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WEATHER Clear to partly cloudy and not much change in temperature to day, tonight and Thursday; few widely scattered afternoon and . evening thundershowers. tt - State Theatre Today - “The Enchanted Cottage' DOROTHY McGUIRE ROBERT YOUNG VOL XLII1- 183 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY. N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1, 1945 I’ELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c 1,546 Jap Ships, 1,300 Warplanes Destroyed Or Damaged In July POLICE KILL HOLINESS SECT’S SNAKES—A snake which was being used by members of the Holiness sect, hill-country snake-handling cults, In a demonstration at St. Charles, Va , is shown being killed by club wielding Virginia state police, under orders to halt handling of poisonous reptiles during religious serices. Officers are unidentified.—(AP Wirephoto) Pierre Laval Is Returned To France Token Immediately To Fresnes Prison; Airfields, Prison Surrounded By Guards PARIS, Aug. 1.—(/P)—Pierre Laval arrived by plane at Le Bourget airfield from the Austrian city of Innsbruck late today and was taken immediately to Fresnes prison, it was announced at the trial of Marshal Petain. Gen. Roosevelt Hotly Defends Late Father WASHINGHTON, Aug. 1.—</P)— Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt says anyone who claims the late Presi dent Roosevelt "promoted or assist ed” his son’s business affairs is ly ing. And, young Roosevelt said in a •harply - worded statement last night, he is leaving the air force elmply because he does not wish to be an arm-chair general. He made the decision a month before published reports about his business transactions which led to a congressional investigation, Roose velt said, adding of the reports: "I conducted my own busi ness affairs. The responsibility was and still is mine and mine alone.” Asserting he had nothing to con ceal. the general said he was co operating with a treasury investi gation of his affairs and had ask ed the department to “make pub lic all of the facts, without reser vation, at the earliest possible mo ment.” “1 am entitled to a full public statement of those facts for the sake of my family,” Roosevelt said. His statement was made public by hia attorney, Randolph Paul, for mer general counsel of the treas ury. INVESTIGATION The treasury began its investi gation on orders of the house ways and means and senate finance committees. It stemmed from a $tory early In June by Columnist Westbrook Pegler that young Roosevelt had borrowed $200,000 in 1939 from John Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, that the debt was set tled three years later for $4,000 by . See GEN. ROOSEVELT Page 2 Fritz Reinhardt Said Captured NEW YORK, Aug. 1—(IP)—A BBC broadcast heard today by NBC said American forces in Ba varia had rounded up several more former high ranking Nazis includ ing Fritz Reinhardt, secretary of state in the German finance min istry, and Emil Von Rintelen, who held the rank of ambassador. i iUUUCi UiUCi U1 LIlC vicny government, who surrendered to American authorities In Austria after he was ousted from refuge In Spain yesterday, was accompanied by his wife. Secrecy had been maintained a* | to Laval’s movement to Prance be cause of fears that Frenchmen liberated from Nazi horror camps ; might seek to attack him, a French I spokesman said. j Mobile guards surrounded four airfields and Fresnes prison here. The spokesman said he himself had not been told where Laval would be landed. Laval was handed over to French officers last night by Americans of the 65th division. Landing yesterday in Austria in the same German plane and with the same Germaa crew that flew him to Barcelona j on May 2 to seek refuge, Laval said he had “left Spain at the request of government authorities there." “Laval gave me the impression he was a tired old man,” said Capt. Robert C. Woodbury, Fort Worth, Tex., who talked with Laval and his wife after they landed. He said they were shabbily dressed and camera shy as Amercian signal corps photographers surrounded them. Laval carried $10,000 in Am erican bills. The two Luftwaffe men who pilot ed them were Jailed over protests they had been assured before leav ing that the Americans would per mit them to return to Spain. WHAT’S DOING TODAY*”" 8:00 p.m.—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Bap tist church. THURSDAY 7:00 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 700 p.m.—Regular meeting of Klwanis club. Army Under Fire For.Plans To Keep 7,000,000 In Uniform WASHINUTUN, AUg. 1.—(/r)— The army moved In two directions ^oday to avert a transportation crisis but came under renewed tire for Its plans to keep 7,000,000 men In uniform for the Pacific war. To ease the pressure on rail roads resulting from troop move ments, the war department said: 1. It is turning over to commer cial air lines enough army planes and pilots to move 25,000 troops a month across the country by air. 2. It is speeding up the discharge of high-point soldiers with railroad [experience "to the maximum extent consistent witn military needs and the orderly process of redeploy ment.” Senator Johnson (D-Colo) con tended that the army Is keeping too many soldiers In uniform above Its real needs. He prepared to tell his colleagues that unless the army speeds demoblliaztion the nation may see a postwar “dumping” of manpower that will mean serious unemployment. Johnson voiced his contention while a top administration official Bee Atm Fi|t X 21 DAYS OF CEASEESS ASSAULTS Numbers Given Are Of ficial Count, Many More Probables JUST A BEGINNING By Morrie Lands berg GUAM, Aug. 1—QP)—Com bined carrier and land-based plane attacks cost Japan by conservative, official accounts at least 1,546 ships and small craft sunk or damaged in her home waters in July and more than 1,300 of her warplanes destroyed or wrecked—but that is just a beginning. Adm. Halsey’s Third fleet car rier planes, Including some 290 British aircraft, alone destroyed or damaged 1,035 Japanese ships and small craft in 21 days of almost ceaseless assaults with torpedoes, bomb6, rockets and 60 caliber bul lets. They accounted for 1,278 air craft, most of which were caught on the ground. Halsey’s forces reduced rem nants of the Japanese fleet to a shamble—99 warships sunk or heavily damaged, Including three disclosed today. Land-based aircraft In Adm. Nl mitz’ command sank another 85 vessels, mostly freighters and cargo ships, and damaged 176 and de stroyed or dame^pd 53 Japanese planes, an Associated Press tabu lation of his communique* showed. Tbgwnr East air forces Immob ilized 250 Japanese ships Or small craft totaling 250,000 tons after they began operating from Oki nawa bases early in July, Gen. MacArthur's communique said to day. IU61 VEUlflniNU July ni a pre-invasion begin ning of the devastation to be wrought on Japan, warned nearly every commander in the Pacific, and radio Tokyo said Halsey’s fleet stQl prowled off Honshu, where It already has spent 32 days, unchal lenged by sea or air. Lt. (Sen. Barney M. Giles, depu ty commander of the U. S. army ' See 21 DATS Page 2 HOSPITALS GET BUILDING GROUP Confers With Architects And Will Make Recom mendation Next Week i t ' A building committee named at the Cleveland County Hospital board’s session Tuesday afternoon conferred today with architects, viewed sites at Kings Mountain and will make recommendations to a special meeting of the board next week. Appointment of the committee featured the session at which by-laws were adopt ed and doctors, headed by Dr. H. C. Thompson as president of the County Medical society, pledged support to the program and the operation. E. G. Spur ling of Pallston, Clifford Hamrick of Boiling Springs, J. D. Lipeberger of Shelby, C. E. Neisler and Arnold Kiser of Kings Moun tain comprise the committee which will interview and employ an ar chitect, subject to approval of the board. The group la charged with planning, launching and carrying through the construction of the Kings Mountain Hospital and the expansion of the Shelby unit in ac cordance with the program approv ed recently by the voters of the county in voting a $400,000 bond is sue. Leahy Expresses Faith In Motives Truman Will Fly To Of Petain In Letter Read At Trial England Tomorrow To PARIS, Aug. 1—(ip)—Adm. Wil liam D. Leahy, chief of staff to President Truman, expressed the belief that Marshal Petain always acted in the best Interests of France in a letter read today at the treason trial of the old sol dier. As read in court the letter of Leahy, who is attending the Big Three conference at Potsdam, ex pressed ‘tiigh regard” for Petain and said he was unable to appear as a witness because of his posi tion. He had been U. S. ambassa dor to the Vichy regime of Mar shal Petain until the Germans took over the unoccupied portions of France in November, 1942, when Torth Africa was invaded. Leahy's letter, dated July 22, was in reply to Petain’s request that he return to France as a witness. The admiral stated that he re called that on many occasions he had heard Petain express a desire to see the Nazis overwhelmed. DEFENSE PROTESTS After the letter was read, Chief Judge Paul Mongibeaux asserted: ‘There is one sentence against Pe tain in that letter.” The defense protested and Mon gibeaux did not explain the sen tence to which he referred. Leahy’s letter said that while he was ambassador to France ‘you did, on occasion at my request, take action in opposition to the EKA OF COMMON MAN FORESEEN Chairman Of British La bor Party's Committee Sees New Day LONDON, Aug. 1 —UP)— Prof. Harold J. Laski, chairman of the labor party’s national executive committee, proclaimed today “the era of the common man” In Bri tain. j He said in an interview that la bor’s sweeping victory in the gen eral election held as much econo mic and social significance as the emergence of the middle class in England in the 1830’s. “This is the arrival of the peo ple in power," Laski stated. “We are now prepared to give the little man—within the framework of the British constitution—all the pro gressive change that he requires.” Laski spoke with authority,, for he heads the policymaking body of the labor party. On foreign policy, he said: "Our first great task is the utter defeat of the Japanese. Before the most pressing of our domestic problems we intend to fulfill our maximum obligations in the far east.” IN SPAIN With particular reference to Spain, he added: “We do not believe democracy and fascism can live side by side in our interdependent world, and we do not think democracy is comparable 'with absolute mon archies.” Laski said the labor party ab horred any system of government see ERA Page 2 RED CROSS TO RECT FRIDAY A general meeting of the mem bership of the Cleveland County Red Cross was called today by Chapter Chairman Dale R. Yates for 7:15 p.m. Friday at the Charles hotel when officers and directors for the ensuing year will be elect ed. In calling the meeting, Mr. Yates, who leaves shortly for a new business association at his old home in Vincennes, Ind., said that he would not be available for re election and he expressed “sincere appreciation to each of you for the fine cooperation you have given.” Everyone who contributed as much as a dollar membership is eligible to attend and participate in the nomination and election of tlje officers and directors, Mr. Yates said. “The Cleveland county chapter of the Red Cross," Mr. Yates said in his letter to members of the board, “has done a good job of serving not only this community but also a good job in every ca pacity and in every community in which its services are needed.” ! desires of the Axis and favorable to the Allied cause.” "On every instance when you failed to accept my recommenda tions to expose the Axis powers by refusing their demands, you stated the reason was that such positive action by you would re sult in additional oppression of ; your people by the invaders,” the | admiral continued. "I had then, as I have now, the conviction that your principal con cern was the welfare and protec i tion of the helpless people of Prance. It was impossible for me to believe that you had any other concern. "However, I must in all hon esty depeat my opinion, as ex pressed to yon at the time, that positive refusal to make any concessions to Axis de | mands, while it might have brought immediate increased I hardship to your people, would in the long view have, been ! advantageous to France.” (It was to this last passage that the judge apparently alluded). The old soldier’s counsel said also that Pierre Laval, described yester day as Petain’s "evil genius,” would be summoned as a witness. WEYGAND QUESTIONED As. Gen. Maxime Weygand re turned for further cross examina tion, bearded Prosecutor Andre Mornet demanded that “we return 7 Germans Who Killed Airmen To Be Hanged DARMSTADT, Germany, Au. 1. —(A5)—Seven Germans, two of them women, will be hanged and three others face long prison terms for the killing of six captured Ameri ran airmen last August. The verdicts were returned late last night after a six-day trial which military court attaches said would ! serve as a model of procedure against hundreds of other Nazis charged with similar crimes. One of 11 defendants in the case, largest group yet brought to trial in Germany for a war crime, was acquitted. Each of the group denied any serious connection with a mob which beat the airmen to death. Two of those sentenced to die are sisters, Margarete Witzler, 50, and See 7 GERMANS Page 2 War Department To Furlough 4,000 To Railroad Industry WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—(JP) John W. Snyder, war mobilization director, said today the war de partment has arranged for a tem porary furlough for 4,000 men to the railroad industry. In a statement made public by the White House, Snyder said the impression there has been a break down in the transportation sys tem is “erroneous.” Snyder said the needs for rail road workers are great, but that he has been assured “very real progress” in their recruiting is be ing made. . to the essential facts of the Petain trial” and avoid a repetition of yesterday’s session when Weygand, Petain and former Premier Paul Reynaud engaged in bitter recri minations. “This is nci a trial of the armis tice,” said the prosecutor who sent Mata Hari before a firing squad in the first World war. “The armistice is only a preface to the accusation. Petain's treason would have been impossible without it. His treason began on July 11, 1940, when he | plotted against the Republic. At j that moment Petain outrageously violated his responsibilities to the Republic.” Once again, he promised that written documents—unknown to most people—would be presented, | constituting “the true basis for this: action.” DENIES PLOTTING Judge Paul Mongibeaux and I Mornet both attempted to prevent a I continuance of the running debate ! between Weygand and Reynaud, but' it broke again after Armand de Chayla, minister to Luxembourg, testified briefly. He was counsellor of the French embassy in Madrid while Petain was ambassador and he denied the old soldier had plot ted with Generalissimo Franco. As he finished, Weygand and Reynaud both rose. The little gen eral, who commanded French forces See LEAHY Page 2 J >AN WRITHES UNDER ATTACKS Nipponese Propaganda Reports Reveal Horror Of Bombings GUAM, Aug. 1—(A5)—The terror of life In a land writhing and burn ing beneath the greatest bom bardment of all times is reflected fully in Japanese propaganda broadcasts, Becoming daily more tense as B-29 and navy attacks mount in fury. “We are enduring the impos sible,” with grinding teeth and clenched fist, when we see enemy planes penetrating our homeland and proudly flying over our heads,” cry the Nipponese propa gandists. The horror that there must be today in once-proud Tokyo is ap parent in another broadcast which described matter-of-factly how the great majority of remaining Tokyo residents, living under ground, “desire to be provided with the minimum amount of goods and services necessary for subsistence.” See JAPANESE Page 2 More Butter Coming Up For August WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—tfP)— More butter than originally anti cipated will be available for civil ians during August, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson announced today. At the same time, OPA Admin istrator Chester Bowles announced that no further reduction in the point value of butter is anticipat ed. Recently this was cut from 24 to 16 points a pound. WOMEN WORKERS OPERATE COMBINE IN RUSSIA’S PEACE-TIME HARVEST—Operated mostly by women workers, a combine works on the "Krasny Partisan” collective farm in the Kuban region of the North | Caucasus at the start of Russia’s first peace-time harvest since 1941.—(A Wirephoto via radio from Moscow) j Talk With King George By Daniel De Luce POTSDAM, ,Aug. 1.—(/P)—The Big Three came to the end early tonight of their historic sessions upon which the future peace of the world may possibly hinge. x'ic&iuem j. ruin an is aue to ny j to England tomorrow to meet King George Vi after his last meeting with Prime Minister Attlee and Premier Stalin. He will sail from Plymouth to the United States. The Big Three were still in ses-! sion at 5:30 p.m. (10:30 a m., east-' ern war time), but it was believed the major decisions had been reached and that they and other j top officials were preparing to - leave Potsdam tomorrow. It was announced to Allied cor respondents that no press repre sentatives would be permitted to1 see the ceremonious conclusion of j the parley. A negative reply was S given to correspondents’ letters to each of the Big Three asking press conferences with them or the heads of their foreign ministers. It was indicated the final com munique would be issued on Fri day, one day after all the dele gations had departed from Pots dam, with a simultaneous release scheduled in Washington, London and Moscow. PACKF>1 TO LEAVE White House correspondents who accompanied Mr. Truman to Eu rope were packed and ready tc leave at a moment’s notice with the presidential party. Completion of the drafting in fi nal phraseology of the involved Big Three agreements in two lan guages, English and Russian, was believed t.o be the main task re maining. Principles of these agree See TRUMAN Page 2 Twelfth U. S. Army Dissolved Tonight Greatest War Machine In History Of American Arms; Fought Across France, Germany By James F. King WIESBADEN, GERMANY, Aug. l._(^)_The Twelfth U. S. Army Group—greatest war machine in the history of American arms—will be dissolved tonight. vuwv-i wuiiuaxiu ui ut n. v/tuai N. Bradley, the twelfth, number ing 1,233,0(ju men in the field, fought across France, the Low countries, Luxembourg and deep into Germany, occupying 55,000 square miles—almost one-third of the nucleus of the greater reich— when the Germans surrendered. During a year of fighting, the twelfth suffered 416,406 bat tle casualties—j-4,237 dead, 297, 509 wounded and 44,660 listed as missing or captured. Bradley’s troops during the same period captured 2,500,000 German troops and killed or wounded an estimated half million. The American forces fought the first two months in France under the direction of the first U. S. army until formation of the 12th army group just a year ago, when two armies—the first and the third —were placed under Bradley. In the fall the ninth army joined them. TRAPPED NAZIS Breaking out from the Cotentin peninsula, units of the 12th beat back a German counterattack in the Mortain region and then, clos ing with Field Marshal Sir Ber nard L. Montgomery’s British forces at Falaise, trapped and de stroyed the German seventh army. It was the twelfth, too, that bore the brunt of the fighting when German Field Marshal von Rundstedt launched his desperate gamble in the abor tive Ardennes jbattle last De cember. Then Bradley’s troops swept to the Rhine to seize the Remagen bridgehead. See TWELFTH Page 2 COTTON LOAN RATE DOWN 1945 Loan Rate 92.5 Per Cent Of Parity Price On Staple WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 —(JP)— The average loan rate for 7-Bths inch middling cotton from the 1945 crop will be 19.84 cents a pound compared with 20.03 cents last year, the Commodity Credit corporation announced today. This year’s loan rate is 92.5 per cent of the parity price of cotton, which is 21.45 cents a pound. The average loan rate for 15 16ths inch middling cotton will be 125 pounds (1.25 cents a pound) above the average rate for 7-8ths inch middling cotton, or 21.09 cents a pound, gross weight. Tlie loan rates will vary accord ing to location. The rate for 15 lSths inch middling cotton will vary from a high of 21.63 cents a pound in the concentrated mill area of the Carolines to 20.42 cents a pound in Arizona and Califor nia. LOCATION DIFFERENTIALS Location differentials ior each warehouse point will be based on the freight rate to the mill area of the Carolinas, except in eastern Tennessee, Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama where a zone system will be in effect. Loans will be made on cotton represented by warehouse receipts issued by warehouses approved by the CCC and on farm-stored cot ton secured by chattel mortgages. Cotton to be eligible for the loan must be classed by a board of cotton examiners of the agricul See COTTON Page 2 Marshal Alexander Appointed Canada’s Governor-General LONDON, Aug. 1 —Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, who extricated Britain’s over whelmed forces from Dunkerque and Burma and led the epic come back from El Alamein, has been appointed Canada's 17th governor general. The 54-year-old Allied com mander-in-chief of the Mediter ranean theatre was chosen by King George VI, Buckingham palace an nounced last night, to succeed the king’s uncle, Lord Athlone. 71, whose normal term as governoe general expired last June. i
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