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RANDOLPH SCOTT
RUTH WARRICK
VOL. XLI11-207
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY N C.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 29,1945
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MACARTHUR, NIMITZ STAND READY FOR LANDINGS
24 Top Nazi War Criminals To Be Defendants In First Mass Trial
'Marshall Held Partly To Blame For Pearl Harbor Disaster
REPORTS ALSO
CRITICAL OF
KIMMEISHORT
Truman Says Criticism Of
Gen. Marshall Entirely
Unjustified
WITHHELD WARNINGS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—
(IP)—Gen. George C. Marshall
army chief of staff, was held
partly responsible for the
Pearl Harbor disaster by an
army board of inquiry but
President Truman, in releas
ing the report today, said the
criticism was "entirely un
justified.”
The President, who celled a spe
cial news conference to release
the long awaited army and navy
I reporta on the events leading up to
I Dec. 7, 1941, said he sided with
Secretary of War Stlmson In re
jecting the findings as to Mar
shal.
The bulky three volume reports
were sharply critical of Rear Ad
miral Husband E. Klmmel, Ad
miral Harold R. Stark and Maj.
Gen. Walter C. Short.
Mr. Truman told reporters
that if court martial pore ced
ing* were indicated prompt
and fair trials would be held.
Oeneral Marshall, the army re
port said, "failed In his relations
with the Hawaiian department In
the following particulars:
•‘(A) To keep the commanding
general of tfie Hawaiian depart- j
ment fully advised of the growing
tenseness of the Japanese situation!
which Indicated an increasing ne-.1
cesslty for better preparation for
war, of which Information he had
an abundance and Short had lit
tle.
“(B) To send additional lnstruc
See REPORTS Page 2
36 HOURS
Further Cut In
Nation’s Work
Week Predicted
WASHINGTON, .. 39. —</P)—
Senator Wagner <D-NY) sees a
further cut in the nation's work
week, perhaps to 36 hours—as “pro
bably necessary to assure full em
ployment in the year ahead.”
The chairman of the senate bank
ing committee told a reporter today
he agrees with testirony by Wil
liam Green. AFL president, and
John L. Lewis, United Mine Work
ers chief, that shorter hours and
higher pay are essential.
The two labor leaders appeared
before a banking subcommittee in
favor of the so-called “full employ
ment bill.”
Wagner observed that “a reduc
tion in the work week in somewhat
the same proportion that produc
tion per capita increases would ap
pear to be a basic necessity to full
employment.”
Saying tnat eventually the hours
worked will tend to decline to the
30-a-week level, Wagoner added that
he did not want to forecast when
that would be reached.
The committee chairman confi
dently predicted senate passage of
the measure he helped write. It
calls for an annual Job outlook bud
get and a government policy to pro
vide work opportunities when the
budget points to unemployment
ahead.
Hearing on the bill will continue
at least through the end of this
week.
Lewis and Green bracketed them
selves with Secretary of Commerce
Wallace yesterday in support of the
measure while some industry and
financial spokesmen opposed it. Ira
I Mosher, president of the rational
r Association of Manufacturers, de
scibed the bill as unworkable and
said full employment cannot be
achieved by a single law.
HERO — Lt. Col. James P. 8. De
vereux, commander of the heroic
Marine* who defended Wake Island
was reported safe in a Japanese
prison camp near Peiping, China,
several days ago, but the original
report has not been confirmed.
FACULTY LIST
IS ANNOUNCED
All T«och«r Positions In
City Schools Filled
For 1945-46
A complete list of teachers for the
Shelby city schools, both elemen
tary and high school, has been re
leased by Superintendent W. X.
Abemethy. These teachers hare
signed contracts to teach during
the 1945-46 school term which opens
on Monday, September 3, at 8:30
am.
Teachers are listed Include:
Graham School: Mrs. Harry Hud
son, principal; Mrs. J. G. Hagaman,
Miss Willie Falls, Miss Ettalle Moses,
Mrs. Ben Suttle, Mrs. Everett Del
linger, Miss Virginia Toms and Mrs.
Lowery Suttle.
Jefferson School: Miss Flossie
Orlgg. principal; Mrs. Nelson Mau
ney. Miss Louise Hamrick, Miss Ola
Mae Johnson, Miss Ethel Arm
strong*. Mrs. C. S. New, Miss La
Lene Grlgg._
LaFayette School: Wilbur Wilson,
principal. Miss Elizabeth Gidney*.
Miss Anita Winkler, Miss Mary
Crowell, Mrs. C. M. King*, Mrs. Sue
Propst Roberts, Mrs. Wilbur Wilson
and Mrs. Clyde Nolan.
MARION SCHOOL
Marlon School: Miss Laura Corn
well, principal; Miss Betty Modlln*.
Mrs. W. L. Angel. Miss Easdale
Ramsour, Mrs. Ed Parris, Miss Mary
Elizabeth Black, MIjs Lucy Hamrick
and Mrs. John W. Doggett.
South Shelby School: L. A. Wat
ers, principal; Miss Nora Cornwell,
Mrs. Joe Todd*, Mrs. Holland Esk
ridge, Mrs. William Osborne, Miss
Gwendolyn Doggett*, Mrs. L. W.
Gardner and Miss Bess Freeman.
Washington School: Mrs. Theron
Patrick, principal, Miss Sarah Col
vin, Mrs. Marian Nash, Mrs. Mlal
Tiddy, Mrs. J. C. Eskridge, Mrs.
Grover Beam.
Junior High School: C. M. King,
principal; Mrs. William Andrews,
Miss Clara Edwards, Miss Margaret
Caldwell*, Mrs. Frank Kendall*,
Mrs. Henry Llde, Mrs. Joe Piner,.
Mrs. Robert Boone, Mrs. James
Hopper, Mrs. Robert Laidlow and
See FACULTY Page *
Wainwright Looks Forward
To Seeing Surrender Signed
CHUNGKING, OAug. 29 -AJP)—
Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright,
in excellent spirits after his trip
here from Manchuria, looked for
ward eagerly today to seeing at
the final surrender ceremonies in
Tokyo some of the Japanese com
manders who accepted with pom
pous arrogance the capitulation of
his heroic American band at Cor
regidor.
In particular he hoped to
see at the scene of Japan’s
complete humiliation the one
time commander-ln-chief of
Japanese forces in the Phil
ippine*—Gen. Masaharu Horn
mu. Homma vm a ruthless
victor and an arrogant one.
"Gen. Wainwright told me that
he hoped that Japanese Gen. Hom
ma, to whom he surrendered at
Corregidor, Is present when the
Japanese sign the surrender,” said
Col. James H. 8. Rasmussen of
Phoebus, Va., pilot of the plane
which brought Wainwright to
Chungking from, Mukden.
(The 02-year-old hero of the
American stand on Bataan and
Corregidor has accepted Gen.
MacArthur’s invitation to go to
See WAINWRIGHT Page S
HESS, GOERING,
KEITEL, DOENITZ
HEAD ROSTER
First Evidence That Hess
Mentally Able To
Stand Trial
includesTormann
LONDON, Aug. 29.—(A*)—
The four major western allies
today named 24 nazi leaders
and Prussian military chiefs
—among them Herman Goer
ing, Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm
Keitel and Karl Doenitz—as
defendants in the first mass
trial of Germany’s arch crimi
nals early in October
The list furnished the first evi
dence that Hess, deputy Fuehrer
for all Nazi party affairs until
1941, when he made his sensation
al flight to England, was con
sidered mentally able to stand
trial with. Me one-time associates.
Hen once was successor-designate
to Hitler.
The list also Included the name
of Martin Bormann, Hitler’s sec
retary. There had been no evi
dence previously of Bormann's
whereabouts despite unconfirmed
reports that he and Hitler had
perished together. Bormann was
Hess’ successor as deputy party
leader.
FULL LIST
The fun list follows:
Hermann Wilhelm Goering, who
was designated successor to Hitler
In September, 1019, and directed
the Nazi air offensive.
Rudolf Hess.
Joachim Von Rlbft|ntrop. for
mer champagne salesman who di
rected Nazi Intrigue in half a doz
en European capitals as Ger
many’s foreign minister.
Robert Ley, chief of the Nad
party organization, commissioner
for national housing, and chief of
the Gennan labor front.
Alfred Rosenberg, Relchleader
for Ideology and foreign policy and
propagandist who took leading
role In antl-eemltlsm In Ger
many.
Hans Frank, who was governor
general of Poland and an S. S.
general.
Erast Kaltenbrunner, Hitler’s
right hand man, chief of the
Reich security department and
chief of criminal police.
Wilhelm Prick, minister of in
terior and ruler of Bohemia and
Moravia.
JEW BAITER
Julius Streicher, gauleiter of
Franconia, editor of Der Stunner,
notorious antl-semlte and a school
master by profession.
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel,
chief of the Wehrmacht.
Dr. Walter Funk, president of
the Reichsbank.
Hjalmar Schacht, minister of
economics, commissioner of the
four-year plan, and former presu
fkat of the Reichsbank.
Adm. Karl Doenitz, commander
in chief of the navy, director of
U-boat warfare, and the man who
took over rule of Germany after
Hitler was reported dead.
Baldur Von Schirach, chief of
the Reich youth movement and
See HESS Page S
Third Fleet Warships
Swagger Before Tokyo
By Hamilton W. Faron
WITH THE THIRD FLEET OFF YOKOHAMA, Aug. 29.
—(TP)—The 45,000 ton battleship Missouri, Admiral Halsey’s
flagship, her sister ship the Iowa and other big warships of
the Third Fleet anchored Way off the port city for Tokyo—
with the Tokyo skyline visible to the north.
ine paraae oi Ainencan navai
might ended at a point which Hal
sey has said should be America’s
most western naval base. Across
the roof of a large Yokohama fac
tory building is a Japanese-paint
ed sign reading: “Three cheers for
the U. S. Navy and Army."
The battlewagons, including also
Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser’s British
flagship, the Duke of York, made
their historic entry into the bay
past 116 neutralized enemy coas
tal guns to prepare for tomorrow’s
massive seaborne landings at Yo
kosuka.
Plainly visible from the decks of
the warships are many factory
buildings blackened and gutted In
bombing raids by carrier planes
and Superfortresses at Yokohama.
Surprisingly, Yokohama’s resi
dences appeared almost undam ag
cd in the most readily visible
areas, testifying to the accuracy
of American bombardiers during
heavy raids of recent months.
Down the bay from Yokohama
lies the Japanese battleship, the
Nagato, apparently beached. Close
by at the Yokosuka naval base a
cruiser is in dry dock.
SUSPENDED
Along the miles of waterfront,
Japanese activities appear to have
been suspended. Only one of many
factory smokestacks is belching
smoke.
Across Munira peninsula in Sa
gami Bay, remain many other
ships of the Third fleet—also two
Japanese submarines spotted off
northern Honshu and brought in
See' THIRD FLEET Page 2
RECONVERSION:
Congress Works Oi
‘Full Employment’
Butter, Lnthtr, Film, Cameras, Typewriters, Home
building Predominate Picture
By Max Hall
WASHINGTON, .Aug. 29.—(/P)—Congress loomed big
ger in the reconversion scene today.
Full sessions won’t start for another week, but com
mittees of lawmakers were sweating it out.
They worked hard to catch up
with the vast forces of change that
were turned loose two weeks ago,
while they were on vacation.
And there was other news for
Americans—about butter and leath
er, films and camera:, typewriters,
home-building, army discharges and
the financial condition of the in
dustry.
This was the picture a Congress:
Two main proposals are being
considered by committees. One is
about unemployment—the other
about “full employment.” Both are
favored by President Truman.
1. T1 uneirployme: ' bill
would increase the hrlp that
states give their Jobless citizens.
If the bill is passed, the federal
government will shell out enough
money to allow each state to pay
up to $25 - week for 26 weeks.
Most states pay less than that
now.
2. ne so-called “full em
ployment bill” would do this:
Every year the government
would study Industry’s employ
ment prospects and make recom
mendations for improving them.
If this s*‘ seer :d lnsu. ’lent,
the government could ask con
gress to create jobs at federal
expense. However, the pending
bill by Itself Involves no federal
spending.
Other developments from con
gress:
There were loud protests against
continuing the draft.
A house committee has approved
a bill to abolish the three-man sur
plus property board and to put one
man in charge of the task of selling
billions of dollars worth of un
wanted government goods and pro
perty.
HOME BUILDING
Now for the news outside of con
gress:
Army discharges—The Army said
it soon will reduce its point system
from 85 to 80 and take other steps
to ipake it easier to get cut.
Homes—Builders are aroused over
a proposal under consideration for
the government to control prices of
new home construction. The Na
tional Association of Home Builders
has asked its members to shower
President Truman with protests.
Corporations—The securities and
See CONGRESS Page 2
REVISED POINT
SYSTEMCOMING
New Discharge Plan Ex
pected To Be Put Into
Effect Soon
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. ~(JP) —
Key officials said today a revised
point system for speeding army
discharges will be started soon,
possibly within d.iys. All that’s
needed is a green iight from Gen
eral MacArthur.
Meanwhile, demands mount
ed on Capitol Hill t-r abolition
or modification of the draft.
These demands ignored pleas
by President Truman and the
war department that it be
continued on a two-year basis
for men 18 through 25.
Many law makers spoke out
against further draft calls. Partic
ularly they oppose inducting youths
of 18 and 19. They insist a pro
gram of special inducements for
volunteers would provide enough
men.
Only a scattered few voiced sup
port of the draft: Those few term
ed its retention a “necessary evil.”
The possibility of almost imme
diate adoption of the new point
system was cited by both Chait
man May (D-Ky) of the house
military committee and Major Gen.
Stephen G. Henry, assistant army
chief of staff for personnel.
REVISED FORMULA
Henry, who announced the re
vised formula yesterday at a com
mittee hearing, said:
“It all depends on General Mac
Arthur, but we hope that as soon
as the surrender is signed x x x
He can notify us Immediately he
won’t need any more combat men
and we can make the change.”
May told newsmen “we think
the matter can be cleared up in
a couple of weeks at the most."
The revised setup, which applies
only to enlisted men, calls for:
1. Recomputation of points.
See REVISED Page 2
WINNING TALLY
SCORED IN LAST
HALF OFNINTH
Charley Hutchins Gets
Knock In Final Frame To
Win Opener
PLAY ILLINOIS NEXT
By CATHERINE BAILEY
Star Sports Editor
With a yelling, stomping
crowd of almost 9,000 specta
tors cheering them on, Shel
by’s American Legion juniors
pushed across a ninth-inning
rumin Griffith park in Char
lotte last night to take a 3 to
2 edge over the juniors from
Tucsoon, Arizona, in the sec
ond game of the national fin
als being staged in the Queen
City this week.
ny virtue oi previous drawings
ShOTy 'was home 'team last nignt
and It was in the last half of the
ninth frame that the local lads
came through with a run to cop
the game and move on to a bat
tle with Oak Park, 111., on Thurs
day night at 8 o’clock. The Oak
Park team defeated Trenton, N.
J., Monday night by a score of 2
to 1. Tonight Trenton and Tucson
meet in Charlotte, loser to be eli
minated from play.
Harry McKee, ace tosser for
the Shelby team who has a
record of all wins for the sea
son's play, added another to his
list last night going all the
way for the Simmons Kids and
giving np only six hits, half of
them in the third frame. Joe
Tully worked on the mound for
Tucson and allowed eight hits,
including two doublebaggers.
It was the heavy-slugging Char
ley Hutchins who came through
with the blow which won the
game for Shelby last night. The
teams entered the final half of
the ninth with a tied up score and
Hurler Joe Tully of Arizona issued
a free ticket to first to Allan
Washburn. Harvey Bowen then
popped to the catcher in an at
tempted sacrifice and Don Cheek
fanned, dampening the spirits of
the stomping crowd.
The fleet-footed Washburn, play
ing wide of first, was caught of
the sack by a throw from Tully
but scampered down to second and
See HUTCHINS Page 7
Tons Of Supplies
Dropped To Prisoners
GUAM, Aug. 29—(^P)—One Su
perfortress today dro ned more
than 140 tons of su' f s to 23
Japanese prisoner of war camps.
They parachuted their “mercy
bombs” over stockades around
Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Aichi
on Honshu island and Fukuoka on
Kyushu in Japan proper and oth
er camps in Korea. Eight planes
made the Korea flight while the
others went to Honshu and Kyu
shu.
Other Superfortresses photo
graphed still more prisoner camps
I for future attention.
Cruiser San Diego Will
Be First American Ship
To Dock At Yokosuka
OKINAWA, Aug. 29.—(/P)—Fleet Admiral Nimitz reached
Tokyo Bay by seaplane this afternoon as General MacArthur
waited at Okinawa for Thursday’s mass occupation of van
quished Japan by 18,150 allied troops from air and sea
MAJ. BOYINGTON
| REPORTED SAFE
Officially Credited With
26 Enemy Planes; Miss
ing 17 Months
ABOARD USS ANCON, TOKYO
BAY, Aug. 29 —(A5)— American
| land, sea and air forces thrilled
l today to the news that Maj. Greg
' Boyington, 32-year-old holder of
the Congressional medal of Honor
and navy cross for his daring ex
' ploits as a marine flyer, was a
' live. He had been missing more
than 17 months.
The report of his safety was
flashed from the American cruis
er San Juan. Although details
were lacking, it was believed the
information came from a Japa-;
nese pilot guiding the ship into
Takyo Bay, or from Yankee units
outside the imperial city.
| Officially credited with sending
26 enemy planes to their destruc
i tion in Pacific actions, Boyington
nevertheless is believed by his
Black Sheep squadron of Corsair
pilots to have shot down at least
40.
He was last seen Jan. 3, 1944,
tailing a Japanese plane into a
cloud near Rabaul.
The former University of Wash
ington wrestling champion, fond
ly nicknamed “Pappy” by his
friends, first got his ace’s rating
in downing five Zeros in a single
engagement over Ballale arldrome
in the Solomons on Sept. 16, 1942.
He destroyed four more over
Rabaul Dec. 23, 1943, and tied the
record of 26 established by Marine
Maj. Joe Foss and Army Capt. Ed
I die Rickenbacker.
Before joining the Black Sheep
squadron Boyington was a mem
I ber of the famous Flying Tigers,
American volunteer group in Chi
na. He bagged six bombers while
with this group.
The noted marine pilot was
born at Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, and
; lived at Okonogan and Seattle,
Wash., before entering the serv
ice.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
8:00 pm. — Mid jk prayer
and praise service r.t First Bap
tist church.
THURSDAY
7:00 p.m—R'- ular meeting of
Kiwanis club.
7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at
armory.
8:00 p.m.—Shelby-Oak Park
baseball game, to be played in
Charlotte, will be broadcast
from Star office.
Clevelanders Back
iTeam At Charlotte
An estimated three thousand
| Clevelanders moved on Charlotte
j late Tuesd j while half as many
more gathered about The Star’s
! loudspeakers last night as home
j ft s followed avidly the fortunes
I of ti e Shelby team they hope will
1 soon be crowned ational cham
pions.
A c stant stream of automobiles
poured out of the city in the aft
ernoon and back again until early
morning transporting the largest
mass migration and rc n ever made
between Shelby and Charlotte. The
unusually heavy traffic moved with
but slight mishap two local cars
figuring in minor smashups in which
none was injured.
MORE THURSDAY
Thursday night evidently will see
a repetition of the heavy move on
Charlotte when Shelby meets Oak
Park, 111., but should Shelby come
to the finals Saturday night an
even heavier attendance by Cleve
land county people would probably
result.
Lee Kirby’s report of the game tc
the large gathering of fans in front
el' The Star office came through
bright and clear, causing the general
See CLEVEL/'DERS Page *
ivavai uiuuiaia aaeauj nave in
spected the Yokosuka naval base
at close range and Tokyo radio
said the Yokohama marine trans
port board building has been
chosen as general headquarters
for the occupation forces.
First American ship to dock at
Yokosuka task force commander
Hear Adm. Oscar C. Badger said,
will be the cruiser San Diego. He
gave this tentative schedule of e
vents:
British troops (250 Royal marines.
200 Royal navy personnel) go
ashore on two Tokyo-Bay islands
guarding Yokosuka at 6:15 a.m.
Japan time (5:15 p.m. Wednes
day, Eastern War Time) and "Am
ericans occupy a third islet.
Americans (9,000 marines ana
l, 200 sailors) land at and near
Yokosuka naval base about 10 a.
m. Japan time (9 p.m. Wednes
day, Eastern War Time.)
General MacArthur and his 7,
500 airborne troops are expected
at Atsugl airfield, 20 miles south
west of Tokyo, almost simultan
eously.
BOARD NAGATO
American marine or bluejacket
units may also board the wrecked
Japanese battleship Nagato, at Yo
kosuka, Admiral Badger said—to
make sure her guns won’t fire.
Weather permitting, the cruiser
San Diego will dock at Yokosuka
about 10:30 a.m. (9:30 p.m. Wed
nesday, Eastern war time).
Rear Adm. Robert B. Carney, Ad
miral Halsey’s chief of staff, will
accept occupation papers at Yokosu
ka on behalf of his commander and
Admiral Badger will supervise ad
ministration of the new American
base.
Admiral Nimitz will shift his
five-starred flag from the battle
ship South Dakota to the new
USS Missouri early Sunday
morning. Allied dignitaries will
witness Japan’s 'orm:' ren
der there later Sunday.
Admiral Halsey, whose ,r Inch
battleship guns will cover the si
multaneous seaborne landing at
Yokosuka ..aval -.se steamed into
Tokyo Bay aboard the proud bat
tleship Missouri on which the sur
render will be signed Sunday with
See CRUISER Page *
Survivors
Of Houston
Evacuated
KANDY, Ceylon, Aug. 29. —(/P)—
The evacuation of 300 prisoners of
war from Japanese wa. camps in
Thailand, some of them survivors
of U. s. Cruiser Houston, began
today by plane from Bangkok.
The cruiser Houston hadn’t been
heard from since the battle of the
Java Sea in 1942 until the prisoners
were found in Thr ’and.
The first group was composed of
approximately 122 former prisoners.
Starting tomorrow, men released
from Petburi camp near Bangkok
will be flown out.
The released prisoners were de
scribed as “generally In pretty good
condition.”
Evacuation plans will fly the men
o Calcutta.
Bulletin
LONDON, Ang. 29., —UP>—
Renters reported today the ree
ording of a Tokyo broadcast say
ing that general elections woadd
be held in Japan before the cad
of 1945.