DEATH CLAMS
DEWnTELAM
Shelby Native, Son Of
Late Mr. And Mrs. Geo.
Elam, Diet
Word was received here last
last night of the death of Dewitt
Elam. 58, eldest son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. George Elam of
3helby, at his home in Hampton,
VA., Friday morning at 11 o’clock.
Mr. Elam had been in ill health
for several years but had appar
sntly been getting along fairly well
md his death came as a shock it
his family. Bom and reared in
Shelby, he served in World War I
and did not return here after the
war, going first to New York
where he was an interior decora
tor and later to Hampton where
he has made his home for a num
ber of years.
Funeral rites wil be held at the
home in Hampton Sunday after
noon at 2:30 and burial will be in .
Greenland cemetery there.
Surviving are seven brothers, Ro
land and Reuben Elam of Shelby,
Boyd Elam of Spartanburg, Her
man Elam of Hickory, Robert Elam
of Tennessee, George Elam of
Concord and Purnell Elam of Tay
lorsville. Also surviving is one sis
ter, Mrs. Lester Mull, of Hickory.
Reuben, Roland and Boyd Elam
will leave tonight to attend the
funeral services tomorrow.
NO SOLACE
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too much.
It might even be argued, al
though we won't go into it now,
that the Nipponese would actually
prefer to surrender before, not after,
Russia comes in to settle old scores, j
The Germans certainly showed a:
preference for placing themselves in
the hands of the western allies.
But aside from all this the Japan
ese must have gotten from Potsdam
some jolts more jarring than any
thing Russian might have done or
(g to do. After all, Russian entry into
the war will affect principally the
speed of its conclusion, not its re
sult.
The picture of Germany-to
come, and the Sino-British
Ameriean ultimatum, however,
are matters directed against
Japan’s own heart. There a peo
ple, accustomed tbongh they
are to feudal oppression yet
proud of their industry, can see
themselves being reduced, as
they would put it, to the econo
mic standard of their ‘Inferior”
neighbors—which for them will
be reduction indeed. They can
see a Japan which is an empire
only in the sense that some in
effective little man may be per
mitted to call himself “emper
or”, his domain consisting of
the Japanese home islands under
strict foreign control—an abase
ment which might dake death
preferable for him and many
another Japanese. They can see
the end of the industrialization
which made them “superior” in
the Orient.
Above all .they can see the ad
vance of an enemy who is less1
“mad” than inexorable, a conquer
or who does no raving, but who j
has grimly-set Jaws about the bus
iness In hand.
And they must know that the
Sino-British-American ultimatum
would not have been delivered from
Potsdam during the conference with 1
Stalin unless the situation had been
thoroughly gone over with him; and
that there remained between him
and China no bone of contention
which was not subject to amicable
negotiation.
So dies Japanese hope for a Rus- •
so-Chinese situation whioh could
endanger allied unity, as well as 1
her hope for anything except a J
relentless peace.
I
TRUMAN
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volving his successor, Clement Att
lee. He left Potsdam with the ap- '
parent good will of the Russian and ]
British leadership.
Never a time waster, he mixed in- :
formality with quiet pressure for
tpeedy action, but with a good
lumor that infected the others.
Every effort was made to avoid
iny language about which there
night be differences of interpreta
tion between the Russians and Eng
lish tongues.
Most of the Big Three meetings
lasted about three hours. The for
eign secretaries met earlier. The
dosing session last Thursday, end
ing in an atmosphere of good will,
brought a suggestion from Mr. Tru
man that if there is another Big
Ihree get-together, it be staged in
Washington.
“God willing,” Stalin smilingly *
replied.
SPAIN IRKED BY
EXCLUSION FROM
UNITED NATIONS
NEW YORK, Aife. 4—The
Madrid radio said today the "pe
culiar” decision of the Potsdam
conference to exclude Spain from
the United Nations organization
caused "perplexity” among Span
iards who wanted to "collaborate
nobly with all other nations in
their tasks.”
The Big Three decision “affects
us directly,” the broadcast said,
adding "we unavoidably must as
sert ourselves on this matter."
The broadcast was directed to
Latin America and recorded by
the FCC.
Spain, it said, now "is creating
the conditions for a material, spir
itual and Juridical development of
a national and orderly community
in the concert of nations.”
No mention was made of state
ments in the Potsdam communi
que that the Spanish government
of Gen. Francisco Franco had had
a “close association with the ag
gressor states” and "was founded
with the support of the Axis pow
ers,” but the broadcast asserted
the Franco regime had "not em
braced the German third Reich.”
SERVE
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gram that is underwritten by a
special tax levy not exceeding five
cents on the $100 valuation as ap
proved by voters.
NOT FOR PROFIT
“No individual should ex
pect to profit financially from
a community hospital and
there should be no attempt
for any individual or group to
gain control of it,” Dr. O’Neill
declared. “On the other hand
good financial and profession
al direction are absolutely es
sential. This will mean in
some instances the relinquish
ing on the part of the doctors
some of what they have con
sidered their rights and privi
leges. In other words, one
should not expect the same
freedom when he becomes a
part of an organization that
he had when he was on his
own. If everyone connected
with a hospital did just as he
pleased and tried to be intern
ist, obstetrician and surgeon,
a state of chaos would exist
and the poor patient, like the
poor taxpayer, would always
be the one who pays—some
times with his life.
“Any member of a hospital
staff should have the interests
of the institution at heart
and place them before his
own. It has always been a
puzzle. It has always been a
to realize if they are part of
a good institution they cannot
help but benefit in many ways.
A good institution has infi
nitely greater drawing power
than any individual, and as a
part of that institution each
stafi member is bound to
share in it. The proper care |
of sick folks is no longer the
job of an individual, it re
quired the combined efforts of
many. This can be accom
plished only in a well equip
ped and properly staffed hos
pital.”
Dr. O’Neill, in a carefully pre
pared statement, outlined his
ideas on hospital organization,
emphasizing first of all that wise
planning needs be put into the
construction and equipment of a
hospital. He expressed himself as
encouraged that Cleveland county
has decided to move ahead with
a county hospitalization program
from which he expects much that
will be good not only for the coun
ty and its people but also for
medicine generally in the state.
He hopes the program will distin
guish the county in that field as
it is distinguished in so many oth
ers.
Prior to addressing the Rotar
ians, Dr. O’Neill visited Shelby
hospital and in conference with
Tom R. Bethune, administrator,
who was in charge of the Rotary
program, went over tentative plans
for expansion of the unit here and
for the new unit to be erected at
Kings Mountain.
ENCOURAGES SPECIALIZATION
Dr. O’Neill In his address said
that in setting up hospital staffs
the doctors of a community must
exercise a spirit of complete co
operation, forgetting any jealous
ies or cliques in the interest of
patient service. He said that par
ticular attention needs to be
given the provision of specialized
services and younger doctors
should be encouraged to take spe
cialized training to that end. He
feels that a good community hos
pital will provide outlets for the
services of new doctors with spe
cial training.
Dr. O’Neill said that boards of
trustees need to be composed of
individuals willing to give the
time and thought to the job of
providing the best hospital serv
ice, that none should be chosen
for honor or business and finan
cial prominence. He feels that
small boards are more workable
and he said the board should keep
uppermost at all times the ideal of
service to the patient He said
the most important individual in
a hospital is the director and su
perintendent and that a “good one
is worth his weight in gold.”
In conclusion, Dr. O’Neill said
that planning of a good hospital
must be careful and prolonged
and that actual construction
should be in hands of a recognized
hospital builder of proved ability.
The first flight of the Wright
Brothers caused no excitement
in the daily press or in scientific
publications, “Gleanings in Bee
Culture.” a magazine devoted to the
production of honey, was the first
to carry an article about their
achievement.
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APPOINTED TO INDlX IN BRIT
ISH CABINET—Frederick William
Pethwick-Lawrence. above, has been
apointed to the post of secretary for
India and Burma in the British ca
binet by Prime Minister Clement
R. Attlee, it was announced in Lon
don.—(AP Wirephoto).
TIMBER LANDS
TO BE SOLD
AT AUCTION
RALEIGH, Aug. 4. —<JP)— Re
gional headquarters of the Farm
Security Administration has an
nounced that 1.200 acres of timber
and timber lands in Richmond
county and about 3,100 acres of
similar lands at Pembroke Farms
in Robeson county will be sold at
public auction on August 29-30.
Sale of property is in compliance
with a mandate of congress liqui
dating resettlement projects started
by the Resettlement Administration
during 1935-1937.
A few small subsistence farm units
will be offered for sale in addition
to the timber lands, regional FSA
Director J. B. Slack said.
He added that cost of the econo
mic farm units developed on the
Wolf Pit Farms in Richmond coun
ty and the Pembroke Farms in
Robeson county have already been
sold to farm tenants and sharecrop
pers, laborers and veterans of World
War II who are eligible under the
Bankhead-Jones farm tenant act.
The remaining economic farm units
are reserved for sale in the same
manner.
Enemy Suffering
Heavy Casualties
On North Luzon
MANILA. Aug. 4,—'.P)—Japanese
army remnants in the northern
Luzon mountains lost 882 men :
killed and 142 captured in the last |
three days as American and Fili
pino troops smashed steadily at
the trapped enemy, U. S. sixth
army headquarters announced to
day.
Formosan laborers are deserting
in considerable numbers, 66 sur
rendering in one Cagayan valley
town. They said as food supplies
dwindled in the retreat into the j
Cordillera range Japanese soldiers |
fled with available food, leaving
them to their own resources. Many
were so weak they had to be help
ed to walk.
Millions Displaced
Persons Cleared
From Occupied Area
FRANKFURT-ON-MAIN, Ger
many, Aug. 4. —UP)— Approximately
4,166,000 displaced persons of 17
European nationalities have been
cleared from the American-British
French occupation zones in western
Europe and restored to their home
lands.
This leaves 2,174,182 displaced per
sons yet to be moved, army statis
tics disclosed yesterday.
Spindale Finance
Company Chartered
RALEIGH, Aug. 4. —UP)— Five
certificates of incorporation filed
today in the office of the Secretary
of State include one for Spindale
Finance Corporation of Spindale, to
operate a general finance business.
Authorized capital stock $100,000,
subscribed stock $1,500 by W. E.
Davis, Fred C. Kinzle, Vernon Proc
tor, all of Spindale.
Commissioners
Will Meet Monday
Matters of routine business only
are scheduled to come up at the
meeting of the board of Cleveland
county commissioners Monday at
the courthouse. At this session the
commissioners will arrange fcr the
advertisement of delinquent tax
accounts which must be done this
month.
Guerrilla Broadcast
Says Yamashita Dead
LONDON, Aug. 4. —(£>)— An un
confirmed report from a Philippine
guerrilla broadcast, quoted by the
New Delhi radio, said Gen. Tomoy
uki Yamashita, former commander
of the Japanese army in the Philip
pines, had been killed in a low-level
allied air attack, a Reuters dispatch
said today.
NO AREA OF
JAPAN SAFE
Tokyo Denies War Prison
er Camps Protect Mili
tary Targets
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4—(>P)—
Not a single area in Japan is safe
from American bombs, the Dome!
news agency admitted today to
denying the U. S. State department
accusation that prisoner-of-war
camps are placed to protect mili
tary installations.
Even if a camp “should be es
tablished on the summit of Mount
Fuji, it eventually would be a tar
get,” Domei quoted “well-inform
ed quarters” to a Tokyo broadcast
monitored by the Federal com
munications commission.
An earlier Domei report that
prisoners were killed in a B-29
raid on Kawasaki, heavily indus
trialized Tokyo suburb, brought
the State department protest. To
day, for the first time, Domei
claimed the camp was in a wide
open safety zone to which residents
had evacuated their families and
was near a hospital.
The dispatch turned the U. S.
charge and accused American pi
lots of bombing shrines, temples,
schools, historic relics, hospitals,
dwellings and fishing boats.
“OBJECTIVES”
“It can rightly be said that the
Americans intentionally consider
everything on the surface of Japa
nese soil—even women and chil
dren—as military objectives,” Do
mei remarked.
"To them, Japanese paddy fields
are anti-tank dugouts; potato
fields are mine fields, and shrines
and temples are fortresses. Am
erican airmen are thus taught.
"There is no end to cases where
women and children in remote
farming and fishing villages have
been victims of indiscriminate
bombings x x x Not to mention
large numbers of civilians killed
or injured by indiscriminate bomb
ings of civilian quarters.”
Domei dealt with the Big Three
conference in another broadcast,
warning occupied Asia that while
the Potsdam communique made no
mention of the war with Japan
"we must not draw a hasty con
clusion to believing that the\e was
no discussion whatsoever on the
East Asia question.”
MacARTHUR
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in recent months has been the
main U. S. air force in the south
ern Philippines, New Guinea and
the Indies, was being moved to
the Ryukyus.
Previously he had announced
that the fifth and seventh air
forces under Gen. George C. Ken
ney had moved their bases into
the Ryukyu?.
MacArthur's statement added,
however, that Lt. Gen. James Doo
little's- eighth air force—which soon
will be flying Superfortresses over
Japan in concert with the 20th air
force’s B-29's from the Marianas—
still was operating on Okinawa
independently of his command.
His announcement also failed to
clarify the status of a number of
naval air units under Nimltz i
w’hich previously have been based
on Okinawa—the second marine
air wing and fleet air w'ings one
and 18. |
EIGHT AIR FORCES
The shift of the 13th to the air j
war on Japan—and. it never has
struck closer than Formosa —
brought to eight the number of air
forces which will strike the enemy
homeland and conquests in China,
in addition to the large number
of navy carrier planes and bombers
of the seventh fleet.
Army air forces are the fifth,
seventh, eighth, 13th and 20th in
the western Pacific, the 11th in the
Aleutians and the 10th and 14th
in China.
NO SURPRISE
The announcement came as no
surprise. It is a natural step un
der the joint chiefs of staff di
rective which made MacArthur su
preme commander of ground forces
in any future action against the
Japanese islands or the China
coast.
The Ryukyus heretofore have
been under Nimitz’ command.
At present, the primary role of
the Ryukyus is to provide air
fields for strikes against Japan
and its shipping.
The fifth always has been under
MacArthur’s command and the sev
enth was shifted to his jurisdic
tion when it moved into the Ryuk
yus. The 13th’s first major strike
after moving to northern Luzon
was announced a few days ago.
JAPAN
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was the first reported enemy suc
cess at Okinawa, where suicide
attacks on shipping were frequent
during that invasion, since June
22.
At Manila, General MacArthur
said bad weather prevented Far
East air forces planes based on
Okinawa from hitting Japan anew.
His communiqqe told of raids on
Formosa and French Indo-China
and, in a recapitulation, listed 1,
032,107 tons of enemy shipping
sunk, 505,990 probably sunk and
1,308,735 tons damaged by Far East
air forces planes and attached
units during the first seven months
of 1945.
Further darkening the shipping
picture for Japan, officials of the
20th air force said -that the Super
fortresses have minded every major
Japanese harbor, reducing shipping
to a trickle.
The South African republic be
came a part of the British empire
in 1877.
COUNCIL MEMBER—George Bi
dault, French foreign minister, will
be a member of the council, creat
ed by the Big Three at Potsdam to
v/rite a big power peace for Europe.
—CAP Wirephoto).
TROOPS DUE TO
ARRIVE TODAY
By the Associated Press
The folowing Army units are to
arrive in the United States from
Europe today (Saturday):
At New York—(Aboard William
Richardson) infantry reorganized
detachment “F”; 890th veterinary
food inspection team; 309th, 312th,
317th, 322nd, 325th, 330th, 336th,
337th, 339th, 348th, and 350th mili
tary police escort guard detach
ments; 3245th engineer pipe opera
tions detachment; 3097th, 3142nd,
and 3147th refrigerator maintain
ance detachments; 3255th and
3283rd engineer power plant opera
tions detachments; 3254th engineer
power line plant operations detach
ments; (Aboard Empire Mac An
drew) 57 casual troops.
AT BOSTON
At Boston—(Aboard Excelsion)
28th Quartermaster detachment,
third battalion 109th infantry regi
ment, 108th field artillery battalion
and 28th cavalry reconnaissance
troop mechanized, all of 28th infan
try division; 2781st engineer fire
fighting platoon; 2842nd engineer
well digging platoon; 3527th engi
neer power line maintenance de
tachment; 3249th engineer pipe line
operation detachment; 3282nd en
gineer powder plant operating de
tachment; 116th, 117th and 155ih
ordnance bomb disposal squadrons;
headquarters and headquarters de
tachments of the 559th and 562nd
quartermaster battalion; 3494th
quartermaster truck company;!
312th quartermaster laundry detach- j
ment; 633rd engineer light equip-1
ment company; headquarters and,
headquarters detachment of 334th j
ordnance battalion; 3116th engineer
fire fighting platoon; infantry re
organization detachment company.
Hathaway Cross
Back To Old Job
RALEIGH, A-Ug. 4—<Jty-Gover
nor Cherry has formally appointed:
Hathaway Crces, who this week was
discharged from the army, as pa
roles commissioner.
Cross held the po6t until he was
drafted into the service in January,
1944.
William Dunn, Jr., was appoint
ed assistant commissioner. He had
been acting commissioner during
Cross’ leave of absence.
Two Marines Missing
In Plane Crash
NORFOLK, Va„ Aug. 4. —(/p>—
Two Marines are missing In the
crash of a land plane which fell
into the water three miles south
west of Cape Lookout, N. C., Thurs
day.
The plane was attached to the
Marine auxiliary air facility, Oak
Grove, N. C.
1,000 Prostitutes
Taken In Manila
MANILA, Aug. 4.—UP)—Army-di
rected police have arrested nearly
1,000 prostitutes in Manila during
the last two days in a determined
effort to reduce the rate of vene
real disease among soldiers and
sailors.
In a sweep that has brought in
the prostitutes by the truck load,
200 brothels have been placed “off
limits” to troops.
Col. T. F. Ryan, deputy provost
marshal, said an army medical re
port listed Manila as one of the
world’s worst centers of venereal
diseases.
PLANS
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pines.
It would leave General Mac
Arthur and Admiral Nimitz,
commanding U. S. forces, free
to concentrate on the Japanese
homeland or other objectives in
a greatly reduced area.
C/hgress njembers, takiig their
cue from a suggestion by Gen.
Doolittle, proposed that Gen. Mac
Arthur be named supreme com
mander for the Pacific, as Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower was in North
Africa and Europe. Doolittle, com
mander of the Eighth Air Force,
urged in a speech at Okinawa ap
pointment of a single commander
to hasten victory.
V. ' 1
Furnished by J. Robert Linds*?
Webb Building Shelby. N. C
and Company
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO, Aug. 4—m- (WFA)
—Salable cattle 600; salable calvet
100; compared Friday last week:
Very moderate Increase In re
ceipts both locally and in aggre
gate; slaughter steers and yearl
ings closed steady to 25 lower
medium to good grades showing
full decline; increased supply
grassy and shortfed steers in crop
this also true in heifers; general
supply grass cattle, both native
and southwest, still unseasonably
small, however; quality fed steer
and yearling receipts much less
desirable than two or three weeks
earlier; heifers steady to 25 lower,
grassy kinds showing decline;
good grade grass cows 25-50 lower,
but all other grades and canners
and cutters strong; all grades sau
sage bulls 25-50 off, but all beef
bulls 50-75 lower, instances 1.00
down; vealers firm at 16.00, most
ly 15.50 down; approximately 21
loads choice fed steers topped at
18.00, the ceiling; best yearlings
17.90; good and choice fed steers
and yearlings 15.50-17.65 mostly;
common and medium grassers 11.
50-14.50; fed heifers reached 17.
50; most medium tc good grassy
and shortfed heifers 12.00-14.50;
cutter cows closed at 8.50 down,
sausage bulls at 13.25 down, with
best beef bulls around 15.00;
stockers and feeders fully 25 off
and very dull at decline, most me
dium to strictly good offerings
12.00-14.00.
«. V. HUug
RALEIGH, Aug. 4. —(JPh- (NCD
A)—Hog markets steady with tops
of 14.55 at Clinton and Rocky Mount
N. C. EGGS, POULTRY
RALEIGH. Aug. 4. —m— (NCD
A)—Egg and poultry markets stea
dy.
Raleigh—U. S. grade AA extra
large 52; hens, all weights, 26A.
Senators Want
Mac Arthur To Have
Pacific Command
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 —(JPt—
Several senators today endorsed
Lieut. Gen. James Doolittle’s sug
gestion of a supreme commander
for the Pacific and named Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur as their
choice.
Doolittle, commander of the
8th air force, said In a speech at
Okinawa that an overall chief of
all the armed forces in the Pa
cific is needed. Doolittle added
that that system had been tried
and proved in North Africa and
Europe under General Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
Senator Johnson (D-Colo) com
mented “I would like to see an
overall command in the Pacific and
I think General MacArthur should
head it.”
Senator Stewart (D-Tenn> said
"I'm for it and I’m for General
MacArthur having it."
Western Union
Changes Hours
The local office of Western Un
ion announced today a new sched
ule of hours.
Beginning today the office will
open at 8 a. m. and remain open
until 8 p. m. on week days. Sun
day hours will stand as they were,
from 9 until 11 o'clock in the
morning and from 4:30 until 8 o'
clock in the afternoon.
WEST
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sea. There has been some dis
cussion of moving Holland's fron
tier eastward to the Ems river.
The Dutch government is
waiting to determine what
popular reaction to the propo
sals may be. The claim is
based on the fact that while
they were occupying Holland
the Germans destroyed hun
dreds of thousands of acres of
rich agricultural lands by
flooding.
The Big Three decision to put
Poland’s western boundaries on
the Oder and Neisse rivers togeth
er with the division of East Prus
sia between Poland and Russia al
ready has sliced off 40,000 square
miles of land which was German
in 1937, when Hitler began adding
stolen lands. At that time Ger
many embraced 181,000 square
miles.
In the 40,000 square miles are
approximately 9,000,000 Germans.
They are to be moved back into
the lands which Germany retains,
along with more than 4,000,000
Germans in Poland and Czecho
slovakia.
Since the pre-Potsdam popu
lation of Germany Is figured at
67,000,000 this means that the new
Germany as already carved up
must support a total of 71,000,000
in an area where 58,000,000 per
sons have lived. Further, the
Dutch say they are determined
that the German populations must
be removed from any lands they
get.
The Potsdam communique em
phasized that Germany was to be
come a nation of agriculture and
peaceful industries without inter
national commerce. Authorities or
Germany here, however, say then
will have to be some food import!
into the reduced Reich because il
never has produced enough to meel
the needs of its people.
TOO LATE FOR BEHIND THE
FRONT PAGE—Lady wishes share
expense ride to Jacksonville, Fla
Call Holt McPherson,
k
Remember
10 Years ago
25 Years
*
A Bf SARA OTfWTOW *
V
IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO
THAT:
—An operating "moonshine” still
with a 40-gallon capacity was cap
tured. In addition about 1,300 gal
lons of beer were also seized.
* * * *
—The gasoline prices in Cleve
land county rose one cent and one
fifth lifting the price to 22.2 cents
per gallon.
* * * •
—Governor Eringhaus offered
"the maximum state reward of
$400 for the arrest and conviction
of the men who lynched Govan
(Sweat) Ward, 25, negro, in a grovo
some ten miles from Louisburg in
Franklin county after Ward had
chopped off the head of Charles
Stokes, white farmer in Franklin.”
* * * •
—Cleveland county’s projected
expenditures of school improve
ments. including the construction
of the Shelby high school build
ing was placed by architects at
$470,000.
* * * *
—Miriam Hopkins was playing
in "Becky Sharp” at the Carolina
theatre. "Now you wil see her
transformed by the glorious new
technicolor,” the advertisement
said. This was Pioneer Pictures’
first full-length color feature. The
film was produced in “three com
ponent technicolor” and promised
“a revelation in beauty, fidelity, to
life, and clarity.”
IT WAS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
AGO THAT:
—An editorial began: “Sentiment
seems to be crystallizing In favor
of a hospital for Shelby, but as
yet no movement has been launch
ed. What is needed right now is
some broad-visioned business men
to start something. We would sug
gest that our buslnes men, doc
tors, and ministers get together at
once and decide on the best plan.’*
* • * »
—That the Star had this to say
about woman suffrage. The bill had
been ratified by 35 of the 36 states
required to make the measure a
law. The (North Carolina) law
makers are hoping that Tennessee
will ratify so that the issue will
not come up in Raleigh, but If
the buck should be passed to
North Carolina, let the lawmak
ers vote the sentiment of the peo
ple rather than their own and the
proposition will be voted down on
the first ballot.”
• • • •
—Randolph Logan and Deputy
Mike Austell bought a lot gh West
Warren street to build a ‘gas and
oil filling station.”
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—The last performance of the
amateur play, “The Flower 8hop”
was being given in the high school
auditorium. It was given for the
benefit of the civic department of
the Woman's club.
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for the statement, what I meant
by It, and the practical effects of
it.”
Laval did not relate the reac
tion of Leahy, now chief of staff
to President Truman. In a letter
read earlier at the Petain trial
Leahy expressed belief that the
88-year-old marshal always had
acted in the best interest of Prance
Laval's mention of Leahy came
after a defense attorney asked il
the United States had made any
moves to break diplomatic rela
tions with Vichy after the broad
cast by Laval bespeaking a Hitler
victory.
A juror remarked that Laval
I should know “that after his de
parture yesterday Marshal Petair
i said that he insisted on the re
moval of that phrase from the ra
dio speech,” Petain told the court
j he was amazed when he heard the
I speech delivered with the disrupt
! ed passage.
Laval testified yesterday he
broadcast the statement "I desire
a German victory” only after Pe
| tain made him change the word
1 ing from “I believe in a German
i victory."
Today, in response to the juror
Laval said:
"I stand on what I said. The
marshal deleted the word believ
ed’ but left the word 'desire.' And
he was not indignant at all.”
Laval testified that long aftei
he made the broadcast, Petair
said in a speech that "from now
on, Laval and I walk hand in hand
—all subjects of discussion be
i tween us have been solved.”
Laval said he went to the Hitler
Petain meeting at Montoire only
because the Germans had ban-ec
Paul Baudouin, Vichy foreigr
minister, whom Petain had want
ed to take along.
Describing his work during the
occupation, Laval said the Ger
mans “asphyxiated” France by
occupying departments from whtcl:
most of the important food sup
plies and industrial products nor
mally came. Moreover, he said
! 600,000 war prisoners had been re
patriated and there was no worn
for them, nor for approximately
1,000,000 other Frenchmen.
“It would have been impossibl:
for France to survive without col
laboration,” Laval added. “W<
had to negotiate.
“We depended on the German:
for everything. Our economic llff
was at a standstill. The German:
had two weapons against us
Firstly, they could always threat
en to recall the 600,000 prisoner:
they had returned to us. Secondly
they could withhold food and in
dustrial materials from the north.'
John L Lewis May
Get Foreign Post
MOSCOW, Aug. 4. —(/P)— Tht
name of John L. Lewis, head of th<
United Mine Workers of America, i:
being mentioned today in respon
sible foreign diplomatic circles ir
Moscow in connection with an im
portant job in Europe.
No details were available.
WEATHER
CHARLOTTE, Aug. 4. — UP)— Of
ficial weather bureau records of
the temperature and rainfall for the
24 hours ending at 8:30 a.m.
Station H
; Asheville .. 90
Atlanta . 94
Rain
L fall
66 .14
72 .12
Birmingham...96
Boston .. 87
Charleston . 88
76 .00
61 .72
80 .00
Charlotte . 92
Chicago .* 78
Denver . 91
Columbia __ 96
Galveston . 95
Greensboro _... 91
Los Angeles..88
Memphis.. 97
Miami .. 83
Mt. Mitchell . 71
New Orleans . 94
New York _ 90
Raleigh .. 92
Spartanburg_t_91
Washington _ 88
Wilmington.85
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78 .00
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76 .03
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