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WEATHER NortK Carolina: Partly cloudy skies and moderate temperatures today, tonight and Friday. CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “COBRA WOMAN” Maria MONTEZ — Jon HALL SABU VOL. XLIII-166 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c JAPS ON BORNEO FIGHT TOUGH DELAYING ACTION ********** ****** * ******* U. S. Airmen Continue To Rain Bombs, Rockets On Nio Home Isles BRITISH PLANES HIT SABANG, OFF SUMATRA 43.5 Per Cent Of Akoshi, 95 Per Cent Oil Refin ery Wiped Out FIERY FOLLOW-UP GUAM, July 12.—(/P)— Bombing and rocket-firing planes ripped southern Japan and its island approaches Wednesday in a fiery follow up to the big carrier and land based air assault on Honshu and a Japanese military com mentator told his people that adequate defense of the home land from invasion required the growing challenge be met. (The Federal Communications Commission, meanwhile, recorded a Tokyo broadcast that a British car rier task force sent more than 200 planes from two flattops Wednesday morning against Sabang Island off the northern tip of Sumatra, 700 miles northwest of Singapore.! New devastation to the Japanese homeland was reported by the 21st (Superfortress) bomber command Which anounced 43.5 per cent of the Industrial city of Akashl and 95 per cent of the Maruzen oil refinery have been knocked out. Only five large tanks and a few smaller struc tures remain Intact at the refinery, 35 miles from Osaya. The Kawasaki aircraft plant was in the razed area df1 of Akashl, ten miles from Kobe. ► Adm. Chester W. Nlmltx an nounced today that “strong forces of Corsair fighters and Avenger torpedo bombers'* raided Kyufhu and the northern Ryukyus Wed nesday. They bombed, rocketed and strafed hangars, shops and build ings at Miyazaki airfield on south east Kyushu, the Inujo airfield on T&nega Island to the south and Installations in the Amami group, northern Ryukyus. NO REPORT The fleet admiral, however, had nothing further to report on the powerful blast Tuesday by more than 1,000 carrier planes of Vice Adm. John S. McCain's Task Force 38 at a network of more than 70 airfields in the Tokyo area. His only "preliminary re ports” on the action, making an incomplete assessment of results through Tuesday morning, had listed 54 enemy planes knocked out, all but two on the ground. (In Washington, a navy official laid navy and marine planes alone See BRITISH Page 2 ' Only 30 Cases Of Polio tn N. C. In First Half Of Year ATLANTA, July 12.—<JP>-Hard hit last year by an outbreak of In fantile paralysis, the state of North Carolina reported but 30 cases of the disease during the first six months of this year, a check-up re vealed today. During the corresponding period of last year. North Carolina report ed 127 cases, of which 119 were listed In June. 5,360 Troops To Arrive In N. Y. Today NEW YORK, July 12—OP)—Sev en, transports are scheduled to ar rive in New York today, bringing home from Europe 5,360 troops, Including the 12th Infantry regi ment of the Fourth (Ivy) division. The 12th regiment will arrive on the transport Sea Bass, carrying 8,376 troops. Other transports arriving and number of troops aboard: A. P. Hill, 369; Jonathan Grout, 361; George W. Campbell, 376; Thomas Cresap, 408; William Cushing, 361; Henry Middleton, 387. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 3:00 p.m.—Baptist Associa tion of Royal Ambassadors meeting at First Baptist church. Supper will be served to the group at 6 o’clock, i 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting I of Klwanls club. 7:00 pm.—C. A. P. cadets meet at armory. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Rotary club. 8:00 p.m.—Ball game at high I echool park between Shelby l «ad Forest City. .. MATRON ACCUSED OF TAKING BABY—Mrs. Phyllis Lanman, 29, a childless wife, lies near hysteria in a hospital at Marion, Ohio, after police said she confessed talcing eight-day-old Jean Eileen Crevis ton from a crib in a hospital. Offi cers said Mrs. Lanman returned the baby safely to its mother two days later. A criminal charge was filed against her and she was held in the hospital under police guard.—(AP Wirephoto). FEPC FIGHT NEARLYENDED Compromise Will Allow $250,000 To Continue Agency WASHINGTON, July 12 —UP)— The marathon congressional fight over the fair employment practice committee apparently was all over but the shouting today. There were indications, though, there would be plenty of that be fore final action on a compromise worked out yesterday to jar loose the deadlocked $750,000,000 war a gencles supply bill. It carries $250,000 for continuance of the a gency on short financial rations. The legislative skids were greas ed to shove the big bill through by nightfall and send it to the White House tomorrow. Not until it is signed into law will 16 home front war agencies have money with which to operate. “ON TH CUFF” All have been operating "on the cuff,” so to speak, since the fiscal year started on July, and none can meet a payroll until the measure becomes law. Today's action to break the deadlock that gripped the bill more than a month ago will start in the house, with a vote on an ap propriations committee recommen dation to give FEPC the $250,000 voted by the senate. It was the senate action, after ‘ the house originally had denied ! funds for the agency, that precipi | tated one of the longest appropria tion stalemates in recent years. The compromise allows the FE PC to use the $250,000 lot Its nor mal activities during the current fiscal year. Although it calls for liquidation of the agency, no time limit is set for liquidation. SUPPORTERS ACCEPT FEPC supporters said the agree ment was all right with them, even though it called for less than half of the budget estimates Their claim that the liquidation provision was meaningless was not disputed even by FEPC foes. That the senate would accept the compromise was predicted by members of a senate-house con See FEPC Page X Representatives From Many Organizations Urge Ratification Of Charter WASHINGTON, July 12.—(#*)—Representatives of a score of organizations urged senate ratification of the Unit ed Nations charter without change today as the foreign re lations committee brought its hearing toward a close. ut. neien uwigni item spoxe ior a dozen major groups in behalf of the charter but she declared that its usefulness ‘‘depends on the quality of our participation.” Dr. Reid -was listed as spokesman for the American Association of University Women, the Association for Childhood Education, the Gen eral Federation of Women’s clubs, the Girls’ Friendly Society of the U. S. A., the National Board of the Y. W. C. A., National Congress of Parents and Teachers, National Council of Jewish Women, Nation al Education Association, National Federation of Business and Profes sional Women’s clubs, National Ser vice Star Legion, National Wo men’s Trade Union League, United Council of Church Women. Ulric Bell of Washington, submit ted for Americans United for World Organization a statement pleading for ‘‘quick ratification,” asserting that ‘‘this country has ben unable to escape involvement in wars—it should try involvement in peace.” ENDORSED LEAGUE The Natonal Education Associa tion’s views were presented by Wil liam G. Carr, secretary, in a state ment which noted that the group is "proud” of its endorsement of the league of nations covenant in 1919 and extends the same support to tlwraw treats.,*. Tire hearings opened *-”h what the committee expected to be the last opponent on the list, Thomas J. Reardon of Hartford, Conn., as serting that the charter compels "a fundamental change in the consti tution of the United States” and therefore is "improperly before this ! committee.” Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky) | told a reporter it now appears to j him there may be no negative votes j on ratification. Similarly, Senator Hill of Ala j bama, the democratic whip, report | ed he could find no colleague dis 1 posed to oppose the ratification resolution, although he forecast that j unsuccessful attempts would be J made to attach reservations, i UNANIMOUS i “We should make this vote unani mous,” Hill asserted. “The senate I went to war unanimously, let’s go to I peace unanimously.” j Palpably unimpressed by the ar guments of 15 opposition witnesses | yesterday that the charter destroys I American sovereignty and is in fact only a military alliance, committee members arranged to hear Philip Murray, president of the CIO, and other supporters today. These in clude Dr. William Carr, head of the National Education Association. Tomorrow the committee will hear from John Foster Dulles, who serv ed as Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s for eign affairs adviser in the 1.944 presidential campaign. Dulles was a principal adviser to the American delegation at the San Frt^npisco Chairman Connally (D-Tex) said the committee might conclude its hearings tomorrow, when Norman Thomas, former socialist candidate for president, also is scheduled to appear. A committee vote on the charter either Saturday or Monday was considered likely. Destruction Of Jap Air Force Is In Sight Undersecretary For Air Says Nip Plane Losses Six Times Greater Than Those Of U. S. WASHINGTON, July 12.—(#)—'The battle for control of the air over Japan itself now is underway, and the de struction of the Japanese air force as an effective weapon is in sicrht. I ____ So says Undersecretary of the Navy Artemus L. Gates in his final report as assistant secretary for air, a post he surrendered last week to move up as undersecre tary. By the early part of this year, Gates said, “we had complete do mination of the air in all naval theatres of operation in the Pa cific—from our own west coast and that of South America to the East Indies, to China, and up to the very door of Japan. “At this moment navy search and patrol planes are operating over the South China sea. East China sea, Yellow sea, Korea, the Sea of Japan, the Inland sea, the southern approaches to the home islands, and over the Kuriles to the north.” Reporting the "virtual elimina tion” of Japanese carrier-based air forces and the decimation of enemy army and navy air forces, Gates said more than 17,000 Nip ponese planes have been destroyed since Pearl Harbor by navy and marine planes, against fleet com bat losses of approximately 2,700, a combat ratio of better than six to one. “Preliminary figures for the See DESTURCTION Page 2 PAVING WORK STARTSSOON Brown Paving Company Of Charlotte Gets $47,762 Contract 1 Brown Paving company, of Charlotte, will begin work within the next few days on Its Job of resurfacing streets in Shelby, It was learned this morning. Con tract which was let last week by the local board of aldermen in volves a total cost of $47,762. This firm was low among six contrac tors which submitted bids. The contract provides for the furnishing and laying of 6,000 tons of sheet asphalt and 125 tons of binder for patching. It was pointed out by city offi cials today that Shelby streets have been needing treatment for some time but that war activity had interfered with this kind of work. The Charlotte concern has con tracted to complete the work with in 90 days. Convoys, Laden With Jap Soldiers, Broken Up Between Shanghai And Enemy Mainland By LEIF ERICSON GUAM, July 12. —<JP)— Japanese attempts to run two troop laden convoys of soldiers from Shanghai to bolster homeland defenses against an American Invasion were appar ently broken up by blockading U. S. Naval aircraft, Rear Adm. John Dale Price reported today. Price said none of the transports was sunk in the combined attack by fleet air wing one Mariners and Privateers and strafing Thunderbolt fighters, but none of the trans ports got across the Yellow sea to Korea or through the Korean straight to the Sea of Japan. _ i The convoys were presumably driven Into the former German port of Tsingtao, churning yellow mud In the shallow water. Heavy antiaircraft fire from the convoy prevented effective bombing attacks, but rockets from Thun derbolt fighters started fires lasting about 20 minutes on one ship. The plain-spoken. Arkansas-born admiral Is relinquishing command of fleet air wing one to become commander of the Okinawa oper ating base. In this assignment the 53-year-old Price of Little Rock, will direct the development of. [Oklpiva as aa advance naval c®er ating base. The best potential har bor on Okinawa is Buckner Bay, which the Japanese used as a fleet anchorage when it was known as Nakagusuku Wan. BEING SUCCEEDED Price is being succeeded as fleet air wing one commander by Rear Adm. John Perry of (140 James St.) Greenville, S. C. (His wife, the form er Madeline Gleason, lives at 841 C ave., Coronado, Calif.) Price’s new assignment was an nounced simultaneously with the award to him of the Navy Cross by See CONVOYS Page 2 HE STARTED IT—George W. Rap pelvea, an engineer with the Hig gins Industries, Inc., at New Or leans, sits in his office July 10 and recalls that just 20 years ago to the day the famous John T. Scopes "money trial” began at Dayton, Tenn.—and Rappelvea was the man who started the whole affair. He and his friend, Scopes, a teacher, were -opposed to a Tennessee law against teaching the theory of evo lution in public schools. By agree ment, Rappelvea swore out a war rant against Scopes, charging him with teaching evolution, to make a test case of the law. Scopes was con victed and fined $100 but the Ten nessee supreme court later reversed the case.—(AP Photo). CUlNEStPUSH NEAR YUNGFU Column Advancing Along Hunan-Kwangsi Railway Takes Luchai CHUNGKING, July 12 —<£>)— Chinese forces advancing north ward along the Hunan-Kwangsi railway were reported today to be battling their way toward Yungfu, 60 miles northeast of Liuchow and 32 miles southwest of the former U. S. air base at Kweilin. The Chinese high command said this column had recaptured Lu chai, 28 miles northeast of Liu chow, and had driven on beyond. Offsetting the Chinese gains in Kwangsi Province, the high com mand disclosed that the Japanese had captured Tinpak on the south China coast 107 miles southwest of Canton. Tinpak fell to enemy troops which struck eastward along the highway from Muiluk in the northeast corner of the Luichow Peninsula. NOT CLEAR It was not immediately clear here whether this drive represent ed an attempt by the Japanese to fight their way from the luichow Peninsula to Canton or to streng then tenuous overland communi cations between Canton and Hai nan island, which lies off the southern tip of the Peninsula. Approximately 300 miles west of Tinpak, Chinese forces at Chen nankwan (south guard) Pass near the Indo-China border were re ported to have repulsed a series of attacks by Japanese troops strik ing across the frontier from Dong Dang. Cooler Weather Following Rain A morning shower brought around a fifth of an inch of rainfall and with it a sharp drop in tempera ture reflecting generally cooler weather in a considerable portion of the nation. The rain pressed the thermome ter down to the sixties for the coolest weather since summer’s ad vent, cooling breezes through much of the night preceding the local rainfall. The weather man pre dicts moderate temperatures '/ rest of the week. The Cleveland area continues tc be far short of normal rainfall for the summer, thus far, but recent showers have enlivened growing things which were beginning to suffer from drought conditions. It will take a lot more rain to catch up effects of the driest and hottest June on record here. Cooler weather over the north western states have brought a wel come break in the extended sum mer heat of the past three to four weeks. But more rain is wanted as much as lower tempera tures. '■ One Aim Of Big-Three Meet Will Be To Assure Day-T o-Day Cooperation By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor WASHINGTON, July 12.—(/P)—President Truman is expected to seek closer and more continuous diplomatic ties I with Britain and Russia when he meets Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin at Berlin. The objective will be to assure day-to-day handling of current European political problems which grew out of the war and for which quick solutions are considered vi tal to a workable peace. At the heart of whatever pro posal Mr. Truman makes along this line—probably to create an international commission — is the need to promote Big Three coop eration at a time when some forc es are working to weaken it. In some respects the stresses on this conference will be greater than i those under which the late President Roose velt, Churchill and Stalin worked at Tehran and at Yal ta. The biggest difference, of course, is that the three Al lies no longer are bound by the compelling need to defeat a common enemy. They are confronted with the necessity for writing a common peace, but in this political and ec onomic differences of approach pose problems which the purely military considerations of the past never brought up. BLUE CHIPS 4 I This time too the real blue chips to come into play more than ever before. Issues no longer can be j resolved in broad statements of principle. They are concerned with specific questions of . boundaries, political alignments and territorial controls not heretofore tackled bn a grand scale. Generally, as diplomats here see it. the task of the Big Three at Potsdam will parallel but does not tie in directly with the work of the San Francisco conference. At San Francisco the United Nations were concerned with designing machinery to preserve peace. At Berlin the job will be mainly one of arranging the transitions from war to peace. TRANSITION This may be broken down into four main categories: 1. Long-range control of Ger many; the top allies—Russia. Bri tain. France and the United States —are now perfecting military con trols for the relatively brief period of years in which they will be dis arming and neutralizing the Reich. 2. Disposition of territories; there are more than 30 dispute bound . See ONE AIM Page 2 Commander Loyal To Exile Government Head Of All Polish Land, Sea, Air Forces Abroad Pro tests Allied Recognition of New Regime LONDON, July 12.—(fP)—Lt. Gen. Wladyslaw Anders, who was appointed by the Polish exile government in London last! February as commander of all Polish land, sea and air forces abroad, issued an order of the day today protesting allied recognition of the new Warsaw provisional government. Anders’ action followed by hours a similar order of the day issued by Maj. Gen. Klemens Rud nicki, commander of the first Pol ish armored division in Germany, declaring his continued allegiance to President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz of the exile regime. The statement by Anders, who is now in Italy, was released through headquarters of the Polish forces in London. Describing re cognition of the Warsaw govern ment as "a heavy blow,” Anders declared: “The powers of the world tram ple over our constitution, over our rightful authorities. For the tem porary sake of convenience they accept a fait accompli which was imposed upon Poland by foreign might.” INSIDIOUS "All of us,” Anders told his troops, “will be the object of at tacks of insidious agitation. They will call on us for a so-called free return to our country—a return which we know is cloaked with uncertain consequence. He asserted that the Polish peo ple would “like us back on our own home soil,” but added: “But they do not wish to see us return as slaves of a foreign power. They wish to see us march back with flags flying, as the standard bearers and advance guard of true freedom. “As such a return is impossible for the time being, we must re main in disciplined and closed ranks, awaiting a favorable change of conditions.” Taft Denounces International Bank Proposal WASHINGTON, July 12 —t/P;— Senator Taft (R-Ohio) today de nounced as “profligate lending” the international bank proposed under the Bretton Woods agree ments and asked that senate con sideration of the measure be post poned. Majority Leader Barkley (D Ky) has insisted that the house approved monetary pact be taken up Monday and pushed through a head of the United Nations char ter. Barkley said he thought the Bretton Woods debate would re quire about three days and that the charter, still before the for eign relations committee, should wait even if It, is ready for senate discus/ion before then. In a speech prepared for floor delivery, Taft concentrated his fire on the international bank half of the Bretton Woods proposals. They call for an $8,800,000,000 in ternational fund to stabilize world currencies and the $9,100,000,000 bank to support loans for recon [ struction and industrial develop ment. See TAFT Page 2 County Teachers Picked For Term Starting July 23 With everything in readiness for e opening of Cleveland county ;hools on July 23, Superintendent Horace Grigg announced the list of principals and teachers this morning. Superintendent Grigg said that he considered the county fortunate in being able to secure the qual ity of personnel represented by the teaching force. The list by schools follows: LATTIMORE C. C. Padgett, principal. Latti more; C. C. Goode, Lattimore; Inez Harris, Lattimore; Lyda Poston. Lattimore; Mr*. Vernie C. Piercy, Lattimore; Vera E. Price (Home Ec), Lattimore; P. M. Coley, (ag riculture), Lattimore; Lilliah Craw ley Jones, Lattimore; Thomas Wil bur Martin, Lattimore; Jessie Bax ter, Lattimore; Faye Purser Hollis, Lattimore; Mrs. Beulah Falls Har rill, Lattimore; Madge Sperling, Lattimore; Mrs. Mattie Sue Allen Willis, Lattimore; Mrs. J. S. Blan ton, jr„ Lattimore; Mrs. Elva Moss Blanton, Lattimore; Mrs. Nina Gold Toms, Lattimore; Mrs. Genevieve B. Edwards, Lattimore: Pauline Dedmon, Lattimore; Virginia See COUNTY Page 2 AUSSIES, DUTCH DRIVE TOWARD OIL FIELDS Air Force Supports Ground Action, Sprays With Jellied Gas SIX MILiT.NLAND Bv Spencer Davis MANILA, July 12.—(£>)— Australian seventh infantry and Dutch colonial troops ad vanced slowly today on Bor neo's rich Sambodja oil fields despite the tough delaying ac tion being fought by "beached Japanese naval personnel in the steaming, rain - soaked equatorial forests. Some six miles north of the Balik papan town area, the Aussies, their path cleared by P-38 fighters of the 13th Army airforce which sprayed a 12-mile area with jellied gasoline breached the outer lines of the Japanese hinterland defenses in an advance on “smashed stone” ridge. The forward digger elements, in driving a three-mile wedge into the Japanese positions, moved to with in a half mile of the ridge, Mt. Ba tochampar, a 200-foot hill feature on which the Nipponese are Well fortified. On the central sector, other Aus sies repulsed Japanese counterat tacks three miles inland from the mouth of the Sepinggang Ketjil river, where the perimeter guards the Sepinggang airfield. Associated Press War Correspon dent Russell Brines reported the captured Sepinggang field within 10 days of completion and its Japanese built asphalt runways capable of extension to 1,200 feet. READY FOR ACTION Dutch airmen, piloting Mitchell medium bombers, are ready to go into operation from the field as soon as it is completed. On the right flank, the Austra lians fighting along the single lane See AUSSIES Page * VINSON TO AD) CONSTRUCTON Committee To Help In dustry In Matters Of Materials, Prices WASHINGTON. July 12 — <JFi— Fred M. Vinson shortly will create a new committee to give the near ly dormant construction industry a boost toward reconversion. The inter-governmental agency group, under a chairman to be installed in Vinson’s Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, will guide a concerted effort to help the industry in matters of materials, prices and relaxation of federal controls. Vinson holds that building ac tivity, now stripped down to a wartime low of about $4,000,000,000 a year, should reach a $15,000,000 000 level in order to fill a postwar role in stabilizing the economy and providing .mbs. This would be a bout 15 perrmt higher than any previous volume of construction, LAGS BEHIND Construction has lagged far be hind other industries in relaxa tion of controls, largely because of the lumber shortage which now appears destined to continue for months. Associates of Vinson said he was equally concerned, however, with the fact the vast industry is loose ly organized. Hence it has no rep resentation like that of the auto mobile industry which can sit down and work out its problems with the government. COORDINATION In addition to dealing with con trols, it is reported that the new committee also will attempt to co ordinate private building with pub lic works. Vinson has asked for a “large shelf of public works In the blueprint stage’’ to enable prompt start of a government building program as a stimulus to j private business. The public works ! program, in Vinson’s view, should ! be retarded when private con 'struction hits good levels and ac j celerated again when private ac ! tivity falls off, and thus function j as a stabilizer for the industry. 1 Vinson's recent report to Con i gress estimated that the country I will need 1.250,000 new dwellings annually in the ten years imme diately after the war, one-third more than ever were constructed before.
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