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PRISONERS’ QUICK THINKING SAVES HERDED GROUP FROM U. S. ATTACKERS WITH THE FIRST ARMY, March 29. Mfl- Quick-thinking American and British captives be ing herded from a German prison er o' war camp at Limburg saved themselves from a deadly attack by United States planes through a human alphabet maneuver remin iscent of between-halvee formations by football cheering sections. With Ninth armored division tanks roaring toward the ancient cathedral city, the routed Germans tried to cram some 2,000 of the Al ii d prisoners into box cars for a r h to the east. American fight mbers, seeking out any moving ■ stock, swooped in to bomb and i the train. * e Nazi guards fled. The pris broke open the doors, spilled j ihe fields nearby and. as the :an planes dived for the kill, lv formed lines .-.pelling out i 1 tiers PW, for prisoners of war. he pilots veered away, but not be re 14 men had been killed and 27 wounded. When the Ninth division moved up they discovered the Germans were packing even seriously wound ed prisoners into boxcars and eva cuating them from hospitals in the path of the First army. Officers said the Germans ap parently had no hospital trains available to move the casualties, mvny of whom are in serious con dition from lack of proper medi cal treatment and malnutrition. The enemy has neither ambulances nor gasoline to evacuate hospitals. At Wetzlar, northeast of Lim burg, the Ninth infantry found 277 American prisoners of war locked in boxcar., on a railway siding. They immediately lifted them from ihe cars and took them to evacua tion hospitals for treatment. Some of the prisoners at Lim burg’s Stalag XII escaped before the Germans tried the evacuation move. These also were suffering from malnutrition and improper medical care. LABOR Starts On Pace One fcn the war and the peace. "The close cooperation between labor and management during the war has made possible our great and unexcelled achievements in war production. That close coop eration must be continued to make possible the full employment of labor and capital under our system of free competitive enterprise when hostilities cease.” Green, Johnston and Murray, for their respective organizations, ft agreed to set up a national com mittee to attain cooperation. Mr. Roosevelt said he would be happy to cooperate with the trio in every way possible and express ed the desire they would report periodically to him on the progress they make. The unprecedented declaration signed on labor’s side by the heads of the AFL and CIO, and for management by the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, received this faint praise by NAM, the other major citadel of management. “Good as far as it goes but xxx nowhere near specific enough.” NAM President Ira Mosher con tinued in a statement issued in New York last night: “The seven principles that make up the so-called charter are gen eralities on which there is already wide agreement. “What the people of America want to know is what is going to be done about making them work. This is a job for Congress, with labor and management furnishing all the practical help that is with in their power.” The charter declares among other things in favor of labor’s continued right to organize and bargain collectively free from any legislation which would interfere with those rights. On the other hand, labor would support the pri vate enterprise system and refrain from encroaching on manage ment's prerogatives. Mosher’s absence from the news conference at which President Wil liam Green of AFL. Philip Mur ray of CIO and Eric Johnston of the chamber jointly announced their plan yesterday provided the livestock topic of questioning. Johnston said Mosher had at tended one meeting on the plan but had not responded to two other invitations to conferences. Mosher replied, in a letter releas ed with his New York statement, that he had attended one brief session and was confronted on short notice with ready made pro posals. He added in his letter to John son, dated March 9, that NAM’S board of directors would meet j March 28 tyesterday) and “I hope j that as soon thereafter as pos sible It will be possible for you and me and the labor representatives : ■ meet again. ■anwhile George W. Taylor, man of the War Labor board, -d the charter as an “out nding advance” in the Demo cratic handling of Industrial rela PHONE 786 SHELBY. N. THE RECORD SHOP NEWEST Laura SELECTIONS a Stranger In Town JUST Sentimental Journey RECEIVED. Don,t Love Me JAPS PURSUED AS CEBU FALLS MANILA, March 39—(JP>—Dough boys pursued the Japanese Into the hills north of Cebu City to day, headquarters said, after that demolition wrecked second city of the Philippines was captured In a brisk two-day drive from the Yanks’ Cebu beachhead on the east coast. Troops inside the city fought scattered battles along heavily mined streets, but for the most part the enemy was reported to have abandoned well prepared de fenses and fled before Maj. Gen. William H. Arnold’s fast-moving American division. The Japanese fought stubbornly for a time Tuesday at Pardo, on the southern outskirts, but the 182nd regiment of Boston, Mass., cleared the way. Another column moved around to the west, and the capital city was entered from two sides Wednesday morning. Ameri can losses were light. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, an nouncing Cebu’s capture today, said the city of 150,000 inhabi tants was badly damaged by Jap anese demolition crews carrying out their ‘‘scorched earth” policy as they did in blasted Manila. The important harbor area, however, was taken virtually intact. It is one of the best in the Philippines. Windsor Warns Of Bahama Discontent NASSAU, Bahamas, March 29— (JF)—Expansion of the tourist at tractions and a four-point program for rehabilitation of the out is lands of the Bahamas were propos ed by the Duke of Windsor in a half-hour speech before the cham ber of commerce last night. He said the end of the war and the removal or reduction of RFC garrisons here, and the return of Bahamian soldiers from overseas and Bahamian laborers from the United States may result in an uncertain economy. The colony's most serious prob lem, he said, was congestion in Nasau where the population has increased from 20,000 to 30,000 al most in the five years of his ad ministration here. After the war, he said, this congestion would in crease. Warning of the dangers of dis content among an overcrowded population with insufficient work for all, he said the rehabilitation of the out islands was the only remedy. Manpower Plan Is Roosevelt Concern WASHINGTON, March 29—<£>)— President Roosevelt called two senate leaders to the White House today for a conference on man power legislation. — Those summoned were Majority Leader Barkley and Chairman Thomas (D-Utah) of the Senate Military committee. Hie conference followed by 24 hours a presidential letter to Thom as urging senate adoption of a new manpower measure worked out by senate and house conferees. The house approved the legisla tion by a slim margin and the sen ate was moving toward a vote. Mr. Roosevelt told Thomas yesterday failure of the legislation to pass would make conduct of the war “even more difficult,” while adop tion, he said, would hearten the armed forces. Pope's Faith In U. S. Womanhood VATICAN CITY, March 29. —UP) —Pope Pius XII told Rep. Claire Boothe Luce (R-Conn) today that he hoped American womanhood would be a great influence for a stable world peace. The pontiff received the con gresswoman for a 20-minute inter view during which he asked her to convey his blessings to United States women. Mrs. Luce has been touring Italian battlefronts. Work fast when making pastry. Too much handling is not good for pie crust. tions which could speed the re conversion of induatry to peace time activity. Taylor said WLB's public mem bers “regretted more than any one else the necessity for government intervention'* in industrial rela tions. Management and labor, he con tinued, “know their own special problems better than governmen tal representatives can ever hope to know them.” = SWEDEN .emnqint) [W«mw CORSICA, SARDINIA SICILY LEVANT SI AKS TUNISIA CYPRUS ' Mediterranean SfO IPANS IOROAN JEgypt BHHS w, ' § v <2jT SCOTLAND J 4»/onf»c Offoo/ ~ fj£ S^o s*lv-»VfNi ENGLAND^m ' london/ r etllH MOROCCO 600 STaTOTI MlltS ARABIA m i i j . GERMANY’S DOMAIN SHRINKING VNDm ALLIED DLOYVS—The black areas on this map indicate ter ritory held by Germany at the peak of the Wehrmacht's conquests, but since lost. The shaded section re presents territory remaining under German control today. The shrinkage continues, with American and British forces driving toward the heart of the Reich from the Western Front, and with the Russians ' almost within the shadows of Berlin on the Eastern Front. FEC. LEROY SOUTHARDS PFC. JOHNNIE T. WILLIAMS WOUNDED—Casualty reports received today from the war department list two Lawndale boys wounded in action in Germany. Pfc. Leroy E. Southards, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Southards of Lawndale, have been reported seriously wounded March 12 in Germany, according to word received today by his parents. Pfc. Southards entered the Army in Feb ruary, 1944, and received his training at Fort McClellan. Ala., before going overseas. Pfc. Johnnie T. Williams, son of Mrs. Mary Pruitt of Lawndale, and husband of the former Miss Ethel Sain of Lawndale. was slightly injured in Germany March 4, according to a telegram received from the war department by his wife. Pfc. Williams entered the Army in April, 1944, and received his infantry training at Camp Blanding. Florida, before being sent overseas. INFANTS’ SHOES TO REQUIRE RATION STAMPS AFTER MAY 1 WASHINGTON, March 29—0<P)— All babies' leather shoes will re quire ration stamps after May 1. As OPA announced this today, the Office of Civilian Requirements disclosed that it is seeking pro duction of 150,000,000 pairs of “good’’ fabric shoes with synthe tic rubber soles for adults to eke out dwindling supplies of leather footwear. Manufacture at that annual rate. OCR Director William Y. Elliott said in an interview, would restore the two-pair-a-year standard which OPA dropped in December. Objective of adding the smaller sizes of infants’ shoes to the ra tion program. OPA said, is to help build up critically short supplies in the larger, now-rationed sizes. CASUAITIESAT 900,000 MARK ^WASHINGTON, March 29. —I/P'. —American combat casualties re ported since Pearl Harbor neared the 900,000-mark today with the Army setting its losses at 780,043. The latest Navy report added 92, 819 to the Army toll, making the aggregate 872,882. This was an in crease of 13,275 from the preced ink week’s report. Secretary of War Stimson said the army’s total was based on a t The action puts sizes 0 to 4 — those generally worn by babies be fore they learn to walk—on the same ration basis as other leather shoes. OPA said the demand for the smaller sizes, largely because they have not been rationed, "has soared out of proportion to actual needs" with the result that those sizes "have absorbed too much of the manpower and production fa cilities, and too much of the scarce types of leather suitable for mak ing the much more urgently need ed toddlers’ sizes." The agency predicted an increase in these sizes "within the next several months." Only Infants’ leather shoes are affected by the action. compilation of individual names received here through March 21, and reflected actual battlefront developments through the end of February and the beginning of March. A breakdown on the Army's ca sualties and corresponding figures for last week: Killed 153,791 and 150,310; wounded 473,669 and 464,731; mis sing 86,355 and 88.209; prisoners 66.228 and 64,430. Of the wound ed, 243,508 have returned to duty. Similar figures for the Navy: Killed 35,750 and 35,342; wound ed 42,302 and 41,882; missing 10,500 and 10,417; prisoners 4,267 and 4,266. BROTHERS OVERSEAS—Pfc. Clarence O. Turner, left, and Pfc. Ben B. Turner right, are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Turner of route 4, Shelby, serving with the Army overseas. Pfc. Clarence Turner entered the Army in November. 1942, and saild for ovrsas in April, 1944. He is now serving with the Fifth Army somewhere in Italy. Pfc. Ben B Turner enutered the Army In November. 1943, and is serving with the First! Army somewhere in Germany. He has been stationed overseas since July, 1944. r , lit A ■*“ .»*■ I t i . I * t Presbyterians To Hold Good Friday Services Tomorrow There will be an Easter service | at the Shelby Presbyterian church i Friday, March 30, at high noon.1 This will be the only Good Friday service in Shelby and everyone is extended a cordial invitation to attend. The service will consist * mostly of scriptures of the cruci fixion. hymns, and prayer. Special music will be rendered by the church choir under the direction of Mrs. George Carpenter. The Rev. Walter Brown, pastor of the church, will preside over the ser-, vice. Stimson Pleased By Western Front WASHINGTON, March 39. —OP —Secretary of War Stimson said today the situation on the western front "makes clear in no uncertain terms'’ that the German army on the Rhine is "beaten." He told a news conference it was possible that the Nazis may find some other temporary line for the defense of the Reich, but that “the enemy must be absolutely without hope of anything save uncondition al surrender or piecemeal collapse," Stimson added: "If the Allied armies are forced to fight from village to village to the destruction of all Germany, the German people must know also their present leadership and they who tolerate it will bear the res ponsibility." ALLIED Starts On Page One 11: Oberhausen 1191.3051, 2: and Dortmund i537,OOOi, 19. All the Rhine from Bonn to Mannheim, a winding stretch of nearly 1-50 miles, was in Allied hands. American and British armored battle teams north of the Ruhr raced 20 miles across the West phalian plains to the approaches of Muenster in exploiting a break through so thoroughly that Field i Marshal Montgomery imposed strict security silence because of the rapidity of present operations. This suggested a momentous vic tory was being fashioned. At Amoeneburg. Lt. Gen. Court ney H. Hodges’ racing armor was 95 miles southeast of Muenster and in position to curl around the whole outflanked Ruhr—essential to German war economy—and trap its myriad defenders in conjunc tion with the 21st army group racing across the Westphalian flats. Hodges also was 152 miles west of Leipzig, Germany’s fifth city, and 255 from Russian lines. His troops and those of the Thud army formed three more linkups j west of falling Frankfurt on the J Mainz, a city more than half cap tured. The armies, both command ed by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, also i joined hands at Kamberg and Idstein, southeast of Limburg. NAZI LINES FAIL German lines everywhere were) disintegrating swiftly. The cloaks of portentious silence which Brad-1 ley and Montgomery both impos-; ed were hiding the full extent of triumphs in the heartland of the | staggering Reich. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's; hard-hitting, winged-foot fourth; armored division crashing along the Frankfurt-Leipzig superhighway ad vanced 19 miles In a day and reached Gruenberg, 214 miles from Berlin and 14 east of captured) Giessen. One prong of the break through division advanced eight; miles northeast to near Belters ham, south of the main Berlin Frankfurt superhighway. Frankfurt itself was all but con quered. More than half of the city was in Third army hands. Nearby Hanau and Aschaffenburg were captured. The First army stormed through the Important traffic center of Marburg on the way to Amoene burg and captured it without re sistance. ^locm'oTaaikttb] Furni jed by J. Robert Lindsay and Company W bb Building Shelby, N. C. N. Y. COTTON AT 2:00 Today Prev. Day March . - May . -22.05 July .-21.79 October _ _21.26 December - -21.14 21.02 22.05 21.76 21.24 21.13 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT May .1.69% July .1.56:h September . .1.52*2 1.69's 1.569* 1,52% CORN May..1.11 U July . 1.08 September .1.05 1.10% 1.0791 1.05’! RYE May___1.17*4 July . _1.13% September - .1.07s* 1.16% 1.13% 1.07 >* STOCKS AT 2:00 Amn Rolling Mill. American Loco _ .. American Tobacco B -- American Tel and Tel . .. Anaconda Copper . . Assoc Dry Goods - . Beth Steel - --- Boeing Air . - Chrysler - -. Curtiss-Wright . . Elec Boat.. General Motors ---- Pepsi Cola . .. Greyhound Corp . . International Paper _ - Nash Kelt - --- Glenn L Martin . N Y Central - .. Penn R R .. Radio Corp .-. Reynolds Tob B . .. Southern Railroad . - Stand Oil N J . Sperry Corp . U S Rubber . ... U S Steel , .— Western Union. Youngstown S and T -- T7 32 69 1-4 | 3-3, 1-4' 161 1-8, 31 1-8 i 19 71 19 96 5 15 7-8: 5-8 3-S , 3-4 3-4 1-4 64 1-2* 1-2 1-3 ... 17 24 3-4 22 5-8 1-8 3-4 U2 j 1-3 23 23 35 10 32 33 57 3-4’ 29 3-8 54 61 45 45 1-2 5-8 1-8 1-4 i STOCKS STRONGER NEW YORK, March 29— <P< — Scattered rails and industrials1 made further recovery headway in today's stock market althougn many leaders inclined to slip. Dealings slowed appreciably af ter a fast start. Gains of fractions to a point or more were in the majority near th^ fourth hour. 1 The approaching European vic tory caused exceptional selectivity' in the matter of purchases. Is sues of companies with a favor able post-war outlook seemed to attract the most demand. While fears of immediate Washington moves against speculation waned, the realization that ultimate steps might be taken remained as an investment handicap. BITTER AND EGGS CHICAGO, March 29.— ./P—But ter, firm: receipts 521.499. Eggs, receipts 14.895. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO. March 29—‘.-P—WFA —Salable hogs 6 000: total 11,000: active, fully steadv: good and choice sows at 14 00; complete clearance. Salable cattle 5,000: total 5,400: salable calves 800; total 800: fed steers and yearlings steady: choice offerings active; others slow; strictly choice kinds, absent: top 16.75;' bulk 14.50-16.50: heifers steady to weak; best 15.75 but nothing choice here: cows 25 low er; beef bulls shared cow decline; sausage bulls weak at 13.00 down: practical outside heavy fat bulls 13.50; cutter cows 9 00 down; most, beef cows 9.50-12.50, cow supply mostly canners, cutters, and com mon beef cows; vealers firm at 16.50 down with odds lots 16.75 and 17.00. President Back At Desk After Visit To Hyde Park Home WASHINGTON, March 29. —US'. —President Roosevelt returned to the White House today from a four-day visit to his home at Hyde Park, N. Y„ and began a series of important conferences. A conference with the British ambassador, Lord Halifax, and Sir Oliver Lyttleton and Col. J. J. Llewellyn, who arc in the United States to study the food supply situation. Another with Senate Majority Leader Barkley iD-Ky> and Chair man Thomas 'D-Utahi of the Sen atj Military committee on man power legislation. LT. EPES Starts On Page One Williams, obtained a leave from a teaching job at Jacksonville, Fla., last December to come here and be with her husband while he awaited an overseas assignment. In a signed statement submitted at the inquest Lt. Epes said: “I did not kill my wife. I did not, plan to kill Mary Lee.” He said that Saturday night, Jan. 27. he gave her the capsules to relieve her from pain and two hours later they both fell off to sleep. He awoke during the night and found his wife dead, he said. "I had not planned for this to happen. I was panic stricken. ‘ I picked Mary Lee up. I put a blanket around her and pat her in the back seat of the car.” He said he made several tests to see if she was breathing, then drove away, stopping in front of a church to put the body in the trunk of the car. Five miles from Ft, Jackson lie buried his wife in the foxhole and pushed some branches and leaves over the makeshift grave, . t MISSING!—Mrs. Mildred Peters (above) of Newport, Ky., 33-year old, 200-pound wife of a steel mill foreman, left home in a taxicab for a hospital March 26 to give birth to a baby—and vanished mys teriously. The cab driver said he let her out of his car at the door j of the hospital. But she did not reg- : ister in at the hospital, and her j family has searched in vain for trace of her. CC MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN ENDS WITH SUCCESS A er one of the most successful membership campaigns in history, the Ohelby chamber of commerce today completed its drive for a membership of 250. President Clyde A. Short and R. E. Youree added the last few names to finish the roster. Report of this successful drive will be made at the annual cham ber of commerce dinner Friday night by J. Dale Stentz. secretary. The drive was started in February. President Short said that he be lieved that the chamber is enter ing one of the most promising pe riods of its history. Prospect is bright for a number of new indu stries locating here. President Short said. Numerous inquiries have been made as to possible locations and investigations are underway by a number of potential Shelby businesses. Nazi Parachutists Slew Aachen Mayor WITH THE FIRST ARMY March 29. —<<PV— The assassina tion of Aachens Allied-appointed mayor was carried out by three German parachutists in uniform, it was disclosed today. Striking gangster-fashion Sun day night, they shot and killed the mayor. Franz Oppenhof. 41, and then escaped, Oppenhof was the first mayor to be appointed in a major occupied German city by the Allies. His death was announced yesterday. Military investigators said they have been unable to determine an exact motive, but it was recalled that Hitler often lias threatened retaliation against any Germans cooperating with the Allies and there were some who believed this might be the first manifestation of that threat. BOND GIVEN « BY RUNYANS Mr. and Mrs. A. v. Runyans, charged wtih fraudulent soliciting of funds under the pretext of col lecting money for the Red Cross, have furnished $1,000 bond each for their appearance in UnHad States District court, it was learn ed thig morning. Mr. and Mrs. Runyan were ar rested by Sheriff Raymond Cline co-operating with G. A. Hager, Gas ton county deputy sheriff, who in itiated the investigation when they came into his place soliciting funds without proper credentials. Juveniles Are Given Hearings John Ed Gardner, a negro Juven ile given a hearing before Judge E. Yates Webb yesterday on a charge of liquor violation was given a sus pended term and put on probation. Coyt Perkins charged with forg ing a name on a government check, was given a year and a day, term suspended upon good behavior. He, too, was of juvenile age. WANT ADS CHAMBRAY IN SOLIDS and stripes. See it now at The Gift Shop, next to Paul Webb Drug Co. 2t-29c WANTED: HOUSEKEEPER FOR general housework. Write Box 631, Shelby, N. C. ltp WE HAVE A SELECTION of prints that will catch the eye, and make you want to buy yards and yards of them. Also baby prints. The Gift Shop, next to Paul Webh Drug Co. 2t-29e LOST: EVERSHARP dbLE fountain pen. Reward. Ran dolph Martin. Cleveland Hard ware Co. 3t 30c AiTl K1NDS OfTaCE AND trims. Also an assortment of ric-rac at The Gift Shop, next door to Paul Webb Drug Co. 2t-29c WANTED WAITRESS. ROOM and board furnished, good sal ary. short hours, experience not necessary. Hotel Charles, tf 20c YOU’VE BEEN WAITING for it — now here it is. Long lengths of white (un finished) dotted swiss cur tain material. Come by and get what you want. Th« Gift Shop, next to Paul Webb Drug Co. 2t 29c TOO LATE FOR BEHIND THE FRONT PAGE—Service man wish es ride to Florida first of week. Call Holt McPherson. HERE THEY ARE, LADIES! Those checked ginghams you’ve been waiting for. Large and small checks. The Gift Shop, next to Paul Webb Drug Co. 2t-29c 1 A Better Opportunity To Serve In Significant, Vital Wcr Work Is Offered By Tennessee Eastman Coporation KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE TO— MECHANICS MACHINISTS ELECTRIC WORKERS SHEET METAL WORKERS Young men and women to train for modern production jobs. For interview with Company Representative Apply United States Employment Service War Manpower Commission M & J FINANCE BUILDING SHELBY, N. C. MARCH 26TH THRU MARCH 31 ST All hiring will be in accordance with War Manpower Commission regulations.
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