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JAYCEES PLAN “PEP PARADE” Benefit Event For Foun elation Set For August 16-17 “Pep Parade,’’ a hit comedy to be staged under sponsorship of the Junior Chamber of Commerce for the benefit of the Shelby and Cleveland county foundation and featuring local talent in a musi cal revue, will be presented at the Shelby high school auditorium on the evenings of August 16 and 17, it was announced here today. “Pep Parade” is fast moving, clean entertainment and the show here will be managed by an ex perienced director from the Em pire Production company, but only local talent will be used in the dancing and singing numbers, specialty features and comic skits. Colorful costumes, brilliant light ing effects, clever lines and dia logue promise all who see it an evening of good entertainment. The Jaycee6 have announced : that Mrs. Dan Paul. Miss Reeves Forney and Lindsey Dail, all mem- : bers of the Shelby Dramatic club, will serve as advisors to the Em pire representative and help in the selection of local talent to be used in the production. Since a large crowd is expected to want to see the stage production, arrange ments have been made for its pre- . sentation on two successive nights. ( Rehearsals will begin approxl mately two weeks prior to the dates j set for the show. Ceiling Price Of ] Sweet Potatoes \ Advanced 17 Cents ! RALEIGH, July 19—(IP)—As an ] incentive for more production the Raleigh OPA office has announced . an Increase of 17 cents per bushel in the retail ceiling price of sweet potatoes at producers levels. , District OPA Director T. S. , Johnson said the increase is a re- , suit of an OPA amendment which does away with per bushel pricing and places all sweet potatoes on, a per pound basis. AAA Office Closing At Noon Saturdays t Dan Moore, chairman of the < county AAA committee, said today J that AAA offices in the county ag ricultural building will go this week on the new federal hour schedule , which calls for closing of the of- , fices at noon Saturdays. Jacksonville Gets New Radio Station WASHINGTON, July 19. —(JP)— The Federal Communications Com mission has authorized the Jack sonville Broadcasting company to construct a 250 watt standard broad cast station in Jacksonville, N. C„ on 1240 kilocycles. The authorization is subject to War Production Board approval. Textile Broadcasting Company, operator of Standard Station WMBC, Greenville. S. C., has filed appli cation for an FM station in Green ville. i l t 1 t t t 5 i c r t c JAP MORALE ! Starts On Page One t \ r have been achieved by B-296. He asked: "How did they understand the fact that the Japanese com mand did not send out a single attacking pilot to meet the ob vious challenge? "What other explanation can be posible that the enemy tactic, both in its politcal an military sense, has been, entirely sized up by the Japanese command and was found not worth meet ing?” The unidentified radio strategist said the action was intended to counteract "a' general slack in the public support” which he said was growing unsatisfactory to America’s war leaders. He heaped scorn on Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ statement that one of the reasons for the surface attacks was to extend and tighten the blockade around and over the Japanese home islands. The com mentator said this thought was "insane.” In another broadcast Tokyo quot ed Gen. Yasuji Okamura, supreme commander of Japanese forces in occupied China, as saying any withdrawal of his forces from China would take two years. “Of course,” the general said, "should the American air force at tempt to disturb our rear com munications, the withdrawal period would be inevitably prolonged.” Today In Tokyo the “society for bombing America’^fheld a rally in Tokyo, Domel news agency report ed, and Blbiya public hall was "packed to capacity” by an en thusiastic crowd. Domel did not say how the so ciety proposed to put Its “bomb Amerloa” slogan into practice., 1 t f r c t j s r li d I y p i B C S 3 1 1 \ 1 c r c s t ( 1 a»«EXHAUsm ..«* to Headache Dop’ttothoodo.hodoqblothomU OOrofaxhauotion.Atthcfintsig'n .. lino. It of pain toko Cured: qotoklp brings rollof, < lono opoot hr too x vain. If to Mould—-oiroodj. dissolved I—oil 'roods to oet^-ali ntdi^ i ‘to brine eoufort. Um - ' to, SOe, CAPUDINE 5 VEW HOSPITAL TRUSTEES—Trustees of the new Cleveland county hospital organization are shown here as hey were gwam in last Tuesday afternoon. Standing, left to right, they are: Arnold Kiser, Everett Spurling, 3enry Wood, Clifford Hamrick, M. C. Whitworth, Dr. S. S. Royster. W. A. Williams and John Crawley. Seated, from left to right, are Ivey Whlsnant. E. L. Propst, J. D. Lineberger, Tom Lattimore and A. E. Slmore.—(Willis Photo) Conservation Board Meeting At Morehead MOREHEAD CITY, July 19—(><P) —Members of the state board of ionservation and development be ;an a three-day meeting here to lay. Semi-annual reports, filed with director R. Bruce Etheridge by leads of the department's several livislons, will be presented for ipproval of the full board, and iroblems directly affecting the ixtreme eastern North Carolina :ounties will be discussed. One ull day will be devoted to hearing epresentative delegations from all >ver the state who may have re [uests or suggestions concerning forth Carolina’s program of con ervation and development. Much of the board’s discussion 5 expected to center around post war development of North Caro Ina’s natural resources and in lustry. RECORD Starts On Page One o the south. One eighth of the entire Jap mese fish catch is estimated to nta- thjp harbor for distribution o me Baeto plain district, which las a fourth of Honshu’s popula ion. Situated on the prominent Chos ll peninsula 60 miles north of To :yo. Choshi is jammed with in lustries associated with the fish ng fleetboat building, canneries md net factories. Vital food is carried to Tokyo nd points north and west by the iobu main line. The city is also he southern terminus of the im ortant Tone-Edo waterway to ’otoo. Choshi’s own population otals M,000. Pires flared at Fukui, Honshu ,-est side city of 100,000 persons nd its concentration of war fac ories. The industries lor wmcn me ; Superfortress bombardiers aimed acluded plants turning out air raft parts, electrical equipment, lachine tools, iron and other me arl products, rubber goods, chemi sts and textiles. (Japanese broadcasts said the reat Allied fleet "is believed to « still roaming off our Pacific oast” hunting for potential in asion beaches, but it sent no car ter planes over Nippon today.) TVE MILES OFF American cruisers and de stroyers went within less than five miles off shore to bom bard coastal Installations on jutting Chiba Peninsula — 1 eastern entrance to Tokyo bey. One large explosion was seen, ut Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said ull reports were still lacking. He evealed that the cruisers Topeka, •klahoma City, Atlanta and Day 3n and the destroyers Ault and ohn W. Weeks were among the nips that struck the blow. For more than an hour, begin ing late last flight and continu lg today, their guns blasted shore efenses around Nojima Point, ojima is 50 miles south of Tok o and 55 miles from the imperial CAST NAVAL BASE j The shelling followed by a few hours an attack by Third fleet carrier planes on the Yo kosuka naval base, but inside Tokyo Bay on its west shore and only 18 miles south of Tokyo. (Radio Tokyo quoted the naval tation as estimating that 250 arrier aircraft made the attack nd that 40 were shot down and 8 damaged.) The three-day assault on the 'okyo area started Tuesday when ,500 American and British planes (recked numerous defense instal itions and war plants north of the apital. British planes hit 200 iile5 north of Tokyo and Ameri ans struck closer and to the outh. The same night, Third fleet hips bombarded a 20-mlle strip f coast north of Tokyo, the guns oaring until early Wednesday. Carrier planes renewed the at ack yesterday. (Tokyo said 900 aided the general Tokyo area. It lalmed 85 shot down.) VARSHIFS HIT Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an lounced only the lightning assault n the Yokosuka naval base, one f Japan’s greatest, and the war hips lying in her harbor. Remnants of the Japanese navy iave been in hiding for nine lonths—since their decisive defeat ff the Philtpptnes Oct. 24-25. > 1 Purchase Plan For Cotton CroD This Year Announced WASHINGTON, July 19. — (&)— t The Agriculture department an nounced today provisions of the government’s cotton purchase pro gram for the 1945 crop. The program is designed to help stabilize cotton prices. The department's Commodity! Credit corporation will offer to buy 1945 crop middling of 15-16 inch cot ton, basis weight flat cotton, at Memphis, at the following schedule of prices in cents per pound, for the month indicated: August 22:15. September 22.20, October 22.25, November 22.30, De cember 22.35, January 22.40, Febru ary 22.45, March 22.50, April 22.55, May 22.60, and June 22.65. Premiums and discounts for1 grades and staple lengths, and lo cation differentials under the pur chase program will be those in ef More Army Units Are Reaching U. S. Bv the Associated Press Army units arriving in the Unit- ! ed States today from Europe: At New York—Elements of the Eighth Air Force. At Boston—346th Infantry Regi ment, 87th Infantry Division. Army units arriving yesterday: j At New' York—The Second and 10th regiments of the Fifth Divi sion. advance detachments of the Eighth corps. At Hampton Roads. Va.—Ele ments of the 766th Field Artillery, 171st Evacuation hospital, 73rd Medical hospital, 804th Tank De stroyer battalion, 770th Air Main tenance group, 1971st Quartermaster Truck Co., 527th Air Squadron Service Group, 953rd Air Engineer Squadron, 777th Air Maintenance Squadron, 154th Weather Recon naissance Squadron, 18th Air Depot Group, 90th Depot Repair Squadron, 32nd and 84th Depot Supply Squad rons. 17th Medical Supply Platoon of 418th Quartermaster Platoon Air Depot, 435th Signal Battalion, 520th Headquarters and Base Service Squadron, 946 th Air Engineer Squadron. 52nd and 114th Station hospital, 3824th and 3825th Quart- { ermaster Truck Co., 233rd Ordnance j Ammunition group and 396th re placement company. They have ignored repeated Am erican and British challenges to come out and fight. While Yank pilots were seeking survivors of the Japanese fleet— already reduced to one of the world's poorest—the navy depart ment in Washington disclosed that 1,322 fighting ships have been added to the United States’ two ocean fleet in the past five years. This increased to around 1,500 the number of warships in the U. S. navy, which counted 385 combat ant vessels on July 1, 1940 and has reported loss of 140 since. An un- i reported number was transferred to the Allies under lend lease. Prom Washington also came of ficial word that 1.5000,000 Japanese have been killed or taken prisoner by American and British forces and 600.000 others have been cut off or by-passed on Pacific islands. In addition, Generalissimo Chiang j Kai-Shek said recently that 1,203,-! 067 Nipponese have been killed or captured in eight years of fighting in China. Nevertheless. Japan still has 5, 000,000 to 10,000,000 men, includ ing the emperor's best troops, to defend their homeland. The enemy has little else, how ever. The Japanese air force has permitted the combined American and British Pacific fleet to bomb and shell its war industries and military targets at will for more than a week within sending so much as a squadron to counterat tack. JAP NAVY HIDING The Japanese navy is in hiding —“camouflaged” in some haven, Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher of carrier task force 58 fame said re cently. The U. S. Pacific fleet discovered some remnants in the inland sea March 18 and carrier pilots promptly sank the 45,000 ton dreadnaught Yamato, two cruisers and several destroyers. The Japanese command is de termined not to act, no matter how great the provocation, said a propagandist who described this as a "wait and see” policy. “The enemy tactic (Yokosuka attack) has been sized up and found not worth meeting,” he added i feet under the 1945 government cot ton Joan program. An allowance of 20 cents for 100 pounds in Arizona and California and in other states outside the zone area will be made for cotton compressed to standard density. No cotton will be purchas ed which has been compressed to high density. An allowance of seven pounds-will be made on bales covered with cot ton bagging. The CCC will designate purchas ing agencies. In general, they wil^ be local banks and others approv ed as lending agencies under the cotton lean program. Cotton will be purchased only from farmers who produced the cot ton this year and who have re tained their interest in the cotton at all times. Cotton will be pur chased when stored in warehouses approved by the CCC. Rankin Taken To Task After Violent Attack On Stimson WASHINGTON, July 19 — (JP Rep. Rankin iD-Miss> told the house today Secretary of War Stim son and two of his key aides should be removed from office. Rankin declared that Stimson. Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy "are using their office to indoctrinate men with communistic philosophy.” He added: "The house committee on un American activities is getting con stant protests from soldiers that these men are resnonsible for com missioning Communists in the army. "I th;nk these three should go now. “It is gratifying to note that President Truman is going to hurry home from Germany and I hope he continues his policy of cleaning house and begins with the War department." Several congressmen took issue wdth Rankin immediatelv and sharp debate continued in the house for several minutes. Western Roads Ask ICC Reconsideration Class Rate Decision CHICAGO, July 19. —TP - The western railroads announced today they had filed a petition with the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington asking reconsidera tion of a recent class rate deci sion. ThC decision would substantially reduce rates on manufactured pro ducts in the west and south and increase similar rates in the east. William H. Dana, chairman of :he western traffic executive com mittee, in announcing filing of the petition, declared the west “faces he alternatives of bankrupt rail roads or higher rates on agricul :ural products, livestock, and raw naterials’’ if the decision is al .owed to stand. The petition of the western rail ways assert that “for the sake pf what might be deemed appease nent, the commission has dealt a plow to the western railroads the effect of which it is difficult to determine at this time.” Bumper Peach Crop Flowing To Market SPARTANBURG, S. C., July 19 —OP)—Heavy rolling of South Car olina's bumper peach crop to out of-state markets was reported to day as more than 3,000 carlots became recorded. Marketing of the crop, although yet to reach its peak, was well un derway, the market news service said. The reports as of July 17 showed that 2,956 carloads had moved out of the state. Last year at this time 651 had been report ed. The service estimated a record crop of 5,760,000 bushels compared with last year’s 2,460,000. Last #ear the total out-of-state carloads was 4,074. Brenner Pass is the lowest and one of the most frequented passes across the Alps. Furnished by J. Robert Lindsay Webb Building: Shelby. N. C. and Company STOCKS TIMID NEW YORK, July 19. — (£>) — Short-war talk faded somewhat as a market factor today and stocks, under leadership of rails, negotiat ed a selective but notably timid recovery. In front the greater part of the proceedings were Santa Pe, South ern Railway, Southern Pacific, Bal timore and Ohio. Chrysler, U. S. Steel, American Telephone, Amer ican Water Works, North Ameri can, Columbia Gas, Johns-Manville, Boeing and International Harves ter. Electric Power & Light touch ed another 1945 top before slip ping. Reluctant risers included Standard Oil (NJ). American Dis tilling and Caterpillar Tractor. Bonds and commodities steadied. BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO, July 19.—(A5)—Butter, firm; receipts 1,017,991. Eggs, re ceipts 15,385; firm. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, July 19.—(AV-(WFA) —Salable hogs 4,500, total 11,000; active and fully steady, good and choice barrows and gilts at 1413 lb. up at 14 75 ceiling; good and choice sows at 14.00; complete clearance. Salable cattle 4,500. total 5.000; salable calves 600, total 600; ail grades yearlings, including yearling heifers, weak to 25 cents lower; medium weights and weighty steers 25 to 40 cents off; trade very slow at decline; top 17 75, paid for 987 lb. Yearlings; best weighty steers 17.35; medium weight 17.50; no choice heifers here, best 16.50; cows unevenly steady, steady to 25 cents, mostly 10 to 15 cents low'er; bulls generally steady; vealers unchang ed at 16.00 down; stock cattle slow, steady; narrow eastern shippers demand main bearish influence' it general market. N. C. HOGS RALEIGH July 19—(<P>—NCDA —Hog markets active and steady with tops of 14.55 at Clinton and Rocky Mount and 14.85 at Rich mond. POULTRY AND EGGS RALEIGH. July 19—{JP >—N CD A —Egg and poultry markets steady to very 'firm. Raleigh—U. S. grade AA large 47; hens, all weights, 26.8. WashingtonU. S. grade A large 47; broilers and fryers 32.5. K Y. COTTON AT Todav ._..22.99 March _ . May . __ July . .___ October _ _22.98 December _ ....22.98 .22.96 .22.75 2:00 Prev. Day 22.98 22.97 22.75 22.97 22.99 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT July . .. September _ ...._1.61’* December _ —— —1.621 i CORN July _ _ . September December . .1.184 .1.18’ 2 .1.184 RYE July _ -... September December . .1.504 .1.384 .1.354 1.634 1.61 1.614 1 18 4 1.184 1.184 1 494 1.37’4 1.34 >4 STOCKS AT 2.00 Amn Rolling: Mill _ . Amprican Loco _ American Tobacco B _ — American Tel and Tel . .. Anaconda Copper . - Assoc Drv Goods --... Beth Steel . ..1 Boeing Air . .. Chrysler . Curtiss-Wright - --- Elec Boat _ --- General Motors _ - Pepsi Cola . Greyhound Corp . . International Paper _ Nash Kelv . Glenn L Martin _ —: Newport Ind . .. N Y Central . Penn R R. Radio Corp . --- Reynolds Tob B - - Southern Railroad _ - Stand Oil N J - —— Sperrv Corp . ------. U S Steel - -_ Western Union . . . 21 32 3-4 . 77 1-2 177 7-8 33 5-8 ..... 28 79 24 1-4 108 1-4 .. 6 7-3 . 16 3-8 . 66 7-8 22 1-8 24 3-4 ..... 26 18 3-4 26 3-4 _ 24 26 3-4 37 3-4 12 5-8 _ 34 46 1-2 ...... 61 . 30 3-8 67 3-8 47 1-2 TRUMAN Starts On Page One the report of the President’s offer Ls true, much has been accomplish ed to speed the work of the con ference. The President was reported to have told Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin that the U. S. government would give full sup port to any reasonable settlement of boundary disputes, stabilization and rehabilitation. (In London, well-informed di plomatic sources expected the Big Three to amputate a huge slice of eastern Germany for the benefit of Poland.) But for the present actual de cisions of the conference and mat ters under discussion still are on the top secrecy level pending for mal issuance of a joint communi que. There have been strong Indica tions that Asia and Japan already have been under discussion by the three conferees. President Truman is understood to be contending that the saving of American lives is of paramount importance with the United States government. Some American observers in Potsdam consider the Japanese war and Russia’s possible role therein the major points of discussion Admiral William D. Leahy, the President’s adviser; Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff; Ad miral of the Fleet Ernest J. King and Gen. H. H. Arnold, air chief, are reported to have prepared im OPA PRICING PROGRAM SET Designed To Speed Recon version Of Consumer Goods Production WASHINGTON. July 19.—(AT»)— The OPA is ready to put into ef fect a streamlined pricing program designed to help speed reconvers ion to consumer goods production. Duty price administrator James F. Brownlee scheduled a news con ference (3 P. M., EWT) to outline a plan OPA hopes will eliminate any business hesitancy traceable to uncertainty about price ceilings for new products. The program retains the agency’s goal of holding most retail ceilings to 1942 levels, although under cer tain conditions producers will be allowed increases over their prices of thre years ago. Wholesalers and retailers, in many cases, probably will be required to absorb all or part of those increases. The pricing plan, it is understood, provides formulas by which indi vidual companies will be able to de termine their ceilings quickly, rath er than waiting for OPA to work out industry-wide scales. The new system also calls for speedy approv al fo company ceilings to avoid production bottlenecks. Ceilings set for individual firms will remain in effect until indus try-wide maximum prices are es talished on the basis of cost figur es available when production is farther along. Later, separate ad justments would be made in the case of companies faced with fi nancial hardship. The program is designed solely for manufacturers applying for an increase over 1942 ceilings to com pensate for higher casts. Those who put 1942 price tags on products are not required to clear with OPA. Wood Alcohol Is Blamed In Deaths — HIGH POINT, July 19. -JP)— : John C. Archie, 52-vear-«old negro, ; was totally and permanently blind I today, the result of drinking a 1 poisonous alcoholic concoction which brought death to three of ■ his ow-n children and eight others. The eleven died during a five-day ! period last week-end. Along with | James Nelson and his wife. Marie I Nelson, Archie, was in jail here j today. All face charges of man slaughter. Police Chief John A. Lowdermilk 1 said Archie obtained wood alcohol I from which the liquid was made and that Archie and the Nelsons sold It to other negroes. RETURN FROM FUORIDA I ..Mrs, \V. T. Randall, jr„ .and son. "Chude,” have returned to their home on route three, Shelby, | after visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Randall, sr„ at Jax Beach. Fla. (They were accompanied home by : Miss Elva Ann Randall for a short ! visit. SERVICE RECORD OF MENPRAISED War Department Quick To Defend Officers, Men Called Communists WASHINGTON, July 19. ■—(£>)— The War Department came to quick defense yesterday of sixteen Army officers and men described on Cap itol Hill as having backgrounds which “reflect communism in some form.” A department statement said thorough investigations of the com missioned and non-commissioned personnel listed “did not lead the Army to conclude that any of the individuals was disaffected or dis loyal.” The statement was issued shortly after a house military subcommittee made public the names as compiled by the committee's chief counsel, H Ralph Burton, and submitted to the group in private testimony. DONOVAN RAISES Still later Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services, is sued a separate statement voic ing praise of the “outstanding service” of four of the officers described in the list as assigned to OSS. The War Department statement said the performance of all 16 "during the last three years has clearly evidenced their loyalty to this country and the principles for which this country is fighting.” Of the four OSS lieutenants, Donovan said Irving Goff, Milton Wolff and Vincent Lossowski “each voluntarily enlisted for overseas service” and that each while serv ing overseas as an enlisted man was awarded the good conduct medal and later commissioned. The fourth. Irving Fajans. Dono van said, was inducted in April. 1942. sent to Officers Candidate school and later was wounded in action an received the Purple Heart. “Each of these officers,” Donovan concluded, “performed outstanding service with Company D, 2677th ! regiment, which was the OSS unit with the 15th army group charged with the responsibility of organiz , ing resistance groups in enemy-oc cupied northern Italy. Their mission Gotham Vegetable Dealers To Strike NEW YORK, July 19 -•(£>)— Nearly 700 fruit and vegetable dealers in Manhattan and the Bronx voted early today to join 1,800 similar merchants in other parts of the city and close their stores in protest against OPA ceil ings and what they called black market conditions. The shutdown, to begin at mid night Saturday, was voted over whelmingly at the close of a stormy four-hour meeting of the Allboro Retail Fruit and Vegetable Mer chants’ association. Executives of the association had announced they would ask iheif members to “continue in busi ness.” Body Of Tar Heel Found In Chicago CHICAGO, July 19. —(/Pi— The body of a man tentatively identi fied as John Quincy Morrison, 51, of 1334 Washington street, Roa noke Rapids, N. C„ was taken bv police from the Chicago river on Tuesday. / A cashier's check for 1450 on the *4 Tacoma, Wash., National Bank was found in his clothes. Police said the body, which showed no marks of violence, had been in the water about five days. having been completed with credit, these officers have been returned to the Armv for reassignment.” WANT ADS PEACHES FOR SALE AT LEM Hamrick’s orchard, eight miles north of Shelby, on No. 18 high way. J. H. Hailes and Georgia Belles will be ready Monday. 3t 19p TOO LATE FOR BEHIND THE Front Page—Man and wife, an other lady wanting share expense rides to Raleigh or eastern Caro lina. Call Holt McPherson. j SEAT COVERS THRU-THE-POST j spotlights, reliners, recapped I tires at B. F. Goodrich 8tores, ! 219 South LaFayette St. 5t 17c Moving Sale • BEGINNING THURSDAY, THIS WEEK • EVERYTHING DRASTICALLY REDUCED Will open business at 533 Sumter Street as soon as ready. Thanks for past patronage and hope same may continue when ready to open again. Cash's Grocery WATCH FOR OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT! 32-Piece Dinner Set HAND PAINTED Add sparkle to your table with this gleaming 32-piece set of china. On sale Friday morning, as long as it lasts. Come early for yours! SOUTH LaFAYETTE STREET — >.<.':;\4..■ -s.*V*-• 'Jn&iiiimBBSmE PHONE 788 Beautiful A
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