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“The Beautiful Cheat”
BONITA GRANVILLE
NOAH BEERY, JR.
VOL. XLII1-192
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY. N. C.
SATURDAY, AUG. 11, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
SINGLE COPIES—5c
30 PER CENT
OF NAGASAKI
OBLITERATED
13 Important Factories
Wiped Out Or Damaged
By Atomic Bomb
LEFT GREAT CRATER
GUAM, Aug. 11.—(fF)—
Thirty per cent of Nagasaki,
including some of Japan’s
greatest wartime plants, was
obliterated by the atomic
bombing of Thursday, the
Army Strategic Air Forces
announced today.
At least 13 important factories
were wiped out or badly damaged
and almost all of the Kyushu sea
port's Industrial district was de
stroyed. but the demolition still
was considerably less than that In
the first atomic bomb attack which
razed 60 per cent of Hiroshima
on Monday.
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The results were announced by
General Spaatz alter experts stuf
led photographs taken over Na
gasaki yesterday. 24 hours or mo*
following the bombing. Prior photo
graphs had showed only a funereal
pillar of smoke ringed by fires.
The pictures showd a great
crater where the bomb struck.
Picture* of Hiroshima showed no
crater. The Japanese said that
both bomb6 were dropped by para
chute but that the one at Hiro
shima exploded in the air. This
might account for the greater
damage done at Hiroshima.
CITY SCATTERED
Another possibility, suggested by
Spaatz. was the geography of
Nagasaki, where the 253.000 popula
tion live in irregularly-shaped dis
tricts reaching up low valleys from
the sea and along the Urakami
river.
Destruction nevertheless was gi
gantic. Spaatz said in a press re
lease that the pictures showed .98
of a square mile of the built-up
area of the city had been destroy
ed. This was about 30 per cent of
the total built-up area of 3.3 square
miles.
The area of destruction was on
See 30 PER CENT Page 3
PETAMVEN
BY VANITY
PARIS, Aug. 11.—(JP)—The pros
ecution charged today that Mar
shall Petaln was driven by vanity
and lust for power for its own
sake when he set up the Vichy
government after the fall of
Prance.
Summing up the state’s evidence
at the trial of the 89-year-old
marshal, Prosceutor Andre Mornet
described Petain as a man who
hated the republican form of gov
ernment and welcomed the idea
of a “Germanized Europe.”
“For four years, Petain was guil
ty of treason,” the prosecutor said.
“I measure my words when I say
that.”
Before the stooped, white-beard
ed, 79-year-old Mornet began any
outbreaks or incidents, such as
have halted proceedings at least
twice during the -81day trial.
Church Services To
Mark V-J Day Here
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A community-wide thanksgiving
celebration of V-J day will be held
In Shelby and surrounding area
under sponsorship of the Shelby
American Legion post of which
Willis McMurry is commander.
Legion officials, after confer
ring and talking with several min
isters, suggested that the observ
ance center in churches and take
the form of simultaneous services.
If the news of the surren
der of Japan Is officially pro
claimed before 6 p.m., the Le
gion asked that services be
held in all churches that night
at 8 pan. U the news comes
after 6 p.m., services will be
after 6 p.m., services will be
held the next night at 8 o’*
clock.. The fact that several
ministers are out of the city
at present caused no definite
listing of the participating
churches to be undertaken, but
several alread; had announced
plans for such V-J day services.
A schedule for the closing of re
tail stores upon the proclamation
of V-J day was announced by
Max Washburn, chairman of the
merchants division of the Cham
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by the Japs Aug. 10 when a Domei broadcast announced Japan was ready to surrender under the terms of
the Potsdam ultimatum if Emperor Hirohito were allowed to remain in power. The shaded areas denote the
territory the Japan government would be allowed to keep under terms of the ultimatum.—(AP Wirephoto
Map).
JAILBREAKERS
ARE ARRESTED
Rufus Riley And James
Edward Clark Taken
In Cher'w, S. C.
James Edward Clark and John
Rufus Riley, two of the five men
who broke the Cleveland county jail
after slugging Jailer S. B. Cooper
Wednesday night have been arrest
ed in Cheraw, S. C., and will be
brought to Shelby for safe-keeping
on Sunday, it was announced this
morning by Jim Wallace of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation in
Charlotte.
The FBI says Clark and Riley
were apprehended by Chief H. H.
Hillard while they were staying at
the home of Riley’s father in Cher
aw. When the FBI arrived to make
the arrest, the two men started to
run but were overtaken and arrest
ed.
TO LINCOLNTON
The two jail-breakers say they
walked the railroad track Wednes
day night to Llncolnton, spent the
following day in the woods and on
See JAIL-BREAKERS Page 2
Says Cotton Faces
Lower World Market
Wiggins Tolls Rotorians Revolutionary Changes In
Production To Be Necessary
Cotton raising as known in this section faces a revo
lution—one in which production must adjust itself to an
approximate 13-cents-per-pound world price—the Rotary
club’s annual “Farmers’ Day” meeting Friday was told by
A. L. M. Wiggins, of Hartsville, S. C., past president of
the American Bankers Association.
in a siuaiea discussion oi uie
peacetime outlook for agriculture
in the south, more particularly
for this section, Mr., Wiggins, who
was brought here on a program
arranged jointly by O. Z. Morgagi
and Clarence Mull, pictured in
dustrial and agricultural prosperity
as riding In the same boat, one
which he sees requiring that an
hour of work in farming must
command as much cash return as
an hour’s work in Industry. The
speaker was presented by TJ. S.
Senator Clyde R. Hoey who paid
glowing tribute to Mr. Wiggons’
accomplishments as banker, in
dustrialist, seedman and newspap
er publisher.
INSPECTS CROP
While in this section, Mr.
Wiggins,, accompanied by Rob
ert Coker of the Coker Pedi
gred Seed company, inspected
numerous outstanding cotton
acreages, the party being con
ducted by Mr. Morgan and Mr.
Mull. They were greatly im
pressed with the appearance of
the Cleveland crop which
springs ahnodt entirely from
See COTTON Page 2
WHAT’S DOING
SUNDAY
1:00 a. m. to 8;00 p. m.—U.
8. O. center open to service
people visiting in community.
MONDAY
7:30 p. m.—State guard drill
[ at armory.
ARMY READY
FOR V-JDAY
Plan Ready For Demobi
lization But Details
Are Secret
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. — (JP)—
The Army has a V-J plan for demo
bilization, it was learned today. De
tails are top secret but informed
sources figure on a reduction to
3,000,000 a men a year after sur
render.
Informed sources speculated that
in event of peace current demobili
zation will be stepped up, but that
no wide-scale discharges will take
place until the Japanese homeland
and islands formerly Japanese-held
have been occupied.
In other words, the Army will
take no chances on the failure of
any belligerent Japanese to comply
with surrender. A Japanese army
of probably 2,000,000 will have to
be disarmed in the Japanese home
islands alone.
PROMPT RELEASE
It Is probable the Army will make
every effort to release promptly ap
proximately 550,000 men eligible
under the point system. Already It
has mustered out 250,000.
See ARMY Page 2
RED COLUMNS
SMASH ACROSS
MANCHURIA
Drive Threatens To Cu!
Off Japs North Of
Chinese Railway
NO LETUP IN BATTLE
By Eddy Gilmore
MOSCOW, Aug. 11.—(/P)—
Only 550 miles separated the
tips of two huge Red army
columns striking from west
and east across the heart of
Manchuria today.
Smashing forward along the axis
of the Chinese eastern railway
which cuts across the country from
southeast to northwest, the Rus
sians were threatening to cut off
all the Japanese troops north of
that communications artery in the
swiftest conquest ever witnessed in
that ancient battleground of east
Asia.
No abatement in the furious
drive by tanks, cavalry and in
fantry marked the peace offers
from Tokyo.
The tip of the western pincer,
which tore ahead for 106 miles yes
terday, approached Putela Pass, 4,
000-foot passage through the great
Kingan range, after capturing the
highly important railway town and
base of Hulun (Hailari. This force
was driving toward Harbin, in the
center of the country.
The tip of the eastern pincer edg
ed up the Wan mountains in the
region of Muling, between Harbin
and Vladivostok, the Russian base
on the sea of Japan. Muling is 200
miles east of Harbin and 30 miles
inside the Manchurian frontier.
TWO VANGUARDS
The western prong actually had
two vanguards with the southern
army moving south of Hulun and
edging up to Khalinar pass.
Moreover, the Mongolian peoples
republic, Soviet Russia’s protector
ate in outer Mongolia, had entered
the war against Japan, and another
operation loomed against the Jap
anese—an invasion by famed Mon
golian cavalry units down the his
toric caravan route from Ulan
Bator through Irnier Mongolia to
Peiping, former capital of China.
Overrunning -large sectors which
were heavily fortified by the Japa
nese, the Red army’s mobile units
See RED Page 2
Allied Forces
Will Continue
Fight—Nimitz
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
GUAM, Aug. 11. — (JP) — Allied
forces in the Pacific will continue
the attack right up to the Japanese
surrender and then will stand guard
against new Japanese “treachery”,
Admiral Nimitz said today.
“Unless otherwise specifically di
rected,” by the high commands, of
fensive action in the vast Pacific
ocean areas will continue, Nimitz
said in a statement which warned
that vigilance against further enemy
attacks and “treachery” should be
exercised even in the event of a
complete surrender.
The statement was issued at the
close of a day in which both the
Superfortresses of the strategic air
forces and the carrier planes of the
Pacific fleet were inactive. Earlier,
however, the Navy had said that the
fact Admiral Halsey was not strik
ing with his powerful Third fleet
was according to previously land
operational plans.
General Spaatz simply announced
“B-29s are not flying today.”
Americans Arrest
Wilhelm Weiss
NEW YORK, Aug. 11. — The
former editor in chief of the no
torious Nazi newspaper Voelkischer
Boebachter, Wilhelm Weiss, was ar
rested by American troops near
Berchtesgaden, a BBC broadcast,
heard by NGC, reported today.
Hirohito Must Be
Under Allied Orders
WASHINGTON, Aug. ll.-(AP)-The Big-Four Allied pow
ers today made a conditional acceptance of Japan’s offer to quit the
war—based on retention of the emperor’s sovereignty.
The two principal conditions of acceptance:
The emperor must subject himself to the orders of a supreme
Allied commander.
That a government in Japan be ultimately established in ac
cordance with “the freely expressed will of the Japanese people.”
This language apparently did not offer any assurance of a permanent con
tinuation of the sun-god throne—something on which the Japanese people will
themselves have the last say.
There is at this time no designated Allied supreme commander—mention
ed in the reply to Tokyo. •
The Allied reply put the next move uj> to the Tokyo government. The
terms acceptable to the Big-Four will be transmitted to Switzerland where
they will be handed the Japanese minister for relay to his government.
Surrender Offer
Knotty Problem
For Big Four
By the Associated Press
The Japanese offer to accede to
the terms of the Potsdam surren
der ultimatum—with the proviso
that the emperor remain sovereign
—posed a knotty problem for the
allies, whose leaders long have
disagreed over the treatment to be
accorded Hirohito after victr/fy.
Opinion was divided in the
United States, but in Britain it
was felt the emperor should be
kept in power to prevent chaos in
postwar Japan and an upheaval of
the nation’s religious and social
structure, while in China, the peo
ple’s political council already has
recommended to the government
that Hirohito be listed as a war
criminal.
Moscow’s attitude toward main
taining the emperor’s social order
could only be guessed from a broad
cast declaring th/t ‘‘unconditional
surrender is unconditional surren
der—there can be no play on words.”
CELEBRATION
The news of the surrender offer
was greeted with joyful celebra
tion in London and in Chung
king.
While Americans remained rel
atively calm, waiting for official
See SURRENDER Page 2
JAMES D. LOVE
DEATH VICTIM
James D. Love, 79, died at his
home on South LaFayette street
this morning at 7:50 after an ill
ness of three days. He had been in
rather ill health for several years,
but had apparently been doing
nicely until Wednesday when he
became worse and was put to bed.
, Funeral rites will be held at the
| home at 2 o’clock Sunday after
j noon conducted by Dr. Zeno Wall
and Horace Easom of the First
1 Baptist church, of which he was a
devoted member. Interment will be
in Sunset cemetery.
Mr. Love was a son of the late
Christopher Love Shelby and
grandson of the late James Love,
who gave the land on which the
court house now stands and also
the lots for all the uptown churches.
He was a Spanish-American war
veteran. Although he spent much
of his life in the west, he returned
to Shelby about 20 years ago and
I married Mrs. Lola Turner here in
11931. Mrs. Love, who has been ill
i and confined to her bed for some
jttme, survives.
Since transmission is handled by wireless, the surrender
conditions deemed acceptable in Washington, London, Mos
cow and Chungking could be officially before the Japanese
government by nightfall, eastern war time.
It was considered doubtful whether a reply—and a pos
sible end of the war—would be forthcoming before late Sun
day or Monday.
In a reply to Japan through the Swiss government, Sec
retary of State Byrnes said the United States would accept
the surrender proposal, if the emperor is made subject to
the supreme commanders’ orders.
This represented the viewpoints of the United States,
the United Kingdom, the Union of the Soviet Socialist Re
publics and China, Byrnes said in his message delivered
through the Swiss embassy here at 10:30 a. m. Eastern War
Time.
ByrnSs laid out the following five conditions in his message to the
Japanese:
“From the moment of the surrender the authority of the emperor
and the Japanese government to rule the state shall be subject to the
supreme commander of the Allied powers who will take such steps as
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. —(/P)— This is what the reply of the
Big Four powers—to the Japanese offer to surrender—means In
effect so far as the royal house is concerned:
1. Because the emperor is the key figure in Japan, the
allies will use him in ruling Japan.
2. But this doesn’t mean the emperor can keep his job
independently. He can keep it until some future time when the
Japanese people can decide whether they want to have an emperor
at all.
(The Japanese people haven’t had any choice like this. They’ve
had an emperor, generation after generation, and thus until now
have accepted the idea of having one.
he deems proper to effectuate the surrender terms.
“The emperor will be required to authorize and secure the
signature of the government of Japan and the Japanese imperial
See CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE Page 2
Text Of Byrnes’
Reply To Proposal
Emperor Will Be Required To Ensure Proper Signing
Of Surrender Terms
WASHINGTON, Aug 11.—(/P)—Following is the text
of the reply of Secretary of State Byrnes to Max Grassli,
charge d’affaires of the Swiss legation relative to the Japa
nese surrender proposal: ~r ~ I--:
“Sir:
“I have the honor to acknowledge
receipt of your note of August 10,
and in reply to inform you that the
President of the United States has
directed me to send to you for trans
mission by your government to the
Japanese government the following
message on behalf of the govern
ments of the United States, the
United Kingdom, the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics and
China:
| “ 'With reply to the Japanese
. government’s message accepting
[the terms of the Potsdam procla
uutliun out lUiHcumug tiiu Ciaic
ment, ‘with the understanding that
the said declaration does not com
prise any demand which preju
dices the prerogatives of his majes
ty as a sovereign ruler,’ our posi
tion is as follows:
EFFECTUATE SURRENDER
“From the moment of surrender
the authority of the emperor and
the Japanese government to rule
the state shall be subject to the
supreme commander of the Allied
powers who will take such ateps
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