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WEATHER North Carolina—Fair and slightly warmer today, tonight and Tues day. Ts is s skxk M 1 gsz I si i« - State Theatre Today - “FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS” Gary Cooper — Ingrid Bergman VOL. XLIII— 85 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c Russians Within Mile Of Heart Of City; • Reach Schoenbrun Park LONDON, April 9.—(fP)—The flame of battle rolled over three fourths of Vienna today and the Germans said the Russians had fought into Schoenbrunn park, site of the sum mer palace of the Hapsburg monarchs, and also had reached Franz Josef railway station in the northern part of the city. In the south the Russians were j fighting within a mile of the ring,! the circular street around thej heart of the city, and in the north! within 1 1-4 miles of the city's center. They were reported with in 8 to 12 miles of closing the es cape gap on the north side of the j Danube. Schoenbrunn park is west and, •outhwest of three railway sta-1 tions already seized by the Rus sians in the southern part of the city. Schoenbrunn palace rivaU Versailles in its sumptuous plan. The Germans said the Russians reached the Franz Josef railway station, depot controlling traffic northward out of the city, by ad vancing across the historic kahl enberg, a mountain overlooking Vienna on the northwest, and j through the famed wine-growing j •uburb of Grinzing. Just east of Grinzing, the Ger mans said, the Russians were at tempting to storm across to the rastern bank of the Danube at Nuzsdorf, a suburb. Moscow dis patches said it was believed the Russians already had crossed far ther out, in the vicinity of captur ed Klosterneuberg. Other force* had stormed across the 325-yard-wide river east of Vienna and the two columns were driving toward a junction on the Marchfeld, the flat Vienna plain north of the river. The eastern column, from cap tured Pframa, was reported to have pushed within sight of As pern airport, inside Vienna's city limits on the northern bank of the Danube. Already having cut the railroad leading to Bruenn, Czechoslovak munitions center 65 miles north of Vienna, this col umn was driving for the main highway leading north and had taken it under long-range fire at some places. Only one railway, the north bank line running to Prague, Czechoslo vak capital 150 miles northwest, remained open and it was menaced if not cut by the force reported to have crossed the river northwest of Vienna. MAKE ADVANCES West of Vienna Soviet forces svho captured Neulengbach, 15 miles from the city, were reported to have advanced several miles to aithln sight of St. Poelten on the See RUSSIANS Page Z Japanese Casualties In Philippines High Latest Count Sets Total At 314,854, Against Around 30,000 For Americans MANILA, April 9.—UP)—The count of Japanese kill ed and captured in the Philippines reached 314,854 today as ; Gen. Douglas MacArthur added 6,495 dead and 179 prisoners to the official total of a week ago. There was no new announcement of American casual ties—by latest previous report around 30,000 killed, miss Japs Claim U. S. Casualties On Okinawa High SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.—— A Japanese imperial communique reported today that American re inforcements were still pouring into the U. S. army’s southward drive on Okinawa but that Japanese troops 'are repulsing enemy forces." A broadcast version of the com munique recorded by the federal communications commission claim ed. without confirmation that 3, 600 American casualties were in flicted in the first week, 102 U. S. tanks and 33 guns knocked out and 16 landing barges destroyed. Jap anese lasses were placed at 400. The Imperial communique claim ed 49 U. S. ships were sunk or damaged in the Japanese' air at tack on the American fleet in the Okinawa area last Friday. Adm. Chester W. Nlmitz has announced U. 8. losses as three destroyers sunk. The enemy version was that 30 ships were sunk including three cruisers, 10 destroyers, a ‘‘large type warship,” three minesweepers and 13 unidentified craft. FIVE SHIPS LOST Japan officially acknowledged the loss of five warships in the .two day, air-sea battle. The Domel news agency described them today as units of a "special attack corps,” the Nipponese term for suicide forces. Domel described their par ticipation as “highly significant,” and added, “this means that not . only the air force and submarines, but every branch of the Japanese navy is now carrying out special attacks." One Domel dispatch from “a Jap anese naval base” reported: “The imperial navy has been mobilized for a grand offensive and for the last few days this base has been resounding with one roar of the special attack corps planes which have been taking off for the Oklnawas.” There was nothing further to in dicate a new naval action might be brewing. •s mp: ann wounaeu. Mac Arthur’s communique also disclosed an impressive toll of Japanese shipping — nearly three quarters of a million tons sunk or damaged—in the American air blockade of the South China Sea during the first three months of 1945. Blockading planes of the Fifth Army Air force and attached na val aircraft, the communique said, j sank 345,179 tons in the three | months. probably sank 116,965 tons and damaged 274,295 tons. For March alone corresponding tonnage was listed as 221,492; 44, 645 and 108,630. Ground fighting in the Philip pines, which MacArthur announc ed yesterday had virtually com pleted liberation of southern Min danao, continued particularly bit ter in the Balete Pass sector of northern Luzon. LIKE CASSINO "This battle should be compared with Cassino,” (in Italy) declared MaJ. Gen. Charles L. Mullins, whose 25th division troops have been battling for 83 days to clear the Balete Pass gateway to the Cagayan valley. '"The enemy, can not be blasted out by air or artil lery, but must be dug out.” In Southern Luzon, 14th corps cut the last land escape route for Japanese in the Bi col Peninsula as they captur See JAPANESE Page 2 RAF Heavy Bombers Blast Submarine Base, Oil Plant LONDON, April 9—(/P)—An ar mada of more than 900 RAF heavy bombers blasted the Blohm Voss submarine yards at Ham burg and the Lutzekendorf syn thetic oil plant near Leipzig last night while fleet mosquitos rock ed Berlin with another dose of two-ton blockbusters. The raids followed up sweeping assaults on Germany yesterday by more than 1,950 planes of the U. S. Eighth Air force, which bomb ed 11 targets between Berlin Rnd Nuernberg without being challen ged by the Luftwaffe. ) PVT. CLARY PVT. R. E. CLARY DIES IN ACTION Pvt. Ralph E. Clary, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Clary of route 3, Shelby, who was previously report ed missing, was killed in action on March 24, while fighting in Ger many, according to a telegram re ceived by his parents from the War Department. Pvt. Clary was wound ed in the early part of January, but the wound was slight and he was soon returned to his company and was fighting somewhere in Ger many when he was killed. Pvt. clary entered Che Army in Decem ber, 1943, and received his training at Fort Jackson before going over seas. DR. W. A. SMART OPENS SERIES Discusses Lesser Known Prophets Of The Old Testament Dr. W. A. Smart, of Atlanta. Ga„ conducting services this week at the Central Methodist church be gan a series of discussion this morn ing on the lesser known prophets of the Old Testament. He opened his discussions with a talk on the Book of Amos which he declared reached a high peak in the moral and religious progress of the day. ‘'Amos did more than any other prophet of his age to make religion moral,” Dr. Smart declared. Dr. Smart spoke twice at Cen tral church yesterday. On yester day morning he talked on “The Coming Kingdom of God”, and at the vesper hour spoke on “God, the source of all Goodness.” Dr. Smart will speak each morn ing and evening this week. In the morning the service will last from 10 to 10:4S o’clock and he will speak each ^vening at 8 o’clock. Jap Columns In Honan Withdrawing CHUNGKING, April 9.—Two Japanese columns were reported withdrawing into Honan province today after suffering setbacks at the hands of Chinese forces de fending the Shensi border. A Chinese communique said more than half of one column had been wiped out when it was surrounded in southwest Honan barely 30 miles from the Shensi frontier, and that Chinese forces were pursuing the remnants eastward. The second Japanese column, striking toward Shensi from north western Honan, was reported rout ed after six hours fighting in which 400 of the invaders were slain. Chi nese forces pursuing the withdraw ing enemy were said to be near ing Japanese-held Chang-Suichen on the Lo river 70 miles from the Shensi border. Heavy bomber raid on that ob jective within a week. The plant, which was described by the air ministry as probably the most im portant ship buildinig yard in Germany, still employs 17,000 workers and is one of the main assembly points for the new pre fabricated submarines. The German air force suffered its worst defeats of the year during the weekend as 192 of its carefully rationed planes were shot out of the sky by Eighth Air force gun See HAF Page 2 Americans Meet First Reverses On Okinawa, Forced To Withdraw GUAM, April 9.—(/P)—Japanese charging with fixed bayonets in their first counterattack of the Okinawa cam paign drove American troops off a dominating hill as tank supported Yank infantrymen hammered at strongly defend ed eaves and nillhnves heneatVi a develnnincr nr-Hllprir l-iaf+lo Nipponese poured out of caves! and crags on Southern Okinawa when Japanese tanks, artillery and mortars began blasting at five U. S. tanks lumbering through a field studded with 500 pound bombs which had been converted into land mines. The Japanese showered the tanks with Molotov cocktails and then charged Red Hill. Three American tanks were i lost. The Third battalion of the 184th regiment with drew from the hill. Ameri cans reformed last night, ex pecting strong opposition in their attempt to retake the hill. Nipponese were strongly dug into crags, hills, ravines and caves on Southern Okinawa, 325 miles from Japan. Behind them was the largest concentration of ar-! tillery encountered in the Pacific campaign, with heavier guns than they’ve used heretofore. These batteries kept up a swelling, round the-clock duel with superior U. S artillery. IN THE NORTH Lightly opposed Marines were swarming through northern Oki nawa, cutting off Motobu Penin sula with its former enemy sub marine and torpedo base at Un ten. Ground resistance was about all Japan had to offer in the way of a defense. Its mighty 45,000-ton, super-battleship Yamato and five lesser warships were sunk Satur day in a suicidal attempt to come to the infantry's rescue. In all, 560 enemy warplanes were de See AMERICANS Page 2 Grand Jury Indicts Lt. Epes For Murder Indictment Charges Mary Lee Epes Came To Death By . Poison And Suffocation; Buried Alive COLUMBIA, S. C., April 9.—(JP)—Lt. Samuel C. Epes, 29, member of a prominent Richmond, Va., family, was in dicted by the Richland county grand jury today for the I murder of his wife by “poison and suffocation.” NAZI TREASURE STORE SEIZED U. S. Officers Making In ventory Of Gold, Works Of Art MERKERS. GERMANY, April 9 —</Fi—U". S. army officers tolled in the depths of a German salt mine 2,100 feet underground today to inventory a captured hoard of gold and money which a Reichsbank official said represented Ger many’s entire gold reserve. More than 4,000 bags of gold bullion—each weighing 25 pounds and worth $14,000—already had been counted, but there still were tons of treasure yet to be inven toried. There were indications that the final total might exceed the $100, 000,000 estimate which Dr. Werner Vieck, Reichsbank director for the Erfurt district, placed on the value of the hoard. The inventory was begun yes terday after U. S. Third army en gineers under Lt. Jack McFarlane of Hollywood, Calif., had blasted a hole through the thick brick wall protecting the treasure. Corridors leading to the main treasure room were lined with huge stacks of bags containing Reichsmarks and the money of various other countries, including American dollars. In addition to the great mone tary treasure hundreds of price less works of art were found hid den in the mine. Dr. Paul Rave, curator of the German state mu seum and an assistant director of Berlin’s National art gallaries, said two-thirds of Germany’s art trea sures were cached there. Suzuki Calls In Hiranuma For Talks SAN FRANCISCO, April 9—OP)— Japan’s new premier, 77-year-olci Gen. Baron Kantaro Suzuki, went into a huddle over “important matters” today with a predeces sor, Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, as Nippon found herself in an admit ted “momentous crisis.” The meeting with Hiranuma. premier in 1939-40, was reported carried by Tokyo home radio and recorded by the federal commun ications commission as Suzuki for mally assumed office. No elabo ration on the conference was made. me indictment lor murder, which Epe ssteadfastly has denied, alleg ed that suffocation occurred when Mrs. Mary Lee Williams Epes, 26, former Jacksonville, Fla., school teacher, was wrapped in a blanket and buried near adjacent Fort Jackson. In signed statements Epes has related that he found his wife | dead early on the morning of ; January 28 after Mary Lee had taken several tablets of a seda tive, and that in panic he took her pody from their apartment in a car and buried her in an abandoned foxhole. The next day he told police she was missing, and two weeks later, as he was being treated at the fort hospital for a dog bite, he told offi cers that he would lead them to her body . Before leading officers to the shallow grave, army officials said, he slashed his throat and wrists in what they termed a sucide at tempt. LOVE ANGLE During the period of his arrest on a magistrate’s warrant charging murder, civilian officers to whom the case had been turned over by the Army, made extensive investi gations. One trail led to a Louisiana woman war plant worker with whom Epes had corresponded, but that angle was soon dropped in the in vestigation. The bill of indictment charging murder of pretty, auburn-haired Mrs. Mary Lee Williams Epes al leged that Epes administered sodium seconal, a pain-relieving barbitur ate, to his wife January 27 “and did See GRAND JURY Page 2 STUDENTS FLAG TRAIN TO SAVE SCHOOL BUS Students of No. 3 high school acted with quick thought Saturday afternoon when they flagged a freight train which was approach ing a crossing where a No. 3 high school bus had stalled on the tracks. The train was held up about 30 minutes at the crossing near the Byers airport while the bus was pulled from the tracks. Miss Olene McSwain was driver of the school bus which had stalled astride the rails. Students on the bus realized that it was about time for a freight train to pass and they went up the track and flagged the train. In the meantime, W. V. Reed, school bus mechanic who had been called to the wreck, turned his car over going to the scene of the stall ed vehicle. He was uninjured and his car was not seriously damaged. The school bus suffered only slight damage. LT. YARBROUGH AWARDS GIVEN TO SHELBY MEN Silver, Bronze Stars To Lt. Yarbrough * (Deceased), Sgt. Bumgarner In impressive ceremonies held at the homes of their respective par ents here Sunday afternoon, two young men of Shelby, Lt. Raymond Earl Yarbrough, 24, (deceased! and j S/Sgt. Arbuth O. Bumgarner. 22.1 were cited for gallantry in action in the service of their country and i were presented high awards by Col. Wilbur W. Fox of Camp Croft, I S. C„ on special orders by the Pres ident. The Silver Star was awarded posthumously to Lt. Yarbrough for courage.ous,Z'.faon imjtaly and was S/SGT. BUMGARNER received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Yjprbrough, of 409 West Graham s'j'eet. S Sgt. Bum garner was presented the Bronze Star for exceptional and meritorious service behind the enemys’ lines in France. Lt. Yarbrough was awarded the Silver Star posthumously by order of the President for "deeds and acts of valor in Italy on December 12, 1943", when he was killed in action. In presenting the medal to his parents, Col. Fox said, “This star in no wise atones to his par ents and his relatives, for his loss and it would have been presented to him, had he lived, at a special troop formation.” UNDER ENEMY FIRE The citation read by Col Fox was: “Under enemy fire, Lt. Yar brough secured prompt and ef fective support from his men dur ing an attack on Hill 1205. He lo cated an observation post, identi See AWARDS Page 2 THE WAR TODAY: Allies, Continue To Meet Light Resistance In Reich By DeVVITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer The Allied offensive out of the ( Rhineland continues its eastward1 sweep of encirclements and anni hilation across the Reich without encountering signs of German op position sufficiently well organized to halt it. Here and there the Nazis are fighting fanatically, but these is lands of resistance lack the co hesion to make them more than locally effective. Field Marshal Kes selring—whom Hitler recently sub stituted for unlucky Field Marshal von Rundstedt as rommanrier in chief in an effort to salvage some Last Rail Link To Netherlands Cut By Americans PARIS, April 9.—(/P)—The allies, having exacted 500, 000 casualties from the Germans in ten days, cut the last railway from western Holland today, trapping the bulk of 80,000 more Germans believed still in the Netherlands. The American Ninth and British Second Armies fought within sight of the shelled and burning north German cities of Hannover and Bremen. They were within 50 miles of the Elbe river at Hamburg and 70 of the stream at Madgeburg. The Elbe is the last water barrier on the flat country leading to Berlin and flows within 50 miles of the capital. ALLIES CLOSING INONMASSA Crack Japanese-American Infantry Spearheading Advance ROME. Anril 9—UP)—Fifth army troops battling their way up the Italian west coast are closing in on Massa against scattered enemy resistance after capturing 3,000 foot Monte Belvedere, two miles south of the town, Allied head quarters announced today. Crack Japanese-American in fantry troops were spearheading the advance. Elements of the 442nd regiment, composed of American-born Jap anese. beat off German counter attacks northeast of Monte Bel vedere and cleared out enemy pockets south of Monte Folgorito and east of the main highway leading to La Spezia. Meanwhile tank-supported troops of the 92nd Negro division stabbed forward to the village of Porta and captured Montignoso, about two miles southeast of Massa as well as Strinato to the north of Strettoia. NAVAL SUPPORT For the third straight day the British destroyers Marine and lookout gave the Americans on the west coast highly effective fire support. At the eastern end of the front Eighth army units were mopping up remaining enemy units around southwestern fringes of the Co macchio lagoon. Prisoners in that locality totaled 250. Brisk patrol actions were re ported on the Senio river line a cross the southeast corner of the Po Valley and in the mountains a See ALLIES CLOSING Page 2 WHAT'S DOING TODAV 7:30 p.m.—State Guard drill at armory. 8:00 p.m—Called meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A.M. at Masonic Temple for work in second degree. TUESDAY 7:00 p.m.—Lions club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—C. A. P. members meet at armory. 7:30 p.m—Regular meeting Shelby chapter 110 Order of Eastern Star at Masonic Tem ple. 9:00 p.m. — Masonic Fellow ship club meets at Masonic thing from the wreckage—is hav ing a hard time squeezing juice out of the lemon his Fuehrer hand ed him. Kesselring is desperately short of both troops and materiel. The best the German command- 1 er can make out of the situation in any event is to delay slightly the final collapse of a Nazidom which today is said by the official German news agency to be calling up 10-year-old boys and girls for ( the Hitler youth service to help1 meet the manpower difficulties. See ALLIES Page 'i Hannover ana Bremen both were five miles from Allied infantry and tanks. An entry into both was im minent, although the Germans were fighting hard for Bremen, one of their greatest ports and shipbuild in centers. Great and small cities and towns all over northern Ger many burned mysteriously, even though Allied bombers stayed away from most. Flames were reported specifically in Ham burg Hannover, Brunswiick and Luebeck. Of these, Luebeck and Brunswick had not been raid ed recently. Tanks bypassed both Bremen and Hannover, hopelessly outflanking both. Ninth army troops stormed into the streets of the great Ruhr in dustrial cities of Essen <660,000), home of the Krupp Works; Dort mund 1537.000) and Gelsenkirchen (313,000). At least 38.600 prisoners were captured yesterday, 37,500 to Gen. Omar Bradley's four American armies in the center. Bradley's headquarters estimated German cas ualties at 50,000 a day for the past ten days. To the south, the Seventh army capture of Crailsheim placed the Americans within 94 miles of Munich and 170 of Hitler’s moun tain fastness at Berchtesgaden. CANADIANS ADVANCE Canadians pushed eight miles northeast of Zwolle and made con tact with Allied Airborne troops to wrest control of the north Holland communications. The junction was established close to the rail junc tion of Meppel, ten miles from the Zuider Zee. There the last rail line was snapped and the last rail bridge was blown, The Germans exploded dikes flooding 400 aquare miles. At supreme headquarters, offi cers said up to 80,000 Germans See LAST Page 2 U. S. Resumes Relations With Argentina Today WASHINGTON, April 9— (JP) — The United States resumed “nor mal diplomatic relations" with Ar gentina at noon, eastern war time, today. The action was announced by Secretary of State Stettinius who said it was taken in conjunction with the 19 other American re publics represented at the recent inter-American Conference at Mex ico City. It follows a declaration of war by Argentina against Axis countries and her adherence to the resolutions adopted by the Mexico City Conference March 27 and other steps called for by the conference. Stettinius declined to discuss whether Argentina would be invit ed or would ask for United Na tions membership, whether that subject had been discussed with Soviet Russia which has been highly critical of this s Argentine government or whether eventually Argentina would participate in the San Francisco Conference on an international organization. SHARP CHANGE The action today by the United States appeared to mark a sharp change from the policies followed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull who initiated non-recognition of the Buenos Aires regime of Gen eral Edelmiro Farrell and In sub sequent statements assailed the administration as pro-Fascist. Of ficials here described the action See L. S. RESUMES Page *
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