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- State Theatre Today -
“The Beautiful Cheat”
BONITA GRANVILLE
NOAH BEERY, JR.
VOL. XLII1-191
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY. N. C.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1945
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Carrier Pilots
Destroy, Damage
259 Nip Planes
By Murlin Spencer
GUAM, Aug. 10.—(fi>)—American and British carrier
pilots—ferreting Japan’s grounded airforce from its camou
flaged hideouts—destroyed or damaged 259 Nipponese air
craft and gliders on northern Honshu island yesterday, a
preliminary report from Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet dis
closed today. I
me bag, scored both on ground
ed craft and In the air, was the
greatest yet reported for Initial
waves of a carrier strike by Hal
sey, greater even than the dam
age reported for the same period
of the destructive attacks of July
10 and 28.
Eleven enemy aircraft of a
■mall coordinated Kamikaze
attack on the fleet were shot
down. One of the suicide pil
ots managed to cnurfi into a
light fleet unit, possibly a light
cruiser or a destroyer, which
is retiring under its own pow
er. Two enemy aircraft were
shot down in the vicinity of the
fleet the preceding day.
The American and British pilots
swept from Misawa airfield on the
northern tip of Honshu to Matsu
shima airfield, 160 miles south
ward, in raids backing up Halsey’s
promise to support the Russian
entry in the war by pinning down
wapQiicoc autlfUl,
Japanese gliders were mention
ed for the first time in the an
nouncement that British carrier
i pilots destroyed 24 of the troop
carriers.
Both British and American fliers
sank ‘'several" small Japanese
ships and damaged others.
The communique covered only
the initial action yesterday.
Strikes Thursday aftemo o n,
and damage caused by the 1,500 car
rier planes which returned to the
attack today, were not included.
Meanwhile, the northern Honshu
steel city of Kamaishl still smold
ered from the heavy shelling it was
given Thursday by the Third fleet.
Adding to the damage toll being
exacted from Japanese, fleet air
wing. One reported today that in
the four months from March 26 to
July 29, while operating from the
Ryukyu islands, its Privateers, Cor
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Shelby Celebrating
Unofficial Victory
City, County Offices, Stores Await Official Confirma
tion Before Closing
Shelby unofficially celebrated the victory in the Pa
cific today as merchants, banks, city hall and courthouse and
other business houses waited official confirmation from
Washington before closing their doors in celebration.
MILLS REOPEN
MONDAYA.M.
Industrial plants In the Cleve
land area tied down their whistles
and workers went into enthusiastic
celebration of Japan's surrender
with the announcement this morn
ing, but the undiminished demand
for textiles to hasten the return
of boys home will pull them back
to their machines Monday morn
ing.
Most of the plants closed im
mediately, but some continued op
erations until end of the second
shifts when they signed off until
Monday morning that workers
might Join in joyous celebration of
victory.
WPB ORDER
Mill managements gave the dou
ble-holiday shutdown order despite
the fact the War Production Board
had been Insisting that production
continue as uninterrupted as pos
sible on V-J day because of the
vast need for textiles for civilian
as well as military needs.
Mill men said they foresee less
reconversion problems for the tex
tile industry than most lines be
cause of the ease with which shift
to civilian production can be
made. An unprecedented backlog
of orders will keep textile plants
humming for months and even
years to catch up the shortages
that have, attended the war as
mills converted entirely to pro
duction for war.
A* vuimiMJOuuu IUII1GB prior VO i
3 o'clock this afternoon the busi
ness houses will remain closed for
the rest of today, if it comes af
ter 3 o’clock they will cloee for
the rest of today and all day to
morrow. Charles O. Dilling, who
has supervision of the courthouse
said offices there would follow suit
and banks and building and loan
associations announced they will
observe the same hours.
As The Star's Extra, radio and
sirens announced at 8 o’clock this
morning Japan's offer of surren
der. enthusiasm of the crowds
gathering on the streets was un
bounded.
“Praise .the Lor*,” “Thank God”
and other ejaculations of similar
nature were heard everywhere.
TELEPHONES HUM
Telephones began ringing in The
Star office almost immediately
when the radio announcement came
about 7:40 a.m. Every question was
“Is the war over?” When whis
tles were blown at 8 a.m. the rush
of calls so jammed telephone
switchboard at the central office
that operators had an estimated 10
times the number of calls they
could handle with every position
See SHELBY Page 2
WHATS DOING
TODAY
8:00 p.m.—Cleveland Lodge
202 A. F. and A. M. meets at
Lodge room for work in second
degree.
8:00 p.m.—Victory prayer ser
vice at Hoyle Memorial Metho
dist church.
Congress Ready-To End Draft
When Surrender Is Official
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— (/P) —
A Japanese surrender will find
Congress ready to put an imme
diate end to the draft.
Congressional leaders dealing
With military policy disclosed to
day that as soon as the current
recess ends they will begin a drive j
to halt selective service inductions.
Barring an earlier call, the law
makers are due to return to Capi
tol Hill October 8.
Meanwhile, Secretary of War
Btimson reported that the war de
partment will re-survey its man
power needs in the light of the
•tew atomic bomb and Russia’s en
try Into the Pacific war. But
Stimson emphasized that the army
will not reduce its forces “by even
one man” below the number it
considers necessary to defeat Ja
pan “with the least possible loss
of American lives.”
Present plans call for an army
of about 7,000,000 men next June
30.
Some congressional leaders be
lieve the draft act should be ter
minated no later than November
1, regardless of whether fighting
still is continuing in the Pacific.
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NAGASAKI BLOW
TOO GIGANTIC
TO BELIEVE
Airmen 7<fT7 250 Miles
Away Saw Flash Of
Atomic Bombing
obscurecTby SMOKE
GUAM, Aug. 10—(^—Air
men 70 to 250 miles away
witnessed the atomic bombing
of Nagasaki and described it
as “too tremendous to be
lieve.”
Associated Press Corre
spondent, Richard Cushing,
reported that Okinawa based
fliers, attacking other targets
on the southern Japanese is
land of Kyushu, saw flames
and explosions as the most de
structive weapon of the war
found its mark.
Filers In the nearest plane re
ported a smoke column ’Whirled
20,000 feet Into the air. A crew
member of a plane 250 miles away
said he saw a fiery yellow orange
ball shot Into the sky for 8,000
feet, followed by a column of
smoke which rose , to at least 20,000
feet.
ine results or me atomic
bombing of Nagasaki were des
cribed as “food” by General
Spaatx, chief of the U. 8. army
strategic air forces, bat he
Mid that three and a half
hour* after the devastating
weapon was dropped at noon
yetoerday, smoko, still oboonrod
the damage from a photo re
connaissance plane,
first reports from Hiroshima,
which later was shown to be 90
per cent destroyed, also were mere
ly that the military city of 343,000
was blanketed by smoke and dust.
The world’s first atom bomb
smashed 4.1y of Hiroshima's 6.9
square miles Monday. Radio Tokyo
added that "practically every liv
ing thing” there was destroyed,
FIFTH DAY -
Spaatz' Superforts carried their
devastating blows against Japan
into the fifth consecutive day with
a 70-plane strike that poured 2.000
pound demolition bombs onto the
Tokyo arsenal area.
Crewmen's radioed reports said
results were excellent.
More than 60 Mustangs and
Thunderbolts from Iwo accom
panied the B-ZPs, which bomb
ed both visually and with pre
cision instruments at targets
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THREE OFFICES
ARE ENTERED
BY THIEVES !
Thieves broke into three offices
in the Gardner building after 3
o'clock this morning and took $100
from one of them, the Service Fi
nance Co. Nothing was miss
ed from the other two offices, the
Shelby Rationing Board and the
Carolina Motor club.
In each Instance the glass in the
front door of the office waa broken
In two of the offices, the Carolina
Motor club and the rationing of
fice it is believed the thief did not
actually enter as nothing in either
office was disturbed. However in
the Service Finance office the cash
drawer was broken open and ap
proximately $100 was taken.
At police headquarters it was stat
ed that the doors to the offices in
these buildings were checked and
found O.K. at 3:30 ajn.
Emperor's Removal
Would Be Ultimate
Disaster To Japs
By The Associated Press
To the leaders of Japan the re
moval of the emperor apparently
would be the ultimate disaster
which they are not yet ready to
accept, despite the hrpeleesnese
of the empire’s situation.
The Domel broadcast, making
retention of the emperor’s sover
eign rights condition of other
wise total surrender, emphasizes
the unique position Hlfohlto holds
among the world's rulArs.
The Japanese call hi* the Ten
no—Bon of Heaven—and the masses
believe him to be a living god.
They say he is the 134th ruler of a
dynasty "unbroken for ages eter
nal” descended from the Bun God
dess Amaterasu, principal deity of
their national faith. Shinto.
Truman Reviews
Conference, Will
Safeguard Bomb
By The Associated Press
President Truman in his report to the nation last night:
Warned the Japanese people that if they do not surren
der thousands of civilians will be killed.
Promised that steps are being taken to safeguard use
of the new atomic bomb.
Declared his great objective to be that “there shall be
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11V 11VAU T» U1 .
Said this country will build the
military bases It needs on captur
ed Pacific islands.
Gave assurance that the only
secrets at Berlin were military
ones.
Disclosed that Russia agreed to
declare war on Japan before it
learned of the atomic bomb.
Stated that the agreement to
give Russia the northern third of
East Prussia was agreed upon sec
retly at Yalta.
Said the allied press would have
"full freedom” to report on hap
penings in Romania, Hungaria,
Bulgaria, Finland and Poland.
Disclosed that a United States
proposal for free use of European
waterways was referred to the
foreign ministers’ council.
Promised that this country will
help “to the limits of our strength”
to prevent Europe from going cold
and hungry this winter.
FINAL PHASE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—{IF)—
Word from Tokyo today that the
Japanese want to surrender pro
vided they can save their emperor
follows fast on a warning by
President Truman to Nippon’s peo
ple to quit their doomed cities and
flee for their lives. The president
promised an atomic bomb cam
paign to wipe out Japanese war
industry, city by city.
Barring surrender, Japanese in
dustries are to be destroyed “to
shorten the agony of war” and to
save untold American lives, Mr.
Truman said.
With this, Mr. Truman coupled
assurances to the American peo
ple that he realizes fully the ter
rible dangers the atomic weapon
See TRUMAN Page 2
Many Dead, Injured
In Train Wreck
17 Bodies Recovered, Deod Estimated At 25, 50 Hurt
As Locomotive Plows Into Observation Car
MICHIGAN, N. D., Aug. 10.—(JP)—Seventeen bodies
Were recovered today from the tangled steel wreckage of an
observation car into which a locomotive plowed as the two
sections of the Empire Builder, Great Northern trans-con
tinental train, collided here Thursday night, killing an esti
mated score and injuring 50 more, 15 or them seriously.
CI S CELEBRATE
ON OKINAWA
Jubilant Soldiers Fire Guns
Of War In Cele
bration
By BOBBIN COONS
OKINAWA, Aug. 10. —</P>— This
American-held island, only 325
miles from the Japanese homeland,
kicked over the traces of war in a
wild fireworks celebration as first
unofficial word spread that the Ja
panese are ready to quit.
Soldiers who only three nights ago
shot flak airward against enemy
raiders let loose their guns in cele
bration. The island and naval an
chorage rocked with gunfire, cheers
and the roar of rockets.
The air raid sirens wailed tt pro
longed “all clear” signal.
PICTURE FORGOTTEN
One outdoor movie, showing “Cap
tain Eddie” the story of the life ol
Eddie Rickenbacker, had reached a
sequence where the hero, just back
from the first World War, tells his
bride he bets millions of other for
mer soldiers are going fishing. At
that moment distant cries and
cheers echoed above the soundtrack
and the GI’s, on edge since the first
atomic bomb dropped and Russia
entered the war, yelled for word.
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j ouim vstuiieiuii, uai&uia aivisioii
'superintendent, said the bodies re
covered, all unidentified as yet, in
cluded those of six women, ten
members of the armed services and
one of a negro porter.
Cameron said he had personally
seen in the wreckage the bodies of
three more women, four men and a
child yet to be released, which
would establish the death toll at
25.
With a ‘crash which shook
every house in this community
of less than 500 population, the
speeding second coach section
plowed into the leading pull
i man section which had been
halted here unexpectedly by a
! hot box on the locomotive ten
der shortly before 7 p. m.
The rear car of the standing
train, a combination sleeper and
.observation car, was telescoped, its
I furnishings and berths jammed into
a compact mass at its front while
| the car’s steel shell remained super -
i imposed on the locomotive of the
following train.
Train attendants estimated 27
persons occupied the car’s two por
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Submarine Largato
Is Presumed Lost
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. —
(A*)—The U. S. submarine La
garto is overdue from patrol and
presumed lost, the Navy an
nounced today. The next of kin
of casualties have been notified.
Yvmit nuuit DAwixiMu:
Bowles Determined To Go
Ahead With Clothing Program
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—<#)—
With tacit White House backing,
Price Administrator Chester Bowles
today bluntly rejected Industry de
mands for abandonment of the
government’s low-cost clothing pro
gram.
OPA’s part of the program,
Bowles said, is here to stay “un
less we find something better” or
until there is "an ample supply of
goods.”
Bowles made public a sharp
ly-worded letter to an out
spoken Industry critic of the
program after President Tru
man yesterday told WFB Chair
man J. A. Krug that agency
must take cognizance of the
effect of Its acts on price sta
bilization.
This support Bowles’ position
generally, and particularly as re
gards the clothing program.
Some WPB officials favored re
placing its drastic clothing order,
officially M-388, with a more len
ient program keyed to a brighter
fabric supply outlook.
LOW-PRICED
M-388, worked out early this
year by WPB and OPA, was in
See BOWLES Page 2
RUSSIANS MAKE
BIG ADVANCES
IN MANCHURIA
Units Of Soviet Pacific
Fleet Reported In
Action
Mongolia"at war
By The Associated Press
The Red army’s Stalin
tanks, infantry and massed
cavalry rolled through numer
ous gates in Manchuria’s de
fenses with sensational ad
vances today, Moscow dis
patches reported, and Tokyo
announced the broadening of
the Soviet attacks to Korea
and Sakhalin island.
Soviet correspondents said units
of the Soviet Pacific fleet had gone
into action.
The Moscow radio announced
that Outer Mongolia, a protector
ate of Russia’s adjoining Manchuria
and Inner Mongolia on the west,
ifad. declared war on Japan.
Moving toward the heart of
Manchuria along three main routes
of invasion, the former Chinese
eastern railway from Lupin (Man
chouli)-in the northwest, the Mon
golian caravan trail from Lake
Bor in the west ,and the Sungari
river valley from Khabarovsk in the
northeast, the Russians had open
ed up “numerous gates” in the
enemy’s carefully prepared de
fenses and apparently were bent
on a non-stop offensive, Moscow
dispatches said. These advices de
clared sains -of up to-SJ miles yes
terday were being enlarged sensa
tionally today.
EFFECTIVE BLOW
The first Soviet blow was so
well prepared along the pattern of
the Red army’s European offen
sives that the Japanese were un
able to hold a single defensive line
along the frontier, one Soviet dis
patch reported.
The western and northwestern
vanguards were driving hard for
the city of Hulun (Hailar), Jap
anese forward base on the Chinese
eastern railway, 90 miles distant.
Ahead was the difficult Takhingan
Shan range which cups the Man
churian plain to the east and runs
south toward Peiping in China.
In the northern sector, where the
Russians struck from the maritime
provinces to protect their important
naval and air base of Vladivostok,
the Russians also were making stea
dy progress from Khabarovsk and
captured Fu Yuan toward Harbin,
rail heart of Manchuria 400 miles
distant. , ;
Moscow dispatches salfl the weight
of the Russian attack fn the east
apparently had not ripen fully
developed, and this offensive from
Khabarovsk appeared to be only the
forerunner of strong blows any
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DEATH CLAIMS
W.F.LOCAN
Retired Kings Mountain
Business Man; Masonie
Rites Saturday
William P. Logan, 66, a member
of one of Cleveland county’s best
known families, died suddenly at
his home in Kings Mountain
Thursday night about 8:30 follow
ing a heart attack. He had shown
no signs of ill health and death
was a shock to his family and
friends.
Funeral rites will be held Satur
day afternoon at 5 o'clock at the
home on Gold street ' in Kings
Mountain. K
A son of the late Marion Lo
gan and Elizabeth Herndon Logan,
he was a native of Cleveland coun
ty and had lived in and near Kings
Mountain all his life. For many
years he operated a dry cleaning
business in Kings Mountain but at
the time of his death rtbd retired
from active business Ufa. He was
a member of Bethletrem Baptist
church and a Mason, serving as
treasurer of the King^s Mountain
lodge for the current year. Masonic
rites will be held at the grave.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Miss Mary Little; two sons,
W. Lawrence Logan of Kings
Mountain and Flight Officer C.
Elmer Logan of Wayne, Mich.:
and two daughters, Mrs. Gerald
Lackey of Winston-Salem and Mrs
Charles Sams of Mars Hill. Also
1 -urviving are ten grandchildren.
Mr. Logan was a nephew of the
I late Sheriff H. A. Logan of this
| place.
Sweden, Russia
Have Received
Surrender Terms
LONDON, Aug. 10.—(AP)—The Stock
holm radio said tonight that Japan had hand- j
ed the Swedish minister of foreign affairs a I
note to the British, American and Russian
governments offering to surrender.
LONDON, Aug.l0T-(AP)-A Moscow
broadcast said today the Japanese premie^
had informed the Soviet ambassador tha^
Japan was ready to accept the Potsdam terms.'
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10,— (AP)—-President
Truman assembled his cabinet in an atmosphere of
official expectancy today, but the war raged on in
the Pacific as hours slipped by without official con
firmation here of a broadcast Japanese surrender
offer.
The first cabinet meeting since the President
returned from Potsdam was set for 2 p. m. (EWT) at
the White House.
As the day wore on, there was no word from
either the President or Secretary of State Byrnes across
the street that a formal Japanese surrender proposal
had been laid before this government.
This did not indicate any lack of intense consideration
of the Domei news agency broadcast that Japan was ready
to accept the Potsdam ultimatum with the condition that
the emperor’s sovereignty should not be compromised.
Prime Minister Attlee reported in London that the
British government was consulting its allies on the Tokyo
broadcast although it too lacked an official communication.
A little earlier, press secretary Charles G. Ross told re
porters Mr. Truman was not then in contact with the allied
governments.
.Byrnes, who had conterred with Mr. iruman and the
war and navy secretaries at the white house early in the
day, returned shortly after 1 p. m. and had lunch with the
president in his office.
There was no indication whether he had any new in
formation on the Japanese offer.
If such an offer is received officially, Ross said, he as
sumed the allies will be consulted before any action is taken.
Ross said he knows of no plans to summon congress in
to session.
Asked about the purposes of President Truman’s con
ference earlier with Secretary of War Stimson, Navy Secre
ary Forerstal and Secretary of State Byrnes, Ross said:
“Naturally they are interested in possible develop
ments.”
Ross told reporters: .
“The President has received no official word of a #'
render offer by Japan. Like all of us he has just been Wait>
ing.”
(Shortly before this announcement the Moscow radio reported that
the Japanese premier had informed the Soviet ambassador that Japan
was ready to accept the Potsdam terms.)
There were these immediate developments as Tokyo broadcast a
Domei news agency that Nippon would quit if she could keep her '
1. President Truman called in Secretary of State Byrnes. Secretary
of War Stimson and Secretary of Navy Forrestal. Departing, Byrnes said
there still had been no ogicial surrender offer and that even when it
came it would be a matter for allied consideration—not U. S. consider
ation alone. Forrestal said he expected a development “soon”.
2. At the Swiss and Swedish legations ,it was explained that the
reported Japanese offer—which Domei said would come through those
neutral governments—would not be given out by them here, but would
be handed to the allied diplomatic representatives at the Swiss and
emperor
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Government Speeds Plan
To Cushion Reconversion
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—(^P)—
The apparent imminence of Ja
pan’s sudden capitulation led the
government today to rush finish
ing touches on an emergency re
conversion plan.
Hustling to keep apace of clima
tic developments in the Pacific,
the war production board put in
secret circulation among top offi
cials a special program to speed
complete transfer of industry from
war to peacetime output.
n preparation some time for
use on V-J day, the plan has
been pushed rapidly into its
final stages sines it appeared
that the atomic bomb and Rus
sia’s entry into the war might
end hostilities sooner than had
been expected.
WPB withheld details until it
could be approved by John W.
Snyder, director of war mobiliza
tion and reconversion. But officials
familiar with it said the plan is
designed to cushion as much as
possible the impact of a sudden
surrender on industry.
NO PAINLESS WAY
"There is no plan that would
eliminate all the industrial aches
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