WEATHER North Carolina—Considerable clou diness and moderate temperatures with a few widely scattered lignt showers today, tonight and Satur day. CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 State Theatre Today - “Penthouse Rhythm" KIRBY GRANT LOIS COLLIER VOL. XLIII—167 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c U. S. BOMBER FLEETS ATTACK JAPAN UNOPPOSED (•******.#*#***,*.*** * ****** Adm. Halsey’s Third Fleet Battered By Raging Typhoon On June 5 PITTSBURGH LOST HER BOW; MANY DAMAGED Practically Every Damag ed Vessel Now Back In Action NO SHIPS WERE SUNK By Leif Erickson GUAM, July 13.—(/P)—A raging typhoon lashed Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey's third fleet with 138 mile an hour winds last June 5. tore the how off the cruiser Pitts burgh and damaged at least 20 other warships, Adm. Chester W, Nimitz announced today after virtually every damag ed ship was back in action. At least four of the damaged ships—the battleships Massachu setts and Indiana, the carrier San Jacinto and the destroyer John Rodgers—participated In last Tues day's 1,000-plane carrier strike at Tokyo. The typhoon damaged more ships than the Japanese navy has been able to do in action in any single battle. But Nimitz made no mention of anyone being killed or seriously Injured. He said no ships were sunk. He listed 20 damaged ships as re paired and back in action, including the three fast new battleships and two Essex clasft. carriers. The cniiaer Pittsburgh, which miracalowsly jtoyad afloat, is be ing refitted fgkaeilon. rreMim Many Of iSRhips were badly hurt by towering 100 foot high seas. None was more heavily hit than the fast, new heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, which was caught the center of the moff the Ryukyu islands. DEROl’S SEA A thunderous sea rippe; off 104 feet of her brow "and tosstd It aside as though it were a match box to wallow in the storm off the ship’s port side;4' reported Associated Press Correspondent Robbin Coons. Capt. John E. Gingrich ordered the engines reversed and swung the 665 foot ship precariously around in a circle to escape a collision with her own bow. She same out in the dead salm of the storm's center. Sealed bulkhead* kept the Pitts burgh afloat and the cruiser, nor mally capable of 33 knots, lumbered back to Guam at nine knots for temporary repairs. The bow was See PITTSBURGH Page 2 ROYSTER NAMED NCRR DIRECTOR Stielbian Returns To Board He Served On For 14 Years D. W. Royster, for 14 years a member of the board of directors of the North Carolina railroad un til his retirement from that office two years ago, has been called bacK to that directorate by Governor R. Gregg Cherry. Appointment of the six-member board of directors to handle the state-owned property, under lease to the Southern Railroad, was made yesterday in a meeting at Greensboro. Henry A. Dennis, Hen derson publisher, was elected presi dent, with Stewart Atkins, of Gas tonia, secretary-treasurer; FVank H. Gibbs of Warrenton, attorney; and W. A. Brame, of Wendell, ex pert. The other directors nominated were Amos R. Kearns of High Point, E. C. Greene of Asheville, D. P. Stowe of Belmont, Walter Carter of Salisbury, Dr. Claire C. Henderson of Mt. Olive and Carl Cline of Hickory. Enemy Says U. S. Sub Admitted Sinking Relief Ship Awa Maru SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.—W Japanese broadcasts said today the United States government has acknowledged that an American submarine sank the Japanese relief ship Awa Maru, apologized and agreed to pay compensation. The ship was sunk July 1 while □ traveling und£r safe conduct grant ed by the United States for an ex pedition to carry relief supplies to American prisoners of war. THESE FOUR ALLIED GENERALS RULE BATTERED BERLIN — Here are the tour Allied generals—Berlin's Kommandantur”—who took over control of the government In the war-shattered capital of Germany July 12. Left to right. Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks of the United States; Col. Gen. Alexander V. Gorbatov of Russia: Maj. Gen. L. O. Lyne of Great Britain, and Maj. Gen. Geoffrey deBeauchesne of France. The four will rotate as head of the group, each serving a 15-day term in that capacity. The picture was rr;ade by Henry L. Griffin, Associated Press staff photographer.—(AP Wirephoto via, radio from Paris) TRUMAN KEEPS UP WITH WAR Divides Time Between Talk Of Big-Three Meet And Pacific War ABOARD CRUISER AUGUSTA I WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, July 13—t/P)—Six days out of New- j Men Of Four ‘Faiths’ Support Charter See Need For Action To Establish U. S. Responsibility In International Peace Keeping WASHINGTON, July 13.—(A5)—Four leaders of differ ent political views declared today that the senate ought to ratify the United Nations charter speedily to establish Am erican responsibility in international peace-keeping. .. port News, president Truman di vided his attention today between opposite sides of_ the globe. His own approaching talks with Prime Minister Churchill and Pre mier Stalin in the outskirts of Ber lin shared shipboard interest with the quickening pace of the Pacific war. Hence Mr. Truman Interspersed his talks with dpilomatic advisers with those of military men keep ing him posted on news of the daring third fleet strikes against Japan. Comds. John A. Tyree, assistant naval aide, made hourly revisions in Pacific charts brought along for the purpose. MONDAY OR TUESDAY Meanwhile, it was disclosed a board ship that the Big Three talks in Potsdam will begin eith er Monday or Tuesday of next week. And Mr. Truman report ! edly is convinced they will last See TRUMAN Page 2 Further Civilian Travel Restrictions Are Forthcoming WASHINGTON, July 13.— (JP) — ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson says further civilian travel restric tions are forthcoming “in all cate gories. not aimed particularly at sports.’’ Johnson's comment to reporters followed the ban against shipping race horses or show animals by rail or othtr public carriers. Other Office of Defense Trans portation officials, reiterating hope that actual travel rationing can be avoided, said other steps, possibly a shifting of additional day coach es to the military pool, may satis fy the mounting troop deployment demand on accommodations. Last week, in announcing with drawal of sleeping car service be tween points 450 miles or less apart, Johnson said still more sleeping cars might have to be taken over to carry troops across the country. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor; Johti Foster Dulles, foreign affaifs' advisor to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey jin the 1944 presidential campaign, 1 Norman Thomas, former Socialist candidate for president, and Philip j Murray, president of the CIO, all i indorsed the charter. They appeared as witnesses in the senate foreign relations com mittee's final day of hearings on the 50-nation agreement signed at San Francisco. Green, first on the stand, told committee members the charter will make possible "collective bar i gaining” between the nations that | ought to go a long way toward | preventing war. "The document itself is evidence I of the will to peace dominating so (many nations,” he declared. "No one nation would draft the char ter as it now stands, but all in the spirit of tolerance are willing to accept a document which rep resents the high point of mutual agreement.” PARTING OF WAYS Dulles, who served as chief ad visor to the American delegation at San Francisco, said in a state ment prepared for delivery before the committee that "the United States is at the parting of the ways.” "Either we must act to continue the association of the United Na tions or we must let that associa tion lapse and go it alone,” he declared in urging approval of the | charter. Thomas, in a prepared statement, said he thought the senate should ratify the charter “not because I believe it an adequate basis for lasting peace, but because I believe that the United States will be in a better position to lead in the es tablishment of such a basis if It should ratify the charter, and ii» good faith use its constructive provisions for an increase in world cooperation.” CIO President Philip Murray, in a statement submitted to the com mittee, called for “the early and See MEN Page 2 THE WAR TODAY: Cleansing Of Spain Likely To Be Talked By Big Three By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer One of the critical and delicate cases likely to be considered at the coming clinic of doctors Tru man, Stalin and Churchill—phy sicians extraordinary to the world —is that of Spain, the problem being what measured are necessary to purge this proud and important country of the Axis plague. The way things stand now, it looks very much as though the cure of Spain’s ills lies in a change of government. Sup port for that idea is seen in the action of a commission at the San Francisco security conference — the commission having voted that the Franco regime, because it had Axis support in coming to power, should never be admitted to membership. That’s a broad hint, to say the least. Now of course it would be easy for the Big Three to treat Spain’s malady roughly. A lot of folk are asking why the United Nations should be considerate In the case of Spain when we have Just fought the bloodiest war of his tory to exterminate Nazism and Fascism. Why not use the big See CLEANSING Page 3 On Draftees Are Relaxed ards are -free today to change jobs without draft board permission. At the request of the army, Sel ective Service last night relaxed its regulations to exclude these men from the possibility of induc tion as job-jumpers. Heretofore these registrants who switched employment without ap proval of their board could be drafted for limited army service. The job-jumper penalties, invok ed six months ago to nip a trend away from wTar work, remain in ef fect for .all physically fit men, as well as for registrants under 26 who fall shy of regular require ments WILL BE INDUCTED Men in the latter group who fail to clear job changes will continue to be inducted under relaxed phy sical standards. Older men freed of clearance re sponsibility are those classified in 4-F, 2-A (F), 2-A (L), 2-B (F> and 2-B (L). All of these are classes for men who do not meet regular physical standards. The army was understood to have requested the change because it opposes any substantial increase in the number of its men not quali fied for combat duty. In the first five months of this year about 52,000 job-jumpers were inducted under relaxed physical standards. By The Associated Press The following army units are to arrive in the United States today (Friday) from Europe: At New York—The 816th Air Engineers squadron, the 640th Aii Materiel squadron and the 824th Tank Destroyer battalion. At Hampton Roads, Va.—3163rc Signal Service company, members of the 87th Infantry division 335th Field Artillery battalion 12th and 312th Engineer battalion 312th Medical battalion, 87th Re connaissance Troop Mechanizes: company and 196th Army Grounc Forces band. King Leopold Debates Abdication BRUSSELS, July 13.—(A*)—Queer Mother Elizabeth and Foreign Min ister Paul Henri Spaak left todaj by plane to join King Leopold at Salzburg, where he is debatins whether to abdicate. Prince Regent Charles is alreadj conferring with the Belgian mon arch in his Austrian refuge. 'in - •t meet stand Redeployment Units Arriving AUSSIES PIERCE JAP DEFENSES Heavy Fighting For Pos session Of Smashed Stone Ridge MANILA, July 13 —, 500 American Planes Blast War Targets Over Far-Flung Tokyo Area GUAM, July 13.—(IP)—Virtually unopposed air blows by around 500 B-29s, heavy and medium bombers, fighters and long range search planes across a 770-mile arc of Japan, ex tending north and south of Tokyo, were announced today. Promptly a U. S. air general on Okinawa declared “the Japs, in my opinion, don’t intend to engage us in the air.” HOEY FORESEES CHARTER’S O.L PROSPERITY | Senator Tells Rotarians | Sees More General Shar ing After War A belief that the United States will join whole-heartedly in the world peace organization and enter upon a period of unprecedented prosperity to be more generally shared by all groups of our peo ple than at any time in the nation's history was expressed today by Senator Clyde R. Hoey in an ad dress to the Rotary club’s luncheon session. “There must be a complete return to the people of all the rifMt, privileges and liberties which were gladly relinguished during the war period, and the individual must be re-invested with all the freedoms of which he has been divested for the duration of the war,” said the senator who returns to Wash ington next week after a 10-day stay at his home here. He was presented by Phil Elliott, pres ident of Gardner-Webb college j and chairman of the club’s in i ternational service committee, who had charge of the program, i END OF RESTRICTIONS ] “The power to control and di rect the activities of the citizen and the business man must be taken away from government agencies and bureaus just as soon as possible aft er the end of the war,” Senator Hoey declared. “Regulations, re strictions and controls must not be retained longer than is absolutely essential to prevent wild inflation, and this can readily be determined by removing all restrictions on any product as soon as the supply is reasonably adequate to meet the demand. Turning to the United Na tions charter at the outset of his remarks, Sen. Iloey said, the most important document ever submitted to the parliaments of the world will be considered See HOEY Page 2 Mexican Secretary Of Foreign Affairs Said *Forced Outf MEXICO CITY, July 13. — (/P)— Both supporters and opponents of Ezequiel Padilla agreed today that he had been “forced out’’ as Mexi can minister of foreign affairs. Padilla, ardent advocate of unity among the nations of the western hemisphere, announced his decision to resign yesterday, soon after his return from the United Nations con i ference in San Francisco where he . was a leading figure. He indicated that criticism of ' his foreign policy motivated his de . cision, but informed Mexicans said ■ today that bitter personal hatreds i and internal politics were the fac tors responsible for his exit. Crippled Air \fter Collision Col. Dexter C. Martin, director : of the South Carolina Aeronautics ; commission, said today that Fred . Powell of the Federal Civil Aero . nautics board safety division was ■ conducting an investigation in Flo . rence. In the meantime the Florence army air base authorities also were investigating the accident. 1 SAW IT COMING ' Martin said he would return tc ' Florence probably tomorrow. • i One of the passengers, Mrs. An ’ nie Lee Moore Walker, 26. of Col bee PILOT Page 2 As enemy homeland lactones ana railroads were wrecked and even the smallest shipping sunk off shore, Brig. Gen. David F. Hut chison of the Far East Air Force told Associated Press Correspondent Richard Cushing at Okinawa that Japan obviously was hoarding planes to use in suicide tactics when Yank Infantrymen storm Nippon's invasion beaches. Rear Adm. D. C. Ramsey, new chief of staff of the Fifth fleet, estimated Japan might have 9.000 planes available and probably eould throw abont 4, 000 into the battle over Japan. Only weak fighter opposition was encountered over Tokyo Bay and a city to the north as Superforts dumped 3,000 tons of fire and de molition bombs on five homeland centers before dawn today, return ing pilots reported. No enemy fighters could be found aloft yesterday as more than 120 Liberator and Mitchell bombers and escorting fighters from Oki nawa ripped into factories and railroads, the Port of Aburatsuand the naval air station of Kanoya on Kyushu. 2,000 MILES The enemy air force relinquished homeland skies so completely that fleet search planes flew nearly 200 miles north of Tokyo to hit small shipping off Sendai, then returned to Iwo—a roundtrip flight of near ly 2,000 miles. It is approximately 770 miles from Sendai to the southernmost target hit on Kyushu. Superfort bombardiers, building up the number of Japanese cities they have hit to 38, had to bomb by instrument through cloud banks but crews brought back these reports: Kawaski oil center on reclaimed island in Tokyo Bay—seven big fires started, t^iible even through overcast; very slight enemy at tempt at interception. Tsuruga, 55 miles northwest of Nagoya—“a steady red glow” start ed at that embarkation port for troops bound for Korea and Man churia. Utsunomiya—Weak air opposi tion brushed aside at that trade and transport center 60 miles north of Tokyo; raiders fought 60-mile an-hour wind. Ichinoniya — Incendiaries spill ed through clouds on the war in dustry city nine miles northwest of Nagoya. Uwajima—Flashes of the fire bombs vied with "St. Elmo’s fire” (static electricity) over that port See 500 Page 2 CHINESEFORCES GET TANGKIANG I Five Former U. S. Air Bas es Regained, Sixth Is Threatened CHUNGKING. July 13—