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WEATHER Partly cloudy and not much change in temperature today, to night and Friday; few widely scat tered afternoon and evening thun dershowers. - State Theatre Today - '‘DOUBLE EXPOSURE" Nancy KELLY Chester MORRIS VOL. XLII1—184 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY. N. a THURSDAY, AUG. 2, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c ‘RED JULr BEGINNING OF END FOR JAPAN No Country Ever Lost So Much Of Fleet, Air Force, Production THIRD FLEET SILENT By Morrie Landsberg GUAM, Aug. 2.—(JP)—The 31 days of “red July” will go down in history as the be ginning of the knockout of the once great empire of Japan. Months of American planning, storing up of tremendous supplies, building new bases on Okinawa and Luzon, constant sea and air pressure erupted into the most de structive period in Japan's his tory. No country ever lost so much of Its fleet, air force and war pro duction capacity as Nippon did in "red July." And Japan tasted a sample today of even more devastating days to come in a 6.632 ton as sault by 820 Superforts, while wondering when the fast car rier task force planes would sweep in from the sea again The silence of Admiral Hal sey's third fleet since the ex tensive Honshu aerial strike July 30 could mean his mighty assemblage of American and British warships is replenish ing its strength for more trou ble. July wag red in flames spurting from more than 36,000 tons of bombs — most incendiary—dropped on 36 cities and eight oil refinery centers by B-29s gradually build ing up to the promised 1,000-plus plane raids on the homeland. 13 R-29 RAIDS The B-29s struck Japan on 13 days of the month. Seven of the missions were carried out by 500 or more Superforts, each trans porting at least seven tons of bombs for strategic targets. Japan was red in flames spurt ing from cornered remnants of her navy. By July 28, after carrier planes had repeatedly roamed Ja pan's inland sea, Admiral Halsey could say every major ship of Nip See RED JULY Page 2 STUDY CENTER AT KANNAPOLIS Foundation Sends Delega tion To View Plant Simi lar To One Planned Here Kannapolis’ great recreational center, considered a model plant for community activities. Is being studied this afternoon by a dele gation of Shelblans representing the Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation. Further studies of similar operations at Valdese, El kin and elsewhere will be made in cipient to the planning of Shelby's own community center which is the Number One project of the foundation. Jack and Charles Dover, Mai A. Spangler, Dick LeOrand and Lee B. Weathers are making the trip to Kannapolis, arrangements hav ing been made by former Governor O. Max Gardner through the of fice of Charles A. Cannon who is head of the Cannon industries. It is the purpose of the Foun dation to study such programs in cident to planning Shelby’s own project for which $100,000 is being raised this year with the hope that it ean be carried to realiza tion next year if building condi tions warrant. The Kannapolis building is said to be one of the best planned in the southeast. Broad Liberalization Of Welfare Program Predicted By CORA STEGALL RALEIGH, Aug. 2. —(£>)— A broad liberalization of the public welfare program to take care of all needy people was forecast today by Dr. Ellen Winston, state commis sioner of public welfare. Such program would bridge the gap between children and the aged and bring all needy people under the public assistance program, said Dr. Winston, who Is the only wo man to head a state department. Dr. Winston, a native of Bryson City, who left the position as head of the sociology department at Meredith College to become North Carolina’s third woman commis sioner of public welfare, is a petite and attractive woman with a sparkling enthusiasm for her work and a chain of ideas for the post war days of public welfare, “North Carolina's program de pends to a great extent on the fed eral program,” Dr. Winston said “There are before congress now bills which will provide increased feder al aid to states falling below the average per-capita income.” She said that North Carolina ranks very low in the national aver See BROAD Page 2 i . PRESIDENT AND KING TO MEET ABOARD WARSHIP—The British battle cruiser H. M. S. Renown I (above) will serve as the meeting place of President Truman and King George VI, after the former flies to England from Germany.—(AP Wirephoto). Laval To Testify In Petain Trial Friday Procession Of Defense Witnesses Portrays Old Mar shal As Anti-German, And A Patriot By Louis Nevin PARIS, Aug. 2.—(A1)—Pierre Laval, whose name has flitted frequently through ten days of testimony, will be called as a witness tomorrow in the treason trial of Marshal Petain, the court announced today. The old marshal fell sound hsleep, as did three of the jurors, as a procession of defense witnesses portrayed him as anti-german and as a patriot who gave up French artil lery in North Africa to prevenLtha Germans from matching through Spain to attack Gibraltar. /Nu l nrv. _ _ ..IJ a. iu. I VliU* 1VU WWW| */* VOIMVil V %/A •! (V Paris municipal council, was tell ing how Petain really was never In control of the Vichy govern ment when the 89-year-old defend ant dosed off. Trochu raised his voice to a shout, saying Vichy min isters ruled their departments and the marshal never knew what they were doing. Petain awakened and recess was called. Laval, Petain's chief of govern ment, is in Fresnes prison. He, too, faces treason charges, but his trial may be two months off. It was Gen. Bernard Serigny, long a friend of Petain, who told how Hitler early in 1941 demanded from Generalissimo Franco the right to send troops across Spain to attack the British bastion guarding the western entrance of the Medi terranean. The general, who described him self as an intimate friend of the marshal, said Franco had disclos ed the demand to Petain along with the information that he had refused. UNEASY ABOUT SPAIN Petain, himself, was uneasy a ! bout Spain, the witness testified, but he quoted the marshal as say ing: i “Franco can count on me in re j sistlng the Germans’ demand for j permission to cross Spain.” As the trial started its tenth day, defense counsel read a cable signed by John Alexander Schaef ! fer, director of the National Re publican Vigilance committee, 7 E. 42nd 8t., New York, which said: See LAVAL Page X WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Kiwanls club mem bers and wives go to Ollle Moore's place on Broad river for fish fry. 7:00 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Rotary club. 8:00 p.m.—Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. <St A. M. meets at lodge room for work In third degree. NOTED MUSICIAN DIES IN ROME Pietro Mascagni, Com poser Of Cayallerio Rus ticana, Is Dead ROMS, Aug. .3—WV-Jietro Mas cagni, 82, famous composer of Cav alleria Rusticana and other operas, died at 7:15 am., today of bron chial pneumonia and hardening of the arteries. Mascagni died at the Plaza hotel where he had made his home re cently. He leaves an 28-year-old widow. The composer had a long and brilliant career, and had reaped a large fortune In royalties from hit operas, particularly "Cav alleria Rusticana,” which outshone all the others In populartfT His most recent opera was "Neftme,” which had its premiere in 1935. He had been hit hard by the war, however. His home was .seiz ed by the socialists after the Ger mans were driven from'Rome. He I said the socialists had accused him 1 of having been a fascist. When the end of the war came far Italy, his fortune had vanished. Although he had conducted op eras during Mussolini’s regime a few years before the war, he said he had no Interest in politics and declared the fascists simply ex ploited his name. He lost one of his sons in Mus solini’s Ethiopian war. Th other Domenico, he said, “got tangled up with the fascists,**, and left Rome for Northern Italy before tht Allied entry. At Mascagni's bedside when h< died were his wife and daughter Emmy, and the latter’s son. Mascagni achieved fame at the age of 26, when “Cavalleria Rus ticana” won a prize competition “Amico Fritz” and "Iris” are the best known of his other operas most of which have been virtually forgotten. -——-** One In Five Of Air Force Returned From ETO To Go To Pacific WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. —(/P)~ Only one man in five pt air forci personnel from the European am Mediterranean theaters will go t< the Pacific. The other 80 per cent will be as signed to jobs in the United States said Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Ander son, assistant chief of air staff per sonnel, in a broadcast last night. Most of those who go to the Pa clflc have not been in combat, An derson said. i The air force had 2,300,000 mei | on V-E day and plans to use 2,130, 1000 against Japan. ARMY COLD TO DECREASE IDEA Sen. Johnson Wonts Army Reduced From 8 Million To 3 Million , WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 —</P)— The War department and selective service met with tight-lipped si lence today a demand of Senator Johnson (D-Colo) that the army be scaled down from 8,000,000 to 3,000,000 men. Targets of Jqhnson’s causti? criticism to the Senate yesterday, both branches declined comment. ! Army public relations officers, however, pointed to a War depart ment statement of May 5 which said the general staff had recom mended a force of 6,968,000 to crush Japan “in the shortest pos sible time and with the smallest cost in American lives.” Although Johnson told his col leagues that an army of such size never could be used against Japan, he added to reporters later: "There's nothing I can do about it. The army simply won’t cooperate.” j The senate’s recess until October 8 is compelling reason why noth ing can be done, the Coloradoan observed, adding "the best way would be through the army’s ap propriation.” 3 MILLION MEN "The maximum number of men that we can transport, supply and use on the Japanese front by the end of 1946 cannot be more than 3,000,000 men,” he told the cham ber. “Then why in the name of com mon sense must we maintain any army of 8,000,000?” He said Maj. Gen. Lewis B Hershey, director of selective ser vice, “let the cat out of the bag’ in a statement that 100,000 mer would be drafted monthly even af ter V-J day. Meanwhile, Chairman May (D-Ky) of the house military committee said a group of con gressmen has been trying for several weeks "to convince the War department that extreme hardships on the home front are facing the American people and will result in the worst crisis in the coining winter because of the shortage of coal and perchance the lack of food.” The Kentuckian contended that thousands of uniformed men qual ified to operate trains, dig coal anc till the soil could be spared with out detriment to the war effori “if the army will Just let their TAKE IT EASY: | Telephone System Swamped By Calls For Ball Scores An appeal to slow down, calling ol'llOO for baseball scores was made ■ todaj»J>y telephone officials who re > portecTthat Wednesday’s overload I so swamped the local telephone ex > change that the service was im peded needlessly by people getting • in their own way. , Calls at a rate that ran as . high • as 3,000 an hour over-taxed the ex ■ change facilities so that some calls of an emergency nature got side • tracked as over-worked operators ■ sought to keep their boards serviced on calls that poured into the 1100 i number—-the dozen phones at The ■ Star served by three trunk lines can I handle a maximum of around a thousand calls an hour. TRAFFIC JAM The Star Is handling the calls an furnishing scores as rapidly as fac: lities permit, but many individua are unable to get their calls throug because of the traffic jam of otht callers. The operators here ha\ never before handled a number t busy as was The Star’s yesterda; and they hope an appeal for cor sideration will be heeded so thf more people can be served prompt ly. Needless to say the telephon operators are pulling for a fourt victory this afternoon! They hop too, they can last through it. BIG 3 MEET ENDS IN AURA OF CORDIALITY Final Session Spent On Phrasing Communique On Conference HOMEWARD BOUND By Daniel De Luce POTSDAM, Aug. 2.—(A5)— The Big Three began their homeward journeys to their respective capitals today after formally ending the his toric Potsdam conference by writing a joint communique which will be released to the world tomorrow. The conference ended In an at mosphere of cordiality. The world was expected to know soon what President Truman, Prime Minis ter Attlee and Premier Stalin plan ned for the immediate future of Europe, but the full import of what they accomplished since the sessions opened July 7 may not be realized for some time insofar as decisions may affect the Pa cific war. Truman left in a C-54 plane, bound for Washington by way of Plymouth. At Plymouth he look ed forward to a meeting with King George VI during the afternoon. Attlee left from an airfield near Potsdam to take up the reins of the new laborite government, and it was believed possible Premier Stalin had left for Moscow. The strict secrecy imposed on the .deliberations -from the Qutset was maintained until the close ol the conference. A joint communi : que will be issued to the world’s j press tonight for study and will be | released simultaneously in the three capitals tomorrow, a public i relations officer said. ADJOURNED WEDNESDAY j The announcement of the end l of the conference was made at [2:15 am., Moscow time. The mo mentous deliberations ended at ,12:30 a.m. (5:30 p.m., Wednesday, EWT) when President Truman, dressed in a gray business suit, announced the sessions adjourned The final meeting was held in a luxurious chamber of the Cecilien hof, which once was the residence of former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. two-hour session was marked by an “atmosphere of great cordiality.” Forty persons were in the conference room, 15 of them seated around the round table, for the after-dinner meeting which was devoted to the phrasing of the joint com munique. When that task was completed the eye-witness said, Prime Minis ter Attlee proposed a vote of thank: to Premier Stalin for the accommo dations, and to the foreign secre ' taries for their work. The other tw< statesmen, in similar vein, also be' stowed high praise on the work o: the three foreign offices. CORRESONDENTS DENIED Correspondents had been excludec from the final session, and their re quest for a press conference witl the big three or their foreign sec See BIG THREE Page 2 To Fill Highway Post At Early Dote RALEIGH, Aug. 2.—VP)—Gover nor Cherry has expressed his in tentions to fill the post of major o the state highway patrol and di rector of the state highway safet; division within a short time. The job was recently declined b; Chief Walter Anderson of Char j |otte. Mentioned for the assign !ment is H. J. Hatcher, of Burk I county. : ■ r'<H? m ass — • • - P-80 ‘SHOOTING STAR’ IN ACTION—This picture of the jet-propelled P-80 “Shooting Star” in flight shows the two droppable auxiliary gasoline tanks, one at each wing tip, which provide range enough to carry out missions now assigned to long range conventional bombers. Twin air ducts are visible on each side of the fuselage in this head on view.—(AP Wirephoto) Truman Visits King; Heading Back Home First American President To Visit Britain Since Wil son; Augusta Steams Out To Sea Hv Thp AwcnpisfpH PrP6iS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, Aug. 2—President Tru man headed back to the United States today, stopping a1 Plymouth for a 20-minute talk with King George VI, as the Big Three’s Berlin declaration was drawn up for release tc BRfflSIflLSO ACCUSElAVAL Report He Plotted To In volve Britain In War With Vichy LONDON, Aug. 2.—(£>)—Pierre Laval, under arrest in Paris on charges of colaborating with the Germans, was confronted today with an official British statement accusing him of plotting to involve Britain in war with the Vichy government in the fall of 1940. The allegation against the for mer Vichy chief of government was made in a British whjfce paper is sued last night while Laval was awaiting interrogation by French authorities. The paper said Sir Samuel Hoare, the British ambassador to Madrid, had cabled the foreign office on , Nov. 4, 1940 that thf French am ■ bassador to Spain hjtd informed ; him Laval was planning to use ■ the French fleet and military units . in efforts to recover. French col i onies which- had rolled to Gen ■ eral Charles De Gaulle. Sir Samuel, now Lord Temple wood, was quoted as saying in his cable: w l iiw icuuu uuiqhsshuui is 1 : r r 1 gards the plan as not only very mean, but very clever. He agreed with me that if it was carried out it undoubtedly would mean war between Great Britain and Vichy.” PROMISED SUPPORT Britain had promised to support De Gaulle, the white paper said, and if the royal navy and Frencn fleets had come into conflict La val would have charged British ag gression. Sir Samuel said that the day aft er his conversation with the French ambassador, the British naval attaches in Madrid attempt ed to sound out the French naval attache on the matter. The latter was quoted as asking, “Do I understand that if the (French) naval ships tried to come through the Straits (of Gibraltar) you would not allow thejfci to pass?’ He was told that was correct. Principal free French colony at the time was French VEquatorial Africa. The bulk of the Vichy fleet was stationed at Oran and Toulor and would have had W pass Gi braltar to reach the colony. gee BRITISH Page 2 Storm Warnings r e Off Puerto Rico S' f. ,t <1 h ATLANTA, Aug. 2. —(£>)— Th weather bureau here issued the fol lowing storm warning at 4:45 a.rr (EWT) today: San Juan, P. R.: Disturbanc southeast of south of Barbadoet Continue with caution. Small craf should await next advisory befor leaving port this morning. uie worm romgnt. Mr. Truman had lunch with th< British monarch aboard H. M. 3 Renown, lying off the war-battere( port of Plymouth. The king ar ranged to visit the president late: aboard the U. S. S. Augusta, thi cruiser which brought him to Em rope. Late in the day the Augusta with Mr. Truman aboard, steame< out to sea. The British monarch and the first American president to visit Britain 4nce President Wilson’s visit after World war 1 met aboard the British bat tle cruiser Renown at 12:40 p. m. (7:40 a. m., eastern war time.) “Welcome to my country,” th king said. The president and the monart; shook hands with cordiality ani stood chatting while cJasplni hands. Mr. Truman wore a light gre lounge suit with a red overcheclt brown shoes and a light grey ha1 CRUISER AUGUSTA He made the visit to the Re | nown after boarding the U. £ j cruiser Augusta, which had brougt him to Europe for the big thre conference at Potsdam. Hundreds of persons gathered a the docks of this bomb-scarred ol j port on the chance of seeing th president on his arrival by plan ! from Potsdam, but a last minut I change of landing plans robbe 1 them of the opportunity. Becaus I of flying conditions, President Tru l man and his party landed at a RAP field about eight miles nort of Plymouth at 9:40 a. m. (4:40 : m„ EWT). They had been sched uled to land at a field 40 miles t the west. U. S. army automobiles waitir at the latter field scurried to tl Harrowbeer airdrome, where tl President’s plane came in. BOMB DAMAGE Mr. Truman inspected some the bomb damage at the port, th: went to :ne U S. naval base ar embarked on a barge for the Ai gista. He trussed the L'»v. Ma; or of Ply out' and other officia ! waiting for him at the do:<. 1 The King had arrived in PI; mouth by special royal train 10:30 a.m., and was welcomed I See TRUMAN Page 2 20-Billion-Dollar Slash In I National Income Seen In *45 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—(/P)— The budget bureau says business profits and incomes of war work ers will be reduced in the new fis cal year by a 20-billion-dollar slash in government war spend ing. And if the war were to end be ; fore' next summer, there would be ' an even greater cutback in spend ing, with heavier effects on eco nomic life in America. ; The extent of unemployment in ' such a case would be determined t by the effectiveness of reconver ; sion plans. These forecasts were made in a revised budget for the fiscal year 1946, which started a month ago. On the assumption the war will continue through the fis cal year, the bureau estimated war spending at $70,000,000,000, compared with $90,000,000,00 In the last fiscal year. 1 It estimated total federal spend ing at $85,000,000,000 compared .with $100,000,000,000 in fiscal 1945. (plan for war But Budget Director Harold D. Smith was not content with the assumption the war would go on See 30-BILLION Page 9 820 B-29S DROP 6,632 TONS OF BOMBS Sheets Of Flame Blanket Four Nip Cities, Big Oil Refinery MINING OPERATIONS By Morrie Lands berg GUAM, Aug. 2.—(^P)—-Solid sheets of flame visible more | than 180 miles blanketed four ' Japanese cities and a huge oil refinery center today as a great fleet of 820 B-29s smashed Japan with 6,632 tons of bombs and mines in the greatest air raid in his tory. “The sight was incredible— beyond description,” declared Sgt. Lester L. Sharpe of Kan sas City, Kas., as jubilant crews returned to their Mar ianas bases. Past little fighter planes carried on the attack as the Superforts winged home. Simultaneously, re ports from Admiral Nimitz and Tokyo radio told of submarine and warship bombardments on etiher side of Tokyo, the shelling of Wake island and a daring rescue on a Japanese - held Marshall island atoll. "They knew we were com ing but they didn’t do any thing about it,” said Maj. wil liam C. Wilson of Springfield, O. “We buzzed in and bombed, then barreled out With prac tically no opposition. General LeMay was right—the Japs are I flat on their backs.” ■ | Of the attack on the four in ’ dustrlal cities—three rail and one 1 aluminum centers—the pilots said: ■ “Bombing was good to excellent.” It was the same against the Ka . wasaki petroleum area near Tok i yo. 1 l t r t t 1 c I i e a' I t;. o ie ie n d i Is i' sy oome oi me oupenorts carriea out the deepest mining operation of the Pacific war, reaching al most to the Russian border. MUSTANG FIGHTERS Sixty Mustang fighter planes lashed Osaka, Japan’s second city, and nearby Kobe, its principal seaport and shipbuilding center, at noon, radio Tokyo reported. Sixty more Mustangs hit factories and transportation in another area, but poor reception of the enemy broadcast garbled the name of the district. Radio Tokyo reported that Al lied carrier planes and warships bombed and shelled O island seventy miles south of Tokyo in the Sagami sea, yester day, indicating Adm. Halsey’s Third fleet had resumed its at tacks on the homeland after more than two days of official silence on its activities. B-29 pilots reported general con flagrations were raging in all of i today’s targets. Both fighter op position and anti-aircraft fire were “none to moderate.’’ Seven hundred seventy-eight of the B-29s attacked the five tar gets and the other 42 dropped mines. Their total bomb and mine load See 820 Page 2 Tokyo Says 20,000 Allied Planes Hit Japan During July LONDON, Aug. 2.— (&) —The Tokyo radio estimated today that 20,000 allied planes had raided Ja pan during the month of July. The broadcast, as recorded here, said the estimate included 8,000 carrier-based planes, 4.000 Super fortresses and 8,000 other land based craft.
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