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WEATHER Mostly cloudy and continued ra ther cool today, tonight and Fri day; scattered showers Friday and in west and central portions today and tonight. Tshe sheihy Baity Him« CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “The Mummy’s Curse” Lon CHANEY — Peter COE Virginia CHRISTINE VOL. XL1II—136 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c ‘FINAL END’ OF BATTLE FOR OKINAWA IS IN SIGHT 450 Superforts Drop Explosive, Incendiary Bombs On Osaka ALLIED CONTROL COMMISSION' MEETS IN BERLIN—Big Four representatives and their aides begin their first meeting as the Allied Control Commission in Berlin June 5. Seated at the table, left to right, be ginning with the man second from left: Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny of France: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery of Great Britain, Marshal Gregory Zhukov of Russia, and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower of the U. S. Others in the picture were not identified.—(AP Wirephoto). QUISLING IN COURT — Vidkum Quisling, who ruled Norway lor Adolf Hitler after German forces seized the country, sits in court at Oslo during his preliminary hear ing May 26. He pleaded innocent to a charge of treason.—(AP Wire photo). BUS FRANCHISE TO GREYHOUND Company Notified Of Per mission To Operate ' To Grover Atlantic Greyhound Bus line has been granted permission to oper ate bus service from Shelby to Grover via Highway 26, it was learned this morning from O. M. Mull, attorney for the Greyhound lines, who has just received notice to this effect from the office of the utilities commission at Ra leigh. This is In accordance with pe tition on which a hearing was held several weeks ago in Raleigh with a protest being filed by the Queen City Coach company which claim ed that such a franchise might in terfere with its service to Char lotte. The order stipulated that the Greyhound may not operate through service by Grover to Charlotte. It was indicated this morning See BUS Page 2 $50,000 Free: Plant Plannet A freezer locker service with a modem $50,000 plant carrying a minimum of 500 units, with pro vision for whatever expansion lo cal operation may require, was as sured here today. O. M, Mnll informed the new business committee of the Cham ber of Commerce that the Carolina Freezer Locker company, which has operated successfully a similar plant at Raleigh the past five | years, is drafting plans for erec tion of the project as soon as ma terials can be made available on tha site at N. Washington and French Invite Big-5 To Middle East Meet Churchill Known To Be Opposed To 5-Power Confer ence On Levantine Issue ,<x PARIS, June 7.—(/■P)—Authoritative quarters said to day the French government had formally invited other mem bers of the big five to participate in a conference on the NEW LANDINGS ON MINDANAO Opposition Light There But Japs Fight Bitterly Near Manila MANILA, June 7— (JP) —Dough boys of the 38th division battled a desperate enemy throughout the Marikina Hill mass, east of Manila Wednesday. More than 3,000 Japanese have been killed in this area by Maj. Gen. William C. Chase’s men and large quantities of military booty captured. The Japanese, apparently aware that the 38th is break ing them up to liquidate them piecemeal, are fighting fiercely. On Mindanao, Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger’s Eighth army troops made two new landings Tuesday to completely seal off Da vao Gulf. With warships and strong air support, the men landed at Cape San Augustin, southeastemmosl tip of Mindanao, and on Balut island. Opposition was negligible. In a radically different “crunch See NEW LANDINGS Page * Germans Ready To Bomb V. S. Mainland When Victory Came PARIS, June 7— (/P)— Alexander De Seversky told a press conference today that when victory came in Europe the Germans possessed a four-engined jet-propelled plane with which they planned to bomb New York and other eastern cities of the United States by round trip trans-Atlantic flights. zer Locker 1 For Shelby Sumter streets. The location is where the municipal playground now is but its operation will not be interrupted imtil the season is complete as it will require at least that long to get plans and ma terial in readiness for construction to start. MEACHAM. BROADUS Earl H. Meacham, now a lieu tenant in the U. S. navy with three years of foreign service behind him, will operate the business upon termination of his naval career. 1 See $50,000 Page 2 French embassies in Washington, London, Moscow and Chungking were instructed to present the in vitation, also with a short state nent of France’s reasons for call ing the conference. A responsible source said no vote was delivered n connection with the invitations. This will require formal answers from the other countries. Prime Minister Churchill, at odds with 3en. De Gaulle over the situation n Syria, told commons Tuesday ;hat a five-power conference would ‘cause a great deal of delay and re quire very careful consideration on many grounds.” He sought imme diate mediation by the United States, Britain and France. PROTECT GRAIN Sir Edward Grig?, British Min ster of State resiAmt in the Mid dle East, said In Cairo today that ;he British had established an or ganization to harvest grain crops of Syria and Leba^n. The British 'hnth army will supervise the or ?anization, in which the French will not participate, he said. He said the organization was formed to insure the protection of :he Levantine grain surplus, urgent ly needed in liberated Europe. Dr. Morrison Buys Hawk Haven Airport KINGS MOUNTAIN.—Dr. D. M. Morrison of Shelby has purchased from Harold Hunneycutt of Kings Mountain all property rights for Hawk Haven airport located about 1 miles southwest of Kings moun tain. Dr. Morrison has announced tils plans for ths development of i commercial airport suitable for light craft traffic. It is understood that many improvements will be made and new hangers are to be auilt. Dr. Morrlspn stated that plans had been made for the in stallation of commerfial gas tanks find that he had also placed orders for a Piper Trainer and a Piper Cruiser. Hawk Haven was founded by and tias been run by Mr. Hunneycutt for the past year or so. WHAT’SDOING 7:00 pun. — members meet at armory to go to (Mile Moore’s place On Broad River for a fish fry, 9:00 p.m.—Informal opening of Dedmon’s horse show ring on Fallston road. FRIDAY 6:30 pm.—Shelby and Gaff ney Rotary clubs will meet to gether and entertain Rotary anns at fish fry at Ollie Moore’s place. 8:00 p.m.—Meeting of Amer ican Legion, postponed from Tuesday evening. TOD. TENTH LARGE SCALE RAID ON JAPANINMONTH Tokyo Radio Admits 200, 000 More Japanese Driv en From Homes * 3-HOUR ATTACK By Hamilton W. Faron GUAM, June 7.—(TP)—In a marked departure from re cent fire raids, 450 Superforts blasted war industries and arsenal in Osaka, the Orient’s leading industrial city, with high explosives and incendiaries today in their tenth large scale raid on Ja pan this month. The B-29s hit this morning as Tokyo radio admitted 200,000 more Japanese have been driven from their homes by American air at tacks and would be moved to farms to help raise Japan's meager food supply. The bombers struck for three hours through heavy overcast. Results were not observed. But a joint Japanese army-navy announcement admitted fires were started in the northern and northeastern industrial sec tions. The enemy said flames were “steadily being brought under control.” Tokyo did not disclose the effect of high explosives aimed at the concrete and steel buildings of the huge Osaka arsenal where much of Japan’s medium artillery and small arms are produced. Other Marlanas-based sky dread naughts, swinging in at medium altitude, poured fire bombs on a hitherto untouched factory belt south of the Shin Yodo river. The total bomb weight was not imme See TENTH Page 2 Carrier Planes Take Supplies To Okinawa By JAMES LINDSLEY WITH ADM. HALSEY’S THIRD FLEET IN THE WESTERN PACI FIC, June 7. —(fP)— Mud-belea guered American troops on Okinawa were supplied yesterday with food, ammunition and medicine by Aven ger torpedo bombers from U. S. Third Fleet ‘carriers. Troops thus supplied were believ ed to be small groups isolated from 1 main forces by the ebb and flow of war, and were not indicative of any crisis in the supply problem or breakdown of the aerial pack train from land bases. Planes in yesterday’s mission were led by Lt. Thomas T. Stethon, Al bany, N.' Y., who in April scored a direct hit on the Japanese battle ship Yamato and led the- planes which sank her. “We flew In near Karara only 1,000 yards from the front lines,” Stethon said. “We had to poke along at a dangerously low fly ing speed and at low altitude to hit the right spots with the sup plies. “Jap ackack was heavy and one of our planes was hit but all got back to the carrier. We flew so low some pilots saw enemy troops tak ing cover.” There was no announcement of the number of planes involved or the number of troops supplied. THE WAR TODAY: Logic, Trends Indicate Reds Will Join War Against Japs By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer One of the questions most often asked me by readers of this col umn, as the Allies close in on Ja pan, is whether Russia is going to join us in crushing the brigands of the Pacific. That’s not an easy query to an swer in view of the fact that there has been no official pronounce ment for guidance, either from Moscow or the other Allied capi tals. Marshal Stalin as usual has been exemplifying his nickname of "The Sphinx” by playing his cards close to his chest. For this reason any guess as to whether the Soviet union will make war on Japan must be based on two things — logic and significant trends. On both counts, as I see it, the probabilities are that the Musco vites will come into the war. When? Well, the bulk of their fighting strength in all categories is in European Russia. We must allow time for the shifting of much of this strength to far-off Siberia—a titanic undertaking. It might be several months before Moscow felt sufficiently well set— See LOGIC Faga 3 k Jackson Favors Sure Punishment For All Guilty Of War Crimes WASHINGTON, June 7.—(/P)—Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson today recommended sure punishment for war-guilty Nazis on the ground that failure to try them “would mock the dead and make cynics of the living.” Justice Jackson, chief of counsel i of the United States in the prose- j cution of Axis war criminals, told j President Truman in a 5,000 word; report that he had assurances j from the War department that those likely to be accused as war j criminals “will be kept in close confinement and stern control.” j Jackson said the preparations for the prosecution of major war | criminals will not impede or delay trials of other offenders guilty of lesser crimes. He said negotiations for an international military tribunal, representing the United States, the United Kingdom, Soviet Russia and France, to try guil ty Nazis have not yet been completed, but that he did not consider it wise to wait the final step before preparing the American case. He said the American case was being prepared on the assumption that an “inescapable responsibility rests upon this country to conduct an inquiry, preferably in associa tion with others, but alone if nec essary, into the culpability of those whom there is probable cause to accuse of atrocities and other crimes.” He added there are many such men “in our possession.” Jackson pointed out that his own responsibilities extend only to major criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical j localization and who will be pun-1 ished by joint decisio of the Al-1 lied governments as provided in the Moscow declaration of Novem ber 1, 1943. In his visit to the European theatre, he said, he at tempted to establish standards and the cases fall into three general categories: 1. Offenses against military per See JACKSON Page 2 AI bUMrtKEINtC: Veto Differences Head For Shovvdown Apparently No Word Coming From Moscow To Change That Nation's Decision By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, June 7.—(A1)—American-Soviet dif ferences over the right of free discussion in a World Secur ity council headed today toward an open fight in the United i Nations conference, with the prospect that Russia would be defeated. The Soviet delegation is report ed expecting rio word from Moscow to change its decision that the Yalta voting formula gives each j of the Big Five powers the right to veto discussion of an international dispute in the council. If this is borne out in official dispatches from Moscow, the official silence on the controver sy which has been nursed along by the other powers in the hope of preserving Big Five . unity, may be broken abruptly in for mal statements. That would have the effect of speeding up conference work. The veto issue has jammed important progress for almost two weeks. First the Russian delegation waited for its original instructions on the veto issue, and then the United States sought to get Moscow to reconsider its views. MINOR ISSUES The Big Five met late yesterday but the subject was not discussed. Instead the Russian, American, British, French and Chinese dele gation chiefs dealt with relatively minor issues, getting final agree ment on a French amendment designed merely to strengthen pro tection already proposed under the world charter for treaties against enemy states of this war. The Russian view on the veto is flatly opposed to that of the American delegation which is shared by Britain, France and See VETO Page 2 CHINESE TROOPS f ARE MENGSHAN High Com,fia/id Still Mak es No Announcement Of Taking Liuchow CHUNGKING, June 7—UP)—Chi nese authorities announced today the capture of Mengshan, a high way and river junction 200 miles northwest of Canton and 80 miles ;est of the American airbase city Df Liuchow, ^pich also is said to ae in Chinese hands. Capture of Mengshan would rep resent a growing drive from west, southwest and south of Kweilin, former provisional capital of ECwangsi province and another American air base city which the Japanese took in establishing their now ruptured land corridor to French Indo-Chlna. Mengshan is 85 miles south and slightly east of Kweilin, and Liuchow is 90 miles southwest of ECweilin. One Chinese force was last reported 55 miles west of Kweilin. NO STATEMENT Both Chinese and American re ports have told of the recapture )f Liuchow, but the Chinese high rommand has not yet made a for nal announcement. The high command said Chinese forces, pursuing the Japanese See CHINESE Page 2 Political Prisoners In Spain Liberated MADRID, Ji le 7. —(AP)— Two thousand polittcal prisoners who were sentenced to i "ison terms of 20 to 30 years as a result of the rivil war have been released on 3eneralissimo Franco’s order in a rabinet meeting at the end of May. t was learned today. This is the largest number of irisoners to be released by a single jrder this year, although through ;hree previous years the govern nent gave provisional liberty to nore than 100,000. The prison population of Spain low is estimated at between 50,000 md 80,000, of which the majority were jailed as a result of the civil, war or politics. j «• S-SGT. TOLBERT SGT. TOLBERT REPORTED DEAD Word from the War department J revealed today that S-Sgt. Garnet D. Tolbert, reported missing in ac ;ion in the European area on De cember 19, 1944, was killed in Prance on that date. S-Sgt. Tol aert is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Tolbert. A graduate of Winterville high school in Winterville, S-Sgt. Tol bert was employed at the Cleve land Cloth mill prior to entering service. He is survived by his pa rents; four brothers, Garland Tol bert in service stationed in Main, Claude T. Tolbert in the armed foces in Germany, W. G. Tol bert of Athens, Ga., and O. H. Tolbert of Shelby; and two sis ters, Mrs. Fred C. Hill of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Odell Sea graves of Shelby. SCHOOL SCORES ARE ANNOUNCED Central High At Kings Mountain Tops List In Sanitation Central High School at Kings Mountain scored the highest mark in sanitation for its lunch room of any school in the county, it was announced this morning by W. C. Stallings, sanitarian with the Cleveland county health depart ment who made public the list of ratings. Stallings pointed out that most lunchrooms had higher ratings than at the previous inspection and that many improvements will be made this summer which will give them even higher scores. The list of scores follows: GRADE A Central High school, K. Mtn._ 92.0 LaFayette school, Shelby _90.5 Eenior High school, Shelby __ 90.0 Bethware High school _90.0 GRADE B East End school, K. Mtn._89.0 Graha mschool, Shelby _87.5 Shanghai school .._86.0 Park Grace school _84.5 Earl school __84.0 Polkville school _83.5 Belwood school _... 81.0 Washington school, Shelby_81.0 Marion school, Shelby _81.0 Mooresboro school _80.0 GRADE C Patterson Springs school _78.5 Jefferson school, Shelby ....... 78.0 No. 3 school ..... 78.0 Piedmont school ------.77.0 West End, K. Mtn.76.0 Lattimore school _76.0 Morgan school, Shelby ..75.5 Dover ..1. 74.0 Davidson school (col.) ..73.0 Boiling Springs . 71.0 School Lunch Rooms failing to make passing grades: Grover, Waco, Camp High (col.) Six Arrested By FBI On Espionage Charges 15v j. r iv.5 > iv i n vuLr^ WASHINGTON, June 7— </P> — The government today accused a navy officer, two state department officials and three New Yorkers of prying into wartime secrets. Taken into custody by FBI agents in New York and Washington late yesterday, the six were charged with conspiring to violate a section of the espionage statute covering unauthorized possession or trans mittal of national defense data, j The FBI said documents, rang lug iium icatuucu lu iuj/ ogv ret" were stolen from the state, war and navy departments, the highly secret office of strategic services, the Office of War Infor mation and the Federal Commu nications Commission. Part of FCC's wartime W'ork has been rec ording enemy broadcasts. Under arrest here are: Lt Andrew Roth, 26. of Arling ton. Va . former Columbia Unlver See SIX Page S NAHA AIRPORT TAKEN; SQUEEZE PUT ON JAPS Americans Perfected De fense Against Enemy Kamikaze Planes USED ROCKET SHIPS By Leif Erickson GUAM, June 7.—(#)—'The “final end” of the battle for Okinawa is in sight, largely because Americans perfected a defense against kamikaze (suicide) planes, Tokyo’s press and radio admitted to day as American headquar ters announced capture of the big Naha airport and further compressing of the remaining Nipponese garrison. U. S. 10th army engineers moved swiftly toward conversion of the Naha airdrome into another effec tive base for airstrikes against Ja pan, 325 miles to the north. The field, a prime objective of the 68-day campaign, was taken over yesterday by Sixth division ma rines. Japanese Domei news agency re ported from its own correspond ents the imminent end of rising sun strength on Okinawa with “the war situation gradually becoming more disadvantageous to our side." “Further,” Domei added, “the enemy has been effectively em ploying rocket ships and planes, which have checked our special attack (Kamikaze) corps aircraft from getting to their target.” Ka mikaze pilots have sunk 13 Ameri can ships and damaged 45 at Oki nawa. SITUATION GRAVE The newspaper Asahi, in an edi torial broadcast by radio Tokyo, commented the situation had be come so grave “it is high time every bit of the nation’s strength See NAHA Page 2 PLAYGROUND TO OPEN MONDAY The Municipal playground at the corner of North Washington and East Sumter streets will open Mon day morning at 9 o'clock, it was announced today by Rev. Paul Hardin, chairman of the Parks and Playgrounds commission. The playground will be operated this year under the supervision of Miss Lucy Crisp, of Grover, who has had several years experience in teaching and handling children. She will be assisted by Miss Chris tine Rucker. The play program is primarily designed for children under 12 years of age. The playground will be operated from 9 to 12 in the morning and from 2 to 6 pjn. tn the afternoon. There will be no formal opening. Workmen were busy this week renovating the grounds, repairing the wading pool and making pre parations generally for the begin ning of the summer period. El Salvador And Guatemala Move For New American Union GUATEMALA, June 7- JP)—The newspaper El Impartial said toda' that the presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador probably would meet before June 15 to sign a Guatemala-El Salvador pact as the first concrete step toward a cen tral American union.
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