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WEATHER Mostly cloudy and mild today, to night and Saturday, slightly high er temperatures tonight. Scattered showers in mountains tonight and over west-north portions Saturday. Glu Hhelhy Baily star CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “Dancing In Manhattan” NEWS — MARCH OF TIME CARTOON VOL. XLIII—53 ASSOCIATED rKESS JNEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c Giant Sky Fleets Give Support To Allied Units Driving Toward Rhine LONDON, March 2.—(JP)—Fleets of 2,000 heavy bomb ers backed Allied armies today, with a force of 750 to 1,000 RAF bombers bombarding Cologne, immediately ahead of the U. S. First Army. Two hours later more than 1,200 Flying Fortresses and Liberators opened their bomb doors over half a dozen key rail and oil targets in southeastern Germany. rvmci ik. hii me fcieitt ni uinua streamed across the Reich in a 200-mile train. It first made a feint at Berlin, then broke Into sections and winged southward. Berliners stayed in their shelters more than an hour. The first big air battles in nearly two months were fought over the heart of Germany today during Aliled bomber assaults on the Reich. At least 55 enemy planes were shot down. Two strong forces attacked the huge freight yards at Dres den, just ahead of the Red army, and Chemnitz, also a vi tal traffic artery to the eastern front. Others hit the large KruppTank factory at Madgeburg, Important synthetic oil works at Madgeburg and Bohlen and an oil refinery at Rositz south of Leipzig. Hundreds of fighters and light bombers mauled German battle lines in relays while the heavy bombers were carrying out their 19th straight day of operations. Rhine crossings were under :easeless patrol and 1,700 fighters escorted the RAP and American heavy bombers on their missions. With artillery already hammer ing Cologne, the great armada of RAF Lancasters and Hallfaxes roared in to give the historic old Rhine city one of the worst aerial beatings of the war. The object was to annhilate German troops and destroy armor ed units in the city, block roads end disrupt enemy communica tions. A huge American bomber sky train streamed over Northern Germany toward Berlin as the sustained Allied air offensive against the Reich went into its 18th straight day. £ warms of Spitfires and Mus tangs escorted the British bomb ers which dropped their first bombs on Cologne about 10 a.m. The at tacking forces included Canadian Lancasters and Hallfaxes. See GIANT Page 2 Enemy Pushed Into Northern Tip Of Iwo Japanese Still Putting Up Desperate Fight; FDR Says Situation Well In Hand U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Mar. 2.—(fP)—Tank-led U. S. Marines hammered ahead on smok ing little Iwo Jima today, compressing the island’s desperate Japanese garrison into the rugged northern tip for a final TWO HED ON ROBBERY COUNT Buran Short And W. L. Wood Bound Over Under $750 Bond Each Buren Short and W. L. Wood were each bound over to Superior court under $750 bond on a charge of highway robbery In connection with an alleged assault and hold up of Roy Crowder who contends that he was robbed of $70. Officers Charlie McAlister and T. H. Upton testified about the arrest of Wood and Short In front of a local cafe. Short told them, they testified, that he did strike Crowder over the head but that he did not rob him. A total of $70 with bloodstained edges was removed from Wood’s pocket, Upton testified, after Wood had denied having any money on him. Other witnesses testified that they had seen Short, Wood and Crowder together on the evening he says that he was robbed. IN HOSPITAL Crowder was removed to the Shelby hospital with severe lacer ations on his head and had not recovered sufficiently this morning to testify in court. Short and Wood will be tried at the term of Su perior court which begins here March 26. Ted Hord, who operates a place on the Kings Mountain-York road, and J. Wayne Hord, who operates a place on the Kings Mountaln Orover road, were each fined $50 for not having a county beer and wine license. Robert Eskridge, whose automo bile struck Palmer Olenn’s automo bile being used to carry basketball players from Fallston to Shelby last Friday night was fined $25 and costs for hit and run driving. H. Carorll was assessed with the costs for an assault on a minor. He is charged with striking a sev en-year-old child who was throw ing rocks at his house. 3UU1U* The fighting was fierce and Thursday field dispatches report ed the Japanese, pushed into a shrinking Third of the island, were regrouping to exact a bloody toll or every American advance. Confidence in the eventual outcome of Uie bitter battle was voiced in the balls of Con gress at Washington where President Roosevelt said “the situation Is well in hand," on * the island 750 miles from Tok yo. While gains Thursday were lim ited against stiff opposition on Iwo's eastern shore, two divisions on the west and center struck a head, under air cover and preced ed by a shattering artillery and naval barrage. Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine’s Third division occupied the west ern end of uncompleted Motoyama airfield No. 3. The Devlldogs al ready have seized Iwo’s two other completed airstrips. See ENEMY Page 2 Condition Mr. Schonck Continues Unchanged The condition of John F. Schenck, who has been criti cally ill at his Lawndale home following a recent paralytic stroke, continues unchanged to day. DANZIG IS CUT OFF BY 22-MILE SOVIET PUSH Konev's Army Reported Launching New Large Scale Attack GERMANS~DESERTING LONDON, March 2.—(/P)— Marshal Konstantin Rokos sovsky’s second White Rus sian army has reached the Stettin-Danzig highway be tween Koeslin and Schlawe in Pomerania and only seven miles from the Baltic coast the German high command announced today. The 22-mile advance from Bub litz, for all practical purposes, cut Danzig off from contact with Ger many and isolated a 155-mile coas tal belt of eastern Pomerania and northwestern Poland fronting on the Baltic and the Gulf of Danzig. About 90 miles southeast of this penetration, the Germans said, the Russians also broke into the main German lines north of Annswalde after crossing the Ihna river. The Ihna forms one of the chief defenses of the fortress of Star gard. 19 miles east of Stettin. Herif the Kndriam were abbot 55 miles from the Baltic and were threatening to drive on to the Stettiner Haff, a 25 mile wide coastal lagoon north of Stettin through which the Oder river flews to the sea. Whether they actually intended to outflank Stettin from the north remained to be seen, however. The German radio said Marshal Ivan Konev launched a large-scale offensive with his first Ukrain ian Army at a point about 105 miles northeast of Prague, Czecho slovakia. KONEV ATTACKING A German radio commentator said Konev was attacking east of Schweidnitz, about 30 miles south west of Breslau and 15 miles from Bee DANZIG Page t JONES IS NOT HEAD OFFHA Gov* Up Pott When H* Was Ousted As Secre tary Of Commerce WASHINGTON, March 2.—(/P)— President Roosevelt said today that Jesse H. Jones no longer is federal loan administrator. He ceased to hea<J the big lend ing agencies, the president said, when he was ousted as secretary of commerce. Jones announced at the time he was removed that he was turning over the secretaryship to Wayne C. Taylor, undersecretary. Since, however, he has been going to his office regularly and transacting the loan administrator activities. Asked about Jones' status at his news conference today, the presi dent said the Texan was head of the loan agencies as secretary of commerce. He replied with a flat no to a question whether Jones re mains as loan administrator un til a successor is appointed. "Does he know that?” a report er asked. The president replied with a smile that he should have asked that at Yalta. Republicans See ‘No News’ In FDR’s Yalta Report Marcn 2—(JP)— Republican criticism of President Roosevelt’s Yalta report muffled somewhat today Democratic pre iictions the senate is ready to go ill-out on international peace plans. While leading Republicans com plained that Mr. Roosevelt gave them “no news” on Big Three agreements at a joint session of Songress yesterday, Democrats generally credited him with hav ing scored heavily in his plea for non-partisan consideration of world security. proposals. Entering dramatically In a wheel chair, Mr. Roosevelt Shifted easily to a red plush arm chair to tell legislators—and fiarticularly sena tors who sat nearest him — that Congress must share *he responsi bility If there Is to be a peace built on the principles of the At lantic Charter. His head bobbing as he glanced alternatively at his manuscript and lifted his bronzed face to sweep the members banked row on row in the crowded chamber, the chief See REPUBLICANS Pa*e 3 U. S. MARINES AND JAPS LIE TOGETHER IN DEATH—Within a few yards of each other, two dead U. S. Marines (left), covered with their ponchos, and four dead Japanese soldiers lie amidst the debris of battle on Iwo Jima island. Fierce fighting has raged on the tiny spot of land, just 750 miles from Tokyo, since the Marines landed Feb. 19. Yanks’ Seizure Of Palawan Threat To Japs’ Sea Lanes To East Indies SUPERFORTS HIT SINGAPORE WASHINGTON, Mar. 2—(jP>— Superfortresses returned to Singapore today to bomb ma jor industrial installations and the enemy-held naval base. For the third time since Feb. 1 B-29s of Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey’s 20th bomber command | hit this strategically important target at the crossroads of the Japanese empire. The daylight mission was an nounced at 20th Air Force headquarters. Further details will be made known when op erational reports are received. Some 150 Superforts roared across the Bay of Bengal from India bases last Saturday to plummet demolition and fire bombs on the Singapore dock area. Smoke coiled up 20,000 feet from the Japanese-held harbor facilities as the Amer ican sky giants drew away. On February 1 B-29s hit and sank a floating drydock there capable of handling the world’s largest ships. Singapore harbor is the main clearing center for enemy war supplies and equipment be tween the Japanese homeland and its troops in occupied ter ritories. MARTIN HARMON BUYS HERALD AT KINGS MOUNTAIN KINGS MOUNTAIN —Haywood E. Lynch, for the past tdn years publisher of the Kings Mountain Herald, has sold his paper to Mar tin L. Harmon, native of this city but lately at Albemarle where he served as secretary of the Mer chants association and Chamber of Commerce, who will take over at once operation of the property. In announcing the sale to Mr. Harmon it was made clear by Mr. Lynch that should Mr. Harmon la ter dispose of the property he will have first right to be the purchas er. "I feel sure that the paper is in good hands, because I would not have sold the Herald had I thought otherwise,” said Mr. Lynch in a formal statement published in this week’s final issue under his owner ship. Mr. Harmon, a native of Kings Mountain, is a veteran of World War II, having served overseas as .ajy-gnsi^L>^in the naval reserve. MANILA, March 2.—(/P)—Veteran 41st Division lanks have seized control of the westernmost Philippine island of Palawan in a move to sever Japan’s tenuous shipping lanes to her rich, stolen East Indies. Girl Refuses To Testify Against Lt. Sam C. Epes COLUMBIA, S. C., March 2—(#) —A defense lawyer charged today that officials were “harassing” a young woman war plant worker of Lake Charles, La., “to make a statement against” Lt. S. C. Epes, charged with slaying his pretty 26 year-old wife, Mary Lee Epes. The attorney, State Senator Ed gar A. Brown, made the statement after Sheriff T. Alex Heise of Col umbia, now in Lake Charles, an nounced that the unnamed 20-year old Lake Charles girl had declin ed to testify as a state witness in the forthcoming trial of Lt. Epes here but instead would "do ev erything in my power to aid him.” Brown reported the girl in Lake Charles telephoned Epes’ parents that “officials” were harassing her with threats of making her name public unless she agreed to make a statement against the young lieutenant. Sheriff Henry A. Reid at Lake Charles had previously referred to South Carolina authorities a batch of letters received from the girl by Epes in which he expressed ad miration for her. GIRL’S TESTIMONY “If I see the girl and she knows anything that will lend light up See GIRL Page 2 ONE DIES AND 6 OTHERS HURT IN RAIL ACCIDENT Seven persons were injured, one fatally, when a Seaboard work en gine ran through an open switch into some camp cars on the C. C. and O. yard at Bostic Wednesday night at 9:20 o’clock. Funeral for A. D. Thomas, 50, of Lunday, was being held in Mit chell today. He died yesterday morning at 6 o’clock from injuries received in this accident after be ing treated at the Rutherfordton hospital. D. B. Harrill, of Green Mountain, who was the person next most seriously injured was dis charged from the hospital yester day. Five others were given first aid treatment at the Ri therfordton hospital on Wednesday night. nouncing the invasion today, said the Americans landed virtually un opposed Wednesday on the fifth largest island of the Philippines, capturing Puerto Princesa, the capital and principal harbor, and two nearby airfields midway along the 275-mile east coast. Maj. Oen. Jens A. Doe’s Infan trymen moved ashore after cruiser and destroyer bombardment and a two-day ■aerial pounding. The 8:30 a.m. landing was along beaches opening through mangrove swamps. Extremely light resistance devel oped inland. American losses were officially termed “very light.” The town of Puerto Princesa was blasted and deserted as the Yanks moved in. The harbor was in good condition, however, and landing craft soon were busy unloading their cargoes at the wharves. The airdromes, cratered by American bombs were being put into shape. SOUTHWARD Invasion of Palawan, a narrow island pointing like a finger from the Philippines toward Borneo, was the first important southward turn of the American forces. MacArthur has been driving steadily north See YANKS’ Page 2 Postal Receipts Up 25 Per Cent A 25 percent increase in February postal receipts is shown in the monthly report of Postmaster Roger M. Laughridge who shows a total of $10,579.61 vdnch compares with $8,465.97 tor the same month a year ago. Lewis Will Be Mighty Czar If His Demands Are Met Bituminous coal operators said to day John L. Lewis’ new contract de mands would make him a labor czar "unparalleled in American history” in command of a $55,000,000 poli tical fund. The president of the United Mine Workers, with typical oratory, stat ed his 18 demands to the operators yesterday at the opening of negoti ations toward a new contract. The present agreement expires March 31. Chief among them was a royalty pay ent plan that caught the operators flat-footed. be paid a tes-cent royalty on every ton of coal mined as a "ready-to serve” compensation for being “ready to serve.” The money, he said, would be used for medical and surgical service, insurance and rehabilitation of union members. NOT INFLATIONARY Since this money could not be used by the miners to buy "goods and chattels" it would not, Lewis contended, be inflationary. There fore it would not conflict with the little steel wage formula. See LEWIS Fa*e 3 Western Edge Of Ruhr Is Overrun; Neuss, Suburb Of Duesseldorf, Captured PARIS, March 2.—(/P)—The swift and powerful Ameri can Ninth Army fought to the Rhine today and captured Neuss, suburb of Duesseldorf, in new spectacular 15-mile advances overrunning the western edge of the Ruhr. Several miles to the north, other Ninth Army troops plunged into the Ruhr steel and rail center of Krefeld (170,000). The great Rhine port of Duisburg was only seven miles ahead. The American Third Army captured Trier, oldest city in Germany and key to the whole Moselle valley leading to Co blenz and the middle Rhine. All organized resistance in the srongly fortified center of 88,000 ceased before noon. The 83rd Infantry Division fought swiftly through the bomb blasted city of Neuss, which lies on the west bank of the river opposite Duesseldorf, administrative center of the Ruhr. Neuss, (45,000) and other towns on the west bank of the river surrendered Docily. Many American shells poured into Duesseldorf, thick with chimney of blast furnaces, oil plants, munition works and coking ovens. ine 150,000 attacking men of the Ninth Army were in a swift and fruitful pursuit of Field Mar shal von Rundstedt’s fleeing and shattered forces. Tanks and infantry of Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson’s shock force spurred miles to the north and sei zed the Dutch bastion and rail center of Venlo and moved within 16 miles of the Canadian First Army, threatening to trap thous ands of Germany’s finest para chute and tank troops. Town after town in the jam packed western edge of the Ruhr fell; the iron and rail center of Krefeld (pop: 170,000) was only two and a half miles away. The wide and deep Rhine was reached by the 83rd divis ion at a point not immediately specified in the temporary lift ing of a news blackout which has shrouded the Ninth Army’s triumphs for three days. Simpson's headquarters call ed the German 15th Army re treat a ’’rout.” On the Ninth Army’s south flank, the American First Army fought with great and growing power less than five miles from Cologne, rub bled anew after dawn by a thous- | and British heavy bombers. Far ther south, the Third Army fought in the venerable streets of Trier. NEW DIVISIONS Numerous new divisions were identified in the Ninth Army as sault lines, including the “hell of wheels” Second armored. Two other tank divisions were on the loose. Prisoners clogged cages the Ninth Army total yesterday rose 3,052 to 15,576 for the campaign which started west of the Roer ri ver Feb. 23. The wide and sweeping gains, most spectacular since the Brit tany breakthrough last summer which precipitated the capture of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, won control of the whole width of the plain between the Rhine and the Maas. In this plain is the sec See WESTERN Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 6:00 p. m.—Semi-finals in county-wide basketball tour nament begin at armory, con tinue through evening. 7:30 p.m.—Called communica tion of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. for work in third degree. REVENUE BILL GOES BACK ON FIRST READING House Adopts Amend ment Imposing Addition al Tax On Wines RALEIGH, March 2.-—UP—The $129,000,000 revenue bill went back on first reading today after the house adopted an amendment by Stone of Rockingham imposing an additional tax of $1 a gallon on all wines. Tax experts estimated it would raise an additional $2,000,000 a year. The present 20-cent tax raises about 200,000 a year. Reps. Pritchett of Caldwell and Esards of Swain assisted Stone in fighting for the tax. Opposing it were Reps. Kerr of Warren, fi nance chairman, Caveness of Guil ford and zzell of Rowan. The op ponents said it would drive some of the, small wine companies out of business. The action came just a few min utes after Speaker Oscar Richhard son ruled that an amendment adopted yesterday was a material change, and held that the bill had to go back to second reading. See REVENUE Page 2 DEATHOUIMS MRS. KEETER Native Of County, Mar ried 62 Years Ago, Large Family Mrs. Leonora Jane Harry Keeter, wife of D. J. Keeter. died this morning at 8:50 o'clock at her home in Grover after a brief ill ness. Funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Pres byterian church at Grover with in terment taking place in the ceme tery there. Mrs. Keeter was born in Cleve land county and had spent her en tire life in the county. She had been married 62 years last Novem ber. She was a devoted member of the First Baptist church of Gro ver. and had always been active in the support of the civic and relig ious enterprises of her community. She was the oldest member in point of service of her church at the time of her death. She is survived by her husband; four daughters, Mrs. Joe Wharton, of Greenwood. S. C.; Mrs. Ethel K. Jenkins, of York, S. C.: Mrs. Leonora K. Hamilton, of Clayton; Mrs. Charles Pearce, of Augusta, j Ga.; two sons, Byron Keeter. of Kings Mountain, and Harry Keet ; er, of Grover. Eleven grandchil i dren and three great grandchil j dren.
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