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WEATHER Cloudy and mild in west and cen tral, cloudy and warmer in east today, light rain over north this morning. Tonight and Wednesday, partly cloudy and warmer. « The « Hhelhy Baily Hin-r CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 r — SPECIAL NEWSREEL — Final Tribute To FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TODAY - TUESDAY At The STATE THEATRE VOL. XLIII-98 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—«c ALLIES FROM EASTERN, WESTERN FRONTS DRIVING BACK TO FRANCE? Petain Crosses Swiss Border From Germany; Wants To Stand Trial I ■ .? By Thomas Hawkins BERN, April 24.—(/P)—Aged Marshal Petain entered Switzerland from Germany today after declaring himself willing to stand trial in France. And King Leopold of Bel gium, who surrendered to the Germans in 1940, was ex pected to reach the Swiss frontier some time during the day. I'lerie urcu tuuauuiBiiuu ist of the Vichy regime, appeared at the frontier of nearby Liech tenstein, but was refused entry. Laval is under a death sentence imposed by a Marseille court which convicted him in Absentia last fall on a charge of having had "in ’telligence with the enemy." Petain, who observed his 89th H 'iav today, was allowed to en ter Switzerland after asking and k ...mg official permission to cross tlie neutral country into France to surrender himself to French au thorities. The arrival of Petain and the expectation that King Leo pold would reach Switzerland during the day indicated that the collapsing Nazi regime had permitted its potential hostages to leave—possibly through some understanding with the Allied governments concerned. It was known that the Allied governments had been informed in advance of Petaln's coming and • presumably gave their consent. Petain arrived at the Swiss fron tier town of Saint Margarethan by automobile in a nine-car convoy. I He was in the first car with his i wife. The aged marshal did not leave his automobile during the frontier ! deliberations, which required about an hour, IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES Dressed in civilian clothes with a grey topcoat, he seemed tired. However, he waved to the crowd as he drove away to Saint Callen, where he and his party presently are housed. One car of German SS troop er?, presumably escorting the mar shal, turned back at the frontier. A daughter and son-in-law of the See PETAIN Page 2 twofronts COMMUNICATE Field Radio Conversations Hint At Juncture Today WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY IN GERMANY, April 24—(JP)—'The Russians may effect a juncture I today with eagerly waiting Ameri can troops, a Soviet tankman hint ed in field radio conversations with doughboys on this front yester day. (Supreme headquarters in Paris has said that first announcement of a Juncture will be made by the chiefs of state in Washington, London and Moscow). Staff Sgt. Alexander J. Balter, Russian-borh American tankman from Pittsburgh, Pa., who speaks both Russian and German, heard the Soviet soldier say: “Cheerful greetings to our j American comrades. God be with you. Greetings and health to our Allied friends. Wait where you are. Hold your patience. We will contact you at your present location.” Then he hinted that the junc ture might take place in the next 24 hours. He gave no indication of his position, which would have been valuable information for the listening and obviously chagrined Germans, who tried to jam the re ception. 35-MILE RANGE Field radios' used for the con versations have a maximum range of only 30 to 35 miles. “We are getting closer to you continually,” the Russian voice said during contacts between noon and 6 p.m. “More than that cannot be said now. We Russians are not sleeping and we are doing everything in our power to reach you.” At one point the Germans broke into the conversations with a feminine recording of “Ach du ) Bee TWO FRONTS Page 2 MARSHAL PETAIN ADJUSTMENTS ON TAXES SEEN Doughton Hopes For Some Reductions Soon After V-E Day WASHINGTON. April 24. — (&)— Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the house ways and means committee expressed hope today of some "tax adjyistments right after V-E day.” Doughton talked taxes with re porters after a White House call on President Truman, but said his discussion with the President did not relate to that subject or to other legislation. “It was just a personal, courtesy call," the 81- year-old North Caro linian told newsmen. Doughton said a joint congres sional committee on postwar taxa tion was getting together all the information possible upon which to base tax adjustments for individuals and business “when the time comes that we can do something.” "I don't know how soon or how much of an adjustment can be made.” he added. "The treasury staff and the congress are working together and in harmony. There is a possibility of some adjustments right after V-E day.” Doughton, one of the few men in Washington official life who arises earlier than the President, entered the White House at 9:15 a.m. for what was scheduled as a 9:30 ap pointment. Pearson To Cover Frisco Conference Drew Pearson’s article for release tomorrow will be on the United Nations Conference which Mr. Pearson is covering in San Francisco. Next Move In Scrag Over Poland Is Up To Stalin QAM BPAMf!TSm Anrll OJ_tB*\ , »•) —The next move in the Big Three row over Poland appears squarely up to Marshal Stalin. Anxious delegates looked toward Moscow today for whatever chance there is of Big-Three unity on this fateful issue prior to the United Nations conference opening late tomorrow. Evidence to this effect came from Washington as negotia tions among Secretary of State Stettinlus. British For eign Minister Eden and For eign Conunissor Molotov end Members of the United States delegation as wfll as other dele gates, whose number jumps with almost every train and plane, eagerln awaited the principals for information as to how serious the Big-Three split over Poland has become. Many here are inclined to regard it the real key to suc sess of plans for a world organi zation designed to keep the peace. The situation at the moment is that the Big Three have arranged See NEXT Page 2 DANUBE FORCED AT 3 PLACES, ULM OVERRUN Third Army 105 Miles From Berchtesgoden; 7th Near Munich NO JUNCTION NEWS By James M. Long PARIS, April 24.—(A5)— The three-army assault on the other ramparts of the German Alpine redoubt burst across the Danube at a third place today, overran the traf fic center of Ulm and carried to within 105 miles of Hit ler’s hideout at Berchtes gaden. An American-Russian junc tion was expected momentar ily in the center, splitting Germany. (The French press agency, quot ing “Moscow reports reaching Lon don,” said American and Russian troops had joined at Eilenburg, nine miles northeast of Leipzig. (Although there were indica tions early today that the formal announcement of the linkup—to be made from Wash ington, London and Moscow— was imminent, noon, eastern war time, passed without indi cation as to when it would come.) Troops of the American Third army pressed to within 93 miles of the Austrian strongholds of Linz and Salzburg, eastern gateways to the southern redoubt. The Seventh army closed down-,the last 50 miles toward Munich and the French First army advanced close to the Austrian frontier and reduced three large pockets behind the lines. Ulm, second Surttemberg city of 60,000. is on the Danube. It was the scene of one of Napoleon’s most complete victories. It fell af ter a ten-mile overnight advance. Lt. Gen. George Patton’s power ful Third army made additional gains of 18 miles in the Regens burg area. Captured German documents said See DANUBE Page * Kiel Harbor Shipping Hit By Mosquitos LONDON, \prtl 24. —(A3)— Ship ping in Kiel harbor was attacked twice last night by RAF Mosquitos, using the same quick-hitting tac tics that baffled Berlin’s defenses for a year. It was the fourth at tack on Kiel in three nights. Other Mosquito squadrons bomb ed railway yards at Rendsburg, west of Kiel on the main line from southern Denmark, and shipping in the harbor of Travemuende on Luebeck Bay in the Baltic. No planes were lost in any of these attacks. Two German air craft were shot down by night fighters on patrol north of Berlin. GERMAN PORTS German shipping around the Frisian Islands and Estuaries lead ing to North German ports also was attacked last night by RAF pilots, who have sunk more than 150 ships and barges in the last seven days. Southwest of Wangerooge, the most easterly of the Frisian Islands, a group of Typhoons set two 3,000 ton steamers afire and damaged 9 smaller vessels and three tugs. Australian and New Zealand Beaufighter pilots dived between 3,000-foot cliffs in Sogne Fjord in Norway and sank a German freigh ter yesterday. J Iliili; OLD GLORY FLIES ON NAZI SHRINE—Carrying two battle-worn American flags, soldiers of the U. S. 45th Division mount the tiers of the Lultpold Arena in Nuernberg, Germany, where Adolf Hitler formerly rallied his Nazi party followers by the thousands for his reviews of his army and the Hitler Youth members.—(AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto). Yanks Make Little Progress On Okinawa Jap Line Holds Intact In Center Of Southern Front; Slight Gains Along Coast GUAM, April 24.—(TP)—Flame-throwing 24th corps infantrymen edged down the southern coasts of Okinawa yesterday, press dispatches from the battlefront reported today, but Japanese artillery held the center of the line in r* Vi lr I ----—---- —-——_ The 27th division made small gains on the west coast. Th? 7th took two more east coast crags on the painful approach to Hill 178 where enemy replacement crews put Nipponese machine-guns into action again almost as fast as they were knocked out. Japanese batteries hurled 650 rounds of artillery fire into the 96th division in the heavily forti fied center of the island. The intensive Yank artillery bar rage of the last two days lessened. But the offensive still relied strong ly on flamethrowers and heavy ar tillery firing at close range. Third amphibious corps Mar ines indicated they had virtual ly completed control of the northern end of the island, 325 miles from^fapan. They released ships which had been furnish ing artillery support. NO PROGRESS Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reporting on the six-day old south ern Okinawa drive toward the cap ital of Naha said tersely in his communique today: "No further information is avail able on the progress of the fight ing in Southern Okinawa.” His only elaboration was to state See YANKS Page 2 GILES TO HEAD ARMY AIR FORCE IN PACIFIC AREA WASHINGTON, April 24. —(i^)— Appointment of Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles as commanding general of the Army Air Force in the Paci fic ocean area was announced to day by the War Department. General Giles will be replaced as deputy commander of the army air forces and chief of the air staff by Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, who has been commander of the Mediter ranean Allied Air Force since De cember, 1943. General Giles replaces Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, reported miss ing on a flight in the Pacific sev eral weeks ago. MaJ. Gen. W. H. Hale, deputy commander in the Pacific air forces, has been acting as commanding general in that area. Lt. Gen. John K. Cannon, who has been commanding general of the 12th airforce in the Mediterra nean, will replace General Eaker as leader of the Mediterranean Al lied Air Force. FIFTH, EIGHTH ARMIES AT PO British In Outskirts Of Ferrar, Airfields There Captured ROME, April 24—(£>)—'The Fifth and Eighth armies spread out in strength along the southern banks of the Po river today as a partial news blackout covered the latest Allied gains in northern Italy. The Eighth army broke into the outskirts of Ferrara last night af ter plunging through disorganized and fleeing German forces to that road hub city 30 miles north and slightly east of Bologna. The Fer rara airfield was captured. Official reports said the Nazis were attempting to “escape across the Po on rafts, in boats, and by other means.” The exact areas overrun in the swift rush to the Po were with held from publication to prevent the enemy from ascertaining where Allied spearheads had thrust a cross the escape routes. VEHICLES DESTROYED Allied warplanes have destroyed or damaged at least 4,000 enemy vehicles in the Po valley in the past two days. In the advance to the Ferrara area, the Eighth army’s tanks See FIFTH Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Lions club meets , at Hotel Charles. 7:00 p.m.—Rotary club di rectors meet at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.ijv—C. A. P. members meet at armory 8:00 p.m.—W.O.W. meeting at Woman’s club house. WEDNESDAY 7:15 p.m.—Sunday school officers and teachers of First Baptist church meet at the church. 7:45 p.m.—Presbyterian pray er meeting at the church. 8:00 pm.—Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. 8:00 p.m—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. NEUTRALS MUST NOT GIVE NAZIS SANCTUARY U. S. Proposes To Go Into Neutral Nations After War Criminals NAZIS MAKE OFFER WASHINGTON, April 24. —(JP)—A warning to neutral countries against offei’ing sanctuary to perpetrators of Nazi war atrocities came from the house foreign af fairs committee today. The committee approved for floor consideration a reso lution making it United Stat es policy to go into neutral countries, regardless of treat ies, to pursue and capture enemy war criminals. The resolution, introduced by Rep. King (D-Calif> must be ap proved by both branches of Con gress. It does not have the force of law but serves merely as a con gressional expression to the gov ernment. The committee killed a resolu tion by Rep. Celler (D-NY) which would have requested the Presi dent to appoint a commission to work in conjunction with the United Nations war crimes com mission. The King legislation, how ever, expresses as “the sense of the Congress” that the /United States shall cooperate witji other Allies in the ar rdrt, prosecution and punish ment of War criminals. As demands were voiced on cap itol hill for a harsh Nazi peace, the Germans themselves read a solemn warning that ruthless pursuit and punishment await those who mis treat Allied prisoners. GERMAN OFFER At the same time the United States announced it had accepted a German offer to leave American prisoners of war in camps where they may be liberated by advancing Allied armies. The warning against further a trocities and those already com mitted was showered upon the rapidly shrinking Reich in the form of leaflets bearing the fac simile signatures of President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin. Any person, they said, “of whatsoever service or rank in whose charge Allied prisoners of war, jlnternees or deported citizens have been placed” will be held individually re See NEUTRALS Page 2 Marvin Matheson s Death Sentence Is Commuted To ‘Life’ RALEIGH, April 34—UP)—Marvin L. Matheson, 16. was snatched from the shadow of the state's gas chamber where he was scheduled to die Friday by executive order of Governor Cherry after a review of the case yesterday. Matheson was convicted in Au gust, 1944, in Alexander county superior court of first degree mur der. Evidence showed that he kill ed Police Chief D. A. Millsaps of Taylorsville. The governor said he did not feel the state should execute "the child,’’ stating that he cannot be held in the same degree of re sponsibility as an adult. The gov ernor said he still felt the state should be protected from him how ever, and commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Panic? Spreads In Berlin, Nazis iPisrht Among ’Selves By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, April 24. -(/Pi Panic and demoralization are spreading in the center -of Berlin, wit’ fighting taking place among the Nazi defenders, eye-witness ac counts reaching Moscow said today. “It’s hell in there,” a German civilian was quoted by the corres pondent for Izvestia. “Shells are falling all over the place and there is fighting among the officers and men.” The civilian declared a division al commander shot his driver when the latter suggested capitulation. Red army and Polish troops i have pushed deep through and captured enough streets and avenues to set up a traffic con trol system, front advances said. Red army girls, in their custom ary role of traffic directors, were standing at numerous corner in the suburbs directing the flow of trucks —some of American make—moving in and out of the city. The correspondent for Red Star told of battling down the avenues leading to the Wilhelmstrasse. and of white flags futtering from win See PANIC Page 2 Reds Tighten Circle Of Steel About Berlin, 'Third Of City Taken i By Richard Kasishke LONDON, April* 24.—(/P)—Russian troops have tight ened their encirclement of Berlin—already more than one ; third in Soviet hands—and in a swift dash halfway across i central Austria have swept to within 89 miles of Berchtes i gaden, Hitler’s mountain retreat, the German high com mand declared today. The surge through Austria carried to Eisenerz, 57 miles from Linz and 85 miles from Salzburg, the broadcast j bulletin said. Americans of the Third Army are 93 miles | from those two cities, and 110 from Berchtesgaden in. their ■ southward slice toward the Nazis’ Alpine redoubt. i Bv German account. Russians in KABACAN TAKEN! BY DOUGHBOYS | — Move Cuts Japanese Forc es On Mindanao Half In Two _ MANILA. April 24—UPi—Maj.Gen. R. B. Woodruff's 24th Infantry di vision on southern Mindanao has seized the key road junction of Ka bacan, almost halfway to Davao, cutting Japanese forces in half, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported today. Hailing the swift advance of the Eighth army troops in the Central! Philippines, MacArthur commend ed the Americal, 24th, 40th and 41st divisions: “This is a model of what a light but aggressive command c&n ac complish in rapid exploitation!” Enemy dead in the Philippines increased to 334,111 with the ad dition of 10,896 killed during the past week, MacArthur said. Prison ers numbered 353. American losses for the same week were 584 killed, 2,168 wound ed and three missing. Seizure of Kabacan put U. S. troops nearly halfway in their drive toward the capital city of Davao, which the Japanese are expected to defend fiercely. Associated Press Correspondent Richard Bergholz reported from Eighth army headquarters that op position was light and that patrols were operating well beyond Ka bacan both to the north and south east toward Digos on Davao Gulf. Bergholz said it appeared that the Japanese were pulling back into the hills east and north of Kabacan and into the Davao area. On Luzon, the Yanks approach ing Baguio from the northwest got within 3,700 yards of the city cen ter, meeting only light opposition. i .____ Superforts Resume Attacks On Tokyo GUAM, April 24. —f/Pi— A fleet of 100 to 150 Superfortresses, hit ting the Tokyo area in strength for the first time in more than a week, bombed the big Hitachi engine plant this morning i Tokyo timei in the campaign to knock out Japan's aircraft production. The Marianas-based B-29s, bomb ing visually in good weather from medium altitude, hit other plants in the Tachikawa industrial sec tion just west of Tokyo. The Hita chi plant was the prime target to day for the first tim*. Tokyo reported airfields and other military installations were targets of the Superfortresses, which were overhead for 30 min utes starting at 8:50 am. (Tokyo time—7:50 p.m., Monday, Eastern ^War time.) Austria were but 155 airline miles from a linkup with the U. S. Third army. Two powerful Soviet armies were cutting into the heart of Berlin in savage street battles. The German high com mand said the Russian en circling drive around the cap ital on the southwest had reached “areas southeast of Brandenburg, and east of Pots dam,’’ Berlin's great western suburb. Brandenburg is 25 miles west of Berlin, South of the crumbling citadel of Nazidom, other Soviet forces drew near American troops wait ing for an epochal merging of the eastern and western fronts. The German communique, broadcast by the Hamburg radio, declared Germans still ■were resisting on the northern and eastern edges of Berlin. More than a third of Berlin was in Russian hands. German re ports indicated that fighting was swirling through nearly one-half of the wrecked city last night. Southwest of Berlin, now al most encircled, Red army tanks drew up to the Elbe river at a point within 20 miles of American positions. REDUCED TO RUBBLE Berlin was being reduced to rub ble, building by building, in sav age street fighting. A Moscow communique announ ced that Red army tanks had burst across the belt railroad into the inner city and captured the Metropolitan gas works, only eight blocks from Alexander Platz, a major commercial center. The Germans, who said Hit ler was on hand directing the battle personally announced in a broadcast that the Russian forces were fighting in Fried rich's park and near Koenig's gate, a mile and one-half from the intersection of Unter Den Linden and Friedrichstrasse. See REDS Page 2 Baby Edition To Appear In Two Sections The annual Baby Edition of Star will appear in two parts in stead of one, as was originally announced. There will be one big ten-page section on Saturday, April 28, and another Baby section of equal size will appear on Monday, April 30. When these two sections of The Star are placed together, subscribers will have a big 20-page Baby Edition, the largest ever pub lished in this county. Original plans were to have a Baby section similar to that of last year with the babies who had never seen their fathers featured on the front. Those babies will still oe featured on the front page of the section, but half of the number will appear on Saturday and the remaining half on Monday. BIG RESPONSE These changes have been made because of the overwhelming re sponse to The Star’s call for baby pictures. With over twice as many pictures submitted as were receiv ed last year, one section will not take care of them. The Star did not want to disappoint a single parent. It planned these two b\g editions so that every picture sub mitted could appear. If the baby's picture does not appear on Satur day, parents will know it will be published in Monday's edition. All subscribers are reminded to save these sections in order to have both parts of the big Baby Edition.
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