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.
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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
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5-!
3-1
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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—