WEATHER North Carolina: Partly cloudy, hot and humid today, tonight and Tuesday; scattered thundershow ers today Tshk syswa Hang Hksus CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “MURDER, HE SAYS” Starring FRED MacMURRAY VOL XLIII—176 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY. N. C. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c CHINESE ENTER RECAPTl RED LIl'CHOW—Chinese troops enter the recaptured city of Liuchow, burned out by the retreating Japanese. Liuchow was the sight of an American air base. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corp.) Success Of Charter Depends On Peoples Barkley Criticizes Cynics Who Hurt Peace Chances By Predicting Failure WASHINGTON, July 24.—(/P)—Criticizing "cynics” who predict there always will be war, Democratic Leader Bark lev (Ky). told the senate today the United Nations organi zation will succeed “if the peoples of the world will that it; DECLARATIONS ’ MUST BE LEGAL Cool Distributing Officials Issue Warnings On Scarcity Difficulties of con! dealers In co operating with a government coal rationing plan have been increas ed by some consumers illegally, even if unknowingly, filing consu mer declarations this year with more than one dealer when last year they bought only from one yard. The situation is causing concern among officials of the Solid Fuel administration who have warned that violators of the federal law face 10 years in jail or a $10,000 fine. Consumers, If they bought from two dealers last year, may file de clarations of their coal needs with the same two dealers this year. If they bought from one dealer, they may legally file only with that deader. Confusions have arisen because some consumers, have fil ed with dealers from whom they bought no * coal last year. Any consumer who has filed illegally should immediately withdraw any Illegal declaration, says SFA offi £ cials. Consumers are being ad r vised that it will be wise to take any type of coal they are offered because the supply situation pro mises to become tighter before winter. TINIAN BIGGEST OF B-29BASES TINIAN, July 24—
and to call attention of his colleagues to a compilation of pur ported feelers he said had been made by "a high military source” and forwarded to President Tru man at Potsdam. Wherry said he had been hand ed by this ‘‘high military source” a communication addressed to Mr. Truman and carrying suggestions of possible peace terms. These include retention of the emperor and avoidance of military occupa tion of Japan proper. REPORT DENTED The Nebraska senator said these terms were based on feelers re portedly received, but he added he did not know who had written the message to the President. The State department has in sisted it has received nothing in the way of a genuine peace offer from Japan. “We’re talking of peace here in connection with the United Na tions charter,” Wherry said. “I want to know why we can’t lay down some peace terms under which Japan can surrender. I think that if the President did that, we might get a surrender on our own terms that would end this war.” Wherry said it was his under standing that the “high military source,” whom he declined to i dentify further, believed the terms stated in the communication to Mr. Truman might be acceptable. SEECTEES GO FOR INDUCTION Lee Roy Bumgardner was nam ed leader of the group of the 32 selectees who left here this morn ing for Port Bragg to report for final induction into the armed services. These men took their pre induction examinations some time ago. Those who left were: Fred Irvin Mills Sam Monroe Greene, Jr. Oscar Carter, Jr. James Marion Shook John Sipe William Hoyle Potter Elvin Ray Seism Cicero Alfred Morrison Ralph George Towery Hazel Lee Davis James Randall Gibson Willard Reece Brittain David Smith, jr. Dorman Joseph Meade Lee Roy Bumgardner John Everette Greene Bynum Jethro Parker Robert Lee Leonhardt, jr, Arlis Thomas Tate Robert William Grigg Hugh Lee Gantt Robert Preston Simpson James Thaddeus Barber Howard Lee Warren David William Johnson Ray Swrink James Horace Gettys Robert Johnson, jr. Richard Franklin Willis Delmer Verle Sprouse Reynaud Gives Damning Testimony Against Petain In Latter’s Trial By LOUIS NEVIN PARIS, July 24.— (/P) —Former Premier Paul Reynaud testified at the trial of Marshal Petain today that a union of France and Great Britain was “an ideal which some day must be realized.’’ The dapper little politician, who said yesterday he despised the old marshal, described the proposal of Prime Minister Churchill when France was collapsing in 1940 for a union. Petain, on trial for his life on ac cusations of intelligence with the enemy and plotting against the se curity of France, strode into the Palace of Justice courtroom 20 min utes late on this second day of the hearing. He was clad in his marshal's uniform: his face appeared fresh and expressionless. Reynaud said that after he succeeded Edouard Daladier as premier June 16, 1940. he did not oppose a “cease fire” order but was firmly against demands for an armistice. He repeated that he wished to transfer the govern ment to French Africa and con tinue the war from there and was opposed by Petain and Gen. Maxine YVeygand, commander in chief of the reeling French forces. Reynaud testified that at a cab inet meeting on the day he formed his government, Petain read a let ter threatening to resign as vice premier if an armistice were not ac cepted. BRITISH PROJECT “The next day I received the great British project for union between our two people.'’ Reynaud said. He added that Camille Chautemps, former premier and a member of the Reynaud cabinet, opposed the plan, saying he did not want to see France become a British dominion. He tes tified further that Chautemps de clared it was impossible for the gov ernment to leave France without first getting terms of the armistice. "I was then left with no choice but to resign, for I was in the mi nority,” he said. “That night I ex plained the situation to the cabinet and President Albert Lebrun asked me to enforce the policy of the ma jority. I replied ‘I will never apply it' for if the majority opinion of the cabinet prevailed, France was lost." Reynaud said President Roosevelt sent Petain an “extremely strong” message warning the marshal that he risked losing the friendship of the United States government and peo ple because of the terms of the ar mistice Petain accepted from Ger many. FRENCH FLEET He testified that while the armis tice was being discussed he argued with Petain and Adm. Jean Darlan over the French fleet. Asked if the warships would be given to the Germans, Reynaud said Darlan re plied: “I would sooner put it out to sea.” Later at Bordeaux, Reynaud quot See REYNAUD Page 2 CHINESE BLOCK JAP ROUTES Shell Enemy-Held Village 15 Miles North Of Kweilin CHUNGKING, July 24 —