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STATE THEATRE TODAY
"SALOME, WHERE SHE
DANCED"
Starring YVONNE DeCARLO
CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XLIII—165
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, JULY 11, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES
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Aussies Capture Balikpapan Bay
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NAVAL LEADERS IN THE PACIFIC—Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.,
(center), commander of the U. S. Third Fleet in the Pacific, talks with
Vice Admiral John ‘S. McCain (left), fast carrier task force comman
der, and Rear Admiral Gerald S. Bogan (right), carrier force unit com
mander, aboard a ship in the Pacific. They are participating in the di
rection of hammering air blows at the Jap empire. This photo was made
by Charles P. Gorry, Associated Press photographer with the wartime still
picture pool —(AP Wirephoto).
Former U. S. Air Base
At Sincheng Seized
Chinese Forces Also Recapture Nanking And Ad
vance Toward Kanhsien
By Spencer Moose
CHUNGKING, July if.—(/P)—Chinese forces have re
captured the former American air base of Sincheng in Ki
angsi province and are advancing northward toward another
former air base at Kanhsien, 210 miles northeast of Canton,
the Chinese high command announced today.
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EXILE POLES
TO KEEP ARMY
Head Of Army Pledges
Continued Allegiance To
Exile Regime
I
LONDON, July 11. —(fl’L— Head
quarters of the Polish armed forces
abroad announced today that Gen. >
Klemens Rudnlckl, commander of j
the first Polish armored division, j
had issued an order of the day to
his troops declaring his continued
allegiance to the Polish exile regime
in London.
"We shall always remain faith
ful to our soldier's oath and con
tinue obedience to the highest com
mander of our armed forces, Presi
d e n t Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz,”
Rudnicki was quoted as saying. He
added:
“We shall return to Poland—but
only with arms in hand.”
Racdkiewicz is head of the exiled
administration from which Britain
and the United States withdrew rec
ognition last week after placing
their stamp of approval on the newly
former provisional government of
national unity in Warsaw, created
in accordance with the Crimea
charter.
OCCUPATION FORCES
The first armored division now is
serving with the British forces of
occupation In Germany, and is part
of the $250,000 Polish troops abroad
whose disposition has been a mat
ter of some speculation since with
drawal of recognition from the exile
government.
While voicing allegiance to Racz
kiewic, Rudnicki declared that he
and his troops would continue to
carry out the task assigned to in
See EXILE Page t
Nanking, on the Kiangsi-Kwang
:ung highway 15 miles southwest of
ECanhslen and were hotly pursuing
Japanese fleeing toward the former
American air base city, the Chinese
said.
Sincheng was the fifth former
American air base to be recovered
in the new Chinese drive. It was
ibandoned by Maj. Gen. Claire L.
Chennault on Jan. 29. Other lib
erated airbases are those at Sulch
wan, Yungning (Nanning). Lluchow
Ind Tanchung.
In Kwangsi province, meanwhile,
Chinese troops driving on the for
mer American air base at Kweilin
have captured Chungtu, 30 miles
northeast of Lluchow 'on the Liu
:how-Kwellin highway, the Chin
ese said.
Other Chinese forces 130 miles to
the southeast struck eastward from
recently liberated Tengyun and ad
vanced toward the Important inland
[tort of Wuchow, 40 miles to the
east on the Kwangtung-Kwangsi
ftorder.
BELOW WUCHOW
The enemy was cleared from
Chungtu, the Chinese said, and in
the Tengyun area the Japanese
were carrying out a strategic con
traction of their lines In the dlrec
See FORMER Page 2
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
*7:45 p.m. — Prayer meeting at
Presbyterian church.
8:00 p.m.—Midweek prayer
and praise service at First Bap
tist church.
THURSDAY
3:00 p.m.—Baptist Associa
tional Royal Ambassadors’
meeting at First Baptist church.
Supper will be served to the
group at the church at 6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.—egular meeting of
Kiwanis club.
7:00 p.m.—CAP cadets meet
at the armory.
Score Ur Strikes Across
Nation Keep 50,000 Off Jobs
NEW YORK, July 11.—(/Ph-The
8 A. M. (E.W.T.) deadline set by the
War Labor Board for striking news
paper deliverymen to return to
their jobs passed today with no of
ficial word from the union and no
men reporting for work.
At union headquarters just be
fore 8 A. M., a clerk told reporters:
“As far as I know the men are still
out and I understand they voted
yesterday to continue the strike.”
The WLB had warned the strik
ing newspaper and mall deliverers’
union (unaffiliated) that its “closed
shop” would be forfeited if the men
not end the 11-day walkout by
I
8 A. M. This would mean that pub
lishers could hire non-union work
ers to distribute papers.
By The Associated Press
A labor dispute in Detroit, one of
a score across the country which
kept some 50,000 men and women
off their Jobs, prevented an esti
mated half million persons from
getting their regular supply of milk
today.
MILK DELIVERIES
For the third straight day, de
liveries of 30 per cent of the motor
See SCORE Page i
ENEMY STILL
IN CONTROL OF
MAJOR HELDS
Capture Of Port Of No
Immediate Military
Significance
ADVANcFls SLOW
Bv Spencer Davis
MANILA, July 11.—C>qP)—
Australians by a new shore
to-shore movement in south
east Borneo have completed
the capture of the Balikpapan
bay area, including terrain
commanding all of the fine
broad harbor and also have
invested the fiercely defend
ed Pandansari refinery area,
headquarters reported today.
With the enemy still In control
of all major fields which formerly
supplied the port writh pure bunker
fuel and the refinery machinery
a mass of twisted wreckage, the
capture of the port has no imme
diate significance.
Beyond Balikpapan, once the
greatest oil refining and shipping
port of Borneo, other Australians
of the Seventh division smashed
against a Japanese resistance point
on the low slopes of Mt. Batocham
par. six miles to the north.
Northeast of the bay on the road
to the great salt marsh oilfields,
Aussies advancing slowly beyond
Manggar airfield crushed two Jap
anese infiltration attempts Satur
SU'fftttM
The A'lfesie’s gained a thousand
yards along Higftway Five, which
the enemy has attempted to block
with -drums of biasing oil. The
highway swerves inland over roll
ing forested hills At Taritlp, about
five miles beyond Manggar, but
i the fighting thus far is still in the
iflatlands under native cultivation
along the coast.
Final control of the area around
the big Balikpapan anchorage,
which will handle unlimited ship
ping, was affected by a small-boat
landing of Maj. Gen. Milford’s
Australians at Djlnabora, four
miles north of previous positions
at Cape Penadjam on the west
shore of the bay. Just across the
bay, Dutch troops held Cape Telok
tebang.
AIR SUPPORT
Thirteenth Airforce Liberators
and Mitchells continued to closely
support ground operations by blast
ing enemy gun positions, transport
and buildings.
In northwest Borneo, Aussie
Ninth division patrols were active
but failed to find any Japanese
south of the Miri oil field area.
Supporting aircraft sank three
enemy freighters off Kuching, a
major Borneo airfield which is
slightly more than 400 miles east
of Singapore.
Tokyo Claims
U. S. Task Force
Has Withdrawn
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11. —VP)
—Tokyo radio said today that the
U. S. carrier task force from which
1.000 planes have been blasting the
Japanese apparently has withdrawn
in fear of suicide plane attacks.
Tokyo reported there had been
no raids by carrier-based aircraft
today but expressed belief that the
“enemy task force is still in the seas
in the vicinity of our homeland.”
The enemy broadcast was monitored
by the Federal Communications
Commission.
Tokyo said 1,200 carrier aircraft
raided airdromes around the capi
tal for 12 hours yesterday. Propagan
dists made the usual claim that
“there were almost no damages in
flicted upon our airfields, airfield
facilities, warships and ships.”
The radio claimed that 26 raiders
were shot down and a “considerable
number of others” damaged.
While reporting the carrier-plane
lull, Tokyo said that 150 American
fighters continued the steady
pounding of airfields on the home
island of Kyushu.
PLAN ABANDONED
WASHINGTON, July 11— (IP) —
A proposed government program
for taking over the entire cotton
linters crop was dropped today.
War Production Board officials
told a house agriculture subcom
mittee they had Agreed to recon
sider an order scheduled to become
effective July 14.
&
CHARTER CRITIC—U. S. Senator
Eugene Donald Millikin (above!,
Republican of Colorado, emerged in
Washington as the chief senatorial
critic of United Nations charter pro
visions during the Senate Foreign
Relations committee’s hearing^ on
the document—(AP Wirephoto).
DEATH CLAIMS
W. Y. CROWDER
Retired Businessman Suc
cumbs At Age 85; Fu
neral Thursday
Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon at 6 o'clock
from Central MelSofiSt
William Yancey Crowder, 85, Who
died yesterday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock in the Shelby hospital after
an illness of three weeks. Seri
vices will be conducted by the
pastor, the Rev. Paul Hardin, as
sisted by the Rev. J. D. Sheppard
and interment will follow in Sun
set cemetery.
Mr. Crowder was born in the
Lawndale section of this county
on June 26th, 1860, son of the late
Robert Wells Crowder and Mrs.
Hunice Evans Crowd^h He was
married to Miss Minnie Dellinger
on Dec. 18. 1889, and she survives,
together with eight children: Mrs.
Buford L. Green of Charlotte, Mrs.
Vastine Washburn, William ■ E.
Crowder, J. Durant Crowder, Mrs.
Max Francis, Miss Margaret
Crowder, Mrs. D. A. Lee and Mrs.
Ray Allen, all of Shelby. One
son, Robert D. Crowder, died nine
years ago. Also surviving are 16
grandchildren and 2 great grand
children.
BUSINESS CAREER
Mr. Crowder’s first business ven
ture in Shelby was as partner
See DEATH Page 2
Rotarians Will Hear
Senator Hoey Friday
Senator Clyde R. Hoey will ad
dress the Rotary club at its lunch
eon session Friday at 12:30 at the
Hotel Charles in a program arrang
ed by Phil Elliott, chairman of the
club’s international service commit
tee.
GETS DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS—Capt. Clyde Z. McSwain,
jr., whose parents live on route 4, Shelby, is shown here being congra
tulated by Brig. Gen. E. N. Backus at a Ninth air force bomber base in
France after being presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross for
bombing a target with ‘‘superior results” despite inclement weather and
Intense enemy flak resistance. Capt. McSwain is pilot of an A-20 Havoc
light bomber and is a graduate of Lattimore high school. He holds the
Purple Heart and the 44r Medal with 11 oak leaf dusters.
Truman Works On Data
For Conference Aboard
Ship Taking Him There
By Ernest B. Vaccaro
ABOARD CRUISER AUGUSTA WITH PRESIDENT
TRUMAN, July 11.—(fP)—President Truman began whipping
into final form today a mass of data he will present to the
big three meeting at Potsdam next week.
He called Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes and Admiral Wil
liam D. Leahy into the Augusta’s
admiral’s cabin, where former
resident Roosevelt and Prime Min
ister Churchill held most of their
Atlantic charter conferences in the
ominous days of 1941.
There, for several hours, the three,
assisted by diplomatic and mili
tary experts, worked over an accu
mulation of documents.
While plans for a visit to
London after the meeting with
Premier Stalin and Prime Min
ister Churchill still are tenta
tive, the President has no plans
at all for visiting France.
Accompanying the Augusta, a
battle tested veteran, is the equally
which acted as General George S.
famous cruiser, the Philadelphia,
Patton’s mobile artillery support
when he moved from Palermo to
Messina to end the Sicilian cam
paign. She shot up bridges, knock
ed down planes and even took out
enemy tanks with her bip guns.
The Augusta served as the flag
ship of Rear Admiral Alan Kirk's
Normandy task force on D-Day.
HIGH HOPES
Mr. Truman holds high hopes his
Potsdam talks with Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stalin not
only will chart the course of lasting
European peace vut speed an Allied
victory over Japan as well.
A two-cruiser task force is carry
ing the chief executive and his
party across the Atlantic.
As the ships reached mid-ocean
yesterday, Mr. Truman approved
the first direct shippoard report on
his voyage, which yp to that point
had been through ‘ waters as calm
as the Missouri river. Correspon
dents of the three news services and
a representative of the radio net- j
works are making the trip with the
presidential party.
See TRUMAN Page 2
Charter Opponents
Heard By Committee
Connolly Confident Pact Will Be Ratified Without
Restrictive Amendments
WASHINGTON, July 10.—(/P)—Opponents of the Unit
ed- -Nations .charter trooped before the Senate Foreign Re
lations committee today as Chairman Connally (D-Tex) ex
nrpsspri rnnfiHpnep that, anv restrirt.ivp nmpnrlmpnt« wmilr)
be beaten down.
The first opposition witness, Mrs.
Agnes Waters of Washington, D.
C., was escorted from the commit
tee table by policemen when she
attempted to continue after her al
loted time had expired.
“What we need is a good old
fashioned American revolution,”
Mrs. Waters shouted as she left.
Mrs. Waters, a familiar figure at
congressional committee hearings,
represented the National Blue Star
Mothers. She denounced the char
ter as an “international fraud.”
Other opposition witnesses in
cluded Mrs. Cecil Broy, of Arling
ton, Va., representing Z^iericans
United, Inc., who said the charter
will lead to “empire rule,” and the
Rev. J. Paul Cotton, Cleveland,
representing the World Peace
Forum, who declared “there is
something sinister in the speed”
of senate action on the pact.
Ely Culbertson, bridge expert,
submitted a statement declaring
the only effective way to prevent
aggression is to establish a world
wide limitation on heavy arma
ment. and an international police
force.
FACE ISSUES
As the foreign relations commit
tee he heads arranged to hear an
abbreviated lineup of opposition
witnesses. Connally told reporters he
is ready to face the issue* of char
ter amendments now, adding:
“We’ve got the votes to knock
them down.”
Connally’s estimate was support
See CHARTER Page 2
MUTE SLAYS
WIFE, CHILD
Grief Stricken Husband
Gives Self Up, Confess
es Killings
PEABODY, Mass., July 11.—(JP)—
A weeping, deaf mute boxer came
into police headquarters today and
wrote out before Desk Officer Wil
liam J. Callahan, “I have just
killed my wife and baby.”
Police hurried to the home of
the man, David Horblit, 26, and
found the bodies of his young wife
and infant, beaten to death.
The medical examiner, Dr. J. W.
P Murphy, who accompanied Po
lie Chief James Murphy, said the
wife, Katherine, 22, also a deaf
mute, and baby Carolyn, 22 months
had been struck repeatedly with a
hamer found on the scene and that
any one of the blows could have
caused death.
The former amateur boxer, who
became a leather worker in a Pea
body factory, was said by Chief
Murphy and Desk Officer Callahan,
to have written a confession of the
slayings during written questions'
and answers.
GRIEF-STRICKEN
The desk officer said that the
apparently grief-stricken man be
gan making signs when he enter
ed the station and that he was
given pencil and paper when the
police could not understand him.
Acquaintances said the mutual
affliction of the couple had thrown
them together and they were mar
ried a few years ago. The infant
was described as normal.
Booked on charges of murder,
Horblit was taken to the Peabody
district court.
Police Chief Murphy said that
after Horblit had told the desk of
ficer that he had killed his wife
and baby, he was asked why he
did it.
Horblit then wrote, the police
said, “My wife never loved me. I
want to die."
BOTH WORKED
The police said that after the
killings, Horblit had walked two
miles from his home to the police
station. j
The couple lived in the lower
apartment of a two-family house,
and both worked daytimes, the
wife being employed in a sports
wear plant that manufactures lea
ther jackets. While they worked
the child was placed in the care
of Mrs. Horblit’s mother, who lived
a quarter of a mile away. i
Horblit, who prized a medal he
won for second prize in the heavy- j
weight division of the New Eng
land Amateur Athletic Union Box- j
ing tournament in 1941, had con
tinued boxing and recently turned !
| professional.
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STEPHEN MORRISETT
MORRISETT TO
JOIN FACULTY
.1
Gardner-Webb Gets Dis
tinguished Musician
And Bible Student
Stephen Morrisett, for seven years
head of the department of Music
ology at Westminster Choir school
has accepted a position as head of
the department of religion, teacher
of Bible and ancient languages and
director of the choir at Gardner
Webb Junior College, President
Phil Elliott announced today.
Mr. Morrisett and his wife, her
self a distinguished musician, and
their three children will move to
Boiling Springs this fall to make
their residence as he undertakes
his duties in the expanding insti
tution there. President Elliott
voiced1 delight that the well known
musician and Bible student had
agreed to join the school's faculty,
for he was much in demand all
over the country.
A native of Scotland Neck, N.
C., Mr. Morrisett studied two years
in the Curtis School of Music in
Philadelphia, three and a half
years at the University of Penn
sylvania, took his Bachelor of Sci
ence degree from Columbia Univer
sity in New York, his Master of
Arts degree from Cornell Univer
sity and a Th.B. degree from the
Southern Baptist Theological Sem
inary at Louisville, Ky. He studied
one summer in Paris, and for sev
en years headed the musical re
search at Westminster when Mrs.
Robert Gidney was a student.
7TH WAitlOAN
AT $4,543,48$
A final spurt of bond purchases
pushed E bond sales in Cleveland’s
Seventh War Loan drive to just
about the half million mark—finai
figures won't be available till the
end of the week—while the total
sale of all securities in the drive,
including E bonds, was $4,543,488,
representing 220 percent of the
assigned quota of $2,069,000.
War Finance Chairman George
Blanton, in revealing the figures
today, said that had F and G
bonds been counted, Cleveland
would have just about fulfilled its
quota on E bonds. He had the
highest praise for work of Cam
paign Chairman Jack Dover, re
tail Chairman Clyde A. Short and
all of their respective organiza
tions who helped in this greatest
of all bond selling campaigns in
the county.
The Shelby Rotary club won the i
Chamber of Commerce award for!
both the largest number and:
greatest amount of bonds sold and
will be presented with the formal j
recognition later.
TUESDAY RAIDS
BAGGED 154
ENEMY PLANES
Defending Air Force Is
Either In Hiding Or
Non-Existent
ONLY TWO IN AIR
By Leif Erickson
GUAM, July 11—(IP)—Both
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nim
itz and the Tokyo radio spoke
openly of future American in
vasion moves today, as first
fragmentary assessment of
Tuesday’s 1,000-plane carrier
assault on Tokyo accounted
for only 154 enemy planes.
The defending enemy air force
Nearly was absent-or reluctant,.
Tokyo radio speculated that the
American carrier strike presaged
an invasion, and recalled that the
last carrier force bio wat Tokyo
tvas followed promptly by landings
on Iwo Jima.
Admiral Nimitz reported a re
grouping of growing American
air power in the Ryukyus giv
ing Gen. Douglas MacArthur
command of all army planes
there—and added that his own
marine and navy aircraft wili
continue their strangling block
ade of Japan “preparatory to
further amphibious assaults.”
Preliminary reports for the morn
ing half of Tuesday’s carrier plane
assault showed that only two of
the 154 Japanese planes destroyed
or damaged were Airborne. Both
were reconnaissance craft snooping
too near the mighty U. S. Third
fleet circling offshore. None of the
warships including the biggest
type carriers and battleships, was
attacked, Nimitz said.
LITTLE RESISTANCE
With no indication of air oppo
sition, the heavily armed Helldiv
ers. Avengers, Hellcats and Cor
sairs evidently were free to spend
the whole day battering Tokyo’s
once-great web of 70-odd airports.
A simultaneous strike of Iwo
See TUESDAY Page 2
McELROYDIES
FROM INJURIES
Fell Into Tractor Gears
Monday, Suffered Se
vere Injuries
Funeral rites for Cam Columbus
McElroy, 38, who died Tuesday
night at 7 o’clock at Shelby hos
pital as the result of injuries he
suffered in a tractor accident
Monday on his farm, will be held
Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at
Pleasant Ridge Baptist church, of
which he was a member, with the
Rev. Jesse Blalock, pastor, offi
ciating. Interment will be in the
church cemetery.
Mr. McElroy was taken to the
hospital Monday morning in a
critical condition after he was
thrown into the gears of the trac
tor and suffered several lacera
tions on both legs, his right leg
was so mangled it necessitated
amputation. The accident occurred
on the H. R. Early farm near Lat
tirnore.
A native of Georgia, Mr. McEl
roy moved to the Pleasant Ridge
section about six years ago and
was a farmer there,
Surviving are' his widow, the
former Beulah Vassey; his mother.
Mrs. Oscar McElrov of Raburn
Gap. Ga.; a sister, Mrs. Esco Pitts
of Raburn Gap, and a brother,
John McElroy of Pontiac. Mich.;
two half brothers. Harvey and
Floyd McElroy, the former in ser
vice, the latter of Shelby; and two
half sisters, Mrs. James Poole cf
Gaffney and Miss Shirley McElroy
of Shelby.
THE WAR TODAY:
Unconditional Surrender’
Is Only Verdict For Mikado
By DeWITT MacKEN/IE. AP Writer
By DEWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
Is it necessary for the Allies to
enforce unconditional surrender on
Japan?
That question naturally arises
from the statement by Nippon's Ad
miral Kichisaburo Nomura that our
policy of unconditional surrender is
only costing us higher casualties.
Nomura (who incidentally seems to
be one of the few Jap admirals that
haven’t committed hara-kiri for the
honor of the Mikado) presumably
is fishing for easier peace condi
tions—that, and trying to cause dis
cord among the allies. It's a safe
bet that Japan would leap at terms
which would permit her to salvage
any of her war-loot.
Apropos of this great problem
there has been running through my
mind like a theme song a phrase
which came out of Berlin a week
ago in a news dispatch. Daniel De
Luce, an Associated Press corre
spondent, in reporting the entrance
of American troops into the Ger
man capital, wrote this graphic
line: »
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