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ATTORNEYS ARE IN AGREEMENT ON MICA RECORDS Otto T. Englehardt, special at torney with the United States De partment of Justice, who Is in North Carolina to handle the in vestigation of the mica industry, appeared before Judge E. Yates Webb in chambers here this morning with the information that he and attorneys for three of the mica companies under fire have come to an agreement on what rec ords shall be produced for the in quiry. Unless the presence of the grand jury is waived, it will be called to gether in Asheville some time af ter the middle of January for the beginning of the investigation. Judge Webb indicated that if the attorneys for the mica companies would waive their presence of the grand jury when the first records are produced it would save the government a lot of expense. He pointed out that the jury would have nothing to do until the at torneys for the government had gone over the records, which will take some time. Judge Webb congratulated En glehardt on being able to reach an agreement with the attorneys of the mica companies and said that he hoped the agreements could be made to cover all com panies who are interested in the Inquiry. British Clear ELAS From Area In Athens ATHENS, Jan. 5.— VP) —British troops cleared a big section of ELAS-held territory west of Omonia Square yesterday, taking 884 prison ers. ELAS losses included 234 killed and 101 wounded. Of the prisoners taken, 142 were released. Among objectives in northern and western Athens which the British seized was the gutted Av eroff prison. Before ELAS forces retired from one area a large flour mill was sprayed with gasoline and set ablaze. About 5,000 tons of wheat and Red Cross stores were destroy ed. Japs Have 19 To 20 Divisions In China CHUNGKING, Jan. 5. — (JF>— A Chinese army spokesman estimated today that the Japanese now have between 19 and 30 divisions ag gregating more than 300,000 men available for action in Central and South China. At present, he said, the Japan ese are regrouping and reorganizing after their long campaign in this area. He predicted that their next move would be to close the Chinese held gap in the Canton-Hankow railway. The spokesman acknowledged that some Japanese remnants still remain to be wiped out in the Bur ma road border town of Wanting, which the Chinese announced they had occupied Jan. 3. On the Kwangsi front, he said, action has been limited to skirmish ing around Japanese-held Hochih. REDS . Starts On Page One Soviet of the U. S. R., following Its policy of supporting and strengthening friendly relations with Democratic Poland, decided to recognize the Provisional Na tional government of the Polish Republic and to exchange ambas sadors “The presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U S. S. reappointed Victor Zakoarovich Lebedev am bassador extraordinary and pleni potentiary of the U. S. S. R. in Poland.” GRAVES TO BE SPEAKER DURHAM, Jan. 5.—UP)—John Temple Graves, southern news paper columnist of Birmingham, Ala., will speak at the annual din ner of the Durham Chamber of Commerce Peb. 33. Albany, New York, is the oldest chartered city in the United States. Beware Coughs Following Flu After the flu is over and gone, the eough that follows may develop Into chronic bronchitis if neglected. Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw,tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Couchs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Rep. Rich Wants Members Present For Prayers _ WASHINGTON, Jan.. (JP)— There ought to be a law, says Rep. Rich (R-Penn), requiring members of congress to be present for the chaplain’s prayer opening daily sessions. Rich told colleagues they could well get along with a little more religion. “If I were speaker of this house,” Rich maintained, “I would try to find some means whereby we could have a roll call before the chap lain asks divine blessings.” A roll call would require a quor um, or one more than half the 431 members, to be on hand before the prayer and the subsequent daily proceedings could begin. As things now stand the chaplain's audience is often very sparse. “If we are going to solve the problems that are coming before us," Rich said in a speech, “I think there is nothing more essen tial to the welfare of the world than to ask God’s divine guidance and His aid and assistance in this great trouble that now faces us.” 60 SHIPS Starfts On Page One at night, causing some damage. Three attackers fell to actoack fire. On Leyte island, 401 more Jap anese wore'reported killed and five captured in one day to bring the total to 121,4TO. P-T boats hit enemy small ship ping to the west, sinking a small freighter, two coastal vessels, a lug ger and 12 bargee. Reduction of Japanese positions on Halmahera Island, between New Guinea and the southern Philip pines, continued with an 80-ton bombing by heavy and medium bombers and fighter-bombers. OTHBR TARGETS Forty-five tons of explosives were expended on Rabaul and oth er targets in the Bismarck archi pelago above New Guinea. PT boats shelled Boeroe in company with aerial bombing. (Tokyo radio quoted an article by Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura, Japanese ambassador to Washing ton at the time of Pearl Harbor, telling his people that Japan can not stop fighting until “the enemy will realise that Japan is unbeat able, no matter what measures they take against us.” (He said the war will end when America realizes that “Japan is a country that cannot be crushed.”) LEGISLATURE Starts On Pars One opinion holding that women were not eligible for Jury duty. Another measure passed the Legislature asking President Clar ence A. Dyfcstra of the Unlyersity of Wisconsin to address a joint session January 15. The Senate received measures by Gay of Northampton to print the governor’s address and budget message and by Carlyle of For syth to enter in the Journal a re port of the postwar reserve fluid. Former L/eut. Gov. John Steele of Illinois, was recognized and spoke briefly. After the short sessions, the Senate and House adjourned un til 10:30 a. m., tomorrow when they will consider only local bills. AKYAB Starts On Page One at one time, but they evacuated the garrison and most of their weapons the night before the Allied land ings. The Allied landing forces struck from three directions, some land ing on the northern beaches from naval craft, some crossing a four mile stretch of water from Foul Point on the mainland and others crossing in local boats from Ku daung island to the east. The actual capture of Akyab Is land is credited to RAF group Capt. W. D. Davis, who landed a small liaison plane there Jan. 2 and found the entire Japanese garrison had fled New Year’s Day. Akyab has seven airfields, sever al capable of handling the largest aircraft. SECRECY Starts On Page One Philippines ahead of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Leyte-bound trans ports. (Now, from newly won and de veloped land bases on Leyte and Mindoro, MacArthur’s planes are combing prized Luzon island, leav ing the carriers free to fuse their power against Formosa and the Ryukyus.) Nimitz’ terse account yesterday contrasted sharply with Tokyo radio’s unconfirmed reports that 500 Hellcats, Helldivers and Aven gers hit Formosa and Okinawa for nearly seven hours the first day. The enemy said 400 returned for another seven hours the second day. JUST OPENED New Record Shop MEZZANINE FLOOR MAXWELL-MORRIS & KENNEDY FURNITURE CO. PHONE 788 - SHELBY, N. C. * WAR PLANT OOHNR.OSOL waste PAPER SALVAGE DROP HERS Inauguration And Organization Over, Governor, Legislators Ready For Work RALEIGH, Jan. 5.—(IP)—Memories of a colorful and festive inaugural still fresh, Gov. Robert Gregg Cherry today turned to the more serious business of directing the sffairs of state. At the same time, members of the 1945 general assembly, their or ganizations in both branches com plete, were studying the inaugural message of the new chief executive and prepared to map plans for legislation which will be of far reaching importance and conse quence at this war-time session of the law-making body. Both houses met today at 11 a.m. in their final sessions of the first week of the assembly. The legislature was ex pected to get down to serious business next week when much leg islation was expected to be placed Into the hopper for consideration. Inaugural ceremonies, which were attended by upwards of 30,000 per sons who linked the streets for the parade to Memorial auditorium, were highlighted by the new gov ernor’s address delivered to a jam packed auditorium with hundreds of persons standing outside the building and hearing his message by means of a public address sy stem. OATH OF OFFICE The governor’s address was pre ceded immediately by the admlhis tration of the oath of office to sight constitutional officers who were followed by Liet. Gov. L. Y. Ballentine, Wake county farmer and legislator, and then the governor. Gov. Cherry outlined a far reaching program in his inaugural address, and among other things recommended a state-wide referen Jum on the sale of liquor, and! sailed for retention of the state's j present tax structure. He prefaced his recommendations with the statement that “it be comes my first duty as governor of North Carolina to dedicate without reservations, our energies, our fortunes and our lives to a continued effort toward winning the war. x x x The knowledge that so many of our sons and daugh ters are giving all on the battle fields of the world should be in centive enough for us to give our all in defending the liberties of a free-loving people here at home.” RECOMMENDATIONS Some of the governor’s outstand ing recommendations were: 1— Retirement of the general fund indebtedness of approximately >52,000,000 out of the anticipated >70,000,000 surplus at the end ol the current fiscal year. 2— A study of current policies with a view of framing a declara tion of policy in respect to all fed-1 cral matters, foreign and domestic.1 3— That the present tax structure i remains as it is. 4— Provision be made for re enacting state employes’ bonus „for the remainder of the fiscal ear. SCHOOL FUNDS 5— Setting up of effective ma chinery for fiscal control of public ichool funds. 6— That the beginning teacher l with an A-grade certificate, should ' receive at least $125 per school nonth. 7— That all-weather roads be nade available to every section of he state. 8— Consideration of a new type of school for NOTth Carolina farm Mouths. 9— Free tuition should be provid ed in state institution of higher C learning to all sons and daughters i of deceased veterans. I 10— Establishment of a depart- j ment of state, police and public safety. 11— That a state-wide referendum on the liquor question be ordered, \ The eight constitutional officers1 taking the oath along with the new governor and Lieut. Gov. Bal lentine. included: William P. Hod ges, commissioner of insurance; Forest Shuford, commissioner of la bor; W. Kerr Scott, commissioner of agriculture; Harry McMullan, attorney general; Clyde A. Erwin, superintendent of public instruction Charles M. Johnson, treasurer; { George Ross Pou. author and Thad j Eure, secretary of state. R. L. Harris the retiring lieuten- ' ant governor, presided at the cere monies during the administration of j the oaths by Chief Justices Wal- j ter F. Stacy of the state supreme | court. Senator Joe Blythe, Meek-1 lenburg, member of the inaugural committee of the senate, present ed the officers, while Gov. J. M. Broughton presented the incoming executive. 2 More German War Prisoners Captured SELLS, Ariz . Jan. 5. —UP)— Two more weary German prisoners of war have been captured. They were among the 25 who tunnelled to freedom from the Papago Park camp near Phoenix Christmas eve. A couple of Indians caught them while they were sound asleep. O. Garcia, acting superintendent of the Sells Indian agency, said the Germans had such hard-to-get pro visions as two slabs of bacon, chewing gum and tobacco. 4-F’S Starts On Page One farms for needed men. Spokesmen for representatives from farm states said they did not believe many men can be obtained from a sifting of some 364,000 young men holding essential agriculture deferment. They indicated they would resist any move to take away the deferments already granted. The War Manpower Commission and the U. S. Employment Service meanwhile disclosed that thousands of 4-Fs are applying for war jobs. Cleveland reported an influx of applications; Louisville, Ky„ said more than 2,000 4-Fs registered for munitions plant jobs this week— “roughly half our shortage made up in one day.” Charleston, West Vir ginia, said about 10 per cent of the 24,000 monthly uses placements were 4-Fs. Labor circles reacted with bitter criticism to Byrnes' proposals, bal ancing a contention that there is no shortage of workers for war supporting civilian tasks against WMC reports of ‘serious” and “acute” shortages in some states. Members of the house military committee indicated to tendency to do nothing about Byrnes’ recom mendations. The group meets today to survey the manpower situation. Their attitude, as expressed by Chairman May (D-Ky) and others, was that the committee pointed the way last year to a solution of man power problems but was unheeded by government agencies. The com mittee then proposed a “work or fight” program for 4-Fs. MEN BOWLERS GET SPONSOR The Shelby Bowling Center will sponsor the men’s bowling team in their future match games, after they won the contest last night from the boys’ team to settle which of the two teams the Bowling Cen ter would sponsor. In the match game held on the local alleys, the men defeated the boys by a margin of 89 pins in a three-game match. O. M. Altls led the victors by rolling an amazing score of 370 for an average of 123 pins per game. Lester Wolfe was high school for the boys with 30* pins followed by Joe Cabiness with 301. Gardner-Webb college is plan ning to have a girls team here soon they will bring two girls teams tt the Shelby Bowling Center to de termine which will be sponsored bj the local center. No definite plans have been mad* for the inter-city league, but it ii hoped that it will be organized in the very near future. Box score: MEN’S TEAM Pat Patterson.. 29< Dr. C. M. Peeler .. 27C E. Wright .. 28£ D. F Bridges .29£ O. M. Altis ..37( 1523 BOYS’ TEAM Norris Jones _273 Lester Wolfe ......._ 30* Harry Farris..28* Bobby Morrow__ 291 Joe Cabiness ..30] 143* NORTHERN Starts On Page One trenched along the Bay of Biscaj between Bordeaux and La Ro chelle by RAF heavies. Two waves of RAF Lancaster! bombed Nazi troops, artillery anc supply dumps in France’s south western coastal region still helc by the enemy, and first reports in dicated the attacks were well con centrated The bombers strucl near Royan at the mouth of th< Gironde river 50 miles north oi Bordeaux. Earlier in the night RAF Mos quitos raided Berlin twice, and ir daylight yesterday American heav ies hammered Nazi communica tions along the Brenner Pass rail way line which extends fron northern Italy to southern Ger many. MESSAGE Starts On Page One gress. Another newsman wanted t< know whether Mr. Roosevelt woult discuss the “manpower draft” in thi message. He replied affirmatively adding he had said that before. This was taken to be a referenci to his recommendation of last yea: that congress consider nations service legislation. Although con gress did not meet that request the manpower situation has beei described as growing more critica and recent actions have tended to Furnished by ■*, Robert Lindsay and Company Webb Banding Shelby, N. a N. Y. COTTON AT X:00 Today Prev. Day March .22.15 22.15 May _ .22.09 22.10 July _ ..21.78 21.79 October.20.91 20.93 December . .20.88 20.89 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT May .1.66% 1.66% July ..—1.58% 1.58% September . .1.57% 1.58 CORN May.——1.12% July...1.12% September . ..1.11%, 1.12% 1.12% 1.11% July September _ ....1.10 1.16% 1.13% 1.09% 3 STOCKS AT Z:00 Amn Rolling Mill _ . 16 American Loco . ....- 27 American Tobacco B-66 American Tel and Tel . .. Anaconda Copper .- 30 Assoc Dry Goods —. 18 Beth Steel _ .. 69 Boeing Air . .- 20 Chrysler . 95 Curtiss-Wright _ .. 6 Elec Boat . 14 General Motors . ..64 Pepsi Cola .. 24 Greyhound Corp _ . 23 International Paper . ..22 Nash Kelv . 15 Glenn L Martin _ . 25 Newport Ind . _ 19 N Y Central.- 24 Penn R R _ . Radio Corp...10 Reynolds Tob B,_... 32 Southern Railroad . ...... 35 Stand Oil N J _ . 57 Sperry Corp . _ 29 U S Rubber. 52 U S Steel.62 Western Union _ . - Youngstown S and T __41 1-4 1-4 3-4 164 1-4 7-8 5-8 1-2 1-2 1-2 7-8 3-4 3-4 1-2 1-8 3-4 3-4 1-4 1-4 35 1-2 1-8 3-4 5-8 1-4 1-4 1-8 45 5-8 STOCKS IRREGULAR NEW YORK, Jan. 5. — (ff1)— 1 Stocks generally developed further Irregularity in today’s market and, while assorted rails and Industrials ' did fairly well, many leaders slip ped into minus territory. The list churned with consider- : able momentum at intervals after the opening. Trends began to waver around midday and, near the fourth hour, gains and losses of fractions to a point or so were pretty evenly split. ? BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO. Jan. 5.—Butter, firm; receipts 326,620. Eggs re ceipts 9,713. N. C. HOGS RALEIGH. Jan. 5.—(JP>—N CD A —Hog markets steady with tops of 14.25 at Clinton and 14.10 at Rocky Mount and Richmond. N. C. EGGS POULTRY RALEIGH, Jan. 5.—tfp>—NCDA —Egg and poultry markets steady to firm. Raleigh.—U. S. grade AA large 47; hens, all weights, 25 1-2. Washington—U. S. grade A large 51 to 54; broilers and fryers 32. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—OP)—(WPA) —Salable hogs 13,000; total 23,000: fairly active, steady to strong on barrows and gilts, steady on sows, good and choice barrows and gilts 190 lbs. and over 14.60-14.70. Top, 14.75; few good and choice 150-180' lbs. 14.00-14.80; virtually all fatsows' at 14.00 ceiling; complete clearance. 1 Salable cattle 3,000; total 3,000; salable calves 700; total 700; good ! beef cows steady to 25 cents lower, bulk going on shipper account; j bulk receipts comprise cows, mostly i middle grade beef cows and can ners and cutters, these 25-50 cents! lower, cutters 8.00 down; most good cows 13.00-14.00; all other; classes largely steady. Top yearling | steers 17.25. Several low 14.00-16.00; heifers very scarce, fairly broad clearance stock cattle this week at 9.50-12.50 mostly, choice fleshy feeders to 13.25. WARD Starts Oh Page One Ward’s business and with service of Ward’s customers.” "ILLEGAL” Pearson termed "illegal” actions by army men in charge of the seiz ed facilities and said "immediate correction” is required. He pointed out that army men were "cash ing customers checks payable to Wards, many of them in payment of merchandise delivered weeks and even months ago,” and were distributing "without authorization drafts on Ward’s treasurer, in pay ment of merchandise you have ap propriated and in .refund of over payments which you have receiv ed from customers.” He demanded that Byron find a solution of the problems raised. Byron, replying to the company charges, said “all steps x x x have been in strict conformity with the law and a careful accounting Is being kept of all financial trans actions so that proper accounting can be made to the company for funds representing business trans acted before the war department took possession.” (Dec. 28). ( Campbell's Gives i $200 For Center Thad C. Ford, treasurer of the , Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation, announced today re 1 ceipt of a contribution of $200 from Campbell’s Department store 1 toward the Community center pro ’ ject. l ward more radical steps to bring l additional men into essential in • dustry. * .“ J •ILOT HAS MIRACCI OCS ESCAPE—In this dramatic picture, Lt. S. P. ford, fighter pilot from Baltimore, walks away unharmed from the wreckage of his P-38 plane a few moments after he crash-landed on dindoro Island in the Philippines. He was shot down in flames by a Jap lero. ^NAZI Start# On Face One the south side of the bulge. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army is a chief element of this command. (A Washington an nouncement said one Seventh army division was included under Bradley’s command.) Bradley's command formerly ln luded the First and Ninth armies, j British Second * army tanks and nfantry went into action at the lorthwestern tip of the von Rund itedt salient and reached Waha in l push of 1.500 yards. The drive Is continuing, field lispatches said, and netted up to 1,000 yards, all along Its front ’Tom Marche to the right flank of he U. S. First army to the east. BRITISH UNITS Other British units attacked the jermans on the outskirts of newly j :aptured Bure and Wavreille, south of Rochefort at the western end of the salient. The British were rushed to the front at the first sign of ; danger to Liege when von Rundstedt launched his offen sive and backstopped American lines until yesterday, when they went on the offensive. Six Allied and German armies thus were committed to the grind ing battle being fought In drifting snow, fog and miserable terrain some of the worst fighting condi tions of the war—and the Allied assault on the German north flank was broadened to 35 miles. Field reports also announced that troops of a fourth Allied army, the U. S. Ninth army, had been en gaged in the bulge battle, but it was not disclosed whether they still were In action. With slow, steady gains on a 17 mile front on the north side of the salient, Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ U. 8. First army in its three-day old attack had whittled down the German escape gap be tween Bastogne and Grandmenil to scarcely 13 miles. On the south sitfe of the salient held by three German armies. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army turned back 17 fierce Ger man counterattacks up to 6 a m. today, but his front was substan tially unchanged. The Germans, some clad In white snowsults and even throwing ski troopers Into action on sections of the front, fought mainly from frozen foxholes and solid positions, while the doughboys slogged across icy fields and roads made more perilous by snow-covered mines. The blizzard which yesterday blinded their assault had abated, but It was replaced by fog, low grey clouds and biting cold. In Alsace, where the U. S. Seventh Army has been driven off German soil, villages changed hands time and again with the deepest German penetration seven to 10 miles. (The Berlin radio said Von Rundstedt had broken through the old Maginot line here on a front of 25 miles). RUSSIANS Slarfts On Page One tlons of 15 to 50 fighter-bombers stabbed at Red army ground posi tions. Despite the reported loes yester day of 58 aircraft, the Luftwaffe swarmed Into action again today. They were Intercepted by Russian fighters. The Russians have estimated that six Panzer divisions, aug mented by several Panzer grena dier divisions, have been thrown into this Nazi counterattack, New Archbishop Of Canterbury Is Ex-Schoolmaster LONDON, Jan. 5.—{^P>—The Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, an ex-schoolmaster with only 13 years of active clerical service, has been nominated by King George VI as the next Archbishop of Cante bury and 98th Primate of all Eng- / land. Fisher, Lord Bishop of London, will succeed Dr. William Temple, who died Oct. 28 after a heart attack. The Archbishop-Designate, who is 57, had no parochial experiecne before he became Bishop of Ches ter in 1932. He served in that ca pacity until 1938, when he was made Bishop of London. Prior to 1932 he had served 21 years as a schoolmaster. To7 relax while standing, spread feet apart, put hands on hips, al low shoulders and head to drop and waist to bend. which as yet shows no signs of abating. Russian reports Insist the ene my has failed thus far to makf any real breach in Marshal Feodor Tolbukhln's front. Meanwhile Inside the flaming capital, roughly one third of Pest was believed mopped up by Mali novsky. while three quarters of Buda on the west bank waj^ re ported under Soviet control. ONCE A YEAR ONLY! SPECIAL DRY-SKIN MIXTURE <2.25 SIZE *1 *4.00 SIZE %2 Now—save half on this luxuriously lubricating night cream for flaky-dry skin. Helps make skin supple and soft ... an arch-enemy of rough spots and tiny lines due to dryness. Get your sup ply now as the time is limited. ORDER YOURS NOV! Cleveland Drug Co. __________ 1 1 t NOTICE Stockholders of THE FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION Will Meet In Annual Session SATURDAY, JAN UARY 6, AT 2 P. M. at COURT HOUSE. W. R. NEWTON, Secretary
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