WEATHER
Cloudy and warm today and to
night with scattered thundershow
ers followed by cloudy skies and
cooler Wednesday with scattered
thundershowers in south and east.
Tshe Hhelby Xfilistili Him
STATE THEATRE TODAY
"SALOME, WHERE SHE
DANCED"
Starring YVONNE DeCARLO
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VOL. XLIII—164
CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINGE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1945
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MAKE TROUBLE
AMONG ALLIES
Grew Says Peace Feelers
Are Attempt To Stir
Up Dissension
f PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR
| WASHINGTON. July 10.—
(/P) — Acting Secretary of
State Grew declared today
that the Japanese are using
“purported peace feelers” in
an attempt to stir up dis
sension in the United States
and among the allies.
Their objective, he said, is to
obtain a peace short of uncondi
tional surrender even though they
know beyond question already that
their defeat is certain.
Grew related several Instances
of what he called these “alleged
peace feelers” and then wound up
a statement on the subject by
declaring:
“The policy of this govern
ment has been, is, and will
continue to be, unconditional
surrender x x x that Li the
best comment I can make up
on peace feelers and rumors
of peace feelers of whatever
origin.”
The United States, the acting
secretary emphatically asserted,
has "received no peace offer from
the Japanese government, either
through official or unofficial chan
nels."
“Conversations relating to peace,”
h3 continued, "have been reported
to the department from various
parts of the world but, in no case,
has an approach been made to this
government, directly or Indirectly,
by a person who could establish
his authority to speak for the Ja
*panese government, and in no casa
has an offer of surrender been
made.
| WANT INFORMATION
f What the Japanese always seek
with their peace feelers, Grew said
is to find out the American posi
tion and to use the whole idea of
an end to the war as a means of
stirring up argument over peace
terms in order to creaR dissen
sion.
Grew listed these specific inci
dents of what he termed peace
See NIPS Page * ^
SEVERE STORM
LEAVES 6 DEAD
Electrical Storm, Rain
And Wind Strike Le
high Valley
>
PHILLIPSBURG, N. J.„ July 10.
—<fl*)—At least six persons were
reported dead today In the wake of
an electrical storm which struck
the Lehigh Valley last night.
Police said four unidentified per
■ers were killed here when two
houses occupied by 12 persons, were
cruhtd under rocks as rising waters
ot tne Delaware river caused a
landslide. One person died at Beth
lehem, Pa., and another at Allen
town, Pa.
More than 5 girl scouts were ma
rooned for several hours at a camp
10 miles from Easton, Pa., but a
rescue party brought them to safety
after ropes were used to guide a
boat across a swollen creek.
HEAVY RAINS
Heavy rains poured into a 25-mile
stretch of the valley from Phillips
burg to Northampton, Pa. Holes 10
feet deep were tom in the ground
at Easton, roofs of houses were
damaged and highways were re
ported under water. Rivers and
creeks were two to three feet above
normal.
Estimates of the over-all damage
resulting from the downpour, light
ning and high winds ranged into
hundreds of thousands of dollars
and officials said it was the worst
storm in the area since 1942 when
32 persons were killed.
CLOSED HIGHWAYS
Police closed the new highway
bridge over the Delaware river con
necting Phillipsburg and Easton.
Train service of the Pennsylvania
and Jersey Central railroads near
Phillipsburg was disrupted by wash
outs Communication and electrical
lines were down.
In Allentown, the weather bu
reau reported 1.06 Inches of rain
fail in ah hour and 15 minutes.
Heavier rains were experienced in
Phillipsburg and Easton and at
Northampton where had accompan
ied the electrical storm.
John Hprrow, 60, Egypt, Pa.,
watchman at an Allentown plant
was found dead by firemen fight
ing flames set off by lightning.
Robert A. Florey, 3, Bethlehem,
died of shock when he attempted
to remove branches of a tree charg
ed by fallen electric wires.
/
THE SUN IN TOTAL ECLIPSE—This picture of the sun in total eclipse
July 9 was made at Wolsey, Saskatchewan, Canada, by scientists in the
expedition sent out by the Franklin Institute of the University of Penn
sylvania and ^he Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The tiny black spots
are not a part of the eclipse. They resulted from an imperfect photographic
negative used by the scientists.—(AP Wirephoto).
Sen. Brooks Wants
| Aggression Defined
Pasvolsky Says Definition Left Out Deliberately By
Drawers Of Charter
WASHINGTON, July 10.—(A5)—Senator Brooks (R
111.) inquired today why the United Nations charter does
not define acts of aggression against which the world secur
ity council may use force if peaceful settlements fail.
Brooks intpminti»ri t^Hmnnv hv i - -
| Dr. Leo Pasvolsky, State Depart
ment advisor, before the senate for
eign relations committee, to ask why
the San Francisco conference which
drafted the 50-nation agreement
“avoided" spelling out the terms of
aggression.
“This is a change in the usual
practice in drawing up internation
al agreements, isn't it?” the Illinois
senator asked.
Pasvolsky, testifying before *
meager audience in the com
mittee’s second day of hearings,
replied that a definition of ag
gression was left out deliberately
because the conference had fail
ed to find an all-embracing de
signation.
Chairman Connally (D-Tex> broke
in to say that if the delegates had
attempted to tabulate all kinds of
aggression “we probably would have
excluded, inevitably, some circum
stance that would be an act of ag
gression.” it was wiser, he said he
l thought, to leave the interpreta
tion to each individual case in the
light of all of the circumstances
surrounding it.
Brooks protested that the Mexico
City conference had drawn “an ela
borate definition” of aggression in
the act of Chapulepec.
SAME LANGUAGE
Senator White of Maine, the
Republican leader, noted, however,
that the language used in the
charter in this case was the same
as employed in the. Dumbarton
Oaks agreements.
Senator Burton (R-Ohio) told the
witness he thought the charter
See SEN. BROOKS Page 2
Cotton Acreage In
N. C. 22 Per Cent
Below That Of 1944
RALEIGH, July 10—(/P)—Cotton
acreage in North Carolina as of
July 1, was estimated by the de
partment of agriculture yesterday
at 595,000 acres, 22 percent below
that of last year.
Bernard L. Ross, marketing
specialist with the department,
attributed the reduction to con
centration on tobacco, a shift to
peanuts, and difficulty in getting
a stand of cotton in the spring.
STOLEN BABY
THOUGHT SAFE
Woman Arrested In Ab
duction Of 6-Day-Old
Baby Girl
MARION, O., July 10.—<JPy—.An
arrest was made today in the dis
appearance of six-day-old Jean
Eileen Creviston and it was report
ed to involve a woman who claim
ed she just had given birth to a
baby.
Physicians were called to con
duct an examination that would
show whether the woman’s story
was true.
Police Chief William E. Marks
made no official announcement, but
there were smiles on the faces of
his officers as they left head
quarters to serve papers at an un
announced destination.
They plainly indicated they be
lieved the baby, daughter of Air
Force Gunner John L. Creviston
and a Marion society matron, was
safe.
BABY NOT HARMED
Earlier, the police chief said he
confidently felt the youngster, who
had been taken from a crib at the
Marion City hospital Sunday night,
had not been harmed.
"My feeling,” he remarked, “is
that the child has not been harm
ed.”
Until today’s development, the
See STOLEN Page 2
Assassin Of Pasha
Goes On Trial
CAIRO, July 10—(A*)—Mahmoud
El Issawi, 26-year-old Egyptian
1. wyer, went on trial in the sup
reme military court today on a
charge of assassinating Premier
Ahmed Maher Pasha. The premier
was shot to death as he left the
chamber of deputies after an
nouncing Egypt’s declaration of
war against the Axis last Febru
ary^
Wave Of Strikes Extends
Beyond War Industry Plants
By The Associated Press
A wave of strikes, heretofore con
fined principally to war produc
tion, extended today to affect food
consumers and fuel gas users.
Additions to the labor dispute
roster, with a national total of
47,575 idle, included a strike at the
United Fuel Gas company, serving
six states; a Detroit dairy strike,
and a stoppage among Rochester,
N. Y., bakers.
The Gas Utility strike, affecting
1,600 employes in West Virginia and
Kentucky, shut off supplies in
some areas and limited the flow
to domestic users and hospitals in
seven states, a CIO Oil and Gas
Workers Union officer said.
All compressing plants in West
Virginia and Kentucky closed ut
midnight as the result of a union
vote under the Smlth-Connally
act. A limited supply continued to
flow to consumers in southern
West Virginia and parts of Ohio,
Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia
and New York.
WAGE INCREASE
Union attributed the strike to
company refusal to negotiate a
wage increase. The company chal
See WAVE Face 2
DUTCH TROOPS
PARTICIPATE IN
BORNEO BATHE
Secure Upper Areas Of
Balikpapan Bay In Am
phibious Action
OCCUPY PENINSULAS
By Spencer Davis
MANILA, July 10.—(fP)—
Javanese and Dutch West Ind
ian volunteers secured the up
per reaches of Balikpapan
bay near the great southeast
Borneo oil port of Balikpapan
in two amphibious operations
Saturday, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur’s headquarters an
nounced today.
In. this, their first announced
participation in the campaign, the
Dutch forces quickly silenced small
arms fire from enemy river craft
which had tef.en refuge in the
mouths of the swampy Soember
and Wainbesar rivers.
The Dutch quickly occupied the
Kariango and Telaktebang Penin
sulas after short overwater cross
ings from Cape Baroe, solidifying
the Allied grip on the whole bay
area.
Australian troops meanwhile
were engaged in tough hand-to
hand fighting against the com
pletely encircled Japanese in the
Pandansari refinery district in
the northernmost limits of Balik
papan town.
PROBE AIRFIELD
Other elements of the Aussie
Seventh division were probing
north beyond Manggar airfield,
13 road miles northeast of Balik
papan, against Japanese defenses
which features roadblocks made
of burning drums of oil guarded
by coastal guns turned inland.
Still another Australian force
was plodding south, west and
north from the inner rim of Balik
papan bay.
As the Japenese stiffened their
resistance in an effort to keep the
Allies from winning early com
plete control of the oil fields in
east Borneo, American 13th air
force Liberators and Lightnings
boinbed and strafed all up and
down the coast.
JAPS LEAVING
SOUTHERN ASIA
Enemy Appears To Have
Conceded Loss Of
Whole Area
NEW DELHI, July 10.—(^—Jap
anese forces are withdrawing so
rapidly from their southern Asia
sphere that a survey from this
vantage point suggests that a
hard-pressed Allied campaign dur
ing the coming fall and winter
would recover the entire area.
Already the Japanese appear to
have conceded the loss of this area
by allowing the closing of the
Hengyang corridor in China
through which garrisons in French
Indo-China could have escaped. In
Burma, scattered Japanese are
fighting their way eastward, evi
dently trying to escape into Thai
land. Borneo is now hotly at
tacked by Australians and Amer
icans. Admiral Lord Louis Mount
batten’s southeast Asia command
has been assigned the task of re
conquering Sumatra and Malaya
and Singapore at the tip of the
peninsula.
The Japanese withdrawal at the
moment is extending over a far
greater area than the German re
treat into the central European
bastion and means that perhaps
within six months vast areas long
under Japanese domination may
have an opportunity to begin a
“return to normalcy.”
AIM OF CAMPAIGN
The whole aim of the Japanese
Asiatic campaign seems directed
toward concentrating their major
forces in the area north of the
Shanghai-Hankow line. Both these
cities are certainly included in the
[defense area, but southern China,
[save for the Canton - Hongkong
area, evidently already is being
evacuated.
It seems certain that the Jap
anese will fight suicide delaying
actions in every major zone, in
cluding Sumatra, Java, Borneo,
Singapore. Malaya peninsula and
Indo-China.
It is estimated 60,000 Japanese
soldiers—out of an original tough
force of more than 200,000—remain
in Burma, but they are withdraw
ing in as orderly fashion as pos
sible in the direction of Thailand.
WAR VETERAN DRAFTED—For
mer Lt. William K. Dobson (above)
of Atlanta served 14 months over
seas with the army, was wounded
twice in battle, was discharged—
and now is back in the army as a
private drafted by his local selec
tive service board. He has gone to
Fort Blanding, Fla., for basic train
ing.— CAP Photo).
FRANCE PLANS
FALL ELECTION
Officials Say De Gaulle
Will Not Be Candidate
For Assembly
PARIS, July 10.—(JPi—Two gov
ernment officials, who claim to
know Gen. De Gaulle’s intentions,
said today that he would not be
a candidate for the new national
assembly which the French will
select at a general election Oct. 14
and expressed doubt whether he
would align himself with any par
ty.
Political circles considered lt
likely, however, that the new as
sembly would exercise its power to
“draft’' De Gaulle, the president
of the present provisional govern
ment, for office.
The fate of the bi-cameral sys
tem of government is expected to
be at stake in the general elec
tion, the first in France since be
fore the war, when the voters de
cide whether they wish to discard
the constitution of 1875, under
which the third republic was es
tablished.
The voters will name 600 repre
sentatives who will comprise the
new assembly. This body then will
name a “president of government’’
who in turn will select his cabinet
ministers. The president need not
come from the assembly itself
since the system provides for com
plete freedom of selection.
MAY BE CHOSEN
Consequently De Gaulle might be
chosen to head the next govern
ment even if he does not have an
official position following the elec
tion.
The election probably will show
just how far—if at all—France has
drifted to the left in recent years.
Virtually all French political
groups are agreed on the necessity
of changing one aspect of the old
constitution whereby a government
automatically fell when it lost its
majority in the chamber of dep
uties. The result has been an in
stability of governments in times
of crisis. In the last 89 years there
have been 109 French governments.
The French apparently are aim
ing at something comparable to
the American governmental sys
tem where a president’s tenure in
office does not depend on congres
sional approval or disapproval of
his proposed legislation.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
6:00 p.m—Lions club mem
bers meet at Central Methodist
church to go to Fresh Air camp
at Camp Cherokee for their
meeting.
8:00 p.m.—Regular meeting
of Eastern Star in lodge room
at Masonic Temple.
8:00 p.m. — Legion junior
baseball game between Shelby
and Gastonia City.
WEDNESDAY
7:45 p.m.—Prayer meeting at 1
Presbyterian church.
8:00 p.m.—Midweek Prayer
and Praise Service at First
Baptist church.
A
CHINESE FORCES
CAPTURE TAYU,
PUSH BEYOND
Forces Said Only 32 Miles
From Kanhsien, Former
U. S. Air Base
SCORE OTHER GAINS
By Spencer Moosa
CHUNGKING, July 10.—
(/P)—Tayu in the heart of
Wolfram mining region in
Kiangsi province, 175 miles
northeast of Canton and 45
miles southwest of the for
mer U. S. air base site at
Kanhsien, has been captured
by Chinese forces, the Chin
ese high command announced
today.
Chinese spearheads, pursuing re
treating Japanese troops, were re
ported to have pushed on beyond
Tayu to a point approximately 32
miles from Kanhsien, which the
U. S. 14th air force was compelled
to abandon last Jan. 30.
Recapture of Tayu isolated Kanh
sien by severing Japanese commu
nications with Kukong, important
road and rail center 125 miles north
of Canton on the Canton-Hankow
railroad. Kanhsien, 120 miles north
east of Kukong, was connected to
that town by highway.
In an area some 300 miles to
the southwest, Chinese forces
pushing from liberated Liuchow
toward the former U. S. 14th air
force base at Kweilin, 90 miles
to the northeast, scored new
gains along both the Liuchow
Kweilin highway and the Liu
chow-Mengyang railroad.
The Chinese had mopped up ene
my remnants in the vicinity of the
recaptured railroad town of Lo
jung, 20 miles northeast of Liuchow,
and forward elements passed
through Luchai, eight miles farther
up the railroad.
Units stabbing along the high
way laid siege to Chungtu, 30 miles
northeast of Liuchow, the high
command said.
Chinese forces inflicted more
than 200 casualties in a flanking
attack on Japanese landing party
troops from Amoy, which had cap
tured Chihhu, 25 miles southwest
of Amoy, after landings on the
Fukien coast. Twenty-five Japa
nese were taken prisoner.
Chinese observers said the land
ings were either intended to safe
guard that Japanese pocket or to
determine if the Chinese in the
area were in strength, suggesting
Japanese apprehension over the
See CHINESE Page 2
DRAFT BOARD
GEIS VETERAN
Honorably Discharged
Veteran Of Overseas
Service Drafted
ATLANTA, July 10. — OP) —
Wounded twice in 14 months over
seas and then discharged, former
First Lt. William K. Dobson of At
lanta found himself back in khaki
today—drafted as a buck private.
The greetings from his draft
board came five months after Iris
discharge last January. In the in
terim he had married and got his
old job back with the U. S. Forest
Service.
He’s now a private at Camp
Blanding, Fla., the same place he
reported to when he enlisted in
the Army in May, 1942. He receiv
ed his commission at the Fort Ben
ning Officers’ Candidate School.
An 84-point veteran, he holds the
Purple Heart with one Oak Leaf
cluster and the Bronze Star medal.
He was wounded in the leg on D
Day plus 1 in Normandy, and again
in September, 1944, during the
spearhead attack on Aachen.
Members of Dobson’s draft board
and army officials declined to com
ment on the case. Dobson will be
27 next month.
5 Nazi War Pris
For Murder Of .
FT. LEAVENWORTH, Kas., July
10.—(JP)—Five German prisoners of
war, sentenced to death for the
murder of a fellow prisoner, were
hanged early this morning at the
U. S. disciplinary barracks in a
move unprecedented in the annals
of United States military history.
The prisoners, termed “fa
natical nazis” by army author
ities, were convicted Jan. 25,
1944, at Camp Gruber. Okla...
for the murder of Johannes
1944, at Camp Gruber, Ok!a„
branch compound. Thev were
the first foreign war prisoners
ever to be executed in the Unit
Airmen From Halsey's
Third Fleet Carriers
Blast Tokyo Airfields
By A1 Dopking
GUAM, July 10.—(/P)—More than 1,300 planes roared
in from carriers and American-held islands to the south to
day to give badgered Japan its greatest single-days lashing
fVin Dnoifirt mnv 1 — 1 —■ - --— ■ - -
More than 1,000 fighters, dive
bombers and torpedo planes from
Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey's
Third fleet smashed at Tokyo’s 72
to 80 airfields hour after hour.
Simultaneously, the 21st bomber
command sent a great fleet of pos
sibly more than 550 B-29s out from
the Marianas to rip five more Ja
panese industrial centers in wea
ther generally “clear as a bell.”
Radio Tokyo added still an
other 230 planes to the massive
air blows. It said that several
B-29s led 100 Mustang fighter
bombers from Iwo Jima in at
tacks on military establish
ments in the Osaka-Kobe area,
and 130 fighters and bombers
from Okinawa bases hit wes
tern Kyushu today. It listed 30
Liberator bombers, 30 B-25s and
70 fighter planes.
(The enemy broadcast, heard by
the Federal Communications Com
mission, declared that the carrier
force assault indicated "an attempt
to crush Japanese air power” in
the Tokyo area.
CAUGHT NAPPING
The carrier fleet hurled its first
Hellcats into the air in the crisp
dawn and they swept in to catch
the enemy capital napping. Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz said complete
surprise was achieved.
The B-29s sent over the home
islands by Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Le
i may, "Old Iron Pants” of the 20th
| Air Force, dumped 3,500 tons of
I firebombs and high explosives on
[five industrial centers. Pilots re
ported “excellent” results.
Conflagrations swept Wakayama,
Gifu, Saka and Sendai. Sendai is
190 miles north of Tokyo and the
most distant point ever hit by the
Superforts.
(Tokyo radio mentioned two B
29 targets not included by General
Lemay. It named Osaka, on Hon
shu, Kochi on Southern Shikoku
and said ten other Superforts laid
mines off Honshu’s west coast.
(On the basis of both American
and Nipponese announcements,
three Japanese home islands were
I hit in the withering attack—Kyu
shu, Shikoku and Honshu.)
2 MILLIONTH TON
The Superfortress “Coin’ Jessie”
on today’s strike dropped the 2,
000,000th ton of bombs unloaded
on enemy targets by army airforc
es in World War II. Gen. Henry
H. (Hap) Arnold, chief of army
air forces, has promised that Ja
pan alone will feel 2,000,000 tons
of bombs in the ye/r which stain
ed July 1.
A single Superfort was last on
today’s mission, but all crewmen
were saved. Flak and aerial in
terception were termed “inconse
quential.” Bombing was visual
over all targets except Sakai, near
Osaka, which produces picric acid
for munitions.
CAUGHT UNPREPARED
Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey’* 58th
wing fliers, ranging to far-north
Sendai, said the Japanese were
See AIRMEN Page 2
I Judge Webb Boomed
| For Supreme Court
Sees "Practical Difficulties" In Way Of N. C. Demo
crat To Succeed Pa. Republican
The name of Judge E. Yates Webb is being repeatedly
advanced as a logical successor to Justice Owen J. Roberts
on the United States Supreme Court, but local friends of
the distinguished jurist say that though flattered by the
i suggestion Judge Webb’s plans co-ncern only his present
judgeship, whose duties he plans to discharge so long as
i • __A. _1 1_li-U ~ 11
Illo piCOCHU gUUU Ut-Ol til ftUUYYO.
The Statesville Record, which
is booming the Webb promotion,
points out that he has served as
Federal judge for Western North
Carolina for 26 years in which his
record has been ‘'most outstand
ing,” Prior to his appointment as
a Federal judge he served in Con
gress for several terms until his
appointment to the bench by the
late President Woodrow Wilson.
"Judge Webb has always been
a staunch democrat and one of
the state’s mast outstanding lead
ers,” says the Record. “His wide
knowledge of problems of the peo
ple and his ability as a jurist make
him one of the best fitted men in
the United States today to serve
as Supreme court justice . . .
President Truman would do well
to name a man like Judge Webb
to succeed Justice Roberts. It
would be a distinct honor for the
people of North Carolina to have
Judge Webb named to the highest
court in this country. Judge Webb
is capable, well qualified and well
experienced and would make one
of the greatest Supreme r/>urt jus
tices in the history of this coun
try. His appointment would be
well received by everyone through
out the land.”
Judge Webb said today that he j
“is flattered” by the suggestion!
but that he recognizes “practical
difficulties’ in the way of flaming1
of a North Carolirv democrat to.
succeed a Republican on the high- j
est court.
oners Hanged
\ Compatriot
ed States.
The executed Germans, all mem
bers of Rommel’s Afrika Korps,
were:
Walter Beyer, 32, whose rank was
equivalent to that of a first ser
geant in the U. S. army; Berthold
Seidel, 30, a staff sergeant; Hans
Demme, 23, sergeant; Hans Schom
er, 27, sergeant, and Willi Scholz
22, corporal.
IN UNIFORMS
All went to their deaths clad m
their German uniforms, their onlv
request. Their last meal consisted
— See 3 NAZI Page i
i
JCDGE WEBB
NAZI U-BOAT
SURRENDERS IN
ARGENTINE PORT
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentine.
Tuly 10. —(fP)— A 700-ton German
U-boat commanded by Otto Wer
noutt and carrying a complement of
j4 men surrendered to Argentine
naval authorities at this submarine
aase today. All were placed under
custody.
(Where the U-boat has been since
Germany surrendered two months
.'•to was not immediately explained.
' 'Tied radios flashed orders May 8
i all German surface and undersea
ft to head for the nearest Allied
rts. Two weeks later Allied navies
re still searching the Atlantic for
—cm 12 to 15 Nazi submarines still
at large.V
Wermoutt surrendered to the com
mandant of the submarine base
Naval authorities closed tb« port
area to the public shortly after the
German craft appeared in the har
bor.