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US Troops at Eisleben WEATHER State Theatre Today North Carolina—Partly cloudy and “Leave It To continued rather cool today and Blondie” tonight Saturday, fair and warm- ARTHUR LAKE er. Ts s l Es r I PENNY II HEXE MEDM SINGLETON VOL. XLIII— 83 NEWS N. C. APRIL 1945 gsz ASSOCIATED PRESS SHELBY, FRIDAY, 6, TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c X BATTLE FOR STORM UNITS German Broadcast 5 MILES FROM OKINAWA GOES Says HEART OF CITY INTO HIGH GEAR U. S. Troops At Eisleben, Seek To Close Pincers, Enemy Putting Up Resist- 90 Miles From Berlin Within 46 Miles Of En- ance Among Fixed De- City fenses In South circling PARIS, April 6.—(fP)—The famous hell on wheels (sec- ond) armored division five miles the TWO SUBURBS TAKEN U. S. CASUALTIES LOW fought past Weser river today possibly to within 18 miles of Hannover while the British desert LONDON, April 6.—(£>)— GUAM, April 6.—(£>)—'The rats of the seventh tank division closed to within 25 miles of that Prussian metropolis. Two Russian armies sought to main battle for Okinawa ap- j A wholly unconfirmed broadcast by the official German ilose a pincers around peared today to be shaping j giant news agency DNB said other American troops had been re- on the southern end of the Vienna today as tank-led Sov- up inforced in “the area of Eisleben,” 90 miles from Berlin. island where the iet storm units, knifing Japanese This was 40 miles beyond last reported positions of the were increased re- through a Nazi defense belt putting up Third Army at Schlotheim. 130 miles from the capital, There at the southern sistance among fixed posi- city limits, was no confirmation at supreme headquarters of the oper- within and one- tions in caves, gullies and drove four ation, which the Germans suggested was by airborne forces. of center four miles north of the half miles the of ridges “Light tanks have been landed from the air,” the enemy canital of Naha. the Austrian capital. city agency said. along an 83-mlle siege Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ Deployed The tanks were said to be out toward arc, the Russians were within 46 communique today announcing fanning Arnstadt, miles of completely encircling continued American gains on all Hamelin and Muehlhausen, 55 to 100 miles behind Eisleben. Vienna One Russian seiz- Okinawa fronts reported remark- me u. s. iNintn army iougnt wing j V • ed positions 13 miles south of the ! ably low U. S. casualties for the through the streets of storied Danube river town of Tulin, 10 A YANK DIES ON A RHINE BRIDGE—Killed by a German sniper hid- first four days of a campaign only Hamelin on the Weser and walked miles northwest of Vienna. The den on the east bank of the Rhine river, an American soldier's body lies 325 miles from Japan itself; 175 21 GERMAN at leisure through the vast rail- capture of the Tulin would sever on the walkway of the wrecked Ernest Ludwig bridge at Worms, Ger- soldiers and Marines killed, 798 yards of the Ruhr terminal city all Vienna's westward communi- m my. At the left. Pvt. Bill Zimmerman of Hagerstown, Md„ and Pfc. wounded. APRIL SNOW COVERS WILD FLOWERS—Marion Campen. Univer- of Hamm, where resistance col- of Omaha cations along the south bank of Norman Booher of Trinidad, Colo., hug the wall and watch for the No figures were given for U. sity co-ed. uncovers wild flowers buried by a spring snow lapsed suddenly. This was Associated Press were which reached a of seven SUNK made James Nor inches in the area of VESSELS the Danube and also the main: sniper. picture by Pringle, photo- S. naval casualties. depth Omaha, Neb. In The American First army launch-: with the wartime still some of Minnesota Vlenna-Prague railroad. grapher picture pool. Japanese casualties listed, al- parts Nebraska, Iowa, and northwestern Wisconsin ed a powerful new drive which are known to be the snow was 17 inches deep. Breaking across the Schwe- though they Merchant Craft carried a total distance of 32 miles ehat and Liesing rivers, a ca- considerably higher. Warships, eastward beyond the Ruhr pocket nal and a network of subur- On the south end of the Ameri- Sunk, Many Others and smashed through the Hessian MacArthur Gets His can line Gen. John R. ban railroads and highways Maj. Hodg- U. gap—historic military gateway to ran S. In Raids constituting a highly-fortified es’ 24th corps infantrymen Heavies Bomb Damaged the east which Napoleon once trod defense belt, units of Marshal into stiffer fighting as they mov- —to the upper reaches of the Wes- least Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Orders’ ed ahead 3.000 yards. LONDON, April 6.—<AV-At er river ten miles northeast of ‘Marching Field officers said the Ukrainian army battled to Japanese Nazi Rail Centers 21 German warships and merchant Kassel. commander had j Vienna’s southern city limits. I evidently pulled vessels, Including a cruiser and The British on the north The suburbs of Ober-Laa and the bulk of his garrison—estimat- German an in- It Is To "Kill were sunk and plains posed Allied Military Leaders Agree Important ed at more than — eight submarines, Unter-Laa, adjacent to the boun- i 60,000 troops Halle, Traffic Centers On Route Between creasing threat to the great the end of Okinawa Leipzig, many others were damaged in the dary and four and a half miles Or Capture Hitler" into southern naval base and shipbuilding around Naha. The air- Yanks And Blasted southeast of famed St. Stephaas i capital Russians, recent RAF and American air at- center of Bremen, less than 35 drome is the in the entire tacks on church in the center of the city, I largest Bremen, Hamburg and miles away. The desert rats WASHINGTON, April 6.—General Douglas MacArthur Rvukvu chain. were captured in the face of vio- LONDON, force of 650 Wilhelmshaven, U. S. Strategic Air menacing both Bremen and his “on orders hard on the GAIN IN NORTH April 6.—(/P)—A approximately lent German artillery fire from had to Tokyo” marching today, Force headquarters announced to- Hannover raced 54 miles in 24 In the north, however, Gen. American heavy bombers escorted by more than 600 fighters the capital's parks. Two of Vi- heels of Russia’s renunciation of her neutrality treaty with Maj. day. hours past the Duemmer lake j am- bombed vital links with the Roy S. Geiger’s Third Marine today railway yards at Halle and two main The was enna'a supply ; Japan. Leipzig, light cruiser Koeln list- to within nine miles of the war and phibious corpsmen swept ahead traffic ed as sunk in arsenals of Germany j centers on the linkup routes for the American and the shallow Wilhelms- Weser in the general area be- were cut. the Pacific war thus new and four and one-half miles to over- haven harbor. Seven Czechoslovakia With portending possible Kussian armies. submarines, tween the cities. IN SCHWECHAT Allied leaders were 6n run the island’s narrowest isthmus including one of 1,200 tons, were startling developments, military An The Canadian First army, wheel- The Russiaas also battled into Eighth Air force announce- sunk at Bremen. One 740-ton ll- on the to end the fighting in Europe: See BATTLE 2 ing 25 miles northward In yet an- agreement quickest way Page ment the assaults said boat was sunk in the raids on Ham- the outskirts of the industrial su- RUSSIAN MOVE disclosing other breakthrough, moved within iviu or capture nuier. burg, the announced. burbs of Schwechat, site of a big the main railway station at Leip- communique 12 miles of the last FLEETS OF German land aircraft hill, to PLANES plant, captured Laxenburg Capitol quick speculate HUFFSTETLER one of the in Ger- route from Holland — zig, largest The raids were escape the and thrust a two to three-mile carried out by that the Moscow decision is a fore- — was one of the ob- fleets of Zwolle-Greeningen railroad vir- wide wedge through the famed Vi- Developments BLOW TO JAPS many, prime planes numbering as many runner to Soviet participation in TELES STORY as 1.400 bombers tually trapping enemy troops re- enna jectives. heavy woods. The old Imperial in that the Pacific conflict once formal Several other unidentified large maining unhappy land. Austrian castle is located in Lax- ! Other targets In Germany— warships were believed to have PROBING FOOTHILLS six miles south of Vienna. Nazi resistance ends, at the same OF PRISON LIFE Affect Japanese Don't Know enburg, May not immediately identified in The Second armored division of Southeast, east and northwest read Allied announcements — time diplomatic implications What To also See 21 GE Page 2 the Ninth was — Quite Expect !A$I army probing the of Vienna, Marshal Rodion Y. KINGS MOUNTAIN, April 6. were attacked into the Russian action. Next From Reds by Flving For- foothills past the Weser fer the Malinovsky’s Second Ukrainian of Draft Laws tresses and Liberators in In brief, this was the picture in Captain Clyde Huffstetler, their shortest route to Berlin, 150 miles forward in of j army surged gains war as fourth straight daylight as- SUZUKI this capital today develop- Kings Mountain, liberated from, EDDY GILMORE FAILS seven miles along both banks of WASHINGTON, April 6.—UP)— By sault on the Reich. See GERMAN 2 ments tumbled one upon another: in Manila on Page Bilibid prison camp j MOSCOW, April 6. — (JP)— 1. The joint chiefs of staff as- Fast-breaking military and diplo- Soviet; The German radio indicated TO NAME See STORM Page 2 is now home on leave NEW signed MacArthur, together with February 4, matic successes started talk in con- Russia’s renunciation of her five- these targets were in the Mag- visiting his wife before reporting of restrictions on use Admiral Chester W.
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