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WEATHER North Carolina—Fair and slight ly warmer today and tonight, Tuesday, partly cloudy and warm with afternoon thundershowers in the mountains. - State Theatre Today - “MURDER, MY SWEET” Dick Powell — Claire Trevor Anne Shirley VOL. XLI11—121 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MAY 21, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c MARINES AT CREST OF LAST RIDGE REFORE SHURI I mm plane BAGS ENTIRE JAP CONVOY Five Ships, Totaling 17, 000 Tons Sunk Off For mosa Saturday ONE TROOP CARRIER By Fred Hampson MANILA, May 21.—f/P)— In one of the war’s outstand ing aerial feats, a single Phil ippines-based navy patrol plane destroyed an entire Japanese convoy of five ships, totaling 17,000 tons off For mosa Saturday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported today. The largest ship, more than 5.500 tons, was a troop carrier, judging from its numerous liferafts. A total of 369,818 Japanese have been killed and captured In the seven months' Philippines campaign, 14,408 of them In the last fornight, MacArthur an nounced. Japanese lorces driven nortn oi Davao into a succession of defense lines on Mindanao Island appear ed to be weakening. A U. S. 24th division column which speared up the coast, throw ing a flank threat at stoutly de fended Sasa airfield, did not meet resistance until the end of a full day’s advance. "At nightfall, it over came strong Nipponese positions 3.000 yards northwest of Ipil village. RESISTANCE Other element* of the 24th knock ed out strong Japanese resistance around Tugbok on the main Japan ese escape route Into the moun tains. One company beat off four counterattacks by a single Japan ese platoon one night. The Sayre highway on north central Mindanao was opened to the Yanks as far a* Dallrig village as the 40th and American divisions drove south. Advancing northward toward a Juncture, the 31st bucked sniper fire to reach within 11 miles of Malaybalay, provincipal capital of Bukldnon. On Luzon, where fog and rain added to toughness of the fight. Yanks cleaned out resisting pockets In the Balete Pa*6 of the northern sector and in the Ipo pocket east of Manila. Aussie veterans captured Hill 105 on Tarakan island, off Borneo, mid point of the Nipponese defense line in the center of the island. Diggers in British New Guinea captured Brandi plantation, near captured Wewak, and reached the eastern edge of Boram airfield af ter a mile advance. HOCHfflir RECAPTURED t CHUNGKING. May 21. -—f/P)— Chinese troops In a sudden offen sive In Kwangsi province have re captured Hochih, important Jap anese bastion on the Kwangsi Kweiehow railroad. 95 miles west of the rail Junction city of Liuchow, the Chinese high command an nounced today. On the east China coast, Chinese troops hammering eastward from the captured city of Foochow — possible American invasion port— have occupied Mamoi. eight miles distant, and other Chinese reached the vicinity of Lienkong, 20 miles northeast of Foochow, the high command said. The coastal- suc cesses were scored in yesterday’s fighting. Hochllh was one of the Japanese strong points screening the enemy corridor to Indo-China. Repeated Chinese attacks had failed to dis lodge the strongly entrenched Jap anese there during the winter cam paign. Chinese forces on the east coast also seized another port in the Foo chow area, and rumors persisted that enemy troops were evacuating numerous China coast positions which they feared would be turned Into death traps in the event of an American Invasion. Sallada Nominated Aeronautics Chief WASHINGTON, May 21. —— President Truman nominated Rear Admiral Harold B. Sallada to be chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Ae ronautics with the same rank. Admiral Sallada will replace Rear Admiral Dewitt Clinton Ramsey who has been chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics since Aug. 6, 1943. Ramsey’s new assignment was not announced immediately. . The President also nominated Monnet B. Davis of Colorado to be minister to Denmark. Davis is now a personal representative of the President in Denmark with the ' rank of minister. I Wuanburg Nuar nborg K GERMANY Stuttgrt Danube/ft Augsburg .MUNICH AUSTRIA IsrcMi»sgjd«n^>r5*lzburg Iriadrkhshafan Ca*Whia Villach Itonzo ITALY Ljubljana IiisitV VtHtZL Vtnk* Isnirs .Ravarma oOLOGNA CZECHOSLOVAKIA ■. «r ^ Tabor Irutnij SWITZ YUGOSLAVIA p'»=r .•' N m m Adriatic Sea STaTuTI MillS WHERE BRITAIN. II. fi niSPUTE TITO ri.ATMK_Rhnriort in. eludes Styria and the eastern part of Venezia Guillia in Italy, part of which between the U. S. and Britain and Wirephoto Map). Carinthia in southern Austria and are involved in a territorial dispute Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.—(AP Army Takes Over Cocker Machine Co. „ /■; .... Employees, Out Since January 30, Returned To Work Today Under Army Control GASTONIA, May 21.—(/P)—Employees of the Cocker Machine and Foundry company returned to their jobs today as the plant resumed operations under control of the U. S. ! Army. I Ben Abernethy. president of the Moulders’ Union Local, said mem* ! bers of his union were icing back I to work, ending a strike that be ! gan January 30 as a result of a labor dispute. All machine shop workers had already returned, he added. The company produces machin ery used in the manufacture of i war-essential tires, i The army took over on an order by President Truman is sued Sunday, and possession was taken at 2 pm., by Capt. Ben jamin P. Anderson of the Quartermaster general's office, who announced late Sunday operatives were expected to re turn to work today. The plant was closed last Jan uary when machinists and found erers walked out following a labor dispute. Most of the disputed mat ters have been ironed out, but the company still is unwilling to ac cept compulsory company main tenance of union membership, the WLB announced. UNIONS INVULVEU The International Molder and Foundry Workers Union and the International Association of Ma chinists, two AFL affiliates, are involved in the dispute. Some 120 workers walked out originally, but since that time some machinists have returned to their posts, but no founderers. The Cocker plant makes me chanical equipment for production of high tenacity rayon yam and yarn duck, used In the’ manufac ture of tires. It was the second instance In the south where the army has taken possession of a textile plant. The other was at Asheville, where on Feb. 18 the military authorities took over the American Enka Cor poration, also engaged In essential war production. NO TROOPS Capt. Anderson was accompanied by several officers, but no troops were present. The controversy be tween management and labor has See ARMY Page * CONCILIATORY TONE ADOPTED Yugoslav-Controlled Pa per Offers Prospect Of Settlement TRIESTE, May . 21 —(/P)— The Yugoslav - controlled newspaper newspaper here adopted a concil iatory tone today as Yugoslav au thorities published the text of Marshal Sir Harold Alexander’s message to his troops on the dis pute over Italian and Austrian ter ritory. The newspaper II Nostro Avvenire gave Trieste citizens and most of Marshal Tito’s soldiers what probably was their first news of Alexander’s statement and brought the gravity into the open in Trieste, but the tone of the editorial seemed to offer the prospect of a settlement. ‘ The maintenance of peace Is the task of everybody,” said the editorial. "Now less than ever must we yield to the Intrigues of our ene TRIESTE, May 21 —</P)— Yugoslav forces which pene trated into Carinthia and Sty rla began moving out of Aus tria in force today in trucks provided by the British Eighth army and are expected to be outside the border by tonight. mles who always have tried In vain to spread discord among the Al lies. “Tito’s Yugoslavia does not wish —now that the people have reach ed the peace they longed for so long to be the cause of perturba tion, but she must have the right to validate her dignity and respect and while one can discuss every thing and find a Pacific solution to satisfy various parties there can See CONCILIATION Page 2 THE WAR TODAY: Tito’s Demands Will Be Test Of Big Three Unity By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer The unity of the Big Three is likely to get a sharp and revealing test in the explosive situation cre ated by Yugoslavia’s territorial claims against Italy and Austria— and the Anglo-American order to their diplomatic representatives and nationals in Yugoslavia to prepare for possible evacuation in dicates that a showdown is near. This crisis revolves about dyna mic Marshal Tito, Yugoslavia’s Red politico-military chief, and the position in a nutshell is this: Tito is claiming Italian territory •round Trieste and Qorinzia, and east of the fcono river. He also claims Austrian territory in the Aillach-Klagenfurt zone. His troops occupied these areas. British Field Marshal Alexander, as supreme Allied ^commander in the Mediterranean theatre, asked Tito to withdraw his soldiers from the disputed territory and let his claims be settled at the peace con ference. Tito, while expressing willingness to have his claims thus adjudicated, replied that his mili tary occupation wouldn’t “preju ^ See TITO’S Page 2 REGIONAL SELF DEFENSE PLAN IS WORKED OUT Conference Now Safely Past Its Biggest Stumb ling Block RUSSIANS AGREE By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 21. —(/P)—Agreement among the big-five and Latin American nations on plans for regional self defense systems within a world organization today put the United Nations confer ence safely past its biggest stumbling block. Russian acceptance of the re gional plan with only minor chang es in wording vas followed by signs that a smooth and early so lution of Soviet-American differ ences over a system of interna tional trusteeships is close at hand Furthermore, satisfaction of the Latin American republics that the regional defense sys tem in this hemisphere will be preserved melted their opposi tion to decisive action on other major conference issues, main ly a veto-voting system for the big powers in the proposed world security council. As the fourth full week of the conference opened, many United Nations leaders were hopeful that the job of charting the new inter national league could be finished June 2. Proposals for speeding up the work to meet that deadline were ready for a steering commit tee session today. FULL PROTECTION American military authorities were understood to feel that the security arrangements already on or in the making offer full pro tection to the United States re See REGIONAL Page 2 SCHOOLYARD CONTEST ENDS Announcement Of Prizes Made By L. A. Waters, Of Lions Club Results of the school yard beau tification contest, sponsored joint ly by the Shelby Lions club and the Cleveland county board of edu cation, were announced this morn ing by L. A. Waters, chairman of the education committee of the Lions club. Five first places were awarded in the five groups of schools. Bethware was awarded the $50 top prize among county high schools. Shanghai was awarded the $30 top prize among the county elementary schools; Camp High and Washington tied for first place among the negro high schools and received $22.50 each. Ellis Chapel won first place among the colored elementary scnoois ana reueiveu a prize of $25; LaFayette school won first place among the Shelby city schools and received a $30 prize. There has been tremendous in terest in this beautification con test and a total of $400 in prizes were awarded. There was keen competition among the schools, some of which put more than 2, 000 hours work on their buildings and grounds. They were judged on outside appearance of build ings, shrubbery, condition of the grounds, sanitation of premises, drainage and ditching, and miscel laneous Improvements. All of the schools were visited in January and again this month to note the improvement. OTHER WINNERS Other winners in their order for each group follows: County high schools: Waco, Bel wood, Boiling Springs, Grover, Fallston, Lattimore and Moores boro. County elementary schools: Mo riah, Dover Mill, Earl and No. 1. Colored high schools: Green Be thel and Compact. Colored elementary schools: Earl, Flat Rock, Mooresboro, Rock Cut, Vance Borders and Hopewell. Shelby city schools: Jefferson, Marion and Washington, Graham and South Shelby. Not in every instance did the schbol which Came Out with the highest score have the most im provement. For instance Marion has the highest score among the city schools but took third place in improvement because there was not so much room for im provement. Fallston had the high est score among county high schools but did not win the im provement prize Coal Miners Returning To Pits Today On Lewis’ Orders; Contract Made WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 21.—(A*)—Most of Penn sylvania’s 72,000 hard coal miners, on the basis of early re ports, returned to work today. All anthracite mines in district seven, United Mine Workers, around Hazleton, resumed work and all mines checked in district one around Wilkes-Barre were reported in operations. District one employs 38,000 miners, district seven 15,000. Daily production of the an thracite mines is approximately 190,000 tons, shut off since May 1 when the miners’ union con tract expired. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, ord ered the workers to return, of ficers of local unions being no tified by telegram. Operators and UMW represen tatives reached a contract agree ment late Saturday to raise the miners' pay $1.37 1-2 a day. Federal agencies will review the contract in the light of the wage stabilization policy, and the Office of Price Ad ministration will decide on award ing price increases on coal to cover added costs. Thomas Kennedy, secretary-trea sury of the UMW, said details of the new contract probably will not be announced until it goes before the board. Telegrams to officers of local unions explained that the wage boost was distributed among “travel time, increased vacation payments, premium rates on the second and third shifts, punitive overtime after seven hours a day and 35 hours a week With proper and adequate coverage for every employe in the industry.” The miners have been under gov ernment seizure since May 3 but the miners would heed no orders to return to work until a contract agreement was reached. Produc tion was cut by an estimated 3, 500,000 to 4,000,000 tons of coal. In the Pottsville, Pa., area, many independent coal miners returned to work yesterday, 24 hours ahead of the schedule set by the union. Truckers who supply coal to Philadelphia consumers direct from the miners also returned to work and were scheduled to be on the road by the time general mining operations started today. Schoerner, Basch, Others Captured List Of High War Criminals Grows But Moscow Im patient; Hunt For Himmler Continues By The Associated Press PARIS, May 21.— (/P)—Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoerner, commander of hold-out Nazi troops who resisted the Red army in Czechoslovakia many days after Germany’s unconditional surrender, was an American captive today— turned over to the 42nd division by troops of a German army TAKE HOSPITAL VOTE JULY 7 Cleveland Voters Must Answer Four Questions On Ballot The Cleveland county hospital bond election will be held Saturday July 7, according to a resolution passed this morning by the board of county commissioners. The new registration for this election will begin Saturday, June 2, and will close June 23. Most of the election officials who served at the last gen eral election were reappointed by the commissioners to serve for the hospital election and the same poll ing places used in the general elec tion will be used for the special election. At the hearing set for this morn ing to determine if there is any op position to the bonds being issued, not a single citizen appeared and the bond orders were passed on their final reading, subject to a vote of the people. ANSWER QUESTIONS Cleveland voters will answer four questions “yes” or “no” on the bal lot which will be submitted at the special election. In substance these questions are: Question No. 1: Shall Cleve land county accept the $48,000 indebtedness of the Shelby hos pital now borne by No. 6 town ship? Question No. 2: Shall bonds in the amount of $240,000 for the enlargement and improve ment of the Shelby hospital be issued and a tax levied for pay ment of principal and interest See TAKE Page 2 tummaiiu post. Continuing to round up an as sortment of Nazis, Fascists, and war criminals, the U. S. Third army captured Dr. Franz Anton Basch, a leader of Hungarian Na zis who organized a Volksbund in Hungary in 1939. Edward Dietz, former chief of German anti-Allied propaganda ROME, May 21— UP) —Maj. Mario Carita, chief of the Fascist SS police under the Germans in northern Italy, was killed by soldiers of the U. S. 8th Infantry division Satur day in a mountain hideout near Suisi. and boss of the radio commenta tor, Lord Haw Haw, was seized in the First Canadian army sec tor. Rome dispatches said Settimio Riscioli, a Fascist charged with responsibility for the execution of more than 200 Italian Patriots, had been arrested in the Italian capital. Maj. Mario Carita, chief of Fascist SS polite in Northern Italy, was killed by U. S. infantry of the 88th division in his moun tain hideout near Suisi Saturday. Schoerner, who deserted his troops in the field and flew out of Czechoslovakia May 8, was dis guised in a Tyrolean native cos tume when he sought refuge with the German First army group, on ly to be surrendered promptly to the Americans. HUNT HIMMLER The manhunt for Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler continued. An armored automobile identified as having belonged to him was found near Neunkirchen, close to the area where Arthur Greiser, former Na zi overlord of Posnan, was caught on May 17. Moscow commentators last night demanded to know why See SCHOERNER Page 2 LIEUT. O’SHIELDS PFC. HUNT O’SHIELDS, HUNT ARE LIBERATED Lt. "Buck" O'Shields And Pfc. Hunt Prisoners Since July Two Cleveland county boys, Lt. H. E. (Buck) O’Shields and Pfc. Hugh Hunt, who had been taken as prisoners of war nearly a year ago, have been liberated within the past few days, it was learned today when members of their families received word directly from them. Lt. O'Shields, prisoner of war since he was shot down over Ger many in a Liberator bomber last July 7, has been liberated accord ing to message received by friends here. In a cablegram received from Lieut. O’Shields himself he said: “All well and safe, hope to see you soon. He is a son of Mrs. Jesse H. O'Shields, formerly of Shelby, but now of Rock Hill, S. C. Lieut. O'Shields was formerly employed at Palmer funeral home here and en tered service in January, 1943. Pfc. Hugh Hunt wrote an air mail letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Hunt, of Casar route one, in which he said that he was well and hoped to be home soon. He was taken prisoner July 11, 1944 and was liberated on May 7, he said in his letter. No other de tails were given. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p. m.—Junior chamber of commerce meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p. m.—State guard drill at armory. 7:30 p. m.—City council meets at council chamber at city hall. TUESDAY' 7:30 p. m.—C. A. P. members meet at armory. 7:00 p. m— Lions club meets at Hotel Charles. AREA BITTERLY DEFENDED BY FANATICAL JAPS Yanks Are Subjected To Heavy Mortar Fire All Way Up Incline HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT By James Lindlsey GUAM, May 21.—VP)— First marine division troops have driven to the crest of the last ridge before the Oki nawa foi’tress city of Shuri in a tank-led drive through 800 yards of ferociously defended ravines and draws. Elaborate Japanese hillside de fenses were cleared by flame throwing tanks and weary rifle men as they climbed the steep in clines until the tanks could go no farther and the battle turned intc a hand-to-hand, cave-by-cavt struggle. Shuri, lying below the hilltop position of the Marines, was a pile of rubble from the incessant bom bardment and bombing to which it has been subjected. Lt. James Paulos. command er of a company which seized one ridge overlooking the an cient capita! of Ryukvuan mon arc hs, told Associated Press Correspondent Vern Haugland his men had been subjected to heavy mortar fire all the way up the ndgc. Meantime, the 77th Infantry di vision advanced doggedly to 'With in 900 yards of Shuri on the north east, throwing back three counter attacks, and elements of the 96th Infantry division moved within 1,600 yards of the walled, moated city on the east. OKINAWA CAPITAL The Sixth Marine division sent elements eastward toward Shuri from its positions in suburbs of Naha, present capital of Okina wa. Despite continued fierce Jap anese resistance, Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge said there “was some indication that the Japa nese are disintegrating as an overall fighting unit.” Hodge told newsmen the ene my was firing 1,000 fewer artillery and mortar shells a night than formerly. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner. Jr., in an address dedicating a small radio station on Okinawa. See AREA Page 2 DISCHARGE AGE AGAIN LOWERED Enlisted Men, WACs, 40 Or Over, May Apply For Release — WASHINGTON, Mav 21.— (fPi — 1 The army today fixed at 40 year? j the age at which enlisted men may I apply for discharge. The army only last month had lowered the discharge age to 42 years. An estimated 30.000 enlist ed men in the army are in the 40 and 41 year age groups. At the same time, the war de partment announced that WACs 40 years of age or over who have served the required period on ac tive duty will be eligible for dis charge. it estimated that 8,000 en listed WACs will be eligible under* this provision. The new order provided that in the case of men 40 or 41 years of I age, commanders will be permitted : to retain for not more than 90 days any men for whom a replace I ment is no available at the time he requests discharge. The war department said that “when the military situation per mits” a further reduction in the age limit will be made. Basic Freight Rates To Be Equalized WASHINGTON, May 21 —(JP)~ The nation’s railroad freight bill is being refigured. In a move widely significant to the south and west, the Interstate Commerce commission: 1. Ordered basic freight rates to those sections—except for the far west — equalized with eastern rail charges. 2. Directed that the nation’s carriers simplify rate-making by setting up a uniform sys tem of freight classification for the entire nation. The long-waited order, univer sally conceded to be the most im portant in the commission’s 58 year history, was released late Sat urday without an advance hint. The decision, however, was quick i ly acclaimed by southern leaders, i ON ITS WAY Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia de clared: “America may well take notice—the south is on its way.” Arnall added that the ICC rul ing will not deter Georgia from pressing its Supreme court suit against a number of railroads on charges of conspiring against the south in establishing railroad freight rates. Elmer R. Oliver, vice president in charge of operations for the Southern railway, said he expect ed a study committee to begin meetings in about a week to deter mine what will be required by the order. CATEGORIES The ruling covered these general] categories: i 1. A nation-wide uniform clas-j sification of rates. At present an: article such as a radio might be! shipped under one classification' in the south and under a differ ent. lower-rate classification in the east, henceforth, said ICC, a par ticular article must move nation- [ wide under the same classifica-1 tion. 2. Directed that differences in “class" rates now existing through out the country be reduced to a minimum, except for the Pacific coast which asked for no reduc tion Tiie effect of this order virtually eliminates territorial rate divisions which the south and west contended have placed their sec- j tions at an industrial disadvantage | with the east. CLASS-RATE SCALE 3. For this revision the com mission recommended that a class rate scale approximately 15 percent higher than present first-class rates in eastern territory be es tablished as a base. This will re sult in higher rates for the east and lower rates for the south and west. 4. Because years may be requir ed to make these changes, the commission directed that tempo rary relief be provided, effective August 30, by increasing all class rates within eastern territory by 10 percent and lowering all other class rases except those west of the Rocky Mountains by 10 per cent.
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