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• Get Out Paper, A Critical War Material, For Sunday Afternoon Roundup WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and a little warmer today, tonight and Sunday; scattered showers and thundershowers occurring mostly in afternoon and evening. Tslxe Hhelhy Baily Hielt - State Theatre Today - “Ten Cents A Dance” Jane Frazee — Jimmy Lloyd Joan Woodbury — Robt. Scott CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—138 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c 'BIG FIVE' VETO AGREEMENT KEY TO PEACE PLAN Conference Conclusion Leaves Open Question As To Guardianship PATTERN~SHAPED By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, June 9.—(/P)—The United Nations conference moved a long step nearer completion of a new world charter today with plans for international trus teeships virtually complete and the veto voting formula under apparently final debate. With more certainty than they have shown previously most dele gates, are talking about June 20 as the windup date on which Presi dent Truman may address the con ference. though some few still held hope for June 15 or 16. The pressure for speed Is so great that weary delegates were called to meet tonight In a committee session dealing with the voting formula. Un der this formula, the great pow ers would retain a veto con trol over all major decisions of the proposed world security council A preliminary sub committee meeting was sched uled for earlier In the day. AGREEMENT LIKELY Since Russia agreed with the United States, Britain. China and France Thursday that the veto could not be used to prevent free discussion in the council, it only remains now for the small nations to express their views on the for mula. All signs Indicate they will accept It. The break on International trus teeships came in a three and one half hour session last night. Rus sian objections on two points in volving independence for trusteed peoples and the status of present mandated territories were Ironed See BIG FIVE Page 2 FILL LOCAL WORKER NEEDS While there is still need for workers in some of the Cleveland county industries engaged in war production, the need is not as ■cute as heretofore, it was pointed out this morning by John M. Gas ton, manager of the United States Employment office here. Many vacancies are being filled by returning veterans and others •re being filled by students who are leaving school this month. Many of these students have vis ited the local employment office and have already been referred to local employers. Demand for war production did not decrease with the end of the war in Europe, it was pointed out by Mr. Gaston. On the contrary production needs have increased in many fields as the government turns to the gigantic task of plac ing large armies in the field in the Pacific. Stettinius' Hold On Post Strengthened I SAN FRANCISCO, June 9—VP) —President Truman’s departure from his predecessor’s usual meth ods in handling the Yalta voting controversy was Interpreted here today as, strengthening Secretary of State Stettinius’ hold on his cabinet post. Mr. Truman moved out of the field of personal diplomacy where Franklin D. Roosevelt often settled Buch matters. The President per mitted Stettinius to take the lead in Initiating Moscow negotiations with Premier Stalin which led to Russian acceptance of the views of the United States, Great Britain, China and France on the veto in terpretation question which had stalled the United Nations confer ence for nearly 10 days. Backed solidly by the American delegation, Stettinius asked Mr. Truman’s permission to carry the controversy direct to Premier Sta lin over the head of Andrei Grom yko, chairman of the Russian dele gation. The President told Stet tinius to go ahead and use his and the delegation’s best Judgment in framing the message. ‘HIDDEN VALLEY OF SHANGRI-LA’—This is the isolated “Hidden Valley of Shangra-La” in Dutch New Guinea where U. S. paratroopers are trying to rescue an American WAC and two U. S. Army airmen, sur vivors of a transport plane which crashed into a mountain May 13 and' killed 21 other occupants. The survivors are WAC Cpl. Margaret Hastings of Oswego, N. Y., Lt. John B. McCollom of Trenton, Mo., and S/Sgt. Kenneth W. Becker of Kelso, Wash. Listed among the dead were Lt. Lawrence F. Holding of Raleigh, N. C., and S. Sgt. Hilliard Norris of Waynesville, N. C.—(AP Wirephotoi Glider To Evacuate Shangri-La Survivors Paratroopers Preparing Landing Strip While Radio Directs Hazardous Rescue HOLLANDIA, DUTCH NEW GUINEA, June 9.—(£>)— A frlider expert who knows the jungle and its strange tribes men acted as aerial adviser today while paratroopers in the “hidden valley of Shangri-La” prepared a dramatic rescue. i.ic CA^u b, miinrtu u. a Royal Australian Air Force squad ron leader, probably will land the glider and remove the WAC and two army airmen who survived a transport crash 28 days ago which killed a score of other army sight seers. Watched by giant, spear armed natives, the paratroopers Labored on the swampy strip in the fantastic valley 150 miles southwest of Hollandia. The paratroopers had brought the natives their first contact with the world outside. PICKUP PLAN Nearby are the red and white pyramidal army tents which house the surviving trio, two medical technicians, eight paratroopers and Capt. Cecil A. Walters, a native of Oregon who has spent most of his life in the Philippines. Walters is the ground director. The men parachuted to attend the survivors and build the field where the glider will be sent in, then Jerked into the air by the grab-hook of a low-flying C-47. ‘‘We dropped you a case of beer,” announced Maj. George Gardner, of Cleveland, in a ra dio conversation on a supply flight. “That’s the best news we’ve had yet,” replied a Filipino paratrooper, using a parachuted walkie-talkie. The trio of survivors—WAC Cpl! Margaret Hastings, Oswego, N. Y.: Lt. John B. Malcolm, Trenton, Mo.; See GLIDER Page 2 JAIL NEGRO ON mULTCOUNT Mathews Johnson Held Without Bail After Complaint Intervention of Mrs. Blanche Peterson, who came home at just the right moment sent Matthews Johnson, 35-year-old albino negro, scurrying away from an attempt ed attack he was making on Mrs. Ruby Gantt, Mrs. Peterson’s sister, at the home of Mrs. Rosella Ca nipe near Dixon’s bridge on the night of June 7, according to stor ies told Sheriff J. R. Cline, who arrested Johnson this morni/lg and is holding him for attempted rape and breaking and entering a home at nighttime. Sheriff Cline has recovered the shotgun which Johnson is said to have used in an attempt to com plete his assault. The home is occupied only by women and chil dren and according to their story they were sleeping night before last when Johnson broke through a window and came in. He is said to have threatened to kill every body in the house and grabbed Mrs. Ruby Gantt, one of the oc cupants of the home. When he See JAIL Page 2 Zhukov Says Hitler Wed, Believes Hiding In Spain t t._ n / m\ «1 r>_iii.l. i • i x_ , 1 1 U 1 , VUtiV/ W » / «*M*U**WI Zhukov, an NBC broadcast from Moscow said today, believes that Adolf Hitler is hiding in Europe possibly in Spain, and it is up tc American and British troops tc find him. The Russian war leader also said Hitler had married Actress Eva Braun two days before Berlin fell, Correspondent Robert Magidofi quoted Zhukov as telling corre spondents in. Berlin: “Marshal Zhukov said that his troops found a number of corpses which might have been Hitler’s, but he doubts it. Hitler probably waited until the last moment and then took off in a plane that was ostensibly held in constant readi ness. “ ‘And I think,’ said the mar shal, ‘that Hitler is hiding some where in Europe, possibly with Gen. Franco. And now It’s up to jwu ■*->* U14U IVCVili} kU liUU him. “Diaries of the accidents of the German general staff had fallen into the hands of the Russians and from them it was learned that Hitler married the German movie actress Eva Braun.” Reuters carried a similar report quoting Zhukov. The broadcast continued: “Mar shal Zhukov told us he had es tablished a strict occupation regime in Soviet-occupied Germany which forbids the men of the Red army to fraternize with the population and that he will pursue a policy of economic disarmament of Ger many so thorough as to make it impossible for Germany ever to rise again as a military power. "As for Berlin, it is ruined be yond any hope of restoration,” the correspondent said. “It is a sight ghastlier than Stalingrad.” JAPS DRIVEN IN TRAP THREE MILES SQUARE Navy Turning Heavy Guns On Hard Pressed Oki nawa Remnants kaMikazF RETURN GUAM, June 9.—(A5)— American infantry, attacking with flame throwers and de molition charges today began flanking the last-ditch Japa nese defense line on southern Okinawa along the Yaeju Dake escarpment, which radio Tokyo said was being given “arms and supplies” by para chute. Marines of the First division drove 1,600 yards to the west coast yesterday, sealing off the only pos sible escape corridor of Nipponese in the Naha airfield area, where the enemy was compressed by the Sixth Marine division into a three-square mile trap. Heavy Navy rifles, field artil lery, rockets and bombs boom ed across the entire southern tip front as the final battle for Okinawa was joined and the Japanese returned to all-out attacks by suicide pilots against the fleet in Okinawan waters. FLAMETHROWERS USED The 84th Regiment of the Sev enth Infantry division pushed southwest from Gushican toward Hanagusuku village in the opening move to skirt the eastern flank of the Japanese line, of which Hana gusuku is the anchor. The 184th Regiment overran a stone fortifi cation in a parallel advance, wip ing out resistance pockets witn flamethrowers and grenades. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz re ported the return of Japanese Ka milraiFP fsnirlHpl nil t.hp fli. tack Wednesday and Thursday and said two small ships in the Unit ed States fleet were damaged, bringing to 25 sunk and 60 dam aged the announced casualties of the fleet in operations connected with the Okinawa campagin. Six ty-seven Japanese planes were shot down, 25 by the Tactical Air com mand based on Okinawa, Nimitz said. TOKYO CLAIMS Radio Tokyo, however, claimed two "enemy warcraft of the larg er type” and one large cruiser were sunk. Two additional cruisers and three aircraft carriers were damaged in the two-day attack, Tokyo said. Kamikaze attacks likewise in flicted damage to two airfields on Okinawa and one on Ie island, the See ENEMY Page 2 WORKERSRALLY SUNDAY 3 P.M. \_ Everything is in readiness for the War Workers week rally to be held on the courthouse square to morrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The principal address will be made by Capt. William F. Browne, who lived for many years in South America and who was with the army engineers in the Philippines. Music will be furnished by a band from Camp Croft and a flag raising ceremony will close the rally. This will be conducted by the American Legion. If the weather is inclement, the exercises will be held inside the courthouse. Besides the main ad dress talks will also be made by Dr. J. S. Dorton, director of the State War Manpower commission and Mrs. Fay D. Harmon, area manpower director. The rally will be presided over by J. Dale Stentz, secretary of the Chamber of Com merce. Weather Favors Kentucky Derby LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 9. —(A*)—Ol Sol was cooperating with the horses who like to run in the mud as he failed to break through an overcast sky } and light showers started falling here early today. It seemed apparent that the 71st running of the Kentucky Derby would be an event for madders as the weather man predicted the showers would likely continue most of the day. An inch and a half of rain fell in the 24 hours ending at noon yesterday. i LAND AND AIR BLOWS HAMMER THE JAPANESE—Chinese troops have driven to the outskirts of Liu chow (1) and are fighting in the Futing area on the Asiatic mainland (2). On Okinawa Island (3), the Ameri cans have split the dwindling Jap forces in two. U. S. Thunderbolts, based on Okinawa, raided Jap airfields on Kyushu. The shaded areas denote Jap-controlled territory—(AP Wirephoto Map*. WILLIS McMURRY LEGION ELECTS McMURRY HEAD Retiring Commander Dix on Praised For Work With Post Willis McMurry, local cottor broker and for the past year firsi vice-commander of Warren Hoyle Post 82 American Legion, was Iasi night unanimously elected com mander of the local post for the coming year. He will succeed Ma> R. Dixon. Reid Misenheimer, who has serv ed as adjutant for the Shelby posl during the past year, was unani mously re-elected to that office anc Griffin Smith was unanimously re elected service officer of the post Other officials elected last nlghl include Earl Lutz, first vice-com mander, Hugh Noell, sr., second and L. T. Warlick, third vice-com mander. These officers were named at a special meeting of the Legion posl held at the Legion building. Com mander Dixon announced that thej will take office the first Mondaj in July and after that minor of ficials will be appointed. Under the leadership of Com mander Dixon the Legion has in creased its membership from 371 to 421 and has participated in nu merous civic projects undertaker in the community during the pasl See LEGION Page 2 “B” Users Eligible For Increased Gas ATLANTA, Ga„ June 9. -(£>) More than one-half of the “B” ga soline ration users in the eighi southeastern states will be eligibli for increased rations Monday, James F. Armstrong regional rationing executive, announced yesterday. He said the increase would go tc those essential occupation driving needs exceeded their present allot ment of 325 miles per month. Armstrong estimated 471,000 oui of the 1,335,000 “B” holders woulc get the increase. Other “B” ration holders, sucl as home-to-work drivers, wen asked not to apply for increases as they could not be issued under thi new regulations. B-29s Leave Every 15th Jap Homeless Three-Woy Attack Extends Blasting Of Cities And War Industry GUAM, June 9. —(IP)— Superforts, which by Tokyo’s admission have left one of every 15 Japanese homeless, pinpointed aircraft factories in three Nipponese cities today while Japan premier was telling an emergency parliament session that B-29s have already caused “considerable damage” uw tuc c o wai muuou v . Tokyo reported “about 50” Mus tang fighters followed up the big bombers at midday, raiding the area between Nagoya and Osaka. I UNESCORTED RAID Today’s strike was an unescort ed raid by 100 to 150 Superforts with high explosive bombs at specific targets in Nagoya and two small cities in the Kobe Osaka area. The precision attack was a de parture from mass fire raids in May, which enemy broadcasts reported today destroyed 500,000 homes in Tokyo, Yokohama and Nagoya, leaving 1,790,000 homeless. This Tokyo broadcast combined with previous reports on April and March fire raids would make a total of 4,930,000 Japanese left homeless by Superfort destruction of rough ly 1,500,000 homes in five major cities—Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama. Nagoya and Kobe. Japan claims a population of 100,000,000 but other sources list it at 72,000.000. In Tokyo alone, enemy reports add up to 3,100,000 homeless and 767,000 dwellings destroyed by B 29 fire raids. Premier Kantaro Suzuki told the emergency session of the diet (par- j liament) that “no small number of people already” are victims of B 29s, but: “Measured on a nation-wide scale, those areas affected by the enemy air raids are very limited in scope.” He reported that “much head way” is being made in digging both industry and homes underground in bomb-ravaged cities as protec tion against further strikes. Jap anese hav$ already been warned that these would be extended to smaller cities and towns. This pre diction was fulfilled by today’s three-way attack. Akacshi and Naruo were the small cities struck by the B-29s. They are both near the east end of Japan’s See B-29s Page 2 CHINESE PUSH INTO KWANGS! gHUNGKING, June 9. — (IP)— The Chinese high command an nounced today that Chinese troops had captured a town qn the Indo china border in Kwangsi province, after toppling the important high way town of Szelo, 22 miles from the Indo-Chinese frontier. “During the morning of June 6,” a communique said, “our troops at tacked the enemy at Chungching fu on the border at French Indo china, and after a day of fighting occupied Chungchingfu. The ene my's remnants fled toward Cao bang.” The high command said the Chinese also threatened Mingkian, See CHINESE Page 2 U. S. Retains 600,000 Germans As Laborers PARIS, June 9. —I/P)— The U. S. Army disclosed today it plans to retain 600,000 German prisoners of war as laborers. When victory came, American armies held 2,852,000 German war prisoners on the continent. In ad ditition to the 600,000 to be used by the American army arrange ments have been completed for transferring 200,000 to 225,000 Am erican-held prisoners to France for labor, Colonel Robert J. Hill of the U. S. provost marshal's office dis closed at supreme headquarters. These prisoners, who will come under complete charge of the French just as if the French had captured them, are now held in seven inclosures in France. Tito Agrees To Quit Adriatic-Austria Area WASHINGTON, June 9 —tfP)— Marshal Joseph Broz (Tito) has agreed to withdraw most of his Yugoslavian troops from the Ad- j riatic-Austria communications zone upder a three-power agreement announced today. Details of this temporary solu tion of the recently critical Trieste dispute were given out simultan eously in London and Washington shortly after formal announce ment that an agreement had been reached and signed in Belgrade. Pending a peace conference, it was agreed between Yugoslavian, Britain and the United States to give the supreme Allied command er, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alex ander, control of the vital com munications area of the Venezia Giulia province. < unaer tne agreemens, me com mander is to take control over ter ritory west of a line running up from the Adriatic sea and includ ing the railways and roads to Aus tria which go through Trieste, Go rizia, Caporetto, Tarvisio, Pola and the anchorages on the west coast of the Istrian peninsula. All armed forces west of this line will be placed under the Al lied commander, it is understood, within about three days. Yugoslav forces in the area west of the designated line are to with draw except for a token detach ment of regular troops not to ex ceed 2,000 of all ranks. These troops will come under the Allied commander’s control and will be maintained by him. They will occupy a restricted district west of the line. DRASTIC SHIFT OF POWER FOR MAINLAND HGHT Premier Tells Diet Uncon ditional Surrender Means Death For 100,000,000 SEES FIGHT TO END By The Associated Press The Japanese pari:ament met in an emergency session in bomb-ravaged Tokyo today to approve an unprecedented bill transfering practically all of its powers to the govern ment of Premier Kantara So zuki who promised the war would be fought to the bitter end. Speedy adoption of this "emer gency measures bill" and five oth er "special wartime bills” was fore cast in Japanese broadcasts. This would be in line with previous ses sions of the diet which have done little but rubber stamp measures previously approved by the wartime cabinet. CALLED CRISIS The drastic measure was de scribed as an "urgent necessity” to meet the "present national crisis.” It would grant the gov ernment dictatorial powers to prepare for the battle of Japan, which Suzuki told the diet would be "totally different from pre cious Pacific battles and there was “an absolute possibility that we will finally repulse the enemy from our soil, smashing once and for all the enemy’s will to fight.” “The enemy's boastful tasks about the unconditional surrender of Japan mean nothing but the out right death of all 100.000,000 people in this country," Suzuki said, and “we have no alternative but to f&ht against this enemy." TOKYO REPORTS BORNEO AO10N MANILA, June 9. —UP)— Tokyo radio today reported Allied troops had landed yesterday on Labuan Island off the north coast of Bor neo, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Borneo was bombed heavily Thursday for the seventh straight day. MacArthur also said torpedo boats made daring sweeps off that oil-rich island's north coast and light naval forces shelled coastal defenses. The aerial assault with 170 tons of bombs cratered airdrome run ways destroyed two grounded planes and fired installations. Tokyo radio said one division landed on Labuan after an Allied convoy of battleships, cruisers, de stroyers and 50 smaller warships bombarded Japanese positions. Labuan is in the China sea, al most directly across northern Bor neo from Tarakan Island, which Australian and Dutch troops virtu ally have secured after a month's fighting. Elsewhere in the MacArthur thea ter, ground troops recorded steady gains in cleanup drives on Luzon and Mindanao islands. OP A Faces Test In Senate Vote Monday WASHINGTON. June 9. —(A”)— Administration forces today sought the return of absent senators for a vital vote Monday on price con trol extension. They claimed the votes to defeat two proposed profit - assuring amendments which Price Admini strator Chester Bowles said would bring inflation. Nevertheless they urged absent suporters to hurry back for the test. On the other hand. Senator Thomas tD-Oklai. author of one of the controversial amendments, said “Everybody concedes we have got the votes.” In an effort to assure a show down Monday, Majority Leader Barkley (Kyi called the senate to convene at 11 a.m., eastern war • time an hour earlier than usual ■ and secured a limitation on debate | of 40 minutes for each senator. Thomas’ amendment would pro i hibit any price ceilings which did ! not allow a processor of agricultur j al products a “reasonable profit” j above all costs on each individual j item.
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