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WEATHER Cloudy and mild with scattered showers today and tonight. Tues day, rain and colder north and west portions, showers and mild south portion. Tslxe Hhelhy Bnily star - State Theatre Today - “Frenchman’s Creek” JOAN FONTAIN ARTURO DE CORDOVA CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII-49 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, FEB. 26, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6e # w # # * * ** * * * * * * * * # # * # # * * *, Capture Oflwo Jima’s Second Airfield Appears Imminent Today > Lewis Gives Notice Of Possibility Of Coal Strike In 30 Days WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—(/P)—John L. Lewis and his united mine workers policy committee served notice under the Smith-Connally act today of the possibility of a bitumi nous coat suiae in ou uaja. \ The bituminous contract expires | March 31 and negotiations with J the operators begin Thursday. The policy committee gathered today to formulate demands for a new contract. The strike notice was the first action of the meeting. Lewis, in a letter to Secretary of Labor Perkins notified her that: "In order to protect our mem bership under the terms of this act. this letter is now directed to you as formal notice that a labor dispute exists within the meaning of the act. as interpreted by this committee, between the United Mine Workers of America and the bituminous coal operators of this country. "This notice Is not intended to apply to any bituminous coal mine now under governmental seizure and control. "To the end and for the purpose of procuring a new basic wage agreement for the industry, we will work dilligently and forthrightly for the ensuing 30 days to prevent, if possible, any interruption of coal production so vital to the prosecu tion of the war in which our coun try is now engaged, and to which we pledge our full devotion.” ACT ASSAILED Lewis issued a bitter denuncia tion of the Smith-Connally Act, which was enacted in the summer of 1943 after Lewis had engaged in strikes over his last contract. He said "the mine workers are thus coerced into giving this no tice even though sudh conditions as above described may be forced by the very issuance of the notice it self.” Lewis quoted President Roosevelt as saying on June 25, 1943 that See LEWIS Page 2 GAINS IN ITALY CONSOLIDATED Tenth Division Trained In Rockies To Meet Italian Terrain ROME. Feb. 26—(TP)—Maj. Gen George P. Hayes’ U. S. 10th divis ion consolidated gains today In the mountainous country around cap tured Mount Belvedere, west ol the Bologna-Ptstola highway, and won new high ground northeast and northwest of adjacent Mount Torraccla. x A number of prisoners were ta ken in the process of mopping up enemy pyockets and pillboxes In the area after several savage German counterattacks were repulsed yes terday. The 10th division forces, trained in the Rocky Mountains, overcame tough natural obstacles In gaining the heights dominating the impor tant highway. ARTILLERY Artillery pounded enemy troop! and installations on the right flank of the Fifth Army sector south ol Bologna, while activity on the front directly below that Po Vallej city was confined to patrolling. Prisoners taken by the Alllei on the Fifth Army front said the Germans have suffered heavy cas ualties from the sustained Allied artillery barrages. One enemj unit was reported to have lost 4C to 50 pyercent of its fighting strength since Jan. 12. It was disclosed, meanwhile that the U. S. 10th mountain di vision is composed of the 85th, 86 th and 87th regiments. The 87th spearheaded the landings on Risks in the Aleutians in August, 1943. Liberators Sink Two Jap Vessels CHUNGKING, Feb. 26 —(iP> Liberators of the U. S. 14th air force sank two Japanese vessel! yesterday in the South China sea east of the Liuchow Peninsula while other bombers and fighter! hammered enemy air fields and supply lines from Tungting Lake southward to the Lung valley. An American communique said one aircraft failed to return. sembled. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ communique today made no further mention of the carrier strike — maintaining the same silence which followed the Fifth fleet's two-day carrier smash against Tokyo Feb. 16. 17. Radio Tokyo said 1,600 .carrier planes and 165 sky giants made the twin aerial attacks Sunday. Sub sequently Tokyo trimmed the car rier planes to 600. The war de partment reported that more than 200 Superfortresses participated. All returned. The Superforts dropped bombs and incendiaries for two hours through a heavy snowfall. Snow has little effect on incendiaries. Damage was done to airfields, military installations and transpor tation facilities In the Tokyo area, Radio Tokyo said, adding “bombs started fires in various sections” but "they were almost entirely quelled by nightfall.” Bombs fell in an area adjacent to the guard house at the gates of Omiya palace, residence of the Empress Dowager Sadako and the Buerau of the Imperial Stables, the Japanese said. Premier Kuniaikl Kolso made a second call on Emperor Hirohito today on behalf of the cabinet, this time to “offer our profound apolo gies for the unforgivable negli gence” in the approach of danger to his person. Explaining the Japanese fleet’s reluctance to come out and fight, Radio Tokyo said that “the fleet has adopted the strategy of oper ating within the radius of action of land-based aircraft.” “It is technically Impracticable Sed* U, S. CARRIER Page 2 AIR SUPPORT AIDS MARINES INHARDFIGHT Toughest Battle Of Pa cific War Moves Into Second Week SASUALTlIs MOUNT U. S. PACIFIC FLEE! HEADQUARTERS, Guam Feb. 26.—P)—Capture o Iwo Jima’s second airfield, ii the center of the strategii little island, was imminent to day as three marine division! drove north with considerabli air support in an intensify push. The stlffest fight of the Pacifii war went into its second week witi the Yanks grimly holding almos half the island, 750 miles south o: Tokyo, and making inexorabli progress northward. The devildogs, already on th< main airfield in the southern par of Iwo, captured the east-west run way of the central Iwo fighter fleU (Motoyama No. 2) late yesterda; and enveloped two thirds of thi north-south runway after a full day of heavy fighting. Th$ir assault followed a preli minary bombardment by artiller; and warship batteries. Carrie planes SiW Slafftmis based Liber ator heavy 'bombers gave clos support to the ground forces. Adm. Chester W. Nlmitz an nounced the push today in a com munique which made no furthe mention of the second heavy strlk by Fifth fleet carrier planes agalns the Tokyo area this month. Th fleet could still be in the area. 2,827 JAP DEAD The count of Japanese dead oi Iwo reached 2,827 by noon yester day. This tabulation showed onl; 28 more than the 2,799 total re ported the day before. The enem; See AIR SUPPORT Page 2 CONTESTS FOR HIGH STUDENTS Four contests for high schoo students, Schoolmasters, Clyde B Hoey, American Legion auxiliar; essay and the American Legioi oratorical, will be held in Cleve land county during March am April It was announced this morn ing by Horace Gflfeg, superintend ent of schools. In the Schoolmasters contes the recitations will be of a seriou Spe. Each speech will be limitei 12 minutes. Preliminaries wil take place on Apr!} 7 and the fina program will be In the high schoc auditorium on April 13 The annual Hoey contest will b held In the high school auditor ium on April 6. The prelimlnarie will be held on March 31. Th« maximum length of each declama tlon Is 10 mlnutesl All students of junior and sen lor high school age are eligible t compete for departmental prise and the national award in the Am ericanism essay contests, sponsor ed by the American Legion aux lliary. The essay is limited to 30 words. The subject of essays wl be “Thomas Jefferson: His Con tribution to American Democracy. A county contest of oratories speeches will be held at the Am erlcan Legion building on Marc] 15. A gold medal will be awarde the winner and to the winner ii each high school $5,jn war saving stamps will be awarded. ‘Angels’ Of Bataan Return To America; 14 Utter Cases By NORMAN BELL SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., Feb. 26 —(#)—Back in their homeland af ter three years of war and cap tivity, 66 "angels” of Bataan and Corregldor rested at the Army’s Letterman General Hospital here today. Most of the valiant arfay nurses and technicians and the one Red Cross worker, who arrived Satur day by air transport command planes from the Philippines, hope to visit their homes as soon as possible. The majority, while under normal weight, appeared to be in fairly good health. Only 14 were classed as litter eases, including Veteran Senior Chief Nurse Map..Maude Da vidson, 59. The joy of being back in Amer ica was matched by the eagemes of the repatriated nurses to catcl up on things they have missed. Most of them had new wris watches, to replace the ones takei from them by the Japanese whei they were captured on Corregido See ‘ANGELS’ Pag* i % 3,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Berlin In Heaviest Raid Of War By HENRY B. JAMESON LONDON, Feb. 26. —(/P)— In the biggest air. attack ever made on Berlin, more than 1,200 American heavy bombers dropped 3,000 tons of explosives and fire bombs into the heart of the city during the noon , hour today. More than 500,000 small incendiary bombs were showered upon the ’ refugee-crowded capital, with three railway stations—Schlesischer, Alex ’ j anderplatz and Berlin north—as the main targets. All three are within l two miles of the air ministry building in the middle of the city. , The bombers were guarded over the target by 700 long-range Mus tangs and Thunderbolts. OVERCAST ! [ The first announcement by U. S. Strategic Air Force headquarters said the attack was directed against railway targets and most of the bombs were dropped through clouds. The bomber fleet exceeded by approximately 200 planes the size of the assault on Berlin Feb. 3. Even though battered by scores of previous air attacks, Berlin still is an important railway hub, and practically all supplies and reinforce See 3,000 Page 2 Reds Make Gains In : Drive Toward Baltic 1 Rokossovsky's Men Now 51 Miles From $«a; Two Otfilr Armies Reody For BTriVe On Berlin LONDON, Feb. 26.—(JP)—Marshal Constantin Rokos ; sovsky’s second white Russian army, scoring a deep new ; penetration in the drive toward the Baltic, has reached the i area of Hammerstein, 51 miles from the sea, a German mili ‘ tary spokesman said today. The armored thrust threatened to cut in two a 225 mile ( long coastal corridor the Germans hold from bdow Stettin • to Elbing, in east Prussia. Hammerstein is 11 miles south ^ r>n of /vf XTAiiof + ... .—.... ■ ... ■ ’ At the western end of the corri dor, the Russians also forced the Germans to retreat northward from captured Arnswalde to a line along the Ihna river, the Berlin spokesman said in a broadcast. The Ihna runs through Starogard and Reetz, 19 to 40 miles east of Stettin. Neustettin, important com munications center in northeastern Pomerania, as about 90 miles east and slightly north of Stettin. I The reaching of the Hammer . stein area by the Russians would r represent a 10-mile gain from i Bruenfeld, whose capture the Rus . sians announced last night. The 1 stronghold of Preussich-Friedland . also fell in the new Soviet drive, . Moscow said. t By EDDY GILMORE s MOSCOW, Feb. 26. —<£*)— Two l great Russian armies maneuvered ■ today for the approaching drive . on Berlin, while other Soviet forces . made important gains on either 1 flank—towards the Baltic through Pomerania, and in besieged Bres 5 lau in Silesia. All signs Indicated the coming 5 offensive against the German capital will be stronger than any ' let loosed by the Russians in the central sector, and one ■ which may reach the gates of > the city. s Still there was no immediate in ! See REDS Page 2 ! M’NEELY IS i IMPROVED i J. C. McNeeley, prominent Shel 3 by merchant, who was seriously injured Saturday afternoon wi(jh ■ self inflicted bullet wounds, passed a satisfactory night at the Shelby hospital, it was learned this morn ing and his condition was said to be improved. He is still regarded as being in a serious condition. The left lung was punctured by one of the bullets but there was no internal hemorrhage. Mr. McNeeley fired two bullets into his chest at his home on South LaFayette street early Sat urday afternoon. He had gone • home with members of his family s for lunch but said that he did not i feel like eating. He went into his bedroom and within a few minutes t members of his family heard the x gun fire. He was removed imme ! diately to the Shelby hospital, r Despondency over ill health is believed to have been the cause lor the act Subsidized Food Program Is U. S. Postwar Plan By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—(/P)—A government-subsidized food pro gram designed to assure the na tion’s low-income families an ade quate diet may be advanced as a part of the administration’s post war economic plans. The outline of such a program has been drawn by agriculture de partment economists and submit ted to high administration leaders. Proponents say it would cost in excess of $1,000,000,000 a year un der conditions similar to those pre vailing in 1942. Funds required would increase with a lower level of jobs and income and would drop as prosperity increased. The program bears some resemblance to the food stamp plan in effect between 1939 and 1943. It would, however, seek to aid all low-income fa milies, whereas the stamp plan was employed as an emergen cy measure for helping only persons on relief and for dis posing of farm surpluses. The suggested new program would supplement the purchasing power of families financially un able to spend a specified amount See SUBSIDIZED Page 2 Newsboy Reports Man Interested In Bathtub Murders NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26. — (IP)— A newsboy’s story of a man ap proaching him and wanting “to read about the latest developments in the bathtub murder cases” sent police on a search for Joseph Med ley, 43, escaped Michigan convict wanted for questioning in the strange case of the bathtub deaths. Detective Chief John Grosch, quoted the newsboy, whom he did not name, as saying a man resem bling Medley offered him a quarter for a paper but that he didn’t sell him one because he had only enough for his regular customers. The newsboy said the man ap proached him Saturday in West wego, just across the Mississippi from New Orleans. m w t . » WAR CASUALTY—Sgt. Johr Watts, husband of the former Miss Corinne Queen, who was previous ly reported missing in action ir Luxembourg on January 23 is nov reported killed as of the same date according to a telegram receivec by his wife from the war depart ment. Sgt. Watts entered the army ir January, 1944 and sailed for ar overseas station in July. Mrs. Wattf and their son are making theii home at 902 South Morgan St. HOUSING NEEDS HERE STUDIED National Housing Agency Representative In City Today Clarence N. Walker, special as sistant to the regional representa tive of the National Housing Agency, Atlanta, is in Shelby con ferring with Chamber of Com merce, city officials and industria plant executives about housing needs which may be Impeding th< war effort sufficiently to warran granting of priorities for imme diate additional residential con struction here. Should Mr. Walker find suffi cieni* jusuncauon ior sucn ouna ing to relieve housing congestior he might recommend that somi houses be authorized under H-2 that recommendation would ther be weighted by the War Produo tion Board and War Manpowe: Commission with relation to simi lar needs in other communitie: and priorities would be grantee with relation to the support thu: to be given the war effort. PRIORITIES Already some construction prior ities have been granted here un der H-3 which covers special hard ship cases and there have beet some GI houses approved for con struction, but not until his surve; is completed will it be clear whe ther H-2 application will be madi here. Mr. Walker conferred with J Dale Stentz, secretary of thi Chamber of Commerce tonight ti discuss the situation. He is ii touch with the housing situatioi generally and with relation ti plants which are having difficult: in some instances of maintainini production schedules because o inadequate housing to accommodate available help. Lloyd George's Condition Unchanged LONDON, Peb. 26. — W>— A bul letin from the North Wales horn of David Lloyd George this morn ing said the former prime ministe had passed a comfortable night am that his physical condition wa about the same. He was describei yesterday as “very weak.” I American Ninth And First Armies Within 13 Miles Of Cologne PARIS, Feb. 26.—(/P)—. miles across the Rhine vallej within 13 miles of Cologne ai Ruhr arsenal and its border Sweeping up 25 or more First Armies closed within t last water barrier before the Cologne—and moved within dorf, administrative center c Cologne’s spires were in The assault front broad strengthened continuously fc j tanks, self-propelled guns an Some 60 miles below the Cologn plain battle, the American Thin army in a swift seven mile sprin reached the Nims river near Bit burg and outflanked the ancien fortress city of Trier. The gaii carried fives miles into the Sieg fried line past the Saar rive town of Saarburg. The Canadiai First army applied heavier pres sure on the Ruhr from the north The Ninth army in advances o three to five miles threw a tigh cordon on three sides of the brist ling communications center o Erkelenz. Ac^yance Ninth army element approached Kaulhausen, six nfiile ' from Muenchen Gladbach and tei miles northeast of their startin point at Linnich. Kaulhausen i east of Erkelenz and within eas; artillery range of that section o the Ruhr industrial district whicl slopes over west of the Rhine AA nonchnn nlorlhoAh ic Iho fire Ruhr city in the American path. RAPID ADVANCE East of Juelich, Ninth arm: . troops reached Titz. Elsewhere, th American Infantrymen were ad vancing as rapidly as they coul I walk, against only sporadic resis ; tance. The Germans, however, wer ’ spotted rushing troops toward im minently imperiled Cologne, Ger many's fifth largest city, whic: ■ lies on the west bank of til Rhine. First Army troops of Lt. Ger 1 Courtney H. Hodges surged closes to Cologne, a city of 768,000 whic! 1 is described officially as the mos devastated city in all the Rhine land. The nearest approach was be yond the villages of Morchenict Golzheim, Girblerath and Rommel 1 sheim, all captured in night at tacks. First Army troops fought in to Frauwullusheim and be yon ' Drove. The Americans were seven mile ' past Dueren, which was cleare 1 out yesterday, and swiftly ap ■ proaching the Erft river. Tanks streamed across the Roe ■ bridges to power the attacks of th ! American Ninth and First armie, which the Germans said were us • ing 40 divisions or up to 600,0C 1 men. 1 The great Ruhr and Rhinelan i city of Duesseldorf, with a popu i f See AMERICAN Page Z i WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Chamber of Com merce directors meet at Hotel Charles. 7:00 p.m—Dutch oyster sup per for men’s Bible class of > Presbyterian church. 1 TUESDAY 1 7:00 p.m—Lions club meets * at Hotel Charles, i 7:30 p.m. — C.A.P. members meet at armory. BattL Of Manila Officially Over, Fighting East Of City i>y i ni,u HAmrsun MANILA, Feb. 86—</P)—Officially the battle is over, but Manila rum bled today as American artillery blasted Japanese who used a sur render period to improve their positions in the two buildings they still hold. And at the entrance of Man ila Bay, Corregidor fortress was shaken anew by underground explosions touched off by ene my marines committing mass suicide. Last night loud speakers blared a final warning from Maj. Gen. i KODert s>. ise'.gnuer to Japanese 1 Manila's agricultural and financ buildings to "surrender, commi suicide or be killed.” The Japanese answered wit sniper fire in the direction of th loud speakers. When the warnin voice gave the enemy thirty min utes to evacuate, 1st Lt. Richar K. Bishop of East Brady, Pa., sai< some Japanese dashed from tb building and dove into defend positions at its base, using tl: immunity period to improve the: See BATTLE Page 8 1 ?wo American armies sped five ■ today in tanks and on foot to id within six miles of the great city of Munechen Gladbach. towns, the American Ninth and hree miles of the Erft river— sprawling Rhine metropolis of 19 miles southwest of Duessel f the Ruhr, sight. ened to 40 miles and was y the infusion of streams of d fresh manpower. ASSEMBLY IN FINAL STAGES : I ' Revenue, Liquor, Pay For Legislators To Be Considered [ RALEIGH, Feb. 25. —f/P)— Reve nue, liquor, a proposed four year 5 medical course at the University of ® North Carolina, and increased pay ? for legislators will be paramount s among the many concerns of the ' legislature this week as it enters * 1 the final stages of the session. 1 The revenue bill, estimated to i yield about $130,000,000 for the general fund, should reach the house floor on first reading tomor ' row. It must pass three separate ' readings, on separate days, in both j the house and senate. A bill laying the groundwork for ; a four-year medical course at the ‘ university, a related hospital, and * extended aid to local medical faci 3 lities, may be introduced tonight. It has been one of the main items ■ of cloakroom discussion this ses t sion. l REFERENDUM I Proponents of a bill to call for a statewide referendum on liquor six . months after the war appeared last week before the senate finance committee. Opponents will be heard " Tuesday. On that day, too, a ten tative proposal to provide moi« ' equitable taxation of insurance II companies will be discussed. T onrlclo tore orn noiH tAAA a * session and their officers $700. It * is proposed that a constitutional ‘ amendment be authorized to raise the members’ salaries to $900 and r that of the speaker to $1,500. Spe e cial sessions now pay members $8 i, a day and officers $10 a day for 20 - days; the proposal would pay $15 a 0 day to members and $20 to officers. The Lieutenant governor, under 1 authority of a 1944 amendment, now . draws $2,700 the year the legislature meets and $2,000 the year it does not. Mt. Sinai Doubles \ Red Cross Giving Mt. Sinai church more than dou j bled its Red Cross contribution of 1944 at Sunday’s appeal and W. i M. Putnam, chairman, in his re NEW HOPE GIVES S757 A contribution of $757.25 by the congregation of New Hope church to the Red Cross War Fund was reported this after noon to Horace Easom, chair man of the rural church divi sion, by B. Austell, of Earl, chairman for New Hope church. 1 e * $ e S i 1, e e ] r port to Chairman Horace Easom today said the collection is not yet completed. Last year the Mt. Sinai congre gation contributed $65 but yester day’s totalled $140.57, a sum Mr. Putnam conlidently expects to be come larger when all contributions are in. Several other churches which made appeals yesterday had not filed reports at Red Cross head quarters ih the Finance building this morning pending completion of solicitation in their respective communities. Next Sunday Double Springs Baptist church will make its Red Cross appeal with a special speaker arranged for the occasion.
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