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WEATHER Mostly cloudy In west, partly cloudy in east portion, continued warm, rain showers and thunder storms in west portion tonight be ginning in extreme west today. Tshe Hhelhy Bnily Htar - State Theatre Today - Charles LAUGHTON Ella RAINES “THE SUSPECT” CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—73 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c FOURTH RED OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED MoscoV Says Enemy Shift ing Divisions From Italy, West Front toward”vienna LONDON, March 26.—(/P) w_A fourth Russian offensive has been launched toward Germany’s southern mountain area, Berlin announced today, and Moscow dispatches said the enemy had shifted divis ions from Italy and the sag ging western front to defend Vienna against a not distant attack. Two Russian armies already had overrun four-fifths of Hungary below the Danube and their spear head was within 36 miles of the Austrian border and 77 miles south east of Vienna. Berlin broadcasts said a new assault had been sprung north of the Danube in Slovakia, while Marshal Ivan Konev’s First U kraintan army group continued to grind through the Moravian mountains north of Vienna. The newest attack, described In Berlin aa an “all-out offensive-' i was started on the lower reaches of the Hron river in Slovakia at A a m., yesterday, a German broad cast said, and a bridgehead over the Hron was gained at Leva. 50 miles northwest of Budapest and 37 miles northeast of Komaron. the Danube river key to Bratisla va. Marshal Feodor T. Tolbukhin's Third Ukarinlan army linked up with the Second Ukraine army un der Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovs- j ky in drive that swept along a 80-mile front through Hungary with gains of up to 16 miles. NAZIS FALL BAGK 'Severely mauled, the Germans fell back Into well-fortified de fenses in the Gyor area and all signs pointed to the stubbornest kind of opposition forming before the Soviet armies driving close to Bratislava. The Initial phases of the fresh offensive along the south bank of the Danube northwest of Budapest had carried 28 miles through the tough Bakony forest and Vertes mountains under conditions that were made worse by a well-ad See FOURTH Page 2 PLANES WRECK FORMOSA PLANT — Hydroelectric Plant Dam aged In U. S. Bombing Raid Friday By JAME8 HUTCHESON MANILA. March 26.—(A>)— Phil ippine-based American bombers wrecked the big Jitsugetsu hydro electric plant on Formosa Friday in their continued pounding of the i >uthem bastion protecting the Ryukyu islands “bridge” to Japan, headquarters reported today. The new blow by more than 50 Liberators and Lightning fighters of Maj. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead’s Fifth air force was disclosed as Tokyo reports said the Ryukyus were being Invaded by Americans. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Mon day and Sunday communiques, in addition to announcing the crip pling of the power plant, reported other damage to Formosa installa tions. UMTS SHIFTED A shift of units of the famous First (dismounted) cavalry division from central to southern Luzon was d* -dosed for the first time. The Monday communique said they were initiating a drive along the main highway south of Santo Tomas in Batangas province. Doughboys of the 25th and 32nd divisions, fighting for important Balete Pass of northern Luzon, bloodily repulsed six Japanese counterattacks. There was no further report on the situation around the Philip- ’ pine summer capital of Baguio. Previous communiques had report 33rd division troops only a few r'Ues from the city in two direct ions. k m JONATHAN DANIELS DANIELSTO" SUCCEED EARLY _ i Takes Over As President ial Press Relations Secretary Today WASHINGTON. March 26. — UP,— Steve Early bowed out today as presidential press relations secre tary and Jonathan Daniels took over the spot he had been holding on a temporary basis. Early, for a time, will serve as1 Mr. Roosevelt's appointment secre- j tarv, replacing the late Maj. Gen. i Edwin M. Watson. By June 1 he will be free to accept an offer of private employment. T date. Early told reporters, he 1 has not accepted an offer, and am ; not obligated to anyone." Early was busy removing the 12 year accumulation of papers from the desk which Daniels will occupy. H • said it was a somewhat pleasant but dirty job. Daniels said he and his assistant, Eben Ayers, “hoped very much to be able to do something approach ing the job Steve has done, and I am as anxious to get into this hot j seat ns Steve is to leave it.” Early just returned from a mis- 1 sion to Europe on which he sur- j veyed public relations for the Army, j Daniels, a North Carolina news- I paperman and author, is the son of; Jsephus Daniels, secretary of the! Navy in the First World war. Ayers | went to the White House from the j office of Inter-American Affairs. INQUEST INTO EPES DEATH SET FOR WEDNESDAY COLUMBIA. S. C., March 26.— f/P)—An inquest into the death of Mrs. Mary Lee Epes, whose hus-1 band, Lt. S. C. Epes, has been held on a murder warrant since Feb. 15, has been set for Wed nesday afternoon. A chemical analysis of Mrs. Epes’ stomach was made recently at Ft. McPherson, Ga., and a re port is expected to be presented at the inquest. At the time of his arrest offi cers quoted Lt. Epes, member of a prominent Richmond, Va„ family, as saying his wife died from an overdose of sedative and he had become ‘‘panicky” and buried her body in a fox hole previously dug by soldiers on maneuvers. Epes was lodged in the state penitentiary for treatment of ra zor wounds, but was later removed to the county jail. IN RYUKYUS, 325 MILES BROW KYUSHU Aerial Bombardment Of Islands Preceded Re ported Invasion ON SMALL ISLES GUAM, March 26.—(/P)— American troops, supported by intensive bombardment from a large carrier-battle ship task force, are “attempt ing” landings on the Okinawa group in the Ryukyu chain, I only 325 miles south of Kyu shu in the Japanese homeland, Qomei news agency reported without confirmation today. Aerial bombardment of several of the Ryukyu islands, including Okinawa itself, and of air bases in all of the southern Japanese home islands of Kyushu, Shikoku andj Honshu, preceded the reported \ landings. Tnbvn oiid OLiniu'o itculf was bombarded three times Saturday by U. S. battleships —presumably some of the big gest, newest 16-inch battlewa gons in Adm. Raymond A. Spruance’s Fifth fleet. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz has announced only that Minami Daito, 250 miles east of Oki nawa, was shelled. The enemy broadcast, made in English and recorded by the fed eral communications commission, reported the landings were at tempted on Toka Shima and Aka Jima, small islands west of the southwestern tip of Okinawa. IDEAL BASE Okinawa, most important in the Ryukyu chain and an ideal base for strikes at either Japan or the China coast, probably would be the chief objective in any amphib ious operation in the central Ryu kyus. Okinawa has several airfields and good harbors suitable for an chorage of large warships. Tokyo said a powerful U. S. task force of “15 standard and convert ed carriers, 11 battleships, 10 cruisers, 32 destroyers as well as innumerable auxiliary vessels” was lying southwest of Inawa to sup port and protect the landing troops. Capture of Okinawa would give the United States control of the east China sea and would provide airfields to strike at the Japanese homeland, Formosa and China with heavy bombloads by even the smallest U. S. bombers and bomb carrying fighter planes. EAST CHINA SEA Control of the east China sea would be possibly the war’s great est single step toward cutting Ja pan's lines of sea communication with the Netherlands East Indies and other stolen territory to the southwest which produce war-vi tal rubber, oil and other supplies. See IN RYUKYUS Page 2 Lloyd George s Condition Critical LONDON, March 26— (VP) —The condition of David Lloyd George, who has been ill for some weeks at his home in north Wales, is "becominp critical,” a bulletin from his bedside said today. « "The physical weakness of Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor has in creased considerably during the last 24 hours and his condition is now becoming critical,” the bulle tin declared. Senators Will Investigate Food Situation In U. S. WASHINGTON, March 26.—(JP)~ Senators asked today why Great Britain does not get more meat from Canada and less from the United States as they began a broad Investigation into the na tion’s food situation. Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) told the agriculture committee he understood the Canadians had ample meat and recom mended an Inquiry into why more of it is not used for lend lease. Saying he agreed that it was a point that should be investigated, Senator Shipstead (R-Minn) said his information was that butter was unratloned In Canada. “Why can’t they send it to Great Britain?” asked Senator Ellender (D-La.) “The British have to pay for it if they get it from Canada.” Ship stead replied. BLACK MARKETS As the committee began its hear ings, Chairman Thomas <D-Okla) announced that one aim will be to "uncover and destroy” black mar See SENATORS Page ,2 GERMANS CAPTURED IN RHINE CROSSING — German soldiers taken prisoner lie on a Rhine river embankment after being put out of action as the U. S. Ninth Army established a bridgehead on the east bank j in the mighty four-army crossing Marph 24. DEATH CLAIMS GEN. RUPERTUS Led First Marine Division In South Pacific Bat tle Zone WASHINGTON, March 26—(-‘Pj Major General William H. Ruper tus, 55, commandant of the U. S. Marine corps schools at Quantico, Va„ who led the first Marine di vision in the South Pacific, died here last night. Death was due to a heart attack while he and his wife and five year old son were visiting Col. R. C. Kilmartin, commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at the Navy Yard. His last assignment in the Pacific war theater was commander of the Marines in the invasion of Peleliu in the Palau Islands. SINCE 1913 _.. .. ... A native of Washington, General Rupertus had served in the Marine Corps since 1913. When he was com missioned a second lieutenant. Ad vanced to the rank of brigadier gene al when the invasion of the Solomon Islands began in August, 1942, he personally led the Marines who captured Tulago, Gavutu and Triambogo islands in that group after bitter fighting. When Lt. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift was recalled from the south Pacific to become commandant of the See DEATH Page 2 Japans Peoples Army To Run From Ages 14 to 60 Bv the Associated Press SAN ’ FRANCISCO , March 26.— (A3)—Japan’s vast “people’s volun teer army” being mobilized to meet the critical war situation will in clude “graduates of the elementary schools of the national school who are over 14 years of age, men below 60, and women younger than 45,” Tokyo radio said today. The purpose of the volunteer army, Domei news agency said in a broadcast recorded by the federal communications commission, will be to "attend projects requiring urgent attention in defense against enemy air and land attacks, in re construction of areas hit by air raids, x x x the transportation of essential materials, and to increase food production as well as the pro duction of lumber x x x.” W EASTER SEALS J B-29’s Wreck War Industry Area In Nagoya TWENTY - FIRST BOMBER COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Monday, March 26—(fP)—Five ot Japan’s big war industry plants in Nagoya were left wrecked by Sunday's B-29 demolition raid, bomber command headquarters an nounced today. Headquarters also disclosed that “first adequate photo coverage” of the March 12 and 19 mass incen | diary raids of the big Marianas based bombers showed five square miles of the heart of the city m ruins. The plants destroyed or damaged were the Nagoya arsenal, Mitshu bishi aircraft engine plant, Asahi pottery works, Kurna textile plant and Mitsubishi electrical company, all producing articles of war. The Aichi aircraft engine plant j and the Nagoya arsenal, as well as barracks and other buildings in the vicinity of the supposedly empty Nogaya castle, were shown to have been damaged in the March 12 and 19 raids. Reconnaissance reports showed that the fire-swept section repre sented 11.6 per cent of the total city area. Some Saipan-based bomber crew's in Sunday's demolition raid said clouds broke over Nagoya to give them a good view of the target. Capt. J. M. Campbell of Greens boro, N. C., was the pilot of a B-29 named “The Thumper” on the mission against the Japanese main land. Patrolling By Nazis In Italy More Aggressive ROME, March 26.—(/P)—German patrolling became more aggressive along the Fifth army front in Italy today and there were a num ber of sharp clashes, particularly in the area southwest of Bologna. An American patrol killed 11 Nazis in one encounter in that sec tor. The Germans attempted to ambush another patrol there but the Americans discovered the ruse and killed three of the enemy without loss. The first all-Jewish brigade has been active in patrolling along the Eighth army front farther east, it was disclosed yesterday. The bri gade is led by Brig. Gen. Frank Benjamin, a Jew in the regular British army. Many of the bri gade’s members previously had been held in Nazi concentration camps. Their family origins cover 37 different countries. Communist Tung Pi-Wu Is Security Delegate CHUNGKING, March 26.—GP)— The Chinese Communist leader Tung Pi-Wu was disclosed today as one of the 10 Chinese delegates to the world security conference at San Francisco, but doubt was ex pressed whether the Communists would be satisfied with only one representative. Tung is the former representative of the Chinese Com munists in Chungking. BOMBERS BLAST WAR TARGETS Oil Plants And Gun Fac tory Get Bomb Loads; Berlin Attacked By HENRY B. JAMESON LONDON, March 26.—(fP)—Two oil plants, a gun factory and an armored car works in southeastern Germany were attacked today by 300 escorted American bombers as the airmen switched back to strate gic targets after a week-long bomb ing prelude for the Rhine offen sive. The small force of heavy bomb ers split into two task forces over Leipzig. One wnet for a synthetic oil plant and a natural oil refin ery at Seitz, 20 miles south of Leipzig. One went for a synthetic Plauen. 10 miles from the Czecho slovak border, and blasted the twin war factories. The attack was the 41st heavy bomber assault on Germany in 42 days and was part of another two way blow coordinated with the U. S. 15th air force in Italy. Bombers from Italy hammered communica tions in Austria, the German radio reported. ATTACK BERLIN The Germans also indicated that Russian bombers attacked Berlin. The American bombers yesterday launched what may be one of their toughest assignments — hunting out and blasting German under ground factories and warehouses. Last night Mosquitos attacked Berlin for the 34th consecutive night and American night-prowl ing planes joined in hammering German targets. The night attacks followed yesterday’s pulverizing of German strongpoints and rein forcement centers in front of Field Marshal Montgomery’s drive into See BOMBERS Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m. — Chamber of Commerce directors meet at Shelby hotel. TUESDAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Lions club at Hotel C'/arles. 7:30 p.m.—C. A. -Pr-members meet at armory. 7:30 p.m.—Called meeting of Shelby Chapter 110 Order of Eastern Star at Masonic Tem ple. All Allied Units East Of Rhine Plunging Ahead PARIS, March 26.—(/P)—The Third Army besieged Frankfurt on the Main today and sent its tanks crashing across the Main at Aschaffenburg into the plains of central Germany, a bare 250 miles from Russian lines. One unconfirmed report said Frankfurt had been enter ed. The last “dimmed out” battle accounts hours before had placed Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s mighty shock troops six miles away. The city’s radio went dead last night. The Fourth Armored division again had burst loose 40 miles beyond the Rhine in a sweep so swift that the Ger mans were caught without time to blow the Aschaffenburg bridge, 22 miles southeast of Frankfurt. The “breakthrough” division’s coup was so complete that Frankfurt was hope lessly outflanked. Frankfurt, a city of 547,000, is the ninth largest in Germany and one of the Reich’s greatset railroad centers. The First Army also broke from its original Rhine bridgehead at Remagen and pushed 19 miles east of the shattered river line. The U. S. Ninth and British Second Armies in and north of the Ruhr were ten miles past the river on a solid 31-mile | front and battle dispatches said a general breakout there w tto CA|;t:ttcu iiiuiiicxi ten uy . “The decisive fighting of the whole war now is unequivocally under way in the west,” a German military spokesman said by radio from Berlin, 235 miles from van guards of Patton's army. The Ninth army fought in the northeast suburbs of Duisburg, vast inland port of 431,000, and within ten miles of rubble-piled Essen, where the sprawling Krupp Works have been rebuilt seven times af ter bombers’ calls. The Germans reported fighting outside the Baden capital of Karls ruhe, suggesting yet another cross ing by the Seventh army, which had cleared the Palatinate and routed the last Germans west cf the Rhine between Switzerland and Holland. The whole western front was be coming fluid as Gen. Eisenhower's offensive turned into a powerful floodtide. The humblest infantry man sensed complete victory over Germany, because the Russians also were pushing in from the east in massive power. 136 MILES IN With troops already 136 miles deep in the heart of Germany and the Rhine crossed at seven places, the Third army threw yet another bridgehead across the upper Rhine at an undisclosed place where the See ALLIED UNITS Page 2 Paper Round-Up Nets 65,000 Pounds An additional 15.000 pounds of waste paper was garnered Sunday in the second round-up of the month in which the Ju nir Chamber of Commerce and Boy Scouts cooperated. President Doris Bolt of the Jaycees together with Paul J. Kennedy and Dick LeGrand, of the Scouters club, expressed gratitude to the public for "the generous cooperation" that en abled the raising of a total of 65,000 pounds of paper in the two drives. Another paper round-up is scheduled for early May and householders are urged to save their old paper toward that oc casion of which more will be heard meanwhile, President Doris Bolt said today. Rhine Offensive Hardest Blow Yet To Nazi Morale LONDON March 26. — Gen. Eisenhower’s great Rhine of fensive has plunged the German people into the deepest gloom, dis patches from neutral European cap itals said today, but there seemed general agreement that it still is too early to look for a complete collapse of the German home front. Advices from Bern said the com parative ease with which the Allied armies swept across the Rhine had started the greatest wave of ’de featism and despair yet recorded in Germany. These dispatches emphasized however, that even though the Ger man people apparently nave lost all hope their fear of the Gestapo still is so great that any immedi ate uprising to oust the Nazis and bring a quick peace seems unlikely. WEAK SPOT There were some hints that the first real break on the German home front—when it comes—may develop in Austria. Swiss frontier reports said opposition to the Nazis appeared to be increasing in Au stria and that leaflets had been secretly circulated in Vienna urging anti-Nazi demonstrations. See RHINE Page 2 i ■ I MYITTHAIN INDIA TAKEN British Troops Pushing Northward Above Kume In Burma CALCUTTA, March 26 —{&)— British 20th division armored troops, pushing 10 miles northward along a railway from Kume, have captured Myittha, an important rail and road junction in central Burma. Front line reports said today the appearance of British armor took the Japanese by surprise and some 500 of the enemy were killed. South of Kume in the vicinity of Meiktila Japanese troops were suf fering heavy casualties in a futile effort to check the flow of supplies to jAilied forces in the area. The British 14th army is now killing more than 500 Japanese daily. Since January, 16,500 enemy dead have been counted. Chiness forces pushing west from Lashio have linked up with other Chinese troops moving eastward from Hsinpaw. clearing the Lashio Hsipaw section of the Burma road. Northwest of Meiktila in the Taungtha-Myingyam area the Jap anese were offering bitter resist ance. Marshal Von Model Wounded By Bomb LONDON, March 26.—(VP)—A Ger man underground report today said Field Marshal Walther von Model, I commander of the northern group I of armies on the western front, had been wounded by a bomb. The report said von Model's in jury necessitated the quick switch of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring from Italy to take charge of the western front when von Rundstedt was removed. Coupled with this report was another which said sharp differ ences between various air force chiefs and the Nai high command had culminated in the removal of an air force marshal and two gen erals. These were reported to be Field Marshal Baron Wolfram von Richthofen, cousin of the famous world war ace, who had been in charge of German air force arma ment; Maj. Gen. Deichmann, air force chief in Italy, and Lt. Gen. Fiedig, air force chief in the Balk ans and Hungary. Wehrmacht Officers Replaced By SS LONDON. March 26.—(.4?!—Mos cow radio today broadcast a state ment by the Free German commit tee there declaring "the entire of ficer corps of the wehrmacht has been eliminated and replaced by Himmler's “S" through "intrigues, dismissals, wholesale arrest*, sui cides and war casualties.” i
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