FOUR WOMEN CLAIM HIM Arkansas Bus Driver To Ba Brought Back To Le noir For Trial FT. SMITH. ARK., April 10—(£”) —A 28-year-old bus driver to whom prosecuting Attorney Floyd Barham said, four women claim they are married, was held here today. Barham said the man was booked as Ernest Setzer and that he was being held for Lenoir, N. C., authorities, who are enroute here to take him to North Caro lina. The prosecuting attorney said that warrants issued in North Carolina charged him with big amy, child abandonment and non support, sworn to by Mrs Lois Set zer, of Lenoir. TWO FROM S. C. He listed the other women who | he said claimed Setzer had mar ried them as Mrs. Claudia Setzer and Mrs. Jeanette Setzer, both of North Charleston. S. C., and Mrs. Enid Setzer of Compton, Calif. Barham said the 190-pound, five feet eleven bus driver had admit ted marrying Lois Setaser in his home town of Lenoir and one of the women in North Charleston, j but denied marrying the other j two. Setzer, discharged from the j navy on Jan. 28. was once sta- j tioned at the Charleston navy j yard. The prosecution attorney said several Fort Smith women had called at the jail as’>ing to see Setzer and that several others had telephoned about him. CROSSES Starts On Page One which flew thousands of sor tie* had thoroughly drench ed German defenses with bombs and fire, and the cross ings were accomplished quick ly against relatively light op position. The smash across the Senio brought to an end the prolonged winter lull on this front. HEAVY POUNDING A strike beyond Lugo would en- I danger Nazi strongholds upstream; along the Senio into the northern; Apennines, and the comparatviely j easy manner in which bridgeheads were established, together with the display of an Allied material superiority, suggested that the 25 German divisions, plus six Ital ian Fascist divisions estimated to be in Italy would not be able to withstand the pounding for long. The attack came after Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, expert in delaying tactics, had been call ed away to take charge of the Ger mans’ western front. His place is reported to have been taken by Col. Gen. Freidrich von Vieting hoff, credited with a leading role in constructing the defenses of Cassino. LAST BATTLE Ahead, however, lay tough going for the British tackling what ap parently is meant to be the last battle for northern Italy. Much of the terrain is swampy and interlaced with canals and ditches. The combined might of the U. S. 15th and 12th air forces and RAF battleplanes was thrown into an aerial onslaught yesterday intended to obliterate elaborate Nazi defenses thrown up on the west bank of the river for a considerable depth. Americans on the Fifth Army sector were also on the offensive, with the U. S. 473rd infantry regi ment, operating with the 92nd divi sion, fighting its way Into the southern outskirts of Massa against growing enemy resistance. The British troops had slightly lets than a mile to go beyond the Senio to reach Lugo, 13 1-2 miles west of Revannea. Rudolf Besier’s “The Barretts of Wimpole Street" was refused by 27 New York theatrical producers be-1 fore Katharine Cornell accepted the play for production. Furniture Firm Wants Location In This Vicinity Inquiries continue to come fre quently to the Shelby chamber of commerce from manufacturing firms wanting to locate in this vicinity. From a well recognized furni ture manufacturing concern with worth of nearly half a million dol lars as recognized by Dun and Bradstreet, request for information about the possibility of locating a plant with 50,000 to 100,000 feet of floor space, preferably on a rail j road siding was received here to I day. Officials said they would em I ploy from 150 to 250 people and I have an annual payroll of from $250,000 to $300,000. This concern was furnished with local data but was told that until after the war no plant of this size is available here. HEAVIES Starts On Page One has scotched a planned resump tion of the German U-boat offen sive. Fighters shot down three more German planes during the night, bringing the allied score to 357 enemy aircraft destroyed in three day*. American fighters had a strafing picnic yesterday at scat tered German fields, destroying 156 Nazi planes on the ground. NIGHTLY CALL RAF Mosquitos again paid their nightly call on Berlin. Others raid ed objectives at Plauen, near the border fo Czechoslovakia; Stade and Hamburg. The British lost six planes in operations last night and yesterday. The U. S. eighth air force reported ten bombers and four fighters miss ing from a force of more than ,2, 000 heavy bombers and fighters put into the air yesterday. With only enough fuel ot get planes in the air at infrequent in tervals, the Germans now are try ing to save the idle aircraft by hid ing them along highways and in fields far removed from regular bases. PLANES DISCOVERED Thi6 discovery was made yester day by the eighth air force pilots helping to escort 1250 bombers on attacks on ten air fields and other targets in a 60-mile radius of Mun ich. While chasing a ME-262 a few hundred feet off the ground, they detected a concentration of enemy planes parked in the woods beside a two-lane autobahn eight miles south of Munich. ‘•We saw all types of planes, well j camouflaged and parked wing to wing tip, in the woods lining the highway, said Lt. Col. Selwyn G. Righetti, San Luis Bispo, Calif. He estimated that at least 120 planes of all descriptions were con centrated there. NAVY Starts On Face One in Brunei Bay and damaging a small troop-laden freighter off the southern coast of Celebes. SUPPLY DUMPS Fighters destroyed many Japan ese trucks and supply dumps while supporting ground action on Ne gros and Cebu Islands in the Phi lippines. In southern Luzon, the First Ca valry crossed the Onipa river near Malepuya, driving south and fur ther compressing the enemy force already encircled southeast of La Guna De Bay. On the Bicol peninsula, the 158th regimental combat team drove westward against moderate resis tance west of Daraga. Bitter fighting marked the struggle around Balete Pass and Baguio on northern Luzon. The 25th division moved forward 1.200 yards from Kapitalan. south of the Pass. The 33rd. division ran into stiff mortar and artillery fire southeast of Burgos, which is 15 miles from Baguio. Supporting bombers blew up sev eral Japanese supply dumps at Ba guio. Union Trust Co. 101 N. LaFAYETTE ST. — PHONE 447 \ou can bank here with fidence knowing that in aH your dealings you’ll get prompt attention and fast action. Our only interest in red tape is to see that H is cut quickly in or der to get the results you want. v wmmmmmmm mmm * MEET IN GERMANY—Staff Sgt. Thomas Raymond La 11, left, and Jessie B. Lail, right, and their buddy, Pfc. Marvin L. Starbuck recently met in Germany after be ing separated in the spring of 1942. Staff Sgt. Thomas Lail and Pfc. Jessie Lail are brothers and are from Cleveland county and Pfc. Starbuck is from Winston Salem; they all took their basic training together at Fort Jackson, S. C. Sgt. Thomas Lail entered the Army in Sept. 1940 and received his training at Fort Jackson, he has been serving overseas for the past 29 months. His wife, Mrs. Loree Lail and their daughter, Barbara, are making their home in Lawndale, route 1, while he is in service. Pfc. Jessie Lail entered service in September, 1940 and af ter training at Fort Jackson and an army camp in California sailed for overseas. He has been serving in the European theater of opera tions for the past 17 months. PREMISES TO BE INSPECTED Shelby fire department official* announced this morning that they would conduct an inspection of pre mises in the local community in connection with the cleanup, paint up week which is to be observed beginning April 19. Local civic clubs have been ask ed to cooperate in the observance of this week and have promised their cooperation. Stentz To Speak At Cornelius J. Dale Stentz, secretary of the local Chamber of Commerce and Merchants association, will go tc Cornelius Thursday night to de liver the principal address in con nection with the organization of the Cornelius - Davidson Mer chants association. VIENNA’S Starts On Par* Ona has been officially confirmed by the Soviet high command. The one at Nuzsdorf constitutes part of the operation by the Sec and Third Ukrainian* armies to close the 17-mile escape avenue out of the Austrian capital. The crossing at Tulin apparently was aimed at Prague, 138 miles away. While the Berlin radio claimed the Germans still were opposing the Russians ' with wild stub bornness” in Vienna, Moscow dis patches pictured the carved up Nazi garrison as a "disorganized mob fighting to escape from the city.” By enemy account the Rus sians now have entered theg world famed Prater, the big amusement park which lies in the southeastern part of the smoking city between the Da nube river and the Danube canal. Moscow announced that the in ner heart of the Austrian capital had been overrun. Soviet infantry and tanks, driving from the west, broke across the famous Ring strasse in Vienna’s 3,000-year-old center late last night and captured such structures as the town hall, parliament buildings, opera house and central police headquarters. NORTH SIDE Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s Second Ukrainian army swarmed across the much-battered Aspern airport, on the north side of the Danube, thus denying the Germans any hope of escape by air. Malinovsky’s columns then turn ed north and battled German tanks and self-propelled guns in Vien na’s suburbs of Plorldisdorf and Jedlersee through which runs the lighway to the Czechoslovak city ■>( Bruenn. The right wing of the Second Ukrainian army was 38 niles southeast of Bruenn. The Germans fought to the leath behind street barricades in Vienna. Only 1,700 Nazis surren lered In night and daylong fight ing. Panic swept Vienna, Moscow ac :ounts said. A Soviet front dispatch stated that Nazi storm troopers, seeking :o quell a disorder, had fired on hrongs of hungry housewives. Referring to the Koenigsberg victory, the Russian army news paper Red Star declared editorial ly: "For almost seven oenturies this bandit town baa stood on the Baltic, ravaging and ruin ing the tribes of Lithuania. “From now on and forever East Prussia, the birthplace of the arrogant aggressors and would-be enslavers of the Slavs has boon separated from Ger man sou.” I The German communique said! that Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainan army had launched an assault against besieged Breslau m ijih&ia. TC A April 20 Final Day For Filing Price Charts Merchants dealing in apparel and home furnishings were advised to day by J. J. Hartigan, secretary of the Shelby rationing board that April 20 is the deadline for filing price charts under OPA regulation 580. He further cautioned them that failure of the merchant to get a receipt from the OPA, by May 4, | acknowledging the filing of the 1 chart under the regulation makes it illegal for the merchant to sell or offer for sale any merchandise covered by the regulation. YANKS Starfta On Pate One The Germans said American t iks immediately north of Han nover were pushing east from Stein huder Meer and had advanced to a point ‘‘midway between Hannov er and Celle,” 22 ipiles northeast of the Prussian traffic center. The Germans said yesterday the Americans had pushed north a round Lehrte, ten miles east of Hannover By enemy account, they were less than eight miles from completely encircling the city of 472,527. ‘‘It becomes increasingly clear that the enemy Intends to encircle Hannover completely," the Ger mans said early this afternoon. The Germans said the Am erican Third army had broken loose again on its right flank, surging from Thuringia into Bavaria to Rodach, ten miles northwest of Coburg and 58 from Csechoslovakia. The town Is 85 miles northwest of Nu ernberg. Bradley’s First and Third arm ies were within 150 miles of Rus sian lines and in ideal tank coun try, where Germany may be cut in two. GBLSENKIRCIKN His Ninth army captured the Ruhr industrial center of Gelsen kirchen, (313,000 population!. The Ninth also captured the ruined Krupp works in Essen and vir tually surrounded that city of | 660,000 while fighting in its j streets. Hannover and Bremen were V ! sieged and afire while the British Second and American Ninth arm ies beat at their outskirts. ! Both are great prizes. Bremen is ; Germany’s second port, a Focke Wulfe plane producer and a sub | marine base. Hannover is a meet ing place of five railroads and ‘seven main highways and a pro ducer of aircraft, guns, tanks, trucks and four fifths of Ger many's airplane tires. The whole Allied front was aim ed at the Elbe river, 50 miles away at Hamburg and less than 70 at Magdeburg. The river is the last before Berlin. The Ninth army on the high road to Berlin was less than 20 miles from Brunswick; the Third army was five from Er furt; the Seventh was four miles from Sctweinfurt; and the French were nine from Stuttgart. The Ruhr trap was squeezed down to less than 2,500 square miles, a death trap 50 miles long and 50 wide holding tens of thou sands of Nazis. Fighting raged in the streets of Dortmund (537,0001 for the third day. The total bag of prisoners from the Ruhr pocket rose to more than 25,000 as the Eighth division cap tured Olpe, 13 miles north of Siegen, where the Germans had been reported concentrating tanks and troops for a counterattack. Resistance, however, was light and there was no sign of massed strength. u. s Starts On Pace One ment could really be when the Americans arrived at our camp late in December,” he said, referring to the thousands of prisoners tak-; en from such outfits as the 106th 99th and 28th infantry divisions, which were hit first and hardest by Von Rundstedt’s winter drive. “For some reason which we never learned, they had a much tougher break than we did. When they ar rived at our camp we naturally j tried to share our Red Cross par- I cels with them, but the Germans immediately took the parcels away from the Americans and told us we couldn’t give them any gifts. Then they were taken away from our area and locked in a separate! enclosure. SHOCKINGLY TREATED “They quickly developed dysen tery and were treated shockingly. They were put In double-decked barns with no sanitation facilities. There was no place for them to go and you can imagine the condition of their living quarters. They were just living skeletons when last we saw them.” His story was corroborated by several other British, New Zealand and South African soldiers, some of whom had been prisoners since Dunkerque. Their feeling of sympathy for the Americans was emphasized by the fact that many were suffering from malnutrition, dysentery and other ailments themselves. JAPS Starts On Page One Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's com munique today said the marines still found only “scattered and in effective” opposition. HARD FIGHTING But it was a different story on southern Okinawa, where the ene my has concentrated the bulk of ^a, defense garrison estimated at Furnished by J. Robert Lindsay and Company Webb Building Shelby, N. C. N. Y. COTTON CLOSE Today Prev. Day March .21.64 May .22.31 July . _22.15 October . ..21.79 December __*.21.71 21.61 22.25 22.08 21.74 21.68 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT May .1.73 -8 July .1.60 September - .1.554 1.734 1.60 1.55-34 CORN July . ..1.10'i September . _.1.074 1.134 1.094 1.09 i RYE May . .1.3034 July . __1.25-4 September . .1.1734 1.2934 1.244 1.164 STOCKS AT 2:00 Amn Rolling Mill .. 17 American Loco _ 31 American Tobacco B _ 70 American Tel & Tel__ 162 Anaconda Copper . 31 Assoc Dry Goods .. 20 Beth Steel _ 73 Boeing Air ...___ .Chrysler .. ...._ 98 Curtiss-Wright .. _ 5 Elec Boat___ 14 ' General Motors _ 64 Pepsi Cola _ 23 Greyhound Corp _ 23 International Paper . 22 Nash Kelv __ I Glenn L Martin _ 24 |N Y Central . 22 Penn R R _ 35 Radio Corp *... Reynolds Tob B __ Southern Railroad .. 38 Standard Oil of N J _58 Sperry Corp _......_ 28 U S Rubber ... U S Steel . 63 Western Union ... Youngstown Sheet & Tube . 1-8 1-4 1-4 5-8 3-8 5-8 1-4 . 18 1-4 3-4 7-8 7-8 1-8 r-4 5-3 17 1-2 7-8 3-4 11 . 33 7-8 7-8 7-8 56 1-4 45 ..46 TRENDS MIXED NEW YORK, April 10— ^—Se lected stocks contiiniued to at tract timid investment funds in ! today's market although many i leaders still suffered from neg 1 lect. Caution remained the watch word in boardrooms. The disposi tion to step lightly was attributed ! to thoughts of growing cut-backs 1 in industry and other reconversion i unsettlement as the end of Euro ! pean conflict approaches. Divi dends. earnings and idle cash I seeking employment persisted as ' trend props. Bonds and commodities were narrow. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, April 10. —<P,—Live stock: <WTA> —Salable hogs 5.000: . total 8,500: active, fully steady: good and choice barrows and gilts, 140 lbs up, at 14.75 celling: good and choice sows at 14.00; complete clearance. Salable cattle 9.000: total 9,000: salable calves 1.000; total 1.000; fed steers and yearlings steady. 25 cents, mostly to 50 cents lower; gen eral trade slow. Largely steer run; top 17.50; bulk 14.75-17.00; fed heifers steady to strong, best 17.00; cows and bulls fully steady: scarce, active: cutter cows 9.25 down: most ! canners 7.25 to 8.00; good beef cows tpy 15.00; weighty sausage bulls to 13.50 and heavy fat bulls to 14.50: 1 veaiers unchanged to 17.00 down; active trade on stockers and feed , ers at 12.50 to 14.75, mostly 13.00 i 14.50. BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO, April 10—<P — But ter receipts 536,231. Eggs receipts 28.914. N. C. HOGS RALEIGH, April 10—P—(NCD A’—Hog markets steady with I tops of 14.55 at Rocky Mount and Clinton and 14.85 at Rich mond. N. C. EGGS, POULTRY RALEIGH, April 10—t.P,—CVCD A»—Egg and poultry markets steady to firm. RALEIGH—U. S. grade A large 36; hens, all weights, 27. WASHINGTON—U. S. grade A large 39; broilers and fryers 33 9. BIRTHS More than five times as many births as deaths were reported to the Cleveland county health de partment during March, it was revealed by Dr Z. P. Mitchell, Cleveland health officer, this morning. There were 30 deaths recorded against 153 births. Venereal disease led the list of communicable diseases in numDer of cases reported with 24 cases. Other diseases reported were: Whooping cough. 8; scarlet fever, 1; tuberculosis, 2; spinal meningi tis, 1. more than 60,000 troops. The Japanese may be using more and heavier artillery than they have mustered before, but still it was no match for the American batteries massing their fire in a furious all-out slugging match. Battleships and cruisers also turned their heavy guns on the Japanese artillery, destroying a number of gun emplacements in the rugged terrain well suited to defensive tactics. Two counterattacks were thrown back yesterday and a third still was being fought off last night in a fierce engagement. The Seventh division’s 184th re giment recaptured Red Hill yester day after concentrating artillery fire on it during the night. The Hill was seized from the Yanks earlier in a bitter, close-range counterattack fought with tanks, bazookas, small arms and gren ades. SHELBY HI GIRL PILOTS PLANE FROM BRISTOL Miss Coleen Craig, who grad uated from the »Shelby high school in 1942 while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Craig, were living in this city, now a stenographer with Associated Transport, Inc., came alone in a plane across the mountains from Bristol, Tenn., yesterday afternoon and returned there this morning. She is 19 years old and has had only 27 hours of solo flying. She admitted she got off her course a time or two in makinig the trip and spent an hour and a half making a trip which should have taken an hour. “I knew when I got to Shelby though." she declared. “When I saw this place I said to myself if that isn’t Shelby, I give up.” It was. MET BY MAYOR Quite accidentally she was met at the Byers airport by Mayor Harry Woodson who happened to be out there on other business. He provided her an escort to the city and saw' to it that her plane was properly serviced and cranked up for the return trip. “It isn’t every girl who lands at an airport who is met by the may or. himself," she declared with elation this morning. She ex amined with keen interest project plans for Shelby's new airport in the Sharon community and said that she was looking—forward to landing on the 4,000 foot runways at that port. "I'm coming back to Shelby,' she said as she waved her hand just before the take-off. WHEN Starts On Page One them. This meeting, no matter where, probably will end what might be called organized resistance in the Reich, military authorities believe A meeting by the U. S. Third Army and the Russians would cut Ger many into two isolated sections, while a meeting between the Ninth army and the Russians near Berlin would accomplish a similar feat, making it impossible Tor the Ger man high command to conduct any sort of organized war. This is particularly true in view of the fact nine-tenths of Ger many's heavy industry is in Allied hands. “WITH HONOR" Such a cutting up of the German army would allow German soldiers to surrender “with honor." because their military situation would be im possible. Almost all Germans, officers, and civilians, seem to agree that there will be no formal peace. They say the Nazis will never make peace and there is no other German group strong enough to do so. They say the German soldier would like to stop fighting, but that he will not give up until he knows he can surrender without danger of retaliation from the Nazis. The Nazis, with organizations such as the “werewolves,'* are try ing to capitalize on the situation by attempting to throw Germany into a state of anarchy. Some sections of the German population have been terrorized by the werewolves, but this far they have been a flop as effective guer rilla opposition to the Allied armies. A check of the various Allied armies disclosed there has been almost no sabotage of military effort or as sasination of Allied soldiers. A plastic suitable for insulating and wallboard material is produced from potato pulp. WANT ADS lost: brown billfold, containing A and B gasoline ra tion books and other papers and money. Keep money and please Return stamps and papers. James Choate, 410 Orange St.. Shelby. 2t lOp COKERS CERTIFIED COTTON seed, 100 stran 6 year old. Cok ers wilt 3 certified and 7. Dr. C. M. Peeler. 2t 10c ONE GOOD COTTON PLANTER for sale cheap. Flay H. Hoey. ltp NEGRO LAD GOES AFTER BICYCLE WITH SHOTGUN Eddie Guest, 12-year-old negro boy of Grover, was in the custody of juvenile court authorities today after frightening the constitute:! authorities of Grover half out of their wits with a shotgun last Friday afternoon. The trouble started when Eddie turned his bicycle over to the bo;, s at the school shop for a paint job. j Boys who had done the painting accosted Eddie about paying for | the work and according to their j account received no satisfaction. | Following this conversation which ; took place in town, the boys went to Eddie's home, took his bicycle j carried it to the shop and locked I it up. ARMED HIMSELF Eddie armed himself with a shot gun and four shells, one of which was found in the gun after he was taken. He started out to reclaim his bicycle. On his way to the school shop he met M. C. Nix, the teacher, who has charge of this repair work. Mr. Nix tried to rea j son with him but all that Eddie I could see was a missing bicycle. Mr. Nix summoned W. S. Hicks, the town officer; who also tried to persuade Eddie to give up his gun But Eddie wouldn't give it up and Mr. Hicks had to go back and get his gun and threaten to shoot Ed die, he said, before Eddie would lay down the lethal weapon. As it stands now Eddie is await ing a mental test by the welfare To Help Dealers fi Conform With OP A Regulations Tire dealers and tire repairing firms in Shelby will be aided in complying with current OPA reg ulations when they will be visited in the period from April 15 to April 30 by volunteer workers who will assist in the checking for prices of tires and services. These volunteer workers will also inspect their records and postings as t a part of a nation-wide compliance survey, J. J. Hartigan, secretary of the rationing board said today. These volunteer price panel as sistants will check to see that the seller's ceiling prices are properly posted and that sales slips are given to each purchaser and that records of sales are kept. Three Shelby Boys Home For Two Weeks Sgf. J. W. White. Cpl. Shop Hamrick, and Cpl. Hugh Pegrsm arrived last night from Pueblo. Colorado, to spend two-weeks fur loughs with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. White, of Chestnut St., and Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Hamrick of West Warren St., and Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Pegrarn of West Blan ton St. AH three of these Shelby boys are members of the same combat crew. department, before any Judgment is rendered and his bicycle is still locked up with the painting bill unpaid. THE RECORD SHOP NEWEST SELECTIONS It 1ST RECEIVED. Mv Heart Sings—Guy Lombardo Just A Prayer Away—Bins Crosby Ail Of My Life—Bing Crosby This Heart of Mine—Judy Garland PHONE 7S8 SHELBY, N. C. SHELBY S FINEST Prescription Drug Store f

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