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WEATHER North Carolina — Cloudy and moderately cool with rain and scattered thun>>r,showers today and in east portion tonight; warm er north portion tonight. Tslxe Hhklby Bailg Him« - State Theatre Today - “PAN-AMERICANA” Phillip Terry — Audrey Long Eve Arden — Robert Benchley CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—114 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c NAZI RESISTANCE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA CONTINOES THE DEATH OF A GERMAN SPY—Caught spying behind U. S 7th Army lines in Germany. Richard Jarczyk of the 36th Volks Grenadier Division slumps down before the fire of an execution squad (top) and is pronounced dead (bottom) by two Army doctors.—(AP Wirephotoi AT CONFERENCE: Deadlock In U. S. > Delegation Broken Group Arrives At Tentative Solution Of Fitting Re gional Security Systems In World Plan By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 12.—(/P)—The United States delegation was reported today to have broken its week-old deadlock over how to fit regional security systems into a world peace organization. The solution, although tenta tive, is seen here as another long step in speeding the United Nations security conference toward a successful conclusion. Nelson Resigns As White House Representative WASHINGTON, May 12—tffV Donald M. Nelson has resigned as White House representative to “other governments” and Presi dent Truman has named Edwin A. Locke, Jr., to carry on his work In China. Locke was Nelson's executive assistant on his missions to China, Russia, England and Australia. The resignation of Nelson, for mer Sears Roebuck executive who left the chairmanship of the War Production board to take over va rious special diplomatic assign ments for the late President Roose velt, is effective May 15. Neslon organized a War Pro duction board for China and left it In the hands of assistants some weeks ago. Nelson submitted his resignation April 16, but it was not accepted then. He later repeated it ver bally, White House officials said, and Mr. Truman accepted It. 2,500 U. S. Troops Get Discharges WASHINGTON, May 12—(>P)— The army handed discharge pa pers today to approximately 2,500 veteran troops—the first batch of men released to go home under the new point rating plan. They were all mustered out at resb> camps In this country, being among the veterans of fighting 1 on all fronts who had been brought ! back for recuperation. An estl- 1 mated 216,000 such men are eligi- 1 ble for release. The War department said all 2,- ■ 500 had high point scores for , length of service, overseas duty, \ combat and parenthood. A mini mum of 85 points is necessary for discharge and the army expects to release 1,300,000 soldiers on this basis within a year. ii is tmsea on recognizing in a United Nations charter the right if all countries to make treaties '.or their own defense. Under such reaties nations could give each sther emergency assistance against \n aggressor but then the project ed world security council would be ■mpowered to take control of the situation. Officials said this plan should allay the fears of small nations that the conncil might not give them quick enough protection in an emergency. And, they felt it would not weaken the overall authority of the world agency to handle situations en dangering peace. Secretary of State Stettinius dis cussed the compromise American alan with Foreign Secretary Eden last night in an effort to begin ob laining a big-power agreement ilong the same line. Stettinius re ports back to a delegation meeting :oday at which final U. S. accord an the formula is slated. The Eden-Stettlnlus talk also is See DEADLOCK Page 2 WHAT'S DOING TODAY 8:00 p.m.—Graduation exer cises for Shelby hospital sen iors to be held at Presbyter ian church. After exercises re ception for nurses at nurses’ home. SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—U. S. O. center open to service folk visiting in the city. MONDAY 7:00 p.m.—Joint civic club meeting at Hotel Charles to launch seventh war loan drive. Industrial Sugar Users Get Additional 20 Per Cent Cut uipnin irr.ivr.vrn joy n/uvvuo/ ruiciu&xv WASHINGTON, May 12. —(IP)— Increasingly tighter sugar rationing, '.utting industrial users to 50 per :ent of the pre-war supply, ap >eared in prospect for mid-year to lay. Sugar allotments to householders or home canning will be reduced .00—and it will be a lot harder o get them from local rationing >oards. OPA officials, testifying yes terday before the house food in vestigating committee, said the deep retrenchments are neces sary because of a growing sugar CLOSE-QUARTER COMBAT RAGES ON OKINAWA Between 50,000 And 100, 000 Troops Engaged In Fighting 4-MILE BATTLELINE By A1 Dopking GUAM, May 12—(A1)—Four attacking American divisions and bitterly resisting Japa nese were locked in close quarter combat today along the entire Okinawa island front where both sides fre quently charged with fixed bayonets. Perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 Japan ese and Americans were involved in fighting over ridges and ravines along the four-mile battleline. Flame throwers, tanks and blaz ing gasoline seared interlocking cave defenses as the first Yank two-corps offensive hammered to within a mile of the two major objectives—Shuri, a medieval type fortress in the center, and Naha, shattered west coast port and capi tal of the southern Ryukyus. "You won’t see spectacular advances, . because this isn’t that kind of fighting,” said Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.-, as his Tenth army opened its greatest assault yesterday while Japanese suicide planes attacked shipping offshore. "But you will see many Japs killed and you will see them gradually rolled back.” And that is the way it was, As sociated Press Correspondent Vern Hau gland reported from the front —bitter fighting all across the is land. Naval, land and aerial artillery supported the attack by the First . and Sixth Marine divisions and the army’s 77th and 96th Infan try divisions. NAVAL CAMPAIGN Testifying to the toughness of the naval campaign, Adm. Chester W. Nlmitz announced the past week’s naval casualties were 1,302. Total navy casualties for the Ryu kyus campaign, March 18 through Wednesday, were 6,853—1,283 offi cers and men killed; 3,498 wounded and 2,072 missing. After hurling back infiltra tion attacks during the night Buckner loosed the greatest of fensive of the 41-day-old cam paign to crack the main Jap anese defense of the vital is land, 325 miles from Japan’s homeland. 39,4662 Japanese dead have been counted in the Okinawa campaign —approaching double the figure of tough Iwo Jima. Along the west coast, the Sixth See CLOSE-QUARTER Page 2 Japanese Shipping At Kataoka Naval Base Is Bomhei 111TH AIRFORCE HEADQUAR TERS, ALEUTIANS, May 10— (Delayed) —(><P)— Liberators pep pered Japanese shipping Thursday at Kataoka naval base on Shum.u shu Jima, 30 miles/south of Rus sian Kamchatka with 250-pound general purpose bombs, headquar ters reported. Results were unob served. The bombing was made from high altitude by instruments through heavy overcast. Antiaircraft was meager and In accurate. The presence of Japanese ship ping in Kataoka indicated the en emy may be reinforcing the north ern Kurile bases since Russia’s de nunciation of the neutrality pact with Japan early last month. More American bombs were dropped on the Japanese staging area at KashiwabAra on northern Paramushiro. Results were unobserved due to the overcast. a 700-ton over-issuance of sugar to civilians in 1944. Industrial users of sugar—soft drink bottlers, candy makers, ba kers. etc.—now receive an average of 70 per cent of the amount they used In 1941. But OPA General Counsel Richard H. Fields gave the committee a statement from Max McCullough, rationing administra tor, which said: ‘‘It appears that it will be ne cessary during the last half of the year to reduce the allotments of See INDUSTRIAL Page 2 1 Troops Who Served Both In Africa, Europe Will Not Have To Fight Japs By Robert Eunson PARIS, May 12.—(#*)—The U. S. army’s vast redeploy ment plan to shift fighting men from Europe to the Pa cific began operation today, following an announcement by Gen. Eisenhower that combat troops who served both In North Africa and Europe would not have to fight in the HENRICH HIMMLER Paris Radio Says Himmler Captured NEW YORK, May 12—(TP)—CBS reported from Paris today that Henfich Himmler 'is now reported to be in our hands.” “Himmler is understood to have been held by Admiral Doenitz in the Flensburg area under house arrest, and Doenitz is believed to have turned him over to British ; forces in that area,” the broad cast said. NURSESMLS HERE TONIGHT Graduating exercises will be held tonight beginning at 8 o’clock at the Presbyterian church for the Shelby hospital nurses school. President Phil Elliott, of Gard ner-Webb college will deliver the baccalaureate address and the di plomas will be presented by Dr. Ben H. Kendall and Miss Pryte Glascoe. Members of the graduating class are: Misses Maxine Souther, of Old Port: Mildred Faris, of Clover, S. C.; Evelyn Gold, of Shelby; Edna Turner Childers, of Grover; Betty Yoder Dawson, of Hickory; Ruth Costner, of Gastonia; Mary Neal Helms, of Gastonia; Hester Helms, of Lincolnton; Nira Lynnhart, of Chase City, Va.; Ruth Suipmey, of Gaffney, S. C.; Jeanette Teague, of Hickory. Folowing the graduating exer cises, a reception will be held at the Nurses home on the hospital campus for friends and families of members of the graduating class. Soviet Government In Austria Orders Death To Nazis By the Associated Press The Soviet-sponsored provisional government of Austria has passed a law suppressing the Nazi party and providing death sentences for its present members Tass said today. The Tass dispatch broadcast by the Moscow radio to the Russian domestic press and reported by the FCC said that under the law all the Nazi party’s property in Au stria “is to pass into the hands of the Austrian republic.” The law demands the personal registration of Nazis who belonged to the party from July 1, 1933. to Aurll 27, 1945, the dispatch said. Russian Newsman Demands Hanging For Franz Von Papen MOSCOW, May 12.—WP)—Com mentator Nikolai Folyanov declared in the newspaper Komosomol Pravda today that “justice de mands” the hanging of Franz von Papen, .Nazi diplomat captured by American forces. He named von Papen specifically in an article saying "the time has arrived to get busy with those criminals who started the war in Europe.” Japanese ineater. “We must be sure,” Gen. Eisen hower wrote to generals of his command, “that no soldier is sent to the Pacific who has fought in both North Africa and Europe. “It may be that some soldiers in this category will not have suffi cient points to be eligible for dis charge. However, these men. should be retained in the European thea ter for occupation, as they should not be required to fight another campaign.” Uppermost factor in the oper ation of the redeployment plan, said Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, deputy military governor of the U. S. group control council, was “The problem of applying over whelming force to bring the war against Japan to a quick end.” Troops which have amassed suf ficient points based on service, de pendents and decorations, will be discharged. When the scores are tabulated they will be sent to the War Department, which will de termine what score will be low enough to permit the release of 2,000,000 men while retaining the 5,968,000 necessary to fight Japan and occupy Germany. Among the foremost factors in volved are the immediate train ing of troops now in Germany and Prance in Japanese tactics, and the matter of leave and accommoda tions for troops awaiting reassign ment or discharge. Some American service troops al ready were moving toward French ports, for the beginning of the long journey to the Pacific area. Combat troops will begin moving in about six months. It will be 45 days before the See TROOPS Page 2 Prisoners, Abandoned By Japs, Rescued RANGOON, May 12—(/P)—Twen ty U. S. army air force officers and 19 enlisted men, abandoned by the Japanese as unfit to walk away from the Rangoon central prison, were evacuated May 4 by the 15th Indian corps which had occupied the Burma capital the night be fore. With the Americans left behind were 29 British officers. Seventy five other American officers and men were among 400 prisoners of war marched away by the Japa nese April 25 in a withdrawal northward toward Insein, where most if not all were believed res cued by troops of the British 14th army. Sgt, Major John Finnerty, 30, of Eire, who had spent three years and 14 days at the prison'said the Japanese used “refirmed torture” methbds on the prisoners. He said new arrivals were thrown into solitary confinement and kept without water until they were too weak to respond to or ders, providing excuses for atroci ties by being unable to move. 1,000 DIED The Irishman said in three years 1,000 prisoners had died of beri beri and dysentery. On April 29, the prisoners said, the Japanese guards ordered “lights out”—although there never had been any lights. The next morning </*e guards were gone and the prisoners found a note in which the guards said they were afraid they had not treated the prisoners very well, adding “if we meet on another front we must all fight gravely.” SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Wing Cmdr. L. V. Hudson, 29, Sydney, Australia, said the pris oners often were kept in solitary :onfinement for months and the ‘only change of clothing they had was when someone died.” Lt. Gus E. Johnson, Miami, Fla., who was shot down in October, 1943, said he had not had any soap to wash with for 18 months, and that often the prisoners were three weeks without a bath. Master Sgt. Richard Montgomery, Pittsburgh, Pa., had a hand shot off. The Japanese neglected him for'more than a day and gangrene set in. Finally they let a British doctor amputate and Montgomery lost more of his arm than would have been necessary if he had re- i celved treatment earlier. t A NAZI INSPECTS HIS WORK—The commandant of the Landsberg, Germany, concentration camp stands amid bodies'of m ter pees, who died while the camp was under his administration. The picture was made , after U. S. 7th Army troops liberated the camp.—(AP Wirephoto). 4-Oth Division Yanks Land On Mindanao Japanese Continue Fierce Resistance At Davao But Doughboys Gain Against Them By Fred Hampson - ‘MANILAy-May —(/P)—Japanese garrisons through out Mindanao were isolated from each other and cut off from outside aid, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported' today, as a result of a new American landing on that island, second 1_a. • At-_ nLflf : __— ^ - —— Jin i/iic i iuiippingn. Battle-seasoned Yanks of the 40th division swarmed ashore un opposed Thursday at Macajalar Bay, on the island’s north coast, to sur prise and checkmate the enemy’s garrison in Bukidnon province, in the interior. Rear Adm. A. D. Stru ble commanded the amphibious force. The Bukidnon Japanese had been backing northward, try ing to get away from the Yank 31st division, coming at them from the south. The 40th divi sion operation constituted a landing in the rear of this ene my unit. Mac Arthur said it left the enemy “incapable of ser ious opposition,” The Japanese at Davao continu ed fierce resistance. Nevertheless the Yank 24th division gained against them. Besieged Japanese on Tarakan, Borneo, also fought with tigerish fury and prevented Australian and Dutch assault units from capturing Djoeata oil field, in the central part of the island. However, the See 40TH Page 2 British Launch Air And Land Attacks From Rangoon Area CALCUTTA, May 12.—(JP>—Brit ish forces, operating from newly won Rangoon, launched air and land attacks yesterday to clear the way for an invasion of Thailand and Malaya. Other forces continued to advance south from Prome in the face of some enemy opposition. Fourth British corps headquar ters announced that British troops had counted 16,730 slain Japanese in their drive through Burma. EXECUTIVES HEAR RONY Russian - Born Lecturer Warns Of Naii Plans For Next War Keeping his hearers alternately thrilled with the glory and destiny of America and horrified at the prospects of the German blueprint for a third world war, George J. Rony, native Russian, author, film producer and lecturer, had 300 Shelbians who attended the execu tives club meeting at the Charles hotel last night sitting on the edges of their chairs and asking for more. After he had concluded his lec ture, Mr. Rony was pounded with questions for nearly an hour, ques tions that he met without evasion and with characteristic wit, which took the speaker straight to the heart of his audience. Mr. Rony was high in his praise of G. I. Joe, the American soldier, who, he said, exhibited his big warm heart and his Christian prin ciples by promptly beginning to feed the children of his enemy aft er he had conquered them. This Russian-born speaker said that not for one instant does he doubt the Christian principles of the American soldier. For them he has a great deal of respect. Just the same he thinks the Russians are more practical about the matter I and handle the Germans in a far better way. ‘Germany has lost and Japan will lose this war”, he declared, See EXECUTIVES Page 2 THE WAR TODAY: Free Flow Of News Seen As Means Of Re-Educating Nazis By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer The reformation of Germany presents vast and unprecedented problems for Allied solution, and the greatest of these is how best to re-educate the people of the Reich so as tp- eliminate the curse of Nazism and Prussianism. Hitler remoulded the thought of the nation by intensive edu cation along his evil lines. There is no cure except more education along the right lines. The first task will be to determ ine what are the right lines, and that won’t be easy because there's no exact precedent for guidance. ' The job of re-education will takej years, and the Allies can't afford1 to make serious mistakes. The wrong approach would be adding to the damage already done by j the war-mongering dictator. So where do we begin? The oth- | sr night I spoke on foreign affairs; at a dinner, and during a question! period afterward a university pres ident raised the point of wtiat type j of education should be promoted' in Germany In order to achieve peace. We quickly found we a-1 greed that the educational pro gram should be such as would give See FREE Page it SOVIETS FORCE SURRENDER OF UNITS IN NORTH Three New Junctures With Americans Effect ed In Holdout Area FIGHTINGTN BERLIN LONDON, May 12.—(/P)— soviet armored forces slash id today at nazi troops offer ing hitter resistance in Czech islovakia as they attempted ;o flee westward through a •apidly narrowing corridor ;oward the American lines. Other Russian troops had forc 'd the surrender of the major por ion of die-hard enemy units in lorthern Austria, and had effect id three new junctures with the Vmericans in the holdout area. Inside Berlin the Russians were meeting; the same kind of futile but savage resistance. Scores of fires were being set nightly in the shattered capital, as Soviet soldiers ex tricated the bodies of hun dreds of civilians from sub ways flooded in lhst-act Nazi terrorism. In Norway, where approximately 100,000 Nazi troops, the entire Ger nan occupation force, were re sorted completing their withdraw il and awaiting return to Ger nany, Vidkun quisling's police ihief and police minister were re sorted to have killed themselves •ather than face capture by Pa ;riots. Quisling remained in his Dslo cell. INSANE WAR” Gen. Nicholaus von Falkenhorst, vho had commanded Nazi forces n Norway until last December, ;old his American Seventh army raptors that his Fatherland had fought "the most insane war in history.” The Soviet high command an nounced that the Russians had seized 560,000 prisoners along the former eastern front Wednesday through Friday, including 45 Ger man generals. Linkup with the Americans in Czechoslovakia was accomplished ay Marshal Ivan S. Konev’s First Ukrainian army near Rokycany, nine miles east of Pilsen, and by Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian army below Prague in the area northwest of Ceske Budejovice. Malinovsky’s troops occupied Gemuend and Zwettl in Austria near the Austro-Bohemian frontier 45 miles northeast of Linz, and in this same area made the third juncture with the Americans. FORCED SURRENDER Malinovsky forced the major part of Col. Gen. Woehler’s German army group to surrender in north srn Austria. This group was fight ing under the overall command of See SOVIETS Page 2 WAY OPEN FOR POLAND TO BE CHARTER MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO. May 12—f/Pl —'The way was left open today for Poland to join the United Nations organization as a charter mem ber, even though there Is no Pol ish delegation here. The membership committee of the conference voted that all Al lied nations which sign or adhere to the charter will be original members. Poland is the only United Nations member not here. Denmark could be included un der this provision too. She has not been among the United Na tions because of German occupa tion of the homeland. As for the neutrals, their ad mission to the world organization will be determined later. It was decided the organization would be open to all peace-loving nations able and willing to fulfill the ob ligations of the charter. No time was set for bringing the countries that are outside the United Nations. But it was spe cifically separated from the clause on charter members and tagged "in the future.” More Top-Ranking Nazis Are Seized WITH THE U. S. SEVENTH ARMY, May 11. — (tf*)— Dr. Walter Funk, president of the Relchsbank and German minister of economics, with 200 German ministerial per sonnel, including many top-rank ing Nazis, has been seized by Am erican Seventh army troops. The same troops also took into custody Gen. Hiroshi Oshima. Jap anese ambassador to Germany, and 130 Japanese diplomatic personnel, the Army announcement *aid. i
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