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► WEATHER Fair weather and mild tempera tures today and tonight, Friday cloudy and warmer, scattered frost interior of north portion tonight. The shelby Baily thr CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 STATE THEATRE TODAY "THE CRIME DOCTOR'S COURAGE" Starring WARNER BAXTER VOL. XLI1I—94 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, APR. 19, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c Britons Close Within Sight Of Hamburg And Reach Lower Elbe River By James M. Long PARIS, April 19.—(A5)—The First Army has captured Leipzig, fifth city of Germany, and with the Ninth Army seized all of the great Ruhr pocket in perhaps the greatest victory of the war. Britons on the north flank closed within six miles and sight of* the greatest continental port of Hamburg. They reached the lower Elbe river on a 20-mile front. Just to the south, a thousand Germans with twenty tanks struck out from the British sector and drove three to 15 miles into the rear area of the Ninth Army west of captured Stendal. They were engaged by cavalry forces. The foray was isolated and the Germans appeared to be trying to slip through the Ninth Army’s Ruhr area into the besieged Harz mountain pocket, southwest of the Ninth Army’s five-mile deep bridgehead pointed within 52 miles or tsernn. Seventh Army divisions were fighting hard for Nuernberg, Ba varian citadel of Nazi festivals. Dessau and Halle were falling. There were no reports later than those a day old which placed the Third Army two miles Inside Czech oslovakia within eight of Asah. In the great array of captured cities were Dusseldorf, largest in the Ruhr, Solingen, Remescheid, Fuerth. Zwickau, Luneburg, Ans bach and Uelzen. The British cap tured Uelzen onl yafter six days of savage battle. Bremen «h besieged and Britons fought in its suburbs against Nails reported rallied two days ago by Heinrich Himmler. The British surge toward Hamburg and to the Elbe carried within 35 miles of Luebeck on the southeast side of the Danish peninsula and 57 of the leading German naval base of Kiel. Harburg was brought within light artillery range. In the south, the 14th armored division crashed 12 miles southeast of Nuernberg to within five of ! Neumarkt, 8 miles north of Munich and 132 from Hitler’s Bavarian ci tadel of Berchtesgaden. LINKED 17P Supreme headquarters corrected an earlier statement that the Amer icans had fought to the center of Nuernberg, saying late in the day that ectually the Third and 45tn divisions had linked up outside the city. Off to the southwest of Nuernberg, See BRITONS Page S Nazis To Be Warned Against Atrocities Three Foreign Secretaries In Washington Preparing Warning, Says Churchill By James F. King LONDON, April 19.—(/P)—Prime Minister Churchill announced today that a “solemn warning” to the Germans against prison camp atrocities was being prepared to be issued over the signatories of himself, Marshal Stalin and MOPPING-UP IN LEIPZIG Prisoner Total From Leip zig Climbs Above 20, 000; Guns Token By DON WHITEHEAD LEIPZIG, Germany, April 19— (/P) —Doughboys of the Second and 69th Infantry division cracked the last three enemy strongholds in Leipzig today. The soldiers then began ferreting out snipers. Nearly all the city south of the railroad station already has been mopped up and the remainder is being cleared rapidly. The prisoner total from Leipzig already has climbed to above 20, 000 and the First army has cap tured more than 1.000 88-mm. guns which were used In defense of the city. The Germans made their last desperate stand at the city hall, at the railroad station and from underground shelters near Napo leon’s statue in the southeastern part of the city. MET IN CENTER The Second and 69th division met in the center of the city late yesterday after clearing out all re sistance except around the railroad station and city hall, where the Nazi commander took refuge and refused to surrender. At dawn today the Doughboys attacked a group of 200 Germans holding out at the railroad station and then stormed the city hall against 250 of the enemy. The Americans began a strong drive at dawn and during the day swept through this fifth largest city of Germany with crushing power. The drive developed some of the weirdest situations of the war — with the German civilians cheering the entry of the Ameri cans and an American general de manding the city's surrender by President Truman. The foreign secretaries In Wash ington — Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia. Secretary Stettinlus for the United States and Anthony Eden for Britain — are preparing the warning to “bring home responsibi lity, not only to the men at the top who are already on other grounds war criminals in many cases, but also to the actual peo ple who have done this foul work with their own hands,” Churchill told Commons. Sidestepping attempts to draw from him a hint as to when a pro clamation on V-E day will come— he declared It would be made Joint ly with the Russians—the prime minister made clear that the mat ter of atrocities is now taking top priority in Big Three discussions. The whole matter had become "one of urgency,” he said and the solemn warning will be issued by the Big Three In a few days. He disclosed that he had re ceived only this morning a let ter from Gen. Eisenhower say ing ‘new discoveries, particuar ly at Weimar, far surpassed anything previously disclosed.” The Buchenwald camp was at Weimar. A parliamentary delegation will leave tomorrow, on invitation of See NAZIS Page t AIRMEN AGAIN ATTACK REICH RAIL TARGETS British And Russian Bomb ers in Alternate Raids On Berlin NEAR BERCHTESGADEN By Henry B. Jameson LONDON, April 19.—(B)— German railway targets in the southern Reich and in Czechoslovakia were attacked today for the fourth success ive day by 600 U. S. Eighth Air Force heavy bombers and 550 fighters, which also con tinued to search for remnants of German air power. British and Russian bomb ers hammered Berlin in re lays again last night. A large transformer station at Pasing, just west of Munich, which serves electric railways leading to the Nazi hideout areas in the Ba varian mountains, was bombed this afternoon by from 100 to 200 RAF Lancasters. It was the second consecu tive day that heavy bombers from England have slammed bombs on the doorsteps of Adolf Hitler’s fortress head quarters near the Austrian bor der. Flying Fortresses yes terday bombed railways within 15 miles of Berchtesgaden. Lightnings from Italy also dive bombed raQyards ft Weilheim, 30 miles southwest of Munich on the line to Garmisch Partenkirchen. Liberators and Fortresses from Italy attacked the Avlsion viaduct on the Brenner line, the rail bridge at Rattenburg on the Innsbruck See AIRMEN Page 2 U. S. CASUALTY FIGURES GIVEN Bottle For Rhine And Crossing Cost 47,023 Casualties WASHINGTON, April 19.—(VP)— The battle for the Rhine and cross ing of the river in March cost U. S. Army ground forces 47,023 casualties. Secretary of War Stim son reported today. While this total was larger than in February, when there were 34. 468 losses. Stimson pointed out that it was smaller than for any month since October. The March casualty figure includ ed 6,214 killed, 35,443 wounded and 5,366 missing. Sihce D-Day last June Stimson disclosed, American ground casu alties on the western front totaled 473,215 up to the end of March. In cluded are 79,795 killed, 334,919 wounded and 58,501 missing. ARMY CASUALTIES At the same time, Stimson dis closed that Army casualties in all theaters have reached 813,870 on the basis of namts compiled in Washington through April 7. Add ed to the Navy’s losses of 98,608, this put aggregate ^casualties since Pearl Harbor at 912,478, an increase of 13,088 since last week’s report. Stimson said that while current casualties on the western front are not yet available, they are “not high.” In contrast, he said, more than 900,000 Germans were cap tured in April and the number of enemy killed and wounded has been high. Since the landings in France last See U. 8. Page S Eyewitness From Berlin Tells Of Nazi Decline (Editor’s Note: An eyewitness of conditions in Germany on the eve of defeat and disaster was Olle Ollen, Berlin corres pondent for the last three years of the Stockholms Morgontld ningen. Having watched the decline of Naziism since 1942 he left the German capital last By OLLE OLLEN Copyright, 1945, by the Associated STOCKHOLM, April 19.—(£>)_ The Germans have completely lost their respect for their money, among other things, as disaster closes down. An incident aboard the ferry on whic I travelled from Copenhagen to Malmo illustrates this. At the currency control desk I said that I still had a considerable sum in Reichsmarks. The German official said with a shrug of his shoulder, “If you have too much throw it overboard; I don't want it.” The usual comment from German shopkeepers Is, “Have n't you anything other than marks—bread or meat coupons, See EYEWITNESS Face 3 ERNIE PYLE KILLED BY JAPS—Ernie Pyle (left) famous war cor respondent, was killed April 17 by Japanese machine gun fire on Ie Jima, a small island lying off Motobu peninsula of Okinawa. This picture of him and Commander Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, was made as they paused for a drink of water during a stop on an island in the South Pacific while en route to the Okinawa invasion.—(AP Wire photo from U. S. Coast Guard). Americans In Second Mindanao Invasion Thirty-Five Miles Of East Shore Line Seized Tuesday; Resistance Light By Fred Hampson MANILA, April 19.—(A5)—A second American landing on Mindanao focused new attention today on that second most important Philippine island, where the Japanese have been established since long before the outbreak of the pres-. ent war in the Pacific. Battle-tempered Yanks of MaJ. Gen. R. B. Woodruff’s 24th division drove ashore Tuesday at Malabang and Parang, on the east shore of Illana Bay, against light initial opposition and grabbed 35 miles of coast line. Associated Press Correspond ent Russell Brines, who went ashore In the first wave, said the Doughboys advanced 6,000 yards in a few hours, drawing only negligible defense fire, but that they probably would meet tougher going when they move toward the main highway lead ing to the insular capital, Davao City, 85 miles to the east. The highway is only five miles from the beach positions. The new landing poses a direct threat to the most nearly Japan ized part of the Philippines, in and around Davo province, which has been a settlement for immi grant Nipponese for many years. Military sources estimated the number of Nipponese troops on Mindanao island at three divisions, or about 50,000 men. This, how ever, takes no account of the great number of Japanese civilians. WATCHES LANDING The landing was witnessed from an* airplane carrier by Lt. Gen. Robert Lawrence Eichelberger.com mander of the Eighth army. A guerrilla division under Col. Wendell W. Fertig of Boulder, Colo., was credited with dislocating enemy defenses and facilitating the landing. His guerrillas joined the Dough boys shortly after the landing. Richard Bergholz, Associated Press correspondent with Eichel berger, said the Yanks prepared See AMERICANS Page 2 PLAN ROTARY LADIES NIGHT Special attractions which are not being revealed have been arrang ed for Rotary Ladies night to be observed tomorrow evening at 7 o’clock at the Charles hotel. Out of-town talent has been secured for the event, the program com mittee has announced but the de tails are being kept as a surprise. Wives and friends of the Rotarians will be guests of the club for the occasion as well as leaders in other civic clubs. J BODY OF PYLE IS RECOVERED Chaplain And Heroic Stretcher Bearers Per formed Mission Bv GRANT MacDONALD IE feHIMA, April 18.—(Delayed) —(/P)—An army chaplain and four of the heroic stretcher bearers so often paid tribute by Ernie Pyle to day crawled 125 yards across open ground and under enemy fire to bring back the dead war corre spondent’s body. Cpl. Alexander Roberts of New York City, a former New York News cameraman who went with the group to make pictures, relat ed the story. Three tanks went forward to get Pyle’s body, Roberts said, but be cause of intense machinegun fire which kept tankmen inside, they were forced to stop 1,125 yards from where Pyle lay. AFTER DARK Chaplain N. B. Saucier of Cof feyviUe, Miss., had orders to get the body but not to risk any more lives, and to wait until dark if necessary. Four litter bearers volunteered to make the attempt. They were Cpl. Robert Toaz of Huntington, N. Y.; Cpl. Paul Shapiro of Passaic, N. J.; Sgt. Minter Moore of Elkins, W. Va„ and Sgt. Arthur J. Austin of Tekamah, Neb. Because of enemy fire, they crawled in a small roadside ditch until they reached the body. On the way back the littermen crawled on their hands and knees, holding the litter a few inches off the ground. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m. — Kiwanis club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—C. A. P. members meet at armory. 8:00 p.m.—Capping exercis es for nurses’ aides at hospi tal nurses home. 8:00 p.m.—Workers confer ence of officers and teachers of Presbyterian church at the church. 8:15 p.m.—Meeting of horse show planners at city hall. FRIDAY 7:00 p.m.—Rotary club la yuaht at IZaial OUTER DEFENSE OF BOLOGNA PENETRATED Monte Adone And Monte Rumici Captured In 60-Hour Battle ON DOWNHILL ROAD By Lvnn Heinzerling ROME, April 19.—-<7P)— American Fifth Army troops, cracking the outer defenses of Bologna, drove to within eight miles of the great Ital ian industrial city today after seizing the key heights of. Monte Adone and Monte Ru mici in a bitter 60-hour battle. The advance appeared to have loosened German defenses before the Po valley gateway city and gave the Americans a downhill road to Bologna with each moun tain generally smaller than the last, a front dispatch said. Troops of the 91st division took Monte Adone, between highways G4 and 65, as other forces dug the Germans out of caves on Monte Rumici. These actions south of Bologna yielded nearly 200 enemy pris oners—a high figure for this mountainous sector. Continuing its advance another 2,300 yards, the 91st division over ran Monte Dei Frati. American troops also took the village of Badolo, just east of highway 64 within eight miles of Bologna. For the first time in six months thfc' Germans have been deprived of heights #/hich enabled them to pour fire down on American posi tions. TOUGH DEFENSES To the northeast British Eighth army troops, knifing through the toughest defenses on the road to Ferrara, stormed through the Ar genta Gap and captured the Po valley town of Boccaleone. Chiesa Delbandon, an outpost of the German Sabbiosola Canal line, was also captured in the heavy fighting as the British troops move northwestward. Fifth army troops, meanwhile, were meeting some of the heaviest fighting of the Italian campaign in their drive along highway 65 toward Bologna. One advance of 1,000 yards was made in the di rection of Pianoro. The Fifth army was reported to have made a spectacular surge forward further west along high way 64, but details of the advance See OUTER Page 2 Senator Weathers Nominated For Alumni Officer Senator Lee B. Weathers has been nominated for first vice president of the General Alumni association of Wake Forest col lege, it was learned here this morning following a session of the executive committee of that or-j ganization. Nominated for presi- i dent was Dr. Bahnson Weathers,1 member of class of 1915 and now a physician in Roanoke Rapids. Nominated for other offices are: Second vice president, J. Henry Leroy, ’20, Elizabeth City attorney; executive committee: The Rev. Dr. Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn ’35, pastor, First Baptist church of Lumber ton, and C. C. Wall, ’17, Lexing ton manufacturer. Election results will be announ ced at the annual meeting of the alumni association to be held dur-; ing commencement May 28. 7.988 CASUALTIES: Yanks Overrun North End Of Okinawa, Japs Hold In South By AL DOPKIXG GUAM, April 19—(/P)—American naval, army and marine casualties of 7,988 in the Okinawa campaign were reported by Adm. Chester W Nimitz today, as U. S. Marines overran the northern end of that strategic island and Doughboys vir tually ended' the conquest of little Ie islet offshore. The casualty toll, as of yester day, was 1.482 dead, 4,750 wound ed and 1,756 missing. This dated back to March 18 when Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitsrher's carrier planes first began sweeping the Ryukusj and Japan itself to soften the way i for the Easter morning invasion of Okinawa. Japanese dead in the ground fighting on Okinawa alone were 9,108 killed and 391 made prison er, counted up to midnight las: I Friday. Considerable heavy tight-I ing has been in progress since | then. Naval casualties of 4,700 for this j action exceeded those of the army' and the marines for the first ’ time in the Pacific war. The 1,400 1 See 1ANKS Pa*e 3 Berlin Reported Under Soviet Artillery Fire; Oder, Niesse Crossed Hv The Associated Press The Warsaw radio announced today that Polish forces, fighting beside the Red army, crossed the Oder and Niesse rivers Monday, and “are now taking part in the great of fensive on Berlin.” This was the first official announcement from the Allied side of the crossing of the Oder. The broad cast was recorded by the FCC. LONDON, April 19. —(/P)—The Paris radio said today that Berlin was under fire of Russian artillery. LONDON, April 19.—(AP)—The Russians have captured Seelow and Wriezen and advanced to within 18 miles of the eastern limits of Berlin, a Transocean broadcast announced today. Reporting a series of deep penetrations in the four-day old Russian offensive by 2,500,000 Soviet soldiers, Berlin radio announcements said Forst, a Niesse river stronghold 65 miles southeast of Berlin, also had fallen. Transocean’s correspondent, Karl Bluecher, broadcast that “the battle for Berlin in the east is approaching its WAR PRISONER ROSTER SEIZED Complete List Of All Al lied Prisoners Held By Germans SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, April 19. —(A5)— Germany’s complete roster of pris oners of war, including an itemi zation of all captives from every Allied country taken by the Ger mans since the outbreak of the war, has been seized by American Third army troops. The important seizure was ac complished by soldiers of Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy’s 12th Corps, the corps which captured the German gold reserve. The captured records contain the latest whereabouts of Allied prisoners of war, their dates of capture and other data. They list the prisoners who have died since their capture and those wounded when taken. The capture was made by Major Eddy’s headquarters personnel, who seized the complete staff of 10 German officers and 40 enlisted men engaged in keeping the prison ers’ cards up to date. An announce ment said 460 civilian clerks were employed in maintaining the rec ords, but did not tell what dis position had been made of them. Capture of an economic division of the German high command along with 15 additional officers and 56 enlisted men also was announced by corps headquarters. Fire Destroys Part Of Oil Refining Plant EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 19. ■*—UP)— Fire of undetermin ed origin last night destroyed 700 feet of a 1,000-foot long tank car loading rack at a Standard Oil refining plant. The flames were quelled after a three-hour fight by El Se gundo firemen, who reported there were no casualties. The fire illuminated the night skies in spectacular fashion and could be seen for miles, but there were no explosions. climax. He said the Russians were but four kilometers northeast of Mu encheberg. or about 18 miles due east of Berlin’s city limits, and were east of Buckow, also 18 miles of Berlin. Wriezen, 23 miles northeast of Berlin, had been captured, he said, along with Seelow, 25 miles due ' east. . “Deep but narrow” penetra tions had been made from the Russian bridgeheads along the Niesse, he said, so that the Russians were now due south of Cottbus, Spree river strong hold 55 miles southeast of Berlin. Other spearheads were due south of Spremberg. 13 miles south of Cottbus and 69 miles southeast of Berlin, and east of Bautzen, 24 miles east of Dresden and but 40 miles from American positions north of Chemnitz. RUSSIAN GAINS Russian advances to Bautzen would represent a gain of 24 miles from the Nlesse above Goelitz and advances to Spremberg would be a gain of 16 miles from Forst on the Niesse. Other Berlin broadcasts report ed that the Russians had estab lished bridgeheads across the Spree, the winding, lake-linking watei way which forms the most im portant part of Berlin’s southeast ern defenses. This crossing, it was indicated, was somewhere south of Cottbus, perhaps near Spremberg, which is See BERLIN Page 2 SHAKE-UP IN CABINET SEEN Several New Department Heads Likely To Be Named Soon WASHINGTON, April 19—(jp>— Some members of the Roosevelt cabinet are on the way out, and soon. Although the feeling has been general here that President Tru man might delay any changes for a couple of months, close friends suggested today that one or more new department heads may be named within days. Most of them pointed to the labor department, which Sec retary Perkins undoubtedly would like to leave soon as she gracefully can. Most-mentioned as a possible successor Is Sen ator Harley Kilgore tD-VVVa). Kilgore is satisfactory to the CIO and also has worked with the AFL. Both organizations must be reasonably satisfied with the man chosen because he probably will head a revitalized department con taining all labor agencies. AGRICULTURE A change also will be made in the agriculture setup, with Secre tary Wickard slated to step out in favor of a new man who may take over the duties of War Food ad ministrator as well. Marvin Jones, who fills the lat ter post, told friends recently he would like to go back to the court of claims, from which he was bor- „ rowpd by President Roosevelt. 6e* SHAKE-UP Paje f
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