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- State Theatre Today -
“PAN-AMERICANA”
Phillip Terry — Audrey Long
Eve Arden — Robert Benchley
VOL. XLIII—113
CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
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SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1945
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ENEMY UNITS FIGHT ONI
2,000-Plane Raids On
Japan Predicted By
Gen. James Doolittle
LONDON, May 11.—(#*)—Lt. Gen. Janies H. Doolittle,
commander of the U. S. Eighth Air Force, who led the first
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would be made upon Japan.
Doolittle said part of the Eighth
Air Force’s manpower and equip
ment would be moved directly to
the Pacific and the rest would be
sent ba$k to the United States or
would be kept here indefinitely as
part of the Allied occupation air
force.
He Indicated that large num
bers of Flying Fortresses and
Liberators used in battering
Germany would be shifted to
the Pacific, where they would
be used In the role of “medium
bombers.” augmenting opera
tions of the ever-increasing fleet
of Superfortresses.
Doolittle referred to the Super
fortresses as “the heavy bomber
of the future”, but in speaking of
prospective 2.000-plane raids on
Japan he did not state specifically
that he meant all 2,000 would be
Superfortresses.
Doolittle disclosed that the pres
ent bomber strength of the Eighth
Air Force exceeded 2,400 Liberators
and Fortresses.
“That number of operational
planes on airfields today does not
Include a large number of others
in repair depots, and new planes
in reserve pools,” he said.
LARGEST RAID
The largest number of heavies
Doolittle ever dispatched in one at
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tack was approximately 2,000 last
Christmas eve.
“For every bomber we have
at least two full crews,” he
said- “That is the only way
we could have kept up the
large-scale, non-stop raids over
Germany.”
Doolittle was asked what part
he expected to play in the final
phase of the war against the Ja
panese. Laughing, he replied:
"I only wish I knew.”
He reviewed the history of the
air war in Europe, stating that at
one time “losses approaching a
prohibitive rate” on the deep
penetration raids into the heart of
Germany threatened to restrict op
erations so much as to bring into
question the ability of the air force
to make its D-Day deadline.
The situation was saved, he
said, by the introduction of long
range American Mustang fighters.
FACED CRISIS
“In the fall and winter of 1943
44 improved German tactics and
more lethal armament increased
the luftwaffe’s toll of our bombers
until we faced a very grave crisis,”
Doolittle said.
“The neutralization of the luft
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A I CUNI-tKtlNCt:
‘Little Man* Demands
• Greater Authority
Nation Whose Troops Ara To Be Used Against Ag
gressor Should Have Voice In Decision
By John M. Hightower
Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.—The United Nations
conference appeared today to be developing a strong bloc of
small nations determined to win themselves greater athor
ity over the proposed use of force to prevent future wars.
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VETERANS HERE
FOR BOND RALLY
Dinner Will Be Held Mon
day Night At 7 O'Clock
At Charles Hotel
Two of the speakers for Mon
day night’s bond campaign launch
ing dinner which will be held at
Hotel Charles at 7 o’clock Mon
day night with all the local civic
clubs participating have been se
lected, It was announced this
morning by Hall Houpe, chairman
of the program committee.
Col. D. H. Finley who was a
quartermaster officer in the South
Pacific theatre of operations dur
ing the invasion of the Philip
pines and who is now recuperating
at the Moore General hospital at
Swannanoa will open the program.
He will be followed by Major
Fredrick V. H. Smith, who was
wounded while an artillery ord
nance officer in the European
theatre of operations. Both are
experienced speakers.
The dinner is being held under
the auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce which is furnishing the
meal free to all members of the
cooperating civic clubs.
Each club will have a bond
chairman and committee. Worth
Morris is commander-in-chief of
the campaign in the retail dis
trict. Clubs will compete in the
sale of bonds in the Seventh War
Loan.
the fore in conference committees
considering amendments to the
Dumbarton Oaks plan for world
prtice organization as it was
drawn up by Britain, China, Rus
sia and the United States in
Washington last fall. Here are
current top developments:
1. Prime Minister MacKen
sie King of Canada told a
committee on functions of the
security council, which is the
exclusive, powerful core of the
proposed organisation that
any nation whose troops were
to be used against an aggres
sor should be permitted a voice
in the council’s decision to
take forceful action. Mexico
and New Zealand endorsed
this Idea and Australia and
several others are backing the
principle.
2. New Zealand suggested
that the proposed world as
sembly of nations—to which
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WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
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.
SATURDAY
8:00 p.m.—Graduation exer
cises for Shelby hospital nurses
to be at Presbyterian church,
followed by reception at Nurses
home.
Campaign In Burma Almost
Ended; Is Singapore Next?
By rncBiun uhuvck
CALCUTTA, May 11.—(/P)—'With
Rangoon captured and the cam
paign In Burma virtually ended,
troops of Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten’s Southeast Asia com
mand turned their eyes toward
Singapore today as their next likely
objective.
While some of Mountbatten’s
men have been in the Jungles for
a year or more and are badly in
need of rest, others are compara
tively fresh and could be quickly
made ready for a new campaign.
The latter include the forces
whirh took Rangoon in a combined
sea auu air upciauuu—just outu
troops as would be needed lor a
landing on the Malay peninsula
north of Singapore or on the island
of Sumatra, across Malacca Strait
from Malaya.
This special group of paratroop
ers and amphibious troops is back
ed by a fleet growing in size week
by week.
A drive to oust the Japanese from
Malaya would compare with other
operations in the Pacific which
have been launched from bases 400
to 600 miles away from the objec
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HIMMLER, HESS,
GOERING ARE
WAR CRIMINALS
Adm. Doenitz Also May
Hare To Face Trial
For His Life
TRIALS TolBE PUBLIC
LONDON, May 11.—(^P)_
Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himm
ler and Hermann Goering all
have been listed by the Unit
ed Nations as war criminals
and there is strong possibil
ity that Grand Adm. Karl
Doenitz will also have to face
trial for his life.
The Information about the rank
ing luminaries of the fallen Nazi
hierarchy and Hitler's successor in
the surrendered Reich came today
from a highly reliable source.
This informant estimated
that between 4,000,000 and 6,
000. 000.Germans might be
forced to atone for their na
tion’s atrocities if the proposed
plan of pool punishment is
adopted by the victorious pow
ers.
Hess and Goering both are
prisoners and both were Hit
ler deputies. Himmler, the
hangman head of the Gestapo,
is a fugitive.
The machinery for determining
the guilt or innocence of the top
ranking Nazis awaits creation by
the United States, Russia, Bri
tain and France.
The issue was referred to their
foreign secretaries for working out
details.
TRIALS PUBLIC
These facts were learned how
ever:
1. Trials under present plans
will be public, on the theory that
these will prove the best lesson
possible to convince the German
people of their errors. 4 \
2. NeUtlaT nations will be denied
a place on the bench.
3. Strong sentiment exists for the
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Organizations
May Be Tried
For War Crimes
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11—(IP)
—An American proposal to try or
ganizations as well as individuals
for war crimes was interpreted
today as opening a legal road for
the use of forced labor in re
building war devastated Europe.
The proposition was reported re
ceiving favorable consideration
from representatives of Britain,
Russia and France assembled here
for the United Nations conference.
Presumably it was taken back to
Moscow by Soviet Foreign Com
missar Molotov.
Acting as the personal repre
sentative of President Truman,
Judge Samuel I. Rosenman work
ed with Secretary of State Stet
tinius in discussing the program
with foreign ministers and their
aides.
war criminals
The State department disclosed
the plan which calls for organiza
tion of an international military
tribunal to try the major individ
uals and organizations accused of
atrocities and war crimes in Eu
rope.
State department officials ex
plained that presumably the Nazi
party or any of its adjuncts—and
conceivably the German army —
could be charged before such a
court with war crimes. If the
organizations were convicted, the
members then would become sub
ject to penalties.
Thus, if the German SS organ
ization were found guilty, its indi
vidual members might be sentenc
ed to hard labor to reconstruction
work in Russia, France and Eng
land.
Such an arrangement would
give court backing to use of Ger
mans to rebuild what they had de
stroyed.
PAW Says Gasdline
Stocks Insufficient
To Ease Rationing
-V°
WASHINGTON, May 11—W—It
isn’t true, the petroleum adminis
tration for war deolared today,
that gasoline and fuel oil storage
tanks on the east coast are “over
flowing.”
PAW said it had been hearing
rumors to this effect, but report
ed that supplies on hand in the
east are not sufficient to justify
any easing of restrictions “imme
diately.”
JAP PREPARES TO BEHEAD ALLIED FLIER—This Japanese snapshot,
obtained by Life magazine, is described as showing a Japanese officer
preparing to behead an Allied flier with his samurai sword. The photo
was made somewhere in Japanese occupied territory.
Jap Homeland Hit
Three Times Today
Three Industrial Centers And Three Airfields On
Kyushu Island Bombed
By Lief Erickson _^
GUAM, May 11,—(/T5)—Superfortresses bombed Japan’s
homeland three times today, striking at three industrial
centers and three airfields on Kyushu island in a swift fol
low-up to yesterday’s 400-plane B-29 raid.
in me Heaviest attaca iuu to lau
Superfortresses attacked the big
Kawanishi seaplane plant on Hon
shu, between Kobe and Osaka as
a smaller fleet blasted the Oita
and Saiki air fields on Kyushu.
The latest attack was aimed at
the important cities of Miyakano
Jo and Mittigahara, and at the
Miyaksaki airfield. Kyushu air
fields, home bases, of enemy planes
used in Okinawa fighting, have
been pounded time after time by
the big bomb carriers.
No immediate reports of damage
wrought by the third .raid were
made, and the bombing was done
through undercast by precision in
struments.
Japan’s oil reserves were
hammered for the first time
in yesterday’s 400-plane attack
which included the Tokuya
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Battle Participation
Stars Are Based
On 30 Campaigns
WASHINGTON, May 10. —(JP)—
The battle participation stars
which are one of the factors for
combat credit under the army’s
discharge system are based on 30
campaigns and battles listed so far
by the War Department.
They are: Rome-Arno; Southern
Prance; Germany; Air Offensive
Japan; Naples-Foggia; Normandy;
East Indies; Guadalcanal; North
ern Solomons; Burma-1942; China;
Eleutian Islands; Air Offensive
Europe; Egypt-Lybia; Algeria
Prench Morocco; Tunisia; Sicily;
Bismark Ahchipelago; Northern
Prance; Central Burma, 1945;
Ardennes; Central Pacific; Philip
pine Islands and adjacent waters;
Palaua; New Guinea; India-Burma;
Eastern Mandates; Western Paci
fic; Southern Philippines; Luzon.
RECORD CROWD
AT KIWANIS
Bob Patton, Humorist
And Philosopher Is
Guest Speaker
A record crowd, a guest list of
259, attended the Kiwanis club’s
annual ladies’ night program last
night to hear Bob Patton, humor
ist and philosopher, from Morgan
ton and a varied program of fun
and entertainment.
"Keeping Sane in This Crazy
World” was the subject of Mr.
Patton who gave nine ingredients
of his “patent medicine remedy”
to keep one happy and sane in
these tense, trying days. Mr. Pat
ton urged that everybody culti
vate a sense of humor, learn to
play and not overwork, make a
new friend occasionally, plant and
grow something, do a good deed
each day, take a long look at his
tory, sing if one is down and dis
couraged, cry when one has pent
up emotions, pray daily to keep in
touch with God.
TOP HUMORIST
The first part of his speech was
funny experiences out of his own
life and observation and the au
dience enjoyed it. Mr. Patton is
regarded as one of the top humor
ists of the state and is in much
demand as an after-dinner speak
er.
Reid Misenheimer, president,
opened the program, Dr. Zeno
Wall delivered the invocation then
Horace Grigg introduced the guests.
From this point Horace Easom
took over as toastmaster and Mrs.
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OCCUPATION PROBLEMS:
U. S. Intelligence Section
To Fight Nazi Underground
By EL,TWIN t. f AX
WASHINGTON, May 11.—(/P)—
A special intelligence section to de
tect and “ruthlessly” suppress any I
Nazi underground activities will be <
part of the United States military i
government in the American oc
cupation zone of Germany. ,
This was disclosed today in a
war department announcement ,
of plans for the United States
group which will form part of
the allied four-power control
council for Germany. The
American unit will be divided
into 12 major divisions, corre
sponding generally to the min
isiries or me uennan central
government.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will
>e the United States representative
>n the council as agreed upon at
;he Yalta big three meeting.
Lt. Gen Lucius Clay will serve ae
leputy to Eisenhower and also will
>e “deputy military governor for
Germany,” the department said
vith amplifying this latter refer
:nce.
The announcement said the
United States army, navy and aii
forces had perfected over a period
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U. S. Units In
Europe Head
For Pacific
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Paris, May 11—(JP)—Some Ameri
can troops units already are on
their way to French ports and
headed lor the Pacific war under
the redeployment program, it was
disclosed here today.
The first combat troops from
Europe, however, are not likely tc
reach the Pacific theater in much
under six months.
The first to go are service troops
for they are needed to prepare the
way for the flow of combat veter
ans who helped defeat Germany.
Beside the service units already
on the move, others have been
alerted, Brig. Gen. G. S. Eyster,
acting deputy chief of staff, said.
STEADY GAINS
ON MINDANAO
Enemy Resistance Increas
es As Battle Near
Davao Mounts
MANILA, May 11. —(JP)— Infan
trymen of Maj. Gen. Roscoe Wood
ruff’s veteran 24th division were
reported today making steady gains
against stiff resistance in a mount
ing battle with Japan’s Mindanao
Island garrison near the captured
port city of Davao.
r"he battleground was a trian
gular area between the Talomo and
Davao rivers, due northwest of Da
vao City. The Yanks, who crossed
the Talomo Tuesday, were faced
with the tough job of rooting the
enemy out of elaborate cave defen
ses.
A strong force of Marine dive
bombers closely supported the
.ground fight.
A headquarters spokesman said
perhaps 18,000 Japanese civilians
had evacuated Davao City.
Davao and newly-invaded Samal
Island offshore are firmly in Am
erican hands. The port is one of the
best in the Philippines.
ON TARAKAN
On Tarakan Island, Borneo, Aus
tralian and Dutch troops reached
the edge of the Djoeata oil field,
second largest on the oil-rich little
island, against slight opposition.
On Luzon island of the Philip
pines the 43rd infantry division,
aided by guterrillas, closed in from
four directions on. vital Ipo Dam,
which diverts one-third of the An
gat river into Manila’s water sys
tem. Opposition was light.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
the drive on the watershed area fol
lowed a siege which "has seriously
depleted the enemy’s irreplaceable
stocks of ammunition, food and
medical supplies and has cost him
heavy losses in personnel.”
MacArthur reported that Amer
ican and Allied pilots flying the
tight blockade of Japanese sea
lanes have sunk or seriously damag
ed 1,892,082 tons of shipping in the
first four months of this year.
A. T. NEWTON JR
SAID MISSING
Pfc. Ausney T. Newton, Jr., hus
band of the former Miss Barbar;
Blanton, has been reported missing
in action in Germany since Apri
22 while fighting with the Infan
try of the Seventh Army, accord
ing to a telegram received todaj
from the War Department by hi:
wife.
Pfc. Newton, a son of Mrs. Aus
ney T. Newton, entered service ir
December, 1942, and received hi;
training at Fort Leonard Wood
Mo., in the desert of California, am
Fort Bragg before going oversea;
in April, 1944.
Prior to entering service Pfc
Newton was employed by the Shel
by Mill Co. His wife, Mrs. Barbari
Newton, is making her home witl
her mother, Mrs. J. M. Blanton, oi
Putnam St., while he is in service.
Would Turn Clocks Bock
WASHINGTON, May 11. -(&)
Rep. Harris (D-Ark) proposed to
day that the lifting of the midnigh
curfew and racing ban be followec
by “a return to the Lord’s time.”
Harris said he will introduce ■<
resolution to turn the nation’
clocks back one hour, repealinf
the war time law passed in Jan
uary, 1942.
To Visit Her Son
KANSAS CITY, Kas., May 11. -
(JP)—Mrs. Martha 3. Truman, 92
year-old mother of President Tru
man, left in an army plane toda;
for Washington for a Mother's Da:
reunion with her son.
Miss Mary Jane Truman, th
President’s sister, accompanied he
mother.
Die-Hard Nazi Fanatics
In Czechoslovakia Flee
Toward American Lines
By The Associat ed Press
LONDON, May 11.—(/P)—Die-hard Nazi fanatics who
fought on in Czechoslovakia in defiance of German uncondi
tional surrender were reported in headlong flight toward
American lines today as a vast pincers by three Soviet arm
ies threatened momentarily to envelop them.
The First, Second and Fourth Ukrainian armies opened
the assault on broad fronts from the northwest, east and
southeast when forces under Field Marshal Ferdinand
Schoerner, himself wanted as a war criminal, and Col. Gen.
Woehler, ignored the surrender.
It was the only reported fighting by German troops in
all Europe. Elsewhere tne Germans were giving up docilely.
The Soviet high command announced capture of 209,060
German officers and men in preliminary checkups along the
front. There were 26 nazi generals in the bag.
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SIXTH MARINES
BRIDGE ASA
RIVER ESTUARY
Prepare To Deliver Of
fensive Against Naha,
Okinawa Capital
GUAM, May 11—(IP)—A determ
ined U. S. offensive against Naha,
Okinawa’s capital city, was shap
ing up today after the Sixth Ma
rine division, newly committed to
the island’s southern front, bridg
ed the Asa river estuary despite
efforts of two Japanese human
bombs to blow up the span.
Still another wide, winding
river—the Asato—-stands before
Naha as a natural barrier to
American troops. Maj. Gen.
I-emuel C. Shepherd, jr.’s.
Sixth Marine division, the
third fresh division thrown in
to the craggy, cave-infested
southern front in a week,
forced the crossing of the Asa
in darkness early yesterday.
Two Japanese attempted to blow
up the span by covering themselv
es with explosives and detonating
the charges as they plunged onto
it. Their act served only to dam
age the span and delay the cross
ing.
LIMITED GAINS
Elsewhere along the southern
front, Marines and doughboys
made “limited gains” yesterday,
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's
communique reported today. He
announced these other develop
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KONRAD tit.NLt.IN
CHEATS JUSTICE
WITH SUICIDE
WITH U. S. THIRD ARMY IN
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, May 11.—W—
Konrad Henlein, who before the
war delivered the Sudetenland tc
Hitler, died yesterday a suicide in
a war prison camp.
It was reported at an American
Corps headquarters that Henleir
slashed his wrists with a razoi
blade concealed under adhesive
tape in a cigarette case.
By talcing his own life Henleir
escaped execution by the Czecho
slovak government. He had beer
sentenced to death in Absentia
a Czechoslovak court in 1938.
Allied military authorities saic
Henlein gave Hitler an indireci
service which enabled the German
army to turn and break the French
[ Maginot Line speedily. The Magi
j not Line was built along specifica
tions used in the Czechoslovak for
. tifications in the Sudeten moun
■ tains. After annexation of tne
i Sudetenland German artillerymer
l and experts in specialized weapon.'
i practiced many months developing
a casement smashing technique.
surface and underwater fleet were
in Allied hands, including the
cruisers Prinz Eugene and Nuern
berg, which had shelled Copenha
gen over the weekend. These
were under the sentinel guns of the
Royal navy in Copenhagen harboT,
along with three destroyers, two
torpedo boats, ten minesweepers,
13 flak ships, 19 armed trawlers
and two armed merchantmen.
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz’
submarine fleet—the Waif Pack
which for so long had preyed on
Allied shipping —was surrendered
and putting in to Britiish'ports,
Dunkerque, scene of the
British defeat in 1940, had
surrendered. The channel is
lands of Sark, Jersey and
Guernsey, which had been tak
en by the Nazis shortly after
the fall of France, capitulated
to a British task force. They
were the only part of the
United Kingdom to have been
occupied by the Germans.
The disarming of some 120,000'
Germans in Holland was under
way.
Premier Marshal Stalin, in mes
sages to President Truman and
Prime Minister Churchill, con
gratulated them on the uncondi
tional surrender of Nazi Germany,
declaring that “the joint struggle
of Soviet, American and British
armies against the German invad
er x x x will go down in history
as an example of fighting collabo
ration of our peoples.”
GREAT POCKET
The Germans in Czechoslovakia
still fighting milled about in a
great 4,000-square mile pocket. One
German group, threatened with en
circlement by Marshal Ivan S,
Konev's First Ukraine army, al
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CHINESE FORCES
SURROUNDJAPS
Enemy Drive On Ameri
can Airbase At Chih
kiang is Smashed
CHUNGKING, May 11. —(/P)—
Chinese troops, supported by U. S.
14th Air ’Force planes, have sur
! rounded a large number of Japan
I ese troops 40 miles west of Poach
] ing, main springboard of the Jap
anese offensive in Hunan.
The spokesman said the Jap
anese were throwing in reserves in
an attempt to halt the Chinese
! counter-offensive, which resulted in
1,000 enemy troops killed when the
main assault on Chihkiang was
crushed.
The spokesman asserted that
one-third of an estimated 80,000
enemy troops employed in the drive
on the air base had been killed or
wounded since April 9.
A dispatch from Chihkiang. by
Associated Press Correspondent
Clyde Farnsworth, stated that in
less than one month between 4.500
and 6.000 Japanese had been killed
as Chinese ground forces and U.
S. air support combined to halt the
enemy offensive aimed at the base.
Executives Club Speaker 1
Thinks Japs Will Give Up I
i A telegram, delivered here today, i
» to George J. Rony, native Russian ■ <
: lecturer and publisher who will 1
speak to the Executives club at t
the Charles hotel tonight, inform
ing him that his father and mo
ther, Boris and Gertuda, his sis
ter, Nina, and her little daughter,
Elena, all of whom he thought
. perished in tlje siege of Leningrad
, months ago. are safe and well,
, made Shelby the capital of the
world for him.
> “If I do what I really want to
• do,” said Mr. Rony this morning
just after he had received the
nessage, “I would go out and kiss
very one of your 16,000 people on
wth cheeks. I am the happiest
nan in the world right now.”
Today Mr. Dony was engaged in
evamping his lecture which he
gill deliver tonight in line with
ecent international developments,
le was in Hickory w>.m he learn
d about the surrender of Ger
nanq. At that time, thinking
tis whole family was lost, he did
lot feel like shouting and he went
nto a church across the street
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