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WEATHER Cloudy and mild, scattered show ers west and north portions today. Showers, cooler tonight. Sunday cloudy and moderately cool witfc showers over south portion. Tsheshelby Baily Him« CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “Dancing In Manhattan” NEWS — MARCH OF TIM1 CARTOON VOL. XLII1-54 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, MAR. 3, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c Reds Isolate Germans In Eastern Pomerania U. S. Carrier Planes Pound Ryukyu Isles, Jap Craft Destroyed UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, March 3.—(fl5)—Without enemy air opposition, carrier aircraft of the U. S. Pacific fleet attacked the Ryukyu is lands, southwest of Japan March 1, striking at military, naval and air installations and shipping. roriy-one enemy aircrau. were destroyed, 50 more destroyed or damaged, a destroyer, six small cargo ships, 2 medium cargo ships, and tour other small vessels were sunk. Probably sunk were one me dium cargo ship, six small coastal cargo ships and six luggers. Twenty-nine other vessels were damaged. The Japanese radio had previ ously announced the attack, report ing that 600 aircraft had partici pated. Airfield installations, barracks, administration buildings, mills, lum ber yards, warehouses and radio and radar Installations were also reported as destroyed or damaged In the sweep which included six islands. V. 8. LOSSES American losses were five pilots, three alrcrewmen and 13 aircraft. A breakdown of enemy losses ahowed: Pour aircraft shot out of the air; 37 destroyed on the ground. About 50 aircraft destroyed or damaged on the ground. Sunk—One destroyer, one motor torpedo boat, six small cargo ships, two medium cargo ships, one ocean going tug and two luggers. PROBABLES Probably sunk—One medium car go ship, six small coastal cargo ships and six luggers. Damaged — Pour destroyer es corts or patrol craft, one medium I transport, four medium cargo ships, nine small coastal cargo ships, one small cargo ship and 10 luggers. In addition several small craft were sunk or damaged. Fleet units bombarded Okinawa Aelto Jima the night following the aerial attack, starting large fires in the target area. Islands attacked were Amaml, Mimal, Kume, Jlma, Okinawa Jlma, Tokuno Jlma and Oklno Yerabu. J. Lowery Austell Named To National Group s Committee J. L. Austell, assistant secretary of the Shelby Building and Loan Association, received word today of his appointment to the United States Savings and Loan League's 1945 committee on Savings Asso ciation Management. W. M. Brock, Dayton, Ohio, president of the League, who made the announce ment, said that this Is the second year the 53-year-old nationwide or ganization of the business has had a committee on this subject. Its principal concern will be the Im provement of the efficiency of op eration within the offices of the savings and loan Institutions and the gearing of their operations to special demands of 1945 condi tions. The committee work In the League this year will be especially emphasized because of the cancel lation of the major larger meetings of the business In compliance with the ODT request. All of the reg ular spring meetings of the League have been called off in view of the transportation and crowded hotel situation. Lewis Challenges Charges Made Against His Demands w Aamnu i , jyiarcn 3—(/r)— John L. Lewis challenged today the claims of bituminous operations that his contract demands would cost the industry $400,000 a year. Lewis Indicated he will try to upset the figures advanced yester day by Charles O’Neill, head of the Central Pennsylvania soft coal producers’ group. The oper ators are negotiating a new con tract with Lewis’s United Mine Workers. O’Neill said the 18 demands pre sented by Lewis would cost more than 85 cents a ton, and asserted me proposal* are "as run of fring es as a Hawaiian dancer’s skirt.” SECONDARY “Fringe” demands are those re garded by the War Labor board as secondary or auxiliary, as con tracted to general wage increases directly challenging the little steel wage formula. One operator said Lewis's de mands are so extensive that “it looks as though Mr. Lewis is throwing the book and laughing at the War Labor board." See LEWIS Page a Inter-American Conference Acts On Guarantees MEXICO CITY, March 3—(/P>— The Inter-American conference acted today to guarantee the ter ritorial integrity and independence of each American republic with the combined forces of the hemis phere. The act of Chapultepec, modi fied by the United States from the original declaration offered by Colombia, Uruguay and Brazil, was presented to the commission on Inter-American affairs. Its passage seems assured in view of the backing given the doc ument by key American nations. Delegates considered it historic in two ways. The act of Chapul tepec is the most far-reaching pact' ever reached in this hemisphere to enforce peace and it sets a pre cedent far the yn^teji Ngtjpp* con ference in San Francisco or com bining security agreements boundary assurances. with STATES OBLIGATED The act obliges each American state to contribute to a Joint ac tion against any aggression in this hemisphere or invasion from be yond the seas. The main change from the orig inal declaration was to base the obligation on the United Nations’ war effort at present and to pro vide a permanent treaty later. This was done primarily to fit constitutional needs of the United States, since a permanent com mitment would require senate rat ification. The President, under the special war powers act, has the authority to direct U. S. armed might during the emergency. The declaration also states the right of American nations to set tle their own disputes without in terference from overseas, within the Dumbarton Oaks blueprint. The Dumbarton Oaks plan pro vides that sanctions can only be taken upon approval of the world security council. It is understood that the United States is contemplating a request to Britain and Russia that this See INTER-AMER. Page Z WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:30 p.m.—Finals in Cleveland county basketball tournament begin at the armory and con tinue through evening. SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—U. S. O. center opens to service folk visiting in the city. MONDAY 7:30 pjn.—State Guard drill at the armory. 7:30 p.m.—Regular meeting 7:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of American Legion post at Legion building. 7:30 p.m. — Piedmont Boy Scout court of honor meets at court house. 7:30 p.m.—City council meets at city hall. 7:45 p.m.—Meeting of board of deacons of First Baptist church at the church. MARINE FIELD GUN BLASTS JAPS ON IWO JIMA—Shortly after securing positions on Iwo Jima, U. S Marines open up with a field gun trained on Jap positions in the distance. This is the first shot from the weapon. HUMAN BOMB — Dewey Dupre (above) 20, U. S. Navy seaman from Opelousas, La., is no longer a hu man bomb. Doctors at the Naval receiving station in San Francisco, in a delicate operation, removed a fused 20mm. projectile from his body 47 days after it struck him aboard a battleship in Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. SMTOR MOSES NED TODAY First Democrat Ever Elect ed To Represent North Dakota ROCHESTER, MINN., March 3— (A*)—United States Senator John Moses (D-ND) three-time governor of North Dakota who won his na tional office by defeating Gerald P. Nye last fall, died early today. Sen. Moses had been undergoing post-operative treatment at the Mayo clinic for an abdominal ail ment when an attack of pleurisy complicated his recovery. Last night it was announced that the 59 year old senator had suf fered a setback and that his phy sician had despaired of his life. His wife and son, Lt, James Mo ses, who came here yesterday, were at his bedside. Another son, John, an army lieutenant, is re covering from a shrapnel wound received in France. A daughter, Mary Jean, is in the U. S. Nurses Cadet corps. A third son, Robert, also survives. Moses was the first Democrat ever elected to represent North Dakota in either house or congress and was one of two men to serve three terms as governor of the state. 8. C. ROCK HILL BALTIMORE, MD. —UP)— A U. S. Maritime Commission victory ship will be launched at the Beth lehem-Fairfield shipyards named after Rock Hill, S. C. The keel of the S. C. Rock Hill has already been laid. { Rugged Terrain Lies Ahead Of Marines Only 600 Yards Between Yanks And Last Jap De fense Line On Iwo U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Mar 3.—(/P)—Only 600 yards of terrain stood today between th< Third U. S. Marines and the point at which they may cu1 the last interconnecting Japanese pillbox line, along blood soaked Iwo island’s northern end. ,*■ 1 i. ...__ __1 V. U.. . •» * “Dgvu VI VVVlt, WJ anybody’s definition. It slipped ir regularly downward to a cliff which probably will serve as the last stand of the Japanese. Between the marine outpost and the cliff runs ?. system of half - underground enemy de fense works which, like others the marines have faced in the last ten days, must be taken the hard way. And the Japa nese are beginning to show signs of desperation. The third division Leathernecks lunged forward 700 yards Friday to seize a 362-foot hill in the north ern part of the island, within rifle range of the cliff, and in position to cut the boomerang-shaped Nip ponese line in two, approximately at the bend. The American advance formed a salient pointing toward the inside of the bend. The cliff , running along the northeastern shore about 500 yards in from the water line, Is one outside edge of the boom erang. IN THE OPEN Once the Japanese back up be yond the cliff they will be in the open, between the Devildogs and the sea, and they no longer will have the advantage of connecting strongpoints. The fourth marines, on the right See RUGGED Page 2 Nazi Flying Bombs Again Over England LONDON, March 3.—(/P>—For the first time in weeks the air ministry announced today that German flying bomb6 were shot down last night in the sea off the east coast of England. Recent broadcasts by Nazi Prop aganda Minister Goebbels sum moning the Germans to last ditch resistance had promised intensi fied V-bomb attacks. WITH THE LEGISLATORS: Delay On Finance Bill Postpones Adjournment KAjj.tt.ujrn, iwarcn j. —— Ending the ninth week of the 1945 general assembly, legislators went back to work in a brief Saturday session for the consideration of lo cal measures. In the meantime, lawmakers who had predicted an early adjourn ment of the assembly—some of the guesses were as early as March 10 and others March 15—had their hopes damaged somewhat when the $129,000,000 finance bill hit a snag and was sent back to first reading which is scheduled for Monday af ternoon. The parliamentary tangle occur rea wnen Rep. stone ox Rocking ham offered an amendment to th finance bill increasing the tax oi all wines $1 per gallon. SECOND READING Previously Speaker Oscar Ri chardson had ruled that othe amendments to the bill constitute material changes and put the bll which was speeding through th house, back to second reading. Th major alteration among thes amendments was relative to th exemption of insecticides from th sales tax if bought for poultry o See DELAY Page Z GEN. HARMON SAID MISSING Army Air Forces Com mander In Pacific Dis appears On Flight By REMBERT JAMES ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Pad fic Ocean Areas, March 3. —(JP)— Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, com mander of army air forces oper ating in the Pacific, is missing witl nine other officers and men in i transocean flight. Early today the army announc ed that the 57-year-old general'; plane was mysteriously missing oi a routine flight and the greates air and naval search ever launch' ed in the Pacific was underway. The brief announcement by Lt Gen. Richard C. Richardson, Jr. commander of army forces in thi Pacific ocean area, did not disclosi when or where the plane was lost When last heard from the gen eral’s big converted bomber hat ample fuel to complete its fligh and was traveling through goot weather over calm seas. NO TRACE There was no Indication wheth er the plane—presumably the fou: engined Liberator that Harmoi normally uses—was flying througl a combat zone and might havi been attacked by Japanese aircraf or whether it may have crashed be cause of operational difficulties. See GEN. HARMON Page 2 SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS NEW ORLEANS, March. 3.—(JP) The U. S. weather bureau in i Marine forecast today said “smal craft warnings are displayed fron Brownsville, Texas., to Pensacola Fla. RUSSIANS NOW WITHIN SIGHT OF BALTIC SEA Enemy's Danzig-Stettin Communications Line Cut By Soviets NAZI LINE BROKEN LONDON, March 3.—(/P)— Second White Russian army tanks have severed communi cations between Danzig and Stettin, isolating the German troops being backed against the Baltic in eastern Pomer ania, the “Palish corridor” and the Danzig territory, the Berlin radio said today. - The Russians were fighting within sight of the Baltic at three places. Moscow clothed in a security blackout the exact extent of the Soviet penetration northward in Pomerania, but AP Correspondent Eddy Gilmore said in a dispatch from the Russian capital that Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossov sky’s wedge driven between Rum melsburg and Bublltz southeast of Koeslin “has broken the German’s line as a line.” By German account, Russian ar mored spearheads cut across the Danzig - Stettin communications east of Koeslin, seven miles from the Baltic coast. Moscow has not confirmed this report nor a German statement • that the Russians were in the out ! skirts of Koeslin. HAND TO HAND By enemy accounts Russian at tempts to widen their wedge were repulsed in wild hand-to-hand fighting while Moscow dispatches said Rokossovsky, when he had driven his wedge as far as he need ed it, turned his attention to the flanks and rapidly beat back volks strum (home guard) and seasoned Nazi army units. A German communique an nouncement that Soviet units had thrust northwest of Dramburg, in ’ liirntpri thp Russians were maVinff a new smash through Pomerania toward the Baltic. Dramburg is 47 miles southwest of Koeslin. tank wedge Three Russian spearheads were jabbing for Koeslin and the port of Kolberg, 24 miles to the west. Tanks drove the wedge between Rummelsburg and Bublitz. Stormo viks and medium bombers ranged 1 ahead of these mobile units in good 1 flying weather. Long range guns hammered the ! coastal railway running westward ’ from Danzig. Southwest of the East Prussian [ capital of Koenigsberg Russian units battled furiously resisting German troops. The German high command said a Russian break through attempt was stemmed in i that area near Zinten. In Silesia Russian storm units ! fought from building to building [ against the Germans surrounded ; In Breslau. COSTLY FIGHT i ALONG SENIO Both Sides Are Suffering Heavy Losses; Battle Along Dyke [ ROME, March 3 —(/P)— Fierce ! fighting that has been costly to , both sides raged today along the east bank of the Senio river in the Eighth Army sector of the Italian . front, Allied headquarters an nounced. Dispatches said Germans had taken up positions on one side of a high concrete dyke, with Allied forces fighting from the opposite side. The German communique yes terday reported heavy fighting a Long the Senio but said Eighth ' Army attacks had been frustarted. 5 In the battle along the dyke, 1 the opposing forces at some places were only a few yards apart and engaged in hand grenade duels. German artillery, meanwhile, J unloosed a fresh assault in the 1 Mount Belvedere area west of the l Pistoia-Bologna road. I There was normal patrolling ac , tivity along most of the remain 5 der of the front. " A deserter from the German r lines said Mussolini, wearing a gray uniform without rank, had visited the front. A Bridges Across River In Duesseldorf Area Blown Up By Germans WITH THE U. S. NINTH ARMY, March 3.—(fP)— German troops blew all the bridges across the Rhine in the Duesseldorf area last night and early today as U. S. soldiers gained a foothold on the western approaches. The new Neuss bridge, built in 1929 with loans floated from the Allies, was among those blown. PARIS, March 3.—(/P)—American troops 250,000 strong, figh+ing today for control of the Rhine bridges, battered to the river on a broadening front and thrust to within five miles of closing a Canadian-American trap on parts of two German armies. Field Marshal Von Rundstedt’s divisions in the north, making up the first parachute and 15th armies, were reported in headlong retreat behind rear guard defenses. U. S. Ninth Army men reached the Rhine at new points on a five-mile sector, burst through Krefeld, and in a north ward push reached Geldern. The latter is five miles from the Canadian First Army wheeling Germans back across uie nniiie. Just to the south, U. S. First army tanks and infantry spread the battle before Cologne into a dozen more villages and slammed within easy artillery range of the great Rhine stronghold along a curving 20-mile front. Last night they were but 4 1-2 miles from Cologne at one point. Berlin declared Ninth army forces were attempting to span the Rhine, and unofficial re ports reaching London said the Doughboys already had cross ed near Neuss, suburb of shell ripped Duesseldorf. There was no confirmation of this report I - from direct field dispatches or supreme headquarters. In the middle of the western front, the American Third army driving toward Coblnez advanced up to 3 1-2 miles on a 45-mile front, seized 13 more towns and 4,600 prisoners. AT TWO POINTS The U. S. Ninth army smashed to the river at two points yester day in a 15-mile advance that toppled all the arsenal cities In the Ruhr basin west of the Rhine, routed the German 15th army, and split Nazi defenses. See BRIDGES Page * IN PHILIPPINES: Landing On Lubang . Is Fourth In Series Recent Invasions Give Americans Complete Control Of Sea Route Through Islands MANILA, March 3.—QP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur dis closed today the fourth in a series of rapid-fire invasions—a landing on Lubang island, 35 miles southwest of Manila Bay —giving his forces complete control of the shortest sea route through the heart of the Philippines to Manila. me western ena ot a 3UU-miie passage, through which Manila can be supplied and Luzon transformed into a huge military base facing Asta, was opened by veteran 24th division troops which seized Lu bang Thursday. Maj. Gen. Frederick A. Irv ing’s Yanks overwhelmed “neg ligible resistance” on the 18 by-eight mile island at the western exit of Verde Passage, the 18th Philippine island Mac Arthur has invaded. “This completes the capture of all key positions through San Bernardino Straits and Verde is land passage designed to secure the main navigational channel through the islands for shipping from the United States,” today’s communi que reported. Within a little over a week, that route was cleared by invasions of Verde island, east of Lubang, and Capul and Biri islands guarding the eastern end of the sea route in San Bemandino Strait between Luzon and Samar. RAPID MOVEMENT Lubang was the second island invasion in as many days. Yanks of Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe’s 41st division swarmed ashore on Pala wan, 250 miles southwest of Ma nila, Wednesday. Today MacAr thur said the 41st has completed occupation of Puerto Princesa har bor, midway along Palawan’s 275 mile-long east coast and occupied a third airfield. In fighting on Luzon east of Ma nila, where Japanese forces are in slow retreat into mountains of the Marakina watershed, Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge's First Cavalry See LANDING Page 2 Hundreds Of Allied Bombers Over Reich 19th Day In Row Lunuun, Marcn j—(ye-;—Aiuea divebombers pounded German troop columns seeking a haven today behind the Rhine river as hun dreds of Allied heavy bombers thundered over the Reich for the 19th straight day. The German radio reported at least three bomber formations over western and southwestern Ger many before 10 a.m. an hour later the German news agency DNB huriedly left the air after an nouncing that one formation was within 60 miles of Berlin. Last night RAF Mosquitos at tacKea Benin witn blockbusters for the 11th successive night and also bombed the railway center of Kas sel, 110 miles east of Cologne, fol lowing up yesterday’s hammering of the Reich by more than 6,000 Allied aircraft. JOINED ASSAULT RAF Liberators and Halifaxes from Italy joined in last night's asault, attacking the Portor Ves covo rail yards at Verona and leaving a number of firee in a follow-up to yesterday’s blasting See HUNDREDS Pag* S * 7TH WAR LOAN GOAL IS FIXED WASHINGTON, March 3—<AV The treasury is going after more money from individuals than ever before in the Seventh War loan drive And the sales period will be the longest yet. From May 14 to June 30 millions of individuals are asked to pur chase $7,000,000,000 in bonds. The quota for corporations is also $7, 000,000,000. In the last drive the individual quota was $5,000,000,000. The high est previous individual quota was $6,000,000,000 and the greatest sales $6,351,000,000. SERIES E QUOTA The new series E quota of $4, 000,000,000 is likewise the highest established in any drive for that security. The highest this total ever has been was $3,000,000,000 and the largest E bond sales in any drive were $3,187,000,000. Se ries E is the ordinary war bond which most peopje buy. The lowest denomination is a $25 bond which sells for $18.75. The total quota of $14,000,000. 000 is the same as that of the Sixth war loan. Supplementing the seven week drive, the treasury will undertake an "intensification of activities” in the sale of Series E bonds April 9. Millions of persons in payroll sav ings plans will be asked to enlarge their participation as a part of the Seventh War loan.
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