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WEATHER North Carolina — Partly cloudy and mild today followed by fair and cool again tonight. Sunday, fair and warmer. The Hhelhy Bailtj Htstr STATE THEATRE TODAY "SONG OF THE SARONG" NAZI MURDER CAMP First actual newsreel pictures of atrocities in Nazi murder camps, helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy. HERE IS THE TRUTH CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—108 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c . GAIN 10 MILES AGAINST HARD FIGHUNGNAZIS Russians Smash Toward Olmuetz Along An 85 Mile Front DRIVE FOR PRAGUE LONDON, May 5.—(JP)— Rod army forces liberated all of Slovakia yesterday and the nazi high command said Sov iet armor had launched a new drive west of Vienna, spear ing toward a junction with American troops which would cut off the Austrian redoubt from Czechoslovakia. Russian troops smashed forward In powerful 10-mlle Rains against bitter German resistance in the Nazi Czechoslovakian redoubt and staffed a biff tank battle near Ol muetz (Olomouc), Moravian war production center. The entire province of Slo vakia was freed of German troops by Marshal Rodion V. Malinovsky’s Second and Gen. Andrei I. Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian armies, which rolled _ into eastern Moravia in prep P aration for a drive toward Pracwe, Csechoolovak capital. The combined armies were ■mashing toward Olmuetz along I an 85-mile front east of the Mo- j ravia river valley in a push to I throw back the Germans* last big salient on the eastern front. Eighteen miles to the south, where the German-controlled Prague radio said that a big tank battle was raging, troops of the Second Ukrainian army lost and then regained Krenovice against violent German opposition. AIMED AT PRAGUE The Prague radio asserted the Russians had launched a new drive northwest of Vienna evidently atm-1 ed at Prague. 108 miles from the nearest Russian spearheads on the [ southeast. The Germans also stated that Prague was threatened from the north by troops of Marshal Ivan 8. Konev's First Ukrainian army, reported attacking along the Elbe near Meissen, six miles northeast of Dresden. Another German account said Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhtn's Third Ukrainian army had launch ed a new blow westward from St. Poelten, where Soviet troops were 60 miles east of Linz. The Germans also said that troops of the Third Ukrainian army were striking for Graz from See GAIN Page 2 1 GERMAN SHIPS HRE ON DANES Many Killed When Dan- i ish Patriots Seek To Disarm Nazis COPENHAGEN, May 5. —(A5)— i German warships in Copenhagen’s harbor opened lire with machine gun*, antiaircraft guns and cannon on several sectors of the city today and sporadic clashes broke out when Danish patriots sought to dis arm the Nazis. The German cruiser Prinz Eu gep and Nuernberg resisted the patriots’ efforts to disarm sailors aboard the ships, and many per sons were killed or wounded. NIGHT CLASHES At least 20 more persons were killed in the night throughout the city when the Patriots entered German bararcks to disarm the German barracks to disarm the i Danish Nazis in the streets. i German officials in the telephone \ and telegraph offices threatened to 1 blow up the building this morning. But the idea was abandoned when ' Danish personnel walked out, dis- < rupting service for a few hours. I On the whole the German troops < appeared to have withdrawn to 1 their barracks in accordance with the terms of capitulation yester day to Marshal Montgomery, but the arrival of Allied troops was eagerly waited as a quieting factor. GERMAN’ TROOPS PREPARE TO LEAVE DENMARK—German soldiers stand beside packed war gear in Copenhagen, Denmark, awaiting transportation out of the country. Note the pillbox and barbed wire in the background. Molotov Said Seeking Sanction From Stalin Big Four In Agreement On All But Two Of Amend mendments To Dumbarton Plan By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 5.—(/P)—Foreign Commissar Molotov was believed seeking instructions from Premier Stalin today ort two key changes in the Dumbarton Oaks \v oriel becuriry plan. With these two exceptions — on provisions for reviewing interna ional relations and fitting region il defense arrangements into the proposed world security council— he United States, Russia, China md Britain were reported in full iccord on 15 or 20 amendments to he Dumbarton plan. This plan was worked out in 3ig Four meetings at Washington ast year as the basis for a world jeace-keeping organization. Molotov was reported to have agreed in principle to the review and regional security proposals, but asked 24 hours from last night to reach a fi nal decision. American officials, elated over this degree of Big Four unity, hoped that full Russian concurrence would be forthcoming before midnight. If it is not. Russia may have iltemative proposals on these joints to submit to the United Na ions conference. iVILL EXPLAIN Secretary of State Stettinius called a news conference for to lay (9:30 a.m.. Pacific War Time) o explain what the whole set of iroposals is about and how, as the ponsors claim, they would streng hen and give flexibility to the jroposed world organization in its nain task of building a secure >eace. The Big Four agreement on so nany points appeared to elimi See MOLOTOV Page 2 JAPANESE HOLD AT TARAKAN Americans At Davao On Mindanao Meeting Lit tle Resistance MANILA, May 5—(/P)—Burrow ing Japanese troops who survived a murderous artillery barrage held battle-wise Australians to moder ate gains Thursday at Tarakan, Borneo oil center. However, an American column slashed through Davao city, a pre-war Nipponese settlement on Mindanao in the Southern Philippines, without much of a fight. Covered by guns of the U. S. Seventh fleet and by planes of the 13th U. 8. Air force and the Australian Air force, Aus tralian ground troops seized the military barracks in Tara kan city, headquarters here announced. Field dispatches, however, said they were stop ped when they tried to take a hill overlooking the town. Spencer Davis, Associated Press correspondent on Tarakan, re ported the Aussies broke into the western portion of the town after some of the most bitter lighting See JAPANESE Page 2 THE WAR TODAY: No Time For Unrestricted Rejoicing; Hard Task Ahead By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer VrE Day, despite the fact that It s arriving as an anti-climax, still epresents one of the most impor ant moments in the lives of mil ions of folk. It means the end of casualties vhich have continued even in the losing stages of hostilities. It •rings countless thousands of homes loser to the glad time when their (oys will come back. V-E Day indeed means great thanksgiving and rejoicing — and who would try to dampen that? The consensus of Amer ica seems to be, however, that the occasion shouldn’t be one of unrestricted celebration, be cause of the unfinished tasks before us. It’s well that we recognize our work isn't done, but there seems to be a tendency to underestimate its extent. To many people, the sole remaining job is that of com pleting the defeat of Japan—al ready so handsomely begun — and that’s a mistaken idea which should be put right. V-E Day in the last war—Arm See NO TIME Page 2 - MINERSSTAND BY DECISION Determined Not To Re turn To Work Until New Contract Signed WILKES-BARRE, PA., May 5 —(AP>—“No contract, no work" ap peared to be the miners’ answer today to Interior Secretary Ickes’ announcement that work whistles will blow Monday morning in mines now under government control. * ‘‘The members of our union are determined not to return to work until a new agree ment has been signed,” said Felix Tomashefsky, acting president of the Glen Alden Coal company loval. “ ‘No contract, no work’ Is the way they feel about it.” Anthracite negotiations in the wage dispute which has tied up hard coal production were dead locked in New York over the is sue of $1.50 per day for under ground travel time. John Girlock, president of the Lehigh Valley Coal company lo cal, said that even if a wage a greement is reached or orders are issued by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, unions would have diffi culty in calling miners to weekend meetings. BEGAN APRIL 30 Strikes among the 72,000 hard coal miners began with expiration of the old anthracite wage agree ment April 30. Lewis has not re sponded to a War Labor board order for extension of the con tract pending negotiation of a new See MINERS Page 2 1,988 Liberated Prisoners Reach U. S. NEW YORK, May 5—<A>)— Two transports bringing home 1,988 American soldiers who were pris oners of war in Germany arrived today at New York port of embar kation. The men boarded trains for Camp Kilmer, N. J. Furloughs will follow. WHAT’S DOING SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. to 8 p.m.—U.S.O. center open to service folk vis iting in the city. MONDAY 10:00 a.m. — Pastors’ and workers’ conference of Kings Mountain Baptist association will meet at First Baptist church here. 7:30 p.m.—Deacons of First Baptist church meet at the church. 8:00 p.m.—Boy Scout court of honor meets at the court house. FIRST MAJOR COUNTERBLOW ON OKINAWA Japs Use Amphibious Forces In One Of Fierc est Fights Of War ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY By Robbin Coons GUAM, May 5.—(/P)—In one of the wildest battles of the Pacific war, Japanese hurled amphibious forces, the first major tank-led counter assault of the Okinawa cam paign, suicide boats, planes and pilot-guided flying bombs at American forces yesterday 325 miles south of Japan. Every attack was broken up, but five light U. S. ships were sunk and others damaged. Hundreds of the 4,000 at tacking Japanese soldiers were slaughtered in “the best day of Jap killing since the Okinawa campaign began. Under cover of early morning darkness four Japanese amphibious units, totaling about 600 men, at tempted landings behind American lines on both coasts. Three of these assault forces got ashore on the %«tr «oast in the rear of -the 77th infantry division. Hours later they were still there, but they were trap ped and being wiped out. Boats carrying 200, constituting the fourth group, were stranded on a reef off the, east coast. Yanks in amphtracks annihilated them. 3,000 ATTACK More than 3,000 Nipponese at tacked 7th division positions on the east flank at dawn behind 20 tanks and under the protection of the campaign’s heaviest enemy artillery barrage. Big American guns smash ed the tanks. Seventh division in fantrymen stopped the charge in fierce hand to hand battles and grenade throwing duels. All of the ground actions were coordinated with an air-sea attack on U. S. fleet and supply units off shore. Suicide boats, their prows See FIRST Page 2 KAllUN Urrllt SET ON EDGE Mysterious Telephone Calls And Strangers Bring Out Police Two mysterious telephone calls and a pair of strangers had the Shelby rationing board on edge yes terday afternoon and police are still investigating the episode, which rationing officials think might have been intended for a robbery. Not long before the rationing of fice closed yesterday afternoon two well-dressed strangers came to the office and according to Mr. Harti gan appeared to have no partic ular business. They said they were just waiting. While they were in the office, Mr. Hartigan received a telephone call purporting to be “from the treasurer’s office,” tell ing him there was an ill woman in that office and that she had called for him. FROM HOSPITAL Immediately after he received this call, he telephoned both city and county treasurer’s offices and the call had been placed from neither one. He paid no further at tention to it until a short while later another call came purporting to be from the hospital saying that the woman had been carried there and he was wanted at once. Mr. Hartigan called the hospital back and no call had been placed from there. The rationing board secretary then called the police. By the time an officer had arrived the two strangers had disappeared and no further telephone calls were re ceived. Recent robbery of the Morgan ton rationing board of all of its coupons, sugar and gasoline, ag gravated the suspicion of the local officials. At the time this episode took place there were several dozen people in the rationing oifice. All Organized Resistance To Western Allies Ends; Nazis In Norway Wavering PARIS, May 5.— (AP)—All organized resistance to the western Allies'* forces commanded by Gen. Eisenhower halted in Europe today. This came about when Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's army group G, composed of three armies in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria, surrender ed unconditionally. This was a battlefield surrender, like that which yesterday took the Ger mans in Holland, Denmark and northwest Germany out of the war. Today's capitulation was made to Gen. Jacob L. Devers, commander of the Sixth Army group, by German General Schulz, who commanded the German First, Seventh and 19th armies of Army Group G. DOENITZ CALLS NAZIS TO FIGHT ON AGAINST REDS NEW YORK, May 5 —OP)— A German-language broadcast, from •it European staffon which FCC Monitors said was not identified, by name, today declared Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz was calling German soldiers in the “center, south and southeast,” to fight on “to save as many Germans as possible from Bolshevization and enslavement.” Quoting what it said was an ap peal from Doenite, the radio sta tion said: “Now, when you hear that in the north, west and south single armies have laid down their arms after an honorable struggle, that has happened because the strug {,* against the western powers has become senseless. For the only purpose for which we still have to fight is to save as many Germans as possible from Bolshevization enslavement. That Is your most sacred task, which you will have to carry out and will carry out in the spirit of our dead Fueh rer. ...” Ihe German-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau said the Germans in Norway also were preparing to givt up today. Half a million Germans quit today on this 21st army group front. As many more had given up to British an'c Canadians in the previous 48 hours, convinced as was Gen. Eisenhower that: “On land and sea and in the air the Ger mans are thoroughly whipped. Their onlv recourse is to surrender.” Already, negotiations were reported well underway for the capitulation of the last two major enemy stands—in Norway and the shrinking Czechoslovak-Austrian pocket — and the final realization of V-E day. The fall of Berchtesgaden swiftly followed that of Berlin. Nearly a million Germans and Italians surrendered Wed nesday in Italy and western Austria. The western Allies since D-Day had taken well over 4,000,000 prisoners—half of them in the last four days. The Russians have killed or captured millions more German soldiers. Triumph and joy swept Denmark and Holland, freed from five years of Nazi rule, although there still was spor adic fighting in Copenhagen between the Germans and Dan ish patriots. German warships in Copenhagen harbor fired on several sectors of the Danish capital, resisting patriot efforts to collect Nazi arms. By the best available estimate, 10 per cent or less of the German army’s peak total of around 8,000,000 men re mained under arms today. These remnants were in Norway, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Yugoslavia, Latvia and the holdout channel ports and islands. Fortress Fails To Yield Hitler’s Body Elaborate Underground Headquarters Of German General Staff Searched By Eddy Gilmore MOSCOW, May 5.—(/P)—The elaborate underground fortress headquarters of the German general staff, like the chancellery in Unter Den Linden, failed to yield up the body of Hitler, a Berlin account said. A dispatch to the newspaper Pravda from its correspondent Boris Polevoy gave the first eye witness description of this remark able headquarters. It was located at the village of Zossen, 21 miles due south of the center of Berlin. “There are 24 concrete houses painted in various colors and cam ouflaged among artificial pine trees,” Polevoy wrote. “Concrete passages between the houses are covered with nets. A fence with high tension wire guards this hide out from the world.” Deep underground at the bot tom of a long circular staircase, (the elevators did not work). the correspondent found uni forms, underwear and auto graphed pictures of Hitler scat tered on an unmade bed in the telegraph room, where an oper ator had remained behind after the others fled. The teletype machine was intact with his last messages, concluding: .. __ “I’m the last man. My—God, what the war has brought us to? The Russians are literally at the doors. I am cutting the wires.” Polevy wrote: “As our tommy gunners trooped down beneath the See FORTRESS Page 1 Jubilant Danes Planning To Form New Government STOCKHOLM, May 5—(JP>—JuOl lant Denmark, free of the Nazi yoke worn for five years, was re ported already forming a new' gov ernment today with a view to tak ing a place among the United Na tions. Moving swiftly after the un conditional surrender of Ger man troops in the little king dom, 74-year-old King Chris tian X. was said by the Dan ish radio to have designated former Premier Orla Buhl to organize a new government. The newspaper Dagens Nyheter quoted responsible Danes in Swe-; den as predicting that Denmark i would be acknowledged a member j of the United Nations as soon as j the new government starts to func tion. Buhl’s government was expected j to take office sometime today. Dispatches from Copenhagen totd of shouting, singing, crying and fighting as the ordinarily temper ate Danes throned streets on re ceipt. of the news of the German surrender. See JUBILANT Page 2 iiie iwo-uay oag ot prisoners m Denmark, Holland, and northwest Germany was the greatest mass surrender of this war. In Holland, Canadian and German troops kept to their own lines as this zero hour of peace came and passed, A front dispatch said it might be 36 hours before the Canadians moved forward to occupy surrendered sectors and take their prisoners, since the Ger mans first must supply infor mation on minefields, obstac les, rations, and supplies. Newly transferred from Stock holm to Paris. (/p> Correspondent Daniel de Luce said negotiations were underway for the surrender without battle of Germans in Nor way and in remaining portions of Austria and Czechoslovakia. In Austria, U. S. Third army troops were but a few miles from Linz and 60 miles or less from Russians moving westward toward Linz. In gains today of up to 18 miles along a 50-mile front be tween Salzburg and Linz, Gen. Patton's men crossed the Traun river at Weis and Lambach, and captured both towns, 16 and 25 miles southwest of Linz. Four German lieutenant-generals were made prisoner. NOT ATTACKING Other Third army units were up to or across the entire ■ estern border of Czechoslovakia, but ap parently were not attacking — an other indication that a surrender move may be underway. Russians in the east fought in the mountains See RESISTANCE Page 2 Senator Hoey To Teach Bible Class Senator Clyde R. Hoey of Shel by will teach the Hoey Bible class of Central Methodist church to morrow morning at 10 o'clock, it was announced today. Senator Hoey formerly taught the class here and all members of the class are urged to be present to welcome him. He is home on a short visit from the nation's capi tal.
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