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WEATHER Pair and cool today, rather cold again tonight. Tuesday cloudiness and continued cool followed by oc casional rains in mountains Tues day afternoon. Eises-heilig Bang Hm - State Theatre Today - "NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART" Starring Cary Grant — Ethel Barrymore CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII-44 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, FEB. 19, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c Reds Forge Ahead Despite Nazi Counterattacks All Along Front Halsey In Washington On Visit, Says Jap Navy Will Not Fight WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. — yp>— Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., paying a surprise visit to Washing ton, predicted today that the rem nants of the Japanese fleet will not come out and fight in the current Pacific operations. "We are going to have to dig them in," the commander of the Third Fleet, told a news conference. "They have got very little left to fight with and what they have is none too good shape.” Halsey said he has not yet re ceived all the facts of the Tokyo and Iwo Jima operations but that all indications are that it was "an other magnificent show against the deteriorated and deteriorating ex Japanese navy.” Asked what in his opinion would be necessary to force the Japanese navy .to a showdown, Halsey, in typical fashion replied: "I can't get myself in a rat’s frame of mind. I don’t know what it would take.” UNDER ORDERS Asked about his presence in Washington, Halsey said with a laugh "I am here under orders of Admiral King." Chief of Naval op ADMIRAL HALSEY erations. "It Is evident,” Halsey said "that even the stupid, bestial Jap sees that he is losing control oi the sea everywhere.” The veteran of many Pacific ac tions disclosed that information brought out of the Philippines by a doV'ed American flier furnish ed him the information that led to the decision to make a sudden } change in plans for the invasion of the Philippines. Halsey said his forces were steaming off the coast of the Phil ippines with practically no oppo I sition. “We were knocking down Japanese planes right and left. One American pilot was shot down. The guerrillas took care of him, and the next day we sent in and got him. He gave us information which led me to believe the time was ripe to go in.” That occurred, he said, on Sep tember 13, and he reported his recommendations to Admiral Ni mitz and General MacArthur. “Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur picked up the ball and ran with it," he said, shifting their plans to permit the landing on See PfALSEY Page 2 Allied Armies Fight Into Goch, Approach Duisburg, Calcar Germans Resist Bitterly In Fighting Around Calcar; Casualties Heavy On Both Sides By The Associated Press PARIS, Feb. 19.—Kilted Scots fought into the center of the heavily fortified road center of Goch today as the Canadian First Army advanced within 25 miles of Duisburg, world's largest inland port and western portal of the rich GRAHAM FOR ME CHANGES Wants Greater Recogni tion For Heads Of Uni versity Units RAL.EIGH, Feb. 19.—UP)—Presi dent Frank P. Oraham of the Greater University of North Caro lina came out today in favor of • appropriate” titles for the deans of administration at the three units of the university at Chapel Hill. Raleigh and Greensboro. He said that the titles of ‘ deans of administration” are "not ade quate" and "no one would get more joy out of seeing those offices rec ognized.” He said that the author ity of each must be made clear if a-y title change is effected, how ever. Dr. Graham said that as far as he was concerned, he would ac cept any title which the trustees think appropriate. Speaking before the full body of trustees. Dr. Graham summar ized the hUtory of the university consolidation, and said that each unit needed a higher salary scale, and additional buildings. State college, he said, needs ad ditional dormitories, agricultural facilities and a general renovation. Woman's college, he said, needs a modern hospital, gymnasium, laun dry, religious center and a general renovation. The Chapel Hill unit, he added, needs to complete its library, and should have a phar See GRAHAM Page 2 More Carrier Raids May Be Expected, Japanese Are Told More American carrier raids on Tokyo can be expected until U. S. invasion forces have a secure beachhead on Iwo island, 750 miles eo the. south, Japanese broadcas ters warned the home islands to day. A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by the federal communications com mission, said the mighty U. S. Fifth fleet "will remain somewhere in our home waters, no matter how strong our counterattacks, and con tinue air raids on the mainland until their own men succeed in taking a foothold on Iwo." ’■I Ruhr arsenal. British and Canadian troops fought within a mile of Calcar, like Goch an Important frontline road center, and pushed the stout ly resisting Germans to the sou thern edge of the Moyland woods. Casualties were heavy on both sides. The forest extends almost to the edge of Calcar. Field Marshal Montgomery was said by the Germans to have committed his British Second Army to the intensify ing battle between the Meuse and flooded Rhine, a front on which the northern end of the original Siegfried line has been run through. The marshal himself said the last round of the battle for Germany was on; that the enemy “is going to receive the knockout blow— a somewhat unusual one, de livered from more than one direction.” Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., widened his U. S. Third Army front in western Germany to 32 miles and captured numerous towns in the Elfel mountains, some within seven miles of the important road center of Bitburg. TWO MILES Farther south, Lt. Gen. Alexan der M. Patch’s Seventh Army fought back two miles into the German Saar basin, capturing 1, 000 prisoners and Auersmacher, six miles southeast of Saarbrueck en. The Amercian First and Ninth armies (and perhaps other forma tions) still were Inactive along the Roer river facing Cologne, Bonn and Dusseldorf. It was in this sector east of Aachen that the Germans have been reducing the See Allied Page 2 ORDER SIGNED IN ENKA CASE Judge Webb Permit* With drawal Of Application For Injunction In accordance with an agree ment between the National War Labor board, attorneys for the American Enka Corporation, of Asheville and the International Union, United Textile Workers of America reached last Friday in Washington, Judge E. Y. Webb signed an oi'der here this morning permitting the American Enka Cor poration to withdraw its applica tion for injunction against cer tain arbitration proceedings be tween the company and the union and uniter the condition set out that aHVrights of the company shall be preserved in the determi nation of the action now pending in the United States court,. The government seized the plant of the American Enka corporation yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock but this action, it was pointed out this morning, in no way affects the litigation or the arbitration. The War Labor board was taken into court by the American Enka corporation after its regional board ip Atlanta, Ga., had ordered the American Enka corporation to ar bitrate a contract which was en tered into by the union and the company on June 5, 1943, which the company contended was tc last for the duration of the war. The union demanded pay for lunch periods and certain shift differen tials. The company went into court to determine the effect of the con tract, whether an arbitrator had authority to pass on the question and whether the arbitrator could make a valid decison. Judge Webb signed a temporary See ORDER Page 2 MORE ATROCITIES: Priests, Women And Children Wantonly Slam By Japanese MANILA, Feb. 18. — (Delayed) —(/P)—The wanton slaying of at least 60 priests and women and children refugees in De Lasalle College in Manila’s Malate district by Japanese soldiers was revealed today with recovery of the muti lated remains. Of the 70 persons caught in the college only eight survived, said one of them, the Rev. Francis J. Cosgrave, 47, a re demptorist father of Sydney, Australia. Father Cosgrave, recovering from two bayonet wounds in Santo Tomas hospital, filled in details of the terrible afternoon last Monday One Japanese officer and 20 en listed men shot and bayoneted the American, Filipino, German, Irish and Spanish religious brothers anc Filipino refugees. The bodies, serving as mute anc ghastly evidence, were discoverec today when the united States 148th infantry regiment captured the col lege area. Monday, another tense day on tht fringe of the battle area, the Jap anese stormed into the priests room, an officer screamed some See PRIESTS Page 2 COUNTERBLOWS ARE STRONGEST MET RECENTLY Marshal Konev's First Uk rainian Army Carving Out Gains violentTighting By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 19.—(£>)— The Red army battled sharp German counterattacks in some sectors up and down the ice-covered eastern front to day, but continued to forge ahead toward Dresden and on Berlin’s southeastern flank. While Moscow dispatches said the German counterstabs were not in the proportions of a counterof fensive, they were mounted by ve terans of the German regular army and Heinrich Himmler’s home army units in the greatest num bers yet and were particularly strong from places in Pomerania and Silesia where the Germans had entrenched artillery positions dug into the frozen earth. The German communique said Marshal Ivan Konev's First Uk rainian army was forging ahead, however, and compelling the Ger mans to engage in “violent defen sive fighting’’ all the way from the Czech border to the Odei Bend southeast of Berlin. Konev’s tanks have reached the area southeast of Laubaw on the Queis river, 62 miles from Dresden the communique said. The town is only nine miles from the border of Czechoslovakia. On Konev’s right wing, a Ger man war reporter said, Marshal Gregory Zhukov's First White Rus sian army has hammered out a bridgehead over the Oder near Crossen, 64 miles southeast of Ber lin. LINKING UP konev and Zhukov were linking up for a smash toward the Nazi strongpoint of Guben, on the Neisse 42 miles from Berlin and at the apex of a vital defense triangle guarding the southeastern approaches to the capital. Zhukov remained quiet in his sector along the Oder where he See COUNTERBLOWS Page 2 SEEK PURSE IN EPES CASE COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 19.—(/P) A missing gray pin-striped cloth pocketbook was sought by pollct today as an important bit of evi dence in the strange death of 26 year-old Mary Lee Epes in connec tion with which her husband, ar army lieutenant, is held on a charge of minder. Sheriff T. Alex Heise offered a $50 reward for the return of the purse, with no questions asked This was in addition to a $100 re ward offered by the prisoner, Lt S. C. Epes, who handed Heise the $100 when military authorities sur rendered him. The sheriff quoted Epes, 29year old son of a Richmond, Va., indus trialist, as saying he “planted” the pocketbook in a downtown guttei Jan. 29 so that police would follow a kidnap theory after he reportec his wife missing. IMPORTANT “The pocketbook is one of th< important pieces of evidence w< must have,” the sheriff said, bu would not discuss the slgnificanci of the missing purse further. The body of MTs. Epes was re moved last Wednesday from i maneuver foxhole near Ft. Jack son—16 days after Epes admittei Heise said, he buried his wife then when she died from an overdose o sedatives. The sheriff quoted Epes as sayim he did not kill his wife but becam panic stricken when her pulse stop ped, and sought to conceal he death. Meantime, the sheriff reserve* comment on whether a batch o love letters Lt. Epes wrote to a 20 year-old blonde war plant work er at Lake Charles, La., had shei any light on a motive in the case. "GOOD FRIENDS” The letters were sent Heise b; Sheriff Henry A. Reid, jr„ of th See SEEK PURSE Page X JAPANESE REPORT U. S. LANDING ON IWO—Solid arrow from war ship symbol indicates American landing on Iwo Jima as reported by the Tokyo radio, confirmed today by U. S. headquarters. Yank troops landed on Corregidor at the entrance to Manila Harbor and Gen. Mac Arthur said complete conquest of “The Rock” is assured. American car rier-based planes have been attacking the Tokyo area. Enemy Clings Grimly To Manila Foothold Manila Bay Almost In U. S. Hands; Yanks On Cor regidor Clear Malinta Hill MANILA, Feb. 19.—(^)—Manila Bay was all but back in American hands today but in the city itself, where some 7,000 civilians were released in a new dramatic rescue, the Japanese still clung grimly to the walled Intramuros section. Mopping up continued on Corregidor, where Yanks con TEACHERS WILL PURSUE FIGHT Matter Of Teacher Salar ies Is Apparently Far From Settled RALEIGH, Feb. 19. — (VP)— With the matter of teacher salaries ap parently far from settled and with increased rumblings being heard throughout the state from school and allied groups, members of the general assembly returned to Ra leigh today for a night session, be ginning perhaps the heaviest work schedule of the current session. Declaring that the future of North Carolina schools depends on the setting up of adequate pay schedules for school workers, a delegation of Charlotte school work ers was expected to come here to day to push their claims for a $200 maximum salary for teachers hold ing “A” certificates and proportion ate salaries for other certificate holders. The joint appropriations commit tee last week adopted a schedule sponsored by Governor Cherry which would give “A” certificate holders $125 monthly to start and a maximum of $162 for nine yean experience. To this was added a contingent $10 per month bonus tc be paid at the end of each fisca year and on a 12-months basis. FLOOR FIGHT Some members of the joint com See TEACHERS Pace 2 ; Gardner Recommenii i Titles Be Changed t RALEIGH, Feb. 19. — (JP) — l special committee of the trustee ' of the greater University of Nortl : Carolina recommended today tha ■ the titles of deans of adminlstra • tion at the three units of the uni verslty be changed to chancellor 1 and vice-presidents. The head o t the greate- university would con ■ tinue to bear the title of president The recommendations were mad l by Former Governor - . Max Gard ner, under whom the unlversit; was consolidated In 1931. They fol l lowed by a few minutes the asser » tion by President Frank P. Gra ham that the deans should be giv en “appropriate” titles. croi tne topsiae. The 7,000 including 100 Ameri cans, were liberated under gun tire as American troops stormed into the ruins of the Philippine Gen eral hospital, a few blocks south of the Intramuros walls. Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Gris wold, commander of the 14th corps, still delayed a showdown battle for the walled Intra muros district in the hope oth er thousand of civilians would be voluntarily released by the Japanese. Troops of the same regiment which liberated the hospital came upon the bodies of 60 Catholic priests and women and children to whom they had given shelter in the ruins of a de LaSalle college in the nearby Malate district. The 60 were shot and bayoneted to death a week ago today by a frenzied Japanese officer and 20 See ENEMY Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Junior Chamber of Commerce meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—City council meets at city hall. TUESDAY 7:30 pan.—C. A. P. members meet at armory. 7:30 p.m.—Scouters club meets at Dover Mill clubhouse with Dover Mill Troop No. 4 as hosts. 8:00 p.m.—Presbyterian fo rum meets at Presbyterian church. Invaders Push 600 Yards Up Bitterly-Defended Slope, Reach Air Strip —UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 19.—(/P)—United States marines invaded Tokyo’s “lookout” island of Iwo today and pushed 600 yards up rug ged slopes from the beachhead to penetrate the important bomber air strip. The Japanese resisted furiously from heavily fortified positions, despite the continuing bombardment by warships of America’s Fifth Fleet. First eyewitness accounts from the flagship of Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, commanding the amphibious operation, said casualties among the marines were “con siderable.” The tiny, porkchop-shaped island, invaded at 9 A. M. Monday (Guam time), was a prize the Japanese defended with all their fanatical fury. Invading marines of the Fifth Corps, America’s oldest amphibious outfit, advanced from the south and east beaches. They reached the bomber strip, most important of Iwo’s three airfields (one still under construction) in the first DEATH CLAIMS MRS. DEPRIEST Pioneer Woman Died Sun day At- New House; Rites Wednesday Mrs. Amanda Covington DePriest, 98, mother of A. B. C. DePriest of Shelby, member of a pioneer Cleveland family, died at 10 p.m. Sunday at her home in the New House community after a long per iod of failing health. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the home with Rev. W. L. Scott, pastor of the Polkville Methodist church of which Mrs. DePriest was a faithful member, officiating. Burial will be in the family plot at Salem ceme tery near Bostic, in Rutherford county. Widow of the late Thomas B. DePriest who preceded her in death 38 years ago, Mrs. DePriest a daughter of the late William and Mary Rincie Covington, is the last surviving member of that family. She was widely known and beloved in the section where she lived, her family reaching back to pre-Revo lutionary days, her father being born in 1776. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Oliva Williamson, and Miss Bessie DePriest of the home, and Mrs. Pless Cabaniss of route 5, Shelby; four sons, Billy of Vir ginia; A. B. C. of Shelby; Sam and Cone of the home, and IS grandchildren; another daughter the late Mrs. Pauline Brown oi Bostic, died some years ago. Former German Air Defense Chief Takes Own Life LONDON, Feb. 19. —UP)— A neu tral source reported today that Col. Gen. Hubert Weise, former—cqjtj mander in chief of Germany's air defense, shot and killed himself in his apartment a few days ago Weise was made a scapegoat for the collapse of the Reich’s air de fenses and was ousted from his post a year ago. EYEWITNESS REPORT:: ! Japs Fight Back Fiercely , Asrainst Invaders Of Iwo (United Press War Correspond ent William P. Tyree, representing 1 the combined American press, flew over Iwo Jima today shortly after the invasion battle began. The Navy photographic plane in which Tyree was riding was forced to turn back, but he was able to re sume his trip in a bomber. His eyewitness dispatch follows:) By WILLIAM F. TYREE Representing the Combined Am erican Press — Distributed by the Associated Press In a plane over Iwo Jima, Feb. 19—VP)—(Via Navy Radio)—Amer ican Marines stormed ashore t< secure a beachhead on Iwo Jims today, as the tiny gourd-shaped is land rocked under one of the heav iest naval bombardments of thi Pacific war. However, the Japanese certainl: were fighting back from their un derground defenses. Twice as wi swung over Mount Suribachi' crater at the south end of th< ; island and around the northeri j wooded section, the Japanese gav See JAPS Page 2 day struggle. Japanese artillery, mortar, ma chinegun and rifle fire raked the ranks of the veteran Fourth Mar' ine division and the new Fifth di vision, making up the invading force, throughout the day. Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith, com manding the Fifth corps, said from his command post aboard Turner’s flagship: “Our men are spread all over Hell’s Acre out there. And they're going after those hidden Jap guns, which are mighty hard to locate.’’ Turner said the “overall progress j is satisfactory.” He declared that the pre-invasion bombardment bs I warships of the United States Fiftt i fleet had cleaned out some heaviei I Japanese guns but "by no mean! | all of them.” Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ communique announcing the invi sion said “the operation is pri ceeding satisfactorily.” He casualties were “moderate, early reports. The beachhead extends for near] two and a half miles northw: from the Volcano at the southi tip of the air-base island. Nimitz credited B-29s and sul marines with helping pave the w| for this morning’s invasion of j island whose seizure will step | the air offensive against Ti j where the Fifth fleet air arm I stroyed or damaged 36 ships j 759 planes in two days before wii drawing. Thousands of rockets raked southern Iwo beaches climaxing tl heavy naval bombardment whii included the batteries of such cient battleships as the Nevai sunk at Pearl Harbor and resum ed to help pave the way for invasion of Normandy and now stepping stone island to Tokyo, Several hours after the initii landing at 9 a.m. (Iwo time) Wei ley Edwards, representing the co: bined radio networks, flew over beaches and reported "there’s whale of a scrap still oing on. The immediate objective Iwo’s main airfield from whii land-based American fighters ai medium bombers will be able strike the Nipponese homeland the first time. Battleships, including new 46,i See INVADERS Page X JAPAN RAIDED IBY SUPERFOR' Bv The Associated Press Approximately 100 Superff tresses raided Japan today, Jaj nese Imperial headquarters most of them striking at the yo area in the wake of a two bombardment by carrier aircr A broadcast of the enemy munique, recorded by the fedd communications commission, clal ed that ten raiders were shot do| As usual, it insisted damage slight. Earlier the Japanese over^ radio in a German language cast estimated that 70 or 80 perforts hit the main island! Japan, including the indust) city of Nagyoa and Shizuoka fecture on the southeast coast) their attacks. This broadcast, also recorded J FCC. claimed "at least seven I observed to be brought down ' the Tokyo area alone.”
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