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ft WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued hot today, tonight and Thursday; scat tered afternoon thundershowers, today, tonight and tomorrow. Ehe Hhelhy Bnily Him« - State Theatre Today - “SALTY O’ROURKE” Starring ALAN LADD CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLI1I—141 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, JUNE 13,1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c ATHOS ROSTAN ATHOS ROSTAN TO HEAD LIONS Officers Elected; Dr. Thompson Appeals For Bond Election Athos Rostan, manager of the Waldensian Bakery, who has been secretary of the Shelby Lions club for the past year, was elected to its presidency at the annual elec tion of officers held at the Charles hotel last night with only one bal lot being necessary. The meeting was presided over by the retiring B president, R. J. Rucker. Other officers chosen at the meeting were first vice president, J. O. Hagaman; second vice-presi dent, Paris Yelton; third vice president. Tod Caldwell; secretary, Lowery Austell; treasurer, Worth Morris; Hon tamer, Joe Plner; tail twister, Russell Laughridge; di rectors, W. H. Hardeman and Bel ton Beason. Dr. H. C. Thompson appealed to Lions for support of the hospital project in the coming bond elec tion on July 7 and urged every member of the club to register if he is going to be in town on elec tion day. He explained the four questions to be answered on the ballot and said that If the elec tion Is to carry all four questions must be anawered In the affirma tive. Plans were perfected for patroll ing the grounds at the horse show today and handling other details in connection with the event which is being sponsored by the Lions club. George W. Wray spoke brief ly about the horse show. Jack Secrest was a guest at last night's meeting. PLAN MEETING > FOR HOSPITAL Public Gathering Will Dis cuss Project Thurs day Night A public meeting for purpose of discussing and organizing county wide support for the hospital bond election to be voted upon July 7 will be held at the courthouse at 8 p.m. Thursday. Clyde Short, president of the Chamber of Commerce, together with interested groups of Shelby, Kings Mountain and county leaders this morning arranged for the meet ing at which a thorough discussion of the needs for the hospital and ways of assuring whole-hearted support of the entire county for the project. The invitation is general and the session will be in the form of an open forum for free discussion of the entire proposal, need and chal lenge in it. Lend-Lease Shipments To China Increase WASHINGTON, June 18 —(/T*)— Lend-lease shipments to China spurted to $61,000,000 in April or more than 15 times that of the same month a year ago. Foreign Economic Administra tor Leo T. Crowley, announcing this yesterday, said shipments will increase rapidly now that the war it concentrated against Japan. Since March, 1941, China has re ceived $458,874,000 in lend-lease aid. Deadlock Is Broken In Snarled Polish Issue; To Talk Reorganization By Alex H. Singleton LONDON, June 13.—(flP)—Poles and big three represen ! tatives will discuss reorganization of the Polish Provisional government in Moscow Friday, it was announced today. A British foreign office commentator said “a very ser ious deadlock has been broken,” but cautioned that “it is contrary to all our experience to say that it is going to be | clear sailing from now on.” A simultaneous announcement in . ... London, Washington and Moscow said reorganization of the War saw regime on a broad democratic basis as "provided for in the Crimea agreement on Poland” would be discussed in the Soviet capital by representatives of Britain, Soviet Russia and the United States, spokesmen for the provisional gov ernment in Warsaw and Polish democratic leaders. Members of the Polish govern ment In exile in London, still recognized by Britain and the United States, were conspicu ously absent from the list of Poles who will take part in the discussion. Responsible quarters here said that Julian Zakowski, 48-year-old architect and one of three London Poles invited to the conference, had decided to turn down the bid on the ground that he never has been connected with politics. Regarded as a liberal socialist who has no affiliation with the exiled admlni stration, he was understood to have been nominated by the Warsaw provisional government. NUCLEUS A dispatch from Moscow by Asso ciated Press Correspondent Eddy Gilmore said a reliable diplomatic authority stated the conference was to be held on the basis of reorgan izing the government with the So viet-sponsored provisional govern ment as a nucleus. Gilmore said diplomats in Moscow believed there were several good reasons to be optimistic. Members of the Polish govern ment in exile in London were con spiciously absent from the list of Poles who will take part In the dis cussions. Big Three representatives to the conference will be Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, U. S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and British See DEADLOCK Page 2 Big Three Meeting Definitely Planned Truman Says Time And Place Fixed For Conference; To Be Within 40 Days By Ernest B. Vaccaro WASHINGTON, Jane 13.—(A5)—President Truman to day reported complete agreement on a “big three” meeting soon, a gratifying improvement in .Russian relations, and said . he hoped the Polish issue is on the way toward settlement. 1 WOMAN DROWNS BABYDAUGHTER Mrs. T. C. Beam, 34, Drowns 6-Month-Old Baby In Bath Tub Mrs. T. C. Beam, of near Waco, was In a serious condition in the Shelby hospital this morning after what officers said was an attempt to take her own life about last mid night at the Cleveland county Jail where she was confined yesterady afternoon after drowning her own six months old daughter, Sarah. Mrs. Beam used a jagged piece of glass to slash her throat. She had obtained the glass by breaking a glass in which she had been given milk a short while before. The baby was drowned in the bath tub at the family home near Waco about 5 o’clock yesterday aft ernoon, and shortly thereafter Mrs. Beam, 34. was placed in custody by Sheriff J. Raymond Cline, who with Coroner Roscoe Lutz, inves tigated the tragedy at the Beam home near Waco. Mrs. Beam, who has been sub See WOMAN Page 2 War Correspondents Assail OWICut NEW YORK, June 13 —OPy Eight war correspondents, includ ing Quentin Reynolds and William L. Shirer, today criticized the house of representatives in voting to reduce appropriations for the OWI and declared that the de struction of the office would “leave the field to enemies of democ racy.” The house voted Friday a $17, 000,000 slash in the OWI’s 1946 fiscal year funds, reducing the of fice’s domestic and European ac tivities. The reduction does not affect the OWI’s activities in the Pacific. Others signing the telegram were Frank Oervasi, Robert St. John, Leland Stone, Marquis Childs, Paul Oallizo and John W. Vandercook. jluc tiuci executive 101a a news conference that he and Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Church- ] 111 have fixed a definite time and 1 place for a conference, but said 1 these details must be withheld I until he arrives at the designated : spot. This seemed to clinch his previous intimations that the meet- 1 ing will be held away from Wash- 1 Ington. Asserting that Stalin Is just as anxious to get along with the United States as we are to < get along with the Russians, the President expressed hope i for an early free and Demo cratic election in Poland. That, he said is the goal of a . meeting starting in Moscow June 15, when representatives of the “Big niree” governments and 1 three Polish factions get together | to seek a basis for a compromise i Warsaw government. , HOPKINS PRAISED Mr. Truman credited Harry Hopkins, his recent emissary to i Moscow, with a major role In the very pleasant yielding which he ■ said Stalin had done on the “Big , Five” veto position at San Fran cisco, as well as a growing willing- , ness to work out other differences. . The results of Hopkins’ trip, he ' said, together with that of Joseph E. Davies to London, "have been completely satisfactory and grati fying.” Obviously somewhat concerned about questions by reporters who raised the question of possible in ability to get support from Lon don Poles for the Moscow confer ence, the President asked that A mericans refrain from muddying See BIG THREE Page 2 Governor Of North Ireland To ttesign BELFAST, June 13 —(JP)— The 1 76-year-old Duke of Abercorn was 1 reported today to have decided to 3 ruign the governorship of north ern Ireland, which he has held for J 23 years. 1 He was appointed governor when • the position was created after the < Irish settlement. In 1931 the i Duke was offered the post of gov- < emor general Of Canada but de- < dined. i COPY ACTION OF AIDES EARLY IN WAR Aussies Make Small Land ing At Brunei River, Speed South AIRSTRIP-CAPTURED By James Hutcheson BRUNEI BAY, BORNEO, June 13.—(/P)—The Japanese fired west Borneo’s rich Seria oil field storage tanks last night—even as allied forces did before the Nipponese cap tured this island with its vast stores of oil early in the war. Hundreds of thousands of gal lons must have been destroyed last night alone. I counted 18 tank infernos from a P-T boat which went within a mile of the shore in the Seria vicinity. Seria is 60 miles south of the point where Australian troops landed three days ago on the Bor neo mainland at Brunei Bay. The Aussies sped their southward push in the general direction of Seria by making a small scale amphibious land ing on the Brunei river. The landing, 15 miles from the original invasion point, cut behind Japanese who were op posing the push toward Brunei town. The main force was nine miles from Brunei when the amphibious operation was made to close the pinceT. * On Labuan island in Brunei bay, See COPY .Page 2 Civilian Travel Sidetracked By Tokyo Express’ WASHINGTON, June 13— (AP) — Another big segment of v civilian ravel will' be sidetracked vin Au ;ust to make way for the Tokyo Express. [ Half the present number of puU nan cars and 10 to 12 per cent of he railroad coaches will be with lrawn from civilian use from Au ;ust until about March, 1946, for nilitary purposes exclusively. A growing pinch in air travel is ilso coming, J. Monroe Johnson, iirector of the Office of Defense transportation predicted yesterday it a news conference in which he sought public cooperation in re lucing unnecessary Vavel. “I understand that in another wo or three weeks you might as veil stay at home if you haven’t Sot a No. 2 airplane priority," lohnson said. rROOP CARRIERS The diverted railroad cars will >e used as troop carriers in or sanized movements averaging 308, K)0 men daily as the army’s re leployment of forces to the Pacific sets into stride, Johnson said. Al hough the peak will arrive some Ime in August, difficulties will be ;ome pronounced early in July, vhen vacation travel normally oars. As Johnson voiced the warning, he War Production Board an lounced that the entire freight :ar manufacturing industry had See CIVILIAN Page 2 SOLICITOR SPURLING SPURLING DIES EARLY TODAY District Solicitor For 19 Years, County Native, Hites Thursday L. Spurgeon Spurling, 50, state Solicitor for the 16th district for 19 years and a native of Cleveland county, died at 2:20 this morning at his home in Lenoir after an illness of about six months. Funeral rites will be held Thurs day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the First Baptist church of Lenoir, of which he was an active member, with the pastor in charge of ser vice. Interment will be in the cemetery at Lenoir. Mr. Spurling was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Spurling of near Fallston, was reared in this county and educated in local schools. He then went to Wake For est college where he received his bachelor of arts degree and a de gree in law. He was graduated with honors there and had become well known in debating circles in col leges throughout the country. IN WORLD WAR I His college career was interrupt ed by World War I and during the war he served in the army station ed at a camp in Georgia. After signing of the Armistice, he re turned to college and upon gradu ation, accepted a teaching position at the State School for the Deaf in Morganton. In 1920 he went to Lenoir where he took up the practice of law and in 1926 was elected district solicitor. In that posi tion he gained the respect and esteem of all who were asso See SPURLING Page 2 No Change In State Department Secretary Post Says Truman WASHINGTON, June 13 —ffl— For the third time in as many weeks, President Truman inform ed his news conference today that no change was contemplated in the State department secretary ship, now held by Edward R. Stet tinius, jr. He laughed when the question was put again today and replied there is nothing new. He pointed out that Stettinius will accompany him to his coming meeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin, still expected to be held within 30 or 10 days. THE WAR TODAY: Propagandists Threaten Japs With Imminent Invasion By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer By J. M. ROBERTS, Jr. AF Foreign Affairs Analyst Japanese propagandists have been hreatening their people with an mminent American invasion al hough they know that we are not et set for climactic action. They intend to use the next few nonths to prepare in every way rtiich our bombers will permit, they make much of forming a ivilian defense army (like Ger nany’s, which only got in the way if regular troops when the show lown came). But they say netti ng of the two or three classes of men in reserve and in war plants that now face active duty. With the end of the Okinawa campaign and the arrival of the monsoons in southeast Asia, we probably are entering a period of ;reat preparation rather than great ieeds. The possibility of some ac tion to help the Chinese on the mainland coast was discussed m this column recently. Continued ictlvity in the Indies is likely, but the recapture of Java probably de pends largely on the speed of the See PROPAGANDISTS Page 2 Chinese Recapture Juian And Hoyun By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, June 13. —{&)— Chinese troops following up the Japanese withdrawal from the Foochow area today recaptured Juian, only 15 miles south of Wenchow, after winning Pingyang 10 miles farther south, the Chinese high command announced today. Earlier, the Chinese announced recapture of Hoyun, 105 miles north east of Canton, but disclosed officially that the Japanese had regained Ishan, western bastion of the former U. S. Air base city of Liuchow, in bitter fighting some 400 miles' to the northwest. The Chinese were reported to have evacuated Ishan the night of June 11. The Japanese withdrawal in the Foochow area left Amoy as the only enemy pocket in Fukien province. The Chinese were declared pushing on toward Wenchow. • Hoyun was recaptured on June 9 and the Chinese advanced 19 miles i to the north. It was originally taken by the Japanese as part of a plan j to protect the approaches to Canton and Hongkong to enable the enemy to move troops quickly to the coast east of Hongkong in the event of an American invasion. Evatt Amendment On Veto Is Defeated Small Nations Rally Behind Proposal That They May Break Veto Power 10 Years Hence By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.—(/P)—Defeat of an Aus-! tralian amendment cleared the way today for approval in a ; United Nations conference committee of the big-five demand for' total vH’o control of proposed machinery for world security. The amendment, which would have removed the veto from steps to settle international disputes peacefully and limited it to use of force, was voted down 20 to 10. Fifteen nations abstained and five were absent. Simultaneously small nations were beginning to rally behind a proposal that they should be pro mised another crack at the veto about 10 years hence. In other words, they are call ing for the right to amend the_ charter in future without any of the big powers being able to exercise a veto over the amend ments. The Big Five are dead set against this. Action on the Australian amend ment came last midnight after three and a half hours of debate during which 17 speeches were made. The committee scheduled two more meetings today, in an effort to wind up its vfork. The next big vote presumably would be the one approving the v».to voting formula. UNANIMOUS This is the formula which re quires that Russia, France, the United States, China and Britain must be unanimous before the pro jected security council of the world organization can take any step to preserve peace. The lone exception would be that none of them would See EVATT Page 2 PAPERS ASKING FOR NEWSPRINT WASHINGTON, June 13 —(iT»)— The War Production board today considered—reportedly with some favor—a newspaper industry rec ommendation for larger allotments of newsprint in the July-Septem ber quarter. A WPB spokesman said the pro posed increase was “slight" and was based in part on a cut in gov ernmental demands for paper, both for federal agency use and for export. However, it was learned in other quarters that efforts are being made to provide a “one-degree" betterment in newsprint allot ments. CUT CONSUMPTION Newspapers now are required to cut their newsprint consumption by specified percentages under their 1941 paper usage for the corresponding quirter. The cur tailments range from 4 percent for small papers, up through 8 per cent, 12 percent, 20 percent and 24 percent for progressively larger papers. A “one-degree” relaxation would reduce the curtailments to 3, 8, 9, 15 and 18 percent respec tively. In other words, the small paper which had a 4 percent cut would have a 3 percent reduction: the largest papers would be cut 18 percent Instead of 24. LEDBETTER IS HELD IN M Kings Mountain Man Is Held On First Degree Count For Killing Gaither Ledbetter, who operates a service station and beer parlor just outside of Kings Mountain on the Grover road, was ordered held without bond on a first degree murder charge in connection with the killing of Robert Brakefield, of near Blacksburg, following pre liminary hearing held this morn ing before Judge A. A. Powell in Cleveland Recorder’s court. Brakefield died on his way to a Gaffney hospital after he had been wounded by gunfire at the Ledbet ter establishment. Evidence was offered tending to show that Brakefield and his party including five men besides Brakefield got into an argument with two girls inside the station and that Led better put them all out. After he had put them out, witnesses testified that Ledbetter came back and grabbed a pistol out of the hands of Howard Sanders, assist ant in the service station, and went outside again. Within a few seconds a pistol shot was heard outside and Brakefield fell. See LEDBETTER Page 2 U. S, Rejects French Invitation To Big Five Conference .PARIS, June 13—(TP)—A diplo- ] matic report today said the United ; States had sent France a friendly i note rejecting Gen. de Gaulle’s in- i vitation to a proposed five-nation conference on middle eastern I problems. Official sources refused 1 to comment. 1 De Gaulle’s proposal was a coun- ; ter to a London suggestion for ] a three-power conference on Syria and Lebanon WHAT’S DOING TODAY 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.— Horse shows at Dedmon ring. 7:45 p.m.—Prayer service at Presbyterian church. j ] 8:00 p.m. — Midweek prayer and praise service at First 1; Baptist church. i 8:00 p.m. — Fellowship hour i at Central Methodist church. ; THURSDAY I 7 00 p.m.—C. A P members I meet at armory. ( 7 00 p.m. — Kiwanis club ( meets at Hotel Charles. < LAST-DITCH OKINAWA LINE SAID BROKEN U. S. Field Artillery Bom bards Dug-In Enemy Atop Plateau NEW FLAMETHROWERS Bv Richard O'Malley GUAM, June 13.—QP)— Simultaneous pre-dawn at tacks on both flanks of Yaeju plateau caught the Japanese napping and apparently crack ed the enemy’s last ditch de fense line on Okinawa, front dispatches reported today. The Japanese came to life at daybreak and attacked with ma chineguns and knee mortars. But it was too late. Cliff-scaling Seventh division in fantrymen held the eastern an chor of the Nipponese suicide line. First division Marines were astride a ridge at the western anchor, thre miles away. And from the north, American field artillery un leashed one of the heaviest barrag es of the campaign against twc concentrations of the 10,000 to 15, 000 enemy troops dug into caves atop the plateau. Fighting was so fierce that in 36 hours battling for the slope of one hill, 137 men in a single Marine company, includ ing all of its officers, were killed or wounded. That is more than half the company’s strength. Japanese, including at least one woman in soldier’s uniform, charg ed Marine lines during the night with satchel charges. They blew up like firecrackers when hit. NEW TECHNIQUE U. S. infantrymen met counter attacks with machineguns and a brand new flamethrower techniue. Machineguns were packed to the top of the escarpment on the backs of Yanks scaling ropes, hand over hand. Tankmen brought flame spewing 500-foot- hose extensions connected to their tanks at the See PRE-DAWN Page 2 CHURCHILL AND ATLEE CLASH Each Accuses Other Of Precipitating British Election LONDON, June 13—UP)—A sharp ?xchange between Prime Minister Churchill and his former deputy, Laborite Clement Atlee, in which each accused the other of precipi tating the general election next month, added new heat today to Britain’s already warm political campaign. In a statement issued from No. 10 Downing street, Churchill Brought into the open private dis cussions which had preceded the Breakup of his coalition govern ment by declaring Attlee had giv en him the impression the labor members of the cabinet would be billing to carry on until Japan vas defeated. Attlee, he said, apparently chang 'd his mind after consulting with ether labor party leaders. Attlee issued an immediate re Dly denouncing Churchill’s state ment as “a sedulous attempt to nake out that the labor ministers leserted the government.” Attlee repeated laborite asser tions that the conservatives had breed an early election in ordei o capitalize on Churchill’s “great lervice to the country in tlr • tarty interest.” William 0’Dwyer Democratic Nomine■" For N. Y. Mayor NEW YORK, June 13 — MP) — Cings county district attorney, Villiam O'Dwyer, emerged today is the unchallenged Democratic tominee for mayor of New York ity and victor in his battle for icceptable running mate. With his development it appeared that he mayoralty contest would be be ween fhe Brooklyn prosecutor and ienera! Sessions Judge Jonah J. joldstetn.
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