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» Paper Is Critical War Material—Get Yours Out For The Jaycees’ Sunday Roundup WEATHER Considerable cloudiness today, tonight, and Saturday; scattered showers and thunderstorms occur lng mostly in afternoon and eve ning. - State Theatre Today - “Ten Cents A Dance” Jane Frazee — Jimmy Lloyd Joan Woodbury — Robf. Scott TELEPHONES 1100 CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 VOL. XLIII—137 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c FRENCH TOLD TO WITHDRAW TROOPS IMMEDIATELY l* * * / ************* * * ******* Yanks Plunge Into Final Battle For Okinawa; Hard Fight Ahead REMNANTS OF JAP GARRISON WELL FORTIFIED Possibly 20,000 Enemy Troops Remain, Cut Into Two Pockets INTENSE MORTAR FIRE By Hamilton W. Farron GUAM, June 8.—(/P)—Am erican troops plunged today into the final battle for Oki nawa, with every expectation of having to use grenades in hand-to-hand combat and to call upon flame throwing tanks before this bloody door step to Japan could be called “secure.” Japanese remnants of the smash ed Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru line — possibly 20,000 troops—were cut in to two separate groups but both were well entrenched. One was squeezed between the Sixth and First Marine divisions when the latter advanced 900 yards yester day to within 300 yards of the west, coast, north of Itoman town. This maneuver cut off Oroku peninsula. The second was well entrenched in the Yaeju-Dake heights, an escarpment rising to 450 feet in the center and stretching from Itoman to Hanagusuku on the eas tern coast. In both seetora, the Japan ese were defending their posi tions with intense machinegun and mortar fire. On the Oroku peninsula, Japanese also turn ed 20 and 40 mm. gunfire on the Americans. Although the enemy position was hopeless—Tokyo radio itself said so in effect—the Nipponese could hold out several days and make the battle for Okinawa even costlier than it has been. 60.324 JAP DEAD Fleet Adm. Chester W. Ntmltz’s communique reported 66,324 Japa nese had been killed on Okinawa from the April 1 invasion through June 6. This was an Increase of 4,805 in the past week. Latest See REMNANTS * rotarIans win COVETED AWARD President's Citation Com es To Local Club 2nd Consecutive Year For the second successive year Shelby's Rotary club has won the President’s Citation for the dis trict's most significant achieve ments in promoting the Ideal of Service, Governor Charles H. Stone of Charlotte today advised President Shem K. Blackley. The local club is one of 71 through out the world to win the Presi dential Rward. Governor Stone will come to Shelby June 15 to make the for mal presentation on behalf of the President of Rotary International. The club did not hold its usual weekly luncheon session today, the members and their ladies having arranged a Joint fish fry tonight with the Gaffney Rotarians at Ol lle Moore’s Broad River park.' Activities of the local club dur ing the past year encompassed a wide field of community service on the part of individual mem bers to draw the coveted award to Shelby another year. Last year it was accepted by the then current President, Clyde A. Short, on be half of the club. Eisenhower To Be At White House June 18 WASHINGTON, June 8— (IP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will be the honor guest at a White House dinner June 18 as part of Wash ington ceremonies celebrating his return to this country. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, said the president is planning the dinner for the eve ning following a joint congressional meeting at which General Eisen hower will be formally received by members of the two houses of con gress. YANKS TAKE OKINAWA AIRFIELD—The capture of Naha airfield by the Sixth U. S. Marine Division was the most outstanding achievement June 7 among American gains (arrows) on Okinawa. The shaded area is Jap-held territory. The Tokyo radio admitted that the “final end’’ of the Okinawa battle was in sight.—(AP Wirephoto Map) Carrier Planes Hit Kyushu Aii* Bases Mines Laid In Japanese Inland Waters; Small Enemy Cities To Be Bombed Too GUAM, June 8.—(A5)—Successive waves of carrier planes raided suicide air bases i.n southern Japan today and Superforts planted mines in inland waters, Tokyo reported | shortly after warning Japanese that “medium and small size j cities” would be pounded by B-29s just as their major cities The carrier strike by 200 aircraft was the third reported raid In as many days on air fields of Kyu shu, southernmost Island of Ja pan. Tokyo said the sea-borne raid ers took up where land-based planes left off. They bombed and strafed airdromes at the southern tip of Kyushu. At the northern end of the is land Tokyo, reported night-flying B-29s mined the western entrance to the Inland sea. While industrial Osaka still smoldered from yesterday's 450 bomber raid, Tokyo told the peo ple that Superfortress attacks “will be all the more frequent, bombing objectives will be enlarged, and we can expect that medium and small cities in local areas as well as large cities,” will be hit. HUGE BOMBERS So far the huge bombers have made large-scale attacks on the major cities of Japan, including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama and Kobe. A combination rain of high ex plosives and 3,000 tons of incen See CARRIER Page 2 Automobile Use Tax May Be Abolished WASHINGTON, June 6— UP) — Abolition of the $5 automobile use tax after July 1, 1946, was predict ed today by Sen. Johnson (D-SC). The senator, who recently intro duced a bill to repeal the tax, made public a letter from the treasury department endorsing its abolishment after Japan is defeat ed. Patton Named General Counsel For Commission RALEIGH, June 0. —{JP>— Gov ernor Cherry said today he had recommended to the State High way and Public Works Commission the appointment of George B. Pat ton of Franklin, Macon county, as general counsel for the commission. Cherry suggested that the ap pointment be made effective on July 1. In the event of his apointment, Patton would succeed, Charles Ross, attorney for more Ufan 20 years and acting chairman of the com mission for the last year. Patton is a former assistant at torney general and served in the general assembly in 1939 as repre sentative from Macon county. He resigned the post with the attor ney general to return to private law practice. He is a former mayor of Fran klin, is president of the Macon Bar See PATTON Page * WHAT’S DOING TODAY 6:30 p.m.—Joint meeting of Shelby and Gaffney Rotary clubs and their Rotaryanns for fish fry at Ollie Moore’s place on Broad river. 8:00 p.m.—American Legion meets at Legion building, meet ing postponed from Tuesday. Big Three Meeting Planned, To Be Held Within 40 Days I WASHINGTON, June 8—<i^)— President Truman expects to meet with Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill within the next 40 days to discuss world affairs. Announcing this at his news conference yesterday, Mr. Truman at the same time rejected France’s bid for a Big Five meeting to ex plore the knotty middle eastern problem. He emphasized that the confer ence planned for some time would include only the Big Three — the United States, Russia and Britain. Then he stated his belief that the Levantine question can be worked out at a lower level. This did not mean that the United States would discuss a so lution of the middle east question at a meeting from which Prance, Syria and the Lebanon were ab sent. The President’s position was that the question could be set tled on a less formal basis than a Big Five session. French Ambassador. Henri Bon net handed to Acting Secretary of State Joseph O. Grew yester day a note inviting the United States, Russia, Britain and China to a conference on the near east. Mr. Truman said he did not know about this note but reiterated that he did not believe a five-power conclave would be necessary. HAPPY ENDING OF CONFERENCE NOW IN SIGHT Russia's Concession On Veto Issue Assures Settlement TWO WEEKS LONGER By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, June 8. —(A1)—Small nation accept ance of a big-five veto voting formula for a world security council today appeared cer tain. A successful end of the United Nations conference is in sight. Russia’s dramatic acceptance of a statement that the big-power veto could not be used to block discussion of any case presented to the council broke a week-old deadlock late yesterday and put the conference over the hill. Ten days to two weeks more of committee work and speech making remain to get the Unit ed Nations charter in final shape for signing, but no more major issues are on the hori zon. It took the combined efforts of Premier Stalin, Harry Hopkins, who was then in Moscow, and Sec retary of State Stettinius, who acted with President 'Truman’s ap proval, to end the deadlock. Hop kins, on instructions from Stetti nius, asked Stalin to reconsider Soviet insistence that any of the Big Five could veto even discus sion in the peace - enforcement council of an international dispute. Stalin reversed the Soviet posi tion, acting, according to his spokesman here, in the interest of unanimity and to speed the con ference to success. NEWS APPLAUDED Russian Ambassador Andrei Gromyko first advised Stettinius of Moscow's action yesterday. Then he told it to Stettinius and repre sentatives of Britain, China and France at a mid-afternoon meet ing at the secretary's penthouse headquarters. The five next rushed See HAPPY Page 2 CAP! BROWNE TO SPEAK HERE Formal Exercises At Court house Will Close War Workers Week Captain William F. Browne, who lived for many years in South Am erica as a mining engineer and who has been with the corps of engi neers, U. S. Army, in New Guinea, on Leyte and Luzon in the Philip pines, will be the principal spea ker at the rally on the courthouse square Sunday afternoon when Wai Workers week will be brought to a formal close. The program which will be held inside if weather is bad, will start at 2:30 p.m. with the 468th Ground Forces band from Camp Croft fur nishing the music. The session will be closed with a flag raising cere mony by the American Legion and the singing and playing of the Star Spangled Banner. Besides the main address, talks will be made by Dr. J. S. Dorton, State War Manpower Commission, and Mrs. Fay D. Harmon, area manpower director. John Gaston head of the local war manpower office, will act as master of cere monies. OBSERVANCE War Workers Week has beer marked in Shelby by the display ol products manufactured in this vic inity in various show windows anc by the appearance of a team ol wounded soldiers coming here frorr Moore General hospital who tourec the industrial plants and made short talks to the workers. This team which came here un der the direction of Capt. A. T McLear, ort Bragg public rela tions officer together with Majoi Paul Werner and Lt. Col. L. K Martin was feted at a joint picnii of the Rutherfordton and Shelbj War Manpower officers at Silvei Lake near Mooresboro last night Also attending was Murray G. Hill field supervisor of the War Man power commission. Government’s Promised Increase In Meat This Fall To Be Very Slight By Ovid A. Martin WASHINGTON, June 8.—(IP)—The government’s prom ised increase in meat supplies next fall may turn out to average only 36 ounces more per civilian for the entire Oct tober-DecemDer period. This increase over summer sup I plies would include meats served in public eating places. Conse quently the increase in supplies at butcher shops would be somewhat less. Spread over a 60-day period, this 36-ounce boost would be scarcely noticeable, particular ly if civilian demand continues at or near present levels. This prospect is based upon lat est government meat allocations and estimates of 1945 production. The bureau of agricultural eco nomics—the War Food adminis tration’s statistical agency — said today meat production this year is expected to total 22,500,000,000 pounds, or nine percent less than last year. It said non-civilian — military, lend-lease, foreign relief and oth er commercial exports — may a mount to 6,500,000.000 Dounds. Oth er WFA officials said this figure may turn out finally to be nearer 7.000. 000.000 pounds. LEND-LEASE The government has expressed the hope that it will be able to allot upwards of 700,000.000 pounds for lend-lease and foreign relief during the last quarter. Such; shipments have been halted for July-September period. Of the total estimafed 1945 sup ply, about 16,500,000,000 pounds al ready have been allocated for use up to October 1. Thus the amount remaining for the last three months would be about 6,000,000,000 pounds. Of this, nearly 2,000,000,000 will be required for non-civilian uses, leaving slightly more than 4,000, 000,000 for civilians compared with 3.740.000. 000 allotted civilians for fchp .Tnlv-Spntpmhpr rmarfrr Bradley To Head War *s Veterans’ Bureau Will Succeed Gen. Hines Who Will Take Another, Undisclosed Post; Modernized By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, June 8.—(/P)—President Truman called today on a four-star general of World War II—Omar N. Brad ley—to look after the affairs of veterans of all wars. And by so doing, he accented once more his inclination to pick westerners for key jobs in his ad administration. General Bradley, 52 year old commander of the mammoth 12th army group in Eu rope, is from Moberly, Mo. He will succeed Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, retired, who is resigning to take another but undisclosed post offered him by the President. Hines has been head of the veter ans administration since 1923, and Mr. Truman said he believed it was time the veterans had some one who served in the current war running their affairs. The west and midwest retained their share of other presidential appointments made public yester day at another of the new chief executive’s “hot copy” news con ferences. They included: John B. Hutson, of Kentucky, to be undersecretary of agricul ture, and W. Stuart Symington, of St. Louis, to be chairman of the surplus property board. SUCCEEDS HILL Hutson, now an assistant to War Mobil! aer Fred M. Vinson, was named to succeed Grover B. Hill, of Texas, who 'resigned. Symington, president of the Em erson Electric company, will suc ceed former Senator Guy M. Gil lette of Iowa, who asked to step out July 15. Their selection thus follows the pattern Mr. Truman set in four cabinet designations. Another appointment announced yesterday was that of Paul M. Herzog, of New York city, to be a member of the National Labor Re lations board to succeed H. A. Millis, resigned, Herzog, former chairman of the See BRADLEY Page 2 Mighty Ovation Greets Patton 1 On Homecoming BOSTON, June B-ri/P)—Stirred by the cheers of a million people, General George S. Patton, jr., left by plane today for Los Angeles, en route he hoped to “fight the Japa nese.’* The swashbuckling head of the Third army told newsmen last night that “I sincerely hope I fight the Japanese.” “My ambition,” he said in an interview, “is to get to the Pa cific, but it may not be ful filled.” The 59-year-old four star general talked briefly with re porters after one of the most tumultuous receptions in the city’s history. Patton said he hoped to get a week or ten day leave which he would like to spend with his sister in Los Angeles. "There is a little church out there where I was baptized and ’confirmed,” he said. "God has been very good to me and I’d like to go there to give thanks to Him.” The church is St. Gabriel's Epis copal church. Patton was welcomed by shout ing throngs estimated at more than a million people by police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan, after a transatlantic flight from Paris via Newfoundland. Crowds lined the parade route See MIGHTY Page 2 SLAIN IN HOME—Albert E. Lang ford (above), 63, wealthy textile executive, was shot to death my steriously in his Park Avenue Ho tel apartment in New York June 5. Police say they are without clues thus far in their investigation.— (AP Wirephoto*. YANKS CAPTURE BAYOMBONG Japanese Had Turned City Into Supply Base, Few Defenses t •_ MANILA, June 8—(/Pi—American infantrymen advancing toward the last-stand Japanese forces in Ca gayan valley of the northern Phil ippines, yesterday captured Bay ombong, prewar city on northern Luzon which the Japanese turned into a supply base. The U. S. 37th division found no strong Japanese defenses in Bayo mbong, although they killed 119 Japanese in a seven mile advance and knocked out two flame-throw ing tanks. These were believed to be the first such Nipponese tanks encountered in the southwest Pa cific. Infantrymen drove to the enemy supply base after capturing Barn bang Wednesday, sealing off the enemy’s lateral road running a cross the Cordillera Central moun tains to a point north of Baguio, American-held summer capital of the commonwealth. PUSH FOR SORANO Patrols pressed up the fertile Cagayan valley toward Sorano, a town of 17,000 population before the war. In Central Luzon mountain fighting through the Manila wa tershed, the 38th division captured two mountain crests, by-passed a third, and reached the base of a fourth peak. On Mindanao island in the south ern Philippines, the 24th division broke a pocket of Nipponese re sistance near Tagakpan village just off Davao gulf, and advanced a mile up the Taloma river. This was one of several spearhead.' driving the Davao garrison back into the mountains where they are being trapped between the U S. 24th and 31st divisions. RAIDS ON BORNEO Savage air blows against British North Borneo were reported in the wake of Gen. Douglas Mac Ar thur’s conference with Gen. Jo seph Stilwell,. China-Burma-India expert who now commands all army ground forces. Liberators of the U. S. 13th air force dumped 225 tons of bombs on Dorneo target Wednesday in | stepped-up aerial strikes against I ihe East Indies. WAC And Two Airmen Stranded By Plane Crash In Mysterious Shansrri-La Valiev By RALPH MORTON HOLLANDIA, Dutch New Guinea, June 5—(Delayed)—(JP)—A war time air tragedy has unlocked in dramatic fashion the mysterious “Hidden Valley of Shangri-La.” Paratroopers—the first men from the outside world to invade the isolated field in the valley, 150 ; miles southwest of Hollandia, have gone to the rescue of a 30-year-old . WAC and two army airmen. (A dispatch today, June 8, from | Manila by Associated Press Corre ! spondent, Dean Schedler, said the rescue still had not been effected but the survivors were “safe and living comfortably.”) The trio are the only survivors among 24 army personnel in a transport plane which crashed into the four-by-25-mile jungle-sur rounded valley’s Oranje mountain wall 24 days ago during a sight seeing trip. RESCUE PARTY Eight Filipino paratroopers and a medical assistant have been pa rachuted to effect the rescue. The plan is to build a landing site, send in a glider, then jerk it into the air with a low-flying C-47 by means of a grab-line. The trio are in constant con tact with circling planes, using a parachuted walkie-talkie. They are in good spirits and ask about world news. Food and medical supplies an dropped to them. The natives while slow to make friends, havt not been hostile. After a gift o! parachuted salt pleased the tribes men, they even brought the sur vivors a pig to roast. An odd funeral service, witi: See WAC Page 2 LEVANT WILL MEET FORCE WITH FORCE Arab League Warns OF Measures Taken To Re sist Aggression dissolveTrelations By Fred Krieg CAIRO, June 8.—(/P)—The council of the Arab league has informed France in blunt terms that the Arab states will meet force with force in the Levant, and has fold the French to get their troops out of Syria and Lebanon immediately. A communique of the council, which has been considering the Le vantine crisis, announced last night that measures were being put into effect "to resist French aggression", and laid the blame for "assassina tion, destruction and other losses which occurred in both countries” directly on France, whose troops, it said, attacked Syria. I Supporting the demand of Syria and Lebanon for "immediate eva | cuation of French troops,” the com ; munique said retention of French 1 Soldiers in the two countries "is contradictory to the rights, sover ! eignty and independence which 1 have been acknowledged ia both I countries,” and would cause “per j manent tension in the relations of ! France and the Arab republics.” This tension, it added, "extends to the rest of the Arab country, thus I embarrassing the war effort against Japan.” FRENCH INVITATION (The communique was issued a short time after the French govern ment, in a diplomatic counter move seen as embarrassing to Brit ain, formally invited the govern ments of the United States, Brit ain, Russia and China to partici pate with France in a five-power discussion of the Middle East ques tion. (Prime Minister Churchill, who said two days ago a Big Five con ference would delay settlement of the question, originally suggested a meeting of U. S., British, and See LEVANT Page * BAKERYWILL [DOUBLE OUTPUT | Waldensian Company Is Building Addition, In stalling Equipment Work started this morning on | an addition to the Waldensian I Bakery plant on S. LaFayette • street which, when completed and j machinery is installed, will double I the output of bakery products, it is learned from Athos Rostan, ' manager. j The building fronts 50 feet on ! LaFayette and extends to a depth | of 48 feet, Brick and steel will I constitute most of the material I going into the new construction. Engineering and construction is j being done by the C and 3. En | gineering Go. of Shelby. , MACHINERY DUE Machinery was purchased some | months ago on priority from the | War Production board and is due i for delivery within the next thirty or sixty days. Mr. Rostan says the new macbln 1 ery will be used in the front of the present building now occupied 1 by offices and retail salesrooms which will be moved to the addi tion under construction. Dressing rooms and offices will occupy the second floor of the addition. Less Canned Fruits, Vegetables In 1945 NEW YORK. June 8—f/P)—'The supply of canned fruits and vege i tables available to civilians this year will be from 25 to 40 percent less than in 1944, says Paul C. Stark, home food supply director ' for the War Food administration, i The amount of some canned foods, such as tomatoes, will be | only about half what It was a year ago,, he told a regional meeting of victory garden and home-food processing leaders yesterday.
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