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WEATHER North Carolina—Cloudy and warm with scattered thundershowers to day and tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and cooler in west. Triu Hhelhy Baily Mär CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 r STATE THEATRE TODAY "THE SIGN OF THE CROSS" Fredric March — Eiissa Landi Claudette Colbert — Charles Laughton VOL. XLIII—99 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, APR. 25, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—be ENCIRCLEMENT OF BERLIN VIRTUALLY COMPLETED Hannover Muenster Hamm •ESSEN MAGDEBURG Dessau Wuppertal ’ \Rcmagen V /Coblenz Poznan POLAND \\EranJi(urt // LEIPZIG // fl*y^<DRESDEN Chemnitz Plau en^jl GERMANY " ^ Karlsbad Wuerzburg ^Mannheim fe^Kar f»ruh* ’ Stuttgart X,,. Nuernberg | A«iWEfl#r* pracue>) *T irseherreuth Pilsen CZECHOSLOVAKIA Bruenn • <y K a r Is r u I IIv Regensburg Ulm1^ .onstance >.'• ^ _ (Friednchshafen // - * Lok* v °<rj dO -y i SWITZERLAND D onuAeJp' Passau* Augsburg ■•rrioM**1"/" ^Saliburg AUSTRIA ITALY Ravenna BOLOGNA- .*» Adriatic Sea *“•% statute miles ILLIED POSITIONS IN THE BATTLE FOR GERMANY—This map shows where American and Russian iroops are near a juncture south of Berlin, and where other U. S. forces are pushing southward toward Munich and the Nazis' "National Redoubt” area. The Russians are fighting closer toward the heart ol Berlin. In Italy, the Allies have reached the Po river.—(AP Wirephoto Map). Hitler’s Berchtesgaden Chalet And Grounds Bombed By RAF CELL PREPARED FORPETAIN French Presg Hurls Invec tive At Aged Hero Of Verdun By RELMAN MORIN PARIS. April 25.—UP)—A cell in I an unnamed fortress near Paris' was prepared today for Marshal Petaln, former idol of Trance, as a precaution against disorders when the aged hero of Verdun is return ed here to stand trial on charges of high treason. The semi-official French press agency reported Petaln and his party crossed the French frontier near Oeneva this morning but a dispatch from Zurich indicated he was still in Switzerland. The Swiss dispatch said he had gone out at 11:30 a. m. for a one-hour stroll on the terrace of the hotel where he was quartered upon his arrival from Germany yesterday. An almost complete news black out has been thrown over details t»f the marshal’s return in offocial See CELL Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 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. THURSDAY 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.—Called meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. at Masonic Temple . for work in second degree. 12,000-Pound Earthquake Bombs Laid On Target Today; Skoda Works Raided LONDON, April 25.—(/P)—RAF Lancasters Today bombed Hitler’s chalet at Berchtesgaden in a possible at FINAL REPORT ON REDCROSS Contributions Total $49, 070.02; 16 Per Cent Over Last Year Contributions to the American Red Cross In Cleveland county amounted to a total of $49,070, an increase of 16 per cent over last year, according to final report made this morning by Mai Spangler, who had charge of the ca.npaign. - The division of rural churches led all others in the total amount given for this cause, the report showed. These churches contributed $19,125.99. Other contribution totals were listed as follows: Business _. $ 9,165.21 Outlying Business_$ 1,302.50 Residential _ $ 1,841.00 Cohools and band_$ 703.16 Lawndale... $ 1,794.35 Manufacturing _ $12,330.31 Colored . $ 2,817.50 Chairman spangler said that he appreciated the fine spirit shown by Cleveland people in responding to this call and he emphasized the unselfish way in which local people have worked in the drive. Congressional Medal Of Honor Approved For Late President WASHINGTON, April 25.—I7P) The house Judiciary committee to day approved legislation authoriz ing President Truman to award posthumously to the late Frank lin Delano Roosevelt the congres sional medal of honor. uji me xucxuei » me. Both the Chalet and heavily' guarded installations on thi grounds in the mountain retreai were bombed. Storm trooper barracks and Hit ler’s Alpine refuge at the top o: Kehlstein mountain five miles fron the Chalet or cottage were among the targets. The attacks were carried out be tween 9 a.m. and 10 am. by twe separate forces of heavy Lancas ters with 12,000-pound earthquake bombs and assorted types of ex plosives. OTHER RAIDS Simultaneously more than 1,05< U. S. heavy bombers flying fron Britain hammered one of the Fue hrer’s private rail lines only 1( miles from Berchtesgaden, and the great Skoda armaments works a Pilsen in Czechoslovakia. Both U. S. 8th Air Force anc RAF fighters escorted the Lan casters in the assault. The firsi announcement from the air min istry reported two bombers miss ing. There was no official suggestlor that the attack was planned spe See HITLER’S Page 2 U. S. Forces Make Gains On Okinawa GUAM, April 25.— (fl>) —U. S. Seventh division infantrymen, seiz ing high ground near the village of Ishin, today threatened the eastern flank of the strongly-for tified Japanese defense wall on southern Okinawa. Captnre of the elevation was the first marked change in the fiery front since the beginning of the all-out attack last Thurs day, when three divisions of Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge’s 24th Army Corps gained up to 800 yards. Since then the fighting has been a slow, bloody and methodical joo of digging the Japanese from caves, blockhouses and pillboxes in their elaborate interlocking defense belt which extends four miles south to the capital city of Naha. ISLANDS TAKEN Marines of Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger’s Third Amphibious Corps, who overran the northern three fourths of Okinawa with little op position, landed yesterday on three more offshore islands, Yagachi, Heanza and Kouri. virtually com pleting the American clean-up of islets around Okinawa. Yagachi and Kouri are north ol the Motobu peninsula, which juts off the northwestern coast of Oki nawa. Heanza is off the Katchin peninsula, on the west coast. Only on Yagachi was any opposition en countered. This was feeble and quickly dissipated. WORTHLESS Unlike the larger islands of Ie and the Keramas, these small is lands are worthless as such but must be occupied to prevent Ja panese Okinawa fugitives fron reaching them. • Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ com munique today reported continued heavy fighting along the entire front. Big guns of battleships, cruisers and destroyers poured hundreds of tons of shells into the enemy defenses, sealing off caves and destroying emplacements. Nimitz, after a personal inspec tion of the island, said the ene my’s defenses on southern Okin awa, where the bulk of the Nip ponese garrison of 60,000 or more has concentrated, appeared to u* “as strong, and perhaps stronger, than any we have tackled before.” Representatives Of 46 Nations Assemble Today To Lay Plans For Peace | Opening session of United Nations conference on inter national organization. Place: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. Time: 4:30 P. M., Pacific War Time (7:30 P. M., East ern War Time). Speakers: Secretary Stettinius, President Truman (by radio from Washington), Governor Earl Warren of Cali fornia, Mayor Roger D. Lapham of San Francisco. —With one chair for Poland dra-1 matically empty, 46 victorious na tions of World War II assemble in their first historic political con ference today to try to blueprint machinery for preventing World War IJI. This is the day that mil lions of people over the earth have waited and worked for through the years of fighting to the verge of victory. It dawned bright with expres sions of hope for lasting peace, yet darkened by one cloud — the Anglo-American dispute with Russia over Poland. Barring some dramatic move by Premier Marshal Stalin of Rus sia, that dispute on Polish rep resentation at the conference is as dead-locked today as ever—split ting the ranks of the Allied pow ers in the moment they strive for unity. Otherwise there is evidence of close hig-power cooperation which members of the American group interpret to mean that Russia is determined to help the conference succeed and is already making concessions for that purpose. CITY ABUSTLE This conference city abustle with activity. The American del egation scheduled a pre-confer ence caucus at 9:30 a.m. (Pacific War Time) with Secretary of State Stettinius. Russian members met with Foreign Commissar Molotov, who arrived Tuesday afternoon, and British delegates had a con ference with Foreign Minister An thony Eden. There was some expectation that the Big-Three foreign Ministers themselves would get See CONFERENCE Page 2 TORNADO HITS GR1FFEGA. j Storm Leaves Four Known Dead, 20 Injured, Mill Unroofed GRIFFIN, GA„ April 25—(XP)— A tornado dipped into a textile community a mile north of here last night, unroofed a mill where hundreds were at work, and left a known toll of four dead. About 20 persons were injured, a fourth of them seriously. The mill, Dundee No. 1, manufactur ers towels. There were about 50 employes working in the weave room on the top floor. Only one person in the weave room, a wo man, was killed. The smokestack blew down, smashed the boiler, and a negro was scalded to death. Two small children were killed when a house in the mill village was demolished. A number of other houses in the village were : demolished or damaged. Residents recalled that a tor- , nado hit Rushton mill here April 25, 1908, killing several people. Thunder and wind storms were general over the state last night, and hail fell at many places. HOUSE TALKS ! DRAFT LAW Considers Restriction On Use Of 18-Year-Old Draftees By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, April 25. —(AP)-, \ senate-approved but army-op Dosed restriction on the use of 18 /ear-old draftees today faced a louse which last month declined ;ven to consider the proposal. Approved yesterday by a 50 to 25 /ote as an amendment to house oassed legislation extending the iraft law beyond its present Mav 15 expiration date, the restriction would prohibit assignment of 18 year-old inducted men to combat iuty Until they have had at least six months of military training. It would not apply to Navy assign-1 ments to combat ships for train ing. rwo COURSES Two courses of action are before ;he house: 1. The chamber may accept the senate amendment and send the egislation to the White House, or 2. It may reject it and send the measure to a senate-house con ference committee to work out a :ompromise. Chairman May (D-Kyl of the military committee, who will han ile the bill in the house, said he was uncertain which course he would elect to pursue. Although many house members favored a similar restriction when ;he chamber passed the bill last month, the military committee and :he house itself sidetracked the is sue in order to expedite the legis ation. HOLDHEALTH CONFERENCE Members of the Cleveland coun ;y board of health said that as a| •esult of a two-hour conference | leld yesterday afternoon at thei lealth department offices between, ,he board, Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, Cleveland health officer, and Dr. H. E. Fox, representing the state lealth department, some misun ierstandings with relation to the iuties and functions of the local lealth unit and of the county ward of health, had been cleared ip. D. D. Lattimore, vice chairman )f the Cleveland county board of ;ommissioners presided in the ab sence of Glee Bridges, chairman, who was unable to be present. Other members present were Dr. H. C. rhompson, Dr. Ben H. Kendall, Mayor Harry S. Woodson, and J. Horace Grigg. It was explained that the purpose >f the meeting was to get a clearer inderstanding on the part of the members of the board of health on he duties and functions of the See HOLD Page 2 THIRD ARMY 82 MILES FROM HITLERHIDEOUT Three American Armies Rolling Through Foot hills Of Alps GOOD TANK COUNTRY By Austin Bealmear PARIS, April 25.—(d3)— rhe American Third Army reached the Danube and mov 2d within 82 miles of Berch tesgaden today while two )ther armies, assaulting Hit ler’s final Alpine redoubt, crashed forward in a great naneuver to encircle Munich, greatest of south German cities. British in the north storm ed Bremen while armies in ;he center awaited a junction vith the Russians. “The American Seventh and French First armies are exploiting ;heir Danube bridgeheads in irives to the Swiss and Austrian oorders with the encirclement of Munich shaping up steadily,” (^P) Correspondent A. I. Goldberg re oorted from Gen. Jacob L. Dev os’ Sixth army group headquar ;ers. The vaguely defined redoubt in ;he south perhaps has been invad »d already by Devers’ troops which outflanked Lake Constance, its western limit. The Tiger (Tenth armored) division of the Seventh army captured UDeruaiznetm, tw miles southwest of the Munich and 97 from the Brenner Pass into Italy. Other Seventh army troops were but 49 miles from Munich—capital of the Nazi party and third largest city in Germany—on the north. All three armies were rolling with unchecked power through foothills of the Alps through ter rain 2,000 or more feet high. “KEY TO CONTROL” Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third army reached Regen, 32 miles from Austria, and 123 miles from Rus sian lines in the St. Polten area west of Vienna. Both armies are In the Danube valley* good tank See THIRD ARMY Page 2 SUPERFORTS BOMB TOKYO Hitachi Aircraft' Engine Works Hit; 31 Jap Planes Shot Down GUAM, April 25. — (JP)— Ameri can Superfortresses, flying with out fighter cover, blasted the Hita chi aircraft engines work near Tok /o yesterday, shooting down 31 of 15 to 80 Japanese interceptors which came out to meet them. Radio Tokyo reported, following ,his latest blow at Japanese air craft production, that five of Tok yo’s 35 wards were virtually de stroyed and another 13 were heav ly damaged. Four of the 100 to 150 Superforts were lost. Flight crewmen on the latest blow it the Nipponese home island said chat the Hitachi plant was ‘blown all to pieces,” and that “big fires and great clouds of smoke” were seen in the target area. A radio Tokyo domestic broad cast admitted that a large Tokyo ndustrial area was “mostly in ruins is a result of fires” from American .ncendiary raids between “the be ginning of March and the middle of April.” Soviets Reach Elbe Northwest Of Dresden Along 22-Mile Front LONDON, April 25.—(dP)—Soviet troops have reache the Elbe river on a 22-mile front northwest of Dresden, an all but completed encirclement of Berlin, slicing the laj : escape railline to the west, the German high command ai nounced today. Moscow announced Monday that Russians had reache the Elbe Monday northwest of Dresden. At last report Americans stood on the Mulde river, east of Leipzig, ar 90 milpc from + Vip TP.1V*p +Vipvp i--—--—-— Tlie broadcast German commun ique said the Russians reached the Elbe between Riesa, 25 miles north west of Dresden, and Torgu, an other 22 miles farther northwest. Half of Berlin was held by So viet troops beating down German barricades of stone and iron, knock ing back German tanks and fight ing Nazis who came out of subways behind Russian lines. The city was described as a wreckage of stone jungles roaring with bitter battle. The first White Russian army cut nine miles southward west of Berlin to Ketzin, 14, miles due west of the capital, all but encircling the city, the German communique said. This push by Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s troops, carrying nine miles south of Nauen captured yes terday, cut the Germans’ last rail road of escape or reinforcement westward through Spandau. The Germans said the first Uk j rainian army had reached Babels | berg, fashionable suburb between I Potsdam and Berlin. Babelsberg is 11 1-2 miles east and slightly south of Ketzin. There the Soviets snip ! ped the last link south westward. Other troops of the first Ukrain an army were striking northwa Tom a point southwest of the caf ,al toward a junction with Zhukc \ny German outlet from Berlin w inder Soviet artillery fire. The Germans said Russians hi ;ing into Berlin from the Sou rad advanced to a line from Babel )erg to Zehlendorf to Neukoelln. , ast reports, Red Army troops we vithin a mile of the heart of Be in and Unter Den Linden. The two assault armies alrea iad united in the southeastern se ion of the city, pocketing Germi torces to the southeast. Russian guns were methodical -educing the huge city block Block. ISOLATION NEAR Complete isolation of the capit yas near. The German defende .■oung and old, fought stubborn ind the ci»y, once one of the worl( greatest, was reduced to a heap olasted masonry and ashes. The first White Russian arn driving from the north and t first Ukrainian army, advanci: from the south, joined forces ye terday in southeastern Berlin, ct) ting off large forces of Germans See SOVIETS Page S Eighth, Fifth Army Forces Across Po American Troops Won Foothold Beyond The Streai Monday In Face Of Heavy Fire ROME, April 25.—(JP)—Both the British Eighth ar ' U. S. Fifth Armies sent troops across the Po river in pursu of disorganized German forces reeling back toward Italy norcnern Dorner. The crack 10th American moun tain division won the first Allied foothold beyond the barrier stream Monday morning in the face of what a communique called a “re markable fierce” concentration of enemy fire. Units of the Eighth army also spanned the stream to the east lat er. Exactly where the Allied forces won the crossings was not disclos ed as the Allied command clamped on a security blackout to keep as much information as possible from the enemy. It was known, however, that the U. S. 10th division, racing forward 55 miles in two days, crossed the river at a point where it is about 200 yards wide with gradually slop ing shores. The Germans, protect ed by earthworks, poured a hail of lead into the allied assault boats, j but the 10th quickly secured a bridgehead. MOPPING UP In the Po valley northwest of Bologna, other Fifth army ele ments mopped up extensive German units by-passed in the first advance, which overran Modena. Everywhere along the long, twist ing battle line from Ferrara on the right flank to the port of La Spezia j on the Ligurian coast, Allied troops were reported moving swiftly ahead through shattered enemy defenses. Ferrara fell yesterday to the Eighth army. The Fifth won La Spezia. Up to noofi yesterday, 40,000 pris oners were taken. The Fifth army accounted for 25,000. Germans Warn Swiss Dam Is To Be Blasted NEW YORK, April 25. —(/PI— The Germans “have warned the: Swiss that they are blasting a big Rhine dam upstream from Basel and that a tidal wave in the river can be expected,” the British radio | reported today in a broadcast rec- ! orded bv CBS. Elements of the French First army are operating I alone the Rhine in closing upon Germany pocketed in the black forest and Allied supply lines down stream might also be affected by floodwaty*. Yanks Prepare For Final Push To Take Bagui Bv FRED HAMPSON MANILA, April 25. —(/P)— Ami icans consolidated their Bagi positions today for a final push h the ruined summer capital of t Philippines while far to the sou on Mindanao Island, other Yai pressed on towards the Japan stronghold of Davao. Maj. Gen. Percy W. Clarkso 33rd division held commanding j sitions in the pine-covered hills the northwest, west and southw of mile-high Baguio. One colun moving down highway nine fr the northwest, was little more tt a mile from the city center. ROAD REPAIRED A section of the road blown by the defending Japanese was 1 ing repaired by engineers for i movement of heavy equipment Gen. Douglas MacArthur repo ed in today's communique tl “the enemy has as set been una to concentrate his forces in ell tive resistance.” Some 50,000 Ji anese troops and thousands of p war Nipponese settlers are belie to be on Mindanao. New Philippine-based plane ra hit Japanese shipping and sh installations at Formosa, the £ gon naval base in French In China. Swatow and Hainan, Chi and the Dutch East Indies. N Japanese freighters and a num of smaller craft were sunk or < maged. In the central Philippines, American division unit under Col. Louis F. Franco of Chicago, cut off Japanese remnants flee north from Cebu City by a la ing near Danao, nine miles no of Cebu City. ? FOFR VETERANS OFFICES WA SHINGTON—(ffWFour ve ans administration offices will s be established in North Carol: a I Asheville, Gastonia. Ro Mount and Wilmington, Sen. H announced last night.
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