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» WEATHER Partly cloudy and c mtinued warm today, tonight and Sunday. Widely scattered thundershowers east portion this afternoon and early tonight. Tshe Hhelhy Bnilystar CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 ' TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - Til Tell The World” J.EE TRACY BRENDA JOYCE VUL. XJL111— 162 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c 600 SUPERFORTS HAND NIPS MIGHTIEST PASTING » AUSSIES JUMP BAY ENTRANCES TO BALIKPAPAN Wind Up First Phase Of Lightning-Like Invasion HEAD SOUTHEAST l . By Spencer Davis MANILA, July 7.—(TP)— Australian troops killing Jap anese at the ratio of 13 to 1, struck today for southeastern Borneos richest oil fields after a whirlwind five-day invasion thrust that conquered Balik papan, its vital harbor, and two supporting air bases. The invasion’s first phase ended Thursday with a rapier-like drive across the bay three miles north west Of Balikpapan which knocked out gun positions that might have harassed free use of Balikpapan's ex cellent port. JAPS HARD PRESSED With their backs to Borneo's fearsome jungles, the Japanese falling back toward the big Sambdja and Samarinda oil fields northeast of Balikpapan had the unpleasant prospect of meeting head-hunting Dyaks and venomous snakes whenever they desert the coast for the un explored interior. Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines said the Australians had plowed into some of the strong est Japanese defenses in the southwest Pacific when they storm ed ashore Just east of Balikpapan. a In five days they seized Sepinggang V and Manggar air fields and the port of Balikpapan itself. AMPHIBIOUS TANKS With the docks secured, the Au stralians then moved west across the waters of Balikpapan Bay, tra-' veling In amphibious tanks andj landing craft manned by American fighting men. Brines said that In the Balikpa- I pan operation to date, casualties ' might well have equalled those on bloody Iwo Jima in view of the [ stout enemy defenses, but they had been limited to 214 Australian dead. 420 wounded and 22 missing. The Australians' hop across Balik papan Bay secured Penadjam Point, site of Japanese coastal batteries, and troops were thrusting inland across swampy ground against light opposition. Truman And Byrnes Use Separate Planes WASHINGTON, July 7 —(/P(— If President Truman and Secre tary of State James F. Byrnes do any traveling by air on their plan- i ned trip to Beflln for the Big Three conference they will ride in separate planes Although the date of departure and method of travel is being kept secret. White House press Secre tary Eben Ayers made this clear at his news conference today. Secretary Byrnes would succeed to the presidency, under existing I law, should anything untoward happen to the President. State Water Supply Not Yet Critical RALEIGH, July 7. — <£>>— W. H. Riley of the Department of Con servation and Development report ed. following a checkup, that the state’s water supply is not yet in a critical condition, although stream flow has declined sharply through out the state. Riley said that stream flow in the Piedmont and coastal counties had declined almost to last June's rec ord low White House Silent On De Gaulle Plan To Visit President Truman WA3HINOTON, July 7. -(&) A French announcement that Gen eral Charles De Gaulle has accept ed an Invitation to visit Presiden Truman here was met with silenci in official Washington today. Neither the White House nor the State Department would comment on the announcement that came out of France yester day—an unusual reception to an 'exchange of greetings between two government heads. The French, through an officia announcement, said the general ha! received an invitation to visil President Truman in August, anc has accepted. The announcement produced onlj • crisp and puzzling “no comment” r from the White House, which nor mally might be expected to con firm promptly such an invitation and acceptance. Later in the day, Henri Bonnet, the French ambassador, visited Mr. Truman and afterward told report ers the De Gaulle visit has been arranged in every respect except a date. He said he had not discussed the trip with the President because it had been settled previously, and he guessed the general would come here in August. He said an official invitation had been tendered. Again the White House and the State Department remained silent. There were off-the-record indications to reporters that the French announcement was un expected, to say the least. WAR VETERANS CROSS CONTINENT IN ANTIQUATED COACHES-While their train of 15 antiquated day coaches, equipped with only two washrooms, stands in the Union station at Denver, Colo., some of the 50 European war veterans en route from Boston to the Pacific coast crowd around a faucet for water to freshen up. At stations en route, the veterans complained bitterly at their transcontinental journey in chair cars so crowded that some had to sleep in the aisles. The writing on the side of the car refers to claims by some that they saw German war prisoners riding in Pullman cars at Omaha, Neb.—(AP Wire photo). O.D.T. CUTTING CIVILIAN RIDES PuHman Service On Trips To 450 Miles To Be Discontinued WASHINGTON. July 7. —(JP)— Mounting complaint* of redeploying troops riding day coaches on long transcontinential trips may lead to additional drastic restrictions on civilian rail travel. An office of defense transporta tion spokesman said further action may be necessary if a new order transferring 895 sleeping cars from civilian to military use proves in sufficient. The sleeping car transfer will result from an ODT order last night withdrawing all sleeping car service for civilians between cities 450 miles or less apart.. The order is effective at noon July 15. A week earlier, ODT has reduced 1 from 30 to 5 days the period in which civilians may make passen ger train reservations—another step designed to clear the rails as much as possible for the flood of troops arriving from Europe for dis charge or reassignment to the Pa cific. Soldiers complained of being forced to make long journeys on day coaches while German and I Italian prisoners rode pullmans. The War Department explained that in one such incident German prisoners involved were all mental patients being transferred to a New York hospital. "Whe'e'e" GAFFNEY, S. C., July 7. —UP) —Deputy Sheriff J. S. Vess still shuddered a bit as he told this story today: Vess and other deputies stop per a big van at Thickety about seven miles from here and ar rested the driver on a charge of being drunk. Vess drove the van to Gaff ney through a heavy rainstorm, driving no more nor less care fully than usually. Upon arriving at the county jail, he took a look at his cargo, then let out a low whistle. “Whe-e-e-e.” It was 400 cases of hand grenades. Polls Close At 6:30 P. M. For Hospital Election Voters Throughout County Passing On Hospitaliza tion Plan To Serve Area Polls close at 6:30 today for the county-wide hospital bond election instead of seven as previously* announced. Voting started this morning at 6:30 in all of the 26 pre ' ‘ ~ PinnfC nf Pniinf STRIKE PICTURE IS BRIGHTENING Carnegie-lllinois' 13,000 Workers Return To Jobs By The Associated Press There was red in the skies over the world's second largest steel mill J again today, a reflection of a1 brighter picture on the nation’s I troubled labor scene. A 24-hour work stoppage at the huge South Chicago works of the I Carnegie-lllinois steel corporation j ended late last night, paving the way for 13.000 steelworkers to go back to their war jobs. Another right spot in the labor picture, also affecting the war-im portant steel industry, was the end ing of a five-day stoppage by 100 CIO-United steelworkers which had closed Republic Steel corpora tion’s continuous strip mill in Cleveland and threatened to halt finishing units for lack of mater Monday. Also on the credit side was the indefinite postponement of a strike of about 30,000 employes of the1 Western Electric Company’s 13 New, Jersey and three New York plants.1 The return of the 13,000 steel-1 workers to the Carnegie-lllinois plant reduced the number of idle in the country because of labor disputes to approximately 40,000. j This number included 16.500 strik- 1 ing employes of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron, O., the nation’s largest single stoppage. Sailor Returning For Re-Marriage MIAMI, Fla., July 7.—{/PI—Pre pared for his second marriage to his childhood sweetheart. Sailor David B. Levi of Asheville, N. C. was reported flying back here to day from his base some 2,000 miles away. The bride, the former Rachel G. Pettit of Pauline, S. C„ whom he married by agreement a week ago, received a cable saying he was scheduled to arrive yesterday, but he had not arrived last night. The couple was married by a notary public without a license when his 48-hour leave would not allow him time to comply with the state’s three-day wait law. The two signed a marriage agreement in the presence of a judge and at torneys, but the Dade superior court office refused to record the paper because a license had not been is sued. Levi left for his post soon after the ceremony was performed. A steady stream of voters who registered in the special bond el ection was marching to the polls to endorse more adequate hospi tal facilities by doubling the size of the Shelby hospital, building a 50-bed unit at Kings Mountain to serve 15,000 people in that area of the county, authorizing the county to levy a maintenance tax of not exceeding 5c on the $100 property valuation and transfering the No. 6 township hospital to county ownership. GENERAL SUPPORT There is no organized opposition to the proposal and indications are that the election will carry by a large majority. In order for it to carry, a majority of the qualified (registered) voters must vote for all four of the proposals on the official ballot. A group of laymen interested in public health and adequate hospi tal facilities for all the people have been conducting the cam paign for the county-wide pro gram. About 4,600 persons are regis tered and all are counted against the proposal until they have voted “for” the issues. This is required because a tax levy is involved. Ef forts are being made to get a large majority so that the bonds will sell at the lowest possible interest rate. RETURNS AT STAR Sentiment throughout the coun ty seems to be overwhelmingly for the program. Many, however, are barred from voting because they neglected to register. Quite a few voters are out of the county and cannot vote absentee. Election officials are asked to report their results to The Star of fice by telephone or messenger as soon £s the counting is over this evening. Marines Chief Says Jap Islands Invite Invasion HONOLULU, July 7. —(/P)—The Japanese home islands are wide open for invasion and the United States can move in any time “with no trouble at all” in the opinion of the new commanding general of Marines in the Pacific. Lt. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, back from the Okinawa wars where he led the third amphibious corps, asserted that victory could be won only by the invasion, that the Americans would be met by men and women civilian fighters, but all that "won’t be any worry to us.” “It’s only a question now of wading in and finishing this war,” he told a press conference here yesterday upon his arri val to take over as marine com mander from Lt. Gen. Holland . Smith. Geiger scoffed at the idea, cur rent at the outbreak of the war, that the Japanese as fighters were "super men.” “At heart they are cowards and they have an inferiority complex,” he said. “They have not near the stamina we have and haven’t the brain we have got. When they get into bad straits they kill themselves.” Geiger expressed belief Japanese Industrialists would have stopped the war before if they could. As to whether they would spearhead any peace offensive—as many have spe culated—he said the question was “whether the industrialists will be able to get sufficient control.” i VINSON NAMED TO TREASURY SECRETARYSHIP War Mobilizer Will Suc ceed Morgenthau On Truman's Return FOURTH HIGH OFFICE WASHINGTON, July 7.— (JP)—Judge Fred M. Vinson will succeed Henry Morgen thau, Jr., as secretary of the treasury, and with that ques tion settled, a new one arose today: Who will succeed Vinson as director of war mobilization and reconversion. That one caught official Wash ington flat-footed. President Tru man’s decision to appoint the 55 year-old Kentuckian to the cabi net, announced by a White House aide yesterday, leaves wide open a job that is so important its hold er has been called ‘‘assistant presi dent.” Vinson, the shaeev-hrnwpri for mer congressman and one-time federal judge, will not actually be appointed secretary of the treas ury until Mr Truman returns from the Big Three meeting in Ger many, later in the summer. MAY HOLD ON When he does take office, it will be his fourth lofty executive posi tion in a little more than two years. Since President Roosevelt called him off the U. S. Court of Ap peals, District of Columbia, in May, 1943, he has been: 1. Director of economic stabili zation until March 7 of this year. 2. Federal loan administrator, for exactly one month. 3. Director of war mobilization and reconversion, since April 7. An admiring senate approved his various appointments without a murmur. Some in Washington, puzzled by their impression that moving from “assistant president” to secretary of the treasury is not exactly a promotion, were wondering wheth er President Truman plans for Vinson to hold both jobs at once. T t hoc hoon ciirvnrnoto/4 fnrv 4Vint Truman intends to make only one job out of it by merging the war mobilization office with the treas ury. SEX. GEORGE ADVANCED But officials familiar with the immense scope of the two positions were inclined to think this im practical. They pointed out that despite the importance of Vinson’s present assignment, the treasury is a permanent spot in the official family. The war mobilization of fice eventually will fade in impor tance. STATE GUARD TO TRAIN AT BRAGG Officers Will Leave Tues day, Company 30 Fol lows Thursday Company 30 of the North Caro lina State Guard, Capt. Hugh Plas ter commanding, will go to Port Bragg next week for its annual summer encampment. Captain Plaster, together with Major Clyde Wright, commanding the First Battalion, his officers and several non-commissioned officers, will make up an advance detail to leave Tuesday for Port Bragg, the remaining personnel of the com pany following Thursday morning. The local company, which has a complement of 50 men, is the largest unit in the first battalion. It will be encamped and in train ing at the army post for 10 days. THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT—Pfc. Jimmie Scruggs of Cliffside. N. C. who is 6 feet, 6 inches tall, talks to a tiny Belgian girl between dances at a 15th Army G. I. dance at Bad UeUenahr, Germany. This photo was made by Peter J. Carroll, Associated Press staff photographer. Senate Slows Tax Aid House Votes Business Cash Position Would Be Benefited Five Billions hoi Reconversion Period WASHINGTON, July 7.—(/P)—The burden of work fac ing the senate today darkened the prospect for speedy en actment of tax law revisions boosting by $5,500,000,000 the cash position of business and industry in the reconversion JLVSV.I* The house approved the business aid bill yesterday by a 245 to 9 vote. Chairman Connally (D-Texi c the senate foreign relations com mittee, and a member of the fi nance committee, said he did no know when the tax bill will b taken up. He said he was interestei in getting the United Nations Char ter through the senate "first o all.” BENEFITS DELAYED The house turned down, >20 to 95, a proposal to reduce ex cess profits taxes by $235,000,000 this year through a retroactive increase to last January 1 of exemptions under the excess profits tax. However, the bill provides tha the excess profits exemption shal be boosted from $10,000 to $25,00' for the tax year beginning nex January 1, cutting excess profit payments next year by approxi mately $160,000,000. Other improvements to the casl position of business, intended t' aid reconversion, would be accom plished by speeding-up postwar re bates and refunds on excess pro fits and other tax provisions al ready stipulated in present law. The legislation makes no chang in individual or corporation incom tax rates. Proponents argued tha it alters very little the ultimate ta: obligations of any business concert' Opponents charged that it "cut a melon" of millions of dollars fo some railroads and "benefits thos who made excess profits out of th war.” McKnight & Company Contributes $500 To Community Fund A contribution of $500 fron McKnight and company, wholesal grocers, to the Shelby and Cleve land County Foundation for th community center project was an nounced today by Thad C. Fore treasurer. The contribution through J. £ McKnight, head of the firm, wa the largest received this year b the fund which is seeking $100,00 additional money in 1945 for th community center and swimmin pool project. J. Hopson Austell i chairman of the finance commit tee which will make the drive thi fall. i L RUSSIANS LOOT U. S. PROPERTY t » Plants Owned By Ameri 1 cans In Germany Re r ported Stripped BERLIN, July 7. — (/P)— Arthui E. Dunning of Bath, Me., secretary of the American Chamber of Com merce in Germany, said today tha great concerns owned by Americar interests had been stripped of t-hei: machinery during the Russian occu pation of the German areas ii : which the plans were situated. I “National Cash Register, Frigi ) daire, Ford, Open (owned by Gen ; eral Motors). Hollerith (owned b; ; International Business Machines' . Singer, Mix and Genest, and Wool worth all have been raided,” Dunr 1 declared in an interview. ) “In many cases, delicate precis . ion instruments were involve< . which are now lying around ir . Berlin railway stations awaitins - shipment. Some of these needec to be kept on a certain even tern ; perature which, of course, was im 2 possible if they lie exposed out II doors.” j Claims Army Pouring Money ; Of Taxpayers Down Rathole WASHINGTON, July 7. —ffl— I Representative Engel tR-Mich), un official appropriations committee “watch-dog” of army spending, as serted today the War Department was "throwing hard-earned tax dol lars down a rat hole.” Engel, a member of the apropria j tions sub-committee handling war funds, in a statement in the Con gressional Record said that billions of dollars have been spent on pro jects which the War Department has not justified before any Con gressional committee. He emphasized that his criticism of Army spending was not directed 3 at “anyone in the theaters of oper f ] ations” but was aimed at "some of -11 these swivel-chair gentlemen who ? get on a plane and in a few- weeks 7 \ come back with more ribbons on s i their chests than Eisenhower, Brad - j ley, Clark or MacArthur ever re II ceived.” | Since 1941 , he said, congress has given the Army more than $192,000. 000,000 and it has spent more than $150000,000,000, exclusive of $21,000, 000.000 recently voted for the cur rent fiscal year. py the middle of 1946, Engel es timated, total army appropriations since 1941 will exceed $64,000,000,000 tl)e assessed valuation of "every piece of property, real and person al, in the 48 states as it was assess ed in 1941." As a result of many first-hand in vestigations, Engel said, he has com plained often of "the outrageous waste of the taxpayers’ money" on various Army projects. He added “the War Department was appar ently oblivious and kept on wasting money.” “I wonder what would happen if the public got a complete resume of the dollars wasted by this and other departments of government, as I hope they will some day,” he said. ¥ 4,000 TONS OF BOMBS HIT FIVE WAR CENTERS Honshu Industrial Targets Blasted Fourth Time In Six Days SCANT OPPOSITION Bv Leif Erickson GUAM, July 7.—(/P)—New fires, touched off by about 600 night-raiding Superforts, blazed through five Japanese cities today, adding major aluminum-producing and oil refinery areas to the 126 square miles of industrial Japan already knocked out. As jubilant airmen returning from today’s predawn strike told of gigantic conflagrations that had lighted, the 21st bomber command announced reconnaissance photo graphs showed five additional square miles burned out in recent strikes on five other cities. They were Kure, Himeji, Jumamoto, Ube on Honshu Island and Kochi on Shikoku. This makes the 126 square mile total. DAMAGE TERRIFIC Additionally. an engineering works was wrecked and an oil re finery damaged. Another major oil refinery hit today in perhaps the largest iaiu ui nit; wai . me grcaieM blaze lighted by the Superforts’ 4.000 tons of incendiaries and high explosives was in Japan’s largest aluminum producing center. The mission was the fourth In i six days in which the B-29s have i dumped 11,000 tons of bombs on |Japan. BEAT HP AIRFIELDS Meanwhile assorted American tactical planes, notably 100-odd Mustangs from Iwo Jima, beat up airfields around Tokyo and on Kyushu with scanty enemy opposition. Targets in today's big B-29 strike in the dark hours between midnight and dawn were: Shimizu, 20 miles southwest of Mt. Fuji and site of a plant that produced half of Japan's alumi num: Shimotsu, 35 miles southwest of ; Osaka and site of the big Maruzen j oil refinery, one of the empire's most vital plants; Kofu, 70 miles wTest of Tokyo, city of 100,000 with rail shops, I spinning mills and military bar iracks; 1 Chiba, 20 miles southeast of To ; kyo on Tokyo Bay, railway junc 1 tion and military depot center; and Akashi, home factory of the Ka Sce 4,000 TONS Page 2 j Government Seeks j Take Over Linters WASHINGTON, July 7 —(ffi— : Government plans to take over the ' I entire cotton linters crop were dis j closed today. i War Production board officials told a house agriculture subcom ! mittee the fiber is needed for mil itary purposes. Linters are the fuzz and fibers remaining on cotton seeds after , ginning. They are used in muni . tions, tire cord, bedding and fur . niture upholstery. The government took 80 percent of the crop in the first six months . j of 1945, but WPB officials said es timated production has dropped, • while demands have remained the l came. i The SPB plan to take over all i the crops is contained in an order ! prepared by the agency’s chemi cals division. It was to have tak en effect July 4, but has been ap j pealed and a WPB appear board is 1 to make a final decision July 14.
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