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WEATHER North Carolina—Fair weather but with some cloudiness and moderate temperatures' today and Friday. Rather cool again tonight in in terior. Tslxe Hhelby Baily thr CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 * - State Theatre Today - “RAINBOW ISLAND” DOROTHY LAMOUR EDDIE BRACKEN — GIL LAMB VOL. XL1I1- 190 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N C. THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES- 6c ¥ FLEET MEETS FIRST ENEMY AIR OPPOSITION Attacks Against North Honshu Targets Begun Before Dawn NO SHIP~DAMAGED By Morrie Landsberg GUAM, Aug. 9.—(IP)—Ad miral Halsey’s mighty Third Fleet attacked Japan anew today with more than 1,200 carrier planes and brushed aside enemy air opposition, the first encountered since it started hounding Nippon’s homeland more than a month «KO. A dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Al Dopking with the fleet, said the armada's anti-aircraft guns thundered as the Japanese planes appeared and that he saw two shot down. No ship reported damage. Returned carrier pilots, who started their attacks before dawn against northern Honshu, reported many Japanese planes set afire on the ground, two ships sunk and at least six others damaged. The return of Admiral Halsey's massive fleet to waters off north Honshu—the same sector where tt began Its "red July" scourge of the enemy fleet, air force and coastal Industries—came as Admiral Nimltz pledged Russia the assistance of the Navy. The Tokyo radio reported that In addition to the heavy carrier plane attacks, surface units of the Third fleet were shelling the northeast ern Honshu steel city of Kamalshl. "The attacks are now continuing,” Nimltz said, suggesting the same day-long type of raids which last month destroyed or damaged more than 1,000 enemy vessels and more than 1,300 planes. gee FLEET Page 1 JAPS ‘REPORT RUSSIANWAR Important Announcement Forecast For 8:30 Dis appointing NEW YORK, Auk. 9.—(/PV-Mu tual Broadcasting system said to day a Japanese radio announcement for which listeners had been order ed to stand by was merely a formal announcement that Russia and Japan were at war. The text of the Tokyo statement, as recorded by Mutual: As from Aug. 9., the Soviet Union will consider Itself In a state of war with Japan. Simultaneously the Soviet ambassador to Tokyo will Inform the Japanese government of this declaration. A little past midnight Aug. 9 the Soviets open ed an offensive on the northern border of Manchukuo (Manchuria). The Kwantung army headquarters at 3:30 a. m. Japanese time issued a communique saying that Soviet forces opened an offensive along the eastern border of Manchukuo. At the same time a small num ber of enemy planes bombed va rious key points of Manchukuo. A little past midnight, acordlng to a communique Issued at 5:50 p. m. Japanese time, Soviet forces crossed the eastern and western borders of Manchukuo. Russian I planes raided points In northern Manchukuo. . Mac Arthur Pleased At Reds’ Declaration ' MANILA, Aug. 9.—(/P)—General < MacArthur said today he was “de- t lighted at the Russian declara tion of war against Japan.” s “This will make possible a great s pincer movement which cannot t fail to end in the destruction of 1 ** the enemy,” he said. t “In Europe, Russia was on the t eastern front and the allies on the 1 west. Now the allies are on the east and Russia on the west—but 1 the result will be the same.” e TRUMAN ANNOUNCES RUSSIAN WAR ON JAPAN—President Truman stands at his desk in the White House at Washington and announces that Russia has declared war on Japan. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (left) and Adm. William D. Leahy, (right), naval chief of staff, are seated aroupd the President. News men stand at left. AP Photographer John Rous made this exclusive picture.—(AP Wirephoto). Stalin Gets Seat At Pacific Peace Table Entry Of Russia Into War May Hava Far-Reaching Diplomatic And Territorial Effects By Jack Bell WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—-(/P)—Russia has gained a seat at the Pacific peace table, and her presence there may have far-reaching diplomatic and territorial implications. By her declaration of war against Japan, the Soviet union became a partner with the United States, Great Britain and China in set tlements that will determine, among other things, which strategic is lands American forces are to hold after the fighting ends. The disposition of these is lands, such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa, went unmentioned in the master plan for dismem bering Japan agreed upon at Cairo in November, 1943, by President Roosevelt, Prime Min ister Churchill and Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek. The assumption in diplomatic quarters here is that when the Soviets finally agreed to enter the conflict against Japan, they auto matically accepted the terms of the Cairo agreement, in which they did not participate. This belief is strengthened by authentic disclosures that at See STALIN Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanls club. 7:30 p.m.—Baseball game at high school park between Shelby Legion Juniors and Army team from Moore General hos pital. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Rotary Club. 8:30 p.m.—Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. and A. M. meets at lodge room for work in second degree. PETAIN SPURNED GERMANHELP Germany Violently Oppos-; ed Armistice Between France, Allies PARIS, Aug. 9.—(/P)—A witness testified at the trial of Marshal Pe taln today that the old soldier re sisted efforts of several T7lchy min isters to ass German help in re pelling the allied landings in North Africa. The witness, MaJ. Edouard Ar chambeaud, said Petain sent two telegrams to North Africa, one ord ering continued resistance, and the other ordering a cessation of hos tilities. Adm. Jean Darlan, then Petain’s right hand man but soon to be come a collaborator with the allies in Algiers, sent American armis tice terms to Petain on Nov. 10, recommending their acceptance, the witness swore. He said Germany violently opposed the armistice be tween Prance and the allies. The witness testified that as a result, Petain published a telegram to Darlan disavowing him and ord ering him to continue the battles. At the same time, the major said Petain sent a secret message to Darlan supporting Darlan’s recom mendations. See PETAIN Page 2 Congress Not Likely To Be Reconvened Before October 8 WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—(/P)— The possibility of congress recon vening before October 8, the sched uled end of its recess, was dis counted strongly on capitol hill today. An authoritative congressional spokesman declared there is ab solutely no move afoot among either the majority or minority leaders of house or senate to call the lawmakers back to Washing ton, even should Japan surrender in the next few days or weeks. The same source, with close White House connections, declar ed President Human likewise has no present intention of convening congress, as he has power to do under the constitution. He said the most pressing problems which might arise with an abrupt end of the war would be administrative In na ture and could be handled without emergency legislation. There are four ways in which the lawmakers could be recalled. 1 Three were provided for in the resolution under which the house 1 recessed July 21 and the senate ,1 August 1. She CONGRESS Page % ATOMIC BOMBARDIER — Major Thomas W. Ferebee (above) of Mocksville, N. C„ was the bombar dier on the Superfortress which loosed the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the three crew members who knew what the plane carried. — (AP Wirephoto) GET ARCHITECT FOR HOSPITALS Plons Will Be Shown To Public Before Put In Final Form Walter Hook. Charlotte architect, who has designed some 70-odd hos pitals throughout the southeast, : was formally engaged to draft ten- ; tative plans for the two hospitals in Cleveland’s new $400,000 hos- 1 pitalization program that contem plates enlargement of Shelby hos- ! pital and a new hospital for Kings Mountain. Mr. Hook was delegated by the ' trustees, acting upon recommenda- 1 tion of the building committee, to * See HOOK Page 2 I Truman’s Address To 1 Begin At 10 Tonight • WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—(/TV President Truman reports to the ( ration tonight on the war situa- < tion. His half-hour address over ] ill radio networks will begin at 10 ] J’clock, eastern war time. When the address first was sche- j iuled it was expected to be chiefly t i report on the Potsdam meeting of ] he Big Three, with some mention ] >f the new atomic bomb. Now Mr. i rruman is expected to discuss also \ Russia’s declaration of war on s Japan j 100 B-29S HIT TARGETS IN TOKYO AREA Second Use Of Amazing New Explosive Made To day At Noon IMPORTANT TARGET By Murlin Spencer GUAM, Aug. 9.—(A3)—The world’s most destructive force —the atomic bomb—was used i for the second time against 1 Japan today, striking the im- ! j portant Kyushu island city of j, Nagasaki with observed “good j results.” More than one bomb may have been dropped in this second at- < tack and it might have been of a different size than the first one which destroyed 60 per cent of Hiroshima. The carefully worded communique said only that the second use of the atomic bomb had occurred, leaving to specula tion all other details. (The atomic bombing was fol lowed with an attack by “about 100 B-29's” on the Tokyo area tar gets, Tokyo radio reported in a broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commission. The bombers struck at Oji, Shima, Ogi kubo and Tamachi, described as industrial areas, and at Senju at 4:50 pm. Japan time, the broad cast added). The atomic bomb was dropped at! noon, Japanese time—about nine I hours after Tokyo radio reported I Red army troops supported Rus sia’s declaration of war on Japan by attacking enemy forces in eas tern Manchukuo both by land and by air, and while four other Jap- , anese cities still burned from I round-the-clock B-29 incendiary and demolition attacks. IMPORTANT TARGET Nagasaki, western Kyushu sea port and railroad terminal with an 1 estimated 255,000 population in its < 12 square miles, was a far more i important military target than ■ Hiroshima, first atomic bomb tar get. ' The doubleblow, coupled with re- ■ newal of Halsey’s Third fleet car- ( See 100 Page 2 U. S., Russian Leaders Confer On War In China By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Aug. 9. — (Fy— Lt. t Gen. Albert C. Wedemyer, com- r mander of U. S. forces in the China „ theater, conferred with Russian mi- j. litary representatives today shortly f after the announcement of the So viet Union’s declaration of war up on Japan. . It was understood here that Rus- \ sia’s intention to participate in the war against Japan had been known 1 to high American officers since the ' Teheran conference and that de- ! tailed plans already had been per- 1 fected for smooth coordination of v air, ground and sea operations. r This coordination with Russian power will be much better than It s was in the European theater, one J source said. Simultaneously with Wedemeyer’s ^ meeting with Russian leaders it J was disclosed authoritatively that Korea has been included in the China thu.ter together with China proper, Manchuria and Indo-China. PARATROOPERS The disclosure coincided with au thentic reports that American train ed and equipped Chinese paratroop ers already are employed behind the Japanese lines in China. F. Lionel Pratt, Australian ad viser on Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s confidential staff, said today that one of Russia’s first “logical objec tives” might be the important Ja panese naval base of Rashin, in Korea. The 74-year-old Australian, who first came to the Orient to cover the Russian-Japanese war in 1904 1905, said Russian air bases doubt lessly were fully prepared for offen sive operations, but thought the best value of Russia’s entry into the war should be to draw Japanese troops northward to Manchuria. 1 h s E o s President Has Five-Point Plan For Reconversion WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—(/P)—President Truman to 3ay laid down a five-point plan designed to speed reconvers on to peace time production and recommended the lifting of controls as soon as possible. The president said in a letter to WPB Chief J. A. Krug that he hopes the WPB staff “will stay on the job’’ because their work is not yet done. The war production board, Mr. Truman said, can and should “play an important role in reconversion.” He asked Krug to take these steps: 1. A vigorous drive to ex pand production of materials which are in short supply “not only because of military de mands but to meet civilian de mands as well.” 2. A limitation on the man ufacture of products which would require materials that are in short supply. 3. A broad and effective con trol of inventories “to avoid speculative hoarding.” 4. Granting of priority as sistance “to break battlenecks which may impede the recon version process.” 5. Allocation of scarce ma terials for the production of low-priced items "essential to the continued success of the stabilization program.” The five-point plan was an nounced after the president had conferred with Krug and Price Ad ministrator Chester Bowles, who have disagreed over fundamental reconversion policy. ° TWO DIFFER Krug has been represented as wanting controls removed as soon as materials become abundant again. Bowles contends that should be retained until the dangers of higher living costs are ended. The issue previously had been submitted to War Mobilizer John W. Snyder and Economic Stabiliz er William H. Davis, but it was so tied up with administration policy that it apparently had to See PRESIDENT Page 2 Five Make Getaway In Local Jail Break A Sixth Prisoner Who Escaped With Group Returned; Assistant Jailer Knocked Out Five of the six prisoners who broke from the Cleveland county jail last night at 9:30 o’clock after S. B. Cooper, the J assistant jailer, had been knocked out with the blow of an I unknown instrument, were still at large this morning and were the objects of a widespread search by city police, county officers, highway patrolmen, the FBI, United States deputy marshals and state highway patrolmen. TRUMAN, AIDES DISCUSS BOMB President Calls In Mili tary, Diplomatic, Scien tific Advisers WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.— President Truman called in top military, diplomatic and scientific advisers today to discuss the atomic bomb whose terrific destructive ef fect twice has been felt by Japan. Secretary of War Stimson can celled a regular Thursday morn ing news conference to attend the White House meeting. He took with him Major General Leslie Groves, who supervised the secret work which harnessed for war purposes the atom’s terrific energy. Groves was to have attended Stimson’s news conference today. Secretary of State Byrnes, who sat beside Mr. Truman when the president announced Russia’s dec laration of war on Japan yester day, came across the street to join the meeting. Others present included scien See TRUMAN Page 2 ruui ’oi me live men who got' away were federal prisoners, Rufus Riley, James Clark, Winifred Charles Lane and Sam Petty. The other, Bill Hill, is a Kings Moun tain man and was being held for trial in Superior court. Play Taylor, the sixth man who made a getaway, surrendered at the jail gate 30 minutes after he left declaring that the other escaped prisoners had run off and left him. Cooper, the assistant jailer, said that the men had been let into the jail run-around for a bath and that he had told them to get back into their cells. He said that he thought they were all in the cells when he unlocked the door to the run around and stepped inside. Just as he got inside somebody struck him with a blunt instrument and he See FIVE Page 2 Stone Succeeds Gen. Chennault CHUNGKING, Aug. 9. —— Appointment of Maj. Gen. Charles B. Stone, 3rd, 41, as commander of the U. S. 14th Air Force was an nounced today fy Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, commander of Army Air Forces in China. Stone succeeds Maj. Gen. Claire Chen- j nault, who recently resigned. Japan Surrounded By Most Menacing Forces In History By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Aug 9.— (IP) — The mightiest armed forces of all history completely encircled the seared and tottering empire of Ja pan today, ready to smash it into oblivion if the Japanese do not surrender within a few hours. Russia’s entry into the con flict, reuniting the powers that blotted out Nazi Germany, robs the Tokyo government of its last hope for a holdout stand on the Asiatic continent. It thus shortens the war by many months even if the Nipponese choose a fight to the death. All official Washington hones and expects that this moments , development, together with the atomic bomb campaign, will break J the back of enemy resistance at ! once. Use of the awful weapon reach ed the campaign stage today whh | strategic Nagasaki as its second ! target. Tensely, Washington waited for further developments: President Truman’s scheduled See JAPAN Pace 2 HARD FIGHTING UNDERWAY IN INVADED AREAS Russian Forces Push Oyer East Frontier At Sev eral Points PINCERS^AOVEMENT By The Associated Press Red army troops slashed across the eastern and west ern frontiers of Japan’s stol en Manchuria early this morn ing shortly after the Russian declaration of war became ef fective, and sharp fighting now is in progress in all in vaded areas, the Tokyo radio announced today. A broadcast Domei dispatch said Russian forces had battered across the eastern . frontier of Manchuria at “several points" along a 300 mile line extending southward from Hutou to Hunchun. Hutou, just across the Sovifet-Manchuria bor der, is 350 miles east of Harbin, and Hunchun is about 240 miles southeast of that key industrial and communications center, re garded as a prime Russian objec tive. A Japanese imperial headquar ters communique said the Russians struck across both the eastern and western frontiers, beginning short ly after midnight. This suggested a vast pincers movement against the crack Kwantung army, pride of Emperor Hirohito’s forces, be- ' lieved massed in Manchuria. At the same time, the enemy communique said, Soviet planes raided targets in northern Korea and northern Manchuria in sepa rate actions. The headquarters communiqua See HARD Page 2 RED PLANES IDT JAPANESE "Scattered Raids" Over Northern Korea And Manchuria SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 9.—bP)— Russian planes made “scattered raids” over northern Korea and northern Manchuria after Soviet ground forces drove into Man churia, Japanese imperial head quarters announced today. The communique said Japanese garrison forces in Manchuria (Ma Chukou) had been joined by troops of the puppet regime in fighting the Russians in “self-defense." “Fighting is in progress," said the imperial headquarters com munique issued at 5 p. m. Tokyo time (4 a. m. EWT>. It reported action began "around midnight” although Japanese Kwantung army headquarters at Hsinking had placed the start at 1 a. m. TOKYO BROADCAST Both communiques were broad See RED Page t TIN CANS TO BESALVAGED The first collection of tin can$ in Shelby will be made September 3 and regularly every month there after, it was announced this morn ing by Oliver Anthony, local salvage chairman, following a conference held at the city hall yesterday aft-/ ernoon between Mr. Anthony, May or Harry S. Woodson, members df the city board of aldermen, George K. Snow, state salvage chairman, and R. E. Zimmerman, assistant state chairman. : The city officials agreed to co operate by furnishing trucks. House wives are asked to save their can* after they have taken out the ends and flattened them. ? This tin is badly needed in re conversion, it was stated yesterday by Mr. Snow. The collection will be held in conjunction with a nation wide effort to salvage this valuable product.
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