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• Hospital Program To Be Memorial To County’s Men And Women In World War II WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued rather hot today, tonight and Saturday; Scattered thundershowers west por tion this afternoon and In west and central portions Saturday pun. VOL. XLIU-143 Tshe Schelbe Bang star CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES - State Theatre Today - “HIGH POWERED” Starring ROBERT LOWERY and PHYLLIS BROOKS SINGLE COPIES—6c YANKS SEEK QUICK KNOCKOUT BLOW ON OKINAWA * * * ******#*•.»* ****** Conquest Of Objectives In Northwest Borneo Virtually Finished ©TAK riUllUKlAL: A WORTHY MEMORIAL Cleveland county’s memorial to the approximately 6,000 men and women who have answered their nation’s call to service in World War II is to be a hospitalization pro gram in keeping with the spirit and traditions of the county if our people vote as we confidently expect them to do .the $400,000 bond issue supporting the project in the special election July 7. Two splendid hospitals in a single county system thus would constitute a worthv permanent, living memorial dedicated to the relief of human suffering and to prolong ation of life. What finer testimonial could we write of our appreciation of the sacrifice made by those fine sons and daughters of whom the whole people are justly proud? What memorial could better be dedicated to serving the whole county than hospitals devoted to treatment of the sick and infirm? Clevelanders want a fitting memorial erected to their sons and daughters of World War II—those who have made the supreme sacrifice as well as those who return—and The Star believes they will recognize in this hospital program a challenge to do it in a manner and spirit that will redound to the enrichment of living in a way that constitutes the kind of tribute we will want to pay our fighting men and women. AT CONFERENCE: # Showdown Today On Charter Revision Clots Bottle On Issue Is Expected; Small Nations Re sentful Over Veto Outcome By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.—(/P)—Several small na tions resentful of big power leadership may rally enough United Nations conference votes today to force revision of the projected world security charter in 5 to 10 years. ___ I A lfttp nftArnnnn shnvHmrn nn KIBBENTROP IS CAPTURED Token While He Slept lr Hamburg Boarding House FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOM ERY'S HEADQUARTERS. OER MANY. June 15—(IP)—Nazi Foreigi Minister Joachim von Ribbentro] was captured yesterday as he slep nude in a Hamburg boardim house, bringing to a close the mos Intensive manhunt in Europe sine V-E day. Von Rlbbentrop, understood t be wanted by the governments o at least 10 nations to stand tria for war crimes, was the last top ranking Nazi known to be aliv who had eluded capture. A meta can of poison was found strappe< to his body, but he surrenderei this voluntarily. The dandified former champagn salesman who became the enginee of Hitler’s arrogant foreign policj had been hiding in Hamburg sine April 30. The man who had im posed his diplomatic will on Eu rope had not a friend in all of Ger many's second largest city whi would assist him actively in ob talning a place of refuge. Von Rlbbentrop volunteered th Information that he had intendei to hide until British feeling abou See VON RIBBENTROP Page 2 this Issue, which stems from the now-ended fight over the veto, ap pears certain, with preliminary signs indicating a close battle. Behind the scenes the small nations are saying they are not sure the veto voting formula will work. It would give the Big Five full control of security council action, and any one of them could block an action It did not like. In five years or more of experience . show It unworkable, they contend 1 they want to change it. If they can > possibly arrange it they do not want t any one of the big nations to be r able to veto the change. If they t can’t have these things, they say, , they want the right to pull out—a right which could be used as a club > against the big powers. j The Big Five admit that possibly 1 See SHOWDOWN Page 2 i WHATS DOING l l TODAY 8:00 p.m.—Called meeting of i Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & : A. M. for work In third degree. , 8:15 p.m.—Legion Junior base ! ball game between Shelby and Davidson at high school park. ; Bulletin > LONDON, June 15. —<£’>— I MaJ. Clement R. Attlee disclos t ed today that the Big Three meeting will take place in Ber lin. Suzuki Detennined To Win Great Victory—Regardless i - 1 t m V « a ■ a • a. a • joiclng because his people "have gone to concern themselves with the fate of the nation.” He, says he, never agreed with those who considered the Okinawa fight cli matic. He, says he, Is going to win a great victory even If there are no Japanese left alive to en joy it. In this he can be assured of the utmost in American cooperation. Such as that just promised by Generals Arnold and Le May, who are preparing to send Mr. Suzuki and his people two million tons rate of bombing seven or eight times greater than that at pres ent. SMASH, SMASH All the Japanese have to do, says Suzuki, is to smash the Am erican forces at sea, then when they come ashore (presumably af ter being smashed at sea) smash them again right there, and then after these (presumably smashed) forces have attained the land, smash them again. MacArthur See SUZUKI Page » ENEMY FORCES STILL AVOIDING DECISIVEBATTLE Aussies Take Abandoned Brunei City With out A Fight BUILD BOMBER BASE By Spencer Davis MANILA, June 15.—(/P)— Japanese troops abandoned Brunei City and Australians have taken it without a fight, virtually completing conquest or ail major objectives in the northwest Borneo invasion, now five days old. Enemy forces, still avoiding a showdown fight, streamed south in scattered groups toward the Seria and Miri oil fields, but a few hun dred Nipponese dug in on Labuan Island at the northwest entrance to Brunei Bay sniped at dis mounted cavalry commandos. The commandos were less than half a mile from Timbalai air field—LST initial objectives. While Royal engineers hur ried work of converting La buan airfield into a bomber base within 800 miles of Ba tavia and Singapore, PbiUppine based heavy bombers struck at Saigon, Indo-China, and Hong Koitg'. Fifty liberators dropped more than 4S5 drums of jellied gasoline on Hong Kong's cause way and small boat basin In the heaviest fire strike Hong Kong has yet suffered. Forty others bombed Saigon’s railway transport warehouse. Tokyo said others hit Borneo's oil refinery city of Balikpapan. The enemy radio said 46 Liber ator bombers, with a fighter es cort, blasted Balikpapan, on Bor neo's east central coast, for an hour yesterday. ALL FALLING The Japanese-controlled Batavia radio also made a left-handed ad mission that aU north Borneo, in vaded Sunday by Australia's famed "Rats of Tobruk,” is falling. The enemy broadcast dwelt instead on south Borneo where, it said, na tives have fotmed the "first group” of an organisation "fashioned af ter the Japanese special attack See ENEMY Page 2 PLANECRASHES KILLING 17 Two Wares Included, Nary Lieutenant Ser iously Injured VTCKSBUR®, MISS,. June 15— MP)—Seventeen naval personnel, including two Waves, were killed and a navy lieutenant was serious ly Injured yesterday when a big transport plane exploded and crashed in a wooded area 16 miles northeast of here. The bodies of the dead ware taken to the Baldwin Funeral home in Jackson, 40 miles due east of here, under supervision of officers from the Jackson Army Air base. ' The lieutenant, the only known survivor, still was unconscious in Mercy hospital at Vicksburg. At tendants said he suffered three leg fractures, a broken left collarbone and severe bums. CAUGHT FIRE Owen W. Baldwin, owner of the Jackson Funeral home, said eye witnesses told him the big plane was flying at about 5,000 feet when it apparently hit an air pocket. It fell three or four thousand feet and then dropped again, Baldwin said he was told. Moments later the ship caught fire and then exploded. Wreck age and bodies were strewn over a wide area of wooded country. Owen Shuff, telegraph editor of the Vicksburg Herald, said one Oak Ridge resident, a Mr. Qarris (first name unknown) told him he help ed extricate 14 bodies from the wreckage. Another died enroute to the Vicksburg hospital. Neither the destination nor the plane’s base was known here. The Dallas naval air station said the plane passed through Dallas but was not based there. ‘Complete Destruction’ Of Japan In Air Attacks Forecast By Gen. Arnold By Richard O’Malley GUAM, June 15.—(/P)—The “complete and utter de struction” of Japan in air attacks that will reach the rate of 2,000,000 tons of bombs a year by July 1 was promised today by Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander of U. S. army air iorces. ^ “If that Is what Japan wants, by God, that is what she is going to get,” Arnold solemnly vowed at an unusual press conference. “It is going to be a terrible place to live in.” Giving immediate emphasis to his pledge, Arnold announced that while he was speaking, 520 Superfortresses were show ering 3,000 tons of fire bombs on the great Osaka industrial region this morning. One year ago today, B-29s flew from China for their first raid on Japan. Arnold’s 2,000,000 tons a year forecasts 5,480 tons every day. The greatest single day’s raid to date was a 4,500-ton onslaught on Tokyo May 24 by 550 Superfortresses. “It is necessary to destroy five key cities—Tokyo, Nagoya, Yoko hama, Kobe and Osaka,” Arnold stated. Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Le May, ohief of the 21st Bomber command which Arnold is visiting here, said today’s raid on Osaka—the fourth —may have ended the need for further incendiary treatment of that greatest of the enemy’s in dustrial cities. The previous at tacks had burned out about 15 square miles of Osaka. ALREADY "GONE” Kobe, Yokohama and Kawasaki are “gone,” and only a few tar gets remain in Nagoya, Le May declared, while previous raids have burned out 50 square miles of To kyo, leaving only 10 square miles in which the American bombers are “interested.” “It is Just a matter of time until we get everything of value In Japan,” Le May said. “Starting July 1 we are going to drop 1,300,000 tons of bombs and forces of Gen. George C. Ken ney (commander of the U. S. Far Eastern Air Forces) 700,000 tons,” Arnold asserted. AS IN GERMANY Detailing the destruction done in Germany—a much broader indus See COMPLETE Page 2 Senate Group May Probe Loan To Roosevelt WASHINGTON, June 15. —(Ay Rep. Knutson (R-Minn) said today he will propose that Brig. Gen. El liott Roosevelt and John Hartford be summoned before the house ways and means committee. Knutson said he wants a “com plete explanation" of published re ports that Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., loaned the late president’s sec - ond son $200,000, recovered only $4,000 and listed a $196,000” bad debt for tax deduction in his 1942 in come tax return. Ranking Republican member of the committee, Knutson’s assertion to a reporter came after Chairman Doughton (D-NC) announced plans to call the group, probably Tuesday, to decide whether to investigate the matter. “BAD DEBT” Doughton disclosed in a house speech yesterday that Hartford’s 1942 income tax return is under scrutiny of the internal revenue bu reau, and that the bureal this far has not approved a $228,500 “bad debt” item listed in it. Doughton told the house he did not know whether Hartford’s return specifically lists a loan to Roosevelt as part of the claimed deductions. Knutson, following his colleague to the floor, said “We might be able to find a way to compel General Roosevelt to report that $196,000 as income. Hartford’s attorney earlier in the week said the loan was made In 1939 to finance a Texas radio net work and that it was settled for a payment of $4,000. Roosevelt has not been available for comment. WEATHERS TO HEAD CAMPAIGN FOR BOND VOTE Rally At Courthouse Or ganizes Civic Support For Memorial Project A proposal that Cleveland coun ty's $400,000 hospitalization pro gram, bonds which the electorate will pass upon in a special election July 7, constitute a permanent and living memorial to the county’s nearly 6,000 men and women in An appeal to qualified voters to get themselvesreffatered within the next week so they thus can cast their vote In sup port of the projected $400,000 hospital bond issue was direct ed today by Lee B. Weathers, general chairman of the cam paign committee. Mr. Weathers said he hoped to see the county as a whole give the proposition, which he terms "a worthy memorial for Cleveland’s 6,000 men and wo men in the nation’s armed service,” a resounding approv al because he said adequate hospital facilities are the greatest need of the county both now and for the future. the nation’s armed service in World War II was given hearty endorsement of the hospital rally See WEATHERS Page 2 DRASTIC CUTS IN SUGAR USE Ice Cream, Beverage Mak ers Cut To 50 Per Cent Of 1941 Quota WASHINGTON, June 15.— (fP) — Cuts In industrial sugar allot ments to a level generally 37 1-2 per cent under a year ago were ordered today for the July-Sep tember quarter. The slash, made by OPA to bring use in line with scarce supplies, trims the new commercial quotas from 23 to 8 per cent below the current April-June ration. Most industrial users, including Ice cream and bottled beverage producers, take the maximum out and thus are reduced to 50 per cent of their 1941 base period use. Last year they were receiving 80 per cent. Such firms as bakers and cereal manufacturers are reduced to 00 per cent of base use, or a 20 per cent cut from the present quar ter. Commercial canners of fruit take See DRASTIC Page 2 Gen. Eisenhower Gives Review Of War SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 15. —(A*)— Gen. El senhower told a press conference today that the Allied invasion of Europe last June succeeded only be cause the air, sea and ground arms fought as a single, unified force. Speaking with great frankness, the supreme commander said that many allied officers actually had doubted that an invasion of Europe was possible. The cooperation of all arms which made the feat possible, he added, was carried on through V-E Day The Germans finally knew the ./‘jig was up” in Europe on the third day of Field Marshal Von Rund stedt’s December counteroffensive ' the Ardennes, when the German commander “realized he couldn’t go where he wanted to go,” Eisenhow er added. • When they found themselves whipped in the Eifel mountains and the Saar, he said, the Germans were convinced they could not even fight a defensive war. NO SEPARATE WARS Eisenhower said that Allied sol diers in Europe had won a peace they earnestly hoped would be pre served. He stressed that there was noi such thing as a "separate sea war, a separate ground war or a separ ate air war.” “When you put sea, ground and air together, you multiply rather than add their power,” he said. There were the high points in the hour-long confernece during which Eisenhower invited the correspon dents to ask about anything which had been bothering them during his three-year stay in Europe: 1—The continued application of the non-fraternization rule in the Reich depends upon the attitude of the German people themselves and upon how soon Nazi elements are wiped out. 2— The German nation as a whole has "no sense of war guilt’’ and, “while many Germans closed then eyes to atrocities, many others did not.” 3— Field Marshal Von Rundstedt was the greatest general the Allies faced: the late Field Marshal Rom mel was bold but unskilled: Ger man military men did not respect Hitler’s strategic planning but in 1943, particularly, Hitler ran his campaigns almost alone. See EISENHOWEB Page 2 OSAKA FIRED BY 3,000 TONS OF INCENDIARIES 520 B-29's Take Port; Fires Set At Many Points, Says Tokyo LASTED HALF HOUR By Leif Erickson GUAM, June 15.—(fP)— Osaka, Japan’s chief indus trial city, was fired today by 3,000 tons of incendiaries dropped by 520 B-29s and Tokyo admitted conflagra tions at “a number of points” without making the usual claim they had been checked. The raid, which MaJ. Gen. Cur tis E. Le May said may have fin ished off Osaka’s warring poten tialities, was acknowledged by Tokyo to have lasted at least an hour. The first announcement of tt\e raid was made by Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air force, at a press conference by way of emphasizing his warning to Nip pon that within a little more than two weeks bomb loads dropped on Japan will average 5,480 tons a day. The Marianas - based sky dreadnaughts unloaded their jellied gasoline bombs on Stebl, iron and pflrfecislon works of southeastern Osaka and, for the first time, hit the industrial See OSAKA Fage 2 MERCURYlTS 100 HARK, SAGS Some relief came today from a heat wave that sent the mercury soaring to a blistering 100 degrees earlier in the week. John Phifer’s official thermometer made the recording that the century mark had been reached, but a severe wind storm early today had toppled the reading to 71 degrees this morning. However, the weather man came back with vengeance to promise con tinued heat today, though holding forth some hope that thunder showers might bring relief in some sections of Westren Carolina this afternoon. Clevelanders who were complain ing last week about “frost on their straw hats” have now shed coats and are getting all steamed up mop ping their brows and cussing the weather. But summer isn’t even here, being scheduled to start officially at 2:52 p.m., June 21. Then look for sum mer heat! • Woodrow Falls Killed In Action KINGS MOUNTAIN — Woodrow Palls, 25, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Falls, sr., of Lumber ton, formerly of Kings Mountain, was killed in action, when his transport, USS Bates, was lost in a battle off Okinawa, according to a message received by relatives. The loss of the Bates, along with three other craft, was announced this week by the Navy depart ment. Falls, who was a gunner on the Bates, was originally attached to the Seabees, prior to his destroyer and transport service. He was previously reported missing in action, however a later telegram confirms .his death. Remaining Jap Garrison Expected To Fold Up Soon; Yaeju Peak Taken By Robbin Coons GUAM, June 15.—(/P)—Tenth Army forces strove foi a quick knockout blow on the supreme command post of the tottering Japanese defense on Okinawa today as signs point ed with increasing certainty to the folding up of the doom ed garrison. Doughboys of the 96th division, supported by flame throwing tanks which seared Japanese cave fronts and hill positions, captured Yaeju Peak, the highest promontory ol the Yaeju-Dake last ditch defense escarpment, nick-named .Dig i\ppie Dy me lanits The hill overlooks the plateai which was the enemy’s principa defense ground on the southeri line. Only the advance of the Seventl division, moving in from the eas flank to high ground on the lef of “Big Apple,” remains to se the stage for sweeping the enem, from the plateau and onto th slopes which lead toward the sea. Japanese surrenders increased t the hundreds and advancing Am , ericans counted the bodies of scor es of others who had committee suicide rather than surrender oi 1 retreat again. Maj. Gen. Pedro Del Valle, com 1 mander of the Marine First divis ' ion which holds Kunishi ridge or. ' the right flank, pointed up the J critical balance of the situation ' with the comment that the Japa : nese may be “crushed in two day! } —or two weeks. It all depend* on See REMAINING Page S 17 Killed, 32 Hurt In Train Wreck Freight Car Jumps Track Into Path Of Passengei Train; Cars Piled Up WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., June 15.—(JP)—At least 17 per sons were killed and 32 injured early today when the 34th car of a freight train jumped the tracks and fell on an ad joining tracks ahead of an onrushing WashingtomBuffalo passenger train, Pennsylvania railroad officials said. More than 200 nprsrma wprp i ____ shaken up when the locomotive an the first six cars of the passenge train were derailed at Miltor Many of the passengers were trap ped in the wreckage, where the remained until freed by railroai crews. Officials said 21 cars of th freight also left the track. Acetylene torches were being used to cut into the passenger coaches and extricate bodies. Officials said it would be “at least several hours” before all the dead were released and “maybe longer before they are identified.” The railroad’s publicity office a Philadelphia announced the iden tified dead as follows: Mrs. Francis Cheslock, 1312 Hem lock St., Shamokin, Pa. R. C. Stratton, engineer, 141 Market St., Camp Hill, Pa.; N. I Graeff, fireman, Harrisburg, Pa. TERRIFIC CRASH The wreck occurred shortly af ter 1 a. m. Officials said th freight train had stopped at Mil ton a few minutes earlier ar< wa moving at a low rate of speed whil the passenger train’s speed was es timated at its usual running rat —55 miles an hour. Pfc. Lester Calvert, enroute t Buffalo, said the crash “was loud er than anything I heard on Eu ropean battlefronts.” He retrieve a duffle bag containing $3,700 i war bonds and left the scene befor other details were obtained. Ambulances were dispatched fror three neighboring towns and th injured were removed to hospital speedily. Trains were being detoured ove a 40-mile stretch between Wil liamsport and Sunbury on th Reading company lines and offi cials said they expected to hav the eastbound track cleared by p.m. and the westbound by mid night. i r CHINESE FORCES HIT WENCHOW Pursue Japs 175 Miles Along East China Coast From Foochow By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, June 15. —(A5)— t The Chinese high command an - nounced today that Chinese forces which have pursued the Japanese . 175 miles from Foochow along the east China coast had attacked the 1 Chekiang province port of Wenchow. The Chinese said the enemy gar rison at Wenchow, 220 miles of Shanghai on the Wu river, already . was beginning to retreat. ; Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure’s . headquarters in Kunming, mean 5 wMle, announced that Chinese forces „ had recaptured the Kwangsi rail “ way town of Ishan, 43 miles west 0 of the former U. S. air base site of Liuehow. The Chinese previously had been driven from Ishan June 11 after holding it one day. ' JAPS WITHDRAW ’ McClure’s headquarters said the 1 Japanese had withdrawn 2 1-2 miles J along the highway leading to Ta 5 tang, road junction 21 miles south west of Liuehow. I "This creates the possibility that 3 the Japanese force in this area 3 will first move to Tatang and then northeast to Liuehow if the enemy r withdrawal continues,” the an - nouncement said. ; The reoccupation of Ishan was not ■ immediately confirmed by the s Chinese high command, which a i short tifne earlier had reported fierce ■ fighting raging in the suburbs of the town.
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