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~ State Theatre Today - “COUNTER-ATTACK” PAUL MUNI MARGUERITE CHAPMAN SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES * SINGLE COPIES—6c ROMAN AT LITTLE WHITE HOUSE :>s, t (s Pourir.g Destruction Upon Jap Cities _ -—*» ;srSSiig«&sK$&#s — 3?«s————Ma.v Retire fenasrgfSSw ■“• From Golt TURF UPSETS DIME A DOZEN NEW YORK. July 16. —(/P)—With upsets a dime a dozen In the im portant horse racing stakes, It seem ed unlikely today that any three- j year old can put a clean-cut claim on the division's championship this campaign. The only three-year-old able to win consistently over the past lew months has been Louis B. Mayer's outstandlnp filly, Bucher, who has been running on the Pacific coast. The daughter of War Admiral took four of five purses to earn *86.895 for the movie magnate. In winning top two-year-old honors for fillies in 1944. Busher took first money in five out of seven events and col lected *80,300. " But the Pacific flyer will be mar ooned west of the Rockies under the Office of Defense Transporta tion's travel restrictions and won’t get a chance to meet some of the formidable eastern talent. That holds, too. for Warren Wright’s Pot O'Luck. The son of chance play finally came into his: own Saturday by capturing the *84 450 Arlington classic at Wash ington Park but he won’t be able to move out of the Chicago area. The 30-length licking that Bel mont winner Pavot took in finish ing and eased up last In the *57,000 Dwyer stakes at Aquedpct Saturday further complicated the three-year old situation. The $38,900 first place melon went to J. M. Roebling's Wildlife, a fast improving speed ster. The dark bay colt was second to Pavot in the Belmont but he walloped Preakness wmner Polyne sian and a number of other good racers in Khe Shevlin. Polynesian didn't run Saturday because of a recurrence of a skin eruption. Hoop Jr., winner of the Kentucky derby, is out for the sea son. TRAIN KILLS WOMAN RALEIGH, July 16—(>P)—Coroner • Roy M. Banks is investigating the death of Mrs. Letha Mozingo, 39.! who was killed here yesterday as she stepped in front of a north bound Seaboard railway passenger train. Her seven-year-old daughter, who was accompanying her to Pullen park, was not injured. LAW VOLUME DELAYED RALEIGH, July 16—Distribution of the 1945 session laws will be de layed until late this year due to the printer’s shortage of labor, i Secretary of State Thad Eure, said : yesterday. i DAYTON, O., July 16—(IP)—By- | ron Nelson of Toledo, the one-day old PGA championship crown perched jauntily on his sunburn ed brow, will decide this week whether to retire" from golf for awhile. The transplanted Texan, who yesterday defeated Sam Byrd of Bedford, Mich., 4 and 3, to take the title over Mo raine Country club’s hilly, wind-swept course, said he would enter the Mayo clinic at . £> Rochester, Minn., Wednesday for a checkup. "My back has been bothering me," Nelson explained. "I want to find out Just what the trouble is, and if the doctors say I need a rest I'll just put away my clubs until they tell me I can play again." Nelson has exhibitions schedul ed today and tomorrow in Iowa, and one In Rochester. Wednesday, j He will play all of them, he said, before going to the clinic. Nelson's back was injured about two weeks ago in a driving con test preceding the victory open in Chicago. He went on to win that event, and $5,000 in war bonds in the PGA concluded here yester day. Each night during the tourney Nelson underwent heat, massage and osteopath treatments to pre pare for the next day's round, and despite the injury he scored 48 birdies and two eagles, went over par only 15 times and finished 37 under par for 204 holes. KEEN COMPETITION The 38-year-old Byrd, in the PGA finals for the first time, ap peared ready to sweep Nelson out of the way as he wound up the morning round with four straight birdies to take a two-up lead. Byrd toured the first 18 in 67 strokes, five under par, while Nel son was using up 69, but Nelson, appearing in the finals for the fifth time in the last six PGA classics, didn't appear perturbed. Byrd hiked his lead to three on the 21st as Nelson muffed a four foot putt, but then Byrd's game began to fall apart. He loot to Nelson's birdie on the 22nd, and skid ded over par on both the 25th and 26th to hit the final turn i all even. , With Byrd's putter cooled off, ( kelson romped to win the 29th, 10th, 31st and 32nd in a row, and lalved the next in par three — iespite a tee shot which soared >ver the green into the gallery— : ,o close out the match. ( The victory was Nelson's ninth ( ourney win in a row, a winning ] ;treak never before attained by 11 iny golfer. 11 CLUB STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE J W. L.' Chicago .47 St. Louis.44 Brooklyn.. 44 Pittsburgh. 41 New York.. 42 Boston . 39 Cincinnati . 37 Philadelphia ..21 m 29 34, 35 Japanese 37 >ply cen 40 .arters.— 39 38 -- 63 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Detroit_ 43 Washington .. 40 New York ...._ 41 Boston _ 41 Chicago . 39 St. Louis.35 Cleveland . 35 Philadelphia _. 25 -o ED 6 4nger Jink GAME RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 5-7, New York 3-2. Pittsburgh 9-15, Brooklyn 1-3 Cincinnati 6-3, Philadelphia l-tori<1, Boston 3-5, St. Louis 1-3. J _ anc —Th« r lin issen AMERICAN LEAGUE anada New York 5, Detroit 4 (Seconar ai rain.'* t„ Boston 6, Cleveland 4, (Seco- ’ . rain.) »id 31 Other games postponed, rain, rmbled -0- jke out TODAY’S BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE jt d0Ck! Detroit at New York 2:30 p.m/he VC8' Cleveland at Boston 2:30 p.irrf. Chicago at Philadelphia (2) (rj hos (light) 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. .. St. Louis at Washington (nif 1 j 30 p m. ) homes - - CfLSfc 15( NATIONAL LEAGUE by n a New York at Chicago 2:30 p.r„ . Brooklyn at Pittsburgh 3:15 j‘,ner Boston at St. Louis (night) 1 . 3.m. aI wa! (Only games scheduled) injured lying or TAKES N. C. C. W. POST attention STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — panic or \nna M. Stephens, physicia* as he College of Health Service, deck**8 ;ylvania State College, has resjspital hac o become a golf Instructor alMck smokt nan’s College, University of dowr Carolina at Greenshoro, N, C._ SEEK BODY IN CATAWl/u|)C CHARLOTTE. — (/P)_ OfTic*, *^ Kount Holly and MecklefHCS ounty were early this me Iragging the Catawba river,™ qtpn, ^ount Holly for the body of , SS 27' w“ <‘rom“4w «s __I___ion sloggi _ lrshes t, lomeo irtheast ie Company—Breweries in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chattanooia, Norfolk, Orlando $P/, . alter the swim... • five miles assie force ur’s com uit formerlj i»hland pipe l|efineries ol pa time t< relief frorr >e expected The supplj Ie to us al 7 what waj go just a! iermine the « on hand ■now than to, Ander i that "we light hut tlr abund Jd, we ate e aceus peacetime. HALSEY SENDS TASK FORCE TO TOKYO’SBOOR Battleship Iowa Heads Force Roaming Home land Waters 80 MILES~OF TOKYO By Hamilton Maron GUAM, July 17.—(/P)—A daring American naval task force steamed to within 80 miles of Tokyo tonight (Jap an time) and bombarded in dustrial targets around Hi tachi on the heels of an eight hour raid by 1,500 planes from American and British carrier planes in the area of the Jap anese capital. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced the bombardment while it was still underway only a few hours after he reported carrier planes had knocked out 347 Nip ponese vessels and 129 locomotives in their week-end sweep over northern Japan. The new battleship Iowa with her blazing: 16-inch guns led the bombardment group in the closest approach of any U. S. Naval Task Force to the Jap anese capital. SUCCESSIVE RAIDS A curtain of steel from the Iowa and supporting cruisers and des troyers hammered at Hitachi’s vital copper smelter and aircraft parts plants, previous target of Marianas based Superforts which sent nearly 500 planes lashing at four other Nipponese cities today. It was the third naval bombard ment of Japan’s vunerable coastal j industries within four days. The Iowa presumably led the bombard ! ment ships in close to shore for the night attack against the in dustrial plants which lie about a mile off the coast, i In a week, Admiral William F. (Bull Halsey’s Third fleet has ranged from Tokyo to the north ern end of Japan and back again, smashing with bombs and shells virtually important steel, munitions, ! and oil plants, shipping and rail i transportation and airdromes. Japan has taken it all helpless ly without offering more than token resistance. Today’s unprecedented assault on the Tokyo area was part of a pre invasion attack involving 2,000 or more Allied planes ranging from stubby little fighters to giant Su perforts. Fighters and bombers ‘ from the world’s greatest naval armada swept the Tokyo area for at least eight hours, and there was no word that the attack by Adm. See HALSEY Page 2 SUES MAKE 39,123 IDLE Further Work Stoppages Mar The Labor Picture By the Associated Press Fresh labor disputes spoiled an otherwise promising picture of the national labor scene today. Ending of work stoppages in a ck~en industries during the last 24 hours enabled more than 32,000 men and women to go back to their jobs. But as the 32,417 returned to the 12 war factories and mines, New York stoppages were reported in five industries, adding 12,464 to the idle ranks, and putting the total at 39,123. This number, however, was one of the lowest in the last several days. The walkouts and strikes were in more than a score of cities and hit a varied line of industries, including coal mines, newspapers, ship yards, bus lines, a telephone r mpany, dis stilleries and a dozen or more war plants. Many of the strikes and walkouts have been in progress for more than two weeks. The largest of the new stoppages reported was a walkout of 8,000 em ployes of the Pennsylvania ship yards in Beaumont, Tex. They quit work as negotiations continued be tween the company and the metal trades council (AFL) over a contract which expired July 2 . A labor dispute in San Francisco which has tied up repair work on nine ships since last Friday con tinued. TRUMAN CHATS WITH YANK SERGEANT IN BRUSSELS—En route to the Big Three conference at Pots dam, President Truman (left) pauses at an airfield at Brussels, Belgium, to chat with S Sgt. Frank P. Galis (right) of Racine, Wis., a member of the 137th regiment in the U. S. 35t,h division. Others were not identi fied.—(AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto) SCHOOLS WILL OPEN SEPT. 3 Board Elects Several New Teachers, Accepts Resignations At a meeting of the city school board held last night the date for opening of the 1945-46 school ses sion was set for Monday morn ing, September 3, at 8:30 o’clock, with regular holidays to be ob served during the school year. The calendar, as set by the board, lists Thursday and Friday, November 22 and 23, to be observ ed as Thanksgiving holidays; De cember 15 through 30 inclusive to be observed as Christmas holidays; and Good Friday and Easter Mon day to be observed as Easter holi days in the spring. The board, which was adminis tered the oath of office for the new term which begins on July 1, last night accepted the resignation of Mrs. Henry Mills, first grade teacher in the Jefferson school, and of Agnes S. Mitchell, home economics teacher in the Cleveland training school. The resignations of two teachers, elected to begin teaching here during the coming session, J. G. Ayers and Miss Car roll Over cash, were also accepted. Mr. Ayers was to be principal of Jefferson school and Miss Over cash was to teach Spanish and English in the high school. NEW TEACHERS The following teachers were elected to teach in the city schools during the coming year: Miss Gwendolyn Pierce, graduate of Woman’s college in Greensboro, social science; Miss Betty Modlin, graduate of Appalachian State Teachers’ college and for the past four years a teacher in Glen Al pine, first grade at Jefferson school; Miss Gwendolyn Doggett of Lattimore, for the past six years a teacher in the Polkville school, primary teacher to be assigned; Elsie Enloe, Shelby, home econo mics teacher at Cleveland train ing school. The board authorized Superin tendent Walter Abernethy to of fer a contract to a principal for the Jefferson school and an an nouncement of the new principal is expected at an early date. Berlin Rocked By Three Explosions In Russian Area BERLIN, July 17.—W—Three terrific explosions, apparently ema nating from the Russian zone of occupation, rocked Berlin ar Pots dam early this morning and still i were unofficially explained at noon, i The Blasts rattled windows in the area where President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill are quar tered for the big three conferences,1 and caused bomb-weary Berliners to cast apprehensive glances sky-. ward. American officers charged with ! security in this sector said they had received no reports on the cause of the blasts, but added that the Rus sians had been doing considerable demolition work and that the ex plosions might be connected there- I with. The first blast occurred about 9 A. M„ and the other two at one hour intervals. Carl S. Thompson Offers Give Land For City Park City Studying Proposed Development To Include Lake And Swimming Pool Plans for a large municipal park, lake and swimming pool within the city’s limits were under consideration today by the City of Shelby following a formal tender of acreage for the project by Carl S. Thompson, owner of the old King property in the valley east of Gilliatt’s greenhouses which city officiate" recognize as peculiarly adaptable to park niivtirmn m t mi I purposes. 3LAM1 FLEEING JAPS CHUNGKING. July 17. —— Forward elements of Chinese forces closing in on Kweilin have infil trated into the outskirts of the former American air base city, 90 miles northeast of recently recap tured Liuchow, the Chinese high command announced. Other troops pushing up the Hu nan-Kwangsi railroad from Liuchow have advanced to within 40 1-2 miles of Kweilin, triple-airfield base abandoned last October by the U. S. 14th air force. This advance placed the Chinese moving along the railroad at a point within nine and one-half miles of Yungu, which is 31 miles southwest of Kweilin. Other Chinese forces drove a wedge into the Hunan-Kwangsi railroad between Kweilin and Chu anhsien, 67 miles northeast of Kwei lin, thus cutting off enemy retreat from the former air base along the rail line which runs through Heng yang. The rail line was cut eight miles northeast of Hsinganhsien, which is 33 miles northeast of Kwei lin. The high command also an nounced the recapture of Tinpak. a coastal highway town on the South China sea, 175 miles southwest of Canton. Capture of this town se vered Japanese communications with Liuchow peninsula and Hainan Island to the. south, the Chinese said. WHAT’S DOING 7:00 p.m.—Scouters club at Cleveland Cloth Mills club. WEDNESDAY 7:45 p.m.—Presbyterian pray er meeting. 8 p.m.—Midweek prayer ser vice at First Baptist church. Nimitz Term! Japan ‘Pre-In » - GUAM, July 17—(A3)—Current fleet bombardment of the Japa nese homeland is the “preinvasion stage” of the war, fleet Adm. Ches ter W. Nimitz stated today while in Washington . Vice Admiral Daniel Barbey warned bluntly that invasion of either Japan or China may not wait until the end of the typhoon season. Radio Tokyo, not to be out done in the broadcasting of invasion warnings, predicted early landings on Japan and declared: “The homeland decisive bat tle is the decisive battle of all decisive battles.” Nimitz, broadcasting to the United States just 45 minutes af ter flashing the announcement jviai a. spangier, acting on De half of Mr. Thompson and the Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation through which gift of the property would be made by the owner, tendered the property to the city last night and found the board of aldermen in a receptive mood although time for studying the proposition was asked. Mr. Spangler said that Mr. Thompson is deeply interested in this city's establishing a park with outdoor swimming pool facilities. The coun cil instructed Mayor Harry S. Woodson to call upon the state’s recreation commission for assis tance in studying feasibility of a park there and to draft plans—for its proposed development if and when accepted by the city. Mr. Spangler said Mr. Thomp son’s only stipulation in donating the property would require that it be developed and maintained for park purposes and that it revert to him should its use be abandon ed as a municipal park. Mr. Spangler said that in his opinion no more naturally ad vantageous site for a lake and swimming pool, conveniently close to the whole city, could be found in the city’s limits. He said the need for a park is one of Shelby’s greatest needs and that he was pleased to see a large property owner like Mr. Thompson feeling it to the extent of offering to give prop See C. S. THOMPSON Page 2 Must Brand Meat With OPA License Number Beginning July 15, every slaugh terer, before selling or transfer ring any meat must mark on each accessible wholesale cut the num ber of his OPA license, it was stated by local rationing officials today. The marking must be clear and conspicuous and the numerals and letters must be at least one fourth inch in heighth and width. i Blasting Of vasion’ Stage that the combined U. S. and Brit ish Pacific fleets were making "the most powerful” carrier plane attacks of the war on the Tokyo area, said: "The 16-inch guns of our bat tleships, opening fire on industrial targets on Honshu and Hokkaido. (Saturday and Sunday) also open ed an era in which we dominate the Pacific approaches to Japan, and when necessary the air above Japan. "At this—the preinvasion stage —we rely upon two principal strat egies to further our aim: First, an ever-tightening blockade of Ja pan’s home islands; second, de struction by shelling and bombing of every industry and resource which contributes to Japan's a bility to make war.” LUNCHEON IS PRELUDE TO CONFERENCE Soviet Leaders Have Been In Potsdam For Past Two Days BYRNES PRESENT POTSDAM, July 17 --(#>)— Premier Stalin conferred with | President Truman at the little white house today in company | with their ranking foreign af j fairs officials a few hours be j fore the world-shaping big j three conference was sche I duled to start. The Generalissimo, attired as a marshal of the Soviet Union, was accompanied by Foreign Commissar Vyaches lav Molotov. They were guests at luncheon of the President and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. The party talked for an hour. The atmosphere of secrecy sur rounding the delayed start of the conference with Prime Minister Churchill was heightened during the murky, cloudy morning by three mysterious explosions In the Russian zone of Berlin. DELAY UNEXPLAINED The two Soviet leaders ar rived in Potsdam two days ago, it was disclosed. There was no explanation, however, why the | opening of the conference had been delayed yesterday. The Russians appeared at Mr. Truman's residence at 11:50 a. m. j with their official interpreter, V. : N. Pavlov, and were greeted by the President’s military and naval ! aides and then by Mr. Truman ! and his secretary of state in their 1 offices on the second floor. 1 Charles E. Bohlen of the State | department was the American in i terpreter. Pavlov has accompan | ied Stalip to all the previous Big | Three meetings. The six were : together for an hour before going j to lunch. Mr. Truman wore a brown dress suit and sat at the head of the table. The Generalissi mo’s uniform was fawn-colored with silver-edged stars on the 1 epaulets. He sat on the Presi dent’s right. i Pavlov and Molotov sat to : Stalin's right in that order, while Byrnes, Bohlen and Admiral Wil liam D. Leahy, Mr. Truman’s per sonal chief of staff, were at the President's left in that order. Mr, Truman had seen Prime Minister Churchill informally yes terday when the British leader called to pay his respects. DEMOCRATIC AFFAIR It was the kind of easy-going i meeting without frills, which de lights the Democratic Missourian making his debut in the world’s biggest political circle. For Stalin—whose pleasures al so have been simple except when the Russian tradition of gorgeous formalities requires herculean fetes—it was an opportunity to size up at leisure the successor of President Roosevelt. Mr. Truman is just getting used to the sometimes cumbersome bu ' siness of interpreters, but this was a smooth beginning. What they talked about remain ed secret. Stalin met Byrnes at the Yalta i conference. Bohlen went to Mos 1 cow after that meeting in the Cri j mea as State department trouble shooter, assisting Ambassador W. Averill Harriman in tripartite ef See LUNCHEON Page 2 First Yanks Direct From Europe Receive Welcome To Manila MANILA, uly 17.—..Tv>—'The first American service troons shipped di rectly into the Pacific war zone from Europe without a trip home arrived here today to a wet, sloshy welcome after a month's journey from Italy. The 4,275 veterans of Africa, Sic ilv and Italy landed on a muddy Manila dock in the damp dawn. Two bands played as the men mov 1 ed from LCMS to freight cars which carried them to their new camp 35 miles south of here. They came from nearly every I service branch of the Fifth army, ranging from railway construction | to bridge repair and ordnance. There were four companies of white ! troons, but the remainder were ne groes. None are considered com bat men but all have been through considerable action.
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