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WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued ra ther hot today, tonight and Friday; scattered thundershowers In the central portion this afternoon and In west portion Friday afternoon. Triu- Hhkihy ismty Hm CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “HERS TO HOLD” DEANNA DURBIN JOSEPH COTTEN VOL. XL1U—142 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY. N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—fie British Propose . Sweeping New Deal For India " LONDON, June 14.—(^P)—The British government, in a sweeping “new deal” for India, proposed today a new execu tive council which would be almost entirely Indian and, in the words of Viceroy Lord Wavell, “represent a definite ad vance on the road to self-government.” At the same time that the secre tary of state for India, L. S. Amery, unfolded the statement of policy to parliament, Lord Wavell an nounced in a radio broadcast from New Delhi that orders had been given for the release of members of the working committee of the Indian all-congress party still in detention. Mohandas K. Gandhi, spi ritual leader of the party, was released May 5, 1944, after 21 months detention. The British government’s - white paper emphasised that its main position remained as it was—that the ‘'working out of India’s constitutional system is a task which can only be carried through by the Indian people themselves.” •'But they (the British govern ment) are willing to make possible some step forward during the in terim period if the leaders of the principal Indian parties are pre pared to agree to their sugges tions and to cooperate in the suc cesful conclusion of the war against Japan as well as the re construction of India, which must follow the final victory.” MORE REPRESENTATIVE “This is not an attempt to im pose a constitutional settlement, Wavell explained in his broadcast. "Ix x x propose with full support of his majesty’s government to in vite the Indian leaders x x x to See BRITISH Pare 2 16 Arrested r'olisn • Leaders To Be Tried Gen. Bronislaw Obulicki Named Ring Leader Of Group, Charged With Hindering Red Army LONDON, June 14.—(/P)—The Moscow radio said to day that the 16 Polish political leaders accused of “terroristic acts” behind Red army lines would be tried "within the Sixth Day Of Bombing For Jap Homeland GUAM. June 14 —W— Fifty planes of the 10th army tactical air force, the largest force sent against Japan from Okinawa, gave the enemy homeland its sixth straight day of aerial pounding Tuesday, the navy disclosed today. Marine Corsairs hit the Kano ya airfields of Kyushu with more than 12 tons of bombs and rock ets. Hits were scored on parked aircraft and buildings were ob served collapsing. On the flight home, the raiders hit Kushira and Tokuno airfields. One plane and Its pilot were lost. Kyushu, which also has been hit by B-29s from the Marianas, and by carrier planes of A dm. William F. Halsey's U. 8. Third fleet, is the staging area for enemy suicide planes which to date have sunk at least 25 ships and damaged more than 50 others at Okinawa. SHIPPING HARRASSED Japanese shipping of the main homeland Island of Honshu was harrassed again Wednesday by navy search planes. Adm. Chester W. Nlmlts also announced air strikes. at the Kuriles and Caro lines. In Manila today, Gen. Douglas MacArthur expanded the picture of air action below the Ryukyus to Formosa, the China coast and south into the East Indies as far as Java. Along the Asiatic mainland, raiders struck from Shanghai to Malaya. Patrol bombers dropped Incendiaries on an arms plant at Canton. Other raiders hit rail lines. Industrial areas and the Klngwan airdrome at Shanghai. The enemy coastal vessels were wrecked off Malaya. Planes hitting Donggala In north Dutch Celebes started fires visible for 00 miles. 7th Loan Drive At 77 Per Cent Of Goal WASHINGTON, June 14 -{/Py War bond sales to individuals in the 7th War Loan drive today stood at 15,397,000,000 or 77 percent of the $7,000,000,000 goal. Sales of E-bonds total $2,448, 000,000 or 81 percent of the $4,000, 000,000 quota. Other sales to In dividuals aggregate $2,958/100,000. J next iew nays. The broadcast named Gen. Bron islaw Okulickl as ring leader of the Polish group which it said would be charged specifically with "or ganizing terroristic acts and main taining illegal wireless transmit ters in the rear of Soviet troops in Poland. Earlier, Moscow had an nounced the arrival of Warsaw delegates to the Big Three con ference over the future of Po land. The Polish government in London expressed indignation over the meeting, which alms to form a Polish government of national unity. The Moscow broadcast about the impending trial said: "Investigation by the chief oi the military office has now beer completed. In this case a total ol 16 persons will be tried. The case has been put before the military collegium of the supreme court ol the U. S. S. R. for Investigation Hearing of the case will take place in the next few days.” POLISH ARMY The London Poles apparently were clinging to the hope that the Mos cow conference, opening Friday would bog down over the difficult die POLISH Page 2 Government Clamps Controls On Sugar WASHINGTON. June 14— (JP) - The government today clamped ri gid controls on sugar in an effort to insure fairer distribution ol available supplies. Fixed quotas for all government agencies and other users were or dered by the War Food Adminis tration which simultaneously an nounced that civilians will receive less sugar during the next three months. Suzuki Reports Japan Under Military Rule SAN FRANCISCO, June 14—</P) —Japanese Premier Kantaro Su zuki admitted today the military had taken over the rule of the country and declared he would not resign even with the fall of Oki nawa. The Japanese people mean while were instructed to make of the homo islands "a for tress rivaling Babaul in im pregnability,” as the premier indicated the army and navy were depending on one bold strike at the American fleet and on overwhelming manpow er to eventually bring victory to the Rising Sun. The developments were reported by the Tokyo radio and Japanese government controlled Domel news agency In broadcasts recorded by the federal communications com mission. Suzuki in a press conference an nounced his decision to remain at his poet regardless of the Okina wa results, and declared the strug gle there was not “a decisive bat tle which will determine the final {lee SUZUKI Page 10 OTHERS TAKEN WITHOUT FIGHT, IN USE NOW Defenders Recover From Surprise, Show More Resistance RUBBER FARMS TAKEN By James Hutcheson BRUNEI BAY, BORNEO, June 14.—(JP)—Tank-led Aus tralian ninth division troops are battling’ Japanese through swamp and jungle for the only remaining airfield in this invaded north Borneo area after overrunning the other two without a fight, head quarters reported today. The 4,500-foot Labuan Island airfield, already Is being used by artillery spotter planes. It is being developed as a bomber base, with in 800 mUes of Singapore. Fourteen miles south of the main land invasion beach at Brooketon, the 3,600-foot Brunei airfield also BRUNEI BAY, Borneo, June 14— (jp) —Primitive Dyaks of Borneo have attacked the Ja panese with poison-dart blow ers in independent support of the Australian invasion to lib erate their home island. Natives outside Brunei town told today how the fierce Dyak Aborigines donned battle re galia and killed 14 Japanese In the last two days. was won easily. It is two miles out side the capital city of Brunei on which the diggers are closing from two sides against enemy mortar machinegun and rifle fire. But the Nipponese on Labuan Is land. which commands the entrance to Brunei Bay, showed more fight as the invaders drove within two miles of the 3,600-foot Timalal air field. It is nearly five miles from the origins] beachhead outside Vic toria town. MINES, BOOBY TRAPS After recovering from the ap parent early surprise—the enemy See OTHERS Page 2 PLAN HOSPITAL RALLY TONIGHT Backers Of Bond Issue Will Gather At Court house 8 P. M. Already bearing strong endorse ment of local civic groups, the hos pital building bond campaign will be explained to a general meeting of citizens at the courthouse to night at 8 p. m. when plans will be laid to get a resounding ma jority for the project at the July 7 election. Clyde A. Short, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said that all interested individuals are in vited to tonight’s session at which details of the project vyill be out lined and a general chairman oi the civic campaign will likely be designated. He said that inas much as there is unusual civic concern about success of the drive that the Chamber of Commerce will undertake to organize the va rious groups and individuals into an effective single organization. The Lions club at its meeting Tuesday night endorsed the plan which Kiwanians, Rotarian^ and other groups likewise have com mended. The local registrars are to be guests of the Kiwanis club tonight and Rotary club tomorrow and will register those who wish to register. HAPPY HOMECOMERS—GI veterans of the European war crowd the deck of the big new transport, the Gen. W. P. Richardson, on its arrival at New York City. DE GAULLE TO COMETOU.S. Will Discuss "Increasing ly Unsatisfactory" Le vant Situation PARIS, June 14—UP)—Gen. De Gaulle is expected to depart for Washington by plane next week to discuss with President Truman the situation in Syria and Lebanon, which French government spokes men describe as “increasingly un satisfactory.” The disclosure that De Gaulle is planning to confer with the presi dent was made by official quar ters following a report that the United States had declined France’s invitation to a five-power confer ence on middle eastern problems. (A dispatch from Damascus last night quoted Syrian Premier Shuk rikuwatli as declaring that French Generals Fernand Oliva Roget and Faul-Etienne Beynet should be prosecuted as war criminals for their part in the recent fighting in Syria, which he estimated had resulted in 800 killed and 1,500 wounded. He added there could be no peace in Syria and Lebanon until all French troops are with drawn.) $50,000 BONDS BOUGHT BY DUKE Allots Purchase To This County; E Bonds Still Lagging Announcement of the allocation of $50,000 worth of War Bonds by the Duke Power company to Cleve land county’s “Mighty Seventh” quota, was made today by E. C. Marshall, vice president of the company, in a letter to Bill Brown, manager of the company’s opera tions Uere. Total over-all sales of War Bonds in Cleveland county are now well past the $2,069,000 quota and War Finance Chairman George Blanton expects that figure to be far exceeded before close of the drive, particularly if lagging E bond sales pick up to the $100,000 a week pace necessary to put the county over the top in that cate gory. The sale of E bonds continues “disappointingly low” at this stage of the drive, Drive Chairman Jack Dover says. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 pm.—C. A. P. cadets meet at armory. 7:00 pm. — Kiwanis club meets at Hotel Charles. 8:00 pm.—Hospital meeting at courthouse. FRIDAY 12:30 pm. — Rotary club meets at Hotel Charles. 8:00 pm.—Called meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. far work in third degree. A i A1 CUNrcKcNtc: Small Nations Ask Right To Withdraw Little Countries Give Up Most Of Struggle Against Control By Big Powers By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, June 1*4—(/P)—The struggle of small nations to protect themselves against the big power control of a world league finally boiled down today to one demand— the right to withdraw from the organization whenever they Desperate Japs Fight Viciously On Mindanao MANILA, June 14—(/P)—Desper ate Japanese forces, conyjosed largely of beached naval personnel, are fighting tenaciously and fa natically to prevent a Yank ad vance along the east and west banks of the Davao river on south eastern Mindanao. For a week these Japanese have held up a large-scale American advance. On the east bank, veterans of Col. Thomas E. (Jock) Clifford’s 19th Infantry regiment finally smashed organized resistance in the hemp groves and jungled hills, headquarters reported today. Scattered pockets however re main near Mandog. “The ultimate defeat of these Japanese on the Davao river,” re ported Associated Press Corres pondent Richard Bergholz, “is written in American blood.” TOUGH OPPOSITION West of Davao city, along the Talomo-Kibawe trail, other 24th division troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Roscoe B. Woodruff, with elements of Maj. Gen. Jen S. Doe’s 41st division battled against See DESPERATE Page 2 Service Folk Must Write In Requests For Subscriptions Effective July 1, 1945, all subscriptions for newspapers and other periodicals to per sonnel in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard over seas MUST be requested IN WRITING by the ADDRESSEE. This order, No. 17851, issued by the Post Office Department at the request of the Navy De partment, includes RENEWALS as well as new subscriptions. Payment for the subscription may be made by anyone pro vided the addressee have in itiated the request. The address on all such mail ings shall include the state ment: “Mailed in conformity with P. O. D. Order No. 17851.” Indications are that this demand will be granted, although with some strings attached. The big powers, having triumphed on the veto issue, are agreeable provided they now get two other things they want: 1. A restriction that the charter being drawn up at the United Nations conference cannot be amended except on complete agreement of the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China. 2. A punishment clause un der which nations judged guil ty of grave violations of the charter would be expelled from the organization. These are the main, closely re lated problems for the closing days of the conference. Prolonged dis cussion of them appears to be one of the chief reasons why the con ference leadership has once more delayed the adjournment goal, thi: time from June 20 to June 23. To make this time schedule the Big-Five agreed yesterday that the weekend ahead should be a “work ing weekend” with Sunday meet ings as necessary, possibly includ ing a full-dress session of the con See SMALL Page 2 Earthquake Tremors Felt In Tennessee U. S. weather bureau here re ported earthquake tremors las night at 11:26 in area south o Knoxville, Tenn., toward Chatta nooga. Shocks reported heavies in area around Cleveland, Tenn and Blue Ridge, Ga. No damage said weather bureau, but resident were so alarmed that they vacatei their homes. U. S. Lost 1,554 Merchant Ships In Sea War To V-E Day vv i KJi'i, uuuc / The war at sea cost this countr: 1,554 merchant ships up to V-l day and 5,579 crewmen dead o missing. The army lost 3,604 sol diers drowned in troop movement against Italy and Germany. Against these sobering figures however, Americans were told to day that their shipbuilders sen more than seven tons of carg shipping down the ways for ever: ton lost to the Axis. And the army’s safety record fo its men was described officiall as nearly twice as good as that c t Yanks Wipe Out Banzai Attack, Drive Wedges Into Enemy-Held Area By Bobbin Coons GUAM, June 14.—(/P)—Marines scattered one major pocket of Japanese on Okinawa yesterday, and Yank infan trymen drove two 400 yards wedges into the remaining 13 square mile area still held by the Mikado’s men, after wip ing out a banzai attack and winning a 36-hour grenade duel. SHELBIANS SEEK SOLICITORSHIP A. A. Powell And C. C. Horn Mentioned To Suc ceed Spurling Names of A. A. Powell, now judge of the Cleveland Recorder’s court, and C. C. Horn, member of the North Carolina house of represen tatives, were both being presented to members of the Cleveland Bar association for indorsement for the position of solicitor of the 16th judicial district, vacated yester day by reason of the death of So licitor „L. S. Spurling. Friends of both local men were today making a canvass of the bar lh an effort to round up senti ment. Numerous other attorneys from other counties have also been mentioned for this place including L. T. Horton, of Burke, John Stro^pe, of Hickory; M. L. Leath ermali of Lincoln and several oth ers. CLEVELAND’S TURN It was pointed out here this morning that if the Cleveland bar is able to settle on one man it would have an excellent chance of landing the place as no other ju dicial officers have resided here since the death of Judge James L. Webb. Both a resident and a spe cial judge live in Catawba county. Burke county had the last emer gency judge and Caldwell has had the solicitor. That leaves Lincoln and Cleveland with the best chan ces if a fair division of honors is to be made, provided they can a gree on the candidate. In Cleveland this looked a little doubtful this morning as the local bar was lining up in divided fash ion. Counties in the district are Cleveland, Catawba, Lincoln, Cald well, Watauga and Burke. Ninth Army Coming Home In July SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 14—(A*)—Authorita tive quarters said today that Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson’s U. S. 9th army was scheduled to return , to the United States in July or shortly thereafter. It was learned authoritatively that the U. S. 15th army would remain in Germany in an occupa tion role with the Third and Sev enth armies, at least until Decem ■ her. ; If by December the situation is f such that the 15th army no long ■ er is needed on the continent, it t will become surplus, said a highly , placed informant who may not be , identified by name. That means s the 15th army would then return 1 to the United States for transfer to the Pacific, if it is needed there. The Maritime commission : said the 1,554 vessels lost fly ing the United States flag aggregated 6,277,077 deadweight 5 tons. They fell prey to sub marines, enemy mines or planes , and wartime navigation haz ards from Sept. 1, 1S39, to last l May 8. > Far outweighing this were deliv f eries of 5,016 ships totaling 48, 674,000 deadweight tons, built in the three years, 1942-43,-44. r f I See U. S. Page 2 Tokyo broadcasts conceded the plight of 10,000 survivors, Including every man and woman over 15 who was physically able to fight, was “truly desperate.” And Premier Adm. Kantaro Suzuki conceded loss of the island, 325 miles from Ja pan, by saying neither the fate ol the homeland nor his own as pre mier hung on the outcome of the Okinawa battle. Radio Tokyo boasted that Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, jr., U. S. Tenth army com mander, was the first American general to suffer the “embar rassment of a formal rejection” of a surrender demand. Dis patches from the front said Buckner’s offer was ignored but the tricky Japanese took advantage of a temporary sus pension of artillery fire during preparations for possible peace to fortify a hill on the western flank — treachery which cost the lives of American Marines. The banzai charge, the expected forerunner of other suicide at tacks, was made by 300 screaming Nipponese against the Seventh In fantry division on the opposite flank. Every attacker was killed. PREPARED WELL The Japanese prepared well for the assault. For 90 minutes, they laid down a barrage of mortar, ma chinegun and rifle fire and hurled grenades. Then the Japanese attacked with grenades and satchel charges. Capt. Dallas D. Thomas of Shawnee, Okla.. and Torrington, Wyo., told Asso ciation Press correspondent A. Dop kirts that 250 were killed before dawn and the remainder were hunt ed down behind crags and killed by noon. American casualties were light despite fierceness of the fight ing. The action occurred near Hanagusuku, eastern anchor of the Yaeju escarpment line, See YANKS Page 2 RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA BETTER Churchill days No Real Basis For Friction With France LONDON, June 14 —(^P)—Prime Minister Churchill told Commons today that relations among Great Britain, the United-States and Rus sia had improved and that there was no “real basis” for misunder standings with France over Syria. British-Russian relations par ticularly have “undergone a mark ed improvement in the last week or so” with the breaking of the deadlock over Poland, Churchill said. He said Gen. de Gaulle was sending former Premier Edouara Herriot to London to adjudicate differences between the countries, declaring: “We have no idea of trying to surplant our French friends in Syria. We have no wish to steal our friends’ property in any por tion of the globe.” He acknowl edged, however, that relations with France had “been greatly distress ed and disturbed by events in Sy ria.” EDEN AILING The Prime Minister, acting as foreign secretary for the ailing Anthony Eden, said Clement R. Attlee, labor party leader, would accompany him to the Big Three meeting to be held sometime be fore July 26. Churchill said the conference 1 with Premier Stalin and President ; Truman would take place before the results of Britain’s July 5 elec tion were known. The results are scheduled to be announced July 26 i Churchill said the place of the meeting must remain secret for 1 the time being. There has been speculation in | the British press that the three j heads of state might confer in | Vienna or Berlin.
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