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WEATHER Partly cloudy and unseasonably warm today and tonight, followed by showers and thunderstorms and not so warm Sunday. Showers be ginning in west late tonight. Tshe Hhelhy Baily Him« - State Theatre Today “Eadie Was A Lady” Starring Ann Miller — Joe Bester CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—66 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, MAR. 17, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c THIRD ARMY CLOSING SAARLAND TRAP ON NAZIS ..- I _______- __ ___i 75 PER CENT OF KOBE FIRED BY B-29 BOMBS Twelve Square Miles Of Destruction Left In Heart Of City SHIPBUILDING CENTER 21ST BOMBER COMMAND, Guam, March 17. — (/P) —: Twelve square miles of Jap-! an’s greatest shipbuilding; center, Kobe, was set afire or j reduced to ashes by more i than 300 Superforts today. Fires were visible 100 miles. The conflagration, created by 2,500 tons of Incendiaries, was sec ond only to Tokyo's 17-square mile holocaust In the 21st Bomber com mand's intensified war on the Japanese homeland. In only eight days, Superforts also have destroyed five square miles of industrial Osaka and two square miles in the heart of Na goya. That 36 square mile area of destruction In four enemy cities Is nearly equal to the combined total area of Albany, N. Y„ 19 square miles, and Jersey City, N. J„ 21. It equals 65 per cent of Pittsburg's 55 square miles. Col. W. H. Blanchard, operations officer of the 21st Bomber com mand. who flew over Kobe from 4 to 6 a.m. (Japan tlmei while the raid was in progress, reported that even as his observation B-29 left the target several square miles al ready had been reduced to ashes. Flames were devouring more miles of factories, shipyards and other war plants. 75 PER CENT That 12 square miles represented about 75 per cent of long, narrow Kobe's total area. The 1,000,000 population city extends 10 miles' along the Inland Japanese sea and is one to three miles wide. Among the flaming targets were the Mitsubishi airplane plant and Kawasake locomotive plant, both I fired by direct hits from the third | B-29 over the city, and the dock area, set blazing by the second Superfort. Great fires immediately lighted up the city, which was blacked out as the raiders approached. Radio Tokyo said Osaka also was See 75 PER CENT Page 2 Earl Of Athlone To Visit White House Next Week WASHINGTON, March 17. —OP) —The Earl of Athlone, governor general of Canada, and his wife, Princess Alloe, will arrive In Washington next Thursday to be White House guests for three days. The White House, In making this announcement today, said the visi tors will be received with all the honors accorded the head of a state. Pull details of the social program during their visit will be announced later. The reception to the governor governor general will follow closely on the visit to the White House of P-ime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada, who a few days ago re turned to Ottawa after discussing Canadlan-American relations, par ticularly postwar economic affairs, with President Roosevelt. Another distinguished foreign visitor was due at the White House today — Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands. She was due in from Canada to be the Roosevelts’ week-end guest. Weathers Resolution Endorsing Freedom Of News Is Adopted RALEIGH, March 17—OP)— The North Carolina legislature has a dopted a joint resolution by Sena tor Weathers of Cleveland endors ing “the principle of free and un hampered access to and transmis sion of news in the various coun tries of the world.” The resolution also said that “the press of the United States has unanimously expressed a de sire for equitable and uniform tolls In news dispatches emanat ing form the various countries of the world”; and “the unhampered access to news in all countries of the world will be a potent factor in the preservation of peace.” Singled out for commendation for work in those fields were Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press; and Hugh Bail lie, president of the United Press, Copies of the resolution were or dered sent to the state’s senators and representatives in congress. The resolution passed the house late yesterday and will be ratified Honda/. w. » #8$ FIRST B-28 SUPERFORTRESS LANDS ON IWO JIMA—Marines flock around a crippled B-29 Superfort ress which made an emergency landing on Motoyama airfield No. 1 on Iwo Jima in returning from a raid on Japan. The Marine Corps said this was the first Superfortress to land on the newly-won Volcanic island strip. SUPERFORTS HIT RANGOON WASHINGTON, March 17—UP) —Superfortresses bombed vital storage areas today at Rangoon, strategically import enemy-held military center in Burma. A medium-sised force of ap proximately 44) planes from Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey’s 20th Bomber command in India par ticipated In the raid, which came a few hours after B29s struck heavily at Kobe on the Japanese mainland. Today's was the fourth B29 mission of the war against Ran goon, one of the largest enemy military bases. It was a further step in a systematic MssHsg of military targets in Malaya in which Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have felt other stiff blowa PETITION YORK BUS VIA GROVER _ Queen City Line Filing Competitive Applicotion For Franchise Queen City Coach company is filing a competitive application to operate passenger bus local service from Shelby to Grover and thence to York, connecting there with through service for Columbia and other South Carolina points. Previously, the Atlantic Grey hound Lines had announced Inten tion to seek a franchise for a Shelby-Grover linking of its through service from Atlanta to Winston-Salem. Both petitions will be scheduled for hearing in April at Raleigh before the State Utili ties commission. Henry B. Ed wards represents the Queen City Lines. O. M. Mull the Atlantic Greyhound Lines. It is the purpose of the petition er, Mr. Edwards said, to provide early morning, mid-day and later afternoon schedules into and out of Shelby on the projected exten sion of service to a territory not See PETITION Page 2 What Did You Buy, Brother? WASHINGTON, March 16. —(A5)—If you paid 2500 income tax, you bought the Marines two flamethrowers. Here’s what other sample 1944 tax payments can provide for the fighting forces: Five cents—a cotton handker chief. $2.50—A steel helmet. $15—The new submachlnegun. $35—A garand rifle. $150—A potato peeling ma chine. $250—A motor scooter. $350—A 50 - calibre machine gun. $1,000—A barrage balloon. $2,500—A "Flying Jeep” or grasshopper plane. $5,000—A 75mm. aircraft can non. $10,000—A 10-ton truck. $20,000—A155mm. howitzer. $50,000—A Sherman tank or a mobile laundry. $100,000—Two P-51 fighter plages. $250,000—A Liberator bomber. $600,000—A B-29 Superfortress. $1,000,000—One one-hundredth of a battleship. Feel better about it now? ; Allied Airmen Blast Reich Again Today Nuernberg, Wuerzburg, And Berlin Attacked Last , Night; Daylight Raids Resumed LONDON, March 17.—(AP)—A fleet of Allied bombers | which stretched out 150 miles flew from England today in a j resumption of daylight hammering of the Reich. Close to 1,000 British warplanes attacked Nuernberg and Wuerzburg as the chief targets in Germany last night and RAF Mosquitos raided Berlin for the 25th consecutive night. The air ministry declared the purpose of the raids was “to destroy what remains of the German war industry.” Ttnlri.v 'RAH* hnmhsrs wprp loaf . ...... 4a. iMt-Sight's operations, with tfrq fiercest opposition coming from German night fighters at Nuern berg. Nine Nazi planes were shot down. "Fighters cropped up everywhere near Nuernberg and their flares were spread out for miles on our track.” said one Lancaster gunner. Both Nuernburg and Wuerzburg were bombed by moonlight. Smoke soon blurred the targets, but the glow- of fires could be seen for miles. Nuernberg, war center and Nasi meeting place in south ern Germany, has one of the largest railroad yards in the relch, with trunk lines run ning to all war fronts. Some of its armament plants and tank factories are still producing on a reduced scale. Wuerzburg, Bavarian industrial city 55 miles northwest of Nuern berg. has a large number of engi neering and textile plants. ITALY-BASED PLANES Yesterday was the first time in 32 days that Germany proper es caped without a daylight raid by heavy bombers from Britain, but U. S. heavy bombers from Italy maintained assaults on enemy fuel refineries in the Vienna area. Weather curtailed air activity at forward bases. However, U. S. ninth air force Marauders got in several attacks at railroads, forti fied positions and ordnance depots behind the Nazi lines. Principal tar gets were in the Mannheim and Kaiserslautern areas. Eight German fighters were knocked down by American pilots over the front yesterday and seven others ( were destroyed on the ground.' Eleven U. S. fighters were missing. 13 MISSING Thirteen Italy-based planes, in cluding six heavy bombers, were missing from yesterday’s opera tions, which damaged severely three of four intact refineries in the Vienna area. Four German planes were shot See ALLIED Page 2 Assembly Holds Session Today On Public Calendar RALEIGH, March 17.—(>P)—Defi nitely in the “home stretch,” the North Carolina legislature bent on adjournment by the middle of the coining week, held its first Satur day session on public calendar - to day. By agreement, the Saturday sessions have heretofore been de voted to local bills only. House Speaker Oscar Richard son announced earlier in the week the public calendar would be con sidered this 64th day of the 1945 general assembly, and yesterday the senate also agreed to consider pub lic bills as a means of speeding the finish. With only a few public bills re maining on the house calendar and with the senate’s slate in even bet ter shape, observers believe the as sembly can close the books on the session Tuesday and certainly by Wednesday if no unforeseen com plications arise to delay it. EDUCATION BOARD Confirmation of ten members of thhe new state board of education, as nominated by Governor Cherry, was accomplished at a joint ses sion of the two houses yesterday, but due to a transposition of names of two of the board members, it was found necessary to amend the bill in the house. The amendment was presented by Rep. Stone of Rockingham, and adopted, placing Dr. Julian S. Miller, Charlotte edi tor, in the seventh educational dis trict, which embraces Mecklenburg county, and Mrs. R. S. Ferguson, of Alexander county, in the sixth. The original confirmation bill had the districts reversed, placing Dr. Mill er in the sixth and Mrs. Ferguson in the seventh. It may have been the 86-degree See ASSEMBLY Page 2 I LARRY ALLEN SPEAKS; Entire Nazi System Damned By News Ace By JOHN WEBB CANNON, City Editor The Star uubCHicaa w&iuK uuiu iuo huu gent sentences, Larry Allen, Asso ciated Press correspondent, who was released from a German pri son camp six months ago, gave the whole Nazi system and philosophy of life a damning in his speech at the high school auditorium last night. He was speaking under the auspices of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and was presented by Doris Bolt, president of that or ganization. From the start, Correspon dent Allen seised the sympathy and interest of his Cleveland eonnty audience and it cheered him on as he took verba) re* ivi tuc nciuk suup CHIU mouldy bread, his fare as a prisoner of war, for his cold nights and ne .r starvation dur ing the time he spent behind barbed wire in various Nazi pri son camps. Correspondent Allen started out as an Italian prisoner after his fifth dumping into the Mediterra nean. He became a German prison er of war when he tried to make his escape from a cattle car and was betrayed by a couple of Ital ians who had promised to help him just before he reached the Swiss See ENTIRE Page 3 BRITISH SHIPS IN SKAGERRAK LONDON, March 17—HP)—'The Berlin radio said today British warships were operating in the Skagerrak, strategic waterway between Denmark and Norway through which the Germans have been withdrawing troops from Norway. The broadcast, quoting a transocean dispatch from Stock holm, said the warcraft were clearing the waters of fishing boats. It said six Swedish fish ing craft had been seized and towed to England. The report said the chief of the Swedish navy had ordered all fishing boats to proceed to waters east of the German blockade zone, which extends to within sight of the Swedish coast. A recent German warn ing that vesels entering the zone would be sunk without warning caused a Swedish protest. There was no confirmation of any such Allied naval activity in London. YANKS TIGHTEN NUTCRACKER ON BAGUIO AREA New Landing On Southern Luzon; Double Attack On Shimbu Line MANILA, March 17—f/P)—The 33rd division has pulled its heavy artillery to within eight miles of Baguio and today can drop shells into the former Philippine common wealth’s summer capital. The 33rd— a former Illinois na tional guard division—has tight ened, Its nutcracker by pushing toward the famed mountain city from the west and south. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s com funique reports that the 32nd di vision is probing the mountains from the southeast. Maj. Gen. Leonard F. Wing’s 43rd infantry division mean while is delivering a smashing double-pronged blow against the Japanese in the Srimbu line east of Manila while an ampribious operation has been made in southern Luzon. Installations around Baguio, Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita’s head quarters, have been bombed and shelled heavily. As yet the city has been spared. SLOW ADVANCE The advance of the 33rd has been slow—13 miles in a month— but the methodical gain has been made through difficult mountain terrain filled with Japanese am bush parties. The going has been made more difficult by the syste matic blowing up of bridges al though the 300 foot steel and con crete Aringay span was captured by a surprise night move. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced the new successes today along with stepped-up air attacks on enemy islands between Luzon and the Japanese homeland. More than 50 Liberator bombers drop ped 243 tons of explosives on the Ansan naval base at Formosa and on adjacent islands. Some planes from MacArthur’s southwest Pa cific theatre ranged up to Oki nawa, midway between Formosa and Japan. General Wing’s 43rd has de stroyed the entire south flank of the Shimbu line around Antipolo. Other elements bypassed Teresa, See YANKS Page 2 SITUATION ON WHITE RIVER STILL SERIOUS MEMPHIS, March 17—(#)—1The situation along the Jackson Ba you levee in Prairie county, Ar kansas, remained "serious” today while army troops battled to hold the flooded White river which has forced 230 families to higher ground. Engineers said there had been little change in the caving of the levee just below Trimble island, but there was still a threat of the embankment giving way. All fa milies have been evacuated from the threatened area. Meanwhile, the upper hand ap parently had been gained in Dyer county, Tennessee, where 40,000 acres have been flooded and 200 families forced from their homes by breaks in a small private levee Engineers said conditions along the main Booth’s Point-Tennemo roadway were "'more favorable than at any time" since the flood threat appeared. The Mississippi river was due tc crest here today at 38 feet, four above flood stage. FULTON OURSLER EXECUTIVES TO HEAR OURSLER Second Dinner-Lecture Session April 6 Brings Reader's Digest Editor Fulton Oursler, former editor of Liberty magazine, now senior edi tor of Reader’s Digest, will be speaker at the second dinner-lec ture session of the Cleveland Exec utives club at the Charles Hotel, April 6, 7 pjn., it was announced today by President Phil Elliott. Reservations for members and their guests should be made before hand with 3. D. Osborne, secre tary-treasurer of the recently or ganized club which got off to such an auspicious beginning March 9 in the first of seven such brilliant events arranged for the year. The membership roster, limited to 150, is virtually complete and when all the places are taken further appli cants for membership in the din ner-lecture club will have to take their place on the club’s waiting list. Mr. Oursler, one of America’s most gifted and brilliant writers and lecturers, has had a varied experience in writing that includ ed collaboration with Franklin D. Roosevelt on a detective novel. Following his timely discussion of international events he will sub mit to questioning, a post-lecture feature of each of the Executives session when the speaker submits to audience questioning in exten sion of remarks. U. S. Forces Break Into Vergato But Are Forced Out Again ROME, March 17—(JP)—Troops of the U. S. First Armored divis ion yesterday broke into the vil lage of Salvaro near the Bolog na-Pistoia highway behind the German-held road-crossing town of Vergato, but later were forced to withdraw, Allied headquarters announced today. The Germans have clung stub bornly to Vergato for months. It controls the southwest approach es to Bologna. Allied capture of Salvaro would virtually isolate the Vergato garrison. The Americans entered the town after driving from Serra, captured the day before. For a time they controlled a number of buildings In the town. They withdrew af ter suffering a number of casual ties. WHAT’S DOING SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—U.S. O. center open to service folk visiting in the city. MONDAY 7:30 p.m.—City council meets at city hall. 7:30 p.m.—Mission Revival series begins at First Baptist church. Patton s Men Advance 10 To 15 Miles, Said Using 40 Divisions PARIS, March 17.—(/P)—U. S. Third Army tanks lunged to points 40 miles southeast of Cozlenz today in a race down behind the Siegfried line in the huge Saarland triangle and were rapidly closing a trap on thousands of Germans be twen the Rhine and Moselle rivers. Lt.-Gen. George S. Patton’s armored spearheads burst forward another 10 to 15 miles today southeast of Simmer, 25 iles south of Coblenz and 45 from the Remagen bridge head. A German broadcast late today declared Lt.-Gen. George S. Patron, Jr., was using 40 divisions, 15 of them armored, in his Third Army attack against the Saarland triangle. uiner units drove to tne Rhine south of Coblenz, isolating the city of 58,000, and pushed up the east side of the Moselle to the outskirts of the ancient citadel. Patton’s tanks, already halfway from Coblenz to Mainz, threatened pocket remnants of two German armies in the triangle formed by the Rhine and Moselle, and now stood only some 45 to 50 miles from U. S. Seventh army men pushing up from the south. The Seventh, attacking on a 50 mile front, was driving Germans back to the doubtful security of the Siegfried line, and had taken the Maginot fortress of Bitche. The Third army captured seven towns, cleared 11, and entered another, but security measures did not permit their identification immediately. Ger man resistance continued weak and disorganized, and roads south were clogged with retreating Nail vehicles and troops. The tank columns neared Bin gen on the Rhine, and Berlin broadcasts admitted a “breach in major depth” west of the lower Vosges mountains. The American First army in its expanding Rhine bridgehead de ployed tanks on the superhighway connecting Frankfurt and the Ruhr, took four more towns, and won two-thirds of Hoenningen at the southern end of the bridge head, now 13 miles long and seven deep. Heeg, Reiffert, Bremscheid, and Hohen were taken in the bridge head, and some U. S. units were within three miles of open plains leading north to the Ruhr. House See PATTON’S Pag* S Reds Batter Nazis* Stettin Bridgehead Russian Pontoon Equipmont Brought Up To Oder South Of City In Readiness For Crossing MOSCOW, March 17.—(/P)—Tanks and infantry of the First White Russian army thrust forward again today against the reduced enemy bridgehead at Stettin from within four and a half miles of that vital northern gateway to Berlin. oimunaneousiy, in; Kussians were reported bringing up pontoon equipment along & three-mile stretch of the Oder river in the vi cinity of captured Griefhagen, less than 11 miles south of Stettin. The heaviest Russian pressure was exerted against the southern flank of the Nazi bridgehead, which extends along the east bank of the Oder for about 11 miles south from Stettin's eastern suburbs of Alt damm, on the edge of Dammscher See. The remaining Nazi bridge head east of the river is only one to two miles deep at some points. Its complete seizure would be a tactical preparation for the Berlin offensive second in importance only to the cap ture of Kuestrin early this week. Fall of Griefhagen put Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov’s troops into another good jumping spot for spanning the Oder. However, the main highway bridge across the Oder’s eastern arm, the Reglltz, and the Oder itself, from Griefhagen toward the Stettin-Berlin auto bahn was unofficially reported de molished before the Russians oc cupied the town. NEAR BRAUNSBERG Meanwhile, the Third White Rus sian army group, liquidating the Nazi’s East Prussian fragments, pressed closer to Braunsberg and reached the outskirts of the Port of Brandenburg, which already has been cut off from Koenigsberg, 10 miles to the northwest. An uneasy lull was reported from the most crucial of all sectors of the eastern front—the 25-mile stertch of the middle Oder due east of Berlin—where both German and Russian troops continued to mass for an impending climactic bat tle. Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky’s Sec ond White Russian army again to day sustained the powerful drive See REDS Page 2 Hard-Won Little Iwo Paying Off With Quick Dividends By MORRIE LANDSBERG TJ. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, GUAM, March 17— (JP)—Volcanic little Iwo, won at a cost of 4,189 Marines killed, 15,308 wounded and 441 missing, already is paying off with quick dividends. The navy disclosed today that two airfields are in combat opera tion within fighter plane range of Tokyo. The second one, in the center of the eight square mile Is land, was completed by engineers who worked on it while the blood i lest engagement of the Pacific raged about them. Engineers finished it yesterday, the same day three Marine divis ions crushed the last organized enemy resistance after 26 days ol fighting in which more than 21, 000 Nipponese were killed. SOUTHERN FIELD The big southern bomber field captured on the second day of thf invasion, has been in operatior since Feb. 26 and already 30 Su perfortresses have made emergen cy stops there—halfway betweer B-29 bases in the Marianas anc bombing targets in Japan. Here tofore, the costly Superforts crip See HARD-WON Page ) CONFESSES TO SIX KILLINGS Arkansas Youth Tolls Ma cabre Story Of Series Of Crimes LITTLE ROCK, Ar., March 17— WP)—A 24-year-old taxi driver — “when he worked” — was held in Pulaski county Jail here today on open charges after police reported he had confessed to killing six persons, including his second wife and an Arkansas state official. State Police Sgt. Homer Sims and City Detective Herbert R. Pe terson said James W. Hall, red haired native of Enola, Ark., told them last night that he killed: J. D. Newcomb, Jr, of Little Rock, state boiler inspector, whose charred body was found in his automobile last Thurs day night near Heber Springs. His second wife, Mrs. Faye Clements Hall. E. C. Adams, of Humboldt, Kansas, found slain in his car i near Fordyce, southwest of Little Rock, Feb. 1. Doyle Mulherin, of Little Rock, packing company truck driver, whose body was found on the roadside between Brum met and Stuttgart in eastern Arkansas on Feb. 8. An unidentified negro at Camden, Ouachita county, in January. An unidentified negro wom an at Salina. Kansas, seven years ago. Peterson said Hall, a five-ten 170-pound dapper looking man, was arrested yesterday morning on a tip that he had left Little Rock and headed toward Conway, Ark, on the day Newcomb was slain. Conway is between Little Rock and Heber Springs, where Newcomb's body was found. MACABRE STORY The detective said Hall told of ficers the following story: “I’ll tell you all about it. I kill ed them all. “I married a Conway girl and we were divorced after more than four years. We have a little two year-old. I’m crazy about him. “I was drafted into the navy in 1943 and was discharged af ter six weeks service because of indifference. I don't know what that means. "I married Faye Clements ef Lo ! i See CONFESS Page I
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