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WEATHER Partly cloudy and not much change in temperature today and tonight. Scattered thunderstorms tonight. Partly cloudy Friday; not quite so warm. Ehe Hhelby Baily III-tm - State Theatre Today - “THE FIGHTING GUARDSMAN” Wilard Parker — Anital Louise CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII-178 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1945 TELEMAT. PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c PLAN SINGLE CRUSHING BLOW AGAINST JAPS Force Will Be Approxi mate Total Of Army After Redeployment NOT ALL TOGETHER WASHINGTON. July 26.— f/P>—Gen. Jacob L. Devers. new chief of army ground forces, said today the plan is to mass a force for a single crushing blow against Japan, adding “there's no use doing it pieoemeal.” Appearing at a news conference with Acting Secretary of War Pat terson, Devers said that “we hope to get these 7,000.000 (the approxi mate total of the army after par tial demobilization) redeploy e d against the Japs in a single blow.” He explained that he did not mean the whole 7,000,000 could be used “on one small Island” but that they would be needed here In this country, In the pipeline of supply that feeds the forces on the Pacific | front, and elsewhere, r BIG JOB The general was commander of the 6th army group in the Euro pean fighting. The big Job now, he said. Is to get the men who have been on furloughs back to camp and put them in re-training for the Pacific war. Along with them must be trained men who are coming into the army for the first time and who will go into the reorganized outfits bound for the Pacific. The men will be given a minimum of eight Weeks' re-training, he said. BETTERMEAT SUPPLY SEEN OPA Announces Reduc tion Of Red Point Values For August Period WASHINGTON. July 26 —<PV OPA, reporting “definite improve ment’’ in meat supply and distri bution, today announced reduc tions in red point values for al most all cuts of beef, lamb and veal beginning Sunday. Hie agency estimated that for the August rationing period ebout 9.6 percent more meat will be a vallable for sale over retail coun ters than in July. Compared with V June, when civilian supplies were *■' at their lowest level, the increase will be about 11 percent. With one exception, the reduc tions amount to one to two points a pound. The reduction for bone less rump roasts is three points. Most steaks are cut two points. Present point values of all cuts of pork, canned fish, fats and oils, and dairy products will remain unchanged. Creamery butter con tinues at 16 points, the lower value was assigned July 15, AVGUST PERIOD Total meat supplies for the Au gust rationing period were esti mated at 221,110,000 pounds, com pared with 212,190,000 pounds for the present period. The estimate for beef is up 8,000,000 pounds, veal 2,280,000 pounds, lamb and mutton about J ,700,000. The pork supply, however, will be down about 3, See BETTER Page 2 August Tire Quota Same As For July WASHINGTON, July 26 —(yp)— The OPA has allotted 2,500,000 passenger car tires for rationing In August—the same as In July— but no new tires are yet in sight for “A" motorists. Urging “A” drivers to use every conservation aid, including recap ping, OPA said “it will be a long time” before new tires can be granted them. m The August quota of 386,862 t smaller truck tires is unchanged from July, but the quota for truck tires size 8.25 and larger is being > reduced from 234,308 to 200,000. d, Chinese Take Namyung, Seventh Former U. S. Air Base City Recaptured CHUNGKING, July 26.—(SP)—The Chinese high com mand announced today that Chinese troops had captured the city of Namyung, 155 miles northeast of Canton and site of the seventh former American air base to be regained from the Japanese in recent months. ine announcement said tne Jap anese garrison was retreating west ward toward Kukong. on the Can ton-Hankow railway 125 miles north of Canton. Namyung was abandoned by the U. S. 14th air force last Jan. 2. Its recovery means that shipments of wolfram can be resumed, since Tayu, less than 20 miles to the northeast, in the heart of the wol fram mining district, was recent ly recaptured by Chinese troops. TWO DRIVES The high command reported that the Japanese on July 22 started a drive from Indo-China toward Hwang si province. One column headed from Caobang, important Japanese base In Indo-China, to ward Suikow, 25 miles to the south east on the border. Another cross 1 ed the frontier and penetrated to the vicinity of Shatung, nine and one-half miles northwest of Lung chow. The Chinese said this column was subsequently repelled. Japanese forces which on July 23 drove from Dong Dang against Chennankwan and Pingsiang are | still being engaged by Chinese forces, the high command said. A Chinese press report asserted ! that on July 24 the Japanese broke into Pingsiang. Chinese town 11 miles north of the Indo-China 'border town of Dong Dang. 143 Square Miles Of Jap Cities Wiped Out Results "Good To Excellent" In Raid On Oil Targets Near Tokyo Last Night By AI Dopking GUAM, July 26.—(/P)—B-29 devastation in Japan’s urban industrial areas today reached 143 square miles in 39 cities as the latest wave of nearly 100 Superforts reported “erood to excellent” results in last midniVht.’s strike at nil targets near Tokyo. The weather was clear as the superforts hit three oil plants at Kawasaki, lo miles south of the enemy capital. They met intense anti-aircraft fire, but lo6t only one plane. There was no aerial Inter ception. Tokyo claimed In a belated acknowledgement of the attack that three Superfort* were shot down and five “heavily damag ed by our Interception.” Later, it said the rail also hit Nagano prefecture northwest of Tokyo and Tsuruml ward in Yoko hama. The attack followed less than 36 hours after a record force of 625 B-29s dumped 4.000 tons fo demo lition bombs on the Osaka-Na goya area. The Kawasaki strike hit the Mlt sibishi plant, believed to be Ja pan’s biggest aviation fuel refinery, and the nearby Hayama refinery and Asaishi tank farm, all on re claimed land close to Tokyo Bay. It was the 12th time the big bomb ers had struck concentrated blows at Japan's homeland oil resources. Twentieth Airforce headquarters, reporting that cumulative damage to urban industrial targets now to See 143 Page 2 SLIGHT EARTH TREMORHERE Shelbions Awakened Early By Slight But Definite Earthquake A slight but well-defined earth tremor shook Shelby along with a considerable section of the Caro I linas into an early awakening to day but caused no damage of con sequence. Dishes danced on shelves, the windows of buildings rattled, and a few chimneys were reported cracked in other sections as the earth swayed to the accompaniment of a rumbling sound for nearly a minute shortly after 6:30 a. m. The Star office was deluged with calls from persons startled and wondering what had Jarred them from their slumbers. Seismographists at Fordham uni versity in New York and at the University of South Carolina re See SLIGHT Page 2 This Is the central fact which observers are able to pick out of the Tokyo radio’s startling broad cast today urging the United States to take a more lenient attitude about this business of peace. The appeal was carefully hedged about with qualifications which fit ted it neatly into Tokyo’s usual propaganda line. Nevertheless, it gave the impression that Japan would be definitely inhere; fad in peace if only the unconditional surrender formula could be soft ened. The broadcast, heard by the Fed eral Communications, came on the heels of the most disastrous two weeks the empire has undergone. Mammoth Superfort raids, paralyzing land - based aerial strikes from Okinawa, and the great fleet bombardments and carrier attacks since July 10 have ripped the empire from stem to stern and further man gled the Japanese war ma chine in China and elsewhere. So much so that earlier today Tokyo radio agreed with Admiral Halsey that American sea and air See JAP Page 2 / NO INDICATION HALSEY MEANS TO LETUP Tokyo Reports B-29's Sow ing Mines In Waters Off Islands LITTLE RESISTANCE By Hamilton W. Faron GUAM, July 26.—(/P)—The taunting U. S. Third Fleet which smashed 24 Japanese warships in the 17 days it has i made the home waters of ! Nippon its own, moved men iacingly off the Mikado’s is lands today, deploying for its next blows at the enemy’s stunned cities and shattered ships. As Admiral Halsey pulled back to sea for a breather, there was no indication that he Intended to let up in his steady pounding of war plants, coastal defenses, air fields and the remnants of the Japanese fleet. (Japan still was harassed con stantly. Five B-29s mined Osaka Bay, off the southeastern coast of the main home island on Hon shu and ten others sowed Wakasa Bay on the west, radio Tokyo said in a broadcast heard by the Fed eral ommunlcations Commission.) Halsey continued to move bis ships about the enemy home waters as he chose, with no resistance on the sea. The Nip ponese finally perked up a lit tle in the air, but the few planes they put aloft were al most lost among the Allied hundreds. Nineteen were shot down. Latest reports on Tuesday's strike indicated that enemy warships caught like sitting ducks at Kure naval base probably would be on the repair list for long periods. Listed as hit by torpedoes, bombs and bullets from 1,200 carrier-bas ed planes that damaged them from “heavily” to “slightly” were 20 war See NO INDICATION VACCINATIONS GIVEN FREE Health Department An* nounces Series Of Clinics For County Vaccinations for typhoid, diph theria, whooping cough and small pox will be given at free clinics to be held in various parts oi Cleveland county beginning July 30, it was announced this morn ing by Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, Cleve land health officer. A state law requires all babies between the ages of six months and one year to be vaccinated a gainst diphtheria and whooping cough. Also, all children are re quired to be vaccinated against these diseases as well as against smallpox before entering school. The health department urges all persons to go either to their fam ily doctor or to the nearest health clinic and secure protection a gainst these contagious diseases. SCHEDULES The schedules for the vaccina tion clinic follow: Monday, July 30, August 6, 13, 20: 9:00 a.m.—Boiling Springs. 10:30 a.m.—-Green Bethel. Tuesday, July 31, August 7, 14, 21: 9:00 a.m.—Bethware. 10:30 a.m.—Patterson Grove. Wednesday, August 1, 8, 15, 22: 9:00 am.—Waco. 10:00 a.m.—Washington (Col.l Thursday, August 2, 9, 16, 23: 8:45 am.—Polkville. 10:00 a.m.—Casar. 11:00 am.—Moriah. Friday, August 3, 10, 17, 24: 9:30 am.—Belwood. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 pm.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 7:00 pm. — Kiwanis club meets. THE OLD AND THE NEW—Clement R. Attlee (right) heads the British labor party which won a rousing victory over coniervative forces in the July 5 British election, results of which were announced today. He is oxpected to succeed Winston Churchill (left), head of the conservative party as prime minister of Great Britain. Permission Granted For 25 New Houses War Housing Program Of Chamber Of Commerce Gets NHA Sanction With Ceilings A new war houting program for immediate construction of 25 new houses in Shelby has been approved by the National Housing Agency under an H-2 program inaugurated by the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association several weeks ago, President Clyde A. Short announced today. In.InJ/u] (Kn U O 1 gram for Shelby are 20 sales units for white occupancy and five for negro occupancy. The sales ceiling on the white units is $7,000 and on the ne gro units $3,500. These units may be produced for rental with a ceiling of $53 for the white and $30 a month for the negro units. APPROVES SIX CITIES Shelby’s H-2 provision is part of programs providing 195 dwelling units in six North Carolina cities approved by John B. Blandford. jr., administrator of the National Housing agency and announced from Atlanta by NHA Regional representative, Robert K. Creigh ton. It is authorized under what has been designated as the H-2 program and calls for construction of all the units by private enter prise. Authorized are 50 units for Rocky Mount, 25 for Plymouth, 50 for Hickory, 20 for Greenville, and Shelby’s 25. In each of the areas listed units for owner occu pancy may be produced under the sales quota, the Chamber of Com merce was advised. Applications for priorities covering not more than 50 per cent of the individual quotas may be approved prior to Oc tober 1; furthermore, Mr. Creighton said, at least 30 per cent of the priorities granted during any quarterly period are to be issued to individuals for homes for their own use. It is not expected that all dwell ing units authorized by these pro grams will be produced to sell or rent at maximum prices. It is anticipated that the demand which materializes during the adniinis frofion r\f tVtoeg* rtrruyrnm« will k tablish the price levels at which the housing will be produced. “This new housing was author ized for these areas,” Creighton said, “after a study of the housing shortage in these areas and the hardships now resulting from lack of adequate housing accommoda tions. Housing needs have arisen in these areas by reason of war time economic restrictions, new family formations and Immigration of war workers, veterans, and fam ilies of military personnel. Many families hmave been unable to find suitable living quarters. It is be lieved that present housing con ditions are hampering war activi ties, and it is hoped that these new programs will provide ade quate relief for persons requiring housing accommodations.” H-2 PROGRAM This new housing is authorized under the H-2 program which is distinguished from the H-l pro gram under which most war hous ing has heretofore been authoriz ed in war housing areas, in that no occupancy restrictions will be im posed, however, builders will ue asked to give preference to re gee PERMISSION Page 3 Truman In Frankfurt To Review Troops POTSDAM, July 26—(JP)—Presi dent Truman took a brief holiday from the Big Three conference to day to fly to Frankfurt and re view American troops there. The President’s trip, coming during a lull in the international parley, coincided with the disclo sure that he planned to make a nation-wide radio report to the American people when he returns to Washington at the end of the j conference. With Prime Minister Churchill, j Labor Leader Clement Attlee and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN, July 26—(iP)—President Truman arrived here today to inspect American troops and have lunch with Gen. Eisen hower, after a 268-mile, 90 minute flight from Potsdam. in London for announcement of the results of the July 5 general election, Truman arranged to fly to Frankfurt for lunch with Gen. Eisenhower and to review troops of the 84th infantry and the Third Armored divisions. FIRST SIDE TRIP A big four-motored C-54 trans port plane was placed at the Pres ident’s disposal for his first side trip since he arrived in Potsdam July 15. He planned to return to See TRUMAN Page 2 Attlee Slated To Follow Churchill As Premier; Rousing Labor Victory By The Associated Press LONDON, July 26.—Britain, surging strongly to the left, threw out the Churchill government in election returns counted today and called the labor party, headed by Clement R. Attlee, to lead the nation against Japan and through re construction. The labor party’s victory was smashing. It led in com mons nearly 2 to 1, in compilations at mid-afternoon, with labor holding 376 seats in parliament and the conservatives 181 seats. Churchill himself and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden escaped the tidal wave and were returned to their seats in commons, but a dozen of their most prominent colleagues ELECTION NEWS SENSATION AT BIG 3 MEET Question: How Soon Will Atlee And Party Be Able To Return? POTSDAM, July 26 —(/P)—News of the British Labor party’s elec tion triumph produced the politi cal sensation of the year among delegations of the three great Al lied powers in Potsdam today. Defeat of Prime Minister Chur chill’s government apparently marks the second break in the ori ginal “Big Three’’ and leaves Pre mier Stalin as the only member of that triumvirate. The first break was the death April 12 of President Roosevelt, whose place was filled by Presi dent Truman. Clement R. Attlee has been at tending the Potsdam conference with Churchill and thus is fully informed on the discussions. The fact that Attlee’s party re ceived a parliamentary majority with which to form a Socialist type government for the first time since the 1920s raised these ques tions here: Who will share with Attlee the responsibility for directing Bri tain’s foreign affairs? How soon can the chiefs of the new government return to Pots dam to conclude the deliberations on which the Big Three have al ready spent nine days of heavy labor? How many of Britain’s commit ments made by Churchill and For eign Secretary Anthony Eden from Tehran through Yalta to Potsdam will be shouldered by the shrewd, bald laborite who sat in here as an “observer?’’ The first impression here this afternoon was that Attlee would extend Churchill the courtesy of an invitation to return to Pots dam as a member of his delega tion. But it was only a guess and few appeared to believe that Chur See ELECTION Page 2 Attlee Called Cautious, Dry, Colorless But Sound LONDON, July 26.—(/P)—Cautious, colorless Clement R. Attlee, who as leader of the Labor party emerged today as perhaps the next prime minister of Great Britain, smiled when he learned he had been re elected to parliament from his j bomb-battered Limehouse district. Attlee is 62, eight years younger | than Winston Churchill. ; Attlee, his wife and 18-year-old : daughter, listened to returns in the j London east end where he defeated j his Conservative opponent, Lt. 'Alfred Woodward, 8,396 to 1,618. ' When he went to Labor party ; headquarters, he was greeted by i strains of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” 1 “Thank you very much,” he told party workers, “but I don’t know what the good news is—I only know about five results as well as jmy own—but I gather it is pretty I good news anyway.” Labor party officials told him of the tremendous gains and he seemed moved as he scan ned new returns. “No, I am not surprised,” he said. “I have ceased to be surprised at anything these days.” OVERSHADOWED Attlee has been ovreshadowed throughout the war by Prime Min ister Churchill, whom he served as deputy prime minister in the coalition government that carried Britain from the darkest days of defeat to triumph over Germany. So dry are his speeches that his secretary once remarked that he “wouldn’t walk five yards to hear him.” Friends and foes alike describe Attlee as “sane, solid but not bril liant." He is a middle-of-the-road politician, steering on an even keel See ATTLEE Page 2 were defeated. The returns were from the July 5 election, the nation’s first gen eral poll in 10 years. The Labor party campaigned on a platform calling for nationali zation of basic industries. King George VI likely will call on Att lee, the party’s mild-mannered and Oxford-educated leader, to form the new government on re convening of Parliament Aug. 8. Attlee, who was deputy prime minister in the Churchill gov ernment after the defeat of Germany,- presumably will re turn to Potsdam to take up the Big Three deliberations which were interrupted yester day to allow Churchill and his colleagues to return to receive the election returns. A compilation from official re turns said labor had won 376 of the 640 Commons seats. Conserva tives 181, Liberals 10, Liberal Na tionals 13, Communists 2, scat tered votes for other minor parties and still doubtful 58. It appeared certain that the La bor party alone had won a good working majority, releasing It from the necessity of depending on oth er opposition parties to form a government. Latest popular vote figures gave: Labor 10,843,228. Conservative 8,004,615. The Labor party last formed the See PRIME MINISTER Page 2 PETAE LAVAL HAND-IN-GLOVE Jeanneney Says Laval Made Petum Dic tator In 1940 PARIS, July 26—Jules Jean neney, former president of the French senate, told a high court of justice today that the machin ations of Pierre Laval made Mar shal Petain dictator when France collapsed in 1940 and that the two men “'made common cause to gether.” The white-haired witness ap peared at this fourth day of Pe tain's trial on charges of betray ing France. Jeanneney, president of the sen ate in 1940, described an extra ordinary session of parliament in which Laval, Vichy chief of gov ernment, suppressed debate and rammed through three “constitu tional acts” abrogating the con stitution and giving the marshal virtually unlimited powers. WEAKNESS He said Petain showed “deplor able weakness” when he succeed ed Paul Reynaud as premier at Bordeaux in June. 1940. “Let us admit that we had no other choice,” Jeanneney said. As the witness left the court room the 89-year-old marshal, who had been maintaining an aloof air, made the extraordinary gesture ot bowing to the w'itness. Jeanneney bowed in return. Louis Marin, former minister of ! state, then testified. The first three days of the trial of the 89-year-old former chief of the Vichy French state, who is I charged with intelligence with the 1 enemy and of plotting against the security of France, progressed so slowly that on several occasions members of the special 24-man • jury exclaimed “let’s get on with lit.”
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