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Boy Scouts Observe Anniversary Saturday By Filling City And County Offices i WEATHER North Carolina—Fair and slight ly warmer today and tonight. In creasing cloudiness and mild Sat urday. Tshe Hlxelhy Bailystnr CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 STATE THEATRE TODAY "NIGHT CLUB GIRL" Starring Vivian AUSTIN — Billy DUNN News — America — Flashback VOL. XLIII-35 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6e REDS REPORTED ONLY 25 MILES FROM STETTIN German Fortifications On Oder Pounded By Ar tillery Fire KURTSCH~CAPTURED LONDON, Feb. 9.—</P)— The Russians have smashed to within 25 miles of Stettin, the port of Berlin, and have exploded a fresh offensive northwest of Breslau threat ening the encirclement of that huge Silesian industrial cen ter, it was reported today. Marshal Gregory Zhukov unlimbered one of the war’s heaviest artillery barrages at fortifications along the Oder temporarily blocking the di rect way to Berlin. One ol the first towns to fall In the new offensive of Marshal Ivan Konev from his Maltsch bridge head over the Oder was Parch witz, 30 miles west-northwest of Breslau, the Berlin radio said. The German communique said the First Ukrainian army thrusts had carried "almost to the east fringe" of LiegniU, a rail center of 76.000 a little more than eight miles southeast of Parchwltz. The Russian armies were within M miles of closing the escape gap from Breslau, a city of 615,000. The town of Kurtacb. 12 miles south of Breslau, was raptured yester day. While Moscow had not officially confirmed the launching of the new drive. Moscow dispatches sa.d Konev in heavy fighting waa "hit ting at Liegnltz guarding the ap proaches to Saxony." Rapid gains toward Stettin were reported in Moscow dispatches since the Soviet communique an nounced the capture of Reetz, Bernstein, Sammenthin and 100 other towns, the closest 38 miles from the Baltic port. NEAR STETTIN An Associated Press dispatch placed the distance of the new thrusts at 25 miles from Stettin, a Reuters dispatch said 19. On the Berlin front Zhu kov was out-gunning the Ger mans in the grim duel across the middle Oder, but the Ger mans declared they had nar rowed down or eliminated some of the seven bridgeheads they previously reported thrust across the river. Moscow still had not officially announced creation of any of these bridgeheads, and correspondents in the Soviet capital said it was un likely any Soviet announcements would be made until the Russians were sure they had won the bat See REDS Page 2 2 TRAPPED IN CHICAGOFIRE 15 Welders Escape From Steel Plant After Explosion CHICAGO, Feb. 9. —(A”)— Two men were believed to have died early today when they were trap ped In a spectacular fire which shot flames 250 feet into the air from the plant of the Verllng Steel company. Ray Olsen, night superintendent, Identified the two as Martin Light foot, a negrO, an.’ John Gagajewski, night watchman. Olsen said the two were near him on the second floor when an explosion occurred, and that he heard them screaming. Fifteen others, all welders, es caped. Olsen said the blaze appar ently started in a paint vat near where the welders were at work. Attempts to extinguish It with hand equipment failed. Fire Commissioner Michael J. Corrigan estimated damage at $150,000 and said a wind fanned sparks across two blocks of the neighborhood. The block-lo- - plant is wholly engaged in war work, company of ficials said, making structural items fcv the Army and Navy. ALLIED SOLDIERS RESCUED FROM > JAP PRISON CAMP —Allied soldiers, prisoners of the Japs for more than three years, reach the 92nd Evacuation hospital on Luzon Islarifi in the Philippines after their rescue from the enemy’s prison camp at Cabanatuan by American Rangers and Filipino guerrillas in a daring night raid Jan. 30. Many of the liberated men had been captives of the Japs since fhe fall of Corregidor and Bataan, and some since the Jape captiffeft •tSBfcpOi'e. r ' ■ TO ENLARGE BUS SERVICE Four Companies Are Con tending Over Shelby Gaffney Line Shelby Is In a fair way to get increased bus service. Four lines, the Atlantic Greyhound, Queen City, Carolina Scenic lines and the Rutherford Transit lines are contending over the rigjjit to estab lish a Shelby-Gaffney link. The North Carolina phase of the mat ter will be aired at a hearing to be held before the utilities commis sion in Raleigh on January 21. It is understood here that If the Atlantic Greyhound is success ful in getting the franchise it will operate the Shelby-Gaffney link as a part of its Winston-Salem Atlanta service and will designate part of the schedules which now go via Kings Mountain to Gaff ney to be brought by Shelby and Boiling Springs. It now operates some 12 schedules via this route. The other three lines are un derstood to want to connect the Shelby-Gaffney route with their present network via Boiling Springs. After the North Carolina end of the franchise is cleared up, the bus companies will also have to consult the interstate commerce lina authorities, it is understood, commission and the South Caro Budapest Aircraft Plant Camouflaged LONDON, Feb. 9. — (TP)— A Bu dapest establishment camouflaged as an undertaking parlor has been found to be the entrance to an un derground aircraft parts factory, the Moscow radio said today. The Germans employed thousands of foreign workers there. German Oil Supplies Hit By U. S. Bombers — i i — Armament And Motor Transport Factories Also Blast ed; British Bombers Out Last Night LONDON, Feb. 9.—(^—Approximately 1,300 American heavy bombers, escorted by more than 850 fighters, attack ed German oil supplies and railways today, adding their weight to what may be a record 24-hour assault. The main force attacked the synthetic oil plant* at Lutzkendorf, a few miles northeast of Leipzig. Other flying fortresses and Libe rators hit armament and motor transport factories at Weimar in central Germany, switching yards at Magdeburg and, several other undisclosed communications tar gets. About 1,000 British bombers last night blasted a synthetic oil re finery at Polltz ■ 10 miles north of Stettin in an area lying ahead of Soviet troops. British Mosquitos struck sharply at Berlin. The RAF struck the Polits oil works in two attacks, spac ed two hours apart. The re finery is one of the two largest in Germany and specialized in aviation fuel. It virtually was put out of action January 13, the RAF reported, but had been partly rebuilt by im pressed labor working around the clock. Returning crewmen said the bombings were highly concentrat ed and many large fires and ex plosions were observed. British and American tactical air forces based on the continent See GERMAN Page 2 WHAT'S DOING TODAY 7:30 p.m.—Called'meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. and A. M. at Masonic temple for work in third degty. New England Blizzard Takes Toll Of Lives And Property BOSTON, Feb. 9. —W)— a raging blizzard swirled northward frorii Now England today leaving a leng thening list of dead In its wake and a snow blanket that carried down wires, damaged other property, and paralyzed rail, highway and air transportation. The storm took a toll of ten lives. Damage was expected to run into millions. Snowfalls ranging up to 17 inches was whipped into vast drifts by a shrieking gale. The snow bore down power and communication lines and poles and trees, crushed a Spring field, Mass., warehouse beneath its k weight, and damaged other struc tures. War plants in southern and cen tral New England operated with reduced crews. FUEL SHORTAGE An already acute fuel shortage was made more stringent by the paralysis of rail traffic and retail deliveries. Hundreds of homes de pendent on electrical THJtoer for operation of oil burners went through the night with neither heat nor light. Boston Police Superintendent Ed See NEW ENGLAND Page 3 NAZIS LAUNCH COUNTER DRIVE Assault Made Against Fifth Army's Newly Re gained Positions By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, Feb. 9. —(JP)— The Ger mans have launched a counter attack In company strength against positions newly regained by the Fifth army in the Serchio valley north of Gallicano, Allied head quarters announced today. The enemy counterattacq began a few hundred yards north of the village of Burca and the official report said fighting still was in progress. Brisk clashes were reported in other Fifth army sectors, but on the whole there was no large scale action on the front. On the west coast Allied patrols drove forward to positions as much as 300 yards ahead of the lines de spite light opposition, including mortar fire. Northwest of Sastelnuovo a Fifth army patrol ambushed a party of 30 Germans and killed or wounded half of them at a cost of four ca sualties. Several patrol clashes oc curred in the Eighth army sector. See NAZIS Page 2 Koenigsberg Mayor Hanged For Desertion LONDON, Feb. 9. —f&K The mayor of Koenigsberg has been hanged for deserting the besieged East Prussian capital, the German radio announced today. “Mayor of Koenigsberg Schroeter was hanged for having left his town without having received evacuation orders,” the announcement said. This was the third in a series of eastern front civilian executions announced by the Germans. Prev iously the deputy mayor of Breslau was executed and the police pres ident and other officials of By dgoszcz (Bromberg), the fallen fort ress in Poznan province, were exe cuted "for ” > FRANKLIN H. FEELER TWO CLEVELAND CASUALTIES Pfc. Cansler Of Kings Mountain Killed; Pfc. Peeler Missing Pfc. Grady Cansler of Kings Mountain was reported killed in action and Pfc. Franklin H. Peeler of route 2, Lawndale, is reported missing in casualty reports received yesterday by their families from the war department. Pfc. Grady Cansler. son of Mr. and Mrs. George Cansler of Kings Mountain, was reported killed in action January 21 while fighting with the infantry in the European theatre of operations, according to a telegram received by his wife, the former Miss Gaynell Parrish of Kings Mountain. Pfc. Cansler was a graduate of Kings Mountain high school and attended the University * of Ten nessee, before entering the army in March, 1944, , he was assistant manager- of the Pauline grocery store in ‘Kings Mountain. He re , ceived his infantry training at Camp Fannin, Texas and was given his only furlough when he spent 10 days with his family en route to a port of embarkation. He sailed for an oversea^ station in September, 1944. ; % SURVIVED \ Pfc. Cansler is survivld by his wife, Mrs. Grady Canller; two daughters, Dian and Kay; his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Cansler of Kings Mountain: and two broth ers, Luther of Kings Mountain and Anthony, who is serving in the navy. Pfc. Franklin H. Peeler^- son of j Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Peeler of i See TWO CLEVELAND Page 2 U. S. FORCES DRIVE TOWARD MANILA DOCKS Rain Halts Some Of Fires; Intramuros Burns Unchecked NEW DEMOLITIONS MANILA, Feb. 9.—(/P)— j U. S. infantrymen, splashing! across the Pasig river in am phibious tanks drove toward the prized dock section of i Manila today in the face of new enemy demolition charg- j es set off in old Intramuros district, a death trap for its congested Filipino and Chi nese residents. Unseasonal rain dampened many of the scattered fires set wantonly by the desper ate and trapped Japanese de fenders but the Intramuros. or walled city, blazed so fiercely for a time that the heat could be felt for blocks away. (Some fires are still burning but the worst of the flames seem to have burned themselves out, Geo. Thomas Folster reported in an NBC tttT&tcast t frtmr 7&f«ia. (He said a regiment of Dough boys crossed the Pasig today “and j there is hope that the property | destroying phase of the battle for Manila may be nearing a close.",) The 37th Infantry division entered Southern Manila by crossing the wide Pasig river near the governmental Maia canan palace and began to root out the Japanese who had des troyed the four bridges. The Yanks worked south and southwestward through compara tively open spaces around the gas works, with the harbor facilities their prime immediate objective. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced today the 37th was “as sisting the 11th Airborne division in clearing South Manila.” FRINGE OF CITY Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Swing's 11th Airborne, which swept into the suburbs from a parachute in vasion to the southwest, was last reported fighting around Nichols Field, on the southern fringe of Manila. Small-scale but stiff re sistance slowed this spearhead. Japanese artille;j£ fire began to taper off yesterday after two days of continuous shelling of Ameri can-held north Manila. MacArthur announced the destruction of more than 200 Nipponese tanks — more than See U. S. FORCES Page 2 Chinese Prepare To Strike Against Japs CHUNGKING, Feb. 9. —(F)— Chinese armies are speeding pre parations for a counter offensive against the Japanese in collabora tion with Allied forces, Maj. Gen. Kung Chi-Kuang, Chinese army spokesman, declared today. Ridiculing the idea that the Jap anese are winning on the Asiatic continent, Kuang said: “The time realljr has come for Japan to accept unconditional surrender.” He asked how Jipan expected to defend her holdings in China with its far longer coastline if they could not defend Luzon and asserted Americans could land on the China coast at will. Opposition To Work-Or-Jail Bill Growing In Committee WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 —(/P)— Senator Chandler, (D-Ky) re j ported today that ’opposition to the work-or-jail bill is growing in ' the senate military committee which is rounding out its first week of semi-secret hearings on the measure. Friends of the bill, however, said they are encouraged by the gen eral trend of testimony and the concerted endorsement pf the measure by high government offi cials. Although no tangible progress j has been made in four days, Sena •V 6 TOWNS TAKEN: New Allied Offensive Drives Into Westwall, Two Miles Since Dawn PARIS, Feb. 9.—(A3)—Field Marshal Montgomery’s pow erful new offensive toward the Ruhr carried within four miles tonight of fire-racked Kleve, northern terminal of the original Siegfried line, ana penetrated deeply into the west wall fortifications in the Reichswald. Since dawn, the flame-throwing Canadian First Army had advanced more than two miles deeper into northwest Germany and captured six more towns, one of them three miles from the Rhine before it branches out to form the Waal and Neder Rhine in Holland. Most of the villages were in Germany. The nearest to Kleve was Frasselt and the nearest to the Rhine was the Dutch village of Leuth. Tuthees, on the main road from captured Kranenburg to Kleve, was taken along with Zanpol, Niel and Breedeweg in the onward surge of the Canadian and British tanks and infantry. “'-n utmva, 171 tu liiC ; a long dormant sector, applied a pincer on the Ruhr, far to tBe j south the American First and ! Third armies were cutting up to ward the arsenal region of coal. and steel. In the center the Am erican Ninth and British Second armies were deployed along the! Roer river for a frontal blow to the dense industrial area. Burning Kleve, northern termi-* nal of the Siegfried line, was im minently menaced. The new at tack front widened to seven | miles. Formidable forest defenses1 in the Reichswald, considerably weakened by a terrific artillery and air bombardment, were being mopped up swiftly. Five German and two Dutch towns fell. More than 1.200 Germans, including two battalion commanders, sur rendered. The American First Army 8! miles to the south advanced t< within a mile of the vast Schwam menauel dam, controlling floot waters on the Roer river—a bar rier to the Ruhr and the Cologne plain. NEAR PRUEM The Third Army advanced t( within a mile of Pruem and reach ed the Pruem river eight miles in side the Reich. The French First Army broke the last German opposition south of Strasbourg and drew up to the Upper Rhine banks on a 90-mil< front from north of Strasbour) to Switzerland. See NEW Page 2 Bills Offered To Aid Mentally 111 O'Berry Presents Measure To Establish 500-Bed Hos pital For Spastic Paralytics RALEIGH, Feb. 9.—(/P)—Bills to extend additional ai to the mentally unfortunate and to provide for the estab lishment of a 50-bed hospital for spastic paralytic childrei were introduced today in the legislature. j oeiiinur oerry ui wajue, sponsor of two of the measures, said that a special commission ap pointed by former Governor Broughton had studied the needs of a spastic paralytic hospital and had found a great need for it. A nine-member board of directors would be appointed by the gover nor to study the matter and re port back to the next assembly. It would have authority to select a superintendent and fix his sal ary, subject to the approval of the budget bureau. It could accept donations but could not spend money on permanent improve ments until such provision is made by the assembly. State-owned property could be utilized for the hospital. Another O’Berry bill would di rect that the hospital board of control should have a representa tive from each congressional dis trict and three at large, all ap pointed by the governor for stag gered terms. Three members would constitute the executive committee, and there would be a five-member advisory committee. The board would have authority to See BILL Page 2 ter Austin (R-Vt), an advocate of the legislation, said he saw no signs of stalling within the com mittee and declared "We’re mov ing as fast as we can.” Nevertheless, Chairman Thomas (D-Utah) expects the hearings to continue at least all next week. "MUST” BILL The senators meanwhile got of ficial notice of one G. I. reaction to the bill as written by Rep. May (D-Ky). Senator Maybank ID-SC) inserted in the commit See OPPOSITION Page 2 Nomination Of Wallace Before Rules Committee WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.^ (/P) The congressional controversy ovi the government future of Hem A. Wallace marched today intotf house rules committee, where majority admittedly opposes him However, before the power! committee opened public hearing Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) persot ally intervened to forestall she! ing there of the George bill. Th bill would clear the way for former vice president to becon secretary of a commerce depa ment shorn of RFC and other li agencies. The anti-Wallace faction hi hoped to put on ice in the a mittee the senate-approved legist] tion by Senator George (D-Gi and thereby bring about outrig] senate rejection of Wallace, in vote of confirmation as commen secretary and head of RFC. FLOOR VOTE Now it appears the commit! will vote, sometime next week, let the George bill go on t house floor for a vote, but und a special rule allowing a vote an amendment taking away dent Roosevelt's war power to assign federal agencies. Wallace opponents want tt amendment, they say, to make su the president assigns no duties the former vice president oth than those of a bob-tailed ci rnerce department. They also wa an amendment removing the o rnerce secretary as a member the Export-Import Bank board. These amendments, dealing wi matters apart from the commei department, could not be attach to the George bill without ‘a s; cial rule making them germani
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