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New Trustees County
Hospitals Set Policy
Or. S. S. Royster Elected To Choirmanship; Architects
Asked To Submit Sketches
of the new Cleveland county Hospital organiza
ioj», sworn in yesterday afternoon before E. A. Houser, Jr.,
lerk of court, took charge of a $863,000 plant, laid the
rroundwork for erection of an addition here and a new hos
dtal unit at Kings Mountain and named Dr. S. S. Royster
>ermanent chairman of the new board. Tom Lattimore was
ramed secretary and Thomas R. Bethune temporary treas
lrer.
Two of the trustees, O. m. muu
md C. B. Neisler, were absent and
vlU take their oaths at a later
ate.
Resolution was passed accord
ing full support to the hospital
vdmlnlatrator, Thome* R. Be*
Ihune, ani his presence was re
luested at the next meeting of the
trustees which will be held July
jo. Selection of a name for the
Hospital was deferred until a later
nee ting. In the meantime the
lotlvlty will be carried on in the
of the Shelby hospital.
INVITE SKETCH
Trustees authorized the chair*
man and secretary to invite sev
eral architects to submit sketches
for the proposed expansion of the
Shelby hospital and to confer with
Walter W. Hook, of Charlotte, ar
chitect who has already submit
ted a sketch for an addition to the
hospital. This sketch was present
ed to the trustees yesterday af
ternoon by Chairman Royster who
was a member of the old board.
Members of the board will submit
all of these plan* to Dr. W. S.
Rankin of the Duke foundation
for his recommendations.
executive committee
Executive committee* ef the
trustees for both the Shelby
hospital sad the King* Moun
tain hospital, yet to be built,
were named yesterday after
noon. On the Shelby commit
toe are J. D. Ltaeberger, O. M.
Mull and Clifford Hamrick.
On the Kings Mountain com
mittee are C. E Neisler, W. A.
Williams and Arnold Kiser.
Dr. Royster in a statement for
the old board estimated the prop
erty now being turned over to the
new trustees to he worth approxi
mately 1X3,000- He said that the
property was in good repair, and
that the equipment was modern
and In good shape. He called at
tention to the fact that the hos
pital now ha* a bank balance of
$13X0 owe* approximately
$UX«- It has $4,000 in collectible
accounts, he eaid.
Dr. Royster pointed to the low
mortality rata of the Shelby hos
pital and expressed the hope that
an even finer hospital could be
built and that particularly more
room could be provided.
COMPLAINTS LISTED
Prior to the organization of the
board, Henry Edward*, attorney
jtr the county commissioners, who
were also present, read the sta
tute setting up the new hospital
organization and explained to the
new board detail* of some of the
complaints that had come to at
tention during the campaign about
the operation of the present hos
pital. Among these complaints he
pointed out that lack of harmony
frnnng the physicians, lack of a
central authority, lack of room,
lack of resident physicians, lack of
tapt In collection of accounts were
»mnng the chief ones.
He said that he believed it would
be the desire of the new board to
correct such of these defects as It
found valid.
FIRE DAMAGES
REX BUILDING
Plr* believed to have started j
from spontaneous combustion gut- j
ted the back end of the Rex Rem- j
edy company building, 317 South i
Morgan street, last night about1
7:30 o'clock. The property is I
owned by J. F. Ledford and Holly |
Ledford and the loss is partially
covered by insurance.
The flames broke out in the mid
dle of the building where some
paint had been stored. Firemen
laid three lines of hose before
bringing the blaze under control.
Smoke was particularly heavy
from the fire and attracted several
hundred spectators. The damage
had not been estimated today,
firemen said.
Cannery Will Open
At Boiling Springs
Tuesday, July 24
The Boiling Springs community
cannery will open next week and
will operate three days each week
during the fruit and vegetable sea
son, Tuesday, Thursday and Fri
day. The cannery will be in oper
ation next Tuesday morning, July
34.
The cannery is open to anyone
who cares to use it, especially
school lunch room operators. An
ample supply of No. 10 (gallon)
cans may be obtained at the can
nery and are available to opera
tors of lunch rooms, who should
make appointments with Brooks
Plerey of Boiltng Springs.
Hours at the cannery will be 9
a. m. until 6 p. m. and all food
should be at the building for pro
cessing before 4 o’clock. Mrs. Er
nest Phillips and Clyde Wallace
will be at the cannery to assist
with the processing of foods and
help patrons with their canning.
Cordell Hull was practicing law
in Tennessee before he was old
enough to vote. . ._
GETS BRONZE 8TAR—Cpl. Ray
L. Bridges, son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. A. Bridges of route 3, haa been
awarded the Bronze Star medal
in Italy for ’’heroic achievement
In action” on June 19 at Monteri,
Italy. When his convoy was sub
jected to a heavy concentration of
enemy artillery fire, Cpl. Bridges
unhesitatingly drove his own ve
hicle towards four seriously woun
ded men. Although he himself
was stunned from enemy shell
bursts, he completely disregarded
his own safety as he removed the
casualties from the destroyed ve
hicles. While constant enemy fire
struck all around him, he quickly
administered first aid and loaded
the wounded men on his vehicle
to transport them to a rear aid
station. He returned Immediately
to the scene of enemy barrage
where he reorganized the convoy
and continued forward with ra
tions and ammunition.” Cpl.
Bridges has been in Italy 16
months and is still there.”
ALLIED
Starts On Face One
ship King George V and the
45,000-ton XJSS Iowa were among
the attackers, had mentioned
only the Hitachi area, which
contains vital copper smelters as
well as concentrated aircraft,
electrical and engine plants.
Associated Press Correspondent
James Lindsley, aboard one of the
bombarding warships, reported the
rail and factory center of Takahagi
near Hitachi also was a target as
the great battlewagons opened fire
with nine-gun broadsides.
Despite an overcast sky which
hindered aerial observation, ships’
crews were able to watch the
flashes of their big shells landing
amidst enemy war plant buildings,
i The thunder of their explosions
drafted back clearly on the wind.
Shells from the big King George
V and lesser escorting warships of
the British Pacific fleet were the
first fired from British guns against
the homeland of Japan.
The two-hour bombardment fol
lowed a day-long attack yesterday
! on the Tokyo area by 1,500 British
and American carrier pilots, laun
ched from flattops of a combined
fleet greater than any the world
had seen. In command is Adm. Wil
i liam P. Halsey, Jr.
BREAK RADIO SILENCE
Correspondents with the fleet
said the bombarding ships
steamed deliberately within six
miles of shore during the attack.
They broke radio silence at that
time—so that tbeir exact loca
tion must have been known to
Japan. Nevertheless, there was
no opposition.
“It is vitally necessary that we
preserve our strength,” the Ja
panese Domei agency said a few
hours later. “We must not move
until the time is ripe.”
Results of yesterday’s carrier as
i sault have not been received. A Tok
| yo broadcast last night merely ack
! nowledged the raids, giving no de
' tails of damage inflicted. Carrier
sweeps over the same area July 10
destroyed or damaged 342 Japanese
planes, and fresh attacks on north
ern Honshu and Hokkaido July 14
and 15 sank or damaged 374 ships.
Acknowledging that shells of the
combined bombardment force off
j Mito and Hitachi had struck their
| targets, the enemy radio said that
slight damage” resulted. The same
| broadcast said “a small number of
! .Superforts” simultaneously were
j ranging over the Tokyo-Yokohama
district “on a nuisance night raid
mission.”
Reporting from Kamaichi, shelled
Sunday by Admiral Halsey’s Third
fleet, one Tokyo newspaper corres
pondent was quoted In a radio
broadcast as reporting, “Inhabitants
took the shelling with composure,
although no one had anticipated
bombardment from offshore . . . .
Life goes on as usual, with general
atmosphere that the long antici
pated battle of the mainland has
finally started.”
RYAN TO COMMODORE
WASHINGTON. -fP)— Capt. Mi
chael .J Ryan. 6th naval district,
coast guard officer. Charleston. S.
C., has been recommended for pro
motion to commodore in the coast
guard
The recommendation was sent to
the senate yesterday.
COUNTY SCHOOL
OPENING PLANS
SHAPED TODAY
Principal* Meat With
Superintendent Grigg;
Open Monday
Principals of the county schools
held their annual pre-school meet
ing this morning in the offices of
Superintendent J. H. Grigg when
they made plans for the opening
of the summer school term next
Monday, July 3, at 8:30 o’clock.
Schools of the county run dur
ing a summer term each year in
order that students may have a
vacation period in the fall to help
with harvesting of crops. Hours
for classes during the summer
months will be 8:30 a.m. until 1:30
pm.
WORKSHOP PLAN
At this morning’s meeting
the principals decided to es
tablish a workshop plan of
teachers’ meetings during the
1945-48 school term. By this
plan teachers of the various
subjects will meet in groups to
discuss their subject in par
ticular. This is believed to be
an improvement over the old
plan of all teachers meeting
together when groups were too
small for open discussion.
In each school during the com
ing year a file of clippings form
magazines and newspapers will be
kept in order that students may
use it for research required in
some class work. Each school
principal will have charge of the
file in his school.
Routine matters of bus routes
and Janitors were discussed at the
meeting before it was adjourned
at noon.
DUTIES OUTLINED
Yesterday at the senior high
school building here principals
of the county, Shelby and
Kings Mountain schools gath
ered for a meeting with two
representatives of the State
department of public educa
tion, Dr. Arnold Peary and A.
B. Combs, when matters of In
terest to school leaders were
discussed.
Dr. Peary and Mr. Combs point
ed out the duties of principals to
their teachers, the students and
their community, discussed the
new salary schedule and discussed
the organization of classes and
studies under the new 13-year
plan. This was the annual meet
ing held during the summer
months for school principals to
help solve any problems which
might face them iu the coming
I school year.
Man Charged In
Raleigh Sugar
Thefts Suicides
RALEIGH, July 18. —(IP)— Police
today continued their probe into
the death of John Gattis Holland,
24, who waa found shot to death
shortly before he was to report to
police headquarters in connection
with alleged sugar thefts.
Coroner Roy M. Banks said the
investigation "almost conclusively”
indicates suicide.
A nine-year-old boy, Charles Mor
ton, told Banks he heard a shot yes
terday from behind a cabin at a
filling station and almost immedi
ately saw Holland stagger from be
hind the building and collapse.
Banks sajd a pistol was found under
Holland's body.
Holland was one of eight defen
dants arrested last week-end in
connection with what police term
ed a "systematic theft of sugar”
from a local bakery.
State's Revenues
Enable Emergency
Salary Payments
RALEGH. July 18 —(/P)— State
employes and school teachers be
low the $3,600 salary bracket are
in line for an emergency salary
boost of $10 per month derived
from huge revenues collected dur
ing the past fiscal year.
Assistant Budget Director R. G.
Deyton reported yesterday a sur
plus in the general fund suffi
cient to make possible the "bo
nus.” He estimated the cost of
the boost at $4,200,000.
The increase in salary would
become effective during the cur
rent month. School teachers em
ployed only 9 months a year will
draw the full amount of $120.
The emergency salary does not
Include highway and agriculture
department employes, who must
be paid from surpluses within
their own departments.
MINERS
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foundry workers would reduce
the number of idle throughout
the country to the lowest fig
ure in the past several days.
Leaders had protested they
“can’t dig coal on lettuce sand
wiches.”
The miners had demanded 50
extra red points per man a month.
An OPA spokesman In Washing
ton said a detailed announcement
of the program probably would be
made within a few days. He said
the plan now being perfected was
in line with the policy of provid
ing extra meat and other foods
for those engaged in hard physi
cal jobs.
Hie first flight made by the
Wright brothers lasted only 13 sec
onds _ _
PROMOTED—Thomas Craig Hull,
USNR, has informed his wife, the
former Miss Louise Blanton of
this place, that he has been pro
moted from the rank of ensign to
the rank of lieutenant, junior
grade, in Germany where he has
been for the past 12 months. He
expects to come back to the states
in September.
WILl TRY 51
DIVORCE CASES
Judge Allen Gwyn Will
Preside Over Court Term
Beginning Monday
Fifty-one divorce cases have been
calendared for trial during the sec
ond week of a term of Superior
court which opens here Monday
with Judge Allen Gwyn, of Reids
ville, presiding. The first week will
be taken up with the trial of
criminal cases.
The full civil calendar follows:
MONDAY, JULY 30
Grant vs. Grant, McCoy vs. Mc
Coy, Leigh vs. Leigh, Boswell vs.
Boswell, ichards vs. Richards, Pack
vs. Pack, Whisnant vs. Whlsnant,
Blackwood vs. Blackwood, Hoey vs.
Hoey, Borders vs. Borders, Mathis
vs. Mathis, Lankford vs. Lankford,
Hunt vs. Hunt, Kennedy vs. Ken
nedy, Rosen vs. Rosen, Murphy vs.
Murphy, Bailey vs. Bailey, Drye vs.
Drye, Pennington vs. Pennington.
Pinkleton vs. Pinkleton, Sanders
vs. Sanders, Pearson vs. Pearson,
Watts vs. Watts, Howell vs. How
ell, Vinson vs. Vinson, Sims vs.
Sims, Hammett vs. Hammett, Rose
man vs. Rose man, Guffey vs. Guf
fey, Slaughter vs. Slaughter, Tay
lor vs. Taylor, West vs. West, Earl
vs. Earl,
Nolan vs. Nolan. Green vs. Green,
Hayes vs. Blackwood, Bradford vs.
Bradford, Gordon vs. Gordon, Hai
rill vs. Harrlll, Byers vs. Bver.\
Gates vs. Gates. Lovelace vs. Love
lace, Wease vs. Wease, Rayfield vs.
Rayfield, Overton vs. Overton, Mc
Clellan vs. McClellan, Gaston vs.
Gaston, Mauney vs. Mauney, Wright
vs. Wright, Jones vs. Jones, Hall
vs. Hall.
TUESDAY, JULY 31
Hatcher vs. Williams, Ward vs.
Bridges, rox vs. Yarboro, Elliott
vk. Daves, Canal Wood Corp., vs.
Horne, Martin vs. Martin, Blanton
vs. Haynes, Mauney vs. O’Shields,
In Re: Bridges, Youree vs. Le
Gette, M. Si J. vs. Fuchs, M. Si J.
vs. Town of Kings Mountain.
BUS
Starts On Pare One
Chief Organ said 37 persons,
one holding a' child, were on
top of the all-but-submerged
bus when he arrived, and that
sis or seven swam to safety on
the west side of the creek.
Those atop the bus were removed
by boats brought to the scene by
fire and police rescue squads.
The outgoing bus for Norfolk
crossed the bridge safely and met
the incoming bus at the top of the
hill above the creek, shortly before
4 a.m. when the heavily laden in
bound bus started across .the small
bridge, hardly more than the length
of the bus, gave way, apparently
undermined by the swollen waters.
The bus apparently was swept
from where it plunged into the
stream to its resting place in the
willows some 100 yards below within
the space of a few minutes. It was
listing to thp left, which made it
possible for passengers to escape
quickly through the door or windows
on the right side.
R. H. Russell, who lives close to
the scene, said Bruno Baumgard, a
fireman off duty at the time, put his
small outboard motor on a boat and
made several trips to the bus re
moving passengers.
Sailors aboard the bus broke win
dows and removed passengers and
several cut their hands.
Medical College of Virginia Hos
pital authorities reported that only
one of the passengers admitted
there was seriously injured.
Captain Garton said the fact that
the bus landed upright, and with
several inches of its upper struc
ture above water, prevented a large
loss of life.
‘‘Only that little air space in the
top of the bus enabled those people
to live,” he said.
Many of the passengers were
asleep.
If. Charles Lesesne
Killed In Germany
SUMTER, S. C. — t/P) — Fligh
Lieutenant Charles Lesesne of the
Royal Canadian Air Force was killee
in Germany late in March, hi;
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Daniel Le>
[ sesne of Sumter has been notified
j F/L Lesesne has been reportee
missing since that time.
He was a member of the Char
lotte Observer staff for five year
bafoea iolniwa Staa
Furnished by J. Robert Lindsay
Webb Building Shelby. N. C.
and Company
STOCKS SUPPING
NEW YORK, July 18.—</P)—Fee
ble and selective recoveries ap
peared in todays stock market al
though many leaders failed to ex
hibit any real comeback power.
Electric Power and Light made
another new high. Supported were
Great Northern, Santa Fe, South
ern Pacific, Baltimore and Ohio,
Bethlehem, Chrysler, Johns-Man
ville, Pan American Airways and
Montgomery Ward. Occasional los
ers included U. S. Steel, General
Motors, Goodrich, Sperry, Texas
Co.*fend International Harvester.
Bonds and commodities were
irregular.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO, July 18.—(A*)— (WFA)
—Salable hogs 5,000, total 10,000;
active and fully steady; gocgl and
choice barrows and gilts at 140-lb.
up at 14.75 ceiling; good and choice
sows at 14.00; complete clearance.
Salable cattle 9,500, total 9,500;
salable calves 600, total 600; good
and choice fed steers and yearlings
strong to 25 cents, mostly 10 to
15 cents higher; common and me
dium grades steady to strong;
heifers shared steer advance; cows
firm, active; broad demand for
bulls at firm prices; vealers steady
at 16.00 down; very few stock cat
tle here; top fed steers 18.00, paid
for 5 loads; bulk 15.50-17.65; na
tive and southwest grass steers
12.50-14.50; best fed heifers 17.75;
heavy sausage bulls to 13.50; cutter
cows 8.75 down.
BUTTER AND MJGS
CHICAGO, July 18.—(5p>—Butter,
firm; receipts 634,299; eggs, re
ceipts 8,735; firm.
N. C. HOGS
RALEIGH, July 18.—iff*)—NCDA
—Hog markets steady with tops of
14.55 at Clinton and Rocky Mount
and 14.85 at Richmond.
POULTRY AND EGGS
RALEIGH, July 18—UP)—NCDA
—Egg and poultry markets steady
to very firm.
Raleigh—U. S. grade AA large
47; hens, all weights, 36.8.
Washington—U. S. Grade A large
47; broilers and fryers 32.5.
POTATOES
CHICAGO, July 18.—(IP)—Pota
toes: Arrivals 63. on tracks 93, to
tal U. S, shipments 691.
New stocks: Offerings very light,
demand good, market firm at ceil
ing. only occasional car offered at
local track market; California 100
lb. sacks of long whites, U. S. No.
1, 4.09-4.39; commercial 3.89-4.27;
Idaho Bliss Triumphs, U. S. No, 1,
4.39; Arizona Bliss Triumphs, U.
S. No. 1, 4.42.
N. Y. WTIUW A1 s:u»
Today Prev. Day
March _ —.22.84 22.77
May .22.83
July . -22.61
October.22.87
December _ ..,22.88
22.79
22.56
22.83
22.80
CHICAGO GRAIN
WHEAT
...1.63 U
SJuly . .
September....1.60S
December . -1.6114
1.64*4
1.61 \
1.6214
CORN
July - .———;— 1.181 i
September . ....11814
December . —.1-184
1.18'4
1.1814
1.1814
RYE
I July .-.l-«v4
September _ ...1.35*4
December . ...1.324
1.5114
1.38’4
1.3514
STOCKS AT 2:00
Amn Rolling Mill . . 20
American Loco ---— 31
American Tobacco B .-76
American Tel and Tel _ 177
Anaconda Copper _■ ..
Assoc Drv Goods . -
Beth Steel . -. 77
Boeing Air . . 23
Curtiss-Wright _ - 6
Elec Boat...
General Motors . - 66
Pepsi Cola . -. 21
Greyhound Corp . - 24
International Paper --
Nash Kelv . - 18
Glenn L Martin . - 26
Newport Ind . -- 22
N Y Central . . 25
Penn R R.
Radio Corp . ...
Reynolds Tob B .
37
12
33
Southern Railroad -- 44
60
29
Stand Oil N J . -
Sperry Corp . ...
U S Rubber . ..
U S Steel . 66
Western Union.46
Youngstown S and T-45
1-8
3-4
1-2
3-4
33
25
1-4
1-2
3-4
16
1-4
7-8
3-8
. 25
1-4
1-2
3-4
3-4
3-4
1-4
1-2
5-8
1-8
1-2
54
1-8
3-4
1-4
RUSSIA’S
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Treaty of Montreaux. This trea
ty, while it allows a free flow
of Russian commerce, does not
permit Russia or any other coun
try to hold military positions on
the Dardanelles. Also It prevents
| the passage of warships except
under certain limited conditions.
Russia, which recently ended a
commercial treaty with Turkey in
, order to get more favorable terms
; in a future pact, is expected to press
for much more advantageous ar
, rangements governing these straits
which give her an outlet from the
Black sea to the Mediterranean.
This issue is one which brings into
most direct conflict the interests
of Russia and Britain, because the
Mediterranean outlets to both the
Atlantic and Indian oceans are
controlled by British at Gibraltar
t and Suez.
! In the north the situation has
I changed radically during the war.
5 Britain formerly enjoyed rich trade
• in the Baltic sea. But now much of
. the Baltic coast is completely Rus
i slan held. Yet the outlets from the
Baltic, the North Sea and the rest
- of the world’s profitable sea lanes
s are controlled by Denmark and
FRANCO 'S BET
ON MONARCHY
MADRID, July 18. — (£■)— Gener
alissimo Francisco Franco last night
proclaimed that ha Is only acting
as head of the Spanish government
pending return to a monarchy
which would perpetuate Falange
ideal-, and the national syndicalist
state.
In a 35-minute speech to mem
bers of the Falange national coun
cil, Franco said Spain was entering
the preparatory period for return of
a monarchy but he did not say
when the changeover would be
made. He declared the monarchy
must guarantee the "essentials” of
the Falange movement.
(In Washington, diplomhta
regarded Franco’s statement as
a move designed to maintain
himself in power and at the
same time ride out criticism
from the Allied world, and par
ticular Russia. They said it was
a question whether this storm
would be stirred—possibly by
Premier Stalin at the current
Big Three meeting at Potsdam
_to a point where Franco would
be blown out of power.)
Returning Army
Units Listed
By The Associated Press
Army units arriving in the Unit
ed States today (Wednesday) from
Europe:
At New York—The Second and
10th Regiment of the Fifth divi
sion; advance detachments of the
Eighth Corps.
Units which arrived Tuesday:
At Hampton Roads, Va.—Ele
ments of the 770th Air Squadron,
765th. 766th and 777th Bomb
Squadron, 537th Air Service Group,
M6th and 953rd Air Engineer
Squadron, 154th Reconnaissance
Squadron, 18th Air Depot Group.
90th Depot Repair Group, nth
Medical Supply Platoon. 530th
Headquarters and Base Service
Squadron and 71st Veterinary De
tachment.
Units scheduled to arrive to
lorrow: , .
At Hampton Roads—Elements of
re Headquarters and Base Service
quadrons of the 468th Air Service
,roup, 655th Quartermaster Gas
ompany. 386th Quartermaster
aundry Detachment, 3519th Quar
■rmaster Truck company, 16th
laintenance company. 170th Field
Ttillery Battalion, and Headquar
•rs Detachments of the 79th and
Oth Ordnance Group.
At Boston: 346th Infantry Regl
rent, 87th Infantry Division.
Advance units of the 20th Ar
lored Division sailed yesterday
rom Le Havre.
Crop Condition
Forecast Fair
RALEIGH, July 18. —(An— "Fair
to good” crop conditions through
out North Carolina were forecast to
day in the first of a new series of
weekly weather-crop reports issued
by the State Agriculture Depart
ment.
The reports will be drawn from
information provided by weather
experts and 300 special weather-crop
reporters under the direction of
Frank Parker, head of the federal
state crop reporting service of the
agriculture department.
General rains have prevailed in
North Carolina since July 8, with
heavy to excessive rainfall since
July 14, the report shows. These
rains are continuing to make up for
the long May-June dry period in
many sections, but soils are too wet
for plowing this week, and grass is
making rapid headway.
DOUGHTY NAMED
WASHINGTON— (AV-Harry M.
Doughty, former instructor of eco
nomics at the University of North
Carolina, will head the program
appraisal and research division of
the War Labor Board. Doughty
has been chief of the program ap
praisal branch of the wage stabi
liastion division of the War La
bor Board.
I More than 60,000 soldiers in tht
Mediterranean theater attend edu
cational courses given by th«
Armed Forces Institute.
Senate Refuses To
Defer Consideration
bretton Woods Pact
WASHINGTON, July 18. — (JP)—
The senate rejected 52-31 today a
proposal by Senator Taft (R-Ohio)
to put off action on Bretton Woods
monetary legislation until after a
new international conference.
Taft proposed that consideration
of the house-approved bill be de
layed until Nov. 15 to await the
calling of a world trade conference
by the social and economic council
of the projected United Nations or
ganization.
Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky)
said, however, that nations must
make their commitments to the
fund and bank proposed under the
bill by Dec. 31 or the international
monetary agreement will lapse.
"The motion made by the senator
from Ohio is, in effect, an effort to
kill the entire Bretton Woods agree
ment” Barkley declared.
Taft argued that emergency con
ditions in Europe will be met with
an American outlay of $7,000,000,000
through the Export-Import bank
and lend lease operations. He said
the proposed fund and bank would
not begin operations for several
months.
Big News About
Japan Predicted
SYDNEY, Australia, July 18. —-(JP)
—Newspapers in Sydney today pub
lished speculative reports that "big
news” relating to Japan would be
forthcoming soon.
One conjecture was that Japan
may be suing for peace, another
that Russia may have decided to
enter the Pacific war.
(Acting Secretary of State Joseph
C. Grew in Washington denied last
week that any genuine peace over
tures had been received from Ja
pan.!
"The end of the war may come
with dramatic suddeneas," comment
ed the Sydney Sun.
"Hlrohlto is still the god-emper
or”, the editorial said. "By one
stroke of a pen he could relieve Ja
pan's terrors and make peace. There
is every reason to believe that Unit
ed States policy is preserving him
for that part in the drama .”
The Morning Herald said that
nothing short of the allies' terms
would be acceptable, but added that
"Japan is without military hope and
! might seek to escape Germany's
fate.”
Industrial Banks
Ask Check Accounts
RALEIGH. July 18. — <*>>— The
State Banking Commission began
1 consideration today of applications
i from the Morris Plan and Hood
System Industrial banks of Burling
ton to accept deposits subject to
checks.
Neither bank has asked for a com
mercial charter. Proponents of the
! application stressed the need for
the checking rights on a basis of
population, and opponents of the
request contended that the two
commercial banks now serving Bur
lington and outlying towns are ade
quate to meet the needs of the
people. Final action of the applica
tions was expected late this after
noon.
Also scheduled for discussion to
day is the application of the Mor
; ris Plan Bank of Charlotte for a
commercial charter embodying trust
privileges. J. R. Evans vice-presi
dent of the bank, and Attorney H
I. McDougle will present the ap
plication to the commission. A dele
gation of Charlotte bankers repre
sented by Attorney Francis Clark
son and G. T. Carswell will oppos<
granting the charter. The delegatior
, included W. H. Wood, C. B. Camp
I bell, J. P. Tillett, C. G. McGraw and
! John Watllngton.
MONEY FOR OTEEN
WASHINGTON,— (JP) —An addi
tional appropriation "within tht
next few days” is in prospect for
the veterans facility at Oteen, N
C., Rep. Weaver (D-NC) said yes
terday.
j "I have been working on thii
■ thing with the Veterans adminis
s tratlon and everything looks fa
vorable,” he said.
Boiling Springs FFA
Boys To White Lake
A group of Future Farmers of
America from the Boiling Springs
chapter left Monday to spend this
week at the FFA camp at White
Lake. The boys will have a week
of recreation at the camp and will
also make a trip to Carolina Beach,
The White Lake camp is operat
ed each year by the FFA and boys
who attend take their own food
that their expenses will be at a
minimum. Attending from Boiling
Springs were Max Harris, Albert
Bowens, Carl Scruggs, Izenar Huff
man, Ben Philbeck, Charlie Gris
som, Wallace Hester, J. W. Ham
rick, Donald Lovelace, Travis Led
better, Eugene Hopper, S. W. Holt,
Harrill Hamrick, Fred Davis, Pets
McCraw, Miles Beaver, Paul Craw
ley, Astor Ellis, Bob White, Glenn
Powell, Johnny Rogers and Brooks
Piercy, FFA supervisor.
REPORT
Starts On Paga Ont
Washington deleg^ion. 1
that it came in advance of
plans was made by an American
officer after a conference with the
The fact
develop-^k
ments indicated that Mr. Truman—
while aparently not trying to force
an "open meeting” policy on the i
parley—nevertheless was adhering
to his policy of keeping the people
at home informed as much as pos
sible concerning what is going on.
VICTORY OVER JAPAN
Chief among the aims of the Am
erican president were a speedy vic
tory over Japan and settlement of
age-old disputes to help preserve
1 the peace in frequently unpeaceful
: Europe.
i An unconfirmed report said Stal
in had come to Potsdam ready to
make definite commitments con
cerning the war in the Pacific.
Churchill’s lengthy conversations
| with U. s. military leaders indicat
ed that the war against Japan was
one of the major topics to come
'beforp the Big Three.
The first joint communique from
the three world leaders was issued
i last evening in line with Mr. Tru
: man's view that the public should
be kept informed of conference pro
gress when possible. The communi
que said:
"The Berlin conference of the
heads of the governments of the
United Kingdom, the United States
i of America and the Soviet Union
i met this afternoon at five o'clock.
"By invitation of his two col
leagues. the president of the Unit
ed States of America will preside
at the meeting of the conference
"The preliminary exchange of
views took place on matters requir
ing devision by the heads of the
three governments.
"It was decided that the three
foreign secretaries should hold regu
lar meetings with a view to prepar- 4
ing the work of the conference." ™
It was reported that Premier
Stalin had nominated Mr. Truman
j to preside and that his nomination
won a quick second from Prime
Minister Churchill.
While U. S. Secretary of State
; James F. Byrnes, British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and Rus
sian Foreign Commissar Vyaches
lav Molotov are scheduled to meet
regularly, there were indications
that the big three would get to
gether often at meetings which will
; be closed to reporters—who may
enter Potsdam, but not the confer
ence area.
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... refreshment time for the younger set
Wherever the gang gets together, the words H*w a Cokt play a
big part in the fun. Whether it’s served from the family refrigerator
or from a bucket of ice down at the pier, Coca-Cola draws a
smile from everyone; Keep a supply of Coca-Cola on hand;
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