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WEATHER Cloudy and cooler today and to pight except continued warm in southeast today. Few scattered thundershowers on coast today. Fri day, cloudy; moderate temperature. Tshe sheihy Ewig Him CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 STATE THEATRE TODAY "THE POWER OF THE WHISTLER" Starring RICHARD DIX VOL. XLII1-196 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, AUG. 16, 1S45 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c HIROHITO WILL SEND MEMBERS OF ROYAL FAMILY TO BATTLE FRONTS TO ENFORCE SURRENDER ORDER Truman Sees No ' Chance For Japs To Get Revenge WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—(A5)—President Truman said today he does not think the Japanese people will ever have a chance to obtain revenge for their defeat in this war. In his first peacetime news con ference the President declared that if Congress goes along, the scientific discoveries which made possible the atomic bomb will be turned to the welfare and benefit of mankind. Commenting on the situation in the Pacific since he announced the Japanese acceptance of Allied peace terms the President said: The surrender will not be com plete until two million Japanese lay down their arms. Gen. Douglas MacArthur will announce the signing of the sur render, which will take place at a point MacArthur designates. ALL ALLIES There is no apparent necessity for dividing Japan into occupation rones although troops from all the Allies will be under MacArthur's command. Congress will decide when to end the wartime draft, Mr. Tru man said. The President will make a rec ommendation to Congress on a universal peacetime military train ing program shortly after it meets again. There has been no decision yet on combining the army and the navy in peacetime, he said. The President’s declaration that Japan will have no chance to ob tain revenge for its defeat came in response to a reporter’s ques tion. The reporter said most Japa nese radio pronouncements since acceptance of the surrender terms seem to indicate the Japanese are planning a military come-back In See TRUMAN Page t 105 U. S. Warships Were In Third Fleet Halsey Reveals Make-Up Of Powerful Fleet; 28 British Vessels Also In Group GUAM, Aug. 16.—(/P)—Admiral Nimitz today proudly named 105 of America’s newest and fastest warships and 28 British vessels forming the powerful allied Pacific fleet which helped push Japan over the brink of defeat with continuing naval blows in the final weeks of the war. MAN PINNED BY TRACTOR Edmund Lov«lac« Rescued From Beneath Machine Lang After Accident Pinned under a tractor for an hour before anybody found him, Edmund Lovelace, 30 was brought to the Shelby hospital shortly be fore noon today suffering from in juries to his head and UmbR whicn he sustained when the tractor he was driving turned over on him as he was driving on the road from Coleman Blanton's house to Pink Lovelace’s house. It was thought that he rounded a curve too fast After neighbors were attracted by his calls, they spent more than 30 minutes trying to get him from beneath the machine. Rescue was made more difficult by a nearby yellow jacket’s nest, one person being stung five times while he was trying to assist Lovelace. Fi nally a wrecker was sent for but before It arrived enough manpow er had been assembled to lift ttap tractor from Lovelace’s body and a waiting ambulance took him to the hospital. Edmund Lovelace Is employed at the Dover mill but farms part time. He is the son of Pink Love lace, who lives near where the ac cident occurred. Examination at the hospital had not been com pleted early this afternoon and the seriouAess of his injuries had not been determined. Part Of Country Still Celebrating Wide gaps In the nation’s busl nes time table continued today as part of the country continued to celebrate the end of the war and the rest of It returned to work after one day of letting off steam. Major financial and commodity markets remained on a holiday but planned to re-open Friday. Banks in New York state reopened today after a one-day holiday while in the rest of the nation a mixed situation prevailed, some banks closing today while others were reopening after a holiday yesterday. The American ▼easels, operating as the Third Fleet from July 10 to August 15, were joined by the British men of war on July 15. The special communique identified for the first time the full strength of Admiral Halsey's Task Force 38, a powerful striking arm that pack ed a wallop of more than 1,000,000 tons of fighting steel. The mighty concentration of Am erican and British warships destroy ed or damaged more than 1,500 Ja panese planes and nearly 1,000 ships and small Japanese craft. In the 37 day span of opera tions it struck Japan from the air on fonrteen separate days and pulverized land targets with seven naval bombard ments. Only a single ship—a light American unit—was da maged. The roster of the mighty armada Included eight American and one British battleships; 16 American and four British aircraft carriers; 19 American and seven British crui sers; 62 American and 17 British destroyers. HIGH PRAISE Attached to Nlmits's honor holl was a statement of high praise for the hard working service forces which carried the supplies of war across thousands of miles of ocean and delivered them at sea to the fuel and ammunition-oonsuming fighting ships. Even in its formidable army, how* ever, the listing of the Third Fleet’s ships failed to show the entire strength of the Pacific fleet. For in stance, the super-battleship New Jersey and the older Washington did not operate with Halsey during the period mentioned in the com See 105 U. S. Page 2 JAP PRINCE TO HEADNEW GOVERNMENT Unprecedented Selection Indicates Gravity Of Situation PROPAGANDA CHANGE By the Associated Press Emperor Hirohito ordered his defeated forces to stop fighting today, Japanese broadcasts reported, and sim ultaneously named a royal blooded general to head Ja pan’s peacetime government. The Mikado's belated "cease fire” order was issued only after General MacArthur, supreme allied com mander from whom the new premier will take his orders, sharply criticiz ed Tokyo for unnecessary delay in replying to his surrender instruc tions. The government-controlled Domei news agency said it will still take "several days” for the emperor’s order to reach all of his widely-scat tered 5,000,000 soldiers, many of whom are still fighting. Hirohito named one of his cousins, Gen. Prince Naruhiko Hagashl-Kuni, to form Nippon’s new government. It was an un precedented step. Never before, Domei said, has a member of the royal family headed the govern ment of Japan. Hlgashi-Kuni was one of Japan’s directing wartime generals and once was reported to have tttmatened trial and possible death to captured allied airmen. OLD CABINET He began forming his peacetime cabinet by calling in key members of Premier Baron Kantaro Suzuki'a last wartime cabinet which resign ed yesterday. Among members of Sueuki’s fall en government who called at the new premier's headquarters in Akasaka detached palace were former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye; Adm. Mitsumasa Yonai, who was navy minister; and Lt. Gen. Tadaichi Wakamatsu, vice minister of war. War Minister Gen. Korechlka Anami has committed suicide. Domei said because of “the gra vity of the situation” formation of the cabinet will be rushed and "may be completed by tonight” Hirohito's selection of a prince as premier, the news agency said, Bee JAP Page t Game Broadcast Tonight At 8:15 Fans contributed last night sufficient money to see the sectional games broadcast through—that is If Shelby wins tonight—and started the kitty for similar local service on the Regional! at Charles ton next week. Tonight’s broadcast will start at 8:15 in front of The Star office. Frank Connor, handling the amplifying equipment, effected a perfect matching last night with the result that the report was like being at the gams it self. James 8. LeGetts, post ath letic officer, telephoned this af ternoon that weather Is threat ening rain In Sumter but that otherwise prospects for win ning the sectional title tonight are bright. He said that if and as soon as the team wins the section crown It will move to Charleston where the regional play opens Sunday—the Charl eston games are also to be broadcast here. Reconversion Leaders Hope To Avoid Mistakes Of 1918 By The Associated Pros By MAX HALL WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 —UP)— The pattern for the vast recon version task ahead took clearer form today. It was bordered on all sides by official warnings that lessons learned from world war I must be heeded. Top officials are saying a seri ous inflation — soaring prices — could wreck the best-laid recon version plans of industry and gov ernment. Today—two days after victory— the home-front situation took on this shape: The country has its instruc tions. Government agencies have issued their policy state ments. Industry has a green light to produce in unlimited quantities. AU sorts of war time controls are crumbling. The consenting public threw its gasoline coupons and blue points into the waste basket. Prom reconversion director John W. Snyder: ‘The greatest single danger to an orderly reconversion lies in the threat of inflation. We cannot and must not repeat our See RECONVERSION Page 2 eoniN ■ IS. 4IfUTlAH IS Pocilic Ocean Jap Holdings At Surrender waff : GUAM : MARSHALL '.BORNEO NEW 1 ; , -9-^r GUINEA— IS. GILBERT IS. UNDIES 5 SOLOMON IS. ALEUTIAN IS Pacific Ocean ■ t v • Far thest 6 *tent Of Jap Control § PHILIPPINE slVr £ ^-BORNEO BONIN IS. GUAM : MARSH All ■i \ 'S' GILBERT IS. 1-^-GUINEA- - 1- - - ^S^*».%soi6mom V *lcUT,AN & Pacific Ocean f ^ JAPAN |What japan j^P»Tokyo eownr 'QrOBMOSA ’ flPHIlIPPINt .K IS. ‘ GUAM • - WAKt •BORNIO NtW MW4---,SSS« - ^•.^SOtOMON : MARSH All IS. GIIBIRI IS FOUR STAGES IN THE RISE AND FALL OF THE JAPANESE—These maps show in detail the four stages in the rise and fall of the Japanese empire. Upper left: The extent of Japanese holdings before they went to war in 1941. Upper right: Furtherest extent of their gains during the war. Lower left: Jap holdings when surrender negotiations began. Lower right: The approximate area allowed them under the Potsdam surrender terms.—(AP Wlrephoto Map). SHELBY STORES OPEN AGAIN Filling Stations Report Big Day On Gas Sales Today Business In Shelby headed back towards normalcy today with mer chants opening their c'oors for busi ness after a one-day holiday in celebration of the victory over Jap an. rilling stations were doing much larger business with gasoline ration ing removed. They were expecting an additional pick-up shortly. The county courthouse and Shel by city hall remained closed today but will open again tomorrow morn ing. Mills generally will resume oper ation at 11 o’clock tonight although the Ella Mill will not start operat ing until 11 o’clock Sunday night, and the Pull-Knit Hosiery plant re opens at 7 a.m. Friday. Yesterday business was at a total standstill with little business of any kind operating in the city. PRAYER SERVICE Since Tuesday evening there has been very little demonstration of any sort. A central prayer meeting was held last night at the First Baptist church in thanksgiving for peace. Prayer meetings were also held in several of the rural church es. Both the rationing board and the draft board were closed today but will re-open again tomorrow morn ing. Strain on the rationing board has been greatly relieved by reason of the removal of gasoline restric tions. The postofflce was making one city delivery today and liandllng dispatch of all incoming and out going mall. HUSS CLINE IS BADLY HURT BY M. LLACKEY D. Russ Cline, Shelby horseman and local business man, is in the Catawba hospital at Newton in a critical condition as the result of being struck over the head with a pistol by Marshall Lackey, now being held in the Newton jail without bond. The assault is said to have tak en place at the Newton horse show yesterday afternoon. Bad blood had existed some time between Cline and Latkey. Lackey fired on Cline several months ago in Shel by after Cline had offered Lack ey’s wife a ride in his automo bile. Lackey is now on probation from a sentence given him in fed eral court on a liquor charge, and was only recently released from a stay in a hospital for inebriates. Formal charge of assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill has been placed against Lackey, who will be allowed bond, it was stated by officers if Cline’s condi tion improves. GUAM, Aug. 16. —(£*)— Crack pilots of Admiral Halsey’s great American and British carrier fleet fought on in self defense Wednesday —after they had been told officially to “cancel all operations and re turn to base.” “We knew that meant the war was over,” they said. They had completed the first of six or seven scheduled strikes against Tokyo area ground targets when the can cellation order came. And on their way back they shot down 26 of the biggest group of intercepting Jap anese fighters encountered in weeks. The score brought their total to 1,175 enemy planes destroyed or damaged in the past week’s four days of flaming action. They were not elated over firing what theoretically were the last shots of the war, for several of their friends failed to return from that early morning, post-surrender scrap with nearly 50 enemy fighters. OVER CHOFU “We were over Chofu, about ten miles west of Tokyo, when we got the message,” Lt. Ted W. Hansen, Santa Cruz, Calif., flier, told As sociated Press correspondent A1 Dopkings. “Through an opening in the clouds, we saw Atsugi Field, but the guns there didn’t fire on us,” he continued. “We (his group of six American planes) were between Atsugi and Tokyo Bay when 15 to 20 Jap fighters jumped us.” In addition to the 26 shot down in such dogfights, nine more enemy planes were downed near the fleet during the day, Admiral Nimitz’s communique reported. The communique also disclosed the damaging of an American naval auxiliary vessel, not otherwise iden tified, at Okinawa Monday evening with a loss of 15 killed, one missing and 14 wounded. Eighth War Bond Drive In October WAHINGTON, Aug. 16.—To help finance the war’s windup, an 8th war bond drive—the Victory Loan—may get under way In early October. Treasury Secretary Vinson, calling for no letup in payroll savings, said the campaign, with a probable goal of from 10 to 14 billion dollars, should "provide a fitting climax Vr the series of successful drives by which we at home have financed the war. “There are millions of our men overseas. Billions of dollars will be needed to bring them home, to pro vide their mustering-out pay and to care for the disabled. Other bil lions will be required to provide for contract cancellations x x x and we must maintain forces of oc cupation.” __ CONGRESS WILL LOWERTAXES Reduction In Personal In comes Taxes Likely Be fore Christmas By MAX HILL WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. — (&>)— All Americans seem likely to get a cut In their income taxes after Jan uary 1. Perhaps several million will have to pay no income taxes at all next year. Congress is coming back Septem ber 5 in a tax-cutting mood. Some of the best-informed tax experts in Washington think a reduction in personal income taxes will be enact ed before Christmas—with admini stration aproval if the cut isn’t too drastic. People in the lowest income group would be the ones whose income taxes-might be wiped out entirely. MOVE FOR 1945 A survey of congressional and other tax authorities today produc ed the following picture: 1. No tax reductions-are likely on 1945 income. The expected cut would be felt first in smaller payroll de ductions starting January 1. 2. Federal taxes on such items as alcoholic beverages, furs, luggage, jewelry, theater tickets, cabaret spending, and telephone calls will drop back down automatically to 1942 rates six months after the official “termination of hostilities.” 3. The 95 per cent excess profits tax on corporations is sure to be killed. FIGHTING QUESTION The size of any reduction in the personal income tax will be settled in congress, maybe after a knock down fight. The administration certainly will See CONGRESS^aye WHAT’S d6iNG~ TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:00 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Rotary club. 7:00 p.m.—Masonic fellow ship dinner at lodge room in Masonic temple. Demobilization Must Wait For Japanese Disarmament I WASHINGTON, Aug. 16— — Ilf the Japanese behave, if trans iportation permits and if the draft j act remains in effect, the army plans to let 5,000,000 soldiers be ome civilians in the next year. The navy, with a newly-an nounced point system, will free 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 in the next I 12 or 18 months. The Marine Corps has adopt ed the army point system for | j discharges but makes no esti mate of the number affected. ' “Our first responsibility before , we make additional men eligible i I for release from the army will be J to make certain that the Japanese have accepted the surrender terms In good faith,” Secretary of War Stimson said yesterday in a state ment. “There are some 2,500,000 trained Japanese soldiers in the home islands alone and an equal number still to be disarmed in other Pacific and Asiatic territory. ’ The army probably will not cut the number of points required for discharge below the present 85 for two months or more. WACs need 44. The war department has 471,000 See DEMOBILIZATION Page t Radio Message Heard By FCC; No Formal Reply By The Associated Press Emperor Hirohito will send members of the imperial family to the various fighting fronts to assure that his orders to “cease fire” are carried out by the Japanese troops, the Japanese government said today in a message to General MacArthur which was recorded by the Federal Communica tions Commission. The message advised the Allied Supreme Commander that the order ending hostilities had been issued as he direct ed and added that members of the imperial family would en force it personally, although in some isolated instances it might take as long as 12 days. CHINA FACES CIVIL WAR _____ Northern Communist Troops Clash With Guerrillas By JOHN GROVER CHUNGKING, Aug. 16—(^—Un official reports today said Chinese communist troops, apparently bent upon seizing control of all key cities north of the Yellow river when Japanese lay down their arms, had clashed with Central government guerrillas at several points near: Tsingtao and Tientsin. Previous unconfirmed reports had said the communists were moving to seize both those cities as well as Peiping, Hsuchow and other stra tegic centers in direct defiance of orders from Generalissimo Chlang Kai-hek. Chinese communists formally re jected today Chlang's order to re main at their present post and take no independent action against the Japanese, saying the order was “definitely contrary to the interests of the Chinese nation." The rejection came as Chiang awaited a reply to an invitation to Gen. Mao Tze-tung, a communist leader, to confer with him in Chungking. MANY PROBLEMS “We have many international and internal problems awaiting settle ment,” the generalissimo said in a radio message to the communist of ficial. “These involve our national welfare. Please do not delay in com ing here.” The communists issued a com munique saying their troops were ee CHINA Page 2 Sunday Set Aside As Day Of Prayer WAHINGTON, Aug. 16.—— Next Sunday, Aug. 19, has been set aside by President Truman as a day of prayer to God to “support and guide us into the paths of peace.” In a proclamation, issued today, the chief executive said: “I call upon the people of the United States, of all faiths, to unite in offering their thanks to God for the victory we have won, and in praying that he will support and guide into the paths of peace. “I also call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who gave their lives to make possible our victory.” The message, in English, esti mated that six days would be re quired to make the message en tirely effective in China, eight days in Bougainville and 12 days in New Guinea and the Philip pines. The message expressed great embarrassment, but said that it was “impossible for us to arrange for the flight of our representative on Aug. 17,” as demanded by MacArthur, “due to scarcity of time.” “We will however proceed at once with the necessary prepara tions and notify General MacAr thur as to the date of the flight of such representative, which will take place as soon as possible,” the message said. The type of plane ordered to make the flight by MacArthur also was questioned. The Japa nese complained they did not un derstand the designation and ask ed the Allied commander to re peat the entire message of in structions to them. NO FORMAL REPLY MANILA, Aug. 16 — (/Ph— The Japanese had made no formal re ply to General MacArthur’s mes sage of surrender instructions to night, almost 24 hours after re ceipt was acknowledged in Tokyo. MacArthur yesterday demanded that Tokyo order all Japanese troops to cease hostilities and give instructions for sending a repre sentative of Emperor Hirohito to Manila to receive surrender terms. The Japanese Domei news agency reported earlier Emperor Hirohito had complied with the Allied Su preme commander’s instruction that imperial troops be instructed to cease fire. Headquarters of American forces in the Pacific told correspondents at 9 p.m. (8 a.m.. Eastern War Time) however, that no word had yet been received. The mystery of the prolonged See RADIO Page Z WAR CONTINUES IN MANCHURIA Red Army Mobile Units Advancing Steadily Over Wide Area MOSCOW, Aug. 16.—UP)—Russian forces continued today to drive deeper into Manchuria where, a Soviet communique said last night, Japanese troops still are offering resistance. Front dispatches indicated Red mobile units were spreading out rapidly over hundreds of square miles of territory, with three main columns driving steadily toward the munitions and communica tions center of Harbin. The nearest of the three col umns was the one advancing from the east, which had taken the rail hub of Mutankiang, 165 miles from Harbin, and was pushing on to the west. The government newspaper Iz vestia, meanwhile, declared it was “hard to predict how Japan will fulfill the terms of unconditional surrender.” “The wolfish habits of the ag gressor should cause all peoples to be on guard and especially watch ful,” the paper said. "The Jap anese army has yet to lay down its arms, but instead is still car rying on military operations and resisting.”
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