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WEATHER North Carolina—Partly cloudy and moderately warm today, tonight and Thursday with widely scatter ed afternoon and evening thunder showers. Tshe Hlxelhy Baily stak - State Theatre Today - ‘ A Song To Remember” Paul MUNI — Merle OBERON Cornel WILDE CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 AMERICAN WARSHIPS SHELL KARAFUTO ISLAND * * * Invaders Threaten Last Jap-Held Air Base In Balikpapan Area FALL OF CITY BELIEVED TO BE IMMINENT Detpes* Penetration From Invasion Beaches Only 2 Miles AREA HEAVILY MINED By Spencer Davis MANILA, July 4.—(/P')— The last Japanese air base in the Balikpapan area was men aced today by Australian Sev enth Division troops, paced by clattering Matilda tanks, spreading out along the in- j vaded east Borneo coast j under a continuous fire screen of warships, planes and ar tillery. The tank-led columns sc ere less than six miles from the two-run way Manggar airdrome. 12 mUes to the northeast of blasted, burn ing Balikpapan. Borneo's greatest oil port. Melbourne radio said the fall of Balikpapan Is but “a mat ter of hours.” The armored spearheads operat ed east of Sepinggang airfield, was occupied only Monday night but la already sending up scout planes as "eyes” for the ground batteries. Busy engineers expected to have the cratered 4.600-foot airfield ready for transport planes soon. Prom a field near Balikpapan, Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines gave this overall eummary today: "Enemy forces In this area ap parently were toppled off balance i and ripped into small units, lack- ( In* communications, by the In- ! tense pre-landing bombardments, j They have failed to regain their equilibrium In the face of the i swift Aussie advance. Hence, they ! were unable to take advantage of the Intensive fortifications they j prepared long ago.” MAZE OF MINES He reported that the Aussies, after uncovering 500 enemy mines, still were plagued by the most in genious maze of concealed demoli tions and booby traps yet encoun tered In the southwest Pacific. Brines said the Japanese probably will put up a strong defense along See FALL Page 2 Nearly 4,000 Registered For * Hospital Vote Nearly 4,800 Clevelanders regis tered for Saturday's special elec tion will determine whether the county Is to approve a bond Issue up to $400,000 for enlargement of the Shelby hospital which the county would take over and for the building of a hospital at Kings Mountain to serve that section of the county. An appeal to all who are regis tered to vote early Saturday for all four questions on the ballot was made today by Lee B. Weath- : ers, chairman of the Hospital Cam paign committee, who said that 1 adequate hospital facilities are the ' number one need of the county ' both now and for the future. ALL MUST VOTE Balloting is against registration so that failure of a registered vot er to appear and vote for the proposition counts a vote against it. “In order to carry the election and thus provide adequate hospital facilities for all, it is necessary to have a majority of the regis tered voters In favor of the four \ proposals indicated on the ballot,” , Mr. Weathers stated. “Those who . fall to vote are counted against j the county-wide hospital system. ] A large majority should help us to i sell the bonds at the lowest pos- < Bible interest rate. < “The tax levy involved will be small. Cleveland county’s indebt- 1 J i edness Is the lowest in a genera- < ■< tton because so many of our road ( Bee NEARLY Page 2 BYRNES BE( OMES NEW SECRETARY OF STATE—In CQreQSiMy at the White House in Washington, Janies F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S. C„ is sworn in as Secretary of State. Left to right: Chief Justice Richard S Whaley of the Court of Claims, who administered the oath’ of office; Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican of Massachusetts; Mrs. Byrnes, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius. Jr.. Byrnes with his hand on the Bibl^,.Secretary of War Stimson, Secretary of Agriculture Andtrson, Postmaster General Hanegan, and President Truman, holding Byrnes’ commission.—(AP Wire photo). .f. YANK FORCES INVADEjBERLEN Second Arnk^^d Division Takes Over In Oc cupation Zone BERLIN, July 4.—(flb—Ten fresh y painted Sherman tanks nosed into Central Berlin today and took jver security control for the Unit ?d States occupation zone in the 3erman capital. Russian sentries saluted briskly U Americans of the Second Arm wed division assumed their new iutles after a 30-hour, 71-mile trek from Dessau. Behind this advance armored ;chelon were some 4,000 other ve licles and over 15,000 men all mov ng slowly into the Berlin area from the west. Sgt. Arthur Marino of Port Chester. N. Y., parked his tank in ;he middle of Innsbrucker Platz on Berlin's Haupstrasse and politely stifled a yawn. "We’ve been on the road since ! a.m. yesterday without a chance o get out our bed rolls,” he ex plained. A German begged for cigarettes ind children cried out for choco ate. The weary tank men who had exhausted any such luxuries a day ■arlier on the road dug their fists nto empty pockets and said “nuts." 'British Voters LONDON, July 4.—(/P)—One of the bitterest election campaigns in British history ended today in a crescendo of boos and cheers which all but drowned out discussion of the important issues to be decided by voters tomorrow. Most boos and cheers were aim ed at one man—Winston Church ill whose stubby figure has been the storm center of the campaign. Its outcome will decide whether he remains as prime minister to main tain the conservative party's doc trine of free enterprise or gives way to a laborite successor com mitted to nationalization of basic Industries. Seldom has any British , cam paign produced a spectacle like that enacted last night, when the man who headed the government through the victorious European war found himself hardly able to speak above the din of catcalls and cheering from a crowd esti mated at 25,000 in a big northeast London stadium. Churchill was pleading the con servative cause in the heat of one sf the biggest and roughest of la bor strongholds. The prime min See BRITISH Page 2 Decide Issue Tomorrow nuci nuivic: Sets Record For Continuous Presiding Over U. S. Senate VUtliiUVUVV he United Nations Charter will be eadily approved by the United States Senate when it takes, it up ater this month. Senator Clyde R. loey returned to his Shelby home oday to spend this week and most if next with homefolks in North Carolina. Senator Hoey showed little wear 10m a strenuous week of presiding iver the senate through the hectic lays of the filibuster over the lermanent, Fair Employment Prac ice Committee bill. For nine hours uumniuuuo^ wuauut interruption Senator Hoey occupied the chair last Thursday to see what Senator Alben Barkley declared a record for continuous presiding in that great est of deliberative bodies. Senator Koey’s handling of the multitudi nous parliamentary problems drew enthusiastic commendation from fellow senators who felt he had distinguished himself in that not ence was he overruled in any deci sion although several were question y- See SETS Page 2 X HOPKINS QUITS GOVERNMENT Arch New Dealer Returns To Role Of Private Citizen WASHINTOGN, July 4.— ItP) — Harry L. Hopkins, arch new dealer and presidential confidante, return ed to an unfamiliar role today— that of private citizen. The man who came to Wash ington with the late Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the orig inal “brain trust” and rose through the cabinet and political criticism to become one of the most intimate White House advisers re signed yesterday as special assis tant to President Truman. Ill for more than a year — at times critically—Hopkins said “the time has come when I must take a rest.” Mr. Truman promptly—and re gretfully—accepted the resignation. It came at a time when he was counting on Hopkins to accom pany him to his first Big Three conference. Hopkins has attended them all as a confidential aide to the White House. See HOPKINS Page 2 Requirements For Stock Market Margin Upped To 75 Per Cent WASHINGTON, July 4.— (A>) — With the aim of reducing stocx market speculation, the Federal Reserve Board has raised the mar gin requirements from 50 to 75 per cent—the highest ever. Effective tomorrow, anyone buy ing stock exchange securities must put up 75 per cent of the price himself—this is his “margin”—and can borrow only 25 per cent from his banker or broker. The board also ruled that begin ning July 16, if a person sells some of the securities in an account apd those do not measure up to the 75 per cent requirement, he must use the proceeds to raise the margin to that amount. i ‘i Firebombs Rained On 4 Jap Cities In Dawn Attacks By Leif Erickson GUAM, July 4.—(/P)—“General conflagrations” spread ing from the white-hot blasts of 3,000 tons of B-29 fire bombs greeted the Fourth of July dawn over four more o?, Japan’s war-production centers. rTo»*mm/v tbo RAO nlnnn neonnH I_ “highly successful”, Maj. Gen. Cur tis E. Lemay’s 21st bomber com mand headquarters said weather was clearer than it has been for three weeks and virtually all plan es bombed visually their targets in Tokushima, Takamatsu and Kochi, on Shokoku island, and Himeji on Honshu, 30 miles west of Kobe. Tokyo radio today conceded 4, 900.000 Japanese in Tokyo, Osa ka, Yokohama, Nagoya and Kobe were killed, injured or rendered homeless in American aerial strike es up to May 31. A total of 1,135, 000 homes were destroyed in the five big cities, the broadcast ad mitted. FIGURES CITED The broadcast cited these fig ures: Tokyo: 707,000 homes destroyed; 3.100.000 homeless. (Earlier broad casts have indicated only about 200.000 persons expect to remain in Tokyo.) Osaka: 130,000 homes burned down; 510,000 persons homeless. Yokohama: 132,000 homes de stroyed; 650,000 homeless. Nagoya: 96,000 homes demolish ed; 380,000 people affected. Kobe: 70,000 houses burned; 260.000 people “counted as de stroyed or otherwise victimized.” Tokyo did not say how many of the “homeless” or "affected” were dead. General Lemay said 70 percent of the 500 plane commanders re ported to headquarters by radio after their bombing runs this morning, describing resulting fires as reaching “general conflagra tion” proportions in all four cit ON SHIKOHU Pilots said flames appeared greatest at Tokushima at the ex treme northeast end of Shikoku at the entrance to the inland sea. Destruction was next greatest in Kochi. For all except Himeji it was the first fire raid. The strike was the 37th fire See FIREWORKS Page 2 Increase In Polio Cases In 5 Months NEW YORK, July 4—</P)—An increase of nearly 50 percent in the number of poliomyelitis case for the first five months of this year, compared with the corres ponding 1944 period, was reported today by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Dr. Don Wmgudakunst, the foundation’s medical director, said there had been 740 cases in the United States through May 26 com pared with 499 last year. The greatest increase was in the mid dle Atlantic states, where the number rose from 443 to 178. r U. S. AIRMEN BATTERJAPS 240 Planes From Oki nawa, Iwo Jima Range Over Wide Area SAN FRANCISCO, July 4.—UP)— Nearly 240 American planes from -Okinawa- and Iwo Jima attacked widely separated targets in Japan today, Tokyo radio reported, in daylight follow-ups of a pre-dawn fire strike by nearly 500 Superforts at four industrial cities. Three B-29s led 120 Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima over the eastern coast of Honshu in a bombing ahd strafing attack on air fields and military installations east of Honshu, the broadcasts said. Tokyo reported an assortment of 120 bombers and fighters from Oki nawa, including Lightning, Thun derbolt and Mustang fighters, Mit chell medium bombers, and Navy Martin patrol bombers raided Kyu shu, southernmost island of Nip pon for two hours. NOT CONFIRMED All of the reports, intercepted by the Federal Communications Com misison, were without American confirmation. Heaviest blow at Kyushu was struck by 60 planes which bombed Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefec tures at the southern tip of the island. Twenty others were reported over the Sasebo naval base, Amakusa, Shimabara and Nagasaki, all on northern Kyushu. Other strikes in cluded western and eastern sec tors of the island which Tokyo says is marked for the next major American invasion. Japanese broad casts said 120 planes were involved altogether in the Kyushu attacks, but detailed movements of only 92. During the fighter strike near Tokyo, enemy brof^asts asserted one formation “machinegunned communications facilities, civilian homes and sma" vessels.” Score Injured As Two Trains Collide TALBOTTON, GA., July. 4—t/P)— More than a score of per^>ns were injured, most of them slightly, early today when two passenger trains collided head-on here. The trains were the Dixie Flag ler streamliner enroute from Chi cago to Miami over tracks of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast railway and a local passenger train. Dr. F. C. Stimson said he treat ed between 20 and 25 persons. Three were hospitalized here and five others were taken to a hos pital at Manchester. TOM LATTIMORE DEATH CLAIMS TOM LATTIMORE Well Known Former Mer chant' Succumbs To Stroke At Age 6^ Thomas W. Lattimore, 65, died Tuesday evening at 6:30 at his home on North La Fayette street following a stroke of paralysis suf fered in March. The body has been taken to the home of his brother, Dr. E. B. Lattimore. on North Morgan street where it remains until the funeral which has been set for Thursday morning at eleven o'clock from the first Baptist church with Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the church, in charge, assisted by Rev. John W. 3uttle. Interment will follow in Sunset Cemetery. Mr. Lattimore was the son of -he late Judge and Mrs. T. D. Lattimore, a pioneer Shelby fami ly- Most of his life was spent in ;he mercantile business and as a ;raveling salesman. At the time he was stricken he was in charge of he men’s wear department at the Belk-Stevens store. Mr. Lattimore was popular with all classes of jeople and widely acquainted and •elated throughout the county, laving been known for his affable manner and his sterling qualities. Hie was a devoted member 6f the First Baptist church and a mem ber of the choir there for many pears, also a member of a male luartet which sang at funerals. On Jan. 17th, 1906 he was mar ked to Miss Mabel Porter of Rich mond, Va., who survives together with two brothers, Dr. E. B. Lat :imore and J. J. Lattimore of Shelby and one sister, Mrs. John Irvin of Shelby. A section in the church will be •eserved for his colored friends at ;he funeral, and the Belk-Stevens -tore will be closed in his honor rhursday morning during the fu neral hour. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:45 p.m.—Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 8:00 p.m.—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Bap tist church. 8:00 p.m.—Ball game at high school park between Shelby and Cherryville. THURSDAY 7:00 p.m.—Kiwanis club meets. 7:0 p.m.—C. A. P. cadets meet at armory. IN DEEPEST PENETRATION OF JAP WATERS Tokyo Soys Guns Trained On War Targets Of Shikuka REPORT UNCONFIRMED SAN FRANCISCO, July 4. —QP)—Five American war ships shelled Karafuto island yesterday in their deepest penetration of Japanese wa ters, Tokyo radio reported to day. Karafuto is the Japanese held half of Sahkalin Island, just off the Asiatic continent north of Ja pan. The northern half is held by Soviet Russia. Warships reportedly trained their guns on war installations off Shi kuka, a port in the Bay of Tarika near the Soviet-Japanese border. There was no confirmation of the broadcast which was beamed to America and picked up by the Fed eral Communications Commission. Karafuto-Sahkaiin divides the sea of Japan from the sea of Okhotsk. Only once have American warships penetrated these waters, when a task force of the U. S. North Pa cific fleet recently steamed through the Kurile Islands and knocked out an enemy convov. ON EAST COAST Shikuka is on the east coast of Karafuto, nearly 480 miles north of Hokkaido, northernmost of the See DEEPEST Page 2 Brazilian Plane Crash Kills Seven WASHINGTON, July 4— OP. — Two lieutenants of the Brazilian Air Force and five sergeants were killed in a plane crash at Burgaw. N. C., last night, the Brazilian em bassy disclosed today. Lt. Col. Clovis Monteiro Travas sos, air attache of the embassy, said names of the dead would nol be made public until after next oi kin in Brazil had been notified. The men were flying from Brazil to Philadelphia to pick up a new navy plane when the accident oc curred. They were no survivors. North Carolina State Highwav Patrolman W. M. Whitley reported at Burgaw last night that the plane fell in a small clearing in a wooded area about one mile east of Burgaw. He said the plans, which was completely destroyed, fell during a heavy thunderstorm. Lack Of Jap Air Force Poses Question WASHINGTON, July 4 —uP._ The Japanese air force—or the lack of one—has developed into the biggest question mark of the Pacific war. Top U. S. air generals are di vided over the puzzling question of why B-29s can roam at wil. without encountering interceptors Some, including Gen. Gewge C Kenney, chief air officer to (ftow / eral MacArthur, think the" Ja^’ * simply have run out of planes. Oth ers believe the enemy force has been whittled down but that a ^ocd-sized number are being held back to resist actual invasion. Celebrate Fourth—At Home, Abroad Americans observed another wartime independence day today by remaining on the job for the most part, to help defeat a tena cious enemy. War bond rallies, entertain ments for wounded veterans, pa rades and flag raisings were held in scattered cities and towns. But a majority of working men and women followed the leadership of President Truman who devoted this July fourth strictly to tasks at his desk. The President issued an inde pendence day statement asking Americans to “honor our nation’s creed of liberty” and the fighting men and women who are carrying It with them thorughout the world. “We have pride in the combined1 might of this nation which has j contributed signally to the defeat! cf the enemy in Europe.” he said.j ‘We have confidence that, under providence, we soon may crush the enemy in the Pacific.” STAY ON JOB Chairman J. A. Krug of the War Production board, earlier appealed See AT HOME Page » The Stars and Stripes were hoisted over the Adolf Hitler bar racks in a formal Fourth of July observance in Berlin today as A merican troops in the European theatre celebrated independence day with the assistance of their Allies. A 48-gun salute to “Old Glory” marked the flag-rais ing ceremonies in Berlin, car ried out by troops of the U. S. Second Armored division which entered the German cap ital only yesterday to take over their zone of occupation. V I An honor guard of 100 Red army men participated. Formal observance also con ducted in other European capi tals. In Paris, the beautiful old Avenue Vittorio Emanuele was of ficially renamed Avenue de Presi dent Roosevelt by French author ities at ceremonies attended by U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, who acknowledged the tribute in behalf of the United States gov ernment. A similar tribute was paid the See ABROAD Pa*e •
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