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MEADOWS’ TAX RETURNS MAY BE SHOWN IN COURT GREENVILLE. N- C, July 6. — (fF)—Possibility that Dr. Leon R. Meadows’ income tax returns from 1934 to 1943 may be brought before the oourt was Indicated today as cron examination of the former Eaat Carolina Teachers College president continued. Special Prosecutor Jesse Jones, who had copies of the returns, was t»ot permitted to examine Meadows yesterday. However, both Jones and iSolicitor D. M. Clark said privately the Judge would be asked for a special order to bring the original returns to Oreenville before Mea dows is released from cross exami nation. Meadows testified he was unable to say how much his deductions were. He also told of the alleged theft of his “third memorandum book" from his residence last year. Previously he had explained sev eral items by saying they were in corporated in his third memoran dum book. ITEMS CHANGED lie said if an item in his “memor andum book one," had been chang ed from $9.78 to $59.78, he couldn’t remember when such a change was made. He said the writing was dim and that protostatic copies design ed to show such a change had been made also were too dim. Meadows, who is charged with false pretense and embeaslement of more than $14,000, said he told the board of trustees last year that earn# figures in the memo book might have been “strengthened" be cause of their dimness. ROBERTS Starts On Pag* On* Friend* of Senate Majority Lead er Barkley <Ky> said they believ ed he would like a supreme eourt Piece. POSSIBILITIES Senate colleague* alto mentioned as possible appointees Senator Hatch (D-NMi and former Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, now a member of the Seventh Federal circuit court. They recalled the close association of these two with president Truman when all were active new deal supporter# Jn the senate. Other sources say Juaiiee Robert H- Jackson is President Truman'* likely choice for chief Justice, if Stone retires. Roberts, who won fame M spa* cial prosecutor in we Teapot Dome oil cases, said only that since ha had served 18 years he wished to avail himself of the retirement law. President Truman expressed re gret and said he accepted it only on a promise by Roberts to “con tinue to give your country the benefit of your sound judgment and advice as occasion arises.” BALIKPAPAN Starts On P«e On* piece* which had beep shelling the advancing diggers. A* the main southeast Borneo force of Japanese retreated to ward the oil fields up the coast, they were subjected to ground pressure by Australian tanks and artillery and harassed from the air by Allied tactical planes which closely supported all phases of the operations. Guns of the fleet join ed in blasting Japanese inland po sition* and the retreating columns. LUXURY QUARTERS The 7,000 Japanese civilians who ware in the town before the in vasion had fled, but evidence of their life of luxury was encounter^ cd in the residential areas. Asso ciated Press War Correspondent Russell Brines said in a dispatch from the front most were thought to be fleeing with the military into the ofi flpias. Ninth division troops seised an enemy ammunition dump on the Tanlku river, seven miles northeast of captured Mill = | NEWCOMB Starts On Pag* On* comb. At once, a second tried his luck but was hit and, u the com* manding officer, Comdr. Ira E. McMillan, Fort Worth, Tex., turn ed the destroyer sharply, the Jap anese plopped harmlessly into its wake. The third Japanese struck a J midships, although hit. The plane j sprayed gasoline, steam shot from a boiler and the amldship section became an inferno. SHIP ABLAZE The fourth Japanese was cut down far off by the Newcomb gunners, many of whom had been thrown bodily from their stations by the hit. Then two more planes took up the attack at the same moment. One slammed into the Newcomb amidships with a ter rific blast. All power was lost, the engine rooms were wrecked, ammunition magazines were ablase and the gun handling rooms on fire. Smoke and flame shot 1,000 yards into the air. The ship stood still. The sixth Japanese,- struck by accurate gunfire thrown from the midst of the smoke and flame, kept coming, slammed into the forward stack and more gasoline splashed into the molten wreck age amidships. RAMMED BOTH The Leutse was coming at high speed, daring heavy seas and the peril of the Newcomb’ flaming magazines. The Leutze’s com manding officer, Lt. Leon Grab owaky, Paterson, N. J., maneuver ed alongside, and her firefighters, doctors and hospital corpsmen poured aboard the Newcomb. At this moment, the pilot of the seventh Japanese plane aimed for both ships, setting his course for tha Newcomb’s bridge. Both de stroyers opened fire, and the plane's wing was hit, swerving it from the bridge, but it scraped the deck of the Newcomb and ram med into the stern of the Lcutze. Another destroyer raeed to the Naweoanb’a eid as the hard-hit Leutza began to drift away, her crew fiffctlnr her own fires and aiding her wounded. The New comb’s fim were mjt in another half hour and both reached re pair bases. At one time the Leutae’s fantail was two feet under water. COMMITTEE •texts Ob Pege One as one of “extreme urgency and serious implications,” saying it is boosting war costs and delaying reconversion by causing “manufac ture of items identical with those now idle in the hands of our ai. lies.” Also, the committee said, there always is tile possibility that Allies allowed to keep arms given them under 1 end-lease to fight Germany might use them later in fighting among ourselves. “So far as the committee was able to find out,” its report said, "no one has even given any thought to the exploitation of this source for filling the requirements of the Pa cific war. xxx “So far as the committee was able to learn there is no agreement as between the Al lied armies for pooling captured equipment and using it in the Pa cific theater. Bach of the Allies seems to be operating on the theory that it is the solf owner of the sup plies H has captured.” CEITIClJKED The committee sharply criticized "a tendency of many to treat lend lease accounting as a matter of lit tle consequence on the theory that lend-lease accounts would never be settled.” It said the State Department had “anything but a championing of United States interests” in mind in instructing Great Britain “not to give itemised invoices of reverse lend-leeae charges." As a raault, it said, Britain has refused to itemiia supplies it fur nishes to American troops, except by quarterly lump totals. ^New York Wk Pickings p Coom In and tae them. Take two or more. Sizet 9 to 41. Priced *10.98 to $29.75. J- c. McNEELY )i CO- <5 THE STYLE CENTER OF SHELBY AND CLEVELAND COUNTY. Such good luck doesn't Just happen ... we went to market and handpicked a quantity of oool summer dresses. Bembergs, Cottons, Eyelets and Soft Crepes. They are the kind of dresses that fairly sing their way through summer ... so cool . . so fresh... so young. BRITISH Start* Ob Pace On* w«* a minority of the total The conservative Daily Express said “most cautious" estimates gave a majority of 60 to 00 seats “for the government.” At the time of dissolution tire conservative party had 358 of the 615 seats in commons, but with Allied parties it had a working majority of nearly 300 seats. With 640 seat* in the new commons it will take 331 for a party or bloc to have a majority. Complicating factor* included the soldier vote, population shifts because of war work, and the 10 year lapse since the last elections, which meant that about one-third of the eligible electorate never had voted before. The shifting of population and the German air blitz played hav oc with election records. It was estimated that thousands who tried to vote found themselves disquali fied because their names were lost from the polling registers. “DISENFRANCHISED” Among those disenfranchised was Churchll himself. He spent elec tion day instead touring his con stituency by car, shouting “have you all voted?” The Express predicted Churchill would win by a 20 So one over his independent opponent and called Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden a “certainty.” It conceded the likely reelection of laborite leader Clement Attlee and possibly of his lieutenants Ernest Bevin and Her bert Morrison, all members of the former coalition cabinet. Several big name conservatives were listed by the newspaper as "doubtful” of retaining their seats, including first lord of the admir alty Brendan Bracken, minister of war Sir James Grigg and minister of national insurance Leslie Hore Belisha. The new parliament will assem ble Aug. 1 to elect a speaker and swear in the new members, but the state opening by the king is set for Aug. 8 to follow clearance after the August bank holiday. NEW starts Ob Pagi On* ejtijens in England and care ef refugees abroad will continue to be financed by the British govern ment, the foreign offiee said. With establishment of the inter national status of the Warsaw regime, clearing the way for ad* mission to the United Nations’ security league, the London gov ernment headed by Premier Tom asz Arciszewski legally passed out of existence. Aetual dissolution of the exile government will not be as simple as that, for Arcisaewski’s group insists it will continue to repre sent what it describes as a “ma jority” of Poles. How and where it will accomplish that feat has not been indicated. ONLY A STEP The Lonc^n and Washington an nouncements isolating the exile regime, with which the United States and Great Britain had dealt throughout the w’ar, emphasized that setting up of the expanded Warsaw government was only a “step” in fulfilling the Yalta Big Three agreements. President Truman deol&red that the Warsaw regime had "recogniz ed” the Yalta agreement in full, thus conforming the Crimean plan for free elections. Prime Minis ter Churchills comments were si milar. The President said Arthur Bliss Lane had been named U. S. am bassador to Poland. Churchill said Robert Hankey would be sent to Warsaw as a charge d'affaires ad interim, pending appointment of an ambassador. The British-American recogni tion was followed by a similar an nouncement today by the Chinese. BOND Starts Ob rax* Ob* vide a suitable building aite. Proposal No. 4 authorizes the levy of a maintenance tax of not exceeding five cents on the 1100 property valuation to maintain the two institutions in providing hos pital care for those unable to pay. The Duke Foundation will con tinue to give $1 to the enlarged county hospital system to help de fray the cost of caring for charity patients, while the State of North Carolina at the last session of the General Assembly set up a fund of a half million dollars a year to aid public hospitals in the care of indigents. A reorganization of the Board of Trustees is also provided under the county hospital act, whereby a ro tating board of trustees will be set up. Each township will have a mem ber with three members each from No. Six and No. Four townships. This 15 member board will be ap pointed by the county commission ers, five for a term of one year, five for a term of two years and five for a term of three years. At all times two-thirds of the members will have had experience on the board. No member can succeed himself. Lee Weathers who has been gen eral chairman, says, “There has been no organized opposition to the bond issue. I hope it will carry by an overwhelming majority as it is a hutaianltarian move for the relief of suffering mankind. Our hospital facilities are crowded. We are fin ancially able and willing to invest in this great program.” POLIO EPIDEMIC SAN RAFAEL, Cal.—(A>>— An out break of infantile paralysis has reached epidemic proportions in the northern California city of San Rafael, according to health authorities Seventeen cases have been diag nosed, -- w— 'V ^ V. ^ ‘J MORGENTHAU Starts On Para One Ouardla of New York permission to visit France on a personal mis sion, not as an agent of the gov ernment. He appointed Edward C. Moran, jr., of Maine as assistant secretary of labor, and elevated Jesse M. Donaldson to first assistant post master general. The Big Three meeting will take place in about three weeks. STRANGE POSITION From now until Mr. Truman’s return, Morgenthau will hover in a strange position, barring quick senate passage of house-approved legislation changing the order of presidential succession. For, al though his resignation has been accepted, the treasury chief con tinues first in line for the Presi dent after Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Tire pending legislation would make House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) next in line after Mr. Truman. Rumors have come up with a mazing persistence fig.' months — even years — that Morgenthau would leave the cabinet. Yester day he went to see Mr. Truman. Then he wrote out his resignation, mentioning his association with the late President Roosevelt, his desire to go back to Dutchess coun ty where they were neighbors, and his wish to leave Mr. Truman’s i hands “untied.” WANTS TO QUIT me rresiaent asuea mm to stay until he returns from abroad. When reporters asked Mr. Tru man for an explanation of the resignation he said Morgenthau simply wanted to quit. As for the next secretary, Wash ington officials were discussing these possibilties today: 1. Fred Vinson, of Kentucky, who is powerful politically and is solid with Congress. He made a reputation as chairman of the tax subcommittee of the house ways and means committee, later serv ed as a U. S. court of appeals judge and finally in three federal admin istrative posts. 2. John W. Snyder, of St. Loius, I the new federal loan administra tor. He is a close friend of the President, a banker and popular with Congress. GEORGE OF GEORGIA 3. Chairman Walter F. George (D-Gai of the senate finance eommittee. At one time, George was considered a red-hot prospeet. But he came out in favor of some reduction in income taxes in 1946 (whether the war Is over or not) and Truman spanked him prompt ly and publicly. So speculation j over George’s chances quieted ! down. 4. A trio of dark horses: Wal ter J. Cummings, chairman of the | board of the Continental Illinois National bank and Trust company of Chicago; Edward E. Brown, president of the First National bank. Chicago; and J. F. T. O’ Connor, a Los Angeles federal judge who formerly was comp troller of the currency. U.S. 1 Starts On Page One Okinawa area; and Army seventh fighter command i Mustangs baaed on Iwo Jima. To this lineup soon is to be ad ded the awy Eighth air force of European fame, under Lt. Gen. i James H. Doolittle, which is to in | elude Superfortresses. SPAATZ IN CHARGE ' The strategic air forces, the Eighth and the 20th, have been placed under command of Gen. Carl A. Spaats, whose strategic air forces delivered the long-range aerial knockout blow to German industry. There has been no announce ment concerning Kenney’s 13th Air Force, now supporting Borneo op erations. i Without waiting for additions, or : for completion of the planned 25 1 miles of runways on Okinawa, the air forces already within reach of Japan were pounding away stead ily in a war of attrition. The Fifth Air Force fighters hit the Kyushu cities of Tojimbara, Byu, Isumi, Chiran and Amura.and sank three enemy float planes in the northern Kyushu harbor of Fukuoka. Those were the only enemy planes they sighted in a two hour sweep over Japan, although anti-aircraft fire was moderate to heavy. On Thursday nearly 100 Mus tangs of the Seventh fighter com mand from Iwo Jima raided air fields in the Tokyo area for the second consecutive day without air opposition and strafed docks and warehouses in Tokyo Bay. They destroyed five Japanese planes on the ground and damaged 10 at Bhimodate and Yatabe air fields northeast of Tokyo, for a two-day bag of 48 destroyed or damage, and also sank one small boat, damaged 12 and shot up hangars and shops. Navy privateer planes in a fourth of July strike blocked several rail way tunnels and destroyed two bridges and two locomotives on the main line to Manchuria in their first operation against southwestern Korea. SEES Starts On Page Ons Harold Stassen, a delegate at San Francisco, might testify. In an address here last night Stassen said it is of “terrific im portance” for people of this coun try and the world to realize that mere adoption of the charter will not of itself insure peace. "The success in obtaining the goal,” he declared, “will depend upon the good faith and contin ued alert interest of the peoples of the world.” L ——,— -j Furnished by J. Robert Lindsay Webb Building Shelby. N, C. * nnd Company N. Y. COTTON AT *:0fl Today Prey. Day March . _22.86 22.79 May - -.23.84 22.78 ‘ July .. .32.69 22.61 October.-22.83 22.75 1 December _ _22.84 22.79 ' CHICAGO GRAIN 2 WHEAT J July .1-66% 1.67% { September . —..1.6414 1.64% t Tecember.1.63% 1.64 ( CORN July _ .1.18% 1.18% September - _1.18% 1.18% December.I—.1.17% 1.17:6 RYE July . ..1.62% 1-53 September . -1.43% 1.43% December .1.40% 1.41% STOCKS AT 2:00 Am Rolling Mill . . I American Loco . -.- 33 1-4 American Tob B . - 77 1-4 American Tel and Tel . .. 176 1-4 Anaconda Copper . .- 34 Assoc Dry Goods. 27 7-8 Beth Steel . .. J9 1-2 Boeing Air - ...-+ 25 3-4 Chrysler .- 107 5-3 Curtiss-Wright . .. 6 7-8 Elec Boat . ... 16 1-2 General Motors . .. 67 1-2 Pepsi Cola . --22 Greyhound Corp.- 25 3-4 International Paper . .. 26 5-8 Nash Kelv . .. 19 1-2 Glenn L Martin.27 3-4 Newport Ind . .. 35 1-4 N Y Central. 28 1-2 ] i t 1 I : i Penn R R. Radio Corp . - Reynolds Tob B . Southern Railroad . 38 7-8 12 5-8 34 1-2 ! 48 1-2 Sperry Corp.31 U S Rubber . .. 57 U S Steel . 68 3-8 Western Union. 46 5-8 Youngstown S and T.47 1-4 MODERATE. HALL* NEW YORK, July 6. —(JP)— | Stocks rallied moderately here and there in today’s market although many leaders continued to suffer from light selling. American Telephone was an iso lated strong apot, touching a 1845 high. Ahead at intervals were San-. ta Fe. Chesapeake & Ohio, North American, Electric Power and Light, Du Pont, Westinghouse and Stan dard Oil (NJ). A cut dividend de pressed swift international about three points. Laggards included Southern Railway, Northern Paci fic, Bethlehem. Goodrich, U. S Rubber, Sears Roebuck, Dow Che mical, American Can, United Air craft and Texas Co. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, July 6. —(fl*)— (WFA) Salable hogs 5,500, total 8,500; ac tive, fully steady; good and choice barrows and gilts at 140 lb. up at 14.75 ceiling; good and choice sows at 14.00; complete clearance. Salable cattle 1,500, total 1,500; salable calxes 500, total 500; very active week-end trade on all grades and class; generally steady to strong, top steers 17.85, three loads scaling 1324 lb. at price; several loads 16.50 17.60, two loads about 1370 lb. south west fed offerings at outside price; heifers practically absent; about forty per cent receipts comprised 1 cows, this class steady to 25 cents I higher; bulls and vealers in moder ate supply; cutter and common beef counts; sausage bulls 13.00 down, i cows 8.50-11.00 freely on outside ac- I I heavy fat bulls at 15.00 down; 1 choice vealers 16.00; stock cattle slow, steady. N. C. HOGS RALEIGH, July 8. —UP)— (NCD A)—Hog markets steady with tops of 14.55 at Clinton and Rocky Mount and 14.85 at Richmond. N. C. EGGS, POULTRY RALEIGH, July «. —{/P>— (NCD ! ' A)—Egg and poultry markets stea- | 1 dy to very firm. | Raleigh.—U. 8. grade AA large l 46; hens, all weights, 27 1-2. Washington—U. S. grade A large 46; broilers and fryers 32.5. BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO, July 0. — UP)— But- : ter, firm; receipts 1,378,048, un changed. Eggs, receipts 22,153. CANADA RATIONS MEAT OTTAWA, July 0. —UP)— Canada will resume rationing of meat short ly, Prime Minister MacKeniie King announced today. Meat has not been rationed sere since March 1, 1944. Gastonia Loses To Forest City 11-7 In a game played In Oaatonia last night, the Forest City Ameri can Legion juniors beat t'/2 Gas tonia city juniors by a score of 11 to 7, it was learned here today. To date Forest City has played three elimination games, losing one and winning two. Gastonia has played two games and suffered two losses. PAY Starts On Page One with a corresponding increase in pay. 3. increase in base pay of teach ers with graduate certificates from' $136 per month to $153; increase in the maximum from $172 to $187. Base pay of teachers with certifi cates was increased to a beginning salary of $125, to be followed by an nual increases up to $162 per month for class "A” teachers with nine years experience. All textbook bids offered on arithmetic books for the third through the eighth grades-were re jected, with a meeting set for July 12 to consider new bids. __ £ • RUSSIA’S Starfts On Pat* On* oast of Spain. Twenty-nine miles ortheast Is John Bull’s Rock of Hbraltar. (OMINATING Because of Its dominating posi lon, this sone was detached from forocco in 1906 and placed under nternational guardianship. There •ere subsequent agreements and ctual control came to rest with ipain, Italy, Prance, and Britain, foscow bases its present claim on he fact that Russia was one of 1 he participants In the original • reaty although later she dropped 1 ut. Tangier—la theory chastely neutral hut very often mixed up in intrigue and power-poli tics—naturally loomed into vast prominence when the war be gan. He who could control thl6 spot on the straight of Gibral tar would indeed be in a power ful position. One of those who didn’t overlook this was Spain’s Generalissimo Franco. Came the fateful month of June 940, when Prance was * tottering nd Britain was fighting with back o wall—and at this critical junc ure Franco was moved to occupy Tangier "to guarantee its neutral ty.” This was a unilateral action— lot interferred with by Italy and Jermany. A bit later the general ssimo was further moved to in orporate Tangier in Spanish Mor icco, and there was nobody to stop lim. SPANISH RULE International law was displaced >y Spanish law. Franco fortified the jort of Tangier, despite allied pro mts. Throughout the rest of the var there were charges by the i Ulies that Axis ships were being I serviced at Tangier, that Axis sub narlnes were operating out of here, and that German and Ital an agents swarmed the zone like mts. That brings us up to the present sroposal that Tangier be returned ;o the status of a neutral lnterna ional zone. Presumably because of Franco’s unilateral action in 1940, Spain wasn’t consulted when France md Britain took the matter up re :ently, although there save been reports that Madrid would be wrought into the picture later. Russia’s desire to participate may je disconcerting to the western European powers, but it can hardly be surprising. She is pressing Tur key for new arrangements which would give the Soviet free access to the Mediterranean through Iho Dardanelles. The Muscovites cer tainly Intend to operate In that strategic sea, and it isn't strange to find them Interested in its western outlet, WANT ADS LOST: PAIR OF GLASSES WITH blue plastic frame at ball gams Wednesday night. Brown case with A. K. Hawks, Atlanta, on case. Please return to C. C. Esk ridge, 118 Grover St., or rteurn to Star office. 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