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ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
SATURDAY, AUG. 4, 1945
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RYUKYUS TO BE USED AS INVASION FORCES BASE
Germany Will Lose Thousands Of Square Miles More Of Territory
WEST BORDERS
ARE STILL TO
• BE DEMINED
! ■
French Want Rhineland
Internationalized Under
French Control
NETHERLANDS CLAIMS
By John M. Hightower
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—
(/P)—Germany will lose still
more thousands of square
miles of territory, diplomatic
authorities analyzing the
Potsdam communique predict
ed today.
They noted that the decisions
reached by President Truman,
Generalissimo Stalin and Prime
Minister Attlee on territorial
changes concerned only those in
Eastern Europe which were most
urgent by reason of Russian and
Polish demands.
Since President Truman
has assured newsmen that no
secret agreements were made
at Berlin, this means the west
ern borders of the new and
shrunken Germany are still
to be determined. The task
appears to be one for the coun
cil of Big Fire foreign minis
ters meeting in London by
September L
Principal proposals made for
fixing Germany’s western borders!
come from the Netherlands and
France. Indications heer are that
I something along the lines they
suggest will be approved eventual
ly
The French would deprive Ger
many of its richest industrial area,
the Rhineland. The De Gaulle
government has disavowed any de
sire to add this territory to
France. Indications here are that
the Rhineland, with its great
sources of power, raw materials
and productive cities, be interna
tionalized under control mechan
ism predominantly French.
OLDENBURG AREA
Netherlands officials have talk
ed of the possibility of gaining a
large section of Oldenburg, which
is the northwest comer of Ger
many opening on to the North
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MORE SHOES
COMMON
WPB Official Predicts
Shoe Rationing To End
Early In 1946
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. —<AV
A generous supply of inexpensive
shoes is slated for ration-free tags
soon In a move probably heralding
the end of all footwear rationing
early next year.
The OPA is planning to remove
temporarily from rationing a wide
variety of shoes retailing for $3.50
or less a pair.
These plans became known as a
War Production Board official pre
dicted that shoe rationing proba
bly will end altogether early in
1946.
"If Japan surrenders sooner, shoe
rationing will go out the window
shortly after V-J Day,” said this of
ficial. who asked that his name not
vised*
Deep cuts in military require
ments are the basis for the optim
istic forecast, the official explained,
adding that it "seems logical” that
the Army and Navy shoe needs may
be trimmed again before the year
Is over.
President Signs
Three Major Bills
WASHINGTON, Au,g. 4.——
Presidential signature of three
major measures providing for
American participation in interna
tional economic and monetary ®p
erations was announced today.
The measures are the Bretton
Woods bill providing for a huge
monetary fund to stabilize postwar
exchange rates; the measure in
creasing the lending authority of
the export-import bank from $7,
000,000,000 to $3,500,000,000 to aid
In postwar reconstruction and that
providing for American member
ship in the food and agriculture
organization of the United Na
tions.
The White House made the an
nouncement that President Tru
man had approved the tifcee pieces
Of legislation.
DO THEY KNOW SECRET OF HITLER’S WHEREABOUTS—Rumored to have put Adolf Hitler and his mis
tress Eva Braun ashore before surrendering to Argentine authorities, five officers of the German U-boat U
530 are shown in high spirits in a Miami, Fla., prisoner-of-war camp. They are being held incommunicado.
The rumor that they spirited Hitler across the Atlantic was denied by Admiral Eberhard Godt, operations
chief of the Nazi pigboat fleet—and the prisoners themselves are not talking. At right, hand out-stretched,
is the U-boat's youthful commander, Oberleutnant O. Wermuth.—(AP Wirephoto)
Laval, Petain Forced
To Obey Germans
Laval Says They Wars Ordered To Speak Out Against
Allies; Collaboration Onl Hope
By Louis Nevin
PARIS, Aug. 4.—(A5)—Pierre Laval testified today that
the Germans ordered both him and Marshal Petain to speak
out against the Allies’ 1942 landings in North Africa, and
contended they were forced to obey.
Reminded by the judge in re
tain's treason trial that the old
marshal “sent certain messages
which he ought not to have sent,"
Laval said:
“Petain was not free. He was
ordered by the Germans to send
those messages. I also was in
structed to speak publicly on the
subject. The Germans x x told
me It was no real protest.”
Petaln’s defense contends he
made every effort to see that
French commanders In North Af
rica did not oppose the landings.
Giving a preview of part of the
defense at his own forthcoming
trial, Laval said:
“It would have been Impos
sible for France to survive
without collaboration.’’
France, he contended, fared
better under occupation than
Belgium, and obtained the re
lease of 50,000 prisoners in re
turn for 150,000 French work
ers sent to Germany.
At the start of today’s trial ses
sion Laval resumed his story of
the 1942 broadcast in which die ex
pressed hope for German victory.
He said he had given his reasons
for making this talk when Admir
al William D. Leahy demanded
an explanation, but did not detail
the conversation with Leahy, then
U. S. ambassador to Vichy.
EXPLAINED STATEMENT
Testifying in the trial of Mar
shal Petain, Laval said:
“A few days after that broad
cast Admiral Leahy and Mr S.
Pinkney Tuck (counsellor to the
U. S. embassy at Vichy) came to
see me. I explained the reason
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Tropical Storm
In West Indies
ATLANTA, Aug. 4. —(A5)— The
U. S. weather bureau issued the
following storm advisory from
Miami, Fla., at 5 a.m. EWT this
morning.
“A tropical storm of slight to
moderate intensity is now located
near Lat. 16 degrees, 30 minutes
north and 69 degrees, 30 minutes
west, or about 140 miles south of
Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Repub
lic..
"The storm is moving westward
about 16 miles per hour and is at
tended by winds 40 to 50 miles per
hour near center. It is expected to
continue its westward movement
for the next 24 hours passing south
of Dominican Republic and Haiti
today.
“Small craft should exercise cau
tion in path of storm.”
CHINESE SMASH
NEARERTUNGAN
CHUNGKING, Aug. 4. —VP)—
Chinese troops have launched a
drive apparently aimed at cutting
the Hunan-Kwangsl railroad in
Hunan province and blocking the
main avenue of the Japanese with*
drawal from Kwangsl province, the
high command indicated today.
After recapturing the important
Japanese stronghold of Sinning, a
Hunan province stronghold safe
guarding the enemy’s western flank,
the Chinese smashed ahead in the
direction of the important rail town
of Tungan in pursuit of the enemy.
Tungan, in ftinan, is roughly mid
way between Kweilin and the Ja
panese bastihr* of Hengyang, where
the Hunan-Kwangsl railroad meets
the Canton-Hankow lines.
PROGRESS MADE
Without giving distances, the
high command said “much progress”
had been made in the drive toward
Tungan, about 90 miles northeast of
Kweilin.
Exploiting the Japanese with
drawal, Chinese troops pressed along
the Hunan-Kwangsi line from liber
ated Lingchwan, 15 miles northeast
of Kweilin, and gained over three
miles in the push toward Hingan,
which is 32 miles northeast of Kwei
lin.
Enemy troops west of the rail
road several days ago mounted a
counterattack against forward
Chinese positions 12 1-2 to 19 miles
west of Chuanhslen, important Ja
panese rail stronghold 67 miles
northeast of Kweilin. Fighting was
reported still in progress there.
War Trials To Be
Held At Nuernberg
NUERNBERG, Germany, Aug. 4.
—(/P)—The former German palace
of Justice at ^Nuernberg, one-time
Nazi shrine cuy, has been chosen
for the trials of arch war crimin
als which will begin Sept. 1, a
spokesman for Robert H. Jackson,
chief U. S. counsel on the allied
war crimes commission, announced
yesterday.
Major defendants such as Relchs
marshal Hermann Goering and
Joachim von Ribbentrop will be
held in the Nuernberg municipal
jail during the trials, which are
expected to last several weeks.
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SERVE PATIENT,
HOSPITALS’AM
Rotarians Honor Trustees,
Doctors And Legion
Champs V
The level of medical care in any
community is established by its
hospitals ratner than by individ
ual medical practitioners, Dr.
James O’Neill, of the staff of Bow
man Gray School of Medicine and
Baptist hospital at Winston-Sa
lem, told the Rotary club Friday
in a program at which local doc
tors and trustees of the new
county hospitals were guests.
Dr. O’Neill’s address featured a
session in which the Rotarians
honored also Shelby’s state cham
pionship Junior Legion club and
coaches Pop Simmons and Lloyd
Little, all members of the team be
ing guests of the Rotarians for
the' occasion. Willis McMurry,
commander of the local Legion
post, presented the lads.
PRAISES RAY BROWN
Ray E. Brown, administra
tor of Baptist hospital, flew
to Shelby with Dr. O’Neill to
present him to the local au
dience, and Dr. O’Neill in his
opening remarks paid glowing
tribute to the accomplishment
of the native Shelbian as ad
ministrator of Baptist hospi
tal.
Asserting that good service for
sake of the patient must be the
goal of a successful community
hospital, Dr. O’Neill said that a
hospital which provides the scope
and service for patients it should
will necessarily incur deficits —
for, he added, a good hospital
never stands still, it either goes
forward or backward. Some priv
ate hospitals, he pointed out, make
money by counting professional
fees in receipts, but the commun
ity hospital needs to look to some
underwriting — he suggested en
dowment—for its deficits In the
case of the Cleveland county pro
See SERVE Page 2
JAPAN SEEING
HER RAILROADS
DESTROYED
97 Mustangs From Iwo
Battered Locomotives,
Cars Near Tokyo
TEN INTERCEPTORS
GUAM, AugTI—OP)—!Ship
ping-paralyzed Japan, her
ports mined, 2,846,932 tons of
her ships sunk or damaged
this year by the Far East air
forces alone, now is seeing
her railroad system torn up
by American planes, latest of
ficial reports disclosed today.
Only 10 enemy Interceptors show
ed up against 97 Mustangs from
Iwo yesterday over the Tokyo
area where the raiders destroyed
14 locomotives, damaged six more
and 50 railroad cars.
General Spaatz’ U. S. army
strategic air forces headquarters,
reporting the action today, said the
Mustangs shot down two, hit a
third and destroyed or damaged 14
grounded enemy planes at a cost
of six raiders.
Reports for the first three days
of August both by Spaatz and by
Gen. George C. Kenney for the
Far East air forces have listed ef
fective blows on railroad yards and
trains both on Kyushu and Hon
shu.
LIGHT UNIT SUNK
Japan did send a few planes
down to Okinawa and succeeded
July 29 in sinking an American
light unit as well as damaging a
second, Admiral Nirnitz disclosed
today in his fleet communique. It
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PFC. SINGLETON
PRESUMED DEAD
Missing Since July 30,
1944, In ETO, Partici
pated In D-Day
Mrs. L. H. Singleton of 717 Live
Oak street has been informed by
the War department that her son,
Pfc. Gentry Singleton, missing in
Prance since July 30, 1944, has
been listed as dead since no word
has been received of him during
the period of a year.
Pfc. Singleton entered the army
in September of 1941 and after
extensive training at several camps
in the United States, left for over
seas duty in December, 1945, go
ing first to Ireland. He was as
signed to combat duty in June cf
1944, moving into France with the
first troops invading that country
and was reported missing on
July 30 when he failed to return
to his outfit from a scouting mis
sion on which he had been sent.
He was with the 121st infantry.
A graduate of Shelby high school
in the class of 1933, Pfc. Single
ton was employed at the Shelby
cotton mill prior to entering serv
ice. He is a son of Mrs. L. H.
Singleton of this place and the
late Mr. Singleton, who died sev
eral weeks ago.
Surviving besides his mother are
two sisters. Miss Bernice Singleton
and Mrs. Ronell Bivins, and sev
en brothers, Fred and Floyd Sin
gleton of Simpsonville, S. C., Guy
Clyde and Brooks Singleton of
Shelby, Pfc. Louis Singleton with
ths army in Austria and Cpl. E.
J. Singleton with the army in
Italy.
THE WAR TODAY:
No Solace For Japan In
Declarations From Potsdam
By DeWITT MacKENZlE. AP Writer
By J. K. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
There is no solace for Japan in
the silence surrounding Pacific v^ar
discussions at Potsdam. No Russian
declaration of war is necessary to
emphasize what the Allies intend
to do with the aggressors. If the
Japanese can take any heart from
the blueprint for conquered Ger
many, they are welcome to it.
For anyone who may be disap
pointed over absence of word re
garding Russia’s entry into the war,
a prior look which might have
prevented the raising of immediate
L hopes would have revealed this situ
atlon:
There was no anti-Japanese pro
paganda campaign in Russia, such
as almost certainly would precede
any break. If Russia should enter it
would be more valuable just before
our invasion of Japan, which is still
some time away. Russia’s armies still
are largely deployed in Europe.
Japan’s position is much the same
as Germany’s was a year or so
ago—fighting, hoping, looking for
a “break”. Adding another log right
now to the fire which they have
built under themselves couldn’t mean
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WORLD WAR 3 TERRITORY CHANGES—Black areas on map are those
parts of Germany which the Big Three propose will come under Polish
rule. Shaded area is that which Russia has taken control over since the
start of hostilities on the continent. Northern East Prussia, proposed as
Russian by the Big Three, is newest addition to Soviet territory. There
still remains some question as to final disposition of the Port of Stettin.—
(AP Wirephoto Map)
Plans Drawn Up For
Conquest Of Japan
American-British Chiefs Of Staff Perfected Blue Print
In Course Of Potsdam Talks
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—(/P)—Blueprints drawn by the
combined American-British chiefs of staffs for conquest of
Japan were carried homeward today by President Truman,
aboard the USS Augusta.
The announcement from the ship
and in London yesterday that army
and navy leaders had perfected
their plans for chopping up and
destroying the Nipponese military
machine gave no details.
The military talks took place dur
ing the big three meeting in Berlin
and the staff proposals were approv
ed by President Truman and Prime
Minister Attlee, the announcement
said.
The joint disclosure said in brief:
It was agreed that the British
will direct against Japan all naval,
land and air forces which can be
used to advantage.
Reallocation of operational areas
and command was discussed and
consideration given to use of forces
furnished by /ther allied nations
at war with the Japs.
COORDINATION DETAILS
Details of coordinating British
and American army and navy might
were talked over at length.
It was considered probable here
that Lord Mountbatten, British
commander in southeast Asia, will
be placed in charge of an area ex
tending frdjn the Solomon Islands
to a line Just south of the Philip
See PLANS Page 2
Jap Hospital Ship
Seized Carrying
Contraband Arms
MANILA, Aug. 4.—<^P)—A Japa
nese hospital ship carrying con
traband arms and apparently fake
patients has been seized in the
Banda sea north of Dutch-Portu
guese Timor and is being brought
into an allied port today for in
vestigation, General MacArthur’s
headquarters announced.
A boarding party from the
allied seventh fleet found machine
guns, 75 millimeter shells and other
ammunition packed in boxes mark
ed “medical supplies,” MacArthur
said.
The accosted vessel was clearly
marked with safe-conduct red
crosses on- its side and upright on
the superstructure.
There were approximately 1,500
men aboard listed as patients.
When bandages were removed from
some of them no wounds were
found, the announcement said.
Alleged Assassin Of
Dollfuss Arrested
MUNDEN, Austria, Aug. 4. —(JP)—
U. S. 11th Armored division head
quarters announced today the ar
rest of Victor Von Karolyi, accused
of assassinating Austrian Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss in 1934.
Von Karolyi also was described
as the right-hand man of Baldur
von Schirach, Nazi commandant of
Vienna.
I -
Truman Played
Important Role
At Conference
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN
ABOARD U. S. AUGUSTA, Aug. 4
—(/P)—President Truman’s oft-ex
pressed view that a solution can lx
found for every legtitimate contro
versy emerged today as one of hu
major contributions to the Berlin
conference.
Presiding over the sessions with
geniality and good humor he early
convinced the British and Russian
leaders that no avenue of compro
mise should be abandoned.
The protocol which emerged in
the small hours of Thursday was
based in large measure upon agenda
the president brought with him in
.writing to the first meeting.
Prewired in frequent consultations
with James F. Byrnes, secretary ol
state, the proposals gave the three
delegations a basis for starting im
mediate consultations.
BASIS FOR TALKS
When the proposals were present
ed, Churchill added certain sub
jects orally, as did Generalissimc
Stalin. So the president’s agends
was referred immediately to for
eign secretaries, forming the bash
for most of the future discussion
The decision to establish a counci
of foreign ministers of the Unitec
States, Rusia, Great Britain, China
and France was based on the
agenda. Mr. Truman wanted to pro
vide a means for continuing pre
paratory work for the peace settle
ments and to seek solutions of prob
lems on which the Big Three may
not be able to find themselves ir
immediate agreement.
He did much to keep his confer
ees in good humor throughout the
nine meetings in which formei
Prime Minister Churchill partici
pated and the remaining four in
See TRUMAN Page 2
WHAT’S DOING
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—U.
S. O. center open to service
folk visiting in the city.
MONDAY
10:00 a.m. — County com
missioners meet at court
house.
7:30 p.m.—City council meets
at city hall.
800 p.m. — Piedmont Boy
| Scout court of honor meets at
court house.
8:00 p.m.—Board of deacons
of First Baptist church meets
at the church.
MacARTHUR
IN COMMAND
OF ISLANDS
Daily Air Raids Staged On
Kyushu From Bases On
Island Chain
EIGHT AIR~ FORCES
Bv James Hutcheson
MANILA, Aug. 4.—(/P)—
General MacArthur announc
ed today that he had taken
command of all American-oc
cupied islands in the Ryukyu
| chain south of Japan—includ
ing Okinawa—as bases "from
I which a mighty invasion force
i is being forged” for the sub
i jugation of the enemy.
Okinawa and about a dozen is
lands to the west were conquered
by combined forces under Admiral
Nimitz, but recently MacArthur's
Far East air forces have moved
in to air bases there and have
staged daily roads on the south
ernmost “fortress island’’ of Kyu
shu.
The Japanese still hold those
portions of the Ryukyu chain
known as the Sakishima group be
tween Okinawa and Formosa, and
the Amumi, Tokara and Osumi
groups between Okinawa and Kyu
shu.
HLs statement emphasized the
increasing importance of Okinawa
as a base for the climactic assaults
against the Japanese home is
lands.
Okinawa is less than 350 miles
: south of Kyushu, and liberators,
medium Mitchells and fighter rang
ing up to 500 in number have
been battering systematically at
the island’s transport and ship
ping.
MacArthur announced that the
change in command had become
effective as of midnight Tuesday.
MacArthur disclosed for the first
time that the 13tn air force, which
See MacARTHUR Page 2
ROMMEL TOOK
HIS OWNLIFE
Son Soys He Wos Given
Choice Of Suicide Or
Death Sentence
By HOWARD COW'AN
BAD TOLZ, Germany, Aug. 4.—
W—A son of Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel declared in a sworn state
ment today that his father com
mitted suicide as an alternative to
a death sentence passed by a peo
ple’s court “because he was sus
pected of complicity in the July 20,
1944, bomb plot on Hitler’s life.”
The statement, released by U. S.
third army headquarters, was made
by Manfred Rommel, 17-year-old
son of the German "Desert Pox.”
(Allied officers at Wiesbaden
said on June 25 that they had been
told by Lt. Gen. Fritz Bayerlein,
Rommel’s former chief of staff,
that the field marshal had com
mitted suicide in order to avoid
the death penalty for allegedly
participating in the plot Hit
ler’s life. The Germans announced
Oct. 15, 1944, that Rommel had
“died of wounds.”)
WOUNDED IN JULY
Young Rommel confirmed that
his father was wounded on July
17, 1944, at Livarot, France, during
an American air raid, but said he
was recovering after treatment in
a Paris hospital for a skull frac
ture and shell splinters in his
face.
Young Rommel said that on Oct.
14, Gen. Maisel and Gen. Burg
dorff, visited his father.
“Three quarters of an hour later
he came from mother’s room and
told me he had just said goodbye
to her—that Hitler had given him
a choice of poisoning himself or
being imprisoned and later con
demned by a people’s court” the
statement said.
FAMILY SAFE
“Hitler informed him that in
case of suicide nothing would hap
pen to the family. On the contrary,
he would take care of the family.
“My father left the house dress
ed in his uniform, with his mar
shal’s staff. We accompanied him
to a car where the two generals
greeted him with heil Hitler!
“Fifteen minutes later we were
called by telephone and informed
my father had been brought to a
military hospital in Ulm by two
generals having died of a brain
stroke.”