• Hordes Of German Wehrmacht Troops Surrendering Along Lengthy Russian Front
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HERE IS THE TRUTH
VOL. XLIII—107
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1945
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NAZI HOLDINGS—D-DAY AND TODAY—The black areas on this map
Indicate remaining pockets of German fighting forces In Europe today,
with boxes giving rough estimates of enemy strength in the various areas.
No estimate Is available on the number of troops In the German pocket
in Latvia. The shaded areas Indicate territory controlled by Germans
June 6, 1944, when the Allies invaded northern France.—(AP Wirephoto
Map),
Capture Of Germany
• Virtually Complete
Disintegration So Swift There May Be No Need For
Formal Surrender
By The Associated Press
LONDON, May 2.—Capture of fortress Germany was
virtually complete today and a torrent of rumors of the im
minence of general capitulation followed swiftly the an
nouncement of Nazi Production Minister Albert Speer that
the German nation “is defeated.”
SGT. MARTIN
SILVER STAR
TO SGT. MARTIN
Nephew Of Mr. And Mrs.
D. L. Putnam Wins
Medal
Sgt. Eugene C. Martin, nephew
of D. L. Putnam of route 2, Shel
by, has recently been awarded the
Silver Star medal for gallantry In
action, while serving with the 91st
Infantry Division in the Fifth
Army somewhere in Italy.
The citation that accompanied
the medal stated: "For gallantry m
action on September 17, 1944, near
Casa Nova, Italy. When a numeri
cally superior enemy force engag
ed the leading elements of nis
company in a fierce fire fight, Sgt.
Martin, a machine gunner, quickly
moved his weapon into position and
opened fire. Before the enemy
could take cover, four were killed
and two injured.
“The enemy immediately opened
fire from another flank. Although
enemy fire was striking the ground
less than a foot from him, Sgt.
Martin quickly moved his machine
gun to another position and, with
an accurate and intense stream of
fire, forced the Germans to aban
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nants thrashed about hopelessly
In that part of Germany proper
still in Nazi hands, which consist
ed of narrowing pockets with a
total area no bigger than the state
of Pennsylvania. Within that part
of the Reich disintegration was
reported so swift and the general
situation so chaotic that there
might be no need to negotiate a
formal surrender.
What fighting there was on
this 332nd day since the Nor
mandy invasion—it was be
coming increasingly difficult to
call it a war—was mostly on
the soil of Austria, Czechoslo
vakia and Holland, and in the
waters off the east coast of
Denmark, where Allied bomb
ers slaughtered Nazi troops
trying to flee by all manner of
overcrowded craft.
Prime Minister Churchill was
absent from Commons' yesterday,
and the British Press association
speculated whether “Mr. Churchill
might have gone to Germany to
be at the surrender ceremony or
to some meeting with President
Truman.” The Paris radio said
surrender of the entire German
army was imminent and that Chur
chill would be In the Reich for the
"final surrender.”
Germany’s new Fuehrer, Grand
See CAPTURE Page 2
Clothes Drive Nets
20,000 Pounds Here
The old clothes drive netted
twenty thousand pounds or more in
Shelby and sorters and packers are
r eded to classify the gar-ients and
j ;k them for shipment to the
needy people of European countries.
Mrs. R. H. Rogers, chairman, Is
highly pleased with the success of
the drive. Those wh > failed to make
a contribution are asked to .nd
any donation they have thi. week
to the Rogers building on East
Marlon s^eet and all who car are
asked to volunteer as sorters and
packers In order that the shipment
might go forward this week.
Casar Section
Has Hail Storm
A considerable sprinkling of
hall In the Casar section yester
day afternoon did practically no
damage to the crops, it was learn
ed this morning. The hail was
fine, according to Sheriff Cline
who was caught in the downpour.
U. S. RAG FLIES
OVER 363
STRIKING MINES
Seized Last Night; Order
ed To Return To Work
By Monday
TALKS DEADLOCKED
WASHINGTON, May 4.—
(/P)—The American flag flew
over 363 Pennsylvania an
thracite companies today as
the government took over and
ordered striking miners to re
turn to work by Monday.
Acting under presidential direc
tion, Interior Secretary Ickes seiz
ed the operations last night. At
the same time he deputized the
management of each as federal op
erators to keep the workings open
while negotiations for a new con
tract continue in New York. The
wage talks have been deadlocked
since they began a month ago.
John L. Lewis and his
United Mine Workers have not
yet acceded to a War Labor
Board directive calling for ex
tension of the old contract. Its
expiration Monday night pre
cipitated the strike. The oper
ators consented, but asked that
the extension be limited to 30
days.
A few hours before seizing all
the anthracite properties, Ickes took
over three bituminous mines of the
Carter Coal company in West Vir
gina. The solid fuels administra
tion Ickes heads said strikes at
the three mines resulted from “the
company’s failure to sign and ac
cept the new wage contract exe
cuted by the remainder of the soft
coal industry.”
Two hundred and thirty-six
other bituminous pits have been
held by the government as a re
sult of strikes during the soft coal
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B-M ATTACK
JAPHOMRAND
GUAM. May 4—(IP)—Fifty to 100
B-20s today made their 14th neu
tralizing attack in 38 days on Jap
anese homeland ( airfields from
which the enemy Could stage raids
on American forces in the Ryu
kyus.
The demolition bombing, made
in daylight with visibility good,
was the eighth in 11 days on Kyu
shu airfields and also included
Matsuyama airfield—hit for the
first time—on Shikoku island.
Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay, com
mander of the. Marianas-based
21st bomber command, reported
results were good at all targets.
Kytishu objectives were Omura in
West Oita prefecture and Seaki
on the eastern shore.
SIX FIELDS HIT
Six Kyushu fields were bombed
yesterday, without loss of any Su
perforts, after a three-day lull
which followed six successive days
of neutralizing bombing of Kyu
shu’s many airdromes.
The Superforts today encounter
ed moderate fighter opposition, in
cluding a few Nipponese pilots who
definitely pressed their attacks,
said Lt. Col. Beverly H. Warren,
(3106 Dodge 8t.) Omaha, Neb.,
deputy commander of the strike.
Fighters stayed, with Lt. Bert H.
Ruef’s Superfort throughout its
bomb run, said the Chattanooga,
Tenn., (3911 East 37th St.) offi
cer.
Radio Tokyo reported today’s
raid but, departing from policy,
made no claims of Superforts
downed. Neither did it report on
damage. .
Nazis Consider They
Have Performed Duty,
Fate Now In Own Hands
By Eddy Gilmore
MOSCOW, May 4.—(J-P)—Unit after unit of the German
wehrmacht surrendered today along the still lengthy Russian
front as weary Nazi troops anticipated a general capitula
tion, and dispatches from Berlin said the prisoner toll there
stood at about 145,000 this morning with hundreds of Ger
mans giving up hourly.
Front dispatches said Nazi officers indicated they had
“performed their duty” to Adolf Hitler and that their fates
were now in their own hands.
VON KLEIST
SURRENDERS
Man Who Engineered
1940 Breakthrough In
France Gives Up
WITH THE 26TH INFANTRY
DIVISION, May 4 —{£>)— Field
Marshal Paul Ludwig von Kleist,
the man who engineered the 1940
breakthrough in France, has sur
rendered himself to the 26th In
fantry division of the U. S. Third
army, it was announced today.
Von Kleist, commander of the
Wehrtifftcht’s "A” army group, was
taken April 25 at Mitterfels, but
announcement of his surrender
was delayed.
Asked his views on the fate
ef Hitler, he replied:
“I know only what I read in
the newspapers.”
Von Kleist’s wife was at his side
when he surrendered. Also with
him was his aide, Capt. von Seyd
litr.
The German marshal—the e
quivalent in rank of an American
five-star general—was found by a
couple of infantry privates with
his 25 handbags already packed.
At first he refused to surrender.
A gun pointed at his head changed
his mind.
LIKED U. S. EARF
While he was talking to the Am
ericans, Von Kleist sent his wife
into the kitchen to brew some
tea. She returned with the news
that there was no water, and any
way, there had been no tea in the
house for days. The marshal sat
isfied himself with a piece of white
bread produced by the American
privates, and ate heartily, while
he marveled that enlisted men
should have such fare.
Von Kleist handed over his ba
ton and surrendered, in order that
“I might be spared the embarrass
ment of being captured later in
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FLASH, TREMOR
IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA,. May 4.— (/P) —
Army, Navy and Federal Bureau
of Investigation authorities said
they could explain nothing about
the mysterious bright flash of
light followed by a tremor which
shook buildings in Philadelphia and
vicinity early this morning.
Calls swamped newspaper of
fices who had checked all possible
sources for Information. Several
persons reported they had been
thrown from beds. There were no
authentic reports of damage in the
city.
First rumors indicated there
might be an explosion in Mary
land. Other reports said the source
of the flash was in Chester or
Delaware counties, Pa., or in south
ern New Jersey, No reports were
verified by any authorities.
The Germans were being round
ed up in such large numbers—that
it was difficult to get an accurate
count and it will probably be sev
eral days before complete figures
will be issued for current cap
tures.
In Berlin, Russian forces were
working day and night to restore
the German capital’s gas, water,
light and communications sys
tems to working order.
There was still no further
word concerning Adolf Hitler,
his propaganda minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels or other
high-placed Nazis. Dispatches
from Berlin did not Indicate
whether the bodies of Hitler
and Goebbels, who reportedly
killed themselves, had been re
covered from the rubble of the
city.
*1 Hie Russian people were still a
vidly discussing the whereabouts
of Hitler and Goebbels. A ma
jority seemed convinced the pair
had either fled Germany or were
now fleeing.
SOVIET SPECIALISTS
The Russians hurried engineers
and technicians of every category
to the German capital in an effort
to get the German people to help
themselves. Soviet specialists were
being landed at Tempelhof air
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Hopes ror Cut
In Draft Quotas
Given Set-Back
WASHINGTON, May 4.— (/P) —
Congressional hopes for a sharp
cut in army inductions immediate
ly after V-E day received a severe
Jolt today from Gen. George C.
Marshall.
Not only will the army be
unable to meet replacement de
mands for May and June un
der the present program, the
chief of staff told Chairman
May (D-Ky) of the house mili
tary committee, but the cur
rent shortage is expected to be
increased “by some 50,000 men
over the next three months.”
Many congressmen have felt that
as soon as Germany falls, army
and navy manpower needs can be
filled by taking only 18-year-olds.
This would reduce sharply the cur
rent induction rate of around 120,
000 men a month.
NO REDUCTION
Within the last week, Marshall
wrote May that “General Eisen
hower has informed me that his
losses are currently averaging 2,
000 men daily and he anticipates
no reduction in his replacement
requirements for June.”
The letter did not explain the
losses.
“While the success of our armies
in Europe has recently exceeded
our expectations,” Marshall con
tinued, “it is too early to assume
that the replacement flow to Eu
rope can be cut off. General Eis
See HOPES Page 2
THE REV. R. M. HAUSS
HAUSSGIVES
UP PASTORATE
Accepts Position As Field
Representative In
Church League
Rev. R. M. Hauss, for the past
five years pastor of the Shelby cir
cuit of Methodist churches will re
linquish that pastorate June 1 to
take up work as field representa
tive and educational promotional
director of the Allied Church
league, it was announced today by
L. A. Martin, of Lexington, execu
tive director of that organization.
The Allied Church League was
organized for the abolition of bev
erage alcohol and the promotion j
of temperance. It is supported and
promoted by eleven of the leading
denominations in North Carolina.
Rev. Mr. Hauss will have the
whole state as his territory but will
operate mainly in western North
Carolina. He will maintain his
headquarters in Shelby where he
will still keep his home. His suc
cessor on the Shelby circuit will
be named within the next few
days by Bishop Clare Purcell, who
has approved the appointment of
Rev. Mr. Hauss to his new post.
23 YEARS
Rev. Mr. Hauss, a graduate of
Duke university, has been con
nected with the Western North
Carolina conference for the past
23 years. For foU^ years he was
head of the Bible’and history de
partment at Rutherford college
and has held pastorates for the
past 18 years at Badin, Winston
See HAUS| Page
2
Enemy Vehicles In
Flight To Denmark
Destroyed By Airmen
TERS ALLIED EXPEDITION
ARY FORCE, Paris, May 4.—
(A*;—Same 1,200 enemy vehicles,
among: the thousands in head
long: fligiht toward Denmark
from the north German border
area, were destroyed or dam
aged in Allied air attacks yes
terday, supreme headquarters
announced today.
. Nine enemy ships were sunk
and more than 100 others dam
aged, some of them left in
flames, by rocket-firing fight
ers and fighterbombers, as the
Germans attempted to evacuate
troops in all types of craft in
the Kiel and Luebeck bay
areas, the communique said.
Many enemy aircraft were
destroyed or damaged on the
ground in attacks on airfields
by other fighterbombers, and
SUPREME HEADQUAR
11 enemy
down.
were shot
Big Four Near Agreement On Changes
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4—<£■)—
The Big-Four ware reported near
j agreement today on major chang
es In the Dumbarton Oaks plan
for a world organization designed
to keep peace.
This accord was regarded by of
ficial* of the 46 United Nations in
conference here as a long step
toward preventing deadlocks even
after Foreign Commissar Molotov
sets out for Moscow, as he is now
expected to do next week.
Secretary of State Stettin
ius has told friends he is ex
tremely pleased with the pro
1
gresa made thus far in his talks
about amending: the Dumbar
ton Oaks charter with Molo
tov, Foreign Secretary Eden of
Britain and Foreign Minister
Soong of China.
There was no evidence that the
Big-Four intend to favor any a
mendments which would alter the
basic Dumbarton Oaks idea of
concentrating in a security coun
cil authority to use armed forces
to smack down trouble-making na
tions of the future.
But there are signs that the
council may be permitted to rec
ognize regional defense pacts
which automatically would ^ pro
duce help for an attacked nation
while the council was going
through the process of deciding on
ionger-range measures.
Stettinius held last night the
latest of a series of conferences
with Molotov, Eden and Soong,
going over amendments which the
Big Four have in mind.
One official said that “very en
couraging progress” had been made
and another meeting would be
held today. Three members of the
senate naval committee—Byrd tD
Va.), Eastland (D-Miss) and To
bey (R-NH)—along with Senator
Capehart (R-Ind) presented per
sonally at the Big-Four meeting
their proposals for a trusteeship
system which would allow the
United States to retain control of
strategic islands in the Pacific.
Earlier, Commander Harold E.
Stassen of the United States dele
gation met with representatives of
the British, French, Chinese and
Russian delegations to seek a for
mula on territorial trusteeship. He
See BIG FOUR Page 2
Enemy Gives Up
In North Reich,
Holland, Denmark
PARIS, May 4.— (AP)—Gen. Eisenhower
announced today that all enemy forces in Hol
land and northwest Germany and Denmark, in
cluding Helgoland and the Friesian Islands,
have surrendered, effective at 8 A. M. (2 A. M.
E.W.T.) tomorrow. The surrender was made to
Marshal Montgomery's twenty-first army group.
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR
PARIS, May 4.—(fP)—Germans continued their chaotic
flight tonight from Denmark, whose capitulation may come
at any hour according to reports filtering from Copenhagen
and Scandinavia.
Far to the south, the seventh army joined the fifth in
the Brenner Pass 20 miles south of captured Innsbruck, com
pleting a 700-mile circuit from Italy through France, Ger
many and Austria and back into Italy. Salzburg surrender
ed. The third army besieged Linz.
Supreme headquarters said the British second army had
halted its swift drive abruptly just short of the Kiel canal,
possibly to await the surrender of Nazis garrisoned in Den
mark. Quite in contrast, the German radio at Oslo asserted
that the British had captured Flensburg (Pop.: 62,000) with
out a fight and swept northward. The Kiel canal is 38 miles
from Denmark and Flensburg, north of that major enemy
waterway, is barely four miles from the frontier. The Ger
mans declared both Flensburg and Kiel open cities.
At 4 p.m., supreme neaaquarters
not only denied reports that Den
mark had been entered, but de
clared that the Allies had not even
crossed the Kiel Canal. The abrubt
British halt went without official
explanation.
Accounts quite in conflict with
Supreme headquarters came in
profusion from Scandinavia, how
ever.
The free Danish press service at
Stockholm said the British at 3:30
p.m. were only a few miles from
the Danish border, having started
at dawn from the city of Schleswig
25 miles away. Earlier Swedish re
ports had asserted that Denmark
had been invaded.
Adding to the confusion, the
British had to advance past 500,
000 prisoners who surrendered
in the north in two days. The
German army was cut up so
completely that the foe proba
bly had only the vaguest sort
of idea where his units and
where the British were.
The Germans scotched earlier
Oslo radio reports that hostilities
had ceased in western Holland.
Fighting still continues except in
the truce area of that kingdom
through which the Canadian First
army is feeding Dutch civilians,
German broadcasts said toward
dusk.
The Kiel canal is 38 miles south
of the Danish peninsula. Earlier
See ENEMY Page 2
WHERE IS HITLER?
Chancellery Of Third
Reich Is In Flames
Telegrapher's Ribbons Tell Stories Of Last Hours Of
Berlin; Leaders Ran Out
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, May 4.—CP)—The chancellery of the Third
Reich in the Wilmhelmstrasse has failed to yield the body of
Hitler and now the building is burning, a Red Star dispatch
from the German capital said today.
The disclosure that the chancellery where Hitler had
his offices was ablaze indicated that it might be difficult
ever to prove that the fuehrer committed suicide along with
Propaganda Minister Goebbels, as the Germans report.
me statement mat me uuuico
were not found in the building,
however, indicated that it had been
searched, and strengthened the
theory that if Hitler did not kill
himself it was not in the chancel
lery.
Soviet correspondents reported
how they, with Soviet soldiers, en
tered the building and found dead
German machinegunners with iron
crosses.
“Hitler’s chancellery is hot,”
said a Red Star reporter. “The
fire is getting closer. The floor*
is burning and at any moment
will fall. In the smoke and
See CHANCELLERY Page 2
More War Captives
Are Liberated
MOSCOW, May 4.—(&)—Tile U.
S. military mission said today from
2,000 to 3,000 Allied war prisoners
were liberated near Neubranden
burg (Stalag 2-A> by Marshal Kon
statin Rokossovsky’s drive to the
Baltic and that it understood many
more were freed at Camp Barth
(Stalag-Luft 1) near Stralsund.
The mission said it believed many
Americans were at both camps,
but it had no official word on them
yet.
Single British
Airman Entered
Rangoon On Foot
CALCUTTA, May 4 — <>)— The
initial British entry into Rangoon.
Burmese capital which Allied
troops have been fighting to re
gain since 1942, was effected by a
single British airman on foot, it
was disclosed today.
A formal report disclosed that
RAP Wing Cmdr. A. E. Saunders
made a one-man capture of Ming
ladon airdrome and entered Ran
goon by himself Wednesday, re
porting back that the way was
clear for the forces which entered
yesterday and now are mopping
up.
Saunders was flying over the a
rea when he noted the lack of any
kind of activity aground and sud
denly decided to land on Mingal
don airdrome. He learned no Jap
anese had been on the field for
aays. He camouflaged his plane j
there, and made his way 30 miles
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