Gastonia Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - February 17, 1945, Gastonia, North Carolina Showers arm Showers ar i. lnd lo GASTONIA DAILY GAZETTE A IT- v VOL. NO. 42. GAS TON THE FINE COMBED YARN CENTER OF N. SATURDAY 2.W M. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17 Reds Hammer At Gateway Cities REPORT YANK LANDING ONI AMERICANS ARE HELD TO ONLY PATROL ACTION Increasing German Re- Mud And Waters Have Slowed Advance In I e rt troops of thf Canadian first Army bullied today lo within or less of the Naii of and of Kleve in a push ovtr mired Scots and Canadians under Henry com- mand lunged forward yesterday a wall of rockets and bullets from Allied and British troops speared miles cutting the main highway at two Troops closing on Goch and car gained They ed and within miles at and toppled and five miles west of the road ter seven miles south of Canadian tanks and Infantry troops fought a mile and a half from of and 17 miles from Wesel the industrial men were five milts or less from third road center THOUSAND PRISONERS More than Nazi prisoners were pried from the mud in the last 2-1 boosting the total in the Army's offensive to a front dispatch Scottish troops on the western flank struck down the lo and routed Germans from a wood less than a mile northeast of the Maas river town of The strength now consisting of elements of eight di- lo THE WAR TODAY Press We shall be far from wise if we dismiss as mere the exhortation by the Nazi foreign of- fice to the German people to cast aside their and In river area where the Yanks aP battle for t rn Nazis were taken be the Doomed Japs Ignore w ROBINSON Manila Given Four Hours To Accept Answer Griswold w ei With Steel And Feb. tanks and guns re- thf ancient walled city in Manila cy n ana today the Japanese defenders there ignored an offer of corps Maj. Gen. Oscar Griswold of honor Robinson Mr. Lineberger re William L. secretary end treasurer of the Parkdale will head the annual 1945 Bed Cross campaign in Greater it is announced today by J. Harold of county and safe of thousand The made at 8 o'clock last was wao of a four hour limit set by the general in a message by radio and through loud told defeat Is I offer you an honorable The enemy either re- fused or failed to receive or hend the BATAAN FALLS The renewal of the 11-day-oid attack on the medieval citadel lows the encircling of several sand Japanese on historic BaUan General Douglas Arthur proclaimed have cap- lured where Filipinos and Americans fought a losing battle three years NO LETUP IN AIR ASSAULT ON GERMANY and their murder That barbaric hymn of hate fits the Hitlerian mentality like a glove there's small doubt that the lied forces will encounter a great deal of type of civilian Just to make sure that the population doesn't get out of the German government yesterday placed most of the Reich under what amounts to martial and citizens showing will be subject to the death v and I dare say we can the Germans if that's the way they want to play the There arc well defined international laws of war governing the killing of enemy or attempts to kill them by the invading forces are permitted to exact the A daring ing on the south coast under ths silenced gun of once formidable Corregidor resulted in the ing of the enemy on LAND radio said American paratroopers and seaborne forces landed on Corregidor today Mariveles seized alter the was already in use American planes Losses were light as the Yank in- vasion their path skillfully cleared by ing cruisers and destroyers of the U. S. Seventh opened a 500- yard beachhead in Mariveles Meeting only light they seized Mariveles town and nearby airdrome and drove swiftly cast toward a juncture with Maj Gen. Edwin Patrick's Sixth The Sixth was 18 road miles roaa mues aviv to WAR lo Louisiana Blonde Enters Picture Suspect Love Triangle In Death Of Army Wife Feb. S. heavy carrying the mighty air offensive against many into its fourth ed at the Reich from the west and Berlin Indicated squadrons were from south HIT Three hundred and filly Flying Fortresses attacked the great freight yards at Frankfurt behind the ern front escorted by 150 Mustang fighters which strafed man troops on the return flight on the Main is an important rail junction on principal lines connecting central Germany with the western UNMOLESTED About U. 5. and British S. sought today lo establish lore in rnl of ed Miry lee Epes have charged lo her A friendship between a Lake La. and Lt. Samael husband of the dead hy officers as Epes contin a rapid recovery at the state hospital from slashes on his wrists and that military authorities said from a suicide services for Ihe 26- former sthool whose body was ed from a shallow foxhole grave near here were ar- ranged for today at police pressed their murder charge seion of u lo LOVE Vm including a force of based Fortresses struck the Regensburg factory where German jet-propelled planes are turned out ranged unmolested over a wide area of Germany U. S. Air Force also hit a jet plane plant at lo NO Page 6----- Swiss Internees Are Freed Today Feb. dred and eighty Americans and 33 British Internees left land en route to on the way to their former bases in From there many are ed eventually to return Nearly all the Americans are The party included all the remaining British internees in and left behind only 40 They are expected to leave within three The evacuation plan also includes part of about Interned many of them border guards who look refuge in Switzerland ing the Allied drive in for other Gaston county towns and communities in Greater tonia will be named in the next few and the campaign will get under The date for the launching of the campaign in the nation is March 1st, but local leaders expect to have much of the preliminary work of the local drive completed before March 1st. Next week will see the active beginning of the campaign in Gaston Mr. the county is well known for his active interest in the Red He ed the campaign in this county last year which was highly successful with the largest total subscribed in many He is secretary and treasurer of the Acme Spinning Company and an officer and tor in other plants Mr. well known facturer of the has prominent in civic and business He has always taken an tive part in all the war USO War Salvation Army bond Red etc. He ex- to devote a large part of his time for the next two weeks to the to WILL GET POST Only President's And Some Debate Seen Separating Former Vice President From inet Fleet Stands AL 1-7 FLEET Guam Feb broadcasts reported American assault began invading Iwo Jima on the road to this but there was no official word of such action at as the Powerful American Fifth Fleet carried its attack on Tokyo and its southern approaches into the second The Japanese Domei news agency said two landings made within ten minutes on little 750 miles i both have been The radio quoted two Japanese Asahi ami as expressing the possibility that strike directly at the Japanese homeland landings At refueled planes from the world's largest flotilla of aircraft carriers hovering 300 miles off Japan's coast swept in for the second straight day to rekindle ing industrial fires in the capital INVASION The Tokyo domestic radio 1 the startling warning to people that the attempt to come near homeland at two one Beso the land arm of Tokyo Bav It did not Frantic appeals were issued for effort of the urging them this time to make still more firm Ihe defense structure of our RESUME AIK ATTACKS Tokyo broadcasts shortly after noon made it clear today's attack already has exceeded five hours Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an- resumption of the Tokyo attacks in a brief communique aircraft of the Fifth Fleet are continuing to attack the Tokyo he said Radio Tokyo in a con- firming broadcast reported fiercest fighting is still going fully three hours after the first waves appeared at 7 a. m. SAV SHIPS AFIRE Tokyo claimed Japanese air units have set afire a U. S. an escorting damaged three to YANK BURMA GETS AIR AID TO MAP PEACE Only woman named for the U. S delegation to the San Francisco conference of the United Nations is Dean Virginia of Barnard New The conference an international peace Nazi Govt. May Have Left IOD VATICAN Feb. 17. Papal Nuncio to Berlin transferred his residence Berlin to in Ba the Vatican said He i guest of Tlie Vatican to support a Mosc that Ihe capital has been moved Jin lo in Nuncio is the official tatio voy io the German joveil and presumably would di- ne as close as possible ot independently because of approach to Berlin is SO miles south BY JACK Feb. Only a stroke of the dent's pen and some debate in the Senate today appeared to Henry A. Wallace from a coveted cabinet Congress let down the last tical bar to his confirmation as secretary of commerce when the House passed and sent to the White House the George shearing the dollar lending agencies from the Commerce President Roosevelt has promised let the become without which the former vice president admittedly could be With that effective opposition ed almost cerlain to The Senate has agreed to vole March 1 on the But it there is likely to be more talk by those members who don't want the er vice president to hold any jab where his salary is met by the SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND Ceylon Feb. ground driving through Burma got heavy aerial support again yesterday as S. medium and heavy bombers attacked villages south and west of Other planes bombed Japanese positions in the Arakan Western scored stores in the northern combat and attacked runways nnd airfields in Central area of hits on Ground troops made further ress in Ihe area northwest of capturing an important hill while troops of the Indian division continued to en- large their bridgehead at V. HEAD DIES Feb. H. president of Miami University since 1928, died early today a few hours alter he lad suffered a heart attack at his was 67 years Swaps Good Lot For 15 Cigarettes FORT Feb. ir. classified ad by a local real estate dealer offering to swap a lot in swanky section for 15 cartons of ettes has brought quick Tom reported a line ot customers waiting with the goods when he arrived at his Mrs. Rebecca daughter of a cafe was first in line and walked off wild the deed to Ihe 50x100 foot As the time when his tnl of smokes be Philips gol more lots than will World Trade Federation Urged By Sidney Hillman Feb. Hillman of the CIO urged the World Trade Union conference today to adopt a unanimous committee re- port establishment of a com- to organize a new world trade union He made a bid lor support from the American Federation of Labor in the councils of such n new world labor telling the con- ference assure you that when they decide to come in we will make room for them on the executive The APL de- to attend the tracie union conference on the ground the Soviet delegation was under the tion of its The proposed committee would be- gin work acting as ity for the World Trade Union con- ference between the time It adjourns the date it Hillman said it Is planned lo re- the world conference not later than the end of 1345, or to convene an emergency world con- in the opinion of the world developments should make such a course Tlie committee would establish a full time secretariat with quarters in Paris H would consist of three members each from the United the United France nnd three members from Latin-American countries and one each from other STRIKE ALONG SPREE RIVER DEFENSE LINES Some Russian Armor Reported Only 35 Miles From South Entrance To man Sagon Near JAMES F. Feb. sian troops closed on 50 miles southeast of 1m today and hammered toward a second gateway jay on Ihe Spree 47 miles Tom the Nazi A Moscow dispatch said ed units of Marshal Ivan Koner's Army perhaps had ranged to miles of The Germans rs to be failure to clothing and ilies for the liberated f is the interpretation placed on the hue and cry which has in London this week the shortcomings of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation ad- ministration in In- volved are questions of relief for Belgium those of The Netherlands from which the enemy has been The facts of the situation appear io be 1. The Western European tries as well as those in Italy and mor and huge ments into the intense southeast of and f Soviet planes look a heavy toll on- crowded highways on the Neisse was under artillery and Soviet troops fought toward it from The Berlin the sians within 12 miles of feV W A from Konev's one declared a the been stormed in this area and that another stream be- yond also had been forced other Mediterranean states are at the moment worse off in some re- spects than they were under Hie period of 2. The Allies had planned on a slower liberation of France than was actually accomplished and ured on a rather than need of supplies from the United 3. Tofal demands on ping have strained cargo capacity to the This shipping deficit is regarded here as the crux of the whole i ne Russians reported within sight of the Spree last natural defense line before Berlin The Spree rolls by an tant rail The high command an- the fall of Bober river 35 miles southeast of and said Konev's men had scored into surrounded Silesian indicated the fall of holdout strong point m saying Moscow liad no confirmation of reports that Konev had lo REDS Is Held At Concord Feb. M former Concord policeman was being held today in connection with the death of Jack 36- year-old textile at filling station last Police Sgt. Baxter Robinson quoted ss saying his tion had been entered several times recently and last night he decided to hide in the station after ing the lold a man unlocked the front door with a From be- Ihe fired a shotgun at the Robinson Faggart as No formal charge has been lodged against CAMPAIGN COMPLETED The women's division of the ton county re- cently raised a total of 376 in the Mrs. John O. of vice-chairman of the county organization and head of the women's division an- wish to express my personal thanks to the members of the men's division for their untiring and successful and Ihe thanks of our organization to the general public for its Mrs. Durham said today in making her final announcement of results of the will be Mrs. pointed the women's division alone came within after 11 of -ire of grand total rated in Hie more than exceeded by more than the county quota i wish to thank The Gazette and the other papers cf the county to Depends On Government Priorities Bus Company Planning New Bus Station For nt It J. of assistant general manager of Queen City Coach and other represents the Queen City corporation pledged the com- efforts wilh Gastonia Chamber of Commerce and city authorities in a meeting here to secure Production Board approval tor construction tin ern bus terminal in Joint decision was reached at held in tht of ot Ihe Chamber ot City of and Gaston County Merchants present to confer with bus whereby the City will em- ploy an architect and have prepared tor the Also present ing was City Preliminary upon their to be here lo T. live secretary the Secretary wM Ihe plans to Iht ber's traffic and Irans and U Iht city council for local t bt jointly fcy BUS
