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WEATHER Fair and moderately cool today and tonight, Friday Increasing cloudiness with little increase in temperature. Tshkshkxhgiyskiw steu CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “HER LUCKY NIGHT” With THE ANDREWS SISTERS NEWS — COMEDY ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS THURSDAY, MAR. 8, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES VOL. XLIII—58 SHELBY, N. C. SINGLE COPIES—6c fANKS BREAK THROUGH NEAR COBLENZ—The large arrow on this map Indicates the U. S. Third Army breakthrough which has driven oeyond Schoenbach to within 14 miles of the Rhine and only 20 miles from Coblenz. The exact position of the deepest penetration was with held by censorship. To the north, the U. S. First Army is reported to have crossed the Rhine after capturing Cologne. Only the Kons and Xanten-Rheinberg areas In this sector of the Rhine’s west bank remained In enemy hands. roun<j pQ ^Uz°n Get c e® 0|* °1 s^upPon y,'*'<' T.r. as^ - DOUGHBOYS IN ITALY ADVANCE ROME, March 8. —UPI— The U. S, 10th Mountain division made ‘’local improvements” yesterday despite Oerman attacks on its newly won positions west of the Bologna-Plstoia highway on the Fifth Army Italian front, Allied headquarters announced today. The rugged American division is consolidating a five mile advance through rough terrain and heavy Nazi artillery, machlnegun and mortar fire. Several dominating peaks within 20 miles of Bologna were captured in the drive which headquarters yesterday termed “a most successful limited objective attack.” In new overnight gains Fifth army troops seized positions at three smal villages northeast of the Bologna-Plstoia road town <£ See DOUGHBOYS Page 2 Knoxville Hotel Fire Kills 1, Injures Many , KNOXVILLE, TENN., March 8— Vft—At least one person was burn ed to death and a dozen others were hospitalized with burns, some serious, in a fire which swept through the war-crowded three story, Cumberland hotel here early today. Police Chief Elmer Dykes said he believed several other guests were trapped in the building and were burned to death. The one body that has been re covered was identified as that of Henry M. Austin, formerly of Al bemarle, N. C., a war worker at nearby Oak Ridge. Vj. While American bombers sweep ing China sea shipping sank or damaged two warships and 16 freighters, 11th Airborne division and 158th Infantry regiment units penetrated to the south coast of Luzon Tuesday to capture Balayan and Calatagan at Balayan bay. They met only scattered resist ance. Balayan bay, in Batangas prov ince, is on the important Verde island passage between Luzon and American-held Mindoro island. It is about 50 miles south of Manila. A good road skirts most of the bay coast. In the bitterly-contested Mari klna watershed area east of Ma nila, heavy bombers, attack planes and divebombers dropped more than 900 tons of explosives on the elaborate Japanese entrenchments which have held the Yanks vir tually stalemated for weeks AIR SUPPORT This was a mightier assault in support of ground operations than that given the 503rd paratroopers on Corregidor or any other major See GROUND Page * Rampaging Ohio Is Already 13 Feet Above Flood Stagfe runiorauu in, KJ., March B— 'Jf)—The Ohio river continued to rise today while Portsmouth watch ed to see if sandbags atop its ob solete 62-foot floodwall would hold back both the Ohio and the tribu tary Scioto. Swelling at the rate of .1 feet »n hour, the big river passed a 63.2 stage, more than 13 feet above flood stage, at midnight. This was nore than a foot higher than the vail, but the sandbags, laid in a light and day struggle by 360 Ohio State guardsmen and civilian vol onteers, had held the two rivers out except at one short section. Meanwhile a partly-finished new i wall to protect to a 77-foot stage * stood futilely above the flood. It ( will be completed after the war. i Already low-flying districts of ; the manufacturing city of 40,000 ] population were taking shelter on ■ higher ground. Pive hundred eva- i cuees were taken by train to Chil licothe, 40 miles up the ' Scioto, i where they were cared for by the i Red Cross. , No damage comparable with that < See RAMPAGING P*f« 3 i FORTRESS OF KUESTRIN IS OUTFLANKED Reds At Seelow, 12 Miles West Of Oder; Front Is Aflame ZHUKOVON MARCH LONDON, March 8.—(£>)— The Russians have driven to within 25 miles of Berlin’s: city limits, outflanking the ' fortress of Kuestrin and reaching Seelow on the west side of the Oder, a Trans ocean broadcast from the Ger man capital said today. Seelow is directly east of Ber lin and is 12 miles west of the Oder. It is on the main railway skirting the Oder which connects Stettin and Frankfurt. Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s mas-; sive new offensive, timed with the ! Allied drive to the Rhine, 321 miles I to the west, also has reached a point 29 miles from Berlin north west of Kuestrin, Berlin reported. Transocean said Seelow was reached from the Russian bridge head at GoerUts, between Kues trin and Frankfurt, and said ter rific fighting was taktog place in the area, with many places chang ing hands repeatedly. Heavy attacks are taking place at Niederwutzen, four miles south west of Zehden in a loop of the Oder river, Col. Ernest von Ham mer said in a Berlin broadcast, and the Russians have made two breaches in the defenses of the fortress of Kuestrin to the south east. Fighting was reported flaming along a 125-mile front along the Oder from Stettin bay to Crossen following a terrific artillery bar rage that began 48 hours ago. The enemy said the focal point of the attack was on both sides of Kues trin, 39 miles east of Berlin, with the Russians battering at the northwestern, eastern and south See FORTRESS Page 2 HOEY TO SPEAK BEFORECOFC Annual Dinner WifkMer chanfs Group Setv/or March 30 Shelby’s own beloved Senator Clyde R. Hoey will deliver the address for the annual dinner meeting of the Chamber /of Com merce and Merchants Association to be held March 30 at the Hotel Charles, it was announced today by Hopson Austell, chairman of the committee on arrangements. Senator Hoey, who expects to spend the Easter week-end at his home here, accepted the invita tion to address the Friday night gathering at which the annual re port will be rendered to the larg est membership the organization has ever enjoyed. Clyde A. Short, president will serve as toastmaster of the occa sion. “We are pleased that Senator Hoey can be with us to make the address of the occasion,” Mr. Aus tell said in making the announce ment, "It means we ought to have the best annual meeting in the history of the local organization.” 1,350 U. S. Bombers Hit Reich Today In Wake Of RAF Night Attack LONDON, March 8.—(/P)—German rail and oil targets were struck another blow today as 1,350 American bomb ers, following up the RAF’s 1,250-plane night assault, at tacked seven oil plants and five switching yards handling traffic to the Ruhr battlefields. me Americans targets incmaea the clogged yards at Essen, almost within earshot of the fighting along the upper Rhine; Siegen, Betzdorf, Dillenburg and Giessen. Six benzol plants and one synthetic refinery in the Gelsenkirchen-Dortmund regions were the oil objectives. Approximately 350 fighters pro vided cover for the bombers. Close protection against the German air force seldom is needed any more. The British night attack was carried out by the largest force sent out by the RAF this year. The British planes blasted the Ger mans eastern front base of Des sau, struck at vital oil refineries and gave Berlin its 16th successive night raid. It was estimated that 3,000 tons of explosives and fire bombs were dropped on Dessau on the Elbe riv er 65 miles southwest of Berlin and now an important base for the eastern front. The city still was in flames today. The British air ministry listed 39 bombers and one fighter miss ing from the night’s operations. At least 14 German night fighters were shot down.. Pilots returning from the assault on Dessau—the main objective— reported the whole target area was “ablaze from end to end. with smoke rising to a height of 17,000 feet.” Dessau, 67 miles southwest of Befton is one of the largest indus trial cities of central Germany and See 1.350 Pare 2 SITUATION ON IWO: Nips Fight Fiercely To Hold Last Line Marines Registered 500-Yard Gains Yesterday; Strive For Breakthrough U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Mar. 8.—(/P)—Dents in the last-stand line of the Japanese on northern Iwo, driven up to 500 yards in hand-to-hand combat Wednesday, were exploited today by three marine divisions striving lor a breakthrough. In a maze of pillboxes and block houses, with their backs to the cliffs, the Nipponese still showed no sign of a collapse as they met the all-out Leatherneck drive with tense small arms and machine gun fire. The latest push opened Tuesday. The fighting all that day netted only local gains. Yesterday one 500 yard salient was won on the west side by MaJ. Gen. Keller E. Rock ey’s Fifth division. Another was pushed into the center of the line by Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine’s Third division. A dent of 200 yards was punched into the east side by Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates’ Fourth. They were, by no means, general advances. Every step was contest ed by a foe which has lost two thirds of an original garrison of 30,000 and is battling to the last man. The full cost of the 18-day-old See NIPS Page 2 EGG TRUCK IS WRECKED ON 18 Pour thousand and five hundred iozen eggs were scrambled in gas oline on highway 18, five miles south of Shelby this morning at 8 o’clock when a truck driven by J. D. Johnson, of Vale, route three, ;umed over on the highway spili ng the crates of eggs in the high way and on the embankment. Johnson told Sgt. W. L. Hatch ;r, of the state highway patrol, :hat he lo6t control of his egg ruck when a car driven by O. W. Brooks, of Mooresboro, stopped in front of him and began turning wound. In dodging the car the sgg truck lost its balance and suraed over on its side spilling he entire cargo. Johnson had to be assisted out >f the cab of his truck by passers >y. Gasoline began to leak im nediately from the truck tank and ningled with the egg yolks and vhites which streamed down the ide of the highway. Johnson said that he was on his vay from Cookeville in Catawba :ounty to Spartanburg, s. C., to lellver the load of eggs to Swift ind company. The eggs were iwned by Johnson and they were lot covered by insurance. BRITISH PLUNGE INTO MANDALAY CALCUTTA, March 8. — (/PI— Spearheads of the British 19th di vision plunged into the northern suburbs of Mandalay today, and official estimates at Allied head quarters left the impression that the fall of Burma’s second city was imminent. In their 14 mile dash southward from Madaya to Mandalay Indian troops of the British division by passed a considerable number of Japanese. These enemy groups ap pear dazed and bewildered and are scheduled for later elimination. Chinese troops 130 miles north east of Manadalay smashed two miles through Japanese defenses and occupied new Lashio fend its railway station, establishing 'Allied control of the entire Burma road from Lashio to Kunming. The Chinese had captured old Lashio yesterday. PLANS CHANGED Enemy battle plans apparently have been disorganized by the British dash across the Irrawaddy River valley to the Meiktila area, an operation which has threatened the Japanese rear communications. Unless the Japanese can bring in reinforcements immediately, it is believed here they may be ousted from Burma in the not too distant future. Supplying troops and rein forcements is a major Japanese headache since their key north south communications now are se vered and tenuous alternate routes are under continual hammering by air. SCHOOLS START \ EARLY SCHEDULE ON MARCH 19 Shelby schools will go back on the early schedule of operation, Monday, March 19, it was announc ed this morning by Walter Aber nethy, local superintendent. In stead of starting classes at 9:15 o’clock as is being done now, classes will begin at 8:45 a.m. The late schedule was continued about two weeks longer than usual, Mr. Abernethy said, in an effort to save as much coal as possible. When the new schedule takes effect, the ' buildings will open at 8:30 am. MISSING — Pfc. Walter Hershe Elgin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Elgin of Cramerton, is re ported missing in action in Franci since Jaunary 20, while servinf with the 79th division of the Sev enth Army, according to a tele gram receixed by his wife, th< former Muss Grace Falls, who i; making her home on route 1 Kings Mountain, while he is in ser vice. Japs Profess Readiness For Tank invasion By The Associated Press The Imperial Japanese higl command is awaiting an Americai invasion of Nippon with th “greatest confidence,” the Dome news agency reported today. Domei quoted the Tokyo news paper Asahi as saying the higi command had completed plans fo defense of the homeland and fo: "dealing the enemy literally ai annihilative blow, thereby secur ing decisive victory at one stroke.’ The broadcast, heard by the Fed eral Communications Commission said the Japanese naval Jorce a “being kept in full readiness” U strike "the first decisive blow” be fore invasion forces can land. “I: some enemy forces should escape' they will meet "smashing attack; at the beach lines. “Should enemy remnants stil manage to invade inland," Asah went on “then our field army in its au-out assault will llterallj wipe them out.” The broadcast said American in vasion forces would meet the same supply problems that have ham pered Japanese in defense of is lands they have lost. Carabinieri Guards Fired On In Night ROME, March 8 —OP)— Shots were fired in the night at Carabi neree guarding a clinic where Lt Gen. Count Francesco Jacomon: Is held on war crime charges, ir another of the series of demon strations so far weathered by Pre mier Ivanoe Bonoml. No attempt was made to bursl Into the hospital. - The escape Sunday of'-Gen. Ma rio Roatta and a protest riot be fore the Royal palace were prev ious incidents of the week. The cabinet declared its confi dence in Bonomi late yesterday Opposition parties protested anew against his retention qS control of the government. Amendment On Theater Tax Reopens Revenue Bill Fight ivnuoi.uii, iviaiui o—* y/rf —nu other fight over amendments to the continuing revenue act of 1939 de veloped today when Senator Aiken of Catawba introduced another amendment to Impose a three per cent tax on the gross receipts of theaters. The tax, removed from the con tinuing act in 1943, was recom mended by the advisory budget commission but was struck out by the joint finance committee. Adoption of Aiken’s amendment would mean that the amendments would go back on first reading, rc f upeiung uil wnuie uuiuei yi if- ; , venues. Under the act and house-1 adopted amendments the state; would collect approximately $123,-1 000,000 in its general tund during j the next biennium. 3 COMMISSIONS j i Bills to authorize the appoint-1 ment of three more commissions which would report their findings in 1947 were introduced in the ; legislature today. Rep. Shuford of Buncombe sent j up a joint resolution for the ap- 1 J1 See AMENDMENT Page 2 River Crossed Last Night With Opposition PARIS, March S._(/P,_The American First Armv crossed the Rhine river to the east bank last night, launching from the west hank the climactic battle for Germany. A dispatch from Cologne announced the crossing. First Army infantrymen spanned the quarter mile wide river against rather light opposition before the startled Germans could grasp what had happened, A. P. Correspond ent Wes Gallagher said. The surprise announcement was passed by censors at 5:55 o’clock tonight after 24 hours of security biackout. PARIS, March 8.—(/P)—The First Army captured half of Bonn and half of Bad Godesburg today and was reported * - ^ . uniun yjL me J. 111.1 U £\L Illy III H : maneuver periling perhaps 50,000 Germans west of the i middle Rhine. ; Bonn is a university city of 101,000. Bad Godesburg is three miles up the river from Bonn and is the village where Neville Chamberlain pleaded with Hitler before Munich for “peace in our times.” It is 21 miles from Third Army positions on the Rhine near Coblenz. The German communique said the First Army had reached Remagen, only 17 miles from Lt. Gen. George S Patton’s watch on the Rhine. Forward positions of the converging armies could not be disclosed through a security blackout, but every indication at supreme headquarters was that a great victory was shap ing up. 1 The Ninth Armored division of the First Army was de 1 dared many hours ago to be over ten miles southwest of ' Bonn and “well under 25 miles” from the Third Army’s 1 superb Fourth Armored division. The Berlin radio said today the American troops had broken into Bonn and that street fighting was raging. 1 The amazing dash of Lt. Gen. i ' George S. Patton's Third army • tanks to the Coblenz area and the , Rhine outflanked the Saar indus trial district from the north, snapping many of its communi ’ cations and routes for war mater iel. The Seventh army outflank ed the Saar on the south and was two miles inside it Cologne finally was cleared completely and infantry moved up to the Rhine at places be tween that devastated city and Bonn. Troops besieging Bonn were almost astride the Rhine bank road leading south to Coblenz. Thousands of dejected prisoners were streaming back westward from the 2,500-square-mile pocket in which five to six divisions were caught between the First and Third armies. The First army counted 3.873 yesterday and the Third had time to check in only 1,614 of the Germans who jammed the roads back to prison pens on the Kyll river. See RIVER Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 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. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Rotary club at Hotel Charles. 7:00 p.m.—First meeting of Executives club at Hotel Charles. Strike Threat Hanging Over Textile Mills CHARLOTTE, March 8—(A3)— The threat of a strike involving approximately 100,000 southern textile workers hung over the in dustry today as locals of the tex tile workers union of America (CIO) made plans for an imme diate decision. TWUA last night directed lo cals to ballot immediately under provisions of the Smith-Connally act, which requires a 30-day cool ing off period after notification of a strike. The action was a protest a ?ainst a delay in final approval of a 5-cent hourly increase grahted to workers in 23 southern textile mills, by the War Labor board. The Office of Economic stabiliza tion must approve the increase before it can become effective. The boost was announced three iveeks ago. IN FAVOR A resolution unanimously adopt ed by some 40 southern agents of :he TWUA in the second day of 1 two-day meeting here read 'whether a strike vote should be .aken," but Roy Lawrence, south See STRIKE Page 2 Marine Ace Is Killed On Iwo WITH FIFTH MARINE DIVI SION, Iwo Jima, Feb. 21.—(De .ayed).—</P>—Sgt. John Basllone. irst enlisted marine to win the Congressional medal in this war, vas killed by Japanese artillery ire on the beach on the first day )f the battle of Iwo. Basilone, 27-year-old hero of Guadalcanal from Raritan, N. J., vas leading his machine gun pla .oon through a heavy artillery bar •age when he was felled on the >lack sands. He and several of his men were :aught by the Japanese fire soon ifter they hit the beach in the ipening assault. Although Basilone could have tayed in the United States after he Guadalcanal campaign, he had ’olunteered for another tour of iverseas duty which ended in his ieath. Men of his platoon praised lis aggressive courage.
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