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WEATHER North Carolina^—Partly cloudy and warm today, tonight and Saturday. Fed showers west portion today. Tshe Hhelby Baily thr CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “Eadie Was A Lady” Starring Ann Mjller — Joe Better VOL. XLIII-65 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—fie AMERICANS WITHIN 200 YARDS OF SUPERHIGHWAY j* . # * * * * .# * # * # # # * * .* # .* # * • « * » U. S. Bombers Smash Buildings At Hitler’s Headquarters AtZossen P. D. HERNDON HERNDON HEADS CROP GROUP Kings Mountain Man li Named President Crop _ Improvement Unit P. D. Herndon, of Kings Moun tain, a leader In crop Improve ment work In this area for manj years, has been named president of the North Carolina Crop Im provement association which h< had served the past year as vice president and for many years ai a director. The group Is affiliat ed with the International Cro| Improvement association. Mr. Herndon was advised todaj of his election by the directors lr a letter from L S Bennett, asso ciate agronomist with the staU department and secretary it charge of seed certification for thi association. For many years Mr. Hemdor has been active in work of th< association to whose affiliation h< was attracted when a hobby foi Improved seed stocks brought hit work to attention of the grout sponsoring such on a statewide basis. Mr. Herndon is currently direct ing the farm census in this arei as supervisor for Zone seven, com prising counties of the 11th anc 12th congressional districts. PFC.W.F.SlfflH REPORTED DEAD Pfc. William F. Smith, Jr., 30 •on of Wiliam F. Smith and thi late Holland Smith of Kings Moun tain, who had previously been re ported missing is now reported t< have been lost aboard a troopshij sunk last Christmas day by Ger man submarine action. He sailed for overseas last Nov ember after almost two years train lng at Port McClellan. Ala., am Camp Rucker, Ala. He was in ducted on January 38, 1843. Pfc. Smith is survived by hi father, his wife, the former Mis Ruby Plumley, who lives at thi Sadie Mill village in Kings Moun tain, his step-mother, two brotheri Clarence, who received a medica discharge from the Navy in De cmeber; Pvt. Leonard Smith, sta tioned at Greensboro, and thre< sisters, Mrs. Furman Farley, Hazel wood, Mrs. Ira Cable, Maryville Tenn., and Mrs. Emmett Roes, Lin wood road. Lt Huff stickler Arrived Today In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, March 16 (iP)—The war department issuee this list of military personnel wh< arrived in San Francisco today fol lowing their liberation from Phi lippine prisoner of war camps. 80UTH CAROLINA Cpl. James E. Strawhom, Pelzer and Sgt. James H. Clem, 24 War ren St., Charleston. NORTH CAROLINA Sgt. Rufus Bundy, 209 East Road Elizabeth City, Pvt. Cecil W. Col ley, Hickory; Lt. Clyde A. Huff stickler, Route 3, Kings Mountain Cpl. Leon B. Lowman, 164 Bart let St., Asheville, Pvt. John J Vaughan, Route 1, Roxboro am Capt. Elon D. Winstead, 204 Nortl Douglas St., Wilson. AIRMEN REPORT BULLSEYE JOB, FIRES jPREAD Men, Specially Picked For Job, Had Been Ready For Weeks 6,000 BLAST BOMBS LONDON, March 16.—(fP) —American heavy bombers smashed several headquarters buildings and rows of bar racks in yesterday’s 650-plane attack on Adolf Hitler’s army staff headquarters at Zossen, 20 miles south of Berlin, it was announced officially to day. A U. S. strategic air force com | munique said the airmen who had been waiting for weeks to carry out the assignment did a bullseye Job. The official bulletin reported hits on many barracks and major office buildings, including the admini l stration building, with both high explosive and incendiary bombs. Great fires were spread in a wide area. The surprise attack on the army chiefs’ workshop, where Hitler was reported in confer ence a few days ago, was car ried out by pilots, navigators and bombardiers especially pick ed for the Job. In a cloudless sky they paraded over the target in two waves and dropped 1,000 blast bombs weigh t ing 1,500 tons, in addition to 335,000 small incendiary missiles. TIRES BURNING The Liberator wing of the attack went in first and by the time the Flying Fortresses arrived fires were burning fiercely. Aerial photographs taken during j the attack showed Liberator , bombs had blocked several roads on the headquarters grounds and crashed into a nearby tank train ing depot. The Fortresses placed six heavy concentrations of bombs In the target area, smashing a number of the main buildings and a large storage depot. Then the ground haze and smoke closed In over the scene and pre vented a more detailed assessment of the damage. Part of the headquarters estab lishment is known to be deep un derground. however, and presum ably safe from anything except the RAF"s new 11-ton bomb. The pilots, carefully briefed for the attack, said they encountered only sporadic antiaircraft fire. I YANKS IN ITALY CAPTURESERRA HOME, March 16— (/P) —Fifth army forces have captured the vil lage of Serra and won positions from which they may be able to cut highway 64 behind the Ger l man stronghold of Vergato, Allied • headquarters announced today. After occupying Serra, about 1, 1 000 yards west of the highway, the ' Allied troops pushed toward the ! village of Salvaro against stifl enemy resistance. : The Germans have clung stub 1 bomly for months to Vergato, a | highway center commanding the \ southwestern approaches to Bolog ' na. Farther to the southwest an Al ! lied raiding party penetrated far into enemy territory north ol Monte Belvedere and destroyed a quantity of enemy equipment and ammunition. German raiders like' wise struck into Fifth army posi tions at scattered points on the approaches to Bologna. • BEETHOVEN’S STATUE SURVIVES WAR—The’ statute of the German composer, Beethoven, stands in the city square at Bonn, Germany, his birthplace, surrounded by the wreckage of an air raid shelter which received a direct hit during an Allied bombing raid. This photo was made by William C. Allen, Associated Press photographer with the War time Still Picture Pool. Cherry Nominates 10 For Education Board Members Come#vemEight Newiy Creoted Education al Districts, Set Up By Current Assembly RALEIGH, March 16.—(fP)—A joint session of the North Carolina legislature today confirmed ten nominations for the State Board of Education made by Governor Cherry, the terms to be staggered from two to eight years. In conformity with a constitu tional amendment approved by the people last November, eight of the members come from as many edu cational districts, a system set up by legislative enactment at this session, and also in conformity with the terms of the amendment, while the other two members were named at large. The new board will take office April 1. The list includes: District 1—John A. Pritchett, Windsor (Bertie county) two years; 2—Archibald McLean Graham, Clinton ^((Sampson county, eight years; 3—A. S. Brower, Durham (Durham county) six years; 4—Horace E. Stacey, Lumberton (Robeson county), four years; 5—Sant ford Martin, Winston-Salem (Forsyth county), fd% years; 6 —Dr. Julian S. Miller. Char lotte (Mecklenburg odttnly), six years; 7—Mrs. H. S. Ferguson, Taylorsville (Alexander coun ty), two years; 8—D. Hiden Ramsey, Asheville (Buncombe county), eight years. Members at large—D. B. B. Dougherty, Boone (Watauga county), eight years, and Alonso C. Edwards, Hookerton (Greene county), four years. Lieut. Gov. L. Y. Ballentine. State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, and State Superintendent of Public In struction, Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, are ex-officio members Of the board. NEW DISTRICT The Governor in making his no mination, acted under the terms of the constitutional amendment providing for a new board of edu cation to be named from the eight newly created educational districts. Originally the board was named from congressional districts of the state. New members of the board are Pritchett, Ferguson, Ramsey and Dr. Dougherty. The lagt named was a former member of Die school See CHERRY Edge 3 NASSAU, BAHAMAS, Match 16 —(JP)—This tiny colony will bid farewell next month to the Duke , of Windsor, the Royal governor who steered the Bahama island safely through a wartime economic storm, and to his American-born , duchess. An announcement that the for - mer King of England had resigned the governorship which he has held ' since Aug. 17, 1940, and would be • succeeded by W. L. Murphy, Ber l muda colonial secretary, came yes i terday as a surprise even to mem bers of his official household. i k The duke himself said the resig nation should not have been un expected, pointing out that by the end of April he will have served all but about three and a half months of a term of five years, us ually the maximum'tenure for co lonial governors. - Apparently the duke was some what surprised himself by the tim ing of the announcement. He was reported to have cancelled a golf ing date to meet with government heads when the news was made See DUKE Page 3 LARRY ALLEN TO SPEAK TONIGHT Noted Wor Correspondent Appeors Under Auspices Of Jaycees Larry Allen, one of the greatesi of war correspondents of this besl reported of all wars, comes to towi this afternoon and will discus! things he has seen—including 2< months in a German prison camp —in a lecture at the high school al 8 p.m. under sponsorship of Shelby'! Junior Chamber of Commerce. Proceeds from the affair will gc toward financing youth work of the Jaycees in the community. Following tonight’s meeting, Mr Allen will meet with kin of prison ers of war and discuss with then things they are interested in about prison life in Germany. SPANISH CIVIL WAR It was in 1938 that Mr. Allen gol his first foreign assignment tc cover the civil war in Spain. Front there he went to Czechoslovakia then moved to Rome in 1939 anc in 1940 landed in Alexandria. It was there he talked the British ad mirals into letting him accompanj the British fleet as the first accre dited American correspondent tc enjoy that relationship. After watching the war in the Mediterranean from every style oi fighting ship, except a submarine Allen was captured by the Nazi! when he went along on a Com mando raid at Tobruk, Libyla. He had been in German prisons ant prison camps for 20 months before he won release. Japanese Losses In Burma Heavy CALCUTTA, ' March 16 —(JPh About 10,000 Japanese are estimat ed to have been. killed in centra Burma since the 14th army begat its offensive Jan. 7 and more that 100 field guns of 70 mm. or largei calibre have pen captured or de stroyed, AlllflS headquarters an nounced tod^y. A further huge force of the enemy, variously placed at fron 25,000 to 50,000, has been cut of with little chance of survival through severance of all majo escape routes from the MeiktUa Pakokku-Mandalay pocket. REDS OPEN NEW ATTACK EAST OF ODER RIVER Russians Announce 7 Mile Breakthrough In East Prussia BERLIN FRONT QUIET LONDON, March 16.—(/P) —The Russians have opened a violent new attack against the last German positions east • of the Oder in the Stettin area with a drumfire barrage fol lowed by masses of tanks and infantry, the - Germans re ported today. • In East Prussia the Russians an nounced a seven-mile breakthrough to the shore of the Frisches Haf£ a Baltic lagoon, which divided the remnants of the 200,000 defenders of the Koenigsberg zone into two pockets. Another major attack has been started by Marshal Ivan Konev’s First Ukrainian army north of Ratibor and in the Grottkau area southeast of Breslau in Silesia, the German communique announced, and penetrations were made. Ger man broadcasts said several Russian divisions were involv ed in the drive toward Morav ska-Ostrava, in the Moravian gate, 17 miles south of Ratibor. The Stettin and East Prussian offensives apparently were a part of a wide-scale moppnig up be hind advanced Soviet lines prepa ratory to the climatic battle widely the Russians may launch along the Berlin front at any time. NORTH FLANK Stettin is the key to Berlin’s north flank For days the Rus sians have been reported on heights overlooking the city, Ber lin's chief Baltic port, and pour ing artillery fire into the streets. The chief German bridgehead centered around Altdamm, the Stettin suburb on the eastern side of the Oder which the Russians were reported to have penetrated at one time. The Germans said most of the 380,000 inhabitants of Stettin had been removed. Moscow broadcasts reported that the city had been See REDS Page 2 Reconversion Plans May Be Revealed Soon WASHINGTON, March 16.—UP)— The government is expected to break its siled&e shortly on recon version plans to relieve business fears that a German collapse might catch the home economy unpre pared. The opinion prevails, however, that the 64-billion-dollar question —How much will V-E day reduce that annual armament outlay?— will not be answered immediately. Officials in the War Production Board and elsewhere appear gen uinely puzzled over the drop to be expected in war contracts. Esti mates range from 20 per cent, which is more or less official, to 35 per cent, a figure privately favored by a substantial minority. BY APRIL 1 James P. Byrnes is obliged to lift his own blackout on reconversion talk by April 1. On that date he must, by law, submit to congress a report on his Office of War Mobili zation and Reconversion. Meanwhile the smashing Allied gains in Germany have brought new pressure on WPB to bring its plans into the open, and Chair man J. A. Krug is reported likely to do so within a few days. An official estimate of munition! cutbacks following V-E day is o) highest importance. It would indi cate the extent to which clvlliar goods production could be resumed the chance of dropping federa controls over Industry, and the ex . tent of unemployment during re , tooling. t ASKS ESTIMATES . Byrnes has asked the Army Navy and other procurement agen cies to submit estimates, but these were not ready when a recent WPE report was filed with Byrnes. If the absence of firm figure: from the Army and Navy continues Krug is expected to emphasize VPB’s readiness to expand the “spot” authorization plan foi plant-by-plant reconversion anc othoc. elements of last fall's recon ■ version program which have beer laid on the shelf. JOHN S. WILKINS JOHN S. WILKINS TAKES NEW JOB Was Farm Agent Here For Ten Years; No Suc cessor Selected John S. Wilkins, county farm agent in Cleveland county for the past 10 years, tendered his resigna tion to the board of county com missioners meeting in special ses sion yesterday afternoon to become effective April 1. Mr. Wilkins re signedhis place htyre to. become 'AgrpMNia«*|MrtattlS-wMv'4he State college agrfcoltunil extension de partment. The commissioners accepted his resignation with regret and thank ed him for his long and useful service in this county. So far no move has been made to secure a successor. In his letter: of resignation given to the commissioners, Mr. Wilkins said that his new field of work fits into the overall war effort and of fers a "challenging opportunity for a greater service in the expansion of agriculture in this great state.” He thanked the commissioners for their loyal support of his farm program and expressed his appre ciation to the people of Cleveland county for their co-operation. Mr. Wilkins is a native of Ala mance county. He graduated from State college to 1930 taking up work in Catawba county as assis tant agent. Ten yeafs ago he came to Cleveland as .fulf agent. He said this mowing that he plans to continue to live with his family in Shelby and it is expect ed that most of his activity will be in western North Carolina. Since coming to Cleveland, Mr. Wilkins has many fine accom plishments to his credit and has made a host of friends in every part of the county. ' Noxi Offices Moved To Southern Germany LONDON, March 16.—(/P)—The last Nazi office has been moved from Berlin and all high officials now are in southern Germany, where big foodstockg have been stored up, the Moscow radio said today in a German-language broad cast. WHAT’S DOING today' 7:00 p.m.—Masonic Fellow ship club meets at Masonic Temple. . 8:00 p.m.—Lecture by Larry Allen in high school auditorium under sponsorship of Junior Chamber of Commerce. Germans Concerned Over Expanding Bridgehead, Third Army Advances PARIS, March 16.—(fl3)—Americans fought within 200 yards of the virtually severed Ruhr-Rhineland superhigh way today and advanced up to two miles overnight into Koenigswinter, lengthening their east Rhine bridgehead to 13 miles. A hundred miles to the south, the new Seventh Army offensive rolled forward along a 50-mile front from Saar bruecken to the Rhine, and aerial reports indicated the Ger nans already had started their flight to Frankfurt from the aarland and Palatinate. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army, applying a nut cracker squeeze from'tfil north on the Saarland and Palatin ate, broke out of its Moselle river bridgeheads just south west of besieged Mayen and cut off Coblenz and raced 12 miles to the southeast in a supreme effort to trap Ger mans tarrying in outflanked sections of the Siegfried lines. it was tne lamous rourtn armor ed division which made the long dash through and beyond the Mo selle bridgeheads established by the Fifth and 90th divisions. The Moselle was crossed anew six miles southwest of Coblenz and at a point 18 south of Mayen. Advance First army troops pos sibly already were astride the big LONDON, March 16—(A5)— The Germans expressed con cern late today about the ex panding cross-Rhine bridge head at Remagen and the army’s armored breakthrough between the Moselle and Rhine valley. “These developments begin to assume operational import ance/' the enemy military com mentator Capt. Ludwig Ser torions broadcast. military road east of the Rhine. It can be cortsidered cut with in fantry at such close range, Cor respondent Doh Whitehead report ed from the area. The Germans were unable to use the section east of the Remagen bridgehead, which bulged six and a half miles east of the Rhine to positions where directly observed small arms swept the highway. Overnight advances by the Seventh army ranged up to two and a half miles for an aggregate gain of up to sis in the push. Numerous towns and more than 1,000 prison ers—mostly Panzer grenadiers and Elite SS troops — were captured. Surprise was achiev ed. Seventh army troops fought at the very edge of Saarbruecken and occupied Pechingen, six miles in i side the Saarland, and Ensheim, five south of St. Xngbert (21,000) Others occupied Obergailbach and advanced a mile into the German Bgumbusch Woods to a point eight miles south of the steel mill city of Zweibruecken (16,000) in the Palatinate. SIEGE OF BITCHE The siege of the 200-year-old fortress of Bitche, never success fully stormed, was tightened with the capture of Freudenberg and Reyerswiller, both within sight of the great rock in the center of the town. Bitschoffen, eight miles See GERMANS Page t U. S. Forces Smash Into Shimbu Line Maj. Gen. Edwin Patrick Killed On Luzon; Beach head On Mindanao Expanded MANILA, March 16.—(/P)—American infantrymen smashed a wedge two miles deep into the crumbling Shimbu line on Luzon island today, perhaps trapping several thous and Japanese, and seized 15 more villages in the southern Philippines to spread their Mindanao beachhead over 28 I rv:iloa I A Japanese machinegun burst killed Maj. Gen. Edwin D. Pat rick, commander of the Sixth di vision, while sitting in a foxhole on the northern end of the Shim bu line. Patrick, who was shot Wednesday, was the second divis ion commander to be hit on the Shlmbu line. Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge of the First cavalry is re covering from grenade wounds. The Shimbu line, roughly 15 miles east of Manila, was cracked by a heavy blow from Maj. Gen. Leonard F. Wing's 43rd division. Wing’s infantrymen drove through between two of the enemy’s sou thern defense lines and seized a network of roads, cutting off the escape route for thousands of Jap anese. Annihilation of the Shimbu line was speeded by a new skip-bomb ing technique of fighter-bombers that sent bombs skidding into the See U. S. FORCES Page 2 BIG PAY FOR THE IRISH: Crosby And Bergman Awarded ‘Oscars’ For Best Portrayals HOLLYWOOD, March 16.—(/P)— It’s a big day for thre Irish—and a lovely miss from 8weden, Ingrid Bergwan. Bing Orosby, Leo McCarey, Bar ry Fitxgerald, little Margaret O’ Brien, all as Irish as Paddy's Pig, and Miss Bergman, walked off with the major share of honors as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded its famed "Oscars” last night.” And the movie capital went ail the way in voting "Going Mv Way” the most outstanding pic ture of 1944. The hit film outdis tanced such nominees as the epic “Wilson” and "Double Indemnity” and earned, all told, no less than six awards. Included were: an "Os car” for Crooner Crosby for the best performance by an actor; an other for Dublin-born Barry Fitz gerald, his co-star, for giving the finest supporting portrayal, anc two to the man who directed anc wrote the original story, Leo Me Carey. Miss Bergman won the best ac tress award for her vivid psycho See CROSBY Page 3 Byrnes’ Advisory Board Asks That It Be Consulted WASHINGTON, March 16—^— James P. Byrnes’ advisory board has asked that it be consulted on such matters as the midnight en tertainment curfew and the ban on racing, and has obtained Byrnes’ agreement. Chairman O. Max Gardner, head of the advisory board to Byrnes’ office of war mobilization and re conversion, said today a resolution "respectfully” requesting that Byrnes consult the group on such actions had been approved in Byrnes’ presence. “We deserve none of the credit and none of the blame for certain of directors Byrnes’ actions like the racing ban and the midnight cur few,” Gardner said, explaining that the civilian board had received both congratulations and com plaints on both actions. “But I wish to make it cleat there is no quarrel with Mr. Byrnes. He was present March 5 when the resolution was passed and he was agreeable to it.” CONCERN FELT Nevertheless, others of the board membership — which includes spokesmen for labor, management, farming and the public at large felt concern over what they regard as a growing ascendancy of the I military over home-front manage j ment. An associate of Byrnes point ed out that many of the fuel and manpower conservation measures have been ordered See BYRNES Page I Duke Of Windsor Resigns As Royal Governor Of Baham&
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