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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
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- State Theatre Today -
"CHINA SKY”
RANDOLPH SCOTT
RUTH WARRICK
VOL. XL11I— 206
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N C.
TUESDAY, AUG. 28, 1945
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DE GAULLE AT ROOSEVELT’S GRAVE—Gen. Charles De Gaulle,
provisional president of France, salutes at the grave of Franklin D.
Roosevelt at Hyde Park. N. Y., after placing a wreath there. Mrs. Roose
velt stands at right. A New York state trooper salutes at left.—(AP Wire
photo'.
2)200 Bahaman
Workers Stage Riot
Low Enforcement Officers From Three Counties Re*
quired To Restore Order
STUART, Fla., Aug. 28.—(/P>—Sheriff Richard Han
cock said today that about 2,200 imported negro farm labor
ers from the Bahamas and Jamaica awaiting shipment home
rioted at Camp Murphy yesterday and law enforcement of
ficers from three counties were required to restore order.
WAINWRIGHT
IN CHUNKING
Accompanied By 8 Other
U. S. Generals Released
From War Camp
CHUNGKING, Aug. 28—</P>— Lt.
Gen. Jonathan M. Walnwrlght,
62-yenr-old hero of the American
and Filipino stand at Corregidor
arrived in Chungking today with
eight other U. S. generals and
seven British generals released
from a Japanese prisoner of war
camp in Manchuria.
The names of the eight Ameri
can generals accompanying Waln
wright were not Immediately made
public.
The British generals were head
ed by Lt. Gen. Arthur Ernest Per
cival, former commander at Sin
gapore. The party included Sir
Shenton Thomas, former governor
of Singapore. Sir Mark Young,
former governor of Hongkong and
C. D. Smith, former governor of
North Borneo.
SAFE AND WELL
Gen. Walnwrlght had been
found safe and well by a para
chute team of Americans at a
Japanese prison camp deep In
Manchuria earlier this month.
In addition hundreds of other
American prisoners of war, includ
ing MaJ. Gen. George M. Parker,
jr., Portland, Ore., who served
under Walnwrlght in the Philip
pines. were released.
Walnwrlght was a prisoner of
the Japanese for three years and
three months. Corregidor was
yielded May 6, 1942.
The parachute mercy teams
which dropped near the camp
where Wainwright was held and at
See WAINWRIGHT Page 2
BUSINESS WILL
TAKE HOLIDAY
Business houses and public offi
ces will be closed next Monday in
Shelby for th$ observance of Labor
Day. Stores will remain closed all
day. The postoffice will make one
city delivery but there will be no
rural deliveries and windows will be
closed.
Merchants observed Labor day in
Shelby last year for the first time
with closed doors. A poll yesterday
by the merchants association found
the majority in favor of the ob
servance this year. All banks and
building and loan associations will
Also dost lor the day.
Hancock reported that 27 negro
workers were removed to hospitals
two with fractured skulls and an
other with a broken back, and six
men were lodged in the Martin
county jail at Stuart.
The sheriff said the rioting
negroes took over the former
army camp now used by the
War Food administration,
swept through barracks wield
ing clubs and destroying cots
and furnishings, and defied
ramp authorities.
A call fox' help from the camp
sent the sheriff hurrying there
with all available deputies, and
further assistance was summoned
from Palm Beach and Broward
counties.
Capt. R. O. Ray, army officer
at the camp, said the cause of the
trouble had not been determined
As soon as the cause and amount
of damage have been ascertained
they will be made public, he stat
ed.
HIGH WAGES
Labor experts said however that
the probable cause was the ne
groes’ unwillingness to return to
See 2,200 Page 2
Stilwell Orders Jap
Forces In Ryukyus
To Capitulate
OKINAWA, Aug. 28—<AV-Gen
eral Stilwell today ordered the
commanders of all remaining Jap
anese forces in the Ryukyus to
establish radio contact with his
Tenth army headquarters imme
diately, to surrender their garri
sons.
Army planes dropped messages
to the enemy-held islands direct
ing that answers be sent over pre
scribed frequencies.
The Islands of Amaml, Ishiga
shi, Tokuno, Myako, Klkaisa and
Iriomote are still under Japanese
control.
JAPS SIGN FOR
SURRENDER OF
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Preliminary Agreements
Pare Way For Allied
Reoccupation
MALAYA,~EAST INDIES
By Charles A. Grumich
RANGOON, Aug 28.—(fl>)
—Sullen, tight-lipped Japa
nese envoys signed prelimi
nary agreements today in a
historic five-minute ceremony
which paved the way for Al
lied reoccupation of Singapore,
all southeast Asia and the
East Indies.
The three envoys sat stiffly In
chairs in the center of the flood
lighted grand ballroom in the
government house, facing a long
table around which the Allied rep
resentatives were gathered. Prom
the galleries hung U. S., British,
French and Chinese flags.
Lt. Gen. Numata, as plenipoten
tiary for Field Marshal Count
Juichl Terauchi, commander of
the Japenese southern armies, af
fixed Terauchi’s own seal with a
red stamp. The Allied represen
tatives. Lt. Gen. F. A. M. Brown
ing, signed on behalf of Admiral
Lord Louis Mountbatten, .Allied
southeast Asia commander, who
told the enemy envoys they must
now prepare the way for Allied
reoccupation, pending Tokyo’s for
mal surrender Sept. 2.
AGREEMENT
The agreement specified these
points:
1. That the Japanese clear the
way for immediate movement of
British imperials for occupation
of Malaya and the East Indies af
ter Sept. 2.
3. That arrangements be made
for succor to AUMMPsfeoners of
war in the theatre.
3. That the Japanese clear cer
tain areas of troops, except for
such forces as are necessary to
See JAPS Page S
Plan Proposed
To Cut Taxes
By 20 Per Cent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 38 —m—
With tax reduction a virtual cer
tainty, returning congressmen to
day studied a new proposal, novel
for Its simplicity—just cut each
Individual’s tax by 30 percent next
year.
Representative Knutson (Minn),
senior republican on the tax-writ
ing house ways and means com
mittee, authored the reduction
plan.
Under it, each person’s tax
would be computed a*’ present ex
emptions and rates. This would
be cut by one-fifth, and what re
mained would be the actual tax
burden.
Knutson wants the plan to be
come effective January 1, on 1946
income. He would require em
ployers to reduce by 20 percent
each payroll pay-as-you-go tax
deduction.
OTHER PLANS
The Minnesotan thus joined
several other tax leaders who are
unanimously of the opinion that
tax burdens—Individual and cor
porate—must be trimmed. Ways
and means Chairman Doughton
(D-NC) and Chairman George <D
Ga) of the senate finance com
mittee both have predicted legis
lation this fall reducing the tax
load for 1948.
The tax leaders caution, how
ever, that any reductions must be
geared to the budget needs of the
government.
Doughton said his committee
will initiate a tax-trimming bill
as soon as it acts on pending legis
lation to liberalize unemployment
benefits.
Four Great Pacific Fleets
To Patrol Jap Coastal Area
GUAM, Aug. 28—(JP)—Virtually
the total strength of America’s
four Pacific fleets and three am
phibious forces will put Allied
occupation troops ashore In the
Japanese empire and “control the
coastal waters,” for an indefinite
period.
The fleets will mass their am
phibious strength under the com
mand of hard-bitten Adm. Rich
mond Kelly Turner to land troops,
Admiral Nimitz said today in a
press release, and the fleets will
patrol specified zones of the ene
my seas.
For the coming large-scale land
lngs and for subsequent control of
Japanese empire wtiMfo. the pow
erful Third fleet o&Adm.. William
F. Halsey will be fragmented by
the U. S. Fifth And Seventh
fleets and by the Forth Pacific
forces of Vice A dm. frank Jack
Fletcher. .>
(Admiral Nlmlts’ ipress release
did not mention tbfc British Pa
fic fleet which has been operating
with the U. 8. Third fleet, nor
Australian units which have been
working with the U. S. Seventh.
In the absence of word to the con
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l
TRANSFERRING JAP EMISSARIES—The U. S. destroyer Nicholas pulls
alongside the U. S. Battleship Missouri (right), flagship of the American
Third Fleet ih Sagami Bay, to transfer Jap emissaries to receive in
structions for guiding American warships into the bay. The ship in the
foreground is the U. S. Battleship Iowa.—(AP Wirephoto from U. S. Navy
direct via radio from U. S. S. Iowa in Sagami Bay).
Peacetime Goods
Kill Black Markets
Prices On Used Cars Have Started Down; New Cat
Prices To Be Kept At 1942 Levels
By Max Hall
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—(lP)—Black markets were
melting into thin. , air today—because more peacetime goods
were coming up fast.
Black markets, prices, used cars, new cars, chickens
toys, and men wariting jobs—those were big subjects foi
j Americans exactly two weeks after Japan threw in the
DAHL FREEMAN
DAHL FREEMAN
REPORTED DEAD
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Freeman of
215 Suttle street have been Inform
ed that their son, Sylvester Dahl
Freeman, previously reported miss
ing In action, Is now listed as killed
in action.
The telegram came from Vice
Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of
naval personnel and read:
“I deeply regret to inform you
that a careful review of all facts
available relating to the disappear
ance of your son, previously report
ed missing, leads to the conclusion
that there is no hope for his survi
val and that he lost his life as re
sult of enemy action on April 2,
1945, hi the service of his country.
If further details are received they
will be forwarded to you promptly.”
IN FEBRUARY. 1943
A yoeman, second class, Freeman
entered the navy in February, 1943,
and had basic training at Bain
brldge, Md. He was stationed in
Washington, D. C., in the bureau
of personnel for a year and was
th:n assigned to a ship. He served
seven months in the Atlantic and
was transferred to the Pacific in
January this year.
Born in Gaffney in 1925, he joined
the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church
in early boyhood and was assistant
scoutmaster of the scout troop
there. Prior to entering service he
was employed in Gaffney.
, The Navy Department informed
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman that he was
i buried in a cemetery in the town of
i Zamaml on the island by that name
I in the Kerama Retto group located
| near Okinawa.
sponge.
Reputable dealers in used cars
and chickens said black markets in
those fields are starting to dis
appear.
Government officials added that
black markets in food are dwindl
ing. and will fall away in all fields
as shortages ease.
There was this prime news about
prices today:
1. On used cars, they have fi
nally started down.
2. On new cars, they will be
about the same levels as in
1942—says OPA.
3. On goods in general, an
army of retailers invaded Wash
ington protest that the OPA
is trying to hold their prices
below what they can stand.
Some more developments in the
nation’s ponderous progress from
war to peace:
Toys—There will be plenty for
Christmas, but most of them will
be the wartime kind.
Men not working—Robert C.
Goodwin, head of the U. S. Em
See PEACETIME Page “
Kiwanians Plan
Inter-City Meet
Here On Thursday
An inter-city meeting of Kiwanls
clubs in this area will be held in
Shelby Thursday at 7 p.m. for
dinner at the Charles Hotel with
Senator Clyde R. Hoey as speaker
for the occasion, it was announced
today by Fred W. Blanton, pro
gram chairman.
Kiwanians from the Forest City,
Rutherfordton, Tryon, Marion and
Morganton clubs will join with the
Shelby Kiwanians for the occasion
which marks the first such inter
city gathering since gasoline ra
tioning was instituted.
Game Broadcast
At Star Tonight
A play-by-play broadcast of
tonight’s Junior national cham
pionship game between Shel
by and Tucson, Arisona, will
be furnished from The Star of
fice starting at 7:55 O’clock for
those fans unable to make the
trip to Charlotte to witness the
game.
Lee Kirby of radio station
WBT, will broadcast the game
which comes to Shelby by
long distance telephone through
courtesy of Charlotte’s station
WAYS.
The Star will furnish tele
phonic reports of the game to
those who call 1100, and at
11:05 pm. radio st-'i’an WBT
will announce final results.
m STORM
DIMINISHING
IN VIOLENCE
Leaves Three Dead, Heavy
Crop And Properly
Damage In Wake
BATTERED~400 MILES
By William C. Barnard
HOUSTON, Tex.. Aug. 28.
—(/P)—What was left of the
gulf hurricane which caused
at least three deaths and mil
lions in property and crop
damage as it lashed the Texas
coast, was fast diminishing
inland west of Houston today.
The weather bureau, in a final
advisory, ordered all hurricane
warnings down on the Texas coast
at 10 ajn. (EWT). It said the
storm was centered between Sealy
and Columbus, Tex., 28 to 40 miles
from Houston.
Prom the base weather officer
at the Miami, Fla., Army Air field,
came a report that an army hur
ricane hunter, flying over what
remained of the hurricane area,
disclosed ‘no winds higher than 50
miles per hour.”
But before it left the coast the
storm had battered a stretch of
some 40 miles, demolished or
heavily damaged buildings in ex
posed coastal towns, and scooped
high water onto the low coastal
plain. Heavy damage to cotton and
rice crops was reported.
Heavy rains accompanying the
inland movement of the storm
stopped traffic in Houston early
today, and brought a threat of
flood to those sections of the city
near where Bayous were brimming.
THREE DEAD
The death toll reached three as
: one man was killed in the col
lapse of a residence in suburban
-JHaateon, buffeted-by a 55-mile an
hour gale last night. Earlier two
fishermen drowned off Port Isabel,
See GULF Page 2
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BEGIN SOON
Lawyers Confer With
Richmond, Columbia
Psychiatrists
COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 28. —(A5)
—Attorneys for Lt. Samuel C.
Epes of Richmond, Va„ and Port
Jackson, have conferred with Rich
mond doctors and Dr. C. Fred Wil
liams of Columbia.
Williams, promiijent psychiatrist,
retired last spring as head of the
state hospital hero.
» Lt. Epes report® to police offi
i dais last January that his wife was
missing. After a search that extend
. ed throughout thefsoutheast, Epes
| led officers to a foKiole in the Fort
Jackson maneuver tjirea where his
wife’s body was exmimed.
, He has been held in the Richland
county jail since last spring.
Epes has Insisted that his wife
died as the result of an overdose of
sedatives and that he became
alarmed and took the body out and
buried it. The body yas placed in the
shallow grave without any covering
except the clothing she wore.
Edgar A. Brown of Barnwell was
engaged as chief - counsel and will
be assisted by Leith S. Bremner,
1 Richmond criminal court lawyer and
■ Claude N. Sapp, United States dis
' trict Avey here.
1 Approximately 30 subpoenaes have
' been issued at the courthouse for
• state witnesses. They are being sum
1 moned for the trial that is expected
to take place in the second or third
. week of the criminal court term that
l opem here next week.
Advance Echelon Wili
Prepare For Arrival Of
MacArthur Tomorrow
By The Associated Press
MANILA, Aug. 28.—American airborne troops—thi
first foreign conquerors ever to set foot on Japan—tool
command of Tokyo’s Atsugi airfield today, simultaneous^
with the careful but dramatic entry of the Third Fleet’s
special advance squadron into Tokyo Bay.
Legion Backs
Truman’s Stand
On Inductions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — (JP)—
President Truman was told today
that the American Legion is square
ly behind his request for the con
tinued induction of men 18 to 25 for
the armed forces.
Col. Johns Thomas Taylor, na
tional legislative director of the le
gion, told reporters he presented
the legion’s view in a conference
with the president.
“We told him that we agreed with
him that the men who have served
two or three years should be return
ed to their homes and replaced by
younger men,” Taylor said. “Our
view is that continuance of the
Selective Service System is impor
tant to national security and to the
keeping of our young men in top
physical shape.”
Taylor said the President’s pro
posal fitted into the national de
fense program which the Legion
has advocated since its existence.
“We told the President we were
wholly in accord with the continu
ance of the Selective Service Sys
tem,” Taylor added.
Among those accompanying Tay
lor to the White House were T. O.
Krabbel, national rehabilitation di
rector and William T. Comer, chair
man of the veterans preference com
mittee.
NAVY CUTS
The Navy set out today to return
2.839.000 men and women to civilian
status within a year.
And on Capitol Hill, plans for
making life in the armed ser
vices more attractive sprouted
right and left, featuring sug
gestions of more pay and short
er terms of service.
Secretary Forrestal outlined the
Navy’s vastly expanded demobiliza
tion plans to newsmen late yester
day. Previously the sea arm con
templated discharging between 1,
500.000 and 2,500,000 within a year
See LEGION Page 2
Points To Be Reduced
On Butter Sept. 2
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. —
W—Butter will be reduced from
16 to 12 red points a pound be
ginning September 2, OPA offi
cials disclosed today.
The reduction is being made,
they said, because of improve
ment in supplies and will apply
to institutional users, as well as
home users.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:30 pjn.—CAP cadets meet
at armory.
8:00 p.m. — Shelby-Tucson
baseball game, to be played in
I Charlotte, will be broadcast
from The Star office.
8:00 pm.—WOW meets at
woman’s club room.
WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m. — Midweek prayer
and praise service at First
i Baptist church.
RUSSO-CHINESE TREATY:
Pact One Of Most Hopeful
Incidents Of War Period
By JSfeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst
The new Russo-Chlnese treaty
of friendship is—on the face of it
—one of the most constructive
pacts of the enf/e world war pe
riod.
Of course the proof of the pud
ding is in the eating, but the 30
year agreement, if \carried out in
the fullness of its promise, would
go far towards guaranteeing '°ace
between Asiatic nations fo> the
coming generation. And that oulci
do much to ensure global tran
quility.
This In itself would be an
ine'ttmrbt1' boon to hum-nity,
but the pact seems to strike
,si
A .
deeper than that. We have
here a gesture by Moscow
which appears calculated to
dispel suspicions held by the
other Allies regarding Rus
sia’s ambitions, not only in
Asia but in Europe.
Those suspicions certainly exfc
but they cut both ways, for th
Soviet Union also has her doubt
about the attitude of her Allle
in some particulars. This mutus
distrust has constituted one c
the greatest threats to continue
unity among America, Britain an
See FACT Page l
Twenty eight of Japan’s remain
ing 55 warships were found lined
up for surrender in Kyushu’s west
ern port of Sasebo.
The sole task of the advance
echelon at Atsugl was to prepare
the way for the triumphal entry
of General MacArthur, supreme
allied commander, Thursday at
the head of 7,500 troops.
Joy of the first 150 communica
tions experts, who landed at 0 a.m.
(8 p.m. Monday night, eastern war
time) in hree transport planes, at
becoming the first troops to land
in Japan was tempered by the an
nouncement that 20 of their fel
lows had been killed in x take-off
crash on Okinawa.
Two separate job- confronted the
advance group in preparing Atsugl
for the general arrival—the setting
up of communications with the
Okinawa staging area and making
as safe as possible the comparatively
short runways. Only two runways_
5,600 and 5,100 feet—are currently
usable and none too land for the
giant C-54 Skymasters and other
troop transports.
formal entry
when preparations are
complete, MacArthur will leave the
Okinawa staging are„ for the for
mal entry into Japan. About the
time he is landing at Atsugl, his
schedule calls for 10,000 marines and
nt'v Persfonel to begin pccupation
of Yokosuka, Japan’s second largest
naval base, off which the advance
units of the Third fleet MSehbred
today.
At noon today, (about 11 pun.
Ari°mdan easte™ war time), Rear
Adm o^ar C. Badger, aboard his
flagship, the light antiaircraft crui
ser San Diego, steamed through
^Strait into Tokyo Bay. He led
a small force of 10 ships, plus mine
sweepers. The destroyer-transport
Gosselin carried Marines to landon
three small islands guarding Yoko
5*? n,aval base- Other ships in
Badgers force included the de
stroyers Wedderburn, Twining, Yar
nall and Stockham and the seaplane
ra?HtTS ’ SnSUn’ Mackinac and
Gardiner’s Bay.
Badger’s force, with a Japanese
harbor pilot aboard each shipf^are
fully wended its way through 2 1-2
Ura«a strait, until re
th.e IJ10st heavily mined
stretch of water in the world.
Twenty miles away, around Miura
Aximh^w11! Sa,gami Bay- much of
Admiral Halseys great Third fleet
See ADVANCE Pag* *
Surrender Talk
Reveals Wanton
Death Of Airman
GUAM, Aug. 28—(JP)—The wan
ton killing by a Japanese officer
of an American airman who par
achuted onto Koror island, in the
Palau group, last May was dis
closed in negotiations for surren
der of the Falaus garrison of ap
proximately 4,000 Nipponese.
Col. G. L. Pike, marine corps
officer who carried on the nego
tiations on behalf of Marine Brig.
Gen. P. O. Rogers, does not expect
the Palaus garrison to capitulate
until after formal peace has been
signed and reported much hag
gling with the Japanese at the
Peleliu conference.
The Japanese haggled about the
words “surrender,” and “prison
er,” in the peace terms and cen
sured the United States for use of
the atomic bomb, Fike reported.
UNREPENTANT
The marine corps officer said
that in probing the fate of the B
124 crewman known to have bailed
out on Koror he was informed by
; a Colonel Tada (first name un
i available) that details were not
available.
"Tada said he regretted to In
form me that although the Am
erican crew member parachuted
May 4 and subsequently was tak
en prisoner, unfortunately he had
been killed by a Japanese officer
I between May 10 and May 15,” Pike
i said. “He stated the American
t was not killed as the result of the
e carrying out of the sentence o<
s a military court, and added that
s although the loss of life was ‘re
1 "rettable it was the opinion of
{ the Japanese the incident was in
-j -ignificant in comparison to the
5 loss of innocent women’s and chil
dren’s lives caused by the atomic
| bomb.”