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WEATHER Fair weather today and tonight; Tuesday clear to partly cloddy; little chan/3 In temperatures through Tuesday. Tslye Schelbe Bailg Him CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre To Jay - “Cl IN A SKY” RANDOLPH SCOTT RUTH WARRICK VOL. XL1II— 205 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N C. MONDAY, AUG. 27, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES- «e CSS MISSOURI TO BE SCENE < SURRENDER — The United States Navy’s mighty 45,000-ton battle ship, the USS Missouri, will end her World War II career in a blaze of glory, Aug. 31, 1945, In Tokyo Bay, when she serves as the scene of the historic unconditional surrender of Japan to the United Nations. Proudly bearing the name of the home state of President Harry S. Truman, the fighting USS Missouri has been named by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, as the locale of the formal ending of the war in the Pacific. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific ocean areas, will sigu for the United States, General of the Army Mac Arthur, for the Allied forces which fought in the Pacific. The USS Missouri was launched Jan. 29, 1944. Construction was ordered June 12, 1940. Her keel was laid on Jan. 6, 1941, at the New York Navy Yard. Russia, China Sign 30-Year Peace Pact Treaty Puts Soviet Russia On Side Of Centrol Chinese Government CHUNGKING, Aug. 27.—(lP)—Russia and China were bound today in a 30-year friendship treaty which is designed to block for that period any possible Japanese aggression in Asia and which apparently paves the way for a peaceful settlement of Chungking-Chinese communist differences. Mao And Party To Confer With Chiang Forces C HONORING, Aug. 27—MaJ. Oen. Patrick J. Hurley, U. S. am bassador to China, left by plane today for Yenan to accompany Mao Tse-Tung and other com munist leaders back to Chungking for conferences with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang had invited Mao to meet with him in an attempt to reach a peaceful settlement of differ ences between the national gov ernment and the north China communists which have been threatening to plunge the nation Into civil war. Before departing Hurley issued a statement saying he was going to Yenan “with the consent and full approval of the generalissimo and on invitation of Mao Tse Tung, chairman of the communist party of China.” "I shall accompany Mao and his party to Chungking, where they will enter into direct nego tiations with the generalissimo and the national government,” Hurley added. “I am happy to be returning to Yenan. We have worked continu-( ally for more than a year to help the national government remove the possibility of civil war in China. “In this controversy there have been so many conflicting elements that it is a source of gratifica tion to use that we have been able to maintain the respect and confidence of the leaders of both parties." Chungking Troops, V. S. Air Forces Land In Shanghai LONDON, Aug. 27—(/P>—'The To kyo radio said Chungking Loops and U. S. Air forces from the China theater began landing in the Shanghai sector this morning. The’ landings were made peace fully after prearrangement with the Japanese, the broadcast said. Quake Felt In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27—(#) —An earthquake of fairly sharp intensity was felt here at about 2:13 a.m. today. No damage report was immediately available but objects were shaken from shelves. Dr. Perry Byerly, University of California seismologist, said he felt the tremor at his home and classed it as a No. 4 earth shock on the Rossl-Forel scale which has a No. 10 moxlmum. He said the quake was “average” for those felt in the San Fran cisco Bay area with little likeli hood oi property damage.. 1IIC pou, tCIIIW Ul WUiVU wtlt announced simultaneously by the Chinese and Russian governments' last night, provides that Russia will give military supplies and moral supoprt to Generalissimo Chlang Kai-shek's nationalist gov ernment to the exclusion of the northern China communist regime and calls for mutual aid lh the event of any Japanese attack. The treaty also assured the return of Manchuria to the Chinese, with Russia promis ing to complete withdrawal of her occupation troops—which wrested this country from the Japanese — within the next three months. The agreement was signed for mally in Moscow on Aug. 14 after negotiations conducted by Chinese Prime Minister T. V. Soong and Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissar V. M. Molotov. Premier Stalin wit nessed the signing. Sun Po, president of China’s legislative Yuan, termed the pact an epochmaking accomplishment” which he said would guarantee peace In Asia for 30 years. The treaty ends a long under current of political strain between the two great Asiatic powers brought about by the activities of Chinese comunlst elements who frequently have been at odds with the central government in Chung king. A race between Chungking and communist forces to occupy north China cities and capture Japanese arms there had brought about a threat of civil war since the capitulation of Nipponese troops. The agreement provides for Its own renewal automatically for “an See RUSSIA Page 2 Shelby Games Be Broadcast Here; WBT Gives Scores The Star arranged today with radio station WfZ in Charlotte to furnish on Its 11:05 p. m. newscast final re* suits of each night’s game in the "Little World Series” starting tonight. All games in which Shelby participates — the first one Tuesday night at 8 p. m. when Tucson, Ariz., furnishes the opposition, will be broadcast play-by-play from The Star office with Lee Kirby doing the report. ' FREEZER PLANT ASSUREDSOON U. Meacham, Major Broadus Here Placing Orders For Equipment Order* are being placed today for plant and equipment for a freezer locker plant to serve the Shelby area it was learned from Lieutenant Earl Meacham and Major R. B. Broaddus who hope to have the 700 initial lockers ready for service In early 1946. The project carries out plans made by the two before the war but interrupted by their service. Both have had lengthy service rec ords and expect early release from duty, Lieutenant Meacham having just returned from England to be home on OTdays leave! Majot Broaddus is with the Army Air Force stationed now at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala.; the two were associated at N. C. State Col lege and before the war in opera tion of the 500-locker Carolina Freezer Locker Company which they own at Raleigh. The plant will be erected on land owned by Lieut. Meacham's father in-law, O. M. Mull, at the north east corner of North Washington street and 8uttle Streets. It will be two stories, one being below street level, and will be designed to accommodate later expansion to a thousand units if business justifies. Lt. Meacham expects to give his full attention to the business following discharge from service, and with Mrs. Meacham and their daughter will take the Hendrick farm place as residence. Major Broaddus will come to Shelby to make his home if the business justifies full time at See FREEZER Page I Forty Million Cases Canned Vegetahfcs For Civilians Soon RALEIGH, Aug. 37. —(JPh- Forty million additional cases of canned vegetables will be made available to civilians as the result of Japan’s surrender and greater production, the War Food Administration noti fied the State Agriculture Depart ment today. Civilians now are expected to re ceive about 157,000,000 cases from the 1945 pack of “set aside” vege tables. All lima beans and tomato juice will be made available to civi lians. WHAT'S DOING TODAY 7:30 p. m.—State guard dir 11 at armory. TUESDAY 7:30 p. m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 8:00 p. m.—Shelby-Tucson little world series game, to be played In Charlotte, will be broadcast from Star office. Diplomats Hope For Change < In Argentine, Spanish Regimes WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 —(JFy American diplomats are moderate ly hopeful that the next few months will produce‘radical chang es in the governments of Spain and Argentina. They are the last two countries in the world still under Nazi sym pathizer regimes. And toward each President Truman and Sec retary of State Byrnes are devel oping a policy of stem disapproval. But there are no signs that this policy is to be backed up with any thing more forceful than moral censure. latest development In the Ar gentine situation came sullenly late Saturday when Mr, (Truman, on Byrnes’ recommendation, or* dered Ambassador SprulHe Brad en called from Buenos Aires to become assistant secretary of state in charge of American republics affairs. In that post he replaoes Nelson Rockefeller, who has become iden tified with the policy of kid-glove treatment of Argentina. Braden, on the other hand, has worked openly—although always in a strictly diplomatic manner— See DIPLOMATS Page 3 Hurricane Winds Lash Texas Coast 135-M.P.H. GALE LEAVES HEAVY DAMAGE No Deaths In Corpus Christi, Hit By Storm Last Night POWER LTNES DOWN CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Aug. 27.—(JP)—Radio reports to Texas highway patrol here said winds ranging from 100 to 135 miles an hour lashed towns along San Antonio Bay as a furious gulf hurricane hugged the Texas coast near Port O’Connor. The 135-mile an hour wind struck sea drift, on the northeast side of the bay, which stretches to the south and west of Port O’Connor behind Matagorda island, patrol men in the field reported. There was heavy property dam age at Austwell, on the southwest side of the bay, where the wind -sir pus inapiqin; ni reported. Hurricane winds buffeted towns in the storm’s path. Very high tides swept against the shore. More than 100 miles up the coast the disturbance was making itself | felt in turbulent weather and irs ing tides. Corpus Christi was beginning toi clean up today after a night of I winds which reached 100 miles per i hour. There were no official statements on damage, but unof- ] ficial estimates that it would not exceed $10#$0&-ln the- cfty of Cor1" pus Christi. Snarled communi cation delayed damage reports from other areas. Police Chief L. C. Smith said no deaths or accidents from the storm were reported In Corpus Christi. Power was off here. McAuliffe said winds in the Corpus Christi business section reached 90 miles an hour and winds over Corpus Christi bay reached lOO miles an; hour. I Surging tides pushed sea water; into coastal towns of the region! as the storm struck. Much of the hug-the-coast highway that leads from Corpus Christi to Houston1 | was reported under water. The advisories, saying the storm carried winds of 110-miles an hour; near the center, warned of high | ; tides and heavy seas. CHINESE HOLD MAJOR (MS CHUNGKING, Aug. 27.— VP) — The two great Japanese-held me tropolitan centers of Nanking and Canton were reported iri Chinese hands today as Chinese govern ment and military officials pre pared to complete Japan’s formal surrender in China. A Chinese army correspondent said Chinese troops first entered Nanking, former seat of General issimo Chiang Kai-shek’s govern ment and planned site of the surrender signing, on Saturday and found most buildings there in good condition. This writer said there was some disorder at first but occupation troops soon returned the situation to normal. All puppet organiza tions were dissolved, he reported, and two pro-nationalist newspa pers started publication. Meanwhile, the 159 Chinese offi cials who had been waiting here for the liberation of Nanking to start surrender proceedings were said to have left .by plane for Nanking. Formal surrender cere monies are scheduled to take place in the pre-war Chinese capital on Sept. 3. Optimism ran high over pros pects of an early settlement of differences between Chiang’s Chungking government and tire north China communist regime as Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, U. S. ambassador to China, left by plane today for Yenan, where he will accompany communist leader Mao Tse-Tung back to Chungking for conferences with Chiang. The Chinese high command an nounced yesterday that eight more key towns had been taken over from the Japanese, including the former American air base town of Laohokow in northern Hopeh province and Wuyang, Siangcheng and Likwanchiao in southern Honan province. Lohp on the Pei i plng-Hankow railroad and Hwah I sien in north Honan also have been MRS. O. V. HAMRICK MRS. HAMRICK DEATH VICTIM Well-Known Shelby Wom an Dies After Four Years III Health Mrs. O. V. Hamrick, 60, member of one of Cleveland county’s lead-j ing families, died at Shelby hospi- | tal Sunday night about 9 o’clock.. She had been in ill health for four j years and had been seriously ill for j the past two months. Puneral rites will be held at the1 home on West Marlon street Tues d'.y afternoon at 3 o’clock with Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Bap Fhiah she was ftfaith ful member, officiating, assisted by the Rev. J. L. Jenkins and the Rev. A. M. Kiser of the county. Interment will be in Sunset cemetery. Mrs. Hamrick was before marriage Miss Marrie Mayes of Mayesville, S. C., and she was educated in the schools of Mayesville and at Win throp College in Rock Hill. S. C. For several years she taught school in Florence county, S. C., but resigned her position when she was married in 1912 and came to Shelby to make her home. She joined the Presbyterian church in girlhood, but joined the First Baptist church when she came to Shelby and was an active mem ber in church work prior to her ill ness. She was a member of the TEL Sunday School class and members of that class wilj carry the flowers at the funeral service. SURVIVORS Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Vernon Kiser of this place and Mrs. Paul Davis of Waynesville; two sons, Cpl. O. V. Hamrick, Jr., who is npw on Okin awa with the armed forces, and Cpl. Shep Hamrick of the army air corps now home on furlough; and two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Smith and Mrs. James Purdon of Folkston, Ga. Also surviving are three grand children. I Pallbearers for the funeral will be John P. Mull, Sr., Hershel Blanton, Shem Blackley, D. L. Crook, M. P. Elliott, Oran Hamrick, S. A. Mc Murry and Rush Hamrick, Sr. Franz W erf el Dies Of Heart Attack BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 27. —(/P)—Franz Werfel, refugee author of some 35 books including "The Song of Bernadette,” moving no-1 vel that became an academy award motion picture died at home last night of a heart ailment. He was 54. His wife Alma, composer Gustav Mahler’s widows with whom the poet-novelist - playwright - essayist fled to this country before the Nazi terror in 1940, found Werfel slump ed to the floor in front of his desk, i Impressive Spearhead Of U. S. Armed Might Drops Anchor In Sagami Bay By A1 Dopking WITH ADMIRAL HALSEY IN SAGAMI BAY, JAPAN, Aug. 27.—(JP)—Led by Admiral Halsey’s flagship, the battle ship Missouri, an impressive spearhead of third fleet war ships triumphantly entered Japan’s Sagami Bay today and dropped anchor within 25 miles of Tokyo. iweive nunareu carrier pianea roared overhead as great Ameri can and British battleships an chored two miles onshore under the shadow of towering Fujiyama at 1:30 p.m. (midnight eastern war time.) Minesweepers Immediately be gan clearing a path to the Yoko uska naval base, 15 miles away by water and eight miles by land a cross Miura Peninsula from Ka tase town where the warships lay at rest. The battleship Iowa came to a stop directly behind the Missouri. Off to the left was the British battleship Duke of York, Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser’s flagship which sank the Ger man battleship Scharnhorst in 1943. The victorious fleet was clearh visible to thousands of Japanese along the shore between Katase and Chigasaki. American and British seaman lined the decks for their first good look at the clearly visible Japanese coastline. ENTER TOMORROW The first units of Halsey’s oc cupation force, under Rear Adm. Oscar C. Badger, will enter Tokyo Bay tomorrow through two and a half mile wide Uraga Strait. Two hours before entering Sa gami Bay, the Missouri took a board the Japanese emissaries, headed by Capt. Yoshihiko Takas aki, staff officer of the Yokosuka base, and Capt. Inaho Otami, staff officer of the Tokyo naval department. The Japanese reported pro gress made in minesweeping both Sagami and Tokyo Bays and received instructions for preparations to be made for Thursday’s landings at Yoko suka. Ten th usand marines and pick ed naval personnel are scheduled to take over Yokosuka. See IMPRESSIVE Page 2 Truman Urges Draft Law Be Continued Cautions Far East Situation Still Involve many Elements Of Danger" WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—(fP)—President Truman urged congress today to continue induction into the armed forces of men from 18 to 25 years, cautioning that the Far East situation still involves “many elements of danger.” At the same time he cautioned -- —H — congress against premature at tempts to declare the war emer gency at an end, asserting: “Tragic conditions would re sult if we were to ali -w the period of military service to expire by operations of law while a substantial portion of our forces have not yet been returned from overseas. I am confident that the Congress will take no actjon which would place the armed forces In such a position.” Taking issue with congressional advocates of legislation terminat ing the selective service program and declaring the war emergency at an end, the President gave his views in letters to Chairman Thomas (L-Utah) of the senate and house military committees. Asserting he could not recom mend abandonment of the selec tive service inductions, the Presi dent declared: “The situation in the Pacific continues to have many elements of danger, and war-torn and dis organized Europe is facing a dif ficult winter season with scarci ties of food, fuel and clothing. OCCUPATION FORCES “Our occupation forces in those areas must be held at safe levels, determined largely by General MacArthur and General Eisenh w er who are on the ground and fa miliar with the situation. We cannot stop the certain in-flow of replacements into, the armec1 forces, without necessitating pro longed service of veteran soldiers.” The President asked legislation raising the existing ceiling of 280, See TRUMAN Page 2 I amashita Opens Negotiations For Formal Surrender By RUSSELL BRINES MANILA, Aug. 27—(JP)—General Tomcyuki Yamashita, "the Ti ger,” commander of Japanese for ces in the Philippines, opened sur render negotiations with the U. S. j army today from his mountain hideout in Northern Luzon. In a letter delivered to an army outpost near Kiangan, Yamashita said he had received instruction* from Tokyo to surrender and that he had ordered his surviving troops to stop fighting. The tamed tiger said he believ ed negotiations could be entered into immediately. Although he was still awaiting further instruc tions frcm Tokyo. BIG JAP PATROL The letter was addressed to Maj. Gen. W. H. Gill, commander of | the 32nd division. It was brought j in by a Japanese patrol contacting American lines through directions conveyed by Gill in a letter sent through the mountain lines. The Nipponese patrol car ried a radio for further com munications. The fantastic fi nale to the long quest for thfe conquerors of Malaya and Cor regidor resulted directly from j Yamashita’s action in releas ing an American fighter pilot See YAMASHITA Page 2 Legislators And Businessmen Get Busy To Stem Unemployment Wave By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. —(IP)— Tiie frightening problem of millions of Jobless workers stirred legisla tors and businessmen to action to day. An influential business group urged the government immedi ately to help pay the fare of stranded war workers to new jobs. This body, the Research Com mittee of the Nationwide C. E. D. — Committee for Economic Development—also recommends that most states increase their payments to the unemployed. Early-bird legislators tackled the same issue. Chairman Doughton (D NC) brought the house ways and means committee back to Capitol Hill today to tackle the administra tion’s plan for broader benefits to the jobless. PRODUCTION NEWS But the big government push to ward the ways of peace made this news: 1. The Office of War Information wants to go out of business within 90 days. Office of Censorship al ready is gone. The State Depart ment may take over U. S. publicity abroad. I 2. The public will begin to see I j electric toasters, washers, refrigera- I ; tors and ranges this fall, with va 1 cuum cleaners “fairly plentiful” by i Christmas. But— 3. Sellers of these new goods head ed into a full-scale rumpus with OPA. They say OPA’s policy on re I tail price ceilings—the same as in ■ 1942 or very little higher—is too 1 low. Good news rolled in from the pro tion front. New authoritative re ts included: Clothing: Plenty of women’s 1 See LEGISLATORS Page 2 i EIGHTH ARMY Will OCCUPY TOKYO AREA MacArthur Determined To Get Early Control Of Port Facilities TO signIaturday By The Associated Press MANILA, Aug. 27.—Desig nating the Eighth Army of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger to occupy the Tokyo area. General MacArthur today an nounced there will be addi tional landings at Yokohama, Tokyo’s port, and at Tate yama, outside Tokyo Bay on the east side of its entrance. Eichelberger, MacArthur said, will accompany the supreme Al lied comander "when he arrives Aug. 30” in Japan. Strong American and British naval forces already are peacefully anchored in Sagami Bay, within 0 miles of Tokyo. The only previously-announc ed plans for landings in the Tokyo Bay area were at At sugi airfield, where MacArthur will alight with airborne troops Thursday, and at the Yokosu ka naval base between Yoko hama and Tokyo Bay. The newly-announced landings will follow them by two daya. The notice of landings to come at Yokohama shows MacArthur’s determination to gain early con trol of the important Tokyo Bay port facilities, while Tateyama is a strategic spot 10 miles form the bottleneck Uraga Strait entrance to the bay. Yokohama is approxi mately 15 miles from Atsugi, and 10 from Yokoshuka. The fleet’s thrust into Sagami Bay proved as quiet as a routine, peacetime maneuver at home. The final act of surrender will be signed aboard the battleship Mis souri in Tokyo bay Sunday (Ja panese time.) Manila headquarters of General MacArthur, supreme Allied com mander for Japan, said it had not been informed officially of the fleet’s entry. However a spokes man stated the fleet was operat ing without reporting to MacAr thur on all details of the master plan already laid down for the oc cupation and formal surrender. MacArthur’s headquarters dis closed two more phases of that steadily-unfolding program: the U. S. Army 24th Corps under Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge will occupy the southern half of Korea, and the surrender of Hong Kong will be made to Rear Adm. C. H. J. Harcourt of the British navy. Correspondents with Admiral lalsey's naval forces that have een standing off Japan for weeks sported the great warships of the CJ. S. Third fleet and a British task group steamed serenely into the waters and dropped anchor. This was at a spot 30 miles south of Tokyo and two miles off a beach crowded with bathers and sight seers, at 10:34 a.m. today (9:34 p.m. Sunday, eastern war time). The naval entry had been sched uled originally foy Sunday but was called off at the last minute by receipt of MacArthur’s orders to postpone the occupation plan for 48 hours because of typhoons a round J The drama began afresh this See EIGHTH Page S SEEK CHANGE IN ROUTING Movement was started this morn ing by the Shelby chamber ol commerce to change the designa tion of the highway running from Gaffney, S. C., through Shelby to Salisbury by Mooresville and Lincoln ton from routes 18 and 150, by which they are presently known, to U. S. 29-W. Letter with a request to make this change went this morning from J. Dale Stentz, secretary of the local chamber of commerce to W. Vance Baise, chief engineer of the North Carolina Highway and Public Works commission. In turn Mr. Baise is expected to take the ■natter up with the federal au horities. It was pointed out by Mr. Stentz that the distance to Salisbury by Shelby from Gaffney is shorter than by the regular U. & 28.
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