WEATHER
Partly cloudy and continued warm
and humid today, tonight and Sun
day. Scattered thundershowers In
west this afternoon and In west
and central portions Sunday p.m.
Tshe
Hhelby
Baily
Hielt
CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100
- State Theatre Today -
"HIGH POWERED”
Starring ROBERT LOWERY
and PHYLLIS BROOKS
VOL. XLIII—144
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES
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YANKS USE FLAME THROWING TANKS ON OKINAWA
* *
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Tokyo Reports Fleet Of U. S. Warships Moving In On Balikpapan
AUSS1ES DRIVE
TOWARD PRIZED
OILFIELD
^ Fighter-Escorted Libera
tors Bomb Borneo
Defenses
labuanTsecured
BRUNEI BAY, June 16.
f/P)—The African-experience
Australian “Rats of Tobruk
drove toward prized wes
Borneo oil fields today as ai
unconfirmed enemy broadcas
reported an Allied fleet, le<
by three battleships, was ap
proaching the oil refiner]
center of Balikpapan.
Tokyo said a fleet of three bat
tleships, an aircraft carrier. 1
destroyers and "other warships
was moving in on Balikpapan, 01
the east central coast.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com
munique today said only tha
Balikpapan's defense guns and air
dromes were pounded by more thai
60 fighter-escorted Liberators.
MacArthor said the raiders'
m- 4k. 144k / ri.VAUM
Airforce “concentrated 76 tons
of bombs on Balikpopan run
positions, destroyed two fuel
tanks and hit nearby air
dromes at Manggar and Sep
plnggan.”
The enemy report came less thai
a week after the Australian Nlntl
division invaded the Brunei Ba:
area of northwest Borneo unde
the guns of the U. S. Seventh flee
and bombs and rockets of the 13tl
and Royal Australian Airforces.
AIRFIELDS OVERRUN
The “Rats of Tobruk,” wh<
fought the Germans in North Af
rica, overran three airfields -
within 800 miles of Singapore -
seized the capital city of the Sul
tanate and now are moving soufl
toward the enemy-fired Seria anc
Mlrl oil fields.
Melbourne reports said the A us
sles were pushing into the state o
Sarawak, within 18 miles of Tou
tong oil refinery.
MacArthur's communique toda;
announced the occupation of thi
3,600-foot Taimbalai airfield or
Labuan Island and complete secu
rity of that island commanding en
trance to the fleet anchorage ol
Brunei Bay.
WEATHERMAN
IS WHIMSICAL
Swelter Spells, Wind, Hail
And Thunderstorms
Over Nation
By the Associated Press
Snow has ceased falling In thi
Rocky Mountains ... An egg won'
fry on a Texas sidewalk ... Section!
of the KASt and West coasts continui
to steam today In their first swel
ter spells of the year.
It seems the nation’s weather li
recovering from a touch of sprlni
whimsy.
The humid east coast was bese
by wind, thunderstorms and hall.
A wind at Belmont in westeri
New York uprooted 200 trees, dls
rupted electric and telephone ser
vice and caused injury to one wo
man. New York City’s 92 yesterda;
was its highest reading of the year
and the heat wave is expected t<
continue.
The South was cooled off a littli
by showers and cloudiness.
In New England, a record break
Ing heat wave continued today ant
was forecast also for Sunday.
ALL KINDS
The soggy midwest was hit bj
every kind of weather but a dus
storm. Cloudburst floods tied ui
rail traffic at some points, hail
stones fell two Inches deep In Kan
sas City, a minor "twister” In Kan
sas City caused considerable da
mage, violent winds at Kirksvllle
Mo., blew a baby under a divan.
A windstorm reaching 75 to 8<
miles an hour, accompanied bj
heavy rain, smashed through Cen
tral Illinois from west to east and
left a swath of broken power and
telephone lines, destroyed buildings
hundreds of uprooted trees, anc
twisted radio station antenna to
wers.
Montgomery, Ala., and Albany and
Columbus, Ga., finished in a three
way tie for the southern dripping
derby with about one inch of ralr
each.
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NETHERLANDS
INDIES
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' ALLIES SPLIT JAP IIOLDINGS*-Evidently following the strategy of
^ divide a.'.d conquer, the Allies virtually have split the Japanese forces into
‘ two areas. Allied land, sea and air blows (arrows) have Isolated the
1 enemy's war gotten empire in southern Asia and the Indies from the Jap
home islands and northern China. Newest Allied attack was the Australian
landing at Brunei Bay on Borneo Island. The black areas are held by the
Japs.—(AP Wirephoto Map).
AT CONFERENCeT
Opposition To Veto
| Appears Cracking Up
1 Two Other Controversies: Reports By Coloniol Pow
ers; International Relations Discussions
By John M. Hightower
Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16.—(/P)—Small natioft oppo
sition to a big-five veto over future changes in a world se
curity charter is cracking up, and leaders of the big power
• bloc hope to win out on this issue tonight.
RIBBENTROP
IS QUESTIONED
Examiners Seek To Learn
State Secrets From High
Ranking Naxi
By DANIEL DE LUCE
MONTGOMERY’S HEADQUAR
ters, Germany, June 16— UP -
Captured Nazi Foreign Ministei
Joachim Von Ribbentrop was re
ported to be under questioning to
day at Gen. Eisenhower’s head
quarters at Frankfurt-On-The
Main.
The supreme command's mos
skilled examiners were said b
have been assigned to try to pr;
loose some of the state secret
known to the 52-year-old formei
Reich ambassador to London wh<
was reputed to have convinced Hit
ler on his return in 1938 Britair
would not intervene when Polanc
was Invaded.
Officially, Ribbentrop1 left Luene
berg airfield here for an uniden
tified destination "somewhere ii
Europe” yesterday after being ar
rested in Hamburg Thursday alonj
with an attractive brunette di
vorcee in whose apartment hi
boarded under the name of "Heri
See RIBBENTROP Page 2
THE WAR TODAY:
New Yorkers Mute Before
Parade Of Purple Hearters*
By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer
A million ordinarily noisy New
"Yorkers stood mute along the
broiling sidewalks of Fifth avenue
at noon yesterday. Up from the
lower reaches of the broad street
came only one sound, the whine
of 200 army jeeps geared down to
two miles an hour.
It was Infantry day, and the men
with Purple Hearts were on pa
rade.
Crutches stuck up from some of
the machines like pins in a cush
ion. Bandaged heads, and arms,
and faces. Here and there a nurse
accompanied a man still too 111 to
jo it alone. On the jeeps were
printed the names of battles—of
Cassino, Burma, Saipan, Okina
wa, Ie, Aachen, Leyte, of Cher
pourg and of Attu.
LITTLE COLOR
There was little color to this pa
rade. The khaki of the army, the
white of the bandages, here and
there a splash of red from bou
luets of roses brought by some
jirls just before the parade start
ed, a few streaks of liptsick left
an pale faces.
See NEW YORKERS Page 2
AV lO u* vassv.V' wv*»v*
ence committees are struggling to
wipe out this weekend in line with
a high-speed schedule which calls
for President Truman to address
a final session of the United Na
tions conference next Saturday.
The other two controversies are:
1. Whether colonial powers,
such as Britain and France,
should be directed to make re
ports on their colonies to the
proposed new leagues. Aus
tralia proposes that they
should. The two big powers
object.
2. Whether the projected
general assembly of United
Nations should be empowered
to debate any aspect of in
ternational relations or only
matters concerned with peace
and security. This is an old
Issue, previously settled over
Russian objection in favor of
the right to debate any inter
national affair. But Russia
has insisted that it be re-open
ed, demanding the peace-and
security restriction.
Discussion of a Big-Five veto
1 over future amendments produced
1 a long and sometimes sharp ses
sion of a conference committee
last night. In its course, Senator
Henri Rolin of Belgium said he
probably would be accused of in
consistency, but it was the unani
mous opinion of the Belgian dele
gation that the veto over-future
amendments should be allowed.
Manuel Tello, undersecretary of
See OPPOSITION Page 2
YANKS FIGHTING
TOWARD APARRI
ON LUZON TIP
Smashed Jap Resistance
To Enter Fertile Caga
yan Valley
FROM ROUGH TERRAIN
By Spencer Davis
MANILA, June 26.—(/P)—
American troops were out on
the floor of the broad and fer
tile Cagayan Valley today,
pounding alopg at nearly a
mile an hour within 150 miles
of Aparri at the northern tip
of Luzon.
Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beighler’s
37th Ohio infantrymen, who had
been battling north along a tor
tuous mountain gorge for three and
a half months, smashed through
Japanese resistance yesterday and
headed out across the flatlands in
a race with the July typhoon sea
son.
When the typhoons strike they
will bring flood waters raging over
the valley’s low-lying tobacco, rice,
and corn lands, bogging down motor
vehicles and grounding aircraft.
The veteran Buckeyes rolled
ahead 22 miles in 24 hours after
breaking through the last Japanese
defenses at the valley’s southern
gateway, and liberated the impor
tant Isabella province towns of San
tiago and Echague.
LEVEL TERRAIN
The 37th division’s advance into
Cagayan valley marked the first
time any of MacArthur’s troops
faa y» been fighting on level terrain
since they crossed the central plain
to Manila in January.
Other American units on the
island are still battling in the
jangle-covered mountains. The
rested sixth division, teaming
with the 37th in the northward
push, branched off near the
southern end of the valley, and
advanced northwest four miles
along highway No. 4, west of
> Bagabag.
In the mountain area east of Ma
nila the 38th infantry division, the
first cavalry division and the 112th
cavalry regimental combat team en
gaged Japanese hold-out units,
counting 500 enemy dead.
North of Baguio, near the island’s
west coast and almost due west of
the Cagayan valley, the 33rd in
fantry drove along the Agno river
gorge in the Tabio sector. MacAr
thur reported 400 enemy dead there.
ON MINDANAO
On Mindanao at the southern end
of the Philippine chain the 24th in
fantry division plugged on at an
arduous job of cleaning out hard
to-get caves and pillboxes near
Davao. Units of the division also
captured a rocket launched supply
dump there.
South of the Talomo trail in the
mountains east of Davao the 31st in
fantry engaged slowly retreating
Japanese units in a series of small
scale clashes. They reported 100 Ja
See YANKS Page 2
Only Few Of
Philippines War
Prisoners Freed
MANILA, P. I., June 16. —tfP)—
Only 1,447 men or more than 18,000
American army and navy personnel
captured by the Japanese on Bataan
and Corregidor have been liberated,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s head
quarters disclosed today.
Another 3,260, who made the
“death march” or were captured on
“the rock”, have been officially re
ported dead. A large majority of the
13.000 unaccounted for are believed
to be held in prison camps In Ja
pan, China and Formosa.
Many prisoners were shipped to
labor camps in northern Japan;
others were sent to work on Yoko-'
hama docks or in Mukden muni
tions "works.
PRISON SHIPS SUNK
Hundreds never reached their
destinations. They died when Amer
ican bombers or submarines sank
enemy prison ships enroute from
Manila’s Bilibld prison.
Bilibid, which served as the stag
ing point for shipping prisoners
from the Philippines, saw at least
10.000 enlisted men and nearly 2,000
officers marked for shipment to the
Orient.
When the Yanks came back to
the Philippines they liberated nearly
26.000 military and civilian prison
ers confined in Cabanatuan, Santo
Tomas and Los Banos. Among them
were 5,844 American nationals.
PENNSYLVANIA TRAIN WRECK KILLS SIXTEEN—Rescue workers remove the dead and injured from the
wreckage of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train in which at least 16 persons were killed and 32 injured
at Milton, Pa. The train, pound from Washington to Buffalo, crashed into wrecked cars of a frieght train
which had jumped the rails and had fallen on the adjoining track just ahead of the passenger train—(AP
Wirephoto).
C. C. HORN
C. C. HORN GETS
ENDORSEMENT
Members Of Cleveland
Bar Sign Petition To
Governor
C. C. Horn, member of the North
Carolina General Assembly from
Cleveland county, who has been a
practicing attorney in Shelby for
the past 15 years, this morning re
ceived the unanimous endorsement
of the Cleveland county bar for
the place of solicitor to succeed
the late L. S. Spurling.
A petition signed by every mem
ber of the Cleveland Bar wilL be
forwarded to Governor Gregg
Cherry within the next few days.
It bears the following words:
“We, the members of the Cleve
land County Bar association, here
by indorse the application of the
Hon. C. C. Horn for appointment
as solicitor of the 16th judicial
district to succeed the late L. S.
Spurling and urge his appointment.
We commend his capacity and a
bility to fill this post with honor
and distinction.”
PAST RECORD
Mr. Horn is a graduate of Wake
Forest college. In addition to
serving in the legislature he has
been solicitor of the Recorder’s
court as well as its judge pro-tem.
See C. C. HORN Page 2
KIWAMANS
FOR HOSPITAL
KINGS MOUNTAIN—The coun
ty hospital bill has been approved
and endorsed by the Kings Moun
tain Kiwanis club, who urges that
all citizens of the county register
and vote for the proposition.
For about a year now, the Ki
waiys club has been active in try
ing to obtain a hospital for Kings
Mountain and are stepping for
ward to help in the forthcoming
election.
A special hospital program will
be held by the Kiwanis at their
regular meeting next Thursday
evening, June 21, which will fea
ture addresses by Henry B. Ed
wards, county attorney, and J. R.
Davis, Kings Mountain attorney,
who handled the legal arrange
ments for the election.
BIG 3 TO BERLIN:
Mikolajczyk In Moscow
For Polish Conference
By ALEX H. SINGLETON
LONDON, June 16.—(YP)—Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, for
mer Polish premier, flew to MOSCOW today to confer on re
organizing the Warsaw government while in a second post
war dispute Britain was reported authoritatively to have
rejected France’s proposal for a* five-power discussion of
FALLING BEAM
KILLS BRIDGES
Two Others Injured When
Steel Beam Falls At
Kings Mountain
Harry Bridges, 38, who lives on
the Kings Mountain-Cherryville
road, was instantly killed and two
other persons were injured this
morning shortly before 10 o’clock
when a steel beam being lowered
from the construction work on
the First NationaL bank at Kings
Mountain fell, striking Bridges and
two other men, Howard Jenkins
and Howard White.
Mr. Jenkins, who lives near the
Kings Mountain high school, was
treated for superficial injuries of
the arm and is not believed to be
seriously hurt. White, who also
lives at Kings Mountain suffered
several broken ribs.
The beam fell when the rope to
which it was suspended was cut
by a passing truck driven by Ho
mer Carpenter, of Short Creek,
Va„ who was driving for the Bur
lington Trailer company.
UNAVOIDABLE
The construction contractor
handling this job is the Lee Con
struction company and its super
intendent on the job was W. Tolli
See FALLING Page 2
WHAT’S DOING
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—U. S,
O. center open to service people
visiting in the city.
MONDAY
7:30 p. m.—State guard drill
at the armory.
Forrestal Favors Peacetime
Military Training Program
By WILLIAM ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, June 16. — (£>)—
Peacetime military training as a
preparation “to fight any interna
tional ruffian who attempts to im
pose his will on the world by force”
was advocated today by Secretary
of the Navy James Forrestal.
Saying that those in favor of
a peacetime draft “frequently
are asked whom we are prepar
ing to fight,” Forrestal declared
the answer is “any frustrated pa
per-hanger anywhere who may
be dreaming of world dominion."
The secretary’s testimony came
after Chairman Woodrum (D-Va>
read letters from Fleet Admira
Chester W. Nimitz and Admiral Wil
liam F. Halsey recommending en
actment of the training program.
Referring to the support of Arm;
and Navy leaders for compulsor;
military training, Forrestal aske<
the committee if “we in conscience
can discard “such expert testimon;
and go back to the comfortable in
ertia and blind complacency whicl
for 20 years practically extended ai
invitation to Mussolini, Hitler an<
the Japanese war lords to run thi
world if they chose to?”
See FORRESTAL Page 2
j Middle East problems,
j Both developments were preli
minaries to the next Big Three
conference, scheduled in Berlir
sometime before July 26.
Accompanying Mikolajczyk, the
peasant party leader, were Jar
Stanczyk, who was labor ministei
in his London Polish government
and Jan Drokohowski, a foreigr
affairs expert in Mikolajczyk';
group.
The Big Three commission or
Polish reorganization — Foreigr
Commissar Molotov and the U. S
and British ambassadors to Rus
i sia—was said again to have askec
i ailing Wincenty Witos, 72-year
old former Polish premier, to at
tend the meeting.
The Polish government in Lon
j don charged last night that s
“reign of terrorism" existec
throughout Poland, arid demandec
immediate withdrawal of Russiar
troops and political police fron
Polish soil.
As for the middle east, authori
tative Paris quarters said Britaii
turned down the French reques
for a five-power conference. Th<
British government previously hat
expressed preference for a discus
sion by France, Britain, and thi
United States. The United State:
also is reported in Paris to havi
rejected the five-power plan.
Meanwhile, preparations wen
See MIKOLAJCZYK Page 2
Eisenhower Leaves
Paris For U. S. Today
PARIS, June 16—(TP)—Gen. Eis
enhower took off today for th<
United States, where a hero’s ac
claim awaits him in Washington
New York and his Kansas horn;
town, Abilene.
Eisenhower planned to stop of:
in Bermuda for several hours’ rest
He is due in Washington Monda)
and New York Tuesday.
EIGHT SQUARE
MILES STILLIN
ENEMY HANDS
Buckner Thinks Campaign
Will Be Over Within
A Week
SUICIDE ATTACKS
Bv Bobbin Coons
GUAM, June 16.—(lP)—
Three American divisions
drove across Hara Kari pla
teau today behind flame
throwing tanks toward the
last three commanding
heights on Okinawa island
still in the hands of suicide
Japanese forces.
The enemy’s hold on southern
Okinawa, nicknamed ‘Hara Kiri"
plateau by doughboys, has been
pared down to a bare eight square
miles and Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner, jr.. said they couldn’t
last for another week. Only about
10,000 Japanese, many of them
second rate troops and Okinawan
conscripts, were left on the plateau
where Tokyo radio admitted they
were undergoing murderous naval
and aerial fire. ^
Japanese broadcasts report
ed suicide air attacks were re
newed Thursday night, after a
lapse of three days, against
rapidly growing American na
val forces swarming in Cydna
wan waters.
Alarmed enemy propagandists
said American sea forces, includ
ing many new assault boats, were
increasing with such speed that a
new attack on the Rising Sun em
pire appeared to be in the making
U. S. sea patrols cruising around
Okinawa were reported in enemy
See EIGHT Page 2
TALK CANNERY
DEAL TUESDAY
Stockholders Will Pass
Upon Lease, Sales
Propositions
Stockholders in the Shelby com
munity cannery will meet at 10 a.m.
Tuesday in the courthouse to con
sider propositions for sale or lease
of the property whose continuation
as a mutual operation has not been
undertaken this season.
Since discontinuance of opera
tions, due to shortage of manpower
to direct the work, several interest
ed individuals and groups have
shown interest in purchase or lease
of the property.
Dale R. Stentz, secretary-treasur
er of the cannery, said today that
one proposition for lease on a two
' year basis with option to purchase
! had been tendered formally and
; that others had indicated a purpose
' to have offers in by time of Tues
i day's meeting when stockholders
| will reach a decisio non the matter.
Should the property be sold and
assets be liquidated the proceeds
! would be distributed among stock
holders, who on the basis of th»
present offer, would be paid back ir
full with some little profit for us«
I of their money.
The cannery operated two season.'
; after being provided with fundi
raised by public sale of stock in ths
i community enterprise.
CANNERS GET
SEVER POUNDS
SUGAR EACH
The Shelby war price and ra
tioning board has received the green
light for proceeding with the issuing
of coupons for canning sugar, it was
learned this morning from J. J.
Hartigan, rationing secretary.
Applications for sugar were filed
by householders several weeks ago
but the distribution of the sugar
was held up on the advice of the
Charlotte district office.
Distribution under present plans
will be on the basis of approximately
seven pounds per person. This com
pares witr 20 pounds per person is
sued last year.
Some boards are issuing sugar on
the basis of five pounds per person
for canning.
Mr. Hartigan said that the work
of mailing the coupons would beginv
Monday and would be carried
as rapidly as possible. However he
pointed out that the task is a large
one and the work will require some
time