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WEATHER Mostly cloudy and mild today and tonight, showers on the coast to day. Tuesday, considerable cloud iness and warmer, showers ex treme west portion. Tsheslxelhy Baily Him CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 STATE THEATRE TODAY “THE CLIMAX” Starring Susanna Foster — Turhan Bey Boris Karloff VOL. XLIII—65 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—«c I Marshal Zhukov's Big Guns Begin Shelling Baltic Port Of Stettin I John F. Schenck, Sr., Industrial Pioneer, Dies At Lawndale Funeral From Residence Tuesday 11 A. M.; Was Leader In Southern Industry John Franklin Schenck, Sr., 79, whose long and busy career as one of the south’s outstanding industrialists bridged the phenomenal development of the southern tex tile industry in which his family has been at the forefront for five generations, died Sunday at 2:30 at his home in Lawndale. |-— two weeks ago Mr. scnencx suffered a paralytic stroke from which it appeared he was recover ing until a heart attack seized him last Monday and gradually throughout the week his life ebbed away until the end came quietly In the early afternoon Sunday. The funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a. m. from the home. The Rev. John W. Suttle, for 33 years Mr. Schenck's pastor, will conduct the service, being assist ed by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church here, and the Rev. C. G. Isley, pastor of the Me thodist church at Lawndale. Bur ial will be in the family vault in Sunset cemetery. In 1892 Mr. Schenck married Miss Lily Moore, whose father, the late Samuel Moore, was an exten sive ranch owner in Texas, and she died several years ago. To that union were born four sons, John F. Schenck, Jr., vice-president and general manager of the Cleveland Mill & Power company; Dr. Sam Moore 8chenck, Shelby surgeon; Jean W. Schenck, secretary and general manager of the Lily Mills company; and Hal E. Schenck who died in 1938. In 1941 Mr. Schenck married Mrs. John M. Maness, widow of a Hamlet physician, who also survives. TRAINED FOR LAW Son, grandson and great grandson of pioneers In the southern cotton industry — his great grandfather, Michael Schenck, in 1813 built in Lin coln county the first cotton mill erected south of the Po tomac river—and himself the father of outstanding cotton mill executives, Mr. Schenck trained for law but gained rank as one of the leaders of industrial enterprise and civic progress in North Carolina. His contribution to the industrial and civic life of his native 8ee J. F. SCHENCK, Sr. Page 8 MRS. PUTNAM’S RITES TUESDAY Belpved Wife Of Rer. D. F. Putnam Died Follow ing Fall Sunday Mrs. Eliza Spangler Putnam, 74, wife of Rev D F. Putnam, died early today at Shelby hospital where she was carried Sunday aft ernoon when she fell and broke her hip at her home| She had been In declining health since suffering a stroke three and a half years ago. The funeral will be held at the home, 805 West Warren street, Tuesday at 3 p. m. Rev. John W. Suttle, assisted by other pastors, will conduct the service. A native of Cleveland county, Mrs. Putnam had made her home in and around Shelby all her life. A daughter of the late Webb and Margaret Wilson Spangler, she was born July 8, 1871. She married the Rev. Mr. Putnam, Baptist minis ter, in 1896 and to that union three daughters were born, Mrs. J. C. Bowling of Shelby, Mrs. Carl L. Bailey of Plymouth and six grandchildren, two whom are in service; a third daughter died seven years ago nips Doing rreparea For Invasion By the Associated Press The Japanese people “are being prepared for the possibility of in vasion and at the same time being convinced that Invasion does not mean defeat,” Domei news agency said a Nazi correspondent In Tokyo reported to Germany. The writer was identified as Dr. Lily Abegg of the Transocean agency. The Japanese broadcast was recorded by the federal com munications commission. JOHN F. SCHENCK N. W. PYIE RITES 2:30 TUESDAY Father Of Mr*. John F. Schenck, Jr., Succumbs Early Sunday N W Pyle, a prominent business man of Wilmington, Del, who since his retirement three years ago had made his home here with his dau ghter. Mrs. John P. Schenck, Jr., died early Sunday at Shelby hos pital. He had been in declining health for several years. Tire funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday from the home of Mrs. Schenck on Morton street. Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Bap tist church, will conduct the ser vice and interment will be in Sun set cemetery. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Schenck is another daughter, Mrs. S. C. Robinson, of Wilmington, Del., and four grandchildren. Mrs. Robinson and daughter, Miss Eva Robinson, arrived today. Mrs. Pyle died here in 1941. A native of Wilmington, Del., Mr. Pyle was for many years en gaged with his father and uncle in the operation of the C. & J. Pyle leather goods manufacturing com pany. In later years he represent ed the D. P. Brown Leather com pany in southern territory, but up on his retirement from active bu siness several years ago he came here to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Schenck. WAR’S END, MAYBE LONDON, March 5.—(2P)—Mar shal Montgomery, always an obed ient son, has been told to wind up the European war by March 23. Lady Montgomery, mother of "Monty,” has predicted that the war will be over by that date, the Evening Standard said today, add ing: "And she says she has written to the field marshal to make sure her forecast is fulfilled.” Iwo Jima Was All Fortress, One Of Japs’ Main Defenses iiiuiwrs nuic; jusi way wm two Jima, tiny Pacific Island, such a touch nut to crack for touch Amer ican Marines? In this first of sev eral stories Associated Press War correspondents explain Iwo's tough ness as one of the world’s most heavily fortified bases. Today the Leathernecks are on the verge of total conquest of the island after what their commander, Lt. Gen. Howland M. Smith, described as one of the bloodiest battles in the 168 years of Marine Corps history.) By MORRIS LANDSBERG IWO JIMA, March 5.— {JP) —A sign posted on tne uentrai Moto yama airfield on Iwo island writ ten in both Japanese and English, warned: "Notice: Trespaslng, surveying, photographing, sketching, model ling, etc., upon or of these pre mises without previous official per mission are prohibited by the Mi litary Secrets Protection law. Any offender in this regard will be punished with this law.” It was signed "Ministry of the Navy, October 1837.” Japan plainly didn’t want the world to know what she had done and was doing on Iwo Jims— b VI n w 5! h ci fi c< ei A si st \ Hiding its eignt square mues oi >lcanic bleakness Into one of the ost heavily fortified bases in the orld. Iwo was no touirst retreat in the i years of Japanese control. II id a few—a thousand or so — vilians who raised sugar and re tied sulphur which the colonists mtributed to the bounty of the npire. LL FORTRESS It also had 20,000 crack troops, veral thousand pillboxes, thou nds of feet of trenches and a See IWO JIMA Page 3 THREE RUSSIAN SPEARHEADS REACH BALTIC Two New Attacks Launch ed, Toward Stettin And Stettin Bay STARGARIDCAPTURED LONDON, March 5.—(SP)— Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s big guns have begun shelling the suburbs of Stettin which lie east of the Oder, Moscow dis patches said today, and the Berlin high command an nounced the fall of Stargard, a fortress 19 miles east of the big Baltic port. After plunging triple spearheads to the Baltic the Russians were reported launching two powerful new attacks—one to the north be tween Stargard and the Oder to ward Stettin; and the other to the west, from their Baltic toeholds, toward Stettin bay. Advanced units already were in sight of Stettin bay. Two Russian spearheads on the Baltic near Kolberg and at Koes lin have been supplemented by a third farther east between KToes lin and Schtawe, the Germans re ported. Stargard, ope of the most im portant outer defenses of Stettin, was taken 'gttei* a* brier "-street fight, Berlin announced, by Mar shall Gregory Zhukov's First White Russian Army. Capture of the city of 35,000 knocked down one of the chief ob TDDW • YANKS FIGHT IN NORTH LUZON Last Enemy Resistance in Manila Reported Wiped Out By FRED HAMPSON MANILA, March 8. — (A*) — American doughboys pushed deeper today into the mountains ol north ern Luzon, reported headquarters stronghold of Japanese Gen. Tomo yuki Yamashlta, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclosed that Filipino guerrillas had cleared one entire northern province of Nipponese troops. Other Americans overcame the last Japanese resistance In Manila, continued their eastward pressure to secure the city’s water supply area and occupied two more Phil ippine Islands. MacArthur’s communique said units of the 35th and 32nd divi sions of MaJ. Gen. Innls P. Swift’s First Corps had made new gains in the northern mountains along ths Balete Pass road, the Villa Verde trail and the Ambayabang river. These spearheads were east and south of Baguio, the Philippine sum mer capital. Yamashlta, “the Ti ger’’ conquerer of Singapore, was reported weeks ago to have with drawn there to direct the “last stand” defense of the Philippines. NEAR ROSARIO Other first corps units have been engaging the Japanese for days in the vicinity of Rosario, some 25 or 30 miles southwest of Baguio. The guerrillas, under Col. R. W. Volckman, struck in the north coast province of Ilocos Norte. MacAr See YANKS Page 2 MllfS AT EQUATOR Tokyo- <$$ <$(PLo'^ JAPAN ... Nagasaki * /OKINAWA'* f OR MO & A' HONG KONG MANILA^ LUBANGi SAIPAN GUAM MARIANAS L UZ qh^************************** 4 ..» ___PHILIPPINES Puerto*js:-\MINDANAO' ' n. /r^Princesa.r.J - # BORNEO^**** \^IDavao’ -•' pal aw * • SUMATRA^ Caroline is. alikpapan^^ <* ^ •MVA . CnfHlCti $ AMBOINA **Os e*Sr Indian Ocean -INDIES ■ Anr TT O A «\«r a AUSTRALIA\ ^NNNNNVnNVs^ nutuimjB — Arrows indicate ,-iatest American ^uocesfiM in -the Paqtfto themssault on Iwo-Jima and -the taking of Palawan mid Uulfeng: Arrow with ship Indicates opening o»trade route from United States through Manila with occupation of Central Philippine Islands. Palawan’s position makes it a threat to the Jap sea lifeline to the south. Shaded area Is that held by Allies. Arrow on continent shows British-Chinese drive threatening Mandalay in Burma. i MiAirirA Jap Counterattack On Iwo Hurled Back Limited Gains Made By Marines; 12,864 Enemy Dead Counted Through Saturday U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Mar. 5.—(/P)—Sturdy U. S. Marines made limited gains in north ern Iwo Jima Sunday and hurled back a Japanese counter attack in which hundreds of screaming Japanese were killed, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. FDR Nominates Vinson Loan Administrator WASHINGTON, March 5.—(£>) —Fred M. Vinson, economic stabil ization director, was nominated to day by President Roosevelt to b€ federal loan administrator. Vinson thus succeeds Jesse Jones as head of the loan agencies han dling billions of dollars. They wert severed from the commerce depart ment so they would not come un der the jurisdiction of Henry A Wallace. Before the senate confirm ed Wallace for secretary of. com merce, special legislation returnee the federal loan administration tc an independent status. A former member of congress from Kentucky and a former jus tice of the United States circuit court for the District of Columbia Vinson has been stabilization di rector since James F. Byrnes gav« up the post. Byrnes moved into th< position of war mobilization direc See FDR Page 2 Miemy aeaa numDerea 12,864 as of 6 p.m. Saturday, out of an es timated garrison of 20,000. There were 81 prisoners, the majority Ko rean laborers. In bloody hand to hand fight ing the battle-worn leathernecks of Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates’ Fourth division continued their tortuous advance over terrain which Nimitz described as “natu rally suited to defensive opera tions.” The tired Marines, however, could see for what they were fighting and for what their comrades had died. A B-29, returning from a Tokyo raid, landed on the southern bom ber field. Repairs were made to the fuel line and the plane continued back to its Marianas base.* Almost half of the B-29 losses in the Japanese empire strikes from the Marianas have resulted from crash landings on the last Jap of the long 1,400-mile home ward flight. Now cripples can stop at Iwo. Also Iwo’s airfields will mean substantially increased bomb loads for the sky giants. NOOSE TIGHTENED Compressed into an ever-tight ening area on Iwo’s northern end, the cornered Japanese are fight See JAP Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 pm.—Junior Chamber of Commerce meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—State Guard drill at the armory. 7:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of American Legion post at Le gion building. 7:30 p.m.—Piedmont Council Boy Scout court of honor meets at court house. 7:30 p.m.—City council meets at city hall. 7:45 p.m.—Board of deacons of First Baptist church meets at the church. TUESDAY 7:30 p.m. — C.A.P. members meet at armory. IUmUdUHIdLU AGAIN SUNDAY Superforts—150 By Jap Report—Laid Bombs, No Resistance By VERN HAUGLAND TWENTY - FIRST BOMBER COMMAND, Guam, March 5.—(JP) —A large force of Superfortresses —Tokyo said there were 150— bombed the Japanese capital by precision instruments through ice and sleet early yesterday, finding no enemy fighters and only light antiaircraft fire. Not a plane was lost to enemy action, but one was ditched en route home to its Marianas base and the crew was rescued. A highlight of the 1,500-mile strike — eleventh B-29 raid on Tokyo and the first in the early morning—was the landing of one Superfortress at the southern air drome of embattled Iwo Jima, 750 miles south of Nippon. The sky giant, piloted by Lt. Raymond F. MAlo of Danville, 111., had only five minutes’ gasoline left in its main tanks and was unable to use its reserve because of trou ble in the feed line. With the crew alerted for a crash landing at sea, Malo headed for Iwo and barely made it, rolling down the 3,000 foot runway while occasional Jap anese mortar shells burst nearby. Thus Lt. Malo’s B-29 made the first actual use of Iwo Jima as a heavy bomber airbase—one of the primary purposes for which it was invaded. In the past approximately hall See TOKYO Page 2 THE WAR TODAY: Rundstedt Making Skillful Job Of Retreat Across Rhine By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer German hope of making a ma jor stand in the Cologne plain ha been killed by the steam-rolle Allied advance, but Nazi Fiel Marshal von Rundstedt continue to fight a grim rear-guard actioi at several main crossings. The German commander is ii the midst of one of the most dan gerous operations war can produc —retreat across a great river un der attack. It’s a task that woul tax the military genius of an age, and it must be said for Rund stedt (who is one of Hitler’s bes generals) that he has been doin - a workmanlike Job. His undoubted ® capabilities add to the credit of j Eisenhower and his captains in 5 their magnificent offensive. 1 Marshal von Rundstedt’s last ditch resistance west of the Rhine 1 is for two purposes. First, of ■ course, he is protecting the with 5 drawal of his forces and such of his ■ equipment and supplies as he can 1 rescue. Secondly, he is continuing ' to carry out the policy of his mas ‘ ter to wage delaying actions every 5 See RUND6TEDT Paju * U. S. Tank Unit Advances Mile Within City PARIS, March 5.—(/P)—First Army tanks fought a mile deep inside Cologne tonight, driving through the Bickendorf northern section within 2 1-2 miles of the towering cathedral at the heart of the great Rhineland metropolis. The final assault started in the cold darkness of 4 a. m. Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose’s Third Armored Division pass ed the city limits, striking from the north through the suburb of Bockelmuned. There the tanks were about three miles from the towering Gothic cathedral at the heart of Cologne, long the most ravaged city of the Rhineland. House to house fighting was touched off quickly AP Correspondent Don Whitehead, with the First Army, re ported. Cologne lay under a pall of smoke. The thunder of bat tle was rolling across the city in increasing fury as the Am ericans closed in for the kill on the 11th day of their great drive from the Roer river, 21 miles behind. To the north, the American Ninth j --— army capiurea riomDerg, a manu facturing west bank suburb of Duisburg, ana the approacnes to two Rhine bridges. Lt. Gen. Wil liam H. Simpson’s men stood on the Rhine for 15 miles, and Can adians to the north held another 53 mile stretch of the .meandering west banks. Germans surrendered by the thousands; the total in the offen sive passed 60,000. A blackout was miriuscu paiLiauy un umu army movements toward Coblenz and the middle Rhine, suggesting an , imminent breakthrough there. The Seventh army fought in the Sieg fried Line just outside the Saar capital of Saarbruecken, which was under heavy artillery fire. Artillery also was pouring v heavy fire in .massed salvoes from American guns wheel to See U. S. TANK Page * Poland Not Asked To Security Conference Representatives Of 44 Nations Expected To Attend Meeting In April WASHINGTON, March 5.—(/P)—The government an nounced today that all United Nations except Poland are be ing asked to attend the world security conference at San Francisco. If all accept as expected this will mean an attendance of 44 nations i By a last minute hitch France refrained from joining in sponsor ing the conference. This leaves sponsorship to the United States. Russian, China and Britain. France, the official announce ment said, has agreed to participate in the conference but felt that, partly because she had not helped work out the Dumbarton Oaks pro posals, she should not join in spon soring the invitations. The voting procedure agreed on by Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill at Yalta to fill the last big gap in the Dumbarton Oaks plan also was announced. In substance it provides that a small nation may have the right to bring charges against a great power and get them heard by the proposed world security council even though the great power itself may object. However, on any vote to decide that a great power was threatening the peace, or to take action against that power, each of the five great nations would have, in effect, a veto. Secretary of State Stettinius is sued a statement seeking to explain the voting agreement. Now at Mexi See POLAND Page 3 Vandenberg To Be Delegate To Conference WASHINGTON, March 5—tfP>— Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.) announced today he had accepted President Roosevelt’s invitation to become a delegate to the world se curity conference in San Fran cisco. The Michigan senator said he had made his decision after “an ex change of cordial and satisfactory personal letters with the Presi dent.” This exchange clarified “my right | of free action," he said. As a delegate, Vandenberg said See VANDENBERG Page 2 Pfc. Howard Newton, Previously ‘Missing’, Safe In Own Lines Pfc. Howard L. Newton, who wa previously reported missing in ac tion in Belgium since December 20, was listed missing through an error. A telegram received today by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Newton of route 1, Belwood, stat ed “in reference by telegram of January 9 and letter of January 11, corrected report now received states your son Pfc. Howard L. Newton was not mising in action December 20, as previously report ed." Pfc. Newton entered the service in October, 1942 and left the I United States in February, 1944. While serving in the European i theater of operations he was ! wounded in France on July 11, but ; had recovered and returned to his company, he was wounded again while fighting in Germany on No | veniber 27, but the wound was j slight and he was returned to ac i tion again.
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