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WEATHER Partly cloudy and unseasonably warm today, tonight and Friday, few scattered thundershowers, in mountains Friday afternoon. Tshe Hhelhy Bnily Mars CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today — “FRISCO SAL” Starring Susanna Foster — Turhan Bey VOL. XLIII— 76 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, MAR. 29, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5c A MINER STt'DIES STRIKE BALLOT—Peter Sacolavich of Library. Pa . a miner for 40 years, studies a sample of the ballot used by 400,000 i 10ft coal miners March 28 in their election to determine whether to itrike for John L. Lewis' contract demands, including a $60,000,000 a year inion royalty. Miners Give Lewis 0 Confidence Ballots Uodert Hopeful Strike May Be Averted Despite Deadlock As Contract Close Nears WASHINGTON, March 29.—(/P)—A thundering miners’ vote to strike at hi.s call today bolstered John L. Lewis’s position in the dead-locked soft coal wage negotiations. EPES ORDERED HELD FOR TRIAL » Army Officer Denies Kill ing His Pretty Young Wife COLUMBIA, 6. C, March 29— (JP)—A coroner's jury has ordered Lt. S. C. Epes, membpr of a pro minent Virginia family, held for trial in the death of his wife, whom he denies killing, but ad mits burying in a foxhole in a moment of panic. Two Columbia physicians said Mrs. Epes died from an over dose of a hypnotic drug. I.t. Epes, in a statement signed at the time of his arrest and in troduced at the inquest yester day, said he gave his wife the sedative to relieve pain. REPORTED MISSING When he discovered her dead, he said, he became panicky and buried her in a foxhole near Ft. Jackson, where he was stationed with an ambulance unit. The next day he reported his auburn-haired, 26-year-old wife missing. That was on January 27. More than two weeks later, his face and throat swathed in bandages—the result, post authorities said, of self inflicted razor wounds—he led of ficers to a spot where Mrs. Epes’ body was exhumed from the shal low grave. On the basis of the coroner’s jury order, Lt. Epes was held on a commitment paper charging mur der. Solicitor T. Pou Taylor said he would seek to try the 29-year old lieutenant at a term of court beginning here April 9. Mrs. Epes, the former Mary Lee See LT. EPES Page 2 Charlotte Taxi Driver Gets Term For Soldier Death CHARLOTTE, March 29. —UP)— John L. Robinson, 55-year-old cab driver, was given a five to sevQji year sentence in Superior court here today for the slaying of Pfc. Theodore Maplert of Morris Field on February 23. Robinson was convicted of man slaughter by a Mecklenburg county jury late yesterday. After Judge Richard D. Dixon passed sentence today, defense attorneys filed no tice of an appeal. t a nr pi twin wuuaii expucb , Saturday midnight, but the bet I ter than eight to one margin in tavor ol a strike does not neces sarily mean Lewis will call one | then. Complete returns from 90 areas polled by the National Labor Rela ! tions board yesterday showed 208. 718 "yes" votes and 25,156 “noes.” WASHINGTON, March 29— UP>—\ 30-day extension of the present contract, Secretary of Labor Perkins appeared today before soft coal wage negotia tors in the wake of a over whelming miners’ vote to strike. •‘I certainly am going to try I for an extension of the con tract," she told newsmen as she entered the conference. A total of 236,418 ballots were cast out of 311,281 eligible to vote. Challenges eliminated 1,026 and 1, 518 were declared void. There was no immediate expla nation why the number eligible to vote fell nearly 90.000 short of previous estimates. The percent age voting was described by NLRB as “about average.” This was the question: “Do yon wish to permit an interruption of war production in war time as a result of this dispute?” The wording was fixed by the Smith-Connally labor disputes act under which the ballot was taken. Completion of the vote, biggest ever undertaken by the NLRB, cleared the way for Lewis to reply to Interior Secretary Ickes’ re quest that the present contract be extended to May 1. Efforts to reach a new agree ment before the present agree ment expires Saturday night seem ed destined to fail, despite the aid and encouragement of Labor Sec retary Perkins, who personally took a hand in the negotiations Tuesday. Labor-Management Peace Charter Warmly Received WASHINGTON, March 29—(-T>)— President Roosevelt voiced pleasure today with a labor-employer plan for postwar industrial peace and termed such cooperation essential to full employment when hostili ties cease. Two labor and one business leader worked out a “Code of prin ciples’’ to submit to their respec tive organizations with the Idea of promoting ‘the maximum degree of industrial peace and prosperity in postwar America.” Mr. Roosevelt was advised of this step in a letter addressed to him jointly by William Green, president of the American Federa tion of Labor; Eric Johnston, presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and Philip Murray, president Qf the Congress of Industrial Organizations. “I am very pleased,” the presi dent wrote in reply, "to learn of your plans to organize a commit tee of representatives of industry and organized labor to ensure the continued close cooperation be tween labor and management to See LABOR Page 2 % OKINAWA GETS 6TH BLAST IN RYUKYUS RAID Nimitz Score Sheet Shows 819 Aircraft, 57 Ships In 11 Days nips makeF CLAIMS GUAM. March 29.—(A5)— Okinawa underwent its sixth days’ bombardment by the U. S. fleet’s largest rifles as hundreds of carrier aircraft knifed into its remaining strongholds, Fleet Adm. Ches ter W. Nimitz announced to day. Radio Tokyo held to its report that Yank troops landed on the Kerama islands, asserting a fleet of "20 to 30 transports” is at tempting to supply American in vasion forces on the islands, 15 miles west of Okinawa. There was no confirmation from fleet headquarters of any of these re DAMAGE HEAVt Citing preliminary reports of damage inflicted on the enemy, Nimitz* communique said 38 aircraft were destroyed; 19 ships crippled including — three destroyers or destroyer escorts damaged, five cargo ships damaged and many small craft wrecked. Military Instal lations including submarine pens and Gnten Bay on Oki nawa were heavily hit. The totals make today's incom plete Pacific fleet boxscore for the past 11-day carrier and battleship offensive read: 819 aircraft probably destroyed. 57 or more ships sunk or dam aged, including carriers and a 45.000-ton battleship. Nimitz acknowledged "some fleet units” suffered damage "un der enemy air attacks” including "serious damage” to one destroy er. one "larger unit” and another ship, and "minor damage to sev eral others.” None of these ships was reported lost. In further unsubstantiated claims, Japanese imperial head quarters boasted of sinking or da maging "30 warships, cruisers, de stroyers and transports” between Monday and Wednesday by "sur face units” and planes. Earlier Japanese press reports said Japanese torpedo boats “sank two cruisers” and "damaged a de stroyer.” The fleet’s assault on the Ryu kus by air and sea is probably the heaviest in the Pacific and imper ial Japanese headquarters implied in today's communique the attack is continuing into the seventh day. Tokyo also reported carrier plane attacks on the naval base of Kure on Honshu island, early today. Besides this heavy fleet jabbing, upwards of 200 Superfortresses hit Kyushu Tuesday noon and an un confirmed Japanese broadcast said other B-29s smacked it again Tuesday night. Hoey Gives Pair Liberated Nurses Tour Of Capitol WASHINGTON, March 29—(£>)— Two army nurses, liberated in February from a Japanese prison camp, had Senator Hoey (D-NC) as guide on a tour of the Capitol. The nurses, each of whom wore six overseas service stripes, were Lt. Evelyn Whitlow of Leesburg, Caswell county, North Carolina, and Lt. Helen Gardner of Day ton, Ohio. They were liberated Feb. 3 after nearly three years in Santo Tomas prison camp, Mani la, P. I., arriving in the states Feb. 28. Red Army Slashes To Austrian Border Bratislava Gap Defenses Shattered To Open Route To Vienna 38 Miles Away LONDON, March 29.—(/P)—The Red army, lancing through the shattered defenses of Bratislava Gap in the Danube valley, has reached places along the Austrian fron tier, it was reported from Moscow today. wig uLuini tauno onu a i — mored cars of Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian army, smashing ahead from captured Ceorna, hammered at the defenses of Pamhagen, 39 miles southeast of Vienna, St. Johann on the frontier of the northeast and Mo son (Wieselburg), near the Dan LONDON, March 29—(7P)— The Russians have stormed to the Nitra river, a 25-mile ad vance from the Hron in Slo vakia, the German communi que announced today. ube 21 miles southeast of Bratis lava, Moscow dispatches said. “Whether the <nits which fought their way to the fron tier planned to remain or whether these were scouting groups feeling out the strength of the much-heralded fortified zone is not known,” said a dis patch from (tP) Correspondent Eddy Gilmore. “There are no indications that any of these tanks and armored cars actually crossed the frontier into Austria.” 25 MILE ADVANCE The German communique an nounced a withhdrawal north of the Danube to the Nitra river and a 25-mile advance by the Russians from the broken Hron river line. This push in Slovakia, dovetail ing with the assault below the great river of southeastern Eu rope, apparently placed the Rus sians close to the City of Nitra, 40 miles east cf Bratislava, capi tal of the puppet government of Slovakia, and possibly as close as 30 miles to the border of Moravia. There was no word of the coordinated offensive of Mar shal Ivan Konev from Silesia toward Vienna and Prague from the northeast, but the Russians were heavily bombing Maehrisch Ostrau in the Mo ravian gap in their approach ' from that direction. General Clay Designated As Germany’s Governor Will Take Charge Of Civil Affairs Of That Country As Eisenhower's Deputy WASHINGTON, March 29.—(fl5)—Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who has been with the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, was designated today to take charge of civil affairs in Germany when that country is occupied. President Roosevelt rpade the announcement. The appointment, the White House said, was by Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff. Clay will be deputy to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the an nouncement asserted, “to have charge of civil affairs when General Eisenhower, as supreme commander, assumes control under the arrangement agreed upon for the occupation of Germany.” Clay had served at Eisenhower’s headquarters before he went to OWMR as deputy director under James F. Byrnes. The presidential announcement said that Eisenhower had asked for Clay's assignment over civil affairs three weeks ago but that it was delayed because Marshal had agreed to let him remain with OWMR until April 1. The task of developing an or ganization for occupied Germany and administering it, Mr. Roose velt asserted, "is one for which General Clay is particularly quali fied by reason of his splendid ser vice in the civilian as well as in the military branches of govern ment.” Clay had charge of material pro curement for the army service for ces when Byrnes borrowed him last December as his deputy in charge of the war program. Japs Use Prisoners To Protect Targets From Allied Bombing LONDON, March 29. —(JP)— Maj. Arthur Henderson, financial secretary to the war office, told commons today that the Japanese were moving prisoner of war camps into close proximity to military instaliations in an effort to pro tect the targets from bombing. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 6:30 p.m.—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 l at at the Armory. 8:00 p.m.—Easter Communion service at Central Methodist church. FRIDAY 12 p.m.—Good Friday Service at Presbyterian church. 12:30 p.m. — Rotary Club meets. 7 p.m.—Chamber of Com merce annual dinner at Hotel | Charles. 7:30 p.m.—Holy Week service Ascension Luthern, ASK EXTENSION PRICE CONTROL Senate Banking Commit tee Approved Year Additional WASHINGTON, March 29—VP)— Extension of the price control act for one year without change was approved today by the senate banking committee. The decision was reached after OPA officials assured the commit tee they would try by administra tive means to adjust policy prac tices against which some business groups have complained. Chairman Wagner (D-NY) told reporters he thought the commit tee action was now “all set” but that it could, of course, change its mind and recommend amendments before filing its report. The re port probably will not be filed un til next week. In approving an extension of the act without change, the committee not only turned down amendments asked by industry groups but a series of changes proposed by Price Administrator Chester Bowles. The OPA chief had recommend ed that he be empowered to place ceilings on movie tickets and bar ber and beauty shop charges. He also asked that rents for business establishments be brought under control. Still another Bowles proposal was for action to halt what he called the inflation of real estate and securities. On this latter pro posal, the committee sentiment was described as being that any action taken should be handled as separate legislation rather than included in the price control law. To Inquire Into Prices Of Poultry Investigation of poultry prices in this vicinity has been ordered by the Office of Price Administra tion, it was stated this morning by J. J. Hartigan, secretary of the rationing board. He said that he had been re ceiving numerous complaints that poultry raisers are asking mer chants 40 cents a pound for fryers when wholesale prices permit charges of 31.7 cents a pound when delivered to the merchant, or 30.2 cents a pound if the merchant hauls them himself. The merchant is permitted to charge only 39 cents a pound to the consumer. CHURCHILL SAYS SUCCESS NEAR LONDON, March 29— VP) — Prime Minister Churchill as serted today that the “hour of success” was near. His prediction came in a let ter endorsing a liberal candi date for commons in a special election to fill a vacancy. “The endurance of the Bri tish people and the steadfast devotion of the fighting serv ices have at last brought us near the hour of success,” he wrote. BIG THREEIN CLOSE TOUCH Coincides With Eisenhow er's Sensational Advances By ALEX H. SINGLETON LONDON, March 29.— (/P) —A sharp increase in the flow of gov ernment communications between the capitals of the “Big Three”— often a sign of important develop ments in the making—coincided today with the sensational advance of Gen. Eisenhower’s forces. There was nothing concrete in diplomatic quarters to suport the atmosphere of victory in the air felt throughout London, but re liable reports said members of Prime Minister Churchill’s war cabinet had been ordered to re main close to their posts. Arrange ments also have been made to call parliament back into session if necessary during the eight-day Easter recess. The British are preparing for their' happiest Easter of the war. Easter is their best holi day of the year. War plants will be kept working, but nearly everything else will shut down or operate on skeleton shifts. Stores will close from Good Fri day until Tuesday. Women and children are leading the exodus from London for sea side and country today. Despite their belief that this is the eve of victory, there is not much hilarity among the British. For one reason, Southern England and London still are within range of the Nazi V-weapons, even witn the Germans being beaten back. Everyone is watching Field Mar shal Montgomery's rush on the northern sector closely, therefore, because the German rocket-firing sites are believed to be in Hol land. ' TO HOLD MUSIC ! FESTIVAL AGAIN The annual school music festi val for the schools of Shelby and Cleveland county will be held a gain this year after being discon tinued for the past two years. This was announced this morning by Superintendent Horace Grigg who said that a committee has been named to prepare for the event. This committee is composed of J. D. Huggins, of the Polkville school, Mi’s. T. F. Templeton, of the Kings Mountain schools and Miss Mo selle Moore, of the Shelby schools. A time quota will be allowed to each school for its part of the pro gram. The date for the event has not been fixed but will be held some time in May. ACCIDENTAL KILLING NEWTON, March 29. —(/P)— Glenn LafTon, 12-year-old son of Lawrence Laffon, accidentally shot and killed himself with a small caliber rifle while shooting rats on his father’s farm in Cline’s town ship yesterday. COURT APPOINTEES RALEIGH. — (/P) — Governor Cherry today reappointed Judge Carl C. Wilson and Solicitor L. Roy Hughes of the Thomasville Rec order’s court for two year terms. I 7th Army Frees 1100 Mis Treated Yank Prisoners | HEPPENHEIM, Germany, March I 27—(/P)—(Delayed) —</P.)— Eleven 1 hundred emaciated prisoners, in cluding 290 wounded Americans so badly treated by their Nazi cap tors that they had lost an average of 35 pounds in weight, were freed from a German prison camp when the U. S. Seventh army infantry captured this town today. Pathetically happy at their lib eration, the men related how they had been subjected to filthy con ditions and fed on a slow-.starva* tlon diet that made it virtually im possible for the wounded to recov > Allied Armies Pouring Through Wide Break In Lines, Menace Hannover Duisburg, Mannheim Fall To Plunging Armies Whose Movements Covered By Security Blackout PARIS. March 29.—(/P)-—British and American troops racing today through a wide break in German lines north of the Ruhr were reported menacing Hannover, 142 miles from Berlin, while First Army shock troops raced to a point 207 miles southwest of the capital. Duisburg in the Ruhr ran up the white flag. All of Frankfurt on the Main except the northern out skirts was captured by the Third Army, whose advance troops operating in echelon with the First Army moved east ward to within 214 miles of Berlin. Hamborn, Weisbaden, Hanau, Aschaffenburg and the northern half of Mannheim fell to Gen. Eisenhower’s victory flushed armies fighting up to 145 miles deep in Germany. The full extent of the advances in Westphalia was hidden by a portentious security blackout, but AP Cor respondent Ned Nordness said Muenster, Osnabrueck and Hannover all were threatened by the sweeping gains outflanking the Ruhr to the north. Several defendable rivers were crossed easily. Hannover is 112 miles from last publishable British positions on the approaches to Muenster, capital of Westphalia. The nearest First Army approach to Berlin was at Amoenburg, 85 miles beyond the Rhine and 255 from Rus ! sian siege lines in the east. The First and Third Armies scored advances of 20 miles or more overnight, capturing I the important Lahn river traffic center of Marburg, with out opposition. The enemy was concerned about operations on the Neckar, which flows behind the easily defended black forest to the south. The Ger mans blew the bridges east of Mannheim. CITIES TOPPLING Numerous cities were within grasp of the charging Allies. Among MANNHEIM TOPPLED NEW YORK, March 29— (/P) — American Seventh army troops have captured Mann heim, the American broadcas ting station in Europe said af ter noon today. CBS recorded the account. these were Kassel (217,085), 43 miles from the First army; Essen (660,000), six miles from the Ninth, and Heidelberg 184,650), six miles from the Seventh army. Armies in the north were at these positions before the blackout was imposed; Hamm (52.000) , eastern exit of the Ruhr, 24 miles away; Mulheim (136,805), 5; Gelsenkirchen (313.000) , 6; Bochum (303,000), See ALLIED ARMIES Page 2 j er and caused some to lose as much as 100 pounds in weight. An American lieutenant who with a major, did all the surgical ; work for the American prisoners, ! said the average daily diet was a I bout 700 calories, in contrast tc J the 3,500 to 4,000 calory allotment I for wounded men in American mil ! itary hospitals. He said repeated protests to the ! German commandant had met with the reply that the Nazis just , couldn’t get any more food foi See 7TH ARMY Page 3 1 HINES GIVEN LONG SENTENCE Howard Hitie.s, negro, was sen tenced to serve from 25 to 30 years in the state penitentiary by Judge William H. Bobbitt, presiding over Cleveland Superior court, after Hines had tendered a plea of guilty to second degree murder in connection with the killing of his wife. Hines and his wife had an ar gument in January over an allot ment check which she was draw ing against his pay and he shot and fatally injured her at her home immediately afterward. Maxie Wilson, also a negro who is said to have furnished the pis tol and gone with Hines to the scene of the killing will be tried at the next term of court. This case in which he is charged with being an accessory was continued for further investigation. Haymon Whitworth, negro, was found not guilty of carnal knowl edge of a girl under 14 years old. Clyde Morrow on a charge of operating a public nuisance was fined $25 and given a suspended sentence. Fred Davis was fined $25 and costs for assault with deadly weapon. Melvin Watts was fined $50 and costs for operating a car while intoxicated and was ordered to sur render his driving license. Edward Johnson was ordered to pay the costs for giving a worth less check. NAZIS Ql’IT POSTS ZURICH. Switzerland, March 29. —i/Pi—Most leading Nazi officials have left their pasts and retired to an Alpine hideout, the newspaper La Suisse reported today in a dis patch from the German frontier.
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