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CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100
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“COUNTER-ATTACK”
PAUL MUNI
MARGUERITE CHAPMAN
VOL. XLI11—171
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
WEDNESD’Y, JULY 18,1945
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Big Three Moving Quickly Under Truman’s Chairmanship
REPORT STALIN
CARRYING JAP
, BID FOR PEACE
U. S. Leader Goes Calling
Separately On Stalin,
Churchill
CLOUDS CLEARING
By Ernest B. Vaccaro and
Kenneth L. Dixon
POTSDAM, July 18.—(TP)—
President Truman, grasping
the reins as presiding officer
of his first big three confer
ence, went calling today to
talk things over separately
with Prime Minister Church
ill and Premier Stalin.
Potsdam skies were cloudy, but
•the parley atmosphere appeared
conslderaly cleared.
The president first conferred
and ate luncheon with the
prime mhiistter and then visit
ed the Soviet generalissimo for
a similar prsonal session later
in the afternoon.
TRUMAN IN STRIDE
Mr. Truman was selected yester
day as conference chairman.
With him on at least the latter
visit was secretary of state James
T\ Byrnes, the president's erstwhile i
capitol hill partner in many a com- !
promise mission to smooth the con- j
gresslonal pathway for wartime
commitments which the late Presi
dent Roosevelt made at Just such
International sessions as this.
It was a new and far more spec
tacular setting to an old story for ,
w both of them—on an international
basis now. Truman's swift step to
gat down to cases Individually with
both Churchill and Stalin indicat
ed the Missourian has taken the
Potsdam program right in his stride.
There was no definite Infor
mation as to whether another
formal conference was schedul
ed for later this afternoon.
However, it would be true to
Truman form promptly to call
an official meeting to clinch
any informal agreement which
might be reached during his
personal visits.
Mr. Truman’s visits to the other
two members of the big three fol- j
lowed the order In which they had
visited him—Churchill on Monday ■
and Stalin on Tuesday—thus con
forming to diplomatic protocol.
Announcement of the president's
See REPORT Page 2
BEAMS TO OPEN
SUBDIVISIONS
Building Lake And Open
ing Streets For Two
Developments
P
Two real estate developments
for suburban homesltes are being
readied by D. A. Beam Co. for sale
at public auction in September.
Both acreages front on the old
Kings Mountain highway, known
to many as Horseshoe Bend and
are within the corporate limits of
the city.
One development, a part of the
Bob Roberts lands, lies east of
Horseshoe Bend and embraces 24
acres. A lake to cover three and
a half acres is being built on the
property to the rear by Lavendar
Brothers, which firm is also grad
ing streets and sidewalks in ac
cordance with surveys made by
Surveyor Hendren.
ADJOIN BEAUMONDE
The H. M. Loy property, also
belonging to the Beam company,
embracing 38 acres and adjoining
the Beaumonde Terraces, a sub
division promoted successfully
earlier by the Beams, is being pre
pared for sale at the same time
the Lakeview property is offered.
Lavendar Brothers are grading
streets and sidewalks in this prop
erty, which has not been named
as yet, and it will prebably be
made a part of the Beaumonde
Terrace development.
‘‘Churchill Drive” will be the
name of the principal street
through the Loy property, named
in honor of the Prime Minister of
England who has been so promi
nent in leading the Allied nations
to victory and is now in conference
with President Truman and Jo
seph Stalin concerning the future
peace of the world.
John A. Beam, a member of the
Beam company, is supervising the
laying out of the development and
says that all of the residential lots
will be offered for sale in both
tracts sometime in September,
STALIN, TRUMAN AND CHURCHILL MEET IN POTSDAM—Generalissimo Stalin (left), President Truman
teenieri, and Prime Minister Churchill stand together before the opening session of their victory conference
at the Kaiser Wilhelm palace at Potsdam, Germany, at 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.—(AP Wirephoto from
Signal Corps radiophoto from Paris).
MINERS TO GET
EXTRA POINTS
Strike For Extra Rations
Finds ORA Agreeable
To Demand
By The Associated Press
The OPA's promise to grant ex
tra rations to the nation’s coal
miners heralded the end today of
the "no-meat, no-work” strike of
some 10,000 coal miners and foun
dry workers in southern Illinois.
Leaders of the AFL Progressive
Mine Workers and the United
Mine Workers said they had or
dered the strikers back to their
jobs after they had been advised
of the OPA's program which it
hopes to make effective early in
August.
LABOR DISPUTES
Elsewhere across the country
some 35,000 other workers stayed
away from their jobs in more than
a score of cities. But. unlike the
coal miners and foundry workers,
their walkouts and strikes stem
med from labor disputes, and not
in protest over meat shortages.
The expected return* to
work by the miners and
gee MINERS Page 2
Navy Reveals Loss
Of Two Minesweepers
WASHINGTON. July 18 —<£>)—
The navy announced today the
loss of two motor minesweepers in
the Borneo area as a result of en
emy action.
The ships, the YMS 50 and the
YMS 365, had a normal comple
ment of about 35 each.
There were none killed or miss
ing, the navy said, but no infor
mation was available on the num
ber of wounded.
There was no casualty status
reported for either of the ships’
skippers.
The YMS 365 was under com
mand of Lt. (jg) Fred C. Huff, jr.,
New Orleans, La.
The YMS 50 was commanded by
Lt. (Jg) Blake G. Stem, Logan,
Iowa.
Loss of the two craft raised to
324 the total naval vessels of all
types lost in the war.
Swellenbach Seeking A
Strong Labor Department
WASHINGTON, July 18.—(JP)— (
Lewis B. Schwellenbach appeared
today to be charting a course which I
with congressional sanction, would
make him the most powerful secre
tary of labor since the department
was created in 1913.
The new cabinet officer told a
news conference yesterday that 30
leaders of organized labor had ad
vised him his department should
have control over all federal labor
agencies except the long-standing
national mediation board which
handles rail labor disputes.
And Schwellenbach strongly in
dicated he agreed with them. He
said, however, he had not made up
his mind which agencies should be
united with his department but
that he would begin conference
with agency heads tomorrow and
later sound out congressional sen
timent.
Schwwellenbach also made plain
that if he did gain control of the
quasi judicial war labor board and
national labor relations board,
which deal with wartime labor dis
putes and unfair labor practices, he
would not meddle with their con
gressionally-conferred power.
• “I would only take over their
housekeeping functions, was the
way he put it. “That is, to
oversee their procedure and try
to speed it up. I am not going
to take over and become an ap
peal agent of any board that
decides controversial questions.”
Russia’s Old Claim For
Trade Outlets Revived
Big Three May Be Called Upon To Settle Subject
Vital To East Asia's Future
WASHINGTON, July 18.—(A*)—Russia’s age-old quest
for her own trade outlets to the open ocean may come close
to fulfillment at the Berlin big three conference.
jDipiomauc auinoriues nere oe
lieve the question of ocean traffic
bottleneck which allow other coun
tries to control all the best passages
to the Soviet union may occupy a
prominent position at the Potsdam
discussions.
These bottlenecks include the
Yellow sea approaches to Rus
sia's Siberian back door. The
prospect is that regardless of
talk or lack of talk about Soviet
participation in the war against
Japan, there will be a fairly
full exploration of Russia's poli
tical intentions in eastern Asia.
PACIFIC STATUS
These intentions are believed to
be dominated to a considerable ex
tent by Russia's commercial aspir
ations in the Pacific. Involved di
rectly is the question of Port Ar
thur. Russia once took a 99-year
lease on that North China port, and
Premier Stalin gerenally is expected
to demand its use again.
But neither Port Arthur nor any
other outlet that far south is likely
to have any security unless the Rus
sians control approaches to it. For
that reason, and several others,
President Truman is anxious to
find out Stalin’s general ideas on the
the future of east Asia regardless of
what Russia does about the war.
The great key to Russian trade
in the west is the Dardanelles,
Turkish controlled under the
See RUSSIA Page 2
Hancock Boosted
By Hoey For RFC
Loan Administrator
WASHINGTON, July 18. — UP)—
Frank W. Hancock of Oxford, N.
C„ has been suggested by Senator
Hoey (D-NC) for the post of RFC
loan administrator.
Hoey said he understood President
Truman may make the appoint
ment before he returns from the
Big Three conference.
BUS CRASHES
INTO STREAM
Infant Only One Of 45
Aboard To Lose Life In
Swirling Waters
RICHMOND, Va., July 18.—(JP>
—A heavily laden Greyhound bus
inbound from Norfolk plunged into
the rain-swollen waters of Gillies
Creek in the edge of Richmond to
day when a bridge over the nor
mally tiny stream gave way. Only
one of 45 persons aboard, this one
an infant, was killed.
Capt. A. D. Garton, of the
Richmond city detectives, said
that Mrs. Eva Nora Hammel,
29, of Delta, Pa., had reported
that her three-months-old in
fant, Donna Gene Hammel, was
lost in the waters. Mrs. Ham
mel had not, seen the body of
the drowned child to definitely
establish its identity but no
other child was reported miss
ing. The officer said the mo
ther, who was suffering from
shock, told investigators that
the waters sucked the child
“right out of her arms.”
CRAWLED TO TOP
Chief of Police E. H. Organ said
he was informed that 44 passen
gers, including two infants as well
as the driver, were aboard the
bus. The swirling waters of the
creek swept the bus 100 yards
downstream from the bridge and
only one tail light, still burning,
marked its position when the first
police squad arrived about 4 a.m.
See BUS Page 2
Hitler Reported
Now In Antarctic
By the Associated Press
Adolf Hitler, variously reported
dead or escaped to one place or
another, was brought back in the
news again today by a report that
he had taken up residence on an
island in the Antarctic.
Following a statement by Cesar
Ameghino, Argentine foreign min
ister, that there was no truth in a
published rumor that Hitler and
his alleged bride had reached Ar
gentina by the German submarine
U-530 and were living in Patagonia,
the French Brazzaville radio re
layed a report that the pair were
in the Antarctic.
The broadcast, heard last night
by NBC, quoted “the South Ameri
can newspaper. La Critica,” as say
ing that Hitler and Eva Braun had
taken refuge on Queen Mary island,
a former base for German Antarctic
explorers, after being landed by the
U-530, which surrendered last week
to Argentine authorities.
THE BIG THREE CONFERENCE OPENS IN POTSDAM—The Big Three, President Truman, Prime Min
ister Churchill and Generalissimo Stalin open their victory conference in the Kaiser Wilhelm palace at Pots
dam, Germany at 5 p.m. Tuesday. They are sitting at big round table with their aides. President Truman is
left center foreground with his back to the camera. Churchill with his ever-present cigar, is at upper left, and
Stalin, with cigaret holder in hand, sits at right side of table. Admiral William Leahy, Truman’s chief of staff,
is at lower right, dressed in white uniform. Russian Foreign Minister Molotov sits at Stalins’ right.—(AP
Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto from Paris.)
MAL SPANGLER
TO HEADDRIVE
Named Campaign Chair
man To Raise $100,000
Toward Center
Mai A. Spangler, sr., has ac
cepted the campaign chairmanship
and will direct the campaign to
raise $100,000 this year for the
Shelby and Cleveland County
Foundation.
Appointments and acceptance of
the post was announced today,by
J. Hopson Austell, chairman of the
special finance committee, who said
the drive will be conducted on an
intensive community-wide basis in
i September.
The Foundation is seeking to
provide funds for the provision of
a Community Center which was
conceived as Shelby’s own memorial
to its men and women who serv
ed in World War II. No site has
been selected for the center and
plans will not be drawn until
money is in hand to see it through
on a scale the trustees regard
adequate for the community—but
money is being raised and held in
trust against the time when ac
tual construction may proceed.
The finance committee plans to
visit similar establishments in oth
er North Carolina cities prior to
the campaign in which Mr. Span
gler said he hopes every individual
citizen and business will contribute
generously to provide a living me
morial for the city’s sons and
daughters who have served in
World War II.
PARK ENDORSED
BY FOUNDATION
Trustees of the Shelby and Cleve
land County Foundation have given
their whole-hearted endorsement to
the projected municipal park devel
opment for which Carl S. Thomp
son has tendered necessary acreage
through the foundation.
The trustees, in a special meeting
called by Vice-President Mason L.
Carroll, studied the project and
commended it to city officials who
I have the matters under considera
tion and is asking the state recrea
tion commission to assist in its
planning.
The project will not in any way
conflict with the community center
project which the Foundation has
as its principal immediate aim, Mr.
Carroll said. The parks and play
grounds are but an extension be
yond the year-round program which
the center will provide through its
facilities and personnel and for
which Shelbians are being asked to
contribute $100,000 this year.
what’s Wing
TODAY
7:45 p. m. — Presbyterian
prayer meeting.
8:00 p.m. — Mid-week prayer
service at First Baptist church.
THURSDAY
7:00 p.m.—Kiwanis club at
Hotel Charles.
8:00 p.m.—Called meeting
Cleveland Lodge 202 for work
in third degree.
British Sending Heavy
Bombers Into Pacific
Greater Air Blows Against Japs Shaping From 10
Allied Air Groups
By Hamilton W. Faron
GUAM, July 18.—(fP)—British heavy bombers may
join American fliers in the Pacific, increasing to ten the
Allied air groups coordinating their devastating raids on the
ISLANDS STRUCK
Planes Give Kyushu To
Okinawa Area Work
ing Over
MANILA, July 18—UP)—Far east
air force bombers and fighters,
in more than 200 sorties over
Southern Japan, made widespread
duty calls Sunday on a string of
enemy lookout Islands on the di
rect line of flight from Okinawa
to the southern tip of Kyushu.
More than a score of 7th AAF
Liberators worked over air instal
lations and probable air warning
posts on Amami in the Northern
Ryukyus, only 190 miles south of
Kyushu. They also hit the north
east coast of Tanega and struck
Kuryo and Taku islands as well as
an airdrome on Kikie, east of Oma
mi.
Other 7th AAF Liberators
hit Usa on Northern Kyushu,
while Mitchells dropped frag
mentation bombs on Tomitaka
airdrome on the island’s east
coast. Thunderbolts and Mus
tangs strafed locomotive and
rail installatoins; caught and
downed one enemy aircraft as
it took off from Fied Kumamo
to airfield, and strafed tugs
and barges off Cape Mi harbor
on Kyushu’s west coast.
Neutralization strikes on For
mosa and throughout the Indies
and blockade patrols along the
Asiatic coast kept the enemy sea
and air traffic paralyzed through
out the southern portion of the
empire.
Japanese homeland.
Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles, depu
ty commander of U. S. army strat
egic air forces (USASTAF) has
completed a series of conferences
with British Air Marshal Sir Hugh
Lloyd involving "the possible as
signment of a British heavy bom
ber force to work under USASTA
F,” Giles’ office reported today.
Already engaged in daily as
saults on the Japanese home
land with fire, fragmentation
and high explosive bombs,
rockets and strafing are the
20th air force’s B-29s; fleet
airwings 1 and 18 with their
Privateers, Liberators and Ma
riners; the 5th and 7th AAFS
with their Thunderbolt fight
ers and Liberators and Mitch
ell bombers; the army’s 7th
fighter command with its
Mustangs, and the Second and
Fourth Marine aircraft wings
with their Corsairs, Avengers
and Mitchells.
Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle’s
8th AAF, adding B-29s and pos
sibly B-17 flying forts to the as
sault, is scheduled to begin oper
ations from Okinawa about mid
August.
All of these aerial commands ex
cept the 20th operate from the
Rvukyus.
At least four other air forces
also are attacking the Japanese
empire, but not the homeland.
On Sunday, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced in today’s
communique, 7th fleet marine pa
trol planes wrecked more than 100
river ships in attacks at Amoy,
Swatow and the Hongkong area
of China.
Okinawa-based strikes, ranging
from Japan to China, sank or
damaged 30 small vessels. Other
Ryukyus-based aircraft damaged
a boatyard and other installations
on Kyushu and hit the Sakishima
group.
Ickes Seeks Showdown With
Truman On Cabinet Status
WASHINGTON, July 18 — (£>)—
Harold L. Ickes, the many-titled
71-year-old cabinet dean, will be
the next member of President
Truman’s official family to ask
for clarification of his status.
This was learned definitely
today, together with the fact
that if a satisfactory reply is
not forthcoming there is little
chance that Ickes will remain
as secretary of the interior.
There is only slightly more
likelihood that he will go to
London on an Anglo-American
oil treaty mission.
Despite Mr. Truman’s recent an
nouncement that Ickes would make
the trip to work out the final
draft of a new oil agreement, the
cabinet officer is known to have
made no plans yet for a London
visit. It is possible, however, that
he will accept the assignment in
any event because he also is pe
troleum administrator for war.
Ickes, last remaining member of
the late President Roosevelt’s ori
ginal cabinet, would be the seventh
cabinet officer to leave under Mr.
Truman if the latter accepts the
resignation that has been on his
desk for three months. The chief
executive said at his last news con
ference before leaving for Beilin,
however, that he had no plans to
replace Ickef.
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau was the latest to
quit—after asking for clarifi
cation of his status. The sen
ate yesterday unanimously con
firmed War Mobilizer Fred M.
Vinson as bis successor.
i
ALLIED FLEETS
UNMOLESTED IN
BLOWS AT CITIES
Tokyo Admits Destruc
tion Of War Plants By
Naval Guns
PLANES RETURNING
Bv Leif Erickson
GUAM, July 18.—(fP)—
Through smoke that spiraled
from shattered war plants
north of Tokyo, Japan watch
ed today for the next blows
to be loosed against the home
islands by the combined might
of American and British war
ships.
Tokyo made no effort to conceal
its fear of new bombardment by
Adm. William F. Halsey’s Third
fleet and its companion British
ships. Radio silence has concealed
their course since they broke off
shelling Honshu’s east coast at 12:05
a.m. today.
In the sky the Nipponese watched
for return of carrier-based planes
sent out by Vice Adm. John S. Mc
Cain’s prowling task force 38.
NEW ATTACKS
(The Japanese radio said new
attacks already had come. Lon
don reported hearing a broadcast
that the Honshu east coast was
bombarded for an hour at noon
today by 16 allied warships.
(Tokyo said American and
British carriers sent 500 planes
back over the Tokyo area today,
following up yesterday’s raid
by 1,500 carrier aircraft.
(The enemy admitted Japan
ese helplessness by stating that
the allied fleet is “liable to at
tack us at any chosen time and
place.”
More than 2,000 tons of explo
sives were showered on targets for
20 miles along the Honshu coast in
the midnight bombardment.
NO OPPOSITION
Targets were picked carefully from
Mito, 55 miles northeast of Tokyo
and 10 miles from the seacoast, to
Mitachi and Sukegawa, about 80
miles northeast of the capital. With
no opposition, the results were de
vastating.
Associated Press Correspondent
James Lindsley, with the U. S. Third
fleet, reported that an engineering
works, a steel plant, a copper refi
nery and an arm factory along the
coast were destroyed.
NO PLANES GO CP
He said the fleet was within range
of enemy fighter planes for many
hours but that they failed to ap
pear.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in
announcing the British battle
See ALLIED Page 2
SHELBY GUARD
SPENDS BUSY
DAYS IN CAMP
Officers and men of Company
30, North Carolina State Guard,
who left Shelby last Friday for
encampment at Fort Bragg, have
settled down to steady training, it
was learned this morning In a
communication received from Ft.
Bragg.
The area in which their opera
tions are carried on comprise the
Yadkin section of Fort Bragg. A
i cross from their quarters is located
I a large prisoner-of-war camp in
i which many prisoners taken from
| General Rommel’s Afrika Korps
i are kept. The Shelby men are in*
I tensely interested in the activities
I of these prisoners and although
j they are prevented by regulations
from crossing a certain line in
front of the prison camp, they get
as near as possible to the enclos
ure to watch the prisoners play
soccer and other games.
Last Sunday Chaplain C. C.
Hamilton preached to the guards
men on “Building a Better World"
and the service was also featured
by the playing of the brigade band.
An exacting and strenuous
schedule followed on Monday and
Tuesday. The men are looking
forward to amateur night and are
practicing thqir skits which they
will present. Pfc. Bynum E.
Weathers will do an imitation of
i Senator Clyde R. Hoey.
The following are the personnel
jot the 1st Bn. 2nd Regt. N.C.S.G.:
i Clyde T. Wright, major; Robert S.
Greene. 1st Lt.; Max Hamrick, 2nd
Lt.; Shannon H. Blanton, S-Sgt.
The following are officers of the
30th Co.. Shelby N. C.: Hugh S.
Plaster. Capt.; Casey Morris, 1st
Lt:; J. B. Brackett, 2nd Lt.; and
Pfc. Bynum E. Weathers is doing
his bit as messenger at the 1st
j Bn. 2nd Regt. headquarter*.