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WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm west, rain and cooler east portion today and early tonight, followed by partly cloudy late tonight and Tuesday. Warmer Tuesday. Tshe Hhelhy Bnily Hiar t - State Theatre Today ■ “IT'S A PLEASURE" SONJA HENIE MICHAEL O SHEA CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—151 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c TRUMAN ENJOYS MT. RANIER—President Truman (at wheel) stopped his car to enjoy this striking view of Mt. Ranier. Seated in the car with President Truman is Governor Mon Wallgren who accompanied the President on his recent trip.—(AP Wirephoto) Truman Present For Conference Windup Future Of Stetttinius May Be Decided Before Presi dent Leaves San Francisco By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.—(/P)—President Truman’s arrival today to help wind up the United Nations conference in a brilliant round of ceremonies and speechmaking may also lead to the speedy windup of another situation—the future of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., as secretary of state. CHINESE FIGHT AT HWANGYEN Other Forets Bottle For Possession Of Liuchow, Air Base City CHUNGKING, June 25 —UP)— Chinese forces pursuing Japanese troops up China's east coast 450 miles west of Okinawa have reach ed Hwangyen, 175 miles south of Shanghai, the Chinese high com mand announced today as other Chinese troops fought for pos session of the former American air base city of Liuchow, 800 miles to the southwest. In the Ywangyen area, on Tal chow Bay, Chinese spearheads en gaged Japanese rearguards after a week-long retreat which carried enemy troops 80 miles from Chi nese-occupied Wenchow. Follow ing the steadily retreating Japa nese, Chinese forces have reached a point within 127 miles south east of Hangchow. More than 60 enemy troops were killed 65 miles , south of Hangchow when Chinese guerrillas blew up a Japanese mu nitions train near Iwu on the Che klang-Kiangsl railroad. BITTER FIGHTING The Chinese said bitter fighting still raged In Liuchow, former U. S. air base site abandoned sev en months ago. The Japanese had stiffened their resistance to Chinese attempts to capture the south rail station, the biggest rail See CHINESE Page 2 Death Sentences Of Nazi Spies Commuted WASHINGTON, June 25 —<;F>— Death sentences of two men con victed as Nazi spies have been commuted to life imprisonment by President Truman. The two, William Curtiss Cole paugh and Eric GImpel, were cap tured shortly after they were land ed from a German submarine at Frenchman’s Bay, Me., the night of Nov. 29, 1944. Tried by a 7 man military commission at Gov ernor’s Island, N. Y., they were sentenced to hang. The War department, In an an nouncement Saturday, said the President’s action was based upon recommendations of the secretary of war and the judge advocate general. ••• ''••V • •VM» WV4VOUV>\/*t UMM other diplomatic groups here there is considerable speculation that the President may Indicate either publicly or privately his future plans for Stettinius before he leaves here. Indication that Mr. Truman may Intend to replace Stettinius in the secretaryship with James F. Byrnes, former director of war mo bilization, is weakening Stettinius’ OLYMPIA, Wash., June 25.— Wi—President Truman took off from nearby McChord Field at 12:07 p.m. (EWT) today for Portland, en route to the post war security conference at San Francisco. official position in addition to be ing personally embarrassing to him. Now that the conference has come up to a successful conclus ion, with the charter of a new world peace organization ready for final, formal approval and sign ing, Stettinius’ immediate task is done, and a breaking point has been reached. A Big-Three meeting is close at hand but it is another job; if Stettinius is to prepare for it, as secretary, he may want to know without delay. If Byrnes or some one else is going as secretary— with Stettinius possibly in some other capacity—that also will have to be decided without delay, since the time is short. It seems evident that persons close to Stettinius here do not know what the answer is, even though they refuse to discuss the situation on the ground it is a White House matter. Some members of the American delegation predict that since the secretary’s part in the conference and the conference itself have See TRUMAN Page 2 HIGH WINDS, HEAVY RAINS ALONG COAST Vacationists At Wrights ville And Carolina Beaches Move Out OFF CHARLESTON WILMINGTON, June 25. (JP)—Carl Hess, chief of the local weather bureau, report ed at 12:30 this afternoon that the tropical storm was centered a short distance south of this city, moving northward with attendant winds of 50-60 miles per hour. The barometer was still drop ping at noon and the rain continued, two and a half inches having fallen since 1 M. Oak Island coast guard station near Southport reported a wind velocity of 40 miles per hour then throughout the morning. CHARLESTON, S. C., June 25 (i^P)—’The center of the tropical hur ricane sweeping up the Atlanta Seaboard from the Caribbean pass ed 40 miles east of here early to day and swung northeastward parallel to Carolina’s Beach resort area. The weather bureau said thf core of the storm would pass ovei or slightly east of the Carolina Capes this afternoon and that strong winds from gale to full hur ricane force would be felt from north of here to Hatteras. Precautlbns wav advised aton* hpjtrh rpsnrt. nrpn nnw nt: t.hp heighth of its summer season, and areas northward to Norfolk were urged by the weather bureau to stand for by frequent advisories. See HIGH WINDS Page 2 FIRE DAMAGES BUFFALO MILL Boyd Carter Home De stroyed By Fire About Same Time Several thousand dollars In da mage. largely from water and smoke was done by a fire which broke out Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock In the spinning room of the Buff ale Mills, northeast of Shelby. Some ol the frames, other equipment, yarn and ropes were damaged. About 50 per cent of the mill's operation were resumed this morn ing and it was stated that the plant would be In full production again by Wednesday. The fire started when a belt on a slipping pulley-threw off a series of sparks which Ignited the cotton in the spinning room. The mill laid two lines of hose from its own hy drants and the Shelby fire depart ment laid a line from the reservoir In addition, the sprinkler system went off. CARTER HOME Shortly after this alarm was turned in, the Shelby department received a call to Boyd Carter’s home on Elm street. This house with all of its furnishings were practically destroyed causing an unestimated damage. No one was at home when the flames took hold except a dog which burned to death. A passerby saw the smoke coming from the house and drove by the fire de partment to turn In the alarm. By the time firemen arrived the house was burning all over. The house was owned by John M. Best. Argentina Doing Nothing To Fight Nazi-Backed Industry WASHINGTON, June 2D —(try— A senate committee r#:eived State department evidence today tha! Argentina has failed to eliminate a single case of suspected Germai economic penetration. Appearing before a military sub committee studying Ni>r plans foi a third world war, Assistant Sec retary of State William L. Clay ton submitted documents sum marizing results of a departmen campaign to stamp out Axis spear heads in Latin America by sup planting enemy control of va rious business enterprises witt ■ friendly ownership. Clayton said that the case ol Argentina—most recent western ' hemisphere member of the United : Nations—there are 104 such spear ! heads “in which no action or non elimination action has been taker to date.” Four others are in pro cess of elimination, he said, bu< none has been eliminated com pletely. Brazil, on the other hand, ha! eliminated completely 48 listed spearheads, has 70 others in tht process of elimination and ha* See ARGENTINA Page I ROBERT V. TITUS PLANS SHAPING FOR WAR FUND Leaders From Seven Coun ties Gather Here Wednesday A preliminary meeting of Nation al War Fund leaders from the seven counties comprising District Three, of which Or. Harry D. Althouse of Hickory is chairman, to plan the annual fall campaign, will be held at the Hotel Charles here starting at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. A lun cheon session at 12:30 will conclude the meeting. Robert V. Titus, assistant cam paign manager in charge of the drive in 16 mid-western and southern states, will address the meeting and •xpiain how his territory will pro ceed with the, job of raising more than one-third of the $115,000,000 to be raised in the nation, for the 21 member agencies participating. BLACKLEY CHAIRMAN Shem Blackley is chairman of the Cleveland county organization and will head the score of co-chairman assisting in that preliminary work. Other counties of the district to be represented are Catawba, Burke, Gaston, Polk, Lincolnton and Ru therford. With the outbreak of the war, Titus was drafted by Admiral Em ory S. Land, chairman of the War Shipping Administration, to organ ize the financing of the United Seamen's Service. When the Na tional War Fund came into being, to finance all war-related agencies (except the Red Cross) in a feder ated campaign, Mr. Titus was loan ed by the Seamen’s Service to the National organization. “To my mind, the National War Fund reveals Americans at their best,” states the War Fund repre (lAnfnflim “Tn I*- nrn pnn A nri _ can tradition for generosity. ‘‘Here is an organization which &rang into being almost over night to meet a great emergency. You who are serving on the United War Fund of North Carolina are a part of a great army of four million local leaders who have joined hands in this great common cause. “True to its tradition. North Carolina has marched in the front rank in the states which have ac counted for the outstanding suc cess of the National War Fund.” Mr. Titus’ work keeps him in close touch with the headquarters of the various relief agencies in the National War Fund. American Prisoners Taken By Japs On Okinawa Not Found By ROBERT GEIGER WITH THE SEVENTH DIVI SION, Okinawa, June 25—<JP)— The fate of American prisoners taken by the Japanese on Okinawa remained a mystery today after a search disclosed no trace of them or their bod ies. CoL J. M. (Mickey) Finn, Astoria, Ore., commander of the 32nd Regiment which took Hill 89 where one of the ene my general headquarters was located, said he has had scores of bodies examined in caves but the search has brought no sign of the missing Americans. The exact number of Ameri ' cans taken prisoner is not known, but of those missing in action, undoubtedly several hundred were captured, mili tary authorities said. Some navy fliers were shot down behind Japanese lines and at least several of them were known to have been alive when they landed. WILL FIGHT BLACK MARKET: Anderson Sees More Meat For Civilians By Francis M. Le May WASHINGTON, June 25.—(/P)—Clinton P. Anderson to day forecast more meat for the nation’s dinner tables if the senate goes along with new slaughtering rules written by the house into legislation extending price controls. ine jaew aaexico democrat wuu moves next Monday from his house seat into sweeping control over food as secretary of agriculture said the change “hands me a wea pon to deal with the black market in meat and to channel more meat to the dinner table.” Anderson, however, declined to discuss in the same interview an other bouse amendment designed to give him even greater authority in his new post, including veto power over OPA price and ration ing orders. Both were adopted during day long debate Saturday before the house finally approved a one-year extension of price and stabilization controls, although in widely dif ferent form than the senate’s ex tension bin. AMENDMENTS The measures are headed for a joint senate-house conference com mittee, where administration lead ers, with some Republican backing, will seek to strike still another house amendment and one added by the senate. These are: 1. The Dirksen (R-IU) amend ment, voted by the house 200 to 164, to grant those aggrieved by OPA orders the right of appeal to federal district courts. 2. The Wherry (R-Neb) amend ment. voted by the senate, which would set up a cost-plus pricing system for farm products. President Truman and farm lead* ers have asked that this amend ment be stricken. The afrmers say they prefer the parity system of pricing. Democratic leaders also undoubt edly will attempt to eliminate the house - approved (211 to 155) amendment by Rep. Andresen (R Minn) making the secretary of ag See ANDERSON Page 2 CHURCHILL ASKS BK MAJORITY Begins 1,000-Mile Cam paign Tour Through England, Scotland LONDON, June 25 —(^P)—Prime Minister Churchill, beginning a tour of 1,000 miles through Eng land and Scotland to plead the causa of conservatism, declared in a campaign address today that “it’s no use people thinking I can continue to serve unless I have a great majority when I return to the house.” The doughty prime minister, a rose in his buttonhole, made the remark during his first stop of the trip, the marketplace at Ayles bury, five miles from his home at Chequers. “This election is of great Im portance because it comes at a moment when the future of our country is at stake,” he said. “We can only preserve our place in the world by being united. We had to have an election because this parliament lasted so long.” The parliament, which was dis solved by King George VI recently, was just under ten years old. HOLD GAINS “But it is greatly to be hoped we shall be strong enough to keep the place we have won, not only in the world of diplomacy but also in the commercial and trading ac tivities without which we in this island cannot live,” Churchill said. Traveling by automobile and train, Churchill will spend four days on this trip, and will make 50 or more speeches. The trip will take the prime min ister, now head of Britain’s Inter im Caretaker government, through the midlands, strong labor party territory, to campaign for the re election of a strong conservative majority July 5. With the closing of nominations at noon today it was disclosed that Churchill will be opposed in his Woodford constituency by Alexan der Hancock, a Northampton far mer and Independent candidate. But Churchill was believed to have little to fear in his own constitu ency. Okinawa Used As Base For Air Attacks GUAM, June 25—(iP)—Hard-won Okinawa was paying off as an air base today, with American raids announced against Kyushu, the Sakishimas and elsewhere in the western Pacific even while the last scattered Japanese survivors were being killed or rounded up. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced that extensive patrols us ing rifles and grenades had rais ed the enemy casualties through Saturday to 101,853 dead and 7,092 captured. Small bands of Japanese still were trying vainly to filter into the northern hills of Okinawa, which already has cost them more dead than any single Pacific island with the possible exception of Lu zon. AIRFIELD BOMBED While this plodding land action was in progress, army Thunder bolt planes on Saturday bombed Itazuki airfield on northern Kyu shu, one of Japan’s home islands. Army and Marine planes made a series of neufrSlizihfr Strikes on the Sakishima group in the southern Ryukyus, possibly contributing to a marked decline in Japanese air attacks on Okinawa. After 48 hours of stiff fighting over Okinawa Thursday and Fri day, the Japanese sent out only snooper aircraft on Saturday. American Mustangs based on Iwo Jima struck hard at two ene my airfields on Honshu, north ot Tokyo, on Saturday, destroying or damaging 96 planes in the air or on the ground for a loss of three of their own. 12 KILLED WHEN BUS HITS COW AND OVERTURNS JOPLIN, MO., June 25 —(IP)— Twelve persons were killed and 2S injured today when a bus, loaded with soldiers, struck a cow on highway 71 four miles south, swerved from the highway, plung ed down a 10-foot embankment and overturned. Ten of the killed and all of the injured were soldiers who were re turning to Camp Crowder, 25 miles south, where they were sta tioned after a week-end in Jop lin. There were 41 passengers a board. The top of the bus collapsed as it overturned, pinning the passen gers inside. Rescuers worked two hours removing the dead and in jured. J. C. Schug, superintendent of transportation for the Cown Coach company who aided in the rescue work, said he believed at least half of those killed died of asphyxiation from gasoline fumes. Gen. Eisenhower Back In Washington WASHINGTON, June 25 — UP)— Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, tired by a week of spectacular recep tions, slipped into Washington with a minimum of fanfare to day. Only a handful of greeters met his train. PVT. PENSON TWOCLEVEAND BOYS KILLED Pvt. Arves Penson On Oki nawa, S. Sgt. Ellis In Scotland Word has been received here that two Cleveland county men have lost their lives in service, one on the island of Okinawa in the Pacific, the other in Scotland. Pvt. Arves Y. Penson, 20, lost his life in action on Okinawa island on April 30, according to a tele gram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pinson of Lattimore. Pvt. Penson had been in service since July of last year, had train ing at Fort Knox, Ky„ and left for overseas duty in February this year. He attended Lattimore high school prior to entering service. Surviving are his parents, two brothers, Roy, jr„ and Bobby, both of the home, and six sisters, Wau line Penson and Mrs. Bryan Har ris of the home, Mrs. L. A. Pruett, Mrs. J. F. Poteat, Mrs. Quentin Bridges and Mrs. Herbert W, Greene, all of Boiling Springs. OV WAV Hour S-Sgt. John B. Ellis, jr., 24, whose father lives at Grover, has been reported killed in Scotland on June 12. No details of his death have been given his father but it is believed he died in an accident since he was on his way back to the States after service with the Ninth Air force in Italy since the spring of 1943. S-Sgt. Ellis, a graduate of Gro ver high school, Mars Hill college and the University of North Car olina, entered the air corps in August of 1942 and was a radio operator on a glider-towing C-47 He was a veteran of the initial assaults on Siciliy and Italy and was holder of the air medal and one oak leaf cluster and of the Presidential citation. He had been in England since V-E day and had written his father he expected tc be home any day and would wire when he reached the States. The wire which his father thought would tell him of his son’s home coming told of his death instead. S-Sgt. Ellis is survived by his father, his step-mother and a step-sister, all of Grover. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Chamber of Com merce directors meet at Ho tel Charles. 7:30 p.m—State Guard drill at armory. 8:00 p.m.—Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. meets at lodge room for work in first degree. TUESDAY 7:00 p.m.—Lions club meets at Hotel Charles. AP Poll Shows 52 Senators On Record For Peace Charter ■nr» a vt/itc v vpt i r WASHINGTON, June 25.—(yP)— Senate ratification of the United Nations charter became largely a question of timing today with 52 senators already on record for it. Some of the warmest advo cates of American participation in the international peace pre serving organization want to take full advantage of the mo mentum built up at San Fran cisco. They want to rush the ratiiication resolution through the foreign relations committee and out to the senate floor. I V V*«W*U VVU4<WVt * «44, U1U4U1 4*VV deliberations in both places. The* say it would be almost physicallj impossible to ratify the charter ir time for President Truman to take it with him to the big three meet ing. They also believe the Ameri can people as well as tin senators would profit by a thorough studj and discussion of the document. The disclosure that at least 5i senators are committed firmly tc ratification, barring unforseen de velopments, was made over the See AP POLL Page 2 NEWLY LANDED PARACHUTISTS AID CLEANUP Enemy Sealed Off From Aparri, Last Major * Escape Port glidersTre used By Spencer Davis MANILA, June 25.—(JP)— Eleventh airborne division parachutists hastened the Luzon cleanup campaign to ward a climax today, putting the squeeze on an estimated 20,000 Japanese now sealed off from their last major es cape port, Aparri. It was at Aparri, on the north i coast, that the enemy invaded the | Philippines Dec 10, 1941. Americans and Philippine guerrillas already have killed or captured 413,084 Japanese in the campaign to liberate the i islands, Gen. Douglas MacAr thur announced. He listed Jap anese casualties during the past week at 9,338 killed and 1,483 captured, compared with American losses of 223 dead and 589- wounded. The Japanese in the Sagayan valley below Aparri found them selves compressed into a 60-mile corridor and caught between hammer and anvil. To their north were the air borne veterans commanded by ■Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, who landed Saturday on Camalaniugan airfield, four miles south of Apar ri, without opposition. Joining guerrillas who already had taken Aparri, they captured Lal-Lo town, 11 miles south, and were pushing toward Tuguegarao, Ca gayan province capital still held by Filipinos despite three days of fierce Japanese counterattacks. POCKETED JAPS To the south of the pocketed Japanese were spearheads of the 37th division under Maj. Gen. Rob ert E. Beightler. hammering their way northward to relieve Col. Rus sell W. Volckmann’s Tuguegarao defenders. The 37th was within eight miles of the town Saturday night. Gliders, used for the first time in this theater of war, carried jeeps and reinforced the parachu tists. Associated Press Correspon dent Hamilton W. Varon reported the Aparri landings were made “with the precision of a practice maneuver.” JAPS ABANDON OH FIELDS Aussies Drive Down Bor neo North Coast Toward Miri Fields MANILA, June 25 —I7P)— After doing their best to sabotage all oil wells, Japanese evidently are abandoning some of Borneo’s rich est petroleum areas to the invad ing Australians Australia’s Ninth division drove down the Borneo north coast to ward the Miri fields against slight opposition yesterday and already had taken Seria, potentially rich est oil area in the British em pire At least 21 of Seria’s 50 wells still were flaming from Jap anese torches, however. More than 150 American and Australian bombers continued the aerial blasting of the southeastern Dutch Borneo port of Balikpapan, but there was no confirmation of Tokio radio reports that the Al lies had attempted landings there which had been "completely check ed.” The last enemy resistance on Labuan island in Brknei bay has been smashed, the Melbourne ra dio reported, and General Mac Arthur said other Australians had j cleared Tarakan island. Rommel Said To Have Committed Suicide ! _ WIESBADEN, June 25 —<A>)— Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s former chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Fritz Bayerlein, has told Allied officers the desert fox committed suicide to avoid the death penalty for allegedly participating in the attempt on Hitler's life last July.
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