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WEATHER North Carolina — Rain today, cooler except on coast, followed by clearing and slightly cooler weath er tonight. Wednesday, fair and mild. - Tshk shkthg Bang Hm CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today -r “Experiment Perilous” Starring Hedy Lamarr — George - Brent — With Paul Lukas I VOL. XLIII-38 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. G TUESDAY, FEB. 13, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c 7 , 42 Dead, Over 200 Injured In Tornado’s Wake By The Associated Press Tornadoes swirling over Mississippi and Alabama late yesterday took a toll of at least 42 dead, over 200 injured, and property damage running into hundreds of thousands ur tiuiiitn. Worst hit was a crescent shaped area on the southern and western outskirts of Montgomery, Ala., where more than 50 boxcars of a freight were ripped and tcesed about like match boxes. Montgomery alone counted Its dead at 25, and its injured at more than 100. Two government ware houses were levelled and in Chis holm, a cotton mill community, 35 homes were demolished and many others damaged in a 20-block area. Nine were known dead at Liv ingston, 125 miles west of Mont gomery, and one at York, nine miles from Livingston. At Living ston. as at Montgomery, a freight train was tossed about and one of the Livingston dead was a trainman. The storm first hit Meridian, Miss., leaving a path of des truction as it cut about the the city on two sides, before turning eastward into Alabama. The dead in the Meridian area were placed unofficially at seven. More than fifty persons were injured there. Between 30 and 40 houses were destroyed In the Meridian area and torrential rains hampered search for the injured and the dead. After a tour of the Montgomery area, Gov. Chauncey Parks of Ala bama ordered three companies of the state guard into action to prevent looting. HOSPITALS JAMMED Montgomery hospitals, Jammed with the injured, were handicap See « DEAD Page S r Russians Smash Nazis9 Bober Line Defenses LONDON, Feb. 13.—(/P)—Russian troops smashing the Germans’ Bober river line have sliced to within 70 miles of Dresden, and farther north are hammering toward Sommer feld, only 17 miles from a junction with Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s army fighting before Berlin, German broadcasts BUDAPEST SAID EVACUATED Serman-Hungarian Garri son Makes Final Attack At Dawn LONDON, Feb. 13—UPV-AIar shal Stalin tonight announced the capture of Budapest. LONDON, Feb. 13. -A/P)— The P rlln radio declared Budapest had been evacuated today by its deci mated Oerman-Hungarlan garri son after a dawn lunge against So viet siege lines which have throt tled the Hungarian capital on the Danube on the 49th day of the •lege. The German broadcast said the garrison compressed into a small zone inside the encircled city of 1,217,000, “successfully broke out of Budapest to continue the fight In the open field.” But so powerful and complete was the Russian encirclement that It appeared doubtful here the Ger man remnants and their Hungar ian satellites could have fought to safety. Budapest Is the 17th capital tak en by the Allies since June 4, when See BUDAPEST Page 2 Milk Producers Meet With OP A Officials ASHEVILLE, Feb. 13. — (JP— Milk producers and distributors of the Ashevilel area met with OPA officials last night in connection with an appeal by the milk group for an increase in prices. It was the fourth appeal. It fol lowed a notice served on distri butors by the Blue Ridge Milk Producers Association saying that unless the price was Increased to $4.40 per hundredweight, producers would be compelle dto sel Ion high would be compelled to sell on hlgh The present celling is $4.05 per hundredweight. RAF Mosquito Bombers Attack Rail Center LONDON, Feb. 13 —(/P— RAF Mosquito bombers attacked the I important rail center of Stuttgart and other targets in western Ger many during the night, the air ministry announced today. si declared today. The Berlin radio also announced evacuation of Budapest, ruined Hungarian capital far to the south east. A DNB broadcast said troops of Marshal Ivan Konev north of Sa gan on the Bober river were beat ing toward Sommerfeld, 17 miles below the Oder river's southern bank where Zhukov’s first White Russian Army is fighting. Som merfeld is 70 miles southeast of Berlin. The German high command communique said Konev’s troops farther south had burst over the Bober river and reacher the Quels river sector, five to 10 miles be yond. The Quels is five miles west of the Bober at Bunzlau, captured by the Russians, and spread 10 miles from the Bober farther north before Joining it just south See RUSSIANS Page 2 64 Rescued Army Nurses Leave Manila MANILA. P. I.. Feb. 12.—(Delay ed).—(>P)—A broad-winged Curtiss Commando transport plane swoop ed low over war-torn Manila to day and made a precarious land ing on a deserted street in the northeast section of the city. A few hours later the plane roared away carrying 84 army nurses who had worked with the Yanks on Bataan and Corregidor and were subsequently held in Santo Thomas internment camp. The nurses were the first Santo Thomas internees to start home. C OF c SUGGESTIONS: Pat McBrayer’s Proposal For Vets’ Hospital Wins Bond A proposal to make the cele brated health-giving of Cleveland Springs a basis for going after a government convalescent hospital won for C. B. "Pat" McBrayer, local attorney, the $25 war bond offered by the chamber of commerce for a feasible project to be undertaken as a community endeavor under sponsorship of the chamber of commerce and merchants associa tion. Miss Shirley Phillips, a student at Gardner-Webb, with a sugges tion for a youth program built around a community center won honorable mention in the competi tion, results of which were an nounced today. Clyde A. Short and J. Dale Stentz expressed apprecia tion for the Interest manifested in the community's development by the various entrants and they feel much goot' has been accomplished in causing more people to think in terms of general community-wide development. -• McBRAYER’8 LETTER “We have heard of a government hospital or veterans facility for this immediate section,” Mr. McBrayer wrote in his prize-winning letter. See PAT MacBRAYEB Page 2 i CANADIANS NEAR WESEL AND EMMERICH Loss Of Pruem Weakens Whole German Defense System In Area REINFORCEMENTS PARIS, Feb. 13.—(^—Ca nadians driving through the ruins of Kleve advanced today to within 20 miles of the Ruhr city of Wesel and within two miles of the Rhine industrial center of Emmerich against resistance suddenly trebled by the commitment of seven crack Nazi divisions. In the center the American Third Army mopped up the road center of Pruem, whose capture placed Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s men with in 45 miles of the Rhine city ot Coblenz. The loss of Pruem and Its ar terial highways to Coblenz; Co logne. 53 miles northeast; and Saarbruecken, 72 miles south, weakened the whole German de fense system in the Eifel moun tains where ten miles have been gashed from the Siegfried Line. Continuing floods on the Roer river kept the American First and Ninth and the British Second amte*'quiet along the crucial 50 mlle ifcctoi4 where the Germans trumpeted repeatedly that Gen. Eisenhower was massing men and tanks for an offensive to the Rhine. “From hoar to hour we ex pect the full scale Allied offen sive to roll into the Rhine plain,” the German army radio said today, “stnpendous forces massed west of Dueren and Jnelich are to carry our ene mies to the Rhine. Twelve pio neer battalions are along and huge quantities of bridge con struction as well as fresh and reconditioned infantry forces are awaiting the signal to strike.” Already 78 combat divisions com posed of more than a million troops have been identified on the wes tern front. Of these, 52 are Amer ican divisions. LUXEMBOURG CLEARED The last of Luxembourg was cleared with the capture of Vian den by the Third army, giving Gen. Elsenhower a continuous 145 mile front Inside Germany from Karken to near Saarbruecken. The Canadians, called "water rats” because they were wading See CANADIANS Page 2 24 Killed In Crash Of Navy Transport Plane SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. J3— (/P)— Twenty-four passengers and crew members were killed today in the crash of a two engined Navy transport at the foot of Chestnut street In Al ameda on San Francisco Bay, the Navy announced here. The big ship crashed 12 min utes after It left the Alameda airport. Just missing land, it hit the waters of the bay so hard that nearby residences were shaken. Several witnesses said the plane’s engines stopped just before the sound of the crash. MARSHAL STALIN, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, MEET AGAIN—Marshal Joseph Stalin (left) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt confer in the palace at Yalta, Crimea, Russia, scene of the “Big Three” conversations at which military plans for the final defeat of Germany was discussed. Fighting For Manila Grows More Violent In Final Stages Germans Maul U. S. Infantry In Luguria ROME, Feb. 13—yP)—The U. S. 92nd Infantry division and its sup porting armor were mauled severe ly in weekend fighting attendant upon their abortive attack in the Ligurian coastal sector, 15th Army group headquarters said today. A special report from Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s headquarters con cerning the attack on the negro division, which official dispatches earlier had tended to discount as minor action, said: "Casualties and tank losses were relatively high and no net gains in terrain were made.” . Sharp German counterattacks supported by concentrated artil lery and mortar fire repulsed the negro doughboys after they had gained as much as a mile on a five-mile front. The 92nd’s first full attack as a division was laun ched last Thursday and penetrat ed to within two - and one-half miles of Massa before the enemy recovered from surprise and drove the Americans back in four days of fighting. PATROLLING Action in the sector yesterday was limited to patrolling after the 92nd had fallen back virtually to the starting point of its attack, near the south shore of the Fiume La Foce, a small stream south of Massa. In the Serchio valley about 15 to 20 miles inland, however, the enemy continued to launch small scale counterattacks against Am erican positions. Air action was restricted yester day but B-25 gunners over Legna no had an engagement with 15 enemy fighters and knocked down at least four. Gunners who shared the victor ies included Staff Sgt. William A. Linthicum of Durham, N. C. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Lions club at Hotel Charles. 7:00 p.m.—Rotary club direc tors meet with Tom Moore at his home. 7:30 p.m. — C.A.P. members meet at armory. 7:30 p.m.—Order of Eastern Star, Shelby chapter 110, meets at Masonic Temple. WEDNESDAY 7:00 pm.—Officers and teach ers of First Baptist church meet at church. 7:30 p.m.—Presbyterian pray er meeting at church. 7:30 p.m.—Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. 7:45 p.m.—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Bap tist church. Armored Units In North Reach Pacific Coast To Cut Luzon In Two MANILA, Feb. 13.—(JP)—Japanese suicide troops, cornered in south Manila’s flaming battle pit by a juncture of three American divisions, were being compressed and liquidated today as their only possible havens of refuge, Cor regidor and Bataan, smoldered from a record 1,000-ton sat urauon uomuing. The final phase of the battle for the Philippine capital was mount ing in ferocity as Yanks of the 37th infantry, First calvary and 11th Airborne divisions made contact to pin the Japanese against Manila Bay south of the Pasig river mouth. While Sixth division armored units far to the north rolled to the Pacific coast to cut Luzon in two, the three Yank divisions in Manila’s shell - wrecked downtown area braved rockets, heavy artillery, machine-gun fire and mined streets in their drive to finish off the enemy garrison now confined to less than five square miles. Across Manila Bay, American bombers poured a devastating load of more than 700 tons of bombers on the southern end of Ba taan peninsula and over 200 tons on Corregidor fortress in a 48-hour period up to Sunday night. The hazard of any Japanese flight across the bay was reflected In Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s com munique reporting that American fighter planes sank 35 barges, load ed with 2,500 enemy troops, off Bataan on Sunday. FIERCE FIGHTING MacArthur, describing the Manila fight as “extraordinarily fierce,” said the desperate enemy penned up near the south Manila docks “now is closely enclosed and is gradually being compressed into extinction.” He said very care was being tak See FIGHTING Page 2 TWO ELLENBORO BOYS MISSING Pfc. Clarence E. Richards And Pfc. Paul Hastings Missing Casualty reports received in this section today list two Ellenboro boys as reported missing and a Kings Mountain boy slightly wound ed in actioh. Pfc. Clarence E. Richards, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Richards, El lenboro, Route 1, is reported miss ing in action in Luxembourg since January 20, according to word re ceived from the war department by his parents. Pfc. Richards enteher the service in November, 1942, and sailed for an overseas station in April, 1944. While serving with the Third Army he was wounded last Septem ber and was awarded the Purple Heart Medal for wounds received in action. He had completely rec overed and returned to action until reported missing. PFC. HASTINGS Pfc. Paul E. Hastings, son of Mrs. Lula M. Hastings of Ellenboro, is reported missing in action since See TWO ELLENBORO Page 2 SCENE OF BIG THREE CONFERENCE IN RUSSIA—This palace in Yulta, Crimea, Russia was the scene of the “Big Three" conference at which plans for shortening the war in Europe and on complete elimination of Naziism and German militarism were disccussed*President Roosevelt's quarters and the main conference room are on the second floor, right wing. J PEACE LEAGUE: Men, Materiel Massed On European Fronts For Final Offensives WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—(/P)—Allied armies already plunging toward the heart of Germany massed men and ma terials for even more powerful offensives today in accord with a big-three master plan to hasten the end of the war and the beginning of a secure peace. The pattern of the peace—the Dumbarton Oaks pro posal for a new league—is to be laid before a United Nations conference to be called at San Francisco April 25. Those are the over-all results of President Roosevelt’s eight-day meeting at an old czarist palace at Yulta in the Crimea with Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill. By their own word it offers the world renewed hope, after Germany’s unconditional surrender, for generations of international security in which men “may live out their lives in freedom from want and fear.’’ The dark curtains of secrecy were drawn from the con ference late yesterday. This revealed that the big three had agreed not only on mighty new blows to crush raziism and permanently disarm Germany, but also on several pieces of specific peace machinery to guarantee independence and self-determination to the small countries of Europe. A formula for creating a new government in Poland, which will be acceptable to all three powers, is included. ine tnree leaaers apparently compromised the split between the United States and Russia over the voting rights of great powers in the proposed Dumbarton Oaks se curity plan. This cleared the way for the United Nations conference and they decided to call it for San Francisco on April 25. That is the date by which Russia must re nounce her non-aggression treaty with Japan if it is not to run for another five years. Diplomatic officials here dis counted the significance of this fact, terming it a coincidence. But it raised all over again speculation that Stalin had now declared to Roosevelt and Churchill an intention to enter the war in Asia when mili tary conditions in Europe per mit. The Big Three announcement, covering nine major points, was hailed at the capitol by both Re publicans and Democrats. It commits the United States to a new and active role in the set tlement of European political af fairs—a new departure in Ameri can foreign policy. To consider these problems as they arise Brit ish, Russian and American foreign secretaries are to meet every three or four months, beginning after the San Francisco conference. TO MOSCOW On his way home from the Cri mea, Secretary of State Stettinius has gone to Moscow for a brief visit. The whereabouts of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt were not disclosed. Military decisions were made early in the conference and the staff chiefs who participated are presumably also enroute after is suing the initial orders necessary to mount the promised new as saults on Germany. The Crimean agreement pledges the greatest alliance of military and political power in history to support the ideal of a peace based on the Atlantic Charter, which See MEN Page 2 SEEK TO AMEND ELECTION LAWS Matheny Of Rutherford Presents Bill Affecting Elections RALEIGH, Feb. 13. —(A1)— A bill to amend the general election laws, providing for the extension of the registration periods for one week, increasing the pay of elec tions officials by $1 a day. and al lowing county elections boards to divide precincts having more than 1.500 registrants, were introduced in the legislature today by Senator Matheny of Rutherford. The measure went to the commit tee on elections and election laws. Senator O’Berry of Wayne in troduced a bill to extend the time of operations of municipal capital reserve funds to 1949; and Senators Price of Rockingham, Carlyle of Forsyth and Matheny of Ruther ford sent up a measure to require local governing bodies to issue cer tificates of necessity to taxicab companies, which in turn must car ry sufficient insurance. A bill by Senator Aiken of Ca tawba would allow the state to appeal judgements in criminal cases on the following grounds: Where judgment for a defendant is rendered in a special verdict; upon demurrer; on motion to quash; arrest of judgment; on motion for a new trial on grounds of newly discovered evidence, but only on a question of law; and upon declaration that the statute involved is unconstitutional. UNIVERSITY BILL By 33-47, the House postponed until February 20 a vote on a bill to create the titles of chancellor of the greater University of North Carolina and three presidencies. A motion by Pep. Ramsey of Rowan to postpone the vote was opposed by Reps. Barker of Dur ham and Caveness of Guilford, who said the House Judiciary commit tee one already was aware that the university trustees were con sidering a move to call the admin istrative heads of the three units vice presidents, and continue the office of president. The possible action of the trustees had been the basis for Ramsey's motion. Caveness said there was organiz ed opposition to the bill in the house, and some of the opponents would like to see the matter drawn out until final adjournment. He said the bill did not specify who was to be elected the institutional heads, but he did believe the leg islature should direct the trustee* in bestowing titles. OPPOSITION Rep. Taylor of Wayne, asserting that “let’s not do something today that will take the university 50 years to overcome," said the mea sure was a stroke at the consqlida tion of the university, and that pro ponents of the measure were a fraid there was something in the trustees' report to "break up pet schemes to get one leg in to break up the consolidation.” His asser See SEEK Page >
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