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f WEATHER Clear to partly cloudy and warm today and tonight, showers Friday followed by colder, rather windy Friday. Tshe Hhelby Bnily Stett STATE THEATRE TODAY "THE MARK OF THE WHISTLER" Richard DIX — Janis CARTER Musical — Science — Cartoon CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—40 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c * Woman Questioned In Effort To Find Motive For Mrs. Epes’ Slaying COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 15.—(fl3)—Police officials said today a woman had been questioned as they sought to es tablish a motive in the “slaying” of comely 26-year-old Mary Lee Epes, Jacksonville, Fla., school teacher whose blood spattered and drugged body wras unearthed yesterday from a shallow foxhole grave near the Fort Jackson military reservation. Sheriff T. Alex Helse said that Lt, Samuel C. Epes, 29, son of a prominent Virginia family and hus band of the dead woman, attribut ed his wife's death to an overdose of sedatives. A 16-day search for the miss ing woman was ended yester day when Epes, whom Fort au thorities said attempted sui cide Monday by slashing his wrists and throat with a raior blade, wras taken in an ambu lance to lead officers to the scene. Epes in a signed statement given to the Richland sheriff said: Mary Lee was ill and upset. She had in her possession sodium seconal that had been given her for relief purposes by an army medical officer. "We came home Saturday night tJan. 27» at 10:30. We had a cou ple of drinks, but were not intoxi cated. Mary Lee took a couple of capsules and later in the evening she took about 10 more. See WOMAN Page S MRS. EPES °»ked Sch»°l w — Bill Pt«po»« C'0’ School^!’ RoCVm«l>»m _ . Sto"' eDaor«mOTt. » School^ RocWngh.m ^,fgi^^sSs2fe;,SSSs\ of the state Japan’s Home Island Industry Hit From Air WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—<£>>— B-29 Superfortresses hit again to day at Japan’s home island war In dustries. An enemy communique broadcast after a War Department here said the important manufacturing city of Nagoya as well as areas in Mle Prefecture across Atsuta Bay suf fered "some damage" from high explosive and incendiary bombs. The mission was flown by a force of B-29s from MaJ. Gen. Cur tis E. LeMay’s 21st bomber com mand In the Marianas. A brief war bulletin from Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding general of the 20th Air Force, gave no ad ditional details. Earlier, the Tokyo radio report ed that lone Superfortresses bomb ed the Tokyo-Yokohama metropoli tan area and the Nagano district last night and early today and re turned later In reconnaissance flights. Today's strike was the fourth by E-29s since Saturday. An aircraft factory at Ota, 40 miles northwest of Tokyo, was hit Saturday, the Rangoon area Sunday and Iwo Jlma Monday. Carolinians To Return On Gripsholm WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. —(JP)— The following Carolinians are among the army officers and en listed men who were prisoners of war in Germany being returned home on the Gripsholm: North C’rolina: Pfc. Carl .T. Benge, son of Earl R. Benge of Statesville; S/Sgt. John E. Guy, son of Mrs. Myrtle M. Pa kers of Reese; Cpl. James R. Sisk, husband of Mrs. Pauline Sisk of Gastonia. South Carolina: Pvt. Thomas P Edwards, husband of Mrs. Katherine D. Edwards of Gresham; Pfc. Sam K. Jeffords, son of Sa:'iuel K. Jeffords, Sr., of Elliott r r ^ i A recently adopted constitutional amendment made no provision lor the controller, but Cherry in his inaugural message suggested that the matter be corrected. The state is to be divided by the legislature into eight educational districts and the bill would pro vide lor the staggering of terms of the members, other than those of the lieutenant governor, the state superintendent of public instruc tion and the state treasurer. The board would have con trol of the library fund and would divide the state Into school districts, regulate the salaries, grades and qualifica tions of teachers. It would ap portion and equalize public school funds, select textbooks and generally supervise the school program. The board would appoint the controller and fix his salary. He would have control of the fiscal affairs of the school system, con trol the nine months term appro priation, the textbook appropria tion, the state literary and build ing fund, state and federal funds for loans to schools for building programs, federal funds for voca tional education, funds for voca tional rehabilitation, funds for the maintenance of the board, and other miscellaneous funds. SUPERVISION The superintendent of public In struction would supervise the teaching program and be secretary to the board. A similar bill was introduced in See FISCAL Page 2 Casualties On Western Front 394,874 Since D-Day WASHINGTON, Feb.- 15. —(/F)— Army ground forces on the western front lost 394,874 men from D-Day last June to February 1. In reporting this today Secretary of War Stimson said that 63,410 were killed, 273,997 wounded and 57,467 missing. This report reflect ed an increase in casualties on the western front of 61,962 in January, including 8,848 killed, 41,325 wound ed and 11,789 missing. Simultaneously, Stimson report ed that the rrmy’s casualties in all theaters since the beginning of the wr- now are 693,342 on the basis of names compiled in Wash KONEV’S MEN SAID 45 MILES FROM DRESDEN Other Spearheads Also Advance Rapidly; Re sistance Light kohlfurtIypassed LONDON, Feb. 15.—(ff»)— A German military spokes man said today Russian tank and cavalry forces, smashing ahead 17 miles in 24 hours, had crossed the Neisse river in an area only 65 miles from Berlin in the drive on the Ger man capital from the south east. Other spearheads, Moscow dispatches said, had raced 22 miles in the offensive west of Breslau and reached Goerlitz on the Neisse only 53 miles east of Dresden and were now battling for bridgeheads in southern Germany. A TaSs^Jjpeadcast from Moscow later said the Russians had reach ed a point only 45 miles from Dresden. Marshal Ivan Konev's reinforc ed blows fell with a speed and success which suggested that Ger man resistance had been almost Allied bombers continued one of their greatest offensives just a head of the Soviet columns. The Berlin military spokesman said Konev’s free-wheeling col umns had reached the Autobahns, or military highways, both north west and southwest of Forst, 65 miles from Berlin. The Germans said Konev in this area had established a “loose connection” with Mar shal Gregory Zhukov’s forc es fighting east of Berlin, where they have established bridgeheads over the Oder south of Guerstenberg. To the south Konev apparently had bypassed the important rail way junction and stronghold of Kohlfurt in his 22-mlle jump from Bunzlau to Goerlitz on the Neisse, last natural barrier before Dres den. RAIL CENTER Kohlfurt, 11 miles northeast of Goerlitz, is a five-point trunk railway center. Pravda first announced Ko nev’s thrust to the Neisse, the last major water barrier before Dres den. Its correspondent said whole groups of German towns had been captured, by-passed or sealed off in a spectacular 22-mlle advance. The speed of the drive indicated Nazi resistance, in that sector was crumbling. The Russians were reported battling for a bridgehead a cross the Neisse, last major obstacle before Dresden, the city of 630,000 which Adolf Hitler once had planned to make the artistic capital of the Reich. Konev's northern wing spreading See KONEV’s Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Klwanis club at Hotel Charl es. 7:30 p.m.—C.A.P.’ members meet at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—Special communi cation of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. <fe A. M., for work in third degree. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Rotary club meets at Hotel Charles. ington through February 7 and re flecting combat action in the early part of January. Linked with the Navy's latest report of losses of 88,838, this puts total American combat losses at 782,180, an increase of 17,596 since last week’s report. ANALYSIS The breakdown on Army losses in this week’s report and corres ponding figures for last week fol low: Killed 135,5X0 and 130,266; wounded 408,553 and 396,176; pris See CASUALTIES Page 2 Alternate U. S. And RAF Raids Continue Air Offensive Against Reich LONDON, Feb. 15.—(/P)—American heavy bombers carrying out one of the greatest air offensives of the war, blasted Dresden again today, smashed at Berlin for the fourth time in two days, and bombed the clogged railyards of Cottbus, only 12 miles from a sector in which Russian spearheads were reported operating. still anotner lorce or American heavy bombers again attacked the synthetic oil plant outside Magde burg, 75 miles southwest of the smoking German capital. Even while this great armada of more than 1,100 fortresses and Liberators with 430 fighter escorts was making these attacks, the German radio sounded new alarms. Fresh formations of Allied bomb ers were reported flying in over Holland and also from the south over Austria. The attacks brought to about 11,000 thus far the number of planes which have linked the eastern and western battle fronts under a blanket of ex plosives and incendiaries in the last 48 hours. Frontline reports said tactical aircraft, also, were having anoth er great field day against Nazi road movements. Cottbus is a big rail and high way junction squarely In front of Marshal Ivan S. Konev’s right flank. It' is a fat target, jammed now with Nazi troops and sup plies. OVERNIGHT BLOWS Today’s powerhouse assaults came after overnight blows by 1, 300 RAF planes which struck at the east front rail center of Che mnitz, as well as at other targets. Twenty-two bomber command air craft were lost, but some may have landed on the continent. American losses from yester day’s 2,250 plane strike had not been announced because a number of “missing” planes were believ ed to have landed safely in France, air headquarters said. Germany was undergoing a scourging such as she never be fore experienced. Chemnitz, main target of the See ALTERNATE Page 2 Yanks Tighten Noose On Japs In Manila Enemy Determined To Make Capture Costly To Am ericans; Civilians Wantonly Slain MANILA, Feb. 15.—(JP)—Under skies black from new enemy demolition destruction, American troops cautiously tightened an inevitable death noose today on Japanese so desperate they cold-bloodedly shot and bayoneted civilians in »outn Manna. Yanks of three divisions closed in on the enemy, fighting for each street intersection, amid a flood of front line reports of Japanese atrocities matching the rape ol Nanking. The Americans had to move carefully so as not to kill civilians within the Japanese lines. Explosions and flames swept the old Intramuros, the Ermi ta and Malate districts along the Manila Bay shore south of the Pasig river mouth. The de vastation, wrought by demoli tion charges, threatened to equal that which ravaged the Escolta business district north of the river. The doomed Japanese, holed Up primarily in the Intramuros. where some walls are 40 feet thick at the base, were weakened but still fighting. Troops of Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler’s 37th division, bearing the brunt of the house-by-house onslaught, yesterday reached the University of the Philippines cam pus, a half mile from the high commissioner’s residence on the bay front. HOLD HOSPITAL The Japanese still held the Gen eral hospital nearby, however, and the American position was unten able. The hospital has been con verted into one of the enemy's strongest positions. Associated Press Correspondent Fred Hampson said the enemy was confined to an area about 5,000 yards by 2,000 yards. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said See YANKS Page 2 Chinese Take Kutrai On Old Burma Road KANDY, CEYLON, Feb. 15—(iT'l —Chinese First Army troops, driv ing southward along the old Bur ma road, occupied Kutkai, 48 miles north of Lashio without opposi tion yesterday, the southeast Asia command announced today. The advance elements continu ed their push south and later tanks manned by Americans and Chinese engaged a small Japanese armor ed force midway between Kutkai and Hsenwi, 32 miles from Lashio. Three of the enemy tanks were knocked out and machine guns and other weapons captured. The capture of Kutkai placed the Chinese over halfway between the junction of the Lido and Burma roads and Lashio. 15 DIRECTORS NAMED BY CLUB Election of a board of 15 members for the new Cleveland Executive Club was completed today as re sults of the ballotting were an nounced along with plans for an early meeting of the group to ar range the initial dinner lecture meeting of the group which is nearing its membership comple ment. The directors are Herman A. Beam, Fallston; B. G. Season, Boiling Springs; Glee A. Bridges, Kings Mountain; Ma son L. Carroll, Shelby; J. R. Dover, jr„ Shelby; Phil Elliott, Boiling Springs; J. W. Gardner, Shelby; J, Byron Keeter, Kings Mountain; R. T. LeGrand, sr„ Shelby; W. K. Mauney, Kings Mountain; Holt McPherson, Shelby; C. R. Neisler, jr., Kings Mountain; D. W. Royster, Shel by; John F. Schenck, sr., Lawn dale; J. L. Suttle, jr., Shelby. CHARLOTTE MEETING The directors have been invited by George M. Ivey, of Charlotte, to be guests of his at the Charlotte Executives club meeting next Tues day night and several are making their plans to go. At the organization meeting next week the directors will elect of ficers, arrange the initial session and in general establish the local government of the club. Elmer E. Schlotz, of Denver, exe cutive field director for the Asso ciated Clubs of America, is here handling details preliminary to the formal local organization when the directors and officers will assume charge of policies and direction of the group. Lt. Bowers Bags Two Planes Over Reich LONDON, Peb. 15 — (/P)—Capt. Robin Olds of Beverly Hills, Calif., shot down three German planes yesterday for the best individual score among Eighth air force fighter pilots, who got a total of 19 enemy aircraft in scattered dogfights over the Reich. Two kills each were credited to Maj. Donal Strait, Montclair, N. J.; Lt. Melvin Baylor, Rochardson, Sask., Canada; Lt. James Bowers of Shelby, N. C-, and Lt. Eugene Wendt Horicon, Wis. EDITOR FIRED — Miss Marilyn Kaemmerle (above) from Jackson, Mich., editor of the student news paper, the Flat Hat, at the College of William and Mary in Williams burg, Va„ has been dismissed from the staff as a result of her editorial in which she suggested negroes should be admitted to the college at some future date, and would “join the same clubs, pin the same classmates, and marry among us.” WLB HAS NEW SECRETWEAPON Will Deny War Contracts, Priority Assistance To Violators By KARL R. BAUMAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. —(A5)— The government brought out today a new drastic weapon for use against defiers of War Labor board orders. Its first use cancelled the war contracts of, and denied priority asisstance to, E. A. Laboratories, Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y. The first manufactures ship landing lights and other electrical equipment. Denial of priority assistance in these days of scarce materials is a penalty of extreme seriousness. Con ceivably it could put a manufactur er out of business. On the ground that the company had “persistently refused" to com ply with WLB orders, Fred M. Vinson, director of economic stabi lization, last night directed the Army and Navy to cancel “all con tracts with this employer as rapidly as possible.” He also directed the War Pro duction board to deny all applica tions of the firm for priority as sistance or for the allocation of materials, and to cancel all out standing priorities and allocations. Vinson acted under executive order No. 93700 which empowers him to issue “such directives as he may deem necessary” in connec tion with the enforcement of WLB orders. This he described as the “other weapon in our arsenal,” the other being government seizure. SEIZURE Indicating the government may use the seizure procedure less sparingly in the future than in the Montgomery Ward and other cases, Vinson called government posses sion and operation not always the answer.” He said: “The government is reluctant to seize . . . The government can not run numerous plants. In some cases the seizure methods is easy; it can be quick; it can bypass pain staking work in trying to figure out some other means of securing compliance, but so far it has not and it must not become an opiate for all of our non-compliance trou bles.” CONFERENCE ECHOES: Relaxation Of Italian Armistice Terms Expected By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 15— (A>)—Some relaxation of Italian armistice terms and a possible inquiry by President Roosevelt into arrange ments for the relief of French civilians were indicated today by continental dispatches. The best available information in Paris was that Mr. Roosevelt had not yet reached France, al though a Paris broadcast said the President, on his way back from the Crimean conference, was re ported by the Marseille press “to have made a short stay’’ at Mar seille, French Mediterranean port. President Roosevelt was expect ed to visit Italy on his return trip and arrangements to receive him also have been made both by the French government and by Allied headquarters, said a news story passed by Allied censorship from Paris last night. "SCANDAL” This dispatch, by (/P) Bureau Chief Edward Kennedy, said “one of the war’s greatest scandals may come out" in connection with See RELAXATION Page 2 Kleve Front Only Active One In West; 3 Armies In South Halted By Floods PARIS, Feb. 15.—(/P)—Canadians fought through flood waters to the west bank of the Rhine opposite Emmerich to day and swung slowly along the northern end of the Rhine valley in a drive behind the Siegfried line threatening to outflank the Ruhr munitions industries. The 20-mile Kleve front was the only active one in the west. On its south flank, British empire troops crushed a series of violent German counterattacks and pressed close to the key defense bastions of Goch and Calcar. Barrages from hundreds upon hundreds of Field Mar shal Montgomery’s big guns and huge fleets of Allied planes paralyzed every German attempt to regain ground and ex ALLIES DRIVEN BACK IN ITALY Ground Given Up In Ser chio Valley Is Later Regained By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, Feb. 15. —(!?)— German infiltration tactics drove back Am erican outposts on the Tyrrhenian coastal sector of the Italian front and a Nazi raid in the Serchio val ley forced another slight withdraw al but the ground later was re gained, Allied headquarters an nounced today. Describing the Tyrrhenian action, the official report said: “Between Strettoia and Seravezza our outposts moved back a short di stance after enemy forces infiltrat ed our lines and also launched a raid about 500 yards east of Stret toia.” Raiding Nazis forced American troops back a few hundred yards east of Lama Di Sotto but the posi tions were regained later, the com munique said. BRAZILIANS Brazilian troops repulsed an ene my patrol a mile and a half north east of Affrico, a village 27 miles southwest of Bologna. Fifth army forces suffered some casualties when Germans laid down heavy fire on Allied patrols from strongly entrenched positions south of Bologna. Action on the Eighth army front was limited to sharp patrol clashes. ARTILLERY British coastal craft torpedoed and sank a large enemy merchant ship and destroyed three heavily armed coastal vessels off the Istrian peninsula at the end of the Adria tic Sea, the Allied naval command announced today. Typifying the heavy use of artil lery on the static Fifth army front is the instance of the 348th field artillery battalion of the 91st (Powder River) division which fired 73,000 rounds from its how itzers in 157 days of combat. The Fifth army command credited the battalion with destroying twice its number of Nazi guns. Its toll in cluded 23 enemy artillery pieces. 12 tanks, 12 trucks and at least four ammunition dumps. Two Killed In Crash Of Bomber FLORENCE, S. C„ Feb. 15. — (JP)—A light bomber from the Flor ence air field crashed, 90 miles north of Atlanta, killing two men Tuesday night, the air base an nounced last night. They were 2nd Lt. Harold Gilbert of Philadelphia, and Cpl. Anthony J. Simnowski of North Tarrytown, N. Y. actea terrioie casualties. The Rhine was reached at Hur endeich. There the river is normally 3,270 feet wide but breaches in dykes in the desolate lowlands have made the Rhine even more impos ing. At low points north of Kleve and west of Emmerich, the Rhine was as wide as the English channel be tween Calais and Dover and flood waters were eight feet deep, leav ing only islands of sunken villages. The Canadians used amphibious tanks to advance. BEHIND WEST WALL The Canadian First army, al ready behind the Siegfried line and up to the Rhine, was in a position to push south and confine or kill the enemy on either side of his west wall fortifications. Three of Gen. Eisenhower's armies to the south watched with satisfaction a gradual recession of floods on the Roer river barring their path to the Cologne plain. The British empire troops crept forward in the wake of blows struck Germany by 10,000 planes in 36 hours, much of their might loosed upon the area between the Rhine and Gen. Eisenhower’s seven armies. One group wrecked the Rhine bridge at the Ruhr city of Wesel, 18 miles ahead of British troops. Gen. Henry Crerar's Cana dian First army appeared definitely headed south toward the Cologne plain. On the west edge of that plain, the British Second and the American Ninth and First Armies were checkmated by Roer River floods, flowing from opened dams at the headwaters. INSIDE GERMANY The Canadians. Britons, Scots and Welsh commanded by Crerar cap tured Hommersum. Heijen and Warbeyen. Opposite Emmerich the Canadians were 13 1-2 miles Inside Germany and 49 from the great Rhine city of Dusseldorf. German resistance stiffened on the eastern and southern flanks of the oozing battleground between the Rhine and Meuse. Two bridge heads were widened and strength ened across the Niers river along which the Germans had hoped to shield Goch. The small Kleve state forest three miles north of Goch was cleared. Empire troops were with in three miles of Calcar, road cen ter close to the Rhine. Bitter, see-saw fighting contin ued at the edge of Kessel, on the See KLEVE Page 2 BURKE WOMAN ADMITS SLAYING Held On Charge Of Mur der, Mother Of Nine Children MORGANTON. Feb. 15—</P>— Mrs. Alice Mull, 44. mother of nine children is in jail here today a waiting a preliminary hearing on a charge of murder in connection with the rifle slaying of her hus band, Carza Alexander Mull. Members of the sheriff's depart ment found Mull's body in a field near the couple’s home in the Laurel Hill section five miles southeast of Morganton, after the woman gave herself up and re ported the shooting. Mrs. Mull told officers that she shot her husband three times while he pursued her with a shot gun after attempting to set fire to the house. She said he was in toxicated. Rural Officer C. A. Fox said he found evidence of slight fire dam age at the house. Officers said two bullets enter ed Mull’s chest over the heart, and there was another bullet hols in the back of the body.
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