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WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with •cattered thundershowers today, tonight and in south portion Wed nesday. Continued rather warm to day and tonight. Tshe Hhkuiy Bang Him CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “The Affairs Of Susan” JOAN FONTAIN GEORGE BRENT vuLfc ax.m— ibo ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. a TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—A. Tarumi Left In Flames By Okinawa-Based Fliers MANILA, Aug. 7.—(/P)—The southern Japanese port of Tarumi was set aflame Sunday by more than 400 Far East Air Forces planes in the heaviest fire raid yet mounted by the Okinawa-based fliers against a single objective. The entire target was engulfed fai flames and smoke that billow ed 12,000 feet high, Gen. Douglas MacArthur related in today's com munique announcing the two-hour attack. Planes of all categories in the far east air forces participated, in cluding liberator heavy bombers, Mitchell Mediums and Thunder bolt and Mustang fighter bombers. Tarumi, about the size of Sand usky, Ohio, is on the east shore of Kagoshima bay on Kyushu is land, opposite the often-bombed Industrial center of Kagoshima. Only one Japanese plane at tempted interception. Other aerial attacks were an nounced against enemy holdings all the way to Java and Singa pore. TRANSPORT SUNK A Fifth Air Force Liberator on Sunday sank a large transport and a medium freighter in Tsushima Straits between Japan and Korea. Seventh Fleet Liberators hit the southern Korean copper-smelting town of Gunzan with 500-pound bombs Saturday night, causing at least one violent explosion. Other Seventh Fleet Liberators sank a 120-foot submarine chaser and damaged eight other small vessels oft Formosa while Plfth Air Force liberators were harass ing Shanghais Tinghai airdrome. Thirteenth Air Force and Sev enth Fleet Liberators and Royal Australian Air Force planes con tinued to support ground forces on Borneo, blasted the runway at Miti airdrome on Java, sank three small vessels off western Borneo, and made neutralizing raids on the Celebes and Halmaheras. CENTER Will BE MEMORIAL Trust*** Set $100 000 Fi nance Campaign For November Shelby’s projected community center will be a memorial to tbe men and women whose sacrifices contributed to the winning of World War II, it was decided yes terday by trustees of the Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation who deferred until November the campaign to raise $100,000 this year toward the project. Campaign Chairman Mai A. Spangler reported that unusual In terest and prospects of financial support attend the project if it is to take the memorial nature. Trus tees were unanimous In their en dorsement of the memorial name and felt that the extent of the memorial should not be confined Just to Shelby but that it should constitute a living memorial to the men and women of the whole coun ty who gave of themselves to hasten victory. The finance committee was em powered to accept specific memorial Items for the project, the scope and nature of which is being planned from studies underway in other cen ters operating successfully in North Carolina communities. Dick Le Orand outlined the Kannapolis project which he and a group of prominent Shelbians visited last week, and arrangements were made for another group to visit the Val dese center today. Two Killed In Train Collision LUMPKIN, Ga„ Aug. 7. —(/P)— An engineer who had only five more trips to make before retirement and another crewman were burned fatally and 13 persons were injured when a passenger train crashed into a freight train near here yesterday. The victims were Engineer I. T. Hines and 17-year-old Eugene Deu pree. signal maintenance man, both of Amerlcus, Ga. Hines died when his gas-powered engine drawing a Seaboard Airline passenger train caught fire in the collision. Depuree, who was riding in the baggage car, died of burns In an Amerlcus hospital this morning. The passenger train was en route from Savannah, Ga., to Montgo mery, Ala. Cause of the wreck has not been determined. V '* CHINESE TAKE YEDNGKONG Drive Japs Toward Yan ping; Tighten Grip On Invasion Coast CHUNGKING, Aug. 7.—m~ Chinese troops have captured Ye ungfcong, Kwangtung province highway junction close to the south China sea and 125 miles southwest of Canton, and are driving the Jap anese toward Yanping, 32 miles to the northeast, the Chinese high command announced today. The capture of Yeungkong tight ened the Chinese grip on a 50-mile stretch of the Chinese “invasion coast” west of Hongkong. The high command indicated that the American air base at Tanchuk, in Kwangsi province, fourth of the lost bases wrested frdm the Japa nese, had changed hands after the original recapture, but was com pletely reoccupied by the Chinese August 4. STRIKE EASTWARD After retaking the base, the Chin ese continued to strike eastward along the West river, with forward elements reaching a point 12 1-2 miles west of Tengyun, which is 125 miles west of Canton. Chinese troops striking along the Hunan-Kwangsi railroad reached a point 12 1-2 miles from Hingan, 32 miles northeast of recaptured Kwei lin, the high command said. No change was reported in the situation southwest of Chuanhsien in Kwangsi province on the railroad 67 miles northeast of Kweilin, to ward which Chinese columns from the west have been stabbihg in an attempt to cut off Japanese com munications. Hoey Rates Atomic Bomb With World's Greatest Discoveries A belief that the atomic bomb will bring Japan to her knees with out the necessity of Invasion, thus greatly shortening the Pacific war and lessening casualties was ex pressed today by Senator Clyde R. Hoey who is at home during the Senate’s summer recess. Senator Hoey termed the atomic bomb “the moist important of dis coveries in that it utilizes forces heretofore unharnessed.” Another thing the Tar Heel statesman sees in the development is the fact that it demonstrates the ability of the nation to keep a vit al secret. He pointed out that a city of 75,000 people had mush roomed out in Tennessee to manu facture the atomic bomb and yet few people there or anywhere rela ted the terrific forces with which they were working. WHAT’S DOING TODAY CAP cadets meet at armory. WEDNESDAY 8:00 p. m.—Midwek prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. WHERE ATOMIC BOMB WAS MADE AT OAK RIDGE, TENN.—This is an aerial view of one of the big factories at Oak Ridge, Tenn., near Knoxville, where the new atomic bomb was developed. President Truman personally issued a statement through the White Hoijse ifUg. 6, disclosing existence of the bomb, described as the most terribly destructive force ever harnessed by man. Tire disclosure was made just after the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Jap sea port and army base. Note that the factory buildings have few windows except on the top story —(AP Wirephoto) PURSUE SEARCH FOR YAMASHITA Native Scouts Report Jap anese General Killed In Air Raid BfeSropEJ^pAVIS MANILA, Au*. 7. —Wy— Ameri can and Filipino troops are devel oping a two-way pinch on Japanese hideouts in northern Luzon in a relentless search for General Yama shita despite some rumors that the Japanese commander of the Philip pines was killed in an air raid. An estimated 6,000 Japanese have been pocketed in three areas in the towering mountains. The U. S. Sixth infantry division reported these enemy remnants had been split into small groups in the vici nity of Antipolo, Mayoyao and Hungduan. Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, with the 127th in fantry regiment of the 32nd divi sion, said three American and Fili pino columns have made new thrusts 55 miles northeast of Ba guio, and were developing a two way pinch on enemy holdouts be lieved to Include Yamashita and his staff. REPORTED KILLED Ifugao native scouts four days ago said Yamashita had befen killed a month ago by an air.raid on the remote Kungduan-Kiangkiang sec tor. Two Japanese prisoners, said, however, that they had been forc ed to act as litter-bearers for Ya mashita because he waB wounded. The date tfcey gave corresponds to the scouts’ reports of his death, but there was no evidence of the ac curacy of their story. On the other hand, two guerrillas said they had seen the general alive See PURSUE Page 2 Austrian Police rtmture Grabner LONDON, Aug. 7. —OP}— The ex change telegraph agency said in a Vienna dispatch today that Austrian police had arrested Ernst Grabner, foriqer commander of the Nazi pris on camp at Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in upper Silesia. Grabner, person ally charged with killing 2,000 per sons, will be tried by an Austrian peoples’ court. SECRET OUT; Tar Heels Played Role In Producing Atomic Bomb lar neeis naa an important part in the manufacture of the atomic bomb as plants in this state were drained of thousands of workers for that topmost “Manhattan” pro ject,” Dr. J. s. Dorton, state direc tor of the War Manpower Commis sion, said while on a visit at his home here. “It now can be told why and how we sent workers to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, while North Carolina manufacturers protested vigorously the pirating of their workers for something they didn’t understand,” Dr. Dorton said. Hundreds of workers from Cleve land county are at Oak Ridge work ing on the project, but they did not know what it was being produced, so carefully were the secrets guard ed. Many component parts are be ing manufactured in North Caro lina plants, Dr. Dorton said. RACE WITH TIME “It was a race with time, and while we didn’t know Just what it was we were ponstantly admonished to keep top priority alerts for men and wor en for the Clinton Engi neering Works, known as the ‘Man hattan project’,” Dr. Dorton said. See TAR HEELS Page 2 ' < :*r DIRECTORS OF ATOMIC BOMB PROJECT—Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (seated), Army officer in charge of the government’s atomic bomb project at Oak Ridge, Tenn., works in his office with his assistant. Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Farrell (right), several days before the first use of the bomb against Japan was announced by President Truman August 6.—(AP Wire photo) Thirteen Killed In Elevator Explosion Blast Rocks Twin Cities; Many Workmen Missing; Bodies Blown 200 Feet From Site PORT ARTHUR, Ont., Aug. 7.—(/P)—At least IS per sons were killed today by an explosion which wrecked stor age elevator No. 5 of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Ltd., one of the largest at the head of the Great Lakes. FAIR CANCELLED FOR THIS YEAR Dr. J. S. Dorton Says 1946 Event Definitely Planned Because of an unwillingness to compromise standards and provide a purely local fair, the Cleveland County Fair Association has aban doned plans for a possible show ing this fall but is making ar rangements to resume its schedule with the fall of 1946. That was learned today from Dr. J. S. Dorton who said that the ODT’s limitation on fairs, making their scope local only, and the fact that necessary repairs could not be completed in time for the showing, had brought the decision to defer reopening for a year. He said the 1946 fair is planned definitely on a scope ex ceeding anything ever attempted here. “We would not consider lower ing standards or scope of Cleve land’s fair which draws from many counties,” Dr. Dorton said. He goes to Charlotte tonight where he will confer with spon See FAIR Page 2 me Diast rocKed the twin cities of Port Arthur and Fort William shortly after 10 a.m. (eastern war time). Many workmen were missing. A number of injured received first aid treatment at the site of the explosion. Seventy men were employed at the elevator, one of a group of giant storage elevators located on the waterfront about three miles from the center of Port Arthur. Four of the bodies were found 200 feet from the elevator. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. All four wralls of the elevator were blown out. The bodies that were found were 200 feet from the building. It was not known immediately how many men were at work in the elevator which is located near the Port Arthur Shipbuilding yards about three miles from the center of the city. Vatican Disturbed Ovec Atomic Bomb VATICAN CITY, Aug. 7. —(£>)— Msgr. Enrico Pucci’s Vatican Press Bulletin said today that the reve lation of the development of the atomic bomb “made a deep impres sion in the Vatican, not so much for the use already made of the new , death instrument as for the sinister i shadow that the discovery of this i weapon casts on the future of hu I manity.” Enemy Broadcasts Indicate Morale Dealt Powerful Blow; N ew Bomb Blasts Old Ideas Of Defense AnJ Security By John M. Hightower WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.— (/P)—Tokyo or one of Japan’s other great war industry cit ies was believed here today to be next on the list for atomic bomb destruction. This was the view of offic ials trying to evaluate the pos sible effects of the terrifying new weapon—both on bring ing this war to an early end and on shaping the world of tomorrow. Prom what has been announced publicly by President Truman and other American and British offi cials it is clear that old ideas of national defense and security — based even on weapons as modern as the rockets Hitler used against London—are due to undergo radi cal changes. In its impact on peaceful pur suits, the newly harnessed energy still is some years from practical use, according to officials reports, but it may revolutionize industry and trade of the future. Evidently with this in mind, President Truman made clear in his announcement of the new bomb yesterday that the development of atomic power in this country is to be kept un der tight government control. Because j|f its encfrhous poten tialities for" both war and peace, the use of atomic energy is a two sided problem. Here are principal points of both sides as developed in official statements and inter preted by those qualified to do so: Effect on the war with Japan Dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese army base at Hiroshima Sunday night was Sfee TOKYO Page 2 UNRRAffORK IS EXPENSIVE LONDON, Aug. 7.—(/P)—A high ly responsible American source said today that UNRRA’s program through 1946 would require new contributions from participating nations of between $1,500,000,000 and $2,300,000,000. Details of the financial program will be presented to the UNRRA conference here by Director Gen eral Herbert 7. ehman, he said. The larger figure was reported to de pend upon whether the council grants Russi p request for $700, 000,000 worth* of supplies. It was learned that financial questions would be discussed in executive session until the program has been whipped into shape. The United States’ contribution to the organization’s fund to date has amounted to about 72 per cent of the total. Ernest Bevin, Britain’s new for eign secretary, told the opening session of the third UNRRA in ternational council that liberated Europe musj be succored during the next 12 months to prevent “disease, afiarchy and bloodshed.’’ By The Associated Press GLAM, Aug. 7.—(/P)—Iron censorship was clamped on details of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the U. S. Strategic Air Forces today, but from the stunned enemy finally came admission that the terrific new weapon had done great damage. T , A Japanese imperial communique broadcast by radio okyo hinted the iNipponese war lords were scurrying about trying to determine what hit the Hiroshima army base. ’ w;+v,Whl!f ,mleagfriU- s- disclosures said one bomb had hit with such devastating force that the city was hidden in a Thei^nlC rU+v,0f ?USt; Japanese talked of new “bombs.” Then- use of the plural indicated the blast was so shattering c°uld not believe only one bomb had struck. 8 i-u^uuwc cuuununique said a number of B-29s made the at tack with “considerable” destruc tion. The admission was typical of the Japanese habit of under estimating damage, because U S sources indicated the great cloud' of dust that rose from Hiroshima might have contained vaporized buildings. Several hours before the enemy communique was issued, the Osaka radio had given some suggestion of the extent of the damage when it made a mat ter-of-fact announcement that* various trains in Hiroshima prefecture had been cancelled. The imperial headquarters com munique was amplified later by a Domei news agency dispatch quot ing Tokyo "informed quarters” as i saying the bomb was parachuted | and exploded before reaching the ground. The dispatch warned the Japa nese people that its destructive j power “cannot be slighted.” It re i Pea ted the communique’s state ment that more .than one bomb had been used, declaring a “few” ! had been dropped. Domei followed usual Japa j neee procedure in admitting only that houses, rather than military establish ir|ent.<i, were damaged. It termed the bomb tactics inhuman and said im patience at slow progress of invasion plans “drove the enemy” to its use. Marianas-based B-29s today kept See ENEMY Page * British Expect New Surrender Ultimatum Press And Military Experts See Bomb Bearing fluence On All international Relations In By Henry B. Jameson LONDON, Aug. 7.—(fP)—A new surrender ultimatum to Japan backed by the threat of the atomic bomb, was fore cast in the British press today and the question was raised whether the United States and Britain would see fit to share their secret with other allied nations. British experts on military, scientific and international affairs, busy making calculations on the effects of the awesome develop ment, said the bomb would influ ence all future international re lations and produced the “alarm ing problem” of how to control it. “How far it will be possible or wise to diffuse generally over the world the knowledge of how to make these bombs poses a vitally important problem,” said Prof. Gilbert Murray, joint president of the League of Nations union since 1938. “There are enormous difficulties in keeping it as a secret of one or two nations.” The Daily Mail, in a Washing ton dispatch, quoted “reliable sources” in the U. S. capital as saying the allies would serve Ja pan another ultimatum threaten ing to bomb her into oblivion with the new weapon unless she sur rendered unconditionally. The ul See BRITISH Page 2 Britain Kept Contact With Vichy Regime By RELMAN MORIN PARIS, Aug. 7.—OP)—Marcel Pey routon, former Vichy minister and governor of Algeria, today told the court trying Marshal Petain for his life that Britain maintained contact with the old soldier’s regime through out 1940 through Spain and Switz erland. He said Petain and Laval were at loggerheads within six months after the Vichy government was set up and that Laval was arrested on the night of Dec. 13, 1940, after Pe tain had consulted the cabinet of See BRITAIN Page S America’s Ace Of Aces Loses Life On Test Flight With P-80 BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 7.—(A>)— Maj. Richard Ira Bong, the farm boy who became America’s aeria) ace of aces by downing 40 Japan ese planes while emerging un scathed from over 500 combat hours, today lay dead, the victim of a Jet P-80 Shooting Star ex plosion which occurred four min utes after a takeoff. The explosion, which scattered parts of the plane over an acre, occurred yesterday afternoon just after the 24-year-old pilot left Lockheed Air Terminal on a test flight. Major Bong apparentlv tried to jump clear of the disin tegrating ship, but flames caugh* him. His body was found 100 feet from the flaming Jet turbine. His parachute had partly opened. The wiry, pug-nosed fighter pi lot, who had been testing P-80' for the Army Technical Service command since July 9, knew he was in trouble as soon as the plane took off. He radioed the control tower. a MAJOR BONG Suddenly, a puff of black smoke belched from the world’s fastest plane as Bong levelled off In flight. A Lockheed service me chanic, Frank Bodenhamer, re ported: “The right wing tipped, the pilot’s escape hatch came off and the plane nosed over straight dowm. A column of smoke went into the air for about 400 feet." Other witnesses said the plane exploded with a terrific roar, which shook the vicinity. Most of the plane, and Bong's body, ’anded in a vacant lot. This was the end. then for the Poplar, Wis., boy who had earned 26 decorations, includ ing the congressional medal of honor and the distinguished air medal, the latter presented to him by King George of Eng land. In addition to his M kills, he had nine probables in two years of combat In the South Pacific, mostly over See ACE OF ACES Page t ■
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