COAL INTERESTS SEE CONTRACT Operators And Lewis Ne gotiate, Hope To Avert Strike WASHINGTON, March 1—«P>— Bituminous coal operators began negotiating a new contract with John L. Lewis today with both sides hopeful agreement could be reached without a strike. The present contract between Lewis’s tlnited Mine Workers and the Soft Coal Operators expires March 31. Lewis has served notice to the government that a dispute exists and a strike vote therefore must he taken in 30 days by the Na tional Labor Relations board. The operators, disagreeing that a dispute could arise before the wage talks even start, said they entered the conference “with a sin cere and honest desire to attain in the speediest possible manner, and without any threat or inti mation to the country of a sus pension of production, a fair and equitable agreement in accordance with the laws of this nation.” "Our hands are not tied in any Way and our minds are free and open,” they said. In a joint statement represent ing 90 per cent of the 498 oper ators holding contracts writh the UMWA, the mine owners said both labor and management held the “compelling obligation and duty to give to our country in this most critical hour the greatest possible production of coal, without inter ruption.’’ TWO THIRDS Starfts On Pare One Several days would have been re quired to bring supplies 700 miles by ship. The Third division’s push penetrated the center of the m».in enemy line of resistance. From there northward Japa nese strength can be expected to weaken. Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey's Fifth division advanced up the west shore, paced by tanks, after being slowed momentarily on Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates’ Fourth Marines are on the east coast. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced that opposition continued stiff in all sectors. The enemy, short of water and supplies, tried more infiltrations into American lines but was driven off. 4,784 ENEMY DEAD By 6 p. m. Monday, 4,784 enemy dead had been counted, but that tell was far from complete. Many hundreds are dead in cared-in pillboxes and other fortifications. Other enemy dead have been drag ged away by the Japanese to con ceal their losses. Only 10 prisoners had been captured—an indication of the knid of battle being fought for the ugjly outpost just 750 miles south of Tokyo. (The enemy radio made the unconfirmed claim today that Marine casualties exceed 20,0001. Nimitz said Japanese mortar fire hit the northern beaches yeste r day but did not delay the edn struction of unloading facilities. (Tokyo radio said a “strong fbr mation cf Japanese planes made “violent attacks” on a concentra tion of American warships in the vicinity of Iwo and the Bonin is lands immediately to the north this (Thursday) morning, Tokyo time. There was no confirmation). WUULD Starts On Page One automatic use of armed forces without reservation. The changes consist mainly of dividing into two periods the op eration of the commitment to put down aggression, during the re mainder of the war and in the postwar period. Under the propos ed redraft the declaration would take effect as soon as signed and would bind the American nations so long as the war continues^ Af ter the war a treaty would be ne gotiated earning the same prin ciples. PROTECTION This covers the points (1) Pres ident Roosevelt has the authority to use U. S. armed forces to pro tect the United Nations’ war ef fort under his special emergency powers and (2) after the war con- j gressional approval would be nec essary. Senator Tom Connally (D-Tex), chairman of the senate foreign re lations committee, is expected to pass cn the formula by tomorrow. At present, it would commit Unit ed States armed forces for use in this hemisphere at least during the war. A senate treaty would be re quired in peacetime. Connally arrived here yesterday from Washington, and was imme diately asked to pass on basic! United States policy decisions for: this hemisphere. SPEAKER—M. L. Funkhouser, di strict manager for Eastern Air Lines at Charlotte, will discuss war time and post-war aviation in an address to the Shelby Rotary club Friday. Posey Bryan Martin Claimed By Death Posey Bryan Martin, aged 47, veteran of World War 1, died sud denly at his home in Patterson Springs last night at 11:45 o'clock. He farmed up until about 17 or 18 years ago. Recently he had been a patient at a Veterans hospital. He was a member of New Buffalo Bap tist church. He is survived by his wife who was formerly Miss Mary Sue Flip py-, three sons, Eugene Floyd Mar tin, who is serving in the navy, Kenneth and C. L. Martin; a sis ter, Mrs. C. B. Horton, of Grover; three brothers, C. B. Martin, of Gaffney, E. J. Martin, of Birming ham, Ala.; J. V. Martin, of Shelby. Funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the New Hope Maptist church at Earl. Service will be conducted by Rev. Nathan Hardin. Interment will take place in the church cemetery. BATT Starts On Page One the air. These were among muni tions totals announced for the first time, covering the period from the start of the defense program in July, 1940, to the end of 1944. PLANE OUTPUT All types of planes numbered 246,845, of which 79,776 were fight ers and 19,547 were transports. “In merchant vessels we have produced 45,384,000 deadweight tons of ocean-going cargo ships. Of na val vessels there have been con structed no fewer than 56,697. xxx “The President wanted 45,000 tanws. Well, we have actually turn ed out 75,000 tanks, x x x "We have produced 37,198,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition xxx 2,297,502 short tons of ground artillery ammunition xxx 3,130,000 short tons of aircraft bombs, 59, 646,000 grenades. “Now these are some stratospher ic figures xxx and every American may justifiably feel proud.” But, Batt said, this does not per mit extensive planning for recon version. DON’T UNDERESTIMATE "We must not underestimate the Japanese any more than we have now learned not to underestimate the Germans.” Saying the Japanese land army now is about as large as the Ger man army at its peak, Batt add ed: “Our present naval operations and victories must certainly be preliminary to big military land ings somewhere. At the end of supply lines three times as long as those that have separated us from the Germans, and lacking an advance Portress base such as we had in Britain, we must conduct a land war, possibly a scale com parable to that we have waged in Europe, at that tremendous dis tance. xxx “I can tell you that our military men may not use much of the equipment they have employed in Europe against the Japanese. Sec retary Stimson says they will use what thev can. PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS "But men fighting in the tropics and in many parts of the Orient require, as you know, different clothing than men fighting in northwest Europe. Weapons design ed for the fairly good highways and rail transportation of Europe are not necessarily adapted to the primitive conditions of the Far East. “Further than that, Just the me chanical job of cleaning up, re pairing and packing much of the equipment x x x so that it could be shipped to the Pacific is an ap palling job and to a very consider able degree simply nuot practica ble. “I think the inevitable result must be therefore that as we move to the Orient from Europe, our Army and air force will have to be pretty completely re-equipped. This is another part of the big job ahear of us.” TTilrty-seven percent of Fiance’s land is arable, and about 38 percent of her prewar j population was directly engaged j in agriculture. RECORDS JUST RECEIVED You Belong To My Heart Saturday Night More and More Right As The Rain PHONE SHELBY. N. C. A HALSEY-ISMS ‘Bull’ Throws ’Em Like Lariats -4 ... , (. They also reached Ginnich, two miles west of Zuelpich. NINTH ON MOVE 4 dispatch passed through the Ninth army’s blackout said Simp son’s forces “advanced farther to wards the Ruhr along several ap proaches.” The continuance of the blackout was in itself the most sub stantial evidence that tank and motorized infantry teams still were on the loose in their surge around Muenchen Gladbach (127,000', due west of Duesseldorf. The dispatch said resistance was light to moderate with the Ger mans in some places retreating in a vild dash to cross the Rhine, ofter destroying their own pillboxes. In the weeklong offensive, the First and Ninth armies have captured a total of more than 200 inhabited piaces east of the Roer river. Both armies are fighting now in built up areas, easily defended, with towns and villages almost continuous. The Third army on the souti flank of the Cologne plain pushec on from the captured road centei of Bitburg to the Kyll river wesi bank, where a crossing woulc ! crack the last natural defense lin< before Coblenz. AIR OFFENSIVE Starts On Page One nications centers and three roa( bridges from nprthwest of Cologni to west of Coblenz. Allied air fleets during Febru against the Reich with record lov ary flew more than 100,000 sortie lasses. Berlin was bombed again las night by RAF Mosquitos with two ton blockbusters. It was the nintl successive night attack on the Ger man capital. Two thousand Allied planes madi six attacks in daylight yesterday or rail and oil targets in westerr German. U. S. Eighth air forci losses in those attacks were threi bombers and four fighters. Pfc. Everett Camp Is Cited In France Pfc. Everett G. Camp, son of Mr and Mrs. Charlie Camp of Shelby has been awarded the Army Goo< Conduct medal for "fidelity througl faithful and exact performance o duty and for behavior such as t< deserve emulation.” Pfc. Camp i. serving with the 127th Genera hospital stationed somewhere ir France. Prior to induction he wa: employed by the Esther Mills Co. been invited to accept a zone o control in Germany, to join as : sponsor of the United Nations con ference, that she will have a per manent member on the Interna tional Security council with th< other four major powers, and sh( will be associated in the joint re sponsibility over liberated areas. ANYONE HAVING BILLS FOR HAMMOCK MOTORS Is Requested to Present Them Immediately. We Desire To Close All Ac counts the first of the Month. Furnl.hed by J. Robert Undsay and Company Wbb Building Shelby. N. C N. Y. COTTON AT 2:00 Today Prev. Da; March.22.24 22.20 hfay .22.13 22.09 July .21.83 21.78 October.21.23 21.17 December _ .r21.15 21.10 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT May .1.64% 1.63* July . _1.56% 1.55* September . .1.55% 1.54% CORN May .1.13% 1.12% July _ .1.12% 1.11% September _ _1.09% 1.09 May..*....1.13% 1.12% July . .1.12 1.10% September _ .1.09 1.07% STOCKS AT 2:06 Amn Rolling Mill _ ...... 19 1-8 American Loco . - 34 1-4 American Tobacco B -- 73 3-4 American Tel and Tel . .. 163 1-4 Anaconda Copper . _ 34 Assoc Dry Goods __21 3-8 Beth Steel. 74 5-8 Boeing Air .. _ 20 1-8 ! Chrysler . _ 102 3-8 i Curtiss-Wright . 6 1-4 Elec Boat . _ lc ! General Motors . - 61 Pepsi Cola . _ 24 Greyhound Corp _ _ 25 International Paper _ - 25 Nash Kelv . . 18 Glenn L Martin... Newport Ind . _ 21 N Y Central . 24 Penn R R . . 36 Radio Corp . _ 12 Reynolds Tob B . .. Southern Railroad . .. Stand Oil N J . . 60 Sperry Corp . . 30 U S Rubber . . 59 U S Steel . 64 Western Union . 47 Youngstown S and T. 3-8 1-4 3-! 1-8 1-4 3-4 3-4 1-1 34 3! 5-! 3-1 3“ 7-1 3-1 41 STOCKS HIT PEAKS I NEW YORK, March 1—(A>)—Thi ! stock market got a head start oi March today by registering nev highs for more than seven year, with steels and pivotal industrial again providing the leadership. Inflation warnings from bank ers and others continued to ac centuate the hedging propensitie of idle funds. A little chilling t< : this psychology, however, was th ! denial of Secretary Morgenthai I that there was any likelihood o l hiking the gold price. Dividend niiu cauiuiffia pcxojusLcu ao ^uiuww ; mg inspiration. Bonds and commodities ar steady. N. C. HOGS RALEIGH. March 1—— fNCD ' A)—Hog markets steady with top of 14.55 at Clinton and Rock Mount and 14.85 at Richmond. N. C. EGGS, POULTRY RALEIGH, March 1— surrounding communities that wi! participate in the convention are - Vaughn's Happy Four from Rhod • Hess, The Carolina Melody Bo: 1 and the Spindle City Quartet fro. ' Gastonia, The Ranlo Quartet fror Ranlo, The Smith Quartet an 1! Victory Quartet from Spartanburj 1 Parkgrave Quartet from King ‘ Mountain, The Warren Twins (ac ; cordianists) from York, and sev eral quartets from Shelby an Cleveland county. Garland Thomo son of Gastonia will be in charg of the convention. All singers ar invited to attend and take part oi the program. [ Suicide is unknown among th t Zuni Indians of New Mexico. WANT ADS ; WANTED: GIRL TO WORK II Drug Store. Call 9113. 2t 1 TVeatfoi! TTfllS season of the yet/, with sudden temperature changes, is hard on the chronic"cold-catcher.”Take no chances. Stop that first sniffle! Better call on a phy sician, let him diagnose your special type of cold and pre scribe for it.Then, of course, bring bis prescription here for careful compounding. SluU>i|.Vnii^Co[ -wt a.., South Washington St. MEET IN PARIS—Cpl. Lloyd J. Cooke, left, son of J. W. Cooke of Bel wood, route 1, and Sgt. Robert M. Parker, right, son of Mrs. C. D. Parker of route 2, Lawndale, met accidentally in Paris for the first time since their induction in August, 1943. Cpl. Lloyd Cooke received his training at Paine Field, Everett, Washington, and Sgt. Robert Parker was trained at Camp Barkeley, Texas. SOVIETS Starts On Page One that the Russians had finally be gun large-scale operations across ■ the Neisse in the thick defense zone . j between that river and the Spree. This is the ‘‘east wall” which the Germans have prepared as Ber lin's southeastern defenses. German broadcasts frankly ad I mitted that Nazi forces in Dan zig, the Polish corridor and east ern Pomerania were in immediate danger of being cut off. By latest official Russian an j nouncement Marshal K. K. Rokos sovsky's troops still had 22 miles to go from captured Bublitz to cross the coastal highway and i railway connecting Danzig with i Stettin, but a German broadcast; i said Red Army vanguards had . reached Pollnow, 16 miles from the; : two communication lines. I NEUSTETTIN FALLS I: Neustettin, a five-way railway hub and major block in Rokos-, sovsky’s pathway to the Baltic. . fell to a combined frontal assault , and outflanking maneuver. A •; communique said 300 of its garri-; ;, son were slain and 600 captured. ; Fifteen hundred Russians were j freed from slave labor. . | The Moscow bulletin announced .1 gains of five to six miles along i | Rokossovsky's 40-mile assault j , front, but none that would take . him any nearer the coast than , s Bublitz, captured two days ago. f I More than 50 towns fell yester- ; ; 1 day, however, in the general line .1 straightening and solidifying oper ations from Schwomigatz, 11 miles ; north of the Polish corridor city of Chojnice, westward to Bublitz. Moscow announced only minor 1 activities on the rest of the Red . Army front. In East Prussia six s more villages were captured. In MEAT Starts On Page One aoosted one point to six a pound. Boneless hams, whole or half, go from seven to eight points; spare- : ribs from three to four, and fat ' backs, hocks and jowls to .two points from one or zero. Loin roasts go from six to seven points. Many sausage products now ra tion-free will cost points igain, as will a number of liver items such as braunschweiger and liver loaf. Many canned meats, such as corned beef hash and deviled ham, either come off the point free list or get a boost in ration value. EXCEPTIONS In the few exceptions to the general beef hike, porterhouse and T-bone steaks, for instance, will cost nine instead of 12 points a pound Round steak is reduced to 10 points from 13, while a round tip beef roast will have a value of nine points rather than 11. A bcnelc-ss sirloin roast will require 10 points a pound, down from 12. Barring an unexpected change in government requirements, the j OPA chief asserted, "no marked improvement in civilian meat sup plies may be safely expected before late summer or early autumn." ! The new higher point values' which went into effect last week- i end will continue during March! for lard, shortening, salad and cooking oils, and margarine. Five more red stamps—E2 thru J2 in ration book four—will be val id for buying meats and fats be ginning Sunday. They will be good through June 30. Silesia, another 10 blocks and the! suburb of Kleinischank were taken j in besieged Breslau. FLOWERS WILL BE PLENTIFUL FOR EASTER 4 There will be plenty of flowers or milady’s corsage for Easter Sunday, in the opinion of Cecil Gil iatt, Shelby’s retail florist who aid today that the prospects arc low that roses, lilies, orchids, and ither blossoms will be plentiful if irdered early enough. There will ilso be plenty of potted plants, he hinks. Orders are already coming in for lowers for Easter Sunday which alls this year on April 1. This is vise precaution, thinks Mr. Gil iatt who says that it gives the lorlst some idea of the local de nand for which he can prepare iccordingly. BIENNIAL Starts On Page One The only representative to ex ilain his vote was Vogler of Meck enburg. He said he consistently lad opposed the three percent ;ales tax since its adoption in 1933 ind originally this session had hought about trying to reduce it o two percent But inclusion of he emergency war salaries in the ipending bill caused him to change lis mind. The house also passed, 29-2, on third reading a bill for a constitutional amendment to give equal rights — including jury service—to women. As the accelerated tempo of the 1945 session of the general assem bly continued, scheduled for spe cial conisderatlon today was the state’s $129,000,000 finance bill which came from the committee and is ready for enactment. The measure was expected to be sent through both houses on speedy passage, as the lawmakers contin ued their burst of speed looking toward an early termination of their deliberations. The bill, which provides money for the general fund, is expected to yield a total of $129,715,000 for the next two years. This is around $1,500,000 under appropriations, now standing at approximately $232, 000.000. WANT ADS WANTED TO BUY RADIO COM bination. floor type. Call 9-R or 81 in Kings Mountain, N. C. 6t lc gon. 1 set leather harness, 3 leather collars, 4 bridles, Korean lespedeza seed. Glenn Lee, Lawn dale. 2t lp FOR SALE: 1000 LBS. KOREAN Lespedeza, 8c lb. David E. Beam, between Double Shoals and Fall ston. 3t 2p i s HAMMOCK HAS SOLD OUT ) i / 1 s 1 1 i I ! This is to notify my friends and customers in Shelby, Cleveland County and Western North Carolina that I have sold my automotive business known as Hammock Motors, to Herman Roberts and B. P. Sherer. The sale became effective Tuesday, February 27, and the business is now being operated by the new owners, employing the same service personnel. THANK YOU FOR PAST PATRONAGE 11 has been my pleasure and privilege to do business with hundreds of loyal friends and customers in my eight years of operation of Hammock Motors. Your enthus iasm for our products—Oldsmobile cars and Interna tional Trucks—and your acceptance of our service and policies, have been truly gratifying. I am deeply grate ful for your support. And when this war is over, you may expect to see Hammock's sign hanging in some convenient location in Shelby, to continue service to the community which has been so good to us. H. M. Hammock