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Capping Exercise
For Ten Nurses
Capping exercises were held lest
night at 8:00 o’clock at the stu
dent nurses' home of Shelby hos
pital for the ten student nurses
who have completed their first six
months of training.
The services opened with a play
let depicting Florence Nightingale
and the seven virtues required in
the nursing profession. Miss Nira
Leonhardt was narrator, and Miss
Mabel Herndon took the part of
Miss Nightingale. The virtues
were interpreted by the following
student nurses: Miss Gladys Tyn
er, an— Virginia McFarland, Miss
Helms Snipes. Miss Lois Hamrick,
Ruth Summey, Miss Janet
Teague, and Miss Lena Taylor.
HABBISON SPEAKS
Dr. J. W. Harbtoon gave the ad
dress for the evening followed by
the formal capping ceremonies.
Miss Hazel Beam, instructor in
the school of nursing, presented
the candidates, and Miss Bryte
Glascoe, superintendent of nurses,
presented the students with their
An Informal reception was held
it the close of the exercises.
Nurses receiving their caps were
Miss Jacqueline Wray of Polkville.
Mrs. Sara Hope Beal and Miss
Ruby Smith of Gastonia, Miss
Virginia Seism and Miss Dorothy
Leonhardt of Fallston, Miss Peggy
Byers of Blacksburg. S. C., Miss
Lavon Blankenship of Lincolnton,
Miss Mary Jane Gault of Mill
Springs, and Miss Jeanette Shi
ver and Miss Sara Williams of
this city.
RECONVERSION
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folly after world war I."
Prom Price Administrator Ches
ter Bowles: “After world wax I,
economic fumbling delayed order
iy peacetime reconversion for more
than two years.”
Prom Stabilization Director Wil
liam H. Davis: “We cannot afford
to risk an unstable, ruinous econ
omy such as we had after the last
war.”
Then Davis, broadcasting last
night with Snyder and other of
ficials, recalled what happened
after armistice day in 1918:
Price controls were dropped.
Workers with new peacetime
Jobs rushed to stores to spend
their savings. There weren't
enough goods. Storekeepers
ywC manufacturers started a
“wfld scramble” to buy every
thing they could.
Prices skyrocketed. Then came
the collapse. People couldn’t pay
the high prices. Prices crashed.
Bankrupt businesses numbered
5,500,000. More than 400,000 farm
ers lost their farms.
AT CROSS-ROADS
Snyder, terming the nation “at
the cross-roads”, urged manage
ment, labor, fanners and govern
ment to work together with the
same spirit that enabled them to
win the war.
“I believe we are at the thresh
old of one of the greatest eras that
mankind has ever known. It is
ours to take hold of. What we
do with It is up to us,” the recon
version chief declared.
Here are some of the latest de
velopments:
1. The War Production board
said it will cut its 400 controls
down to 40 by next Monday. An
nouncing its reconversion pro
gram, WPB opened the gates to
unlimited production of autos, re
frigerators, washing machines, and
the like. It also gave the signal
for Industrial construction to be
gin. Controls on scarce mater
ials and on inventories will remain
temporarily.
CONTINUED PROGRAM
Price Administrator Bowles an
nounced OPA’s reconversion pro
gram:
To keep price ceilings on
food; to continue the drive
to reduce clothing prices; to
mo that autos, electric iron*,
and other goods come back on
the market “at or cbose to
1942 prices”; to hold rent con
trols firmly and to halt
“hearties* evictions”; and to
enforce vigorously the price
and ration control* he said
must remain on the books.
TSje army, navy, and marines
announced their demobilization
elans. They expect to release a
■ound 7,500,000 troops in a year
kr year and a half.
In line with lifting of restric
tions, President Truman announ
ced the end of voluntary news
censorship. Byron Price, the cen
sorship director, .told editors and
broadcasters they had “contribut
ed greatly to the glorious vic
tory”
CONGRESS
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tppoee any drastic slash in the in
come tax for next year, but there
tre strong signs the administration
sill not oppose a moderate reduc
tion—for example, repeal of the
‘normal tax.”
This normal tax—8 per cent of net
income—used to be called the
‘victory tax.”
‘NORMAL TAX”
If the “nomal tax” were repealed,
vhat is known as the “surtax” would
ke the only income tax left.
To put it on a Veekly basis, a
rap with a wife and one child,
earning up to around $30 a week,
trould see his withholding tax disap
pear.
If ha makes $35 a week, his with
'tolding tax would drop from $1.3C
'to SO cents. If he has an Income ol
$50 a week, the tax would decrease
from $4.40 to $3.30; Income of $70
from $8 80 to $7; Income of $100
from $15.70 to $13.30.
Two warblers drawn and describ
ed by Audubon have never beer
Furnished by X Robert Lindsay
Webb Building Shelby. N. C.
and Company
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO, Aug. 16—(AO—(WFA)
—Salable hogs 1,600, total 3,000;
active, fully steady; good and choice
barrows and gilts 140 lbs. up at
14.75 ceilings; good and choice
sows at 14.00; complete clearance.
Salable cattle 1,000, total 2,000;
salable calves 500, total 500; ped
dling cleanup market on most
killing classes; only cattle suit
able for eastern shippers sold re
liably steady; all others unevenly
lower; comparatively little here,
however, and receipts mainly cows;
this class steady on practically
all grades; strictly good and choice
steers wanted by shippers at
steady prices; mainly 16.90-17.75;
top 18.00, the ceiling; hit and miss
trade on steers recently selling at
16.00 down; heifers at 15.00 down
and all weights grassy bulls; most
big packers and local small killers
practically out of market.
Annual Revival At
Flint Hill Baptist
Church Opens Sunday
The annual revival will begin at
Flint Hill Baptist church near
Boiling Springs Sunday night at
8:30. The Rev. Jesse Blalock will
assist the pastor, the Rev. J. W.
Costner.
Services will be held each morn
ing at 11 o’clock and each night
at 8:30 o’clock.
The pastor, the Rev. J. W. Cost
ner is assisting the Rev. Hugh
Harrill this week at New Hope
Baptist church in Earl. The ser
vices will run through Sunday
morning at Earl.
Jewish State In
Palestine Discussed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — (fl»)—
President Truman disclosed today
that this government is discussing
with the British a Jewish national
state in Palestine.
The chief executive told a news
conference that the American view
is that many Jews should be let into
Palestine as possible.
The matter would have to be
worked out diplomatically with the
British and Arabs to assure success,
he said.
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silence caused talk here as a de
tailed statement on Japan's ac
ceptance of plans for sending a
representative to headquarters was;
expected much earlier.
IMPATIENT
MacArthur, obviously impatient
as fighting continued in scatter
ed pockets in the Northern Luzon
mountains, asserted the Japanese j
had held up their reply for hours. |
(An Okinawa report said the j
Japanese envoys would reach Ie t
Shima tomorrow in compliance
with instructions, but no word
was received in Manila of such
plans.)
The latest deadline for Japanese
notification on details of the en
voy’s flight is 5 a.m., tomorrow,
Manila time (5 pm., today, U. S.
Eastern War Time.)
MacArthur specified that such j
notification should be given Am- j
erican headquarters six hours in
advance of the time for the en
voy’s departure from Kyushu, and
said that unless weather inter
fered the plane should leave be
tween 8 am. and 11 a.m., (8 p.m.,
and 11 p.m., today, U. S. Eastern
War Time.)
34 HOURS
The Japanese gave no indication
in announcing receipt of the mes
sages when further contact could
be expected. Yet it is now 34
hours since MacArthur made his
first radio broadcast to the de
feated nation, and Tokyo appar
ently has made no effort to even
designate the radio station for fu
ture conversations.
The Tokyo announcement said
Emperor Hirohito’s order ending
hostilities would be transmitted
to MacArthur, whose last word
from the Japanese was acknowledg
ment of his second message at 11
p.m., last night. Domel added the
caution it might take “even sev
eral days” for the order to be
relayed to all remote units.
Tokyo radio did acknowledge
receipt of a note from Secretary
of State Byrnes which instructed
Japan to order hostilities ceased
immediately and notify MacAr
thur. Tokyo said the text reached
government hands at 11 am. to
day Tokyo time (10 pm. last
night Eastern War Time.)
At noon yesterday, the signal
corps In Manila transmitted to
Japan a message from MacArthur
in which he informed the emper
or of his appointment as supreme
commander of the Allied powers
to effect Nippon’s surrender and
asked that a Tokyo area radio sta
tion be designated for communi
cation purposes.
j A little later, a second message
instructed Japanese leaders to or
der hostilities ceased at once, then
notify MacArthur of the “effec
tive date and hour” whereupon
“the Allied forces will be directed
to cease hostilities.” In great
detail, the message told of proce
dure for representatives to fly to
Manila to receive instructions in
| surrender procedure.
LIQUOR STORES CLOSED
COLUMBIA, S. C. —(#)— South
Carolina's liquor stores ordered
closed by Governor Ransome J. Wil
liams upon the declaration of V-J
• Day remained closed today,
i They will not reopen for business
until tomorrow. _ ' _
PIONEERS CITED
BY BUIWINKLE
Tells Beam Reunion Coun
try Ready To Move
Ahead
The world is coming out of this
war in better shape than it did
from the last World War, Major
A. L. Bui winkle, 11th district con
gressman, told the annual Beam
reunion at New Prospect church
this morning as he paid tribute to
“pioneers of the future” as well as
John Teeter Beam who pioneered
the Beam clan in this county
nearly 200 years ago.
Major Bulwinkle traced the Beam
line through generations of useiul
ness that have given not only this
state but also the nation out
standing citizenry, but he declar
ed as he came to the view of the
future that “there will be no go
ing back to days of yesterday.”
Oliver Anthony was re-elected
president of the clan, while Cape.
Joe Morrison was named vice-pres
ident and Mrs. Hugh Bettis was
re-elected secretary-treasurer. A
bountiful picnic dinner was served
on the church grounds.
BULWINKLE SPEAKS
Capt. Morrison, home from thrc*
and a half years in the Pacific,
talked briefly at the opening of
the meeting, while his father, J.
Graham Morrison, of Lincoln coun
ty, spoke entertainingly. Congress
man Bulwinkle was presented by
Holt McPherson whose work in the
Office of War Mobilization and
Reconversion the speaker commend
ed.
Congressman Bulwinkle cited tire
twin dangers of inflationary and
deflationary forces assailing the
American economy on both sides
as he assailed selfishness which he
said did so much to lose the vic
tory fbndwing the last war. He
cited the fact that the nation
emerges from this war with a debt
of $300 billions, that it has a
greatly expanded governmental
structure which must be heavily
scaled back and he said that the
nation must maintain sufficient
armed strength to carry out its
commitments to help maintain
peace against aggressors who would
cause war in any part of the
world.
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"indicates that his Majesty re*
gards the present stiuation as one
of unprecedented importance in
national history.” He reportedly
made his choice without following
the usual practice of consulting
senior -statesmen.
Simultaneously Domei said that
Japan’s latest totalitarian party
was expected to be dissolved fn the
near future and be succeeded by
"some other organization to be
formed for the promotion of post
war reconstruction.”
“ABOUT FACE”
Meanwhile, Japanese home-front
propaganda began an "about-face”
with the powerful Tokyo newspa
per Yomluri Hochi coming fUt
faltly in parise of the scientific
genius which created the atomic
bomb for the allies, and suggesting
that it is time for the Japanese
to face the facts.
Credit should be given the
“scientific superiority” behind
the atomic bomb, the paper
suggested, and the Japanese
might better “accuse ourselves
of being so incapable, x x x We
failed to guage our limitations
and knew not enough of our
adversaries.”
Earlier, Domei broadcast that the
Japanese people, although over
come with sorrow at their defeat,
shiting no “discontent” with Hi
rohito's rescript of surrender yes
terday.
The text of the broadcast an
nouncing the Emperor had order
ed an end to hostilities:
“His Majesty the Emperor has
already issued an order to all his
armed forces to cease hostilities
immediately. It may, however, take
some time—even several days —
before the imperial order reaches
front line units in some remote
islands or mountain areas.
"An official communication of
the Japanese government to that
effect will be made direct to the
headquarters of Gen. MacArthur.”
When Chester W. Nimltz was 31
years old he was commander of U
S» submarine forces in the Atlantic
opean.
Gasoline May
Soon Be Back To
Prewar Quality
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. — (IP)—
That unrationed gasoline soon will
be back to pre-war quality.
Enough materials are available,
the petroleum administration for
war reported today, to return to
peacetime octane ratings.
This will mean easier starting,
especially in cold weather, and less
motor pinging and knocking.
Peactime quality standards will
be reestablished as soon r.s required
refining and distribution adjust
ments can be made, Ralph K. Da
vies, deputy PAW administrator,
said.
The quality of civilian gasoline
has declined appreciably since the
beginning of the war, largely be
cause tetraethyl was needed for pro
duction of 100-octane aviation gaso
line.
Maximum rating for premium
gasoline now is 76. a drop of two
to four points, while regular gaso
line has a 70-octane rating. This
compares with 74 to 76 before the
war.
The OPA followed its announce
ment at the end of gasoline ration
ing yesterday with an easing of tire
regulations to permit some “A” card
motorists to obtain new tires.
TIRES
These still will be rationed large
ly on the basis of occupational driv
ing, but 5 per cent of each board's
tire quota now may go to "A”
motorists.
Certificates for new tires may be
issued for cars used for non-occu
pational purposes—the old category
for “A” cars—when denial of an ap
plication would cause "undue hard
ship,” OPA said. No board, how
ever, may use more than 5 per cent
of its monthly quota for this pur
pose.
“A” card motorists have not been
eligible for new tires since the be
ginning of gasoline rationing in the
East May 15, 1942, and its extension
to the entire nation Dec. 1, 1942.
Present indications are for the
ending of tire rationing within the
next three months.
Along with gasoline, the OPA
freed fuel oil, all processed foods re
quiring blue points and oil stoves
from rationing.
STILL ON LIST
Still on the ration lists are meats,
fats and oils, butter, sugar and
tires.
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles said it was impossible to
tell just when this rationing would
end, but that it would be as soon
as reductions in military require
ments had balanced civilian sup
plies with demand.
The W'ar Production board fol
lowed this with a prediction shoe
j rationing would end before the new
| year as a result of drastic reduc
| lions in military orders.
WPB announced a_cqt-back of
! almost 100 per cent in army _WJ99i
j buying. This will free thousands of
I yards of woolens and worsteds for
j the civilian market before Christ
mas.
WOOLENS, COTTON
The cut-back affects serges, flan- I
nels, blankets and heavy under
wear.
Simultaneously, the Army termi- j
nated contracts for 275,000.000 yards |
of broad woven cotton fabrics, in
t eluding duck.
Moving on another front, the
OPA began lilting price controls on {
consumer goods items not important
in the cost of living. Included are ,
many items of jewelry, sports equip-,
: mer.t, cigarette lighters, pipes, no
tions and toys selling for 25 cents
or less.
Price control was suspended too
on so-called luxury furs and fur
garments, but Bowles said these
would be reestablished if prices be
gin rising above present ceilings.
Cherry To Restore
Prewar Speed Limit
Within Short Time
RALEIGH, Aug. 16—UP -The 35
miles per hour speed limit for
North Carolina probably will be
raised within a short time back
to the pre-war limit of 60 miles
per hour, Governor Cherry has
announced.
Cherry said he would begin con
sideration immediately of lifting
other wartime regulations which
will be obsolete with the coming
! of peace.
Yokhohama, the roomiest of Ja
pan’s six big cities, has a popula
tion of more than one million.
REVIVAL MEETING
AT MT. MORIAH
LEE'S OHAPEL. — The revival
meeting is in progress at Mt.
Moriah church this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Buford Richards
and family of Lawndale visited Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Self Sunday aft
ernoon. Mrs. Susan Dayberry was
Sunday dinner guest.
Miss Deliafay Talent spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Avery
McNelly of Casar.
Miss Louise Jones spent Satur
day night with Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Whisnant and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Lox Blankenship of
Golden Valley were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. John Whisnant Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Mass Smith spent
Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs.
Vale Murray and family of Lawn
dale.
Wilbur Whisnant of Marion spent
last week visiting relatives in this
community.
Pfc. James Yount returned to Fort
Monmouth, N. J., Tuesday after
spending ten days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Yount.
Mrs. Fred Whisnant spent Satur
day night with her sister, Mrs. Asper
Ledford, and Mr. Ledford of Shelby.
Pfc. Hugh Hunt returned to Mia
mi, Fla., Saturday afternoon after
spending a 60-day furlough with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dob Hunt.
CHINA
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near Peiping. No other major city
was mentioned and the text was
not passed by the Central govern
ment censors.
It has long been known that com
munists forces were solidly efab
lished in the hills dominating Pei
ping. There were no authentic re
port on whether any Japanese gar
risons had surrendered in that area.
There also was an absence cf in
formation from the vital port of
Shanghai. Pre-armistice reports put
communist outposts within 50 miles
of this great city and their under
ground was reported infiltrating In
to the city itself.
REJECTION
The formal rejection of Chiang's
order for the communist forces to
remain at their present posts and
to refrain from disarming Japanese
and puppet soldiers was signed by
Gen. Chuh Teh, communist com
mander, and Gen. Peng Teh-Huai,
deputy commander, who said: .
"iVe consider your order a
grave mistake and are compell
ed to refuse it firmly. Your ord
er is only to the advantage of
the Japanese and traitors who
have sold out thefr country.”
An unidentified spokesman for the
communist news agency issued a
statement referring to Chiang as a
• fascist chieftain’’ and asserting that
his underground consisted of troops
‘ serving the Japanese.”
•‘Is there still any doubt that
danger of civil war is serious?'.' the
■spokesman asked.
NOT REPRESENTATIVE
He said that the Chinese high
command in Chungking did not
represent the people and appealed to
the United States, Russia, Britain
to permit the communist command
to send its own representatives to'
participate in the surrender of Ja
pan and in the peace conference.
Meanwhile, the Central govern
ment announced two moves to get
trusted men in key stations, ap
pointing Vice Admiral Chan Chak
as mayor of Canton and Lih Sien
Liang, described as an underground
leader, to be mayor of Tsingtao, one
of the major north China cities.
King George VI conferred knight
hood upon one-legged Chan Chak
for his cooperation with the Brit
ish during the battle of Hongkong.
Chiang issued an order today
suspending further conscription for
China’s armies. The daily com
munique was not Issued yesterday
for the first time in months but no
formal order has been given so far
as is known here, for Chinese arm
ies to cease fire.
14-Year-Old Boy
Foretold War's End
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16.—(/Pi—Four
ten-year-old Ronald Ruesch proud
ly rang the bells of Assumption
church last night, his second re
ward for predicting both dates of
the German and Japanese sur
renders.
When Ronald left the bell tower
last May 8 after ringing out V-ii
. day, a date he chose a month
earlier in a guessing contest at
his Parish school, Father F. J.
Schlattmann asked when he would
come back to repeat the perform
ance for Japan’s surrender.
“By August 15,” Ronald replied.
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the future.
Nearly every defeated people
felt that way about It, the Presi
dent remarked. But, he added,
he did not think the Japanese
ever would have a chance to ob
tain revenge.
The President opened his con
ference with the remark that he
had no particular news but
thought reporters ought to have a
chance to look him in the face
and ask him pertinent questions.
He grinned as he said this.
There was nothing, the Presi
dent added, likely to come out of
this that the reporters would have
to break an arm for in getting to
the telephone. Some White House
reporters have been injured re
cently in scrambles to break war
news.
When a reporter asked what was
to be done with the three large
plants that make up the Man
hattan project where the major
work is done in producing the a
tomic bombs, the President said
that is up to Congress.
EMPLOYED FOB GOOD
In the long run. he said, the
atomic energy developed for use
in these devastating bombs can
be employed for the welfare and
benefit of the world instead of its
destruction.
He hoped, the President said,
that Congress would cooperate in
peacetime development of the a
tom splitting project. He said the
work is continuing meanwhile un
til Congress makes a decision.
Previously Mr. Truman had urged
congressional establishment of a
commission which would control
production of atomic energy and
direct its development for peace
time uses.
The President reiterated that V
J day will not come until the Jap
anese surrender is officially sign
ed that surrender won't be com
plete, he added, until an estimat
ed 2,000,000 Japanese lay down
thefr arms.
NO HOLIDAY
Designating Sunday as a day of
prayer, the President said V-J day
would not be a holiday. He ad
ded that the people had had e
nough holidays yesterday and to
day.
Discussing foreign affairs gen
erally, the President said there
had been talk at the Big Three
meeting in Potsdam of the Korean
! situation and it was his belief that
the Cairo declaration which ulti
mately would make Korea a free
and independent state would be
carried out.
There was no talk at the Pots
dam meeting, he said, of the fu
ture fate of Hongkong, British
crown colony which was seized by
the Japanese early in the war.
105 U. S.
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■ munique. Aside from the 10 fast
battleships, there are also the older
bombardment ships like the Cali
fornia, the New Mexico, New York
and Texas,
The ten 27.000-ton Essex class car
riers and the six Independence class
carriers listed represent but a part
of the U. S. array of flattops.
OUT OF ACTION
Out of action at the time were
the Hornet, the Bunker Hill, the
Franklin and the “Big E”—the En
terprise—which is in a prewar class
of its own.
In the battleship lineup, the Mas
sachusetts, Indiana, Alabama and
South Dakota are of the South Da
kota class, 27-knot powerhouses with
standard 35.000-ton displacements.
The North Carolina is a sister ship
of the Washington, distinctive for
their two-stack design, a little
slower than some of their compa
nions but still considered fast for
their 35,000-ton weight.
The biggest and most powerful
of the battlewagons are the Iowa,
Missouri and Wisconsin, which
with the New Jersey from the
45,000-ton Iowa claas. They are
actually considerably heavier
than their rated tonnage. Like
the other new battleships they
have nine 16-inch guns, but their
big rifles are longer than on
other classes.
The only British battleship list
ed, the H. M. S. King George V.,
is a 35,000 tonner with 10 fourteen
inch guns. Two other Royal Navy
dreadnaughts, the Howe and the
Duke of York, have been announc
ed in the Pacific, but they did not
travel with the Third fleet.
The Essex class carriers carry 90
odd planes and can step up to 34
knots, beating the British carriers
on both scores.
Need Wisdom Of The
Ages To Forge Peace
Says Dr, Laprade
DURHAM, Aug. 16—(/P)—Dr. W.
T. Laprade, of Duke university’s
history department, speaking at
thanksgiving-for-peace services at
the university chapel yesterday,
said, "we shall need all the wis
dom of the ages if the giant
swords we have forged are to be
beaten into plowshares sufficient
to enable us to make ready for
the seeds of peace, a soil rank
Vith the weeds of hunger, fear,
and hate.
"The task will be long and at
no stage easy,” he continued. “But
It was vain to have embarked up
on the enterprise that led to this
day unless we intend to keep our
hands to the plow, learning in
peace as we did in war, how to
do the impossible as we go a
long.”
Infantry Raises
Air Corps 2,000
NEWTON, MASS. — (IP)— Sgt.
Benjamin M. Thomas came home
from Patton's Third army with
this one:
From an infantryman opera
ating in high terrain with a wal
kie-talkie came a message, “This
is the air force coming in at 1.000 .
feet.” Back went'the answer: "Thisj
is the infantry coming in at 3.000 ‘
feet. Get the hell up where you!
belong.”
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men with 85 or more points wait
ing to be released.
In addition, an brder yesterday
directed^ release of enlisted men
and women over 38 who apply in |
writing for a discharge. Applicants 1
must be released immediately if
replacements are available and in
no case may they be held for long
er than 90 days after application.
Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry,
assistant chief of staff, estimated
300.000 are affected by the order.
This includes, however, some of
those with 85 points.
Up to now 260,000 have been dis
charged under the point system.
Army strength is 8,000.000.
Stimson said the discharge point
j minimum will be reduced as soon
i as feasible.
I In fairness to -the men over
seas. he added. Selective Service
'must be continued for "in no other
! way can we provide men to re
! place gradually the soldiers now
| forming our occupation forces and
j garrisons in Alaska, Hawaii and
1 the Caribbean.”
j Army inductions under Selective
; Service have been reduced from
80.000 to 50.000 a month.
At the same time, the army is
launching a recruiting campaign
for a volunteer army of 280,000,
• the -limit--imposed by congress on
j-the size- of the regular army.
The navy plans to release in the
.next year or year and a half 1.500,
! 000 to 2.500.000 Of the 3.388.556 it
1 had on June 30.
| Its discharge formula allows half
(a point for each year of age, ha'f
! a point for each month of active
,duty since September 1, 1939. and
! ten points for dependents Mini
mum release totals are 44 for en
listed t»jen, 29 for WAVES. 49 for
male officers. 35 for WAVE offi
[cexs. The navy estimates 327.000
are eligible,.'J&r immediate dis
charge.
It also will free any personnel
who have the medal of honor,
navy cross, legion of merit, silver
star or distinguished flying cross,
extreme hardship cases involving
dependency and enlisted men 42
or older.
Jap Naval Attache *j 4
In Bern Reported
Hari Kari Victim '•[
LONDON, August 16. —(/P)— Brit
ish press dispatches from Switzer
land today reported that Lt. Gen.
Tokamoto, Japanese naval attache
at the embassy In Bern, had com
mitted suicide at Zurich.
Tokamoto was the second promi
nent Japanese official reported to
have taken his own life since the
Japanese surrender. Tokyo radio
announced yesterday that War Min
ister Anami had taken his own life.
Atomic Bomb Called
Sensational Miracle
MOSCOW, Aug. 16. —(£>)— The
Soviet government newspaper Iz
vestia, making the first appraisal
by the Russian press of the atomio
bomb, said today:
‘‘The end of the war was brought
about by the powerful joint effort
of all the Allies in common arms—
who defeated Germany, too—but
not by sensational miracles."
The trumpet call of the whoop
ing crane can be heard as far as
three miles.
WANT ADS 1
FOR SALE — HOME COMFORT
range in excellent condition, with
hot water front and attachments.
Also Franklin heater in excellent
condition. R. D. Hord, Phone
355-W. It 16c -
COPPERTONE! WHAT IS IT?
The finest sun tan cream on the
market. Get U at Shelby Drug
Co.. *1.00 a Jar 3t 16c
LOST: LADIES’ GOLD WRIST
watch, with rubles In band. Re
ward. Esther D. Amlco. 601
South Lafayette St. 3t 16o
WE PAY CASH FOR HENS, FRY*
ers, eggs, country ham, shoul
ders, and side meat. Phone 485.
Griffin P. Smith. 3t 16c
FOR SALE — CORN SHELLER
power or hand operated. Also
corn mill. R. D. Hord, Phone
355-W. It 16c
FOR SALE—1940 FORD CONVER
tible. Can be seen at Francis &
Wilson Service Station. 3t 16c
HAVE ROOM FOR PASSENGER *
to Petersburg. Va. Sunday. Call
R. D. Hord. Phone 355-W. It 16c
' WANTED — FAMILY TO PICK
cotton. Will furnish house and
fuel. C. C. tCobby) Horn. Roy
ster Building, Shelby, 6t 18ft
NEW SHIPMENT PANTIES,
white and pink, full elastic,
i assorted sizes. Nester G.
j Hamrick. It 16c (
for Tale or trade: one‘2;.a
passenger bus. See O. S Hunt,,
Telephone 192 or Gulf Station
across from Webb Theatre.
3t 16p
WANTED TO RENT: TWO. THREE
of four room apartment, furnish
ed or unfurnished, for two. Tele
phone 655-R. It 16p
TOO LATE FOR BEHIND THE
FRONT PAOE—Oentleman driv
ing to Greensboro Sunday morn
ing. can take two or three pas
sengers. Gentleman wants ride to
• Washington Sunday, or will drive
own car and take passengers. Call i
Holt McPherson.
LOST: BILLFOLD CONTAINING
$600 to $700. In or around Shel
by Sales Stable. Liberal reward.
Atho Hamrick, R-2, Shelby, N.
C 3t 16p
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