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Ask Yourself If You’ve Bought The E Bonds You Can And Should—Buy Now WEATHER North Carolina: Continued hot and humid today, tonight and Saturday; a few thundershowers Saturday afternoon. Tslxe Hhelhy Baily Him« « CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “Blonde From Brooklyn” ROBERT STANTON LYNN MERRICK VOL. XLIII—155 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5c SUPERFORTS RAIN FIRE ON JAPANESE HOME ISLANDS f* ■****.*.*****'.***».* * ****** Vandenberg Calls Senate To Accept Charter As ‘Brave Experiment’ WAR ACTIVITY IN' THE PACIFIC—Ringed labels on this map locate war activity in the Pacific where Allied forces continue to score successes against the Japanese. The blade areas denote territory still held by the Japs.—(AP Wirephoto Map), U. S. Fleet Returns To Makassar Straits Ships Prowl Waters East Of Borneo, Forbidden Since Dark Days Of Early 1942 By Spencer Davis MANILA, June 29.—(/P)—An American fleet has re turned to the Makassar Straits east of Borneo for the first time since the forlorn days of January, 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclosed today. The invasion-conscious Japa nese reported a naval bombardment of the Borneo east coast had been in progress for ten days BORNEO’S OIL CENTER BOMBED Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force Aided By Fifth Air Force By SPENCER DAVIS MANILA, June 29. —South east Borneo’s big refinery center if Balikpapan and nearby airfields have been shaken by the impact of mofe than 2,300 tons of bombs in the past two weeks. Medium and low-level bombers of Gen. George C. Kenney’s far east ern air force have stepped up their savage aerial assault with the help of Liberators of the Fifth Air force from the southwest Pacific. They have concentrated on kuock ing out numerous gun positions which stud Tokong Hill, overlook ing the broad Balikpapan Bay, from whence the Japanese once exported high high-gravity oil from the oil fields of Sambodla and Louise. LATEST ATTACKS In the latest attacks, announced today, more than 150 Liberators, Mitchells and Lightnings dropped 286 tons of bombs Tuesday on Bal ikpapan and the Manggar air drome, 12 miles ea the east. The communique disclosed that the U. S. Seventh fleet knocked down three Japanese torpedo bomb ers Monday in the Makassar Strait to the east. It was the first American admis sion that a task force was operat ing south of Tarakan, the island off Borneo’s east coast which re cently was concluded by the Aus tralians. Radio Tokyo claimed that one Allied destroyer was sunk in an aerial attack Monday night and that two patrol boats approach ing the coast were “exploded and sunk" Tuesday. WHAT’S DOING" TODAY 8:15 p.m.—Baseball game between Charlotte and Shelbv * i at high school park. a uutcn correspondent wno new over the port of Balikpapan, front ing on the straits, reported earlier this week seeing the warships in action, and the Japanese radio has claimed that allied landing at tempts there already haVe been beaten off. MacArthur gave no confirma tion of any of these reports, but his communique on the southwes Pacific today did report the de struction of three Japanese tor pedo planes on Monday by American surface ships in the Makassar straits and told of continuing allid air blows throughout the East In dies, particularly a Balikpapan. TROOPS JOIN The Australians last were re | ported to have taken Beaufort, In a 115-mile advance northeast up the [ Borneo coast along the narrow j gauge railway toward the Japanese base on Jesselton. Allied planes See V. S. FLEET Page 2 Airmen Stepping Up War On lapan OKINAWA, June 27—(Delayed) —(/P)—Stepping up the air war on Japan, search and reconnaissance l planes of fleet air wing one are reaching to the shores of Kyushu to break the empire’s sea lanes to Korea and other Islands. In two days, at least two Japa nese convoys have been broken up with six small vessels sunk and two damaged. WOULD LIMIT AUTHORITY OF STETTINIUS Calls Charter World's 'Only Collective Chance' For Peace HAS GREAT*PROMISE By Jack Bell WASHINGTON, June 29.— (/P)—Senator Vandenberg (R Mich.) told his colleagues to day they must accept the United Nations charter as a brave experiment or cheat the world of “it’s only collective chance” for peace. In a vigorous endorsement of the San Francisco conference agreement for formation of an in ternational organization, the chair I man of the Republican senatorial [ conference called the pledges hewn | out there “a new emancipation proclamation of the world.” Before the tall Michigan sen ator took the floor, Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Republican steering committee, said he and others are think ing of trying to write into the ratification resolution limita tions on the authority Edward R. Stettinius, jr., will wield as American delegate on the pro posed world security council. Speaking from a prepared manu scdOL-Vandenhprg said he would support the charter "in the deep conviction that the alternative is physical and moral chaos in many weary places of the earth.” “I shall do it because there must be no default in our oft-pledged purpose to outlaw aggression so far as lies within our human pow er,” he declared. “I shall do it because this plan, regardless of Infirmities, holds great promise that the United Nations may col laborate for peace as effectively as they have made common cause of war. ONLY CHANCE “I shall do it because peace must not be’cheated out of its only col lective chance, x x x I doubt if there could ever be another or bet ter start.” Vandenberg, who helped draft the charter as an American dele gate, said the Pacific settlement of disputes, not force, is the real ge nius of the charter. Under the organisation’s for mula, there would be no escape SEE WOULD Page 2 TWO INJURED IN ACCIDENT Henry Lucas, Shelby city fire man, and Prank Shytle, of Polk ville, operator of a trucking busi ness, received bad sprains, bruis es and lacerations when the auto mobile in which they were riding failed to make the curve on North Lafayette street beyond Washing ton school this morning at 4 o’ clock and turned over several times. Both were carried to the Shel by hospital and remained there as patients today. Investigation by city police and by Sgt. W. L. Hatcher of the state highway patrol revealed that Shy tle was doing the driving and of ficers said that indications were that the automobile was pro ceeding at a rapid rate of speed. A small tree was cut down by the car as it turned turtle. The automobile in which they were riding, a 1941 Plymouth, was practically demolished. New Strikes Muddy The Waters On Labor Front By The Associated Press A new crop of disputes broke out on the nation’s labor front and others were in the budding stage today, spoiling an otherwise improved picture on the troubled labor scene. More than 60,000 of the 83,000 workers idle yesterday by strikes and work stoppages, prepared to return to their jobs today, their controversies settled, at least tem porarily. Overshadowing the brighter side, however, were additional workouts, boosting the idle up to the 40,000 mark, and threats of strikes by three railroads and at 18 Wes tern Electric company plants. The biggest improvement in la bor conditions was in Detroit, where most of the city’s 45,000 idle CIO United Autombile Work ers were expected back on the Job following settlement t of an APL CIO jurisidctional dispute. GLASS PLANTS Another 15,000 strikes in 10 glass plants in 10 cities agreed to end their week-old strike, bowing to a See NEW Page 2 Main Airfield In Liuchow Retaken; Lost Last Nov. 7 CHUNGKING, June 29.—(/P)—A Chinese army spokes man announced today that Chinese troops had captured the main airfield in the southern suburbs of Liuchow which Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault’s 14th Air Force was forced to aban don to the Japanese last Nov. 7. me spoxesman saia umnese forces also had retaken the city’s south railway station. Fierce fighting was reported rag ing in the western and northwest ern suburbs of Liuchow where other Chinese forces were battling their way toward the center of the important Kwangsi province city. The spokesman said Liuchow had been burning since June 23 and that the core of the city was destroyed. He esti mated that less than 1,000 Jap anese remained in the city. Approximately 100 miles north east of Liuchow Chinese forces were closing in on Kweilin, an other former U. S. air base site. Dispatches from this front said one Chinese column was engaging Japanese troops at points 10 to 12 1-2 miles north of Kweilin and another was about 18 miles north west of the city.. * Between Liuchow and Kweilin a Japanese force was reported pock eted by two groups of Chinese, one of which had reached a point three miles north of Liuchow while the other was closing in from 15 miles further north. The Chinese spokesman said all See MAIN Page 2 Succession Bill Ready For Final Action By HOWARD FLIEGER WASHINGTON, June 29. —(IP)— In an unusual burst of speed the house called up the Truman-backed presidential succession bill today with proponents determined to send it on to the senate before night fall. In three days the measure— making the house speaker next in line for the presidency—has advanced from a rough commit tee draft to a finished bill, ready for final action. Despite the hurried house pace, proponents conceded privately that they have little hope of such quick action in the senate, and oppo nents were confident the measure never would become law. It is sub ject to two hours of general debate in the house today, after which amendments will be in order. SPECIFICATIONS In its present form the bill fol lows exactly the specification laid down by President Truman in a message to congress. It provides: In the event the nation is left without a president or vice presi dent, the office will go to the speaker of the house—now Rep. Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) — instead of through the cabinet line. If there isn’t a speaker the sen ate pro tem will serve until a spea ker can be chosen. If there isn’t a senate president pro tem, then the presidency would go through the ca binet as at present—but only until the house can elect a speaker, au tomatically accept his resignation and send him off to the White House. 3 Germans Hang For Killing V. S. Flier REINBACH, Germany, June 29. r-VF)—Three German civilians were hanged at dawn today by Ameri can army executioners for killing an American airman after he para chuted to earth from a flaming bomber last Aug. 15. . The hanging was the outcome of the first civilian war crime case brought to trial on German soil since the end of the war. The three men hanged were Peter Back, Peter Kohn and Matthias Gierens convicted respectively of shooting, clubbing and hammering an unknown flier to death. INDUSTRIES GO TO MANCHURIA Tokyo Reports Large Scale Transfer Of War Plants SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—(JP) —A large-scale transfer of war industries from Japan to Manchuria because of "the enemy’s air raids” —which already have desolated broad areas of Nippon’s main cities —was announced today by the Tokyo radio. The broadcast, heard by the fed eral communications commission, said that the transfer of war in dustries to the Asiatic continent was even “more fundamental” than “large-scale dispersion of munitions industries in Japan.” "Mobilization of their composite power for backing up Japan’s fight against the enemy invaders in ab solutley required of these contin ental areas,” Tokyo added. CURTAIN RAISER A Dome! dispatch said that Amer ican planes based on Okinawa were opening the battle for air suprem acy over the southern Home is land of Kyushu, but that this was ut “a curtain raiser to the decisive battle of the Japanese mainland.” “In Kyushu,” Domei continued, “it is not rare for an air raid alert to be sounded more than 50 times in a single day. Since the frequency of enemy air raids will undoubted ly increase hereafter, Kyushu will be placed under an air alert almost without interruption.-’ Domei reiterated the often as serted Japanese claim that Kyushu was “an impregnable fortress” with key points all along the coast forti fied with powerful guns. BOND SALE OVER FOUR MILLION Soles Reach All-Time Record With State's Allotment Cleveland’s Seventh ^ar Loan sales crossed the $4,000,000 mark —a new all-time high tor any of the campaigns and nearly double the 7th’s* over-all quota—today as the state’s allotment of $900,000 was added to previous purchases In the county, Campaign Chairman Jack Dover announced this after noon. Despite what he termed the “gratifying” results, Mr. Dover call ed for renewed pressure on E bond buying since that total is shown only as $399,555 against a quota of $740,000. The county is lagging so badly in the smaller denomina tion bonds that Mr. Dover urged all who can to buy additional bonds In the next few days. The over-all figure exceeds by just about the state’s allotment the previous high-water mark of bond buying in any of the preceding bond drives. Tokyo Reports Heavy American Ship Losses LONDON June 29. —<#>— The Tokyo radio said today Japanese planes had sunk a large cruiser of the “Cleveland” class three other cruisers and one destroyer June 25 off Balikpapan. The broadcast add ed “it is believed there were more enemy losses.” There was no con firmation from any. Allied source. ANOTHER DECORATION—Lt. James B. Cain, husband of the former Miss Margaret Walker of route 4, Shelby, here receives the Silver Star from Admiral Joco Clark aboard the aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto. Lt. Cain is a fighter pilot and holds numerous decorations for gallantry in action while serving as group leader aboard the carrier in the Pacific. Seek $100,000 For {Community Center __ Foundation Launches intensive Campaign For Sum mer And Fall, Will Study Similar Projects Elsewhere A campaign to raise $100,000 this year for the pro jected Community Center, together with public swimming pool, was projected yesterday by trustees of the Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation who said they wanted to be in position for the project to be realized as quickly as possible after the war. i _ __ ——__ The finance committee, to which | 1 M. A. Spangler, sr„ was added, was ! directed to visit similar commun ity center projects in this state and gather fhere information and data looking toward incorporation of every desirable feature in the local project which O. M. Mull, board chairman, said will in all probability become the keystone of a broader community recrea tional program. Just how much money will be needed to provide facilities such as wanted, including the large and modern swimming pool, cannot now ! be determined, pending plans and developments in building costs, but that it will run $200,000 or more seems to evident that the Foundation trustees undertook a campaign to add this year at least $100,000 to the present fund. Individuals, corporations and civic groups are being urged to contribute to the campaign, such contributions being deductible it ems for tax purposes. Mercury Climbs To 102 Degrees Hottest weather of the year push ed Shelby’s thermometer to 102 de grees Wednesday, with little relief today excepting the promise of scattered thundershowers — local folk hoped earnestly some would scatter this way to relieve one of the driest seasons in many years. Crops and gardens are suffering from drouth conditions, while cold drinks, ice cream and those other hot-weather relief items are sold out in many places unde* the im pact of the warmest days yet in 1945.' MRS. STEVENS HELD IN DEATH "Intoxicated Condition Does Not Absolve Her From Charge" BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 29.— (JP)—Coroner Theodore E. Steibei today found Mrs. Imogene Stevens 24, criminally responsible for the death by shooting of Albert Kovacs 19, submarine sailor whom the army major’s wife shot and killed in the home of a neighbor in New, Canaan last Saturday night. The coroner said that statements furnished by police indicated thal Mrs. Stevens was ‘‘under the in fluence of liquor and under a higt emotional strain” when she firec three shots into the Norwali youth’s body but asserted that “th( intoxicated condition of Mrs. Stev ens does not absolve her from s charge of manslaughter." Steiber reported chemical analy sis of Albert’s body showed he, too was ‘‘definitely under the influence of liquor.” ILLICIT LOVE From sttatements made to po lice by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mil ton, in whose home, adjoining thai of the Stevens residence, the shooting occurred, it would appear said Steiber, that "an illicit love had existed between Mrs. Stevene and Mr. Milton which caused the Milton home to be broken up for £ See MRS. STEVENS Page 2 Bilbo Seeks To Beat FEPC Deadline With Filibuster WASHINGTON, June —\nj A 12-hour. 32-minute session that ended early today* brought the sen , atte face-to-face with a decision whether to ration oratory. Senator Taft -(R-Ohio) and 31 colleagues representing both major parties present a rarely-accepted i cloture petition to limit senatorial debate. Most of the free and unlimited conversation which began at noon yesterday centered on a conttro versial proposal to vote operating (funds to the fair employment prac tice committee, a division of gov ernment wmcu nas a umuumui o support from southern senators. There were other matters—Sena tor Tom Connolly’s rprt n hepui tor Tom Connally’s report on thi United Nations conference, fina senate approval of the long-dis puted price control extension bil and a $38,500,000,000 war depart ment appropriation. FEPC WORDAGE But the great bulk of the word age was spilled on the FEPC prop osition. Senator Bilbo (D-Miss See BILBO Page 2 SHIPBUILDING CENTER, OTHER TARGETS HIT 500 B-29,s_Take Part In Raid 3,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped LITTLE INSTANCE GUAM, June 29.—(JP)— Huge fires-raged in Japan’s great shipbuilding center of Sasebo and three other in dustrial cities today after nearly 500 Superfortresses rained 3,000 tons of fire bombs on the home islands. The unrelenting war of an nihilation from the skys caught the Japanese without a defense. Not a single enemy fighter plane rose to meet the intruders. The bombardiers singled out targets which never before had felt the full weight of the Super fortresses, designed by the Ameri can aerial command to rob Japan of the power to resist. Returning pilots said large fires broke out in at least two of the centers. They said their raid was challenged only by anti-aircraft fire in the pre-dawn attacks on the principal island of Honshu, on which Tokyo is located, and on the soutnermost island of Kyu shu. One bomber of the fleet failed to return. (Japanese broadcasts said the raiders also attacked the industrial city of Shimonoseki, on the southern tip of Hon shu, and Kanoya, on southern Kyushu. The raids were announced by the 21st bomber command while fleet headquarters was disclosing new successes of search planes a gainst supply shipping in enemy home waters. Eight vessels were sunk and eight more damaged Wednesday and Thursday between Japan and oKrea by planes which have accounted for approximately See SHIPBUILDING Page 2 ARMY LOYAL TO EXILED POLES i _ Big Three Recognition Of New Warsaw Govern ment Expected LONDON. June 29. — UP) — A spokesman for the Polish exile gov ernment in London declared today that the Polish army of 200,000 to 250,000 men remained “com pletely loyal to us" but admitted the future of the regime was un known. E With "Big Three" recognition of the new Warsaw government ex pected almost momentarily, the spokesman was asked what the exiled regime intended to do when 1 British and American recognition is withdrawn from it. "I don’t know, he said. “All I know is that the Polish government in London desires to remain by the sid. of the Polish armed forces who have served un der its leadership." He,, denied, however, a London report that the government was looking for sanctuary either in Eire or Canada. The spokesman refused to dis cuss a report in the News Chroni cle that the exiled regime had re ceived $280,000,000 in credits from Britain since its arrival here in 1940 to cover the expenses of the president and government depart ments. POLISH FORCES The News Chronicle said pay , ments to Polish armed forces came under a separate account of $1. 200,000,000 borne by British au thorities as part of their own war expenditure. The Polish forces are mostly I stationed in Italy, Germany and Britain. A British foreign office commen tator said toda> formal recognition of the Big Three powers of the new Polish provisional government ! of national unity awaited only as surance that the Yalta conference i plan for Poland's future w-a* be ing carried out by the new ad ministration.
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