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“SAHARA”
HUMPHREY BOGART
BRUCE BENNETT
VOL. XLIII—112
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
SINGLE COPIES—6c
ARMY GIVES POINT PLAN
Garrison At Dunkerque
Gives Up; Endless Lines
Of Prisoners Processed
LONDON, May 10.—(/P)—The Allied controlled Luxem
bourg radio declared today that the German holdout garri
son in the French channel port of Dunkerque has surren
dered.
Nazi forces at Lorient, La Rochelle and St. Nazaire had
laid down their arms yesterday.
- I —
LONDON, May 10.—<*>>—'The Eu
ropean war—most devastating in
all history—bowed out last night
to the deafening roar of 30 volleys
from 1,000 Moscow guns, and all
that was left of it today was a
aeries of sporadic outbursts of
fighting and the monotonous pro
cessing of endless streams of Ger
man prisoners.
Nazi humiliation was complete.
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, who bullied
Europe into the scourging conflict,
still was missing — perhaps dead, i
The No. 2 Nazi, Richsmarshal
Hermann Goering, was an Amer-,
lean captive. The supreme German j
commander in the west, Field
Marshal Albert Kesselring, was in
American hands. The Luxembourg
radio said Dunkerque, last Nazi
pocket in France, had surrendered.
Streams of dejected German sol
diers trudged docilely from by
passed pockets in the Reich.
In a blunt, six-minute victory
broadcast from his study in the
Kremlin, Marshal Stalin said the
Soviet union would not "destroy
Germany or its people.”
WILL NOT DESTROY
As a million happy Russians
jammed the area around the
See GARRISON Page 2
AT CONFERENCE:
Small Nations Bid
For Greater Voice
Consider Cuban Proposal To Enlarge Council From
11 To 14 Or 15
By John M. Hightower
Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—(/P)—The United Nations
conference faced its first big test today on a small nation
bid for greater voice in the proposed peace-enforcing secur
___--I itv council.
MS. HAMKllK
BURIED TODAY
funeral services will be conduct
ed this afternoon at three o'clock
at 223 North Morgan street for
Mrs. Louise Greene Hamrick, wife
of Frank A. Hamrick. Sr., who died
at her home Wednesday afternoon
at 3:15 following an illness since
January when she suffered a stroke.
She had been confined to her bed
aince that time.
Rev. Walter Brown, pastor of the
Shelby Presbyterian church, of
which she was a faithful member,
will have charge of the services, as
sisted by Rev. Paul Hardin. Inter
ment will follow in Sunset ceme
tery.
Mrs. Hamrick was bom in Sum
ter, 8. C. For several years she liv
ed at Charleston and Asheville.
While living in Asheville she and
Mr. Hamrick were married, coming
to Shelby forty years ago where he
was engaged in the jewelry business
with his brother in the firm of T.
W. Hamrick Co., until his retire
ment several years ago. Mrs. Ham
rick was manager of the Snowflake
Laundry for the past thirteen years.
She was a member of the Shelby
Presbyterian church during her
entire residence here, and was loyal
and active in the church. She was
an excellent business woman. Be
fore marriage she was Miss Louise
Yeadon Greene and was seventy
years of age last July.
Surviving are her husband, Frank
Hamrick, now retired; one son,
Frank Hamrick, Jr.; and one
grandson, Frank Hamrick III; one
sister, Mrs. Marie Dukes of Wichi
ta, Kansas, and one brother, Eddie
Greene, of New York City.
A Cuban proposal to enlarge the
council from 11 to 14 or 15 na
tions was put forward in the con
ference committee charged with
working out council membership
and some members said a vote
probably would be taken today.
As the council plan now stands,
it would include the big 5 powers,
plus six smaller on^.
American delegates sought mean
while for a formula for fitting a
Pan American security system into
a world organization without split
ting this organization into regional
blocs.
They recognized this problem of
regional versus world security con
trol as one of the most critical
facing the conference.
It is especially acute for the
United States delegation. Its mem
bers are divided on the issue, which
is: Shall the American republics
be on their own, or shall they be
under control of the world organi
zation, when they feel they must
use force to suppress aggression in
the western hemisphere?
ZONE AUTHORITY
Latin Americans want the au
thority to act in the western hemi
sphere without waiting for world
organization orders. To counter
this, it appeared likely that ad
vocates of regionalism in other
areas would call for similar author
ity for other zones.
A conference committee approved
last night an amendment to the
Dumbarton Oaks plan that the
proposed assembly of nations should
have power to probe trouble spots
in world affairs. The big-powers
had approved the change after
Foreign Commissar Molotov of
Russia succeeded In striking out
any specific reference to reviewing
See SMALL NATIONS Page 2
WHERE IS HITLER?
Four Bodies Found In Ruins,
One Of Which May Be His
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, Jr.
Representing: The Combined
American Press
BERLIN, May 10.—(JP)—At least
four bodies, any one of which may
be Adolf Hitler’s, have been found
by the Russians in Berlin. None
of them has been identified as be
ing definitely that of the Nazi
Fuehrer.
The bodies of Propaganda Min
ister Paul Joseph Goebbels and his
family; of Martin Bormann, suc
cessor to Rudlof Hess as Hitler’s
deputy; and a number of other
tap Nazis have been found and
identified with fair certainty.
For a week the Russians have
searched through the ruins of the
underground fortress where Hitler
and his gang of last ditch Nazi
fanatics held out until the destruc
tion of Berlin was complete. Four
bodies, blackened and charred, that
seem to answer to Hitler’s general
appearance have been dragged out
of the ruins. They have been
measured and photographed for
examination by experts. But the
Russians are beginning to believe
See FOUR BODIES Page 2
FRENCH READY
TO AID IN WAR
AGAINST JAPAN
French Minister Of Fi
nance Gives Truman
Assurance Of Aid
OFFERS 2 DIVISIONS
WASHINGTON, May 10.
(/P)—Rene Pleven, Frens>i
minister of finance, said at
the White House today that
France is ready to furnish
two divisions, with more to
follow, to fight Japan.
Pleven said he gave President
Truman this assurance during a
conference at which he called to
pay his respects and to thank the
United States for all this country
is doing to help rehabilitate
French railways.
iwo rrencn envisions wuuiu uc
around 30,000 men, about the same
size as two American divisions.
The French minister said Gen
eral Alphonse Jkin of France is
in Washington now discussing mil
itary supply matters.
‘‘French troops are ready to
fight on the Jap front,” he said.
‘‘We have thousands of volunteers
in France who want to participate
in the Pacific war.”
The French committee for na
tional liberation declared war on
Japan on the same day the Unit
ed States did—December 8, 1941.
Pleven is on his way to Paris
from the San Francisco confer
ence. He arrived here yesterday
and conferred with Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau. He will
see the treasury head again to
day.
BRITMREADY
TO FIGHT JAPS
Notion Settles Down Aft
ter Double Celebration
Of V-E Day
LONDON, May 10.—OP)—Prose
cution of the war against Japan
topped the tasks facing Britain as
this nation settled down today af
ter a joyous celebration of V-E
day and shouldered its share of the
tremendous problems connected
with the care and rehabilitation of
liberated continental countries and
the occupation of vanquished Ger
many.
With the war in Europe finish
ed, it is expected that British
fighting men and equipment will be
transferred as rapidly as possible
to the Far East, where other Bri
tish land, sea and air iorces al
ready are in action.
UNRRA WORK
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completion plans for support of
UNRRA work in feeding and shel
tering the European continent’s
war-stricken millions. Organization
of the commission which will con
trol the British-occupied portion oi
Germany is already nearly com
plete. It has been speculated in
London that either Field Marshal
Sir Harold Alexander or Field
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery may head the British commis
sion.
Britain also is prepared to start
a post-war program at home to
aid thousands of bombed-out fam
ilies. Approximately 30,000 Amer
ican made pre-fabricated houses
are among those that will be erect
ed for civilian war victims.
Government and business lead
ers already have started making
plans to recapture Britain’s share
of world trade and a keen race
with American businessmen for
world markets is foreseen.
U. S. Army Intends To
Land On China Coast
WASHINGTON, May 10. —(&)—
The army intends to land on the
China coast.
This was confirmed officially by
Gen. Brehen Somervell at a news
conference in discussing the scar
city of qualified civilians in the
Pacific to unload supplies for the
war against Japan. This is the way
Somervell phrased it:
“Although some help is available
in the Philippines and can be ex
pected along the coast of China,
soldiers will have to be used to han
dle the large portion of the thous
ands of tons of cargo unloaded
daily.”
GENERAL IKE’S VICTORY SMILE—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (right)
flashes a victory smile as he holds fountain pens used in signing of the
German surrender documents May 7 at Reims, France. At left is his
chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith. Woman is not identified but
is believed to be a SHAEF secretary.—(AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps
Radiophoto).
Government Pursues
Reconversion Plans
Steel, Copper, Aluminum To Go To Civilian Goods
After July 1
By Sterling F. Green
WASHINGTON, May 10.—(^P)—The government has
decided to open up steel, copper and aluminum to civilian
JfUUUS lllHllUiciciui ci a tiui.v x.
This decision, reported today by
officials in a position to know, is
scheduled for early announcement
by the War Production Board. It
follows the shift from two—to one
—point warfare.
It was learned also that most of
the remaining restrictions on pro
duction of consumer “hard goods”
such as radios, washing- machines
and vacuum cleaners, will be lifted
shortly. Only those converging such
products as automobiles, trucks and
stoves will be retained for a time
until material supplies are moving
more freely.
Even in the case of these items,
however, control orders will be
amended to permit some produc
tion.
RESTRICTIONS REVOKED
About 70 restrictive regulations
already have been revoked, and
WPB expects that about half the
total of 420 will be on the shelf
shortly.
The agency opened the way,
meanwhile, for manufacturers to
build up public demand for their
new automobiles, refrigerators,
washing machines and other pro
ducts by permitting public exhibi
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WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:00 pun.—Kiwanis club la
dies’ night at Hotel Charles.
FRIDAY
7:00 p.m. — Executive club
will meet at Hotel Charles.
8:00 p.m.—Annual music fes
tival presented by pupils of city
schools grammar grades at the
armory.
8:00 pun.—Called meeting of
Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. &
A. M. for work in third degree.
14 KILLED IN
MINE DISASTER
Rescue Workers Combing
Tunnels For Other Pos
sible Victims
SUNNYSIDE, Utah, May 10. —
(/P)— Fourteen miners were known
to have been killed in an explosion
in the Utah Fuel Company’s No.
1 mine here yesterday and rescue
workers were combing the tunnels
today for the bodies of more possi
ble victims.
Seven injured, three in critical
condition, were taken to hospitals.
Deadly carbon ■ fumes which
spread through the mine following
the explosion three miles under
ground hampered rescue operations
and removal of bodies.
Mine officials said the explosion
partially blocked the shaft, forcing
rescue workers to dig away debris
before they could search for the
bodies.
CORRIDORS AFLAME
Survivors said flames shot nearly
200 feet along the workings when
the explosion let go yesterday at
3:15 p.m.. Mountain War Time.
Bodies of the men were burned
and the injured were suffering from
burns and poisonous fumes.
Five men were missing and be
lieved to have been trapped.
Rescue workers donned gas masks
before entering the shaft. Fumes
still permeated the workings this
morning.
Survivors attributed the blast to
‘black damp,” a miner’s term for
accumulated fine coal dust which
explodes upon coming in contact
with an electric spark.
THE WAR TODAY:
Trouble With Russia Not
Inevitable Says Newsman
By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer
The text of this little sermon is
found in an Associaed Press dis
patch from Moscow regarding V-E
day observance there.
. Thousands of wildly celebrating
Muscovites, the message says, gath
ered in front of the United States
embassy and staged the greatest
spontaneous tribute to America
ever seen in the Russian capital.
“Long live America!” they shout
ed. “Long live Truman! Long live
the memory of Roosevelt! Long live
the American people!”
Now that's a mighty friendly
gesture and, seems to have a
direct relation to a question
one hears debated daily by the
man-in-the-street: Is it inevi
table that the Big' Three—Am
erica, Britain and Russia—will
come to a parting of the ways
because of differences of view on
international matters?
Let's be even more specific and
put it the way one generally hears
it: Is it inevitable that Russia or
one hand and the Anglo-Americar
partnership on the other will ar
rive at loggerheads?
That’s one of the paramount
See TROUBLE Fage 6
AIR WAR ON
JAPAN ALREADY
IS STEPPED-UP
Enemy's Homelond Oil
Supplies Blasted By
Fleet Of B-29's
MORE THAN 400
By Robert Geiger
GUAM, May 10.—(TP)—Ja
pan’s dwindling homeland oil
supplies were blasted for the
first time today by a record
fleet of more than 400 B-29’s.
Smoke columns rose 15,000!
feet from wreckage of oil
storage and fuel manufactur
ing centers on Honshu, main
Japanese island, and return
ing Superfortress crewmen
reported results “excellent.”
The big bombers also struck at
airfields on Shikoku and Kyushu
islands, from where Japan sends
suicide planes into the battle for
Okinawa.
Fulfilling Fleet Adm. Ches
ter W. Nimitz’ promise of
greater and greater air at
tacks on Japan, today’s forma
tion of sky giants carried a
total bomb tonnage equivalent
to the maximum loads of
more than 1,000 Liberator
bombers. And the Superforts
winged more than 3,000 miles
to do it.
be struck were the Tokuyama and
Otake fuel storage and manufac
turing centers on the island sea,
a major source of supply for the
enemy. Bombs were spilled in a
one-target sally at the Tokuyama
naval fueling station and a near
by synthetic fuel factory.
STORAGE CENTER
Japan’s biggest homeland oil
storage center on Tiny Oshima is
land, just off the northwest tip of
Kyushu, was another top target.
Bombs were dropper visually and
accurately in daylight with but
little fighter opposition.
It was a different story when
the Superforts roared over a
Japanese naval force. There,
said 2nd Lt. Joseph E. Rogers
of Whaton, N. J., the sky
turned black with flak.”
The big planes disdained the na
val force to carry out the devast
ating blow at. the enemy’s valued
oil centers.
No announcement was made of
American losses, but returned fli
ers reported they saw no B-29s go
down.
Lt. Col. Loran D. Briggs of
See AIR WAR Page 2
GERMANSFLEE
FROM PRAGUE
Henlein, Sudeten Gaulei
ter, Karl Frank, Nazi
Governor, Taken
By HAL BOYLE
PRAGUE, May 9— (Delayed)— (TP)
—Konrad Henlein, the traitorous
Gauleiter of the Sudetenland, and
Karl Frank, bloodthirsty Nazi mil
itary governor of Czechoslovakia,
were taken into custody by Amer
ican troops today, as German sol
diers fled westward from this
shattered capital toward Americau
lines.
Henlein, the Sudeten organizer
who naved the wav for Hitler’s
march into Czechoslovakia, was
caged by the First division.
Victorious Russian troops parad
ed through the city amid the wild
acclaim of the populace, which lost
5,000 casualties, by Czech account,
in the bitter last-ditch, three-day
battle with the Nazis.
“The dead and wounded are sc
many they still are uncounted,’
declared Vaclav Capek, spokesman
for the Czech national committee,
in describing the last major battle
of the European war, which ended
at 9 a.m., today when the Czech
flag was hoisted over the last Ger
man strongpoint.
CELEBRATE
The refugee crowded city — last
European capital to be liberated—
erupted in a mad outburst of relief
and joy after the first reconnais
sance elements of the Soviet army
had raced Into Prague from the
northwest at 5 a.m.. after a 35
mile overnight sprint.
Fur-capped Russians, looking like
See GERMANS Page 2
Minimum Of 85 Points
Required For Discharge;
1,300,000 Out In Year
WASHINGTON, May 10.—(A*)—'The war department
announced today that a point score of 85 has been decided
on as the minimum required for discharge of ground, air
and service forces enlisted men at this time.
Men with this total will be considered eligible for re
lease and will start moving next week for separation centers.
Separate critical scores for each of the services will be
established in about six weeks.
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SAMAL INVASION
IS UNOPPOSED
Yanks Land On Small Is
land Just Off Captured
Davao City
MANILA, May 10. —(IP)— Unop
posed American invasion of Samal
Island, just off captured Davao
City, was announced today as bit
ter fighting raged on the Minda
nao mainland, where doughboys
sought to outflank a Japanese
force which has virtually isolated a
Yank battalion.
Meanwhile the Australian-Dutch
campaign on Tarakan Island, off
Borneo, neared completion. The
Allies held all of Tarakan City, seiz
ed strategic Api Hill, and closed in
on the Djoeata oil field. They al
ready have the big Pamoesian oil
field.
Tokyo radio reported American
negro troops were fighting on
Tarakan. There has been no indi
cation from Allied sources of
Americans participating in the
campaign.
Elements of Maj. Gen. Roscoe
Woodruff’s 24th infantry division
invaded Samal Island Tuesday to
protect the American flank in the
drive up the Davao Gulf coast.
There were few, if any, Japanese
believed to be on the island, which
is 22 miles long and 10 miles wide.
RRinr.rHFAn
Other units of the 24th division
established a bridgehead gcross
the Talomo river, west of Davao
City, in a flanking move to liqui
date the Japanese force which, in
a counterattack Monday, almost
ringed a U. S. battalion.
The 31st division under Maj. Gen.
Clarence Martin advanced seven
miles eastward from Kibwe, in cen
See SAMAL Page 2
I Japanese Line In
Hunan Province
\ Is Crumbling
CHUNGKING, May 10. —iA>)—
The entire Japanese line in west
ern Hunan province where the ene
my has aimed an offensive at the
U. S. airbase of Shihkiang, has
been crumbled by a general Chin
ese counter-offensive, the high
command announced today.
The enemy's lines fell apart at
4 a.m. Wednesday following the
launching of the Chinese counter
offensive Tuesday morning, the
Chinese said. Chihkiang is 250
miles southeast of Chungking.
Churchill Changes
Broadcast To Sunday
LONDON, May 10. —— A
statement from Prime Minister
Churchill’s No. 10 Downing street
residence today said that “owing to
his many engagements at this
time”, the prime minister had post
poned his scheduled broadcast to
night. He will speak Sunday at 9'
p.m. (3 p.m., Eastern War time).
released in the next 12 months un
der the point system.
The points for each of four fac
tors for discharge are as follows:
Service Credit—One point for
each month of army service
since September 16, 1940. This
is the same as 12 points per
year. (More than 15 days will
be counted as a full month.)
Overseas Credit—1 point for
each month overseas since
September 16, 1940.
Combat Credit—a points for
each award of combat decora
tions since September 16, 1940.
Parenthood Credit—12 points
for each child under 18 years
up to a limit of three children.
Those who attain the required
score will be released unless mili
tary necessity dictates their reten
tion until replacements can be ob
tained.
44 FOR WAC
A temporary score of 44 points
has been set for members of the
Women's Army corps.
The combat credits are based
on awards of the Distinguished
Service Cross, Soldiers’ Medal,
Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal, Pur
ple Heart and Bronze Service Stars
(battle participation starsi.
Credit also will be given for the
following naval decorations to
army personnel: Navy Cross, Dis
tinguished Service Medal, Legion
of Merit, Silver Star Medal, Dis
tinguished Flying Cross, Navy and
Marine Medal, Bronze Star Medal,
Air Medal and Purple Heart Me
dal.
In addition credit will be given
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fireign country which may be ac
cepted and worn under War de
partment regulations in effect
when this program went into op
See MINIMUM Page 2
TAKE WEYGAND
INTO CUSTODY
Charges Unspecified, Re
cently Rescued From
Nazi Prison Camp
PARIS, May 10. — UP\ — Gen.
Maxime Weygand, last commander
in chief of France's army before the
fall of the Republic in 1940, was
arrested in the night, police dis
closed today. The charges still are
unspecified.
Jean Borotra. one time tennis
champion, also was taken Into cus
today.
Both recently were rescued from
German prison camps in the Alps.
Gen. Weygand succeeded Gen.
Maurice Gameline in 1940 after
the German breakthrough and was
French commander at the time of
surrender. Previously and after
wards he commanded the French
army in North Africa.
HEAD OF SPORTS
Borotra, who campaigned success
fully on American and other tennis
courts, was head of the department
of sports under the Vichy govem
See TAKE Page 2
Kesselring Talks To
! Captors About Hitler
SAALFELDEN, AUSTRIA, May
10—(/P)—Field Marshal Albert Kes
i selling, the last commander of
j the German armies in tlie west, is
I “most surprised” that Hitler did
not lead his Nazis into a planned
hold out in the fortified under
ground tunnels of the Salzburg
Berchtesgaden area.
Kesselring, found by U. S.
! troops aboard his special train in
j the Tyrolean Alps and awaiting
! completion of arrangements for
his formal surrender, said he is
! “absolutely certain" Hitler is dead.
“1 was must surprised,” he
told American war Correspon
dents last night “at the decis
ion of der Fuehrer at the last
moment to fight with his sol
diers in Berlin.”
Kesselring said he last saw Hit
ler about the middle of April in
Berlin.
"He appeared in excellent
health.” the field marshal added.
"It was two or three days before
the Russian attack.”
"I had an opportunity to speak
with the chief of Staff of the
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