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day.
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VOL. XLIII—167
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945
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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 —</P)—Aussie
Seventh division troops, paced by
throwers and tanks, have
deep into Japanese defens
smashed stone^rldge north of
Muqmp&h 1arlwMi
Borneo in heavy fighting.
At the same time, headquarters
reported today, Dutch units joined
the Australians in a left flank
inarch up KarianflP'Peninsula to
execute a brUlianC .encircling ma
neuver againat the entrenched
Japanese who are pocketed some
six miles north of Balikpapan
town,
The Borneo campaign is be
ing fought in steaming, rain
drenched forests and decep
tive bogs overgrown with man
grove under a blazing tropical
sun.
The main assault, northeast of
Balikpapan in the Sepinggang
Ketjil river sector, the Australians
are advancing over a scrubby,
rilling terrain permitting use of
their famed medium “Matilda”
tanks.
SURPRISE LANDING
In British northwest Borneo,
the Aussie Ninth division made a
surprise landing near Andus, 26
miles northeast of Beaufort, while
another column made a 10-mile
advance along Beaufort to the Jes
selton narrow-gauge railway with
out opposition to occupy Kimanis
village, five miles south of Andus.
This brought the leading elements
within 30 miles of Jesselton, which
has been under daily harassing at
tack from Australian airforce Spit
fires based on Labuan and the
Seventh fleet PT boats.
On Mindanao, Southern Philip
pines, where Japanese scattered
through the Agusan river valley
and the Davao Gulf area being
mopped up, a prisoner told 24th
division officers that 40 Japanese
women and children had been
found in the Tamogan sector with
their throats cut.
British Fleet Units
Shell Nicobar Isles
CALCUTTA, July 13—(A5)—British
fleet units have bombarded the
strategic Nicobar Islands while car
rier planes attacked airfields in
northwest Sumatra, southeast Asia
command headquarters announced
tonight in a special communique.
British minesweepers swept the
approaches to Malacca Strait,
which lies between Sumatra and
the great naval base of Singapore,
from July 5 to 10 without sighting
a Japanese vessel.
While fleet units attacked the
Nicobars, planes also laid their
explosives on the islands. The
Nicobars lie 280 miles northwest of
Sumatra, rich Dutch oil producing
island, and about 900 miles off Sin
gapore. They are 400 miles west ol
the Kra peninsula of Malaya, link
ing Singapore to the mainland of
Asia.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
8:00 pm.—Baseball game at
high school park between Shel
by and forest City.
A
KENNEY GIVEN
AIR FORCES’
TOP COMMAND
Promises To Bomb Enemy
Homeland 24 Hours
A Day
okinaw/Thome BASE
By Spencer Davis
MANILA, July 13.—(/P)—
Gen. George C. Kenney was
handed the army air forces’
top tactical command against
Japan today and promptly
promised that his far eastern
air forces with advanced
headquarters now on Okinawa
would bomb the enemy home
land 24 hours a Say at all alti
tudes from 10 to 10,000 feet.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who
has had Kenney as his right-hand
man for air since the early days
on the defensive in Australia and
New Guinea, announced that
the army Seventh Air force, vet
eran of the Central Pacific, had
been transferred to Kenney’s
command. All army air operations
from Okinawa now are under Mac
Arthur’s over-all command as chief
of army forces in the Pacific.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz disclos
ed two days ago that the Seventh
air force was reverting to army
control.
MacArthur said this force was
“in the process of deployment to
forward bases to participate in the
air saturation of Japan.” This
force includes Liberator heavy
bombers and MttMi^Il'mediums. '
(A dispatch from Guam today
told of a blow against a naval air
station in Japan by more than 10C
Liberators and Mitchells which it
did not identify otherwise but
which may have been part of the
Seventh air force.)
Status of the Seventh fighter
command, based on Iwo Jima, was
not made clear. Much of its work
in the past has involved escorting
Superfortresses of the strategic
air forces over Japan.
Kenney’s far eastern air forces
already included the Fifth and
13th air forces. Elements of the
See KENNEY Page 2
SILVER STAR
TO SGT. WHITE
Is Decorated For Gallan
try In Action On Two
Occasions
Sgt. Frank M. White, son of Mr
and Mrs. H. H. White of 115 Cline
street, has been awarded the Silvei
Star medal for gallantry in action
in France, Belgium and Luxembourg
from August of 1944 until January
of 1945, it was learned here to
day.
Sgt. White was cited for his bra
very in battle on two occasions
when the medal was presentee
him. “On August 8 in France when
his battalion was caught under ene
my fire, he continued to fire a pro
tective screen until the entire bat
talion had safely withdrawn. H
then voluntarily searched the shell
ed area for wounded comrades o
abandoned equipment.
“On January . 4 in Belgium ht
held his position in spite of smal
arms fire and threats to his flan!
until the enemy canalized am
just 700 yards away and then h<
broke up the vicious attack wjtl
accurate mortar concentrations.”
Sgt. White has been overseas 1'
months and he is still in Germany
His wife, the former Miss Graci
Ledford, makes her home in King;
Mountain.
Pilot Brings
Liner Down j
COLUMBIA, S. C., July 13.—MP
—While the passengers prayed, th<
pilot of a crippled Eastern Airline;
Transport brought the ship to ar
emergency landing in a Carollm
cornfield yesterday after it collid'
ed with an army plane 3,000 fee
up, killing two army fliers and «
two-year-old boy.
The child was one of 17 pas'
sengers aboard the Boston-Miarn
Airliner, which went down 80 mile
east of here. Four others, includ
ing the boy’s mother, Mrs. A. E
Williams of Miami, Fla., were re
ported seriously injured, and sev
eral were shaken U£>,
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—<P)—The
Chinese high command said today
that Chinese troops pressing toward
the former American air base city
I of Kanhsien in Kiangsi province,
had captured the highway town of
Tangkiang. 11 miles west of their
goal, and Fengkang, only seven and
a half miles away.
Kanhsien, if retaken, would be
j the sixth former U. S base re
gained in the current Chinese
i drive.
Japanese troops, however, were
■ reported driving along the highway
leading to Suichwan. one of the
live air bases recovered. Fighting
was in progress 15 1-2 miles south
west of Suichwan and the same
distance north of Kanhsien, the
high command said.
Other Chinese forces were in
tercepting Japanese troops in f
maritime Fukien province advanc
ing toward Changpu. an important
highway center 35 miles southwest
I of the Port of Amoy, the high
' command added.
I The Japanese were driving to
wards Changpu from Chihhu, one
l of the points they occupied on
j the Chinese coast in establishing
; beachheads south of Amoy last
■ June 30.