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WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and warm with showers and thundershowers in west portion. Partly cloudy and mild tonight and Tuesday preced ed by few showers in extreme east. The Hhelby Baily Him« - State Theatre Today - “Here Come The Co-eds” Bud ABBOTT Lou COSTELLO Bud Abbott — Lou Costello CLEVELAND COUNTY a NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII-79 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE. COPIES—6c 4 Push Eastward Toward Bay Fleet Anchorage; New Landings Reported GUAM, April 2.—(/P)—Thousands of U. S. Tenth Army infantrymen and marines invaded strategic Okinawa—325 miles from Japan proper—Easter morning at little cost and found the going still surprisingly easy as they pushed east ward today toward the important Nakagusuku Bay fleet anchorage. The Yanks went ashore on the west coast at 8:30 A. M. yesterday (6:30 P. M. Saturday, eastern war time), quickly captured two airfields and a dozen virtually deserted villages and towns. By nightfall they had carved out a beachhead three miles deep at points on an isthmus eight miles wide, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. — Front reports said a third airstrip—unidentified—also was seized. The Yank invaders walked inland from the beaches 200 yards or more without once having to seek shelter. Tough fighting is expected, however, as the Japanese reorganize for defense. The enemy, surprised by invasion of Okinawa's western shore near Katena after a 10-day bomb ing and bombardment of his eastern shore defenses, was expected to fight fanatically from prepared positions, prob ably in the low hills in the center of the island. Estimates of Japanese strength on Okinawa range from 60,000 to 100, VUW "Pinal, decisive victory Is assur ed." Nimitz declared as he per sonally read his Sunday commun ique announcing the invasion. But he warned that Japan Itself still must be conquered. Capture of Okinawa will afford airfields for intensified aerial neu tralization of the empire's home airfields and continued devasta tion of its war vital industrial cen ters. “It is difficult to over-e*n phaaite the importance of this NEW YORK. April 2—<&>— American invasion forces have started landings on Kume is land, about 60 miles west of Okinawa and west of the Ker ama group, a Tokyo broadcast reported by the Blue network said today. operation.’* asserted Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr commander of the new 10th army. His command comprises the 24tn army corps and the Marine Third Amphibious corps, made up of probably six divisions—all veterans of Pa cific fighting. ’ Buckner watched the landings from the flagship of Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, comman der of the Amphibious operation. "From the standpoint of our of fensive, this is the most valuable island yet invaded,” he told As sociated Press Correspondent Vern Haugland. Okinawa is only 325 air miles southwest of Kyushu, southern mast of the Japanese home islands; 365 northeast of Formosa. 750 from Luzon and 400 from the China coast. Nakagusuku Bay, would afford See PUSH Page 2 Japanese Dead In Philippines Above 307,000 By FRED HAMPSON MANILA. April 2. —(/P)— Ameri can troops, clearing the Japanese out of the Philippines on a dozen fronts, counted 10,971 additional enemy dead in the last five days. This brought Japanese dead for th > entire Philippines campaign to some 307,000—against an announc ed American toll'of dead, wound ed and missing of around 30,000. 'Jen. Douglas MacArthur’s Mon day communique, reporting the five-day count, said 185 Japanese were captured. American losses for the period were given as 340 killed, 48 missing and 919 wounded. American gains on all fronts were announced. Japanese counterattacked ele ments of the 25th division in stub born fighting on northern Luzon but were beaten off. The 25th con tinued mopping up by-passed posi tions along the Villa Verde trail. Thirty-third division troops, pushing towards, the Philippine See JAPANESE Page 2 MRS. HICKMAN'S DEATH PROBED Prominent Raleigh Worn an Killed In Fire, De tails 'Mysterious' RALEIGH. April 2 —op)— The charred body of Mrs. John V. Highman, about 65. wealthy and 1 prominent club woman and civic leader, was found early today in her home in an exclusive residen I tial area here under circumstances which Coroner Roy M. Bankfe said were * ry mysterious.” The house had been badly dam aged by fire. Banks said that firemen had been unable to find a large jewelry box which Mrs. Highman kept in her bedroom, and that two large diamond rings were missing from her fingers. Her wedding band was intact. Her body was round halfway be tween the steps leading from the living room to the upstairs and the front door. Her clothing had been burned off. Banks said that part of her corset was found un der her, leading him to the belief See MRS. HIGHMAN Page 2 WHAT’S DOiNG~ TODAY ~ _ 7.00 p.m.—Junior Chamber of Commerce meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—City council meets at council chamber in city hall. 7:30 p.m.—American Legion post meets at Legion building. 7:30 p.m—Piedmont Boy Scout court of honor meets at courthouse. 8:00 p.m.—Revival service at First Baptist church. TUESDAY 10:00 am.—Revival service at First Baptist church. 7:30 p.m.—C. A. P. members meet at armory. 8:00 wan.—Revival service at First Baptist church. Victory In Europe Seen ‘In Sight’ By Byrnes By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, April 2— (JP) — Told officially that victory in Eu rope “is in sight," Americans had this double promise today from War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes: 1. The midnight curfew, the brown-out and the horse rac ing ban will be lifted promptly when that victory comes. Gaso line rations may 6e increased slightly. 2. Otherwise reconversion at home will be slowly-paced; we will not eat as well this year, and price, wage and rationing STATUTE Mills CAPE HE00/ AGUNI KERAMA ISLANDS C\ ® TOKASHIKI U o y Pacific Ocean AMERICANS LAND ON OKINAWA ISLAND — Pointers from flag indicate approximate extent of initial U. S. beachhead on Okinawa, Japanese island invaded in what Adm. Chester W. Nimitz described as the largest amphibious operation of the Pacific war. Arrows from flags point to airfields taken on Okinawa and to Kerama Islands, taken by Yanks March 26. Byrnes Resigns; To Be Succeeded By Vinson Will Stay On Job Until Vinson's Nomination Is Ap proved By Senate WASHINGTON, April 2.—(JP)—President Roosevelt ac cepted today the resignation of James F. Byrnes as director of war mobilization and reconversion, and picked Fred M. SOUTH IS HARD HIT BY STORMS Floods, Tornadoes, Tidal Waves Leave 8 Dead, Property Damage By The Associated Pre«s Floods, tornadoes and tidal wav es left a toll of at least eight dead, hundreds homeless and uncounted property damage in the deep douth today. Week-end deluges, which ac tompanied the sporadic storms, increased the flood danger a- . long the Mississippi's tributar ies where engineers have bat tled to save levees for weeks. A three-foot tidal wave from the Gulf of Mexico swept up Atchafal aya river into Horgan City, La., flooding 30 blocks and driving 70 families from their homes. At Mobile, Ala., high winds and tides capsized a boat in Mobile Bay and a man was drowned. In several waterfront areas residents had to be evacuated from their homes. THREE KILLED Three persons were killed, three \ others injured and several homes destroyed by a tornado which hit Caney, La. Another twister de See SOUTH Page 2 controls, as well as “the pre sent high rate of taxes,” must be continued until Japan is beaten. "The days of Naziism are num bered, and the end of the war in Europe is in sight.” Byrnes said in his quarterly report to congress on war mobilization and reconver sion Made public Saturday night, it disclosed that: NEW AUTOMOBILES - Twenty per cent of the resources now going to war will be released See VICTORY Page 3 Vinson to succeed him. Byrnes will stay on the job un til Vinson’s nomination is 'approv ed by the senate. Then he will break Vinson into his new duties, It was the second change of jobs for Vinson in less than a month On March 6 he was nominated -9HL. Hi, JAMES F. BYRNES Federal Loan Administrator. Prio’. to that date he was director ol Economic Stabilization. Byrnes had submitted his re signation on March 24, while preparing a report to President Roosevelt and congress which outlined the plans he has de veloped for reconversion after Germany’s collapse. The report was dated yesterday and Byrnes had hoped to leave of fice today. Vinson worked closely with Byrnes while serving as stabilization direc tor. FORMER JUDGE Before that, Vinson was a judge on the federal circuit court of ap peals for the District of Columbia Earlier he served a long term ae a representative from Kentucky. Mr. Roosevelt said it was witn “heartfelt regret” that he had' re ceived Byrnes’ resignation. He said he had no alternative other than to accept, but request ed the former supreme court jus tice and senator from South Caro lina to make the resignation effec See BYRNES Page 2 BEN JENKINS iFARH AGENT Commissioners Pick Na tive Clevelander For County Post Ben F. Jenkins, jr„ a native of i Cleveland county and assistant ! farm agent in Alamance county, ; was the unanimous choice this i morning of the Cleveland board I of commissioners for Cleveland j farm agent to succeed John S. I Wilkins, who has resigned to en ter State college extension serv ] ice. The new agent is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Jenkins of the Newhouse community. He attend ed Polkville high school, Gardner Webb college for two years and graduated from Nortfc Carolina State college in 1937. He worked with the Randolph’ county farm agent’s office for several years See BEN JENKINS Page 2 Star Gives Vets Free Advertising Free classified advertising for any honorably discharged serv ice man or woman seeking em ployment here will be given by The Shelby Daily Star, it was announced today by the man agement. • Recognizing the vital neces sity for furthering the inter ests of returning veterans of this war, the new policy will allow ex-service personnel to publish classified advertise ments for jobs without cost to them. Miss Barbara Elam, mana ger of the classified depart ment, or any member of the organization will gladly assist any veteran in such. Jap Documents Indicate Manila Atrocities Ordered By Officials (Editor’s Note: Most of.the Manila atrocity stories herein summarized were reported by the Associated Press as they were discovered during the fighting in the city. The fol lowing is a summation as com piled by American military units and sworn to by civilians who survived them or by soldiers who discovered them. The com plete reports, most of them in affidavit form, were disclosed today.) By FRED HAMPSON j MANILA, April 2—(A5)—Captured REDS BATTLE FOR NEUDORFL IN AUSTRIA Soviets 4 Miles From Vi tal Railway Between Vienna, Italy TOLBUKHIN ADVANCE MOSCOW, April 2.—(/P)— Russian forces battled for Neudorfl, three miles east of the Messerschmitt assembly center if Wiener Neustadt in Austria today. Other Soviet Columns smashed within 20 miles of Vienna and drove hard against Germans in the Brat islava Gap. Spearheads of Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian army pounded gap fortifications from the south between captured Sopron on the Neuseidler See and Wiener Neusadt, and pushed into the Lie tha mountains farther north. The Russians drove within eight miles of Wiener Neustadt, and were only ‘four miles from the vital railway linking Vienna with northern Italy. East o' Bratislava, troops of Marshal Rodion V. Malinov sky’s Second Ukrainian army were moving down the Karpat.v mountains, west of Trnava and within 12 miles of the capital of the puppet state of Slovakia. Another Russian column fought for the railway junc' 'on of Lans < atz, only eight and a half miles due east of Bratislava and five See REDS Page 2 U77 YANKS ARE RELEASED 5,000 Allied Prisoners Prisoners Taken In Bulge Fighting Rescued NEAR SIEGENHAIN. GER MANY, April 2—(fP)—'Twelve hun dred and seventy-seven Ameri cans captured in the Belgian bulge battle last winter were among 5. 000 prisoners freed from a barbed wire enclosure here by the U. S. Sixth Armored division after en during diabolical mistreatment from their Nazi captors. The Americans, Who .came from almost every state of the union, had lost 25 to 40 pounds a man during 3 1-2 months-as prisoners on a semi-starvation diet. Equally mistreated were other nationals found in the enclosures in an open field in this sector, 'a bout 14 miles south of Kassel They included 2,000 British and Dominion troops, 1.000 Russians and 300 of other nationalities. JEWISH WOMEN In addition, the American Ar mored division also rescued 900 Jewish women who had been brought into the area from Hun gary as slave laborers. The wo men were between the ages of 16 and 35. They told of' atrocious mistreatment at the hands of the Germans and said that in some instances sick girls unable to work had been thrown into trucks with corpses, hauled off and cremated. The Americans’ clothes hung on See 1,177 Page Z 110,000 Crack German Troops Said Encircled WITH u. a. FIRST ar: mans launched their first coor an escape corridor through the Ruhr. Hard fighting still was German infantry support Army’s Ninth division near V tween Paderborn and Siegen, t: Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1 But at last reports the i ; and beating back this desper selring to save some of his tro Tens of thousands of Ger ; steel vise formed by the jum | armies, who had cut all major Swift American infantry, S of the Third Armored division I sible escape avenues. PARIS, April 2.—(TP)—T Armies have trapped 21 divisa | troops in the Ruhr and Jthe j | swiftly northeast, threatened another whole army group in strength in the west by two t SEEK TO AVOID SHOWDOWN ON j PARTICIPATION ! U. S. Diplomats Work For Smooth Solution Of Pol ish Question WASHINGTON, April 2. — f/F)— United States diplomats are work ing at top speed to avoid a show down with Russia over Polish par- i ! ticipation in the San Francisco I United Nations conference. High officials here hope the ' Polish national unity government1 ; agreed upon at Yalta in February j j still may be set up in time to resolve ! the controversy. Should it appear in the next few days that this hope might be trans formed into a probability with ad ; ditional time, the opening date of the conference may be delayed two or three weeks beyond April 25. These officials show little incli nation at the moment, however, | to favor a prolonged postpone t ment. TWO QUESTIONS The Polish issue actually in volves two closely related ques tions: 1. Reorganization of the pres ! ent Soviet-sponsored Warsaw reg- i ime Co include Polish "Democratic elements" trom both inside and1 1 outside the country. The United i States and Britain have counted heavily on getting former Premier Mikolajrzyk of the exiled govern ment at London into the new ad ministration. 2. Representation for Poland , at the San Francisco conference. This became an open controversy Saturday with disclosure that Rus sia had requested and Britain and - the United States had vetoed an See SEEK Page 5 uapaucac uuuuuicmd ucarujg umto i between last Dec. 23 and Febru-1 ary 14 strongly suggested today that the wholesale atrocities on1 civilians in 'Manila were the resuit I of battle orders issued to the Nip- j ponese garrison. The atrocities were not, the reports indicated, the work of isolated groups of Japanese who took matters into their own hands, although at the time a good many of them so appear- \ ed. Included in (lie documentary re ports of Japanese slaughter of help i less civilians in the downtown bat- j cxcxxcxu wac xn iuul uixicxico and orders captured by soldiers ot the U. S. Army's 14th Corps, some of them mimeographed and bound. One Japanese message book con tained the following order issued to the Kobayashi group, then in side the walled Intramuros, on Feb. 13: "All people on the battlefield with the exception of Japanese military j personnel, Japanese civilians and special construction units will be put to death.' The following is a paragraph See ATROCITIES Page 3 I IY, April 2.—(/P)—The Ger minated attack today to break Allies’ steel ring circling the in progress early tonight, ed by tanks hit the First Tnterburg about halfway be •ying to smash a lane through ines to the east, loughboys were holding firm ate attempt of Marshal Kes ops trapped in the Ruhr, man troops were caught in a ;ture of the First and Ninth escape routes. following quickly in the wake , mounted guard over all pos le American First and Ninth ms of 110,000 first line enemy British Second Army, driving today to throw a noose about Holland, reducing German hircls. The Ninth army has driven 100 miles east of the Rhine, well past the Ruhr and its vast steel and coal works. The Third army, rambling swift ly and almost at will over central Germany, crashed into Kassel and Fulda and drove within 155 miles of Berlin and 198 of the Russian lines in the east in a mighty cam paign to bisect Germany. The British Second army, wheel ing toward the north German ports plunged to the outskirts of Lengerich, 20 miles northeast of the Westphalian capital of Muen ster and 122 from Hamburg. Len gerich is 74 miles from Bremen and 217 from Berlin. Field Marshal Montgomery lift ed the long silence about the 21sb army group advance in the Ruhr and on the Westphalian plains late today. Among towns captured were Rheine and Enschede. Britons were in the outskirts of Gronau. The Zutphen-Enschede canal has been reached. The entire German army group B commanded by Field Marshal Walther von Model was trapped in the Ruhr. In army group B are the Fifth German Panzer army, last See 110.000 Page 2 1945 EASTER HITS NEW PEAK Easter 1945 was observed in most significant manner throughout the country. Several things contrib uted to making it the greatest < Easter the countv, state and na tion have ever celebrated. It is an early spring, Flowers are in full bloom and in great a bundance. Trees are budding. | leaves are forming and all nature j is taking on renewed life from a dormant winter, just as Christ rose from the sealed grave and defiea the armed Reman guards that \ stood watch over the sepulchre where he had lain for three day. after the crucifixion. SPECIAL SERVICES Churches had special Easter .set vices of music, prayer and sermon •, The attendance at Easter services broke all records. The observance of this momentous event in the life of Christ began with sunrise services at many churches and continued throughout the day. Florists had more orders than they could fill. Merchants report a heavy pre-Easter buying of spring clothing. Another thing that contributed to tlie spirit of this Easter occas ion and its wide celebration was the good war news from all fronts. ■< People are confident of an early victory in Europe and"’ this gives them hope for a lasting world peace and good-will whlrh the ris en Christ lived and died for.
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