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WEATHER North Carolina: Considerably cloudiness with scattered showers ' and thunderstorms today, tonight and Friday: continued moderately warm and humid. Tshe Hhelhy Baily Hielt STATE THEATRE TODAY "THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET" Nils Asther — Helen Walker Reinhold Schunzel ^_CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894_TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII— 091 “ “ ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAYTjULY 571945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c ALL PHILIPPINES WON BACK SAYS MacARTHUR Islands Being Transform ed Into Bases For March On Tokyo I 420,000 SLAUGHTERED Bv Spencer Davis MANILA, July 5.—(/P)— 'All the Philippine islands have been won back in “the greatest disaster ever sustain-1 ed by Japanese arms,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur proudly proclaimed today and their; 115,600 square miles are be- i ing transformed into bases j “comparable to the British islands” to spur the march on Tokyo. In 250 days of campaigning, 17 American divisions whipped 35 Ja panese divisions in "one of the rare instances when ... a ground force superior in numbers was en- j tirely destroyed by a numerically inferior opponent." Roughly 420.000 Japanese were slaughtered, including such hated outfits as the 16th Im perial division which tortured American and Filipino prisoners in the “death march" after the 1942 fall of Bataan. A spokesman estimated that pos sibly 30.000 Japanese survive in all the Archipelago, cut up into groups and driven into mountains where tehy are reduced to guerrilla acti- i vlty. American ground and air per sonnel casualties up to July 1 were listed as 11,921 killed. 410 missing and 42,509 wounded—a total of 64.891. ACCOMPLISHED 1 General MacArthur stressed as "accomplished" goal of the rein vasion: Acquisition of great land-sea-air bases “for future operations" com- > parable to the role played by the British Isles against Germany. Collapse of the "imperial concept Of a greater east Asia co-prosper- ; Ity sphere and the reintroduction of democracy in the far east." Delivery of a “crippling blow" to 1 Japan's army, navy and air force. Severance of the enemy's sprawl ing. stolen empire so the north and south halves could “be enveloped and attacked in turn.” while a sea air blockade prevented raw mate irals from reaching Japan or re inforcements from reaching the East Indies. Liberation of “our captured of ficers and men and our internees i held in the Philippines." MacArthur said the navy, army I and air force, “working in com See PHILIPPINES Page 2 HEAVY RAINS BREAK DROUTH Gully-washing rains, accompan ied by beating winds Just before midnight, brought 1.32 Inches of rainfall last night—almost as much in the single evening as fell all of the month of June—broke this section’s drought that had parched fields and gardens. The rains followed a July 4 that had been quite comfortable, the temperature ranged from a high of 88 to a low of 67 degrees, but overcast. The first visitation in terrupted the Shelby-Cherryville baseball game and drove fans in to shelter of the stands for a few minutes in the middle of the game, but old Jupiter Pluvius relented and let them finish the contest. Hardly had the fans gotten home than he released such a torrent of rain and wind that it beat down many of the plants that so needed the water. While hardly of the “million dollar” variety, the heavy rain is showing already a tremendous ef fect upon cotton, corn and garden plants. Nazi Starvatic Is Uncovered By A. I. GOLDBERG 1 MUNICH, July 5.—(jP)—A Nazi “scientific starvation” station.whose grisly experiments on children and adults were claiming victims until a few days ago, has been uncov ered In Bavaria by two public health officials of the American military government. AMG authorities announced last night that four German doctors and three hospital attendants had been arrested at the station in the m Kaufbeuren area, 45 miles south P‘ east of Munich. One woman nurse confessed killing 211 children, for which she drew an fxtra bonus, PYLE’S WIDOW GETS HIS MEDAL—Mrs. Geraldine Pyle, widow of the late war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, receives the Medal for Merit, awarded to him posthumously. Maj. Gen. John W. O'Daniel (left), commander of the Third Infantry division, makes the presentation in Washington with rouse Speaker Sam Rayburn looking on. The award is usually made by the Stat£ Department for outstanding diplomatic service. Pyle was killed on Ie Shima while covering Marine battles with the Japs—(AP Wire photo). Government Seizes Goodyear Plants President Truman Directs Navy To Take Over And Restore Rubber Production By The Associated Press The federal government, on orders from President Tru man, today seized the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants in Akron, 0., strike-bound for 20 days. Mr. TfSSifiriBfecl«r^WHiY/j-*=grr=3—t-— to occupy the facilities and restore production of vital war-needed rubber. The output had fallen off sharplv since 16,700 members of the CIO United Rubber Workers walked out last month. WLB's back-to-work orders to the 16,500 striking employes of the Firestone Tire & Rubber com pany in Akron also have been ig nored. They have been out since Sunday, and with Goodyear’s 16, 700 idie, the 33.200 strikers in Ak ron constituted the bulk of the some 50,000 men and women off their jobs across the country be ;ause of labor disputes. DELIVERY STRIKE The WLB also acted to effect settlement of the strike of 1,700 newspaper deliverymen whose work stoppage last Saturday night has halted distribution of 14 New York city newspapers. The WLB held a bearing for the newspaper and mail deliverers’ union and pub lishers but findings were to be sub mitted to the union’s executive council and to union members. They then will vote to decide whether to return to work. WLB Chairman George W. Taylor ex See GOVERNMENT Page 2 Three U, S. Air Carriers To Operate Across Atlantic WASHINGTON, July 5. —(TP)— The Civil Aeronautics board today authorized three United States air carriers to operate air transporta tion routes across the North At lantic. They are Pan American Airways, Inc., American Export Lines, Inc., and Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. Simultaneously the board Issued a decision approving the acquisi tion of American Export Airlines by American Air Lines, Inc. The certificates authorizing the new services-were limited to a term pf seven years “in order that the aperations thereunder, after a rea sonable period, may be reviewed.” >n Station In Bavaria he statement said. The station, masked under the itle of a public sanatorium, was ine of a series of systematic star ration and drug experiment lab iratories scattered throughout Bav iria and Austria, the authorities aid. Those who died were cremat d. 1LOW STARVATION Maj. Marvin Linick of New York City and Capt. Loyal Murphy of Memphis, Tenn., who found the Caufbeuren Station, reported that t housed 1.578 men, women and See NAZI Page 2 Leaders Open Fight Against Inflation Trend By MAX HALL WASHINGTON, July 5. —(JP)— The government today began an at tack against inflation in the field of real estate and securities. Worried over speculation and rising prices, the 18-man economic stabilization board headed by Wil liam H. Davis is reported to have approved unanimously a three-point program. The first point was to limit loans for buying stock exchange securi ties. The Federal Reserve board did that by raising the margin re quirements from 50 to 75 per cent, effective today. The other two points will be harder to put through. They are: r. Limiting loans for buying real estate. This needs an order from the White House. The stabilization board has recommended that Pres ident Truman give the Federal Re serve board authority to regulate mortgages on farms and homes— the way it now regulates stock mar ket loans. If the order is issued, the Reserve board probably will re quire certain down payment in buy ing farms and urban real estate. HEAVIER TAXES 2. Slapping heavier taxes on those who buy real estate or stocks and sell them quickly at a profit. This needs an act of congress the present laws says such profits are exempt from income taxes if the property is held six months or more. The proposal is to extend this to three See LEADERS Page 2 TOKYO SILENT ON ACTION OF U. S. TASK FORCE Japanese silence today indicated a small American task force which reportedly knifed to the innermost recesses of enemy waters has slipped back into the North Pa cific after a hit-and-run bom bardment. There was no confirmation of yesterady’s report from Tokyo that five U. S. warships shelled Kara futo island off the north Asiatic coast Tuesday, topping off a pe codic two-day submarine bom bardment of shore installations. Nor was there any further report from Tokyo. Conceivably the bombardment group could still be in waters north of Japan. But it has been the practice of small American task groups to make only quick sorties through enemy waters. And Tokyo usually reports American surface ship movements which are under Japanese observation. AIRMEN DARE JAPS TO COME UP AND FIGHT Approximately 800 Planes Took Part In Fourth Of July Raids airfieldsTships HIT By A1 Dopking «UAM, July 5.—(/P)—Ap proximately 800 American planes set off Fourth of July fires and explosions in Japan, capped by an hour-long radio challenge of fighters circling three Tokyo airfields for the Japanese air force to come up for battle. The dare went un answered. Fires in four Japanese cities burned so brightly they could be seen simultaneously by returning B-29 pilots. Two Japanese destroyers were hit in the Yellow sea. Six Tokyo airfields were ripped. Everything from power houses to light houses was shot up. Photographic assessment was underway today to check the re sults of the greatest independence day celebration of the Pacific war. It started when a fleet of 500 Superfortresses fire-bombed four mainland cities, leaving them in flames set bff by 3,000 tons of in cendiaries. Before the day was over, army, navy and marine fliers had given Nippon's dwindling empire a thor ough going over with bombs and strafings. SEEK AIR FORCE The B-29 attack was followed by a force of more than 150 Mus tang fighters of the U. S. Seventh army air force which went on an aerial rampage, flying over hun dreds of miles of Japan's Jagrpe soil looking for Japan’# air fore? and ground targets. The Mustangs, Iwo Jiitja head quarters announced today,' found more installations than enemy pi lots. They destroyed eight planes on the ground, damaged 24 more, and then roamed at will, shooting up six airfields, radio stations, freight cars, control towers, am munition sheds, gas tanks and power plants. Imba and Nobara airfields at Tokyo proper were hit, and to the northeast Kashiwa, Tsukuba, Ko nlke and Kasumigaura felt the Mustang wrath. CHIRAN, KANOYA One hundred and thirty Ryuky us-based army and marine planes struck Chiran and. Kanoya air fields on Kyushu, unloading 22 1-2 tons of fragmentation bombs on Chiran and destroying six enemy See AIRMEN Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p. m. — Kiwanis club meets. 7:00 p.m.—C. A. P. cadets meet at armorv. FRIDAY 12:30 p. m. — Rotary club meets. 8:00 p.m.—Regular commun ication of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. at lodge room for work in second degree. GERMAN WOMEN CLEAR UP RUBBLE—Detailed by the Russian mili tary government, these German women line up at their work of clearing the rubble of bombed buildings in the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg, near the Preussen Plaza, July 2.—(AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto from Paris). Spaatz To Supervise Air War In Pacific WASHINGTON, July 5. -(/Pi General Carl A. Spaatz, who direct ed the strategic bombing that le velled Germany, today was given the same assignment in the Pacific. Spaatz will arrive at the War Department for conferences on his new assignment perhaps this week. Undersecretary Robert P. Pat terson announced at a news ! conference the creation of the j U. S. Army Air Force in the i Pacific with Spaatz as the su pervising general, reporting di rectly to general of the army H. H. Arnold. There will be two principal air forces in the new bombing com mand. The 8th Air Force will be under Lt. Gen. James Doolittle and the 20th will operate under Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay. GIANT FORCE This giant force was established, Patterson said, "because of the greatly increased size and activity” of the Superfortress attacks. In this connection Patterson OMM AT 1,036,937 Increase Of 6,258 Chalk ed Up In Past Week; Jap Losses High WASHINGTON, July 5. —(AP)— An increase of 6.258 casualties reported in the past week raised the total for the armed forces in World War 2 to 1,036,937 today. The Navy listed 125,540 and the Army 911,397 on the basis of in dividual names reported to the War department through June 29. --tindersecretary of Iff ar Patterson, in announcing the overall totals, reported that Army and Navy casu alties in the Okinawa campaign through June 27 aggregated 44,198 against Japanese casualties of 117, 624 through June 28. The American casualties in the campaign included 8,252 killed, 34, 165 wounded and 1,781 missing. Ja panese losses included 107,046 kill ed and 10,578 taken prisoner. ARMY FIGURES A breakdown in Army casualties in all theaters since the beginning of the war as reported today and corresponding figures for the pre ceding week: Killed 197,684 and 100,277; wound ed 566,117 and 564,302; missing 38,343 and 39,255; prisoners 115,253 and 114,191. Patterson said 342,869 of the wounded have returned to duty and 92,080 of the prisoners have either been exchanged or returned to military control. Similar figures for the Navy; Killed 47,849 and 46,458; wounded 62,236 and 60,986; missing 11,237 and 10,985; prisoners 4,218 and 4.225. Gen. Patton On Way Back To Germany PARIS, July 5—UP)—Gen. George S. Patton, jr., left today for his U. S. Third army headquarters at Bad Toelz in southern Germany. He returned here yesterday and attended a July 4 reception at the U. S. embassy last night. GENERAL SPAATZ pointed out that the giant B-29s already have wiped out a great Officials Hold High Hopes For Big-3 Meeting LONDON, July 5.—(/P)—Diplo- j matic circles expressed hope today that the impending meeting of the "big three” in Potsdam would liquidate most of the outstanding differences over European prob lems and shape Germany’s d»tiny | for many years to come. Belief was general in London that agreement on matters await-1 ing the attention of the ‘‘big three” would be speeded by solu-' WASHINGTON, Juiy 5 —The White House announc ed today that newspapermen will not be permitted to cover actual sessions of the forth coming Big Three conference in the Berlin area. tion of the Polish problem—an is sue which British-American recog nition of the new Warsaw provis ional government will automatical ly eliminate’ from the Potsdam agenda. This recognition is expected to be forthcoming within 36 hours. Outstanding among the ques tions which President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Pre mier Stalin are expected to discuss are Germany’s economic future and the price she must pay for her aggressions. SKILLED WORKERS Involved in these questioas are the use wrhich is to be made of Germany’s skilled labor, likely de mands to be made upon her natur al resources such as coal, iron and wood, and the disposition of her undamaged industrial machinery. A dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Daniel De Luce in Berlin said that a majority of the factories in the Berlin districts now being taken over by British and American troops were stripped of heavy machinery by the Russians See OFFICIALS Page 2 U. S. Bomber, Fighter Planes In Twin Raid On Tokyo, Nagasaki SAN FRANCISCO, July 5. — (£>)— Three hundred American fighters and bombers striking from fields on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, made a twin air attack on Tokyo air fields and the port of Nagasaki today, radio Tokyo reported. Two hundred Okinawa-based Lightning fighters and Liberator bombers pounded Nagasaki and the nearby city of Omura on Hyushu island of southern Japan, said the enemy broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications commis sion. A few hours earlier 100 Mustang fighters shepherded from Iwo Jima by nine Superforts lashed airfields north and east of Tokyo. It was the second successive day on which the Japanese reported companion air blows against the two most im portant home islands. Bulletin WASHINGTON, July 5—(/PI —Secretary of State James F. Byrnes today announced the appointment of Benjamin V. Cohen, Donald S. Russell and Walter Brown to temporary assignment as assistants to the secretary of state. The three were on Byrnes’ | staff when he was director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. part of the industrial value in Ja pan's six major cities. He forecast ;hat the secondary cities, number ing at least 40 will be primary tar gets henceforth. Ten of them felt the sting of the B-29s in the past week. WAY OPEN This statement left the way open for speculation that the 13th, the 5th, and the 7th air forces will be given tactical assignments against the Japanese. The 7th air force al ready was deployed in strength on Okinawa and only yesterday its Mustang fighters raked the Ja panese homeland. Patterson also announced the ap pointment of Lt. Ben. Barney M. Giles as deputy to General Spaatz. This is the fourth strategic bombing assignment for Spaatz in tjpis war. He was in charge of the heavy bombers in North Africa, in Great Britain and Europe. He has been an air force officer since the first world war and was one of the early disciples of strategic bomb ing. CURTINDTESTF HEART AILMENT Was Ardent Friend And! Admirer Of America; Was Long III CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, July j 5—UP)—Phime Minister John Cur- | tin, 60, died today after a long! illness from a heart ailment with lung complications. His successor will likely be chos en next Thursday by the parlia mentary labor party from Deputy Prime Minister Francis-M. Forde; Treasurer Joseph B. Chifley, a for mer locomotive engineer; or Min PREMIER CURTIN ister of External Affairs Herbert V. Evatt, Australia’s recent dele gate to the San Francisco secur ity conference. Pending the selection, Forde will continue as acting premier. Before crowded public galler ies, the federal parliament mourn ed Curtin’s death. Tributes poured in shortly after the premier died of coronary thrombosis, Forde said: "Like his great col league, President Roosevelt, Curtin poured out his strength that the world might, be delivered of op pression and secured against fu See CURTIN Page 2 Submarine Trigger Presumed Lost WASHINGTON, July 5 —(VP)— The submarine Trigger, with its wartime complement of from 80 to 85 officers and men, is overdue from patrol and presumed lost, the navy announced today. Next of kin have been notified. The loss, announced in a com munique, brought to 45 the number of U. S. submarines lost since the start of the war including four announced as sunk, two destroyed to prevent capture, and 39 overdue and presumed lost. Byrnes Expec Things Up In I By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, July 5. —(A1)— There’s pretty good evidence that the new Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, will shake up the State Department. He has announced: "I have asked the director of the budget to make an investigation of the structure of the department. Until I receive that report and have an opportunity to study it and make such personal inquiry as I deem ad visable, no change in personnel will be made." When Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.— TOKYO INSISTS JAPANESE LINES HOLDINGM American Engineers Sail Two LCMs Into City's Harbor casualty"REPORTS By Russell Brines BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO, July 5.—(/P)—Australian in fantrymen struck today at the last Japanese footholds in Balikpapan, Borneo’s major oil port, which already for all practical purposes is in allied hands. (Radio Tokyo insisted Japanese lines were holding and that an Australian attack spearheaded by 50 tanks had been repulsed witn neavy loss. It estimated Allied cas ualties at 1.100 since the beachhead was made last Sunday—700 in the *ea and 400 ashore. Allied sources have said casualties were light.) American engineers with the in vasion celebrated fourth of July by ^ailing two of their LCMs into Balikpapan bay despite the fact it was not yet cleared of Japanese nines. The landing of the LCM« at Japanese-built pontoon wharves marked the first entry of Al lied shipping into the bay since the Nipponese took over in 1941. The bay itself was in strong contrast with the wrecked and scarred port city. Only a few sun ken ships protrude' above its calm waters. Artillery dueled, meanwhile, with strongly placed enemy guns across the three-mile-wide Balikpapan bay while engineers rushed recon struction of captured Sepinggang air strip and a column smashed a gainst strong opposition in a drive to envelope Manggar, last major enemy air field in the invasion territory. HEADLINE SMASH Three columns of the tropic hardened diggers, who swept through the heart of the burned and devastated central city yester day, joined in a headlong smash against the final refinery area of Pan-Daniari, as the main Japa nese forces appeared to, be with drawing to the northeast toward Samarinda in the heart of the oil producing region. An Aussie unit swept in an en circling movement on Fandaniarl from the ridges which overlooked and controlled the central dock and industrial areas of Balikpapan. Still another column pushed after See TOKYO Page 2 BONDSALES DOUBLEQUOTA E-Bonds, However, Still $300,000 Short Of Cam paign Quota Cleveland county more than doubled its bond selling quota in the Seventh War Loan, final fig ures except for this week’s further sale of E-bonds, reaching $4,290, 719 for a record high of any of the campaigns, War Finance Chair man George Blanton announced today. However, sale of E bonds had reached only $442,098, which is ap proximately $300,000 short of quo ta. Urging that all who can buy ad ditional E bonds do so this week, Mr. Blanton pointed out that em ployes of the Dover group of mills being themselves only two percen of the county's population, had bought 20 percent of the E bonds sold in this county. He stressed the importance of every one's co operating in buying all the bonds possible to pull the county up frbm its present showing in that category. ted To Shake )epartment Byrnes’ predecessor in the job— took over last December he began reorganizing the department, but that wasn’t very drastic. Until that time the department had rocked along, target of critics who complained it was wrapped in mothballs, and Byrnes now appar ently expects to continue the job Stettinius started. FREE HAND . He's expected to have a pretty free hand from President Truman who, unlike President Roosevelt, See BYRNES P»*e * i
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