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WEATHER Clearing weather in most sections and cooler today but considerable cloudiness in mountains followed by fair and colder tonight. Thurs day fair and rather cold. Ehe Hhelby Baily Stett CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “HER LUCKY NIGHT” With THE ANDREWS SISTERS NEWS — COMEDY VOL. XLIII— 57 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, MAR. 7, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5c * HAVE OPENED BATTLE Defenses Of Kuestrin On Oder 39 Miles From Berlin Are Penetrated LONDON, March 7.—(/P)—German broadcasts today de clared the Russians had opened the battle for Berlin, break ing: into the northeastern defense of Kuestrin on the Oder 29 miles from the Reich capital and assaulting Zehden on the Oder’s east bank 31 miles from Berlin. Berlin said the Oder front was aflame along a 70-mile stretch from south of Kuestrin almost all the way north to Stettin. Tanks of Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s first white Rus sian army attacked Zehden, 28 miles northwest of Kuestrin on the winding Oder, the German radio said, and possibly were trying to drive a wedge across to turn on Berlin or Stettin from the flank. Attacking after a 24-hour artillery barrage, the Soviets punched into the northeastern defenses of Kuestrin, due east of Berlin, another Nazi broadcast said. x lie ucuiiau iugu tuuminuu oa»u Zhukov launched a major assault Intended to overwhelm Kuestrln and “establish further attacking bases" for a push on Berlin. The Germans weeks ago said the Russians had shoved bridge heads over the Oder. 30 to 40 miles below and above besieged Kuestrln. Kuestrln was reported under at tack from north and south. Mos cow was silent concerning this front. The new report of action on the Oder came as ihe western Al lies threatened Germany's Rhine line. Moscow dispatches made no men tion of the Berlin-Oder front, but said Soviet troops were sweeping across Wollin, the first of the step ping stone islands in Stettin Bay to the north, in a push aimed at cutting off Stettin from the sea. They captured the city of Wol lin, 2ft miles north of Stettin, on the coastal route leading to the U-boat base of Swinemuende and beyond to Germany’! Mecklenburg province north of Berlin. * The Berlin radio said “a Rus sian artillery barrage is raining See DEFENSES Page X AJ/ Says B Week Slowlr; 712%,.°* House A4 ^ M.rch T'^if!',*i*r./<0W"» To, '^-£SrCl*‘;;SrF-^r 0scar tra»»acted ft,?"' ,h“t b jL‘h «* ***. 'Oougi). s,ne»s of W. H. DAVIS TO SUCCEED VINSON Vinton Confirmed At RFC Adminiitrator; Taylor Followt Davis WASHINGTON, March 7.—</Fh President Roosevelt today reshuf fled his top wage-labor policy makers. Chairman William H. Davis of the war labor board was made eco nomic stabilization director, suc ceeding Fred M. Vinson. Vinson bee cane administrator of the $40, 000,000,000 RPC and associated lending agencies which the ousted Jesse Jones formerly directed. George W. Taylor, vice chair man of the war labor board since its formation in 1942 and author of the “Little Steel” wage formula, moves up into Davis’ post as chair man. The president thus cleared the way for an early settlement of the dispute over "fringe” wage adjust ments, a dispute which had lock ed Vinson and Davis in a tight policy snarl. RESIGNATIONS Both Davis and Taylor had sub mitted their resignations last fall but were persuaded by Mr. Roose velt to remain with the WLB through the war emergency. Davis, who was 65 last August, pleaded he wanted rest, and Tay lor urged the president to release him so he could return to the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, where he is on leave as professor of indus try. “I think perhaps it is jumping out of the frying pan into the fire,” Davis smiled today when informed of his new job. “All I can say is that I will do the best I can.” As economic stabilization direc tor, Davis will be responsible in a sense for some of the same sort of problems with which he has dealt exclusively as war labor board (halrman— problems of trying to keep a balanced relationship be tween wages and prices. , , inrougn yesieraay, me oatn day of the session, only 772 bills had been considered, he said, whereas the 1943 assembly adjourned on the 55th day after the house had considered 858 measures. At the current pace, he said. It will take 11 more days to finish the work now before the house. He asked members- to speed up the work all possible and said he might have to appoint a calendar committee. Calendar committees usually are appointed in the house and senate a short time before ad journment. All bills go to those committees. Reps. Edwards ef Greene and Quinn of Duplin sent up a bill to enable the State depart ment of agriculture to finance and construct facilities and improvements for the state fair. The department would be authorised to issue $100, 000 In bonds, with the interest rate approved by the council See SPEAKER Page 2 Lieut. Boyd E. Hicks Hero In Repulsing Nazi Counter-Drive WITH THE 36TH DIVISION. I .as soon as he stave the order. Feb. 10—(Delayed)—Lieut. Boyd E. Hicks’ deliberate order of artil lery—unleasing a merciless bar rage squarely upon himself — is credited with repulsing a vicious German counterattack in the Ar dennes. For that outstanding act of gallantry the Shelby, N. C., in fantryman has been recommend ed for the Distinguished Service medal. But the lanky, dark-hair ed, Gary Cooperish type of boy, forward artillery observer — num ber One Hero to Capt. Angelo J. Mantenuto, commander of Com pany B—says he would rather have the combat infantryman’s badge. Hicks is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Hicks, of Shelby. Company B, known as “Boston’s Own", got the credit for repulsing the attack, but it was Lieut. Hick’s gallantry that turned the trick when he gave the co-ordinates of the spot he was standing on as the target in directing artillery fire. He dived into the nearest foxhole LIEUT. BOYD E. HICKS YANKS MAKE 5-MILE GAIN BELOWBOLOGNA Strongest Advance In Weeks; New Landing On Coast Reported PEAKS CAPTURED ROME, March 7.—(/P)— American mountain troops have gained five miles in the rugged Apennines southwest of Bologna in the strongest advance on the Fifth Army front in weeks, Allied head quarters announced today. The action was officially de scribed as “a most successful lim ited objective attack.” (The German high command said in a broadcast communique today that British troops had made a “local attempt” to land behind German lines on the Ad riatic coast, but the attack was beaten off.) Striking northeastward west of the Fistoia highway three days ago, the Americans have captured a number of domi nating peaity and the town of Castel D’Aiano,. 20 miles from Bologna. JOe^e than 1,200 prls nnmo JplHM: 'been UhoB '■* » The attack began at 7 a. m. March 3 under a 20-minute artil lery barrage and with air assist ance. Headquarters permitted disclosure of the assault only this morning. Brazilian troops, advancing sim ultaneously with the U. 8. 10th Mountaineer division, seized the town of Castelnuovo, three miles southeast of Castel D'Aiano and a mile west of highway 64, running between Plstoia and Bologna. Castel D'Aiano is the closest re ported approach to Bologna by the Fifth Army west of that highway. To the east of it other Fifth Army forces reached the hamlet of Bis opra, 13 miles from Bologna, two See YANKS Page 2 TWO CLEVELAND MEN CASUALTIES In casualty reports received to day, two Cleveland^fcounty soldiers were listed. T/4 Royal A. Hamby was reported killed in action on Luzon and Pfc. J. L. Bridges is missing in Germany. , T/5 Royal A. Hanby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Hanby of route 3, Lawndale, was reported killed in action February 10 on Luzon, according to a telegram received by his wife, the former Miss Jocelyn Wiggins, daughter of C. A. Wiggins of near Casar. Mrs. Hanby and their two children are making their home on route 3, Lawndale. Mrs. Velma K. Bridges of route 4, Shelby, was notified by the war department that her husband, Pfc. J. L. Bridges, is reported miss ing in action since February 34 in Germany. YANK ARMOR IN STREET OF COLOGNE—Troops and armor of the Third Armored Division of the U. S. First Army wait in a side street in the German city of Cologne before driving for the heart of the city whose capture was announced March 6. This is one of the first photos taken in Cologne and was made by AP Photographer .William C. Allen, on assignment with the still picture pool. GRAND PUSH ON Army Fighters Operating Off Southern Air Field First Time By VERN HAUGLAND U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Guam, March 7.—(A1) —An all-out push against the 6, 000 or so -Japanese still entrench ed on the rocky northern end of Iwo Jima was under way today, with tremendous artillery support and army fighters operating off the southern airfield for the first time. Those fighters are gased within flying range of Tokyo. The ground drive, breaking a two-day comparative lull In this fiercest battle of_ the Pa cific war, achieved small gains See GRAND Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p. m.Workers council of First Baptist church meets at the church. 7:30 p. m.—Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. 7:30 p. m.—Presbyterian pray er meeting at church. 7:45 p. m.—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Bap tist chinch. THURSDAY 5:00 p. m. — Prospective nurses’ aide enrollees meet in young people’s room at First Baptist church for preliminaries to organization. 7:00 p. m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club at Hotel Char les. 7:30 p. m.—C. A. P. members meet at Hotel Charles. tuc uiun. no ouuu no uc gave Luckily, he got there in time. The risk was terrific. Odds of survival were virtually non-eistent, for there already were two men crowd ed into that one-man foxhole! The following story of Hicks’ bravery is quoted from a column by Catherine Coyne which appear ed in the Boston Herald recently: HE HIT THE GROUND FIRST “As soon as he gave those coor dinates,” Mantertuto said, "Hicks dropped his glasses; but he hit the ground before they did!” We talked about that counter attack and Hicks’ bravery tonight in the battalion headquarters of Lt.-Col. Albert L. Graham of Wor cester and Boston, former foreman at Chelsea Clock company, who was commanding the battalion from the dining room of a partially de stroyed house in the poorer district •f a Luxembourg town. His company commanders were See LIEUT. HICKS Page 2 Big Fleet Of U, S. Heavies Batters Reich By HENRY B. JAMESON LONDON, March 7. —</P)— More than 900 U. S. heavy bombers struck in a seven-pronged attack today at oil plants in the Dortmund area, a large railway viaduct at Biele feld, and railroad yards at Soest and Siegen after steady RAP night assaults on German troops massed at Wesel on the Rhine. The Eighth air force bombers were covered by 250 fighters in this 23rd straight day of aerial blows closely coordinated with the ground attack. Oil targets included three benzol plants and a large re finery on Dortmund’s outskirts. Bielefeld. Soest, and Siegen all are on main rail and highway routes from central and eastern Germany to the western front. Smashing of the Bielefeld via duct would stop the main flow of traffic from the big inland base of Brunswick and Hannover to the Ruhr battlefield. WESEL ATTACKED British warplanes overnight made an eight-hour attack on Wesel, Nazi escape town on the east bank of the Rhine. It was the longest air attack ever carried out against a German city. A strong force of RAF heavy bombers last night blasted Sass nitz on the Baltic island of Ruegen, a terminal point for the supply and evacuation of East Prussia, the air ministry announced today. RAF Lancasters also struck a heavy early morning blow at Wesel on the east bank of the Rhine north of Duisburg, which was reported clogged with German troops re treating before the Canadian First army. Mosquitos simultaneously made their 15th consecutive night attack on Berlin. TWO INJURED WHEN TRUCK TURNS OVER Floyd Hester 516 East Marion street, and Jack Sepaugh, Shelby route 2; both employees of Duke Power company, are in the Shel by hospital with injuries received this morning at 10 o’clock when a tire blew out on the truck in which they were riding, causing it to turn over in a creek near Fall ston. Hester is suffering from shock, other lacerations and bruises while Sepaugh is in a serious condition with a spinal injury. The truck was being driven by Joe Helms, who was not injured in the accident. This was a small truck and was going out on a call when the tire blew out. The in jured men were brought to the Shelby hospital by a Mr. Boyles who was passing by when the wreck occurred. , LUZON BATHE Campaign Is 58 Days Old; Took Japs 5 Months To Conquer It By RICHARD BERGHOLZ MANILA, March 7 —(A1)— The 58-day-old campaign for Luzon— it took the Japanese more than five months to conquer it—already is entering its “final phase,’’ Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today. With Manila liberated, Bataan and Corregidor retaken and the Central Luzon plain overrun, the more than 10 Yank divisions com mitted tq the operation from the U. S. Sixth and Eighth armies are regrouping to go after scattered Nipponese in the mountains. On rocky Corregidor, at the en trance of reopened Manila Bay, Yanks of the SOSrd parachute regi ment have sealed off 300 caves and tunnels, a spokesman disclosed to day. In those underground places, the few survivors of 6,000 Nippon ese which had formed the fortress garrison are do<£ned to die because they refused to surrender. Brilliantly aided by Filipino guerrillas, the Yank divisions on Luzon are preparing death traps See LUZON Page 2 Births Lead Deaths 101-91 In February One hundred and one births against 19 deaths were registered in Cleveland county during Feb ruary according to reports made to the office of Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, Cleveland health officer this morn ing. In the list of communicable dis eases reported during the month, venereal diseases led the list with 14 cases. Other diseases reported were: spinal meningitis, 1; whoo ping cough, 3; diphtheria, 2; tu berculosis, 1; scarlet fever, 1; ty phus fever, 1; septic sore throat, 1. Ohio River In Entire Course CINCINNATI, March 7. —OP)— The Ohio rivef, in flood its full 981 miles, continued its slow but relent less rise today toward stages pass ed only twice tfl its 300 years of rec orded history. Expected to reach and possibly pass the 70-foot mark here by mid morning, the big river already had produced a toll of eight dead, thousands of homeless among low land refugees, and shutdowns of hundreds of warplants, both on the main stream and tributaries. Official forecasters, hoping that colder weather, would halt the run off from the saturated ground of the Ohio valley’s 202,000 square miles, still withheld definite pre dictions of a crest. However, they watched the progress of a . new bulge coming down from Pittsburgh, West Bank Of Rhine Is Cleared For 70 Miles North Of Fallen Cologne PARIS, March 7,—(/P)—The powerful American Third Army drive routed Germans to within 15 miles of the middle Rhine today while the First Army fought within three miles of Bonn, 15 miles south of fallen Cologne. The dashing Third Army tanks were reported at supreme headquarters to be near Monreal, a crossroads town just short of Mayern. The report, far behind actual progress, placed the Fourth Armored division within 20 miles of Co blenz and 50 of the large Rhine cities of Mainz and Weis baden. Frankfort on the Main was 61 miles away. On this fateful anniversary of Hitler’s militarization of the now overrun Rhineland, the prisoner toll for all Allied armies on the western front passed the million mark and rose above 100,000 for the current campaign which started Jan. 30 with Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s plunge into the Siegfried line east of Luxembourg. Soon after Cologne, fourth city of Germany fell late yesterday, the American First and Ninth armies cleared the whole west bank of the Rhine from Rheinberg south to Co logne save for a fractional pocket at Zons, just south of Duesseldorf. The distance was 45 airline miles but nearer _ I _ I V UU VUV ItlllllV/ i IV II o< The last sizable German bridge head of the lower Rhine opposite Wesel was hammered down to a strip eight miles long and up to five miles wide. On Monday, 50, 000 Germans were estimated to be in the fjocket. Many have fled, but now the last two bridges at Wesel are virtually impassable. Nazi troopers who survived the ! debacle of Cologne fled south a long the Rhine toward Bonn, a city of 101.000 and the birthplace of Beethoven. The First army’s Ninth division fought- at dawn in' J the village of Alften, only three miles from Bonn. Like Cologne, Bonn lies almost defenseless on the west bank ol See WEST Page i Red Cross Gifts From Mills Up 50 Per Cent Workers At Cleveland Cloth Mill Give $2,100, Gifts At Esther Above $1,200 A better than 50 per cent increase in employee donations to the Red Cross from workers at the Esther Mill and the Cleveland Cloth Mill today spurred the industrial division whose chairman, J. W. Gardner, said he hopes to have a complete report from the mills by March 15. -—-I Employes of the cloth mill have AKCHDUKEFEUXjj COMING FRIDAY Initial Session Cleveland Executives Club Will Be j Brilliant Affair The Archduke of Austria, son of j the Empress Zita and the late Em- ; peror Karl of Austria-Hungary, has accepted the invitation of the Cleveland Executives Club to oe < guest speaker at the initial ses- '• sion of that group at the Hotel 1 Charles Friday at 7 p.m. He leads | off a program to be followed next j month by Fulton Oursler, senior 1 editor of Reader’s Digest and for merly editor of Liberty and a galaxy of intemationally-famous speakers to follow later this year, President Phil Elliott stated today Reservations for the initial din ner session are being made with See ARCHDUKE Page 2 Flood Along , Nearing Peak j where continued rains had push- ■ [ ed the Ohio more than three feet i above the 25-foot flood stage. At 70 feet the Ohio here would : | be 18 feet over flood stage, but nearly ten feet under the 1937 rec- : ord crest. The second highest stage : recorded was 71.7 feet in 1884 and the third, 60.0 in 1913. RELIEF BURDEN Relief agencies in the Cincinnati , area were taxed heavily and the American Red Cross reported 5,000 to 6,000 families evacuated from their homes on both sides of the river. Blankets and supplies were rush ed here from headquarters of the Army's Fifth Service command at Columbus, O., and the Coast Guard $m OHIO Page 2 ontributed a little more than 2,100—leaders there are hoping to >ush the total past $2,200 by next week’s final report—while employes .t the Esther mill have thus far ubscribed in excess of $1,200. Last ear the Cloth Mill employes gave '1,265 and the Esther employes 1745, indicating a sharp increase n support of this year's campaign n that division. The rural churches are likewise unning ahead of last year, but less lercentagewise, than the industries hus far reported, and when com lilations are completed later this veek the tabulations will be pub ished. Meanwhile, Horace Easom, ihairman of the rural church group, ippealed to all of the individual •hairmen to press their campaigns his Sunday and render reports donday of next week of the exact >resent status of the drive in their See Red Cross Page 2 SHELBY WeT BADLY INJURED IN CAR WRECK Robert A. (Buddy> Armour and Vard Arey, jr., both thrown from in automobile which was crowded iff the highway and which turn 'd over yesterday afternoon at !:30 o’clock west of Newport, renn., are in a Newport hospital oday. Armour is critically in ured with a bad fracture of the ikull and is unconscious. Arey s less seriously injured. i.Hts lands were badly cut and he has i slight injury of the back. Both tqung men live in Shelby. Armour and Arey were thrown rom the car after it had turned >ver and were blistered with gas iline in addition to their other njuries. Account received here ndicated that the car in which ;he Shelby men were riding was 'rowded off the highway by a speeding automobile. Members of their families left lere yesterday afternoon for New port. Tenn , to be with the injured nen.
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