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WEATHER Partly cloudy today, tonight and Sunday with slightly higher after noon temperatures. Scattered aft ernoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. The Hhelhy Baily Hkar CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today “The Body Snatcher” BORIS KARLOFF BELA LUGOSI VUL. XL11I- 174 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c BIG THREE ANNOUNCE PARLEY MAKING PROGRESS JAPS COMPLAIN WHILE WANES RAKE HONSHU Tokyo Radio Says Raids Are Becoming "Complicated" SHANGHAI STRUCK GUAM, July 21—(/P)—New multiple air attacks against the Japanese empire from Honshu to Jndo-China by hundreds of tactical planes were disclosed by American headquarters today as the Tokyo radio complained that the blows were becoming “complicated.” Settling down to day-after day attacks, bombers and fighters concentrated on indus trial and military targets on the two main enemy islands of Honshu and Kyushu, gave For mosa its daily pasting. and slammed the vital Shanghai shipping and aviation center in east China for the second straight day. Two groups P-51 Mustangs hit the central industrial area of Hon shu between Osaka and Nagoya yesterday. The first, based on Iwo Jima. roared In 80 strong, and the targets they left nmong the smaller towns of this crowded Industrial area were soon under the guns of 94 more Mustangs in a second wave that shot up boats, airfields, and factories. These attacks followed the record 600- plus Superforts which had blasted the same general area before dawn yesterdav. AIRFIELDS SMASHED Five Japanese airfields around Shanghai were worked over on Wed nesday by Far East Air forces Lib erator heavies, Mitchell Mediums and A-26 attack bombers escorted j bv fighters—a total of more than 800. They met no aerial opposition, and dropped bombs which started two big fires along the important docks lining the Wbangpoo river. Gen. Douglas MaeArthnr reported nl a com munique from Manila. This was the second straight, day the Shanghai area had come under the sights of Seventh Air Force planes and pilots began to refer to it as “the milk run from Oki- j nawa ’’ In Kvushu. port of Kagoshima remained virtually cut off because of railway tunnels blocked the day before. Fifth air force Mustangs bombed and strafed the piled-up; locomotives and oxcars as the Jap-: unese struggled to clear the ap proaches to the city. Rayon mills and waterfront installations were hit In suburban Kushikino and Miyakonojo. Thirty-five Thunder bolt* roved aouthward to the little mineral Island of Iwo and attacked sulphur mines, phosphate works and roads. Liberators hit the giant Mlho air drome on southern Honshu and swept over Tomltaka airstrips on1 the east central coast of Kyushu, Twenty of the big B-9's struck Formosa, setting the Matsuyama airfield on fire and destroying two grounded planes and railway roll ing stock and storage dumps on Wednesday. Seventh fleet Liberators ranged over Hainan island and patrolled the Indo-Chinese coastline, wreck ing locomotives and rolling stock and hitting a small freighter Off Nha Trarig. Liberators of the Fifth Air Force bombed a factory area at Canton, China, setting a number of fires. The Tokyo radio acknowledged that the psychological effects of American bombings on the Japa nese home front were “surprising ly strong” and complained that the attacks were “so complicated that they cannot be anticipated from ex perience or the common sense gain ed so far.” McNutt Studying Manifold Problems Of Philippines MANILA, July 21.— (Jf) —War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt told newspapermen today he was aware that the Philippines needed aggressive economic and political action to solve internal political strife, inflation and “mo nopolistic profiteering.” “And I hope I can help,” de clared McNutt, who arrived here yesterday. He emphasized again, however, that he intended "to keep my fin gers out of political questions.” As an observer, he explained, he will gather complete information to re port to President Truman, primari ly on health and welfare work. No time limit has been set for his stay in the islands, he said, and there are no barriers restrict ing persons he might choose to in terview. PITTSBURGH HOME FOR REPAIRS—The heavy cruiser USS Pittsburgh, which lost her 104-foot bow section In a typhoon off Ryukyus June 5, is shown in dry dock at Bremerton, Wash., as workman prepare to install a new bow.—(AP Wirephoto) Oregon Forest Fires Burn More Than 70 Square Miles Advancing Toward Other Centers And Spot Fires Threaten To Meet PORTLAND, Ore., July 21. —(IP)— Capricious winds which joined widely scattered spot fires kept Oregon’s 70-s<jUare-mile forest fire still iuaimg ai nign pn.cn loauy. Fire fighters checked the blaze on one sector and started to mop their brows, only to find flaming embers blown in another direction. The huge Wilson river blaze car ried across 10,000 more acres In 48 hours to blacken more than 48,000 acres. To the north, the Salmonberry fire crackled in half a dozen new sections under a heavy layer of smoke. Near the Tlllamock-Washing ton county line, spot fires from both blazes threatened to meet, and fire crews redoubled their efforts. Forestry officials shook their heads at a weather bu reau forecast of light showers today and said the fire might be controlled If it rained buckets. Workers at the lumber commun ity of Glenwood, however, appeared a little more hopeful, reporting spot fires extinguished promptly. A wind which changed its mind at one to two-hour intervals kept sol dier and civilian crews hard at work all day putting out blazes from falling embers, but the main wall of flame was temporarily checked about three miles- from town. Only a dozen families remained in the Malet and they were ready to pull out at a moment's notice. Refugees from the Glenwood area were strung out all the way to Forest Grove, living in cars, trail ers, or tents set up in plowed fields. Universities To Open For Soldiers PARIS, July 21. —(JO— Two new American universities each with a capacity of 4,000 soldier-student will open soon, the education division of the U. S. Army announced today. One in England will open at Shrivenham July 30 and the sec ond at Biarritz, Prance, Aug. 20. Each school will have 100 Army instructors and about 150 profes sors on leave from American univer sities. They will offer courses in agriculture, commerce, education, engineering, fine arts. Journalism, liberal arts and the sciences. AMG FUNCTIONS PARIS, July 1—(JP)—The Ameri can military government at Frank furt reported this story today of the reassignment of Nazi workers. At 8 a.m. 26 long-time party members reported at work as us ual at the pension office. At 8:05 they were handed dismissal no tices and orders to transfer to a ‘‘special project." NATION’S IDLE PAST 50,000 I ■ <■ . By The Associated Press Strikes and walkouts some new, others of long duration, kept the number of idle across the country around the 50,000 mark again to day. In the last 24 hours two strikes ended and a truce was called in ! ; the controversy which had tied up i milk deliveries in Kansas City. But (fresh disputes cropped up along : 1 the labor front, adding more than : ' 10.000 to the list of idle. In most of the continuing stop pages, no changes were reported., In the Detroit area the idle num- j bered 24,600, approximately one j half of the country’s total. They | included 14.000 employes at 200 closed lumber yards. Ohio was plagued by a series of stoppages as a strike at the Re public steel plant in Cleveland ended, allowing 1,500 CIO-United Steel-Workers to go back to their vital war work after a one-day stoppage causing an estimated loss of 4,500 tons of steel. But a walkout of 500 supervisors at the Wright Aeronautical Corp. in Cincinnati spread to new de partments and forced the company to send 4,000 employes home. The dispute at the plant, wihch pro duces B-29 engines, was said by a union spokesman to be in protest over suspension of three foremen. Some 55,000 residents of the Warren (Ohio) area, deprived of normal telephone service for nearly a week by a labor dispute, were threatened with transportation problems today. Nuremberg Scene German War Trials LONDON, July 21.— (/P) —The main trials of German arch-crlm lnals of war may be held In the Nazi shrine city of Nuremberg. Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief United States prosecute*:, and rep resentaties of the British and French governments flew to Nu remberg today to Inspect a pro posed site. CHINESE REPEL COUNTER DRIVE Forces Are Closing In On Three Sides Of Kweilin, Former Air Base By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, July 21. —(JP)— Chinese froces closing In on Kwei lin from three sides have beaten down Japanese counter-attacks on the outer perimeter of enemy de fenses before the former U. S. 14th j Air '"Force" b'sse"' city, t"he* Chinese high command announced today. All the Japanese counter blows were “totally frustrated,” the Chinese announcement said. Chinese columns in Kwangsi pro vince continued to move in on Kwei lin from the southwest, north west and south. Kweilin is 90 miles northeast of recently recaptured Liuchow. MANY CASUALTIES Considerable casualties were in flicted on Japanese forces in Fu kien province, six miles south of i the South China coastal highway! town of Yunsiao, 65 miles northeast i of Swatow. Chinese troops attack- ; ed enemy groups which since June 13 have been trying to fight their way from Amoy to Swatow, 115 miles to the southeast. The high command said that the Japanese counterattacks around Kweilin yesterday were mounted from points such as Paishou. 25 miles to the west, Ining, 11 miles to the northwest and Chiehsou, on the Hu nan-Kwangsi railroad 41 miles to the northeast. Navy Planning To Release Older Men WASHINGTON, July 21. —<-F)— About 30,000 older Navy officers and enlisted men may be released by December to permit the enlistment and induction of younger men. Disclosing this yesterday, the Navy said it is considering a point formula for release of older per sonnel. If adopted the plan will re lease 11,600 commissioned and war rant officers and 19,000 enlisted men by year’s end. This would permit the voluntary enlistment and drafting of younger men qualified to meet future needs. The Navy emphasized that the for mula under consideration will not be a demobilization measure since the service’s strength will not be reduced below the present authoriz ed maximum of 3,389,000 which was reached June 30. For this reason, the Navy said, the formula does not consider such fac tors as dependency and combat ser vice which might be included in a demobilization plan. SHANGHAI HIT: U. S. Planes Crack East India Invasion Point By MORRIS J. HARRIS (Former chief of the Shanghai) bureau of the Associated Press who was repatriated in 1942 from a Ja panese prison camp there.) WASHINGTON, July 21. —(A*)— General MacArthur’s announce ments that American air forces are l -ginning big-time attacks on Shanghai reveal that we are out to crack Japan’s major invasion point of east Asia. JAPS LOSING FACE , Shanghai is the outstanding port through which Tokyo has poured its war machine into China and adjacent areas, and the place where Ju. s out standing: property interests on continental Asia are located. In striking at Shanghai, Ameri can bombers and lighters are threatening the very roots of Ja pan’s position in Asia, for Shang hai, to both Chinese and foreigners who have lived there, is the heart of China. Prior to the Japanese invasion of China, Shanghai was the commer cial and government center of that nation although Nanking was the capital. Most government offices were in Shanghai and commercially It was supreme throughout Asia. American onslaughts on the great China city, now long under Ja panese military control, not only will blast Japan’s war machine from the area, but will deflate Japanese “face” in the eyes of the Yese. DOOM EVIDENT This is an added weapon in the hands of the Allies against the Ja panese. Its importance is difficult to exaggerate. With the Japanese position in Shanghai threatened, the common man of China will know firsthand that the day of defeat for Japan is near. His in creased will to resist will further hurry that day. * HOUSE STARTS VACATION BUT SENATEffORKS Longest Layoff Since 1938; Appropriated 60 Billions This Year MANY TcTeUROPE WASHINGTON, July 21— (ft3)—With a lot of work be hind it and some tough jobs ahead, the house cleared up legislative odds and ends to day in a rush to start its longest vacation since 1938. At the end of today’s session, house members—the few still in Washington—will begin an 11 weeks’ holiday that will last until October 8 unless an emergency a rises to recall them sooner. They will leave Capitol Hill to the senators, who won’t call it quits until sometime next month after ratification of the United Nations charter drafted at San Francisco. Then the senate, too, will fold up until October 8. Most house members left Wash ington last week-end, leaving to a faithful handful the job of com pleting legislative action on the Bretton Woods monetary program and a corporation tax relief mea sure. Both skimmed through the house yesterday in record time. 100 ABROAD An estimated 100 house members will spend their vacation traveling abroad on investigations. Some already have departed for foreign shores; others are waiting for boats. Many who aren’t broaden ing themselves by travel plan to holiday repairing politica: h( joyed a respite of more than six months, has the house looked forward to such a long holiday. Besides appropriating some $60, 000,000,000 since it convened last I January 3, the house with the sen ate, has enacted this legislation: Extended the draft law for an other year. Continued the lend-lease pro gram. Increased the national debt lim it to $300,000,000,000. Extended the reciprocal trade agreements act. Approved legislation implement ing the Bretton Woods interna tional monetary agreements. Increased the pay of federal em ployes and postal workers. Continued the price control law. It sought, but failed for lack of senate concurrence, to draft nurses for the armed forces, to compel draft-age men to take es sential jobs under penalty of in duction, and to require treaty rat ification by a majority of the sen ate and the house instead of by two-thirds of the senate. Storm Heads For Gulf Coast Area NEW ORLEANS, July 21 —(£>)— After remaining stationary for many hours, a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico is again head ed for the western Louisiana and upper Texas coast. The New Orleans weather bu reau, in its 3:30 a.m. (CWT) ad visory, said the storm—second of the season to sweep out of the gulf—would move inland about noon. It is attended by winds of 35 to 45 miles an hour, the advisory said. The weather bureau stress ed that the storm is small in area. At the time the advisory was issued the disturbance was re ported to be centered about 100 miles south of Port Arthur, Tex., and moving northwestward or west northwestward about five miles an hour. The advisory said the stprm center would hit the coast in the Galveston, Tex., and Freemont, Tex., area. Japs Claim New Suicide Weapon SAN FRANCISCO, July 21. —(£>) —The Japanese declared today they had invented a new secret weapon “in every sense of the word” which functioned best if run by “special attack” suicide operatives. As reported by Domei agency in a broadcast heard by the Federal Communications Commission, Ja panese scientists “were doubious that it would be efficient unless it was linked w'ith the ‘special attack’ spirit.’’ The new weapon, said Domei, was unlike anything that had appeared in Europe and would be .employed “in rapid succession” in event of invasion. YANK NOTCHES SHOVEL—Pfc Bernard J. Hall, Triadelphia, W. Va„ cuts nine notches on the shovel with which he captured nine Japs in the Ryukyus. Hall was digging a foxhole with the shovel when the Nips marched up and surrendered. COUNTY SCHOOL TAX RATE LOW Grigg Tells Rotarians Debt About Liquidated; Praises Spirit Cleveland county enjoys one of the lowest school tax rates among the counties—by 1951, if no fur- j ther debt is incurred, it won’t be r-MMamsMtt levy further debt ser vice tax for schools—County Su perintendent J. H. Grigg told the Rotary club in a discussion of the county school system, its accom plishments and some of its prob lems as it moves into a new school year. The county superintendent paid tribute to the men who have I through the year constituted the j county board of education, men: he said*had felt that shorter term indebtedness is preferable to long- ] term bondings. He pointed out that with the county undertaking new bond issues it might be well to give thought to pursuance of that policy in further financings. Mr. Grigg praised highly the public-spiritedness and spirit of self-sacrifice he said char acterizes most school teach ers, and he said his hat is off to them for the magnificent job they are doing. PROBLEMS CITED Three major problems of the schools were outlined by the speaker, the first being that of building facilities which could not | be expanded during the war—he j foresees a real problem next year width addition of the twelfth, grades; the faculty, because bet ter teachers have been bled off by the cities with supplemental wage and by the war centers until the standard of teaching as schools open next Monday doesn’t measure up to that of the pre-war period; third, maintenance and upkeep of transportation, a par-1 ticular problem being drivers who^ in most instances are boys just over 16 and therefore not as sea soned as would be liked. Mr. Grigg said the 10,291 chil dren in the county’s 26 white and 29 colored—the negro schools aren't as consolidated yet as the white—represent a considerable decline from the 11,500 of five years ago. He pointed out there See COUNTY Page 2 FRANCO SHAPES A NEW CABINET Long-Awaited Re-Shuffle Points Toward Monarchy MADRID. July 21. — MV- Gen eralissimo Francisco Franco admin istered the oath of office to his new cabinet today and the falangist newspaper -Arriba declared that the new '"government would continue the “falangist ideal”. The newspaper’s editorial said the long-expected cabinet shakeup, which placed in office five men considered monarchist sympathizers, was a "new step” in the life of Franco’s party, the only one in Spain. One of the displaced cabinet members, Foreign Minister Jose Fe lix Lequerica, may succeed Juan Francisco Cardenas as ambassador to Washington, but there was no confirmation. Lequerica and Eduardo Aunos, minister of justice, who also was replaced, were known to be on terms with the falange which at the least were not friendly. The cabinet shake-up, revealed last night, displaced falange secre tary-general Jose Luis Arresse through the elimination of his ca binet post, minister without port folio. U. S. Subs Bag 11 More Jap Vessels WASHINGTON, July 21— (JF) — United States submarines have sunk 11 more enemy vessels, in cluding four .small combat ships, in far eastern waters, the navy an nounced today. The combatant ships included two minesweepers and two patrol escort vessels. Non-combatant craft claimed in the latest toll included a large cargo transport, a medium trans port, three small merchant vessels, a small freighter, and a medium freighter. The announcement raised to 1, 174 the total Japanese vessels of all types which have fallen prey to United States submarines since the start of the war. The total included 144 combatant ships sunk and 1,030 non-combatant vessels 'sunk. DIXIE GOVERNORS: Fear Air Transport Might Offset Rate Equalization MOBILE, Ala., July 21.—(/P)—The southern governors conference studied today the possibility that fast-growing air transportation might upset the south’s industrial gains from the interstate commerce commission’s freight rate equalization order. The suggestion was advanced by Gov. Simeon S. Willis of Kentucky, who called attention to the increase in size of aerial transports since the war and announcement of plans for even larger planes. OPINION DIFFERS He said that in time light traffic probably would be carried almost exclusively by plane. Gov. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahc>» ma, conference chairman, said his offhand view was that the air transports would increase only the flow of commerce and offered no threat to industrialization of the j i south. J. V. Norman of Louisville, Ky., counsel for the Southern Gover nors in the freight rate fight, said he did not believe air traffic would compete esriously with rail traffic for at least ten years. The attorney pointed out air transportation rates are subject co regulation by the Civil Aeronau tics Authority instead of the ICC The southern governors, who are holding a four day meeting here to study effects of the recent ICC See FEAR Page 3 EFFORT MADE TO SPEED DP DELIBERATIONS 15-Word Announcement Reports "Much Serious Business Done" POLICY SHAPING By Ernest B. Vaccaro POTSDAM, July 21.—(/P)— The American delegation to the big three conference re ported progress today in a 15-word announcement: “The work of the confer ence is going ahead and much serious business has been done.” There was no. elaboration of this statement to the press, but it came amid reports that both President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill were anxious to speed the deliberations. In the American compound, Truman conferred with Ad miral Emory S. Land, chair man of the U. S. Maritime commission here for discus sions looking to the postwar utilization of America’s big merchant fleet. Lt. Gen. Lu cius Clay, Gen. Eisenhower’s deputy in Germany, had din ner with the President. SUNDAY QUIET Tomorrow Mr. Truman presum ably will attend church services as usual. The American delegation planned services in its area. There was a possibility the services.would be conducted by Col. L. Curtis Tier nan, chief of chaplains of U. S. forces in the European theatre. An i old friend with whom Mr. Truman served in the 129th field artillery in the last war, Col. Tieman call ed on the President last n^ght and they talked for "™°™i The President’s party"was enter tained again by Sgt. Eugene List, pianist, and Pvt. Stuart Oanin, violinist, both of New York city. They had played the previous night for all the Big Three. Prime Minister Churchill took time out from the deliberations and reviewed in Berlin’s Tiergarten the Seventh Armored division, British occupation force which fought all the way from El Alemein. He said the "desert rats’ ” march from Africa through Germany had been unsurpassed in the history of war. SPEEDING WORK The President Is eager to re turn to Washington soon, and See EFFORT Page 2 GOLD STARS TO BE GIVEN Max Dixon Announces List For Whom Citations Are Available * Gold star citations are ready to be delivered to the nearest of kin of 58 more men who have given their lives for their county, it was announced this morning, past commander of the American Le gion, who has charge of distribu tion. These citations are distribut ed through the courtesy of the national headquarters of the American Legion. Where it is inconvenient for the recipients of these awards to call for them at the office of Max Dixon in the Finance Building. Mr. Dixon said he would be glad to mail them out on request. The list of citations now ready for delivery are for the nearest kin of the following (wife if he has a wife, mother if there is no wife): Hal V. Buff, Durward Beason, C. R. Black, John Burton, Carl L. Barrins, Joyce B. Carroll, Earl E. Carpenter, Ralph Couch, Wayne earner, J. V. Champion, Jonme Downs, Fred P. Dayberry, John D’Amico, Roy Colon Divenny, Wil lie T. Doster, John B. Ellis, jr„ Robert Lee Falls. Lloyd J. George, Royal A. Hamby, Roland H. Hamrick, How- ;j ard L. Henson, Houston G. Hicks,! | George E. Holland. Jacob E. Hoyle, Roy E. Harmon, Joseph Whiteside, j James R. Jefferson, Grady E. Do I ver, James G, Ware, jr., Lem R. Lynch, Gidney E. Love lace, Earl W. Lemon, Carl M. LJr- j I brand, Ralph Lineberger, Herbert F. Luckadoo, Robert H. Montjoy, Franklin H. Peeler, Arthur F.; Price, Arves Penson, James Roark,j William ft. Smith, Floyd R. Splawn, j William M. Sweezy, Isaac E. Smawley, Garnet D. Tolbert, Barron A. Thomas, Jt' Watts, Hassel G. Wall, Edwj i Walker, Bonnie G. Wright, Brun son Burns Matthews, C. L. Taylor, Lewis Scott Gardner, Earl B. El lis, Raymond Thornburg. iC. Morehead, John D. B1 Ernest Lovelace.
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