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FRESH ADC CAMP HASGOODSTART Busy Schedule Occupies Youngsters At Comp Cherokee Except for the usual homesick nftn *t nightfall and a broken xum sustained when one young ster feU Into a water faucet, op ening day of the Lions—sponsored Fresh Air Camp at Camp Chero kee went off without mishap and with a heavy schedule of activity keeping the 68 youngsters busily engaged. Morris McSwaln was the boy who had to be brought back to hare his nose patched up, but attending physicians said he could return to the camp In a day or so if he wished. Messages to homefolks written the first afternoon were being received here today to show the lads were thinking most of food and swimming, several having commented particularly on the goodness of the eats. Rev. W. P. Biggerstaff of the club’s committee was there most of the first day, while Robert Gid ney, committee chairman, was there last evening. A general in vitation is issued the public to visit the camp at any time and see the boys enjoying themselves. The Lions directors and com mittee are meeting tonight to lay plans for the club’s visit to the camp next Tuesday. “Grand Ole Opry” To Play Here Tonight Curly Fox and Texas Ruby and their Foxhunters, who rejoined the W8M Grand Ole Opry several months ago after an absence of three years, are featured this sea son on the Jamup and Honey WSM Grand Ole Opry tent show which is coming to Shelby to night. This mobile unit of the famed folk music radio show which ori ginates in Nashville, Tennessee, has the sanction of the Office of Defense Transportation and is one of the finest shows of the kind on the read. Everything possible has been done for the comfort, convenience and enjoyment of the audiences. The big new tent is air-cooled, and Incidentally, it is the only air cooled tent on tour in the south. An improved seating arrangement has been worked out with new e<iuipasent and there are ample general admission seats in addition to those which are reserved at a small additional charge. FRIGHTENED Starfts On Page One down enemy B-29s before the very eyes of the people.” The Nipponese acknowledged scant air opposition to destruction of Japan's cities by American Su perforts, but the broadcast, re corded by the federal communi cations commission, declared that an Infallible air force was being hoarded for the “coming battle of the homeland.” It explained that American bombers were being permitted to carry on their massive raids while all effort was concentrated on j building a great new force of j planes. Even as the enemy warned that “the curtain is about to be raised on the homeland battle,” a Domel broadcast reported that 17 large planes raided Kumamoto on Kyu shu, target of a pre-dawn B-29 attack yesterday and 15 Superforts fire-bombed Kalnan, 50 miles southwest of Osaka shortly after midnight today. The failing Nipponese position in conquered territory far south was reflected by the enemy-con trolled Java radio, which announ ced Japanese plans to evacuate non-essential civilians from Sin gapore, beginning in mid-month. Added threat to the great naval base is the Invasion of Borneo, with the Australians moving down the west coast toward Kuching air base—400 miles from Singapore. Already the Allies control three air bases at Brunei, little more than 700 miles distant. Domei admitted that the Japa nese home food situation is so critical that leaves and vines of at least 18 different kinds of plants will be used in an effort to obtain starch. RUNYANS Starts On Fan One Ing the lack of facilities possessed by the hospital to care for Its nu merous patients. Mr. Bethune urged all Jaycees to vote for the nospital bond Issue which will en able the plant to be enlarged and provide more bed space for pa dents here. John O. Snyder, former member it the organisation but for the past two years employed in Pearl Harbor, was reinstated as a mem ber last night and Sam Weathers and Pvt. Ralph Putnam, the lat ter a former Jaycee, were present as guests. The club commended Bob Chil dress on getting the ride stands for sendee men repainted and repair ed and emphasised the importanoe of the paper drive to be conducted by the club on July 36. At that time playing cards will also be col lected to be sent to hospitals In this section where service men ere unable to get cards with which to pliy. About a members Attended thi meeting. GETS BRONZE STAR—T/6 Carl D. Ledbetter, son of Mrs. J. X. Led better of near Buffalo, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroic achievement with the army In France on November, 1944, when "under Intense artillery barrage, he a si* ted In firing an assault gun and, despite hazardous fire, remain ed at his poet until the task was completed.” T/5 Ledbetter has been overseas 18 months and Is now In Germany. Hopkins Not To Go With Truman To Big-Three Meeting WASHINGTON, July 3— (IP) — Because of 111 health. Harry Hop kins will not accompany President Truman to the coming Big Three conference In Europe, White House Press Secretary Charles Ross said today. Ross said an exchange of let ters between Mr. Truman and Hop kins relating to Hopkins’ future will be made public later but he would not discuss the nature of the correspondence. "That would indicate he might be leaving the government,” a re porter suggested. "It might,” Ross replied. Hopkins oonferred with Mr. Tru man yesterday. GOVERNMENT Start* On Par* On* The 33,700 striking rubber em ploye* accounted for the bulk of the 54,000 men and women across the nation who stayed away from their jobs because of labor dis putes. TAKEN AWAY BIGHTS In Akron, C. V. Wheeler, local head of the Goodyear Union, in dicated the WLB’a latest move would not end the strike. He said: ‘‘They’ve taken away our rights. We’ll stay out until we get ’em w Later he advised the strikers to j apply for unemployment compen sations, telling them “this forced ! strike is a lockout because of in- J tolerable working conditions." The WLB, earlier, had ordered cancellation of occupational de ferments for the strikers register ed for the military draft, while military department officials had urgently appealed they quit the strike because of the necessity of the rubber material in the war ef fort. ALSO DEFIANT Apparent defiance also met the WLB's directive to striking deliv erymen for New York City news papers to go back to their Jobs or appear In Washington tomorrow at a show cause hearing. A spokes man for the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union (unaffiliated), said the men “had no intention of going back to work under present arrangement. Vice Chairman William Mapel of the Publishers Association of New York, representing 11 major dailies said the newspapers would be printed today. Fourteen daily news papers and three racing papers were affected. The number of idle was expect ed to drop today as the last of the striking glass workers returned to plants of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company in Ford City, Pa., and of the Libbey-Owens-Ford company in Charleston, W. Va. Some 15.000 glass workers In 11 plants had been on strike last week. There were no Indications of early settlement of the other stop pages. BYRNES Starts On Page On* carry on as uaual.” The ceremony was shifted out to the terrace because the crowd was too big tor the chief execu tive's office. STETTINIUS NEAR As the new secretary took the oath, Edward R. Btettininus, Jr., the man he succeeds, stood on* step behind him. "I am glad also that I will be in a position to advise with my Immediate predecessor, Mr. Stetti nius, particularly on the tremen j dously important tasks relating to ' the organization of the United ‘ Nations as a permanent institution j to maintain peace,” the Byrnes 1 statement added. Members of the cabinet, military leaders, and many members of the senate and house of representa tives looked on and applauded. After the ceremony Byrnes and Stettlnius left the White House together, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced that Stettlnius will have an office in the White House to carry on his new duties as member of the United Nations Security Council. Byrnes wore a dark blue dou 1 ble-breasted suit and a blue tie with a white figure He took the i oath formally at 11:18 a.m., eas tern war time. X LCT VIEW OF OKINAWA—Here 1* the way one section of the shore of Okinawa looks from the open ramp of an LCT which landed vehicles of the Tenth Army. Either Depression Or Boom May Follow Fall Of Japan By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON. July 3 —(fP)— One of two things can happen to us when Japan falls: A depression or a boom. This has been said before. But now War Moblllzer Vinson talks of it solemnly. This is his story, as he tells it: There'll be a big drop in muni tions making. Workers will be dis charged from plants making plants, tanks, shells, guns and ships. Over time will drop. There'll'be, therefore, a big shift from the war plants paying high wages to the civilian plants paying less. This means a drop in workers' income. In turn, this means they’ll buy less. Some may not feel the squeeze too sharply because they have built up savings or because they'll be draw ing unemployment pay from the states. These things will tide some workers over the unemployment pe riod. UNEMPLOYMENT PAY But even liberal unemployment pay is low compared with wages. | So, families whose income drops will spend less on things like groceries, shoes, clothes. They’ll try to put oS buying them. As these workers spend less, their very thriftiness may cause unem ployment in places like retail stores, textile production, and so on. Says Vinson: “This presents a real danger. The remembrance of the depression is clear to most of us. At the first development of widespread unemployment, even those who are not unemployed may feel economically insecure and will freeze on to their savings and spend less. "This would be bound to deflate demand: manufacturers would be less anxious to expand; and instead of coming out of the war with an expanding economy and jobs for re leased veterans and war workers we will face another depression.” Here Vinson has drawn the clas sic picture of a depression being born. But in the following para graphs he explains how a boom may occur. During and after every war prices have risen sharply and then declined sharply. Most people after victory over Japan still xvjll have good incomes. Large spending by this group could offset the fewer purchases by the unemployed and an inflationary spiral would begin. Then once production did get started, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers — afraid that prices might rise—would begin laying in big supplies, too big. This, Vinson thinks, would lead to a repetition of big 1919-20 boom after the last war—and then to the same kind of collapse that followed that boom. PRODUCTION Vinson’s suggestion for prevent ing either deflation or boom from happening is this: To step up production which in creases supplies and employment. So, he says: ‘To this end we must rid of con trols that are not needed and retain control that help. However, if re- | employment is slow, if a deflation: spiral threatens, then government must be prepared to take positive action to bolster income and create jobs through public works." Because of the wartime lack of building supplies, Vinson says, many federal, state and local projects, have been postponed and victory over Japan will offer the first real opportunity for those projects to get underway, or at least a good many of them which will help keep people employed. Vinson, like President Truman, is all in favor of raising unemployment pay to give jobless workers a better income—and thus help recovery after the war—by giving workers more money to spend to keep the wheels going around. Carroll Calls Rotary Officials To Session Officers, directors and committee ministration will hold their initial chairmen of President Mason L. Carroll's newly-installed Rotary ad session tonight at 7 p.m. for dinner at the Hotel Charles to map plans for the year. Big I hree Meet l o Be Held In Potsdam NEW YORK, July 3, —{IP)— “The Big Three are going to meet in Potsdam just outside Berlin,” CBS sorrespondent Richard C. Hottlet reported today in a broadcast from Berlin describing the entry of Am erican troops into the German capi tal. ‘Tanks and reconnaissance cars and half tracks of the Second ar mored division" entered the city in a cold pouring rain, he said. "It was a business-like entry for us—no parading, no bands, just the clatter and the rumble of the heavy tanks and the wheels through pud dles and ruts in the road. There will be a formal parade in a day or two. “The so-called 'Berlin district command’ is bringing its own en gineers and signal troops, its hos pital and quartermaster because this is not just a token occupation." Pastors' Conference Meet Held Monday Members of the Kings Mountain Baptist Pastors’ conference held their July meeting Monday morn ing at the home of the Rev. J. R Cantrell in Boiling Springs. The meeting began at 10:30 when the Rev. John R. Hallman led the devotional. The Rev. C. C. Crowe then presented a sermon outline and President Phillip Elliott oi Gardner-Webb college gave an in teresting talk on the general topic of progress, stressing progress a long intellectual and spiritual lines. After the program, the Rev anc Mrs. Cantrell served a delicious chicken dinner picnic style in the yard. Around 20 ministers were present for the meeting and din ner. DIES OF HEART ATTACK RALEIGH—(/Pi—Gus Leach, 75, chairman of the Macon county board of commissioners, died yes terday of a heart attack in his room at a hotel here. The 14 cotton-growing states have 737 cotton-spinning mills. HARA-KIRI—AMERICAN STYLE i yrir/OMC SAf£TyX9tU/CU. t Furnished by J. Robert Lindtty Webb Building Shelby. N. C. and Company N. Y. COTTON AT 2:00 Today Prev. Day March . -22.57 22.59 May H _22.55 22.55 July _22.52 22.51 October .22.64 22.66 December ---—22.60 22.63 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT July .1.6814 1.68% September _ -1.64% 1.65% December ..1.6414 1.65% CORN July . .1-18^ 1.18% September - ....1.18% 1.18% December _ ..1.1714 118 RYE July .1.54% 1.55% September _ ...1.46% 1.46% December - -....1.43% 1.45 34 STOCKS AT 2:00 Amn Rolling Mill -- American Loco . .. American Tob B _ -- American Tel and Tel _ __ 174 Anaconda Copper --34 Beth Steel . 80 Boeing Air . ... 27 Chrysler. 11° Curtiss-Wright --- General Motors _ - 68 Pepsi Cola . 22 Greyhound Corp . - 25 International Paper --27 Nash Kelv . .. Glenn L Martin ---— 28 Newport Ind _ ..- 26 N Y Central. 30 Penn R R . .-.- 39 Radio Corp . .. 13 Reynolds, TOb B . .. 34 ! Southern Railroad -- 50 I Stand Oil N J .63 Sperry Corp. 31 U S Rubber . 68 U S Steel . 69 Western Union . Youngstown S and T-49 22 1-4 77 7-8 5-8 5-8 1-4 1-8 . 7 3-8 1-2 1-2 1-2 20 5-8 5-8 1-8 3-8 1-8 3-4 1-4 1-8 3-4 1-4 1-2 48 1-8 MARKET APATHETIC NEW YORK. July 3.—(AV-Indi vidual stocks, including rails, util ities and industrials, made a little headway today although market dealings were notably apathetic and many pivotals at a standstill. Fractional advances were posted for Santa Pe, Southern Pacific. Southern Railway, Western Union ■A,” American and Foreign Pow- J er. American Water Works, U. S. Steel, General Motors, Sears Roe buck. Glenn Martin and Johns Manville. Backward were Chrys ler. Consolidated Edison, Electric ; Power and Light, J. C. Penney and Air Reduction. Grains weakened. Bonds were steady. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK I CHICAGO. July 3—UP)—(WFA1 —Salable hogs 6,500. total 12,500: active, lully steady; good and j I choice barrows and gilts at 140-lb. ; up at 14.75 ceiling; good and choice ' !sows at 14.00; complete clearance. Salable cattle 7,000; total 7.000; | ; salable calves 800, total 800; strict ; ly choice weighty steers steady to I strong, but all others strong to 25 i cents, mostly 10 to 15 cents hgjher; | medium grades and yearlings up Imost; trade active; top 18.00, the ceiling; best yearlings 17.75; bulk fed steers and yearlings 15.50-17.75; ■ heifers strong, best 17.00; all other killing classes steady to strong with j clearance broad; weighty cutter 1 cows 9.00 down; heavy sausage bulls 13 50 and heavy fat bulls 15.00; vealers steady at 16.00 down. ^ ^ HOO S RALEIGH, July 3.—VP>—'NCDAi —Hog markets active and steady with tops of 1*55 at Clinton and Rocky Mount and 1*85 at Rich mond. N. C. EGGS, POl'LTRY RALEIGH, July 3.—(-P)—(NCDA> —Egg and poultry markets steady to firm. Raleigh—U. S. grade AA large 45; hens, all weights, 27 1-2. ; Washington—U. S. grade A large 45 1-2; broilers and fryers, 32.5. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, July 3. -*</?)— But' ter, firm; receipts 1,245,860. Eggs, receipts 14,274; firm. Ritchie Death Sentence Commuted WASHINGTON, July 3 —OP)— The death sentence imposed on Pvt. Albert B. Ritchie, of Catawba county, N. C., was yesterday com muted to life imprisonment by President Truman. Convicted by court-martial for the murder of CpL Peter de Fusco at Camp Phillips, Kane., last sum mer, Ritchie’s case was pleaded by Rep. Ervin (D-NC), who was ac companied by Attorneys John Stroupe and R. H. Shuford, of Hickory, N. C. WEATHER CHARLOTTE, July 3—UP)—Of ficial weather bureau records of the temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 8:30 a.m. Rain Station Max. Min. fall Asheville -- 87 60 .29 Atlanta .92 63 .03 Augusta __ ...101 74 .28 Birmingham .. -.88 63 Boston _--85 63 .15 Charleston .89 80 Charlotte -98 71 Columbia — -102 74 .01 Galveston -89 74 .07 Greensboro -- -96 68 Los Angeles .79 58 Memphis .83 59 Miami .82 Mobile ..89 72 .07 Mt. Mitchell .73 51 New Orleans .. _88 74 .78 New Yor .91 88 24 Raleigh.-.97 69 .60 Spartanburg .96 71 Washington .. .......93 65 Winston-Salem Surgeon Killed In Carrier Attack SAN DIEGO. Calif., July 3. —(JP)— Capt. Raymond D. Mege, formerly of Winston-Salem, N. C., was among three staff officers killed recently when Jap suicide planes attacked Adm. Marc A. Mitscher’s carrier flagship, the 11th naval district has announced. Hege was a surgeon on Mitscher’s staff. His widow and two children are residing here. He was « graduate of the University of Cincinnati Medi cal school. 12 U. S. Soldiers Killed In Train Wreck In France NANCY, July 3—(JP)—The bodies of 12 American soldiers killed in a train wreck near here Suaday night have been recovered, it was announced today. Twenty-three in jured Americans are in hospitals. The French press agency said a U. S. military train carrying leave personnel smashed into a freight train stopped on the tracks. AIRFIELDS Start* On Par* One Ing Australian Seventh dlvlslon veterana of early New Guinea fighting and of the Syrian deserts —nearly two miles inland and spread for three miles along the seashore. MacArthur did not confirm cap ture of the airfields, but Associat ed Press Correspondent Russell Brines earlier reported from the front that capture of Seplnggang, at least, was Imminent. The Melbourne radio said air force crews began immediately to repair the bomb-cratered air strips which presumably will pro vide close land-based air support, for the advancing infantry. NEAR BALIKPAPAN Brines said the Aussles were within 1,500 yards of the heart of. Balikpapan. Carrier planes meanwhile aug mented continual Allied long range bomber attacks against deeply entrenched Japanese posi-j tions, and guns of the U. S. Sev enth fleet joined field artillery in hammering steadily at enemy gun emplacements. Several Japanese 5-inch guns concealed in hills sev eral miles inland, which began shelling the beachhead area today,i were believed destroyed. BITTER RESISTANCE East of the beachhead and about a mile inland, Japanese holding i strong cave and tunnel positions were fighting bitterly. Similar caves were encountered occasion ally inland from, fbe main beach-, head and were being reduced one1 by one In familiar, grim, Pacific war fashion. Aussie casualties thus far were! reported light, Brines radioed from the front, although the Jap anese artillery still was firing now and then into the beachhead area Only a few Japanese prisoners have been taken, Brines reported. There was no confirmation of Tokyo's assertion that Australian | invasion forces had made a new landing at Kuaiasambodja, some 30 miles up the coast from Balik papan. HUrfc Starts On Pace One state department expert on the or ganization plan as It grew from Dumbarton Oaks to®San Francisco, will be asked to spell out the full meaning of every factor In the charter. To expedite the hearings, Chair man Connally 'D-Texi asked that interested organizations send writ ten statements rather than depend entirely on oral testimony. The leadership hopes to report the charter to the senate floor by July 23 and Senator Burkley 'D Ky> envisages ratification by Au gust 15. This would meet with Mr. Tru mans appeal for "prompt ratifica tion” laid before the senate, along with the official copy of the char ter, yesterday afternoon. The Pres ident called the document the guldepost on the road to peace and made it plain, in a seven-minute speech that he thinks this nation should be the first to ratify It to show that America is leading the way from war. JAPANESE Starts On Page One planes. Other Okinawa-based tac tical air force planes attacked the Sakishlma islands off Formosa. Also hitting at Japan’s fuel sources and tightening the strang ling blockade in the southwest Pa cific theatre, Philippines-based heavy bombers have knocked out 90 percent of the alcohol produc tion on Formosa, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported. TWICE WOUNDED—Sgt. J. D. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L, Thomas of 410 West Graham street, was slightly wounded In the Oki nawa operations, according to word received here today. He previously Vas wounded at Guam. Sgt. Thom as, who entered the army in Nov ember, 1942, has been serving over seas for two years and expects a furlough home shortly. No Takers For Chairmanship Of Committee WASHINGTON July 3.— <7Fl — The chairmanship of the house committee on un-American activi ties went begging today, with in dications it might go to 33-year-old Rep. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.). Jackson was reported the choice of the house leadership to take over the reins of the committee dropped yesterdav bv Rep. Edward J. Hart (D-NJ). Hart, who headed the commit tee since the house created it six months ago as permanent succes sor to the old Dies committee, said his resignation was prompted by a physician's advice to give up some of his activities. Yank Fliers Sink 18 Small Jap Craft OKINAWA, July 3. —W— Rang ing the length of the Yellow Sea and the coast of China virtually without enemy fighter opposition. Yank fliers in two days sank 18 Japanese small craft and damaged 16 others including two destroyer escorts and two large freighters five miles from Shanghai. It was the first Shanghai strike for American Thunderbolts whose veteran pilots are hunting for Ja panese fighter planes. Not finding any, they loosed their rockets upon a Japanese convoy of two destroyer escorts and two 7,000-ton freighters setting one of the destroyers on fire and damaging the other ships. Privateers of fleet air wing caught a 4.000-ton river boat in Hangchow Bay and sank it. It may have been attempting to evacuate Japanese soldiers from China. Conservation Board To Meet July 19-21 RALEIGH. July 3 — tJP)~ A meeting of the State Board of Con servation and Development will be held July 19-21 at Morehead City. R. Bruce Etheridge, director of the Department of Conservation and Development, said the first day of the meeting would be devoted to commercial fisheries hearing. John D. Findlay yesterday was confirmed as head of the games and fisheries division of the depart ment and appointed Col. H. W, Shawhan as his assistant at a sal ary of $4,600 a year. CAMPAIGN 8tarts On Page Ona Laborite Arthur Greenwood call ed Churchill's campaign method* "those of a dictator" and declared: "The most disturbing feature of this election is the emergence of the fuehrer principle which is foreign and ahorrent to the British peo ple.” The Evening Chronicle of Lord Beaverbrook—he is a conservative and lord privy seal—predicted a conservative majority of as high as 100 in commons' 640 seats. The par ty had a majority of only 62 in the house which was elected In 1935 and stayed in office a record 10 years through a wartime political truce when all parties Joined in a coalition government under Churchill. WANT ADS FOR SALE: SINGER SEWING machine, button hole worker, small drop-leaf round table, iron bed and springs 314 West Gra ham. Phone 821-J. Up TOO LATE FOR BEHIND THE Front Pager—Lady and daughter wish share expense ride to Cher ry Point or vicinity any time in next several days. Call Holt Mc I Pherson. ■ C. A. AUFFMORDT & CO. 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