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WEATHER Clearing and cooler today followed by fair and cool tonight with scat tered frost west and central por tions. Friday, fair and warmer. Tshe Hhelhy Baily Stett STATE THEATRE TODAY "I LOVE A MYSTERY" Also War Short — Pin-Up Cartoon — Flicker - Flashbacks CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—70 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, MAR. 22, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c AIRMEN BATTER ARMY CAMPS IN WESTERN REICH Fourteen Woves Of Bomb ers Attack Camps, Air Bases In Ruhr FROM ALL~dTrECTIONS LONDON, March 22.—(/P) —The full fury of allied air might was turned directly on German troops jammed into the Ruhr today as 1,300 Am erican heavy bombers blasted nine of the largest army camps in western Geripany and five more airfields near ,the front. Incomplete reports indicat ed that more than 7,000 war planes were taking a crack at German targets. Fourteen waves of Fortresses and Liberators were protected by 700 Mustangs in the attacks on ramps and air bases in the Ruhr. The Mustangs also patrolled the sky for other widespread air oper ations ranging from the North Sea to Austria. The tactical air commands thus were able to throw their full weight into the merciless bomb and rocket offensive which Gen. Eisenhower has warned was coming. The weather again fayored the airmen, and so many hun dreds of aircraft were flashing in all directions over the Reich that the Nazi radio finally gave up trying to follow them in its warning service. American bombers from Britain in bombing airfields south of Stutt gart and Nurnberg probably pass ed sister heavies from Italy which DNB said attacked from over the Alps. Nazi troops camps attacked were within a 80-mlle arc of the Re magen bridgehead. The airfields attacked were at Kitzengen, Glebelstadt. between Frankfurt and Nuernberg. Rhein Main. Schwablsc-Hall, northeast of See AIRMEN Page 2 Delegates To 1 Security Meet Are Protested LONDON, March 22.—<JP)— Hot words. cheers and Jeers were ex changed in commons today after Prime Minister Churchill had an nounced names of those who will j represent Britain at the Golden Gate World Security conference. Laborite Emmanuel Shinwell ac cused the government of stacking the delegation with conservatives. Churchill roared back that Shin well "has done everything in his power to break up this government and hopes to gain after its disso lution what he would never gain while national affairs predominat ed in men’s minds." Obviously irritated by Shinwell's accusation, he added: “Any fair minded man would say that the labor party had a fair represen tation.” Churchill named Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden as head of the delegation and the following mem bers: Clement Attlee, lord presi dent of the council and labor par ty leader; Lord Cranbome, Dom lnous secretary, and Lord Halifax, British ambassador to Washington. BANDCONCERT FRIDAYNIGHT The Shelby High school band, under the direction of Miss Doro thy Parker, will present the third annual Red Cross benefit concert, In the High School auditorium Friday night at 8 o’clock. The pro gram is composed of ten numbers and ends with the “Star Spangled Banner.” Some of the more out standing composers of these se lections are Fillmore, Bennet, Ber gein, Romberg, Safrenek, and Klohr. The band was started in 1928 under the direction of W. T. Sin clair. There was no band during the depression but was revived in 1936 by J. G. Hagaman. Money for the uniforms was obtained by public donation and from gifts by the local civic clubs. The band has been under the direction of Miss Parker since September, 1942. Last year it was given A-l honor rating by James Christian Pfohl who judged a contest performance according to the national contest rules. Several improvements in instrumentation and performance Nu been made since last year. A WHERE V. S. PLANES BLASTED JAPANESE NAVY—The arrows on this map show where U. S. carrier based planes trapped the elusive Japanese navy in the inland sea, and crippled 17 warships, sank or da maged 13 merchant vessels, and destroyed 475 aircraft. Among the war vessels crippled was a 45,000 ton super-battleship. Draft Law Extended Without Changes Army Spokesmen Ask No Restrictions Against Send ing Men Into Combat With 5 Months Training WASHINGTON, Msyr.ch 22.—(£>)—'The house military committee today unanimously approved a one-year extens ion of the draft law—without changes. me acuon was iaxen aii-er brief hearing during which army spokesmen asked that no restric- \ tions be placed against the cur rent policy of sending men into combat five months after their-in duction when necessary. Some members had sought to ban the sending of teen-age inductees into combat without a specified period of training. Chairman . May (D-Kv) said he would seek house consider ation of the bill early next week. Unless congress extends it, the present draft law. enact ed in 1940, will become inop erative on May 15. Although some committee mem bers previously had inclined toward extensive hearings to consider numerous amendments only two witnesses, Maj. Gen. Idwal Ed- j wards, in charge of training, and j Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, in I charge of personnel, were heard.; The committee did not call Maj.! Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective! Service director, who was waiting j to testify in support of the bill. | It was General Edwards who told the committee that the current See DRAFT Page 3 Artillery Hammers German Strongholds ROME. March 22—UP)— Allied ar tillery strongly holds hammered German strongpoints opposite the entire Fifth army sector yesterday but Infantry activity on the Ital ian battle line was limited to pat rols and no positions changed hands, the Allied command an nounced today. A number of prisoners were taken from German raiding parties which attempted to strike into Fifth army positions. On the British Eighth army front German patrols assaulted several points in strength, but failed to hold any ground. JAP RESISTANCE ENDSONPANAY Central Philippines Island Invaded Sunday Now In American Hands MANILA, March 22—Vir tually all organized Japanese re sistance has been crushed on the 4,448 square miles of Panay, cen tral Philippines island invaded Sunday, and the enemy's cave studded Shimbu line east of Ma nila on Luzon has collapsed, yield ing a mass of war booty, head quarters reported today. In the spreading air war. Mitch ell bombers caught a six-ship en emy convoy off Amoy, China, Tuesday and attacked it with 16 tons of explosives. At a cost of two bombers, a 6,000 ton freighter See JAP Page 3 Hainan Is Raided Tokyo Reports By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, March 2— MP)—Approximately 120 American Superforts, Liberators and Light nings raided Hainan island off the South China coast yesterday, ra dio Tokyo reported today in a broadcast heard by the federal communications commission. The unconfirmed report said Japanese defenders inflicted "con siderable losses” on the raiders. Hainan is somewhat off the beaten track for American raiders, and mention of Superfort partici pation recalled frequent Tokyo re ports in which smaller bombers have been confused with B-29s. Capt. Shytle Holds Record In Jap Ship Tonnage Sunk By JOHN WEBB CANNON City Editor The Star Compared with making a 5,100 ton Jap Cruiser say “Uncle,” as Capt. John D. Shytle, Jr., bombard ier, did in the Pacific a few iponths back, and hearing his own 16 months old daughter say “Daddy” for the first time, the* daddy busi ness has it all over the other, Captain Shytle told a Star report er today just after he had return ed on leave from duty in China and the South Pacific. For the sinking of the Jap cruis er, the first one ever bagged by the air force, Captain Shytle was personally decorated with the Dis tinguished Flying Cross by Gen eral Chennault. He also has three other distinguished flying crosses and the air medal. He has the record of sinking more Japanese tonnage than any bombardier in the flying force. “Just good luck,” he explained See CAPT. SHYTLE Page 9 N. C. ASSEMBLY CLOSES SESSION Accepts Gov. Cherry's Campaign Pledges; Salts Away To Pay Debts RALEIGH, March 22. — (ff)— Alter 67 days of deliberation, the 1945 legislature adjourned sine die | yesterday after considering nearly 1,500 bills. Oddly enough, house bill number | 1,000 was a measure to adjourn the j assembly. It was the last bill re ceived by the house, whereas the senate received only 454. Many bills v ere left without action. This assembly appropraited $232, 000,000 in all funds, including the general, highway and agriculture. Its general fund appropriation Of about $132,000,000 exclusive of an $8,400,000 contingent allocation to teachers and low-salaried state em ployes, was about $2,000,000 under expected revenue. Nobody was alarmed over that, however, since revenues usually are higher than those anticipated on official paper. MAJOR LEGISLATION The consensus of members, before they left for home, was that their major bit of legislation was the salting away of nearly $52,000,000 for the retirement of the general fund indebtedness. That would leave North Carolina one of the few states in the union without a gen eral debt. Also highly considered pieces of legislation were those to provide for additional support to the state’s afflicted, both physically and men tally; and a measure laying the foundation for a state hospital and medical care program. While the assembly declined to let the peo ple vote in a statewide referendum on whether liquof should continue to be sold in North Carolina, it did pass legislation to outlaw inferior wines, and to place supervision of all wines in the hands of the State Alcoholic Beverages Control board. It also was a "governor’s legis ature.” Just about everything that Governor Cherry asked for was granted—except the referendum, and consolidation of the highway patrol, the State Bureau of In vestigation and related depart ments. U. S. COURT IN SHELBYENDED The Shelby term of United States District court was adjourned yes terday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Judge; E. Yates Webb after the grand jury had completed its work. Eight indictments against 17 men from Gaston Mecklenburg and Union county charging theft of government property were return ed by the grand jury. These defen dants are charged with selling and buying government aviation gaso line being transferred to Camp Mackall and Camp Sutton. They v.'ill be tried at the Charlotte term of court in April. Those included in the indict ments were: Tommy William Gai ther, Frank Stuart Lipford, James Asbury Lanier, Sanford Aiken, Hammy Jefferson, Robert Monroe Ramsey, Jasper Carl Norwood, Her man Mack Noles, Robert Woodrow McManus, Charles Floyd Helms, Kelly Thompson, James Clifford Ensley, William Jennings Kelly, Daniel Jackson Morgan, J. R. Dease, Melvin Randolph Lampley, and Johnie Bunyon Walker. REDS INCREASE FURY OF BLOWS ON TWO FRONTS Attack Furiously At Gates Of Stettin And Aus trian Border BATTLE IS FLUID LONDON, March 22.—(JP) ' —The Russians redoubled the J fury of their onslaught j against Stettin, “key to nor-, them Germany,” and in Hun- I gary reinforced attempts on a 50-mile front to batter through the Danube gate in to Austria, the Germans said . today. In East Prussia Soviet units fought into Heiligenbeil, last of > the Baltic coastal fortress towns southwest of Koenigsberg, Mos cow dispatches reported. They drove to within six miles 1 of Danzig, around which they had drawn a 25-mile siege arc, and were within 2 1-2 miles of wedging Danzig and Gdynia apart. On the Berlin front, Soviet Cor respondents said Marshal Gregory | Zhukov was moving reinforcements j up to the Oder “in unbroken • streams” in warm weather which forced the Russians to doff their greatcoats and cotton-padded jack ets. Describing Stettin as a city whose fall would open the way to a sweep across the northern Ger man plain past Berlin perhaps as 1 far as the Elbe, a German war re I porter said the Russian assault was “extraordinary even consider ing the scale of previous deploy I ments of strength elsewhere on the eastern front;” RUSSIAN GUNS j “Hundreds of Russian guns have 1 been in action since Thursday,” a j a week ago, he said. “The battle is still undecided. Russian efforts to enter the heart of the city and possibly to capture the Oder bridg es intact continue with unabated violence. For two days the Russians have been just outside Stettin, Berlin’s chief port, with the muzzles of their guns blazing from Altdamm, the Stettin suburb on the east bank of the Oder. On the Hungarian front the Ger mans said the Russians were at I tacking all the way between Lake Balaton and the Danube. German broadcasts said Eszter gom, fortified city on the south bank of the Danube and 20 miles northwest of Budapest, Felsoegalla See REDS Page Z NIGHT CLUBS TO ACCEPT CURFEW Conflict As To Closing Hours Has Reached Settlement NEW YORK, March 22—(JP)— Night club and restaurant proprie tors, reneging against their three day star billing in the New York City vs. the Nation curfew clash, have announced they will adhere to the midnight closing. The Allied food and entertain ment industries of greater New York said its members would ig nore the “extra hour of tolerance” granted by Mayor La Guardia. Meanwhile, the Blue network announced the mayor would defend his 1 a.m. closing in a broadcast over the network from 7 to 7:15 p. m. (EWT) today. His topic: “Why the one-hour tolerance for New York City.” Many night clubs and hotels, not members of the association, also announced they would return to the midnight curfew. Their decis ion left the mayor—so far as the curfew was concerned—in the po sition of a general without troops. LETTING HIM DOWN “I know we’re letting the mayor down,” said Billy Rose, owner of the Diamond Horseshoe and pres ident of the association, “but we’re forced to do this. My allegiance to my country goes beyond my allegiance to the mayor.” Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for the association, said “Mayor La Guardia has shown sound leader ship in his endeavor to make the curfew conform to conditions in a large metropolis. Whatever may be the government’s objectives, he knows how they best can be ob tained here.” “However, it looks to us as though somebody in Washington is trying to make a political issue of this and we are not willing to take a position that might embarrass the mayor, who has been trying to help our situation. Nor are we in clined to’ serve civilians when ser l vice is denied to men in uniform.” 1 i Military Targets At Rangoon Bombed Today, Second Raid In Week WASHINGTON, March 22.—(/P)—India-based Super-1 fortresses bombed important military installations and stor age areas at the great Burma port of Rangoon today for the second time in less than a week. from 20th air force headquarters here said a “sizeable task force” of the big B-29s from Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey's 20th bomber command participated in the raid. The announcement indicated that upwards of 100 Superforts took part. The results of the raid are ex pected to be announced as soon as details are available. The raid followed up last Satur day’s raid on the big Japanese supply base in which the India based Superforts bombed storage areas with what the 20th air force described as “good results.” Today’s attack gave added sup-1 port to Allied drives against the Japanese in Burma which result ed in the capture of Mandalay this week. Rangoon is the main sup-1 ply depot for the Japanese in this ! area. Some 30,000 Japanese troops are reported squeezed in a 75-mile deep pocket in the Mandalay area. Rangoon previously had been hit by the aerial giants last Feb ruary 11, when a substantial force rained hundreds of tons of high explosives and incendiaries on oil, ammunition and materiel dumps just north of the city. The Super forts I made their first attack on Rangoon last November 3. Air Blows Speed Up Entire Pacific War | As Jap Sea-Air Strength Was Dissipated, American Power Grew Greater U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Mar. 22.—(/P)—Devastating success of the United States’ aerial attacks on the Japanese home islands portends nonstop blows against the empire and a speedup of the entire Pa i/ixxvs yy cvjl • Both the Army’s Superfortresses and the powerful but always vul nerable carrier task force have probed the strongest points of Japan—with bombs, bullets and rockets—and each time emerged undisputed victors. And as the Japanese sea-air strength was dissipated by repeat ed assaults American power con versely became greater. Five incendiary raids against Tokyo, Kobe, Nagoya and Osaka, made in close sequence, showed the potential of the Superforts’ threat to Japan. Instead of diminishing, each mission was flown by 300 or more B-29s. In the near future, long range P-51 Mustangs, battle tested in Europe as escort fighters and as fighter-bombers, can pro vide cover for the huge bombers for the first time on raids over Japan. If Japanese naval leaders hoped to salvage a fleet out of the wreckage of the second battle of the Philippine sea their dream has burst. This once formidable sea power was blasted by the start ling U. S. navy carrier attack on Japan’s inland sea Monday. DAMAGING BLOW Radio silence today still blan keted movements of the 5th fleet beyond its two-day attack on Kyu shu and inland sea ports, but even a preliminary accounting by Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, its com mander, revealed sufficient damage to Japanese warships to indicate removal of the enemy navy as a major threat in the Pacific. Spruance informed Adm. Ches ter W. Nimitz yesterday that his report of 15 to 17 Nipponese war ships damaged on his daring foray was an incomplete assessment that indicated still more enemy warships See AIR BLOWS Page 3 3,000,000 Japanese Gone From Tokyo LONDON, March 22—UP)—Nearly 3,000,000 Japanese already have been evacuated from Tokyo and steps are being taken to speed up removal of others, the Tokyo radio said today. Quoting a statement made to the Diet by the interior minister, the broadcast said “already the civilian population in the capital has shrunk to less than four mil lions” of the city’s prewar census. The statemen’s yearbook gives Tokyo’s 1944 population as 6,978, 804. DEATH CLAIMS MRS. GAFFNEY j Well-Known Shelby Worn-: an Dies After Long Ill ness; Rites Friday Mrs. J. Prank Gaffney died at her home on West Warren street this morning after a lingering ill- i ness and the fifneral will be held from the home Friday afternoon at three o’clock, with her pastor, Rev. Paul Hardin, assisted by Dr. Zeno Wall. Interment will follow in Sunset cemetery, beside her hus band who died in 1933. Mrs. Gaffney before marriage was Sara Morgan, daughter of the late Elias and Elitha Morgan of Gaffney. She would have been 89 years of age had she lived until August. In 1874 she married John Franklin Gaffney and they moved to Shelby in 1890 to make their home. Here she was known for her sweet manner and her fine Christian attributes. She was the mother of eleven children, two of whom died in infancy. The oth ers grew to adulthood and assum ed a prominent part in the life of their communities. SURVIVORS Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. B. H. Kendall, Mrs. J. H. Carroll, and Mrs. D. Z. Newton of Shelby, and Mrs. J. R. Thomas of See DEATH Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 3:00 p.m.—Mass meeting of Kings Mountain association ✓ | First Baptist church. 7:30 p.m.—Mission revival meeting at First Baptist church. 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—C. A. P meets at armory. 7:00 p.m.—Gillespie chapter of Royal Ambas;*idors meets at First Baptist church. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m. — Rotary club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—Mission revival session at First Baptist church. Fleeing German Civilians Closr Army Retreat Routes By The Associated Press LONDON,. March 22—(A>)—Hun dreds of thousands of German civ ilians were reported in full flight today fr6m the Ruhr valley and menaced areas immediately east of the Rhine, gravely hindering Nazi military transport in their frantic haste to escape the advancing Al lied armies. Swedish advices said roads lead ing eastward to Nuernberg and Munich were clogged with fleeing civilians, and likened the situction to the dark days of 1940 when the conquering Nazi armies overran the low countries and France, driv ing before them a flood of refu gees which impeded Allied troops trying to stem the enemy tide. Speeding the mass exodus was news of the disaster which has be fallen the German armies east of the Rhine and ominous German radio predictions of an Impending Allied- airborne invasion’ of the Ruhr—predictions given color by concentrated Allied air attacks yes terday on Nazi airfields in that area. -\ See FLEEING Page 3 FIGHT AT MAINZ GOES INTO ITS THIRD DAY Nazis Lost Virtually Two Whole Armies In Saar land Debacle POISED FOR ATTACK PARIS, March 22.—<7P)— The Third an,d Seventh Arm ies crushed allbut disorgan ized German pockets west of the Rhine today while Allied bombers smashed by the hun dreds north of the Ruhr, where the enemy said the Al lies had massed enormous, smoke-shrouded strength for an imminent new crossing of the river. Only remnants remained to be cleaned up in the German chemical capital of Ludwigs hafen, enveloped by the Third Army. A stiff fight for Mainz flared into its third day. The Germans in the Palatinate and Saarland had lost prob ably well over 100,000 men— 88,335 in prisoners alone— and two whole armies in one of the greatest debacles in Prussian military lore. The U. S. Seventh army sped 28 miles north, passing many posi tions captured by the Third and forming numerous lineups with the Third army. Just north of the closing battle of the Palatinate, the First army pushed to the Sieg river at points 12 miles from the Ruhr and 13 of its large industrial centers at Mul heim and Gladbach, east of Co logne. Nervous German broadcasts and the isolating blows of Al lied planes focused attention in the tank country of the German plains north of the Rhur and the great industrial basin itself, marked for con quest bv Gen. Eisenhower. The VVesphalian flatiands lead to Berlin's north door. “Three Allied armies are pois ed along 63 miles of the lower Rhine from Duesseldorf to Arn heim and are ready to join any moment now in the general offen sive,” Berlin said. These were the Canadian First, the British Second, the American Ninth and — by enemy account “considerable parts of the Ameri can First army,” also fighting south of the Ruhr and east of the See FIGHT Page 2 FRANCO ASKED TO RESIGN JOB Son Of Former King Wants Way Left Open For Peace LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 22—(/P)—Prince Juan, son of former King Alfonso and heir to the now non-existent throne of Spain, call ed upon Francisco Franco today to resign and leave the way open for “establishment of peace and concord among all Spaniards.” In a statement given to the Associated Press recalling the sixth anniverary of the end of the Spanish war, the Prince. Count of Barcelona, declared that restoration of the mon archy “alone can provide an effective guarantee for religion, order and liberty.” “I incite no one to rebellion.' he said, "but I would wish to re mind those wrho support the exist ing political regime of the tremen dous responsibilities they incur hv contributing to prolongation of a situation which inevitably will bring the country to irreparable ruin.” DESIRES PEACE He declared he awaited the mo ment when he could realize nis “most ardent desire”—peace among the Spanish factions. Juan declared that the Franco regime was modeled on the Axis totalitarian system “contrary to the character and tradition” of the Spanish people. The foreign policy pursued by Franco, he said, “com promises the future of the na j tion.” The Prince said that if he should ! become king through restoration of | the monarchy he would seek a po ; litical constitution by popular vole. I Protection of the rights of the in I dividual, political liberties, a leg islative assembly popularly elect ed, more equitable distribution of wealth, and eliminate of unjust social differences. 1 '
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