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WEATHER North Carolina—Clear, cooler on coast and continued cool in in terior today and tonight. Satur day fair, becoming a little warmer. Tslxe Hhelhy Baily l thr - State Theater Today - CHESTER MORRIS VICTOR McLAGLEN ‘Rough. Tough and Ready, CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 I TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—101 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c > Berlin’s Inner Defense Cracking Under Pressure By Richard Kasishke LONDON, April 27.—(/P)—Berlin’s inner defense core appeared cracking today under a massive Soviet squeeze operation. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov’s forces in the northwest sector surged forward three miles during the night, break ing into the workers’ district of Boabit and the fringes of the famed Tiergarten in the center of the flaming capital. The First Russian army's advance I from industrial Siemanstadt, cap-! tured yesterday, was disclosed in front dispatches broadcast by the Moscow radio. It was complemented by Rains in ■ the south by Marshal Ivan S. Konev's first Ukrainian army. I which was believed to' have com pleted the occupation of Berlins main airport at Tempelhof. A moabit the Russians were in the area of the biggest prison in Berlin. The district adjoins the tiergarten on the northwest and German reports Indicated that bat tles already were swirling over that great park. The Germans now hold only a third of Berlin. , While the most spectacular overnight gains were scored by the north-south nutcracker on the Keich capital the Germans reported that terrific pressure also was being exerted by the Russians in the southwest, not ably at Gruenwaldc. Soviet dispatches described Berlin as a wilderness of crumbling stone swept by hot wnids from the flames of burning buildings and, heavily charged with brick and cement See BERLIN S Page 2 > Fifth Army Within 35 Miles Of'Milan Entire Front In Upheaval As Allied Armies Attempt To Cut Nazis Off From Redoubt By Maurice Moran W ROME, April 27.—(/P)—Troops of the*U. S. Fifth Army smashed to within 35 miles or less of Milan today as the entire Italian front surged toward a sealoff of the Nazis’ Alpine redoubt on the south. f On ♦ ho Tionrian eooet in ihn PETAIN REACHES PRISON CELL Wife Chooses To Remain With Him; Marshal In Good Spirits PARIS. April 27—</P>— A severe ly furnished room in the port of Montrouge received Marshal Pe tain at dawn today when he was returned to Paris to stand trial on a charge of treason. His wife and two nurses accom panied the 89-year-old former I Vichy chief of state. Petaln’s first request when he entered • the room, virtually a cell, was for a picture of Gen. de Gaulle to hang on the wall. Police assigned to guard him gaped with surprise, but obtained the photograph from a young lieutenant. The grim gray fort is a police establishment on the outskirts of Pans. It has both a barrack for gendarmes and a school where re cruits are trained. The marshal will be held there until after the trial. ARMED GUARDS His wife chose to remain with him. They were placed in a chamber about the size of an or dinary hotel room, furnished with two beds, two chairs and a desk. Petain entered France after crossing Switzerland from Ger many. Fifteen armed guards were sta tioned in the corridor outside of Marshal Petain’s room and on the staircase leading up from the ground floor. The grounds of the fort were heavily guarded and pa troled. More than 20 gendarmes flanked the giant wooden gates at the medieval outer wall* of the port. Petain appeared to be in excel lent health despite his years and See PETAIN Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 8:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. at Masonic Temple. west, said a "Free Milan" radio re ported recorded in London, a swift Allied advance penetrated Genoa, i big north Italian port where partisaas previously had been re ported unofficially In control after driving out the German garri son), Swiss dispatches cited mounting Indications that the Nazis were abandoning Mussolini’s blackshirt troops to their fate and with drawing their troops into southern Austria for the death stand. At captured Verona, where the Americans broke through the Ger man Adige river line, the Allies were about 100 miles from the Brenner Pass to Austria, now vir tually blocked off for the Ger mans remaining in northern Italy. The Fifth was some 180 miles from the western Allied vanguards on the north side of the Alps. (French forces north of the Alps were but 78 miles from the Bren ner Pass.) While the British Eighty army consolidated positions along the the southern banks of the Adige, See FIFTH Page 2 CZECH SECTOR IS VIRTUALLY SEALED OFF • ■ • . '• •... • ' • ' . ; j Troops Establish Radio Contact With Russians West Of Vienna AUGSBURGASKS TRUCE WITH U. S. THIRD ARMY, April 27.—(/P)—Regensburg fell to Gen. Patton’s troops today. PARIS, April 27.—(A5)— Gen. Patton’s Third Army invaded Austria and estab lished radio contact with the Russians west of Vienna to day in a swift advance nearly sealing off Czechoslovakia and shutting the front door to Hitler’s Alpine redoubt,. The French closed to within 31 miles of Munich and 78 of the Brenner Pass, toward which the rampaging American Fifth army in Italy was striking from the south. The Seventh army ap proached Munich from 35 miles northwest <jf that cradle of the Nazi party. At last reaorts, many hours be hind tha„acncm» the Third army and the Russians W?§r Of Vienna were 85 miles apart, but UP) Cor respondent Edward D. Ball mes saged: "The two armies are in radio contact and a physical junction appears likely soon.” The ordinary range of Russian radio tanks is 25 miles. See CZECH Page 2 TO COMBAT ABSENTEEISM In an effort to combat absen teeism in Industry a group of busi ness and civic leaders of Shelby, meeting yesterday afternoon under the sponsorship of the U. S. em ployment service and the war man power commission at the employ ment office formed a permanent organization which will begin func tioning immediately. Doris Bolt was named chairman of the new unit which has as yet not been named, flick LeGrand was named co-chairman. Howard Rollins was named finance chair man. Lindsay Dail was named pub licity chairman, Dale Stentz was named chairman of exhibits and John Gaston, manager of the local employment and wgr manpower office was appointed general ad viser. This organization will attempt to impress upon employees the end to which the products they help make wfll be put in the war effort. Ab senteeism is no longer an individual problem but a community prob lem, it was emphasized. The meeting was presided over by John Gaston. Lt. Virgil Weathers Served As Beachmaster At Okinawa ON THE BEACHHEAD OF RED BEACH TWO, Okinawa—(Delay ed)—A Navy beachmaster’s Job is hard to describe—not for security reasons but because it involves so much. Lieutenant Virgil S. Weath ers, USNR, of Shelby, N. C., f"\n testify to that, after serving as a beachmaster both at Normandy an. Okinawa. “Our beach here was relatively easy to take over,” Lieutenant Weathers said. “We had no oppo sition coming in on the initial land ing, and there were no obstacles like the land mines, rough surf and barbed ;Wlre we had to cope with In Normandy. I figure the terrific shore bombardment must have taken care of most of our opposition. All the shore defense had been de molished and the Japs had been driven back into the hills.” Lieutenant Weathers was grate ful for that boon, which somewhat eased his complicated task. The beachmaster and his crew came ashore almost immediately See LT. VIRGIL Page 2 LT. WEATHERS EDEN TALKS TO U. S. DELEGATES AT CONFERENCE—Great Britain’s Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden \ (right) turns to talk to U. S. delegates at the United Nations Security conference in San Francisco. Left to right: Rep. Sol Bloom (D-NY), Rep. C. A. Eaton (R-NJ), Commander Harold Stassen, Dean Virginia Gildersleeve. At far right beside Eden is Clement Attlee, British delegate—(AP Wirephoto). Security Conference Threatened With Series Of Big Power JCrises' Steering committee meets at 10:30 A. M. Pacific War Time (1:30 P. M., E.W.T.) to try to break deadlock over | conference organization. Full conference session meets at 3:30 P. M. Pacific War 1 Time (6:30 P. M., E.W.T.) to hear further addresses by! chairmen of delegations. By John M. Hightower. Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.—(/P)—Russian determina tion to wield decisive, perhaps dominant influence in the creation of world peace machinery today threatened the United Nations conference with a series of big-power crises. XlUL LCHl^CiO axiu. nun *w***it5>j I as well as lingering hopes of a com- . promise went into today’s second j round of the battle over selection! of a conference chairman. But even if this could be settled with out more dispute, delegates gener ally took a pessimistic view. The fight broke out in a closed meeting of the steering committee yesterday, when Fo reign Commissar Molotov block ed the election of Secretary of State Stettinius as chairman. The whole conference of 46 nations has been thrown off its timetable by the chairman ship outbreak. Today's 10:30 a.m. (Pacific war time) session was originally sche duled for another round of speech making. Instead, the steering com mittee was called into a second ex traordinary—and secret—session to try to break the deadlock over the chairmanship and organize the conference for work. Stettinius had a two-hour session last night with the American dele gation on the chairmanship dis pute. Talk spread, among delegates that neither the United States nor Britain would yield further to Russian demands for setting up a rotating system for all important chairmanships. The British and Americans want ed to make Stettinius president of the conference and chairman ut the key steering and executive committees. Molotov balked and Eden proposed that Stettinius be given the committee chairman ships. But he proposed also that the presidency—the job of presid ing over the full conference—be rotated among the Big Four, Stet tinius, Molotov, Eden and Foreign Minister Soong of China. Molotov’s rejection of this deadlocked the conference. Shortly before midnight last . night Stettinius met with sev eral members of the Russian delegation, trying to reach an agreement assuring success of today’s efforts to organize the conference. In an earlier talk with military and naval advisers, a formula was worked out for setting up interna tional trusteeships for ex-enemy dependent territories. This provided that strategic base See CONFERENCE Page 2 YANKS AGAIN INVADE NEGROS Americans Hit Island At Dumaguette, Japs De stroy City MANILA, April 27. — (JP)— Amer ican amphibious forces have invad 3d Negros in the second assault on that Philippines island since last March 29. Shortly after the first troops hit the beach at Dumaguete, on the southern tip of the island, the Jap anese — apparently prepared for such an eventuality—systematically segan destroying the city. Explosions rocked Dumaguete as assault forces began the invasion yesterday, and a smoke pall rose from the beautiful seaport city. Dumaguete had been damaged 3arly in the war but had been re auilt extensively by the Filipinos. Associated Press Correspondent Richard Bergholz, who flew over she city four hours after the inva sion began, reported it still looked 'fairly intact,” and that a Catho lic church in the heart of the city ‘loomed clearly through the smoke af nearby fires.” FIRST INVASION Negros was invaded first on the northwest coast March 29, and three fays later swiftly-advancing troops of the 40th division captured Baco lod, a provincial capital. American forces struck so rapidly that the Japanese had no time to carry out See YANKS Page 2 Bulletin WASHINGTON, April 27— (A1)—Legislation extending the draft law went to the White House today after the house approved by unanimous voice a senate restriction on com bat use of 18-year-old induc tees. The restriction, written into the legislation Tuesday by the senate, prohibits the use of draftees under 19 in combat until they have had at least six months of training. ALLIES PIERCE OKINAWA LINE High Ground Taken Yes terday Gives Invaders Good Position By AI, HOPKINS GUAM, April 27. —-(/Pi— Closely upported by relentless warship ihelling, Maj. Gen. James L. 3radley’s 98th division infantrymen vere through the first line of Jap inese defenses on southern Okin iwa today and hammering a wedge leeper into tough secondary posi ions. New high ground in the center )f the line, captured by the 96th /esterday, gave the doughboys com nand of all dominating terrain on :he outer rim of the thick belt of fortifications defending Naha, Okinawa’s capital. The 400-foot height was stormed after the Japanese made a general withdrawal under heavy artillery shelling. Resistance was surpris ingly light. REDUCING POCKET On the east coast, meantime. Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold's seventh livision sent patrols to the north ern approaches of the Yonabaru lirstrip. On the west coast Maj. Gen. George W. Griner’s 27th di vision. moving toward the Machi aato airstrip, was reducing a pocket around Gukuma village. Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, com mander of the 24th army corps, termed yesterday’s progress “a good Say's work all along the line.” The elevation captured by the 36th division furnished the Y-nks an excellent observation site. The sizable town of Shuri is about Dne mile south of this point of deepest penetration. Enemy artillery, mortar and small arms fire still was heavy. Annies Met At Torgau On Elbe, Thursday 2 P. M. WASHINGTON, April 27.—(/P)—The juncture of Anglo-American and Soviet armies in the heart of Hitler’s reich, cutting Germany in two, was triumphantly announc ed at the White House today. President Truman gave out the news in a statement released simultaneously in Washington, Moscow and London at a pre-arranged hour, 12 noon, Eastern War Time. The juncture of the armed might of the big three oc curred at 2 P. M. Eastern War Time yesterday at Torgau, a town on the Elbe river 75 miles south of Berlin. Patrols had made contact a day earlier. From military sources, it was learned that the Am erican unit involved in the meeting was the 69th division, under command of Maj. Gen. Emil F. Reinhardt. The operation, said the joint statement of the great powers, “means, first, that the last faint, desperate hope of Hitler and his gangster government has been extin guished.” The President emphasized that the juncture does not mean “the hour of final victory in Europe,” but with brist ling optimism he asserted that the hour for which the United Nations “have toiled and prayed so long.” now “draws near,” KESSELRING’S TRAIN SEIZED Marshal Believed To Be In Almost Surrounded Regensburg U. S. 3RD ARMY IN AUSTRIA. April 26—(Delayed* —(/Pi— Field Marshal Albert Kesselring’s priv ate train has been captured in Cham near the Czechoslovak fron tier and the commander of South Germany was reported today in virtually surrounded Regensburg, under guns of Gen. Patton’s Third army. The officer in charge of the 15 car train said it was enroute to Regensburg to bring out Kessel ring. He said he was not certain whether the marshal still was there. The Americans captured 5C Messerschmitts on the big aircraft See KESSELRING'S Page 2 Moscow Says Goering Has Fled From Reich LONDON, April 27—t/P)—A Ger man announcement that Rei-Vhs marshal Hermann Georing hac signed as chief of the now-impo tent German air force because o] “an acute heart condition’’ was followed today by a Moscow re port that he had fled by air to ar unknown destination. The Moscow radio asserted th( portly Reichsmarshal — who on« boasted that the Allies could nev er bomb Berlin—was said to hav< taken with him his wife and loo> valued at $20,000,000. The Rus sians said the Germans doubtles had proclaimed Goering’s resigna tion to hide the fact of his sud den disappearance. Cutbacks In War Production Have Already Been Begun WASHINGTON, April 27—OP)— V-E day is at hand, so far as cut backs in war production are con cerned. The long-awaited day mdy prove to be a “V-E month" or longer, however, depending on the stub bornness of the Nazis' continued resistance. But the end is so certain, the War Production board re vealed in its monthly muni tions report, that the army annd air forces, already have started curbing ^some arma ment programs to the output needed for Japan alone. And more cuts are coming. If Hitler's Reich dies in the lingering death row indicated WPB said la-st night, the shiit from two-front to one-front war ! fare may be made without seriou: ! disruption in labor or industry j since many of the cutbacks wil i have been made before the Euro pean victory finally is proclaimed SOME PRODUCTION Chairman J. A. Krug in a sepa ! rate statement Indicated tha ! some shackles soon would b I struck from civilian goods produc ! tion. He said WPB was prepare! to make “appropriate” relaxation | in its industrial controls as plants j labor and materials are release! ; from war work. But he emphasized that “no re taxation of WPB controls wil! b made that will jeopardize war pro See CUTBACKS Page 2 n. inuu^ui/ tu me clients ' of his delegation at San Francis co to work out a postwar inter national security organization from the United Nations nucleus, the President asserted: "The junction of our forces at this moment signalizes to ourselv es and to the world that the col laboration of our nations in the cause of peace and freedom is an effective collaboration which can surmount the greatest difficulties of the most extensive campaign in military history and succeed. "Nations which can plan and | fight together shoulder to shoul | der in the face of such obstacles to distance and of language and of communications as we have overcome, can live together and can work together in the common labor of the organization of the world for peace.” The President said that as a re sult of the meeting, "the enemy See ARMIES Page 2 HAWKINS NAMED | DRAFT LEADER Robert Lawson Hawkins was named leader of a group of 44 se ! lectees who left here this morning for Fort Bragg for final induction I into the armed services. Every draftee who was summoned re ported, one of the few times there ! has been a unanimous response ! Those who left were: Forest Elmer Hunt. Leon Boyce Blackwell, sr. Alton Nanney, jr. Carver Rea Rippy. Billie Junior Wilson. Lawrence Elrod Grigg. Carrol Lattimore Spurling Clarence Reid Tolleson. Odell Thrift. Jack Odell Curry. Grady Burgess Whitener. John Samuel Blanton, jr. Cecil Ross Jenkins. Boh Leonidus Blanton. ! Howard Lee Greene. Thomas Poster, jr. Charles Odell Pendleton. Julius Banks Cashion. Clay Paris Tessneer. J. C. Hastings. William Dewey Foster. Robert Gene Blanton. •j William Franklin Shull, i! J. Z. Ledford. ,1 William Ralph Dixon. 1! Bill Justice. James Sanders LeGette, jr. . I John Carl Smith. Hal Manuel Sweezy. Venecia Young Buford Davis. William Columbus Thrift. . Roy Lee Bradshaw. Charles Coolidge Bingham, i Marvin Turner, j Willie Gordon Mosteller. j James Elbert Maloney, i David Lester Poston, jr. Robert Lawson Hawkins. William Howard Jones. , Daniel Borders Allen. Billy Hamrick Davis. Johnie Leonard Dearer. Ben Everette Weathers. i
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