• Aid The Lions9 Fresh Air Camp By Contributing To Jaycee March Of Silver WEATHER Partly cloudy and slightly warmer today and tonight. Saturday, partly cloudy and continued warm, with scattered thunderstorms in moun tains in afternoon or evening. CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “Honeymoon Ahead” Starring ALLAN JONES VOL. XLIII— 125 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5c TENTH ARMY PINCERS ABOUT SHURI TIGHTENED Large Force Of B-29’s Rains Fire Bombs On Tokyo; Damage Is Heavy GUAM, Saturday, May 26—(/P)— A force of about 500 Superforts dropped more than 4.000 tons of bombs on Tokyo’s Marunouchi business district and imperial gov ernment center this morning in the second big fire bomb raid on that city in less than 48 hours. The Nipponese capital still was burning from the record 550-plane fire raid early Thursdf# (Japa nese time) in which, preliminary reconnaissance photographs show ed at least 3.2 square miles of the Shinagawa industrial center was damaged by fire. Haze and smoke obscured pic tures and Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay's headquarters said consid erable additional damage probably was inflicted. The target area * for today’s task force that struck shortly after midnight, Japanese time, (about 11 am. Friday, EWT) was south central Tokyo, bor I dered on the north by the im perial palace and on the south by the Shinagowa area bomb ed Thursday. Today’s target area runs west ward from Tokyo bay through the city's equivalent of Chicago’s State Street Department store and office building district. On the outskirts of the Marun ouchi district is the imperial hotel, designed by the American archi tect Frank Lloyd Wright, which survived the 1923 earthquake. Ma jor government buildings also are situated there. One end of the Ginza, which is the city’s Broadway, runs into the j Marunouchi. The new area to fall under the B-29 bombsights probably has the best built and most modern buildings in Japan. These include the nation’s larg est, so-called fireproof and earthquakeproof, office struc tures. AT CONFERENCE Big Powers To Keep ‘Absolute Control’ Veto "Power Of Big Five Most Critical Issue Remain* ing Before Body By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.—(fl5)—The big powers are reported today to have lined up enough votes in the United Nations conference to block any change in their absolute control of world machinery designed to preserve peace. _ ■ i rr*v-> « o 4 ecu a t v> a vAtn nnu'pr iinv t BOMBING FIRES RAGE IN TOKYO Enemy Say* Thousands Of Homes, 3 Imperial Mansions Burned GUAM, May 25—(AV-Huge tires , still raged in the heart of Indus-; trial Tokyo today after Thursday's : 9,000.000 pound fire bomb raid, , greatest ever carried out on Ja pan's capital city. i Tokyo radio said “thousands of homes" were destroyed. It made the unconfirmed report that the man sions of three Imperial Princes either were gutted or partially burned along with the French and Italian embassies, the Mexican le gation, the official residences of the minister of education and the minister of transport. Officials of the 21st bomber com mand here hesitated to estimate results due to difficulties of ob taining clear pictures of the devas tation. Clouds of smoke still bil lowed over the bombed area along Tokyo Bay a few miles south oi the Imperial palace. HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL Returning pilots, however, de clared the raid was highly suc cessful, due to good visibility when they hit their targets Just prior to dawn yesterday. Among targets struck were the giant marshalling yards of the principal Japanese railroad lines. The strike celebrated the end of six months operations of B-29s from Marianas bases. For their latest raid, the Super See BOMBING Page 2 V. S., Russia Most Powerful Nations, Must Get Along NEW YORK, May 25—(AP)—Sec retary of Commerce Henry A. Wal lace, declaring that Ruslsa and the United States have emerged as the two most powerful nations, says there is nothing “irreconclllable in our aims and purposes.” Those who proclaim otherwise, he said last night, “are wittingly or unwittingly looking for war and that in my opinion is criminal.” Addresing the Institute of World Affairs at the New School for So cial Research, Wallace said: “Both the Russians and Amer icans in their different ways are groping for a way of life which will enable the common man ev erywhere in the world to get the most good out of modern tech nology.” , y 3f big five over settling Interna-1 ;ional disputes or using force toj .mash an aggressor—Is the most | :ritical remaining for this assem-| jly of 49 nations. The decision hour I :omes as the conference enters its econd month and Secretary of State Stettinius returns from talks in Washington with President Tru nan. Many committees are striving to vind up their work by this week ;nd in order to allow public dis :ussion of their reports to begin in ,he four big conference commis lions early next week. Among their latest accomplish nents are agreement on provisions ieslgned to strengthen the econo nic and social work of the new eague, and to outlaw secret treat ,es, once the world organization is functioning. In the veto dispute many small latlons are demanding that the mthority of the big powers in a rrojected world organization be •estricted sharply so that an 11-na .ion security council could try by reaceful means to settle troubles Detween nations even over big Dower objections. COMPROMISE The British delegation has pro Dosed a compromise to meet that iemand. Some United 8tates dele jates like the compromise, but say See BIG POWERS Page 2 Leon Degrelle Thinks Hitler Still Alive MADRID, May 25.— (/P) —Leon Degrelle, former Belgian Rexist eader, under sentence of death in lis homeland for collaboration with he Germans, was quoted today as expressing his belief that Adolf Hitler is alive and In hiding. A Spaniard who talked with De rrelle at San Sebastian, where the Belgian is recovering from a should er Injury, said he asserted he had talked with Hitler in Berlin the day before the Russians entered the city. Degrelle was quoted as saying Hitler was preparing for an at tempt to escape and that he did not appear to be in a mood either for suicide or a fight to the death. Hodges Men On Way To Pacific ATLANTA, May 25.—(JP)—Pacific Dound officers and men accompany ing Gen. Courtney H. Hodges here from Pari’, “can’t wait” to turn their experience against the Japa nese. The first American army com nander told thousands of cheering Atlantians on arrival yesterday that ‘this is wonderful, but it's just a pause for men of the First army, rhere can be no real rest until we jive the final blow to Japan.” — A Damage achieved in this strike will be the supreme test of the ef fectiveness of the new fire bombs which have laid waste already 35 9 square miles of Tokyo in six pre vious incendiary raids. In the target area also are piers, docks, wharves and warehouses of the highly Important sector of Tok yo’s waterfront north of the Shina gawa rail marshalling yards, bomb ed Thursday. Outside the Marunouchi business district the target area ia known to include several important war plants producing aircraft instru ments and components, machine tools and electrical equipment. Extensive military storage areas also are located in this region of Tokyo. Speed in crossing the target is one key to the performance achieve ments of the Superfort. The 500 plane force this morning unloaded Its 4,000-ton incendiary cargo in little more than one hour. CHINESE TAKE HWAIYUANCHEN Japanese Falling Back To ward Ishan; Enemy Fears Invasion CHUNGKING, May 25—(/P)—Chi nese troops sweeping down the Kwelchow-Kwangsi railroad last light captured Hwaiyuanchen, im portant Kwangsl strongpoint 50 miles northwest of Liuchow, a Chinese army spokesman armoun :ed today. The Japanese have been report ed by the Chinese high command to be falling back toward Ishan, 13 miles northwest of Liuchow. The Chinese drive evidently was aimed at Liuchow itself, a former American air base in Kwangpi srhlch now is a strategic rail junc tion strongpoint along the enemy lifeline corridor between Manchu ria and Indo-China. Capture of Hwaiyuanchen was effected after a 23-mile gain from 5zengen (Szeenhsien), which the Chinese reported earlier to have been encircled. On the east China coast the Japanese, swept from positions which they had fortified a gainat American landings, have hnrled fresh troops into an at tempt to stem their own re treat northeast of Chinese held Foochow. SEAR FOOCHOW A special Chinese communique said last night that warship-borne snemy troops were rushed into the sector where the Japanese have fallen back to a point 'near Loy uan, 31 miles northef t of Foo :how. Landings were made Tues Jay north of Loyuan from “several warships," but the enemy was being checked with the aid of local mi litia, the Chinese said. The Chinese were reported ad vancing close to Losuan, after driving 9 1-2 miles beyond captur ed Lienkong, 20 miles northeast of Foochow. Meanwhile other Chi nese bolstered their positions in the Foochow area and mopped up enemy remnants on the north bank of the Min river, the treaty port’s outlet to the sea. The army spokesman said that during the past month the Japa nese had replaced three veteran divisions in their west wall in China, moving them either to Manchuria to help meet a “pos sible emergency” or to strengthen major garrison points on the coast against an American invasion. Auto Industry Gets Go Signal For Cars DETROIT, May 25.—(JP)—Amer ica’s automobile industry sped plans today for its gradual return to car making, strictly a low-gew propo sition for the time being. After more than three years of total effort in the war, the. indus try had the war production board’s lutjiority to produce 200,000 passen ger cars this year. The WPE granted the authoriza tion yesterday but stipulated that the industry must find Its own ma terials in the "free market” and ;hat no materials priority would be Siven. Churches Destroyed LONDON, May 24. —(JP)— The Universe, London Catholic news paper, reported today that between 9.000 and 10,000 of the 12,000 Cath olic churches in Germany were de stroyed or badly damaged in air raid*. —, ».«T < -7T -rr -7T -w French Committee WantsBreak WithSpain WOULD DEMAND RESIGNATION OF FRANCO Urges Government To Force Spain To Surren der Laval ITALIANS FEEL SAME PARIS, May 25.—(£>)—'The French foreign affairs com mittee recommended today that the government break relations with Spain and that France propose to other Al lied governments means to be taken to force the resignation of Generalissimo Franco. The committee is composed of members of the assembly and It corresponds roughly to the United States senate foreign relations com mittee. The recommendation to Gen. De Gaulle’s government asserted that the Franco regime was no differ ent from the erstwhile Fascist gov ernment of Italy before its surren der. The Spanish regime was termed a menace to world democracy. The committee also demand ed that the government lose no further time in forcing Spain to hand over Pierre Laval to France. Laval, chief of govern ment in the Vichy regime, is under death sentence in France as a traitor and is in custody in Spain after fleeing Germany by air. The committee said the Allies should take joint action to remove Franco, head of the Spanish gov ernment since the old republic was overthrown in civil war, and pro vide the Spanish people with the means of holding an immediate consultative election. The committee said the Franco regime was forcibly imposed and that throughout the European war its neutrality was a fiction. The See WOULD Page 2 JCC LAUNCHES SILVER DRIVE The "March of Silver” drive, that the Shelby Junior Chamber of Commerce has undertaken to supervise, will be conducted Sat urday at various places in the business district. The proceeds from the "March of Silver” will be used by the Jaycees to sponsor several Cleveland county deserving boys by sending them to Shelby Lions Fresh Air camp. Irvin Anthony is chairman of the Jaycee committee for the drive and the members of the club will serve at each of the stations throughout the city, working in shifts all day Saturday. The sta tions where the drive will be con ducted will be located in front of Kendall-Spangler drug store, Co hen’s Department store, and Efird’s Department store. The Jaycees are cooperating with the Lions club in this project to send many deserving boys from this community to Camp Cherokee in the month of July. Over fifty boys will be selected to attend a two weeks’ supervised camping va cation. THE WAR TODAY: Newsman Sees Urgent Need For Meeting Of \Big Three’ By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer The early meeting of the Big Three, which Washington an nounces is "in the works”, is cal culated to pour oil on badly trou bled international waters, and con sequently can’t be held too soon. This is the hurricane season for the United Nations, and is an es pecially trying time for the Big Three upon whom falls the brunt of the task of keeping the Allied ship on a fairly even keel. The end of the Hitleran war has intensi fied cross-wind* which had been developing: The Polish question, the Yugoslav claims to Italian and Austrian territory, the problems §t k * tendant on the occupation of Ger many, the generally disturbed con dition of the Balkans, the activities of the communist cells throughout Europe. It’s no exaggeration to say that the next few months will represent the most dangerous period which the Allies are likely to encounter. We must deal with these cross winds promptly. DANGER PERIOD If fate projects a split among the Big Three—which heaven forbid— it probably will come In this early See NEWSMAN Page 2 Planned Cut In Sugar Will Give Industrial Users Half 1944 Ration! By Howard Flieger WASHINGTON, May 25.—(/P)—A congressional food investigator said today OP A is planning a drastic curtailment of industrial suerar which will cut manufacturers to half their 1944 supply, or less. The new reduction will be an nounced for the third quarter of the ear effective July 1 said this law-maker who asked not to be named. Sugar is rationed to industrial users—bakers, candy makers and the like—in _ quarterly allotments. The new cut became necessary because civilian sugar consumption early this year far exceeded the amount originally set aside. Chairman Anderson (D-NM) of the house food committee said that in April alone when use was supposed to be 60,000 tons under the corresponding month in 1944 consumption ac tually ran 95,000 tons ahead of last year. This resulted in a de ficit of more than 150,000 tons. The withdrawal from sugar stock piles came about Anderson said because OPA ration boards issued allotments in excess of the supply set aside for civilian consumption. The over-draft must be made up beginning with the third quarter. The investigator said he did not know whether the restrictionwould be extended to household supplies of sugar. Industrial users however proba bly will be cut to 40 per cent or less of the amount they used in 1941. There was some indication they might be held to 30 per cent. Last year industrialists received 80 per cent of their 1941 supply but the planned new restrictions would cut them to half that amount. Anderson said the fact sugar was over-allotted in April was evi dence supporting his committee's argument that the government’s sugar controls lack the coordina 1 tion to make them effective. The committee found 20 government agencies with a hand in the sugar program — and strongly recom mended that the whole problem be placed under the control of one man to handle production distri bution and marketing. Anderson shortly will become that man. President Truman has named l him agriculture secretary and food I “czar.” ..J._ Hitler’s Notes Reveal War Guilt Stenographic Record Shows Nazis Planned Crushing 1 Of Czechoslovakia, Poland By Alvin Steinkopf BERCHTESGADEN, May 25.—(fP)—Stenographic notes the nazis tried unsuccessfully to destroy have revealed a secret, self-indicting account by Adolf Hitler saying he planned the “crushing” of Czechoslovakia and Poland as “essential preliminaries for the war of the future” against me aines. Hitler said Germany was “su perlatively prepared” tor war and that psychologically she “could not afford to waste” Nazi-schooled fanaticism, which he feared might die down. Hitler’s private report, made to division commanders last Dec. 12, was the most spectac ular find to date by American officers studying thousands of pages of partly charred notes which are shaping up as a ter rific indictment of Nazi war guilt. German stenographers, who themselves took down many of these statements the Nazis never dreamed would come to light, were transcribing the notes, brought here from Berlin, when a partial text of Hitler’s report was found. Made just before the German Ardennes offensive of Dec. 16, Hit See HITLER’S Page 2 WHAT’S DOING SATURDAY 8:Q0 p.m. — Exhibition base ball game in local high school ball park between Shelby and Forest City Legion teams. TRIESTE SEES TITO FIREWORKS Bursts Of Machinegun Fire And Rockets Cele brate Birthday TRIESTE, May 25. —