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WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm today, to night and Thursday, except cloudy with occasional light drizzle this morning over east portion. Tslje Hhelhy Baily Him - State Theatre Today - “FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS” Gary Cooper — Ingrid Bergman CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII-87 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, APR. 11, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c BRITISH TAKE THREE TOWNS IN DRIVE IN ITALY Encirclement Of Vienna Completed; Other Soviet Forces Invade Moravia LONDON, April 11.—(fF)—Russian forces completed the encirclement of Vienna and with tommy-guns and grenades compressed the doomed Nazi garrison into the eastern one tenth of the tottering Austrian capital, front dispatches to the Moscow' press announced today. These account* also said that tne right wing of Marshal Rodion Ma linovsky's second Ukrainian army had invaded the central Czechoslo vak province of Moravia at points less than 35 miles from the great city of Bruenn (Brnot. Farther north, the Germans said other Soviet forces, in an all-out assault to reduce the Oder river I fortress of Breslau, had stormed Into Richthofen square in that Sil esian city. lnaide Vienna the rag-tag Nasi force. Including schoolboys, pilots and sailors fighting as infantry, had been pushed back on an Island against the Dan ube by Russian storm nnlts sweeping forward in hand-to hand lighting. Complete eU-‘ mination of this enemy holdout group appeared likely in a mat ter of hours. Red army storm units now were operating in the three-mile long, half-mile wide crescent of land be tween the Danube river and the Danube canal—an area which in cludes the old Jewish quarter of Leopoldstadt and the Brigittenau and Prater commercial districts. Everything west and south of the canal had been mopped up by the Russians. There was no indication that the Germans yet had blown the four See ENCIRCLEMENT Page 2 Coal Miners Gain Broad Concessions Government Takes Over 235 Strike-Closed Pits In Seven States; Basic Daily Pay Increase WASHINGTON, April 11.—(A5)—Wage negotiations wound up six weeks of contract talks with broad concessions to bituminous miners today even as the government took over 235 strike-closed pits in seven states. MATHESON TO DIE APRIL 27 Supreme Court Upholds Conviction Of Former County Boy Marvin L. Matheson, 18-year-old boy who formerly lived in Cleve land county and was a client of the local welfare department, will die in the state's gas chamber April 17 for the slaying of Police Chief D. A. Millsaps, of Taylors ville, last summer as a result of a Supreme court decision today which held there was no error in his conviction of first degree mur der in the Alexander county Su perior court last August. Matheson allegedly shot the po lice chief in the lobby of a Tay lorsville hotel last July 9. According to the Supreme court record, Matheson, who spent two years In the Jackson Training school for larceny of $10, quit this Job in Conover last July 7, and stole two pistols from his employ er. He also allegedly stole a suit and a wallet containing $5 from a fellow employe. Upon his arrival In Taylorsville by bus, the youth was questioned by a police officer, but gave an other name. The next day. Chief Millsaps asked Matheson to ac company him to the police station for further questioning. When they reached the lobby, Matheson allegedly pulled a pistol from his coat, shot the officer and fled. Last nigtu s presidential seizure order came hours before announce ment of agreement r-i a contract tj supplant the one which expired March 31. Reportedly the operators acceded to a basic dally wage of $10 for inside miners now receiving $8.50 after United Mines Worker President John L. Lewis aban doned his 10-cent-a-ton royalty Already. Interior Secretary Ickes had stepped into his fourth war time role as mine operating order ing the American flag flown over every tipple made idle by a 10-day series of wildcat strikes that cut deep into steel production. The number seized, however, was fewer than seven per cent of the nation's 3,478 soft coal mines, most of which have continued operations. The break in the long-stalemated contract talks came hours after dark with an announcement from conference chairman Ezra Van Horn, an operator, that an agree ment had been reached. He said only that the miner-operator con fr..?s would meet at 3:30 p.m. (E WTi today to approve the agree See COAL Page 2 Dr. Pettigrew Named Vice President Of Mission Board RICHMOND, VA„ April 11—(/P) —Dr. W. R. Pettigrew, pastor of the Citadel Square Baptist church at Charleston, S. C„ was elected first vice-president of the foreign mission board of the Southern Baptist convention last night. He succeeds Dr. Ryland Knight, Pulaski, Va., who resigned the post Jan. 1. JAP GARRISON WIPED OUT: Tsugen Islet Off Okinawa Is Overrun By Americans GUAM, April 11 —m— Tenth army Infantrymen overran Tlsu gen islet off Okinawa's big Naka gusuku harbor today while Japa nese on the main island expended more troops in repeated heavy counterattacks which were costing them heavily. Twenty-fourth corps dough boys who landed at Tsugen a galnst only light opposition yesterday killed off the entire garrison of ISO troops. Pre Invasion naval shelling knock ed out most of the enemy’s •rtillery, mortem end meohlne guns. Tspgen, about 10 miles off Oki nawa’s east coast, glvps the Am ericans control of Nakagusuku Bay, onetime Japanese fleet an chorage. The excellent harbor now can be used advantageously for un loading supplies and equipment designed to develop Okinawa Into an air base only 325 miles south of the Japanese islands. Marine fighters already are based there for air defense. Bee TSUGEN Page « UNITS GAIN AT LEAST 7 MILES IN PO VALLEY Bologna Still 30 Airline Miles Ahead; Fifth Army On Move DEFENSErBREACHED ROME, April 11. — (>P) — British Eighth Army troops, paced by flamethrowing tanks, have captured Lugo, Fusignano and Cotignola in the opening phase of their of fensive across the Senio river on the eastern flank of the Italian front, Allied head quarters announced today. Fall of these towns represented advances on a front of at least seven miles in the eastern Po val ley astride the highway running from Ravenna to Bologna. Lugo lies a mile west of the Senio on the highway. Bologna is some 30 airline miles ahead. In western Italy, American troops of the Fifth army cleared the enemy from the road hub of Massa and pushed on in the direc tion of La Spezia, major Italian naval base a dozen miles away. “Our troops hays breached ene my defenses on the river Senio on a broad front,*’ an Allied com munique said. In the early hours of the new attack. Eighth army infantry moving up behind a heavy air bombardment, captured more than 1,200 Germans. Veteran New Zealanders took a prominent role in the assault. The Eighth army also was on See UNITS Page 2 DOVER RITES TO BE TODAY Beloved Maiden Lady Suc cumbs To Illness Of 20 Months Miss Margaret Dover, age 73, died last night at the home of her brother, George Dover, at 851 West Warren street with whom she made her home and while she had been sick for twenty months, most of the time confined to her bed. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at five o’clock from the Dover residence with the Rev. D. F. Putnam in charge, assisted by the Rev. W. G. Camp. Inter ment will follow in Sunset ceme tery. Miss Dover was a faithful member of Bethel Baptist church and a very earnest and conse crated Christian. Nieces will serve as flower bearers and the follow ing nephews will be active pall bearers: H. C. Wilson, Clyde Do ver, Ralph Dovet, Maurice Weath ers, Will Allen, and Rune Swan son. Miss Dover was one of six chil dren of the late Mr. and Mrs. Da vid Thomas Dover and is the first of the children to die. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. J. A. Wil son, Miss Nora Dover of Shelby, three brothers, George Dover of Shflby, John A. Dover of Grover and James R. Dover of Patterson Springs. Report Current That Hitler Assassinated LONDON, April 11—OF)—A re port that Adolf Hitler has been assassinated circulated in Britain today, but Foreign Secretary An thony Eden said he had heard nothing of it. Capt. John H. McEwen raised the question of the rumor in comons, declaring he had heard the foreign office was "directly respon sible” for it and asking for con firmation. Eden replied “as usual the 1922 committee knows information be fore the foreign office.” The 1922 committee, of which McEwen is secretary, is the extreme right wing faction of the conservative party. ^ ^ ^ —— RESCUED WAR PRISONERS WALK FREE SOIL AGAIN—American soldiers, former prisoners of war in Germany, walk across the parade ground in Camp Myles Standish at Taunton, Mass., on their way to noon mess April 9 just after their arrival back in the United States. The men, many of whom were war prisoners for more than two years, were liberated by Russian troops driving toward Berlin. About 1,500 landed in nearby Boston the night before.—(AP Wirephoto). DON GILLIAM MAY BE JUDGE Appointment Expected This Week; Winborne Also Mentioned By MARGARET KERNODLE WASHINGTON, April 11— UP) — \ It looks like Solicitor Don Gilliam I of Tarboro will be the next U. S. | district judge lor Eastern North j Carolina, succeeding Judge I. M. j Meekins, who retired in February. No one will talk officially, how ever, until Senators Josiah W. Bailey and Clyde R. Hoey get that call, for which they have been waiting several days, to confer again with Attorney General Fran cis Biddle. Senator Bailey said an nouncement of the Carolina lawyer President Roosevelt will nominate for the judgeship will follow this conference. Runner-up for the post is un derstood to be Stanley Winborne, of Raleigh, preferred, it is reported, See DON GILLIAM Page 2 Holt McPherson On Leave Will Be OWMR Consultant Holt McPherson, managing edi tor of The Star, is in Washington on temporary leave from The Star to do special work as a consultant for the office of war mobilization and reconversion in its advisory board office. During his absence Mr. McPher son’s duties on the paper are being carried by Lee B. Weathers, pub lisher. His column, “Behind the Front Page,” an editorial page daily feature, will be discontinued in his absence but will be resumed upon his return to his duties here when his special work with the office of war mobilization and reconversion is completed. Mr. McPherson’s course in jour nalism he teaches at Gardner-Webb will be completed with lectures by Lindsay E. Dail, Pat McBrayer, John W. Cannon, Miss Sara New ton and Lee B. Weathers. His work as editor of the Rotary club’s week ly bulletin will be handled by Dale Stentz, while Rev. Paul Hardin, jr., has taken over his duties as chair man of the program committee of the Rotary club. ERWIN W. CHAMPION CHAMPION WINS SILVER STAR Given Award For Gallan try In Action With Tank Unit In France Cpl. Erwin W. Champion, hus band of the former Miss Martha Roberts of Shelby, who has re cently been promoted from private first class to his present grade, has been awarded the Silver Star medal for gallantry in action while fighting in France with a tank battalion. Cpl. Champion was In his tank when it was set on fire by an an ti-tank shell fired by the Germans and two of his crew was killed. He and the surviving crew mem bers remained in their vehicle to provide covering fire for the crew of another disabled tank to reach safety. Upon dismounting from his tank, Cpl. Champion and his comrades found enemy infantry entrenched in foxholes around the tank. Acting boldly and aggres sively each of the three men took a gun from the enemy and routed others out of foxholes, capturing eighteen prisoners. Cpl. Cham pion’s courage and coolness under fire saved the lives of five men and his action throughout the op eration was in keeping with the H. K. Roberts. Sulu Archipelago Now Completely In U. S. Hands MANILA, April 11—(JP)—Com plete control of the Sulu Archi pelago, which stretches between Mindanao and Borneo, was pro claimed today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Forty-First division doughboys invaded the key island of Jolo on Monday and quickly captured the capital dity and its airdromes. MacArthur also announced the liberation of perhaps thousands of ill-fed lepers from the Culion colony of the West-Central Philippines aiM reported the end of organized i resistance on Southern Luzon, where thousands of crack ene my troops are trapped. Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe’s veteran 41st division, which captured the big harbor of Tawitawi in the Su lu chain April 2, swept ashore at the Jolo City waterfront, on the 20-mile-long island’s north coast. Another force landed four miles northeast of the capital. OPPOSITION LIGHT Opposition was negligible so the Yankees drove eight miles inland. See SULU Page 2 WITOS SAID TO BE WITH REDS Soviets Believed To Be Planning New Polish Coalition Set-Up LONDON. April 11— <JP) —The Polish exiled government said to day Wincenty Witos, 70-year-oid former premier, left his home in Krakow province with Soviet agents for an unannounced des tination 12 days ago and had not been reported since. The announcement raised specu lation that Soviet Russia might be planning to sponsor independently a new Polish coalition government at Warsaw. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden informed commons that Prime Min ister Churchill would deal with Russian-Polish relations and the three-power commission set up in Moscow to create a new national unity government for Poland in a speech in commons, probably on Thursday. The fact that Churchill plans to speak suggested that the Allies may untangle the situation in time for Poland to be represented at the San Francisco conference. The Polish government's an nouncement said Witos, three times premier and leader of the peasant party, went away with four Soviet agents, three dressed in civilian clothes and one in uniform, on March 31 and “since that time there has been no news at all about his whereabouts.” Super Concentration Camp Near Weimar WITH THE U. S. 3rd ARMY ENROUTE TO WEIMAR, April 11—(/P)—Reports of a super-con centration camp situated near Weimar, birthplace of the short lived 1919 German republic, reach ed 'U. S. military government au thorities today as Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s tanks drove toward the city. Liberated foreign workers drift ing back estimated that 500,000 were imprisoned there. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Sunday school officers and teachers of First’ Baptist church meet. 7:30 p.m.—Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 7:45 p.m.—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. 8:00 p.m.—Revival service at Central Methodist church. THURSDAY 7:00 p.m. — Kiwanis club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—C.A.P. members meet at armory. 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m—Re vival services at Central Me thodist church. 8:00 p.m.—Called meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A M for work in third de gree. 4 Essen Captured; Allies At Gates Of Brunswick By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, April 11.—(TP)—The Ninth Army advanced to a point less than 100 miles from Berlin today, captured Essen —largest city in the Ruhr—and crashed into the aircraft center of Brunswick on the high road to the German capital. The swift moving First Army sped across the Thur ingian plain south of the Harz mountains to an unspecified point 120 miles from the Russian lines in a supreme effort to cut Germany in two and bar access to the Alpine redoubts from the north. Essen, a blackened ruin in which 659,174 persons "lived before Hitler loosed his armies, is the home of the sprawl ing Krupp munitions and iron works. It is the birthplace of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering and was the sixth larg est city in Germany. “The Ninth Army should reach the Elbe river shortly.” AP Correspondent Robert Eunson reported from that front. The Elbe flows within 50 miles of Berlin and is the last water barrier before the capital. Unconfirmed reports reaching Supreme Headquarters said Brunswick had fallen. Airborne troops captured Essen. \ The 79t.h (Cross of Lorraine) di-| vision had fought into its debris-1 piled streets two days ago. Essen was built atop one of the earth'sj largest coal deposits. American artillery shells started dropping in the city March 10 after the Ninth army reached the Rhine, i The Krupp and other foun dries worked day and night unless disrupted by the bomb ers which" Tiave 'attacked the ugly city for nearly five years. The Kruop works, birthplace of German war material since the days of Bismarck, had been rebuilt seven times in this war, and they employed See ESSEN Page * 2,150 U. S. Planes Hit Nazi Targets Today's Mission Continues Biggest Airfield Wreck ing Campaign In History LONDON, April 11.—(/P)—Approximately 2,150 U. S. heavy bombers and fighters in a massive sweep across south ern Germany attacked a string of Nazi airfields, railroad yards and oil and ammunition depots in the Nuernberg Regensburg-Munich area today in a continuation of the big gest airfield wrecking campaign in history. Fighters were high and low seek ing German planes—almost 800 of! which have been destroyed the last i four days. Among the targets of the bomb ers were large airfields at Ingol stadt north of Munich and Ober traubling near Regensburg, the Kraiburg explosives plant near Muhldorf, oil storage depots at Freiham and Regensburg, the Landshut ordnance depot and freight yards northeast of Munich and at Neumarket, Ingolstadt, Do nauworth and Amburg. During the past four days a total of 63 German airdromes have been beaten up and 798 Nazi planes have been destroy ed in the air or on the ground. Germany’s once-feared Luft See 2,100 Page 2 Red Cross Gift A Red Cross donation o' $316 has been made by the Patterson Springs church, it was announced today. The congregation of this church contributed this amount several weeks ago but the donation is just now being recorded. County’s Bond Drive Quota Set At $2,069,000 Cleveland county's seventh war loan bond quota Is $2,069,000 it was announced this morning by George Blanton, general chairman. This includes the quota for Kings Moun tain where J. R. Davis is in charge of the bond sale campaign. The E bond goal is $744,000 and this represents a real challenge and will require the utmost effort in the way of organization and personal solicitation. Cleveland county, however, sold nearly double its quota in the sixth war loan campaign which indi cates that the heart and soul of the home folk is back of the boys who are doing the fighting and are now on the verge of finishing See COUNTY'S Page t ATTITUDES CHANGE AFTER: Allies Take Nazi Citizens To See Horrors At Death Camp By ALVIN STEINKOPF OHRDRUF, Germany, April 11.— (A*)—Col. Hayden A. Searl, whose armored forces discovered t h e scenes of horror at the Ohrdruf con centration camp, thought it would be a good idea for the German cit izens of this town to see what SS (Elite guard) brutality had done in their midst. The Chestnut Hill. Mass., officer rounded up 40 leading citizens for a tour, of tiie camp, where several hundred bodies of siain foreign workers are still in evidence. They saw bodies sprawling in the open space between the barracks, piled like timber in one building, and heaped in a tangled mass in a wide pit in still another place where apparently some effort had been made to burn them. At first the Germans expressed disbelief, insisting "the SS isn’t like that.” Later they voiced disgust, with one doctor saying “It’s the work of beasts.” The next morning the Nazi may or of Ohrdruf and his wife were found hanged. The army said it See ALLIES Page I
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