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i WEATHER North Carolina — Partly cloudy preceded by showers on coast this forenoon, cooler east, continued cool west portion today followed by fair and cool tonight. Saturday fair. Tshe Hhelby Baily - Him« CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - .State Theatre Today - “Eve Knew Her Apples” Starring ANN MILLER With Wm. WRIGHT VUU ALilll—119 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c U. S. Willing To Relinquish Part Of Her Occupation Zone To France TRUMAN TALKS WITH BIDAULT; TO AID FRANCE Expresses Appreciation Of Part French Can Play In Settlement BIG-THREE MEETING By D. Harold Oliver WASHINGTON, May 18.— (fP)—President Truman told the French foreign minister today the United States is willing to relinquish to France a part of the American zone of occupation in Germany. The President, following a con ference with Minister Georges Bi dault, issued a statement saying details of the relinquishment “have already been conveyed in formally to the French government and are now in the process of be ing formalized." Mr. Truman expressed a de sire to meet General Charles de Gaulle, head of the French provisional government and said that “there was a full ap preciation by the United States government of the part which France could and would play in the settlement of questions of world and European inter , eats.” Bidault was asked If he and Mr. Truman discussed suggestions that France participate in the coming Big Three meeting, he replied the conversations were about political questions of the day, not especially about meetings. President Truman added in his Sea TRUMAN Page S WORK ON NEW | COAL CONTRACT i Ickts Suggests $1.37 Vz Per Doy Boost As Compromise WASHINGTON, May 18 —! John L. Lewis and anthracite op erators sought today to write a new contract that would boost the daily pay of hard coal miners $1.37 1-2 and end a three-week strike. An agreement this week could send the miners back to work Monday. The pay figure waa suggest ed aa a compromise by Inter ior Secretary Ickes, who has been in technical control of the mines as solid fuels ad ministrator since President Truman ordered the workings seised May 3. The 72,000 Pennsylvania an thracite miners have been idle since their contract expired April 30. Lewis has Ignored a War La I bor board order to extend the old contract. Ickes’ sudden move late yester day was viewed with optimism, in goveriment quarters. The fact that both sides accepted his proposal as a basis for resuming deadlocked negotiations was considered en couraging. DISTRIBUTION The interior secretary made no recommendations how the wage inerca so aKnillH Q. mong the miners’ various de mands. Lewis for instance, asked $1.50 for underground travel time, in addition to other so-called fringe adjustments, including shift differentials and higher vacation allowances. Some authorities thought the un derground or ’’portal-to-portal’’ compensation under Ickes’ propos ed ceiling would amount to be tween $1.12 1-2 and $1.20 per day. VACATION ALLOWANCE In the recently-approved bitu minous contract, travel pay allow ances were augmented by second and third shift premiums of 4 and 6 cents, respectively and the former $50 vacation allowance was increased to $75. Ickes’ proposal was lower than one advanced by Labor Secretary Perkins in her effort to end the negotiations deadlock in New York. This was variously estimat ed at between $1.69 and $1.79 a day, including $1.50 for under ground travel and lunch time. The Ickes figure is approxi mately midway between the $1.79 sought by Lewis and the original $1.03 counter offer of the opera tors. Ickes conferred at length with coal cost experts of his de partment, who in turn consulted with both sides, before proposing the $1.31 l-a compromise. _ finiflfrr HITLER AM) SWEETHEART BEFORE FATE OVERTOOK HIM—This is a pre-war photo of Adolf Hitler and his sweetheart, Eva Braun, at the Nazi leader's Berchtesgaten retreat. The chief of Hitler's secretarial staff now says Eva Braun virtually entered a suicidal pact with the fuehrer when she joined him in Berlin during the final siege of the city.—(AP Wirephoto) Mortally Wounded Ship Comes Through Lots Of Life Heavy When Mighty Carrier Was Blasted Just Off Coast Of Japan By ALVIN S. McCOY Kansas City War Correspondent Distributed By The Associated Press ABOARD THE U. S. S. SANTA FE IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC, March 20.—(Delayed)—(#)—A full day after the carrier Franklin was bombed, bodies floated by us in the sea, dropped from the carrier ahead in a seemingly endless stream as burial services went on interminably. < Mcuoy ana »zd otner survivors were removed by the cruiser Santa Fe a few hours after the disaster. Meanwhile the Franklin’s remain ing crew fought the seemingly im possible situation to save the stricken ship which had been tak en in tow and headed away from Japan. At six o’clock tonight Captain Fitz of the Santa Fe announced over the public address system. “T o d a y”, he said, "the Franklin cast off its tow. I have just received a report that she is able to make 21 knots. We have come 207 miles from where the Franklin was hit. but we are still only 225 miles from places where the Jap airfields are located.” Each minute the Franklin’s chances for survival seemed bright er, chances that appeared incredi bly slim when she lay wounded off Nippon’s shores. The Franklin was blasted by more than 30 tons of its own bombs and rockets after the Japanese bomber struck it, and it erupted four hours yesterday off the coast of Japan to cause one of the most horrible naval catastrophes of the war. LOOKED HOPELESS Blotted out by smoke towering a mile high when she was hit, wrecked by intermittent explosions of her own ammunition for four hours, dead in the sea 60-odd miles from southern Japan, and listing almost 20 degrees to starboard, the Fran klin appeared a certain candidate for Davy Jones locker. The Franklin survived more cruel punishment than any See MORTALLY Page 2 Act Of Chapultepec And Security Council Conflict By JAMES MARLOW SAN FRANCISCO, May 18. —</P) —Maybe by now you need an as pirin because phrases like these— Act of Chapultepec, Pan-American ism, regional arrangements—have been pouring out of the United Na tions conference. Here’s an expla nation : The American republics, North and South, met in Mexico City last March and drew up an agreement which they called the Act of Cha pultepfec. It was the kind of agree ment the Latin American coun tries particularly wanted. It said: If any nation—foreign or American—attacked an American nation ,the other American coun tries would take united action against the aggressor. Now comes the United Nations conference whose purpose is to create a world organization which can prevent war from breaking out any place on earth. NEW LEAGUE (Only American countries met at Mexico City. But 49 nations—the Americas and'nations of Europe and See ACT Pag e 2 THE‘FRANKLIN' RETORNSHOME Carrier Miraculously Sur vived One Of Severest Ordeals Of War By POPE HALEY WASHINGTON, May 18.— The aircraft carrier Franklin which miraculously survived one of the severest ordeals of this or any war, is home. She came home, sadly crippled but under her own power, her char red and battered hull manned by a skeleton crew of survivors. Now un dergoing repairs at the Brooklyn navy yard, she will resume her place in the war against Japan. Until now Japanese radio prop agandists never knew how close they they came to being right when they boasted that the 27,000-ton vessel of the Essex class had been sunk. As it was the carrier suffered 832 men killed and missing and 270 wounded—more than one-third her total complement—in blazing, agon izing hours. LUCKY Chance played into the hands of the lone enemy dive bomber that streaked suddenly out of the clouds within 60 miles of the Japanese coast on the morning of March 19 and dropped two 500-pound armor See THE FRANKLIN Page 2 WILLIE T. DOSTER, GM 3/c THREE COUNTY MEN MISSING Doster, Devinney, Welch Are Missing; Walton III In Burma Area Four Cleveland county boys are listed as casualties by the war de partment in reports received today. Willie T. Doster. GM 3/c of route 3, Shelby and Roy Colon Devin ney Seaman 1/c of rte 1, Casar, are reported missing while serv ing with the Navy and Pfc. War ren B. Welch of Kings Mountain, is missing in action in Germany. Cpl. Edgar H. Walton of rte 1, Belwood, is reported seriously ill in the India-Burma area. Willie T. Doster, GM 3/c, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Doster of route 3, Shelby, has been reported by the war department as missing in action while serving with the Navy, according to a telegram re ceived by his wife, the former Miss Ray Elaine Queen. Gunner’s Mate Doster entered the Navy in 1942 and served for sometime in the Atlantic fleet making several trips overseas. His wife, Mrs. Willie T. Doster, is making her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Queen, at 109 textile St., in Shel by while he is in service. Mrs. Gwendolyn Hoyle Devinney 5>ee THREE Page 2 British Think Reds May Join War On Jap NEW YORK, May 18—(/P)—The Paris radio quoted British diplo matic circles today as saying that “Russia might j3in the war by first addressing an ultimatum to Japan, demanding acceptance of the terms of total surrender to the Allies and abandonment of all Japanese conquests on the conti nent.” The broadcast was record ed by CBS. GESTAPO HAD PLOT TO KILL EISENHOWER Entire Western Front Had Been On Alert For Months PUSH MANHUNT By Wes Gallagher PARIS, May 18.—QP)—One of Supreme Headquarters’ top security secrets was made public toady with official dis closure that a picked gang of assassins under the leader ship of gest'apo chief Hein rich Himmler’s hatchetman, Lt. Col Otto Skorzeny, had plotted last winter to kill Gen. Esienhower. Confirming capture of the giant, 35 - year - old political kidnaper, headquarters revealed the plot had kept the entire western front in a state of alert for months during ind after the Ardennes battle. Meanwhile, history’s biggest manhunt for notorious Nazis still at large was being pressed from Norway to the Bavarian Alps. A war crimes commission official said a decision on what to do with the German military Hiearchy probably would be reached at the commission’s conference May 31. He said the blacklist was about, complete. Skorzeny, six-foot-four leader of the raiding party which freed Be nito Mussolini from Allied custody in Italy in September, 1943, was taken by the 15th regiment, U. S. Third division, in the Arl valley. Most of the story about the Skorzeny plot was submitted to cen See GESTAPO Page 2 HOSIERY MILL BUYS PLANT SITE Full Knit Acquires Prop erty For Plant Site After War A tract of land of about three acres has been purchased by the Pull Knit Hosiery Mills on which to erect a modern plant when machinery and building materials are available. The site is a part of the Mrs. Julius Smith property on Buffalo street between the Eastside Baptist church and the Carolina Dairy’s new plant. At present the Full Knit Hos iery is operating in a rented build ing at 317 South Morgan street where it operates sixty machines. The local plant is under direction of John Wilkins, who is experienc ed in this field. He was discharged from military service in May 1943. The Full Knit Hosiery Mill op erates two paints, one in Shelby and one at Burlington, the home office, and also has connections with a number of other mills. Mr. Wilkins states that a meet ing of officials will be held within a few days at which time the type of building, and size to be con structed will be decided upon. Ma chinery has been on order for many months and it is planned to begin construction when delivery of machinery and building materials can be had. KUHNISSENT BACK TO REICH WASHINGTON, May 18 —Ti£P)— Former German-American Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn has been or dered deported to Germany as an undesirable alien, the justice de partment announced today. The order was issued by the board of immigration appeals. The justice department said the 49-year-old native of Munich, who was convicted in 1939 of larceny and forgery involving German American Bund funds, will be placed on a boat at a time to be determined by American military authorities in Germany. After being paroled from Dan nemora prison. New York, where he was serving a two and one-half to five year term on the larceny and forgery charges, Kuhn was interned as an enemy alien and sent to Crystal City, Tex., on July 8, 1943. ATTACK BY DOGS KILLS WOMAN—Mrs. Doretta Zinke (left), eth nologist lecturer and war worker died at Miami Fla. an hour and a half after police said she was Attacked by nine pit bulldogs. Manslaughter charges were filed against Joe Munn of Hialeah owner of a pack of dogs trained for pit fighting. He is shown (right t with one of his dogs en route to a dog pound where all nine were held prior to their being killed today. AT CONFERENCE: Veto Control Plan Nearing Test Vote All Five Big Powers Stand Together On Ho Force Without Full Agreement By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 18.—(A5)—The outspoken op position of many small nations to the big-power plan for a veto control of future peace-keeping machinery today nears a United Nations conference test vote. appeals pussiuie uiau uie uig powers—the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France—may accept some modification of the veto where peaceful settlement of disputes is concerned although Russia could block this. But they all stand firmly on the proposal that no force should be used a gainst any nation except when all five agree. Prospects are then on a show down the powers can put over the voting formulas they want with the argument that / unless they stick together on 'great interna tional issues of the future no peace keeping league can hope to pre vent war. As the battle of the veto builds up in one of the key committees, here are other top conference de velopments: 1. Considerable support, appar ently enough to put it over, is forming behind an Australian pro posal to pledge the United Nations to respect each other’s territorial integrity and political independ See VETO Page 2 Czech Government Has long List Of War Criminals LONDON, May 18—OP)—A source close to the Czechoslovak govern ment said today its list of war criminals now numbered more than 500 names and included all the ranking officials of Hitler’s wartime government. A Czechoslovak commission will leave for Germany shortly to help collect evidence for trials, but will return in time for the May 31 conference of representatives of the 16 nations which have mem bers on the general war crimes commission. Multi-Million- Dollar Gold Scandal In China Revealed By JAMES D. WHITE WASHINGTON, May 18.—f/P)— Details of a multi-million-dollar Chungking “gold scandal” involving yellow metal loaned by this coun try are coming to light here despite a tight Chinese censorship. The scandal stemmed from pre mature leak of a Chinese govern ment decision in March to raise the official price of gold, thus permit ting Chungking speculators to make fantastic profits in a few hours. Dr. T. V. Soong, Chinese for eign minister, took note of the incident late yesterday by au i thorizing the statement to a reporter that drastic punishment awaits those involved. Soong declined further comment, lowever, explaining he has not yet earned the results of an investiga ;ion he ordered just before leaving Chungking last month for Wash ington and the San Francisco [Jnited Nations conference. But from his office here it was earned that: On March 28 the official price of »old in China was raised from 20, See GOLD SCANDAL I’age 2 POLICE PROBE SLAYING CASE Woman Torn To Pieces In Mass Attack By Nine Vicious Dogs MIAMI, FLA., May 18—UP)—Po lice worked today to clear up puz zling aspects of the strange case of an attractive 39-year-old woman torn to pieces in a mass attack by nine bull pit terriers. The dogs meanwhile ate vorac-1 MIAMI, FLA., May 18—(/Pi Nine bull pit terriers which in a mass attack tore to pieces an attractive 39-year-old wo man, will be put to death to day in a gas chamber. Justice of the Peace Henry L. Oppenborn said the execu tion order wan issued so that an autopsy might be perform ed on the animals to learn if the stomachs contain any par ticles of clothing tom from the woman’s body, iously at the city pound of rations provided by the city, while Joe imprisoned owner, 43-year-old Joe Munn of Hialeah, decreed they must die. Police quoted him as saying: “They are a bad strain. They must be destroyed.” See POLICE Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 8:00 p.m.—Called meeting of Cleveland Lodge A. F. & A. M. for work in third degree. MARINE SIXTH IS BROADENING ITS BRIDGEHEAD There Is Still No Sign Of Collapse Of Grim Defense NEAR SHURI By Leif Erickson GUAM, May 18.—(/P)—The Okinawa campaign is slowly shaping into a decisive phase with the Sixth Marine divis ion battling to broaden a bridgehead in the capital city, Naha, and three divisions steadily closing on the for tress city of Shuri from three sides. Now 48 days old the Okinawa campaign ranks as one of the Pa cific war's toughest. There still is no evidence suggesting any col lapse in the grim defense by an estimated 34,000 Japanese and Oki-* nawa “home guarde” survivors of an original garrison force of 80, 000 or more troops. Tenth army pressure against the Japanese “little Siegfried line” has been sustained and hard hitting since the Marine 3rd Amphibious corps took over the western half of the southern front and two fresh ened army divisions went into the line on the 24th army corps sector on the east. The longer the ground campaign lasts, the longer supply vessels and warships will be exposed to per sistent Japanese aerial attacks, in which more than two dozen Am erican vessels have been sunk and a material number damaged. A second consideration is that Okinawa terrain providing the best V base development potentialities is the southern sector below Naha and Shuri. Okinawa’s best airfield, Na ha airdrome, lies about a mile southwest of Naha across an enclosed harbor. It undoubted ly will be the primary airfield See MARINE Page 2 TRAPSCLOSING ON LUZON JAPS Big Enemy Force Hemmed In Neor Ipo Dam, Unit Well Supplied MANILA, May 1.—Iff)—'Two traps were closing today on sizeable Jap anese garrisons on Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippines. In central Luzon, the biggest enemy force yet enveloped in the archipelago wras hemmed in by Maj. Gen. Leonard F. Wing’s 43rd division near Ipo dam, chief water source for Manila. The Nipponese are at least at regimental strength. They are well supplied with artillery, mortars and small arms. The Yanks have beat en off one enemy attempt to break out, killing 14 Japanese. In the central sector of Min danao, southern island of the Phil ippines, Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush’s 40th division and Maj. Gen. Clar ence Martin’s 31st division, have another sizable enemy force squeez ed between them along the Sayre highway. Today’s communique reported ad vances which narrowed the gap between the 40th and 31st from 55 to 45 miles. The 40th is driving south from the Del Monte air base center. The 31st has pushed north to the edge of the air base of Va lencia after putting the captured airstrip at Maramag into operation for transport planes. Liberated French Score Black Markets PARIS, May 18. -M’i— Three hundred Frenchmen liberated from slave labor in Germany paraded along the Champs Elysees today shouting “Down with the black market.” The demonstration highlighted conditions here under which vir tually all city dwellers are forced to patronize the wide open black market to live, although rationing with controlled prices is theoreti cally in effect. Prices run up to $35 for a decent restaurant meal. $250 for a pack of cigarettes, $1.60 for a bar of Amer ican chocolate. $4 or more for a : pound of butter.
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