randolph from provisions of the state pri mary law, to provide for nomina tions by convention. Senator Currie of Durham in troduced a bill to amend the char ter of the city of Durham to allow the city council to appropriate reasonable sums for advertising the city, and to support public concerts. Matters including taxi control, game and fish, colored oleomar j' garine and divorce occupied im portant committee hearings yes terday, but these controversies were not altogether solved. and the Berlin-Prague defense Axis. The Germans have reported numerous crossing of the Oder in the Kuestrin-Frankfurt area east of Berlin and farther south east at Steinau, 32 miles north west of Breslau. Konev’s break through was southeast of Bres lau. Zhukov was hammering the Kruestrin-Frankfurt zone with a record concentration of artillery Moscow dispatches said. He has noi yet claimed a crossing. Konev's flying columns sweep ing west of the upper Oder foughi close to the enemy's remaining railroad and highway routes along the Silesian side of the old Ger man-Czechoslovak frontier. Oihei units pressed toward the rail junc tion of Liegnitz on the way to Sax ony. WANT ADS REAL ESTATE: FOR MEDIUM priced modern home, well locat ed in Shelby. Price and terms reasonable. For location, see J. Worth Silver. It 7p FARMS FOR SALE: SOME GOOD Cleveland County farms for sale or trade. See J. Worth Silver. It 7p rr YOU HAVE FARM LAND OR city property that you want to trade or sell, reasonably priced, see: J. Worth Silver. It 7p WILL BE IN FALLSTON FRI day from 8 a. m. till 12 p. m. Heavy hens 24c, roosters 14c. C. M. Crowe. 2t 7c FOR SALE: GOOD KITCHEN cabinet, pre-war, enamel, first class condition. Can be seen 410 Dover St. Priced reasonable. C. M. Crowe. It 7c BROWN CHOW PUPPY FOL low me home Wednesday. Own er may obtain same by calling for dog at 509 E. Marion. Phone 777-M. ltp friendly High ethical standards do not shut out an atti tude of genuine friend liness. That’s one reason so many persons like the atmosphere hereabouts! Next time, come to this Prescription Pharmacy; SHELBY DRUG COMPANY TELEPHONE 774 South Washington St. LT. GRADY DOVER MET DEATH BRAVELY HIS CO-PILOT REPORTS From a German prison camp came word today that Li. Grady E. Dover, who was kill * ed when bis B-17 was shot down on a raid over Germany last February 10, met a hero's death. He was a son of George E. Dover, and the second of Mr. Dover’s sons to be Iriliod in the war. Lt. Hugh Ellis Noe 11, who was captured by the Germans in that same raid after his plane was shot down, wrote his parents in a letter dated No vember 8 that he and Lt. Do ver's co-pilot are in the same camp. In talking with the co-pilot, Lt James Beard, the local air man learned something of the circumstances surrounding young Dover’s tragic death, but no further details could be given in the letter beyond Lt. Beard’s assurance that he met death bravely. L’nusual Interest attaches to the situation of local lads pris oners of Germans just now be cause at least two of them, Bruce Morgan and Billy Gault, are thought to be in the area the Russians are threatening to cut off by their drive up on Stettin and thus face pos sible early liberation if they GEN. PATTON’S-1 Starts On Page One through German defenses in the 1 east, the Allied forces in the west ! appeared to have gathered strength into a mounting offensive which would take advantage of frantic Germans troop shifts. The Siegfried Line already has been breached the whole 35-mile ' width of the Aachen gap. First | army attacks have carried up to or into its second and last con crete zone for another ten miles j ■ or so east of Monschau. The Third I army has bored a half mile hole | through the single main defense belt into the foreground and pill t boxes of still another 22 mil^s stretch of the line between Pruem and Trier. Supreme headquarters confirm ed front line reports of the Third army breach in the main Siegfried single belt. Correspondents were told, however, that earthen de fenses have been completed back ing up the old concrete fortifica j tions and that these could be ! had enough troops to man them There were considerable prelim! LT. DOVER have not been moved. Lt. Xoell, however, is in a camp some distance west of Stettin, but his family is hopeful the Russian drive will continue westward until his camp is lib erated and all Germany con quered. Rites Today For Mrs. Gus Branton Funeral services were held loi Mrs. Gus Branton, 65. who died yesterday at her home on the Fallston road, at three o'clock this afternoon at the Ross Grove Bap tist church, conducted by Dr. Zeno Wall and assisted by the Rev Lawrence Roberts. Sire had been ill four weeks. Mrs. Branton was a member of the First Baptist church in Shel by. Surviving Mrs. Branton arc three children, Ray Branton, Mrs. Oliic Lowery, Mrs. Tom Dixon, all ol Shelby ; one sister, Mrs. R. L. Hen drick of Shelby; one brother, Plato Costner of Shelby; seven grand children and two great grandchil dren. nary indications that the German had sapped their western front toe thin. The new Third army attack wa into the Eifel mountain^ ten tc 35 miles northwest of the Mosel.c river and about 65 miles from the great Rhine city of Koblenz. Lt. Col. Goforth Says 1 $ Germans Still Have Plenty Of Fight { WITH THE AMERICAN IN FANTRYMEN IN THE SIEG FRIED LINE, Feb. 7—(IP)—Caro linas officers who have driven through the German westwall don’t j think the Germans are getting any j easier, although they say, their Siegfried defenses are not well or I ganized and relatively weakly de fended. i Just the same, they are outspok en in asserting that the Germans i are far from collapsing. ' Lt. Col. George Goforth of : Shelby, N. C„ says: “The Germans haven’t fought smartly or well so far, but they still have plenty to give us a rough time at any point they choose.” GEN. MacARTHUR Starfts On Page One can gun positions some distance behind the camp or at the small concentration of troops within the camp. MacArthur with sober face greeted old friends who mobbed him. Many of the former cap tives were so thin the general found it difficult to recognize them. The general slowly walked through (he press of people through two floors of the main building and on past the internee living quarters ! through the children’s hospital. At nearly every step MacArthur ' was halted while internees reintro duced themselves and told him they knew he would come back. The district recently ran terrace 1 lines on John A. Wright's farm. 1 Mr, Wright plans to have his ter Why Mary My Cough Is Gone! “Bronrhuline Sure Acts with Speed! Now I Know I Can Get Some Sleep.” Such can represent the surprising ex ; jv’riencr of thousands who try BRON CHULINE for the first lime! You posi tively canriot buy anything better for common racking coughs. Bronchial ; Coughs and Throat Irritation due to colds. At once you feel its warming ef fects starting fo work everywhere inside >our throat then the comforting easing' Medicines of such amazing efficiency command the highst respect of all Try BRONCHULINE Just ONCE for roughs due to colds and we are confi dent vour home will never be without it. On occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Scout Movement in America, Belk's extend good wishes to Shelby and Cleveland County Scouts and their leaders. EVERY WEEK IS BOYS’ WEEK IN BELK’S BOYS’ DEPARTMENT Our large Boys' Department has everything for boys of all ages— and remember, you always save-at— QM SlePenA (§& StlfLBYS StiOPPinG CftlTfK l
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