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* WEATHER Considerable cloudiness west and partly cloudy east portion today and tonight. Scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers most ly in west portion this afternoon. Tslje Hhelhy Baily Him« - State Theatre Today - “The Enchanted Cottage” DOROTHY McGUIRE ROBERT YOUNG CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII—181 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JULY 30, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c THIRD FLEET SHELLS BIG JAP INDUSTRIAL CITY i Jackson Asks Agreement Tliis Week On War Trials LONDON, July 30.—(IP)—An authoritative American source said today Justice Robert H. Jackson had told British, | Russian and French representatives that an agreement must j A be reached this week on plans for trial of war criminals. jacKson is special U. prosecu tor for the war crimes trial. i The source said Jackson took the position that unless talk stops and action starts, the United States will move alone toward bringing the major war criminals to action. Tlie American supreme court Jus tice holds a strong hand since a majority of the Germans likely to stand trial as war criminals are in U. S. hands. These include Hermann Ooering, Joachim Von Ribbcntrop, Julius Streicher, Robert Ley and | high-ranking generals In Adolf Hitler’s army. Perhaps the major point still un settled centered about Jackson’s determinatior to incorporate in the plan for trial an agreement defin ing a war of aggression as an in ternational crime. This definition would include such acts as econom ic aggression and the massing of troops along a border to enforce j demands. Suzuki Says Japan Will Continue War Japan Will Ignore Surrender Ultimatum; Statement Beamed To U. S. By Tokyo Radio SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—</P)—Japa.n will ignore the Allied surrender ultimatum, and even as the land of the : Mikado rocked from the latest shower of shell and bombs, j Premier Suzuki declared: “There is no change whatsoever in the fundamental pol-!. icy of our government to continue the prosecution of the war.’' | DEGAULLE GETS SHARP REBUFF P Smashing Defeat For His Constitutional Refer > endum Plans PARIS, July 30—(/P)—Political observers speculated today wheth er Gen De Gaulle would resign as head ol the French Provisional government as the result of a sharp rebuff administered to him last night by the consulate assembly, which rejected overwhelmingly his plans lor a constitutional referen dum. After a long and acrimonious de bate, the assembly turned down by a vote of 210 to 19 the govern ment’s proposal to hold a referen dum during the October national elections to determine whether the electorate favored a return to the third republic’s constitution. COUNTER PROPOSAL The assembly then adopted, 186 to 45, a left-wing counterproposal, already condemned publicly by De Gaulle, proposing election of a aovereign unicameral legislature with representatives of France’s colonies participating. During the afternoon session De Gaulle had told delegates he would ■tlclc by his guns, nr nany con strued this as a ti*. either to resign or to force the dismissal of some members of his cabinet. The assembly also voted, unani mously, a motion providing that P the government be responsible to the constituent assembly to be e lected In October. The assembly actions, however, unlike those of the third repub lic’s chamber of deputies, are not binding on the government, since the assembly Is purely a consulta tive body. 49 Massacre Suspects Seized ROME, July 30. — (/P)— Forty, nine persons suspected of compli city In a machinegun massacre of political prisoners In Schlo Jail on July 6 were seized yesterday in a dawn raid on that town by units of the American 34th infantry divi sion. The raid was led by Lt. Col. Ri chard L. Loller, 1618 Alaca Place, Tuscaloosa, Ala., senior civil affairs officer of Vicenza province. The suspects were captured without a shot and rushed to Vincenza for questioning. Forty-seven persons were killed, 13 of them women, and 26 others were wounded In the jail massacre. •Henderson To Be Sworn In Tuesday CHARLOTTE, July 30—(JP)—D. E. Henderson, Charlotte lawyer, today was given the interim ap pointment as United States attor ney for the Western district of North Carolina. w Judge E. Yates Webb, who made the appointment, will administer the oath of office to Henderson tomorrow. ine (8-year-oia prenuer thus put the rejection stamp of his govern ment on the Potsdam proclamation m a statement aired to the United States by the Tokyo radio, recorded ay the Federal Communications :ommission. He made the statement at a cabinet press conference yesterday, Tokyo reported, and asserted "'so far as the imperial government is concerned, it will take no notice of the proclamation." As for recent heavy allied sea and air attacks on Japan and defensive measures contemplated, Suzuki said, in a neat buck-passing com ment: "I leave this with absolute confidence in the hands of our strategists.'’ He claimed that aircraft produc tion was above anticipations, but gave added proof that all had not; been well in this program with the sentence: "Should this production' quota have been completed Just a bit ear lier, we would have avoided causing much worry to various circles.” He said aircraft plants had Underground, pictured some con nected by a “considerably long” underground waterway, and skipping to the food problem, promised increased rations. He said the recent 10 per cent slash in rations was designed to "pre pare ourselves for a long war.” Later today Radio Tokyo claim sd that a “man in the street” poll showed that the Japanese people acre backing up the government in the rejection of the ultimatum. Shihchieh Succeeds Soong As Chinese Foreign Minister CHUNGKING, July 30. —</F) —Minister of Information Wang Shihchieh, who headed the Chinese mission to Britain, was appointed minister of foreign af fairs today, taking the post which has been held by Pre mier T. V. Soong. Soong had served as foreign minister since Dec. 23, 1941, at tending the San Francisco world security conference in that y, paclty. He was elevated to the pre miership last Dec. 4, but con tinued to hold the foreign min istry portfolio concurrently. Soong only recently returned from conferences with Premier Stalin and other high Soviet officials in Moscow. BOMBER Wi.i.EE LODGES IN ELEVATOR SHAFT—wheel of the Army bomber which crashed into the upper part of the Empire State Building in New York Saturday is lodged in the elevator shaft. This view is made from the 79th floor, looking through the shaft down to the floor below, where a fireman looks through iebris. BIG-3 MEET ON HOME STRETCH Truman, Attlee, Stalin Put Finishing Touches On Agreements POTSDAM, July 30.—UP>—Presi dent Truman,. Prune Minister Att lee and Premier Stalin worked on the final language of tentative agreement reached In 11 days of topflight deliberations as the big three conference entered the home stretch today on a keynote of har nony. Observers here believed the har nonious resumption of the con 'erence following the defeat of Winston Churchill’s government by the British Labor party auguered veil for a successful conclusion rhere has been no noticeable jreak in the continuity of the dis :Ussions and prospects were for an :arly conclusion, perhaps within the iext two or three days. The conference was described of ficially as making progress on the final communique which will re peal plans for the future of Eu rope. EARLY END TO WAR While President Truman’s con tinuing international interest is an •arly end to the war with Japan, there was no authoritative infor nation whether the Pacific would )e mentioned specifically in the fi lal statement. The U. S. senate’s ratification of he United States charter with only two opposition votes artned the president with a trump card as he deliberations entered the final stage. He now is able to tell Rus See BIG 3 Pare * WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 pm—C. of O. directors meet at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—State Guard drill at armory. 8:00 pm.—Shelby plays Lau rlnburg In Junior Legion base ball state finals series. TUESDAY 7:00 p.m.—Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. meets at lodge room for work In the first degree. 7:00 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 8:00 p.m.—Shelby plays Lau rlnburg In Junior Legion base ball state finals series. THE WAR TODAY: British Election Tam-Over Epochal; Will Affect WoAd By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer The London Times (known both as the thunderer and as the Eng lishman’s Bible) remarks of British labor’s great victory that there’s no reason “why the world should look for any revolutionary change in foreign—or indeed—in domestic policy." Having lived in England many years your columnist accepts that as a fair appraisal. The land of Cedric the Saxon—aristocracy, mid dle-class and labor — rarely has leaped without taking a good look. However, we shall make a mistake if we don’t recognise this political torn-over as epo chal, not only for Britain but for the world. What might be regarded as a passing storm in one of the more inflammable countries of the continent, can not be dismissed lightly in staid England. The voters of this traditionally conservative country have given a jlear mandate to try the experiment socialistic nationalization. Of jOurse we needn’t worry about this i fleeting John Bull’s pledges re farding the war and global rehabi itation. His word is his bond. Still, See BRlTISq Pagt i Yamashita With Trapped Jap Unit On Luzon By RUSSELL BRINES WITH U. S. I4TH ARMY CORPS, j Northern Luzon, July 30. — (/P)— A personal war between Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita and Ameri can and Filipino forces, fought in an area so high that clouds often interrupt combat, dominates the! final three pronged campaign to eli minate 24,000 Japanese on Luzon. A total of 12,226 counted enemy dead in the first 27 days of July testifies to bitterness of this con flict. It is characterized by the terrain, which Lt. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold, commander of the 14th corps, termed the most rugged he j ever encountered. Stubborn enemy resistance is colored by the fact an unusually high total of 1,543, in cluding 982 Japanese soldiers and 83 Japanese civilians, have sur rendered this month. "It won't be over for us,” Gris wold said, “until the Japanese sur render, are killed, or driven so far into the hills that they no longer are a military factor.” YAMASHITA Over the entire battle looms the once arrogant Yamashita. The con queror of Singapore and nerhaps six of his general officers now are hunted like common criminals in the center of a rapidly closing trap some 32 miles north of Baguio. Yamashita Is believed to be in the center of the strongest, most fully organized pocket of Japanese resis tance remaining on Luzon. An esti. mated 10,700 Japanese are trapped in approximately a 20-mile wide See YAMASHITA Page 2 CHINESE PUSH FOR L1NGL1NG Capture Kweilin And Pur sue Japs FleeiAg From City CHUNGKING, July 30.—UP)— Victorious Chinese troops are driv ing toward the Hunan province border today from the area of cap tured Kweilin in Kwangsi, their next objective apparently the for mer American air base at Lingling. Chinese columns, pursuing Japa nese who abandoned the three-air field base at Kweilin Friday, reach ed the walled town of Lingchwan yesterday after a 14-mile push and laid siege to the town. Another force bypassed the strongpoint on the Hunan-Kwangsi railroad and drove another nine mi'es, reaching; | Tajungkiang, 85 miles southwest of Lingling, the high command said. Lingling, former Flying Tigers’ j base, was abandoned by the U. S. 14th air force last Sept. 7, to Japa nese sweeping down through Hu nan along the Canton, Hanow rail way. Its recapture by the Chinese would open the way for a drive on the important railway junction of Hengyang. French To Control Section Of Berlin BERLIN, July 30.—(£>)—The Al lied Control Council for Germany, at a historic first meeting here to day, disclosed that a sector of' . Berlin had been allocated to French j [control. j EMPIRE STATE OPEN TODAY Observation Tower Re mains Closed; Official Count Of Dead 13 NEW YORK, July 30—(/P)—The Empire Slate, building, re-opens for business today, despite the shat tering impact of an eight-ton army bomber which struck it Saturday morning, killing 13 persons and smashing an 18-foot wide gap in its north wall. Announcement of the re-open ing came from Lt. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, president of Empire State, Inc., who added that only the ob servation tower of the 1,250 foot structure would remain closed. He said a thorough inspection had found no structural damage. An army beard of inquiry check ed the wreckage on the 79th floor of the building—913 feet above Fifth avenue—for causes of the spectacular crash. Army officials made no definite statement regarding damage to the building, which Gen. Drum at first believed would amount to 5500,000 but later said could not yet be accurately estimated. However, army public relations officers said that in similar cases the army ordinarily has assumed all responsibility. SYMPATHY Gen. Ira Eaker, deputy comman der of the army air forces told Mayor P. H. La Guardia in a let ter made public yesterday of the sympathy of the AAF for “all your citizens killed, injured or disturb ed by the disaster.” Eight of the 13 crash victims had been identified yesterday, in cluding the three aboard the B-25 two-engined “Billy Mitchell” bom ber bound for the Newark, N. J„ U>u pui l/. The three men were Lt. Col. Wil liam F. Smith, jr., 27, Watertown, Mass., the B-25 pilot; T. Sgt. Christopher S. Domitrovich, 31, Granite City, 111., place engineer, and Aviation Machinist Mate Al bert G. Pema, 19, Brooklyn, who had hitched a ride on the plane. WOMEN STENOGRAPHERS Most of the remaining victims were women stenogr>hers em ployed in the 79th floor offices of the National Catholic Welfare con ference, caught beneath falling office partitions when the heavy wreckage of the plane hurtled through the building. Flaming gasoline flooded the 79th and ad joining floors, burning the vic tims and making identification difficult. The pilot had been in radio communication with La Guardia field a few minutes before the crash, and was told by the control tower that it could not ‘‘see the top of the Empire State building." The B-29 continued southward along Fifth avenue, hitting the huge building- squarely just before 10 am. Saturday. MRS. CROWDER FALLS AND BREAKS A HIP Mrs. W. Yan Crowder fell last Thursday down the steps on her front porch on North Morgan street and sustained a broken left hip. She had gone to the porch to bring in the milk when she lost her balance and tumbled down the steps. She is in a Charlotte hospi tal under the care of Dr. liiller, bone specialist. U. S. Leaders Warn Japs Of Destruction, Invasion GUAM, July 30.—(IP)—Three high American military; leaders today promised Japan an unprecedented dosage of destruction to be climaxed by invasion in overwhelming iuice. Rear Adm. D. C. Ramsey, chief of staff of the U. S. Fifth fleet, declared in a broadcast to the United States that the invasion al ready had begun in effect, with the ever-tightening blockade and ever-increasing bombing and shell ing of the enemy's home islands. ; Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay,! commander of the 20th air force, said in another broadcast that his' remarkable advance-notice pam phlets on Japanese cities marked I for erasure by Superfortresses were intended “so that all the Japa nese people must realize that fur ther resistance is senseless and will only lead to the complete de struction of their industries and their urban and industrial areas.”. Ramsey spoke on the Mutual net work; LeMay on American Broad casting company facilities. Gen. Spaatz, commander of the U. S. strategic air forces, said in ■ a press conference that fleets of j more than 1.000 B-29s soon would | be sent against the enemy with; twice the tonnage the American strategic air forces in Europe ever dropped on the Germans in one mission. Ramsey declared that “the most overwhelming forces ever concen trated in military history” would invade Japan. Noting that the Japanese had rejected the Allied ultimatum to surrender, he said, "it is a harsh rate which the enemy has chosen. In all world his tory there is no more glaring example of a nation imposing disaster upon itself. For these people, the language of bombs and guns apparently is the only convincing language.” LeMay, discussing his advance notice system, referred to “inau gurating this program,” implying that it would be used again. Spaatz, in his brief discussion of the B-29 program, said, “the great er the force you can throw against them (the Japanese) the quicker they are liable to call it quits.” Battleship Haruna Finally Destroyed Damage Inflicted On Aircraft Carrier, Escort Carrier, Cruiser Of Japanese Fleet MANILA, July 30.—(/P)—U. S. army planes blew apart the midships section of the battleship Haruna, damaged an aircraft carrier and probably destroyed an escort carrier and a cruiser ip heavy strikes Saturday at the Japanese naval 'Bases of Kure and Sasebo, General MacArthur announced today. The raids by the Okinawa-based far east air forces, which are under MacArthur’s overall command, were on the same day that American carrier-based naval plans also were heavily striking Kure. The naval planes also hit the Harauna and their reconnaissance reports today said she was beached and burned Out. Sixty Liberators of the Seventh Army Air Force attacked Kure at 3 p.m., Japanese time, and hit the Haruna four times with one-ton bombs. Army and Navy fliers agreed that the Haruna at last was disposed of after having been reported sunk on Dec. 10. 1941, by a Flying Fortress commanded by the late Capt. Colin Kelly. (It was explained at Admiral Nimitz’ Guam headquarters that the Army planes struck from high altitude and that their attack was coordinated with that of the car rier fliers at low and medium alti tudes. Perhaps mortally hit’ the old ghost ship finally was beached by the Japanese late Saturday afternoon.) Fifth air force heavy bombers, which like the seventh are part of the far east air forces, struck the unidentified aircraft carrier at Kure. Fighter pilots who raided Sasebo navy yard, on the west coast of Hon shu island, reported , the probable destruction of the iyscort carrier and a light cruiser, both of which they sail were shaken by great ex plosions. Altogether, the far east air forces See BATTLESHIP Page 2 Two Lose Livts In Charleston Fire CHARLESTON, S. C., July 30— (A3)—M-Sgt. Harry A. Talbert, 38, of the Charleston army air base, and his stepson, John Marke Lee, 11, died in a fire which gutted an apartment at Liberty -Homes yes terday. The soldier’s wife, Mrs. Agnes j M. Talbert,, formerly of Florence, was badly burned. Sgt. Talbert’s home was in Charlotte, N. C. DIANA STORE TO OPEN HERE Old Farmers Hardware Store On S. La Fayette Being Remodeled Diano Shops will be the name of a new retail outlet catering solely to moderate-priced women’s apparel and accessories, which will open here in the old Farmers Hardware Company store on South LaFayette street . This three-story building with a front of 28 feet and a depth of 90 feet will be remodeled and mod ernized by Sydney H. Morris, As sociates of Chicago, and plans call for a beautiful front and show win dows such as the Diana Shops have in nearly 50 stores in the eastern part of America. The front will be of polished cream and pmk Georgia marble, with a deep foyer and spacious show windows. An air conditioning sys tem will be installed when this equipment comes on the market. John Ellis, here representing the general contractors, is making sub contracts with local firms which involve modernization of the build ing and its extension ten feet long er. The Diana Shops some months ago acquired the Peggy Haile or ganization of about thirty-five stores, making about seventy stores in the Diana organization of which Harry Greenburg of New York is president. A fifteen-year lease has been exe cuted on the building with Mrs. H. Dixon Smith, formerly Miss Pearl Weathers of Shelby, now living in Columbus, Ga., who is sole owner. FIRE DAMAGES BRIDGE GEORGETOWN, S. C., July 30— f/P)—A fire of unknown origin de j stroyed 800 feet of the Santee 1 river bridge yesterday. The two and one-fourth mile span is part of the coastal high | way between Georgetown and | Charleston. CITY WATER LOGGED; Six Inches Of Rainfall Recorded Here In July One of the most lugubrious July’s hereabouts today slogged toward its finish tomorrow with six inch es of rainfall already recorded and a sou’wester pouring on more to day. It’s dog days. Everything that will soak up humidity is stickily water-logged. Even the ground, which became famished when the weather man went on vacation to make June the driest ever, had drunk its fill j and mudilly oozed wTater from ev ery pore. The heavy rainfall Is not with-. out blessing, despite attendant dls-| comfort. Cotton that was the scrawniest ever a month ago has blossomed forth into the richest foliage of years. Prospects for an other bumper crop are bright in deed, if ole’ Jupe Pluvius relents and cuts off his faucets before he encourages Mr. Boll Weevil to undertake an amphibious landing in Cleveland’s cotton fields. WATER ABSORBED Wooden furniture, doors, draw ers, cabinets and even piano keys have swollen under the almost con See RAINFALL Page 2 1,500 ALLIED PLANES BATTER 60 AIRFIELDS Japanese Navy Written Off As "Dead" By Am erican Officers ROAM UNMOLESTED By Morrie Landsberg GUAM, July 30—(/P)—Man made destruction hit the heart of the Japanese empire again today as the U. S. navy sent its bold Third Fleet in to shell one big industrial city and 1,500 American and British carrier planes ripped up 60 airfields and other military in stallations from Kyushu to Tokyo itself. American war power, parading from one momentous week into another, piled up triumph after triumph in a message of steel and fire that the allied surrender ul timatum meant what it said—quit or be destroyed. With action continuing, events recorded were: Staff officers wrote off the groggy Japanese navy as dead fol lowing the knockout punch at the Kure naval base Saturday. Task force 38 stood close in shore and poured 1,000 tons of shells into the important in dustrial and rail city of Hama matsu, 120 miles south of Tokyo and three miles inland, leav ing targets “burning fiercely” after a one hour assault to day. Carrier aircraft, loaded with rockets and heavy caliber ma chinegun shells, rampaged virtual j ly unmolested over the home is land of Honshu from Kobe north to Tokyo, hunting Japanese air planes and air fields, railroad lo comotives and anything else of military value. One returning fighter group roamed at will over a “deserted” Tokyo before hammering a huge war plant in the southeast section of the capital. It didn’t draw a single round of anti-aircraft fire. EXCELLENT RESULTS The mighty Superfortress com mand announced “excellent re sults” in the bombing yesterday of six of the 11 forewarned Japanese industrial target towns, a mission accomplished without the loss of a single plane, and promised to continue its pre-announced cam paign of devastation. The Japanese radio acknowledged the surface and air attacks, and said “some 700” carrier planes par ticipated in attacks in the Tokyo See 1,300 Page 2 HERRIOT SPEAKS AGAINST PETAIN Says Marshal Prevented Government's Leaving France In 1940 By RELMAN MORIN PARIS, July 30. —UP)— Rotund Edouard Herriot, premier of Prance three times before wars, testified at the trial of Marshal Petain today that President Roosevelt “placed at our disposal material which we needed” in the days before Germany crushed the nation. The mysterious Maj. Jean Lostanau-Lacau, who was sched ! uled to testify, did not appear and police announced their search for him was not success ful. Herriot, recovered from an ill ness, told of events leading to the armistice and the assumption of dictatorial powers by the aged Pe tain, accused of intelligence with the enemy and plotting against the security of France. "Prance had two staunch friends in Churchill and Roosevelt,” Her riot said, “we knew Britain would fight to the end. Roosevelt had placed at our disposal material which we needed and I felt sure that the day would come when he would lead the United States into the war. CONFIDENCE BETRAYED “We had no right to betray such confidence.” Herriot, who was in German de tention after being arrested in Lyon in 1940, said former Premier Paul . Reynaud asked his opinion as to whether the government should leave Prance after the Germans I took Paris and shattered the French ! armies. He said he told Reynaud: “I prefer to be shot by the Ger mans than hated by the French.” The court announced that ses ! sions would be curtailed because the 89-year.old marshal was suf fering from a throat ailment. Before Herriot took the stand, See HERRIOT Pa*» S
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