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WEATHER Fair and slightly warmer in west portion today and tonight, Thurs day partly cloudy and continued warm. Tshk Wenig Bang Hm - State Theatre Today - ! “FRISCO SAL” Starring Susanna Foster — Turhan Bey CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLI11—75 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, MAR. 28, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c PVT. SIDNEY E. LOVELACE PVT. LOVELACE REPORTED DEAD — Pvt. Sidney E. Lovelace, Son Of Mrs. Lula Love lace Of Grover _ ; Pvt. Sidney E. Lovelace, 25. son of Mrs. Lula A. Lovelace and the late \V. G. Lovelace of Grover, and husband of Mrs. Helen M. Lovelace of Scotland, has been re ported killed In action In Ger- ! many on March I, according to a telegram received from the War department by his mother. Pvt. Lovelace entered the army in October. 1941, and after receiv ing his infantry training at Balti more, Md, Camp Lee. Va„ and At lanta, Ga.. was sent overseas in August, 1942. Surviving Pvt. Lovelace are his mother. Mrs. Lula A. Lovelace of Grover, his wife, Mrs. Helen M. Lovelace and son. Robert Franklin of Scotland, one sister, MLss Siller Lovelace of Grover, and five bro thers, Chivous, who is serving with the army overseas and is now in a hospital somewhere in England, Sylvester, Roscoe, William, and Joseph Franklin, all of Grover. QUINTS BORN TO NEGRO, ALL DIE WASHINGTON. March 28—OFV Quintuplet girls were born to a 36 year-old negro woman last night but by 6 a.m. today all had died. The mother is Mrs. Ada H. Tur ner, whose husband, Harold, is a *l,320-a-.venr receiving cleric at the government bureau of standards. Mrs. Turner is the mother of eight other children, the youngest 10 months old. Two and one-half months pre mature, all but one of the quin tuplets were born alive. The at tending physician said that except for the stillborn baby, all were ful ly developed and weighed from one to one and one-half pounds each. The five were delivered within 17 minuets. At Freedman’s hospital, where the babies were born, Dr. A. P. Allen said that pre-natal exami nation of Mrs. Turner had indi cated the likelihood of multiple birth, but that only twins had been expected. Mrs. Turner walked to the hos pital last night. Her husband went to bed and was awakened at 2 a. m., by a newspaper reporter who gave him his first news of the quintuplets. Two of the eight Turner chil dren are twins. Himmler Orders Nuernberg Evacuated STOCKHOLM, March 28.—</P)— The free German press agency, whose sources of information are not announced, said today that Heinrich Himmler had ordered evacuation of Nuernberg and re quisitioned vehicles to move party archives from Nazi congress halls there to Berchtesgaden. The Stockholms Tidningen re ported in an unattributed dispatch that organized demonstrations had broken out in Vienna and Steier mark province (Stypria) against Nazi centers and party function aries. Russian agents who para chuted into those areas helped in plundering supplies and ammuni .'on, it added. ; i FOUR RUSSIAN ARMIES DRIVE TOWARD VIENNA Pincers Strategy Being Used On Czechoslo vakia, Hungary CLEAN OWDANZIG LONDON, March 28.—(/P) —Four Russian armies ham mered in a huge pincers on Czechoslovakia and Vienna today, and Berlin declared one thrust through western Hungary within 58 miles of Vienna now had rolled up to the central Raba river, guard ing Austria. A German broadcast declared the Soviets had forced a new crossing of the Oder river north west of Kuestrin, 38 miles from Berlin. A Moscow dispatch re ported the Russian supply system LONDON, March 28—(ffV Russian troops have captured the Baltic Port of Gdynia, Marshal Stalin announced to night. was "working all-out to prepare a spring offensive” on this front closest to the Nazi capital. Other Russian units were clear ing out Danzig, where the opening shots of thus war were fired, and fighting into nearby Gdynia. The German high command reported fierce street combat in both cities. The Third Ukrainian army was below the Danube to with in 20 miles of Austria and 58 of Vienna yesterday, and the German high command said Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin's men now had thrust to the central Raba river, south at their closest approach to Vie nna. To the north the First and Fourth Ukrainian armies were lunging through German and Po lish Silesia toward Czechoslovakia, hitting • for the Moravian gap to Prague and Vienna. This push from Silesia on an 80 mile front had struck to within 14 miles of Moravska-Ostrava, Czechoslovakia’s third city. Dispatches from Moscow said the Red air force was aiding the tremendous Russian drives on a scale seldom if ever before equal ed by Soviet planes. Tet was taken yesterday by Tol Se« FOUR Page 2 REBUILD STORES AT FALLSTON Mercantile And Drug Firms Burned In Novem ber, Rebuilding Fallston is rebuilding its mer cantile establishments, recently destroyed in a disastrous fire which occurred Nov. 21st of last year, taking the lives of two lead ing men and Inflicting heavy property damage. W. J. Dickson and sons have let the contract to A. A. Ramsey of Shelby for a brick store room 60-75 feet on the site of their burned store. The Dicksons have purchased a lot adjoining their property from the Lackey estate and are placing material on the ground for the new store room which will be one story high with mezzanine across the Interior at the back. The new Dickson store building is being erected in the middle of the property, thus leaving space on both sides for future develop ment. The structure will be built of brick ^and steel with pressed buff colored brick and plateglass show windows at the front. TEMPORARY QUARTERS Since the fire, the Dickson gen eral store has been operating in a store room next to the Union Trust company. P. G. R. Clark who owned the drug store which was also destroy ed In the same fire, has purchas ed the old brick Methodist Epis copal church and plans to rework it for a drug store and office. The belfry and roof are being torn off and the entire building remodeled for mercantile purposes. Since the fire, Mr. Clark has been working in Shelby, at the drug store of Paul Webb and Son but has quit this work and is de voting his time to remodeling the Fallston structure and getting his merchandise and equipment ready for re-opening. THIRD ARMY GUNS CROSS RHINE—Heavy guns on their mobile car riages roll across a pontoon bridge over the Rhine river in the U. S. Third Army's drive eastward toward Frankfurt. The Yanks pushed on far to the east of Frankfurt and unconfirmed reports say Third Army units are now at Lohr, just 225 miles from Berlin. Byron H. Rollins, As sociated Press photographer with the wartime still picture pool, made this photo. Berlin, Hanover Hit By Fortress Fleet ! Plan To Remove All Unessential Citizens From The City; 36th Straight Night LONDON, March 28.—(/P)—A fleet of approximately 950 Flying Fortresses, with 350 Mustang fighters in escort, attacked Berlin and Hannover today as a German broadcast said the Reich capital would be evacuated of all unneeded CLARK PREDICTS NAZI RETREAT Calls On Patriots In Italy To Be Ready To Strike By LYNN HEINZERLING ROME, March 28— (JP) —Gen. Mark W. Clark, the Allied com mander in Italy, declared today that a German retreat northward was inevitable “sooner or later" and ordered patriots to stand by to strike at a moment’s notice to hamper the withdrawal. The Germans inevitably will re treat sooner or later, "leaving fas cist troops to cover their rear," Clark said. He declared it was certain that patriots in the central Apennine area would be called upon "to be of specific assistance to my armies shortly." Patriots on escape routes north from Bologne to the Brenner Pass and along railroads leading to the Alpine passes should prepare now for their job of hampering the withdrawal, Clark added. He advised them not to take on new recruits because of many Italians who “will try to join the winning side with suddenly acquir See CLARK Page 2 WHATS DOING TODAY 6:30 p.m.—Sunday school business supper at First Bap tist church. 7:30 p.m.—Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 7:30 p.m—Holy Week services at Lutheran church. 7:45 p.m.—Prayer and Praise service at First Baptist church. 8:00 p.m.—Called meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. at Blue Lodge room in Masonic Temple for work in first degree. THURSDAY 6:30 pm.—Training Union business supper at First Bap tist church. 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—C. A. P. members meet at Hotel Charles. 8:00 p.m.—Easier Communion service at Central Methodist church. , , persons. The German news agency DNB made the announcement that steps would be taken to remove all un essential citizens from the city, which underwent its 36th conse cutive RAP Mosquito raid last night. Similar plans have been reported by the Japanese for Tokyo and thus Allied air power was forcing further emergency measures in the two enemy capitals. Today's raid was the fifth major daylight assault of the year on Berlin and was carried out by two formations of Flying Portresses which thundered over almost an hour apart. The first wave had dropped its bombs and was heading back to England as the second group ar rived. Both attacks, as well as the one on Hannover, were carried out be tween 10 a.m., and 11:15 a.m., Bri tish time, an official U. S. army air force announcement said. Prior to today's attack American and British bomber forces had dropped more than 73.000 tons of bombs on Berlin—more than the Germans have hurled at England since the start of the war. Big German Airport In American Hands WITH THE THIRD ARMY IN GERMANY, March 28— OP) —Ger many’s second largest airport — the former Zeppelin base five miles south of Frankfurt—is in Ameri can hands. Units of the Sixth ar mored division which captured the field found it ringed with skeletons of 50 burned Nazi planes. CARRIER PLANES RAID KYUSHU ISLE TARGETS Tokyo Says 90 Seaborne Planes Dropped Bombs Today STORY UNCONFIRMED GUAM, March' 28.—(#)— Tokyo radio reported today American carrier planes raid ed Kyushu island at the south ern end of Japan this after noon in a quick follow-up of two Superfortress raids with in 12 hours. Tokyo said about 90 sea borne planes raided the south ernmost shores of Kyushu, last assaulted by carrier air craft March 19. Neither report was confirmed by the American command, which an nounced battleships and swarms of carrier planes continued their aerial and naval bombardments of the Ryukyu Islands, stepping stones to Kyushu, which they began attack ing last Friday. But Adm. Chester W. Nimitz still left a gap in his communiques to account for Sunday—the day an imperial Japanese communique said American landings were made on tiny islands near Okinawa, 325 miles southwest of Japan. Disagreeing Japanese broadcasts reported variously that “savage battles are raging” in the Keramas 15 miles west of Okinawa and that “active fighting on land has not started yet.” One report said “only a few units” of f(. S. assault forces had landed while another said re See CARRIER Page 2 OURSLER WILL DISCUSS FUTURE Editor Of Readers Digest To Address Executives Here April 6 “America Looks to the Future" and "Why Detective Stories?” will be the subjects of a twin address Fulton Oursler, editor of Readers' Digest, will make to the Cleve land Executives Club dinner meet ing at the Charles Hotel April 6 it was revealed today as the Din ner Call, the club’s official publi c tion, went into the mails to the nearly 150 members comprising the group. Reservations for the dinner must be made with J. W. Os borne, secretary and treasurer, not later than Thursday, April 5, as no tickets will be sold at the hotel the night of the din ner. The club’s usual guest pri vileges will obtain. Mr. Osborne said also that there are only about 10 memberships available before the 150 limit will apply and that applications for mem bership will be received for next week's dinner, but when the limit is reached application will then go to the waiting list pending vacancy in member ship. DETECTIVE WRITER "Club members have found it worth their while to check up per iodically on the atmosphere of in ternational expectation for the fu ture,” says the Dihner Call. “There is such a tremendous amount of prediction of things to come—much of it contradictory—that an occa sional objective analysis by a lead er with world contacts second to none has proved to be a good thing for business and professional men who are compelled to plan their affairs—and the communities’— w 11 ahead. "We hear great talk today about See OURSLER Page 2 AMG-Appointed Mayor Of Aachen Is Assassinated wnn j. ms u. a. akmy, Marcn, 27—(Delayed)—(ff)—Franz Oppen hof, 41year-old burgomeister of Aachen and first mayor appointed by the Allied military government in a major German city, was as sassinated Sunday night, it was announced today. Oppenhof was shot through the temple at 11:30 p.m., as he stood on the back porch of his home on the outskirts of the city. Military intelligence officers in vestigating the case said the mo tive had not yet been established, officially whether the mayor was Kiuea Dy Nazis Decause ne naa as sumed the post of burgomeistei under the Americans. HOW IT HAPPENED This was the story that was given by Oppenhof’s neighbor tc the army: Oppenhof and his wife were a: a neighbor’s home when the bur gomeister’s maid called and saic three men were waiting to see him. The neighbor accompanied the official to his home. A uniform See AMG Page t DR. W. R. PETTIGREW FIRST BAPTISTS PLAN REVIVAL Dr. W. R. Pettigrew, Pas tor Charleston Church, To Preach Special revival services will be held at the First Baptist church, Shelby, for one week beginning next Sunday morning, April 1, as announced by Dr, Zeno Wall, pas tor. Dr. William R. Pettigrew, pas tor of the Citadel Square Bap tist church, Charleston, S. C„ will be the preacher. Dr. Pettigrew is a graduate of Union university, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., and foi the past nine years has been pas tor of this great church in Char leston. He is a great preacher and dynamic speaker. OPENING SERVICE Dr. Pettigrew will preach his first sermon in this revival series on next Sunday evening at 8:00 o’clock and will continue each day through Friday evening. The week day services, Monday through Friday, will be held at 10:00 o' clock in the morning and at 8:00 o’clock in the evening. Congregational singing, under the direction of Horace Easom and the church choir, will be featured in the revival services. Everyone is given a warm invitation to at tend. DOVER GETS ROAD TERM Sentenced For Receiving Stolen Tires; Appeals To Supreme Court Ben Dover, service station opera t whose case in which - w'as charged wit' receiving stolen tires ended in a mistrial at the January term of Cleveland Superior court was convict"! on two counts by a jury whic returned its verdic’. yesterday after-.oon. Judge il iiair H. Bobbitt, f Charlotte, pres i-' g, sen need him to ,crve two yea:-, on the roads. He i .ve notice of appeal to the ’ orth Carolina £ preme court and posted a $2,000 bond. Tl.e Clev ' nd grand jury finish ed its ,/ork yesterday afternoon and after a tour of conn i sti tutions, recommended that certain roo v, at the county home be painJ :d at the convenience of the commissioners; that repair work be done in t . ' :tchen "" ’ that the juvenile det .tion quarters h« cleaned. It found records in good sh. pe at the cl k’s o~icc but not ed - --w .dminist t s and g ar dlans are delinquent in their reports. ot::er cases Lonnie Hull, of Kings Mountain, who had be: -i sentenced in r -c orde: court on drunkenness • 1 j 'ostitution charge was found not g -lty of t ,er charge this morn ing. Ju I iism: actions at the conclusion of the state’s evidence. Luth, Hall was fined $50 and i s on reckles drivin el and his license was suspended fci 12 months. H. L. Morgan was give a 12 months suspended sentence on a larceny charge. R. L. Howell was found not guil ty of receiving stolen goods. Elberta Johnson was given a six-months suspended sentence or a larceny charge. Most of this mornirg was taker up with the trial of the case ol Haman Whitworth, charged witl carnal knowledge of a girl undei 14 yearn cf age. Germans Claim Yanks Driven Oat Of City PARIS, March 28.—(/P)—The German high command said today that Third Army tanks had crashed into Ge muenden, 218 miles southwest of Berlin but had been driven out. The enemy assertion came while four of Gen. Eisenhow er’s armies were surging through wide breakthroughs in disintegrating German lines. The First Army reached the Giessen area, 225 miles from the capital. The Seventh Army drove 32 miles beyond the Rhine, reached the river Main and formed with the Third and First Armies a solid front on the rolling tank country of inner Germany. The British Second Army slashed 25 miles deep in Westphalia, menacing Muenster, its capital. The Ninth Army was cleaning up the western part of the Ruhr—completely outflanked by the First Army on the south and half outflanked by the British on the north. Canadians burst into the eastern outskirts of the Rhine | bastion of Emmerich. The Germans said Gemuenden was reached yesterday in ! a mighty surge of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s forces 45 miles east of tottering Frankfurt and 110 miles from Czechoslo vakia. The enemy’s communique said the town “was re captured” and 13 tanks were destroyed. The enemy said Third Army troops had captured and were using the radio inside Frankfurt on the Main, Ger many’s ninth largest city which the Third Army was con quermg block by block, i The full extent of victories in the west still was obscured by par tial security blackouts. A dispatch from Third army headquarters, filed by Thoburn Wiant four hours earlier than the German broadcast, said the eas ternmost advance of Patton’s troops still was Aschaffenburg, 22 miles | southeast of Frankfurt and 25 j southwest of Gemuenden. The enemy broadcast came as j vast First army tank and infan | try forces rolled within 225 miles | of the capital in a continued ad I vance into the Giessen area 60 odd miles beyond the utterly shatter ed Rhine line. The American First, Third ana Seventh armies and the British Second army all had achieved breakthroughs and were advanc ing virtually at will inside inner Germany. All three American forces joined together in a solid front east of the river when the Seventh army slashed 35 miles from the Rhine to the main river. The British were 25 miles be yond the lower Rhine at the very See GERMANS Pag# * Yanks Advance To Edge Of Cebu City i ■ , __ Second City Of Philippines Fired By Japs As Ameri cans Approach MANILA, March 28.—(/P)—American assault troops, swarming ashore on Cebu island Monday against elaborate beach defenses, swept almost to the outskirts of Cebu City, headquarters reported today, but that busy second city of the Philippines already was aflame and exploding from Japa ; nese demolition. Shortly after Maj. Gen. William H. Arnold’s American division hit the beaches the first big fire ap peared in the heart of the city Then came thunderous explosions and sheets of flame as the Japa nese demolition crews went to work as they did in Manila. Installations at the modern airdrome just northwest of the city, the fine wharf area, the municipal electric plant and the huge coconut refin ery just across the harbor on Mactan island — the largest refinery in the Philippines — all were burned and blasted as the Yanks probed into the southern outskirts. The landing, under cover of an I efficient air and naval bombard-1 rrient, was made near Talisay. a bout five miles south of Cebu City This is about midway along the east coast of the big stringbean shaped island which lies between Japanese-held Negros and Ameri can-captured Leyte in the center of the Archipelago. OFF GUARD Gen. Douglas MacArtliur's com-, munique today said the Japanese defenders had been caught "off See YANKS Page 2 Gardner To Address Rotarians On Friday Former Governor O. Max Gard ner, chairman* of the President’s Advisory Committee on War Mo bilization and Reconversion, will discuss problems of business in the post-war period in an address to the Rotary club Friday. Governor Gardner’s appearance was arranged by Rev. John W i Suttle who is program chairman jfor the day. VARIED EASTER SERVICE PLANS Lutherans Hold Holy Week Services, Good Weather Indicated Easter and Holy Week services of local churches already are bidd ing toward Sunday's observance of the Resurrection a survey re vealed today. With the weather man pre dicting bright, spring - like weather for the occasion, min isters expect record-breaking crowds to jam their auditoriums Sunday morning as people turn out in their Easter finery and flowers defying the war for at tention on that joyous occasion, "'aried services mark the ap proarh of Easter Sunday. There will be no union service Good Fri day, but the First “restyterian church will hold its own ’-vice that day at noon when Rev. Walter Brown, pastor, will speak. The public is ir.vit ’ Palm Sunday was observed by the churches last Sunday when there v ere many additions to church rolls. .scension Lutheran church is holding nightly services at 7:30 this week with Rev. J. V Sheppard, pastor, using the seven words from the Cross as his sermon topics. A sunrise service wi” be ’’eld at 7 a.m. Sunday, while at 11 a.m. Sun day the regular service and Easter Communion will be held. Easter Sunday will k the 1 nohing cf special services for one week at First Baptis* church when Dr. William R. Pe*Mgt See VARIED ?
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