WEATHER Cloudy, mild and occasional rain today and tonight. Tuesday, mostly cloudy and mild, occasional show ers. Tshe Hhelby Baily Him CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 — SPECIAL NEWSREEL — ■ Final Tribute To FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TODAY - TUESDAY At The STATE THEATRE VOL. XLIII— 97 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—fic I THIRD ARMY ADVANCES 28 MILES TOWARD REDOURT Berlin Broadcast Says Hitler, Goebbels Both Remaining In Capital LONDON, April 23.—(/P)—Adolf Hitler is in Berlin and has,decided to remain there, the Hamburg radio said to day in a broadcast directed at Berlin residents in an at tempt to convince them the invaded capital would not fall. Both the tone and wording of the announcement made it clear that rumors were sweeping the Reich that the ruenrer was in ingni. The broadcast said the announce ment was made to stem what was described as “fantastic rumors by which the enemy is attempting tc undermine the morale of the Ger man people.” t Propaganda Minister Ur. Paul Joseph Goebbels is also in the capital, the broadcast said. It conceded that the fall of Ber lin would virtually mean the end of the war. "There are two bastions which we cannot and will not cede.' G >eb bels was quoted as saying, referring to Berlin and Prague, the capital of Bohemia-Moravia. “If these two bastions fall into enemy hands the whole of Europe will perish with Germany,” he said “Should Bolshevism capture these capitals of the Reich and the pro tectorate, Europe ceases to exist.' ‘'Many people were afraid that the German lines before Berlin would not hold against the Russian onslaught but now it has been shown that these lines did hold fast after all," the broadcast said. "We tell the whole world. The fuehrer has decided to stay on in Berlin." FROM FRONT LINE The broadcast came over the Hamburg radio station’s wave length. "The fuehrer is directing the bat tle from the front line in Berlin and he has thrown in all available forces to stem the Bolshevist on slaught," the broadcast added. Other Nazi broadcasts indicated that Propaganda Chief Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels also was in Berlin. Yesterday a DNB broadcast See BERLIN Page 2 Yanks Take Pikit In Mindanao Push 32nd Division Still Battling Holed-Up Japs In North ern Luzon By Spencer Davis MANILA, April 23.—(/P)—Skirting unexplored swamp lands and boating Up crocodile-infested rivers, 24th division yanks have captured Pikit, 32 air miles inland from the Mindanao island beachhead. This put them 42 miles from the city limits of Davao, a major port of the Philippines. •-----—-—-I The 32nd division, fighting ap BREMEN FIXED FOR THE KILL RAF Bombers Attack Great Port City In Day And Night Raids By HENRY B. JAMESON LONDON, April 23—UP)— Bremen, Germany's second largest city, ap parently was being readied for the kill today by the RAF, which hit the great port yesterday and again last night In a prelude to a final all-out assault by Field Marshal Montgomery s land forces. A fleet of approximately 250 Lancasters blasted the dock areas with 12,000 - pound earthquake bombs just a few hours before dusk and Mosquitos, switching from their nightly attacks on Berlin, fol lowed up a few hours later with a salvo of 2,000-pound blockbust ers. The big naval base of Kiel also was bombed twice by Mosquitos over the week end. Both ports arc becoming a graveyard for rem nants of the German navy. PLANES LOST Two bombers and one fighter were lost in the four raids, the air minister said. Friday night British planes See BREMEN Page 2 200,000 Deaths At Buchenwald PARIS, April 23 —(£>)— Two French journalists released from the notorious Buchenwald concen tration camp estimated today that between 150,000 and 200,000 per sons died there. Last Plane From Berlin STOCKHOLM, April 23—(fP)—A Lufthansa German commercial plane arrived as scheduled from Berlin today but Swedish author ities expressed the belief it prob l ably was the “last plane from ) Berlin." proximately 750 miles to the north, began Its fourth year of overseas duty by battling in holed up caves in the rugged Balete Pass area in the Caraballo mountains of north ern Luzon. The 112th regiment of this di vision counted its 1,000th dead Ja panese soldier in the current cave fighting in the Santa Maria val ley, northeast of Manila. Head quarters reported that many live Japanese remain to be dug out. The bag of accused Filipino collaborationists held two more Important members, Gen. Dou glas MacArthur announced to day. These are Claro N. Recto, minister of foreign affairs, and Rafael Alunan, minister of ag riculture and commerce in the puppet cabinet. They were cap tured at Baguio. With others, they will be confined for the duration and then stand trial by the Philippine common wealth. The softening up of Borneo for possible invasion continued with 130 tons of bombs dropped by heavy, medium and fighter bombers op See YANKS Page 2 BANJALUKA CAPTURED NEW YORK, April 23MAV-Ban jaluka, an important German base in northwestern Bosnia, has been captured by Yugoslav troops, the new Yugoslav telegraph ser vice reported today. RANK BARBARISM: Congressmen See Horrors Of Buchenwald Prison Camp By DON WHITEHEAD BUCHENWALD, Germany, April 24. —(A*)— Eight American con gressmen agreed today after in specting the horrors of Buchen wald prison camp that the evidence of Nazi atrocities committed there exceed the wildest flights of ima gination. “This Is the most horrible thing that anyone could con ceive,” said Rep. Carter Manas co (D-Ala.) after he and his companions had been shown around the camp—where ema ciated bodies of the Nazis’ vic tims are still stacked like cord wood, where men were hung on spikes like sides of beef until they died, and where bodies by the hundreds were burned in furnaces. “This is barbarism at its worst," said Rep. Gordon Canfield (R-N. J.) He declared the evidence bore out everything that had been said or written about Nazi brutality. FIRST HAND The congressmen, who were in Britain on various missions, were invited to come here by Gen. Eisenhower so that they might ob See CONGRESSMEN Page 3 OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH FORCES DANUBERIVER Only 14 Main German Cities Now Left Under Nazi Domination dessau Captured By James M. Long PARIS, April 23.—(/P)—Lt. | Gen. George Patton’s Third i Army slammed down 28 miles ; against the roof of Hitler’s j Bavarian redoubt today, join ; ing the general offensive in the south which burst through the enemy’s Danube river line within 50 miles of Mun ich. In the north, the British open ed the final onslaught against Bre men and the American First and Ninth armies anxiously awaited a junction with the Russians — ex pected momentarily. The First army captured Dessau (120,000), 52 miles southwest of beleaguered Berlin, along with 21, 373 prisoners. The fall of Dessau left only 14 German cities under the Nazi flag. Patton imposed a security blackout soon after his Third army captured two bridges in tact across the Naab river, a tributary of the Danube, north west of Regensburg. Blackouts in the past tfave cloaked breakthroughs of transcendant importance. Resistance stiffened late in the day, however, as Third army troops started encountering knot? of fanatical SS troops, possibly garrison forces of the redoubt. Patton’s new offensive carried within 128 miles of Berchtesgaden See OFFENSIVE Page 2 Name Of Gilliam Given To Truman For Jif,^?ship WASHIJ'.; . April 23—C/P)— Tlie name of Donnell Gilliam, Tarboro, N. C., solicitor, has been placed before President Truman for appointment as United States District judge for the Eastern district of North Carolina. The recommendation was made by Senators Bailey (D-NC) and Hoey (D-NC), who proposed the Tarboro lawyer as successor to Judge I. M. Meekins who retired in February. Filling the Meekins post has been delayed several times. The first due to the rejection of the judgeship by Comptroller General Lindsay Warren and then by the death of President Roosevelt. American Bombers Raid Formosa SAN FRANCISCO, April 23. —(IP) —Three hundred American bomb ers raided Formosa yesterday, Tok yo radio said today in a broadcast recorded by the Federal Communi cations Commission. Taichu, on the central west coast, bore the brunt of the attack. This would appear to be an unusually heavy attack on the island guard ing the central China coast which has been hit daily for months by Philippines-based bombers. DREW PEARSON SAYS: |U. S. Patrols Reached | Berlin April 13, Reds Demanded Withdrawal By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Here is the inside story behind Gen- j I eral Omar Bradley’s surprise announcement last week that | American armies “would pause temporarily” and that “we ; had advanced to a definite line (on the Elbe river) on which ! it is necessary to pause before starting the next operation.” I rnougn it may get uxxiciax ueiixax | the real fact is that American ad vance patrols on Friday, April 13, | one day after President Roosevelt’s death, were in Potsdam, which is to Berlin what the Bronx is to New York City. The dancing in the j streets of Brussels and the reports in London that something big was going to happen were not prema ture. They were true. But American troops next day withdrew from the Berlin suburbs to the river Elba about 50 miles south. This withdrawal was ordered largely because of a previous agreement with the Russians that they were to occupy Ber lin and because of their insist ence that the agreement be kept. The disagreement with the Rus sians started about four days be fore President Roosevelt died, when Stalin sent him a very sharp note. But the final decision to withdraw from the suburbs of Berlin was made after his death, largely by General Eisenhower. The facts in the situation are See U. K PATROLS Page 3 FOREIGNPOUCY TALKS GO ON Stettinius, Eden, Molotov Enter Second Round Of Discussion WASHINGTON, April 23——Red army troops held a tight grip on one fifth to one fourth of greater Berlin to day and bored in from three sides toward the heart of the blazing capital now blanketed by shellfire and all but sur rounded. Moscow dispatches said red banners fluttered from bat tered and smoking buildings in the capital and that Soviet storm units appeared to be only a few miles from the Wil hel'mstrassc and from Unter Den Linden and Tiergarten in the heart of the city. There was only one way out of Berlin—westward by way of Spandau—and unconfirmed reports said this escape corridor now was narrowed to little more than five miles. to tne soutn other Kussian iorces were within 15 miles or less of a junction with their American allies. The German high command, de claring that "the battle for ihe Reich capital has blazed up in full j fury,” claimed that the railroad, station in Coepeniclc, one of Ber-1 lin's main southeastern suburbs | and 10 miles from the center of the city, had been recaptured. The communique said fighting was raging through Beelitz, Treb btn Teltow and Dahlwitz a strong point southern suburbs within 10 to 24 milesJjjfcf the heart of the capital. The high command claimed that a Russian breach along the Prenzlauer Alice running most due north three miles from the Potsdam Platz had been sealed off and disclosed that a Soviet encircling swing north of the city had reached the Havel river which runs north and south just west of the capital through Spandau and Charlot tenburg, western suburbs. The. Hamburg radio said the Russians were approaching Ora nienburg, big suburb about 7 miles north of greater Berlin. This sta See CITV Page * Infiltrating Japs Recapture Kakazu No Substantial Changes Made In Enemy Lines In 5th Day Of U. S. Push On Okinawa GUAM, April 23.—(£>)—Japanese troops, infiltrating | heavily under cover of darkness, this morning recaptured Kakazu town on western Okinawa. It had been taken by the U. S. 27th division in the invasion campaign which has cost the enemy 11,738 troops since April 1. By A1 Dopking une umcei uescuueu me uiive south as "dam slow and not I cheap.” Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, re porting progress up to 5 p.m. yes terday, the fifth day of the all-cut; American push, said “no substan tial changes had been made in the lines” despite continued attacks \ with thunderous naval, air and ar tillery support. Nimitz reported also the Marine' invasion of two small islets off j Okinawa, another heavy Japanese air raid against American ground positions and shipping at Okina wa in which “one light unit” of the fleet was sunk, an effective Iwo Jima-based Mustang sweep of the enemy’s mainland island erf Honshu and a carrier-plane at tack on the northern Ryukyus. Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, com 1 mander of the 24th Army corps— the 7th, 27th and 96th divisions— I reported 11,738 Japanese killed and 27 taken prisoners since D-day | in southern Okinawa, his zone of action. OTHER CASUALTIES This did not include enemy cas- j ualties on the nine Kerama islands and Ie Shima offshore, captured by the 77th division, or any of the See OKINAWA Page 2 ’o Study Plan lip Of Islands of the 46-nation conference drew near, Senator Vandenberg (R Michi and Commander Harold Stassen, former governor of Min I nesota, predicted it would succeed in its job of establishing a world organization for peace. Both are U. S. delegates and Vandenberg is reportedly in line for the job of representing this country on the conference commis sion which will write the regula tions for the world security coun VOTIN'G PROCEDURE See CONFERENCE Page 2 WORTH MORRIS IS BOND HEAD Will Direct Campaign In Business Section Of Shelby Clyde A. Short, who. as president of the Shelby Chamber of Com merce and Merchants Association, heads the retail division of the seventh war loan drive which will get underway shortly, has ap pointed Worth Morris as comman der-in-chief of this retail division he announced today. Mr. Morris will be assisted by J. Dale Stentz. Mr. Morris is manager of the Charles stores and Mr. Stentz is secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. The retail committee will meet Tuesday morning at, 10 o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce to com plete its organization and lay the groundwork for the intensive drive which is to be made in the uptown section of Shelby. Commander-in-Chief Morris is very hopeful that fine results in the bond drive may be obtained in the business section. He says that the campaign will be pushed to the limit. Mr. Stentz is just back from Ra leigh where he participated in a discussion of methods to be used in the retail campaign by the North Carolina Merchants Association. Germany s Air Losses Heavy NEW YORK. April 13—OP)—'The Moscow radio said today the Ger man air force had massed 1,000 aircraft for the defense of Berlin and that Soviet pilots shot down 411 in air combat in the last four days. The broadcast was record ed by Blue Network monitors.