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WEATHER North Carolina—Considerable clou diness, especially in eastern section, and mild temperature today fol lowed by fair and cool tonight. Saturday fair and warmer. i CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “HER LUCKY NIGHT” With THE ANDREWS SISTERS NEWS — COMEDY VOL. XLIII-59 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6e i Retreating Germans Attacked From Air GREAT CATHEDRAL STANDS AMONG RUINS—As if some higher hand had protected it, the great Cologne cathedral *backgrou»d> escaped destruction during the heavy fight for the German Rhineland city of Cologne, while buildings for miles about were battered to bite or heavily damaged. This photo was radioed to America by the Army Signal Corps after U. S. troops took the city. Kassel Cringes Under Double Bombing Raid RAF Lays Heavy Rain Of Bombs On Cify In Night, U. S. Fleet Follows Up Today LONDON, March 9.—(/P)—The German industrial city of Kassel, heavily bombed by the RAF last night, was at tacked again today by the main force of a 1,000-bomber fleet sent out by the U. S. eighth air force. SRO SIGN FOR DINNER TONIGH1 Executives Club Bring: Archduke Felix For Opening Address More than 200 reservations for to night's dinner of the Clevelani Executives Club, which will b addressed by his Imperial High ness The Archduke Felix of Au stria, caused the standing roon only sign to have to be put out fo others this afternoon. The Archduke Felix, one of th best-informed men on Europear politics, will talk on "Is A Unite* States of lurope Possible?” Federation of European state Into a union along the lines of thi country is considered highly pro bable by this pro-democratic mem ber of Europe's oldest royal familj In his mid-twenties, this six-foo son of the late Emperor Karl o Austria-Hungary has created sensation wherever he has spokei in this country because of Id platform ability, clarity of presen tation and his authentic, first ham information of the politics, tradi tions and peoples entering into th prospect for a consolidated demo cratic Europe. Abreast of the most recent devel See SRO Page 2 F. D. R. WONT RUN AGAIN Washington columnist Jack Sin nett reports that’s the conclusioi political students are drawini from the President’s recent ref erence to his paralysis. The Stinnett column on thi subject is printed on the editoria page today. in me nigni raias me Briusn aLso hit submarine building yards in Hamburg and unspecified ob I jectives in Berlin. German radios l began warning of the approach i of daylight bombers shortly after i 8 a.m. The U. S. 15th air force struck I a heavy blow' at German commun i ications yesterday in Hungary, hitting railroad yards at Koma rom, 20 miles in advance of Rus sian ground forces, and blocking all through lines at Hegyeshalom, . near the Austrian frontier 45 miles I wrest of Komarom. The Italian , based fliers were carefully briefed against dropping bombs in areas ’ where the Russians might be. The German radio said Allied ‘ bombers from Italy were striking See KASSEL Page 2 i Hitler Visits Troops Along Oder River LONDON, March 9 — (/Pi— The German radio said today that Hit t ler had visited the Oder river f front. i The transocean agency said he i had "convinced himself personally s of the fighting spirit of the Ger ■ man soldiers on the Oder.” 1 "A number of photos of the visit ■ have been published in the Ger 3 man press,” it added. Allies Learn About Aerial Warfare From Bombed Cities By WES GALLAGHER ' COLOGNE, March 9.—(JP)—The American dash to the Rhine has lifted the lid of German secrecy on the effects of Allied air raids, permitting ground observers to assess for the first time the full extent of the damage Inflicted. A check of Cologne, Rhine in* 1 dustrial capital; Krefeld, textile ; and silk center; Muenchen-Glad - bach, one of the smaller Rhine in dustrial cities, and the Rhine river 3 port of Neuss, opposite Dusseldorf, 1 shows: 1. That American and British strategic air force clfttma glean ed from photograpn»—oaeh aa the estimate that Cologne woo 60 to 80 per cent ^Ootroyed— are conservative. 2. That homhtngs of cities will not break German civil ian morale bat Will so disrupt life in a city and discourage workers that factories cannot operate with even a fraction of efficiency. 3. That big incendiary raids cause considerably more vital See ALLIES Page 8 VITAL BRIDGE, GATEWAY TO STETTIN.HIT Reds Under Constarnt Ar tillery Fire In Area Around City KUESTRIN BLACKOUT MOSCOW, March 9.—(£>)— Red army bombers loosed a heavy attack today on Ger mans retreating into Stettin, destroying a vital bridge near Altdamm, eastern gateway of the big port for Berlin at the mouth of the Oder river. A large enemy column mov ing across the bridge was thrown into confusion and the Soviet bombers and Stormo viks strafed the Germans mer cilessly. While the air force stepped up its attacks, Russian ground troops were reported to have assembled boats and landing craft along the banks of the Dammscher See, far ther north, where a crossing to the west shore may already have started in an outflanking maneu ver on Stettin. The Red army troops were re ported working swiftly under con stant artillery fire in manning the amphibious thrust toward the area between Stettin and Poelltx, on the At the northern tip of the Dammscher See Soviet units have pushed into the region where the Ihna river flows intp the isthmus and were engaged in hand-to-hand See VITAL Page 2 YANKS CLOSING IN ON BAGUIO Maj. Gan. Varna D. Mudga Savaraly Wounded February 28 MANILA, March 9—CSV-Ameri can forces on Luzon were closing in on Baugio, summer capital of the commonwealth, and widening their holdings on *tyie south coast. The severe wounding of Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge, comman der of the First Cavalry division, was made known today. He was wounded on the battfafsont north east of Manila Feb. 9 by a grenade thrown by a Japanese soldier who had been left for dead. Fragments hit the ^veteran caval ryman in the abdoAien, but the medical staff said hfc recovery was certain. BOMBARDED Tokyo radio said' warships had been bombarding Zamboanga since early Thursday. Zamboanga has good air bases. Mindanao has been bombed hea vily by American planes for months. Gen. Douglas MacArth ur’s communique today told of a 129-ton bombing of Zamboanga bar racks and supply areas by bombers of all sizes. MacArthur reported that 33rd division Yanks on Luaon advanced 12 miles up the west coast to cap ture Aringay, due west of Baugio. This gave the Americans control of a line reaching within 10 miles of the summer capital. An American force was last re See YANKS Fage 2 t ■ U. S. 15th Army Into Action On West Front NEW YORK, March 9. —(tP)— A new U. S. army—the 15th— has gone into action on the western front as a part of Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s 12th army group, an NBC broadcast from the front said today. Lt. Gen. Leonard P. Gerow is the commander. He formerly commanded the Fifth corps of the U. S. First Army. He is 56 and a graduate of Virginia Military Institute. This makes nine armies that have been announced as under Gen. Eisenhower’s command. Bradley’s group also includes the U. S. First, which won the cross-Rhine bridgehead, and the U. S. Third. The U. S. Ninth is ordinarily part of his group but for the present is under Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery. Other armies assigned to Eisenhower are the U. S. Seventh, Allied First Airborne, British Second, Canadian First and French First. Announcement of the new army was made in connection with a ceremony at Bradley’s command post at which high officers received French military awards for the liberation of France. Those receiving awards were Bradley, Gerow, Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, Lt. Gen. George S. Pat ton, Jr., Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle and Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton. Japs On Iwo Pushed Back Yard-By-Yard Nimitx Says Battle Will Not Be Over "Until Last Jap Is Killed, Wounded, Or Captured" ^ Uv S. PACIFIC FLpTJJEADQUMTS^ Guam, Mar. s.—(JP)—The fierce battle for Iwo Jima is assuming the pat tern of the final phases of American conquests of other Pacific island—but it may be several days before correspond ents can flash “Iwo secured.” .todays communique disclosed small gains which at one point saw the Third Marine division gain ing a cliff top only 300 yards from the northeast coast. The Japanese, compressed into a rough crescent shaped area mea suring 300 to 1,500 yards wide a long the north and east coasts, have adopted desperation tactics such as preceded collapse of their organized resistance on Guam and elsewhere. Frontline dispatches tell of small Banzai charges; of suicidal attacks against American tanks by Japanese armed only with poles to which were attached explosive charges; of enemy troops confined to a great extent in dugouts and caves honeycombing precipitous coastal cliffs; of the discovery of Japanese bodies floating in the surf. In Washington, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pa cific, told correspondents he ex pected Japanese resistance on Iwo would continue "until the last Jap is killed, wounded or captured." CASUALTIES Radio Tokyo claimed American casualties on Iwo already were 2S, 670. Nipponese troops "are carry ing on bayonet charges and night attacks and are succeednig in in flicting heavy damages on the enemy,” said a Japanese-language broadcast beamed to the United States and recorded by the FCC. Tokyo claimed 7$) Americans were killed or wounded Tuesday and 430 mare Wednesday. Nimitz’s last report on Ameri can casualties, made Feb. 23 for only the first three days of fight See JAPS Page 2 U. S. VESSEL SINKS TWO OF HER OWN BOATS WASHINGTON, March 9.—<*>)— T«ro United State* motor torpedo boats have been sunk In the Phil ippines by another United States vessel as a result of mistaken iden tity, the navy announced today. Skippers of the two vessels, the PT77 and PT79, both were saved. Other casualties were light, the navy said. Normal complement of a PT boat is from 11 to 15 men. Next of kin of all casualties have been notified. Loss of the small salvage vessel extractor in a similar accident was announced March 1 by the navy. The announcement raised to 218 the number of naval vsesels sunk since the start of the war and to 272 the total loss from all causes, Including those listed as overdue and presumed lost or destroyed to prevent capture. NEW LANDING ON MINDANAO Tokyo Reports U. S. Forc es Landed At Zambo anga In South By The Associated Press American forces have landed on Mindanao Island after a heavy bombardment from a naval task force which includ ed four battleships and 20 oth er craft, the Tokyo radio said today. Mindniknao is the second largest island of the Philip pines. A Tokyo broadcast, heard in London by the Associated Press gave this ‘‘flash:’’ “Enemy trying to land at Zamboanga at Mindanao since March 8.” It added: "The landing was preceded by a heavy bombardment. On March 8 in the morning 30 enemy ships appeared from the west. Soon afterward three cruisers, four battleships, 20 other ships and 20 landing boats were lying off Zamboan fa. ‘In the afternoon enemy forces with one battleship and two cruisers appeared from the west and other forces includ ing two cruisers approached Zamboanga from the east. Three cruisers appeared at Le cort and took Zamboanga and Lecort under fire. This gave the signal for the landing.” Fifth Army Tightens Attack On Vergato ROME, March 9 -iJFy- TJ. S. Fifth army troops closing in on the German highway stronghold of Vergato, 17 1-2 miles southwest of Bologna, have occupied Carvi ano, about a mile east of their ob jective, Allied headquarters an nounced today. The push, although slowed some what by the enemy in the last 24 hours, warned the closest ap proach yet to Vergato, which has held,out against AUied attacks for four months. The Nazis, meanwhile, stepped up their artillery fire against the U. S. 10th mountain division’s newly won positions bordering the Bologna-Pistoia highway, as well as Allied positions farther west in the Serghio valley. PFC. JAMES R. DAVIS PFC. J. R. DAVIS WAR PRISONER Pfc. Davis Is Heard Over Short Wave Broadcast, Parents Notified Pfc. James R. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rowe Davis of 925 Church St., who has been reported missing in action in Germany since Janu ary 4, is said to be a prisoner of war according to a short wave broadcast from Berlin heard by Mrs. Newton White of route 5, Bloomsburg, Pa., who notified his parents. A telegram received today from the war department con firmed the broadcast, but there has been no other official confir mation that he is a prisoner, Mrs. White heard the news on March T, and immediately wrote f^'.'vD®W#,tatHUy fhe contents of the broadcast concerning their son. The message stated, “Ffc. James J. Davis, soldier, has been captur ed recently on the Western Front, and is a prisoner of war in Ger many.” Mrs. White said that she had been listening to short wave broadcasts since May, 1943, and so far has sent 5,575 messages to the families of American soldiers all over the United States. She wrote, “I have a son serving in the Army overseas and I’m just trying to be a good neighbor. I sincerely hope that your loved one returns safe ly.” 44 MONTHS Pfc. Davis entered the Army in October, 1939 and served 44 months in Panama where he helped or ganize the airborne and glider in See PFC. DAVIS Page 2 $2,200DONATED BY SHEW MILL A contribution of £2,200 from the Shelby Cotton Mill employes and plant was received by the Red Cross war fund today to swell the industrial group’s total as clean up efforts were being pressed in the business, residential and rural church divisions. J. W. Gardner, chairman of the industrial group, in announcing the Shelby Mill grpup subscrip tion said that he hopes the various Industrial teams will complete their reports by the last of next week. Meanwhile, Horace Easom, chair man of the rural church division, called upon his individual chair men to press their appeals this Sunday and render reports Mon day for publication of the list. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 pm.—Initial meeting of Executives club at Hotel Charles. Folk Along Ohio Put Trust In Sand Bag Flood Wall run-iomwu in, w-, mtuuxi u. — (JP)—This city of 40,000 Inhabitants crossed its fingers today and put its trust in a thin line of sandbags as the Ohio river ^approached a crest of 65 feet, 15' above flood stage. The barricade, hastily erectel by townsfolk and Ohio State Guards men, stretched 2,800 ^eet across the Norfolk and Western Railway yards In the eastern section of the city. An earthen and concrete wall and the Scioto county hills protect ed the industrial community on the other side, lapped by waters of both the Ohio and the Scioto rivers. wuc mail iuguwa>, otatc nuuuc 139, was open into the city. The rise of the Ohio had slowed to two-hundredths of a foot an hour. (The stage at Portsmouth was 64.85 feet at 2 a.m. CWT). The ri ver was stationary at Ashland, Ky., 30 miles upstream, encouraging the citizens in their fight to whip the flood. OHIO RECEDING Up the Ohio river, the swollen waters were receding at Steuben ville and East Liverpool, while Marietta and Ironton—the latter See FOLK Page 2 Streams Of Men, Supplies Pour Across Bridge PARIS, March 9.—(/P)—The American First Army steadily enlarged its Remagen bridgehead in inner Germany today to an east bank wedge at least five miles deep and ten wide with streams of men and supplies which the Germans said were crossing the intact Ludendorff bridge at Remagen, 30 miles southeast of Cologne. The extent to which the bridgehead had been enlarged was not disclosed. But since it was officially called a bridge head at all, the Americans obviously had won a foothold at least five miles deep and ten—possibly more—in width. A breakout, indeed, might already be underway. By German account, the American First Army had been halted before the castled east bank town of Linz, three miles east of Remagen and 276 miles southwest of Berlin. The buildup in the rolling green Rhineland hills was swift and under a protective cover of fighter bombers against resistance which the surprised enemy still had been unable to stiffen. Other than that, no details whatever were released at supreme headquarters of the ground developments in the crossing won more than 48 hours ago. Nor would censors at the front pass details of the great military coup which had staggered the wehrmacht critically off balance. The Germans said the Americans had captured a bridge intact at Remagen. The Ludendorff span there is a double track railroad bridge capable of bearing tanks, trucks and foot troops. A Berlin military spokesman said the First Army troops found the bridge which “by chance” was not destroyed. Remagen is about midway between invested Bonn and threatened Coblenz. Of^the crossing, the Berlin radio said: “At Remagen, the Africans succeeded in crossing to the eastern bank of the Rhine. These relatively weak U. S. A. forces could penetrate on the eastern bank of the Rhine. Their advance guards were, however, halted by German bolt positions before the town of Linz.” .Linz is tnree miles east of Re-1 magen, where the Ludendorff rail bridge was reported intact only j two days ago. Supreme headquarters continued strict secrecy. This much was known, however, through the more than 45 shroud ed hours since the infantry crossed at 3:50 p.m. Wednesday in one of the greatest military strokes since the invasion of Normandy: Lt. Gen. Hodges was pouring troops by the thousands (17 words censored! into the east bank bridgehead, which presumably was a good five miles deep and wider than that. Up to latest reports at Su preme headquarters — cover ing action well into Thursday evening — the Germans neith er had been able to rally e nough strength for a fighting stand nor to get enough troops See STREAMS Page 3 15th Air Force Planes Hit Komarom ROME, March 9 —(£>)— Heavy bombers of the U. S. 15th Air force attacked German communi cations yesterday in the Hungar ian city of Komarom within 20 miles of the Russian lines, Allied headquarters announced today. American aircraft from Italy have flown over the Russian front before in recent weeks as the west ern bombing program was meshed with the Red army assault, but the Komarom attack was the first so close to the scene of battle. Ko marom lies 40 miles northwest of Budapest. Only a small force of Liberators hit the Komarom railyards, but air force headquarters said recon naissance showed all tracks were out or blocked and 40 units of roll ing stock were destroyed or dam aged. Cherry Sponsors Bills To Control Sale Of Wines RALEIGH, March 9 — ;o control the sale of all wihes in North Carolina, to allow handling )nly by reputable dealers and grade 'A” hotels, restaurants and cafes were introduced today in the legis ature under the sponsorship of jovernor Cherry. Indiscriminate selling of wines, Sherry said in a statement, had :aused boisterous conduct, immor ality and unlawful conduct at some 3f the places where it was sold m-premises. Such conditions, he said, should be outlawed. General supervision of the man ufacture and sale of wines would be held by the State Alcoholic board of control. SCHOOL BUILDINGS A bill to authorize the state board of education to appoint five of its members to study the school building problem and make recom mendations for improvements to the 1947 legislature was Introduc ed today by Reps. Gunn of Cas well, Stone of Rockingham, Roys ter of Vance, Watkins of Granite ville and Barbour of Chatham. The measure said that war con ditions had caused many delapi dated school buildings, and that hundreds of others had grown too See CHERRY Page S HOSPITAL!!!. BECOMES LAW A statewide bill under which Cleveland county commissioners may call an election to pass on a countywide bond issue for hospital expansion passed its third read ing in the house this morning, it was learned in a telegram from Rep. C. C. Horn. The measure had previously passed the senate and it now becomes law. Under this act the commission ers may call the election to pass on the bond issue and if the issue is approved by the people, levy suffi cient tax to pay principal and in terest. The commissioners would also be authorized to levy a tax not in excess of five cents on the $100 valuation for maintenanee of faci lities. Proceeds from the sale of this bond issue would be used to double the size of the Shelby hospital and establish a hospital unit at King* Mountain. #
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