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WEATHER Showers and warmer today, follow ed by cloudy and little change In temperature tonight except cool er on coast. Friday, fair and mod erately cold. Tshe Hhelhy Baily Star - State Theatre Today - "THE FALCON IN HOLLYWOOD" Starring Tom Conway and Barbara Hate % CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLI1I-47 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—fie Battle Rages In Streets Of Guben LONDON, Feb. 22.—(/P)— The Russians again have bat tered into Guben, German f hingepoint on the Neisse 511 miles southeast of Berlin, a German military commentator reported today. Street fighting is going on in the town, he said. Guben previously was reported bypassed by the Russians, who announced gains up to the conflu ence of the Neisse and Oder. The Germans said last Monday that the Russians had fought into Guben, but were forced to with draw. Col. Ernst Von Hammer, Berlin commentator, said a new assault was launched upon the stronghold this morning. In East Prussia, Von Ham mer reported, Russian pressure has "increased to the greatest ferocity” with more than 2,000 Soviet planes joining the as sault. He asld Zinten, 17 miles south of Koenigs berg and 15 miles from the coast, had been evacuated by the Germans, The Berlin radio said a surprise Nazi counteroffensive had reestab lished a corridor between Koenigs berg and the Port of Pillau, 20 miles south. The Russians ac knowledged some German advances In that sector but said the drive was coating the Germans enor mously in men and equipment. RIDGE POSITION Moscow announced Soviet forces had seized a strategic ridge posi tion in the forest on the eastern approaches to Guben. taking more than 50 populated places north and south of the Immediate sec tor. Further north Marshal O. K. Zhukov's First White Russian army units were reported attempting to complete the encirclement of Frankfurt. The German radio an nounced Zhukov had slashed com munications between Berlin and that city on the west bank of the Oder 38 miles from the German capital, but said they had been restored. Pravda said the Russian army stood only 34 miles from Berlin In that area. The paper did not spe cify the location but indicated Zhukov's troops had crossed the Oder. DEFENSIVE Nazi radio spokesmen said Ger man forces were fighting a de fensive battle between Berlin and the Frankfurt-Kuestrin front, but declared Russian bridgeheads west of the Oder were “far too small” See BATTLE Page 2 DRIVE HEADED BY MRS. ROGERS Old Clothing Will Bo Col lected In Intense April Campaign Mrs. R H. Rogers of the Junior Charity League was named Cleve land chairman of the United Clothing Collection campaign to be waged in April as representatives of the various supporting civic groups met last night to organize. Mrs. R. P. Brackett was named secretary of the group. Immediate steps to effect a county-wide organization will be undertaken by the new officers in an effort for this county to meas ure up to Its challenge In the na tional campaign for 150,000,000 pounds of used clothing of every description — children’s, womens’ and men’s. The clothing will be used for overseas civilian relief in all war-devastated areas. COOPERATION Leaders of all the local clubs pledged their cooperation In get ting out the clothing to meet a need that is desperate. On the central committee Worth Morris represents the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants associa tion; Doris Bolt the Junior Cham ber of Commerce; Shem K. Black ley the Rotary club; Jim Rucker the Lions club; Reid Mlsenheim er, the Kiwanis club; Max Dixon the American Legion; Mrs. Griffin Smith the Legion Auxiliary, and Mrs. John McClurd the Woman’s club 7,000 PLANES EMPLOYED IN GIANT FORAYS Objective Is To Knock Out Nazi Communica tions Network 'BUCKSHOTAIR WAR' LONDON. Feb. 22. —UP)— Al lied air forces hit Germany at dozens of places with approx imately 7,000 planes today. It was the war's biggest and most spectacular bombardment of the Reich. The onslaught was aimed at knocking out the Nazi commu nications network serving both the eastern and western fronts. Explosives cascaded upon German targets at the rate of 100 tons a minute. Spearheading the “buckshot air war”—a new idea mapped by Allied air chiefs in readiness for clear weather—more than 1,400 U. S. Fortresses and Liber ators and 8M fighters attacked a middle Reich rectangle the site and shape of Indiana ex tending from Hannover on eastward almost to Berlin and from Nuernberg north to Lue beck Bay. Two divisions of this huge fleet poured into Germany from the north and a third from the south. These broke up into packs of up to 100 bombers each, which struck at (east 24 freight yards and other rail targets In the heart of the Reich during the noon hour. The Eighth air force bombers were assigned to an area of 38,000 square miles. Within this area the bomber packs planted more than 14,000 500-pound high explosive bombs on at least 14 railyards, each located at a Junction of two or more main rail routes. There Are No Mass Surrenders On West Front WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. —IIP) — War Secretary Stimson said today 'no mass surrenders” are occurring an the western front although more than 900,000 Nazis have been taken prisoner in that theater. Stimson told his news confer ence that ‘‘in view of rumors of mass surrenders” he had cabled Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Allied supreme commander replied, the secretary said, that prisoners ire being taken but that there are ‘no indication of mass surrenders.” Resistance remains stiff 'along the entire front, Eisenhower told Stimson. Since November, 1942, date of Allied landings in North Africa, 1,134,992 enemy prisoners have seen taken by the Allies, Includ ing the 900,000 in western Europe since the Normandy landing last June. SICILY, ITALY Also included are 100,692 captur td in Sicily and Italy and 134,300 In Africa, not including Italians. Stimson put into his weekly war review this observation: "It is not permissible at this particular moment to make any general observations regarding the righting on the western front for evident reasons. “I may say that the officers in the war department who have re cently been with our troops in that theater have been much Impress See THERE Pare 2 RUSSIANS EXAMINE PRISONERS FREED FROM GERMANS — The Moscow caption accompanying this radiophoto reads: “Thousands of martyrs have been saved at Oswiencim by the heroic Red Army. The surviving prisoners presented a frightful sight. They were exhausted to an extent that it was impossible to determine their age. Shown on this photo are prisoners of the camp reduced by the Germans to a state of extreme exhaustion. Capt. A. Fradkin (left) of the Red Army’s Medical service examines one of the former prisoners of the camp. Engineer Rudolf Scherm from Vienna.” DAVIS LECTURE TO BE TONIGHT Dr. Jerome Davis To Speak . On Russia At Local High School Shelby Is pointing for the ad dress of Dr. Jerome Davis, who will speak under the auspices of the American Association of Uni versity Women and the Associat ed Book clubs of Shelby at the Senior High school auditorium to night at 8:15 o’clock. His subject will be “Russia in the War and Post-War World.” Dr. Davis' background enables him to speak with authority on what is going on in Russia today , because in addition to the year ' spent there from November, 1943, 1 to November, 1944, he knew Rus- 1 sia under the regime of the Tzar. 1 He saw the Revolution at first hand as he was in charge of Y. M. C. A. work in Russia at that time. AUTHOR For thirteen years Dr. Davis held 1 the Gilbert L. Stark Chair of Practical Philanthropy at Yale university. His interest in live 1 problems is evidenced by the titles of some of his books such as 1 ‘Capitalism and Its Culture,” “Labor Problems in America”, ; “The New Russia,” “Labor Speaks For Itself on Religion,” “Christian ity and Social Adventuring,” “Bu siness and the Church,” etc., etc., ' some fourteen or more, many in collaboration tyith other authori- 1 ties. ' Dr. Davis has been to Europe eleven times—three as correspond- : ent for American newspaper syn dicates. His articles have appear ed in over a dozen American ma- ■ gazines. He has lectured widely 1 throughout America. He has been described as “a current events an- 1 alyst with the insight of a social 1 philosopher and a student of so- 1 ciety with the news-gathering a- 1 bility of a foreign correspondent.” 1 Enemy Says Marine Casualties 12,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.—</P)— , An unconfirmed Tokyo broadcast heard by the Blue network assert ed today that American marines an Iwo Jima have suffered 12,000 ! casualties. 1 Berlin Heavily Defended, Prepared To Resist Siege By JERJE FRANBERG Written For The Associated Press Copyright, 1945, by Associated Press STOCKHOLM, Feb. 22.— VP) —1 have just left Berlin, city of the doomed, where the fateful arrival }f German army deserters helped spread paralysis among the capi tal’s five and one half million barricaded, bewildered and bomb dulled inhabitants. I got away ta Sweden in an automobile which no amount of money in the world could buy, but two old suits, some socks, ties and two pounds of cof fee turned the trick. As the front moved closer and closer • to Berlin more and more deserters slipped into the capital. One forenoon by chance I heard ' a desperate mother confide in an- ' other woman that her son and 37 comrades had arrived 1n Ber- , lin from the front as deserters. Frantically she asked advice: Should she hide her son? But how? i What should she do? She cer tainly couldn’t report him as a de- i serter. 1 Believing it to be an isolated ' i See BERLIN Page 2 i Huffstickler Among Rescued Prisoners L,f$ut. Clyde A. Huffstickler Of Kings Mountain Was Prisoner Of Japs 3 Years Release of First Lieutenant Clyde A. Huffstickler, of iCings Mountain, a prisoner of the Japanese for nearly ;hree years since the fall of Corregidor, was announced today FREE BOOKS FOR 8TH GRADE RALEIGH, Feb. 22—(£>)—Rep. Stone of Rockingham introduced >ills today to provide free text jooks for the eighth grade and to jlace kindergartens under the su jervision of the department of jublic instruction. . Money for the eighth grade extbooks is provided in the gen ial appropriations bill, which has jassed the assembly. Stone’s bills also would allow he state board of education to :hange administrative unit boun iaries, allow the state board to ietermine which officials shall be jonded to handle school funds, ind to make schooL lunchrooms ion-profit. POTATO PROBLEM Reps. Askew of Pamlico, Grimes jf Beaufort and others sent up a loint resolution to authorize the jovernor to appoint a six-member lommission to study the potato sit tation in eastern North Carolina ind to report to the 1947 legisla te. The resolution said there was ‘grave danger of losing a sub itantial part of the acreage given >ver to potatoes” because of bac erial wilt, and that it was evi lent growers were not exercising ■noiigh care in harvesting their irops for marketing. Better and nodern facilities for handling the •rop are needed, the resolution laid,. Reps. Gantt of Durham, Umstead if Orange and Stone sent up a bill 0 make national ana state eiec ion days state holidays; and Rep. raylor of Wayne introduced a bill ;o extend the authority of the Jtilities Commission over refin mcing of utilities securities. 2ANCER UNIT Reps. Smith of Davidson and [lover of Cherokee introduced a jill to create a seven-member can :er commission. It would be given 1 $50,000 appropriation and would je composed of three doctors, the lecretary of the state board of realth, the chairman of the cancer sommittee of the State Medical \ssociation, and a person not a ioctor. The commission’s findings vould be reported to the 1947 leg slature. Senator McBryde of Hoke sent up i bill to provide a revolving fund or counties receiving federal aid or school lunchrooms; and Senator larlyle of Forsyth introduced a bill ,o authorize corporations to con tribute to religious, charitable, li brary and educational funds, and .o allow use of the contributions ,o prevent cruelty to children and tnimals. uy me war ueparunent. Lt. Huffstickler, whose wife and three children reside with his par ents at the edge of Kings Moun tain, was one of four North Caro linians listed among military per sonnel liberated from Japanese prison camps in the Philippines. He was serving as battalion ad jutant with the 903rd Aviation en gineers and had a record of 30 LIEUT. HUFFSTICKLER years service in the army when the Japanese seized Corregidor May 8, 1942. His family had kept in termittent communication with Lt. Huffstickler from time to time through the International Red Cross but were overjoyed at the word he had been released. No indication as to when he will return home was given in the War Department announcement of his release, but early return of those See HUFFSTICKLER Page 2 PATTON’S MEN CROSS SAAR, STORM AHEAD 33 Nazi Villages In Mo selle Valley Taken; In Sight Of Trier 7TH ARMY^ADVANCES PARIS, Feb. 22.—(&)—Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Am ercian Third Army, running high, wide and handsome again, stormed within five miles of Trier today, crossed the Saar river against disin tegrated German resistance and swept up 33 more Nazi towns in the Moselle valley. Already tanks and infantry were within sight of the main defense works covering Trier, a city of 88, 000 and keystone of the whole German defense system before the middle Rhine. They were a mile and a quarter from Konz, site of a large fort at the confluence of the Saar and Moselle rivers. While Patton’s columns advanc ed three miles or more immediate ly north of the industrial Saar dis trict, Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch’s 7th army smashed into the dis trict from the south, advancing to within two miles of ruined Saar bruecken, the capital. His Americans captured half of Forbach, French gateway to Saar bruecken, from raw conscripts of the Volkssturm who were bolster ed by heavy German weapons. Storied Spiceren fell; the Siegfried Line was within view. The Canadian First army in the north pounded to within 2,000 yards of bitterly contested Calcar in its drive toward the Ruhr val lev. AIR SUPPORT The whole Allied flying arsenal appeared to be on the wing today in probably the mightiest Allied aerial onslaught of the year against Hitler’s breached and buck ling eastern line and his battered interior communications. The air blows were building up toward a climax which might explode in an all out offensive which has been checked by bad weather, mud and flooding. A report from Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s 12th army group head quarters said German resistance in the Saar-Moselle triangle, now Virtually cleared, had “complete ly disintegrated.” The Saar cross ing south of Saarburg was unop posed. Saarburg itself was almost cleared. There were indications of a general German withdrawal in to the rugged Hochwald. Despite the spectacular gains of the Third Army and the slow chipping progress of the British and Canadian troops in the north, it was evident that Gen. Eisen hower had not yet loosed his full scale offensive. Between these forces was the See PATTON’S Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Kiwanis club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.— C.A.P. members meet at armory. 8:15 p.m.—Dr. Jerome Davis lecture at high school audi torium. FRIDAY 12:00 p.m.—Rotary club meets at Hotel Charles. Vicious Enemy Counterattacks Are Beaten Back U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS Guam, Feb. 22.—(/P)—(Via Navy Radio)—United States fleet units in the vicinity of Iwo Jima have sustained some damage from attacks by Japanese fighters and bombers, Japanese counterattacks have been beaten back and U. S. Marine cas ualties have risen to 4,553 in the desperate battle for the island, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced today. The attack by Japanese planes was the first against the surface units since the battle for the island 750 miles south of Tokyo began. Seven of the enemy planes were shot down. The casualties include 385 killed and 4,168 wounded in action up to 5:45 P. M. last night. Tnnnnnpn PAlin^nvnn nnlrn A A A A panied by numerous attempts at infiltration of our lines were beaten back during the night and the leathernecks, strengthened by the U. S. Third Marine division which landed yesterday, launched attacks both to the north and south against the divided forces of the enemy. The northward drive toward the central Iwo airfield met heavy resistance froflOj|gajall arms, mor tars and automatic weapons. At noon the troops, advancing slowly through hard rain, had knocked out numerous enemy gun positions and generally weakened enemy de fenses. There was little change in front line positions, Nimitz’ communique admitted, however. Forces facing Mt. Suribachi, volcanic Japanese fortress on the southern tip of the island, coordinated their drive with the northern troops and by noon were beginning an as sault on the face of the cliff “under most difficult combat conditions.’,’ Heavy naval gunfire continued to pound enemy held positions throughout the northern part of the island and fleet aircraft sup ported ground forces with heavy bombing, strafrpg and rocket at tacks. The veteran Third division land ! ed on Iwo at a critical hour, bols j tering two other hard-pressed di I visions with veterans of the in vasions of Bougainville and Guam. Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine com mands the force. The commitment of three Ma See VICIOUS Page t FANATICAL RESISTANCE: Japs Holding Out On Hotel Second Floor Scattered Remnants Of Enemy Left On Corregidor After Main Garrison Blows Itself Up MANILA, Feb. 22.—(A1)—Only scattered enemy rem nants were left on Corregidor today but fanatically resist ing Japanese troops still held out on the second floor of the famed Manila hotel, turning the hostelry into the hottest battle spot in the capital city at dawn today. aany ironi une reports mat eie ments of the First Cavalry divisioi had captured the big: hotel, on of the most luxurious in th Orient, have been corrected to sa: that they have occupied the firs floor, the Japanese the second. Historic Bataan was cleared o Japanese, Gen. Douglas MacArthu reported, and ‘so far as can bi found, no living Japanese soldier i; now on the peninsula.” Hopelessly sealed in the vast network of tunnels on Corregi dor, Nipponese troops blew themselves up by touching off one of their main underground ammunition dumps. Typical of the bitter inch by incl struggle for downtown Manila wa. the battle through most of tin night between the Yanks and Jap anese on the second floor of th* Manila hotel where a continua fight to the death went on in the corridors and rooms and on the See JAPS Page 2 LAST NIGHT AND TODAY: Allied Planes Out In Force Over Western Half Of Reich LONDON, Feb. 22.— (JP) —Allied airmen returned to the attack up on Germany by daylight today af ter a mighty fleet of more than 1,100 RAF night bombers had blasted the western front railway centers of Worms and Duisberg and struck a fresh blow at Berlin. German radios began sounding alerts throughout the western half of the Reich before 10 a.m., sug gesting that attacking Allied planes were out in force. The RAF night raiders loosed tons of high explosives and in cendiaries on the railway hubs, smashing for the second successive night at the communications sys tem through which the Germans are trying to supply their hard pressed troops on the western front. Berlin—which also was hit the previous night—again was bomb ed twice. The blow at Worms was by a force of about 500 heavies and \»as in support of the American Third Army, which was advanc ing less than 60 miles away. WESTERN EXIT Duisberg is the western exit of the Ruhr, and the attack on itwa: aimed at bottling up the militar; traffic through this great Indus trial region. Approximately 3,00i tons of bombs were dropped thi night before on Dortmund, eas tern gateway of the Ruhr. The air ministry announced tha "more than 1,300 acres of Duis burg and its satellite towns hav been damaged.” The greatest railway network ii Europe—one which explains ho> Hitler keeps his troops going' de See ALLIED Pa*e 3 CASUALTIES NOW 801,162 Figure Represents Army, Navy Losses Since Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — Army and Navy casualties since Pearl Harbor have reached 801,162, the two services reported today. Secretary of War Stimson set Army casualties at 711,497 on the basis of individual names compiled in Washington through February 14. The Navy reported its losses as 89,655. The aggregate represented an in i crease of 18.982 over the previous week's report. Of the rise, the Army accounted for all but 827. A breakdown on the Army casu alties as reported this week and corresponding figures for last week: Killed 138,723 and 135,510: wounded 420,465 and 408,533; pris oners 60,086 and 58,556; missing 92,223 and 90,723. Stimson said 207,323 of the wounded had returned to duty. Similar figures for the Navy: Killed 33,862 and 33,536; wound , ed 40.783 and 40,607; prisoners 4,474 unchanged from the preced ■ ing week; missing 10,546 and 10,221. ) - ; Tokyo Comforts ! Its Iwo Garrison By the Associated Press Radio' Tokyo announced today it : i would beam a special one hour broadcast to “our brave officers ! and men’’ on Iwo Jima “in partial , expression of the gratitude of the . j people on the home front.” The 1 report was recorded by the federal ; communications commission.
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