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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
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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
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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.