SHELBY BOYS
THOUGHT FREED
At Liott Nina Ware In
Camps Known To Have
Bean Liberated
Although no official word has
bean received through government
channels and no direct contact has
been made, a number of families
here have reason to believe that at
least nine Clevelanders who have
been prisoners of war in Germany
have now been liberated by allied
armies. The belief is based on
stories released through the news
papers that certain prison camps
have been liberated and families
of these men know they were in
those camps.
Believed to have been liberated
recently are the following: Lt. Ar
chie P. Bridges of Shelby, S/Sgt.
Rush Mints of Lattlmore, T/Sgt.
Lon Canlpe, jr., of Casar, Pvt.
Wilburn Page of Shelby, all of
whom were In8talag7-A; Lt. Buck
O'Shields, Lt. Ralph Blanton and
Lt. Hugh E. Noell, interned in
Stalag Luft I; and Pvt. Jack Hu
lick and Pvt. John Dixon, interned
in Stalag IIA.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bridges said
this morning they had not heard
from their son, Lt. Archie Bridges,
since December 8 but they had
read in the Prisoner of War Bul
letin he was moved from Stalag
Luft III to Stalag 7-A in January.
He has been a prisoner since May
19, 1944. No word has been receiv
ed by the parents of any of these
men, though they are all confident
the prisoners have been liberated
and will communicate with home
folks as soon as possible. Sgt.
Mints has been a prisoner since
August, 1943, Pvt. Page since July,
1944, and Sgt. Canipe since Sep
tember, 1944.
NO WORD
Lt. Blanton has been a prisoner
since December, Lt. O’Shields since
July and Lt. Noell since February
of 1944. Pvt. Hulick and Pvt. Dixon
have been prisoners since Novem
ber and December of last year re
spectively.
To date there has been no news
of S/Sgt. Bruce Morgan, a prison
er of the Germans since March,
1944, or of Pvt. Bill Gault, who
was captured by the enemy in the
African campaign. Mr. and Mrs. A.
H. Morgan said they believed Sgt.
Morgan has moved during the
winter months since their last com
munication from him came from
Stalag TV and that camp has been
overrun by the Allies and found
empty. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Gault
believe their son was also moved
since his camp, Stalag II-B, has
also been taken and no prisoners
were found there. Neither family
ha- h:d any communication from
t’ • -c the mid-winter months.
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petke: with explosives, corkscrewed
into the fleet before dawn. They
succeed d In damaging only one
American ship.
Eombers attacked the Yontan
alrstr.'n, causing some damage, and
joined Kamikaze (suicide) pilots, -
In raiding the fleet. 6ome bomb
ers loosed baka bombs—Glider
type bombs guided by suicide pil
ots. Fifty-four attacking planes
and one beka bomb were shot .
down by ship's guns and combat ;
air patrol. Intercepting carrier
aircraft brought down 88 planes,
and four others were wiped out in 1
Isolated actions.
VESSELS DAMAGED
Adm. Chester W. Nlmits an- '
nounced the combined air and
suicide boat assault sank five light
units and damaged others — he 1
didn't say how many. That makes
24 U. S. surface craft sunk since 1
the Ryukyu islands campaign be- '•
gan March 18. 1
Radio Tokyo, with Its fondness
for large numbers, claimed "more
than 60” American ships were
sunk or damaged In the past two
days. It listed “two battleships,
two cruisers and one destroyer”
as sunk and "many aircraft car- J
riers heavily damaged."
Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, com- 1
mander of the 24th army corps,
said ground action left front lines ■
virtually unchanged, but the ene- :
my’s attacks furnished the most
fruitful day of the campaign for
American riflemen and machine
gunners.
MINERS
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one, with any wage changes to be :
retroactive.
Ickes, In his capacity as solid i
fuels administrator, has taken
possession of 363 anthracite com- i
panles, all in Pennsylvania. He
also selrad 33 strike-bound bitu
mlnous mines yesterday, bringing
to i.72 the number of government- :
controlled soft coal properties. i
FARMERS MUST
COLLECT POINTS
j Shelby rationing officials say
they are receiving persistent re
I ports that many farm slaughterers
are not collecting meat and fat
points on their sales of farm pro
duced rationed meat and fat com
modities.
Farmers are being advised, J. J.
Hartigan, secretary of the ration
ing board said, that they must
conform to rationing regulations
by collecting points on all sales or
gifts of farm slaughtered meat.
It was pointed out by Mr. Harti
gan that farm slaughterers as well
as commercial slaughterers are
legally required to turn over to OPA
the points collected each month on
sales or transfers of rationed meats.
Mrs. Surratt Died
Friday, Rites Sunday
Mrs. Solena Moss Surratt, 89, of
route 1, Shelby, died at her home
Friday afternoon. She was the wi
dow of Columbus Surratt. Funeral
services will be held Sunday after
noon at 3:30 o’clock at Buffalo
Baptist church near Blacksburg, of
which Mrs. Surratt was a charter
member. The Rev. J. O. Summerlin
of Morganton will conduct the ser
vice.
Mrs. Surratt is survived by two
daughters, Miss Maude Surratt of
the home and Mrs. Pearl Nichols
of Charlotte: two sons, Early Sur
ratt of Shelby, and Eaker Surratt
of Bolling Springs; five grand
children and two great-grandchil
dren.
JUBILANT
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King Christian was reported to
have ordered mobilization of the
whole resistance movement, putting
an estimated 300.000 men under
arms in the capital alone. They
appeared everywhere, carrying
tommyguns and other arms, mostly
of British and American manu
facture.
POLICE BRIGADE
A Free Danish police brigade of
6.000, which was trained in Swe
den, was scheduled for transport
to Denmark from southern Swe
den early today, it was officially
announced.
Some members of the resistance
movement attacked the headquar
ters of the Danish Nazi Auxiliary
Police Corps, the Gestapo headquar
ters in St. Anne palace, and the
headquarters of Nazi Ambassador
Dr. Werner Best at Dagmarhua on
the Raadhus Plads. central square
of the Danish capital.
Reports to Malmoe newspapers
from Copenhagen said 30 persons
were killed and 70 wounded in the
clashes.
A British broadcast at 8:30 pun.
brought the news to Copenhagen
that the German troops had sur
rendered to Field Marshal Mont
gomery and immediately the streets
boiled over with happy, laughing,
thankful Danes.
CELEBRATION
There was a shout: “To Ama
llenborg!"
With one impulse the crowds
broke toward the Palace Square.
The throng would not disperse un
til one of the king's aides came out
of the palace and said:
"You must remember the king
has been ill and is not quite a
youth any more. He has Just gone
to bed. But he has asked me to
tell you this is the happiest day
of his life and that he is deeply
moved over the fact your first
thought has been to come here to
demonstrate your feelings.
“And when I now ask you to go
home, you hear the king’s wish. I
know you won’t act against it.”
The people milled into other
parts of the city, but others came
and left and kept moving into the
night.
MOLOTOV
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nate many sources of possible con
troversy from the remaining weeks
of the United Nations conference.
However, it remains to be seen
how aggressively small nations will
push amendments on which the
Big Four have not taken a posi
tion.
VETO POWERS
Several delegations already have
assailed the veto powers over
peaceable or forceful settlement of
disputes which the big nations
would have in the security coun
cil.
To compose their Joint amend
ments the Big Four foreign min
isters—Molotov, Stettinius, Eden
and Soong—worked intensively for
two days in the penthouse apart
ment which Stettinius occupies a
top a Nob Hill hotel. Their final
session broke up Just before last
midnight—dead-line for filing a
mendments with the conference
secretary.
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of Moravia.
In the south, the U. S. Seventh
army seized Bechtesgaden, virtually
completing occupation of Bavaria.
Americans went through the Bren
ner pass yesterday and met U. S.
Fifth army troops in Italy.
Allied airmen flew more than
1,000 sorties yesterday, concentrat
ing on traffic in Austria and Czech
oslovakia, and escape ships in the
Baltic.
Surrender of German garrisons
at Helgoland and the Frisian is
land of Borkum, both heavily forti
fied, permits Allied minesweepers
to move quickly to open such ports
as Hamburg, Bremen, and Emden.
The great naval bases and ports in
Holland and Denmark are available
to Allied navies.
FOOD FOR HOLLAND
Allied bombers flying through
rain and snow dropped another
1,200 tons of food and other sup
plies over Holland today, raising the
total delivered in seven days to
about 8,850 tons.
“Hostilities ceased at 0800 hours,
British double summertime, today,”
on the 31st Army group front, de
clared the 392nd communique from
Supreme Allied headquarters. “All
German armed forces in nortn
west Germany, Holland and Den
mark, including the garrison on
Helgoland and the Frisian Islands,
have surrendered unconditionally
to Allied forces.”
The surrender—leaving the third
Reich one of the most completely
shattered powers which ever lost
a war—was negotiated by Field
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery, who flatly rejected a German
offer to surrender also to him three
German armies facing the Rus
sians.
From 80,000 to 100,000 Germans
surrendered in Holland—which was
invaded by Hitler’s legions on May
10, 1940, just five days short of
five years ago.
Only two remote pockets—Nor
way and the Czech-Austrian sec
tor-remained, and Associated Press
Correspondent Daniel De Luce, who
has been in both Stockholm and
Moscow recently, said negotiations
were in progress for the liquida
tion of these without a fight.
The mass surrenders have boost
ed the total of German prisoners
taken by the western Allies to well
over 4,000,000.
DRAFT NEWS:
2,000,000 To
Get Releases
After V-E Day
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, May 5. — (JP)—
The Army plans to discharge 2,000
000 men beginning with the fall
of Germany and to send 8,000,000
picked troops against Japan.
This was disclosed today by House
military committee members after
a closed-door session with high
army officials.
The men to be discharged,
they said, will be those with the
most dependents and the longest
and most active service records.
The Army’s point system, they
reported, gives top weighting to
dependency, followed by ac
tual combat service overseas
duty, and overall length of ser
vice.
Heretofore the weight to be given
each of the factors in determining
priority for discharges has been a
closely-guarded secret.
Of the approximately 8,300,000
men now in the Army, from 300,000
to 400,000 comprising the recently
created 15th Army will be left
abroad to occupy Germany. Some
2,000,000 others will be discharged
within a year after V-E day, the
speed of mustering out to depend
largely on available shipping.
The actual reduction in the
Army’s total strength, the committee
was told, will be about 1,400,000
men, due to an estimated 600,000
in new inductions.
Many of those to be discharged
now are on duty in the Pacific.
The Army’s air transport com
mand told the committee it ex
pected to be ready to move 50,000
men monthly within two months
after Germany surrenders. This
will include men being brought to
this country from Europe and the
Pacific and those being sent from
here against Japan. Converted
freighters will be used to augment
the army’s transport ships to bring
back the others.
Army officials emphasize that the
plans are tentative but are based
on their best knowledge of Japan’s
available fighting manpower.
See 2,000,000 Page 2
Burlington Mills
Asks Permission To
Make Wage Increase
GREENSBORO, May 5 — (IP)—
The Burlington Mills corporation
announced here yesterday it had
asked the War Labor board to au
thorize a general wage increase of
five cents an hour for approxi
mately 16,000 employes.
The corporation operates 48
plants in North Carolina, Vir
ginia, and Tennessee.
In its application it also asked
permission to grant a five cents
an hour premium for third shift
operatives in most departments.
Operations of the company in
clude rayon throwing and weav
ing, cotton and staple rayon spin
ning, dyeing and finishing, and
hosiery manufacturing.
If the application is approved,
the company said it would mark
the seventh general wage Increase
for its employes since 1940, basic
wage rates have been 56 percent in
that period, it added.
Farmers To Study
Small Grains
RALEIGH, May 5. — (JP)— A
s;ries of meetings to study small
grains will be held next week by
State College Extension Service
and the Agriculture Experiment
station, according to Dr. Emerson
Collins, in charge of extension ag
ronomy.
Meetings scheduled are: At Ply
mouth, Monday; Wake County,
Tuesday; Hoke County, Wednesday;
Union and Cleveland Counties,
Thursday; Iredell County, Friday,
800 Polish Catholic
Priests Liberated
NEW YORK, May 5.—(IP}—'The
Polish Telegraph agency said to
day that 800 Polish Catholic priests
had been freed from the Dachau
concentration camp in Germany,
with many at the point of death.
CZECHS RISE
AGAINST NAZIS
IN PRAGUE
LONDON, May 8—(£*)—A Czech
oslovak broadcast from London
reported tonight that a Czech up
rising against the Germans had
begun in Prague and that fighting
already had occurred in the capi
tal.
Simultaneously the Paris radio
broadcast quotations from purpor
ted reports from Czechslovakia:
“Great confusion reigns in Prague
and riots are threatened. The
Gauleiter of Bohemia has been
captured by American troops.”
Grand Admiral Karl Deonitz
two days ago offered to declare
Prague a "hospital city,” a fre
quent German term for an open
city, and in effect indicated he
would not attempt to defend it.
The Czechoslovak government
earlier this week said a group of
Czech industrialists had left
Prague in an effort to contact Al
lied troops and arrange for with
drawal of the Germans from the
area.
FORTRESS
Starts On Pace One
earth and crashed the door to the
telegraph room, he did not have
guts enough to smash the appara
tus.”
VALUABLE BOOTY
Hanging on the wall were some
sheets of paper with badly spelled
LONDON, May 5.—(/P)—The
Free German radio station in
Moscow today quoted Dr. Hans
Fritsche, captured Lieutenant of
Nazi Propaganda Minister
Goebbels, as saying Hitler’s
body “has been hidden in a
place which will be impossible
to find.”
Fritsche had been quoted by
the Russians previously as say
ing Goebbels and Hitler had
committed suicide.
Russian sentences scrawled across
them, saying: “Soldiers, don’t
wreck this apparatus. It is. very
valuable booty for your Red Army.”
Polevy said investigation proved
that electric workmen who kept the
underground generators going had
written the message.
On the approaches to the
headquarters, Polevy said:
“There are numerous pillboxes
and wolfplts behind high wire
fenses spotted along the roads.
Everything is sprinkled with
odd gray and yellow dust and
paint and it is very difficult to
pick out the building or fire
points.”
When he went in, “pompously
dressed” waiters noiselessly opened
the headquarters doors for him. he
said. A swastika fluttered from the
roof but in the village of Zossen
there was very little of anything.
“A German electrical engineer,
an old man named Hans Beltow,
was in charge of the complicated
electrical setup of headquarters,”
he wrote. “He did not care about
retreating with the troops. He wil
lingly showed us about the place.
DEEPER CHAMBERS
“Through an underground pas
sage we got to an entry to still
deeper chambers. The elevator was
not working. It took a long time to
go down the circular- staircase,
which seemed endless. Finally we
arrived at the bottom of the stair
well. In front of us was a whole
underground city. Long corridors go
in every direction with rows upon
rows of special rooms.
“Everything in this devilish Hit
ler war kitchen testifies how un
expected was the Red Army blow.
Lots of workmen were caught un
aware.
“The floors are covered with
scattered papers, maps and in
quiries. The room of the chief of
stax is something to behold. His
dressing robe is on a table and his
slippers beside an unmade bed. On
a night table stands an unfinished
bottle of wine with glasses and a
heap of apples.”
VOTE FOR CIO
WASHINGTON. — (/P)— The Na
tional Labor Relations board an
nounced today that employees of
the White Furniture company, Me
bane, N. C„ had voted for the
United Furniture Workers of Amer
ica (CIO) to represent them in col
lective bargaining.
When the United States was first
established, there was no money in
the federal treasury and no ma
chinery for collecting taxes, no judi
ciary, no court system and no means
of enforcing federal law. ^ r
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Mrs. J. Luther Snyder
Of Charlotte, Mother
Of Mrs. Jones, /s Dead
Mrs. J. Luther Snyder, 64, of
Charlotte, mother of Mrs. Hubert
Jones of Shelby, died early today
in a charlotte hospital where she
had been a patient since Wednes
day morning. She had been In
falling health for several months.
Mrs. Snyder is survived by her
husband, J. Luther Snyder, presi
dent of a bottling company in Char
lotte, and five children; George C.
Snyder, an officer in the 38th eva
cuation hospital unit, now on over
seas duty, James N. Snyder, a
student at Devereaux school at
Glenmore, Pa., Mrs, W. B. Garri
son of Gastonia, Mrs. Hubert R.
Jones of Shelby, and Mrs. Norman
Bisanar of Concord. Eleven grand
children also survive.
Mrs. Snyder was a daughter of
the late A. A. and Rebecca Lee
Crisman of Strasbourg, Va.
She was a member of the Myers
Park Methodist church. Funeral
plans had not been completed this
morning.
Political Crisis
Shapes In Brussels
BRUSSELS, May 5—UP)—A po
litical crisis apparently was shap
ing up here today. The Social
ist party is seeking King Leop
old’s abdication and the Catholic
party threatens to withdraw from
the government if the Belgian
monarch, upon his release by the
Germans, is prevented from as
suming his "constitutional pow
ers.” J „
Count Carton de Wiart and Ba
ron Moyerson, leaders of the Ca
tholic party, conferred with Pre
mier Achille Van Acker and point
ed out that there would be "grave
difficulties" if the constitution is
not followed.
The Communist newspaper
"Drapeau Rouge” supported the
Socialist view and said Liberal
Democrats and resistance leaders
would form a united front against
the king’s return to the throne.
Morganton s Entire
Supply Of Ration
Stamps Is Stolen
MORGANTON, May 5. — UP)—
County and OPA investigators push
ed an investigation today seeking
to run down a thief or thieves who
stole Morganton’s entire supply of
ration stamps Thursday night.
The board's office was entered by
use of a crowbar and a light safe
in which the ration currency was
kept was battered open.
The loot included gasoline, sugar,
shoes, boots and stove coupons.
Officials did not disclose the num
ber of stamps taken.
NOTIME
Starts On Pag# One
istice Day—did indeed signal the
end of the world conflict. But this
second World War is a catastrophe
of an entirely different calibre.
The end of the fighting in Europe, j
and the ending in due course of ■
the Pacific warfare, have ceased
to mean finalities but will present
merely completed incidents in the
general upheaval which is ushering
in a new era for mankind.
Europe is tom by an unprece
dented destruction of human life
and property. Its economic struc
ture has been shattered. Much ot
it is suffering real hunger.
The whole set-up of balance
of power as we knew it has
been knocked into a cocked
hat. Germany and Italy have
disappeared as great powers.
France is just beginning to re
cover. Russia is emerging as
the dominant power of the
eastern hemisphere. Britain has
ceased to be the policeman of
Europe.
These volcanic changes have
produced conditions which are al
tering the political complexion of
much of the continent. Country af
ter country, in its effort to find
some remedy for its ills, is clutch
ing at straws in endeavoring to
establish a government which will
meet the new situation. The swing
is heavily to the left, and much
of it is communistic. In some
countries this search has been ac
companied by violence.
REHABILITATION
Thus when we have V-E day be
hind us we must plunge immedi
ately into an even greater work
than winning the war—and that
will be the winning of the peace.
We shall have to maintain order
under conditions which invite trou
ble. We must help rehabilitate a
Europe which is struggling with
hunger and other privations, while
its political houses are rocking.
And when we look to the Orient
we can see political storms grow
ing out of the Japanese war. Those
will become more apparent as we
approach V-J day in the Pacific.
China is tom with an internal
political strife between the Chinese
communists and the Chungking
government under Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek. Mighty India is
pressing for self-determination. We
may expect other political devel
opments, and all of them will be
of moment not only to the Orient
but to the western world.
So our rejoicing over V-E Day
should be tempered by the realiza
tion that a mighty work remains
to be done. We can see difficul
ties developing here and there, but
we have made a magnificent start
and there’s no reason for discour
agement over the size of our task.
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Today Prev. Day
March .23.11 31.97
May .22.92 22.94
July .22.78 33.76
October.22.30 22.20
December_...22.19 32.06
CHICAGO GRAIN
WHEAT
May .1.74% 1.75
July .1.64% 1.65%
September _ ....1.60% 1.60%
CORN
May _ _1.15 1.15
July .1.12% 1.12%
September _ .1.11% 1.11%
RYE
May .1.36% 1.36%
July . ..1.34% 1.33%
September _ ....1.24% 1.24%
STOCKS CLOSE
Amn Rolling Mill _ . 19 1-2
American Loco . .,. 34 1-3
American Tobacco B . . 75
American Tel and Tel . .. 165 1-2
Anaconda Copper _ - 33 7-8
Beth Steel . 80 3-8
Boeing Air . .. 19
Chrysler . . 115 3-8
Curtiss-Wright.i.t... 5 3-4
Elec Boat.16 1-8
General Motors _ .. 70 1-8
Pep6i Cola _ . 23 3-8
Greyhound Corp . .. 27 3-4
International Paper __ 26 7-8
Nash Kelv . 21 5-8
Glenn L Martin _ . 24 1-2
Newport Ind _,. 24 1-4
N Y Central . ...'.. 26 1-2
Penn R R _ .... 38 7-8
Radio Corp . .1_ 12 1-8
Reynolds Tob B . _ 34 1-4
Southern Railroad _ ...... 45 7-8
Stand Oil N J.. 65
Sperry Corp . .. 29 3-4
U S Rubber . .. 59
U S Steel . 68 3-8
Western Union..46 1-2
Youngstown S and T ... 49 3-8
SELECTIVE STRENGTH
NEW YORK, May 5—(^—Se
lective strength continued to buoy
today’s stock market as the ap
proach of all-out victory in Eu
rope inspired further investment
demand for issues of companies
that stand to prosper with the re
turn of normal operations.
Ahead the greater part of the
proceedings were Great Northern,
Southern Pacific, Hudson Motors,
Certain-teed, Grumman Aircraft,
Hupp Motors, American Can, Am
erican Radiator, U. S. Steel, Texas
Pacific Land Trust, Goodyear,
Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck,
J. I. Case, Western Union “A”,
American Smelting, Anaconda,
Consolidated Edison and Texas
Co.
N. C. HOGS
RALEIGH, May 5. — OP)— (NCD
Ai—Hog markets steady with tops
of 14.55 at Clinton and Rocky
Mount and 14.85 at Richmond.
N. C. EGGS, POULTRY
RALEIGH. May 5. —VPi— (NCD
Ai—Egg and poultry markets stea
dy.
Raleigh. U. S. grade A extra large
38; hens, all weights, 27 1-2.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO, May 5— OTV-(WFA)
Salable cattle 30, calves 100; com
pared Friday last week: choice
steers steady to strong; all others
unevenly steady to 25 lower, with
medium grades showing most de
cline, top 17.90 on weighty steers,
with light steers 17.85 and yearl
ings 17.65; bulk steers and yearlings
15.25-17.40; common and medium
grades 12.75-15.00; largely steer
run; 1,480 and 1,550 lb. offerings
up to 17.75; heifers strong to 25
higher; good and choice kinds
gained most, top reaching 17.90,
highest since 1919; bulk fed heifers
sold actively at 14.00-17.00; cows
50-75 lower; medium and good
beef cows showed full decline; bulls
25-50 down, mostly 50-75 lower;
vealers 1.00 lower, but closed ac
tive at 16.00 down cutter cows clos
ed at 8.50 down, weighty sausage
bulls stopping late at 13.00, mostly
12.75-down to 9.50, some common
and medium light sausage bulls 1.00
off only specialty heavy beef bulls
above 13.75 at week-end outside
demand steers and yearlings broad
but eastern orders for cows and
bulls showed sharp abridgement
during week; stock cattle strong;
bulk 13.50-15.00, with choice Mon
tana yearlings to 15.75 and weighty
feeders to 15.85. >
Officers Seize
15 Slot Machines
RALEIGH, May 5. —(fP)— Seizure
and confiscation of 15 slot ma
chines and one "horse-racing” ma
chine was announced by Sheriff
Numa F. Turner as law enforce
ment officers started a drive here
to halt the operation of such de
vices.
Seizures, the sheriff said, were
made at the Sphinx club, the Am
erican Legion club, the Elks club
and the Royal Arcanum club.
No arrests were made, he said,
adding that there was no interfer
ence at any of the establishments.
Lutheran Missionary
Societies Will Meet
The senior and LeRhea Davis
missionary societies of the Ascen
sion Lutheran church wll hold s
joint meeting Monday evening al
7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Joe Craver will
present a program on the Rural
Church and the Rev. J. S. Crow
a successful rural pastor, will b«
tho guest speaker.
After the address by the Rev
Mr. Crow, the two societies wil
meet separately for a businesi
meeting and will elect new officer:
for the next year.
GRAYSON HELD
FOR FORGERY
Beach Grayson was bound over
to Superior court on a charge of
forgery following hearing held in
Cleveland Recorder’s court this
morning.
Raymond Littlejohn, negro, was
given 18 months on the roads for
assault with deadly weapon with
intent to kill. He is charged with
firing a pistol at Will Sadler, also
a negro, on the Shelby hospital
grounds. Littlejohn appealed from
this judgment and his case will be
heard in Superior court.
Hudson DePriest Sues
New York Newspaper
B. Hudson DePriest, former Shel
by newspaper man and son of
George W. DePriest has instituted
suit against “PM," an afternoon
New York newspaper of which
Marshall Pield is president and its
staff writers Tom O’Connor and
P. Lewis asking $100,000 damages
for two articles which DePriest al
leges were malicious.
The articles in question were
published in “PM" in the early
part of the so-called “sedition"
trial in Washington in 1944 when
Hudson DePriest’s name was link
ed with a group indicted for sedi
tion by the Federal government.
DePriest was exonerated by the
grand Jury and he alleges that he
was not a defendant in the trial
of a group of defendants charged
with anti-Semitism.
Horace McSwain
Speaks At Vespers
Chaplain Horace McSwain, US
NR, stationed at Memphis, Tenn.,
will spealc tomorrow night at six
o’clock at the regular Vesper hour
at Central Methodist church. A
former memer of Central church
and resident of this city, Chaplain
McSwain entered the navy soon
after completing his training for
the ministry. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McSwain.
British At Pegu
Pursuing Japs
CALCUTTA, May 5—<A»>—Brit
ish troops, after clearing Pegu,
are pursuing fleeing Japanese for
ces eastward toward Moulmein,
port city across the Gulf of Mar
taban from captured Rangoon, a
Southeast Osia command com
munique announced today.
The enemy was presumably re
treating along the rail line that
runs from Pegu, 50 miles north of
Rangoon, to Moulmein.
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In the 8oirthwest Pacific. They
secured about 25 percent of the
rich oil wells in that vicinity.
Japanese defenders fired from
the tops of derricks as the Aussies
advanced. One digger contingent
assaulted the hill position domi
nating the center of the town but
was repulsed.
SOFTENED UP
After a naval bombardment and
a liberal sprinkling of anti-per
sonnel bombs by supporting Mit
chell bombers, the Australians
tried again but were held up by
machinegun fire from tunnels. La
ter 25 pounders were brought up
in an effort to silence the Japa
nese while the Australians con
solidated their positions in the
western part of the town.
The Japanese were blowing up
the oil wells with remote controll
ed explosive charges, Davis said.
Yanks of the 4th division, who
had been expecting a stiff fight
as they advanced on Davao, reach
ed the outskirts of the city and
found indications that the main
Japanese force had fled. As they
entered the town, however, enemy
snipers and suicide squads forced
a house-to-house fight. The Yanks
went on through, to the northern
outskirts. Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur’s headquarters said the fight
ing was not severe.
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points below the Semmering Pass.
Northwest and southwest of
Berlin, more than 45,700 Germans
surrendered to the Russians, while
north of Stettin, the Red army
opened a drive to clear the Baltic
Islands guarding Stettin Bay.
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos
sovsky's Second White Russian
army captured more than 22,000
Germans in Mecklenburg province.
Southwest of the crumbled German
Capital troops of Marshal Gregory
K. Zhukov’s First White Russian
army, the co: querors of Berlin, ad
vanced 23 miles and threw the
Germans back toward the Elbe
along a 40-mile front south of Bran
denburg, capturing 23,700 enemy
troops.
Grain Meeting i
At Wilson Farm
On Thursday
One of a series of small grain
meetings will be held on the Lloyd
Wilson farm in this county Thurs
day afternoon at 3 o’clock under the
sponsorship of the State college ex
tension service, it was announced
here today.
A study of seeding and results
will take place with representatives
of the agricultural experiment sta
tion on hand to conduct the dem
onstration. m
Lawndale Womanfs
Club Held Meeting
LAWNDALE — The Lawndale
Woman’s club held their regular
monthly meeting Thursday night
at the home of Mrs. Fred Rich
ards, with Mrs. Lexton Mauney as
co-hostess.
Mrs. Fred Richard, president,
presided over the business meet
ing. The club song was sung by
the members accompanied at the
piano by Mrs. Fred Falls. The
secretary, Mrs. Shannon Blanton,
called the roll and read the minu- M
tes. Reports were given by the 1
committees. Mrs. Tom Abernathy
reported 10 subscriptions to the
Holland’s magazine. The Cancer
drive was sponsored by the club
and the president reported ap
proximately $150.00 collected on
drive.
After the business meeting Mrs.
Hattie Isley had charge of the pro
gram, the subject, Public Wel
fare. Mrs. Isley presented one of
our former club members, Mrs.
William Parker, chairman of the
Cleveland county public welfare
work. Mrs. Parker gave a very
interesting and helpful discussion
of our county welfare work which
was greatly enjoyed by all. After
the program Mrs. Fred Richards
assisted by Mrs. Laxton Mauney.
served delicious refreshments of
fruit salad, cakes, and tea.
The club members were delight
ed to welcome as its visitors Mrs.
W. D. Burns and Mrs. Wi'liam
Parker of Shelby.
S. Sgt. Dyke Pou Is
Awarded Brone Star
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Pou of
Greenville, S. C., formerly of
Shelby, have received word that
their son. Staff Sgt. Dyke D. Pou,
Jr., has been awarded the Bronze
Star medal for meritorious service
in action along the Rhine river on
February 25 and 26. Sgt. Pou Is
serving with the engineers in the
Seventh army somewhere in Ger
many.
Staff Sgt. Pou attended high
school in Shelby prior to moving
to Oreenvill* in 1938 and entered 4
the armed forces in 1943. He re
ceived his training at Camp
Breckinridge. Ky., before going
overseas. 8gt. Pou is the grand
son of Charles M. Webb and the
nephew of C. R. Webb, both of this
city.
American Legion
To Have Fish Fry
Mondav night at seven o'clock
the members of the local American
! Legion poet will be entertained
I with a fish fry at Olllc Moore s
: at the expense of the Legion. This
j w-ill be a regular meeting and it is
! requested that all members meet
1 at the Legion building at 6:30 so
i that everyone will have a way to
get down to the river.
! All soldiers, sailors, or marines,
! home on leave, are cordially in
vited to be guests of the local post,
and the Legionnaires are asked to
bring honorably discharged veter
ans, who are eligible for member
ship and who have ont yet Joined
the American Legion, along with
them.
HEADS HEATING GROUP
DURHAM.— (yP) —Heading the
North Carolina chapter of the
North American Society of Heating
and Ventilating Engineers for the
coming year will be Karl Selden
of Charlotte.
He was elected at the annual
meeting of the group held here last
night.
WANT ADS
FOR RENT: 2 LARGE UNFUR
nished rooms next to Cleveland
Times. See O. P. Allen, 610 Line
berger Street. lip
LOST: ■‘A” GAS BOOK. PLEASE
return to Ed Hill, route 1,
Lawndale. Up
WE STILL HAVE SWEET Po
tatoes for sale at $1.25 a bushel.
Will White, route 1, Bostic, ltp
FOR SALE: OUTDOOR, KERO
sene chick brooder—100 capacity.
The very thing for raising chicks
in town. Morrison Farms, near
Zoar church. 2t5p
RAYMON DAWKINS LOST f
Ration Book. Finder please re
turn to Shelby R. No. 4, Box 89
It 5i
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Hi. Mi i»i. n AO \\ Ml
11:00: “A Well Merited Tribute”
8:00: “The Three Crosses.”
11:00: Anthem, ‘‘Hallelujah Chorus,” Beethoven
Quintet, ‘‘The Lord’s Prayer,” Malotte
8:00: Anthem, ‘‘The Wondrous Cross,” Pease
Quartet, ‘‘The Wayside Cross,” Palmer
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